Is there currently a recovery ROM for the g-Tablet version shipped by woot.com? This is a 3389 ROM with some customizations. Most, or possibly all, of these can be replicated easily since they consist primarily of some home screen setup, links, and a few apps including the Kindle reader, ColorNote, and Pandora.
Following the recommendation to do a data wipe after installing a replacement ROM appears now to mean that even with the backup.zip from my wife's unmolested tablet I'm unable to return the tablet to its actual original state.
If there is not, I currently have one woot.com g-Tablet that is unopened since my wife ordered one for herself after I'd ordered one for each of us. I'm planning to sell it, but if I can create a backup ROM without messing the tablet up for the eventual purchaser I'm willing to try.
I'd like the same thing, if you come across one or make one yourself.
I ended up doing a Format SD Card, thinking it literally meant the external MicroSD Card I had put in the device, because I had read this may help prevent force closes, but it formatted the internal storage which had my stock backup on it and left my MicroSD card alone. I should have copied that over to my PC before wiping anything, just in case, but I'm so used to Android phone hacking that I thought I could get away with it.
I had a ton of force closes with TNT Lite and rebooted, hoping it would help, but then it got stuck in a reboot-loop. So I ended up repartitioning the internal space (thus wiping it AGAIN ::sigh: and using nvflash to restore bekit version 1105 (nvflash_gtablet_2010110500) and OTA updating.
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Going to make one now. Finished charging my "woot" g tab and booted once to make sure it worked. Just installed clockwork. Making backup. Let me know if you still need it.
jm20 said:
Going to make one now. Finished charging my "woot" g tab and booted once to make sure it worked. Just installed clockwork. Making backup. Let me know if you still need it.
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Yes I do, please.
uploading now....
uploaded
http://www.mediafire.com/?poe59nppdfqhizn
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http://www.mediafire.com/?poe59nppdfqhizn
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Thank you for doing that. Unfortunately, it doesn't restore the tablet to its shipped state.
Edit: scratch that - I did eventually get it to do exactly that.
mstevens said:
Thank you for doing that. Unfortunately, it doesn't restore the tablet to its shipped state.
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I'd originally assumed the way to use this would be to rename it to update.zip and use it in recovery. That seemed to flash something, but did not come close to restoring to the shipped state.
Next, I realized it was a clockworkmod backup and figured I could extract it to my clockworkmod backup directory and run a restore from it. This just gave me an MD5 checksum error.
Any more thoughts on how to use this?
Edit: see my later post. I did get it to work.
Do you need the ROM?
My woot Tablet Reset after the 3rd power cycle and restored itself to something besides the original shape I received it in. I thought it was ridiculous as it would not show the "Stock" Videos it was shipped with. Angry Birds also did not work originally. After it Reset things worked. I would return it in the state it is and say it didn't work almost at all when it first arrived.
The original active wallpaper was kind of cool though.
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I would return it in the state it is and say it didn't work almost at all when it first arrived.
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My g-Tablet is working fine. It's just a bit messed up in terms of applications and links after I flashed a few ROMs and now I'm having trouble getting it back to its original state.
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My woot Tablet Reset after the 3rd power cycle and restored itself to something besides the original shape I received it in. I thought it was ridiculous as it would not show the "Stock" Videos it was shipped with. Angry Birds also did not work originally. After it Reset things worked. I would return it in the state it is and say it didn't work almost at all when it first arrived.
The original active wallpaper was kind of cool though.
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Mine was the same way. I didn't wait until it was fully charged until powering it up and it had angrybirds and some other stuff loaded on it. None of it would run though, it would just force close out. After turning it off, waiting for it to fully charge, and then turning it back on did I get put through the new user wizard and everything worked right.
would these work?
Hello, I was curious to know if you had seen (and if it would work) the viewsonic stock Roms that are mentioned on another post in the g tablet section of this site. I can't post links yet but there is a sticky called "viewsonic G-Tablet ROMs frequently asked questions (read this first)" this is posted in the G tablet general section.
The 3rd post down in that sticky has "gtablet recovery firmware images (official viewsonic images)" and there are 3 versions available to download the latest being 3316. Could you flash to this and then do ota updates to get to the current version? I'm sure you'd have to get a few of the apps back yourself (angry birds, Pandora, whatever else came on it) but wouldn't this get you pretty close to how it was when you got the gtab? I'm new to all this and am just throwing this out as a suggestion. I'm curious to know if this is all you'd need though.
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Hello, I was curious to know if you had seen (and if it would work) the viewsonic stock Roms that are mentioned on another post in the g tablet section of this site.
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Those work pretty much as expected, but they don't restore the tablet to its state as shipped by Woot. Not having seen any other g-Tablet, I can't be certain but I strongly suspect they do restore the tablet to what it would have been if I'd gotten it from Sears or someplace. I already know I can rebuild it. I'm just looking for the lazy way and, ideally, to get it *completely* back to stock, i.e., any updated drivers or other things that may not be immediately obvious.
So, I did get jm20's file to work for restoring my woot.com g-Tablet to its original shipped state. There may be several ways to do this, but I'll outline what worked for me.
- installed clockworkmod and booted into cwm recovery.
- did a data wipe and formatted all partitions then rebooted, whereupon I naturally got an error.
- rebooted into APX mode.
- performed an NVFlash restore.
- as soon as the tablet rebooted and asked if I wanted to connect via USB, I connected without doing any setup.
- via USB to the tablet, created a directory clockworkmod in the root of sdcard (on the tablet, not the removable SDHC card) and a subdirectory backup within that.
- on my computer, extracted the directory 2009-01-01.00.26.55 from the downloaded .zip file.
- copied that directory via USB into /clockworkmod/backup.
- reinstalled clockworkmod.
- rebooted into cwm and ran a restore of the directory I'd copied.
At this point the tablet now looks and acts mostly like it did when I first opened it. The only problem is that OTA updates no longer work because of clockworkmod. I addressed this via NVFlash using the following in a command window:
- nvflash.exe --bl bootloader.bin --download 9 recovery.img
whew!
Sorry about the lack of instructions
I am really busy with a bunch of other stuff, and I'm just playing with the G-tab when I take a break. The file I uploaded is as you figured out just a direct copy of the folder that clockwork recovery made when I told it to backup the "unused woot g-tab"
Like I said I only booted it up once to make sure it worked and then I immediately made the backup which is why the date says 2009.
After the backup was done, I copied the folder that clockwork made which contained the backup files to my desktop. I then zipped it up and uploaded it to mediafire.
Therefore the zip file is not a file that clockwork can use to restore the ROM, however if you extract the folder/files from the zip file and copy them to the g-tab, clockwork will recognize the folder and will do a full restore from that folder / files.
Sorry for the confusion.
A few other things:
I bought two of these from Sears as soon as they came out (late October 2010). I opened one and tried to use it. The stock ROM barely worked. It was basically useless. I knew the hardware was great but it was crippled by the ROM. I installed clockwork and flashed a few ROMs and found Vegan to be the best of the bunch, however even that left much to be desired as it was still very early on in the whole scheme of things.
After two days of using the one I had opened, things weren't looking good and I returned the unopened second one.
After about 10 days of trying to see the positives, I couldn't take it any longer and the first had to go back also. Unfortunately I had rooted it and installed clockwork and I simply couldn't bring myself to return it in that condition so I spent somewhere around 12+ hours reading various forums (mostly this one, android forums, and android central) figuring out how to completely return the unit to "stock". No traces of clockwork or any other boot manager and I put a clean stock ROM back on it.
Two reasons why I mention all of this:
1. If someone is needing to do this, it can be done unfortunately I have no idea how I did it and didn't bother to keep the files or information because I swore I'd never buy another G-tab (woot made a liar out of me).
2. If you are considering using an older "stock" ROM, don't waste your time. The woot ROM is actually pretty good. Had I known the woot ROM was halfway decent I would have bought two of these. Any of the newer ROMs are probably better than what I initally experienced.
Lastly, if anyone cares; I am currently running Calkulin's ROM with Clemsyn's kernel and I must say I am impressed. The unit is stable and very fast. Those guys have done some great work. Finally some great software that can take advantage of the hardware. Again, had I known things had gotten so much better I'd have ordered two.
If you guys are running something else and you like it let me know, I haven't had time to mess with the other ROMs.
OK, I have got to get back to work. Hope this helps.
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Going to make one now. Finished charging my "woot" g tab and booted once to make sure it worked. Just installed clockwork. Making backup. Let me know if you still need it.
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Brand new Android user here. My Woot gtablet reset itself also after the third reboot to something other than the original. If I figure out how to insert your Woot ROM zip file, this will restore the gtablet to it's orginial state?
Thanks
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My woot Tablet Reset after the 3rd power cycle and restored itself to something besides the original shape I received it in. I thought it was ridiculous as it would not show the "Stock" Videos it was shipped with. Angry Birds also did not work originally. After it Reset things worked. I would return it in the state it is and say it didn't work almost at all when it first arrived.
The original active wallpaper was kind of cool though.
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I had this experience as well. (This Woot tab is my second g-tablet.) I updated it immediately upon the first boot, then rebooted. One or two reboots later, a setup screen magically appeared. After going through the setup process it seems that all of the original woot settings were now gone.
It also seems that Adobe Flash is no longer installed, and has to be re-installed. I haven't tried Angry Birds yet, but I believe that the latest firmware update comes with that pre-installed. Flash can be re-installed by downloading it from the ViewSonic g-tablet "Favorites" page, or use this link and reboot after installation:
http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1291899570_Adobe_Flash_Player_10.1.95.1.apk
As for being able to return to a "stock" firmware, I always save the updates before allowing it to install them. I believe they can be found in the /cache folder after it downloads, and must be copied to external storage before you run the update. I haven't actually tried to use these to restore to a stock firmware, but I believe that you just copy it to /mnt/sdcard and rename it to update.zip.
These are the versions that I saved:
update-smb_a1002-2967-user.zip
update-smb_a1002-3053-user.zip
update-smb_a1002-3588-user.zip
Edit: None of these are the "Woot" version.
I have ordered a 32GB touchpad and just have a few questions.
1. How does the space allocation work when dual booting? Is that something we have any control of? I ask because i will probably be using android primarily, and would like to have as much space as possible on it.
2. WIth the dual booting... is there a way to automatically default it to loading up CM9, instead of having to choose at initial boot up?
3. Is there a way to remove WebOS completely and just have it be CM9?
4. If the above question is yes... or the device gets bricked... can you revert back to stock WebOS ?
Thanks in advance.. and cant wait to get my touchpad tomorrow!
Thanks for asking these questions. I'm getting one the day after tomorrow and had the same ones
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GameOver69 said:
I have ordered a 32GB touchpad and just have a few questions.
1. How does the space allocation work when dual booting? Is that something we have any control of? I ask because i will probably be using android primarily, and would like to have as much space as possible on it.
2. WIth the dual booting... is there a way to automatically default it to loading up CM9, instead of having to choose at initial boot up?
3. Is there a way to remove WebOS completely and just have it be CM9?
4. If the above question is yes... or the device gets bricked... can you revert back to stock WebOS ?
Thanks in advance.. and cant wait to get my touchpad tomorrow!
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WebOS upgrade takes extra space. I think media is shared. 32 is plenty. Get a Box.net account to upload your files.
You can change boot preferences.
No you will not remove webos.
I am using my tp again. I love android on it. ICS. _ thumbs up
does anyone have any links to how i can revert completely back to stock if needed... after android?
planning on doing this tonight because it arrives today!
GameOver69 said:
does anyone have any links to how i can revert completely back to stock if needed... after android?
planning on doing this tonight because it arrives today!
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The wiki provides an uninstall method which works pretty much identically to how you install android. Essentially you run the UNinstaller instead of the INstaller, pretty simple. Had flash a friends TP after doing a couple others recently where I had to revert and start the process over. It's easy as pie.
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The wiki provides an uninstall method which works pretty much identically to how you install android. Essentially you run the UNinstaller instead of the INstaller, pretty simple. Had flash a friends TP after doing a couple others recently where I had to revert and start the process over. It's easy as pie.
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ok sounds good. does this also remove the android files? or do they have to be manually removed.
That's a good question, not entirely sure. My assumption would be the android files are stripped outside of the one folder you create when putting it on which is a "CMInstall" folder. Even if it doesn't remove them, it shouldn't impact WebOS from functioning as far as I can tell. Besides, once you put Android on it, it is highly unlikely you would ever remove it, you'd have no reason to.
There's a great guide on how to completely remove the Android partitions and restore your TP to complete stock here in THIS THREAD. It walks you through repartitioning the entire device and reinstalling WebOS 3.0.0.
What the ACMEInstaller does is repartition the /media drive (the so-called SD Card), to be smaller by roughly 2 gigs - enough for a /cm-data, /cm-system and /cm-cache partitions that're used by Android. And if you need more space, move your apps to the "SD Card" (/media partition) and you have even more space.
Hope that helps. If you need more, feel free to PM me.
Well not clone, but you know..
I know similar topics have come up (even by me) but I thought maybe some fresh eyes/brains might have some new insight.
I've been going through CLNR Rezounds non stop lately, just got number 7 today.
Here's the thing, I've put more hours into making my device exactly how I want it than I'd care to admit. I know the conventional method is to just get a custom recovery and bam, erase, restore, whatever. But I don't want to be unlocking, rooting, s-off, etc with every replacement I get just to have to undo all of it and get the phone back to stock to send in and start over again.. I want to make sure my phone works...
The only "solution" I've found is using the adb backup over and over again hoping one of them comes out not corrupt..
from a command prompt (windows 7 through parallels on a mac) I get to where I need to be (platform tools) and run:
adb backup –apk –shared –all –f /backup/mybackup.ab
then to restore:
adb restore C:\backup\mybackup.ab
I make sure to take out or unmount my micro sd before and during all of this.
I get files ranging from 1-8.5gb's, yeah, lot's of stuff, no photos or videos either.
During the restores it goes fine then gets hung up on "com.android.sharedstoragebackup"
tl;dr
Full backups and restores (shortcuts, widgets, data, etc) till I get a Rezound that's not a POS, possible?
I know I'm very "ranty" right now, my brian is kind of fried 12 hours today alone trying to get this sh*t done.... not counting all the phone calls to Verizon in the past few days..I hope I'm not coming off rude or crazy. Thanks for any help you can provide.
I can't get the TWRP files off my "sd card". When I plug my phone into my windows 8 PC I get an error, and when I use my windows 7 laptop, they just don't copy. I have been trying to look around for solutions, and seem to find that I need to do some kinda of ABD pull, but I havn't been able to figure out how to do that. Time is important, as my phone has a dead pixel and I can only return the phone to the store hassle free within the next few days. I want to get this backup on my PC, or dorpbox, or really anywhere besides my internal storage so I can put it back on my new phone and not have to re setup my phone *again*.
How would I go about getting the backup off the phone, I am using CM 10.1 with teamwin recovery 2.6.0.1.
Was able to figure it out, hopefully ill get better at this rooting thang . Aint as easy as jailbreaking, but it is a lot more fun!
My daughter handed me her nook today, claiming she didnt know what had happened to it. Shes only 8. Anyways it was acting as thought it was brand new and I was having to pick all the factory settings. I thought when i put her gmail address and passowrd init would bring all her games back up but it said it was not a known email address, therefore i had to create an acc giveing her name etc again. The Nook is now all fired up again but she has lost everything, and when i say everything they were all free kids games but I woudl think the Nook would backup the contents and I was wondering if there was anyway I could get it to log in from the most recent backupdatefrom yesterday or previous to that.
I am not technically minded in the slightest and ive tried to read other comments but when it gets to rooted and stock restore etc i get totally lost ! Can anyone help me please ?:fingers-crossed:
Assuming that your NT was running stock ROM, what most likely happened is your NT had somehow failed to boot/reboot 8 consecutive times -- a condition which triggers a reset to factory-fresh state. If you enter the same BN login/password that was used when the NT was originally registered you should be able to re-load all the apps/games previously downloaded/purchased from BN app store, although all apps' personal settings and data (such as saved game data) would still be lost and need to be re-entered.
To facilitate restoral in the future, you might consider using SD-based CWM recovery to backup your stock ROM (including app config) -- see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575489 -- this type of backup is handy even if you have no plan to root or flashing custom ROM.
Thank you Digimax
Thank you for your response Digimax but I really am a layman when it comes to all things digital and I have to be honest and say I didn't really understand your response. Sorry but thank you for taking the time to respond.
Fiona