yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] junk0:
That sounds like what I did but started from fresh factory reset so I hadn't signed in yet.

I installed the new Vending.apk then deleted dalvid-cache just like you. But then I added a google account for the first time. After my device got the non-working AndoridID from signing in I changed it to one I got from running the android emulator on my PC.

Maybe try deleting the /data/system/account.db so you can sign-in to the new market???

I also cleared data on under Manager Applications for 'Download Manager'.

History for me...

When I just changed the ID the market looked like it would work but would go from downloading to download unsucessful. I could never get around it. It wasn't until this new market and clearing the dalvid-cache that it worked.

Are you or anyone else willing to delete accounts.db and then do these steps to see if it works for you?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -viperboy-:
Sure, I will do it now. So, delete account.db, clear data, clear dalvik, reboot. Anything else? Reinstall the new Vending.apk??

Pleaseee come into the dev IRC!! :D

EDIT: ughhhhhhh it didn't work!! my AndroidID was still there too. Is the AndroidID case sensitive?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] junk0:
In dev IRC - no one here.

I think the AndoridID can be set back to 0 after deleting account.db. Then you you sign in to a google account on tablet it should be set to something not useful by the tablet/gmail login. The first time open the market you should get a TOS and then after that you can change the AndroidID and reboot. (I was able to download some apps with the invalid AndoridID initially given but it stopped working when I rebooted which is why I had to replace it with a working ID.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -viperboy-:
We are in #augen-dev make sure you have the hyphen!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] n0m0n:
Did you ever get the youtube video up for rooting this?

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] n0m0n:
This link appears to be broken is there another link or place that I can get Superuser, su?

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hoola20055:
OMG i just want to say THANKS TO EVERYONE!! I dont know a command line from a african lion. BUT I HAVE ROOT!!!! I read for hours and hours.. geeeze. I followed the wiki, got everything i needed where it should be. *then basically copy and pasted** lol but i have root!! I have set cpu/root explorer for starts. and yes it does give me the promt to allow SU access. Im excited as you can tell. I have always waited for someone to release a one click root. I just pushed and pulled a bunch of dummy files to get used to the whole process.

thanks again everyone. Maybe someday i can help out in some way. Now to tackle the market issue!!! hahaha hey i can aim high cant i? thanks thanks thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hoola20055:
in command prompt type....adb devices and it will show you what is connected.

I put all folder i needed/downloaded in C:

I put all root files that are needed in the tools folder of the SDK folder. that way is is all nice and neat and i dont have to remember different locals for each file. then i just copy and pasted what is on OP and it worked. I have pushed a bunch of file and installed a few apks since then just for fun. its kind of easy once you get the locations/various commands down pat. I keep my folders VERY organized so i really only have to remember a hand full of locations

what i did.

download superuser

downloaded adb stuff

downloaded adroid sdk windows

put adb files in windows/system32 ** http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=502010 ** follow that guide. its AWESOME!!

I put the sdk folder with all the files it downloaded on its own when you click the exe file in C:

then i put all my root stuff in the tools folder of the sdk. It just works out good because that was the location i learned my first commands from from the adb for dummies thread posted above.

connect your device and mount it/with debugging on

copy and paste from OP and you are rooted!!!!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -viperboy-:
Put those files in the tools folder in the sdk. And to adb push Superuser.apk /system/app
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hoola20055:
Yeah unzip the su 2.2.2 to its folder

Put adb.exe and adbWinApi.dll into windows/system32 folder * you may have to download these elsewhere

Put android sdk folder into C: ... you may need to download the sdk if you havent done that already. I just clicked on the exe file and it downloaded a bunch of stuff. I just let it.

Put the folders from the su 2.2.2 into the tools folder inside the sdk folder

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\put folders here

then just copy and paste from first page

If youre having trouble mounting your device you may need to get the drivers from augens help site.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] NickS_:
Picked one up, kind of excited to see what I can do with this steaming pile. :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aperezbios:
Heh, indeed it is! The start-up I work for bought everybody in the company one of these steaming piles (ours are branded as iMito M7)

I have actually succeeded in quasi-bricking mine while I was trying to get the app store working, and while the device isn't fully dead (flashboot works, and I am able to flash new payloads), once I do flash a new boot, recovery, and/or system image, the device shows the boot splashscreen, then the LCD goes blank (backlight stays on forever) and appears to never boot. Perhaps the LCD is just not being driven properly, but I'm unable to get any further.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aperezbios:
This link is now 404 / broken. Another forum member has re-posted the file in this post
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aspexil:
"D/DownloadManager( 1116): http error 403 for download 1"

This morning I started seeing this in logcat when trying to download from Android Market. I was getting "download unsuccesful." I tried clearing data/cache in various applications (checkin, download manager, market, market update, talk) and mount/unmount the sdcard.

I rooted & installed bootimg yesterday. This was all working fine last night. We downloaded and installed a number of apps from android market. Anyone know how to fix this?

I searched this forum and didn't find anything referring to 403 errors.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aspexil:
Reflashed to stock (from the nandroid backup) and re-applied bootimg and was able to download a few apps from market before it started getting download unsuccessful again. This is frustrating. Haven't hooked it up to logcat to see if it is the 403 error again.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aspexil:
It is http error 403 again, sigh.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
If you have a first gen GT78, try this.

It has the newer market built in, and should work without any additional modification. It will wipe everything, so make a nandroid backup beforehand if you want.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I hope someone can help with this. I have rooted from instructions in this thread. I am somewhat new to this, and I did something wrong. It takes 10min to boot. It will not connect to wifi. It will not recognize the sd card, and other issues. I have stated over with gentouch78patchv2 then gentouch78patchv3 then gentouchpatchv3-lincs. I have the boot-su-googleapps-pirate.update3 on the sd card but cannot access. When I go to recovery i can not scroll through the options. I have tried everything posted in this thread. I have another GT78, but do not know how I can get that os on this one. Sorry to be a pain but I've tried all other options before this.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aspexil:
Thanks for the pointer!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
The first boot will always take quite long, since the system is basically optimizing all the installed apps. Subsequent boot times should be shorter, but still more than a minute or two since this is a slow processor.

If you have already tried all those images and this image and it still happens on boots after the first one, then you most likely have a 2nd gen gt78. I haven't seen anyone post a full backup yet, so then you're pretty much stuck until someone can provide a system image.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
Thank you for the response. One other question. I have another gt78 that I purchased at the same time. They are only 2 months old so I'm guessing they are 2nd gen. Could I copy the Rom from one to the other, or is that possibly over my head.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mudwater:
Hello

Very nice forum for the Augen Gentouch. I need help just like alot of 2nd gen Gentouch78 users. You guessed it! I loaded the v3 for the "orininal" gentouch so now I have a brick. Upset with Augen since there is no mention of the different version. Please someone put up the images needed for the 2nd gen!!!

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] darkmuck:
Fully Working!

Thank you linckraker! I bought my Gentouch78 on woot.com for $105 about a week ago and with these mods I couldn't be happier for the price I paid! This thing is fully operational with all google apps working properly. There are obviously a few quirks regarding the device hardware, but its way more than enough for paying $100. It's kind of sad that development for this thing has kind of disappeared, but at least it is working as it should have out of the box!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
If indeed you have an unmodified 2nd gen, if would be very helpful (not just for you) to make a full backup and post it here so others could recover their 2nd gen gt78 tablets.

If you already have ADB installed, you should be able to backup your working gt78 with at least a 4GB uSD card:

adb shell
dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/sdcard/mtdblock0.img
dd if=/dev/mtdblock1 of=/sdcard/mtdblock1.img
dd if=/dev/mtdblock2 of=/sdcard/mtdblock2.img
dd if=/dev/mtdblock3 of=/sdcard/mtdblock3.img
dd if=/dev/mtdblock4 of=/sdcard/mtdblock4.img
dd if=/dev/mtdblock5 of=/sdcard/mtdblock5.img
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I have tried to do this, and I get an error.

# dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/sdcard/mtdblock0.img

dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/sdcard/mtdblock0.img

/dev/mtdblock0: cannot open for read: No such file or directory
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I have done what I can so far. The system is a small file compared to the gentouch78patchv3. I am not sure what to do with them now?

Lost.Dir File folder

boot disc image file 10,240 kb

bootloader disc img 10,240 kb

cache disc img 4,096 kb

data disc img 40,960 kb

misc disc img 1,024 kb

persist disc img 286,720 kb

recovery disc img 1,024 kb

splash disc img 153,600 kb

system disc img 5,120 kb
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I was able to get

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock0 of=/sdcard/mtdblock0.img

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock1 of=/sdcard/mtdblock1.img

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock2 of=/sdcard/mtdblock2.img

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock3 of=/sdcard/mtdblock3.img

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock4 of=/sdcard/mtdblock4.img

dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock5 of=/sdcard/mtdblock5.img

Now if someone can tell me what to do with them, and how to post them on here. I have tried manage attachments on additional options, but they will not load. Also the files are the same size as posted above, just named as mtdblock0.img etc.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
You can find out what each mtd partition contains:

# cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 80000000 00080000 "bootloader"
mtd1: 00a00000 00080000 "boot"
mtd2: 09600000 00080000 "system"
mtd3: 00400000 00080000 "splash"
mtd4: 01400000 00080000 "cache"
mtd5: 13b00000 00080000 "userdata"
mtd6: 00100000 00080000 "persist"
mtd7: 00a00000 00080000 "recovery"
mtd8: 00100000 00080000 "misc"
mtd9: 00100000 00080000 "tcc"

You do not want to distribute your "userdata" partition, which might have your personal information.

Compress only the "system", "boot", and "recovery" partitions (mtdblock1.img, mtdblock2.img, and mtdblock7.img) as these are the only ones that matter. When you have them compressed into a single file, upload it at a place like http://www.multiupload.com/ and post the link here so others can download it.

To restore it to your non-working gt78, copy these files into the Augen update folder, overwriting theirs, then follow their update instructions.

Optionally, you might want to install ClockworkMod recovery. I don't have a 2nd gen gt78, so I don't know if ClockworkMod recovery works on it or not.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
Some of these sizes look very odd...

boot (mtdblock1) looks ok (should be ~10MB)

system (mtdblock2) should be ~150MB

recovery (mtdblock7) should be ~10MB

Perhaps these images are mislabeled?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I am not sure what the # cat /proc/mtd is, but I've tried to copy the system, boot, and recovery in the Augen's gentouch78patchv3/os folder, and other update folders. It copies the boot, but recovery and system fail. I assume they are not the correct files because of the size? Also I do have ClockworkMod recovery installed, but it will not connect to sd card. After rooting it could not read sd card or wifi, and I've tried different sd cards. I have adb access, but I'm not sure what that can do for me.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
The "cat /proc/mtd" is a command to type either into "adb shell" or a terminal on your gt78, as you did the "dd" command.

If you cannot mount your sd card, then try to save just the system, boot, and recovery to your data partition, assuming it has at least 150MB free:

adb shell
dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock1 of=/data/boot.img
dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock2 of=/data/system.img
dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock7 of=/data/recovery.img
exit
adb pull /data/boot.img
adb pull /data/system.img
adb pull /data/recovery.img
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
This is what I come up with.

cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00a00000 00100000 "boot"

mtd1: 00a00000 00100000 "recovery"

mtd2: 00500000 00100000 "kpanic"

mtd3: 09600000 00100000 "system"

mtd4: 00400000 00100000 "splash"

mtd5: 02800000 00100000 "cache"

mtd6: 11800000 00100000 "userdata"

mtd7: 00100000 00100000 "misc"

mtd8: 00100000 00100000 "tcc"

I tried the update with the corresponding mtd. The boot and recovery install, but when it gets to system it flashes something quickly and closes. Now the gt78 boots to first screen and stops. I'm thinking this is more than I can take on. I will try to post the images and hope someone can come up with a fix. Thanks for all your help.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
Here is a link to the Augen Gentouch78 2nd gen image files.

http://www.multiupload.com/WWVXSHL6TU
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I did not get the tcc.img on the download. I have attached it here if needed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
Just to make sure, this is from the working 2nd gen Gentouch78 that hadn't been modded or reflashed yet?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
Yes it is from a working non modified 2nd gen unit.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] papabluto:
Hey, how about using the files mentioned above to replace ones in a patch file like gentouch78patchv3.zip or the gentouch78patchv3-Lincs.zip?? that should work, shouldn't it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
I tried that and it would not load system. I also tried a couple of different ways and now it will not load boot or recovery. It says there is no partition and screen stays black. Good luck.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] marcelol:
What in the ....

what's inside the tcc.img ?? HBOOT ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] marcelol:
how did you modify the zip files from Linc before you tried to flash?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fun_:
I think system.img by dd is useless. I'll make clockworkmod recovery for you. please keep your GT78 gen2 unmodified.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fun_:
hi eddybd1,

here is clockworkdmod recovery for you

http://teamtelechips.naobsd.org/experimental/test/GT78-2ND/recovery.GT78-2ND.img.zip

please try it on your non-working GT78 2nd at first. if it works, then install on working GT78 2nd, then make backup.

then try restore from backup image on non-working GT78 2nd. you should wipe data/cache(factory reset) after restore.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
Thanks fun_

I tried and it did not work. No matter what I try it says <remote: partition table doesn't exist> for boot and recovery. I replaced the recovery img with this one in the os flash program to do it (i hope that's right). I believe it has become a paper weight, and thats why I am not going to mess with the good one. Also sorry for the system not being good. I am new to this and thats what I pulled from the good gt78. If someone can come up with something I would be grateful. If not that's okay, lesson learned.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fun_:
oh, sorry, I missed your post:

your non-working one seems bricked...

probably my recovery will work on your working one. but I'll not force it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] marcelol:
1st Gen Augen

hey fun_

So is there any updated recovery for 1st Gen Augens ? From reading some of your posts here and elsewhere, would those be the 1012 files under D7 on naobsd ?

Also, how can help get involved in working on this effort with you.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fun_:
hi

recovery for 1st is already worked. D7 file works, but D7-1012 and D7-1102 may not work(not tested).

I don't have any GT78/D7/etc. I'm glad to hear from you, but for now, I don't have enough time to think what to do next...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xaueious:
Can someone upload a tar of their system instead?

I couldn't unyaffs the system.img, nor could I mount it on the X5A...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] chris4204:
Can somebody help me please stuck on CW Recovery

Hi can somebody help me i have tried everything the system.img. and recovery.img here and all the updates and i cant get past the Clockwork recovery. When i try the update.zip it says fail at line 2 sometimes it says cant mount. When i try recovery.img it says MD5 Checksum and i cant get anything to load. What else can i do. Thanks in advance.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
This should give him what he requests:

busybox tar -c /system | busybox bzip2 - > /nand/system.tar.bzip2
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DROIDGIRL:
I believe I have the tar file, thnx to Reuikodo. Where do I upload it to?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xaueious:
Please upload to multiupload

That would be very helpful to all
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eddybd1:
xaueious,

This is everything I copied from the unmodified 2nd gen gt78. It was my moms so I do not have it anymore, but I hope you can find what you need. I did see a tar file in system/bin folder. Hope it helps

http://www.multiupload.com/67BI63CIB0
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DROIDGIRL:
Here is the link for all:

9Z2IITOARO

The file is on multiupload, but since I have not posted 8 times, I cannot post link.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xaueious:
I actually looked at the system dump, but didn't play around with it for long enough to figure out more than what I was looking for.

Mali libs are identical to other TCC8902 shipments.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] denenatse:
z4root works for it now :S
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raymondgronas:
How do you flash the clockwork recovery to the device
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hyrumt:
Need System.img

I need the system.img for 2nd gen gt78. It says its too big.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rwoodsmall:
First time posting. I picked up an open box second generation Gentouch78 this week, and not actually knowing it was second-gen, I attempted to flash it with the linckracker v3 update for Market access. I was left with a semi-bricked device at that point.

Using the mtd dumps from eddybd1, as well as the .zip archive of the /system partition, I was able to get a half-booted Gentouch78 using my Linux netbook to stage, build and flash images to the device.

I built boot.img/recovery.img images using the mtd dumps (using split_bootimg.pl to pry apart the kernel and ramdisk and mkbootimg to reassemble). Then I built a system.img using the /system .zip archive with mkyaffs2image, and verified that unyaffs could extract the image. Flashed all three images with fastboot, which thankfully still works, and booted into Android.

However, I have no wireless or SD card functionality. The device seems to be working as expected otherwise, but I'm wondering if there may be more versions of this device than we know about, or if the mtd dumps were from a different, compatible device, but not an exact clone. In looking through the "About" selection in the settings, the device believes itself to be of model type "Android for Livall A1 (multi-language)," which doesn't sound like the Telechips eval board it reported itself as before the my bad flash attempt. The build.prop from the /system dump in this thread does explicitly mention the Livall A1.

If anyone has a verified dump of the mtd blocks AND a clean tar (or zip) archive of /system from a rooted but otherwise untouched Gentouch78 generation 2, I believe we can build a working boot/recovery/system image set. I emailed Augen for a copy of the gen2 firmware but I'm not holding my breath for them to reply.

If you happen to have the mtd dumps and a good /system archive, and can get them uploaded, just reply on this thread. I'd love to have a working device!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Shidell:
I'm considering picking up one of these from the local KMart as an entry-level Android dev. device. I'm a developer, and I've written in C/C++, C# & Java, but I'm rather unfamiliar with low-level linux/Android.

Is this a good (cheap) entry-level tablet for a developer to learn about building from AOSP, compiling kernels, etc on?

Lastly, this thing seems to be the beefiest (in terms of cheap tablets) with it's 256Mb of RAM and the Mali200 GPU. Would you say this is accurate?

Any reason to get something other than this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reukiodo:
Not unless you are good at reverse-engineering to write the drivers. AFAIK, they haven't been open-sourced, and there isn't source available. I can share the Telechips documentation that I have if you choose to proceed down this route.

The performance of the GenTouch78 is about on par with the HTC Hero, which puts it better than the first gen Android phones and behind the second gen Android phones.

A Nook color is reasonably cheap, better hardware, and has much better support by the hacking community at large.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Shidell:
Thanks, Reukiodo. At your recommendation, I started looking around for a Nook Color, and stumbled across a deal for it on ebay--$200 shipped:

http://item.ebay.com/290535929095?&_trksid=p5197.m621#shId

I think I'm going to jump on this as my development tool.

Thanks much! :)