Hey,
I just received my Archos 101, currently running Urukdroid 0.6. The previous owner did not do a complete factory reset, so his google account and apps, etc, are still on the archos. I've tried every way of reseting the device in the "Repiar + Formating" menu in the settings. Each time I reboot, everything is still the same.
How do I do a complete factory reset?
First option is to do easyinstall from urukdroid once again, after that you have a clean archos, but still urukdroid at it.
Im not sure but in the boot menu there's an entry "Delete Developer Firmware" maybe with this, but ask sauron or some other guys before doing that! Im a noob
I had the same problem for a week^^
i had to do the same. Here is what you have to do, it will wipe everything out and give you a clean slate to start(back to stock). Go to the archos website, and download the newest firmwear. on the archos, but into recovery mode, connect to your pc and drag the downloaded file onto your archos. (I think the file was like 80megs) after the file is copied onto the archos tap the power button once, and it will reset the archos. When it reinstalls the firmwear it must be plugged in. PM me if you have any questions.
Power off your machine, press the + volume key and hold it down, then power on. You should see a menu that lets you delete the developer edition.
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Hi,
I have used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171089 to install stock ROM and Recovery.
No I can't access "Settings\Storage and About tablet". I tried Factory data reset but cannot pres the "Reset tablet" button. Same thing when I try to "Power off" the tablet, I can't press "OK" or "Cancel" buttons or any other button.
My problems start 2 days ago when I noticed that Back, Home and all other buttons from system bar doesn't respond or responded after a lot of tries. Strange I could open the Shortcuts t Task manager and all others. Te tablet was in low power mode even if the battery was over 90%. The tablet wasn't rooted and had all updates up to date.
Before all I have tried Factory reset without success.
Next I have rooted the table and tried to install a new ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488596 but the buttons still remained unresponsive. Even more I couldn't do anything because I couldn't press "Accept" button to Licence agreement of Swype. After more research I have installed the stock ROM specified above. Now the Back, Home and Clock works
This is my 3 years old kid tablet and he is crying since the tables broked, PLEASE HELP.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 GT-P5710UW
Ciprian_ said:
Hi,
I have used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171089 to install stock ROM and Recovery.
No I can't access "Settings\Storage and About tablet". I tried Factory data reset but cannot pres the "Reset tablet" button. Same thing when I try to "Power off" the tablet, I can't press "OK" or "Cancel" buttons or any other button.
My problems start 2 days ago when I noticed that Back, Home and all other buttons from system bar doesn't respond or responded after a lot of tries. Strange I could open the Shortcuts t Task manager and all others. Te tablet was in low power mode even if the battery was over 90%. The tablet wasn't rooted and had all updates up to date.
Before all I have tried Factory reset without success.
Next I have rooted the table and tried to install a new ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488596 but the buttons still remained unresponsive. Even more I couldn't do anything because I couldn't press "Accept" button to Licence agreement of Swype. After more research I have installed the stock ROM specified above. Now the Back, Home and Clock works
This is my 3 years old kid tablet and he is crying since the tables broked, PLEASE HELP.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 GT-P5710UW
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Backup your data, preferrably with titanium backup.
Go into CW recovery. Do a full backup. Then wipe cache, data, and dalvik cache (the third one is in the "advanced" menu). wipe all three again (not necessary, I've heard someone say that this helped. I don't usually do it, but it can't hurt).
Reboot.
If that doesn't fix it, connect your tablet and put a ROM on the root of your tablet (zip file). Disconnect and then do the above steps, but after you've wiped, install the ROM from zip. When it reboots (give it 20 minutes on first boot before messing with it), is the problem solved?
I'm having this problem too. I have completely wiped the memory on the tablet, and have tried many different roms, but nothing seems to help. Can someone please help me?
I used Adam Outler's Ubuntu program for unbricking a Nook Table. It worked, bring it back from the dead. But now I have a problem. The serial number in the device information (I assume coming from the firmware) does not match the one on the nook itself. Because of this I am not able to register the Nook with B&N. Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
Thanks
I decided to make an Ubuntu restore Sd and later i sucessfully restored my nook to stock 1.4.0. I bypassed registration by holding down volume down and the book button and touching left and right bottom part of screen.This brings up a factory page and if you hold volume down and n and press bottom left again a menu button will appear in green that says bypass registration. Press that and you will get to the home screen. Now you have to download an app and check.usb debugging, etc. rerun indirect script, install cwm recovery.apk etc. and finaly put the cm7 rom onto your sd. Then turn off nook. Hold down n and power 3 sec and when in cmw format cache and devlick cache and then install the cm7 zip on the root of your sd.
Thanks in advance for reading this and for any suggestions you might have!
I have a Archos Home Connect 35 Gen 8 device. I had it rooted on 2.4.82 firmware just fine. I wanted to update to 2.8.83 to get rid of the update notification I kept getting. I wanted to do it from a fresh clean slate as I wanted to reset my device anyway. First I used the Recovery Menu (White Menu) to restore back to default, then removed the SDE menu via the option to remove it in the SDE menu.
I then followed the guide that chrulri posted that I followed last time, but with 2.8.83 files. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=930197 (Note for Archos 35's you have to hold the power button for ~6 seconds, then double tap it to get to recovery instead of holding Volume Down like on other Gen8's). I was doing this on my MacBook Air at the time. (I rooted it before from my Windows PC). I went to 'Update Firmware" on the recovery menu, then took the SDE firmware file, and copied it over USB to the drive and safely removed the drive, then hit "OK" on the device. It proceeded to do the update it seems but only took 2-3 seconds so I'm fairly sure something didn't go right as it usually takes longer. It then said press ok to Reboot so I did.
After the reboot from that, the device turns on but I get a White screen. No Archos logo or anything. Usually this white screen comes on for a few seconds, then I would get the Archos Logo even if I was booting recovery. No luck. I tried resetting the device by holding power button for 20 seconds, waiting 10 seconds and turning it on, same issue. Recovery will not work either, I tried two dozen times to try and get it to load by doing the usual ~6 seconds holding power button then double tapping and no luck.
I tried hooking the device up USB and in Windows all I get "Unknown Device" in device manager, with DeviceId of USB\Unknown. I attempted to force both Archos' ADB driver and the Universal ADB drive onto it with no success. (I'm pretty sure its my device since normally when a device shows up and its capable of ADB you will get a difference device ID in Device manager like USB\ADBDEV1 or something. On my Mac, when I plug it in, all USB devices (Multitouch pad mouse included) will lock up for ~5 seconds, then in dmesg I can see it has a error on USB device and it disabled the device.
So something weird is going on with my Home Connect for sure. Any suggestions on what to try? I'm thinking somehow the filesystem or firmware on it got screwed up during the SDE flash and it can't boot anything even the recovery now. I have a MicroSD card I can use if there's some recovery feature built into it to get it to boot from the MicroSD slot or something to do a firmware recovery.
My only other option if there is no way to try and get it back would be to try and send it back to Archos for repair simply stating it was updating firmware and this happened. (No actual modified firmware is on it now as well, and i was flashing the Archos approved SDE firmware, so they should be okay with it).
Also the battery was fully charged when doing this. It seems different that the White Screen bug the Archos 101 and others get when the battery accidentally runs too low with older firmware.
Thank you again for your replied!
If you can't get into recovery anymore, then it is over. I would suggest to RMA the device.
divx118
From all my searches through Archos forums and here that seems right.
I'm shocked there's no failsafe recovery mode for Archos. My Asus Transformer TF101 had one, where even if the firmware was screwed and you couldn't get to recovery, a special key combo would boot it up and you'd load some special recovery driver for it (Not adb something with nVidia in it, has to do with Tegra2 chipset i suppose) and upload the firmware to it and it recovered. Even iPhone's have DFU fallback mode as well for when things are totally forked and iTunes will restore the firmware.
Just an update. I did RMA the unit and Archos sent me a brand new boxed up one back. (I have an extra charger and cable now since they said not to include them ). Have my new 35 setup rooted with .83 now.
I think I figured out what happened. After I installed the SDE, before I flashed the new kernel and such, if I booted the Developer Edition option from recovery, it would get stuck at a blank white screen until I power cycled. On my old 35 I had removed the option to boot regular so it booted the Developer Edition that was rooted every time. I think when I restored the original firmware, it of course removes the Developer Edition kernel I had flashed before, but it somehow didn't set the menu back and was trying to boot Developer Edition every time, which it lacked the kernel for, and went to the white screen. Not sure if it explains recovery not working though.
To make sure it doesn't happen again i've left the options all in tact and left it so I manually have to go to recovery if I reboot the system to boot the developer kernel for root. Since the device goes weeks and months without the need to reboot since it's just an Alarm Clock really that's fine with me.
Such a concern that I wanted to make a formation Arcohs 101 G9 Tablet PC. I went to the Archos A101S Recovery Menu by holding down the volume + button and switch the power on button. Its a stupid mistake I selected from the Format System-> Device Reformat. Of course I did not know that before the computer to connect and integrate the Archos firmware file to the root folder. Android is removed?, at least it does not Boot up your computer as well, and does not connect, what to do?
1. Go to the right Forum, this is for the Gen8, not your Gen9.
2. Download the aos file from Archos, go into recovery and flash the FW as is described in the forum.
Hi Guys,
has anyone been able to uninstall urukdroid 1.6 and revert to the original Archos firmware?
I've seen various suggestions from older versions... mainly around wiping file system.
... but no luck so far.
Sure I'm missing something obvious. Any ideas?
Cheers.
You want a way without system wipe? The options are:
1. if you have Stock firmware and Urukdroid - go to recovery menu and select "Developer edition menu" then select "Uninstall Developer Edition". This way you will have only Stock firmware left.
2. If you have only UrukDroid, unstall SDE and select "Update Firmware" upload the Stock firmware from Archos site and you're done.
3. Uninstall SDE (Special Developer Edition) and format the device to make sure its clean. Dont worry, after you format it the device will ask you to connect it to the PC and upload the firmware (you can find it in Archos site). Simply upload it and press the power button nothing can mess up. The installation will end and you will be back to Stock firmware like you wanted.
Thanks Mavasilisk, that's very helpful.
I worked out where I was going wrong. Was booting into urukdroid repair menu... not the Archos recovery menu. Doh!
In case any one else having same problem:
Archos Recovery Menu: Hold Vol + as soon as you reboot and screen goes black.
Urukdroid Repair Menu: Hold Vol + or - as soon as you seen urukdroid splash screen.
neil_black said:
Thanks Mavasilisk, that's very helpful.
I worked out where I was going wrong. Was booting into urukdroid repair menu... not the Archos recovery menu. Doh!
In case any one else having same problem:
Archos Recovery Menu: Hold Vol + as soon as you reboot and screen goes black.
Urukdroid Repair Menu: Hold Vol + or - as soon as you seen urukdroid splash screen.
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I had it in mind but I guess'd if you have UrukDroid you couldnt make such a mistake lol