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Use for an old tablet.

Raduque

Raduque

Lifer
While unpacking at the new house yesterday, I found my old Asus TF101. It has the Katkiss 5.1.1 rom on it, but it's pretty much useless as an everyday use tablet. I figured one thing it SHOULD be able to do well is function as a digital photoframe.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any apps that will easily and simply do what I want. I just want the app to pull pics from a shared folder on my WHS and display them on a 10 second rotation. No interaction needed. If I add new pictures, it should pick them up automatically and insert them into the rotation. Random display would be best, but I would be fine with in-order display.

No app seems to do all of those features. Any ideas?
 
I would recommend QuickPic Gallery. It can do a local network backup using samba. I would think that if they can put them there, they can also read from it.

The app was bought out recently by a corporation whose intentions are not known, but no extra permissions have been added as of yet.
 
Trade it into Bestbuy for $50 GC + $50 coupon towards a Samsung S2 Tablet. Otherwise just keep the $50 GC. That tablet was junk, can't believe I bought one.
 
richierich1212 said:
Trade it into Bestbuy for $50 GC + $50 coupon towards a Samsung S2 Tablet. Otherwise just keep the $50 GC. That tablet was junk, can't believe I bought one.
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I would but it's pretty beat up. Dropped several times. The bezel comes off easy because there's no screws - I lost them when I took them out to fix the power button that got pushed into the housing.

Edit: I also really have no other use for an Android tablet. I already HAD this one so I figured I might as well use it. If I can't get it to do what I want, I'll just toss it back in a box and forget about it again,
 
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Jukebox? Realplayer had a program to shuffle pics on the screen. I have it on an old tablet I gave my mother.
 
richierich1212 said:
Trade it into Bestbuy for $50 GC + $50 coupon towards a Samsung S2 Tablet. Otherwise just keep the $50 GC. That tablet was junk, can't believe I bought one.
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Heh, yeah, me too. Bought it on release, said it was great, but deep inside I knew it was garbage. Wasted 400 bucks. Speaker blew out around a year later, bought a speaker on ebay, while changing it the screen cracked. I hated that tablet. Had white spots after a few months.
 
I was thinking of turning my useless windows tablet into a kitchen recipe display. Just take a bunch of screenshots from recipe sites, and place them into a folder. Then all you have to do is open one image and you can swipe through all your recipes. I decided not to do it because the telescoping arm to hang it would cost more than the tablet itself. I decided to spend that money on carryout and T-Bones, which dont require recipes. 😀
 
Can always pass it along to a small child so they can play around with it and no one has to worry if they break it.
 
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