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[G Tablet General] mrackley:
Sorry... yes, I meant the experimental pack. I re-installed my apps and it seems to have "settled down". Flash is working better now too. So far, besides the camera not working it's been going very smoothly. Still appears as though the wifi radio isn't as strong though?
[G Tablet General] LTL11:
I got a gtab on black Friday for 379.99 from sears and the case they sell for 5.99.

Here is my experience so far and a few questions.

I initially flashed tnt lite 2.0 from internal memory, did market hack and when installing angry birds got FC after FC and rebooted into a boot loop.

Went through the steps in the OP to recover and ended up having to flash back to Vanilla from the sd card and then re-flash the tnt lite 2.0 from the internal memory again once I had access to it. Could not get it to flash from the sd card once I was in a boot loop.

Everything seems to be working perfectly now, have root, flash, full market, angry birds etc.

My question is this, once you get it to flash with no FC or boot loops am I good? Will there be another issue?

I did not partition the SD card, cannot seem to get a good understanding of how to do that.

Roe thanks a ton for all your work on this, you are amazing. Would donate if you accepted money.
[G Tablet General] ehunyadi:
You should be fine LTL11. I have been using 2.00 since the hour it came out and it's been super-stable. I use my G-Tab for about 4-8 hours a day (both at work and at home) and it's been rock-solid since 2.00.

With that said, there are always going to be ROMs in development, and at some point, you have to decide if you're willing to keep updating/upgrading or if a certain version is good enough. I've been happy with 2.00, so I made a backup in Clockworkmod that I go back to all the time after testing new things. However, once a clearly newer/better ROM comes out, I'll flash to it and make it my new standard. That's the beauty of using the G-Tab with Clockworkmod.
[G Tablet General] LTL11:
I am very familiar with CWM on my incredible, does it work the same way on the gtab?
[G Tablet General] ehunyadi:
I don't have the incredible so I can't comment on that, but you can watch this video and see it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbcfA9u9O5w

Go to about 2:27 and watch from there. I was navigating within CWM and installing an update.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
I am familiar with the Root process since I am using Evo with CWM, and have installed the Fresh 3.4.0.1 on my evo.

Can someone comment on my step to see if I have missed something? I have just gotten brand new gTab, and missed on the refurb store about 180 miles away, so I am sure I could have saved about $50 after the gas and time.

Step 1 - get the external SD Card, and power the unit,

Step 2 - connect to the computer, and copy the CWM (Recovery zip) into the new SD card

Step 3 - reboot into the stock recovery, and install CWW - new recovery system.

Step 4 - Reboot normally

Step 5 - Copy the TnT ROM 2.0 into the SD Card external

Step 6 - Boot into CWM, new recovery

Step 7 - Find the TNT file on the external SD Card, and install

Step 8 - reboot, and you will have Root with TnT 2.0 ROM

Did I miss something?
[G Tablet General] LTL11:
Not clear on your list but if you plan on putting CWM on your EXTERNAL SD card to flash you will need to change the command file to read sdcard2 instead of sdcard.
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Could you do this with internal SD card, so you won't have to change the command file?

I was thinking that putting an external SD card is easier if some reason, something doesn't go well, just remove the SD card, and you are back to stock.

It is like installing OS from the USB Drive?

Are there any decent step that someone has documented?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm working on 2.0.3 today - ad-hoc and the gojimi updates that doesn't break the camera, but the speed increases aren't as big. A balance of speed and stability.
[G Tablet General] Hannigan174:
Making me salivate ^^

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[G Tablet General] LTL11:
You can put it on the internal SD card and not change anything on the command file.

http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=442691
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Seems the speed issue may be related to performance, so for a working camera, may result in messed up Youtube client & other similar apps.....

Not saying the speed itself makes those apps better (since a G1 plays them fine), but perhaps related to i/o or cache utilization on chip.
[G Tablet General] flipper9:
Can 2.03 be layered over 2.02 with the experimental pack?
[G Tablet General] rob_z11:
Thanks for the link. Thanks you so much. I did not realize that gTAB comes with the stock recovery which allows you to install any ROM? Which is different then Android based phone?

Correct me if I am wrong?
[G Tablet General] LTL11:
Gtab has stock recovery and is not locked down like your typical phone so the custom recovery is not required, but does have extra options.
[G Tablet General] LTL11:
And can it be flashed over 2.0.0
[G Tablet General] chief1978:
Yes it really takes that long, not sure if screen on/off makes much difference as i have it set to go off after 2 mins.

Nomedia is ok for movies, but music needs to be there to play really, cant play 1 song at a time from astro. Need playlists etc
[G Tablet General] Morantz:
I did the first one and was still missing many things from the market. The second one looks to have been done already, so I tried putting back to origional (the line was commented out and a new signature put in... I reversed the commenting...)

Made those changes and redid the first links directions and I now have a fully available market for the first time on a tablet. I am now VERY HAPPY!!!!!
[G Tablet General] Morantz:
Your getting to 96%? My charge lit goes green and the unit stops charging at 92%. Mine is only 4 days old though... And it was at 0% when I got it brand new in its shipping container... It is possible that my battery is bad from the manufacturer.

I am hoping that several charge/discharge cycles will improve the battery!
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
Loving this ROM (5.0). Two observations:

1) Love the honeycomb animation instead of the sparks.

2) Doesn't seem to sleep correctly with 5.0, after more than a minute or so I end up getting a complete restart instead of the desktop coming back up, starting with the viewsonic birds but not getting the Gtablet screen and going from there (or is this how it resumes from sleep, because I don't remember it this way in 4.2.5).

Is there a way to alter the sleep settings, the only thing I find is under display "sleep = 10 minutes" default, changed to never.
[G Tablet General] joe2262:
My scan times were high once, turned out to be a corrupt file. (jpg)
[G Tablet General] chief1978:
Not this, remove music, and scan is almost instant.
[G Tablet General] westholma4t:
help needed

this happened to me, put in the gtab-cwm-v08.tntlite5 before i was gonna run the 5.0 tntlite rom. now when i hit pwr and volume key+ nothing happends. stuck after second line: booting recovery kernel image...what i´m gonna do now?
[G Tablet General] karlkarloff:
My media scan time is generally less than 45 seconds or so. Although, i only have like 45 songs and 4 movies on my sd card, so it may be that it doesn't take that long because there just isn't much there to scan.
[G Tablet General] chief1978:
Yes well 2055 songs makes a big difference.

Also I dint mind it scanning ONCE but it scans everyone, and not on other roms.

It's clearly a issue with TnT rom, I don't think the awesome roebeet can fix their bug, but if anyone can it's him.
[G Tablet General] willows:
RojasTKD, thanks a lot now my gtablet rise from death :D
[G Tablet General] malenhead:
5.0 force closes and random reboots

Loaded 5.0 on both of my gtabs and went great as expected. I like the look and the features, but I'm experiencing force closes and random reboots. I had cleared data and cache on install. No rhyme or reason to why or when the force closes happen. Some on app install some on browsing and some on normal app use. Would be willing to provide any needed info.

PS did I mention random wireless drops. :)
[G Tablet General] ZephyrsDream:
Successfully upgraded my G-Tab last night to 3588 and TnT Lite 5.0 using the alternate method with the all inclusive RECOVER GTABLET.rar. The only weird thing that was happening was that after booting into 5.0, the tablet would shut off after the "gtablet" boot screen. Simply turning it back on solved it, but it keeps happening. I'm wondering if this is because when I was doing the data wipe in stock recovery that I also mistakenly took the "home" button for the "select/enter" button, as in clockworkmod.

Thought NVFlash was going to be a pain, but it looks like all one needs to do is read and reread to make sure it's all understandable.

Thanks again Roebeet for making a process that looked painful virtually painless!

Is it possible to still install clockwork mod for recovery?
[G Tablet General] cgoogs:
Is the DroidDream virus fix included in this rom? I ran the DroidDreamKiller app and it detected that the fix may have already been done. Running a clean install of Tnt-Lite 5.0.0
[G Tablet General] ZephyrsDream:
Okay, I seem to have jinxed myself with that last post. I am now getting "android.process.acore" errors in 5.0.

Can I use the clockwork mod roebeet has linked in the first post (the one that is new for TnT Lite 5.0) and repartition the sdcard?
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Well just as an aside since I had some extra time this morning, I started on prepping for trying out TnTl 5. I had some "interesting" times, so it MIGHT be of use to someone, maybe...

nvflashed good ol' bekit's stock fw -> TONS of force closes in stock,

so I decided lets do a "factory reset" (stock) -> still tons of FCs

next go on to re-flash bekit stock image again -> still many FCs

reboot it, fewer FCs but still some and enough to cause OTA update to fail

next up, decided to try the complete erase of device and bekit stock fw nvflash again.

looking better but still FCing on OTA

Install cwm v.8 via stock recovery -> boot looping

force recovery boot -> use cwm to re-partition sdcard (advanced menu) to 2048/0

factory reset w/cwm

reboot bingo, it boots and no more FCing in stock

nvflash bekit's stock fw again reboots -> still no more FCing -> OTA update to 3588

So, what I'm gathering from this is that re-partitioning /sdcard w/cwm seems to fix a good deal of problems.

I had SOME FCing in stock when I first got mine, but just one app and the with the late Nov OTA FCing in a different app, so I went and tried a bunch of custom fw and stuck with TnTl which I only had FCing problems once in an upgrade but was fixed by removing a db file via adb. I couldn't remember the filename/location offhand and decided to just try the cwm /sdcard re-partitioning which worked, so you MAY also just be able to remove that db and skip the cwm step IF you remember which one it was and where or take extra time to do a search. (I figured that it was just faster for me to cwm and repart IF it worked, which it did so I didn't bother digging the various posts relating to that db file and FCing...)

I stopped at this step as the gtab was useable and I didn't have extra time to do more debugging IF I had problems with the TnTl 5 update... (geez stock felt so sluggish compared to custom, esp. the original bekit stock fw... 3588 was better, but still...)

So, to me it's looking like re-partitioning /sdcard and modifying the gTab(and even without apparently) helps alot of people with FCing and other ills as it apparently also fixed my boot looping...

Now just to start using nvflash more often again now as it looks for a while at least that we'll be needing it IF we want to try other custom fw/kernels or any builds of your own.

(I'm a glutton for punishment, so you'd save yourself a hassle if you just updated to 3588 APX image, and possibly substitute in cwm the first time in case of problems, then reflash w/o full stock 3588 -> TnTl then the updated kernel cwm v.8 version... daringly you could skip cwm in the first 3588 flash and go on if no problems, not sure how the upgrade would go w/o a stable base stock 3588 though... might be similarly recoverable, but...)
[G Tablet General] proneck321:
Wheeww!

So i screwed up the relatively easy install of 3588 and 5.0.... had to flash..... accidentally flashed the gtablet 1206010 instead of the 1105010 and got stuck in APX mode, since I didnt realize i was stuck in APX i thought that my tablet just wouldnt turn on. So thinking i am the only human capable of breaking this thing... I tried one last time to reflash and noticed my error. Flashed the gtablet1105010 with the windows NVflash pack of the same name and viola!! Magically back to life.... did normal recover to upgrade to 3588 and it was then a smooth sail to 5.0

Must say thanks to Roe again... and thanks to Butchconner for listing his experience with NVFlash in this thread.
[G Tablet General] v12xke:
New CWM after TNTL 5.0.0

I was able to make it to 5.0.0 without using NVFlash and had no hitches. Downgraded to 3588, booted only once to go in and check the tab version. While in, enabled USB and transferred both the (5.0.0)update.zip and restore folder/file to the root. Rebooted and applied the update. Hung on first boot, rebooted to clear user data and rebooted again. After the first long boot, I was in. Set up Google, and then restored my apps using TiB.

My question is whether to now apply the "new" CWM or not. It's not clear to me whether some are experiencing problems using the correct file, or the problems are due to applying the wrong file version. Does this need some more work? I feel vulnerable without having a good nandroid backup. Everything is running so well... now is the time to make the backup. (eg. before the fit hits the shan)
[G Tablet General] snarful:
I don't have to do an nvflash now, as tntl 5.0.0 is running fine, but I want to be prepared to do so from Windows 7 x64 if necessary. The directions for preparing Windows for the nvflash--while welcome and helpful, are also a bit confusing, so let me begin by detailing the elements I have on hand;

--A folder, "RECOVER GTABLET", with the combined contents from "nvflash-gtablet-2010110500" and "nvflash-windows-20100500", and also containing a folder "USB", which holds the file "NvidiaUsb.inf", a folder "i386", and a folder "amd64" (These, I presume, are the apx drivers).

--A file "tegra-froyo-20110207.msi (the Nvidia SDK, I presume)

I believe these are all the files I need, and my understanding of how to prepare is as follows:

1 Install SDK (tegra-froyo-20110207)

2 Put G Tablet into apx mode (hold power and volume down together), wait for black screen to appear, connect to pc with usb cord

(Windows will try to install drivers and fail--go to device manager, find yellow exclamation point, locate APX, click "update drivers", direct windows to "NvidiaUsb.inf" in "USB" folder)

3 Go to folder with combined content, run "nvflash-gtablet.bat"

let the bat file run its course, and G Tab will reboot into an early rom, ready to flash by the usual methods.

If all above is correct, can I just stop after completing steps 1 and 2, leaving Windows ready for a future nvflash, and just run step 3 if and when I need to? Or must it all be done at the same time?
[G Tablet General] Johnsondr80:
Geting my tab today. Camt wait flash this. Looks good.

Just wanted to say hi.

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[G Tablet General] proneck321:
NVflash

now that i think about it, I never even installed the froyo sdk, but still got my tablet flashed using roe's files and the usb driver from advent vega... interesting.
[G Tablet General] Johnsondr80:
Thanks for all hsrd work here.

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[G Tablet General] digger44:
If you can get into settings/applications/system applications, try clearing data from the contacts app. That's where these acore errors stem from. I don't think re-partitioning is the problem in this case.
[G Tablet General] snarful:
So does mean that the sdk is not necessary for nvflash? If not, what does it do, as some have advised that it's needed?
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
SDK required for ADB (Android Debug Bridge), rooting of device and building/editing of Android virtual machines.
[G Tablet General] snarful:
OK, I get it now; so not needed for nvflash, but necessary for adb. This explains why an earlier attempt at setting up adb didn't work--no sdk; I can fix that now!

Thanks for the clarification.
[G Tablet General] Zocky:
Thank you very much, it worked! I downloaded the update on the internal (SDcard root) memory of the gtab with the recovery folder, but I first wiped the memory. The rebooted and bam!! Thank you again.
[G Tablet General] Dave615:
How about any comments on how this new version is working for everyone who's tried loading it? I had TNT 4.2.4 before moving to VEGAn Tab because of system lockups and reboots. I liked the TNT Lite interface better and was wondering if it's worth my trouble to switch back or just wait for a Honeycomb port.
[G Tablet General] DrPaulR:
WARNING: QuickBoot messed up my TNT Lite 5.0 installation.

I followed the instructions for installing TNT Lite 5.0 without a hitch. I then installed the clockworkmod for 5.0 and made a backup. After installing a few more APKs and configuring the GTab like I like, I hit the QuickBoot icon. The GTab rebooted into Recovery Mode like I asked, but when I tried to reboot out of Recovery Mode the system always went back into Recovery Mode even when I wasn't pressing the + key. Easy enough fix by completely repeating the install process. Unfortunately, it took me the second time of accidentally hitting QuickBoot icon again, before I wised up and removed it from my home screen.
[G Tablet General] DrPaulR:
Not all apps in Market

I updated to TNT Lite 5.0 and everything is running great. I even did the Market Fix by clearing the Framework data. I see lots of apps in Market, but several are missing. AppBrain tells me that there are updates to several of my apps, but when I try to update then in Market, it comes back with "Not found. The requested item could not be found." Below is a list of apps that I have installed but are not showing up in Market. Anyone else have this problem?

Facebook

Messenger

Messenger Voice and Video Plug-in

Maps

ES Bookmark Manager

Google Voice

Dolphin Browser HD

gReader Pro
[G Tablet General] malenhead:
Update: Yahoo I'm an ID 10 T! So I found out I was using the home key in the stock recovery screen which is to toggle not invoke the action, so I truly had never wiped data and cache. I thought it was weird that it just stayed on the fixing icon. Well needless to say I'm all better and loving 5.0. Everything working so far.
[G Tablet General] Version_3:
Thank you. I use quickboot, but I hadn't used it to reboot into recovery. I'll be cautious of it, or remove it all together and look for another option, maybe Tasker.

I see Facebook, maps, ES bookmark manager, google voice, dolphin browser hd, greader pro. As for the messengers, if you mean yahoo, I see those as well.

Perhaps try the fix again?
[G Tablet General] proneck321:
5.0 issue clearing cache

tried to clear cache in the new bootloader , seems it erased half my apps, and now i have FCs in Titanium and most other apps.
[G Tablet General] sethman80:
It possible to have the application "VPN Connections 0.99" working in this rom?

I think it's the only great application good for HotSpotShield, a great thing for all the people that want to use HULU and Pandora outside the US.

For what I know there's some kind of issue with a "tun.ko" and the kernel, dunno what that means btw :D
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
You definitely need the Market hack for Facebook - the instructions are on my first post. Several people have seen this, and I have as well.

Good to know - cache wipe might not be an option for us, then.
[G Tablet General] karlkarloff:
I've been running 5.0 since Roebeet put it up for mass consumption the other day, and have had no issues that I'm aware of. It does seem to run a bit faster, and with the exception of the first 24 hours I was on it, I haven't had a single reboot from sleep issue. The lock screen is really nice too. I used Titanium Backup to restore all my apps, and haven't had a single FC(knock on wood) since I instalaled the ROM. All in all, I'm very pleased with the performance.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Putting up a 5.0.1 supplement, tonight

Two changes, one bug fix.

- Busybox softlinks were broken (JungleGym69 caught this, thanks!)

- Market updated to 2.3.4

- Flash script altered to install 10.2 (this only runs after a data wipe, keep in mind).

A minor update, but important if you need those busybox command line tools fixed.

EDIT: I figure the big question is "Will this be as big a headache as 5.0.0?" and the answer is "no". Once you are on 5.0.0, all supplements should be easy. New full versions remain to be seen, of course. :)
[G Tablet General] joe2262:
I'm confused, market 2.3.4 is what I have with 5.0.0 ??
[G Tablet General] Synman:
I know this has been discussed ... search shows all kinds of hits ... but i'm a n00b to the gtab, am a dev for an augmented reality game for the Parrot AR.Drone (AR.Pro) and am noticing that with 5.0.0 I have NO g-sensor response whatsoever. I fired up ApiDemos.apk from the Android SDK and it shows nada, nothing, zilch, coming from my sensors.

My orientation sensor register works fine in my code, as well as my activation logic (works fine on numerous other droids) but on my gtab I get nutin.

Any pointers? Would be appreciated. Will continue to search in the meantime.

Shell
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
you probably got an auto-update (as I did) - I'm just adding that update to the firmware.
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
So roebeet, are we going to have to start doing data wipes even on minor updates now....5.0.1 instead of just over laying like 4.2.1 - 4.2.5.
[G Tablet General] ItsDon:
Look four posts above yours. The answer is no, minor updates will not require a wipe.
[G Tablet General] gpence61:
Still confused...

Good morning Roebeet,

First on all, let me thank you again for all of your hard work on getting TnT Lite to work on the gTab. You made my clunky tablet into a cool gadget which actually works the way I want it to work!

I haven't been using my gTab for several weeks (too busy at work) and last night I turned it on to discover a series of FC errors for Google Services Framework (process com.google.process.gapps) so I decided I needed to come here are look at the latest developments... now I am dazed and confused!

My gTab is currently configured as follows: TnT Lite v3.1.0 (Build FRF91) and I use Launcher Pro, Titanium Backup and CWM .8. I have very few apps on it as I typically use it for reading ebooks and surfing the web while I'm in bed at night. I use Aldiko 2.0 and I don't really care if my ebooks are deleted because I can easily download them again.

As I read through the last 40-50 pages of this thread (as well as your opening comments) I am wildly confused as to how I am supposed to proceed.

Would it be possible for you to update the TnT Lite 5.0.x instructions on the first page? I read things like "run a stock update.zip", "it will update the BCT partition" and "reboot into recovery" and I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If memory serves me, rebooting into recovery means Power & Vol+ together, but (being a noob) I need more hand holding... please!

Thanks again for all of your work on this -- I just need more detailed instructions in order to reach gTab nirvana :-)
[G Tablet General] Version_3:
Post 5.0.1 install, I started having issues with things not appearing in the market again, mainly Pocket Legends, which I had installed under 5.0.0 from the market. I tried the market fix several times, and I have yet to see my gtab appear in my list of devices on the market website. Is it a problem if there are multiple ro.build.fingerprint entries that are uncommented in the build.prop? IIRC, there are 2, one for harmony and one for passion. I'm not sure what was there pre-5.0.1.