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[Miscellaneous Android Development] cg.voabc:
USB Debugging

After updating to JB; it seems like I can't connect them to my PC anymore so I can root the tablets.

Even though I've installed the NabiLab drivers; Windows won't detect the tablet even if I direct it to the NabiLab drivers folder. All was well with ICS; the jump to JB seems to have screwed it up.

Any ideas?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Make sure to turn on developers options and USB debugging on found in settings/ developers options.

You could also try to factory reset, see if that helps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cg.voabc:
I've tried both but then again I was tired and frustrated last night by the mess I got myself into by upgrading both at the same time so I'll be going over it again today.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Try plugging in to different computer without installing drivers from nabilab, allow to install drivers by itself, maybe its wrong drivers from nabilab
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cg.voabc:
Well I got one of the tablets to work and I think it has to do with the fact that they have different HWID's:

Son's tablet HWID: USB\VID_0955&PID_7100&REV_0232

Daughters' tablet HWID: USB\VID_0955&PID_7100&REV_0232&MI_01

The driver loads fine with my daughters tablet, no dice with my sons. Can I edit the driver to add the HWID from my sons tablet?

Edit: Updating the inf with the HWID from my sons tablet seems to have fixed it. Both tablets are rooted and have the latest twrp installed! WOOT WOOT!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Just in time for Christmas, glad it worked. :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cg.voabc:
Yep, and I'm glad too! Kids were on the verge of a mutiny!

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] Nilsonf:
I'm on the newest update with twrp and I rooted it also and installed titanium backup. Deleted some apps and restarted the tab and the apps I had deleted were back on it. Any ideas why that would happen?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Reboot
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Nilsonf:
Anyway to not have the apps install again on a reboot?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
If you have Titanium Backup long press app (inside Titanium Backup app) you dont want and click uninstall, not sure if the free Titanium does it but the paid version does.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Nilsonf:
That's what I did. I deleted some system apps with TiBu and when I rebooted the apps were back on there
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Are you sure you have root? Also turn android debugging on in developers option.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Nilsonf:
Yeah I installed the Disney/Nick twrp and when it asked to slide to root I did. Installed TiBu and granted permission
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
You could also use a file explorer go to system/apps and delete that way to.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
We all good out there? No bricks in Santa's bag? Last chance before I hit the egg nog! Haha.

Have a Happy Holidays Nabi owners. :highfive:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
Hacky holidays to you to sir thanks for all the presents :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Nilsonf:
Anyone know where I can get info on how to install twrp on a Nabi Jr? I tried the NabiLab GUI but don't think twrp was installing cause its on 4.1.2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] WFG:
Fastboot.. You'll need adb and fastboot drivers.. Just follow the directions found in the following post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2391468

I recommend this post for adb and fastboot http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317790

If your computer doesn't recognize the nabi Jr. The following post is a good resources for getting the proper drivers http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1983470
[Miscellaneous Android Development] \m/:
All 4 Nabis are set up and ready to go, and with custom lockscreens courtesy of user katinatez! Just wanna thank every one of you who spend so much of your time and devotion to help us noobs on here, especially aic who has found ways to rise above the limitations and explored the possibilities of this fine electronic device. Without you guys, we'd all probably end up with iPads (calm down, it was just a joke). Seriously though, thank each and every one of you for all of your dedication and support. You guys are all rock stars!

Happy Holidays!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Sorry for the late reply, I seemed to forget the golden rule of flashing roms, always always always wipe clean. That fixed all my problems and even increased the screen res. I guess I was still stuck on the ics res. Now icons are smaller and a few added to the launcher bar thing in mommy mode. Thanks to all that have helped. It's a great gift and my girl loves it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Beatle405:
Okay, I've screwed up pretty big I think.

First off, I'm not new to rooting or pushing firmware. I've done many phones and a few tablets, but I'm in a position I haven't been in before with this Nabi 2. I got distracted while trying to unroot my sons Nabi, trying to get the latest update, and completely wiped everything. I mean everything. No OS period. As soon as I power on, it goes to the recovery screen, TWRP. I've downloaded the newest .zip files from a previous thread, 2311StockRom, and the addon, but for some reason I cannot get them flashed.

I will readily admit I may be missing something easy, distractions from Christmas and all, but I am at a loss. Can I push the files using ODIN? I'm basically trying to go stock, with the newest update that includes Google Play, and then root. Thanks.

Edit: Now, I've even lost the TWRP. Goes to the Nabi symbol and just loops.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Can you see any previous restore options in twrp?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Ken Esq:
Try NabiLab.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Beatle405:
TWRP isn't loading at all right now. Shortly after I posted my request, I found the NabiLab and am currently downloading it. Hopefully that works. I'll update either way. Here's hoping. :fingers-crossed:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Try flashing the 2.6.3 TWRP for Ice Cream V4.0 with fastboot command, then download the last ice cream firmware 2.1.27 unzip place files in a folder structure TWRP/BACKUPS/your serial #/name of backup (example 2.1.27) preferably in an external card.

Hold power button & volume + scroll down to recovery kernal and restore from twrp from external. Boot up do the ota to current 2.3.11 then flash JB twrp recovery 4.1

All the files you need are here http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Fuhu_nabi_2

you have to enter bootloader then next

command is" fastboot flash recovery recovery.img "

Good luck
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Have decompiled NabiMode.apk to give wings challenge, camera, gallery an option to make removable from kids launcher. Also can add or remove extra pages to kids launcher, change backgrounds pictures. :) Will keep everyone posted on progress.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] plaster:
Is anybody here having touch screen issues? Basically, the touch screen is registering random clicks. It's most prominent while swiping in the app drawer and the play store. It will just decide you clicked on an icon/app and open them accordingly. Having an app launch while simply navigating the app drawer, or switching between nabi mode pages is exceptionally annoying. It's at it's absolute worst while the tablet is laying flat. It's borderline broken in that position. I have the Nickelodeon version, 2nd one actually after returning the first because of this issue. The odds of getting two different nabi 2 tablets with the same flaw just seems astronomical. The first came with ICS, which I immediately OTAed to JB. The second had JB preloaded, but to had to have a couple OTAs for the newer nick apps. I didn't mess with ICS on the first tablet, so I can't say if this issue was caused by the update to JB. Any help would be appreciated.

It is rooted with Gapps installed. I ran a factory reset to remove gapps and root, but the issue remained. Could having TWRP in place of the factory recovery cause such an issue?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] racer25x:
I have an original Nabi and it's always been "hiccupy" re: touchscreen. The issue is significantly more noticeable when the charger is plugged in (or if the battery has heated up due to recent use/charging)

It's been like this since I bought it (on Black Friday 2012) and software updates don't seem to have had any effect on the issue.

to "work around" the issue, I keep mine on the charger when I'm not using it and try to use a stylus if I'm going to be on it long enough that using it will cause the battery to heat up. That, and I use a bluetooth controller for most of my gaming on it (so that I don't have to touch the screen all that often)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
I have a friend that brought me a nabi 2 tablet with touchscreen issues asking me to fix it. But his touchscreen issues started when his son threw the tablet on the ground. It was horrible to try to navigate the tablet, I could not do anything to fix the tablet. I know the difficulty you are facing.

I bought repair or replace tablet insurance from squaretrade.com for $30 a tablet. I think you have thirty days after purchase of tablet to purchase insurance. Also ensquared.com has tablet insurance but more expensive but they also cover theft.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] plaster:
I picked it up at Walmart, along with the protection plan. They have a 15 day return policy. I may just have to return this one and try to get the non nickelodeon version. I disabled auto rotate in the settings and that has helped a little. I'd say its probably an issue with the accelerometer. Anybody know where I would be able to download a flashable ICS ROM? If it is a jelly bean issue, I could handle having ICS. My 3yr old wouldn't possibly know the difference. What he would notice is the more responsive touchscreen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
All the files to Nabi are here but am not familiar with Nickelodeon version, but you could look here and see what you need.

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Fuhu_nabi_2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
just wondering if you have tried the built in accelerometer calibration

its in setting/display/Accelerometer calibration

also

in Developers options/input - put a tck in "show touches"

this can help show you whats going on

HTH
[Miscellaneous Android Development] plaster:
Yes, first thing I did after looking for an option to calibrate the touch screen. According to fuhu, the tablet auto calibrates the touch screen on boot. Not sure how it can do that without some manual input, but the option doesn't exist, so can't dwell on it.

I did try the show touches and it acts as if I'm tapping the screen in the same place about 20 times in a second. When it does start doing this, attempting to long press on keyboard keys results in the letter being repeated, not unlike holding key on an actual PC keyboard. If you're in an app, say an angry birds level, tapping the back nav button should take you back to the stage select. Instead it acts as if you repeatedly tapped the back button, exiting all the way back to the tablets home screen.

Again, this is the second nabi 2. One had ICS and the next had JB right out of the box. That means the one I have now was manufactured nearly a year after the first nabi 2. It just seems so unlikely that both are broken in the same way. Unless its actually a flaw in the nick version. I updated the first to JB without using ICS at all, so I don't know if it is just a bug with the Nick edition JB update.

To the point, I want to install ICS to see if its still there. Is there any hardware differences between the 3 nabi 2 editions? Shouldn't the nick and Disney editions be able to run the standard nabi 2 ROM? I could really care less about the pre-loaded bloat. I'm sure they have different boot loaders, but if the hardware is identical, you would think it should run any nabi 2 ROM. If its an instant brick, let me know in advance. lol
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
to my knowledge all the Twrp recovery's have something different in them to make them work with that type nabi

aicjofs would be the best at figuring out the Nick nabi 2 version- I think at this point it was the only version that was unknown and was assumed that the Disney would work on it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] plaster:
I'm using the Disney TWRP, it works fine.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
aicjofs makes each version based on the stock version . he would know best. while it may work, there still could be something different to help with the touch issue.

I would send him a pm .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
I battle all these Nabi products(2, JR, XD) touchscreen woes when making the various TWRP's and I understand your pain.

The Nick Edition had ICS on it? I have never heard anyone say anything like that, it was assumed that Disney and Nickelodeon editions were Jellybean at release. The Nick edition is not talked about very much, and I certainly haven't seen an ICS Nick ROM that you could flash backwards. You absolutely sure it was ICS or Nick version?

They are mostly the same between 3 models(4 if you count Madagascar, and 5 if you could UK) . Probably would work but it's going down a difficult path, manually flash the ICS bootloader, etc. Nothing is an instant brick if you grab some stuff with nvflash.

You say you are using Disney TWRP and there are NO touchscreen issues in TWRP? Or there are? If there are none in TWRP try splitting the boot.img to kernel and ramdisk and the recovery.img to kernel and ramdisk and put the recovery kernel with the boot ramdisk and remake the image and use it as boot.img and see what happens.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
Hello there and Merry Christmas to you all. I need a bit of help now from you. After messing a lot with my daughter's nabi2, in the end I've managed to put back an old stock image 1.9.3.7 I think and then I've done the OTAs. Everything went fine except that the last update, the 2nd part of the 2.3 won't install. I've tried with the stock recovery and with the TWRP 2.6.3.0. Any ideas? Because from what's in the OTA's specs, I can see Google Play there and that' what I want.

Thank you very much in advance and all the best.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
have a look at this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48714484&postcount=1941
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
Thank you for that. It worked great. I still get Google Play FC but at least I'm with the last updates. I'll keep trying sorting the google play.

Once again thanks.

LE: I'm trying to push TWRP for JB but now windows can't find the drivers for the Nabi.......where from can I get them? Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
for google play I would go in to settings/apps/ALL

look for google play store clear cache and clear data.

Restart the tablet then open play store resign in/reset up.

hth

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Did you enable USB debugging since the update?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
Yes I did enable that. It tries to install the drvrsbut in the end it says fail.....but I can see the content of the nabi 2 inside the explorer
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
Fisrt I would reboot the pc you are working from

unplug the usb from both devices

then after reboot try again .

If that doesn't work I would install pdanet drivers that you can find from searching in google.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
I'll try that right now. Thank you for your big help. The thing is that before I've installed 2nd OTA 2.3....., I had no problems...so....it connected to the JB version of the O.S. now
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
I have seen my nabi do crazy thing ...like report that it had 4GB free

then after reboot it went down to 3.1GB.

so its why I suggest the reboot .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
still no luck.....it's not a bummer because everything else it fine but I can't push the JB version of TWRP and you never know when you may need it.

I'm thinking to go back on STOCK with Nabi Lab Full and then do all the updates, like I did in the morning up to the 2nd OTA 2.3.....

I don't know if it matters, but b4 I did use Nabi LAb to go back on stock, my tablet was an UK one (i live in Ireland) and after that, it became an US one.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
yeah it probably does matter that its uk based tablet.

and maybe a special JB Twrp might be needed to work properly.

maybe aicjofs will chime in and give better details to the version tablet you have .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petronelduca:
probably the JB TWRP will work, the thing is I can't push it, as my PC won't see the tablet because of the failed drivers installation. I'll just keep it like that for a while and we'll see what happens. Thank you very much again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bait-Fish:
I fought my main Win 7 PC for hours trying to get the drivers working and upgrade from v2.05. In the end, I pulled out an old XP laptop that already had PDAnet and it worked without issue. Try another computer if you can.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Ken Esq:
The driver installation on NabiLab worked on every machine I've used up through Windows 8.1.

In the past I had varying degrees of success installing the PDANet or other drivers.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] plaster:
The first Nabi 2 Nick tablet I bought had a small sticker on eack side of the box reading Ice Cream Sandwich 4.04. I thought it was odd, because the nabi site stated JB. I checked about in settings and sure enough, ICS 4.04. As soon as I logged into my wifi, the update for JB popped up.

I'll have to mess around with the disney recovery when I get home from work to see if it has the issue. I don't recall it being there, but I didn't spend much time in recovery, other than to make a backup after getting everything setup.

Ok, I have no idea how to extract the boot.img from the device. lol

What I did do, is take a short video of the problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLoO4tAA4wg

In the video, I try to long press and drag the amazon icon. As soon as I start to drag, it opens the app. Near the end of the video, I show the machine gun action when pressing, or holding my finger on the back arrow. There is audio, so what sounds like static, is actually the click sound repeating at a few hundred times per second. This happens every time the device is placed flat. It does occur to a much smaller extent with the tablet at an angle. It seems to be isolated to whatever side of the screen the 3 nav icons are on.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Some people were having issues inside TWRP with the touchscreen, I think I found the issue or at least one of them, and changed all 3 recoveries. Download links are same as before.

TWRP 2.6.3.0 (ICS)

TWRP 2.6.3.0 Disney/Nick Edition (JB)

TWRP 2.6.3.0 Original (JB)

EDIT: Didn't see your post. Use TWRP to backup up "boot partition" emmc.boot.win is the same as boot.img, you can rename it to boot.img if you want makes no difference. If Mr Karz see this I think he has a pretty good app for windows to extract the kernel. imageunpack or something like that I can't think what it's called(although I think I have heard of people having problems with old versions of cygwin dll's in WIndows 8.1 if you use that OS). I also didn't look at the video yet, I have to get up in 5 hours for work, I'll check it tomorrow... er I guess that's actually later today...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
everything went smoothly until it finished. I am stuck on the twrp recovery screen. It wont let me push any buttons. I restart but get forcecloses constantly. Any ideas? Thanks

twrp v2.2.2.1
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stuckintheskull:
I ran into same problem. I downloaded latest TWRP from post above yours and extracted it and put it in place of the other one and ran the program again and worked great.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Waleslie:
Under the ICS rom, my Nabi2s were crashing or freezing up while charging. I understand this is not uncommon. Has anyone had any different results under the new JB rom?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
How exactly did you replace it? Sorry for the noobness

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I should have thought before replying. Thanks I got it. Sorry
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stuckintheskull:
Derp
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bait-Fish:
I am still experiencing it with JB. Hoped it would be solved by now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Both of mine do it. Just can't use them at all when charging. Has done it since the beginning. I don't think we can fix that one without kernel source. I am shocked it hasn't been fixed in the 4 updates that have happened since I got mine.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
I can't be one of the special ones.......my Nabi2 doesn't do it though. I charge and use mine at the same time, even in the car. Both my daughters have not experienced this as well. Anything I can do to help just let me know. Logcats, backups, just let me know.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
how do i reboot into recovery? when I hold the power it only gives the option to shut down

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I can't find Google apps anywhere. I chose option 1 but still don't have Google apps that I can find. I tried putting a sd card in but for some reason it's not reading and I can't reboot into recovery
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stuckintheskull:
Shut phone off then hold power and volume up. You should have Google apps with the ota. Are you on 4.1 jellybean?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
that doesn't get me into recovery. the only options it has is

boot normally,

fastboot protocol, recovery kernel, forced recovery
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stuckintheskull:
Select recovery kernel. Does anyone know a way to disable soft keys when playing a game? My son keeps accidentally hitting back when playing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
If you did you may not be able to get out of the game at all.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
Awesome. Got into recovery and flashed gapps zip. Rebooted, went into day now but still no Google play store or Google apps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
stuckintheskull is correct.

These are the menu's it should give you:

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Boot Normally

Fastboot Protocol

Recovery Kernel <------- For TWRP, this is your Recovery if it was flashed. If not you have stock recovery.

Forced Recovery

If your talking about this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48676466&postcount=1898

You need to be rooted and have the Xposed Framework app installed and the additional Module(app) also installed. It will allow you to go straight to recovery from the power menu.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stuckintheskull:
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip

Try flashing this gapps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Desertio:
you wouldn't happen to have a link to those would you? by the way thank you for all your help