joecooool wrote:One (hopefully) final question for Roebeet, what is the largest capacity MicroSDHD card I can use with the machine? I've read both 16 and 32 gigs.

Also does the machine recognize both class 4 and 6 cards?

dont know about class 4 and 6 but i have a class 10 16 gb and it works just fine

I just got mine, charged it up, which took almost 4 hours, and I did the update to 3588. My Micro SD cards don't work. I tried two brand new cards just out of the packaging. Both are Kingston 4GB. It says "Damaged SD Cards. Do you want to format?" I chose Yes, and it doesn't do anything. It doesn't format them.

vdoubleuvr6 wrote:Very pleased with Woot's service! Woot has responded quickly to my tablet having scratches, dead pixels along with finger prints and smudges and have put in a replacement order in for me. They stated it'll ship out soon and in the mean time they emailed me a return FedEx label for me to send the defective one back.

I wonder if the replacement will come ground? Anyone else following this thread that had theirs replaced?...Did it come ground?

Twice I have needed a problem solved by
Woot! and their turnaround was in like two days! (allow for the weekend)

doomeyes wrote:I just got mine, charged it up, which took almost 4 hours, and I did the update to 3588. My Micro SD cards don't work. I tried two brand new cards just out of the packaging. Both are Kingston 4GB. It says "Damaged SD Cards. Do you want to format?" I chose Yes, and it doesn't do anything. It doesn't format them.

Mine did that too with the stock software. Reads the SD cards fine with the TNT ROM.

joecooool wrote:Mine did that too with the stock software. Reads the SD cards fine with the TNT ROM.

Ok, I formatted the card in my computer, and then put it in the gTab, and it works now.

Roebeet I hate to bother you here but... >:D

I flashed VEGAn, followed the steps to a T, installed Adobe Flesh, but when I try to open Market, the screen flickers with no error.

Any ideas? Searched XDA to no avail.

roebeet wrote:
Btw, I appreciate the thanks, from everyone! I'd also like to thank the users over at XDA helping out, and the users on TegraTab IRC like jerdog and badfrog

Roebeet,

Many, many, many thanks to you and the devs at xda and the Android communities at large!

I bought the G on the second woot hour and got mine yesterday. It took FedEx trains that long to reach Seattle from Dallas. Here are steps I did to install a ROM.

- Plugged into wall for roughly 3 hours to charge it up to green LED.
- Set up adb on W1ndozeXP including usb driver from Android SDK when the G was being charged.
- Unplugged from wall, powered on the G, set up Wifi. Seconds later the upgrade service app offered a 3588 OTA update. Said yes. Minutes later the G rebooted with the updated 3588 firmware.
- Played with the G for about half-an-hour. I observed that stock 3588 has a good Android experience but since this is my first Android tablet therefore I couldn't compare well. Stock was good but could be better...
- Plugged the G USB port to the W1ndoze box.
- Rooted with z4root app
- Copied GAdam update.zip and recovery\command to G root directory. I was impressed with roebeet's video on GAdam so I picked it to be the first ROM to play with
- Used adb to wipe data - perhaps this step is not needed at this point.
- Vol+ and PowerOn buttons together...
- Stock recovery invoked recovery\command and updated the G with the GAdam firmware
- Rebooted and...got looped... "notionink"..."adam"..."adam"..."adam"..."ad...
- Plugged the G USB port to the W1ndoze box
- Used adb to wipe data again. Yes adb does connect with the device even though it's looping at boot.
- Rebooted and voila an Adam UI popped up.

- Today I put videos and mp3s on to discharge the G. To completely discharge it I kept powering the G up, and it would shut down, after battery was drained to suck all life force out of it. I did not notice how long the last charge last but easily 3 hours of playing time.
- The G is getting charged right now with power off. I will leave it under charge for about 8 hours before unplugging to use. I will do a complete discharge and fully charge periodically to hopefully keep the power cycle from getting shorter over time. This is the same battery treatment I did to my MacbookPro.

Notice that I followed roebeet's advice to refrain myself from using CWM and so far it worked out quite well. Of course you need to set up adb or nvflash. I chose adb on a W1ndozeXP vmware virtual machine to achieve data wipe. adb is really cool. I can just install an app at the adb command line. How convenient!

I think I am almost set to show off "notionink", "vegan" et al. to my pals.
The only piece I would need before showing it off is a black gel case to hide the white label on the back. Heck I might just spray-paint it with semi-gloss black but that would not be good if I need to return the device for warranty work.

Any recommendation for a good case?

Again roebeet, appreciate your invaluable time helping the community out.

speedman wrote:Here's a Black Messenger Bag for 7" - 10.1" Netbooks With Shoulder Strap and Handles that looks like it would work with the G-Tab.... It's only $2.99...

http://bensoutlet.com/products/netbook-bag

I was all set to snag 3 of these, till I found
they wanted $15 to ship my $9 order....

Mine looks new. It says classic home and the background is moving.

It has amazon kindle, Angry birds, twitter app, etc... installed. Is this normal ? Or is this a return ?

Website was at handango.com

bleak76 wrote:dont know about class 4 and 6 but i have a class 10 16 gb and it works just fine

I believe its 64GB, but not 100% certain. I know 32GB will work because I own one and have used it on my GTAB.

mweav6387 wrote:Roebeet I hate to bother you here but... >:D

I flashed VEGAn, followed the steps to a T, installed Adobe Flesh, but when I try to open Market, the screen flickers with no error.

Any ideas? Searched XDA to no avail.

Not too sure about this one - did you even get as far as the Google setup screen? You should get the setup screen to add your ID, then a TOS page then the Market. Suggestions: reboot, data wipe, reflash (in that order, if the previous change doesnt work).

I'm confused, why does everyone have to change this tablet (or root) to use this? Seems like it should work well right out of the box. Am I missing something? I feel like I need to be a programmer to understand some of these comments. Is it good enough to use right out of the box?

tacomamama wrote:I'm confused, why does everyone have to change this tablet (or root) to use this? Seems like it should work well right out of the box. Am I missing something? I feel like I need to be a programmer to understand some of these comments. Is it good enough to use right out of the box?

You don't have to at all - there are even users on XDA who leave it as stock (I appreciate those user btw, as they are usually the ones that give us a heads up on new firmware updates!).

You don't have to be a programmer - the update process is fairly painless and, in some cases, not much different than if you had to do a stock update. It only gets tricky if there are problems that need to be troubleshooted. But, if you've been following allow this thread, you'd see that even stock users are having strange problems. Some basic tech and troubleshooting skills are really necessary with this device most of the time, unfortunately.

Clockworkmod actually helps to fix some basic issues that would otherwise require you to return the device. I know that I don't recommend cwm, but that's only for flashing firmware. For everything else like doing backups and wiping user data, it's an extremely helpful tool. And rooting allows you to do a few basic things like backup your user data that you cant do without it. Think "administrative" access on our PC, same idea.

So, it's entirely up to you.

FedEx tells me mine was delivered yesterday but it still hasn't arrived.

roebeet wrote:Not too sure about this one - did you even get as far as the Google setup screen? You should get the setup screen to add your ID, then a TOS page then the Market. Suggestions: reboot, data wipe, reflash (in that order, if the previous change doesnt work).

I bought an 8 gb card and the tablet recognizes it but my PC doesn't seem to be able to find the card in the tablet when I hook up the tablet to the PC.

Guess I'll have to go buy SD card adapter.

roebeet...

You have probably covered this before, but we are not at 65 pages....

I used CWM. I see that you don't recommend it. I understand that there is no going back now.....

What do I need to be aware of?

muadore wrote:I bought the G on the second woot hour and got mine yesterday. It took FedEx trains that long to reach Seattle from Dallas.

Lucky you! Today mine reached Oregon. If I'm lucky it could arrive here in Seattle tomorrow. Monday seems more likely. The sd card I bought for it yesterday arrived today though. =)

tacomamama wrote:I'm confused, why does everyone have to change this tablet (or root) to use this? Seems like it should work well right out of the box. Am I missing something? I feel like I need to be a programmer to understand some of these comments. Is it good enough to use right out of the box?

Imagine you bought a Ferrari with a "valet mode". Sure you've bought a Ferrari, but it can only go 35mph. You might be perfectly happy with it like that, but chances are you'll like it better when you see what it can really do.

Just got my g tab today but the removable prongs are missing for the power adapter... Anyone else had this problem?

bob984 wrote:Just got my g tab today but the removable prongs are missing for the power adapter... Anyone else had this problem?

Mine looked to be new and in the "new" state the prongs are NOT attached. They were in a separate bag.

I'm hoping for you that your prongs are tucked away in the box still. Otherwise.....sorry dude....

agingdragqueen wrote:Ack, we accidentally deleted the original post. It was double posted and both were cleaned out, so I'll reply to this one.

We do have a handful of these left to replace any that arrive in a condition such as this, I'll be emailing them and offering. These should arrive new, the units we have were all new and I haven't seen any emailed complaints (though others may have). I don't think you have much to worry about since there really haven't been that many problems out of the 10,000 we've sold so far.

I'll need a RMA please, mine arrived with a dead pixel. Thanks!

I'm an Android noobie, so excuse my ignorance about this question. Using my gTablet, I went to Amazon, and I installed the Amazon app store. How come I can't do the same on the Google app market?

wootelf wrote:Lucky you! Today mine reached Oregon. If I'm lucky it could arrive here in Seattle tomorrow. Monday seems more likely. The sd card I bought for it yesterday arrived today though. =)

If yours is in Troutdale, OR this afternoon. It'll be in Kent early tomorrow morning. If FedEx Ground delivers on Saturday you ought to have yours delivered tomorrow. I got mine before noon yesterday. Happy hacking!

patricksommer wrote:Mine looked to be new and in the "new" state the prongs are NOT attached. They were in a separate bag.

I'm hoping for you that your prongs are tucked away in the box still. Otherwise.....sorry dude....

Mine looks to be new, just no prongs. I searched high and low. Bummer. Who should I contact? Woot? or Viewsonic?

joecooool wrote:I bought an 8 gb card and the tablet recognizes it but my PC doesn't seem to be able to find the card in the tablet when I hook up the tablet to the PC.

Guess I'll have to go buy SD card adapter.

This is (unfortunately) normal. All the Tegra 2 devices seem to have this issue.

doomeyes wrote:I'm an Android noobie, so excuse my ignorance about this question. Using my gTablet, I went to Amazon, and I installed the Amazon app store. How come I can't do the same on the Google app market?

Google, for some bizarre reason, limits where its Market can be installed. This is just what they want, for reasons unknown (they claim its because the devices have to meet certain requirements).

patricksommer wrote:roebeet...

You have probably covered this before, but we are not at 65 pages....

I used CWM. I see that you don't recommend it. I understand that there is no going back now.....

What do I need to be aware of?

Only one caveat with cwm, which is that it cannot Flesh the bootloader when flashing firmware.

What that means TODAY is that the risk is low to use cwm - all the mods on XDA are based on the same 1.1-based firmware from Viewsonic, so flashing the bootloader doesn't seem to be required. However, there's no guarantee that this might not change in the future.

The reason why you need to keep this in back of your mind is that the Notion Ink Adam users recently got burned with clockworkmod (their new firmware REQUIRED a bootloader update) and the Viewsonic UAT ROM that was recently pulled also needed it. So it's possible that a future stock firmware could need stock recovery. If we find this to be the case, we'll advertise it over in XDA.

I built the 3588 Rocovery Pack as a way to flip back to stock recovery, if needed.

howtoamy wrote:FedEx tells me mine was delivered yesterday but it still hasn't arrived.

It could have been mistakenly delivered to a wrong address. You should check with FedEx and notify woot.

When FedEx tracking stated that mine was delivered and left at door I opened my front door and it was sitting there. The delivery guy did not knock at all when he delivered an hour earlier.

Good luck with tracking yours.

Arrived today in the foothills of Central Calif and after charging the darned thing has screwed up twice... Shut itself off and when I restarted, Angry Birds and a few other apps were gone. I purchased to watch Dish via internet and now can't get that app even tho Android product is acceptable app. Also, no Netflix. Sent message for RMA but doubt they will let me send it back. Can't get onto Android Market as it doesn't recognize my device. Guess old farts shouldn't buy hitech toys.

So far so good on rooting, I did play with TapNTap, after the update, it wasn't terrible. I did a nandroid backup in case I want it back.

So I see many of the guides & advice is to partition as 2048mb, 0mb. I also see that the second is swap. I come from linux, and I know swap can be a good thing, esp for a low ram system.

So, to enable swap on my GTab, is all I need to do set this non-zero, or will there be other steps? Or is this 0mb swap the reason we have to repartition.

roebeet wrote:You don't have to at all - there are even users on XDA who leave it as stock (I appreciate those user btw, as they are usually the ones that give us a heads up on new firmware updates!).

You don't have to be a programmer - the update process is fairly painless and, in some cases, not much different than if you had to do a stock update. It only gets tricky if there are problems that need to be troubleshooted. But, if you've been following allow this thread, you'd see that even stock users are having strange problems. Some basic tech and troubleshooting skills are really necessary with this device most of the time, unfortunately.

Clockworkmod actually helps to fix some basic issues that would otherwise require you to return the device. I know that I don't recommend cwm, but that's only for flashing firmware. For everything else like doing backups and wiping user data, it's an extremely helpful tool. And rooting allows you to do a few basic things like backup your user data that you cant do without it. Think "administrative" access on our PC, same idea.

So, it's entirely up to you.

Hi,roebeet

Thanks for your help here. I am using TnT4.4, and just ran into this input method issue, hope you can help me.

I downloaded the "Google pinyin"(which is a Chinese input method) from market. When I try to select the method in "Language&keyboard" setting menu, a window saying "Use this input method?" popped out. After choosing "OK", nothing happened, the method just can not be selected.

thomaseak wrote:So far so good on rooting, I did play with TapNTap, after the update, it wasn't terrible. I did a nandroid backup in case I want it back.

So I see many of the guides & advice is to partition as 2048mb, 0mb. I also see that the second is swap. I come from linux, and I know swap can be a good thing, esp for a low ram system.

So, to enable swap on my GTab, is all I need to do set this non-zero, or will there be other steps? Or is this 0mb swap the reason we have to repartition.

I used to use 256, but later used 0 as the devs thought that Android wasn't using it (so wasting space). It can't hurt to use 256, but may not be used.

Thanks for the quick feedback roebeet (and all the guides, work, etc), I'll go with 0mb for now as recommended, I may not need swap anyway after I play with it for awhile.

roebeet wrote:You don't have to at all - there are even users on XDA who leave it as stock (I appreciate those user btw, as they are usually the ones that give us a heads up on new firmware updates!).

You don't have to be a programmer - the update process is fairly painless and, in some cases, not much different than if you had to do a stock update. It only gets tricky if there are problems that need to be troubleshooted. But, if you've been following allow this thread, you'd see that even stock users are having strange problems. Some basic tech and troubleshooting skills are really necessary with this device most of the time, unfortunately.

Clockworkmod actually helps to fix some basic issues that would otherwise require you to return the device. I know that I don't recommend cwm, but that's only for flashing firmware. For everything else like doing backups and wiping user data, it's an extremely helpful tool. And rooting allows you to do a few basic things like backup your user data that you cant do without it. Think "administrative" access on our PC, same idea.

So, it's entirely up to you.

roebeet, how can I download Clockworkmod? The XDA site says I don't have permission to access the site. I have already downloaded the latest VEGAn-tab and supplement. How can I get Clockworkmod?

Well, after much awaiting the tablet showed up this afternoon. I'm happy to report, that it came with no signs of prior use and after an hour of charging started up with no problems. Connected to wifi and updated with no issues. Angry birds worked fine no black screens or any other reported problems.

I messed with stock rom for a while, then installed VEGAN, which matches my G2 stock rom to the extent, that I can hit the ground running using it. Added ADW launcher, because the inherited from phone 4x4 home screen on the tablet looked kind of weired. After messing with market got it to show all apps and able to install my purchased apps.

Restored a bunch of apps along with app data from my phone's backup and now I have a fully functonal tablet!

Now that I've used it for a few hours I can tell - with those easy to install changes this tablet rocks. The viewing angles are a bit of a pain, but for the price it is very well worth it. A happy camper here.

For record: last part of the second batch, 4.1lbs.

Posting this from the tablet.

For those of you who still have the box your unit was sealed and shipped in, there's a kind of rubber pad glued to the top inside of that box that can be peeled off.

I'm exploring the idea of adhering that pad to the back of my tablet to provide a very nice non-slip surface and avoid scratches (since the back is reportedly prone to scratches).

Not sure I will do that yet ultimately but the size is right, so I kept it instead of tossing it.

Hey guys, so many people gave me positive feedback on my tutorial that I posted at Blendblog.net on flashing VEGAn that I decided to Flesh another GTablet with TNT Lite 4.40 and Pershoot's latest kernel and post the step by step for anyone interested.

Here's the link to the new article:
Flashing and Rooting the Viewsonic GTablet with TNT Lite 4.40 ROM and fixing the Market

Hope this is helpful for anyone still struggling.

Sean

Got mine safely in SoCal. Brand spanking new, no smudges or scratches, everything nicely packaged and sealed. Installed a screen protector & carbon fiberish skin from Amazon that beat the tablet here. Plugged the charger in for 10 minutes, signed into my wifi & let the OTA update run before using blendblog's instructions to install VEGAN. Had to do the market hack to get launcher pro but I can't seem to find PEWPEW even after multiple market hack attempts. It's no iPad for sure but it's not that far off, certainly considering the price. Pretty neat so far but I reserve final judgement 'til Honeycomb ROMs are available.

I edited my "I finally got it post" with this but since it was pages ago I thought I'd post it again.

noticed that min already had the 3588 update installed was wondering if others in the second batch also had it?

Still playing with stock but tomorrow will probably install on of the roms.

Had some problems connecting to my router, tried all the tips without luck and finally decided I'd deal with it tomorrow. Turned off the wifi setting then turned it bak on and it connected no problem.

So you may want try just shutting down the wifi on the tablet and then turning it back on.

trivial thing, but my dtr LOVED the leaves on a pond and touch ripples wallpaper, but when i did the OTA update it changed to the beach. How do I get the old one back for her?
my dtr thanks you

Siney wrote:roebeet, how can I download Clockworkmod? The XDA site says I don't have permission to access the site. I have already downloaded the latest VEGAn-tab and supplement. How can I get Clockworkmod?

I have it on mediafire, you can grab it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?dvleg4oatkfxm7w

I didn't root and mod giving the installed OS a chance. I downloaded Flesh from the Viewsonic site and it's rubbish. Every time I touch a site with Flesh, the browser crashes instantly. I had to delete Flesh to visit sites I wanted.

Will it work better in a mod?