Got a new firmware update tonight. Tablet seems faster now. Anyone else get it? Glad to see they are still updating this tab.
new venue 8 3840 firmware update
- Thread starter waingro808
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i also got the update
i also got the update on my dell venue 7 3740. but it disabled the fastboot, now i cant root it.
Got it as well. Seems snappier. I would like to know what got updated? Kernel tweaked again?
As far as the problem your having golfyrider, reboot them just keep selecting system update under "about tablet" eventually it will download.
As far as the problem your having golfyrider, reboot them just keep selecting system update under "about tablet" eventually it will download.
It's still 4.4.4 and the source code hasn't shown any signs of change yet either. Still can't pull the boot.img or recovery.img from the device, having trouble splitting the ones from hharte, still no email replies yet, kinda hate to think my email yesterday caused this as this isn't an answer to my questions, I'm just not stoked about an update that is basically the same as previous, going to snatch it and post it for those who think it's worthy of an update. excuse this rant, been sweating out my days and nights trying with this tablet, not going to stop, just isn't much of an update to me. Sound is still distorted, which really grinds my gears. ... ok, I feel an insey bit better. thanks 4 reading my O.
Take a look at the kernel source for the 7840 it has a py script intended to unpack / pack the unsigned images a small modification can be made to the script to take into account the Sig . if you wanna better idea of the Intel image assembly I suggest at signing up for the baytrail bsp from wind river or other vendor.
If your on windows this might unpack the signed image and repack as a unsigned image so you'll need the boot loader unlocked.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95864024717073970 AndImgTool_1_3_0.rar
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95864024717071926 xImgTool_1_3_32.rar
Thanks for the tools that'll hopefully help a great deal. I've played with the 7840 kernel code for two days and still was left with a non-flashable boot.unsigned.img, I truly appreciate any help I can get with this. I've tried like 5 different device tree cobinations and probably more than that. Hopefully this will truly bring a light for a breakthrough. Thanks a million social-designs-concepts
Be advised though, this is a direct download from OTA and unmodified by me other than the name of the zip.
It will temporarily disable your root and does something funky to the button combo of down and power to get into bootloader mode (I used adb reboot bootloader-perfect) but if you already obtained root, you can get it back. theres a couple patches and 3 or 4 libs added. other than that? IDK you check it, lol.
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It's good your tablet is still getting updates, the 3830, and 3730 hasn't received any updates since 4.4.2.
Lollipop is suppose to start rolling out to the Venue xx40 series on Tuesday April 21st, I suspect this is a preliminary update to make the device work for lollipop. The 3x30 saw similar small updates days before the JB to KK update.
@vampirefo maybe we'll luck out and get Lollipop too, the 3x30 was suppose to get 4.4.4 and it's yet to be seen so maybe they scrapped working on 4.4.4 when Intel did the 360 on supporting 32bit ART and Clovertrail Plus. Though not going to hold my breath. You also might wanna try building cm12 since the 3830 has an unlocked bootloader , they seem to be making progress with it on a couple of other Redhookbay devices.
@vampirefo maybe we'll luck out and get Lollipop too, the 3x30 was suppose to get 4.4.4 and it's yet to be seen so maybe they scrapped working on 4.4.4 when Intel did the 360 on supporting 32bit ART and Clovertrail Plus. Though not going to hold my breath. You also might wanna try building cm12 since the 3830 has an unlocked bootloader , they seem to be making progress with it on a couple of other Redhookbay devices.
You sure about that? I only saw the 7840 mentioned on Dell's support site for the Apr 21 update to Lollipop.
I saw it in a 3740 thread and the 7840 all three devices are merrifield based tablets and the last email I got from dell legal said it was going to start rolling on the 21st and that at this time they have no word on if or when it would be available for the 3x30 I'd post the email but it full of Dell Private Confidential headings.
This andimgtool is very interesting, works on 3830, changes output boot.img into an img that 7840 packing script can unpack and repack that flashes and works.
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it removes the 480byte signature and corrects the image flag to be unsigned what ever image it was
boot.img wasn't signed, haven't used or seen a signed boot.img since I unlocked the bootloader on this tablet.
pm-cz scripts leave the signature ? Never checked.
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pm-cz scripts leave the signature ? Never checked.
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Yeah the uos firmware doesn't validate the sig
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Alright maybe I am missing a major point if dude are capable of unpacking, repacking and all that good stuff, My question is wtf, why not me? what on earth can i do to get the appropriate file sizes to know where the boot sector is so I can extract it and if need be modify a script that'll allow me to do all of this and re-flash it for testing? the 7840 builds so smooth and I am losing my mind. I feel like theres a whole lot of know how in a small click. Initiate me, make me an apprentice, study buddy. idk I'm loosing my mind. Must have over 20GB worth of trials and errors. I'm going to Google the mentions of sdc from earlier but am really not sure of what I am looking for. If I could get a pm tutor that'd be nice. I can do all the work. But nothing I have tried so far has been acceptable. I'm getting other things done but this is my priority goal. Thanks for helping guys. I'm generous when I got it. I fell so behind in learning the specs of this new device to be successful at what I wanna do with it. There I go again giving reading material for the pooper seat. I need to build and sign a Sig for starts, lol, if momma only knew what I did all day and night now, lol.
thanks again for reading my troublesome O.
Normally I'm just a joy, ROFL, heh
The 7840 build script is be able to unpack and repack your boot.img, don't know if it will boot on your tablet as I don't have your tablet and not interested in it, I did download a 3840 boot.img, unpacked and repacked boot.img flashed to my tablet just to see if it would flash, and it does flash without any problems, wont boot cause my tablet is a 3830.Alright maybe I am missing a major point if dude are capable of unpacking, repacking and all that good stuff, My question is wtf, why not me? what on earth can i do to get the appropriate file sizes to know where the boot sector is so I can extract it and if need be modify a script that'll allow me to do all of this and re-flash it for testing? the 7840 builds so smooth and I am losing my mind. I feel like theres a whole lot of know how in a small click. Initiate me, make me an apprentice, study buddy. idk I'm loosing my mind. Must have over 20GB worth of trials and errors. I'm going to Google the mentions of sdc from earlier but am really not sure of what I am looking for. If I could get a pm tutor that'd be nice. I can do all the work. But nothing I have tried so far has been acceptable. I'm getting other things done but this is my priority goal. Thanks for helping guys. I'm generous when I got it. I fell so behind in learning the specs of this new device to be successful at what I wanna do with it. There I go again giving reading material for the pooper seat. I need to build and sign a Sig for starts, lol, if momma only knew what I did all day and night now, lol.
thanks again for reading my troublesome O.
Normally I'm just a joy, ROFL, heh
Below is flashing same boot.img on my iview i-700 same results as 3830 both will flash the boot.img but neither can boot from image.
Code:
fastboot flash boot '/home/vampirefo/Desktop/dell-venue-boot-tools-master-3840/boot_script/Vamp_packed_boot.img'
target reported max download size of 1324206762 bytes
sending 'boot' (9610 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.402s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 1.073s]
finished. total time: 2.475s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/dell-venue-boot-tools-master-3840/boot_script$Which device 3840 Correct? And you already unlocked the BL?Alright maybe I am missing a major point if dude are capable of unpacking, repacking and all that good stuff, My question is wtf, why not me? what on earth can i do to get the appropriate file sizes to know where the boot sector is so I can extract it and if need be modify a script that'll allow me to do all of this and re-flash it for testing? the 7840 builds so smooth and I am losing my mind. I feel like theres a whole lot of know how in a small click. Initiate me, make me an apprentice, study buddy. idk I'm loosing my mind. Must have over 20GB worth of trials and errors. I'm going to Google the mentions of sdc from earlier but am really not sure of what I am looking for. If I could get a pm tutor that'd be nice. I can do all the work. But nothing I have tried so far has been acceptable. I'm getting other things done but this is my priority goal. Thanks for helping guys. I'm generous when I got it. I fell so behind in learning the specs of this new device to be successful at what I wanna do with it. There I go again giving reading material for the pooper seat. I need to build and sign a Sig for starts, lol, if momma only knew what I did all day and night now, lol.
thanks again for reading my troublesome O.
Normally I'm just a joy, ROFL, heh
LOL, yeah, if he hasn't unlocked his bootloader, he just been wasting his time. :good::good:
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