thanks guys, I had posted more details in Wug's toolkit thread since I thought a flash of the factory image would fix me up, and I thought the toolkit could be used to do that.
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35312568&postcount=129
this all started after everything appeared to unlock and root fine, but I tried to install some inverted apps by travp which did not go well.
I'm trying to flash the factory image, the included one fails, so I went and got my own, but its not rebooting as I expect it would?
when the cmd box comes up on the computer it says "wait for your device to finish booting up" but mine never reboots?
I can get into the bootloader, and into TWRP, but even after factory reset is keeps giving me this: android.process.acore has stopped
and I can't get past the "google & location" setup screen.
am I missing something with flashing the factory image?
I didn't want to be the guy who gets all excited and posts the same damn question in three different forums. But now its been a day and a half, and I just got a call that's going to take me out of the country again next week, so I'd like to fix this sooner rather than later.
Rather than threadjack, perhaps I should make a new post? oh well, you asked!
This tablet is my second android device (I came from a TP2), and my first is a Moto DX2 with a locked bootloader. I have flashed roms and used the moto sbf process and even tinkered with radiocomm for the TBH 3G hotspot hack, but unlocked bootloaders and Samsung devices are new to me.
I unlocked and rooted fine, and then tried to use Wug's toolkit to flash the inverted apps (and didn't nandroid like a dummy). That's when things went south. The calendar worked, talk force closed, it duplicated the email app, but the inverted one force closed, and the people/contacts app is where I think things got really borked. The tablet is currently running, but the people app is totally missing. I can get into the bootloader, and into TWRP, and I've factory reset a few times but the issue remains. I thought flashing the factory image would be like the moto sbf process and bring me back to stock. It seems like the toolkit isn't flashing it though, because it never reboots, it just hangs at the bootloader.
After the initial flash of those apps it took me a while to get through setup, because that "android.process.acore has stopped" error kept occuring. After trying a while I finally fully booted and that's where I'm at now.
I have not previously used adb or the sdk, but again thought the toolkit would do it?
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Edit: well I tried the mskip tool instead and that flashed the factory image just fine.
I had some wierdness with the play store disappearing after an update, but I just re-downloaded the apk and that seemed to solve that.