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[General Questions and Answers] AcerIconia:
(Using Intel Android Devices Root / Temp CWM Session)

My Iconia reboots into droidboot. At the bottom it displays

FASTBOOT INIT...

FASTBOOT CMD WAITING...

The console on my computer symply displays:

< waiting for device >

No error messages of any kind appear, it just doesn't do anything..

Also, when i go to recovery mode,

it only has reboot, wipe, demo mode, and "apply update from external storage" options to choose from.
[General Questions and Answers] dawgdoc:
Have you checked that adb drivers and device drivers are correctly installed?

While your phone is connected, open Device Manager and see if you have any yellow triangle with exclamation point icons indicating the drivers may not be properly installed. Something like I put in the heading of this post.
[General Questions and Answers] vinnyconno:
Hey guys. Just wondering if there is a way to go back to the original firmware that came with this tablet.

I accidentally deleted something and can no longer update it.

I rooted it with social design concepts method.

Cheers
[General Questions and Answers] dawgdoc:
You shoulld be able to flash the original system image using fastboot. I have seen instructions by s-d-c in his original root thread on the commands needed to do so. (I once deleted the recovery in an attempt to install a custom recovery that was reported to be developed for this device and used those fastboot commands to restore my device.)

Only thing is that I am not sure that the links for the system image are still active.
[General Questions and Answers] 50pounds:
I cannot install these drivers on windows 10 :S whats going on?

looks like ill have to get the windows 7 hdd out :S
[General Questions and Answers] superforever360:
I did a google search and found some claimed they have working lollipop ROM for A1-830. Are they real?

http://lollipoprom.website/acer-iconia-a1-830-16gb-nt-l3wee-004-custom-roms.html

http://lollipopupdates.website/down...5-1-for-acer-iconia-a1-830-16gb-nt-l3wee-004/
[General Questions and Answers] SuperT.A.:
I don't think they are real, I've seen something similar to that claiming they have a Lollipop ROM for the Amazon Fire Phone.

(I could be wrong, that's just my guess.)
[General Questions and Answers] mirosaw2:
I'm having a big problem with one of A1-830 tabs,

i think this tab got bricked since it's showing only an USB sign on the screen, and PC recognize it as Cloverviewplus,

i've tried to use all Intel Flash Tools in a try to revive it, but i couldn't, most ot the tools can see the device but can't flash it since it needs file called "flash.xml" into the firmware zip file, which i can't find into all firmwares for this tab,

also tried with xfstk downloader to flash (ifwi, dnx_fwr, dnx_osr and fastboot.img.POS.bin) but it gives me error at the very first part of flashing,

now i have nothing to do with the tab, so if someone can help me in this, that'd be much appreciated,

thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] darkfilth101:
Hi, i have acer iconia a1-830 android 4.2.2.

i tried rooting it with kingo then it softbricked it. bootloop in acer logo, tried recovery hard reset, cache. but still bootloop.

anyone knows how to solved this? Thanks alot.
[General Questions and Answers] dawgdoc:
What were you doing that led to this state?

I once caused my A1-830 to be at the same USB symbol screen. I had attempted to flash an custom recovery developed for the device but untested. Weeks later I eventually recovered the device by connecting it to a PC, entering droidboot/fastboot, and using adb to flash the stock recovery. I pulled the recovery from a stock ROM image found on social-design-concepts myKitBatch thread. I think the images were also linked to on his temp recovery thread.
[General Questions and Answers] mirosaw2:
"fastboot erase factory", i think that command what caused the problem, after that i tried to reboot into fastboot, but tab got stucked with USB sign, since then i can't boot into fastboot again whatever i do, only USB sign, if you can tell me how exactly did you managed to get it boot into fastboot, that'd be much appreciated, also if you have any ideas can help recovering the tab, i can try anything.

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] dawgdoc:
Mine was stuck at the USB emblem for a log time, no matter how many reboots I tried. I think I finally broke the cycle by rebooting while plugged into the charger. That was about a year ago, so it's possible I had the tablet plugged into a PC instead of a charger when I rebooted.
[General Questions and Answers] IamAlexD:
Have you tried root genius app for windows to root your iconia A1-830?

I searched for it and on an website(androidxda.com) i found the guide

Here is the link to download the app:-http://www.mediafire.com/download/faj2xw0aapml06x/RootGenius_v1.8.2.zip
[General Questions and Answers] mike-s:
My wifes one previously had kingroot installed. It got a bit flaky after me installing an OTA update against my better judgment and totally screwed permissions on the root volume to the point that I just couldn't root it regardless of the method I attempted (kingroot, oneclickroot, root genius, iroot, all these via .apk install and via tethered rooting). I ended up downloading a 4.2.2 rom as listed in this post and used a couple of guides (link1,link2) with thanks to google translate to find out how to write the volumes via fastboot. I then downloaded the obsolete toolkit in Post #1 in the same thread. I ran it and installed supersu and it worked perfectly. I wish I'd known about this earlier, I'd have saved myself countless headaches.
[General Questions and Answers] dawgdoc:
Yes, [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] did us a big favor with the work they have done.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I have succesfully rooted my Acer A1-830

I used the famous one click root app called KingRoot, works fine with the latest 4.8.0 update. Now when I opened the app and atempt to root it will say failed, don't worry! Try one more time. So try 2 times and then reboot. Download root checker from playstore and baaam! Worked for me running stock 4.4 kitkat:) Tried with the stock jellybean and this won't work.

Edit: after every reboot you have to reroot using this method

TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
[General Questions and Answers] redlabour:
Can anyone post the latest Firmware or a instruction to Unroot to install the official Update OTA?

acer_av0k0_a1_830_rv01rc02_ww.gen1.zip is no longer available at ACER.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I think I've got it somewhere, to unroot just go in your superuser app and in options or settings there should be an unroot option. To install use fastboot. I'll see if I can provide the files for ya tomorrow.
[General Questions and Answers] redlabour:
Would be nice. In fact my worst problem is to get Bootloader back to original. But if you can provide the Image and i can flash it everything will be fine also.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712463727

There you go!

I made a guide for how to unbrick it here, good luck!
[General Questions and Answers] redlabour:
Thx! :D
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
As for the bootloader trick, I am not sure how to do it, but using fastboot erase and then the partitions, you should be able to flash them complete stock. Don't do fastboot erase bootloader though since we don't have bootloader files, erase the other partitions that you have the files of.
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Acer A1 830 tab rooting steps completed ok, but not rooted !

I have gone through this thread quite a bit albeit it had started few years back. But given this was the only thread with specific relevance to my situation (Acer A1-830) I thought of asking the question here.

I have an Acer A1-830, Build - Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_1.008.00_WW_GEN1, Image - Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_RV01RC05_WW_GEN1, Kernel 3.10.20

It had Android 4.2.2 when purchased and later upgraded OTA 4.4.2 I'd like to upgrade to Android Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougart due to various current limitations that my younge son is unable to use many educational apps.

I followed the instructions as per social-design-concepts (thank you for your efforts) on thread - [TOOL KIT] myKIT_BATCHV1.1.x

- downloaded myKIT_BATCHv1.1.x.7z and SDC_INTEL2_ROOTKIT.7z and Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_1.006.00_WW_GEN1_FLASHPKG.7z (for android 4.4.2) and placed them in the relevant folders C:\ on a win 7 64b PC.

- set Acer in USB debug mode and connected USB cable

- ran run-me batch file in admin mode

- selected 1 to install drivers (installed ok)

- on tablet, answered OK to allow USB debugging mode

- took option 2 for myKIT_BATCH, took A1 for ROOT KITS, took 2 for SDC_INTEL2_ROOTKIT, opt R2 for root with superSU and final ACCEPT

- win PC finished with complete message

- Acer tablet auto rebooted and briefly had a message something like "updating software" (or similar) and normal tablet initial screen showed up.

But when I check tablet info, nothing has changed and if I run root checker basic, it tells me the tablet is not rooted.

What could I have missed or what could be the cause ?

An observation from my part is that I have a Build version 1.008 seems to be a little different from others discussed here 1.006 or even 1.014 in this thread.

Appreciate if anyone can offer some guidance/direction as to what/where to look for. I can provide screen captures of the steps if necessary.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I've grown to become an expert in this Acer tablet when it comes to rooting and other such. The toolkit exploits a feature in the droid boot where you can use the fastboot command "fastboot oem startftm" and use adb to push files to mounted places. The toolkit puts an executable file that mounts the location for adbd and then it pushes a rooted adbd and then it reboots.

First of all, have you got adb and fastboot installed?

If yes, continue, if not, there's the minimal adb and fastboot installer available.

Second, boot your tab into droid boot by either running the adb command "adb reboot bootloader" or powering off the device and pressing and holding the power button and after 1 second, pressing and holding volume down.

Third, type the fastboot command "fastboot devices" and make sure your device shows up and says droid boot or something similar next to it.

If that worked, you can move on, if not, report it here.

Then type the fastboot command "fastboot oem startftm" and then, if all goes good, type the adb command "adb devices" and you should see it here. Reply with any errors you get so we can get ya up n running asap :)
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Wow ! didn't expect a response this fast. so thank you !

Well your expertise is showing for sure. No adb on my win 7 PC. I had adb on my win 10 PC when I first tried this entire process, but it had device driver problems at which point I moved on to the win 7 PC as the driver issues were not there. But helas I didn't check for adb first on the win 7 PC, anyway that is some history.

- Installed minimal adb & fastboot

- adb devices showed my acer tablet (as CLV7CFFAE41 )

- ran "adb reboot bootloader" no issues

- ran "fastboot devices" no issues and showed same device as fastboot

- ran "fastboot oem startftm" no issues tablet showing RESULT: OK and on PC OKAY & finished

- ran "adb devices" no issues except it shows device name and "unauthorized" next to it

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I think that should be fine (I'll confirm tomorrow).

I'll have to guide you step by step, manually rooting the device and we'll see when/where the issue occurs :) I'll just have to get the files for ya first. Should be up tomorrow
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Not sure if I was supposed to look for the files somewhere, let me know if that is the case. Otherwise I will wait.

I also found that adb executable files were in one of the myKIT Tool folders from social-design-concept.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Nearly a month after (so sorry! Got busy with school) and I can not believe I forgot to ask you to unlock your tablet and confirm the popup that comes when you launch adb.
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Better late than never ! I already gave you the answers to the steps you asked me to do before. I thought you were going to give me some "files" before I can do anything based on your previous note which is why I was waiting for them with your instructions. If that is not the case can you give me some idea as to what exactly you want me to do ?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I want you to see what android version you have by going into settings and scrolling all the way down to about device and report the android version.

Next thing I want you to do is enable usb debugging which you can check out a tutorial out on here (if you have any questions about this part, reply to me in this thread)

That is pretty much it!
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Sorry I thought I had already done those in previous posts.

Anyway, Android version - 4.4.2

IAFW - F9EE

Kernel - 3.10.20

Image - Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_RV01RC05_WW_GEN1

Build - Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_1.008.00_WW_GEN1

and it is already in "USB Debugging" enable mode in Developer Options.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Okidoki, that should be it! I will hopefully be complete with the guide tomorrow!
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
This might come of as a terrible question, but anyway. When you tried the toolkit (if you even did), did you get the option to root jellybean or kitkat? Because if you didn't, I know what the issue is.

Edit: I will need this information before I continue with my tutorial.
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
I did try the tool kit several times at that time (about a month ago), but I don't recall seeing an option to select jellybean or kitikat. I went over all my notes and screenshots I captured during the execution of various steps for myKIT_BATCH v1.1.2d. If you want I can send you some of the screenshots I took.

With my limited knowledge, I thought we have to install whichever the android OS version after the rooting is properly completed, but as I said that is my limited knowledge.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
If you can, send me the screenshots.
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Here is a bunch of them from the Win 7 screen when I ran it. If you need me to run the tool again for new details just let me know.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Huh, that is interesting. Seems like it worked. Did it install any superuser applications like supersu? If it didn't,try and install one and see if it detects anything (you can install supersu from the google play store). I do think I saw some pretty interesting stuff that I didn't see before, but do this first and we'll see.
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
I thought I had installed SuperSU from google apps before I ran it last time. But since I couldn't find it on the tablet, I installed it again, connected the USB and ran through the entire process again, toolkit batch file completed with the same message saying OK. But when I check on the tablet using root checker, as before it says the device is not rooted.

One observation I made here is that during the toolkit process somewhere, it had deleted/uninstalled the SuperSU app that I had just installed few minutes earlier on the tablet. So something was removing it. Not sure if I was supposed to do any setup for the SuperSU app. I captured same screens again, but nothing new there.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
I checked the source code and it does install SuperSU which might overwrite your current installation. Thanks for the info btw, you respond pretty quick with relevant info. I discovered a little thing in the source code while trying to make the tutorial that might slow the process of writing the guide down.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Update:

Have you tried the tethered recovery that social-design-concepts have created?
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Sorry, No I haven't as I am not sure what steps are to do that. Is it one of the menu options off of his run-me batch file ?

I can certainly try, if you can please point me in the right direction.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Sure thing buddy! Are you ready? Are you 100% sure you are ready? Because, here comes the almighty link to the almighty tool that will hopefully root your device, welcome Temporary recovery session to the stage!
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Great. Thank you. I will do this tomorrow properly so that I can follow the instructions properly and do it right without making any mistakes. I downloaded the files last night, but I will prepare properly today to do it tomorrow and will report back to you on how it goes.

Thanks again.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Sweet, hey, do you have skype or something else I can reach you and we might chat or something on?
[General Questions and Answers] bdias:
Yippeee !!!

After a few false starts and almost giving up, I finally made it and eh voila, my Acer Iconia A1-830 running Android 4.4.2 is now rooted !

For the benefit of anyone who may have a similar tablet, here is what I did with razerzdahacker's help and files/instructions from cocial-cesign-concepts (Thanks to both !).

- I downloaded the 2 files ( SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SR3-20170114223742.zip and IntelAndroid-FBRL-07-24-2015.7z ) from the other post from SDC ( https://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096 )

- Unzipped the file "IntelAndroid-FBRL-07-24-2015.7z" on my Win 7 PC C: drive

- Connected the Acer tablet via USB to the PC and copied the other downloaded file "SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SR3-20170114223742.zip" to the root folder on the tablet

- open the unzipped folder on Win 7 PC and ran the batch file "launcher.bat" file as Administrator

- entered "ACCEPT" (and this next menu is where I kind of got confused and wasn't sure which option to use. After a few failed attempts), took recovery option 2 (for twrp_hdpi_portrait.zip)

- then took option T1 (for launch using oem startftm trigger)

- then it showed the tablet status as "AD-ONLINE" with the serial number of the tablet and went on to connect to the tablet

- when the tablet had rebooted I could see a rapid execution of commands on both screens (PC and tablet) copying files and the PC gave the message as complete.

- tablet gave me a screen to swipe and I had the TWRP screen I think where I selected the install option, and scrolled down and selected the file I copied to the tablet root folder earlier.

- it completed the install and gave me the menu options back where I selected the Reboot button on screen.

- I briefly saw a message while the tablet was rebooting "Updating Android" or something similar.

- When the reboot completed, I used Root Checker Basic which unlike before confirmed that tablet is rooted !

I guess now I have to figure out which Android version I can install and where to find a copy of that. Tomorrow will be a busy day I think :)

Any help/guidance on that is certainly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] jumio:
[MENTION=7290779]RAZERZDAHACKER[/MENTION] and [MENTION=8161332]bdias[/MENTION].:

all is clear now, thanks for your reply.
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
Hello. Help me please! Tried variants with IntelAndroid-FBRL-07-24-2015.7z and myKIT_BATCHv1.1.x. Everywhere the tablet is defined, but it is loaded into Droidboot. There are no "install" items. There's only "reboot", "reboot Droidboot", "recovery" and "Power off". If you select "recovery", then standard recovery is loaded. Write the answer with short messages, please. Google-translator translates very crookedly =)
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Once you're in droidboot you have fastboot access and that's what it's supposed to say. In recovery you have those options but you can't flash anything besides stock rom. What is it that you're trying to do exactly?
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
I want to get the root. I tried many applications for this. Both on the tablet and on the PC. Nothing works. Now I'm trying to install SuperSU through a temporary recovery
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Tell me if that works
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
Help me get root, please! All I do is not work! Android 4.4.2, the kernel of 3.10.20, the build number Acer_AV0K0_A1-830_1.008.00_WW_GEN1 Maybe there is some instruction?
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
What happens when you tried the temporary recovery? Did it boot you into the recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
No, the tablet is loaded into the droidboot. At this all stops.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
In droidboot do you have fastboot access?
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
No
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
What message do you get when you try to access droidboot?
[General Questions and Answers] WerewolfGang:
Nothing. It just loads.

---------- Post added at 06:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:38 AM ----------

Nothing. It just loads.
[General Questions and Answers] ramiabouzahra:
Impossible not to get a message.

ANY message. Even if it is "Fastboot CMD waiting" etc, ANY message.
[General Questions and Answers] genterminl:
My problem is that with the A1-830 stuck on 4.4.2 there are lots of apps I'd love to run which just don't support that old android version, so I can't install them at all. Is there anything in xposed which might help with that?
[General Questions and Answers] social-design-concepts:
OK just let me know when it arrives , possible may need to make a driver using the standard aosp driver depending on different modes.

Kernel build date and IFWI version would also be useful.
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
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[General Questions and Answers] mbsmith76:
Wow, fast shipping, the A1 arrived today. Looks like you have IFWI version already. What do I need to do to find the kernel build date?
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
I tried googling

3.4.34 kernel.

And from what I saw its February 28th 2013.

But I could be wrong.
[General Questions and Answers] social-design-concepts:
from a shell

uname -a

does this device have adb access in charge mode?

HOW TO CHECK

:

unplug usb from device

power off device

plug usb into PC

wait for charging animation to start then issue

adb shell
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
not sure if i did this right. if not maybe a push in the right direction would be nice.
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
i messed up didn't upload the picture and then i couldn't edit or post something new since the whole 5 minute spam thing.

i tried turning my tablet on and doing adb devices again and its showing something now so im assuming that means it doesnt have adb access when off?
[General Questions and Answers] mbsmith76:
RE: adb access in shell mode. When I attempt to run, the daemon starts, but the device is not found. Could be a driver issue, I'm going to try the universal naked drivers next to see what happens.

When I run the shell command, I get "/system/bin/sh: uname: not found"

Sorry, I was hoping to be more help than this, but perhaps I'm more of a newb than I thought to this side of things.

I'm more than willing to keep working at it. If you want to take the discussion to PM to avoid littering the thread, that's fine by me.
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
i enjoy some what trying to learn this stuff but ill let you guys handle it just try to keep me updated some how if you guys start pming, ive been checking this like non stop.
[General Questions and Answers] social-design-concepts:
busybox uname -a

do the charge off test again but have windows device manager open to see if you see any unknown devices. let me dig up some instructions on building adb / fastboot drivers.
[General Questions and Answers] veril:
this is what i see.