(MOD)(BL1.2ROM-CM-10)SmOoTher_BeAn_4.1.2(G-tablet)(Updated 02/01/13)

[bellalan]

Slow issuses

I just flashed this rom and am having a few issues.

-Device run fast one second and SLOW another. (mostly slow)
-Play store will crash at times and camera does not work.

Let me know PLEASE

Cheers/

 

[lartomar2002]

I just flashed this rom and am having a few issues.

-Device run fast one second and SLOW another. (mostly slow)
-Play store will crash at times and camera does not work.

Let me know PLEASE

Cheers/

After flashing let sit for about an hour, android is adapting. We call that "letting it bake".

 

[odic]

Born Again!

I have had this Gtablet for 5 years. I bought it from a friend who hosed it with Vegan Tab or whatever it was with 2.2 froyo. He must have screwed up the partitioning or the BL? I don't know, but even I have attempted to refresh this thing with several ROMs over the years. Up until now it has always been an exercise of my patience followed by a crappy performing faux tablet to utter defeat. It just depressed me to turn the thing on. I finally pulled this thing out of a box because I wanted to test a router I was setting up for my daughter to bring to a friends house so they could play Minecraft PE together. Again....Stock BL1.1 rooted...nogo...slow, crashy, buggy, and it wouldn't even start minecraft. Then on to 2 others with the same results. This is honestly the first time I tried a ROM on BL 1.2 and I have to say, whether it is the Bootloader or the ROM or what, this thing runs like a new piece of hardware! I'm sure it will lag a bit here and there, but it is back! Minecraft v0.10.5...no problem...pandora....check! Email, Bluetooth...Roger that! I haven't really stretched it's legs yet, but I am very pleased so far. To anyone else that may consider this BL1.2 ROM , I highly reccomend it, but I will admit...the whole Dalvik cache build or whatever happens after first boot that causes it to act SUPER slow and wonky in general almost broke my spirits again, but I was aware of this and after waiting an hour and clearing the caches of the apps I tried to load prematurely then rebooting....Bang! it snaps (relatively speaking...a new quad core tablet would smoke it I'm sure). Anyhow....Thanks for all the effort from the DEVs and thanks to XDA for keeping the content alive even if the support is discontinued. It is a real shame to think how many of these Gtablets probably made their way to the recycle bins before attempting to try....I would say THIS rom!

:good:

 

[namitutonka]

Thanks odic, as far as keeping this thread alive, your post is valuable. I've never had a tablet, and posts like these help any consideration to get one.

 

[jabber71]

I just came across this thread and tried to download the rom from the link page. All I get is a 3mb ace file, is this right or do you have a link to the full zip file?

 

[Dabolx]

Could someone upload this rom because I can't download from original link.

 

[Deleted member 4665219]

Could someone upload this rom because I can't download from original link.

Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rj65h7dcf7cq75f/Smoother_Bean.ver1.5.2(Standard.).zip
Digged through my old files to find that.
If anyone wants to revive his G-Tab this is recommended. However you will need to do some tweaking (Uninstall everything that is old, uninstall gapps since it can't really handle them, change launcher etc.)

 

[HoLyCoWzOrZ]

Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rj65h7dcf7cq75f/Smoother_Bean.ver1.5.2(Standard.).zip
Digged through my old files to find that.
If anyone wants to revive his G-Tab this is recommended. However you will need to do some tweaking (Uninstall everything that is old, uninstall gapps since it can't really handle them, change launcher etc.)

Thank you!!! I too was looking for a download link.

 

[sweh]

High I/O wait

In the vague hope that someone, somewhere, still plays with the gtablet...

I dug mine out of the basement over the weekend. I wasn't sure what state it was in, so I did a full rebuild using files I'd downloaded back in 2013.

NVFLASH'd BL1.2 onto it using the files from Full_Stock_NVFlash_CWM_5504_Touch.zip.

Went into recovery mode, created a 4096/0 setup. For good measure, cleaned data and cache.

Installed Smoother_Bean.ver1.5.2(Standard.).zip

And it rebooted nicely. Apex loader started. I left it a few hours 'cos play store was doing its stuff.

system is 250M, as required.

/system                250M   187M    62M   4096

But 1 day later it was still glacially slow. I tried a reboot and waited an hour or so...

Connecting via adb and running "mpstat -P ALL 5" I see it's really stuck in I/O wait, same as before the reboot

20:10:25     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
20:10:30     all    2.60    2.00    3.50   74.70    0.00    0.20    0.00    0.00   17.00
20:10:30       0    3.60    1.40    5.20   77.40    0.00    0.40    0.00    0.00   12.00
20:10:30       1    1.60    2.60    1.80   72.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   22.00

20:10:30     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
20:10:35     all    0.80    0.50    2.00   96.60    0.00    0.10    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:35       0    0.60    0.80    3.00   95.40    0.00    0.20    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:35       1    1.00    0.20    1.00   97.80    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

20:10:35     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
20:10:40     all    4.20    0.20    3.00   92.40    0.00    0.20    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:40       0    3.20    0.00    4.40   92.00    0.00    0.40    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:40       1    5.20    0.40    1.60   92.80    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

20:10:40     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
20:10:45     all    0.70    0.00    1.30   98.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:45       0    1.20    0.00    2.40   96.40    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
20:10:45       1    0.20    0.00    0.20   99.60    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

This is while the machine is theoretically idle, just on the home screen. No wonder it seems slow, if it's spending 98% of the time in I/O!

Any recommendations? Anyone remember seeing this all those years ago, and remembering the solution?

 

[KittenSauce]

This is while the machine is theoretically idle, just on the home screen. No wonder it seems slow, if it's spending 98% of the time in I/O!

Any recommendations? Anyone remember seeing this all those years ago, and remembering the solution?

I, personally, have no idea what "I/O wait" is, but I was seeing some similar symptoms on my GTab when I first flashed it (it worked fine for the first few hours, then became tragically slow).

I managed to fix the problem by uninstalling GApps completely. It seems that the latest version of Google Play Services (that gets installed after a few hours of the ROM first being installed) doesn't work very well on this tablet. Unfortunately, it was quite some time ago that I went about this, so I don't exactly remember what I did. I probably ran this script directly after installing the ROM.

EDIT (2 years later): Great! I love when things fall off the face of the earth!!
This repository seems to be a fork of the link above: https://github.com/CodehubX/gapps-remover

 

[sweh]

I, personally, have no idea what "I/O wait"

It's when the kernel is waiting for a device to complete a data transfer. For a normal computer it might be "waiting for the hard disk to read or save a block". While the kernel is blocked waiting for I/O it can't do anything else on that CPU core. So high I/O wait is bad for performance. It can be especially bad when the kernel is short of memory 'cos it can be paging memory in/out.

For the GTablet it could be very slow memory storage, it could be the replacement kernel isn't properly optimised, it could be lack of memory, or something else!

I managed to fix the problem by uninstalling GApps completely. It seems that the latest version of Google Play Services (that gets installed after a few hours of the ROM first being installed) doesn't work very well on this tablet. Unfortunately, it was quite some time ago that I went about this, so I don't exactly remember what I did. I probably ran this script directly after installing the ROM.

Google Play is definitely one of the apps that kicks the system into 99% I/O wait. But I dunno if that's a symptom or a cause!