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Root is there a writeup for rooting the viewsonic g tab?

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msierra519

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hopefully i will be getting mt g tab next week and i want to know if there is an "official" writeup on how to root this thing...also it gives me something to do to keep busy until i get paid so i can go buy it lol..
 
thanks for that writeup...looks perfect.

awesome i am jealous!! i cant wait to get mine..wanna loan me money till i get paid? haha:D
 
mines more purdier .. hehe
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it just dawned on me that i forgot to add the Flash fix to my original instructions. directions have been added to my first post.
 
i hate all of you lol...i want this thing now!!

aaron where did you get that case? its really nice!

i'm tempted to ask my parents for a credit card and ill pay it off when i get paid..lol
 
msierra519 said:
i hate all of you lol...i want this thing now!!

aaron where did you get that case? its really nice!

i'm tempted to ask my parents for a credit card and ill pay it off when i get paid..lol
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I think its selling for $350 at sears which is a great price for this unit. Go get it! :)
 
Got it..on it right now as I type this lol...wow out of box this thing is horrible..put tent lite n its much better..:D
 
msierra519 said:
Got it..on it right now as I type this lol...wow out of box this thing is horrible..put tent lite n its much better..:D
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glad you got it working! viewsonic would be selling a whole lot more of these things if they would just put a vanilla android OS on them. TnT lite is great, but the majority of people have no clue that it even exists... much less how to root/install it.
 
Grabbed one of these a few thursdays ago, and simply googled how to root it. (found a 3 step thing -- not including market and flash fix) took about 2 hours (rooting newbie) XDA-developers.com is your friend!

HIGHLY recommend this if you can root it. stock software is TERRIBLE.
 
msierra519 said:
thanks for posting that link..


has anyone put clockwork recovery on this thing yet? i was looking at the instructions on xda forums and i read that you have to have a micro sd card first? can someone confirm?
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I installed clockwork using the update zip plus recovery method and I put those files on my internal sd. I think the use of the microsd card is for precautionary purposes, it probably is a good idea but I have not done it myself.
 
thanks everyone for the rooting info.. this is the first forum I check out on android-related info, its kind of a pain going everywhere else...
 
xmr405o said:
Yes sir. I'm assuming that's how u got tntlite on your tablet.
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hmmm didnt work..i put the unzip files on the root of the tablet (same way i installed TnT lite and when i boot into recovery i get a triangle with an exclamation mark and it just reboots back to the main screen...maybe you have an sd card?
 
msierra519 said:
hmmm didnt work..i put the unzip files on the root of the tablet (same way i installed TnT lite and when i boot into recovery i get a triangle with an exclamation mark and it just reboots back to the main screen...maybe you have an sd card?
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There are 2 FS mounted to root on the Gtab...

- /sdcard (is root typically for a real SDcard but on this tablet it actually the internal available memory)

- /sdcard2 (Real SDcard If installed...)

As that triangle tells me your still using the stock recovery (vs. Clockworks) then you want to use '/sdcard' (Not real SDcard in /sdcard2) as the root for the recovery... so try copying files to /sdcard...
 
msierra519 said:
hmmm didnt work..i put the unzip files on the root of the tablet (same way i installed TnT lite and when i boot into recovery i get a triangle with an exclamation mark and it just reboots back to the main screen...maybe you have an sd card?
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No I dont't have a sd card in the external sd port. Like jb said, try it again and make sure its in the root of ur internal memory.
 
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