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[General Questions and Answers] Georgewells:
Response to DogP

My AC Adapter to the Tablet power port - nothing happens - my desktop USB to Tablet USB it charges fine -- I checked the adapter and it is putting out voltage fine.

When I plugged in the keyboard to the USB - I received no typing output !

Thanks -- George
[General Questions and Answers] DogP:
Weird... my AC adapter definitely works, and I booted into Android and plugged in my USB wireless keyboard and mouse, and they both showed right up and just worked. Maybe you've got a defective tablet, or the keyboard isn't compatible. If you plug the tablet into the computer, does the computer detect it?

And even if you checked the voltage of the power supply, it could still be defective... a lot of power supplies look fine with no load, but once it has to supply current, it drops out. But, it's also possible that the tablet has a problem. I'd either exchange it, or open it up and check for shorted pins, and measure the voltage at the connector inside the tablet while running.

DogP
[General Questions and Answers] DogP:
I stumbled across this today: http://southerntelecom.com/unidentabletsupport/UTAB71.html ... it's the firmware and manual download for our actual tablet. I haven't tried it, but it's good to see that it's up (though not accessible from the main page, and the download page shows a picture of the UTAB430 logo, but the file says UTAB71 :P ).

On another note, I've got Debian Linux running on my tablet, though I'm still working to get the touchscreen working.

DogP
[General Questions and Answers] kcerica:
I just came across this thread & started reading it a little. I wanted to ask you guys if you're able to add apps to external SD card on this thing?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] patrickjaden:
Can someone tell me what the best overclock setting is? I'm not sure mine's working correctly.
[General Questions and Answers] harp28:
Well, at least it's something. I sent them an email complaining about the lack of information or support, but they didn't bother to respond.

I do like the tablet so far, it suits my purpose and it was cheap.
[General Questions and Answers] glen107wood:
NO. I have been trying to get it to work and have not been successful.

I tried OC'ing to 1200 but my tablet started freezing on boot so I dropped it back down to 1156 (might be 1154) and it worked fine after that.
[General Questions and Answers] harp28:
I'm running stable at 1104, tried 1152 but had a couple crashes so I backed off a bit. Chrome seems to crash a lot at any setting, so I removed it - no big loss since I prefer Firefox which has never crashed on me, but it was a bit surprising. When Launcher got buggy I backed off to 1104, no issues since.
[General Questions and Answers] patrickjaden:
thanks! 1.2 must have been too much
[General Questions and Answers] lexridge:
If you want to install your apps to the real external SDCARD, you will have to manually edit the /etc/void.fstab file to swap the two storage devices. This is how I made it work on the Polaroid tablet I once had, so I am pretty sure this one will be no different. Just be sure to make a backup of the original file before you start tweaking, in case of error.
[General Questions and Answers] affiatic:
has anyone gotten a recovery working on this yet. i found info on polaroid tablets with allwinner processor. it is to install clockworkmod recovery. i like playing with these but got it for my daughter for Christmas and don't want to risk a brick.

i also got a Curtis ku lt7033. i planned on keeping it because it does not run as smooth..... but if i see some development on uniden i might change my mind.

if anyone is interested im sure i can find the links again
[General Questions and Answers] zBusterCB87:
I am not sure but I believe this device has a full blow recovery partition that can fully recover the rom and whatever we work with, it also probably does the partitions.

It says 4gb internal, accounting for formatting I round down to 3.5 GB, then 1gb and 1 gb partitions we see in the device, that leaves 1.5 GB about left over unacounted for.

I ran the recovery everything went back to out of box setup, even my ubunto linux installer files within the android OS were gone.

So I'm assuning this to be true.

However I can not seem to access this part of the flash chip.

I know some MS-DOS commands on the old win98se (yes I still use win98 for some things), anyways its true dos, and I probably have the worlds most universal DOS environment on this computer.

I will try working with some of my disk commands to see if it is possible to access the backup partition. Maybe I can dump it to an image file.

Didn't get back fast due to school, I overclock stable to 1.2 GHz, and I bumped up the lower end from about 57 to about 200 MHz because it seemed to speed it up, it seemed to be to slow when it throttled down to save battery, it had small lag points when it needed to throttle up, it had a slight delay, now it is faster in that respect as well.

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The tablet has the ability to encrypt itself, this process can NOT NOT NOT be reversed! So... Do it at your own risk, I believe that if it is done, we will not be able to modify some things withing it as its encrypted and a PC won't see it probably.

I realize now that root@ubuntu might mean someone was on root on a linux box where they made the kernel. But I'm thinking it was rooted with the ubuntu box and thats why that was imprinted there.

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I have not tried SD speed increase as I have not seemed to need it.

I am having the harnest time installing ubunto on this tablet with the ubuntu installer, just does not want to work...

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It will be a short while before I report back, I have finals and my car is lacking attention because of school and other projects & work...

Good luck to yall, if I can dump the recovery partition, I will see if I can post it, if a moderator replies to me with a PM about this, I would appreciate it, because it is software with someone elses copywrite, I'd be posting it for ease of access for us so we can work with it to try to figure out if we can recover or not.

Also I do not know if I should, mine might have its own serial number specific to my device that I should probably not share. I might just post directions if I figure it out...
[General Questions and Answers] affiatic:
I can confirm that southerntelecom has the firmware for the utab71. I believe you can get there from the help button on the tablet. I have only been stable up to 1104 overclocked above that causes me force closes. I also messed with some stuff and the thing wasn't working right. so I installed the firmware with livesuit and everything was back to stock. I removed a bunch of the gapps I dont use (maps,google+....) from the files I used to get market before I installed them this time.

Anyway if you need to get back to stock follow the directions from the manufacturer and I am not liable if it causes issues
[General Questions and Answers] Georgewells:
Micro SD Card

New Subject -- I added a Micro SD Card to my unit about 3 weeks ago and I checked it today on my desk top and the card is empty?? The file is LOST.DIR !!

I have transferred about 7 apps to the SD card (so it said ? ) so where is this info going ? Sorry to be a novice but I am confused !! Does the entire internal memory have to be used up before it needs the Micro card ?
[General Questions and Answers] rwalvo:
External SDCARD swap with Internal SDCARD

I am curious if you can expand how you manually edit the /etc/void.fstab file to use a larger SDCARD for storage. Is this a simple task? I have seen another post that appears to make this task to be quite involved.
[General Questions and Answers] DogP:
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but I believe the recovery files are available from the Southern Telecom site now. Regarding the partitions, there are 10 of them (nanda-nandj)... some are the raw boot and recovery partitions (no real file system, you can check them out w/ a hex editor), and others are the boot partition, user data partition, /system, /data, etc.

Are you trying to install Ubuntu ON the tablet? I'm not sure of an "installer" for it, but I've been able to get Ubuntu and Debian running on mine (I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.10 from the SD card). Basically, you just need to compile the kernel for the A13, then plunk it into the rootfs for one of the distros. And make sure to build the module for the goodix gt811_ts touchscreen driver.

FYI, I don't think Unity will run on this, due to (lack of) video driver support (mine booted to a blank desktop)... I was able to get xfce4, lxde, e17, gnome-classic, and maybe one or two others running. I found LXDE to work the best for what I wanted (pretty much good to go right out of the box, and quick and customizable... good for the tablet). Here's a random pic I had taken when I was trying to debug problems loading the touchscreen driver... it's running XFCE:

I think this was talked about earlier in this thread... "sdcard" is actually the internal storage... "extsd" is the external sd card. I'm not sure that you can install apps to the actual SD card without going under the hood (you should be able to save files and stuff manually to it though). I've hardly used Android, so I don't really know much more.

DogP
[General Questions and Answers] sykotc:
Has anyone gotten Flash working on this tablet?
[General Questions and Answers] RazorChrist:
This is slightly off topic, but pertains to this Uniden tablet. Does anyone know if any type of protective cases for this tablet, such as a silicon outer shell? A friend of mine bought this tablet, and compared to my Kindle Fire, the case construction on the Uniden is cheap and shotty. But I haven't been able to find any links to any protective cases that might work for it. If anyone has any links or information, I would very much appreciate it.
[General Questions and Answers] affiatic:
as far as a silicon I dont think there is one for this device. I purchaced something like this http://www.biglots.com/p/7in-tablet-case-with-easel at biglots this tablet fits nicely in it and it folds shut to protect the screen when not using. if the link doesn't work you can go to biglots site and search tablet
[General Questions and Answers] JoeLansing:
I'm the OP here. I've got 2 of these. You guys are as bad as me. Give you a $50 tablet and you spend $500 worth of time fiddling with it until it breaks, or it turns into a CRAY. Hmmmm, I'm dating myself. These are probably more powerful than an original CRAY. I just wanted to say it's been fun reading about your explorations in this thread. I wonder if it is possible to run aircrack-ng or some of the other tools I use at work doing IT security on this? Full Backtrack might be beyond it's capabilities. My co-worker's jaws would drop to the floor if they saw Backtrack on one :) Then again you could market it as a "Secure Stand Alone Backtrack Appliance" and sell them for $499 easy if you got it to work.

- Joe
[General Questions and Answers] rachelm920:
Merry Christmas everyone... the UTAB71 firmware link seems to be down as I keep getting a 404 error. However I am downloading the PMID705X firmware and it is REALLY SLOOWWWWW I bricked it by mistake by trying to cut and paste using ES file explorer... darn it! I'm supposed to wrap it up and give it to my daughter LOL

OK got it up and running... Camera app doesn't work.. Can someone upload the camera apk for me to try out? Seems it wiped all the internal backups I did
[General Questions and Answers] DogP:
It'll run Linux, so if you have an ARM build (or the source to build for ARM), it should work. No guarantees on performance though. ;) It looks like aircrack-ng is already in Ubuntu 12.10 for armhf: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/armhf/aircrack-ng , and I see discussion of Backtrack on ARM, so you may be able to extract the rootfs to an SD card and drop in the allwinner kernel and make it work.

Did you try the PMID705 (not PMID705X) firmware? The PMID705 looks to be identical to the UTAB71... the PMID705X has an extra camera and microphone, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work 100%.

DogP
[General Questions and Answers] blanders:
I think I have a copy of the firmware package somewhere around here that I downloaded when I first started putting the gapps on, but I never broke the thing bad enough to need it yet. If they pulled the package there may have been a reason, but if you want to risk it I will have time to dig it up in the next day or two, let me know.
[General Questions and Answers] Georgewells:
Case for Tablet

Try on e-Bay I am sure you can find one -- George
[General Questions and Answers] rachelm920:
I will give it a try.... For now she hasn't tried to use the camera yet. I'd like to get Google Talk on there working with the video chat... So she can use it to video chat with my husband when he's away from home which is frequently. I tried to get him to use something else but he isn't quite the android geek I am lol
[General Questions and Answers] affiatic:
the utab71 firmware is up and working fine now I just tried on my pc using firefox and downloaded no prob.
[General Questions and Answers] rachelm920:
IDK What I did but I just seemed to brick it WTF it was like 54% through the upgrade and suddenly stopped and now my pc wont recognize it...

Guess I'm making a trip to big lots in the morning I hope they still have one in stock
[General Questions and Answers] JoeLansing:
I'm the OP. I bought 2 of them. One I still use as my main tablet. I'm going to get real though and buy an Onda v972 quad core CPU, 8 core GPU soon. The rest of my family has Tegra 3 powered Nabi 2s and while I like my Uniden, I'm over it. Good first tablet though. The other Uniden I opened up and played with too much. Screen quit touching right, so I tried to reconnect the 2 ribbon cables. While reconnecting the 2nd one (while power was on) it started smoking. Now it doesn't turn on. I took the battery out and might try to add it to the working one to get huge battery life. All in all the Uniden was a great first tab. Taught me to root, gapps, ADB, etc. Money well spent.

- Joe
[General Questions and Answers] rachelm920:
Yeah well they gave me a real hard time at the store when I attempted to return it so I'm considering buying myself a kindle fire HD or a nexus 7 and giving my daughter my original fire
[General Questions and Answers] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
The kids got 2 of them and they love this tablet.

DEVICES:

NEXUS 7 32GB STOCK

(NO ROOT)

T-MOBIL LG G2X (LG-P999)

STOCK (ROOTED)
[General Questions and Answers] danlhall3@gmail.com:
Reset Password

Go to this site: southerntelecom.com/unidentabletsupport/firmware/ and follow the directions. Worked for me.
[General Questions and Answers] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Did any do the update??? The tablet said 1 update ready.

DEVICES:

NEXUS 7 32GB STOCK

(NO ROOT)

T-MOBIL LG G2X (LG-P999)

STOCK (ROOTED)
[General Questions and Answers] 850Mda:
someone is selling one of these on craigslist for $25, im thinking thats not bad for my first tablet purchase ehh? you guys think i should go ahead and nab it?
[General Questions and Answers] justlovejoy:
I have a UTAB71 and the screen is stuck at all white. it dwindled little by little yesterday after installing the 1mobile app market. My other half installed it but I trust her skills to install an app. However I have found very little information about this tablet in a forum like setting. (Thanks XDA) I wonder though if anyone else has had this happen and has fixed it. I'd start a new thread but this is a pretty resourceful thread already and if my question adds to its resourcefulness... Even Better. So yeah white screen and have flashed the stock img from the http://southerntelecom.com/unidentabletsupport/firmware/firmware_guide_utab71.html a few times. About to take a logcat and pastebin it for others to observe as well and hopefully I can get this issue fixed asap. Thank you for reading and responding and a you are great!
[General Questions and Answers] affiatic:
I think there are cm9 and cm10 roms on freaktab and slatedroid for the polaroid tablets that work for this or can be modified to work for this tablet. You would have to ask over there though. My daughter would be angry if I deleted all her apps and flashed a new rom on hers. Some people just dont get the flashaholic disease.
[General Questions and Answers] dangle79:
FYI, i've figured out how to get the Play store working in marvelous fashion, and quite easily i might add. PM me if interested. I'm looking to see if there's any larger postings out there to give more details so anyone else can find it too. last time i checked nobody had found the solution.
[General Questions and Answers] aimnano:
From my post:

This method worked for me. This tablet is slow, but I read books on it and sometimes play my N64 emulator. :good:
[General Questions and Answers] dangle79:
yeh, his files are gone, at least the ones that seemed to pertain to this. so i was left to my own devices. i'll share how i did it anyway just to have it here.

first thing was to get the Play store APK to the tablet. I used ES explorer on my phone (LTEvo) to "share" both ES itself as well as the store APK to my Gmail account, just emailed them to myself.

Then i accessed the gmail account from the UTAB and DL'd both files, installing ES but leaving the market apk alone for now.

once into ES, i went to Root Explorer option and mounted /system as RW, then i moved/copied the market apk to /system/app and went to the file properties and set the permissions to match other system apps (rw-r-r) then rebooted.

that's the condensed version. i actually downloaded the CM10 gapps package for ICS 4.0.4 and extracted the /system/app folder to the tables and set all those permissions, though i don't think that all that was necessary. ymmv. either way, that's what finally got it working.

from there i threw on ES task mgr to have a simple widget to clear caches and kill unwanted apps, also used startup optimizer to clean that up some. door is open once you can get useful software on the thing. i actually installed the TWC-TV app so i can watch live tv on the silly thing too.
[General Questions and Answers] aimnano:
i'll also share the link to his files (luckily they're still there)...in case anyone wants to use this method. i'm also downloading a copy myself in case he DOES ever delete them...anyone replying to this thread can ask me for a copy and i'll send 'em over!

They're the ones labeled "root + recover"

w w w dot sdrv.ms/PNTWJ5 (erron reed's skydrive)
[General Questions and Answers] dangle79:
ah, i didn't dig far enough then. i just assumed they were for something else since the device is already rooted.
[General Questions and Answers] patrickjaden:
I was able to flash CWM on this tablet. Download cwm6028-a13-10part-v2.zip from this thread and follow the instructions

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189640
[General Questions and Answers] fatbas202:
Thanks. This info was really helpful for a system that a friend owns that constantly screws up and has to be reinstalled. Being able to restore from a nandroid will be useful.
[General Questions and Answers] patrickjaden:
No problem. I wish there was a way to install CM, but I don't have the needed drivers for the touchscreen...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jayevo:
Cannot seem to find stock apps for my s3 anyways my question is can anybody point me in the right direction as to where I can find those apks for download mainly want music hub and s memo back please any help is greatly appreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dante32278:
Download a stock ROM and pull them from the zip file.
[LG Optimus 2x] ergosum:
Hi,

Here is a small report of a bug. (UPDATE: resolved)

What is the issue?

Compass doesn't work. Compass application shows fake north. You can basically make the north pointer everywhere. Some compass app make reboot. Calibration doesn't nothing. Google maps works but shows fake north.

What versions are affected?

CM10 v20121117

ICS v28E and v28G (lite version, old partition layout)

What versions are not affected?

GB roms (DjangoManouche v1.7 + stock kernel + v20l 1035 baseband)

What baseband? (don't know if relevant)

v20q and v28g

What RIL? (don't know if relevant)

native one, v28T (europe), v725 (v20q italian), etc

At least two other people said were affected.

At least four people said compass is ok in v28G.

At least one other people said compass is not ok in CM10.

UPDATE (very confusing):

Short story:

I used an old compass application which broke compass.

Long story:

Ok, I have new information. In fact, I broke compass each time I tested. I used an old application to test (it requires no permission, which is why I kept it, and it worked in GB rom). The application crashes the phone each time and it manages to corrompt some data related to compass. To correct this, I went to recovery, wipe/factory, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe battery (you never know).

Then at this point, the compass is working again! If I reuse the old application, it breaks the compass, but since I used another compass from market, compass works. Even if I still use the old app, it crashes but doesn't break compass.
[LG Optimus 2x] Jannu703:
Strange, my compass is working right way on ICS leak V28G, with stock V20I BB (Me either don't know is baseband relevant)
[LG Optimus 2x] dimedevil:
My compass also working fine on v28e and v28g (lite/standard Tonyp's version)... I never change the baseband since v10D
[LG Optimus 2x] ardiade:
Compass working to on my phone, i use v28G, and 1035 bb..
[LG Optimus 2x] ergosum:
Ok, this is very weird. I have just downgraded my baseband to v20l 1035 (LGP990AT-00-V20l-EUR-XX-OCT-20-2011+0_CP.fls) with Gb rom DjangoManouche v1.7 + stock kernel. Compass works.

I upgraded to stock ICS v28G lite from tonyp, with the same baseband. Compass crashes the phone. It is not baseband related but rather rom/kernel related. But it works for you guys in v28G lite! So I definitely don't know what is the cause.
[LG Optimus 2x] aegidios2:
Hi,

For me , compass has never worked in any JB CM10 I've tryed, btw, it work perfectly in ICS V28E/G ....
[LG Optimus 2x] ergosum:
Ok, thank you for your answer.

Right now, I have just put Stock ICS v28G from stephan, with new ICS partition layout. Whether it is old or v28G baseband, compass doesn't work. I am desperate.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noname1111:
Hello, I'm new to this forum, the Nexus 7 and android. I haven't got a Nexus 7 yet, because obviously one cannot mirror its screen up to now. This would be an important feature for me. The HTC Media Link seems to be the only way to connect it to a monitor so far. On the other hand screen shots are possible as far as I know.

Here is my question:

Has anyone tried to write a program which does the following: Make screen shots at a rate typical for videos, permanently build a video out of these screen shots and send this video via HTC Media Link to a monitor or TV?

I haven't got the knowledge to create such a program myself, but may be some users of this forum have the knowledge and may not yet have thought of such a way to perform mirroring the Nexus 7 screen.

Any answers appreciated! Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spidey01:
" First the app doesn't mirror your screen -- you're limited to playing content stored on the tablet or on the network via DLNA, which means no YouTube, Netflix or games. Second, the app doesn't handle some common file types -- like AVI, for example." -- source.

As far as I know there is no solution for mirroring that doesn't suck until we have a working Miracast support + dongle, and we're limited to things like DLNA.
[HTC One X] tonybuzz32000:
Hi guys, i really want to flash Arhd and have done on many of my htc's before but this cid compatibility confuses me a little. I'm on stock rom bootloader not unlocked and cid HTC-001. And is it possible on my cid? If so. Do i just update h-boot,unlock bootloader, flash recovery then boot.img and rom.

from my HTC One X using xda premium
[HTC One X] matt95:
yes, your cid is JB Firmware compatible, but first you'll need to unlock, root and install a custom recovery