yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Android Development] zyhong:
if someone could confirm this solve the problem described here and does not seem to break things in other places, I will build a hotfix for this and maybe some small changes (so that you guys do not need to reflash. I will only build hotfix except major changes, e.g. some breakthrough from adamcomb team or the 2.6.36 kernel, for this rom in the foreseeable future)
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
USB to BOTH Sd cards

USB to BOTH SD Cards: It is reported that you can use Dual Mount SD ($.99) from the market to enable USB connection to both the Internal & External SD Cards.

(From my "Tips for Android Users")
[G Tablet Android Development] blacksea1:
I have so much problem with this Rom, it freezes, keys on the side of Tab not working, found out camera is not working, I was running vegan Gingerbread and everything was perfect. can you suggest a different ROM that is reliable, Thanks, Vic
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Sleep of Death

Thanks Zyhong - I have tried this and I will report back.



Nvanlaar - That is the same setting that I used and the SOD got so bad that I RESET to Factory to try to fix it. I even went back and repartitioned and re-installed. Nothing helped. I was about ready to revert to CM7 until I saw Zyhong's possible solution.

Now I have some hope. Later...
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Freezes

CM7.0.3 is a good alternative but it is back at Android 2.3. rather than Honeycomb.

Visit my "New Guide for Rooting the ViewSonic G-Tablet" if you want to revert to it.

If you want to stay on Honeycomb, this is almost certainly the best rom available. Regarding the freezes/lockups, see Zyhong's possible solution (I quoted it in the previous post).
[G Tablet Android Development] thfoster:
I have Thumb Keyboard working as well.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
I tried out b2.0 and b2.1:

b2.0 comes up with a reasonable looking bluetooth MAC address. I can successfully connect and get an IP address from my phone's PAN. But then I can't actually reach the internet.

b2.1 comes up with the generic 43:29:B0:00:00:00 bluetooth MAC address. I can connect to my phone's PAN, but I can't get an IP address. dhcpcd returns immediately without any output. This is the same behaviour that I observe on b3.2.

So what, other than the kernel, is different between b2.0 and b2.1 that is causing this bluetooth MAC address issue? I'll continue to explore the ROMs. I've got 2.0, 2.1 and 3.2 all unzipped (boot.img split apart and all the ramdisks expanded) and I'm slowly exploring the contents.

Also, I played a little more with /etc/bluetooth/bdaddr (putting the generic MAC address in it, setting perms to 444), with no effect.

Has anybody else got a PAN client working on this ROM or any other HC ROM? Does anyone have any more info about this?
[G Tablet Android Development] wykedengel:
First, GtabComb rocks. I installed it on BL 1.1 without issue. However, I have a weird issue going on that I am wondering if someone could explain. Last night, everything was working without incident. I turned off my tablet, tuned it on this morning and got the dreaded boot loop. Okay, no problem...or so I thought. When I went to wipe the cache I was informed that it couldn't find my SD (internal I assume since I don't have a micro SD installed.)

Anyone want to take a stab at this one? Many thanks.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
I applied this change and now apps can install and be moved to "USB storage" (they actually go to /sdcard/.android_secure). I'll post again if I run into any problems with it. I haven't tried inserting a microsd card. If I understand the problem that aasoror described, this might actually be a bad change for people who regularly use a microsd card.
[G Tablet Android Development] rover442:
Correct. I use a microsd card and it gummed up the works. I had to undo the fix, plus it also caused grief with my market as well. There needs to be a solution for those of us that use our microsd cards so that we can reliably download apps from the market. I'm sure someone can find a fix. It's really a great ROM with just a few hiccups.
[G Tablet Android Development] aasoror:
If you need to exclusively use the microsd card then just don't apply the fix, apparently so far its "either/or".

The fix shouldn't mess up the market, without the fix externalSD will work fine for application installation, after the fix internalSD will work fine for application installation.
[G Tablet Android Development] midnightslide:
Vic, not to be rude, but if you wanted things to be perfect, you shouldn't have installed a beta Rom. With that said, I would suggest Cyanogen or G-Harmony. I've used both, and think you'd be fairly happy with either.
[G Tablet Android Development] aasoror:
Not sure with BL you have. But under BL 1.1:

Freezes aren't that frequent (unless you are overclocking and stressing the CPU).

Capacitive keys are working just fine.

Camera doesn't work on any HC port to date.

I suggest you clean up properly and reinstall the ROM, according to many this is the best HC port out there.
[G Tablet Android Development] rover442:
That's not true. Without the fix you cannot install from market. I keep getting "installation unsuccessful." So this is a major issue. Also, there isn't such a thing as microsd card exclusively. Some apps will not install on an external micro sdcard and must be installed on the system.
[G Tablet Android Development] aasoror:
Did you try it yourself ? When I was debuging this issue and before I came up with the fix I was able to use an external 4GB SD card to get my market/sideloaded/amazon installations that wasn't installable otherwise and I have verified that the installation all goes to the microSD card and not to the internal storage.

Now I don't fully follow you, you earlier said that the fix messed up your market, now you just said you can't even get the market fully functioning without the fix. So at least the fix gave you access to an otherwise blocked 14GB of internal storage. Which is (IMHO) better than no storage at all (according to your post above).

True, but such apps will only work on the data (i.e. system) partition (the 2GB partition of the internal SD) and isn't installable (and if moved would not work) on either the internal storage (14GB partition of the internal SD card) or the external one (microSD). Such apps are not affected with the fix.
[G Tablet Android Development] rover442:
First of all, yes I tried this. Maybe I didn't make myself clear about the problem. I'm not talking about sideloading apps. I'm saying that you cannot download and install from Market without problems. When I tried your fix, you could download from Market initially, but you lose access to your microsd card. That's not a good thing. When I reverted the vstob and rebooted, is when my Market issues started again, only this time worse.

You wrote:before I came up with the fix I was able to use an external 4GB SD card to get my market/sideloaded/amazon installations that wasn't installable otherwise.

I cannot download and install from Market. It seems you were able to at some point. The only way I was able to was by using your fix, which removed access to my microsd card. I hope that explains it better.

You wrote:So at least the fix gave you access to an otherwise blocked 14GB of internal storage.

I always had access to the 14GB of storage. The fix took away the access to my 32GB microsd card storage.

So in closing, before the fix I had access to 14GB internal storage and 32 GB external microsd card storage, but couldn't download apps from the Market and instal. After the fix, I had access to 14 GB internal storage, no access to the external microsd card, but could download from market. When I reverted back to the original scenario, my market became completely borked and I had to re-install the whole ROM. I'm still unable to download and install from the Market.
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
Crazy question.....

@zyhong

Ok so, I know this its gonna sound crazy but.....

Is there a way to remove this tweak?

Annoying ads in programs are blocked

The reason I'm asking is, I think the adobe flash fix for hulu that's floating around in another thread will work on this ROM if this tweak is removed...

Call me crazy, I know... I love the idea of no ads on the browsers and I have to say it works great but I'm thinking this tweak is preventing certain sites like hulu, cnn, espn from properly streaming...

I'm a news junkie and I don't mind putting up with ads in order to get good content.

Suggestions?

Insults?

Death threats?

:cool:
[G Tablet Android Development] aasoror:
Could you elaborate more on how it got worse ? you weren't even able to install apps that would default to your data partition ? have you tried clearing the market app cache ?

I am on bl 1.1, the fix didn't break my microSD card, instead (as I noted in my post couple of pages ago), the microSD card is detected and accessed correctly but access to the programs installed on the internal SD is lost (though access it to the internalSD storage under /sdcard was working fine), I had to remove and reinsert the microSD for it to be detected. The programs on the internal SD worked fine once I rebooted (after removing the microSD).

Same here, with the word "access" I meant the ability to install programs. Sorry if I missed some of the details in the recent posts because I have been already posting about this issue in full details a while back.

If it's important you can update to bl 1.2, according to slatedr0id users they experience no such problems under GtabComb for bl 1.2 (believe it or not I had to go to another forum just to get that question answered).
[G Tablet Android Development] rover442:
After I reverted back to the original vstold, I was getting an error that wouldn't even allow me to access the apps on the market for download. I don't remember the exact wording....sorry, but it was something with purchase cancelled, even though I was trying to get free apps.

I did do the clear data and it was of no help.

It seems you and I have some different issues going on. I wonder why your fix broke access to my microsd card?

Are you having gallery fc issues? I had to remove the app and I am using quick pic which is fine.

I also keep getting fc with the yahoo mail app.
[G Tablet Android Development] PlayfulGod:
I may be incorrect but I think the no ad's tweak is just a host file with most of the ad sites url's in it. At least thats how its done on a PC, nix etc. SO it should be affecting apps from working correctly, key word shouldnt.
[G Tablet Android Development] scottder:
Just came back to Honeycomb and this ROM on bl1.1, I am having issues installing apps from the Market, they just seem to spin their wheels forever making no actual download progress.
[G Tablet Android Development] rover442:
Yes. That's the problem I am encountering as well.
[G Tablet Android Development] billsan101:
Thanks for the link, but the app did not work (unless theres hidden options somewhere that i cant find, hah). it only enables me to auto mount usb instead of having to click it all the time (which is also nice).

See the screenshot, this might explain more, I can't access the external_sd from my computer, when the tablet is plugged via usb. (was working on my CM7 install)
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
That'd be great if it was only a host file I can access.. Would you happen to know where it would be in the tree?
[G Tablet Android Development] PlayfulGod:
not off hand I would have to dig thru it and see lol, and thats if I am right about it lol
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
Does it make any difference for you if you unmount all your storage devices (USB, microSD, internal storage) before downloading from the market?
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
The host file is in the usual place: /etc/hosts (or /system/etc/hosts, if for some reason you don't have the symlink).
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
Awesome, found it..

So? Do I just edit out all 22,7xx entries and save it??
[G Tablet Android Development] wtang:
Hmmm, that could be. But I'm pretty sure I read on other threads and/or forums that some people use AdBlock (forget the exact name) from the Market to block all ads on their Android phone/tablet. But they say Hulu still works with the hacked Hulu apk. The only thing is they see a message like "Can't load ad server" (or something like that) for about 30 seconds before the video finally loads and plays. So, apparently, even with ad blocking you have to wait approx. the amount of time the commercial would have run. But for me I get that "need to install latest Flash version" message immediately, and I even get it on the Hulu homepage where there's a large Flash banner showing photos of movies and TV shows. The Market version of Flash works and I can see the Flash banner on the Hulu homepage, but of course then I can't stream any TV shows because Hulu can detect I'm running Flash on a non-Windows device.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
Yes.

Those entries force those hostnames to all resolve to the corresponding IP address. So whenever the system tries to reach those hostnames (ie to retrieve an ad), it makes a request to that IP address and receives a 404 error. So no ads.

If the system tries to reach a host not listed in the hosts file, it goes to DNS for resolution (and should get a real IP address).

So if you want to see a specific ad, you can delete it's corresponding entry from the hosts file. Or if you want all the ads, delete everything below the 127.0.0.1 entry.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
Possible privacy issue with ad blocker

This isn't meant to scare anyone, and it probably isn't a big deal, but...

I noticed that the hosts file resolves all ad hostnames to 208.82.100.156. The hosts files provided here:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?showintro=0;hostformat=hosts

... resolve all hostnames to 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

So, what is 208.82.100.156? All web requests to it return a 404, which is great. But, whoever is running that web server *could* be logging all your web requests (which ads are your gtabs trying to get) and your IP address. Again, probably not a big deal for most of you, but I don't like it.

It's possible that there's a good (ad-blocking related) reason for the hosts file to point to a bogus IP address that is not 127.0.0.1. But I don't know what the reason is. So I'm going to switch my hosts file to point to 127.0.0.1. I'll let you all know if I experience bad results.
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Lockups

After editing the sleep time to 10 and setting Wifi to off with screen blank, it has been better.

I experienced two lockups - both while the device was active. Once on the homepage and once in the native browser. Both required a reboot.

Anyone else with this issue?
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
I'm using sleep 10 and it seems to have improved responsiveness when waking up. I use Never for my wifi disconnect policy. I don't remember ever getting a lockup on this rom.
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
Ok so, after all that messing around it still didn't fix the adobe flash issue. So does anyone else have flash working? Specifically on sites like CNN videos and NYTimes video? I'malmost sure I read this thread from start to finish with mine being the only mention of adobe...

I restored original host file...
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
APP Issues

I have found two app issues:

QuickOffice PRO (paid) which I was using on my GTab with CM7 will no longer install on HC. You have to buy their tablet-enabled version "HD". I sent an email to support asking if they will honor my previous payment. OPEN

Cordy: I do not do a lot of games but this is a very popular game. It installs on my GTab but often will exit during initial execution. Mostly, it will come up the second time. However, twice, I have experienced a lockup while it was loading.
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Widgets

Both Facebook and My6sense had scrollable widgets in earlier versions of android. Both widgets are totally absent in Honeycomb. Anyone know a way to bring them back?
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
Are you trying to get flash videos to play in the web browser?

Did you try Opera Mobile? Did you install adobe flash 10.3 from the market? Did you set the user agent to Desktop in opera?

Afaik this is the only way in hc right now.

Nytimes video seems to play alright (but the quality didn't look great), CNN video doesn't seem to work that well. Youtube is OK.
[G Tablet Android Development] luvduchovny:
CNN app or android phone plays the videos I've found. CNN app for tablets won't play videos but their widget works fine on he desktop.

For flash videos to play properly, you need to have Opera mobile (not opera mini) or Puffin browser (0.99 cent in market). Puffin seems flakier than Opera though.
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
Yeah, Tried all that... I know not to expect greatness out of beta...

Decided to go back to CM 7.0.3 for now..

Thanks anyway!..
[G Tablet Android Development] cmart4:
anyone know how to disable the capitative buttons? i hate those buggers
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
I used the info here to only disable my back button:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1177174
[G Tablet Android Development] aasoror:
twice at each reboot.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
Bug in init.rc

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$dmesg |grep init.rc

[ 13.541108] init: /init.rc: 180: invalid option 'import'

[ 13.546805] init: /init.rc: 301: invalid option 'import'

$
[G Tablet Android Development] zyhong:
good finding, akman. thanks.

ye, i realize that the init at this rom does not support "import" right after i publish b3.2 and i did not bother to fix it yet since it won't affect anything for gtab user (It will affect zpad user, but I am only aware of one zapd user). those import are just for some disabled initialization of 3g, gps, etc, which are not available for gtab user. I have hoped with that, zpad or some gtab users with 3g or gps accessory could easily configured the rom to enable those features, while the majority does not need to pay a price on it (3g daemon suck quite some power and contribute a lot of on battery life improvement at b3.2 after disabling it)

Anyway, this bug is something that I would like it to work, but it won't affect anything for gtab user. Let me know if anyone know/find a solution on this. I really want it to work in this way.

And this is really a good news for the users of this rom. We now have more and more power users and devs (e.g. akman, assoror, agapeman, and much much more that i could not recall) spending time to dig into the rom and polish it. Together, we could make this rom one of the best available for gtab/zpad users.

Thanks again, guys.
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
The rules for init.rc are described well here:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git;a=blob;f=init/readme.txt;hb=HEAD

I think that the problem is that the imports are being interpreted to be Options of services, but import is a Command that should be in an Action.

So try putting another "on boot" statement right before each import.

Except that the readme also says this:

:eek:

So you can't have multiple "on boot" sections? Except that you do. And I think the commands in all of them are being run (I just did a spot check of permissions on /dev/nvrm, /dev/knvrm, /dev/ttyHS2, all are set as per init.rc). Maybe the readme is wrong. Where is the Action's "name"?

Anyway, try it and see. I'm still pretty new, haven't made a custom boot.img yet. I'll have to figure that out soon.
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Big THANK YOU to Zyhong!

Thank YOU Zyhong! I trust that EVERYONE on this thread has hit the "Thank You" button for Zyhong - several times?

Almost anyone - who was willing to spend the time and effort - could build a ROM. We don't build them because people like you are so much better at it.

This is an amazing ROM. It has challenges but it is also a CHAMPION! I can show off my GTab to ANYONE and they are blown away. The iPad does not compare!!

I am better at translating the "tech talk" into easy-to-follow guides. That is the purpose of my site. Being retired, I have the time to try different approaches and test alternatives. Better I do that and leave the "heavy lifting" the the younger guys! :cool:
[G Tablet Android Development] akman:
delete this
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
I didn't notice this silent change. Wonder why it was made? I don't see any difference after changing all the addresses back to 127.0.0.1.

Using 127.0.0.1 will result in a "Connection refused" error when TCP connections are attempted and a "Port unreachable" ICMP error when using UDP. This is quicker that actually making a connection and the server returning a "404 Not Found" reply.

Historical note: I discovered this change-all-IPs-to-127.0.0.1 trick years ago after a virus had infected my Win 2k system. It had systematically changed the HOSTS.TXT file, inserting 127.0.0.1 as the IP address of all the anti-virus sites it could think of. I spent an hour trying to find out why Norton AV wasn't picking up the latest virus definitions before figured it out and checked the hosts file.
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
That readme.txt is misleading. I spent half a Sunday a few weeks ago trying to figure out what the rules were exactly for another project.

You can have multiple "on boot" sections, but, commands inside an "on boot" section are *not* run if the "on boot" is in a file included with an import statement--at least with the init included in CM-7.0.3. Service directives, however, must have unique names and these are run even within an imported rc file.

I'll look at the source code this week and see what I can do. In the meantime, you can use the init binary from CM 7.x. It understands "import" but has a problem with "on boot" or "on fs" in imported files as mentioned.
[G Tablet Android Development] thfoster:
Can anyone else install Friendcaster Tab from the Market? I've tried every suggestion on Market fixes and I still get an "install unsuccessful" when trying to install it. The new Dolphin for Tab Beta gave me the same problem but I unmounted the SD card and it installed fine. But that little trick won't work for Friendcaster Tab.
[G Tablet Android Development] tekrhino:
Using ROM Manager

Ok so, I've read ALL 14 pages of this thread to see if anyone might have answered this question before I needed to ask it..., no go..

I'm on BL1.2 w/3.2 installed. I manually flashed CWM v3.0.2.8 then I installed ROM Manager from the Market.

With using Rom Manager, it does not see that I have CWM v3.0.2.8 installed and will give me a messege when I try to use some of its resources like "Download ROM", "Manage and Restore Backups" "Backup Current ROM", etc etc.. So when I try to use the "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" Feature, it will ask me to confirm my phone model with four different devices..

Advent Vega

Elocity A7

T-Mobile G2X

LG Optimus 2X

Now that last time I did this I went with the Advent Vega since it was the closest model to the GTAB... (BIG MISTAKE!!)

I tried to use the Manual Flash Overide Feature but it gives me the Same 4 Devices as my Choice and I'm thinking if I choose anything from that list I will find myself starting from scratch.. YET again!

So? Since I can't use all of ROM Managers Features without it trying to flash a different version of CWM on there. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make RM see that it already has CWM installed??

Has anyone had this problem with ROM Manager?

I'm really like BL1.2 version BTW.. it seems much snappier than BL1.1

Pershoots Kernel is smooth with the manual fix to get Wifi fixed..
[G Tablet Android Development] tkrahling:
I might be wrong but my understanding is rm doesn't play well with gtab