Greetings Programs!
I have found the recovery menu for Sony's Google TV/BluRay player!
Here are the details on how to access it (from my original post here: androidforums.[COM]/google-tv/201827-sony-google-tv-hack.html)
OK... so I found out how to get into recovery mode on the Sony Google TV/BluRay player that was released yesterday.
1.Have everything plugged into the unit except the power coord. Have the power coord in your hand.
2.Press and hold the power button and plug the unit in.
3.Continue to hold down the power button for 3 seconds after plugging it in, then release the power button.
4.Wait a couple of seconds and it will say Sony, then you will see the recovery screen.
5.After it loads, press and hold the connect button on the unit. Then follow the directions at the bottom of the screen (Press and hold ALT+ENTER) for 8 seconds/until the bottom message changes. It will change back to it saying that you have to press the CONNECT button, but your remote IS connected.
6.You can now press the numbers assigned to the commands!
WARNING: This could possibly brick your unit and could possibly void your warranty. I am not responsible for anything that happens to your device.
I am going to work on trying to find working drivers and I am going to try to use the Android SDK Tools to install some applications, or at the least try to execute some shell commands. Hopefully we can root it!
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Lets start hacking!
awesome, I will have to keep my eye on this. google TV plus angry birds would be awesome.
Looking forward to seeing this thing cracked! I'm hoping someone will be able to get a USB tuner to work on one, so those without cable or satellite will be able to get TV content without the hassle of another set-top box.
Nice.... Wonder what the possibilities are
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OK Guys, I am still working on it. Heres a video of me booting it into the recovery mode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L21guovXDsc
Thanks for the information about recovery, I tried it, and was able to get into recovery. I tried writing the logfile to USB, and it "seemed" to work, but after mounting the USB stick on my linux machine, I didn't see any files there.
I bought the Sony NSZ-GT1 so I could port my Android app Better Terminal Emulator Pro onto Google TV. I already ported it to Android-x86 in preparation for this, but seems like I could not ADB into the Google TV over Ethernet. Frustrated, I decided to take a screwdriver to my Google TV, and did a "teardown" as a result. You can see what the guts look like here:
http://www.magicandroidapps.com/wiki//index.php?title=Main_Page#Sony_NSZ-GT1_Google_TV_Teardown
Sorry the pictures are not that great, I used my Moto Droid to take them, and the lighting was terrible.
-Howard
hharte said:
Thanks for the information about recovery, I tried it, and was able to get into recovery. I tried writing the logfile to USB, and it "seemed" to work, but after mounting the USB stick on my linux machine, I didn't see any files there.
I bought the Sony NSZ-GT1 so I could port my Android app Better Terminal Emulator Pro onto Google TV. I already ported it to Android-x86 in preparation for this, but seems like I could not ADB into the Google TV over Ethernet. Frustrated, I decided to take a screwdriver to my Google TV, and did a "teardown" as a result. You can see what the guts look like here:
magicandroidapps.com
Sorry the pictures are not that great, I used my Moto Droid to take them, and the lighting was terrible.
-Howard
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ETHERNET? Hasnt anyone tried USB A to USB A cable? I've been busy all day. Gonna go get one tomorrow and figure it out for myself I guess. Can't stand that they have ALREADY corrected the hulu fix for the thing. Why shouldn't I be able to access my paid July plus account? Oh well.
Try USB a to USB a!!!!!
USB A to A will definitely not work. All of the USB ports are connected through internal SMSC 4-port hubs. There are two hubs in the unit, one in the back with 3 ports going to external connectors, and one going to the WLAN module. Up front there is another 4-port hub going to the front USB connector, and presumably to a BT module, but I didn't take mine far enough apart to be sure.
There is one large connector over near the CPU that might have some debug stuff on it.There are also about three 4-pin connectors populated, one of which might be a UART. There is also a footprint for another. Tomorrow I'll get my oscilloscope out and see if any of those pins wiggle on boot.
-Howard
hharte said:
USB A to A will definitely not work. All of the USB ports are connected through internal SMSC 4-port hubs. There are two hubs in the unit, one in the back with 3 ports going to external connectors, and one going to the WLAN module. Up front there is another 4-port hub going to the front USB connector, and presumably to a BT module, but I didn't take mine far enough apart to be sure.
There is one large connector over near the CPU that might have some debug stuff on it.There are also about three 4-pin connectors populated, one of which might be a UART. There is also a footprint for another. Tomorrow I'll get my oscilloscope out and see if any of those pins wiggle on boot.
-Howard
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Yeah, the big long/wide plug. I was looking at the inside of my box too. First day jitters. Anyway, I was also going to start looking for a serial port connection through one of those ports. Good luck and post right away if you find something!
If somene with an ethernet sniffer who has not booted their box yet can catch a sniff of the update download, it might be possible to get the update.zip URL, then we could try hacking the update and install it via recovery. This method was very popular with Android devices... but there you could get the update URL from the logcat
-Howard.
Have we not figured out how to use log copy? It doesn't seem to like anything i plugged in to copy to...
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Great job guys! My friend is going to be getting a GTV later this week, and I will try to get it from him before he boots it up. Guess I will stop trying USB A to USB A.
Will post results later tonight.
Another possibility is to try and find the kernel source. If you look in Settings, system Information, Open Source Licenses, there is a site on Google Code that is supposed to contain the GPL'd components:
http://code.google.com/p/googletv-mirrored-source/
Going there doesn't show much except one user space component, and a link to a Sony mirror site:
http://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/
I couldn't find anything useful on the Sony site, but maybe someone else will have better luck.
I'll also try plugging in a USB Serial adapter, but my expectations are pretty low that I'd be able to get a console from that. It's interesting that there are so many USB ports on the Google TV. I wonder what other USB peripherals might be supported? I can see the front port being used for a USB memory stick, and maybe one on the back for a camera, but that still leaves two unused ports. Any idea what Sony/Google might have intended them for?
-Howard
http://www.magicandroidapps.com - Home of Better Terminal Emulator Pro
hmm
I have this unit and usb keyboards and mice do work . Also iremember a rep saying the logitech cam would work with the sony blu-ray also. I think you would need to wait for the android store to open though for an app that uses it.
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I couldn't find anything useful on the Sony site, but maybe someone else will have better luck.
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Did you look here : sony.net/Products/Linux/TV/NSZ-GT1.html
That looks like it, thanks! Nice that they have minicom and busybox listed there, so there is hope that some hacking tools are preloaded on the Google TV.
-Howard
Not sure if this helps anyone or not, but i ran a port scan on my box and there are 2 ports 9551 and 9552 that are accepting TCP connections.
nmap -p - <IP address of NSZ-GT1>
result :
PORT STATE SERVICE
9551/tcp open unknown
9552/tcp open unknown
I tried to get ADB to connect to those ports but did not work.
Steps that I tried :
1) export ADBHOST=<IP address of my PC>
2) adb kill-server
3) adb devices
No ADB devices were returned
4) adb connect <IP address of Sony NSZ-GT1>:9551
5) adb shell
Got error "error: device offline"
6) repeat steps 4 and 5 except with port 9552 and got same result
I am no expert in any of this stuff so the above might just be sending someone down a rabbit hole but I figured I might share in case it might be helpful to some of the smarter people on here.
Try "adb devices" and see if it show anything.
I looked at the kernel from the Sony site:
http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/TV/NSZ-GT1.html
Here are some findings:
Linux kernel version: 2.6.23.18_nl-btv
Kernel config:
arch/i386/configs/btv_defconfig
CONFIG_USB_SMSC9500=m
Note the SMSC 9500 USB/Ethernet is one of only two loadable modules in the kernel config. Maybe this has some significance, like maybe they use a second Ethernet port for development.
-Howard
Very interesting.... I am thinking of getting a second unit to try to intercept the update.zip.... would anyone be able to tell me how I would do this?
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I plugged it into two different windows XP computers with the USB cord, but nothing shows up on my computer. I get some weird error on my phone, something like "PC connection unavailable ... blah blah blah ... idle screen ... blah blah ... close applications." I think this might be because I'm using LauncherPro. Why can't I just get a simple vanilla android build?
there are custom usb drivers, look for them in the how to root thread in android development subforum. After you dl them extract them somewhere and open up device mgr. U should see a usb device with a ? over it. Rightclick it and select update or install. Tell it that you want to select the location of the drivers and point it to where you extracted the drivers. You'll want to use the x86 ones if you have an intel 32bit winxp and the amd64 if u have an amd processor running windows xp.
OK.
Bring up your Settings pane and select Applications. In the Applications screen, select USB Settings and select Mass Storage. Now, when you connect the handset to your computer, pull down your notification bar and select USB Connected, it will bring up a prompt about mounting the volumes - press Mount. In the future you will just need to plug it in and mount the drives from the pull down menu.
You should be good to go. If not, try installing the Captivate drivers.
Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.
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OK.
Bring up your Settings pane and select Applications. In the Applications screen, select USB Settings and select Mass Storage. Now, when you connect the handset to your computer, pull down your notification bar and select USB Connected, it will bring up a prompt about mounting the volumes - press Mount. In the future you will just need to plug it in and mount the drives from the pull down menu.
You should be good to go. If not, try installing the Captivate drivers.
Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.
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Thanks! That was the ticket! Wow, am I relieved. Also, for any other newbies out there, it seems like you can just throw files at the drive and android will find them. I put mine under "SD", but I have a hunch you can just put them anywhere.
Also, I refuse to install any drivers for this phone, which is why I just used it like a generic usb drive. I honestly loved my iphone, but I hated that you had to use itunes with it. If I have to install anything on my computer to use my phone, android just lost an advantage to the iphone in my eyes.
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Also several people have had issues with plugging the Captivate into the front USB ports on their computers, and switching to a rear USB port fixed it - so give that try if you are still having issues.
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I had this same problem and there is no way I could it plug into the back so I tried the USB plugs on my monitor and thankfully that worked. I don't know why this phone was made so difficult to connect to the computer and have it recognized as storage.
lebe0024 said:
Thanks! That was the ticket! Wow, am I relieved. Also, for any other newbies out there, it seems like you can just throw files at the drive and android will find them. I put mine under "SD", but I have a hunch you can just put them anywhere.
Also, I refuse to install any drivers for this phone, which is why I just used it like a generic usb drive. I honestly loved my iphone, but I hated that you had to use itunes with it. If I have to install anything on my computer to use my phone, android just lost an advantage to the iphone in my eyes.
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Yeah, I installed them trying to figure the damn thing about but I suspect they may only be needed if you want to tether via USB - not sure though.
PhonePhun said:
I had this same problem and there is no way I could it plug into the back so I tried the USB plugs on my monitor and thankfully that worked. I don't know why this phone was made so difficult to connect to the computer and have it recognized and storage.
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Weird, isn't it? It's inconvenient to have the cable in the rear, but it was the only way I could get everything to play nice. I'll have to pick up some spare cables for the charger, work, etc so I don't have to reach back there and pull it out when I need it elsewhere. Not a bad idea anyway.
I've been searching for days for an answer to this and I can't find it. The biggest issue is that every time I plug my TF101 into my computer, I get Windows' wonderful "One of the USB devices attaching to this computer has malfunctioned" message. I get this using the OEM cable and brand new after-market cables. I've found a lot of different forums with similar problems but my symptoms list is different. Here's what's going on:
* The tablet charges just find through all of the cables despite not connecting properly through the computer.
* The dock (keyboard) works without issue and charges properly.
* Flash drives work properly in the USB ports on the dock.
* Android phone (Razr MAXX HD) recognizes that it's plugged into a device, the tablet briefly acknowledges a device (quarter of a second) but then stops reading the phone is plugged in.
* Maybe of note or maybe another issue, it doesn't want to connect to bluetooth devices, either. It recognizes them but refuses to connect.
* Everything is stock.
I've tried a hard reset and deleting every driver associated with the device properly installed and not. I don't have another computer to plug it into so I can't test that. I fear it may be a hardware issue but I don't want to resign to hardware issues but rather definitively know that the issue is a hardware issue.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
- Robby
Linux emulated through VirtualBox, see if that detects it.
Thing O Doom said:
Linux emulated through VirtualBox, see if that detects it.
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Tried it through VirtualBox with Ubuntu and another system (mine is Windows 7 Pro, the other system is Windows XP Pro). No dice on any of them.
My thoughts - bad USB cable.
You probably will say - BUT IT STILL CHARGES....
Yeah, mine does that too. But, one of the pins needed for computer connections is shorted. I used my cable 3 weeks ago to ADB, then last week nothing (trying to ADB to do the Ubuntu Touch resolution fix). Got a new OEM cable (and wall wart) from Office Depot, all better.
Virtualbox/ESXi/VMWare etc... I've had problems with all of them even in USB bridging mode. Nothing beats native.
Make sure the right drivers are installed; remove (not deinstall) completely the current ones as they may be corrupted and redownload ASUS Pad PC Suite from Asus' support site for your OS version, I believe it provides more recent Asus drivers (not 100% sure).
Also try the Universal 'naked' drivers for adb, I always have used those and they work flawlessly, and I included them in my peri tool because of this..
Here's where I'm at:
Don't have access to another OEM cable (hopefully fixing that in the next couple of days) so I can't test that. I did, however, install Ubuntu onto my system natively, plugged it in, and got zero response from the system using every cable that I have. I will buy that drivers may cause erratic behavior and such but not having the system recognize that a device was even plugged in makes me doubt the driver issue.
Thank you all for responses. I'll get another OEM cable and cross my fingers that solves the problem.
Just FYI, I know it's not convenient because it takes a month to get it, but I bought this cable and it works fine for data and charge. No need for an overpriced Asus branded one.
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I've been searching for days for an answer to this and I can't find it. The biggest issue is that every time I plug my TF101 into my computer, I get Windows' wonderful "One of the USB devices attaching to this computer has malfunctioned" message...
- Robby
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I've run into this problem with another device on my PC. Turned out to be a double whammy: the USB port on the PC acted up; and the driver for that device was partly corrupt. Tried it on another USB port to find out. It's not always the cable.
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I've run into this problem with another device on my PC. Turned out to be a double whammy: the USB port on the PC acted up; and the driver for that device was partly corrupt. Tried it on another USB port to find out. It's not always the cable.
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3 ports later I decided it wasn't a port issue (but I do appreciate the sentiment; I've been there with devices in the past).
Lethe6 said:
Just FYI, I know it's not convenient because it takes a month to get it, but I bought this cable and it works fine for data and charge. No need for an overpriced Asus branded one.
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I'm gunna try it; the worst that happens is I have another charging cable when I (inevitably) lose the three that I have now :fingers-crossed:
presbypenguin said:
I'm gunna try it; the worst that happens is I have another charging cable when I (inevitably) lose the three that I have now :fingers-crossed:
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I had the exact problem lol, I thought my cable went bad, I order another and threw that old cable away... damn what a bum, all it was was just the driver? Not sure, but when it does find the drivers and tried to install it, after installing the drivers knocked my wireless Ethernet off and disable too.
Still no dice
One, thanks everyone who has tried to help this out. I'm not tossing out "Thanks" yet because nothing has worked but I am thankful that people have tried.
Two, here's what I've done thus far that hasn't worked.
* Uninstalled and reinstalled (including fully deleting) every driver known to work with this device (including naked drivers). No dice.
* Uninstalled the driver while it was still plugged in and scanned for device changes. No dice (but this got me the closest; it "successfully" installed an "Unknown Device" and had me restart the computer).
* Used peri and hoped it would magically work after it installed the Naked drivers. No dice.
* Went through "[GUIDE] Getting ADB Setup; An Idiots' proof guide on getting ADB working for Rooting!" (no linking for me yet) hoping I missed something when I was installing. No dice.
* Installed Ubuntu and tried from the other operating system. No dice.
* Plugged into a Windows XP computer. No dice.
* Purchased the recommended cable. No dice.
* Prayed that it would work. No dice.
I'm stuck. I thought about sending it to Asus to have them repair it but I've not heard wonderful things about their repair service and I can't be without it for longer than a couple of days. It just frustrates me that Windows knows I've plugged something it but it simply refuses to recognize it, like it's taunting me into staring uselessly into a computer screen for hours without any solution (and hampering the work that actually means something to my life/career/marriage/etc.)
Any other thoughts? The only thing I haven't tried it is installing the drivers to plug it into my fiance's Mac to see if it will magically recognize it. I just wish I knew for sure it was a bad port on the bottom so I knew that I had to send it in to get fixed...
Thanks again!
- Robby
Backstory:
My buddy bought 3 ASUS tf300t tablets online with broken screens. Unbeknownst to us they have this weird firmware issue because ASUS is lame and doesn't care about backwards compatibility. I've been trying to fix these tablets for a few weeks now and I'm just spinning myself in circles and getting frustrated. 1 of them is rooted with CWM recovery so that's the one I'm working on.
The issue:
According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2091233&page=11 I can simply adb into the device copy the proper firmware to it's set directory, delete the old firmware, run the firmware update command and touch will be restored.
So how does one use adb without usb debugging enabled?
I tried through CWM, adb worked, but I can't get superuser to work, nor could I get the touch_firmware_update command to work.
So I downloaded the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893714&highlight=root stock rom with usb debugging enabled. I flashed that rom and my computer brings up the normal TF300t drivers for MTP.
ADB doesn't see any devices...
I tried manually replacing those drivers with the ADB drivers from google because I'm a touch retarded and I thought it would work. My mom says that I'm super smart and really handsome, but I feel like she lies to me.
There's just so many new terms and I've spent so many hours on it that frankly, if search did bring up the answer, I would miss it.
I'd appreciate any help, and if you help me fix it, I'll make a youtube video thanking you in the creepiest way possible.
-Thanks
duffskeeze said:
Backstory:
My buddy bought 3 ASUS tf300t tablets online with broken screens. Unbeknownst to us they have this weird firmware issue because ASUS is lame and doesn't care about backwards compatibility. I've been trying to fix these tablets for a few weeks now and I'm just spinning myself in circles and getting frustrated. 1 of them is rooted with CWM recovery so that's the one I'm working on.
The issue:
According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2091233&page=11 I can simply adb into the device copy the proper firmware to it's set directory, delete the old firmware, run the firmware update command and touch will be restored.
So how does one use adb without usb debugging enabled?
I tried through CWM, adb worked, but I can't get superuser to work, nor could I get the touch_firmware_update command to work.
So I downloaded the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893714&highlight=root stock rom with usb debugging enabled. I flashed that rom and my computer brings up the normal TF300t drivers for MTP.
ADB doesn't see any devices...
I tried manually replacing those drivers with the ADB drivers from google because I'm a touch retarded and I thought it would work. My mom says that I'm super smart and really handsome, but I feel like she lies to me.
There's just so many new terms and I've spent so many hours on it that frankly, if search did bring up the answer, I would miss it.
I'd appreciate any help, and if you help me fix it, I'll make a youtube video thanking you in the creepiest way possible.
-Thanks
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Short of investing 60 bucks on a docking keyboard, your best bet would be to get a usb dongle that allows you to plug in a keyboard so you can be sure debugging is ticked. Otherwise, if it's enabled and you've installed the proper drivers, Windows should see your device. From there, it's a breeze, if the hardware is good. You don't have to do Youtube. Just stop crying, Gives me the creeps.
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Short of investing 60 bucks on a docking keyboard, your best bet would be to get a usb dongle that allows you to plug in a keyboard so you can be sure debugging is ticked. Otherwise, if it's enabled and you've installed the proper drivers, Windows should see your device. From there, it's a breeze, if the hardware is good. You don't have to do Youtube. Just stop crying, Gives me the creeps.
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Yep, your only for sure way would be a USB OTG adapter or a dock. Heres the adapter in the US for 10 bucks shipped on eBay. This will let you use any regular USB mouse instead of the touch screen
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-to-OTG-...ablet_eReader_Accessories&hash=item41700957d7
Heres another for 4 more bucks that gives you Two USB ports :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dual-40-Pin...ablet_eReader_Accessories&hash=item3cce7dd4c8
Also you can try giving this a shot ....http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
Its an app that pushes your phones screen to your desktop so you can use a keyboard and mouse on it. Not sure if it will work for you since im sure it needs debugging on, but also worth a shot. I use MyMobiler on mine but it needs to be set up on the device itself first. This looks plug and play but says it has slow refresh rates.
As far as the ADB drivers, Im using the universal drivers found here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2139767 and everything works as it should . Try those out
Oh and one more thing.. You might be able to use fastboot to push a touchpanel firmware zip. This is a different device, but you could try it :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159863
pyraxiate said:
Yep, your only for sure way would be a USB OTG adapter or a dock. Heres the adapter in the US for 10 bucks shipped on eBay. This will let you use any regular USB mouse instead of the touch screen
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-to-OTG-...ablet_eReader_Accessories&hash=item41700957d7
Heres another for 4 more bucks that gives you Two USB ports :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dual-40-Pin...ablet_eReader_Accessories&hash=item3cce7dd4c8
Also you can try giving this a shot ....http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
Its an app that pushes your phones screen to your desktop so you can use a keyboard and mouse on it. Not sure if it will work for you since im sure it needs debugging on, but also worth a shot. I use MyMobiler on mine but it needs to be set up on the device itself first. This looks plug and play but says it has slow refresh rates.
As far as the ADB drivers, Im using the universal drivers found here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2139767 and everything works as it should . Try those out
Oh and one more thing.. You might be able to use fastboot to push a touchpanel firmware zip. This is a different device, but you could try it :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159863
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I gave up, but, I appreciate it. I even ended up buying the adapter, ended up bricking the tablets.
Hi,
I'm trying to learn about serial communication with devices from an Android tablet via USB host mode. I have a tablet, I have the devices, I have the apps... they just won't talk. It's most likely something to do with the firmware on my odd tablet, or maybe I'm just missing something stupid.
The tablet:
SUPERPAD FLYTOUCH
10.2" >24GB< ANDROID 4.0 TABLET A10 1.5Ghz CPU | 1GB RAM
"About this Tablet" says:
Model: BC1003
Android 4.04
Baseband ver 1.5rc4
Kernel 3.0.8 [email protected] #2 Mon Aug 6 15:23:31 CST 2012
There are 2 USB-A ports on this device. One has a physical switch that goes from device to host mode, comes with a male-male cable for attaching to a PC. The other port is host only. I can connect a USB thumb drive and it mounts just fine, shows up in the file manager, no problems. Same for a USB keyboard. It powers any USB device I've plugged into it.
The problem:
It works well enough for most things. But, I've now run into two applications that won't use the host USB port on the thing. Both seem to want to do basic serial communication. At this point, those 2 apps are about the only things I actually want to do with it, so I'm willing to experiment.
I have a USB oscilloscope that comes with an Android app. The app installs and runs fine, but it won't recognize the hardware usb device I've plugged in. Annoying, but I don't really need it. I've recently purchased some digital scales(DROs) for my lathe/mill. There's an Android app that interfaces these scales to an Arduino device via USB. Installs fine, won't connect to the Arduino. Okay, now this is starting to get annoying. Also, for what it's worth, the Android app for doing general Arduino stuff didn't work either.
So, the USB hardware works enough to connect a USB thumb drive or keyboard but the firmware won't use said hardware to do what I want.
The questions:
Am I doing something wrong? Is there an app I can install that enables serial communication over USB host mode? Am I missing something stupid?
Is there any other firmware I can run that will allow this communication? I think I've got the Windows utility that will allow me to flash the rom. I've watched the youtube vids on dis-assembly so I can pull the internal tf/sdcard and make a full dd backup. I'm assuming it contains the roms and everything else. Actually, I'm thinking about just pulling said card and replacing it with a smaller one for experimenting. Will I still be able to flash it using the windows LiveSuite utility even with a blank card inserted?
At this point, I'm willing to play. I mean, it's still useful enough to be careful, but I'm willing to take some chances and put a little work into it. If I can get it running with the DRO software while talking over USB to the Arduino, I'd sacrifice everything else. GPS, battery life, wifi, screen rotation, sound, whatever. I'd just bolt the thing next to the mill and that's that. Failing that, I'll put it back to stock and stick it on the fridge for my wife to look up recipes, Yeah, poor tablet... motor oil and metal swarf or cooking oil and flour. No happy retirement for this tablet, sitting in a drawer gathering dust.
Any hints, links, recommendations, or directions appreciated.
David...
So my new S7 's screen is completely dead. I can see the soft buttons light up and I've been trying to swipe but I can't. I was going to try to screen mirror to my Fire TV (by looking at a vid and hopefully hitting the right places to get it to connect) but the screen isn't passing any input.
So my next thought was to get a USB OTG cable and a mouse, although I have no idea how fast the pointer will move making guess the steps to connect really hard. I was also looking at chrome extension Vysor, but again, it need debugging enabled (which isn't) on the phone for it to work. Apparently sammy discontinued MHL support so there's no way to just plug in to in a TV with a cable,
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can force access on the phone to get a backup? Again, I need something that will let me see the screen, preferably in as little steps as possible (the more menus I have to navigate, the less likely I'll be able to blindly fumble my way through)
Thanks!
Anyone?````
same situation here, not much resources out there. Is your phone still connected to your wifi? mine is not so I can't get google play to install apps to it.
If you can though...
Samsung SideSync was recommended on another forum, similar to vysor but might work wirelessly for you
Good luck, and please let me know if you find a solution. I might by vysor to try wireless (they haven't answered me whether or not wireless version by passes the need for usb debugging)
phatphat said:
So my new S7 's screen is completely dead. I can see the soft buttons light up and I've been trying to swipe but I can't. I was going to try to screen mirror to my Fire TV (by looking at a vid and hopefully hitting the right places to get it to connect) but the screen isn't passing any input.
So my next thought was to get a USB OTG cable and a mouse, although I have no idea how fast the pointer will move making guess the steps to connect really hard. I was also looking at chrome extension Vysor, but again, it need debugging enabled (which isn't) on the phone for it to work. Apparently sammy discontinued MHL support so there's no way to just plug in to in a TV with a cable,
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can force access on the phone to get a backup? Again, I need something that will let me see the screen, preferably in as little steps as possible (the more menus I have to navigate, the less likely I'll be able to blindly fumble my way through)
Thanks!
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If it's turning on (except by the screen) you can use Smart Switch or Kies to recover your data.
http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/kies
OR You can use FIND MY MOBILE if you registered a Samsung account to unlock remotely and use USB.
https://findmymobile.samsung.com