[General Questions and Answers] iamspeedbump:
Hello All,

It has been sometime since I did my first post. I have not had much time to work on my deck as much I hope to. In my attempts to try to get the device to go into fastboot I bricked, it so I thought. After hours of trying to fix the issue I contacted the seller and they send me a download link for software and a video link on how to use the software. Well the software was LiveSuite and it contained an AllWinner image file. LiveSute and the AllWinner image file corrected my issue. But the most important thing to me was I now have an AllWinner image file that I can unpack to get the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img out of. Now I need to make the time to load software to retrieve the image files from the AllWinner image. But in the mean time I thought how could I get the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img file from the device it self. Well I did manage to get them with the help of other on the net.

Let me first say that I take no responsibility if you screw up your own device. The information I list is what worked on my device and it may not work on your device.

This is how I pulled recovery.img, boot.img and system.img from my device (tvbox "An android car deck") and onto my computer. The site that helped me do this is HERE .

::# system

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adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/nandd of=/mnt/sdcard/system-backup.img"

adb pull /mnt/sdcard/system-backup.img d:\_roottvbox\Backups\system-backup.img

adb shell rm /mnt/sdcard/system-backup.img

::# recovery

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adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/nandg of=/mnt/sdcard/recovery-backup.img"

adb pull /mnt/sdcard/recovery-backup.img d:\_roottvbox\Backups\recovery-backup.img

adb shell rm /mnt/sdcard/recovery-backup.img

::# boot

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adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/nandc of=/mnt/sdcard/boot-backup.img"

adb pull /mnt/sdcard/boot-backup.img d:\_roottvbox\Backups\boot-backup.img

adb shell rm /mnt/sdcard/boot-backup.img

The recovery script on the site also works for me but I still can not get my car deck into recovery mode to use CWM. None of the keys on the deck respond to the android device inside the deck. To confirm that none of the key respond to the android device in the deck I used the following command "adb shell getevent -c 30". The "-c 30" is the number of key events before exiting getevent. Otherwise it will run for ever. After you execute "adb shell getevent -c 30" it will output the results to the screen whenever you press a button or the screen. After 30 event getevent will stop outputting the results.

So because none of the keys on the deck work for me I need to find another way to boot it in recovery mode. Every attempt I do to try to put the device into recovery mode only makes the device reboot. I have tried command line and there is an app out on the google play.

I am also able to get into fastboot. Using the site link above I was able to use the following commands.

adb shell

echo -n boot-fastboot | busybox dd of=/dev/block/nandf count=1 conv=sync; sync; reboot

When I do fastboot devices I get

???????????? fastboot

I think this is ok but not sure. I can do "fastboot reboot" and "fastboot reboot-bootloader" but the device only reboot. I believe I need to better understand how to use fastboot. There are many more commands that can allow me to flash and create. More research is needed.

Well this is all I have for know. My hope is to load CM10 but I need to find out where to get cm10 zip as well as getting CWM recovery working for an AllWinner A10 processor for my device. I did notice on another forum HERE that "Christian Troy" may have the solutions I need. I hope to contact him in the future.