Ainol ELF Firmware 4.0.4

One of the ongoing problems with the Ainol ELF is WiFi.  It often fails to come back when wakes up from sleep.  The only way to get the WiFi back is to restart the machine.  This is very annoying.  Few days ago, I had flashed my ELF with the latest firmware which upgraded it to 4.0.4.  It seems the WiFi problem has finally been addresses.  The new firmware behaves a lot better than the latest Essential Clean Rom (1.1a).  With the 1.1a, my tablet often has troubles to get into proper sleep mode.

One thing I miss after upgrade is the hardware volume button.  1.1a remaps the home and menu buttons to act as volume button, whereas the official one put them back to what they were before.  To make the matter even worse is that there is no soft volume button too!  So to adjust the volume, I need to go to settings -> sound to adjust the volume.  However, comparing this to the WiFi problem, I would much prefer to have the WiFi problems fixed.

Ubuntu and power saving

With Ubuntu 10.04, there was one thing that really bugged me.  Every time when I unplugged the power, the netbook would go into a sort of sleep mode.  I needed to reboot the machine at twice to get back.

With Ubuntu 11.10, I can report this problem has been fixed.