Well I've resorted to posting here since there doesn't seem to actually be any official forums for this thing. I just got it for a gift for my mom and she loves it, but I.ing hate this thing. I'm trying to update this brick to see if it will fix any of the minor quirks I hate but I can't even do that. I'm at the point where it's asking for my device's serial number and it won't accept my number. When I hit auto detect it just displays a generic base serial number and when I hit confirm I get stuck with an exception error and the updater closes.
Seriously, anyone? Click to expand. Hey all, download the zip file direct to your computer, then flip your pandigital over face down, where the pandigital logo is upside down and put your fingernails in between the 2 parts of the back, (like a cell phone kinda) and slide the back cover off, then take out the micro sd card and delete everything on it, then copy the zip file from your pc to the sd card, (do not unzip it, leave it zipped) then put it back in the pos pandigital and hold the power on and volume up for 5 seconds to power it on, then it will update without the pc updater. For those of you that are having troubles installing the update. I too had the same problems but I was able to resolve the issues.
I followed the instructions to the letter and all I got was an exclamation and the android. To resolve that I put a pin in the reset and let everything go back to the way it was when I first started.
I turned it off normally and then started it by holding down the + on volume and the power on key as it originally instructed. Up popped the update and the progress bar. From then on I followed the instructions and the device updated just fine. The only issue is getting the email to work.
For those of you that are having troubles installing the update. I too had the same problems but I was able to resolve the issues. I followed the instructions to the letter and all I got was an exclamation and the android. To resolve that I put a pin in the reset and let everything go back to the way it was when I first started. I turned it off normally and then started it by holding down the + on volume and the power on key as it originally instructed. Up popped the update and the progress bar.
From then on I followed the instructions and the device updated just fine. The only issue is getting the email to work.
Hi everybody I have a white pandigital 7 I just tried to downloaded the newest Pan 7 android update to my pandigital it said everything downloaded fine so I turned it off like it said and then went to reboot it.sadly I am stuck with a blank black screen and the little android with a caution sign triangle. I can not get off of this screen and can not turn it off. I have tried resetting I mean nothing is working I can't get off this screen or my pandigital to turn off can anyone help me or any suggestions? Would really appreciate the help thank you for your time.
EBooks on Pandigital Novel eReader System Requirements: 1. Upgrade Firmware on your eReader. Before you upgrade, please note: Warning: Performing a firmware update.
Hey all, download the zip file direct to your computer, then flip your pandigital over face down, where the pandigital logo is upside down and put your fingernails in between the 2 parts of the back, (like a cell phone kinda) and slide the back cover off, then take out the micro sd card and delete everything on it, then copy the zip file from your pc to the sd card, (do not unzip it, leave it zipped) then put it back in the pos pandigital and hold the power on and volume up for 5 seconds to power it on, then it will update without the pc updater. Click to expand.Hi this message does not help you in fact it can hurt. I do not advise deleting the micro sd I reccomend copying the micro sd in case you don't get lucky with the mentioned install here is what I'd do. If it was me I would temporarily go to folder and file options on the P.C. And change the options from hide system files to show system files and folders that will insist with this issue and then use a adapter to install the micro sd card into the P.C. And copy the entire cards contents to a folder on your P.C so that if things fail you can rebuild your tablet back to it's original sate before you venture on this god forsaken journey.
Remember I mentioned temporarily chnge folder and file option now you have to change them back so that the system files and folders will be hidden. GOOD LUCK YOU'LL NEED IT! Hey all, download the zip file direct to your computer, then flip your pandigital over face down, where the pandigital logo is upside down and put your fingernails in between the 2 parts of the back, (like a cell phone kinda) and slide the back cover off, then take out the micro sd card and delete everything on it, then copy the zip file from your pc to the sd card, (do not unzip it, leave it zipped) then put it back in the pos pandigital and hold the power on and volume up for 5 seconds to power it on, then it will update without the pc updater.
6 Shares Pandigital recently uploaded a new firmware for the black Novel. It's dated 14 January. I've downloaded and installed it. It's still based on v1.5 and still uses the B&N ebookstore, but on the plus side the new firmware turned the Novel from an ereader into a tablet.With this firmware you can now install apps without having to hack the Novel.
(Of course, you could already do that with the CA firmware.) Update: If you're looking for a the latest firmware update for this tablet,. Much of this post is outdated. The update didn't affect any of the apps I already had installed, which is a plus. But it also didn't add much besides the new home screen. No, I was wrong. It turns out that the update did wipe all the apps I had installed; I didn't notice at first because they got replaced by a set of nearly identical apps! Hehehe They added a file manager, an office suite, and a link to SlideMe.
This is actually a very nice start. It's not all the apps you need, but it's an improvement on the CA firmware. This firmware might not be compatible with your black Novel, so you should first download the update app from. I think you should use it to check which firmware is compatible with your particular Novel. I've heard a few complaints about people having trouble with the update app so I'll give you a direct link to the download section for the updates. Before you visit the link you really should use the update app to find out which firmware is compatible. Don't mess with these files unless you know what you're doing.
If you break something it's your own fault. Curiously enough, I don't see a firmware update for the 9' Novel. I’m a total newbie and unwittingly downloaded the firmware update, based on erroneous info from my library’s ebook info page. I’m wondering if you know whether there are problems with ADE transferring books to the Novel after this update?
ADE shows it has loaded onto the Novel, but I get an error message when trying to open from the reader. I can’t for the life of me figure what else could be wrong, but I noticed that I don’t have the Adobe ebooks application icon now, with the update. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Hi 100% new to figuring out my Pandigital Novel (Canadian version) Should I do the new up date?
What will it do to my e-reader? I’ve just kind of figured out how it works. I don’t really want to do something that might ruin it. Also does anyone use Overdrive from their public library to borrow books?
When I open my borrowed books they do no display properly. The bottoms and right sides of the pages get cut off and I have no way of scrolling to finish the page. I’ve tried changing the font size and it does not make the page fit the screen. What did you download, exactly? Was it a DAT file? If you copied the DAT file over to your black Novel, tried to run the update process, and it didn’t work, then you might not have quite the right firmware. There a couple different versions that don’t want to work with each other even though they can.
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If you have a file named polaris.dat, try looking for another DAT file on the Pandigital website and rename your file. If your file isn’t polaris.dat, try renaming your file to that name. Then try to update the firmware a second time. I downloaded the polarisupdate.exe from this link. Copied it to the root of my internal drive on the US black PD novel. Shut down the device.
Held the + volume and power button for 5 + seconds and the Novel upgraded to the new version of the Android OS. The reader is contained in the B&N link. Suggest you read the manual that comes included in the upgrade. There are many new features and the reader has been greatly improved. No more swipes for page turns. Just tap the screen on the left or right.
Problem thoughit doesn’t find the previously loaded epub books. So I’ll either need to reload them or figure out what the problem is. Here is the link:. Ron, I have the 2 GB Black novel I bought at Ebay. I determined that link for the polarisupdate was the correct one through some google searches and process of elimination of the other links on that site. The KOBO one must be for Canada (that comes with the Kobo ereader), and the dates on many others didn’t match up with the recent official Android update from PD.
The previous one was called Polarisupdate.dat so I figured the one in the link I used must be the correct one. I don’t know if this is different or the same as the QVC one.
The only difference I know with the QVC one is that it had a 4GB card instead of 2GB, but there maybe something else. Maybe Pandigital has their update software installer working now, so you can skip this guesswork. The update has the apps shown on the pandigital page, plus others on the expanded screen. I was able to download several additional apps from the SLIDE application that took me to a large android marketplace. However some apps wouldn’t install because it saw my PD Novel as a Android 1.5 OS and the app needed 1.6 or 2.1 etc. The adobe flash install would not install and said my OS was not compatible. I believe it needed Android 2.1 or 2.2.
Thats the drawback to this PD Novel. The OS is pretty low-end. (I see that K-Mart has a Coby tablet with Android 2.1 on sale Sunday for $149. That might be worth looking at.) But I have to admit the ereader on this upgrade is very nice. The page turning is good, and it recognizes the book metadata so it shows the book cover for all books, including those copied over from the libray through Adobe digital editions or copied over through Calibre.
If you know how to get flash video to play on this PD novel I would appreciate it. I did a previous update to a version and the file the update software downloaded was called polarisupdate.dat. The file in the folder I linked to was also called polarisupdate.dat.
I assumed (hoped) it was the right one. An earlier white pandigital update may have used a differently named dat file or a zip file. I don’t know. FYIif you download the dat file and use winrar or winzip to open the file on your pc you will see the individual files contained inside. One of the files will be named the firmware version. If you are looking for a previous version of the firmware, that is one way to find it.
It appears PD places earlier version of the firmware in archive folders. Download some of the other firmware update dat or zip files and look inside to see if you can find what you’re looking for. All this may be moot if Pandigital has their update software working again.
I am by no means an expert on this. I can only speak to what worked for me.
The black novel only starts with 2GB of space. This polarisupdate is about 53MB. So depending on what you already have on your novel there may not be enough space. If you have videos, or pictures, or many e-books loaded, you may need to temporarily move some of them to your mac. Try to give yourself at least enough space for the polarisupdate.dat file and an additional 50MB for any temp files during the actual update. The more space you allow the better. After the update you can move your vids, pics, or books back to the Novel.
I’d remove any additional SD card as well, if you have one. I’ve had trouble on reboots when the SD card is in the external slot. Jeannie, Mine did the same thing when using the pandigital website’s update program. It just downloaded the same version of the old firmware, and reinstalled it with no change. But after I downloaded the polarisupdate.exe file from the mirror link (see an earlier post of mine) and copied it to my novel through the USB connection and updated to that version, then I got the Android OS that you see the pictures of. I have been running it for the past week and it has worked perfectly.
Much better than the old firmware and there are many apps that can be installed – if you’re into that sort of thing. Please see an earlier post of mine (Feb 25, 2011 at 3:22 pm) for the mirror site to the polarisupdate.dat file you can download. THIS IS FOR THE US VERSION ONLY. I don’t know the exact download for the Candian version. Hope that helps. Ron, click the ES File Explorer icon and when it opens up click the wrench icon on the right hand side of the lower tool bar (to the right of the Home icon).
When you click that a pop up menu will appear and on that menu click the Manager icon. The Manager window will show up, choose App Manager. After you do that, the Manager will show you all the apps installed on your novel select the one you want to uninstall by putting your finger on it and holding it there until a selection menu pops up one of the available options is ‘uninstall’. Just got off the phone with Pandigital. So far it hasn’t worked but might be a solution for some.
I was told to go through explorer on the PC, and navigate to the PDNovel volume. Delete everything except the folder that says digital-adobe. There is a problem with the installer that it skips the part about selecting the correct upgrade, and picks up the old one. You are supposed to get a choice, and that is where you would select the Polarisupdate.dat file. I’ve tried it now, and it didn’t fix the issue. Still defaults back to the 11-23-10 version.
Note that if you delete everything including those folders you delete everything that you may have put on the novel. Pictures, videos, music, etc. Books can be redownloaded if you have saved them through B&N, etc.
Hi, I’ve been trying to update my pandigital novel black 7 inch version and nothing happens. I downloaded the long file.dat and pressed the power and + button for 5 seconds.
A screen came up with words and after abouth 5 seconds, it booted up to the orginal and normal screen. I retried the update using the pandigital novel upgrader prorgram about 4 times already and nothing happens.
Do I have the wrong file/or is it in the wrong file?root? Also, should i try usin gt he polaris.dat update instead? Thanks all for the comments. Let me add my nickle since you all were so helpful. I have the black QVC Pandigital (not sure if it’s 4 gigs like some one mentioned). Went to the PanD home page and clicked on how to update; found my SN and model # remotely. Downloaded the ‘highlighted’ update (S64NSLST, etc) and tried the upgrade.nothing.
Did that a couple of times, nothing. Then read Mike’s comments and tried highlighting and downloading the ‘polaris’ file, followed the directions and after a loooong upgrade progress bar and reboot, it worked!! So if that’s any help.hope so. If you can do it, the Pan is a different machine.still not very speedy, but certainly quicker and now a real ereader. Now does anyone have recc’s for a screen protector and a case:). I’ve been combing websites the last 2 days trying to figure out how to update the firmware on the cheap Black Pandigital Novel 7″ I bought from eBay for my son’s bday. This was the most helpful site and I wanted to thank everyone for their contributions before I try to explain how I got it to work for me.
After reading all the comments and thinking I did that (or something like it) I went back to Pandigital’s website to attempt to use the PC Updater Application. Someone made a comment about.Net 3.5 Run Time was a requirement and, sure enough, it said it right there in the small print under the cute droid holding the PDN on the “Downloads — Pandigital Novel eReaders (U.S.)” page. After updating that I started the application and finally noticed the choice of files that others have commented on. It’s on the part of the process that shows you your model number. There’s a drop-down menu and I chose Polaris.dat file instead of the default long-numbered file and continued until the end. The instructions say to safely remove the PDN from the computer and reboot but once it was removed, the PDN said it was rebooting in 5 secs by itself.
So I had to wait until it rebooted, turn it off, then turn it back on via the volume + and power button. I held my breath but it didn’t just flash those few lines and continue on this time! It stayed on that screen and you can see it working for about 3 minutes. Then it took about 5 minutes of loading on the blue Pandigital screen while booting up. I hope this helps somebody because I was really frustrated by this point. Now to resist trying to root/hack/mod/something for 2 weeks until his birthday!
Is it the black one with the 2 speakers on the bottom? If so, then you have the easy to fix one. Got the Kobo app from Freeware Lovers: But if you have the other black Novel then you have a problem. Do you know how to do a manual update? If so, download the DAT file from the following page and update your Novel again. Here is how to update your Novel: 1, download the file and copy it to the SD card. Insert the card into your Novel.
Turn off your Novel. Press and hold the volume + and power button to turn your Novel back on.
This will tell it to look for an update. The above should work, but if it doesn’t please let me know. I have a U.S.
Version Pandigital Black novel with Barnes & Noble on it. I wanted to convert it to the Canadian version with Kobo but everything i have tried doesn’t work. I downloaded the.DAT file you listed above onto an SD card and followed the instructions to update the Novel, but when i press the power and volume + buttons the Novel goes into update mode but only does it for a split second and then stops and boots normally, and the Barnes and Noble Icon is still on the main screen.
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Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.