I seem to have temporarily bricked my gtab. When attempting to nvflash restore all goes well until I unzip the .bat file that is needed. When unzipped it seems to change the format of the file and it won't run. I've done a search on this and have heard of other people having this problem so I know it is solvable, but I just can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
deadeye,
Roebeet's original 5.0.0 thread in Developer Forum has a bunch of info as well as several links to posts others of us have put together about dealing with this problem.
There also is another post near the top of Developer I put together on the USB .zip files needed and where to get them.
And I know I have written a bunch of help messages with detailed info to other
folks with your problem.
Check these out and let us know if you have questions. I'm sure it can be brought back, but may take some research and learning.
Rev
got it
Thanks for your response!!!
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Hello there,
This is my very first post, having just purchased a G Tablet yesterday. I don't have a problem with modding the tablet. i just want to make sure that I follow the proper steps. sorry if this is already posted somewhere. There is just SO much info here, it's hard for my small brain to wrap around it.
1) Install clockwork recovery
2) Install uodate.zip(?) for Tnt
30 instructions for installing the above.
Is that it?
What would i need to revert to "stock" in case I muck it up?
I am excited to do this tomorrow, so any guidance will be greatly appreciated. I am in awe of the talented people here.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
no, root it first.
google 'g tablet rags'
i am with you...i wish there was a "install tnt light for dummies"
....ive commented on this elsewhere and never get a good answer....
like
1. turn on gtablet that you just bought.
2. now push the home button
3. now push the blah blah button
4. now you should see the giggle button
5. push the giggle button...
6. goto you laptop and download gigle 5.0 from this www. giggle 5.0com
this way an idiot like me could do it!!
none of the " zip file 2.3 then encrypt 3.4 and backflash 5.3 to a sd micros next install .509 giggly zip to kernel text into a gigabyte flash drive root file"
seriously wtheck is all of that! lol i really don;t get it but would like the update
Perhaps this might help...
http://www.youtube.com/user/ehunyadi
Very easy, between
Searching this site
Searching Google
Searching Youtube
You will find all the answers. It's not difficult if you do the research, maybe a bit scary but not difficult.
mlinder1958 said:
Hello there,
This is my very first post, having just purchased a G Tablet yesterday. I don't have a problem with modding the tablet. i just want to make sure that I follow the proper steps. sorry if this is already posted somewhere. There is just SO much info here, it's hard for my small brain to wrap around it.
1) Install clockwork recovery
2) Install uodate.zip(?) for Tnt
30 instructions for installing the above.
Is that it?
What would i need to revert to "stock" in case I muck it up?
I am excited to do this tomorrow, so any guidance will be greatly appreciated. I am in awe of the talented people here.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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That is the order. The first page of the stickied threads are usually all the instruction you need. They are the ones with the thumb tack symbol. Once you do it once and realize the ease you will off and running
Thank you all for your input. I appreciate it.
I was all ready to dive into it this morning, when something told me to make sure everything works first (I just bought it Thursday).
Well, it appears the USB port DOES NOT WORK. I plugged in a USB Flash, a USB card reader - no worky. I called tech support and they said reformat the USB flash to FAT32, boot with it plugged in. Still no work.
So I have a bad unit. So back to Office Depot it goes. DARN.
Bad luck!
Mark
Hey guys. Since this is the place I found every ounce of help that I needed to effectively unbrick and install the best Android version I have seen to date, I thought I would share my results as well as pass forward the work I did to help save some other poor guy a little bit of time. What I have here is a .zip containing NVFlash with a modified batch script to flash ClockworkMod into the GTablet. You just need to install the correct drivers on your PC, and when you boot you tablet, hold down the - (minus) key along with the power button. Not the + (plus) key, but yes the minus key. This will put it into a seperate boot mode that you can then use to run the NVFlash.bat batch script. I have the script set to install "image9" which is actually CWM, just renamed per the script. This will install CWM into a currently bricked, frozen, melted or melting Gtab. Once you get to this point, you probably know how to boot into the CWM recovery kernel (Power and +). Next you will find the boot images for both VEGan Ginger and Gtab Honeycomb next to the NVFlash stuff. First install VEGan, then lather, rinse repeat with Honeycomb. Make sure you follow the other instructions found in this site for completing this process, just like I did. Even I had this process fail over and over again until it finally worked, so if you start boot looping just do it all again. it makes no sense, but it eventually works. Just keep repeating and looking over the other forums here and IT WILL WORK. The trick here is, just get CWM installed. Once you are there, you're golden. Make sure that you rename the .zip files containing the images and all that in them as update.zip before you move them to your tablet, and then remove the old one out before you stick the next one in. If anyone has any questions, just message me. I am happy to help
UPDATE: I wasn't able to upload the main zip file to this site, but probably because it's almost half a gig. So I sent it to MegaUpload, so you can pull it from there.
UPDATE UPDATE: Apparently since this is my first thread posting, I can't post outside links.. LOL. Ok, so I guess if you message me, I can send you the download link. Well hey, at least I tried. Thanks again to everyone that posted the information that I needed. Hopefully I can be of help to someone else.
I did attach the windows drivers that you will need however, so please feel free to grab those below.
jamtab said:
Hey guys. Since this is the place I found every ounce of help that I needed to effectively unbrick and install the best Android version I have seen to date, I thought I would share my results as well as pass forward the work I did to help save some other poor guy a little bit of time. What I have here is a .zip containing NVFlash with a modified batch script to flash ClockworkMod into the GTablet. You just need to install the correct drivers on your PC, and when you boot you tablet, hold down the - (minus) key along with the power button. Not the + (plus) key, but yes the minus key. This will put it into a seperate boot mode that you can then use to run the NVFlash.bat batch script. I have the script set to install "image9" which is actually CWM, just renamed per the script. This will install CWM into a currently bricked, frozen, melted or melting Gtab. Once you get to this point, you probably know how to boot into the CWM recovery kernel (Power and +). Next you will find the boot images for both VEGan Ginger and Gtab Honeycomb next to the NVFlash stuff. First install VEGan, then lather, rinse repeat with Honeycomb. Make sure you follow the other instructions found in this site for completing this process, just like I did. Even I had this process fail over and over again until it finally worked, so if you start boot looping just do it all again. it makes no sense, but it eventually works. Just keep repeating and looking over the other forums here and IT WILL WORK. The trick here is, just get CWM installed. Once you are there, you're golden. Make sure that you rename the .zip files containing the images and all that in them as update.zip before you move them to your tablet, and then remove the old one out before you stick the next one in. If anyone has any questions, just message me. I am happy to help
UPDATE: I wasn't able to upload the main zip file to this site, but probably because it's almost half a gig. So I sent it to MegaUpload, so you can pull it from there.
UPDATE UPDATE: Apparently since this is my first thread posting, I can't post outside links.. LOL. Ok, so I guess if you message me, I can send you the download link. Well hey, at least I tried. Thanks again to everyone that posted the information that I needed. Hopefully I can be of help to someone else.
I did attach the windows drivers that you will need however, so please feel free to grab those below.
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Jamtab,
I am in the same situation you described regarding your GTab! Could you email me a way to download the unbrick and update package? I have wrestled with this over the weekend and after trying 1000 different forum posts suggestions, your experience is identical to my problem and as such, your solution would most likely work for me...
Thanks, Mike
Dr. Michael L. McCrimmon
[email protected]
Ok, I admit up front I am an idiot and don't know what I am doing!
So I deleted that file, and even though I have it backed up, TB just hangs every time I want to restore it. If someone has a file I can download, and can give me clear directions as to how to reinstall it, I would be eternally grateful, as I realize after some reading of threads, etc, that that file actually controls ALL calendars. It's obviously a system file. I have Root Explorer, and I'm not sure how to even use that program. Please ask any questions I haven't answered here, and hopefully some kind soul can walk me through this. The package name is com.android.providers.calendar. My current phone/ROM is SGH-T769, Android 4.0.4
Thanks in advance,
Totally inept uesay
uesay said:
Ok, I admit up front I am an idiot and don't know what I am doing!
So I deleted that file, and even though I have it backed up, TB just hangs every time I want to restore it. If someone has a file I can download, and can give me clear directions as to how to reinstall it, I would be eternally grateful, as I realize after some reading of threads, etc, that that file actually controls ALL calendars. It's obviously a system file. I have Root Explorer, and I'm not sure how to even use that program. Please ask any questions I haven't answered here, and hopefully some kind soul can walk me through this. The package name is com.android.providers.calendar. My current phone/ROM is SGH-T769, Android 4.0.4
Thanks in advance,
Totally inept uesay
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Hello. I met you on IRC, my nick was "Potatoes".
Anyway, I saw your message after you quit. I'll try to walk you through fixing this.
First up, Try to follow this guide.
If that doesn't work, Use this guide. You can get the stock firmware here. You need an account, but it is free to create one.
Good luck!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! It's fixed!!!!! I had to go the Odin route, but it worked, and my calendar is back, YAYY!!
-uesay, much relieved
So last night, i was hoping to learn some linux and i was trying to install it on my android device. I also switched to linux on my home pc and i tried using odin with wine with no luck and don't really see a point in trading os's again just to fix my phone right now, heh. also i tried using heimdall but it was slightly confusing and every time i tried uploading a img or tar.gz it would say firmware.xml is missing from the package. Uhm i also tried installing it from TWRP and get the error failed to map file 'external_sd/123.zip' error installing zip file '/external_sd/123.zip'. also i think i need to install the pit considering everything i think i've been messing with it for about 12 hours and figured it was time to ask for a little bit of help? i'm slightly confused on what to do in this situation if anybody has some knowledge to share. thank you
edit: i got a os to load; but now it just freezes the loading screen and reboots back to the beginning. also the phone is saving files on like a medium drive.. like i can see the sd drive, and the physical storage but for some reason the phone is saving files on "/".
edit: i got heimdall working but everytime i try to load a tar.gz into it it says Firmware.xml is missing
edit: well i found literature on it and about it, if anybody could help me though? i can't find the bin files for my phone?? github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/blob/86b7be8329fc5e14e016968b6b1bf22a6ef821d1/Linux/README
edit: have been working on this for a good bit of time now. i'm very confused at the moment, i don't understand if i need all those bin files meaning i saw videos and they where only running 3 of them, not that i can find those files but still /shrug anybody?
go into twrp, advanced, file manager, internal storage, select the android folder, hit the checkmark once youre in it, select delete, swipe to confirm. Then go up a level until you see the external storage and do the same process with the android folder on the external storage, wipe caches and reboot
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also, dont flash a pit file unless your partition table is messed up. its not recommended nor necessary. if all else fails, you can get the stock OK4 tar.md5 file from sammobile.com/firmwares and flash it in odin. not sure why youre using heimdall in linux as there isnt really an advantage to do so. The only real advantage in linux is the terminal support. (there are several other places that the tarballs are hosted, but sammobile is where they originate. idoneapps.com has links to them too after you register, but their downloads are about 10 times faster than sammobiles, literally)
appreciate the help bud. i ended just borrowing my neighbors laptop and flashing it with odin. but if anybody comes across this and is willing to explain that to me, how to use haeimdall i would really appreciate it. thank you for you time
zzremix said:
appreciate the help bud. i ended just borrowing my neighbors laptop and flashing it with odin. but if anybody comes across this and is willing to explain that to me, how to use haeimdall i would really appreciate it. thank you for you time
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no problem man! thats what we are all here for! at least some of us, i should say. I stumbled across a post today that was from about a month ago that had some dude flaming on a guy for an honest question. He basically said that since youre obviously not an expert, im not gonna waste my time explaining it to you. Im thinking "if anyone is an expert, why would they be asking questions?" kinda ticked me off
gotta learn sometime bud heh, people are special man, but yeah i do appreciate it.
I just want to add, if anyone stumbles on this, and has trouble getting
G900PVPU1ANE5
G900PVPU1BOA6
G900PVPU3BOK4
G900PVPU3CPCA
From sammibile or slow hosting, I am willing to put the unmolested MD5 tarball on a dvd and mail it out.
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I just want to add, if anyone stumbles on this, and has trouble getting
G900PVPU1ANE5
G900PVPU3BOK4
G900PVPU3CPCA
From sammibile or slow hosting, I am willing to put the unmolested MD5 tarball on a dvd and mail it out.
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Very slow hosting. Idoneapps.com has very fast hosting fyi
Hey all!
A coworker gave me their old G Tablet months ago, and the only thing I kept finding was that it was very hard to find all of the tools needed to modify the thing. So many download links are down, etc. I just wanted to post these on here.
I will take them down if I'm stepping on anyone's toes. I will not help you troubleshoot. I am not responsible for any harm caused by the things provided here, and I cannot claim that they came from reputable sources because I can't even remember from where or when I downloaded them.
NVFlash notes:
I've included the drivers because they were harder to find. They're in usbpcdriver. I can't be bothered to reinstall them to find out which you need because frankly I don't care and you only have two or three options. Good luck.
By default nvflash_gtablet.bat flashes the files in its own directory. Just copy the files into where it's located.
The bootloader is contained on part9.img. If you want to flash CWM you will need to replace part9.img with clockworkmod.img for your particular bootloader. Just rename clockworkmod.img part9.img.
Hope this helps if anyone goes around looking to modify their device. Once again, please do contact me if you would prefer your work to be hard to find.
DOWNLOAD
PiArc said:
Hey all!
A coworker gave me their old G Tablet months ago, and the only thing I kept finding was that it was very hard to find all of the tools needed to modify the thing. So many download links are down, etc. I just wanted to post these on here.
I will take them down if I'm stepping on anyone's toes. I will not help you troubleshoot. I am not responsible for any harm caused by the things provided here, and I cannot claim that they came from reputable sources because I can't even remember from where or when I downloaded them.
NVFlash notes:
I've included the drivers because they were harder to find. They're in usbpcdriver. I can't be bothered to reinstall them to find out which you need because frankly I don't care and you only have two or three options. Good luck.
By default nvflash_gtablet.bat flashes the files in its own directory. Just copy the files into where it's located.
The bootloader is contained on part9.img. If you want to flash CWM you will need to replace part9.img with clockworkmod.img for your particular bootloader. Just rename clockworkmod.img part9.img.
Hope this helps if anyone goes around looking to modify their device. Once again, please do contact me if you would prefer your work to be hard to find.
DOWNLOAD
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I went looking through all my old files after I found my old G-tab. It was running barebones, stock android from viewsonic, and NOTHING worked anymore. Couldn't even browse the web or use youtube.
I found multiple custom ROMS (branch 1.2 firmware), stock ROMs (branch 1.2, don't have any 1.1 stuff, sorry!), along with TeamDRHs 350m partition prep file, NVflash, and USB drivers for Windows (can be found in the teamDRH 350 Prep folder). Everything you could possibly need or want to get your g-tablet back up and running again. I even used archive.org to look up teamdrh.com and gtablet for dummies old websites; so I could create instruction manuals for myself and those who need them. I just copy-pasted their how-to posts into word documents.
I was bummed I couldn't find MOST of these files ANYWHERE on the web. I was horribly surprised they were not even attached to the original posts here on xda. Maybe the get auto-deleted after a certain period of time or the original posts had links to their own website instead, sigh.
I hope these stay for a long time to come but if not, I have these files stored on 2 mechanical HDDs that I occasionally boot up to make sure they stay working. If anyone ever needs them, send me a DM. Hope this helps. Leave a comment with the ROM you decide to go with! Personally, I'm going with TeamDRH JB 5.2 as it is the 'newest' ROM I have. Hoping to get playstore and browser support using it at the very least. I'd just like to use my tablet as a web browsing/video streaming device again.