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Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

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Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

Postby krk on Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:13 pm

Hello.

Recently (like 2 weeks ago) I bought Dingoo A320 (with new LCD controller).
As far is a good machine (I can't wait to unleash full potential & make some music with it, but dingoo linux is still unready, so I gotta wait), but I noticed smell of 'burnt silicon' after like 30/45 minutes of active Dingoo. Everything is working fine, no lags, resets, handheld isn't 'warmed up', just you can smell specific silicon scent (best felt from mini sd slot) - I'm worried about it.
Does anyone experienced similar thing? Maybe Dingoo is warming up a little and that smell is a normal thing (thus I do remember same smell /20xtimes more intensive/ when RAM burned in a PC of my friend).

Thanks in advance for replay.
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Re: Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

Postby mr_beetty on Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:18 pm

i haven't noticed that in mine, which also has the new LCD controller, and i've played games for ~1 hour at a time before. i also use it as an mp3 player almost daily for 30-40 min at a time (although this is less intensive because the screen turns off after a bit).
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Re: Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

Postby jasha on Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:48 pm

Cant say I've noticed anything with mine, but I would guess it's more likely to be a blob of errant glue gun adhesive on the battery or something like that, rather than anything overheating per se.
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Re: Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

Postby Dan on Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:21 am

I have that smell too, though it's been getting less noticeable over the month that I've had it.
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Re: Silicon smell from A320 - is it normal?

Postby krk on Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:05 am

Guess we can name A320 as 'smelly Dingoo' :D

I hope that's battery glue-ing thing or something like that.

I'll post update if Dingoo (black one, I forgot to mention it, but I don't think that's important in this case) will suddenly break/burn/smoke/f* up.
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