Just Bought the CRAIG Android 7" Tablet from CVS - Page 26

evj8386 · 10-08-2011, 07:51 AM

hey ppl!! so i got my craig 7 in tablet yesterday at my local rite aid for $99 and it works better then the pandigital novel I had (which by the way is a piece of crap). it has android 2.2 loaded onto it but i was wondering how could i get the android market loaded onto it. any suggestions would be great. thanks in advance!!

Cheeky1 · 10-08-2011, 09:02 PM

If you read this thread, you should find all the info you need.

Barbara1955 · 10-15-2011, 12:41 PM

CVS has the CRAIG 7" Tablet $99!!!! Was just in my local CVS & There they were!!

You can now update them to 2.2 OS on the website!
http://www.craigelectronics.com/site...ils.php?id=243

The reason I took mine back this summer! You Need 2.2 to put ADE on it! So I am glad to see this!!

natetech · 10-29-2011, 05:15 PM

I have the CRAIG Android 7" Tablet from CVS cmp738b
Not being diligent, I failed to notice that there were A nd B bersions of this tablet, so after I finally was able to root my device following the instructions in this thread, I was the not so proud owner of a $99 brick. I now have my hands on a new functional tablet, and am looking to be able to access the Android Market. Does anyone know where to find the means to root the Craig cmp738b

Tmarsden · 10-31-2011, 05:19 PM

I have the newest cmp738b. It's a little different than the cmp738a. It has Amazon App Store, But I think it need a phone number to register as a phone and not just a tablet. Music Player is new but doesn't have shuffle mode. It has A security guard function but I don't under stand it enough except it lets you know if an app is safe.

coyoteliberty · 11-01-2011, 04:35 PM

I just bought the CMP738b at Rite aid on sale for a hundred dollars which seemed like a nice deal. The only problem is that it does not want to connect to my home wifi router. It accepts the creation of the wifi account, shows signal strength as excellent and then informs me that the network is "not in range". Given that my router sits, oh, three feet away from me, I find that unlikely. I had to work to get a Craig customer service number and when I called, the responder wasn't even familiar with the tablet and had to put me on hold for ten minutes while he located a device in the office to mirror what I was trying to do! I finally did some research online and found that there are a good number of people having trouble with these units working properly on wifi connectivity right out of the box. (Looks like a manufacturing quality control problem to me...) but that one or two returns later, they get one that works finally. So I'm packing mine back up, returning it to rite aid and exchanging it, hopefully for one that works. It's a great deal, if I can get one that works, but it does bring to mind the adage about you get what you pay for.

Barbara1955 · 11-02-2011, 04:07 PM

Can you tell on the box weather it A or B?? Which is Best?

natetech · 11-04-2011, 01:50 AM

@Katie1 - The box does show the model number as cmp738b. If you are looking to root, you might want the cmp738a, as img files are available.

lasombrs · 11-04-2011, 01:47 PM

Hope you get one that works. I got all three that the only store in a 40 mile radius of me had and all of them had this problem. CS was also useless for me, they kept telling me my router was not turned on.... while I was telling them I could find the router and it had excellent signal strength.... way to listen CS rep! Anyway. I had to return all 3 and finally had to just take my money back has they had no more to give me

I was excited to own it too, to bad.

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Originally Posted by coyoteliberty

I just bought the CMP738b at Rite aid on sale for a hundred dollars which seemed like a nice deal. The only problem is that it does not want to connect to my home wifi router. It accepts the creation of the wifi account, shows signal strength as excellent and then informs me that the network is "not in range". Given that my router sits, oh, three feet away from me, I find that unlikely. I had to work to get a Craig customer service number and when I called, the responder wasn't even familiar with the tablet and had to put me on hold for ten minutes while he located a device in the office to mirror what I was trying to do! I finally did some research online and found that there are a good number of people having trouble with these units working properly on wifi connectivity right out of the box. (Looks like a manufacturing quality control problem to me...) but that one or two returns later, they get one that works finally. So I'm packing mine back up, returning it to rite aid and exchanging it, hopefully for one that works. It's a great deal, if I can get one that works, but it does bring to mind the adage about you get what you pay for.

Barbara1955 · 11-05-2011, 01:29 AM

I had 2 back in May ... NOT Techy so I couldnt Root to get it to do what I wanted it to. But as I pointed out you can download the OS to 2.2 on the Craig Web Site which would have taken care on 2 problems I had LOL

WELLL Yesterday Before I went to CVS I stopped at Big Lots...they had the SYLVANIA 7" Mini Tablet for $100!! Got home Does almost Everything I wanted WAHOOO

Anyone Know anything about these tablets? What I Cant figure out is How for ME to see that my EX HD Is Connected! When I connect them I SEE NOTHING! BUT when I Disconnect I get Notice .... YOU NEED TO UNMOUNT DEVICE BEFORE YOU DISCONNECT! Cripe What am I Missing??

steven522 · 11-05-2011, 10:09 AM

First question: what is the format of your ext. drive? Android might need a specific format that your drive does not currently have.

Barbara1955 · 11-05-2011, 12:49 PM

PC ... is that what you mean?

Acording to the website it Will use EX HD! & I tested the movies I have stored in it by transfering different formate on to SD card & they play great! Just hate to think about How many that going to take for ALL my Movies LOL

miffedtabletuser · 11-06-2011, 10:03 AM

Found this thread and many many others "out there"
re: rooting the cmp738A. I, and many of you newer posters have the B series.
There is an App to access the Android Marletplace on Amazon. I can SEE the apps I want to DL. It fails though, on each attempt.
Any info on rooting, or whatever it is we need to do for the cmp738B?

Have written CS at Craig to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

Barbara1955 · 11-06-2011, 01:13 PM

To DL apps on Amazon you Must have a cridit card reg to your account. Even for the free ones.

steven522 · 11-06-2011, 10:30 PM

Large external drives use different formats (NTSF/Fat32) than smaller flash drive cards and/or usb sticks. I bought an external drive and had to use a utility to change the format so that different devices could all read the data properly.

10-15-2011, 12:41 PM	#378
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	CVS has the CRAIG 7" Tablet $99!!!! Was just in my local CVS & There they were!! You can now update them to 2.2 OS on the website! http://www.craigelectronics.com/site...ils.php?id=243 The reason I took mine back this summer! You Need 2.2 to put ADE on it! So I am glad to see this!! Last edited by Barbara1955; 10-16-2011 at 02:04 PM.

11-05-2011, 12:49 PM	#387
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	PC ... is that what you mean? Acording to the website it Will use EX HD! & I tested the movies I have stored in it by transfering different formate on to SD card & they play great! Just hate to think about How many that going to take for ALL my Movies LOL Last edited by Barbara1955; 11-05-2011 at 12:53 PM.

11-06-2011, 10:03 AM	#388
miffedtabletuser Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Craig cmp738b	cmp738B Found this thread and many many others "out there" re: rooting the cmp738A. I, and many of you newer posters have the B series. There is an App to access the Android Marletplace on Amazon. I can SEE the apps I want to DL. It fails though, on each attempt. Any info on rooting, or whatever it is we need to do for the cmp738B? Have written CS at Craig to no avail. Thanks in advance.

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10-08-2011, 07:51 AM	#376
evj8386 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: craig 7in tablet	hey ppl!! so i got my craig 7 in tablet yesterday at my local rite aid for $99 and it works better then the pandigital novel I had (which by the way is a piece of crap). it has android 2.2 loaded onto it but i was wondering how could i get the android market loaded onto it. any suggestions would be great. thanks in advance!!

10-08-2011, 09:02 PM	#377
Cheeky1 A Happy Pelican Posts: 45 Karma: 472472 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Pelican Island Device: iPad 1, iPad 3, iPad Air, iPhone 5s, Kindle Fire HD, Google Nexus 7	If you read this thread, you should find all the info you need.

10-29-2011, 05:15 PM	#379
natetech Technically Capable Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Massachusetts Device: Kindle/Craig Android CMP738b	I have the CRAIG Android 7" Tablet from CVS cmp738b Not being diligent, I failed to notice that there were A nd B bersions of this tablet, so after I finally was able to root my device following the instructions in this thread, I was the not so proud owner of a $99 brick. I now have my hands on a new functional tablet, and am looking to be able to access the Android Market. Does anyone know where to find the means to root the Craig cmp738b

10-31-2011, 05:19 PM	#380
Tmarsden Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: none	I have the newest cmp738b. It's a little different than the cmp738a. It has Amazon App Store, But I think it need a phone number to register as a phone and not just a tablet. Music Player is new but doesn't have shuffle mode. It has A security guard function but I don't under stand it enough except it lets you know if an app is safe.

11-01-2011, 04:35 PM	#381
coyoteliberty Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Craig Tablet	I just bought the CMP738b at Rite aid on sale for a hundred dollars which seemed like a nice deal. The only problem is that it does not want to connect to my home wifi router. It accepts the creation of the wifi account, shows signal strength as excellent and then informs me that the network is "not in range". Given that my router sits, oh, three feet away from me, I find that unlikely. I had to work to get a Craig customer service number and when I called, the responder wasn't even familiar with the tablet and had to put me on hold for ten minutes while he located a device in the office to mirror what I was trying to do! I finally did some research online and found that there are a good number of people having trouble with these units working properly on wifi connectivity right out of the box. (Looks like a manufacturing quality control problem to me...) but that one or two returns later, they get one that works finally. So I'm packing mine back up, returning it to rite aid and exchanging it, hopefully for one that works. It's a great deal, if I can get one that works, but it does bring to mind the adage about you get what you pay for.

11-02-2011, 04:07 PM	#382
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	Can you tell on the box weather it A or B?? Which is Best?

11-04-2011, 01:50 AM	#383
natetech Technically Capable Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Massachusetts Device: Kindle/Craig Android CMP738b	@Katie1 - The box does show the model number as cmp738b. If you are looking to root, you might want the cmp738a, as img files are available.

11-05-2011, 01:29 AM	#385
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	I had 2 back in May ... NOT Techy so I couldnt Root to get it to do what I wanted it to. But as I pointed out you can download the OS to 2.2 on the Craig Web Site which would have taken care on 2 problems I had LOL WELLL Yesterday Before I went to CVS I stopped at Big Lots...they had the SYLVANIA 7" Mini Tablet for $100!! Got home Does almost Everything I wanted WAHOOO Anyone Know anything about these tablets? What I Cant figure out is How for ME to see that my EX HD Is Connected! When I connect them I SEE NOTHING! BUT when I Disconnect I get Notice .... YOU NEED TO UNMOUNT DEVICE BEFORE YOU DISCONNECT! Cripe What am I Missing??

11-05-2011, 10:09 AM	#386
steven522 binomial: homo legentem Posts: 1,061 Karma: 25222222 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Alabama, USA Device: iriver Story HD; Archos 80 G9	First question: what is the format of your ext. drive? Android might need a specific format that your drive does not currently have.

11-06-2011, 01:13 PM	#389
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	To DL apps on Amazon you Must have a cridit card reg to your account. Even for the free ones.

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11-06-2011, 10:30 PM	#390
steven522 binomial: homo legentem Posts: 1,061 Karma: 25222222 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Alabama, USA Device: iriver Story HD; Archos 80 G9	Large external drives use different formats (NTSF/Fat32) than smaller flash drive cards and/or usb sticks. I bought an external drive and had to use a utility to change the format so that different devices could all read the data properly.