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[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mohs3nSniper:
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[Miscellaneous Android Development] Shooting Star Max:
Acer hasn't published a firmware image to flash. The only thing you can do is sending the tablet for repairing to Acer.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] KieranFoot:
Sorry, ignore these people saying you must use Acer to repair your device, they are wrong. Our devices are MTK devices, and as such, we have access to META Mode and raw device access to the internal flash memory. Even when in a bootloop you could fix your tablet providing you made a backup (Anton's tool does), you can always fix your device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
Post a how-to.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] KieranFoot:
I already have earlier in the thread. And on Google+, check it out
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
Hi folks,

Is any chance get /system folder read/write on Acer A1-810? I have problem with copy new busybox.

mount -o remount,rw /system get basename not found error.

Or if I try launch bootstrap, it looks like prerooted img not be rooted, because it fails with permission, but applications have root permission.

What I need is fully rooted terminal. But if I write su command, Terminal has root permission, but it's not root@acer.

Is this because superuser app is bad?

I can pull system img from device and mount in Linux, but i don't know what next.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
hi.

i've spent some time to understand why mount is not able to do many of the usal magic. my target was to understand why foldermount doesn't work.

the result was:

* system/bin/mount and system/xbin/mount are 2 scripts coming from the toolkit

* when you try a remount the script replace your command with: "/system/xbin/.mount_wrapper/mount -o remount,rw /system /system/"

* this command WORKS

* other mount command are redirected to busybox and usually they fail. in my opinion there is a bug in the script but i'm not able to find it

* beside the "/system/xbin/.mount_wrapper/mount -o remount,rw /system /system/" command i was not able to remount system as rw so be carefoul not to delete the script
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
I must reflash img file, because I uploaded a new busybox to xbin directory (hard way) and everything give me a permission denied.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
well, the script coming with the toolbox seem mandatory to remount the system r/w.

have you tried "/system/xbin/mount -o remount,rw /system /system/" ???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
I'm sorry. Much work. I'm busy for testing. I let you know.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fbifido:
Reboot loop

Hi,

my Acer Iconia A1-810 is showing this message over & over & over & keeps rebooting ....

"Installing system update..."

How can I fix this?

the Power on with VOL up or down does not work.

can i copy an update.zip file to a memory card and over write this update?

on this page " [ToolKit] Acer Iconia v0.8.1" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40425886

under "Acer Iconia A1-810 Downloads:" what are these labels:

RV18RC07:

RV18RC07_WW_GEN1:

RV21RC02_WW_GEN1:

RV03RC08:

i look at my device and i don't see any of these labels on it.

which one of these update.zip file can i use on my a1-810 ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mastaan:
A1-810 drivers and the (un)famous Windows Vista

Hello everyone

I would like to try to root A1-810 but for now it's a series of failures ...

I first tried Kingo, with which I have root a Galaxy S2 with success, but with the Acer tablet, it does not work, drivers are not installed by Kingo :(

I then tried Acer Iconia Toolkit v0.8.1 but the drivers should be already installed ... I tried to find the drivers on the net, but no way to find a version compatible with Vista, not even on the Acer site, the drivers are only compatible with XP and Windows7 :eek:

Does anyone has a suggestion (other than upgrading to Windows 7:rolleyes:)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
Ubuntu/Linux
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gmobilize:
python error using lubuntu on VirtualBox

I am trying to root my a1-810 from a virtual lubuntu machine ,altough the toolkit python file is extracted ,it claims to be not found.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0g5vr0ta3nxycr/python.jpg

heres a snip which pretty much speaks for itself.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
you need a couple of gigabyte of read/write storage in the virtual machine. do you have it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gmobilize:
I allocated 8gb,but real physical might be a bit less ,could it be related to it? What's your idea?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
maybe you are outside the toolkit directory? try "cd toolkit" before running any command. 8 gb are more then enough
[Miscellaneous Android Development] XIIISlaughters:
The title is slightly misleading, considering there is no root tool for the A3 (yet)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nbone:
For my A3-A10 o jave used framaroot for root my device , in two second without pc

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
Over Linux and Mac you can root the A3-A10.

Framaroot works for a lot devices and for a lot devices it doesn't work. I think it doesn't hurt, that my tool can also root the A3.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gmobilize:
Toolkit finished ,and my A1-810 is ROOTED finally ,big thanks to the Dev.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
Could you try mount -o remount,rw /system?

If shows error or not?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
months ago it was not compatible. nice to see the a1 is getting OLDER. maybe someone will be able to fully unlock it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fashayshay:
I've been trying to root my A1-810 over the past couple of days and I have having nothing but trouble. When I try to run the script in a virtual Linux I just get a python error, no matter which way I try to start it up or run it. Then in windows it says that it can't find the system.img.gz, though I know its in there. Though its not named system.img.gz, just system. The one I downloaded and need for my tablet is the RV26RC06_PA_CUS1, and I downloaded the preferred mirror one. Any advice or ideas as to what I'm doing wrong would be much appreciated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
Why don't you just use a linux live cd or install it (linux) along side windows? You can always uninstall linux after its done rooting.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fashayshay:
Running on a mac dual booted with windows. Can't go and install linux as well.

-Edit-

I got the linux to start recognizing the file, but it's saying
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
don't copy around files after unzipping the package.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fashayshay:
I've got it up and running for the most part, except when it says that its copying the rooted image back to my tablet and that it will take 1-2 mins, it just kind of freezes. Been waiting over 15mins for it to keep going but nothing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
Try Ctrl+C and repeat the process.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fashayshay:
It took a bit but I finally got it working! I had the program pull the img and change it in linux then just moved the img file to windows and flashed it there. I rebooted and it asked for super user permissions, I tried to open google play and it said it had a server error, so I downloaded it using chrome which seems to have no problems. But now google play keeps giving me a server error and won't connect.

-Edit- Got google play store up and working again!! Thank you so much!! Sorry if I've been a pain. Haha ^^;
[Miscellaneous Android Development] neutrale81:
a1_810 whit pre-rooted image

Hi,

Superuser , afer the update, give me error of "bynary update".

Normal install give error.

Install from recovery did't give effect on reboot and the update.zip give me a 'partition error'

Any ideas for resolve?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gmobilize:
Does anyone have success getting to move game data to external SD card on a1-810? Folder mount seems to be giving errors
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
hi.

i've tried very hard to understand what's going on . please, have a look to my old post here for some test on the MOUNT command. foldermount developer said (by mail) that the partition are correctly listed in his opinion, but the program does not work. i gave up with him because 16 gb are more then enough for me, but you are welcome to pick up the problem.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Is this also bulletproof for A1-810 RV27RC02_PA_CA (Canadian version about 2 mo old)?

Is /proc/dumchar_info output used by your toolkit automagically, or do you need a copy to verify the correct working of the toolkit? I will check the toolkit-python-script to answer my own question. No worries...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
yes, the toolkit checks the dumchar_info. if it doesn't match with your selected device it won't continue.

good luck!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] old_art:
need quick answer please...

I rooted my acer iconia a1-810

can i factory reset the device?

is it still root if I reset the device?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigbob_ftw:
I would think you would need to root again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] old_art:
the main concern is...will it brick my device??

that's the point, i want to restore my device, including unroot it.. =)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
Answer for your question is: maybe

I tried unroot my device a1-810 and I bricked it, because I did some changes in system folder. Its because you flash stock system folder and if you dont have the same files, you brick it. If you restore tablet, you will root again.

I send my tablet to Service center and they fix it without problem.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] old_art:
The purpose i root my device is to improve the touchscreen, eventually the app still not working even i root my device...

I did not change any system file, does not apply the supercharger, doesn't uninstall any preinstalled app

is that mean that i can factory reset like usual?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ONDR4SH3K:
Yes, you can do factory reset without problem. But you will have still root device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
MTP or PTP?

[MENTION=3392632]entonjackson[/MENTION]:

I normally have my A1-810 in PTP mode for Helium's sake (even though restores via Helium/Google native backup are iffy at best on 4.2.2 tablets). Now I read the whole thread from start to finish (phew!), and somewhere it was mentioned to put the tablet in MTP mode.

My question is: Why is that required? It is just a slightly different form of access (Media Mode instead of Photo Mode), but, as far as I know, ADB does not really care one way or the other.

I have searched quite a bit, and could not find a real answer to this. Yes, Helium requires it (PTP mode) to activate the internal Google Backup Modus for non-rooted devices, but after that it is all done, and any mode can be set.

Will run the root from scratch on a Live 32-bit Ubuntu 12.0.4.3 (seen as peope have some 32bit-library issues on the other one), as I wanted to make sure nothing else would eff up the tablet. I have seen, in this thread, quite a few people soft-bricking their tablet by simply not reading 270+ pages of items and jumping into the same fault like lemmings. People: RTFM! It mostly is a PEBKAC issue.

So, taking a deep breath, holding my nose shut and going for the root from scratch method. I have, in my 40+ years as IT guy, seen so many (epic) fails, that only after all is finished and the tablet is not going to be an expensive doorstop, will I try to take a sigh of relief and thank you for all the good work you are doing (do not want to anger either Mr Murphy or the deities).

Will keep you posted...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
I think MTP mode is required when installing drivers under Windows.

And also under windows my device wouldn't be recognized in adb properly in PTP mode, if I remember right. But could be wrong.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Windows installs another driver for PTP mode, so that would not be it. But maybe flavours of ADB would do it. However, ADB does work in PTP mode, as seen in the Helium activation. So even that is not what it is. But I will set my A1 810 to MTP mode just for the heck of it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
Or you can be the guinea-pig and leave it in PTP and try to root..then we would know for sure if it matters..:p J/K
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Sounds like a plan. Will do just that, as soon as I get the time (from those higher up :rolleyes:) to start up the Ubuntu Live and dive in...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] preslavchooo:
Bricked a1-810 ?

Hello !

My friend try to root a tablet, but something is wrong and now run by the tablet stays on acer logo and android does not load, can only enter in recovery menu and there. Try it update from SD card, but again no result (crashed). I searched firmware .zip (to install it from recovery with sd card) for this tablet, but not found. Cant install system.img with this tool because i cant install driver for windows and linux.

The exact model of the tablet is a1-810_2Tsv_308T.

What can be done?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Successfully rooted A1-810 from scratch in PTP mode

Success! I ran under Ubuntu 12.0.4.3 Live (so no install) and ran both extract and root parts of the 0.8.1 version of the script, resulting in a cleanly [I hope] rooted device. See transcript down below [hidden for uncluttering pages].

A few questions remain for [MENTION=3392632]entonjackson[/MENTION]:

I am not sure if PTP mode had any impact, but the busybox screen for starting the telnetd daemon remained there and had to be closed manually after the (extract-)process was complete. It could also be confusing [it seems] for a few people that this screen does not change during the whole process. Your script states NOT TO TOUCH THE SCREEN, but I can understand people's reaction to a 7-10-minute unchanged screen.

At the end of the root-process it is suggested that superuser needs to be installed from the Google Play store, but there is already a version put into the system during the root-process (Clockworkmod's version I think). So does that mean your message at the end can be simplified?

Can a system.img.gz be turned into an update.zip? Is it simply zipping it up, or is more needed, as if it would be that simple?

Now I have the non-rooted (taken before startup of the root-process) and rooted system.img.gz files for my machine Acer_AV052_A1-810_RV27RC02_PA_CA, but I am not sure there is a need for other Canucks (GoCanadaGo) to get/see this image. If so I can probably put it somewhere (never saw the need to create any 'cloudy' stuff), but they are over 600M apiece.

Next step: Supercharger...

So a very BIG thank you to all people involved in this process and may the force be with you all!

Below is my transcript:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Alas. Supercharger fails on the mount syntax used, so unable to run installations as they fail for Superchargers Startmeup script. Seems the mount-command syntax is not recognised and rest falls over because of that... Will check syntax of all scripts, shame screen is only 8", but hey, my other [and larger] tablets are not rooted.

Will keep you posted.

--- Added ---

During the running of Startmeup I get the following error, pointing to a failed remount rw of /system:

/system/bin/busybox[34]: [: mount: unexpected operator/operand

Backing up Busybox v1.17.2...

cp: can't create '/system/bin/busybox.old': Read-only file system

...bla...

...bla...

So, my guess is that the mount-command, used by Supercharger scripts may be incompatible with A1-810. I will go inside the Supercharger thread and see if people have mentioned this...

--- Added ---

Script "busybox_v1.19.4_wraithdu_installer_v14.sh" contains around line 88 the following commands:

So we could have the infamous trailing "/" issue here, related to the A1-810. I will post some things in that thread, but will modify the script to see if I can get around that issue for the time being. Hey, I have programmed shell scripts/C/Perl since when UN*X was still fresh and new...

--- Added ---

The mount wrapper needs some cleaning up (or behaviour under Android of command line parameters is different from UN*X):

Giving the mount command as such (no params) gives clean output, but when piping the output to a grep (for example mount|grep system) results in syntax errors, when run in Terminal Emulator on the tablet. I alway thought that the shell would strip redirections and so on before passing the rest to the script. Seems I am wrong in that assumption. In the worst case I will just put the mount stuff back to original [I hope this is just removing symlink of mount and renaming the wrapper to the original name, or has twu done more than that? I will look at the su.tgz to see if I can make heads/tails of it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] preslavchooo:
After i go in fastboot mode on table, ubuntu recognises it as HP:~$ fastboot devices

mt8389_tablet_a3	fastboot

Can i do something when I'm in this mode ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
After having looked into the differences between the pre-rooted and post-rooted system image (/system partition on A1-810), I think the way to unwrap the wrapper is to do the following:

in /system/bin symlink busybox to ../xbin/busybox

in /system/bin symlink mount to toolbox

in /system/xbin symlink mount to busybox

Is that all that is needed? Seems so... (I will rename the old links/files to retain a way back of course)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
I have no clue what you are saying (i wish i was that smart) but i wonder what is your ultimate objective?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
I have unwrapped the special (twu) wrapper for the A1-810 as it generated numerous errors when trying to install Supercharger V6. The 3 items I mentions in my previous message were enough to get everything working without errors (after modifying some of the Supercharger scripts to circumvent the A1-810 special remount to writable mode for /system.

This issue does not occur on B1's for example, is what I understand from older posts. See SodaFR's comments on the trailing "/" required for the A1-810 mount-command for /system only: "mount -o remount,rw /system /system/" ...

For me this is no magic as I am a software engineer and have been working in the IT sector for over 40 years now (starting as mainframe computer operator in the early 70's, punchcards, punchtapes and mounting big tapes)...

My

target

is to get Supercharger working after I got the A1-810 rooted, which got the special mount-wrapper set up by default. After seeing too many errors occur on any other mount-command, other than remounting /system into rw or ro, I decided to attempt to get the wrapper out of the system and do it the hard way. That does need deeper knowledge into shell-scripting, but hey that is one of my many specialties (modesty I am good at ;) ). I know this is not for many others, but I will try to get the wrapper bullet-proof after Supercharger is set up correctly on my A1-810.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vandy87:
ACER Iconia A1-810

ACER Iconia A1-810 i have this tablet wanted to root, have windows computer.. i really wanted to know which system.img.gz i have to download..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Depends on your 'flavour' of A1-810. Look (on your tablet) in settings->about your tablet, and look at the firmware version displayed there. Then look at the first post of this thread and see if, under the A1-810 downloads, your firmware version is mentioned.

If so, download and expand the toolkit, download the image, corresponding to your version of firmware, and put that in the system_image subfolder. And start, in a command shell, started as Adminitrator, from that location the toolkit.exe. Please keep in mind that you will have to "cd" to that expanded toolkit location for the script to work.

If it is not present there, then the only way is to root from scratch. This means you will need to get hold of an Ubuntu live DVD (download and burn to DVD), boot from that DVD and "Try" Ubuntu. This will run Ubuntu from the DVD, NOT changing your Windows Envronment.

The steps for root from scratch using Ubuntu Live CD I can tell you if you are not able to find a corresponding system.image.gz in the first post of this thread.

Hope I am clear in the above explanation. Any more questions on the A1-810 rooting? This is the place for that...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] treetop777:
Oh, Ok. Supercharger have been mentioned before but i didn't pay much attention to it; there may be some value-added to have it installed. Will have to look into it. :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gmobilize:
Has anyone tried gravity box on the a1-810?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
Dont try to change DPI, Fonts and such things.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Hi

Can you pull your services.jar (/framework) ?

Wanna test out something, maybe I can help you guys a bit.

Regards
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Do you want it AFTER Supercharger is set up completely, or from a clean environment?

[MENTION=3392632]entonjackson[/MENTION]: do you want my unrooted and rooted system.img.gz for the A1-810 RV27RC01_PA_CA. Probably not that many takers in Canuckland...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Hi

The original untouched ...

Regards
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Attached the original untouched services.jar of the A1-810...

The manifest.mf (only file in this jar, and 71 bytes BIG) only has 2 lines, being extremely informative (NOT!)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
That would be nice, yes.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Nice

But are you sure there isn't an services.odex somewhere ?

The file is ridiculous small lol

Regards
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vandy87:
Nothing called Firmware

I'm not able to find firmware..

Kernel=3.4.5;

Build number=Acer_AV052_A1-810_1.105.00_WW_GEN1

Can you tell me, I can root my tablet using Windows computer.. if yes guide me a link..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
did you succeeded? i'm interested in this topic but i was not able to do much. it is depressing to figth a mount command while on other devices you can even recompile the full kernel....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
You are right. Attached a zip containing both services.jar and services.odex untainted ... Mea culpa, I forgot about the odex...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
What is the firmware version (not the build number) of your tablet? It is just above or below that build number in your about screen...

---------- Post added at 12:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:37 PM ----------

Yes, it worked, but now you will need to issue the full command (mentions system twice, with last one postfixed with a "/"), and modify the Supercharger script in about 6 places. I can give you a diff-output on the latest version, or even put it up for download, but then this will impact the good work of the supercharger team, having loose versions floating about.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aldolo:
for me is enough to know exactly the commands to issue to remove the mount script. i've tried but without success.thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
Added links to 1st post.

Thanks a lot!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Just_Another_N00b:
Probably add text that these files need to be renamed (all extraeneous stuff removed before "system"). Some people just blindly download it somewhere and then complain it does not work. Also bolden and make red the PA_CA part please...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] entonjackson:
right.