theghOst, thanks so much for your last post. It was lengthy and techie and had a fair amount of narrative that I tend to appreciate more than just "do this and it should work, but if it doesn't I don't remember how I got the answer". And aicjofs, thanks so much for the updated files. Together you've almost got me where I need to be.
My kids have two Nabi2 tablets, and they are updated to KitKat 4.4.2. These have been great tablets for the kids, but they've always been weak on space. So I want to root and remove some of the fluff filling up the not-quite-4GB internal memory, and maybe figure out how to use an SD card.
I tried both "jmzrootpackage" and "mn2ri-v1.5.0-beta2", and it seems like I've had more luck with the second. I have installed PDANet, (both the latest from their site and the version that comes with mn2ri). I've now installed NabiLabDriver64.zip from aicjofs' post, and that got the device to recognize when I run the install script. I extracted mn2ri to a folder on my desktop, extracted "fastboot_adb(1.0.32)_071114_r21" in to overwrite the files, and things look like they're working. Step 1 works, verifying the Nabi2 serial number. I get to the part where it tells me I should "press Install. A two-pane screen will display and on the right-hand side you should see a file called root.zip." I pressed Install, I see a two-pane screen, but no root.zip.
So from here I opened the install.bat and copied the lines "files\adb\adb push files\root.zip /sdcard/root.zip" and "files\adb\adb push files\root-openrecoveryscript /cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript" into a dos prompt, and was able to find root.zip. So far so good. I select the root.zip file, and it looks like recovery can't mount anything. This concludes my rooting experience, unless someone can tell me what I need to do in order to get around this:
My kids have two Nabi2 tablets, and they are updated to KitKat 4.4.2. These have been great tablets for the kids, but they've always been weak on space. So I want to root and remove some of the fluff filling up the not-quite-4GB internal memory, and maybe figure out how to use an SD card.
I tried both "jmzrootpackage" and "mn2ri-v1.5.0-beta2", and it seems like I've had more luck with the second. I have installed PDANet, (both the latest from their site and the version that comes with mn2ri). I've now installed NabiLabDriver64.zip from aicjofs' post, and that got the device to recognize when I run the install script. I extracted mn2ri to a folder on my desktop, extracted "fastboot_adb(1.0.32)_071114_r21" in to overwrite the files, and things look like they're working. Step 1 works, verifying the Nabi2 serial number. I get to the part where it tells me I should "press Install. A two-pane screen will display and on the right-hand side you should see a file called root.zip." I pressed Install, I see a two-pane screen, but no root.zip.
So from here I opened the install.bat and copied the lines "files\adb\adb push files\root.zip /sdcard/root.zip" and "files\adb\adb push files\root-openrecoveryscript /cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript" into a dos prompt, and was able to find root.zip. So far so good. I select the root.zip file, and it looks like recovery can't mount anything. This concludes my rooting experience, unless someone can tell me what I need to do in order to get around this: