Category: Other

The 10 HKTDC videos on my corrupted/broken SD card have been recovered! Posting them soon

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2012
Category: Other

Good news: all my 10+ video files have been recovered by a hacker expert on the 3rd floor of the Wan Chai computer market in Hong Kong (hkd$1600), he says they used a lab to open up the SD card and do some type of operation on the card, about an hour later they had all the files ready to be transfered back to my storage. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions in this and this thread for how I could have maybe done it myself!

I’m not using 32GB class10 Patriot SDHC cards bought in Fry’s Electronics again, and I am going to look at upgrading to a newer camcorder with a function to record to 2 SDXC cards at the same time.

Status of me trying to recover the 20+ videos filmed yesterday at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by Charbax – April 15, 2012
Category: Other

Good news: all my 10+ video files have been recovered by a hacker expert on the 3rd floor of the Wan Chai computer market in Hong Kong (hkd$1600), he says they used a lab to open up the SD card and do some type of operation on the card, about an hour later they had all the files ready to be transfered back to my storage. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions for how I could have done it myself!

Trying to restore the video files very slowly (it seems to take over 12 hours per video) using GetDataBack for FAT (on Windows 7), I will try to follow the suggestions posted in the comments in this thread (thanks a lot for your suggestions for how I should proceed to try to recover these video files!) in the next few days to try to see if the video files can somehow be recovered. I’m hoping that the data is not physically damaged but that the SD card just has some kind of temporary file system corruption going on with it. This makes me want to upgrade to a more professional camcorder that can record to 2 SD cards simultaneously for redundancy.

Here you can see the resulting video trying to restore each video (a process that seems to take something like 12 hours per 400mb video file using GetDataBack for FAT):

This is terrible if I cannot find a way to recover these files, it’s a whole days worth of video-blogging that would be nearly unusable. I understand that an eventual physical damage of the SD card would be impossible to recover from. But I have thus far video-blogged about 30 videos from the HKTDC Electronics Fair (more to be video-blogged there tomorrow), over 30 videos have been filmed at the China Sourcing Fair and nearly 30 videos were filmed at the Shenzhen Electronics Fair.

Please let me know if you can recognize a possible bug in the way I am trying to recover the file looking at that file on YouTube or analysing it here as I’ve uploaded a copy of this original recovered video sample to Google Docs. (my airbnb appartment in Hong Kong seem to have more than 20mbitps upload connections on their free WiFi access points which is awesome to upload videos overnight. Even uploading HD videos over HSPA+ is fast enough to be done on the unlimited $78hkd 7-day SIM cards one2free and other Hong Kong 3G carriers offer).

MIPS tablets at the Ingenic booth

Posted by Charbax – April 14, 2012
Category: Tablets, Other, Exclusive videos, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

There has been some talk about the “$99 MIPS based Android tablets”, here, Ingenic shows some of their MIPS based tablets at the HKTDC Electronics Fair.

I need to recover todays videos from corrupted SD card

Posted by Charbax – April 14, 2012
Category: Other

Good news: all my 10+ video files have been recovered by a hacker expert on the 3rd floor of the Wan Chai computer market in Hong Kong (hkd$1600), he says they used a lab to open up the SD card and do some type of operation on the card, about an hour later they had all the files ready to be transfered back to my storage. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions for how I could have done it myself!

Please let me know if you have a good idea for a way to recover the video files (I filmed about 20-30 videos today!) from a corrupted Patriot 32GB Class10 SD card. When I insert it to my PC it says that I have to format it before it can be used. I am worried to try to format it from Windows 7 or from my Sanyo HD1000 camcorder menu and restore the files after that.

I just paid $29 for http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/sd-card-recovery.html

“Photo Recovery 2012-04-14 at 16.47.02” is now full with 106 m4a audio files, 9 Jpg (those work fine!), 135 3g2 video files, 124 3gp video files, 166 m4v video files, 124 mov video files, 166 mp4 video files. All of them taking up 149GB (my SD card is only 32GB!). How do I identify which of these files can be recovered?

My camera is a Sanyo HD1000 which records 720p 30fps mp4 files using the H264 format.

I’m now trying a scan 40-minute scan of the SD card using GetDataBack for FAT from http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm (I don’t know if it also is some trialware thing).

It might have happened as the battery on the camera ran out while recording a video. Or it may be due to using a cheap 1rmb SD card adapter that I bought in Shenzhen onto the media-rooms secured Windows desktop. Or I may have shaken the camera around too much, or the Patriot cards (that I think I bought at Fry’s Electronics in Las Vegas about a year ago).

Thanks for your help if you know how to recover this card!

HSBC collaborates with the HKTDC to improve business efficiency

Posted by Charbax – April 14, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, HKTDC Electronics Fair

HSBC announced a new collaboration with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council to improve the business efficiency of small to medium businesses dealing at the HKTDC Electronics Fair.

Shenzhen Carton Power Bank Explorer Electronics Co Ltd

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2012
Category: Power Banks, Other, Exclusive videos, Shenzhen Electronics Fair

Here are a bunch of mobile rechargers that look funny.

Quicklinkcom payments

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Other, Exclusive videos, Shenzhen Electronics Fair

Shenzhen Tena Smartbox WiFi mirroring

Posted by Charbax – April 11, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Other, Exclusive videos, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Android

Huaqiangbei Shenzhen Smartphones Market

Posted by Charbax – April 8, 2012
Category: Smartphones, Factory Tours, Other, Exclusive videos, Android

Here is my first 2012 video at the Shenzhen Smartphones Market! This market is so awesome, huge, fantastic, compressed, action packed, full of devices, walking around the Shenzhen Smartphones market is hugely impressive. Check back in the days to come as I’ll post videos of the coolest devices that I can find here.

FON launches Fonera Simpl with EAP

Posted by Charbax – April 3, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

FON is the worlds biggest WiFi community, thus far with 5 million users around the world using FON routers to share their WiFi internet with neighbors and roam the world for free. Now they are adding EAP functionality to the WiFi router offering mobile operators a unique way to relieve congested networks. The idea is that you can maybe soon get closer to unlimited data for a very cheap pre-paid or subscription smartphone contract, all the while the carrier tries to connect you on WiFi as often as possible and as automatically as possible. As http://republicwireless.com is trying to do it in the USA, all the worlds carriers should implement FON support and automatically connect to FON WiFi hotspots for transfering the data and voice packets and thus save on 3G and 4G bandwidth costs. Monthly traffic generated via Fon WiFi is over 2 Petabytes, a 20 fold increase in just two years. Today, the size of the Fon network increases by a thousand hotspots every four hours, 100 times faster than in 2008. I’d like to see FON include White Spaces in the routers and thus contribute to create a worldwide free unlimited bandwidth network for everyone!

You can read more in the press release

MHL for the car, using the Pioneer AppRadio2

Posted by Charbax – March 30, 2012
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

Now the MHL standard can be used to charge your MHL compatible phone in the car and at the same time send audio and video to the car, and remote control the phone over Bluetooth and MHL using a larger touch-screen GPS and in-car entertainment type of screen like the Pioneer AppRadio2. As every phone is getting to have an MHL connector, it’s likely that every car also soon enough are equipped with an MHL connector. Your smartphone screen isn’t big enough to provide a safe in-car user interface, but it should be fully synchronized with your in-car optimized screens and user interface.

Grandstream GXP2200, GXP2124, DECT phones announced at CeBIT 2012

Posted by Charbax – March 19, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT, Android

GrandStream is one of the leaders in cost effective VOIP SIP phones. They’ve now been on the market for 10 years and they are showing their next generation Android powered VOIP phones for the office, hotels, also for any consumers to use in the home. Just get one of these with your SIP VOIP account and you’re all set for free phone calls!

This video features following devices:
GXP1105: 1:49 (40€)
GXP1405: 2:18 (50€)
GXP1450: 2:38 (60€)
GXP2100: 3:00 (80€)
GXP2110: 3:35 (110€)
GXP2120 (110€)
GXP2124: 4:48 (new announcement at CeBIT)
GXP2200 Android HD IP Phone: 5:22 (new announcement at CeBIT)
GXV3140: 7:18 (140€)
GXV3175: 9:06 (240€)
DECT phones: 10:06 (new announcement at CeBIT)

Huawei WLAN, SMB Routers, Switches, Networking at CeBIT 2012

Posted by Charbax – March 15, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Huawei has a whole lot of networking equipment on show at CeBIT 2012, here’s a guided tour of some of this. Those devices are powering the Internet, they are powering the network infrastructure of big corporations, big university campuses and more. Some of those Huawei optical fiber switches are probably powering the backbone of the Internet.

Satzuma USB Gadgets

Posted by Charbax – March 15, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Satzuma sells a bunch of USB gadgets.

Kimree e-cigarette manufacturer

Posted by Charbax – March 15, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

There are a few booths displaying electronic cigarettes at CeBIT, Kimree are selling millions of them worldwide.

Vimicro Jisoncase Electronic Accessories Co Ltd shows a new iPhone case

Posted by Charbax – March 15, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Vimicro has a new ARM Processor (that I spotted in some few devices at CeBIT), but they are also selling some iPhone and iPad cases. The Vimicro processor representative was not at the booth when I passed by so I haven’t been able to interview them about their processor yet.

Yifang Smart Pen For iPad

Posted by Charbax – March 12, 2012
Category: Tablets, Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Yifang presents their latest Smart Pen for iPad. Docking it to the iPad connector and installing the specific application, users can then do handwritten scribbles on the iPad.

carzapp, new cheaper Internet based car sharing system

Posted by Charbax – March 10, 2012
Category: Cars, Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT, Android

carzapp provides a new cheaper mobile Internet connected locking system, so you can open your car using any smartphone if they give you the authorization for it, you can then add your car to the car sharing network and earn up to $2000 per month (if you have a cool car that many people want to use). They take care of 100% of the insurance for when your car is used by a user. You can choose the price per hour, price per day, you can pick and choose which people or which kind of people can use it (how verified each user is, I guess). Some regions can add up to thousands of electric cars on that car sharing network. The price can be as low as $4 per hour, you can park it based on where the owner wants to park it, or it can also happen that you can just park it wherever you want.

Gearomat, vending machine based on a web shop application

Posted by Charbax – March 10, 2012
Category: Tablets, Other, Exclusive videos, Nvidia, CeBIT, Android

Gearomat hacks a vending machine with a 7″ Tablet touch screen to process the orders through a web shop.

Pantum at CeBIT 2012

Posted by Charbax – March 10, 2012
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, CeBIT

Pantum is the first Chinese laser printer brand with the technology to challenge the established Enterprise and Consumer printer brands such as HP, Samsung and other. This video features the Pantum P2000, Pantum P5220 and more. Pantum claims to bring the best value for money in printers to the European and US market.