Any instructions for using a livesuit unpacker to build a modified stock ROM?

[tronmech]

I'm sitting here with my old polaroid PMID702C with the infuriatingly slow stock browser. But the No-root v3 OTA blocks my ability to write to the external SD card from non-system apps.

So, I'd like to take the last update, and create 2 versions of it:
1) No root, but any app with internal SD card access can access the external SD card.
2) Full root, everything else.

I found a livesuite unpacker/repacker, and have a grunch of iso, fex, etc., files, but I don't know where to go from there. Any pointers? I need to have a non-rooted tablet to work with a corporate app, so, i'd much rather see what I can do with my old PMID 702C...

[elektrik]

I'm sitting here with my old polaroid PMID702C with the infuriatingly slow stock browser. But the No-root v3 OTA blocks my ability to write to the external SD card from non-system apps.

So, I'd like to take the last update, and create 2 versions of it:
1) No root, but any app with internal SD card access can access the external SD card.
2) Full root, everything else.

I found a livesuite unpacker/repacker, and have a grunch of iso, fex, etc., files, but I don't know where to go from there. Any pointers? I need to have a non-rooted tablet to work with a corporate app, so, i'd much rather see what I can do with my old PMID 702C...

you know they have apps in the google play store that 'hide' root status to applications, right?

[tronmech]

Yes, but if the mobile endpoint management tool folks did their jobs (and since the tool wasn't written by my employer, I'd bet they did) I really don't want to be on the wrong side of the sh-storm that would happen if I was found to be using a root hider like the stuff available for xposed and cydia.

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[elektrik]

Yes, but if the mobile endpoint management tool folks did their jobs (and since the tool wasn't written by my employer, I'd bet they did) I really don't want to be on the wrong side of the sh-storm that would happen if I was found to be using a root hider like the stuff available for xposed and cydia.

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the system.fex is the ROM where you modify things....

Take a look at these guides...should get you up and running:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239

https://www.miniand.com/wiki/Allwinner/Unpacking+and+building+LiveSuit+images

still don't understand why you don't just use the stock ROM if you want a 'non-root' version though...

[tronmech]

The stock rom won't let non system apps write to the external SD. So I need to hack it so I don't need to root it.

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[tronmech]

If I wanted to replace the recovery with cwm.... I'll look more closely and see based on the miniand instructions work out.

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