Honeycomb Downgraded to Gingerbread

Elitewolf135

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Sep 10, 2012
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Hello everyone. I hope everyone is having a fine evening.
Today I've gotten to the point where I just cannot stand the on-screen buttons on the honeycomb update. I decided to start tinkering to downgrade to the Gingerbread update (non-root, unfortunately). I've made progress and have a somewhat working Gingerbread downgrade completed. Oddly (and this may be a good thing), the Vizio update service does not work. So it's not nagging me to update to honeycomb. As soon as I get a better functional launcher (since I'm using my honeycomb one), I'll post further news. The reason the honeycomb launcher that I've installed is still there, is because I used the update.zip that someone posted here in the tutorial to unbrick the tablet.

I attached a picture of the tablet so you know I'm not kidding. I'm going to work on getting this working so we have a downgrade guide going soon. Let's hope for the best.

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~Elitewolf135

*UPDATE #1*

I decided to do a factory reset, considering how I'm too lazy to fix the launcher issue. We get the original setup wizard we all miss and love!
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J515OP

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Awesome job Elitewolf135! I'm looking forward to hearing about further progress and I am sure others are too :)
 

Elitewolf135

Member
Sep 10, 2012
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Thanks J515OP! I'm glad to report that WiFi works!
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And onto an odd problem that's good for us gingerbread users. It appears the update service is giving a weird error. I'm not going to hit try again because I'd like to stay with gingerbread.
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Regardless, I've tested all functions on my vTab1008. The procedure worked flawlessly. Everything works like it did out of the box (except the updater).
 
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