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[G Tablet Android Development] Crimton:
i'm really liking mine, its so new its hard to say what its gonna be like in a month or two.i'm waiting for some more custom roms and the hdmi dock most of all. once we get gingerbread running on here whenever that may be it will really be sweet. be prepared to do some modding when you first get it though, for me though thats the fun part.
[G Tablet Android Development] roebeet:
Check the development section - there's a vanilla restore image that has a clean boot.img that should work.
[G Tablet Android Development] liquidcaffeine:
Is there a way to do an actual back up of stock before tinkering, or do we just revert to the vanilla? Staples had one today in stock, so I am anxious to get it "usable" but would like to have a backup of stock before tinkering.
[G Tablet Android Development] Mark Chia:
Hi Joselo, can you tell which post you followed to accomplish this?

Thanks
[G Tablet Android Development] Cyhawk:
I just wanted to say thank you for the hard work to had to endure putting this guide together. After I purchased the Gtablet I was extremely disappointed in it. (I mean come on, the TapnTap email client doesnt support gmail? Seriously?) This makes the G-Tablet so much more useful.
[G Tablet Android Development] maccaw1:
HELP! Waited till todays update to try installing the Android market fix... well now my tablet will not boot, keeps flashing the tap n tap startup screen then shuts off, even tried the factory reset (holding power with volume up). Can anyone help?
[G Tablet Android Development] Crimton:
if you have clockworkmod then just wipe data and restore a backup
[G Tablet Android Development] maccaw1:
No clockworkmod, I cant even access the tablet through my usb connection... Some people like me should have left well enough alone.
[G Tablet Android Development] adamhos:
You can get clockwork from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=844088

If it doesn't work as an update.zip, you can flash it with nvflash. All is not lost.
[G Tablet Android Development] maccaw1:
Ok apparently I dove into a pool where I dont belong. Here's what I have done after trying to install market into the system folders my droid no longer would boot just flash on and off so I tried the above link to start fresh:

1. installed SDK drivers

2. downloaded nflash_gtablet and nvflash_windows_20100500 ( I running xP)

3. uppacked both and copied the nflash_gtablet contents into the Nvflash_windows unpacked folder (no subdirectories)

4. Started my gtablet by holding power and volume - got black screen

5. clicked on nvflash_gtablet batch file and dos screen showed all was succesful, no errors. and when finished my tablet auto rebooted, all good till tap n tap screen then flashes and shuts down.

What did I do wrong? Sorry I know I'm new at this and just trying to save my tablet... desperatlyc

Any help is greatly apreciated!
[G Tablet Android Development] akodoreign:
Ok first off... :) a great book once said... Don't panic...

1. ) when you put your tablet in the black screen are you getting a driver listing for apx? If it is a "?" you will need to load the drivers for it.

2.) try pushing clockwork to it. that way you can see whats going on. Instructions here. http://forum.tegratab.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5&start=10
[G Tablet Android Development] maccaw1:
it shows up as Nvidia tegra 2 USB device. and the tablet says Entering NVflash Recovery mode/ NV3p Server when I run NVflash_gtablet . I'll give this a shot after work. Thanks!

Correction it shows as: NVIDIA USB Boot Recovery driver for Mobile devices
[G Tablet Android Development] lenorj:
Great Job. I followed all the steps for the market place, but it didn't work. I used AndRootfFile to copy and paste. I selected super user and it shows RW and said mounted successfully. How do you remount as RO? I rebooted the device and it didnt show the marketplace. Sorry I'm a newbie if all these are obvious. Thank you in advance.
[G Tablet Android Development] skideh:
I got it to work alright.....

the problem is that it seems that many of the apps are foreign, and the apps that i have on my Driod i can't seem to find to download on my g tablet. I also thought that this tablet had GPS but maps can't find my location. Did you use a version of market that isn't from the USA? I am in the USA. Thanks for your help! Dionne
[G Tablet Android Development] S_C_B:
I've got my gmail account setup in the TapnTap email client.

It works just fine.
[G Tablet Android Development] rothnic:
Guys this thread is really old, there is a much better version of Gapps to use in an update.zip format here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842590
[G Tablet Android Development] S_C_B:
FREAKIN SWEET!!!!!

These fixes plus Launcher Pro = AWESOMENESS!!!
[G Tablet Android Development] Karelle:
Help! Can you Copy and Paste on the G tablet?

I was trying to copy a link from my email to put it into a web page. Has anyone figured out how to copy and paste? And how do I import my google calendar to the tablet?
[G Tablet Android Development] S_C_B:
I've yet to figure this out.

I also want to save mp3s from webpages instead of streaming them when I click links.
[G Tablet Android Development] foreverknight:
Please help I cant seem to figure out how to mount as R/W with andfileroot. I get chmod/system/framework: read only file system. I know its got to be something i am missing.
[G Tablet Android Development] jbcarboni:
I just got my g-tablet and I want to get the market and gmail apps installed. Can I simply copy the APKs to the internal SD card and run from there? I have not picked up a mini sd card yet...

Also, any idea how to get rid of the custom interface and use something like HTC Sense?
[G Tablet Android Development] rothnic:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842590
[G Tablet Android Development] tzak1221:
i am having trouble finding the win_usb driver folder. I cannot seem to find it and i know you have to modify inorder for your computer to read the tablet as adb. can someone please help me out im running win7 and when i go in the sdk directory i can seem to find out where to modify can soomeone please help me out thanks :)
[G Tablet Android Development] mdwalker@yahoo.com:
It should be in whatever folder you installed the Android SDK to; for me I installed in

C:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows and that location contains several files and folders, including: C:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\usb_driver\
[G Tablet Android Development] tzak1221:
well i mean it is there but how can i edit it ? like he says on the first page. I have a 64 bit system and its quite confusing.
[G Tablet Android Development] dsroland:
WPA2 Enterprise

I've noticed the Viewsonic G Tablet doesn't have support for corporate wifi using WPA2 Enterprise security. Anybody else tried it? I called support and opened an enhancement request but I am wondering if it is a bug in the GUI because I would think the functionality is built in to Froyo.
[G Tablet Android Development] lambertma:
New to rooting

I am totally new to this, in fact I just got my gtab two days ago. On your instructions for adding Market, gmail, and Maps, I am assuming that you have to root the gtab first before you even try to run AddRootFile and copy the files from the zip. Is this correct?

Thank you

M
[G Tablet Android Development] akodoreign:
It's a bug in the interface take a look at the settings display replacement thread
[G Tablet Android Development] raskell:
You are correct, Root Access first which enables you to use the root File Explorer to copy in the necessary files.
[G Tablet Android Development] hshill1ng:
Market Place Empty

I am in the process of doing a factory reset. Once I got into root and copied files all the setup seemed to go fine. However when I open up android market place it is blank/empty.

Anyone know why?
[G Tablet Android Development] raskell:
Follow the steps and try again. Also try to reboot after making the changes (i.e.: power off & restart) I had to t do it myself a couple of times until it all worked.
[G Tablet Android Development] speechman:
G-tablet - I tried, but couldn't justify it.

I purchased the g tablet, played with it for about 2 weeks - did all the mods to the stock system. It worked pretty well. Though at times it would sputter (every few seconds there would be like a 1/4 second "hang up"). In addition it was flaky coming out of sleep mode.

In the end, I thought it seemed a bit pricey ($379) for a half baked, not completely working solution. In addition, not an apple fan by the way, for about 70$ more the Apple ipad screen is much brighter, better off angle performance and slightly higher res. Though you do lose all the great features like microsd, open operating system, usb port, no *^%() itunes. I guess I'll wait 2 more months to see what comes down the pipe. Maybe I'll buy another g-tablet if they fix up the software and drop the price.

I don't quite understand why the manufacturers put their own touch on these things. Why couldn't they make their additions an app so you could remove it if you wanted rather than the need to reflash the rom?
[G Tablet Android Development] jimcpl:
r34p3rex,

THANKS for the "Guide to setting up ADB" for the Gtab!! I've been trying to get the Google USB driver working, but kept getting "Code 10" (will not start) for the driver. I had just about given up on that, when I ran across this thread. In my case, using the .inf you had didn't work, probably because I have a later version of the Android SDK, so I just pasted in the 3 lines you mentioned. I then uninstalled the driver, and rebooted my laptop (with the Gtab unplugged from USB). Then I plugged in the Gtab USB, and installed from the USB driver dir, and VOILA!!

Thanks again,

Jim
[G Tablet Android Development] spykat:
I can't gain root access for some reason, what am I doing wrong? i rooted the system set conditions to R/W and still can't copy files, please help!!
[G Tablet Android Development] earlyberd:
Stock Android 2.2 is not even remotely suitable for a tablet, that's why manufacturers bake in their own UI. Google has done their best to urge people to not buy tablets until Honeycomb is rolled out, but everyone seems to be scrambling anyway to snag some tablet sales away from the iPad during this holiday season.

These crappy UIs present on Android 2.2 tablets are an attempt to build a tablet-friendly UI with an OS designed for small touchscreen phones, and these small developers have only been given a few months to create something usable. Even when you look at custom ROMs available for the G so far, most of them retain unusable features like the phone dialer because the basic Google framework in 2.2 depends on them, and removing them will break it. I know this because I tried removing the useless dialer with Titanium Backup and experienced catastrophic results. So rather than have to deal with picking apart the Google framework piece by piece and delivering only partially functional Google apps, most Android 2.2 tablets are just dropping support for Google apps completely for the time being.

That said, the G tablet is not at all a bad purchase if you're willing to tweak and hack it yourself, but if you want a complete package that just works out of the box, then you're better off waiting a while before purchasing an Android tablet.
[G Tablet Android Development] adhuc0214:
gtablet dir not showing in androotfile, showing in astrofile

I did 1 and 2 of your procedure on rooted tablet. I can see the g tablet directory I uploaded to \sd2 with astrofile, so I know it is there. when I use androotfile to start copying the files in g tablet directory per your instructions, the g tablet directory is not showing. If I go back to using astrofile, the g tablet directory shows up. Can anybody advise ?
[G Tablet Android Development] Fabodabo31:
Mac

Can you do this on a Mac??
[G Tablet Android Development] rothnic:
This is a very old guide that is outdated. I recommend you using: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9257637#post9257637
[G Tablet Android Development] theimpaler747:
Closed. New version is right here :D
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
mine stalls on loading "top paid", but works on "Top Free".

We may need market enabler?
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
Try the process again after a factory reset. I have all my buttons back AND the market :p
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
what apps / settings / root etc do we lose when doing a "factory reset"?
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
another dumb question: Factory reset from settings / security? or power button with volume up?
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
ran market enabler.. top paid apps are showing now!
[G Tablet Android Development] GeneralSpecific:
Everything worked great! You rock. I think the Market sees our device as Android 1.5 or 1.6, Im going to change the android ID and see if it changes anything.

Now lets move on to getting a custom recovery for this thing.
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
are you looking for winampRemote? Or is that the third party app you are refering to? I have WinampRemote

I searched on Live wallpapers and found a bunch of them too
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
Alot of apps are missing from the market, I'm currently generating a new Android 2.2 ID to see if that fixes the problem :)
[G Tablet Android Development] deafjam:
How do you generate an android 2.2 id? And also, would installing MarketUpdater help anything?
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
So am I supposed to make an APK folder in System? Because I see only an apps folder
[G Tablet Android Development] mattmanion:
I have everything working except for the file manager. I know that you need it to install the apk's, but how do you get it installed in the first place???
[G Tablet Android Development] GeneralSpecific:
Its a typo, he meant the APP folder
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
You can use the built in File Manager (ES File Explorer) to install the file manager with Root access

Good catch! Fixed
[G Tablet Android Development] xguntherc:
Quadrant I broke 1900 with mine. Stock. I will mention that quadrant's info and about page shows this as FRF91 Android 2.2 but it only see's 1 core and wont read the speeds.

I'll try oxbench or whatever later to see if it will give more accurate reading. unless a market enabled G tab guy wants to do it themselves.
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
At this point I'm stuck. I ran the SuperOneClick root, is it temporary? Because Root Explorer isn't getting root.
[G Tablet Android Development] deafjam:
What part r u stuck at? I always got stuck at installing superuser.apk once i saw it on my tablet tho, i unplugged my usb cable, then plugged it back in. The Root continued with success. Then i did shell root, then root one more time to confirm i was rooted, then i enabled nonmarket apps.
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
I'll try that. I just ran the first root. I did nothing but go the popup saying it was rooted. I'm running shell root now, whatever that is :).
[G Tablet Android Development] shadowclock:
Gmail isnt working for me but I have finally pretty much caught up to you guys now. Just waiting for that 2.2 ID for the rest of the market :D
[G Tablet Android Development] tri0xinn:
is anyone else getting limited access to the market or is it just me... still only limited access.
[G Tablet Android Development] GeneralSpecific:
If we can get a custom recovery going for this thing Im going to start working on a VANILLA FROYO Rom tomorrow.
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
I don't know how to test root without superuser installed, and I can't see a non-market APK for that.

I'm a fuggin dunce. I saw the Superuser.apk in the SuperOneClick

Market is running.

Can't find Slacker Radio.

Or Audiogalaxy. /cry
[G Tablet Android Development] zanderman111:
I need help just getting ADB set up properly. When I plug in my G to my windows machine it says that the drivers are properly installed and I have followed all instructions as closely as I can but then at the last step with the command promt entering adb devices only gives me a "list of devices is attached"

I am assuming that this means that ADB isnt set up correctly.

When I run superoneclick it just sits at "waiting for device"
[G Tablet Android Development] xguntherc:
when your in CMD you type adb devices and it should list some numbers n such for your device. like my Nexusone is HT80494509697 or something of that sort.

I have adb fully up and working on my system for my N1, but it's still not seeing this G on my Win 7 64bit machine. so I don't know. I updated the SDK also, no help
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
It's limited access, still trying to figure it out :p
[G Tablet Android Development] doc_lee:
You need a proper description and fingerprint in build.prop. I can't seem to overwrite the existing build.prop.

Doc
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
I've already emulated the fingerprint/description of a Nexus One running FRF91 and FRG83, still no go
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
Well keep it up good buddy. I know that people had to do that to get the market working on the EVO/2.2 before official 2.2 was out. Have you tried just copying the build.prop from another phone?

Anyone have the APK for the default 2.2 browser? This one lacks features. I like to long-press, cut all, long-press, paste all so i can easily tweak search results or urls I'm typing in manually. This made my test of TVersity video streaming hard since I had to remember my DynDNS address, port, and folder that points to the non-flash web interface.

EDIT: Sidenote, probably everyone guessed but I tested with fps2d, 51fps average so no fps problem like the EVO had.
[G Tablet Android Development] GeneralSpecific:
sent you a PM
[G Tablet Android Development] sallgood:
I'm having a problem with Root Explorer when copying the files. I select the files, go the the proper directory, hit paste. It flashes a quick screen and then nothing happens... the files I tried to paste aren't in the new folder. I've switched over to r/w mode before copying and pasting of course.

Can anyone think of anything I'm doing wrong?
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
Are you trying to copy the entire folder? Copying folders with Root Explorer doesn't seem to work. Also, make sure you've enabled R/W access (top bar)
[G Tablet Android Development] sallgood:
I'm not doing entire folders, just the files within them. Yes I'm switching to r/w mode ahead of time. I'm gonna try a restart and see if it helps. Also, Root Explorer says it has successfully obtained root at the beginning, but it's like I don't have root. Is there a way to test it?
[G Tablet Android Development] shadowclock:
Pandora.apk works flawlessly :D
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
Where does android store non system apps, I am in the process of pulling every APK off my phone and seeing which work.
[G Tablet Android Development] mcbooth:
Phone apps are stored in /data/app and then pull the apk files and try them on the tablet
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
adb shell

then type su and see if the $ changes to a #
[G Tablet Android Development] shadowclock:
Can't wait till more experts get a hold of this:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 and cpu1 cpuinfo_max_freq....someone change that and see what happens to benchmarks, I'm to scared :o
[G Tablet Android Development] setite:
Audiogalaxy works, a great app for streaming music from your home PC.

Slacker Radio installs and seems to run fine, but WONT login.

I don't use Pandora, but someone confirmed that already. More to com.

Amazon Kindle app installs and works well. To the guy talking about reading on it. Try the kindle app with the Sepia background, it makes the letters more legible.
[G Tablet Android Development] r34p3rex:
I think I might have discovered a "bootloader" mode that's akin to the iPod/iPhone's DFU mode. The device shows up on the computer as "APX" when you do this procedure.

Turn the G completely off, then plug in the USB cable.

Hold both Volume buttons and turn on the G (keep volume up pressed)

At this point, your computer should recognize a new device called "APX". The drivers for it can't be located

The Hardware ID for this device has a Vendor ID of 0955 and a Product ID of 7820.

Upon doing a bit of research, APX refers to Nvidia's Tegra platform for smartphones/MID. I downloaded the Tegra 250 development SDK here and it included the drivers for "APX".

Upon installing the drivers, the device is identified as "NVIDIA USB Boot Recovery driver for Mobile devices"

According to this Tegra Development Guide, this recovery mode is used to flash a base Android OS (when used in conjunction with the Tegra Development Kit (hardware!).

So what does this all mean? We have access to the bootloader now. If someone could rip the kernel from our current build, and some how incorporate it into a vanilla image (or the Nvidia developer's image), we could potentially flash it and liberate the G from its horrendous TapnTap UI.

Does any of this make sense? Or am I being totally incoherent?
[G Tablet Android Development] The2ndclory:
When you upload the bootloader is there any way you can issue more than one command without having to reset the device? I also notice I'm getting an error when trying to backup the larger partitions.
[G Tablet Android Development] epakrat75:
You're making total sense to me. Great find!

The kernel and system are often flashed independently but I don't know if it's the same for this device. The kernel is often the zImage from a system dump. However, I'd imagine that the drivers for the hardware (Tegra2) and whatever else is in the thing would have to be injected into another rom before it would even have a chance of booting. If these can be located, pulled from the device and then put into another rom successfully then I'd say that's progress.

What's the file system on this thing? Has anyone attempted / succeeded in trying to get Clockworkmod recovery installed on it?
[G Tablet Android Development] insight3fl:
i had mentioned this on the other side thread. you can also download froyo for the devkit on the site as well as flashing guide.
[G Tablet Android Development] gmcbay:
There are a bunch of stock Froyo APKs in nvidia's dev kit that you can run on the g-tab including the standard froyo launcher (which mostly runs but settings doesn't work from it and enabling notifications borks things up pretty bad).

If you download the nvidia tegra 2 devkit you can pull apart their system.img file using unyaffs and find the apks in the app directory. adb push them over to the g-tab and install them via ES File Manager.

My initial attempts to get the default browser build from that devkit to function were a total disaster so you may want to steer clear of that for now... going to have to actually set up the full C/C++ sdk to get some of this stuff working on the gtab.
[G Tablet Android Development] GeneralSpecific:
If we start flashing Roms before we get a custom recovery, we are going to have badly bricked devices. Lets not get ahead of ourselves here guys ;)
[G Tablet Android Development] epakrat75:
To that end, I sent an email to "Koushik Dutta", the developer of Clockworkmod recovery and ROM Manager. The site is located at this address: http://www.clockworkmod.com/ for those unfamilar. Perhaps a response will yield a way to get recovery working on here in short order. I will post what I receive here. That's the hope, anyway. :p

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On a different note...

I found it interesting that Viewsonic is promoting this particular market...

http://www.pocketgear.com/en/usd/plattform:android/index.html

Anyone tried it yet? I'm trying to acquire a device myself but having difficulty.