Upgrading Glory Star Nebula 21.5" Tablet to basic Android Rom

[adalbertoma]

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[adalbertoma]

that is actually a fair point. I do not mind keeping the echelon app actually. question for you, which command are you talking about?

su <ENTER>
settings put global policy_control null* <ENTER>
settings --user 0 put secure user_setup_complete 1 <ENTER>
(copied from post #355)

If you uninstall both echelon updater and the app, then install echelon app from whatever source you like, you get to keep echelon and not worry about it talking over or updating.

You can even pets the home key to get out of the app and not have to resort to those commands.
Perhaps the system echelon app is blocking your wallpaper, i also use nova and I have set custom wallpaper.

I had uninstalled the echelon updater; just not the app. Just uninstalled the app now and still can't change the wallpaper. Strange thing now is that none of the echelon fit apps I am finding are compatible with the bike tablet, so I can't reinstall. Do you know a source for a working version?

 

[ramtheram]

su <ENTER>
settings put global policy_control null* <ENTER>
settings --user 0 put secure user_setup_complete 1 <ENTER>
(copied from post #355)


I had uninstalled the echelon updater; just not the app. Just uninstalled the app now and still can't change the wallpaper. Strange thing now is that none of the echelon fit apps I am finding are compatible with the bike tablet, so I can't reinstall. Do you know a source for a working version?

I have another question for you.
What model do you have? 4s or 5s?
I have not been able to uninstall the updater as it still has admin right that I could not remove.
I would like to know how you did it
Thanks

 

[adalbertoma]

I have another question for you.
What model do you have? 4s or 5s?
I have not been able to uninstall the updater as it still has admin right that I could not remove.
I would like to know how you did it
Thanks

Mine is an EX-4S. I followed these steps via ADB shell:

dpm remove-active-admin --user current com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater/.DevAdminReceiver <ENTER>
(copied from post #355)

Then, since the uninstall option wasn't available after the Echelon update, I used this command from post #405:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater


And I've just used the second command from post #405 to remove the echelon app:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.viatek.fitnation.echelon_android


However now I can't find a version that works for the tablet. Need help!

Wallpaper update also not working...

 

[badabing2003]

su <ENTER>
settings put global policy_control null* <ENTER>
settings --user 0 put secure user_setup_complete 1 <ENTER>
(copied from post #355)


I had uninstalled the echelon updater; just not the app. Just uninstalled the app now and still can't change the wallpaper. Strange thing now is that none of the echelon fit apps I am finding are compatible with the bike tablet, so I can't reinstall. Do you know a source for a working version?

I don't recall where I installed it from as it's been a while, but it was either through Aurora App Store or I installed it on my phone and then used the apk extractor to extract and transfer to the tablet.
I have version 215(2.2.0.2) installed
And as you can see, the navigation bar is still visible.

And here's a screenshot with custom wallpaper.

 

[badabing2003]

ok thank you
I did what you said and tried to unpack with apktool and it seems I can not even uppack it.
here is the snapshot
View attachment 5624949

Th error indicates that the zip file is empty, probably the apk extraction as not good.
Can you open it with 7zip ? or if you don't have 7zip just rename it to .zip and you should be able to open it with any zip tool, assuming that the file is good, which probably is not.

 

[ramtheram]

Th error indicates that the zip file is empty, probably the apk extraction as not good.
Can you open it with 7zip ? or if you don't have 7zip just rename it to .zip and you should be able to open it with any zip tool, assuming that the file is good, which probably is not.

I tried 7zip and got an error. So I think as you said the all is not good. Did I miss anything in extracting it?

 

[badabing2003]

I tried 7zip and got an error. So I think as you said the all is not good. Did I miss anything in extracting it?

Try using a different extraction tool,
Titanium Backup usually works very well.

Alternately you can get it with adb

adb shell
su
cd /system/app
ls -l
# or
cd /system/priv-app
ls -l

see if it is there, I cannot check because I have it uninstalled
if you see it, cd to the directory and your would find the apk there
then you can copy it to your Downloads directory

cp whatever.apk /sdcard/Download/

And then transfer it to your PC.
adb pull /sdcard/Download/whatever.apk .

 

[.amb]

Yes. i did play around with it and changed a few settings. Try turning on "zwift workout/erg mode" as well as "cycling cadence sensor (peleton compatibility)". I think that was it. give it a try and see if it works. Just to be clear i got Qz and Zwift companion running on the Echelon tablet, split screen, and on my ipad i have the actual Zwift app running. Zwift won't run directly from the Echelon tablet

Thanks for the tips and yes on running qz and Zwift companion on your tablet. I run Zwift on my MacBook Air.

Still no luck after trying different settings in qz. Qz still reads my bike right away, and Zwift sees that something is coming from the tablet, but no readings come through to Zwift or I get a "no signal" error in Zwift pairing.

any other suggestions?

 

[.amb]

Mine is an EX-4S. I followed these steps via ADB shell:

dpm remove-active-admin --user current com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater/.DevAdminReceiver <ENTER>
(copied from post #355)

Then, since the uninstall option wasn't available after the Echelon update, I used this command from post #405:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater


And I've just used the second command from post #405 to remove the echelon app:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.viatek.fitnation.echelon_android


However now I can't find a version that works for the tablet. Need help!

Wallpaper update also not working...

Using the step by step in #355, I deleted both echelon.fit and echelon.updater. And then loaded the echelon.fit app from Aptoid. It's the same version as @badabing2003 (v2.2.0.2). I also loaded Peloton and iFit from there, too.

Echelon works great, and I have the same 1-yr free membership with my costco ex-4s+, so like you I'll continue to use echelon until that expires. But I wanted to do these mods now in case echelon does something later that would prevent it.

I am continuing to run into issues getting qz (running on the tablet) to work with Zwift (running on my Mac). From reading lots of comments here, it sounds like I'm not the only one. @Cagnulein believes these tablets just don't have a bluetooth chipset with the capacity to serve as the bridge. Or more accurately, some do and some don't. That would be a shame; my bike is working great in all other ways. I haven't given up yet, but almost. If others are continuing to try to get qz on the tablet to bridge to Zwift, thanks for sharing suggestions.

(The only other really little detail for me is that Quickstep continues to present itself as an optional launcher whenever I restart the tablet; I'm offered the choice between quickstep and lawnchair. Quickstep is the default launcher on my tablet and I can't delete it. I've deleted lawnchair and reinstalled it, set lawnchair to home/default every way imaginable, but nothing changes. My solution is to just deleted lawnchair and use quickstep as the launcher. Then on restart, the tablet goes straight into quickstep's homepage. I'm fine with this--I only use this tablet for my bike so the quickstep UI is just fine. Better than the hassle of the few additional extra steps to select lawnchair as the launcher.)

But the one Zwift/qz limitation aside, and particularly if the tablet works with peloton and qz controlling my resistance (I haven't tried this yet; I don't want to pay for a membership until I'm ready to use it), that would be great and I'll go back to using my iPhone to run qz, which bridges to zwift just fine. All in all, I still have a smart bike trainer with an open tablet for $800 (I got the Costco $799 deal on the ex-4s+ bike for the few weeks it was running).

 

[adalbertoma]

Using the step by step in #355, I deleted both echelon.fit and echelon.updater. And then loaded the echelon app from Aptoid. It's the same version as @badabing2003 (v2.2.0.2). I also loaded Peloton and iFit from there, too.

Echelon works great, and I have the same 1-yr free membership with my costco ex-4s+, so like you I'll continue to use echelon until that expires. But I wanted to do these mods now in case echelon does something later that would prevent it.

I am continuing to run into issues getting qz (running on the tablet) to work with Zwift (running on my Mac). From reading lots of comments here, it sounds like I'm not the only one. @Cagnulein believes these tablets just don't have a bluetooth chipset with the capacity to serve as the bridge. Or more accurately, some do and some don't. That would be a shame; my bike is working great in all other ways. I haven't given up yet, but almost. If others are continuing to try to get qz on the tablet to bridge to Zwift, thanks for sharing suggestions.

But this one limitation aside, and particularly if the tablet works with peloton, w/qz controlling my resistance (I haven't tried this yet; I don't want to pay for a membership until I'm ready to use it), that would be great and I'll go back to using my iPhone to run qz, which bridges to zwift just fine. All in all, I still have a smart bike trainer with an open tablet for $800 (I got the Costco $799 deal on the bike for the few weeks it was running).

I believe i found what is the issue with both my wallpaper and the echelon app. Although the above commands ran fine and I could disable both apps, the command to remove the admin control keeps failing to me. It had previously worked after the Echelon app update I had done, but I decided to factory reset to see if I’d be able to fix the wallpaper issue by completely removing the apps before the update.

It seems this is avoiding me to change the wallpaper and also from completely uninstalling the apps (I didn’t get the option to uninstall at the system settings and was only able to do it via adb.

Using Aurora App store, I got a detailed message of the error when trying to reinstall Echelon Fit: INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Package com.viatek.fitnation.echelon_android signatures do not match previously installed version; ignoring!

Any clues?

 

[.amb]

I believe i found what is the issue with both my wallpaper and the echelon app. Although the above commands ran fine and I could disable both apps, the command to remove the admin control keeps failing to me.

It seems this is avoiding me to change the wallpaper and also from completely uninstalling the apps (I didn’t get the option to uninstall at the system settings and was only able to do it via adb.

Using Aurora App store, I got a detailed message of the error when trying to reinstall Echelon Fit: INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Package com.viatek.fitnation.echelon_android signatures do not match previously installed version; ignoring!

Any clues?

The only thing I can suggest is to try running the commands again. I had to run the ones in step #41 twice. I have no idea why... I checked and double-checked my spelling and punctuation carefully each time. And they said "success" after the first time! But regardless, those commands worked just as intended after the second time.

 

[badabing2003]

I believe i found what is the issue with both my wallpaper and the echelon app. Although the above commands ran fine and I could disable both apps, the command to remove the admin control keeps failing to me. It had previously worked after the Echelon app update I had done, but I decided to factory reset to see if I’d be able to fix the wallpaper issue by completely removing the apps before the update.

It seems this is avoiding me to change the wallpaper and also from completely uninstalling the apps (I didn’t get the option to uninstall at the system settings and was only able to do it via adb.

Using Aurora App store, I got a detailed message of the error when trying to reinstall Echelon Fit: INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Package com.viatek.fitnation.echelon_android signatures do not match previously installed version; ignoring!

Any clues?

It means that it is still finding an installed version and the signatures don't match.

 

[adalbertoma]

The only thing I can suggest is to try running the commands again. I had to run the ones in step #41 twice. I have no idea why... I checked and double-checked my spelling and punctuation carefully each time. And they said "success" after the first time! But regardless, those commands worked just as intended after the second time.

The only time I got the success message on the admin remove command was when I ran it after updating the echelon app. I am thinking of doing another factory reset and retrying.

It means that it is still finding an installed version and the signatures don't match.

The app has been removed for sure. I tried running the uninstall comands again on remote adb and it didn’t find the apps to remove. I am guessing this is probably some config files that the app probably left somewhere in the system folders.

 

[ramtheram]

If that flag is not set, I'm afraid you're out of luck.
Post your manifest, we'll see what you have, perhaps the Android Intent is different in your case.

ok so I got the manifest. there is only one line for textonly and it is set to true:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest
versionCode='3'
versionName='1.0.3'
compileSdkVersion='29'
compileSdkVersionCodename='10'
package='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater'
platformBuildVersionCode='29'
platformBuildVersionName='10'>
<uses-sdk
minSdkVersion='24'
targetSdkVersion='29'>
</uses-sdk>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.INTERNET'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.DELETE_PACKAGES'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.RECOVERY'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.SET_TIME_ZONE'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.REBOOT'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.DELETE_CACHE_FILES'>
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission
name='android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED'>
</uses-permission>
<application
theme='@Res/0x7F0E0005'
label='@Res/0x7F0D001B'
icon='@Res/0x7F0C0000'
exported='true'
testOnly='true'
allowBackup='true'
supportsRtl='true'
extractNativeLibs='false'
usesCleartextTraffic='true'
roundIcon='@Res/0x7F0C0001'
appComponentFactory='androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory'>
<provider
name='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater.GenericFileProvider'
exported='false'
authorities='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater.GenericFileProvider'
grantUriPermissions='true'>
<meta-data
name='android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS'
resource='@Res/0x7F100001'>
</meta-data>
</provider>
<receiver
label='@Res/0x7F0D001B'
name='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater.DevAdminReceiver'
permission='android.permission.BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN'>
<intent-filter>
<action
name='android.app.action.DEVICE_ADMIN_ENABLED'>
</action>
<action
name='android.app.action.PROFILE_PROVISIONING_COMPLETE'>
</action>
<action
name='android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED'>
</action>
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
name='android.app.device_admin'
resource='@Res/0x7F100000'>
</meta-data>
</receiver>
<activity
name='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater.MainActivity'
exported='true'>
<intent-filter>
<action
name='android.intent.action.MAIN'>
</action>
<category
name='android.intent.category.LAUNCHER'>
</category>
<category
name='android.intent.category.DEFAULT'>
</category>
<category
name='android.intent.category.HOME'>
</category>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<provider
name='com.crashlytics.android.CrashlyticsInitProvider'
exported='false'
authorities='com.echelonfit.echelon_21_updater.crashlyticsinitprovider'
initOrder='90'>
</provider>
</application>
</manifest>

 

[adalbertoma]

I did another factory reset. This time the command to remove the admin worked fine and so did the uninstall command for the updater, however I still can’t switch the wallpaper and because of that I didn’t uninstall the Echelon app as I know I won’t be able to install another version. I’ll just keep it and run the commands to re-enable the bar/dock after using it. The wallpaper not being centered is really annoying though. I’ll still research an alternative solution for that.

 

[badabing2003]

ok so I got the manifest. there is only one line for textonly and it is set to true:

The manifest looks good.
Try this
Unplug the bike
Power it back on, and kill the updater process the very first thing, and then try to uninstall.

 

[ramtheram]

The manifest looks good.
Try this
Unplug the bike
Power it back on, and kill the updater process the very first thing, and then try to uninstall.

so here is another update:
I did that and I got a success note on the remove admin. but still did not see the uninstall option. so I did it again and second try said the whole Attempting to remove non-test user
this bastard is still there and for some reason I have to redo the whole process I believe
I am about to give up.
the best way to be honest is to find a way to flash this damn tablet with a basic android rom so we can freely use it as we please without these issues.
I am wondering where we could get that rom and how to flash it properly into a simple android tablet

 

[.amb]

Yes. i did play around with it and changed a few settings. Try turning on "zwift workout/erg mode" as well as "cycling cadence sensor (peleton compatibility)". I think that was it. give it a try and see if it works. Just to be clear i got Qz and Zwift companion running on the Echelon tablet, split screen, and on my ipad i have the actual Zwift app running. Zwift won't run directly from the Echelon tablet.

another question for you: I tried installing Zwift companion this morning and I can't rotate it to landscape. How did you do that?

 

[badabing2003]

so here is another update:
I did that and I got a success note on the remove admin. but still did not see the uninstall option. so I did it again and second try said the whole Attempting to remove non-test user
this bastard is still there and for some reason I have to redo the whole process I believe
I am about to give up.
the best way to be honest is to find a way to flash this damn tablet with a basic android rom so we can freely use it as we please without these issues.
I am wondering where we could get that rom and how to flash it properly into a simple android tablet

You can try to uninstall with titanium, I think that is how I uninstalled it.