Arnova came out with yet another Tab. The Arnova 7b G2 Capacitive Screen.
For the last week several users have been wanting a ROM. Alas, without a ROM DUMP from a user and the Arnova Web site does not have a download for the STOCK ROM, it has been impossible to make a ROM.
In comes FreakTab user domrad. He dumped the ROM like days ago and I lost track. He PM'ed me and asked when? OMG... I forgot all about it! Sorry domrad.... BUT THANKS in the same statement! I see many are bricked and need help. You just helped them
domrad today not only TESTED my ROM with NO "official" factory ROM to be sure to go back to, he also posted a GREAT tutorial on how to dump a tablet ROM. Check it here:
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...sing-ADB-guide
domrad, I can't thank you enough for the help today. Anyone that uses this ROM, please thank domrad as without his dump, it would not even be possible.
So like all my ROM's below is the standard text stuff and download link. domrad tested it so it is NOT a brick ROM.
Enjoy,
Bob
______________________________________
This is for the 7b G2 Capacitive Screen ONLY! Do not flash this on any other Arnova 7
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
Below is the download link for my 7b G2 "Capacitive Screen" 1.4 ROM
ROM -> Arnova 7b G2 "Capacitive Screen" - version 1.4 by Finless (85 megs)
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ANDROID MARKET (Google Play)
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
Bob
Tutorial for installing drivers for flashing-[URL]http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?184-Installing-Rockchip-drivers
Please consider donating to purchase tablets for Finless Bob to continue his work. This will help in the creation of custom roms and build an even stronger development base for our community. Thank you for you support!
Damo - Forum Moderator
PLEASE CLICK THE DONATE LINK BELOW
PS
If you are having trouble with the above link when using Tapatalk than here is the email link for donations below
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...=ZYCM4NZ4J6F3G
Thank You
For the last week several users have been wanting a ROM. Alas, without a ROM DUMP from a user and the Arnova Web site does not have a download for the STOCK ROM, it has been impossible to make a ROM.
In comes FreakTab user domrad. He dumped the ROM like days ago and I lost track. He PM'ed me and asked when? OMG... I forgot all about it! Sorry domrad.... BUT THANKS in the same statement! I see many are bricked and need help. You just helped them
domrad today not only TESTED my ROM with NO "official" factory ROM to be sure to go back to, he also posted a GREAT tutorial on how to dump a tablet ROM. Check it here:
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...sing-ADB-guide
domrad, I can't thank you enough for the help today. Anyone that uses this ROM, please thank domrad as without his dump, it would not even be possible.
So like all my ROM's below is the standard text stuff and download link. domrad tested it so it is NOT a brick ROM.
Enjoy,
Bob
______________________________________
This is for the 7b G2 Capacitive Screen ONLY! Do not flash this on any other Arnova 7
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
Below is the download link for my 7b G2 "Capacitive Screen" 1.4 ROM
ROM -> Arnova 7b G2 "Capacitive Screen" - version 1.4 by Finless (85 megs)
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ANDROID MARKET (Google Play)
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 Bob
Tutorial for installing drivers for flashing-[URL]http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?184-Installing-Rockchip-drivers
Please consider donating to purchase tablets for Finless Bob to continue his work. This will help in the creation of custom roms and build an even stronger development base for our community. Thank you for you support!
Damo - Forum Moderator
PLEASE CLICK THE DONATE LINK BELOW
PS
If you are having trouble with the above link when using Tapatalk than here is the email link for donations below
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...=ZYCM4NZ4J6F3G
Thank You
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