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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

How can I have forgotten GetJar? It's the first place where I ever downloaded phone applications and where Angry Birds 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 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 :(

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