escaping ota update

[Guest mikemelbrooks]

I stupidly did a factory reset on my rooted Hudl2, stupid because i had blocked some tesco bloatware with link2sd, when it rebooted I couldn't get past the ota update which would download then fail to verify, using the keyboard trick(

1. Boot up and select 'Add Network' from the wifi selection screen.
2. Hold down the microphone key on the google keyboard and select the settings icon and select the settings icon.  This will show 'Input Options'.
3. Select 'Google Keyboard Settings'
4. Select 'About Google Keyboard'
5. Select 'Open-source licences'
6. Highlight some text with a long press then select 'WEB SEARCH' from the top right
7. This will take you to the Google Now search page and show a not connected error.
8. Type 'Settings' into the search box and select the settings page from the drop down.
9. From here you can enable developer mode, enable adb and fix any changes to the system partition that you might have made

Instead of typing settings I typed chrome which allowed me to sign in to chrome, visit the google play store and download and reopen link2sd and re block the ota update.

I hope this helps.