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[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Ok I am in trouble. I tried restoring using all of these methods. I can unroot the nabi, factory reset. I even got the stock bootloader put back in, but after setting the nabi back up (like the first time) in nabi mode, my changes are still there. All the games are removed, spinlets, chores list, treasure box, are all removed. I need an image that has all that crap in place.

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ok, odd they are all in the app drawer in nabi mode. just not on the home screens.

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what a mess

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I followed all the steps from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2041224.

Tablet is like its back to stock, but none of the apps icons are on the screens where they are supposed to be. They are in the app drawer though. what a mess.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
I remember that one, from what you said, I though that you were talking about a custom rom named 'Sandbox'.

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Were they part of the OTA updates? Did you do your OTA updates?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
I did it a second time and it worked. Just got back from returning it. I have to pick up the new one tomorrow. Then I can start this process all over again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
Glad to hear that you got it back to stock! Hopefully you will have better luck with the new one.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MikeDVH:
Hi all,

Firstly, I'm really sorry if this has been covered already in some way or another, but I've done a couple of searches and nothing's coming up.

I've just finished my 6th attempt at using the rootpackage in the OP and I'm still having no joy. I've tried both options 1 & 2.

As far as I can tell, I'm following the instructions to the letter, but still no gapps, and if try to get into recovery with the vol up + power button, it takes me to the stock 'droid recovery with the droid on his back with the exclamation mark. I've tried using fastboot to flash the recovery.img, but the device doesn't seem to be recognised by fastboot, even though it is recognised by adb.

I am able to boot into TWRP from the install.bat, and it seems like everything's going fine, but when it comes to actually installing anything, I get "failed to mount /data (invalid argument)" and "unable to open .zip" messages.

This is driving me CRAZY as I'm sure it's probably something really minor that I'm not doing or haven't done, but I just can't seem to work it out.

I have checked the md5 of the rootpackage and it's correct. Also, I've used PDAnet to get the drivers, if that's any help.

If anyone has any suggestions as to what it might be, I'd really appreciate it.

Many thanks :)

Mike.

[SOLVED] factory reset did the trick. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Fade2Blk:
I actually found it worked for me if i held both volume rockers down and when the nabi logo appeared the bootloader menu appeared with it, then just chose the recovery kernel option and TWRP then booted up.....also in device manager the nabi shows up as MTP once the correct drivers were installed...all of this is on windows 8
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DZLRULZ:
Here's my daughters tablet with a Wii game case cut to fit. Tried a clear VHS case but it was brittle and cracked. This looks good in white I think.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Good job, I work with leather so y'all made me think. If I can pick up a piece of leather thick enough, then I could do a leather plate with custom designs. Use metal eyelets for the screw rings to pass thru.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Oh no. This can't go on without being tapped a little. Tell us more.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
@DZLRULZ Very nice. Did you just use one cover? I found that a DVD cover flexed a bit too much by itself so I used a spacer material underneath the cover, between the nabi and the cover with cutouts around the screw hole risers. Regardless way better then that stock letter thingy. Great thing about the DVD/Wii covers is pretty much anyone can work with it and they have a good color selection(I liked the matte black one I made better then the gloss white personally). The leather sounds pretty sweet though!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
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[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
we want pictures
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
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[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
No I meant pictures of your other work. Lets see what you've done.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Removed :confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dottat:
ALD3..... I sorta think what they were getting at went over your head :silly:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
I made one from a dvd case last night, it was too thin though, I think it might need 3 layers for my taste. One layer between the raised screw mounts to make it stiff, then a layer over that, but I would still be able to feel the ridge, so a 3rd on top of that should get rid of the ridge. Maybe I just need some thicker material.

If someone could make a nice factory fitting one, I would definitely buy one, or maybe I will just break out the bits and remove that ridge.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
It must have cause I still don't get it. Then it's clear that they don't know leather. It will look pretty awesome. A wallet like I posted is easily $250.00. Oh well.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dottat:
ALD3-.. Think bondage.... :)

Anyhow, back on topic... does anyone know of a build.prop edit that allows nabi mode to still work AND get access to normal apps on the market?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DZLRULZ:
I ended up using the VHS case as underlayment..with holes big enough to let the screw bosses pass through then the Wii case with precise holes fits tightly on the outside with no flex...so two layers.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Ok got it.. Thought this was just a kids tablet forum with the Parents, looks like a couple of the kids broke "sandbox". LOL

For once I was not thinking that way. ROTFLMAO

Someone mentioned the Nexus 7 and gave the changes a few pages back but didn't try it
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dottat:
I tried both the nexus 7 and the acer a500 (scary I own both too).. both changes listed back a few pages killed nabi mode. I had to put the old build.prop back via the file manager in recovery (handy as hell too).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Update on hellokitty .zip, was able to install today. The open recovery script I was using the was wrong, made correction and I have Hello Kitty back on, daughter is going to love it.

Sent from my NABI2-NV7A
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oniddy:
Can Someone help me out please ,my problem is that I need to keep re adding or erasing my google account so I could download apps or else I keep getting errors from the market on my 3 kids tablet :( .....

I'll gladly appreciate it again :o if someone helps me out here
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RageAgain:
The OTA updates check three build.prop items before proceeding ( so maybe KidzMode does too ),

ro.product.device,

ro.build.product,

ro.build.fingerprint,

and the latter is one of the changes for market compatibility. I don't know if leaving out the change to ro.build.fingerprint would leave KidzMode, or even how it would affect the Play Store though...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Aw cmon. It was very lighthearted. Besides when you said you worked with leather it was too easy. Imagine if you had said you worked with wood.

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Just curious, do you have gmail installed?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
Are you using the stock rom?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Was my turn Gota ya......lol....no problem, I thought it was funny.....once it was pointed out, cause it did go right over my head.:highfive:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Pretty much any material will work for a filler. I used 2 DVD covers and there was a slight lip. I found some cardboard that was the right thickness not to leave a lip.

Good!

Has anyone tried a multiDPI play store replacement just to see if it opens up anymore apps to the Nabi? Instead of build prop edit which is breaking Nabi mode. Just curious if there is any effect at all, I'm thinking not but was going to try it but didn't want to waste time if someone already has.

Something like this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1839871
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Read some of it seems like it should work on all ICS Play, worst should be just flash t499 gapps again and clear cashe and data in settings/app.. I may try it too.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Ours isn't really a DPI change, but maybe it does some "magic stuff" that might open a few more apps. Your right it's easy to undo if it doesn't work. I use it on my HP touchpad and it works great but I actually change the DPI on the touchpad. Make sure to clear the store and framework cache a couple times and reboot like it says in the instructions before declaring the experiment a failure, it's pretty picky about that when first installed.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chaeki:
Would someone have a minute to explain how they got adaway installed?

I follow the instructions and did the root and gapps, but when I tried to install adaway, it mentions I don't have root?

-im a newb btw
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
I was having this problem too. Did you do #1 or #2 on JMZTaylors kit? If you did 1 go back and do #2.

Then after it boots make sure to run SuperSU once.

#1 is broken. Also make sure you did the full Nabi updates before starting this process.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
I tried it, its for ICS 10.9 Play and I'm on 10.10. Didn't work. I cleared data and cashe from play and frame work then rbooted cleared cashe and data, open Play got Error. Retried by clearing data and cashe. Rebooted, cleared again, still got error. Flashed t499 gapps, cleared all and works fine.

EDIT........UPDATED........DOES WORK....I INSTALLED WRONG 1

Thanks, some how I missed the right 1 for Play 10.10. Don't know how but thanks to your answer, I went back and got the right 1. Installed and wiped data in Play and frame work, rebooted and didn't work, rebooted again and cleared data. Still didn't work ,had same error and retry both times, I hit retry and this time I got the accept notice. My installed apps didn't show up but my All Apps did, rebooted and still no installed apps. Looked around in Play, checking my All Apps list to see if the 1s that said incapatible would install. Yes SUCCESS! They will install, went back to install list and all my apps were there.

For anyone reading this, be aware that this Does work but just because it lets you install, does not mean that the app will work

Example; Gas Buddy was incapatible ,after I could install it but bcause of No GPS, the app would not fully work. Also if I searched for just angry birds, only pay 1s come up but if I search for 1 by full name as in angry birds rio, then the free 1 was there.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chaeki:
I went back and did number 2, as I did 1 the first time, and then from googleplay downloaded SuperSU, but when I try to run it, it says " There is no SU binary installed "
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
If you did number 2 you shouldnt need to download it from googleplay.

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If you did number 2 you shouldnt need to download supersu from googleplay. try uninstalling it and redo number 2.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oniddy:
Or do like I did once I'm in twrp recover just fash both root & gapps :good: worked for me
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
See if you can boot into recovery still, if so jmz should have pushed root.zip on internal storage. Install that and the boot up and run supersu as mentioned before. Then you shold have root. Need to flash t499 gapps as it won't keep updating android like jmz does.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chaeki:
Thanks a million! Rerunning option 2, I seen it install and sure enough it worked. Would you mind sending me your blocklist, via priv msg, I am new to what urls are needing to block. +1 Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
So I picked up the new tablet tonight (to replace the one with the blown speakers), and I restored the backups that I had made of the old one. Now on the old one I had deleted things like Spinlets Music and all the games. When I restored it to the new tablet, all the icons are still there for the apps that are removed. You wouldn't think this would be a big deal, since I could just delete the icons for the crap I don't want except that some of the icons can't be moved or deleted like spinlets music. This happened yesterday when I tried to restore the old tablet back to stock. restoring the stock image installed all the bloatware back onto the device, but the icons were missing. I restored it like 3 more times and finally the icons came back. But I don't know what I did to make it work. What am I missing here?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Darn, well thanks for trying save me the attempt!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Has anyone tried playing with backups and restores? Anyone else having this icon problem in Nabi mode?

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I won't be able to share them with you until I get this restore figured out. Later tonight or tomorrow.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
i installed it (multiDPi) in TWRP and it looks like it works

like now i get the intall for Acer rings ..

what elese should i try ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Which 1 did you install? I installed ICS for 10.9 Play but was on Play v10.10. Didn't work. What verison Play is yours. Also how did you do it and'what'did you'wipe.

On another note, 1Mobile Market will let you install all the angry birds and update the 1 already installed plus update some others installed
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Are there any good games that you can play on multiple devices. For example, EA's Monopoly would be awesome if I could load it up on my tab and play against my wife on her Tab, either through wifi, or bluetooth, or even just the internet. Words with friends is a working example of what I am talking about.

I guess this is the wrong forum to ask this question in. My bad.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
White Multi DPI Play Store v3.10.10 for ICS

i used twrp mount all internal then went to install

chose Multi DPI Play Store for ICS.zip

swiped - - no wipe - rebooted
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Blocking softlayer.com and www.softlayer.com did not work for pocketchange on "They Need to be Fed."

So would it be bad to use both adaway and droidwall? For example are they both manipulating the hosts file, and if so, then I need to be careful to uninstall them in the order they were installed if ever. Have you used droidwall? What made you recomend it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
They should be ok together, AdAway uses hosts, DroidWall uses iptables so it can block an IP address.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
So I just finished getting one tablet set up exactly how I wanted it. Which backup program will let me take a full backup of it, and do a full restore on the other tablet? Should I try using the TWRP backup again, or should I use Titanium backup or something like that? I don't know why my icons aren't being restored using TWRP's restore. Has anyone else experienced this?

Also, is there a difference between the gallary thats comes on the nabi stock and the one after you do the root, and gapps install? Seems like the one on my modified nabi has gmail and skype access, while the one on my stock Nabi does not.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] reade0871:
titanium backup doesn't do nandroid backup. Use recovery to do nandroid backups and titanium backup for just your apps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Thanks, some how I missed the right 1 for Play 10.10. Don't know how but thanks to your answer, I went back and got the right 1. Installed and wiped data in Play and frame work, rebooted and didn't work, rebooted again and cleared data. Still didn't work ,had same error and retry both times, I hit retry and this time I got the accept notice. My installed apps didn't show up but my All Apps did, rebooted and still no installed apps. Looked around in Play, checking my All Apps list to see if the 1s that said incapatible would install. Yes SUCCESS! They will install, went back to install list and all my apps were there.

For anyone reading this, be aware that this Does work but just because it lets you install, does not mean that the app will work

Example; Gas Buddy was incapatible ,after I could install it but bcause of No GPS, the app would not fully work. Also if I searched for just angry birds, only pay 1s come up but if I search for 1 by full name as in angry birds rio, then the free 1 was there.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
So you and Eric are saying it works then? The idea for us to try it out multiDPI was just to override the "incompatible device", not necessarily show all apps, but to be able to load anything you knew the name of from the actual playstore.

This is pretty good news, thanks to both of you for testing my theory out, I can't pry the tablets out of the kids hands. All these ideas I have in my head and I can't test any of them!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
On the downside, not sure about Eric and maybe I still have something wrong but I get an error downloading some of the incompatible 1s. Even tho it let's me try to install. Will have to keep testing and maybe Eric can tell us something. No problem installing the apps that were compatible before.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
It sounds about like how it works on my Touchpad. Maybe like 70% of the ones I couldn't install with stock Play Store will now install but still 30% that don't. It's an improvement at least, but not perfect. What it "seemed" to do for me was allow apps that I had sideloaded to then be updateable through playstore but that may have just been because they became "compatible" when I installed the MultiDPI Play Store. I'll give it a try myself one of these times after the kids go to bed this weekend. Again thank you guys for testing that idea out.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
What I have found that DOES WORK is 1Mobile Market, it let's you download and install just about All that Play will not. All Free angry birds. I would recommend that for anyone looking for games and such on the Nabi, also othe devices that can't get them on Play. My son has 2 for his kids and 1 rooted, 1 not, he can get all the stuff from 1Mobile market on both. 1Mobile Market is by CNET, just open Fan a Tech on Nabi and there is 2 links there. 1 for Amazon and 1 for 1Mobile Market. Its the easiest way that I have found, doesn't require rooting either. Also you can just search angry birds and they all come up. I sure you will install some things that won't work but all the angry birds have, I had 1 racing game that didn't work.

It downloaded and installed'fine but kept closing when openned.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
yeah i do get a error on downloading some apps

i even tried lcd density '120' -still get the download error
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Had same problem, remove your current gmail account. Then go to settings>apps>Google framework> force stop> clear data. Turn off tablet for 5 minutes, then turn on and enter gmail account. No more errors

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Miscellaneous Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Script Not Working and TWRP Unusable

I bought my two daughters each a Nabi 2 for Christmas and rooted and installed GAPPS no problem. Yesterday one died and I exchanged it for another one. This new tablet has been a major pain in the ass. First, the script in the OP doesn't work on this one. After the GAPPS and SU push and subsequent recovery restart the screen turns black with white texts that scrolls and disappears so fast it's impossible to see what it says. I recorded it my phone so I could somewhat read it. Looks something like this:

verifying file system....

verifyifng partition size......

installing zip file '/sdcard/gapps.zip'

Installing /sdcard/gapps.zip.....

Finding Update package....

Opening update package.....

Can't open /sdcard/gapps.zip

(No such file or directory)

*Verifying File System....

E:An update request has failed.

# Verifying partition sizes

E: An update request has failed

E: Error installing zip file '/sdcard/gapps.zp"

Done processing script file

Then it proceeds to the recovery and just sits there. Once I reboot manually there is no GAPPS. No Root. I tried flashing the root and gapps files manually in the recovery but the calibration is so far off it's impossible. I mean it not just a half inch below what you are trying to hit, more like 2 inches down and three inches to the right. Not even in the same city let alone the same ball park. I still actually did get the zips to queue up but swiping to flash was impossible. Literally. You would have to be swiping from the bezel to be close.

Is there any other method out there to get the Play Store on this bad boy? Can I flash anything from fastboot? My girls are at fisticuffs over the one that's working and I'm starting to fear for the older one's safety (her little sister has quite the temper). Is a CWM recovery possible? That way we could cycle through the menus with volume + - and select with the power button.

So I guess Nabi is stepping up their efforts to keep the Play Store off with a new version?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
What version of the stock Nabi firmware were you running before attempt JMZTaylors script? Did you do the regular OTA updates before JMZTaylors scripts?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Yes upgraded until I was told no more were available. I'm on 1.9.37 but not sure what I was on before I updated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oniddy:
thank you so much :cyclops:

:good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
undo that one and return it for another one, because thats the right version number to upgrade to, and it shouldn't have given you the problems it did.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] shizzyraw585:
OK true story. I actually have 2 tablets that were purchased from Wal-mart this morning that are having the same issue. I'm starting to think they may of made some hardware changes. Probably cost saving measures but who knows.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
You could do everything in twrp recovery. With open script recovery commands, mine has the touch screen bug in recovery tool, but have everything configured good. Just click on my name and look at my post, Im heading out the door to work, and right now.

Sent from my NABI2-NV7A
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gijosh28:
Or maybe you changed something about your methodology. I had to return one of mine because of a blown speaker (out of the box that way), and the new one is fine. Just got it last night.

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So no one has messed around with Backup and Restore (specifically Resotre)?