Google Play on Coby Kyros 1042

luvdzun

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Jun 20, 2012
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UPDATED NOV 2012: 100% WORKING ON MINE ON STOCK FIRMWARE.

Instructions follow on ways to get the Android market onto your Coby Kyros 1042 tablet. None of the tools are my own, and I am just posting tools here for convenience. All credits goes to original developers!

Tools required:

Grab the rooter from this thread and root it first:

ARCHIVE 1: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...umps-coby-generation-3-devices-coby_root3.zip

--credit: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...rmware-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-2.html


Backup your filesystems using the tools in same thread or through CWM at the end of this post:

ARCHIVE 2: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-fw_dump2.zip


Get the google package for ICS from here:

ARCHIVE 3: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip

Download the files on to the desktop,

Get ADB up and running on your machine.

in ARCHIVE 3:

--cd Desktop/gapps-ics-20120429-signed
--adb push system/app /data/local/tmp
--adb shell

Type following inside shell:
--su -
--mount -o remount,rw /system
--busybox cp /data/local/tmp/*.apk /system/app
--exit


--Credit: silverwraith

Once you have transferred all those files, just reboot the tablet

Also there is a neat way to backup and restore your phones here by vampirefo: Clockworkmod factory image , backup and restore for MID 1024 here: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-recovery-update-all-without-livesuite-2.html
 
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silvoren

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Jun 30, 2012
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I was capable of rooting my 1042 and romdump. Then I tried to install Google package for ICS and it started crashing. So I did a factory reset and lost root and cant restore root with same method says no space left on device. Can I restore root with my rom dump? , how?
 

jasman029

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Jun 24, 2012
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I am new to all of this so I am sorry to bother you all. I have a coby mid 1042, I downloaded the sdk and updated as needed. When in platform tools I typed adb devices and my coby came up. Now I was not sure what to do with the root zip, I copied to downloads of tablet and tried to update as zip in recovery and all I got was it was not signed so a no go. I do not have cwm on my coby, I have not found one yet, I could use some help please. I want to root the tablet for the market and to learn the android set up. I have been looking and trying for a week now, I cant seem to find out how to do it so I have broke down and am asking for your help. Thank god my wife can't see this! Jim
 

silvoren

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Jun 30, 2012
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If you are trying to root just download coby_root3.zip to your computer and un zip to your computer then plug in usb and to yur tablet and click on root.bat


This is my Coby MID 1042-8 fw_dump2 files. How do I make a restore image from it. http://www.mediafire.com/?4tzzb55a4jgkkp0
 
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lthomas926

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Jul 6, 2012
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ok i just got the 1042-8 and would like to get the google apps on it and have access to the google play store can someone help me ?
 

monbon03

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Aug 5, 2012
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Instructions follow on ways to get the Android market onto your Coby Kyros 1042 tablet. None of the tools are my own, and I am just posting tools here for convenience. All credits goes to original developers!

Tools required:

Grab the rooter from this thread:

ARCHIVE 1: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...umps-coby-generation-3-devices-coby_root3.zip

--credit: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...rmware-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-2.html


Backup your filesystems using the tools in same thread:

ARCHIVE 2: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-fw_dump2.zip


Get the google package for ICS from here:

ARCHIVE 3: [SCRIPTS] - Allwinner A10 Tablets Google Play Script - SlateDroid.com

Try if the inbuilt batch file works for you. For me It didnt work. Workaround:

Copy the ICS directory from ARCHIVE 3 onto ARCHIVE 2

On a command prompt from the directory, type the following to remount the /system as rw

adb.exe shell
su -
mount -o remount,rw /system
exit

Transfer each of the files from ICS directory onto the appropriate directories:

s1: Except framework-res.apk to /system/framework
s2: All files OK to /system/lib
s3: Except features.xml, platform.xml & tablet_core_hardware.xml to /system/etc/permissions
s4: As you wish except packageinstaller to /system/app
s5: NA

To move the files, open a command prompt and

adb push <local file> <android filesystem file>
If you are unable to copy directly to system, first copy it to temp as below and then move it to correct directory

mkdir /system/temp
adb push file1 /system/temp/.
adb shell
su -
mv /system/temp/file1 /system/etc/file1


Once you have transferred all those files, just reboot the tablet

I've tried every instruction but still I cannot transfer the specific files to the /system or even make a directory. I really don't know what specific adb.exe should I use. FYI I got the Superuser but the devices still cant be detected. I also type the root.bat and still doesn't work. I appreciate if someone can help me with this. Thank you
 

PMad

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Aug 7, 2012
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So i've successfully rooted the tab and created my dump. For Archive 3, the batch file didnt work for me, i tried every option, nothing worked. So i attempted the listed workaround which also didnt work, not even close! So i had to do it by other means. I copied all of the files to the external SD card, installed root explorer with ADB and manually copied everything over within the tablet itself. The only problem is when trying to copy the files from the s4 folder into /system/app, i get an out of memory error. Root Explorer is showing around 250Mb used on the /system partition and 1.2mb free, but some of those apps are much bigger than the 1.2mb free space. Looking through the list of apps in the /system/app folder, i cant really remove any of them because they are needed, and the few that are useless wouldnt free up enough space, so it needs to come from elsewhere... Where? How? What do i do? Any ideas?
 

monbon03

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Aug 5, 2012
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So i've successfully rooted the tab and created my dump. For Archive 3, the batch file didnt work for me, i tried every option, nothing worked. So i attempted the listed workaround which also didnt work, not even close! So i had to do it by other means. I copied all of the files to the external SD card, installed root explorer with ADB and manually copied everything over within the tablet itself. The only problem is when trying to copy the files from the s4 folder into /system/app, i get an out of memory error. Root Explorer is showing around 250Mb used on the /system partition and 1.2mb free, but some of those apps are much bigger than the 1.2mb free space. Looking through the list of apps in the /system/app folder, i cant really remove any of them because they are needed, and the few that are useless wouldnt free up enough space, so it needs to come from elsewhere... Where? How? What do i do? Any ideas?

Same dilemma here!
 

eddyh23

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Aug 14, 2012
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Hi, I do it all all just work, but when reboot now i get,
"Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped."

and i cannot use my 1042 any more, what you think i can do to fix that.

Thank you.


Instructions follow on ways to get the Android market onto your Coby Kyros 1042 tablet. None of the tools are my own, and I am just posting tools here for convenience. All credits goes to original developers!

Tools required:

Grab the rooter from this thread:

ARCHIVE 1: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...umps-coby-generation-3-devices-coby_root3.zip

--credit: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...rmware-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-2.html


Backup your filesystems using the tools in same thread:

ARCHIVE 2: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-dumps-coby-generation-3-devices-fw_dump2.zip


Get the google package for ICS from here:

ARCHIVE 3: [SCRIPTS] - Allwinner A10 Tablets Google Play Script - SlateDroid.com

Try if the inbuilt batch file works for you. For me It didnt work. Workaround:

Copy the ICS directory from ARCHIVE 3 onto ARCHIVE 2

On a command prompt from the directory, type the following to remount the /system as rw

adb.exe shell
su -
mount -o remount,rw /system
exit

Transfer each of the files from ICS directory onto the appropriate directories:

s1: Except framework-res.apk to /system/framework
s2: All files OK to /system/lib
s3: Except features.xml, platform.xml & tablet_core_hardware.xml to /system/etc/permissions
s4: As you wish except packageinstaller to /system/app
s5: NA

To move the files, open a command prompt and

adb push <local file> <android filesystem file>
If you are unable to copy directly to system, first copy it to temp as below and then move it to correct directory

mkdir /system/temp
adb push file1 /system/temp/.
adb shell
su -
mv /system/temp/file1 /system/etc/file1


Once you have transferred all those files, just reboot the tablet
 

luvdzun

Member
Jun 20, 2012
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Hi, I do it all all just work, but when reboot now i get,
"Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped."

and i cannot use my 1042 any more, what you think i can do to fix that.

Thank you.

Did you try a factory restore? Also If you already have a backup, it should be pretty simple to restore to that
 

Dieselrider

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Nov 29, 2012
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This is probably rudamentory to many but, how do I get the files listed into the coby. I have this new coby kyros MID 1042 and I really need to put google play on here but, it seems I have to root it fiirst. I'm new to this and need some guidence. I am also not too familiar with windows as I usually run linux so I am having trouble finding how to transfer the mentioned files into the Coby. Thanks.
 

kosmik

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Dec 10, 2012
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Originally Posted by PMad

So i've successfully rooted the tab and created my dump. For Archive 3, the batch file didnt work for me, i tried every option, nothing worked. So i attempted the listed workaround which also didnt work, not even close! So i had to do it by other means. I copied all of the files to the external SD card, installed root explorer with ADB and manually copied everything over within the tablet itself. The only problem is when trying to copy the files from the s4 folder into /system/app, i get an out of memory error. Root Explorer is showing around 250Mb used on the /system partition and 1.2mb free, but some of those apps are much bigger than the 1.2mb free space. Looking through the list of apps in the /system/app folder, i cant really remove any of them because they are needed, and the few that are useless wouldnt free up enough space, so it needs to come from elsewhere... Where? How? What do i do? Any ideas?


Same dilemma here!

same issue.... any solution or workaround really appreciated....
 
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