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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The A746 differs.
Rooting it was fairly simple, and was handled by Kingo Root. It was a "What I tell you three times is true" affair. I had to retry several times before Kingo reported success.
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So I guess that you trust the Kingo Root app to be free from malware...
But I don't have the code for "su", so I guess I'm stuck using it.
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My guess is the one {driver} you chose was appropriate for what you wanted to do, which is communicate with the device when developing.
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Well, I wasn't intending to develop; I didn't have much to go on when looking for a USB driver.... I just wanted to get a Win7 driver that actually talks to the device. And yes, I also had to enable USB debugging on the Azpen side. The composite driver did NOT work. I didn't try the bootloader driver.
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Kit-Kat and Lollipop have no problem with USB debugging being enabled when I wanted to transfer files, and just popped up a box asking me what I wanted to do.
<snip> I'm less concerned with practicing Safe Hex.
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Dennis
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"Safe Hex". That's cute....hadn't heard that one. As I said, I also enabled "USB debugging" on the tablet side.
I downloaded the Azpen "upgrade tool for allwinner" and found the app was written in Chinese. I translated the table of contents from the .rar'd .pdf file:
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Installation of mass production software . . .2
1.1 Installation . . . .·2
1.2 Program location . . . . 4
2. Run Production Software . . . 4
2.1 Running mass production software . . . 4
2.2 File Selection . . . . 5
2.3 Starting Mass Production . . . . 6
2.4 Attention . . . . 6
3. Device programming . . . · · · 6
3.1. Mass production using PC USB port . . . 6
3.2. Mass production with USB Hub . . .·9
3.3 Determining the Upgrade Status of the Device . . . 10
3.3.1 Successful Programming . . . 10
3.3.2 Programming Failure . . . 10
4. Precautions. . . 11
4.1 Inserting the device .· . . 11
4.2 Unplugging the device . . . .· 11
5. Stop mass production software . . . 12
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions and Handling Methods of Programming Failure .·
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So it looks like you have to have the firmware image; the tool doesn't help you with that..... I won't bother to install it.
I wrote to the Azpen support email and got a quick reply.
Here is what they said:
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We are currently updating the website so we should be adding a few other firmware images to the site soon. That said, I am not sure when there will be an upgrade image available (to go from 4.4 Kit Kat to 5.1 Lollipop) as newer Android versions require a little bit more RAM to run optimally.
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Sounds like your HP Slate is another worthy toy. I see you have another thread started for that.
Best regards,
Daniel