Well… This was supposed to be an article on Linux on the Zealz GK802…\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, that is not going to happen.<\/p>\n
The device I received in July 2013 died after only 20 minutes<\/strong>, and after a tortuous exchange of emails I managed to get a replacement sent, after I returned the faulty one.\u00a0\u00a0 This took (literally) months, due to postal delays to and from China.<\/p>\n Then, when I came to boot the replacement unit – nothing…..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blank screen (HDMI) and nothing on the UART serial console.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So – my patience is exhausted..<\/p>\n Caveat Emptor!<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well… This was supposed to be an article on Linux on the Zealz GK802…\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, that is not going to happen. The device I received in July 2013 died after only 20 minutes, and after a tortuous exchange of emails I managed to get a replacement sent, after I returned the faulty one.\u00a0\u00a0 This took (literally) months, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,575,11,16,19],"tags":[84,1174,576,644,643,577,579,242,642,641],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-gk802","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","category-opinion","tag-android-2","tag-arm","tag-armv7","tag-doa","tag-failed-again","tag-gk802-2","tag-hdmi","tag-linux","tag-replaced","tag-unit-failed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}