[NEWS][HONEYCOMB][GTAB edition]Got Port? Update: May 12th 2011

CREDITS: This is posted for informational purposes only, and originally comes from MrGuy on TabletRoms for the Notionink Adam. Additional device specific information comes from roebeet on SlateDroid for the Viewsonic G Tablet, newbe5 and corvus on Modaco for the Advent Vega. With contributions from DJ_Steve (StephenH official NI dev), josh4trunks (Contract NI dev), and Dauiton from Tabletroms. Hardware acceleration and sound enabled by HomerSp. Thanks go to red_herringx for providing the system dump as well.

*** UPDATE 12:00pm EDT May 12th 2011 MrGuy has done it again, looks like the Market (gapps) issue has been resolved! MrGuy says " Borkata's link and HomerSp's test app helped a lot too"

May 5th 2011

Logged into IRC this morning and to my surprise there was some interesting chatter going on.

It seems that MrGuy has gotten as far as booting HoneyComb on the Adam. In the source post he has made his progress available for other devs to work on.



Although at this time, it seems to only work while holding your Adam upside down...

NOTE: In order to use this, you must make sure you use the utmost delicate hand gestures when touching your screen, as seen in the video.

***05/05/2011 11:24 [-04:00 GMT] PROGRESS: DJ_Steve aka StephenH in collaboration with MrGuy, has made progress in figuring out how to stop the Force Close. There seem to be some issues with the touch screen at this time..

14:03 -04:00 GMT ADD: roebeet's quick to get this on the GTAB


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Tremendous progress was made this morning and is being made as you read this.

It's exciting news and thought I would share it with a sister tablet.

HoneyComb is booting on the Notion Ink Adam and now it's on the GTAB as well.

FRESH TODAY 9th May 2011 11:30AM EDT

Cross collaboration between devs of sister tablets in the ##adamroot freenode IRC channel this morning!

Devs: HomerSp got hardware acceleration working, newbe5/corvus got it working on the Advent Vega (video demo below) and DJ_Steve applied them to the Adam HC rom and confirmed to now be working smoothly!


9th May 2011 12:05 EDT

DJ_Steve showsoff hardware acceleration implementation on Notioink Adam.


MAY 10th 2011


News Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/advents-vega-tablet-gets-a-little-sweeter-with-the-addition-of/

MechAniX.one said:

Is that Photoshop'd? I hope not. This is great news.

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I'm not that talented.

roebeet said:

I'm not that talented.

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Lies, you are kick ass. Don't forget it. Thank you sir.

OP should add the screenshot to their post:

projectzro said:

My question is if you dont care for it then A) why did you buy it B) Why the !@#$ are you posting on this forum.

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Looks like I've ruffled a few feathers with my post...

We were talking about Android and not the gTab, so technically I didn't buy the OS, right? Plus, this thread is about people's opinions about Honeycomb (or whatever your favourite poison is) on the gTablet.

thebadfrog said:

A) It looks like he bought it to try and get linux running on it

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Nah, I bought it for the same reason that others here have: In tablets, this one gives you the most bang for the buck. The full USB port alone did it for me.

C) Android is a phone OS so in some peoples eyes its dinky

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That is part of the reason, and if this discussion doesn't degenerate into "my way or the highway", I can go into the others. Anyway, I gotta justify what I said, so:

A lot of compromises have to be made to software if the device you're running on doesn't have a lot of memory and you cannot even use swap. The decisions that were made for Android in the early days are still with us (the no swap space bit is one, and the non-standard assignment of processes to UIDs instead of users to UIDs is another). They were alright then, but, seem increasingly restrictive with the tablets we have today--1GHz dual core CPUs, 512 MB/1GB RAM and 16/32GB of storage.

With specs like that and, let's say 4 GB of swap space, you could very easily use the gTablet as a full desktop. You could create content, with things like Photoshop or GIMP, instead of just viewing them. But, we can't, which is why I said Android was dinky.

And "dinky" was not meant entirely as a pejorative. In fact, dinky is the main reason why Android (and this tablet) have become so popular.

There is an interesting thread on the board which noted that people who would normally never interact with a regular PC have taken very keenly to tablets. Interface simplicity is part of the reason. Even a technical guy like me feels the pull. I had TnT-Lite on the gTab soon after it arrived, and I played with it for a couple of weeks until I settled on CyanogenMod. And, after a few days of playing with the tablet, I was struck by something: I knew where every setting for changing anything on the tablet was located.

I've never internalized a UI that completely before and that was when I realized that tablets were going to be popular; that the technology of the PC had finally succeeded in becoming invisible after 30 long years of trying.