SETUP (USER) GUIDE FOR ZPAD with 3G (SMB-A1002-3G) AKA ZPAD T2
** UPDATED 14th March 2011 **
IMPORTANT NOTES for Zpad
Note 1 - Some software, eg Flash, is not on your ROM (maybe this was installed after manufacture). You need to back up these apps first. I'm not sure of all the apps, as I accidently wiped mine first, thinking they would all be on ROM. Fortunately the only one I did miss was Flash, and this can be added later (see below).
Note 2 - This is NOT my work. It's just the steps I followed to get MY Zpad working the way I wanted it (inc Market and Titanium Backup). People waaay smarter than me worked this out and credit should go to them.
Note 3. This is NOT a ROM, and you don't need to flash a ROM, the Zpad works FAST out of the box (I think Quadrant was 2450 (or 2350) from memory)
Note 4. I setup Wireless and Installed File Expert to access the files I needed from my Windows 7 computer.
1. Install Z4Root Version 1.3.0
This is needed to give you "Admin" Access to your device
1a. Install and Open and follow the steps on screen to Root your Zpad
2. Install Clockworkmod following these instuctions
NOTE: This "formats" your Zpad back to factory settings (your "Admin" access remains)
Original Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
2a. Download ClockworkMod v08 (This version has been found to work best...the newer version causes some issues with some ROMs.) There are two versions available; one for installing ClockworkMod from the internal memory, one for installing it from external memory (microSD/microSDHC card). Download from the original thread above. ** EDIT - It's recommended to use the Internal Memory File and remove your MicroSD card during install/setup **
2b. Unzip the file you chose (cwmod_internal.zip OR cwmod_microsd.zip) to the root folder on the storage option of your choice. This is SDCARD on the ZPAD.
2c. Rename the original Recovery Folder, and move the new Recovery folder from the above ZIP to SDCARD (should now be SDCARD\Recovery)
2d. Move update.zip to SDCARD
2e. Turn off your device.
2f. Press the power button and the Volume+ button at the same time and release them when the Malata splash screen pops up. You should see "Detect a recovery key pressed" pop up in the upper left corner of the screen.
2g. Watch ClockworkMod install. This will not take long. Your tablet will reboot when installation is complete. Nothing will look different unless you enter ClockworkMod by following the steps below…
Entering ClockworkMod:
If you want to get into ClockworkMod you need to shut down your device, then press the Power and Volume+ button (the same way you did to install ClockworkMod). Thankfully this time it will not automatically restart and wipe everything.
Navigating CWMod:
Vol+ and Vol- are to scroll up and down, the home button selects an option, and the back button backs up.
BACKUP ROM NOW!!!
(I installed Flash at this point, Version 10.1.95.22 seemed the only one that worked for me??)
3. Install Google Apps (including Market)
The file is; gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip. You can download it by following the instructions in the thread below.
Original Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842590
Note: Some people have experienced problems with the Android/Google Apps Setup Wizard. I think this is related to Wifi only Zpad's? Thanks to Koaby for figuring out you can delete the setupwizard.apk from the cyanogen mod (gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip). This fixes the problem.
Note 2: If you are having problems removing setupwizard.apk check out this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12069069&postcount=70
You only need these instructions
3a. Copy download to SDCARD
3b. Hold volume + and power to boot into recovery (go to "advanced")
3c. Choose, choose zip from sdcard
3d. Choose the zip to be applied as an update
3e. Let Zpad boot and complete GMail Login Details (I had problems here, but my GMail details were stored... not sure why)
4. Fix the Market
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245 (Part 3, step 3)
4a. Open the Market app. Once it loads close it (press the home button).
4b. Go into Settings – Applications – Manage Applications – Google Services Framework – Force Stop – Clear Data
4c. Go into Settings – Applications – Manage Applications – Market – Force Stop – Clear Data
4d. Go back to your home screen and open up the market. You should get an error. If not, redo steps 3 and 4 until you do.
4e. Reboot your device. After it starts back up let it sit for a minute or two to let things in the operating system normalize. Open the Market. Reboot your device.
4f. Open the market again and enjoy. You now have Flash and the Android Market. (Keep in mind, this is not the FULL market, it just makes around 99% of it available. It is unknown which apps are not available. There is a full market fix, but it is MUCH more complicated).
5. IMPROVED MARKET
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861044
(Edited out the bits not needed)
5a. Now you are going to re-do the original Market Fix. First, make sure Market is running, and browse around in it for a few seconds. If you don't do this, there may be no cache to clear and for some reason the market fix may not work. Then, go to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->Running and scroll down to Market. Then hit Clear Cache, followed by Force Stop **DO NOT CLEAR DATA FOR MARKET, JUST CACHE**. Then go back, scroll down to Google Services Framework, hit Clear Data, then Force Stop.
5b. Now try starting Market again and you get the famous Market Error. Now shut down the Zpad, then turn it back on. Wait for Wifi to connect to your network before doing anything!
5c. Now restart Market again. ..... Voila! A truly full market!
Applications I use that work on Zpad
Root Explorer - Access to Root Files (not needed for this setup)
Titanuim Backup - to Backup EVERYTHING after I set it up the way I wanted
Astro + Bluetooth Module
File Expert - To access Win7 PC
Spare Parts (version 2.2) - To see battery/cpu use
Pocket Cloud - Access work server
MoreLocale 2 - Set Location to Australia
Button Savior - So I've got buttons on the left side too
Touchdown - Sync with Exchange Server
MSN Talk - In case I gets some mates one day
Dolphin Browser HD, with addons; Google Translate, Tab History and AdBlooker
Launcher Pro - The Zpad interface is not that good
Lookout - Antivirus
I hope this helps, Mal.
Again, all credit to the original posters, I just thought best to share the steps I followed for other Zpad users.
PS: I have the original ROM from my Zpad. Happy to share if anyone can point me to the best place to upload it.
In case I forget anything or need to add more stuff
zpad just wifi no 3g
I,m assuming this works on the zpad without 3g only wifi as well. Could you confirm.
Thanks
It should work fine. Just make sure you do a backup before step 3 and you'll always be able to go back to standard.
Once it's all running, set it up the way you like, eg mail, apps etc, then install Titanium Backup an get a backup of your settings and apps.
Now if something ever goes wrong you'll be able to go back to your apps and settings or worst case back to Factory settings.
Thanks but issue
Hello
Thanks for your update. I followed your instructions and get to the welcome screen after installing the apps. It states touch the android to begin, which I do it clicks but nothing happens. Any suggestions.
I think from memory there was a "next" button that appeared on the bottom right, I think? It's just the GApps setup I think and I'm pretty sure you can skip it too. If not, try a reset again through clockwork. That's what I did and it seemed to work the second time??
If you have an SD Card in, try removing that and doing it again too.
Cheers, Mal.
Hello again
Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately I can't get passed the touch the android button. bottom right is a button to change language, and bottom left is a button for emergency call.
Reloaded it about 10 times now and no luck. If you think of something let me know.
You did touch the Android Man in the middle right (sorry if you have just thought I'd check).
You could try plugging in a USB mouse, something has gone weird with your touch screen I think???
Same Problem Cannot pass the android men!
Can you talk me through what happened?
You installed clockworkmod, backed up the ROM, then let the system boot. Did everything work at this point?
Then you copied the gapps and rebooted but entering recovery this time. You selected the gapps zip and let it boot. This is where its got to the Android man and you couldn't get past right??
Yes, I try to bypass the ANDROID man welcome but nothing seems to work I redo all the steps several times now. I long press the home and acces app killer, even go to setting an try to shutdown all running apps but nothing happen. Mine is the SMB-1002-WIFI model. all help will be appreciated. And thanks
Did you set your wifi up and have internet access. You need this when you start it up as it will try to log on with your gmail account from memory.
Yes I did connect to the WIFI with no problem, really fast indeed. I also have acces to the system settings by long press the home butom, but cannot go by the android man everything else is hid behind
I think the Android man is the google apps setup wizard. Maybe I had my gmail setup already and that's why it seemed to work?? Give that a try if you can?
I think I forced closed the setup wizard on mine and that seemed to work too.
Let me know.
Backup of Rom
Hi,
Are you able to post a copy of a backup of your original Rom as I only have the chinese version and I don't know how to use the 3g.
Thanks
Jonesie
Yep, happy to upload my stock ROM.
Can anyone recommend a place to upload my ROM. It's about 230Mb in total, so I need a place that can take files over the usual 200mb limit.
hotfile.com seems to have an upload limit of 400MB.
And you can download free. It's like rapidshare, only seems to have faster download.
I try everything, but nothing seems to work. All the apps run smoothly behind the "Android men" (SetupWizard)
I Force Stop Setup wizard - when try to go home setup wizard start again
any ideas are welcome
Can you enter your Gmail account by opening the Gmail app? That may work?
Yes I do with no succes.
I came up with a cheap solution.
First I delete the setupwizard.apk from the cyanogen mod (gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip)
I follow your guide step by step *include the installation of flash
Infamous "Android Man" is no more!
I create a google account, No problem
So far everything is working. I will keep you updated
I received my G Tab yesterday and within 4-5 hours last night I had installed 4 different ROMs, installed multiple kernels, and tested a ton of apps on each. I even got in to a boot loop, couldn't get the standard market fix to work, when installing at one point it FCd and then said it couldn't install more, etc, but I worked them all out. A few things that I learned that may help people (All instructions are with TNT 4.4 but work with other ROMs in different directories)
Market fix:
The standard market fix that is floating around is not always sufficient. To be sure that it will work, you need Titanium Backup installed.
Steps
1. Settings->Applications->System applications->Market then Clear Cache (if any) then Force Stop
2. Go back one and then Google Services Framework then clear data then Force Stop
3. Go to home and open Titanium Backup
4. Select Backup/Restore tab
5. Select Google Services Framework
6. Select Wipe Data
7. Go to home and open market (it will error and close)
8. Reboot your tablet
9. Open Market and you will have full market (I can't find anything I don't have)
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For me, my boot loop came after installing 4 ROMS and on TNT 4.4 it crashed while using an app and went in to a loop. I had cleared everything in between all the installs but something must have been left over. I needed to repartition my sd card in CW. It worked great, but remember, select 2048, and for the second option select 0 or it won't work http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
Also, remember to back up the titanium backup folder and anything else to your computer before doing this. It will wipe everything.
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The last issue was when I was installing a few apps the market FCd and then when I went back in it wouldn't let me install the apps that were going to install. I tried all the regular things like wiping data and cache but it didn't work. What worked was removing the corresponding asec files within the .android_secure folder at root.
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Almost every single app I have installed works great. The only major problem so far? The Grooveshark app. TinyShark works though.
I just got my Gtab too. I installed VEGAn and the kernel to go with it with the latest ClockWorkMod. When I installed Titanium I got an error saying 'ROM is not rooted' or something similar to this.
I've gone from my long time TPC v3 to various ROMS and recently, ICS ROMs multiple times over the last few weeks. After a myriad of gotchas encountered, I wrote down this list of things to do in 30 steps and I thought I'll share the list. Where ever applicable, I've included the reason why the step is there which of course based on my (bad) experience.
Please feel free to add any additional steps you find missing and do hit me up with a Thanks if you find this useful.
1. Check space availability on internal SD
(Error handling and messages are lacking, it would be crippling if your backups or downloaded zips are incomplete)
2. Do a full Titanium backup
(take two if you have the space and just to be safe)
3. Do a nandroid backup via ROM Mgr or CWM
4. Download the target ROM
5. Download other ROMs (optional)
6. Download the radio (if needed, some are baked in)
7. Download the kernel (if needed, some are baked in)
8. Download other zips, boot animation e.g. (optional but should be done much later)
9. Download other scripts if needed like Darkside wipe (recommended)
10. Boot into CWM (either through ROM Mgr or button presses)
11. Install the radio zip (if needed)
12. Do the wipe dance, factory reset, cache, dalvik wipe, /system, /data, /cache, Darkside e.g
(see ROM instructions)
13. Install the ROM zip
14. Install the kernel zip if needed
15. Reboot
16. Let it sit for a few mins
17. Login into Market, exit and wait for Market to morph into Play Store
18. Update Titanium through Play Store (If not, TiBu may hang on some app restore or not start at all)
19. Download ROM Toolbox, change resolution and reboot (optional)
20. Setup wifi so you don't incur data usage
21. Mark sure other sources is checked
22. Run Titanium batch restore, missing apps only
23. Reboot
24. Let it sit for a few more mins
25. Run update/update all in Play Store, Amazon App Store e.g.
(This brings the apps up to ICS compatible versions if present)
26. Some apps may require re-installations
27. Some apps may be missing and require installation
28. Some apps may require re-setup (Juice Defender, Widgetlockers, widgets in general)
29. Setup security, face, pin, pattern locks, timeout value
(Re-setup required on new ROMs)
30. Re-setup and re-sync Sugarsync (optional)
Nice list, good stuff!
I'd do step 6 and 7 regardless because I like to have a backup of a working kernel and modem always incase I need to reflash them.
Oh and check out the app appextractor, it's good for restoring sms from nandroid provided the backup was the same OS version.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk
kr3w1337 said:
Nice list, good stuff!
I'd do step 6 and 7 regardless because I like to have a backup of a working kernel and modem always incase I need to reflash them.
Oh and check out the app appextractor, it's good for restoring sms from nandroid provided the backup was the same OS version.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk
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Yeah, that's what I do too. I have at least one modem, kernel, boot anim, wipe script and several ROM zip files sitting there just in case I need to use it. When the phone is bricked (for various reasons) the last thing you'll need is to do the setup (download, copy e.g.) just to get the files there.
you should set some time out and do a guide like this for all the sammy rom forums on xda, I know it seems alot, but you mentioned alot in there that I didnt think about that would have save me some heartache...
just a generalized guide, nothing too fancy with definitive radios, etc...
Nice list.
Very helpful info.
I'm digging your terminology "do the wipe dance".
I typically pull the external SD card before wiping or flashing anything... it may not be necessary, but it's a huge PITA if I lose the data.
So, this may sound stupid, but it actually works...
To turn on NFC in any JB ROM:
1. Make a Backup
2. Install any ICS ROM.
3. Turn NFC on within the ICS ROM.
4. Restore back to JB and NFC will be turned on.
To fix GPS (Navigation just says "searching for GPS").
NOTE: I Have only tried this doing a wipe, and installing ROM clean. It may work doing a restore, it may not.
1. Make a Backup
2. Install any ICS ROM.
3. In location settings, make sure Verizon Location Services is unchecked and everything else is checked.
4. Open Google Navigation and let it go until it starts giving you directions and locks on to GPS.
5. Factory Reset
6. Wipe Cache and Delvik Cache
7. Install JB Rom and gapps(if needed)
8. Wipe Cache and Delvik Cache.
9. Reboot.
10. Open navigation and let GPS lock on and it start giving directions. (This may take a while the first time)
Should be good to go from then on.
Any question, feel free to ask. If I helped you out, make sure to hit the "Thanks" button.
Dude, thanks. Why has no one else liked this?
This didn't work for me; nor did trying to flash the nfcfix.zip that others have suggested.
I have also tried to apply all of the nightly updates from CM10.
In my case, since i was using G Wallet, NFC was already turned on before making the update to CM10 stable (1st flash).
Upon getting CM10 up and running, the option was there, but off. When I turned it on, then it grayed out.
Then after a couple reboots, it just went away all together.
Anyone have any other options to try? I got in the habit of using Wallet, so I'd like to be able to keep CM10, and use Wallet, S-Beam, etc..
bschuster said:
So, this may sound stupid, but it actually works...
To turn on NFC in any JB ROM:
1. Make a Backup
2. Install any ICS ROM.
3. Turn NFC on within the ICS ROM.
4. Restore back to JB and NFC will be turned on.
To fix GPS (Navigation just says "searching for GPS").
NOTE: I Have only tried this doing a wipe, and installing ROM clean. It may work doing a restore, it may not.
1. Make a Backup
2. Install any ICS ROM.
3. In location settings, make sure Verizon Location Services is unchecked and everything else is checked.
4. Open Google Navigation and let it go until it starts giving you directions and locks on to GPS.
5. Factory Reset
6. Wipe Cache and Delvik Cache
7. Install JB Rom and gapps(if needed)
8. Wipe Cache and Delvik Cache.
9. Reboot.
10. Open navigation and let GPS lock on and it start giving directions. (This may take a while the first time)
Should be good to go from then on.
Any question, feel free to ask. If I helped you out, make sure to hit the "Thanks" button.
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Ideally I'd like to post this in the appropriate ROM threat, but as I've only just signed up, I only have limited access.
Rather than keep this info to myself, I thought this may be useful to others out there....
Original ROM thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303239
Updating from 3.3 to 3.4 required quite a bit of reading and making notes to minimise the chance of having problems.
These were the steps I took for a successful install...
Pre Update
Backup backup backup!
Titanium backup, SMS Backup+, Whatsapp, Google contacts, etc...
ROM Update
Download Rom and copy to phone memory
Reboot in Recovery
Wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache
Wipe data if coming from another Rom (optional)
Select Zip and install / Flash Rom
Wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache
Ignore message to fix Root and Recovery
Boot and configure
Modem Update
Update the modem to either: MKE or MJ8
Download from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192025
Reboot in download mode
Use Odin v3.04
Load MODEM
Click Start - Flash modem
Reboot once again into Download Mode using (Vol Down plus Home button combination)
Flash Modem once more (You might need to install it twice for it to work.)
Once done,unplug then reboot device manually.
If this doesn't work, try repeating the flash process again while rebooting manually and with auto-reboot option turned off.
ref: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/5...9505-exynos5-snapdragon600-android43-root.htm
Problems: Phone freezes and sometimes reboots / Slow motion causes reboot
FAUX kernel solve the problems.
Use this and choose the kernel you like to flash.
ref: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2386459
ref: https://mega.co.nz/#!GU1xyDCS!E8JjZSbL_kB71qOsMRFES1gFIBkZye-IKX3gZV4tgrc
Post Update
Following the above steps, I was able to successfully keep almost all the data and settings.
The additional main things I needed to do were:
- Reactivate/install Xposed Installer if you were previously using this.
- SMS Backup+ for restoring text messages.
Other Apps Installed
Having just moved over from an iPhone, these are a few apps I found useful:
NiLS notification - I use the widget on first page after unlocking
DigiCal - Calendar app and Weekly Agenda widget
Google Keep - For notes
Tasks: Astrid To-Do List Clone - My task list with repeat reminders
Problems (?)
Nothing major so far. Battery life has been great!
The only thing I would like to do is work out how to change/disable the default call screen image
Thank you for an amazing ROM! I look forward to the next update.
I hope you've found this useful... and if anyone has any tips/advise, please share!