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[G Tablet General] crutzulee:
I swore I would let this go..... but I'm just not that smart.

I am nottrying to start a fight or a war of words but...

For those vowing to never buy from Viewsonic again- Do you suppose that companies like ACER and ASSUS and Acme corp. etc will continue to provide updates for thier tabs a year from now when they have newer tabs to sell sporting newer hardware ( quad core processors?). Is Viewsonic really that bad?

Believe me, I'm no fan boy of viewsonic. As I've said earlier, I just think that there is room in the market for different types of companies. Some (Apple ), put out idiot proof, polished, extensively tested products that are sold at a premium. Others (Viewsonic ?) rush to market to try and get a leg up. When these latter companies succeed, they sell millions of units and have the latest killer product on thier hand. They then add some superficial feature, brand it as "lite" or "turbo" and sell at a premium squeezing more and more out of the same basic archetecture in future itterations until it's a dead horse.

When these companies fail.... then guys like me (and I would venture to say many wooters out there) profit, as they cut thier losses by selling off thier remaining stock at clost to cost.

Where guys like me get really lucky, a dev community (like we have here) finds something about the product worthy of thier time.

As I said earlier, I paid more tham most did for my second hand G-tab. I am glad there are companies like Viewsonic out there that are willing to risk dropping the ball. Most of all I am extremely greatful to guys like Robeet and Tbardelljr who use thier extraordinary talents and give of thier time to support this community. Thier efforts have given me a tab that runs honeycomb in a very stable way, have provided me a user experience miles above what I would have expected for the price point and .... have done all this in a way that satisfys my inner tinkerer and makes me feel like a bit of a hacker:o!

I guess I am a fanboy to an extent.
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
@crutzlee et al.

Here is where I think that our dev community is a sort of double edge sword. They create absolutely wonderful roms for our device, making it BETTER than it was out of the box. The problem with that is it also gives no reason for VS to update their own firmware. I mean, why work on something that most users aren't even going to try?

Tapntap was not a good UI, and viewsonic will, mor than likely, admit that. In the early stages, they were updating the firmware, fixing bugs, making things more user friendly. After January, though, they seemed to think that they got it right, but there are still problems.

Only time will tell if Motorola, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, etc. continue to update their own firmwares. So far, they've done well, the Xoom started with HC 3.0, and ae alrady updated to 3.2. I know that the Iconia has received OTA updates to their systems. While these devices are quite new, the manufacturers have identified problems, and provided their users with fixes for those problems.

Viewsonic identified problems, provided some fixes, then suddenly just stopped completely.

As far as I know (Stepfather owns one) Apple stll continues to provide updates to the iPad firmware occasionally, and their OS is idiotproof, as well as over a year old. Hell, my sons 2 year old iTouch still receivies updates, and it's really just a 3 inch wifi tablet, right?

So, it is not selfish of us, nor should it be above expecations for Viewsonic to still provide updates and support for the firmware that they packaged on the Gtablet. If there are still bugs, then it's their responsibility to fix them.
[G Tablet General] roberto188:
Just get drivers released

I don't care if viewsonic NEVER releases another update for the Gtab. I simply want them to get the drivers from NVIDIA and release them to the community. Within weeks, we would have hardware accelerated Honeycomb roms in EVERY FLAVOR. DAMN THEM!
[G Tablet General] tkrahling:
I completely agree, I won't use vs firmware anyway I just want HA for my hc rom, camera not so important
[G Tablet General] crutzulee:
Not to hijack this thread, but I'm a little confused about the HA thing.

One of the primary uses of my tab is for me to be able to watch videos while at work. I stayed out of the honeycomb tests for longer than I would have because I mistakenly believed that, without this feature, my usage would be effected.

Happily,for my purposes, Moboplayer works BETTER under HC than it did on my previous favourite Clemsyn/Calkulin froyo rom.

Is HA mostly used for gaming? If so, I can understand why it's so important to many if not me or those like me (too old to game and not necessarily wanting our toys to be more attractive to our kids).:)
[G Tablet General] tkrahling:
HA is more for gaming, but unless I'm wrong has an effect on video also
[G Tablet General] jetguy35:
From my experience of using the GTAB, the lack of hardware acceleration completely ruins any video above standard definition. All higher definition videos will stutter and lag completely without the hardware acceleration, even with overclocking enabled. That's my opinion from testing the product. So the stock froyo roms work in this area much better because of the drivers for hardware acceleration. Any other roms above froyo suffer. Vegan Ginger RC1 was great accept for the lack of hardware acceleration. Lack of hardware acceleration is a no go for me. I can't use a tablet without it. That's why I got rid of my GTAB not too long ago.

I'm now holding off and going to wait for the next generation of tabs to see what comes out and hopefully price drops as well. After all, apple has a tab that is updated routinely and works out of the box for everyday use. I think that when developers see that they can not price there tablets at the Ipad level and drop prices to around $300-400, the amount of android tablets being bought will explode. The manufacturers right now are only hurting the image of what an android tablet is. They are releasing tablets still with Android 2.2 and 2.3???? That is pretty ridiculous... And the honeycomb tablets that are out are very pricey. People just get mad when they buy a product that is not up to par or is buggy. Many of the first gen android tablet owners, I'd be willing to bet, will not buy another android tablet because of the stigma that has been put in place. All of these manufacturers wanted a slice of the tablet market and it is honestly just ruining the image of the OS's. IMO, all tablets on the market right now should be forced to require 3.0+. The 2.0's are for phones. Another thing, all of these tablets have front facing cameras yet it is almost impossible to do anything with them. Video chat is pretty non existent. When I did get video chat to work on my gtab, I had to use yahoo messenger (which wasn't available in the market). The video would be not in the correct orientation of the way you held the tablet as well. There are a lot of these issues that are going to hurt the Android image for tablets down the road.
[G Tablet General] dustinw82:
I use rock player with gtab comb and all is good.
[G Tablet General] KnightCrusader:
Ahem, I paid all 400 Washingtons up front for this bad boy back in November.

And from day 1, getting support out of them was like pulling teeth. After we *****ed and moaned for a while, they finally started pushing out updates mid-to-late December... and it looks like it stopped again.

I guess its time to get the pitchforks and torches out again!
[G Tablet General] LTLFTCer:
I bought mine in February. I didn't even think that support for any ANdroid device would be poor having owned Android since Nov 09. With the open source and developer abilties, I figured I would be able to do anything in the future.

Never guessed that HC source wouldn't be released for some time and NVIDIA would hoard the drivers.
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
I've been badgering them for over a week now, and today, they finally acknowledged my existence:

from Facebook posts

I honestly don't ever expect them to actually respond to each and every pissed off customer on their discussion thread on an individual basis. First, I can't expect ANY company to take the time to do that, SO, if anyone here receives a response from them, please quote it here so that we can compare.

What I do expect to happen, is for them to panic and contact TNT, perhaps and announce to us that they ARE working on an update to the stock TapnTap firmware, and that they are working on getting it released. of course, there will probably be a phantom problem with the OTA updater as there was in April. Eventually, an update for their crapware will be released. In my opinion, the "appropriate parties" is probably TapnTap, not Nvidea, not Google, not Malata...basically, NOT who we all wish it were.

if they do what I expect, then at least we can say that they aren't ignoring us. of course, if we don't get what we expect, then I fear for their future. I've posted a boycott message on most of their facebook posts, especially the ones where they are trying to sell something. Previously, they would just delete my comments, but now they responded. is this a good thing?
[G Tablet General] MechAniX.one:
Does anyone know if the "Umodified Honeycomb on Kernel 2.6.36" by Rayman@Tabletroms, has any value for us? It says fully accelerated...
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
With the right devs working on a port of it, it certainly can't hurt
[G Tablet General] BBowermaster:
I'll bet they'll just release the update Reobeet already found, which doesn't really fix anything, then call it a day.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Does 1080p even work on the ASUS Transformer? Or any other Tegra 2 based devices?

The gTab hw is perfectly capable of supporting Honeycomb. If they'd just drop TapnCrap and go with a slightly branded generic Android build it's be nice.

Oh well, at least it was fun for about 7m or so that I've had mine, and I too am considering dumping my gtab and hopping on a Transformer or similar IF any good deals roll around, but most likely I'll just sit tight for Kal-El, and possibly consider some other tablets based on other SoCs esp. if a good Qualcomm snapdragon based one comes out w/A9 and 2 or more cores. (Been liking their phones with their SoCs, even their ARM11 SoC was relatively zippy... OTOH the only others that I had exp with are the super crap Samsung s3c6410 and the semi-OK Telechips TCC890X(awesome video playback).)
[G Tablet General] Xargon321:
yelling at viewsonic will achive almost nothing at this point. need to get all harmony dev board devices together and badger nvidia about drivers. if they get off thier lazy butt and figure out that android is Open source and release the drivers we wont have problems
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
I guess I've done it this time. Viewsonic has blocked me on FB and Twitter. I am no longer able to "follow" them.

They've deleted all of my comments on Facebook posts, and I no longer have the ability to comment on anything else. I even made a tech support comment replying ot a gentleman that was considering returning his gtablet becuase it would never charge to 100%. I let him know that it was a known issue, and how to attempt to fix it. Now he'll never get to try it, since the comment is gone.

They DID post a response to me on one comment. the comment isn't there anymore, but their response is:

ViewSonic Corp Todd Evans, ViewSonic has not washed their hands of the gTablet! Discussions are being made with nVidia and TapnTap, and when I get the final word on what is going to happen, we will post. Also, we never pushed our development to US Mechants. Bottom line - we are working on change. If you need support, please call the ViewSonic support number and not US Merchants. The call center will take your information, and send it to our in-house staff at ViewSonic. We want to help.. (800) 688-6688

Here's the rub for me. My irritation began when I tried to ask one of Viewsonic's online tech support people (Dis Peggy, how can I help). I simply asked if Viewsonic had any intentions of updating their STOCK firmware, or if they were done developing anything for the Gtablet. Peggy gave me US Merchants number. I asked if US Merchants was now in charge of development, he gave me US Merchants number. He then said, and I quote "I have no information about the Gtablet in my resources." This lead me to believe that Viewsonic had no more interest in supporting (US Merchants does that) or developing (I guess no one was doing that)

It wasn't until we started making this big fuss again that they thought they had to make some kind of statement. They've now promised to respond to everyone that posted in their discussion thread. We'll see, but if ANYONE gets a response from them, please post it here so that we can compare. I highly suspect that a canned response will be received by just about everyone.
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
I just checked the famous discussion thread, and my posts have been deleted from there as well. I guess I won't be getting a response, since technically, I never made one. Way to go Viewsonic, no better way to convince customers that they aren't being ignored than to delete any communication you have with them....

Disappointed doesnt' even come close anymore...time to start reviewing the Gtablet on sites that they can't censor...think I'll start with Amazon.
[G Tablet General] Koreylaw:
Viewsonic Tech Support loading fully working ROM?

A friend of mine bought a Gpad a couple months ago and has been holding out rooting it because of voiding the warranty and I haven't pushed rooting it for her since I really don't want to become her warranty. She said she just called them with an issue with the Kindle software and one of the techs said if she sends it to them and pays $90.00 they will load it with something that will run everything, including market and still be under warranty. She asked me what I think, I told her to ask them exactly what they were loading, if it is a new VS ROM or if they are starting to root and load one of the free relatively stable ROM's off the net and charging people $$ to keep it under warranty. She's going to call them back and let me know but this is the first time I ever heard of something like this. Anyone else get this story before??
[G Tablet General] JoTeC:
Shame on you!

How dare you try to make this a better product. Hey Viewsonic, delete this! :D
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
May I ask what you said that prompted such reaction from vs?
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
well, for beginners, I've been tweeting daily a comment that simply says "@ViewSonic No customer care, no product support, cant be trusted, never make that mistake again, boycott, boycott, remember the gTab." A suggestion I got from this thread, I believe.

On the facebook discussion, I posted that I wasn't asking VS to give us GB or HC, but to support their customers and provide updates to THEIR stock firmware, or attempt to get Nvidea to release drivers to assist in the third party development, that is responsible for the majority of Gtab sales.

On their facebook page, I commented on just about every post of theirs with the same twitter comment quoted above. Roebeet made a comment, and I pointed out that he is one of the people responsible for makign the Gtablet what it is. I quoted a few lines from their mission statement, one referring ot how they intend on treating customers, and one referring to their drive to provide profits for their stockholders (hmm...wonder if THEY would be interested in these developments)

Then, there was a user that commented that VS hadn't responded to them. VS said that they did, so I checked the discussion thread to find his post to see why they may have responded to him, and not me yet (I was the 18th poster, he was burried in the thread)

His comment was in regard to contacting customer support to return a gtablet that wasn't charging to the full 100%. I informed in in the comments that it's a known issue, and let him know how to fix it.

I suppose you could chalk it up to my posts being considered spam, since they were EVERYWHERE...

What's funny, is that they left their response to my comment in, but my comment is now gone. So anyone that wanted to read it would wonder what they were smoking when they responded to somebody that apparantly doesn't exist.

I did most of this over the weekend, so come Monday morning, they deleted just everything, removed me from their "people that like" list, and blocked me on Twitter.

So, it may not have been about WHAT I said, but more the frequency in which I said it...
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
what I find hilarious is the one post I commented on, now I'm not sure if all of hte deleted posts were MINE, but on the VS facebook page, there is a post from them about their happy hour BS...It says, "View all 18 comments." When you click on it, there are only 7 comments total.

I found the one where I responded to the other user, abotu his battery issue. The post says that there are 4 comments, yet when clicked, only 2 show up.

the original Gtab discussion link states that there are 21 comments, when clicked, there are 19. My 2 posts are gone.

It wasn't just me "spamming" either. Frank Imbroto has commented on just about every post, sometimes more than once for each. I'm not sure why they were so bothered by silly ole me.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bigdje:
I broke my old inspire and AT&T sent me a new one.

How do i move all my .apk apps from my SD card to the phone.

Some of them i cant just re-download them.

I thought i could just take all the .apk files put them in download folder on sd card but none of them show up when i click on download from the phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
Is your phone rooted? Have you applied the "sideloading update" from ATT to allow "unknown sources"?

One of these two things has to happen before you can get apps installed on your phone from places other than the market, i.e., your SD card.
[Epic 4G General] jkmbraves:
ok so i wiped out my cache and have two zips on my sd card,

when i open the ROM on my phone every thing seems right...

it says install complete and reboot phone. but when i reboot it brings me back to recovery and says "E: can't open/cache/recovery/log"? wtf is this?
[HTC EVO 3D] twiz0r:
Sometimes when I first use my phone I can't use the screen. When i try to drag the item tries to follow for .5 inches and goes back to its original position.

My other 3vos didn't do this. It has done this on both the sense lockscreen and widgetlocker.

I also thought that it may have been due to moisture, but I have ruled that out.

Has anyone else experienced this? I think its odd, and it bugs the crap out of me. Seems to happen 1 or 2 times a day.
[HTC EVO 3D] bdoople:
Yeah I get that sometimes, usually after I clean the screen or something. I guess it's some sort of residual static. I usually lock it again, give it a second, and try again. Works fine after that.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] akumaukpo:
Pls help me people,

Ok I successfully upgraded my htc wizard 200's rom to a windows mobile 6.5 rom.

Unfortunately for me, i forgot to backup my phone sms messages before doing the upgrade and now they are lost.

The only messages i see are the ones saved on my sim card. which is roughly 20kb altogether.

However, i used file explorer to locate my cemail.vol file and it is almost 300kb in size.

I am assuming this cemail.vol file contains all the text messages I had before doing the rom upgrade.

and, I know the cemail.vol file holds sms hisory etc.

My question is:

How do i recover my lost sms messages from my cemail.vol file?

Pls. help and thank you in advance.
[Acer Iconia A500] moog70:
Last week my A500 received the OTA update to build 4.010.08_COM_GEN2 which upgrade my device from android os 3.0.1 to 3.1. Just today I received another OTA update for 4.010.09, any idea what's addressed on this new build? I tried to Google it and even search within the various forums but unable to generate any search results.
[Acer Iconia A500] ando.rulez:
Kindly refer to this URL :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1163273

It is 4.010.22_COM_GEN1. Might be the same.

Thanks you.
[Acer Iconia A500] moog70:
I chatted Acer Support and got the following items addressed on build 4.010.09:

J Srinivas: Connectivity for USB accessories

Keyboards, mice, game controllers, digital cameras

Expanded Recent Apps list

Improved multitasking and instant visual access to a much more applications. Recent Apps list is now expandable

Resizable Home screen widgets

More flexible Home screen customization

Expand widgets both horizontally and/or vertically to include more content

Support for joysticks and gamepads

support for most PC joysticks and gamepads that are connected over USB or Bluetooth HID.

Robust Wi-Fi networking

high-performance Wi-Fi connections even when the device screen is off

continuous streamed music, video, and voice services for long periods, even when the device is otherwise idle and the screen is off.

Updated set of standard apps- Faster, smoother transition to and from the Apps list

Browser- Browser extends its support for popular web standards such as CSS 3D, animations, and CSS fixed positioning to all sites

Gallery- supports Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP), connect cameras over USB and import their pictures

Calendar- grids are larger, for better readability and more accurate touch-targeting

Contacts- locate contacts more easily using full text search

Email- Email app now sends both plain text and HTML bodies as a multi-part mime message

Enterprise support

configure an HTTP proxy for each connected Wi-Fi access point

platform now allows a "encrypted storage card" device policy
[Acer Iconia A500] UnicornKaz:
Those are the overall improvements of Honeycomb 3.1 ....

NOT

specifically applied to individual build numbers...etc

Acer tech just read the book to you listing all the improved features of HC 3.1 ....

NOT

the build specifically.

see here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html

:)

~~~Acer supports~~~ :rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] Bryan858:
Nice, Updates for those already updated while I'm still on 3.0.1 :( . Ahahhaa. Can someone do a logcat and trace the location so we can have access to this update whenever we need it??? :eek:
[Acer Iconia A500] zoubidou:
same for the update to 4.10.30
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mull54:
As the title stated i want to get back to samsungs stock rom and kernal so i can upgrade my phone to 2.3 and get my warranty back.

First of all i need to disable the lagfix and the tweaks of course but after that should i flash back to samsungs original kernal or should i flash back to stock rom first?

My kernal version is:Hardcore@speedmod-k12-500hz #14(2.6.32.9)

Rom: I900XXJPY 2.2.1

Dumb question but i can't just upgrade my phone to 2.3 via the phone's self updater. I just want to be sure.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfacer:
You don't give a ton of detail here. The first step would be to find a stock rom for your device and region (2.2.1, 2.2, 2.3 all would be OK) on samfirmware.com or ramad's collection here on XDA. Then flash with Odin.

Any stock rom that is right for your location should then update to the latest when you connect to kies (or so I hear I don't use Kies..)

It will contain a stock kernel so don't worry about that. Note though that if your phone is really screwed and that is why you are flashing a stock rom for warrenty then a custom rom might boot up but a stock rom may not.

If its just for resale then you should be good to go.

G
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mull54:
Thanks for the help man.. My phone is not screwed up but i'm starting notice that it is starting to "fall apart". So that's the reason i want my warrenty back.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] clement2:
I heard that Samsung Galaxy S I/II support USB hosting by using an OTG cable in Android, is it possible to do this in HD2 Android? if yes, is there any prove, cause I would like to use a card reader to copy the photo from the CF card (Canon 5D mark II) to my internal 32 gb microsd card in my HD phone while i am on the street.

please help.