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Root Latest Flytouch 3 Custom and Modded Roms-updated

hi,

any opinions on which ROM is better? tims 5a, or 4d? i don't really know the advantages of these two ROMs and want to knoe which is better, cheers.

baxter
 
Hello, i'm from nigeria. I bought a superpad flytouch 3 tablet last month and loaded tim 4e rom on it and its been working seamlessly, i read about the new flytouch 4 that supports call and was fascinated.

To my surprise, while browsing today with my modem plugged in, a call came in to my flytouch 3 tablet with a dial pad and i picked it but couldn't hear anything as well as my friend at the receiving end. She couldn't hera anything.

This really stunned me and i was really searching for a dial app on my tablet in order to make call but couldn't find any shortcut

i opened the gscript and saw something like dial number, then i clicked it but it displayed connection problem or incorrect mmi.

I will be happy if there's a way out and i really appreciate tim's work.

Any contribution will be appreciated
 
Hello, i'm from nigeria. I bought a superpad flytouch 3 tablet last month and loaded tim 4e rom on it and its been working seamlessly, i read about the new flytouch 4 that supports call and was fascinated.

To my surprise, while browsing today with my modem plugged in, a call came in to my flytouch 3 tablet with a dial pad and i picked it but couldn't hear anything as well as my friend at the receiving end. She couldn't hera anything.

This really stunned me and i was really searching for a dial app on my tablet in order to make call but couldn't find any shortcut

i opened the gscript and saw something like dial number, then i clicked it but it displayed connection problem or incorrect mmi.

I will be happy if there's a way out and i really appreciate tim's work.

Any contribution will be appreciated
 
In this case i suppose it good version, but i see, problems in this version. Firs of all there is a problem with GPS. when you switching on it work, but you can't turn it off. after reboot also it work, and it not turning off.

And there is one desktop. why?
 
Today i have found one ROM. It is linux. i am very interested what it will be. today evening i will test it and wrote here. good luck to me !
 
I tried flashing my brand new unit which did actually work before and accept wifi. Thats about the extent of my use of this machine so far.

Since then I must have tried to flash 20 times and upon reboot I cannot get past "Android_". I don't know what to do. I only just now know what flashing is (I guess I just had to cos everyone else was doing it.)

All I remember is the build date was 201105__ and I'm sure I saw FRF___ somewhere in there as well.

As I got this off DHGate I'm not considering posting it back or expecting too much in the way of advice. I'm in Australia, does anyone know where I can take this to get it all done.

Frustrating
 
gush said:
I tried flashing my brand new unit which did actually work before and accept wifi. Thats about the extent of my use of this machine so far.

Since then I must have tried to flash 20 times and upon reboot I cannot get past "Android_". I don't know what to do. I only just now know what flashing is (I guess I just had to cos everyone else was doing it.)

All I remember is the build date was 201105__ and I'm sure I saw FRF___ somewhere in there as well.

As I got this off DHGate I'm not considering posting it back or expecting too much in the way of advice. I'm in Australia, does anyone know where I can take this to get it all done.

Frustrating
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Try pressing the reset button on the bottom of the tablet. I believe it should revert back to the original firmware.
 
mutari said:
Try pressing the reset button on the bottom of the tablet. I believe it should revert back to the original firmware.
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And where would the tablet have this 'original firmware' stored?

Not on the internal SD Card because that would have been overwritten by any previous firmware updates!
 
I think it would revert back to the last good firmware that was flashed. But i think if it does not have a good bootloader on the internal card then it won't work. Or maybe it is another file?
 
Rabid1 said:
I think it would revert back to the last good firmware that was flashed. But i think if it does not have a good bootloader on the internal card then it won't work. Or maybe it is another file?
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In order to do that the last good firmware must be stored somewhere. I think it is much more likely that the 'recovery' mode just deletes the files you have added in the user addressable areas...it is, in effect, a factory reset....thats not the same as a firmware re-flash!

The bootloader isn't kept on the internal card....if it was it wouldn't be able to enter the firmware update mode if you format the internal card.....which it can!. I would think the bootloader will be kept on a separate NAND flash chip.
 
Ok i spend 5 hours yesterday reading the threads on here trying to flash my Flytouch3.

My Flyoutch 3 stats:
Version: Unknown
Model No: Disco10
Android version: 2.2-20110529
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 zjd@dtlinuxserver #1
Build No: FRF85B

I had the same problem as a lot of people on here where i put the two files on my SD card restart and it should auto update, but it didn't, it just loaded as normal. I was formatting my card with windows format which i thought would be ok. Anyway as a last resort i used SDformatter as mentioned in earlier posts thinking it wouldn't make any difference but what the hell. I couldn't believe it when i went through the process again after formatting and it worked first time!!! Now i have a proper fast working tablet that i have been wanting since ive been reading these forums! Thanks Tim and all the devs which have taken the time out to make our Android devices SO MUCH BETTER!!!!
 
dart16 said:
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In order to do that the last good firmware must be stored somewhere.
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Thank you dart, nice to see some people understand what's going on [it's not that difficult after all].

This is precisely the point I was trying to get across in my earlier post!
 
dart16 said:
In order to do that the last good firmware must be stored somewhere. I think it is much more likely that the 'recovery' mode just deletes the files you have added in the user addressable areas...it is, in effect, a factory reset....thats not the same as a firmware re-flash!

The bootloader isn't kept on the internal card....if it was it wouldn't be able to enter the firmware update mode if you format the internal card.....which it can!. I would think the bootloader will be kept on a separate NAND flash chip.
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Actually I misspoke when I said on the card. But it definitely does more than erase user files. When my pad wouldn't flash I did the hard reset to try to fix it, when it completed everything was back to the way it was after the original flash of 5a, including desktop icons and apps I had uninstalled.

On most systems The bootloader is usually located somewhere in NVRAM. It's not like bootloaders are specific to Android alone.
 
Rabid1 said:
Actually I misspoke when I said on the card. But it definitely does more than erase user files. When my pad wouldn't flash I did the hard reset to try to fix it, when it completed everything was back to the way it was after the original flash of 5a, including desktop icons and apps I had uninstalled.

On most systems The bootloader is usually located somewhere in NVRAM. It's not like bootloaders are specific to Android alone.
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OK...well it must make a copy somewhere on NVM then as part of the flash process, which, if you think about it, is a waste of resources given the simplicity and the frequency of updating the firmware, unless you can update the image on the fly a bit like system restore on PC.
 
dart16 said:
OK...well it must make a copy somewhere on NVM then as part of the flash process, which, if you think about it, is a waste of resources given the simplicity and the frequency of updating the firmware, unless you can update the image on the fly a bit like system restore on PC.
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There are 5 partitions on the original sd card and I would assume that stays the same with any flash. 2 fat32 partitions, one is the 2.4 GB local user partition and one is the 143Mb recovery partiton, I call it recovery because it is unlabelled and has uImage, uImage_recovery, a ramdisk.img, and a data.tar file. Then 3 Linux partitions are basically 1Gb, 60Mb, 190Mb. There is also about 80Mb of unallocated space in 2 small partitions.

My guess is "factory" is whatever is written in this small fat32 partition and when recovery is run the user partition is deleted and the system restored from the data here. In a flash it is replaced with whatever is "factory" for that flash.
 
dart16 said:
OK...well it must make a copy somewhere on NVM then as part of the flash process, which, if you think about it, is a waste of resources given the simplicity and the frequency of updating the firmware, unless you can update the image on the fly a bit like system restore on PC.
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Hello
Dart how are you please watch your words don't want you getting your knuckles rapped lol take care
 
Hi,

got a Superpad II Flytouch. I burned it with TIM 5a ROM (great Job Tim!) and it works pretty well.
However I'm not succesfull with a 3G Huawei 367 internet Key.
I know, I read the one working is another model, so option one is that I'm using a non supported model.
But what is strange is that when I plug my 3G key the tablet recognize it, I can see the 3G label on the top bar with the two small arrows blincking for a while and then stanting still as it is connected. I modify APN with the right settings. Running GScripts I see the 3G Mobile as connected as green. Everything seems working fine, but if I try to launch the browser (or any other apps requiring internet connection) I got errors as the system is not connected.
The las finding is that running Settings/Wireless&network/Mobile network I don't see any 3G Networks item which I see running through all the forums and the posts related to Superpad and 3G.

Anyone has any suggestion?

Thanks so much in advance
 
I'm finding that the Dolphin Browser is painfully slow, is this normal? In contrast Opera Mini is quite quick but does not support Flash 10.1.
 
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