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[Miscellaneous Android Development] n2fastbikes:
Successfully Rooted and Unlocked Dell Venue 7 3740 Wifi Only Tablet

Thanks social-design-concepts, option T3 worked awesome!

My process, using Win 7 Pro:

1. Downloaded ADB Drivers, dev software and docs from here: http://opensource.dell.com/releases/Venue_7_3740_Merrifield/developer-edition/

2. Installed IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.5.0.exe.

3. Installed P708T_Driver_V1.0.0.msi.

4. Installed iSocUSB-Driver-Setup-1.0.4.exe.

5. Installed xFSTK_downloader_1.5.1.exe.

6. Used instructions in OSS_A150&A195.pdf and xFSTK_downloader to get fastboot on device.

7. Downloaded UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.40.zip and IntelAndroid-FBRL.7z from this thread.

8. Followed social-design-concepts' instructions in this thread with option T3. Voila!

Thanks again to social-design-concepts, vampirefo, all involved devs and posters to this thread for a great root/recovery method.

n2fastbikes

Software Version: Venue 7 3740_V1.38_140516-NoModem

Build number: YTP802A115130

Kernal Version: 3.10.20

IFWI Version: 0005.11B1
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Do you have a link for the 4.4.2 firmware, that includes the boot.img?

sent from my kingSing T1 via taptalk
[Miscellaneous Android Development] burleanu:
Of course I have. This one is an official one http://www.goclever.com/uk/products,c1/tablet,c5/insignia-785-pro,a311.html#support

And here you find almost all available (in Russian, i use google translate in chrome)

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=500547

On this tablet your recovery work ok, with the recovery .fstab posted a few post back.

Have any ideas how to restore back a made with dd=if... and who is bootloader, kernel recovery and others
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
to restore dd just reverse, pm-cz has scripts for packing/unpacking and dumping boot.img, recovery.img. fastboot.img, [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] mentioned he will be adding those, when he does you can dump yours, you should be able toflash boot.img and fastboot.img via cwm recovery, but not recovery.img, all 3 should flash via fastboot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
I might need to make some additions to the fstab generator a couple new devices have different mount points.

The funny looking display I keep forgetting to update the minui lib I'm using. I'll try to update this evening.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
does install zip / choose zip from external sdcard work.?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
No.

I test the backup and restore now , backup runs without error but restore end in bootloop :( All seems fine without error but it doenst boot. It hangs for a file in boot logo and then it reboot into recovery.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
If you can get into stock recovery still I would recommend downloading the ota from Asus and flashing back and wiping data.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
But how to download the OTA when the phone wont boot?? I flash all image files now back per ADB and now it boot normal. Thanx for your help and i hope the next version will work on Zenfone 2.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
@social-design-concepts

Thanks! It works on Zenfone 2 with T4 option.

While preparing to start (unpacking) recovery, screen is messed because of wrong resolution. Is there hardcoded resolution in recovery.launcher? Can you give source code, so i can try to play with settings?

In CWM resolution is correct. So, may be it's possible to copy screen initialization settings from CWM?

to mount SD card i have to do it manually from adb:

insmod /lib/modules/texfat.ko
mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /external_sd

additionally

insmod /lib/modules/tntfs.ko

would be good as well for NTFS partitions.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
And you can restore an backup? As I write before, I can do a backup but an successful restore ends in bootloop.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
thanks [MENTION=334644]sorg[/MENTION] for debugging the issues : )

The display issues is because of the really old minui lib used in the launcher this started out as trying to port safestrap recovery and I hadn't migrated from to a newer version of minui the next release should resolve that issue as I dropped the private minui and will be using the same version used in recovery.

As for the need for a kernel module for vfat mounting the easiest thing would be to add a script to the recovery.zip and the needed edits to the update-script to run the script after recovery.zip is extracted to install the needed kernel modules.

you could probably add it to here /sbin/postrecoveryboot.sh in the recovery.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] 29y6145:
Cwm for zenfone 2

Test install file zip , work or not work
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
There is something wrong in recovery code because even with loaded module recovery doesn't want to mount external_sd. May be because recovery explicitly mounts it as vfat while my SD card is exFat.

I didn't try backup/restore functions yet (busy by other projects), but according to [MENTION=443961]tasar[/MENTION]it it doesn't work. Do you restore xattr (SELinux) attributes after restore? Zenfone 2 uses SELinux in enforce mode, so wrong xattr will prevent Android from booting.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
Have you read the last pages? I think ,no....

[MENTION=334644]sorg[/MENTION], thanx for your explain.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aptom:
Will this method work for the Asus ZE500CL too?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
At the moment,it doesn't work. Where you read that it works??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aptom:
If I'm not misunderstanding what I've read on this thread and on this other one, it works for the bigger Zenfone 2 models (ZE550/551ML), so I was wondering if it should work on the smaller Zenfone 2 model (ZE500CL) too.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
Havent test this but in my opinion, has this nothing to do with an working CWM recovery. For me the mean feature of CWM is back and restore and that doenst work. Also mount ext SD card.

It looks loke more than an sideload of SU.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aptom:
And that's what I want to do: root my ZE500CL!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tasar:
Ok, so test it ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
So everyone seems to have a rumor for the next nexus.

I'm going to hold my hopes for a Lenovo / Motorola made nexus featuring an Intel Atom X5 soc.

To me it makes sense I could see some back room deal between Google and Lenovo durning Lenovo's purchase of Motorola and being Intel got shafted with the Nexus Player with the Lollipop release. Intel wants to break into the phone market and lenovo already has a lot of experience making intel phones what a better way to break in than on a nexus phone.

Guess we will see next week.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
For me, custom recovery is just another way to boot device with non-working OS with adb access.

As for backup, it's doable actually with custom script and latest tar which is able to save selinux attributes.

So, basically, no new recovery required. Just someone who can write scripts for backup and restore.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
That is interesting, Lenovo hates to unlock devices, so Google choosing to have Lenovo build a nexus to me seems unlikely. A nexus that can't be unlocked doesn't have appeal.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
When a ODM makes a Nexus , it's no longer that ODM device it's Google's and unlocking is part of the Nexus platform so it still be unlockable.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
That's why I doubt Lenovo will make the nexus, we shall all see soon, but I don't see Lenovo making a nexus anytime in the near future, I think it will be LG.

No matter who makes it, I would like for it to be an intel based device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
I have some buddies at LG in a different division that suggested LG already answered the question with the statement

"would like to"

To me thats suggests LG's bid got denied , but they also suggested that a LG Android TV was a future possibility that be a show stopper if Google unveiled a line of Nexus SmartTV's.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nickshertzer:
I can confirm the Feb build of IntelAndroid-FBRL-05-16-2015-PTR is working on the Dell Venue 10 5050 using T2.

Here is how I gained root Dell Venue 10 5050
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kennithjefferson143:
temporary cwm not working

hi all,

i installed the temporary cwm in my pc and triggered the cwm in my digiflip pro xt811 tablet .then i copied the rom.zip to my external sdcard and by using vol buttons i chose "install zip" and then "choose sip from sdcard" adn it shows the following

E:unknown volume for the path [/sdcard/]

E:cant mount /sdcard/

E:unknown volume for the path [/sdcard/clockworkmod/.recovery_version]

so i cannot install the zip file from the sdcard

kindly help me

i used trigger 1 to trigger the cwm into my devices

also my device dont have the stock recovery

thank you
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spotdog14:
I was able to use the T4 option to root my Lollipop Dell Venue 8 7840 device.

Thank you.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jazzespresso:
something wrong on your rom.zip, check that update updater-script

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] kennithjefferson143:
Actualy its not mounting the external sd card.....thats the problem I guess........the sideload is also not working

also I dont have the stock recovery in my tablet...its bricked......kindly help me to flash permanent recovery.....my tablet have intel atom chipset....if I flash a cwm recovery in fastboot it shows the following error

"Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending recovery

finished

writing recovery

remote<flash_cmds error>

recovery flash failed"

kindly help me.....my device is digiflip pro xt811
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jazzespresso:
I would suggest to read @social-design-concepts first post OP carefully, it says that "using adb side-loading of zips doesn't work".

Keep in mind this is not full blown CWM session, so some stuff may or may not fully work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
So Meijer's has the Asus ME176-CX on sale for 124.99 and Bestbuy has the Acer A1-850 on sale for 119.00

What do I buy?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
Not sure about the Acer, but the ASUS just got updated with Lollipop.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
Yeah I read you know I follow almost every intel device lol could probably tell you the contents of the update.zip

I like Asus but the Acer is uefi and suspected to be bootloader unlocked. Spec wise they are virtually the same But the Asus comes in black.

So hard to decide :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
If it helps, the bootloader appears to be updated during the Lollipop update, at least that's what happened on my brother's MeMO. Either ASUS is making the bootloader unlockable (which could be the case as you can't download firmware off of their website anymore, making me suspect they're updating their files) or they're patching vulnerabilities, and hopefully it's the former.

I'm making a Nandroid backup before I flash the update in case anything happens. Of course it won't work if the bootloader flash fails but at least I'd have a NAND backup.

EDIT: Do you have any idea whether the x86 Xposed for Lollipop that Shakalaca made for the Zenfone 2 will work on all x86 devices?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
@social-design-concepts

As i couldn't see what recovery.launcher output (because distorted screen), i was guessing the time around 20(!) seconds was needed to extract the files from zip. But to my big surprise, when i wrote my own launcher which doesn't output anything, but simply extract and run update-binary, loading time now is LESS than 1 second.

Since CWM version included in your package is useless for Zenfone 2 (backup|restore doesn't work, cannot mount neither SD card nor USB), i've switched to Aroma File Manager and additional shell scripts i've wrote for backup/restore/mounting/unmounting.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
Most of the time is in reading / printing droidboots recovery.fstab to the display which on some devices is distorted the delay is intentional as some triggers and some devices the process causes a race condition so in order to make sure it could work on as many devices as possible it is slowed down to allow for services to stop and such.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] 29y6145:
can you share for me

i want use backup/restore rom

thanks very much
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
Triggers 2 and 3 are not working on the MeMO Pad ME176CX on Lollipop. The former says "failed" on my tablet screen, the other one says "okay" but doesn't reboot to CWM.

Androidfilehost is down, does anybody have a mirror of the T4 beta?

EDIT: Nevermind, it's back up.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
And did T4 work?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
I haven't tried it as I don't use Windows. When I get home from school I'll try my dad's work laptop. The Linux version has no T4 yet.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
Someone already made a Linux/Mac T4

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60987093
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
Good, I'll try it when I get home.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
I'm trying the T4 now. Here we go...

EDIT: T4 successfully boots into CWM :D

I'll try to root now.

EDIT 2: Looks like the SuperSU script worked fine. I'm waiting for the device to boot up now, then I'll verify whether or not it's actually rooted.

EDIT 3: T4 works perfectly for the MeMO, got me rooted! :D

Titanium Backup here I come!

View attachment 3336602
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
don't forget to add a pic should have a twrp for testing this weekend so users can backup and restore
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
TWRP can successfully backup/restore Nandroids? If so, thank you so much! This is needed now that we can't downgrade to KitKat.

I updated my above post with a screenshot. The only challenge now is Xposed. Shakalaca (he made RootZenfone) has an Xposed installer for Zenfone 2. Perhaps it'll work here?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tycoo:
Congrats! I just dont get it, why this method does not work for the me572 also? :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
i have a whole week with no kid starting tomorrow so i should have some time to see if its possible can you tell me if fastboot oem setvar returns anything?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tycoo:
Thx a lot! Sadly atm i am not able to check this on my own. But i am going to ask in our subforum thread, if anybody who already tried out your temporary cwm will test it and help out again. :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
can you pay attention to following:

1) make sure TWRP version you try, has SELinux support. Otherwise backup/restore won't work (device won't boot after restore) on Android 5.x (and some Android 4.4) devices.

2) remove integrated exFat code. I know TWRP has its own fuse exFat rubbish slow as hell driver (Backup in 1hr and 3hrs is a big difference, IMHO). So, from my past experience with TWRP, it's better to remove it, and mount SD/USB in auto mode is the best way. Devices without exFat support in kernel don't need exFat support, and devices with exFat kernel modules (Samsung, Asus) will handle exFat transparently.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
SELinux Support is obvious exFat i'll see what i can do. got any suggestions for determining if the device is landscape or portrait?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tycoo:
for me572c:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sorg:
Device boots in its native orientation. You can compare screen resolution width with height to detect orientation.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
Yeah i knew that but never having a need for it i wasn't sure the most generic way to do it, since it only affects twrp i want to do it through updater-script or a shell script launched through updater-script run_program.

this looks to work

cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size

got to get adbd working again so i can figure out the issue with touch looping
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daspex:
Where is my backup gone?

Hi,

at first i want to thank you for making this cwm temp recovery.

For me it works well .My device asus me176c has been detected and i used trigger 2.Than i made a backup of system and data of my stock rom wich i rooted before with rootzenfone.

It seems all to work well but i could not find the backup that was saved to the device.I selected to do the backup to external sdcard but it doesn´t work so it would be written to internal

sdcard as i´ve seen.But i can´t find it anywehre.It has not been saved to the clockworkmod folder.Please can you tell me how the default backup folder is named?

greez

Frank:cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mvrana:
Could you post your process? I'm stuck (using a Mac as well, I believe you are, too?)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jerbear294:
I am using Linux. Not sure if it will work for Mac. [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] posted a Linux T4 instruction a couple pages ago. It may work on Mac, again I am not sure.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mvrana:
When I follow the instructions, I get <waiting for device> in the Mac terminal. Do I need to issue an adb command first?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
might need to update your adb / fastboot binaries
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daspex:
[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION]

Thank´s for your fast answer,sorry for my long delay,now i found the backup......:cyclops:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] scorpio16v:
@ social-design-concepts

What exactly for informations do you need to make your recovery work for Asus ME572c/ME572cl ?

We have posted in the ME572c root thread some infos. Don't know what is really useful for your work.

http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/help/how-to-root-asus-memo-pad-7-me572c-2014-t2915779/page50
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Argyle0297:
Working on ZF4 T00I Lollipop using T2

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Working on ZF5 T00F Lollipop using T4 from IntelAndroid-FBRL-05-16-2015-PTR. Message "Failed (too many links)", but running ok on device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gharika:
works perfectly

Thanks for the detailed instructions, it worked like a charm on my Dell 3730 using the T1 option.

Just make sure that you include the both the interfaces in the inf file lie this:

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_413C&PID_B11B&REV_????&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_413C&PID_B11B&MI_01
%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_413C&PID_B119&REV_????
%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_413C&PID_B119
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
if any one wants to test public trial release with twrp IntelAndroid-FBRL-06-03-2015-PTR2.7z after you type accept you'll be asked to select one of the five recovery options.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawgdoc:
[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] I have an Acer A1-830. I may be incorrect, but I think my device has a locked bootloader and will not accept a custom recovery. What is the best way to test if my bootloader is locked or unlocked without bricking the device?

I previously tried flashing a custom recovery posted by vache for the A1-830, but soft bricked the device. I restored the tablet by flashing the stock recovery with fastboot when I was once again able to get to download/bootloader mode. Of course, it may have been an error I made and nothing to do with his recovery. (I never saw where anyone else tried that recovery.)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mangkon:
FYI, tested on Asus K012 (FE170CG) and all 4-twrp images was loaded in portrait mode only with no touch responses. Thanks anyway for the trigger and launcher files.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
The no touch is interesting there are derps in this version new ones coming soon.

regardless of which orientation you choose it will always load in the device native orientation so if the device is portrait you need one of the portrait if landscape a landscape one
[Miscellaneous Android Development] elmasvital:
I try this method on PIPO W4S and work perfectly. I use T3

THANKS
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bravesoul:
TWRP Worked like a charm on K013 using mhdi portrait and T3.

I have backed the whole thing just in case LL (Cool J) gives me more troubles.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] karfeef:
Hi. Did you find out the problem? I'm getting the same with supersu-v2.46

sent from my phone
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
You can't install via stock recovery, you have to use custom recovery.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] karfeef:
Does that mean I can't root the 750? Someone said they did using this method, but didn't explain the custom recovery part :-\

sent from my phone
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
It sounds like you were in the stock recovery before, screen shots of the cmd prompt and pics of the device screen are very helpful when trouble shooting
[Miscellaneous Android Development] karfeef:
Thanks for the replies. I've followed the instructions to the letter, but the options I see are 4 types of twrp, and cwm which wont work. choosing one of the twrp options (portrait) gives me some choices on my tablet screen, one of which is to boot into recovery - from there, I can choose install zip from external sd. I've attached the pics - apologies for the pants quality.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
common problem with intel is that the fastboot driver will install as an adb driver instead of bootloader you have to go into device manger while in the droidboot screen and manually select the bootloader driver .

see here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60908365&postcount=152
[Miscellaneous Android Development] karfeef:
Many thanks man. Changing the driver got me all the way to the twrp session being installed, but it froze up when asked to swipe to unlock the recovery. I'll try again and see

sent from my phone
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
I actually need to upload a new version there is a temporary work around in the current version. I'll have it up tonight
[Miscellaneous Android Development] karfeef:
Hi. Did you make a new version? Sorry to be a pain, Dying to root my tab :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] T_I:
I've been trying to use this tool to root my ME176CX with android 5.0, but I just can't get the script to work. I even switched to Linux and tries some of the commands in the shell to see were things go wrong.

In Windows when running the script (BTW the 6-3 version has an error in the selection box for cwm, the menu states you need to select 5, but the script checks 4 twice... Line 114) absolutely nothing happens other then the script stating that adb is online. Even the adb reboot-bootloader command at line 224 isn't arriving at the device. (so I expect the drivers to be at fault, can't find the drivers though)

In Linux, I can issue the adb reboot-bootloader command, which gets me in fastboot mode. However, as soon as I issue the fastboot getvar all command, the output is only <waiting for device> even though Linux is showing the device as connected (dmesg reports the device) Has anybody been able to get this working?

Personally I think the serial is a bit weird