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[G Tablet General] johnkapp:
I loaded 3.0 last night on top of 2.4. All I had to do was fix the Market. Everything is working great.

Thanks for making this useful.
[G Tablet General] camberiu:
Can't upgrade from 2.4 to 3.0 for some reason. I put the update.zip file into a clear 1Gb microsd card (FAT) and boot the tablet up holding down the "power" and "volume +" buttons. It begins to enter the recovery mode but then a big triangle with an exclamation mark popos up. The system then reboots normally and loads into 2.4.

I am sure I am missing something very simple and stupid, but I can't figure out what.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
need to have the update.zip file and a recovery folder with a command file in it. If you are trying to do it with an SD card you need to edit the command file so it says sdcard2 instead of sdcard. The command file does not have an extension.

You can get the recovery folder from one of the earlier TnT packages.
[G Tablet General] Ronin916:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I actually liked the EMail, Calendar, Contacts, News and Weather in VS TnT. Couldn't we use those instead? Not sure what issues would come up (I'm no programmer), but I'd kinda like to see those back.
[G Tablet General] camberiu:
Yep, I knew it was something very simple that I was missing. Thanks for reminding me. I am on 3.0 now. Thanks again.
[G Tablet General] brew1brew:
I upgraded from 2.4 to 3.0, cleared cache and davik cache. Every thing is working great. I did have to redo the market fix.
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Great job, Roeby!

Besides the stars cut off in the market, everything is working well :)

1. Very stable, since I have been messing around with apps, sleep mode, usb drives, etc with no issues: USB drives function is a lot better now.

2. No odd legacy stuff from earlier efforts from older source packages.

3. With Titanium and Launcher Pro restore, was able to be back up & running 100% in 30 minutes.

4. The loooong SD scan appears to be the first time. This must mean there is some form of indexing file somewhere.

5. One thing people may not appreciate is how good the the wifi signal is on the G. It blows the Galaxy Tab and 101 away.

6. Q score average 2430

I think you should submit this package to Viewsonic. THIS is what should be on the device- Not joking here- very serious. This package would make the device have no Android equal.

added: The market would probably have to be removed for Google reasons, but the rest is fine wine (maybe not, since not full market without hack?)
[G Tablet General] camberiu:
So, I've upgraded from 2.4 to 3.0 and now I am having some SERIOUS performance issues. The pad is very slow, as slow as the original TnT that came with it. This is probably because I did not do a clean update nor did I wipe user data. Now, how can I do a complete wipe and have everything new so that I can try to install 3.0 again? I know how to go back to TnT, but how do I do a full data wipe? Thanks for any advice you can share.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Need clockwork to do all the wiping. Might try a factory reset in the settings menu...

Look at post 1610 for more info..
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Clockwork will be your friend.

Easy cache & data wipes

Complete back-up

Emergency USB mode to access internal storage in case of boot loops or other issues

No recovery file needed

Permission fix

Those are main bennies and worth the install.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Some users having Market issues ("not enough space"), root cause below

First off, a big thanks to proengin for pointing me in the right direction, on this.

If you have repartitioned your SD card at some point in clockworkmod and used 4096 instead of the default 2048, you will probably have this issue. It seems that there's a problem with the kernel and the new Market apk. And it doesn't just affect TnT Lite - I've heard reports of this issue with the VEGAn build, as well.

Just a heads up. Will add this to the Caveats section in my first post, as well.
[G Tablet General] insight3fl:
I guess as one of the last holdouts on 2.00 I am going to have to take the plunge after this report Rush! (And btw, I am typing this with my BT keyboard and the Blueinput.apk hack for alt keyboards. It is sweet not having to punch my finger on the tablet!)
[G Tablet General] ckelly33:
I haven't done my update to 3 yet. Is there a step-by-step for this backup process to make my life easier?

I went with cwm on my last install, and after one use I'm still on shaky ground with understanding that whole process. I'd love to know what step to take to make life easy on upgrade!
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Went from 2.4.0 -> 3.0.0 this morning wiping cache, dalvik cache, and battery data(probably need to do a drain and clear when drained maybe, but we'll see)...

Booted back up w/no errors however market was only seeing a limited number of apps, so I went to settings->applications->system(IIRC), cleared market app & FCed it, went to google services cleared it and FCed it, started market -> error

rebooted gTab, -> market bingo back to normal.
[G Tablet General] anjenaire:
Updated from 2.4 to 3.0 and had to do the market fix again. I did a data wipe prior to upgrading. My "home" key on the device doesn't show me my running apps. Other than that it is showing me my SDCard2 (yeah!) and I am reloading items from Market after fix.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
just to save roebeet the trouble:

Didn't READ the first post, huh? Well the long press HOME "button" feature has currently been removed because of framework updates which require an update for that feature to be enabled again, which will appear in a supplement.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Thanks, cutterjohn.

I actually do add the caveats as I find them - I do that for a reason, so that way you have the good and bad in the first post and you don't have to go through 50 pages of posts.

I know that the first post is big. But, it's important to read it if you are going to mod your device. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to scan and digest.
[G Tablet General] zerozed99:
3.0 seems to be extremely stable. Is anybody having any problems once they get it up and running (I know some folks are wrestling with getting getting the rom loaded).

I'm curious if anybody has experienced the following:

1) Slow downs or freezes

2) Constant FCs (separate from specific apps)

3) WiFi connectivity problems (including issues arising from the suspend mode)

4) FCs from within the System Settings (e.g. Brightness, etc.)

5) FCs from apps that worked on previous version of TNTL or VEGAn

I haven't experienced any of those things so far. I have found only four things that aren't rock solid, but I believe Roebeet is actively working each of them.

1) Calendar app still suffers from graphics glitch

2) "Home Switcher" type apps do not allow user to change default launcher

3) Long-hold on "Home" button doesn't bring up recent apps

4) New Market has stars cut off and there is a graphics glitch when tablet held in portrait mode.
[G Tablet General] liquidcaffeine:
I've been using the Jorte app from the market as my default calendar and loving it.
[G Tablet General] hogasswild:
I was lucky and simply overwrote the recovery and update.zip files I had from 2.4 to 3.0 and did the update. The only thing I've had to do so far was the market fix, which now works fine and re-install my AB installs. I got a quadrant score of 2417, which as about 100pts higher than on 2.4. It took a little bit for all my installed apps to reflect in the market but all are there now.
[G Tablet General] williamsck:
has Anyone noticed the Log press ob the home button no longer opens the Open Tasks?
[G Tablet General] hogasswild:
I'll double check, but I am positive I did that by accident after the install and it was blank. I just figured I was starting over again so it should be blank.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Known issue - it's in my first post. :) I need to beg with gojimi to help me, once he gets the VEGAn stuff done. It'll be a future supplement.

I'm not feeling the love, here - no one reads that post? :(
[G Tablet General] akodoreign:
People tend to look for links in first post and jump to the end of the thread and read backwards...

Then get mad that manga is written that way.... *shrug* ;)
[G Tablet General] anjenaire:
My bad. Didn't realize that "Caveats: long press removed (for now, need to add it back to the framework with a supplement, just be aware of this). " indicated pressing the home button was referenced. I do read the first post.

So "Long Press" is code for the hardware buttons and specifically the Home button. Not complaining, very happy, thanks for the update. Just wanted to share my experience.
[G Tablet General] arrow21:
I read it and thanks for the hard work ;)
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm sure its fixable btw - it's just that VS overwrote the file that gojimi fixed in the last update, so it effectively breaks the fix. So its just a question of getting the time to update the new file with the fix he made.
[G Tablet General] mimo777:
Worked great for me

Just downloaded it to my GTab from xda directly, opened it with androidzip and rebooted into clockworkmod, backed up the VEGAn install and installed TNTlite 3.0. Worked like a charm and no computer intervening :)
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
maybe a shotgun would help...

...well they have to read at least part of it to find the dl link... maybe you should move those to below the changes...
[G Tablet General] dirt4618:
At one point I did have it set to 4096 as the tutorial I used stated to do so. Now the big question is how to make 3.0 work even tho its set to 2048 now, if that's at all possible :confused:
[G Tablet General] droidlucy:
running 3.0 and everything is stable and as noted, thanks.

The battery does seem to drop a little faster, not sure why yet I may have disabled something under 2.2 or 2.4 that got turned back on.
[G Tablet General] williamsck:
Sorry

I did find it after I posted and tried to remove....because I am new I cant remove or reply for 5 min. By that time it was to late. Sorry:D
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
No fix with a re-flash? I assume user data is good because if you re-did partitioning it auto wipes data.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Already thinking ahead - TnT Lite 3.1.0 is a possibility

I depends on what VS does with this update. If they keep it at revision 3316 (which is what we already have), then no changes to TnT Lite. But, if they push out a newer version, especially with the same kernel, I will re-evaluate and then eventually release a 3.10. It all depends on what VS is planning this week.

I won't be around this weekend, so if they release on 12/24, I won't be looking at it for at least 2 days. :)
[G Tablet General] dirt4618:
reflash as in nvflash, or reinstalling 3.0? I've tried installing 3.0 multiple times with varying partition sizes as well and wiping all data and caches, including dalvik caches.

I just find it very odd that 2.4 ran beautifully, upgraded to 3.0 and was nothing but fc's and market issues, and now i'm on 2.4 and it runs beautifully.

the reason i had it set for 4096 was because when i first set up 2.4 i got stuck in a boot loop, so I followed the advice here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865245 and it stated to set partitions for 4096 and 64

that being said, I'm stuck and with a lack of understanding of wtf I'm doing lol

if anyone can help me get a fully functional, stable 3.0 install running I'd greatly appreciate it
[G Tablet General] cotily03:
I agree with you... I actually went back to stock TNT for a bit because the layout was exactly like I would want it, BUT I could not stand not being able to sync my calendar with my google calendar which is synced to my live calendar so I went to TNT 3.0...

gotta say props to the great devs here at XDA for hooking us up with the ROMs for our gtabs!!!
[G Tablet General] rushless:
1. Make full back-up using Clockwork- just in case (I always do). Not "needed", but handy to have.

2. Install Titanium and back-up all user installed apps and data (not system data).

3. If you installed Titanium using the market, go to the Titanium site and download latest apk build and place in a directory on the Gtablet you will remember.

4. Launcher Pro has a settings backup- back up settings

5. Choose launcher Pro in Titanium and back it up again, after backing up settings in Launcher Pro (if you do not do this, Titanium will not see the change with the settings being saved).

6. Clear data and cache in Clockwork and then update (assuming you know all this stuff).

7. Install Titanium and choose to recover all user apps & data (except Flash if you had it installed already, since TnT 3.0 already has it).

8. Open Launcher Pro and restore settings (may take a minute if you have a lot of settings).

Took me 30 minutes (main time was waiting for 221 apps to restore with Titanium).
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Need to try that tonight. My Mini Me keyboard is the size of my Incredible, so handy to keep in the case pouch :)
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
i liked the email in stock TnT too. the calendar was ok too i guess. the rest i didn't care for though. email was the best, it was actually smooth and had color unlike the drab looking stock gmail app.
[G Tablet General] blakadher:
Enjoy your holiday!

Dude...take some time and enjoy your holiday. We all appreciate the work you do!!
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Did you see this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9991392&postcount=211
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Already downloaded it. I won't deploy until I know its going to be their released version, but already doing some prep work. It'll be TnT Lite 3.1.0, assuming this becomes the final version.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
where's the one where they release the kernel source?
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Ok, just helping you to not miss anything in this crazy forum:)
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'll believe it when I see it. :o
[G Tablet General] dirt4618:
I got it running finally! Started with a stable 2.4. Downloaded everything again, replacing all previous files. Repartitioned sd, cleared user data and caches, installed 3.0.

My best guess is that since every device in my house is wireless and most of my neighbors have wifi as well, there must have been some kind of file corruption or something the last time i downloaded all necessary files.

I don't know if that's possible, but regardless, another gtab running TnTlite v3.0!
[G Tablet General] ijustbrickeditithink:
the latest view sonic updates work as well as one would expect out of the box. i would recommend resetting your device then format teh dirve and rename teh update file from viewsonic and do the normal power and volume deal then you have a decent working offical viewsonic tab. after applying the viewsonic update, make sure to shut down properly prior to using any apps, then load it back up and agree to the terms, and the tab works very well. add a few personal tweaks, like over clock, super user, gdocs, games, flash, notes, youtube, etc. but it is very stable, more so than any builds yet from viewsonic.
[G Tablet General] rise4310:
d/l'd 3.0 with the xda app, extracted with andzip, copied with esfile explorer. booted into CWM08, backup and installed over 2.4- wuadrant 2361, no FC or other issues.

market fix of course but i hate this new market. well, just different, and the lack of stars on the front page kinda blows but...

MANY thanks roe! excellent work and will be donating when i get home :)
[G Tablet General] wheeless:
Thanks-I Mixed the Best of VS with TNTLite 3.0

I want to join my verbal and financial (via the donate button) thanks to everyone else for all robeet has done to make the VS gtab a much smoother and useful tool. Since I actually like the home screen of VS (with the weather, time, news and rotating box) I installed the 3316 update. Then I copied over all the 3316 apps to my laptop. Then I wiped everything and installed TNTLite 3.0.

I then reinstalled apps like HomeScreen, Weather, Clock, News, Launcher from VS apps and I now have my preferred VS appearance running on a stable-non-crashing TNT Lite 3.0 base. When I want to go to raw android I just hit the launcher button in VS's interface and there I am on the android launcher.

Again, a really pretty (yeah, I know I'm acting too much like a common user) interface on top of a real stable foundation (TNT Lite 3.0) with the option to go hard-core to Android when/if I want.

This forum and robeet's work made my play toy purchase of the VS gtab into my primary personal time-waster.

I'll be dropping something for the Christmas stocking in the donate area in just a moment.

Please just get us back the long hold (I know it depends on someone else) option to get into recent/running programs.

Thanks a million
[G Tablet General] gunsjoe:
@wheeless

Hey do you know where I can get the homescreen app without running the vs rom?

Thx...
[G Tablet General] wheeless:
I need somebody with a little legal knowledge to let me know if I can just post the homescreen.apk here without violating VS's copyright? I'd be glad to do that but don't want to violate VS's rights to their work product???? Anybody with some legal knowledge who can advise?
[G Tablet General] myndwire:
i've been running the absolute latest one from the cm6b4 thread and it works great. i think the issue was just with .12, when that and .8 were the only options. i think its safe to say that any further versions of clockwork he puts out should work fine.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
When things calm down a bit, I'm going to build out a "mostly stock" update that keeps all the TnT apps, but adds the performance pack and gapps. I have an older version like that, but I haven't updated it in awhile. I'm thinking next week, at some point.

The issues was that when you flash unpadded boot.img's, it borks the device. If the latest clockworkmod fixes that, then that's great.

Admittedly, I haven't checked this in at least a week. Again, when thing's calm down a bit it'll be something I'll look at again. Right now things are pretty crazy - two active mods, VS making updates, lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

I actually wondered about that early on, myself. I think of it this way -- if they wanted to come after us, the first cease and desist emails would probably go to me and the other guys. :O
[G Tablet General] brian_h_kim:
+1

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[G Tablet General] wheeless:
Home Screen on Top of TNTLite 3.0

To fill it out you also need weather.apk, news.apk, clock.apk and launcher.apk. You then have to use home switcher - I made it my default - YMMV
[G Tablet General] rapcon:
Stock Apps for G tablet

All stock apps can be downloaded at droid pirate.
[G Tablet General] myndwire:
seriously man, mad props on all the work. i never imagined that something other than CM would get developed so throughly / often and work so well. we appreciate all of your hard work!

i may consider bumping over to vegan at some point, just haven't sat down to do the analysis on differences, etc. perhaps later tonight :) after i had initially ditched cm6b4, i've been 200% happier with this device unfortunately; i know cm has MAD potential, but it just hasn't moved development-wise for a while. no biggie, but i'm hoping that moving forward that will change, since i'm a huge AOSP whore, hehe.
[G Tablet General] Nospin:
Something I have noticed about the new 3.0 update, when I long click the home screen to add a shortcut there is no longer an option to add Bookmarks. In addition when I click to add bookmarks to the home screen using the stock browser they still don't appear.

I'm sure there is an app that does this, but it is a little weird.
[G Tablet General] ak110707:
I doubt this is related to TnT lite but i figured i would post here since updating to 3.0 is the last thing i changed. I tried to turn on my g-tablet tonight only to find that the battery wouldn't work. It will work with the power cord in but it seems to have lost all portability. As i said, i don't know if this is a problem with TnT Lite or my device. If anyone has any suggestions please PM me. Thanks guys.

Clockwork .8-Beckit

TnT Lite 3.0
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I could definitely be firmware related, although it's the first time I've heard of this issue, I will admit.

I would recommend going back to a baseline like stock (and preferably an older stock, not 3316) to see if the problem goes away.

TnT Lite 3.0 is based on kernel 15 and TnT 3316, and perhaps there's something in there that your device does not like.
[G Tablet General] ak110707:
ok should i go back to the original recovery too? Thanks Roebeet. thank god i nandroid when i had stock os still installed. Ill let you know here in a minute.

Update: no dice with preinstalled TnT
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Sounds like the device, then. Something could have shorted out, or perhaps jiggled loose.

One last suggestion -- maybe reinstall clockworkmod and reset the battery status and then let it sit charged for a few hours. I'm thinking that maybe the battery is really dead, but the UI isn't recognizing that? Do you get a green light with the plug in, or is it red (charging)?
[G Tablet General] zerozed99:
I left my tablet in suspend mode for about 18 hours (after letting the battery fall to less than 80%). When I tried to "wake" it, it began to boot, then it just failed. The reason was I had drained the battery completely. Maybe you did something similar? Once you really drain the battery, it will take some time to recharge.

You haven't mentioned what your current battery level reads while you've got it plugged in....
[G Tablet General] ak110707:
The hardware light doesn't come on and on TnT and TnT Lite it says 100%. Some of the information is unavailable under spare parts so im thinking its hardware. I'm within 15 days of owning this product so once i flash the recovery i can return it for a new one. Ill try reinstalling clockwork. I know it wasn't discharged though since i charged it last night and only used it for 20 or so minutes before trying to turn it back on.

Edit: Im fairly sure its hardware related.
[G Tablet General] lordgodgeneral:
Yahoo mail

Has anyone gotten yahoo mail working with the email app? I've gotten it working on the stock email app on my droid, but can't get the same settings to work on the TNT Lite email app.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] ak110707:
try the yahoo mail apk from market.
[G Tablet General] Drylnn:
I have a similar issue. Installed the ROM with no issues (after wiping 2.4). Market loads fine - when I go to Market, apps that I had in 2.4 don't come up in any searches (Adobe Reader, Angry Birds, etc). I can install new apps just fine, but the old apps aren't showing up in any searches (nor in "My apps"). I checked in Settings and Flash is installed. I don't see this build.prop post mentioned above, but I'll keep looking. Short of that, any ideas?
[G Tablet General] CARMELHILL:
I don't know if anyone noticed yet, but the Viewsonic G Tablet website has changed the release date of Flash to late January 2011.

These guys are idiots at VS. A lot of people opening their G Tabs for Christmas are going to be scratching their heads and then returning their G Tabs. Maybe we can all get secondhand Tablets at Sears Outlets really cheap, one for home, one for work.
[G Tablet General] nitoxys:
Bugs:

No power button action to turn off screen. I've been missing that since 2.0.

The holding of the home button no longer opens the multitasking menu.

CPU benchmarks now suffer as well as video.

Performance is affected, things are sluggish.
[G Tablet General] Drylnn:
To expand on my issue, it looks like I can't search for any apps that I had in 2.4. Now, if they were included in tnt lite 3.0, I already have them working. I set my location and logged in as my google ID... not sure what else to do....

(EDIT - I'm not sure what I did, but after repeatedly deleting user settings, it started to work...)
[G Tablet General] Coldfirex:
I thought I read in a different posting that upgrading to TNT Lite 3.0 required redoing the partitions. Is this true? If so, could someone add it to the installation instructions please?