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[G Tablet General] GameDoctor:
Solution works great, thanks.
[G Tablet General] Allenfx:
Confirmed.

I am using clockwork premium from the market.
[G Tablet General] GaryHypnosis:
Does Viewsonic Have a Fix for This?

Does Viewsonic Have a Fix for This that does not involve installing software that Viewsonic says will void your warranty?

This does not seem right to me that the way to fix this problem is to install third party management software and partition the SD card.

If Viewsonic doesn't offer a fix for this, then in effect there is a hardware problem with the G Tablet and Staples was completly justified in pulling the product.

I was having all kinds of forced close issues and restored the tablet in settings to factory reset and that fixed the problem for now.

Third party programs (clockworks and new ROMs ) should not be the solution for fixing problems with the G Tablet.

These problems need to be addressed by Viewsonic!

Doesn't anybody else feel this way?
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
Its a software problem. The hardware is fine.
[G Tablet General] papote18:
It was a typo, I am going to repartion the SD card and update to Vegan 5.1 hopefully that fixes the problem.
[G Tablet General] GaryHypnosis:
Manufacturing Issue

I think Viewsonic had said that the recall by Staples was due to a customer experience problem and not with a manufacturing issue. This is not a direct quote but very close.

An internal SD card is hardware, and this defect seems to be that these were possibly not formatted correctly by Viewsonic or their supplier prior to being installed into the G Tablets. And, that is a manufacturing issue. I don't want to get into a flame war with you over the terms software or hardware. My point here is that the solution should come from Viewsonic. Many people on this forum are quite comfortable with these MODs. That is not the point of my post. These may be wonderful ways of making your tablet perform the way you want it to. My problem with these solutions is that once you have made them, you have let Viewsonic "off the hook" because you have voided your warranty.

Here is a quote from Roebeet talking about opening the case on the G Tablet to push the reset button in another post. However the same could be said for all of these issues! "We shouldn't have to void our warranty (open the case and push the hard reset button), just to do a hard reset". Here is my quote "We shouldn't have to void our warranty just to get the tablet to work at an acceptable level either".

Viewsonic should provide a way to partition the SD card that does not involve voiding your warranty! Until Viewsonic comes up with a way to fix these problems in software, their stock answer when you call their tech support line is to send the unit in for repair.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
And they will update the software
[G Tablet General] orangezero:
I think I understand what you are saying, but at the same time they have released the source code and are giving updates. Another option would be just to abandon it and come out with a new device (ie samsung). I bet the majority of people buying these just think they don't work and return them. Viewsonic is probably eating their hat on this whole issue. This will be how they learn. "Return for service" seems like a really stupid way to deal with all these issues people are having

On the other hand, how many problems have you had with windows or linux which required 3rd party software to solve? I can think of quite a few.

I'm just thankful people on here 1/ know what they are doing and 2/ care enough to share answers. Thanks.
[G Tablet General] avfreak4ever:
I agree with GaryHypnosis comments, as for the past 24 hours i've been struggling with a brand-new G Tablet that crashed within 5 hours of being first powered up.

Unfortunately for me, i bought it from an ebay dealer that will not accept returns and after i called the Viewsonic G Tabet line the rep told me that the best thing to do would be to return it and ask for a new one, or try to do a reset from the "settings" control tab (since my G Tablet crashed i can't even access that any longer), or WAIT FOR 30 DAYS FROM DATE OF PURCHASE TO SEND IT TO VIEWSONIC FOR REPAIR !?!?@#f**k !?

At this point i am not even sure that Viewsonic will accept it under warranty considering that i bought it from an ebay dealer...

I can't download these Mod files because my G Tablet's web access is blocked due to the fact that i can't sign-in because the tablet's keyboard doesn't appear onscreen any longer and i tried downloading Mods by way of an USB connection between my desktop and the G Tablet, but it did not work.

Right now i feel that i committed a huge mistake by buying this piece of crap that uses an unfinished OS that doesn't even offer disk defragmentation or disk clean-up, let alone a hard button for re-set. I understand there is such a hard button located internally, but i don't see why buyers should have to deal with opening the case and voiding whatever warranty it comes with.

I will never buy another product from VIewsonic, and after my call to the company's G Tablet "experts" phone line and hearing what he told me, i would advise people to do likewise
[G Tablet General] orangezero:
As best I can tell, no one has actually permanently bricked one of these things. Anyone have a broken one for doing software mods?

Anything you install on it can be changed back to the "stock" software and I'm not sure how anyone would even know you had done anything to it. Returning it to viewsonic for software problems is equivalent to killing a gnat with a nuclear weapon. It doesn't seem worth the cost and time. I'd only do that if I lost a monitor or a touchscreen went bad (ie truly hardware related failure).

It only takes installing clockworkmod, and then vegan (5) already had working market and flash for me. It was the easiest one yet. The newer tntlite had working flash. To get the market working required about ten button presses and a reset.

I still don't understand why people try to keep going on the tnt software at all (unless you count tntlite...). OBVIOUSLY the people who made that didn't do an A+ job.

Hope I don't sound mean here, but with the wealth of knowledge on this website, why would you expect a minimum wage worker answering at the call center to know 1/10th as much as the people developing custom roms?
[G Tablet General] jwlehane:
Is there a way to confirm the partitoning worked? I am on tntlite 4.0 and things seem to have gotten worse with more force closures after the partition. This is what I did:

Clockwork backup of tntlite 3.1.4

Clockwork partitioning

reboot

clockwork update from update.zip of 4.0

Any help appreciated.
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
Did you clear cache/data when you upgraded?

Did you restore system data with Titanium Backup?

Are you using clockwork 0.8?
[G Tablet General] copperdawgnc:
Boot Loop

I have not yet installed clockwork, but did get into trouble going back to last Viewsonic update 3389 from tapntap lite 4.00 but putting this on the external SD card did allow me to reload 4.00 and fix the boot loop. I am stil getting force close errors! is there any way clear userdata without clockwork?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
The key I think with still having fc issues is that you have been on tnt lite 4, which uses the loopback hack to boost quadrant scores. Hopefully a full nvflash restore isn't needed to revert the changes it makes.
[G Tablet General] craigwillie:
Anyone having this FC issues *after* repartitioning to 2048/0?

When I 1st got my gtab I had the bootloop issue trying to upgrade to TNT. At that time I repartitioned to 2048/0 and everything has been working fine for weeks.. Today everything FCs.

Are there any other causes/resolutions to this issue?

Craig
[G Tablet General] SnakeManJayd:
Hi.

This may be a dumb question, but what exactly are you doing at the partitioning? Are you setting a specific portion(2GB) of the nand flash aside for the ROM and all it contains(kernel + GUI, etc.)? What is the 0 for in the settings? What happens to the other 14GB of nand flash?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] OfficialViewSonic:
OTA Update this week to address force closing

Expecting the push to start Jan 20.
[G Tablet General] WantADroid:
Update?

Is this going to be a full update with new function, or just a FC issue patch?

Also can you give any details on Our G tablets future? ie. Gingerbread, and Honeycomb?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
See post #31 in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=913223&page=4

Jim
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
I only (had to) use CWM once, and I probably should've paid more attention, but I think that the 1st number (2048) is for the /system, and the 2nd number (0) is for /swap (i.e., allocating no space for swap partition). I think that most of the rest of the 16GB (+/- 13GB) goes to /sdcard.

Jim
[G Tablet General] SnakeManJayd:
Thanks.

What would swap be used for normally?
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
In *nix systems, swap is kind of equivalent to the pagefile in Windows, I.e., its used to swap out blocks of memory (pages) when real memory gets full. Thete are always debates about whether swap/pagefiles are good or needed (they tend to slow things down, esp. when they start getting full, and disk is always slower than memory). The people here know more about the performance of Android, so I don't argue(much) if they say set swap to 0 :)...

Jim
[G Tablet General] SnakeManJayd:
Ok. Thanks for that answer.

Was really useful.:)

It makes more sense now.
[G Tablet General] tenshino:
With the way Android handles keeping applications idle in memory and then "killing them off" as memory becomes full, I would imagine using any kind of disc-based swap would probably cause a horrible performance hit. It's also possible that Google has designed Android specifically *not* to have a swap because of this memory management architecture and using one will cause more problems.

I agree with Jim: if the guys who are writing these custom ROM's say swap size 0, I don't think we should argue ;)

PS - Massive thanks to the devs who make the tablets as awesome as they are.
[G Tablet General] m107mm:
This is just awesome
[G Tablet General] jlytle1234:
Question about android.process.acore

I am running the latest Vegan. I bought the tablet two days ago and installed Vegan. It was running just fine. Last night it started doing the android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly error over and over. How can I figure out what is causing the error? I installed some of the Adam apps last night too. I know they can be unstable.

Should I not bother fixing it and just wipe everything and start over?

***one more thing to add***

I have seen many solutions involving wiping the contacts. I dont have any contacts and I cant find the contacts folder in the /data folder of root. I cant even find a place to wipe the contacts. My contacts app wont open, nor will the phone icon on the desktop.

***I sorted this out*** It was the contacts after all. I found where to wipe them clean.
[G Tablet General] julesy:
Applications still closing....

Hi,

I am running TNT lite 4.2. I followed the instructions for setting the partition sizes to 2048 and 0. I still have a number of apps that are closing on start up - Angry Birds and dungeon Hunter being two of them.

I have seen in other threads that the disk may be in read only mode. How do I go ahead and diagnose this? to see if this is really the situation on my tablet?

Also, after partitioning the SD Card, I wipe the cache and then the data. While wiping data, I get the warning "No app2sd partition found. Skipping format of /sd-ext." Is this normal, or is this likely related to my issue?

Help!

Thanks in advance,

Julesy
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
The error is normal. I would suggest a wipe of cache in cwm and if that doesnt work try wiping data.
[G Tablet General] MSU_Sparty:
I have had my GTablet since early December and have been running the Stock Enhancement since early January. I have had no problems except for a very occasional unexpected stop. It was never a real problem.

Yesterday I started getting the android.process.acore error literally anytime I tried to use any application. To my knowledge, I had not installed anything recently that would account for this.

The good news is that I followed multiple threads here and came up with what seemed to be a reasonable solution.

I installed Clockwork and reset the partition to 2048/0 as suggested by several posts. I also cleared everything that I could clear using their menu.

Then I installed NVFlash which I believe put me back to the plain vanilla factory OS. (I also think this wiped out Clockwork Mod but I'm not positive.)

I got the "update available" message and did the OTA update of the OS.

Then I installed the TnT Stock Enhancement update and applied the Market Fix.

Everything seems back to normal now.

I want to thank all of the forum members who posted the various instructions that allowed me to piece together this solution.

I realize that not everyone has the same issues when problems occur so there isn't one single fix that is right for everyone. I didn't really understand that until I had this problem. I feel lucky that I've had relatively no problems.

I have to admit that I'm looking carefully at the Motorola Xoom because I suspect it has a much more stable hardware/software infrastructure but I would rethink that if the Viewsonic folks would be more forthcoming about their plans to support upgrades for the GTab. I can live without 3G if I have stability.

Thanks again to all of you experts out there in xda-developers forumland.
[G Tablet General] cbmoore9:
Wanted to thank Rothnic for this post. I started the gtab up yesterday to be welcomed with FC's on every program. All my user data seemed to be corrupted. Not sure why I was bit because I'm careful to shutdown properly each time. I'm running TNT lite 4.2.0. Anyway after much research I decided to use these steps. It worked great although I lost all my apps which I knew would happen. I reloaded everything and now she works better than ever. One thing I noticed was a vast improvement in my speaker volume. They blast much higher now. Does that make sense to anyone? I have always had low speaker volume previously which seems to be a common complaint.
[G Tablet General] adca14:
Quick question, if i do this, will I have to reinstall my rom? (I'm using Vegan B5.1)
[G Tablet General] Reggie777:
How I fixed the fc's...

I was having the massive fc symptoms and was about to do the reformat. When I went into ClockworkMod, I noticed a "correct permissions" option. On a lark, I chose that option, figuring it might correct the various apps fighting for attention, and closing. I don't know if it is coincidental, or the reasoning behind this, but, knock wood, so far, I have not had any fc's. I don't want to talk too soon. And I don't know if it would help anyone else. So I cannot recommend this for anyone else since I do not know the technical explanation. But this worked for me.

TnT 4.2.5, ClockworkMod, Titanium Backup.
[G Tablet General] ncordle:
Wow... thanks so much for this. I was about to reformat as well, but the "fix permissions" has at least got me back into what appears to be a functioning mode. Thank you for saving me an hour or so.

Vegan 5.1
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
Reggie,

FYI, I had just installed Swiftkey from Amazon market, and, while I don't know if it was coincidental, I started getting a bunch of FCs, and then I found your post above. I didn't really want to wipe my device, and I happened to have CWM installed as my recovery, so I tried your suggestion.

It took quite a long time for CWM to finish "Fix permissions", but after that I told CWM to reboot, and all of the FCs were gone, except for Smart keyboard was still FCing.

That seems problematic with Smart keyboard, i.e., I've seen it before.

So, I wanted to remove it, but it wasn't showing up in Settings, so I had to do a temp root using Z4root.

That didn't work, when I tried, it'd reboot the Gtab.

So, I rebooted, and uninstalled Z4root via Settings, and then re-installed it, and then I adb'ed into the Gtab, and deleted the com.cdeguet.* files from /system/app (I'm on TNT and with TNT, keyboard APKs have to go into /system/app).

I then rebooted, and then in Settings, it showed Smart keyboard, so I did Uninstall, and now things are good.

I copied the swiftkey APK from /data/app to /system/app, and now have Swiftkey working.

I'll need to re-install Smart keyboard again, but your tip, of using Fix Permissions in CWM has saved me a TON of time, not having to re-install all of the apps, etc.

So, thanks!!

Jim
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
P. S. I did lose some Apps like Angry birds, and my home screen got wiped, but fixing those things was a lot less work than a complete wipe.

Jim
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
Hi,

Well, it seems like Smart keyboard is bad ju-ju with Swiftkey, or vice-versa.

I tried to re-install Smart keyboard again, and it started FC'ing, so I uninstalled Swiftkey and am re-installed Smart keyboard, and the latter is ok.

Jim
[G Tablet General] buzzzard:
FC Issues

+1 on the Clockwork permissions fix.

I notice that a lot of apps and items seem to have permissions other than what Clockwork assigns. I am not sure if this is sub-optimal or what, but I have seen far fewer force close issues with apps after I have fixed permissions.

-Buzzz
[G Tablet General] nkrauss:
Missing Tablet Storage after repartition

I did these steps and for the first time my tablet isn't crashing non stop. However I went to Storage, Tablet Storage, and it lists Total space at 1.79gb and Available space at 1.58gb

It used to be like 16gb before I did this. Did I do something wrong? I did the 2048/0 repartition.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

UPDATE: A second restart, and the tablet storage has now appeared.
[G Tablet General] Pinckneyite:
Help: android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly

Well I was reading along, new gTablet owner that I am, courtesy of Woot, since, after getting my gTablet earlier this week, and adding the programs that seemed to be desirable, last evening I began getting this error all the time; can't get into settings or much of anything. From what I have been reading, I am wondering if the problem was caused by my loading Skype and then possibly having contacts issues. So I am waiting here today hoping that someone will come to my rescue. And I am wondering about the issue with being able to access internal sdcard drive memory after the partitioning, as is the person just before me. Gonna be lots of Wooters showing up here with the same issues, I bet.
[G Tablet General] Tester30:
Is it safe to say that you're using stock ROM?

Then there might be your problem. Try different ROMs in Dev section, they run much better.

About Skype. It does not work with the stock ROM, neither with TNT Light.

Does work with G-adam, thou. Or let's say did work for me when I ran G-adam 1.1.0.

Hope it helps to solve your FC problem.
[G Tablet General] K J Rad:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9454175

See if that helps at all.
[G Tablet General] dhayden:
This is not the case with me. Did total upgrade and dropped and dragged update.zip to sdcard. Tnt lite v4.3.0 kernel 2.6.32.9-00000-10.8.2. I have Skype installed and running beautifully. Installed a ton of aps already and have only had one forced closure involving Google search on internet hmmmm. I am wondering what programs are involved or not? Maybe it is a shutdown issue? ?
[G Tablet General] [__--MUD--__]:
Eveything went to hell on mine this week...i noticed the same internal space, available space.
[G Tablet General] Madoc Owain:
I am also a new Woot tablet owner, and I've installed NOTHING. Zero. Zip. No new apps, no rooting, no new UI. Bupkis. I've had the tablet charged since Friday evening, and less than 3 hours runtime on it. I was using Facebook then opened Angry Birds but powered off before starting a game. Turned it back on again an hour later and all I get are the failing application messages. If I'm lucky, I can see the weather, but that's it.

Fortunately, I've already RMA'd the tablet due to dead pixels, but it's a brick to me now. I can't understand how this is supposed to be a consumer device. The Apple Tax suddenly doesn't seem so bad. I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy, based on what I've seen.

That being said, I am geek enough that when my replacement tablet comes, I'm going to root and replace the UI with something, anything more reliable, and enjoy the challenge.

M.O.
[G Tablet General] blackjaguar:
Skype Works

Just wanted to say I'm running completely stock 3588 and Skype works great. I just got my tablet from woot and did the OTA and installed Skype. However, I believe during installation it asked if I wanted to sync contacts and I said no.
[G Tablet General] mydave1:
I tried Clemsyn-Calkulin combo as several feedback said that the phone works. But it didn't for me. Always had FC after opening the phone and entering a phone number to dial. Even after re-flashing the second time, same problem.

There is no contact info, no skype, just a fresh installation after Calkulin_format and Clear Dalvik-cache.

Other apps ran fine.

All helps are most appreciated
[G Tablet General] nuismer:
Can't follow this fix - Please help

Hi: I got my g tablet about a month ago. Since then I have been able to install the market and fix from the great tips from this site. I have the stock ROM and wanted to install TnT Lite. After reading a lot of ways to do it on this site, I tried to install ClockWorkMod 08, After several attempts with and without ROOT, I gave up. Now I get a message "Sorry - The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. FORCE CLOSE. It occurs sometimes every 5-20 seconds and sometimes for much longer if I am not doing any activity. It also sometimes flashes another message briefly about the TnT keyboard. I can't get the keyboard to come up in any app that requires it. Most of the apps will work even with the message in the foreground (I just say OK). But Settings, Contacts, Gmail, and To-Do list get the message right away and will not run. I re-installed the TnT 3588 recovery ROM but it didn't help any. With Settings out, I can't do the "reset to factory". Is there another way to do a factory reset or would installing the TnT lite ROM fix my problem? Thanks for any help

UPDATE: Thanks to ShiftyBob for his post in "process com.android.acore FC and how I fixed it" Although I saw minor differences in the language on my Tab, Using Titanium Backup as he suggested fixed my FC problem -- Thanks again
[G Tablet General] ThatGeekGuy:
CWM Fix Permissions took care of my fc problems on Vegan 5.1. :)
[G Tablet General] jocallag997:
My G Tab starting FC everything and would not work at all

I was unable to get in and do everything after a completely clean shutdown it just went belly up. So many force closes and could not connect over usb. Luckily I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup Pro Root edition and I went right to replacing my stock although slightly modified stock with Roebeet's tnt lite 4.4.0 rom image. The process was extremely easy to perform and within a matter of 30 minutes I had the replacement rom installed everything reset back to factory defaults and I was restoring all my apps from Titanium Backup. Not sure what caused the mishap but I am glad it did because this rom is so much faster once booted and everything works out of the box.

I may have been able to clockwork mod my system with NVFlash but it was easier to load a new rom off the SDCARD2. Thanks to all the devs
[G Tablet General] s9amme:
one of Wooters who got their G-Tab a week or two ago. Been running Vegan 5.1.1 since I got it. Then today, a bunch of FC's when I booted up the device after work. Everything from VTL Launcher to any of the other apps I've downloaded. The stock apps/launcher seemed to be stable though. Anyway, I did the CWM "fix permissions" option and everything seems to be working again. Thanks for the tip on that! Saved me a full wipe!