Finally here is the Augen Gentouch patch and here are the instructions.
The patch fixes factory reset, adds volume control, back and home buttons but DELETED ALL GOOGLE APPS! So you may NOT want to install this.
No word on upcoming patches to fix the remaining bugs in the Augen Gentouch tablet.
Chat log from couple of hours ago:
Mark: Hi
Mark: How may I Help?
Martin: hey
Martin: the big augen gentouch patch
Martin: supposed to come out 20
Martin: is it out?
Martin: i see some password protected thing
Martin: is this it?
Mark: Hopefully by lunch time or early afternoon, our R&D will be able to post the patch on our website
Mark: www.augenus.com
Mark: no sir
Mark: that’s for the MP4 touch
Martin: ok
Martin: thank you
Augen has just released a new patch to get the other patches working on a 64 bit windows! No word yet on the big patch that`s supposed to fix most of the remaining errors.
Hey, I thought that i`d recap the current status of the Augen Gentouch device but then I saw that users cutterjohn42 from mobileread.com forums have already done that so i`ll just quote him 
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I’ve had one of these since Saturday, Augen calibrate update, rooted, Clockwork, setcpu(min 126MHz/max 600MHz left on OnDemand), marketfixed and clockwork update.zip fix(perma fixes market, redoes root, and adss nexus one startup anim. (Raincheck from 7/29) MUCH snappier than the base fw w/above. (We’re pretty sure that it’s a Dawa D7 or cost-reduced variant.)
It’s not bad, I seem to get about 3h or so of WiFi operation after doing all the mods/hacks to it. Probably 4.5 – 6ish hours w/no WiFi. (These are rough as I’ve never run it dry since modding/hacking but it’s NOTICEABLY better than the default shipped fw.)
It DOES run a bit warm, as in it does eventually get to feel warm on the battery side once you’ve been going through several web pages.
Brightness controls don’t work properly, only slightly modified brightness i.e. not the range that you would expect.
No hw volume control, or any virtual vol. control buttons yet.
Only have really tried iReader as a reader app on it so far as I’ve been reading text files and most of the other apps mainly seem to support EPUB, FB2, etc. but not text.
Played a few videos w/the YouTube app. They actually play better than on my nb w/a 4850 mobility! (at least under Ubuntu 10.04, might be close v. Windows, but I’d still give the edge to the Gentouch)
Doesn’t seem to truly suspend either, so I have it power down when not using it for a while. Boots fairly quickly, but I’ve never timed it exactly. Definitely WAY faster to useable than my Sony PRS-505 is from a cold start, but not as fast as my nb booting either Vista or Ubuntu 10.04.
CPU clock speed is still stuck @ 600MHz. This requires a new kernel compile to “fix”.
Touchscreen is MUCH better after the calibrate update and then running the calibration app.
Battery seems to be soldered(by leads) direct to mb, bad IMNHO as I GREATLY prefer easily user-replaceable batteries and look in askance at companies who do not design for this.
Accelerometer (“g sensor”) does NOT function, but various Android system info apps DO list it as present.
OpenGL ES is apparently being reported as 0.0 instead of 2.0 as the datasheet indicates that the TCC8902n + mali(GPU) can support.
Nook, Kindle, FBreader, Aldiko, etc. all work.
Browsing with the builtin in browser is decent, but I’m having a hard time going back to the window oriented approach v. tabs like I have on my desktop although I guess it’s understandable for a machine with limited resources.
Skyfire and Dolphin browsers also are reported to work, but I haven’t tried them myself yet.
Android market works, but google maps won’t update ATM. (Apparently a problem that crops up from time to time with various Android devices and releases…)
User reported a problem with last.fm caching, haven’t verified this myself yet. Another reported Pandora radio working, apparently good enough for his wife.
Apparently all units have the same MAC address assigned to the wireless card. Reports of a second batch(box w/o Android Market support claim) apparently have a different MAC address. Not sure if they’re all unique now or just different from the earlier batch. (Mine must be the original batch as the box still mentions Android market support… and well.. I made it be supported… 
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Note on batt runtime: Apparently some of the units have been shipped w/2100mAh batts while others came w/1500mAh batts. Not sure which is in mine as I may still end up returning it IF Augen is not able to provide better support(we’re still waiting on a more complete fw update and so far they have pushed it back once, now scheduled for 8/20, likely with no accelerometer fix or CPU max frequency unlocking).
i.e. it’s not bad, but w/o better Augen(Dawa?) support and/or source code so that we can fix things ourselves I can’t really recommend it for most users. (Probably could pry the kernel patches out of Telechips(and hope that the Dawa changes are close enough) and then try to build a generic android build would be OK but alot of work/debugging. Already seems to be pretty much base Android 2.1-update1 anyways given what i see in the emulator(SDK) and what the base GT fw looked like minus extra apps are very close.
There just seems to be no end to the bad news about Augen Gentouch!
The long awaited patch was delayed again and the next release date is set to 20. August! They claim that it`s because of the Google incident. Well it is a plausible reason but still disappointing.
As many people from various forums report, Kmart has managed to get an unknown amount of the Augen Gentouch tablets in the stores again. People are getting calls for rainchecks and seeing the tablets on the shelves. If you want one, now is the time to start raiding the stores again!
Also they listed the Gentouch on the kmart website.
Leave a comment if you got one!
Bad news for Augen! Seems that all the Google apps that were pre-installed on the Augen Gentouch were there without any licence from the big G. The app store wasn`t working anyway but everything else was working just fine but currently Augen is not allowed to ship their devices with any of the Googles applications. In their press release they said that they came to an agreement with Google on the part that no action will be taken on behalf of the already sold tablets. This is a very nice behavior from Googles side as they clearly had the possibility here to kill the whole Augen company off with a single law suit if they wanted to do so. But clearly there wasnt no point in doing so as Google wants to attract new startups not scare everybody away.
The main problem was actually that although Android is an open source OS, Google apps are not. Augen said that they were left in the software unintentionally. Whether this is true or not doesn`t really matter that much.
I`m quite sure that Augen and Google will come to some sort of an agreement and new Augen Gentouch models will have all the Google apps installed to them. This whole Gentouch launch has gained too much media attention so it would only hurt Google if they were uncooperative.
So meanwhile the score is Google 1 : Augen 0
Augen has just released an update that addresses the Android store bug. It`s an alternative way you can download apps but people who are already using say that it`s quite awesome. You can get it here:
http://augen.helpserve.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=41&nav=0,19
It seems that the update is not working for everyone so you should follow the steps from ”tipstir” from Slatedroid forums who posted a guide on how he got the update working:
Download and installed now. I had to remove the microSDHC card out and add that to adapter card to the PC. Open the folders under downloading and pasted the file there. Everything works not the app was able to be installed on G78 after inserting the microSDHC card back into it. Looks like you have to join the appstore to use the software.
Thank you tipstir and Augen
Here is the alleged list of all the things that will be fixed/added in the upcoming patch.
If they really manage to fix everything then the Gentouch just may save itself from shame.
Keep your fingers crossed!
Some say that it has accelerometer / g-sensor, othery say that it doesn`t.
Meanwhile you can use RotateD to rotate your screen!
