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[A7 General] DroidxRage:
Yeah, like I said back a few posts... Flash 10.1 update from the market will kill your browser. Elocity seems to have gotten one thing right in optimizing Flash for this device out of the box. I haven't actually tried Hulu yet, but seeing I do have Hulu plus I'd be interested in having it work too.

I gotta say I was skeptical about doing the upgrade after I finally got gapps working, but man I tell you... the improvement in multitouch is unquestionably worth the upgrade IMHO. It's nowhere near as touchy as it was before the upgrade, it kinda felt like multi-touch having a seizure before... I could never zoom quite where I wanted. I can actually do small focused zooms quite effectively now. I'm VERY happy that this was improved. I think it pretty much sealed the deal that I'm going to sell my Archos a70 now.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
When you did your update 2 questions, 1) what was the size of the file?

Noticed mine was 95mb, wonder if that is problem as the site says 90.8. Going to redownload it with different browser and reapply maybe it will fix wifi (I prey!)

2) did u not install update the way they say on the elocitynow site?
[A7 General] hoagm:
I would uninstall the busybox market app and do this: http://elocitya7.wikispaces.com/busybox
[A7 General] hoagm:
LOL. Wife just told me to leave her tablet alone and go buy my own.
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
I downloaded it right to my device, it was named "update.zip"

-Check the filename and make sure it's named just that, without a duplicate extension like "update.zip.zip" windows does that sometimes

-Transferred to the ROOT of the micro SD card with root explorer. (You do need to use a microSD card)

-File size is 95235235 as read with root explorer

I could not get the update to run through the menu like they suggested. I booted into recovery manually, and installed the update from there. This is also how you would need to recover a system with problems, just FYI:

-Power on device: hold the power until you see the green indicator light, then release and tap the power again quickly

-You'll see a prompt on screen asking to hold power if you want to go to recovery

-Hold the power screen until you see an android with the exclamation point

-Navigation keys are as follows:

---Search: Up

---Back: Down

---Home: Display recovery status text (shows the text, need to hit this to see the recovery menu at all)

---Menu: Select/Enter (chooses the option)

-Hit home to see the menu, use search and back to navigate to "Install update.zip"

-Hit menu to choose to install

-At this point, you can tap the HOME key to toggle the status text on/off

-Give it a minute, and it will boot into another black screen, with a terminal-like progress bar

-Once the update finishes, the device will reboot and you should have the new firmware if you check System=>About

Hope that helps you, I'll check back to see how you made out.
[A7 General] hashbrown:
Ha ha ha! thats funny!
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
That is too funny...

I will say that after a firmware update, and gapps install, I do see most of my apps in the market again, including swiftkey and launcherpro. :)

I did not (and probably won'y) update to the 2.2.7 version of market.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
hahaha! That's funny too...

I still can't copy the files to the APP folder

still no market for me!

But Updated the new Firmware!

And Now, I can't uninstall Fring...it's keep coming back.

I don't need this!
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
Download the most recent version of root explorer (2.13.1) from mediafire. It should let you mount folders correctly. I had an older version, and it wouldn't mount R/W correctly so I had to do it in terminal.

Alternatively (less faint of heart) you could do it in terminal. The command for the new file system is somewhere in this thread IIRC.

I had no issues installing gapps after the update. Google voice even works now... I'm in heaven. Anyone wanna buy an Archos a70? ;-)
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Canadoc

Your update download is probably corrupted.

The file should be 90.8MB.

I remember someone else had that problem earlier in the thread.

hope that solves your problem.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
Thanks,

I'll try that...

btw did anybody got Skype working?

or have to wait for honeycomb for Skype to work?
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
The problem that I'm having in setting up google voice is right after I click "skip" on setting up voicemail for this "phone". It just freezes after that. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
The step of installing busybox is what causes this. Do the following in terminal:

/system/xbin/su

mv /system/bb/su /system/bb/su-bb

ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bb/su

This runs the standalone su (not the symlink one that points to busybox). The last 2 lines just renames the original symlink from busybox and instead points the su symlink to the standalone one

I'm sure you could do a suid on the original busybox symlink su but I haven't had time to research further.

thanks,

dan
[A7 General] durango99:
For google voice to work, you need to copy the 2 voice and speech files from /system/lib files from the tegra zip to the same location on the elocity.

Then look for the updated google voice in market and you'll be set.

thanks,

dan
[A7 General] durango99:
Yes please! The only thing I'm missing is google calendar too. Any help?

jazzbone you lucky duck ;)

thanks,

dan
[A7 General] durango99:
I actually found that the elocity came with it's own full version of busybox. I ran that instead of the wikispaces instructions.

In terminal emulator, I did:

su

/system/bin/installbusybox.sh

read my previous thread to point the /system/bb/su symlink to point to /system/xbin/su
[A7 General] hkmate:
It is a 2 pound heavy devicce!!!
[A7 General] rogconnect:
No...only 1 lb

how much it this selling in Hong Kong?
[A7 General] jazzbone:
FYI, I have everything working,

but never installed adb or busybox or used the terminal...

Also, when I ran the update from Elocity, I followed their instructions and used "Open Settings > About device > System updates > Update device."

I did rename the file update.zip though.

That worked for me.
[A7 General] durango99:
lol, sound like a broken record, but i'm still not getting calendar working. Billy (jeepfreak) also cannot get calendar working with the apk's. Are you sure you got the apk's extracted out of the update-cm-6.1.0-Beta4-Harmony-signed.zip?

thanks again,

dan
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
That version of BB seems to be a bit more complete too. The version that Titanium installs doesn't even include cp. I just wish I could find an Android Busybox version that has tab complete! That would have saved me about 20 hours over the last 10 days!

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
hehe I hear you. I keep hitting tab all the time ;) But at least we can cp and mv easily ;)

FYI, I'm hitting the froyo package from nvidia http://tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/downloads and i'm going to see if there is any calendar apk's I can pull out of the system.img file. If that doesn't work I'm going to check out the Tosh Folio 100 image...stupid calendar ;)

thanks,

dan
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Dan

i feel your pain!

But, I'm a happy person now.

I just checked.

My CalendarProvider.apk is 326KB in size and was modified on 02/28/08

My Calendar.apk is 233KB in size and modified on 02/28/08

They are both on my external sd card. I just double clicked and installed them.

They are not in my system/apps folder

Those sizes and dates match the cm 6.1 file that I got them from.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
Wows....this version of root explorer (2.13.1) WORKS!

Turned off WIFI

I mounted rw on that APP folder and copied all the files without problems.

Backup the wpa_supplicant and copied the new wpa_supplicant.

Turn ON WIFI....it' connected right away without problems.........

rebooted and added Google acct.

AND MARKET loaded!:):):):):):):):):):):)

Thanks everyone who helped !
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
That did it! Thanks Dan! That also got Voice Search working too.

Billy
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Good plan. I'll work on that later if you don't make any progress.

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
jazzbone, thanks for checking. Can you check one other quick thing for me? In the Dev Tools app, what happens when you open the 'Google Login Service' option?

I get a FC when I try that. I think it's related to the calendar issue.

Thanks,

dan
[A7 General] hashbrown:
I can confirm this works also, including the Google Voice repair. Gmail, Market and YouTube all sync w/ Google account. Calender is only problem now, going to sniff around android community for similar issues.

Also, a big THANKS to all involved with these fixes!!!
[A7 General] durango99:
Awesome to hear! Glad that most of the issues are out of the way now for people. I'm still stuck with FC opening calendar.

I've tried the calendar.apk and calendarprovider.apk from gtab_tnt_lite_v3.10.rar, the nvidia stock android_tegra_froyo_20101105.msi, the cyanogen update-cm-6.1.0-Beta4-Harmony-signed.zip and the FolioModv12.zip without any success. :(

There has to be something else other than the calendar apk's that is missing.

I've of course tried flushing/clearing cache and data of the calendar apps and calendar storage with each try.

Well the more the merrier ;)

dan
[A7 General] durango99:
jazzbone, since you're still the only one with a working calendar, i'm curious what your /system/app file list looks like.

This might tell us what date/file size differences of what you have compared to what we have. If you can hook up a usb keyboard to the elocity do the following:

- run Dev Tools app

- choose Terminal Emulator

- type

su

ls -l /system/app > /sdcard/applist.txt

- could you attach or copy that applist.txt text file on here?

Thanks so much,

dan
[A7 General] Canadoc:
redownloaded it with firefox was 90.82

reflashed it to no avail.

I don't understND IT can see the network but can't connect or ig it does get poor signal even next to the router.

The fact it can see it from far away had me thinking it was software firmware issue but maybe its just defective.

Prices on them have jumped back up from what I paid and not sure there is enough turn around time to get this replaced from bjs.
[A7 General] Lindarose84:
I've been following this thread for a few days now- it seems you have a defective unit. You could just do the return to BJs and buy from a different vendor like Compusa/TigerDirect. Their prices went up as well but it's still cheaper than BJs (seems they're out of stock there anyway). Currently waiting on my a7 to be delivered from Compusa (was lucky enough to get it at the $299 price)- if you ordered today you can probably get it before the end of the week with expedited shipping.
[A7 General] durango99:
Thanks this seemed to work for me! I also had changed the fingerprint first but I'm not sure if this alone would have fixed it. fyi, I was trying to update the facebook app
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
This worked on the market from the tegra files. It did not on the 2.2.7 market. Although I can see bank of America app now but can't download it.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
What are you using to test signal strength? Speed? etc? Is it only the Apple router thats giving you a problem? Can you just buy another router? Maybe a less... uh, "fruity" one? ;-)

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
calendar works!

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...whoa........whoa... preliminary testing with gtab TnT Lite version 2.2.0 calendar apk's WORK!

I'm going to try the tnt 3.1 again and cm6.1 again... i might even download the tnt 3.0 or 2.4 too.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Went to McD's also where there were four unprotected wifi signals and I could connect to all of them but the link speed for each was also only 1-5 mb/s despite goof to excellet reception.

As for how I determined speed when connected if u clcik in the wifi in settings it shows the link speed. Wireless g goes up to 54 mb/s and usually a good connection should get you 22mb/s or higher. I seems to get 1 mb/s and if i go to far from router i lose connection (far is > 15 feet)

Test it yourself and tell me what you get.
[A7 General] durango99:
I don't think I'd trust the wifi settings status of wireless. I've been relying on the wifi analyzer app to verify wifi signal strength and details. For my WEP connection to my router (a dd-wrt hacked router) I've gotten consistent wifi connection and results and even at 20+ ft away.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/wifi-analyzer/com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Well I am sure other apps are more detailed then builtin except what it reads and what I am seeing correlate.

Please tell me what u are getting with the built in wifi settings details
[A7 General] Canadoc:
I have already wiped my tablet clean to prepare it for return. I will try this if you can post the .apk not going through process of getting market installed again when it likely for nought
[A7 General] durango99:
Regardless of how close or how far I am in wifi settings I'll go from Excellent to Poor and back, but it maintains a speed of 54Mbps.

That said, Wifi Analyzer always maintain -30db regardless of what the wifi settings states.

good luck,

dan
[A7 General] cadiken:
durango99, thanks for the thought on TNT for Calendar. I installed TnT Lite version 3.1.0 Calendar and it works! I am complete now with everything working that I've checked except Dev Tools/Google login service (it still fc on launch). I'll worry about that one when/if I ever need it.
[A7 General] durango99:
Great to hear! I can't install the calendar.apk that comes with TnT Lite 3.1.0. But I did get to successfully install TnT Lite 3.0.0 calendar.apk

The only problem with the 3.0.0 issue is the gray bar on top of the calendar. Oh well, I think I can live with the bar but I'm still interested in getting the 3.1.0 to work.

Did you just extract the calendar.apk and the calendarprovider.apk? Any other files you used? Did you throw it into /system/app or did you just install them like regular apps?

thanks,

dan
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
I hope your right. For the sake of everyone who bought it and intends to keep it. I'm doubtful though... they have always been incredibly vague about the capabilities of the device(regarding multitouch), and i'm at the point where I think the "pinch to zoom" software mod was tacked on by the Elocity team so they could attempt to fly under the radar while pushing sales. Sure, we figured it out pretty fast, but not one single retailer selling this was aware. Even engadget.com confirmed multitouch was working via pinch to zoom on websites, and bjs.com actually lists the tablet as capacitive multitouch. Shady business tactics if you ask me..yeah I hope you guys can get multitouch on there, but mine is going back.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Mine won't be used for gaming so I'm not upset to the point where I'll be sending it back. The biggest disappointment for me, is that this means the tablet will be far less popular and therefor have a much smaller developer following.

Hopefully somebody can hack together multitouch or maybe (and this is a long shot) eLocity will release an update that fixes the issue.

Billy
[A7 General] teckel12:
As their own web site says it's single touch, I would say that it's a physical limitation. The G1 always had multi-touch, it's just that the OS didn't support multi-touch the first few releases.
[A7 General] Elementix:
Well, just got an email from BJ's that mine just shipped. It seems pretty popular. Hopefull xda picks this up and gets Cyanogen on it..
[A7 General] Dexter_nlb:
Not to ruin this thread..

Toshiba Folio 100 is also fine alternative to the Viewsonic Gtab... both Tegra2 based...

Folio has 4 "true" multi touch points with sample apk from this thread..
[A7 General] dreadlord369:
Well from the reviews of it that I've seen, its a tablet to stay away from. They said the screen was not that great and I also saw another article that said that retailers in the UK were overpricing the tablet to make sure people didn't buy it (apparently because of the percent of the people that returned the tablet). That plus the fact that its not going to be released in the United States makes it not a choice for me at least.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I was looking at the system information using Phone Tester. It says it is a Compal NAZ10. CPU: ARMv7 RAM: 374 MB. Is that RAM number to be trusted?

Quadrant lists it as 383656 kB Total Memory.
[A7 General] denoxster:
Just received today and will be going back to tigerdirect tomorrow.

I love everything about the device specially the speed, what a shame.

Well, I will staying with my archos 70IT until good and reasonable tegra cpu tablet coming out.
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
Ive got both devices here too, other than the multitouch issue the a7s a beast. I have14 days to decide if i want to keep it from bjs though.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
What did.it score.in quadrant testing?
[A7 General] Canadoc:
What makes archos better?
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Mine scored 1840. I have no idea how many apps were running at the time...
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
1750 10 Char
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I took that one off the list in the first round because it's got a 10" screen. I wanted something ~7".

Billy
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
In case anyone was wondering why i'm so pissed off about the lack of multitouch here is an email exchange between myself and the Elocity support team from Dec.2:

I'm sorry, I actually do have another question and its kind of important. I know the device has a capacitive screen, can you please confirm as to whether it has mutitouch or not? Thanks, sorry to be a bother

Hello Giuseppe

Yes, the tablet has multi touch. Please be aware that this is a 1+1 touch - which means that it works on 2 fingers and not 3 or 4 or 5 fingers. Therefore to zoom - you may use 2 fingers and spread them to indicate zoom. etc. Please see product specs on our website for a complete detail.

Let us know if you have any other question. Thank you once again

Team eLocity

Visit us on www.elocitynow.com and Facebook

I did ask for further clarification but my order and all the others on Amazon were cancelled the next day so I had something else to be mad about...I realize now that my follow up email was never responded to, and that alone should have deterred me from purchasing the item.

edit:

Just in case there's any confusion reading this. This is not some inside information that proves the device has multitouch and is waiting to be implemented on the device (not saying it doesn't, but it's unlikely) this is being shared as direct proof of the lack of knowledge and or professionalism displayed by the Elocity support team.
[A7 General] denoxster:
Nothing really, except everything is working fine, they just released new firmware that fix few bugs. My archos is so much better after firmware upgrade.

On top of multi touch, I have another issue A7 will not connect to wifi after waking up, if I turn on wifi manually it will scan for awhile then turn off by itself.

I have to reboot to fix the issue.
[A7 General] Itaintrite:
Same here, I received mine from TigerDirect yesterday but have yet to open it since the "consultant" on Amazon (Leo Riley) refuses to give any straight answer regarding multi-touch. If this isn't true multi-touch, I'll be returning it (or selling?).

Without TRUE multi-touch, multiplayer games such as Fruit Ninja and Flight Control just won't work.
[A7 General] trinikartel:
Ah! and here I thought I messed something up with the permission. I have the same issue and here's how I solved it without having to reboot each time.

1. Go into airplane mode (do not cycle it on and off)

2. Go to your settings and turn on wifi.

So basically my tablet is in airplane mode all the time now.

Annoying? Highly, but at least it's a workaround for now
[A7 General] moku160:
Damn looks like i may be keeping my G-tablet and returning the a7. I will wait a few more days for more info/reviews though...
[A7 General] trinikartel:
headphones w/ mic

I get garbled audio when i use my vmoda headset with inline mic. I've had this issue with my Bell Vibrant so I know this is a hardware issue (polarity swap i believe). My beats headphones sound fine though....just a fyi
[A7 General] durango99:
Confirmed calendar works

lol, nevermind answered my own question :D TnT Lite 3.1.0 calendar apk's cannot be run as normal apps. I had to put these files into /system/app.

YES! and no gray bar on the top with this version.

For everyone else, the attached files come from the Viewsonic GTab TnT 3.1.0 xda forum thread. You'll need to use terminal emulator or root explorer and put the 2 files into the /system/app directory.

Finally,

dan
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Hi Dan

I get a FC when opeing Google Login Service, too.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Can you post the apk?

I am getting 1mb/s
[A7 General] durango99:
It was in the original post ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10105190&postcount=778
[A7 General] jazzbone:
btw, sorry for not replying sooner, family dinner...

when I typed in the above strings in Terminal Emulator with my USB keyboard, I got:

-l/system/app: No such file or directory
[A7 General] Canadoc:
That is not the google calendar but the TNT stock calendar. Not sure if this is still true.
[A7 General] durango99:
AFAIK, it is the stock calendar app. Looks like the below video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTdJSzdVfQ
[A7 General] durango99:
hehe, looks like a space issue. So the line should be the following:

ls[space]-l[space]/system/app[space]>[space]/sdcard/applist.txt

Might be hard to read but hopefully it makes sense.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
My bad lol.

Ok installed it did test.

At the router ( 2 feet away): -42 db and got top rating on channel used and had my best linkspeed yet of 11mb/s

Went 15 feet out of the room. Same rating for stars and db but linkspeed dropped to 1mb/sec and it couldn't browse anymore.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Dan

Now, when I type that phrase into TE, it doesn't return anything, just a # sign

Are those supposed to be forward slashes?

reminder, I don't have busybox or anything like that installed....
[A7 General] rogconnect:
File Type:	Calendar.apk (265.1 KB, 0 views)

File Type:	CalendarProvider.apk (352.9 KB, 0 views)

This Confirmed working for me and it's SYNC with my google calender!

Remember to reboot!

Thanks
[A7 General] ryoung07:
Hey guys... just want to thank all the folks that have been investigating and fixing things. Just got my A7 and followed the directions given and everything is working great.

Wish I could post this from the A7 but the xda app crashes when I log in which is the only hiccup so far.
[A7 General] durango99:
awesome! Glad that's 2 people that confirms it. I'm still wondering how jazzbone got the cyanogenmod 6.1 calendar apk's to work. That said, I spent all day testing different apk's so I'll take this :)
[A7 General] durango99:
It actually has a very small busybox already preinstalled.

If you got a # sign that means it worked!!

In your file manager of choice you should see the /sdcard directory root have a applist.txt file.

That should have a list of the /system/app files in your tablet.

Post that and we'll have to do a diff on why you can use the cm 6.1 calendars :)

Thanks again,

dan
[A7 General] bhageman:
I've had the same problem with Dolphin and the stock browser, but no problems with the XDA website with Opera.
[A7 General] hoagm:
Stock browser has issues after patch. But I haven't seen any issues with Dolphin.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I tried the XDA app on my A7. It reads the forums fine, but crashes when I try to log in, too.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
WTF? All the sudden, I'm no longer rooted?! The last thing I did was remount r/w and adb push the two files over for google voice. Then I just rebooted like normal, checked it, and turned it off. Now I go back to it, and no more root! :confused:

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
did you install the full busybox at anytime? If so I posted on a workaround to point to the standalone su that has suid already setup on it

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10097888&postcount=750