****OFFICIAL Polaroid PMID701c THREAD! root, market, and more!

[cherylharrell1961]

Can't really sew but I can crochet and knit. I bet your could crochet or knit a case for it. I got a nice case for it and a netbook bag which is great for hold it in the case along with the cords etc at Roses dept store cheap.

[vannatte]

Trying to get the antenna to shut off...am I ok to rename this file OLDPhone.apk.old to OLDPhone.old??? Not sure if this is necessary or if it is already disabled based on the current file name. I have a 701i.

[matt]

confused

The method of rooting by editing the sun.init.rc is working for me and has survived multiple power off reboots. Looks like permanent root to me! Installed supersu to firewall system.

[moonsbabe]

Love!!!

I bought this tablet a while back and haven't really messed with it. I searched for a way to root it when I first got it. But didn't find anything much. Then for the heck of it the other day I just put PMID701c in google and found ya'll! Now rooted and have a brand new toy to play with! I love rooting! I have rooted every android thing that has come into my possession! Thank ya'll very much! Gonna root my moms' too!

[power]

Getting Google Play to work

I just picked up one of these and coudln't get Play to work, kept crashing. Noticed there was a Google Terms and Conditions behind the crash message that I coudln't accept since it closed when I clicked OK on the crash message that popped up in front.

Tried all the different APK's I could find and all failed to run. Finally found on Polaroid's site a link for the Amazon market and a few others. One was called 1Market, which I downloaded the APK, copied to the tablet, and installed fine.

After futzing with trying to get Play to work I finally decided to just try the other markets to see what I could find. When I fired up the 1Market it had a Google Terms and Conditions that I had to accept, just like the one that Play was trying to get me to accept. I excitedly accepted, closed 1Market, and Google Play worked!

Been fine for a couple days now, downloaded Flash and everything else I was looking for so that seems to have been the final piece for me to get it working.

Power

---edit--- Oh my tablet is the Polaroid PMID 703C with the included case and USB keyboard. Pretty slick, on sale at Shopko for $99 but sold out pretty quickly.

[moonsbabe]

Wow! That sounds nice! I have the file somewhere here that I downloaded to get play store. But it doesn't do play store, it installs the market. But it works good and I would rather have that than any of those other market wannabes! LOL!!

I just picked up one of these and coudln't get Play to work, kept crashing. Noticed there was a Google Terms and Conditions behind the crash message that I coudln't accept since it closed when I clicked OK on the crash message that popped up in front.

Tried all the different APK's I could find and all failed to run. Finally found on Polaroid's site a link for the Amazon market and a few others. One was called 1Market, which I downloaded the APK, copied to the tablet, and installed fine.

After futzing with trying to get Play to work I finally decided to just try the other markets to see what I could find. When I fired up the 1Market it had a Google Terms and Conditions that I had to accept, just like the one that Play was trying to get me to accept. I excitedly accepted, closed 1Market, and Google Play worked!

Been fine for a couple days now, downloaded Flash and everything else I was looking for so that seems to have been the final piece for me to get it working.

Power

---edit--- Oh my tablet is the Polaroid PMID 703C with the included case and USB keyboard. Pretty slick, on sale at Shopko for $99 but sold out pretty quickly.

[EndeRoo]

This method worked on PMID703c

Thanks to all that have posted info for the Polaroid tablets! Just picked up a PMID703c from shopko with case/usb keyboard for $99. Used this process to install current Google Play store. Worked perfectly with root explorer 2.20.1.

Tablet shows up as expected in devices if I go into Play store settings from my PC as well.

Thanks again, and I cant wait to see whats next.

Here is that other way, step by step (Thanks a million, xda-developers!):

1. Download and gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip (forget where I got it; Google for it...),

extract it to a folder, & copy that folder to the SD card

2. Download the PAID version of Root Explorer & install on the tablet

(A Google search will find THAT, too. BTW, the FREE version won't allow R/W access)

3. Open the Root Explorer app & navigate to the transferred .apk files

4. Select the GoogleServiceFramework.apk & install

5. When complete, click "Done" & return to the file location for Vending.apk

6. Long-press Vending.apk & select the "Move" option on pop-up menu

7. Navigate to /system/app folder

6. Change mount option from RO to RW (read-only to read-write)

7. Paste Vending.apk into the /system/app folder

8. Long-press Vending.apk & select "Permissions" from pop-up menu

9. Change permissions to match all other apps in this folder (rw-r--r--)

10. Install Vending.apk

11. Reboot your tablet (*I* didn't seem to need to, but it can't hurt, I suppose...)

Market now works as advertised. No crashies.

Icon ultimately updates to the Play Store icon, and now says 'Play Store'. This may be due to my setting updates to automatic in the app.

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[N4RPS]

Thanks to all that have posted info for the Polaroid tablets! Just picked up a PMID703c from shopko with case/usb keyboard for $99. Used this process to install current Google Play store. Worked perfectly with root explorer 2.20.1.

Tablet shows up as expected in devices if I go into Play store settings from my PC as well.

Thanks again, and I cant wait to see whats next.

Hello!

With LiquidLimez' Google Play script, everything is now pretty much automatic. It's surprising that people are still using this method. Low road, high road... Both eventually get you to Dublin.

The files I recommended at the time were dated then and now, but Play Store updates itself to the latest version sooner or later anyway. Then again, doing it this way doesn't change the original build.conf file in any way, either. As a result, your tablet name remains intact in Settings...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[EndeRoo]

I see...

Yes, I can see the script would have been easier. Only took a minute to do and it updated itself within a minute so no problem for me. Since Im a android tablet newb I kinda enjoy'd going through the process, a bit of a learning experience for me.

Thanks again!

[joamchild00]

HELP! Won't turn on, only flashes POLAROID

My daughter has loved her tablet since I got it and rooted it (it's our second one, after my oldest got hers and I rooted it I had to get another for the younger one.) After almost 3 months it won't come on. When the power button is pushed the screen lights and POLAROID logo screen comes up, then flashes off and about 5 seconds later it does it again. It's a continuous loop and never does anything else. I've charged it, held the reset button and I don't know what else to do! Any suggestions welcome but I'm at a loss and hate that it's happening. Other tablet which is a few weeks older is fine, never had any probs!

[morlog]

My daughter has loved her tablet since I got it and rooted it (it's our second one, after my oldest got hers and I rooted it I had to get another for the younger one.) After almost 3 months it won't come on. When the power button is pushed the screen lights and POLAROID logo screen comes up, then flashes off and about 5 seconds later it does it again. It's a continuous loop and never does anything else. I've charged it, held the reset button and I don't know what else to do! Any suggestions welcome but I'm at a loss and hate that it's happening. Other tablet which is a few weeks older is fine, never had any probs!

You might try reflashing the rom onto it with Live Suite. You can find the roms and live suite here.

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?634-Polaroid-ROMS-by-Shawn

There are some directions there, its not hard to do, just follow the directions.

[ephemeral]

Tilt Sensor (for Temple Run) HELP!

Hi, I just got my Polaroid tablet yesterday, and I found and downloaded Temple Run. I can't get more than a few turns because it won't tilt. I've tried tilting all 360 degrees. I've set settings>display>accelerometer coord. system to "accelerometer uses a special coord. system for some games" (I've tried it on both settings). I've set it to auto-rotate (I don't know if this affects it, I've also tried both settings for this). Is there anything else I can do to fix it so Temple Run will work?
I've also heard that people have got it to work with a tilt app, but I couldn't find anything. Would this help?

On an unrelated note, Adobe Flash also doesn't work (they stopped updating for android 4.0+ for whatever reason). Has anybody found a way for this to work?

Thanks!

[jtintle]

On an unrelated note, Adobe Flash also doesn't work (they stopped updating for android 4.0+ for whatever reason). Has anybody found a way for this to work?

Thanks!

Actually I think Adobe stop its flash development for Android, but most mobile devices have been dropping flash support. This article gives you a link to try and sideload flash,

http://www.pcworld.com/article/260901/android_flash_player_rip_how_to_get_it_now_that_its_gone.html

Hope it helps

[iceman190]

Browser seems lag

The browser seems to lag. I got the PMID701c for my kid. great work on the google play. but the browser lags like crazy. To my surprise I have not seen any other comments on it. It seems to load quickly but then stops and I get a pop up that says the browser isn't working and and Do I want to wait or close it. Real annoying. Any thoughts? P.S. running ICS

[jtintle]

Re: ****OFFICIAL Polaroid PMID701c THREAD! root, market, and more!

The browser seems to lag. I got the PMID701c for my kid. great work on the google play. but the browser lags like crazy. To my surprise I have not seen any other comments on it. It seems to load quickly but then stops and I get a pop up that says the browser isn't working and and Do I want to wait or close it. Real annoying. Any thoughts? P.S. running ICS

When running the ICS ROM I used Dolphin browser. It ran fine.

Sent from my Polaroid 701c tablet running Cm10