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[G Tablet General] hymis:
Im on my second Gtab. I installed several roms on the first one and got to the point when it would just keep doing the boot loop. I would reflash back to stock and install TNT and it would run great for a few hours. Then I would get a fC and then back to the boot loop. I had the re-flash down to a science. I could do a recovery from stock to and set up with tnt w/ full market access in less then 10 min. I finally returned the tab and got a new one. I installed 2.4 and its been bullit proof since the 13th . Its lighting fast and everything is running solid. No issues.. Knock Knock. I hoping with the gingerbread source code being released today we will see some new stuff very soon. Thanks again Robeet for all the hardwork!
[G Tablet General] dazzlet:
Is flash player suported on the viewsonic tablet ?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Supported? No. Available? Yes.
[G Tablet General] chstephens5219:
So in what city did you return your G-tab? If a Sears, someone who picked it up on clearance may want to know its history. :confused:
[G Tablet General] Mike Mortazavi:
Roebeet,

First let me thank you for all the work you have done. I finally decided to return the GTab today since not only I was getting the popup error message at every touch, I found out that I had lost the Keyboard as well. So unInstalled all apps I had added and reflashed it to update-smb_a1002-2967-user.zip that you had provided.

that went well and the VS TnT original + update1 was restored. However the Error message was still active. I dumped all contents of SDCARD and rebooted and problem still continued. Keyboard would not come up & Settings Menu would not work. Anyway Sears return went with no problem. Now I'm open to see what othe choices I have. maybe 7". What do you think of eLocity A7 that finally release and is available on TigerDirect and Amazon? Any other recommendations? Thnaks.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I would consider a Nook Color, but that's just me. $250 is a darn good price for an IPS screen, and 2.2 is around the corner. Granted, you have to hack it just like the GTab to really get the best out of it.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
haven't given up on TnT Lite quite just yet

After the 19th, I'll either be looking at whatever they release for a new build, or if its a bust there's still going to a supplement with things like Maps v5, the hacked TSCalibration tool and possibly the new Market if i can figure out why the screen is all screwy.
[G Tablet General] xHVGx:
Thanks for all your hard work roebeet, the gTab wouldnt be as great as it is now if it wasnt for your work, I love TnT Lite. Will we see Gingerbread soon now that is has been released into the AOSP??
[G Tablet General] Nospin:
There's been a new(er) market floating around the nexus s forums which supposedly gets rid of graphical glitches on that platform, perhaps we'll have some better luck with that one.

Also read some posts of it auto deleting itself...but maybe it's worth a look.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
If anyone has a link, I'd certainly like to test it out!

I'll be honest, I don't have high hopes from Viewsonic, but maybe they'll surprise me. I suspect that we'll see something faster from zPad or the Advent Vega, before we see anything from Viewsonic.

I've actually been trying to get up to speed on kernel and Tegra system compiling in preparation for that moment, and I learned that it's a lot harder than I realized. Not only do we need kernel source because of the embedded drivers, but we also need the Tegra system source which Nvidia does not publicly offer. They have a git repo, but the Tegra code doesn't seem to be there.

Let's hope VS bangs out a Gingerbread build, and I'll happily rip it apart. :)
[G Tablet General] johnkapp:
I have been running the new market on 2.4 for a couple of days. I haven't seen any strange graphics. It seems to work well. I scanned for a link and found this:

I can't post the link since I am a new user. It is on Droidforums.net. Search for Vending-2.2.6-signed-testkeys.update.zip.

It seems to work okay. I would like to know if it works for others.

Also, I think the battery status is being shown incorrectly and that is why I have let it run down to the point that I get FCs and have to reload. It has happened twice and the battery appeared to be full both times. When I checked with the "official" firmware, the battery appeared to be almost empty. Is anyone else seeing that.

Thanks for all the great information on this site. Some of you don't appear to sleep.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Thanks for the tip. As for the battery, I seem to have the same problem with the VEGAn build - I don't understand it either. Battery meter just seems wonky all-around.

I did run in for several hours off-site and it did go down, but I guess I should just let it ride for 8-10 hours to see what happens.
[G Tablet General] Desperus:
I hope somebody can tell me what am I doing wrong.. for some reason, I cannot see the gtab internal sdcard. If I try to connect through USB, the black screen with the android and the "Turn USB storage on" just flashes for an instant and then closes.. no FC, it just goes away.. The internal SD card is not present in any file explorer, and if I go out to clockwork recovery, it is not found..

As it is, I am not able to install any new ROM (stuck in CM6.1 beta 4) because I cannot access the internal SD card, and if I copy the TnT update.zip to the external sdcard, it is not accesible on clockwork..

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks!
[G Tablet General] gunsjoe:
@desprus

You might want to try to repartition the internal flash. It is 2048 system 256 swap. I don't know about mounting sdcard2 in clockwork.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I don't think swap is required. 2GB and then 0 should work (that's what I've used the last two times I've done it).
[G Tablet General] xHVGx:
I had the same problem when trying to turn on usb storage on that same ROM, I was told you had to have it plugged into a power outlet at the same time in order to be able to mount the drive to your computer. Hope it helps.
[G Tablet General] Desperus:
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried both, and it is not working. The internal sdcard is not visible. The only sdcard showing is the external one (it does not display as sdcard2, just sdcard).. Is there a way to make clockwork see this external as the sdcard to load TnT ROM from?

Thank you!
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Batt meter seems to be the same for me. Remember way back around Thanksgiving when I posted a comment in IRC mentioning that my meter seemed to be stuck at 100%? Well it's still like that, stays at 100% for probably WAY longer than it should then starts dropping.

Installed the TnTL 2.4.0 release, just wiping caches, went fine, then (still wonky batt metere):

Tried the drain all the(set it to never shut down and left it on all night) way, then charged it to green light + 30m(should be c. 3.5h) as suggested in this thread IIRC. That method just doesn't seem to have helped at all as I've used it for several hours since then and the stupid meter still says 100%.

Has anyone tried the batt data wipe or whatever that option is in CWM? If so, did it help any?

...could just be a bug in the nVidia drivers too, I suppose as IIRC the charge control(and I assume monitoring) is part of Tegra 2 SoC...

Ran glbenchmark 2.0 this morning and got similar scores to anandtech but a little lower...
[G Tablet General] NE_Rainmaker:
NTFS Support

Love 2.4. I have a 32 GB SD card full of movies... Had to format it as NTFS to support the larger file size.

Does anyone know how to get the tablet to support NTFS.. or does someone have ideas on how to get a 4gb file to work?

Thanks in Advance
[G Tablet General] Nospin:
Roebeet,

Not sure if anyone posted it, but this is what I was talking about. Take a look around that thread, for some it's working great, others not so much.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=877328
[G Tablet General] xfernand:
Viewsonic release?

Roebeet,

Do we know if Viewsonic is on schedule for Monday? Has anyone heard from them?

Staples just pulled out all the stock and is giving full refunds to anyone no questions asked. Not sure what happened. Not sure if Sears will follow but it doesn't look good for Viewsonic.....

They better get their cat together.
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
Noob question: USB

Just purchased the Viewsonic. Updated to 2.4 and am really enjoying it. I have a question about the USB. It works fine when I connect it to my computer but when I plug in my thumbdrive (8GB) it doesnt even act as if it recognizes that anything is plugged in. Is there a setting I need to change on the tablet? Does it not recognize larger thumbdrives? Thanks for your help. And thanks to Roebeet for all your work.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
What are you using to look for it? It will seem as if nothing is there but if you use a file manager like ES File Explorer it will show up as "usbdisk" in the root "/" folder.
[G Tablet General] xfernand:
Either ES File Explorer or Root Explorer. I'm able to play movies from my 8GB USB drive....
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Yep, I am sure there are lots of file managers that can see the "usbdisk". I just happen to use the one I listed..:) The main thing is to just look for "usbdisk"....
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
I am using ES File explorer. It doesnt see it. I dont see any folder for the USB. I plugged my 8gb thumb drive and my 500 gb HDD and both are not recognized. Can I get Root explorer and have both on my VS?
[G Tablet General] xfernand:
You can have more than 1 file manager but if ES File Explorer doesn't see it, it is likely that Root Explorer won't either.... Try a newly reformatted USB drive and see....
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
Just reformatted my usb thumbdrive. ES file explorer did not recognize it but when I plugged the usb into my laptop it had a new file on it.

lost.dir

But it did not show up on the VS. Thanks for your help.

Maybe its a tnt 2.4 thing?
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Something tells me you are looking in the wrong place. At the top left of ES File Explorer you need to press the left most button until it becomes a house. You will see / above it. That will have you in the root folder. Then you can look in the listing for usbdisk. I am thinking you are looking for it in /sdcard/ which is where File Explorer defaults.

And then again, you may know all of this and I'm just being silly assuming things....
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
I love you man!!!!!! The ES File explorer was defaulting to the sd card as the home directory. It won't go any further back than the sd card. I had to change the default home directory to "/" and voila!

Thank you.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Haha! Glad ya got it....
[G Tablet General] digger44:
fix for FC android.process.acore stopped unexpectedly

I noticed at least two people in this thread have had this problem. The following worked for me... At one point I started getting this error also. Driving me crazy! Could not bring up the keyboard, and the message would pop like every 5 seconds. I searched and found this post (thanks and credit to KinkyMunkey):

process com.android.acore FC and how i fixed it

I didn't want to wipe data, so I tried it. I couldn't use ES File Explorer for this, but Root Explorer worked great!

The problem is a corrupt contacts sqlite database. As the referenced post says, you'll be able to tell if thats the problem when there is a .db-journal file in the folder. The folder is /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/ *Note* this is not the data folder in sdcard, but the data folder in root (/).

Just delete the databases folder in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts and restart. The contacts database will be rebuilt and re-synced.

This has worked for me twice (thank goodness). I don't know what causes the contacts DB to get messed up... it wasn't a drained battery for me.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Thanks and I'll add it to my first post, as a reference!
[G Tablet General] kevinb77:
TNT lite Bluetooth issues

Has anyone else had issues with TNT Lite and Bluetooth connectivity? I have yet to be able to connect any Bluetooth device to my GTab since installing TNT Lite and I have been on board since it started.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
(Raises hand) None of my devices seem to pair up properly, but that's also an issue I've had with stock.

I wish I had just one device that worked, just so I could use it as a baseline. :mad:
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
I have used my bluetooth headphones, and a bluetooth gps without issue on every rom except TnTLite 2.4. I have never used 2.4 but I see no reason for it to not work just as well.

The screenshot is from VegaN but Bluetooth has worked with all of the roms...
[G Tablet General] brian_h_kim:
TNT 2.4.0 and Creative ZiiSound D5 bluetooth speakers paired and works great...
[G Tablet General] Desperus:
Bumping hoping somebody will have some other suggestion.. thanks..

Originally Posted by roebeet

Originally Posted by xHVGx

Thanks for your suggestions. I tried both, and it is not working. The internal sdcard is not visible. The only sdcard showing is the external one (it does not display as sdcard2, just sdcard).. Is there a way to make clockwork see this external as the sdcard to load TnT ROM from?

Thank you!
[G Tablet General] bhutch:
I just got out my stereo Bluetooth headphones and paired them up. They paired immediately and work great with music and as the sound output for Skype, but voice input still wants to use the built in microphone. GPS will pair but I cannot get google maps to use it!?!?

bdh
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
You have to use a bluetooth host type program. I use a program called Bluetooth GPS Provider. There are others out there. Your GPS will be paired, but not connected even when it is in use. The bluetooth host program will let your GPS program use it.
[G Tablet General] hymis:
Hi everyone.. has anyone got the new market to work yet? Thanks.....
[G Tablet General] Duffyxy:
Do you know if the Bluetooth GPS Provider apk is available outside the market?

Hi; I'd like to try this but for some reason Bluetooth GPS Provider doesn't appear in my market (the old market, 1.82; this is despite the market fix, but almost all other apps appear). Do you know if the apk is posted anywhere else (can't find the apk to download it via Googling it, nor does appbrain work). Thanks much.
[G Tablet General] Mike Mortazavi:
I got the apk directly from it's developer by emailing him.

Goo Goo [googooandroid@gmail.com].

He is very reponsive. he does have a donate app on google market. Although he did net ask for it I did donate since the app worked as advertised with my GT.
[G Tablet General] Mike Mortazavi:
I wish you had posted this solution few days earlier. I Returned my GT because of this FC. I'm thinking of getting another one but I'll wait to see how the new VS update turns out.
[G Tablet General] the.main.man:
noob questions

running tnt 2.2 and i have two questions:

1) I don't seem to be able to mount the device via usb any longer. It pops a drive map up iin explorer but when clicked says it's not formatted...

2) I saw a previous post and cant find it now that mentioned something about viewsonic doing something on monday...firmware release?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] nose13:
staples stopping sales

ok, so i can't post links yet, but engadget.com has a story about staples pulling the unit because of a "manufacturing defect". go there and just search for viewsonic and it'll be in the first few posts.

wonder what this "defect" is... arguably, the software that comes from the factory is a defect in itself, but that as well could be fixed over the air. wonder if it has something to do with the return rate.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
are you using the latest clockworkmod? If so, that's how its designed. I still use .08 because of the boot.img padding issue. .08 also uses internal memory as /sdcard, not the microSD.

There are a few threads about this, in the general section. I have my theories as to why Staples did this.

Internal /sdcard? Not sure. Is is readable in the device itself? My best guess is that it's not and actually needs to be reformatted. Remember that it has to be FAT32, not NTFS.

There's a 2.2.7 out, now. I have it but the waiting game with this TnT update (IF we get it) has me in a holding pattern. I'd like to get a supplement out for TNTL, but I'd rather not do that if a full firmware update is coming today.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
i have 2.2.7 loaded right now and its looking and working perfectly so far. in fact, it seems to have fixed that weird install bug where i had to install an app multiple times before it finally sticks. that was really annoying.
[G Tablet General] Butch1326:
I was never successful at installing Market 2.2.6 on TnT Lite 2.4. I just installed Market 2.2.7 (release earlier today), and everything in the app store came up right away. :)

EDIT: Still has weird button effects... :(
[G Tablet General] bhutch:
The .apk is actually called "BluetoothGPS.apk" NOT "Blutooth GPS Provider" which is someone else's program and is no longer available.

bdh
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
The file IS actually called Bluetooth GPS Provider and IS still available here

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/bluetooth-gps-provider_jsil.html

Like I said in my original post.. I'm sure there are other programs out there. I just like this one..
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
TnT Lite 3.0.0, here we come

Definitely a lot of changes with this new VS update. Will be working on it for the next day.
[G Tablet General] gotwillk:
will these new changes be in vegan as well? :)
[G Tablet General] the.main.man:
I can read both the internal sd and external sd with es file explorer. However, when i plug in USB it is not available through windows explorer. It pops a drive but when clicked on it says not formatted....no biggie.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
gojimi is looking into that. the vold changes would be nice (access to sdcard2 from multimedia apps)
[G Tablet General] xHVGx:
So what new changes have you been able to find in this update? And how does it compare (besides homescreen) to the older one? Looks promising!!
[G Tablet General] JoeMofknDot:
Well they must have been watching what's going on here because it looks like they have gotten away from 1st TnT homescreen does this version perform better
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm going to put up a TnT Lite 3.0.0 prototype, tonight

I'm not going to post it to the first page yet, as I would like to get some feedback from anyone willing to test it. In particular, I want to make sure we don't have another performance debacle like I did with TnT 2.3.0.

It feels a tad sluggish to me, but I'm also used to the VEGAn so it could be my imagination. Quadrant scores are still 2400 and Neocore scores are ~48. I'm also debating keeping the new Market in there given that the stars are still chopped off - but at least the "install" button is viewable, now.

Changelog so far:

New Market and the other recent GApps changes

TSCalibration hack for /sdcard

Added Gapps News and Weather back (seems to be working)

Removed the fonts changes from v1 to v2 (been meaning to do that, as I keep thinking it's causing issues with the Market)

updated Tegra drivers

and of course the 3316 TnT baseline and all the fixes there, plus their vanilla launcher. Two things I know are missing right now are the home button and long press fixes that gojimi had done in our last versions, but that's because the frameworks are updated.
[G Tablet General] Butch1326:
Ready and willing to test...
[G Tablet General] hogasswild:
Will we be able to simply put the 3.0 update on top of 2.4 so we can save our apps and prefs? Or will we lose everything to upgrade?
[G Tablet General] dog2490:
Hi, I was wondering if I wanted to try VS's update can I flash my Gtab back to the stock ROM and let it do an OTA update? Is that possible once you've gone to tnt lite? Is there some place that would have those instructions? Thanks.
[G Tablet General] GenBlood:
Is it possible to add the adobe flash to the next Roman release?
[G Tablet General] GenBlood:
DOUBLE POST ... :)

An maybe adding pandora or something other popular app too to the ROM ...
[G Tablet General] FateZero:
I'd love to test it :)
[G Tablet General] kozmo2k4:
No probs with BT here, just finished playing andBatlleship against my wife on her gTab (TnTLite-2.4); before that I've tried with my Samsung Moment with success. Also transfer of files over BT to and from the Tab works well here.
[G Tablet General] JoeMofknDot:
I will test it out just let me know
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Possibly - the Vega has a tool that's spotty at best, but maybe we can attempt it on TnTLite. I'll have a beta out soon.

Actually, a few things that we've done on the VEGAn will bleed over to here, since it's fresh in my mind. I wish I could get the snappy animations working, but that's beyond my skill set (for now).
[G Tablet General] birchs:
I'd be happy to test. It seems strange to have been running on the same load for so long now :D

Pickup titanium backup from the market. The free version works great. You can backup all the apps you want to keep. I did a wipe going to 2.4 and just reloaded all my apps with this. You will have to redo your Google setup and other accounts but all your apps will restore with their settings.
[G Tablet General] hogasswild:
Astro lets you back everything up too. Was hoping i wouldn't have to take it out of my wife's hands for too long lol.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'll have the update out tonight, but it might not have Flash

I can't seem to pin down how to get it to auto-install (see, it's not just the TnT devs haha). The VEGA runs a script that installs Flash on a fresh system, but that same script doesn't work well with our device.
[G Tablet General] theclassicalgod:
As anyone else tried to put the stock TnT music player on Lite? I kinda lied the look of it and found an APK around. I made sure to do a titanium backup first. The stock one worked till I tried to actually play music, then it'd go crazy, halt, then FC. I went to restore the backup and hit delete by mistake.... lol

Just curious if anyone else managed to get a better result. Sorry, if I should have made a new thread, I'll do so.
[G Tablet General] LRiley:
When I was on tnt lite I had its native music app, video player, calender and weather app and it was fine
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I was actually mulling this over, just now. I plan on keeping it in, as it really isn't such a bad app. I would almost consider keeping the TnT Calendar too, but I don't want to open that can of worms again. :D
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Got a 3.0.0 beta out there, and I might have finally gotten Flash to auto-install

Link to the beta: http://www.mediafire.com/?6jf6wojv899dz8m

Quick changelog on this:

- This is an update.zip file. Clockworkmod mod users can just run it, standard recovery users would need to rename it to "update.zip" and grab a /recovery/command file from another ROM to run it.

- I kept the TnT music app, because it's really not that bad and will run without the Homescreen.apk

- Gingerbread launcher runs by default, or you can try the TnT vanilla one (use "Home Switcher" to change them).

- Flash should auto-install on a clean system. This could take up to 2 minutes to run the first time, so just be patient. YMMV. You don't need a network connection - there's actually a VEGA-based script that runs, but I had to tweak it to not actually run for 1 1/2 minutes or else it would fail.

- Based on the new kernel and TnT build that came out today (and the fixes that came with it like media apps being able to scan sdcard2).

- Hacked TSCalibration is there.

- Gapps news and weather has been re-added. So far, no issues.

- All the old app changes are there, except for the long press for recent apps. That's a framework change so I'll need gojimi's help on that (probably a 3.0.1 supplement).

- New Maps, new 2.2.7 Market. The install button is there now, but the stars are still chopped off.

- Updated Nvidia drivers. Quandrant scores are still 2400 but neocore scores might get a bump.

Test away, and thanks in advance!