yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
thanks to fast guy ! Modification on /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf works ! :)

I can see wifi network and connect to my personal wifi.

But DNS addresses did not work. I have 0.0.0.0. I don't have /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file. I copy your file on the right place and with the good name but it does not work ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] juanjo1024:
besides the 2.3 thrill and all.. is it normal that cpu speed is always stuck at 800mhz? doesnt this tablet have any kind of cpu speed management ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
I have to say I'm liking the speed of this ROM, applications load quickly, input does not feel laggy, video playback performance seems to be improved. I had the wifi issues, but they're solved using the methods outlined by fastguy (thanks!)

Now for the not so good bits:

1. Force closes on market. Don't know if it's something I did, or if it came this way.

2. ES file explorer no longer streams many video file types that used to stream before.

3. Still no CIFS support. I tried the CIFS.ko posted by bbq a while back, along with a script command to do the CHMOD, but it keeps coming up with the "no such device" error. CIFS support is important to me, especially if I can't even stream from a samba share anymore like I used to.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
I can use wifi only if I fix manual IP address with all parameters (DNS, gateway and subnet mask).

I can't find Facebook or Twitter with the Market. I tried to do the old manipulation to have full market (force to close market, clear cache, force to close Google Framwork Services and clear data, reset) but I find less applications ! :(

So, I am going to try other manipulation to have full market.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fastguy:
Wolfen, did you check permissions of the new dhcpcd.conf file? It's not dhcp.conf! It is dhcpcd.conf pay attention to that. Make sure the file is owned by dhcp user and dhcp group, and make sure it has rw permissions on user & group.

chown dhcp.dhcp /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd.conf

chmod 0660 /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd.conf

reboot

good luck!

For market etc. make sure you have the right date & time otherwise the google account can't sign it.

---------- Post added at 12:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:24 PM ----------

I think we need to find a new CIFS.ko compiled with the gingerbread kernel. The modules depend on kernel and you can't use froyo kernels on gingerbread.

I did not yet see force-close on market, but i did not yet have time to play a lot with it (trying to debug this wifi issue!) :)

---------- Post added at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:27 PM ----------

I installed market enabler from google code page and used the 1st operator on the list but I also can't see Facebook or Twitter apps.

We need to get a new market and maybe some manipulations on some config files to mimic Samsung tabs.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
Understood, and thanks for the reply. About the streaming, I got all my functionality back via File Expert and Rockplayer and/or VPlayer. Still, would rather have CIFS support.

I'll do more investigation of the market fc when I get a chance, I'm thinking that since it's not common to everyone, it must be a problem with my particular setup or something I did in settings. Use of the latest leaked .apk gives me a "you must first set up an account" error, where uninstalling updates gives me back the FC. Amazon market works fine, as always, and that will also force close if you have the wrong date and time.

Also, is there baked-in support for ad-hoc networks in this ROM? I can't see my phone's wifi sharing, so I assume no...

I know the dock connector will provide USB host to some of the USB CDMA modems and such, is there a straightforward set of USB pins on the connector at the tablet that I could take and reverse/tap, such that I could hide, say, the guts of a USB GPS inside the tablet? I'd be interested in possibly doing same with a modem in the future, but GPS, to me, would increase the capability of the tablet quite a bit...for cheap.

(Is it this? http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml pins 16, 23 25 27?)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
Fastguy, you are right ! I change owner/group and permissions for dhcpcd.conf and it works !

I have some backup of my app folder so I can install them easily ... but market will be good thing !

edit few minutes after ... no chance for me, dhcp does not give me dns address. After a reboot, I have 0.0.0.0 for DNS1 and 2 ... I investigate ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fastguy:
Put the same file with same owner & permissions to also here:

/system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd.conf

/data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd.conf

If this also does not work, you can check what's going on easily, give the logcat command, when the printout is done, click the "turn-on wifi" in your tablet's interface and watch what's going on.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
Ok, I copy the file in /system/etc/dhcpcd/ and it works ... I will say tomorrow if this solution is the good one !
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ptrykov:
Just flashed my gpad (logo with Bluetooth) with android 2.3rc1 and my touchpad is not working. Wifi and camera works fine. Before that tried to flash android 2.3 beta1 rom touchpad was working but no camera and wifi. How can I use 2,3 beta1 touchpad driver in 2,3rc1?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Metalazzo:
Hello guys !

It's very nice that all of you understanding how Android works are working on a 2.3 rom for our herotad/gpad/htpad :)

Will it be possible to have a zip file or whatever to flash our tablet with everything working without having to enter commands in terminal ?

Seeing how you guys advance, I feel like I want to stick with this tablet a little longer (almost bought M12 with A8@1,2GHz and 2.3 android embedded).

Will it be possible to overclock a little the little imx515 SoC ?

Thank you and keep up the good work !
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bunheadnux:
I have two of these pads and one is working GREAT on this GB build. I had to make a few adjustments that fastguy documented to get my DHCP to work correctly. Now for the weirdness. Like I said I have two of these pads. One is aluminum backed 8 GB model and it runs slatedroid and this GingerBread build quite well. The other one is a plastic backed 4 GB model and although it runs slatedroid quite well I cannot get this build of GingerBread to run. The upgrade through recovery says that everything went well but when I try to boot it is gets stuck on the first splash screen. I can still get into recovery but it will not get past the circle with the coloured bar running through it. I suspect that it doesn't like something in either the u-boot or the uimage (kernel) but I am having a hell of time figuring out why. Other than the amount of memory in these pads they are basically identical.

Any ideas?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bqq100:
Same problem with my GPad 8GB with logo w/o bluetooth wifi only. I get the kernel splash screen, but it just sit there. I'm betting there is a kernel panic or something similar stopping the boot process, but I have no way to verify that. :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
I experienced the exact same problem (there's hope, read on!)...my tablet was originally a 4GB model, and I had, since the original purchase, upgraded the internal card to an 8 Gig. I essentially upgraded to this newer 2.3 firmware twice, the second time is what gave me the errors you describe. I was on an older firmware when I upgraded the first time, straight from what I was running (a March build of the factory firmware with a few add-ons, iirc) to the 2.3 that glynlucas posted, but using the "system only" upgrade from memory card, I didn't bother to do the "clean install" that glynlucas offered up in the same post #890.

Since I was having various minor problems, I decided that now would be a good time to upgrade to a class 10 memory card and do a clean firmware flash to it. I first tried going to Singularity v5, which worked fine, then doing the system-only upgrade from glynlucas, but it re-booted with the symptoms you describe (stuck on either the battery charge screen or the "G" screen, depending on whether it was plugged in or not). I then tried upgrading from various other firmware, thinking that it might be the particular version of Singularity that was at fault.

Nothing worked, until I did the below.

1) Remove the tablet's internal memory card, hook it up to my PC, and clean it with a freeware partition manager (Easeus Partition Master trial), deleting all partitions until there was nothing left but unallocated space

2) Replace the internal memory card in the tablet and do the "clean" install that glynlucas posted (#890), from MFGtool.

3) Do the "system only" upgrade that glynlucas posted right below the "clean" install, from the external memory card. Make sure the external card is first cleaned of all partitions in your partition manager software, then format in Windows to fat32, then place the update folder with update.txt inside on the card, then put it in the tablet's external slot and update as you normally would.

I was so happy when it finally booted to the 2.3 rooted version, it's running great now, no wireless problems from the get-go, no force closes on the app store, browsing/surfing is much improved, and it feels like a new tablet. I tried a few games, and it seems even the position sensor is sorted, I was able to drive a few laps in a racing game without an issue. I even tried hooking up a USB keyboard to it and it handled that no problem. One thing I've learned about my tablet: Only certain firmwares with certain versions of MFGtool are happy with an internal memory card formatted in Windows, and since Windows doesn't seem to like you removing the primary partition, it's easiest to use a freeware partition manager to sort out the card before you do any system updates...after a good cleaning, I got none of the "256" errors, and none of the other errors either.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jefflyonfr:
Hello Wolfen, i'm Jeff from "Apad France" administration ;-) , i did the same modifications on my Gpad Gforce today (+ wpa_supplicant file modification) and now wifi works very well, i can see netwoks and connect ;-p

It works with my "freebox" connexion ; i tried with my "livebox" wifi professional wifi connexion, tablet looks connected but internet data transfer doesn't work (Ip adress dhcp seems to be ok) ...

Perhaps your problem is with your wifi connexion box, not your tablett. Hope it will help you

Best regards
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
OK, after one day, DHCP works ! I tried with several wifi connexion (I was not in my house this weekend !) and I had DNS addresses every where !

So, dhcpcd.conf must be in /data/misc/dhcp and in /system/etc/dhcp in my case ...

After few days, I can tell that the gPad seems to be much reactive, it works perfectly. Autonomy is good and it responds speeder than with Froyo. Only bad thing but not really important for me : no camera ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] juanjo1024:
is it normal to get download unsuccessful for every app in the market with the new firmware? anybody else with this problem ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ddish:
Well i also got the wifi to work perfectly, as everything else. The only problem now is the time and date. Every time i turn on the pad it has to be reset. It wont hold the time and then most wifi functions will not work until i set the correct time and date. Anyone else have this problem or have a fix?

Thanks for the help so far...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jefflyonfr:
Ola juanjo1024 !

- You first have to set your Google account in FROYO release

- launch Google Market ( + accept terme and conditions + let Market finish settings and activation)

- update ROM with Gingerbread release (the rooted one)

I think it will be ok after this ;-)

Hope it will help you
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bunheadnux:
This version of GB is AMAZING! I charged my tablet to 100% about 2 days ago and I still have ~45% battery left! I will admit that I have not been using it much, just some light web surfing, market downloads and playing around with a few apps. I am trying to see how how long the battery will last with "wife use" and so far I am VERY impressed. Even with the stock firmware I was never able to get more than 24 hours out of the tablet even if it was just sitting in deep sleep. Now if I can only get this other tablet working.............
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
Did you try the steps I outlined in my last post? Same exact symptoms and I overcame it...it might be an opportunity to change out the memory card to a class 10 8GB if you think the card size has anything to do with it, and you're still on the class 4 4GB that came with it (yeah, I think we have the exact same model)...

edit: Earlier, I mistakenly cited fastguy's post, I meant to say glynlucas's post of the firmware, post #890.

By the way, I think I spoke too soon on the accelerometer, it still sucks in some games...what has been other's experiences?

...and yeah, the battery life is great on this FW, I was up playing Robot Defense until the wee hours of the morning and it sipped juice like a solar-powered wristwatch. I'm also noticing much greater stability...they must have realized some efficiencies in the rendering somewhere, I don't know what else would account for the greater performance and great battery life. Still had to rename phone.apk, tho. Can't wait 'till there's a Singularity or some tweaked versions floating around.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] juanjo1024:
Hi Jeff, thanks, i ended up installing the latest version of the market (3.1.5 ) right from the apk and it started working right away... i also had to reinstall flash and other stuff to work, seems many of the apps i had installed got "disconnected or unregistered" or something from the system when i updated to 2.3.. .i didnt do a data wipe, and i kept all the programs and configurations. now everything works perfectly.. it really is way faster/ more responsive than froyo. And cpu clock now reduces to 160mhz when idle, i had it stuck at 800 with froyo.

thanks for all the help you provided.

Juanjo
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
Juanjo1024 : can you post a link for this version of the Market please ? Thanks a lot ...

OK, forget it ... I found it myself ... I'm a bad boy, I forgot my best friend Google ! :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
@glynlucas: Am I correct in thinking that the "clean slate" firmware and MFGtool you posted uses the linux script that accounts for varying size memory cards? Or does this only work on the 8 Gigabyte cards?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glynlucas:
Hi, yes it does. It should work with 16GB too (although I haven't tried it with 16GB only a couple of troublesome 8GB cards that seemed to be very slightly smaller than most)

It should then install cleanly without the need to adjust the dhcp script.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
That was my experience...thanks for posting it!:D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dcoelho:
One more Gingerbrad GPAD on the team

One more Gingerbrad GPAD on the team.

The Wifi problems were sorted with the fastguy recipe.

Thank you
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ddish:
Time issues

Is no one else having the time and date issue I am having? I cannot be the only one here...:p
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bunheadnux:
I got the issue with one of my tablets sorted by using the "clean install" of 2.2. So far so good. Now on to official WAF testing :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glynlucas:
clock issue

Hi, I'm working on the clock issue. In the meantime, I'm using ClockSync. It can be set to auto set the clock on boot up.

Hope that helps...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bqq100:
Which clean install did you use?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ddish:
Yes it did. Thanks so much!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
Installation of Market 3.1.5 makes the Market working perfectly ! Very good !

Now, last thing to do : the camera ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] juanjo1024:
its weird. im having no problems with the clock... i may be luckier :)

maybe it has something to do with the fact that i upgraded from firmware 1.6.7 without cleaning any data ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jefflyonfr:
Same upgrade process for me : froyo 1.6.7 + NO data cleaning = NO clock issue ;-)

Hope will help you ;-)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] worldishis:
I would like to thank all of the vendors and manufacturers "secretly" representing their respective products for making complete and utter fools of themselves; its making everyones decision to purchase an easy one.

You have littered the web with your garbage on countless forums and vendors websites lambasting one another in a failed attempt to appear like legitimate consumers. I feel bad for the people that took these for earnest reviews and bought these obviously inferior (93 pages of problems and counting) electronics.

I wish you all spent the time and compassion in making or selling great electronics that you do in trying to lie and con your way into people buying inferior ones. Legendary companies are built on providing great products and services at competitive prices while the scraps are given to the shady backhanded dealers looking to make a living on conning their customers into buying their wares. Coincidence?

Enjoy the scraps.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
There's 93 pages of discussion here, primarily focused on customized firmware interspersed with some questions and complaints about difficulties with custom firmware, and yes, some customer complaints about the tablet in general...but the vast majority of people get a product that works out of the box, and to put this custom firmware-centered thread forward as some sort of illustration of the average user experience is just silly, imho.

This machine (HT_Pad1051 in its many variants), at the time I purchased it, ran about $275. At that time, the Motorola Xoom and the Viewsonic were the only other major retailer android tablets out, and one of these was $500+ with a cellular data contract, and the other came with an inferior LCD panel. At that time, I think that asking $275 for a tablet with this performance and a quality 4:3 IPS panel at 9 inches, as well as an available memory card slot, was a very good deal.

I'm very happy with my purchase...but if I had to make a tablet purchase today, I'd probably go for the ASUS transformer, which is nearing the $300 territory. Today, I don't think there are any Chinese retailers offering a decently competitive deal where it's worth asking only a little less money for less customer service availability and, in some cases, less app functionality and less performance.

And by the way, just so you know...I'm an electrical engineer by trade, and I live on the east coast...I have nothing to do with distributing Chinese tablets.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glynlucas:
Name names...

Wow! There is some serious vitriol there...

All I can say is I purchased my product at the price point that made it quite clear that I wouldn't be purchasing an iPad equivalent. Personally, I wanted something I could work with, enjoy pulling apart and learn from, in the hope that at the end of the process I would have an item that worked the way I wanted!

Anyone who thought they were buying a finished consumer iPad clone for half the price should do their homework a little better. If the biggest customer support group is built around a development site like XDA then as far as I'm concerned, people shouldn't be so easily parted from their cash!

The fact is, the hardware represents good value for money and has the potential to realise a very good product in the right hands.

I think it would make more sense posting your particular comment on a consumer website rather than xda-developers. IMHO
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakn:
I would say....don't spent any time replying to that kind of messages. 3 replies is already too much.

Like it or leave it.

Lets stay on focus how to get more out of this tablet! :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakn:
Hmmmm looks like there's a new version called Beta 6 out there. I've used google translate so I'm not 100% sure this one's better then the RC1 but according to the timestamp this is a new one

gaopad.com/thread-4916-1-1.html

Hope someone can confirm and let us know what the differences are
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GernBlanston:
That link doesn't seem to work..but I did find the gaopad forums.

...and, I found out via Google translate that there is in fact a Chinese tablet named the "Lovemaster"...and there are several strange and interesting translated thread titles in that particular section of the forum.

Threads such as:

"Foreigners really strong man, the love master..."

and

"Love yourself conversion Master"

Edit: We're on RC1, are you sure beta 6 isn't the older of the two firmwares?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakn:
I'm sorry,forgot to mention i cannot create a url (yet) on this forum,so i skipped the www ... thought it would work :-)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glynlucas:
I can confirm that Beta 6 is older. I posted the rooted version of RC1 for them last week. They are no further along than we are. However, it is interesting that the camera modules from Beta6 may hold out some hope for the version of the GPad or M10 most of us are using.

They are also suffering from the time issue.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] juanjo1024:
one thing i noticed but its probably not important.. camera does not give me FC anymore with this firmware, it just gives me a black image....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wolfen13fr:
Yes, you are right : for the Camera, the application Camera does not crash. There's a black screen in place of the camera view. And the log does not give us a lot of information.

With Froyo, the logs helped us : Camera crashed because of a driver issue. But it is different with this gingerbread rom ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] badwolf3000:
same problem here, and mine wont wake after a screen timeout. otherwise wow. this rom has improved my pad in every other way. thanks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mmix65:
Hi guys,

I confirm this ROM is fantastic.

I have the problem on wi-fi, I think about DHCP, but I have to investigate. Wi-fi connected and I have IP 192.168.1.9, but on my router this IP is not assigned.

I tryed to follow your indication, coping dhcpcd.conf in /data/misc/dhcp and in /system/etc/dhcp, I give the permissions indicated from fastguys:

chown dhcp.dhcp /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd.conf

chmod 0660 /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd.conf

but I'm no lucky.

Any suggestion?

Thanks