Fedaykinofdune
Newbie
I've been back and forth on a few forums reading about custom recoveries meant for A13 devices, but I'm a little unclear about certain aspects of it, when determining what would be compatible with my device and what would not.
I referenced this post in particular which seems relevant to my hardware:
[MOD][CWM Recovery 6.0.2.8 For A13 Tablets -v2a] - SlateDroid.com
I'm unclear about what makes or breaks the installation of the recovery, specifically the ability to mount internal and external SD cards. I have been reading tons of posts, all over the place, and I see lots of people saying it worked for them on such and such tablet.. According to my my tablet, I have 10 partitions, ending with nandj, I will copy/paste partitions and cpuinfo below. So, since mine matches, sun5i, 10 partitions, etc, does that mean I'm good to go? Or are there other variables that could cause problems with my cards mounting? My card paths are /mnt/sdcard for the internal memory(mounts on PC as "MID") and mnt/extsd for my 32gb SD card. As far as I can tell, nandg is where the recovery.img is located. Is that the standard for generic A13?
I have already pulled out a copy of nandg, which should be the recovery.img or so I'm led to believe. Now, if I ever end up flashing a custom recovery and something doesn't sit right, is it simply a matter of dd'ing the nandg.img back to the tablet or is there more to it than that?
I'm sorry for the rambling and all the questions, but I'm trying to understand a little more intimately the inner workings of Android, and trying to make my little cheapo tablet a little more awesomer without the headache of bricking it or banging my head on the keyboard for a week trying to fix it from some bad flash.
If anyone would kindly take the time to enlighten me a little further and provide some answers to my questions, I would be infinitely grateful. I have done a good bit of research on this and it's possible I've already answered my own questions, but some extra illumination would definitely help me out. I'm just being cautious, as I don't want to flash something that's going to cause a headache or just flat out kill my tab. I'm very poor and make the best out of what I have (actually have a great cobbled mess of computing power in my house lol), but my tablet is my second best friend and I can't afford to replace it if I screw up.
Anyways, this is a Jazz Ultratab C925, running 4.0, factory kernel rooted, busybox and SU installed. Ultratab 9in
Below is cpuinfo and partitions. If anyone needs any additional info, let me know and I will do whatever is necessary. Thank you for reading and thank you in advance for any help!
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 1001.88
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 2
Hardware : sun5i
Revision : a13b
Serial : 0a03872132303030504b533316254249
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
7 0 49928 loop0
7 2 54086 loop2
7 3 46809 loop3
7 4 21861 loop4
7 5 18743 loop5
7 6 24980 loop6
7 7 27059 loop7
93 0 26384 nanda
93 8 16384 nandb
93 16 32768 nandc
93 24 614400 nandd
93 32 1228800 nande
93 40 16384 nandf
93 48 32768 nandg
93 56 262144 nandh
93 64 262144 nandi
93 72 1382640 nandj
179 0 15558144 mmcblk0
179 1 15554048 mmcblk0p1
254 0 49927 dm-0
254 2 54085 dm-2
254 3 46809 dm-3
254 4 21861 dm-4
254 5 18742 dm-5
254 6 24979 dm-6
254 7 27058 dm-7
root@android:/ #
I referenced this post in particular which seems relevant to my hardware:
[MOD][CWM Recovery 6.0.2.8 For A13 Tablets -v2a] - SlateDroid.com
I'm unclear about what makes or breaks the installation of the recovery, specifically the ability to mount internal and external SD cards. I have been reading tons of posts, all over the place, and I see lots of people saying it worked for them on such and such tablet.. According to my my tablet, I have 10 partitions, ending with nandj, I will copy/paste partitions and cpuinfo below. So, since mine matches, sun5i, 10 partitions, etc, does that mean I'm good to go? Or are there other variables that could cause problems with my cards mounting? My card paths are /mnt/sdcard for the internal memory(mounts on PC as "MID") and mnt/extsd for my 32gb SD card. As far as I can tell, nandg is where the recovery.img is located. Is that the standard for generic A13?
I have already pulled out a copy of nandg, which should be the recovery.img or so I'm led to believe. Now, if I ever end up flashing a custom recovery and something doesn't sit right, is it simply a matter of dd'ing the nandg.img back to the tablet or is there more to it than that?
I'm sorry for the rambling and all the questions, but I'm trying to understand a little more intimately the inner workings of Android, and trying to make my little cheapo tablet a little more awesomer without the headache of bricking it or banging my head on the keyboard for a week trying to fix it from some bad flash.
If anyone would kindly take the time to enlighten me a little further and provide some answers to my questions, I would be infinitely grateful. I have done a good bit of research on this and it's possible I've already answered my own questions, but some extra illumination would definitely help me out. I'm just being cautious, as I don't want to flash something that's going to cause a headache or just flat out kill my tab. I'm very poor and make the best out of what I have (actually have a great cobbled mess of computing power in my house lol), but my tablet is my second best friend and I can't afford to replace it if I screw up.
Anyways, this is a Jazz Ultratab C925, running 4.0, factory kernel rooted, busybox and SU installed. Ultratab 9in
Below is cpuinfo and partitions. If anyone needs any additional info, let me know and I will do whatever is necessary. Thank you for reading and thank you in advance for any help!
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 1001.88
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 2
Hardware : sun5i
Revision : a13b
Serial : 0a03872132303030504b533316254249
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
7 0 49928 loop0
7 2 54086 loop2
7 3 46809 loop3
7 4 21861 loop4
7 5 18743 loop5
7 6 24980 loop6
7 7 27059 loop7
93 0 26384 nanda
93 8 16384 nandb
93 16 32768 nandc
93 24 614400 nandd
93 32 1228800 nande
93 40 16384 nandf
93 48 32768 nandg
93 56 262144 nandh
93 64 262144 nandi
93 72 1382640 nandj
179 0 15558144 mmcblk0
179 1 15554048 mmcblk0p1
254 0 49927 dm-0
254 2 54085 dm-2
254 3 46809 dm-3
254 4 21861 dm-4
254 5 18742 dm-5
254 6 24979 dm-6
254 7 27058 dm-7
root@android:/ #
