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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
Is there currently a recovery ROM for the g-Tablet version shipped by woot.com? This is a 3389 ROM with some customizations. Most, or possibly all, of these can be replicated easily since they consist primarily of some home screen setup, links, and a few apps including the Kindle reader, ColorNote, and Pandora.

Following the recommendation to do a data wipe after installing a replacement ROM appears now to mean that even with the backup.zip from my wife's unmolested tablet I'm unable to return the tablet to its actual original state.

If there is not, I currently have one woot.com g-Tablet that is unopened since my wife ordered one for herself after I'd ordered one for each of us. I'm planning to sell it, but if I can create a backup ROM without messing the tablet up for the eventual purchaser I'm willing to try.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdrwx9:
I'd like the same thing, if you come across one or make one yourself.

I ended up doing a Format SD Card, thinking it literally meant the external MicroSD Card I had put in the device, because I had read this may help prevent force closes, but it formatted the internal storage which had my stock backup on it and left my MicroSD card alone. I should have copied that over to my PC before wiping anything, just in case, but I'm so used to Android phone hacking that I thought I could get away with it.

I had a ton of force closes with TNT Lite and rebooted, hoping it would help, but then it got stuck in a reboot-loop. So I ended up repartitioning the internal space (thus wiping it AGAIN ::sigh::) and using nvflash to restore bekit version 1105 (nvflash_gtablet_2010110500) and OTA updating.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jm20:
Woot ROM

Going to make one now. Finished charging my "woot" g tab and booted once to make sure it worked. Just installed clockwork. Making backup. Let me know if you still need it.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
Yes I do, please.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jm20:
uploading now....
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jm20:
uploaded

http://www.mediafire.com/?poe59nppdfqhizn
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
Thank you for doing that. Unfortunately, it doesn't restore the tablet to its shipped state.

Edit: scratch that - I did eventually get it to do exactly that.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
I'd originally assumed the way to use this would be to rename it to update.zip and use it in recovery. That seemed to flash something, but did not come close to restoring to the shipped state.

Next, I realized it was a clockworkmod backup and figured I could extract it to my clockworkmod backup directory and run a restore from it. This just gave me an MD5 checksum error.

Any more thoughts on how to use this?

Edit: see my later post. I did get it to work.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TomRathbun:
Do you need the ROM?

My woot Tablet Reset after the 3rd power cycle and restored itself to something besides the original shape I received it in. I thought it was ridiculous as it would not show the "Stock" Videos it was shipped with. Angry Birds also did not work originally. After it Reset things worked. I would return it in the state it is and say it didn't work almost at all when it first arrived.

The original active wallpaper was kind of cool though.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
My g-Tablet is working fine. It's just a bit messed up in terms of applications and links after I flashed a few ROMs and now I'm having trouble getting it back to its original state.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim Shuze:
Mine was the same way. I didn't wait until it was fully charged until powering it up and it had angrybirds and some other stuff loaded on it. None of it would run though, it would just force close out. After turning it off, waiting for it to fully charge, and then turning it back on did I get put through the new user wizard and everything worked right.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barcod21:
would these work?

Hello, I was curious to know if you had seen (and if it would work) the viewsonic stock Roms that are mentioned on another post in the g tablet section of this site. I can't post links yet but there is a sticky called "viewsonic G-Tablet ROMs frequently asked questions (read this first)" this is posted in the G tablet general section.

The 3rd post down in that sticky has "gtablet recovery firmware images (official viewsonic images)" and there are 3 versions available to download the latest being 3316. Could you flash to this and then do ota updates to get to the current version? I'm sure you'd have to get a few of the apps back yourself (angry birds, Pandora, whatever else came on it) but wouldn't this get you pretty close to how it was when you got the gtab? I'm new to all this and am just throwing this out as a suggestion. I'm curious to know if this is all you'd need though.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
Those work pretty much as expected, but they don't restore the tablet to its state as shipped by Woot. Not having seen any other g-Tablet, I can't be certain but I strongly suspect they do restore the tablet to what it would have been if I'd gotten it from Sears or someplace. I already know I can rebuild it. I'm just looking for the lazy way and, ideally, to get it *completely* back to stock, i.e., any updated drivers or other things that may not be immediately obvious.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstevens:
So, I did get jm20's file to work for restoring my woot.com g-Tablet to its original shipped state. There may be several ways to do this, but I'll outline what worked for me.

- installed clockworkmod and booted into cwm recovery.

- did a data wipe and formatted all partitions then rebooted, whereupon I naturally got an error.

- rebooted into APX mode.

- performed an NVFlash restore.

- as soon as the tablet rebooted and asked if I wanted to connect via USB, I connected without doing any setup.

- via USB to the tablet, created a directory clockworkmod in the root of sdcard (on the tablet, not the removable SDHC card) and a subdirectory backup within that.

- on my computer, extracted the directory 2009-01-01.00.26.55 from the downloaded .zip file.

- copied that directory via USB into /clockworkmod/backup.

- reinstalled clockworkmod.

- rebooted into cwm and ran a restore of the directory I'd copied.

At this point the tablet now looks and acts mostly like it did when I first opened it. The only problem is that OTA updates no longer work because of clockworkmod. I addressed this via NVFlash using the following in a command window:

- nvflash.exe --bl bootloader.bin --download 9 recovery.img

whew!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jm20:
Sorry about the lack of instructions

I am really busy with a bunch of other stuff, and I'm just playing with the G-tab when I take a break. The file I uploaded is as you figured out just a direct copy of the folder that clockwork recovery made when I told it to backup the "unused woot g-tab"

Like I said I only booted it up once to make sure it worked and then I immediately made the backup which is why the date says 2009.

After the backup was done, I copied the folder that clockwork made which contained the backup files to my desktop. I then zipped it up and uploaded it to mediafire.

Therefore the zip file is not a file that clockwork can use to restore the ROM, however if you extract the folder/files from the zip file and copy them to the g-tab, clockwork will recognize the folder and will do a full restore from that folder / files.

Sorry for the confusion.

A few other things:

I bought two of these from Sears as soon as they came out (late October 2010). I opened one and tried to use it. The stock ROM barely worked. It was basically useless. I knew the hardware was great but it was crippled by the ROM. I installed clockwork and flashed a few ROMs and found Vegan to be the best of the bunch, however even that left much to be desired as it was still very early on in the whole scheme of things.

After two days of using the one I had opened, things weren't looking good and I returned the unopened second one.

After about 10 days of trying to see the positives, I couldn't take it any longer and the first had to go back also. Unfortunately I had rooted it and installed clockwork and I simply couldn't bring myself to return it in that condition so I spent somewhere around 12+ hours reading various forums (mostly this one, android forums, and android central) figuring out how to completely return the unit to "stock". No traces of clockwork or any other boot manager and I put a clean stock ROM back on it.

Two reasons why I mention all of this:

1. If someone is needing to do this, it can be done unfortunately I have no idea how I did it and didn't bother to keep the files or information because I swore I'd never buy another G-tab (woot made a liar out of me).

2. If you are considering using an older "stock" ROM, don't waste your time. The woot ROM is actually pretty good. Had I known the woot ROM was halfway decent I would have bought two of these. Any of the newer ROMs are probably better than what I initally experienced.

Lastly, if anyone cares; I am currently running Calkulin's ROM with Clemsyn's kernel and I must say I am impressed. The unit is stable and very fast. Those guys have done some great work. Finally some great software that can take advantage of the hardware. Again, had I known things had gotten so much better I'd have ordered two.

If you guys are running something else and you like it let me know, I haven't had time to mess with the other ROMs.

OK, I have got to get back to work. Hope this helps.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2B^N2B:
Clarification

Brand new Android user here. My Woot gtablet reset itself also after the third reboot to something other than the original. If I figure out how to insert your Woot ROM zip file, this will restore the gtablet to it's orginial state?

Thanks
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wasserkapf:
I had this experience as well. (This Woot tab is my second g-tablet.) I updated it immediately upon the first boot, then rebooted. One or two reboots later, a setup screen magically appeared. After going through the setup process it seems that all of the original woot settings were now gone.

It also seems that Adobe Flash is no longer installed, and has to be re-installed. I haven't tried Angry Birds yet, but I believe that the latest firmware update comes with that pre-installed. Flash can be re-installed by downloading it from the ViewSonic g-tablet "Favorites" page, or use this link and reboot after installation:

http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1291899570_Adobe_Flash_Player_10.1.95.1.apk

As for being able to return to a "stock" firmware, I always save the updates before allowing it to install them. I believe they can be found in the /cache folder after it downloads, and must be copied to external storage before you run the update. I haven't actually tried to use these to restore to a stock firmware, but I believe that you just copy it to /mnt/sdcard and rename it to update.zip.

These are the versions that I saved:

update-smb_a1002-2967-user.zip

update-smb_a1002-3053-user.zip

update-smb_a1002-3588-user.zip

Edit: None of these are the "Woot" version.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adidasfanatic:
I've had this happen on RC2 as well...

After I've put the volume all the way down (vibrate only mode) and then turned the volume back up, none of my notification sounds will play. When I get sms/email the vibrate will go off but not the tone. I've checked Handcent and GMail settings and they both have a tone selected. However, once I get a txt/email, only vibrate no sound. My call ringtones, volume up/down, apps, music..etc works, but no notification.

Anyone help?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smabbage:
Grab Audio Guru from the market. It lists out all the system sound modes and lets you control all six of them individually. I had this happen once and found one of my sound controls set to zero. Used the slider in Audio Guru to increase it to max, problem solved. :)
[HTC Aria General] orb3000:
Please read before creating a new thread

General

Full specs

Wiki

How to replace the digitizer

Installing Amazon apps

Android development

(GUIDE) Aria Super thread

HTC Aria Sticky Roll-Up Thread

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psfreedom port to aria done

More to add? PM me
[Droid X General] knny1491:
Title says it all. I got the phone secondhand already rooted via z4root method I believe. Is there something special I have to do after rooting to the droid x to flash recoveries?
[Droid X General] bigshotrob22:
Install bootstrap recovery.
[Droid X General] knny1491:
Yeah i figured it out haha, man this thing is nothing like my old Android device, and coming back to Android from an Iphone just makes it that much better haha.
[Thunderbolt General] black.stratus:
So I've rooted and restored and rooted several times, love the virus Rom, battery life was great, but it had several apps that wouldn't install from the market. Mainly Pandora which is the main app I use, said something about the signatures were invalid. Anybody seen this? Also it seemed to loose root rights ?
[Thunderbolt General] Bimmer323:
Pandora is included in the rom, it's themed and therefore you can't load the "stock" pandora from the market.
[Thunderbolt General] black.stratus:
Nice, now any idea about looseing root? ROM manager can't get Su access.
[Droid 2 Global General] jonnydominican:
ive seen various web sites selling a 16 digit code for around 50 dollars. do they work??? has anyone try it???
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
Till now all known to the forum successful unlock codes have been 8 digits long, including those phones which Verizon messed with. If they offer refund and you have $50 to spend on unlocking you can try..

Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL
[Droid 2 Global General] vip7070:
OS, if you'll be lucky, don't forget to share solution :)
[Droid 2 Global General] blackbeans:
All 16digits code is scam only! Don't try it or you'll waste your time!
[Off-topic] mitch9294:
So I love the internet.

I love accessing the internet.

I love the speed of Google's Chrome browser.

But I own a mac.

It's a dual boot OS X & Windows 7, and I've noticed that Chrome for mac is wayy slower than Chrome for windows. Can anybody else relate to this/confirm?

I don't see any reason why chrome for PC should be so much faster than the Mac version, but that's what I'm getting & it's making me use windows on my mac all the time - making me question why I bought an Apple computer.

If anyone knows a solid answer to this or suggest a faster Mac browser I would be over the moon cause it's been bugging me for months now :mad:
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Change to Windows;)
[Off-topic] jaszek:
I use FF on my PC, but chrome on my mac. I have no problems with it. It is very fast and stuff like that.

Macbook something, 2.26MHz C2D and 4GB ram
[Off-topic] urbanengine1:
i hope you mean 2.26Ghz :eek::eek:
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Or do I? I run PS CS5 on 2.26 Mhz and it's blazing fast. lol.

Yes, I mean GHz.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
You could try running the Beta branch of Chrome to see if that helps?
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Isn't everything from google always in beta? lol
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
I use the Dev channel and Canary build. ( Canary build can't be your only installation of Chrome so I'm forced to have the Dev channel also) Canary build is blazing fast and I love the name!;);):D:D
[Off-topic] mitch9294:
EDIT: I cleared my cookies & that seemed to do the trick.. Often the simplest solution is the best

Don't get me wrong, Chrome is still fast for me on OS X, just not as fast as it's Windows equivalent, and that's what's bugging me, and for the record mine's also a macbook something 2.26 GHz w/ 8GB RAM (overkill I know but the RAM was on sale).

I have thought about permanently using windows, but in general the Mac OS is just prettier & less prone to freezing or 'Not Responding' & better.

I was hoping there were perhaps some networking or other settings I could alter to increase the speed, but no mention of anything so far. I read that turning off IPv6 can help but I tried it and didn't see any results, plus I have that enabled on windows so it shouldn't be the reason there's a difference. I also tried some other DNS servers, but they screwed around with the internet access at my university so I had to rever the changes back to standard.

I'll give the Canary build a try :D

EDIT: Turns out you can only get Canary for Windows

Thanks for all the responses
[Xperia Play General] arcticmedia:
The psx emulator psx4droid has been removed from market lucky fpse not

http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...rom-market-finge/&category=classic&postPage=1
[Xperia Play General] theclueless:
have you use psx4droid? it promotes pirated games by offering links to download illegal iso and psx bios
[Xperia Play General] Techdread:
FPSE runs well on the Xperia Play, Going to try Tekken 2 soon :).
[Xperia Play General] win7x64:
I heard that it was a GPL violation (PCSX and all of its derivatives require the source code to be published, etc.)
[Xperia Play General] Unrealwolf:
I really wonder if Sony's official PSX games could be hacked to run any PSX game, just like it was with PSP. That would be better than any emulator, i think.
[Xperia Play General] johnsongrantr:
This is what geohotz should work on, hacking the phone it's self should be no challenge with an unlock able boot loader like the nexus one.

The real challenge would be getting getting emulator out and possibly pocket station on other phones
[Xperia Play General] matknny:
FPse runs almost as good as the official PS Emulator just sometimes too fast or too slow. But it is a quick fix to enable/disable smoothness settings
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-tightening-reins-android
[EVO 4G General] r916:
I see this as a good thing..

No more BS.

Regular updates.

Come on, Verizon was trying to put Bing app's on the HTC Merge..really?
[EVO 4G General] kingdazy:
Whole big(ger) thread about this here...
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
I completely agree. Carriers destroying a beautiful thing. HTC is the only UI worthy of android in that aspect.

Sent from my spaceship!
[EVO 4G General] r916:
MEGA DOT.

Sense 2.0+ though, I hated stock sense on my evo, at least on the new sense you can skin it and make it look nice without rooting.
[HTC Aria General] Marcossius:
Hi guys,

I'd gladly post this on the CM7 RC's thread over at the dev forum but I have yet to accumulate 10 posts.

Lately I've been experiencing weird battery % issues in CM7RC2 and now CM7RC4, that the charging would be stuck at a certain percentage even if I charged it overnight. It never goes to full, until I pulled the battery and rebooted.

Is something wrong with my battery?

Thanks in advanced!
[HTC Aria General] drumist:
Are you using an official battery or a third-party battery?
[HTC Aria General] Marcossius:
I'm using the official one :)
[HTC Aria General] drumist:
I'd try charging the battery to full then wiping battery stats from within Clockwork Recovery.
[HTC Aria General] TNPaparazzi:
I would definitely try this.. I had the same problem and it worked for me.. after you reset the stats, drain the battery again till the phone dies, fully charge again, and wipe again
[HTC Aria General] drumist:
First, doing the battery drain is effective in calibrating the battery meter but is still probably a bad idea because by doing it you are decreasing how much charge the battery can hold (i.e., a full charge will not last as long). It might not be super noticeable, and doing it once in a blue moon is likely not a big deal, but don't do it often or you'll just end up having to replace your battery. Deleting battery stats should be enough to correct the OP's problem, and allowing your phone to recalibrate under normal use is fine but takes longer.

That said, I do the battery drain anyway, but I would definitely suggest not doing it more than once every 6+ months. Wiping battery stats often is not necessary at all, unless of course you are actually having a problem like the OP is.

Second, you definitely should not clear battery stats AFTER performing a battery drain and recharge. The whole point of doing the battery drain is to let the phone gather new information about the battery since you just wiped the battery stats. If you wipe them again after doing that, the battery drain was useless.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parmend:
I just unrooted my wife's evo so I

can take it to sprint. When it was rooted I flashed PRI1.77 . Well now that I'm unrooted it still says 1.77. Is there a way to update date that without the phone being rooted?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well, you can try doing a system update, and that should update it, if not, you can:

1. Re-root, flash 1.90, unroot

2. Just say she never updated the phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chib1panda:
Howmuch should I sell my vibrant with 2nd version ffc mod ? I saw some reviews of the upcoming lg optimus 2x dual core coming next month. Edit. This is more of a thread to find out what price I should sell it at. Not really selling atm.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edx009:
what is the ffc mod? I would be interested in buying phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chib1panda:
Its a front facing camera that I installed. Its the i9000 version so no banding issues. You can use it with fring and other video chat apps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blaxtar.inc:
Anxious...

Are you ready to sell yet?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipnekgs:
Is that version 1 or 2 of the FFC module?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
Just a note to the OP. If you do decide to sell your handset here, please do so on the Marketplace.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgingermany:
Posibly?

Are you selling boss?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1lenz:
at least $400 depending on the shape of the phone.
[HTC 7 Pro] 92GTA:
I have a bunch of videos taken using my Touch Pro 2 Windows Mobile phone that I can't get Zune to even recognize let alone add to my new HTC Arrive.

.3gp

.mpeg

.mpg

.avi

Only the .wmv and some .mp4 videos seem to be recognized. Windows Media will play all of them though, it's just that Zune won't see them.

What's up?

EDIT: I found a free 3gp to mp4 converter and used it for all of the videos taken with my TP2. I guess I'll have to covnert all my mpg and mpeg video to wmv now too :(
[HTC 7 Pro] info[]box1:
I also had to convert all my movies over from .avi to mp4 for Zune to find them. I got a free converter from the web and it was easy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emtae001:
OK first post here. I have done a fair bit of reading and searching but still have a couple of questions. I have just bought a Captivate. Made 3 phone calls with it and that's it. It has already been rooted and unlocked by the seller. I know if I upgrade to 2.2 via KiesMini it will remove the unlock and root. After the update can I unlock and root again. ? I hear Super One Click might root it. I have the code numbers from the original unlocking. What can I use to unlock it? Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
you dont lose the unlock by updating it. even if you did, you have the code so it doesnt matter. you dont need it unlocked if you are staying on ATT....unlocking is so you can stick another providers SIM card in and use it on any GSM carrier
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emtae001:
I am not on AT&T. I have an AT&T phone that's used on Roger's. That's why it needs to stay unlocked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
if you have the code then it doesnt matter if the unlock goes away.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pc103:
Use the SIM you intend to use plus the code previously extracted. [APP]SuperOneClick v1.7 (Root, Unroot, Enable Non-Market App works on Froyo.