yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Android Development] linuxboxsolution:
cool let me know what you think so far and if you let me know what the things are you missing the most and really need besides Flash. LOL but yeah I want to make this a Honeycomb that is a well rounded Android. So i want the advice of new features and such they have heard about.
[G Tablet Android Development] irishrally:
Checked out the youtube video, looks pretty sweet. Will try it out tomorrow to see the improvements with hardware acceleration etc.

Edit: Let's see some benchmark comparisons between BoS and Illuminate.
[G Tablet Android Development] vnbuddy2002:
Make sure you do the following

Unzip recover.zip and move recovery folder to /sdcard folder

The recover.zip file can be found in the Roebeets thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1078897

Regards,

Kenny N
[G Tablet Android Development] vnbuddy2002:
Humm -- I got stuck with the boot loop . I am updating from 3588 stock recovery

Regards,

Kenny N
[G Tablet Android Development] vnbuddy2002:
After half an hour struggling, I am able to load your HoneyComb edition. I am going to play around with it.

To make everyone's life easier.

Make sure you nvflash your device first using the following nvflash image

http://www.mediafire.com/?g7vorg66iiq29vm

1. Download the nvflash image above.

2. Download the recover.zip from (http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=596319&d=1305415712 ) and extract the recovery folder to SD root

3. Download this honeycomb image and rename it to update.zip and copy it to your SD root

4. nvflash the nvflash image

5. Reboot with Power + Volumn up. This should bring you to the new bootloader

6. Flash the SDCard external update.zip

7. Wipes

9. Restart

:) G'd luck . Thanks linuxboxsolution for his contribution. I will comment later.
[G Tablet Android Development] vnbuddy2002:
Nice -- OpenGL is working perfectly. The benchmark from Quandrant is 1780. Not great but can't really complain :)
[G Tablet Android Development] nunjabusiness:
That's funny, I could have sworn you claimed previously to have "fixed flash" too!
[G Tablet Android Development] ramerco:
Does enabling OpenGL break the stock browser? Or have you done something to work around this issue?

Is the main difference from Roebeet's HCAdam and Vegacomb mashup that is Bottle of Smoke that you have enabled opengl?
[G Tablet Android Development] Dueces99:
This looks very promising, currently running BoS 3.3 and was about to jump to 4.1 but I might have to try this first. My apologies if this has already been covered but what exactly is the difference between this ROM and roe's BoS? How were you able to get hw acceleration on here while BoS lacks it?

Thanks alot for your contribution, and I'll be sure to post my findings later today.
[G Tablet Android Development] Djapatos:
just wondering

so if the opengl is fixed, how come flashed is still hasnt fixed?

i believ robeet said the opengl is what makes flash doesn't work
[G Tablet Android Development] cotangent05:
OpenGL is enabled but not working.. :) it lacks on driver and without flash no OPENGL.. note on that..

and one more thing.. BoS has HWaccel and working, like gingerbread... the only problem is video HWaccel HD playback..

BoS 3.3 or 4.0+ boot quickly too, smooth UI like that, so i can't really tell what's the difference between the two, except for bootanimation.. LOL :D
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
I, for one, appreciate your efforts

Going to start posting in XDA's GTAB forums, at least sporadically. I think enough time has passed and things have changed around here (ie a lot of 1.2 mods are popping up, which I think is a good thing). Plus I'm not really seeing the moderator "changes" that were heavily present in April. So maybe things are back to normal. Maybe.

With that in mind, I wanted to say that your efforts are much appreciated - the end goal is to get a good working HC ROM for the users out there and if you have the ear of some people to make that happen, then that's what counts. I already mentioned in Slatedroid that I plan to pull back a bit after this month with modding the GTAB, so any extra dev / modding work is ALWAYS appreciated, imo.

Thanks again.
[G Tablet Android Development] snailer88:
Looks awesome, will flash once I get my new PC built >:)
[G Tablet Android Development] xkwwwx:
Thanks roe
[G Tablet Android Development] drizzt5:
So first of all thank you for your work.

But this is different from bottle of smoke because it enables OpenGL right?

Any other changes?
[G Tablet Android Development] cgingermany:
I hate to be a Richard but, can we get some screenies fam?
[G Tablet Android Development] raphenucleus:
Not quite sure what that means, but if you want to see what it looks like, you can watch the youtube preview. It's at the bottom of the OP or here.
[G Tablet Android Development] Itchiee:
Rich, there is an almost 9 minute video in the first post. :p
[G Tablet Android Development] Jay321:
Can some one explain to me what i did wrong because after flashing the rom it keeps booting back to recovery when i select rebooy sysyem
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
I've no idea what you did wrong. Were in uncharted waters here. Honeycomb right now is for testing purposes. Also, I highly suggest you go with another, more stable rom.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Personally, I think 1.5 was way more stable than 1.6. Performance kinda took a nosedives here.
[G Tablet Android Development] Jay321:
What about that bottles of smoke rom or what do u suggest for newest roms
[G Tablet Android Development] gTen:
Updated from 1.5 -> 1.6 today..Vital player FCs on me :/... Tried clearing cache and didn't help either..
[G Tablet Android Development] Gemni69:
Ditto... Atleast it loads faster now. They are moments where performance is just super slow. Not sure why.
[G Tablet Android Development] transitoyspace:
I would really like to know where the

TRUE

support from linuxbox is, is it here or over at slatedroid.

Thanks

btw what are planned updates?

have you or anyone else tried the flash fix yet?
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
All honeycomb roms are in alpha stages. The most stable roms are the froyo based roms. The most popular seem to be the ginger roms. They're all pretty stable.

I highly suggest you stay away from the honeycomb roms for now. We will tell you when there is a stable release for general use.
[G Tablet Android Development] transitoyspace:
off topic here,

@goodintentions

but is there any froyo roms available for 1.2?

which is the most popular.

thanks
[G Tablet Android Development] Slightly Askew:
Both methods resulted in the tablet hanging at the Illuminate boot screen.

Back to 1.5 for now.
[G Tablet Android Development] LittleKingDutch:
Yep same here. Luckily, I backed up before starting. Hopefully someone can find a fix.

Love the ROM.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
I just modified the list on my website to show which is what. Go to my website!
[G Tablet Android Development] Slightly Askew:
anyone have any ideas why I can plug in a thumb drive and have it recognized, but not an external HD?
[G Tablet Android Development] Mantara:
Some external HD require more power than the gtab puts out from the USB port. Try running it from a powered USB tree.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
i a noob with the gtab but i got this to work. my only question is how would i flash a different rom? everytime i try i get status 7 errors
[G Tablet Android Development] transitoyspace:
go into custom recovery and wipe and flash new rom based on bl.

or use the command recovery for stock and update rom that way.

or, not sure on this, you can flash using nvflash.

i personally use the first 2. no problems here
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
i did wipe and everything and whole 9 but thats when i get status 7 errors. for every rom. every time.

i tried cm, aosp vanilla, vegan, and harmony none working for me.

do i need to revert back to 1.1 for them to work?
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
WARNING!!!

There is something really screwed up about 1.6 rom. After people reporting not being able to nvflash successfully out of this rom and back to stock, I decided to try it. After I nvflashed, the gtab was soft-bricked. And I mean really bricked. No amount of nvflash was able to get it to boot beyond the the tapntap logo. It would boot to the tapntap logo and then go into permanent apx mode.

After an hour, I finally got it to boot normal again.

Stay away from 1.6 until we figure out what's wrong with it!
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
so im guessing im screwed now that its already on
[G Tablet Android Development] xmr405o:
Which stock rom did u nvflash to? I had to use bekits old one..it sucked. Anyways, I agree 1.6 isn't one to mess with right now.

Btw, great site!
[G Tablet Android Development] transitoyspace:
i really like this rom, 1.5.

And i appreciate all the good intentions linuxbox is bringing but i see him post more on slatedroid and not here. I dont want to keep going back and forth on both sites. i do like goodintentions site though, all in one place

did linuxbox get banned from new posts, i dont get it.

so hopefully we hear from op and let us know what up. thanks again.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
I tried all of them.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
since i AM already on 1.6 can anyone recommend me a solution? i'm supposed to be selling my tab come the weekend...but wont be able to if i cant get around this
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Lucky you.

Look at the very last part of this page on nvflash (troubleshoot).

I don't understand why this particular rom is screwing up the nvflash process. But it does. Something is preventing the normal boot process.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
sweet man thanx. i wanted to leave this rom on to sell it but the kid is an idiot and wouldnt know wat to do so i need it things to work for him
[G Tablet Android Development] jack_d12:
Some things I've noticed using this ROM version 1.6 -

Google Maps location does not work

Dolphin Browser HD shows a blank page

other then those things performance has been pretty good when overclocked to a range of 1ghz to 1.5ghz, not as fast as the beasty froyo rom but good enough to fool around with. I understand this doesn't have true HW acceleration like froyo does. I also noticed there are not too many profiles to choose from in CPUmaster.

no problems with wifi or sleep. I am able to connect to my HD2 via wifi tether, and have been connecting to two other routers with no issues (1 B, 1 G)

will report back if I find anything else,
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
I'm about to release a BoS a5.1 (to fix the browser issue in a5.0) -- once that's done, I'll take a look at this to see if I can replicate it. My device isn't a day-to-day use device, so worth risking.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
So I went back to the 1.2 branch and got a bootloop at the tnt logo as planned then nvflash cwm but it didn't get me past the boot loop

Via TT
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Muhahahahahahahahahaha

Just as I was afraid, somebody finding another problem...
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
no worries....yet. haha im gunna try going back to 1.1 and getting into cwm then moving fwd. any other suggestion while i get that going?
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
You could also try flashing CWM using the stock recovery to flash update.zip in external card option. That's what I did to get it to work. I assumed (incorrectly I supose) that having a command file in recovery folder would do the same thing.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
pretty sure im at a dead end...on myown stupidity. i left the update from the rom on my tab...so since i reverted back to 1.1 obviously when i try to boot into recovery it tries to update but since its the wrong boot....soft brick. gotta go to 1.2 apply the update then take the stupid thing off the tab before i can get anywhere
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Muahahahaha. Try nvflashing CWM and then do a data wipe.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
i actually tried the nvflash cwm first but couldnt get anywhere. i just loaded the rom again about to remove the clutter from the sd then manually apply the update for cwm 1.2 and see where that gets me
[G Tablet Android Development] linuxboxsolution:
First I will post a specific NVFlash Tomorrow after I package everything for Linux and Windows One download and It works. i don't know what NVFlash was being used when people are trying to NVFlash or maybe you are not NVFlashing the correct .img files. But I will upload them exactly how I use them.

Next the reason you cannot plug in an external HD is most likely it is either not formatted to VFAT or FAT32 which are the only other formats besides EXT4 android will recognize for an external device. Maybe limitations of the kernel. Not sure.
[G Tablet Android Development] linuxboxsolution:
After NVFlashing have you tried to apply the stock update from recovery?
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
Couldn't get 1.6 to load up (adb showed massive service crashes, even after a data wipe). Going to go back to my 4349 nvflash and retry it.

If I can replicated this, I'll see if I can undo it. I assume it was 1) load it up 2) make sure the GUI comes up and then 3) nvflash back to 4349? And were people using standard recovery or cwm to load this?
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
i got this to load up 1st try. i nvf to 1.1 then straight to 1.2 loaded the update zip and let it work. booted into cwm and cleared data reboot and magic.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
For nvflash, I used

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/wrcd87u1iy31u4e/nvflash_windows_20100500.zip?dl=1

and

http://download638.mediafire.com/6yrj5v2da5fg/mw1mmifazhmvoeh/gtab.nvflash.1.1.branch.20110422.zip

Also tried

http://download354.mediafire.com/934qkd83iy0g/g7vorg66iiq29vm/gtab.nvflash.1.2.branch.20110508.zip

About the stock update, no. Actually, let me retrace my steps and try something else...
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Ok, new recommendation!

I keep forgetting that nvflash doesn't kill data.

(1) Before nvflashing, boot into CWM and wipe data.

(2) Nvflash.

Should work smoothly this time. Will test now.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
ok bingo i got it this time. idk why it worked since i coulda sworn i did the exact same thing just using nvf instead but wither way...

revert back to 1.2 branch with nvf

manually apply the cwm for 1.2

reboot into bootloop

reboot into cwm

clear data

reboot

like magic it booted right up. about to try to flash a rom. i will report back
[G Tablet Android Development] alex6499:
For some reason version 1.5 and 1.6 always say install aborted when i try to use them. 1.4 and 1.3 work great though.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
does it give u any error?

did u wipe data and cache?

if u did all that just try to redownload. the file may be messed up
[G Tablet Android Development] linuxboxsolution:
Also anyone who is stuck in a bootloop on 1.2 bootloader may want to read this which is int he Q&A section which should be a first read before anyone ever mods there tablet.
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
Make sure you extract the ZIP for 1.6, at least. Yep, I made that mistake - it's a ZIP inside a ZIP, like I used to do (it's why I moved to RAR, as it's a visual queue that it can't be an update.zip file).

I tried 1.6 several times, but massive crashing on reboot - did a data wipe and reflash right now, and an SD repartition next (haven't done that in a few weeks, so I'm about due).

Here's my crash:

D/AudioHardwareInterface( 1153): setMode(NORMAL)
I/CameraService( 1153): CameraService started (pid=1153)
I/AudioFlinger( 1153): AudioFlinger's thread 0x10798 ready to run
D/ ( 1049): NVRM_DAEMON(803): rt_exist=1, add client ref
I/DEBUG ( 1042): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I/DEBUG ( 1042): Build fingerprint: 'asus/WW_epad/EeePad:3.0.1/HRI66/WW_epad-8.2.3.6-20110414:user/release-keys'
I/DEBUG ( 1042): pid: 1154, tid: 1154 >>> zygote <<<
I/DEBUG ( 1042): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 6dbf9ca2
I/DEBUG ( 1042): r0 00000000 r1 0046c300 r2 bec90710 r3 00006680
I/DEBUG ( 1042): r4 00082e48 r5 00000001 r6 bec90968 r7 ade5d3b1
I/DEBUG ( 1042): r8 bec90710 r9 bec90d24 10 00000001 fp bec90c6c
I/DEBUG ( 1042): ip 6dbf9ca0 sp bec90688 lr ade5d3ef pc ade7cf3e cpsr 60000030
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d0 3f4000003f400000 d1 0000007f00000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d2 0000000000000000 d3 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d4 0000000000000000 d5 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d6 0000000000000000 d7 0000003f3f000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d8 0000000000000000 d9 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d10 0000000000000000 d11 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d12 0000000000000000 d13 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): d14 0000000000000000 d15 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 1042): scr 60000010
I/DEBUG ( 1042):
I/DEBUG ( 1042): #00 pc 0007cf3e /system/lib/libicuuc.so

EDIT: Post SD repartition, still crashing. Will let it sit for 10 minutes to see if there's any change.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
What did it this time was the clear data part. Nvflash doesn't kill data. Data from the 1.6 interrupted the normal boot process of stock.

That said, from now on I will wipe data BEFORE nvflash.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
Ya I think it is cuz I wiped data after I nvf cwm. Either way I'm glad we got to the solution. Thanx guys

Via TT
[G Tablet Android Development] alex6499:
Lol i never tried unzipping it. I even nvflashed and wiped everything.

I noticed the rar when i was trying out BOS earlier. Good thinking.

Thanks
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
No prob and also glad to hear the nvflash issues were worked out.

Still can't get the a1.6 to load up, but no worries on that.
[G Tablet Android Development] cubanjinx:
How far have u gotten with it?

Via TT
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Ok, people, I just confirmed it with my own gtab.

Here is how you nvflash your way out of the 1.6 Illuminate ROM if you need to.

(1) Boot into CWM.

(2) Wipe data.

(3) Press the volume - button while you choose reboot system now to boot into APX mode.

(4) Nvflash!

The data left over from the 1.6 rom is interrupting the normal boot process of the stock rom. And nvflash doesn't wipe data. You have to manually do this with CWM first.
[G Tablet Android Development] alex6499:
I have a small issue that would be a nice fix for some people. Pulse does not work properly and any weather apps that have a radar, the radar always causes a force close. The weather radar one may be a flash thing though.
[G Tablet Android Development] linuxboxsolution:
also when going back to stock remember nvflash does not touch the user data partition so this must be formatted before trying to go back to stock or dalvik cache and other items will never get fixed. And if NVFlash is supposed to format user data I dont see it because I nvflashed six times applied my update.zip and all user data was still there.
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
Haha, way ahead of you there.
[G Tablet Android Development] oops_iv:
heyy

hey linuxboxsolution, question .. ive been going from nvflash 1.0 to 3588 to 4349 then to illuminate .. my system partition fills up everytime and i am force to delete some apks and the such just to get the rom to flash successfully .. which im fine with, but i would assume others are having this same issue ..

how big is your system partition before flashing?

also, what FS type is system?
[G Tablet Android Development] Decay78:
i get the same issue also
[G Tablet Android Development] nunjabusiness:
Odd that the camera service is being started when everybody knows it won't work. Seems like an unneccessary waste of resources.
[G Tablet Android Development] housry23:
I am loving this Rom so far. I just got my GTab yesterday and this is the first Rom I have tried. It came with stock 1.2 out of the box. My problem is, it doesn't seem like my device is syncing with the Google servers. I set up my account, and set up sync, set up wifi, but the wifi signal indicator stays white suggesting that it is not communicating with the Google servers(I think). I am able to read Gmail, but as far as downloading anything from the Market, I can't do it. It says "Please open My Apps to establish a connection with the Google Servers" which I did, but it still won't connect. I have tried to download an update to Maps...Failed. Tried to download XDA Premium...Failed. I am not new to Android, nor am I new to modding Android and I have had 3 Android phones and now this Gtab. If anyone else has this problem or if anyone know how to help...please help. Thanks.
[G Tablet Android Development] nycbjr:
flash works perfeclty fine on my Acer, honeycomb 3.01, I don't understand why its a stock browser issue, is it because the browser in this release is from the sdk or something?
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
ACER has the source code (and support) from Google and Nvidia, that's why. All the HC GTAB ports so far are essentially hacks. As such, some things don't work yet because the developers working on this just don't know how to correct them and can't ask the vendor for help. It's amazing that they got this to boot up at all, to be honest.
[G Tablet Android Development] Slightly Askew:
Have you tried the market fix? (i.e. go to applications, force stop and clear data for google com services and the market then reboot, look it up on these forums for more specifics)
[G Tablet Android Development] housry23:
Thanks it worked flawlessly. You instructions worked without any more help needed. That is good because search the forum was not working.
[G Tablet Android Development] mindwave:
honeycomb splash stuck

tried my hand at 1.6a this eve

been running tnt 4 sinc i got the tab a few months ago everything was woring ok, but i wanted 3.0 so i did the nvflash 1.2 then did the update for 1.6 and now im stuck on the HC splash screen.

only mistake i know i made was during the nvflash 1.2 install i lest my micro sd card in the device

gtab for dummies said not to (oops) but didnmt say what would happen if you did.

before i went to hc 1,6a i poked around a bit and didnt see anything out of the ordinairy

anyone know what the warning is for?

more importantly, before i try 1.5 tomorrow anyone have any better ideas.

this is my 4th tab this year so they do tend to get a little jumbled, but thats why i print everything before i dtart

thanks!

great worlk, im sure its something i did

j
[G Tablet Android Development] nelomen:
I believe 1.6 installs still having issues, I just flashed 1.5 and that worked. Took a little playing around but now on here.
[G Tablet Android Development] davidukfl:
1.6 works great for me. I still get lagging every now and again, but i got that with 1.5

Also my "not waking at sleep" issue is still there, but a wifi lock app has temporarily fixed that
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
I'm well aware of the bootloop and the stuck at splash screen issue with honeycomb roms. On my start here page code red solves this problem. You have to follow it in the exact order I listed.

Goodness, you guys don't like to follow instructions or something? Don't just skip around because you think you know what you're doing. Follow my code red, please!
[G Tablet Android Development] mindwave:
GI

I thought I was followiong the instructions (like I said I did miss the one about the microsd card( and the reality is that I did read it, just forgot to do it when I got around to the actual process, where is your code red?

Thanks

J
[G Tablet Android Development] mindwave:
ah ha, found the code red, lets see how that works

j
[G Tablet Android Development] goodintentions:
The most important step in the code red procedure is wiping data/factory reset RIGHT AFTER you nvflash. Nvflash does not wipe data. The problem you're facing is leftover data from the previous rom(s) messing around with your normal boot process. That's why you're either in a boot loop or stuck at the splash screen.