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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Hello:

I'm a buyer of an Iview 760TPC (chinese 1.3Mpx camera version).

The reason I'm writing is because its some days reading and trying things to get everything unlocked, and seems that is really impossible to flash a new firmware or to get root. I'm getting really mad.

- I have managed to get adb recognize the tablet on linux and on windows. Despite of that, I get "adbd cannot run on production builds".

- If I do an 'adb shell', I get a prompt (with no superuser privileges). If I try to 'su', I get a "Passwd:" prompt , so I cannot get a superuser prompt to remount the filesystems, neither push any file to /system.

Browsing, I see there's no 'su' on /system/bin but there's on /system/xbin. Is a read-only filesystem and I cannot push anything.

- I installed root explorer but cannot mount R/W the filesystems.

- Installed Busybox installer. Says that the tablet is rooted, but when I try to install busybox, says that I have not permissions. Same if I try one of the upgrade menus of superuser. There are not privileges.

- I tried many times, to flash a firmware with the livesuit method, but the tablet is not being recognized. When I do the combination to enter the flashing mode, it boots a like a recovery with 4 options:

1) erase user data partition

2) enter adfu

3) upgrade firmware from sdcard

4) exit menu

I'm interested in the 3er option, but I can't find any information of the process itself (where to put the firmware, if its the same img as with the livesuit method, and what name needs to have the file)

There's also an ADFU mode, that I don't understand, but windows recognizes a new device when I enter there (but there's no driver or information I can found). The screen gets like a bit of white color, and the only way to exit from there is to press home+power buttons without the usb cable.

I've tried superoneclick but it doesn't work because there's not 'su' binary. Same happens with the installers of the CWM, not working because there's no 'su' (so I could flash a file with any kind of name)

Any help would be aprecciated. Sorry for my engrish and for asking so much, but I don't know how to proceed ;-)

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
What version of Android is the device running? You could try manually pushing an exploit binary (e.g. zergrush) onto the device and executing to get temp root, at which point you should be able to mount /system as R/W and then push the su binary to /system/bin

The exploit binary to use would depend on the version of Android though. zergrush is for 2.3 I think (maybe 2.3.something). For early versions of ICS (4.0), there is mempodroid (might have spelt that wrong).

EDIT: Also, everything you can do over ADB, you could do by installing SSHDroid on the device and connecting via SSH from a computer.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Thanks a lot for your answer SifJar:

The tablet comes with ICS 4.0.3 and 3.0.8 kernel.

Superoneclick has the psneuter and zergRush exploits(neither of those seem to work for me).

Found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1461736

Edit: It does not work for me:

./adb shell

shell@android:/ $ chmod 777 /data/local/mempodroid

shell@android:/ $ /data/local/mempodroid 0xd9ec 0xaf47 sh

/system/bin/sh: /data/local/mempodroid: not executable: magic 7F45

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Installed SSHDroid from the Play Store, but does not work either.

I get:

Can't generate RSA keys: sh <stdin>[1]: /data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/dropbear/dropbearkey: not executable: magic 7F45

Don't really know what else can I do.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
mempodroid requires a different offset for each device. "0xd9ec 0xaf47 sh" is for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. You need to get the right offset for your device. You can try this to do that: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1612591

EDIT: But it looks like your device may not be able to run standard Android binaries, which would be quite an inconvenience for trying to root it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
I think I should reflash a new firmware from that recovery that has from factory, but there's no way I can do it. I mean, it is supposed to have an special mode that you enter with a button combination and to flash then with livesuit, but in this chinese clone, does not seem to work that combination of buttons.

From the recovery, ADFU seems to mean Actions Device Firmware Update. There's some information here http://wiki.s1mp3.org/USB_modes

- If I put the device in ADFU mode, windows ask for an USB driver (that I don't have or does not exist either)

- Another thing. There's a flashing from sdcard, that seems to support, but there's no information or manual of where is supposed to put the firmware, the name of the file or if it needs to be zipped (and what file/s inside and names),...

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
It's possible the flashing from sd card supports standard update .ZIPs. You could try this one, it's a ZIP that should work for rooting most Android devices I believe. Superuser.zip

(This is from a topic on the HTC Explorer phone, but there is nothing specific to that phone in the ZIP as far as I know)

EDIT: This ZIP doesn't overwrite the firmware or anything, all it does is add su, busybox and Superuser to the existing /system partition.

EDIT: If selecting the "Update firmware from SD card" option doesn't give the option to browse for a ZIP, rename it to "update.zip" and place it in the root of the card and try again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Thanks a lot. Does not have a browsing option so I need to know the needed name. Does not seem to work with the update.zip method
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
Does it try to install update.zip and give an error or does it say there is no update on the SD card?

Also, can you try and extract the su binary you said is in /system/xbin and post it here? There's something I would like to check.

EDIT: From adb shell, type the following, without quotes, "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and post the output here please

EDIT: Another silly suggestion - you could try guessing the password su asks you for. Maybe it's something obvious like "root" or "admin".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Seems that it does not even try to update, no error message, nothing. I tried putting the update.zip in both /sdcard (internal sdcard) and /sd-ext (microsd)

shell@android:/ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type	: actions-atv5201
processor	: 0
cpu model	: MIPS 74Kc V5.0 FPU V0.0
BogoMIPS	: 719.25
wait instruction	: yes
microsecond timers	: yes
tlb_entries	: 32
extra interrupt vector	: yes
hardware watchpoint	: yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0460, 0x0868]
ASEs implemented	: mips16 dsp
shadow register sets	: 1
core	: 0
VCED exceptions	: not available
VCEI exceptions	: not available

I have attached the 'su' binary from /system/xbin

Also:

$file su
su: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), with unknown capability 0xf41 = 0x756e6700, with unknown capability 0x70100 = 0x1040000, stripped

But the table description of the manufacturer, says that has an Allwinner A10 (Cortex A8). Does not seem to be true, right?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
Looks like a MIPS processor then, not an ARM as most android devices have. That explains why exploit don't run and SSH didn't work, both use code compiled for ARM processors. It also means a standard su binary won't work on that device. You'll need one compiled for MIPS.

Does the update from sd card give any sort of error?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
No. It does not say anything. I'll try to find the right update.zip for the MIPS architecture. Perhaps it could work.

Edit: Found this https://rapidshare.com/files/2288417520/Superuser-3.0.7-mips32r2-ics_signed.zip , but does not seem that I can flash it from the recovery with the update.zip method

Thanks a lot Sifjar
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
I'm afraid I'm now out of suggestions. The last piece of advice I can give is try and find an official update for the tablet from the manufacturer and investigate the format of that update, to try and identify how an update should be formatted/named for your device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Thank you SifJar. You helped me a lot to find what happens with this tablet ;-)

I've read from more people, buying Allwiner A10 tablets on efox, and receiving different ones (lower specs and usually MIPS based). I'd not recommend to buy to this seller because it does not even answer your questions or does give you support.

I'm pretty sure, that could be one of the clones of the Ainol Novo7 Paladin/Basic. I'll try to find it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
Well I believe from a bit of reading about the Ainol tablet you should be able to type "adb remount" and then "adb root" to get root access from adb on that tablet. Then you can push a MIPS su binary to the device and be done with it. But it depends how close a clone it is whether the same will be true for your tablet I guess.

EDIT: Have you found any way to access a fastboot mode? (Possibly the command "adb reboot bootloader" would work) If the bootloader isn't locked, you may be able to extract the system.img, root the img and then flash it back with fastboot. Although that is something I have only heard about, I have no experience in how one would go about rooting the system.img. (Extracting it from the phone and flashing back isn't overly hard).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
I have tried both things with no success. The remount, fails and I don't have root access then (and R/O Filesystems)

adb reboot bootloader, just reboots the device

I have found a post from a guy http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/other-tablets/actions-cpu-android-tablet-actions-atm7013-1-3ghz-cpu-2087.html#post20776, that seems to have my same tablet (or both tablets seem to be the same MIPS based).

I still think that could be a novo 7 basic/paladin clone and it does have the same recovery and the DFU mode. I'm downloading the tools and FW from the paladin, but seems to be impossible to find anything more about my tablet.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This is one of the big issues with China based devices. Not only is it have really limited development they tend to use none standard hardware so none of the current things work on it. Then toss in the fact that the hardware is not always what it is said to be.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
The USB drivers for the novo paladin, didn't work for me....If I only could flash a CWM recovery for my tablet, perhaps I could then flash the superuser.zip with the 'su' binary that SifJar said.

Yes...my problem has been mainly that in the efox website, they are basically lying you in the product description, and selling a thing that is not true.

Casually, there's also an IVIEW tablet on the market, exactly like mine, made only for the chinese market (without the IVIEW letters and 1.3mpx camera)...and that was what I thought I bought, a chinese IVEW (and my mistake)

You really need to see the cpuinfo to see that, and not everybody will do it....

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SifJar:
If you download this: usbview.zip

You can use it to find the vendor ID (app shows it as IdVendor) for your device (put it in the DFU mode thing first), and then you could try using fastboot and specifying the vendor ID with -i argument, it might work without drivers then (not sure if this is right, but I think something similar was done with the Kindle Fire)

just try something like

fastboot -i 0xFFFF devices

replacing 0xFFFF with the vendor ID from that app, to see if it detects it at all
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamer_:
Thanks. Does not seem to return anything (a return). It works with '-i device' at the end of the line.

fastboot.exe devices -i 0x10D6

ADB does give me this:

c:\sonec>ADB\adb.exe devices
List of devices attached
Actions Semi. 23711DF4 device
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baryyt:
When im sitting in a darkish room with no

lights on in the room if i pull down the status bar or looking at dark pictures i can notice 2 black lines? Anyone else have this?you have to look kinda close and move the phone round abit tho to see it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baryyt:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
What you mean black lines down the sides? Cos I see nothing else and they normal.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSale:
I see about 3 small spots which are darker than others but they are only small, i do however know people who own s3's which suffer from a problem similar to the one you describe, but they both decided it want worth a return (yes two of my friends with the same problem what are the chances?)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
I guess you mean the irregularities in the screen on black background in low-lit conditions.

Depending on how prominent they are, it's considered normal for AMOLOED screens and similar effects can be seen on all AMOLED-devices.

My best guess is that some LED ranges get a tad too little power on minimum brightness when displaying very dark content so that they really stay dark while the others give a very faint flow.

(Such flaws and differences in the screen are one of the reasons why AMOLED can't go really dark like LCD's can)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jediknight111:
I was just about to post this aswell. When I'm using the phone and there's a black background, I see a couple of extra dark dashes on the screen

Is there a fault with the screen?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avetny:
don't worry man.

chill
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jediknight111:
What causes the dark spots?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Alex Charles:
The s memo app is currently not working in a deodexed state.

I presume this app has a dependency on the smemoprovider.apk found under system/app .

Can anyone correctly deodex the apps to be functional on deodexed roms?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(I also tried myself - by no means a developer but it didn't work either)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kiruuu:
Why you don't use "Evernote" ?

It have more functions & is on the Market available for free.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Alex Charles:
It has improved since the last Time I used it but I actually use the drawing feature often and the eveenote version just doesn't compare. Besides I don't believe in replacement, there must be a way for it to function it's bugging me :banghead:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] sandeepsivia:
Galaxy S3 Memo

Galaxy S3 Memo
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Alex Charles:
I have already got that and thankyou very much.

I'm looking for 's memo ' which is different to the memo app (lets you draw and such)

If you do find a way to remove its dependency please let me know.

Thanks anyway :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] gjenck:
I tryed many of memos from market , to find the best for my needs .

Everynote and S memo was the best i saw , my S memo have some problem , the Everynote is free but with with restriction , so you need to upgrade to premium to use the full features , and its annoying that 99% of not free market apps are permanent licenses as the everynote have 1 month license or one year :((

So i really would stick with S memo as its original Samsung and simple as it must be ,...

I really need this memo prog as i have to take pictures of my work and attach files, and make some notes ...so i have a big problem with S MEMO.

If i try to make a new memo , and i take a picture or i choose from gallery i choose then my picture doesnt appearing just blank note ,strange if i choose from my clipboard then its working , .

Another issue when i take a picture and it doesnt appearing i noticed that i'm not in the editor mode just view mode and then if i try to slide the memo left or right to another memo ... i can see the taken picture between the memos in that small column gap in the background , i can see that the picture have the editable nodes etc, so its appearing just somehow in the back of memos so its unusable .

maybe i wrote a bit complicated , but ...

Someone please encounter the same , or have some solution ?? !
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r_southampton:
I hope there's an answer to this...

In Gingerbread I had my PhoneCall and SMS notification sound different from Email notifications / Facebook.

My basic set up was:

Phone - Ring Always

SMS - Sound Always (and Buzz)

Email - Buzz - no sound

Facebook - nothing.​

This way I more or less didn't need to change my settings every (except in meetings when I'd sometimes slide it to silent (buzz only)

Maybe I'm going missing something obvious (I hope I am) but ICS seems to have broken this functionality. I couldn't find any notification setting specific to GMail, and I can't find any way of separating out SMS and Email notifications (Without 3rd party apps).

Can I do this in ICS?

If not, Google have quietly been working evil... :(
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irononreverse:
You might need to set the notifications in the individual apps. For me, it's only ever had sms and ringtone options in the standard settings
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r_southampton:
Thanks, That was my first thought... I understand that this was google's rationale for the change that they made in ICS - from the core OS point of view, a notification is a notification (whatever generates it), and its up to the individual app to allow you to configure specific sounds. So far so good (if tedious compared to gingerbread). BUT... the Gmail app doesn't allow you to configure notifications. Perhaps the answer is to try a different email app, and configure it to play a silent MP3 file.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irononreverse:
I use tasker to create custom notifications for each app.

Contacts have customised sms tones and certain apps will only vibrate once.

I've also used it to lower volumes in games automatically and enable rotation only in gallery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] christianxin:
I want to install the ClockworkMod TOUCH 5.5.0.4 v4 . but I found there are many ways to install it , odin and cwm

I have both , but somebody said they have trouble to flash in Cwm and some others said there are some mini error happened when they use the odin way. which way is more safe to flash the ClockworkMod touch instead of my non touch CWM.

if i flash with CWM, the touch will replace the CWM, or they will both installed on my phone???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] garydv2002:
I've always used Odin with no problems. To my knowledge you can't flash a recovery from a recovery. You could use rom manager from the market if your rooted but I hear bad things about using rom manager to flash clockwork. My advice use Odin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] christianxin:
please take a look

i agree with you that we can not to flash a recovery with another recover. however, please take a look the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1472954

the first one is a zip file and the instruction said

( Just flash in CWM

- this one creates the .hidenandroidprogress file for you so you dont need to create it manually)

what is that mean??

i have already flash the non touch CWM on my phone, is it ok to flash this touch with odin , do i need to wipe the data or something i need to be careful before i flash, please let me know. i did not find a instruction detail with that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] garydv2002:
Some phones you have to create that file and some you don't. On mine when creating a backup it would hang up. So what I did was flash in Odin the recovery image then installed the zip thru cwm then wipe cache and dalvick cache... also it is important that you have the latest version of busybox installed...

Try flashing the recovery in Odin first and if all works well then don't do anything else but if it hangs on making a backup then do what I said above... if you get stumped just let me know and I'll try to walk you thru it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] christianxin:
thanks for your answer. let me say my phone first.

att i727

i only rooted with the method on the link : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340526

so the result is i am rooted with cwm installed

and now i want to install the sky ics and the first step is to install the touch recover.

so as you said before. can i just use odin to install the recorvery.tar.md5?? do i need to wipe or do something else?? if i get something wrong, can i use my nandriodrid backup to restore the current recovery?? i am really a noob and new with andriod. thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] garydv2002:
1. Yes you can just use Odin and flash cwm touch. I had an earlier version installed and wanted to update so I just cranked up Odin 1.85 click PDA navigate to where you downloaded the tar file make sure repartition is NOT checked and flash away.

2. All you are flashing is a recovery image so no need to wipe anything.

3. Yes if something goes wrong you should be able to restore your backup or if you wanted you could look in the dev section and find the Odin one click 2.3.5 att stock firmware and flash it and start over. But that is not necessary. However I do recommend you download the phones stock firmware from sammobile.com and store it on your PC just in case you ever need it for any reason....

OK I think I covered everything so if you need anymore help let me know and as always happy flashing....

Oh btw flashing is very addictive. I'm a flashaholic... so flash at your own risk
[General Questions and Answers] EvilGenius210:
Hey guys, I am new here (but somewhat computer knowledge-able so I am not too much of a noob)

I have a question regarding the Motoactv. I am getting mine in the mail from Motorola tomorrow and I have been doing some research on it. I am very interested in rooting the device however, after looking into it I have noticed with the current method of rooting it it can still only receive phone calls.

I have heard rumor of a workaround for the device to make calls but nothing more than speculation on it being possible. I have also searched the XDA forum on such a workaround with no luck on finding it.

My question is... does anyone know if this is do-able and if so can you shoot me and anyone else interested in doing this to a location on where we can learn how to do it? Thank you in advance.
[Sony Tablet S] putente:
Hi everyone!

I was trying to ask this in the Dev forum, but aparently my post count doesn't allow me to do so...

I just bought a Sony Tablet S (Wifi 16 GB version), and it comes with Android 3.1 and Kernel 2.6.36.3, so my question is if I can/should root it before I update it to ICS? Is the root process safe and easy to do, and does it void the warranty?

Thanks for your help... ;)
[Sony Tablet S] im_iceman:
yes - you need to root it before you upgrade - then upgrade using AiO tool by Condi.. here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1515720
[Sony Tablet S] putente:
Great, thanks for your help! I see from that link that the root can be undone, but can this also be done after the ICS update? I will try to root my Tablet S with the stock Android 3.1 and after I want to update it to the oficial ICS... :rolleyes:
[Sony Tablet S] awnbil:
Putente,

if you upgrade to official ICS, you will not be able to root, till now.

awn
[Sony Tablet S] condi:
you will probably have to upgrade to 3.2.1 first, because most of 3.1 versions couldnt be rooted. BUT BE CAREFUL! - do not use OTA update if it comes with ICS because its not rootable and you cant go back..

First you should get URL of 3.2.1 of your region - check one of HC URLS thread,

flash 3.2.1, root, download ICS and use AiO to preroot it, then flash custom ICS with root.

thats all :)

br

condi