There are two manufacturers I can vouch for (meaning that I reviewed their manufacturing practices and standards and made sure they have a good test setup that's applied on every unit before shipping). These are SparkFun and SeeedStudio. Both have world wide shipping as well as local resellers in many places. They're also the only ones courteous enough to pay royalties. On Jul 8, 2015 8:39 PM, "lennart rolland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was not aware there were such a thing as untrusted manufacturers. That > was a big tip. Thanks! > On Jul 9, 2015 5:34 AM, "Ytai Ben-Tsvi" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why did you repeat the same mistake of buying from untrusted >> manufacturers? Get one from Seeed for about the same price and have peace >> of mind. >> These low quality manufacturers are nothing but bad reputation... They >> didn't even get the LED colors right. >> On Jul 8, 2015 8:27 PM, "lennart rolland" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> OK, so I ended up returning the device to supplier (dx.com) And since >>> the RMA proces was extremely lengthy I decided to buy two new devices in >>> the mean time. They arrived yesterday. This time I bought devices with >>> bluetooth dongle included. They still look exactly the same (white PCB with >>> IOIO otg branding). >>> >>> This time I did not solder on the pin headers on one board to make sure >>> it was 100% vanilla before testing. This did not matter. >>> >>> So on the last board the ioiodude command did not work at all, however >>> on these two devices it works (shows version numbers) for applications mode >>> but NOT for bootloader mode. When I enable bootloader mode the device >>> starts acting up during enumeration (device shows up in /dev once every 10 >>> times I run ls /dev/IOIO*), and ioiodude hangs indefinitely when trying to >>> list versions. This time I have also tried it on a third laptop (Lenovo >>> T61) to no avail. Also clearing the usb timing did not help (work at all)? >>> There is mention in documentation about a quick flashing yellow light when >>> synchronizing but my board seems only to have a green power led and a red >>> stat led. Also the documentation is really fragmented between v1 and otg >>> models. Before using ioiodude i did the whole ioiomanager app thing first >>> before finally reading in the fine print that it would only work for v1 >>> devices. Could this be the reason why my devices are bricked? >>> >>> I am at loss here. The thought of having to go through dx.com RMA >>> process again sends chills down my spine but I guess I have no choice. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ioio-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "ioio-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ioio-users/u4LPOxBvVuo/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
