yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] marcelol:
....

What do you mean what are the controls......? You mean how to launch into CWR ( Clock Work Recovery ) ? Holding "HOME" and POWER ON. Or if you're already running....press and hold HOME, and flick the RESET.

As for navigating............Menu is UP, SEARCH is DOWN, HOME is Select, BACK is..back..

Copy the http://randomtechinfo.com/augen/boot...te.update3.zip

to /sdcard

adb push <wherever you have this zip file> /sdcard

The unpack the contents of

http://randomtechinfo.com/augen/gent...chv3-Lincs.zip

somewhere, but remember to read the documentation where it says that

fastboot.exe

update.bat

boot.img

system.img

recovery.img

all need to be in C:\OS

The update.bat in the first ZIP file will already use the CWR ( mascarading as recovery.img ), so you just have to put the tablet into recovery...

PRESS and HOLD the BACK BUTTON, and Power ON ( don't be afraid, the screen WILL stay black ). From the C:\OS directory where you copied the contents of the first ZIP ( i.e. Lincs v3 modded update ), go ahead and run "update.bat". It should show you that it's copying the appropriate files to the device.

Once it's rebooted and you get back to the Andy desktop, you can go ahead and boot into CWR by Powering off, then HOLDING the HOME and Powering back on. In a little bit...you'll see the Clockwork Recovery menu....navigate down to where it says to process a ZIP file ( not the update.zip ). Select that, and then select /SDCARD, and then the file should show up in the list of files on the root of the SDCARD. Select it ( press Home ), and then it'll ask you if you want to process the zip. Navigate to highlight it again, and select it once more. It'll go ahead and show that it's unpacking and copying files.

Once this is done, navigate back to the root menu of CWR, by hitting the back key until you see "Reboot" as one of the menu items. Once you see that, highlight it ( navigate to it ), and then select it.

Once the GT has rebooted, you SHOULD be back to normal.

Enjoy.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xguntherc:
Yup... I got it, but thanks for explaining anyways. I just had to remember what was up down, n select in recovery. but I got it.

Question though. I have screen brightness controls, and volume on screen and all that jazz. but I never saw his boot animation. I got the blue gentouch, then the little penguin, then my custom CyanogenMod boot animation i pushed a few weeks ago. I figured lin's zip would add his over it and I'd have to reflash my boot anim, but I didn't need to.

I'll try a few things now, it just finished it all
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sfay93:
I am looking for a definitive guide on how to get the ad-hoc connections working. Has anyone created a program for going back and forth? I'd love to tether this to my Droid.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] R-james:
When an a**hole comes along and starts making idoitic demands like this clown did here and most likely on other sites like OSNEWS and places like it, the only thing he's getting from me is my steel-toed boot

up his a****
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mindwave:
anyone notice Borders is taking orders for the CRUZ for OCT 15th?

thats a LOT of $ for 7"
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Asadullah:
Just googled the hell out of it and the tablet it's basically the augen gentouch but with capacitive screen and camera and $299.99 dollars. The reader they are selling is the gentab (per se) same specs even resistive touch screen and about twenty bucks more. Oh and both running android 2.1 I'm not saying that they are worth it but I'll probably get the tablet
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mindwave:
oh i know there are some folks really wanting that thing i personally can NOT see the $
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xguntherc:
The CRUZ is made by Velocity. They are a very well respected custom PC brand. they are better than Alienware IMO. They make great stuff. but I dont know if they built it or not.

it looks decent for the money. but I'll be waiting for the Galaxy Tab, or the Motorola 10" tablet coming to Verizon
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] R-james:
I would be vary wary of that Verizon tablet. Odds are it won't be a stand-alone deal (one where you just buy the tablet outright).

In fact I'll bet it's going to be a deal just like with the Verizon cellphones, in which to get the cheap price on the tablet, you'll have to sign a 2-3 yr contract with Verizon for data services and the like.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FeedomFighter:
I have been following the tablet market, as it were, for the last few weeks trying to decide what I want. I bought the Gentouch for development and to just play around with, but want something with a bit more umgh as well. Seing how I am an impatient type of guy I think I will go for the Samsung Tab soon to be released on 2 September. See video:

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

However, as with computer and car purchases you have to see what you want and what you are willing to spend on it. One of the benefits I see of going with a tablet on verizons service is the ability to have one device on each network. Considering my cellphone is with T-MOBILE (TDMA) I would like a device for the Verizon network (CDMA) just to have the versatility. Granted I have never used Verizon and I would like to buy the device outright (IE no contract) and have it unlocked so I can change providers if I wanted to. This is kind of hard with Verizon since it does not use SIM cards. In any event my next tablet will definatly have the luxery list of features.

I know this is a developers forum so dont mind me, I have been excited about the tablet idea since before they made laptops with touch screens that could flip around. The Gentouch is a tablet that reminds me alot of the Star Trek TNG pad that you see everyone reading their reports on in the show.

-MW
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cutterjohn:
Fortunately, I don't believe that the Cruz products have builtin 3G... which makes me happy as I have neither the interest nor the desire to be raped in service charges by some mobile provider, nor do I wish to pay exorbitant prices to obtain a tablet w/o a contract, i.e. "unlocked" as I have no desire to subsidise 3G in any way, shape or form.

i.e. I find GPS, cameras, etc. to be a much more useful(and desireable) cost added feature than 3G.

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...and the way that Velocity Micro keeps dodging the CPU question makes it clear to me that they are outright lying when they claim to have designed these products. I am willing to believe that the extent of their design was to say to their ODM: we want this spec, this spec, and this spec for under $XX per unit per 1000 ordered.

They probably have no clue as to what CPU is in it until they get their first production unit from the ODM, which they must've not received yet...

Also don't kid yourself. They may "build" custom PCs, but all they are doing is assembling parts from various OEMs in the desktop case, and likely re-branding ASUS/MSI/Sager/Compals (major ODMs) in the nb area... about their only choices are hdd size, RAM, CPU, and possibly GPU choices, plus WiFi and other half/mini PCIe cards most of the specs will be whatever the ODM had originally designed in for the particular model include chassis.

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ttmyt:
How To Get USB charging to work!

There are usb cables made with 2 usb ends... one for added power and one for data... the best example of this is a USB hard drive with a mini usb on one end and 2 usb connectors becuase there is no power adaptor. if you plug them into your computer together the drive gets the power it needs....

you can find these all over the place or you can buy a 2.5" usb drive enclosure for $10 at a place like frys.com and it will come with one...

i went into spare parts and watched the battery... instead of slowly trickling down it starting going up...

any others try this???

as i'm typing this i'm watching the battery go up 1% every 5 min....

this is an example of what i'm talking about:

http://www.cooldrives.com/usb-power-cable-mini-b.html
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] goodintentions:
And if you're cheap like me, you'd find a much cheaper version of this cable :D

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/670128-REG/LaCie_131046_USB_Dual_Power_Sharing.html
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] R-james:
What *IS* it with you people? You've have been told over and over again here that *YOU CANNOT CHARGE THE GENTOUCH BATTERY OR ANY DEVICE OR TABLET THAT USES A BATTERY LIKE IT VIA THE USB PORT OF A PC OR A USB CHARGER*

It IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO. THE ONLY THING YOU ARE GOING TO DO BY USING THESE HACKED UP CABLES IS PRETTY MUCH RUIN THE USB PORT ON EITHER YOUR PC OR THE GENTOUCH OR ANY OTHER TABLET THAT USES A BATTERY THAT HAS AN INTERNAL VOLTAGE GREATER THAN 5 VOLTS DC THAT THE USB PORT PROVIDES.

THE 5 VOLT DC USB PORT CANNOT PROVIDE ENOUGH POWER TO EVER CHARGE THE 8.4 VOLT DC BATTERY THE GENTOUCH USES.

IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xguntherc:
Isn't that what most custom PC makers do, they just assemble parts like ASUS, Gigabyte, or other cheaper motherboards.. and there choices being HD, RAM, CPU, and GPU is almost the entire machine, other than the PSU & Mobo.. I'm not saying they are completely building custom everything PC's. but who does?

All I'm saying is they are better than HP, Compaq, emachines, Acer, and dell crap machines cuz they at least use slightly better parts and higher end stuff.. but your point doesn't matter. All PC makers do that, they just do it to a little higher of a standard. Just like me, I'll post my Custom, built by me PC if you wanna see what i mean. :D lol Either way this doesn't guarantee anything good from the CRUZ. I'm just saying i'm pretty ok with a Velocity product.

I agree with the 3G thing, My tablet will be a Wifi only, no 3G, and no service plan or contract. I'm mainly planning on the Galaxy Tab, but I want a 10" over the 7 if I can.. but by October/Nov there will be TONS of tablet's to choose from.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] TheZeke:
Since I wasn't able to figure out how to prevent the screen from rotating due to the screen lock, I just used No Lock from BoD to disable it. Worked really well and was free.

I also changed the boot animation back to the nexus one. Much better.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] brian36000:
Note quite that simple. There is a buck converter near the USB port on the board that could very well boost the USB port to charging voltages. However, the real issue is the 500mA USB port limitation. I'd suspect that the battery could be charged via while the unit is sleeping, but it really is only "supplemental" current during normal operation.

I posted my dissection of the tablet here: blog (dot) 11h (dot) net (slash) brian/98

(sorry I'm a new user, thus can't post direct links)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xguntherc:
Has anyone got Mozilla's Fennec Nightly, or Alpha build to work on the Gentouch, I downloaded a Nightly as well as the official alpha and It crashes on launch, but I don't get a FC. it just goes back to home.

idea's
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FeedomFighter:
Can you provide the link to it. Or is it in the market? Was looking for it earlier and either I was blind or just couldnt find it.

-MW
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] slaughts:
Home button(s) not working

My home buttons stopped working after doing the updates. I did the v3 and update.zip from Linc, and now none of my home buttons work, including the physical one and the soft home in the status bar. I even downloaded another SoftHome app, and it doesn't work.

Doing an adb logcat show it sees the SOFTHOME press, but somehow the home action seems to be 'lost'...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cutterjohn:
Yeah, that's what companies like Dell do, but mostly they buy from el-cheapo ECS which has a VERY poor reputation.

Actually the high-end "brand" name stuff they sometimes do you pretty good parts from one of the below, but their low end stuff is usually crappy ECS.

ASUS(ASROCK is a subsid of ASUS now), MSI, Gigabyte, Biostar, ECS, etc. are all ODMs. They design and build their own products and sell to both builder AND retail directly.

[EDIT2]

ASUS had a nasty trick of inverting the physical pinouts on their MXM slots, while MOST of the others used the standard physical pinout... (the discrete GPU slot in a nb, MXM-I through IV denoting size of GPU card, pinouts are same across all, but they all almost have different heatsink configs... a real PITA...

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Clevo(has some sort of relationship w/Sage who do sell direct, may have mixed them up as theyusually just get lumped as Sager/Clevo) and Compal are purely ODMs. They design and build but really don't sell directly to retail or at least to the extent that the above do. (Sager/Clevo is a big nb supplier to Alienware, and like velocity micro as well.)

Anyways, as I mentioned, I build my own desktops so I can build what those guys sell for about 1/4 the price in many cases. For notebooks I briefly looked at customized whitelabel builds, but found it to be cheaper just to buy ASUS/MSI/etc. directly retail. Better price, better specs, better warranty.

So "custom builders" are really only useful for those who can't/don't want to build their own and feel the premium is actually worth it.

I see that the Cruz Tablet appears to be the PDN in sheep's clothing, although it appears that they MAY have sprung for the ARM DDK as they claim 3D accel.

[EDIT]

i.e. Augen is now like velocity micro, specced a device to an ODM for a certain price/unit order w/their "branding".

Sometimes HP, etc. will actually design their own parts, esp. if they're meant for particular niche applications, but likely one of the ODMs will actually produce it nowadays.

fennec: you'll need to download it from mozilla.org IIRC, or at least you used to have to. Dunno if they let the "official" alpha into the market. (No. I haven't tried it yet... maybe later this morning...)

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[EDIT3]

Fennec isn't going to work: REQUIRES OpenGL ES 2.0 and we've got no 3D accel... Thanks Augen/Dawa!

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] R-james:
There's pretty much no way you're going to get the 9 volts DC at the current levels you'll going to need to charge the 8.4 volt battery out of of any USB port without either pretty much destroying the USB port outright in the process, or burning out circuit board traces by pumping voltage and currents at levels through them they weren't designed to handle.

In my opinion people like ttmyt are basically trying for whatever reason to mislead people into buying a USB cable that will most likely never (fully) charge any sort of tablet via a usb port, especially a tablet that has a 7 lnch or larger screen and ships with an AC adapter.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] brian36000:
Oh I agree 100% that those "dual ported" USB cables are a total gimmick and will not work at all. I'd guess the device could get no more than 250mA of charging current (by boosting the USB voltage internally), and that's probably pushing it. So theoretically possible, but not practical. The battery could charge when the unit is completely off, but it'd still take _forever_ (essentially all it'd do is trickle-charge it). This is why a lot of phone makers have special plugs with extra pins to 'sense' an original charger so they can request more than 500mA, since USB standards alone are too limited.

The question is, did Augen actually design it this way?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] goodintentions:
I highly doubt it. Small companies like augen usually buy the design from somebody else and then slap their label on there. This is the reason why you often see identical devices showing up with different brand names on them. For example, take a look at these two and look me in the eye to tell me these companies designed their own product.

I've been test playing both of these. They got identical hardware. However, they got completely different software, though.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] thoughtlesskyle:
this thread and the wiki are getting kind of cluttered and a little confusing what order should i do things after i get the tablet
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] :
My tablet is now fully operational!

This is for all those that have a working tablet but are having some troubles getting it all running right.

I got my tablet and started to do everything that was posted in the wiki and here on XDA. I had the market working but not after I did a reboot. I did the steps in the Wiki until i got to the steps for getting the AndroidId. I waited thinking that there would eventually be an update that would fix the market for me(us). Not so much. I continued to do the updates that did show up. All the way to updatev3 + Linckrakers update. My Gentouch would work. I could adb command everything. I was just installing apps via adb install. This was not good enough for me. I decided to do the rest of the wiki market fix. I loaded the emulator, got the Id I needed. Sweet! Although, I could not get the id to stick. I tried many different ways. I was too afraid to start the market fix from scratch because I didn't want to lose all my installs. I bit the bullet and did it anyway. I started from scratch so to speak. So to clarify, I have all the updates and Linckraker files up to date. Now I start the market fix all the way down to the last step. Step 30 gave me "argument invalid" I ignored it and continued. I even did the steps on the terminal emulator in dev tools on the Gentouch. It works! My market is fully operational!:)

Here are a couple things that threw me for a loop:

After doing the market fix that deletes the data, I rebooted and the unit was stuck. The screen would not work and I had a warning. I turned off the unit and went into clockwork recovery. I re-installed update v3 and linckrakers new update. After reboot i got the "sign-in" screen. I did all the skips. I DID NOT go to the market and agree to terms. I DID NOT sign-in with my google account. I DID do the last steps of the market fix to add the AndroidId. Then once I completeed that, I went into the market, signed in and agreed to the market terms. Just to be safe, I installed 7+ apps before I rebooted to make sure the market fix stayed. IT WORKED!!!

Now I have a complete Gentouch78 Android Tablet that works completely. I am really happy with the results. I agree that this unit should have come out this way but I understand why it didn't. For the price of this unit, I did not mind the wait and the time to do all these mods. I hope this helps those of you that are stuck. Send me a message if you have any questions of my process. I would be happy to help!

THANK YOU EVERYONE ON XDA FOR YOUR HELP! I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!:)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] angus1357:
this thread has been fun but my GT exploded today. I was picking it up and dropped it on a desk from about 6" up, landed face down and cracked into a bunch of pieces. Contacted Augen to see if they'd fix it or at least sell me the parts to fix it...but something tells me they wont do either.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] the.joeba:
That blows. I dropped mine (fell right out of the case) from about 2 feet and it hit a corner and the glass shattered.

K-Mart swapped it for me with no questions asked. I was VERY lucky, and will be sure to not drop it again (though i have dropped the new one at least 3 times (WTF is wrong with me)).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] goodintentions:
Try to return it to kmart as defective and get another one.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] R-james:
No. This is the result of companies being too cheap to ship AC/DC adapters with their products, and people trying to use the USB port for things it was never really intended to be used for.

This day was coming. You could see it coming years ago when Apple with the Ipod and Cell Phone and MP3/MP4 makers started using the PC USB port to charge their devices, and started making devices that had larger and larger screens and power requirements and required batteries that needed higher voltages and currents to charge them.

USB Charging was always a stupid and lame idea. Think about it. In order to recharge a stand-alone device, you had to turn on a computer you normally wouldn't be using for 4,5 or more hours so you could recharge the device.

Talk about a waste of power.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cutterjohn:
Talk about cheap: Sony. My Sony PRS-505 eInk reader came w/o an AC charger. Only had a USB data cable/"charger". The AC charger is like a $30 addon(if you buy theirs, but the PSP charger is the same and usually is cheaper!).

The damned thing cost c. $250 at the time I got it too.

At least the GT's charger hasn't exploded, as I read about happening with alot of Dingoo's(what started me onto the fact that semi-decent android tablets had appeared -- oh it's a handheld ARM based game console which you can also install linux onto) chargers. (Shorting out apparently...)

Sucks about breaking the screen. Been seeing where ALOT of people have had this happen and it's making me nervous as I've dropped my 505 several time accidentally.

Luck that Kmart exchanged as over at slatedroid another guy mentioned that he was going to try that until at some point a manger came in opened the box and saw the screen, then well, that was that for him...

Unfortunately the design of tablets with one side pretty much just being the screen makes it vulnerable, and I suppose not having quite as sturdy a chassis as we might like doesn't help either. Need Gorilla glass or some other kind of screen protection on these things, as even a sturdier case would only go so far...

Wish that there was a case that fit the GT, held it well, but allowed for easy access to the buttons/ports.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ANTC:
I returned my gentouch device, I felt it was very poorly made slow non responsive even after all the updates were made. This device was built like a chinese knock off very cheap crappy parts, looking into better options with a lot less problems.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] angus1357:
i've sent in an email to the repair center, we'll see what price they come back with to fix the GT. When the resisitive screen broke to took part of the LCD out with it...double whammy!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gonzoangel:
Cool good reply
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wa3yri:
Has anyone figured out how to update google maps yet?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cutterjohn:
IIRC there's a thread @ slatedroid... apparently you remove the google maps app(and something else which I can't remember offhand), and then just re-install through the store... haven't tried it myself as I don't use maps often...

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Also buried in here was another method where you modify an .xml config file of some kind... didn't really see where anyone mentioned whether or not they had tried it and whether it worked or not... apparently the fix originated with some phones that also had problems updating maps app and they had to do that "fix" to allow an update...

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[EDIT2]

Apparently Augen's planning to release some new Espresso line of tablets w/capacitive screens in 2011, but we piped up asking about getting 3D acceleration, accelerometer working, GPLed sources etc.

http://www.slatedroid.com/augen-gen...apacitive-multi-touch-screen-coming-soon.html

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GeneralSpecific:
Good News!