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[A7 General] Canadoc:
well my wifi is slow and poor range. It loses its connection easily

tried rebooting router no luck. all iphones and computers browse at fast speeds.

Got market working so that is a start.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Could somebody who's got a working market/gmail/sync and no errors at startup, please post a list of the files in your /system/app directory?

Thanks,

Billy
[A7 General] hashbrown:
Copied all apps from app.rar file to system/app and new wpa_supplicant to system/bin with root explorer. Rebooted and now my wifi wont connect, keeps shutting off the wifi. Is this from the wpa_supplicant?
[A7 General] hoagm:
Ok, it looks like everything (including Market) is working for me now. I think the wpa_supplicant was the missing piece.

I stopped all gapps and removed them with Titanium, rebooted, installed wpa_supp and gapps, rebooted and came back up to the initial setup wizard. It never failed, but never completed as well. I had to boot out of the google login. When it came back up, the account showed configured, turned on sync and Gmail was working. Popped into youtube and it crashed :(. hit the market and it crashed. Hit it again and it came right up (a bit slow, but worked). It doesn't like the gmail I had installed (from the cm update.zip), I removed gmail with titanium then reinstalled from market, no issues. getting ready to do the same for Youtube.

I'll be back in about an hour to post results and will update the wiki with the full process.
[A7 General] cadiken:
Mine works fine. Wireless is still fast and connects. Make sure you stop wireless before you copy the supplicant, reboot and all should be fine.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I'll be happy to.

Do you know how I can copy and paste the names or something like that?

It's a really long list...
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
I had the same issue. I installed a terminal emulator from Titanium backup (you could search on mediafire too) and ran these commands. I had to plug in a USB keyboard to type into Terminal, just FYI. you can also do it from WiFi ADB, theres a guide somewhere here on how to do this.

Anyhow, run these 2 lines exactly in a terminal and it will make the folder r/w until the next reboot:

Su

Mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
If you go to terminal emulator and type:

ls /system/app > apklist.txt

It will create a text file with the list in the current working directory (most likely root). From there you can email or post it.

Thanks a bunch!

Billy
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Same happened to me. I forgot to disable wifi before hand, did you as well? I'll try again.

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
fyi, I'm not sure mtdblock3 will work since the elocity uses mmcblk3p1 for the system mount. So you'd use the following instead:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 /system
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I agree. Thats what I've been using.

Billy
[A7 General] durango99:
The gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip that I used didn't come with Calendar. I'm starting to look for a tegra-based calendar app (unless it doesn't matter - anyone know?). Where did you get yours?
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Awesome! Thanks Dan. Remind me... what's the switch to get the extra info on ls?

Thanks again,

Billy
[A7 General] hashbrown:
Yeah, I didn't disable wireless, nothing is bringing it back. I've moved the original wpa_supplicant back to system/bin. I've rebooted, restored and finally gave up and factory reset. Its still not connecting nor is it scanning for networks to.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
That's what I'd like to know!

I can't remember!

I'm working on it now.

Some of the search results mention another calendar apk:

Either calendar storage (don't know the file name) or

com.android.provider.calendar.apk

still searching...
[A7 General] bazbob:
A complete newb question.. How do I launch the terminal emulator that comes with the A7? Also, is there a place outside of market to get access to root explorer. Sorry guys, it's my first android device but I am an experienced Linux developer.
[A7 General] durango99:
for full busybox use ls -la

for the stock minimal busybox use ls -l
[A7 General] bazbob:
ls -lat

will sort by date
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I meant copied. I'm working on about 3 hours of interrupted sleep ;-)

Billy
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
Not entirely sure, but what I posted was exactly what I typed into terminal and it worked like a charm. Both probably work, YMMV :)
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I tried it again, disabling WiFi, and it still breaks WiFi after reboot. :confused:

I wasn't having WiFi issues before, so I guess I just won't worry about it? Is there anything else that wpa_supplicant does?

Billy
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
I don't believe there is a terminal emulator on the device by default.

To get root explorer, you could search on mediafire. Here's what a quick search yielded for me: http://www.mediafire.com/?gymtnmmzvyd
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Calendar!!!

Okay,

I found the calendar apps.

They were in Cyanogen Mod for the G Tablet.

Here they are attached: calendar and calendar.provider

Google Calendar works!!!

Now, I can wrap it up and put it under the tree for my wife!!!

All I did was copy to my sd card and double click to install them.

:):):)
[A7 General] Canadoc:
That's the problem I ve been hinge with mine but it was occurring before a single mod from the stock system. I don't think it is a wpa supplicant issue.

I think it is buggy wifi issue. Hoping Elocity pushes out their fix already. Only 11 hours till x mas
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I would tend to agree, because I have no problems with my tablet.

BTW, I called Elocity and the firmware update will be out sometime today according to a manager there.
[A7 General] durango99:
NICE! Thanks for the work finding it and extracting out the apk's! I'm still working on a detailed writeup right now.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
i am a noob, this is my first android, I can't find the terminal emulator in the elocity. I have install Titanium Backup.

Help!

1 more question, if I get this App copy over to the system/app, and get market to work, if the new firmware is available today, do i have to do this again?
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
That sucks! I've broke mine twice now, but both times, moving the original back fixed it. I hope you get it going man.

Billy
[A7 General] akula11:
I've had it with all the issues. Mines going back, and I am going to wait for the Motorola Tablet.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
ok, now i found the Terminal emulator

When I typed

SU and Enter

Su: permission denied

I am tired of this too....

mine will be going back ...if this persist...

I'll wait for Samsung Galaxy TAB 2 or Motorola....

I already got the MIFI 2200 with Virgin Mobile and it work great!

too bad this company cannot give us Market!
[A7 General] durango99:
Just to be on the same page, it needs to be lowercase su. android/linux/unix all commands are case sensitive
[A7 General] durango99:
hmm, there must be some other apk's needed, I'm getting a force close when I installed just the 2 apk's you uploaded.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Did you already install everything else?

This was the last thing for me. Market, gmail, and everything else works.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Google market is not on any tablet by default except galaxy tab due to some agreement with google to classify it as a phone since it is 3G enabled. When honeycomb comes out then there will be official market for tablet.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I'm enjoying it. I just wish it wasn't a gift for the wife, due today!

Billy
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Beside waiting the firmware update any thoughts on fixing my wifi
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I'd give Elocity a call. They picked up within a few minutes...
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
I do know that in the Dev tools there is a section for CONNECTIONS that has some wireless controls under that heading. May want to poke around there and see if anything looks off to you. I think there's some sleep settings in there IIRC, worth a shot anyhow.

Just checked for you, by default:

---

My 2 top settings are both at 120000

Bottom 2 are at 120000 (wifi on) / 12000 (wifi-off)
[A7 General] rogconnect:
Thanks....I got it done on the Terminal emulator.

I did a re boot...and still cannot copy the files over....

Well, the firmware will not fix this....most likely going back to Amazon.

BTW, they promised about the Amazon Exclusive pack...nobody contacted me about shipping it. And I just check Amazon site....now they wanted $370 for this.
[A7 General] mjposner:
market and Elocity Support

Got my A7 last Friday and had the dreaded wifi problem. Immediately e-mailed elocity, no response. So much for good customer service. Still no firmware update yet either.

The Huawei S7 sold at Best Buy has market access out of the box. Its sold w/o contract but does have a working sim socket. Also, Huawei is an authorized google android phone retailer which is, i believe, the way they can get market.
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
Once you reboot it resets the r/w permissions to default undoing what you just did in terminal. Copy over and install the files before you reboot.

-Mount system as r/w

-Copy APK's to System/App

-TURN OFF WIFI (seems to be the consensus)

-Backup WPA_Authentication in System/Bin (rename to bakWPA_Authentication) and copy the new WPA_Authentication file to System/Bin

-Run the APK's you just copied to System/app for:

---Vending.apk = market

---Gmail

---Maps

---Voice (doesn't work for me)

---etc.

-Reboot

-Now try to run the market app, you should be able to sign in successfully
[A7 General] Canadoc:
THanks for the help, I don't think that will do it. Have a question. For those who have wifi working well is your network secured or open? If se ure is it with wep or wpa or wpa2?

Network I am on is wpa2. Could this be my problem?

Btw called Elocity they were friendly but CS guy didnt really know much. He said he would contact IT and have them contact me.

He didn't even know what was in the firmware update but did say it was going from 2.2 to 2.3.

Lol guess we are getting gingerbread today.
[A7 General] DroidxRage:
WPA2 might be the issue, I kinda recall someone saying this previously. We've got a mean wireless infrastructure at work, so I had to sign into our controller as an admin and add myself with MAC authentication on my work setup.

I'll check when I get home for you if no one has, I have no wifi issues.
[A7 General] cadiken:
Canadoc,

I remember reading something about android 2.2 has wi-fi problems; WPA2 especially so maybe that is your problem. I am using WEP/shared with MAC auth and 128bit key manually input. Works like a charm with no hickups at all.

Try changing your wi-fi settings on your router/access point and see if that is the problem (unless doing so will stop others from connecting to wireless). If it is you know its the Froyo build and not the A7 hardware.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Thx droidx
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Thx for the idea. I am a. Guest at brother in laws for holidays. Don't want to mess with his settings. Will wait for update to drop and see if it helps.
[A7 General] cadiken:
What phone do you have? Can you setup your phone as a wi-fi hotspot with the necessary settings to test with?
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Good idea but am on an unlocked iPhone which I can tether but am on tmobile prepaid so only edge data
[A7 General] durango99:
Still unable to get Calendar working. Yes I took stock elocity + gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip + wpa6_adhoc-signed.zip and did the work from just that combination to get everything working. I tried both putting the Calendar and CalendarProvider apk's into system/app and also just trying to installing it but still FC'ing.

Interestingly, I saw a thread discussing calendar FC and they said to go into dev tools and go into google account service to get Calendar to work. However, going into that section also FC's for me. hmmm.
[A7 General] durango99:
Yes, I just thought about that too, I'm using WEP and perhaps why I'm not seeing any WPA slowness issues
[A7 General] hashbrown:
http://code.google.com/p/openetna/issues/detail?id=26

I just read this forum and was informative to fix wifi error. Don't have my A7 w/ me to try but ppl were fixing wifi w/ this method.
[A7 General] kickassmag:
I having the same issue. When trying to copy the files it is stating "read-only" Root Explorer will not allow me to mount as r/w. However it will allow the System folder to be mounted as r/w. Still will not copy.

When you said you opened Root Manager? is this another apk. Please help.
[A7 General] bhageman:
Market Access Success!!!

I just followed the instructions to the letter and it worked on the first attempt!!!

My sincerest respect and appreciation for the people that made this happen. I was really happy with my A7 already, but this is the icing on the cake!!!

Merry Christmas and Goodwill To All A7 Modders!
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
download this app and see how it responds. http://www.appbrain.com/app/multitouch-visible-test/com.batterypoweredgames.mtvistest

Pinch to zoom is great for web pages, photos etc. But gaming, especially on a device with no inputs except a touch screen requires the screen to register multiple touches. Like mario, running with one button and jumping with another. You don't want to let go of the d pad to be able to jump. Also, shooters, you want to be able to move and shoot, you don't want to stop and then shoot, and then move again.
[A7 General] teckel12:
A true multi-touch allows for multiple exact touch locations to be identified. This for example makes keyboards work much better, games where you control with two fingers (for example, move and fire controls), also obviously pinch zoom doesn't even work when it's nothing more than a software-based pinch-zoom estimator. With true multi-touch, the pinch zoom is perfect, it does exactly what you tell it to do, not an estimate like the single touch with zoom gesture software-based guessing that happens with the eLocity A7. Heck, even my old G1 (updated to 2.2 OS) has better multi-touch than the eLocity A7.

If you're never used a true multi-touch display, maybe you don't realize what you're missing. But, it's obviously a kludge on the eLocity A7, and a total deal-breaker for most people. I'd rather not have a camera and have multi-touch instead.
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
I really want to see the results of that app, but I agree with you 100%. I wanted a tegra for gaming. Flash video is much less important to me.
[A7 General] teckel12:
It's clearly single touch with a software-based pinch-zoom guesstimator. Running the Multitouch Testor will show this. It may show two touch points, but the movement won't be fluid and when they get close to the same axis they will "jump" to be in-line. This is classic software-based multi-touch behavior.

Even the manufacture's web site says it's a single touch screen.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I'm having trouble installing the application. I signed up for Appbrain. It told me to install the Appbrain Market. Now the web page doesn't seem to be doing anything. It just has a button that says "cancel install" I clicked that and clicked install. It says "Your phone is not synced yet. please install AppBrain to get the app on your phone"

Ideas?
[A7 General] teckel12:
Here's a video I uploaded of a true-multi-touch display (that even does 5 touch).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mfv0YN4-I

I just uploaded it so it may take a couple minutes for the video to be on-line.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I think I need Android Market to install AppBrain...
[A7 General] Elementix:
Hmm..well that's disappointing. I think I'll still get it though. I know the G1 did get multitouch a while back from a custom mod from jesusfreke. Think there's any way to do the same with this?
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
I thought it was an alternative market... you can try this site as well if you'd like. http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-batterypoweredgames-mtvistest-ijAj.aspx I didn't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. I have a folder with 2gb of apks at home that I may have a copy of it in. Unfortunately I don't even really own an android device yet. I have my n900 dual booted into android, but android is mostly unusable so I tend to stick with me stock os.
[A7 General] trinikartel:
Hey guys, got mine today and started tinkering with it immediately. Got a bit overzealous and forgot to make a backup before I made any changes (novice move I know).

Can any of you guys provide a copy of the stock rom or apks in the system\app folder (if the files exist).

Specifically these were the ones changed\added

system\app

Gmail.apk

GoogleServicesFramework.apk

Maps.apk

OneTimeInitializer.apk

SetupWizard.apk

Talk.apk

Vending.apk

system\lib

libspeech.so

libvoicesearch.so

system\etc\permissions

com.google.android.maps.xml

features.xml

system\framework

com.google.android.maps.jar

Basically I was attempting the Viewsonic G Tablet market hack, which seems to work up until i have to log in then it says cannot establish connection.
[A7 General] Elementix:
Well, I would help you out if my tablet would hurry up and get here. Just a few more days I suppose...
[A7 General] teckel12:
I copied the Multitouch Test to my server, you should be able to download it here:

http://www.leethost.com/mtvistest.apk
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Thanks for posting the file.

I ran the test and it is NOT true multitouch. It registered only one point.

I didn't even know that capacitive screens existed without multitouch.

So, what are the drawbacks? With the zoom buttons and the crude pinch to zoom functions, web browsing seems fine.

Do we have to wait for a new Cyanogen mod for this device before being able to install Google apps?
[A7 General] xwint3rxmut3x:
Wow, then they flat out lied to me. I have the email exchange between myself and Leo Riley where he flat out tells me it's "two point touch"...everywhere else online it mentions multitouch there's a good layer of double speak and flat out avoidance of answering the question. You can look at the FAQ on elocitynow.com and you'll see exactly what I mean.

As for drawbacks it's mainly going to come down gaming quality. If that's not huge for you, and you didn't pay more than $300 for it, it's still a decent tablet.
[A7 General] Nismor2:
wow i was about to order and now its not multi-touch. Damn.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Eh, nevermind.
[A7 General] trinikartel:
Sweet, thanks! I'll keep fiddling with this in the meantime.

Do you guys think it's possible to 'enable' multitouch on this device (like the G1) or is it just a panel/tech limitation?
[A7 General] Elementix:
I hope so...
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
My thoughts are that it is possible and that's why they were so vague. They were probably trying to get multi touch working better before the release and that's also why it kept getting pushed back. Just speculation though.

Billy
[A7 General] dreadlord369:
I think it may be limited by software too, or else how would they have the pinch zoom feature working (sort of). I know on the website the specs say its a capacitive touch panel with 1 Point + Zoom-in/out Gesture. Ah well, hopefully it can be fixed if not, well elocity really f'ed up on that point.
[A7 General] durango99:
If you cannot copy files, that means after you su you need to remount the /system mount as read/write. What are using to try to copy the google apps/market into the /system/app directory? If you're trying to do everything from terminal then do the following:

1. su

2. mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 /system

Then you can copy files from your sdcard to /system/app

I'm still working on a detailed document.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
G tablet has same issue so I suspect there is a wifi wpa problem with tegra devices and that updated software will fix
[A7 General] Bjake:
shouldn't we have a legit thread by now? No offense to this one. It has just evolved wildly because the elocity has great potential. Now release that update stream tv!
[A7 General] bazbob:
Can someone please tell me HOW TO LAUNCH THE TERMINAL EMULATOR??
[A7 General] hoagm:
This is great durango. When you get it done, can we get you to post it on the wiki as well? http://elocitya7.wikispaces.com
[A7 General] hoagm:
removing youtube and reinstalling from market fixed that problem too.

So I had to wrap it and get it under the tree... no calendar yet. Hopefully she'll let me play... er... fix it tomorrow. :D

I did notice I'm not getting the full market, however. Several things I searched for are missing. I know I've read some fixes for this, but didn't have time to give any of them a shot.
[A7 General] akula11:
***the firmware update is out***
[A7 General] rich_e:
Firmware Update

Downloading it now 90megs. (elocitynow web site)

A7 Internet Tablet

Firmware Update

The December 24, 2010 Firmware Update includes the following changes:

* Wi-Fi disconnect issue has been resolved

* Angry Bird game installation issue has been resolved

* Aldiko graphics issue has been resolved

* Wallpaper reset issue has been resolved

* OI File Manager copy function/black screen issue has been resolved

* Auto rotate issue has been resolved

* Airplane mode Device Options issue has been resolved
[A7 General] durango99:
christmas eve 2010 == full day of elocity hacking
[A7 General] rich_e:
Rename the file

Rename the file from "update_2.0121.zip" to "Update.zip". Note that the letter "U" must be in uppercase. Then follow the instructions on the update download page to install the update.
[A7 General] durango99:
I left it lower case update.zip and it seemed to update fine. Looks like it's time to re-add google apps and market again :) Looks like they added Amazon apps and appPoke as extra apps in this update
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
It's in Dev Tools in the app drawer.

Billy
[A7 General] rich_e:
Update Results

Installed the update. Takes about 5 minutes.

Titanium backup still has root access.

Angry birds loads

Wifi comes back on after entering sleep mode by short press of power button

SD card is now in /storage/sdcard-disk0/ and /sdcard/sdcard-disk0. Directory /mnt/sdcard is gone.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Root Manager is another app.

Check your private messages, kickassmag.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Did the update wipe any of your data? Did you have to reinstall anything?
[A7 General] durango99:
All non system data seems to be intact. Google apps and market are gone so going through redoing the same steps. That said, I'm out of disk space on system! I'm going to have to remove some of the apk's they preinstall (amazon apps, etc)
[A7 General] rogconnect:
hi jazz,

can u send the the Root manager too!

Thanks
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I am wondering if disk space is part of the problem for some people getting market and google apps installed.

I thought I had deleted the movie trailers from my tablet, but when in Root Explorer, I noticed that it showed I had only a few MB free. I looked around and found that the movies trailers were still on the tablet. I deleted them while in Root Explorer and then had a lot of extra storage space. (I still have 361MB free in my system folder.) Right after that, I had success in installing everything.
[A7 General] Amneonx:
I am looking forward to trying this tonight. Is there a clean list of instructions to go by now? or do I still have to flip page by page on the forums to get all of the information. I admire all of you that put all the work into getting this to work for us. Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
[A7 General] durango99:
weird. I had deleted the movie trailers for sure and my /system mount is only 140MB total after the update. It's as if the update resized the partition smaller when there wasn't the movie files sitting there.
[A7 General] durango99:
BTW jazzbone, have you applied the update? Did you get gapps, market to work? Specifically did you get calendar working again?
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Not yet.

I'm scared.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
I'm pretty sure I've seen the movie trailers in two different places, unless it's a symlink. /etc/ and /system/etc/

Billy