JXD S7800? Seems like a pretty obscure device.

[The_Hulkster]

Buyer's remorse? I've heard more negative things about that than the G5A, at least, from what I gathered on the Dingoonity forums.

No, no buyers remorse, it's actually a great device.
It works as advertised, which is more than I expected.

Just not using it as much as I thought I would.
Probably due to having an iPad as well.

 

[the_randomizer]

No, no buyers remorse, it's actually a great device.
It works as advertised, which is more than I expected.

Just not using it as much as I thought I would.
Probably due to having an iPad as well.

Really? That's good to hear that it's a solid device, contrary to what I initially assumed What about the AC adapter? I heard they had really crappy soldering and had humming/heating issues? The G5A can be charged via USB though, so I'm kinda torn Would you personally recommend the S7800?

 

[The_Hulkster]

Really? That's good to hear that it's a solid device, contrary to what I initially assumed What about the AC adapter? I heard they had really crappy soldering and had humming/heating issues? The G5A can be charged via USB though, so I'm kinda torn Would you personally recommend the S7800?

The AC adapter does get quite warm and it does buzz a little but no issues yet.

I bought it mainly for emulation, which works very well.
N64 is, as previously mentioned in this thread, a bit of a hit and miss.
Other consoles play perfectly.

The rest of the device works just as a regular tablet.
The screen is brilliant, though!

Not sure if you heard, as it's probably not very legal, but it does come with the HappyChick app.
Which is kinda neat

 

[the_randomizer]

The AC adapter does get quite warm and it does buzz a little but no issues yet.

I bought it mainly for emulation, which works very well.
N64 is, as previously mentioned in this thread, a bit of a hit and miss.
Other consoles play perfectly.

The rest of the device works just as a regular tablet.
The screen is brilliant, though!

Not sure if you heard, as it's probably not very legal, but it does come with the HappyChick app.
Which is kinda neat

I know it's definitely a gray market device for sure, and IPS screens are way nice, I don't even know what that app does lol, as you guess, I've very new to Android and tablets as a whole, never owned one in my life ROFL The only problem is finding a reliable online retailer that doesn't have shipping that takes three weeks I'm still quite wary on Chinese devices' reliability.

 

[kristianity77]

Really? That's good to hear that it's a solid device, contrary to what I initially assumed What about the AC adapter? I heard they had really crappy soldering and had humming/heating issues? The G5A can be charged via USB though, so I'm kinda torn Would you personally recommend the S7800?

I thought I had mentioned but perhaps I forgot to but the device can be charged via a USB port, you just need a cable which costs a couple of quid over here (so a few dollars)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5V-2A-USB-C...ader_Chargers_Sync_Cables&hash=item19e74fe0fa

Thats all you need to charge via USB

 

[The_Hulkster]

I know it's definitely a gray market device for sure, and IPS screens are way nice, I don't even know what that app does lol, as you guess, I've very new to Android and tablets as a whole, never owned one in my life ROFL The only problem is finding a reliable online retailer that doesn't have shipping that takes three weeks I'm still quite wary on Chinese devices' reliability.

LOL, well it was my first Android device as well. It certainly takes some getting used to
The HappyChick app allows you to download and install paid games and apps for free, without any hassle.

Too bad I JUST sold mine, I would have given you a good deal
Took about 3-4 week for mine to arrive, so I know what you mean

 

[The_Hulkster]

I thought I had mentioned but perhaps I forgot to but the device can be charged via a USB port, you just need a cable which costs a couple of quid over here (so a few dollars)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5V-2A-USB-C...ader_Chargers_Sync_Cables&hash=item19e74fe0fa

Thats all you need to charge via USB

I don't think it can be charged through USB, at least last I checked.

 

[kristianity77]

I know it's definitely a gray market device for sure, and IPS screens are way nice, I don't even know what that app does lol, as you guess, I've very new to Android and tablets as a whole, never owned one in my life ROFL The only problem is finding a reliable online retailer that doesn't have shipping that takes three weeks I'm still quite wary on Chinese devices' reliability.

The Hippy chick app basically is an app chucked onto the device at factory which contains emulators. The problem is, is that they aren;t anywhere near the best emulators that you would choose off your own back. Is does have a nifty ROM find function though which can be handy if you don't know the places to go to.

 

[the_randomizer]

LOL, well it was my first Android device as well. It certainly takes some getting used to
The HappyChick app allows you to download and install paid games and apps for free, without any hassle.
Too bad I JUST sold mine, I would have given you a good deal
Took about 3-4 week for mine to arrive, so I know what you mean

Hey, no worries, it's pretty cheap on DinoDirect and Geekbuying, both have quicker shipment methods, but costs a little more that way I would use the LegacyROM or whatever firmware Tincore and Skelton wrote as I heard it's better than the stock firmware by far

I thought I had mentioned but perhaps I forgot to but the device can be charged via a USB port, you just need a cable which costs a couple of quid over here (so a few dollars)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5V-2A-USB-C...ader_Chargers_Sync_Cables&hash=item19e74fe0fa

Thats all you need to charge via USB

I saw that, but I thought it was more of a hardware limitation the prevented it from being charged via USB

The Hippy chick app basically is an app chucked onto the device at factory which contains emulators. The problem is, is that they aren;t anywhere near the best emulators that you would choose off your own back. Is does have a nifty ROM find function though which can be handy if you don't know the places to go to.

I won't use that at all TBH, but install custom firmware and remove all the bloatware as I would like it for the much more improved and up-to-date emulators, as well as Netflix, Chrome, well, the cool stuff you can do on other tablets.

I also assume the d-pad is good for emulators as well on either this and the G5A?

 

[kristianity77]

I don't think it can be charged through USB, at least last I checked.

It cant from a USB to the USB port actually on the S7800. But it can be charged from a USB port to that cable (which is just the same pin as if charging through the AC adapter

 

[the_randomizer]

It cant from a USB to the USB port actually on the S7800. But it can be charged from a USB port to that cable (which is just the same pin as if charging through the AC adapter

So, that cable would be able to charge the S7800 just fine since it uses the right pin? How am I to overcome my initial uh, wariness of Chinese electronics?

 

[The_Hulkster]

Hey, no worries, it's pretty cheap on DinoDirect and Geekbuying, both have quicker shipment methods, but costs a little more that way I would use the LegacyROM or whatever firmware Tincore and Skelton wrote as I heard it's better than the stock firmware by far

I bought it from GeekBuying, with the express delivery option.
DinoDirect is just the same guys, according to forums.
Still took 3-4 weeks, just so you know

The LegacyROM is great but for basic emulation purposes it's not necessary IMHO.


I saw that, but I thought it was more of a hardware limitation the prevented it from being charged via USB

It cant from a USB to the USB port actually on the S7800. But it can be charged from a USB port to that cable (which is just the same pin as if charging through the AC adapter

Ah, sorry, thought you meant from USB to USB

 

[kristianity77]

So, that cable would be able to charge the S7800 just fine since it uses the right pin? How am I to overcome my initial uh, wariness of Chinese electronics?

Yes. The ballache originally is that with older JXD devices you could charge VIA the AC adapter or via the USB port on the device. On the S7800 however you cannot charge via the USB port. You can only charge through the AC port. But this doesnt stop you using that cable and still using USB to charge.

Regarding the wariness of chinese electronics there is nothing you can do really apart from just dive in lol

 

[the_randomizer]

I bought it from GeekBuying, with the express delivery option.
DinoDirect is just the same guys, according to forums.
Still took 3-4 weeks, just so you know

The LegacyROM is great but for basic emulation purposes it's not necessary IMHO.


I saw that, but I thought it was more of a hardware limitation the prevented it from being charged via USB


Ah, sorry, thought you meant from USB to USB

What happened to the quote? XD Anyways, I simply would love CFW because it rids the device of all the bloatware, most of which and also helps the partitioning since you don't get 8 GB but only 1.5 from what I heard. I'll need an SD card though. I only heard bad things from the stock firmware, that's all. The preinstalled emulators themselves aren't that great (outdated), so I'd need to get new ones as well

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

With Snes, I highly recommend something like Snes9x EX+ (based off if 1.53) or Snes9x Next (also 1.53, included in RetroArch), as both are reported working perfectly and with perfect audio I'm very picky about sound (those two emulators, well you know lol) I wish I had a device like that right now, but I don't know when I'll be able to get one, hopefully really soon I mean, how does the OS run, and how long did the battery last on one charge? And is the AC adapter work without any issues? I might have my sights set on the G5A

On the charge it came with it was at almost 90% and I played with it about 5 hours before it got to 15% and hit me with it's low power warning.

The screen is fantastic and touch is the most responsive I have used, it feels instant on everything I loaded up.

Sound of the machine is very clear and loud, screen is bright and high res, power cord (box part) gets a little warm (It's getting a charge next to me as I type this.) but it everything works so far

I will try out that other SNES emulator here soon, if it does have perfect sound that will fix my complaint with that lol (maybe it will also load my Axelay.)

I did get a chance to try out Netflix for about 10 minutes before I decided to take a break and charge it up. Was really smooth and I can see myself watching a movie on it. (Only because the sound and the screen is so nice.)

One thing I did do was to install Avast and and I did notice that I have less than 1GB free of RAM if I am running all the goodies with the animated wall paper and all that jazz.

 

[kristianity77]

What happened to the quote? XD Anyways, I simply would love CFW because it rids the device of all the bloatware, most of which and also helps the partitioning since you don't get 8 GB but only 1.5 from what I heard. I'll need an SD card though.

The 8GB NAND is all present and usable, its just that on stock firmware for some bizarre reason its partitioned and no one really knows why. You get about 1GB of primary device storage, and the rest is kind of internal SD card storage. Thats all fine until you hit apps that wont allow you to move them to SD card (which admittedly isnt many these days).

However, custom firmware irons this out by putting all the space in one basket as it were.

 

[the_randomizer]

On the charge it came with it was at almost 90% and I played with it about 5 hours before it got to 15% and hit me with it's low power warning.

The screen is fantastic and touch is the most responsive I have used, it feels instant on everything I loaded up.

Sound of the machine is very clear and loud, screen is bright and high res, power cord (box part) gets a little warm (It's getting a charge next to me as I type this.) but it everything works so far

I will try out that other SNES emulator here soon, if it does have perfect sound that will fix my complaint with that lol (maybe it will also load my Axelay.)

I did get a chance to try out Netflix for about 10 minutes before I decided to take a break and charge it up. Was really smooth and I can see myself watching a movie on it. (Only because the sound and the screen is so nice.)

One thing I did do was to install Avast and and I did notice that I have less than 1GB free of RAM if I am running all the goodies with the animated wall paper and all that jazz.

Glad to hear that as well Anyways, are the complaints unsubstantiated then? The touchscreen being unresponsive, the d-pad and analogs being "stiff" as well as the firmware being finicky? IPS panels are indeed freakin sweet though The cheapest I've seen so far is http://www.geekbuying.com/item/JXD-...ive-Touch-Screen-1280-800-2GB-8GB-318433.html for $150

The 8GB NAND is all present and usable, its just that on stock firmware for some bizarre reason its partitioned and no one really knows why. You get about 1GB of primary device storage, and the rest is kind of internal SD card storage. Thats all fine until you hit apps that wont allow you to move them to SD card (which admittedly isnt many these days).
However, custom firmware irons this out by putting all the space in one basket as it were.

Alrighty, CFW it is Have most the issues people complained about with the S7800 been ironed out then?

 

[kristianity77]

Glad to hear that as well Anyways, are the complaints unsubstantiated then? The touchscreen being unresponsive, the d-pad and analogs being "stiff" as well as the firmware being finicky? IPS panels are indeed freakin sweet though The cheapest I've seen so far is http://www.geekbuying.com/item/JXD-...ive-Touch-Screen-1280-800-2GB-8GB-318433.html for $150


Alrighty, CFW it is Have most the issues people complained about with the S7800 been ironed out then?

I'm not gonna lie and say they have been ironed out. Hardware issues are hardware issues after all. I mean, if you get a dud device then I suppose its just one of them things. What I would say, is that its made out to be much worse than it is. Like i said before, Dingoonity seems to be the only place on the entire net for people to bring issues etc which leaves threads full of issues but I think the vast majority of devices are perfectly fine.

The minor issues the device has are mostly fixed by the custom firmwares (like the split memory, opening up overclocking etc)

If you want, ill even up a video of me using the QWERTY touchscreen typing really fast so you can see that its all well and good

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Glad to hear that as well Anyways, are the complaints unsubstantiated then? The touchscreen being unresponsive, the d-pad and analogs being "stiff" as well as the firmware being finicky? IPS panels are indeed freakin sweet though The cheapest I've seen so far is http://www.geekbuying.com/item/JXD-...ive-Touch-Screen-1280-800-2GB-8GB-318433.html for $150


Alrighty, CFW it is Have most the issues people complained about with the S7800 been ironed out then?

Maybe those issues with the OS being slow or something where from older firmware versions? (Older posts on forums?) But unless I got lucky and got the golden unit I have zero complaints about the OS.

The sticks are a bit on the stiff side, but I honestly am going to chalk that up to being brand new. I expect that after a good work out with some PS1 or N64 games they will break in just fine. They don't seem to have any of the dead zone issues I had read some people complaining about either (I did see other people say that was caused by the emulator not the device.)

Yeah I have an 8GB card stuffed in mine for now but I did notice that my internal storage is almost full already (I did play around with Happy Chick a lot... lol) so I probably will jam the CFW on it soon so I don't have to worry about running out of space.

 

[the_randomizer]

I'm not gonna lie and say they have been ironed out. Hardware issues are hardware issues after all. I mean, if you get a dud device then I suppose its just one of them things. What I would say, is that its made out to be much worse than it is. Like i said before, Dingoonity seems to be the only place on the entire net for people to bring issues etc which leaves threads full of issues but I think the vast majority of devices are perfectly fine.

The minor issues the device has are mostly fixed by the custom firmwares (like the split memory, opening up overclocking etc)

If you want, ill even up a video of me using the QWERTY touchscreen typing really fast so you can see that its all well and good

Again, I'm not trying to make it complicated for myself (too late for that ROFL), I just don't want to regret whichever device I end up getting, that's all The cheapest I've seen so far is on Geekbuying for $150, well, then there's the promo coupon to knock of 10 bucks. I'll just pay for the faster shipping as I don't want to wait a long time to get it A video? No, that's fine. I just end up being skeptical for some reason.

Maybe those issues with the OS being slow or something where from older firmware versions? (Older posts on forums?) But unless I got lucky and got the golden unit I have zero complaints about the OS.

The sticks are a bit on the stiff side, but I honestly am going to chalk that up to being brand new. I expect that after a good work out with some PS1 or N64 games they will break in just fine. They don't seem to have any of the dead zone issues I had read some people complaining about either (I did see other people say that was caused by the emulator not the device.)


Yeah I have an 8GB card stuffed in mine for now but I did notice that my internal storage is almost full already (I did play around with Happy Chick a lot... lol) so I probably will jam the CFW on it soon
so I don't have to worry about running out of space.

PS1 emulation is very good from what I've seen, as is Snes, Genesis/MD, NES, most consoles except Dreamcast and N64, but those should improve. I don't know what the old firmware was like, I do know it was badly partitioned with 6.5 GB used up, giving the user little headroom for apps.