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[A7 General] Amneonx:
Has anyone else noticed that since the firmware update, the only option you have now for the SD card is "Unmount SD card". It doesn't tell you how much space is there or anything. Also, noticed that "SD card" is under ongoing processes, and says "Select to turn off SD card".

To me this isn't normal. Because my Droid X gives me information on the SD card, not just unmounting it.
[A7 General] rogconnect:
Did the Update! And Stucked @ this screen!....so it Fcuked...

I think this is a POS!

So I did a RESET and it's booted and check the version...still the same.

So I tried again....same thing stucked @ that screen.
[A7 General] durango99:
hehe. Well the good is that I've gotten everything to work again (still not Calendar). I've even got google voice to work now (Market found a new update and the new version works). So Google contacts, gmail, search, market, talk, voice, voice search, and youtube all work.

I still think I'm missing some apk, or library that didn't come with the gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip file for calendar function.

As a test I tried a third party calendar that ties into google calendar and it also FC's.

Oh and Angry Birds works now ;)
[A7 General] durango99:
http://elocitya7.wikispaces.com/Stuckboot

Do that!
[A7 General] freebase101:
is the multitouch still horrible? that is basically the only thing that has been holding be back up till now
[A7 General] jazzbone:
You did install both calendar files I uploaded, right?

I tried to follow the instructions to print a list of installed apps in the terminal, but it didn't work for me.
[A7 General] Lindarose84:
Cosign. Can someone comment on "multitouch" after the update? Does the emulation program work in Angry Birds? Better working in the browser?
[A7 General] hashbrown:
This is the recovery update load screen, not the setup screen. Touching corners will not work. If stuck at recovery screen, like this one, hit Home then see if the update.zip installed. If not then you can use Back button down to reboot system or try to update again by pressing Menu button. Mine is stuck here too and not updating the new firmware even after renaming Update.zip in the root of my sdcard. Thoroughly ready to return this and call it POSware! Not impressed w/ StreamTV at all, no support whatsoever. Emailed them 3 days ago for support plus today and called them with a poor response back.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Gallery

I can't get the gallery to work. This isn't a new issue for me. I did something stupid last week, but don't know what.

When clicking on Gallery, I get an error "SD card unmounted or not present"

There are no images there at all.
[A7 General] airball8:
Cannot Copy APKs to System/app

Hi guys,

Been trying to get the market hack working and am at a standstill. I can't seem to be able to copy (or move) the APKs to the system/app folder.

I have the System Folder (and the app folder) set to r/w using Root Manager, and in Root explorer, I select all, and cannot copy over.

Any thoughts?

I'm worried my disk is full.

Thanks.

Ryan
[A7 General] jazzbone:
How much space do you have left in your system folder?
[A7 General] rogconnect:
This what I get when I touched the home.

I can see it something related to i can't copy the files to the system/app

Those read / write **** on tablet
[A7 General] unicough:
Try update from recovery directly. Yesterday I bricked mine completely and it didn't even boot to the graphical interface thus I cannot update mine using the instructions on the eLocity's website.

Here is what I did:

Put the update.zip to the root of the sd card, remember to rename it to update.zip.

Power off.

Power on, after release the power button for about 1 or 2 seconds then hold it again until you see the text "hold more than 5 seconds to boot to the recovery", then you should see the same image as your pic above.

Then hit the home key you will see the recovery menu.

Search button and back button can move the cursor up and down, menu button is enter.

Select apply update.zip then wait.

I did the above steps and it successfully unbricked my A7, good luck!
[A7 General] airball8:
claims i have 1.5 GB.

I was able to copy from drop box over to SDcard, but then not SD card into that folder.
[A7 General] Lindarose84:
Can any updaters comment?
[A7 General] Zenwood:
Update

After the update...

Angry Birds Installs and works

Mulit touch works better

Gem Miner works
[A7 General] rich_e:
Download the update again

The size of the update file should be 90.8 MB. Maybe you didn't get an intact download. Try it again if the file size is off.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Is the hacked wpa_supplicant still needed after the update?

I did the update and the CM GApps install, but I still can't get anything going. And this is on a new tablet! Not even the one I've been screwing with for the last few days!

Billy
[A7 General] jazzbone:
I don't think that is possible. The folder is only partitioned for 488MB according to my tablet.
[A7 General] Lindarose84:
Thank you!
[A7 General] rogconnect:
I already tried download twice....and copy to the micro sd.

If u read the screen ...

Finding update pkg

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1

(No such file or directory)

E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip

Installation aborted
[A7 General] durango99:
I still had to apply the wpa_supplicant to get google auth for apps.
[A7 General] hashbrown:
I just noticed that my update.zip was 93.004Mb, after checking the elocity site, the update is only 90.8Mb.

Good catch, downloading again...
[A7 General] Zenwood:
Update

The Update did not erase any of my old files? Did this happen to anyone else?
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
Lovely. I applied it and not only could I not authenticate, but I can't enable WiFi anymore either. Keep in mind... this is a different tablet than before even! Hopefully I just need to take a break and come back to it later. :mad:

Billy
[A7 General] kickassmag:
Applied upgrade,marketplace, and gmail

First off thank you Jazzbone for your help earlier with File Manager.

Here is what i have done sofar. Applied new update by elocity. (noproblem) Used file explorer and file manager to move over system\app and system\bin files. I only had 16megs free in my system folder (not all the apks got transfered). I attempted to install vending.apk and one missing apks manually which was a success.

It seems like the gmail is working fine and the voice search etc.

Market place opens and i am able to search, but when i attempt to download and app it immediatly says "download unsuccessful"

Any Suggestions??

Thanks
[A7 General] jetracers:
Mine is also claiming to have 1.5gb free, im also not able to install any programs though its saying that i have that much free space. Any ideas? Im thinking that maybe those movie trailers are still on there somewhere but im not sure where to look.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
You need to load the wpa supplicant file
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Locked up!

I got brave and now I'm stuck.

I downloaded and installed the firmware update. It worked.

Lost Market and Calendar.

Tried to copy Gapps to system/apps folder. Not enough room in the folder! What's up with that? They shrunk the size of the system folder!

So, I deleted a few apps: Facebook, Twitter.

I tried to copy Gapps files without Facebook and Twitter.

Then, I get the screen where it says "Welcome to A7-040. Touch the Android to begin."

Well, it doesn't respond! Nothing happens when I press the Android, or Search, Back or Home buttons.

When I press Menu, it brings up Wireless settings for a phone with options for "Data enabled, data roaming, access point names, network operators"

Power off and reboot. Back to the same screen.

HELP!
[A7 General] mrfurby2u:
For being stuck, check this http://elocitya7.wikispaces.com/Stuckboot.

As for not having enough room, did you check to see if the update copied the movie trailers back on? They are in two locations, one was /system/etc, the other was either at the root or in /etc, I forget which.

Rich
[A7 General] kickassmag:
Its fixed. I guess vending.apk has to be in the system\app folder

Thanks!
[A7 General] Zenwood:
Update

I have this same issue.
[A7 General] durango99:
The update seemed to repartition the /system to only 150MB. It's not due to the movie files.

Here's the df -h of after the update:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs 186.4M 0 186.4M 0% /dev

tmpfs 186.4M 0 186.4M 0% /mnt/asec

/dev/block/mmcblk3p1 144.9M 126.2M 18.7M 87% /system

/dev/block/mmcblk3p5 1.2G 266.0M 930.0M 22% /data

/dev/block/mmcblk3p3 1.9M 1.9M 0 100% /misc

/dev/block/mmcblk3p2 387.4M 9.8M 377.6M 3% /cache

/dev/block/vold/179:30

1.6G 25.7M 1.5G 2% /storage

/dev/block/vold/179:1

1.9G 1.3G 628.2M 67% /storage/sdcard-disk0
[A7 General] Amneonx:
i messed everything right up. I was having a hard time getting the apps folder to copy OVER the original apps folder, so I made a stupid mistake, and tried to move the original and than was going to put new folder into its place. HOwever right away, it said some process force closed. so I powered it down, thinking I could get to setup screen. Now all it does is loops at elocity screen. Anyone know how to get to the boot screen from there so I can do a factory reset? So I can send it back. I love the device, but not going to deal with it. I don't do this kind of this, i'm a n00b with android extra stuff. I may just get a galaxy tab.
[A7 General] durango99:
I'd have someone else confirm this but I'd assume you'd be able to get into recovery mode http://elocitya7.wikispaces.com/Recovery and (re)apply the latest December 24th update.zip and that should clean up the issue. Anyone else want to confirm this statement?
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Hey guys,

I was able to rerun the update.zip.

Now, the tablet is semi-functional.

The Home button doesn't work.

The Search button doesn't work.

Wonder how to resize the folder?
[A7 General] jazzbone:
That is what saved me just now, somewhat...
[A7 General] durango99:
jazzbone, check out my directory listing a couple posts back, I'd have you clean up some of the files that are in the updated /system/app and clear out some of the files in the tegra gapps files to match what I have in that list. That gave me at least 19MB of free space after the gapps were all installed.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Thanks, durango.

I am frustrated because I had it working perfectly before the update.

Now, no home or search buttons! I can't understand that.

So, I'm running the update again to see what happens.

Then, I'll clean up the system folder.

Please remind me, which gapps version are we using? hdpi or tegra?

edit: still broken home and search buttons after update...
[A7 General] Amneonx:
OMG Durange is GOD!

OMG YOU ARE LIKE GOD! I thought I screwed it up real good. Refreshed this page like every 30 seconds. Saw your reply, and tried it right away. A million thanks to you. and a very merry christmas as well.

On that note, can we get an idiot proof guide?
[A7 General] nev310:
after update my tablet is much faster. it resumes from standby and the wallpaper plays without skipping. i did a quadrant benchmark before the update and got 1800 and after the benchmark didnt take as long i could notice and i got a 2400. still not a high as some got on tha gtab but i can tell its faster.

after the update my wifi is fixed and faster but when i try to copy over a wpa supplicant it wont even turn on. i saw that it is required for market to work.

my main thing i dont like about this tablet now or maybe the only thing is it still will not connect to ad-hoc wifi like my iphone to tether.
[A7 General] johng75:
im at a loss, the update doenst seem to want to apply either thru the update screen, with the name left just as it was downloaded, or even if i rename it to just Update.zip or update.zip and thru recovery....

i even uncompressed the file the recompressed with 7-zip

running winxp

does anyone have the MD5sum for the file?

the one i have says: 7219fd97c83be0e99fbefe837a76ebf6

edit: i just realized the origional filename is update_2.0121.zip

should i be taking that extra '.' away?
[A7 General] durango99:
It'll be the tegra gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip.

http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip

or

http://cyanogenmod-mirror.local.host.name/gapps/gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip

I'm confused why you'd have broken functionality of the buttons though. If you go into dev tools / terminal emulator

and type df -h

how much space does the line with /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 state on yours? I'm at 87% used.
[A7 General] durango99:
MD5sums 1.2 freeware for Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP+

update_2.0121.zip 7219fd97c83be0e99fbefe837a76ebf6

So looks like you got the right download file.

I just renamed it to update.zip and stripped out the _2.01021
[A7 General] jazzbone:
thanks. I just realized that I copied the wrong gapps when I screwed up before. It's been a long day...

When I type in df -h ,

it responds " -h: No such file or directory "

Is there something else I should be typing? I just opened up the terminal emulator and typed it in with my usb keyboard...
[A7 General] johng75:
nope, i renammed it that too, and going directly into recovery it cant mount SDCARD:update.zip...

i even tried to move the update.zip to the flash section called SDCARD to try... like many of you on here im planning on giving this as a gift tomorrow, and would like it working as much as possible... it seems like a very solid device, and i know the XDA devs are gonna tear it up...

that being said, im still on the ground floor... any other tricks i could try to get this MUTHA *beep* updated? haha...
[A7 General] durango99:
Ah, try just df. I installed the native busybox which has more command line features and the -h makes things easier to read (sizes in MB instead of bytes).
[A7 General] rogconnect:
I guess you have read my posts abt unable to update!

I finally got it ...updated!

I literally had to format my 2GB Kingston MicroSD on the elocity itself. Then I copy the Update.zip from a USB flash drive to the MicroSD. All these done on the tablet itself. Not sure it's the compatibility issues on the MicroSD with this tablet. That's it for me on this tablet for now. No market ! it's fine.

After thinking over...I paid $360 from Amazon and a MIFI 2200 for $150 from Walmart. Total :$510

I'd cough out another $120 to get the Samsung Galaxy TAB for $630 T-Mobile from Amazon. This A7 definitely not worth all these anxieties and hassles from an unreputable Company.

I rather buy from SAMSUNG or Asus.
[A7 General] jazzbone:
copied the correct gapps file this time.

copied the wpa again as well.

now, when i open calendar or market it asks me to add a google account.

it failed to connect to google servers.

so, i rebooted.

set up screen came up and once through that,

my tablet is feeling much better!!!:):):)

home and search buttons work again.

market, calendar and gmail all work

quadrant benchmark = 2394!

just in time to wrap it and put it under the tree for my wife!

ps. i still can't view any photos in the gallery
[A7 General] durango99:
Just 2 thoughts, with windows default settings, it hides file extensions, I'd make sure that you aren't actually naming the file update.zip.zip.

The other thing is the file has to be on the root of the microSD card and not in folder/subfolder.

Or try a different microSD card.

Sorry if these are super obvious, just making sure.

The file should be under the structure of /sdcard/sdcard-disk0/update.zip if you viewed it on the elocity file manager
[A7 General] durango99:
I feel relieved for you too :) lol want to trade problems? I can't get calendar and you can't get gallery ...

Still trying to research the calendar...bah!
[A7 General] rogconnect:
me either that gallery don't seem to work anymore!
[A7 General] durango99:
Ultimately, this coming spring, the android tablets (and tablets in general) will be flooding the market. So at this point in the ball game and in my opinion, with the tegra 2 hardware it's a 'cheaper' way tide over until next year :)

This is ultimately for my wife (as it sounds like a lot of people on here are also mentioning) so the multitouch issue isn't as big of a deal for me. I just wanted to get the google apps running for her so she didn't need to maintain paper calendar and contacts and use a notebook for checking email. That said, she'll probably use it more for a e-reader and some of the simpler games.

I knew full well getting this product that I'd have to rely on xda and some hacking to get it where it needed to go. So I guess expectations for me were pretty moderate ;)

But to each their own, right? Take care,

dan
[A7 General] durango99:
Also just want to confirm as far as gapps install this latest time around, you did just the gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip /system/app and the wpa6_adhoc-signed.zip /system/bin.

For the calendar you only extracted the 2 calendar apk's from the update-cm-6.1.0-Beta4-Harmony-signed.zip? Or did you extract everything from /system/app from this zip and overwrite the files in the elocity?

Try to figure out why gallery doesn't work for you (works for me) but calendar works for you (but doesn't work for me)

Thanks,

dan
[A7 General] jazzbone:
breakthrough again

I have gallery working.

Not sure how, though.

I previously had put some photos in a folder on my sd card named gallery.

Somehow, the tablet deleted the folder!

So, i decided to take out my sd card and put some more photos on it.

I used the sd card turn off from the pulldown at the home screen.

after copying another folder of photos on my sd card from my laptop and some music, I reinserted the card in the tablet.

The tablet wouldn't mount the card. (btw, this is a new 16gb card with no issues so far)

I restarted the tablet and the card was there. I opened up music and there were my albums, complete with artwork.

I opened up gallery and there was the cd artwork and the photos, too!

Pretty cool how the tablet automatically added the cds and photos without me having to do anything other than insert the card into the tablet :)
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Dan

I copied the tegra apps and wpa using root explorer.

I navigated to the original folder and chose menu, "multi select"

unchecked the unnecessary files (facebook and twitter) and chose copy

Navigated to system/apps folder (which I had mounted r/w with root manager) and selected paste

did the same with wpa to the bin folder (I may have even used the wpa from the tegra! I can't recall for sure)

restarted

I did not reinstall any of the calendar apk s

they were still there from before the update
[A7 General] Canadoc:
HI all while I got market working and was impressed with the speed improvement and quadrantscores I am still struggling with wifi issues.

When it works well (I.e. in the same room as the router i get great speeds (5mbs down 2.5mbd up with comcast. As soon as I get 20 feet or more away even if the signal says good, I start dropping connection or it slows way down to dial up speed if I m lucky.

I even tried taking off security on the router and rebooting it to no avail. Right now I am on my mbp on same network getting full signal as do iphone 3gs and 4.

The tablet by comaprison shows good or 2/3 signal strangth but the link speed shows 1 mbs if I go into wifi setting with a connection signal strength saying good. The thing is molasses trign to load a webpage and deosn't complete it.

I tried putting back the original wpa supplicant file, deleting the wpa supplicant filerebooting..... Nothing doing.

Many of u here said u are getting great wifi

Can u answer the following?

1)what router and WPA security

2)can you check when connected by wifi in setting/wifi setting then press on the network down below that u are connected to and report your signal strentghh and link speed?

I have a window of a week while on holiday with family to return this so if i cant get it fixed its going back
[A7 General] rogconnect:
I have Netgear WNDR 3700

WPA2-PSK [AES]

Link speed 24Mbps Excellent

so far no problems, There are no problems b4 the Updates.

I have not have the chance to connect to my MIFI 2200. I have no problems b4 , I guess shouldn't have the problem.

And i got the latest beta of Swype work !

Skype 1.00.659 not connecting!
[A7 General] jazzbone:
Candoc

I am sorry you are still having wifi issues!

Maybe you just got one with a poor antenna connection.

I am connected to a Verizon FIOS router (g not n)

using WEP security.

I can connect and surf quickly from one floor below and 40 feet away with no problems.

Sorry, but i just wrapped it, so no numbers for you right now.

You can always tell them it is defective and have them send you another one.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
Problem is I am here fro another 12 days only and I ordered it form bj's could take some time for the RMA and I go back to Canada so I won't be able to follow up.

It could be this router (Apple one) doesn't play nice with this device

problem is i have same router at home.

Will try to find somewhere with free wifi tomorrow to test.
[A7 General] nev310:
i saw in the wiki it says one of the issues is wired headphone sound quality, i figured it out and it is only on head phones with mics and an answer button and if you hold it down the sound is normal.
[A7 General] Canadoc:
can u tell me bout your wifi experience?
[A7 General] nev310:
Since the update wifi is great. Better range and it scans and connects with out me having to tell it to. Also after the update wifi works after resume and I have no more sleep of death and I have not had to reset once.

My main problem still is that no modified wpa supplicant works on my device. I tried atleast 5 different ones and used rootexplorer and another root file explorer and wifi was turned off when I copied the files. I either get An error or wifi won't turn on or it turns on says it's scanning but then turns off. Also I have not Been able to get market to work.

Sent from iPhone 4
[A7 General] johng75:
this little step right here fixed it for me... formatting the card with the device itslef... i was then able to take the card and put it into the computer, copy the files, move it back and everything worked!
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
FINALLY!!!!

My problem with wifi breaking every time I replaced wpa_supplicant? It was the friggin' file permissions! I chmod'd the new wpa_supplicant to 0755 and wifi hooked right up! Even better... Google authenticated!

Billy
[A7 General] BertoJG:
Merry Christmas first of all!

Secondly, I installed a few apps from the tab including fring and aldiko, but they keep showing back up. Any ideas?

Everything else seems to be working great. Even got weatherbug and tweetdeck to install after some mods.

I will gladly post what I did to the wiki, but it won't be till late tomorrow.

Anyone working on adb via usb? Or is that something we need the non existent such for?
[A7 General] hashbrown:
Awesome Bro!!!

Give step by step details. Im not near mine but its w/o working wifi and w/o the firmware update.
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
It's not possible via USB, but WiFi ADB works well.

Billy
[A7 General] JeepFreak:
EDIT: Shoot! I guess I forgot a set or two. Try it now.

OK,

- Unzip the hacked wpa_supplicant (Found Here) and put it on your sdcard.

- Turn off WiFi

- Plug a USB keyboard into the A7 (for some reason, the virtual keyboard is giving us troubles when entering numbers).

- Open Terminal Emulator and type

su

(The $ prompt should turn to a # prompt)

- Mount the partition as read/write

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

- Make a backup of your current wpa_supplicant

mv /system/bin/wpa_supplicant /system/bin/wpa_supplicant_backup

- Copy the hacked wpa_supplicant to the correct directory

mv /path-to-sdcard/wpa_supplicant /system/bin/wpa_supplicant

- Make sure the new file has the right permissions

chmod 0755 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant

- Exit Terminal and turn WiFi back on

- Go to "Menu" -> "Accounts & Sync" -> "Add Account"

- Reboot (because I'm too lazy to look up the command to remount the system partition as read-only).

And you're done!

Billy