A13 Boxchip CM9/CM10 Development

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Apr 24, 2013
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liunx v5 phone / tablet

hello,
ive read many forums & instructions and i cant seem to figure out the solution. I have a liunx v5 tablet with 3g built in module. I did several things and dont know which caused the issue 1. i rooted an already rooted phone? yes dumb!! i changed the bootanimation working fine soon as i rebooted finito. it has a a10 processor or 11 i dont recall. the manufacture sent me live suite and the firmware which has two diffrent firmware versions inside.
I followed the instructions which are in chinese (google translator) and i followed instructions on this post to no avail. what happens is it boots to the first screen android, then manufacture name stays for 8 seconds and reboots again. So because it continues to do this live suite does not get the chance to load the firmware. i installed cwm v6.0.2.8 to attempt to thorugh there to no avail. i didnt want to try installing a bunch of software because i dont want to damage it more than it is. ive uploaded logs from boot to reboot, video of whats it doing maybe you can point me in the right direction. i have yet to find one set of instructions thats universal i guess because of all the diffrent manufactures.
eyeneedsecurity.tumblr com/ you can see the log and video ive upload in my thumblr

Thank you in advance

Unpredictbleforce
 

Trobiase

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I have tried it, as well as its Basis the Novo 7 Legend Rom... The Faasst JB ROM is nice for the drivers for TS/Gravity sensor and the assistance of the author on TechKnow Forum (There is also a thread here on XDA that seems to mirror it). I prefer to tune and tweak myself tho so I made the requisite changes to the Basis Rom (Novo 7 Legend) and have since modified 3 others to work with my Generic Mid A13 Tab. The one I prefer is The MID13 Manta Rom (available on Techknow Forum) as it comes rooted with a minimal busybox and has a minimal list of preloaded packages, this makes it, for my purposes better for testing and modding, the only drawback is the CWM implementation it comes with has a missing Back menu entry, this is easilt fixed by installing the 10 part CWM implementation I found here on XDA.

can the cwm back option be fixed
how ?????
can u post the link to the thread plz
 

kevinlurch

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some custom help for hosting firmware

i also have a couple of the allwinner a13 tabs and am just learning how to build my own kernels and roms , i often notice that links are broken or something that prevents a reliable source for the files so what i think we should do is use google chrome add the storage app called"box" this gives 5gb of free storage upload the roms there and then we have a reliable source - host - just post the gmail acc and password on the forum for anyone to use


please try it and i hope this helps
i have created acc allwinnera13development@gmail.com password is customfirmware

just hope it helps keep some a13 files together
i will try to get emergency recovery and touch drivers here as soon as i can and as space runs out create next box acc and place acc and pass in a readme in this box
lets all help each other get the best from these tablets
 

fsebentley

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Links on Box

i also have a couple of the allwinner a13 tabs and am just learning how to build my own kernels and roms , i often notice that links are broken or something that prevents a reliable source for the files so what i think we should do is use google chrome add the storage app called"box" this gives 5gb of free storage upload the roms there and then we have a reliable source - host - just post the gmail acc and password on the forum for anyone to use


please try it and i hope this helps
i have created acc allwinnera13development@gmail.com password is customfirmware

just hope it helps keep some a13 files together
i will try to get emergency recovery and touch drivers here as soon as i can and as space runs out create next box acc and place acc and pass in a readme in this box
lets all help each other get the best from these tablets

If you want a Place for links to Rom files how about simply opening a Topic for that ?

I have several versions already posted on my own 4shared account and there are some linked in topics around the board all having to do with the A13 or CM in one way or another... I would gladly post links to all of my content in a Topoic devoted to that if you care to maintain one ? If so just link the Topic here and I will add my content to it .

sorry if too off-topic .
 
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Eng.AHB

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Flashed but touch is not working

thanks for the great ROM
flashed
but touchscreen is not working & also the UP/Down keys is working but no sound

my device is G`tab P700+ A13 All winner
and in the CODE
getevent

it shows that the

add device 1 >>>> mma8452
add device 2 >>>> gslX680

any help guys ?
 

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    I now know the Allwinner A13 is a stripped down version of the Allwinner A10, to be clearer the specifications of my Tablet (from UniFlash and AnTuTu Benchmark) are as follows:

    Manufacturer: None
    Brand: softwinners
    CPU hardware: sun5i
    CPU model: ARMv7 Processor (VFPv3, NEON)
    CPU frequency: 60.0 ~ 1008.0 MHz
    Screen resolution: 800 x 444
    GPU vendor: Mali-400 MP
    GPU version (OpenGL): OpenGL ES 2.0
    RAM size: 512 MB DDR2 RAM

    Knowing this, I used UniFlash to make a backup of the firmware bt after using UniFlash to try and load a CM9 Rom on to the Tablet, the Tablet died. After alot of googling I discovered AllWinner based chipsets use Live Suite (sometimes called LiveSuit) to flash firmwares on to the device.

    To Flash firmware on to the device you need to follow the attached instructions ((http://dragondevs.com/viewtopic.php?f=159&t=390):

    Download LiveSuite (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Live-Suit-Pack.shtml)
    Install Live Suite
    Start Live Suite
    Select the Live Suite image file (folder icon
    Turn device off (to be sure hold power button for 12 - 20 seconds)
    Hold "Volume Up" button down
    Connect the device to your PC (while still holding "Volume Up" down)
    Start pressing the power button (you may need to do this once a second for 5/6 seconds)
    If you haven't installed windows will ask to install a driver for a device (Dive Id will be something like Vf73465789123465435_Id, if the device is in the right mode, A13-MID, ADB-Interface indicates the tablet has connected in anouther mode).
    Once this has finished LiveSuite will detect the device and a wizard will flash the firmware for you.

    I have found a working firmware which according to AnTuTU Benchmark gives my tablet a rating of 3047 (see firmware section), this is on the higher end of reported A13-MID tablets

    I have found out how to install CWM on to the device via SaussageMod (http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/29916-scriptmod-for-allwinner-a1x-platforms/). This solution is untested, further more it may be unnessary futher investigation has shown this website (https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/2/topics/73) has developed a way of create Live Suite images. This is simplier than installing clockworkmod recovery,

    I tried to load the following images on to my tablet and failed completely: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31043317 It didn't work and forced me to do a firmware refresh.

    My other step for the day was to create Ubuntu 10.10 installation then I began following this guide to construct an Xperia Play CM9 Rom/Kernel. once I have created a working ROM (I own an Xperia Play). I'm hoping to be able to modify the kernel to include the relevent A13 drivers, but one step at a time.


    TODO
    Create Ubuntu Partition
    Follow Xperia Play CM9 Rom/Kernel Guide and create working rom (test on my Xperia Play)
    Download CT repository (https://github.com/christiantroy) and compare with Xperia Play CM9 rom
    Find the relevent drivers from https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner leaked source
    Retrieve offical MALI 400 MP drivers (parts of it have been released) compare with leaked source
    Use UniFlash backup of original Rom along with LiveSuite image creation to try and restore original firmware (see If I understand it properly)
    Examine Build.prop find out why original firmware displayed ina phone layout and new one is in tablet mode (potentially reference CM supported Tablets).
    Attempt to compile a A13 (Sun5i) based rom
    Create a google code page to hold all of these thoughts properly.
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    Cyanogenmod 9 in not working for you. Did you made data and cache wipe? Can you send me logcat and dmesg output?
    You can`t steal my config, you have to remember about credits, and other stuff.
    Creating a wiki is useless, there is already wiki for allwinner products, so better update info on it.
    Github is better than google code to keep sources.
    Using Livesuit=Windows, I hate dual booting just for flashing, Clockwork Recovery or modified SDcard with uboot is better solution.
    Current kernel is not working well, with sun5i.
    Using VM is stupid, because building rom takes a lot of time on quad core pc without it.

    I wiped the caches I couldn't send a logcat or dmesg as the device simply boot looped.

    I've been providing links to threads whenever I come across others work, I'm new to android rom development for me this is a research effort which will hopefully produce something cool for my £50 tablet. Basically my day job has switched to developing UI's and I am looking for something new to learn (instead of why is Vaadin, Guice, SWT, Javascript, etc... is putting that button there).

    Said dev career has also made me hate Git with a passion (not as bad as perforce but still) since Git integrates poorly with Visual Studio and Eclipse and you end up getting everyone overwriting each others changes. The idea of google code is simply because it makes a good platform for projects and you can use things like git with it. I didn't know about an Allwinner wiki, with all of my Googling I haven't come across it, where is it?

    I don't care about build times I'm just researching, alas Debian has caused me enough problems so I've installed ubuntu on to a old disk I had lying around. Considering I've just tried to install Ubuntu via a Net install CD and it has screwed up the GRUB installation (nicely taking out my windows partition as well) can you blame me?

    The reason for nabbing the config (and the Xperia Play and Christian Troys) is to understand how they work. Over the years I've found most Open Source software documentation is poor unless you have a set level of knowledge about it already.

    Lastly I like automation, I want things to just work. Livesuit does that since I am normally a windows user, I as hoping in the distant future once I understand the build process to set up a Jenkins server to do it and create the whole lot automatically (via the Allwinner flash kitchen). In the even longer term I would like to update FlashTool to do what LiveSuit does. In the near term (next couple of months) I just want to be able to build a CM9 image.
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    I just installed OpenVPN installer and installed the OpenVPN binary in the system/xbin
    After that I tried to connect to my university's VPN but when it tried to connect, the tablet lost wifi connection and ever since it doesnt connect to any available wifi network!! I manually deleted the OpenVPN binary, but problem remains!
    Do you know where could I find the stock ROM for this tablet in order to re-flash it?
    Do you have any other proposals? Anything will help!
    Thank you very much!!

    **SOLVED**
    Factory reset was surprisingly the solution! WiFi works like a charm now!



    -- Another (pffff) problem has occured now!! G-Sensor doesn't work!
    I check it in settings, but still it doesn't work! Not even the market apps with the bubbles (the ones that are supposed to tell you if a surface is horizontal) don't work!

    Additionally, I have found the stock rom but I cannot flash it! LiveSuit keeps showing the same error "Initialization Fails (513) "
    What is that and how is that supposed to be solved?

    **SOLVED**
    I read somewhere that LiveSuit would work fine if I had formatted my pc! So I took an old laptop, formatted it and re-installed XP. LiveSuit worked like a charm!
    I re-flashed the Stock Rom and now the tablet also works like a charm ;)
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    I have some files from the tablet, what would i do with them? Can i install another rom ( i got the original) and copy files into the folders, will it works? Heres the files from it:
    http://data.hu/get/5852671/sdcard.zip

    what you mean ? do you want to flash you tab ?

    if Yes then check cpu chip name and post here

    and problem also :D
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    can the cwm back option be fixed
    how ?????
    can u post the link to the thread plz

    Yes it can be fixed,,, The fix also seems promising as a working implementation of CWM for almost any A13 device and any Android version... has worked on every one I have tries thus far... here is the thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189640