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While playing games if I press mail button and direction pad I got the screen alignment tool and this is very annoying because some games will crash
How can I disable this mapping?
I got official wm6 rom.
Tried calibrula but no success, doesnt run.
Hadn't noticed this as I only play games on the Blue Angel. I never found a solution on there as seemed to be built into the ROM.
If this happens on the Hermes too then I'd love to see a solution just as soon as I can get diagonals to work on my D-pad.
Tomb Raider'd look so much better on this smaller, sharper screen.
diagonals would be very nice but I dont think that is possible to make them work
anyone knows how to patch the official rom? neither the one who made calibrula?
I haven't tested this as I've not had the problem but just saw bm3074's post in this forum. Might be the answer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330249
If it works, pop back in on his thread and let him know.
he talks about screen not working... mine works fine.
Ah well. I was hoping that might something which disabled screen alignment altogether and prevented it being called at all.
Sorry it didn't help.
Heres a new game I have made, its called TipBall, and it is exactly that, right now it only has two boards, and no high score system, I have tested it extensively on the HTC Touch HD (Blackstone).
Screenshots
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/tipballgallery/TipBall_1.JPG
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/tipballgallery/TipBall_2.JPG
Prequisites
* .NET Compact Framework Runtime 3.5
Instructions
* Install CAB File
* Run program (its under Programs - Games - Tip Ball) - Wait about 7 - 12 seconds for it to load (the load time is something i need to look at)
* If you have a G Sensor onboard (should work with samsung phones too but untested), simply tip your device to move the balls through the maze, otherwise you can tap and hold on the screen to simulate the gravity.
* Tip the device around and get all balls into the black little circles towards the middle of the screen
* Try the other board when you get bored of the first one
Extra Things you can do
* If your GSensor seems out use the Menu - Calibrate option
* You can change to the other board using Menu - Board - *
Things to be done
* Decrease load times
* This software is beta, get it out of beta
* Add high scores list with names for each board
* Automatic Save / Load of GSensor calibration information
* Make it a bit smoother (the second board seems a little slow for my taste)
* Add more boards
* Do a webpage up for this program with some screenshots
You can download it here:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/download.php?urldir=public/&filename=TipBallInstall.CAB
PS: PLEASE, let me know what you think of it.
any screenshots please?
Sorry, dinner was ready didnt have time, heres a couple of screenshots:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/tipballgallery/TipBall_1.JPG
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/tipballgallery/TipBall_2.JPG
Anybody like, or is not worth continuing work?
will try today and let you know
Cheers, that would be great!
nice idea for a game... keep on
i´m gonna try later
I agree, it looks promising. Please keep up!
Yup, looks promising. Here's a braindump of impressions/suggestions:
make the maze walls 3D - give them height
Use the full screen instead of a square screen, or at least fill in the space not used with something
make the holes more 3D.
The balls seem a bit small, but they look proportionally correct for the maze so there's nothing really wrong. But it would feel better to have a larger ball and thus probably a smaller maze.
Generally I like the idea of having 4 balls to negotiate, and I like how 2 of them can jam across a gap (v. realistic). I was actually shaking and tapping the walls of my phone to get them unstuck!
I would definately continue to develop this game mate. We are always looking for new developers & new games, so you are most welcome.
As for your game itself, I would possibly increase size of balls for better visibility, and as you develop your skills, graphics, useability, design etc will all improve.......therefore creating a more appealing game for users.
just played very good, enjoying it, keeping the back light on would be better as well
douginoz said:
Yup, looks promising. Here's a braindump of impressions/suggestions:
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Making the walls 3D and giving them height is an interesting suggestion, however it requires a few things you may not have thought of, first of all this project wasnt going to go into the realms of Direct3D (and the GDI just isnt fast enough to render the 3D effect without massive slow downs), also, although definitely possible, the camera position of the rendered image would need to be altered as the device is tipped to make the 3D effect congruent with the tipping, this means that as the device is tipped any balls in the area would not be able to be seen properly due to the 3D effect of the world, although this may be possible, this is something I wouldnt consider doing until the end.
Using the fullscreen instead of just the bottom area is fair enough too, however, this game is not just designed for the Touch HD (which has a WVGA resolution) if I was to make it full screen it would be impossible for it to work on screens which have a different aspect ratio (ie. QVGA, or VGA) as they have very different resolutions, as the program stands at the moment it will work on a VGA, and WVGA (and on a QVGA screen however the balls may be too small). I guess the way around this would be to design totally different boards for different aspect ratios, one for the wider ARs and one for the more square ARs, I will look into this however.
Making the holes more 3D is definitely next on my todo list
I feel that the balls are a little small as well, i will have to revise this and look at making them larger and as you said making the mazes smaller.
The physics engine I used is based on an open source project:
http://physics2d.googlepages.com/
Very nice engine, even has support for the CF Framework, however it does have some holes.
I was planning on adding more than 4 balls to future boards.
Thanks for your input, i will see what I can do about your suggestions
Fallen Spartan said:
I would definately continue to develop this game mate. We are always looking for new developers & new games, so you are most welcome.
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Definitely going to look at increasing the size of the balls
I do want to look at the graphics as well, and hopefully a way to increase the performance.
SonX0r said:
just played very good, enjoying it, keeping the back light on would be better as well
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SonX0r, there is code in the program to keep the backlight on, it does work on my Blackstone, the code is set to fire the API function:
[DllImport("coredll")]
extern static void SystemIdleTimerReset();
Every ten seconds, could you give me a little more info about your device please SonX0r?
ie: Device (Assuming Blackstone), Backlight off time, anything else that might be pertinent?
If you could do that it would be great.
Looks good .. keep it up .. the more developers for the phone the better. fab thanks !!
it went off at bout 30-45 secs after it started, just checked my power settings andd it says my back light turns off after 30 secs anyway?
im still using the standard rom as im limpin on my phone connection
strange, is there anyone else having this problem of their backlight going off?
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strange, is there anyone else having this problem of their backlight going off?
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my backlite turns of also!
Cheers, i will have to check this out, im fairly new to windows ce development please bear with me, im going on holiday to fiji for a couple of weeks, so ill get back to it then
Congratulations on a great project!!
Okay I managed to download Angry Birds, but after installing it on my device running Froyo 2.2 build 092810 it seems that it's not displaying properly, the sound works and if I press the menu button I can vaguely see some scrolling text mentioning copyright info, only it's off center. Could it be a 3D issue or that it's not displaying in the correct resolution?
Please help, I desperately want to play it.
You desperately want to play it eh?
Well get an iPod Touch then dude...
Sorry, but I don't think Angry Birds is really a priority considering where the project currently stands - it's come a long way, but it's still got quite a ways to go as well!
arrrghhh said:
I don't think Angry Birds is really a priority
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You should seriously read peoples comments a bit better and understand them before commenting yourself.
No where in my comment did I mention that I ask for developers to help troubleshoot this issue with me. It was a short question on 'why' the game is not displaying correctly when other graphically-intensive games work perfectly. May be someone else is experiencing the same thing or not, that's why people ask things....
It's a popular game and about the only decent one in the marketplace. Why should I buy an ipod touch when it's already ported to Android?
I heard that the Neopeek builds ran the beta of angry birds, whereas the xdandroid build didn't. You could try that build to see how it runs the final.
btw: the newest BLAZIN & newest kernel does run angry birds rather ok here. It's slow and some graphics are missing, but it's certainly playable for me.
Having the same problem on the Google/Huawei Ideos. Mine is not rooted so cant change the ROM... unfortunately.
I'd rather have a stable phone that's usable as a phone than be able to play Angry Birds.
Star-Lite said:
I heard that the Neopeek builds ran the beta of angry birds, whereas the xdandroid build didn't. You could try that build to see how it runs the final.
btw: the newest BLAZIN & newest kernel does run angry birds rather ok here. It's slow and some graphics are missing, but it's certainly playable for me.
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Me too im running the reference build and its playing for me too.
arrrghhh said:
I'd rather have a stable phone that's usable as a phone than be able to play Angry Birds.
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No offence arrghhh, since you help out a bunch here, but we do have a stable phone that works as a phone. The phone part is fine. If your splitting hairs, like you are doing to the thread poster. His post was not at all out of line, or posted in an incorrect thread.
OP, you may have some old build files on your phone. I've read that since the new non-beta verison came out, it can work on XDA. I have the same problem you do though, and just use Neo to play Angry Birds. There is still some bugs where certain images are missing are all fuzzy, but it is playable.
Also, if you want to ask questions without fear, go to similar thread at ppcgeeks. XDA is more "high-brow" and they have a lower tolerance for the simpler questions, like wanting to play a game. I think PPC also had a thread going on this game as well. Good luck!
I can confirm that this game is working on cyanogen 6.1 bulids from neopeek, but isn't working on kenia's 1.6 bulid
Well my phone doesn't work as a phone so great. If it resets when I answer calls, that's not functional.
Perhaps it is more high-brow here in that we want to resolve real problems, not childish ones - 'this game doesn't work' - is a childish complaint.
Seems some people need a reality check...
HELICOPTER88 said:
I can confirm that this game is working on cyanogen 6.1 bulids from neopeek, but isn't working on kenia's 1.6 bulid
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Working completely, or with some of the graphic artifacts (white areas) mentioned by others?
I loaded it up on Reefs Reference build and it runs OK (better without sound), but it definitely has some graphical weirdness.
Ever since Angry Birds came out of Beta, it's started working the same on XDAndroid that it works on Neopeek. In both it works, but slow and with graphical glitching.
Seems likely that this is a problem with the graphic chip that is in the Touch Pro 2 because it happens on the Hero, too, which is an Android phone that has the same processor.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810557
I have some limited use of Angry birds on the Super Froyo neopeek port ( beta from oct 8 or 10 I think) it works with some graphics issues, but its what I would expect with the current status of video/3d drivers for the device.
Oh and hey arrrghhh, shut up, your lack of respect to the members of this forum is starting to piss me off, if you have nothing useful, insightful, or really worth wasting anyone's time reading... as you so love to say "Resist the urge to click that post reply button!"
RickoT said:
Oh and hey arrrghhh, shut up, your lack of respect to the members of this forum is starting to piss me off, if you have nothing useful, insightful, or really worth wasting anyone's time reading... as you so love to say "Resist the urge to click that post reply button!"
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LOL I never said that. I did, however, say that people should resist the urge to post a new thread. Perhaps that's what you're mixing up...
Either way, I don't really care that I'm pissing you off. Makes me laugh TBH. So you act more like a child, for being called a child.
Stay classy gents!
graphic artifacts (white areas)
mbellot said:
Working completely, or with some of the graphic artifacts (white areas) mentioned by others?
I loaded it up on Reefs Reference build and it runs OK (better without sound), but it definitely has some graphical weirdness.
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I am facing same problem in some games ( graphic artifacts (white areas) ). Please tell me how you solved the problem
Kudremukh said:
I am facing same problem in some games ( graphic artifacts (white areas) ). Please tell me how you solved the problem
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Wow - major necro!
I solved the problem by switching to an Epic 4G. The TP2 was decommissioned over a year ago.
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Thread closed. If you have an issue you need troubleshooting assistance with, please open a question thread here: Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android General.
Thank you,
mf2112
XDA Moderator
Full credit goes to Ssserpentine, SpaceMoose, and OldMacnut for their work on their united efforts to port Honeycomb to our tablets! It seems they are no longer working on it so I decided to create this thread and see what we all could to do together to improve what they have given us!
The point of this thread is to find ways to gather anyone with knowledge on developing, even if its just the "lowly 7-Zippers" like me, to see how we can remove minor bugs and small issues from the ROM. I know Oldmacnut was going to pick it up, but he has a lot on his plate right now and he has been in pain and is more interested in finishing the CM7 Port instead. I respect his decision, but so many people want honeycomb working on our tabs. So I am turning to the dev community here to see if we can group together and fix things in this rom together. If we cant solve the major bugs, lets address all the little things, cuz the little things add up.
Spacemoose made a list of suggestions from users earlier on how to solve minor issues, and little workarounds, but I would like to see if there is a way to roll up those fixes into one full updated ROM flashable through a zip/odin/heimdall file, and see if we can come up with more. You can see this post here, but I have added them to the second post as well in a more organized form.
Some Useful Links as Well:
SpaceMoose's Github
6-19-11 Apps Confirmed Working on [CDMA] / [GSM] Honeycomb Alpha 2.5
Currently Known Bugs:
CDMA
A) Red Border Around Screen at Random Times
B) Constant Gallery Force Close
C) Stock Launcher hangs for many seconds at a time randomly
D) SD Card Does Not Mount
E) Youtube app does not work
F) Orientation Sensor is not functional
G) Honeycomb thinks Device Keyboard is enabled by default
H) When pressing Quick Settings, an image that is semi transparent that is supposed to cover the entire screen isnt scaled properly
I) HQ Youtube does not work (LQ does on the mobile site)
J) Quick Settings Shortcut on Bottom Right Side (Wi-Fi Toggle, Brightness Slider, etc) appears for a second but disappears afterwards.
K) Flash Player is not Fully Functional
GSM - Please Submit or confirm if the above bugs are the same and/or you have different ones!
Red - Signifies an issue that is unaddressed or has not been solved yet.
Orange - Signifies a Temporary Fix or Workaround is mentioned in the post I linked to.
Blue - Will signify a temporary fix or a work around that we have been able to include in a flashable file
Green - Will signify a bug that has been completely fixed in a flashable file.
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Lets put our minds together and see what we can do guys! Btw this was inspired by Rodderik's thread [SPRINT][CDMA]Galaxy Tab (SPH-P100) Mega Development Starter Thread (CWM, EF17 TAR), so if youre interested in this, you might like his thread too!
Current Workarounds/Temporary Fixes:
Letters correspond to the bugs listed in the OP.
A)
Ssserpentine:
1) Open up Dev Tools
2) Go to Development Settings
3) StrictMode Visual Indicator - turn it off
4) back out of app and now open it again.
5) If this doesn't get rid of MOST of the red borders, REBOOT and open app again.
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B)
anfalas:
"Get Gallery3D to play nice by going into settings, applications then 'Clear Data' - works great, can change wallpaper etc. Only downside is it has to be done each reboot....."
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C)
Ssserpentine:
“WANT IMPROVED UI, LESS RED BORDERS, LESS FC'S AND SCROLLING AND SOFT KEYS THAT PLAY NICER? Try adw launcher. for some reason just having it installed helps just as much as using it.”
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D)
mattman83:
"to mount UMS if you have no external SD then use the below line. Same changes as above... echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-usbgadget/gadget/lun1/file"
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or
corodius:
"if you have an external sd, by extending the commands to: su mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sdcard/ mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ This will mount the cards the way they are originally mounted in the samsung/overcome roms."
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E)
Use m.youtube.com to play LQ videos
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F)
ztag100:
"If you download barcontrol from the market, you can set it so that a notification links to the rotation app, thus when the notification is clicked it will change the orientation."
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G)
"one way to load keyboards On the language/keyboard settings page, turn physical keyboard to "no" or "off" or something like that. Now when on a text field, you should see a small keyboard tray in bottom right corner.."
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I) ---
J) ---
K) ---
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Submit a New Bug or Fix:
Please submit bugs using the color coded system I explained in the OP. If you are submitting information on solving a bug please address the bug by the corresponding letter so that we can stay organized and know what youre talking about. If you have a new bug please check the OP to make sure I havent listed it, then post it on here and dont worry about the letter, I will alphabetize them. Of course I will credit you in the OP for any fixes or workarounds you may find! Good luck to us all!
Reserved as well!
Yes, please
I would really love a Honeycomb ROM for the Galaxy Tab. There are many reasons why I want to put Honeycomb onto the original Galaxy Tab.
Just see the difference for yourself: Blank space, single pane, one-category-at-a-time menus in Gingerbread
VS.
Less blank space, concise, dual pane interfaces in Honeycomb.
Gingerbread apps are just designed for smaller smartphone screens, so they look too big and spaced-out on the 7-inch Galaxy Tab for my taste. I would really love to see some tablet-optimized apps on the Galaxy Tab!
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And yes, I respect the developers and appreciate them so much for the time they put into making custom roms a reality for us!
Please make the thread for GSM also.
TheATHEiST said:
Please make the thread for GSM also.
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Are the bugs the same? Or are there others that I havent mentioned? I will try to make a section for both tabs if theres different bugs in each one.
Why no mention of ssserpentine?
In op or thread tittle?
He worked on the GSM version.
Moose did the major part of the port and the cdma version.
That other person stumbled, or so he claims, on a audio fix. Never saw a release of this apparent audio fix.
Wonder how many donations he got on open thread with no release posted.
Hmm.
Makes ya wonder why that thread is even there.
Dole out the credits properly.
Just know it needed to be said, and go ahead and get mad. Truth hurts.
alot of angry responces coming, maybe, but dare ya to point out a single lie in this post. Even an exaggeration.
Moose did hc for MONTHS and noone offered any valid help, except ssserpentine, why do you think anyone is gonna get off their but now?
Why don't you, punkrock?
Cause I know how utterly hopeless this task is.
Why don't you all just wait for the leak of the next os?
That so much closer than some random Joe, or Joe's on xda getting hc ported at this point .
is the dead horse braised yet?
Still, hope is eternal, I suppose
PunkRock said:
Why no mention of ssserpentine?
In op or thread tittle?
He worked on the GSM version.
Moose did the major part of the port and the cdma version.
That other person stumbled, or so he claims, on a audio fix. Never saw a release of this apparent audio fix.
Wonder how many donations he got on open thread with no release posted.
Hmm.
Makes ya wonder why that thread is even there.
Dole out the credits properly.
Just know it needed to be said, and go ahead and get mad. Truth hurts.
alot of angry responces coming, maybe, but dare ya to point out a single lie in this post. Even an exaggeration.
Moose did hc for MONTHS and noone offered any valid help, except ssserpentine, why do you think anyone is gonna get off their but now?
Why don't you, punkrock?
Cause I know how utterly hopeless this task is.
Why don't you all just wait for the leak of the next os?
That so much closer than some random Joe, or Joe's on xda getting hc ported at this point .
is the dead horse braised yet?
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Easy man, in my frenzy of trying to organize the thread, I forgot to credit Ssserpentine in the OP, youre right he did contribute a lot, no need to be rash, I will update it right now.
EDIT: btw oldmacnut did make an audio fix, im running his rom right now, I downloaded it when he had it posted before he took it down, and Im sure some of the bugs I mentioned are fixable on the rom level rather than through adb. My goal wasnt to debug the rom completely, it was to incorporate all the existing bug fixes and workarounds into one rom, while possibly solving others. Also the GSM devs are aplenty here, while we barely have any CDMA, Im sure we have enough talent to make it better than what it is. It might not be flawless, but Im sure we can squeeze more functionality out of it.
Its weird,
Honeycomb is more or less froyo based, obviously as we had hc long before gb, so at the time when I started getting into this whole dev thing hc/froyo seemed just different to me.
But after working on the abortion called gingerbread, and working onbthe kernel stuff, froyo to me, is starting to look like a much more viable and dev friendly option.
Alot if the work Dan did in hc was from scratch, or from the sdk, etc. The audio fix I did was from both.
The big issue on getting hc up and going into a usuable rom is source, we really really need that source for hc. Otherwise, its going to be a long drawn out road of trial and error building with alot of these issues never really getting fixed.
Truth is,
No device with our hardware exists with hc, so no drivers that we need.
We need Google to release the hc source.
I liked hc on my tab just like y'all, but.......I know its just a novel weekend fun toy till we get better resources.
Sent from my SCH-I800 using xda premium
oldmacnut said:
Its weird,
Honeycomb is more or less froyo based, obviously as we had hc long before gb, so at the time when I started getting into this whole dev thing hc/froyo seemed just different to me.
But after working on the abortion called gingerbread, and working onbthe kernel stuff, froyo to me, is starting to look like a much more viable and dev friendly option.
Alot if the work Dan did in hc was from scratch, or from the sdk, etc. The audio fix I did was from both.
The big issue on getting hc up and going into a usuable rom is source, we really really need that source for hc. Otherwise, its going to be a long drawn out road of trial and error building with alot of these issues never really getting fixed.
Truth is,
No device with our hardware exists with hc, so no drivers that we need.
We need Google to release the hc source.
I liked hc on my tab just like y'all, but.......I know its just a novel weekend fun toy till we get better resources.
Sent from my SCH-I800 using xda premium
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Yeah I know, the lack of source sucks along with the fact we dont have drivers. I dont think we'll have everything working anytime soon at all, if ever even, but I think some of the minor annoyances like the disappearing quick settings toggle, sdcard mounting issues, and graphical errors can be solved without that kind of stuff. Me personally, Id just like HQ Video Playback and 3D Graphics working a hundred percent along with orientation, but as you said no drivers so idk how easy that'd be. Still, Im sure we could solve some of these minor issues. I keep browsing over the Nook Color Forums trying to find hints to solving some of these things
GSM Tab here I'll flash the old 2.5 alpha release and confirm these bugs, see what else I can do.
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BulletproofIdeal said:
GSM Tab here I'll flash the old 2.5 alpha release and confirm these bugs, see what else I can do.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using xda premium
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Nice to see something happening here. I love my Tab but would like some advancements in OS to address specific issues. I am very new to the dev side of the Android OS but would like to get involved.
--Mike
What blows my mind is that they have created an almost perfect HC port for the $150.00 walmart sold viewsonic g-tablet by means of the flashback roms so why is it so hard to get HC working on our tabs? And why can't someone just dump the Rom from the gtab10.1 and use that as a starting point?
On a different note, the alpha 2.5 HC Rom for gsm, the sd cards will not mount no matter what, I've tried The terminal and the mount instructions many times all I am able to do is get the tab to recognize my external sd as the internal sd, and if you try to go to settings applications and clear data for the gallery you get a force close as soon as you tap manage applications
Sent From Githrog's Tab
Ok done some immediate testing on my GSM Tab for some of the known issues
A) Red Border Around Screen at Random Times
Confirmed
Solution: is the same as the CDMA
B) Constant Gallery Force Close
Confirmed
Solution: Cannot be fixed through Setting, crashes as soon as you try to Manage Applications
C) Stock Launcher hangs for many seconds at a time randomly
Not really was slow on boot but no major problems
D) SD Card Does Not Mount
Confirmed
Solution: Haven't tested fix yet
E) Youtube app does not work
Confirmed
Solution: Confirmed
F) Orientation Sensor is not functional
Confirmed
Solution: "Rotating Screen" flips screen incorrectly so that capacitive buttons are on the top of the device
G) Honeycomb thinks Device Keyboard is enabled by default
Confirmed
Solution: Must be set on each boot
H) When pressing Quick Settings, an image that is semi transparent that is supposed to cover the entire screen isnt scaled properly
Confirmed
I) HQ Youtube does not work (LQ does on the mobile site)
Confirmed
J) Quick Settings Shortcut on Bottom Right Side (Wi-Fi Toggle, Brightness Slider, etc) appears for a second but disappears afterwards.
The widget that display battery level, time, etc stays active however no settings are located underneath it. While this menu is expanded a press on the bottom bar will cause the settings to briefly appear but then the whole menu will close
K) Flash Player is not Fully Functional
Not tested
"New" GSM bugs
1. Wi-fi settings are not saved on restart
2. Manage Applications and Running Services menu causes force close of settings
3. Small thing but Tab's first start had language set to Spanish (Not sure if it was spanish but it certainly was not English)
And as always 3G does not work (tried APN settings but it wouldn't let me save)
Alright I'm back to MIUI until I can find some more time on my hands
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Githrog said:
What blows my mind is that they have created an almost perfect HC port for the $150.00 walmart sold viewsonic g-tablet by means of the flashback roms so why is it so hard to get HC working on our tabs? And why can't someone just dump the Rom from the gtab10.1 and use that as a starting point?
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If it were that simple I'm sure someone would have thought of that To be honest I think the problem is that the Tab is an extremely fractured device; it was really the first Android tablet to directly compete with the iPad, so it was spread as wide as possible. That's great for Samsung who got a pretty large base of customer but sucks for devs because the GSM and CDMA are 2 very different devices not to mention the P-1000N. When I got my Tab last month the first thing I noticed in this forum was the fragmentation between the different versions of Tabs. More profoundly this means that the developers are split apart, usually when one dev makes a break through everyone else can take advantage of it (i.e. the amazing Voodoo Sound/Color hacks) but not here. I feel like everyone is by themselves and I truly feel bad for the developers because they must make their own breakthroughs on top of dealing with complaints from Tab users with other versions that they want this awesome thing on their Tab. As if its no big deal to go and buy a $450 device to develop something as a hobby and then release it for free for people on the internet after already buying nearly the exact same device.
Sadly I think the Tab is a perfect storm working against modifying it in any ground breaking ways. Don't get me wrong I love my Tab and will try to help getting Honeycomb running but I almost feel like it would just be easier to wait for Ice Cream Sandwhich. /rant
Guys, there is no reason to develop honeycomb, it is inposible to make fully functional honeycomb rom, wait a month or less for ICS, read this (quote from android police posted today):
Honeycomb is closed source. Nobody can make a tablet without Google's blessing. The reason given is that Honeycomb was rushed out the door, and the code isn't good enough for an open source release. They're right you know, setting the emulator to anything smaller than a tablet will result in about a million force closes. Honeycomb just isn't as supportive of hardware as Gingerbread was. To save developers the headache of supporting a platform that wasn't ready, Android's openness got shelved.
Luckily this is going to change. The big cheese said so himself on the Official Android Developers blog, "This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy. We remain firmly committed to providing Android as an open source platform across many device types." Source code is coming back. This will make the modding community's life much easier. Cyanogenmod 8 (I got excited just typing that) and Ice Cream Sandwich will be able to get hacked onto just about anything.
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Guys, there is no reason to develop honeycomb, it is inposible to make fully functional honeycomb rom, wait a month or less for ICS, read this (quote from android police posted today):
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I just wanted an excuse to try out Honeycomb
BulletproofIdeal said:
Ok done some immediate testing on my GSM Tab for some of the known issues
A) Red Border Around Screen at Random Times
Confirmed
Solution: is the same as the CDMA
B) Constant Gallery Force Close
Confirmed
Solution: Cannot be fixed through Setting, crashes as soon as you try to Manage Applications
C) Stock Launcher hangs for many seconds at a time randomly
Not really was slow on boot but no major problems
D) SD Card Does Not Mount
Confirmed
Solution: Haven't tested fix yet
E) Youtube app does not work
Confirmed
Solution: Confirmed
F) Orientation Sensor is not functional
Confirmed
Solution: "Rotating Screen" flips screen incorrectly so that capacitive buttons are on the top of the device
G) Honeycomb thinks Device Keyboard is enabled by default
Confirmed
Solution: Must be set on each boot
H) When pressing Quick Settings, an image that is semi transparent that is supposed to cover the entire screen isnt scaled properly
Confirmed
I) HQ Youtube does not work (LQ does on the mobile site)
Confirmed
J) Quick Settings Shortcut on Bottom Right Side (Wi-Fi Toggle, Brightness Slider, etc) appears for a second but disappears afterwards.
The widget that display battery level, time, etc stays active however no settings are located underneath it. While this menu is expanded a press on the bottom bar will cause the settings to briefly appear but then the whole menu will close
K) Flash Player is not Fully Functional
Not tested
"New" GSM bugs
1. Wi-fi settings are not saved on restart
2. Manage Applications and Running Services menu causes force close of settings
3. Small thing but Tab's first start had language set to Spanish (Not sure if it was spanish but it certainly was not English)
And as always 3G does not work (tried APN settings but it wouldn't let me save)
Alright I'm back to MIUI until I can find some more time on my hands
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If it were that simple I'm sure someone would have thought of that To be honest I think the problem is that the Tab is an extremely fractured device; it was really the first Android tablet to directly compete with the iPad, so it was spread as wide as possible. That's great for Samsung who got a pretty large base of customer but sucks for devs because the GSM and CDMA are 2 very different devices not to mention the P-1000N. When I got my Tab last month the first thing I noticed in this forum was the fragmentation between the different versions of Tabs. More profoundly this means that the developers are split apart, usually when one dev makes a break through everyone else can take advantage of it (i.e. the amazing Voodoo Sound/Color hacks) but not here. I feel like everyone is by themselves and I truly feel bad for the developers because they must make their own breakthroughs on top of dealing with complaints from Tab users with other versions that they want this awesome thing on their Tab. As if its no big deal to go and buy a $450 device to develop something as a hobby and then release it for free for people on the internet after already buying nearly the exact same device.
Sadly I think the Tab is a perfect storm working against modifying it in any ground breaking ways. Don't get me wrong I love my Tab and will try to help getting Honeycomb running but I almost feel like it would just be easier to wait for Ice Cream Sandwhich. /rant
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Wow now that is the kinda posts i like seeing on here! I will try to update the OP tonight with this info! Thanks so much! Definitely echo your sentiments about the fractured and fragmented development we have going on here, it really sucks =/
Ive found out that replacing the existing Gallery with Gallery3D should fix the FC that keeps popping up.
I think Ive found a working Youtube App (in LQ).
Ive also found a hint towards solving the sdcard mounting issue. Its not the vold.fstab its something either in the framework or ramdisk within the kernel, according to the Nook Color Forums.
This thread is interesting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062626 , actually the entire nook color forum is interesting for finding fixes.
Also changing the dalvik_heapsize to a certain value is supposed to increase app compatibility. Before I update the OP with some of these things, I wanna do a little more testing and see what I can come up with.
Sorry to bother for help,
Sorry to bother you guys for help, but I've been trying to install Oldmacnut's updated of Spacemoose's CDMA Honeycomb (2.5.1) for hours now, with no success.
I used Rodderick's awesome stock rom/kernel and got into clockworkmod (using 4.0.1.5 or 3.0.0.0), installed the zip from there, then rebooted the phone, but I would either 1) be stuck at logo for 10+ minutes 2) see the Sprint startup video loop over and over again, or 3) get stuck on a turned on, but black screen.
How did you guys install Honeycomb on your CDMA tab? Am I doing something wrong? Should I use Spacemoose's 2.5 rom instead of Oldmacnut's?
EDIT: NEVER MIND, IT BOOTED INTO HONEYCOMB. I am in a foreign language, haha, I'm guessing Portuguese?
EDIT EDIT: Google Translate detects the language as Catalan. Haha!
iliveinabucket said:
EDIT EDIT: Google Translate detects the language as Catalan. Haha!
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Hehe that happened to me as well
First Impressions and problems encountered
HOLY SHOOT THIS IS QUITE FAST!
Considering there is no graphics acceleration support, Honeycomb runs much faster than I anticipated. SD card support is fantastic, and so is hearing sound! (I love you OMC) The UI is awetastic and the standard web browser is blazing fast. Scrolling in web pages is faster on Honeycomb than on Gingerbread stock.
The jittery touch screen bug I have is still there, unfortunately. Damn bug drives me crazy sometimes. I'm sure somebody has this problem that many of us have but have not found a fix to: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970965
Basically, when I hold down my finger to scroll on white or light-color backgrounds, the screen shakes back and forth in a spastic, noticeable way, especially when I hold it in place. This happens on every single rom I've been on, froyo, GB, CM7, and now Honeycomb. Has anyone found a fix for that yet?
Anyways, I think all the known Honeycomb bugs are true to me too. Youtube force closes on me, GPS doesn't work, auto-orientation doesn't work. Strangely enough, Quick Settings doesn't work for me. Anyone encounter that?
Installed a new super simple game called Purity and found it to be quite pleasant. The game consists of a pattern of blocks that you need to eliminate in a particular sequence to get to an end point. You touch the screen and move your finger in the direction you want the sequence to go. On long stretches of blocks you can hold the direction for automatic progress. Otherwise you just want to momentarily flick in the direction you want to go so as not to miss a needed change of direction. And you can touch the screen anywhere for movement.
Glad you liked the game. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for improvement or new features.
Also - have you gotten to the end of the game yet - all 60 levels of increasing difficulty?
-Carbide Software
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Glad you liked the game. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for improvement or new features.
Also - have you gotten to the end of the game yet? It is possible to beat all 60 levels, but some are infuriatingly difficult (so say our testers).
-Carbide Software
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Nah...not even close yet. I'm a casual smartphone gamer and may play maybe 2 to 3 levels at a time every few days. Your Purity game is top notch as is. Sometimes I get annoyed when the icon goes one block too many. But that's the only thing...way easy to do that. But the whole system and gameplay is top grade and first rate coding and dev work.