Google AdSense Gift 2006: Digital Photo Frame

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Kevom posted on Nov 30th 2006 1:44PM; via forums.digitalpoint.com/showth...

Google AdSense Gift 2006: Digital Photo Frame

Google has begun giving out their AdSense gifts for the 2006 holiday season and the gift is a digital photo frame (GTA-316).

According to the instructions, it's a 960x240 screen and supports JPG images, MP3, WMA or WAV audio files and AVI movies. It also has a SD card reader for extra memory.

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	Rudy Garcia says: The one I received died after 1 day of use !! Posted: 12/01/06 13:36
	Daniel Rivera says: I tried loading some pictures into this thing, no go - just get a file error. Maybe im using the wrong size .jpg? Posted: 12/01/06 15:55
	Juan Epstein says: Same here - "FILE ERROR" no go! merry christmas from google! next year send chocolate! Posted: 12/01/06 17:10
	Nathan Moore says: Same here. Who makes this thing??? There must be a download available to fix this error problem. Any ideas? Posted: 12/01/06 17:46
	Andy Tyler says: Agreed. This thing is a piece of garbage. File errors and crappy software. At least I'm not the only one. Posted: 12/01/06 20:04
	Lima Rani says: Anyone figure out what kind of crazy JPG format this crap uses? Posted: 12/01/06 20:54
	Andy Tyler says: So, that converter software (whatever the hell it does) won't accept anything that has been touched by an editor. If i take unaltered pics straight from the digital camera, it works. So, I've filled the thing up with raw photos. Now for the next problem.... Even though it's plugged in for juice, the battery light won't go away. Google, great idea except the product sucks. Posted: 12/01/06 21:16
	Joe T says: Same Thing - File Error Posted: 12/01/06 23:01
	may says: I cannot set up GRA 316, anyone can tell me how Posted: 12/01/06 23:06
	may says: I cannot make the thing work Posted: 12/01/06 23:08
	Joe T says: The pix must be saved with windows paint as jpg. Photoshop wont work. You have to turn it on and off after you save a pict. Posted: 12/01/06 23:48
	Bill says: Why won't photoshop work? What's the difference between Paint jpegs and Photoshop jpegs? Posted: 12/02/06 14:10
	Joe says: just tried to download a .jpg It locked up 1/2 way through. Now only shows a blue screen and is dead. Can't event turn it off without removing batteries. Posted: 12/02/06 16:18
	jeff says: I had no problems ..Works Great !! drag & drop method from my pictures to removable e disc . jpg pic's Posted: 12/02/06 16:36
	Jay says: Joe T's recommendations worked for me. I was getting "FILE ERROR" on many (but not all) of my pics. I simply opened and re-saved them within MS Paint, and now the frame displays them. You do also seem to have to turn the unit off after transferring files for all the new files to display. Posted: 12/02/06 17:10
	Hurricane Proof says: Thanks tons for the MSPaint tip, i have been searching all over the web looking for some hint on how to get photos w/ any editing done to not give error message. It is just dumb to load huge, raw photos into it, with such a small display screen, and yes, i do know I can stick a SD card in to for more memory. Anyone know what its built in memory capacity is. BTW--the batteries that came w/ it lasted about 30 min. Posted: 12/02/06 17:29
	Andy Tyler says: Looking forward to trying the paint trick. Now, anyone else seeing the battery light in the bottom right, even if it's plugged in? Posted: 12/02/06 17:53
	Freddie says: Jeez - after spending over $100K this year with AdWords, you'd think they could do better than this piece of junk. How about the landfill issues? - I wonder how many tons of scrap will be created by the legions of lucky Google customers who got mailed this worthless toy? Posted: 12/03/06 16:55
	Earl says: What a POS! I tried the MS-Paint tip, as well as turning the unit off, and most of the pix still give a File Error. For the supposedly smart people at Google, what a bunch of morons! Aside from the unit not working, I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out who gave it to me. Posted: 12/04/06 10:44
	Jeff says: I figured that since this came from Google that it'd at least work with photos exported from Picasa. No dice. I still had to do the MS Paint trick. I also have that annoying battery indicator even though I'm plugged in too. We spend 30-40K per MONTH on AdWords ... I feel almost insulted by this gift which seems to be picked out of a bargain bin. Sometimes it's better to give nothing, than to give something like this... The idea is good, but it's so buggy ... you'd think the technology was just invented yesterday. Posted: 12/04/06 17:00
	myfriendsaid says: my friend (using a mac) dragged the gta-316 drive to the trash to unmount it. seems to have killed it. now it won't even turn on. didn't find a firmware reset option (even with a pin in the tiny hole on the back), nor a combination of keypresses that might reset it. this happened just a few minutes after opening ... any answers? Posted: 12/04/06 19:46
	clasione says: It's really not too bad once it gets working... Just don't think I would have gotten the pictures to work without finding this page.... MS Paint trick worked perfectly... Just open the files and resave to get them to work. Posted: 12/05/06 03:17
	winky says: Earl? Are you a moron? You wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out who sent it to you? Whadda buncha complainers. - Winky Who hasn't used his digital photo frame, and it may wind up on the shelf with.... the scarf, the radio, the digital tool kit. Posted: 12/05/06 07:54
	Tzvi says: Finally I can get pictures on it. I have found out how to get rid of the battery icon, you need to power the frame from a USB port. Then and only then does it remove that stupid icon. I am putting my frame nowhere near my computer so I guess I am SOL. Has anybody figured out how to have it display images for more then 5 secs? I found the menu option and discovered you can change it to 20 but I can't seem to get it to actually change (If I move to the next menu item or exit the screen and come back it shows 5 again.) Any ideas? Posted: 12/05/06 10:23
	Jon says: It works real nice. And the capacity on it, for hurricane proofs question.. it's capacity is 24MB. And MY question is, how big of an SD card can I get, at an affordable price? Posted: 12/05/06 11:51
	Paul says: Where is the removable card? Maybe I missed it in the packing? Can not find it! And I cant upload anything to it, since it wont turn on when plugged into USB!!! ARGH! Can anyone tell me where this card is? Posted: 12/05/06 14:32
	Tzvi says: It doesn't come with a card, you need to buy it seperate if you want to use one. Posted: 12/05/06 15:04
	Chris says: I found a freeware app that will batch convert files to the right jpg for the frame. It's called imagicon. Change the setting to save as jpg, drag and drop and voila. Posted: 12/05/06 15:27
	Paul says: Hold on. So how do I get pictures onto it??? I mean, I put the batteries in, I plug in the USB, it comes up as an unregonized device... Do I need a certain program? The CD had the software on it, but it looked useless, should I use it, if so, then how do I use it? Someone who made this thing work, please help! Posted: 12/05/06 15:29
	Chris says: Hey Paul, When I plugged it in to my PC (USB), it showed up as a Removable Disk, to which I could copy files. What OS are you on? Posted: 12/05/06 15:36
	kmiller says: ok, anybody figure out how to get .asf files to play? Posted: 12/05/06 16:49
	Dan says: This is pretty lame for spending over 30k a month with Google. The best gift I have received was the Google Towel,at least it Still works!!! LOL Posted: 12/05/06 17:34
	Heather says: Mine isn't working either. I tried the Paint trick but to no avail. I'm sure I'll figure out a way to get it working, but it is a bit disappointing that it should be this problematic for so many people. Was that disc that came with it supposed to have software on it? I thought it was a blank disc since it doesn't say anything on it. Maybe that's what is needed to make it work properly. Good luck everyone! Heather Posted: 12/05/06 18:28
	Paul says: Hey! You guys are seriously a bunch of complainers, I mean, most company's don't even bother to give you a card, must-less a card and a gift, what are you expecting? A Plasma TV, new computer, a new Porsche? I tried it on another computer, and worked, I guess my USB port on my computer was bad, never used it much anyways. I must admit that this does have a fair amount of bugs, and the instructions were practicly usless. But really, complaining never helps with something like this. Google's not going to pay 2 million dollars on christmas gifts. But yep, the MS Paint trick worked for me. Thanks guys. Works great now, and I'm showing it to all of my friends Google is definitely one of the most friendly companies around. Really, you should have no room to complain at this. Anyways, enjoy the holidays! -Paul Posted: 12/05/06 19:38
	Paul says: BTW, you would need to convert .asf to .mp4 for it to play on this. Posted: 12/05/06 19:40
	Joel says: Mine works fine displaying pictures. Plugged it into USB port on my computer, deleted the samples they had (including movie and music) to free up more space, dragged over some photos and away we went. Now, if we could just find an answer to Tzvi's issue. I also tried changing from 5 second displays to a different duration. Whenever I toggled off one option it switched back to its original state (as per Tzvi's experience). Pretty frustrating. I'll check back from time to time to see if someone comes up with the resolution for this one... Posted: 12/05/06 19:59
	Tzvi says: It doesn't come with a card, you need to buy it seperate if you want to use one. Posted: 12/05/06 21:22
	MarcoPolo says: ok, it's a piece of crap Posted: 12/06/06 10:01
	hackit says: Anybody Ever Read Make Magazine? This little unit is full of goodies that are just waiting for someone to hack into and make it useful. Mine doesn't work well either but I can't wait to dig into it and figure out what I can make it do. Free mini lcd screen! Cool. Posted: 12/06/06 19:13
	Kevin says: My XP with SP2 sees this as a SUNPLUS SPCA536. I cannot find a driver for this device. At one point, I could get it to show up as a removable drive, but it wouldn't let me drag photos to it. Now after restarting it, nada. Posted: 12/07/06 18:39
	David says: How do you mount this or stand it up? I see a small port that looks like a stand would plug into it but no addition parts. Posted: 12/07/06 20:48
	Kcimme says: The ImageIcon program worked. How retarted. Cool gift, but you would think they might test them first??? Posted: 12/08/06 13:34
	sarah says: The device will die after one day of BATTERY use. Battery is for short term use only. For normal use, the device comes with two “normal usage” power supplies: USB Cable to be plugged in DIRECTLY to your Computer. Plugging in to USB Hubs, that are not “Self Powered”, will not work in some cases. AC Adaptor is also provided for normal use. As far as Loading images, it’s very easy: For PC Users: Turn the unit on Plug the unit in to the USB Port on your Computer using the cable provided Go to “My Computer” under your Start Menu on your Computer Desk Top Go to appropriate “Removable Disk Icon” and double click to open Open “Photo File” Drag your .jpg files to this folder Turn unit off unplug from your PC After you turn the unit back on, your image should now be viewable For Mac Users: Turn the unit on Plug the unit in to the USB Port on your Computer using the cable provided Double Click on the “Drive Icon” on your Desk Top Go to “Photo File: and Double Click to open Drag you.jpg files to this folder Turn unit off unplug from your Mac After you turn the unit back on, your image should now be viewable “File Errors” occur when the device is unplugged from your Computer without turning the unit off first. Posted: 12/08/06 15:20
	lucius says: Powered USB == dumb == Firmware Update... Posted: 12/08/06 17:05
	lucius says: but good tips Posted: 12/08/06 17:07
	Chris says: Well mine does not work at all. After power on you get some coloured squares moving around followed by a noise, then just a blue screen, even the off switch does not work. Posted: 12/08/06 17:19
	Sarah says: When using an SD Card to view your images please following the instructions closely. For PC Users: Make sure that the unit is turned off. Plug in the SD Card to the top of the unit. Turn on the unit Your SD Card is now being formatted automatically. Your SD Card is now formatted with 4 new file folders: a) MP3 File (for Music) b) MP4 File (For Video) c) Photo File (For Images) d) Rec File (For Recordings) 5. Take the USB Cable provided and plug one end in to the device and the other end in to your Computer 6. Go to “My Computer” under your Start Menu on your Computer Desk Top 7. Go to appropriate “Removable Disk Icon” and double click to open (Make sure that it’s the correct Removable Disk Icon, there will also be one for the Internal memory as well) 8. Click an drag your image files to the “Photo File”, your music files to the “MP3 File” etc... 9. Turn the unit off 10. Unplug from your PC 11. After you turn the unit back on, your images will now be viewable For Mac Users: Make sure that the unit is turned off. Plug in the SD Card to the top of the unit. Turn on the unit Your SD Card is now being formatted automatically. Your SD Card is now formatted with 4 new file folders: a) MP3 File (for Music) b) MP4 File (For Video) c) Photo File (For Images) d) Rec File (For Recordings) 5. Take the USB Cable provided and plug one end in to the device and the other end in to your Computer 6. In a Moment, 2 Drive Icons will appear on your Desk Top. 7. Go to appropriate Disk Icon and double click to open (Make sure that it’s the correct Disk Icon, there will also be one for the Internal memory as well) 8. Click an drag your image files to the “Photo File”, your music files to the “MP3 File” etc... 9. Turn the unit off 10. Unplug from your PC 11. After you turn the unit back on, your images will now be viewable Posted: 12/08/06 18:31
	Zunguri says: It is clear to me that Google's employees are a lot smarter than its customers. Usage is IOTTMCO. Google might want to ship a Technology for Dummies book next year. Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer Posted: 12/09/06 20:39
	TwoWheel says: We'll be happy to purchase any units that are producing "FILE ERROR" messages for $10(USD) each. Just send an e-mail to digitalframe@2wheeltouring.net Posted: 12/10/06 17:40
	i got it regifted says: seems to be working fine. props to the guy who figured out the MSpaint thing. this website was much more helpful than the included software or the manual. pretty neat product though. Posted: 12/11/06 10:36
	vern says: recieved it today. DOes not work. Spent hours on it. Can input photos, but gives only FILE ERROR. WIll not show my photos. No contact for repair. Posted: 12/11/06 19:52
	spencer says: has the blue screen problem been solved yet Posted: 12/12/06 05:04
	Stu says: I quite like it and the jpg thing worked fine for me using MSpaint but how about uploading mp4 files? How do I do that? Posted: 12/12/06 11:56
	Jake says: I quite liked mine in the end. File Errors seem to be solved by switching the unit off before unplugging it from the USB/computer. The 20 second timer can be saved by pressing the play button in the menu (this acts as an ENTER key) Battery icon is a pain when powered by DC though. Thanks Google! I like it. Posted: 12/12/06 15:54
	CJ_AUS says: spencer, I had the same problem with the Google digital photo frame GTA-316 (SUNPLUS SPCA536) blue screen of death. I solved the seemingly terminal problem by inserting a SD memory card into the card slot on top and suddenly the PC would see that device and I could access the whole thing again and DELETE the problematic JPGs and add new ones that comply with the JPG format that the device will accept. HTH Posted: 12/12/06 20:46
	Santy says: Its just too Good !! Great music quality when the earphones r connected... and the video quality is of top quality. Goin to purchase a 1gb memory card... and lets hop it reads it n works well !! thankyou Google !! Posted: 12/13/06 04:56
	nick botulism says: "why complain, it's free?" ask some people. it's hard to classify this as "free" when it has COST me far too much time and energy trying to get this thing to do something useful, as opposed to just chucking it into a landfill. Posted: 12/19/06 13:42
	Rick says: I finally got mine working after doing the following: 1. All image titles have to be ALL caps. This includes the JPG portion of the name (I.E. IMAGE.JPG, not IMAGE.jpg). 2. All images have to be opened and saved in MS Paint. 3. File names should NOT include any dashes, underscores, etc. 4. Images MUST be in the photo directory (obvious, but still important). If you do all that... the thing seems to work fine. Posted: 12/19/06 16:02
	David F. Skoll says: SUCCESS under Linux!! I don't do Windoze, so the MS Paint trick didn't work for me. It turns out it's not necessary. The trick is to mount the USB mass storage device as an "msdos" file system, NOT a "vfat" file system. Copy your pictures over. Unmount, unplug, power off, power on and the pictures appear. It still crashes randomly and is basically pretty crappy, but at least it displays my pictures now. Posted: 12/19/06 19:58
	c.hsiao says: Anyone got a "BOOK" folder in the SD memory? The first time I inserted the SD, 4 folders namely PHOTO, MP3, MP4 and REC were created automatically. After couples of shutdowns and re-starts, I found the fifth folder named BOOK is also created. Anyone has a clue? Posted: 12/19/06 21:01
	Rika says: I got this gift yesterday, and I realise I need an SD card to make it work, right? hmm I am too blond for this, how to get a hold an that card? and how much does it cost? anyone knows? Posted: 12/20/06 11:30
	CANI says: HOLA,NO CONSIGO INSTALAR EL SOFTWARE, Y ASI NO PUEDO PASAR MIS FOTOS.DONDE LO CONSIGO? EL DEL CD NO VALE. Posted: 12/20/06 13:00
	hamachi says: it's good gift Posted: 04/14/08 09:40