Dingoo A320 forum

I just recieved my Dingoo this morning actually..and after a while playing with it, I noticed that it displays the time and date when you're in the menu page (pressing select + start in games) and it shows the date and time to be something like November 2008 !! - just wondering if you can change this ? I cant really see anything in the settings section.

Im using the Official v1.1 firmware if that helps.

Welcome!

Not sure how to make date changes. Sorry

?4U
Did your new Dingoo come with 1.1 firmware or did you update right away?

Just curious to see how the supply line & support line are working.

Peace

Link

The dingoo has no way to tell the time or date while it's switched off, so it can't be set. The date and time in the games is static and likely some remnant of code from another platform which can tell the time and date.
The obvious way to see that there is no time/date support is the fact that any files modified by the dingoo itself have a blank modification time/date when viewed on a pc.

Could Linux be our savior?

Not really, as I doubt there is any way to keep time ticking over once you turn off.

Maybe we could (via Linux) have the device power down, but still keep a tiny bit running to keep time and stuff. Possible or not?

That is possible, however I doubt the processor can underclock to a low enough power so your standby time would be in the region of hours/days at most. I've not yet examined the hardware thoroughly enough to be certain though.

EDIT: OK it seems I was wrong, all the required hardware seems to be there.

jz4740 datasheet wrote:― Supports six low-power modes and function: NORMAL mode; DOZE mode; IDLE mode;
SLEEP mode; HIBERNATE mode; and MODULE-STOP function.

jz4740 datasheet wrote:RTC (Real Time Clock)
― 32-bit second counter
― 1Hz from 32768hz
― Alarm interrupt
― Independent power
― A 32-bits scratch register used to indicate whether power down happens for RTC power

jz4740 datasheet wrote:Watchdog timer
― 16-bit counter in RTC clock with 1, 4, 16, 64, 256 and 1024 clock dividing selected
― Generate power-on reset

Dingoo must have some really shit lazy programmers if they couldn't even be bothered to implement time/date, but then if you look at some of the sdk code and makefiles then that's pretty obvious.

flatmush wrote:Dingoo must have some really shit lazy programmers if they couldn't even be bothered to implement time/date, but then if you look at some of the sdk code and makefiles then that's pretty obvious.

pretty much sums it up i think.
dont get me wrong i love the hardware (thank you gemei!) but the software itself for the most part is a pile of shite (shame on you dingoo!)

Hey thanks for your replies..i guess the programmers really were lazy to not implement date/time lol
we'll just have to wait for linux to be finished =P

Link wrote:Welcome!

Not sure how to make date changes. Sorry

?4U
Did your new Dingoo come with 1.1 firmware or did you update right away?

Just curious to see how the supply line & support line are working.

Peace

Link

it came with v1.03 actually then i upgraded.

If the date and time can be kept, then I'd really like an alarm function as well