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SmartQ V5 - media player and more

    
Wednesday, January 27 2010 @ 21:29 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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HardwareI bought a SmartQ V5 (I bought mine from DX). This small device have one interesting feature compared with other devices like this: it comes factory installed with three operating systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Android and WinCE. When you boot, you can choose which os to boot.

As delivered, the device came with Android and WinCE in chinese, but for Linux you can choose english as a language. Also, all documentation delivered on paper with the device is in chinese. You can figure out much from the pictures. Use the SmartQ MID forum (unofficial) for more info. You can download english WinCE firmware from the V5 download page, but it seems like Android is only in chinese.

Firmware upgrade

  • File naming: the linux image is named SmartQV5, the Android image is named SmartQV5_AD and the WinCE image is named SmartQV5_CE.
  • Flashing procedure
    1. use a FAT-32 formatted SD card
    2. Copy one firmware file to the root directory of the SD card
    3. hold down the "+" (plus) button (leftmost button), then press the power button. Hold both buttons down until the power led turns red, then green. Release the buttons.
    4. You will get texts (in english and chinese) which shows the progress of the upgrade. When the device shutdowns and reboots the upgrade is finished.
    5. Repeat the above steps for other operating systems.
  • Upgrade fails: if the power led turns yellow and you get a line on the screen which is "SD-chinese-!" it means that the device rejected the SD card for some reason. If it doesn't help to format it as FAT-32 again, try another SD card.

Notes: the charger / power adapter has an american mains plug, so you need a plug adapter for it

 
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SmartQ V5 - media player and more
Authored by: tingo on Thursday, January 28 2010 @ 19:46 CET
Here is what it looks like when I have ssh'ed into the device: 

user@SmartQ:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 9.10
Release:	9.10
Codename:	karmic
The firmware says version 5.2 when it boots, uname shows: user@SmartQ:~$ uname -a Linux SmartQ 2.6.28 #808 PREEMPT Thu Dec 17 16:14:09 CST 2009 armv6l GNU/Linux Cool!
SmartQ V5 - media player and more
Authored by: tingo on Sunday, January 31 2010 @ 20:01 CET
To enable sshd permanently: sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults/code>. Befoe doing that I had to do sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start on each boot.
SmartQ V5 - media player and more
Authored by: tingo on Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 23:55 CET
Ubuntu: use sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata to configure the correct timezone, then date MMDDhhmm to set the time.
SmartQ V5 - media player and more
Authored by: tingo on Wednesday, June 09 2010 @ 12:25 CEST
Android on the device (as delivered) says Android v 1.6.
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