• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

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

Upvote 0
mines more purdier .. hehe
cf1.jpg
 
Upvote 0
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

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.
 
Upvote 0
Upvote 0
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?

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.
 
Upvote 0
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?

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...
 
Upvote 0
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?

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.
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones