Arnova 10b G2 Capacitive - Custom ROM by Finless Version 1.4

[Royvass]

Hi Imkal
No, the tablet discharged completely then when plugged into the mains it worked perfectly but just would not charge at all. It was left plugged in for 20 + hours and just didnt charge I checked the charger was working with a multimeter so it wasn't that.

I re flashed it with the stock ROM and returned it to the retailer and they checked it and replaced it with a new tablet bit loathed to re flash the ROM unless I did something wrong and caused the problem, but am hating the limited functionality of the stock ROM.

Roy

[robus]

Great!

Great job!!! I've been looking for a rom that works fine a lot of time and finally I got it!!!
Everything is working fine in my arnova 10b g2. Thank you very much.

[ravi]

thnq

[number1]

Thank You developers.

Hi there.

I purchased the Arnova 10b G2 8gb. 4 days ago and flasht the tablet today.
It works like a charm
First i couldnt get the driver to work so for the ones who had trouble also here's a tip.
When you hold the volume up and reset (screen goes black) keep your finger on the volume button when you connect to the Pc and even when you install the driver.
When driver is installed then release your finger from the volume button.

Grtz number1....

[number1]

Hi there.

I purchased the Arnova 10b G2 8gb. 4 days ago and flasht the tablet today.
It works like a charm
First i couldnt get the driver to work so for the ones who had trouble also here's a tip.
When you hold the volume up and reset (screen goes black) keep your finger on the volume button when you connect to the Pc and even when you install the driver.
When driver is installed then release your finger from the volume button.

Grtz number1....

Wow made a stupid mistake yesterday kind of a funny story though: While i was reinstalling some apps my battery went low so i picked up my charger,plugged it in and what happend.... screen goes black so i started up again and same thing happend,after a while i unplugged my charger and again started the tablet guess what happend.... i used another charger so my rom was destroyed i could read some errors and within seconds my tablet goes black again,when i started again nothing happend my tablet stayed black

Ok i thought well my tablet is destroyed by using a different charger the tablet was also very very hot so i put the whole thing back in the box and would get it back to the store.
Next morning i got it out of the box again to see if the tablet still stays black and like a miracle it started up only this time same errors like yesterday and a couple more but the tablet didnt fall out.
My next step was to try to put the rom back in again so i connected it to the Pc and YES! it worked

Thought i share this story with you its kinda funny dont you think? damn chargers they all look alike.

Grtz Number1.

[Damo]

That is funny

That is not the worse one though people have reported the tablet not charging only to find that they have the charger plugged into the headphone socket lol

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[number1]

that is funny

that is not the worse one though people have reported the tablet not charging only to find that they have the charger plugged into the headphone socket lol

sent from my sk17i using tapatalk

[gumbo71]

OK hands up I am one of those people :banghead:

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[akkumulator]

camer is not working anymore after using custom ROM

Hi Bob

I flushed my 10b g2 with your custom ROM 1.4 an it was working great. Apps market is working without any problems. Now by using skype I realised, the backcamera of the pad is not working anymore. By using the camera app, there's the message coming up "no contact to the camera". Do you know this problem?

[Finless]

No clue. 1.4 is made from a ROM dump. Only thing I changed is making it rooted and system as RW. Any camera driver issues are either a problem with the ROM dump or something else. So far your the first to report a camera issue so it leads me to believe you might have some other problem?

Also Skype is known to have issues on Arnova 10 G2. I cant say if it does or not on 10b G2. No clue there.

Maybe try a reflash. Some app or something you installed maybe caused the issue. Remember, having full root and write access to /system is a double edge sword! Using some apps like SDMaid or ROM Manager and you can hose your /system files up if your not careful!!!! Factory reset will not fix it either! Factory reset code never expects /system to be RW so it doesnt do anything with that. The only way to fix a hosed up /system is a full ROM reflash.


Bob

[akkumulator]

found the camera-problem --> skype

Hi

I found the problem with skype. It's the app itself, witch is not working in video-chat mode with the Arnova tablet. (found other test reports). skype app is blocking the camera after first use in video mode :-((.

thanks for this great forum and all your top work bob

akkumulator

[sassyattitude247]

help!!!

UPDATE as of Feb 19, 2012 @ 2:45 PM PDT.
FreakTab user ttz642t (Steve) pointed out that this build had a system.img that needed to be cleaned up. He noticed it as a slower boot up. Others did not notice it. If you downloaded 1.4 before this time listed above, and you have a slower boot up (if you notce it) then download this updated ROM V1.4a

File name is now arnova10bc_g2_v1_4a_market.zip
So you know you have the latest.
Link below is updated to 1.4a download.
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OK I hope this helps out the Arnova 10b G2 Capacitive Screen users. I know there were a lot of bricked people out there waiting for this.
THIS IS ONLY for the Capactive Screen 10b G2 version. If you flash this on your Resitive screen model, it will boot but your touch screen will not work!!! I will come out with a 1.4 version for the Resisitive screen 10b G2.

WARNING! Remove your SDCard when flashing this ROM!!! There is a risk it can be ERASED!!!

This has been a lot of work by many other people. I HAVE to give total PROPS to FreakTab user Fenice57. His first ext4 setup was not quite right. We all worked together and Fenice solved the problem by highly modifying the recovery system.

ext4 explanation:
Understand the history. After a ROM flash the recovery system formats everything. Well without a change in that it simply reformatted anything back to ext3. The ext4.ko kernel modules handled mounting an ext3 partition even if the mount command said to mount as ext4!!! It even reported it mounted as ext4!!! Go figure that one So lot's of testing and benchmarking later..... We have a real ext4 file system!
So there was no ext4 file system to benefit from in previous work. The improved ext4 kernel modules gave a little performance add but not much. However Fenice57 worked HARD on solving this and modified the recovery system to stop the format to ext3. Sowa and myself also added in testing and showing the issues. But Fenice is the MAN! He solved it.

Fenice57... Can I just say THANK YOU! Everyone that uses my 1.4 ROM. Please also give a hand to Fenie57!


OK so what’s in this ROM 1.4
It's the same as 1.3 with a couple more tweaks on my part based on user feedback and a couple of other slim downs in code I have done to init.rc, updated lib modules, etc.

1) WiFi scan interval is changed from 15 seconds to 300. This may help some guys with battery issues. Myself, I do not have this problem but due to many asking for it, I put it in. If you want to change it back:
Use a file manager and copy out from /system the file build.prop file. Copy it on your SDCard. Then copy to PC or whatever. Edit the file and find this line:
wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=300
Just edit the 300 back to 15 and your back to stock.

2) ext4 file system.. Well I explained the work that went into this above but just to add. I have done extensive benchmarking with many tools. This does not add a huge performance increase to the overall use of the tablet. EXCEPT, and this is actually kind of benefit, Sequential Write of files to memory. Large file writes are over double what they were on ext3. Random Read and Random Write are about the same. So where you should see an increase is downloads to Tablet memory, market download and install speed, some apps that write to memory a lot, etc etc etc. Overall however, the tablet seems much faster to me but remember, I am the cooker so I am biased

3) Because of popular use of Hauwei 3G sticks in Europe and Asia, I added this Fenice57 mods for support of this. I cannot and have no way to test this patch. So hopefully I implemented this properly. You guys I am sure will let me know
3g USB-modem Hauwei models E1550 E1692 E1750 E1820 *

Ok well that’s it. I was working on a dual boot setup but that will have to wait for 1.5

Here is the download link for 1.4

ROM -> Arnova 10b G2 Capacitive version 1.4 by Finless (78 megs)


IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ANDROID MARKET

Market issues. Market issue "may" still exist. This is common on tablets that are not really supported by Google as a registered device. Most users have no issues but sometimes there can be, The 2 issues that seem to arise when your FIRST TIME try to use the Market are:

A) Cannot logon; "Cannot establish a reliable data connection" I have tried to recreate this and troubleshoot this. My belief if in fact this happens sometimes when Google servers are doing something or something is going on with them. When I had this happen once I simply waited a while and it worked later. So I cannot help too much here. My only suggestion to try is this
a) Install a root file manager like root explorer or ES file manager (enable root access for them)
b) Go in with the file manager and delete /data/misc/imei/imei or data.dat which ever one exists

B) Limited apps listed; I have reproduced this and know how to recreate it and fix it! This has to do (I beleive) that after a factory reset or a flash the tablet creates a ID based on some other IDs and a random key generator. Sometimes this ID Google does not like. So we have to clear that and reboot. YOU DO NOT EVER NEED TO REFLASH OR DO A FACOTRY RESET TO FIX THIS!!!!
DO the following
a) Again using a file manager that has root access go in and delete the follow folders from the /data/data directory.
com.android.vending (not com.applib.vending!)
com.android.vending.updater
com.google.android.gm
com.google.android.gsf
b) Reboot and do nothing else but run the Market. YOu should get a prompt asking you to accept the Google terms of service. If you did not you did something wrong. Do it again. If you do get the prompt, accept and now the Market should work fully with TONS of apps showing up.

OK so thats it.... I hope you enjoy my new ROM. Please feel free
Again, this ROM was a combined effort from a few people and I could not have done it without them!

Oh and also....special thanks to Freaktab user Daman for an awesome boot screen and a LOW COST boot animation that will show people if the Tab is bricked or actually booting! When I say a low cost boot animation I tested it. With out it the boot time was only 4 seconds longer! But the beauty is unlike complex boot animations out there, this one gives the user feedback showing something is happening rather than wondering if it is a brick! GOOD JOB Daman and thank you!
If you the user wants to remove it, since you are rooted , just go into /system/media and delete the file bootanimation.zip. But I think you may find you like it so I personally enjoy it and will keep it

Tutorial for installing drivers for flashing-http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...-for-flashing!

Enjoy!
Bob

how do i install this on my arnova 10b g2?
PLZ help.

[Damo]

Download the Rom and in the folder is a read me file.

If you have not got the drivers installed than follow the tutorial at to install Rockchip drivers

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[sassyattitude247]

Download the Rom and in the folder is a read me file.

If you have not got the drivers installed than follow the tutorial at to install Rockchip drivers

Sent from my SK17i using Tapatalk 2

where is the tutorial to install Rockchip drivers???

[Finless]

Sassy, look in the first post and even the post you "quoted". The link to the tutorial is at the bottom.

Bob