I am a noob.
I am trying to figure out how / what to add to a cleanly wiped Context Media Health 13" tablet that was thrown away by a doctor's office. I am able to get to the os and in the apps screen it shows absolutely nothing installed. There are no apps in the app tray and the only thing that will load is the settings screen.
The device has android 4.4.4 and describes itself as Outform-TAB1310-Y4.14-20160223. I am able to get to the recovery screen and it has an SD card reader.
Thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction on this.
The tablet for good reason was thrown into waste: it's OS ( KitKat ) is 9 years old, it was last updated in 2017 !
I understand.
However, If I can get it going, I have a dedicated use case that is not exposed to the internet for which it's os is more than adequate for the task.
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I'm looking for a synchronization solution that will allow me to synchronize files between my Windows 7 Pro desktop, Windows 7 Pro Netbook and my WinMo 6.5 HD2. The limitations of the Windows Mobile Device Center in only being able to synchronise to the phone main memory is a major shortcoming IMHO and I really need to be able to utilize the extra storage capacity of an SD card. I will need to be able to synchronise different files between say my desktop and netbook than I would between my desktop and HD2, so any software I use will need to support profiles.
I've had a quick Google this morning for third-party apps to do this and found Syncables 360 which gets good reviews and seems to cover everything that I need.
Anyone here used it or have experience of it, good, bad or otherwise?
Well to answer my own thread, I took the plunge and bought this software. I can now understand why they no longer offer a trial version...
Initially I had problems installing this software on my Windows 7 desktop PC with the installer saying I didn't have the Adobe Flash player installed. I did have the latest Player version and this was confirmed to be working via Adobe's online diagnostics. I got around this problem by downloading & installing the latest Beta of the Flash Player. Now any software that is reliant upon third-party plugins such as Adobe Player worry me, but I had already paid for the software licence and the specifications of the software looked very promising.
So on to actually running up the software...
Next worry - it's a Java app. and from experience I know that any Java app that has to make calls to hardware as this software will need to do, is likely to to have issues with access permissions and operating system-level security software. That said, the software ran up fine and apart from a couple of rendering issues with the screen dialogues text (I've set my system to a slightly lager font than default) all seemed to be good to go. So, now to set-up my first sync profile...
Well you can't set up a profile unless you register an online account with the developer. Why? If I setup a profile to synchronise my data then I'd like that profile to be retained on my computer not on some third party's server. Why do they need to retain control over what I choose to synchronise? Anyway, an account was setup and a basic sync profile was established between my computer and a USB2 external hard disk. So I start the profile with just a few meg of basic file types to transfer (xls, doc & jpg), it appears to start OK but then it slows but the computer hard disk light is going full blast and the whole computer grinds to a near halt (Quad Core CPU with 4GB RAM). I manage to get Windows task manager up after much wait and sure enough the CPU is running at 100%. I manage to force a shut-down via task manager and the system shuts down.
OK, let's restart check the event logs and see what might have gone wrong. No chance! My once reliable system now Blue Screens with "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Nothing I could do could get it past this point and Windows 7 repair declares there are problems with the file system which after 10 minutes or so appear to have been fixed by chqdsk. Nothing would make the computer boot again, last know good, safe mode, Windows repair... nothing. The system would blue screen no matter what.
Eventually the only option left was to do a full system restore to before Syncables was installed. After a further chkdsk the system reboots and all is again well. I run hard disk and hardware diagnostics to make sure the system is healthy and not suffering from a failing hard disk, system bus error or faulty RAM modules - all test 100%
In fairness to Syncables they did offer to do remote support, but I declined and said I needed a robust system and had no confidence in the Syncables after it all but trashed my whole system. Thankfully they did agree to a full refund.
It's probably unfair to judge this software based upon my experience alone, but it does make you wonder why they no longer offer a trial version for download.
On paper this software looks to be an excellent all-round synchronisation solution, but sadly an implementation based upon Java & Adobe Flash Player is unlikely to ever be as robust as a system-level coded solution.
I'm looking for some help with a new Android tablet that I've come into possession of. It's a Marvell Moby 10":
www dot mobylize dot org
The problem with this tablet is that they've got some weird custom home screen and it's running 1.6, and no market.
Good news: Tablet is rooted, terminal is installed, USB debugging is also enabled. In fact, these were all enabled by default. A really nice surprise for me!
I'm an experienced Linux admin, but not a developer, and am not very familiar with the Android internals or how to even begin building a new 2.2-based ROM for this sucker.
I've managed to install some apps to it by either downloading APK's directly, or installing apps from the market via my Droid, backing them up with TitaniumBackup, swapping SD cards, and then restoring them to the tablet. This works most of the time, but there are a bunch of apps that just don't work.
It's a really nice thin tablet, but unfortunately crippled in a few undesirable ways.
Right now I'm out of town so I don't have simple things on me like a USB cable that I can use to use adb so I'm limited to the terminal.
Would appreciate as much help as I can get on this! If you guys want me to dump images, files, etc, let me know and I'll get them online.
No ideas? No tips?
Still no ideas? Not even a place to start?
Hello,
I've purchased the Yarvik TAB450 2 weeks ago, used (6 weeks old) and I now know why the seller sold it.
It's slow, it's not efficiently installed (5.6 GB free, but I'm unable to install apps), move to sd of apps breaks them, Android is outdated (2.3.3) and not all apps run on it. (at least firefox and age of wind crash)
Lots of reasons to ditch it again, but one to keep it. I haven't found a custom rom for it and I'm curious if I can build one for the tab. (as the specs show more then enough promise and I haven't build anything for a while)
I would like to build an environment which I can use for something else then a glorified ebook reader. However I haven't found any manuals for a general rom build. How to proceed?
I would guess the following steps are needed:
Install sdk (done)
Install other stuff (what?)
Get source (have to locate it)
Determine hardware used in tab. (how?)
Build rom
Test in emulator (is there one?)
Install on tab
Have fun
This is very general, I know, but details will be added later. (when I have them )
The questions I hope to have found the answer of soon are:
How to setup a build environment in Debian
How to determine the hardware in the tab
How to safe the current rom (it's rubbish, but at least it'll let you read ebooks )
Is it possible to boot an image from the sd (of USB stick) to test it
The last 2 points are to prevent destroying the tab while testing, as the manufacturer doesn't have an image, 'as it's in rom'. (which is altered when trying to root it, as I've discovered lately)
I haven't got a clue what I'm getting into, but I hope to get a useful tab out of it. (or the tab dies trying ) I hope to prevent the latter, but when that's not possible, it'll be sacrificed to science.
Whoopsm crash...
The 450 crashed thursday. Not the software, but the device fell. The screen is broken, so it's not responding to touch. I'll see what I can do with the command line interface, it'll gonna be entertaining, but I guess someone else has to take up the challenge for a complete rom. (as I can't test the correct response of the device)
It's dead Jim...
Hello all at XDA!
This is a wonderful site so top marks to those who make the magick happen!
Ok, in short; Got my first computer Sanei N10 CPU - sideloaded a bad Flashplayer (after rooting successfully) and it got root access and/or I gave other malware access using fake icons at Playstore.
Since opening the box I have spent seventy hours this week already trying to learn about everything I can.
Now I am left with the tablet as so -
After factory reset device is still rooted and 'seems' to be working fine
shows 29.44gb of space on a 32gb micro sd card after wipe,
shows 92MB uesd in downloaded apps but shows no icons,
cant access safe mode, display is the same as normal plus fake safe mode icon,
and when i visit Google play root apps like Superuser display a fake overlay 'Install' button icon so I cant download the real Superuser and install more malware instead.
Flashplayer installs itself as soon as browser is opened.
The system runs very smoothly over the top of this hack since a shutdown of all apps forcing me to factory reset and would have run unnoticed if it were not for apps never asking root permissions when i downloaded root apps since.
Its an obscure model and cant seem to find it here on XDA ---------- SANEI N10 CPU 1gig 16gig and (Duel Core I think)
Has anyone heard of this shenanigans with Playstore Icons?
Can anyone point me to the right thread please as I am willing to learn much more form XDA and need a secure computer I can control and understand.
A great learning curve that has opened up a whole new world.
Wake up Neo...
I just got my new iwork8 dual boot. (wanted the windows only version , but gearbest don't have it in stock.
The first time that i booted it into windows it had about 6GB free space.
After setting up network connection and connecting the tablet to the internet, this space got smaller and smaller.
now i have only about 1GB left.
and i did not even installed anything on it.
It's mainly the winsxs folder getting larger and larger
I was wondering if there is an easy way (for the cube iwork8 ultimate) to get rid of the android OS and free it's space for windows.
Preferably a way that will let me keep the current windows , without having to reinstall it. (I read some methods for other brands and models of tablets , that reinstalling windows caused it to loose touch screen, or windows key or activation. so i prefer a way that will allow me to keep my current running windows)
Thanks.
gonene1 said:
I just got my new iwork8 dual boot. (wanted the windows only version , but gearbest don't have it in stock.
The first time that i booted it into windows it had about 6GB free space.
After setting up network connection and connecting the tablet to the internet, this space got smaller and smaller.
now i have only about 1GB left.
and i did not even installed anything on it.
It's mainly the winsxs folder getting larger and larger
I was wondering if there is an easy way (for the cube iwork8 ultimate) to get rid of the android OS and free it's space for windows.
Preferably a way that will let me keep the current windows , without having to reinstall it. (I read some methods for other brands and models of tablets , that reinstalling windows caused it to loose touch screen, or windows key or activation. so i prefer a way that will allow me to keep my current running windows)
Thanks.
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