I did one flash...to TNT version 4xx, and I loved it...but I'm finding I'm getting lots of Google Framework errors and generally just kind of want to start from scratch, over again.....go back to the latest version of the official viewsonic roms.
Sadly I didn't use clockwork or anything so I think my original files are history
I know there are lots of threads, and I tried to follow one about snagging a rom and moving it to the Root and all it does is re-install TNT I think I am "not getting something".
Can someone walk me through this....
The force closes can be fixed by re-partitioning your sd card. Part 1 Step 7 in this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
But partitioning will erase everything, and is usually done after installing cwm and before flashing a rom.
You really don't want to go back to stock, especially if it's only to gain stability. All the force closes will go away when the tablet is properly formatted.
If your looking to go back to stock, I like nvflash, but there are easier ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
Force closing is a known issue that can be easily fixed by repartitioning your internal sd card to the right specs. It has nothing to do with your newly flashed rom.
What you need to do is back up all your data on the sdcard and then go into clockworkmod advance and repartition to 2048/0.
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To be honest, your original post tells me the gtab isn't for you. I say a mainstream device like the ipad is more for you. Here is why. In order to use the gtab, you need to do the following things.
(1) Install clockworkmod.
(2) Use clockworkmod to repartition to fix the force closing issue.
(3) Use clockworkmod to flash a new rom.
And you're done. The entire process takes about 10 minutes at most.
Again, steps 1-3 should take you 10 minutes at most and the device is ready for use. If you find yourself frustrated by one of these steps or that you're spending more than 20 minutes, then the gtab is not for you and you need to get a mainstream device.
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Again, steps 1-3 should take you 10 minutes at most and the device is ready for use. If you find yourself frustrated by one of these steps or that you're spending more than 20 minutes, then the gtab is not for you and you need to get a mainstream device.
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This recommendation is of course assuming you have no determination whatsoever, and are incapable of learning anything new.
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This recommendation is of course assuming you have no determination whatsoever, and are incapable of learning anything new.
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Look, for most people this device is a toy. I use it at work, and I suspect most people don't do this. Let's admit it. Modding a device isn't for everybody.
I went into modding the gtab as a total android newbie. And yet it took me all of 15 minutes to figure out how to install clockworkmod, repartition, and flash a custom rom. Then a week after I flashed a custom kernel.
You just can't ask everybody to go through the headache of modding a device if they have neither the will nor the time.
I said 15 minutes because that was my first time ever modding an android device. After that first time, it took me about 5 minutes to do my second device.
It's a simple process to go through. If a person gets stuck on any of those 3 steps, then I think it's best that they get a mainstream device. The gtab just isn't for everybody.
HeadRusch1,
I think you can handle modding the gTab. If you understand how a file system works, can extract a zip, and have already flashed a custom ROM then your about 90% of the way to a smooth running gTab. As mentioned above, you simply missed one step.
I understand the "10 minutes or forget it" argument, however I think it's wildly inaccurate when gauging a new user's potential competency with the gTab. If you find yourself frustrated then go read some more, search for a solution, or ask a question. It should take a long time to get comfortable modifying Android devices, there are tons of loosely documented best practices, but don't bail early because it's hard.
PS.
This assumes your looking for a device to tinker with. Goodintentions is right for users who are looking for iPad equivalent. I just assume that users looking for a cheap iPad rarely make it as far as XDA. And if they have, then it's a good opportunity to encourage further exploration.
The reason I gave the 20 minutes advice is because I've seen too many people buying the gtab thinking they got an ipad. The gtab isn't mainstream at all even though it's outsold a lot of the mainstream devices out there (ahem xoom) by several orders of magnitude. Customer support for the gtab is almost non-existent. And don't hold your breath for updates from viewsonic.
I absolutely love my gtab. I am currently running vegan ginger OC to 1.2ghz. The speed on my gtab is absolutely stunning. There's no jerking at all. My touchscreen is incredibly sensitive. Viewing angle has never bothered me. I love the full size usb where I can just put a memory stick in there just like my laptop. The autocad app is extremely helpful for me. In fact, it's been a whole week since I turned on my laptop.
That said, again, this device is not mainstream. Meaning it's not for most people. I am absolutely convinced that most people would be better off with something like the ipad or transformer.
Based on my experience, there are two types of people in the world of gadgets. (1) Those who sees a problem and see the end of the world and (2) those who sees a problem and try to get around it.
An example of #1 is my friend Sarah. She wanted to use my gtab to get a feel for it. She said the touchscreen bothered her and that she was more comfortable with a laptop touchpad more. And then she said "I don't know, I think I'll be better off with an ipad." LOL. Boy is she going to be so surprised to find out the ipad also uses the touchscreen rather than an touchpad.
Anyway, another example is one of my colleagues. After I told him the autocad app doesn't work with 3-D view yet, he acted like it was the end of the world. Me, I just use the side, top, and front views in my demos. Works just fine for me.
Anyway, I'm rambling now. The point is my experiences tell me most people are better off with something like an ipad or transformer. Since those devices are mainstream, people can't say "of course you can't do this, you can't do that". With the gtab, since it is not mainstream, the smallest inconvenience means the end of the world.
HeadRusch1 said:
I did one flash...to TNT version 4xx, and I loved it...but I'm finding I'm getting lots of Google Framework errors and generally just kind of want to start from scratch, over again.....go back to the latest version of the official viewsonic roms.
Sadly I didn't use clockwork or anything so I think my original files are history
I know there are lots of threads, and I tried to follow one about snagging a rom and moving it to the Root and all it does is re-install TNT I think I am "not getting something".
Can someone walk me through this....
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Plug the gtablet into the computer.
Mount it for file transfer when prompted.
Check for an "update.zip" file at the root of the SD card (That's the tablet's 16gb internal memory). Delete it using your computer. That was causing TNT to be reloaded.
Here's the link to the original 3588 version they shipped with: http://tapntap.http.internapcdn.net/tapntap/viewsonic/update-smb_a1002-3588-user.zip Save it to your computer. Rename it "update.zip". Copy it to the root of the gtablet SD. Shut off the tablet. Unplug the USB cord. Restart with power & vol +
It should update.
If anyone notices a mistake, feel free to correct me. I've only flashed from stock 3588 to Vegan Ginger. So a whole 1x.
For what its worth, I tinkered and now I'm good.
Got NVFLASH working, went back to stock. Then went to Clockwork, then went to Vegan 5.1.1, then to CM7, now back to Vegan. I've found some apps that work and I'm liking it more. For the record, I own an Ipad2 as well.
Now, to those who chose to comment: You guys need to understand that many of those links are drowning in "extra information", and that is fine if you don't mind clicking hyperlink to hyperlink to do some trial and error, but now with multiple install path choices and whatnot, it gets confusing and it also means you have some time. I asked for someone, possibly someone in my shoes who has been down the path, to walk me through the steps.
Some of you did, some of you projected some assumptions with the underlying message of "RTFM".
This, too, was my first dip into the Android pool. Thanks for the help.
HeadRusch1 said:
I'm getting lots of Google Framework errors and generally just kind of want to start from scratch, over again.....go back to the latest version of the official viewsonic roms.
Sadly I didn't use clockwork or anything...
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I had that issue and didn't have clockwork.
Solution:
1: install clockwork
2: boot into clockwork, and select 'fix permissions'.
3: reboot, tablet fixed
Hey everyone, I’m not sure what Android Tablet Device I bought other than the name on the box and I’m not even sure that’s correct, so I’m not really sure where to even post my issue so please go easy on me if this is in the wrong place and I have broken any rules.
About 1 year ago this month I bought a tablet from an online vendor. At first everything seemed ok, but it didn’t take too long before ugly issues started to show up. The first thing that was happening was the tablet would hang at boot up. If that was not bad enough, when it did make it to the “desktop” I would be scared to touch an icon because that may also freeze the OS up. Well now things have gotten worse than I could even imagine! The tablet will no longer boot, I do get power, but it won’t boot and I don’t know what to do
The box says it’s a 7" Google Android 2.0 APAD MID Tablet PC from China. I’m almost 100% sure it shipped with Android 1.6 even though the box says 2.0.
What I wanted to ask was, are there ways to find out what’s going on? Are there tools I could use to help me know what I need to do to get this thing booting again?
I Found a YouTube video and it has the exact box I have and the tablet looks exactly the same, and near the end of the video you can see its running 1.6 firmware, this IS exactly my same tablet. But due to forum rules I can't post the link until I make 8 posts, wish I could share this video with you all though, i know it would help a great deal.
Thank You all for reading and I hope to hear some good news soon!!!!
Whoa, 1.6? That's ancient, It might be more worthwhile to chuck it and get something that is higher quality. At least a G tablet.
Thanks for the post! Well I don't need a newer tablet, I used this one to read PDF books and go online. If I can fix this one, then i'll save over $100 from getting a new eReader or tablet device. I'll leave that as a last resort.
Having said that, I have done more research about the device and I think what I have is a flytouch 1 or a knockoff. What gave it away to me is how my device will vibrate when I turn it on. I started to research and found out it needs firmware for WM8505. I would still like to know though if there is software to help me with the boot loader. Like can I find software and install it to my pc, then hook a cable to my tablet and plug it into my pc and see inside the tablet to figure out whats going on.
Thanks!!!
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Still no luck for me and my issue. If anyone knows of away to mess with the boot loader to get this going, pleeeease post. Thank!!
So i was just driving and my new mate 10 ALP-L29 which i bought from Europe as im in US just went into a bootloop about two weeks ago. Can get to erecovery but this is my first Huawei device, well second as i had the mate 9 but for a month and then got this so i didn't even root it. But this one i bootloader unlocked and rooted and thats it. I didn't get a auto factory update that i'm aware of as I'm Almost positive i disabled it. Also cant use Hisuite or whatever its called as i disabled HDB(think its called that but you know what i mean) so i could use fastboot properly on windows 10 due to the driver issues and had to disable to unlock. I borrowed a windows laptop because i run linux and my win 7 vm wasnt recognizing the device and honestly got lazy and didnt feel like fixing and borrowed a friends windows box just to try real quick. Ive been a private phone dev since android came out. Never released anything here because its just a hobby. I know my way through an android device as well as anyone could. So i know what i'm doing and never had a problem except with this (hopeully not perm brick)Huawei right now. I Bricked maybe one phone in the beginning days of android in my learning quest and any other close call to full brick i fixed but its been many years since then and will always be learning but am very efficient repairing and coding android. So in my quest to fix I Changed 3 different routers DNS settings(one at a time as none worked and i wanted to try all of my routers)to recommended ones for getting erecovery to work from online guides but it always connected but failed to get package info multiple times with dozens of tries with router hoping it was an issue. Used 2.5 and 5 ghz and manually picked channels and a few DNS setups i found to try. None worked. Obviously tried wiping data and forced firmware flash by putting udate.app and files from the extracted full ota firmware packages tar.gz files from funky huawei and other sites including Huawei. Tried multiple ones. none worked Paid with every inch of hatred put aside for people that advertise on XDA which is against rules and turn a profit as this is an open source community and i cant believe xda allows it. So that pay service, funkyhuawei, did not work and will not pay 50$ again because its been 2 weeks and no helpful response from said actor. anybody run into this and hopefully its my lack of huawei experience thats the problem. DNS was also changed per FH instructions and ERecov didn't work for the FH repair either as well as his hisuite method also. EMMC is ok. It did not fail from what my tests concluded. Huawei have horrible policyies as it shouldn't matter where in the world your are. People buy a product they shouldn't make you jump through hoops to get help and void warranty if you are in unsupported country. Any help appreciated. Love this phone but ive had over 50 android phones since the start from every other manufacturer. And they really make it difficult to get help. again phone just bootloops and will eventually boot to erecovery and stop. ITs a ALP-L29 again and it just happened while driving as i took out of pocket it was at erecovery and since then will bootloop about 3 times and finally end there at ERecov. thanks
If you sent an email to FunkyHuawei support, we didn't receive it. Maybe you should email again.
Honestly i cant be a part of that. Im still mad at myself for breaking my own code. cant and wont support pay service. And if your gonna charge. Id rather make a phone call. Im good on email and waitng around for back and forth when a phone call could solve in a minute. gonna charge you should have a support line number. thanks though.. I get you have to charge for overhead, but i find it hard to believe one person or group of is the only people intelligent enough to mod huawei devices. Pretty positive its/your huawei under the FH name just making extra money. thanks though. I assure you i sent multiple messages. thanks anyway.
help? I recently had a hard drive issue, so i got a new hard drive and did a fresh windows 10 install. All seems to be working fine now, except I can NOT get windows to see my phones - captivate glide, s5 neo, or galaxy s7 all samsung - at all!!! The notifications say samsung_android is connected, but i cant access the files or folders at all, "my computer" brings up zilch as far as even recognizing the device fully, let alone files and folders. i dont remember having this issue before, so some update must have buggered something up somewhere along the line
more and more as the years go by, I crave windows 7. too bad support is ending in 3 months...
can anyone offer any help? Ive got drivers, though those were hard to find and didnt auto install so maybe not the *right* drivers. ive tried each version of connection several times (ptp, mtp) no dice on either. this is so irritating. Ive been literally having to remove my SD card and plug it in directly, and bluetooth between my devices to transfer anything which takes *way* longer on top of having to sit right there and click "allow for another 300 seconds" every so often.... why in the world would windows 10 restrict things SO much??
it wants you to connect your phone directly to your OS with a phone number and having to add an app to your phone. uhhhh, no thanks!!! How can i get the good old fashioned way back? I hadnt updated yet with my old hard drive, and now that this is a new install i cant go back. this is so frustrating. I just want access to my GD pictures without having to dismantle my devices.... and yes its a legit samsung cable and plugged directly in and all of that basic BS. this exact setup with this exact cable worked before. so wtf has changed with this august update (i delayed several times) to make things so unbearably complicated?
please help a frustrated user out!
No one else is having this issue?
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Bought a phone from wish p40pro'ish, looks like it might be a learning mistake zero product support, i knew better but it had a few options i needed.
Mid use it reboots with privacy lock. Ended up at boot and its like chinese to me well is, but overcame and reset, still there now, phone has no sim or carrier, was running android 10 and ive been wanting to try an alternative OS for a while and never had a phone i would actually use to try it on.
My first hurdle is drivers, windows does not recognize a device, then a well documented OS as ill be researching and guessing a good bit. Size not a problem have almost a terabyte to play with and a competent cpu. i cant pull up specs since i can barely navigate the chinese menu. I also tried to switch language for said boot up with no luck.
Is there a catch-all driver or database for unbranded type smartphones?
Recommendations for OS?