Swiss Mobility Zur805 can it be saved?

Swiss Mobility Zur805 can it be saved? - General Questions and Answers

Hey smarter people than me,
I have a Swiss Mobility ZUR805 tablet that worked great until about a year ago when it started having boot problems, something in the realm of "CANNOT FIND SHELL" (which to my understanding means no operating system found??).
After a year of sitting in a drawer, and me deciding I would try an salvage it as a nanny cam, kids movie tab, or whatever, I decided to read some threads and become my own hero. So, I either messed up, tangled myself up more, or this thing is a brick. Please help me decide or point me in the right direction. This is what I know.
-I found no support on this tab, but there is lots of help on the same problem. This is just to say that generic solutions (resetting BIOS and playing around with the boot options) did not work.
-I have access to BIOS and some other options by pressing ESC on boot, but there is not much I would know to do after that.
-After playing around with boot options, It stopped getting the shell error message and started going straight to "ENTERING DNX MODE, WAITING FOR FASTBOOT COMMAND", wait 2 mins, reboot and repeat
-Trying the POWER + VOL (and different combinations) to enter recovery mode does nothing
-I cannot find the original software (is it called a ROM?) to tray and restore through sd card
-I have read that I cannot install any version of Android, it needs to be specific to this tab. Is this true? How can I get a working version?
-Is this just as a pc, meaning hardware + operating system + drivers = working device?
-The INTEL logo is the only thing that will appear other than the error message. Does this mean I can install Windows or Ubuntu?
-Should I?
-What would I need?
Thanks for any and all help.

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[Q] Xoom possibly bricked? Did nothing...

Ok, so I walked by my Xoom (while docked) the other day and I noticed it was in a boot animation (4.0.3 ICS, stock). I thought that odd since I didn't reboot it. I noticed it was like this 1 hour later so I thought I should give it a reboot. Did the power+Vol-up and it rebooted. Still in an endless boot animation. The volume buttons don't do anything once the messages below appear (normally it would scroll through selections).
Reboot + Volume down produces: "Starting Fastboot Protocol Support" and it's frozen there.
Reboot + Volume up: "Starting RSD Protocol Support 0"
"One Wire: Charger is connected"
"Battery Charge Level: 98%"
(frozen at this point)
Reboot + Both volume buttons: "Cold Booting Linux"
"Reading ODM fuse: 1"
(starts to boot, but endless boot still)
Not sure what else I can do. I work in IT and tech support, so I am very savy. I have rooted many other devices, funnily enough, I was happy enough with my stock Xoom, so I never rooted or hacked it in any way (wish I had now!). I simply enjoyed the Moto updates as they came.
I did a live chat with their (useless) support and they wanted me to depot this unit in for $150, which is insane considering how cheap Xoom's are going for. Considering I have a spare AC brick, Dock, portfolio, etc and i'm not super impressed with any other Android tablets as of today, I don't really want to pick up a better unit even (not yet anyways).
I did search the forums, but didn't find anything specific to my problem.
any help appreciated !!
Thanks
DDD-

I don't mean to come off as rude, but have you tried not using the dock? Perhaps the dock is the issue..
But assuming you tried that:
If you don't mind wiping everything out and starting back over in honeycomb, you could do that reboot + volume down and enter fastboot mode. Its supposed to stay frozen because it is actually waiting for fastboot commands from a computer.
With fastboot, you can flash images on to your xoom.
If you don't mind losing data (you may not have much of a choice) or some risk:
1. Go to http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/
2. Download the images for your device (it will be in a zip) (you may need to create an account.)
3. Extract that zip
4. If you haven't already, set up ADB and fastboot
5. Follow the fastboot instructions on the page given above. (It's under "INSTRUCTIONS TO FLASH & RE-LOCK YOUR MOTOROLA XOOM:" ... I wouldn't follow the directions for the Razr...)
6. reboot
If I were you though, I would quickly google "how to restore xoom to stock" I may have left some things out. Use my mini-guide as inspiration. And I am not sure if you would need to unlock your bootloader first before flashing these images.

No worries, not a rude question at all since I mentioned it. It just sits on the dock and charges. I haven't done any of this testing on the dock.
I finally got some justice with Moto-India, they are going to have me ship it in and repair it for free. I did order a Moto Factory USB cable off ebay for $10 just in case Moto wouldn't hook me up on the repair. Thanks for replying though and I will keep this thread in mind if this happens again.

I am glad I could help.
You are very welcome.

[Q] Tablet stuck in password screen + recovery mode doesn't work

Hello,
I'm sorry to bother you with an apparently repetitive thread, but I assure it is not.
I've been dealing with this problem for over a year now. Of course there were times that I simply gave up, but every now and then I searched all over the internet (seriously; very resilient, I am) and tried everything. Nothing seems to work.
The issue is: one day I was reading something on Google Reader and the tablet restarted. When it came back, it was in this password screen.
[AS A NEW USER I COULDN'T POST THE IMAGE - please see attachment ending in 41]
Detail: I had never, EVER set any kind of password. I don't do this with any of my devices unless I'm obliged to (as in Windows 8, this big piece of shiite).
So the thing is: I did not set a password, I did not choose to ask for a password in any situation and there isn't a single combination that I haven't tried. The thing doesn't even ask me to stop -- like 'hey, you've tried your 30k input, I think you should stop now'.
Now, for you not to start cursing me, I tried EVERYTHING that is basic and post-basic to fix it. I did wipe the data, I tried flashing another ROM, I did cold boot, factory reset, EasyFlashed, nvflashtf and whatnot. I swear to GoogleGods that I, as a non-expert-but-very-keen-on-technology, could.
Another thing that happens is when I try to enter the recovery mode, after using the nvflash, it doesn't work. The image that appears to me is this one:
[SAME THING -- attachment ending in 38]
Again: I'm not a complete noob. I know how to get into things; all I need is a simple guidance. I'm really sorry if this has been posted before and only I couldn't find it, but I won't be so if someone helps me to get it and solve my problem. I can't stand this anymore -- now it's just a matter of pride.
Thank you all.

This happened to me on my SL101 after I flashed a ROM of some sort. I used ADB commands to push the stock ROM back to it and to push another Recovery to it. Mine was in worse shape, Recovery loop, and then I finally got it to where yours currently is. My physical nor on screen keyboard would even work. Look up some ADB commands, perhaps you already know them, and attempt to either push the stock ROM or a new Recovery blob back to it.
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DatDude123 said:
Look up some ADB commands, perhaps you already know them, and attempt to either push the stock ROM or a new Recovery blob back to it.
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Yeah, well, y'know, I'm not at this level yet, but I'll dig into ADB and stuff.
I tried to use this sometime in the past, but my computer was so bad back then that I had to give up to keep my sanity. Now I've got a fairly good one (very good, considering the few things I use it for), however much less time.
Tonight is the night, though. I'll study as much as I can and I'll fix this ****. Any tip you may remember now would be useful.
Thanks.

I'm struggling with something even before I start: there's no way I can get access to the system and turn the USB Debugging on.

I know I'm not getting much attention, but I won't give up. Please just do not accuse me of spamming; I'm just a desperate geek that has been kept away from his toy.
Alright, after the childish speech, here's the latest update: I cannot use de ADB thing because there's no way I can turn on the USB debugging mode.
Or is there? The latest news is that I can get access to some system files through the ASUS File Manager (turns out it still reads the MicroSD Card, even though I could not update the device this way). So, technicians, is there a way to hack into this beast? Fu ck, I don't even know how to call it anymore.
There isn't much I can do with this File Manager. Mostly visualize the folders and rename this and that (which is the only thing I reckon might be useful).
Jesus, I'm sleepy, I can't even write properly anymore. Please someone help me. It can't be that hard.

maycondimas said:
I know I'm not getting much attention, but I won't give up. Please just do not accuse me of spamming; I'm just a desperate geek that has been kept away from his toy.
Alright, after the childish speech, here's the latest update: I cannot use de ADB thing because there's no way I can turn on the USB debugging mode.
Or is there? The latest news is that I can get access to some system files through the ASUS File Manager (turns out it still reads the MicroSD Card, even though I could not update the device this way). So, technicians, is there a way to hack into this beast? Fu ck, I don't even know how to call it anymore.
There isn't much I can do with this File Manager. Mostly visualize the folders and rename this and that (which is the only thing I reckon might be useful).
Jesus, I'm sleepy, I can't even write properly anymore. Please someone help me. It can't be that hard.
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For some reason i thought you were on th sl101(slider) so i didnt comment. So heres the deal, any fix is going to be data destructive(nothing you can do at this point as even if you manage to pull data from the tablet, it will be encripted) You need Easyflasher(dev section) follow the instructios there (basically donwloading stock firmware from asus and by using nvflash in apx mode it will re-partition storage, and upload the stock firmware to the tf101)
If you hit any problems, post them here and ill help you further
Edit: just read you post more, if you tried easyflaher and it didnt work, please post the details of what you tried within easyflasher.
Its a strange issue, if it happend to me and id tried the things you already have, this is what id try:
-Flashing ubuntu from the dev section(i known very little about how nvflash works but it maybe only re-partitioning certain partitions, ubuntu i would imagine would require a full re-partitioning)
-alternativly (or on top of the previous idea) use one of the ubuntu installers(OLiFE on ubuntu worked the best for me, but franks tools/ newer software based on franks tools should work fine) and flash the Prime! rom on its own.
If these dont work, your last resort is asus - but thats a long shot lol

maycondimas said:
I know I'm not getting much attention, but I won't give up. Please just do not accuse me of spamming; I'm just a desperate geek that has been kept away from his toy.
Alright, after the childish speech, here's the latest update: I cannot use de ADB thing because there's no way I can turn on the USB debugging mode.
Or is there? The latest news is that I can get access to some system files through the ASUS File Manager (turns out it still reads the MicroSD Card, even though I could not update the device this way). So, technicians, is there a way to hack into this beast? Fu ck, I don't even know how to call it anymore.
There isn't much I can do with this File Manager. Mostly visualize the folders and rename this and that (which is the only thing I reckon might be useful).
Jesus, I'm sleepy, I can't even write properly anymore. Please someone help me. It can't be that hard.
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If you can't get into anything, but you can enter APX Mode, but NVFlash doesn't work, then I'm not sure anything will as NVFlash completey deletes and recreates all the partitions on the drive
So unless you have been unlucky and downloaded a bad version of an NVFlash ROM....
I know you say you have used NVFlash but I`ll stick this here anyway
The way I restore is:
Connect tablet to PC and make sure the tablet is turned off (Make sure it is the only USB device connected other than keyboard/mouse)
Hold Volume Up + Power for a few seconds until you hear the USB connect sound on the PC, release the buttons, you are in APX mode
Install APX drivers if you have not already
Now extract this
http://www.xdafileserver.nl/Files/Asus/Asus%20Transformer%20(TF101)/STOCK%20ROMS/ICS%20.27/NVFLASH_ICS_9.2.1.27_WW_NOROOT.7z
And run "download.bat"
I think you should see some text appear on the tablet screen, and progress will be shown in the command prompt window on the PC
Wait for it to complete 100%
Its been a while so I can't remember if the tablet will reboot on its own or if you need to hold power for 30 seconds to get out of APX mode
Either way, make sure it is completely finished and reboot the tablet
Only thing I can remember going wrong with NVFlash was the first time I rebooted after a sucessful boot, it would hang on a black screen
Just hold power for 30 seconds and then power on normally, done, if it has worked you have your tablet back, if not, I think its a hardware issue > see asus

Im very keen to get this fixed/ find the issue as uptil now I thought the tf101 was virtually software invincible, you need to pay attention to what the nvflash process says, the one thing I can think of as to why nvflash didn't work is it can't write over encrypted partitions although that would make no sense why it wouldn't.

Just a suggestion... make sure you're not docked. Some people report issues when nvflashing while docked (I can't replicate those issues except with the Tubuntu tool).

Is there a solution?
I also have an error! see picture

[Q] PLT-7223-G assistance.

Hi.
I got a Proscan PLT-7223-G tablet for really cheap (free.)
It's actually not bad (yeah, yeah...), and runs most things that I've tried fairly well (had some stuttering playing Tomba! but eh...)
Thing is... I want to be able to do a few things that I need root for.
So far, I have found nothing about this tab. It's running a RK2928, has JB 4.1.1, and that's it.
There are no hard keys, so I can't even use recovery mode (even though I can get to it through adb...)
Everything I have tried to do to root it has failed. Auto-rooting programs hang. Manual rooting gives me permission errors (probably the cause of failed everything else,) and I don't really know enough to figure this out on my own.
So... Anyone out here have any help for this mystery tab? Or at least be able to point me in some new direction? Or even just let me know how to use recovery without buttons?
Thanks in advance.

So, I've kept trying to figure things out to see if it's a clone of something else. It seems the same as the IPPO K7, but I don't know the GPU on mine since it just says "Super 3D GPU" on it. And the IPPO K7 root kit gives me errors about not being able to access folders..

PLT-7223G ADB Connection
Kurobei, I know its been two months since your post but I'm hoping you will reply. I also have a PLT-7223G tablet that I have been trying to connect to using ADB. I have stumbled through windows XP "New Hardware Found" and managed to get "Android ADB Interface" to load when I plug in the Tablet. But ADB DEVICES returns nothing. I have the latest ADB version of 1.0.31. I have added these lines to android_winusb.inf
;ProScan plt-7223g
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_16d5&PID_8005
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_16d5&PID_8005&REV_0222
under both [Google.NTx86] & [Google.NTamd64]
Do you have any tips?
---------- Post added at 08:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:51 PM ----------
Never mind. I found my error. In C:\Documents and Settings\User\.android\adb_usb.ini I was using an "o" instead of a"0" for the line "0x16d5".
All better

hard reset
Kurobei said:
Hi.
I got a Proscan PLT-7223-G tablet for really cheap (free.)
It's actually not bad (yeah, yeah...), and runs most things that I've tried fairly well (had some stuttering playing Tomba! but eh...)
Thing is... I want to be able to do a few things that I need root for.
So far, I have found nothing about this tab. It's running a RK2928, has JB 4.1.1, and that's it.
There are no hard keys, so I can't even use recovery mode (even though I can get to it through adb...)
Everything I have tried to do to root it has failed. Auto-rooting programs hang. Manual rooting gives me permission errors (probably the cause of failed everything else,) and I don't really know enough to figure this out on my own.
So... Anyone out here have any help for this mystery tab? Or at least be able to point me in some new direction? Or even just let me know how to use recovery without buttons?
Thanks in advance.
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I have the same tablet I have a question How do you do a hard reset or do a factory reset there is no volume buttons on this tablet

Kurobei said:
Hi.
I got a Proscan PLT-7223-G tablet for really cheap (free.)
It's actually not bad (yeah, yeah...), and runs most things that I've tried fairly well (had some stuttering playing Tomba! but eh...)
Thing is... I want to be able to do a few things that I need root for.
So far, I have found nothing about this tab. It's running a RK2928, has JB 4.1.1, and that's it.
There are no hard keys, so I can't even use recovery mode (even though I can get to it through adb...)
Everything I have tried to do to root it has failed. Auto-rooting programs hang. Manual rooting gives me permission errors (probably the cause of failed everything else,) and I don't really know enough to figure this out on my own.
So... Anyone out here have any help for this mystery tab? Or at least be able to point me in some new direction? Or even just let me know how to use recovery without buttons?
Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps this is late, but I got the same tablet two weeks ago. Look at this other post for info on rooting it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450480

Helping a colleague
jfmajo said:
Perhaps this is late, but I got the same tablet two weeks ago. Look at this other post for info on rooting it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450480
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So, a colleague has this tablet and I was looking for options to root and landed on this thread. Thanks for pointing us the right way.

jfmajo said:
Perhaps this is late, but I got the same tablet two weeks ago. Look at this other post for info on rooting it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450480
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I had pretty much given up on rooting this, and then, for whatever reason, decided to look at this thread...
I've all but given up and then you have to go and make me very happy with it.
Thanks a ton. I've now got the thing rooted and am no longer stuck with only 4gb of internal space, among other things!

Unlocking/Resetting PROSCAN PLT 7233G
Hello,
I am trying to fix a tablet (Proscan PLT 7223 G) for a friend of mine. They bought it off a television network and when they turned it on, it required a passcode (requires letter and/or numbers). I have tried MANY methods, from resestting it through the pinhole in the back of the device. Even trying various programs that can unlock the tablet via PC. I think the main issue is that the tablet's usb debugging setting is not on. And with that not being on, I can't do anything on command prompt. I really need some assistance on unlocking this tablet. I have been trying for days and even searching xda and google for any solutions that may come up. Didn't think this would be an issue but it has now. Would greatly appreciate any ideas or methods to unlocking the tablet OR activating USB debugging via PC command prompt with the tablet's password.
Thanks,
EzE601

PLT7223g Recovery
Recovery System: v4.1.01 Android System Recovery <3e>
Enter recovery: Turn power off by holding power button down for extended period. Menu comes up and asks if you want to power off or cancel. Choose “OK” to power off.
Insert pin in update hole and hold power button down simultaneously until Proscan splash screen is displayed. “Fallen Android spilling red exclamation mark” comes up in a few seconds. Simultaneously depress pin and power button briefly, release, do this several times until recovery menu comes up.
Move menu selection by depressing pin.
Menu provides numerous options for rebooting, applying an upgrade and factory reset.

Database Info

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