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Impression I10 |
I don't like this tablet.
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.
[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 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.".
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 | Probably (it's at least in Google Play) | Gives "force close" messages on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #11 · Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer | |
Firefox for Android crashes when started | ? | ? | 795572 – Firefox for Android crashes shortly after starting it on Impression I10 | |
GitHub for Android crashes when started | ? | ? | Crashes when started on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #238 · github/android | |
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 | Crashes immediately after started on ImpressionI10. · Issue #162 · jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator |
Why "Fix in F-Droid"? It's the only market, which I have found correctly working on this device.
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 -
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 |