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Useful Resources for the ZT-180 on the Internet
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Basic Functions of the ZT-180
Buttons
Power Button - Press to turn the tablet on and bring up the option to shut it off. Pressing and holding for 10-15 seconds will cause an automatic shutdown (sometimes easier to do than the paperclip through the reset pinhole).
Left Switcher/Volume Button - This brings up menu options from the currently running app. You can also tap on the menu icon on the top taskbar to do the same thing. This key has no volume function with the current ROM (0120). When screen is in timeout, pressing this key twice will bring you out without the need to unlock your screen.
Right Switcher/Volume Button - This brings up a list of the last 6 recent apps that were executed. This also has no volume function with the current ROM (0120). Double pushing twice quickly also functions to go back to the Home Desktop screen.
Round Home Button - This is currently set to go back to the last screen that was running, it does not go to the Home Screen, unless you keep pressing it to go back through all the screens . To go back to the Home screen, you can tap on the Home icon in the taskbar.
Note: To enter into Flash Mode, you need the tablet to be off, and you need to hold down the Round Home Button first and then press the Power Button simultaneously. Device 10 will turn green in the burntool when the tablet is in Flash Mode and connected via OTG USB port. For flashing via SDcard, power on the tablet and press the left toggle/volume key at the epad logo screen, the tablet will then scan the /sdcard/zt-update folder for system.pack.img, userdata.pack.img, zImage, and the ZT_Bx.boot fils - do not place the ZT_Bx.spl file on the sdcard, it may brick your tablet!
Taps
There are two types of taps using the tablet:
A short tap (quick - background will turn yellow) and a long tap (pressing down for 2-3 seconds - background will turn yellow and then turns white).
You can think of it as using a mouse. A short tap is like a left click of a mouse, it selects things. A long tap is like the right click of a mouse, it brings up a menu with options to select from.
Note: The long tap is a good way to change your input method if you have downloaded other soft keyboard apps or writing apps, just long tap in a text input frame to do this.
SDcard and Udisk
You can unmount your SDcard from the Settings/SDcard & Storage device/Unmount SDcard option. There is no option currently to do this for the Udisk (USB Flash thumb drive).
Note: It's best to insert/attach the sdcard or udisk before turning the tablet on, and only take it out after you have shut off the tablet, or else tablet errors may occur or the card/drive may get corrupted. It's also best to remove your SDcard prior to flashing the device to make sure the data on it doesn't get corrupted.
Internal Storage
The internal storage, Nand Drive, is divided into three partitions which make up the 2 GB of internal memory. This includes the System Partition (system.img ROM file), Boot partition (u-boot.img ROM file), and the User partition (userdata.img ROM file). (The 4th ROM file, zImage, is the firmware update.) The User partition currently only has 330 MB of memory available for apps & games you install. When you flash the tablet with a ROM update, you can choose not to flash this partition to save your data & apps, if anything goes wrong, flash the tablet again with all 4 files.
Update: With the 1126 beta ROM, I get the following-> # df df /dev: 94380K total, 12K used, 94368K available (block size 4096) = 92 MB /sqlite_stmt_journals: 4096K total, 0K used, 4096K available (block size 4096) = 4 MB /system: 262144K total, 112032K used, 150112K available (block size 4096) = 256 MB /data: 1048576K total, 331080K used, 717496K available (block size 4096) = 1 GB /cache: 98304K total, 48176K used, 50128K available (block size 4096) = 96 MB /harddisk: 540672K total, 4744K used, 535928K available (block size 4096) = 528 MB /sdcard: 15549952K total, 14138048K used, 1411904K available (block size 32768) = 14.8 GB #
So the data partition is now 1 GB for the 1126 ROM and newer ROMs!
OTG & Full USB Port
The OTG Port (has two functions):
In Flash mode, it serves as the method to update your tablet.
When the tablet is on, it serves as the way to use ADB with Android SDK and to mount the file system if your tablet is rooted.
Full USB Port:
You can attach a USB mouse, USB keyboard, USB hub, or a flash stick/drive here. Or if you are unsatisfied with the tablets internal wifi, you can put your external USB wifi dongle here (that's what I'm using it for, my dongle has an antenna on it, makes the range of the wifi much much better - any dongle with a RT2070 or RT3070 chipset should work out of the box). You may need to remove your internal wifi in order to get an external one working via a USB hub. I do not use 3G, but you can use that here also if you have a compatible dongle. Currently there is no support for a USB Camera, but the 1126 Beta ROM does support a USB GPS Dongle that's uses ttyUSB9.
Network USB Port
This is where you plug in the included RJ45 Network adapter to connect to the internet via an ethernet cable.
Note: This port is very fragile, easily snaps off, make sure you have the dongle supported in some way before you plug in the ethernet cable. For more information: http://www.slatedroid.com/zt-180/5051-f ... -port.html.
If your wifi seems really slow, you can try and edit the /etc/init.gprs-pppd file, the two lines containing ttyUSB0 115200, change it to ttyUSB0 921600. Thank you bradleyorath for posting this! post8743.html#p8743.
You could also use an external USB Wifi Dongle with an antenna to get better wifi range and reception, and you don't need to disconnect the internal one if it is a RT3070 or RT2070 chipset dongle. If the dongle lights up and doesn't seem to be being used, just go to Settings/Wireless & Networks/ and uncheck wifi to turn it off, and then check it to turn it back on, for me, this initiates the external wifi dongle.
Market fix YouTube video The following video is for a different tablet, but the same procedure may help people fix their market on Froyo (if certain apps aren't showing up).....
Adobe Flash 10.1 working on the ZT-180
ADB Basics
Over USB: With the 1126 beta ROMs and later, adb over USB is available.
Over Wifi: Make sure the wifi on your tablet is on and there are no errors popping up before you try to connect. Also before executing the following commands to connect, make sure the tablet is the only USB device currently on and attached to your computer (that's what the -d is for in the first command). When you are in the tools or platform-tools subfolder of your android sdk folder. in the command prompt type in
adb -d tcpip 5555, (with OTG USB cable attached) you should see * daemon not running. starting it now on port #### * * daemon started successfully * restarting in TCP mode port: 5555
Then type: adb connect {Your tablets IP}:5555, (with cable out) you should see connected to {Your tablets IP}:5555
Then you know your tablet is connected to your computer over wifi.
you can type in adb ? to find out all the commands from your command prompt:
-d - directs command to the only connected USB device returns an error if more than one USB device is present. -e - directs command to the only running emulator. returns an error if more than one emulator is running. -s <serial number> - directs command to the USB device or emulator with the given serial number. Overrides ANDROID_SERIAL environment variable. -p <product name or path> - simple product name like 'sooner', or a relative/absolute path to a product out directory like 'out/target/product/sooner'.
If -p is not specified, the ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT environment variable is used, which must be an absolute path. devices - list all connected devices connect <host>[:<port>] - connect to a device via TCP/IP Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified. disconnect [<host>[:<port>]] - disconnect from a TCP/IP device. Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified. Using this command with no additional arguments will disconnect from all connected TCP/IP devices.
device commands: adb push <local> <remote> - copy file/dir to device adb pull <remote> [<local>] - copy file/dir from device adb sync [ <directory> ] - copy host->device only if changed (-l means list but don't copy) (see 'adb help all') adb shell - run remote shell interactively adb shell <command> - run remote shell command adb emu <command> - run emulator console command adb logcat [ <filter-spec> ] - View device log adb forward <local> <remote> - forward socket connections forward specs are one of: tcp:<port> localabstract:<unix domain socket name> localreserved:<unix domain socket name> localfilesystem:<unix domain socket name> dev:<character device name> jdwp:<process pid> (remote only) adb jdwp - list PIDs of processes hosting a JDWP transport
adb install [-l] [-r] [-s] <file> - push this package file to the device and install it ('-l' means forward-lock the app) ('-r' means reinstall the app, keeping its data) ('-s' means install on SD card instead of internal storage) adb uninstall [-k] <package> - remove this app package from the device ('-k' means keep the data and cache directories) adb bugreport - return all information from the device that should be included in a bug report.
adb help - show this help message adb version - show version num
DATAOPTS: (no option) - don't touch the data partition -w - wipe the data partition -d - flash the data partition
scripting: adb wait-for-device - block until device is online adb start-server - ensure that there is a server running adb kill-server - kill the server if it is running adb get-state - prints: offline | bootloader | device adb get-serialno - prints: <serial-number> adb status-window - continuously print device status for a specified device adb remount - remounts the /system partition on the device read-write adb reboot [bootloader|recovery] - reboots the device, optionally into the bootloader or recovery program adb reboot-bootloader - reboots the device into the bootloader adb root - restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions adb usb - restarts the adbd daemon listening on USB adb tcpip <port> - restarts the adbd daemon listening on TCP on the specified port networking: adb ppp <tty> [parameters] - Run PPP over USB. Note: you should not automatically start a PPP connection. <tty> refers to the tty for PPP stream. Eg. dev:/dev/omap_csmi_tty1 [parameters] - Eg. defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns
adb sync notes: adb sync [ <directory> ] <localdir> can be interpreted in several ways:
- If <directory> is not specified, both /system and /data partitions will be updated.
- If it is "system" or "data", only the corresponding partition is updated.
environmental variables: ADB_TRACE - Print debug information. A comma separated list of the following values 1 or all, adb, sockets, packets, rwx, usb, sync, sysdeps, transport, jdwp ANDROID_SERIAL - The serial number to connect to. -s takes priority over this if given. ANDROID_LOG_TAGS - When used with the logcat option, only these debug tags are printed.
Note: If you find this post useful, or if I have helped you in the past, please click on the thumbs up icon on the upper right hand corner of this post to give me thanks! Also a huge thank you to all the members of the forums I visit, all this info came from them! So happy we're building up a great android Community! Thank You!
Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:33 am Posts: 953 Location: NYC
Re: Useful Resources for the ZT-180 on the Internet
I found this Android 2.2 manual on the net, even though the ZT-180 is Android 2.1, the information may be useful to a lot of people, it was for me, especially what all the status bar icons mean and how to perform basic functions: http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/03/do ... ser-guide/
do you think it is zt-180 based or others like rockchip or via? the seller told me it is zt-180 based. it has blue power led and red charging led.
I tried any possible sources of windows XP driver to connect the pad to my PC, but no driver seems to work with it. Can anyone please help me get a driver for this? When i connect it to PC, the taskbar shows a new device found and name it as "Android Phone". i tried all secbulk.sys and secbulk.ini files found around any forums.
Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:57 pm
omarahum
Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:33 am Posts: 953 Location: NYC
Re: Useful Resources for the ZT-180 on the Internet
blogmaster wrote:
I recently got an 10.2" epad. on the setting info the software specs were like this:
do you think it is zt-180 based or others like rockchip or via? the seller told me it is zt-180 based. it has blue power led and red charging led.
I tried any possible sources of windows XP driver to connect the pad to my PC, but no driver seems to work with it. Can anyone please help me get a driver for this? When i connect it to PC, the taskbar shows a new device found and name it as "Android Phone". i tried all secbulk.sys and secbulk.ini files found around any forums.
I believe it's a ZT-180. I may be wrong, but I believe you had the tablet on when you connected it to the computer? In that case, the computer tries to install the adb drivers, which there aren't any currently. To install the secbulk drivers for flashing the tablet, you need to have it in flash mode. Off and attached to the computer via the tablets OTG USB port, then pressing the round button first, and then the power button simultaneously, for 3-7 seconds, then the device 10 will turn green in the burntool, and you will probably be asked to install te secbulk drivers then. Again, the drivers only work for a 32 bit windows environment.
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