Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt

I bought Cherry Mobile's Fusion Bolt tablet last May. I wasn't expecting it to be a great slate and I was right. After a few months of using it, the device seemed really slow and sometimes non-responsive. After a lot of reading on the web, I found out a couple of information that shed some light on why this tablet is not performing very well. It has a Quad processor but it performs like a dual core or maybe even a single core.

CM Fusion Bolt is actually a rebranded Novo 7 Venus from Ainol, a chinese brand. So FuBo owners got to thinking that maybe the firmware that came with FuBo is not optimized and replacing it with the firmware from Ainol would make it better. And they were half right. I said half right because, from further reading, Venus users say that Ainol firmwares have a reputation of being unstable and unoptimized too. The tablet's performance is still better compared to the stock firmware that came with my tablet.

I don't play games on the tablet that much but I ran into some problems with the few games that I do play. Temple Run 2 hangs after a long period of play. Zenonia 5 force closes when you're already far out in the game. Epic Defense II lags when there are too many monsters on the screen and to many towers spitting HD particles. The SD card gets removed unexpectedly almost too many times. If it continues like this, the card will be corrupted. These problems don't bother me that much but after some time that these keep happening, you get fed up and you begin to wish you had a better tablet.

Alas! After a couple of months of searching, Ainol released a few more firmwares for the Venus, and as before, FuBo users jumped in and flashed the new firmware to there tablets. (...And they lived happily ever after. :) Kidding aside, the feedback for the new firmwares was mostly positive. Some even say they feel like there tablet was reborn. So I read some more and got more and more interested in flashing my tablet as well. And I did, and it went very well. :D


Here are of the sites I've read from:

• Nico's Mobile Blog
• Pinoy Screencast

 If you want to flash your FuBo as well, I'll be posting a guide/tutorial so stay tuned. :)  

Is your USB Flash drive 'real'?

You may have a 32GB USB Flash drive but is it really 32GB? We all hope so...

Last night, I was copying a movie file over 1GB in size to my flash drive and Teracopy always fails to complete the operation. It's an 8GB flash drive so I was pretty sure space issues was not any concern. The copy finishes but the file, when read back, does not match the original file. I then tried to reformat the drive and tried copying the file again but I still can't copy the file.

After a few minutes of googling, I found out that some USB flash drives being sold nowadays are fake. Windows reports that the drive is, say 8GB, but in reality, it's not.

 

How to tell if your USB drive is counterfeit and has fake oversize capacity?
A fake drive will deceive you by displaying the 'false/oversize' capacity when you connect it to your PC, however it will NOT be able to store the data to the stated capacity.

Symptoms:
You copy a big file to your drive. Later when you try to open the file, it's corrupted.

Why?
Because the file was not really completely copied due to the drive's 'REAL' size limitation.

A few things you can do after purchasing:
1. Check the serial # of the drive online.
2. Copy big files and try to open them on the drive after copying. Do it one at a time for each big file. If you have 32GB drive, start with a 30GB file and work your way down.

You may be surprised that your 32GB is actually just a poser 4GB drive. But don't worry, you are not alone.