[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Parastie:
Hello!

Idiot’s guide

Most of this is based on discussions with _fun, and borrows heavily from his website http://androtab.info and personal experience. I accept no blame for following my guide, but it should work okay. In other words; DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

DO NOT USE FWTOOL! YOU WILL BRICK YOUR TOUCH SCREEN!

What you need

Files: http://androtab.info/telechips/firmwares look at the bottom of the page for TCC8803 files.

You must determine if your device has a 4K formatted NAND or an 8K formatted NAND. I’m still fuzzy on how to do this, so it’s probably best to ask. I’ll update this as soon as I get more info! My device is 4K and has a resistive screen. The Kogan Agora is an 8K device.

MicroSD card. You cannot flash the device without a microSD, unless you plan on using FDWN and that’s a tutorial for another day.

Stock Recovery

There are 4 boot options for the EM73, standard boot, recovery boot, FDWN boot, and fastboot. The two important ones (for now) are standard and recovery. Standard boot means you don’t press any buttons while powering up and it just boots up normally.

To get into recovery:

Turn your device off.

Hold the BACK button (big one on the front of the device)

Hold power until the device turns on, then release power button. CONTINUE HOLDING BACK BUTTON

Device will boot into stock recovery, and you can release the BACK button

In stock recovery, you can now flash Clockwork mod, or another stock update should you find one that works. As far as I know, there aren’t any but I’ll update this post if it becomes available.

To navigate stock recovery:

HOME and MENU (the 2 side buttons) move up and down the list

BACK button selects

How to dump stock recovery

download dump-recovery.zip http://androtab.info/files/tcc8902/dump-recovery/dump-recovery-signed.zip

Rename the dump-recover-signed.zip to update.zip

Place the update.zip in the root of your microSD card

Boot into recovery

Choose to install the update from the list

Files will be copied as /sdcard/dumped_recovery.img and /proc/mtd will be copied as /sdcard/dumped_proc_mtd.txt.

How to install ClockworkMod Recovery 4

make backup(dump) stock recovery

download recovery.zip (follow the link at the top of this tutorial to find your files)

Rename recovery.zip to update.zip

Place update.zip on the root of your microSD card

Install update from recovery

Navigation

Navigation is different in ClockWorkMod Recovery then in stock recovery!

BACK button goes back

MENU button moves down the list

HOME button selects

How to get SU on stock ROM

(Info from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=682828 There are other methods, but this is how I did it.)

Install ClockworkMod Recovery

Download this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6408470/su-releases/su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip

Place on the root of your microSD card

Boot into recovery

Choose “Install zip from sdcard”

Choose “choose zip from sd card”

Select su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip

Choose Yes

Reboot!

You should now have SU, be sure to download BusyBox from Market or nothing will really work.

How to install CyanogenMod 7

install ClockworkMod Recovery 4

reboot recovery

make backup

wipe data/factory reset *1

install cyanogen.zip (follow the link at the top of this tutorial to find your files)

reboot

touchscreen calibration *1 *2

reboot again to reflect calibration data

*1 only if you are upgrading from non-CM7 ROM (CM7 1st install)

*2 only if you are using resistive touchscreen or misaligned capacitive touchscreen