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Remove ads from digital photoframe

05/03/2008 7:24 PM

Hello CR4Experts!

I bought a westinghouse DPF0802 digital photoframe to give to my dad for his birthday.

It has a "mosaic view" feature that allows 4 pictures to appear in separate windows and scrolls through the photos randomly.

However, it also inserts its "Thank you for buying westinghouse" "Go to westinghouse website" and a variety of "dud" or example pictures with the westinghouse logo in them.

I don't want my dad confused by these "ringers" "Son, whose the gal, in the picture of the garden?" (I have no idea, probably somebodies grrlfriend at istockphoto.com)

This hooks up by mini usb cable, and shows as a drive.

Anybody ever run into this, and remove the "adware" without trashing the operating system?

Thanks for the assist!

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05/04/2008 12:52 AM

Can it take a memory card like an SD card? Most do. If it does, more then likely you can set it to only pull images from the memory card. It may only pop up those adds when you use the internal RAM in the frame. If you can't get rid off the adds I'd yell at Westinghouse real loud!

We gave two of them to elderly parents for 07 Christmas presents they were Kodak units I think, and worked great. We used SD cards in ours. That way I can mail the old folks new cards from time to time.

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05/04/2008 12:54 AM

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05/04/2008 10:50 PM

I've used two of these, different brands, and I could delete all of the stock pictures through the control software, using ideas similar to those described above. If you can't figure it out, I'm sure that Westinghouse tech support can direct you. Good Luck!

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05/05/2008 1:14 AM

Dang, and just when I was going to buy a bunch of those and put My ad on them, curses, foiled again.. haha..

surely you can remove that stuff somehow..

Usually the digital photo frames come blank and you add things by the usb port?/

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05/05/2008 7:32 AM

let us know how you get on as this would appear to be a good reason to buy Kodak to my mind.

I recently bought a Kodak, good price and works very well indeed.....no ads!!!

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05/05/2008 8:01 AM

Cool Tripe. Do you ever get to fly it or is it just for looking at?

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05/05/2008 8:24 AM

It is a flying one, full size, it stands in a Berlin Museum sadly. Its a WW1 Fokker Triplane....but built in the 50s from old plans I believe and an original engine and other parts....

Like the old joke, two WW1 soldiers from the UK, running away from such an aircraft that was machine gunning them (trying to!).

One says to the other, "Its a Fokker!", the other replies, "You can say that again!!"

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05/05/2008 9:24 AM

Thanks Members and Andy.

I was able to get the "ads/pictures" off by hooking the frame up to my computer using the mini usb to usb cord that came with my Camera.

It showed up as an external drive, and then I deleted the files using my desktop operating system.

As the frame did not come with such a cable, and the "OSD Instructions and documentation" were clear as mud, and written in some unsupported version of English, this was the solution that worked for me.

By the way, the frame is in every other respect a great display.

Thanks for the assist!

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05/05/2008 11:35 AM

Thanks for the final statement and well done with the "fix"!

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05/05/2008 3:38 PM

written in some unsupported version of English

Do you mean something like this?

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05/30/2008 1:10 AM

I gave a PhotoFrame to my elderly mom and found that once I inserted and pointed to the SD chip - all the adware (which is firmware aimed at demonstrating their gadgets' wares to a buying prospect, by the way) disapeared.

You'll find that there is a physical limit of around 176 images that caps how many images can be loaded in the root directory of the SD or whaterver chip you use. Make at least one folder and put your images in that; if they exceed 176 <or so> images, no problem. You'll also find that organizing the images, no matter what alphanumeric scheme you figure out, sooner or later will bog down when your image counts get awful large.

Cut to the chase and just make several folders in the root directory of your flash chip that name the theme of each folder; and put related images in those, okey? Simple, short theme names such as the first name of family members goes a long way toward efficient organization. It takes about one minute longer for your loved one to learn to navigate the folders than if everything is in one folder. However - after a couple repeated slide show's they will want to look at some favorites or other and if the images arn't delineated by being in a relavent folder - grrrr.

Good project for scanning in a loved ones lifetime of pix when they retire into senior living conditions. Dust mites in old albums are not good for them... However: Digital image memories will perk up their days. good on you. If that last is the kind of project you are doing - I recommend that you buy and use a good alergy medicine when opening albums and scanning in pix. Good luck

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06/10/2010 7:37 AM

Thanks for the additional organizing ideas!

The preventive info on dust mites was an unexpected bonus.

Thanks.

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