20 Most Recent Tao MUSIC SPECTARE 5.6 DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME Questions & Answers

Use the Navigation Buttons to select "Calendar"; press Enter to confirm. To set the date, press the Stop Button and then use < and > Buttons to adjust the year and the arrow down and ^ buttons to adjust the month; press the Stop Button again to confirm. Then, use the Navigation Buttons to select the current date on the calendar display and press Enter to confirm. To exit press the Menu Button.

You need to get them correctly orientated before you load them - the software in the frame is not capable of doing this permanently.

The power surge has probably damaged the internal electronics. Check with a service centre

Is the volume turned up ?

The  A701 is  a bit cranky.  I've found that it prefers  USB  flash sticks of upto  2GB. It likes the flash stick formatting  before use.  And it prefers  jpg files  added  to the root directory of the flash stick -  so  no images in folders. Finally but probably least important, it's not much point uploading  2MB  jpgs as  the screen  is pretty much  72DPI  smaller size JPGS  lead to a faster loading. ( try  around 900x 600 dpi )

I don't have the booklet for this darn thing and I just got it for mothers day.... I have a sandisk in it and I can see the pics just fine, but it doesn't save them??? I can only view when I have something in it??? That's crazy?? Isn't it?? Help

my digital farm is not open

It's almost certainly the CCFL backlight and/or driver. CCFL tube replacements are widely available eg here: http://www.lcdparts.net/CCFL1.aspx However they can be very cheap to buy on ebay for parts. Good Luck

I have encountered this same error on the frame I bought 2 years ago. I saved the pictures to a backup and then reformatted the frame - this didn't work - does anyone have any other solutions???

After trying on my own, I went back into setting by scrolling along until a picto gram - with what appears to be a machine bolt is highlighted and then pressed SET - next the screen shows a bunch of chinese words (these are the different languages) then I scrolled down to the last one - until its highlighted, - this is the english one - press the set button on the side of the frame, this will bring you back to the english menu.