New S7 Slim rom!

The pure CM10 and paranoid ROMs, the camera does not work. I have noto tested the linaro branch so can't comment on that.
 
MyWorld said:
The pure CM10 and paranoid ROMs, the camera does not work. I have noto tested the linaro branch so can't comment on that.
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Thanks for the guide and the info. Just curious, did you change your LCD density settings at all?
 
Did you have an issue with the device picking up your mobile network?
I tired to do it the way they explained in the OP, but it doesn't detect my 8ta 3G card afterwards.
 
Your best bet will be to ask over on the AndroidTablet forums. I have quickly tried, but could not get it working, will try again later.
 
I am still on stock rom, check every week but CM9/10 roms still don't support the camera which I need :(
 
Are there still S7 Slim users out there? I STILL love this tablet and these new release updates are awesome!

Anyway, if you want to get rid of your old S7 Slim, give me a shout!
:D
 
Still using my S7 Slim, will consider the flashing as soon as there is conformation on the camera working.
 
MyWorld said:
How to flash a rom:
I'm going to cover the more safer but more technical way of flashing the rom. You can use ClockworkMod app to flash this ROM (the the OP), but I do not trust this way, I still like doing it the old school way, and it is not that hard, promise! For my tutorial to work you will need android-sdk and once you have downloaded this, start it up and install android-platform-tools.
If you really do not know how to do this, read this: http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-android-sdk-software-development-kit-21137/
Everything is explained there.

First you need to install the drivers for your tablet on windows and Linux users need to update their udev rules. Linux users, put this in /etc/udev/rules.d/91-android.rules:
Code: 
# Ideos S7 Slim
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0x12d1", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0x18d1", MODE="0666"

You should be set to use adb and fastboot now!

You need to install a recovery image to allow you to flash the ROM onto the tablet. There are three available recovery "options" from the download section linked in the OP, but I'm going to cover the most widely used Clockwork Mod Recovery.

Download the recovery.img ( http://goo.im/devs/asturel/recovery.img ) and download the ROM you want to flash, in my case I just took the latest available for CM10 (http://goo.im/devs/asturel/cm-10-20121108-EXPERIMENTAL-s7-asturel.zip). Download gapps (Google Apps) zip also (http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip)

Copy the ROM and the gapps zip to the tablet - as is, do not extract!

All the preparations is now complete, now to start flashing:

We now need to enter fastboot to flash the recovery image, there are two ways of doing this.
1.) Power off device completely (I even had to remove the battery from mine) - Press volume up + power button until you see some text stating that you are now in "fastboot" mode.
2.) If you have android-platform-tools installed: adb reboot fastboot

Change directory on the PC where you extracted android-sdk, go to the platfom-tools directory, inside will be adb and fastboot. Copy the recovery.img into this folder, once finished you can delete it later. Open a terminal there and connect your device to USB if it is not connected already.
In fastboot:
Code: 
fastboot devices  <-- Your device should show, even if it is only ???????????????? there should be something or you need to install your drivers or update your udev rules in Linux
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img

You do not need the last "fastboot recovery recovery.img", but I could not get into recovery mode any other way, in theory, once you flashed the recovery.img and rebooted the device, you should be able to enter recovery with:
Code: 
adb reboot recovery

Now we are in recovery mode. To navigate, use the volume up and down, to select use the "settings" touch button (touch button in the middle).

* Flash from sd-card -> browse to rom on SD-card and flash. Once rom is finished, flash gapps.

Go back, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache parition.

Reboot and you should be done.

If you want to use the app method (again which I do not recommend) you will need to read the link in the OP, it is explained there, but by the time you finished reading the link you could have been done by following this method.
:D
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Good tutorial. Even as a newbie to flashing roms etc I managed to do this easily.
Now just to get the DSTV drifta software working......:)
 
My device is dead in the water, something went wrong with the power connector. If there is anyone out there who want to get rid of theirs, please let me know, I'm looking for one for the kids.
:(
 
MyWorld said:
My device is dead in the water, something went wrong with the power connector. If there is anyone out there who want to get rid of theirs, please let me know, I'm looking for one for the kids.
:(
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my touch screen has a strip that is unresponsive :(
 
MyWorld said:
My device is dead in the water, something went wrong with the power connector. If there is anyone out there who want to get rid of theirs, please let me know, I'm looking for one for the kids.
:(
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Sorry mate, won't part with mine. What happened to the power connector?
 
I have 2 of these for the kids and have given up hope. Been through 4 power cables, the last one cost R80 and lasted for a day before the kids bent it and now it doesn't work

Will follow this thread to see if anyone knows where to get decent cables besides the china mall crap
 
Shiraz said:
I have 2 of these for the kids and have given up hope. Been through 4 power cables, the last one cost R80 and lasted for a day before the kids bent it and now it doesn't work

Will follow this thread to see if anyone knows where to get decent cables besides the china mall crap
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Have you tried charging via usb?
 
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