CAUTION BUSYBOX Bricked my tablet

[john_tartar]

A while ago tablet bricked, I had installed universal androot, root explorer and busybox (From Amazon App Market) I wasn't sure why, but it wasn't really bricked, but I have to reflash it via the OTG port.

Since then I upgraded to the Beta4 and all was fine, rooted with universal androot, and root explorer.

But today I installed BusyBox, seemed to go OK.
Turned it off and back on, would not come up.
Same as before InfoTmic screen, they Sylvania, then it goes black.

 

[giveen]

Have you done the three finger recovery?

Also there is a very of busybox already installed in the system.

 

[john_tartar]

Have you done the three finger recovery?
Also there is a very of busybox already installed in the system.

There was no other version of busybox installed, but it was rooted (using universal androot)
3 finger recovery didn't work, ...... no system image found.

But I was able to reload the Beta_4 version using the OTG cable method

 

[giveen]

Ah so you must have the Express model.

 

[cfrockit]

There was no other version of busybox installed, but it was rooted (using universal androot)
3 finger recovery didn't work, ...... no system image found.

But I was able to reload the Beta_4 version using the OTG cable method

An inspection of the extracted system.img (picture below) from the 11.2.1.5.2.0_beta4.ius update file, shows busybox in the /system/bin folder, so it should have been installed with that update.



However, the manual method to update Busybox posted in the http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...tom-sylvania-rom-development-5.html#post93871 thread installs it in /system/xbin with specific permissions to allow it to execute. It may be another one of the issues with these beta updates.

Caution: Many of the commands in /system/bin and /system/xbin can be run with root permissions.