serial numbers & comments

[Mevi]

Here is a list of my Jogglers, their boot logo and additional comments - I'm hoping to build a picture of the working state of Jogglers and to spot any trends. Note that one of my Jogglers main board was manufactured by Foxconn. I'd not seen that before. The board layout was the same aside from the ZIF connector at J1 was missing and the EFI chip was a different make. Perhaps other people have similar lists? I'll add them to post #1 to keep them together. At first glance, it seems like early serial numbers are Openpeak branded, later ones are O2.

• ??????????????? - Openpeak (No NIC in XP)
  3162090740029 Openpeak (no working nic in xp)
  3162091060201 - Openpeak (fully working)
  3162091060765 - Openpeak (bricked at present)
  3162091110290 - Openpeak (White Screen on power up)
  ??????????????? - O2 (No internal flash boot, No NIC in XP)
  ??????????????? - O2 (No NIC in XP)
  3162091640141 - O2 (fully working)
  3162091640961 - O2 (no working NIC in XP)
  3162092610894 - O2 (No internal flash boot, No NIC in XP)
  3162100681050 - O2 (Fully Working)
  3162101252116 - O2 (No working NIC in XP, Flash memory dead - foxconn board)

[pete]

Mevi,
Will do the same here (when I am front of the Jogglers). I have 8. 4 boot fine into XP with the NIC and 4 rarely boot into the internal NIC. The are all O2 Jogglers as far as I can tell. I can lock the ones that work in XP with the NIC by plugging in the NIC sometimes after boot.

[danfoshizzle]

Her is one: 3162090740029 Openpeak (no working nic in xp) Oh and touchscreen dead

[Mevi]

Mevi,
Will do the same here (when I am front of the Jogglers). I have 8. 4 boot fine into XP with the NIC and 4 rarely boot into the internal NIC. The are all O2 Jogglers as far as I can tell. I can lock the ones that work in XP with the NIC by plugging in the NIC sometimes after boot.

Thanks Pete & Dan, I hoped that I'd get one of the ones that hang so I had something to bang my head against. Mine either work or 'error #10' in XP. Lichung said that over on the Chinese forum they boot into the O2 OS, set up the network and after a reboot the NIC works for a while. I had one of my Openpeaks just start working all by itself... which was a nice surprise. It means I have 2 'hero' Jogglers.

[danfoshizzle]

My joggler is a hero too, after all the abuse I throw at it, it still works kinda lol

[cbredfred]

Here are my Jogglers. Some haven't been disassembled so I don't know their serial numbers. Jog5 has "terminal" problems and has never got close to booting in the time I've owned it. I've had it's screen on other Jogglers and it works fine.

Jog1 - ??????????????? - OP - No NIC in XP
Jog2 - 3162100681050 - O2 - Fully Working
Jog3 - 3162092610894 - O2 - No internal flash boot, No NIC in XP
Jog4 - ??????????????? - O2 - No internal flash boot, No NIC in XP
Jog5 - 3162091110290 - OP - White Screen on power up
Jog6 - ??????????????? - O2 - No NIC in XP

[Mevi]

If you have an IMEI sticker on the back, the serial number may be under that. Some of my Jogglers that I've disassembled have had a tiny serial number sticker underneath the big sticker - the Foxconn one didn't. I'll still add the details to post #1.

[pete]

I have had my jogglers "off" for a bit.

Starting endeavor again though.

Will plug in NIC cable with a cold boot to see what happens. I initially have been booting them. I see the NIC card then plug in the cable and they go right into the network.

Best test will be to warm reboot them to see if they go back to the network.

Problem here is that I have peeled off all of the serial numbers such that I have the stickers taped on to my bulletin board with no idea which sticker belongs to which Joggler. Is there a software method to read the serial numbers?

The one on my desk is totally disassembled. There are two stickers on the top of the motherboard and three stickers on back of the LCD.

The serial number appears to be on the top sticker on the MB that starts with ID. That is #3084.. . The other sticker states H P/N T-BASE L6-O2 then another alpha numerical number. Guessing its an early build??

Second one in the home office is 3162...

Usually there some rhyme and reason for the serial numbers (build date etc)...is there any documentation out there relating to this?

[Mevi]

No docs that I've seen, Pete. Don't go to any great trouble to get serial numbers. It suppose it won't help us much to know that a run of serial numbers are more prone to NIC problems.... not for ones we already have anyway. I could help to avoid serial numbers for ones we are considering buying in the future.

[pete]

I've tested the base O2 OS and Umbuntu builds and the internal NIC works just fine on all eight Jogglers. I also tried to boot into windows once configured in the O2 OS and still see the HW error on 4 of the 8 Jogglers.

I've always been curious about maybe doing a linux base boot just relating to the configuration of the NIC; then from there a typical Wintel boot with an already configured internal NIC.

Maybe even just letting the Joggler boot to the included O2 OS and using a widget to boot into a Wintel OS, Linux OS or Android OS installed on a multipartition USB / HD setup.

A while back and unrelated to the Joggler but rather playing with the Chumby; I replaced the internal microSD card going from a 2Gb to a 4Gb. I configured the new card such that it loaded a base OS (stripping away the Chumby "fluff", doing a chroot and switching the main OS to something that I could work with). BUT it was a bit slow to be of practical use for me. That's me though and my age (slow these days).

[Mevi]

Yeah, we all slow down as the years pass.

I was cleaing up one of the kids PCs today which when I built it, had a WD Raptor 10,000RPM drive. These days it's just slow and noisy.