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Root, Recovery, Google Apps, and debloating of Coby Kyros Mid7042

Root, Recovery, Google Apps, and debloating of Coby Kyros Mid7042

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Backup any precious data from your tablet somewhere safe, like your PC. Atleast until the operation is done. This is easy as s**t....lol Just follow this to the letter. Tested on Windows 7 32bit, and 64bit.

-Extract the folder 'Kyros-7042-Root-CWM' onto your desktop.

-Double-click the 'adb.exe' file, it will quicky install some extra scipts for the tablet.[It won't actually install anything on your PC]

-Make sure your Coby tablet has atleast 70% battery power.

-With the tablet turned on, plug it in your PC.

-Let/have your PC install the latest drivers for the tablet. When done, safely eject.

-Turn on USB-Debugging on your tablet.(located in Settings>Developer options)

-Reconnect tablet to PC. If need be, it will install more drivers.

-You will need a microSD card, microSD card adapter(so you can insert it in your PC).

-So go ahead, and place the microSD card into your PC, and then you'll need to copy the 'gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip' file onto it, aswell as the 'Titanium_Backup_root_v6_1_4_1.apk' file'.

-Insert that microSD card containting the 2 files into the tablet.

*!!!IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A MICROSD CARD ADAPTER!!!

Unplug tablet, and insert the MicroSD card into the tablet, wait a few seconds, and plug it back in to your PC. On the tablet screen, select 'Turn on USB Storage' from the prompt. After a minute or so, a dialogue window should pop up on your Windows PC screen, close those, now you should be able to copy those 2 files into your tablet via StartMenu>Computer>whichever drive your extSD card is, if unsure which is extSD drive, copy to both. After copying files there, close all windows.*

-While still being plugged in, double-click on 'root_recovery.bat' file. A dark window shoud pop up, and do it's thing, and when done, will say 'press any key to finish when done'. This will install a recovery, and root the tablet, this is needed to push Google Apps Store.

-Close the black pop-up window, and safely eject your tablet from your PC.

-If you check in your app drawer, you should have 'SuperSU' installed, that's good, now open it, and it will want to install extra binaries, install them, and close it.

-Now, power off your tablet.

-While holding the 'Volume +', and 'home-key' button, press, and hold the 'power button', and hold them until it turns on. It will now be entering into the custom recovery you just installed.

-Use the volume button to navigate through the options, the home-key to go back, and the power button to select.

-OPTIONAL~This is a good opportunity to make a rom backup of your current rom. Never know.~

-When done backing up your rom(or if you don't want to), Select 'Install zip from SD', choose 'gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip'.

-It will now flash Google Play store. When done, your phone may reboot autmatically, if not, then choose reboot.

-If your tablet restarts to a frozen dark screen, fear not, just hold the power button to turn off, and try again. If still no luck, go into recovery, and use that to reboot. Took me once or twice to see the Android is optimizing notification.

-Now that you also got Google play installed, you should keep in mind that Google play needs to be signed-in in order to use, and that you might get '.com.gapps...not responding'error message, just go through it and complete it as best as you can, if you can't get the screen to go away, just keep pressing the back/home screen button, or if you can, the home icon.

-To fix the annoying error, go to 'Settings', then into 'Accounts & Sync', be sure NOT to sync Contacts, Photos, and People(Remember, there's no phone on this device, hence the errors). You only need to have 'Sync App Data'checked.

-Now restart the phone, and you should be golden.

-You may also notice, you still have GetJar, and a bunch of other apps you want to unintall. If you want to get rid of these, you'll need 'root uninstaller', that you can easily get free from the Google play store to do the job.

OR

-you can use the 'titanium backup.apk' file that you placed on your MicroSD card. You find it by opening your ES File explorer app, scroll down 'til you see you it, tap it, install it. Hit done. Exit out of ES File explorer.

-Open Titanium, ignore offers, etc..., tap 'apps', and there should be an extensive list of all things installed. Be careful what you uninstall, if you do not know what it is, leave it alone. When you are done uninstalling what you want, uninstall Titanium, and you should now have a minimzed unbloated tablet that you have free reign over.