yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
at this point i'm gonna say doubtful proprietary graphics are always a hang up, thats not to say i'm not going to be trying to port something over.
[Dell Venue] Cookie Ninja:
Hope springs Eternal. Have faith, something will come up......
[Dell Venue] saintii2:
right now, I'd be happy with xposed framework or a deodexed rom.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
i just wanted to answer the question in the most truthful way i could proprietary graphics are going to be the biggest setback for building a custom roms with that said check threads for the samsung tab that has a clovertrail soc it be the biggest indication of how progress is coming in the custom rom department for clovertrail.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
i'll deodexed the v7 after i finish getting the image updated.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
only a joke

maybe i should start collecting donations so i can buy myself a V8 and maintain both devices...... that was a joke
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
The closest I came was bootable but unstable for deodexed. I had to push each file individually and set chown and chmod. If I tried anything batch it wouldn't boot at all. With 2 other deodex tools it won't even boot at all. Next step is to take the deodexed files and try to build the system image then flash it. I was thinking rockchip doesn't like time stamps changed so I will try that when I build it.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I'll let you know if I have any luck with this now I can actually work on the android side of things and not the command line only.

Quick question the dev edition changes the initial start logo to an Intel inside correct?
[Dell Venue] saintii2:
Correct. First the Intel logo for like 10 seconds then the dell logo.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
lol my Venue 7 shows the Intel logo now because of what i had to do to unbrick it. lol
[Dell Venue] joanthanmajh:
I already used your modified image but can i still help?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
You have the V8 correct? If so did you do the full dev or only rooted system? Either way future testers are always welcome this is a community project.
[Dell Venue] jd95:
have it rooted, been a while since I used all the commands but remembered how
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
PM if you have the Venue 8 and only did the rooted system flash I need to dump factory boot recovery and fastboot images files off of one. Include in the PM if you did the 6.8MB update before flashing the rooted system.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
You have earned it. Nothing wrong with a donate link.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
it would only be so i could buy a v8 to properly maintain both device with future updates for everyone. i think i got a users that's gonna let me give him some instructions to dump the factory images off so i can manually apply the patches and release a restore to factory for everyone. that's the weekend project for me after i get the thread updated with the new flash package for users not so familiar with adb and fastboot that just want a rooted system. I'll send you the images first for testing.

correction miss read he did the dev still hunting for a user that only flashed the rooted system for v8....
[Dell Venue] death-people:
this method is useful on 4.3 v7,4.2 will be stay at logo after last
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
Check with streak4me. I think he might have been the one who straight flashed the image. He couldn't get the dev to work so he asked for the straight system. If not I have another user on another forum I can walk through the fastboot then hook you two up.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
pewpew
[Dell Venue] :
Well , now I have root but what happened with play store ? Still no connection error

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Well , then update to 4.3

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[Dell Venue] death-people:
my device cant go to system,its stay in the first screen ,only can see dell logo ,how to update to4.3:confused:
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
its uploading note the new process will update everything to JB4.3 version and wipe data / factory reset to ensure people coming from 4.2.2 don't have this issue i'll PM the link to you after it uploads.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
this is US version only not sure what changes may need to be made for other regions.....
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
when i go to run part two, it sits on writting fastboot forever, is this what you ment by saying it takes forever? my pc went to sleep before it was finished, woke up process was interupted and have to do it again lol
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
they don't exist its one issue we have, dell has not released a full-update.zip only patches-update.zip, so there is no full boot.img, recovery.img, or droidboot.img, i can only extract the kernel and ramdisk from the /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (reserved) partition dumps all three are located within this 256MB partition, i'm a hobbyist not a dev so im not to sure how to extract the images as a whole from the /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (reserved) partition dumps.

the tools for unpacking and repacking are on my github but use-less for repacking as it needs the base image for repacking to copy the boot stub from (boot cmd) but even then we couldn't flash unsigned .img through droidboot.

https://github.com/social-design-concepts/intel-boot-tools

original thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1972589

tur1, created the original tools all i did was flip the default padding as it is more common on the Intel images.

i was able to extract the kernel and ramdisk by from the /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (reserved) partition dumps by opening them up in a hex editor and locating the offset of "init=" for each image then changing the HEAD_PADDING in the bootheader.h and the recompile the tool for each offset. and unpack. as i said earlier i'm unsure how to extract the .img as a whole.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
Can you get the person with the rooted 8 to dd or cat the image off? That's all we would need. Unless the intel system is different.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
thats how i got the mmcblk0p1.img i extracted the kernel and ramdisk from, they are all contained within the 1 partition not individual locations as you see on most devices, as for the mmcblk0boot, mmcblk0boot1, and mmcblk0gp, dumps are just null space.

id assume it could be dd out of the image with something like dd if=mmcblk0p1.img skip="start of image" count="to the end of image" bs=1 of=whatever-image.img but i don't understand the math well enough to figure out the skip or count. needed for each image.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
Yeah thanks, I was doing some more reading and saw that it was all in one partitions. The math is beyond me as well.
[Dell Venue] :
PEOPLES !!! I FOUND SOME MENU IN SECRET CODES WHERE IS OEM MODE OFF/ON . ITS OFF BY DEFAULT , IN BOOTLOADER WAS : FLASH IS UNSUPPORTED IN PRODUCTION BUILDINGS . WILL TRY TO FLASH CWM AT OEM MODE ON AND POST HERE RESULT ...

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[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
And here I thought I knew most of the dialer codes
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
What dial code is this or app did u use?
[Dell Venue] stang48317:
Deleted
[Dell Venue] :
Its 759

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[Dell Venue] hellios1:
Its *#*#759#*#* to be exact.

BTW any succes with flashing anything?
[Dell Venue] :
no but some behaviors in flashing is else

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[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Ok after see what code launches, that's modem related stuff I believe and even if it enabled flashing under droidboot we are still stuck with the issue of not being able to repack the images with out a base image to copy the boot-stub from.
[Dell Venue] :
there is some oemmode

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[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I believe its for debugging the modem by the manufacture (OEM)
[Dell Venue] :
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It was OFF by default

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[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Its off on all devices by default. Did changing this allow you to flash an unsigned .img ? If it did please state as such.
[Dell Venue] :
no. sill error . so secret codes : no

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[Dell Venue] JoeKimpel:
Fastboot under Linux

Hi all,

Has anyone been able to get Fastboot to recognize this device from a Linux machine? Adb sees it in Windows or Linux, but Fastboot only sees it from Windows.

-- Joe
[Dell Venue] saturnzeus:
Mine too, fastboot unable to detect in arch linux, adb is working fine.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
to early
[Dell Venue] death-people:
thank you very much !

that a great news , i can sleeping well today:good: .
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
It takes forever to format everything the writing part of system takes a bit too but not as long as the formating stage. Probably close to 20minute start to stop.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
somethings going on then, i might use a diff computer when i try it again, whole process takes maybe 5 minutes then when it gets to flashing fastboot, writting fastboot it just hangs for hours, when i unplug it it gives me an error in cmd about status read failed too many open files in system, then command write failed invaild argument
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
You have the V8 and doing full Dev conversion correct?
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
yeah everything else went fine, drivers, step 1. like i can completely mess it up and rerun step 1 to get back to fastboot, then run part2, formats, writes boot, then gets to fastboot, downloads, then hangs. the fastboot is 11114kb correct?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Quick question 16GB version correct?

And I have the Venue 7 so I can't do the Dev conversion.

but the file size seems small I'm at the hospital with my mom so I came confirm sizes at this time. Sorry read that wrong that seems correct for the fastboot.img

You didn't try to extract the system image at all the .gz is correct format and extracting it will cause issues and fail.

Look at the batch file try to do the process one line at a time.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
16gb, didnt unpack the tar. im going to try rdling the whole 7z, try the part 2 from there, if fails try dells release, if fails try other pc.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I'd try one line at a time no other user has reported this issue to me. When I get home we can remote if needed.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
if no one else had this happen then its an issue on my end. ill just use my other computer when i sit down with it again. its my backup tablet that already was rooted so im not too in a hurry.

has anyone done the conversion from dell or the one he provided with a 64bit pc? i was assuming yes, considering it is 2014

problem persits on second pc, this time when it hangs for an hour on writting fastboot i unplug and get an out of memory error.

wonder what would happen if i flashed one of your 4.3 rooted images on it after running step1 to get it to boot unsigned images
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
it should work. Is it still booting now? Sorry if I missed that. If it's still booting just fastboot flash the system image. if it is going to where it gives you a USB symbol the use step 2 and flash all the system files.

I think I had something similar happen to me. When someone mentioned the Intel Logo,then the Dell logo I realized that somewhere along the line I must have had an error I missed.

If fastboot hangs when using fastboot through a command prompt then you might be using an older version of ADB and need to update.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
it only boots to fastboot/droidboot when i run the setuppart1

i tried the original dell one just a minute ago same situation, ran the p801 batch. sending fastboot [okay] writting fastboot doesnt end

flashing each manually seems to do the trick, thanks guys dunno what the prob was
[Dell Venue] tomtweber:
v7 Root Failed

I have original out of box 4.2.2 V7. I installed the android adb driver via instructions all went well. did the adb reboot-bootloader, command completed. did the fastboot flash system rooted_factory_v7jb4.3, all went well. did fastboot continue, device restarts then is stuck on the Dell logo forever. I repeated the steps a second time and all worked but same dell logo stuck at bootup. Please help!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
you needed to be on 4.3 i'll pm you the link to update. its not posted yet.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
people really seem to be missing the part that's

says root for JB4.3

when i post the new package it will be safe for users coming from 4.2.2 it has the correct, boot, fastboot, and recovery images needed, and wipes data / factory reset to insure no issues updating from 4.2.2.
[Dell Venue] Cookie Ninja:
Ok, so I've downloaded the v7 rooted system img.gz file. I also have the latest Intel drivers for v7. Do I need to install the dell drivers also? I have the latest android sdk with adb and fastboot running on a win7 pro x64 machine. Do I simply run adb reboot fastboot and run fastboot flash system command? Or is there anything else that I need to do? Thx.btw, my v7 is on 4.3 with the latest update installed (last week, 6mb or so), with software version shown as Venue 7 3730_JB4.3_V1.25_140226-NoModem.

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[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
to start you need to make sure your on JB4.3 most users seem to be missing this fact.

you only need the adb drivers to flash the rooted system on the v7 not the intel soc driver. and you need to be in droidboot / fastboot mode and after your in droidboot / fastboot mode issue the commands in post 1.
[Dell Venue] Cookie Ninja:
Got it thanks. So the droidboot screen is also fastboot mode? (power on and vol down to start?).

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[Dell Venue] tomtweber:
v7 Root Successful

Thank you so much. Thanks for helping me out. I really appreciate it! I didn't get that v4.3 meant you needed to be on 4.3, I thought it meant it put you on 4.3. Your updated file now has mu v7 with root. You rock!!!!!

My only suggestion would be to make that clear in post 1 (Need to be on latest JB4.3 (including latest 6.8MB update) before attempting root)
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Yes droidboot is Intel version of fastboot
[Dell Venue] Breathe of fate:
Will the OTA works after a rooting process?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
glad it worked out.

Its a work in progress.

the instructions in post 1 say for jb4.3 no where is v4.3 listed. I know you can't tell by a simple screen name but I'm a man.

And you don't need to be on the last 6.8mb update it won't hurt anything but not required the images are before this update anyway don't install ota it will break root. Once I get the additional images I need for the v8 I'll be applying the update to the images.

But glad it worked out.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
It will download it will install but you'll lose root. I'll be updating both devices to this update sometime soon after I get some things I'm waiting on for the v8.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
None publicly released yet it took the fact that my device was bricked to even be able to bring root to the v7 the method used to root the v8 originally still has not been made public and from what I heard unless someone else figures it out and releases it it won't be released till August.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
I have had this happen in the past and a quick fix that worked for me was dropping the adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and the 2 adb dll into the directory I am running the batch file from. Never did figure out why but it worked.

Glad you got it.
[Dell Venue] vilehost:
thanx yeah thats a part of what i did except opposite just took everything and put it in sdks platform-tools directory.

also i recreated it to see if i could just flash system like you said after the part 2 hangs on writing fastboot and that worked also. once the tab says flash complete and the console is hanging on writing, ctrl+c it, take the system gz image from the conversion folder and drop it into your abd/fastboot path and fastboot flash from there. boots fine
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
i forgot to put an [MENTION=223139]tools[/MENTION]\adb kill-server at the start of the batch not sure if that's was the issue i still need to test, but i could see it causing problems it you already had the sdk installed and in your path or if adb was already running. [MENTION=223139]tools[/MENTION]\adb command by its self would of known to kill the the adb instance and start the new adb binary if one that was different was already running.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
Yeah I kind of wondered if it wasn't something with having a command that paths to one adb and having the sdk version already pathed keeping it from killing a running instance.
[Dell Venue] cline2:
Is the Dell Venus 8 (they uploaded it on 4/2/14) the same as before??

your files works for me. I cant get Dells files to work for me. So I move the system file in your file and edit it between rooted.dev.system.img and system no problem for me but still cant get HBOGo and AT&T U-Verse to play videos but Netflix.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
They are the same version dell just repacked it with the tools included.

After I get the factory boot recovery and fastboot files you can try them and see if it helps did those programs work before the dev edition.
[Dell Venue] cline2:
Nope before and after are the same. I think some files are missing for dell Venus 7/8. Maybe DRM thing?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Its probaly an issue with them not including a x86 binary and the app not using intel houdini I think there is a way to add it to a file that would force the app to use intel houdini. But please use the non root forum for questions not related to the root process I follow all three so if its something I can chime in on I will but let me do some digging. Not sure if the wife will let me get HBO just to trouble shoot an app she likes showtime.
[Dell Venue] cline2:
Where is other forum that I can ask questions? By the way I just tried Showtime Anytime it plays video. Weird.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2681793

no one seems to post here but this is the propper place for future Q/A topics its probably the HBO and At&t not building to support x86 yet.
[Dell Venue] sic-ever:
So Cookie Ninja is in the same position as me. He has latest 6.8MB update on V7 and as far as I had understood, it's completely safe to flash it with image that you provided for V7? I'm just curious and don't want to have chopping board for ~150$.

Swyped on Venue 7
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
use this package if you like it will install the boot, droidboot, recovery, and system that was used b4 that update, ifwi will still be F9.6C just dont install the update it will prompt you one is available but it will break root.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584261

no v8 user that has done the system only have reported any issues having the update already installed.

but if you are concerned just use that package. i'll be posting a thread on un-bricking at some point its actually how i rooted it to begin with.

thanks tomtweber for writing the instructions to go with the package.
[Dell Venue] rb512:
Thanks a bunch!

Thanks a lot, was able to root my Dell Venue 8!
[Dell Venue] sic-ever:
social-design-concepts thanks for package. I've downloaded it yesterday, but used only rooted image of system. Works like a charm!

And at last Venue7 users has root too:

It's completely safe to flash it even if we have downloaded latest update.

If update notification is annoying, you can go to settings -> applications -> All -> Google Service Framework and untick "show notifications".

That's all.

Thank you once again social-design-concepts for making my dreams come true :)
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
just glad to help today's family day but in between i'll be working on updating Post 1 to make it cleaner and to include the instruction tom wrote for the v7. a new all-in-one for the v7 will be up after i update the post no changes to the images just a couple of corrections to the batch file and adding a back up and restore batch as well as a reboot to droidboot batch. i hope that after i update the images the next release will be more of a tool-kit but simple batch files are fine for now to get users rooted.

if any v8 user would care to write the instructions for the dev-edition conversion pm them to me add ill add them and credit you in the post.

also still seeking a v8 user that did the rooted system only to let me walk them trough dumping the remaining images off the v8 so i can post a full install for it as well as apply the latest update to the images.

thanks everyone for being apart of this community project.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
the only issue with doing the system only flash on the v7 is that if you applied the last update already the boot, droidboot, recovery images are different so install of all future updates from dell will fail which is why i included the correct images in the package. but ota will break root.
[Dell Venue] Cookie Ninja:
Eight downloads and MD5 mismatch on every one. First seven were less than 475 Mb so there was a file size to compare with. the last download was 475 Mb wiith MD5 mismatch (MD5 i got was 29DC79C25FE89A21191449578B0FC979, but the MD5 posted on the android host site was 8fd55d5915496d15797b570fb8208819). I tried to check the .img file also but the same mismatch occured. Can anyone host this file on another file server (Rapidshare/4Share/dev-host?) Android file hosts has many errors in downloading. The site shows 63 downloads out of which I've contributed eight. Why am i paranoid in checking the file size / MD5? Ive has two phones bricking on me because of this and I've become paranoid on file compare before flashing.....
[Dell Venue] arclight25:
SDC - you are the man!!!

Flashed the prerooted image from jcase on my V8 and all is good. (I did have the lastest OTA installed)

Did I miss somewhere, that is it possible to hide the OTA icon? (that that i dont have it installed since the flash)
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
thanks for letting me know i was asking if people have had any download issues, though ive download each file 4 times after uploading to check and im not getting the mismatch.

I'll search for a new hosting site but it won't be rapidshare or 4share I don't trust any download site that tries to confuse users by posting multiple download buttons only one of which is the correct one. I understand advertising but that's a shady process those two sites use. It seems the only time my computer breaks is when I click the wrong download button on those two sites.
[Dell Venue] joanthanmajh:
why not use google drive
[Dell Venue] Tornade69:
can i suggest dev host...never had problems with this hosting site...

http://d-h.st/
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
What's the size and bandwidth limitation / traffic limit I'm sure they have one. I only use it for personal one offs when I'm sharing with other users direct.
[Dell Venue] Breathe of fate:
Maybe Google Drive?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
When I update the forum tonight I'll move the files to dev host and see if its better.
[Dell Venue] eduardito:
Hi social-design

I'm not a tech guy but I have been able to root my phones and would like to know if I root my venue with your procedure I will lost all the programs and information I already have? and if you could please be more especific on how to use the all in one package I have the 4.3 version already updated OTA I would like to have a step by step intructions

I hope you can help me

Regards