Okay so today i am ordering a G-Tab. I was planning on getting it from woot since they have great prices. Is there any problems that anyone has had with their woot owned g tab? Like i heard charging stops but you can get the dock to charge it. But anything that should turn me off?
I haven't heard about any wide spread troubles with woot's stock of gtabs. Charging is always a little funky on the gtab, but mainly issues such as only reaching 96% and fast draining in sleep mode. Both of which have long discussions and various fixes.
I wouldn't be too worried. Good luck!
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jjkoolj8282 said:
Okay so today i am ordering a G-Tab. I was planning on getting it from woot since they have great prices. Is there any problems that anyone has had with their woot owned g tab? Like i heard charging stops but you can get the dock to charge it. But anything that should turn me off?
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I had mine from Woot since Apr. Works fine. No quality issues so far.
I have flashed several different ROM's..each have their own pluses and minuses.
The fun part is getting them to work.
I think the most stable and operational is Vegan-Tab, Vegan-Ginger or CM7...
You should try them all if you are up to the task..
Read as much as you can or start @ goodintentions's website
qkster said:
I had mine from Woot since Apr. Works fine. No quality issues so far.
I have flashed several different ROM's..each have their own pluses and minuses.
The fun part is getting them to work.
I think the most stable and operational is Vegan-Tab, Vegan-Ginger or CM7...
You should try them all if you are up to the task..
Read as much as you can or start @ goodintentions's website
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what bootloader came with yours? and if my tablet comes with 1.2 could i downgrade it using roebee's guide to nvflashing?
mine came with 3588 BL1.1
After you have read up on how to use nvflash and drivers, the bootloader issue only matters depends on what rom you want to run.
yeah mine came with 1.1 and i love it!!!! i flashed in order: vegan 5.1, gtabcomb beta 3.0 and 3.1, beastys 2.2.1 with clemsyn combo, and i am getting ready to flash vegan ginger
my only complaint is that it doesn't have a rock solid feel that an ipad or a xoom has, but for the price and the hardware, who cares!!!!
I ordered mine from Woot a couple of weeks ago and Im satisfied so far. It came with Bootloader 1.2 and Im using the Flashback HC ROM.
Aha fellow wooters! Got mine in woot. Come with a 1.2BL but done some mistake and installed a CWM 1.1 . Well, long story short, now running gtabcomb HC rom. Previously used CM7. CM7 is more bug free than gtabcomb...but HC is plainly smoking cool than Ginger
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Aha fellow wooters! Got mine in woot. Come with a 1.2BL but done some mistake and installed a CWM 1.1 . Well, long story short, now running gtabcomb HC rom. Previously used CM7. CM7 is more bug free than gtabcomb...but HC is plainly smoking cool than Ginger
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yeah i am going back to honeycomb just because of how sexy it looks on the gtablet LOL
Just got mine in the mail today, I'm joining the family, lol. Its charging as we speak, when I'm able to turn it on, Ill post more. Anyway tips you guys can give me since you've had yours for a while?
arrived YESTERDAY!
Yep just got mine as well yesterday from Woot via Amazon. Came with 1.2/4349. For $259 I guess Im happy. One thing that may be a problem, along with the obv angle issues, is the screen seems to be very sensitive. I know fingerprints, but I mean scratches. I was attempting to put on a screen protector(XTREMEGuard protector from Prestige Solutions) I had followed the directions, which included steps involving wetting my fingertips and the back of the protector so I could move it around if needed to get it in place. Well I failed miserably, couldnt get it right and had to throw it away. Not sure if it was my inexperience or their ****ty $10 product. I will never buy from this company again. ANyway, in the process of this, the screen somehow has a scratch and a small white mark on it and all it could be from was when the sticky side was touching the screen as I was trying to readjust it. Im assuming wetting it, like the directions say, is one of the things to keep from that happening, but i couldnt wet it anymore, honestly. So yeah, it seems to be that if you dont successfully get a screen protector on their asap, it wont be long before scratches and nicks will be everywhere.
I havent rooted yet but I will be shortly and like many of said, it makes the experience much much better. If they just would have made a little bit better screen, this things would be the ultimate value tab. That just KILLS it.
One other smaller thing, depending on if you have 1.1 or 1.2, you can only flash certain roms to each. I know iv read you can switch between the 2(not sure of process), Just seems like a hassle if you want to try one, then he other and have to switch first......
Ok so I have CWM installed, now onto picking which 1.2 rom will be my first, most stable/most stuff working/most BADASS...any ideas please?? would appreciate it....
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My eris has worked FINE for the 1 year and 7 months that i've had it. Never got a replacement, has been rooted for, oh, 6 months?
Why do i feel like i got the only defective eris ever produced? I mean, the "norm" seems to be an eris that lasts 8-12 months, yet mine is absolutely perfect after 19 with HEAVY usage each day (my battery's dead by 9 pm with around 30% brightness)?
My upgrade is supposed to kick in sometime in march, and i'll be switching to the Thunderbolt because of the Eris' obvious tech limitations. Just wanted to know why i seem to be the lucky one, or, depending how you look at it, the unlucky one
Didn't the Eris come out just under 15 months ago?
I've had mine just over 13 months myself, with very heavy use. I did but the 1750 extended battery in early January 2010. Mine still works perfectly as well. Trackball is perfect. (Knocking wood as I type this - I'd rather upgrade when I can.)
I have had the same one since Dec. of 09. The only problem that I have had is the paint came off of the ear speaker. I just cleaned the rest of the paint off.
Got mine on the release day - Nov 6, 2009 iirc
Dropped it twice onto concrete from about mid-thigh height, and I got knocked into the ocean once with it (it was inside *two* ziploc bags, but it sounds awesome to say that ).
Chuggin' along just like the day it was new.
I received one replacement early on because I was hoping to get a rootable phone (and it was dropping calls like mad, but that's irrelevant)
I've had my current phone for over a year now and I love it. I've tried Tenzo, Tazz, Conap, and Kaos ROMs and dug all of them for varying reasons. The cool thing about this group is that we have so many dev's that put out something different out of love and the burning desire to tinker for us to enjoy and play with. We've had great themers, app developers (I'm looking at you Conap with your awesome CPUBoost!), and ROM developers. I couldn't be happier with this little phone
So, I join you folks that have a working phone and like it!
Have had mine 12+ months. Works great. Trackball started pulling to the left yesterday :-(
Have to perform a trackball-ectomy.
Dropped it on asphalt last summer and cracked the digitizer. Replaced it from a defective unit off ebay$40. Will replace tball and usb port with my spare parts if the pull gets worse.
Other than that, I've beat the bell out of it, flash a new rom every week. Goes naked, no case or jelly, burn up 6 hours or more of on time a day and sometimes I even make a phone call!
Killer phone for$ $25.00 (.....and $1500.00 contract)
Its my main go-to computer
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If you have one of the strong units then it will never break. Mine has been dropped so many times on concrete and tile that I no longer fear for it. (In a zip-lock bag) I've brought it into rivers and springs and it even has the original battery which runs swell with a little calibration here and there. So sit tight, short of taking a hammer to it, it probably won't die. (That's a good thing )
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Mynasinar said:
I mean, the "norm" seems to be an eris that lasts 8-12 months,
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I highly doubt its the norm and message boards are magnets for people voicing complaints. I can speak from personal experience of 6 eris which were all bought at the same time (mine, wifes, wifes cousin and three co-workers who all got ours within a week of each other 9-10 months ago). Of the six eris 3 owners had complaints, one complained until they got verizon to replace it with something else and three are still happy with it. NONE of them actually had any hardware issue. ALL the complaints have been known software bugs or simply shortcomings of an unrooted entry level phone. none except me have any idea what rooting is much less XDA. I'm almost certain a) many eris being replaced dont actually have broken hardware and b) for every person on a message board that has had one, two, four replacements there are 100s more who's eris are still working fine. It doesn't take a large percentage to be classified as unreliable. If one in every ten of ANYTHING failed it would be considered and utter failure in reliability regardless of the 90% working perfectly fine.
I really have not had a problem with mine. Had it about a year.
Trackballectomy seems a success. Actually I replaced the usb port and cleaned the Tball and rollers with alcohol and made sure the circuitboard for the usb was fastened down tight to hold it in place.
Phone actually seems more responsive. I had been thinking, the Tball was sending errant commands, lagging and locking the phone up at times.
I wonder how many rom complaints might be the result of a Tball with a mind of its own??
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Had mine for 13 months and still works fine. No issues or trackball problems
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Same here, I've had mine for about a year now. I got it in the middle of February. Worked fine right through the OTA and through rooting it, as well. And since I've rooted it and installed a bunch of stuff and uninstalled a bunch of other stuff, it runs even better. I'm happy I've never had any trackball issues, or the dreaded "silent bug" that has plagued a number of Erises. I've dropped it a few times, and its got a few scratches, but it still runs faster than the day I got it. The only thing I wish is that it ran certain games a little better...I may look into overclocking it a bit to get it to run some of the games I have for Snesoid. Cause what else is there to do while in college? =P
I have had mine since 12/09 and love it. Actually the reason I went ahead and tried rooting (after lurking around here for about 2 months) was the fact that it is not top of the line and we had replaced the digitizer in my husband's phone. I figured if we could figure out how to tear the hardware all the way apart rooting with 1 click root and following directions on how to install a rom were easy.
Otherwise, risking losing my little gem of a phone would have scared the bejezus out of me. (I am not fond of the 4+ inch screens.)
I haven't had a screen protector or case on my phone ever. I am not the most careful.
Hi, All!
I have been reading this forum for a while. Been debating whether or not to root my phone finally. I have had my Droid Eris since mid Nov 2009 with no major problems. I decided this past weekend to take the plunge and root my phone. Had a few bugs with the ROM I picked out, but otherwise I am happy I decided to go down this road.
I've had mine since launch day, and haven't had a single issue. I rooted it in about March/April '09. I've always wondered the difference between mine and everyone who was having a lot of issues. People were going through 4 and 5 Eris' and I was wondering why mine has been so solid. My theory is that they used high quality components during initial production, but once they saw the D1 sell faster than the Eris, scaled back on costs and started to use lower quality hardware. However I think the trackball issues people have been having is just a design flaw. I'm guessing mine hasn't gone out because I really never use it
ReneeNEB95 said:
Hi, All!
I have been reading this forum for a while. Been debating whether or not to root my phone finally. I have had my Droid Eris since mid Nov 2009 with no major problems. I decided this past weekend to take the plunge and root my phone. Had a few bugs with the ROM I picked out, but otherwise I am happy I decided to go down this road.
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Hi! Welcome to the rooted Eris club!!! Not that you asked, but I just wanted to suggest, if you haven't already tried, either the xtrSENSE or xtrROM ROMs, in that order so it's not such a "culture shock" to go to a nearly no sense version of the otherwise stock-BASED ROM.
I've been running Froyo ROMs for several months now, but I'm about ->| |<- this close to going back to one of those two, which despite the advantages or differences of Froyo-based ROMs, overall gave me the best and bug free experience.
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Hi! Welcome to the rooted Eris club!!! Not that you asked, but I just wanted to suggest, if you haven't already tried, either the xtrSENSE or xtrROM ROMs, in that order so it's not such a "culture shock" to go to a nearly no sense version of the otherwise stock-BASED ROM.
I've been running Froyo ROMs for several months now, but I'm about ->| |<- this close to going back to one of those two, which despite the advantages or differences of Froyo-based ROMs, overall gave me the best and bug free experience.
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^ very sound advice.
The xtrROM/xtrSENSE ROMs seem to be the closest to the stock ROM/ SENSE ui that I've come across.
I keep finding myself reverting back to them after using some of the froyo ROM's out there just because they seem to be the most consistent for me. There are a few particular features of the froyo ROM's that keep drawing me back but each ROM I've tried hasn't quite left me feeling fulfilled quite like the xtr versions. I keep switching around and trying them out and the dev's for their respective ROM's are majorly talented guys and they've done a tremendous job of breathing life back into our eris'.
Give me xtrROM but with the additions of froyo/CM perks like battery % listed in notification bar, and control toggles in the notification bar and I'm there.
Each froyo ROM I've tried has been a rather great experience but there's always some little thing that bugs me enough to decide to switch back- for some ROM's it's the UBER-sensitive screen rotation, others its the lack of automatic pop-up of controls/toggles while on a call (to access speaker, mute, etc).
At least I got LauncherPro to replace SENSE for me- the additional shortcuts in the dock and the ability to change icons in the dock has been my born-again moment with xtrROM.
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Give me xtrROM but with the additions of froyo/CM perks like battery % listed in notification bar, and control toggles in the notification bar and I'm there.
Each froyo ROM I've tried has been a rather great experience but there's always some little thing that bugs me enough to decide to switch back- for some ROM's it's the UBER-sensitive screen rotation, others its the lack of automatic pop-up of controls/toggles while on a call (to access speaker, mute, etc).
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Amen, brotha!
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Hi! Welcome to the rooted Eris club!!! Not that you asked, but I just wanted to suggest, if you haven't already tried, either the xtrSENSE or xtrROM ROMs, in that order so it's not such a "culture shock" to go to a nearly no sense version of the otherwise stock-BASED ROM.
I've been running Froyo ROMs for several months now, but I'm about ->| |<- this close to going back to one of those two, which despite the advantages or differences of Froyo-based ROMs, overall gave me the best and bug free experience.
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Sorry I don't check this forum very often. I went with KaosFroyo for the ROM. It wasn't too much of a culture shock because I had been using the Stock Android UI and then Launcher Pro for the last few months before rooting the phone. I have been meaning to put GingerShedBread on it lately, but have been lazy.
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I've had mine since launch day, and haven't had a single issue. I rooted it in about March/April '09. I've always wondered the difference between mine and everyone who was having a lot of issues. People were going through 4 and 5 Eris' and I was wondering why mine has been so solid. My theory is that they used high quality components during initial production, but once they saw the D1 sell faster than the Eris, scaled back on costs and started to use lower quality hardware. However I think the trackball issues people have been having is just a design flaw. I'm guessing mine hasn't gone out because I really never use it
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I don't think that's it. I got myself and my girlfriend Erises in March 2010 (a while after launch obviously) and both of ours have been awesome. I have been rooted since April 2010 and she has since May 2010. The issues that either of us have had is when I had the 50% time without signal bug (which most of us now know was not really a bug. Just a bug in the way it reported the stats) and maybe a few dropped calls here or there in low signal areas. Even battery life is pretty decent on our phones.
When the Eris launched I actually worked at an indirect Verizon store and out of approximately 60 droids and 50 Erises I sold I had around 10 people come back with issues on their Droid and less than 5 with issues on their Eris. IIRC only a couple droids had to be replaced and most just needed a factory reset, but only 1 Eris needed a factory reset and the rest were just user errors. Just thought I would throw that out there.
I will miss this little beast when I upgrade. I just hope I can pick up a phone that has half as awesome of a dev community as the Eris does! Kaos, shed, tazz, conap, jcase, all the hero devs that indirectly helped out, and all the others that have contributed (sorry I can't think of your names right now) you guys are awesome! Thanks for all your hard work! I hope to see you guys in the After Eris Life
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I couldnt find another thread like it, so decided to make one, mainly to see if everyone, or just some people have a phone that pretty much takes just about everything you throw at it and then some.
I bought mine brand new out of contract (I wasnt due for a upgrade for a long time) a few days after it was released, and Ive had the same one ever since. Its been through alot, I dont consider myself to be anywhere near a n00b with the phone anymore, but looking back, putting, or attempting to put, some of the things I did on there, flashing God knows what, deleting important things that probably should never be deleted, etc.
I used to have this "try it first, read about it later" thing going on, but once I switched it around, I learned alot. Im still learning alot.
Maybe one day when they start giving me medicine for ADD I can give developing a shot lol.
So have you had to send yours back yet to get a new one? Had it all this time? Just got it recently? From my experience you have to mess up pretty bad to actually brick one of these phones.
I've had mine since sept 2010. I've had to use odin once. Been stuck.in a few a few bootloops. Other then that its been a great phone. My first rom was bionix 1.9 with jacs oc /uv kernel. Its taken everything I've thrown at it.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo
I did return mine because it was hardware locked. The new one was unfortunately locked also. But the ota update to ji6 fixed it for me.
Powered by Axura with a dash of Voodoo
I've had mine since last week because I traded it for my mytouch slide and yesterday I rooted, bricked, and rooted again. My first rom was bionix v and I don't think I can send it in for a replacement ...
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My first ROM was Obsidian, then I almost immediatley switched to Onyx. I didnt switch to a custom ROM for a while because for the most part I changed and edited the framework myself. Then I decided to say screw that, lol.
The one thing my phone wont take is a OC kernel. It works for about 2 minutes then decides to freeze up and I usually have to flash the stock kernel back. Ive tried just 1280, up to 1400 and it doesnt want any part of it. Which doesnt matter I guess. I only have about 1GB used of the 20GB available to the phone, so its fast enough.
Also, as far as Odin, Ive only HAD to use it twice, but every once in a while I like to back everything up, Format everything in CWR and go back to JFD, to kind of "start fresh".
I've had mine since late july or early august, can't remember which. But it kept powering off randomly so I did get it replaced in november i believe. I didn't start rooting/flashing until december because i was scared as **** about messing something up. I use to hate the vibrant and all its laggyness/gps issues but the devs have allowed me to have a usable phone again!
I've had mine since early september, I just recently got another one, I was complaining about my data always not connecting and t mobile went ahead and sent me another phone. Turns out I was just being throttled lol. I really have no problem with the vibrant, even before the froyo update when everyone hated their vibrant since they didn't have the update, its never bothered me, especially with all the custom roms everywhere anyway
This is starting to sound like a "vibrants anonymous" support group.. not that i've ever been to AA LOL
Had mine since july 16th. This is still my original one. I've flashed countless .zips. flashed about 10 ROMS. Used ODIN once. Taken it apart a few times to install and adjust the ffc. All of that and it still runs like a champ. Aside from the gps which used to work and now doesn't, I've had minimal problems with my device.
Sexy Vibrant featuring Nero V3 w/Voodoo, and FFC installed
Thanks for stopping to read this.
I wanted to know if this has been rooted yet, and also if I can load it up to honeycomb yet?
On a side note does anyone know if the snes and other emulators work well on it?
RiffyDivine said:
Thanks for stopping to read this.
I wanted to know if this has been rooted yet, and also if I can load it up to honeycomb yet?
On a side note does anyone know if the snes and other emulators work well on it?
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Hello,
Replacing with the firmware makes the device root. You have multiple to choose from. TNT lite. Vegan Etc..
I have not seen honeycomb firmware yet but the word is that the devs are looking in to in and will be available once it is fully tested.
I have seen the emulators work on the viewsonic so the question to that is YES..
Enjoy..
I think most of us bought this for the hardware knowing that Android developers will eventually bring us everything we want and more. If the tab can't do "it" now I am sure it will soon.
cd112 said:
Hello,
Replacing with the firmware makes the device root. You have multiple to choose from. TNT lite. Vegan Etc..
I have not seen honeycomb firmware yet but the word is that the devs are looking in to in and will be available once it is fully tested.
I have seen the emulators work on the viewsonic so the question to that is YES..
Enjoy..
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Thanks, it will be here tomorrow. I just needed to find the specs sheet on tiger and was sold. Can't believe it's a 150 dollars off right now, it's less then my cellphone was. Glad it is on sale, it can replace the crappy dual boot viewsonic tablet I got. Wish it had said on the site hey this isn't real android on here.
I was also reading, people say flashing a CFW is simple with the gtablet. Something about how there are no blocks or anything in the way to keep you from doing it which is great. So I will just look around in here for the how to flash unless it's as simple as CWM.
Yep, just CWM! Though, possibly a touch more than normal with a simple phone, like the Droid. You need to repartition it in CWM for best results, then wipe everything, then install the ROM. Depending on the ROM, you most likely will want to install GAPPS after. That's pretty much it! Most of the ROMs come with decent kernels, I've noticed.
Good thread to step through the process.
www.forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016695
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Yep, just CWM! Though, possibly a touch more than normal with a simple phone, like the Droid. You need to repartition it in CWM for best results, then wipe everything, then install the ROM. Depending on the ROM, you most likely will want to install GAPPS after. That's pretty much it! Most of the ROMs come with decent kernels, I've noticed.
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What is gapps? Is it a stock apps store just for the gtab.
RiffyDivine said:
Wish it had said on the site hey this isn't real android on here.
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It is real android, they just their own "layer" on top of it. It is fairly easy to install another Rom on this thing, just make sure you read, understand, and follow the directions carefully.
Once you get it installed, unless you feel comfortable with possibly having to do a bit of work if you "mess it up", I would try not to fool around with it too much. I've installed Vegan-Tab 5.1.1, and a kernel, and it runs fine, so I try to just use it as is...
back it up with nvflash before you start rooting....that will prevent you from bricking your tab. I just got mine last week and its amazing how well it works . I am currently testing our different roms on it to see which one I like the best. Vegan 5.1.1 and TNT Lite 4.4 are pretty nice to start off with.
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It is real android, they just their own "layer" on top of it. It is fairly easy to install another Rom on this thing, just make sure you read, understand, and follow the directions carefully.
Once you get it installed, unless you feel comfortable with possibly having to do a bit of work if you "mess it up", I would try not to fool around with it too much. I've installed Vegan-Tab 5.1.1, and a kernel, and it runs fine, so I try to just use it as is...
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No no sorry, I ment the other viewsonic tablet. The one that dual boots win7 and x86 android.
rbansal2 said:
back it up with nvflash before you start rooting....that will prevent you from bricking your tab. I just got mine last week and its amazing how well it works . I am currently testing our different roms on it to see which one I like the best. Vegan 5.1.1 and TNT Lite 4.4 are pretty nice to start off with.
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Always good to backup, I assume as long as you get that even if you totally mess up you can just reflash it and try again. It will be here tomorrow around 11ish, so once I get done at the office going to get a few ciders and attack this thing.
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What is gapps? Is it a stock apps store just for the gtab.
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Depending on the package, it will be some of the missing Google stock apps. such as the Market.
One other thing - boot it and set up wireless so you can get any over the air updates before you put a new ROM on.
chadness said:
Depending on the package, it will be some of the missing Google stock apps. such as the Market.
One other thing - boot it and set up wireless so you can get any over the air updates before you put a new ROM on.
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Thanks mate, I planned to try out the stock first just to see what they did with it.
Oh, one other thing. How is the screen on this? Nice and clear? I only ask cause on the viewpad 10 I bought some months back, well the screen looks awful unless you got it maxed brightness, it just always looks like there is dust on it.
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Oh, one other thing. How is the screen on this? Nice and clear? I only ask cause on the viewpad 10 I bought some months back, well the screen looks awful unless you got it maxed brightness, it just always looks like there is dust on it.
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I think it looks really good, as long as you are at the right angle. You probably heard that it has a narrow field of view if you tilt it up or down (while being held in landscape). But, when looking at a decent angle (tilted less than 45 degrees, maybe?) the screen itself is bright and clear.
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I think it looks really good, as long as you are at the right angle. You probably heard that it has a narrow field of view if you tilt it up or down (while being held in landscape). But, when looking at a decent angle (tilted less than 45 degrees, maybe?) the screen itself is bright and clear.
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That sounds about the same for the angles as the viewpad 10. My only problem was that it honestly always looks like a dusty. But I will know for sure in about 3 hours when I am done here. Don't most tablets have issues if you try to tilt them too much one way or another?
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Good thread to step through the process.
www.forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016695
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weird seems that link doesn't work.
EVEN WORSE, there is like 2 pixles that are red. Are they dead or just somehow locked?
I ordered a gtablet from woot and it should be here next week. In the mean time, I am trying to decide what ROM I should choose. I can't decide if I should use a Gingerbread ROM or a Honeycomb ROM. (Most likely I will use a Honeycomb ROM.)
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Alex
L3XUS said:
I ordered a gtablet from woot and it should be here next week. In the mean time, I am trying to decide what ROM I should choose. I can't decide if I should use a Gingerbread ROM or a Honeycomb ROM. (Most likely I will use a Honeycomb ROM.)
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Alex
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Try some and see. Here's my experience
Froyo Roms - never used them. Main claim to fame is support for HD video playback. Since display is no better than 720p, and storing huge HD material that only is marginally visually better than a good divx encode that takes 1/4 of the space isn't worth it for me, I passed on Froyo.
CM7 based gingerbread roms - lots of them. Will make the gTab the best big ass phone without a cell radio. I ran VeganTab Ginger Edition since getting my gTab a couple months ago. Right up until
[ROM][BL1.1][BL1.2] GtabComb beta 3.1 came out. Honeycomb goodnesss. Tablet actually feels like a tablet, not a big ass phone. I'm on this.
BE SURE you understand the whole "1.1" vs "1.2" bootloader issue before you flash any rom. Then decide what you want to try first. The flash away and play with stuff - maybe try a few different ones - and pick which one you want.
It's pretty easy to switch between them all.
Hmm... I'm gonna look into GtabComb. I'm look for the best overall Honeycomb ROM.
Woot still hasn't shipped out my tablet. I ordered it on 7/13/11. Also I was wondering, what ROM has the best camera support for Skype, ooVoo, etc?
L3XUS said:
what ROM has the best camera support for Skype, ooVoo, etc?
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Oh, camera is broken (to varying degrees) in all roms other than Froyo roms.
Its such a crappy camera I just think of it as "doesn't have a camera" anyway. If you want the camera to work, you're stuck with Froyo roms.
Oh really? Damn, it's that bad?
L3XUS said:
Oh really? Damn, it's that bad?
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Yeah. It is. VGA. Like from the mid 2000s.
This thing is an interesting mish mash of quality and garbage. The parts you see (LCD, camera) are garbage. They saved about $15 on the build costs by cutting those corners. Winning!
i use tango for my video calls.
and it's definitely not the best, but it looks fine when I video chat with my wife on her iphone 4 when she's away or when I'm out of town.
so in all honesty, the camera function to be able to video chat with my wife is why I haven't jumped to the honeycomb roms yet...
I don't really mind no flash, I just want the camera to work.
Im back to Froyo after trying all of them including Gingerbread and Honeycomb simply because GB and HC degrade much faster than Froyo, and Froyo feels snappier and way more stable. Not to mention that HC is crippled in video acceleration amongst other things.
This is the Froyo version I'm currently using: Clemsin_Caulkinver5
IMO you should decide what you want to do with the tablet, and then see what ROMs fit your needs, and then pick one.
I like G-harmony Gingerbread. But as in an earlier post. Kind of keeps you as a big phone.
I have tried several ROM's after quickly switching from the stock ROM. I am on Gtabcomb 3.2 and love it. Battery live was an issue but I believe it was due the setting on my live wallpaper. Took it off the charger at 5:00 this morning and still at >75% battery.
I think that i'm gonna take a shot at gtabcomb, it sounds good. If not then i'll look into Vegan-Tab. My gtablet is coming in tomorrow, i'll keep y'all posted.
So gtab comb was a complete fail. I am running illuminate. I'm having issues watching Youtube videos. Videos do not load on the Youtube app.
man that sucks...in the same boat as you...was going to try the first one, but now I'm thinking of the illuminate...let me know how you like it.
hobo1 said:
man that sucks...in the same boat as you...was going to try the first one, but now I'm thinking of the illuminate...let me know how you like it.
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I had illuminate for a day. It is nice but it has too many force closes, app compatability issues and youtube issues. It did run fast, but for now im gonna switch to gingerbread or froyo until Honeycomb becomes open source.
L3XUS said:
I ordered a gtablet from woot and it should be here next week. In the mean time, I am trying to decide what ROM I should choose. I can't decide if I should use a Gingerbread ROM or a Honeycomb ROM. (Most likely I will use a Honeycomb ROM.)
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Alex
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I was using Vegan Gingerbread for months, I'm using Honeycomb for 2 days and i have so many problems with freezing, camera not working, so much problem, going back to Gingerbread, and personally recommend that you flash with Gingerbread, you will love it.
You have to look at what you are using the tablet for. Watching videos youtube etc. Then stick with vegan-tab ginger edition . The 2.3 roms are more polished at this point , but honeycomb is quickly coming around. It is very easy to flash and try different roms.
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I have tried several ROM's after quickly switching from the stock ROM. I am on Gtabcomb 3.2 and love it. Battery live was an issue but I believe it was due the setting on my live wallpaper. Took it off the charger at 5:00 this morning and still at >75% battery.
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That's all you like, Battery life? you don't mind that freezes, Camera not working, videos stop playing. Tab side bars not operating.
I am in the same boat as many of you. Went with GTabcomb and really worked well. I loved being able to take screenshots of apps I was writing about. Then, out of the blue, it would not recognize the internal SD card. So I think I need to head back to Vegan Ginger and wait until the HC roms become a little more stable.
With Jellybean based ROM installed, this tablet is working almost as well as the flashy tablets out there today.
Did everyone just leave their gtab in the basement to collect dust?
Which jelly bean rom are you using? How long have you been using? I've tried a few and after a week or so they slow down. I'm hoping a kit kat rom will work.
Jelly Bean on Gtab
TheFlyingPig said:
With Jellybean based ROM installed, this tablet is working almost as well as the flashy tablets out there today.
Did everyone just leave their gtab in the basement to collect dust?
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I installed drh's jelly bean 4.2 beta which I thought worked quite well and faster than their 4.1. Only problem is after charging I could not get it back on until the battery was drained. I am hoping installing wakelocker will solve this issue. Did you install a cwm version?
I'm not an expert but you probably need a reset hole. I've had lockups with custom roms and had to drill the hole.
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I've completely ditched android and moved over to windows.
striker59 said:
I'm not an expert but you probably need a reset hole. I've had lockups with custom roms and had to drill the hole.
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I was going to do that if WAKELOCK did not work. But it works.
Thanks
Mine works fine with VeganTAB. I've tried some other ROMs but always gone back to Vegan.
goog64 said:
Mine works fine with VeganTAB. I've tried some other ROMs but always gone back to Vegan.
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I tried VeganTAB in the past and it was very smooth, but video hardware acceleration seemed to be broken. Does it work for you? (if yes, which VeganTAB version are you using?)
Using Vegan-tab 7.1.0, video works with YouTube and Facebook app. Also videos play in gallery app.
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Using Vegan-tab 7.1.0, video works with YouTube and Facebook app. Also videos play in gallery app.
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Thanks!
I have the DRH Jellybean ROM loaded as well. Keeps the kids' hands off of my transformer. But, I have to say, the gtab has been a really nice device and it works to play movies on road trips, browse the web, etc. Really happy for the support of the DEVs on the site for making the purchase worthwhile (I still get heartburn thinking about that Tap 'n Tap UI, LOL). It's a clunky tablet, and now it's got a hole drilled in the back cover, but it's a long way from retirement, and the battery life is still outstanding. Thanks again all!
Meh
I don't know if I'm in the minority but I've never had any luck with my gTab. From day one, the stock ROM sucked so I rooted. Bounced around from ROM to ROM but never found one that was stable enough to use as a daily driver. It's sat in a drawer for the last couple years and I just dusted it off yesterday to see if any of the ROMs that have come out lately would work better. Tried DRH JB beta - slow and apps crash, tried SmootherBean and it's the same story. I love tinkering with my Android devices but typically I can get an end result that's better than what I started with. Not so much with the gTab. All I want is a reliable ROM and so far I'm convinced that it doesn't exist for this POS tablet. Ugh.
Mine is sitting on the shelf since the battery turned into a balloon and popped the back cover off.
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Still running SmOoTher_BeAn_4.1.2 on mine. Battery is junk, gets about 10 minutes off the dock before it dies. It still runs great 99% of the time, its been a fantastic purchase and worth every penny.
Basically it sits in a dock 24/7 and I use it for Netflix/ HBO Go/ MX Player movies. I was using it for ROMs and emulators too, but the Ouya took that spot.
I still use it, its just not an everyday device like it used to be. Just kind of wish I had some type of VNC remote control app for it on my phone so I didn't have to walk over and touch it to do everything, kind of like a Chromecast.
...just dug mine out for some reason that I forget now the other week, batt was dead... dug up the charger today, and MIGHT get around to doing something with it. (Was bootlooping or just crashing like the orig ROM did IIRC when I shelved it.)
Moved on to IIRC the original Nook Color(CM booting from usd), then picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7+(which I used for quite a while stock), then eventually the n7(2013 stock still running it). Also ended up picking up a Touchpad a while back, but I've just found the >7" tablets to be uselessly large, but have now come to the feeling that tablets are just mostly useless to begin with, especially when faced with wanting to enter detailed email/etc. with no keyboard. Too much of a PITA. (Also picked up an Archos IT43 & 32 back in the day. The 32 for media, and try at the 43(bigger than my phone at the time for a smaller tablet, but it sucked since it had gimped archos android and well was almost as bad as the stock gtab and noone cared about these, plus the 43 had horrible resistive touch(resistive touch on the 32 was pretty damned good though, as good as cap touch)).
-> picked up an i3/4GB chromebook(11" slightly bigger than those 10" tabs but feels lighter at least, upgraded SSD to 128GB dev mode crouton/trusty/xfce) which is just more generally useful when I want small and light than any tablet that I've owned. If I want just tablet function I think that the n5 is big enough(even n4 really) to fill that spot. Might use them on the odd occasion for complex PDFs but that's really the only reason I can think to bother keeping them around.
So maybe one day when I'm really bored(or snowed in and bored) I'll charge up the gtab and poke it for old time's sake.
Hey guys,
I must say Gtab has served well and worth the money spent. It has been an excellent learning curve as well. Learned a lot about android debugging and flashing devices with gtab only.
Sadly enough, I dropped mine with the headphone pluged in, and it hit the floor in a way that headphone connection broke. I lost sound due to this mechanical damage.
Any ways,, here is a crazy idea. I want to use Gtablet's touch display with Raspberry pi. Has anyone as any idea how would I accomplish this?
Let me know,
Thanks,.
theteju said:
Hey guys,
I must say Gtab has served well and worth the money spent. It has been an excellent learning curve as well. Learned a lot about android debugging and flashing devices with gtab only.
Sadly enough, I dropped mine with the headphone pluged in, and it hit the floor in a way that headphone connection broke. I lost sound due to this mechanical damage.
Any ways,, here is a crazy idea. I want to use Gtablet's touch display with Raspberry pi. Has anyone as any idea how would I accomplish this?
Let me know,
Thanks,.
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maybe you can solder the jack/board again to the mainboard
well
i would try to look up the LCD/touch IC data sheet to see the electrical diagram and see how would you connect itt or interface it with a raspberry pi
(and play from there)
i doubt its easily doable but good luck and let me know