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Impression I10

# Many issues I don't like this tablet. ## Market problem ### No Android Market / Google Play It doesn't have Android Market nor Google Play officially. Of course it can unofficially be installed, but that doesn't fix the compatibility of applicaltions. ### Amazon Market [Leader International INC], the author of this tablet, suggests installing Amazon Market in one of the papers which come with this device. This has a problem that you must give credit card details even with free applicaltions. I don't want to give my credit card details just to get free applications! ### [F-Droid] F-Droid is the solution for this problem. It describes itself as "an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.". ### [GetJar](http://getjar.com) How can I have forgotten GetJar? It's the first place where I ever downloaded phone applications and where [Angry Birds](http://angrybirds.com/) was originally released. It even works with this tablet like my old Nokia 6125 :D ### Application compatibility I am experiencing many issues with different applicaltions on this tablet. Luckily [F-Droid] clearly tells where the issue trackers and homepages are. I will list them in them in table below

Issue | Fixed? | Fix in [F-Droid]? | Upstream issue | More details
[WiFi Fixer] crashes when it's started | Yes | Yes | Gives "force close" messages on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #11 · Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer | "The crash is caused by a framework method that should be there in Android 2.3.x not existing."
[Firefox for Android] crashes when started | ? | ? | 795572 – Firefox for Android crashes shortly after starting it on Impression I10 | "Should we consider blocklisting the Impression i10? We use many Gingerbread+ APIs and checking them all via reflection instead of Build.VERSION.SDK_INT does not seem practical. "
[GitHub for Android] crashes when started | ? | ? | Crashes when started on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #238 · github/android | "This exception:""is due to a broken implementation of Java on this OEM's custom ROM."
[Barcode Scanner] crashes when started | Invalid | - | Issue 1377 - zxing - Crashes on start with Impression I10 - Multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library with clients for Android, Java - Google Project Hosting | "This is a device bug..."
[Android Terminal Emulator] crashes when started | "Going to close as a device bug that we aren't going to work around. " | - | Crashes immediately after started on ImpressionI10. · Issue #162 · jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator | "Assuming your ROM reports that it's API 9 (Android 2.3) or later, it's broken -- java.io.File.canExecute() is documented as being available in API 9 and up."

Why "Fix in [F-Droid]"? It's the only market which I remembered when I started writing this page. I didn't remember [GetJar](http://getjar.com/) that time. ## [ADB] logcat doesn't work. 1. I have plugged the USB cable. 2. USB debugging reports to be on. 3. Device detects the cable. 4. I have tested [ADB] with another device and it worked. It's good that at least [alogcat] works. I haven't tested other features of adb yet. What happens when I run it? Nothing as you can see below. ``` % adb logcat * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * - waiting for device - ``` # Something works :) ## Games I tried installing some [games from F-Droid] and for some reason they all work. Below there is another table of games which I installed and what I thought about them.

Game | Status
[Andor's Trail] | I am lost. I should go to "storage cave" and I cannot find it. There are too many caves and the nearest one was empty.
[Chess Walk] | I keep losing...
[Dots'n'Boxes] | I didn't read the description and thought that this was just X and O game, but was surprised by it being in German and I didn't understand anything.
[GL Tron] | I keep losing in this too...
[Taps Of Fire] | Maybe I am a little better on this than [Frets on Fire], but I am bad in this.
[Vector Pinball] | My new favourite Android game :D

Angry Birds doesn't work, but it's from GetJar not from F-Droid :( [Leader International INC]:http://www.leaderinternationalinc.com/ [F-Droid]:https://f-droid.org/ [ADB]:https://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html [alogcat]:https://code.google.com/p/alogcat/ [WiFi Fixer]:https://wififixer.wordpress.com/ [Firefox for Android]:https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android [GitHub for Android]:https://github.com/github/android [Barcode Scanner]:https://code.google.com/p/zxing/ [games from F-Droid]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?page_id=0&fdpage=1&fdcategory=Games [Andor's Trail]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail&fdpage=1 [Chess Walk]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=cz.hejl.chesswalk&fdpage=1 [Dots'n'Boxes]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=de.stefan_oltmann.kaesekaestchen&fdpage=1 [GL Tron]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.glTron&fdpage=1 [Taps Of Fire]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=org.tof&fdpage=2 [Frets On Fire]:http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ [Vector Pinball]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy&fdpage=2 [Android Terminal Emulator]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=terminal&fdid=jackpal.androidterm&fdpage=1

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