(This is actually an older post from April 18, 2011 that I found unpublished) Rooting my tablet and experiencing the different flavors of Android and tablet functionality has been a great thing. It has also been a highly valuable experience in learning how to fix shit when I mess things up. This past weekend I … [Read more…]
Just a handful of months ago I was so happy with my newly-rooted Viewsonic G Tablet running CyanogenMod 7. It was so much better than out of the box and I was really happy. And then… app updates started happening AND jacking up performance. Now with the new market update it immediately force closes until … [Read more…]
Now that you have ClockworkMod Recovery 8 installed, you are almost there. There are many ways to install ROM’s on Android devices, but I find this one is the one that will work well with many of them on your device. Other methods don’t work well with particular ROM’s. And I think this one doesn’t … [Read more…]
In reference to my previously-purchased Viewsonic G Tablet from Woot, I now want to share the how-to’s of “rooting” my tablet. It took a bit of doing, but not because it’s hard to root. What took a bit of doing was getting it to be the way I wanted. Yeah there were a few technical … [Read more…]
I have had my tablet for about two weeks or so with sufficient time to play around with it. So it’s about time that I finally posted my impressions of this Android tablet. My first general disclaimer is that I haven’t spent much time at all with a G Tablet using the stock Android OS … [Read more…]
… or the “Root” of all evil… the list could go on. Bottom line is that I got my Woot G Tablet and rooted it as I had read so many others had done. Why? Because, out of the box, the tablet looks good and feels good. But man oh man that OS it comes … [Read more…]