yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZebTheCalvinist:
I've been using SoB since Thursday evening, and it seems to be running well for the most part, but I have noticed that battery life is considerably less than with VEGAn 5.1.1. Specifically, it seems like the tablet is sucking a LOT more juice when idle than with VEGAn, something like 3-4% per hour idle as opposed to about 1%. Is that an issue with the overclocking, and if so, is there any way to remedy it?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejoos:
Mine is OK

For my case, the battery life is excellent. I charge once a day now when I go to bed. I also ran VEGAn 5.1.1 before. I didn't notice any difference between SoB and BEGAn 5.1.1. I set performance (216Mhz - 1.504Ghz) using No-Frills CPU.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psycotix82:
Confused?

I must be confused.....this BoS is based on Honeycomb 3.01 not the new version 3.1 which supports re-sizable widgets, correct? Which is probably why i can re-size certain widgets? Read through this post did see anything on it....did not if it was just common knowledge and that is why nobody has mentioned it!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsu205:
even works in airplane mode. unstoppable.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
Is that right that all of you guys that have sleep of death issue in b3.2, wifi issue in b3.3 are all using BL1.2?

I have always been wondering about why you guys talking about issues I have never seen. For b3.2, I have left it there for 1 weeks, use it occasionally, never reboot, never SOD. wifi in b3.3, never saw anything weird. I personally never flash gtabcomb for bl1.2. it will take me too much time if i have to flip bl1.1 and bl1.2 to test them all and i have a pretty busy job and life. i just know it will work. so, i guess pershoot's kernel is using the same approach. only bl1.1 is tested and bl1.2 just assume to be working:)

Viewsonic really bring nothing but mess....
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raywaldo:
Sleep of Death

I have experienced the SOD with BOTH 1.1 and 1.2 bl in b3.2.

I flashed b3.3 / bl1.2 and I have had 2 lockups in the 24 hrs. - both during regular operation. One of those (maybe both?) was with the native browser.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raywaldo:
move wifi files

Why would the files need to be moved at all if they are already there? It seems that the script copied them at boot - so the "trick" would be moot.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akman:
Bluetooth reverse tethering (MAC address issue)

Thanks for b3.3. I can finally tether. But...

Does anybody's Bluetooth come up with a MAC other than 43:29:B0:00:00:00?

Here is how I tether with the generic MAC address (43:29:B0:00:00:00):

pand --connect <mac address of my phone running wireless tether>
ifconfig bnep0 up
ifconfig bnep0

After bringing up bnep0, my bluetooth MAC address is now changed to 42:29:B0:00:00:00.

See this commit in pershoot's kernel. The description is very informative (explains the problem well).

https://github.com/pershoot/gtab-2632/commit/62d8dfd1683006d10931bca5be44255e2fce0100

So now I have to reconnect to the PAN with my new MAC address:

ifconfig bnep0 down
pand --connect <mac address of my phone running wireless tether>
dhcpcd bnep0
...

And now I am reverse-tethering over bluetooth. Works nicely. I am happy. Still, I wish I had a real bluetooth mac address... :p
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fosser2:
MrGuy dropped a new version of AdamComb. It is now up to version 0.3. I think once this is integrated into GtabComb then the bluetooth will start working properly.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma0456:
Field data for 3.3

I struggled with 3.3 but SOD and applications not working and widgets that failed to load finally drove me back to 3.2 (thank you clockworkmod) and it is back running stable again. I have a number of widgets on my home screen and I notice that when booting and sometimes when returning from an app they don't appear. If I hit the home key and then select the home screen they return. Not a big deal but I noticed that in 3.3 as well. So, I've retreated from the bleeding edge back to the leading edge but I'll follow developments to see what happens next.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekrhino:
Home Key Decides to not work

As the title says:

So suddenly both my home keys (Both Capacitive and on Screen) decided they didnt want to work.

I cant recall any major changes I made before it happened with the exception of installing a few live wallpapers the night before..

Went into recovery to perform key tests and they all registered so I knew from there it wasn't a hardware issue..

Tried reflashing 3.3 without wiping.. No Go

Tried a few other tricks with no luck either..

Button Savior worked but I wanted know why the home keys decided to fail.

I found myself having to reflash 3.3 with a wipe (Data, Cache, Davlik) (Heck I even wiped my a$$ to make it was clean also..*lol*) in order to get the keys working again. Crappy part is I'm having to start over with a clean install.. yet again..

Just wanted to share! please disregard the a$$ part!

So if anyone has a suggestion as to how to make they keys work again without having to do a clean install I would love to know!

:cool:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
so do you wiped your a$$ at your first install:) it guess you must have forgotten and that is the problem lol
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekrhino:
LMAO!! I was trying to avoid having to do a clean install before I tried anything else!.. Wiping my a$$ was just an extra precaution!..*lol*

Great ROM Zyhong!.. Thank you for all your hard work and efforts..

:cool:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luvduchovny:
Zyhong,

I'm running 1.1 bootloader. I'm on Gtabcomb 3.3 right now. I get the sleep of death sometimes. (Not as often as folks report here).

I also get the wifi error that claims there's no internet when there is internet. Again it's a sporadic problem that pops up from time to time. For that I wonder it might be tied to a widget like CNN for Tablets or something, because I notice that widget might be missing pictures on the screen and the like when there is that 'phantom' no connection.

Otherwise I love this rom, as stable as Gingerbread is I can't bring myself to go back to even that. I really like the Honeycomb interface. I've learn to trick things into working (like Crunchyroll will still play videos super large, but if I touch the home button while it's running, click on the list of active programs running on the desktop interface, then choose Crunchyroll from there it restarts with the video properly re-sized). Netflix runs great on it.

I think you are doing a fabulous job. It would be great if Viewsonic (and NVidia) would support this more to make all our lives easier, but that's life.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
And, that's the problem: redundant files sitting in multiple locations, and, some of which, eventually, will get out of date, potentially creating problems in the future, and certainly creating confusion now.

To see what a mess the current situation is try these commands in a Terminal window (or after a "adb shell"):

$ [B]su[/B] [I]Become superuser[/I]
# [B]ls -l `find / -name bcm4329.ko`[/B] [I]How many files did you see? 3?[/I]
# [B]ls -l `find / -name fw_bcm4329.bin`[/B] [I]There are 4 of these![/I]
# [B]ls -l `find / -name fw_bcm4329_apsta.bin`[/B] [I]3 files, exactly the same (now)[/I]
# [B]ls -l `find / -name nvram.txt`[/B] [I]Why is it also in /system/etc/?[/I]

At present, the last 2 WiFi binary blob sets are the same, but, this is only because pershoot hasn't needed to update them since April. But, if Qualcomm's Code Aurora project makes a new code drop, and pershoot pulls this into his kernel, then flashing a new kernel will not update the blobs in /system/vendor/firmware.

The nvram.txt case is worse. At least, the binary files are all the same so it doesn't matter, at least for now, which files the system relies on. But, the nvram.txt in /system/etc is different from the rest. Which one does the system use?

There are other nitpicky irritations like this:

There are 2 asound.conf files, one of them is sitting in the wrong directory producing error messages every time the system is booted.

Some of the device files in /dev/ are given execute permissions! For pity's sake, why?--It makes no sense. The same thing for some text and data files that are copied into /data by /init.rc.

Some of the shell scripts executed at boot time have useless semi-colons at the end of the line; and I worry when I see things like this because it tells me: this guy doesn't know his shell script grammar.

Zyhong should go in with a duplicate file/filename checker one of these days and clean things up.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
rajeevvp, great digging. you definitely are very knowledgeable and would you be willing to spend some time to help clean these things up? I and the gtabcomb users will appreciate your help very much. By the way, please remember, I am not a paid dev here and do not have the obligation working for anyone on anything.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
I'd hate to see this get out of hand based on comments, so I'll proactively try to address this as a third party before it does.

Z, I don't think that Raj was trying to insinuate that you are obligated to clean up the file systems, I think he was just making a suggestion based on observations he made. This is what testers are supposed to do, after all. Also, Raj knows full well that you are not a paid developer of the Gtablet (one wonders if ANYONE is paid to develop anything for the Gtab nowadays, lol)

Perhaps you can take Raj's observations to the tabletroms, guys, so that the next source you have to work from already has things cleaned up. Raj was just postulating that these duplicates may, or may not be causing some of the issues that some have. For all we know, you may clean it all up, just to find out that it didn't fix anything.

Anyway...all happy, happy smiles. I'm loving this Rom, so far. I've had few problems, a couple SODs and some apps making things difficult for me. I understnad that it's not a completed Rom, so I'm willing to deal with it. I really wish I knew anything about app development. I'd love ot make an alternative HC launcher that's equally as smooth, but customizable. The stock HC launcher gives me headaches sometimes.

Great Job, once again, to Z for the amazing rom, and Raj for his intricate testing and detective work.

sometimes I just wonder what these HC ports would be if a team were working on them similar to the Vegantab devs. Imagine if Illuminate, Flashback, and GTabcomb were all conspiring ot make the best HC port out there? Throw in Rayman, Clemsyn and Pershoot, and we'd be gold.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekrhino:
+1 I for one would most certainly appreciate the help as I am sure many other 3.3 users would also..

Ravs helped me clean up some redundancies I created by trying to fix my Wifi Erroring out!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dman918:
I wish that would happen. Have the "big three" just work together to get everything working properly. We have three masterful devs here that could probably get everything all squared away in a fraction of time.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
yes, i understand that and raj's suggestions are well taken. that is why i says thanks to him:) however, i do hope users of this rom show some appreciation and respect on all free work you get from all the devs on gtab, adam, vega, etc. this is an integrating system with source from everywhere, as stated on the op.

by the way, although i think i am a great coder:) and i develop large business software system for living, i actually do not do any coding on this rom ( well, a little bit) and i hate shell script. those script raj mentioned that have useless comma is coming from cm7 and i think all users in the android mod community should show some respect on CM team.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raywaldo:
Lock ups

This is what I call a "lock up." Nothing works and I have to reboot to get it back. In my case, a FORCED Power-off and reboot brings it back. However, at times, it has gotten so bad that it would lock up before it finished booting.

However, I found the same issues when using the Illuminate version also.

The problem for me - I think - is that the overclocking raises the internal temp and locks it up. I used SetCPU to 1200 and it seems to be ok now.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raywaldo:
GtabComb vs Illuminate

Some of the users of my website questioned why I chose GTabComb rather than Illuminate for my Honeycomb ROM. Well, in order to answer objectively, I did a full wipe and installed Illuminate to see how it compared.

First, let me say that I really appreciate all the work that EVERY dev does - especially those working on the GTab. Zyhong & LinuxBoxSolutions are both dedicated to serving those of us who use their ROMs. I do not want to put down on either. What I have done is just express my "FEELINGS" for each of these ROMs. I have also included some FACTS. :D

Bottom Line: I have returned to GTabComb. It just feels better!

Can I encourage everyone to give Zyhong a HUGE APPLAUSE? He deserves it!! The LEAST we can do is hit the "THANKS" button for him a few times!

If you want to read my entire comparison, you can find it here: http://raywaldo.com/2011/07/gtabcomb-vs-illuminate-hc/
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dony71:
how about comparison with HC flashback? any insight?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharshas:
I have used Illuminate, Flashback and GTabComb. I'm on GTabComb right now and will continue to do so. The GTabComb is more zippier and smooth. I have never seen SOD till now in my past almost 1 month use. All developers who are working on all these 3 ROMS needs appreciation, they are doing a great job. Its my personal preference to stick to this ROM.

I faced couple of issues with Illuminate, lot of Apps FC. Flashback is bit laggier than GTabComb, to be specific in Market.

Keep up the good work, we all in your support always.

Illuminates post tells Hardware acceleration in incorporated in that, I'm not sure on this. Is anybody tried this? if yes, how is that possible without drivers from NVidia? Any idea?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
LBS always appears ot make claims for his roms. He claimed to be the first ot get flash working, when meanwhile, it was more of which browser to use. If you notice now, when searching the market, a few browser apps include "experimental flash for honeycomb" in their features list. Opera happens to be one of them.

I'm not certain about his hardware acceleration claim. CM7 and Vegan Ginger don't have true acceleration, but realy on overclocking to give the impression that it's there. Perhaps he's made the same revelation, I don't know. He does need to be careful with what he's claiming though....
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlayfulGod:
Seen alot of debate over claims made about that ROM ;)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coldfirex:
Does the game Paradise Island work on this rom?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blanksuspect:
For some reason I'm getting a force close in Talk whenever I try to initiate or receive a video chat request. I can't seem to figure out what is causing the force close (I even downloaded the Talk.apk that someone linked in this thread to no avail). Any help in trying to repair the issue would be appreciated.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tutech:
I believe that's because the camera doesn't work. I don't think video chat in talk will work yet, period.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blanksuspect:
Ah, fair enough. That would make sense I suppose. Although now I'm experiencing constant freezes after installing that Talk.apk posted earlier in this thread. It's frozen about 4 times in the last hour or so while being left idle. Could this be from overwriting a system app?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
Well, I thought I was going to live with this Rom for an extended period of time, but I ran into a problem, that I'm not sure anyone's mentioned yet. one of my main uses for the tablet is watching movies. They played with Rockplayer WONDERFULLY on Gtabcomb, but, I ran into a problem when docking it, trying to watch through HDMI on the TV. It basically gets so pixellated that it turns into a cartoon. I tried with a few movies, including one that I watched when I was on Calk/Clem, and it did the same thing this time, where it was clear as crystal on Calk/Clem.

so, I decided to go back to Calk/Clem for now. But, just wanted to point out, that even if the video playback looks superb on the tablet itself, it may get much worse when docked.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangekid:
FYI if you get FC move to SD then move to tablet. Fixes most. Also uninstall then reinstall works too.

Great ROM!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshtb86:
anyone getting sleep of death issues? ive been getting them when im sleeping for more than like 5 minutes

also anyone getting force closes on launch? im getting FC for gallery, cnn, facebook and launcher. uninstalled facebook and the rest still exist.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlayfulGod:
I've not had any issues with FC's.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HD2FORNICK:
How is everyone getting to play videos from flash and websites? Otherwise a great snappy rom.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvanlaar:
Opera mobile
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Dasher:
My home keys don't work anymore as well

Same problem here.

I installed 3.3 with BL1.1 on my Malata ZPad. I went from Froyo 2.2. I cleared everything I could. The install went well and after the first reboot I entered all the wifi info, etc. Everything worked. Then I rebooted and the boot up appeared to go well but then instead of the home screen with my icons, the final screen is just a the large digital clock in the middle of the screen. To navigate to the home screen I have to use my "return" key.

Any insight would be a big help.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sumdumdude:
Haven't read the entire thread so I'm not sure if anyone else has brought this up, but I am able to watch Netflix (current version) on GtabComb.

This is my new daily driver.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
i guess you are the second user of zpad and the problem you have should be different than the one you quote. there are another user that is in bl1.2 (see his post in slatedroid) and it seems he did not have the problem you had. the problem he had right now is that from 3.2, the 3g did not work any more since i disable it to save battery for gtab user and move the code for 3g and gps out from boot.img and use import to import them back to init.rc. In this way, i hope zpad user could just edit some file that could be saved and get 3g work. However, it seems that the other user could not get the 3g work even with my modified files and I could not test it either since i never saw a zpad.

Anyway, you might want to confirm with that user in slatedroid and if you want your 3g, you have to use a b3.1 or before. there are just too few zpad user here for me to bother spending time on that.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Dasher:
Thanks for the quick reply. The 3G issue doesn't concern me. I use my HTC Sensation as a wifi hotspot. I have the same issue as Techrhino. Non working "home" key function,

Thanks I for all your amazing work
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m-jeri:
@zyhong

Thanks for such a wonderful ROM. :D

Viewsonic gtablet is my first personal android device. I still use a old n97mini as phone. no driod there.

Got the tablet last friday. installed the GTabComb on saturday. :D

I had a B1.2. I didnt knew that early. Honestly didnt knew how to check or bothered to search about that. I was trying to root the device in stock 1.2 4XXX ROM. Installed clockword mod. Tried going into recovery, but no use. it was stuck in 3 birds screen.

After reading up here and there, used nvflash. and i was in B1.1. That was a relief. and i get my stock recovery also. Then installed CWM using nvflash. All was fine.

Then grabbed you B1.1 Beta 3.3 build and installed it.

Loving HC on my tab. :D. UI is snappy and fast. This is a proper tablet OS. Thanks for the great effot u put behind this.

Here are few observations.

1. I get few FC from few apps now and then.

2. I tried using SetCPU and Android admin to see my CPU speed and all. Its not showing. Also its not showing up on the default settings->system info. ???.

3. I get SetCPU FC's very often.

4. Once when i put the screen lock using power button and tried coming back. it didnt. It booted again. No idea what happened.

5. Havent tried any games other than Angry birds. so cant comment.

6. This i see as weird and a nuisance. When i try closing few apps. It never comes back to home screen. I can see the task bar. but no screen. :S.

Will post back if i see more.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mydave1:
@Zyhong, would this info be of interest to you ?

http://tabletroms.com/forums/showth...dated-31-07-2011&p=16827&viewfull=1#post16827

Thanks,
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
thanks, dave. will check with rayman when the kernel is more mature and i could got a block of time.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zyhong:
do you wipe data before installing gtabcomb?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Die Fledermaus:
Serious market issues

I just moved from the 1.1 branch to the 1.2 branch and was running the latest stock ROM for about a day before I went to this ROM. Installed the ROM via CWM, wiped the data before installing. The install went without a hitch, came up and asked for various information including google e-mail to setup apps. The rub is that when I try to download apps that need updates that I get a download was unsuccesful. from the market, also new apps will not install. What am I missing?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m-jeri:
I followed the instructions in xda for installing a ROM.

wiping the cache..user data etc.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BK553:
I had some of these problems too (I just got mine Thursday), make sure you format the storage (2048,0). That fixed all the problems I had.

I Wanted to say thanks to thr rom Dev too, this is some great work. Have you thought about moving to 3.2?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MicroChip:
I was going to post the same link in hopes that you would be able to work on it. I don't have kernel experience at all, and I've tried nagging Pershoot and Clemsyn to see if they can get involved, but Pershoot won't move to 2.6.36 unless Cyanogenmod userspace moves and that's very unlikely. Clemsyn didn't respond.

Thanks!

MC
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radcpuman:
I was using Vegan Tab 7. The new market downloaded, and stopped working. So I upgraded yesterday afternoon. Very easy process, but still nice to have the youtube video from Edge showing that exact process.

Anyway, thanks to edge for the video, and the dev for the ROM.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CosmicVagabond:
I too want to give a thanks to Edge for the video he posted of his walk through of the installation from Vegan 7 to this ROM, which was my scenario. I understand more now how to flash ROM's but it's nice to actually watch a pro do it for reassurance.

That said, this HC ROM is very slick and the UI is awesome. I like it more than the other ROM's I've tried. But, some major drawbacks for me are certain apps that I have to have work. Playon is one. Playon will not work at all for me. Winamp has issues, but there is another app i can use so it's not mandatory it work. I've had some FC's on other apps as well as an occasional random reboot. But, bumps in the road are to be expected with a beta release.

Will most likely go back to one of the of the Vegantab Rom's for now till this get's lined out, then I'll be back :)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsu205:
playon works fine for me. make sure you have the latest plugins for playon on your pc. playon has worked with every rom i have tried.