A question re go71

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, Jlouis and Didier Lachieze:

Thank you very much for your replies, which I'll comment briefly:

Jlouis Wrote:Long press the back button in the tablet (press and wait a few seconds). A menu should appear

That did it ! A menu appeared at the bottom of the screen with four options, "Settings", "Actions", "About" and "Toggle keyboard".

Under "Settings", there were options to change the speed (from 1x to 128x), Haptic feedback on/off, Beep feedback on/off, Miniscreeens, "Text" (a slider control) and "Full":

• I set the speed to 128x and now counting from 1 to 10000 takes just 0.7 seconds, which is indeed 128x faster than the physical calculator.
   
• I have no idea what the "Text" slider does. I notice no change after moving the slider and pressing Ok.
   
• I also have no idea what checking "Full" does. I notice no change either.
   
• the miniscreens produce some lines above the display, but selecting various values frequently results in one less line (i.e.: miniscreen 8 produces 7 lines) and never more than 9 lines (though there are miniscreens 10 and 11 available

I wonder if there's some reasonable complete documentation somewhere. The app seems to come with very little docs and I'll need it to see how to:

• import or paste a 71B program which I have as a Windows plain text file (.txt)
• output or copy some program in go71b as a text file that I can use in Windows (Emu71)
• use additional ROMs or increase the amount of RAM available

After using it for an hour or two and with no other app running in the table (not even updates or notifications) I frequently experienced freezes: the LCD display would freeze, the cursor stopped blinking, and the app didn't respond. At times it would repeat in the LCD the last keystroke pressed and played a short beep every few seconds. I had to either bring the "Actions" menu to try and exit go71b or else kill it, the ATTN key seemed unresponsive or took too long to unfreeze the app.

Might this be because 128x is too high a speed ? Some other explanation ?

Re the screen + LCD or full screen options, I've found no way to have the screen lines and the tablet keyboard visible at the same time, so I don't see how can I use these two options if I can't type anything.

Some help with all these problems/nuisances would be very appreciated, I'd love to be able to write programs or concoct/solve challenges using this go71b/tablet while on the move or at my destination (at home I'll just use Emu71, which runs rings around this thing in usability).

Didier Lachieze Wrote:To access the settings menu I press the three dots on the lower right corner of the screen, but I remember [...]

You remember correctly. My tablet has 3 physical buttons below the screen so the three dots don't ever appear but thankfully Jlouis method works perfectly.

Didier Lachieze Wrote:(note: if you kept on your tablet the same Google account as on your stolen phone you should not have had to buy again go71b, as the apps you buy are linked to your Google account and not to your device)

Yes, I know. I did the first buy and installation under a different account than the one I'm using on this new tablet so I had to buy go71b again.

I sincerely hope I can finally use it as I expected to do. The lack of documentation, lack of adaptation to my tablet's screen (the LCD display looks horrible and nearly unreadable, with pixels like golf balls, and the multi-line screen looks no better) and frequent freezing makes me doubt it will be useable. I haven't still left any feedback at the Google Play Store but right now it deserves no better than 1 star.

Thanks for any and all help.
Best regards.
V.
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