An android tablet a day keeps the apples away.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

List of Rockchip Apad custom Roms

Custom Roms For 7", 9V, Red Led, MD01-V6.0, 3.27 Bootloader Only!

Here Is Custom Roms For People That Bricked Their Devices After Flashing With:
Roger Braun, Xaueious, Donaldson, HiApad Firmware
Make sure your device are:
1. Apad iRobot
2. 7" screen
3. Aluminium back with oval "iRobot" logo
4. 9V charger/power adaptor/power supply
5. Red Led
6. MD01-V6.0 mainboard
7. 3.27 Bootloader
8. build number RK-1.3.2.eng.root.20100729.130751
Default firmware here 0802CN
Below are the custom roms created by respective rom cooker, thanks goes to them..
Keep in mind that these roms are using the same bootloader and kernel.

RB Hybrid 5.1 for MD01-v6.0 based on [ROM] Hybrid custom firmware for aPad 5.1, batch 2 red LED only (July 3rd)
RB Hybrid 6.0 beta for MD01-v6.0 based on [ROM] Hybrid 6 beta test (Batch 2)
DonaldsonV4 for MD01-v6.0(MERCURY) based on DonaldsonV4
HKX1.3.3R2 for MD01-v6.0 based on Xaueious HKX1.3.3R2(+SU.apk)
I've also had problem with the Market, but its not hard to fix, if its closed or kick you out..just set up date,time & location, sign in to google..wait until it finish synced with the server and try invoke the market again..if still kick you out..just reboot and reboot and try again..once you get ToC then its okay..

Thursday, September 16, 2010

7" Touch Screen TFT LCD Google Android 2.1 Tablet PC w/ WiFi/Camera/HDMI (Telechips 8902/720MHz) - $168 from DealExtreme

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Operating System:
Google Android 2.1

Processor:
Telechips TCC8902

CPU Frequency:
720MHz ARM11

Ram:
256M DDR2 RAM

Flash:
2GB

External memory:
Support micro SD/TF card up to 32GB

Display:
7" TFT LCD with resistance screen touch

Resolution:
WVGA 800*480-pixel resolution

Touch Control:
Full size touch operation, sliding menu, functional icon dragging

Orientation Sensors:
With accelerometer, automatic steering display screen

Network:
IEEE802.11b/g Wi-Fi network connection

Camera:
Built-in 300K Pixels camera

Microphone:
Built-in

Speaker:
Built-in 1 speaker

Slots:
1 * TF card (support up to 32G)


1 * 3.5mm earphone


1 * Mini USB


1 * HDMI Out (support 1080P HDMI TV out)


1 * Power supply

Support Video Formats:
MPEG1/MPEG2/WMV9/MPEG4-SP/ASF/DIVX/H.263/H.264/RMVB/MOV/MKV/TS/FLV

Support Audio Formats:
WMA/MP3/WAV/OOG/AAC/EAAC

Support Picture Formats:
JPG/GIF/BMP/PNG

Language:
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Battery:
Built-in 3000mAh Lithium battery (manufacturer rated)

 

Want one? Click here: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.44673

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Eken M003 Slatedroid Mercury beta firmware released

http://www.mp4doggie.com/images/merc.png
Slatedroid Mercury Beta by lefeudedieu & Roger Calver
www.slatedroid.com
This is Beta firmware and is untested please report all bugs to the M003 mercury thread .
Firmware built on offical Eken SDK 1.9.1
Rooted,
Swap enabled,
Google apps working etc Gmail, Gtalk, Market,
Wifi TXpower now set at 25 instead of 100 - lower power drain,
Slatedroid colour theme,
New Bootloader screen - Slatedroid logo,
Removed,
crapware,
File browser,
Added,
Kindle,
Adliko,
Better Terminal,
Slatedroid Market,
+ other tweaks
http://www.slatedroid.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=94

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Augen Gentouch firmware updated

http://augenus.com/indexhome.html/Updates.html

Archos releases Kernals – Apad firmware fodder!

Hi guys, I am writing to let you know that Archos released the kernel sources for the 7 Home Tablet. I think it should be very usefull for aPad owners developing firmwares.
http://www.archos.com/support/downlo...hos7HT_GPL.tgz

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Oh gawd, it’s horrible … pictures of dead apad …

Too horrible to look at … but if you really want to, click here: http://www.mp4nation.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=19373

Apad Telechip TCC8902 Review from Slatedroid forum

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Apad Telechip TCC8902, is FINALY here! My review

SO! After a month and a half of Paypal disputing and crappy customer service with Chinese vendors my apad with the telechip has finaly arrived. Now that is is unboxed and in use, I'm not sure if I'm happy or not
First thing: this is the website which I bought it from > Apad iRobot Telechip TCC8902 7" Android 2.1 Tablet PC
I would not and could not recommend to anyone, to purchase anything from this company based on my experience. It was pretty much a nightmare. They ran me around in circles for a bit (your tablet is going to ship today/tomorrow/in two weeks/ a month later). I eventually had to call in for reinforcements from Paypal to get this all sorted out. And what arrived in the mail, pretty much pissed me off. It came a) slightly damaged, b) synced with someone else's Gmail, and c) not quite what I paid for. When I first purchased the tablet back in July they swore up and down that it would be coming with an HDMI output and 4GB of internal storage, which of course was not the case. Nonetheless enough of my nagging. Lesson learned; don't buy cheap technology from China.
Now as far as the performance of the tablet, it's not all that bad. It's a fairly snappy device. The touchscreen is one of the better resistive ones I've played with, and there is software loaded to emulate multitouch gestures (not very effectively though). My biggest qualm with this device is when playing games and I press the touch screen it pretty much destroys the gameplay. It starts lagging and is right on the bleeding edge of freezing. Very frustrating. I've also been having quite a bit of compatibility issues with apps. A good amount of them downloaded from the market (which is the official android market) end up just force closing on me or they have jumbled screens etc.
The G-sensor is fantastic and pretty responsive. Autorotate is 4-way and it works nicely. I was playing games like Abduction and Tilt Labrynth flawlessly for the most part. One thing I did notice while I was calibrating the G-sensor, even when I set the tablet on a completely flat surface, the sensor does not register as staying completely still. It still wobbles back and forth ever so slightly. It was kinda irritating while playing tilt labrynth, with it being 3D graphics, the tablet would be laying still and it looks like a small earthquake is happening in the game. No biggie but I wish it was fixed.
As for the built in camera. No way in hell it's 1.3mp as advertised. It is complete crap, pictures are really blurry and I can barely make them out. I'm inclined to think it's the plastic touchscreen over the lense that is making the camera look so crummy. To be honest if I had a choice I'd rather the camera not be there at all, even if it was offered to be on the tablet for free.
The UI of it is okay. It has working volume controls on the notification bar. Controls to adjust screen brightness work. Unfortunately it has no home button and the option to set the function of the button on the front does not work. So I have to use the back button on the top of the tablet. So if I'm browsing the internet, in order for me to get back to the home screen I have to hit back through all of my previous pages until I get to the first page again. Reset to factory setting doesn't work, which is unfortunate, because the tablet came pre synced with god knows who's gmail account, and apparently the only way to remove it is to reset the tablet.
Wireless is surprisingly good as far as range. I'm able to connect to my home wifi from places my laptop can't. Though it does eats right through the battery life, which is very poor to begin with. A full charge with wifi on is only about 1-2 hours of runtime. With wifi off I only get about 3.5 hours.
The tablet has alot of potential if someone spends some time to make a better working ROM. I'll upload some pics later today. Hope this gave a bit of insight of some kind to you guys.