Root through Lubuntu
Hey Josh
I did it through root from scratch...and through Lubuntu..not Windows
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Josh,
Here are the instructions that I followed...and they worked perfectly...
1> Installed a new "32 bit version" of LUBUNTU 13 downloaded from their website. (I tried 64 bit installs of Ubuntu 12 and then 13 and while they would see the tablet's file storage, could not get the Toolkit to connect). I went with Lubuntu 13 because it was the "lite" version. The key I have read is going with the 32 bit version.
2> Open up a UXTERM (terminal window similar to a DOS command window in Windows) and install a couple of required packages for the Android by giving the following commands:
sudo su
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot android-tools-adb
3> Now create a new folder in the /bin folder called IconiaToolkit with this command: sudo mkdir /bin/IconiaToolkit
4> Now make sure you have access rights to this new folder with command: sudo chown user:user /bin/IconiaToolkit
in the line above, replace the "user:user" with whatever user name you set up for yourself when you installed Lubuntu (ie: bob:bob)
5> Now open up internet browser in Lubuntu and download the IconiaToolkit v0.8.1
6> In Lubuntu, open FileManager PCManFM and double click on the Downloads folder, then right click on the IconiaToolkit.zip icon and say "Extract to" and specify /bin/IconiaToolkit as the destination folder.
7> Now back in your Xterm window, go to the toolkit directory with the command: cd /bin/IconiaToolkit
8> Verify you are there with the command: ls (you should see a file called toolkit.sh among other files.
9> Now per instructions of the toolkits README file, enter the command: chmod +x toolkit.sh <enter> followed by the command: ./toolkit.sh <enter>
you should now see the menu for the rooting script.
I selected Option 2 for my A1-810 device followed by Option 1 - Root and then Option 1 again, ROOT FROM SCRATCH.
Takes about 12 to 15 minutes - but was super easy once I got the correct Linux environment set up.