Ainol Novo8 battery compartment dimensions here...

dragon2knight · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:14 pm

nickytheshaft wrote:

dragon2knight wrote:

max1001 wrote:

I dunno. It defeat the purpose of a $200 tablet when you have to add another $50 for batteries at the end.

You dont need to do that anymore.The battery issue is a non issue now.Yes us early adopters got the short end on battery life,but at least all future buyers will have two less things to worry abot when they receive their NOVO 8(it also includes an android marketplace ]

Hi,

do you mean that if I order a novo 8 from MP4nation today I will recieve the version with upgraded battery?

Thanks

Yes

nickytheshaft · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:15 am

thanks, this is. soooooooo cooooollll i am going toi order one

dragon2knight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:18 am

nickytheshaft wrote:

thanks, this is. soooooooo cooooollll i am going toi order one

Its a great tablet for the price, your gonna love it! Oh,and welcome to the forums!

occams_razor · **Joined:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:24 pm **Posts:** 32

aludal wrote:

It's here: http://bbs.imp3.net/forum.php?mod=viewt ... 5%E7%B3%D8.
Stock batteries are claimed as being 5x50x68mm, the suggested replacements are 5.2x61x86mm. However, the picture shows quite a wasteful frame for speakers. My suggestion would be throw that white harness out and play with speakers a little.

Another approach is mentioned there: a disassembled sandwich of two batteries 71x69x10mm (2 batteries of 5 mm thickness) yielding 5800 mAh, price is 32 Yuan (which I believe is just US $5 for a two-pack): http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=8000110377.

Well, I strongly believe that anyone knowing Chinese could find an easy cheap ~6000 mAh replacement with good fit, too, like in an hour of searches in Baidu.com

If we want to go into case modding, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Of course we can stick larger batteries than the stock dimensions allow, but I wanted to avoid that.

The speaker bracket can be dremeled to be smaller which can buy you maybe 1 cm in that direction, but the problem is the bottom of the case begins to slope upwards towards the edge of the housing which forces you to use a battery thinner than 5mm. We can start shaving off LCD guides to get us a bit more space in the other dimension. Maybe another 1cm in that direction if your lucky. The same sloping case problem here. The vibrator is located in that corner and that can be easily moved and the bracket can be removed too which gets you more space. You can hot-glue that vibrator just about anywhere, extending the leads if necessary.

I'm all for this sort of modding, but I would think the energy and time spent on something like this might start offsetting any benefit. If we can get the "new" Novo8 batteries, I would think that would be the most painless way of getting more capacity, even if it's not ideal for those who want 10hrs of wifi time.

dragon2knight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:31 am

If you want 10 hours of battery time....buy an ipad.This is a $200.00 tablet that has its limitations,battery being one of them.I agree that if we can get our hands on the new batteries in the latest batch,that would be the best,and easiest, route.

nickytheshaft · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:58 am

dragon2knight wrote:

nickytheshaft wrote:

thanks, this is. soooooooo cooooollll i am going toi order one

Its a great tablet for the price, your gonna love it! Oh,and welcome to the forums!

I hope so. I was waiting. for a. better battery and they made it

but I am in France so I will have to wait one month to recieve it

and thanks for the welcome

aludal · **Joined:** Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:27 am **Posts:** 21

occams_razor wrote:

aludal wrote:

It's here: http://bbs.imp3.net/forum.php?mod=viewt ... 5%E7%B3%D8.
Stock batteries are claimed as being 5x50x68mm, the suggested replacements are 5.2x61x86mm. However, the picture shows quite a wasteful frame for speakers. My suggestion would be throw that white harness out and play with speakers a little.

Another approach is mentioned there: a disassembled sandwich of two batteries 71x69x10mm (2 batteries of 5 mm thickness) yielding 5800 mAh, price is 32 Yuan (which I believe is just US $5 for a two-pack): http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=8000110377.

Well, I strongly believe that anyone knowing Chinese could find an easy cheap ~6000 mAh replacement with good fit, too, like in an hour of searches in Baidu.com

If we want to go into case modding, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Of course we can stick larger batteries than the stock dimensions allow, but I wanted to avoid that.

The speaker bracket can be dremeled to be smaller which can buy you maybe 1 cm in that direction, but the problem is the bottom of the case begins to slope upwards towards the edge of the housing which forces you to use a battery thinner than 5mm. We can start shaving off LCD guides to get us a bit more space in the other dimension. Maybe another 1cm in that direction if your lucky. The same sloping case problem here. The vibrator is located in that corner and that can be easily moved and the bracket can be removed too which gets you more space. You can hot-glue that vibrator just about anywhere, extending the leads if necessary.

I'm all for this sort of modding, but I would think the energy and time spent on something like this might start offsetting any benefit. If we can get the "new" Novo8 batteries, I would think that would be the most painless way of getting more capacity, even if it's not ideal for those who want 10hrs of wifi time.

I'm definitely for this kettle of fish. Especially when one can get the device for about $124 in China today (links in my blog). So, think about it as DYI project, for a DIY "kit" price.
In my blog, I'm collecting other Ainol Novo 8 "upgrading" ideas, and starting with batteries, some of them -- like rear camera -- might require a mod of back cover.

As for D2K enthusiasm on a "news" of all Ainols getting "new" batteries overnight, while leaving model number intact, plus dropping the price, I'm very skeptical. Not a single Chinese forum on Ainol Novo 8 has any idea about such a wonderful development, while dropping price tag. No, I think I remember one, but it just quoted that Centocose Ainol letter.

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20625

as far as we know the updated battery was quoted to be for the export version, comment wss even made to the fact - not sure about "all" NOVO8 getting the ramped up battery - we will have to wait and see

occams_razor · **Joined:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:24 pm **Posts:** 32

aludal wrote:

As for D2K enthusiasm on a "news" of all Ainols getting "new" batteries overnight, while leaving model number intact, plus dropping the price, I'm very skeptical. Not a single Chinese forum on Ainol Novo 8 has any idea about such a wonderful development, while dropping price tag. No, I think I remember one, but it just quoted that Centocose Ainol letter.

Based on what I've seen, I'd be really surprised if this "upgrade" was any more than uprating the batteries to 2400mAh. The longer WIFI times with the new batteries is less than +50%, 2.5hrs to 3.5hrs. I wonder if the early Novo8 runs just had overspec'd 1800mAH batteries from an unscrupulous vendor and they are finally getting REAL 1800mAh types. I guess we'll find out sooner or later.

If I were really a jaded skeptic, I would say this was Ainol's way of selling more Novo8's to those worried about battery life without changing anything. Hey, it got dragon2knight to buy another one!! :lol:

For the time being I'm going to be running some wires out of the SD-card opening with a connector so I can swap to an external 7.4v 7200mAh RC car battery when I go on those long flights or need to entertain the kids with a movie at the airport. Makes sense for me until I can find a really big battery that fits properly. I'm not sure I would be satisfied with the 2800mAh-3000mAh batteries I've found that will fit. I really want to double the capacity (at least!).

dragon2knight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:53 am

Wow,such skeptics on here!!

It was confirmed by actual users on another Italian forum(forum member on here roughangel)that the increase is indeed real.As Raz said,Ainol dosent do separate export and import models,so that means all of them are getting the upgrade...and this store will soon prove it.Is it so hard to believe that a company can upgrade their product? Its happened many times before,and I think that Ainol wouldnt lie about an upgrade to their flagship android product,that would be suicide to their sales if proven to be so.Have a little faith,will ya

@aludal I never said,not once,anywhere,that Ainol were lowering their price.Get your facts strait before reaming someone,ok?And we have already proven in another thread that the serial numbers are also different for the upgraded ones as well...please read a bit more,or at least ask questions if your not sure about something, before spouting off,ok?

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