[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] thomasrelee:
I was able to factory reset my tablet. I can repeatedly factory reset now that I have figured out the process and key combination.

Instructions:

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Settings, -> Privacy Settings, -> Factory data Reset (SELECT).

There are 2 prompts that you will be presented with. After selecting the final WARNING that your Google Accounts, etc will be removed it will instantly shut off. *IT MAY RANDOMLY RE-START* I've noted... so be fast! for the next step!...

Press and HOLD the HOME button (2nd button from the right) You should see the Gentouch 78 boot screen and then the penguin ( WHILE STILL HOLDING HOME BUTTON ) after about a moment, you will see an Android and a FAST progress indication/indicator and a fast reboot.

Once the tablet has rebooted let go of all buttons and allow to boot.

It should boot back up and then start a setup process that asks a question between two choices to provision the device. After selecting one or the other you are then launched into Android/Google Setup that is a Tutorial and/OR Google Account setup.

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The only difference I have noted in option#1 or option#2 of provisioning is that option #2 will eventually ask you if you would like to connect to Wifi after communication fails several times.

option#1 does not seem to have this property and never asks to connect to Wifi during intial provisioning. However you can skip out of the Tutorial/Google Account Setup most of the time on both choices and setup your Wifi in Settings.

I seen some other forum posting that this was a Froyo version - (what this process results).... I simply call this getting the unit to RESET as many say is useless or can not. I am not claiming this is a different installation for this unit, though it looks very CLEAN to me. No applications, except the google apps. hmmmm GOOD LUCK! Hope this helps to get a clean image or something. AGAIN ALL I HAD ACCESS TO WERE GOOGLE APPS. Market WAS included, but suffers the same problem as previously noted even after the RESET. I did not have anything like pulling this unit out of the box as. ;-)

Without going through the process and simply just pressing and holding the home key while turning the unit on will present you with this RESTORE MENU in which you can not select anything - as we all know.

I did try holding the power button while holding the home button, but found the power button is actually useless in the process.

I also tried holding the back button (1st from the right) while turning the unit on. This results in a black screen that you have to use a thumb-tack to push the tiny reset button to resolve. This would appear as it would drain your battery as the LCD backlight does appear to be on. I do not know what would happen if your battery drains in this state, so reset the tablet using the reset button if you ever get presented with any BLACK or FROZEN screens.

It seems only the HOME button is useful during boot and expressly only useful in THIS situation (factory tablets without prior modification) and only IF you initiated the reset as described.

I was able after issuing the adb commands again as root (sudo) to kill-server and start-server to use adb to access the unit again after using this RESET method many times and browse around without any issues. I use Linux Mint 9 32bit at the moment to toy with this device.

I have read that many have found new issues with Market, possibly with cache space issues. So I have not even attempted the modifications other than making sure I could adb back into the unit, which again I could.

Regards.

thomasrelee