[Q] Dual Boot - G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know if any similar devices like the notion ink adam are capabile of dual booting? It would solve all sorts of problems. Because instead of having to pick a rom and do with out dual core support (froyo) or without hardware acceleration (honeycomb and gingerbread) we could conviently switch. In a perfect world I suppose. I'd pay to have someone figure it out.

Try this app: Bootmanager market.android. c o m/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager

xmixxedx said:
Try this app: Bootmanager market.android. c o m/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager
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Use at your own risk. Bootmanager has been know to brick some gTablets. I personally wouldn't try it.

aabbondanza said:
Use at your own risk. Bootmanager has been know to brick some gTablets. I personally wouldn't try it.
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Agree. My understanding and experience was that it just doesn't handle HC ROMS well.

sorry to bring an old thread back from the dead, but I am curious if anyone has tried bootmanager recently? Dual boot would be nice, but don't want to try if it is still bricking gtabs...

if you want a tablet that dual boots...get a nook color, it's fun and easy and thanks to the people here at XDA it's able to dual or even triple boot.

plasticarmyman said:
if you want a tablet that dual boots...get a nook color, it's fun and easy and thanks to the people here at XDA it's able to dual or even triple boot.
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they have hacked the hell out of that thing, but I already have a gtab. It looks like the boot manager app has a lot fail safes in it now, in which I think it would be pretty hard to brick. I might give it a go...

mjg7876 said:
Dual boot would be nice, ..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520614

rajeevvp said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520614
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Thanks for the post, but this isn't talking about the boot manager application. I just set it up on my Rezound, and it works great. It is fast and easy to switch between ROMs. I am going to give it a go on the gtab, and will report back if anyone is interested.

mjg7876 said:
Thanks for the post, but this isn't talking about the boot manager application.
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It was meant as an FYI, given that a) aabbondanza, above, has reported that boot manager can brick the gTablet and b) the VS gTablet is not an officially supported device.
BTW, how did the boot manager experiment go?

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Excellent progess on CyanogenMod

Great success!
Atleast partly, I haven't actually flashed anything. So far I've played around a bit with Goro_kn's (sp?) splboot.ko and it appears to be working just fine. So does softbooting boot.img from the modded cyanogen build.
After that I kinda wussed out, I'd rather wait and see if anyone manages to flash the boot.img and get that working before I go any further.
But great work, seeing fastboot working totally MMD.
ddewbofh said:
Great success!
Atleast partly, I haven't actually flashed anything. So far I've played around a bit with Goro_kn's (sp?) splboot.ko and it appears to be working just fine. So does softbooting boot.img from the modded cyanogen build.
After that I kinda wussed out, I'd rather wait and see if anyone manages to flash the boot.img and get that working before I go any further.
But great work, seeing fastboot working totally MMD.
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How did you do it? The boot.img comes up as an incorrect size for me.
HunteronX said:
How did you do it? The boot.img comes up as an incorrect size for me.
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Yeah, it looks like I got a little ahead of myself. I tried the classic "fastboot boot boot.img" and it appeared to be uploading the image but it just hung there.
And poking around my old memory banks I remembered the old syntax. Booting with "fastboot boot kernel ramdisk_recovery.img" yields the same result.
It's been way too long since I last messed around with fastboot.
ddewbofh said:
And poking around my old memory banks I remembered the old syntax. Booting with "fastboot boot kernel ramdisk_recovery.img" yields the same result.
It's been way too long since I last messed around with fastboot.
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Did you manage to boot into CyanogenMod at all, using goroh_kun's method?
I know what you mean about fastboot though... I have used it for ages, since I gave my T-Mobile Pulse to my little brother.
HunteronX said:
Did you manage to boot into CyanogenMod at all, using goroh_kun's method?
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Not yet, but I'll keep trying.
ddewbofh said:
Not yet, but I'll keep trying.
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What could we do to solve this?
I think it involves some more editing of the custom SPL (which I don't have a clue how to do ) and/or checking, then rebuilding the boot.img to make it the correct size for fastboot...
HunteronX said:
What could we do to solve this?
I think it involves some more editing of the custom SPL (which I don't have a clue how to do ) and/or checking, then rebuilding the boot.img to make it the correct size for fastboot...
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I'm thinking I should hold off on trying a little more seeing how the real devs are obviously booting this. I'm guessing I'm just missing something somewhere and it's a nightmare to navigate the threads here.
ddewbofh said:
I'm thinking I should hold off on trying a little more seeing how the real devs are obviously booting this. I'm guessing I'm just missing something somewhere and it's a nightmare to navigate the threads here.
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That's what I think too...
Also, thanks for the info, ddewbofh.
This is excellent news.
Just to double check CM6 = Android 2.2?
sorry ... but anyone can explain in plain english ? can we flash CM ? on x10 ?
No
10chars.
AndyD777 said:
Just to double check CM6 = Android 2.2?
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Yes it is.
instigator008 said:
Yes it is.
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In a Mr Burns style voice "Excellllleeeennnt"
AndyD777 said:
In a Mr Burns style voice "Excellllleeeennnt"
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Eeeeeegsalad
Hold your horses guys....well be quite a while before we have a fully useful 2.2 cm6 as in addition to the bootloader they also have to get drivers working for x10 hardware. What good is cm6 if the camera, wireless and calling doesn't work?
Give them time to nut it all out.
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Hold your horses guys....well be quite a while before we have a fully useful 2.2 cm6 as in addition to the bootloader they also have to get drivers working for x10 hardware. What good is cm6 if the camera, wireless and calling doesn't work?
Give them time to nut it all out.
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Naturally, but it's still nice progress. And the fact that the X10 shares large portions of it's platform with the HTC Desire is bound to help. Since both have use Snapdragon they share the same GPS, cellular modem, audio, network, cpu, graphics etc. Looking at the spec sheets from Qualcomm they're essentially the same device but with different shells, cameras and screens since the Snapdragon kit does everything.
cannot wait to get the benchmark result of Xperia X10 running Android 2+. I'm hoping X10 can get somewhere around Nexus One benchmark.
I have never thought about that, if they do have the same components, the drivers should be the same for each shared component?
Haha its kind of funny how the only differentiating factor is screen, shell, and camera!
Most likely they don't have the same hardware.
Sound, camera, display are 100% different.
RF chip might be different too and in this case drivers are needed for wifi, gps, bluetooth, 3g.
The best part, the drivers are most likely available in the kernel sources released by SE and they only have to be ported to the newer kernel.
Sometime changes in the code is needed, some time only copy the driver from a tree to the other is enough.

[Q] - About to buy one but wanted to ask these things first

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
chadness said:
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.
TheKaz said:
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.
RiffyDivine said:
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.
RiffyDivine said:
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?
cdavisccs28 said:
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?

Android running as webOS app by Chomper

weibo.com/chomper
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Getting closer...
Looks okay , But was hoping for more a Honeycomb GUI , as ive just got rid of a 2.3 Tablet to get the HP touch pad to flash to 3.0 but will 3.0 ever happen for the Touch pad ?
The general consensus seems to be that HC will not appear on the TP; as the source code was never released by Google.
What is more likely to happen is that 2.3.5 will be on the initial CM release for the Pad; with ICS being the next logical step, once it's released.
I may be wrong,
But I believe that is the long and short of it.
Hope this helps.
ugh! I would settle for 1.6 just so it is not the ugly webOS cripple.
I actually kind of like WebOS.
The not-having-multiple-screens-to-swipe-left-or-right thing takese a bit of getting used to (I'm not sued to it yet).
But I do like bouncing apps away, to close them.
That being said,
I definitely favor Android over all other O/S.
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i actually kind of like webos.
The not-having-multiple-screens-to-swipe-left-or-right thing takese a bit of getting used to (i'm not sued to it yet).
But i do like bouncing apps away, to close them.
That being said,
i definitely favor android over all other o/s.
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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
the fact that it boots properly and shuts down will tie me over until cm7 comes out. even though i cant really do much on this. lol
thanks to OP for finding this, and to the chinese dudes who created this.
Silver_172 said:
Looks okay , But was hoping for more a Honeycomb GUI , as ive just got rid of a 2.3 Tablet to get the HP touch pad to flash to 3.0 but will 3.0 ever happen for the Touch pad ?
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Nope
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But 4.0 will!!
I tried it, very buggy but does not affect your system so feel free to play
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I am really hoping this progresses fast and works well. I actually enjoy webOS card system but the lack of apps is disappointing. I would much rather be able to run android on a card.
Either way though, I plan on installing android whether it's dual boot or via card.
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The preware twitter feed, states that this app installs another kernel and that the un-instal option doesn't remove it.
Be warned!
Fon22
I installed it and it works fine (for what works at least). Anyone know how to actually install another app into it? I downloaded an APK and put it in the apks folder (in webOS) but I don't know where to look for it within chroid. Is this even possible? The guide says you can do it.
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The preware twitter feed, states that this app installs another kernel and that the un-instal option doesn't remove it.
Be warned!
Fon22
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Edit: I just checked back in WebOS and Govnah doesn't show the overclock kernal. Uninstal/Reinstall the stock or overclock kernals doesn't change it. Max Freq. is 1.2 ghz ... uh oh
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I installed it and it works fine (for what works at least). Anyone know how to actually install another app into it? I downloaded an APK and put it in the apks folder (in webOS) but I don't know where to look for it within chroid. Is this even possible? The guide says you can do it.
Edit: I just checked back in WebOS and Govnah doesn't show the overclock kernal. Uninstal/Reinstall the stock or overclock kernals doesn't change it. Max Freq. is 1.2 ghz ... uh oh
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if you want to O/C again, you have to doctor 3.0.2 back on, then redo the preware etc.
as for the apps, put them in that folder and they will auto install, thats what i did, and got titanium installed (even tho its useless/keeps crashing, i had it available)
3.0.3
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ghostzyden said:
When you install chroid, don't go into govnah while its installed, when you uninstall chroid, you should be fine and not have to worry. That way you wont have to doctor all the time
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wow, thanks for quoting me almost line for line from the other thread :/
i figured this out last night after many hours of testing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18270362&postcount=127
Solidus_n313 said:
wow, thanks for quoting me almost line for line from the other thread :/
i figured this out last night after many hours of testing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18270362&postcount=127
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My apologies, just trying to help get the word out. I know you spent time on figuring out and did not know if you would post it here. I saw people didn't know, so I thought I'd help. Again, my apologies.
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[Q] Overclocking Nook Tablet?

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, this is my first Android device. Anyway, is there or will there be a way to overclock the Nook Tablet?
Btw my Nook Tablet is rooted. Thanks in advance!
Not until they can install a custom kernel. Need to bypass the bootloader first.
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yeah we still need the bootloader to be set free before overclocking becomes a reality.
thebz1 said:
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, this is my first Android device. Anyway, is there or will there be a way to overclock the Nook Tablet?
Btw my Nook Tablet is rooted. Thanks in advance!
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Have you tried to dl SetCPU or any other overclockers from the market?
hwong96 said:
Have you tried to dl SetCPU or any other overclockers from the market?
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Not likely to work. The kernel still needs to support it. From SetCPU's description:
SetCPU also includes a "voltage control" menu, for use with certain devices with custom kernels that support it, to control undervolting to save even more battery. Keep in mind that undervolting is only available for certain kernels.
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Yes, I know it is referring to undervolting rather than overclocking (which requires *more* power, not less) but the concept is the same: if the kernel's power profile doesn't allow it, SetCPU (and other APKs) can't do it.
The only things I've seen SetCPU be able to do on the NT is to change the scaling/governor... oh and to see that the NT, though seemingly having 4 clock slots (300,600,800,1000), only uses the 800 and 1000 slots....
has anyone tried this to flash the new opptimize oc files for the tablet?
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14511-opp...ficial-thread/
I ran into this link for oc on the droid bionic and following the link to the opptimize page there is support for the nook tablet overclock.
Maybe this is the wrong place to post this but I just curious to see if anyone's tried this yet to oc their tablet.
thebz1 said:
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, this is my first Android device. Anyway, is there or will there be a way to overclock the Nook Tablet?
Btw my Nook Tablet is rooted. Thanks in advance!
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The short answer is no you cannot. The clock speed is determined by the kernel which is packed into the boot.img, and cannot currently (by the gen user) be modified. There are ways of building kernel modules (which are supported by the current kernel) that can overclock the existing CPU.
Question for you though. The OMAP4430 has a clock speed of 1.2 dual core, Why faster?
Loglud said:
Question for you though. The OMAP4430 has a clock speed of 1.2 dual core, Why faster?
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My thought also. How fast do you want it? You stated this was your first Android device... What would lead you to believe that its slow? Seems fast enough to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449782
I believe the answer is yes. The tablet can be overclocked using this same method I used on my bionic. Its still in the testing phase but I took my dual core bionic from 1.0ghz to 1.3 and added 1200 points to my antutu benchmark score pushing it to a 6400. I found this method yesterday and after asking around on here if anyones tried it, I was hit with a few negative comments. Im just trying to help.
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Not until they can install a custom kernel. Need to bypass the bootloader first.
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dkb218 said:
My thought also. How fast do you want it? You stated this was your first Android device... What would lead you to believe that its slow? Seems fast enough to me.
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Lol and this may be kind of a dumb thing to post..... but to answer your question of how fast do u want it....... If it can fly I want it to! No pro athlete is satisfied with being normal, everyone including myself wants to be bigger faster and stronger. And I may only speak for myself, bit I want the same for my devices. This may be why I had a evo shift overclocked to 1.9ghz. But maybe that's just me.

Chainfire 3D

This is just going to be a thread about Chainfire 3D.
I haven't seen a thread on this yet nor have i actually tried it on the device. So if someone can confirm it works we can start letting each other know the best settings and what not.
Nevermind everyone don't think it will work since it did not support honeycomb most likely wont support ICS
well get installing on your prime then & let us know
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well get installing on your prime then & let us know
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this is not going to work actually no support for ICS so maybe in the future. Should have read the chainfire thread before posting this one!
I installed it and all the plugins, although I can't tell if it's working or not
Wait you were able to install everything without bootlooping?
Tegra3 doesn't need it. Chainfire for lowerend devices really. Or devices that want to run tegra2 games that don't have the chip.
demandarin said:
Tegra3 doesn't need it. Chainfire for lowerend devices really. Or devices that want to run tegra2 games that don't have the chip.
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well theres no harm in seeing if it could make it better
tylermaciaszek said:
Wait you were able to install everything without bootlooping?
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No boot loops. I didn't install the beta EGL driver though.
hairdewx said:
No boot loops. I didn't install the beta EGL driver though.
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okay im going to install now then mess with some settings
tylermaciaszek said:
okay im going to install now then mess with some settings
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and how did it go?
tylermaciaszek said:
well theres no harm in seeing if it could make it better
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I'm wondering what does enable/disable 3D scaling in Vipercontrol mod does
If its off or on by default on the Prime.
Maybe control/throttle the working frequency of the GPU?
I'm just guessing here...
Oh and one thing I would be interested in, is to activate 16xMSAA with my Prime in Chainfire3D ... in my SGS2 it makes a world of difference, quality wise!!!!
EDIT
Tried it, installed fine beta EGL driver, program ran but it says that our chip doesnt support 16xMSAA (option greyed out)... so for now it turned out to be useless to my needs, so uninstalled it.
Hope this info helps!

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