Droid Hype

There are a few new custom kernels available now for the Droid Incredible that will enable multi-touch. If you are into gaming and emulators, multi-touch can be enabled to allow 2-5 simultaneous presses.

My current favorite is chad0989′s Incredikernel. You can also try HeyItsLou’s version or invisiblek’s version. Just keep in mind that some are for Sense roms and some are for AOSP  based roms. They’re all in the update.zip format for easy flashing, just clear cache beforehand in your recovery and you are good to go.

I’m going to be posting up a few Viewsonic Gtablet based fixes/hacks to make it fully usable. Without these fixes, your Gtablet will be severely crippled by utter crap known as the stock TnT OS. Today’s quick how-to will be on how to enable all apps to show up on the Android Market.

Without this fix, opening the Market will show no apps available for your Gtablet.

The method outlined here requires something like Root Explorer or if you are familiar with the Terminal Emulator, you’ll be fine as well. You will also need Titanium Backup, you can download it from the developer’s website. Root access is a requirement.

- Open the Market and confirm that you do not see any apps
- Open Root Explorer
- Navigate to /system and mount it read/write
- Open in Text Edit the build.prop file
- Find the line that starts with ro.build.fingerprint and change it to say ro.build.fingerprint=samsung/SGH-T849/SGH-T849/SGH-T849:2.2/FROYO/UVJJB:user/release-keys (this is the fingerprint used by the Samsung Galaxy Tablet)
- Close the file and it will back up your old file automatically
- Go to Settings and then applications
- Find Google Services Framework and clear cache and then force close it
- Find Market and clear cache and then force close it
- Before rebooting, in Titanium Backup application, go into “Backup/Restore“, look for “Google Services Framework 2.2“, click on it and then choose “Wipe Data“.
- Go back and open the Market and it will pop up an error, this is good
- Reboot and let it log into your wifi
- Wait 5 minutes and then proceed to open the Market, you should now see all the apps that are available

Viewsonic recently released the Gtablet to the masses at the $399 pricepoint. With a dual core Tegra cpu, 512MB of ram and 10″ of screen real estate, this tablet has a lot going for it. However, right out of the box it is probably by far the worse OS and/or UI I have ever used. If this tablet was given to me as a gift with no option to change the stock OS, I would try and re-gift it. It is just that bad and then some.

So what’s so great about this tablet then? Custom roms. There’s nothing locking this system down, so there are already a few roms available that really improve the functionality of this tablet. Trust me, the difference is night and day and all kudos go to the folks on XDA Developers for really pushing this tablet forward.

Let’s get started shall we?

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