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[Miscellaneous Android Development] cclautti:
i am also having this issue, twrp touchscreen unresponsive, everything else works fine. this is also my second nabi 2 rooting first one had no issue. this one goes through the whole rooting process but when it gets to the installing root and backing up part i get several failed mounting errors, goes back to a unresponsive to touch twrp, so cant flash gapps, root, anything, need help please.

if anyone could post adb codes to push files manually that would be fine too (root, gapps, etc) just want to be rooted with gapps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] HD Brian:
Removing root after installing Gapps?

I use Flixter to download and stream my UltraViolet and Vudu digital copies of movies. Flixter will not let you watch your movies if the device is rooted (actually gives an error message saying your device is rooted). I would like to un-root after getting the Gapps installed with the Google Play Store running. I have done this on another device with SuperOneClick (clicked root, installed the Gapps, then clicked unroot) but my understanding is that SuperOneClick doesn't work on the Nabi2.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Check your sdcard (internal) to see if the root & gapps folders are in there. Cause I kept running the scripts but the folders were already there.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] -RioT-:
You can temp unroot with ota root keeper.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
If you have the folders, root gapps already in sdcard this is the command

adb push backup-root-gapps.openrecoveryscript /cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript

then this one

adb reboot recovery

this is if your doing it in Ubunto terminal, if your are going to keep it with no touch screen TWRP recovery .Probably you are going to have to learn about openrecoveryscripts. You could go here http://www.teamw.in/OpenRecoveryScript

if you dont have the root gapps folder installed this thread was very helpfull to me http://http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016463
[Miscellaneous Android Development] madman0817:
Maybe we could get a sub forum for the nabi? I would be willing to help dev on it..

edit: A custom rom would make this an even sweeter tablet
[Miscellaneous Android Development] HD Brian:
OTA RootKeeper wanted me to download another superuser app, but I know the Nabi2 had one because it asked me if I wanted to give OTA RootKeeper superuser access. I just went to my apps and launched the super user app (I think it was SuperSU) and found an option to un-root. Now I can watch my Ultraviolet and VUDU movies on the Flixster app, I am just wondering if anyone knows of any reason I should not have done this un-root.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
Flixster

I can't answer about Flixster BUT I had this problem with Brighthouse tv apk, after much hunting this is what worked for it. 1. Had to gone in ES file explorer and delete superuser or supersu from system/app folder, then to Play and install supersu from there.(apk seems to check for it) have to set es file explorer to have root and read/write in settings. 2. Change build.prop again with es file explorer. There is one word to change, if it says in the build.prop file explorer "test-keys", change it to change "release-keys". Without "" and also be sure to NOT add or delete ANY spaces, make sure you have the same spacing after a word and before a word. If it says release-keys then just deleting superuser from system/app folder and installing from Google Play is all that was needed. This is for the Brighthouse apk but might help you with Flixster. Play doesn't install to system/app folder.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cclautti:
everything worked until script started running and i just got line after line of mounting failures.... same thing that happened when i tried rooting with jmz
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Did you copy and paste the commands from the Linux thread, from the text instructions that is downloaded in his package named Fuhu Nabi?

Anyways the open recovery script command is wrong. Copy and paste the a dB push root gapps zip command from the thread instead, that worked for me.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] cclautti:
can you post those commands, didn't see them. but like I said, I am getting mounting errors, similar to those discussed in like pages 2 and 3 in this thread
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Just do everything in Linux thread in a ubunto OS. Copy and paste commands from thread and not the instructions that comes in Fuhu Nabi zip, Good luck can't help much I'm at work.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] knoxploration:
We already tried. Currently, there is zero chance of getting a dedicated Nabi subforum here unless we can show links to numerous development threads.

Feel free to start a thread for development, start some development, and get some other developers working on the Nabi too. Without that we won't get a forum.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] siris420:
I have a few questions, I'm looking for a working nexus 7 build.prop, everytime I mod the build.prop on my son's tab it bootloops. I'm not new to build.prop tweaks/mods and spoof my other tab, but this one is finicky.

Also I have tried to put Gtalk 1.3 in system apps, with the appropriate lib file and it force closes on launch.

I cannot get gapps 20120429 from goomanager to flash.

Anyone had any luck, or insight into making this a full fledged tablet while in daddy mode?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cruise350:
Hello, I'm new to the Nabi 2, but not new to rooting Android. I have 2 ICS tablets rooted and all my phones were rooted the day I bought them. This nabi is messing with me. For the life of me I can't get the drivers loaded so I can root this thing. I really wanted to get this running before I give it to my daughter on Christmas. If I can't get the drivers loaded then I will probably return it and give her the Samsung Tab 2 7" that I bought at Costco on sale.

I've tried this on my laptop win 8 64, a win 7 64 desktop, and a win 7 32 desktop. No luck on loading the drivers on any of them. Even tried the PDAnet trick. Any help would be appreciated. Can someone post the drivers for download?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
Follow this thread to the period. In Linux you don't have to worry about drivers. You could Aldo run off a ubunto disk instead of installing OS.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016463

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
build.prop

Here you go, build.prop ffrom'Nexus 7 32G. Just remove the .txt, as can't load a .prop. I tried to mod the vold.fstab file too, to swap internal and sdcard2 to increase the apk space but it doesn't work like other android tablets either.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] madman0817:
I know this sounds redundant, but, check to ensure USB debugging is checked, that always slows me down when I'm tired and in a hurry...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cclautti:
i did follow the directions, as stated it goes through the whole process without a hitch until it starts to run the script then i get mounting errors and nothing gets installed (root, gapps) and if i use jmz method i have no touchscreen in twrp. now on a side note, this is my second nabi 2, had to do a warranty exchange on first, but rooted it without a hitch. this one, for one reason or the other, when i check version number it says 1.9.36 release-keys. now i know the latest version is 1.9.37 but when i do a manual check it says there is no update. i even emailed nabi support and he asked if i was in the uk, i said i am not im in the us, havent heard back yet, but could this be a reason why i am having issues?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
errors

I would guess that something was messed up and won't allow you to upgrade to 1.9.37 or use TWRP. I would try to do a factory reset in tablets settings, if you haven't tried to already and even if you have, I would try a factory reset again. If from there you still can't upgrade or use TWRP then you should try to go back to stock and start all over. Jmz has a stock file in the first post with his other files. If you have tried all this, I'm being redundant but just trying to suggest something to help.

If all fails then I would consider returning it and swapping for another 1, there could be something wrong with it as you never fully updated and may be a sign on a touch problem starting.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
The openrecovery script just backs up the boot/system/data partitions and then installs root and gapps. It is just a text file with the commands that gets run into recovery. If the files are already on the device(should be), you can use ADB while in TWRP recovery to install root and gapps.

adb install /sdcard/root.zip
adb install /sdcard/gapps.zip

Of course that doesn't explain the touch screen not working, there must be something different about the device or update. I think that we are going to start seeing more of this. Someone with more experience will hopefully figure that issue out, it's obviously not an isolated incedent.

If you have to go back to stock and don't have the backup, I created a thread about going back to stock in Ubuntu: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35287470

Edit: You know, I see there are quite a few improvements in the newer TWRP builds, any way to get a new recovery image done?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
I'll donate $20 for newer recovery that addresses the touch screen error.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
I dont know how I can mess this up, but I've done it twice now and it will not stick. In the step where it says to choose recovery kernel I dont see that, I see bootloader.... so I choose that and then recovery kernel, everything goes smooth from there. I see the screen install some stuff, it goes real fast. then TWRP shows up.. I then reboot system and no gapps. Then I hold vol- and power to go back into recovery and I dont have TWRP..... not sure what is going on.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
I had the same issues trying to run this script, in opening if thread. Tried a whole day and night. Then I did everything in Ubunto and everything ran smooth.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] MikeDVH:
Hey peeps,

I'm gonna be getting one of these for my daughter for Xmas and I'm sooo happy that there's already work being done to free the device from the store-bought constrainsts that come with it lol!

One question tho... all I need is the jmzootpackage yeah? I've read thru the thread, but I just wanted to make sure. :laugh:

Thanks in advance! :highfive:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
i would install pdanet first

then plug in device

then run the script.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bait-Fish:
I did the same, pdanet instead of the OP's driver. Flawless on the one device I have. Just had to wait for the PC to load the driver for each change in the Nabi's mode before pressing a key to continue the script.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MikeDVH:
Thanks guys. :thumbup:

One question tho, does this pdanet go on the navi 2 or the PC? :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] HD Brian:
Nabi2 Nabi 2 Drivers

This worked to get my Nabi2 drivers working on a Windows 7 os. I had drivers that windows automaticly used but the Nabi 2 did not show up in fastboot. I had to uninstall the adb AND bootloader drivers using the delete drivers option in windows device manager. I then followed the steps in this thread (see link below) to install the google drivers for both the adb device and the bootloader device. (I skipped the parts involving Environment Variables but the step between the 2 Environment Variables steps ("Next, install Android SDK. You only need to download Android SDK Tools, Android SDK Platform-tools and Google USB Driver") is crucial because those are the drivers that I used. You need to actually run the Android SDK and tell it to download the drivers (under extras).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1830108
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
on your computer

http://pdanet.co/bin/PdaNetZ350.exe
[Miscellaneous Android Development] robl45:
kid got his nabi 2 last night for chanukah, pretty cool tablet, spent last night setting it up and moving some apps. screen isn't the greatest but not too bad. at this point I"m probably going to wait on rooting it since all i'm really missing at this point is gmail but he is too young to use email and I really don't want to install and have it burning up his battery syncing everything.

anyway, amazon appstore kind of stinks. I did find a store 1 mobile market that seems to have pretty much everything in it. easy install and had youtube and such that amazon doesn't have.

so one question I had is can anyone recommend a good video chat app for the nabi? I know it has skype, just wondering if anyone found any better ones that work with the nabi? I'm going away for a week and want to be able to video chat with my son.

tango appears to work, but I think it might be a problem as I don't think it can turn the camera like skype can, other programs don't seem to work on it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wareju:
Where can I find USB drivers? I'm not connecting as an adb device and I'm showing no drivers installed in device manager.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
http:// http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35456630&postcount=635
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wareju:
Ah okay didn't know that was a driver. Also is everything still working with this script? Know it's been a while since OP and my kid will kill me if something happens to it, not to mention my wife...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brownel02:
Just a quick reply and thanks to jmz and every other dev out there who make rooting and enhancing our devices possible.

I bought two Nabi 2's for the kids for the holidays and rooted both last bight in about 1/2 hour tops. The first 20 minutes was spent setting up but after that it only took about 5 minutes to root each.

Like others I had trouble with the drivers so here is what I did:

Installed pdanet (link is a few posts above mine).

I installed the samsung drivers from the list

power on tab (either nabi or daddy mode will work)

click on the install bat from jmz in OP

follow on screen instructions

Just be patient, there is one step, wait until after the reboot and you get the text on the screen that I jumped a bit early on the first go around. After that all was right. TWRP touch works well on both tabs and play store, drive and gmail all work well. I still have some set up to do (installing more apps and moving over completed levels from their other devices) but all is well

Thanks again Devs and have a happy, healthy holiday season.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DZLRULZ:
By far the best video chat app is google talk..but you need to root and install google framework. Google market is then installed and its the best market...

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] DZLRULZ:
Thought you guys might find this humorous...

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] hotspace:
6 kids?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
I have the same power strip.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Chris.Gonzalez:
TWRP Issue

I am having a weird issue... The When I touch the screen in TWRP recovery the position is off by about 1 1/2 - 2 inches. This is preventing me from applying the Wifi fix and at the moment have no wifi :( Any assistance would be appreciated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DZLRULZ:
They're for 6 kids... :)

2 nieces, a nephew, my daughter, my brother in law, undetermined.

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---------- Post added at 01:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ----------

No experience there..but I would start by deleting the .twrps file from the TWRP directory in case the init file is corrupt.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] hotspace:
Sorry if this has been asked, but, after following the instructions for root, and gapps, are there Rom choices? Will we still have the ability to put this thing in kids mode?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cyhax:
Stock Stripped

I think besides JmzNabi2Stock_OLD.zip, THIS is the only flashable rom available.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
installing TWRP,Root and GAPPS will NOT remove nabi mode. the only way Nabi Mode will get deleted is if you remove /vendor.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Chris.Gonzalez:
Restore To Factory Image

Sorry for the noobie question but I am stuck and pretty much at a loss.

After messing around with this thing for 2 days I would like to just restore it to factory.

1. I have downloaded the Stock Images that jmz was kind enough to post.

2. Fastbooted and installed TWRP

3. Pushed all the IMG files to /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/*SN*/stock

Now do I just need to Restore all the img files? Do I need to restore just a few? Can they all be in the dir or do I need to copy them 1 at a time?

When I have tried the restore with all the files I seem to end up in a never ending loop of "swipe to restore"

Please help the wife is gonna kill me if I broke the little ones tablet!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ProCision:
Flash this http://androidfiles.org/uploads/download.php?file=Nabi2/JmzNabi2Stock_OLD.zip to return to stock.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] t499user:
You can create a text file called openrecoveryscript and push it to /cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript to have it install any zip from recovery. It should contain the following, then reboot into recovery. You can use this to install the wififix(or any other zip)

install /sdcard/FILENAME.ZIP

You can not flash those IMG files through TWRP.

Have a look at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35287470 to take you back to stock, I wrote it for Ubuntu Linux but it can be easily adapted for WIndows(no sudo).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sicclee:
Some advice to anyone having trouble or the same problems i did:

I updated to 1.9.37 first.

I used pdanet for the drivers, it told me I already had an android driver installed (I assumed it was my samsung driver for my phone). the first couple of times i clicked cancel when it asked if I wanted it to overwrite that driver. it wouldn't work until I allowed it to replace it.

after getting adb installed, i follow the directions with option 1 (install recovery root and gapps) and it didnt work. I tried it 3 times,

so I tried option 2 (without gapps), this scared me a little, because during the process about 1000 of the same error came up, something like "E:unable to mount". I just let it go to see if it would end. it did, and everything worked after that... booted into kid mode and i had root.

then i downloaded 'gapps-ics-20120429-signed' from goo.im and transferred it to the nabi via usb

I then got back into twrp (I don't know if you can do this without ADB, so i just reran the first part of the script) and made a backup. then installed the gapps, wiped cache/dalvik and now im good to go.

Thanks for the hard work jmz (and everyone that has been helping people out in this thread), your script was the reason i bought this thing for my son, you've made my life a whole lot easier.

cheers and merry xmas!

it seems i do have the 'android is upgrading' bug, i will try moving the files around and clearing cache to see if that fixes it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
I think the problemthat a lot of us have is the odex files in system/app and system/framework

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2050365

this rom has deoxed files updated to version 1.9.37

HTH
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wera750:
So it seems that i can't connect to the play store after flashing gapps. It says no connection. My wifi bars are white which makes me think it isn't connecting to google's servers? Anyone else have that issue?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] compta5:
I Had The Same Problem. Could Be Your Time & Day Settings.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
I had that bug you have to go to settings> running apps > play store> clear cache > clear data > reboot

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] reade0871:
In order to update the script a little I was wondering if I could have it use TWRP 2.3.2 and gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip by just renaming them recovery.img and gapps.zip in the files folder? The idea behind this would be to have the script install the latest custom recovery and gapps package? Anyone try this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] katinatez:
From what I understand the recovery has to be specific to device.

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] reade0871:
Understood but the OP uses TWRP 2.2 for this device which was taken from somewhere. It's not a big problem I just figured I'd ask. It would be nice to be able to update TWRP recovery from the initial one installed at time of root.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ALD3:
TWRP

The twrp was setup for this device by jmz, it's just a recovery and a newer one won't change anything other than what the recovery can do while in recovery. If you want the new gapps then simply download the zip and install from TWRP. It should install with no problems, I would try it for you but have given the Nabi 2 that I bought to my son for by grandson. There is also a link in this thread where someone has changed the script to not have the android updating bug but it removes the kids mode and makes a regular tablet. He is working on 1 to be stock with kids mode and not updating bug. Look back and check that link too.

Nabi 2 stripped stock link too

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2050365
[Miscellaneous Android Development] reade0871:
Saw the link and thanks. I understand regarding TWRP recovery. Like other recovery images TWRP will eventually be upgraded with newer versions as it has been done already. 2.2.2 is the version that jmz has included in this root tool script. There has since been a newer version of TWRP 2.3. As it stands the current script will install version 2.2.2. I am wondering if anyone had updated their custom TWRP recovery from 2.2.2 to 2.3 on this device and if so what device did you select? I know the OP says Dees_Troy has been instrumental in helping jmz with his recovery but I was wondering what base device the recovery image came from and if anyone has tried installed an updated recovery on this device.

Thanks again!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Eric Karz:
i have tried to install a few different recovery images on the nabi 2 ... they install but DO NOT work .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] reade0871:
Did you try TWRP 2.3.2.1 for the Nexus 7? That would be my guess as to a TWRP version that would work on this device and I saw the pic of CWM on this device a few threads below the OP. Anyone try flashing a newer TWRP using nexus 7 image?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Waleslie:
Wi-Fi

I had posted this in the main Android Q&A section, but I'm guessing it will never be seen by the right people there:

Has the Nabi 2 Wi-Fi issue supposedly been resolved?

I went through the process described in the rooting thread, including doing the OTA updates to .37 before rooting. I successfully rooted and added gapps. Then I made a TWRP backup of the tablet and all the games my kid installed.

The tablet runs fine for a day or two... then the wi-fi gets stuck on "Turning Wi-Fi On..."

At this point, I can restore my TWRP backup, and all is good again... for another day or two.

Is this the same Wi-Fi issue others are experiencing? Does it take some time for the problem to develop for everyone?

Should I flash back to an early stock image and try again?