[G Tablet Android Development] rcgabriel:
Hi all, I definitely am liking the ZPad 1106 ROM at this point. Browser is fast and smooth. I'm running Launcher Pro and I've got it nicely configured for a tablet now with some changed icons and apps on the launch bar.

A couple of issues I'm having still with ZPad 2 days into my G Tablet experience (I'm a very experienced Android user, formerly on a G1 and now a Nexus One for the last 6-7 months, run a half dozen custom ROMS, currently using MIUIMOD on my N1).

1) Wifi wake-up time is long, and system bogs down heavily during wifi wakeup for about 30+ seconds when I first turn the screen back on. At that point I almost might as well turn the whole tablet off and reboot every time I'm not using it. I figure 5-10 seconds to re-enable wifi is more normal, and with a dual core processor, I see no reason the system should bog down at all during this process. I am using the setting to turn off wifi when screen is off. Obviously changing that setting would "fix" this issue, but at the expense of battery life. I assume this is a system/driver-level issue, and it's probably there in all these ROMs.

2) Portrait mode graphics errors and force closes in both ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro. I have locked LauncherPro into landscape mode and it works flawlessly. In portrait mode, I see some garbled graphics at the bottom of the screen, and have seen several force closes with LauncherPro. Again, I'm sure this is a driver issue of some sort with the Tegra2 chipset, just mentioning it to confirm I'm not crazy - if nobody else has seen this, I need to look into why it's happening.

3) Memory vanishes after the system has been running for a bit, causing slow responsiveness to the Home and Search buttons. This issue only occurs after the system has been running for a while, and has gone to sleep and been woken up (i.e. screen off then on, wifi reconnect). Even if I kill off all the running tasks, it still seems memory isn't freed up to make room for the Launcher/Search apps. Rebooting generally cures the problem. I don't really experience this kind of rapid performance degradation on my Nexus One, though maybe it's because MIUIMOD has a more aggressive built-in task manager than standard Froyo.

4) Sometimes the system boots up a bit funky and has to be rebooted again. Not sure why this occurs.

5) Market fix working great, sideloaded Flash 10.1 working great. PDF Reading in RepligoReader is great. Aldiko and Kindle are awesome as a general eBook reader. K9mail working quite well for email. Basically all my favorite Android apps work great with this ROM. A few app issues:

5a) Uniwar installation fails from Market. Not sure why. I recall at least one other app I tried to D/L similarly failing to install, but I don't remember which app it was.

5b) Beautiful Widgets doesn't work properly with the screen resolution - this is an app issue, I'm fairly certain, and likely not a problem with the ROM.

5c) Audio and video working with RockPlayer, but I sometimes seem to lose audio sync a bit in videos that don't have inherent sync issues, as I recall.

5d) YouTube app works but is horrendously slow and laggy. Not sure what's wrong with it, but it obviously disagrees with something about the hardware or this ROM.

In general, great work with this ROM. It would be very nice if somebody worked the Market Fix stuff into this ROM out of the box. Hoping we can get some updated drivers/kernels/etc. that will address some of the residual issues mentioned above. But ZPad has already made my G Tablet more useful than an iPad.

EDITS - what I've figured out after some screwing around and searching the forums:

5a) Uniwar now installs - you just have to unmount the SD card first. Likewise Angry Birds and some other games and apps.

5c) The video playback issue was just one file which might be bad. Everything else looks good. So nevermind that.

5d) As I think Roebeet mentioned, when cache is cleared and freshly booted, Youtube works fine. Another observation - as somebody suggested, if you run OverclockWidget and set the minimum CPU freq to 500 and max to 1000 (i.e. not overclocking, just preventing underclocking) it seems to have an effect. I assume this should work even with perflock on the kernel? Not clear, but observationally, YouTube works basically fine, and totally smooth now.

1) and 3) Some of the sluggishness after screen off/sleep is now gone thanks to the OverclockWidget/upgrade to ZPad 1.1. However, the slow responding home button/search button issue still seems to be there. And memory still seems to disappear much faster than it does on my Nexus One.