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[G Tablet General] OLDsJUNKIE:
Wonderful tutorial man. Less than an hour from stock to kick ass! Thanks a million!
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
The status check thing is normal for Vegan, my understanding is this is due to the developers leaving some of the phone pieces in the ROM which can't access proper hardware as there is no phone on the GTablet.

I never tried to use the phone button but I imagine that's the same cause to the error you get when you click it. I'm not sure if there is a way to solve that

I've just relegated these small items to the "don't do that" category of bugs :)

Thanks for all the feedback!

Sean
[G Tablet General] Rumbleweed:
This should eliminate a lot of new owners questions if they search enough to find it. Only thing I think might be added is backup. This is especially true if someone has already added some apps.
[G Tablet General] MFister:
Yeah, so how do you backup those apps?
[G Tablet General] Rumbleweed:
I always run backup in CWM and titanium B/U before any mods. I then save these on ( dated) on my server.
[G Tablet General] sleebus.jones:
Nah. I ran it twice as stated in the tut and it worked for me. YMMV I suppose. ;)
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
I didn't include anything about backup because we were rooting/flashing a device out of the box with no apps on it yet. So nothing to backup.

As for the Market fix, like I said, sometimes you have to run it twice to get it to work. I'm not sure why.

Sean
[G Tablet General] camann:
Tyvm....this step by step is clear and concise. I think you have thoughtfully provided instructions that most will be able to understand and follow. After reading through this forum and watching videos, I was still in the process of searching for answers for the few questions I had remaining. Your tutorial answered those questions. I want to thank both you and all the helpful developers and members of this forum. You are all wonderful.
[G Tablet General] kubodhi:
+1 on this guide. Got mine in from woot yesterday, followed this guide to the letter and I now have a screaming tab. Well done!

:D
[G Tablet General] Rumbleweed:
Sean

Understood that, but if users have success following your procedure and choose to come back to it to re-flash a new ROM, they might be disappointed. Might want to state that it is for initial flash from stock. Also think you might lose the angry birds included in stock.

No criticizing, just trying to improve experience.:)
[G Tablet General] MFister:
Wait, i received my gtab yesterday and i updated to the newest official viewsonic rom... are you saying i can't use the OP's instructions with the newest official ROM?
[G Tablet General] sleebus.jones:
FWIW, I used it with the newest viewsonic rom, worked fine.
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Good point, I have updated the post with this in the disclaimer section:

First, flashing your tablet means you will lose any applications that you have installed previously or that came with the stock ROM. You will have to reinstall them. If you search around on XDA you will find other separate instructions on how to take backups if this is important.

Hopefully no one will inadvertantly lose anything!

Sean
[G Tablet General] enigma0456:
This is the kind of tutorial I like to see - step by step - no assumptions of prior knowledge. GREAT JOB!
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Hey all, I just posted a second tutorial this time for TNT Lite 4.40. I figured for new users it would be less confusing if I had 2 separate tutorials with no "branching" of instructions.

It's here for anyone interested:

http://www.blendblog.net/Blendblognet/tabid/36/EntryID/70/Default.aspx

Sean
[G Tablet General] Spazmodo:
This is a really well written post..I appreciate the efforts. My concern has to do with a post OTA update. I hadn't found this site prior to receiving my tab and I want to change out the OS due to the inherent problems. I found a video on youtube that says you should not install cwm after the OTA. Is this true and if so can I reset it back to the original and how would I go about this?

Thanks again for your help! You guys rock
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
I took the OTA update to 3389 on one of my units before undertaking the procedure I used in my post with no problems. The 3389 ROM is available for download here on XDA and if you need to go back I basically would suggest going into CWM, repartition back to the stock (2048 and 256) and then copying the stock firmware onto the device and flashing it. If you followed my steps for going to Vegan or TNT then this will be a familar process. FYI, Once you go back to stock (I've done it a few times) you lose CWM7.

Sean
[G Tablet General] Spazmodo:
I may not have been clear...this is where my tab is at the moment. Stock (no cwm) with OTA update to 1.1-3588 which I did right out of the box before finding this forum. If I reset to factory will it revert to the stock Tap rom so I can then install cwm and go from there with your post? Thanks again...I haven't felt this noobish since I learned Novell 3.11 15 yrs ago.
[G Tablet General] Spazmodo:
Answered my own question...no it doesn't revert.
[G Tablet General] NiNJA_ONE:
Excellent work my friend, my gtablet was ordered from woot just got here yesterday, working on using your instructions now! Thank you
[G Tablet General] Mantara:
I really like that you incorperate repartitioning into the sequence of steps. It is best to get this out of the way early. Lots of people never repertitioned and are now having problems when using nvflash to restore to stock.
[G Tablet General] TriU:
First of all, thanks Sean for the Tutorial.

Just thought I'd add that this tutorial works well for an out of the box gTab with the Culkalin 1.1 ROM and Clemsyn FroyoVersion8 kernel. Just substitute the aforementioned ROM and kernel for the VEGAn ROM and pershoot kernel in the tutorial. Of course, it is not necessary to download and install the VEGAn ROM supplement. The steps for Launcher Pro installation are not necessary as this is already included in the Culkalin ROM.

Although I have no doubt that VEGAn/pershoot is an excellent build, I chose Culkalin and Clemsyn based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback they'd gotten on these threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=985705

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895825

I'm very happy this far with the Culkalin/Clemsyn combo - it's incredibly fast and seems very stable thus far.
[G Tablet General] arentol:
Followed instructions exactly and the Android market won't launch. It starts to pop up, but then closes exactly.

Tried to run the fix, but the Google Services Framework wasn't an app on my system.

I am trying the TNT lite version now. Hopefully that will work.
[G Tablet General] captain_fid:
This is really well done, as mentioned several times before. Thanks for all the effort you've put into this!!!!

I've updated a 'wooter just minutes ago.

I noticed afterward that it doesn't mount the G-Tab as a USB afterward (going into USB Debug). Is there a solution I'm missing?
[G Tablet General] Spazmodo:
So I took the plunge. Followed your instructions to the T with the OTA update including installing cwm from this forum and it worked flawlessly. I am not running Vegan! Thanks!
[G Tablet General] JustMeToo:
I did these steps over and over and I still don't get the launcher pro in the market. I get 'launcher pro plus unlocker' and 'launcher pro icons and docks' but no 'launcher pro'. there are 206 items in the search results for 'launcher pro'.
[G Tablet General] Stonecipher:
I had the same issue, doing the market fix twice as suggested in the steps allowed me to find the correct "launcherpro", and not the unlocker and others.

Just do it twice and search for i
[G Tablet General] markbritton:
Just got done doing the upgrade.. Same thing can't get the market to run.

I noticed that Market kinda works you just can't download anything.
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Hmm, not sure what is going on with the market for some.

One thing to confirm, are you located in the US? I am not (according to Google the US Virgin Islands is not part of the US WTF) and have issues when I don't VPN to the US sometimes (it doesn't let you look at paid apps and things are missing) which is why I ask.

There are a bunch of other threads on market woes on here that may be helpful. Also, to tide you over, I'd highly recommend looking at the Amazon Market, since I installed it I pretty much have used more than the Google one. It's still growing, and they are giving away a paid application each day (yesterday was flight control).

Sorry I can't be of more specific help on this one, doing the market procedure as posted one or two times has always gotten the Market working for me. I almost wonder if there is something with the Google account being used or something.

Sean
[G Tablet General] acomiskey:
The setting for home switcher is not sticking when i choose launcher pro as default. Home button still goes to stock launcher. Any ideas?
[G Tablet General] MechaGen:
Brilliantly written, thank you so much!

Five minutes with the stock rom was all I could take. VEGAn is great.

Neo Cor, 57.7 fps

Quadrant, 2300 to 2500
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
How are you setting launcher pro as the default? In VEGAn there is a home screen switcher app under applications that did the trick for me.

Sean
[G Tablet General] khannag:
Thanks for putting this together OP, it was a tremendous help. The market fix has helped me access a whole bunch of apps that weren't initially showing up. ﻿ However, I find that there are still a few applications that I can't find on my tablet market (need for speed shift) is one of them. Any ideas on how to get those? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
I don't see NFS Shift on mine either. I also don't see it on my Archos 101. But here's whats weird, I also don't see it on the Motorola Xoom that I have here which of course requires no "Market Fix." So this leads me to believe that somehow this game doesn't show up on Tablet's or devices without a phone for some reason. I can't confirm this but at least its not just the GTablet that has this app missing.

Sean
[G Tablet General] MFister:
Thanks to the OP, i'm running Vegan now :D

One peculiar thing though, even though i did the market fix and got the free version of launcher pro, a few apps (i.e. google earth, and airattack HD Part 1) don't show up in market.
[G Tablet General] sfreemanoh:
It seems like the partitioning basically cuts our internal storage down from 16GB to 2GB...is this correct? At least, when I go into my settings and view my storage capacity, it only displays about 2GB internal storage total. Is cutting out 14GB really the best way of doing this, or is the other 14GB's still available in another fashion? (Now, I know how to flash ROM's to my two Android devices and that's about it, so take my criticism with a grain of salt please, no disrespect is intended.)
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
sfreemanoh, that isn't right. When I look at my GTablet in TNT Lite after repartitioning/flashing I see the following under settings->storage->Tablet Storage:

Total Tablet storage 14.84GB

Application Storage: 1.79GB

User content storage: 13.07GB

What do you see? You should be able to get the same sort of settings in VEGAn (I don't have access to a VEGAn tab right now).

Sean
[G Tablet General] sfreemanoh:
Under "SD card & device storage" on VEGan, it only shows 1.79GB for Total Space under Internal device storage, and 1.56GB for Available space.
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Something isn't right then, it looks like there is no "user content storage" partition or something on your device. In the same location there is a setting in TNT Lite called "Format User Content Storage."

The first thing I'd try is a power off and power back on (by holding the power button and selecting power off). See if that corrects the issue.

Second I'd try formatting the user content storage. Like I said, I don't have a VEGAn tab in front of me right now so I'm not sure if its there in VEGAn but I suspect it is. You may wish to try that, it may correct the issue. I'd probably make sure I had things backed up.

If this fails you may wish to create a new thread on this to get the maximum amount of advice!

Sean
[G Tablet General] Lockedown:
Two questions from someone who wished he'd had this when he started:

1) I assume that if you're already up and running, re-partitioning would screw everything up - if you're going to repartition, you should wipe and start over from step 1?

2) Can pershoot's kernel be flashed over the experimental VegaN gingerbread ROM, or is it only meant for the 5.1 w/ suppl?
[G Tablet General] hitekredneck:
One thing a lot of folks seem to be overlooking is the fact that a lot of problems can be resolved with a simple shutdown, wait a few minutes then fire the tablet back up. I know of several instances where I have messed with this thing for hours on end only to give up and shut it down out of frustration. Then when I go back and fire it up the next time I find that my problem was magically fixed.

Also remember that after you install a ROM you should not use your tablet for 5 or 10 minutes. Give it time to do all of its "behind the scenes" stuff and settle in. Then power it down for a bit, fire it back up and only then is it ready for all of the system settings changes and app installs that you care to throw at it.

These are things that I/we have learned over time when rooting and ROMming our phones, but tend to overlook when dealing with our new tablets. Just keep in mind that we are running an OS that was designed on and for phones and deal with it accordingly.

My. 02 ..... HTR

Sent from my GTablet running CM7
[G Tablet General] hitekredneck:
Yes, if you repartition you will essentially have to start over from step 1.

Don't know for sure about pershoots kernel with the Vegan GB rom. Ya might want to ask that question in that roms specific thread.

Sent from my GTablet running CM7
[G Tablet General] morsepi:
Gtab

OK, So I have followed several of these guides for flashing. It is fairly easy. The problem that I have no matter how I flash, is the market will attempt to load but only for a millisecond and then it returns me to the screen. Also I do not see the framework either. I cant follow the steps for the fix if I can not build data in the cache. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Morsepi,

When looking at the applications in settings make sure you switch to "All Applications" not just "Running Applications" and you should see the Google services framework. Let us know if you see it there.

Sean
[G Tablet General] captcheerio:
Getting Force close boxes (LauncherPro and Pandora) after power-on

First of all, thanks to all of the developers who worked to create VEGAntab. I followed the instructions last night and was up and running in no time.

This morning I powered on the device, and Force close boxes keep popping up. The main Force close states, "Sorry! The application LauncherPro (process android.process.acore) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. [Force close] Additionally, in the background, a similar Force close box is displayed that states the same message but for Pandora application instead. If I try to click the "Force close" button, it immediately pops back up (as many times as I click, it keeps coming back :confused:

Can anybody give me some advice on fixing this issue? I'm wondering if it has anything to do with moving the gtab from home to work where I don't have access to a wifi network. Any help would be very much appreciated!
[G Tablet General] captcheerio:
Please disregard my previous post. After searching a bit more, I found a solution that was already posted (Fix Permissions in cwm, then reboot). Back to enjoying this wonderful, customizable device.
[G Tablet General] captain_fid:
OP, Thanks again for the great instructions!

I wish mods would sticky this under the 'dont do it wooters thread', it really is a contrast thanks to your effort. I originally kept one tablet stock to compare against but veganized it last night. I owe you and the developers on this...

P.S. - have you thought of updating the front page to include the notes on using zoom or olympus id for market place? I seemed have have better luck with this than just cleaning cache/data.
[G Tablet General] whoppo:
Many thanks!

We just got two Gtabs from TD and out of the box both of them were stuck in a "welcome" process loop.... so out with the bad, in with the good!

Following your step-by-step directions worked perfectly and took less than 20 minutes.
[G Tablet General] General Klinger:
Just finished installing using your instructions and it went amazingly well. Thank you so much! Best money i've spent so far!
[G Tablet General] chadferis:
everything worked great except now my wifi doesn't work as well as it did with the viewsonic UI!! Anything I can do?
[G Tablet General] khdude:
Why would it be necessary to wait 5 or 10 minutes, especially when the device is powered down? That doesn't make any sense to me. Is this just your personal experience or is there something technically about the g tab or ROMs that requires this?
[G Tablet General] khdude:
I had a bit of trouble with the vegan-tab/pershoot combination Sean originally posted (although the instructions worked great):

- stock browser crashes regularly, tried Opera but not much better

- flash sometimes crashes or is not playable

- wifi goes out frequently - have to toggle off/on, wifi signal significantly reduces as I move into different rooms in my house

- screen sometimes locks up or gets slow and non-responsive and I have to reboot

- sleep sometimes shuts down device and I have to reboot

- touching screen doesn't always register, have to try several times

- onscreen keyboard difficult to use

I tried updating to Pershoots latest kernal but that just made things worse. Now I'm wondering if I should try another rom, kernal, etc.
[G Tablet General] gwolfman:
Repartitioning w/ clockworkmod

So does the repartition make only 2GB of the internal SD card available and the rest of it (14GB) wasted/unused?
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
no.... You can use that space as sdcard or emmc depending on the rom your using
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
Usually after installing a new rom your tablet is building a lot of internal files on boot. It makes it more stable to allow it to finish doing this before making a lot of changes.
[G Tablet General] gwolfman:
I'll be useing VEGAn 5.1.1. So 2GB goes to apps and the remaining goes to user storage?
[G Tablet General] gwolfman:
I've tried searching for flash player in the market (to update to 10.2 since 10.1 is preinstalled), but it doesn't show up in the results. Everything else shows up, but not flash. I've tried the market fix 4 times, but no luck.

Also, when I log into the market from a desktop (via web browser) my tablet does not show up as one of my devices (only my phone), but both showed up when I had my tablet running TnT Lite 4.4 just two days ago. Any ideas there?

Thanks!
[G Tablet General] RREVETTE:
Have a GTab from TD (ebay) 2 Apr and it is stock with a few apps added and on the 14 Apr the two 'new' updates now with 1.2-4349 and today found this beautiful thread. Been reading daily and planning the actions to take. I just want to go to a better place than stock. This new UI version seems to have changed things in a variety of ways.

The question here is how does this current setup affect using the clear well written instructions herein for moving to a better places. Seems as though I've painted myself into a corner. What now please??
[G Tablet General] flipovich:
Sounds like you're possibly using a gingerbread kernel on a froyo ROM or vice-versa. Double-check to make sure the kernel you are using matches the ROM type you're using. If all else fails, you could always start from scratch or maybe even try Clemsyn's kernel. Good luck.

I think you misread...he was responding to someone that said to shutdown your tablet for a few minutes; not leave it booting for a few minutes.

With regards to shutting the tablet down for a few minutes, it'd be kind of pointless, honestly. Doing a shutdown yeah, go for it, but letting it sit there for a bit is pointless unless you are having overheating issues--which you should RMA if that's the case.

Basically, when you have the partitions setup with 2048/0, then that means 2048 is setup for internal system use, 0 is used for SWAP, and the remaining is used as internal storage (/mnt/emmc or /mnt/sdcard depending on the ROM you install). The internal storage is pretty much the same as your actual MicroSD Card if you have one installed, so you can use that for apps, MicroSD for apps, or whatever...up to you. Just remember that if you tend to flash a lot of ROMs, then you should store your more important stuff on your MicroSD Card just to be safe, in-case you have to reformat the internal memory. Good luck.
[G Tablet General] redrong:
Hi Sean,

I used your instruction to upgrade my new gTab and there was a huge performance difference. Thank.

1. Your instruction create a two gig partition for the os , how do you create the partition to used the rest of the internal memory.

2. I'm getting this pop up force stop "Google Service framework" poping up everyone in a while. very irritating. Did a search and try to follow the instruction to clear the market cache to fix it but that not working. Any suggestion?
[G Tablet General] gwolfman:
It's automatically created/used (at least for me it does). I reformatted the other day and after you boot into your ROM it magically shows up as ~13.4GB free for the internal SD card. :)
[G Tablet General] spartanmt:
i'm so upset that i didnt find this step by step before the ota upgrade to 4349. i was struggling like heck to follow all the videos, sticky notes, etc., and no matter what i did, i was always sent back to my stock tablet. are there plans to show us wooters how to get around 4349 so we can having "screaming gtabs" like the big boys? btw, i'm a 55-year old grandmother, but that doesn't mean i need an ipad...does it?
[G Tablet General] stiphy:
Since there is another round of Wooters getting thier Gtabs this week I figure I'd bump this as a lot of people seem to have found it useful.
[G Tablet General] Johny Lunchmeat:
Thanks you for posting! I am a complete noob when it comes to this and I was able to do it easily. I bought the g tab last night after I read about honeycomb :)

The only issue I'm having is finding certain apps in the market place like Facebook. Says its not available for my device when using the browser version of the market which is the only place I can find it.

Thanks a million for posting an easy to follow guide!
[G Tablet General] repel89:
Very informative... Thanks!! :D
[G Tablet General] angeladmkennedy:
Fantastic set of instructions! Had my g-tab updated within 30 minutes of reading this post. Thank you!
[G Tablet General] crm_007:
Do you fix your market after flash Vegan ROM? After market fixed, you should find facebook from market.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865245
[G Tablet General] eye95:
Ditto (except that I am a 56-year-old grandfather). I looked around at the threads that suggest mods for our situation, and they just don't have the clarity that the instructions the OP's post does.

I hope he can post such clear instructions for our situation or someone can link a set of instructions with that level of clarity.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albright:
My gtablet crashed for some reason and now the sdcard

is strangely corrupted.

There is an android folder and "lost.dir" and a lot of unknown

files with completely corrupt files (their names are just a

random bunch of letters and ascii characters).

So I've lost some stuff stored there, but I'd like to know

what is going on.

This is with tnt lite 4.2.5 and clemsyn's kernel v.6

I assume the internal card is fat32? Is there a way to change

this to a better file system?

Any advice would be welcome.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noflegrapor:
I'm seeing the same thing

I installed TnT Lite 4.4.0 and it was running fine last night. Bring it up this morning and I see the same busted directory as yours. It also erased my backups. Were you able to repair it?