yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
DSP manager app I is the same as the one the ROM comes with, and yes it also installs a different audio effect script as well. Should fix that issue also. Maybe Friday I will combine it all together so you will only have tto install the ROM only. :silly:
[G Tablet Android Development] Revyloution:
Thanks!
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
Audio effects are still not working. Tried DSP manager, and two equalizer apps from market.
[G Tablet Android Development] redeyedjedi:
I personally use this, not because Im a fan of beats, just because the "small speaker" preset works great for our tab. The manual EQ does too, but it has to be turned on. Apply this on top of everything else. It works perfectly, except maybe one time it forced closed on me on the first boot....then it worked fine anyways. If you cant use this then your rom install is somehow borked.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728391
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
It's almost axiomatic on the Internets that in any discussion if a person brings up Nazis then that person has basically lost the argument. And, this argument was lost right at the outset since a Nazi reference was brought up as the first thing. So, to end this tempest in a teacup:

It's not the birds. It's the fact that a ROM install has gratuitously overwritten a user's splash screen. It's not really needed for a ROM install, is it? Look at it from another point of view:

You all seem to be passionately devoted to your splash screens, so consider this: ROM X, next-door, also writes a new splash screen (maybe even the much-hated birds) as part of its install, but, you guys don't like it one bit. ROM Y also comes with its own .bmp, and this one isn't palatable either. Same with ROM Z. And when you object, if users on those threads respond the same way that you have-- (in order of replies): a) citing emotional distress (please!) or some other profound existential angst; b) declaiming that its some kind of statement, and/or gesture of defiance or solidarity; c) proclaming profound gratitude to their devs; and lastly, (and most curiously) d) what appears to be an exhortation to increase one's height--you'll say the same thing that I have: You have overwritten my preferred splash screen for no good reason--Please don't do it.

OK, I'll bite: define "from scratch". Because, I know from my interactions and conversations with him that while he's a pretty talented amateur overall, and an indubitably splendid team leader/frontman for TeamDRH, he's not a C programmer. I'm pretty sure that he hasn't claimed that he's personally written kernel code from scratch. Moreover he's already indicated to me that most (if not all) of the kernel code was already written by others: the Adam kernel devs for the board specific bits.

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The user may not have done that, but, I did: I gave a dispassionate objective reason for not writing a new splash screen, but, most people responding seem to have missed it.

Well, OK. But then consider the converse: The user chose poor language (I sensed irritation or frustration rather than distaste, actually), but, then he went back and toned it down somewhat. What about the OP's? He went ape and the board had to forcibly bowdlerize his language with asterisks. Old Nobe doesn't seem to understand the concept of proportionate response. The street goes both ways, right? He could simply have pointed out, that 2 of the poster's major complaints were, in fact, HW problems--nothing to do with the ROM at all.
[G Tablet Android Development] redeyedjedi:
"well, not really" = means its a JOKE

"from scratch" = someone who says they are not a developer, and has no support from the company who got their money. SO, they go out, kang from other sources, teach themselves everything, work out bugs, does everything a company is supposed to do when they get several hundred dollars of your money.....then presents their project to the community and calls it alpha because he is not a developer and is doing everything he can, for FREE. therefore, there may be bugs or issues, but he is trying to make it better........even though he started "from scratch" with nothing.

Nobe's rom.....is my build......which is available for download, with no theming and a "stock" presence. His smootherbean is a "mod," a "themed rom" with tweaks to his liking, not in any way presented as a "stock" or "official" looking rom, but explicity defined as "mod" implying "not stock" and "themed." As defined in the OP, if you use his nvflash to set it up, it will change the bootup image, so user is pre-warned.

All we are trying to do is have more options, and make things better, and I will defend all people to the bitter end who devote their time, for free, to this mission.
[G Tablet Android Development] johnnybr:
I Don't wanna be lame, but here is I thing:

Well, I can say that if the people can read, and if they exercises this ability, all that talk would be avoided. On the first lines of the topic, there is:

So, if you flash this you agree with whatever it comes to be. That is the rule of the whole thing over here, XDA, I guess.

I think that you can ask to have your preferences, you can suggest some thing that seems a improvement, you can became sad if all that you want don't became the final release.

You can't complain like if you have paid someone to make this (we have paid viewsonic, but that is other story). You can't receive a gift and then complain. Don't catch then.

At last, if you don't like the way the things are going, you can always make your own version. Android is open source.

This isn't to people that realy make construtive comments. This is for lazy users (like me) that don't know to make anything and complain a lot (this I don't do) like it's a service that you paid for.

Please, don't take this as personal. Just my opnion. And sorry for my english, I am dumb in this too...
[G Tablet Android Development] MTMTE:
THIS.

Personally I am beyond thankful for all the hard work that's been put into this ROM for the gTablet. Otherwise I would have paid over $200 for a Froyo-paperweight.

Anyone complaining about simple cosmetic deviations from stock are more than likely trying to sell their gTablet; and using the fact that it runs ICS as a way to edge out competition. The fact that it doesn't look stock makes this harder for them. In fact there's a gTablet on the St. George, Utah Craigslist right now boasting that it "runs ICS very fast"...and if you look at the pictures of the item you can see the teamDRH wallpaper. Hmmmmmmm.

Don't like changes to your precious hardware... then why the FART are you here in the first place?!

Jeebuz, I've been chewed out on XDA for less.

/rant

Anyways, I'm running 1.4.2 and things are going well. I got a Samsung HDMI "Smart Adapter" (MHL TO HDMI ADAPTER, Product ID: EIA2UHUNBEGSTA) for my phone and thought I'd check to see if, for some crazy reason, the gTablet would output HDMI via the USB out. No dice. Didn't think it would though.

Thanks again!
[G Tablet Android Development] unfrozencaveman:
Birds

i just wanted to thank Nobe for this awesome rom and for removing those stupid birds. I'm in the anti-bird crowd too. Keep up the good work.
[G Tablet Android Development] djrakun:
Can I make a motion to either close the conversation about the boot screen ethics? Or is it possible to sidebar this discussion to a different thread? I'm subscribed to this thread to get updates from nobe if he has a new release or otherwise information for the community on how to tweak this ROM for their own uses that may be applicable to me. This thread appears to have been hijacked by some philosophical differences of the various readers and frankly, I dont have any interest in the conversation. Boot splash doesnt affect my impression of the rom whatsoever, and I dont feel like my tablet is in a worse state for not having the original image.

I will now cover myself in my flame-proof blanket and wait for your responses.
[G Tablet Android Development] Lucas0511:
Thanks for this ROM, runs perfectly on the Hannspad, too. Hope you girls can get over the birds issue and move on...
[G Tablet Android Development] Yamagushi:
FUFUFUFUFUFU!!! lol
[G Tablet Android Development] johnnybr:
Now I see your point... Indeed, if you ask me, without think about, I can say that I wanna save come Write/erase cycles. But, well, aren't we already spending that very same cycles on the system partition, that seems more essential? Well, in the end I don't know nothing, probaly saying bull****.

But what I know is that I am thankfull for all the work that other people share with me and I can say that: Keep the good work!
[G Tablet Android Development] Maxfactor:
I used this procedure to change my boot screen...easy and worked great:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23505552

Hope I linked it right. And if it was already posted sorry. I could care less what the boot screen actually is, love the rom - thanks.
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
I tried everything but audio effects are not working for me. I tried reinstall of ROM also. Am I alone with this issue. I am having a standard Playstore build.
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
You have to apply the audio fix that is posted in the OP currently. I am trying to get it all together in one update, but time is a strange issue this time of year. Make sure that you wipe cache and dalvic before applying.

Sent from My SmOoThA$$ Gtablet.
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
Reinstalled the ROM with all wipes.

Flashed audio fix without rebooting.

Music effects doesn't even show up in sound settings.

Niether the dsp manager nor any other equalizer is working. :(
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
DSP manager really doesn't work delete it if you want. PlayStore app "music volume eq" will work. I thought that the sound was giving you issues but it turns out that you want to be able to adjust the levels of the sound. Download that app and you should be good. Still working on getting DSP to work right.
[G Tablet Android Development] redeyedjedi:
did you try applying this on top of the audio FIX??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728391
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
It's not the system or cache partitions that you have to worry about. Both of them are, apart from a few exceptions (like the VS stock or FrankenTab ROM installs), accessed (read or written) only through the YAFFS2 filesystem on them. And YAFFS2, as I mentioned, does a good job of spreading the writes evenly across the partition blocks. For the same reason, you don't have to worry about bad blocks causing problems; YAFFS2 will handle those too. The situation with the boot partition which contains the kernel and the initial ramdisk is different. It is written raw, just like the bootbmp partition. So whatever I said about writes to bootbmp applies equally to the boot partition. But, you can't really do anything about the boot partition, can you? Any ROM install, other than minor updates, will write to the boot partition and at the same locations.

So you might ask, what is the big deal with writing to the bootbmp partition as well? The answer is that if you have an uncorrupted bootbmp (or similarly unused) partition, you could use it as the boot partition by swapping the assignments in the .cfg file before running nvflash. A similar thing was actually done by one user here for another on Slatedroid. After some troubleshooting, it was determined that the user on SLD had bad blocks on his MSC partition because of which his tablet wouldn't boot. So, aabbondanza--the user who troubleshot the problem--swapped his MSC and bootbmp partitions. The bootloader won't work with a bad MSC partition, but it doesn't care about a corrupted bitmap, so the user could still use his tablet.

The bottom line is to avoid unnecessary writes to the NAND. And, for the same reasons, everyone should avoid unnecessary nvflashes as well. The first thing that a full nvflash does is format the entire NAND. You can see it in the messages it prints.

I understand your lack of interest, but, this is the Development forum after all. It is understood that a lot of the discussion happening here will (or should) be of a technical nature, generally of interest only to the devs and maintainers. Most users can either skim or skip the proposals and counter-proposals and the minutiae that are discussed here.

Questions go into Q & A. Rants and raves go into the General section. Unfortunately, for this ROM, everything has ended up here in Development.

I hear ya. I felt like a guy who went down to the pub for a drinkie but found himself in the middle of an ongoing bar fight over some guy's bird.
[G Tablet Android Development] djrakun:
Pun not intended, right?
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
QUOTE=nobe1976;35396826]DSP manager really doesn't work delete it if you want. PlayStore app "music volume eq" will work. I thought that the sound was giving you issues but it turns out that you want to be able to adjust the levels of the sound. Download that app and you should be good. Still working on getting DSP to work right.

Tried both. Nothing works. No equalizer works.
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
Music Volume Eq app from the Playstore should work no matter what type of audio you are using. Been using it on both devices when DSP or Awesome Beats don't work. The Awesome beats that redeyedjedi refer about adds the proper libs but lacks the attachment to the systemui to properly work just like dsp. I would use the package just to install the enhanced libs and use the Music Volume Eq from the Playstore.
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
Don't know why it isn't working for me. Will others confirm whether equalizer works or not?
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
Alright found out I wasn't on the current posted ROM setup as you. I went ahead and loaded up the current, Thank goodness I payed for TIBU, and you are right on the money. Give me a bit and I will have it fixed. :fingers-crossed:
[G Tablet Android Development] xoted:
The file manager I use shows I have two micro SD cards. So, I'm to understand that the internal SD card is not removable?
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
It would help to let me know what file manager you use, and no the internal storage you cannot remove. It is a partition of the internal nand that your system is on.
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
Totally--it wasn't intended to be punny.

It's actually on the internal SD card chip. The NAND is a separate chip.
[G Tablet Android Development] heinrich:
I followed the OP instructions and repartitioned my device, this erased all storage. I can't figure out how to do the "Download ROM and place onto internal storage" part now. I can boot into CWM but cannot see the External SD, and internal storage is empty. Can someone help please? :)

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Figured it out.

Boot CWM

Plug USB cable into PC and tablet

Mount USB Storage

Copy ROM

:D
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
LOL. You have wiped all your internal memory. Now as you have went ahead, download the ROM on your computer and turn on the usb storage via recovery in tablet. Plug in your usb to computer and tablet. Now transfer to internal memory.

You can transfer to external as well.
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
Thanks once again for educating me. The more I learn the better. I was thinking that it was all in one like a Solid state drive, but now I know better. :rolleyes:

Sent from My SmOoThA$$ Gtablet.
[G Tablet Android Development] lekhwani:
Seems u already figured it. Very quick.
[G Tablet Android Development] xoted:
>>It would help to let me know what file manager you use<<

I don't use it anymore and forgot the name, sorry. I tend to use what the OP (which I'm still not sure what it really means) has vetted on the ROM. The current is sdcard0 and microsd from both file explorer and AntTek explorer.

Next question

On my HTC HD2 forums, some of the programmers have been setting up the OS on the removable SD card, instead of NAND. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1930240

Is that (sometime in the distant future) feasible on our gTab to preclude any NAND-Alzheimers issues? :) The last time I looked the HD2s were comparable or faster with class 10 cards.

No problems with the gTab. Just trying to learn, am having fun and great use of the tablet and thanks to both of you for the education and work you put into this.
[G Tablet Android Development] heinrich:
Let me revise my report :) I can't really seem to get any of my kids' book games to play (not sure what it uses for animation). And it does seem things like App Market are touchy.It seems touch presses are often slow or non-responsive.
[G Tablet Android Development] rajeevvp:
OP = Original Post(er).

It is perfectly feasible right now, as a matter of fact. I'm running 2 of my ROMs (GtabCombOver 3.3 and an older TeamDRH ICS) on 2 separate microSD cards. Only their boot partitions on the internal NAND chip. My VEGAn-Tab-7.1 is installed in the standard locations: ie. the NAND and internal SD card chips. So all I do to switch between ROMs is write the appropriate boot.img onto the boot partition on the NAND. There are some caveats, of course, but, anyone can do the same thing. The process is, of course, much easier if the ROM does it. See this post for the background.

Then this thread should help. See esp. post #4.
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
Man I need to shrink down and sneak into that brain of your and steal all your secrets. Why don't you compile or dev. for this device? I am sure if I lived close by I would go to a weekly class session just to gain some awesome knowledge from you. Thanks again.

Sent from My SmOoThA$$ Gtablet.
[G Tablet Android Development] lartomar2002:
:crying:I need some advice. I have done a clean reinstall(facter reset, 4096 partition, wiped cache and davkic and everything is back up and running great. I did change the DPI to 140, hope it does not mess up any of my apps or change what is available in the Play Store. I always backup my apps using Titanium Backup Pro to my external SD card. The problem is I forget to move my game data, Barns and Nobles books and and other files I have downloaded. I have recently discovered GL to SD that will move Gameloft game data and a few others to the ext SD but I forgot to install it until after the install. Are then any apps that will allow you to select the files you would like to move in advace and do it automatically when you tell it to. I know I can move the files or copy the files to the external sd but I may forget something but with a app I could update the and add files as necessary. Now back to the long tedious task of re-downloading data.:crying:
[G Tablet Android Development] JEZZEJAMEZ:
Omg, and can we chat. I'm with Nobe we gotta to get skooled on some that you got..

$3ñt F®°m my Gt@b ~Gn°t£
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
I always keep a backup of the TiBU file on my external storage just in case. If I install something and would like to keep it I run TiBU to backup new user data and apps then delete the backup on the external storage and copy the new updated folder over to it. I just bought TiBU about a month ago and I couldn't figure out why I didn't get the damn thing to begin with about 2 years ago. Can you just imagine how much time I would of saved, and how much it could of saved me from having to start all my games over again. :silly:
[G Tablet Android Development] gtabman:
Gameloft - Asphalt 7

Hi nobe,

thank you very much for the rom. It is smooth as the name suggests :)

I am able to download and play The Dark Knight Rising, which is really cool, but was trying to play Asphalt 7 and the screen just flicker. Is this something

to do with the 140 dpi I need to setup? I don't think this game is for phone only mode, but not sure though.

The Rom has been performing very well. I've been installing only the necessary apps to keep it lean and mean

Thanks again.
[G Tablet Android Development] lartomar2002:
nobe, are you chatting with rajeevvp about this dual booting capability?
[G Tablet Android Development] tenet420:
Its not really dual boot, I think. I'm pretty sure he has a script or update.zip that swaps kernels and loads the corresponding system files from the SD. There is a nice tutorial in the Gtab dev section - prolly around the same area as the Backtrack thread. I had Froyo, HC, and BT5 on this all at once back when I had more time to play.

Android is the future and the future is now :)

Sent from my palm to your face.
[G Tablet Android Development] nobe1976:
That would be a nice touch if I could get a bit more information on it. Trying to compile my first Android ROM and my machine is working on overtime right now. The last time I duel booted my tablet was using xubuntu. I didn't like the slowness of it and decided to just stick with one system.
[G Tablet Android Development] redeyedjedi:
I have looked deeply into this. It is super easy to have roms on the sd card, it is how ubuntu is done. Check the ubuntu thread on slatedroid.

I think what is missing is that Raj is flashing a kernel every time he boots a diff rom, he is NOT dual booting. Ubuntu DOES dual boot, but requires recovery to be installed to use recovery. When you hold Vol.up on this setup it uses the recovery partition to boot an alternate kernel instead for ubuntu.

I have always hoped that the "boot manager" app would be updated for jellybean, but just like all good apps, prolly not.

I have also discussed this with Foss, and the only way to do a true dualboot would be to port UBOOT to our device....which is a task that even he thinks would be impossible, at least among those of us who use a Gtab. We also cannot have kexec as I have looked into this. If you search the slatedroid dirty bean thread for "uboot" you will find a couple of links to the relevant info, but I am not aware of anyone who has the skills, fosser didnt seem to know anyone either.

I started to build TWRP for our gtabs specifically to accomplish this, but without kexec or uboot there is no way to pull it off, and that is the only thing that would make TWRP any more useful than CWM.

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I cannot get the newest SIx GUNS or ASphalt 7 to run. actually a lot of newer gameloft games are starting to have issues. six guns 1.0.3 does work though, so if you have an older version or maybe even the first version of asphalt 7 you should try that.

Consequently, EA games are freakin awesome on our tabs, NFS most wanted I can verify works atleast on Paranoid and AOKp, dont remember if I tested it on this rom. NFS shift, dead space, mass effect, all work great. NBA JAM requires a way to hide the navbar to function, so it needs Paranoid or AOKp, but all other EA games should work awesome with a 140dpi setup and the audio fix applied.
[G Tablet Android Development] lartomar2002:
Would you please post a link on Ubuntu you were referring to? I did a search and all I found were references to Ubuntu on other devices?
[G Tablet Android Development] redeyedjedi:
I guess it would help if I had remembered correctly and actually gave you good info to go on. I should have said "xubuntu" but the dual boot theory is the same.

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/222...rnel-working-wifi-no-longer-maintained-by-op/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075054

Then, the pertinent information regarding uboot is here:

http://ac100.grandou.net/swarren_brain_dump

via this post here:

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/367...-082312/page__st__1300__p__453453#entry453453

(post #1308)

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I nominate rajeevp to port uboot!!!
[G Tablet Android Development] gtabman:
Thank you for the confirmation and recommendation, sir :)