Android Tablet Forum

Lenovo s2010 - How to Root

lobonca — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:24:13 GMT

Has anyone here successfully rooted their Lenovo s2110?

I tried rooting without the ADB drivers for Lenovo but OneClickRoot.exe would just crash
when trying to communicate with the tablet. So the drivers that OneClick includes in their
package that work "most of the time" will not work with the Lenovo.

I have no idea where to get the correct ADB drivers or how to install the drivers once I get them.

Can anyone help here? I just want to get the device rooted. The simplest way would be appreciated.

Why do i have go market?

kl31 — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:22:10 GMT

I just did a hard reset on my Acer Iconia A500, and i got Go Market. Everything there is in Chinese.

When i did the hard reset, the default option for language and country were Chinese and China respectively, instead of English and United States.

How can i get play store?

Andorid Car Media System

dobbor1 — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:21:24 GMT

Hi, does anyone know which ROM I can flash on my car media system as an alternative for what is already on it please?
I have no idea based on the system info as per attached photo. I used to flash roms on my Galaxy S2 so comfortable doing it.

Thanks

Dobbo

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Bricked MID9042 and recovery issue

Marhra — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:20:00 GMT

Hello,
I recently purchased a Kyros mid9042 tablet as a gift for my wife, that I successfully rooted (the tablet, not my wife...), with CWM, and installed gapps
During process, I made a dump. Two, in fact : first before installing gapps, an a second one after.

Then, I tried to install apps from Play store : my device is not compatible... they said.

So I tried to restore with my first dump. It said : "Installation successful".

Then trouble begin : I have a boot loop, with COBY logo still on the screen, no USB connection. CWM starts, but I can't update nothing at all : update or recovery. It always says "No such files found" or it starts installation, then abort. I tried with my own dumps, then with different ROMs found in this forum. Same issues.:mad:

Add to this that there is no back option in CWM menu AND no physical back button on the device....:confused:

Has anyone any suggestion before I try to see if it flies from the 4th floor ?

large keyboard

yorkshire — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:15:52 GMT

Cant seem to get the large keyboard back that took up edge to edge screen. Tried the double pinch thing , it doesnt seem to work just types the letter where ever my finfers touch

Radio

yorkshire — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:21 GMT

So tried logging onto the home page of some local radio stations in NZ and found they had a listen on line option. Hit the relevant icon but no radio starts. I havent got any error mess or anything that tells me it cant play for a particular reason. Ideas?

DVD Catalyst Newsletter 104 � 05-19-13

dvdcatalyst — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:12:38 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for reading DVD Catalyst Newsletter 104.

As I mentioned on Facebook and Google+ last Friday, my wife has been in the hospital. As a result, the last 2 weeks have been quite hectic for me, and this newsletter will be a bit different.

Tech News:

Usually I include some tech-news, and some tools4movies.com site activity and status updates on my apps, but aside from answering email support questions, the majority of my time was spent in the hospital alongside my wife, so I haven't kept up with the tech websites that much.

Google I/O:

The biggest thing in tech the last 2 weeks was of course Google I/O. The yearly Google spectacle where the next Android version is mentioned, new Nexus device(s), and of course Google Glass.

This year, aside from the announcement of a "Nexus" Galaxy S4 model, the main focus of Google I/O was more on social rather than hardware. Google Talk got replaced by Hangouts, which in turn integrates better with Google+. In addition to that, Google announced a Pandora/iRadio/Spotify version of its own with a monthly subscription service for unlimited music, and many of the core-apps got updated as well.Rather than releasing a full Android update, Google decided to update the apps instead, so there is no wait on (slow) device manufacturers for an update for their customers, which is pretty cool I think.

Blackberry Live:

Also this week, Blackberry had its yearly Blackberry event. After years of losing market share to Google and Apple, and recently even from Microsoft, it is finally getting some momentum back. Now with around 120.000 apps in the Blackberry World store, it is catching up very fast, and with its soon to be released for Android and iOS Blackberry Messenger(BBM) app, it might be able to get some of its lost customers back.

As many of you know, I am still very fond of the way Blackberry's operating system works on the Playbook, and I am eagerly awaiting further developments from Blackberry.

Tools4Movies News:

The last 2 weeks, I've spent the majority of my time in the hospital to support my wife. Of course work never stops, so I have kept up with support questions, but with everything going on, I haven't done any work on the website or app development.

Since this isn't the first time it happened, and (I hope not) it will likely happen again, I figured it might be interesting to share a bit of what is going on.

For quite some time, my wife has been experiencing health issues. A chronic fever early in her life affected her heart and lungs, and the last couple of years, things have been progressing more and more.

She has developed COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in her lungs, and a bad Mitral valve in her heart, and the combination of the 2 causes atrial fibrillation (irregular heart rate) and tachycardia (accelerated heart rate).

No strokes or heart attacks (knock on wood), but for her, even something as simple as getting up from a chair and walking a few steps tends to result in her heart rate going up to about 150 beats per minute and her oxygen level going down to the low 80%. Usually standing still or sitting down helps in bringing things back to normal.
a bit over 2 weeks ago, early (5am) morning, her heart rate went up because of a bathroom trip, and this time it didn't went down. When she came out of the bathroom, her heart rate increased to about 150, and continued to fluctuate between 140 and 170.

The same thing happened to her back in January, but back then it was a bit more severe, with her heart rate exceeding 200 bpm.

Back then, they slowed her heart rate down with medicine, and did a procedure of restarting her heart to bring it back in a normal rhythm.

This time, it was still high, but at 170, it was quite a bit less than before, but still quite severe. Early morning, it started, and she ended up being taken to the hospital by ambulance.

It took a few days for the medicines to kick in, but they managed to get it under control, and after they got a lot of fluid out of her, she started to improve a lot.

In January, things were a bit confusing as to what was causing it, but this time, partially thanks to the longer stay in the hospital, things are more clear.

The main issue for her is the mitral valve, which needs to be replaced, but unfortunately, in her current condition, surgery is not an option. A lot of work needs to be done still on her end. A major change of diet, a lot more movement and exercise, and she has to keep the fluid-build-up to a minimum.

Right now she is doing quite good. Before, walking a few feet resulted in her heart rate jumping 50, from 90 to 140 in a matter of seconds, but now she can actually walk 100 feet without raising her heart rate as much as 5. Hopefully this will remain.

Thoughts:

With my stay in the hospital, I've tried to continue to work. I have a (crazy) amount of different gadgets and devices, so while I was staying with her in the hospital, I was able to turn it into somewhat of a testing ground for me to see what would work best.

The main functionality I needed was email. Just about everything I have can do email, but I use some features of Gmail that make it a bit easier for me, and these are non-functional on email clients on devices or accessible through a mobile web browser.

In addition to email, I was hoping I would be able to do some development as well, so a device with a desktop operating system, capable of running my development tools, was my first choice.

Surface Pro:

The first thing I drug with me was the Surface Pro. It is the most powerful portable device I have, and with it running a full desktop version of Windows, it would enable me to do a bit more than just answer support emails.

I already have it setup with development tools, and it even has a couple of my favorite games on it so it was a natural choice.

Unfortunately, I ran into issues when answering my first email. The type-keyboard I was using had serious lag. While typing my response, multiple characters and even full words were skipped, forcing me to start over and type slower.

I can type at a reasonable speed, but I'm not THAT fast, so the lag was something that surprised me.

Then there was the setup itself. The kick-stand and the keyboard are nice when you are using a table or a flat surface of some sort, but trying to use 2 chairs, one to sit on, and another for a work-area, it doesn't work well. It took a bit of molding with a pillowcase to get the keyboard to sit on a flat area, and the kickstand has a fixed angle that didn't work well.

So I ended up with a pillow behind it to get it to a somewhat comfortable level.

(update: yesterday, I did some work with the Surface Pro, and ran into the same issue. I noticed it had some updates available (including a new firmware) and after I did those, the keyboard worked just fine.)

Vaio P:

So, the next day, I grabbed my Vaio P.

Just like the Surface Pro it runs a full desktop operating system, and it actually works quite well with typing. The size and weight are just about perfect for doing support emails, and the screen resolution is enough to be able to do some development.

Unfortunately, it is dirt-slow.

I don't have the Vaio-P setup for development (before the Surface comparison article I posted a few weeks ago, I had it in its box for a while), so I just wanted to use it for answering emails, but even at that, it was unusable (which is likely the reason why I never did set it up for development).

I use Google Chrome for my work, and usually when I answer emails, I have 2 tabs open. One with the email itself, and another with either my website in order to pull a link from there that answers the question, or another email display for me to pull up the order confirmation of the person. But, 2 tabs on Chrome is enough to bring the Vaio P down to a stop.

Surface RT:

The rest of the week, I ended up using the Surface RT, without any keyboard. I was stuck using Internet Explorer instead of Chrome, but the version on the Surface RT is almost identical to that of the non-RT version, and actually supports the extra email features I use.

The keyboard covers do work fine with the Surface RT, but I found that it was easier to use it as a tablet rather than a laptop, and was perfectly fine using the on-screen keyboard, and as a bonus, I had a bit more freedom than I had with the other 2 systems due to battery-life.
During the evenings, the Surface RT proved its worth to me as well. She loves her iPad 3, and she was playing with that for the majority of the time, but in order for me to put some movies on it for her, I needed to take it home. With the Surface RT, that is a lot easier.

I put a bunch of my wife's favorite movies on a memory card, and whenever she wanted she just grabbed the Surface RT to watch the movies, and for me to fill it up for her just involved filling up a different memory card and bringing it with me.

Tips:

Health App:

One of the nurses who assisted my wife pointed out something interesting. He noticed our Android phones, so he directed us to an app called Fooducate.

The app has a barcode-scanner, and it compares food products. When you are in the store, you scan a product, and it shows you the good and bad things in it. In addition to that, it brings up a couple of alternatives with different ratings.

If you are picking apple sauce for example, scan one, and it will show you different ones that are more healthy.

Of course we haven't had much time yet to play with it, but we will be putting it to good use when we are getting groceries.

They have an app for Apple and Android. More information can be found here:
Fooducate | eat a bit better

Content:

Unfortunately, my wife's health issues have been going on for a while, and will continue as well. If there is one thing that I have learned over these last years is that anything hospital-related involves a lot of sitting around and waiting.

In order to make it easier for both my wife and myself, I always have some device with content ready to go, just in case. Of course a tablet of some sort works best, but even something smaller like an iPod Touch, filled with at least some shows, movies or games will make the hospital experience a lot more bearable. Waiting in an emergency room until your name is called out, waiting for the doctor to show up with results of an x-ray, minutes often feel like lasting hours, but with something to watch or do, time flies.

While online services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Go are great, do think about some local content to keep yourself busy as well. Our hospital has wireless internet access for their guests, but the signal in my wife's room was a bit flaky, and 3G Cell phone data for streaming video is a bit painful. For me, it was an easy fix by just bringing in a spare wifi router in the next day which I connected to their wall outlet, but it isn't always that easy, so make sure that you have some games and/or videos that don't require an internet connection.

Closings:

That is it for this week's "newsletter". Next week will be back to normal.

Thanks for reading, and see you next week.

Sincerely,
Mitch.

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New to android tablets from a silver surfer

newdyrymes — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:35:34 GMT

Hi
As a newby on this site, can someone help me with regard to taking my Android tablet out of my home and into world! I took it to a friends home for the first time last night but couldn't log on to the internet without a password. This is in a home with wi-fi too. I would like to take it on holiday and I was under the impression that you could take it anywhere where this a wi-fi set up and it would log on automatically. Maybe I am a tad naive, so can someone help me please with relevant details.

Thanks

roseysan

COBY MID1126 bad ROM recovery

etaniel80 — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:16:34 GMT

Hi all,
I have terrible problem, a friend of mine give me Coby Kyros MID1126 damaged from his kid with bad ROM installation.
So what I have done is to install recovery and tried with different images (Coby1126-ICS, 1126CWM backup-GB, Kyros-JB) without success , I have searching all week for any solution and now I am totally pist off.
the only "success" I had with Revive Tablet Coby Kyros Mid 1125, in this case tablet is booting, but with different resolution and touch screen not working.

So please anybody give me the MD1126 mtd.img and lk.rom in oder to revive mid1126 or any ideas how to proceed.

Thank you in advance

Unable to unlock tablet as touch keyboard half offscreen?

Basara — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:05:25 GMT

This is hard to explain in writing so here's a photo:

This tablet belongs to a work colleague, it is unbranded but he says its based of a Googlepad(?).
No idea what version of android it runs on.
It has an external keyboard but that isn't being detected, not sure if that's related or if the port has gone faulty.
Tried dragging the on-screen keyboard, swiping, pinching etc. No joy

I don't have the thing in front of me or I could maybe provide more details

Any ideas?

Thanks

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hi,. i wanna know how to download games from PC to tablet? please help me

prettyyme — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:02:49 GMT

i wanna know how to download games from PC to tablet? please help me

Hi I'm just getting into Android-Arduino Hacks

trendski — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:19:15 GMT

A note to say hello and introduce myself. I am a scientist who is into arduino and electronics who just got an asus google nexus 7 tablet. As I learn more, I want to freely publish open source projects and exchange information freely on this subject matter, so I thought maybe this is a good forum for this? I am also a member of the forum.arduino.cc and hopefully making some connections between the two platforms.

my personal blog is here:

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting this link. My site is 100% non-commercial, no adverts or nags.

Best Regards

Craig [aka Gampa Geek]

MID 8127 completly "dead" after successful 4.0-Upgrade

childintime — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:41:56 GMT

Hello!

I'm new to Android. Yesterday, I tried to upgrade to Android 4.0 following detailed instructions provided on Youtube and using the original upgrade files from cobygermany-site. Everything worked fine, and after the procedure, 4.0 was running ... until I shut the tab down. From that time on, every Start/Reset ended up in a kind of loop in the Android logo. I found some advice concerning fastboot and ADB, so I tried to reset the tab holding the buttons, it told me to attach it to the PC by USB, but it was not recognized as an USB-device by the PC.

Before the upgrade, my tab was not rooted and there were only a few apps installed (some games and some versions of playstore); the connection to the PC via USB had worked fine.

Is there any rescue?

TIA

ChildInTime

A couple questions about some apps

Olson — Sun, 19 May 2013 05:20:15 GMT

I'm planning on getting a new tablet very soon, but I had a few questions about some apps.

1. Samsung ChatOn - It says it's free, but I read somewhere you can be charged in some instances. Is this true, or is it 100% free?

2. Kindle App - We (my family) also have a kindle fire hd, with games on it. Using the Kindle app, can I play games I've purchased on my fire, on my new tablet? If not, is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

~Olson

copying image files to my N7 and viewing them in Gallery

freedda — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:35:37 GMT

I've been downloading photos to my Nexus 7 and placing them in folders like:

Storage/emulated/0/pictures/my images/

I noticed when viewing in my file manager app, that these folders (with files) seem to get copied/emulated in a 'root' folder:

(Root) /storage/emulated/Legacy/pictures/my images/

Two questions about this:

I wonder, are these files and folders being copied by my device, so they're taking up more storage space, or are these 'legacy' folders only virtual? and only look like they've been duplicated?
And, when I go to view my images in the Gallery app supplied with the N7, it sometimes shows both 'versions' (including the 'legacy version in the 'root' directory) of the folder(s) and file, and sometimes it only shows one version--the one I created. I can't tell why it's doing these two different things. And to remove this duplicate folder from the Gallery view, I have to temporarily copy over the files to another folder, delete the folders they were in and recreate a folder to copy the images back to--sort of a pain really. So, is there a way to not have this happen in the first place?

Thanks David.