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<meta name="description" content="My experience with Impression I10 tablet." />
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<meta name="keywords" content="Impression,I10,bugs,problems,issues," />
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<meta name="author" content="Mika Suomalainen" />
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<title>Impression I10</title>
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<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>
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# Many issues
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I don't like this tablet.
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## Market problem
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### No Android Market / Google Play
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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.
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### Amazon Market
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[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 <strong>even with free applicaltions</strong>. I don't want to give my credit card details just to get free applications!
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### [F-Droid]
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F-Droid is the solution for this problem. It describes itself as "<em>an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.</em>".
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#### Application compatibility
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I am experiencing many issues with different applicaltions on this tablet. Luckily [F-Droid] clearly tells where the issue trackers and homepages are.
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I will list them in them in table below
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<table border=1>
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<tr>
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<td>Issue</td>
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<td>Fixed?</td>
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<td>Fix in [F-Droid]?</td>
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<td>Upstream issue</td>
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<td>More details</td>
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</tr>
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<td>[WiFi Fixer] crashes when it's started</td>
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<td>Yes</td>
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<td>Yes</td>
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<td><a href="https://github.com/Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer/issues/11" >Gives "force close" messages on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #11 · Zanshinmu/Wifi-Fixer</a></td>
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<td><center><em>"The crash is caused by a framework method that should be there in Android
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2.3.x not existing.</em>"</center></td>
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</tr>
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<td>[Firefox for Android] crashes when started</td>
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<td>?</td>
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<td>?</td>
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<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>
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<td><center>"<em>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.
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</em>"</center></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>[GitHub for Android] crashes when started</td>
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<td>?</td>
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<td>?</td>
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<td><a href="https://github.com/github/android/issues/238" >Crashes when started on Impression I10 tablet. · Issue #238 · github/android</a></td>
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<td><center>"<em>This exception:</em>""<em>is due to a broken implementation of Java on this OEM's custom ROM.</em>"</center></td>
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<td>[Barcode Scanner] crashes when started</td>
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<td>Invalid</td>
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<td><center>-</center></td>
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<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>
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<td>"<em>This is a device bug...</em>"</td>
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<td>[Android Terminal Emulator] crashes when started</td>
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<td><center>"<em>Going to close as a device bug that we aren't going to work around.
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</em>"</td>
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<td><center>-</center></td>
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<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>
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<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>
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</tr>
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</table>
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Why "Fix in [F-Droid]"? It's the only market, which I have found correctly working on this device.
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## [ADB] logcat doesn't work.
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1. I have plugged the USB cable.
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2. USB debugging reports to be on.
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3. Device detects the cable.
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4. I have tested [ADB] with another device and it worked.
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It's good that at least [alogcat] works. I haven't tested other features of adb yet.
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What happens when I run it? Nothing as you can see below.
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```
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% adb logcat
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* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
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* daemon started successfully *
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- waiting for device -
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```
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# Something works :)
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## Games
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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.
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td>Game</td>
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<td>Status</td>
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<td>[Andor's Trail]</td>
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<td>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.</td>
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<td>[Chess Walk]</td>
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<td>I keep losing...</td>
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<td>[Dots'n'Boxes]</td>
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<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>
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<td>[GL Tron]</td>
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<td>I keep losing in this too...</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>[Taps Of Fire]</td>
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<td>Maybe I am a little better on this than [Frets on Fire], but I am bad in this.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>[Vector Pinball]</td>
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<td>My new favourite Android game :D</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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[Leader International INC]:http://www.leaderinternationalinc.com/
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[F-Droid]:https://f-droid.org/
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[ADB]:https://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
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[alogcat]:https://code.google.com/p/alogcat/
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[WiFi Fixer]:https://wififixer.wordpress.com/
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[Firefox for Android]:https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android
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[GitHub for Android]:https://github.com/github/android
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[Barcode Scanner]:https://code.google.com/p/zxing/
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[games from F-Droid]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?page_id=0&fdpage=1&fdcategory=Games
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[Andor's Trail]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail&fdpage=1
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[Chess Walk]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=cz.hejl.chesswalk&fdpage=1
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[Dots'n'Boxes]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=de.stefan_oltmann.kaesekaestchen&fdpage=1
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[GL Tron]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.glTron&fdpage=1
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[Taps Of Fire]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=org.tof&fdpage=2
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[Frets On Fire]:http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
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[Vector Pinball]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Games&fdid=com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy&fdpage=2
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[Android Terminal Emulator]:http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=terminal&fdid=jackpal.androidterm&fdpage=1
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