Hello all,
I recently purchased Lenovo Ideapad A1-07 (16 GB) in Shanghai. I am trying to flash international ROM on it by following these steps.
1. Download the file, rename it to "update.zip".
2. Copy the file to the root of micro SD card.
3. Hold "Vol-" button, then power on. You will see a android logo and a status bar.
4. After downloading the ROM, A1 is turned off itself.
5. Power it on and you will found that the animation after the lenovo logo is different. It takes longer time in first power on. Then you may find the language is changed to Japanese/ Chinese. You have to change it back to English in the option menu.
6. Now you can have an A1 with google apps!
When i connect my tablet to my Laptop i am not able to find 'root' folder in which we have to copy the downloaded international ROM file. Does this mean that i have to root my tablet ?
Also the step 2 above says that the downloaded file is to be copied to micro SD card. Does this mean an external micro SD card? Since my tablet has 16GB space i am not using any external card.
Please help.
Regards,
Jimmey
Can any one please help me with this ?
I copied the "update.zip" to my SD card and the external MicroSD card as well. For the life of me I could not figure it out...I tried over and over. However, I pulled a total "duh" when I realized it was named "update.zip.zip" Please make sure it is named correctly (update.zip) and enter into recovery...actually, it will automatically update and not enter into recovery.
BTW, did you download the USB drivers? You need those for the A1 to be recognized.
Please read the first post and see the links for USB drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355319
Hi Mike,
I had not installed ADB drivers but i did that y'day; after installation i execute the command 'adb devices' on the command prompt and its showing my device.
The file is named correctly as update.zip. I copied the file update.zip to the root folder (which has other folders like Android, DCIM, download, LOST.DIR, removable_sdcard, etc) then i hold the vol- and power on button. It shows Lenovo on the screen then it shuts down.
My suggestion is to try the vol+ button instead of the vol-. Worked for me and for someone who posted on a German Lenovo support forum.
BTW, the ADB drivers are not needed for file transfer, you just have to click the "enable usb storage" popup for that. You do need the ADB drivers if you want to root your device, but installing them would not hinder normal file transfer.
Good luck!
digitri
ROM FILE?
where from i can download ideapad a1 rom file?
http://download.lenovo.com/slates/a1/OTA/
Link Not working , any other link plz share i want lenovo A1 Firmware,
Hi im attempting to flash my box with the latest RK3118 Q7 firmware, im currently using a 2013 build.
I am unable to flash it using the RKbatch tool as even though the drivers are installed the tool will not pick up my box as connected. (Abd command shows my device as connected with no issues)
Device manager shows the device as rk31sdk under USB devices after installing drivers (device is in recovery mode) However Batch tool will still not see my device
Therefore I have attempted to flash using the recovery menu and zipping my .img file.
Below are the steps I follow:
Loaded a fat32 formatted with my zipped img file (no other files on card)
wipe data/factory reset>update image from external storage
I then choose my zipped img file and the screen shows verifying update package, but then shows installation aborted. (Tried 2 separate zipped images)
I can boot from the backup fine, however I need the 2015 image as my build was so old i was no longer able to download from the play store.
Hi,
is there any way to enable file transfer to from PC to X820 directly via TWRP?
PC cannot detect phone storage when plugged in after running TWRP.
I tried official TWRP any many others but in none file transfer works. I want to skip turning on the phone to transfer the file to the phone memory and transfer it directly via TWRP, like in many other models. But in X820 TWRP just doesnt install the file transfer driver and PC does not detect it...
Thanks in advance
In TWRP go to Mount and in the right corner there is a toggle "Enable MTP". Once active it will show "Disable MTP". Check if this solves your problem. Also it's better to have TWRP 5.8 TeaMSpaiN if you are on 016s or above.
I have tried to revert back my Oneplus from Nougat based ROM and custom kernel to the last Oxygen OS. I am using TWRP 3.1.1-0. I have downloaded and transferred the zip file containing Oxygen OS to the Downloads section and I have wiped, the cache and the system partition without making a backup and when I have tried to install the Oxygen OS it reports that: "Updater process ended with ERROR:7. Error installing zip file" . I have connected the phone to an USB cable but it doesn't appear as an external drive in My Computer so I am unable to transfer some old backup I have on my PC. I have tried to boot into bootloader and execute adb devices, but it is not recognized there as well. As a matter of fact when I have booted into the bootloader my PC installed some drivers and now the phone appears in Devices and Printers and is listed as Android as Unspecified category, but not present again under My Computer. Is this normal? What can I do to recover my device? How can I transfer some files between my PC and the phone?
Hello!
I have recently bought this phone with installed custom ROM and I wanted to install another one. And then I downloaded the ROM and formatted the phone from TWRP and I just connected it to the PC and there was nothing.. I searched for hours I tried so many adb drivers, usb drivers, etc and I couldn't detect the phone in the ADB powershell nor transfer any files. The only progress I managed to do is side loading it.. The ADB detected it and then I tried adb push (the exact name of the file) /sdcard and after that (error: closed) appeared.. I think the main reason is because before I formatted the phone I didn't allow the usb debuging but apparently you can't allow it from the recovery... I don't have any type-c OTGs laying around.. How in the world am I supposed to transfer the ROM to my phone? Please help me! Thank you!
way2easy said:
Hello!
I have recently bought this phone with installed custom ROM and I wanted to install another one. And then I downloaded the ROM and formatted the phone from TWRP and I just connected it to the PC and there was nothing.. I searched for hours I tried so many adb drivers, usb drivers, etc and I couldn't detect the phone in the ADB powershell nor transfer any files. The only progress I managed to do is side loading it.. The ADB detected it and then I tried adb push (the exact name of the file) /sdcard and after that (error: closed) appeared.. I think the main reason is because before I formatted the phone I didn't allow the usb debuging but apparently you can't allow it from the recovery... I don't have any type-c OTGs laying around.. How in the world am I supposed to transfer the ROM to my phone? Please help me! Thank you!
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Okey, I just managed to use adb push without side loading just in the twrp and I don't know how to delete the post so excuse me for the spam!
Heyyo, I'm the maintainer of official builds of TWRP for the LeEco Le Max 2.
Usually for TWRP it can sometimes mess up USB mode if the device is plugged into a PC before it fully boots to TWRP.
Windows for some reason messes up the driver install for MTP as well. Usually of this happened you will need to manually go into device manager and select update driver on it and manually select the driver to install like this:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nRYfpAZ0i50GuM512