yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Waleslie:
Yep. That's the size Windows shows when I look at the micro SD card...

One thing that did seem a bit strange to me... How quickly TWRP applies root before rebooting. It almost seems instantaneous. Granted, they aren't large files and it is flash memory, but still. Is TWRP rebooting without the tablet having time to finish writing the files? Maybe some sort of cache / delayed write thing is stopping the .apk from being written? It would be nice if it paused after running the root script so you could see the results.

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aicjofs -

I have a separate question for you. Ultimately the reason that I'm upgrading the rom on my son's tablet is that I have a slight hope it will correct a problem we're having with it...

It seems that whenever you plug in the tablet while it's on, it freezes after a few minutes. I guess I'll know soon enough if the latest rom has any impact... I'm upgrading from 1.9.37 to 2.1.27 as I write this.

Is this likely some sort of problem with the hardware?

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Well.... Not much difference.

The home screen has fewer icons on it than when I installed stock2127 directly, although all the apps are there (eg, Wings).

adb shell df

Still shows 503M with 0K free.

Anyway. I just manually deleted one of the Wings apks from the vendor directory. TWRP is now able to install root.

Thanks for helping me figure out what was up.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Yes both of my kids Nabi's do that from time to time. I think it happens to more people then is known. If you read through various Facebook comments over the last year people call it "hard time getting Nabi to turn on". I think it freezes some minutes after being plugged in. Then its "hard" to get to turn back on, because you have to hold power button until it hard powers off and then restarts. I'd think it was just an isolated issue but both the tablets do it.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Waleslie:
My daughter's tablet (slightly newer tablet - the one that you made TWRP 2.6.0.0v2 for) needs to do the hold the power button thing too... but usually after charging for quite a while. So when her power gets low, she can generally charge and play. With my son's tablet, it freezes up within a minute or two, so when his power gets low he just has to stop and wait for it to charge.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Probably not the thread to talk about it in, but does the screen ever "go crazy" on your son's when it happens?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Waleslie:
I don't think so, but I'll ask him. I think the screen image and tablet just freeze.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Hdale85:
I'm trying to use this to root and install G-Apps on my sons tablet, but when I run the install.exe file I see a lot of "The system cannot find the path specified." line in the program. I tried shifting the files around to see if maybe that's the issue? But still it can't seem to find the files.... I'm running windows 8.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] KingVinnie:
I was wondering this also...

The Wings Icon and Gallery Icon are there in Nabi mode but if you click on them it just says"App not installed". The icon seem to be locked where you cant delete them, Any workaround?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] dss4me3:
Has anyone figured out a way to move apps to the SD card.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Clselfridge:
+1 on this. Samsung seems to have figured a work around for their devices running 4.x... This would solve so many headaches with these things.

Sent from my HTC One
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Try going to settings/apps/all, find "Nabi Mode" app and clear the data and force stop. Then go back in to Nabi mode. Re-enter user/pass.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] oakleyrdc:
Once the Nabi is rooted with the play store, how do you revert back to stock?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
I have all updates installed, and have installed the pdanet installed and connected but it won't root and this is what I get.

The system can not find the path specified. I get that line repeated through the device discovering process.

The system cannot find the path specified.

CHECKING FOR PROPER PDANET DRIVERS

The system cannot find the path specified.

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

¦ ¦

¦ The Nabi 2 must be powered on, booted to the home screen, ¦

¦ and connected to this computer with the USB cable. It is ¦

¦ suggested that you plug in the power cord as well. ¦

¦ ¦

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

Starting ADB Server

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Waiting for device...

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

¦ ¦

¦ If you are stuck here, then the PdaNet drivers are not ¦

¦ installed, not properly configured to default settings, ¦

¦ or your computer must be rebooted after PDAnet driver ¦

¦ install. If stalled, you must re-start this installer. ¦

¦ ¦

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

Verifying the Nabi 2 is attached to your system...

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Device found!

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Press any key to continue . . .

Once I click a key it goes back to the menu and I click 3 and get this:

The system cannot find the path specified.

INSTALL RECOVERY AND ROOT

The system cannot find the path specified.

1. Begin Installation

2. Return to Main Menu

The system cannot find the path specified.

Choose an option:

I then select option 1 and get this:

The system cannot find the path specified.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Device found!

The system cannot find the path specified.

Rebooting Device...

The system cannot find the path specified.

Look for some small text to appear in the top left corner of the Nabi 2 screen. Once it appears press Enter.

Nothing happens on the Nabi screen which has all updates and I enabled Usb debugging.

What am I doing wrong. Thanks
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Restore your backup in TWRP. I haven't used the script but I looked over it once, I'm pretty sure the root process makes a backup in stockunrooted folder. Go to restore tab in TWRP and see if that folder is there.

I would guess you didn't fully extract the download. That's what it would look like if there was only a batch file and not the "files" folder. Try extracting all the contents of the download zip again.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
You were correct I did not extract the whole zip. I got root and twcp to install. I have the su app. I then go into recovery and flash the gapps app and it says it goes successfully but the gapps app doesn't appear to be in the app list. What do you recommend?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
Edit: I see some people in the thread reporting the gapps not showing up due to lack of space even though it seems to flash fine. The Nabi we have is brand new with only a few added apps. Could that be my issue? Also how do I know if it is truly rooted as I can't install root checker without gapps.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Yes, it's out of space. Something has to be sacrificed to install gapps. The program can remove Wings for you which will free the necessary space. If you want Wings though then it's a problem.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
I got it. I removed wings and it installed perfectly. Now the only issue is lack of space lol. If we can't put apps on the sd card then what good is it?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
The system partition is what is out of space. It's a 500MB partition, if you delete Wings and install Gapps + Root have about 40MB free. Probably very few things you will ever need to install there now(just updates). The data partition, where all the apps and media go, is around 4GB. If you keep the media on external SD there is enough space on data partition for plenty of apps, but the larger ones, or numerous apps then run in to problems. The biggest waste of space on the tablet is the 1.5GB addon partition where there is a copy of all the apps installed on your tablet stock. Then the cache partition is almost 800MB, it would be fine at 500MB or even less, so there is another 300MB wasted. All told there is at least 1.8GB of the 8GB of internal storage tied up on things you rarely if ever access.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
I plugged a 16gb sd card in and it shows up but how do I set it so the media will go there and what can I move to make room on the on board memory?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] 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,
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
If it flashed gapps fast and did not show a progress bar on the bottom for a min or two then it didn't actually flash. Which means there's not enough space for gapps to flash. I had this issue the other day. I had to delete wings and then flash again. After that it will show.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] naiveuser:
Dear Chillout2010,

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!
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Chillout2010:
No problem. I had the same issue. I was trying to flash it on a basically new nabi so I was surprised how little of space it actually had. I've been trying to weed out the trial apps and ones my son doesn't like to make room for better apps. In the future I may wipe the whole thing for a straight android setup, I saw someone on YouTube do it. For now I like the time management app so I'll work with what it's got.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] firedawg24:
After two days of trying this I finally figured this out, anyhow is there anything that can be deleted safely as opposed to wings. In other words I want to keep wings if possible. all I really want is the playstore anyway
[Fuhu Nabi 2] DarkAngel:
Just pick some apps that you don't want ( being trial apps or pay for apps ) as opposed to the ones you want to keep like Wings in the system/vendor/app folder.

The member below is clearing out most/all of them and just keeping the essentials for the Monarch UI to still launch the desired apps correctly...... well currently on making the list I believe.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48054237&postcount=1752
[Fuhu Nabi 2] katinatez:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48110238&postcount=1780
[Fuhu Nabi 2] zer0max713:
AWesome!

Thanks you for putting this together. I have 3 kids with 3 nabi 2's and this was quick and easy. They are so excited to have the google play store. I DL'ed the furby Boom from play store and it worked like a charm. I also tested the music and movies and they both worked. Thanks for all the hard work.

mehtuus

jmztaylor - wrote the original root your nabi 2 script

aicjofs - TWRP for Nabi 2, and NabiLabs

t499user - fixed the Android is upgrading on startup bug

Dees_troy - TWRP help

Victoria - made the video that inspired me to work on this script

Hopefully there will be a replacement rom in the future with that emulates the nexus 7! I will recommend this link to anyone with a Nabi 2. :good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Heykrop:
Thanks for the package. It worked great on what will be my daughters Christmas present.

I just noticed they released a new OTA update to include Google Play and Android 4.1. Any idea if the rooting portion of this will still work with new update?

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Thanks for the package. It worked great on what will be my daughters Christmas present.

I just noticed they released a new OTA update to include Google Play and Android 4.1. Any idea if the rooting portion of this will still work with new update?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] katinatez:
All the buzz with update 2.3.11 is over here and root is possible with new TWRP for Jellybean Nabi.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1905674
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Desertio:
Okay. I start the install and defvice is detected. Device is on, in daddy mode, and screen is awake. I choose option 3 to install root and twrp. I hit enter a couple times to confirm. The Nabi reboots into the screen with the writing on the upper left hand corner and I hit enter again. This is where it fails me every time. It says that the Nabi is rebooting to make a backup and installing root. I says "device not found" a couple of times, then gives this paragraph about; press install, 2 pane screen and what not but the Nabi is stll on the sceen with: bootloader, continue, reboot-bootloader, reboot, power off. I hit enter andit starts all over at the option screen. n the Nabi, f I hit anything except poweoff it freezes. Thanks

USB debugging is checked also if that helps. The Nabi is also running the lasts JB version
[Fuhu Nabi 2] CaptnSpaulding:
Where you have the writing on the screen after the reboot, dod you go to recovery kernel? I'm sure that's the next step before hitting enter on your computer!?
[Fuhu Nabi 2] Desertio:
after the initial reboot with the writing in the top left hand corner it does not reboot after that.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] mon5trum:
got a quick couple of questions, i just updated my daughter's nabi 2 to the latest version of its firmware that actually includes the google playstore and various other gapps that I really don't think that my daughter is not going to need (like gmail, hangouts, play books, news stand, etc). so what I am wondering if this will still work on the latest update?, and can I unroot afterwards? (reason I ask is because I got the extended warranty and in case of anything I want to be able to exchange it for another with out issues)
[Fuhu Nabi 2] katinatez:
If your question is "Can I restore to stock firmware after deleting apk's?"

The answer is yes, you also need the newest TWRP 2.6.3.0 for JB 4.1 found in the Nabi wiki.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] hatchetwarrior92882:
Nabi 2 with touchscreen issues and root doesn't stay!

OK, "installed" the TWRP. The 2.6.3.0 does work, as one of the root programs have the ability to test, when I test it,works great! After that I go back to install it,and it doesn't the program says it does but it really didn't!. How do I get root working, so I could then uninstall all the Nabi bloat (and Wings and University)
[Fuhu Nabi 2] katinatez:
You don't need root to remove bloat; just flash minimalnabi.zip in twrp. You could find it at nabi wiki.

Also twrp will root for you, on exit it will ask if you want to root, or you could download chainfire's SuperSU.zip and flash.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] PwnYourFace:
Need a little help...

So, I'm trying to update a couple of Nabi's for my brother-in-law's nephews, but I'm getting stuck.

I follow the instructions 100% fine. But when I go to option 3. to root, it tells me about pressing Install, the two-pane window, etc. but once I hit install, there is NO root.zip file there. I've checked every folder and nothing. I tried setting it up manually and just placing the root.zip file directly into the Nabi, but it still won't find it. It say's "Internal Memory (0mb). I'm confused. Please help!! : 3
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Usually 0mb is a TWRP issue. As in you have ICS TWRP installed instead of JB
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
What am I doing wrong?

No matter what I do I get the same thing, "The system cannot find the path specified". It was mentioned earlier by someone else and they were told that perhaps not everything was extracted, well I made sure everything was extracted and I'm still getting the same thing, which doesn't allow me to get passed flashing TWRP. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
[Fuhu Nabi 2] DarkAngel:
I'll show you a manual way to do it.

1. Make sure you have ADB and Fastboot installed on your computer. If not here is a simple and yet minimal install of it for you:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42407269#post42407269

2. Make sure you have your drivers for your Nabi installed as well.

3. Make sure you have the recovery image extracted from the ZIP file. It should be named recovery.img . To make it easier, just place the extracted image in your C:\ drive.

4. Now here comes the fun and easy part. .......

You will start to issue the Nabi commands via ADB & Fastboot the Image. If you rather use a terminal and already have ADB & Fastboot installed then that is okay too. Open up a Terminal Command Window or Minimal ADB/Fastboot. ( Minimal ADB/Fastboot does the same )

I always do this just in case ADB is running:

adb kill-server

Now make sure you have ADB Debugging checked on your device and it's connected to your computer. You will start the server and reboot the device into bootloader mode:

adb reboot-bootloader

Once your nabi has rebooted into bootloader mode, flash the new recovery image using fastboot:

fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img

Give it time to finish. When fastboot is done, boot the new "recovery kernel" on the Nabi2 by pressing vol-(down to recovery) then vol+ to select.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
Thanks for the instructions, tried side-loading as well as pushing the recovery image through fastboot, both got me to the TWRP recovery kernel but once I'm in there nothing executes. I can't flash any .zip's, can't get it to do a successful backup, I can't even get TWRP to STICK. Once I reboot - from recovery - TWRP warns: "No OS Installed! Are you sure you want to reboot?" Even though the stock ROM is on the nabi and it has no problem booting. But if I go back and try to boot back into TWRP recovery, boom, theres Andy the android flat on his ass. It's like it just won't stick. I should probably mention that the nabi is on stock 2.4.6, is it not possible to flash recovery and root if I'm on this version? Is there any way to roll back to a previous version? Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks!

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I should probably also add that any time I do get into TWRP and attempt to flash< I get the following "updating partition details"

E:Unable to mount '/data'

E:Unable to mount '/data'

E:Unable to mount '/system'

E:Unable to mount '/cache'

E:Unable to mount '/data'

E:Unable to mount '/addon'

and then "Failed" every time.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] DarkAngel:
Which TWRP Recovery version do you have installed since you are on 2.4.6?

I didn't go through the normal OTA process like many so I do not know if the latest Bootloader would not be compatible with TWRP ATM. I don't see why it wouldn't as I had the latest TWRP installed prior to updating to 2.4.6 on my nabi2 and I do not have any problems at all accessing, mounting, or backing up any partitions on my nabi2 after updating. Then again I did dirty flash the backup provided by aicjofs here to include flashing the newer bootloader as I didn't want to go through the hassle of installing all my apps again. I just manually deleted all the nabi apps again and called it a day.

I am curious now and want to try it to see if this is the case or not. I do have both my daughters nabi2's that I need to update to the latest and will give it a try on one of theirs.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
Well, that's the thing, TWRP (which is the default recovery now) says version 2.3.3.0, however now it list the rom as Nabi v1.9.37?!?

I can only assume this is because I was dicking around and trying to flash the old version using NabiLabFull. The problem now is, I can't successfully flash any zips or fastboot any recovery images (other than using mn2ri-v1.5.0-beta2 tool).

Now every time I reboot from recovery, TWRP tells me "no OS installed" and it just hangs on the spinning Nabi symbol. I can't tell if this thing is bricked, or only soft-bricked. I just want to at least get it back to stock but every time I try and flash or push something over to it with fastboot I get errors about no directory folders/files or unable to mount partitions? Please tell me I don't have to buy another one of these things.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] DarkAngel:
You don't have to buy another Nabi2. You can recover again.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
You had 2.4.6 on it. That means jellybean bootloader. The TWRP you are using (2.3.3.0) is ICS and is never going to work right. Use this one http://nabtabhacks.com/downloads/NABI2JBTWRP271.zip via fastboot

Side note: the "1.9.37" you see in TWRP has nothing to do with the actual ROM installed, it's just a note as to what kernel version TWRP is using.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] TheSleezkIng:
i cant seem to find an answer to this... is their anyway to go about rooting the nabi 2 using a mac? I had rooted one of my kids nabi's awhile ago but thats when i had access to the windows comp,wanted to make sure everything ran smoothly before i did the other tablet... wanna root my other kids nabi but dont really have access to a windows comp and trying it using a virtual window is sketchy
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
Cant' seem to get it flashed via fastboot. This is what i get:

C:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash zip c:\NABI2JBTWRP271.zip

sending 'zip' (7835 KB)...

OKAY [ 2.452s]

writing 'zip'...

FAILED (remote: Invalid Partition Name.)

finished. total time: 2.479s
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
There are fastboot and adb binaries that run on OSX. Just install TWRP, it will ask and root it for you when you exit TWRP.

Wrong command line.

Extract the recovery.img from the zip and put it in same folder as fastboot and where you have cmd.exe open

Then type:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[Fuhu Nabi 2] DarkAngel:
You need to

extract

the recovery image ( recovery.img ) from the zip file. You

can not

flash the zipped image file via fastboot. This is why it's not recognizing the file name or partition name in this case. The Partition Name is called the

Recovery

Partition. This is why it looks for this name to know where to write the image file on your nabi2.

fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img

Above code means you are using fastboot ( which is the tool/program ) to flash ( which is the function or task you want fastboot to do ) your recovery ( this is the name of the

partition

you want to flash to ) using a recovery.img ( recovery image file which you would like to flash ) located in said c:\ ( location/directory where you placed the image file to be written ) drive. The name of the image file should be renamed the same as what the partition is called as well.

=========================================

Haha you beat me too it aicjofs......
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
Thanks for explaining that, I knew there was something that I wasn't doing right. So now I have the right version of TWRP but I can't flash anything with it because it doesn't allow me to "swipe" because the screen calibration seems shot with this version (the ICS version gave me no screen issues). So now my question now, is it possible to flash an older stock zipped rom with fastboot? I managed to trigger sideload within TWRP but it didn't load the zip.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
Well that is troubling. I thought there were no touch screen issues with 2.7.1 build. Go to the TWRP thread and get 2.6.3 TWRP for jellybean.

Or just get it off my server http://nabtabhacks.com/downloads.htm (ends with 263 and JB)
[Fuhu Nabi 2] wotlos:
Thanks, 2.6.3 is at least showing working touch screen controls. However I still cant manage to flash any zip files or even view any "restore" file folders that I pushed to the extsd with adb. I've got to say I have never had so much trouble rooting a device.
[Fuhu Nabi 2] aicjofs:
What errors are you seeing? Can't mount /data etc? There has to be a missing piece we aren't understanding, because you are right it's normally not this difficult at all.