yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Get it from this post here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69580395&postcount=1537 :good:
[Android General] lazostat:
This Marshmallow update has been officially given by Lenovo or its custom rom?
[Android General] bigrammy:
Can anyone on MM can confirm this?

From my post above:
[Android General] free4flight:
I presently have the headphone icon showing and no sound from speakers, even when camera is open. will try to apply your boot image and report the results. Where is your patched boot.img?
[Android General] bigrammy:
Thanks bro,

Do you have the systemless root or system root?

The patch I refer to is not released yet so do not go flashing anything unnecessarily.

I need to confirm a few things first before I share it.

I am working on other patches from the A10-70L_S099999_169999_ROW update [MENTION=5353647]zMILWAUKEE[/MENTION] received some how. :eek: (90% finished) but lots of wrong system/bin files in our version. :confused:
[Android General] free4flight:
I am using system mode.
[Android General] bigrammy:
Ok thanks :good:

I just need someone with systemless root to report now. :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] chris5s:
Systemless root as in after flashing your original modded boot img and SuperSU?
[Android General] bigrammy:
Yes mate.
[Android General] chris5s:
Alright big man. Give me ten minutes an I'll be ready for you ;)

(Seeing as I'm in a very good mood this morning :D::D

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Ok, I'm all yours ha ha. What next?

:good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Cheers chris5s.

I have done a lot of work using the official A10-70L_S099999_169999_ROW OTA and I am just trying to track what changes have occurred.

84 system/bin files do not match according to the OTA sha1 check which is rather a lot so I need to tread a little carefully.

EDIT:

Are systemless I thought you were system root.
[Android General] chris5s:
Ok, what next?

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Yes, systemless, after flashing your first modded boot img and the systemless zip for supersu you provided :good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Can you check the headphones ie plug them in then unplug them then launch the camera and see if it clears the headphone mode. :good:
[Android General] chris5s:
No, it doesn't clear headphone mode...:good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Ok that's one thing different then :D

Just one more thing.

Can you install CPU Spy plus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy.realgpp&hl=en

And tell me which core is getting most use ie the top one 1690MHz or the 1170MHz

EDIT:

I have sent you a PM with the patched boot.img so once done could you flash that in TWRP and re run the SuperSU v2.78 on it then recheck the above.
[Android General] chris5s:
Ok. FYI, its the top one, in answer to your last question...
[Android General] chris5s:
No change to previous behaviour... :good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Thanks mate.

Ok I edited my post so If you could flash the patched boot.img I PM'd you and re try the camera headphones thing :good:

The cpu frequency will still show the same of course but monitor it and see if it drops off the top one and starts to use the 1170 MHz more.

Edit we must of posted at the same time.
[Android General] chris5s:
Indeed.

Usage of 1170MHz seems to be increasing and is nearly equal to 1690MHz (33% vs 39% respectively) (after ~17 mins uptime)

Peace.
[Android General] bigrammy:
:confused:

They must of changed something in the peloader or LK as It works for me.

I will patch the rest of the update tomorrow and try to make it flashable in TWRP after testing it of course :fingers-crossed:

Thanks again for checking / testing :highfive:
[Android General] chris5s:
But wouldn't we have the same preloader and LK?

No problem :good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Yes I thought they were the same too but I cant understand why when I launch the camera my headphones clear yet yours don't :confused:

The only other thing I did was install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xsoftstudio.androtics&hl=en which is how I noticed the headphones clearing in the first place while checking the cameras info. :confused:
[Android General] chris5s:
(Edit: nevermind, I am indeed an idiot) I may be daft, but I can't seem to change the camera mode from video to still? What I am missing :confused:

Edit: on the plus side, I can now change lockscreen wallpaper to whatever I like lol. Win!
[Android General] bigrammy:
Did you get the camera video working. I am out just now but will check it when I get back home. :o
[Android General] chris5s:
Thanks, yes, I did, got lost in a moment of daftness. (Must have been all the excitement of smashing my interview/presentation and getting offered the job) (sorry, very off topic lol)

Peace.
[Android General] bigrammy:
Nice One!!!

A few bevies tonight to celebrate then. :laugh: :highfive:

PS: Deep Sleep is working now pretty sure it never did before. ??
[Android General] chris5s:
Thanks man :good: (found out late yesterday. Looks like it all paid off, and managed to stop geeking around for a few days too, which is a bloody miracle. Hence my willingness to do a spot of geeking this morning!)

Deep sleep here too - but I was getting that on the other boot img as well :cool:

:good:

Any more progress? Let me know if I can help...:D
[Android General] AlSopranos:
Thanks for the guide and all. But i got myself in a serious situation and dont know if theres a way out of it. I think i ****edup big time!!!

I was about to install TWRP recovery with SP Flash Tool, and choosed Android Version 5 my fault !! i have version 4 ..... and now the Lenovo wont respond. I still hear a windows connect sound but nothing more.. Is this the end? Or still a chance to recover this big problem ?
[Android General] bigrammy:
NO

Simply re flash the ROM.

If you install TWRP (correct android version) you must boot to recovery First so after the flash Manually boot to recovery and do what you want eg flash supersu etc etc

If you boot to system first TWRP will get replaced with the stock one.
[Android General] chris5s:
Just make sure the tablet is powered off properly and either try and reflash the proper recovery thru SPFT or reflash the ROM with SPFT (you'll lose all your data). All is not lost :good:

Edit - beaten to it by the big man ha ha :D
[Android General] AlSopranos:
Friends, do i have to wait untill the battery dies? I cant do anything now. I tried to reflash with the correct twrp android version 4, but nothing happend.. how can i kill the battery
[Android General] chris5s:
Press and hold the power button, around 10-20 secs should be enough to power off the tablet. Then go back to SPFT and reflash the ROM.

Peace.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
I did that, i pressed down the power button 20 sec, back to SPFT choose android 4 scatter file, marked recovery , choose android 4 version in location...Download plug in Lenovo nothing happend...

This is not looking bright, i also downloaded the entire stock rom for Lenovo 1070 and still no respond on SPFT looks like the pad is not completely off... Shiet happens
[Android General] chris5s:
From what I've heard and read, it's pretty hard to kill these tablets.

If you're getting a notification sound when connecting to the pc then there is life, don't give up!

Check under device manager to see what the pc is "seeing"when you connect the tablet...

Good luck :good:

Peace.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
U give me hope man, i see nothing, but sounds when i connect/disconnect,, i think i have to wait till the battery dies... Then i reflash with Android version 4 right? Cuz the thing i did was install recovery android 5 TWRP , i have android 4.4.2, i know not a great thing i did
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
You need to make sure the device manager is showing that your tablet is connected to the pc in preloader mode, load device manager and with the tablet off keep plugging and unplugging the tablet from the pc. device manager should show a tab ports (COMM & LPT) it should only show up for a second or two. If you are not seeing that reinstall the vcomm drivers. Now in SPFT, make sure its the latest version, and you are running it in admin mode, load the scatter file from the rom you want. Clear all the check marks except the preloader, with the tablet off and unplugged press download, connect the tablet, again make sure its off, now after the preloader gets flashed unplug tablet reload the scatter for your rom and this time flash the entire rom. And if and when you flash the CORRECT TWRP make sure after you flash manualy boot into recovery. AND DO NOT FORGET, RUN SPFT AS ADMIN FOR ALL OF YOUR FLASHING..
[Android General] Sparkrite:
The ONLY caveat I would have with the above advice is that I never think it is a good idea to flash the preloader, because if it goes wrong you are bunched. Also I don't think the problem lies with the preloader as windows is AFAIK "seeing" the tablet. More than likely the tablet is not completely off and surely if he holds the power button for 20 secs. won't is try to reset and boot ie. not off.

Try just pressing it for 5 secs. or so. I don't think it is a problem with drivers either as he flashed TWRP, albeit the wrong version, with SPFT.

My advice would be to try and flash the stock recovery ONLY, by putting SPFT into "download" and try different times on the power button while disconnected from the PC and plugging into it after each press. As already said it is nearly impossible to hard brick these tablets, but breaking the preloader will certainly present major problems.
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
Good addition to the advice i gave. And you are right on the money, the mediatek, rockchip, and speadtrum chipsets are damn near impossible to hard brick. These are the most "developer" friendly chipsets on the market right now. I think they all saw what Samsung and LG, well at least Qualcom and that lame ass Exynos chipsets, were basically telling us, your smart enough to buy our devices but to dumb to use them how you want to, kinda like Apple in that regards. So they lock down everything and those you need to be alot more carefull with what you flash and how you flash. I think alot of the help and advice we give out in this thread is because people are to lazy to read the full instructions or do thier own research to thier problem. Dont get me wrong i like helping when and where i can, but if people are to lazy to make sure they check what version device they have and double check they are flashing the CORRECT files to said device they have no business even trying to do basic tasks like something as simple as rooting.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
Belive me, im not lazy this is the first time doing something wrong like this....i just got this pad as a gift from a friend and sure i knew it was android 4.4.2 but confusion got me when i thought to flash it to 5.1 ,
[Android General] chris5s:
We've all been there :good:

Peace.
[Android General] Sparkrite:
Nobody is accusing you of being lazy, have you tried what I advised and if so how did you get on?

We are all here to help,however it does become tedious when some people want to be spoon fed

and don't read the thread therefore asking the same basic questions that have been answered time and time again.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
Ok, drivers are up to date, showing up in device manager.. I put this "Lenovo_A10-70F_S000021_150501_ROW" in SPFT admin mode!! Only checked recovery , pressing download connect lenovo to the computer , nothing happens ,
[Android General] Sparkrite:
As I said , press the power button for different times, ie. We are looking for it to be off.

Then and only then will SPFT flash.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
I know im struggling with that
[Android General] chris5s:
The other option, and only to be considered if youre totally comfortable doing it, is to take off the rear cover and manually disconnect the battery.

The cover comes off fairly easily by hand - no special tools needed - and there is a ribbon cable to disconnect the battery.

Just saying....

Peace.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
That did the job my Lenovo boots up now ..
[Android General] mloc33:
Just got this tab a few days ago, but the sound isn't the greatest when I've the headphones in, I hear cracking and it's either way to low or just sounds like it's in a barrel, once i play around with the Dolby settings.

Please say there's a way to improve the sound?
[Android General] bigrammy:
OPPS wrong device thread buddy.

I suspect you have the Lenovo-A10-10-1-Inch-16GB

Lenovo have made this range of tablet names very confusing even some shops have them labelled wrongly but you should always double check before flashing :good:

I think this will be your device Forum firmware etc etc
[Android General] AlSopranos:
really oops big time, reaaaallyy confusing ... wow , Lenovo TAB 2 A710F
[Android General] bigrammy:
Here is were you need to be then http://xdaforums.com/t/lenovo-a710 :good:
[Android General] Sparkrite:
I rest my case.
[Android General] AlSopranos:
Big thansk 4 the help ghuyz,, i got my lenovo working somehow. Best ppl in xda big up!!
[Android General] chris5s:
Ah well, lessons learnt all round then! Good luck :good:
[Android General] bigrammy:
I have come across many who rush in without thinking it over first me included. :o

Thing is you never know who your dealing with on these forums some are just kids as young 9 or 10 years old :eek: They should be learning to climbing trees, make rope swings, cycling and exploring their environment IMHO instead of this stuff. :laugh:

Dont get me wrong some are far from been impulsive and so advanced at this stuff it blows your mind how they know so much at such a young age. :eek:

Anyway back on topic:

I successfully applied the rest of patches from the A10-70L_S099999_169999_ROW update but sadly without the correct 84 system/bin files it just goes into a recovery bootloop. :crying:

Still it was worth a shot I guess.
[Android General] Old faithful:
And there are some so old they stopped programming when punchcards were the input method of choice and FORTRAN was all the rage :laugh:

It never ceases to amaze me... I'm taking a course at my ripe old age to freshen up on stuff I learned 40 years ago and am amazed how quick the younger generation is absorbing it all (and dismayed at how little they know about command line stuff, which they seemingly are able to make do without with great ease), as a matter of fact I've partnered with a young woman who's probably half my age and has only been using computers for the past three years yet is amazing with it in more ways than she appears :cool:
[Android General] chris5s:
:good:
[Android General] chris5s:
I've half a mind to go back to Lollipop and see if an ota update comes, as some of the Russian forums seem to think....
[Android General] bigrammy:
From what I can gather from the Lenovo forum they will have the SPFlashtool version up within a day or so of getting the official OTA. :good:
[Android General] chris5s:
Yeah, I've been keeping an eye over there for a while.

Mostly for the comedy value of Google's translation engine (My dog lies on the plate with Ruth - what the actual f**k!!), never fails to bring a smile :D

Peace
[Android General] bigrammy:
I know only too well :crying:

No idea why google translate does such a bad job of translating Russian...
[Android General] chris5s:
I guess the translation engine does a job on the individual words rather than the grammar or grammatical context of the sentence. Hence the - unintended - hilarity. I've actually cried with laughter at some of its efforts. :good:
[Android General] Lanreallenjay:
Seems the marshmallow rom is corrupt.

I downloaded the 6.0 rom and extracting it has been a failure. Keeps giving error alert. I've tried using 7z, yet same result. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
[Android General] chris5s:
Could be a bad download?

What is the specific error message?

Peace.
[Android General] Lanreallenjay:
Unknown method error.
[Android General] chris5s:
Outdated version of winrar or 7z? =update to handle newer compression method?
[Android General] Lanreallenjay:
I got the latest 7z...same result. I tried B1 on my phone same result, so maybe I can safely conclude the zip got corrupted some how.

Meanwhile I've been following this thread silently for a while with no intention of flashing or playing around with the new 6.0 rom. But I hard bricked my tablet yesterday while trying to do backup using miracle.

I'll try and download the ROM zip again hoping it will be fine. Or is there a mirrored link to the 6.0 rom?

Thank you.
[Android General] chris5s:
This one?

Peace.
[Android General] Lanreallenjay:
This is 5.x but thanks all the same. I'm cut between trying the MM ROM or the the one u quoted above.
[Android General] chris5s:
Ooos, wrong link, sorry.

To be honest, there's not much difference I've found. Ymmv ....
[Android General] pcss:
Hi all,

Apologies for the newbie post; I used the OP's guide some time ago to root my A10-70F and install TWRP 2.8.7.0.

I'm a bit confused as to the MM ROM. Can I use TWRP as it is now to flash this ROM or do I need to update TWRP first? If so, how?

I'm about to install the MTK drivers in case SPFT is needed.

Thanks,

John
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
The MM Rom needs to be flashed with SPFT.. If you want TWRP and root follow this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69580395&postcount=1537
[Android General] pcss:
Thank you!
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
No problem if you have any questions just ask we are all here to help. Just a few tips, flash the MM rom with SPFT, dont worry about booting the device after the MM flash is done, just unplug and load the TWRP scatter, flash that and unplug, boot directly into recovery, tap the wipe tab, tap advanced wipe, and then tap format, type yes when twrp asks and swipe to format, dont worry the boot.img you flashed has force encryption removed so TWRP can mount all the partitions properly.
[Android General] pcss:
Is there a particular version of SPFT I need to be using? I'm getting "Initializing scatter file failed" error.

ETA: Windows 10 x64 with SPFT 3.1216.02, same whether run as admin or not.
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
yeah you need the latest version found here https://androidmtk.com/smart-phone-flash-tool make sure you run as admin
[Android General] pcss:
That's the version I'm running and where I got it from, and as admin.
[Android General] zMILWAUKEE:
http://spflashtools.com/windows/sp-flash-tool-v5-1644 you said you running version 3.xxxx this is the link to version 5.16
[Android General] pcss:
Great, thanks so much! Now booting into MM.
[Android General] charlestek:
Too bad Tab 3 10" Business is terrible

I just recently caught up on some threads in this forum which I thought would go down once the Tab 3 was announced, but it looks like the Tab 3 10" business is junk as its processor is underclocked and they didn't improve on the Tab 2, just worsened it.

I do believe that there must be an Android Yoga model, essential the Tab with a keyboard that has decent processor specs.
[Android General] cfir:
Great Conclusion

Great post,

First, thank you for posting it , using this post probably saved me a lot of time,

so thank you very much.

Second, do you by any chance know any way to enable calls with the Lenovo Tab 2 A10-70L(with sim), the only thing i have founds was this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2776752 , but it's only for Sony Xperia Tablet Z.

thanks in advance,

Cfir
[Android General] bigrammy:
I think it's possible according to the Russian 4PDA forum HERE post #1544 by aleksandr7615.

Good luck Translating it. :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] bran1m1r:
hey guys,

today I received my lenovo tab2 a10-70F (thx amazon) and I started searching for a possible MM update. I found the Russian Lenovo board and later on this one. I've probably read the last 30 pages and I think I got a good grip of what to do, and also learned about some of the software (TWRP, SPFT) needed to get the MM update, since I'm completely new to the Android World. First of all I would like to say AMAZING WORK!! Thanks for all the contributions, cheers :good: ! Now, I still do have a question. I'm on a Mac :D .. welp, I do have parallels with a win8 running, and I could probably (only if needed) make a partition on my Laptop and install Ubuntu if that is of any use.. but getting a real Windows Computer could be kind of hard. So what are my chances of getting this whole update process done. (I am a computer scientist tho.. so maybe that will be somewhat of an advantage)

best regards from Germany!

EDIT: btw. I do have Android Studio installed and all that comes with it, since I've been working on some apps.. if that is of any use in my OSX case
[Android General] bigrammy:
In the absence of a real computer I will look at making the MM update TWRP flashable tomorrow. :eek:

I think you would be in a world of pain trying to get the Mac (did i just type that word) to play nice with SPFlashtool :laugh:

If you are going to adventure into the world of Android I would suggest you find an old laptop or PC and install a linux distro such as http://bbqlinux.org/ by [MENTION=3208754]codeworkx[/MENTION] which is setup for Android development Thread Here Alternativly you could use Ubuntu4Kitchen by [MENTION=5787964]SuperR.[/MENTION] HERE :good:

Being a computer scientist I would of thought linux would be your first love. :laugh:
[Android General] bran1m1r:
lol the osx Jokes started I guess :D I'm doing pretty fine with the mac, I guess its just a habit thing and what you actually do with it. But I will follow your advice and get bbqlinux on a partition... Might as well give win10 a shot :laugh: just kiddin not gonna happen :laugh:
[Android General] bigrammy:
Yeah sorry about osx jokes I just couldn't resist :o

BTW you will need adb and fastboot installed on the Mac to be able to flash the TWRP recovery. Plenty of tut's around for that one if you have not got them installed already. :o
[Android General] Tzul:
[MENTION=7907608]bran1m1r[/MENTION] Welcome! Hrvatsko? I don't know if the Windows version of the SPFT works with Parallels, but it's worth a try. Since you can read German, I presume, you'll find more info here. And as a computer scientist, you might find this interesting.

Since you say you're new to Android, I don't know if it's a good idea to start with installing the beta MM firmware... Personally, I haven't had enough time yet to give it a try. In any case, you should make a backup of your current firmware first (particulary of proinfo and nvram). If you stay with Android 5 (or 4), you might want to disable AAL.
[Android General] bran1m1r:
np :D no offense taken :D

I do have adb and fastboot installed since I got the /plattform-tools folder inside my Android SDK, but I never used adb nor fastboot :laugh:

the "recovery_twrp2870_for_LenovoTab2A10-70.zip" form the first page is still good to go, isn't it? But since I won't be able to do all the rooting/patching etc. via OSX I will have to get (adb,fastboot, twrp.img for A10-70F) on the bbqlinux once I installed it, and will have to follow the steps 1-3 ?

EDIT: I just read this article about TWRP and I if I got it right and if I got your last post right than all I have to do is get TWRP on the Tablet and if you successfully create the MM - TWRP version, I could flash the device without SPFT ? (basically with from my osx)

---------- Post added at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 PM ----------

:laugh: yeah I'm croatian and I understand german as well. Thanks for the links I'll get right into them. Well, actually you are right there really is no need to update. To be honest I just got the tablet to run some App tests on it, since I figured the emulator and a real device are just two separate kinds of shoes. It is not that urgent for me to install Android 6, I could easily wait for an official release (if that will ever come) :)