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Cannot refresh or reinstall Windows RT. Insert media, missing files error.

So I want to refresh my Windows 8 RT tablet but I get the error: "Insert Media. Some files are missing. Your Windows installation or recovery media will provide these files."
I checked the recovery partition and it is healthy and 4 gigs in size. I can't even remove everything and reinstall. Same error.
Maybe there is a way to access this hidden system partition and manually execute the install or backup.
Any help please?

Try to create a recovery usb.
http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en...rage/increase-available-disk-space-on-surface

cx1 said:
Try to create a recovery usb.
http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en...rage/increase-available-disk-space-on-surface
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I followed the guide but it said make sure the checkbox next to 'copy recovery partition to usb' is checked but alas it is greyed out. Does that mean the recovery partition is missing?

Does anyone have the recovery on usb that they can upload for me to download please? Ideally if you have an Asus Vivo Tab RT version although I hear a Surface recovery file will be fine too! PLEASE!

Does anyone have the recovery on usb that they can upload for me to download please?
i really need that to!!! for my surfasse RT!

No reason I can't do it from my RT?

Trig0r said:
No reason I can't do it from my RT?
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can you do that for us ??
thanks

I have contributed a lot to the xda forums over the years and I would really greatly appreciate if someone could temporarily upload the recovery backup so I can download and once done the file could be deleted from their server. Would really appreciate it.
Pretty please!

tboy2000 said:
I have contributed a lot to the xda forums over the years and I would really greatly appreciate if someone could temporarily upload the recovery backup so I can download and once done the file could be deleted from their server. Would really appreciate it.
Pretty please!
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Great ideia, i need that too, i live in brazil, and we do not have windows store here, so there is no way to return my surface

Just starting to do this now, but spotted this instead..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079409
That not what people want chopped into chunks?

Trig0r said:
Just starting to do this now, but spotted this instead..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079409
That not what people want chopped into chunks?
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Thank u very much :good::good:

Trig0r said:
Just starting to do this now, but spotted this instead..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079409
That not what people want chopped into chunks?
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I know the other person meant well but if you could upload to a different file sharing I would appreciate it. The one he uses is giving me problems and I can't download and have to wait 3 hours for my next attempt and between each download.
Maybe even on skydrive and make file public for say 48 hours.

Yeha no worries, got the USB here so will find somewhere to stick it, so to speak...

tboy2000 said:
I know the other person meant well but if you could upload to a different file sharing I would appreciate it. The one he uses is giving me problems and I can't download and have to wait 3 hours for my next attempt and between each download.
Maybe even on skydrive and make file public for say 48 hours.
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Tboy2000: did you solve the issue?
I have the exact same problem and would like to know if you made it right!
Let me know!
Filippo

Recovery files are in recovery partition. There are two files, install.wim and install.md5
I solved this way:
I assigned letter F: a recovery partition with diskpart, and I wrote the following command
reagentc.exe /setosimage /path F: /target c:\Windows /Index 1
In this way, I was able to refresh the tablet, from settings menu.
Anyway, I'm really disappointed by Asus...
PS: sorry for my english, I'm italian

Pang1982 said:
Recovery files are in recovery partition. There are two files, install.wim and install.md5
I solved this way:
I assigned letter F: a recovery partition with diskpart, and I wrote the following command
reagentc.exe /setosimage /path F: /target c:\Windows /Index 1
In this way, I was able to refresh the tablet, from settings menu.
Anyway, I'm really disappointed by Asus...
PS: sorry for my english, I'm italian
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how did you manage to get to a console of any kind.. I have a TF600T and i don't have the usb recovery stick.. and it won't boot into windows rt at all.. how did you get a console?

Timelord83 said:
how did you manage to get to a console of any kind.. I have a TF600T and i don't have the usb recovery stick.. and it won't boot into windows rt at all.. how did you get a console?
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Command prompt?

Timelord83 said:
how did you manage to get to a console of any kind.. I have a TF600T and i don't have the usb recovery stick.. and it won't boot into windows rt at all.. how did you get a console?
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Hi, see the link to start the tablet in Advanced startup
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/windows-startup-settings-including-safe-mode

RT cant refresh, cant update...
I am having the same issue, I tried all with no result... I called Microsoft today, they listened to my issue and they will be sending there currier to pick up my surface RT in 48 hours, and they will ship me a replacement in 3 days.
Best service and support , I am glad I bought Microsoft surface.

truffle1234 said:
I am having the same issue, I tried all with no result... I called Microsoft today, they listened to my issue and they will be sending there currier to pick up my surface RT in 48 hours, and they will ship me a replacement in 3 days.
Best service and support , I am glad I bought Microsoft surface.
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You're lucky. In the us, we have to go ship it ourselves.
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aooga said:
You're lucky. In the US, we have to go ship it ourselves.
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Need recovery image

I cannot get my recovery/restore image set to active. IS there somewhere where I can download a recovery image and load it on a USB stick. Can someone put one up for me?
128GB Surface Pro
Thanks in advance,
Twack

Someone has to have a recovery USB image that they upload somewhere for me????
PLEEEEEZE!

If the Pro is the same as RT then the recovery is tagged to the machine somehow so a recovery from another machine wouldnt work.

twack said:
I cannot get my recovery/restore image set to active.
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looks like you'll be driving into Sacramento to visit the Microsoft store. They should be able to get you fixed up.

Sacramento does not have a Microsoft Store. But now I have the files off the partition.
I can see the partition there in Disk Managemement but that's it. Using diskpart I assigned it a drive and copied the 3 files contained in the single directory "RecoveryImage" off onto a USB stick. They are:
"CreatePartition-UEFI.cmd"
"install.wim"
ResetConfig.xml"
How do I get the surface to see the USB and use these files in a restore from USB?
Thank you in advance,
Twack

You can create a Recovery USB by going to Control Panel, click the Recovery icon and there is an option to create an USB Recovery drive from the recovery partition. You will need at least 8GB on the USB drive. After the backup is completed, you have the option to delete the Recovery partition and reclaim the 8GB of free space to your drive C.

twack said:
I can see the partition there in Disk Managemement but that's it.
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Wow I totally misunderstood - yep, if your surface is working just use it to make the recovery USB for you.

schettj said:
Wow I totally misunderstood - yep, if your surface is working just use it to make the recovery USB for you.
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I've tried that. It does not work. It only puts a few utilities on the USB and no recovery image.
Can someone please post the file structure listing of what is on a Surface Pro 128GB USB recovery?
TIA

@twack: Are you showing hidden and system files/folders? By default, Windows still hides those. That will make the recovery partition look pretty empty, but it's not.

twack said:
I've tried that. It does not work. It only puts a few utilities on the USB and no recovery image.
Can someone please post the file structure listing of what is on a Surface Pro 128GB USB recovery?
TIA
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Check these on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwR5u2jI0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShKxTNgoO8

I ended up exchanging it for a new one at BestBuy last night. Thanks for everyone's suggestions!

Just for those that have hit this thread.
I've had a guy contact me who deleted his recovery partition, he used a eg-UK image on his Swedish RT and it works fine.
So far thats one person that said it did work and one that didnt so I'll recreate and upload my image again and fire out links as and when.

It Works
I can confirm that it works to use another recovey image on the RT.
My USB ended up beeing blank after creating a recovery image (i failed to check that before installing 8.1 though).
Of course I ran into the no-wireless bug on 8.1 so I had to restore it.
I'm now running on EN-GB instead of US-EN (original version om my RT).
If anyone is willing to provide an US-EN image I would be very happy though (I'd like to get the RT back to the way it left the factory to 100%).

Did you set the device up as en-US when you did it or was it all en-GB when you had gone through the install, be interested to know what differences there are, I've put 8.1 on mine now, works a treat...

Recovery Image Info

I have now had several people use the image from my EN-GB Surface on non-en-gb devices and all appears to be well, only difference noticed so far is the support number stays on the english one and doesnt change regardless of language pack.

Still getting requests for this, I'm in Turkey at the mo and dont have a lot of connectivity, so if you PM me and it takes a day or so, tough, saving you a trip to the MS Store :lol:

File uploaded to copy, not sure how long it'll last before they close me down but still...
https://copy.com/wxLnnPxi6phs

Trig0r said:
File uploaded to copy, not sure how long it'll last before they close me down but still...
https://copy.com/wxLnnPxi6phs
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Thank you for this!
I'm in the process of recovering my surface at the moment!
Finger cross but all seem to be going well :cyclops:

I'd like to get and store copies of all regional installs if possible, if anyone out there (here) has other versions then drop me a PM and I'll stick them somewhere on t'interweb so we can recover if we need to...

I now have an FTP server for these to go on.

Trig0r said:
I have now had several people use the image from my EN-GB Surface on non-en-gb devices and all appears to be well, only difference noticed so far is the support number stays on the english one and doesnt change regardless of language pack.
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Thanks a million Trig0r!!! I need to bring my RT back to life as I installed 8.1 in German and my recvery image didn't work don't know why.
I am downloading your image now and I see it is a ISO file, should I unpack it and copy it to my USB or what?
Thank you!!!

Just copy the files in the recovery to a fat32 formatted usb drive, then hold the volume down button plus power button, this will take time to boot but its normal.
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Grabbed that from another thread on the subject chap.

Clarification Please
I don't want to sound like a noob here, but I was just making sure that I can use your EN-GB recovery image on my EN-US Surface RT to remove Windows 8.1 Preview. Also hoping that office will work when i get back to the start.

laymansnerd said:
I don't want to sound like a noob here, but I was just making sure that I can use your EN-GB recovery image on my EN-US Surface RT to remove Windows 8.1 Preview. Also hoping that office will work when i get back to the start.
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Was going to ask the same...

I havent tested it personally, I know the en-GB image works in place of the en-US image though, not sure about rolling back from 8.1 to 8.0 though, I would of thought it possible but I havent checked it.

Yes it works.

Trig0r said:
I havent tested it personally, I know the en-GB image works in place of the en-US image though, not sure about rolling back from 8.1 to 8.0 though, I would of thought it possible but I havent checked it.
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Will everything still be in English?? Sorry for noob questions..
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xWolf13 said:
Will everything still be in English?? Sorry for noob questions..
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its an EN-GB image. So it will be in English instead of American English.
Colour instead of color etc.

You can install the language pack etc and get it into "proper" English

EN-US Recovery Files
I used the Surface RT on display at my work to create the USB recovery drive, and was able to successfully downgrade from 8.1 Preview to stock. Trig0r, how would I go about assembling these files to share? Then I can put together a step-by-step guide for downgrading that has the potential to make a few people happy.

Trig0r said:
You can install the language pack etc and get it into "proper" English
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With your permission.. May I upload and post the link to a faster host for faster download speeds?

If speed is an issue I have ftp, was trying to get recoveries from more than one user though, weirdly people dont want to send them to me and nobody else seems to care until they get to the point where they needs the files.. lol

Trig0r said:
If speed is an issue I have ftp, was trying to get recoveries from more than one user though, weirdly people dont want to send them to me and nobody else seems to care until they get to the point where they needs the files.. lol
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Speed was an issue lol. Waited an hour to download the whole ISO

EN-US Recovery Drive Image Request
Any chance someone can post the EN-US version? I appreciate the EN-GB image it works wonderfully, but I'm in the US and a EN-US image would be awesome to recover back to . I'm surprised that Microsoft doesn't already have the recovery drive image available for download. Also the Windows RT 8.1 preview drive image is worthless. It wont activate after resetting.

USB Recovery EN-US RT 8.0

I've never used USB Image Tool before, but it supposedly creates a full copy of a USB flash drive:
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
Here's a copy of my USB Recovery:
SurfaceRT8_0RecoveryEN-US.img (3.69 GB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!lgJAnKCR!c_1PuzGz7-2fiy3QGkjgZj4Y8IwbvP0ap8UN6CEZtrI

Have added this to my FTP for Surface RT recovery's..

Thank you for this. Finally got my surface rt back to being usable. :good:

Thank. Now I can clean up my RT recovery space without delicate flash drive to recovery drive.

The link is broken

alyssonmelo said:
The link is broken
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Kind of vague there as to what link you're referring to. But I did check both links in my original post and both are still valid for me.

I can see it fine on my ftp...

Hello guys. I search a French recovery for my surface.
I have moved from my usb and she his formated.
Can you help me.
Nice Day .

Work Great on my surface !
Thank you so much !
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Do you know if this image will work on a Canadian surface ? Us and Canada this is the same firmware, recovery ?

4square999 said:
Do you know if this image will work on a Canadian surface ? Us and Canada this is the same firmware, recovery ?
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Its been confirmed that images seem to work on all devices. Only thing to watch out for is what language is the image in, in this case US-English. Your device will install any language fine, its just a case of you do want russian instead for instance, or the big one earlier on is that there was only a british english image at first which if you were an american user would have a few things spelt incorrectly.
Have a poke around in trig0rs thread and towards the end there are a few languages, I assume you will just want this image anyway.

Got en-GB and en-US recovery images on my FTP...

Thanks for the Surface image OP.
Question: Will this allow me to install the OS from a flash drive?
Thanks again.

JustinOkay said:
Thanks for the Surface image OP.
Question: Will this allow me to install the OS from a flash drive?
Thanks again.
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If I understand the question, yes, you can use it to install regardless of what is on the drive. It could be blank and it should still work.
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is there a detailed step-to-step tutorial on how to restore back to 8.0 with a usb recovery (e.g. this one) ?

chp said:
I've never used USB Image Tool before, but it supposedly creates a full copy of a USB flash drive:
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
Here's a copy of my USB Recovery:
SurfaceRT8_0RecoveryEN-US.img (3.69 GB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!lgJAnKCR!c_1PuzGz7-2fiy3QGkjgZj4Y8IwbvP0ap8UN6CEZtrI
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The mega.co.nz link doesn't seem to be working, it just hangs. Do you have this uploaded anywhere else by any chance?

Schuby said:
The mega.co.nz link doesn't seem to be working, it just hangs. Do you have this uploaded anywhere else by any chance?
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Just checked the link myself and it appears to still be working.
Trig0r says he has a copy of it on a ftp site, but I don't have the ftp site information.

unbenannt said:
is there a detailed step-to-step tutorial on how to restore back to 8.0 with a usb recovery (e.g. this one) ?
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I think there are a number of tutorials online.
After you have booted from the USB Recovery Drive and when you get to the screen asking what to recover, don't be fooled by the "Windows 8.1" that it shows. That is the drive you want to overwrite.

chp said:
Just checked the link myself and it appears to still be working.
Trig0r says he has a copy of it on a ftp site, but I don't have the ftp site information.
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Weird, I'm not sure why it doesn't work.

What browser are you using? Mega doesn't work with some browsers due to the encryption.
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Onda v820w ch v3, dual boot, win 10 64 bit home + android 5.1 (files, instructions)

Hi guys,
I bought this tablet at the end of 2016. I played a lot with it, about 2 years. I sold it at the end of 2018.
These days i try to make some space in my hard drive, so i delete some files.
I have downloaded on 2016 many things about this tablet. Even now, Onda's official site is in Chinese and i saw that Onda Forum is down.
So i decided to upload here my experience, some instructions and service files about this tablet.
I will upload the files i have not at once, so before asking questions wait a little.
Enjoy
P.S : Sorry, now i saw that there is a limit on the size of files that a member can upload !! I wanted to upload the Original ROMS of this tablet (they are some GBs !!).

Please put the instructions
Hello,
I appreciate your good will gesture. I am interested in reinstalling the os on such a tablet ( I think mine is v5) and I can't find instructions and files for windows only the V820W_DUALOS_V5_32_1605279_20160602.zip(after windwos 10 reset I can't boot windows ,works only on Android). Hope you will continue, thanks.

Found solution to recover Windows 10 on tablet but lost Android
Hello , after some more search I found an interesting russian forum with many download links for this tablet. Here is a download link that contains many of the necessary files for Onda v820w from there:
........
For my case (tablet was reseted from windows options I presume, and was not able to boot anymore just some automatic repair started but did not work) , making a NTFS bootable disk with rufus and copied all the windows files from 10_V3.rar found in the download link provided and choosing ->"System image recovery"->then something about boot from EFI usb drive I remember. And it worked, it managed to reinstall windows and make it boot again by itself.
After succeeding this I became more confident and tried to update the Android form this tablet from 4.4 to 5 as I saw it has everything we need in the above link. After trying different versions of Manufacturing flash tool and Intel drivers for this tablet I managed to connect to it and make it take the provided image with Android 5 from fastboot menu when connected to laptop with the flash tool.
The only problem is it said it does not have enough space to flash system.img at around 84% on the Manufacturing flash tool loading bar. (strange as the tablet is empty,nothing on it, just default software).
Now Android does not boot anymore (haha, fixed something destroyed something).
The questions are:
-Can and how to use the other Android 5 images I found on the russian forum ? They are different type of backup files (with system.ext4.win type of files not .img files that the manufacturing flash tool expects).
From what I've read they are TWRP generated backups but my tablet has the default recovery.
-Can I convert the TWRP files to .img ?
-I found an TWRP recovery for this tablet (I hope) but I am not sure that if I flash the TWRP recovery it will not mess with the windows partitions already working on this tablet...
Here are the files I found and some english step by step tutorial for flashing the Android and a spanish tutorial for the Windows part of this tablet, on my google drive:
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Edit: "To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages. After approximately 10 posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thank you for understanding!"
So I cannot post yet the links to images and the files but if somebody is interested I will sent in private massage. (If I will remember about this post in a few months , pretty lame the anti-spam rule...) Now I understand why who initiated this thread abandoned it...

RE: Links to Onda v820w windows files
Hi Olaruci,
I seem to have a similar problem to the one you and POWERSER have had. Please can you assist with the download links for this tablet. I can't boot the tablet into Android or Windows, only the system recovery option is available to me and it doesn't work.
Thanks :good:
Olaruci said:
Hello , after some more search I found an interesting russian forum with many download links for this tablet. Here is a download link that contains many of the necessary files for Onda v820w from there:
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For my case (tablet was reseted from windows options I presume, and was not able to boot anymore just some automatic repair started but did not work) , making a NTFS bootable disk with rufus and copied all the windows files from 10_V3.rar found in the download link provided and choosing ->"System image recovery"->then something about boot from EFI usb drive I remember. And it worked, it managed to reinstall windows and make it boot again by itself.
After succeeding this I became more confident and tried to update the Android form this tablet from 4.4 to 5 as I saw it has everything we need in the above link. After trying different versions of Manufacturing flash tool and Intel drivers for this tablet I managed to connect to it and make it take the provided image with Android 5 from fastboot menu when connected to laptop with the flash tool.
The only problem is it said it does not have enough space to flash system.img at around 84% on the Manufacturing flash tool loading bar. (strange as the tablet is empty,nothing on it, just default software).
Now Android does not boot anymore (haha, fixed something destroyed something).
The questions are:
-Can and how to use the other Android 5 images I found on the russian forum ? They are different type of backup files (with system.ext4.win type of files not .img files that the manufacturing flash tool expects).
From what I've read they are TWRP generated backups but my tablet has the default recovery.
-Can I convert the TWRP files to .img ?
-I found an TWRP recovery for this tablet (I hope) but I am not sure that if I flash the TWRP recovery it will not mess with the windows partitions already working on this tablet...
Here are the files I found and some english step by step tutorial for flashing the Android and a spanish tutorial for the Windows part of this tablet, on my google drive:
......
Edit: "To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages. After approximately 10 posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thank you for understanding!"
So I cannot post yet the links to images and the files but if somebody is interested I will sent in private massage. (If I will remember about this post in a few months , pretty lame the anti-spam rule...) Now I understand why who initiated this thread abandoned it...
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Download links Onda v820w
Hello Grimm1,
I've sent the download links in private message.
I still did not manage to flash any of the system.img files ( I tried to unzip system.ext4.win images and change extension to .img but it's not working, not valid).
So I've changed the original recovery.img with the TWRP recovery found in the download link, and it works.
Now I have TWRP but with a small problem, it's in russian... now I try to find a way to change language (it's the materialized theme of TWRP 2.8 , and it seems it does't have a change language option)
Also windows 10 on PC needs latest versions of:
- Manufacturing flash tool (6.051)
- IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.10.0
- iSocUSB-Driver-Setup-1.0.4 or 1.0.5 (I THINK THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT to have latest version FOR THE MANUFACTURING FLASH TOOL TO SEE THE TABLET)
Also only connect tablet to laptop usb(in fastboot mode) AFTER opening manufacturing flash tool and AFTER selecting xml file and message "ready to flash" appears.

Hi,
I'm using an Onda v820w dual OS. I like this tablet and its dual OS capability.
I'm trying for days to find a way to change a few things but ondaforum is down so it's not easy now.
Once I succede I will give links and steps.
A first link where there is a lot to download : http://chinagadgetsreviews.blogspot.com/search?q=v820w&x=0&y=0
/!\ WARNING /!\ I did not test any of the software found on the link above so don't blame me if it screw your devices.
The first step was to install TWRP to be able to flash Android 5 instead of 4.4. The one I use is in russian for the moment so I use Google translate...
Anyway I just flashed Android 5.1 found on a russian forum a few minutes ago. For the moment the tablet is on the boot anim for at least 20mn...
I will tell you.

Need links
Hey @Olaruci can you please send me files as well?
Having the same issue after recovery

headshotp said:
Hey @Olaruci can you please send me files as well?
Having the same issue after recovery
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You've got message
And now I can post links apparently :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lhb29j5tnwyvyZS5KUzEuxNVYBKxaBoa

Hi
Is there anyone who succeeded with Remix OS on this tablet?

v1 bios
I need onda v820w v1 bios flash please. My camera dont work anymore after wrong bios updating. please help me...
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And now I can post links apparently :
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hi you have for v1 bios ? please help me.

Olaruci said:
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And now I can post links apparently :
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Hi Olaruci, thanks for the link it was a lifesaver for me
I only stumbled to one problem - for some reason I can not calibrate my Touchscreen. It works, but nither the Touch PG or MS Calibration software helped me...the calibration is just off (few cm gap). Did anyone had this kind of problem and what do you think I could do to solve this problem?
Kind regards to everyone who contributed this feed....it helped a lot.