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Yeah. I would have ordered from Deal Extreme, but they were completely out of stock, and not doing much about it since it's a Chinese holiday, apparently. I got my Wiz from Thinkgeek, but I decided that what they were asking for the Dingoo, plus shipping, made it too expensive considering the choices out there.

I totally forgot about SuperUFO, and just grabbed the one on ebay because it seemed cool. We'll see, I guess.

I asked toy_bar about serial number. He said it is 4G A320WHxxxxxxxx without HK and with paw at back.

I also asked cn_2009. He said the same (paw and no-HK), but I already paid to toy_bar for it. I hope it will be shipped for me soon 

Blast,

There does appear to be much contradictory information out there (and within this thread) as you have noted.

It seems that the claims by some, stating that "all HK-serial Dingoos are lesser units" is an unfounded observation. Differing shipped firmware revisions are probably at the root of such rumors. A 4GB Dingoo is a 4GB Dingoo from a basic user functionality point of view. There DO seem to be some functional differences with regard to flashing/unbricking procedures on the newer units (shipped with 2x2GB memory chips and newer firmwares versus the older 1x4GB version), but the whole "issue" here seems to be blown out of proportion. The key would seemingly be to identify which version of the hardware and firmware you have, and to use the suitable tools for these procedures as necessary.  

Another unfounded observation seems to be that "All Ebay-sourced Dingoos are inferior". While there are documented reports of some 2GB Dingoos with a smaller battery capacity being sold on Ebay, this does not generally appear to be the rule. As always, the buyer should do due diligence in making sure that they are purchasing what they think they are purchasing. I personally have not seen any of these Chinese Domestic Market Dingoos for sale anywhere.

The whole "Pawed" versus "Unpawed" thing is not a reliable indicator of anything, though it might have meant something a year ago. See Justin's (dingoo-digital-usa) posts on this board for proof of this. The pawprints apparently had to do with branding and distributing of these units more than hardware or function. The presence or lack of pawprints is not a valid identifier. Battery type and memory type IS a valid identifier:

First Gen 4GB Dingoo, Export (Western) Version: 1x4GB memory chip, 3.7v 1700mah Battery  / 3.7v 1800mah Battery (Thanks Santino!)

Later 4GB Dingoo, HK & Non-HK Serials: 2x2GB memory chips, 3.7v 1700mah / 3.7v 1800mah Battery

Chinese Domestic 2GB Dingoo, HK Serial (or no serial): 1x2GB or 2x1GB memory chips (?) / 3.7v 1000mah Battery


If anybody knows of or has any revisions to make regarding the basic types above (ie; serial numbering or firmware revisions shipped with them), please speak up!

Battery type and memory type IS a valid identifier:

First Gen 4GB Dingoo, Export (Western) Version: 1x4GB memory chip, 3.7v 1700mah Battery 
Later 4GB Dingoo, HK & Non-HK Serials: 2x2GB memory chips, 3.7v 1700mah / 3.7v 1800mah Battery
Chinese Domestic 2GB Dingoo, HK Serial (or no serial): 1x2GB or 2x1GB memory chips (?) / 3.7v 1000mah Battery

jeremymtc,
  thank you very much for the reply. i have received a reply from thinkgeek.com. their customer service rep told me that the dingoo they are currently selling is unpawed and has no serial number. am i to assume that this probably a HK build without a serial? based on what you said, and what i have researched, only the HK build appears to ship without a serial. the HK build can not use the unbricker, if you get into trouble, and might have issues with 3rd party native o/s emulation... correct?

cheers

Regarding unbricking, check out this thread in its entirety: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoo-help/unauthorized-red-screen-after-flashing/

thanks for the link, great read!

Personally I'd call the fact HK dingoos cannot run ANY native applications or emulators other than those supplied a rather big problem.

Are you sure about that? I thought most of those applications were recompiled from source code to correct the memory allocation (malloc) problem...

yup it's something completely unrelated to the memory alloc problems. I have a HK Dingoo as well now and tried to get something running on it, it doesn't even want to run a simple hello world app which i compiled myselve, we looked at it one night but couldn't get anything running and i can't read assembler so someone else might have to dig into this if it's even worth it, since coding for native just sucks and future dingoo's should not have the problem anymore, according to some posts i read. Eventually it's a End User fault, you should check what you buy before actually buying it (at least if someone bought one recently). I know it wasn't very clear in the beginning and we didn't get any info about changes. It might be someone figures something out but i'm not wasting my time with that anymore

I agree. I'm glad that I know for sure now that there is yet another type of Dingoo that has probs. w/ native apps. I take it that down- or upgrading the firmware does not help either? Or is impossible?

I got one of the no.4 (Chinese white 4gb with serial ending by HK) but I don't have any problems whatsoever with native apps... What's are suppose to be the problems?

Pasteur, have you tried the new 1.22 app. for dingoo on the official site (named "Ding Guo A320 English version of 3D games and simulators" when translated) here the link: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=es&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dingoo888.cn%2Fservice.asp%3Fclassid%3D4 If those are the ones you tried try the older ones instead.