Better Movie Play in VegaBean

This review based on my personal experience using the latest MX player with hw encoding enabled in Vegabean Beta6.

HD 720p play nicely
HD 1080p play nicely

compared to my experience with earlier custom ROM like honeyice, VegaICS, or Vegacream.

But, maybe it's the player, not the ROM. I don't have time to test this player againts the older ROM. What matter is the movie play nicely now.

Enabling USB host mode at boot in Vegabean

Vegabean last release was Beta6. I am using it right now, it's a nice ROM although a bit slower than Vegacream.
Some people still have problem with their touchscreen when installing whatever custom ROM, including this one. When faced with this, mouse or keyboard from usb port could come handy, but the default mode for usb in this build is "peripheral", which means: no mouse, or keyboard will be recognized at the usb port.

Enabling usb host mode is easy using shuttle tool, but frustrating when you don't have your touchscreen work. So, maybe it's better to set it to host mode by default.

In Vegacream beta 2.1 you can use this approach I post earlier, but in vegabean you cannot. You'll need to remount your /system read+write enabled in order to do that, so:

1. Open Terminal Emulator
2. Enter the following:

xx@anroid:/$ su xx@anroid:/$ mount -o remount,rw /system xx@anroid:/$ echo "echo 1 > /sys/usbbus/host_mode" >> /etc/vega_postboot.sh xx@anroid:/$ mount - remount,ro /system xx@anroid:/$ exit xx@anroid:/$ exit

reboot your tablet with the host mode enabled by default.

Any problem, please comment away!

Complete Guide: How to Install VegaCream

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS) is better than Froyo, Gingerbread, or Honeycomb isn’t it?

Well, you can take it to your tablet now, by installing VegaCream ROM.

This guide is for Advent Vega, PoV Mobii, Zyrex OnePad and other P10AN01 clone tablet user.

There are at least two ways installing this ROM, using nvflash method or ClockwordMod zip update file.

This guide will use the first method.

It took no more than five minutes to flash ROM to the tablet, given the entire ingredient ready.

First, you need to understand, that doing this could:
1. Damage your tablet.
2. Void your tablet warranty, so I have warned you.

What you need?
1. USB male to male cable
2. A PC running windows XP or later.
3. USB driver, get it here. To install it see this post
4. The VegaCream ROM

Flashing step:
1. Turn off your tablet
2. Connect your tablet to the PC using the USB cable
3. Connect your tablet to its charger
4. Put your tablet into nvflash mode: Press back button and hold it, press power button and release both. You should hear a notification sound from the PC speaker.
5. Run the VegaCream*.exe file, wait until the process done, the tablet will reboot itself then power off.
6. Done

You now have VegaCream, enjoy

Installing Windows USB Driver for Advent Vega and Clone

You need to install USB Driver, so your PC recognize the tablet

1.       Extract the SystemUSB.zip
2.       Turn off the tablet.
3.       Connect  the PC and the tablet using USB cable.
4.       Connect the tablet to its charger.
5.       Put the tablet into nvflash mode.

          6.       If successful, you’ll hear a notification sound from your PC.
          7.       Your PC will ask you to install a driver for the new APX device connected.
          8.       Choose to install the driver from specific location.
          9.       Locate the driver in the folder where you extract SystemUSB.zip
          10.   Done

Now you can proceed to any flashing procedure using nvflash program.

To put the tablet into nvflash mode:
You need to connect the tablet to its charger, and press a certain button combo.
A lot of tutorial said press and hold 2 second etc, in my experience, it is not necessary.

The important thing is the right sequence.

1.       Back Button, press and hold,
2.       Power Button, press and,
3.       Release both when you hear notification sound from your PC

VegaBean Progress to Beta 1

This has been a blast!

Scanno just take VegaBean to the next rank, Beta 1.


VegaBean now has a working hardware accelerated video support. No more problem with the portrait orientation as seen on the removed alpha 3 version. But, I am not sure if this has fully worked, because a recent report that, some games using portrait as it's default orientation has a problem running on the ROM. Other than that, BBC player, Youtube HD are working as it should.

Other peripheral that work are bluetooth and camera. 3G were said not working, but a member found that 3G is now working on internal 3G. There is a good chance  that GPS are working too.

Toggling the GPS off now would not bring the tablet to reboot, ejtagle has fix that. If the GPS working now we have one more major problem, the HDMI audio, but I am sure it would not stand time againts scanno, ejtagle, brucelee666 and the team.

You must give it a try, here is the link to the post
Jelly Bean for Advent Vega

Jelly Bean for Advent Vega/PoV now Alpha 2

Scanno has kept his promise, today he releases the JellyBean for Advent Vega / PoV Mobii Tegra and other P10AN01 clones, with Alpha 2 status. About a week ago, scanno has release VegaBean Alpha 1 for preview. This newly developed Jelly Bean ROM has been a collaboration between EJTagle, Brucelee666 and scanno himself. EJTagle do all the kernel and driver work, the post did not mention what part Brucelee666 take, but I guess he had helped EJTagle with the driver work. Scanno is the cheft who cook the ROM :).
Scanno did not reveal very much information to cover, may be he’ll do it soon. He did mention that almost everything is working, especially the sound. For those who has problem with bad NAND block, scanno has freed 10% space on /system for a better chance for the ROM to be written safely on your NAND memory.

Skype user?
Yes, I think scanno want to give a good news for the member using skype. Skype is now working, but he only test it against the skype test call.

He only mention one problem, the portrait mode, without any further information about the problem. With this information, I guess application like Instagram or Path which use portrait interface mostly, will also have a problem. But, this is not yet confirmed by hand test.

If you want to give support for this brand new promising ROM, go to the thread at tabletroms. There has been four positive responses already. Download the ROM, give your feedback and some donation for scanno cs. That would be a nice thing to do, cheers!

Jelly Bean Come to Vega, PoV, OnePad

A few days already, vegacream ROM thread at tabletroms was hijacked by VegaBean ROM. One or two member there becomes confused. There is some member who suggested that Scanno, the man who developed VegaCream ROM, should immediately create a new thread, which is intended for VegaBean discussion.

Responding to complaints from the forum members, scanno even wrote in one of his post: " The version i posted was just a little bit as a teaser to let people see what potential JellyBean has. As soon as sound is working, i will create a new thread.".

Will Jelly Bean bring potential for something more, particularly on this Advent Vega and Bros tablet? Answer to this question may be obtained by trying yourself the Alpha ROM provided for download by mr. scanno. The potential you found, might not be something you need, as a daily user. Maybe it’s just a potential, only scanno could understand. But, sadly, voluntary made ROM like this would not give you the opportunity to post a request to the dev. I deeply hope, that Jelly Bean port will just make our tablet (Advent Vega, PoV Mobii, ViewSonic, Zyrex OnePad) capable to show its real potential that we can understand as fanatics, enthusiast.

Do we share this hope? But reviewing the history of operating system development, the graphics for hardware requirement was an ascending trend.  Jelly Bean, might has promised us smoother, faster, and more reliable system performance, with the price of a more sophisticated hardware. Also, from reviewing history, this is a marketing strategy. Google will definitely do it. Jelly Bean would require a faster processor, more memory, camera and other more refined accessories. And that means, buy new equipment to support it. Scanno, will make Jelly Bean come to our shuttle/tablet that has been aged, but wouldn’t it become too heavy for this device specification.

In my opinion, it will be much better if scanno, continuing his work on his masterpiece "VegaCream", until all bugs and problems become minimal, and finally a full released version. Scanno should listen to the forum members who have loyally test the ROM in every development phase. VegaCream ROM very feasible to develop into the best ROM for our tablets. Best regard!