[Android Head-Units] pdanders11:
FWDN

I think I'm close to having the board back up and working. Took a step back somewhere blowing away the MBR but luckily the unit boots from a hidden partition the supports fastboot and FWDN.

Learned A LOT about FWDN the last 24 hours. Will try to document later.

things to note

- my dumb system didn't like my UART usb2TTL connected to the same external USB HUB as the OTG/FWDN cable. Argh

- used FWDN 2.30

- many INI's floating out there. had best luck deleting and starting from stratch.

- ini is located in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows

- CFG INI setting these to 1 seemed to help leave some partitions empty

FORMAT Option=1

Adaptive Disk Image Write=1

- The other INI - this "AREA Section" got me back the partition table and CWM

[Area Section]

Area 0's Temporary Image File Path=NAND Data.fai

Area 0's Disk Partition Number=3

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 Sectors=20480

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 ImageFile Path=boot.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 0 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 Sectors=962560

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 Use SourceFolder=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 ImageFile Path=recovery.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 1 Partition Type=33

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 Sectors=716800

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 VolumeLabel=DEAD

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 ImageFile Path=ndda3.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 2 Partition Type=11

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 Sectors=307200

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 ImageFile Path=ndda5

Area 0's Disk Partition 3 Partition Type=131

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 Sectors=20480

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 ImageFile Path=recovery.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 4 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 Sectors=10240

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 5 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 Sectors=10240

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 6 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 Sectors=2048

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 7 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 Sectors=2048

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 8 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 Sectors=307200

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 ImageFile Path=ndda11.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 9 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 Sectors=20480

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 ImageFile Path=ndda12.img

Area 0's Disk Partition 10 Partition Type=131

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 Sectors=16384

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 ImageFile Path=ndda15

Area 0's Disk Partition 11 Partition Type=131

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 Sectors=2048

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 12 Partition Type=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 Type=1

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 Sectors=4066

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 VolumeLabel=

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 Use SourceFolder=0

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 SourceFolder Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 ImageFile Path=

Area 0's Disk Partition 13 Partition Type=6

I'd like to get a full FWDN image made sometime but for now i did a crude FWDN to get to CWM recovery to stock recovery to update and things seem back

If anyone has bricked cards, may be able to get them going or take them off your hands as long as the OTG pins are not shorted (blown).

---------- Post added at 07:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:19 PM ----------

I'm having no luck with the SDCARD. figured I was doing something dumb but I'm stumped. Can't mount or format it via CWM. Will get dmesg logs shortly.

What i saw was the SDcard timing out.

I'll ask the obvious. We are talking the large SDCARD behind the display correct? is there a size limit? I'm using a 16 GB. Android sees it as damaged and is spinning it's wheels formatting. tried a few cards.

---------- Post added at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:23 PM ----------

I guess i'll throw out my last confusing question. I dumped the MTD partition long ago and dropped it on FWDN and it was reported as KERNEL.

Where is the main kernel for this guy? we have "Little Kernel" for bootloader. I've been assuming the main kernel is packed in the boot.img. Is right? the /dev/block/mtd still puzzles me what it is and seeing FWDN saying it's "KERNEL" vs BOOT vs MTD has thrown me a bit.

---------- Post added at 08:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:33 PM ----------

@radux.m.dan

I can mount the sdcard via adb in CWM but the automount fails. I think NDDA15 is still left over from my softbrick

~ # umount /sdcard

umount /sdcard

~ # mount

mount

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)

/dev/block/ndda5 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data

=ordered)

/dev/block/ndda3 on /data type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

/dev/block/ndda2 on /system type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

~ # mount -a

mount -a

mount: mounting /dev/block/ndda15 on /datadata failed: Invalid argument

mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or director

y

~ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard

~ # mount

mount

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)

/dev/block/ndda5 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data

=ordered)

/dev/block/ndda3 on /data type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

/dev/block/ndda2 on /system type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,all

ow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-

ro)

~ #

Oh seems mmcblk0p1 vs mmcblk1p1 in fstab?

---------- Post added at 08:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:25 PM ----------

recovery.log

./cache/recovery/log: 7 /sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk1 0

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or dir

ectory)

./cache/recovery/last_log: 7 /sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcbl

k1 0

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./cache/recovery/last_log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file o

r directory)

./tmp/recovery.log: 7 /sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk1 0

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc

tory)

./tmp/recovery.log:W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or direc