yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet General] RichTJ99:
Excellent! I will keep this for future reference!
[G Tablet General] usafle:
Won't let me delete. Its telling me I have to do a factory reset.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
In Titanium Backup click "Backup/Restore" and scroll down to Gmail and click it then "wipe data". If that doesnt work then do all that again and then "Un-Install". I would reboot after wipe data the first time.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm hearing some weird issues like this, when going from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0. It's probably data2loop and I mentioned it in my OP, now.

My feeling is, if you have 4.0.0, you're going to have to back everything up to get out of it. Again, this justifies my reasoning to pull it - too unstable for a TnT Lite release and it should be an optional add-on.
[G Tablet General] usafle:
That did the trick on the first reboot. Thanks!

Now the question is; why did the upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 cause that to happen???
[G Tablet General] witkowskipe:
So what would be the best procedure for going 4.0 to 4.1 in your best opinion? Would it be as drastic as repartition and then a regular load process after that with all wipes involved?
[G Tablet General] copperdawgnc:
I just went from 4 to 4.1 seemed to go ok using normal procedure
[G Tablet General] FacelessMan:
That is what I did. I had 4.0 installed, and I did the following.

1. Backup with TB and move the backup to sdcard2 or your computer via usb

2. Repartition to 2048/0

3. Fresh install of tnt lite 4.1

4. Use TB to restore your apps.

I did this today, and my tablet is super stable and pretty fast. Q scores are over 2400.
[G Tablet General] racedog:
When I was running Clemsyn's kernel I found my battery draining faster than usual. Since upgrading first to 4.0.0 and then to 4.1.0 but not re-installing that kernel my battery usage has gone down to what I first saw when I bought the gtab.

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[G Tablet General] Coldfirex:
Would that procedure keep Clemsyn's kernel installed?
[G Tablet General] FacelessMan:
No, TNT lite installs the stock tnt kernel.
[G Tablet General] mcgeeb:
Anyone else having issues with fancy widget pro? After 4.0, it loses all settings after a reboot. I have to set it up every time I start up.
[G Tablet General] jdnyc:
I had these issues with TNT lite 4.0.0 and FW pro is still acting strangely in VEGAn. I am about to ditch it and try something else. Even when it works, the load time on boot is way too slow.
[G Tablet General] Reginhild:
Similar issues here with 4.0 to 4.1

Started having FC issues with 4.0 then went into boot loop with 4.1 attempt.

Used CWM to wipe user data. Loaded 2.0 then was able to load 4.1 no repartition needed
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
Working ok on 4.1 here.
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
I found that going back to a good 3.1.4 install before upgrading to 4.1 was a good idea. I do not appear to be having any issues at this time and I was having many of the reported issues with 4.0.

My process, install 4.1.0, wipe data, wipe cache, restart, install flash, install Titanium and restore "all apps with data". Had a few issues with connecting to the Google servers at first but after a reboot this issue is a thing of the past I'm glad to report.
[G Tablet General] goalweiser:
I have been getting a lot force closes

on 4.0.0. I want to upgrade the ROM, but for some reason the USB ports are no longer working. Is this a hardware issue or a condition brought on by 4.0.0?

If the former is true, I'll try to flash to stock ROM, take my Carbon Fiber off the back, and return it.
[G Tablet General] witkowskipe:
I did the same but added dalvik,battery stats wipe and a repartition. All is good and everything was still on my sdcard to restore from too. So far so good.
[G Tablet General] kozmo2k4:
That's exactly how I did it.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm not aware of 4.0.0 causing issues like that. It could still be software corruption -- once you get it back to stock, you'll know for certain.
[G Tablet General] reisa:
Where'd you get the carbon fiber for the back? Can you post a pic to show what it looks like?
[G Tablet General] Butch1326:
+1. I went back to TnT Lite 3.1.4 before upgrading to 4.1.0. Been stable for over 24 hours. No FCs.
[G Tablet General] jakehale:
From 2.2 to 4.1. So far so good. Thanks for the work. Now if I could get apps to show in market. (I got allot though)
[G Tablet General] MarkF001:
Udated from 3389 to Lite_4.1. Everything went smooth, and is working good. No lag-on-wake so far :) Thankx roebeet !!

Two questions:

1 - I have gotten 'Home switcher for froyo' to see and launch 'classic home' but can't get it to be default home. It doesn't show up as an option from default picker. Only 'Launcher' and 'ADW' show up. Both are installed as APPS while 'clasic home' is in /system/apps. Could this have something to do with it?

2- Can the nexus boot animation be changed back. If so how?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Edit: Let me guess for #1 it's HomeScreen.apk that needs to be added back and for #2 it's the original /system/media/bootanimation.zip?

Yeah, yeah RTFN

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=854175
[G Tablet General] insight3fl:
I completed this change but it did not make any difference. Do you also need to change the "ro.build.description=......." as it still says "harmony..." ?

I am on tnt lite 4.1.0
[G Tablet General] goalweiser:
Thanks so much for taking time to answer. I really appreciate it.

Found out that the mini USB port is actually moving! Even when I get it perfectly centered, I couldn't get a connection. Guess I'll have to crack the sucker open. I'm past the 30 day period with Sears and I'd rather save the tablet. Felt completely odd without it today.

Perhaps I'll be able to get it working again with a little help from the hardware breakdown thread.

Thanks again. Flashed to 4.1.0 though with the help of Dropbox. Works like a charm now. Tablets works fine. Now on to the usb!

Check out this thread. There's a pic of the tablet back in my sig though.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858094
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
For the home switcher, just read the help file on the app (yeah, I know that help files are for wussies - I had the same problem until I finally opened it up) :) Basically, there are a few manual steps that need to be done.

The nexus boot animation is actually NOT in the mod, but for some weird reason some people see it. My suggestion is to clear the cache in clockworkmod. I used to see the same thing until I cleared my cache - it must be embedded somewhere in the TnT Framework as a fallback of some kind (?).

Sorry to hear that! Maybe some soldering will do the trick. I have to keep this in mind, for my own device.
[G Tablet General] lifeisfun:
@roebeet

I noticed you're selling your GTab :(

did you found new tablet that's better ? :confused:
[G Tablet General] Moonwizard:
My 4.1.0 Experiences...

Good day,

My setup:

- Gtablet in seemingly good working order.

- 4.0.0 operating with some, but not all, of the afore mentioned problems.

- Using ADW.Launcher

What I did:

- Complete backup

- CWM backup

- CWM Data Wipe

- No repartition this time. I've only had to do that once back in the 3.x.x days due to boot loop.

- Loaded 4.1.0 from sdcard

- Titainium restore worked as always.

Out of the gate I saw the following that is out of the ordinary so far in my gtab experience:

- "Quick market fix" completed normally. After reboot, I started seeing multiple network errors with <retry> and <cancel>. Retried 3 to 5 times and it seemingly settled out. wifi was successfully connected at the time.

- Of course, it is slower than 4.0.0 but that was to be expected.

- "slow market fix" resulted in "full market" but came up with repeated network errors again. No FC's though.

- "IP Address Widget" had to be reinitalized twice before it seemed stable.

- "BatteryLife" widget had to be reinitalized this time as well.

- "Bluetooh GPS" FC's now, directly after turning the bluetooth subsystem on.

I upped to 4.1.0 just last night. Haven't had the chance to check anything else.

I will post more as I see things.

Thank you for all the hard work! It's much appreciated!

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[G Tablet General] MarkF001:
Yes you need to change it to the mahimahi (most common) or other fingerprint that works. /system needs to be set RW, add write permission to Build.prop, then change line. Probably want to remove write permission for build.prop, and definatly set /system back to RO.

ro.build.fingerprint=google/passion/passion/mahimahi:2.2/FRF91/43546:user/release-keys
[G Tablet General] thevaristy:
+1 on this. I am having the EXACT same issue. Please please please help.
[G Tablet General] Ronin916:
@ jasco13: The Storm 2 doesn't have a hotspot feature, which would make life a lot easier.

@ thedudevt: That may be. I did read that a few pages ago, but I wasn't sure if it applied to BB as well as Driods. I'll give it a shot.

Thank you both, much appreciated!
[G Tablet General] geeter:
Thanks for the hard work.

I am running 2.0 and loving it.

The standard recovery worked for me.
[G Tablet General] h8rift:
Not only do you need to re-flash, make sure to wipe/factory reset. It did that on mine until i re-flashed it and wiped/factory reset'ed it.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
I jumped the gun and decided to try this the other night.

I've got one of the "different" ones, but it has the "original" partition mapping, but when dumping with nvflash it returns text, which it apparently, did not do for the very first models. (Green screen cleaning cloth.)

Market: had to force close Google Service Framework 2.2 through settings->applications->system apps (IIRC) to get the market error. Not sure if this was actually necessary as data was showing 0MB, but did it anyways as I wasn't sure if that may have cached some data and wrote it out during a normal shutdown. i.e. didn't try w/o force quitting, so it might work, but if it doesn't using Titanium alone will not be enough.

Sideloaded flash which seems to work fine for me on the two or 3 vids that I tried, but I'm using Dolphin HD with on demand set for flash.

Screen was bugging my eyes last night(viewing angle nastiness -- trying to use in bed), so back to not being entirely certain about keeping this, similar to what I had w/the GT when I tried using it at night and held it at certain angles, but in that case it was because of horrible backlight bleed. (Seemed great when I was using it outside sitting/standing, but...)
[G Tablet General] cjbailey75:
I have the zip for TB on my tab. I extracted all the file but it didn't autorun the inf file. How can I get this side loaded.
[G Tablet General] thx69:
Just wondering how you patched the wpasuplicant without root? I thought you needed rootexplorer or something similar to it. Or adb to push it...

Also if u have root there is an apk that will allow u to use even D1 as adhoc wirelees here in forums. Just do a search for adhoc.
[G Tablet General] techtech:
I use androotfile to patch the wpasuplicant into /system/bin maybe I am doing something wrong..I am newbie to android thanks.
[G Tablet General] khaytsus:
In order for your GTablet to connect to adhoc networks, it must have its wpa_supplicant replaced apparently, this has nothing to do with your phone.
[G Tablet General] Ronin916:
Hook your GTab up to your PC and change the extention from .zip to .apk then run it from root explorer on your tab. That should get you going.
[G Tablet General] ariochzero:
Grand Slam Roebeet!

I followed the "for dummies" instructions from androidcentral's forum and this is absolutely awesome. 20 minutes after unboxing this thing, I've got a familiar zippy interface on my new gadget.

I have full market, flash, and I haven't found anything I want to use that doesn't work yet, totally satisfied with this thing.

I have been showing this thing off to all my friends that have been considering the Samsung Galaxy Tab and now they're picking up these G Tablets instead and saving bucks.

The only real issue I've had is AC3 encoded .avi do not play audio with the default movie player, haven't tried rockplayer yet tho.

Thanks again Roebeet!
[G Tablet General] RedSrt007:
+2 same issue here too
[G Tablet General] rickyt63:
AC3 encoded avi works with rockplayer.

These are what I've tested with rockplayer:

avi with mp3: audio works.

avi with AC3: audio works.

mkv with AC3: audio works.
[G Tablet General] thx69:
If i were you....

1. Root. Use z4root from market or sideload it

2. Get root explorer and edit wpa_supplicant afer copy paste original to another folder

3. If not satisfied try using the apk I mentioned previosly

I already tried both ways and I am using the apk atm and works fine.

For item 2 and 3 there is a "How to" somewhere around this forum... not sure where...

But is way easier to find it that in the last threads when all this started lol

Good luck.

We all are here to learn and help.

If you cant find it I will try to link it later =D
[G Tablet General] ariochzero:
re: rockplayer

Thanks for the heads up rickyt63, I posted that prior to reading the rest of this mighty thread.

I'm so stoked with this tablet!
[G Tablet General] sstiglich:
First off, thanks to roebeet and the countless others that are working to make this tablet so much more than what Viewsonic delivered.

One question (if i missed this somewhere i apologize), but on my Gtablet running 2.0 with the 2.0.2 update, i cannot get settings to work for the launcher.

On the main screen, i can get the menu to popup that shows, Add, Wallpaper, Search, Notifications and Settings. Everything else seems to work, but which i click on settings the menu just disappears.

Is this a known issue or maybe my setup is weird?

thanks!
[G Tablet General] ariochzero:
Yeah, it was identified already, Roebeet's solution was just putting a shortcut on the home screen for the settings app.

That's what I'm doing.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Try the suggestions I mentioned in my first post -- it's a compilation of things that others have tried that might work.

I wish I knew why the reboot loop occurs, but you have to assume that it could happen to anyone trying this. It seems to happen fairly frequently.
[G Tablet General] Mike Mortazavi:
I just got my G-Tablet and I like to update it with TnT Lite 2.00 / 2.02.

I want to make sure that I can go back to the default version that is on it now if I have a problem or later when VS comes up with a good official version.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Yes, you can flash back to our homebrew 1.0.0 vanilla, or use the 1.0.1 stock recovery that VS / TnT created.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842000
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I'm selling the dev unit, NOT my original device. I'm not going anywhere. :)

Not to delve into things too much, but I've had a "situation" in the last few days and I feel the need to sell a few things to stabilize my finances - mainly due to my own stupidity. So the dev unit is getting the boot. I'm probably going to dump more of my comics on eBay in the next 24 hours, as well. The idiots at SEARS needed me to go back to the original store to return a closeout item, so I figured I'd put it up on eBay and make my money back that way (add the shipping and PayPal / eBay costs, and I'm only making a few dollars in the end - and that's assuming it even sells). EDIT: It just sold. :)

And btw, that doesn't mean I'm looking for handouts (and why I didn't even bring it up, here). This is my problem due to a few really bad decisions on my part, so I'm just doing damage control at this point. Again, my main tablet is not being sold.

Making a note on this - keep meaning to change this at some point in a future update - so far no issues that I'm aware of? I might do that in a 4.1.1 + latest market + possibly the 60 Hz change.
[G Tablet General] rcgabriel:
Uh oh goalweiser, if your mini USB port is moving, then you probably have the same issue I had - the mini USB connector actually fell off the mainboard (I did crack my G Tablet open and confirmed it).

In my case, it looks like the 3 middle pads either tore off or somehow are just "blank" rather than exposed metal on the board now, so I can't really figure out exactly how to solder it back on. In fact I tried lining it up carefully and using the old hair dryer trick (it's all surface mount stuff), but there's so little solder there in the first place I couldn't get it to melt back into place. And even if I actually tried to resolder it properly, I'm not sure if I'd get those three middle pins to reconnect to to the board.

The mini USB connectors appear to be rather weakly soldered onto the board, not the kind of tight connection you'd want in a high mechanical strain part like that. I suspect we'll see a lot of failures of that part over the next few months.

Maybe we should call Viewsonic and see if we can return these suckers for repair?
[G Tablet General] rushless:
"This is my problem due to a few really bad decisions on my part, so I'm just doing damage control at this point."

No stones thrown here :o

Lot of us probably have been there, done that (hope not again).
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Can you trace the runs back to a solder point? If so, you can use jumper wires. Or if there is room you may be able to scrape the coating on the board to expose copper and solder to that.
[G Tablet General] CARMELHILL:
Wait, those squiggly lights aren't the standard boot sequence? What is the standard look like?

Btw. Just flashed 4.1 last night. Looks good. Gotta change my signature.
[G Tablet General] usafle:
I've got those too. And I've wiped and cleared over and over again and yet they persist.
[G Tablet General] MarkF001:
The TnT and paw or feather thing, or whatever it is.

There are many bootanimation.zip files available. Place one in /system/media or use one of the programs that will do it for you. Ones with dark black background look better. They tend to be small ( for phone screens ) so they will just be centered on a dark black background. I now have Andy peeing on an Apple. Just seems appropriate, to me :-O:p;)
[G Tablet General] CARMELHILL:
I went from 2.4 to 4.1 with no problems. I didn't repartition so I'm wondering, if, or when, I'll start having problems.

I have to try a custom boot animation. I thought I saw something, somewhere, that you need Linux to create one, but I might be mistaken. I'll have to look into it further.
[G Tablet General] usafle:
Someone somewhere in this thread made one for Roebeert.

It's buried in here somewhere, never really looked at it because I figured it would be a PITA to try and actually install?

But, if MarkF001 is saying all you have to do is Place one in /system/media, then it might be worth doing if it's that easy.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Nexus boot anim: I've ALWAYS seen it since installing TnT lite and just assumed that you had put it in. I've also taken to clearing cache & dalvik cache between every single update since going to 2.2.4 (IIRC) and it's still there...
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Nope, I never added that animation - all I do is remove the TnT one.

Did any of you ever flash with nvflash? I know I used to see that animation but maybe nvflash was the catalyst on removing it (I thought it was the cache wipe, previously). There must be something in the partition structure that's adding it.

You should be seeing the vanilla Android screen.
[G Tablet General] Butch1326:
I seem to remember when I first did the nvflash is when it changed for me.
[G Tablet General] usafle:
Nope, never went from NVFLASH to this. Just went from Stock TNT to your ROM and it showed up there on first boot.

Thought you did that intentionally???
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
nvflash? Good question. I've been trying to recall exactly how I installed CWM 0.8 back in November... might've been nvflash if there was an nvflash way to do it as I don't recall using stock recovery to install, i.e. never remember having to add the recover folder or whatever it is called folder that stores the text files with CLI params for stock recovery...

nvm... just checked tegratab forum, and I must've used the nvflash method to install bekit's cwm port... wonder why that would hose the default boot anim though... should've only touched the recovery partition...
[G Tablet General] drk0524:
market fixes not working?

I'm also having the same problem. 10+ retries without the desired result.
[G Tablet General] japhule:
I've only had the nexus boot animation also for all my installs of tnt lite. I followed this guide to install cwm and tntlite when I first got my gtab:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865245

I wonder if the files from that guide is causing the Nexus animation.
[G Tablet General] cbmoore9:
Upgraded from TnT 2.2 to 4.1 and everything is running fine. Took about 2 minutes to boot. I like the market changes and everything seems to be there. Noticed my Q score was 2332 whereas last time I ran it I got approx 2450 but I've added crap since then. Can say enough how much I appreciate Roebeet's and all the other developers hard work. Roebeet, if you can stop the headaches after ten minutes you are God!
[G Tablet General] FacelessMan:
Where did you find the apple peeing one? I grabbed one from xda and flashed it using clockworkmod, but it did not work right. Cannot see it.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Read up on the framerate increase thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=912197

I've been using the 70 Hz version on VEGAn and TNTL, and I think there's a difference, I don't think its placebo. I did the "Angry Birds" test, as that usually makes my eyes pop out after 10-15 minutes. So far, my headaches seem to have subsided a bit. An e-reader test would be good, as well.

I'm debating adding at least the 60 Hz version to a supplement - I just want to make sure it's stable.
[G Tablet General] cbmoore9:
I've been following that thread as well as the screen changeout thread. I usually let the changes mature somewhat before diving in. I noticed you were waiting on adding the 60hz supplement so I'm again debating (with myself) whether it is placebo or real. I think I'll try it. Angry Birds doesn't bother my eyes much but Kindle does. I tried changing settings and backgrounds. Large fonts and matte (or tan) background helps some.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I gave up using the GTAblet as an ereader a while back, because of the eye strain / headaches. Agreed that it would be a good test of that change.
[G Tablet General] bobtran:
Funny thing: My says "ro.build.fingerprint=Flextronics/harmony/harmony/:2.2/FRF91/hudson-20110103-142740-TnT_SVN_3452:user/test-keys" and it works just fine.
[G Tablet General] tjohnsonjr:
Boot Nexus Boot Animation is a default that is part of the Android system that was set from Google. It comes up because the bootanimation.zip was removed from the system/media folder. The boot animation is located in the system/bin folder. Its just like when I remove the bootanimation.zip and the boot sound from my EVO, the AOSP "android" comes up. If you want a different one, you will need to add it. Sorry if this was explained before and I missed it.
[G Tablet General] wudles:
Evangelizing the gTablet

I've started a Facebook page with links to this thread.

Got to love all the good work done here! Kudos!

I have two of these tablets at home and my wife, kids and I love to use them. Thanks roebeet for all your hard work.

I can't post the the link, since I'm a newbie, but it is easy to find.

I'm running 4.1.0 with full market (I had no problems with 4.0.0 BTW -- whoa that was frickin' fast!)
[G Tablet General] MarkF001:
It works, changeing it just gives you even more apps available.
[G Tablet General] MarkF001:
Boot animation

I got mine from within "absolute system root tool", but serching I found this link http://www.mediafire.com/bootanimations, seems to be the repository it gets pulled from ( only a guess ). the one I used was "radar3d" http://www.mediafire.com/?mklyjeezuiy. Change name to bootanimation.zip and put in /system/media. Read that another folder works for someone else, but this is what I did, as TnT_Lite script deletes stock /system/media/bootanimation.zip.

found this :

Too big to attach so get it here :

EDIT: This has caused problems for many, leaving the link, but BEWARE

http://droidpirate.com/2010/12/30/viewsonic-g-tablet-boot-animation/