Kiss the Vega Good Bye

Scanno, the nickname behind VegaBean, and Unofficial CM 10.1 for Vega has gave it up. You can kiss your dream about vega getting a 4.3 update from this folk, good bye.
As he mention in his post at tabletroms that he now has a new toy, a Nexus 10. He love the beauty of its HD display. His fellow developer and a few user express their gratitude for Scanno's long effort to make Vega stand confidently although it has been dated an old tablet.

Scanno bring the 4.2 to Vega even faster than Samsung bring a 4.2 update to SGS2. My sister has seen 4.2 in my Vega first, for she had to wait 4 month later to see 4.2 in her handset.

But, I still hope that Scanno or maybe someone still want to put some effort for this old tablet. At least, in working to make the VegaBean more faster and perfect. Fixing the bluetooh or Accelorometer support for this tablet. VegaCream is also a good memories for my Vega, I hope someone with skill can look at it, may be he/she can find something to improve or add new functionality.

Let's hope this beloved Vega not die anytime soon, I still enjoying it's company :)

Setting VegaBean to WCDMA only using Elixir widget

My data plan is kind of weird, when I use 2G, edge or GPRS, it charge me extra cost. Look like I only pay for the 3G band.

For this reason, I've searched the www for a way to make "the VegaBean" connect only using 3G network. After hours of searching, i've found a number to dial:

*#*#4636#*#*

this number will bring the dialog to choose what I need, WCDMA only network. But, it did not save the settings. After boot, the settings back to WCDMA prefered.

Search continued to find Elixir. It has a 4G widget, tapping this will bring the same interface when dial the above magic number. Aaand did not save it's settings too.

Still searching it a way to save the settings until now.

Every time before my Vegabean tablet turned off, I must remember to disconnecting it from network, but it's simple with the elixir widget.

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 -o remount,ro /system xx@anroid:/$ exit xx@anroid:/$ exit

reboot your tablet with the host mode enabled by default.

Any problem, please comment away!