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[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
just wanna say thanks for all the help on here.

Gstar.. I have now managed to get youtube working using that info.

Iplayer is working, but its very juddery.

Also I use tvcatchup via web browser, and that is also very juddery.

Just wondering why ??

My 10e is not Rooted and I dont really want to. Just wondering if anyone else is having same judder issues as me.

Youtube seems ok in sd and HD with good wifi.

Cheers
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Gstar32:
Hi Zen,

You say your pad not rooted, you should think about doing it. The benefit of doing it is being able to tweak your build prop. Not only that, once rooted, your able adjust your CPU speed. I have set my CPU at min of 1ghz and Max of 1ghz, so it won't drop below that. My pad is fast as anything for now and makes all the difference with regards to video playback.

With regards to tvcatchup, they have different addresses for different devices. I have played about with the addresses and various video players and this is what I found:

Install either Mx video player or Act1 video player.

Mx video player is free of market, it works and doesn't judder, however, the quality of picture is watchable but is pixelated, but

I found changing the size of the picture more watchable if smaller.

Act1 video player was by far the best player I tried. The trial limits you to 2mins (I think). The full version was £1.99. In full picture mode the quality is excellent.

Personally, I would choose Act1, that was the best one.

As for the website addresses, there are two:

www.android.tvcatup.com

www.m.tvcatchup.com

Both work but found the bottom link better. Once logged in, make sure high quality is on, on the top right. Then choose your channel, this should bring up one of the players you have downloaded. That's it, it should be fine.

If you still having problems with juddering, then I don't know what else you can try. If your device is rooted, changing the build prop or something can greatly improve video quality, but that's if you root it.

Hope this helps.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
Which app did you use to "lock" your CPU settings, sounds like a great idea!

Thanks :)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Gstar32:
If you have rooted your pad and installed Google market/play store as per instructions on this thread, search for 'No Frills CPU' on the market and install. I think it was developed by one of the devs on this site, it is the only one I found that works perfectly anytime. I have also used this on my SE X10i.

Once installed, set your Min and Max to 1ghz or 1000, or set the settings at whatever you feel comfortable with. Make sure the 'set on boot' tick box is ticked. Then just back out the application, it should work straight away and the pad will be faster. Also, providing surperuser is working fine after root, everytime you turn on the pad, a message will pop up on screen after loading saying you have success on the CPU settings.

Word of warning though, I believe setting the min/max settings to high MAY cause long term damage to your CPU and may make it die earlier. There are plenty of warnings on xda about this and I suggest you read up on it first.

The reason why I decided to do it is, as I mentioned before, I have this installed on my x10i and never had a problem with it, it's runs so fast and smooth. Now that I have done it to the pad, it's amazing how fast & smooth this is running, even with Go launcher installed it is remarkably fast, better than the snail pace it was going before.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
Thanks a lot for the reply. I have tinkered with overclocking PC CPUs in the past and understand the risks. I will maybe start a bit lower and work my way up to see what I am comfortable with. Thanks again! :)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] GSR-James:
So, am I right in assuming that ICS will not be released for the 10e?

I can't understand why (if the source is under GNU) they wouldn't install a proper OS and why Google wouldn't sanction it?
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] nitrowing:
I've updated my Galaxy Note to ICS and can honestly say that I'm completely under-whelmed.

I didn't like Honeycomb on my other tablet, ICS isn't as bad as Honeycomb but it's no real big deal.

Enjoy what you've got.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] mark2410:
i cant help but notice there are some new 4:3 tablets that look exactly like the 10e but are coming with ICS such as the "Yarvik GoTab Zetta" or the "Scroll Extreme Tablet PC"

assuming they are the same hardware pretty much would anyone be able to get ICS working on the viewpad as im fed up with it being a crashy buggy heap of crap that is insanely juddery.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Fantomas82:
Stand by?

Hello,

first of all many thanks for the helpful advices to improve the viewpad. I am very very satisfied now that I could delete the bloatware, change the startup animation and access the market. Great help everyone!

I wait for the ICS update aswell but there is one more pressing issue and I would appreciate help:

The Stand-by function is broken or I am doing something wrong. I could not find it in the thread so I thought I ask.

The Viewpad reactivates all by itself and I don't know what to do against it.

Any advice? I did the update from the viewsonic page and hoped that would help but I don't see any changes.

Thanks everyone
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
Do you actually own one, then?!
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
Received this email reply the other day:

Good Afternoon

Thank you for your email, the date has not yet been confirmed but is Q2

June.

Kind Regards

Alec Jones

Viewsonic customer services

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Mine goes into standby, but I've noticed the menu/home/back keys backlight often comes on. Also, if in standby for sometime, it will often not reawaken without using a pin in the reset hole!
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
That's good news :D
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Fantomas82:
Maybe I worded it poorly. I meant that it goes into standby but does not always stay that way. One day I left it on the bed in standby and when I came back I saw that it just woke up and the screen was lit again. Another time I could not reawaken the pad after a few hours only later realizing that the battery was completly depleted, so it must have been on the whole time. :-/

It's not a biog thing because I can shut it down completly and it doesn't takes hours to boot up but if there was an easy fix to that issue I would take it :-)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
I've rooted mine (had to wait to see someone with a Windows PC as I use Linux), and I'm really happy with the performance now. The two big changes I made included deleting the boot animation and startup/shutdown noises, they were really annoying if I was in a quiet room as there was no way to silence them - now all I have is a silent 'android' logo since deleting them. The other big change was to delete Viewscene, my tablet is noticably better as such. (I did worry at first as when I deleted it I got a repeating message telling me it couldn't find the apk - a reboot resolved that).

I'm starting to be really happy with this tablet now. Rooting is essential, if we get ICS and rooting these should fly off Viewpad's shelves.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
I now have ics for my galaxy s2. I must say that there doesn't seems to be any real life benefit that I have noticed. So although we are currently stuck wiv gingerbread, I think that it was perfectly fine before I upgraded on the galaxy s2.

Quick question tho.

For all those that have rooted, when and if ics is released I wonder if u will have probs with the upgrade.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
It should be safe to upgrade to ICS as the current ROM will be overwritten during the upgrade.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Lofty24:
I re loaded the official rom from viewsonic ending in 221 and then had to root again so I would think it will work fine.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
I think I will try and root mine too.

Can anyone please tell me where to locate the files to delete the bloatware viewsonic launcher and boot up/close down sound and logo ?

Thanks

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Also, Has anyone used a 32gb micro sd card class 10 and did it work fine ?

I have looked to find the standard rom for the tablet on the viewsonic website but can not find it ?

Could somone past the direct link please just so I can download it if I ever need to put the tablet back to standard.

Thanks again.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
Follow steps 2-7 on this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24450911&postcount=174

That should root it. Then I found the ES File Explorer that came with the tablet didn't like to work as root for me, so you need to get Market installed if you haven't already (you can do this without rooting, the process of installing Market is covered much earlier on in this thread), then once you have Market on, search for ES File Explorer and download the latest one. In the settings menu you can then set to root.

Once you've done that, you can delete anything in /system/apps and /system/media. Word of warning - I didn't delete anything, I just added a '0' on the end of the file in case I wanted it again. There's a viewscene apk file, if you add a 0 to the end of that you'll start getting messages that you can't get rid of about unable to find the file - restart your tablet, it'll ask what you want to use as your launcher then problem solved. Add '0' onto the startup/shutdown and logo zip files in the media directory for a silent boot/shutdown and to replace the Viewsonic logo with the Android logo.

Can't answer your question about SD cards, but here is a link to the current firmware: http://www.viewsonic.com/support/do...ablet/viewpad10e/ViewPad10e_v20111221_VSE.zip
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
I have a 32GB card in mine but I don't know what class it is.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
Cheers for the help.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] maelvian:
I need help -_-U

Hi

I have a little problem. After to root my tablet, I did change the file wpa_supplicant for another (for make ad-hoc connections) and when try to turn on the wifi, I can't. The path of the file is system/bin/wpa_supplicant :|

So... can somebody give the original file, please?

(Mental note: I have to do backups before do something...)

:D
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
Hi All,

I have now rooted steps 2-7 only and deleted few standard apps and viewsonics viewschene apk.

Got loads of apps available and have tried different video players from previous posts.

I am still very unhappy with the quality of the video streaming on iplayer and catchup tv... I have tried m.tvcatchup and android.tvcatchup and have notcied that they have now got an android app. I have the app on my iphone 4 and galaxy s2 and both work purfectly for catchup tv and iplayer.

So why is this tablet still struggling with streaming/video render ??? any help of advice on this one would be great.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] nitrowing:
Own one what?

I have a Galaxy Note ICS, an O2 Joggler Honeycomb and a ViewPad 10e running Gingerbread rooted.

ICS was no big shakes on the Note, I didn't like Honeycomb and I'm completely satisfied with the rooted ViewPad - enough to not care about putting ICS on it!

I play Drag Racing, Air Attack, read comics with Perfect Viewer, books with FB Reader.

I don't watch videos on this - I have a 55" TV for that!!!
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
Whoops! The best thing you can do is restore the original ROM available from viewsonic's website (and linked earlier in this thread) and this will get it back for you.

I don't want to sound rude but it's better doing this than me uploading the file as I'm not sure if there is any personal data recorded in that file.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
I meant that my Viewpad is still unstable (force closes when multitasking, such as opening documents from emails during meetings!), Market is hit and miss (i.e. if app that I want does show up, then sometimes requires multiple attempts to get it to actually download) and it is basically running an upscaled phone OS.

My Defy is fantastic with an ICS ROM and I feel that if implemented properly, then it should solve my gripes!

To be honest, I'd be happy with CyanogenMod 7, as at least the speed and customisability would make up for it being based on Gingerbread.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
has anyone managed to get the new android tv catchup app working properly on the 10e ?

I downloaded it straight from the tv catchup website and installed it on both my 10e and galaxy s2.

10e has problems starting the app and only just starts it when the tablet is turned on its side into landscape mode. but it doesnt work properly.

Galaxy s2 running ICS runs it perfectly and smoothly.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] rustyfishhook:
Just about to have a bash at the root, wish me luck!

Is anybody aware of any work being done on custom roms for this? Use Cyanogen on my desire but the 10e isnt listed as compatible.

Fear this thing just never got going and no work is likely to be done outside of the few that hoped it was something more lol
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
I haven't seen any custom ROMs listed as compatible, if you try any then please let us know! :)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
I have just seen on the Viewsonic UK support website for the Viewpad 10e, that there's another download i hadn't seen before - I got all excited, but it appears to be a pdf about the open source code! For some reason it is over 3MB, although is only 1 page of text?!

Open Source Licenses Notice

The firmware/software included in this product contains some copyrighted software

that is licensed under the GPL v2. A copy of that license is included in the product

by going to Settings > About Tablet > Legal Information > Open Source Licenses.

A copy of that license is also available on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

You may obtain the complete Corresponding Source code from us for a period of

three years after our last shipment of this product, which will be no earlier than

2012-07-15, by sending a money order or check for $5 to the following addresses

and an additional shipping charge which may vary from different areas shall be paid

upon your receipt:

North America:

GPL Compliance Division

381 Brea, Canyon Road, Walnut, CA 91789, USA

Europe:

ViewSonic Europe Limited

Level 4, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HQ, UK

Other Countries:

Sequel Technology Inc.

ViewSonic_Parts Logistic Center Dept.

3F, No 38, Lane 148, Li-De St., Jhonghe Dist., New Taipei City 235, Taiwan. R.O.C.

Please write “source for ViewPad 10E in the memo line of your payment.

You may also find a copy of the source available for download at

http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/uk/support/downloads/drivers/?prod_name

=viewpad+10e

This offer is valid to anyone in receipt of this information.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
Anyone wanna buy a Viewpad 10e ?

I have had my fun and i have decided that I dont need or want a tablet anymore.

Offers ?
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
So, Q2/June has finally come and gone - guess there was never really any hope an official ICS upgrade would materialise...

For what it's worth, will email customer support to give them stick anyway!
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] zen200:
Give em some hell from me tooo......

Viewpad gone.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
Its a shame if they cant see the potential of the 10e, I am still hopeful for the upgrade :rolleyes:
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
Just received this reply, but getting a sense of deja-vu me thinks:

Good Afternoon,

The update is on the cards, I believe the release date has been postponed due to more testing but is due.

Kind Regards

Alec Jones

Viewsonic customer services

Tel - 0844 482 1168

FAX - 0870 495 8234

Email - viewsonic@repairtech.co.uk
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] ando44:
That's great news, I cant wait :)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Lofty24:
Update

I use my viewpad 10e every day for my plumbing business and it works fine, but an update would be nice.

Lofty Haycock

hereford-plumbing.co.uk
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
Sounds more like a shameless plug Lofty! Not sure a specialist developer's forum about a tablet will get you much plumbing business in a very small part of England though.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] brol2000:
ICS on Viewpad 10e

Here's the last answer from support in UK :

Good Afternoon

Thank you for your email, the ICS update is due for release but no confirmed date has been set yet, all updates will be made available on viewsoniceurope.com/uk/support/downloads/drivers/

Kind Regards

Alec Jones

Viewsonic customer services

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Hi everybody :laugh:

Could anybody explain me please, how to disable permanently the startup and shutdown sounds of the viewpad 10e tablet ?

:fingers-crossed:Best rgds,

Brol2000

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I think that Viewsonic hasn't any agreement (material agreement) from Google to may propose ICS on Viewpad 10e.

In fact, that's the reason why we don't have Google Play Market but only the 'old' Android Market.(Arcos has the same problem with the first models).

So, I have any reflexions about the possible solutions to upgrade this model :

1. Should any developper can do something with a vegacomb ROM and transform it for Viewpad 10e?

2. Other suggestion : modification of the architecture shipset (ROM ship) (as like as old 'game' stations made by Sony)

3. Finding a solution to make it possible to install ICS from SD card

What do you think about it ? :confused:
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
Hi

I followed this advice regarding start-up sounds:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26625090&postcount=236

The agreement with Google and Play Store access is separate from use of ICS code, since that has been released as open source, as was Gingerbread (and now also Jellybean!), for OEMs to use as they wish, which is how Viewsonic compiled the current ROM. Therefore, ICS can be legitimately compiled and loaded on devices, as you will see on loads of Chinese imports and Archos/Arnova (although their more recent ones now seem to include pre-installed access to Play Store, no doubt to differentiate themselves as slightly more upmarket from the all the Chinese clones).

However, it would be great if one of the fab devs on here could port CM9 or similar, but I guess they would need to have this tablet to try it on, since the specs are a little unusual in their combination (9.7inch IPS screen, not so common - HP touchpad has similar, but with different, dual core CPU etc) and unfortunately, unlike the Advent Vega (and Touchpad), the Viewpad 10e never sold in enough numbers to "reach" them.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] brol2000:
Sounds
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] thomsalter:
Disabling the startup/shutdown sound has made me very happy! Also, the animation thing, which was ****e. I'm liking the ANDROID logo which appears instead much more.

I asked a question many months ago: is anyone having a problem with charging the battery to full capacity? I have never been able to get above about 80% and the discharge seems to be rapid without mains power.

Keep up the good work everybody! This is a good piece of kit but the software has been letting it down...
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] mark2410:
yey! boot and shutdown sounds are gone

v v v happy about that.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
Haven't noticed this issue myself.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] kassipopassi:
Hey can someone please tell me how i can get into the recovery mode...or how can i flash the stock firmware???

I really need to know this :crying:

Saw an Instruction to flash the original-firmware, but apparently you need a tool NandMPTool, which i cannot find in the internet :(

Thanks in Advance!
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
It's all in this thread earlier on, I don't have time now to go through it all and find the exact posts but if you read back from the beginning there's all the information how to get it into recovery mode and how to get the flashing software (which is available from Viewsonic). You just need to do a bit of digging, all the information is on this thread already.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] kassipopassi:
thanks mate for the quick reply...i just read the whole topic, seen here and there some small instructions how to get into the download-mode, but still havent seen a instruction how to get into the stock recovery... :(
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] agrickard:
MPT Tool is included in the Viewsonic firmware download zip file.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] kassipopassi:
thanks mate, had to flash it again. i get very strange bootloops with this device...i rooted it, installed some apps, but nothing so special, that the system should crash on the boot. made much "dirtier" stuff with the sw of my defy+, but it never got bootloops. this device and its sw seems to be very sensitive...

well i ran through all pages, but couldnt find any instruction to go to the recovery. "reboot recovery" in terminal didnt help. could you pleeease tell me?

thanks in advance.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
http://www.viewsonic.com/support/do...10e/V10e_Y12_Firmware_Updating_Procedures.pdf
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] kassipopassi:
well thanks, but that wasnt what i wanted. i wanted to know, if the device has a stock-recovery or something ;)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
All your options have been posted - the only way to get this back to factory default as it comes out the box is by downloading the MPTool and firmware, putting it into flashing mode as the link describes, then flashing it. There's no other recovery mode, I'm not sure what you want to do beyond this.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] kassipopassi:
thanks but i have no problems flashing the stock firmware at all. i just wanted to know, if there's a stock recovery or sth. like cwm, in which i can backup/restore image files, wipe data/dalvik/cache partition like in EVERY android device i had in the past 2 years... ;)

because for me there's a big difference between a recovery and a flashing tool ;)
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
No idea. I don't think I can help you any further.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Fantomas82:
Since no one mentioned it yet, but everyone has been waiting for it.

It seems as the ICS Update is finally here. I wasn't able to test it though since it says that it is only for Version 2 of the Viewpad10e. (It has the reset button on top and not on the side like the first version.)

It says on the site though that the update for Version 1 is coming aswell.

Seems like I am too new to post a link so check the viewsonic page.

Never heard of Version 2, since when is there a second version of the viewpad?
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] laptopu:
Thanks for posting this, I haven't noticed it.

Here's the link: http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/uk/s...wpad-10e-ics-upgrade-version-2-model-only.htm

I didn't know there are two versions either. Apparently version 1 is with the reset hole on the side, version 2 has the reset hole on the top near the power button. I'm on version 1 in that case.
[Viewsonic ViewPad 7 & Variants] Fantomas82:
At least now we know it is coming even with that big delay.

I mean I am quite happy with my viewpad as it is but it still would be nice to have an improvement (if there is one with ICS ;))

Out of curiosity: What happens with devices when updated to ICS? What happens to the stuff that is stored on the device? Are all alterations undone (root etc.)?