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So, here's a little back story for my frustration.
I asked for the G-tablet for X-mas because of the hardware, and I didn't actually receive the present until just a few hours ago. My PC is refusing to boot Linux at all, so i'm stuck on Win 7, my Samsung Intercept is refusing to root, so no custom rom there... and now I think I broke my G-Tablet.
(I rooted/flashed a ROM on the Vibrant, G1 and mt3g[several times] before this)
I was looking for how to install the custom ROM for the last few days anticipating today, I read Android Police's Guide (it won't let me post the link) several times before actually having the tablet, and I thought I had it down. After installing CW Recovery, I tried booting into recovery mode, which didn't work. It got up to the caution symbol and rebooted. So i figured it could be a boot problem.
I installed ROM Manager because of the useful "boot to recovery" button, but that lead me to the same problem. I looked at all the supported devices on the website and it was listed, but when I tried to flash the ROM inside of ROM Manager, it asked me to confirm if it was a Vega. I was a bit confused with what to do and decided to click accept anyways.
It said it was booting into recovery to complete the process but didn't, so in about a minute, I decided to shut down and boot into recovery myself, and it didn't help. It just cycles though the first two splash screens.
I don't know what to do. =(
Can I somehow hard reset it or something to start over?
mr.frankm said:
So, here's a little back story for my frustration.
I asked for the G-tablet for X-mas because of the hardware, and I didn't actually receive the present until just a few hours ago. My PC is refusing to boot Linux at all, so i'm stuck on Win 7, my Samsung Intercept is refusing to root, so no custom rom there... and now I think I broke my G-Tablet.
(I rooted/flashed a ROM on the Vibrant, G1 and mt3g[several times] before this)
I was looking for how to install the custom ROM for the last few days anticipating today, I read Android Police's Guide (it won't let me post the link) several times before actually having the tablet, and I thought I had it down. After installing CW Recovery, I tried booting into recovery mode, which didn't work. It got up to the caution symbol and rebooted. So i figured it could be a boot problem.
I installed ROM Manager because of the useful "boot to recovery" button, but that lead me to the same problem. I looked at all the supported devices on the website and it was listed, but when I tried to flash the ROM inside of ROM Manager, it asked me to confirm if it was a Vega. I was a bit confused with what to do and decided to click accept anyways.
It said it was booting into recovery to complete the process but didn't, so in about a minute, I decided to shut down and boot into recovery myself, and it didn't help. It just cycles though the first two splash screens.
I don't know what to do. =(
Can I somehow hard reset it or something to start over?
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Can you still boot into your main ROM or not? IF so, just reinstall recovery - Clockwork Mod 0.8 works, I don't know about later versions or ROM Manager, I don't trust them, based on what I see on the forums.
If you can't boot into recovery OR boot normally, then you have to use APX mode and nvflash to reflash your G Tablet. That completely wipes and rewrites everything on the tablet.
EDIT: If indeed it sounds like clockwork isn't installed and stock recovery is still working, see the instructions in the next post to install clockwork mod 0.8. No need to resort to nvflash.
Step 1.
Download ClockworkMod v08 (This version has been found to work best...the newer version causes some issues with some ROMs.)
The file needed is cwmod_v08.zip at http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=458883&d=1291787239
Step 2.
Unzip the downloaded file to your microSD card. After unzipping, your microSD card should contain a folder called recovery, and a file named update.zip. (This cannot be done using the internal memory with this download.)
Step 3.
Turn off your device.
Step 4.
Press the power button and the Volume+ button at the same time and release them when the Viewsonic splash screen pops up. You should see "Detect a recovery key pressed" pop up in the upper left corner of the screen.
Step 5.
Watch it install. Your tablet will reboot when installation is complete. And you can access the bootloader by booting the device holding the power and volume+ buttons.
mr.frankm said:
So, here's a little back story for my frustration.
I asked for the G-tablet for X-mas because of the hardware, and I didn't actually receive the present until just a few hours ago. My PC is refusing to boot Linux at all, so i'm stuck on Win 7, my Samsung Intercept is refusing to root, so no custom rom there... and now I think I broke my G-Tablet.
(I rooted/flashed a ROM on the Vibrant, G1 and mt3g[several times] before this)
I was looking for how to install the custom ROM for the last few days anticipating today, I read Android Police's Guide (it won't let me post the link) several times before actually having the tablet, and I thought I had it down. After installing CW Recovery, I tried booting into recovery mode, which didn't work. It got up to the caution symbol and rebooted. So i figured it could be a boot problem.
I installed ROM Manager because of the useful "boot to recovery" button, but that lead me to the same problem. I looked at all the supported devices on the website and it was listed, but when I tried to flash the ROM inside of ROM Manager, it asked me to confirm if it was a Vega. I was a bit confused with what to do and decided to click accept anyways.
It said it was booting into recovery to complete the process but didn't, so in about a minute, I decided to shut down and boot into recovery myself, and it didn't help. It just cycles though the first two splash screens.
I don't know what to do. =(
Can I somehow hard reset it or something to start over?
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You could become a professional gadget breaker with all the broken stuff you have
Clockwork never got installed if you are seeing the ! and then it reboots. I would not fool with rom manager, or any of the other stuff. Your tablet is NOT a Vega. The vega rom is used as a base to build stuff for the G tablet but it is not the same.
Get clockwork installed. You need to find Clockwork.8 ... You will have an update.zip file, and a recovery folder with a command file inside it. You can install it from the internal sdcard, or an external. You just need to look at the command file with a text editor like notepad and see if it lists sdcard, or sdcard2. If you want to install from internal, sdcard.. From external, sdcard2. The command file does not have an extension. If you do not have one in your clockwork package then download one of the other roms. Most of them will have it. Or even the stock rom package. They are all the same.
Go to SDX and we'll help you with the Intercept. Follow the info hear and the G will be rockin.
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Step 1.
Download ClockworkMod v08 (This version has been found to work best...the newer version causes some issues with some ROMs.)
The file needed is cwmod_v08.zip at http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=458883&d=1291787239
Step 2.
Unzip the downloaded file to your microSD card. After unzipping, your microSD card should contain a folder called recovery, and a file named update.zip. (This cannot be done using the internal memory with this download.)
Step 3.
Turn off your device.
Step 4.
Press the power button and the Volume+ button at the same time and release them when the Viewsonic splash screen pops up. You should see "Detect a recovery key pressed" pop up in the upper left corner of the screen.
Step 5.
Watch it install. Your tablet will reboot when installation is complete. And you can access the bootloader by booting the device holding the power and volume+ buttons.
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I'm pretty sure I wrote that... I don't care that your reposting it...just link where you got it from next time.
Anywho, keep in mind that it's nearly impossible to completely brick these things. Follow this guide, step by step, from start to finish. You will need a microSD card with a way to get files onto it (microSD slot on computer/SD slot with microSD -> SD adapter)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
But that's the problem, I can't boot. This is the only thing I've actually broke. =/
I press Vol + and Power, I get the "detect a recovery key pressed", the android screen comes up, and the I get the Yield Sign for about 2 seconds before the boot cycle resets.
I can't get into anything. at all. I thought I was following a propper set of instuctions I'll be glad to follow @scsione889's guide here on XDA, but atm, i can't.
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But that's the problem, I can't boot. This is the only thing I've actually broke. =/
I press Vol + and Power, I get the "detect a recovery key pressed", the android screen comes up, and the I get the Yield Sign for about 2 seconds before the boot cycle resets.
I can't get into anything. at all. I thought I was following a propper set of instuctions I'll be glad to follow @scsione889's guide here on XDA, but atm, i can't.
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That yield sign is part of the stock recovery, you should still be able to install clockworkmod from microSD. Try it.
mr.frankm said:
But that's the problem, I can't boot. This is the only thing I've actually broke. =/
I press Vol + and Power, I get the "detect a recovery key pressed", the android screen comes up, and the I get the Yield Sign for about 2 seconds before the boot cycle resets.
I can't get into anything. at all. I thought I was following a propper set of instuctions I'll be glad to follow @scsione889's guide here on XDA, but atm, i can't.
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If you really have managed to mess up recovery.. You can use Nvflash to get all the way back to stock. Just use caution.. The only 2 tablets I know of that may have actually been completely bricked have been from folks that ran the incorrect batch file in Nvflash... It is really simple to use though... Guide is here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950&highlight=nvflash
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That yield sign is part of the stock recovery, you should still be able to install clockworkmod from microSD. Try it.
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Yeah, I got it to recognize it, I didn't take recovery and update.zip out of the cwrecovery folder so it didn't work before. I just got it to "unpackage" for a second. but the same boot cycle happened.
I have to run out now for a bit, I'll try the flash later. Thanks for the help so far.
As mentioned before you need a microSD to put the CM recovery on. It also needs to be the .8version of clockwork. AndroidPolice is alright but you really should stick to the xda forums for this kinda thing. It only took me 5 mins to flash clockwork and get the VEGAn build up and running. I wish you the best of luck with your tab. It really is a nifty device....once you're running a custom ROM lol.
Edit: you can hard reset...unfortunately viewsonic failed to make a hole in the case to be able to reach it
Sent from my VEGAn G-Tab
Go figure, nvflash won't work because the APX driver won't install and the SDK won't install either because it doesn't recognize the JDK as installed although I installed it like 5 times.
I am a very disgruntled Ubuntu user stuck on Win 7 and I will not take it anymore.
I just finished backing up a few files and i'm blowing it up...
Happy New Years everybody, and I'll let you know what happens next year!
mr.frankm said:
Go figure, nvflash won't work because the APX driver won't install and the SDK won't install either because it doesn't recognize the JDK as installed although I installed it like 5 times.
I am a very disgruntled Ubuntu user stuck on Win 7 and I will not take it anymore.
I just finished backing up a few files and i'm blowing it up...
Happy New Years everybody, and I'll let you know what happens next year!
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Happy New Year! I hope!
Hello,
I flashed my GTab with TNT Lite a while back, but I was going to switch to Vegan. When I try to go into recovery mode, I get the message in the corner "Recovery Key Detected" but it won't go into CWM. I've got the update.zip and Recovery folder (with command file) in the root of my sdcard. I opened the command file to check the file path, and it's to the internal sdcard, not sdcard2. I even put those files on sdcard2 just in case, but still no go.
Any ideas? CWM 0.8 worked like a charm the first time around when I flashed to TNT Lite 4.2.1, but I just can't get into recovery anymore. I redownloaded it, and erased and put new versions of the update.zip and recovery folder on the sdcard (when the existing ones didn't work), just in case, but still no go.
I can still boot into my ROM, so I also tried "Reboot into recovery mode" from CWM inside the app, but it reboots to the Viewsonic splash screen and hangs there.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Hey, so I ran into the same problem as the first post (with the recycling boot screens). I flashed TNT-Lite onto it, and it worked for a few hours before the problem happened. I NVFlashed it, and at the very least I know the recovery screen is different than after I flashed it, but the yield sign only lasts a few seconds and then the problem persists.
Does NVFlash actually unroot? If so, can I return this to viewsonic and get a replacement? If not, am I screwed?
I got mine running again that same day. I also figured out that the reason Clockwork 0.8 wouldn't work anymore, was because I installed the market version in TNTLite.
But if you follow the NVFlash instructions, start to finish, it should get you back into the original stock ROM. And then from there, you can put Clockwork 0.8 back in place, and re-flash with whatever you want. With the G-tablet, it seems like you gotta go back to stock every time you wanna re-flash, or even upgrade from say TNTLite 4.2.x to 5.x, etc.
Here's the post I followed to NVFlash it properly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
Is that what you did? It should have brought you back to stock.
-Timm
HTC EVO 4g - Fresh EVO 3.5
Viewsonic G-tablet - Vegan 7-Ginger
mr.frankm said:
Go figure, nvflash won't work because the APX driver won't install and the SDK won't install either because it doesn't recognize the JDK as installed although I installed it like 5 times.
I am a very disgruntled Ubuntu user stuck on Win 7 and I will not take it anymore.
I just finished backing up a few files and i'm blowing it up...
Happy New Years everybody, and I'll let you know what happens next year!
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To NVFlash using windows 7 shouldn't be a problem I actually used it today and I'm running windows 7 home edition maybe you need to update your PC and try a linux live CD to run linux on a PC it has more drivers available for equipment and saves someone who doesn't understand linux alot of headache as it uses the CD as your hard disk and it sets it self up just make your system boot from the CD first.
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TimmSpinn said:
I got mine running again that same day. I also figured out that the reason Clockwork 0.8 wouldn't work anymore, was because I installed the market version in TNTLite.
But if you follow the NVFlash instructions, start to finish, it should get you back into the original stock ROM. And then from there, you can put Clockwork 0.8 back in place, and re-flash with whatever you want. With the G-tablet, it seems like you gotta go back to stock every time you wanna re-flash, or even upgrade from say TNTLite 4.2.x to 5.x, etc.
Here's the post I followed to NVFlash it properly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
Is that what you did? It should have brought you back to stock.
-Timm
HTC EVO 4g - Fresh EVO 3.5
Viewsonic G-tablet - Vegan 7-Ginger
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Really it depends on your boot loader branch and its good practice to ensure that everything installs as the Rom develoer intends.
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While I was checking my emails i rediscovered this thread... lol
I'm a linux user, I got ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop running, again, months ago.
But now I don't touch it and use my tablet or phone 98% of the time. (this is 2% other on an XP desktop)
I also share the same recovery mode issues, but after reading the rest of this topic, I think I might feel adventurous enough to try that honeycomb... >.>
stuck cant get into cwm and is stuck on the tapntap logo
after i nvflash the tablet it wont boot. it gets stuck on the tapntap logo after a few seconds it turns the screen black. and even cant get into cwn it just get stuck on the view sonic logo. i need help
Hello all.
I've gotten into a serious bind here and I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I've had my gtablet since early January, and I've successfully flashed vegan 5.1, tnt lite, and calkulin 1.1.
this morning, I got the itch to try one of the CM7 nightly builds. i'd read it was a good idea to nvflash back to stock prior to installing a CM7 build, so I familiarized myself with that process and proceeded to nvflash. i successfully got back to stock, succesfully flashed cm_harmony_full_teamdesire_tt.RC2-20110407-1710, and then after powering down I wasn't able to boot back up succesfully. the rom hung at the 'A N D R O I D' screen prior to the boot animation.
at that point I figured i'd go back to calkulin 1.1, since the 2.2 OS had never given me much of a problem. I nvflashed successfully, which led me to where I am now:
I am bootlooping at the "with Tap N Tap" boot animation screen when I try to boot up. It'll cycle through the boot animation 10 times or so, then end on a black screen.
The worst part: I am unable to get into clockwork recovery mode. When I hold down VOL+ & power, it detects a recovery key, then it goes to an 'A N D R O I D' screen, hangs a few seconds, then I see a grey triangle with an exclamation point, then it reboots... then boot loops at the "with Tap N Tap" boot animation screen noted earlier.
help! i'm not new to all this, but it looks like I may have bitten off more than I can chew here jumping into the CM7 nightly builds.
is there anything I can do with the nvflash_gtablet.bat file to rewrite clockwork recovery?
never mind. I hadn't tried to get into clockwork with an external SD card. that method worked. thanks for the space -- just getting my thoughts together in writing helped point me in the right direction!
How did you fix this? the same thing is happening to mine. Thanks
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How did you fix this? the same thing is happening to mine. Thanks
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help! i am stuck in a boot loop on my gtablet. i also cant boot into recovery - the viewsonic thing comes up and then it turns off 2 seconds later. havent done anything to cause this the last time i used it (just web browsing). where do i start from here or can you point me in the right direction (in terms of thread)
thanks!
Apx mode?
Can you get to apx mode? You might have a chance of replacing the ROM that way, and maybe use bekit's stock ROM, or reinstall CWM. Best guess in a hurry.
What's apx mode? How do I get into that?
Apx mode
To get to apx mode, hold the volume down ( -) and power on the G - tablet. Try watching these videos first.
Returning to the stock ROM - http://www.youtube.com/user/pensacolacomps#p/search/2/qK2tgEBQRIU
Installing Clockwork Mod - http://www.youtube.com/user/pensacolacomps#p/search/0/27oDBi-x760
Sorry for the short reply. I'm a little short of time right now.
I'll try to provide more information later if needed.
Best of luck.
That must be the same as recovery mode. I can't get into it - It just turns off after 2 secondss. I just want to know if this is a situation in which I have to nvflash it and everything is lost or if it's recoverable. Thanks for your help so far!
Don't know if it will help, but take a look at this thread too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932157
got to go. 2am wake up.
ive never even nvflashed or ran the program. thanks for your help.
anyone else know where to start??
so i managed to set up nvflash and flash bekit's recovery image but i am STILL stuck in the boot loop and even more -
okay - I just realized that i had been pressing volume down (APX mode) not volume up (recovery mode) i was able to boot into CWM and restore an earlier image from about a month ago.
i was able to boot up. idk what happened that caused the bootloop but i am all good now. phew. unfortunately my last backup was from over a month ago, so i lost all my apps and stuff, but at least its working. now ill have to figure out what i had on my tablet and put everything back on it, ugh.
Ok, so first off, thanks to everyone here for all the info that I've already used. Here's hoping you can help get me the rest of the way. My problem is that, regardless of whether I boot simply (just power) or to clockwork (power and +), it always displays the three birds, says "booting recovery kernel image", and then goes nowhere. Here's how I got there.
I just got my gtablet new less than a week ago, and tried following the directions on here to get VEGAn-tab v5.1. Somewhere on my first attempt I messed up, so I used nvflash to wipe everything and start over, following again the instructions on xda. The version of nvflash I used include clockwork mod, if that matters.
So here I'm booting successfully to clockwork, and follow all the steps to install VEGAn-tab. Except, when I rebooted, it always booted me back to clockwork instead of VEGAn, including when I booted with just the power button. And I had no idea why. I left the unit alone for awhile to ponder things.
This afternoon I decide to try and nvflash once more, in case I did something out of order. Turns out that now when I try and enter APX mode (power and -) my computer (Vista) isn't recognizing it (I do get that little connection sound, but no pop-up / identifier in the directory). And yes, when the tablet is connected in APX mode, my driver is installed and looks fine.
What is going on here? Hopefully someone will have some fun trying to figure this one out. Help xda-kenobi, you're my only hope.
I am a noob but I just used nvflash on my tablet yesterday and if I remember correctly you aren't supposed to get a pop up when you boot your tablet in apx mode and connect it to your pc. Your computer will make the connection sound and all you have to do afterwards is open the nvflash folder and double click on the nvflash_gtablet.bat file. I think the only time you actually get a pop up when you connect your tablet to the pc in apx mode is when you do it for the first time and windows tries to look for the driver. Hope that helps you out.
Yeah but...
Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily think that I'd need formal recognition, but when I try to run the .bat file in APX mode subsequently, it tells me that "nvflash configuration file error: file not found" which makes me think it really can't find it for some reason.
uses nflash ..
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/
refer this thing first. I think u did the (installing wrong version of rom for your bootloader kind of mistake)
Assuming that you installed the driver => (check nvflash section about how to install driver), i might want to remind you that apx mode looks blank , u can't tell the difference. But once you run nvflash you should see a line in the tablet in apx mode
Check the site I told you, everything (the stuck in birds thing) is there
Btw, if you happen to able to recover, I would advise you to install Vegan Tab 7.10 by gojimi, it's the stable and updated version of vegan 5.11
Thanks! And watch out for McAfee
Heyall, thanks for the advice pointing back to the dummies site. I cleared all my previous downloads, started from scratch, and have vegantab 7.1 loading now.
One note for others out there having trouble with their computer recognizing the tablet in APX mode - I think my anti-virus (McAfee, don't blame me, it came free from work) was blocking the tablet from linking up. I've had the problem before with McAfee where it'll allow something to link the first time (usually with an online game) but then later will block it, asking for permission.
Anyways, if you're ever in the Ft. Worth area, I owe you a beer. Thanks again
This is old, but I had the same problem and found it in a search. It worked so I wanted to say thanks!
i have a gtab and it is giving me a headache already trying to figure out how to fix it. I have search high andd low for a solution but havent quite found one, yet.
This is my brother-in-laws gtab. For some reason he tried to flash to a different rom and update the tablet. Right now, the tablet won't boot. It gets stuck on the 3 bird screen. If i try to go into recovery, i still get the 3 birds with the "detected a recovery key pressed."
What i have done...well since i can get into apx mode, the first thing i did was flash nvflash 1.1, that should clear things up, then i pushed recovery. But that didn't work, i am still at the same place i started. So i flashed nvflash 1.2, still didn't work. I re-downloaded the files again from different sources and tried it again, and again, and again. I have tried it atleast 6 times but all with the same outcome. I am still stuck at the 3 birds. I tried holding the + while in nvflash to boot into recovery but that didn't work either. I am fresh out of ideas. Everything i read tells me to wipe cache/data, but i can't even get into CW. And nvflash isn't working for me either.
I am still on the same screen, this darn gtab is giving me the bird three times over. so right now i am going to allow the battery to drain then try again. unless anyone can suggest anything that will give me some hope....or even to tell me that i have bricked the "unbrickable."
oh and everytime i do the nvflash the device does not reboot itself...it stays stuck on the "entering nvflash recovery mode / nv3p server"
I had a similar issue with my gtab except I keptrebooting into apx mode. I then downloaded some nvflash from roebert that said deprecated not use (in a dropbox) and flashed that, my gtab came back to life there... funny thing is that I'm pretty sure I ended up on 1.0, luckily I was able to flash came from that and it's all been good from there.
I would say give that a try, then again I'm relatively proud to say I'm a n00b at Modding these things so tread carefully.
PS : as unbrickable as the gtab might or might not be it can (and to me it is) quite frustrating ; so I feel your pain
rantsh said:
I had a similar issue with my gtab except I keptrebooting into apx mode. I then downloaded some nvflash from roebert that said deprecated not use (in a dropbox) and flashed that, my gtab came back to life there... funny thing is that I'm pretty sure I ended up on 1.0, luckily I was able to flash came from that and it's all been good from there.
I would say give that a try, then again I'm relatively proud to say I'm a n00b at Modding these things so tread carefully.
PS : as unbrickable as the gtab might or might not be it can (and to me it is) quite frustrating ; so I feel your pain
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yeah i tried it...i wish it was that easy..but it didn't work..it still didn't do a reboot after nvflash, and when i powered it off i didn't get anything...
butwhydoitalk2u said:
i have a gtab and it is giving me a headache already trying to figure out how to fix it. I have search high andd low for a solution but havent quite found one, yet.
This is my brother-in-laws gtab. For some reason he tried to flash to a different rom and update the tablet. Right now, the tablet won't boot. It gets stuck on the 3 bird screen. If i try to go into recovery, i still get the 3 birds with the "detected a recovery key pressed."
What i have done...well since i can get into apx mode, the first thing i did was flash nvflash 1.1, that should clear things up, then i pushed recovery. But that didn't work, i am still at the same place i started. So i flashed nvflash 1.2, still didn't work. I re-downloaded the files again from different sources and tried it again, and again, and again. I have tried it atleast 6 times but all with the same outcome. I am still stuck at the 3 birds. I tried holding the + while in nvflash to boot into recovery but that didn't work either. I am fresh out of ideas. Everything i read tells me to wipe cache/data, but i can't even get into CW. And nvflash isn't working for me either.
I am still on the same screen, this darn gtab is giving me the bird three times over. so right now i am going to allow the battery to drain then try again. unless anyone can suggest anything that will give me some hope....or even to tell me that i have bricked the "unbrickable."
oh and everytime i do the nvflash the device does not reboot itself...it stays stuck on the "entering nvflash recovery mode / nv3p server"
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www.viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/
You're a code red. You've been missing a very important step. Please follow instructions precisely.
goodintentions said:
www.viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/
You're a code red. You've been missing a very important step. Please follow instructions precisely.
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I have done every step on both code red and code double red...code triple doesn't apply since i can still get into apx mode. either way, after i flash nvflash the tablet does not reboot it stays at the nv3p server screen. If i turn it off and back on again the birds come out again. i have even held to the volume + during nvflash and it shows the nv3p server, detect a recovery key pressed, and booting recovery kernel, but no go...it's just stuck...i can turn it on and off, i can get it in and out of apx but it will not reboot after nvflash or boot up a rom or clockwork recovery.
btw, i do have my own tablet as well and i ran nvflash on it just for giggles, and it works as it is suppose to. After it flashes it boots up to tap n
butwhydoitalk2u said:
I have done every step on both code red and code double red...code triple doesn't apply since i can still get into apx mode. either way, after i flash nvflash the tablet does not reboot it stays at the nv3p server screen. If i turn it off and back on again the birds come out again. i have even held to the volume + during nvflash and it shows the nv3p server, detect a recovery key pressed, and booting recovery kernel, but no go...it's just stuck...i can turn it on and off, i can get it in and out of apx but it will not reboot after nvflash or boot up a rom or clockwork recovery.
btw, i do have my own tablet as well and i ran nvflash on it just for giggles, and it works as it is suppose to. After it flashes it boots up to tap n
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Try code detox, you need a pc/laptop and load the proper driver, run the bat file from the directory. This mode completely reload all the petitions and usually fixes the issue. I think your boot petition is toasted.
Good luck.
tsukaza said:
Try code detox, you need a pc/laptop and load the proper driver, run the bat file from the directory. This mode completely reload all the petitions and usually fixes the issue. I think your boot petition is toasted.
Good luck.
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This is not normal...
I did the detox and i DID get the "magic value mismatch" in the apx mode. But then i loaded the nvflash it is still in the same state as it was before...not loading recovery, booting, i can only get into apx mode...this is really weird..
I did the detox with both nvflash, 1.1 & 1.2, with and without Clockwork, but none worked. I can do the nvflash "format" and i still get the mismatch message but redoing the nvflash to get the tap n tap stock image or heck even not seeing the darn birds it won't do...
I have even taken it apart, let the battery run out, pulled the battery, pressed the reset button...but nothing!
I can't push anything in adb since i can't boot or get into clockwork...i think the tablet is offically bricked...i have ran out of ideas and have read many...i
butwhydoitalk2u said:
I have done every step on both code red and code double red...code triple doesn't apply since i can still get into apx mode. . .
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Give this one a try and let us know if it helps.
Dave,
mydave1 said:
Give this one a try and let us know if it helps.
Dave,
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I just tried ... and no cigar... i can go all the way to step 2.1 but it won't boot to recovery...it stays at the apx "entering nvflash...recovery key detected...booting recovery..."
to me it seems like it is not retaining any of the info that i am pushing onto it...like a "bios" is being reset and not remembering what to do...
A new error message.
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Edit: i reflashed nvflash 1.2 and got rid of the error message...but i am back at square one...but taking a look at the error and from what i am seeing the tab is not finding the kernel image to start recovery. but why?
Cannot get NVFlash to "take"
butwhydoitalk2u said:
A new error message.
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Edit: i reflashed nvflash 1.2 and got rid of the error message...but i am back at square one...but taking a look at the error and from what i am seeing the tab is not finding the kernel image to start recovery. but why?
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Did you (or anyone else) discover the "secret" here? What did you do?
Unfortunately, I am now experiencing EXACTLY the same issues. My processes have fixed tons of GTabs that people thought were bricked. I *THOUGHT* that there was no way to HARD-brick the device but I may have been wrong!
I really need some help here. Anyone have an answer?
You could install a copy of Ubuntu and try nvflash with that. That would eliminate any possible driver issues since Ubuntu does not require drivers for apx mode. From the error you posted earlier "entering nvflash recovery mode / nv3p server" it would appear nvflash is not actually flashing anything.
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NVFlash does not "take"
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You could install a copy of Ubuntu and try nvflash with that. That would eliminate any possible driver issues since Ubuntu does not require drivers for apx mode. From the error you posted earlier "entering nvflash recovery mode / nv3p server" it would appear nvflash is not actually flashing anything.
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Thanks for the comment. I agree about Ubuntu. I use it exclusively - have for a couple years. I did all my testing and attempts with it. I finally decided to build a WinXP machine and I am now trying to use it.
You are correct about NVFlash not saving anything to the device. There is no bootloader and although all of the NVFlash commands are "successful" it just does not save.
When I try to use the external SDCard to run recovery, the GTab does not seem to recognize it. It acts just as if there was not a recovery file on the card.
One thing that seems to give me some hope. I am seeing the USB connection (while not in APX mode) with the Windows Machine. So, I will install ADB and see if I can grab control that way. But ADB is such a bugger with Windows.