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[Android General] nannycrick:
My internet would be free if I could get the login for the office wifi modem next door from my boss! My Tab2, my 626s, and my HP could hook to that wifi if he weren't a paranoid....! You can't get just internet here. You have to get the bundle! That's expensive here! I used to live outside our little city and had free OTA for tv. Now that we've moved in town, it's hooked up or nothing! My 626s is rooted running Wifi Tether Router. My old man's LG F3 is also rooted, and runs Robaho' Wifi Hotspot Mgr. I have access only thru both phones, but I try not to use them for big downloads. Big loads eat up our bandwidth, and then Virgin Mobile caps you! We have the $45 plans. You make do the best you can, and when that doesn't work....ROOT IT! LOL!
[Android General] Old faithful:
Nah, unless I'm mistaken that's not the issue but the commute to his place may be a tad long, he he he... ;)

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You could check this post of mine , pretty much what I use now, except that I hide the app 'flower's now and have all my main apps in monochrome using "Icon Changer"...

Heck what am I saying, it's what you see in my post about my tablet sleeve...

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Virgin Mobile? A fellow Canadian, eh? I feel your pain, Sister! We're over $200 a month for our two cell phones and our internet (no TV and we don't miss it at all - Netflix suits us just fine), and these rates were gained after a LOT of haggling and we don't have much bandwidth either.. Fortunately for ADSL we're with an independent and have no caps, great for the middle of the winter and a must if you're using Netflix!
[Android General] rumbla:
Quick Update:

Took me like 10 minutes (less?) to backup proinfo/nvram partitions and install TWRP2870+patch-AAL-Android4-Tzul.

All is good.

Another +1 from me.

EDIT:

Next step will be upgrade to lollipop.

...you know, I'm lazy and the tablet works just fine with KK :)
[Android General] Tzul:
Use a Linux system. Like, this tablet. You can mount ext4 images like this:

su
mkdir sysimg
mount -t ext4 -o loop /sdcard/system.img sysimg

If you get an error about the loop device being busy, then there probably already is a mount that uses it, so unmount that first.

To repack an ext4 image, use the make_ext4fs utility.
[Android General] adrian1216:
OK. I have unpacked system and after changes i have error while i try to build it:

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 1764753408

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 7696

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 6732

Label:

Blocks: 430848

Block groups: 14

Reserved block group size: 111

error: do_inode_allocate_extents: Failed to allocate 24940 blocks

terminal command is:

./make_ext4fs -s -l 1683M -a system new.img system/

solution which i found is to increase BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE inside BoardConfig.mk but i am doing it on computer with ubuntu, not directry on tablet...

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Doing like there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdI564L714
[Android General] nannycrick:
If Tzul is outside the US, then he's outta my hood for babysitting! Sorry Tzul! I'll just have to owe you a few beers!

I'm on Virgin Mobile USA. My hubby & I only pay $80 per for both phones. We have Xfinity cablein our house, ànd the price is another story I won't get into here! Back to the Tab2...

I installed an old Hallmark Greeting Card program in my pc. It installed all these beautiful fonts! I copied & pasted some into a folder, then parked that into cloud storage. I found a font called HavixHMK, a Hallmark trademarked font I installed into my Tab2 system with Fonter! It looks like "ancient elvish" script from Lord of the Rings! I wonder if all the folks from Google Play using Fonter have realized that they already have a font library if they have a Windows pc?!? I plucked Palantino Linotype, Arial Narrow, Garamond, Century, and Times News Roman into my tablet to use with WPS office. All commonly used fonts for document composition. Any font will work as long as it's a ttf or True Type Font file. Got an old Windows program for greeting cards or something similar? Install it and pluck some fonts for your tablet!
[Android General] bman2010:
I have a A10-70F running the TWRP 2, from Tzul, and the 5.01 rom with Xposed installed. I have noticed on occasion that the tablet comes back on even after I shut it off ( not standby). The tablet is actaully looping between off and the Lenovo logo screen. The only way to get out of the loop is to hold the power button and volume up button to get into the bootloader and force it into recovery.

I have just tried changing TWRP to 3 and I will see if the problem persists.

any thoughts?

[edit]

I have still seen the problem. This appears to be related to when the table it charging. When you plug the tablet into the charging cable the Tablet is still alive as seen by the screen showing the battery charging level. When you disconnect the tablet from the charger and try to power on the boot problem occurs. Maybe it has something to do with the time it takes for the tablet to power off again after the charging cable is removed?
[Android General] nannycrick:
Is it plugged in to charge when it does this? Mine's done that a couple of times. I avoid plugging it in until it's been off for a minute. Then I plug it in, and the battery charging icon appears as it should.

If you think it may be an issue with Xposed,try uninstalling it by first, uninstalling any modules one at a time, rebooting after each, then remove Xposed. Test it without Xposed for a day to see if it still does it. If it does then you may have another issue. Also make sure your running the Xposed Installer from the OP page. Other versions may not work well on this tablet. If your bootlooping stops after uninstall, try reinstalling. Then add your fav modules one at a time, rebooting after each. If you bootloop after a certain module installs, then you've found your conflict. Uninstall that module, and see if that corrects the issue. If that one module is causing the issue, please share here so we know.

Wiping the Dalvik & Cache before installing new apks that flash thru the recovery helps too. That causes the system "assemble" itself correctly before reboot. That's good for any rooted device.

Remenber to do a full backup, and keep Tzul's link to his OneDrive repository with ALL the firmware you'll need to restart/rebuild/retweak your Tab2 ,bookmarked to favs. Very handy...just in case!
[Android General] nannycrick:
Old Faithful.... You like monochrome or "minimalist" icons? Check out King Rollo icons. He does the most beautiful work and he has an XDA post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40626863
[Android General] Old faithful:
WOW!!!! Thank you SO MUCH! I really need to get to bed, intense work tomorrow, long drive, but I wanted to thank you again for this, they're the best icons I've seen so far!!! I can't wait to play around with them :)
[Android General] nannycrick:
No problem! Working myself tonight. Just got done towing a moped! A big load there! LOL!
[Android General] nannycrick:
Woo Hoo...got a response from an XDA senior member working on development for the RCA Viking model tablet. He's looking into the issue with the RCA Pro II brick I have. Keeping fingers crossed....for all of us. There are tons of Pro II owners out there with bricks. At least I'm not a lone crusader! I have company on my quest!
[Android General] charlestek:
Hey [MENTION=4717484]nannycrick[/MENTION] :

On Woot today, until they're sold out:

http://computers.woot.com/offers/rca-8-quad-core-8gb-android-4-4-tablet?ref=cp_cnt_wp_4_1

RCA RCT6573W23 8" Capacitive Multi-Touch Tablet, 1.4GHz Quad-Core Processor, 8GB Internal Storage, Wi-Fi, Android 4.4 KitKat

$34.99
[Android General] nannycrick:
LOL! They would make good toys for my grandkids but...they both have ipads!

Their parents bought them. I had nuthin to do with it!
[Android General] Tzul:
TWRP is here!

I managed to make a working TWRP custom recovery for this tablet!

Like I said before, the screen boots up in portrait mode, but the touch panel driver returns coordinates in landscape mode, making everything unusable. If you compile TWRP from scratch, you can specify the flags RECOVERY_TOUCHSCREEN_SWAP_XY and RECOVERY_TOUCHSCREEN_FLIP_X to fix this.

Here's the download, containing the two versions for Android 4 and 5. And here are some screenshots.

If you'd like to show your appreciation and encourage me to continue working on this, I have a donation link on the left.

[MENTION=5336215]hajkan[/MENTION] [MENTION=5353647]zMILWAUKEE[/MENTION] There's not that much bloatware on this tablet. There are quite a few preinstalled apps, but they get enabled/disabled depending on your region, and at least for me, most of them were disabled from thet start. And they're easy to remove completely: just delete /system/appjar (requires root, of course).

I also don't see that many suspicious or unknown background services. Basically just LenovoID, a weather service, and some Mediatek stuff.

But yeah, I agree with you, apps that spy and "phone home" are bad, I am pro privacy myself.

Looking forward to reading about your findings!
[Android General] clsA:
I got TWRP flashed and making my first FULL backup to SDcard now, everything works great. Thanks again for bringing this to are Tab 2

AFH mirror of your recovery here >> https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24369303960682837
[Android General] Old faithful:
Can you post a quick comparison of both recoveries, pros and cons? In other words, why would one chose one over the other? I'm just familiar with the CWM interface, on my phone I tried TWRP once and didn't see the advantage. Perhaps things have changed in the past three years. Also, I do realize that CWM based recoveries are basically on the way out as CWM isn't developed anymore.

TIA!
[Android General] clsA:
The first huge plus was the speed of the Full backup .. just 409 seconds

The second thing is you can connect to the pc and copy files to the tablet while in recovery. (MTP mode)

third biggie is it will root an unrooted tablet the first time you exit TWRP

I didn't check but most versions of TWRP allow you to flash a .img file. This is very handy for flashing a Stock recovery or an updated version of TWRP

The Themes he listed in the readme are great and it's just a more refined/modern recovery. (working touchscreen)

I have been using TWRP on my HTC phones for the past 3 to 4 years and it never fails to just work as expected.
[Android General] Papanik:
Thanks a lot for the link! Did you flash from Carliv recovery or with the tool we used to install Carliv recovery?

Nevermind, I read about it in the other thread.
[Android General] suhridkhan:
OP updated with links to TWRP. I have removed the references to Carliv recovery, since TWRP is so much better and user-friendly.
[Android General] clsA:
Using the TWRP recovery also makes the old kingroot obsolete

TWRP roots the tablet on exit the first time you run it :)
[Android General] suhridkhan:
True. But not everyone is comfortable with a custom recovery. For those who just want root, kingroot is still the only option for them, I guess.
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
Great work on TWRP, I still haven't gotten the chance to flash it, my lack of consistent Pc usage has hampered getting things done. So would extracting the TWRP recovery.img and flashing with flashify work. I can't stand this carliv recovery. It looks terrible and outdated. Plus TWRP is all I ever used and maybe I'm just used to it. But, I would like to mention that I the pc use I did have I flashed back to kit-kat, which by the way cleared up a few bugs I was having with lolipop. I have also debloated down to 89 apps and man the responsiveness has Improved greatly. My current available ram is consistently at 1.1gb and I have 11gb of available storage left. When I get a chance to reflash, I will post an app by app list of everything I remove.
[Android General] Old faithful:
I my humble opinion kingroot is bad news since it is so difficult to remove whereas carliv is much more useful - is there a twrp recovery for KitKat?
[Android General] Old faithful:
Are you saying you can use twrp recovery with KitKat?
[Android General] Tzul:
Thanks. I'm still trying to fix some issues, so it's good that you haven't installed it yet. ;)

Of course you can. The recovery is independent of the main OS. It should have the same kernel, or at least a similar one, and the image must be in a format that the bootloader supports. I provide suitable recovery images for both Kitkat and Lollipop in my download.
[Android General] suhridkhan:
Yah, [MENTION=5919159]Tzul[/MENTION] made it for both kitkat and lollipop. Its inside the same zip. If you are still in carliv, just try it once, you will never go back.
[Android General] Old faithful:
Honestly, I don't know what we'd do without Tzul :). I sure wish I was a little bit more up-to-date with Android and Linux in general to be able to contribute more, I sometimes feel I'm a generation or maybe even two behind when it comes to programming :( I console myself with the hope that when I retire I will be able to pick up where I left ;)
[Android General] Tzul:
Thanks, [MENTION=1454767]Old faithful[/MENTION], I'm still learning myself.

Anyway, I just updated my TWRP release (link in first post), it should be fully functional now.
[Android General] hajkan:
Do I need to SP flash tool to install TWRP? Can it be done from Carliv by simple flashing?
[Android General] Tzul:
[MENTION=5336215]hajkan[/MENTION] I don't know if Carliv can flash image files directly like TWRP can. So you'd probably need to package the TWRP image into a flashable update zip in order to install it. But if you have Carliv installed, then you're probably already rooted, meaning you can flash the TWRP image from within Android, using apps like Rashr or Flashify.
[Android General] hajkan:
Crap ;( I tried SP flash to install TWRP under WIn8 and Linux64 and it just does not do anything. The tablet is off naturally.

I was able to install Carliv using this method in the first place. Did anyone have similar issue?

Here Dmesg is showing the usb atrtached

[151340.313909] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm

[151340.313911] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

[151342.865431] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 5

[151752.842255] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci

[151752.975607] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=2000

[151752.975610] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

[151752.975611] usb 1-2: Product: MT65xx Preloader

[151752.975613] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: MediaTek

[151753.037656] cdc_acm 1-2:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

[151755.629866] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 6

Edit1

I did it. The issue is this I am not sure if this is how it works or if there is an issue with the device or not. If I am too late to press the download button, the device disconnects. So there is a time window where one has to quickly press that button before disconnect.

Edit2

Well it looks like it is recommended that one clicks the download button before attaching. ;)

Btw why is the date/time is wrong in TWRP?
[Android General] Tzul:
Exactly, just click the button before. The SPFT will sit there and wait for an answer of the preloader, the first piece of code that gets executed on the tablet after a (re)boot. The preloader sets the USB connection to virtual COM (VCOM) mode for only one second. If the SPFT is on the other end during that second, the connection gets established, and SPFT sends over the download agent (DA) into the tablet's RAM. The DA will handle the flashing/reading, finally.

If you flash a new recovery, the tablet loses its internal clock (date/time) sometimes. No idea why. You also need to go TWRP's settings menu and configure your timezone.
[Android General] Papanik:
Guys does anybody now how can we make battery percentage systemui and that kind of little mods? I'm a noob myself and I don't want to use Xposed.
[Android General] charlestek:
Depending how old the kids are, they sound like they may be spoiled. Ipads are expensive.

Maybe you should (hint, hint) make known you want an ipad for your birthday or Xmas from your son.....
[Android General] nannycrick:
Nope not spoiled. My granddaughter is Autistic. She has an iPad for school. She's six and learning to read! It has all kinds of learning apps on it for her. My grandson has a used one. He's three and is already learning ABCs and 123s getting ready for school. My daughter in law is a teacher. She gets a discount from Apple.

And my son & wife just bought a house after years of saving. Got no money left!

Besides.. I wouldn't own anything Apple myself. Too overpriced, and no ability to customize like Android! We, as android users have the right to make our droids better, bionic even! Who wants to just be part of the masses, when you can be.....different... like us?!
[Android General] dylix:
i'm running 5.0.1, can these tablets by default r/w ntfs or exfat or ext3,4 on sdcards? I'm having issues with my 64gb sd card.. works for weeks, then all of a sudden wont read/mount it for a while... then magically starts working again.. not sure what else to do other than try changing the file system.. sdcard read writes fine in windows as fat32, so not sure what to do.
[Android General] charlestek:
Lenovo forums report updating to the ? latest Lollipop incremental should allow exFat to work at 64 GB.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Android-based-Tablets-and/SD-Card-Does-not-mount-64-GB-Scandisk-TAB-2-A10-70F/td-p/2123374

Otherwise it could be a bad or marginal SD card. Try a different one. It should either read the card format or not. Fat32 has a maximum addressable size of 32GB, so you can't use it for a 64gb card.

The following are the best 64gb MicroSd cards on the market:

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Extended-Capacity-microSDXC/dp/B00O47H8LY/r

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Class-Adapter-MB-MG64DA-AM/dp/B00IVPU88U

The amazon price on the Sandisk Extreme Pro is excellent. The Samsung price is too high. The Sandisk performs faster anyway. (This assumes the Tab 2 does not have a hardware/software bottleneck on using the card speed)
[Android General] adrian1216:
Does anyone changed bootanimation (this one with sound)? I tried lots of ways: Replaced start.mp4 in /system/media with own video same resolutions dimensions like original video. Builded animation and replaced bootanimation.zip, rebuilded system.img and flash. Also I've tried to replace only few images from Stock bootanimation.zip and nothing 's happen. Animation is not loading while device is booting. Also tried to run adb shell bootanimation, nothings happen, any log of error and on screen is showed black screen. Is somewhere described more detailed how to install own boot animation? Also tried some changers available in Google Play, and they also not working.

Thanks for help in advance.
[Android General] charlestek:
MicroSD Problems - Vendors cover die with fake Logos

Found this article when researching what brand of microSD card to buy, the author found some irregularities in some Kingston memory, then went to a Chinese flea marketplace to buy up all kinds of samples and tested them electronically and also chemically dissolved the plastic coating to see what was inside:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918

Short Excerpt from the article:

Here are the most interesting “high level” results from my survey:

• The “normal” Kingston cards (samples #2 and #3) were all direct Toshiba OEM cards (MID = 0x000002, OEMID = 0x544D (ASCII ‘TM’, presumably for Toshiba Memory)).

These cards employ Toshiba controllers and Toshiba memory chips, and seem to be of good quality, and thankfully the only ones that were sent on to chumby customers.

• The irregular card (sample #1) uses the same controller chip as the outright fake (sample #4) that was bought in the SZ market.

Both the irregular Kingston and the fake Kingston had low serial numbers and whacky ID information. Some of these cards experience some difficulty in normal operation. I still hesitate to call Kingston’s irregular card a fake — that’s a very strong accusation to make — but its construction is similar to another card of clearly questionable quality, which leads me to question Kingston’s judgment in picking authorized manufacturing partners.

• The irregular card is the only card in the group that does not use a stacked CSP construction.

Instead, it uses side-by-side bonding.

• The only two memory chip foundries in this sample set were Toshiba/Sandisk and Samsung.

Note that Sandisk and Toshiba co-own the fab that makes their memory chips.

• Samsung’s NAND die — the most expensive part of a microSD card — is about 17% larger than Toshiba/Sandisk.

This means that Samsung microSD cards should naturally carry a slightly higher price than Toshiba/Sandisk cards. However, Samsung does get to offset that against the ability to diversify the same die from microSD packages into street-packaged TSOP devices, and they also don’t have a middleman like Kingston to eat away at margins.

Overall, the MicroSD card market is a fascinating one, a discussion perhaps worth a blog post on its own. I’d like to point out to casual readers that the spot price of MicroSD cards is nearly identical to the spot price of the very same NAND FLASH chips used on the inside. In other words, the extra controller IC inside the microSD card is sold to you “for free”.

The economics that drive this are fascinating, but in a nutshell, my suspicion is that incorporating the controller into the package and having it test, manage and mark bad blocks more than offsets the cost of testing each memory chip individually. A full bad block scan can take a long time on a large FLASH IC, and chip testers cost millions of dollars. Therefore, the amortized cost per chip for test alone can be comparable to the cost of silicon itself.
[Android General] Old faithful:
I also use a 64GB card and in order to use it successfully you need to use the "fat32format" freeware formatting utility. Took just a few seconds for the fast format, but you can do it the full format way if you suspect an error with the card.

If you already used this utility and have issues, I surmise your card is flaky/defective. I purchased a Samsung 64GB EVO+, it's faster than the internal flash memory and has worked without any issues ever since I installed it after formatting with the above utility, plus if you look around, it's got good reviews. Works flawlessly streaming HD video, approx 90MB/s read, approx 22MB/s write. It goes for around USD30 (CAD40)
[Android General] Tzul:
I doubt this is related to the recovery. After all, it doesn't get executed on shutdown / normal startup. As far as I know, only three things can wake up the tablet: power key, USB, real-time clock (=RTC; you can set an alarm that will start the tablet at a certain date/time).

Doing a "reboot to recovery" from within Android actually involves the RTC as well. A certain bit is set in one of its registers to indicate that the recovery is to be booted.

Anyway, I've heard about similar problems with CyanogenMod on some tablets, but I don't know the cause or how to fix it.

See my post there. No official exFAT support, you need to root and install file system drivers.

The bootanimation.zip file is the old Android format, and it's not used on this tablet. Instead it plays start.mp4 (including sound, unless that was disabled in the settings). I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work, if you replace it with a suitable custom video file. Matching the resolution is not enough. The default video is MPEG4 Video (H.264) 1600x900 20fps 1088kbps, Main profile, Level 4.1, 4 reference frames.