last updated July 11th 2011
I have made available here on my website a mirror for a significant number of Roms to install on the Adam, including the Stock images and updates. I just decided it might make sense to post their links on my website, since I am mirroring them here. clicking on the name of the mod will take you to the forum on tabletroms.com where the developer is posting updates and answering questions. Please click the links for installation instructions, support, and to check for newer versions, I cannot guarantee I have the newest updates, but I will try. I have not virus scanned any of these, I have not unpacked/repacked any of these, the only files I even renamed were ones with the default name “update.zip” as you cannot have 20 files called update.zip and expect your hair not to fall out! The only promise I can give is that I won’t take these files down unless the developers ask me to do so! Any changes I might make for my own use will never be posted on this page, I will make a separate post if I decide to ever do that, to avoid confusion.
Again, this is just a mirror location, not the official or original site for any of these Roms. Nor am I affiliated with any of the developers, besides being a poster on some of the same forums. Just trying to help preserve the history of these Roms, and provide an additional location to gain access to them.
First off I want to post this link to TabletRoms.com and their page for working on Honeycomb on the Notion Ink Adam. If anyone reading this has any Kernel development experience, they need just a bit of help and the Rom will be completely working for everyone! So go here to help out if you can.
The official “How to update your Adam” PDF file from Notion Ink Design Labs.
The official “User Manual” PDF file from Notion Ink Design Labs.
The official “Notion Ink Adam Kernel” (most of the internal files, of the zip, have a modified date of January 12th 2011), released by NI on April 29th.
AdamComb – a Vegan/Adam hybrid of HoneyComb
AdamComb v0.30
AdamComb v0.20
AdamComb v0.10
AdamComb v0.30 + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 PQ 3G
AdamComb v0.30 + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 PQ WIFI
AdamComb v0.30 + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 LCD 3G
AdamComb v0.30 + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 LCD WIFI
the Beast Rom
Beast v2.2.1
Beast v2.2
Beast v2.1.4
Beast v2.1.3 PQi+wifi
Beast v2.1.3 PQi+3G
Beast v2.1.3 LCD+wifi
Beast v2.1.3 LCD+3G
Beasty Rom – a Beast remix
Beasty OC’d to 1.5GHz with Clemsyn V3
Beasty OC’d to 1.5GHz with Clemsyn V2
Cell Standby Removal
adam.CellStandby.Removal.100.rar
note on this one, I just put my device in airplane mode. changed it from losing 36% in 8 hours of standby to losing 24% in 8 hours on standby (both EdenX 2.4 and Beast Rom 2.2 and 2.2.1), so use it if you want to, some people have reported side effects.
ClockWork Mod for The Notion Ink Adam
Clockwork Mod 2.5.18
Clockwork Mod 3.0.14
Clockwork mod 3.0.28.1.2.branch.rev5 – Gtab version
(use these at your own risk, they have caused issues for many people, find out why here.) Instructions found here.
CPU speed changer
Pimp my CPU 3.0 by Cpasjuste (if you like it there is a donate version in the market)
just a note, this is designed to work with specific Kernels, if it does nothing of FC’s on you, go to the XDA linked page and read the posts! This requires specific things built in to the Kernel to function.
Cromnia – a Beast remix
Cromnia Beta3 (file renamed to remove special characters for compatibility and easy of use)
Cromnia Beta3 OC’d to 1.5GHz with Clemsyn Kernel (file renamed to remove special characters for compatibility and easy of use)
EdenX Rom
EdenX Alternate Kernels
EdenX 2.7.1 LCD 3G ***BETA
EdenX 2.7.1 PQi wifi ***BETA
EdenX 2.7.1 mirrors
EdenX 2.7.1 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.7.1 LCD 3G
EdenX 2.7.1 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.7.1 PQi 3G
EdenX 2.7.1 LCD 3G – update July 5th 2011
EdenX 2.7.1 PQi 3G – update July 3rd 2011
Archive
EdenX 2.7.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.7.0 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.7.0 LCD 3G
EdenX 2.7.0 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.7.0 PQi 3G
EdenX 2.6.0/2.6.1 mirrors
EdenX 2.6.1 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.6.1 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.6.0 LCD 3G
EdenX 2.6.0 PQi 3G
EdenX 2.5.0-6-1-2011 mirrors
EdenX 2.5.0 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.5.0 LCD 3G
EdenX 2.5.0 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.5.0 PQi 3G
EdenX 2.4.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.4.0 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.4.0 LCD 3G
EdenX 2.4.0 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.4.0 PQi 3G
EdenX 2.3.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.3.0 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.3.0 LCD 3g
EdenX 2.3.0 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.3.0 PQi 3g
EdenX 2.2.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.2.0 LCD wifi
EdenX 2.2.0 LCD 3g
EdenX 2.2.0 PQi wifi
EdenX 2.2.0 PQi 3g
EdenX 2.1.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.1.0 LCD
EdenX 2.1.0 PQi
EdenX 2.0.2 supplement mirrors
EdenX 2.0.2 supplement LCD
EdenX 2.0.2 supplement PQi
EdenX 2.0.0 mirrors
EdenX 2.0.0 LCD
EdenX 2.0.0 PQi
GPS Fix files
Mr. Guy’s GPS Fix
AdamGPS.apk
AdamGPS.zip – source files
GPStester.zip – Notion Ink testing app
LCD Density Changer
LCD Density Changer v5.4 (renamed to remove the spaces)
Notion Ink Adam Stock Roms and Updates
These are the NI Roms that I have gotten from the NIH website (mostly the unbricking website, except the one that was linked to XDA, I think, or maybe that was the Adam Stock Apps… I get confused, a lot…). I have posted them for safe keeping in case other sources disappear, and to make they are available when/if I need them. For the Honeycomb Roms, I have started numbering them 1.0, 1.1… this is not any official numbering and I think I missed one, we will call that one 0.90 if I ever find it/decide to put it up here.
Notion Ink Adam Honeycomb Rom 1.1 (July 5th 2011)
honeycomb.1.1.zip – includes the update
Notion Ink Adam Honeycomb Rom 1.0
honeycomb.zip
honeycomb-update.zip
honeycomb-plus-update-root.zip
***May 31st 2011 Eden 1.5 update files***
I have checked the contents and the file creation dates are May 31st between 9:25 and 11:00
update-531-lcd-wifi.zip
update-531-lcd-3g.zip
update-531-pqi-wifi.zip
update-531-pqi-3g.zip
note, I renamed these files, because NI called all of them “update.zip” to install without clockwork mod (which I thin kmost have stopped using) you will need to rename the file to update.zip before you flash it.
UnBricking – NVFlash
April 8th 2011 version
Linux
flash_wifiAUO.zip
flash_wifiPQ.zip
flash_3gAUO.zip
flash_3gPQ.zip
Windows
flash_wifiAUO-W.zip
flash_wifiPQ-W.zip
flash_3gAUO-W.zip
flash_3gPQ-W.zip
NVFlash files from Tablet Roms – unknown release dates/versions
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + STOCK REC PQ 3G
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + STOCK REC PQ WIFI
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + STOCK REC LCD 3G
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + STOCK REC LCD WIFI
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 PQ 3G
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 PQ WIFI
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 LCD 3G
EDEN 1.5 (STOCK) + DJ STEVE CWM 4.0 LCD WIFI
Older versions (March 2011 release?)
Linux
Linux_AUO.zip
Linux_PQ.zip
Windows
Windows_AUO.zip
Windows_PQ.zip
Stock
adam.stock.NIA20220211.PQI.zip
adam.stock.NIP20140211.rar
march-24-wifi_pq.zip
ripped-apps.zip
Notion Ink Ripped Apps (from XDA site)
Performance Tweak Rom
March 10th 2011 build 1
PixelQi toggle app – from Mr. Guy
PixelQiToggle.apk
Red Aurora (Gingerbread Rom) – Pre-Beta
redaurora-2.0.zip
redaurora-1.9.zip
redaurora-1.8.zip
redaurora-1.7.zip
Root – Market – Adhoc update
adam.market.102.NIA20230111.rar
5.1.1 041011 mirror available
5.1.1 040411 mirror available
check back often for updates
***My semi-Official disclaimers***
- I have not virus scanned any of these files
- I have not unpacked any of these files
- I have not repacked any of these files
- I have not added anything to these files
- The only files I have renamed are the ones that were called “update.zip”
- I offer no support for these files
- I take no responsibility for what you do with these files
- I will maintain these files indefinitely, or until the rightful owners (=the developers) tell me to take them down
- I do not throttle downloads on my site
- I do not control download speeds on my site
- I do not have a limited GB download per month on my site
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I do what I do for myself and no one else, but also have no problems sharing, so use me if you wish, or ignore me, it is your choice.
So, I’ve been messing around with my Adam for a while now and have noticed some things, many people have already noticed these things; however I am new to tablets and all my Android devices are still stock non-rooted (can’t afford to replace them if I screw it up!), as a List, currently in my home are an HTC Evo, and HTC Evo Shift, a Samsung Moment, and my Notion Ink Adam.
Things I have noticed, some are specific to the Adam, I think…
- most apps are written for really tiny resolution screens! I cannot even imagine it! The Adam is not super high res to begin with! The two worst apps I have seen so far are Gem Miner and Fruit Ninja! Makes me wonder if people realize that there are cell phones with greater than 900×500 resolution! (see the Meizu M9 which has a 3.5″ 640×960 display) These apps seem to be written for 320×240 pixel displays
- I believe my Notion Ink Adam had a faulty OS install
- When trying to switch to the Pixel Qi mode, it does switch, but also locks the screen and immediately goes to sleep… If I figure out that I am doing it wrong, you may see me demonstrating the correct way on YouTube in the near future, but right now the only way I know how is to quickly press and release the power button and the display goes B&W and then locks and then shuts off, in about 2.5 seconds. I tried getting the Pixel Qi switch app, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it before I nuked the stock Rom! I did take my Adam out in the sun and I was able to see it just the same (very sunny and direct on the screen) as when I was standing in side just seconds before (yes it was still in color when outside), so the auto-brightness must help a lot! Ok, I am a retard, apparently the PQi change button is a long press on the search button (go figure! I swear Rohan did it with a touch to the power switch in the videos), it works great, cannot believe I was standing in direct bright sunlight without using the PQi and could see the screen fine! I’ll have to test that again…
- I was not able to utilize any widgets, or airplane mode
- Eden Leaves would close themselves if I entered a full screen app and then exited that app by pressing the home key, all the leaves would close, after installing another app that could work as a home screen (Android Mate), anytime I pressed the home key and selected the Eden home screen, all Leaves would be closed.
- I’ve installed the Clockwork Mod, quick, easy, painless. it was the first time I have messed with an Android device in any way other than installing apps! I made a backup of my installation and that was about it! About 36 hours later I nuked my data and cache off the device, then formatted my internal SD, as it still had stuff on it, and restored from the restore partition.
- I then went to install EdenX, and when I went to shutdown I noticed I had an option to use airplane mode! maybe that would have helped with the cell standby eating >73% of my battery… who knows, didn’t stick around long enough to figure it out. I did try to initiate a change to the Pixel Qi display, but no dice (this was before I figured out how to do it right).
- well, Now I am waiting on EdenX to install, not looking good… I verified that Clockwork was gone, copied the EdenX files to the internal SD, and have been sitting staring at the little 3D’ish android guy for at least 10 minutes if not 25, I think it only took 3 – 5 minutes to restore stock… ok I’ve waited an hour, still the same. Pressing home took me back to the menu where it said failed to mount sd, ok, so I am a dumbass, I have only used the Clockwork mod when in recovery mode before, so I did not realize I needed to use the power button to start the process… well actually I forgot, I did read that part of the instructions. Again it took about 3.5 minutes and there was an image of a box with an arrow coming out of it. I’ll try and get a pick next time.
- The pretty white border around the Adam (shown also in red online, but not available) appears to be a sticker, thinner than electrical tape. Or it has a clear “sticker” over it, as there appears to be a bubble on the corners (maybe it is a shipping protection cover, but I am not willing to try and remove it!)
- Good news, my Adam camera does “lock” there is a definitive click when it reaches the full front or rear position and it takes a minor amount of effort to move it again.
- There is a “back” button on the right hand side of the device (in landscape mode), not really sure why, but I think it may come in handy once I get the thing setup the way I want it!
- The screen protector makes only a small difference in the glare, I don’t really think it is matte, not at all what was shown by Rohan on the notionink.wordpress.com blog. Oh and I recommend installing it sideways (landscape instead of portrait top down), as it will be easier to see if you are putting it on crooked! $10 to get another, just in case. ****update – Tactus has lowered their price to just $5 to get a replacement protector (although, since it is on Amazon.com shipping is $6.75)
I am loving EdenX, although it kept somethings from the Stock Rom I was not crazy about (some of the preinstalled apps, the crappy notification bar…), it runs much better, more responsive to touch, faster, allows widgets, multiple home screens, a real app launcher, and is much closer to what I was expecting out of the Box. I was even able to install my previously purchased Android Apps from the Android market, yes EdenX provides the Android market. Not sure when I’ll get around to trying another Rom, but for now, I am happy with EdenX! Only change I need to make is to disable the Cell Standby, that sucker is eating up >73% of my battery…
This will be the last post of my first review on the HTC Evo, for now… not really a summary of things previously said, but more of a last couple of things I have noticed or wanted to mention in my post.
The phone feels light and good in my hands, I have had several people mention how light it feels, only to place the Evo in one hand and their phone in the other and then say “Oh my! it is actually heavier than my phone!” this of course has to do with density, a larger phone with the weight spread out will feel lighter, when you do not have a direct comparison, than it actually is.
The display is a super fingerprint magnet, if you touch it, there will be a finger print left behind. I have tried everything I can think of and I always leave a print. this makes the idea of a lock code for the phone to be a ridiculous time waster, if you turn your phone on to do something quick, like check the notifications, or a widget, then turn it off, leave it, and someone else picks it up, it would take a very stupid person to not be able to figure out your passcode.
I also have a problem with the apps that feel they have to autorun, or startup services in the background, for no reason, even worse are the ones I just installed and have never run that feel the need to start themselves. An example, I have a fitness app that shows exercises, has them categorized, and has video animations of how to perform them. This app loads its’ services all the time, no matter how many times I kill it (I even have an auto task killer that is set to nuke it as well, and when you connect via USB to a computer and select to mount the SD card, this service fails and you have to FC because it cannot access the SD card anymore. I have restarted my phone 6 or 7 times since the last time I ran that app and it still loads all the time. now let me clarify, the app is not running in the task list, the SERVICE is running in the background, the app does absolutely nothing, besides list a database of workout exercises and mini animations that show how to do them, that is it, no way to log what you do, nothing else. I wish Android would prevent apps from doing this, I am also really tired of seeing Sprint NFL or NASCAR, or TV running when I check my Advanced Task Killer, I have never and will never run those applications.
I would like to know if anyone has found out if they are called from a chron job? as that would be a darn good reason to root the phone…
Overall the HTC Evo 4G is a very quick and responsive device, except when the system available memory for running programs is less than 50megs. I know that unless I am installing apps (which means my lookout is scanning them for viruses/spyware and my phone will be running slow), that if my phone’s performance has dropped, that I need to go kill the Sprint apps and whatever else has decided to autorun/load in the background.
I can turn my phone on at any time and I will find the following (in)active apps:
voicemail
google voice
appbrain app market
voice dialer
market
apps organizer
layar
timeriffic
gesture search
voice search
gmail
camera
batterytime lite
lookout
messages
mp3 store
vlc remote
body fitness
people
sound manager
SWYPE
HTC DM
HTC IAQgent
HTC Message Uploader
HTC Sense
Internet
BlueTooth Share
my Uploads
Open Sense Plugin Manager
Settings
Startup auditor
Stats
com.smithmicro.dm (need to find out what this is)
any of the last 5 or 10 apps I have manually run
and of course ATK, as that is what I am using to view this… Although I always kill ATK when I am done. (just found out about and stareted using “system” and I love it, try this instead of ATK!)
giving available memory less than 45megs, this is not a good thing if I am going to run 2 or 3 apps as it takes the system a couple of seconds to kill enough apps to make room for whatever I am loading up
now when I load up Advanced Task Manager it shows me more…
I have 3 references for “maps”
slideIT keyboard is running (uninstalled, replaced by SWYPE)
HTC checkin service
updater
those are also running, the nice thing about ATM is that I can look at running services too, and system services on separate tabs.
I think Google needs to start monitoring apps that are put on the market place and providing some quality control, not content control, but make sure apps don’t have STICK FIGURES!!! also make sure all apps have a settings screen that allows the user to choose if they want it to be able to auto-load, or if the app can run in the background, or if it has to be suspended to disk (the way Apple manages it’s apps, when you leave an app it is suspended and the ram it was using is saved to a file so that when you launch it again it appears to be exactly the way you left it, or it completely exits). You should also be able to take any app and tell it “when I say quit, you quit, and don’t do anything again until I ask you to!”
I really like the “link” system in the HTC Sense UI (friends stream) that allows you to choose which services to link a friend to (other contacts, facebook, twitter, and flicker) you can also merge contacts without deleting them, for example I keep all of my wife’s information from before we were married in a contact listed under her maiden name. On my Evo, I have linked the two contacts to each other, and they show up as my wife (married name) in my contacts list, but if I select edit it asks me if I want to edit married or maiden (not like that, it actually shows her 2 contact names)
The proximity sensor actually works! and is very quick and accurate at determining if my face is against the phone when talking or not. My wife’s Samsung Moment fails on this test, it almost never turns the screen off when talking.
I am thinking about doing a live blog posting of my usage of the phone for a full charge, to give people an example of how much usage I get out of the phone, not sure about this, as I frequently vary the amount I use it by substantial amounts. Also, I do not have an exchange account anywhere to test that functionality, as much as I hate Lotus, it would be nice if someone would make an OS with built in Notes support… shoot, it would be nice if someone would make a Notes and Sametime compatible app for Android, the one notes app has poor ratings, and only connects you to the webpage for your iNotes and is not really an app, plus it did not work for me.
***Update*** a little update
I was just using my Evo to take some pics and record a couple of videos for these posts, and it would not let me change my wallpaper to one of the images I took, it crashed the service “com.htc.albums” I tried setting it directly from the file browser (both Linda and Android mate) and from the menu button used from the home screen (I tried gallery and Astro as well), I finally shutdown the phone, then restarted it, when it came back up it had the new background all ready set, but several changes I had made to some settings over the last 3 or 4 hours were undone and the last notifications I received were “marked” as uncleared again, so I had to reset those changes.
This issue has happened several times in one day, I had enabled GPS and wifi, turned the brightness setting to low from auto, then I turned on Wardrive as I was going to go walk around the neighborhood with my dog, Wardrive is supposed to keep the phone from going to sleep, but it turned off anyways. When I turned it back on, I was no longer able to unlock it again, nothing loaded except for the background and status bar at the top, which I cannot slide down to see the notifications. Nothing else works, none of the buttons do anything except for the screen on/off button, the bottom four touch buttons make the phone vibrate when I hit them, like they do when there is no action available to the button in an app. Holding in the power button does nothing either. I had to remove the battery, again, I left it out for about a minute. Powers on just fine after replacing the battery. The Evo maintained most of the settings I had before, but brought back the notifications I had before the problem happened the first time, 5+ hours ago. Starting to think I need to trade it in for a replacement.
ok, last thing for this series of posts… I LOVE MY HTC EVO 4G’s HUMONGUS SCREEN!!! I also have a little bit of Streak envy…
Later… ( promise to work on the formatting issue of the website this weekend, to make this easier to read)
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