Polaroid PMID701i Andriod 4.0 Icecream Sandwich

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the clockwork we have at the moment will only work on gingerbread, not ics. there are some irons in the fire, but we dont have one yet.

Ah well, it was worth a try.

[vrocko]

West Cost

Im located in Dayton. It seems like the west coast got them first

Yeah looks like it. I didn't see any last night at my Big Lots, just 701C's and PanDigitals, guess we will have to wait.

[Nux]

So NUX.
Now that you have had both the C and I for a couple days, rooted and installed Google Play and other apps you usually like to run.

Which one do you prefer using? Not which one is flashier or looks nicer to show but which one do you find yourself or others in your household using more if given the choice?

I am quite happy with the C and gingerbread. Matches my phone OS etc and will be a little less laggy from what I gather.

Thanks mate.

Hands down the 701i. The lag is barely noticable, there is a slight hesitaion when you go into and out of apps and when you load the browser or android market. Other than that the apps all seem to run at the correct speed etc as the 701C with no hang ups while using apps etc.

The settings menu is how can I express this, absolutely superior! You never have to go back to change any settings, it is all on the left exapded in list style like the explorer of Windows and the app maager is integrated into the settings so you don't have to back out to unistall, move apps, etc...

Also, my 701C doesn't work w/ motion apps like Temple Run or Tiki Karts where as both my 701i's handle it perfectly.

My only peeve, If you root using my method (the only method I know of as of yet) you can't use Root Explorer, there is some kind of compatibility issue with Super User and it won't launch, but if you use ES Explorer you can go everywhere and do a ton but it has it's limitations (i.e. being able to read and write in system files), also if you then use Super One Click to un-root then use Root Explorer you'll have the RW capibilities but you can't write where you want (you get a prompt saying your device isn't rooted!), so then what's the use? Until someone who really knows these androids OS's inside and out, like some of the big dogs around here (hint, hint) figure out a better Rooting technique then we'll just have to live with the only way I could figure it out.

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Also, my 701C doesn't work w/ motion apps like Temple Run or Tiki Karts where as both my 701i's handle it perfectly.

For the 701c try display/settings/accelerometer coordinate system and choose "special coordinate system to support some other games". Temple run works fine for me.

[kytprice]

Well at least you guys are lucky enough to get a 701i. I can't find a 701c in a Kentucky Big Lots let alone one with ICS on it.
I have called at least ten stores and no polaroid tablets of any kind. I have found some on **** for around 130.00 shipped. But I sure would like ro luck on one in store for sale.

[ghostfayce]

701i questions

I got the 701i and well have some questions about this. Has anyone been able to get a real root with the stock rom, with out having to flash. I can run superoneclick and also the SU apk, but it doesnt seem the binaries/permissions are correct. It shows I have root, but anything that needs root permissions is a no go. Would love to be able to actually set the system to r/w instead of r/o. I really just want to be able to change boot animations, fonts, and use a cpu controller of some sorts. Open to any ideas and willing to run any adb commands asked of me . I might be a noob, but Im not exactly handicapped when it comes to androids. I have rooted and romd several phones, but nothing with ICS on it. Any help would be very appreciated.

[sabercatpuck]

Hmm all I can compare to is the Onda ICS

That one I am sure comes as RW for the system. You might use root explorer to look in the init.sun4i.rc and see if it has a mount command setting them to RO like it does in the C. If so you should be able to se the permissions for the directory to RW, and edit the file to set them to RW like we did on the C. Unfortunately since I cant see that particular ROM yet I cant know for sure.

[ghostfayce]

Switched to Onda Firmware

Switched to the vx610wp ics v1. If I can get cwm installed then ill be trying to flash over to finless v1.4. Hopefully this works out for me. Was kinda hard to get livesuit to actually see the tablet. But got it all done

[ghostfayce]

I prolly should have did a dump on it first, but just made the jump

[N4RPS]

I picked up this 4.0 entirely by accident thinking it was the PMID701c Android 2.3.4 version for my daughter after I had gotten one a few weeks back for myself, didn't even realize till I got in the house that it was different. Box is the same the unit is the same etc... Turned it on and was like, huh? This looks different? Then at closer inspection I see a sticker on the box "Android 4.0".

About doing some ADB I'm so green at the dev/hack stuff on these devices I wouldn't know where to begin. I only found this site by looking for hacks on the PMID701c, which I was able to root etc as per the threads here on freaktab. I've also been able to root a 7" Pandigital Novel (black) w/ instructions I found on Youtube about 6mo ago. That's all my experience thus far though I am wanting to learn! I'd like to know how to build ROMs etc.

Hello!

If you want to use ADB, the first step is to enable debug mode by installing the USB drivers for the tablet on your PC. I did this by downloading the PDANet program for Android. Once PDANet has installed the drivers, PDANet can be uninstalled via Control Panel.

You can then download and install the ADB SDK. This may also require an install of the Java SDK, but I believe Finless Bob has a way of just installing ADB SDK without the need for the Java SDK. Maybe he'll throw up the link to the post where he discusses that.

From there, in the Preferences area on the tablet, "Allow USB debugging mode" is then selected. At the end of all this, if you connect a USB go to a DOS shell in Windows, cd to the directory where ADB SDK is, type "adb devices" (sans quotes) at the command prompt, and receive a response back that includes the model number of the tablet, you succeeded.

I'm probably leaving out a step or few, so what I'll do is when I reflash back to stock and reinstall everything, I'll write everything I do up step-by-step to reflect the latest information, and pass it along to get it added as a sticky at the top of the special area.

73 DE N4RPS/3
Rob

[Nux]

For the 701c try display/settings/accelerometer coordinate system and choose "special coordinate system to support some other games". Temple run works fine for me.

Thank you, works fine now!

[Nux]

Hello!

If you want to use ADB, the first step is to enable debug mode by installing the USB drivers for the tablet on your PC. I did this by downloading the PDANet program for Android. Once PDANet has installed the drivers, PDANet can be uninstalled via Control Panel.

You can then download and install the ADB SDK. This may also require an install of the Java SDK, but I believe Finless Bob has a way of just installing ADB SDK without the need for the Java SDK. Maybe he'll throw up the link to the post where he discusses that.

From there, in the Preferences area on the tablet, "Allow USB debugging mode" is then selected. At the end of all this, if you connect a USB go to a DOS shell in Windows, cd to the directory where ADB SDK is, type "adb devices" (sans quotes) at the command prompt, and receive a response back that includes the model number of the tablet, you succeeded.

I'm probably leaving out a step or few, so what I'll do is when I reflash back to stock and reinstall everything, I'll write everything I do up step-by-step to reflect the latest information, and pass it along to get it added as a sticky at the top of the special area.

73 DE N4RPS/3
Rob

Super One Click gives the PC the drivers as well and Super One Click is self executable so there's nothing to install or uninstall from your PC. I'm already familiar with setting up debugging mode etc... My experience in flashing/rooting has been on a different brand tablet which I have flashed with different roms at least a half dozen times now if not more. These polaroid 701 units are a different sort of beast. Where a green horn gets lost is with the acronyms adb, sdk, dos prompts (I was on a Mac until Win XP was well established, so DOS for myself and plenty of other ppl is like knowing Latin!).

I have the "sdk" and "adb" programs from Android installed but it's I'm not sure how to use it all as of yet. Haven't had any problems loading up apps and getting good use out of the 701i and of course my 701C is completely rooted with out a hiccup so I dunno what more needs to be done to have a nice working tablet.

If you could do a walk through that would be awesome, as I stated in a previous post by no means is my walk through method for the 701i ( http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...t-Walk-Through ) the end all for fully rooting the 701i tablet, there are some bugs about getting into the root folders because my method utilizes Super One Click and Super User which Super User on on the 701i won't allow Root Explorer to even launch. Though that method works perfectly for rooting the 701C, I wonder if it's an ICS vs GB issue.

[ghostfayce]

Ut Oh

LOL. So I flashed Onda firmware to my 701i, now I'm unable to flash anything else to the tab. livesuit just gives me the same lil pop up as when the flash completed. All my systems are win 7 so not sure if that makes a difference

[sabercatpuck]

LOL. So I flashed Onda firmware to my 701i, now I'm unable to flash anything else to the tab. livesuit just gives me the same lil pop up as when the flash completed. All my systems are win 7 so not sure if that makes a difference

You might try exiting livesuite, open up task manager and under processes close the livesuite one. then try again

[sabercatpuck]

Just had a really bad try at an edit and locked it up real good. found that I had to plug the USB in, hold the power button till the windows USB ding off sound then unplug the USB, hit the menu button and insert the USB cable again to get LiveSuite to start flashing