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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?
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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:
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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...
A rough description of how I solved this specific problem can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44784112&postcount=14
Also, you don't need the huge system dump to fix this!
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Hey everyone.
TL;DR: I quite desperately need an image (or a tarball) of a working /system partition from an ASUS MeMO Pad 7 HD (MD173x) for the recovery of a soft-bricked unit I have here. Apparently there's none available anywhere. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I have an ASUS MeMO Pad 7 HD here (ME173x) that got soft-bricked by an improper installation of Chainfire3D [not by me]. The device won't finish booting up, but it gives me shell/root access to the entire system through ADB, so it's salvageable. I have a serious problem, though: while I have access to the entire system, I have no images to restore it from - absolutely nothing!
I've tried looking for any manual updates or SD-card-based recovery images on the ASUS website, but only found something for the regular MeMO Pad. I've tried that option still, but the pad ignores it, so probably incompatible. For the MeMO Pad 7 HD, ASUS have no images at all - just user manuals and the source code! I suppose that's the catch to its otherwise cheap price, and I'll spare you my opinions about that.
When it comes to the boot loader, there are 3 options that it offers: normal boot, FASTBOOT or Recovery (which is anything but: it just pops a dead Android icon with "NO COMMAND" underneath it - not particularly helpful). Can't do a whole lot with that, I suppose.
So yeah... My options, as I see them, are to either beg somebody else with a MeMO Pad 7 HD for their /system partition (either a dd dump, tar.gz archive of all the files within, or a CWM recovery file perhaps), in hopes that they are rooted and need little to no guidance on obtaining that data. Failing that, I may have to beg the guys behind Chainfire3D to perhaps give me a list of all the files they introduce into the system and modify, and try to undo those changes manually, and if there's anyone here that reads this and can help me with any of those options, I'll be forever grateful to them.
I assume contacting ASUS themselves about this is a waste of time, since I highly doubt that they'll take this well from a warranty perspective, nor do I think they will be keen to provide me with any recovery images or be useful/helpful in any "non-generic" way...
Anyway, here's my problem, so if anyone has any ideas on getting this solved, I'm all ears [or in this case - eyes].
Thanks!
-- Ice
P.S. Please spare me the lectures about backing up, rooting, bricking, "being careful", etc. This isn't my device - I'm not the one who bricked it. I'm the person people hand these devices to when they've screwed up...
I have a rooted Memo Pad. Can I somehow save an full image of it and share with you?
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GermanGigaDepp said:
I have a rooted Memo Pad. Can I somehow save an full image of it and share with you?
Gesendet von meinem ME173X mit Tapatalk 2
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Many thanks for your response.
You can make a tarball (tar.gz archive) of /system by using the built-in tools. Assuming you have at least a gigabyte of free space in internal memory, here's what you can do:
Get a Terminal Emulator application (if you don't have one): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm
Tell the pad to archive /system files:
Run the Terminal app
Type the following commands:
su
tar czvf /sdcard/system.tar.gz /system
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Locate and upload the system.tar.gz file to Dropbox or some other place that allows you to upload large files and post a link to it - either here or in private.
Now I've noticed that such a file can take around 700MB, which is quite a bit. If that becomes a problem, you can try getting a smaller archive by picking just the more important folders within /system. In that case, this is how your tar command will look instead:
tar czvf /sdcard/system-partial.tar.gz /system/bin /system/etc /system/lib /system/vendor /system/build.prop
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Again, many thanks for wanting to do this!
P.S. What these commands do is essentially "zipping up" the contents of the /system folder into am archive file. You can do this with a root-capable file explorer, but it's just easier to do it through the command line, because we all know what exactly to expect from these commands...
P.P.S. To remove that system.tar.gz file through the terminal, type rm /sdcard/system.tar.gz
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Many thanks for your response.
You can make a tarball (tar.gz archive) of /system by using the built-in tools. Assuming you have at least a gigabyte of free space in internal memory, here's what you can do:
Get a Terminal Emulator application (if you don't have one): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm
Tell the pad to archive /system files:
Run the Terminal app
Type the following commands:
Locate and upload the system.tar.gz file to Dropbox or some other place that allows you to upload large files and post a link to it - either here or in private.
Now I've noticed that such a file can take around 700MB, which is quite a bit. If that becomes a problem, you can try getting a smaller archive by picking just the more important folders within /system. In that case, this is how your tar command will look instead:
Again, many thanks for wanting to do this!
P.S. What these commands do is essentially "zipping up" the contents of the /system folder into am archive file. You can do this with a root-capable file explorer, but it's just easier to do it through the command line, because we all know what exactly to expect from these commands...
P.P.S. To remove that system.tar.gz file through the terminal, type rm /sdcard/system.tar.gz
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I get a invalid option -- z error.
Followed all the step, I did.
EDIT : Scratch that, I used this code instead.
#tar -cvf /sdcard/system.tar /system
Wait while I upload the dump.
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here's the link to the dump
btw, I've renamed some APKs as bak, since there is no option to disable some of those apps.
I've removed the link to the file. PM me if anyone wants it.
So I guess my help is not needed anymore.
If you still need my help just ask me, I will do it.
Thank you both.
I will grab the file once I get access permission (click the blue SHARE button in GDrive and change the visibility to "Those with the link" or add ice3715 at gmail com to it) and will hopefully be able to continue bringing this thing back to life. If I'll stumble over anything else, I will certainly know whom to rely on.
Very much appreciated!
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Thank you both.
I will grab the file once I get access permission (click the blue SHARE button in GDrive and change the visibility to "Those with the link" or add ice3715 at gmail com to it) and will hopefully be able to continue bringing this thing back to life. If I'll stumble over anything else, I will certainly know whom to rely on.
Very much appreciated!
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Alrighty. Already added your email address. Pls check
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ericmaxman said:
Alrighty. Already added your email address. Pls check
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Checked and done downloading. :good:
Post-recovery
Alrighty then!
Thanks to the image provided, I've managed to get the device to finish its boot sequence: when comparing the files of the two, I found a shell script at /system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh that basically gave me instructions on how to uninstall CF3D.
The files it overwrote were:
/system/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
/system/lib/libGLESv2.so
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The backups of the originals were stored as:
/system/lib/libGLESv1_CM_ORG_CF3D.so
/system/lib/libGLESv2_ORG_CF3D.so
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Restoring these files and changing the permissions as specified in cf3d_uninstall.sh brought the device back to life. The OS was somewhat unstable (appcrashes and spontaneous reboots), but a few reboots, updates and dalvik-cache wipes later, it seemed to have stabilized on its own.
Again, many thanks to ericmaxman for providing the system image and GermanGigaDepp for being willing to do the same. You guys are awesome!
Lesson of the week: When rooting your device (or even before that), always back up your entire system! (or at least your entire /system) It is not guaranteed that the manufacturer will offer any recovery images for it or help you in any way, and if you mess up, you'll get stuck just like me!
tar cvf /sdcard/system-backup.tar /system
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Alrighty then!
Thanks to the image provided, I've managed to get the device to finish its boot sequence: when comparing the files of the two, I found a shell script at /system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh that basically gave me instructions on how to uninstall CF3D.
The files it overwrote were:
The backups of the originals were stored as:
Restoring these files and changing the permissions as specified in cf3d_uninstall.sh brought the device back to life. The OS was somewhat unstable (appcrashes and spontaneous reboots), but a few reboots, updates and dalvik-cache wipes later, it seemed to have stabilized on its own.
Again, many thanks to ericmaxman for providing the system image and GermanGigaDepp for being willing to do the same. You guys are awesome!
Lesson of the week: When rooting your device (or even before that), always back up your entire system! (or at least your entire /system) It is not guaranteed that the manufacturer will offer any recovery images for it or help you in any way, and if you mess up, you'll get stuck just like me!
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Good to hear that you managed to get yours fixed. :thumbup:
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Desperate for help (Asus MeMo Pad 7 HD)
Hi everyone (may be IceDrake can help!)
I am new into the forum. I have a dead new Asus ME173X.
I have the same problem like IceDrake (Chainfire3D problem!). I am desperate for help getting "MeMO Pad 7 HD for their /system partition" like IceDrake AND PLEASE STEP BY STEP help bringing my new MemO Pad 7 into life again.
Much appreciate any help I can get.
Regards,
Medhat
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IceDrake said:
Hey everyone.
TL;DR: I quite desperately need an image (or a tarball) of a working /system partition from an ASUS MeMO Pad 7 HD (MD173x) for the recovery of a soft-bricked unit I have here. Apparently there's none available anywhere. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I have an ASUS MeMO Pad 7 HD here (ME173x) that got soft-bricked by an improper installation of Chainfire3D [not by me]. The device won't finish booting up, but it gives me shell/root access to the entire system through ADB, so it's salvageable. I have a serious problem, though: while I have access to the entire system, I have no images to restore it from - absolutely nothing!
I've tried looking for any manual updates or SD-card-based recovery images on the ASUS website, but only found something for the regular MeMO Pad. I've tried that option still, but the pad ignores it, so probably incompatible. For the MeMO Pad 7 HD, ASUS have no images at all - just user manuals and the source code! I suppose that's the catch to its otherwise cheap price, and I'll spare you my opinions about that.
When it comes to the boot loader, there are 3 options that it offers: normal boot, FASTBOOT or Recovery (which is anything but: it just pops a dead Android icon with "NO COMMAND" underneath it - not particularly helpful). Can't do a whole lot with that, I suppose.
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So yeah... My options, as I see them, are to either beg somebody else with a MeMO Pad 7 HD for their /system partition (either a dd dump, tar.gz archive of all the files within, or a CWM recovery file perhaps), in hopes that they are rooted and need little to no guidance on obtaining that data. Failing that, I may have to beg the guys behind Chainfire3D to perhaps give me a list of all the files they introduce into the system and modify, and try to undo those changes manually, and if there's anyone here that reads this and can help me with any of those options, I'll be forever grateful to them.
I assume contacting ASUS themselves about this is a waste of time, since I highly doubt that they'll take this well from a warranty perspective, nor do I think they will be keen to provide me with any recovery images or be useful/helpful in any "non-generic" way...
Anyway, here's my problem, so if anyone has any ideas on getting this solved, I'm all ears [or in this case - eyes].
Thanks!
-- Ice
P.S. Please spare me the lectures about backing up, rooting, bricking, "being careful", etc. This isn't my device - I'm not the one who bricked it. I'm the person people hand these devices to when they've screwed up...
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Help needed for newbie
Hello everyone,
I´m a newbie and need some help.
I installed Chainfire 3 D on my new Memo Pad HD 7 and it wont boot anymore. I think I need a system image!
I´m thankful for any help and advice. Where I can download the system image file? Is there somewhere a step by step guide for installing the system image file ?
Thank you
Tom Hell
TomHell said:
Hello everyone,
I´m a newbie and need some help.
I installed Chainfire 3 D on my new Memo Pad HD 7 and it wont boot anymore. I think I need a system image!
I´m thankful for any help and advice. Where I can download the system image file? Is there somewhere a step by step guide for installing the system image file ?
Thank you
Tom Hell
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I don't have my PC with me now...will grant u access to the file tomorrow evening
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medhatfawzy said:
Hi everyone (may be IceDrake can help!)
I am new into the forum. I have a dead new Asus ME173X.
I have the same problem like IceDrake (Chainfire3D problem!). I am desperate for help getting "MeMO Pad 7 HD for their /system partition" like IceDrake AND PLEASE STEP BY STEP help bringing my new MemO Pad 7 into life again.
Much appreciate any help I can get.
Regards,
Medhat
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If you have the same problem as me, then you don't really need the /system partition. I needed it only to do some comparisons, and I found a CF3D uninstall script that way.
I'll tell you right away that unless you're OK with using the command line, ADB and Linux shell (adb shell), you should really try finding someone who is more familiar with these things, because "experimenting" with such a tablet may cost you dearly - ASUS offers no recovery for it whatsoever! Trying to recover it manually without knowing what you're doing there is a bad idea!
Also, the commands below may eventually become outdated, so instead of using those, see if you can cat /system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh and do what it says instead (except for stop - don't type that in the shell )
To recover it from the problem I was having, you should gain access to the tablet over adb first:
Plug the tablet into your PC using a USB cable
Open Command Prompt: press WIN+R to pop up the Run dialog, then type cmd and press ENTER
Type adb shell into the command prompt.
If you don't have ADB installed, then Google about for some guides on how to get it installed first. This is one of them:
http://www.howtogeek.com/125769/how-to-install-and-use-abd-the-android-debug-bridge-utility/
Once inside the shell, go root, remount the /system partition for writing and restore the backed up drivers by typing these (VERY slowly and carefully!):
Code:
su
mount -o rw -o remount /[email protected] /system
cat /system/lib/libGLESv1_CM_ORG_CF3D.so > /system/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
chown 1000:1000 /system/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
chown system:system /system/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
chmod 644 /system/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
cat /system/lib/libGLESv2_ORG_CF3D.so > /system/lib/libGLESv2.so
chown 1000:1000 /system/lib/libGLESv2.so
chown system:system /system/lib/libGLESv2.so
chmod 644 /system/lib/libGLESv2.so
After that, the tablet should be able to boot as it did for me. Otherwise, you may want to type reboot and let it restart completely.
Hope this helps in some way. It didn't damage the device I was working with, but I can't possibly offer any guarantees about yours (especially if it isn't MeMO Pad 7 HD, or one with a different firmware).
P.S. For people asking for "system images", etc: please understand that it's not a recovery image or anything! You can't just flash it into the device and make it work! What I was asking for is a bunch of files to compare against - manually, so if you don't really know what you're doing, do try to find someone who does.
TomHell said:
Hello everyone,
I´m a newbie and need some help.
I installed Chainfire 3 D on my new Memo Pad HD 7 and it wont boot anymore. I think I need a system image!
I´m thankful for any help and advice. Where I can download the system image file? Is there somewhere a step by step guide for installing the system image file ?
Thank you
Tom Hell
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Okay, granted you access to the file already.
ericmaxman said:
Okay, granted you access to the file already.
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can I have permission to access it as well?
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Icedrake can you upload or mirror ericmaxman's dump file, I would like to try this steps first as I'm still trying to downlod all nccessary files for the adb to work on my machine.
Hi iceDrake, I'm a noob and dont know anything about ADB, can you help I got the system.tar from Eric, but dont know what to do with it. I have the same issue as you. But I can seems to have my tab be recognize by my PC. I can still go to the recovery though
I killed my HD7 with my stupidity and chainfire
Hello IceDrake and everyone else who can help,
My HD7 wont boot it´s in a endless loop because of that the usb/adb driver cannot be installed. (adb shell is not possible - no connection with device)
Does this mean I can my save my device just with recovery or fastboot ?
Can i recover my HD7 with the system.tar file offered here in the forum? What have I to do ???
Thanks for any advice!
Tom Hell
chainfire suck on asus memo pad hd 7
You need adb to use the system.tar. I have the same problem as you. I tried fastboot but each time I try to use the recovery flash I'll get an error download Error please re-pluggin USB cable.
I have not choice than to send it to Asus service center. say if you do a factory reset and wipe cache, can they still know if you rooted your device?
Hello, I have a big problem, I rooted my memopad HD7 and later I removed some asus applications, I had some problems with my excahange account so I restored to factory, but now I am not able to install or update any app from play store, I get a 491 Error code, I also tried to install Amazon App Store but the download always fails, same with any other file that I try to download.
I have googled about 491 error code but the answer is always to wipe dalvik cache but i am not able to do so, as I have no recovery.
Ant suggestion? any chance to restore to factory defaults with some image file?
Edited: well, I managed to return it at the store where I bought it and get.another one later. What I have learned from this is that I would never root again until there is no way to recover the device, preferably CWM recovery.
Due to a few people asking I have now added a Surface Pro folder to my FTP.
So far I have a recovery drive that I have just created from my 128Gb UK Pro and the August2013 driver files.
Trig0r said:
Due to a few people asking I have now added a Surface Pro folder to my FTP.
So far I have a recovery drive that I have just created from my 128Gb UK Pro and the August2013 driver files.
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Awesome. Thanks for this - just what I need! How do I find your FTP? Couldn't see a URL on your profile.
I don't post it in public as the server would get attacked or hammered...
Trig0r said:
I don't post it in public as the server would get attacked or hammered...
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Hi,
My 128gb UK surface pro won't boot past the UEFI screen after a failed firmware update. MS won't send out a key as it is 2 months outside of the warranty (grr !!!). You mentioned you had one, would it be possible to get hold this?
Yours hopefully........
Hi
Also stuck in UEFI on my surface pro3. Need a copy of recovery. PM me..
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Surface Pro 3 Recovery Image - HELP
I also need SP3 Recover Image. Mine got bricked while updating and somehow even the USB recovery I made doesn't work. I have a 128gb/4gb model.
Hope someone can help.
thx
I need help Surface pro 128GB 4gb i5
please, i've lost all recovery partitions and now my surface pro 128gb i5 is stuck in uefi bios.. can you pm a link for a recovery image or alternatively the ftp where i can take what i need?? please help me guys!! thank you so much
Pro 3 Euro is now on my FTP server, ahvent even set the device up for my use yet, first thing I did was create the recovery...
recovery image integrity
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a second hand Surface Pro.
As there is no recovery DVD included, how can I be sure that the previous owner has not got a virus or something that infected the recovery partition?
What guarantees that when I'm doing a factory reset, that will be done with the software from MS and the system is clean from unwanted extras from the previous owner?
With the Windows RT machines this looks trivial as Secure Boot can not be disabled, or the keys can not be changed.
But as far as I know this is not the case with Surface Pro.
Thanks for the answers in advance!
Recovery images are available online if you ask the right people or look in the right place
Also, the recovery volume might be signed (anybody know?). If the signature is still valid, it hasn't been tampered with. I'm not even sure if the recovery process will even permit an unsigned recovery image, though on Surface Pro I suppose it probably will (RT doesn't).
FTP url
Trig0r said:
Due to a few people asking I have now added a Surface Pro folder to my FTP.
So far I have a recovery drive that I have just created from my 128Gb UK Pro and the August2013 driver files.
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Hello, pls can you provide me the url adress? i have screwd my surface pro 256gb.
Thank you very much!
unless I'm mistaken you can download the recovery img straight from Microsoft now. I cant post links yet. but if you do a search from google for "Download a recovery image for your Surface" for me its the second link
I found this link http://www.microsoft.com/surface/support/warranty-service-and-recovery/downloadablerecoveryimage where you put your Surface Pro 1/2/3 Serial Number and you will be able to get the recovery ISO.
Hello,
yes this has probably been a problem to many people, but I couldn't find a solution for my case.
I flashed a ROM and forgot to backup my files before, so now my whole photos and files I need are gone.
I am looking for a solution to restore deleted photos on my nexus 5. I obviously can't use generic recovery methods because, well, I don't have a sd card to pull out and plug into my computer.
is there a app / method to recover deleted files directly on the nexus (over adb?)?
Paid solutions are welcome too!
Check this thread, has a topic on OTG, which happens to allow mounting as usb storage. Might do the trick.
Hmm the OTG part is about mounting devices on the nexus. I want it the other way around, mount it on my mac and run recovery software on it.
Any ideas on that?
Can't be done.
Only options are whats in my signature. Section 5.4
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Hello,
yes this has probably been a problem to many people, but I couldn't find a solution for my case.
I flashed a ROM and forgot to backup my files before, so now my whole photos and files I need are gone.
I am looking for a solution to restore deleted photos on my nexus 5. I obviously can't use generic recovery methods because, well, I don't have a sd card to pull out and plug into my computer.
is there a app / method to recover deleted files directly on the nexus (over adb?)?
Paid solutions are welcome too!
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you can give this a try and it works great with nexus5 does job well http://www.android-data-recovery.org/android-data-recovery
u need a paid version ,it restores your contact ,messages,pic and files fine just put it on deep scan and let it do the rest later restore
rootSU said:
Can't be done.
Only options are whats in my signature. Section 5.4
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Yes, I am currently trying a option cross linked in that guide.
I'm taking a raw image of my data partition to my mac and will try to restore data there.
Steps taken from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705. Although for windows, but finding the needed tools for mac is not that big of a task.
Will report if I have any success on this
Aqua3 said:
Yes, I am currently trying a option cross linked in that guide.
I'm taking a raw image of my data partition to my mac and will try to restore data there.
Steps taken from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705. Although for windows, but finding the needed tools for mac is not that big of a task.
Will report if I have any success on this
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Yep, we always love to hear a success story. Thanks!
This Data Recovery enables you to recover lost photos, videos, documents and more other files from your nexus 5, you can have a try.
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You've mentioned, " I don't have a sd card to pull out and plug into my computer", actually, you could apply to some app that could identify your device directly.
Here is an Android Data Recovery Mac that may help. You can also google other apps if you need.