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[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
I run scripts to get rid of it on mine, The exclamation point doesn't prevent a tablet from connection, it simpling stating it can't connect to a Google server.

I use two different scripts, to redirect it. No idea what effect it has on login screen, never seen one.

To use extract and place them in /system/xbin

Download terminal from playstore

Open terminal

su

chmod 755 /system/xbin/off.sh

chmod 755 /system/xbin/on.sh

/system/xbin/off.sh

/system/xbin/on.sh

http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/58e515aed6bd5/remove_exclamation_point.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] minmao:
Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
wow my sound just worked now, the question is can i root it? I ran the zip file for rooting with su just waiting for reboot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
I use SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SYSTEMMODE.zip for root.

https://xdaforums.com/apps/supersu/v2-64-2-66-supersu-mode-t3286120
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
MY GOD IT WORKS IM ROOTED WITH SOUND!!!!!!!

vampirefo thank you so much man.....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
Hey vampirefo was it the boot.img or both system and image that fixed it. Just wondering if i can run this boot.img and batville and still have sound.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] N810E:
SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SYSTEMMODE.zip is working great for me. Still have the external SD card!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
We sure lucky we have someone who cares enough to put the time in to not just rooting are tablet but fixing the bugs that came up thanx again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
TWRP 3.1 has been uploaded, Link posted in post 3.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
Thank You vampirefo

I flashed TWRP 3.1 and seems to work perfect. I'm doing a backup right now.

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Is it possible to run xposed on the rom?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zerozed99:
Will this (3.1) version of TWRP work on the original Ares 8 that shipped with 5.0?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
It's really designed for 5.1, I can't honestly say, the partition layout of 5.1 and 5.0 are different.

I use it on both my tablets, but both tablets have been converted to 5.1.

I haven't tested it with a 5.0 version, other than my own 5.0 tablet that has been completely converted to 5.1
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zerozed99:
I'm on batville which is partioned differently too. It doesn't matter really--I'm officially retiring the Nextbook as my daily carry later today (I've got a new tablet being delivered today). At this point I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the tablet. I like the Nextbook, but the battery got just a little bit too weak for me so my hand is kind of forced. I guess I'll keep it laying around the house. Maybe I can just use it in a dock to be an always listening Google Home kind of device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Before you retire it, I recommend trying it with the newer, ported rom. My battery life went from very poor with the Batville rom, to great with the newer rom.

Here is the link for the thread: "Ares 8 5.0 Upgrade to Ares 8 5.1, Everything working , normal sound": https://xdaforums.com/android/development/ares-8-5-0-upgrade-to-ares-8-5-1-t3581153
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zerozed99:
That's what I've been contemplating (flashing the other ROM). I kind of like Batville because it was de-bloated. The Ares 8 never had great battery life anyway. I use the tablet at the gym to watch videos while I do cardio. I use earbuds for sound which is why the low speaker problem never concerned me. On short cardio days, it doesn't have any problems, but a couple of days a week I do 1.5 hours and that burns my battery down to near zero. The tablet actually ran out of juice after an hour and 25 minutes last week--hence me ordering a replacement.

I'll do *something* with the Ares 8--just not sure what. My limited communication with [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] regarding Batville & this new ROM didn't leave me with the impression that performance was any better (other than the sound fix). Is the new ROM debloated?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
[MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] Do you still plan on uploading the TWRP 3.1 for the Ares 8A, 6.0.1 device, or did you decide against that?

Thanks again for you hard work and dedication.

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No, it is not debloated. You can do that yourself by removing most of the gapps you don't use and language keyboards you don't use. I use apps2SD's remove system apps feature. There are other apps in the playstore that will remove system apps. I had trouble, though with the one I tried before. I don't remember which one I tried. Just be careful what you remove. Some system apps are needed for full functionality of the device.

In the Batville rom, for example, I could never get the contacts to work properly, despite trying several playstore fixes for it.

Contacts worked fine in the i708q rom though, so I suspect something was inadvertently removed from the Batville rom. Good luck!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
UPDATE: Battery life was similar for me on the Batville rom. The newer rom has great battery life, for me. I am currently trying to work out some wifi issues with it.

I use my tablet at work at Walmart on the ATT wireless network provided for customers and employees. This wifi is very slow, at 1-2 mbs using the SpeedTest app.

During an 8 hr shift, I use the tablet during two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch, after a full charge.

At the end of the night the Batville and i708q roms would be down to about 10 to 15% power left.

Last night I used the newer rom and I had about 79% power left at the end of the night.

My usage is mostly web browsing, check for playstore updates and occasionally some youtube videos. Once in a long while I play a graphic intensive game: GT Racing 2.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NoMoreBackdoors:
I have the Sprint LTE Sprint version of this tablet. All rotations are reversed 180 degrees with this rom. Is there a file that I can modify to fix this? Amiduos Exposed works with this rom which allows us to use exposed modules. Also, TWRP 3.1 does work with 5.0 rom backups. Any help with accelerometer issues, would be appreciated. TIA!!

I think I found the fix. I replaced a few files from original rom.

"sensorservice" from system/bin

"sensor_hal_config_default.xml" from system/etc

"android.hardware.sensor.accelerometer.xml" from system/etc/permissions

"sensors.nxm880bapl.so" from system/lib/hw

*Not sure if all the files are needed to be replaced but it fixed my rotation issues.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mward2016:
Thank you vampirefo for the twrp and instructions, rooted and running great. I don't know if you guys knew already, but if you use a keyboard with otg, hold escape and power on, you can enter the bios settings. Found out it can boot from usb among other things.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] minmao:
hey guys, I want to share some great news - I figured out how to install xposed on this tablet!

Just follow this thread. I have tested it, both gravity box and greenify worked great.

https://xdaforums.com/xposed/xposed-intel-atom-x5-z8300-x8664-solved-t3585087
[Miscellaneous Android Development] humnar:
Great job man!!!!! I just installed the framework and it booted up. I cant believe it works perfect.

thank you
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
Confirmed to work on my Ares 8 with 5.1.1, that originally came with Android 5.0

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
I ended up using the xposed uninstaller as it was causing to much overhead.

I had it installed with the following modules:

gravity box

amplify

appopsxposed

power nap

greenify xposed

xposed mediascanner

I found that idle cpu useage was 9-10% with these modules and only 1-2% without xposed and the previous modules. I suspect if I had just used gravity box and the already installed greenify it might have been ok. I suspect the following modules added quite a bit of overhead, contrary to their supposed benfits:

amplify

appopsxposed

power nap

Anybody care to weigh in on their experiences with xposed and various modules?

Thanks

Update: I eventually had to restore a previous nandroid backup to get rid of some side effects of the xposed and modules. I think that I should have undone changes in settings of modules, before I ran the xposed uninstaller. Maybe that would have solved the issues without restoring the backup? Not sure.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
I have been using TWRP 3.1 for several weeks and it is working very well.

Thanks, again
[Miscellaneous Android Development] minmao:
Questions to other owner:

My Ares 8 consumes about 0.6% battery every hour when not in use, so even if I never turned on the screen, I still need to charge it once a week.

I don't think installing xposed or any of the power saving module made any differences. Not sure if this normal.

I installed the BatterBatteryStatus, and it shows most of the time the table was in deepsleep, so it means the table is indeed consuming the power at a high rate even in deep sleep.

I have other tables, like LG GPad and older Nook HD, and those almost consumes no power while idle, and sometimes just 1 or 2 % for a whole week.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vampirefo:
Just power the tablet off.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
I have the original ares 8 that came with Android 5.0. I am currently running the latest, and greatest 5.1.1 rom that [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] ported to it from the newer, 5.1.1 device. The battery life is very good on it.

When I put it to sleep with 99-100% charge at night, I wake up to about 97-98% charge in the morning. With it awake right now System Monitor Lite shows a discharge rate of 3.6%/hour. In use, it's battery discharge rate drops very slowly. I am using greenify in root + privileged mode. I am only hibenating apps that run in the background except apps such as Kernel Adiutor, lspeed, swiftkey keyboard, apps2sd, nova launcher, etc that may require background functionality to work properly. In addition, I have removed some user apps, gapps and foreign laguage keyboards I don't use

Furthermore, I use lspeed which has many battery saving features such as govtuner battery profile. I happen to use the performance profile, and get great battery life with minimal lag. Finally I tune some of Kernel Adiutor's settings such as ksm off, and some vm settings.

I did have very, very poor battey life with the ported i708q and batville roms, no matter how many times I reinstalled them.

Finally, I am using the latest betas: supersu 2.79SR3, play services, playstore, maps, google app, android system webview, lspeed, KA, greenify and total commander.

If you can't charge it every couple of days, I would follow [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] recommendation of shutting down.

Even on my Ares 6A, which has better battery saving, Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, will discharge over a few days time, so I shut it down as I don't use it daily because it is not rooted, so I can't do as much on it. I usually use my older, Ares 8, tablet daily.

Are you using any messaging apps such as whatsapp or facebook? They can be major battery drainers.

Update:

See my previous post on my experiences with xposed on this 5.1.1 rom. it was useful on the 5.0 rom, in part because of the lollipop memory leak and the xposed module to help reduce that memory leak. I think that if I had just used greenify xposed, amplify and gravity box, it might have performed better.

With the addition of other two: appops exposed and power nap, I had an idle cpu usage in the range of 9%, which would most certainly contribute to poorer battery life, not the improved battery life these modules were supposed to give.

My rom was working so well previously, so I restored a nandroid backup.

So I haven't again tried exposed with fewer modules.

By the way, running the xposed uninstaller wasn't enough to get rid of the reminants. I had to restore a nandroid backup.

I suspect that if I had undid the changes I did in individual modules, then ran the xposed uninstaller all would have been ok. I just flashed the uninstaller, deleted the caches in twrp and rebooted.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jrk190:
Is it out of the question to consider porting marshmallow from the 8a to 8?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
I own both the 8 and 8a. I can tell you this much: the 8a has a newer, Intel Cherry Trail processor, while the 8 has an Intel Bay Trail processor. I'm almost certain that there are other hardware differences which would make it very difficult, if not impossible to port it. I, however know nothing about porting a rom. Maybe someone else will provide better information.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sointense:
For what is worth I have a stock Ares8 5.1

NX8QC116

Version 5.1.1

Security Patch 2015-11-01

IFWI version M890A.1.02.013

Kernel 3.10.62-x86_64byt

Build 2.0.1

What can I send to help everyone's?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
I am using the rom from this thread, on my ares 8 that came originally with 5.0:

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/ares-8-5-0-upgrade-to-ares-8-5-1-t3581153

It appears to be a newer version than yours: Build number: v4.0.0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] minmao:
Just found a minor issue with the firmware from vampirefo in the OP.

The location in the settings could not be turned off. Even if you turned it off, exit the settings page and go back, it will show the location is still on. I thought this might due to my installation of exposed or other things, but I did a clean install of the zip, and it is the same. Not sure if it is unique to my unit ....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] deltax153:
Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not, but I have an Ares 8 that is in a bootloop and i cant get it to do a stock recovery by holding the power and volume up key. When I do this it gives me a boot manager to select between android-IA and android. I can get it into the fastboot mode by holding down the volume down key and power button. I have tried flashing twrp recovery to it but it wont let me because the bootloader is locked. CAn anyone advise me on what I am doing wrong or how to fix my ares 8. not interested in rooting or anything just want to be able to get it to boot again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] minmao:
Did you try "fastboot oem unlock"?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] martyfender:
[MENTION=4430290]deltax153[/MENTION] Are you 100% certain you have a ares 8 and not an 8A, because when you describe getting the bootmanager sounds like the 8A to me. On the 8A you get to the bootmanager by holding volume up and power at startup. To get to recovery, boot to bootloader mode, (fastboot mode, toggle up or down and select recovery, hit power button: You will see waiting for command: now hold volume up and power for about ~4sec, then release volume up to go the recovery mode. If you are on the ares 8a and flashed the twrp for the ares 8 this may not work, as it is the wrong recovery for the 8A.

Here is my thread for the ares 8a with android 6.0.1 where you can find a twrp recovery for it, and a modified boot.img for it. I also have detailed instructions. Also bootloader unlocking uses different commands on the 8A.

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/nextbook-ares-8a-android-6-0-1-root-t3612397
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DerpSchnitzel:
Thanks a ton

Thank you so much for doing the work you do here. I, like the idiot I can sometimes be, started reading someone's directions on how to root and flash a nextbook ares 8, but I didn't bother reading EVERYTHING. I apparently missed the part where it said it was for the one running 5.0... OOPS. I got it stuck in the bootloader, but I couldn't run the recovery or do a regular boot.

I didn't come across this thread until pretty late in my little debacle, so I never tried flashing the OS ROM you posted here, but I did try a stock rooted and decluttered ROM that failed for some reason.

Anyway, thanks to the help of this thread, along with the RemixOS port thread, I was able to flash Remix to my Nextbook, and this is SOOO much better than the way it came stock. Everything is faster, and I'm loving the windows/android hybrid thing. It had initially failed installation - it SAID it was "successful," but I musta done something out of order or missed a step... I was kinda going back and forth between different sets of instructions, as I wasn't 100% sure which ones were exactly right for my situation, and the steps didn't match 100%. Anyway, after a second attempt with the stock OS after renaming the file, I started over from the TWRP data wipe step and tried Remix again... First time I just got the first nextbook splash screen, the one that's static. And it just sat there. This time, however, I saw something new... flashing text reading "RemixOS." Life is good...

Thanks again, you're a life saver.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nik-1973:
автор подскажите пожалуйста у меня компютер не видет Nextbook Ares 8 Stock 5.1.1 пишет неизвестная девайс эта проблема с прошивкой или портом планшетом драйвера не какие не становятся цмд не видет девайс версия прошивки 1.0.2

mod edit - translation added

author please tell me my computer does not see Nextbook Ares 8 Stock 5.1.1 writes an unknown device this problem with the firmware or port of the tablet driver is not what does not become cdm does not see the device firmware version 1.0.2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] John_83:
Can't change MAC on the rooted device

Has anyone been able to change the MAC address on this rooted device?

This is what happens to me:

(Terminal app)

u0_xxx@NXA8QC116:/ $: su

root@NXA8QC116:/ #: busybox iplink show wlan0

[reports the MAC address]

root@NXA8QC116:/ #: busybox ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:09:XX:XX:XX:XX (all hex, no "X's" - no errors reported)

root@NXA8QC116:/ #: busybox iplink show wlan0

[reports the original, unchanged MAC address]

This was the whole point, and I can't change the MAC address.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] John_83:
Changing the MAC on a Nextbook Ares 8 (solved)

I finally figured out how to change the MAC on my rooted Nextbook Ares 8, NXA8QC116.

There's a text file, max.txt, in /config/wifi, which contains the MAC address.

Changing this value, and then enabling the wifi adapter results in a new MAC address. This survives a reboot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] deltax153:
Thank you so much

[MENTION=8126387]martyfender[/MENTION] Dude you are awesome. I am sorry i didnt get a chance to respond before now. I had figured it out and never logged back into xda. But I am now having another issue that I cant figure out you think you might be able to help me out? I have a NX16a81168 i got stuck in boot loop, I formatted the device and it continued i cleared the cache. I got so frustrated with it I attempted to install twrp on it and install another rom on it. I was able to flash the twrp to the device and even was able to get into it. Like an idiot I didnt have the files i needed to on the sdcard. so I put them on the sd card and plugged it in. twrp didnt see the sdcard so i figured i needed to reboot it and get back into it for it to recognize the sd card. long story short the device will not log into twrp anymore. Just the one time. now it just boot loops with everything. i figured maybe i needed to reflash twrp so i did and it sent it to the device and then on the device it says flashing recovery error timed out. got any ideas or any directions on what to do? ive read everything i can about it and the only directions i didnt follow was the enable usb debugging mode because obviously i was already in a boot loop. im not necessarily a novice at this type of thing but i am having alot of issues with this device. any help would be appreciated. thank you for reading this. my 2 year old son was in my lap so i apologize for all the no caps and spelling. its not easy to type with one hand. lol

product name nxm882cap

variant- n/a

hw_version type 1 tbd by oem

bootloader version kernelflinger-02.20

Ifwi version m882_jj.018

secure boot disabled

lock state unlocked

Don't care about rooting or anything just want to get it working again
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] chadhoard:
Is there any work being done to unlock the bootloader and allow users to root their phone?
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] TonikJDK:
If you mean for the Verizon version, no nothing is being done at this time that any of us are aware of. The folks that found the first exploit for 7.1 have said they are not going to try.
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] chadhoard:
That is very disheartening news! I guess I will deactivate my account. No point in keeping it.
[Google Pixel Questions & Answers] LoliSmith:
Sell your Verizon Pixel and buy a Google Pixel.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] moreyru:
Hi

I want to flash my Claro Puerto Rico H910PR. I found this Kdz in lg-firmwares.com "H910PR10j_00_1205.kdz". Can I flash my phone with it? The reason I want to flash it is beacause Claro rom sucks, it is to heavy. :confused:

Thanks

Morey
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] me2151:
You could but it will probably reinstall all the Claro stuff again. I assume Claro is the carrier?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] runningnak3d:
Yes you can, but it is the ROM for your phone and has all the "Claro stuff" baked in.

Also, don't know if you care about rooting your phone, but that version is patched and no known root method is available at this time.

EDIT: wow, should have checked the date. Talk about necroing a post.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Still_living714:
Lol
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] forbeisgunn:
Hi. Do you still able to received updates when you're in the orig claro firmware?

Or you got more updates after flashing the new firmware?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] luiskp:
H910pr doesn't update since December 2016.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] forbeisgunn:
Only way is to flash which rom?