Penta WS708C RileyROM 1.0

[satay]

Hi guys I a m in India. Not getting good signal on the phones. And it's strange that I only saw thi thread notification in my mail today.


Randy I haven't try the cwm method yet will definitely update on it when back to Singapore.

Dhaval the tab isn't rooted yet.

[engineer_dhaval]

than ROOT it first and use above method to dump your ROM..

[satay]

than ROOT it first and use above method to dump your ROM..

Dhaval, how you get it rooted the first place?

TSINTECH had denied any access to their system and trying the ADB way is not getting anyway.
I am interested in how you get to Root the BSNL model.

Thanks

[engineer_dhaval]

ok.. Do you have your stock rom...?
if yes than add Root inside your stock rom & flash it...
If not than you have to search compatible root method for your device among various methods..

[satay]

Dhaval, yes I have the stock ROM. I have yours too.

But what I want to achieve is to extract the Stock ROM before Rooting. That is what I am searching for it.

[amit_aks_007]

Will this work on BSNL Penta IS709C

Hi,
Will this work on BSNL Penta IS709C? If not, can I just extract the CWM and build my custom ROM using stock ROM for IS709C? Please guide...
Reagrds...
Amit

ROM Update!!!!!!!!

After extensive testing by engineer_dhaval we graduated from beta to an actual 1.0 release. Read post #86 for details. I have removed the beta and beta2 links, as this is the one that actually works without jumping through hoops.

Use the same download link posted below. Continue further feedback in this thread.

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?4258-Penta-WS708C-RileyROM-1-0

Also thanks to user nihaldivyam for pointing out that I had neglected to update this ROM. Sorry for that. I missed engineer_dhaval's last post with the updated information.



If you are interested in using CWM with your ROM, here is the link to the Generic CWM from Fun:
http://files.androtab.info/rockchip/...ENERIC_CWM.zip

There are instructions for installation on Fun's site.

[satay]

Hi,
Will this work on BSNL Penta IS709C? If not, can I just extract the CWM and build my custom ROM using stock ROM for IS709C? Please guide...
Reagrds...
Amit

Hi Amit, IS709C is Cortex A8, i am afraid not possible to use this firmware.

[amit_aks_007]

What about building a custom ROM?

What about building a custom ROM with CWM out of firmware (update.img)?

Hi Amit, IS709C is Cortex A8, i am afraid not possible to use this firmware.

[amit_aks_007]

This ROM partially works on Penta IS709C , Can some help to get it work completely...

So here is something we call as news. This ROM also works on Penta IS709C, even if we are just able to reach the CWM screen. What I did was: I extracted the recovery.img from this ROM and replaced my stock recovery.img with it. Then I repacked the system, kernel, recovery (from previous step), misc and boot img as update.img and flashed to my device. After flashing it rebooted fine, but I could not move any further to CWM screen. It said some thing like system/ boot.... partition not found. I there something that we can do to package/ parameter or update-script to get it moving? I am a noob so my questions can be a liitle out of place and I apologize for it.

Hi Amit, IS709C is Cortex A8, i am afraid not possible to use this firmware.

[rajendrakumar]

need help bsnl penta ws 708c

hello sir,
i have one bsnl penta ws 708c.problem is not power on with wrong flashing.so could you help me how to flash the tab in not power on condition.thanks in advance.
the tab is connect with RK_Android_Tool_v1.35.is any stock rom and method to flash my tab.thanks in advance.

[rrileypm]

Penta WS708C RileyROM 1.0

Are you stuck after flashing this ROM?

I'm not familiar with the buttons on the tablet...but there should be a way to manually get into flash mode. It is usually a combination of volume buttons and reset button and power.




Randy

[dvdmena]

Penta WS708C RileyROM 1.0 in a Tsintech i30

Hi everyone:

first a lot of thanks for your work. I have a Tsintech i30 tablet (I think it's very very closed to the WS708c or maybe the same) and I was looking everywhere for a coustemized Rom with no result. But the ROM form rrileypm it's working with this tablet!!

I have found just a problem (maybe the same of engineer_dhaval?): the screen size of the tablet has change and there is a black padding (30% of the screen more or less). I have try to change de DPI but with not good result (it's change just the resolution inside the same marketed screen).

I ear about change the framwork-res.apk or SistemUi.apk. Do you have more information about it?

[rrileypm]

I think you are on the right track.

I'm sorry, but there would be a bunch of trial and error testing to get this working.

Do you have a stock firmware for this tablet? If so, it would be a lot easier for me to make a whole new ROM for you.

[dvdmena]

I think you are on the right track.

Do you have a stock firmware for this tablet? If so, it would be a lot easier for me to make a whole new ROM for you.

I'm sorry but as someone has metioned before, I haven't discoverd any way to make the i30 rooted. (so I couldn't backup the firmware). Maybe is it the same way as the Penta?

This happens also in the staring proccess and in the Recovery. Any news ideas?

[rrileypm]

If you have the apk tools installed on your PC (Google is your friend...there are lots of good ones). You can decompile those two apk files and look at the xml's to see what resolution is set. Try changing them, recompiling, and copying them to your tablet.

If you have a Linux VM, you can mount the system.img and actually copy those files into their proper places then unmount and flash.

The command to mount:

sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system mntsystem

(mntsystem is a folder you create for the system.img to mount to)

From your working folder, with the files in place in that folder:

sudo cp systemUI.apk mntsystem/app
sudo cp framework-res.apk mntsystem/framework

Set permissions:

sudo chmod 644 mntsystem/app/systemUI.apk
sudo chmod 644 mntsystem/framework/framework-res.apk

Then unmount the system.img:

sudo umount mntsystem

Copy your revised system.img into the ROM folder and flash. Keep the original system.img, so you have a safe file to flash if you encounter problems.

There is also some things in framework.jar...you can compile and recompile by renaming it framework.apk and back to framework.jar when you are done. Use the same procedure above to copy back to system.img.

I'm not very good at getting edited apk files to work properly, so I'm not the expert with that. I tend to find other workarounds to fix things. Finless, Snakekiller, and Leolas could help you more with those types of modifications.