yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Android Development] enigma0456:
A great install

Did a full wipe of everything and then an install from my external sd card. I let it sit for an hour and then started hooking things up. Got the wireless going and signed into google and downloaded Superuser and Titanium Backup from the Playstore. Also grabbed the Terminal App so I could run the supercharger. There was some problems with Titanium and Superuser but I thought to reboot and all problems were resolved. I recently broke down and bought the paid version of Titanium so restoring apps isn't an endless tedium. It is worth the money! With the paid version you just click restore all missing apps and data and let it run. Before I put all my desktops back, I installed Nova Launcher and then put everything back. I must say that everything is very responsive. Even the browsers seem to be working reasonably well. I'm liking it!
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
If you have no experience, you might want to read some more. Start here:

http://raywaldo.com/series/gtab-2/
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
DSP

THAT WOULD BE AWEOME! Been meaning to play around with Beats.

I'm just happy to have a ROM working THAT good right now.
[G Tablet Android Development] kozmo2k4:
Great ROM release, once again! Everything running good. For those users experiencing FCs and reboots, just wipe /data and start fresh, don't restore data. One request for future release: can you include a basic File Browser in /system/app ? Thanks again.
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
Request

One Request, and I hate making requests, is to possibly change the shut down prompts.

Any chance of adding a reboot / recovery / shut down option?

Thanks!
[G Tablet Android Development] jlh11364:
Thanks for the response. I had been waiting for some free time to update to version 1.6 I am coming from 1.5. I am going out tonight, so I didn't have the time to do a complete wipe and then restore everything later. So I put 1.6 on SD card, wiped cache, wiped Dalvik and loaded.

Everything came right back up and was right where I left it. Updated Supercharger afterwards and all is great.

Love the suggestion to purchase full version of Titanium. Restoring everything each time is the only thing that keeps me from changing more often on both the tablet and my phone.
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
For all of you who do not have titanium pro yet... All I can recommend is an app called lucky patcher. Google it. I cannot say anything more...
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
I have 2 words for you Notification toggles. You can pick it up through the Play Store. There is a power down toggle that will display reboot, recovery, bootloader and power down. It great little addition to this rom.
[G Tablet Android Development] enigma0456:
QuickBoot in the market.... works great.

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Given the incredibly low price of apps and the willingness of many developers to let you have a free version with ads only and especially given all the work these rom devs do here for free, it doesn't seem fair to use something like this to cheat a developer out of a couple of bucks. We're not talking about skimming a little off of Microsoft or Apple here folks - we're talking about people that have worked hard to learn and build incredibly useful apps, most of which we get to use for free. If you want that to continue give them a few dollars once in awhile for all their hard work.

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Does anyone using this rom have a dock working. I finally got mine today and although the ethernet connectivity lights up on the dock and the router there is no Internet connectivity if the wireless is turned off. I was hoping to have a faster connection with wired but I can't see any way to manage the connection. I wonder if the original z-pad had a docking station management app or something. Any ideas?
[G Tablet Android Development] JEZZEJAMEZ:
Works good for me on any launcher except for spb shell 3d. Oncein a while the whole thing will freeze up but i think thats my launcher.:thumbup:
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
I agree about purchasing apps. I own Titanium Pro. I suggest those of you who flash often to purchase it to.

It is a very worth while investment.
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
recovery

I tried both quick boot and notification toggles. Both have a recovery option, but neither works. Tablet simply reboots. No recovery.

Anyone else try?
[G Tablet Android Development] Yamagushi:
Those articles are terrible.You seem to know very little about technology.

Your review of the keyboard case was a joke.

"Stylus. The case includes a little plastic stylus. I have not used it. I don’t see the need – but if you want one, it is there. (useless – 1 star)"

Because you don't see the need to use one doesn't make it useless and deserve one star. What you didn't notice however was that its not a capacitive stylus, which does make it useless for the gtab.

"The clips for the sides of the GTab are too far apart to secure both edges of the device. I used my wife’s hair dryer to heat them and bend them in so that they would better secure my GTab"

They are very easy to bend, either you're attempting to sound smart by adding the hair dryer to your story, or you have the strength of a worm.

Your review of it's USB host was also ridiculous...

"WEBCAM: I tried my Creative Labs Model VF0230 but I found no way to use it. It did not appear that the GTab recognized it and when I used the Camera app, it still used the built-in camera."

You don't say! My head just exploded, as I thought for sure your random webcam would be plug and play with android.. >_>

If saprowling wants to learn anything, I recommend he stay right here on XDA. Not use a site made by someone who calls himself the "Bishop of Technology" yet can't even make a logo outside of MS Paint..
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
No flames please

You are welcome to your opinion. From your "thanks" count, not many people here count your opinion or answers too highly. Please be more courteous in the future and your thanks count will probably rise.

One reason that I get over 40,000 hits per day on my website is that I try to put things in a more "down-to-earth" language. It is absolutely true that the most TECHNICAL info is found here on XDA. However, the flaming and techno-jargon (used by some people on these forums) turns off many people. THEY (new users) are the people that I help. When they get their feet wet and care to, I always provide links to these forums.

Since you are clearly more of an "expert" than the people that I write for, I suggest that YOU remain here on XDA and not bother reading my articles. And, please stop with the negative diatribes.
[G Tablet Android Development] dsrhokie:
Kindly troll elsewhere. Ray's (along with anyone else's) efforts to help the community should be appreciated, not ridiculed.
[G Tablet Android Development] JEZZEJAMEZ:
I agree tb paid is the second best app ive bought..
[G Tablet Android Development] rmarinella:
(Sigh) ..... Can't we all just get along?
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
1.6 hangs @ birds

I've been running the 1.5 release successfully for some time, no problems. The 1.6, however, I can't install - after I flash it, I hang at the birds every time. I can flash everything else, no problem, just that one seems to make me hang.

I've read every post I can find that mentions anything even remotely related, and tried every troubleshooting technique I have found or that anyone has suggested: wiping everything, re-partitioning, nvflashing back to the stoneage and making my way back step by step. I've followed sets of instructions with very subtle differences in the order in which you wipe this or that, or flashed different versions of the same nvflash. I tried it on the 1.2 AND the 1.1 bootloaders. I've re-downloaded everything and tried it all repeatedly. Everything works fine until I get to 1.6 and then nothing.

I wouldn't be too concerned with missing a release, but my fear is that I'll be stuck the same way with any future versions. I don't know if there's a change somewhere that just isn't jiving with my specific hardware, or something else going on. I've checked for bad blocks or a mis-sized partition or any other issue that I'm capable of diagnosing, but I've come up blank everywhere.

If anyone has any ideas or advice tat could maybe point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
[G Tablet Android Development] rmarinella:
I'm sure you've already run through these, but I'll ask anyway. Are you on cwm 5.5.0.4 beta 15? Have you verified the checksum of the rom download? Did you format system and boot after factory reset but before flashing the new rom? Have you removed any references to Rom settings on your sd card(s) before flashing the new rom?
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
I am on CWM 5.5.0.4 beta 15.

The ROM downloads and installs correctly (or appears to), but just in case I've re-downloaded it on 3 separate devices (2 PCs and the tablet itself). I also tried both versions (160 & 120) of the ROM. I can't say I have verified the checksum, however - it was my understanding (from working with PCs) that a damaged or incomplete zip file wouldn't really function at all, but I guess I shouldn't assume and can try this.

I formatted the system and boot partitions after reset. (I've tried formatting ALL the partitions.)

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'ROM references' but I've also tried re-partitioning the SD card before installing, which should remove everything, I think?
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
Try this:

1. Download both the 1.5 and 1.6 versions of G-Harmony ICS.

2. Unpack both into separate dirs.

3. Copy the boot.img file from 1.5 into 1.6.

4. Zip up the 1.6 directory (now containing the old boot.img) to create a new update.zip file.

5. Flash the update.zip as usual after doing a "wipe data/factory reset".

CWM version is not relevant here.

Also not very useful. If the zip file is corrupt, the ROM install usually won't start at all.

Not required. Any new ROM install will do that.

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On ICS, reboot to recovery from the ROM might not work with 3rd party apps. See this post for why not.

And, even if it did, rebooting like that might get you stuck in a always-boots-into-recovery loop.

If you want to get into recovery, or the bootloader, on the gTablet, use the HW keys.
[G Tablet Android Development] tallsilver:
Thans for This!!

Had been using an early HC rom on bootloader 1.1. Yesterday made the change to BL 1.2 using nvflash and loaded this ROM. Only problem I had was from not reading enough to realize SU was not in the rom. Downloaded, installed, and all is working well.

Just finished doing the SuperCharger V6 to 100% and it really flies now.

On another note I tried my trusted Nova launcher on the GTAB but could not get it to rotate........am I missing something or is that in Nova? Doesn't rotate on my Captivate either, come to think of it! :mad: Oh, well, the launcher included isn't bad.......

Thanks for all the effort you put into this!
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
I had this same issue on a different ROM and this one as well. The way I got it to load up was when it got stuck on the splash screen force shut down by holding down the power button. Reboot into recovery apply update without doing any wipes other then cache and dalvic. Then reboot system and it should load up. Once loaded up set it down for 10 mins or more to let the ROM settle in. Then setup the Play Store and download Superuser app.
[G Tablet Android Development] NapalmDawn:
Any compatible kernels for this ROM that support OCing?
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
All ICS builds on the Gtab share the same kernal that will only allow you to OC to 1.2 no higher. Once they have everything worked out I am sure fosser2 and other kernal devs will be able to rock this tablet out again. With this ROM you have to use Set CPU to OC and change gov. I set mine at a 300/1200 ratio on conservative gov. and it is rock solid.
[G Tablet Android Development] rmarinella:
LOL, We've gone around on issues folks have been having with installs before. You have a way with words rajeevvp. Anyway, does the rezip need to be signed after moving the 1.5 boot.img into it? What about the zip compression, isn't there something there that needs to be set/maintained?
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
It worked!!!

Finally booted after doing this!! Thanks!

I had wondered if something like this might work, but to be honest I didn't know enough to know what to replace with what.

So, can you tell me what I changed or did not update by doing it this way?
[G Tablet Android Development] nick101181:
I came from a frankentab rom and I followed all instructions clearly. I wiped everything then tried to install v1.6, I get to the birds then it boots into recovery every time. I tried the trick about taking the boot img from the 1.5 zip and putting it in the 1.6 zip and flashing and I'm getting the same boot loop into recovery every time. Any other ideas?
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
I had that happen a couple nights ago. I had to nvflash back to a stock ROM to fix it, as nothing I flashed over top of it would get around the recovery loop.

Maybe someone else here has a better suggestion, but if not, that worked for me.
[G Tablet Android Development] tallsilver:
battery ??

Rom is working great. Old problem......bat icon stays on 100% til it dies. I don't seem to be able to find a solution. Anyone know an answer?
[G Tablet Android Development] raywaldo:
Fix for boot looping

Here is a link to my article on how to fix the boot looping:

http://raywaldo.com/2011/01/nvflash-for-dummies/
[G Tablet Android Development] GinoAMelone:
I came over from TeamDRH. Very pleased with this ROM. One small issue, the XDA HD (tablet-specific version) refuses to install. I've tried both 120 and 160. Worked fine on T-DRH.
[G Tablet Android Development] Enmi:
Fastest ICS Rom I've used to date

Okay, I've been tossing ICS on my tablet for a little while now, from Team DRH's original thru 1.3.2, onward to even the AOKP version of ICS... all shiny and neat (LOVE the added mods) ... but none would stay smooth longer than a few hours before the lag hit like I dipped my tablet in a bucket of molasses. -_-

I tried this rom (160 resolution accidentally before downloading the 120), and immediately fell in love. It's so SMOOOOTH!!! After installing the right version and restoring apps, the ROM is just plain wicked fast. And I haven't even ran the V6 up until the middle of this post. That's saying something. The thing runs faster than Vegan-Ginger did. o_o

All in all, I love this ROM. I'd wish for a couple things to add, but it wouldn't be stock any more. :p

Like hold back to kill apps, and little tweaks like that.

The one other caveat I have with this ROM is the small fact that MTP won't work with my laptop after switching to this rom. It just causes my system to freeze, until I unplug... like it can't communicate properly, or something. Works fine with my wife's identical gtab (with TeamDRH 1.3), both on her windows 7 64bit PC, and my Ubuntu linux 12.04 laptop. It just refuses to work on my tablet. ... I may try to back up my apps, and do a system restore / wipe and see if that fixes it, but I really don't want to spend the time to do so for the hundredth time.

EDIT: Another issue I have... but this just may be something borked in my install (can anyone else verify this?), I can mount usb disks just fine as well as memory cards, but for some reason or another, the tablet refuses to write data to it. It's like all external memory mounts read-only. That's honestly, really infuriating. I may just backup and reinstall from scratch and see if it was just my install.
[G Tablet Android Development] feyerbrand:
I love this ROM so much. Any chance that we will see jb version?
[G Tablet Android Development] nick101181:
Thanks to everyone who suggested I do an nvflash and then flash the rom. It seems to work. I am getting some lag, but I've only played around with the rom for a little bit. Also lag when using browser and trying to actually redirect to any url. I tried doing the supercharge v6 thing but the terminal app acted like every command I typed in wasn't valid. Also got an error that said something like "Su does not exist". How much of a difference does Supercharge make in performance?
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
Did you install SuperUser? I don't think it's pre-installed as a system app in version 1.6 of the ROM...
[G Tablet Android Development] jaymaj:
Installation

This is what worked for me:

-Standard Wipes (Data/cache/dalvik cache)

-Flashed ROM

-on startup, skipped setup and WIFI

-Let it sit for an hour

-Connected WIFI

-Setup Google Account / Selected not to restore settings

-From google Play, downloaded Terminal Emulator

-Download SuperUser

-Ran script for V6 Super charge found on OP

-Follow prompts including clean up scripts

-Rebooted

-Downloaded Titanium Backup

-Restored Apps and Data

Try it in that order and let us know how it works. Mine runs great.

Jason
[G Tablet Android Development] Enmi:
I agree with dmahon, and jaymaj, Superuser and terminal emulator aren't installed by default, so they have to be added through Google Play. Follow jaymaj's instructions since that's what I did (except I let google restore my settings?) and stability and performance are excellent on my end of things.

In fact, just to let you know about performance (not benchmarked, just a feel of things); before Supercharge v6, the tablet ran very smooth, no hitches between apps. There was only a SLIGHT lag, only when first opening an app, but even after rebooting, apps that were previously launched ran smooth as butter. After running the supercharger, the rom responded even better, and did something none of my other roms EVER did. I actually had 12 tabs open on the ICS browser, switched out to another app, opened email, and I went back into browser, and not once did it force close or suddenly shut down on me. I've done this several times successfully without problems. :D Memory management is a definite improvement on top of anything else I've ever run on this tablet!
[G Tablet Android Development] jazzruby:
Man, I'm dying to give this ROM a go, but I get to the birds then a quick screen refresh and it stalls at the 3 birds, I been racking my brain; tried everything I could think of but no go.

@tj

Can I get a copy of 1.5 or at least the boot.img and see if I can get in.

I really like what I'm reading in the thread and await with anticipation

Thanks,

-JR-
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
Been giving this some thoughts on how and why people been having trouble loading this rom. So I dropped back to 1.1 bootloader and loaded up a random rom, I believe Vegan 5. Played with it for a couple days then NVFlashed up to 1.2 and ran CM7 for a dew days also. When I decided to go back to this rom. All I did was NVFlashed the 1.2 with CWM5504 beta 15 that can be found in the DRH rom tread and let it boot fully into tapui. Powered off and rebooted into CWM 5504 beta 15 and wiped user data, cache, dalvic cache, partitioned internal to 2048/0, mounted data and format data, mounted system then format system, then loaded rom from external storage. There was some cases that I would get a black screen after the 3 birds, but a power down reboot fixed that issue. There shouldn't be a need to use a different boot.img for this version. The updated boot.img from fosser2 works great with this rom.
[G Tablet Android Development] tjohnsonjr:
Yeah. I try to get it uploaded tonight
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
The CWMs used on the gTab (and also the stock recovery) don't check signatures by default, so you don't need to sign any of the zip files.

Not sure what you mean here...

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See, all you've determined from all the random stuff you've done above, is that your gTab doesn't have the problem.

Read carefully through the other ICS-related threads both here and on Slatedroid. There are a few gTabs around which simply don't boot the newer TeamDRH ICS kernels/boot.imgs for some mysterious reason. Fosser2, in fact, has just such a gTab in his possession. What the devs themselves recommend in such cases is going back to a working kernel/boot.img--which in practice means one of the older boot.img files.
[G Tablet Android Development] joeyhdownsouth:
Thanks for this, my buddy was gonna throw his gtab away, so i changed the bootloader and flashed. Buttery smooth.

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[G Tablet Android Development] tjohnsonjr:
Added v1.5 to the OP. Also Update 1.6 with Superuser and Google Now
[G Tablet Android Development] jazzruby:
Thanks alot, I'm up and running :good:

So far so good, this ROM is kicking, I'm loving it

Will post back with some thoughts

Thanks again,

-JR-
[G Tablet Android Development] rmarinella:
Running very well on the DRH 350MB partition.
[G Tablet Android Development] Sheetzie03:
Dl link issues

Nothing but problems trying to get the newest versions downloaded. Both 120 and 160.(im on a pc)

taking way too long in the progress and then it will prematurely say complete. ill look in the file, always showing less than the 148mb it should be yet it completes like any other dl when its fully finished)

tried multiple times with both 120 and 160.

yep and as im typing this 53.5mbs through the download it says complete, nice

im about to give the heck up:mad:

EDIT: OP links broke!!
[G Tablet Android Development] xoted:
Xylo,

Love the ROM so far and thanks for all of your precious time putting it together. I've been using paranoid android on my Win6.5 HD2, and thought I knew a thing or two. Read the sticky for the GTab on the main page, and wasted a day with CWM .08, ending up tearing apart my machine and voiding the 30 day refurb warranty ( eh no big loss).

To save others from my school of hard knocks, would it be possible to post the information below taken from jaymaj, or the following link that is more comprehensive, placed above the instructions on how to engage supercharger, so that others might not have to go through the issues I did? It should also help (not eliminate) other newbies from having to litter (already occurring) the thread with "How do I install this thang?"

Also, if it saves everyone time, perhaps it might be worth the upkeep.

Here are the two suggestions, I'm not quite sure of XDA BB etiquette.

Most comprehensive, probably for those starting fresh: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23418480&postcount=46

Minimalist: Probably best for upgrades, with potential edits.

While I've learned a lot going through this exercise, I would have rather spent the time learning how to help upgrade the ROM.

Your sometimes humble newbie.
[G Tablet Android Development] xoted:
More whining.

While I'm whining, unlike the 160 version the 120 version lacks superuser, in case it was inadvertently left out.
[G Tablet Android Development] df186:
JB??

I noticed that TeamDRH has now started to work on Jellybean.. any thoughts on the Gtab moving to Jelly bean?? I love your rom better.. just figured that since its based on the TeamDRH.. you may be working on getting JB up and running..
[G Tablet Android Development] tjohnsonjr:
I'll upload it to a different site tonight.
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
It looks like the host was having some problems, but it was back up for me as of around 4:30PM EST.
[G Tablet Android Development] dmahon:
Sadly I'm forced to agree with this - I can't boot if I flash any of the latest TeamDRH ICS ROMs as-is (or the Jellybean one :( ) or the latest GHarmony ICS . Sticking the boot.img from GH 1.5 in works just fine with most of them. Someone more savvy than me might know why, but it looks like I'll be stuck with whatever the last version that will boot with the 1.5 boot.img will be. Probably never get to JB unless some later version manages to make it work.