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[G Tablet General] clockcycle:
CREDITS: This is posted for informational purposes only, and originally comes from MrGuy on TabletRoms for the Notionink Adam. Additional device specific information comes from roebeet on SlateDroid for the Viewsonic G Tablet, newbe5 and corvus on Modaco for the Advent Vega. With contributions from DJ_Steve (StephenH official NI dev), josh4trunks (Contract NI dev), and Dauiton from Tabletroms. Hardware acceleration and sound enabled by HomerSp. Thanks go to red_herringx for providing the system dump as well.

*** UPDATE 12:00pm EDT May 12th 2011 MrGuy has done it again, looks like the Market (gapps) issue has been resolved! MrGuy says " Borkata's link and HomerSp's test app helped a lot too"

May 5th 2011

Logged into IRC this morning and to my surprise there was some interesting chatter going on.

It seems that MrGuy has gotten as far as booting HoneyComb on the Adam. In the source post he has made his progress available for other devs to work on.

[YOUTUBE]YZT7naqiUmc[/YOUTUBE]

Although at this time, it seems to only work while holding your Adam upside down... :rolleyes:

NOTE: In order to use this, you must make sure you use the utmost delicate hand gestures when touching your screen, as seen in the video.

***05/05/2011 11:24 [-04:00 GMT] PROGRESS: DJ_Steve aka StephenH in collaboration with MrGuy, has made progress in figuring out how to stop the Force Close. There seem to be some issues with the touch screen at this time..

14:03 -04:00 GMT ADD: roebeet's quick to get this on the GTAB

UPDATED VIDEO:

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Tremendous progress was made this morning and is being made as you read this.

It's exciting news and thought I would share it with a sister tablet.

HoneyComb is booting on the Notion Ink Adam and now it's on the GTAB as well.

FRESH TODAY 9th May 2011 11:30AM EDT

Cross collaboration between devs of sister tablets in the ##adamroot freenode IRC channel this morning!

Devs: HomerSp got hardware acceleration working, newbe5/corvus got it working on the Advent Vega (video demo below) and DJ_Steve applied them to the Adam HC rom and confirmed to now be working smoothly!

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9th May 2011 12:05 EDT

DJ_Steve showsoff hardware acceleration implementation on Notioink Adam.

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MAY 10th 2011

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News Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/advents-vega-tablet-gets-a-little-sweeter-with-the-addition-of/
[G Tablet General] Enectic:
Nice! Haven't read through the entire thread yet but definitely some interesting stuff.
[G Tablet General] nuclearfusion:
Excellent!
[G Tablet General] hammcastle:
Great news.

Yet another reason to have a beer on Cinco de Mayo
[G Tablet General] xmr405o:
So was he the one who won the Honeycomb bounty? Didn't they have a bounty on the first HC port?
[G Tablet General] schettj:
Is it wrong that I'm excited by this news?
[G Tablet General] xmr405o:
No. You can be excited and optimistic. I think its a moral victory at this point but it'll spark hope again to some. But to others, they won't see it as nothing but a makeshift ROM with no value because its not the real thing. As a fan of modders and devs, I can feel excited for them because its a good accomplishment.
[G Tablet General] pr0cs:
OP should add the screenshot to their post:
[G Tablet General] MechAniX.one:
This is great news. It looked pretty laggy in the video. Now all we need is some leaked Nvidia drivers and we are set!
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm not that talented. :P
[G Tablet General] ssmr2t:
^^^That is so sexy :D
[G Tablet General] rw144:
Roebeet has the port running on his G Tab

This is awesome because it is only a matter of time now before this is working and with Devs like Roebeet working on it will get done. You could feel the excitement in his posts. Man I miss reading his posts here, his support of his roms was top notch.
[G Tablet General] Dueces99:
Glad to see you still hanging around here roebeet. As for the HC port, not in my most optimistic dreams did I think it would be ported over this quickly regardless of the experimental level its currently at. Guess that goes to show how motivated people are when they're told they can't do something! :) If you need any testers, just tell me where to sign up!
[G Tablet General] wasserkapf:
I'll get excited when I see a full Linux distribution ported to the g-tablet (with hardware drivers).

This is just another version of the limited Android OS.
[G Tablet General] y2k-inc:
Posted on Viewsonic and nVidia Facebook page, hope they will answer us with a good news ....
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Who has the gtab port?
[G Tablet General] Mikawo:
I managed to get it running by flashing Honeycomb.zip from the Notion Ink Adam thread and then flashing pershoot's latest kernel.

It's just like in that video: very slow! Not very usable so it's not worth flashing right now unless you want to mess around.
[G Tablet General] n21klin:
exelent, it is new berthday for our tablet
[G Tablet General] tekrhino:
ROE!! FRIEND!!

Is this your doing??
[G Tablet General] juanaraya92679:
This is awesome but my non optimistic side says nvidia won't release any video drivers for awhile,*sigh* and then i'm rejoicing again with CM7 nightlies :) all better now.
[G Tablet General] aasoror:
So why the rejoicing with CM7 ? nvidia hasn't released any GB video drivers yet either (on which the CM7 is based), didn't make much difference for you, did it ? not sure why would it be any different for HC.
[G Tablet General] juanaraya92679:
True, i'm just rejoicing because to me CM7 is the best Ginger rom available according to what I use my tablet for, silky smooth rom and they actually just recently fixed a lot of the big issues with video. Which is awesome considering there are no GB drivers made available by nvidia :) Basically CM7 has no video ui lag compared to HC ports hence my rejoicing to stick with CM7 after the slight downer that I don't think we will have any nvidia HC drivers anytime soon. :(

Crossing fingers and praying regardless though.
[G Tablet General] sixvoltsystem:
Lies, you are kick ass. Don't forget it. Thank you sir.
[G Tablet General] orangekid:
When aosp source is pushed we should be doing pretty well.
[G Tablet General] doctorisin:
I'd recognize that Pandigital Novel dock/stand anywhere.... Nice work Roebeet!!!
[G Tablet General] adampdx:
Although I'm enjoying CM7 very much, the animations are not as smooth as either Vegan release, but much more smooth compared to the AOSP build.
[G Tablet General] juanaraya92679:
And the Poll thread will begin. :p

CM7 or VeganGinger... Which shall conquer/be favored more by g tablet users..:)
[G Tablet General] MechAniX.one:
I know Nvidia doesnt want any trouble from Google for releasing HC drivers but cant they release GB drivers with no trouble? You cant tell me that they never wrote GB drivers for Harmony. Im sure they have them just lying around there. They said they were willing to help the dev community. Dont make me call "LIAR" on you Nvidia.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
They have stated that if the manufacturer asks for drivers they will provide them. In the gtabs case I believe that would be Malata as they are the manufacurer. I could also see a case for the disigners of the original Tap n Tap firmware asking for them if they were to release a Gingerbread version
[G Tablet General] rajeevvp:
Hear! Hear!

Android, even HoneyComb, is a nice bit of flash and all, but, it's still a dinky OS.
[G Tablet General] kenfly:
Links to files and video? I didnt see either anywhere. But i am also blind.
[G Tablet General] 1tytesc:
So glad to see this progress!

F ing Awesome!

Go Devs Go!

Very tempted to try it out...

Waiting for CWM version if at all possible.

Or a brief step by step install guide to HC on Gtab would help.
[G Tablet General] tcrews:
Basically this just boots. Its entirely useless in its present state. No sense installing it unless you are wanting to help debug stuff.

Sent from my Viewsonic 10" GTab...CM7 style...
[G Tablet General] alex6499:
yay can't wait until honeycomb will be on the gtab.
[G Tablet General] asankasl:
They have made a big progress in a relatively short time. In addition, NI is also working on HC.
[G Tablet General] californiarailroader:
Dinky? I don't think so.
[G Tablet General] projectzro:
My question is if you dont care for it then A) why did you buy it B) Why the !@#$ are you posting on this forum.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
A) It looks like he bought it to try and get linux running on it

B) Are only fanbois allowed to post in this forum anymore?

C) Android is a phone OS so in some peoples eyes its dinky
[G Tablet General] fridge011:
This forum is filled with android fanboys. Including u.
[G Tablet General] Oozura:
Me want honey cremes!
[G Tablet General] rajeevvp:
Looks like I've ruffled a few feathers with my post...

We were talking about Android and not the gTab, so technically I didn't buy the OS, right? Plus, this thread is about people's opinions about Honeycomb (or whatever your favourite poison is) on the gTablet.

Nah, I bought it for the same reason that others here have: In tablets, this one gives you the most bang for the buck. The full USB port alone did it for me.

That is part of the reason, and if this discussion doesn't degenerate into "my way or the highway", I can go into the others. Anyway, I gotta justify what I said, so:

A lot of compromises have to be made to software if the device you're running on doesn't have a lot of memory and you cannot even use swap. The decisions that were made for Android in the early days are still with us (the no swap space bit is one, and the non-standard assignment of processes to UIDs instead of users to UIDs is another). They were alright then, but, seem increasingly restrictive with the tablets we have today--1GHz dual core CPUs, 512 MB/1GB RAM and 16/32GB of storage.

With specs like that and, let's say 4 GB of swap space, you could very easily use the gTablet as a full desktop. You could create content, with things like Photoshop or GIMP, instead of just viewing them. But, we can't, which is why I said Android was dinky.

And "dinky" was not meant entirely as a pejorative. In fact, dinky is the main reason why Android (and this tablet) have become so popular.

There is an interesting thread on the board which noted that people who would normally never interact with a regular PC have taken very keenly to tablets. Interface simplicity is part of the reason. Even a technical guy like me feels the pull. I had TnT-Lite on the gTab soon after it arrived, and I played with it for a couple of weeks until I settled on CyanogenMod. And, after a few days of playing with the tablet, I was struck by something: I knew where every setting for changing anything on the tablet was located.

I've never internalized a UI that completely before and that was when I realized that tablets were going to be popular; that the technology of the PC had finally succeeded in becoming invisible after 30 long years of trying.
[G Tablet General] haymant:
congratulation!
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
All of this progress being made so fast just has me sitting at my desk at work like..

ME WANT HONEYCOMB! :D

I'm usually the patient one with this stuff. I'm glad to wait for stability to be fixed, meow that the hardware acceleration is there, i'm wishing I had this right meow!
[G Tablet General] cookiepuss:
Couldn't agree more. ;)
[G Tablet General] juanaraya92679:
WOW , these devs are freaking amazing. :) I'm speechless.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
Henrietta Pussycat owns a gTab?
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
What is it means for GTablet owners.. I know someone has to port it for GTablet, but wonder when we will see the port in GTab? I know, you are not suppose to ask timeline for such project, but just curious.
[G Tablet General] snapz54:
I am know not to ask, but I am ask now, and somehow I'm right for doing this.

you are agree with me?
[G Tablet General] ~JohnnyB~:
I think the difficulty in declaring a time-line is the variables of the work to be done. The variables being things like drivers being released from manufactures, total number of devs working on the project, the number of hours those devs are able to devote to the project, potential hurdles that appear during the testing process and the testers to complete those tests. I'm probably missing one (or more) variables but I think this illustrates the challenge well enough as to why there isn't any way to put a timeline...it's just useless to do so. Companies like Verizon don't do it for a very good reason, when they do, they fail at reaching that timeline, they are blasted for it.

As for me, I'm very excited for this to come to my G-tab and I will be anxiously waiting for the devs/testers to do their work...I'd even put in some testing cycles of my own when the time is right...but it is impossible to guess when this will be. I'm really sorry about that too, its just the nature of development, even agile development (and pretty sure these guys are operating under the agile methodology.)

John
[G Tablet General] cybik:
OP: on may 9th, you just anihilated my only reason to go get an eeePad Transformer. My wallet thanks you.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Well, as the gadget lover, I am itching to buy the eepad, but have trouble justifying, and can't locate one even if I want to buy one. With today's news, I am going to get great life out of my tablet.

Need nice case with keyboard to complete my tablet.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
Not that you asked for my opinion, but if your wallet can withstand another $100, you'd be better off with the Transformer, unless you just absolutely can't live without a USB port (and Asus will be selling an adapter for that, hopefully sooner than later).
[G Tablet General] cybik:
With this update, you and I can "justify" waiting for the Superman*-based version of the Transformer :)

I'd rather pay for a quad-core upgrade than a side-grade to a prettier screen (GTab's is the pits), though I do admit the docking station is a hell of a great add-on :D

*: Tegra3's code-name is Kal-El. T4 is Wayne, T5 is Logan and T6 is Stark. I love nVidia.
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
Lol. Sorry. Force of habit for a while of watching Super Troopers. :D
[G Tablet General] notsob2002:
Roebeet has released a Alfa version of the HC port based on the work done by the NI group.

If you want to check it go for it, it's posted at his new hangout. Remember to follow instructions and also keep in mind it is a work in progress.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Can you get Transformers easily if you don't have Fry's in 250 mile radius?
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
Nooo, but if you keep your eyes peeled, they seem to pop up from time to time at online retailers.
[G Tablet General] y2k-inc:
With this new I'm hanging on my "Megan Fox" for a while ... LOL
[G Tablet General] manikin13:
Extremely well said.:cool:
[G Tablet General] dcarr622:
Just to verify...is this the same work that's being featured on Engadget right now?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/advents-vega-tablet-gets-a-little-sweeter-with-the-addition-of/
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
Yes, you are correct.
[G Tablet General] californiarailroader:
That is nice, I can't wait until we get a stable, working release for the gTablet!
[G Tablet General] triggerftu:
Roebeet got a port goin for the G-tab. working yes still a few bugs on it. goin to try it tomarrow and take a look see. hopein he works on it more because this port to the gtab is epic.
[G Tablet General] californiarailroader:
Very cool! I think I'll wait until it's at least at Release Candidate stage though.
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
I took the dive and installed the alpha about an hour after Roebeet posted it last night.

It's definitely functional. NVFlash is a must for most around here since we all probably still run on 1.1 ROMs(I know I was, at least.) You may also want to be comfortable with ADB since there is no file browser on there yet, market obviously doesn't work, and the stock browser doesn't work too well when it does, if at all. Oh, and you can't mount the SD card to a computer, seemingly, yet.

It was a simple install. NVFlash to the current stock with bootloader 1.2, then you unrar the download for the alpha rom into the root of the device storage so you have a recovery folder and the update.zip in the root. Reboot into recovery and it'll do the installation on it's own. wipe data/cache after installing and reboot. Should be good to go from there.

I got the browser running by turning off the OpenGL from the debug menu, but it could just be that I can't get a decent wifi connection going. I'm not in control of the router at home and it's set up horridly... meh, I don't pay for it, so I can't complain too much, I suppose. lol

and...... nope.. just tried to install an app from the email app. It only has a save option. Where it goes, i'm not sure yet.. lol I was hoping to get ES File Explorer installed that way to make it easier. That's a no go. Also, it doesn't seem to show any content of emails for me right now.. it has its own tab for attachments, which it shows, but no text or images in other email. For some reason, my home screen is now blank as well... ok, I think I might have hit a setting or something I shouldn't have. :D Oh well. I'll reboot and try again.

rebooting didn't help the email. Browser isn't working for me now.. lol Anyway, that's where ADB comes into play. You should be able to get a file explorer going and install another browser. Firefox is the browser of choice for others in posts i've read, seemingly. I haven't tried Dolphin yet. I won't be able to till I get home and have access to something that can use ADB.

Edit: For those who haven't seen my posts around, I tend to ramble... sorry.. lol once I start typing I just keep going. I'll try not to do that too much. lol
[G Tablet General] clockcycle:
Yes it is.
[G Tablet General] triggerftu:
i don't think it needs a 1.1 bootloader when in the instructions is sez to nvflash the 1.2 rom.
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I said that it pretty much required NVFlash because most of us here at XDA are probably still on 1.1. I meant to mention that it was required because 1.2 was needed and that it was still required even for those on 1.2 because it needed a larger partition.

Probably sounds like i'm backtracking, but, trust me.. I already have it installed, I know what I diid. lol I just forgot to mention that part here. sorry :D
[G Tablet General] triggerftu:
No problem, it's xda there are alot of Android phone and tablet noobies come here so gotta keep it alittle open for them for the ones that actually use the search lol.
[G Tablet General] jccrumpler:
Lets get this party started then. I'm ready for my HC!!!
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
Seems Roebeet plans to release a slight update to his alpha build, with adding root ("thanks to Koush for the Xoom su!"), "a few additional apps"(mentioned a file browser, at the very least), and a "better boot screen (thanks snapz54!)".

I was expecting to have to ADB a few apps in when I got home from work, but that will make it easier. lol

adding a working browser and file manager will make this a pretty good alpha build if you can get past the lack of sound, camera, and g-sensor.. but that's why it's still considered alpha. I can only say that i'm happy that these devs are releasing anything this early instead of holding it off till it was "ready". It gives everyone a chance to help and contribute.

If any one that has taken part in getting this running is reading, you've done awesome. I only wish I had stuck with programming when I actually had somewhat of a, albeit minor, talent for it so I could help.

Edit: It's up now.
[G Tablet General] fldash:
Amazing news. Can't wait to try it on my GTab...
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
So if you are on any 1.1 bases rom, you have just downloaded the rar and put it on the root of the SD and reloaded into recovery which installs the HC? Is that the correct procedure?

To go back, install/download cwm 0.8 and copy it on the root, and reboot into recovery which will install the recovery and install any 1.1 rom or restore from your nandroid backup.

Can someone verify the process?
[G Tablet General] nunjabusiness:
No. 1.2-based is requirement.

Here is Roebeet's instruction from the other place:

What this is

This is the "HoneyCreamAdam" HC mod port for the 1.2-based GTab. This will flash your boot.img and system, so be aware of this. You are also REQUIRED to wipe your user data after you flash to this ROM, so please BACKUP ALL DATA before attempting this.

A 1.2-based GTAB device is required, as we are using the Adam kernel for the best compatibility! The 1.2 GTAB dev branch and the Adam dev branch seem to be the same exact branch, and the kernels are (mostly) compatible.

REQUIRED Pre-requisites!!!! PLEASE READ

1. nvflash your device to 1-2.4349. The reason is because the Honeycomb port requires more space than the default setup will allow. Details on how to nvflash to 4349 are here: http://www.slatedroi...mages-g-tablet/. The 4349 nvflash will do two things, that this mod requires:

1- it will flash you to the 1.2 dev branch. The 1.2 branch can boot Adam kernels (1.1 cannot).

2- it will increase the system partition from ~200MB to 250MB. Right now, this port requires about 230MB. I will likely up this further, very soon. The extra space is coming from the cache partition.

Installation

- Extract the RAR to the root of your internal memory. So, you'd have a recovery folder and an update.zip on the root of the mounted drive.

- Reboot into recovery. The update should occur automatically (click on the Home button to see the build details while it's running) . Once completed, it should reboot automatically.

- The device should take some time to initialize (two to three minutes, so be patient), then will boot into the GUI. Most likely it will get stuck - reboot into recovery one more time and wipe data / factory reset and reboot.

Backout

This is a 1.2-based mod and I would recommend that you backout to the latest stock ROM (4349, as of this writing). Please see this post on instructions on how to flash to a stock 1.2-based ROM: http://www.slatedroi...sions-g-tablet/. Or since you likely nvflashed to get this installed, just nvflash back to 4349 (or 3588) to back out.

Also see gojimi's post on backing out from a 1.2-based ROM to a 1.1-based ROM, if needed: http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1036956
[G Tablet General] Enectic:
You have to NVFLASH a 4349 ROM before you can install the Honeycomb ROM, specifically one modified that increases the system partition size. The link and instructions are posted on the "other" forum. To back out to the 1.1 branch you need to follow this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036956.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
can you please fix the URL in your how to?

thanks for your help. I am going to try tonight.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Thanks for all your help.
[G Tablet General] nunjabusiness:
Hi, not my link. His.

Something may not have translated past a line break.

you may need to delete at the end of the first line to make it intact. This forum has a very small width limit for composing emails.

Here is link to his original item:

http://www.rom-honeycomb-for-gtab-12-based.com/

Just read his whole post and you will be golden.
[G Tablet General] mpguy84:
Using 1.2 right now of HC. Its amazing. Needs a lot of work but so far!?!?! its ridiculous how good it already is compared to the video of 1.0a. Its really fast and seems pretty stable, a lot does not work like internet browsing for me, and some other things, but its a good look ;)
[G Tablet General] Oozura:
Which kernel is this using? Has anyone attempted pershoots updated kernel for the new bl? Were you successful in over clocking?
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
I believe there is an OC kernel that Clemsyn has built for HC..

http://www.rom-honeycomb-for-gtab.com