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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt251401:
I'm currently using the VLT launcher just released, but it does the same thing for stock launcher and launcher pro. I scoured the settings and can't find the home button setting. Saw it in Launcher pro but it didn't change anything. Not sure what else to try at this point.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt251401:
The screen it sends me to appears to be the screen you see when you would place your phone on the dock. It has the alarm clock button, music, home, and gallery button on the bottom with only the time showing.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt251401:
Button savior works correctly. Unfortunately I'm not a button savior fan. This its the only bug on my tab and its driving me nuts.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mt251401:
Just wanted to update. I read a lot of other Vegan users having this same issue. I ended up freezing the Clock app using Titanium and that corrected the issue. Not sure what other adverse effects that will cause but it worked for me.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WaffleBox:
Anybody have any other ideas how to fix this? I'm using TNT Lite 4.4 with Launcher Pro. I've set the home button to "Do nothing" in Launcher Pro preferences, and also checked the option that says "Home key to default screen" but neither one of those seems to have had an effect. Thanks!
[Off-topic] goob1284:
I just switched from 7 to ubuntu and it freaking sucks. I ant get dual monitors nor dies my freaking wireless work. I downloaded all the freaking drivers and installed them yet nothing works. The wireless keeps switching to a wpa security when I told it it is a wep. Wtf is that crock? And when I connect to it, I can't select a wep key, only a wpa personal. Please help before I throw this damn thing out the window
[Off-topic] PartTimeLegend:
Your problem is that you installed ubuntu.

Download debian or OpenBSD.
[Off-topic] goob1284:
Obviously that isn't a solution
[Off-topic] The Dogan:
Use their forums. They can be pretty helpful.
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
just out of curiosity , why did you install it ?
[Off-topic] goob1284:
Its very close to my phone and is very light
[Off-topic] TheDeadCPU:
You're doing it wrong.
[Android] andersonpaac:
Many Android phones and tablets have a low RAM. They tend to hang frequently when many apps are installed. Is there any way or any application that can stop an application from running in the background?? I know we can stop it from the settings >manage applications or settings >running services, but even if they are stopped they start up again by themselves. I don't want to UNINSTALL the apps eating up my ram coz i do use them frequently.

Do note that these are not widgets
[Android] zooz11:
you can use any of the "task managers" available in the market
[Android] Neurotica:
Or, if you're using 2.2+, then let Android do it's thing. The OS manages its RAM very efficiently and Task Managers only increase the load on the CPU which eats the crap out of your battery.

Try this with your "Task Manager". Kill an app, and wait a few, then open the "Task Manager" again. App is on again. If you use auto-kill, you're just sending a lot of power to kill and open the same thing over and over again. '
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
He started it....
[EVO 4G General] snandlal:
You fell for cm8 huh?
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
I took a huge dump, uploading the pics now.
[Nook Color General] tonygoes:
How do you set live wallpaper on the Nook Color? I've rooted my Nook (firmware 1.1) using AutoNooter 3.0 according to the instructions at nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting. Market installs are enabled, and I can download them. But If I hold on the home screen and select Change wallpaper, I only see tabs for Wallpaper and Photo Gallery - no live wallpaper. If I have soft keys on, menu doesn't do anything when I'm on the home screen.

Live Wallpaper IS working on my Nook - I installed Polar Clock Live Wallpaper from the market, and if I go to Market -> Downloads -> Polar Clock Live Wallpaper -> Open, it gives the usual instructions to home -> menu -> wallpaper -> live wallpapers. But there's also a button that says "take me there", and if I press that, it takes me to a screen listing all the live wallpapers I've downloaded, and I can set them from there.

Is there a more direct way to set them?
[Nook Color General] Nburnes:
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Enable_Live_Wallpapers

Edit: Forgot to mention you probably just need to install the LiveWallpapersPicker.apk.
[Nook Color General] tonygoes:
I tried that, but I still don't see any way to choose them. I even put LiveWallpapersPicker.apk on a web site, and installed it through the browser. It warned me that it was already installed - I let it install anyway, but I still don't see an option if I choose set wallpaper from the home screen. Should it be another tab? Is there a way to launch LiveWallapersPicker directly? I don't see it in extras.
[Nook Color General] dsf3g:
Do you have a homescreen replacement app? I use ADW Launcher and in the settings I have the option of choosing a live wallpaper.

I played around with it, but found that it was screwing up the Nook's functionality too much. When I had a live wallpaper installed I could not search the Android market nor launch a video from the Weather Channel app. I might look into it further at some point, but for now, static wallpapers will do for me.
[Nook Color General] dcumbertop:
I'll second that 3rd party launcher idea. I don't know if that's what you want to do or not, but I use Zeam and my wife has the stock launcher and I can do it straight away on mine and can't figure it out on hers. The BN launcher is a bit limited, it seems.
[G Tablet General] JustMeToo:
The tablet arrived yesterday. I dropped, of coarse, everything I was doing and opened the box. First thing I though when I had it in my hand was ‘it’s heavy’. I don’t know why I thought it would be lighter. It weighs 811gr or 28.6oz or 1.78lb.

Turned it on and started to look around. No dead pixels on the screen. Found the WiFi icon and connected it, no problem. Soon it asked me to update and I let it do it. Once back up and running I started to play Angry Birds. This game should be outlawed. It’s to highly addictive. My thumb is hurting today.

I charged the batteries until the green light came on.

After a few hours of playing around and exploring it was time to mod it. First came ClockWorkMod. I had read for days all that I could about moding, bricking and recovering and was ready. Next came VEGAn 5.1 and then the upgrade and last I installed the Clemsyn’s kernel. Try as I can, I couldn’t brick it. It all went smooth. I guess those who brick it just don’t read the instructions. It really was no problem at all.

By the time I was finished with all this my hands were tired from holding the weight of the tablet and I got to see why people complain about the screen. You just can not hold the unit constantly in front of you. It’s too heavy and when you slack, you drop it a bit and the viewing angle changes and you don’t see as well. I most definitely will upgrade the screen if a new screen comes out, like they are talking about in a thread or two in this forum.

Once VEGAn was running I tried to connect to the net but it wouldn’t. I saw no WiFi icon, like in the original software. After looking around for a while, getting frustrated about not being able to connect to the net, I found the icon in ‘setting’ and connected to the net again.

I kept the unit active for a few hours, playing around with it. After about 6 or 6.5 hours the batteries where down to about 8%. It was advertised as having eight to ten hours battery life. I’m not happy with this short fall.

To sum it all up I have three caveat with this unit. The weight, the screen and the short battery life. Still, I’m content with the unit. Couldn’t have done better for this price.
[G Tablet General] cu_ninja:
I agree on the screen but the weight doesn't seem to bother me too much and I'm getting awesome battery life on TnT lite 4.4. You may want to let it charge fully and then run it down a couple of times to see of that helps. If those modders can replace the gtab screen fairly easily and it's not too expensive, I might think about making a change too. In the mean time, I just remind myself that I got a really good deal on some decent hardware overall.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
I took mine to work today, playing with it off and on over the course of an 8 hour work day, connected to my Evo's hotspot, and I had around 40% when I got home. I guess it all depends on what you're doing with it.

And the screen ... yeah, the angles are horrid, but I've gotten used to it. When it's good, it's really good though -- showed the gf her competition for the first time tonight, and she marveled at how bright and clear the screen was. She didn't even notice the angles until I demoed that aspect for her.

So far, the angles are the only complaint I have left. Can't believe I got this for $300, especially since I was days away from buying a Xoom for twice that.
[G Tablet General] cbay:
Another wooter's impression....

My tablet arrived on time, in perfect condition and no dead pixels. My research between buying and getting the tablet, paid off, I CWM ed it and installed TNT Lite 4.4 on it. Was a tossup between Vegan and TNT Lite, chose the latter due to Roebeet's putting in the CWM to stock recovery switching scripts in TNT Lite 4.4. This is just in case Viewsonic releases a stable HoneyComb based ROM in the next few weeks. The performance is better than I expected, battery life is great, and have relatively very few FCs.

It does seem a bit too heavy to hold for extended periods, so ordered a compact stand for it. Regarding the screen, inverting the tablet does seem to get better horizontal screen quality, especially when lying flat on the table, so I am using it a good bit inverted. Softkeys in the wrong position, but can get used to that.

One thing I miss is the notification LED colors, for different mail apps which I have on my phone running Cyanogen Mod 6.0. Also cannot seem to play flash from Dolphin or Firefox (needs plugins??). So am using the stock browser for now. Maybe it is time to look at the app forums :)

Overall, pretty happy with the unit, thanks to all the help from XDAers.
[G Tablet General] Visual360:
Got my tablet today too. While I did hit a snag using NvFlash, I was able to resolved it and now running TnT lite 4.4. Hah, love the honeycomb boot screen on this one. LOL.

Anyway, it's no secret the screen sucks, and the one I got also suck. At least it has more "pop" than my xoom. The screen resolution also too small for the size of the tablet. I tried beautiful widget tablet edition, and the things covers the whole screen. Compare that to my xoom, the widget (4x1) only covers about 1/3 of my screen, which is perfect.

I don't mind the weight, especially compare to my xoom, and even to my iPad with cover, the Gtab feels lighter.

I still haven't get the chance to test the battery. I didn't even wait for it to charge fully before doing the rooting/flashing. I just plug in the power cord, and started flashing. Something I'm too afraid to do with the xoom. LOL.
[G Tablet General] TheFlyingPig:
The screen is both good and bad for me. I think my neck might be stiff from looking at the screen. However, I love it that no one but me can see the screen when I'm at work.

The weight is fine. I expected it to be thick as well, and it doesn't really feel that thick.

The battery life is a bit sucky. I might have a slight lemon, but it's still very useable.

I like the UI in tnt, so I'm spending more time in TNT lite.

Having android market is a must:-D

USB port is awesome!

I tried to stick my microsd card from my BB into the slot and it wouldn't take it without reformating, so I'm still without a microsd.

This forum is absolutely the best. Thanks guys!

That's my observation for the week.
[G Tablet General] ShiftyBob:
rooted and flashed with newest version of TnT yesterday, everything worked perfectly... for about 24 hours. I booted it up this morning and now I was getting a force close message saying "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." This popped up about every 5 secs and the keyboard wouldn't work, most of the Apps wouldn't work, market wouldnt work, and you couldn't access the "settings" to do a factory reset. I did EVERYTHING exactly as I was supposed to for the Root and Rom flash and didn't skip a thing.

Ended up reflashing the Vanilla Rom, reflashing TnT, rebooting a dozen times, trying to wipe the unit, NONE of that fixed it. After spending my entire day searching on how to basically "unbrick" my brand new Gtab, turns out it wasn't anything I did wrong. If you have any unnamed contacts in your contacts list, for some reason the file becomes corrupted while trying to sync. With the file corrupted it causes a FC, and tries again, every few seconds. Link below to how I fixed it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853537&page=2
[G Tablet General] Fdnman:
Mine came this week and my 12 year old called every 15 minutes...

asking when I was coming home.

Day 1 - recharged it...green light went on about 10:30 pm and my 12 year old jumped out a bed and we started playing around with the machine. Got wireless working and messed around for 20 minutes or so and then quit for the night.

Day 2 - I came home from work early and we got out three sets of instructions and cross compared and with a little help from Steve...started the process, mostly following this VEGAN process.

http://www.blendblog.net/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=67

Worked like a charm! Best thing that I wasn't expecting...it looks just like my DROID phone. Even the market works the same and...to my surprise...all of the software I had purchased on my DROID phone was still listed as PURCHASED on my TAB and cost nothing to install. WHOOHOO!

After a couple hours we decided to clean it off and put on the Skinomi screen protector. Wish I had one to practice with and one to put on for good. :/

Didn't put enough solution on it and it kept sticking and I had to pull it off...finally put some more solution on it, tried to clean off the dried stuff on the screen and reapply...worked like a charm. Didn't keep sticking and I was able to move it into position just like I wanted and then let it dry. Unfortunately, I was a bit impatient thinking I was ruining it and didn't clean the screen the best the second time. I have a couple tiny peices of green lint from my "lint free" cloth under the screen and one little fingerprint smear. Not perfect, but worked great once I knew what I was doing. The screen definitely is a finger print magnet and a screen protector is really necessary.

Got up this morning and my three youngest played games while I got ready and then I stole it back to bring to work.

Next up - figuring how to add swype! Oh yeah, and waiting for my CLIP to arrive!
[G Tablet General] JustMeToo:
I've noticed too that the screen looks better upside down. I'll try using it upside down and see how it works. I don't mind the soft keys since I'm not that much used to it yet, what with it being new and me having it only one day.
[G Tablet General] Radon_22:
Got mine Thurs. morning. Played with stock for a few hours, then switched to TnT lite. An already fast machine got faster!

I own a Motorola Droid, which was my introduction to Android and os hacking, and a Pandigital Novel which was my introduction to cheap tablets. This is definitely a fantastic piece of hardware for under 300.

*note: When we say the sucks, please understand that it's bright and sharp- as long as you look at it head-on. Whether or not that will be an issue is a matter of personal preference. It's not a dealbreaker for me and I think the issue is a bit overblown.
[G Tablet General] spamhead:
I thought I was getting great battery life, until I realized that TNTlite has a bug where the power meter is pegged at 100% no matter how much actual life is in it.

Overall, I'm very happy with it. Any frustratons I'm having are more adjusting to the form factor than anything about this tab specifically.
[G Tablet General] maksidaa:
I agree with the assessments so far. I didn't bother with swype and decided to buy ultra keyboard which works well. Also bought case with USB keyboard and that makes a huge difference when trying to do productive stuff like emails. The biggest surprise for me was that it runs MLB.TV without too much trouble. I think I might be able to use my Evo hotspot and location faker and watch blacked out games. So far I'm really happy and will be selling my nook color on the bay.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
If you use ADW Launcher or the paid version of Launcher Pro, you can resize widgets. Both also allow you to change the numbers of rows and columns to give you a larger grid to work with.

Or check out the new tablet-centric launcher that's being developed in the themes and apps subforum. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1017451 Looks really good -- I'd use it if I wasn't so addicted to LP's widgets.

You can easily bend this puppy to suit your needs :)
[G Tablet General] carwatcher:
That's why you fully charge the battery FIRST...I have been using it for 5 hours and still have 60 percent left.
[G Tablet General] Visual360:
Nice! Thanks for the link. Looks like I'm playing the Gtab for a while. Sorry, kids. LOL.
[G Tablet General] sriram_s:
I don't mind the screen at all in landscape, but the screen is basically unusable for me in portrait because the viewing angles are so narrow that the left eye sees a very different image from the right eye, which create a weird shimmering effect that makes it very uncomfortable to read.
[G Tablet General] Mr_Coffee:
Mine arrived yesterday. I charged it overnight and saw how weak the stock ROM was. After some mistakes and sweating, I got CWM to properly work and installed TnT. Awesome!
[G Tablet General] -BoneZ-:
Zeam Launcher is free and will also allow you to resize your widgets. I've tried the other launchers, but Zeam seems to be the best for my G-Tab so far.
[G Tablet General] bebopblues:
Wooter here also. Mine arrived on Wednesday so I've been play a lot with it.

I followed this guide and was able to install ClockWorkMod and TNT 4.4.

As said before, I'm not sure why Viewsonic used this screen with horrible viewing angles. The portrait/vertical mode is also bad as the brightness is a little whacked and hurts your eyes looking at it. The only way to view it perfectly is 90 degree and center in landscape/horizontal mode. The front facing camera is also pretty awful, but that's not an important feature to me. It also sucks that the soft key buttons aren't lit up, its hard to see them when in low light.

But the reason I went with this tablet over the iPad is not only because of the price, but adobe flash support. And after installing the Dolphin Browser HD, which took a while to find and install, flash is running well. I don't consider a full web browsing experience is possible unless there's flash support. And this android tablet does it very well.

Overall, I think this is a decent tablet for the price. I hope future android updates will make it even better, like supporting both cores of Tegra2. And hopefully, there will be a lot more tablet apps as many android apps currently don't work well in tablets.
[G Tablet General] Jefiner:
I've had mine for a few days, and after playing around with the stock ROM became convinced it stunk on ice.

I'm a relative noob (have an Epic and a Galaxy Tab, but never rooted either), but went ahead and with the excellent tutorials made a run at it. Yeah, I made mistakes as well, but now CWM and TNT 4.4 are up and running. Wow! Smooth and soooo much faster than the Viewsonic crapware.

Love the size, the brilliance of the screen, and I have found if I prop the thing on a pillow, the angle of view is just fine.

Thanks, XDA devs!:cool:
[G Tablet General] vaccdroid:
I must be one of the few who didnt use a new rom and likes the stock one. I love the dashboard as long as its not the main launcher, Love being able to go to it to read the headlines, see my calendar , my emails and to do list then go back to the stock Android 2.2 .
[G Tablet General] Synman:
You guys having view angle issues... get a good anti glare screen. It changes everything for the better.
[G Tablet General] khdude:
Are you saying that the antiglare screen fixes (or substantially improves) the viewing angle issues? Which one do you recommend?
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
No problem. After installing a new ROM, applying the touchscreen sensitivity fix, and configuring Launcher Pro to my liking, I'm shickled titless about this thing. I tether it to my Evo while I'm at work (so I don't care about the lack of 3G/4G), and you can even give it GPS capabilities via bluetooth. The homescreen scrolling is a little laggy, but tolerable.

I played with a Galaxy Tab tonight, and it really hammered home just how bad the gTab screen can be at certain angles. No matter how I tilted the Galaxy Tab, it remained almost the same. But that 7" screen is too small and the resolution doesn't give you the room you need to fully utilize the tablet form factor, so I will live with the angles. For now :)
[G Tablet General] Pinckneyite:
Wooter with problem: android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly

Well, my new gTablet showed up on Tuesday! Playing with it messed with work, but it was a b-day present for the wife (who had wanted an iPad.)

She was happy, and I continued to add aps, but now the thing has this problem with forced closes. I think it was Skype that did it. Have been reading the forum posts all morning. Looks like today is a day to get a lot deeper into this thing. After reading a lot, I figured it would not be possible to brick it, so onward.
[G Tablet General] spamhead:
Update: clearing the battery stats in CWM fixed the battery issue for me.
[G Tablet General] tsg2513:
I am completely thrilled with the G-Tab. I am running stock TNT (OTA Update) with the Enhancement Pack and VTL Launcher. Purchased the Clip Case (White), Malata Dock (on order) and the Skinomi Carbon Fiber and Screen Protector. So far, no issues (I don't mind the screen's viewing angles too much). I sold my iPad 1 on eBay two weeks before they released the new one and I got a pretty good price for it. I opted not to get the iPad 2 because I really prefer Android so I bought the eLocity A7 but returned it because the battery life sucked. I contemplated the Zoom until I saw the Woot special. I am glad I did and have no regrets.
[G Tablet General] fierogt5spd:
Hi, I too just received my gtab from Woot. I'm running TnT Lite and really like it.

I think the battery life will improve after 4-5 charges. My DroidX's battery and extended battery both improved greatly after multiple cycles.

Tryin different Roms is a lot of fun. I am running Apex on my DroidX and this is just as much fun.

Enjoy
[G Tablet General] nchmura:
Got mine last week (yep, from Woot), spent a night toying around with it right "out of the box" - definitely was not impressed with the stock interface, though, for what it is worth, it did work just fine. Just not very fast or slick!

I had spent the week before reading just about every thread on these forums, watched about 50 youtube videos on each of the roms here, and eventually decided on Vegan 5.1. I gotta say hot damn, I love my gTab now! Huge kudos to the Vegan developers, it installed no problem and it is running beautifully! Popped on swype as well, makes my typing life on there 10000% better!

Huge thanks to these forums in general as well!

So, my thoughts on this tab:

1) Heavier than I thought, but I kinda like that. It feels rugged and feels well built.

2) Screen? Yeah, I see what people are complaining about, but I am fine with it.

3) This thing runs nice. Fast, snappy and (so far) pretty stable!

4) I wish the hard buttons on the edge there lit up. Not a deal breaker though.

For the price (and especially now having Vegan on there), I am loving this thing!