How to unbrick Archos Titanium HD

[LaGra]

First at all sorry for my worse english.
I'm a german user, so i'll hope you can read this right

A few days ago the apocalypse was running over me. I updated the wrong
Customfirmware on my Archos 97 Titanium HD.

The result of this was a bricked device!

-Could not start device
-USB was not recognised any more

So what is to do if this is happen to you?

First at all, anything you do is at your own risk!
I take over no guarantee, if something does not go or is destroyed.



Needed tools:

boot.img and recovery.img
Visture v5 HD image
RK Android Tool 1.35
Rockchip Batch Tool v 1.07


- a thin plastic card
- a small screwdriver
- a paperclip
- a tweezer
- usb cable
- power cable
- a sidekick
- a PC with both Windows and Linux




Open the device:

Take the plastic card and carefully open the device between
display and case. Start at the speakers and slide carefully
around the corners of your device.



Now, carefully lift up the display. That is the part for your sidekick
because you need free hands to work.
The display could not take off completely so a sidekick will be welcome.


Here you can see the board of your device:



1. Take off the strips marked blue (1+2) under Strip 1 is another screw
2. Now you have carefully to bend up the marked yellow metal sheets
3. Screw out the three screws (red)
4. Carefully pull out display cable (green)


Now you can lift off the board (carefully)
Pull off the metal sheet to get access to NAND and RK3066 Chip



If you are at this point, you need USB Cable, Power Cable and Paperclip!

Plug in USB to Device and PC
Plug in Power Cable to device
Take the paperclip and slide over contacts of the NAND from inside
the board to you. (blue marked)




If this has worked the PC find your device.



Now you need to use RKAndroidTool 1.35



Click on erase NAND and wait until RKAndroidTool is ready
Now you can close the program.


Open RK Batch Tool 1.7




Number 1:
- must be green if your device is found.
- If not, shutdown the device and plugin USB
- Startup the device by holding pressed Vol – and Power.

Number 2:
-search for Visture v5 HD update.img on your harddrive

Number 3:
-Press Upgrade and wait until its finished


If everything was in order, the device would have to start.



Now you need Linux to uplaod boot.img and recovery.img

Followed by the great Tutorials of Originalas :good:

- Archos 97 Titanium HD / Visture V5 HD ROM / Android 4.1.1
- Archos root und CWM guide

Start Linux, open Terminal

Flash boot.img back to tablet
sudo ./rkflashtool w 0x00008000 0x00008000 < boot.img

and

Flash recovery.img to tablet
sudo ./rkflashtool w 0x00010000 0x00008000 < recovery.img

Put everything together again carefully.




READ OFFLINE?

Unbrick Archos Titanium HD PDF english/englisch
Unbrick Archos Titanium HD PDF german/deutsch

I hope you enjoyed it
That's it.

MFG LaGra

 

[Mumang]

Firmware recovery gathered manually RockBatch Tool of update.zip from the official site and files first post. CWM Actually it is already present and is native boot.
Greetings from Russia

h_t_t_p://yadi.sk/d/aXTUBjizJr7sW - remove gaps)))

 

[hrathke]

Original Firmware?

Hi LaGra,

many thanks for your article - please tell me: after you finished, you have the original firmware on it or just the Visture v5 HD image? On my Archos 97 Titanium is installed the new Firmware from Vel2000 - V972_V1 - ROM 4.4 Kitkat, it works anything very well exept the video playing is noticable stutter means if you are watching e.g watchever it is terribel.
Did you make an backup from the original firmware and can post this to me? Or do you know where I can find this? Because I want to change back to the original ROM and want to send it back...

Thanks in advanve!

HR

PS: I´m german too, look at my english

 

[dimon79]

No work WI-FI

Firmware recovery gathered manually RockBatch Tool of update.zip from the official site and files first post. CWM Actually it is already present and is native boot.
Greetings from Russia

h_t_t_p://yadi.sk/d/aXTUBjizJr7sW - remove gaps)))

Здраствуйте, не подскажите что сделать чтоб работал Wi-Fi. Спасибо

 

[thioz]

Hi LaGra,

many thanks for your article - please tell me: after you finished, you have the original firmware on it or just the Visture v5 HD image? On my Archos 97 Titanium is installed the new Firmware from Vel2000 - V972_V1 - ROM 4.4 Kitkat, it works anything very well exept the video playing is noticable stutter means if you are watching e.g watchever it is terribel.
Did you make an backup from the original firmware and can post this to me? Or do you know where I can find this? Because I want to change back to the original ROM and want to send it back...

Thanks in advanve!

HR

PS: I´m german too, look at my english

How did you flash the V971 ROM ? ... I cannot seem to get it working ... I flashed the V5 rom and PhoenixSuite isn't detecting my device and RKFlashtool does not like the v972 img file

 

[死-shi]

help

Sorry for my English, I'm French

So I have an Archos Titanium 97b not HD, and there aren't any firmware that exist for my device,and I "hard bricked it" so I can access the device but if I try to launch an app, it will say "unfortunately (app) has stop" and then my tablet just reboot, I can't even switch it off , I'm obliged to hold the power button for 10 seconded. And I don't have root, because I tried to restore the device,but it didn't work.

So do you think that adding visture HD will work and help me?

 

[manu69xy]

First at all sorry for my worse english.
I'm a german user, so i'll hope you can read this right

- a PC with both Windows and Linux

- Take the paperclip and slide over contacts of the NAND from inside
the board to you. (blue marked)

If this has worked the PC find your device.

That's it.

MFG LaGra

There are 2 important things
1) For correct flash you have to use Windows 7 (real Win not a virtual machine like vmware) cos win 8 or win 10 dont work.
2) The pin to join in the NAND chip are the 8 and 9 (the 1 pin is near the dot mark over the chip) and you must join the pins and then plug in the power cable.

I hope this can help

 

[pille00]

Sorry to bring this old thread up again, but has anybody one of the pdf files to read offline, as all links above don't work anymore..
German or English would be fine..
"Unbrick-Archos-english-PDF.zip" or
"Unbrick-Archos-deutsch-PDF.zip"