hello, i recently just flashed cm7 alpha 3. one particular issue which i have noticed is the choppy video playback (when on youtube for example). i searched the forums and there seems to be some people who have experienced this issue beginning with alpha 3.
since i only recently flashed cm7, and the version being alpha 3, i have no point of reference to determine which of the alphas is the most stable build.
to those who have been on alpha 2.1 as well as alpha 3, which would you consider to be the more stable build? also, does alpha 2.1 have video issues as i described herein above which i have found on alpha 3?
appreciate any insight you can give. thanks in advance.
I have used the two and three versions of Alpha. Two was a major improvement over just plain old WebOS. Three was able to remove the SOD that so many of us experienced, however Three is giving me audio issues with Pandora; a semi-regular "pop" and "hiss" sound as if I was playing a record. As I am 42 years of age, this was funny for about 3 minutes as I was able to relive my 80's childhood. And yes, I did play with DSP Manager, to no avail.
I have not experienced any video issues with Netflix or Youtube.
All in all I love my Touchdroid. As we all are, I am looking forward to a full beta on CM7 or ICS CM9.
I've used 2 & 3. Now I'm trying the tweaked cm7 xron-fied and have no problems, and considering that this is still in alpha; imagine what it'll be like once stable!
I've had no issues with video or audio.
You could use the uninstaller, reboot and install again.
Hope this helps, good luck.
my experiences with alpha 3 isn't so good lots of problem as compare to alpha 2.1
my advice is alpha 2.1 i couldn't see any noticeable improvement in alpha 3 over 2.1
alpha 2.1 is rock solid for me i don't have any issue
Maybe you should try the Xron-ified Mod ver of CM7 alpha 3, works flawlessly for me.
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I'm waiting for my tablet to ship and I've been reading up on all the ROMs. I'm impressed with the DEV's on these forums and it's making it hard to pick what ROM to use. (I know, I can test a few, but that's not the point of this post)
So, What ROM to you use as your "daily driver" and why?
How stable would to rate it (out of 10)?
How compatible would to rate it (out of 10)?
No one is willing to post what their daily ROM is?
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My daily rom is GAdam...it is Very stable...I have full Market. Now the default Adam interface is a bit wonky for my tastes. BUT install another launcher and the rom flies!! I've had no crashes, no fc's...just all around a great rom for GTablet imo
VEGAn beta 5.1.1 is my daily driver. I have tried out all but Gadam and always end up back at this one. Its very stable, but most roms for Gtab are once you use cwm to fix permissions. I love the soft keys on the status bar so no matter what way I hold my Gtab I can navigate about.
I'm waiting for VEGAn Ginger to progress a little further and I will switch there. Still some bugs to work out, I use it a lot but when its time for business I flash back to beta 5.1.1.
VEGAn beta 5.1.1
Stability: 10
Compatibility: 10
Functionality: 10
SPEED: 9
I love robeets work with TnT Lite, to me its only a few small UI things that make the decision on VEGAn.
VEGAn 5.1.1, very stable but as mentioned....most of them are. Some listed as "experimental" or such I would be more cautious of but the others......pick your poison.
I've been using Vegan 7 for about two weeks now and it's great. Stability: 8. Compatibility: 6. That 6 rating is only that low because of the lack of video support. 95% of apps work, with one rare exception being Quadrant Standard. Quadrant will run it's tests, but when it comes to reporting to their server and posting the scores, the app errors out and no results are posted. Oh, and the missing apps thing. Waiting with bait on my breath for the first Beta release.
VEGAn beta 5.1.1
It's fast, stable, and lightweight.
It was Vegan 5.X for a long time, which was (and is) fast and stable, but lately it's been gADAM, which feels similarly responsive. Like one of the posters above, I'm also not that big a fan of the native Adam launcher, and use ADB instead.
Vegan 5.1 (.1?) on mine, I tried TnT's new rom, the TNT supp add on 1.4.5, Vegan-Ginger and came back to 5.1 Vegan.
The reason Ginger gave me to many issues with My Apps despite my tries to fix it, and I have my Froyo (Vegan 5.1) setup well, though I really miss the text selection options on 2.3
I will be moving to Vegan-Ginger as soon as it gets a little more stable with a few things.
vegan gingeradition
I use vegan 7 I give it a 8 or 9 all around
Vegan 5.1.1 plus Clemsys version 6 kernel.
Functionality and ability to personalize is huge for me. I havent tried every available ROM to date, but the ones I have tried (gAdam 1.2, Vegan5.1.1, TnT 4.25/5.0, Vegan Ginger Experimental) Vegan Ginger hands down, atleast for me, has the most options. Took me the better part of a day to fully get through all the options available and I was in heaven!
Currently, I fell back to the TnT Lite 4.25, only cuz I dont have the time to tinker with classes. Plan on going back to Vegan Ginger once in Beta (or when I have the time).
Not wanting to spend too much time with care and feeding and hoping to be in the upgrade path if Viewsonic ever gets their act together, I like the stock enhancement with full market that is posted on this site. I have had zero problems after repartitioning and then going to the enhancement.
I guess I'm not very adventurous.
This is a great thread for all of us coming from the Woot! buy. Keep posting and please be as specific as possible. Thank You!
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I find it interesting that almost all posters here are from Vegan user. Not even one report form a user who only uses TNT 4.xx or 5.xx.
TNT Lite 4.3.2 here. I've had no issues whatsoever w/ TNT Lite from version 3.1.2 until now. I even installed the very experimental 5.01 which I had issues backing out of, but I knew going into it that I was diving into uncharted waters.
I like TNT Lite because it's built over the crippled pre-installed OS w/ heavy modifications making it much more complete and also more fo a android experience.
Stability: 9 (I flash frequently; could count all issues on one hand from all versions installed; 3 specifically all of which were addressed in newer versions)
Compatibility: 10
Speed: 10
Vegan 5.1.1. With clemsyn kernel. I use this for work so I need the stability, and this thing is more reliable than my laptop. Suggest adw launcher and dolphin browser, as they make the experience much better. I plan to migrate to 7 once it is beta.
I'm on TnT lite 5.
A thread for Vegan (that I read) described it as very good/very stable/"not totally falling in love with appearance". Appearance means something to me. I kept reading.
The TnT dev thread also described it in the same terms *except* for appearance. It looks like stock Android.
It is *very* stable: no crashes. Period.
Having said that, I have only had this tablet since early March.
Regards,
Dan
Not to hijack this thread but just how bad is the stock Rom that ships on the Woot tablets? I don't have mine yet. I'm not scared of flashing a custom Rom as I've been doing it on my phones for a few years. Are people flashing just for the sake of flashing or is the current shipped Rom that unusable?
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Vegan 5.11, used it and haven't regretted it.
Ed Kinsel
So I took the plunge and bought my self a Gtab, not too keen on blowing ridiculous amounts of money on tech, so for the specs and price tag the Gtab seemed to be the best bet.
Now I am fairly comfortable flashing Roms, I just would like some input from the community.
So whats the most functional and stable rom available currently?
CM7 has always been my go to first base rom for pretty much any phone I have flashed, but I dont quite like it on my Nook Color, its fairly buggy, but I blame the nook not CM7
but Hardware Acceleration sounds nice, and I know that none of the Comb roms have it, but neither do the GB Roms either right?
Looks like Clemsyns V8 is probably the best 2.2 rom out, but how is it in terms of functionality and compatibility with newer 3d games and other applications?
any other input would be greatly appreciated, I just figured I ask before I go on a flash spree, because it usually takes me a couple weeks of flashing this and flashing that before I settle on a rom and I didnt really want to drag this out that long. I just wanna flash, and use until ICS Stable Rom is released.
FrankenTab and Beastly ROMs are FroYo based and should have hardware acceleration, camera and video support. Plus, they are actively being updated. They aren't Honeycomb, and I still prefer VeganTAB 7.1 (even without hardware acceleration), but the FroYo ROMs will pretty much have everything working until a stable ICS version hits.
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I've tried most of them at some point I guess it matters what you are willing to sacrifice. I love the look and feel of Flashback but no hardware acceleration, no camera, more ram used by the system ... (all Honeycomb roms are like that).
CM7 works great and I keep one gtab on it. MX Player has Tegra 2 software acceleration for video and most games and apps work. Has been very stable for 4 months, not buggy at all and looks great.
My other gtablet has landed on Beasty-Clemsyn. It is a Froyo rom, very stable and very fast with full hardware acceleration. I ended up here because everything just works like it is supposed to. Installed the new market, flashplayer, new version of VTL launcher and I really like it. It will hold me over till an ICS rom comes out.
FrankenTab and Beastly
I've been switching between FrankenTab and Beastly myself.
I think FrankenTab looks nicer overall but I've run across less issues with the Beastly rom and so I've settled with that until ICS is released for our G Tab.
Let us know which roms you try and your experience with them.
I am pleased that my FrankenTAB ROM has found its way over to XDA.
I would love to hear any issues users are having since we are actively developing this ROM (currently working on v1.0.2), but I cant help over here yet with an official support thread. If anyone needs help, you can PM me here, or google FrankenTAB and look for the original and most active thread for it on the site that starts with an "S".
Franken Tab is a great rom, I also went through allot of flashing trying different roms, soon the ICS ROM will be around and I am using the pre-alpha so what ever you decide set up for 1.2Bl and the latest CWM touch version. its coming n its cool.
Yup FrankenTab is the first rom I have flashed on this thing, and I am liking it so far.
-great wifi integrity
-fast as hell
-and the included VTL launcher is nice too.
plus having the ability speak with the Dev directly about suggestions and bugs is very nice as well.
If you want Flash to work well are you limited to 2.2 ROMs?
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If you want Flash to work well are you limited to 2.2 ROMs?
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Flash works fine in 2.2 and 2.3 based ROMs. I have it working just fine in VeganTab GE 7.1.
From what I understand, it works (with caveats and quirks) in Honeycomb, and only with certain versions of Flash.
Sadly after messing with Franken and Beastly, I found my self at CM7s door.
Franken had me really really excited at first, it was fast, it was responsive, I only had it set at 1.33ghz, but there were a few issues with both that I found a bit to unstable for my taste.
Will see how CM7 holds me over.
I love 1.09 frankentab. It performs better then anything I have tried but is way behind brilliant corners in bench mark tests. I can't figure that out because it's seems 5 times faster in real life.
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Hello,
I have had my Gtablet for about a year, and I have tried many roms.
FY,GB,HC,ICS,etc. Various incarnations. (Well, only 1 ICS)
From my understanding, Viewsonic, like many companies,
uses various suppliers for components, so the individual results with roms will vary.
And the physical build may vary. eg/ Volume (+) is actually (-)
(this is a reported build difference that my tablet has)
I seem to come back to Froyo roms for many reasons. Base platform OS.
Hardware acceleration. Stability. Etc.
Personally, I haven't found a newer gen rom that works as well as Froyo.
As stated on this and other sites, Be sure you follow the recomended
procedures for pre and post install. usually posted in the OP.
Really get to know and understand NVflash.
I always come back to the C+C rom final version. Beasty, although nice,
wouldn't do what C+C does for me.
I use my tablet as much, if not more than I use my PC, and I can run Splashtop
to access my pc, which is cool.
I do find certain games or apps that wont work, but, I am patient.
No problems with google apps.
It really comes down to researching, and testing, and finding out
the best rom for you and your tablet.
After all, this support, is almost free. Kudos to the devs.
J.
sorry. this is on another post. hope that is ok.
I've been on FrankenTAB 1.0.9 for two weeks or so and so far one of the best Froyo ROM's I've tried. I flashed quite a few ROM's for the 1.2BL but this one seems to work the best for me at the moment.
I just put the ICS rom on my gtab, and it looks great. Installing it wasn't that hard, I did have to switch bootloaders to 1.2. The only issue is I can't get my external SD card to work. I love using chrome.
In ICS, the external sd card is not named the way it is in other ICS distributions...look for /microsd folder instead of /emmc or /sdcard/external_sd like you may be used to.
If anyone is already on BL 1.2, ICS is definitely worth installing. The only two things that I've found that do not work are the camera and microphone but for me both are non-issues.
Hello ive been using my gtab with tnt rom and it runs really good
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I'm so happy with the 2nd version of CM7 (Thank you developers ) I'm not sure why I would upgrade to the final version Wonder what changes have been made on the last version
This latest version is the final alpha build. I believe not it will go into beta stage. From there, things like bluetooth, fm radio etc will be looked at. In this final build, the testers have experienced nearly zero wifi drop/error issues as this is a newly built wifi driver. The video acceleration issues have been addressed in this final alpha as well.
Hey guys, I've been looking into getting either the G-tab 10.1 or 8.9 flashing the latest ICS roms. My question is, do you think I should wait until Samsung releases the ICS source code or go ahead and bite the bullet? I'm well aware that no rom is stable and each will have their bugs, but it seems you either get a decent experience where you have some problems or the rom just sucks. I have a touchpad and ICS it's great, not to many major issues. Has anyone got their G-tab running ICS with no major issues? Wifi working, no FC's, HD youtube, minimal screen flickering/rotation issues, etc... I know it's asking for alot, but i'm confused how my HP can work so well with android being ported over, and the G-tab experience be so crappy and it has android baked in.
I've just went to cm10.1.3 and I love it. stable and smooth. beautiful compared to the stock 2.1. installed very easy and quick. this was my first flash and I researched quite a bit expecting this to be a bigger project than it was.
the only thing bugging me is there's no audio in YouTube and GPS still doesnt work. can anyone guide me as specifically possible to a fix?