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Zenithink ZT-180 1GHz 10" tablet

I have a basic question.

Is it true that the Android Market is not ready in the Zenithink. After buying the tablet, you would have to install it manually, using instructions found on the web?

Is this info accurate?

Thank you.
 
fantasyvn said:
I have a basic question.

Is it true that the Android Market is not ready in the Zenithink. After buying the tablet, you would have to install it manually, using instructions found on the web?

Is this info accurate?

Thank you.
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Yes, that is correct, mine came with slide me pre-installed and I have now added Camangi Market and use a number of different sites to download apps (most of which crash!). From what I have read to get google market you need to get an android device i.d. for it to work.
 
fantasyvn said:
I have a basic question.

Is it true that the Android Market is not ready in the Zenithink. After buying the tablet, you would have to install it manually, using instructions found on the web?

Is this info accurate?

Thank you.
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Yes, as is true on most tablets as the manufacturers have not joined the Open handset alliance:

Open Handset Alliance

and thus don't have assigned id's from which to automatically create access to the Google/Android Market... the hack we have used leverages the Android SDK emulator access thus requires you to use an emulator to create your ID...

A good source of info on this is over at slatedroid

Market working on ZT-180

it is not trivial but has gotten easier with automation by folks along the way.
 
waterhead said:
Are you sure that the Radio Shack charger has the correct output? The one provided with the ZT-180 has a 2 amp output (2000 mA). If the amperage is too low it would take a much longer time to charge, and you would not be able to run it from the power supply. You also could damage the power supply, because the ZT-180 could draw more amperage than the power supply could give.

If you have access to a volt/ohm meter, check the voltage output of the power supply that came with it, it should be 9 volts DC or slightly more. Checking amperage is not so easy, so I can't give a method for that.
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yeah, I got the right one, the problem started when I plugged the charger that came with the zt-180 and the charger got very very hot, and I never gotten the red light (always blue) so I disconnected it and went and got the new charger, I think the tablet came defective or it may got fried by it's own charger.

With either charger, I never gotten the red light indicating it's charging and the tablet won;t turn on.
 
Has anyone been able to get a Internet/wireless modem to work with the ZT-180?

I bought the Virgin Mobile 2200 MiFi device, sat on hold for 2+ hours only to have the silly tech support guy tell me they have "system requirements" for internet support. So the the WiFi device won't work on an android tablet.. Only Mac and WinVista.

Since when did communications hardware have system requirements? What next, your cell phone won't send data because you don't use Windows?

Anyone else having this problem? - I swear if these idiots keep this up, I'll stop buying this technology completely. I don't have time for such stupidiy.

I've wasted an entire day..
 
exploreRPG said:
Has anyone been able to get a Internet/wireless modem to work with the ZT-180?

I bought the Virgin Mobile 2200 MiFi device, sat on hold for 2+ hours only to have the silly tech support guy tell me they have "system requirements" for internet support. So the the WiFi device won't work on an android tablet.. Only Mac and WinVista.

Since when did communications hardware have system requirements? What next, your cell phone won't send data because you don't use Windows?

Anyone else having this problem? - I swear if these idiots keep this up, I'll stop buying this technology completely. I don't have time for such stupidiy.

I've wasted an entire day..
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Does WIFI Analyser see the MiFi hotspot??? That's the first step... If not your's is defective as My ZT-180 can see anything I know existis... it does connect or stay connected to some devices but I do at least understand why... These tablets don't support Adhoc networks as shipped... there are config changes that usually resolve this on most tablets and someone one one of the forums got Adhoc connection working via Static IPADDR and a few kludgy steps so it can be done just not easily.... I haven't found an Infrstructure AP that I couldn't connect to since 0827... None, WEP, or WPA...
 
I searched and sure enough Virgin Mobile 2200 MiFi device does act as an AdHoc hotspot... thus your issues... May still be possible But not as easy as I suspect you hoped... You will still need a Wifi analyzer to find out the SSID and do research on how to configure wpa_supplicant and RT2870 file that I had edited for testing Adhoc ... which might give a good start...
 

Attachments

The post above got me started on this again and I finally got it working reliably;

RT2870STA TxPower + Adhoc support Patch
==========================================================================
For the TxPower + Adhoc Patch...;

adb connect Tablet-IPADDR:5555
adb -s Tablet-IPADDR:5555 shell
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

- Edit the /etc/Wireless/RT2870/RT2870STA.dat file to
make Change to lower TxPower to 20% + Change NetworkType to Adhoc by
setting Adhoc SSID and NetworkType...

#The word of "Default" must not be removed
Default
CountryRegion=5
CountryRegionABand=7
CountryCode=
ChannelGeography=1
SSID=AndroidTether
#NetworkType=Infra
NetworkType=Adhoc
WirelessMode=5
Channel=0
BeaconPeriod=100
# Full 100% Power
#TxPower=100
# 20% TX Power Runs Much Cooler and better perf
TxPower=20
#
BGProtection=0
TxPreamble=0
...


- Edit /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf to to contain ONLY
the network relevant data you need such as;
# ap_scan gets cleared every time you switch to Infrastructure Connection
# Adhoc Priority Must be highest number of all networks to get picked up in scan


# Globals
ctrl_interface=ra0
update_config=1
ap_scan=2

# Adhoc network with None.
network={
ssid="AndroidTether"
scan_ssid=1
mode=1
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=999
}

...
 
I was able to get it up and running..

I used a WinXP laptop to perform the initial setup. Once the setup was complete it would determine an IP address and connect.

After a few hours the device would drop, and lose its IP requiring a refresh At first I used the laptop to do this, but tried using the steps explained in setup.

When you nav to http://virginmobile.wifi make sure you login using the password you set initially.. (DO NOT CLICK SETUP again.)

Once you login you will see a [CONNECT] button. This button will grab the new IP addess and allow the device to work.

Once your ZT-180 recognizes it, it seems to have no problem connecting.. and reconnecting easily..

However, my device drops connection if I am idle. I have a WiFi widget that I can toggle off/on to re-establish connection. But the widget doesn't detect the drop. Its only shown in the task bar.

Other than that... Im good. Its a great device by VM! I highly recommend it.. $40 / unlimited - I was using Cricket but the USB doesn't work so I purchased this device.

And from the Settings panel you can turn the LEDs of the device off so no one knows the wiFi is working.. sweet! Its very small and can fit in your pocket..


cheers!
 
exploreRPG- I purchased the VM MiFi yesterday! Did you have to set up the ad hoc network as described above? I really don't want to go through all of that if it is not necessary.:confused:
 
genoz said:
exploreRPG- I purchased the VM MiFi yesterday! Did you have to set up the ad hoc network as described above? I really don't want to go through all of that if it is not necessary.:confused:
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Unfortunately it is neccessary for any AdHoc connection which is what the MiFi uses... it's not too hard... just;

- you needed to be rooted, easy with apk from

Universal Androot 1.6.1 released ????

- you don't really need adb/SDK as you can 'Root Explorer' once rooted to remount system RW and edit the files with it's builtin features...

root explorer apk - download - (31 files)
 
exploreRPG said:
However, my device drops connection if I am idle. I have a WiFi widget that I can toggle off/on to re-establish connection. But the widget doesn't detect the drop. Its only shown in the task bar.
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I won't guarantee that this will work but go into settings -> Wireless & Networks -> WiFi Settings. Click the button to bring up the options menu and then click on WiFi sleep policy. Change the setting to Never and see if that helps.

I made a similar change to my A81-E and Droid X and it seemed to help both to not drop wireless connections when they went to sleep.
 
I got my Zenithink ZT 180 10" today and i need know how to get the system ip address so I can give to my son and contect to his wireless across the street.
I looked everywhere.

:confused:

Thanks Bud
 
Bud Carbone said:
I got my Zenithink ZT 180 10" today and i need know how to get the system ip address so I can give to my son and contect to his wireless across the street.
I looked everywhere.

:confused:

Thanks Bud
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I believe that you are looking for the MAC Address so that he can use that to allow you access to get an IP Address from his network

The only places I know you can find it is in;

Settings- Status- Wi-Fi Mac Address

Settings- WiFi settings- Menu- Advanced- MAC Address

Settings Status didn't work on some of the earlier versions but I know it does on the latest 0827 firmware, but I believe Wifi Advanced has always worked...
 
I just got my Zenithink pad in the mail, and the wireless won't connect to my WEP wifi. I put in the correct WEP key, and it tries to connect then just says disconnected. It says I have excellent signal strength. Any help is much appreciated :)
 
Funniest007 said:
I just got my Zenithink pad in the mail, and the wireless won't connect to my WEP wifi. I put in the correct WEP key, and it tries to connect then just says disconnected. It says I have excellent signal strength. Any help is much appreciated :)
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WEP didn't work for me until I flashed the latest 0827 firmware on the tablet... Originally I could only use NONE and WPA...
 
Funniest007 said:
Can you tell me how to flash the pad to 0827 with links included if possible....pretty please:)
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Check out the "Tablets & MIDs update thread stickied at the top of the main page of this forum. There's a link included that should, hopefully, assist you in upgrading your tablet.
 
Funniest007 said:
Can you tell me how to flash the pad to 0827 with links included if possible....pretty please:)
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Rather than reinvent the wheel/instructions, you are probably best served to go check out the threads related to that over at;

ZT-180

as many of us frequent both forums and as slatedroid is primarily a tablet forum you will find the section for ZT-180 tablets there more extensive as your interest/needs expand now that you actually have the tablet in hand...

But you need to flash from a 32bit Windows box using the flashtool available;

New Android Firmware 0827 released.

and the latest 0827 firmware is discussed;

New Android Firmware 0827 released.
 
Laharl said:
YouTube - Is my Epad Broken?

is my screen broken?
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Are you holding the screen with your left hand at the left side of the picture??? I had similar problem till I noticed the holding the tablet at the edges seemed to register taps almost like multi-touch... like selecting Between Mid Point of holding thumb and real tap... a better test is to use App drawer-Dev Tools-Pointer Location and you can see how steady or Not the tap or touch is... or see what a thumb edge _ tap registers as...

You might also want try HTCCalibrate.apk as that helped both my tablets though they were only off a bit mostly at top of screen...

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/162472-htc-calibrate.html
 
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