yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tony8894:
I cant post links yet but if you go on youtube and put the rest of this url in you will find it. /watch?v=4g3usPZOcgA

I put the tablet in landscape only mode and now whenever it crashes like it does in the video i turn it back on and it does the same thing

I figured out how to do the recovery
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
DELETE
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Android Bloop:
Xposed

Is Xposed not compatible for this ROM still i keeping getting stuck in boot screen no matter what i do when trying to install framework!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
Yes, and it's never going to be compatible.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Android Bloop:
All i have ever heard of is Xposed. Is there i diff program that would allow me to use modules? Or have i picked a tablet that i cant use for me situation!? lol
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
You can use Xposed if you're on the stock ROM, but it will never be compatible with this ROM.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Android Bloop:
I wiped my stock ROM no backup. When i search Ares 8 stock ROM this is all that really comes up but i will start my search!

as i need xposed to work..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
Here's a link to the stock ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67067964&postcount=89
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daleguthery:
Ares 8 Verizon LTE

I flashed this to my Nextboot Ares 8 with Verizon LTE capability, and it works great...except for two things. The camera is always rotated 90 degrees to the left, and mobile data doesn't work. I have a Verizon LTE SIM card, and I'm guessing the IMEI/baseband isn't loaded on this ROM. Is there any way to fix this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tuzuriro:
Anyone have the unmodified stock boot.img of Nextbook Ares 8 running on android 5.1.1 out of the box. please help me i already download many boot.img but all are not compatible to my stock rom. please need help please guys.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Most people don't do backups before they flash the boot.img, you may need to get it from Walmart, eg buy another tablet pull boot.img return tablet.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tuzuriro:
unfortunately i'm living in philippines and don't have enough money to buy another tab. i hope somebody will help me. i thought there's stock rom on nextbook site. i already download this custom rom but unfortunate can't be installed there's an error says "Updater process ended with ERROR: 7 Error installing zip file '/external_sd/flashable_ares8_5.1.zip'"
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daleguthery:
Where in the Philippines? I'm going back there in November.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tuzuriro:
So bad i live in Mindanao the place where so many people don't want to go
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daleguthery:
I see. My fiance is from Caloocan, and we're going to visit her brother in Cebu.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
I saw that Xposed doesn't work on this ROM, any reason why?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
If you had actually searched the thread instead of posting, you would've seen this link: https://github.com/rovo89/Xposed/issues/77 that explains why.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
Ouch. I did search, but never came across that. Thanks for pointing me to it though.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
You're welcome. I'm sorry if I came off mean. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
No, is all good. Lots of saltiness on XDA lately, it's just annoying. Got another tablet today and it was horrid even though it ran marshmallow, so I returned it and got the next book. So much better. I think it was a visual prestige premier prime 10SE. Got it for $74, but it was so plastic and cheap feeling... This thing feels like a nexus and only set me back about $68. Would be nice to have nougat but I'm not gonna worry about it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
Yeah, it's a nice tablet. But neither Marshmallow or Nougat are going to happen because there's no kernel source.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
Jeez, that's almost worst than mediatek then. I'm really surprised there's no Intel source code, but oh well. Still much better tablet than my Kindle fire was.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
There might be some Intel kernel source, but it probably wouldn't be of any use to us. And there is NO source of any kind from Nextbook.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] social-design-concepts:
I forget what touch screen does this tablet have?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
Phew. That's rough. I'm happy on stock rim with the Xposed memory leak fix, gravitybox, and Android Nify.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
Yeah, it is pretty rough.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
Well I only paid $68 for this tablet to hold me over until I can afford a pixel tablet or nexus 9. Depends on if anything new comes out. This thing has quite a bit of horsepower though.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
That's a nice price. And yea, it does have a lot of horsepower but what sucks is it only has 1 GB of RAM. I don't own one personally (I own a 2013 Nexus 7) but my friend owns one and he loves it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
My Mom has a nexus 7 2013 but refuses to let me use it, but oh well.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
It's a very nice tablet, it's a little underpowered but it works well. It sucks that your mom won't let you use hers. Mine actually used to be my mom's, we got it for her Christmas 2013, but she literally never used it and then she got a new tablet on Black Friday this year, so I got it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
I feel ya, my mom never uses hers, is just a statement, I guess.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
When I say she never used hers, I mean that she never even turned it on. Before I got it, it had only ever been turned on twice by me, to upgrade it to 5.1.1 and then to 6.0.1.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Startrek852:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65306433&postcount=371
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
I'm curious, had anyone tried systemless Xposed?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
The strangest thing happened... I left this tablet to charge, and it won't power on now...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] geoyou:
If it's not too late I would return it. On paper, the specs are great. In practice, it's horrible. Stock ROM was so awful, I actually shelved the unit till I found this thread. This custom ROM saved it for a while but now like your tablet, it's dead.

I got me a cheapo Kindle Fire 7 and this thing runs circles around my old Nextbook Ares 8, which doesn't make sense seeing as how the Nextbook has much better hardware than the Fire 7. I guess it all comes down to OS optimization. You can easily install the Play Store on it too without needing to jailbreak/root it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] GrammarNazi:
Soooo... with auto-rotation on does anyone else have a weird issue where whenever the screen rotates it kills the tablet? The navbar goes crazy and flies across the screen and then the whole screen goes weird with lines and then when I lock the screen it won't come back on until I reboot the thing... Anybody know how to fix this? It would really be appreciate, as this ROM appears to be much faster than the stock ROM. Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zerozed99:
Are you on this ROM or Batville? Personally, I recommend Batville as it frees up a lot of space. I think I recall there being a rotation issue previously, but since moving to Batville months ago I haven't had any issues. If you're interested in that ROM just search this thread for a link.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Reconciled:
Tech guy needing help.

Hello, I'm an IT guy PHP / SQL programmer and an all around tech that is always being asked for pc help. But now I'm in trouble and need your help. I've rooted many devices without problems for clients. However I just recently bought this ares 8 5.1 and followed directions carefully but now am stuck in the fast boot dialogue. Normal boot or recovery mode both tell me to recover by press volume up and then give me EFI Linux error access denied.

I have not been able to get twrp running on this device.

I've been ALL day trying to get it right so my spouse isn't upset with me because this is the second time I've ruined a device less than 3 months old. Please help.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
This isn't for your device, this is for Ares 5.0, not Ares 5.1.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Reconciled:
I understand that now. My day started out in another thread that is for my device and after I failed I came to this thread to attempt to use the system img posted here for my device as I've been stuck on boot for many hours.

Any advice would be appreciated to get my device functional.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Nothing in this thread can help you, you need images for 5.1.

I don't know what thread you were in, but seeing you started there, most likely you need to return to that thread and request boot.img, system.img recovery.img for your​ device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
I maybe uploading another rom for Ares 8 5.0, it is the official Ares 8 5.1 rom, I took off my Ares 8 5.1 tablet, I just got recently.

I had to make modification to make it work, to me it works great, volume is still low though, nothing I can do about that.

I did do a AnTuTu Benchmark V6.2.7 test with my wife's 5.0 running the 5.1 rom verses the actually 5.1

My wife wants to keep this rom, she had been running batville all this time.

5.0 tablet running stock 5.1 rom.

5.1 tablet running stock rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Uploading that sounds great! Maybe it will solve some of the issues I mentioned to you in the original 5.0 root thread with both the i701q and batville roms. I hope to see it uploaded soon. In the past, I re-partitioned with your ares8_resize_partions.zip , not the batville one. Will the new rom fit with that partition scheme?

---------- Post added at 01:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:03 AM ----------

About a year and a half ago i purchased the original Ares 8 which came with Lollipop 5.0. Shortly after that I rooted it using this guide. Soon after that I re-partitioned it and installed the i701Q rom. Currently I am using the Batville rom on it. I runs great on this device, but has a few issues, which I have not been able to solve through multiple wipes and reflashes. the battery drains very rapidly. Battery monitoring apps show its health, voltage and ma ratings as good. When it is plugged in to various chargers, or the USB port on my computer, from screen off, the screen will come on every few minutes, then go off. I have used several battery monitoring apps to determine that this might be caused by the charge state going from off to on, every couple of minutes. As I stated, I have tried multiple chargers and cords, to no avail.

When unplugged and asleep, it drains the battery within 24 hrs

When completely shut down, it does not show any drain in 24 hrs.

Here is what I did in the past, and redid last night:

factory reset in twrp

chose advanced wipe in twrp, wiped data, system, cache and dalvik cache which may be redundant.

flashed the batville rom and supersu zips

then rebooted.

I chose to setup a new device instead of downloading my previous apps from google backup.

other info:

with both the factory stock rom and i701q and batville roms, I have alway seen this error spewed almost continually in the logcat: EM FG ALGO Iface: Failed to get File Descriptor.

Better Battery Stats shows that the the main use of the battery is by the Android OS

Thank you if you have any thoughts on this matter.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
These tablets shouldn't be charged via computer, should be charged via outlet.

The tablet waking up while being charged via USB port is normal.

The kernel is simply telling the screen to turn on, as it should, and communicate with computer. The main reason to plug this tablet into a computer is for communication with the computer

I charge via computer also, tablet will wake up, and turn on, it wasn't meant to be charged via USB.

No kernel source to change that, the kernel is built for outlet charge.

If you had kernel source you could build the kernel to deep sleep while USB charging, no source exist.

When charging via USB simply turn the tablet off, eg shutdown the tablet then charge via USB.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Thanks for your reply. However, It still has the screen wakeup with the three different 2.1A chargers that I have tried it on, so it is not just a computer usb charging port issue. My major concern is the high battery discharge over night. When I unplugged it at 4:00 AM it had 100% charge. I put it to sleep then. When I woke it up at 10:30 AM, it only had 73% charge left, and it wasn't even used during that time. System Monitor Lite shows the deep sleep during that time as 6 hrs, 42 mins, during that time period. When it is awake and in use, it drains pretty rapidly. for months, I have use the ondemand governor , set with Kernel Adiutor. A few day ago I switched back to the interactive governor, but on wake from sleep it shows as offline in KA. I can re-enable it by changing the lower freq. in KA, then toggle the core sliders, then reset the min freq. Or reboot. regardless of governors it still has rapid battery drain. I think I even tried for a while with the clean install of batville and no apps installed. As I typed this on my computer, It went from 100%, down to 85%. System Monitor Lite shows a discharge rate of 16%/hr. The screen wasn't during that whole time either.

Do you have any clue what that logcat error is? A google search doesn't reveal much. This is the main reason I want to achieve root with the new Ares 8A that I have. Thanks again for your reply.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Error? You talking about iface, facial recognition? Yeah tablet doesn't support it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
You can go a head and flash the the 5.1 ROM I uploaded in the 5.1 thread, you need to partition back to stock as that ROM is big.

You must use that recovery in the 5.1 thread as well, no sound through speaker that has to be patched in, sound through speaker is low anyway so not a big deal.

Most likely, when I get time I will just upload the patch instead of full ROM.

So basically you install the already uploaded 5.1 ROM then apply patch to get sound through speaker to work.

The ROM will work just fine without the speaker patch, that patch simply completes the port.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zerozed99:
[MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] First off, thanks for your continued work on these tablets. I've been running Batville since you released it and aside from some occasional weirdness (which I don't attribute to the ROM), it has been great for me. You mention that this new ROM is bigger and requires re-partioning--would I be correct to assume that I'd lose a large chunk of storage were I to switch? The only thing I use this tablet for is watching videos while at the gym and Batville has been good to me so I'm trying to figure out what the benefits & drawbacks might be to switching. Again, THANK YOU.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Yes, you would lose everything including space, I can't even promise it's better that what you are running.

Just mentioning it if people want to try it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
No, iface stands for interface, I believe. There is a file in /system/bin called fg_algo_iface. I searched for hours and found info several months ago. Unfortunately, I don't remember where. I do recall there is an fg algorithm. It may have been a charging or power state of the battery algorithm. After many months my memory of it is not very clear. I just did a last_kmsg.txt. there are many lines about the charge states where FG and algo are mentioned that have to do with charge states current limits etc.

Farther down I see a warning:

init: Warning! Service fg_algo_iface needs a SELinux domain defined: please fix!

I'm not sure how to fix that.

Like I stated before, I saw these errors in the original 5.0 roms, the i701q rom and Finally in the Batville rom. Could the device have been defective from the get go? How was the battery life on your wife's Batville tablet?

Thanks again for all of your hard work on these devices. I really enjoyed what I have learned in the last year about Android.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
No ideal, she never paid any attention to it, when it needed charged she charged it.

I am have ever doing a simple test on both, at 4 pm both tablets were 100% charged, I then unplugged them and will check them again at 4 pm to see if either or both are dead.

You said your tablet died in 24 hours, even if not used, I have never heard of that, so decided to test it myself.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
It is a little unclear. Is this the recovery and rom that also works on the original 5.0 Ares 8? Do I also need to change the bootloader for the original 5.0, or is it included in the rom image?

TWRP_ARES_8_5.1_recovery.img

Ares8_5.1_nxm890bap_e_jj_64.zip

However, I will wait until I see more input from 5.0 owners to see if it is better as it requires re-partitioning back to the original size. I believe you gave files to do that in the partitioning thread, correct?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
You need the recovery and ROM from post 2.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=71513459

You don't need to change anything on 5.0, flash the recovery and then install the ROM.

This turns 5.0 into 5.1.

Now if you start with 5.1 you must follow post 1 in that thread and swap bootloader.

5.0 doesn't need to swap bootloader, as it's bootloader is fully unlocked already.

5.1 doesn't fully unlock bootloader, so replacing the bootloader with an unlocked bootloader fully unlocks it.

If you have figured it out yet.

I turned 5.1 into 5.0 by swapping the bootloaders, then by flashing the 5.1 ROM turned it back into 5.1.[emoji1] [emoji1] [emoji9] [emoji9]
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Well, almost dead. The orange battery saving mode was on, which I have set to come on at 5%. I just switched back to my usual ondemand governor, to see if the battery life is any better. In the governor tuning settings of KA I am using the battery saving profiles from govtuner currently. I am using noop for the I/O Scheduler. govtuner is not currently installed, but I am using its battery saving profiles in KA for both the interactive and ondemand governors. I have ksm turned off, virtual memory settings at the kernel defaults and the lMK at it's defaults. Google Play Services also appears to be one of the high drainers in BBS.

I will test the ondemand drain overnight. I have often reset battery stats often over several weeks, but only once with the reflash of Batville the other day.

MA and voltage ratings of the battery are similar to the ratings of my new Ares 8A. I have used the 8A off and on all day in it has only dropped to about 75% in 13 hrs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
The battery in this tablet is nothing like the battery in Ares8A.

This tablet's battery has 4 hour life, newer tablets running android 6 are 8 hour any about.

Any it's your time waste it how you will, you are beating a dead horse, but beat as long as you want in the end, the 5.0 tablet has a very weak 4 hour battery rating.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
The battery in this tablet is nothing like the battery in Ares8A.

This tablet's battery has 4 hour life, newer tablets running android 6 are 8 hour any about.

Any it's your time waste it how you will, you are beating a dead horse, but beat as long as you want in the end, the 5.0 tablet has a very weak 4 hour battery rating.

Been reading the reviews on the Ares 8A, almost all are bad, 120 1 stars, that's not good.

We are going to Walmart today, I will look at the tablet, if it's on display, and tell you if I think it can be rooted or not, I am not going to work on it in anyway, just give you my opinion, I don't work on devices I don't own.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Yes I knew from the start, I was "beating a dead horse", but it is a learning process for me. That is the main reason I have It. Yes, I read the bad reviews on Walmart's website. It has been quite the contrary for me. I suspect that in tablets in this price range one sacrifices quality control, so one could purchase a good or bad one. My store recently remodeled it electronics dept. and soon after that I noticed the new 8A. Mine has a build date of December, 2016, I work in receiving and we got one new one yesterday with a much earlier build date, so it may, or may not have the security patch level of August 1st, that mine has. of course they don't list that info on the box, just the build date. Again, thanks for "beating a dead horse" again! I have no way to know if all stores have updated to the new display models, but I suspect so. As always, I look forward to your input on the new one.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Well, got wife to distract sells clerk, so I could insert my micro sdcard into tablet, to run tests.

The tablet can be rooted, you have to compile a cherrytrail kernel to add to twrp to.

Unlock bootloader

Boot twrp

Backup recovery and boot.

Then swap out the kernel from either boot or recovery with the one you compiled to get full working twrp.

You would also need to patch boot.img then reflash it before trying to root, else you would bootloop.

Anyway good luck, doing it yourself is free for me to do it costs the price of a tablet.

I need the tablet in my hands to root it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
It' not 4 PM yet, 11:25 but decided to look.

5.1 tablet 85%

5.0 tablet 86%

Both running same exact ROM

Untouched til just now.

I am sure the WiFi and Google update check is what used up the battery.

I could have put them in airplane mode, they would have used less battery.

Anyway will let both set til 4 pm.