Nextbook YFG07 (2013 walmart) possible wifi fix
Its been an interesting past few days learning how to dump and compile my first rom. I've been trying to fix a new Nextbook 7 premium yfg0713 from being locked out by too many password attempts. I am an android rom flashing veteran so it should be as simple as locate a stock rom, flash it in a custom recovery, and be on my way. Google brought me to this forum where I discovered shaunmt's thread http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...Flashable-Root which got me a usable rom and a custom recovery. Booting into the custom recovery and flashing the rom was uneventful, then I booted into android and discovered the wifi would not turn on.
After much googling, I found this to be a huge problem all over the internet. Unfo rtunately, the Nextbook series was not terribly popular so not much effort was going into fixing this specific problem. I found that there was a wide variety of different configs being sold as the Nextbook 7 so I figured I must have flashed the wrong rom. In that same thread, I found a fresh factory rom dump that aldrich_39 was nice enough to post.
Thus began my adventure into extracting, organizing, and signing a flashable zip. Many tools were downloaded, many system path variables were broken, and about 20 copies of the same zip file were made until I finally got a properly signed zip.
I flashed my signed zip file, expecting to see signature errors for the millionth time. But the custom recovery got past the verification step and soon enough, I was booted into android. This time the boot logo was different and the system setup had a different order to it. But when I clicked on setup wifi, it actually started up and found the router! I dont know if anything else is broken in this rom, but the wifi is not.
I sit here waiting for my slow internet to upload a 400 meg file. I shall post a link the second its done. I just wanted everyone with broken wifi to know that hope is not lost, it just takes a very determined noob and some truly talented forum regulars like shawnmt (who did 99% of the work) to get this cheap tablet working again.
After much googling, I found this to be a huge problem all over the internet. Unfo rtunately, the Nextbook series was not terribly popular so not much effort was going into fixing this specific problem. I found that there was a wide variety of different configs being sold as the Nextbook 7 so I figured I must have flashed the wrong rom. In that same thread, I found a fresh factory rom dump that aldrich_39 was nice enough to post.
Thus began my adventure into extracting, organizing, and signing a flashable zip. Many tools were downloaded, many system path variables were broken, and about 20 copies of the same zip file were made until I finally got a properly signed zip.
I flashed my signed zip file, expecting to see signature errors for the millionth time. But the custom recovery got past the verification step and soon enough, I was booted into android. This time the boot logo was different and the system setup had a different order to it. But when I clicked on setup wifi, it actually started up and found the router! I dont know if anything else is broken in this rom, but the wifi is not.
I sit here waiting for my slow internet to upload a 400 meg file. I shall post a link the second its done. I just wanted everyone with broken wifi to know that hope is not lost, it just takes a very determined noob and some truly talented forum regulars like shawnmt (who did 99% of the work) to get this cheap tablet working again.
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