#Lenovo ThinkSmart View

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next mural
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But as far as I'm aware it requires a repartition first regardless linkyay

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He can probably confirm that for you if you still eager to try

long reef
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Ok. Well reflashing to 201006.099 now to start with clean slate

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Me trying to plug the power connector in

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I'm always afraid yanking it out is gonna kill it one day

sweet wren
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That barrel connector is awful

next mural
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Gonna start looking hard for barrel jack to USB c soon

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So can just leave the barrel jack in

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And just disconnect USB c

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It's abt 30 watt adapter so any other the PD stuff we use for Pc hamhelds would likely work on the adapter end of things

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To juice the machine

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Just have to find the compat size barrel jack

long reef
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Ok this thing has been on the lenovo logo an unusual amount of time now..

next mural
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That's concerning

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Did the flash pass?

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On the tool

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Download complete no fails"

long reef
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yeah flashing again to double check

next mural
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Usually when flashing and after screen is basically black for me

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Until I unplug n replug

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To turn it back on

long reef
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Yes. I got success and finish download. Re plug. Now it's sitting on the logo

hoary current
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Did you factory reset after flashing?

long reef
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where do I access that

hoary current
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Recovery menu

devout cradle
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Watching this is like watching a fish evolve into a salamander while forgetting to grow lungs.

long reef
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Hm still no dice

fluid hemlock
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Got Mario Kart 64 running finally lmao

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long reef
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I had no problems on the other image, weird. Welp off to do other things. I'll have more time Tuesday when I'm "working from home"

fluid hemlock
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Couldn't get DS to load

long reef
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Hm I had drastic working just no sound on the build I had.

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it was ass on retroarch

next mural
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Try older APKs sometimes depends

fluid hemlock
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I'll have to give it a shot

long reef
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Now of course I went to change the build and I get this infinite logo

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Ok removed the modified boot.img and it worked

next mural
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🙏🏽

long reef
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I still can't get into fastboot though. wtf

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something is bork

next mural
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Hm but you can get into adb or

long reef
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maybe I'm dumb and this is a fastboot driver issue

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"If a device is not listed, you may need to go into Device Manager > Other Devices > Android device with question mark. Right click > Update Drivers > Browse My Local Drivers > Let me pick from a list > Change to Fastboot Drivers."

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what is the driver supposed to be called

next mural
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Show me device manager

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Is there a thing on it?

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It says android or what

long reef
next mural
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Make sure driver signing is off

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Then reboot

long reef
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you're talking about this?

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I have run that, yes

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oh

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Then restart

long reef
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got it

next mural
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🙏🏽

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Good to go

long reef
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I guess I hadn't needed fastboot yet so didn't realize I did not have those drivers. oops

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But now that I flashed the magisk boot.img it is stuck on boot again 😦

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are you guys using magisk with 201006.099

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it worked fine with 200628.084

next mural
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First installed the magisk app

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Let it load then after flashed image for magisk

long reef
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Is it a long boot?

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I installed 2001006.099 - everything fine. turned on oem unlocking, went to fastboot, unlocked, flashed boot.img, relocked, reboot - now stuck on lenovo logo

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same as when I flashed the rooted boot.img with QFIL

next mural
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Took abt ten mins

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But now that your fastboot installed

long reef
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oh maybe I am impatient then

next mural
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And try whatever you'd like linkyay

long reef
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ok install magisk boot.img and going to take a shower then lol.

long reef
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Was still on the logo when I left home

next mural
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🤔

fluid hemlock
next mural
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doggylol thank god you're not into science experis 🧪

fluid hemlock
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No but I do teach children

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And somehow have a minor in computer science powerhaha

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@fluid hemlock you play some n64

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Man smash bros is so fun on it

fluid hemlock
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Need to find that one rom hack that adds more characters

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kek ironically I'm not a retro gamer

fluid hemlock
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Game streaming on your ThinkSmart View I could tell

next mural
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But it's for the community

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Everyone else here

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Buys 17 underpowered handhelds with same chip every 2 months

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linkyay might as well get a little boost in 🐎

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Be able to play games unrealistically upscaled for cheap kek

fluid hemlock
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Hey at least those handhelds are portable

rough eagle
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Whatever. I'm bringing this thing on my next plane trip

next mural
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And you can actually fit it in a backpack with the box

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And if you got a cover of some sort that would be even less space being used

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@sweet wren 3d print shell cover to make it Porto linkyay

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Protect the screen all gravy powerhaha

next mural
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We need to do that anyways soon

fluid hemlock
next mural
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I'm certain that barrel jack connection being yanked out all the time ain't gonna survive

fluid hemlock
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Absolutely not

next mural
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I take mine to work n back

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doggylol doom on lunch "

fluid hemlock
rough eagle
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I did blind and deafen my two units before plugging them in

inland hollow
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Hey guys i failed at this device. I got mine today with older software 200410.067and i tried upgrading to the 201006.099 version. Using qfil i was able to normally "download" the new firmware but even though its "sucsessful" the device remains on a black screen. Pluging power on and off results in the same black screen.

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I have tried different versions of the img but its the same issues no matter what version i use

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windoes always detects the device and i can redownload the firmware but same black screen nothing happenes

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green dirge
rough eagle
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Download Fail:FireHose Fail:FHLoader Fail:The system cannot find the file specified

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Oh it boots though

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rough eagle
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I got into Teams>Gear>About and am showing the 201006.099 firmware and have enabled developer mode

next mural
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Perfection

rough eagle
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Got unlauncer installed but stuck here

next mural
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Your got installed?

rough eagle
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I'm trying to do this

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oh that's all one line isnt it

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not 3 separate statements

next mural
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Yeah

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It's one code

sweet wren
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yea one line

next mural
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That should bring up a message for default launcher pick the unlauncher then after that click always

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So it becomes default

rough eagle
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Yep done

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But apparently I should've looked into Unlauncher more

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now I'm stuck in a calendar app lol

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Oh just ran the adb command again and now I'm good

next mural
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You can install this to get a navigation bar so you can go back

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Run this to get rid of garbage apps

rough eagle
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oh nperfect

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i was getting ready to ask which packages need to be burned

next mural
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After doing so restart the tablet and check to see if it launches into UN

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If it does then you're set for gaming for now

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The rest should act like regular tab on aosp rom more or less

rough eagle
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Oh yeah I'm up and running

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sweet wren
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Make sure to install the S9 navigation bar

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makes getting around A LOT easier

next mural
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Indeed linkyay

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rough eagle
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Yeah nav bar was critical

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And even the newest Plex apk supports Android 5.0 and up

next mural
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I've only tried Amazon prime

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But I'm sure any works as that

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And YouTube at 1080 work

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So streaming vid no problema

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rough eagle
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Anybody mount SMB shares in Android before? I'm using the abandoned Android Samba Client right now but open to something still being maintained

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SMB share from my NAS is my plan for roms for RetroArch

long reef
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rough eagle
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My biggest frustration so far is Android 8.1. So many QOL settings in the system settings are missing in 8.1 compared to the 13 I'm used to on my phone.

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rough eagle
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Just getting access to ROMs over network shares is annoying

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@sweet wren must see this in your review

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Would be a gangster entrance for the device doggylol

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Walkin the intro wearing a tux and lay the briefcase of the table

hoary current
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The case is 5x as much as the device 😂 why is that even a thing? Who would be bringing these places individually? lol

rough eagle
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I mean the internal storage on this thing is pathetic so going for SMB/NFS is the only way I'm going to be able to play heavier roms on it

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Maybe I'll just make a curated list of NES/SNES/GBC/GBA/MD roms that's under 2GB

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Maybe someone can swap the emmc chip 🤔

jolly pivot
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kek yeah like games that are actually played

hidden dune
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Actually, if it's got 2gb ram, probably not.

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Does it still work with the camera after rooting and things?

next mural
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Shovel knight level albeit

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But who cares

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Shovel knight is awesome

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kek and at 29 bucks this would become the first to even run vita

next mural
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I would highly recommend this for anyone flashing and in general extremely solid cable

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Use it for all hamheld

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And the light on the cable lights up only when the connection is established

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So it saves you from misflashes

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I've used on dozens of these as well as PC hamhelds to load os and transfer multiple gigs within seconds

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Also has pretty high output so can charge anything between your phone to a full grown 100w hamheld no problema linkyay

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Noticed some ppl having some possible flash issues due to bad USB cable/connection thought would recommend mayo

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Per usual not a paid link 🖇️kek I don't make a penny off any of this stuff

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Just here to help the community mayo

next mural
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The hype train continues kek

wide glen
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I had to get one those eBay toys

gleaming cliff
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First cult I joined

next mural
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powerhaha welcome to the clan @gleaming cliff @wide glen

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linkyay anyone have setup pics please share

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mayo love to see it

golden laurel
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uh oh, what have I done. This is all @next mural 's fault.

next mural
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Welcome to the gang powerhaha

next mural
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doggylol only way to save money is by spending all of it

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linkyay splurge

carmine apex
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#notacult

hidden dune
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To be honest though.... people in a cult never admit to being in a cult

next mural
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His clone brother doggylol

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With no beard***

sweet wren
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Then we will be the ultimate OTHER device

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Rise to the occasion linkyay

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It is the Legion Go Mini afterall doggylol

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kek worked out for the Miyoo mini after it wasn't mini anymore

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linkyay sticking with the branding

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rough eagle
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Weren't there some good zoomed in pics of the different chips on the motherboard?

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I've been meaning to learn how to do BGA soldering lol

next mural
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Everything should be pinned buh here you go sir linkyay

rough eagle
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I found that pin but I swear there were some really well focused shots zoomed in on the chips

rough eagle
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These are cheap enough to practice on lol

next mural
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This all we got chiefdoggylol

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Indeed

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Buy 10🤠

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10 of 10 attempts can't fail kek

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doggylol at least a few might work out

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Anyone else get there's in today

rough eagle
next mural
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Ahh probably didn't get all of em kek

rough eagle
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KLM8G1GETF-B041 is the eMMC

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@sick snow can I tap your knowledge? I'm curious about the possibility of swapping the eMMC chip on this thing (8GB) for more space.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/estorage/emmc/emmc-5-1/
I can find a few with same dimensions but not sure how to further refine which might work as a drop in replacement. Is the -B041 ending important here?

sick snow
# rough eagle <@791833220005625906> can I tap your knowledge? I'm curious about the possibilit...

couple of important factors. This is a standard BGA153 eMMC, so that's good. It's eMMC 5.1, which means it's not the newer UFS standards, also good. And then finally, the stock eMMC is HS400 rated. You'll want to match these as closely as possible, there may be a higher capacity version of this line of eMMC's that might be the safest choice. It's also likely any eMMC 5.1 HS400 chip will work

rough eagle
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Sweet

sick snow
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you going to give this a go?

rough eagle
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I might

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This device is cool but 8GB of internal storage with no expansion options is so limiting

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And they're only $30 so if I ruin it who cares lol

sick snow
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$40 for a new one, yeah, might as well give it a whirl

rough eagle
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Found a 128GB chip. Only 0.2mm taller.

sick snow
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the exterior demensions don't really matter for emmc, the pads are all the same

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just make sure it's 128 giga-byte and not 128 giga-bit

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one last thing to worry about

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will the software expand to use all the storage

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for example android will if you fresh install it, but not if you image it

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in this case, if there's a factory restore process, that should work to essentially reformat an use the whole storage space

next mural
green dirge
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Also, the digitizer is glued on and needs to be removed first, then the LCD, and bracket.

sick snow
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oh man we have all the usual suspects here

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carmine apex
sick snow
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this is very similar to the eMMC's I replace or put into several 3566 devices

next mural
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notacultnotacultnotacultnotacult

sick snow
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for example, I put a 128GB eMMC in a RG503

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sick snow
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I'll take a back seat, but i'm here for the ride

next mural
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Man I'm gonna need a party bus linkyay

next mural
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@carmine apex @quaint marsh when is yours coming guise linkyay

quaint marsh
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soon™️

full heron
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🐏

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You're the ram pro linkyay

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Ally modder
Steam Deck modder
powerhaha it's time for lenoNO

full heron
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e1000 is here

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knows more then me 😄

next mural
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mayo you should get one of these btw

full heron
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i just learnt this stuff for like the lolz i know nothing

next mural
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30 bucks snapdragon linkyay

full heron
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i dont even know what we are talking about

sick snow
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i know nothing as well, i just do what Beardy has already done

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except for arm devices, i think i experiment with arm devices more

next mural
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Well it was a teams conferencing device until I repurposed for gaming

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And well

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30 buck snap 🐉

sick snow
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SD625 eh

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not bad

next mural
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doggylol join the movement

full heron
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lol

next mural
next mural
full heron
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lol when you add shipping to aus...

next mural
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Lmao shipping kek

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Get it from states parcel 📦

sick snow
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maaaaaan they're using the wrong shipping

full heron
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pirateship it~~

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lol also how do i have engineer role here already did i do it myself?

next mural
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Maybe he smuggle a few more doggylol

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rough eagle
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I think the engineering role is given by mods

sick snow
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NGL, my interest level is maybe increasing a tiny bit

rough eagle
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I want it to be a RetroArch+Plex device in my guest room

next mural
next mural
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mayo POWA

gleaming cliff
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Alright, going to get into this

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Any tips and tricks for the setup?

rough eagle
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I followed the steps in the pins last night and had very few hiccups

gleaming cliff
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which pins exactly? Gh0sty made a couple and there's also a website link

rough eagle
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My first time doing ADB stuff too

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The website link is where you start

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Nevermind

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#1199440904566620260 message
This is where you start

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Then you do these
#1199440904566620260 message

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@golden laurel there you champ ^ doggylol

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Something I may add use quality USB c pd cable so yuno not losing out there 🤠also click download the moment the com3 pops up in qfil and you hear the ding from window connecting and keep device manager open on one side when the ding happens and you notice its missing a driver kek for gods sake don't flash fix the driver run the pinned adb fastboot tool then unplug power cable from tab n try again doggylol

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Read instructions twice flash once kek

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Not the other way around 🧱

gleaming cliff
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I can install the qualcomm drivers and fastbook before I plug it in right?

sweet wren
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Yes

gleaming cliff
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holding down volume up and down, it just boots into the lenovo screen

hoary current
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Start holding them down before plugging it in

gleaming cliff
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yep, doing that

next mural
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You can plug in the USB c cable while it's off even only thing you should have to do when flashing is plugin barrel jack and holding the buttons for that part on the tablet side

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Rest of magic happens on pc

gleaming cliff
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Installed the qualcom drivers, fast boot and QFIL

next mural
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Sweet

gleaming cliff
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i plug it in while holding it down, get mutliple windows pings and no port detected on qfil

next mural
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Let the tablet boot up regularly

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N plug in USB c

rough eagle
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I had to manually choose the port the first time

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It didn't show up automatically at the top of QFIL like it did the second time

next mural
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Or that

rough eagle
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My first time I got the Sahara error so I got to do it twice

gleaming cliff
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Just got that error

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try again?

rough eagle
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Yep second time I did it went well

gleaming cliff
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keep getting that error

rough eagle
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I think the xda forum page mentioned doing it as quickly as possible

gleaming cliff
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failed to open com port handle, could not connect to com port, shara fail

rough eagle
hoary current
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Keep it plugged into the pc, run the command, hold the volume buttons down & then plug in the power

gleaming cliff
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I'm getting different results with different USB cables

hoary current
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I had that problem too, used the same cable I'd used to flash another device a week prior & it failed

rough eagle
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I actually did USB-C to USB-c when I did mine

gleaming cliff
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yeah, I'm chaging devices to get a USB C port

hoary current
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Mine worked fine with a to c, but whatever your best cable is

golden laurel
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breh stop pinging me with your esoteric instructions, I have videos to not make.

next mural
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That's it or else doggylol

golden laurel
golden laurel
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and you already got your minibook video

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what more do you want from me.

next mural
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I'm the OG doggylol

sick snow
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yeah if you guys are using EDL mode to flash, then i'd think replacing the eMMC could be pretty straightforward

golden laurel
next mural
sick snow
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i saw a pic of the emmc earlier, just a matter of gettin' some heat on it

golden laurel
next mural
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That have eMMC tew

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linkyay 2280 nvme wen

golden laurel
sick snow
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unfortunately not, needs to be removed by hot air and then reflowed back on

golden laurel
rough eagle
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#1199440904566620260 message

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Better internals photos ^^

sick snow
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oh snap this thing has the DDR on the mobo instead of on top of the CPU

rough eagle
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I just don't think 2GB ram will limit my use case

next mural
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Special edition for the creator doggylol

sick snow
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but yeah, back to the eMMC, should be pretty straightforward, hot air the existing one off, then reflow a new one on, pick up the steps starting the EDL restore step

next mural
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powerbill breath of the wild

rough eagle
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Oh cool so no USB eMMC adapter necessary

sick snow
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right

rough eagle
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Sweet.

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And that means no stencil too right?

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I'll still order them for future projects

sick snow
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yeah, still buy the stencil and you'll need solder paste for that as well

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i like to buy a backup chip too

rough eagle
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Ive been trying to find a reason to buy solder paste for a while

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Oh I ordered 5 (128GB) eMMC chips for my 2 units

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I'm fully expecting to botch something

next mural
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@sick snow can a new wifi chip be installed doggylol

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Wifi 7 powerhaha

sick snow
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not sure but often the problem is drivers

next mural
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powerbill hm we might be getting lineage

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doggylol Odin ii wifi chip?

sweet wren
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🤣🤣

rough eagle
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Would lineage bring an android version bump?

next mural
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Significant one too

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Not sure abt lineage in particular but will work with notime soon

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For newer os

hoary current
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I'd like to see if we could run power to the usb port & have it work with usb host without the need for a powered hub (if that actually works, dunno if anyone's tested that yet with the software fix)

next mural
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As someone pointed out one of devs have every gotten several images to boot

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It's just a matter of when get free time to work on linkyay

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Android 11 is pretty much working

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And A12 maybe a possibility since minimum reqs didn't really go up until 13

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So it's moving along hopefully not if but when at this point linkyay

gleaming cliff
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alright, new problems. Gave me a message saying 6% files transfered, and a success, but it seems to have done nothing

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then it gave me a firehose fail message

hoary current
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Usb cable probably, mine was doing similar things until i swapped it

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Used the shortest, thickest one I had

rough eagle
gleaming cliff
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switched over to the best cable i had

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it's getting partway through the flash, then booting into the regular lenovo screen and failing

next mural
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@inland hollow having similar issues as your machine ^ tap in can work on it yours as well together

next mural
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Other way around

hoary current
next mural
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Just logo is upside down but who cares

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It works linkyay

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kek if you're really psycho can take out ThinkSmart logo n try to flip it

gleaming cliff
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Took a break, I've run into a wall here.

rough eagle
next mural
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Pls everyone that is just getting in theres and in the midst of flashing let your tab fully boot one time and write down what firmware number you are on linkyay so if we spot any similarities between multiple on the same being unable to flash we can blacklist those particular versions and you guys can ship them back to receive a diff revision hopefully 🙏🏽

next mural
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doggylol I can't perform every miracle

rough eagle
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Oh nevermind you can self assign the engineer role. I'm one now lol

next mural
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So far I've noticed the 2004 build acting abit fucky for some folks need to see bigger sample size to be sure I suspect it maybe 🤔 too old and require a double flash once to the 2004 build on xda then after that to the one we are shooting for but who knows might just be mega locked 🔐

next mural
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linkyay oof wonder how hard it would be to toss a n100 in here

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Wish these weren't criminally underpowered kek

atomic ether
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wish me luck boys, curently waiting for the devices to reboot after flashing the modified boot.img and locking the bootloader

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just got mine in the mail today

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can't wait to see what this thing can do

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though I'm not sure if it's supposed to take this long to boot. might have borked it and have to start over

full grove
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I think bassderek ran into the same issue

atomic ether
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do you remember what he had to do to solve it?

full grove
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iirc he said he ended up flashing the original boot.img

atomic ether
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might try that. I assume I can find that in the image I originally flashed

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I just reflashed boot again and relocked, if that doesn't work, I'll do that.

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okay, found the old boot.img, so at least I have that option. not sure how I'll get magisk though other than a full re-flash with the modified boot.img

gleaming cliff
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Does this mean it flashed?

atomic ether
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it's definitely a learning process. haven't touched android mods in probably 8 years

rough eagle
gleaming cliff
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Good. Can't get ADB working now

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Got it into dev mode

rough eagle
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When it's plugged in does it show as an android device in windows device manager?

gleaming cliff
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No

rough eagle
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Hmmm then windows doesn't see it as connected I think

gleaming cliff
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This is device manager

rough eagle
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Oh it'd be at the very top under its own >Android

gleaming cliff
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Nada

rough eagle
next mural
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That didn't before

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@inland hollow linkyay write this down

gleaming cliff
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I gvae me failure errors, but that was the firmware when i did the setup

next mural
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Wasn't it black

rough eagle
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There was one error QFIL threw when I flashed mine but it didn't seem to matter

next mural
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Or what

gleaming cliff
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Oh, no, that wasn't my issue

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it just kept throwing erros

gleaming cliff
atomic ether
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with respect to my issue booting after replacing the boot.img, mine did reboot installing the original boot.img using fastboot, but I think I need magisk for my needs so I'm trying fully reflashing the device.

rough eagle
next mural
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Is USB debugging on

gleaming cliff
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yes

next mural
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Lemme c

rough eagle
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USB debugging is in Developer Options right?

next mural
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Pic

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Just clicking the build will not activate

gleaming cliff
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where is the usb debug option?

next mural
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You will have to go into setting

rough eagle
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Settings>Developer Options (near the bottom)

gleaming cliff
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I thought i was in dev, i don't see the options

next mural
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Does it ding when you plug in

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Or no

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Btw

rough eagle
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About Phone>Build Number (at the bottom)

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tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap

next mural
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^

gleaming cliff
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"you are already a dev"

rough eagle
#

oh damn

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My cat photo bombed but here's where Dev Options is in my settings app

gleaming cliff
#

My settings menu is completely different

next mural
rough eagle
#

BRB

next mural
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Unplug and plug your usbc

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Does it ding or no

gleaming cliff
#

no ding

next mural
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Do you have adb installed I mean you likely do if you got this far

gleaming cliff
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yeah, it's installed

next mural
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Open up adb

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Show me that

atomic ether
#

anyone know if the modified boot.img for magisk is specific to the version you run? I have a hunch that might be my problem. I'm installing 201006.099 and am using the image from XDA here: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-root-unlocking-and-improving-your-lenovo-thinksmart-view-cd-18781y.4584033/

gleaming cliff
next mural
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Type adb devices

gleaming cliff
#

Empty list

next mural
#

It doesn't print a hb something something

#

?

gleaming cliff
#

Nope

next mural
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Show me tab

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What menu looking at

gleaming cliff
#

as in the setting menu? sure one sec

next mural
gleaming cliff
next mural
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Is anything under network config

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Or that's the end of menu

gleaming cliff
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my wifi settings

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password/sign out

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that's it

next mural
#

So it's debug then network c then that stuff

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Nothing under correct

gleaming cliff
#

correct

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reboot it maybe?

next mural
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Hit debug

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When it ask for pass click enter

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Are able to get to next menu?

gleaming cliff
#

logging level
enable logging (low)
Reset custom config
Reset Factory Defaults

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that's what's there

next mural
#

Luckily you're past the part now where you can brick 🧱

#

This is easy part likely one driver prob 🤔

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Or the cable

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But if it flashed cable should be okay

gleaming cliff
#

nothing new on reboot

#

this is the same cable, tried others and nothing happens either

next mural
gleaming cliff
#

tried a third cable, it's showing up now

next mural
#

Oh perfect

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Awesome

next mural
#

Or already had adb

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If you had already or if you got this

gleaming cliff
#

Third cable worked

next mural
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You're in business chief 🎉

gleaming cliff
#

Really weird that the flashing cable didn't, but it's good now

next mural
#

Okay in adb now you need to nuke the kiosk mode

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Otherwise you'll be facked upon reboot

#

It'll boot back into other launcher

gleaming cliff
#

alright, where's the step for that?

next mural
#

Push this to install on the tablet first

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And setup your navigation bar 🍻

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So you don't get lost in menus

next mural
# gleaming cliff alright, where's the step for that?

adb shell
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.microsoft.skype.teams.ipphone
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.kingston.kioskmodeapp
pm uninstall -k --user 0 jp.co.fsi.fskaren.lenovo
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.microsoft.windowsintune.companyportal
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.microsoft.teams.ipphone.admin.agent
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.kingston.devicesettings
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.music
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.deskclock
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.contacts
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.providers.calendar
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.calendar
pm uninstall -k --user 0 org.codeaurora.snapcam
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.quicksearchbox

Installed F-Droid:
adb install F-Droid.apk

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This has the kiosk mode all the company portal and everything else including the cursed menu you were in linkyay

#

After doing both these things go ahead and reboot and go ahead and enjoy linkyay

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Install Amazon prime get nachos and fiest your eyes at screen kek

gleaming cliff
#

Getting an ADB not found error for f-droid

next mural
#

F droid APK need to be in your adb folder

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Btw can use that command to install most of anything

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Drop your APKs and put adb install xyzwhatevername.apk

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But now that you have diff launcher can do from regular file manager as well np

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Good to go mayo

rough eagle
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Congrats Nate!

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USB cables continue to be voodoo even in 2024

next mural
#

linkyay welcome to the cult ure

gleaming cliff
#

I'm back for troubleshooting lol

#

can't install any more apks, i'm getting an adb not found error

next mural
#

Are they in your adb folder

gleaming cliff
#

yep

next mural
#

Go to your settings turn on mtp in dev settings

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Instead of charging

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Drag and drop the apks onto device

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Install by clicking in file manager

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If the APK is not compat then it's likely too new n will give parsing error

atomic ether
#

hmm. so I patched the exact boot.img that I have, ran fastboot flash boot magisk_patched...img, fastboot flashing lock and now magisk doesn't actually show as installed.

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strange

#

anyone actually have magisk working with 201006.099?

next mural
#

Me

atomic ether
#

any advice?

#

I'm open to totally reflashing if I have to

next mural
#

But I'm the only one so far everyone is bricking with their attempts so not recommending bc then ppl don't wanna put in effort to fix lol

next mural
atomic ether
#

brick as in unrecoverable?

next mural
#

Load into it

atomic ether
#

sorry, continue

next mural
next mural
#

Then afterwards just flash the image

atomic ether
#

via fastboot?

next mural
#

Install the Magisk app
Enable OEM unlocking in Developer Settings
Unplug the device. Hold Vol- and plug in the device to boot into fastboot mode.
In command prompt, execute
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sure the device is discovered. If a device is not listed, you may need to go into Device Manager > Other Devices > Android device with question mark. Right click > Update Drivers > Browse My Local Drivers > Let me pick from a list > Change to Fastboot Drivers.
Code:
fastboot oem unlock-go
This will unlock your bootloader.
Unplug the device. Hold Vol- and plug in the device to boot into fastboot mode.
In command prompt, navgiate to the directory where your Magisk boot.img is downloaded. Run
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
After the boot.img is flashed, you need to lock your bootloader to be able to boot back into the device. If you're not in fastboot mode, you can once again unplug the device. Hold Vol- and plug in the device to boot into fastboot mode.
Run either of the 2 commands to lock the bootloader. You can restart the device and boot into the device once you are finished.
Code:
fastboot oem lock

atomic ether
#

gonna follow that to the letter. I have the magisk app installed now, and OEM unlocking is already enabled. wish me luck!

#

thanks for the advice

next mural
#

Should be good

#

The mistake ppl are making are simultaneously trying to flash new fw and magisk

#

That's just asking the PC to go boom 📚

atomic ether
#

I'm as far as flashing the boot.img. should I reboot before relocking?

next mural
#

No 🙏🏽

#

That will instant brick it

atomic ether
#

do I run just "fastboot oem lock" OR "fastboot flashing lock"?

#

I assume they do the same thing

next mural
#

OEM lock should work

#

#

Either of the commands

atomic ether
#

well it's on the erasing screen

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and rebooting

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fingers crossed

next mural
#

Good job

#

So far so good

atomic ether
#

how long should it take? like 2 minutes? 10?

next mural
#

10 minutes or so After flashing magisk it wipes and you have to redo pushing the home launcher and stuff typically

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But that's not a big deal

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Not bricking the device is

atomic ether
#

okay, gonna go make a cup of tea then while it cooks

next mural
#

Yeh takes a moment to brew

atomic ether
#

I might have pulled power too soon when I had done it right in the first place, thinking I had soft bricked it

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and might have repeated that at least 3 times

next mural
#

I see I see

atomic ether
#

it seemed like it took too long when the fastboot stuff takes seconds and even totally reflashing from qfil is like 4 minutes

next mural
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Yeah definitely

atomic ether
#

but I guess I was being impatient

next mural
#

Luckily you see how to flash now

atomic ether
#

can't wait to get homeassistant on this thing. the wife acceptance factor is so high she made me buy a second one for her desk.

next mural
#

Yeah it's perfect solo Amazon prime machine tbh

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Screen is impeccable

#

And the 10w speaker is loco doggylol

#

I watched gen v in like 2 days

#

And I barely ever have the patience to watch through stuff

atomic ether
#

it's not bad. tiny bit of bloom, but fantastic for $30. lenovo really screwed up thinking this would sell as a dedicated MS teams device

#

their loss is our gain

next mural
#

Well they banked on Google tbh

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And Google pulled out

#

Technically it's another abandoned Google project

atomic ether
#

my current desk tablet thing is my old verizon GS4 running google play edition rom via the LOKI exploit.

next mural
#

It runs on android things technically

atomic ether
#

that's how long it's been since I did any android modding

next mural
#

Which was supposed to be their connected os

next mural
#

When real hacking was live

#

Nowadays if you buy a calculator it has a locked Bootloader

atomic ether
#

i miss cyanogenmod

next mural
#

And most Samsung phones are pathetic in that aspect

atomic ether
#

used to run that on my nexus 7 gen 1

next mural
#

It's lineage" now

#

But I have yet to run one of those

#

This will likely be the first device

atomic ether
#

that's what I loved about my verizon galaxy S4. they screwed up coding their signature verification. The Loki exploit tells the recovery to load itself overtop the signature verification. it was "locked" but gimped at that point and could run TWRP and flash anything

#

I'm probably grossly oversimplifying

#

but if I remember correctly, the exploit just overwrites the signature verification

#

they forgot to protect against that

next mural
#

Looking into the nook color atm 🤔might be a pretty powerful ereader if it's able to run a newer Gsi rom

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But it doesn't go up to 8.1 alas so it doesn't qualify unfortunately kek

atomic ether
#

hmm. 13 minutes in and it's still on the red Lenovo(tm) screen

next mural
#

Yeah that's too long

#

Tbh

#

You can try also clearing the tablet from recovery menu

atomic ether
#

without reflashing?

#

recovery is volume up, right?

#

wiped cache too for good measure

gleaming cliff
#

Up and running as a kitchen assistant, doing great

next mural
sick snow
#

but at how many FPS?!

next mural
#

N if it doesn't work then just flash back to the last config that booted and call it a day kek

next mural
atomic ether
#

probably time to go to bed for me, but If it doesn't boot by the morning, I'll try reflashing, then having magisk patch the boot.img on the device and flash that.

#

and if that doesn't work, I'll find a way to make it work without it until somebody comes up with a more automated solution, such as a pre-built rom with magisk root and up to date webview or something like that.

gleaming cliff
#

Thanks @next mural @rough eagle @hoary current for the help

next mural
#

We're pulling up on the duo real quick linkyay

#

Keep fueling the fire 🔥🥵

#

powerbill they're at 3377

#

We just passed 2700 linkyay

long reef
#

I left it for a few hours and nothing. Couldn’t get patched boot working.

#

Tried multiple times with factory resets reflashes etc.

#

I will have some time tomorrow to tinker

rough eagle
green dirge
rough eagle
#

Oh good I've got two already lol

raven pagoda
#

Sounds like the job for the ifixit kit

atomic ether
# next mural <:linkyay:917524292428763137> sounds good

got magisk working. decided to go with the testbed build according to the thread, 200628.084. flashed with patched boot.img in the image, then installed and launched magisk and let it reinstall directly as the magisk app recommended.

sick snow
#

Notime you on this boat too?

next mural
#

He's the one that ripped it apart n did tear down

next mural
#

Inside emulators*

atomic ether
# next mural Inside emulators*

sound worked fine, though I just installed webview manager (after installing google play store and getting that working, and now on boot it drops me into recovery.

#

so I guess I won't be installing that again

#

especially since I had homeassistant and youtube working, and that's probably all I need it for.

next mural
#

Yehh

#

It's particularly buggy

atomic ether
#

I did get magisk working though

#

so it's progress, and I'm at least getting to the point where starting from scratch doesn't take that long

#

hmm. it booted this time

#

weird

next mural
#

Yeah it's particularly buggy Which is good just not worth the risk entailed for most ppl in here not smth I'm personally recommending

#

If someone wants to experiment sure powerbill

#

All the tools are available

#

Even twrp is possible

#

Flash away doggylol

next mural
#

doggylol wish it was more intuitive like odin

#

Possibly the only good thing Samsung ever did kek

#

Having an okay flashing tool

edgy moth
#

fwiw, i got one based on this thread , followed this directions first, no issues https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422

next mural
#

This is abit more safer🙏🏽

#

@hidden dune @upper totem

#

linkyay Lin making headway

#

Is officially a ting doggylol

#

@brittle magnet any Linux devs in here as well?

long reef
#

Hm tried flashing a .img and now it only boots into fastboot 💩

atomic ether
#

is this the modified boot.img for magisk?

#

I had a bunch of issues with that last night. what eventually worked was running the 200628.084 image and flashing that with the magisk boot.img

#

but if you didn't lock the bootloader after fastboot flashing, you need to lock before it will boot normally. the command for that is fastboot flashing lock

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or fastboot oem lock

long reef
#

No, I'm trying to flash a complete image from XDA post

#

and yeah it's relocked

#

I gave up on boot.img with the 201006.099 Build. I had it working with 200628.084, but no sound in some emulators.

#

So, same conclusion as you

atomic ether
#

hmm. it occurs to me I haven't tested sound yet in 200628.084

#

I don't really need it, it's just a homeassistant surface for me

long reef
#

So far My Conclusions:

  • 200628.084: Works with Magisk boot.img, no sound in some emulators (Drastic for one). I also had custom webview, etc working with this.
  • 201006.099: Does not work with magisk boot.img (so far). Sound should work according to others.
#

Right now I am playing with flashing other images but no success

atomic ether
#

well at least youtube audio is working on 200628.084

#

holy crap this display is nice

#

tack sharp

long reef
#

Oh, I'm dumb. Did not follow proper instructions for the flash I did. trying again

next mural
#

Insanely good display

rough eagle
#

Perfect for Plex chefskiss

atomic ether
#

though I bet at least half the people buying these also run plex and homeassistant

#

or emby or jellyfin

#

I never know what the cool kids are running these days

rough eagle
#

Yeah I really should switch to jellyfin eventually

next mural
atomic ether
#

LOL

next mural
#

linkyay and the other half runs zoom

#

@bronze anchor get one linkyay

rough eagle
#

Damn zoomers and their zoom

next mural
#

mayo join us

next mural
#

linkyay need to get Capitan up in here too@bronze anchor

#

doggylol it's 29 buck for a snapdragon tab

#

Ik you're team android don't play powerhaha

#

powerbill Odin ii has you written all over it

#

kek join mi cult

bronze anchor
#

I have an Odin 2. I have literally no use for this lol

next mural
#

Is awesome

#

doggylol ereader for the learned ones

#

Spotify music player for the degenerates

#

Web browser for the memes linkyay

#

It can do it all mayo

#

@upper pilot join us doggylol

upper pilot
#

👀

next mural
#

Featuring a snap dragon 🐉

#

Used to be teams conferencing device I repurposed for gaming doggylol

ancient raven
#

I bought a second one to turn into a digital picture frame/music player for the living room

next mural
#

I will get it's bigger brother after we fig out some more things here linkyay then development shall start on that

next mural
bronze anchor
#

Gh0sty is now running a pyramid scheme 👀

solar bane
#

Micro Best Set

long reef
#

nano pico best set?

next mural
#

kek it would be if I got paid a penny

#

doggylol not my fault if ppl only see value in the 40th rk3566 hamheld being released in a row

#

linkyay if my pyramid you mean most powerful in 29 buck maybe ever

#

Then yes yes it is kek

edgy moth
next mural
#

Yehh

edgy moth
#

Reading through how to try some GSI images and watching linux

next mural
#

@carmine apex ordered a dozen different barrel jacks doggylol

#

We shall find out very soon

#

Thinkview will be portable linkyay

#

Or start a forest fire powerhaha

#

Whatever comes first

bronze anchor
next mural
#

It's selling itself kek

next mural
#

Double the shaders of t618 and dusts the 3566 kek

#

doggylol would you like it served on a gold or silver platter at this point

next mural
#

You NEED this linkyay

#

kek mfs spend more money at one trip to Starbucks ⭐

sick snow
#

those snappy dragons bringing the heat

sacred vigil
#

does this have a USB otg port?

next mural
#

Otg has not been confirmed yet

#

Can do adb fastboot mtp though

#

No problem

sacred vigil
#

it would be really nice if I could get a hub with an sdcard slot

next mural
#

With a powered USB hub

#

N see

sacred vigil
#

Id have to buy one first lol. Still in wait and see mode

next mural
#

For what

#

If it does back flips linkyay

sacred vigil
#

still having trouble coming with with a specific use case haha

lilac flint
#

Also hello 0/ I am the guy who posted the firmware and stuff on xda

#

If anyone has questions about the device or anything lemme know

long reef
next mural
#

Welcome mayo

long reef
#

I might be going about it totally wrong

next mural
lilac flint
#

Sure one moment I was planning on writing that up

long reef
#

Awesome, thanks. I wasn't sure if there was some treble partitioning magic that needed to happen or what

lilac flint
#

No its pretty much unlock BL, flash system, lock bl, have stock recovery erase the data (twrp breaks it)

long reef
#

Hm ok then not sure what I'm doing wrong. I had the device working on a factory image, unlocked BL, flashed system via fastboot, relocked, wiped.. maybe I didn't wipe at the right step... I just have factory recovery still.

#
fastboot oem unlock-go
power cycle, enter fastboot vol-
fastboot erase system
fastboot flash system system-roar-arm-aonly-vanilla.img
fastboot flash vendor kingston_wifi_vendor.img
fastboot -w
fastboot oem lock
next mural
#

@lilac flint have you worked on any oc related stuff

#

That's smth being looked into linkyay

lilac flint
#
fastboot oem unlock-go
power cycle, enter fastboot vol-
fastboot flash system system-roar-arm-aonly-vanilla.img
fastboot flash vendor kingston_wifi_vendor.img
fastboot flashing lock```
#

the fastboot wipe may break it

next mural
#

As the a1 with similar chip apparently hit over 3ghz

lilac flint
#

In the past on other devices, but not here I imagine any msm8953 family OC commits could be used

#

msm8953 was used in a lot of versions and chip names

next mural
#

Hm 🤔

#

Was looking at this although it might be fud

#

But the chip in general doesn't seem to run too hot even in game

#

So with correct support I think could manage it

lilac flint
#

Mi A1 has a kernel that can do

CPU OC to 3.1Ghz
GPU OC to 850Mhz

#

I wouldn't run that high, but defintly possible

next mural
#

Especially once on new android version

#

That will unlock alot more emus

#

For indies

#

Especially

lilac flint
#

Android 10/11 is working properly so far in my testing but haven't done performance stuff

next mural
#

Yeh we need 11 at least I think 12 maybe manageable I mean a1 running on 13

#

But they upped minimum specs on 13

lilac flint
#

Yeah to do 12/13 it needs a custom rom

next mural
#

So it's probably a cooked experience

next mural
#

That's what cults are for

#

Welcomepowerhaha

lilac flint
#

Working on the kernel now

#

Making its git history

next mural
#

@green dirge @raven pagoda another dev in here now so you guys can collab mayo

long reef
lilac flint
#

The extra reset isn't needed and I don't do it. But it does take a minute or so to get to the boot animation

long reef
#

Do you start the process by flashing a stock image with QFIL, then doing all those steps

lilac flint
#

Stock or Magisk boot work, then I have my custom vendor with wifi firmware, everything else is any of the firmware I posted.

long reef
#

Just now, I flashed it to the latest teams and it booted up no issue, then started this flashing process. Now I'm at the lenovo logo for about 5 minutes already

raven pagoda
#

Does the kernel support erofs?

next mural
#

@lilac flint anyway for you to inject otg support

lilac flint
#

Sorry I guess I should say any of the firmware that has adb enabled. I only took the vendor partition from the latest firmware. Haven't tested gsi's with its whole stack. But I would assume they didn't change enough to break it.

raven pagoda
#

Reads should be faster with erofs, it'll be read only though. Compresses better than ext4 with shared blocks

#

Would require updating of the fstab

next mural
#

Since I'm sure on newer android the port probably isn't recognized as a recovery port

#

And maybe 🤔 just regular USB c slot

#

Considering it can push data outwards is possible?🤔

lilac flint
#

I don't beleive there is erofs for linux 3.18

next mural
#

I think it's also 3.2 so can push sufficient bandwidth and otg been integrated since android 4.4 or so

lilac flint
#

OTG might be possible to get working it depends how its wired

raven pagoda
#

Sound like something that might need to be enabled in the kernel / dtb for otg

raven pagoda
next mural
#

Yeah as far as I was aware thought it's software implementation linkyay

lilac flint
#

msm8953 can do 4.9

next mural
#

mayo too soon?

lilac flint
raven pagoda
lilac flint
#
      System.putInt(this.getContentResolver(), "screen_off_timeout", 600000);
      ContentResolver var1 = this.getContentResolver();
      Secure.putInt(var1, "high_text_contrast_enabled", 0);
      Secure.putInt(var1, "accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled", 0);
      System.putFloat(var1, "font_scale", 1.0F);
      System.putInt(var1, "accessibility_display_daltonizer", 12);
      Secure.putInt(var1, "accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled", 0);
      Global.putInt(var1, "auto_time", 1);
      System.putString(var1, "time_12_24", "12");
      AlarmManager var2 = (AlarmManager)this.getSystemService("alarm");
      System.putInt(var1, "screen_brightness_mode", 1);
      System.putInt(var1, "screen_brightness", 127);
      System.putInt(var1, "debug_level_key", 0);
      System.putInt(var1, "phone_lock_enable", 0);
      Secure.putInt(var1, "screensaver_activate_on_sleep", 0);
      this.setCountryCode();
   }```

This is what settings get changed by the kiosk mode btw
#

We can probably also turn statusbar back on stock

#
      LogUtil.d("ttt", "kai shi fan she she zhi");
      Object var3 = this.getSystemService("statusbar");

      try {
         Class var4 = Class.forName("android.app.StatusBarManager");
         Method var2 = var4.getMethod("disable", Integer.TYPE);
         int var1 = var4.getDeclaredField("DISABLE_MASK").getInt(var4);
         var2.invoke(var3, var1);
         StringBuilder var6 = new StringBuilder();
         var6.append("method excu complete --flag=");
         var6.append(var1);
         LogUtil.d("ttt", var6.toString());
      } catch (Exception var5) {
         LogUtil.d("ttt", "yi chang le");
         var5.printStackTrace();
      }

   }```

I need to reverse this function more
long reef
#

Ah well no luck with flashing GSI for me still. I will await those smarter than me to figure this out, heh.

lilac flint
#

Try with only what I posted no extra wiping or anything

#

This device is pretty fragile they did very little testing

long reef
#

I did yeah, Used QFIL to install the 201006.099. Then did the steps, no extra wipe. After lock it did the erasing screen, rebooted, been at lenovo logo since

lilac flint
#

Try with 200628.084 or 200809.091 maybe the new firmware breaks it

long reef
#

This error is not important, right?

lilac flint
#

I think that means its corrupted, I do not have that when I flash roar

long reef
#

hm

raven pagoda
#

Can depend on your version of fastboot

#

Usually it's fine

next mural
#

Like USB hub for example

lilac flint
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No there is an id pin needed for otg

next mural
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linkyay hook it up

long reef
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hmm no error this time

lilac flint
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ab is wrong

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a-only

long reef
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oh woops

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i was doing aonly, i redownloaded to make sure it wasn't a file issue

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wasn't paying attention

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aonly still gives me the error

lilac flint
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From yesterday

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I hold the volume - before sending the oem unlock-go command so it instantly reboots to bootloader

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Trying to think what may be different

long reef
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yeah, dunno redid it all once last time, held down vol- after unlock as suggested, don't want to waste your time going in circles here. Started with 200628.084 and flashed PHH AOSP 11.0 v313 (Arm A-only Vanilla). after lock command and reboot it just stays at logo

lilac flint
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No adb/fastboot?

long reef
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neither

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just logo

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Doesn't show up in QFIL either so it's not in 900E

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When i first install the factory firmware do I need to do anything before flashing

lilac flint
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I flash it with qfil, let it bootup and then adb reboot bootloader

long reef
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Only difference is I power cycled after it booting up

lilac flint
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That shouldn't matter, but idk its odd

long reef
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I don't think anyone besides yourself so far has installed GSI. The other thread on home assistant site I think is using a factory image with some modifications.

lilac flint
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Yeah nobody on xda had posted about it either

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Also tested the kernel source lenovo provided and it does work minus it missing the non-gpl wifi driver. I'll add back in once I am done splitting up the history

sweet wren
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Whoa, this is huge

long reef
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Gave it one last college try:

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Still stuck on Lenovo logo

lilac flint
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Try with newer platform-tools

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All I can think of

long reef
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what version are you on

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fastboot version 33.0.2-8557947

sweet wren
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This is my next video I’m working on, I wonder if I should hold off on it to see if we end up with a newer Android build

lilac flint
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fastboot version 34.0.1-9979309

sweet wren
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And this is way cool that we have @lilac flint here from XDA

lilac flint
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O/ glad to help and find people interested in this device. Smart displays haven't had a lot of love

long reef
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I think we got intersted when it was only $30 ha. And @next mural hyping it up.

lilac flint
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Yeah I did buy 3 of them with the Amazon cheap price

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$25 each

sweet wren
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It’s fun to see how different communities embraced the device

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Like the home assistant folks are excited about it for completely different reasons

lilac flint
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Yeah dashboard, where as I assume you want it for emulator display?

long reef
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But still stuck on Lenovo Logo so far 🤷‍♂️

lilac flint
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I'll think about it some more, but I am not really sure

long reef
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No worries. Can still use with stock FW, just wanted to see what I could get working

lilac flint
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With twrp you can mount vendor and switch the qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 in system/build.prop to 0 and that should enable the navbar again on stock

hoary current
rough eagle
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I'm still determined to swap the emmc chip once it arrives from China but it's likely I just destroy my two units instead

sick snow
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just buy 2 more

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must resist..... must resist

rough eagle
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I believe in you

hoary current
rough eagle
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I might have the balls but not the skills lol

hoary current
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Sometimes that's all you need 😎

rough eagle
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It's gotten me pretty far

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@sick snow does this kind of stuff on a washing machine so I have them beat at least. I have a desk!

next mural
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@lilac flint ha community is working on Linux after I told them we're working on android