uSD slot BEWARE

[j m]

uSD slot is apparently utter shit, or at least it is on mine.

I had temporarily slotted a 32GB card, and just attempted to swap it out. Attempted I say as apparently the card holder on mine wasn’t well affixed much like on the old Augen Gentouch 78, and so now I’ve got a card lodged inside between the holder and mobo maybe. Fortunately when my 64GB wasn’t sitting right(initially I thought crap mechanism and the spring sprung already), so I tried a throwaway 16GB, still no spring action, so since it was still going pushed more and well, short story short the metail housing for the card had apparently become loose(?) from ONE insertion cycle.

So new job, which I wasn’t originally going to do, pop it open and figure hell since I’m going to have to do that anyways order me a type 2242 m.2 ssd.

So, beware of the uSD slot mechanics. Also on mine the touch screen isn’t so hot. it works, but not reliably on say my thumb with somewhat of a callus meanwhile reliably with my index finger relatively callus free…

Godawful build quality apparently, although I will say that the screen appears to be slightly brighter than my Dell 7140’s but sound is also shit compared to that as it’s not very loud at 100% volume meanwhile 50% volume on the Dell is quite loud for most uses.

Off to dig up tips for popping this mofo open with minimal damage, but I’m not going to bother until I’ve got a new ssd since I figure well hell if I have to open it up anyways may as well upgrade the ssd while I’m at it.

[j m]

well, I macgyvered it out courtesy of of two very tiny paper clips, needle nose pliers to bend one to a very slight L as gripper, the other to wedge on the far side(thanks God the Chinese aren’t good on tolerances), pulled it up enough to expose it, swiss army knife small blade hooked card and popped out, which is how I extracted the 64GB card BEFORE I had that tingling about the gentouch’s card slot.

The gentouch just had even way worse tolerances so it was possible to shove the card right inside of the casing where it rattled around, fortunately this wasn’t as bad.

The gap on mine is between the screen side and the ‘bottom’ side of the tablet. I guess that I just got lucky on the first card insert.

It’s still apparently electrically/mechanically intact as the springs worked(first hint of you missed the slot, no usual spring resistance to card insertion, but see above I figured cheap card slot and the springs had already broken) and upon power up, no magic smoke, no abnormal heat, and the card was readable/writeable.

At this point I’m thinking best to just cut my losses and not even try cracking open the case as murphy will probably strike then releasing the magic smoke, cracking the display, or some other nastiness.

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