yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkvoxels:
I was able to unlock the bootloader doing the same thing. When you hit fastboot on your keyboard you need to hit vol-key up then power (if I remember correct might want to verify) in like 1-2s or it reboots.. What I did was record a video of the screen to and paused it to view what the message said... Should only take 1-2 tries, who knew hacking also required ninja like reflex's? (= I would suggest having typed the command, then getting one hand in a position to grip the tablet and ready to press the button then hitting the enter key to run the command, then try to mash the appropriate key combo right after...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobinHood16:
I tried a different USB port and got the question to stay longer, but I still can't seem to answer the question either way. Neither of the volume buttons do anything; the only button that seems to work is "Power" and that automatically sends a "no" response back to fastboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmazak:
This is going to sound real strange. But in my thread for "guide rca unlock.....blah..blah...blah.. , One of the first few posters said they had trouble with volume keys not responding and would not allow unlock to happen. He claims the fix was to remove the micro sdcard. Then the volume buttons responded and unlock happened.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobinHood16:
Yeah. That's not gonna work with mine. One time, I put a microSD card that would not click in, and I couldn't get it out. It ended up damaging my microSD card slot, so sooner or later I'm just gonna have to buy a replacement model.

But seriously, who in the heck puts a microSD card slot right next to the volume buttons?! I'll tell you -- the damn Chinese! They're the ones who actually put ALL these Voyagers together, probably the same way every time... and all RCA did was slap their name on it so they could make money off of it in America.

This is and has been the trouble with America's economy. Foreign countries do all the work, and we steal all the credit.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
That's why I typically stay away from all of the Chinese devices. But, I have several tablets that I've acquired over time for free, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't be tinkering with them just to do it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MTRX2010:
so to get this straight. you managed to unlock the bootloader, but the device itself has not been rooted??

there are several versions of this device. i got the one with the intel atom processor. voyagerIII. RCT6973w43.

it's the one that came with android 6.0 which nobody seems to know how to root. i've been trying for a long

time and it's been well over a year, since i bought the tablet, and well over a year of waiting for someone to

root it, or point me in the right direction. I ask, because this thread is getting really hard to follow, and i'm

not sure what's going on here.

so if i unlock the bootloader, and get it through adb, i would still need to install su compiled for atom

which i haz no clue, and haven't even found that version of su compiled for this device yet. 8(

I'm not very good at the rooting stuff, ive never rooted a device on my own, i always need help guides

and-or automatic rooting apps to do it for me. i can do it, but i can not create a method, because

im not that deep with the androids. 8(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] findrome:
Why not systemless root? What about magisk? With an unlocked bootloader, that might be the next step.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
I'm late to the party, I guess.

I bought this as a utility Android.

I was surprised to see that it said "Android 7.0" on the box

I was more surprise when I got it running and saw that it was actually 6.0

I'm beating on RCA now to see what they say about that.

Ok, it does have USB OTG (it's amazing that 100% of devices don't have it).

The first thing that I did was pop the cover (3 screws on the bottom edge and then work a guitar pick around).

There is a 1.8V console connection on the PCB next to the battery connector.

It's 115200, 8, n, 1

There is the kernel log output on it, but not any u-boot.

There is also no shell on it, you can't type at it.

Still, it could be helpful when hacking things, it gives you a bit of insight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renate:
RCA support said:

Mmm, I don't have much faith in this, but I'll try.

It was part of a display with brand new boxes.

We'll see...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Yeeaahh....

Good luck with that, lol.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joe375:
Unfortunately, I just bought one. Garbage! It's not good for much of anything. Waste of money.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tracehuber:
Were you able to get something to work? I bought 2 of these some time ago for my kids but they are terribly slow stock and they usually give up and move to something else waiting for something to work. Hoping a root and minimal ROM will free up enough resources to make it usable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tecknight:
I'm almost there

I just got past the flashing unlock and I was able to boot the recovery for the rooted voyager II. I am in a root shell right now trying to figure out which is the boot partition, so I can patch it for root.

One thing of note:

Once you unlock the bootloader, every time you boot up, you get an ugly screen saying the system can not be trusted and you have to wait for a 30 second countdown timer before it will boot.

Update:

I have determined the boot and recovery partitions (and several others) and have pulled images.

For my first attempt, I simply patched the boot partition image using Magisk.

I then tried to boot from the patched boot image from fastboot.

It got about halfway thru the boot and aborted.

I then tried booting the stock image(that I pulled) thru fastboot, and it booted perfectly.

So I am now researching what the problem might be.

Update:

I am able to boot a modified boot image successfully---just not a Magisk patched image.

So I am making progress. hopefully I will figure out what Magisk does that is causing the issue.

UPDATE:

I HAVE ROOT !!

Magisk put the wrong init binary on the system.

I ran the patch utility on the Tablet itself and it;s working perfectly.

I am going to make a few more changes to the image and then actually flash it to the tablet.

I will post some screen captures later today.

I am working on a procedure to post and I could use a couple of volunteers that have a Voyager 3 to help test the procedure.

PM me if you are interested.

Update: I flashed the patched image that was booting perfectly to the actual boot partition and now my tablet refuses to boot the image. I am trying to find a way to recover, but it doesn't look good.

I don't understand why it would boot perfectly from fastboot, but fail when I flash the exact same image to the boot partition. Arrrrgh
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmazak:
Well just be careful here. Because if you make any changes to /system while 'booted' from this img, the device has dm-verity and will not boot after, except from fastboot boot command. Which you will not be able to get to if you cant boot into system. (the famous catch 22 of root)

It is best for x86 and rca devices to only use system-mode root for this reason. System-mode will remove the verity option.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tecknight:
System mode is like the "old school" SuperSU rather than the systemless Magisk ?

Could that be what caused my issue ? I know Magisk made /system changes once I booted into the image.

That's what it does. I have done it countless times on arm devices.

Is this an issue specific to x86 devices ?

Sorry for all the questions.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D1G1T4L3CH0:
I've been reading through this thread and you are the only one that has said you have the same build as mine. Have you had any progress on this yet?

Also, any updates on this yet? I have this slow tablet and don't use it for anything. I think it would be nice to able to update the android version and get root to de-bloat it. Maybe that could help make it a bit faster at least. I have thought about tinkering around on it like the others here have done and try to get a working root method that sticks and is fairly safe. But that depends how motivated I feel, and atm I don't feel motivated enough. :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isrgish:
I'm trying to unlock the bootlaoder but haven't been successful.

First some info on my device:

Model: RCT6973W43R

Android Version: 7.1.2

Android Security Patch: October 1, 2018

Kernel Version: 3.10.104 Fri Oct 19 11:05:52 CST 2018

Build number: RCT6973W43R-ANDROID7.1-V38-V1.16.132-DS-E17

Rockship: RK3066

This is what I have tried.

adb reboot fastboot

The device reboots and stays on the splash screen when I do fastboot devices it shows "0123456789 fastboot". This seems weird to me I expected to see the S/N number like I see when I do adb devices.

Then I tried "fastboot flashing unlock" I don't see any change on the device and I instantly get FAILED.

On my device I'm unable to turn on OEM Unlocking. When I try it asks if I want to enable when I select Enable it just jumps back to off position.

[IMG="Fastboot Unlock"]https://i.ibb.co/LtDT39Z/Untitled.png[/img][/IMG]

Can someone please help me with this. I see that some people managed to unlock the bootloader.

I tried [MENTION=8809767]enduserdeveloper[/MENTION] suggestion in post #111 but wasn't able to get it to work.

Thank You
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GinnaF:
they need to do something about the battery life it suck 25 min's come on rca my old tablet would run for 3 days with no charge the only reason i got this one is someone needed mine more than me (STOLDEN) when i left it home with roommate .
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isrgish:
Can someone help me with this I'm stumped here. Does anyone know of any way I can get root on this device either with figuring out how to unlock the bootloader or with another way?

Thank You,
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kagenokami:
BUMP! There is no available stock firmware to downgrade kernels, the newest kernel locks you out of fastboot and download modes of the device, oem unlock CANNOT be activated on this kernel as it instantly turns itself back off and we STILL don't have a working root because of all this. Surely SOMEONE can figure this out?! I find it hard to believe that big name security nazi brands like Samsung can be cracked easier than an off-brand cheapo like RCA...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Josephdbrewer25:
anyone know where to find the stock firmware for this tablet? i have one that wont boot, i can access recovery and fastboot on it but no luck at unlocking the bootloader
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] findrome:
Tooling around for firmware I found this

https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=270350
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MTRX2010:
Did anyone figure this out afterall??

Still got this piece of garbage sitting around-did anyone figure out how to root this thing-and possibly create a cohesive article or app on this?? I've read this thread several times, and it's just all over the place, can't seem to find the answer on what exactly it is you need to do to root this thing. I wonder what was so difficult about this device. I don't see it listed on any of the root sites or the One Touch Root Apps on the google play store. As far as I understand it was just a generic tablet running on an x86 intel processor.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckeays:
I just got two of these units. The model is RCT6973W43R with Android 7.1.2.

One of them won't get past the Voyager III screen. They were both new out of the box, not refurbs and one is not booting up.

I got one tablet to boot.

Battery lasts about 3 hours, as soon as google play takes updates, the unit is very slow, unuseable!

Need to root to remove the google CRAP.

I don't know why google overloads these phones, tablets, whatever with so much bloatware that it will never work in a million years.

Time to find another OS other than android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] extrnoob:
does anyone have the stock firmware or even an update.zip for this thing? I am stuck on the logo screen, wont boot into system but I can boot into recovery still... Please someone help!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckeays:
there is nothing available yet, don't try anything, you will brick your tablet for sure.

I found some links that were specifically for the RCT6973W43 but it was a hoax, someone is playing games looking to destroy other peoples property.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tecknight:
This should now be a piece of cake to root thanks to [MENTION=8132642]diplomatic[/MENTION] 's mtk-su exploit posted here:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckeays:
you forgot to post a link.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avaricesyn:
https://xdaforums.com/android/development/amazing-temp-root-mediatek-armv8-t3922213

Assume that's what he meant. You can click on a person's name, select "statistics" on their profile, click their threads. mtk is MediaTek.

Mine's odd, according to CPU-Z, my Voyager III (model RCT6973W43R) says the SOC is Rockchip RK3066, which I haven't seen at all from anyone else posting O_O

Running Android 7.1 v50 v1.16.173-DS-E19

I see that there is a CWM-based recovery for it here, will see if I can get her going tomorrow.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speck1234:
Flash tool and rom urgently needed

You stated you successfully flashed the tablet. I have the same one but it's an Intel variant. But I cannot find the correct firmware or flash tool for the RCT6973W43. I even contacted RCA tech support if they have them on file and I'm awaiting a reply from them. I softbricked it and it shows up in Device manager as Unknown Device with hardware ID USB\VID_8087&PID_07F6, which according to Google is some Intel USB flash loader thing. I can't find the real driver anywhere, and by real I mean not some 3rd party type of "driver updater program" thing like DriverFinder like Google was trying to give me. I need you to email me the driver, flash tool and rom at my address jordan.m.anderson16@gmail.com if you still have it on your computer.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akonobi:
I rooted voyager 3 Android version 7.0 here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckeays:
If you DID actually root the device, Can you post a screenshot of your build info?

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moriel5:
Sorry about my disappearance, real life and poor time management prevented me from being in this thread.

Since CWM can't mount /data for me, I am attempting a roundabout way, by factory resetting from the official recovery, however due to DISA being in the way, I first decided to remove it, while debloating other parts of the ROM at the same time.

Only problem is, I accidentally deleted /system/app/.

Can someone with the same exact model (Intel RCT6973W43) backup /system/app/ (you can even do it via copying the folder with MiXplorer, no need for root) and upload it?

Update: Never mind, thankfully I still had my backup of the entire partition, so I just extracted the folder from there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RDS5:
Reading this thread is like going into a movie! But I saw mrmazak say in another thread that this tablet really has been rooted.. correct me if I'm wrong but there seems to be no one who has obtained root here, I've already unlocked the boot loader and dumped the boot.img (intel atom) and I'm willing to download, flash and dump, I just hope this thread isnt dead since this tablet really is slow when it doesnt have proper software!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RDS5:
to anyone reading this in the year of our lord 2023, it has been nearly 4 years since this thread was last active (me asking if its still active does not count).

i still have this tablet, and recently decided to take a stab at hacking it. (its my only intel atom device and these chips fascinate me).

mrmazak has done most of the heavy lifting in rooting this tablet (well sorta, he posted modified voyager II cwm that worked on our tablet because the two are so similar)

using this i have created a working(ish) twrp for this device

i will not be providing builds yet as about the only thing working at the moment is adb shell and the screen, but the fact that it boots is already a very important start.

sources are obviously available on my github (no kernel source because RCA big poopy doo doo and doesnt abide by gpl, so i have to use their prebuilt 3.14 kernel.)

i dont know if anyone at all is still interested in this tablet, but as this is was the most active thread regarding the rooting of this tablet, i decided to post it here anyways in case anyone in the future decides they need some custom software on their own atoms
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LoseTheGame:
Just ran across one of these that appears bricked...looking into it more now...just didn't want ya getting too lonely in here...
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddie Hicks:
The battery of my almost 3 year old Tab S 10.5 is showing its age. The tablet still works great and I rather replace the battery than spending hundreds on a new tablet. The problem is that there are loads of companies selling the batteries on Amazon and eBay. The reviews on Amazon are mixed with some buyers from the same business saying they work fine and other say they don't work at all. Can someone who replaced their battery with positive results inform me where you purchased it? Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctcfirearms:
I bought two of these OEM on ebay for both of my Tab S. Two months going strong and even have 2017 manufacturers stamp!

I have tested them extensively and they are not disappointing.

App won't let me post direct link but seller's username is gdcdirect. Easy to replace by googling it and watching videos. Best of luck
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddie Hicks:
Thanks a million. I couldn't find gdcdirect on eBay but I found it on Amazon. It doesn't appear to have the tool kit though. I'm going to order it anyway.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctcfirearms:
You're welcome. Really no need for a toolkit. Just credit card or other thin plastic item to pop off the back. Just take your time and be sure to watch the video and put back together in exact reverse order. The cable clamps are also plastic and can break easy, but there are only two. Scale of 1 to 10 for technical skill needed, barely a 3 imho. Best of luck. Let me know how you make out.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddie Hicks:
Before I ordered from Amazon I checked eBay again and was able to find the gdcdirect battery on eBay. Their batteries are probably the same on Amazon and eBay, but just in case I ordered from eBay since that is where you got yours and it's a little cheaper.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep2323:
You can buy a toolkit at Walmart for a couple of bucks. It's back in the cellphone section. It's in a small black and red case.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddie Hicks:
Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddie Hicks:
I received the battery from gdcdirect today. It came very fast from California to New Jersey. It was very easy to install and it has a January 2017 date so it is fresh. It had a 55% charge on it so played around with it for a couple of minutes before putting it on charge. I was surprised to find that the tablet is much faster and responsive. I wasn't expecting that. I was just looking for better battery life. I guess after almost 3 years the tablet slowed down so gradually I didn't notice. There is one small concern. There is an area about the size of a marble that's pushed up on one side. I attached a picture but it is really hard to see in the picture. Since It's working OK maybe it's no big deal but I'm going to bring it to the attention of the seller and see what they say.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woody1:
I'm trying to find a good source for a replacement battery for my Tab S 8.4, too. I've purchased 2 different batteries from gdcdirect on eBay. The first one worked for a couple of months, then started failing. The 2nd one was bad immediately. Now I'm gun shy and I don't know where I can find a reliable vendor. Anybody buy one that has held up for more than a few months?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] adenault:
I have a preproduction S8+ and Samsung Pay is not working. If it helps I am unable to load my Starbucks App as well. Any advice/direction on getting them to work would be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] adenault:
Update on my payment issues...I am able to reload my starbucks app now, but Samsung pay still says Connection Error. Again any help getting it to work is appreciated.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jo_bell:
hi i have a samsung galaxy note 3 running Ressurrection Remix 5.6.0 and before this.. the stock T. wiz firmware..

and both the roms are good... but i got an issue in both of the roms.. which was the battery percentage is incorrect...

it directly dies on 25-30% battery left...

but for me the 70% of the battery is already enough for me to use on a daily basis

even after buying a new battery it still does the same thing... dies on any between those percentages...

and i was thinking.. is there any way for the android phone to edit from 30%->100% of the battery to 0%-100%..

what i mean is... like to trick the phone to show me that it is draining to 0% instead of draining to 30% and directly dies... any apps that can do this job?? or any zip file that I can flash to patch this...

thanks for replying :') :)
[Asus ZenWatch 2] JoseBatista:
Hi guys,

I just got a Zenwatch 2 WI501Q Sparrow,

I had some issues with calls on my phone and decided to update the firmware, but something went wrong during the flashing.

After that, the watch will keep rebooting every 10 seconds, unless i swipe to get into Fastboot mode.

Fastboot works and i can send commands from prompt, but whenever i try to unlock it, in order to be able to reflash, the unlock screen does not respond to pressing the button.

I know the button is working, because it was working before flashing, and holding it for 9 seconds turrns the watch off, but at the lock screen, there´s no effect in pressing it, short or long press, unles is long enough to turn off, but in that case, when reboot, it remains locked.

In this scenario, is there anything that i could try to recover my watch? Or did I killed the poor little guy?

Image that failed to flash was "Google-sparrow-img-M6E69Z-signed", but i also have files of "Google-sparrow-img-LCA49B-signed" ans factory image "Factory_V4_15_1_19_sparrow-eng_20151222"
[Asus ZenWatch 2] EpicLPer:
Use the fastboot image provided here if you ever get it working: https://xdaforums.com/zenwatch-2/general/dump-zenwatch-2-sparrow-wi501q-build-t3601596

Also I don't even recall that it asks for a button press tho the last time I unlocked mine was about 7 months ago haha :) Can you take a photo and upload it? Maybe I can help.
[Asus ZenWatch 2] JoseBatista:
When I use the command [fastboot oem unlock], the device goes to the following screen:

[IMG="Unlock Screen of Sparrow"]http://i.imgur.com/LtIsYRnl.jpg[/IMG]

That´s where i get stuck, because it should unlock by long pressing the button, but nothing is happening here.

Like I said, no image can be flashed due to the LOCKED state.

Is there any way to make the device select the Unlock option, by sending some command from console?

For the system image, as I said before, I have ASUS original firmware files

"Google-sparrow-img-M6E69Z-signed"

"Google-sparrow-img-LCA49B-signed"

"Factory_V4_15_1_19_sparrow-eng_20151222"

You may check all from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2Ru4ATp1lY0cXhhTnpsVHF0bkU

Any help on this will be welcome.
[Asus ZenWatch 2] EpicLPer:
That is super weird...

Maybe try "fastboot -w" to format all userdata on the watch, last bet. And then update the watch the normal way, maybe they fixed something in the bootloader for later versions.