yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
You need to install GEL not sure if other launchers expose it too but its exposed under settings after installing GEL.
[Dell Venue] TheSaarth:
So I was able to update to 4.3 v1.16 but the v1.25 update has been failing at the verification stage.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Coming from 4.2.2 you need to use the package program add-on the v1.16 doesn't fully update from 4.2.2 use the package program add-on and this will get your device to 4.3v1.25 the you can update to 4.4.2...
[Dell Venue] TheSaarth:
Yep that worked! Thanks! Flashing 4.4.2 now. xD :good:
[Dell Venue] pessyforall:
Sorry if i had done anything wrong !!!! So i made it updated to 4.4.2 kitkat and then i wanted to try root method .. So i tried #2 kitkat root method and at the first attempt,it got stuck at update binary executable for like an hour so i closed mykit and again started the same root process and it had successfully completed and bootloop .... Stuck at dell logo... What should i do .. ???

SOMEHOW I TRIED TO START OVER ALL AGAIN AND USED A1 METHOD AND FLASHED THE 4.3 1.16 BUT IT STILL STUCK AT BOOTLOP BUT NOW INSTEAD OF DELL LOGO,AN USB CONNECTOR SYMBOL APPEARED... I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOING.. I FKD UP MY TAB I THINK .. PLEASE SOME ONE HELP ME..

WHEN IM OPENING MYKIT .. IT SAYS FASTBOOT ONLINE (NOT ADB ONLINE) ... .. WHAT TO DO ??

I THINK I BRICKED MY DEVICE .. IS THERE ANY WAY TO UNBRICK IT .. PLEASE HELP ME
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Your not bricked let me get home and I'll give you instructions. . .
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
just pm you instructions. . . .
[Dell Venue] xtremzero:
Hi, I had the same problem like this guy i tried to root my device (Venue 8) but it was a lil confuse with the instructions cause i didnt know if i had to do all the steps in the file cause i just made the backup and them i jump to the root process, but i dont know i did wrong and after that i had the same problem booting and the usb logo and them nothing.... but reading and reading figure it out and i fix it... unrooting the system with the same kit.. Well i tried two times to root the tablet and i just keep failing im just waiting to someone can translate the instructions to spanish or another simple way to do it.

My device is a Venue 8 i got it with 4.2.2 and i update it to 4.4.2, there is my confuse i dont know which package i have to use or specific kit, can you guide me a lil bit? :rolleyes:
[Dell Venue] ShrewdDude:
Sorry for the delay in responding, yes I did try the package add-on program A3 option, but it did the dead android thing.

In any case I seem to be doing fine on rooted 4.2.2 unless I'm missing anything special by not upgrading.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
What option did you use under the A3 menu?
[Dell Venue] Sportfreunde:
Are there any kernels that exist for this (asking for 4.4.2). Haven't been able to make much use of the root outside of a few apps.

Also the only options I get under No Frills CPU Control for this tablet are OnDemand, UserSpace, Interactive, and Performance....I'm assuming that OnDemand is the best one for battery? Doesn't seem like it can be clocked below 800ish mhz.
[Dell Venue] raf75raf:
where to start

At first, thanks for writting rootkit and all your work so far.

I'm reading mykit_batch instructions, and i have one question.

My Venue 7 is already upgraded to Kitekat with stock rom, can i start from page 41 (rooting the Venue 7 / 8)

Or do i need to downgrade it or something?

Regards
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
You can just follow the rooting section no downgrade required. . .
[Dell Venue] Sportfreunde:
Dunno if this is a problem on my end but MXPlayer when playing a video keeps going to sleep after the default 30 seconds or whatever I set it to rather than staying on like it's supposed to.
[Dell Venue] deansouth8:
SUPER SU Update Killed Root

Just an FYI that I Updated SuperSU from Market. It wanted to update SU and I choose Normal. Noticed it killed root.

Rebooted and ran SDC option #2 KK root then stuck at custom boot animation, guessing the term is soft bricked.

Simply performed the full SDC root method by manually putting device in fastboot mode fixed. Good to go but, fair warning.:good:
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I've been waiting for superSU v2.0 to come out looks like it just did ill put together an update for it tmrw if work is slow.
[Dell Venue] sakkaroz:
Super SU was set to "Auto Update" and update killed the root as you had.

I had to unroot and re-rooted my tablet by using myKIT_BATCH.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Don't try to fix the root issue.

As soon as you re-root,

SuperSU will automatically update to V2.00 and break root again.

Be patient,

social-design-concepts will fix this issue.

Just a little bump in the road.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I'm working on it now. . . Should be up for testing today. . .
[Dell Venue] drummper:
i just went to apps, unistalled super su update then.. reboot tablet and root was active again, I disable de auto update on google play to avoid lost root again.
[Dell Venue] petewr:
Thanks for your hard work and patience. Rooted and updated to the latest 4.3
[Dell Venue] darklordofthesith:
Hopefully we can get a complete method of doing this and getting root. This is excellent news! Also, I read that the update we got was to prepare for kitkat? Is dell going to push kitkat soon or can we flash an x86 image of kitkat?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
im rewriting the instructions today.
[Dell Venue] darklordofthesith:
You da man!!!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
im working on it now should be up later today i need someone to test it from beginning to end after i complete rewriting them the dell instructions assume your a dev and on windows 64bit im simplifying things to make it easier for every one. if you want some hints in the mean time to make it easier pm me. i'll package all the needed tools and adb and fastboot driver in on zip so people dont have to make everything need from hand.
[Dell Venue] saintii2:
I can let you use mine. just gotta figure a way to let you through the router. Normally, I'm trying to keep people out. pm me if you're still interested.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
you got pm'd

interested but not ready yet, is yours still stock i.m wanting to run through the instructions from beginning to end so it is as simple as possible for all user its going to be a couple hours first.
[Dell Venue] saintii2:
Not stock. Sorry. I finally got it updated last night. Been a while since I used adb. Finally remembered what I was doing wrong. If you want to work with the su, that's ok too.

didn't get the pm
[Dell Venue] darklordofthesith:
Maybe a dumb question, but will we be able to install custom recovery and roms after this? As long as they are compatible with the chipset?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
ok you've done the dell dev part already pm me and i'll reply when ready.
[Dell Venue] saintii2:
My pm isn't working. Not sure why.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
i suspect with some work we should be able to port, i can flash repackaged recovery.img and droidboot.img and boot.img using the tools in the new kernel source. i know how to use the update-binary from the original updates to dump boot recovery and droidboot partitions now. so it will take some work but should be possible, hopefully since the device is so cheap and the dev edition is now out we'll see someone like koush, chainfire, or another dev take on the task.
[Dell Venue] darklordofthesith:
Thats great. It will be cool to have everything with a guide to get this thing rooted. Thank you for your work!
[Dell Venue] jayjr1105:
You guys still need anything from my device? Sounds like you don't need root to extract the new update. I have cellular data at my cabin which I normally don't so holler if you need it still.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
just finish the su part if after i clean it up you wanna test from beginning to end process for me. pm me and ill give you my hangout and msg you when im ready i would like to watch it go from the beginning. before i post for everyone. ok it might be awhile my laundry tub is backing up...
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
social was kind enough to share the root4ed V8 system image with me.

My goal was to repack it and try fasboot flashing it directly to my venue 8. great news both worked first try. After fastboot I rebooted into recovery and deleted cache. Then rebooted and POOF!!. working su access. I then pushed Superuser.apk to the /system/app and set the permissions. rebooted and ran Root Explorer and Superuser immediately prompted me to grant or deny. I could enable rw to the system from inside Root explorer. I should have just added superuser before I packed it but I wanted to make sure it would work first.

I then took the dev install and replaced the stock system.img and replaced it with the rooted image and re-ran the process. It worked perfect.

So what this means is people who may not feel comfortable running the whole V8 developer unit process should be able to just flash this system image directly to their tablet and get root. Since I didn't try this before enabling dev we would need one more person to verify it on their V8. But worst case would be you use the dev install to fix it if it didn't work. Since i didn;t have stock rooted I imaging it is just shell access without the modified boot.img on the dev install.

It also means anybody wanting to run the dev install can replace stock with rooted and have a fully rooted V* when it is done. When I get a chance I am going to add superuser into the system.img and test again.

So if anybody is going to try the dev install and understands the risks PM me for a link to the modified system.img, or if you want to try just using fastboot to flash to stock.

This is really kind of awesome as making a custom rom just became a breeze with this new dev install working like it does.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
For the sake of this not coming fragmented we should all discuss a path forward first as of now I know that this is being done 3 different ways of setting up su and that's not going to be help full when it comes to issues.
[Dell Venue] streak4m3:
I would like to test it out, you can send me the files and steps and I'll try it out. Thanks!
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
I think simplest would a a couple more tests of the modified system.img. Then it would just need your new instructions and a repack of the tools and image. it would be a one stop solution until a reliable root method was found for stock.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I was referring more to the way su was setup the rooted system.img I sent is setup different than how the common 4.3 setup is Its the original jcase did so its out dated also probably be best to dump the dev system image I just rooted and use it then repackage it and I'll package it all together with the batch files I patched today and make it a single download and two batch files to run.

i used chainfires original jb4.3 x86 process i just patched the scripts for intel-mid devices instead of a pc.
[Dell Venue] kairnage:
I sent you a Pm for some more info.
[Dell Venue] bluedisc:
is it possible to install windows 8.1 or ubuntu on venue 7?
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
OK, if ROOT on 4.4.2 is really needed and you cannot wait...

Just do this.

Run myKIT_BATCH,

and un-ROOT your device. [#2 then R3]

After it reboots,

apply the "ROOT with koushSU Installation" [#2 then R1]

After it reboots,

your tablet will be ROOTed and all apps will work great.

Remember,

ROOT broke when SuperSU was updated to V2.00.

SO, just don't use SuperSU right now.

Use koushSU instead.

This will give everybody a working device again.

So even if social-design-concepts CANNOT get ROOT working the SuperSU,

there's "NO BIG DEAL".

He was very gracious and had the foresight to give us (2) methods of acquiring root. Great Job!!!

Hope this helps out somebody jonesing from not having ROOT.

And Please let me know if there is some major problem with koushSU.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] petewr:
Well, it appears neither of the SU's will work for me.

If I do #1 R1 or R2 from MyKit when it reboots after install it just hangs on the DELL logo and the upper right hand quarter of the device gets really warm (between the camera and the right edge). This is either the WiFi or the CPU or both.

Starting up in DroidBoot I can then run the remove SU - selection R3 of #1 and remove which ever SU is there and the Venue7 boots up just fine.

This is in 4.3
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Hi.

Did you do the upgrade from V1.16 to V1.25 (of 4.3)?

This is the next step in the process of getting to 4.4.2.

Reply back, and I'll help any way I can.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
run adb shell cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

like to see the screen shoot of this. . .
[Dell Venue] petewr:
The upgrade to V1.25 (4.3) was the last thing I did last night, followed by installing SuperSu. It ran just fine until I rebooted this morning after one of the programs reported that the Venue7 was running very slow. After the reboot, just sat on the DELL logo.

---------- Post added at 01:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:02 PM ----------

Don't know how to do a screen shot. not my thing. This is the best I can do::rolleyes:

shell@thunderbird:/ $ adb shell cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

adb shell cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5038 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: device not found

255|shell@thunderbird:/ $ adb shell cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

255|shell@thunderbird:/ $ adb shell cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

error: device not found

255|shell@thunderbird:/ $
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
i ment run this

cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

from adb shell
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
superSU version 2.0

i have a little more to clean up but just about done. . .
[Dell Venue] petewr:
Yeah, well, duh! I shoulda realized that.:cyclops:

here you go:

255|shell@thunderbird:/ $ cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

cat /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

#!/system/bin/sh

update_recovery --check-sha1 787da77cd4eacd288e250a0bcb8ec34fb89e495c \

--src-sha1 93ff99b04ed1ab6b84279f6e0051743c74e67ee9 \

--tgt-sha1 bad2810fda479cbfcb72054847a9082c3bb53699 \

--tgt-size 10421248 \

--patch /system/recovery-from-boot.p

shell@thunderbird:/ $

I still need a "blind in one eye and can't see outa the other" emoticon.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
not sure why its not working then hmmm.......
[Dell Venue] petewr:
When I ran Root Checker it told me the device was really slow. That was what started all this. :eek:

Maybe I should upgrade to 4.4. (my Nook Tablet (rooted) just updated to 4.4.4)

---------- Post added at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:40 PM ----------

Maybe it just doesn't like me? :laugh:

---------- Post added at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:41 PM ----------

What is 'Xposed Framework'?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
awesome sauce for stock / close to stock aosp roms . . .
[Dell Venue] petewr:
And what does it do for us?
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
myKIT_PATCH-v1.0.F.zip update for superSU 2.0

superSU 2.0 patch

i'll update the original post when i get a chance but here is the patch to update the superSU installation that's in myKIT_BATCH.

This patch contains the previous 1.0.E patch as well as the new patch 1.0.F for superSU 2.0 follow the instructions in the original post for applying the 1.0.E patch to set this up. . .

no need to unroot before updating the superSU installation on your device i've added a check to resolve the double rooting boot loop issues. . .

let me know if there are any issues. . .
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Hey SDC.

Just updated using your new patch.

Everything seems OK.

After updating and ROOTing 4.4.2,

I opened SuperSU, and was already at v2.00. Success!

The only disappointment was having to wipe the device again and start from scratch.

Great job though.

TYVM for all your work.

Is there really any big benefit using SuperSU over KoushSU?

The KoushSU approach seemed to work fine.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Why did you have to wipe? You could of just ran the root part of the kit?

Koush's hasn't been updated in a while, i was using Koush's but superSU seems to use less memory and more up to date.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
You said "follow the instructions in the original post" and I did.

And in the instructions for the patch, it says to run A3.

I guess I interpreted the instructions wrong. My mistake.

Well, it worked, so TYVM.

Gotcha your drift on Koush.

I have 3 Dell Venue 8s now,

so I try to do the next one bu just applying the Root Patch. [#2 / R2]

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
A3 is package program add-on I was referring to to applying the patch instructions sorry about that.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
No problem SDC.

Well, I just did the 2nd Dell.

I took less than a minute, using menu commands [#2 / A2].

Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am (Sir).

After opening Busybox, the only option was to re-install.

It did without a hitch.

Xposed had to be enabled again.

It also did with no problems.

All is well again.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

Job well done.

To to go over this again,

download SDCs "superSU 2.0 patch",

install it, then start myKit, and when you get a green screen, do the commands: #2 then A2.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] LordKillZone:
DroidBot

How i can factoryreset useing Droidbot??

Becouse my device not strating. Stay on Dell Logo. Please help.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Press the Volume Down Button, then press and hold the Power Button. (Hold them both)

It takes about 20-30 secs to get into the recovery menu.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
You could do fastboot -w or select recovery from the menu in droidboot then when you see the recovery screen press up and power to access the recovery menu. If that doesn't work option A3 is the easiest way to restore the device to factory state of jb4.3v1.25
[Dell Venue] hunterk11:
What did you do to brick it?

Please quote me in replies.

Sent from Dell Venue 8 with Tapatalk
[Dell Venue] :
KitKat Venue 7. Idk how but lost root after some reboot , I also lost my lock screen and launcher settings . WTF GOING ON WITH IT ?!? I feel I want to throw it by window .

Wysłane z mojego Venue 7 3730 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I've had this happen once or twice seems sometimes when it reboots it doesn't load everything each time came back after powering off unplugged and powering off if it doesn't come back try rooting with the new patch might as well update to superSU2.0 at this time. Now that i think about it this also happened after superSU auto updated that's might be the cause.
[Dell Venue] :
Does it enable me to root my tab without wiping data ?

Wysłane z mojego Venue 7 3730 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Yes
[Dell Venue] :
Will do it tomorrow cuz now I go to sleep

Wysłane z mojego Venue 7 3730 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Dell Venue] megaghostgamer:
hmm 39.2 MB Update for my Venue 8. Going to download it, I have no intentions of root. I'll let you know if I see any differences.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
I downloaded but its bed time I'll investigate tmrw. . . so please do let know and if a rooted user wants to copy it from cache and send it to me for investigation please do.
[Dell Venue] megaghostgamer:
Alright, it's not a small update to 4.4.3 or anything. I notice nothing different. Probably just bug fixes.
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Wanna test ART? Kernel Version? SW looks to be v1.31.
[Dell Venue] megaghostgamer:
Can't test ART because incompatible with some apps I've read some places.

Android Version - Still 4.4.2

Software Version - Venue 8 3830_KK4.4_V1.31_140526-NoModem

Kernel Version - 3.10.20build@build167 #1 Mon May 26
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Got the same update OTA for my Venue 8.

But when I tried to install it,

it got about half way through and gave me an error.

Not sure where to go here.

Did anyone send you this version yet, SDC? (Like you requested)

If not,

please tell me how to get the file from my cache,

and I'd be happy to send it to you.

Thanks.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
Use any root explorer navigate to /cache and copy the ota to your sdcard then upload it somewhere and send me the link.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Hey SDC.

Thanks for the quick reply.

OK. I understood what you said,

but cannot find the file.

I downloaded ES File Explorer,

and when I navigate to my /cache directory,

it just says "Empty Folder"

/logs is Empty too.

WTH am I doing wrong?

As far as putting it somewhere that you can find it.

Should I create a Dropbox?

What do you suggest?

Sorry for my stupidity.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] stang48317:
ART is not working after the v1.31 upgrade on my Venue 7. I changed Dalvik to ART and the tablet rebooted. It just froze with the Dell boot logo. I manually powered the tablet off by holding down the power button. I turned the tablet back on and it booted fine into Android, however it was switched back to Dalvik.
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
UPDATE

Ok SDC

Here is the link to the files.

Not sure if I got the right ones or not.

I included all the logs also.

PLEASE let me know.

Thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fe19mcf3jnk3r2r/AAB6ZN4Dx8-UrQ4m00MLdwgpa

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
OK I'll update everyone once I have a chance to review today thanks
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
you removed apps from /syste/app/ that's why the ota failed after i figure out if its still root able and if so update the kk root packages you'll have to reflash back to 4.3v1.25 and the update to kk4.4.2v1.26 before kk4.4.2v1.31 update could be applied see the excerpt from your log below:

The way Dells ota's work is by patching the files that are already there on the device so when an app gets removed or replaced with a version other than the version ota expects it cause the update to fail.

at work now hope i can get everything updated on lunch.

the zip you uploaded isn't the ota, its garbage left over from the A3 package program add-on guess i have some more clean up todo on that package. i suspect that it deleted the ota when it failed you probally wont see it again until you wipe-data / factory reset the device maybe another v8 user could upload it for me. . .
[Dell Venue] BirdmanDon:
Hello again SDC.

OK,

I followed all the steps you outlined and successfully applied the latest OTA update.

It seems that even if the OTA is successful, the file will be deleted after the update.

I had to download the update, then cancel the install.

This way the file remained.

Here is the link to that file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hy48zn2hy..._user_signed_US_update_gota_package_26-31.zip

I guess I messed it up,

and I appreciate you pointing out my problems.

The main reason I un-installed the un-wanted APPS,

is because my device will not stay fully charged when plugged into a computer.

It will, if I plug it into the Wall Power as provided by DELL.

I guess our tablets consume more mA than is allotted by the standard USB 2.0 port.

But, when I did delete most of the pre-installed APPS,

it stayed charged at 100% (plugged into a computer) with no problems.

NOTE TO EVERYONE ELSE:

DO NOT remove any pre-installed APPS with any type of "ROOT app delete".

It will break OTA updates as it did mine.

Thanks again for all your help.

CHEERS!

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UPDATE.

OK, so the v1.31 update was applied,

and it DID break ROOT.

I just re-ran myKit and re-applied ROOT using menu option: [ #2/R2 ]

and it booted fine, and SuperSU V2.00 ran with no errors.

Now time to reinstall all the other APPS and see if any other problems exist.

CHEERS!
[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
just so you know using the v1.26 rootkit will break future OTAs just finish the changes need for v1.31 for v7 so ill update the one for the v8 and upload when done. . .