I never tried the 0809 rom, I read in a lot of posts it was less stable the 0804 and that some things were removed that should not have been. I do find a lot of apps that work on 1.5 are not working yet on this build of android. I would update back to 0804 and try running some divx again. So far the only problems I have had video wise were wmv, it was touch and go with wmv, some would play and others would not. The emulators are easy enough, just install them, run them, go into the settings and turn on the virtual keypad. The emulators also respond to the accelerometer and will the screen will rotate and adjust accordingly when using the emulator. The tablet has lots of potential just the OS needs a lot of polishing. I too am a rookie at this. I have one other tablet a m70003 which is equivalent to the m001 which equals crap. I used Forums like this one to do as much research as I could to make them usable. I use torrents like Isohunt to search for apks. Currently I have over 3000 apks, Ive tested some of them, but it is trial and error to find ones that will work on the tablet.