Hi everyone,
I've been an android user for a long time and I just bought a SGS3 on ATT, I was ready to start flashing until I saw this thread, and now I don't even want to root.
I've read all the threads I could find on this issue and they all said slightly different things, so I'm looking for a concrete answer to this question:
Are any devs working on this, and if so are they making progress toward a real solution in the future? (I ask this because I've read some people saying this may never be fixed)
I appreciate your responses, and I hope they do find a solution so I won't be stuck on stock forever.
Also: If I do lose my IMEI, does everything still work except 4G?
1. root
2. triangle away
3. if it messes up, return and say 'i dunno wtf happened, it just happened randomly'
4. ????
5. profit
6. YOLO
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EDIT: Well I managed to get clockworkmod installed and everything; still having some issues with aspects of it, but in general I'm good. I'll probably make a dedicated thread to the device; if anyone wants to suggest a proper forum section, be my guest.
Ok, so I need some assistance on installing CWM or another recovery mode on my YourPad P4. I've already rooted and installed ROM Manager, but it could not find a compatible CWM version.
Now, first off I have also been unable to get an exact or better identification of this tablet other than it being sold as a "YourPad P4" and that it's model is MID; so I might also need help getting more details to better assist the finding of a compatible or working recovery.
Here is some information about it...
* Site purchased from/detail page:
http://www.yourstoreonline.net/yourpad_p4_new_android_40/id2040716/product.html
Don't worry, I got it for ~$100 (with the 1GB RAM upgrade), not the displayed price on the site!
* About tablet page info:
Model number: MID
Android version: 4.0.3
Kernel version: 3.0.8
[email protected] #2
Build number: 20120807-A721
Also, before I start messing with it I was going to make a nandroid backup to share for others...does nandroid backup firmware as well? I've never needed to restore a backup so I have no idea what goes into it and can't find a quick answer. I'd like to make a backup of a clean as possible system to share for anyone wanting it. Although I'm surprised that its not been mentioned on xda, I'd expect this tablet to have at least been asked about once considering it was mentioned on woot.
Thanks to anyone for any help, and I apologize if this should be in a different section. If so, could a mod please move it before any fuss is made.
And now, I'm off to bed (so I won't be responding/checking this for a few hours).
Not to sure about the rules for thread bumping, but I just wanna make sure this gets seen soon (as I'll be very busy and it will be hard to work on it next week and the the days that follow).
Also I thought it was worth mentioning now that only really mentions of this tablet I can find are in posts by me, ahahahahaha
EDIT: Oh, and I havn't verified I even have a recovery partition yet as I can't cat /proc/mtd
it's been about a week now and no response; I even posted it over here http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...cs-need-help-recovery-install-yourpad-p4.html
so bumping, if anyone at the very least knows some mystical other worldly site that somehow manages the chance of providing me an answer over the ever amazing xda; please post
tabletrepublic.com/forum/iview-760tpc-ployer-momo9/iview-760tpc-k-ployer-momo9-firmware-rom-releases-1610.html
Go here you will find all about all winner a10 tablet
Just go there and for cwm recovery 5
Select
3.) ClockworkMod Recovery
5 (for AllWinner A10 tablets) option.
Just read all step carefully
And do at your own risk me or xda is not responsible if you brick your device..
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.
AJ88 said:
tabletrepublic.com/forum/iview-760tpc-ployer-momo9/iview-760tpc-k-ployer-momo9-firmware-rom-releases-1610.html
Go here you will find all about all winner a10 tablet
Just go there and for cwm recovery 5
Select
3.) ClockworkMod Recovery
5 (for AllWinner A10 tablets) option.
Just read all step carefully
And do at your own risk me or xda is not responsible if you brick your device..
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.
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Thanks alot for this, I'll definitely read it over a few times before attempting. Hopefully this will work out. Thread is still open for any other input, so anyone else coming here that can provide any additional help go ahead and post.
Well I still have been unable to get a recovery option going. I tried the link mentioned by AJ88 and it didn't work for me. Essentially the link boiled down to 2 simple adb commands and a custom recovery.img. First step was to "adb push recovery.img /data/", but I ran into a permission denied issue and could not figure out a way around it (didn't want to mess with chmod, but I did run the "fix permissions" script in the clockworkmod rom manager. So instead I just pushed the recovery.img to my sdcard. Next step was "adb shell "cat /data/recovery.img > /dev/block/nandg; sync""; so instead I went "adb shell" then su to make sure I didn't get any more issues, then just "cat /sdcard/recovery.img > /dev/block/nandg; sync". Rebooted and tried all combinations of key pressings to access recovery with no luck (even tried via adb). So any ideas on my next course of action?
youtPad P4 issues
Dear EarthBoundX5,
Please do not feel alone in what I might be perceiving as "buyer's remorse" as I also own this device and have begun to have issues with it functionality. Initially I was attracted to this device for what seemed a myriad of available functions and abilities, however I'm really starting to believe the old saying, "you get what you pay for".
My main issue at this point is when using the free Kindle app, after selecting my book, the screen goes completely blank and does NOT come back with the reading material I've selected. If I touch the back button, I get a brief flash of the screen showing the page that I'm on in the book, but after that nothing. I've tried rebooting the machine, currently trying a fresh install of the Kindle app, we'll see how that goes TODAY.
I also have another off-brand tablet, iBridge, which was purchased during the frustration period of waiting for YourStore . com to get their act together and send me the YourPad. Funniest part about it though is that the iBridge comes with a booklet thats 4x the size of the poorly written "booklet" that the YourPad people put out.
I'm sorry that I don't have a solution for your problem as I'm a complete newb with the tablet world, but wanted to at least touch base with you to let you know "you are not alone. I am here with you...." LOL
Found you with a google search for online help regarding YourPad, and it brought me to you, and this seems like the most helpful place I might have found in reference to oddball tablet issues. Take care, have a good day. and I'll check back in to notify regarding Kindle reinstall.
Well I've been waiting for a reply to either of my threads with no luck, so today I figured I'd just try again the method of manually setting up a recovery, and this time I just decided to try and hold every button I could while powering and and BAM RECOVERY MODE *****ES!!!!!! So guess either I must've just screwed up last time or something. Anyways, I'll edit the OP to reflect all this later...maybe start a dedicated thread with any quirks I figure out down the line using this tablet; and of course post my nandroid backup. When I setup my 2nd YourPad, I'll make sure to make backups of any files I may have had to change (ie, nandg, etc). The question is, what section would such a thread belong?
5lita5 said:
Dear EarthBoundX5,
Please do not feel alone in what I might be perceiving as "buyer's remorse" as I also own this device and have begun to have issues with it functionality. Initially I was attracted to this device for what seemed a myriad of available functions and abilities, however I'm really starting to believe the old saying, "you get what you pay for".
My main issue at this point is when using the free Kindle app, after selecting my book, the screen goes completely blank and does NOT come back with the reading material I've selected. If I touch the back button, I get a brief flash of the screen showing the page that I'm on in the book, but after that nothing. I've tried rebooting the machine, currently trying a fresh install of the Kindle app, we'll see how that goes TODAY.
I also have another off-brand tablet, iBridge, which was purchased during the frustration period of waiting for YourStore . com to get their act together and send me the YourPad. Funniest part about it though is that the iBridge comes with a booklet thats 4x the size of the poorly written "booklet" that the YourPad people put out.
I'm sorry that I don't have a solution for your problem as I'm a complete newb with the tablet world, but wanted to at least touch base with you to let you know "you are not alone. I am here with you...." LOL
Found you with a google search for online help regarding YourPad, and it brought me to you, and this seems like the most helpful place I might have found in reference to oddball tablet issues. Take care, have a good day. and I'll check back in to notify regarding Kindle reinstall.
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I don't feel any buyer's remorse...yet at least, haha. If I end up having the same issues as you, maybe I'll change my mind; but I really don't see much wrong yet with this tablet. I mean, obviously its cheap and all, but for the poor man its fantastic. But ya, I HATE the YourStore, they took FOREVER to ship out the tablets. Anyways, for people like you, it really makes me thing I should take point on this tablet and start a dedicated thread.
Hello.
A year or two ago I purchased this Samsung Galaxy S2 GT i9100 from Ebay, which came to me in Chinese. I changed it to english, eventually, but I could never get it to update firmware, which was a minor contrivance. I continued using it for a long time, with some reservations.
Though two days ago, I finally got around to giving a workaround a shot, which didn't work. I tried another, and another; and nothing worked until I gave up and then all of a sudden, kies decided it would update the firmware out of the blue - without me actually doing anything.
Go figure.
Anyway, the phone started working great until I did some updates on my apps, I lost my "Navigation" app which I am told, most likely got put back into google maps (as it was a part of it) and the phone has crashed twice, frozen for several seconds several times and been quite slow in general since. I googled a bit and found that the culprit was likely the /data/logs - but I cannot get to them as the phone isn't rooted. I deleted some apps to make room on the phone, as it was 1.8/2gig (wouldn't let me update half of my apps at one point!), bringing it down to 1.4 but that had very little affect on the phones performance, and I still have half a dozen Gigs left on the USB. So the logs seem to be the culprit at this point.
Further googling indicated to me that I should err on side of caution and factory reset the phone, but I was unsure whether I should do it before or after rooting the phone, which caused me to find out about this "brickbug".
And I also found out, by an "eMMC brickbug checker" app, that I have a:
Type: VYLOOM
FwRev: 0x19
Brickbug? YES. Insane Chip.
Which leads me to asking you guys what the best process for me to go about this is, considering that I need to not brick my phone as I return to university in two days, but cannot continue with phone locking up and crashing?
Should I skip on the factory reset and just root phone, and if so which process is best, there are so many?
If further info, which update etc, is needed to select proper method I require, please let me know how/where to find it, and I'll post it asap.
Thank you in advance,
Don.
Whether you have a susceptible chip or not is largely irrelevant; the brick bug is triggered by running rooted stock 4.0.4 & doing a factory reset, anything else & you're fine.
I'm not sure why you think rooting the phone is going to fix the problems you're describing ? I'd only be rooting the phone if you have a specific reason to do it. Also, if you absolutely cannot be without your phone, don't root or flash anything to it ever. Sometimes stuff goes wrong, and you simply can't completely remove that risk regardless of what some people on here might tell you (even tho that risk is very very small for a given flash).
So...If I were in your situation, first up a factory reset. If that doesn't help, find Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide stickied in the General section, download the 3 part firmware linked in the thread, flash it with Odin. This will wipe your phone. I'd then download a stock rom for your country/carrier from Samfirmware (anything but 4.0.4) & flash that with Odin. This will give you a clean installation & should resolve your issues. If it doesn't, you're probably looking at either something on the app side not playing nice, or a hardware issue.
If you want to root the phone or flash a custom rom from there, that's up to you, but be mindful of the potential for stuff to go wrong. So far as methods to do these things go, this stuff has been/asked answered thousands of times here over the past 2.5 yrs. We have stickied threads near the top of Q&A & also a thread with a multitude of guides/tutorials stickied near the top of the General section. If you do go down this path, taking as much time as you need to read/learn/understand methods on your own (as opposed to someone regurgitating a bunch of steps you don't understand the consequences of) before you do anything should limit the chance of 'accidents' happening.
can you please help me with a soft unbricking of my lg g vista (vs880 [11b]) from verizon usa? i found the 880-11b firmware file, at least i think its the right one. if you know of/ come across this and are sure of its validity i would trust that more. i found and downloaded via a google search. i initially think i may have accidentally deleted the splash pic for the carrier when it boots. this caused it to just black screen after the lg logo n the backlight would flash like it was stuck in a boot loop just the image file was missing. after a little more research i figured out how to put it in the download mode so that i can use a pc to try repair or reinstall whatever it needs. i am unsure if i need the sdk or adk toolkits for a repair in the download mode to work. while on that screen it says its plugged in and waiting to download firmware via usb under the progress bar it tells me not to unplug until download is completed. its not showing up in "my computer" however. and i've never had to do s software/firmware download or setup when the phone wasn't in full normal working order. i simply want to put back the out of the box software back in place. firmware 88011b and 4.4.2 os. just want to be sure i get the proper files/and or programs/ directions to use those resources properly the last thing i want is to guess at something that i could ask someone more experienced for help with and end up bricking it beyond repair. any and all help is very appreciated and i must ask you to please explain each step as clearly and "dumbed down" as possible as you can. if i need to use a program i've never used before {i.e. i hear things like odin mentioned in the forums but i don't understand or have any experience with any pc to phone applications so the more detailed any instructions can be made the better. anything that most ppl who have started tinkering with their devices usually know as common sense or steps that seem implied if not specifically mentioned i'll miss. i have been reading n lurking for months n managed to root the device. but had another issue i accidentally caused soon after which resulted in a factory wipe and some time to remember what i did that rooted it after spending a day on it the first time n trying many things it took me a while to refind what i had done that worked. then this happened. i'm sure with the proper files/tools it'll be fine but i need help to know what those are and to be sure i do it right the first time. i know if i don't there may not be a second chance. thank you again in advance for your patience and help.
So, that's the thing, I received this phablet: 3nstar T705s-01 (Chinese made), from a friend who "accidentally" got viruses on it.
I tell him not to worry because I know that flashing to the stock ROM it can be easily fixed, the thing is that nobody on the internet have this stock ROM, I read a lot of post and differents forums but no one had the exact ROM, after a couple of hours some guy posted a ROM and claimed that it works perfectly on the T705S. After seeing so many chinese pages with all kind of ROMs this cheer me up, so I proceed to flash.
The thing is, everything went well, but, it wasn't the right ROM, and now that I found the real one after some longs and tedious e-mails that I wrote to the providers I can't flash it again because SP Flash Tool gave me "DA didn't send response data to flash tool".
The thing is, I don't feel like it is a HARD BRICK, because my pc recognize it when I plug it and press "Power + VolUp", but nothing appears on the screen and I really don't know what else to do.
Guys please, if someone already answer this or solve it, please just give me the links, I'm tired and sad, I have no money to pay this tablet and I live in Venezuela, the things are pretty bad here.
Please, please, help me. I don't know what else to try.
Hello! So awhile ago, I decided to try to root my new phone, ensuring model and etc was correct (CPH2459, this should be the usa unlocked variant right?) annddddd... it did not turn out so well. I had a friend recommend I reset- (which I mean I don't see what that would do but I have bootloader already unlocked so..) which just led me to being stuck on the setup screen where i cant get past wifi without my phone restarting- without fail to that as well. Also like touchscreen didnt work half the time and physical keys (Power, Volume) didn't seem to respond when the device was on either (excluding for a hard restart).
I followed this guide step by step (in no way blaming those individuals) https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...guide-from-fastboot-obtain-root-more.4495801/ and my phone is now stuck in a fastboot loop.
I do wish to clarify that I am sure I followed step by step, I didn't make a backup though as the initial guide didn't present how to do so.
I'm honestly afraid to do anything more to my phone, and I really do need this to work as it just happens my other phone broke recently. Would appreciate any help so, very much, I have no idea what I'm doing and I haven't the slightest clue as to what may be wrong.
I do understand this question has been asked a bit with this phone and there are other threads, but I couldn't find my answer. So I'm hoping for some direct help.
nemmieve said:
Hello! So awhile ago, I decided to try to root my new phone, ensuring model and etc was correct (CPH2459, this should be the usa unlocked variant right?) annddddd... it did not turn out so well. I had a friend recommend I reset- (which I mean I don't see what that would do but I have bootloader already unlocked so..) which just led me to being stuck on the setup screen where i cant get past wifi without my phone restarting- without fail to that as well. Also like touchscreen didnt work half the time and physical keys (Power, Volume) didn't seem to respond when the device was on either (excluding for a hard restart).
I followed this guide step by step (in no way blaming those individuals) https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...guide-from-fastboot-obtain-root-more.4495801/ and my phone is now stuck in a fastboot loop.
I do wish to clarify that I am sure I followed step by step, I didn't make a backup though as the initial guide didn't present how to do so.
I'm honestly afraid to do anything more to my phone, and I really do need this to work as it just happens my other phone broke recently. Would appreciate any help so, very much, I have no idea what I'm doing and I haven't the slightest clue as to what may be wrong.
I do understand this question has been asked a bit with this phone and there are other threads, but I couldn't find my answer. So I'm hoping for some direct help.
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I'm guessing you noticed that the link they posted for the downloaded ota is the gn22000 model correct? yours is CPH (as i saw you stated) so i was just double-checking to make sure you didn't download the wrong variant's ota..