Comments on: Modding the Dell Mini 9

By: HapHaz

HapHaz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:58:02 +0000

I used the Inland 4 Port USB 2.0 Cable Hub from MicroCenter on my setup. Worked like a charm I had messed up the contact pad on the WWAN card. I was having problems with the WLAN slot keeping wireless cards running losing them to the OS. So I opted to try again this time I tied into the USB in the WLAN pcie slot same pins reversed due to facing and the hub worked like a charm there. I then scavenged two of the four ends of the octopus connectors pealing all the plastic from the metal wrapping them in electrical tape to avoid shorting. connected internally for 16 gig sandisk flash and a micro BT 2.1 dongle. I ran a run to the top of the screen for a Tenda W311M card it was just the right size to fit small as webcam was so there was space to fit.Hot glued this into place after solders where made and hole drilled for WPS to be able to be clicked on the card via pen or pencil. Working great and good wireless signal being mounted up there. Thanks for all the reference info. Might try and upload a few pics of it in a few days. PS – Covered all the solder joints with hot glue and the wires to keep them from pulling loose of time.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:36:34 +0000

Great photos of the mini 9, I had to dismantle mine to fix the power plug, it had come loose, its good to have a guide, thanks

By: a summary of internal mods on mini 9

a summary of internal mods on mini 9 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:58:00 +0000

[...] trackpad 5v Integrated GPS on my Mini 9 usb port 5v scrape the tracing under wifi card 5v Awooga!!! Modding the Dell Mini 9 USB DATA pins 36, 38 of wan Awooga!!! Modding the Dell Mini 9 Integrating [...]

By: rowland

rowland — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:05:14 +0000

sweet man….thanks….

By: Internal USB hub, has anyone installed and USED it? - MyDellMini

Internal USB hub, has anyone installed and USED it? - MyDellMini — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:15:10 +0000

[...] the internet to try find someone who has done it and actually USED it. So far I found this guy Awooga!!! ? Modding the Dell Mini 9 But I want to minimize soldering with new usb devices so I wanted to put in a hub more like this [...]

By: laseray

laseray — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:21:42 +0000

Hello, I am wondering since you had the MB out completely – why not just glue an LED and resistor to the mother board. The LEDs for power and battery are on the CPU side of the board and you could run one wire to the pin 52 and the other to gnd at the same point used by the other LEDs.

By: Meow

Meow — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:26:04 +0000

Why did you try do take the usb flash drive connector off? U could connect female connector to the flash drive and run the wires from it.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:24:47 +0000

For the USB drive with lifted pads, you can just follow the traces and solder to where they terminate.

By: Q

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:52:51 +0000

The idea was that the Flash drive was going to be connected to the USB hub, leaving the option to later add another USB based device to it.

By: Stace

Stace — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:44:16 +0000

What’s the purpose of the USB hub? Is your plan to solder USB devices onto it?