hello all, I just got my Sero 7 Pro, so far I am only charging it.
I was wondering what are some of the best suggested things to do to it? for example, for future proofing? I was just wondering, if like my ipod touches, to save the SSH blobs was suggested prior to updating and then every update...is there something like that for these?
this is also my first Android device as well...so I'm about as green as green can get ... I have an ELM327 Bluetooth device I was hoping to use with Torque on this device too.
any info and suggestions would be awesome, thanks.
Got my zero a weak ago. I recommend nvision (nvidia's app) highly. Belkin's 7" universal keyboard case does fit the zero, barely, and it won't close properly. Im debating weather I should try to modify it out maybe return it and get the bigger android keyboard for ten dollars less (it was a gift). Nothing else worth sharing except drippler.
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thanks allot for the help and tips, I'll be sure to keep those in mind.
I was also wondering if there was any reason to back up anything prior to updating, if there is an update for it when I boot it up for the first time.
thanks,
thanks allot for the help and tips, I'll be sure to keep those in mind.
I was also wondering if there was any reason to back up anything prior to updating, if there is an update for it when I boot it up for the first time.
thanks,
I haven't experience any problems with the updates yet, but it doesn't hurt to have a back up just in case.
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thanks, what is the best app for backing up the sero 7 pro? and does it back up everything, like a ghost image? or just similar to *dare I say it* itunes back up? LOL....
TIA
A lot of people use Titanium Backup (often just called TB). You will have to root your device to use it, but it does a very good job.
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The app won't show in the market so you'll have to sideload it but SPB shell 3d now has a tablet mode. It's basically landscape mode and it uses higher res graphics instead of stretching it out.
I've been using it all day.. works pretty nicely. The auto orientation is a bit slow and sometimes buggy so I've kept it on landscape only. Your mileage may vary.
How did you side load? I own and use my HTC Evo.
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How did you side load? I own and use my HTC Evo.
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Pull via adb. Then copy to your SD card and install.
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Adb? Android Debug Bridge? I sure hope not. Lol you mean pull it from my phone and copy?
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You can download from FAQ on their website. It looks like an older version though. I'm not sure where to get the "tab" version. If there is an APK, can someone post it. It requires a serial once started, so should be fine.
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Adb? Android Debug Bridge? I sure hope not. Lol you mean pull it from my phone and copy?
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yes, that's what he means. very simple procedure.
Lol, to you maybe.
I got the update on my phone. If you hit menu, go to home screen options, and experimental options, you can change from smartphone to tablet mode.
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Found it on FAQ. Looks great behind activate screen. Unfortumately i don't have access to my serial number and my email address used is no longer active. Im waiting on a response from spb for the serial number. Found the google receipt, but no serial number. I could almost buy it from handmark again just tl instantly get a serial number to lay with this.
I was really hoping their tablet version would come out soon. I think if you can combine the touchwiz functions with the SPB workflow, itll make the GT10.1 a home run.
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screenies please i would love to see what it looks like landscape...
Got my serial number. Man i love this thanks mr bomb for alerting me to this. I loved this app when i had a winmo 6 htc diamond and then on my htc evo 4g. I saw the demo for tablets a while ago and been drueling ever since.
I almost have my screens built and laid out. Id be happy to post pics but don't know how on non rooted stock rom. Maybe the TW ROM will be out next week and can use its built in function.
But i assure you folks this is the best home screen replacement. It has lots of wonderful and useful widgets included. You can also infinitely add or remove home panels.
Has anyone figured out if you can dock more than just the 1 icon in lower left as well as the app drawer? In the smartphone installaton/mode you can have 4 plus the 2D home to 3D home soft button. It would be awesome to have this on the tablet. I would easily uninstall ADW. Also has anyone tried setting as default home amd seeing if it sticks? My default home setting never sticks. I set it and then get pompted for it again.
Lastly, I had a bad experience when trying the VLT app on my Asus Transformer. I set as default and then it would not boot up. I had to return it. i definitely domt want a repeat. Lol
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Set as default home and it sticks! Yes! I can reboot and no hang ups. Awesome! This made my tablet even more awesome than it was. Nlw if Touchwiz will come out so i can take screenshots.... Ill post em!
Thanks mr bomb. You made my day!
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One word of caution... don't enable live wallpaper is you're running this. I tried a few times and every time I had to uninstall SPB to get it to load up again. Other than that it worked great. I just wish it was more full screen instead of the multiple panes.
I have it installed but needs serialnumber, i have purchased spb shell some time ago via android market... in this case did anyone got the sn from spb support?
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No you don't get serial number via Android Market. You have to buy from their site a 2nd time to get a S/N. I Google's for a discount code and got a 20% discount.
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One word of caution... don't enable live wallpaper is you're running this. I tried a few times and every time I had to uninstall SPB to get it to load up again. Other than that it worked great. I just wish it was more full screen instead of the multiple panes.
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See I have something odd. I have done live and static wallpaper and it didn't screw it up. I kept getting watch dog alerts on Android Core (home.) But nothing bad. All of a sudden today, I got to work and put it on my media dock and every app popped up with force closure. Then I got a pop up that looked like the SPB font and said my installation could no longer be authenticated. SPB dropped to my Honeycomb Launcher. Now my wifi at work requires a browser to sign in, and i had not done it yet. SPB will not startup. I uninstalled/reinstalled, cleared cache, etc. It just won't start up.
I passed on to their support. But I appear to be stuck and unable to use it at all. it makes me very sad. It really made my weekend to setup and use SPB Shell. But it is all gone now. If I do get it working again, ill have to start over again.
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The way I got it installed is this...
Installed on my phone. Used root explorer to copy the apk from system/app to the root of my sd card. Then I uploaded it to my dropbox account and downloaded it on my tablet. Worked like a charm. I'm assuming this is because it was authenticated already with my SN when I installed it on my phone? Or maybe because my tablet is signed into my gmail account.
Awe.... gotcha. Where is it on the phone? I'm not rooted on my Evo 4G or Grab. So may not be able to do what you did?
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Awe.... gotcha. Where is it on the phone? I'm not rooted on my Evo 4G or Grab. So may not be able to do what you did?
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It's in the system/app folder I believe. You need to be rooted to copy it out of there.
Can someone post screenshots for those of us who haven't installed yet?
Awe. I'm am going from an Evo 4G to Nexus S 4G this week. So I am probably not gonna risk rooting and bricking my phone. It would bring down the already low resell value on eBay. Lol
Maybe SPB will be kind enough to respond to my issues, even if they are not supporting it yet on tablets. It will hopefully be worth their time learning how to address it and advance their timeline for full release.
Maybe after I get my nexus and install it there, I can root and find it if SPB decides to not help. It will install but nothing happens now when i press home and select SPB. I get the SPB Mobile Shell 3D is starting with the circle going round and round .... but not even the serial box pops up. I do notice that it accumulates 1.07mb of data during this process. Ill clear the cache and same result each time. Its like something completely obliterated every app, but permanently for SPB when i sat the tab on the media dock today.
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Just managed to bag myself one fo these from a high-street retailer in the UK and all I can say is WOW - first impressions are really good.
Out of the box, the hardware is really impressive for a tablet costing half the price of iPad. The screen is fantastic and the whole presentation is really high end considering the price.
The only one problem is the software as it stands. It has a 1ghz A8 - like the Galaxy P1000 - however, with the software build installed, it seems to chug along - Flash player works well but does stutter on anything over 240p quality. Viewscene 3D - which I beleive is SPBs mobile shell, really lags and the web browsing experience (although accurate in it's reproduction) is a little frustrating. I replaced the launcher with ADW which works really well and the browser of choice is now Opera.
I have been searching all forums to see if there are any developers working on ROMs but as it is so new, there don't seem to be many. Is there anyone out there? I contacted Viewsonic themselves and found there response really upbeat and definitely looks like they will be supporting the software side of things in a big way.
The response suggested some big news regarding improvements to the user experience which I can only speculate on.
Good luck if you can get one - its great quality at a reasonable price.
Only question facing me know is which case to get - with the device being same size as iPad - there are plenty to choose from.
If anyone is interested in working on the software/ROM, please get in touch - I am comfortable with ADB and the command line but know very little about programming or building the OS!
Cheers all.
Hi steviesteve78
I agree, Viewscene 3D looks pretty much like SPB shell
I just bought a Viewpad 7e for my father, works very fine for the investment. Trying to put Gapps on it with the cyanogenmod 7 gapps pack.
Did you managed to connect to your 10e with ADB ?
Thx,
Jafo
Hi
Recently purchased one of these too, first impressions are good but i cant seem to get iplayer or 4OD to play videos.
Any ideas?
I'm thinking of getting one of these too. But I'm a bit concerened about the 'dated' SC A8 CPU and the dated OS?
Some of the things I will want to do on this is video calling using Skype (yes, I know there are other alternatives, but it has to be Skype) and playing DivX/Xvid movies and some .MKV movies. Could anyone tell me if it will be good enough? I am quite impressed by the dimensions and the screen, but if the specs can't keep up then I'm thinking of a cheap and chunky Tegra 2 tablet like the POV which is actually £10 cheaper and I'll put a custom ViewComb 3.2 ROM on it...
Any suggestions/opinions?
Has anyone been able to root the device?
You can root the Viewpad 7e with Gingerbreak v1.2 so I think you will be able to do it in the same way for the 10e.
I used Gingerbreak 1.2 but failed.
Could you please list the steps?
Thanks in advance
Did you enable usb debugging before trying to root your device ?
For the steps, nothing complicated in the case of the 7e :
- install Gingerbreak 1.20
- enable usb debugging
- open Gingerbreak
- select root
- the Viewpads 7e reboots and is rooted
Let us know if Gingerbreak doesn't work on 10e.
Is there any kernel or custom roms for 7e?
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Gingerbread could not root my Viewpad 10E. It ran over 15 minutes and still says "Rooting...
Running Exploit...
This may take a few minutes!
Device will reboot on success!"
I then forced the application to quit.
My logcat shows the following two lines again and again
D/DirectVolume( 1096): DEVPATH = /devices/virtual/block/loop0
E/DirectVolume( 1096): Partition '/devices/virtual/block/loop0' has a different major than its disk!
Does it give any clues to what the problem might be?
Is your debug on?
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Yes, I enabled USB debugging.
It should work.
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Unfortunately, it did not work for me.
Do I need to use any SDCARD?
Nope. My viewpad 7e can be rooted.you dont need sdcard
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How long did it take to root?
(I discontinued the root process after waiting for 10 minutes.)
Around 5 mins
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I got the 10e for my mother 3-4 weeks ago coz of build quality and looks and everything really, it really does feel like it should be double the price when in your hands. And my little brother installed superuser from the net(without rooting) and when I showed him how things don't work that way by installing a boot recovery app that needs su permissions, how supprised
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Continued (sorry) when the superuser app popped on the screen asking me to allow or deniey , yes folks this happened without me ever rooting or even trying to to root it. Can someone else try this and tell me I'm not mad. The app in question is from Google market that I sent to the view pad 10e from my nexus s(ics)(cheers koush) through Bluetooth, I can't remember the exact name but the icon for it is a hat(its a reboot recovery app). May by this can start the pro's to look into it . Coz this pad is so worth modding.
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I tried installing superuser and it didnt work for me.
I also tried installing the new firmware update...over at modaco and viewsonic sites...but when I get to the recovery menu my back and menu buttons dont operate and so cant get to the sd update choice ;-(
Anyone know if theres another way to apply the update via PC perhaps ? saw a link for {Nand}MPTool but cannot seem to find it.
And in case any of you want android market for 10e then theres a link for that at the modaco site as well... tried pasting it here but am too new apparently ;-)
Hello,
I bought my wife a Galaxy Tab 10.1 for Christmas, and its been a pretty horrible experience thus far.
The device force closes constantly, and reboots every few minutes. We managed to make it all the way to the settings menu one time and clicked on the software update. It failed so we ended up updating through kies.
After the update, no change, force close city, constant reboots.
Is this at all normal?
I'm an experienced Android user and have been searching high and low for a solution, but i have no specific problem, simply nothing works.
I am considering returning it (hopefully the Amazon seller i bought it from won't give me any ****) if i can't get it fixed and getting another.
I just wanted to check here to see if there was some kind if common problem that could be remedied before hassling with a return.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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I too, just got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 but I'm not having any of those problems you mentioned. My only grief is that the browser is really problematic but other than that, my experience has been pretty good so far.
Thats not normal its should be working fine out of the box.
Br
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Nope not normal...nor good
If I were you I'd return the tab and get a replacement. It's definitely not normal for it to be acting the way it does, everything should work out of the box (if it was just a FC here and there or a bit of lag or sth it would be understandable, but what you're experiencing is definitely not normal).
While it could be a simple software problem that you could fix with a new ROM/kernel/whatever, it could also be something else, so I'd definitely recommend getting a replacement to be on the safe side.
Thanks for the replies!
Yes i am returning it, the Amazon seller tried to charge a restocking fee, which sounded scammy to me (sell defective product, charge $60 to return it, sell again to someone else, wash, rinse, repeat), but Amazon came through in a big big way.
So we will be headed to the store soon to get a brand new one.
I look forward to participating in this forum!
Thanks!
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And we hope you enjoy your stay
After getting the tab back (and one that works fine this time ) I'd recommend flashing a custom ROM/kernel to really make it fly. But as you said you're an experienced Android user, I'm sure you already know the basics - if you don't and can't find them on the forums, feel free to ask away ^_^
Ok, I have been everywhere and looked through everything and keep running into a wall, hard. I am not new to rooting Android devices and am comfortable doing so without and issues. However, I recently lost access to my computer and most any other computer around me. I know there are a few apps out there that one can use on their android device (smart phone, tablet) that can root their device. However, I am unable to find them to use them.
I am coming to you good folks at XDA for assistance with this. Also, my tablet just recently, like 2 or 3 days ago, updated.
Any assistance with this would be great. I just hope someone can help me out with this.
I hope I posted this in the right spot. I say this because I also saw questions like this in a different area as well.
I hope this is not a big issue.
I've owned an A200 for close to a year and have never seen a root method anywhere that didn't require a PC. I think all the old 1 click apk files only work for Gingerbread. I hope you find something to work but it's not likely.
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So far, from what I am seeing and have seen, I think you are right. And it kinda sucks.
OK, so how about this, what about using another android device to root? I have 2 other devices I could use. Just tossing the idea out there.
Anyone have a possible idea for this?
Something else I heard/read about is rooting through the recovery program on the tablet. Does anyone have any ideas if that would work and what I would need to have?
I want to build a android 4.4 kernel for my iRola DX752 7" tablet (formerly known as a Kocasco M752) using Eclipse ADT etc. but I am practically a newbee at this. I figure if I brick it I am only out $50. It currently runs Android 4.2.2 with system updates that I can't count on bringing me up to more current releases, and it runs a Rockchip RK2926 Cortex-A9 CPU with 512MB RAM, 2GB internal SD and a 16GB external SD card.
I have rooted a smart phone without bricking it, but that was with a couple three premade kernels to update with and can not find any for this make or model tablet.
Tablet
Well my friend.. I can help you with that but just a single question.. Is the tablet good? No problems at all? If is good I will buy and we can make even ROMs together...
Just tell me if the tablet is good and what problems you encountered using it.:highfive:
does this thing come unlocked? How hard is it to root and is there any roms?
irola
Let me know if you make a ROM. I want to buy this tablet but it seems like it lags and its slow on the stock 4.2.2 ROM.
Very nice tablet
I purchased two for my kids and one came in the other day. I am very surprised about how well it is made. It doesn't feel like a cheap tablet. I would also be interested in a custom rom for this as well.
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I purchased two for my kids and one came in the other day. I am very surprised about how well it is made. It doesn't feel like a cheap tablet. I would also be interested in a custom rom for this as well.
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I ordered one for my daughter for Christmas. It is still in it's original packaging and I was lurking here to see if anyone had ideas for rooting it. From the specs it seems to have decent hardware so I am confident that it should perform well even though we haven't tried it out yet. I gave her one of my older Viewsonic tablets that's rooted and with a custom ROM. I may buy another one of these iRola tablets if I like the core stock install and then I will join you in creating some root magic for it.. :angel:
im trying to install windows 8
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Well my friend.. I can help you with that but just a single question.. Is the tablet good? No problems at all? If is good I will buy and we can make even ROMs together...
Just tell me if the tablet is good and what problems you encountered using it.:highfive:
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If you are seriously thinking of rooting this hit me up we can work together. That makes 3 of us working on it. I was trying to hack it to install windows 8.
Did anyone get anywhere with this tablet? Mine came in this morning. It's a little sluggish, but I have decent hopes for it.
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Has this development went any further? I'd also be happy to test or help build in any way that I can.
I just got one of these
I just got one of these for my daughter, but it has the Jellybean that has trouble with Wifi... it won't connect to my home Wifi router at all, and drops the connection regularly at work.
So, I want to get a different version of Android on this thing. Has anyone succeeded yet?
I doubt it's the hardware, as I have friends who had the same problem on their phones until they upgraded their version of Android.
I'm unfamiliar with development, but would also be happy to test. From what I can tell, this thing has a memory issue. We need to get something lighter on it.
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keep it posted
out of topics
Out of topic is anyone here familiar with linux.....
irola
Has anyone been able to find out how to get to to the development option
Tap build number until it unlocks it?
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Put me on the list of people curious about development for this device. Just picked one up as a gift for a my sister and agree it seems a little more sluggish than I thought it would. Also the screen resolution is kind of poor and was hoping that maybe changing the DPI could help if it were rooted.
i haven't received mine
I order mine back on Nov 22, I haven't received it. I've been itching to root this. Ugh come on N MR send me my tablet. Has anyone have problems with NMR shipping before. ????
Just got mine. It's so sluggish...
I don't understand how, even after a factory reset, this thing is ridiculously slow. I have googled and googled but I can't find any information on how to root this device or even if it's possible yet. I really wanna downgrade the software to something it's more comfortable running. Maybe 4.0.4?
If you haven't received your tablet I implor that you contact NMR ASAP. They didn't send my fiances mothers 3 irola 7" tablets ordered later Nov. until yesterday Dec. 23.
I will also be working on this tablet as I just got it as a present from her So make that 4.
I also just bought this tablet (irola dx752) running android 4.2.2. I have never had a tablet before but it does not seem slow or laggy. I am familiar with linux (someone asked that earlier in this thread) and I am interested in getting into android development. Also happy to test (not intending to brick of course).