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[Android General] nannycrick:
Got "Da Baby" upgraded to TWRP 2.8.2.0 today, as well as the latest SuperSU. The improved recovery allows me to backup to/flash from the 32GB sdcard. The last TWRP was a very old one.

Installed GravityBox KK and made the status & nav bar transparent opening up the smaller display just a bit!

A nice feature of the Power Manager apk is called...."Protective Glasses" which gives you an adjustable "night mode" dimming everything you view but the nav bar! Very Sweet!

Picked up an Ipad Mini folio case for $7.00 USD and the A8-5500F JUST squeezes in to it! I can zipper this one in.... hopefully protecting it....from me!

Happiness is a successfully tweaked Android!
[Android General] worm91100:
Nanny, glad you got everything working. Still using my Lenovo Tab2 A10-70 as my daily driver.
[Android General] nannycrick:
Tzul....I ran...fastboot getvar all and saved it to a Notepad text. I also have a download of the original firmware w/scatter. Can I use the getvar values to edit a copy of that original scatter to give me a scatter of my current version?

Scary.... venturing into noob land here!
[Android General] bigrammy:
Yes you can.

If your device is mt6582 based then MTKDroidtools (MDT) should work with it while in TWRP recovery.

Note: if you have adb in you PC's path you may need to hide that version while MDT does it thing using it's own version as there are some compatibility issues with the newer adb's. ;)

EDIT: Found [MENTION=4796707]syserr[/MENTION] quite advanced tut if you really want to dig in :D

syserr's TUT here.
[Android General] A$h x:
Hi everyone, gonna get one of these badboys for my wife, and i was wondering are they any custom ROMs for this device? CM or anything? Even a de-bloated stock ROM is fine, the less crap that is pre-installed, the better. Thanks!
[Android General] clsA:
You can use my TWRP backup here >> https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24369303960686497
[Android General] MysticSurge:
Hey im having isues now when i try to install xposed framework everything works i installed the installer and i flashed the package (Im running on lolipop) but now when ever im in the app i am getting this error:

Xposed is not (yet) compatible with Android SDK version 21 or your processor architecture (arm64-v8a)

im really stuck here because i had it working before then all of a sudden it stopped working so i completely reset the device and then reflashed twrp and then did everything over again after that i got everything back to where it was and now again its not working if someone could help that would be nice
[Android General] Tzul:
[MENTION=7579239]MysticSurge[/MENTION] You need to download the proper Xposed Framework zip from here.

This tablet runs Android 5.0.1 in 64 bit mode, therefore you need to go to the SDK21 ARM64 directory.

Download the latest zip file (v86 at the moment), copy to your tablet, and install the zip with a custom recovery, e.g. TWRP.

Then install Xposed Installer 3 from here (this is the Android app for downloading and managing Xposed modules, but it cannot install the framework in Android 5 and 6).
[Android General] MysticSurge:
Im trying this now I swear I thought i tried this already but ill try again i guess

EDIT:

Ok this worked i must of been installing the wrong version or something but its all working now thank you so much!
[Android General] Old faithful:
My Galaxy Note 2 is rooted and quite optimized yet it has needs twice the number of apps starting as this tablet does. Of course, it doesn't have cellular and phone functions, but the difference is huge nevertheless in how few apps start on the Lenovo Tab 2, and I'm no 'strip it to type barebones' type of guy, by a long shot, in other words, I've had to freeze very few apps from the OEM ROM to make it work exactly the way I want it to. It's truly a no-nonsense device that lives up to its motto "for those who do".

clsa's TWRP backup is Lollipop with Nova launcher - I personally use KitKat and Smart Launcher, as for bloat there isn't much and once you've rooted the device (a must for anyone who truly believes in being in control of his/her devices) it's easy to freeze/remove/delete whatever little bloat there is. I've gotten rid of/disabled a lot of Google stuff, for example I use Aquamail and don't use the Playstore to get apps but rather download them directly as apks and make sure they aren't updated without my consent.

For managing files I use Ghost Commander, IMO the most powerful and customizable orthodox two pane file manager out there that leverages the power of BusyBox very well;

For editing text I have found no better editor than Jota, it has dark backgound and monspaced font modes, usable tabs, www links, works with any text encoding and end of line formats;

For browsing I use Firefox, it's got a built-in white text on black background reading mode that won't blind you and rid you of the junk;

For email I use Aquamail, much more powerful and customizable, has dark mode and choice of font sizes among others;

For viewing pictures I use Quickpic 4.5.2, before it was taken over by Cheetah Mobile, the very best photo gallery and viewer out there;

For youtubing I use Snaptube for its downloadable videos, so no interruptions due to network overload;

For videos I use MX Player, works with the most formats I know of, excellent volume and brightness controls, great with subtitles;

For music I use MortPlayer, can play from from playlists you can create in a text editor if you so wish or from folders, your choice;

For PDFs I use Foxit PDF, works nicely with Adobe Acrobat created documents, great of on-site form filling and hand written signatures;

Of course for backups I use Titanium Backup, a must alongside TWRP as your basic custom recovery and for freezing unwanted apps;

And a few others...

I suggest you take some time reading the early posts, they contain a lot of the basics from when the tablet first appeared/got popular, you've come to the right place, there's quite a few talented and knowledgeable people here, the worst that can happen is that you'll need to get a second one for your wife after she finds out you're hogging it for yourself most of the time ;)
[Android General] hrohibil:
Hi

Short story:

I bought a lenova tablet to my son.... As stupid as i am, i tried to flash it or root?? Anyways, it has ever since started up and got stuck in the logo ..

I think it is soft bricked...

Following all the steps. when i have the SP flash tool open, I load in the scatter, press download and then connect my turned off tablet to the pc. Immediately the progress bar goes to full, is red and reading "Download DA 100%" ... nothing more happends other than the timer which is running.

It may be the connection between tablet and laptop.

Can i copy the stock rom firmware into a SD card, and install it from the recovery mode?? Will this work?

Please advice, my son is very sad..

I am on windows 10..

Tablet Lenova tab 2 a10-70f
[Android General] bigrammy:
Try a different usb port also a different quality usb cable also double check the MTK preloader driver is installed correctly in device manager. Drivers can be very weird in windows 10 sometimes loading automatic and sometimes not so double check it when connected.
[Android General] chris5s:
I know this tab uses start.mp4 as the boot animation, but notice in /system/media there's also bootanimation.zip and wondered if there's a way to use this instead of the mp4?

Any ideas anyone?

Peace.
[Android General] A$h x:
Awesome stuff, peeps! Thanks for all the advice, seems like a very helpful and active community we have going on in this thread :good:

So, my initial procedure will be as follows:

Flash lollipop stock ROM > Flash TWRP > Restore clsA's backup via TWRP. Even I couldn't mess that up right? :silly:

I'll let you guys know how I get along, my wife's birthday is in August so I'll have to resist fiddling with it until then, but may have a sneaky play with it while she's sleeping.... must resist..... :angel:
[Android General] bigrammy:
I think moving/renaming start.mp4 causes it to default back to the bootanimation.zip if it cant find it which should be android's stock one i think. :confused:
[Android General] hrohibil:
I tried many different USB cables, so that one i can rule out. And they all behave the same, when i plug in the cable to the tablet, the sound for device detected plays, and after approx 2 sec, another sound again... I have the device manager open at the same time, and I do not see any device message popping up???
[Android General] Super_Hurf:
Nice thread

Good
[Android General] chris5s:
Tried that, deleting start.mp4 dos nothing , screen just stays on the Lenovo Powered by Android initial splash screen.

The bootanimation.zip contained in /media is actually the same animation as the start.mp4....

I did extract the PNG files from the stock android mm animation, and made it into an mp4, but as Old faithful says, framerate and resolution were way off - somehow the tablet resized it to fit the screen so it was stretched and it was sooo slow! Gonna have a play around and see, cos I love that animation!
[Android General] MysticSurge:
Problem with Timezone

Alright so I had to reflash the entire operating system and when I did that the default time zone was Hong Kong Standard Time but now there is a problem I can't change the timezone, when i do change it i can't access the play store i will get a connection error so i have to stay in Hong Kong Standard Time how do i change this so i can access the play store and be on my actual time zone
[Android General] Old faithful:
Great, keep us posted, it would be nice if we could customize it :)

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Did you try to factory reset to make sure it's really clean? Or maybe language setup? That being said - You DON'T need to register with the Google Playstore to download apps - just use your browser and replace "play.google.com" with "apk-dl.com" and you'll get the apps directly as apks downloaded to your download folder, you could then use an app like TimeZone Changer... Haven't tried it though so take it for what it's worth...
[Android General] MysticSurge:
I will try that and also I know i can install using apks i just find it easier with google play store but anyways thanks for all the help so far
[Android General] hrohibil:
Detailed guide

Thank you much for that detailed how-to.

I followed it to the letter. I get stuck at this line in your guide:

"Click Download on SPFlash. and then Connect the device to the USB port on the computer."

The issue is when i connect the device to my computer through the USB port, i just get that standard chime twice, and then nothing more happends.....

It wont reconnize it.

In my device manager under ports there is a yellow triangle NeXT to the text " MediaTek PreLoader USB VCOM Port (COM3)"

Please advice

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I tried with differents cable and ports. Delete trace and repeat as described. But still no connection.

I can still use the volume up and power button to boot into recovery. Would the installation from sd card be an option??
[Android General] Old faithful:
If you've tried it on a different USB port you probably have a bad driver install - Follow the guide where it explains how to remove the failed driver install using usbdeview and the commands for making hidden devices appear in device manager so they can be removed from there, before trying to install the driver again. And make sure that power management is set to "OFF" on USB ports.

If that doesn't work (been there), there may be something wrong or missing with your Windows configuration and that could be a real tough nut to crack. I know for a fact that a fresh Windows 7 install is sure to work, that's what I ended up using. Do you have access to another computer, preferably one that DOESN'T run Windows 10?

Good luck, hope it helps!
[Android General] Old faithful:
Yes if you were able to access TWRP - I've been on TWRP for so long I can't remember what's possible with stock recovery... But IIRC you should be able to get the OEM ROM as a flashable zip on the SD Card, but

only

if you were running Lollipop (if you're on KitKat the OEM recovery isn't able to access the SD Card).

This is really something clsa or Tzul could better answer - especially the so-called "fastboot" mode, which is basically something I know nothing about, never having needed it. If I understand correctly, it's a way to overwrite the device using adb shell on the PC through USB, using a different driver. But don't take my word for it - I just don't know enough about it, however hopefully this will help you look for the right solution on these forums.

If my memory serves me right loner was in a similar predicament a couple of months ago, if you can backtrack to his posts on this thread you should be able to get excellent tips from that.
[Android General] hrohibil:
Is there any chance to get TRWP on it in my current state??

I mean what options do i have left??

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Hi sir.

I was told that you might be the oné with the magic touch.

Not sure if you been following some of the last threads.

But bassicly i somehow soft bricked the tablet while trying to root it

So it now only starts up at the logo splash screen and is stuck there. I can still boot into recovery mode by pressing volume up and power button.

I have followed all steps but somehow my usb connection from tab to pc does not work. I have deleted/removed and reinstalled drivers. Tried different computers and cables...

Please advice....
[Android General] bigrammy:
Tip: If you pull the bootanimation in /system/bin and open it with hex edit then scroll through you will see some plain text used for error reporting this will give you some idea of what and where it's looking paths, names and format etc.

Sadly I dont have the tablet to hand just now so I can't pull it and have a look myself. :(
[Android General] chris5s:
Yes I was looking at that earlier. Still a bit clueless tho lol.

Think I will try overlaying the mp4 I created onto a blank video with the correct resolution and see if that gives me any joy...

Thanks [MENTION=3924647]bigrammy[/MENTION] :good:
[Android General] hrohibil:
I am trying on a windows 7 ... Still no luck... I really dont hope it is completely bricked... What other options do i have.. Remember it was not rooted before this happend.
[Android General] Tzul:
What exact version of the SPFT are you using anyway? Some don't work with this tablet, so have you tried more than one?

Have you tried flashing TWRP via Fastboot? Bring up the boot menu (power + volume up), select Fastboot, connect tablet to PC, get a Fastboot client on PC, run "fastboot flash recovery TWRPfilenamehere".

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The start.mp4 boot video gets stretched to the full tablet size, i.e. aspect ratio 16:10 (1920x1200).

The boot animation is usually a service triggered in the init.rc script. Therefore, you might be able to use bootanimation.zip instead of start.mp4 by modifying the proper part of the script in the proper way. You'll find it in the ramdisk that is part of the boot partition (boot.img). You have to know what you're doing, though. If you mess up, you can just flash the stock boot.img, luckily that's easily available.
[Android General] chris5s:
Yes I've looked thru init rc and there's mention of system/bin/boot animation but nowt else and no obvious (to me, anyway) way of using bootanimation.zip

I find it strange Lenovo would include boot and shutdown zip animations but no easy way of using them?

Cheers tho :good:
[Android General] hrohibil:
I have tried different sp tools. I am open to try flashing with TRWP. But my tablet should have USB debugging enabled in order to use this option right? And i can't get further than the startup screen. Or?? Is there are specific guide to perform that operation and what software/drivers are needed??
[Android General] clsA:
here is what the driver looks like installed
[Android General] Old faithful:
Tzul just posted the solution you were looking for since you seem to be only able to get into Fastboot mode to load the right TWRP version. I presume you remember what OS you were runing, KitKat or Lollipop, HUGE difference, come to think of it this could well have been the cause of your initial bootloop problem...

Hmmm!

Anyway once you got the right TWRP version, based on the same kernal as your existing recovery, you'd be back on track: Once loaded through Fastboot, you would just have to make sure to restart immediately into Recovery mode, to make sure TWRP wouldn't be erased and once in there you'd be good to go, as you would have gained SDCard access (if you were in KitKat and wanted to flash a clean ROM backup such as clsa's from your SDCard)...
[Android General] hrohibil:
Allright... Thank you so much everybody.. it worked without going into TWRP.

I tried a dozen drivers. What happend was that after i reinstalled a new driver, i had sp flash tools open and the device manager. I click on the download button and imediately plugged in the usb, a connection was established. This was on a win 7 pc.

Thanks to everyone.... Now i got the taste of it i am thinking whats next, what would be a good flash fir this one
[Android General] Tzul:
No. USB debugging starts the ADB service in Android. That setting has no bearing at all on flashing via SPFT or Fastboot!
[Android General] boxa72:
I dont know if anyone is aware but i just found this trojan in the SP-driver download Win32/Spursint.A!cl
[Android General] Tzul:
[MENTION=5680745]boxa72[/MENTION] Which download exactly? Please provide a link.
[Android General] boxa72:
It was the link on the thread but I went thru Tapatalk. I'll copy n paste the link in a sec as I'm trying to get Fedora to see my phone thru VirtualBox lol ????

Edit: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24345424848487428

Windows pegged it in like ½ a second and Malwarebytes not long after
[Android General] bigrammy:
Not sure if you already spotted these but maybe a source of help/info. :fingers-crossed:

lenovo-a7000/development/change-boot-animation-t3415068

lenovo-a7000/themes/boot-logo-boot-animation-colection-t3382026
[Android General] Tzul:
That file is clean. I just sent all of the executables it contains (dll and sys) to virustotal.com, which runs over 50 different scanners on them. No malware detected.

Never trust a single (or two) anti-virus program.
[Android General] boxa72:
Fair enough I should know better being a Python dev but it caught me off guard by how quick it picked it up and then never gave me a chance to have a look at the file bcoz it rebooted straight away. I'd never seen Windows react like that before which is why I thought it might be serious.
[Android General] nannycrick:
My happiness runneth over my forum mates!

What did I find on a Facebook Yard Sale post?

An A10-70F for $100 that was just hanging around somebody's house.... unloved?! Shocking I know!

Well.... it's not unloved now! I SOOO missed my big screen!
[Android General] charlestek:
[MENTION=4717484]nannycrick[/MENTION],

You seem to have an uncanny nack for finding tablet bargains.

Can we be sure you're not a cat burglar?
[Android General] nannycrick:
Nope...not that talented! (Remember who killed their first A10 by an act of stupidity?! ) Now I face a problem....what to do with the A8-5500f now that it's all setup? Both have their own good points....sweet display, excellent battery life, responsive systems. I really LOVE the A10...hands down, the better of the two but....

It's always a bit emotional for me to let go a device that taught you something! I first thought the A8 was a "poor" compromise, but it taught me it had it's own qualities. Maybe I'll give it to my elderly mom in law. She has a HUGE Acer laptop just for Facebook & crochet patterns off the internet! LOL!
[Android General] charlestek:
Want to disable tab auto pwr on when disconnect usb pwr

Every time I'm charging the tab with the power off, I decide I have to run out and grab the tablet, pulling out the mini usb plug.

The tablet gets dumped in my backpack, then sometimes 3/4 of a day later I open the tab to use it and it is down 10% since it turned itself on when I pulled the usb plug.

There must be some way to disable this....
[Android General] nannycrick:
charlestek....I never noticed if it auto powered on after pulling the cord?! That's a good question!

Right now, I'm rooted, running Lollipop, and I'm debloating with care.

Hey Old Faithful......I picked up a cushioned sleeve for a dollar at a yard sale. Now it has extra protection! Still gotta get a screen protector yet!

Maybe there's some kind of "stupidity" insurance available too?! LOL!
[Android General] Kaylware:
i tried to flash stock rom but didn't show the progress bar.. is it normal?
[Android General] charlestek:
Using SPFT? If no progress bar, it is NOT normal.
[Android General] Old faithful:
How is her eyesight? My mother's past 90 and is slowly loosing hers and is squinting even looking at the large clear pictures the A10 is able to show... I'm considering getting her a 20 inch external monitor for her laptop, she pulls out the magnifying glass all the time now :(

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I guess this won't be much comfort but why aren't you charging with the tablet on instead? That way it'll just go to sleep... That way it lasts me 2-3 days sometimes more...

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There isn't anything you can do for clumsiness I'm afraid... My better half suffers from this condition, yesterday she decides to vacuum my work area, she never did it in the 20 years we've been together, heck I'm the one usually vacuuming the house, so she decides to pull my workstation and EVERYTHING fell to the floor... Two external monitors, 4 external hardrives, the laptop, docking station... A complete heap on the floor, not kidding...

What did I do? Tell her sorry, but we won't be able to go out this week as I'll be busy salvaging data, oderering parts and taking things apart to repair them. Then I gave her a kiss :). I wouldn't change her for anyone :)

Of course, it helps if your equipment is military grade in such a household and when she complains I'm a pack rat I always remind her that this pack rat always has a backup plan and can fix almost anything ;)
[Android General] nannycrick:
Old Faithful....my mom in law's eye sight is typical of an 83 year old. The A8 has a "magnifier" option under the Accessibility Settings...then I can set the display font to extra large, and things get real big!

Don't know if she'll want it though. She's afraid of new tech.

And your wife & I do share some similar traits...I was cleaning my office cause I really couldn't work in there with the household excess AND my junk. I swept under the desk, forgetting it was a "fold a way" and everything went crashing. The big HP PC, the Canon printer, etc......I may not clean in there again! LOL!
[Android General] Old faithful:
I don't blame her - its hard enough for anyone to get used and comfortable with a technology as it is. My mom still runs XP and has ZERO security problems because we run extensive extra security and you know what? She's INDEPENDENT and that is the most important thing to keep our seniors healthy and happy...

I'm slowly letting my mother get used to the tablet which I always bring along on my weekly visits and she's slowly getting the hang of the touch interface ;)