[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] machv5:
Here's your problem:

Andrew you state in the tutorial to copy the files to

/

not

/system.

which is it? I too got a far as rooted but gapps wouldn't install.

I found this (oops meant to have the word 'this' be the link to the thingy that helped now I have to find it again) and tried it and it worked for me after the reboot. And I forgot to rename the file but did change its permissions.

For bricked devices if you can boot to rkusb mode then you can recover the device.

boot to rkusb mode by holding vol down and power to turn the device on.

run rkbatch Tool as administrator and choose this Firmware click update or restore. Your device should be back to stock.

**Note for plt7035-pl device it will now list your device as a plain plt7035. What the difference between the two are is beyond the scope of my research so far.

If this helped you in anyway please click thanks...erm thanks

Now to get CWM installed

I used this CWM RK29GENERIC_CWM.zip from here and the flasher from here

1. unpack the files so you can use the flasher from the 7z file.

2. then run RKAndroidTool.exe as admin (I didn't try to use it any other way to save time from it possibly not working)

3. deselect all of the check boxes except for recovery and choose RK29GENERIC_CWM.zip run and you should have CWM installed

**note I read somewhere that upon reboot the tablet automatically reinstalls the stock recovery. As soon as I saw that ADB could see the device I typed ADB reboot recovery and I was in the CWM upon reboot. I will update this once I successfully flash a new ROM.

I may need some time with this as I think I am going to have to create a legitimate ROM zip file I don't know yet I have to look it up.Bye for now

Got a little further along, sort of... I don't know what happened but I ran a backup via CWM then thought I'd check out other features of the CWM I used (this is my first tablet from scratch that doesn't have a bunch of easy fixes for rooting etc... Love these more complex ones for some reason? Kinda like when you get a God mod cheat for a video game, Anywho ADHD kicked in there sorry)

As I was saying while checking out other features of the CWM I tried ADB Sideload and the menu disapeared, ADB showed up in devices as Host (never saw that before) but all other commands seemed to result in the 'Killing server, starting server, error 0' and I couldn't get the computer to reboot the device via ADB either as I wanted to go back to recovery.

The next thing I encountered was the proverbial softbrick where the device just hung on the PROSCAN splash and never budged. I was able to boot to RkUSB mode though (phew) and flash the stock image I got from Curtis. (link is above).

On the second time around rooting the device I foound that when I installed GAPPs using (what I thought was, i guess) the same method as before I had to manually change all of the permissions for the files and folders to user rw-, groups r--, others, r-- I did this for the files in those folders for the folders themselves I changed them all to user rwx, groups r--, others, r-- as I noticed that files and folders I had not modified due to copying (I never did get the overwrite prompts, it just did so without) were all that way. except for a few like the lost dirs.

Bye for now I have to continue looking up pain meds for my dog that has got cancer. She's probably only got a few weeks now. Effin sux

Also I will (once finished with this reply do a final tidy up and edit for content and readability, and a mention of thanks to all the links and threads that helped along the way. I may follow suit and copy bits and bats to other threads where I see they could be of use.

I am sorry if this isn't the proper way to do this but I have a terrible time with getting these types of things out together and this is the first time where I have actually done a step by step that looks like it could be of some use here as a potential tutorial of my own.

And to the OP (original poster) of this thread this is likely the one and only time I will do this to a thread it's helping me learn how to build a method of the previous madnes as it happened rather than try to figure out all the bits and bobs I did and forgetting more than a few along the way to end up wiht a mess like this last sentens