Mele

Trying Linux distro on Mele

I quite broke Android on the Mele today, and the easiest way to fix it (without opening it or reinstalling it entirely) is to boot an alternative linux distro. I tried: Linaro 12.07 by CNX-Soft Image name linaro-precise-alip-20120724-274 Needs 4 GB SD Card Display is laggy, but access to internal  […]

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Tweak Mele to use sata hard drive as main storage

The Mele is really a nice mini computer but Android is sometimes a bit weird; when connecting a hard drive through the embedded sata port, media players are reluctant to scan it, making it difficult to launch movies or music from it. I tweaked Android a bit so that it thinks that main storage is the  […]

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New Toy - Mele A2000

Bought one, was with firmware 1.5 / Android 2.3 -- Works good, doesn't need much power. Current main issue: no sound over HDMI for .mkv files (with .ac3 or .dts tracks it seems) Will try to update to Android 4.0 -- this is not an official build (yet) but there should be soon an official Android 4  […]

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