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

<tr>
    <td>[Barcode Scanner] 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>"<em>This is a device bug...</em>"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>[Android Terminal Emulator] crashes when started</td>
    <td><center>?</td>
    <td><center>?</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>"<em>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.</em>"</center></td>
</tr>

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	“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.”

Why “Fix in F-Droid”? It’s the only market, which I have found correctly working on this device.

ADB logcat doesn’t work.

I have plugged the USB cable.
USB debugging reports to be on.
Device detects the cable.
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.

<tr>
    <td>[GL Tron]</td>
    <td>I keep losing in this too...</td>
</tr>
</tr>
    <tr>
    <td>[Taps Of Fire]</td>
    <td>Maybe I am a little better on this than [Frets on Fire], but I am bad in this.</td>
</tr>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>[Vector Pinball]</td>
    <td>My new favourite Android game :D</td>
</tr>

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.

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