[serialplague]

Common ICS ProblemsIf you plug in USB while your tablet is asleep you will have a SOD

Installation Problems

• Install tips from tlb1961 here and lyricalpapa here
• Make sure your using CWM 5.5.0.4 Beta 15 (comes with the nvflash in TeamDRH ICS thread)
• On your first boot let it sit for 30-60min (the longer, the better) and then reset, you'll be glad you did.
• Don't use any backup's as they cause many problems. If you must backup here's some tips. Thanks jazzruby
• Th3DmaN's G-Tablet Tools for anyone who is having trouble connecting and flashing their G-Table

Speed Problems

• Different launchers such as Apex or Nova or ADW may or may not increase smoothness. There is no problem with installing them on top of the stock launcher as only one launcher runs at a time. Here's a great writeup by dagwud.

Battery and Power Problems

• Your tablet went to sleep and wont wake up, try pushing the power button a couple of times and wait 5 seconds inbetween presses.
• Your tablet has completely frozen, try pushing the power button for 30+ seconds. If that doesn't do it, you can leave your tablet alone for a couple hours and try again (may or may not work) or you can wait till the battery dies or if your impatient you can open the tablet up and press the internal reset, it looks like this. Here are some helpful pictures and a video for opening it up. If you have no reset button you will need to disconnect the battery, here's what it looks like. And if you can follow the guide under SOD's at the bottom, it will help the developers immensely.
• One possible battery fix here.

Connection & Browser Problems

• WiFi not working, try to "forget" the WiFi and re-enter your password. Also can try resetting your router or changing the security. Some say ICS does not like high channels.
• If your having market errors, try force closing and clearing the cache in settings\apps\all. If that doesn't work then find every market reference and force close then clear the cache and reset.
• Your computer doesn't recognize your tablet, you will need these MTP drivers here. For Windows XP use zimiwiz's super simple guide here. For linux try Th3DmaN's guide.
• Ad-hoc does not work yet
• Stock browser seems to lock up after a bit. Possible fix is to disable java. Thanks plastikman

Screen and Sound Problems

• 1080p on H/W? Use Handbrake (instructions) and import this profile. Here's the high profile settings for 720p, for those wanting the best quality.
• Videoplayers such as MxVideo player, can play H/W video but the sound will need to be changed to S/W.
• Icons and text too small? Try using this guide. CAUTION Changing the DPI really messes with the Market
• DSP Manager has been causing slowness/audio problems. Try stopping it to see if that's the problem. You can delete it safely if causing problems.

Game and Apps Problems

• Alot of games and apps are not updated for ICS yet so they won't work correctly.
• Hulu flash hack here. It should work. Anyone with Hulu can you post your results. May not work
• Gmail exchange problems try this. Thanks div | For Bypassing Exchange Security Policy try this
• Connecting the ICS Mail app to Microsoft's Cloud hosted Exchange services check here
• Gamepad support - follow Jazzruby's guide here

Miscellaneous Problems

• Errors popping up constantly, you need to reinstall again and make sure this time you erase everything.
• Nandroid backups, you need to follow this guide

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Stuff that WILL cause a SOD (sleep of death) causing you to push the internal reset

• DON'T DO THESE
  
  • If you plug in USB while your tablet is asleep you will have a SOD
  
  If you do get a SOD please do this so the developers can help.
  
  Use the reset button
  Don't power the tablet off at all, just use the internal reset button
  Don't touch the tab or do anything but logging into adb.
  
  If for some reason you can't open adb, you can use terminal on the rom

At the prompt type:

su

Hit enter and then

cat /proc/last_kmsg

alternative command here thanks zimiwiz

If this doesn't work, the easier way is to access it is with a root explorer by going to /proc and then copy last_kmsg to /sdcard (rename to last_kmsg.txt or zip it up in a file).

Copy and paste the results to a paste bin and post the link. If you don't know pastebin then just post the last 10 lines or so.

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Important Notes

• The SOD (sleep of death) we talk about is when the device goes into a sleep mode and there is absolutely no other way out but by pressing the internal reset. This is also called a kernel panic.
• We are always talking about roms on Bootloader 1.2 unless specified.
• When installing or removing things from the system, it is always a good idea to reset and clean the cache, clean the dalvik cache and fix permissions.
• USB problems sometimes are caused by your own computer, you may have to restart/change USB port/change USB cables/check your USB drivers
• Windows 7 is the implied OS most are working on, if you have different then ask.

IF I'M MISSING SOMETHING PLEASE LET ME KNOW

This post has been edited by serialplague: 20 March 2012 - 05:02 PM

[rowwor]

Thanks serialplague.

I hope users helping update this thread, it'll beneficial to all of us.

[Toad]

serialplague, on 15 February 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

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Remember people this is a beta, and nothings perfect.
If you don't see your problem here then search it.
I am not connected with the build, I'm just good guy plague.[/size]

You da man !

[gamble_STARS]

when playing shadowgun, the tablet thinks there is a gamepad plugged in but there isn't one. so in essence, I cannot move my character at all. I tried plugging one in but still nothing. is there a way around this? the tablet is telling the game there is something comnected to the usb, but nothing is in it.

[atzerok]

I'm posting issues here to reduce the clutter in the ROM thread.

My gtab hangs on the boot animation. I've narrowed down the issue to gapps and being signed in to a google account. I am able to start on 'initial boot', right when I finish doing the ROM+GAPPS install process. However, as soon as I shut it down and start it up again, it hangs on the boot animation. I know it hangs because I left my gtab on for 8 hours to no avail.

My workaround involves reflashing both the ROM+Gapps every time. (Or not turning it off ever)

I have... updated to CWM Touch b10, repartitioned the internal SD, removing the external SD card and flashing both GAPPS v1 and v2.

Would someone be able to assist me to diagnose this issue? (ADB?)
(or is this a known issue... because I cannot find any userful information relating to this)

This post has been edited by atzerok: 15 February 2012 - 07:28 PM

[rldstover48]

[quote name='atzerok' timestamp='1329352018' post='316678']
I'm posting issues here to reduce the clutter in the ROM thread.

Your going to have to give more info. From the rom you came from step by step, you missed something or its hardware I'm no expert but something don't seem right.

[serialplague]

gamble_STARS, on 15 February 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

when playing shadowgun, the tablet thinks there is a gamepad plugged in but there isn't one. so in essence, I cannot move my character at all. I tried plugging one in but still nothing. is there a way around this? the tablet is telling the game there is something comnected to the usb, but nothing is in it.

Shadowgun hasn't yet been updated for ICS so we don't know if it's the GTablets fault or not.

atzerok, on 15 February 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

I'm posting issues here to reduce the clutter in the ROM thread.

My gtab hangs on the boot animation. I've narrowed down the issue to gapps and being signed in to a google account. I am able to start on 'initial boot', right when I finish doing the ROM+GAPPS install process. However, as soon as I shut it down and start it up again, it hangs on the boot animation. I know it hangs because I left my gtab on for 8 hours to no avail.

My workaround involves reflashing both the ROM+Gapps every time. (Or not turning it off ever)

I have... updated to CWM Touch b10, repartitioned the internal SD, removing the external SD card and flashing both GAPPS v1 and v2.

Would someone be able to assist me to diagnose this issue? (ADB?)
(or is this a known issue... because I cannot find any userful information relating to this)

Ya your gonna have to tell me the way you installed. But I'm pretty sure your going to have to start from scratch again and make completely sure everything has been deleted.

[Otrebor4]

"Changing the dalvik heapsize in the build.prop from 256m to 192m. If you don't know how, then don't do it this is only for advanced users."

With Blade Buddy (found it on the Market), is a little ease.

Only if you are able to take a little of risk.

Open Blade Buddy
Advanced Setting
dalvik.vm.heapsize
set to: 192m. (or the size chose) (don't forget the m at the end.)
dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit
set to: 192m. (or the size chose) (don't forget the m at the end.)
Save. Reboot.

//Optional don't sure if help.
dalvik.vm.heapstartsize
i have it at 10m. (don't know what is the best.)

[serialplague]

@Otrebor4

I put a link to your post, I just think it may be a little too much for the beginner cause they can screw it up pretty easily.
Thank you for the help tho

This post has been edited by serialplague: 15 February 2012 - 08:14 PM

[lyricalpapa]

Problem: Performance being bogged down by multiple Apps launching themselves as background tasks and eating up all available memory.

Was having problems with some apps and experiencing slowdowns that I've found were associated with multiple apps that were either staying around in the background after being closed or just quietly launching themselves in the background - sometimes down to the point where I was left with only about 2M of available memory.

512M seemed like a lot compared with the 256M on the Pandital, but now that we've moved up to ICS things have gotten tight again.

Used a combination of free market apps "Advanced Task Accelerator" and "Memory Booster Lite" to see what apps were launching themselves as background tasks and which were giving the most problems.

You have to be careful which apps you kill, but you can always restart the tablet.

Have seen significant jumps in speed and stability. Have used these apps to decide which apps to keep and which to loose.

You definitely don't want to have multiple browsers, file managers, or interfaces loaded on your tablet once you see them all chewing up your memory performing duplicate background tasks. There were also some poorly behaved apps that just didn't always release big chunks of memory after they've been shut down.

Lyricalpapa

This post has been edited by lyricalpapa: 15 February 2012 - 08:35 PM

[Otrebor4]

serialplague, on 15 February 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

@Otrebor4

I put a link to your post, I just think it may be a little too much for the beginner cause they can screw it up pretty easily.
Thank you for the help tho

Yes i know, but there are user that take the risk, and is better to have something to start.

One issue; Is connecting the tablet to a computer when the tablet is sleep may cause SOD; (Happen to me once, and other user have report it).

[serialplague]

lyricalpapa, on 15 February 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

Problem: Performance being bogged down by multiple Apps launching themselves as background tasks and eating up all available memory.

Was having problems with some apps and experiencing slowdowns that I've found were associated with multiple apps launching themselves in the background, sometimes down to the point where I was left with only about 2M of available memory.

512M seemed like a lot compared with the 256M on the Pandital, but now that we've moved up to ICS things have gotten tight again.

Used a combination of free market apps "Advanced Task Accelerator" and "Memory Booster Lite" to see what apps were launching themselves as background tasks and which were giving the most problems.

You have to be careful which apps you kill, but you can always restart the tablet.

Have seen significant jumps in speed and have used these apps to decide which apps to keep and which to loose.

Lyricalpapa

Having alot of apps is always a bad idea but to each their own, I have no say.
Ya the ram is causing problems right now, I see the advent guys are gonna try out using 256m for the graphics instead of 128m, it should help playing the heavy graphical games but it wont leave the user with much to play with lol. ICS really does need a gig.
As things progress I am sure they will speed things up and open up some more memory.

Otrebor4, on 15 February 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

Yes i know, but there are user that take the risk, and is better to have something to start.

One issue; Is connecting the tablet to a computer when the tablet is sleep may cause SOD; (Happen to me once, and other user have report it).

Ya that's very true.
I've never had that happen to me, I'll add that up. Thanks

This post has been edited by serialplague: 15 February 2012 - 08:34 PM

[lyricalpapa]

serialplague, on 15 February 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Having alot of apps is always a bad idea but to each their own, I have no say.
Ya the ram is causing problems right now, I see the advent guys are gonna try out using 256m for the graphics instead of 128m, it should help playing the heavy graphical games but it wont leave the user with much to play with lol. ICS really does need a gig.
As things progress I am sure they will speed things up and open up some more memory.



Ya that's very true.
I've never had that happen to me, I'll add that up. Thanks

Hi Serialplague,

Been following everyone on Github and the channel for a while - good times for all us geeks.

I was surprised how many apps were launching themselves in the background even after I winnowed the herd down to just a few.

Do we really need Google+ and all these other apps? They just keep coming back.

I suppose that putting together a minimal ICS will be someone's project in the future.

BTW, I found that reducing the number of colours from 32bit to 16bit allows some test movies to be run in HW mode without problem. I couldn't tell the difference in picture quality. Most people can't. MX Player allows you to change number of colours being displayed.

It looks to me that the alternate interfaces people are trying out may get some of their performance gains from using lower resolution and reducing the colour pallet.

Lyricalpapa

This post has been edited by lyricalpapa: 15 February 2012 - 09:33 PM

[serialplague]

lyricalpapa, on 15 February 2012 - 09:22 PM, said:

Hi Serialplague,

Been following everyone on Github and the channel for a while - good times for all us geeks.

I was surprised how many apps were launching themselves in the background even after I winnowed the herd down to just a few.

Do we really need Google+ and all these other apps? They just keep coming back.

I suppose that putting together a minimal ICS will be someone's project in the future.

Lyricalpapa

Ya the slim down on will be the CM9 one, probably.
As for the apps, I deleted those first thing lol, even took out the telephony stuff too. Hasn't caused me a problem yet. Just nandroid first and you won't have any problems. Speaking of nandroid I haven't seen anyone use that yet either? I'm pretty sure it'll work tho.

[atzerok]

rldstover48, on 15 February 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

Your going to have to give more info. From the rom you came from step by step, you missed something or its hardware I'm no expert but something don't seem right.

serialplague, on 15 February 2012 - 07:57 PM, said:

Ya your gonna have to tell me the way you installed. But I'm pretty sure your going to have to start from scratch again and make completely sure everything has been deleted.

Problem SOLVED: Restarting the gtablet after successful flash and provisioning of latest ICS Preview and Gappz results in a boot hang.
Upgrade Path: Flashback > CWM Touch b6 > ICS Preview 1b + Gappz v1 > ICS Preview 1e + Gappz v2 > CWM Touch b10
Install proceedure: Wipe user data, Remove external SD, Partition internal SD to 4096, Partition internal SD to 2048, mount gtab to computer and transfer ICS 1e and Gappz v2, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, flash ICS 1e + Gappz v2.

Resolution: NVFlash stock rom from GtabForDummies to really get all partitions fresh. thanks serialplague!

At this point, the gtab starts up fine; all is wonderful. I proceed through the first launch wizard and enter my login.

The problem first occurred when... I did not use my gtab for a 3 days (*gasp* even with ICS!) and the battery drained. I charged the gtab and fired it on. It did not start up.

I know it doesn't start up because... I left the gtab on for 8 hours while at work. I come back only to see the "TeamDRH" logo continuously pulsing forever into eternity.

I know Gappz is causing the problem because... the gtablet boots and reboots properly WITHOUT gapps. Testing from today suggests that only when I logged into my google account with gapps would this behaviour persist. This is regardless if the external SD card was inserted into the gtablet.

I myself am a bit skeptical of this issue. I have not heard of anyone else having this issue, yet I am experiencing it.

This post has been edited by atzerok: 15 February 2012 - 11:11 PM

[lyricalpapa]

serialplague, on 15 February 2012 - 09:29 PM, said:

Ya the slim down on will be the CM9 one, probably.
As for the apps, I deleted those first thing lol, even took out the telephony stuff too. Hasn't caused me a problem yet. Just nandroid first and you won't have any problems. Speaking of nandroid I haven't seen anyone use that yet either? I'm pretty sure it'll work tho.

Good point. Is the ICS Beta set up to support Nandroid?

Lyricalpapa

[serialplague]

@atzerok
That does sound weird. Two things do come to mind.
1. When installing there may have been something left over, some people I've seen that can't erase everything. You can try this alternative nvflash here (its at the bottom of the page) from our friendly Gtab For Dummies (no offence)
2. Or possibly your battery stats could've been screwed up. You could try wiping your battery stats in CWM. And try fixing permissions while your at it.

Did this happen on 1b too?
oh i see another one it could possibly be the CWM at fault, they did change it quite a bit and I know one of the older ones wasn't able to partition or erase properly.

This post has been edited by serialplague: 15 February 2012 - 10:13 PM

[atzerok]

I am currently in the process of grabbing the ROM+CWM and the alternate nvflash (and no worries, Gtab for Dummies was awesomesauce when I first got my gtab, and still is )
Wiping battery stats didn't help.

Here is the interesting bit...
This did not happen in the 1b preview. I clearly remember restarting my gtablet. Better yet, I remember testing the SwitchMe app which rebooted the device.

CWM is also reasonable to see as an issue. I did do the partitioning with the latest build, however that isn't to say that the partitioning issues are resolved yet.

This post has been edited by atzerok: 15 February 2012 - 10:29 PM

[kyo171]

Hi, i'm sorry if i am wrong but isn't the battery polling set to very low and not high , that's why the battery stats is not accurate. If i remember correctly one of the devs or better informed guys mentioned that the sensors and battery all function on the same bus so they set it to a low polling time so as not not affect other more important components.

[serialplague]

@kyo171
Very strange, but let me know if it works. And ya the battery stats was a very longshot

kyo171, on 15 February 2012 - 10:29 PM, said:

Hi, i'm sorry if i am wrong but isn't the battery polling set to very low and not high , that's why the battery stats is not accurate. If i remember correctly one of the devs or better informed guys mentioned that the sensors and battery all function on the same bus so they set it to a low polling time so as not not affect other more important components.

There I fix
The battery is set up for taking really long to send it's stats, it will not read correctly. This is for stability.
Or do you mean that its sending its stats really fast? Cause all I've seen so far is that they set it high. I'll find a link one sec.
Here's treznorx talking about it.

This post has been edited by serialplague: 15 February 2012 - 10:40 PM