Enabling SDE & Permanently Rooting Your tablet
1. Make sure you have done the temp root method
2. Download this
zip and extract to your desktop
3. Open the command window again (if it's a new one, type cd desktop again)
4. With your device plugged in, type
and hit enter
5. Type
Code:
adb shell rm /data/local.prop
and hit enter
6. Download
this file (THANKS surdu_petru!)
7a. If you downloaded the file to your computer:
With your tablet plugged into the pc, copy the file to the INTERNAL STORAGE of the drive, NOT IN ANY FOLDERS
7b. If you downloaded the file to your tablet:
Open "Files"
Go to download and copy the file archos_3.2.79.ext4 to the Internal Storage, NOT IN ANY FOLDERS
8. Download
this and
this and remember where they are
9. Turn off the device normally
10. Hold power + volume down until the archos logo appears and a recovery menu appears
11. Use Volume Up + Down and power to select Recovery Menu > Developer Edition menu
12. Use them to select Flash Kernel and initramfs
13. When a drive appears on your computer, copy the zImage and initramfs.cpio.gz to it. Press power on the device, wait and then press it again
14. The device will boot the unrooted edition (apps and storage will be unaffected)
15. Turn off your device again and boot back into recovery
16. Select Recovery System > Developer Menu > Remove android Kernel
17. Accept warnings (MEDIA & APPS WILL BE UNAFFECTED)
18. Reboot. Your device will now boot the rooted edition every time
BIG THANKS TO surdu_petru and letama for the firmware and SDE