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i have noticed the last few times i have come onto the excel forums that there doesnt seem to be much happening anymore, has everyone moved on for some reason such as to the extreme?

where i am... working well now with suggsy's 4.0.4, great work mate, thanks. the kids now use it mostly which i always intended as i have my nexus 7.

part of the reason i got it though, as well as for the kids playing games, was as my test bed for trying different roms. that is why i am curious after using the nexus 7 with jelly bean for a while, is the excel ever going to get jelly bean? i know it will take the expertise of someone like suggsy but i think i have read a similar chinese tablet has received jelly bean either officially or custom. the last time i mentioned it on here i was linked to the extreme thread but that doesnt seem to be moving much and it still doesnt mean we will get it on the forgoten excel

lastly, the excel isnt obviously the fastest tablet being single core but what has anyone done on here, if anything, to make theirs faster? i have the sd-booster app to speed that side of things up but when i was using No-frills CPU to overclock to 1.1ghz, it didnt seem any faster.

cheers guys, marc

I know where you are coming from Marc, I also followed the ICS 4.0.3 and then 4.0.4 route for my Excel which started out with Gingerbread 2.3.4 and when we do eventually hear about a stable Jellybean for the allwinner A10 then I will certainly want to see what it has to offer for the Excel.

I understand that traditionally a lot of forums go quiet during the summer months as people go on their holidays but it certainly has been very quiet on the Excel front. I suppose either everyones away, lost interest or perhaps we have all got the wrinkles ironed out now with Suggy89's 4.0.4 which works very well on my Excel with the one exception that I cant host any usb devices - the slave part of the usb works fine though. I assume this got broke during the port process to Excel and I would like it fixed but I ceratinly wouldn't go back to Gingerbread because of it.

No doubt, Storage Options have taken a sharp intake of breath over the specs and the cost of the Nexus 7, but it is a sad fact that the Nexus has no option for external SD - although it does have the addition of an NFC chip.
Storage Options have been rather quiet lately, they used to surprise us with a rush of new models and even before they had hardly hit the market, they were issuing another new model.
I believe there have been more returns to Storage Options of the Extreme so far than any other tablet they have released and most people who have needed to send their Extreme back have been sent an Elite in replacement.

I don't know if you have noticed in the forum threads but the modding options for the Elite seem more limited than they were for the Extreme and quite a lot of people have experienced keymapping problems after updating to Cyanogen Mod or AOKP.

I have to say that for my personal needs which is mostly streaming TV via TVcatchup app or watching movies from the SD card and using the tunein radio, the Excel does everything I want it too and most of the time it does it well.
I have had some fun with an app called Jeanie https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... MuZnJlZSJd

You speak to it similar to apple's Siri - like "what is the meaning of life?" or "How long is a piece of string?"and it goes of to find an answer which is often hilarious. Maybe I am too easily entertained but I do also use the Google voice search which I find unerringly accurate. So maybe thats why it is all so quiet on the Excel front - those who have them have now got them sorted and perhaps they are not selling as well any more due to Google's competition.

Hy guys, I cleaned this thread up and moved all the ICS stuff to here: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=3012

thanks for moving the ICS stuff over trashcooky.

however, we had briefly discussed Jelly Bean and it was viewed that keeping an eye on the extreme forum (i think) might be useful but it doesnt seem that it is indicating if/when we may get JB for the excel.

any further info from anyone such as rumours or anything?

thanks guys, i miss the update bug

marcknuckle wrote:thanks for moving the ICS stuff over trashcooky.

however, we had briefly discussed Jelly Bean and it was viewed that keeping an eye on the extreme forum (i think) might be useful but it doesnt seem that it is indicating if/when we may get JB for the excel.

any further info from anyone such as rumours or anything?

thanks guys, i miss the update bug

From what I've seen the only traffic on Jellybean is the CM10 thread but thats for the Elite and Extreme mostly.
I am hoping that there is work going on in the background with porting JB to the Scroll but I suspect we will have to await an announcement from one of our devs.

cheers mate