Mikaela Suomalainen 538ce8155e Fix previous commit
2012-10-02 16:46:39 +03:00

236 lines
8.0 KiB
HTML
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1;URL=cadoth.net/~mkaysi/articles/complaining/ImpressionI10.html"> <meta name="description" content="My experience with Impression I10 tablet." /> <meta name="keywords" content="Impression,I10,bugs,problems,issues," /> <meta name="author" content="Mika Suomalainen" /> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <link rel="canonical" href="http://cadoth.net/~mkaysi/articles/complaining/ImpressionI10.html">
<title>
Impression I10
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../tyyli.css" />
</head>
<body>
<hr/>
<text align=left><a href="../../index.html">&lt;-- Index</a></text align> <text align=center>Impression I10</text align> <text align=right><a href="../../sitemap/sitemap.html">Sitemap --&gt;</a></text align>
<hr/>
<table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left">
<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/113787158024729598288/ImpressionI10?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hObrpRJKAbk/UGq9u9iYYzE/AAAAAAAABNI/tl9JR-zlGxI/s160-c/ImpressionI10.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a>
</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/113787158024729598288/ImpressionI10?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">Impression I10</a>
</td></tr></table>
<h1 id="many-issues">Many issues</h1>
<p>I don't like this tablet.</p>
<h2 id="market-problem">Market problem</h2>
<h3 id="no-android-market-google-play">No Android Market / Google Play</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3 id="amazon-market">Amazon Market</h3>
<p>[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 <strong>even with free applicaltions</strong>. I don't have credit card!</p>
<h3 id="f-droid"><a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a></h3>
<p>F-Droid is the solution for this problem. It describes itself as &quot;<em>an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.</em>&quot;.</p>
<h4 id="application-compatibility">Application compatibility</h4>
<p>I am experiencing many issues with different applicaltions on this tablet. Luckily <a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a> clearly tells where the issue trackers and homepages are.</p>
<p>I will list them in them in table below</p>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>
Issue
</td>
<td>
Fixed?
</td>
<td>
Fix in <a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a>?
</td>
<td>
Upstream issue
</td>
<td>
More details
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="https://wififixer.wordpress.com/">WiFi Fixer</a> crashes when it's started
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
<a href="https://github.com/Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer/issues/11" >Gives &quot;force close&quot; messages on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #11 · Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer</a>
</td>
<td><center>
-
</center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android">Firefox for Android</a> crashes when started
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795572" >795572 Firefox for Android crashes shortly after starting it on Impression I10</a>
</td>
<td><center>
-
</center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="https://github.com/github/android">GitHub for Android</a> crashes when started
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
<a href="https://github.com/github/android/issues/238" >Crashes when started on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #238 · github/android</a>
</td>
<td><center>
-
</center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/zxing/">Barcode Scanner</a> crashes when started
</td>
<td>
Invalid
</td>
<td><center>
-
</center></td>
<td>
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/zxing/issues/detail?id=1377" >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</a>
</td>
<td><center>
&quot;<em>This is a device bug</em>&quot; I am not surprised...
</center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=terminal&amp;fdid=jackpal.androidterm&amp;fdpage=1">Android Terminal Emulator</a> crashes when started
</td>
<td><center>
No
</td>
<td><center>
No
</center></td>
<td>
<a href="https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator/issues/162" >Crashes immediately after started on ImpressionI10. · Issue #162 · jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator</a>
</td>
<td><center>
-
</center></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Why &quot;Fix in <a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a>&quot;? It's the only market, which I have found correctly working on this device.</p>
<h2 id="adb-logcat-doesnt-work."><a href="https://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html">ADB</a> logcat doesn't work.</h2>
<ol class="incremental" style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li>I have plugged the USB cable.</li>
<li>USB debugging reports to be on.</li>
<li>Device detects the cable.</li>
<li>I have tested <a href="https://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html">ADB</a> with another device and it worked.</li>
</ol>
<p>It's good that at least <a href="https://code.google.com/p/alogcat/">alogcat</a> works. I haven't tested other features of adb yet.</p>
<p>What happens when I run it? Nothing as you can see below.</p>
<pre><code>% adb logcat
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
- waiting for device -</code></pre>
<h1 id="something-works">Something works :)</h1>
<h2 id="games">Games</h2>
<p>I tried installing some <a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?page_id=0&amp;fdpage=1&amp;fdcategory=Games">games from F-Droid</a> and for some reason they all work. Below there is another table of games which I installed and what I thought about them.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Game
</td>
<td>
Status
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail&amp;fdpage=1">Andor's Trail</a>
</td>
<td>
I am lost. I should go to &quot;storage cave&quot; and I cannot find it. There are too many caves and the nearest one was empty.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=cz.hejl.chesswalk&amp;fdpage=1">Chess Walk</a>
</td>
<td>
I keep losing...
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=de.stefan_oltmann.kaesekaestchen&amp;fdpage=1">Dots'n'Boxes</a>
</td>
<td>
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.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=com.glTron&amp;fdpage=1">GL Tron</a>
</td>
<td>
I keep losing in this too...
</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=org.tof&amp;fdpage=2">Taps Of Fire</a>
</td>
<td>
Maybe I am a little better on this than <a href="http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/">Frets on Fire</a>, but I am bad in this.
</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&amp;fdid=com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy&amp;fdpage=2">Vector Pinball</a>
</td>
<td>
My new favourite Android game :D
</td>
</tr>
</table>