Help with ellipsis 8 qtaqz3 rom.

[mcorkins]

I have a used ellipsis 8 qtaqz3 that I want to root. I would like an admin to help me so I can upload the rom here for others to have. It has Android 4.4.2 on it and it has been reset.

Please advise Admins!

Thanks,
Mark

 

[ChinaHeart]

I have a used ellipsis 8 qtaqz3 that I want to root. I would like an admin to help me so I can upload the rom here for others to have. It has Android 4.4.2 on it and it has been reset.

Please advise Admins!

Thanks,
Mark

I can give you root, but I need the original rom to change it.
[email protected]

 

[HipKat]

Android 4.4.2?????

 

[njmcinty]

I have a QTAQZ3 currently running 4.2.2. I captured the OTA url and downloaded an update bin file. I'm not exactly sure how bins compare to flashable zips, nor do I know what to do with a bin file. It seems as though this file has been hard to come by. I am hoping that by posting it, someone with the right know-how can help us fix all these bricked tablets.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LmyrA3eGcVL3sCMB3okBdsoqA0Gv5RZE

 

[sirtweak0]

I've looked through every possible thread on the internet. I rooted and then the device updated now it is bricked.

Does anyone have any of the original firmware?? Pleassseeeee.

I can get it into download mode and recovery but that does nothing.

I really don't want to replace the logic board I can donate!

 

[vanlianhup]

I've looked through every possible thread on the internet. I rooted and then the device updated now it is bricked.

Does anyone have any of the original firmware?? Pleassseeeee.

I can get it into download mode and recovery but that does nothing.

I really don't want to replace the logic board I can donate!

My device faced the same, "I rooted and then the device updated now it is bricked."

Did you get the original firmware? or Did you manage to solve it?

Thank you in advance.

Please help.

 

[AntumDeluge]

I have a QTAQZ3 currently running 4.2.2. I captured the OTA url and downloaded an update bin file. I'm not exactly sure how bins compare to flashable zips, nor do I know what to do with a bin file. It seems as though this file has been hard to come by. I am hoping that by posting it, someone with the right know-how can help us fix all these bricked tablets.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LmyrA3eGcVL3sCMB3okBdsoqA0Gv5RZE

Using the Unix file tool reveals that .bin file to be a java archive:

$ file QZ3_31F27_0423_to_QZ3_31F28_0415.bin
QZ3_31F27_0423_to_QZ3_31F28_0415.bin: Java archive data (JAR)

So it can be opened & extracted as a regular .zip archive. The bundled manifest hints at an exported APK created with the .bin filename extension:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.0 (Android SignApk)

Contained within the archive are two main files: delta.bin & recovery.bin. It is evident which file is intended for the recovery partition. But I don't know what delta.bin is used for.

I don't know how OTA updates work, but it appears that it is an installable Android package whose contents are organized for the OTA updater to handle. I'm guessing that this bin/apk/zip archive is actually what is considered a "flashable zip", containing the binaries to be flashed to partitions by the updater or recovery utility. The contained .bin files can likely be extracted from the archive & flashed manually with fastboot:

$ file delta.bin recovery.bin
delta.bin:    FoxPro FPT, blocks size 256, next free block index 1297241676, field type 0
recovery.bin: FoxPro FPT, blocks size 256, next free block index 1297241676, field type 0

I may get my bricked QTAQZ3 out eventually & see if I can flash these files.

--- EDIT ---

I could be wrong about it being a flashable zip. I downloaded this sample TWRP flashable zip & it is a standard .zip archive (not jar/apk). It similarly contains a META-INF directory. But instead of only including signatures/certificates this directory houses the binary data to be installed & the script to execute installation instructions. It's possible they are both valid "flashable zip" packages & the updater/utility knows how handle both formats.