Long story short.
AGPTEK 718JQ quad core IPS screen, runs like a champ
or did
its my msons, and last night he turns it on and i havve the android robot on his back with his door open.
Som Im thinking corrupted OS
Ive flashed more than my fair share of tablets, but this ones giving me fits/
The maker: http://www.agptek.com/support/download.html has a manual drivers and FW
only problem is all my pcs are either linux or Win7 and theres a known issue w/ WIN7, mostly the driver wont start to allow their tool to connect to the tablet, even if i manually set it up.
Have considered trying to boot WinXP from a USB and trying that, but before I go that route, seems to me as though there should be a method whereby I could convert the .FW files to a .IMG file write it to a micro SD and reboot the tablet/.
anyone w/ any ideas they are deeply appreciated
thanks
j
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As much as I would like to post this in development as I'm sure it'd get more attention and hopefully find a solution, this is better suited here by technicality...
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, I have a VirtualBox running Windows XP. I have the Samsung drivers installed on both machines, but we will focus primarily on the Windows machine. I have managed to get windows to fully read my Charge through USB. I can transfer files to and from it.
Here's the problem. Because Heimdall won't correctly flash for the Charge at this point in time, I need Odin. I do not have access to a full blown Windows device so let's just not clutter this thread with those recommendations. This is strictly to find a fix for Odin on my VirtualBox.
Odin will recognise my phone when it is on with USB debugging on. Problem here is that the phone isn't recognised in download mode. Also, when Odin see's the phone, it see's it on 2 separate com ports even with the phone plugged into 1.
So there in is my problem, Odin can find my Charge just not in the problem way. Any suggestions?
boostedjti said:
As much as I would like to post this in development as I'm sure it'd get more attention and hopefully find a solution, this is better suited here by technicality...
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, I have a VirtualBox running Windows XP. I have the Samsung drivers installed on both machines, but we will focus primarily on the Windows machine. I have managed to get windows to fully read my Charge through USB. I can transfer files to and from it.
Here's the problem. Because Heimdall won't correctly flash for the Charge at this point in time, I need Odin. I do not have access to a full blown Windows device so let's just not clutter this thread with those recommendations. This is strictly to find a fix for Odin on my VirtualBox.
Odin will recognise my phone when it is on with USB debugging on. Problem here is that the phone isn't recognised in download mode. Also, when Odin see's the phone, it see's it on 2 separate com ports even with the phone plugged into 1.
So there in is my problem, Odin can find my Charge just not in the problem way. Any suggestions?
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OK, I am no expert on flashing ROMs or anything like that really so I do not know how to fix your problem; BUT, as a person who does a lot of work in tech support I can offer some suggestions for a workaround.
First, since it seems you are set on using linux, why not try a different VM manager, such as VMWare rather than Virtual Box. Again, I'm no expert but maybe VMWare will handle USB connections slightly differently than Virtual Box. Don't know, just saying.
Second, and this is what I would do, since you clearly have a copy of Windows XP and the space for it on your hard drive, why don't you just dual boot XP and Ubuntu? Then, you could get a free ext4 reader so could continue to access your files in Ubuntu from Windows. The way I see it is, why spend all this time this time trying to figure out this very specific problem when I believe this solution would work quite well.
streetlightman said:
OK, I am no expert on flashing ROMs or anything like that really so I do not know how to fix your problem; BUT, as a person who does a lot of work in tech support I can offer some suggestions for a workaround.
First, since it seems you are set on using linux, why not try a different VM manager, such as VMWare rather than Virtual Box. Again, I'm no expert but maybe VMWare will handle USB connections slightly differently than Virtual Box. Don't know, just saying.
Second, and this is what I would do, since you clearly have a copy of Windows XP and the space for it on your hard drive, why don't you just dual boot XP and Ubuntu? Then, you could get a free ext4 reader so could continue to access your files in Ubuntu from Windows. The way I see it is, why spend all this time this time trying to figure out this very specific problem when I believe this solution would work quite well.
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While dual booting is probably my last resort it is an option I've had in mind.
I tried VMWare with no success and think this is more of a usb recognition problem but I'm not certain.
I don't want to dual boot mainly because my hard drive is "limited" as is, and seeing as how this is only a laptop, battery life with Ubuntu is much greater which is something I needed since I am a full time student. If I can't find a solution soon I will probably just build a new desktop and run dual boot with it. Just trying to get a temp solution for the time being.
I do appreciate your advice and will probably end up going that route, just looking to see if there is an easy solution as it seems I'm so close to fixing my virtual box issue.
This can be closed. Wiped my drives and did a dual boot setup.
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This can be closed. Wiped my drives and did a dual boot setup.
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That's the way to go. I too prefer Ubuntu, but there's just too many things for my work and my hobbies that work much better in Windows for me not to have a native copy running on my machine. Unfortunately, suspend/resume still is a little finicky on my Toshiba laptop, so I end up having to run Windows if I anticipate I'll be opening and closing it alot...
Another person I met on irc had issues with ubuntu and his toshiba. Thankfully my dell is a champ.
I only needed odin for this phone so 30gb allocated space will be fine. With school I can use all the stuff that comes with ubuntu which is free and it will revert to Microsoft office files. Plus my laptop runs better lol
I know that you wanted to get it working, but I would avoid ever trying to flash a phone from within a virtual machine environment, even if the phone does get picked up. One drop in communication between the virtual USB/host driver/hardware and you could be staring a very expensive paperweight. While a drop in communication is possible even in a non-virtual OS, you're adding another point of failure to the process by trying in a virtual machine, and one that is also quite possibly the weakest link in the entire chain.
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I know that you wanted to get it working, but I would avoid ever trying to flash a phone from within a virtual machine environment, even if the phone does get picked up. One drop in communication between the virtual USB/host driver/hardware and you could be staring a very expensive paperweight. While a drop in communication is possible even in a non-virtual OS, you're adding another point of failure to the process by trying in a virtual machine, and one that is also quite possibly the weakest link in the entire chain.
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Thanks for pushing me into dual boot in irc lol.
Like you said, just better this way.
I've tried a lot of different means but ultimately I want to make sure of something. In regards to Linux, in particular debian, does everyone else have issues with actually keeping the galaxy s 4g connected in USB mode? Here is a rundown of what happens.
1.) Plug in phone and start USB mode
2a.) If left idle all is well and the device stays connected.
2b.) Else the phone disconnects itself during data transfers.
Here are more details to my setup
~ I've experienced this problem with Fedora 14 >, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
~ Currently using debian(latest version squeeze).
~ Phone is running FB VahallaBlack with Subtly Modified Stock with CWM5 + Voodoo Lagfix
~ USB Debug mode is off
~ There are no tweaks active to my knowledge.
That's all the information that comes to mind, if anything else is needed please let me know and I'll post it. I dual boot windows and debian and I'd rather my phone work on both OS and not just one.
I use Ubuntu and I have this same issue. I just began either syncing over Dropbox or plugging my sd card directly into the computer. I've tried Googling the issue, but was unable to find a solution. If you don't wanna do either of these, and you hate switching to Windows just to transfer **** (as I did), you should perhaps try running a virtual instance of Windows and transferring the files on that.
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I use Ubuntu and I have this same issue. I just began either syncing over Dropbox or plugging my sd card directly into the computer. I've tried Googling the issue, but was unable to find a solution. If you don't wanna do either of these, and you hate switching to Windows just to transfer **** (as I did), you should perhaps try running a virtual instance of Windows and transferring the files on that.
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Sad to say I've tried all of that. Virtual instances of windows are worse from my experience as there were time where the VM actually found the phone and there were times it didn't, mostly didn't. Best possible thing I see myself doing is using a SD converter to do the transfers. What I don't understand is that A LOT of this tech today uses linux in some way or another. Hell some of them have linux controlling the most basic level functions with another software to handle UI on top of it. Yet when it comes to actually working with linux through said UI you get issues like this. Thanks for the reply, I'll continue to check back here for most of the day but I'm assuming most of the replies will be the same.
I need some help. I will set up the scenario first. My Cap has had the unbrickmod performed on it about 8 months ago. I had the battery fall out ib the middle of a flash. I was getting the phone /computer "you screwed up a firmware install" animation. I tried to get it cleared up with Odin and now it is black screen no matter what I try. Can't get download, or recovery, and the usb jig won't even get it into download. I am completely unschooled and self taught with pc and phones and I think I have done pretty well. Now, I have taken another big step and after reading up on what to do next, I installed successfully, Ubuntu in my laptop (xp pro)and I can dual o.s. or boot either o.s. individually and everything seems to work fine. I downloaded UnBrickResrectR40, HIBL.zip, and java jre7.0.5. Ihave no clue about Linux or command lines,but after reading a million different claims on how to install these files i was finally able to get the java installed. But, I can't get the unbrickres file to install. I always get an error saying file not found by regex. Now I have copies in downloads,desktop, home, files, and have changed permissions and types(jar,javaw.exe,zip.gz) and still nothing. No forums or help pages help. They all give directions as if you know what you are doing already. They must figure if you got this far you are a tech or a dev, not a noob electrician who can't even type. I need some seriously slow,detailed,step by step,hand holding through this one, if someone has the patience. Back to the phone. The only thing that shows any life in the phone at all is when it is plugged into my laptop. It doesn't show up anywhere but under device manager. It shows under "universal serial bus devices" as, SEC S5PC 110 Test B/D , location 0,device is working properly,driver provider-libusb.org, driver date-7-13-2009,driver version-6.7.7600.16385, not digitally signed. That is it. I need some direction. What do I do now? Hopefully someone feels adventurous.Thanks
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I need some help. I will set up the scenario first. My Cap has had the unbrickmod performed on it about 8 months ago. I had the battery fall out ib the middle of a flash. I was getting the phone /computer "you screwed up a firmware install" animation. I tried to get it cleared up with Odin and now it is black screen no matter what I try. Can't get download, or recovery, and the usb jig won't even get it into download. I am completely unschooled and self taught with pc and phones and I think I have done pretty well. Now, I have taken another big step and after reading up on what to do next, I installed successfully, Ubuntu in my laptop (xp pro)and I can dual o.s. or boot either o.s. individually and everything seems to work fine. I downloaded UnBrickResrectR40, HIBL.zip, and java jre7.0.5. Ihave no clue about Linux or command lines,but after reading a million different claims on how to install these files i was finally able to get the java installed. But, I can't get the unbrickres file to install. I always get an error saying file not found by regex. Now I have copies in downloads,desktop, home, files, and have changed permissions and types(jar,javaw.exe,zip.gz) and still nothing. No forums or help pages help. They all give directions as if you know what you are doing already. They must figure if you got this far you are a tech or a dev, not a noob electrician who can't even type. I need some seriously slow,detailed,step by step,hand holding through this one, if someone has the patience. Back to the phone. The only thing that shows any life in the phone at all is when it is plugged into my laptop. It doesn't show up anywhere but under device manager. It shows under "universal serial bus devices" as, SEC S5PC 110 Test B/D , location 0,device is working properly,driver provider-libusb.org, driver date-7-13-2009,driver version-6.7.7600.16385, not digitally signed. That is it. I need some direction. What do I do now? Hopefully someone feels adventurous.Thanks
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Have you tried the Windows tool Windows32DriversAndCommandLineApp.zip ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242466
Thanks for the advice
Thanks Silvertag, I appreciate the fact that you even read my post. I was running late for work, but wanted to get something on the boards.
I will check out the link you suggested. Much appreciated.
Good morning all,
Please go easy on me! I've done some quite extensive searching and trying different things out on my Acer A500 to get it working again. The story;
I bought some tablets to try and fix, things like broken screens etc. I want to try and fix them and give them to local youth clubs and things for them to use as they were asking for odd bits and bobs, for use in their groups, so obviously trying to keep costs down where possible. I've got an Acer Iconia A500 amongst them.
Firstly I bought a charger, charged up fine. Pressed the power and it went to an android screen, looked like it was loading. Then didn't, just hung. Switched it off tried it again, didn't go as far as the android, just hung on Acer screen. I noticed there was an SD card in there, pulled the back off and took it out, looked like someone had put the back cover on whilst leaving the SD in and it snapped the SD card. Put it back together went to the Acer screen and hung.
After much searching I tried the update.zip, which many were taking about. One of the ones I tried started to load and stopped at 25%. Tried a few times, still hung. Tried others and instead of having a loading bar, it had the Android guy with the spinning ball, then he falls over and has a red exclamation mark over him. Reading various other threads, and watching videos some people where saying that the update.zip is inside the download (extract the. Zip was mentioned in various threads) which maybe called "Acer_A500_Gen.........." I can't find anything like that, I've purely just been renaming the download to update.zip. As none of this was working, I tried the computer based approach, but as the tablet doesn't boot properly the PC doesn't recognise it, it see it, starts loading a driver and fails, so it seems I can't communicate with the tablet via a pc either.
Could someone help please? I don't know whether I'm renaming the downloads properly, or whether I should be using something else, I can't communicate with it via a pc (using Windows OS) really quite stuck, but after seeing it start to load I do still have faith that it's fixable?
Thanks in advance and sorry about the massive story!
Hello All.
So the other day I paid a visit to the local skip, as you do, and I found a Flytouch Superpad 7 in its' box, so I took it home.
Plugged it in and it started to boot up, first screen had "Tablet PC powered by...." then the next screen was of the Android Droid with its' arms folded, it usually freezes here. Sometimes it will go onto a screen with "Android" in the centre, but no further.
So I have tried various combination of pressing buttons to no avail. Cannot access a recovery anything.
I took it apart and found it is a Yones Top Tech BC1003, so have been searching and searching for information and roms etc for days.
What I would like to know is, do you think this tablet is saveable?
I have plugged it into my laptop but it doesn't recognise it, but wouldn't the tablet have to boot to be recognised?
I have read thread upon thread, but still do not understand how I could get a rom onto this tablet if it is not recognised by the laptop and it doesn't show a recovery section where I could boot from a SD Card.
Any advice gratefully accepted. Just trying to save something from the landfill.
Just an update to say I managed to get the tablet up and running.
I ended up going to a lot of foreign language website through Google Translate and found some firmware for this board at the Koncaso site. Burned the .img file and put it in the tablet, which now works again.