The 'hacking the transformer' thread

[Guest Paul]

Mine's here, don't have much time to play until next week! :-(

But...

- psneuter / ratc don't work

- turn off then power on with volume up held to get to nvflash mode

- power on with volume down then press volume up when prompted to enter recovery... or leave untouched to wipe the device (with confirmation prompt)

- hold down power for 4/5 seconds to turn off from recovery

- bummer: it's odexed :D

- weird, there's an on device build of the adb CLIENT in /system/bin!

P

[Guest Buzing Bee]

Also the kernel src asus posted it incomplete

[Guest Buzing Bee]

also ... seems as tho the prompt to jump to RCK is asus's own boot-loader maybe that accepts fastboot commands

btw to use nvflash we need a bootloader.bin from the device (to get this we need root)

Idea 1

use the stock ventana bootloader from nvidia (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15005030/bootloader_stock_ventana.bin)

then do

nvflash.exe --bl bootloader_stock_ventana.bin --go

nvflash.exe -r --getpartitiontable partitiontable.txt

then upload that text file to see where its bootloader and boot images lie

WARNING ALTHOUGH THIS SHOULD NOT AFFECT THE DEVICE AS ITS ONLY WRITING TO RAM I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRICKS

Edited April 8, 2011 by Buzing Bee

[Guest Simon O]

If the kernel source is incomplete then I'll give a chap I know at Asus HQ a shout and see if he can sort it out. Might just be an oversight.

Edited April 8, 2011 by flibblesan

[Guest Buzing Bee]

ohh cool

updated my last post with a root method idea :D

[Guest Buzing Bee]

Some info iv gatherd with the help of scotta9824 on irc

-- in Nvflash mode the harmony (vega) drivers dont work | the ventena ones do **see below for download**

-- the prompt to boot to RCK (recovery) may be fastboot

-- with a working Nvflash driver + binary all commands result with this error

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X4

Command send failed (usb write failed)

-- Ventana devices have a sbk signature check on boot that may or may not be set (athough i dont think this would cause this error) we should see "sbk burned: true" is that was the case

NVFLASH ventana binary http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15005030/nvflash.zip

NVFLASH ventana driver http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15005030/nvflash_driver_ventana.zip

[Guest Scott9824]

Some info iv gatherd with the help of scotta9824 on irc

-- in Nvflash mode the harmony (vega) drivers dont work | the ventena ones do **see below for download**

-- the prompt to boot to RCK (recovery) may be fastboot

-- with a working Nvflash driver + binary all commands result with this error

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X4

Command send failed (usb write failed)

-- Ventana devices have a sbk signature check on boot that may or may not be set (athough i dont think this would cause this error) we should see "sbk burned: true" is that was the case

NVFLASH ventana binary http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15005030/nvflash.zip

NVFLASH ventana driver http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15005030/nvflash_driver_ventana.zip

Cheers for helping me go through it all. :D

[Guest s.morris]

Mine's here, don't have much time to play until next week! :-(

But...

- bummer: it's odexed :)

P

What does this mean?

Is it bad news

Steve