Arnova 10 G2 first custom firmware with Android Market and root

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   nipper

   Posted January 15, 2012 at 11:12 PM

   Worked up to the final hurdle connecting to a google account and then;

   “Can’t establish a reliable data connection to server.”

   “This could be a temporary problem or your phone may not be provisioned for data services. If it continues, call customer care.”

   Yeah right!

   Any ideas?

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   nipper

   Posted January 15, 2012 at 10:00 PM

   They didn’t tell me there was no access to android market when I picked up an Arnova 10 G2. I’m going to give this a try.

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   luvarnova10g2

   Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:30 AM

   HELP plz and thanks
   How do i unzip the latest firmware file for the arnova 10 g2??
   and how do i copy it to the root of the device?
   Please someone answer
   I never ever attempted to update anything this way
   thanks mucho

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   barstoolbear

   Posted January 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM

   Not much advice……

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   ronjo94

   Posted January 9, 2012 at 4:36 PM

   Hi, the modified firmware (arn10g2-23-01.zip) looks great but, in the Firmware update procedure: the sentence – •Copy the img file to the root of your device – has me beat, please, how is this done, your help would be much appreciated,
   Thanks
   Ronjo94

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     admin

     Posted January 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM

     You may have a look at Arnova web site that gives more details on the firmware procedure:
     http://arnovatech.com/support/firmware.html?country=cz&lang=en&g=2

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       tommyjolly

       Posted January 24, 2012 at 12:42 PM

       need help please if could contact back to email tommyjolly@hotmail.co.uk firmware was working perfectly untill 3 days later it had trouble turning on waited 5 min it came on this morning it will not completely turn on ive turn connecting back to computer but does not reco it tryed doing recovery mood while connect to comtputer just say cant find driver even if i restored it back would be great if you could contact me to help thank you tommy .

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   barstoolbear

   Posted January 3, 2012 at 4:39 PM

   Hi there, i installed the firmware fine, rebooted fine, i just cant connect to Google servers

   “can’t establish a reliable connection to the server. this could be a temporary problem or your phone may not be provisioned for data services. if it continues call customer care.”

   Does anyone have the same problem? Or indeed a solution, thank-you

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   smithson

   Posted January 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM

   Hi, I have a arnova 10 g2

   i followed all your steps and after downloading the market I tried to access it. when i got to login page I logged in and it came up with a page saying

   “can’t establish a reliable connection to the server. this could be a temporary problem or your phone may not be provisioned for data services. if it continues call customer care.”

   Any ideas how I can fix this and why google thinks I’m using a phone????

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   duryard

   Posted January 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM

   Sorry for being a noob. Can I install this rom on the arnova 7c g2.
   Will it give me root
   then do the market stuff as suggested
   then reinstall the orig firmware, still maintain root.

   I am currently running android 2.3.3

   Thanks

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     admin

     Posted January 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM

     This firmware is specific to the Arnova 10G2, it won’t work on other models.
     There is currently no custom firmware for the 7cG2, please check our forum for updates on this subject.
     http://www.arctablet.com/blog/forum/arnova-7c-g2/

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   rocketero

   Posted December 31, 2011 at 6:17 AM

   I did the rooting and everything went well, I can get root access, but the main purpose I rooted it was to get access to the Android Market, and some how is NOT working, I can not even pass the screen that says to LOGGING or CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT in the Market application.

   For some reason is not connecting the device to the Google Servers by Wi-Fi which is the only connection this tablet has. So I’m Stuck !!!!!!

   Any help would be appreciated, I spent the last 3 days installing apps and today in less than half an hour after rooting it all my worked went up into smoke and now the Market can not connect me with this device to their servers.

   Hope I could fix this problem.
   thanks in advance for any help

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    nottstu

    Posted December 11, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    I’m a bit intimidated by the comments from people who’ve had trouble with this but I’d give it a go if it provides the thing I most want and can’t get on my Archos 10G2 at present and that’s Skype.

    Can anyone tell me whether this upgrade provides the possibility of installing and running Skype please?

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      sdunne

      Posted December 12, 2011 at 7:31 PM

      Thanks for the rooted firmware, it’s well handy and I’ve now got android and amazon market apps working correctly.

      However is anyone else having partitioning problems. 6GB of the 8GB storage seems to be under a /mnt/storage,/b> mountpoint and it’s causing me no end of problems when I install larger applications as the tablet thinks it’s out of space when it isn’t.

      Is this some compromise to allow the tablet to be accessed from a PC via usb ??

      Any suggestions as to how to address this would be appreciated.

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    mdylmkmnr

    Posted November 30, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    May I know whether I can set the language of my 10 g2 to Traditional Chinese after rooted?
    Or can I rename the shortcut on the desktop to Chinese name?
    Thanks!

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    arcademan59

    Posted November 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    I have buy this little tablet and it’s really great for the price !

    thanks guys for the custom rom, it worked without problem.
    The best way to update is definitively with arctools .
    Follow the procedure, let the tablet reboot and wait.

    install market using “applications & markets” in arctools.
    When using android market, don’t forget to have a lot of space in your internal memory (you will have to move some programs from internal to SD in the application setup menu)

    enjoy !
    thanks again !

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    gnovak

    Posted November 26, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    Hi,

    I’m trying to update my Lazer 10 (Arnova 10 G2 oem) with this firmware image
    need the market (already try arctools but no way to get it work)

    When unplugging the usb, it’s say: Invalid firmware image found, delete it?

    If anyone get an idea to overcomme this issue…?

    NB: the lazer 10 model number: AN10G2-LZ (build: rk29sdk-eng 2.3.1 GINGERBREAD eng.hwg.20110722.102616 test-keys)

    Thx a lot for your help!
    Gno

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    ste

    Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:59 PM

    how do u get the tablet on the internet

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    LaM

    Posted November 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM

    Guys…I’ve installed it and everything’s fine! (no philly)

    Thou…psx player doesn’t work, fpse works but it’s painfully slow, some games like trial x doesn’t works correctly…

    Inotia 3 works, air control lite works but menu is someway splitted (but still playable), gapps fully works, navdroyd works.

    PLZ, KEYLOCK NEEDED! I was able to specify unlock pattern (using 3rd party app) but I wasn’t able to make it working properly! Any Ideas?

    Benchmarking it with antutu vs my hts desire says that hardwarely speaking are pretty the same (10g2 is a little bit more powerfull on 3d hw)

    If u tell me how to dev an image I can help maybe!

    Thx for Your work btw!!!

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    Jay

    Posted November 11, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    I flashed this rom and everything works good except browser keeps shutting down by itself, have tried different browsers, they all shut down unexpectedly.

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      odonnell

      Posted November 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM

      Do not install flash 11 keep the 10.3 version, your browser will be fine.

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        Jay

        Posted November 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM

        Thanx for the advice Odonnell, worked like a charm.

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    sky

    Posted November 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM

    Very Good for Market and Root. Now I can enjoy my arnova 10 G2. Thx!

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    I am

    Posted November 8, 2011 at 8:25 AM

    Is there a posibility to install windows 7,ce or some other windows on this archos 10g2 tablet? Couse in the facturers mainpage is written that this tablet is competible with windows xp,7 and so on..and yet if it is,how can i install it?: )

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      Ruben

      Posted November 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM

      It means that your tab is compatible with windows 7, so you can hook it up by usb to tranfer files…….

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        I am

        Posted November 8, 2011 at 9:12 PM

        Thanks for answer:)

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    serge

    Posted November 7, 2011 at 11:45 PM

    i update my arnova.. and didnt work!! it crashed…!!!
    i get the arnova start up screen and then strange stripes full with colours?!! what should i do now??

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    CyberSoft

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 11:45 PM

    i see, that my work is working for more people out spain, i feel so good. Thanks every body for proove my rom.

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      Ruben

      Posted November 5, 2011 at 5:44 PM

      Hey CyberSoft, great work mate on this rooted rom.
      Works perfect!!

      Question though…..can you make this rom support A2SD+??
      The internal memory of 250mb makes me wanna kill my tablet, so it would be great to use an ext3/4 partition.

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        CyberSoft

        Posted November 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM

        Hi Ruben thanks a lot, no i can´t, sorry i´m not a advanced user into the kitchen rom world, but i have an app that can help to everybody, i´ll put in htcmania coming soon, so follow the post. Regards…

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          Ruben

          Posted November 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM

          Eeehhmm…..would you be so kind to post a link here when it’s ready, cuz my spanish in’t that good

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    Qnti

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    Hi, as i wrote it’s worked fine… but today i try to do the things again and it’s shows error 28 cannot create temporary directory. How could we solve this? I can not beleive how can hapen that it’s works once and no more again.

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      CyberSoft

      Posted November 4, 2011 at 11:43 PM

      How you did?, you has flashed the firmware with the rockchip tool??

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        Qnti

        Posted November 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM

        No. First I just installed whit this tut. and it was good, but i was needed to set another google account so I just reset the device, to clear the things. Than there was no market. I try to do the steps as like before, but now doesn’t worked in the same way.

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      Carloos

      Posted November 5, 2011 at 11:34 AM

      install this version of arctools: http://www.arctablet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/com.arctablet.arctools.apk

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    Ruben

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM

    Hey whats the deal with arctools……it’s giving me a error 28 cannot create temporary directory….WTF

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      Qnti

      Posted November 5, 2011 at 7:41 AM

      No. First I just installed whit this tut. and it was good, but i was needed to set another google account so I just reset the device, to clear the things. Than there was no market. I try to do the steps as like before, but now doesn’t worked in the same way.

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    tung

    Posted November 4, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    Hi, have anyone tried this with the Arnova 7 g2? If so does it work? Really looking forward to your answer

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      Gatti

      Posted November 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM

      I tried it on Arnova 7 G2, it does not work. Tablet says that he found invalid firmware.

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    elmonica

    Posted November 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    Hi I got a question. I noticed there is only 256mb allocated for applications. I assume that was the case before we ran this firmware? In any case, I was wondering if there are any tools to allocate more space for apps. I have already ran out.

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      elmonica

      Posted November 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM

      I restored the Arnova 10 G2 default firmware. I had some issues with Pandora Radio pausing and not re-starting. Plus it bugged me that I used the 250 app allocation so quickly, so I figured why bother.

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    qwik

    Posted November 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Did anyone test this on the Philly Tablet yet??? also do I need to root first and what is the procedure to root the device?

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    Qnti

    Posted November 3, 2011 at 11:27 AM

    Worked for me too. Thanks a lot!

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    Ruben

    Posted November 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM

    I rooted my G2 a couple of days ago with the method explained on htcmania and i can say that it works very well……BUT!!!

    There are some things you should know:

    Adfree does not work, you have to manually replace the hosts file with a custom one.

    and

    There is no support for A2sd+ on this rom so a ext3 partition has no use……YET!

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    elmonica

    Posted November 2, 2011 at 11:55 PM

    Worked for me. Thanks!

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    fred61

    Posted November 2, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    when will the arnova 8 froyo rom be available?

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