yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android General] Jacube22:
Backing up right now.

Backup worked fine. Now restoring...

Restore worked perfectly.
[Android General] NepoRood:
Sure did, I even tried smaller resolutions without a theme, all themes, including the one for a watch. I thought I might have had something there, but some of the touch points were still "off screen" so to speak.

If the V12 version gets a working TWRP, I'm probably not going to be the one that builds it, lol, sorry guys :crying: (I really wanted it on my Viking!)

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Excellent! At least someone gets to use TWRP on a Viking Pro!
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
no need to apologize...I'm sure it will be made.. and altho you may be discouraged now.. I believe it will be you who will be compiling it or at the very lease, it will be based on your work.. great job man! :)
[Android General] NepoRood:
Thanks Brother, I appreciate it. Also, I'm not giving up, lol, but I am going to take a break from it for a bit. One of the "kickers" to me is, the stock recovery is in landscape, but both custom recoveries are portrait, why? :confused:

You know, I'm going to try something...
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
well the 10.12 v63 version is in portrait

Did you try the new accent surf1001 v11 firmware i posted.. it's my new favorite.

and the aio firmware too is a good one to look at for recovery purposes... post no. 647
[Android General] Jacube22:
Tried it. Didn't work.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
I think I can convert it to a x.9.x firmware south what I've learnt from the two variants
[Android General] Jacube22:
Well that is great

P.S. "south"?
[Android General] NepoRood:
You mean this one, right, from the Guide Page you made?

RCT6303W87DK-ANDROID5.0-V63-V10.12.0_T8515B_V6.3_PCDDR31G_20151106 (I'm downloading now, may be something there)

And no, I haven't done the latest Surf yet, but I probably will ;)
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Yeah that's the one

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Lol.. On the go on the phone.. That was supposed to be from**
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
[MENTION=6654957]Jacube22[/MENTION] try this one when you have a chance...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4bOoJ_E5XzZzE4MjhsTmJPZTQ/view?usp=docslist_api
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
[MENTION=7237874]NepoRood[/MENTION] I found some Maven pro firmware in my search for variants. They are .12 not .9 is that something that interests you?
[Android General] Jacube22:
Doesn't work.
[Android General] NepoRood:
Thanks man, but I figure it'll be just like trying to swap versions on the Viking, V12=brick for a Maven, lol. I'd be interested in the lastest V9 though, if there is such a creature, my Maven is currently running V36-1.9.21
[Android General] NepoRood:
It ain't "Pretty", lol...

But, it's functional! I managed to build a working/touchable TWRP for the V12, however, it's not going to be what you expect :silly:

I need to do some tweaking to it, and I'm not going to put out a "public" link for it, I want my XDA friends to give it a good testing and tell me what they think.

If we're friends on XDA, you'll soon be getting a PM with a link in it, unless you already have a working TWRP (hint, hint ;))

There's some screen shots attached below...

Regards,

Nepo
[Android General] jerryvail35:
i knew that you would get that hat out of the rabbit.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Very cool... can't wait!

So i figured out the lines in the default.prop on the stock recoveries the v63 portrait vs the v70 landscape.

portrait:

ro.sf.hwrotation=0

ro.sf.logorotation=90

ro.sf.recoveryrotation=0

ro.sf.default_rotation=0

landscape:

ro.sf.hwrotation=0

ro.sf.logorotation=90

ro.sf.recoveryrotation=270

ro.sf.default_rotation=90

However, this just does nothing on the twrp recovery's default.prop... and I found a newer version of .9 for the maven.. it's v37 from October. still downloading and then i'll upload it so... some time in the next week... just ordered some faster internet...lol
[Android General] NepoRood:
It would've been easier if the rabbit was't so darn feisty!! lol, as I said, it ain't pretty, hell, it doesn't even use the whole screen. But it works, I need to do a little more "aligning" with the touch points (they still a hair bit off, and I'm just taking a WAG* at the settings), and then I'll send you guys a link. Try not to laugh to hard :laugh:

Who am I kidding? It makes me laugh...

*Wild Ass Guess

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Yeah, I tried using "Rickeys ROM Kitchen" to just change the build prop, but, it wouldn't update :confused: Anyway, I get a "BROM Error" when flashing on the current Surf V11, but, the flash takes (as if there were no error), just FYI, for those using the current Surf ROM.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
That's strange...I didn't have an error when I flashed it....
[Android General] NepoRood:
Maybe I wasn't clear on that. I flashed the rom itself just fine, but, when I flash anything onto the V11 rom, that's when I get the Brom error. ie: the twrp's I'm working on atm, and also the CWM recovery gave me an error. But, when I boot into recovery, it's there, even though I got an "error" :confused:
[Android General] Jacube22:
That's great!

But it looks like you put like 7 ui's on top of each other.

(but hey, whatever works) :)
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Use a different scatter file.. Think that's what it is.. are you using the one from the surf1001 and is it in the same folder as the checksum file?
[Android General] NepoRood:
IKR!! It doesn't look like it does on our V9"s, that's for sure, lol. Speaking of "V9's", I took a desperate attempt today: I downloaded some V9 firmware from the Viking Guide page, and flashed it using the Format All + Download option with the flash tool. Yeah, I bricked it (again, lol), but at least I know how to fix that now :good:

That's what made me determined to make a TWRP, no matter how screwed up it looks, for my Viking. After I'm done, it may not be a "public" release, but, I'm going to use it ;)

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Yes, I'm using scatter from Surf V11 (also using Surf kernel to build current twrp). I changed the checksum so it wouldn't take so long to load, I'm impatient like that, lol, and it's really not that big a deal, because it flashes anyway. I get an error instead of a checkmark, but, it's still a successful flash...
[Android General] Jacube22:
Hey, I'd rather have something than nothing at all. And your V9 attempt reminds me..

[MENTION=4666511]smartmanvartan[/MENTION] , did you try to do the conversion of the SURF firmware yet? If so please upload it. :o:)
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
should have it up by tomorrow.. its gonna be sp flash style. debloated and prerooted
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
You guys ever notice that when you do a factory reset, certain apps are installed automatically? you guys know where those come from? which folder they are stored in?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
data/data i beleave.
[Android General] NepoRood:
priv-app has a lot of google stuff in it, but most of the preinstalled stuff comes from the "userdata.img"
[Android General] Jacube22:
Most of mine is in /system/app and /system/priv-app.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
If I format the data partition. They get installed...

rct6213w87dk v37: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4bOoJ_E5XzaWxENDhoRGI5OXM/view?usp=sharing
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
nevermind i got it...
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
@Jacube22

Uploading now... will be available in about an hour and a half... let me know if this works. i want to know if the boot animation is in landscape as it is supposed to be and if the touch points line up and if the screen is following the same rotation as the g sensor.

RCT6303W87DK-Surf1001-Anddroid5.0-V11-converted-for-x.9.x

Happy flashings!
[Android General] NepoRood:
Thanks for the link brother, I had a person post on the Maven thread that his device is a v12 (actually: V66-V1.12.20-B) So the Maven is cursed as well, lol. If you can upload a Maven v12 for me, I'd certainly appreciate it :D
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
I have his exact version i'm uploading that one and another x.12.x i have.
[Android General] NepoRood:
Thanks again, credit in the Maven thread will go to you for finding.
[Android General] Jacube22:
Flashing?

I'm about to flash, but I have one question: Are you sure the system is 2.50 GB? because that's what it says. The system.img in the other ones I have is around 1.5 GB.

I'm saying this becuase it may mean that nothing could be added to the system partition. Anyway, flashing soon..
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
It's the full size of the system partition. The whole package should be safe including the preloader.
[Android General] Jacube22:
Still not flashing it though. anyway, flashing now...

Edit 1: It stars out kind of ok, then the accent logo moves over to the right edge of the screen in portrait mode. Not a good sign.

Will see what happens next...

Update: screen starts in portrait by default (and french language, of course), but it is otherwise fine. Going through setup...

Seems to be just a little bit faster/snappier all around.

Finished Setup, And WHAT THE HELL! AlcoTabletTest??? I Haven't seen this!!!!! This app is weird.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Ok so boot animation... When the tablet is in docking position, the image needs to rotate 90 degrees counter clockwise....right?
[Android General] Jacube22:
In docking position???? when i started it up, the boot animation was in portrait, and moved toward the edge of the screen.

In unrelated news, according to CPU-Z, the manufacturer is "A" (literally) I am not joking.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Docking position meaning in the keyboard. Can you hook me up with a picture of the screen after the initial accent logo?
[Android General] Jacube22:
You mean like after the splash screen? if so, hold on a second.

Edit 1: Here are the pics.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
The v32 boot animation is in lansscape our portrait
[Android General] Jacube22:
Yes, and also anotherbug, when I put the volume all the way down, it goes into vibration only mode.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Does it change if you put the volume up?

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In the usual v32 that you usually run, the boot animation is in landscape or portrait?
[Android General] Jacube22:
No, the volume stays in vibration mode.

The boot animation is in landscape
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
[MENTION=7237874]NepoRood[/MENTION]

For the Maven:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4bOoJ_E5XzLTkyWFptM2o2Mmc/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4bOoJ_E5XzNGZxS09WR3o5YXc/view?usp=sharing
[Android General] NepoRood:
Thank You my friend, now gotta go through the sloooowwww process of uploading to MediaFire. My upload speed is only 512kb/s :mad:
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Just use my links..I'll leave them up... Switching to mediafire..my drive is full..:)
[Android General] NepoRood:
I'm not opposed to your links, but, I like to know how many times a file has been downloaded (OCD?, maybe...) And the Google doesn't tell you that :o
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Try this one... :)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/d...-Anddroid5.0-V11-converted-for-x.9.x-rev1.rar
[Android General] NepoRood:
If you need to delete the Maven stuff, I've got it all downloaded/uploaded. Might give you a gig or 3 of space...
[Android General] Jacube22:
Flashing now...

Update 1: Seems fine so far.

Update 2: seems to be in bootloop, can't even get to setup screen.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
You sure? Give it another two minutes.. first boot can be slow..But the boot animation is in landscape?
[Android General] Jacube22:
The boot animation is in landscape.

I gave it like 10 minutes and it hasn't booted.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Oh ok..no problem..I'll check it out and put up another tester..still a step forward.

Just out of curiosity, what if you do a factory reset?
[Android General] Jacube22:
you mean on the one I just flashed or the older one?
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
The one you just flashed
[Android General] Jacube22:
Hold on a sec.... flashing it back

Factory reset done. booting now...

It doesn't help.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Ok cool. I'll get one ready for you tomorrow. Tanks for your help :)
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
OK. this one should boot just fine. let me know if the volume does the same thing.. and if you notice anything else..

http://www.mediafire.com/download/y...-Anddroid5.0-V11-converted-for-x.9.x-rev2.rar

Oh yeah and those apps that get installed automatically are in /system/vendor/operator/app/
[Android General] Jacube22:
Trying it

Trying it now...

Fine so far... Going through setup...

Everything is working great.. except the volume still does that vibrate mode thing.

Does the volume do that on your tablet?
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Boot was in landscape?
[Android General] Jacube22:
No, it was in portrait, but it looked good and was in the center.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Portrait with the camera up? But the initial screen was in landscape with the camera on the left tho right?

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No the volume thing didn't do that for me... But I'll figure it out. One thing at a time
[Android General] Jacube22:
Yes and Yes.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
OK... fourth times a charm... :p

http://www.mediafire.com/download/i...-Anddroid5.0-V11-converted-for-x.9.x-rev3.rar
[Android General] NepoRood:
Playing around with the build.prop file, I was able to rotate everything but the recovery :( Oh well, I'm happy with my Quasimodo TWRP, it's working anyway :)

Just thought I would share...
[Android General] jerryvail35:
sorry guys, not going to have my tablet for a while. my daughters are using it for school. so i cant test and play with it.
[Android General] Jacube22:
Everything is fine... except for that volume thing. Again.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
so boot animation followed the initial boot logo seamlessly? but you still have the vibration bug?
[Android General] NepoRood:
It's OK man, that's better than it being bricked :p

I just ordered a Dragon Touch X10, found it on eBay for $93 (free shipping). 10.6" Display, and an Allwinner A83T Octa-Core chip. Manufacturer website already has the fimware (KK and LP5.1) and flashing tools on it. Most of the reviews are pretty good, only a handful of bad ones, but if I get a bad one, they will replace it free of charge :o
[Android General] jerryvail35:
My tab is running as smooth as ever. Still running the v70. With vampirefo's recovery and viper4 android and Sony walkman. No complaints. On a side note, I need to know each everything I need to start building a costume recovery. (for this device) got a couple tricks in my head that won't leave me alone.
[Android General] NepoRood:
The first thing you need is a 64 bit linux distro, I use Ubuntu 14.04, but what you want to use is up to you. You can't build with Windows, I'll put together a "guide", that should have all the info you need to set you up with the proper source codes, and give you a link soon.
[Android General] jerryvail35:
ok:good: another question. in which ways are you all trying to flash this? fastboot? flashfire?spft? working on getting unbuntu now.:p
[Android General] Jacube22:
Not really "seamlessly". at first it is in landscape for the inital splash screen, then it kinda zones out for a second or two, then it switches to portrait boot screen.

And yes, the vibrate mode bug is there.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
flash it with flashable zip.. i'm playing with sp flash tool.. it's a viable flashing method too.. :)
[Android General] jerryvail35:
I'm going to try and do it through Fastboot. Fastboot flash recovery recovery. Img

That's how it is done on HTC devices so it's worth a shot.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Ok. I need you to give me more details. at some point soon there is going to be a rom. and since most of us tweaking this are on x.12.x, it will have to be converted for x.9.x. You and I are mapping out the differences. I have an other one for you to test. the boot animation will still be wacky because i thought it was good since you made no mention of it. let me know if the volume issue is fixed and i'll work on the boot animation.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8...-Anddroid5.0-V11-converted-for-x.9.x-rev4.rar
[Android General] NepoRood:
If you're talking about flashing the recovery, I use SPFT Linux Edition to flash (pain to setup, but at least I don't have to reboot into Windows) Fastboot will work just a well, except you have to get the tablet into Fastboot mode first.

I find it easiest to just power down and use the SPFT. I've almost finished the guide, it's designed for Ubuntu 14.04 and CM12.1. I've also included a link to my "local_manifests" folder which will help a little with the repo sync (explained in guide ;))

I'll pm you a link when I'm done, and if you have any questions, pm or post :D
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Hey man just a quick question, what version was the kernel on that build of cm12.1 you had attempted?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
Going to try. It's all I can do. Thank you
[Android General] vampirefo:
This looks promising for you guys.
[Android General] jerryvail35:
I guess mine has been updated since then . v1.12.20-b
[Android General] ilmcgee:
So how many of you have rooted with no problems? I want to root, but I'm hesitant to. Contacted rca, but they won't give up bootloader unlock code.
[Android General] jerryvail35:
Rooted this one with no problems using clsA's method. Except i used root explorer in stead of es file explorer.
[Android General] ilmcgee:
So no problems after shutting down and restarting? What all have you done with root?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
No problems with mine. And with root ive basically de-bloated and and set the stock kernel to deadline. Oh and froze a few apps.
[Android General] bradley_e_smith:
I was curious what one would do with root.
[Android General] jerryvail35:
With root, get rid of useless apps. Install custom recoveries. Install custom roms... If the device gets that much development.
[Android General] ilmcgee:
What all did you debloat? I've disabled most google apps through settings and a few other apps. Never heard of deadline, what is that? Which ones did you freeze and why?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
Uninstalled... Google earth,walmart app and a few others that i can't remember. Frozen apps...browser,docs,sheets and user manual. As far as deadline, it's an 1/0 (on / off) scheduler for the kernel. To me, it seems to make my tab run a little faster. Thats as much as i know about kernels.( google it for more info)
[Android General] ilmcgee:
Would really like to hear from others before I take the plunge and root this beast. Really liking this tablet so far, only really used it for surfing the web so far though.
[Android General] ewilley2008:
Rooting went easy on mine doing the kingroot and then the super su swap… still would like a way for a custom recovery to do proper backups and such but my tablet doesnt have any working way to connect it to a computer
[Android General] omgitsMATT:
I had no problem. Once rooted I debloated quickly and aggressively and the tablet is still running smoothly, if not better
[Android General] Sir Jaxxy:
I have rooted 3 Viking Pros now. 2 went smoothly and 1 bricked. I have rooted 1 with just Kingroot with no problems. I than tried rooting the 2nd tablet using Kingroot and then the Super SU swap. It rooted with Kingroot fine and then bricked (does an infinite load loop) when I tried to do the Super SU swap. I got a new Viking Pro to replace it. I then did the Kingroot and Super SU swap on the 3rd tablet and it went smooth with no issues.

As for the bricked device if anyone knows how I might be able to fix it please let me know. I am able to load into recovery, yet it still loops even after doing a factory reset.
[Android General] Spartan Legionnaire:
Why everybody after rooting with kingroot wants to swap with super su?. It was because of language?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
For me. It was because the kingsuper user would grant false root for apps. SuperSu fixed that.
[Android General] vampirefo:
What apps?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
Clean master and app quarantine
[Android General] vampirefo:
Is this tablet ext4 or ubifs?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
Fat32 i believe.
[Android General] NepoRood:
Stock x12x from the V72 firmware, I think, lol. May have been the V70, but I know it was x12x. Only kind of kernel I had at the time, as I hadn't yet built a bootable recovery (well, not without unpacking and repacking)

I've got a CM build going now using the latest Surf kernel, from the V11 firmware. One thing I noticed about the zip file, the "System" folder was empty! Good chance that what caused the white screen, lol, hopefully I've fixed it this time around.

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No Problem, and that's what I'm doing as well: trying If I knew 100% what I was doing, we'd be running CM13 on these tabs by now, lol
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
I use to mod to roms A few years ago .. These new flashable zips, I'm not used to..Use to be so simple. I'm playing with the Android 6.0 firmware I found in china. I think if we had a newer kernel, we might be able to get it working. It uses the same board with a mt8163 instead.
[Android General] NepoRood:
If you can crack open the boot.img file on it, I'll try a recovery build on my laptop with that kernel. The "boot.img-kernel.img" and "boot.img-args" files are what I need.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Where is the boot.img-args file? i have boot.img-tags_offset
[Android General] NepoRood:
That's it, depends on what you crack it open with (I'm using Linux ;))
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Ok... figured i would just give you the whole thing... :p

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6ns1nztgxorbth8/boot-6603.rar
[Android General] NepoRood:
That works too, lol. I'll let you know something soon, probably be 15-30 minutes

EDIT:

Wow, recovery way too big at 9.6Mb, our recovery partition is only 8.1Mb

Further investigation reveals that this kernel is almost twice the size of ours, 6.1Mb to 3.7Mb

Riddle me this SmartMan: do you get a "boot.img-cmdline" file when you crack open images from our firmware?
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
I don't.. I found that interestin as well. i have the same file pop up when i crack open the android 5.1 bot.img from the firmware also for the mt8163 on the t8515b board...
[Android General] NepoRood:
mt8163, cortex-a7?
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
http://www.mediatek.com/en/products/mobile-communications/tablet/mt8163/
[Android General] NepoRood:
Ah, 64 Bit, that explains the size difference. 64 Bit chips can do more than our simple quads can. Oh well, it was worth a shot :D
[Android General] NepoRood:
Another worthless build, lol. Got stuck at the Accent logo, I let it set on the charger for almost 45 minutes. [MENTION=4666511]smartmanvartan[/MENTION], here's a link to the images, if you want to crack them open and take a look, link
[Android General] Jacube22:
Ok. I am testing it now...

Doesn't fix the problem.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Ok cool... Think I have an idea.. Tonight when I get home I'll pack a new one tonight. Thanks
[Android General] Jacube22:
By the way, what are these "AlcoTabletTest" and "AutoReboot" apps?
[Android General] jerryvail35:
couldnt get unbuntu 14.04 to work so im trying to get 15.10.
[Android General] smartmanvartan:
Try mint..That's my favorite. And debian just like ubuntu :)

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Not sure about the test app ..never used it but the autoreboot app just lets you set a specific time for a scheduled reboot...useless..Lol