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[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
i got it rooted using hitoshi54's method (big thanks for that) and to answer the question of what result i get in the terminal emulator ( if it still matters) is this

sh: cat: /sdcard/cwm-recovery.ima: No such file or directory

[UPDATE] finally found the cause of my turmoil and it was the sdcard. I knew i was following the instructions right. The sdcard slot on the tablet was not connecting to the card itself 100% of the time......... Sorry for the angry post. BIG BIG BIG thanks sparkrite and fipsy and hitoshi54. THEM DARN SDCARDS AND WHAT HAVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
See below

As has been stated numerous times within this thread the ONLY working CWM recovery , as far as we all know, is Fipys modded CWM recovery image.

Also..........

Self explanatory really, nowhere on page one are files linked to or even mentioned to be obtained from "blair.be" websites.

While it is good to hear you have finally managed to root and now have a working CWM recovery it would have been nigh on impossible for anybody to remotely diagnose the hardware fault you experienced, without further information from you, which to say the least, was frugal at best.

That is why I asked that question, if you had told us the answer (before your sarcasm above) then at least we could have explored the reason as to why the recovery image was not been "seen".

Also while fully accepting your apology, please understand that a lot of different scenarios have been dealt with and mostly solved, in this relativity comprehensive thread through people (esp. Fipsy) giving of their own precious time and when it comes to light, (when trying to help someone) that spurious unnamed files have been downloaded from unlinked/unmentioned sites and then questions are posed like :

"Why is this not working.....?",

well surely you can see, how this could be considered to be somewhat tedious/irritating.

However, I appreciate the thanks and hope you enjoy your rooted and backed up tablet.
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
well i ran into another problem now...(who would've thought) but after installing the cwm that works wonderfully i attempted to install the cm7 mod from slatedroid. I got the status 7 cant write raw image eroor everytime. The tablet would just boot into stock everytime. Now im having a bigger problem. Im not sure what i did different but heres what happens step by step

On the supersu app i had marked the box to enable su upon boot

I boot into cwm

Wipe data/cache and wipe the dalvik cache

format /system, /data, /cache

instal update.zip

it then goes through the installer for the mod

assert failed cant write raw image

reboot device (this is where the problems start)

it gets to the hannspad green square logo then boots itself into recovery again saying it needs root access and cant find it and asks to install root. it doesnt matter what i press no, go back, or yes install root, it will just reboot and stay stuck on the green hannspad screen everytime i reboot it it does the same thing. boots into recovery on its own, asks for root, then gets stuck on boot screen no matter what i press in recovery. Ive tried booting into recovery on my own and applying my backup file and it wont load it, ive tried wiping it wiping cache and dalvik cache again, and still everytime i reboot it the same thing happens........ Im so stuck now
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
None of the Cyanogenmods will work this tablet as it does not adhere to the standard Android layout and partitioning, hence one of the reasons Fipsy had to mod the recovery.

Why did you want to go back to "Gingerbread" anyway?

I assume you successfully made a complete backup before you tried to apply CY7 and what exactly is happening when you try to restore this backup?

One option would be to download the stock ROM V4.1.1 linked to in this thread and flash that, if your backup is not working.
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
OK cool and I was switching to gingerbread because I heard jb was memory hungry what would you suggest as a ROM to try? And I will try the stock rom and report back. Also I get the status 7 error while trying to install my back up
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
There are NO third party ROMs for this tablet that I am aware of.
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
Could you possibly check into this for me then since you are definitly more well versed in this. Its where I got my cm http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/404...pad-slightly-blue-edition-v15-updated-231212/ . There didn't seem to be much of A fix for the status 7 error besides using An earlier version of the cwm on it, but is it even worth going through if the cm won't work?
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
Absolutely no point in exploring that avenue,it is for an older,now defunct tablet.

Have you got any further in your endeavours?

Have you managed to flash any of the stock ROMs referred to earlier.

I am not having a go at you, but it goes back to what I said earlier, if you had read this thread then you would have known that there is no working custom ROMs for this tablet.

Look, all is not lost, there are stock recoveries and stock ROMs referred and linked to in this thread, if you cannot find them then by all means please come back and say so, as after all we all had to learn and start from scratch. But when it has been documented and people still willfully carry on and "break" their tablets then it does become tedious.

As far as I remember, a stock recovery is needed to flash a stock ROM, and again, they are referred and linked to in earlier posts.

I have found them, (just now,even on my phone)and therefore so can you.
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
No it fails on every attempt. Cannot write raw image.
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
Which recovery are you using and can you now address the tablet via an ADB shell?
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
I'm still on the cwm v6 it won't flash the stock recovery and I'll try the adb shell just one sec

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Daemon started successfully *

exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: no such file or directory <2> - that's what happens on the adb
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
But /sdcard is the INTERNAL sd-card, not the one in the card slot!
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
Idk then jiggled it around put it back in tried it again and it worked fipsy leave me and my not knowing what the h*** I'm doing alone :)

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Every time I select reboot system in cwm it says no root access do I want to install root?
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
If you want to flash stock recovery you will have to use a stock recovery image (linked to in earlier postings) from within ADB shell using the well known "cat" command.

Please mount the system partition first (also discussed here in earlier postings). Otherwise there is no /system/bin/sh available. If you do not have a working system partition with a shell (sh) you will not be able to use the ADB shell and may only try to restore a CWM android backup as mentioned above by Sparkrite (e.g. 4.1.1: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55548374&postcount=645).

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This only regards to not having root access on the android operating system partition. If you do not have a working android operating system installed you accordingly must ignore it. CWM recovery always has root access!
[General Questions and Answers] xulet:
Is it possible to port the rom from Hannspad 10.1 "HD - T74B our HSG1279?

The specifications of this new tablet are almost identical to those for ours.

Greetings.
[General Questions and Answers] b0joker:
Can you get ahold of this rom? In reviewing it looks like no 3g or 4g not sure that is about. Let me know.. thanks
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
So I tried mounting the system partition and no luck. It won't connect through adb anymore. It keeps saying device not found. It won't install or flash anything through cwm either I'm once again lost. I read through the whole thread a couple times now and can't find any answers.
[General Questions and Answers] IAmUpAllNight:
Hello, first off, I apologize if the questions I ask below are not suited for this thread, please advise if so.

I'll start off by saying I just recently purchased my Hannspree HSG1279 from NewEgg(refurb) for $72(sale price $80 with $8 off with Visa checkout promo)

and I feel I got a very good deal. Obviously not the latest and greatest tablet, but for myself who is new to the tablet scene, it looks to be a great starter tablet for me.

I'm fairly capable and experienced with PC's and a hobbyist VB .Net coder, so my level is far from a tech newb, but yet as I have stated, this is my first tablet.

So being that I link to tinker, I did my couple days of reading up and such on it, found that I would like to root it for app benefits(Lucky Patcher, Titanium, etc.)

and did so using Kingo.

Then I started to read about Rom's and such, CWM, TWRP, etc. And obviously landed here in this thread. :)

And this is where my question(s) leads to, ...while I'm comfortable with being able to follow the steps required to install CWM as very nicely laid out in the first post,

I'm not quite sure of the complete functions gained in doing so.

1) My understanding is that installing CWM allows for backing up, restoring, and testing different Roms, YES?

2) If my first question is basically 'yes', have I read correctly in this thread that there are currently no custom Roms available for the HSG1279?

3) If there aren't custom Roms available, is installing CWM basically being used for backup/restore purposes 'for now', with the hopes of custom Roms becoming

available at a future date?

Thanks for your time, looking forward to the answers and some fun tinkering time with my 'new' tablet. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
Hi and welcome to the forum.....

1) Yes indeed CWM allows you to FULLY backup and restore your tablet.

2) You are correct, as far as I am aware, there are no alternative ROMs for this tablet.

3) Yes, again.

Now perhaps you could do "patimus_prime" a good turn. If your tablet is basically a new tablet with none or few apps installed and containing no personal data, then maybe you would do a complete backup and upload it for "patimus_prime" to download and restore his tablet to working order.

If you cannot, then , when I find time, I will do a factory restore on my tablet and upload an image. Obviously if yours is an already "clean" machine it would be easier and quicker for you do.

Cheers..................

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See my reply to "IAmUpAllNight", between us, hopefully we will get you working shortly.
[General Questions and Answers] heller615:
Use kingo root bud...install usb drivers as posted by fipsy...if you have trouble installing then disable driver signing on your version of windows . download kingoroot and run the program...SIMPLE and you now have root
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
I got it working and I greatly apologize for my posts. If I would've just searched it right in the first place I would've had it fixed in the first place. Sorry fipsy and spark rite. I is idiot. Me and my wife woke up arguing, I blasted dir in grey and got on xda, twenty minutes later tablet fixed. FML. Thanks for the great post. Sorry for being a nut job...
[General Questions and Answers] IAmUpAllNight:
Sparkrite, thanks for the info.

Good to see patimus_prime is back working too.
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
A guide to CWM can be found here: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/

Or in german language: http://www.droidwiki.de/ClockWorkMod

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No need to do that. Nice to hear it's working again. But perhaps others with similar problems could benefit from your experiences if you told us what exactly your problem was and how you fixed it.
[General Questions and Answers] kevinthefixer:
Couple of things I'd like to add to that. First, CWM (or some custom recovery) is not "just in case" something better comes along. As with any computer, Android tabs & phones occasionally crash, often involving disastrous data loss and/or rendering the device unable to boot ("bricking"). In this situation the stock recovery is very nearly useless. A custom recovery such as CWM and a recent Nandroid backup nearly always turns such a disaster into an annoyance with a 15-minute fix. IMHO a tablet with just a stock recovery is a disposable toy, while the same hardware with CWM or TWRP is a valuable tool.

Many thanks to fipsy for providing us with this tool!

That being said, I have just now seen that there is no CWM-flashable Nandroid posted for this tablet here. Since I routinely shoot "clean" Nandroids for any Droid I can get my hands on I have one on hand, I'm uploading it to MediaFire now & will post the link ASAP. Of necessity it is rooted and has CWM. Should anyone want a Nandroid with stock recovery, you could flash the stock recovery back to the tablet (I think I saw it linked in this thread) and create a Nandroid with ONandroid, but it would still have to be rooted, and I don't know why you'd want to do that. BTW this is the original 4.1.1 ROM.

As my internet service sucks, I'll post the link later, it looks like it'll be a couple hours.
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
Thanks a lot for your effort in providing this system backup!

At kevinthefixer's request here is his message with the missing link (I'm not responsible for the content of this Quote):
[General Questions and Answers] kevinthefixer:
Little effort involved on my part, certainly nothing compared to yours in creating this tool for us. Hope somebody gets some use out of it.

Thanks,

Kevin
[General Questions and Answers] b0joker:
Does anyone, know where we could download or obtain the rom for SN1AT74b2e? I could possibly port and test it......if we can get an update or full rom. Thanks in advance.....
[General Questions and Answers] dr_bowtie:
Very nice thread I've read most all of it. Having this tablet myself it hasnt been terrible but does stutter on things occasionally. Those of you that have played with it most would you recommend staying on the 4.2.2 or downgrading the firmware to a previous version? Not really having any issues so far and i have NOT rooted this tablet nor installed any recovery software.
[General Questions and Answers] patimus_prime:
Go back to 4.1.1 it runs so much smoother. And I definitely recommend fipsy's cwm. It saved my tablet from being a paperweight multiple times. I have the FL studio mobile app and it was extremely slow and laggy on 4.2. Since I switched back to 4.1 it runs flawlessly. And fipsy I will post how I fixed my tab just got internet ba k today so I'll get on it.
[General Questions and Answers] dr_bowtie:
Does anyone have the factory 4.1.1 rom that I can install of sdcard? I've got he 4.2.2. I didn't/havent installed any recovery app. just be much easier to flash the stock rom I'd think in zip form from the stock recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
Sorry to say, but there is no stock 4.1.1 ROM ZIP that is flashable with stock recovery. The first HSG1279 tablets originally came with 4.1.1 and so there are no update ZIPs to 4.1.1, only to 4.2.2. If you want to revert to 4.1.1 you have to restore a 4.1.1 backup using CWM Recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] dr_bowtie:
I'm not sure. I emailed the main company to see about the update zips. I do know that mine did come with 4.1.1 but did update 3 times before getting 4.2.2. I remember one of the updates being 4.1.2 or 4.1.3 or something like that. Hopefully I'll hear something back.

One of the emails i have received said there was a newer build scheduled to be released still but it wasnt top priority.... something I've read already.
[General Questions and Answers] kevinthefixer:
Do yourself a favor and install CWM. The stock recovery is designed to prevent you from doing things like reverting your OS to an earlier version, and has no filesystem tools or backup tools at all.

I wouldn't revert to 411 unless you have a specific problem with it. If it ain't broke... But in any case do install CWM (or some other custom recovery if you can find one; AFAIK fipsy's CWM is it) and shoot a Nandroid of a working system, and store it off the tablet. Then play around all you want!
[General Questions and Answers] conor-j:
Hi folks,

Noob warning... but I'm trying to follow the steps to get the device rooted. However, it seems any step I try I'm hitting a wall

I have ADB up and working and the device is recognised which is a start I suppose

I've followed the posting from fipsy (here) and installed Superuser but I did not gain root priveleges. Can someone point me to where in this thread I need to follow to gain root?

Also, maybe I'm going off track here... but how does one mount the /system through ADB?

Cheers,

C

EDIT: OK, retraced my steps. Back at swapping the SU binaries - it goes as follows:

C:\AND\x86_64-20140702\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF device

C:\AND\x86_64-20140702\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
su
/system/bin/sh: su: not found
127|shell@android:/ $ su

Do I need to "mount" the system before I can use the su command?

I'm using the Hannspad HSG1279 (SN1AT71) running stock Android 4.2.2
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
OK, folks give me a week or so and I will upload a CWM flashable image from this new tablet.
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
When did you buy your tablet? I bought mine in November 2013 and it had 4.1.1. The first OTA update I got was 4.2.2 from 19th of December 2013.

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I refer to posting #710!
[General Questions and Answers] dr_bowtie:
I got mine in November as well. I ordered it Online from walmart.com and I actually got it for 89.00. I specifically remember it updated 3 times as i bought this for a work tablet and I used the works WiFi to update it each time. i only used it for the Torque app.... it was a lot better running on the second update but the last update it got laggy.
[General Questions and Answers] luckyornot:
partition

sorry for noob question but would i be right in thinking i need to root the device to change the partition.I wont to change the partition because a few games wont move to tablet even with titanium,so i need to change the 1 g storage problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
[General Questions and Answers] kevinthefixer:
You will not feel lucky at all if you try to change your partition layout. And you would need much more than root to do so. I recommend you abandon the whole idea. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"....

There is a way to fool the tablet into using the external micro-SD instead of internal storage, but I don't know if anyone has tried it on this machine.
[General Questions and Answers] b0joker:
Hello, any luck building a CWM? For the NEW tablet?
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
I have the new tablet (HD -T74B) for about 2 weeks now, way faster than the T71, but cannot root it, never mind trying Fipsys CWM recovery here. :(
[General Questions and Answers] b0joker:
Try using cydia Impactor. You have to install on a pc and then connect tablet.

Sent from my using xda premium
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
Thanks, but "cydia Impactor" is old now and has been well patched against in KitKat 4.4.2.

Some rooters tried, forgot some............Iroot, Vroot, SRS Root, TowelRoot, Kingo, One Click root, etc.

All latest versions and ALL FAILED!!!
[General Questions and Answers] codyw1996:
So is root and CWM possible on a completely stock android 4.2.2 Hannspad SN1AT71? Or is it only possible as of now with the earlier 4.1.1 version? :confused:

Sorry I don't know if this has already been discussed somewhere else in this thread. What deviations do I have to make from the root and CWM method on the first page? The method on the first page only works with 4.1.1, right?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Sparkrite:
No deviations, the instructions will work with V4.2.2.

However an easy way to root is to use Kingo.

http://www.kingoapp.com/
[General Questions and Answers] codyw1996:
The usb drivers are not working for me.

The usb drivers are not working for me on my windows 7 x64 PC. The drivers seemed to have installed successfully but ADB will not see my device. I tried running adb kill-server and rebooting my computer and the tablet. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver and I tried running the "ainol_adb-delete_old_reg-values" batch file included with the driver but that didn't work either. Finally I tried enabling usb mass storage on the tablet and swapping usb ports and I even tried swapping out the usb cable even though I knew that the one I was using was fully functional. USB debugging is enabled on the tablet of course.

Here is a picture of what I'm dealing with.

(UPDATE)

Nevermind I got the driver to work on my vintage Windows XP laptop. Which is weird because on the first page it says that the USB driver is only compatible with windows 7. It's sort of an inconvenience because the laptop only has a 650 MHz pentium III processor and Slow USB 1.1 ports but whatever I can work with it. Here is another screenshot of the driver working with XP.
[General Questions and Answers] codyw1996:
/system/bin/sh: su: not found

Well I finally got adb working properly and I tried my best to follow all of the steps in the first post but I can't even run the first command.

I run adb and I check to see if my device is connected by running adb devices and it is connected.

Then I drop to shell by running adb shell which works succesfully

Then I try to run "su" and I get "/system/bin/sh: su: not found"

I also can't install recovery

When I run "cat /sdcard/cwm-recovery.ima > /dev/block/acta"

I get " /system/bin/sh: can't create /dev/block/acta: permission denied" presumably because I have no root rights.

And I can't obtain root rights on 4.2.2 without first having recovery installed.

I did copy the signed 3.1.1 binary over to both the internal sdcard and the external sdcard. The link in the first post is dead so I just googled the same filename that was in the link (su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip) and I downloaded the same file from a mirror.

Kingo app will not work for me. I get the "Connection Unstable" error. There is nothing wrong with my usb cable or my usb ports. I am able to transfer files to my tablet using the same cable and the same usb port so I know that there is nothing wrong with the connection.

(SOLVED)

It turns out that it was just the old and horribly slow usb 1.1 port on my laptop that was confusing Kingo into thinking the connection was unstable. I remembered that I had another old windows XP PC at the bottom of my closet which has usb 2.0 ports. So I was able to successfully install the usb drivers onto it (You don't need Windows 7 for the drivers to work.) and Kingo worked like a charm. After Kingo finished rooting my device I just ran "cat /sdcard/cwm-recovery.ima > /dev/block/acta" on the device from a terminal emulator. It worked! I now have CWM and root on my Hannspad.

Yes, victory is mine!
[General Questions and Answers] z3r0t0l0rEnCe:
Good work
[General Questions and Answers] fipsy:
Maybe [MENTION=4867965]Omegadrive[/MENTION] should upgrade the first posting with the content of message #710 which describes an easy and failsafe method for rooting and flashing CWM from any Android version.