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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 Interational 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 have credit card!

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.".

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
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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. "
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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 have found correctly working on this device.

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