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[G Tablet General] ckelly33:
Video Player Problems!! Help, please

I am evaluating both an Archos 101 and the Viewsonic G-Tablet. I have the G-Tablet running Robeet's firmware and it is BLAZING by comparison. Angry Birds, for instance, loads over 2x faster on TnT lite 2.2.0 over the Archos 101 running (basically stock + gapps)

Here's my only problem. I cannot get a media player to find my video files off of my SD card. I've tried different arrangements within the file system, nothing seems to work - and these are programs that find the media automatically on the Archos!

What is missing? When I insert an SD into the Archos, like the VS GT, I get a 'Preparing SD Card' message. In addition, the Archos gives me a 'Searching for Multimedia Files" followed by "Updating Multimedia Library". This appears to be a function of the Archos itself and is even found as a button within the storage settings.

The only way I can play the files on the VS is to use astro or ES file manager and locate the files manually and select them. THEN AND ONLY THEN will they play. Another note of interest here is the fact that it is asking me what I want to use to play the file once I find it in file manager - it lists three programs not listed in my program icons: Video Player (from stock TnT), ES video player and one that look to be stock Google by its icon called Movies.

After all of that I have two questions: Why do my video files require a manual dig through a file explorer? Why aren't these video players that are listed under "complete action using" anywhere else in my Tablet's programs (they are clearly there because they work)?

The primary reason I got one of these was for a video player for my kids and there's no way they are gonna search through a file manager to find them.

Can someone help me through this? Is there a video player out there that works with TnT lite 2.2.0 + SD card?

EDIT: mVideoPlayer works VERY NICELY. It still doesn't answer why these others don't see the videos or why these other progarms are there but aren't seen (stock TnT video player can actually be seen (settings->applications->system applications->Video player)
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
The Archos doesn't have this issue with the microSD? The problem is the apps, not the device - the stock apps (and some of the market ones) can only read from /sdcard, which is the internal memory. A lot of tablets have this problem - but, as you found out, you can change the default folder for mVideoPlayer to get around this.

I have an Archos 32, and the media application is just fantastic. There's really no comparison, it plain beats out the GTab apps. I have tried to port the 2.1 version over to the GTab, with no success yet.

But, as you noticed, the GTab has its own advantages.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
Anyone having issues where the performance just drops way down after a period of usage? Everything just becomes very sluggish and choppy. If I do a reboot, everything goes back to normal.

Also, I copied all my gallery pics from my Droid 1 onto the gtab, but everytime I scroll through the pics, it crashes the gallery. Anyone else have this issue? I tried clearing the cache and data for gallery already but no dice.
[G Tablet General] psycotix82:
Not locating zip file

So i just picked up the G tab tonight.......I installed CWM v.08......then i down loaded tnt lite 2.2 and extracted the update.zip file into the root of my sd card.....then i booted to cwm and i tried all the options to load the update.zip but it gives me and error the files are not found or no such file directory......anybody heard of this?
[G Tablet General] tristanwolf1134:
If you are using CWM 2512 you have to put the update.zip on your external microSD card. I prefer 2511 instead, you can find it in the forums some where.
[G Tablet General] dnjpowell:
Yes, I noticed that too. I was hoping once I get onto TnT and off the stock that it was going to fix this. Hmmmm, maybe not! I barely have any apps and know storage is not the issue. :confused:

lindarose- I'm glad it's not just me!! A tablet noob who thought I must have done something w/o realizing it! Lol I think it is quirky at times for sure.

I want to try to make the switch today to TnT so off I go to gather up what I need. I only wish I knew someone close who has done this to watch & help. But I'm confident I can do it,just nervous!
[G Tablet General] Randomgoodstuff:
Loving it - I was very skeptical first but once received first thing I did was flashing it with TNT Lite, etc.

Everything works more than fine but I might have skipped something since my clock keeps resetting itself. Anyone knows how to fix that?
[G Tablet General] mrackley:
2.2 results...

Okay.. so, I've been using 2.2 since it came out and for the most part it is completely awesome. I've seen a Quadrant score as high as 2644 on it. The issues I do have are:

1) Since about 2.0 I have to press harder on the icons on the right side of the screen. I've seen others comment the same thing. This is truly bizarre and pretty annoying. Is there a way to recalibrate the screen?

2) Flash becomes very unstable after about 10-15 minutes of continuous use. I've tried both Dolphin and stock browsers. This is mainly on the network websites abc.com, fox.com, cbs.com, nbc.com

3) the XDA forum app always FC's when I try to view my profile :)

Besides that, I have ZERO complaints and have a spare kidney for Roeby if he ever needs it... :P
[G Tablet General] dnjpowell:
mine did same thing right @ first - not sure what fixed it. Each time I went in settings everything was ok. Just reset time on clock & after 2 or 3 times it's not done it since.

I am slightly confused though since reading on flashing tnt - am I needing to root before hand?? It doesn't say on main page but on another post I saw someone mentioned in order to put titanium on u had to be rooted. Would using a different backup change that or first or do i need to root first?
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
In order to use Titanium, you need root. But if you don't care about backing up any of your apps or if you're coming from a straight up stock tablet from out of the box, you can just flash to TnT without root. Flashing to TnT will give you root automatically because its included in the rom.

I got my tab 2 days ago and the first thing I did was boot it up, checked it out for a bit, hated the UI, put clockworkmod recovery on it, and flashed TnT. Been running pretty good since then.
[G Tablet General] dnjpowell:
Awesome! The few things I do have on here are not important & can reinstall (like facebook). There are no docs or contacts on here. Maybe ill just jump in and replace the couple items after it's installed then. Thanks!!
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
Heh, I don't even see a point in using the Facebook app because you can just view the website in its entirety through the browser. :cool:
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
2.2.1 supplement is coming today

Just two changes - the Settings catcher that vaelek created, and the YouTube update.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I am wondering if this is a stock issue (#1 bullet). Not certain as I haven't really played with stock all that much.

If it started with 2.0.0 and not 2.0.3 (performance pack), then it's most likely a stock issue that bled into TnT Lite.

As for Flash, I think it's just buggy. The thing just eats RAM.
[G Tablet General] flashlight1:
not sure what changed in this supplemental pack but the font/sprites in dungeon hunter are back!
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Two files -- YouTube apk and the Settings catcher. That's it. :)

Still, glad DH is working!
[G Tablet General] dnjpowell:
you are right!! i wasn't sure if it needed that interface of the app or not.. what is different is how it is different from a pc but i guess more than a smartphone (which i never had) haha still trial and error for me.

Thanks for pointing that out to me! :p
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
Better prep 2.2.2, Roebeet--they just did a big update to Gmail:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/gmail-for-android-better-priority-inbox.html
[G Tablet General] akodoreign:
Just imported this from my evo :) happy it has prioraty flags now :D
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
Yup, that's what I was waiting on. Choice of email address to send from is good, too.

I've got it on my tab, and it's working.
[G Tablet General] ehunyadi:
VERY nice... wow. The gmail update was huge. I didn't notice the priority arrows until I read that here: WOW.

What a good day for the G-Tablet!
[G Tablet General] dkhilo:
Original intention was probably to save data charges for phone customers. However, the facebook app give you the widget if you want to have it available on the desktop for live updating.
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
Yes, to only get notifications on priority msgs was my last big wish for Android gmail. At least until I saw the honeycomb tablet demo!
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
pretty sure you can update the gmail app. just uninstall it with titanium, reboot, then install. don't have my tablet on me but i'm going to try this later when i get home.
[G Tablet General] Canadoc:
how does one use settings catcher?
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
just download it from market on gtab and install it . I did and it installed the latest ver 2.3.2
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
You don't even have to do any of that. I just updated it from the market.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
It "just works" - when you press the settings menu, it would do nothing previously. This apk redirects it to the TnT settings so it works properly.
[G Tablet General] zerozed99:
Wow, I just flashed this update and have a big problem. Nothing but force closures...like a never ending loop of them.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Just the supplement? It's just two file copies and a perms fix on /system/apk to support it. Maybe try a "fix perms" in cwm or a user data wipe, worst case.
[G Tablet General] zerozed99:
Yeah, I just flashed the update. I got it running by doing a complete data wipe and reinstalling everything. No harm done. Trust me, I've bonked a few flashes on my EVO before so I'm used to it.

Roebeet: just so you have more info on what I did, I already had Clockwork .8 installed. Before I flashed the update, I did a cache and dalvik wipe. I normally do that when flashing anything on my EVO; it seems to avoid a lot of weird problems. So after I wiped both of those, I applied the update and rebooted. I immediately started getting FCs on EVERYTHING...ADW, widgets, etc. Basically it wouldn't fully boot; FCs kept popping up literally every second and it impeded my ability to even shut the tablet off (was forced to just hold the power down and force a shutdown). After this happened, I rebooted into recovery again, and tried wiping everything again. Same results. Finally, I just resorted to doing a complete data wipe. That fixed the problem.

BTW...the settings fix is much appreciated. I'm just trying to get this tablet set up for my 70 year old father.
[G Tablet General] cleatis:
Where did you get dungeon hunter? I can't find it.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
its not on the market. you have to get it from the gameloft site.

btw, i got dungeon hunter for my droid last week when they having a promo that made the game free to download for 24 hours. i put the apk on the gtab but the game doesn't load. just throws me back out when i try to run it.
[G Tablet General] NeuronFlash:
2.0 has been very stable for me for the last couple weeks. I'm loving it! I am staying with 2.0 till the 2.2 issues are ironed out. Or until we are rocking and rolling on 3.0:D
[G Tablet General] NeuronFlash:
2.0 for noobs

2.0 has been very stable for me for the last couple weeks. I'm loving it! I am staying with 2.0 till the 2.2 issues are ironed out. Or until we are rocking and rolling on 3.0:D
[G Tablet General] brian_h_kim:
I simply applied the 2.2.1 update (no data wipes, resets, etc.) and worked fine...
[G Tablet General] jfholijr:
What issues does 2.2 have that 2.0 doesn't?
[G Tablet General] Talk2Rider:
I applied the 2.2.1 update via CM .8. No issues.
[G Tablet General] mrackley:
Hey Roeby... is it okay if I call you Roeby? :)

Any suggestions for how to get my screen working on the right side again? Should I try going back to 2.0? If this is a stock issue, what can I do?

As always.. thanks for the help...
[G Tablet General] vo2ka:
Rom on Malata T2

Hello,

I was installed the rom and all is very smooth and works very good.

Thank you for your work !

I have two problems, the camera does'nt work, there is a green screen when i want to use it. Is it normal ? if yes, there is a patch or anything else ?

The second problems is with the application gallery, when i used it there is "process com.cooliris has stopped unexpectedly"

Vandi from France.)
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
yea i have the same issue with gallery. crashes when i'm scrolling through a lot of pics, process com.cooliris has stopped unexpectedly.

when i look in a folder with like under 40 pics, its fine.

anyone else have this?
[G Tablet General] blipsqueak:
Same issue here.
[G Tablet General] apsawyer65:
Has anyone had any issues trying to use a USB Drive with this ROM? I tried it last night and was unable to locate the drive using ES File Explorer.
[G Tablet General] NiN39Z:
Question about email

I have a question. I was trying to install the original stock contacts, phone, calender and email back. all of them work except the email which i would get force closes on and when i put the stock email back on, it wouldnt login to any email i put? Is there a way i can add the stock original email apk back or im stuck with no emails working?
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
Hey Roebeet

Was able to get the tablet to power on now but it now goes from the viewsonic screen to gtablet screen and keeps looping.

How do i get this to work?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
The reboot loops seem to be a common issue with stock / TnT Lite. my suggestions are as follows:

- Re-flash to TnT Lite, or possibly to vanilla stock. The internal memory is no longer accessible but you can use the microSD card to do this (you just need to edit the /recovery/command file so that way it knows to use /sdcard2).

- If you have cwm, restore to an old backup and / or try to wipe data.

The last resort, other than returning it, is to use nvflash to restore the device. It's used nvflash more times than I can count.
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
hi

just posted update to now getting the boot loops before you responded.

Can you let me know what i do now/
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I updated after you updated. :)

It seems to be a "feature", or lack thereof, in the new stock firmware. Not sure why they pulled it out.
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
I did try reflash the TnT 2.0 using sdcard2. it flashed but again keeps giving me the boot loop. Should i try to use the original viewsonic update files and flash that using the second sdcard?
[G Tablet General] flipper9:
Using clockwork, goto advanced and repartition your system. I selected a 2gb main and Max swap. This should fix the boot loop.
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
thanks for the reply but i dont have clockwork. Any other alternatives?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
nvflash, but cwm is probably the easier solution. There's an update.zip for cwm in my TnT Lite post, near the bottom.

I am really convinced that there's some image problem with these devices - these boot loops seem to be fairly common. Btw, I'm going to put the reboot loop into the caveats section as it's happened more than a few times.
[G Tablet General] NiN39Z:
email app from stock tnt firmware

Hey Roebeet!

Love the rom but I have a quick question from you. Is there anyway to load the original stock email app back onto your rom to use? I tried to do it and it gave me a force close. am I missing another file to make it work?
[G Tablet General] jonspieker:
Okay, I'd like to try this

All;

So I'm pretty new to this stuff, so sorry for the noob questions.

I've got my VS Tab and it's working (no issues other than what everyone has) with the most recent update from VS. I've never rooted an Android device cause I've never really had the need. Based on what I've read here, I don't think I really need to to move to the tnt_lite v 2.00 posted here.

I have the file downloaded, and I've read the recovery instructions in case I run into trouble and need to back out. I have a couple questions as follows:

1) Do I need to be rooted? From the description it doesn't seem so, my only concern is that when I mount my VS device to my PC, I only see the installed SD card and nothing else. This doesn't seem to have a recovery directory already which has caused me some concern.

2) The \recovery\command file that's talked about for the recovery, I can't seem to find the contents of this file anywhere and my current device doesn't seem to have one (on the installed sd card). What are the contents of this file, in case I need to execute the recovery?

3) Do I need the \recovery\command file if I try to go to the tnt_lite V2.00?

I think that's it. Again, sorry for being kinda new to all this. Thanks.

Jon
[G Tablet General] xfernand:
I generally add both at the same time but I can't remember in which order now since I've flashed this thing 6-7 times already...
[G Tablet General] Crimton:
i would flash clockworkmod recovery first then flash the update.zip(tnt lite 2.0) in cwm recovery. it will be rooted already so there is no need to root anything.
[G Tablet General] liquidcaffeine:
Hmmm, I didn't think order would matter. Calender synch works great with our exchange server, but still no dice for contacts.
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
hey Roebeet

Tried Clockwork also but no go.

how to use nvflash. is it the same process that you had on tegra tab earlier.

also after nvflash routine is done how do i update to tnt 2.0

would appreciate if you could walk me thru on this please
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
hey Roebeet

Never mind was able to fix it myself and now the tablet is up and booted. I ran into this problem last time when i was trying to get the market working. I have the titanium apk on my pc from earlier time . Just so that i understand correctly

I sideload titanium to sdcard and install it and then follow the direction in the post to do the market fix right?

Anything else that i need to be careful about

Thanks in advance
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
nvflash is the last resort - it's like a low-level hard drive format. A post on this was written here: http://forum.tegratab.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8. But notice that the boot loop is again mentioned.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Yes, that should work.
[G Tablet General] New2Android:
Roebeet

YOU THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks
[G Tablet General] manfly9884:
Roebeet, Updated this morning to did the market fix, the Angry birds fix and so far my tab is running smooth.

Thanks again for your great works
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
in ES File Explorer, you have to go into your root directory and look for a folder called usbdisk or usbdrive, i forget which it was called.
[G Tablet General] kozmo2k4:
3rd day owning the gTab; second day on TnT-Lite 2.2 with Market Fix and Flash, everything worked great (had one issue of force closing of com.process.gapp, that made it unusable; went to recovery and wiped data; that fixed it!).

Flashe 2.2.1 last night via CM.8 Recovery (without wipe) and works awesome.

Have a hard time setting this thing down... may have to get another for the wife.

Great job @roebeet!
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
If you could pin it down, that would appreciated. I'm not sure if this a stock issue (2.0.0+) or performance pack (2.0.3+). If it's either one, crossing my fingers that the next stock release could correct it.

There is a calibration tool in the init.rc, but it doesn't seem to be used. I'm wondering if it's even possible to calibrate a capacitive screen??

I heard that the Malata v2 (1GB RAM, correct?) has a different partition structure. I also heard that our boot.img limits you to 512MB RAM. Again, just what I heard.

Camera might be different on your device, which could explain the problem. Want to send me a dev unit? I'd be happy to test on it. :)
[G Tablet General] apsawyer65:
That worked. Home Page was set to SDCARD. Thank.
[G Tablet General] jdhandsome:
viewsonic update 1.0.1-3053

Anyone notice that viewsonic released an update today? I could not install it because my gtab is so modded. anyone with a modded gtab had any success updating? Maybe because of the clockwork mod on my tab. I wonder if the update includes dual processor support, video conferences, etc..
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Oh boy. Time to go back to stock. :)

Anyone have a full link?

EDIT: Gotcha! http://tapntap.http.internapcdn.net/tapntap/update-smb_a1002-3053-user.zip
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
What's in it? Anything good? The suspense is killing me!
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Well, so far I am underwhelmed. AB works OOTB, but Quadrant is 1800 and no Flash that I can see. Also, g-sensor is still off.

What else were we hoping was fixed / enhanced?
[G Tablet General] jdhandsome:
Awesome just renamed it to update and installed it. I do not have tnt lite thought it removed to much and it broke my flash on a few websites, but the quadrant score was 1850 and it is still the same. However, flash and the web works alot faster and better for some reason.
[G Tablet General] jacindc:
FYI, the Washington Post's longtime technology writer Rob Pegoraro just tweeted this:

Got a demo from colleague @jdland of how much an indie ROM improved ViewSonic's #gTablet. (It wasn't exactly an endorsement of ViewSonic.)

http://twitter.com/#!/robpegoraro/statuses/13349968735641600

I have it on good authority that it was TNTLite 2.2 with LauncherPro that he got to see. ;)
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
It has pieces of the performance pack, but not everything. A speed bump in places, but not the GL stuff.

I'm debating on whether or not to call this 3.0.0 or not. Seems like a minor update to me. Maybe it's 2.3.0.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
It's going to be TnT Lite 2.3.0, not 3.0.0

Kernel is unchanged (svn #13), so that clinches it for me. It's not a major update, AFAIC.
[G Tablet General] mrackley:
I re-partitioned and then installed 2.0 and the problem went away... I installed 2.2 on top of 2.0 and the problem is still gone!! :)
[G Tablet General] cleatis:
If it doesn't work, why did you say the "sprites" are back after the update? I guess I'm missing something
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
2.3.0 is coming soon (with changelog)

There's not much to tell - nothing noticeable from 2.2x. But, I took the opportunity to add the new Gmail apk, and I finally removed the adfree hosts file since a few of you requested that it be removed. It's fairly simple to get "adfree android" from the market, which does the same thing.

The only reason why it's 2.3.0 vs. 2.2.2 is because the framework was touched by the TnT developers. Maybe there's something in there that fixed some bugs, but so far I haven't noticed anything.
[G Tablet General] slopokdave:
Has anyone had any trouble updating YouTube? I get install unsuccessful....
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I had an issue on my device - had to remove it using root access and then re-download. It's in /system, so it probably causes some problems with updating.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
question: how do i mount my other sdcard?

i just got my microsd card today in the mail and trying to figure out how to mount it. when i mount the tab, all i get is the internal sdcard. is there a way to mount sdcard2 or do i have to take it in and out everytime i want to copy something onto it? that would suck big time because that sdcard slot isn't hotswappable.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
You have to take it out, sorry. Stock is the same way. :(
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
crap. and apps won't be able to read from the sdcard2? like my music player or video player? or gallery?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Some apps will not. It's a common problem with some of these tablets - I had the same issue with the Cruz Reader and Pandigital Novel.

I've learned to deal with it by using apps that don't limit themselves to /sdcard. For music, I use "andless" (VERY basic music app, but it works). For video and pics, I just play from an file manager. And ACV (for comics) reads off /sdcard2.