Archos 5

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• Have an archos 5 250. Wanting program to keep names, address,ect

  (No answers yet. Write an answer!) 2010-06-27

• Can i hook up my archos 5 to my in car stereo system?

  If i can what cables/connector do i need to purchase?

  (No answers yet. Write an answer!) 2009-08-10

• Yahoo Mail on the Archos 5...?

  Using wifi, I want to view my Yahoo Mail (not Yahoo Mail Plus) and download any attachments, even if I can't open them, then transfer the files to my PC. Is this possible with the Archos 5? Also is it possible to download web pages for offline viewing?

  (No answers yet. Write an answer!) 2009-03-04

• Brand New Archos 5 IMT wont stream from YouTube Flash logo #9

  Hi everyone, fellow Archos users, i just got my Archos 5 IMT a few days ago. I think it's great, especially the clarity of the movies i put on it. The music plays excellent too, all these I have put on it from my laptop. I think from my experience with it do far, it's a neat little powerhouse...with one exception. On YouTube and Dailymotion the online videos will not play, I get the video window, a Flash logo with 9 on it...this is nearly everything Flash related on the web...esepcially music videos and Youtube, Hulu, Fancast, SyFy, and everywhere else I go on the web. I bout two plug-ins so far, but I think this is an Archos 5 problem. The Opera supplied browser should be able to handle Flash 9 video streams? Right? To double check I saved the Flash files to the Flash "container" in the Archos 5 H/D and they play just fine, same as YouTubes and Dailymotions. They just wont stream from the webpage itself. Can anyone help me with an answer to this dilemma? I've been surfing for answers since Dec-26 with no luck. I am still extremely pleased with this device. I watched a few movies on it already and it is top-notch!!!!! THank you! David68

  Answered by ingram091 2010-02-06:

  Opera is the problem. THe archos will play the flash 10 files ok. The trick is to click the open in new window button on the youtube page. (upper right hand corner arrow) it will then open a tabbed out FLV window and it will play full screen. IF archos updates the Firmware again.(only thing I personally am really upset about with my IMT) they need to remove the Opera plugin and use the internal flash player plugin for streaming, and remove the now defunct media center function buttons and allow us to put other more useful items in that menu place. like say a flash submenu for SWF

  Answered by ingram091 2010-02-06:

  I am looking to see if we can strip source out of the menu system and make our own firmware updade in some way. So far not a lot of luck on that though. PLEASE Archos do NOT abandon the Archos 5 IMT (a5) firmware updates...I litterally baought miune out of ignorance and a bit of trickery on their webpage and ended up with the Wrong one. (I was looking for the android version originally but when I hit buy now on the android page it took me to the old one to purchase it.) So Please do something to update what needs to be updated on that one as well as doing firmware updates on the android variation. Otherwise people are never gonna trust the

  Answered by kopit2 2011-01-01:

  when i open the youtube i click on any item to watch it dosent show any it says cannot play

• how long does archos 5 take to charge out of the box first time?

  Answered by david684 2009-12-29:

  hello..out of the box i plugged mine in right away. the cable says 8 hours first time. well, there's a slight problem.. By the manual, it says the blinking green light flashes when fully charged. Fine, but without turning the unit on first, you won't get the two green lights, only one. After 12 hrs charging, I turned it on, when I was done with the unit.. running the battery to dead/1 red bar, I realized it needs to be turned off, plugged in, then told to be in charging mode or H/D mode. Then both green lights come on, and the one blinks on n off when fully charged. The techies say its like a cellphone, fully charge/fully dump, then charge as needed, rather than fully charged and left charging all the time, to extend the battery life. Full charging all the time they gave the unit 6 months to go

  Answered by judiah 2010-07-31:

  @david684.....Totally correct; the dang fools that wrote the manual for this gem were real dullards when it came time to seize your first attention. You need to know you have to TURN IT ON before it will charge! THEN you get a second green light, which they don't tell you in the manual or the "how-to" videos! Amazing and extremely poor customer service right out of the box! So...after 12 hours of one steady green light I became concerned enough to google the problem, found this forum, and am passing on my hard lesson! Typically one doesn't turn a unit on until the charging is complete. So I set it up and tried to register, connected it to my local WiFi, but then it closed down on me....so I turned it back on, allowed an update to download and install, then when it asked to enable USB or charge-only, I said "charge-only" so that it more