Refurbished - Toshiba 8GB Thrive 10" Tablet w/ Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS, 1GHz Dual-Core, WiFi - $190 w/ FS

Preowned OG Transformer is at Cowboom for $169.99 now.

Preowned OG Transformer is at Cowboom for $169.99 now.

Not crapping out on my rooted and dual-booting TP. It flies and works incredibly well! I just boot into WebOS if I want to mess around with the camera.

Here's how to dual-boot the Touchpad [makeuseof.com] in case anybody wants to know. I had a glitch or two but figured out how to get it installed after reading through the posts.

I posted a bunch of info in the other threads that I'm afraid people may get tired of seeing, but these are helpful to anybody buying a Thrive:

One of the best forums to find out about rooting and customizing (plus lots of info about the Thrive) are the Toshiba Thrive Forums [thriveforums.org]. The Thrive is easy to root and unroot, very responsive, big and easy to read. You cannot put apps on the external SD card unless you root the tablet and use Link2SD [google.com], but you can use the external SD for videos, music and books. You are limited to about 3GB for apps on both the 8GB and 16GB - not sure why Toshiba worked it that way, but that's still a good bit of storage unless you download a lot of massive games.

Hook up a Bluetooth reader like this BAFX ELM 327 Diagnostic Scan Tool [amazon.com] to a 1996 and up car, download the free Torque Lite [google.com] or $4.95 Torque Pro [google.com] app on Google Play, and you can check your car's diagnostics while you go! This setup works GREAT with my 1996 Honda Accord - I put the Thrive in its folio holder wedged onto the dashboard to check speed, revs, etc. and to check and clear Check Engine light fault codes.

The GPS is a little strange at times, but use FasterFix [google.com] to lock in on the satellites quickly. Once you do that, apps like NavFree [google.com] and Sygic [google.com] are good offline GPS apps to get you where you need to go (Sygic gives a 7 day free trial; NavFree is free). Other GPS apps have to have a data connection to function well.

got mine rooted and its over clocked to 1.47 Ghz

i ordered the car bluetooth thing for 12$ off of ebay

I"m very happy with my tablet at 1.47 Ghz ... its sucked playing 720p videos at 1 Ghz

thanks for your help!

That is great to hear! Mine ran smoothly at 1.47 GHz, too - I could tell the difference. I bet the $12 adapter will work just fine for you!

I know this is an old thread. but just ordered a thrive and was wondering what you had to do to overclock it to 1.47 ghz? It is just a matter of downloading an app and setting the new cpu speed? Or does it require rooting and installing superuser, etc...

I'm debating if I should go with the new stock ICS Toshiba just pushed out or go with the dalet custom rom based on the stock ICS...

That is great to hear! Mine ran smoothly at 1.47 GHz, too - I could tell the difference. I bet the $12 adapter will work just fine for you!

Yeah, you definitely need to root it to overclock it, but the rooting process was fairly easy using one of dale's processes on the Thrive Forums. I thought it was very much worth rooting since it was fairly simple, and if I still had mine I'd go with his custom ROM.