[Dell Streak 7] wikedbubble:
I recently aquired a Streak 7 and am having trouble resetting it since it has all the original owners info on it.

1. I encountered a force close error upon first boot.

- android.process.acore stopped unexpectedly

2. After this error continued to appear I said F*** this and rebooted into the Stock Dell recovery(Volume + and Power)

I chose option 3 for a factory reset and erase internal tablet storage.

Rebooted and Bam same bull**** errors. I did this 3 more times powering off with the pin hole off button after the streak kept booting with this error.

I read this entire forum development and general questions to see what problems others are having, I came across a few threads all very informative on how to attempt to restore your Streak 7.

Before attempting the various methods of either NVFlash, the fastboot method and even flashing clockwork recovery through fastboot I figured I would see what I could get the Streak to do in it's current state.

*Note* I am very familiar with ADB and Fastboot but if I over looked something I will not be offended if anyone can provide some useful information.

OK, Here is my story

I put the streak on my HDMI dock and was able to succefully install the ADB drivers on Windows 7 x64. From there I launched the ADB Shell

c:/androidsdk/tools> adb shell

$

once in the shell i found I could launch the android setting using this command

$ am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings

Once in the settings and periodically hitting forceclose and quit to the .acore error I was able to retrieve this information

Android Version

2.2

Baseband Version

11.809.05.02.00

Kernel version

2.6.32.9

OEM Version

GLUNB1A132433

Build Number

14394

I also realized that I can install apps through adb so I went and installed the latest standalone ADW Launcher which installs fine and allows me to actually use the device a little.

c:\androidsdk\tools>adb install launcher.apk

1307 KB/s (2533717 bytes in 1.892s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/launcher.apk

Success

You will notice that apps install to this location

/data/local/TMP

it turns out that even installing the new launcher won't allow me to do much because the previose owner changed his google password so I have no market acces or anything like that.

I then tried doing the factory reset within the Android settings>privacy>factory data reset.

The device reboots and I again encounter the same error and the device has also not reset the user data.

So i rooted the device and found that even root was only temporary, the ADB shell returns the # sign indicating that it has root, great but when the device is rebooted it returns to the condition I got it in.

If I run ADB remount with root I get this

c:\androidsdk\tools>adb remount

remount failed: Operation not permitted

c:\androidsdk\tools>

this tells me that even though the phone has root it will not mount any file system with read/write permissions

I then installed the latest free Clockwork Rom Manger via ADB

it prompts me for root permissions I select allow and then the app closes after it downloads and tries to write the clockwork recovery image. I said fine this won't work.

I moved on to the Flashing Clockwork Recovery via Fastboot

In Fastboot I get this

c:\androidsdk\tools>fastboot devices

? fastboot

c:\androidsdk\tools>fastboot -i 0x413C flash recovery clockwork.img

sending 'recovery' (4416 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.560s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.110s]

finished. total time: 0.670s

c:\androidsdk\tools>

WOW I didn't know that 4MB could be sent and flashed over usb in under a second!!!! WTF!!!!!

So obviously there is something going on here where I cannot write to the internal memory...

I decided to just use NVFlash because people seem to be having luck with it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1018809

I Didn't.......

I spent a hell of a lot of time downloading and redownloading the different images and finally got them all downloaded successfully. I run the restore.bat file and it says everything went fine but it didn't, I tried NVFlash with and without P14.img and it just doesn't seem to do anything it always restores it to how it was when i got it errors and all.

Now for the best method I tried, the fastboot method by flashing boot_orig.img, recovery_orig.img and system_orig.img

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1011654

Flash_image is not and ADB Shell command

and I also don't beleive the images are writing to the disc that fast.

I'm tired of typing now so please if anyone has any info on how I can write information to the internal ROM memory not the internal sd card I would greatly appreciate it.

Tom