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[hwaggers]

is there any easier way to put android market on your vega without going through this process?

[simonta]

It's not difficult.  Just follow the steps.  There are other ways, but none easier.

[Mogedwards]

hwaggers, on May 15 2011, 13:24, said:

is there any easier way to put android market on your vega without going through this process?

There are alternatives, e.g. http://mobilestore.o...d/freeware.html

[3110neil]

Hi
I Have been looking at replacing my damaged laptop (accident) so was going for the vega ,but when reading about roms and such ,thought not for me ,until this post ,so simple ,im lucky to have 3 laptops ,xp ,vista and windows 7 (64bit) so which one to use on the vega ,thanks neil
sorry which version of vega should be on v1.09orlater or doesnt it matter

Edited by 3110neil, 16 May 2011 - 03:00 PM.

[Dave Marchant]

3110neil, on May 16 2011, 15:58, said:

Hi
I Have been looking at replacing my damaged laptop (accident) so was going for the vega ,but when reading about roms and such ,thought not for me ,until this post ,so simple ,im lucky to have 3 laptops ,xp ,vista and windows 7 (64bit) so which one to use on the vega ,thanks neil
sorry which version of vega should be on v1.09orlater or doesnt it matter

It doesn't matter what version, there are instructions on www.myadventvega.co.uk to get the device to 1.09 from any other ROM version or release. !.09 was the official version with Flash, but there may also be 1.10 around (not sure of differences). There are some 1.08 systems which may still ship from Dixons which are the ones without Flash and you do the update yourself.

[3110neil]

Hi Dave
Thank you

[simonta]

Need a wee leg up there laddy?

[3110neil]

Hello
Havnt yet bought one yet ,keep changing mind ,whats your advice on the vega ,dont worry i will need as you so a wee leg up at some point thank you for the post ,it should help no end of newbies lol

[simonta]

3110neil, on May 18 2011, 15:27, said:

Hello
Havnt yet bought one yet ,keep changing mind ,whats your advice on the vega ,dont worry i will need as you so a wee leg up at some point thank you for the post ,it should help no end of newbies lol

Hi, sorry, that wasn't meant as a response to you, I just get bored with typing "bump"

But as you ask:

Are there better tablets?  Yes
Are the tablets that provide better value for money?  Nowhere near.

If you like to customise and tinker; if you don't mind fiddling around to get things just so; if you are happy to wait for Honeycomb and accept that it might arrive tomorrow, it might never arrive; it you want a great little machine that you can pick up and be surfing or tubing or emailing in seconds then the Vega is unbeatable.  Great little tool.

If any of the above bug you, then Asus Transformer seems to be the next best thing.

If you don't mind people telling you what to do with your property, don't care about evolution of technology and you don't mind the idea of lining Apples pockets for ever, then iPad.  (oops, personal preferences bleeding through)

[Oldbarzo]

Hi
Just bought Vega and upgraded to r8 using the provided info on this thread. Great job. Using Win 7 64bit and
had minor probs installing as walk through is not exactly the same on my PC but as long as I found ADP
everthing was ok from there. Many thanks to the provider of this walk through and to Paul for his mod.

Stransky
(Douglas)

Edited by Oldbarzo, 19 May 2011 - 10:26 PM.

[timhow]

Hi, I've been trying to update my Advent Vega to the "r8-vega-update-modaco........-unsigned" mcr that alllows access to the Android MArket. I've been trying to get this sorted out for the best part of a week and still struggling.

Basically I am suffering from the "code 10, could not open" error, and despite reading as many threads on here cannot get this resolved. The guides that simonta has put together are great, but I'm still stuck...

I have removed the drivers, reinstalled, power cycled tge Vega and the PC without any success. I've uploaded the latest 1.10 ROM from the Myadventvega site, and then tried the  

I've tried deleting drivers for "USB MAss Stoarge Devices" etc, forced the "Add legacy Hardware" etc  and I'm struggling now...

I have the yellow triangle with exclaimation mark against the "Android Composite ADB Inetrface" and I can't seem to resolve this. I've tried to dowload drivers from both XP and Vista machines and folowed the different methodologies listed in the guides for each, but still with the same error.

I hope this is a really simple resolution and I'm prepared to look foolish to get this resolved. I've promised my 5 year old son Angry Birds on the Vega and he's getting impatient

Thanks in advance
Tim

Edited by timhow, 21 May 2011 - 05:12 PM.

[simonta]

timhow, on May 21 2011, 18:09, said:

Hi, I've been trying to update my Advent Vega to the "r8-vega-update-modaco........-unsigned" mcr that alllows access to the Android MArket. I've been trying to get this sorted out for the best part of a week and still struggling.

Basically I am suffering from the "code 10, could not open" error, and despite reading as many threads on here cannot get this resolved. The guides that simonta has put together are great, but I'm still stuck...

I have removed the drivers, reinstalled, power cycled tge Vega and the PC without any success. I've uploaded the latest 1.10 ROM from the Myadventvega site, and then tried the  

I've tried deleting drivers for "USB MAss Stoarge Devices" etc, forced the "Add legacy Hardware" etc  and I'm struggling now...

I have the yellow triangle with exclaimation mark against the "Android Composite ADB Inetrface" and I can't seem to resolve this. I've tried to dowload drivers from both XP and Vista machines and folowed the different methodologies listed in the guides for each, but still with the same error.

I hope this is a really simple resolution and I'm prepared to look foolish to get this resolved. I've promised my 5 year old son Angry Birds on the Vega and he's getting impatient

Thanks in advance
Tim

Hi Tim

You're probably going to hate me for this, but you have your Vega booted normally and USB Debugging turned on?  If so, and still no joy, search for AUDI and try that tool.  It attempts to do what this guide does automagically.

Failing all that, I could connect to your PC remotely and do it for you...

Cheers

Simon

Edited by simonta, 21 May 2011 - 07:10 PM.

[timhow]

simonta, on May 21 2011, 20:09, said:

Hi Tim

You're probably going to hate me for this, but you have your Vega booted normally and USB Debugging turned on?  If so, and still no joy, search for AUDI and try that tool.  It attempts to do what this guide does automagically.

Failing all that, I could connect to your PC remotely and do it for you...

Cheers

Simon

Simon, I may well take you up on that offer!! - I have got the Vega in debug mode. I have continued to try to get this sorted and have now managed on my Vista laptop to get a Composite UDB Interface without the yelllow triangle (but I also had one with!!) - I deleted the one that had the yellow triangle and tried to run the install script, but it then hung on "creating symlinks" .

This has left my Vega in no man's land really as it just displays the android logo in green, and won't power up fully, but I'm rebooting the laptop for one last go with the install script (and hope that Device Manager find the composite entry all OK).

Device manger did also find the USB storage device under the USB devices and a composite device too - perhaps I have device / driver conflcit?

I don't think the script will work now and I'll need to go back and restart with the new ROM 1.10 - or should I go back to 1.09?

Thanks for your help
Tim

[timhow]

I did reboot and retry it, but that yellow triangel was back when I'd installed the driver - now going for a full restart with 1.10 and will do a search for the AUDI tool.
Thanks

[timhow]

Well.... I've managed to solve the problem............  but only by digging out an old XP laptop and starting back from reflashing the ROM 1.10 version. Not really sure what the problme was, but I used my HP laptop with Vista and seemed to have driver / device contention issues.

.... - it went straight through (with a reboot between the ROM download and the r8 upgrade)..

Thanks to Simon for the great guides and for the comments today.

I'm a happy boy for sure.

Many thanks
Tim

[simonta]

She mo fo butter layin me to the bone home.

[Adam:)]

I have a slight problem with the bit where u unzip the r8- tegrausbdrivers-modaco, well when i right click, theres no extract all  
im not sure wat to do
help please!
thanks

[simonta]

Adam:), on May 29 2011, 17:32, said:

I have a slight problem with the bit where u unzip the r8- tegrausbdrivers-modaco, well when i right click, theres no extract all  
im not sure wat to do
help please!
thanks

Install 7Zip, much better than the built in archiver.  Then right click.

[premieral]

bumpity

[simonta]

Ah hinny bar