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[G Tablet General] :
I have loaded 4.2.4 without a wipe. I can see angry birds on the market but I'm still getting the truncated stars. Is a wipe required to get the full market? I'd like to get yahoo messenger and video working but I can't install it as it's not on the market with the tablet and the market online won't allow download/installation on the tablet, just my phone.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Is this common for Thumb keyboard? (I don't use it) - I thought no extra keyboards worked on TNTL unless you added them to /system?

Did you do the Market "fix" with deleting the GSF data and rebooting? I beleve that's still needed.

I'm happy that some people are seeing stars, but I still don't. Will need to re-wipe again and re-try....
[G Tablet General] ItsDon:
Shocker! I flashed 4.2.4 over 4.2.0, did the standard market fix, rebooted and...... nothing :(

Everything was the same, no "my apps", truncated stars and only one thing to download in market.

I turned the thing off and went to watch my sons LaCrosse game. Came home, put on the Sharks hockey game and fired up the gtab. Market now shows all Apps, all downloaded apps AND all the stars! Very cool.

Thanks for everything Roe & Co.
[G Tablet General] fubutx:
i have had my gtab for a week now, i installed TNT 2.0 then installed the supplement for ad-hoc connections so i can tether my from my Touch Pro 2. Everything worked fine, after some time i wanted to hook up to my router at home it picks up the signal and says connecting and just drops and tries to reconnect to my router at home.

I have updated my rom with different versions of TNT, that already supported ad-hoc and it does the samething.

the one thing i have noticed when i reflash my gtab and hook up to my router at home it works fine, but once i connect to a ad-hoc connection, i can never connect to my router.

i have tired to connect at other place like work gym and other hotspots and no luck.

thanks in advance for any help
[G Tablet General] japhule:
Thumb Keyboard never FC'd on me previously when using 4.2. I added it using the replace TNT Settings with stock Android Settings and roll back method. It has never really FC'd on me ever. I may try a full wipe and reinstall.....it could just be me with the issue...
[G Tablet General] supermiah:
How would you add them to the /system? since I have paid for it I don't expect you to do it. Can I just find the files and then copy then to the /system via root explorer? is that "easy" (i am sure not...lol)
[G Tablet General] rushless:
TnT 1.02 worked. I wiped cache and cleared data before installing it, but did not format or partition anything. That would have been my next step.

Surprised that TnT 1.02 gets rid of CW. To finally get TnT 2.0 to install, had to put the recovery folder in root, since CW no longer worked.

Still, putting CW on microsd, mapping to microsd2 kept me from permanent boot-loops :)

I wonder why so much work this time though? I would have thought TnT Lite 2.0 would have installed as easy as TnT 1.2 did with first Gtablet. Almost like 1.02 was the needed step for 2.0 to work (in my case).

Roebeet... any ideas?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Not sure if that's possible - on my Pandigital Novel, adding apks to /data/app was easier, but not on this device.

2.0.2 adds a stock home button, in the upper left. That's the sure-tell sign that it was installed.

In TnT Lite 1.x, I added zPad recovery so it would override whatever recovery you had (even cwm). In 2.x, I pulled out recovery completely so that whatever you had would not be touched.

As for why 1.x would be needed first, I still think it's related to the imaging. 1.x is a mod of the original stock firmware, which is what most of these devices will have OOTB. But 2.x is a mod of the 11/22 1.0.1 Viewsonic firmware, so it's technically a lot different than what's OOTB.

I wish I could get some metrics on how many consumers had FC's and boot loops when doing the real 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 stock upgrade. :)
[G Tablet General] Talk2Rider:
If I am reading you right, Roe, I would be in those metrics. I took an OOTB gtablet with the stock UI and let TAP UI do its update to 1.0.1. After the update, everything seemed okay, but I went and did a Settings> Security> Factory Wipe (thinking this would make 1.0.1 even more stable) and that is when everything went to heck with the FCs. Maybe they didn't setup a recovery properly - not sure how that exactly works. But this fiasco is what led me to jump in the TNT Lite 2.0.2 pool. I wrote a big message about how that went - it was ugly, but I got there. If I can fix a boot-looping gtablet, anyone can.
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Now system UIDs inconsistent- happened after reboot after market fix. Getting old quickly. Perhaps I had too much good luck with modding the first one- karma thing.
[G Tablet General] RedSrt007:
I did the steps in order, and when I got the the partition step it came back to life.

Another question, has anyone had luck going into the OS calander and "adding external calender", and try to sync it with google cal? I tried the ics URL provided from googles calender but does not link. Im basically trying to get the Gtab to sync to my google cal.

Thank again for the wonderful TNT!
[G Tablet General] RedSrt007:
Same thing here...endless boot cycle, did partition with CW and all is good!
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Not so good for me. I rested again and started over and while doing a Titanium backup recovery, the device reboot to the streaming color, fireworks splash screen and will not get out of it.

This device seems FAR more unstable than the first. Goin' back if not cleaned after this fourth time. CW back on as well.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Did you nvflash it, yet? I think that's the way to go before returning it -- also good to get it back to stock, if you do return it....
[G Tablet General] rushless:
I pressed power & volume to get it to finally boot up and then put CW back on and cleared data and cache.

Titianium did not mess up on previous G with TnT 2.0 and this is the same recovery set.

Something funky is going on for the device to reboot while doing a Titanium BU recovery. I can not get the drivers to work on my computer for nvflash to work. If this does not work, I will try to install vanilla and return it as defective.

Before folks get righteous on me, the device should not be so screwed up that I am essentially forced in installing a modded rom on it for better functionality so soon.

The accelerometer alone (per the retailer) would be reason enough to return it.

I had zero problems with the first device and nothing but with this one and had this one less the two days.
[G Tablet General] Don Lettrich:
FYI my boot loops started after Factory Reset too, but after TnT Lite 2. I did not reset after OTA, only after lite. Lite had installed fine, but I wiped thinking it would be cleaner. Then I was stuck because I hadn't installed CW yet, so I resorted to nvflash to get it installed. Even nvflash back to stock alone wasn't enough. I had to repartition w/CW.

The everyday user would be screwed if they ever reset the device after accepting the update!
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Looks like I am finally stable......

Agreed. 95% of folks that buy this device would be up a creek.
[G Tablet General] mrackley:
Yeah.. I'm a computer geek from way back and this is freakin confusing... got the reboot problem... just re-partitioned and re-applying 2.00. fingers crossed..
[G Tablet General] thx69:
Advent Vega

Hey Roebeet!

Just wanna say thanks for all the work you doing.

I was reading the advent Vega thread and I see u are working on the next supplement!!

Dude VS should hire you :-)
[G Tablet General] case-sensitive:
I've been running 2.0.0 happily for a week, and finally I've decided to try the 2.0.2 supplement but I'm stuck. Specifically, I coped the zip file, rename it update.zip, and up in it the root of my (external) sdcard. I also put a copy of the command file in /recovery, and then hit on & volume-up. The g-tab goes into recovery mode, I get the triange+!+progress bar (for about 3 seconds), and then viewsonic+gtab. But then I'm back to the good old 2.0.0 -- no home button, no long-press-on-home-and-get-recent-apps. I did this three times already and got the same result each time. Just before the third time I even wipe /data first and that still didn't help.

Any suggestions?
[G Tablet General] mrackley:
Partitioning fixed the reboot issue... Market fix also worked great...

Thanks Roebeet... this is freakin awesome... Please let us know how we can support your efforts financially or otherwise.
[G Tablet General] m_roulston:
Try renaming or deleting the update.zip and then extract the tnt 2.02 to the root again. Also make sure the command file is in the recovery folder. I found that files weren't getting written over even though I told it to.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
2.0.3 supplement is being tested. There is a pretty big speed increase, as in close to CM6.1.
[G Tablet General] RedSrt007:
alright!! Im excited, release the beast!!

besides speed, any other features / improvements?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Yeah, it borks the camera. :(

Trying to figure that out, now....
[G Tablet General] thx69:
I would rather have the speed vs the camera that I don't use :D
[G Tablet General] sverbanic:
New bootanimation.zip?

Just a question out of curiosity. I've been running TNT lite since December and was on version 4.2.2 until yesterday. I bought a second GTablet to experiment with and to make a long story short, I bricked it, had to nvflash it, then install the ROM, Kernel and CWMOd all over. After finishing I noticed that the default Nexus bootanimation was gone and replaced with just the word "android". I like it and was wondering if anyone knew what caused it since I didn't see it in any changelogs' and I want to get it on my "daily driver". There are no files in either the \system\media folder or the \logodata folder so it appears to be "built-in". I suspect it may have come from the image I used during "nvflashing" but am not sure.

By the way, Roebeet and Clemsyn, you guys rock!
[G Tablet General] Coldfirex:
Strange. Im running 4.2.2 and I can see all the stars in the Market. I did a re-partition before installing if maybe that did it.
[G Tablet General] dschach:
I am running 4.2.4. This a new machine, I installed CW, repartitioned, wiped and installed 4.2.4 and applied the market fix per the directions. The market works, ie. I see a lot of apps but the stars on the right are truncated.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Some have reported that they are running custom kernels and the stars are there. Could that possibly be the pattern, here? I was using stock.

I haven't had the Nexus bootanimation in TnT Lite since (I think) 1.x - no joke. I used to see the same thing as you, and then I had wiped my system completely via an nvflash and I never saw it again. I was convinced that there was something cached somewhere that kept that Nexus boot screen alive until that nvflash, and going on what you just wrote it seems that I may have been correct.
[G Tablet General] dschach:
I installed the clemsyn kernel over 4.2.4. The stars are still truncated for me.
[G Tablet General] ItsDon:
I'm running 4.2.4 completely stock and I see stars (and the full Market!)
[G Tablet General] kozmo2k4:
I just did a new/clean install (after installing CWM 0.8) of TnT-Lite-4.2.0 and then 4.2.4 on a brand new (fresh out of the box) gTab today with only "cache" wipes and the boot screen shows the "x-fireworks" and after the "basic" Market fix, it shows full stars rating and most (90%?) of Apps (found Firefox and TV.com)! On my (used and abused) gTab with 4.2.4 I still don't see "stars" in the Market, but get 95% of the Apps to show.... "Speed and Fell" is about the same with both gTabs....
[G Tablet General] bkbrod:
Im running compleatly stock 4.24 and have full market and full stars. I've always had the Nexus fireworks. Been running tntlite since I think version 4.13
[G Tablet General] fpga_guy:
I am behind and still running 2.4. I plan to go to 4.2.4 by copying the file to a SD card and then using clockworkmod .8.

How do I apply the supplement? I looked at the supplement and it's just an update.zip file. Sounds like I should just use CWM .8 and "apply sdcard:update.zip"

Correct?

Thanks,
[G Tablet General] insight3fl:
I am on 4.1.0 and market stopped yesterday. I ran market enabler... no difference. I then did market "Fix" and market is now working with all stars showing. I still can not find "Tank Hero" or "Line 2" so market content seems the same.
[G Tablet General] Mikeg1969:
You are correct, but you must apply the 4.2.0 in CWM first then apply 4.2.4 in CWM right over it. You have to install 4.2.0 first as 4.2.4 is just a supplement.
[G Tablet General] :
Okay, did the GSF thing and after the second try with Titanium, the stars are no longer truncated. It's easier now as I don't have to fully go into the comments section to see some stars. Thanks.
[G Tablet General] dschach:
I had 4.2.4 installed on a new machine with market fix and truncated stars in the market. After installing clemsyn kernel, still truncated stars. I tried reapplying the market fix, still truncated stars. During the day I installed a few apps including dolphin HD. A while later, after the gtablet had been powered off/on when I went to the market and all the stars were there. I have no idea what fixed it.
[G Tablet General] dkelley:
hi there

just reading this thread because I'm considering buying one of these - it's between this and a nook color (best 7" deal in android tablets).

so the nook color can run honeycomb preview really well :-)

maybe the build for the NC can somehow be used as a ported as a base for use with the gtablet?

I know the architectures etc are completely different, cpu also, but afaik the nook color is the first device to run an underground version of the early developer builds of honeycomb. and it runs it REALLY well.

worth looking at anyway I would think guys.

cheers

Don
[G Tablet General] Pazzu510:
Nook color is a very good option but i wouldnt recoment that device if you are searching for a honeycomb experience.

As told in many posts, the sdk preview is very incomplety, buggy and etc. and this will hardly change with a lot of development. In contrast, there is a great possibility that the gtablet runs honeycomb at its full capacity(just like the Xoom[Maybe worse because the ram]) but surely much better than the nook color.

I think it would be better to wait a little bit and get the full experience than just a try.;)
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
A definite improvement with 424

Just returned from vacation in Denver and installed 424. Full stars in market and my Gtab seems just a little bit snappier. Good job roebeet.

Can't wait until we have a Honeycomb version of tnt lite ( unless Viewsonic goes pure stock 3.0 without any GUI overlay which I doubt will happen given their past track record).....its going to rock for sure.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I still have no clue, either. :confused:

An interesting idea.

No clue what Viewsonic plans to do. I suppose that if their new line-up has similar hardware to our GTAB, they could attempt a Honeycomb port at some point. But, I wouldn't count on that.

Here's my prediction: Honeycomb ports will start popping up next month. Initially they will unofficial ports for the VEGA / ADAM / GTAB, and maybe some official ports will show up in April or May. But I would be very (happily) surprised if VS ever got an official Honeycomb port for our device. And if they did, they certainly wouldn't be using TapnTap - there's no point.

As for TnT Lite, no idea what the future holds. I suppose that, as long as I have a GTAB and VS keeps releasing updates, there will also be an need for TnT Lite. But, at some point, support will end from VS so TnT Lite will probably be frozen at some point in the future. By then everyone will have probably moved onto Tegra 3's, anyway. :)

My PDN (Pandigital Novel) is still getting updates, and I just released a mod for it about 2 weeks back - and that's a 6 month old device (ancient in Tablet time).
[G Tablet General] mil1017:
tnt 4.2.4 wifi stop working

wifi stop working inmediately after istallation just not connect.install some patches from xda but do not fix the problem
[G Tablet General] RojasTKD:
OK, this may sound dumb... but did you enable WiFi and connect it with your network. After a flash you have to manually do that.

Just have to mention it, cuz you never know...
[G Tablet General] tariq_niazi:
Anyone getting Black Screen ...

I am experiencing problem getting either drocap2 to capture screen shot or webkey to view the screen in the browser.

It is coming as a black screen. Does anyone have seen this issue?

Can it be the driver update from 4.2.3?

Thanks,
[G Tablet General] DeathCry:
Just to add to the Market discusiion.... I've been running TNT -lite 4.2.1 for awhile. The last few days when I went into market it was only showing 1 app on main screen. Yesterday when I actually wanted something and it wasn't showing I did the 'normal ' market fix. When I went back into the market later, the stars were all visible. Its definitely not full...angry birds still doesn't show up for me.
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
Market with stars

I have 4.2.4 without any other mods. I have all the stars and the market seems robust. Have no way of knowing if its the full market. Don't know what happened. I did this update the way I've done the others.

Looking forward to a honeycomb port for the Gtab
[G Tablet General] bkbrod:
Again now that I'm on 4.24 I've got full market, allow the stars, and I just got notification of updates available. Never got that before.

Thanks, Robeet.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Yep, I got the NC as a portable 7" tablet(and reader for poorly lit conditions/night -- WPDN is a beater for messing around with... c. $90 even less than my new kobo WiFi) and NOT as a replacement for the gTab... Further good OS support really will depend on how far B&N go with OS updates(IIRC there were SUPPOSED to be TWO this month and #1 has even yet to show...) and source updates.

Major difference between the cortex-a8 in NC and Tegra 2(cortex-a9) is that the -a9 has out-of-order opcode execution which can enhance code execution speed, OTOH the 3621(-a8) in NC SHOULD have NEON(kinda like SSE) might give it an advantage in some areas as the Tegra 2 doesn't implement NEON, just the FPU(which is not very good), kal-el their upcoming 4-core Tegra will have NEON.

Market: Is it just me or is maxthon(another browser) not showing up for others as well? (Just asking since I was monkeying with the WPDN last night, specifically trying out Pandigital's new "Open Platform" fw and roebeet's other mods in which maxthon DOES show up... found it kinda strange... but the mysterious ways of the Google market... :eek: :confused: OP is definitely snappier than their old stock, even just the stock OP. Also never realized how out of date slide me is for apps, some interesting features for it though...)

@roebeet

NI LCD?! Hmmm... so how's the screen on that to you v. the gTab... still MUST HAVE Pixel Qi myself though, but wanting to wait for kal-el based...
[G Tablet General] Fuzzy John:
Sounds like Google did something on their end. I am running stock (3588) with Performance Pack v3.1.4b (not TnT Lite and a couple of days ago I discovered that I have full star ratings show in the market.
[G Tablet General] johnboyjr:
i just got a gtablet and i installed tnt i ran quadrant and i am geting about 1800 how did some people get over 2400
[G Tablet General] squashpile:
Run it two times :D.
[G Tablet General] k3for:
G-Tab Dock - another update

I just updated my post on Page 330 regarding the Malata G-Tab dock, specifically:

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edit: added 2/20/2011

I got an HDMI cable and tested it on a Vizio 50" plasma. It works fine, generally outputs in 1080i but you're still driving from the native 1024x600 pixel display, so don't expect typical 1080i when watching Youtube or other videos. Sound did come through, and in fact, plugging in HDMI to the dock did not silence the G-tablet speakers, interestingly. Also, on the G-Tab dock, I was *not* able to drive a DVI digital 15-inch monitor from the dock with my HDMI cable and an HDMI to DVI adapter, nor was I able to get any kind of analog video out (VGA on the DVI analog pins), like I *am* able to do with my Droid X HDMI output.

The dock *MUST* be powered by the AC/DC cable for *ANY* of the outputs (ethernet, USB, HDMI) to work. The tablet will not power the dock, and these do not appear to be pass-throughs on the connector - these appear to be separate devices or at least active drivers. I don't know how a passive cable would ever work, for those of you who are looking to just make/buy a cable equivalent of the dock. Disconnecting power from the dock causes the ethernet adapter to lose its configuration (IP/netmask). My USB keyboard quit working if plugged into the dock and power is removed from the dock. HDMI also cut out when power removed.

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[G Tablet General] nickdahat:
Still on 4.2.3

Haven't had a chance to move over to 4.2.4 yet and I have full stars in the market. Not the Full Market PerSe (Angry Birds still isn't showing up and neither is Skype on a normal basis) but I see pretty much everything else....
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
OK. I haven't really used the web market, so MAYBE it makes a difference... BTW I forgot to mention this, but it's necessary, I'm running TnTL 4.2.4...

Also, do you have ANY other devices tied to the ID that you're using with the gTab? (I've been making up a new acct for every tablet so far, excepting my NC which I actually tied to my main acct...)

@k3for

dock info: sounds like FAQ material to me... it's just going to get lost in here...
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
It's better than the GTAB, but not by a lot. Let's just say that portrait mode is still hard on the eyes.

I've heard that the Pixel Qi screen angles are even worse, believe it or not. It only does one thing well, and that's outdoor mode.

I actually use my R10 more than my Adam / GTAB, these days. It's slow, but for what I use it for (comics) it's 10x better than the other two. I hate to say it but those other two have become dev units. (not a bad thing here, as I no longer need the GTAB for day-to-day). I'm still watching the LCD replacement thread, but imo my best option is to hold off for a Tegra 2 based IPS device -- they are coming in a few months.
[G Tablet General] zone23:
Useing this ROM and works great. Trying to figure it out though. It seems like if I extract the image file and create a new ROM from it, it messes up the partitions. What's the deal? It flashes and boots but then the sdcard disappears. I want to mod these ROMs but haven't figured that part out. Thanks for everything and great job.
[G Tablet General] karlkarloff:
Quoted from cutterjohn:

Also, do you have ANY other devices tied to the ID that you're using with the gTab? (I've been making up a new acct for every tablet so far, excepting my NC which I actually tied to my main acct...)

I'm running TnT 4.2.3, and no, I don't have any other devices tied to my market account. My gtab seems to come and go as far as showing up on web market, but as long as it is listed on there, I seem to have access to full market as far as i can tell.
[G Tablet General] jwlehane:
Robeet, does this mean you will not work on any future honeycomb ROM for gtab? If not do you know if anyone intends to develop honeycomb for gtab?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
If you mean that you are extracting the system.img, you have to be careful doing that. It's possible, but you'll mess up permissions and softlinks (especially if you're using a Windows system).

One of the reasons I use a pristine system.img as a base is to avoid issues like that -- all the changes are external.

Nope - if anything else, not using my device day-to-day anymore frees it up as a dev unit. I'm not sure how Honeycomb is going to pan out yet, but I suspect that it will be a group effort to get it working. I want Honeycomb on my GTAB, too.
[G Tablet General] bblackmoor:
I do. I use the same gmail account on my Samsung Vibrant and my Viewsonic G (this is with the Vegan rom).