yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
It was only a matter of time before you all discovered the ways lol........

Oh I meant if I can get my neighbors nabi2 for cheap, cheaper than black friday. Both my daughters and I have our Nabi2's. Wouldn't hurt to have an extra to play around with for developement as long as the price was right.

Next on the list....... GPS for our Nabi2's lol.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
on this part "Extract the contents of JBimage.zip to the TWRP/BACKUPS/xxxxxx/JB

---this will be boot.emmc.win, etc"

At first I didn't let it over write any existing files

I save what was there then I let it over write on the 2nd try.

powering up the nabi ,while you can tap power then Release and press and hold till u see something on the screen

it seems to work better if you use tap tap hold power.(press power 2 times hold it down on the 3rd time)

other then that I haven't found anything that isn't working .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Well I guess if the keys to starting bootloader menu are the worst thing so far then its a good thing. I find it annoying, and a normal Nabi Disney does not do that, its like the old one. Only with this mod does it happen.

Oh well, I'm glad to hear we finally have Jellybean on the old Nabi, and is running better then I thought.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
aicjofs, I just noticed you had a forum up. Nab Tab Hack.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] IvanTSI:
Good work sir, I'll be looking forward to a app to mod partition size and install Disney JB version on original Nabi2, hope you can find the way.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
He did get JB 4.1.1 working on the nabi 2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
Where are the DL's for it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
He says on post "1717" to pm him for links .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
Oh yes he did. I totally missed it, ty. I will have to wait and read up on flashing via nvflash though.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Hello, justr bought two Nabi for daughter and son, can I just replace a file.png with 7zip if I want to edit the pokeman lockscreen. Trying to get a picture of a T-rex dinosaur. My boy loves dinosaurs. Please help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Really I needed a place to host the files, my comcast FTP was running out of space, Google drive has a lot of the full sized ROM's and is almost full, Box.net and dropbox have other shared things and full, and my skydrive has most of the family pics and vids backed up so it's pretty much full.

jmz runs a web hosting business, gave me a good deal on storage. That forum may make sense someday, and I wanted a blog just to ramble without getting off topic in threads here. If you every need webhosting talk to jmz!!! /plug

You don't really need to know too much about nvflash to actually run the script, but I'm all for seeking more knowledge to better understand the processes. PM me if you want links.

I was unable to do it when I first tried, but that was before I discovered that our Nabi's were out of free space in 2.1. When you add a custom image it's usually more complex then the generic Nabi lockscreen so the file size for Framework-res.apk is larger. I might have been running out of space on system (because there is hardly any) and only copying a portion of framework before the all the free space was gone, and that was actually the reason for the boot loop and not because using the simple 7zip method was at fault. I never bothered going back to check, but I am thinking that's why.

I would try again with 7zip. Should it not work with 7zip here is a tool that decompiles, compiles and signs and is user friendly.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21113765

The version that was posted when I used it had some old version of the tools(apktool etc) I updated them in this one, although that was a few months back

http://home.comcast.net/~aicjofs/NabiFramework.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
:good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Thanks for reply, yes read about running out of space issue. Updated both Nabis to current version 2.1 used your Nabi Lab to backup stockunrooted, flash TWRP, and push root.zip, but thats as far as I got with Nabi Lab. I then put gapps, aroma.zip, solid explorer on a external card then used aroma file explorer to copy backup to external card (to keep safe) then used solid explorer to delete wings, and university.apk, then I flashed gapps. Overall real pleasant rooting experience without using Ubunto.

My first question is what is the absolute path to the png file i need to edit in pokeman.zip?

Second question is what NabiFramework.zip you pointing me to? and for what? I thought the pokeman.zip has the updated framework of version 2.1 correct?

I will try step one first and just edit the picture, if that is not possible than I will look closer in to the Framework Flasher script. Thanks again

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Okay took a few minutes to find with search the absolute path is

/res/drawable-sw600dp-mdpi/ ic_lockscreen_handle_normal.png

/res/drawable-sw600dp-mdpi/ ic_lockscreen_handle_pressed.png

/res/drawable-sw600dp-mdpi/ unlock_directions.png

Picture width 1440 pixels, height 903 pixels

and unlock image width 88 pixels, height 91 pixels

Going to try to change these files with a dinosaur picture for my son, if all goes well I will upload it for others

Wish me luck
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
Yep those are the ones. Also Nabi Circle or something like that needs to be transparent, if you are using the Pokemon I already made it that way.

Yes the Framework Flasher is only if 7zip doesn't work. I thought it didn't but I think that was just because I ran out of space not because of the method. The framework flasher is just to do it the "correct" way, should I be wrong about the free space and that it doesn't like the 7zip way now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bowtieduece:
Is there any command prompt instructions to install these files included in the zip from the op? I have the sdk setup and adb commands work but the included batch doesn't find the device. I am comfortable with installing the files manually.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
the op of this post often upDates TWRP and in this thread you can get his current version http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2074501&highlight=nabi

After installing Twrp - when you exit it should ask you If you want to install superUser . then all you would have to do is install gapps .

Note I used pdanet driver install on my pc. (Rebooted pc so the driver would work)

HTH
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Hello [MENTION=4939189]aicjofs[/MENTION], question I would like to remove all the user apps since they are free versions, do I delete all the apk in data/app or system vendor/apps or data/addon_res/apks/apps? For now would like to keep the nabi mode or nabi launcher nabi app picker and time controls other than that everythin can go. Where are all the apps stored when downloaded from Playstore go? Basically have two Nabis with my Google account going to make many purchases for kid games and download the same games two both Nabis & change lockscreen pictures all before Christmas.

Thanks for your help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Checkpoint

Ok I have 1 small issue. I have been reading like crazy and am on page 55, The forum is blowing up faster then i can read (I'm handling 2 kids under 2) I was wondering for the sake of sanity could we create a checkpoint so to speak so every 50 or 100 pages we can just list where we are at as far as rooting (with all current updated apps and packages) with guide and info as far as version of android. I'm just looking to gain free space (maybe the nvflash expansion once deemed safe) and install root and google play. If someone could even just post the corresponding post numbers for all info that would help. Also I like the custom screens has someone made a themer that could automatically switch these up? Also on the pm side of things does anyone have any of the nick apps? it seems like most people are getting the disney version. Thanks

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My nabi 2 from walmart bf says gps. Once my girl takes a nap ill dig it out and look for the functionality
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aicjofs:
I wouldn't bother much with /vendor/apps. Once you have adequate free space on /system with root, gapps and any customization it doesn't really matter because it doesn't effect your free space it would just make the tablet look cleaner. The same could be said for the data/addon_res it just the addon partition mounted on /data there. The addon partition has all the stock Nabi apps that go in /data/app, so deleting them only frees up space on /data/addon which doesn't really help you get free space, and the apps aren't ever used except during a factory reset when the device copies them back to /data/app. I suppose you could use that free space to do some symlinking and utilitze it but it makes backups a mess because TWRP doesn't respect symlinks across partitions. So the /data/apps has the most to gain from being deleted.

Playstore apps go to /data/app

It IS very hard to follow. XDA wouldn't give us our own forum so everything get jammed into a few threads. The closest thing we have is the Nabi Wiki entries at XDA. Its a herculean effort to try and sum up everything, maybe someone else can do that. In the meantime it's probably best to just ask what you want to know, because every Nabi owner has went through the impossible digging through this thread so most of us won't being saying did you search? Did you google it, etc

Find out if katinatez had some luck a few posts back with the 7 zip method. If so then the Nabilab script could be modified for 2.1.27
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Thanks aicjofs I have read your site before. I am updated to newest update (did it yesterday 11/30) and just want to expand system so I can install Play Store, Install games from there, and I want to customize the lock screens. If I get time I might toss a program together to automate the screen changes. I think it would be a nice option. I also have to keep the nabi as stock as possible because the wife doesn't want me "hacking it". I dont mind rooting and would prefer not to get custom recovery if i can avoid because I avoid the updating android on boot message. Is everyone getting that? I'm also open to app2sd solutions as it was noted that nvflash is unsafe if your not sure of what to do.

Update: I just realized I'm a moron and have been trying to follow some of these posts and wondering why they were so far off. I'm reading about a year behind real time lol. I was wondering why I had a better black friday deal then those in texas and such. If any of my info is outdated or behind (Like maybe my idea for a program to create lock screens) then just laugh it off lol.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
New Dinosaur Lockscreen

It worked I just searched for a random dinosaur picture, scaled it down with Adobe Fireworks (better compression) and continued to use 7-zip to place files. Here is a quick peak. But still have to work on replacing the unlock picture (notice Pokeman) Will upload about 10PM when kids go to sleep.

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My first contribution to XDA :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
This looks great Was it easy to make? What are the steps you have taken? I think I'm going to make an automated process for myself to do this on the fly. Something like choose the images then send to nabi. thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
It was very easy, but upon further investigation my Nabi had many force close keyboard, etc, etc. Was able to fix only after I went to settings/apps/google play/ uninstall update/reboot.

My conclusion is the frameworks of google and the framework of nabi conflict with the newest Play update, if aicjofs would like to update the framework or do it the correct way with framework flasher, I could do the Photoshop and upload many different lockscreens like Ariel, SpongeBob, Disney Princess and so on.

But at this time my Nabi is running great with older version of Play store, and dinosaur lockscreen.

I will wait for feedback from aicjofs, until then I will not upload dinosaur210.zip.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
A "How Too" would be awesome for the many here with kids, but only if it's not too complicated for the average parent to do. Or even if it was, the more information the better.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2538947

Something like this would be awesome for our tablets. I know this is Odin for Samsung Galaxy devises but an easy way to do this for us all nabi owners would be ideal.

Oh and what about using this for say modifying our PIT? Post #7 he posted the script for partition resize.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2540480

I know when the Nabi Wiki section was started with all the info that I could muster together for all the nabi's, I had the intention of making a sort of repositiory/data base of everything collected also. I have so many downloads's collected ( up about 15-20 Gig's I believe ) of everything from here for our Nabi2's saved on my External HD. Hosting would only be the issue.

If there is no other person working on the idea for a post of links of all the checkpoint's, DL's, etc's of each nabi specific thread started, I'll see what I can do on putting everything together.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Here are the absolute path to the files you have to replace (ic_lockscreen_handle_normal.png and ic_lockscreen_handle_pressed.png have to be the same picture unless you want some type of animation kind of like making a .gif (photoshop users) these two files have to be 1440 pixels wide by 903 pixels in height. The unlock_directions.png is width 88 pixels, height 91 pixels this picture is the unlock picture.

If anybody wants my dinosaur210.zip PM me, install thru recovery (when flashed it says "pokeman.zip installed succesful" ) I need help in editing this flash zip to say "dinosaur210.zip installed succesful" and then follow the steps below to downgrade Play Store here is the finished look.

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How to is download 7-zip, click on 7-zip application locate the either of the pokeman210.zip, hellokitty210.zip, or original210.zip, if of course you are installing into a Nabi with all updates installed first. Click on zip this program gives you the ability to look inside zip files with out opening them, you can extract the specific files mentioned, 3 in total or delete. Then rename the picture you like to be your new background the same names inside zip after you have cropped to specific pixel dimensions. Then drag one file at a time (all 3) 7zip will ask if you would like to place in zip to click yes. Your done exit out rename zip to whatever you want, place in external and flash in recovery.

Going to put together a Disney Princess lockscreen.zip tonight for daughter.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] naiveuser:
rooted successfully but no gapps

Greetings.

I have got Nabi 2 two days back during black Friday sale. I was able to root it but I dont see gapps or play store :( during the flashing process it showed it installed gapps but i dont see it when i log in as mom. i also flashed gapps separately but still no luck. Can anyone please help what am I missing? Do I need an external card for this? Your prompt help is highly appreciated!

Best regards,
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Which method of rooting did you use? And yes an external card is a must, because the backup named stockunrooted is almost 1GB stored in internal sd card; you could copy that to external sd card and free up 1GB of internal sd card. Also if its already rooted and backed up you could place the gapps in the external card boot to TWRP recovery and flash gapps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
naiveuser,

Did you root and then install the Gapps with a completely stock nabi2? You have to make sure you delete some APK's from the monarch ui under system/vendor/app through TWRP to make some space for the Gapp apk's or they will not take. One could also use a File Explorer that has root access like

ES File Explorer

to delete the apk's. There has to be a sacrific on what you are willing to get rid of in your nabi to install the Gapps.

As you can see naiveuser, it has to do with how much space it has in the partition assisgned for the system and being a newer Nabi2's with I believe "Wings" or for sure being a Disney version Gapps will not fit. I believe it was stated there was space in there before update 2.1 with older nabi2's. So unless you are willing to delete some of the original system apps the nabi came with then your Gapps wont fit.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Princess lockscreen

Here is my daughter's Nabi

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:D Wife approved :D

Anyone want either of these new lockscreen and have all the updates on Nabi can PM me for them.

Also just updated the updater-script on both lockscreen mods to be read in recovery whats being flashed!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] naiveuser:
Dear DarkAngel,

Thank you so very much! It did work! I pretty much removed most of those apps and GApps got installed like a charm! I should have posted here before, it drove me crazy and was stuck with it for several hours! Thanks so very much!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
[MENTION=325306]DarkAngel[/MENTION] did you get my PM reply? Does not show up in my sent folder.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Ok deleted many apps, just need one. When in nabi mode and you press the third icon on bottom left the options home,web,camera,Daddy mode, switch kid, chore list, settings.

I need to know which apk launches when web is triggered?

I made backups of all apk before deleting. Once I restore this missing app I will place a list of the remaining apps I left for other users, just want to keep the nabi app picker, nabi launcher with big icons, university, and timer control. Everything that was a subscription base or charged I removed.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
Yes got them. Thank you.

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Glad that was it for ya.

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The Maxthon Kid-Safe Browser. I am unable to locate it in our Nabi.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
Oh wait LOL..... that's what I get for looking at my daughters Nabi2 and it not being rooted LOL.

It's under: data / app / com.mx.browser.kids-1.apk which = Maxthon Kid-Safe Browser

Naturally com.mx.browser-2.apk is the normal Maxthon Browser.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
So it looks like most of us have the regular nabi 2 and a select few have the disney version. Does anyone have the nick version? And maybe perhaps a system image for educational purposes? Please PM me if you do. :rolleyes:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
I specifically bought Nabi 2 because I knew the root process, and knew there are slight difference with other versions.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
I was going to get the nick version but with the black friday sale wm had making the regular one 100 bucks less I couldn't pass it up.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Was trying to get the Walmart $99 price but they were sold out quick, I got them at Target for $129 instead.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Ready to go

Ok I officially have the wife's (temp) permission to root and make room. I have the gui for nabilabs. The only step im missing is how do I start off? do i just plug it in in daddy mode with usb debug on or do I need to go to recovery and what buttons do i press once i get the boot menu? some options just lag, not sure if freezing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
yes go to developers options and check android debug, turn nabi on plug into computer, then start NabiLab (click on Nabi 2)and make sure your serial number is showing in new window. Check remove wings and top button root,gapps,backup is very important to restore to factory settings to return to store At new window just hit enter then after it says recovery blah, blah you press volume + then volume down to recovery kernel and then volume + to select recovery kernel, (this first part its pushing files into Nabi and backing up to stockunrooted keep following instructions. You then copy that backup to external sd card and copy it over to pc in multiple places like I did. Tell the wife you could go back to factory settings without root or modifications with this file, then after root you can flash custom lockscreens too :D Good Luck

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Make sure you have all updates first
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Thanks this is exactly what i needed. My daughter is up but will be taking her nap soon so ill get it done then. I only want to make progress that i can reverse if needed lol

Ok ran into small issue, when i started I didn't have the correct drivers just the windows ones so i installed the pdanet program and drivers. That worked and I started the rooting. I seleted everything except the wings in option 3 because it's stillon there for now. After the backup twrp restarted and it looks like the root program is expecting itti stay in twrp. I'm going to rerun it and see where it goes
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Backup will be stored inside internal sd card, copy the entire folder named "TWRP" to external and many pc ( this is your lifesaver to undo everything)

Look inside with solid explorer found on play store to see if you have root.zip and gapps.zip you cant have gapps unless you remove two programs (not enough room) remove wings inside system/vendor/apps/delete wing.apk
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Ok im up and runnig, now how do i delete the nabi mode shortcuts for wings?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
[MENTION=2414226]yournamehere[/MENTION], verify you have your backup, then you could use the Nabi Lab to do the steps individually. Remove wings, then root, and flash gapps.zip which you could place in an external card or both files inside external here they are.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34899689/root.zip

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34899689/t499users_fuhu_nabi2_gapps.zip

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go to settings/apps/ all apps/nabi mode/ clear cache & data

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Welcome to root, you'll never go back. :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Lol Thanks I always root my phones and I hate being forced on stock locked down software. I'm not much into modding but I just enjoy the freedom of the root lol. All I need now is to make some custom lock screens. Has anyone already made minions or umizoomi / bubble guppies ones yet?

PS I took the backup and dropboxed it. safe and sound now
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Minions sounds like a great idea, but have to study for finals. Maybe in a few days I will do it.

Just asked son if he likes dinosaurs or minions, he said minions.

Maybe I'll do it tonight
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkAngel:
LOL we are going to have to start a repository for lock screens now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] codest3r:
I have 3 nabis for my girls running the latest release rooted with gapps installed mind sharing your new lock screens? ☺

Edit: oops sorry meant to pm in tapatalk app! Doh!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yournamehere:
Sounds good. Spent some time sourcing good minion pics. I stole them from Google so not sure if fully allowed to use them but either way I'll be trying to build one. I'll post my results in the morning