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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:26:51 +0000

Hi all u820 / u2010 users, please help me :) I spend a lot of time of searching manufacturer and product number of lifebook u820 lcd but without succes. so do you know what kind of lcd is in this laptop, and if it have really 16M colors? (because all other 5,6″ 1280×800 lcds which i found had only 262k colors)

thanks,

Michael

best regards

By: bob mcbob

bob mcbob — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:28:48 +0000

A kinda related question… You mentioned that you salvaged an internal antenna from a Sony Ericsson K800i phone. Well, I use a K800i tethered to my computers. Sometimes I need to use the computer in a poor reception area. So I want to get an external antenna to fit my K800i. There’s a socket for external antenna on the back of the phone (just by the flash, there’s a rubber bung you remove to get to the socket). I don’t know what kind of pigtail I’ll need to fit this socket, and local stockists seem clueless. So I was wondering, do you know what pigtail is needed to fit this socket? Or is there another way to attach an external antenna to the K800i? Cheers.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:47:16 +0000

I am getting 5.5 – 6.5 hours (5-7 Watts of power drain) with one charge on the bigger 4-cell battery. That is with with constant usage and Wifi on, display dimmed to half the brightness.
With light usage and display off, that is when I am using the device as music player, I am getting up to 9 hours of runtime (~3-5 Watts of power drain). I replaced the HDD with a Samsung SSD, so your mileage may vary.
Other than that I am perfectly happy with the device even with all the money that went into the upgrading. :)

By: Alibum

Alibum — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:36:46 +0000

Ah, merci.
Looking desperately some kind of UMPC with a) UMTS, b) Windows System, c) resolution of at lest 1024×768 and d) small as a book … :-)

So far I am stuck with the sony p-series for 500+ euro but only 1,5-2h battery time :-/

Therefore the U2010 looked promesing with 3+ running time.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:49:35 +0000

@Alibum, I got mine from an eBay retailer here in Germany. I know that mobilx.hu carried the EU850D for some time. Perhaps they still do…

@pekawe, I think I paid roughly 150 Euros for the card, which came with an antenna which was too big to fit into the U820/U2010.
There were no antenna cables in my U2010. Perhaps your U820 is prepared for the Sierra 3G Modem? Do you have an SIM-Card-slot located somewhere next to the battery retainer?

Either way, there are now mini Wifi antennas available at eBay from various chinese retailers (look for “mini pci wireless antenna U.FL” or “Tyco Universal Antenna”). I thing those might fit into the U820/U2010… So perhaps the DIY cell phone antenna hack is obsolete.

And for you U810 users: Novatel has developed a combined Wifi/3G Mini-PCIe Card which might just replace the existing Wifi-Card if they add the SIM-slot onto the card:

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/09/novatel-develops-a-combination-3gwifi-module-for-dell-notebooks.html

By: Alibum

Alibum — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:21 +0000

Where do I get this thingy?
maybe http://www.ipmart.com?

By: pekawe

pekawe — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:34:31 +0000

Hi,

very nice. I would like to do the same with my U820.
Where did you get the Novatel Expedite EU850D Mini PCI-E card and what have you paied for it?
opening the U820 I saw 2 cables (White an black) with coaxial connectors right at the pci-e-slot. These cable go to the display housing. I think this could be connectors to the build in antenna. Do you have something similar in your 820?

Kind Regards,
Peter

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:35:41 +0000

Hi Henric,

yes, same problem here. However, I don’t use the suspend/sleep function any more.
The device is now running all day long – either in the docking station or on the road. At the end of the day I let it hibernate. Not perfect but it works for me.

Regards,
Andre

By: Henric

Henric — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:19:08 +0000

Hi,

I did the same thing as you to my U820 and it works fine. But, whenever the device goes to suspend-to-ram (not hibernate) the Novatel card will disappear from the system and I need to power off the U820 to make it come back.

Did you have the same problem and if so, did you find a way to fix it?

Thanks
/Henric