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[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
This doesn't help if they get your device and factory reset it. If they factory reset it before you have a chance to lock it down then you are screwed. With device protection even when you factory reset it, it will prompt for the previous google account the phone was set up with. If your bootloader is unlocked and they are knowledgeable thieves then they can just reflash everything and wipe it out fully.

I work at Swappa and we see this all the time. Someone will sell their device, factory reset it and send it to the buyer. The buyer gets it and can't set it up because device protection was enabled and it prompts them for the previous google account info that was tied to the phone when they try to set it up
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jemmy Ducks:
I tried using fastboot anyway, despite seeing no devices listed, and lo and behold, it worked. Bootloader unlocked for flashing.
[Moto 360] nimdy:
Hi all. I recently purchased a silver 360 from eBay. As described the grey leather band is a little worn so I was hoping to replace it with a metal one. Where would be the best place to get one from in the UK? I've looked at Amazon.co.uk, but many of the metal bands have poor or few reviews, and the one I saw with good reviews says they could take 3 weeks to deliver!

Thanks.
[Shield Tablet General] FoxyDrew:
So, on Nvidias twitter about an hour ago, they replied that Android 6.0 Marshmallow was "possiby" coming to the Nvidia Shield Tablet.

I wouldn't say we should get our hopes up, but again this is a "possibly" straight from Nvidia's official Twitter page, so who knows!

Original post (About Android TV Shield)

Nvidia Shield Tablet info (Found in replies to above tweet)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nvidiashield/status/649031937076629504

So yeah, [MENTION=5714897]NvidiaShield[/MENTION] directly replied that we could "possibly :)" (note the smiley face haha) get 6.0. But who knows, after the recall and all I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia stopped caring about our Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] ou2mame:
I think it's a platform they're looking to grow, and the only thing stopping them from furthering the advancement would be a shield tablet 2. But if they know anything about gamers, we like a company that cares about our old hardware so it would be in their best interest to keep our hardware up to date. The same way that HTC is releasing Marshmallow for the m8. They don't have to do that and it would be understandable if they didn't.
[Shield Tablet General] yreham:
Android biggest problem everything is for 1 year wow the newest thing tralalala then complete silence over the thing...quickly falling into a garbage bag after
[Shield Tablet General] FoxyDrew:
Funny you say that Shield Tablet 2 announced today.
[Shield Tablet General] MrSlippery519:
Agreed, the portable was updated recently as well. I think as you said this is a long term play for Nvidia and as much as the battery issue was a really pain they will continue to support the tablet.

I am not sure if we will ever see it officially go back on sale, or if a version 2 will be released first...but either way we will see 6.0 sooner than later.
[Shield Tablet General] cyraxx84:
Hey guys, chances are getting higher for 6.0! NVIDIA just anounced a New tablet called Shield K1. Its nearly the same as ours now with same Hardware. This means, new device=New version of Android:) (i hope)
[Shield Tablet General] sdunne:
Androidpolice are stating " It's currently running Android 5.1.1, but NVIDIA already plans to push Marshmallow to it (along with existing SHIELD Tablet units) by the end of the year. " regarding the new version of the shield..

Nice christmas present if they hit that deadline :D

And for once, a UK price that isn't a straight pound for dollar swap. £149 v $199
[Shield Tablet General] sabret00the:
Have any details appeared since? It seems to all be attributed down to a single tweet.
[Shield Tablet General] FoxyDrew:
Marshmallow was guaranteed for the Shield Tablet 2. I believe before Christmas. The Shield Tablet 2 has identical hardware to our tablet aside from the stylus which means the software is more or less interchangeable so expect the upgrade to come roughly the same time for both tablets.
[Shield Tablet General] gotbass:
If it has identical hardware, does that mean 4K@60hz will be possible on our older shield tablets?

as that was something they said they would add to the newer tablet...
[Shield Tablet General] sabret00the:
Weeks later and still no information from nvidia.
[Shield Tablet General] TheSuperSteve:
I tweeted at their official Nvidia Shield twitter account to ask for details on the Marshmallow update for the K1. They only said, "We're working on something! :)"

At least they're working on it. I just wish we had more details.
[Shield Tablet General] sabret00the:
Damn, it's sounding like it's really not a priority.
[Shield Tablet General] gqukyo:
It really isn't... More than likely they have another tablet coming out.
[Shield Tablet General] ruoani:
https://twitter.com/nvidiashield/status/676878826236809216

Confirmed it's coming this month.
[Shield Tablet General] on6hp:
https://youtu.be/N7DlYc1l9aA
[Shield Tablet General] LONGXF:
So good.Hey man,Where are you from?
[Shield Tablet General] on6hp:
Europe :)
[Shield Tablet General] LONGXF:
I'm from China.Nice to meet you.Android M for Shield tab,quite good nows.:laugh:
[Shield Tablet General] Redjay412:
I was planning on trying this evening, I'll let you know if I am successful or not
[Shield Tablet General] SeekingSight:
Someone got it running with modification. It's on the 16th page in the thread or something like that.
[Shield Tablet General] JazzieBoi:
After updating to 6.0 through the ota I can't boot into recovery. So if I flash these will I be able to flash recovery again?
[Shield Tablet General] Redjay412:
It did not work for me
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
When I get time I'll have a look at the different ram disks on the tb8 and k1.

I wonder if there's a difference in memory location.

It's clear there's a larger system partition on the k1.

Can't see why they would need larger partitions for anything else though .

Removing that fallout apk gives me than enough room to fit the system into the tb8.

But as i posted earlier, the logs don't show enough to see why it is not booting properly.

There are the full supporting apps for stylus in the build, so it's clear this is built for both of a common core. Just doesn't play with tb8 at the moment.
[Shield Tablet General] garwynn:
Does ADB start early enough where you could adjust the loglevel and try to capture the additional information without editing the ramdisk?
[Shield Tablet General] dowlf:
Found a nifty hidden feature in marshmallow, if you swipe down from the top of screen and then tap to expose the settings gear icon and press and hold on it for a few seconds it exposes the "System UI Tuner" in the settings screen. The only thing I have played with is enabling the "Show embedded battery percentage" feature. It required a reboot to show up, but it is handy to have the battery percentage show all the time.
[Shield Tablet General] darkuni:
Hey guys,

I'm the one that does all the tutorials over at NvidiaShieldZone.com and I'm trying to encapsulate this thread into a similar tutorial as the others I have.

I just grabbed a K1 today and have been trying to get root going. Been pouring through this thread and can't seem to get the stars to align.

I upgraded to Marshmallow right out of the box. Didn't root, etc. before. Just powered up and updated.

I performed the steps outlined a few times ...

fastboot flash staging blob.img

fastboot flash boot boot.img ( or for root fastboot flash boot boot-su-eng.img)

fastboot flash system system.img.simg

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

This puts the tablet back to "out of the box", but there is no root. Installing SuperSU says the binary needs to be updated - but fails using "Normal" (and we have no TWRP, right? So can't updated that way).

Appreciate any info to get this going. Gotta be doing SOMETHING wrong.

Thanks!
[Shield Tablet General] dowlf:
Install this version of superuser, the regular one isn't working currently:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.phh.superuser&hl=en
[Shield Tablet General] abati:
guyz i recently updated officialy from 5.1.1 to 6.0 on my shield k1 2015, But 6.0 is just too hungery for my battery and I feel that my device gets hot for simple task's I usualy did on 5.1.1

I found a stock factory image file on this link https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source and i managed to extract the sh file. and after the extraction through linux I got 8 files. I assume that the number of files are correct if not mistaking or whatever, But would you guys sugest me to go back to 5.1.1 and risk unlocking my bootloader ?
[Shield Tablet General] darkuni:
So, that did the trick. Why doesn't Chainfire's work? Just curious - root is root IMHO - but I know I'll get questions.

Would I only have needed the modified boot image and this apk? Not the rest of it?

Thanks again.
[Shield Tablet General] dowlf:
I am not really sure about why, but it is explained better here:

http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/wip-selinux-capable-superuser-t3216394

I indeed only used the modified boot image and that apk and got root.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
Possibly down to SELinux Enforcing. Did you flash one of the supersu update zips or just try the app?

Ha beaten too it by seconds
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
Which makes me think.

Maybe I should try making the system image permissive to see if it goes on the tb8?

Next time i get a chance.
[Shield Tablet General] darkuni:
Am I clear we do NOT have a custom recovery option at this time? What we have is ROOT only, correct?

---------- Post added at 02:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:09 AM ----------

I also don't see a Stock Recovery package available (Other than the bash sh version). Has anyone processed that and created a standard "flash-all.bat" type solution for rolling back? I'd like to roll back and document the process as I redo the whole thing. Thanks.
[Shield Tablet General] dowlf:
That is correct.
[Shield Tablet General] darkuni:
Thanks ... I'll start putting together a stand in page. I'll share it here and I would appreciate it if those who have done it could take a peek - make sure I'm representing properly.

Update: Here is the "beta" page. http://nvidiashieldzone.com/index.p...ablet-root/root-shield-tablet-v1-marshmallow/

Thanks again ... time to actually get some time on my new tablet now. :P
[Shield Tablet General] Steel01:
Well, I've been on vacation for about a couple weeks and haven't followed the issues here too closely. I keep seeing comments that TWRP isn't working. Can someone quote this post and list what exactly the problem is? Doesn't boot at all? Or has problems doing stuff?
[Shield Tablet General] moqwai.:
Doesn't boot
[Shield Tablet General] nielsscholte:
Can you make a .zip file of marshmallow that I can flash on the original shield tablet (32 GB LTE international)?
[Shield Tablet General] xsquid:
Doesn't boot, can't install or get to recovery on twrp. The only thing working with mm right now is the modified boot img earlier in the thread and installing the apk from the store afterward but mine jumped the shark after several hours so I am running unrooted mm. Patiently waiting for a working twrp from those that can, with great respect and thanks I might add.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
see if this works for recovery.

It's the latest twrp 2873 with the MM k1 zImage inserted.

Works fine for me on a not really booting, doing my head in but I'm getting somewhere slowly original shield tablet.

I Don't know if this survives a full system boot, as I've not gotten that far yet !

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot flash recovery 60recovery.img

EDIT

That's now not booting either, but it was before I posted it.

Not frustrated at all...

EDIT again

The new blob changes the size of the cache, that is breaking recovery. (that's what it appears to be doing, for definite it changes the size of the sparse uploads, but the total partition is reporting the same size, colour me puddled).

Flashed the blob from the 311 build and recovery works (this again is on original shield)
[Shield Tablet General] nielsscholte:
Can you please tell me step by step how to get MM on the original shield tablet?
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
1 learn development

2 buy a blindfold

3 try to pickapart the difference between the two seemingly identical, but obviously not identical tablets. using said blindfold.

4 spend far too much time trying different things to get this rom to work

4a try to get nvidias old early console mode working so you can take the blindfold off enough to see what's going wrong.

4b realise they don't do the early console mode any more

5 spend more time responding to questions from people that haven't read the thread.

5a try to spend some holiday time with kids whilst also trying to get this to work.

do you think if I had this working, or if someone else had this working we might have said by now?

seriously?

You even quoted me saying that it wasn't booting..

TWICE!

and before someone else says I'm on my high horse or similar.

I'm not, but I do find questions like that very frustrating.

along with the damn near identical ones that keep popping up in my PM inbox.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
Can someone who has a K1 tablet with 6.0 running please post the results of

fastboot getvar all

I get

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.0
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) product: ShieldTablet
(bootloader) secure: no
(bootloader) unlocked: yes
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x0000000000600000
(bootloader) partition-type:bootloader: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:dtb: 0x0000000000400000
(bootloader) partition-type:dtb: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x0000000050000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x0000000040000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x0000000311600000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
all:
finished. total time: 0.143s
[Shield Tablet General] aaronne:
[MENTION=265575]fards[/MENTION]

Thanks for time spent to us

C:\adb>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.0
(bootloader) version-mts: 0
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: 042441580159400xxxx
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) product: ShieldTablet
(bootloader) secure: no
(bootloader) unlocked: yes
(bootloader) max-download-size: 0x06000000
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x00000000006000
(bootloader) partition-type:bootloader: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:dtb: 0x0000000000400000
(bootloader) partition-type:dtb: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x0000000080000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x0000000010000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x0000000311280000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
all:finished. total time: 0.173s

K1 tablet 2nd gen. Supersu -eng and blob flashed.

Microsd 32GB used and formatted as internal memory (only borderlands seem to vanish at every reboot)
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
That's brilliant thanks.

so partition table is different.

k1 has much larger system 2147483648 versus 1342177280

userdata is slightly smaller 13176406016 versus 13172736000

and cache is quite a lot smaller, 268435456 versus 1073741824

wonder about manually formatting the st8 to the same.

guess would need to manually flash k1 bootloader.

it's possible to manually fastboot format the partitions to different sizes, not certain if the bootloader will check them first though.

on the upside, worked out that the blob contains the u-boot, which is why the file transfer size goes up.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
in answer to myself

fastboot format:ext4:0x0000000010000000 cache

and the corresponding k1 userdata both report success

system won't expand out.

none survives reboot.

Warning: cache size is 0x0000000040000000, but 0x0000000010000000 was requested for formating.
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 268435456
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 1024
Label:
Blocks: 65536
Block groups: 2
Reserved block group size: 15
Created filesystem with 11/16384 inodes and 2089/65536 blocks
target reported max download size of 100663296 bytes
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.575s]
sending 'cache' (6248 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.287s]
writing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.208s]
finished. total time: 1.075s
[Shield Tablet General] nielsscholte:
Okay sorry, just excited to get my hands on MM for the original shield
[Shield Tablet General] ThePhoneGeek:
If you had read the whole thread you would have learned that it is not out for the original shield tablet yet and the version out for the K1 won't work largely because the partitions aren't the same on the original shield as the K1.

Please be patient and don't clutter the thread with questions that are already answered. If it can be done someone will post it.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
As am I. Which is why I'm trying to make it work :)
[Shield Tablet General] xsquid:
Well, running stock ota mm right now to try it and I am going back to lollipop as I have random reboots, apps not coming up after reboot, freezing up. I have restored several times to see if it gets better but for me lollipop was much more stable and I really hate the way the sd is treated with mm. You cannot move apps in portable mode and you cannot access internal in adopted mode. I much prefer rooted lollipop as there is nothing else I care about. I'm sure nobody cares, just stating my disappointment with marshmallow. If a stable stock type marshmallow rom comes out I will probably try it, that is what I am running on my moto x pure as stock mm was ustable on it also, but I may just stay on lollipop on the shield.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
whats odd is the factory image for the k1 is up on nvidias opensource now.

The images are smaller than the original shield tablet tn8.

can't see anything in the update that would have changed partitions, so I presume they were set ootb like that, but ran with a lot of free system space.

pity nvidia don't release apx images.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
[MENTION=7165976]aaronne[/MENTION] can you pull the dtb out of your k1 for me please?

tempted to try the bootloader as well, but not sure how sensible that is.. suppose I could try it on the spare tablet running linux4tegra if you can pull it off.

dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DTB of=/data/tmp/k1dtb
[Shield Tablet General] aaronne:
Sorry but I think that I'm not sure to understand, can I simply pull out from the tablet with a file manager sw or I need a Unix-like machine to run DD command?

I'm only a poor win's sys amin and a scriptkiddie, my learning about coding is stopped 20 years ago with turbo pascal xD

so guide me llittle more if you could

Kind Regards
[Shield Tablet General] Vartom:
ps in BoardConfig.mk

ifeq ($(TARGET_PRODUCT), sb_na_wf)

BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 2147483648

else

BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 1342177280
[Shield Tablet General] castrwilliam:
I'm pretty busy at the moment trying to figure out Arch Linux for Shield, but I'd recommend looking for source code for Nvidia's u-boot, if any is available. That might really help you guys out with your OG Shield tablets.

Related: I've never used the whole thing, but if someone could get it working on this along with a suitable interface I'd be ecstatic.
[Shield Tablet General] bobo71:
rooting

Hi,

i have now rooted my shield with Marshmallow. I used this http://nvidiashieldzone.com/index.php/shield-tablet/shield-tablet-root/root-shield-tablet-v1-marshmallow/Howto. It works.

Thank you.:good:
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
there's this

https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-uboot-flasher-scripts

although it doesn't look anywhere near as useful as Apx and nvflash used to be.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
ha ha !

http://http.download.nvidia.com/tegra-public-appnotes/flashing-tools.html#_tegra_partition_table

http://http.download.nvidia.com/tegra-public-appnotes/bct-overview.html
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
I was trying to get away without having to rebuild anything if I can :D
[Shield Tablet General] Vartom:
Try to make the script as described in this topic http://en.miui.com/thread-99430-1-1.html

I tried but why get an error. parted Error: /dev/block/mmcblk0: unrecognised disk label
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
not sure it would be permanent if the BCD is set as the original.

never tried parted in a recovery.. interesting !
[Shield Tablet General] Vartom:
On MIPad it worked!
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
what recovery are you using?

I don't see parted in any twrp versions, there is however resize2fs
[Shield Tablet General] funkypigeon121_:
I'm a bit of a noob but could someone with the k1 and marshmallow flash the recovery60 or twrp 2.8.7.3, uninstall fallout shelter using root, then create a twrp backup and try restoring the backup on the og shield using the same recovery?
[Shield Tablet General] demkantor:
As far as I know there isn't a custom recovery for the k1 running marshmallow, but if there were than yes it could be done
[Shield Tablet General] Exile1975:
Actually since the k1 has root we can use flashify (never used it), or flashfire (I know this works) to make a backup and also to flash....

Edit: I spoke too soon, it seems flashfire is no longer working on 6.0. Anyone know if flashify is still working?
[Shield Tablet General] Steel01:
Time to fix the recovery issue.

twrp-20151227-EXPERIMENTAL-shieldtablet-m.img

This is labeled experimental for a reason. Yes, it boots on the new bootloader and seems to work okay. But, it is built from the very latest TWRP code, which to my knowledge isn't stable yet. That being said, I've only seen a couple annoyances like after screen timeout, it won't come back. I also haven't tested backup and restore (cm-13.0 still doesn't boot, so I have nothing to gauge that with anyways). So, here there be dragons and all that jazz.

Another note: It seems something major changed with this new bootloader and kernel. They are no longer inter-compatible. Eg. L roms and recoveries will not boot on the new bootloader and vice-versa. I don't know if there will be a workaround or not, but for now keep in mind that if you want to go back to Android 5.1, you'll have to flash an older blob first, like the one in my CM thread.
[Shield Tablet General] Prax:
So using this the OG Shield Tablet should be able to install the 6.0 rom for the Shield Tablet K1 with the correct img files? Sorry just making sure before I try to proceed with this.
[Shield Tablet General] Steel01:
Maybe? There's still the problem of the system image being larger that the partition on the original tablet. In regards to flashing the img's, twrp won't do anything more than flashing from fastboot.
[Shield Tablet General] Gilbot:
Maybe. I'm sure the extra space taken by fallout won't allow it, but maybe if someone posts a twrp backup of their system img with fallout removed via tibu it might work. I was able to flash the system image posted earlier in this thread on my OG shield tab WiFi ( the stock K1 5.1.1 twrp backup posted). I even received the ota update but it hung during flash (as I expected).