Acer n300

[terencek888]

Hi all,

Does anyone managed to get USB mouse working with the n311? I tried plugging a mouse but it does not display any mouse pointer. The mouse seemed to work but it is clicking and moving in the "dark".

I also have a cheap no-brand USB ethernet adpator which I tried to get it working as well but so far I have no luck in locating the driver for it. I cant tell what chip or driver this adpator is using/needed but if anyone has success using a similar adpator, I do very appreciate that you can share your experience.

Anyway, the n311 is really an amazing device.
Cheers!

[terencek888]

Hi all,

Does anyone managed to get USB mouse working with the n311? I tried plugging a mouse but it does not display any mouse pointer. The mouse seemed to work but it is clicking and moving in the "dark".

I also have a cheap no-brand USB ethernet adpator which I tried to get it working as well but so far I have no luck in locating the driver for it. I cant tell what chip or driver this adpator is using/needed but if anyone has success using a similar adpator, I do very appreciate that you can share your experience.

Anyway, the n311 is really an amazing device.
Cheers!

[JamesS]

I'd really like to get my USB mouse working with my n311 too. Same thing happens when I connect mine, i.e. it moves without a pointer.

I found this...

http://www.thinkoutside.com/btmouse_product.html

... which looks like it will do the job + gets good reviews, but $80...!?! Quite keen to avoid paying that kind of money! Particularly if I can use my existing USB mouse with the help of a clever piece of software.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

[Andy Whiteford]

Originally Posted by gstr

I am also testing this fix. Hope it will help.

gstr,

Has this fixed the issue for you? My device has been completely incident free for weeks and now I have what appeared to be a dead device yesterday and again today. I had to remove and replace the battery and when I powered on it went through the process as if recovering from a hard reset. Today, I noticed that there had been a significant drain on the battery during this time, probably a good 30% which was unusual. I haven't added anything in this time that I can think of that would have caused the issue although I was searching for Wifi networks over the weekend and then yesterday and today with the device plugged into my work pc via ActiveSync, SPB Weather would not automatically update from the Internet, I had to manually invoke a refresh in the application to update the weather data. I'm unsure if something over the weekend has caused this change and perhaps the way connections are made which may now mean I need to try the fake exchange account fix mentioned in this thread. As I said, I have been running for weeks without a single incident and now twice in two days!

[Godsongz]

I had 5 or 6 of these incidents with my n311 in the week and a half before I applied the fix, and 0 in the week and a half since.

[gstr]

Originally Posted by Andy Whiteford

Has this fixed the issue for you?

I don't know. I have had no accidents for last weeks, even before applying this patch.

I think I have found the reason. Sometimes, when SD card (or this plastic thing which is in slot by default) is taken out and in very often, something strange happens to n311. It doesn't turn off and the battery starts to drain very quickly. By very I mean 20% in 10 minutes. PDA doesn't respond to any buttons, even soft reset.

I have catched by Acer for a few times with about 20%-30% battery. Only possible solution was to take off battery for a while. Almost everytime it happend when I kept my PDA in a pocket of my jeans with SD card moved out.

Maybe you were wearing jeans for a last few days ?

GStr

[Andy Whiteford]

I have applied this fix and will keep an eye on it but it is really annoying me now as I want to know what is actually causing this since it never happened to me before.

[gstr]

Originally Posted by Andy Whiteford

I have applied this fix and will keep an eye on it but it is really annoying me now as I want to know what is actually causing this since it never happened to me before.

Remove SD card and don't use it for a while.

[Andy Whiteford]

I have always ran this device with a 4Gb SD card so I don't think that is causing the issue we have here; I think the SD dummy card that you have has just been a coincidence given others haven't reported a problem with an SD card of any form with the Acer.
I know Dell Axim users reported an issue that seemed to be linked to a storage card however but that was resolved by a Dell update afaik.

[Godsongz]

Bummer, it's been two weeks since I applied the fix that I detailed in an earlier post, and just now I had to re-seat my battery to get my n311 working again. The unit had been sitting in it's cradle for about 3 hours, and it had been off (with the switch in the hold position) for perhaps 2 hours before I placed it in the cradle. No battery drain this time, so it must have been accepting the charge.

I was starting to think we had this bug licked for good too.

[PocketPCThoughter]

oh NO!

Acer n311 is on my "must-buy" list after feeling disgusted by the supposed "flagship" X51v.

I hope really Acer fixes this so I can feel safe getting the Acer, because the more I look at its design, the more I like it!!! I don't know why Dell X51v just "feels" so "ugly?"