I'm cracking up at the email I got this morning from Woot. I had an unresponsive touchscreen I fixed by putting an empty calibration.ini file on a micro-SD card and rebooting, so I need to cancel yesterday's email to Woot about my tablet not working.

The phone number I was emailed this morning to call if I needed to cancel the RMA: 123-456-7890

I get the feeling the Woot people are working as fast as possible to fix this.

Schitty wrote:Thanks. I was afraid that was the answer I was going to get.

Could you please please stop playing those flash games on Facebook? I mean, seriously - FarmVille? Loss of a lot of man-hours! I wish you could donate your free time - I am in need of 36 hour days cos' I can think of doing so many things!

Don't mean it in a bad way, but please do other things on your tablet and not try enabling those flash games! Cheers to productivity!

Thank you for the help!

I tried CM7B1 but it didn't work well at all

What distro do you use? Thanks again!

Ok, removed the post because I read older posts and realised the bus had already left the depot!

:-p

LEM- wrote:That included a basic boot loader that allowed to access a floppy drive (or punch card reader) and load an operating system or a program.

...and before that it was the bootstrap. Read a small deck of punch cards and the big mainframe sprang to life.

Geez I feel old. I'll just wait for my Android device to arrive and see what all the fuss is about.

My brand new G had the following url in browser history (dated: March 26, 2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0bo3Wagio

W T F ?

roebeet wrote:In regards to the app icons with nothing connected to them after the TNT Lite 4.x install - it's the lack of a user data wipe. Those apps are actually gone (I delete them in TNT Lite, most are just URL links) but since the user data was never wiped the icons remain.

Ah, gotcha. Sure enough they deleted just fine, and I replaced 'em with shortcuts to the new apps just fine. Thanks again!

roebeet wrote:An easier solution is to install clockworkmod and then wipe the user data that way. It will at least get you up and running, but OTA updates may not work anymore so keep that in mind. Still, you can install a modded ROM if you want.

I wish Woot! had a FAQ area - I could start writing up docs in there! Just read the posts on XDA on how to install cwm via the microSD card.

can we "preload" cwm and tntlite zips onto a microsd card? Or does it need formatting in the actual tablet?

Roebeet,

I'm trying your trick about mounting the gtab to my pc to force angry birds to install, but looking for the file in explorer, I can't find it anywhere.

If I go into market or amazon on the device it has to re-download so I guess it is not actually on the device????

magicwuff wrote:Thank you for the help!

I tried CM7B1 but it didn't work well at all

What distro do you use? Thanks again!

smiling because you called it a "distro" - I actually caught myself writing that, yesterday.

Not sure if that was directed at me. I am obviously biased against my own mods, but I personally use TNT Lite 4.4.x, TwoTapsX (which is pulled, reasons are because it can soft-brick a device), and VEGAn. I've also used gojimi's CM7 VEGAn GB edition. They all have pros and cons.

If you play games or movies, I think TNT Lite or VEGAn are good because they both have the G-sensor hack. There's also Calkulin's ROM which is supposed to be blazing fast, but possibly not as stable. He's got stuff in there that I don't add to TNT Lite, for stability reasons.

patricksommer wrote:Roebeet,

I'm trying your trick about mounting the gtab to my pc to force angry birds to install, but looking for the file in explorer, I can't find it anywhere.

If I go into market or amazon on the device it has to re-download so I guess it is not actually on the device????

You can sideload it using the microSD (if you have one). That doesn't get mounted to your PC.

Btw, check your build number. I'm positive that this was an old issue that was fixed in a newer build. This sdcard mount trick was something we used to do back in December, but I know that new ROMs / mods shouldnt need it.

masroorj wrote:Thats exactly what I did. I completely understand Roebeet's point about file integrity, and also the simple fact that the XDA forum is a community effort, so you have to cut it some slack.

The instructions on the blog are very well written, very lucid. After reading a lot on XDA, I simply picked up the source files from XDA and used the instructions on that site. I am now fairly comfortable with the process, and will probably only use XDA in the future. For a hitchhiker though, the XDA instructions can be a little confusing.

@Roebeet, would it be ok if I approached the blog writer to borrow his instructions, and post it to XDA? I mean, why re-invent a pretty decent wheel? Would there be any issue with that?

Finally, the device rocks with a modded ROM. Yes, screen angle is a pain, but thats solvable with a decent cover/stand. Otherwise, its a pleasure to use.

It's all about getting information available, so definitely PM him, He might be doing this himself as we PM'd each other two days back, but maybe he's backlogged and hasn't had time, yet.

My tablet seemed to be brand new. The OTA update downloaded and installed last night. Tablet was actually performing well, even without the custom firmware. Just realized that the wrong USB cable was in the box, it's a standard mini-usb instead of the proprietary(?) USB it should have come with.

prUsP69E wrote:My brand new G had the following url in browser history (dated: March 26, 2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0bo3Wagio

W T F ?

Hmmm I had the same... Date of March 26th ? So what is going on here ? It was shrink wrapped, but why would they be playing with the browser a day before shipping.

This does sound like these were either specially packaged for W00t or even refurb tested. Screen is not great at all. Same pictures themselves have patchy colors not smooth transitioning sky..

I am so pissed

Berto wrote:My tablet seemed to be brand new. The OTA update downloaded and installed last night. Tablet was actually performing well, even without the custom firmware. Just realized that the wrong USB cable was in the box, it's a standard mini-usb instead of the proprietary(?) USB it should have come with.

It uses a mini-USB, it's not proprietary. Left side of the device, in the middle is the port. Unless you got another tablet (and maybe you did - mistakes happen). :O

Berto wrote:My tablet seemed to be brand new. The OTA update downloaded and installed last night. Tablet was actually performing well, even without the custom firmware. Just realized that the wrong USB cable was in the box, it's a standard mini-usb instead of the proprietary(?) USB it should have come with.

pls ignore... my bad

For some reason I can't find this simple answer (simple to me) :-)
Can I drop the TNT ROM onto my tablet like it did for the Vegan rom and install it using Clockwork (update.zip)? I know it has been mentioned that Clockwork is not really recommended for the TNT rom. But there are things in the Vegan ROM that I don't care for, so I wanted to try the others. Vegan seems slow to me.

ronmchandler wrote:Check the site below for cases specifically for the GTablet. I have the M1 and it fits like a glove and is just what I wanted. Has a feature that props the Gtab up in landscape mode on a flat surface for viewing, like a stand. Wonderful and Steve at electroniccrap is great to work with. He also carries the docking port, and other accessories for the GTab. Check it out!!

http://electroniccrap.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5_9&zenid=11afb47b1438e3d860edb42da787f96d

Those are great, but I don't have and extra $50 bucks now. The "case I purchased has room for other stuff like the power supply and cards, yet is is still in a small package. I will be looking for a good stand that is not too expensive. Down the road, I will probably be more interested in those type of cases. Thanks for posting though because I am sure with 10,000 new g tab owners, those cases are exactly what some are looking for.
Peace

Berto wrote:My tablet seemed to be brand new. The OTA update downloaded and installed last night. Tablet was actually performing well, even without the custom firmware. Just realized that the wrong USB cable was in the box, it's a standard mini-usb instead of the proprietary(?) USB it should have come with.

The mini-USB plugs into the side. I think the big bottom connector is for the dock.

I've bought Case Logic Case (like a sleeve bag) for $7 at Seers yesterday.

ps: my stupd FedEx Track got frozen at "Mar 29, 2011 11:43 PM Left FedEx origin facility"

roebeet wrote:Yes, unfortunately. "The microSD not being seen by apps" issue is well known, and not just on the GTAB. The problem is mainly that a lot of apps are written for phones, where /sdcard is the microSD. As more apps are re-written, this should be less of a problem.

Ok thanks. So where do I go to safely unmount and remove my micro sd card, since it doesnt show up under "SD card & device storage"?

talljay wrote:The mini-USB plugs into the side. I think the big bottom connector is for the dock.

This is true, but the cable that was shipped with my tablet doesn't have the right connector for the plug on the side of the tablet. I'm searching through all of the cables I have to see if I have one from an old device that might work. I'm thinking that woot might have some they can send me.

jsjames wrote:For some reason I can't find this simple answer (simple to me) :-)
Can I drop the TNT ROM onto my tablet like it did for the Vegan rom and install it using Clockwork (update.zip)? I know it has been mentioned that Clockwork is not really recommended for the TNT rom. But there are things in the Vegan ROM that I don't care for, so I wanted to try the others. Vegan seems slow to me.

Not recommended, but yes it should work. If there's a ROM that does NOT work with clockworkmod at all, I would write that in my post. If you read my TNT Lite post, I do have a clockworkmod install section as I know that some people will use it.

As long as you are moving between 1.1-based mods, clockworkmod should work OK.

Berto wrote:This is true, but the cable that was shipped with my tablet doesn't have the right connector for the plug on the side of the tablet. I'm searching through all of the cables I have to see if I have one from an old device that might work. I'm thinking that woot might have some they can send me.

lol - are you thinking that w00t packaged this ?

My gTab arrived on Tues, the 29th...D O A. I am a sad panda. Viewsonic CS was good. They are actually only a few hours away from me here in Texas (was not farmed overseas...YAY!). They issued me an RMA, but said it could take as long as 10 days. I am hoping since I am not too far away, that will save a few days on shipping. Still sad panda.

Berto wrote:This is true, but the cable that was shipped with my tablet doesn't have the right connector for the plug on the side of the tablet. I'm searching through all of the cables I have to see if I have one from an old device that might work. I'm thinking that woot might have some they can send me.

It may look different, but it may fit. I have a lot of mini usb cables that all look a little different but they all fit into the "standard" mini usb port. It's funny that HTC makes a proprietary cable to fit their phones, but a standard micor usb cable fits into to port and works fine.
Hard to say without pictures.

Many thanks to LEM- for providing the lucid explanation of flashing the rom (back on p. 53). Knowing the history was the key to understanding the concept, at least for me.

roebeet wrote:Not recommended, but yes it should work. If there's a ROM that does NOT work with clockworkmod at all, I would write that in my post. If you read my TNT Lite post, I do have a clockworkmod install section as I know that some people will use it.

As long as you are moving between 1.1-based mods, clockworkmod should work OK.

Roebeet mine arrived a few mins ago (I am still trying to calm myself down and convince me that it is new not refurb...

Can you please give me your always-clear link. First time flashing gtab, but have done it many times with your PDN ROMs...

Berto wrote:This is true, but the cable that was shipped with my tablet doesn't have the right connector for the plug on the side of the tablet. I'm searching through all of the cables I have to see if I have one from an old device that might work. I'm thinking that woot might have some they can send me.

Found a cable, the connector on the tablet is actually the standard mini usb, the cable it came with is micro usb.

I knew I was keeping all of my old cables for a reason. Looks like I'll add this one to that collection.

roebeet wrote:Not recommended, but yes it should work. If there's a ROM that does NOT work with clockworkmod at all, I would write that in my post. If you read my TNT Lite post, I do have a clockworkmod install section as I know that some people will use it.

As long as you are moving between 1.1-based mods, clockworkmod should work OK.

Roebeet,
First thanks for all the help I've seen on both this forum and the XDA one, you are awesome.

Second, I notice you suggest not to use the clockworkmod since it breaks the ota updates, and some of us might want to use that to upgrade later. My questions is there a way to partition using the suggested 2048/0 that doesn't use clockworkmod? It seems if I want to do that, and from a lot posts doing that fixes a bevy of issues, I'd have to use clockworkmod.

Still confused by this. Where would our devices be the day before they ship?

prUsP69E wrote:My brand new G had the following url in browser history (dated: March 26, 2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0bo3Wagio

k000 wrote:Hmmm I had the same... Date of March 26th ? So what is going on here ? It was shrink wrapped, but why would they be playing with the browser a day before shipping.

majaco wrote:What struck me as odd and still has me confused is that I saw VERY current world news (March 26th, specifically) on the home screen (Dashboard Home). There were several stories from this past Friday & Saturday, including the headline about Geraldine Ferraro. Note that I hadn't yet turned on WiFi.

...

I checked browser history and I see only 4 entries from 3/27 in the morning -- nothing else.

This was one of the links in browser history from March 27:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIgJYGOBj-I

masroorj wrote:Thats exactly what I did. I completely understand Roebeet's point about file integrity, and also the simple fact that the XDA forum is a community effort, so you have to cut it some slack.

The instructions on the blog are very well written, very lucid. After reading a lot on XDA, I simply picked up the source files from XDA and used the instructions on that site. I am now fairly comfortable with the process, and will probably only use XDA in the future. For a hitchhiker though, the XDA instructions can be a little confusing.

@Roebeet, would it be ok if I approached the blog writer to borrow his instructions, and post it to XDA? I mean, why re-invent a pretty decent wheel? Would there be any issue with that?

Finally, the device rocks with a modded ROM. Yes, screen angle is a pain, but thats solvable with a decent cover/stand. Otherwise, its a pleasure to use.

Thanks for the compliment on my instructions, I wrote them for my blog at www.blendblog.net. I am also on XDA Developers and at the suggestion of roebeet I copied my instructions there as well since people seem to be having a good experience with them. Maybe if they like them enough they will make them a "sticky" or something!

Thanks again for the comments and I hope everyone is enjoying their GTablets!

Sean

Out on the truck for delivery...a day early! yay!

and here I am out in an all day conference I think I feel a fever coming on...

captcheerio wrote:Without reading all 53 pages of posts, could someone tell me if you have to be present when FedEx Home Delivery attempts to deliver? Thanks!

No you don't have to be home. There is no signature required, but if your Fed Ex is like mine, they do Jatravartid stuff like put my doormat on top of the box then stick their Fed Ex stickie on your door right in the middle so someone can see there's a package. Oh yeah the doormat REALLY HIDES your package for the world to see. Not. The bigger the box the dumber it looks too. I'm just lucky that I have lazy ass neighbors who never seem to work lurking about all day so I don't really worry about anyone walking off with my packages. Although that day I did drive home to put it in the house and left it charging before heading back to work. By the time I got home for the day the tablet was mostly charged (98%).

gooberedup wrote:
Maybe semantics, but just to be a little more technically accurate, the BIOS was programmed into a ROM chip (several physical chips if we talk about the IBM-PC).

That's what I meant to say. I guess I didn't state it very clear that BIOS chip was a kind of ROM chip. Thanks for clarifying.

gooberedup wrote:Actually, some of the later IBM-PC compatible computers came with EEPROM (mostly Asian made ones, particularly Korean). The EEPROM was an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. You could erase and reprogram those using UV light that was shone down on a clear window on top of the chip housing. The EEPROM was the real precursor to the flash chips of today.

That's what I meant when I said "...had an extra port on top to connect a programming device" without specifying what the actual mechanism was.

nferguson2 wrote:...and before that it was the bootstrap. Read a small deck of punch cards and the big mainframe sprang to life.

Yep, but there had to be some logic hardwired into that mainframe that allowed to start spinning the reader and store the accessed bits into memory and then to execute the code. It was the predecessor of the BIOS, even if it wasn't sitting on a chip per se.

apbarry wrote:Many thanks to LEM- for providing the lucid explanation of flashing the rom (back on p. 53). Knowing the history was the key to understanding the concept, at least for me.

You are very welcome.

now i have buyers remorse

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/asus-eee-pad-transformer-shows-up-at-best-buy-for-400/

$400.....honeycomb....better display....sheesh.

I don't think woot would even take mine back now that its been rooted.

POOP! It is cold and rainy outside and now my G-Tab is sitting in a cardboard woot box surrounded by bags of texas air on my front steps.

Again...I #blameshift

I may just take the hour off to drive back and forth in order to pick it up.

tothenet1 wrote:Ok thanks. So where do I go to safely unmount and remove my micro sd card, since it doesnt show up under "SD card & device storage"?

It shows up in TNT (Lite), under storage. I can't speak for other mods other than gADAM (I think it shows up there, but not 100% sure).

patricksommer wrote:now i have buyers remorse

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/asus-eee-pad-transformer-shows-up-at-best-buy-for-400/

$400.....honeycomb....better display....sheesh.

I don't think woot would even take mine back now that its been rooted.

I was posting on XDA about this, today.

I'll be honest, if this thing comes out next week and it has everything in the specs it says it has, I'm probably buying one. My GTAB isn't going anywhere yet but this device will replace my SmartQ R10, most likely. It's really a Xoom competitor.

How did you get Glow Hockey on your device?

I am having some market issues. My device does not show up on the list of devices on the web and many apps I try to install can't be found on the market on the tab (like Glow Hockey) and only on line.

Tried the "Market fix" a few times and TB market tool did not help at all.

Anyone else not able to see the whole market, or not able to see the device online?

patricksommer wrote:now i have buyers remorse

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/asus-eee-pad-transformer-shows-up-at-best-buy-for-400/

$400.....honeycomb....better display....sheesh.

I don't think woot would even take mine back now that its been rooted.

Eh for $150 more than the g-tab I don't think I'm sold yet, I would need to read some reviews, haven't had good luck with Asus laptop/netbook products, I only go with them for internal components.

Hi, has anyone even found charging problems? I have the gTablet being charged since yesterday noon. 10 hours ago, the tablet showed 98% charged, about fifteen minutes ago, it still showed 98% chaged. Is it strange?

Charlesliu wrote:Hi, has anyone even found charging problems? I have the gTablet being charged since yesterday noon. 10 hours ago, the tablet showed 98% charged, about fifteen minutes ago, it still showed 98% chaged. Is it strange?

roebeet discussed this in a previous post on this page or the previous (if you're too lazy to look, I'm certainly not going to find it for you).

Mine is arriving today! I just know I'm going to be counting down the seconds until 5PM later today.