Help with Tesco Hudl1 restoration images

[Guest onio]

Hi All,

I have bought my children Hudl a few years back that has now be gathering dust due to a virus which affected the device. The virus manifest itself in showing all kind of indecent adverts and does not allow the user to gain control of the device. 

I tried the factory reset process but that didn't help so for the past few year I simply put them away as I could not afford my 8 and 10 year seeing these images. I recently bought myself a book with came with an epub version so I am now looking for a way of restoring these 3 tablets so I can use them for at least reading as the devices are physically and electronically in very good condition.

I tried downloading the images found here  but the URL no longer works. Over the weekend I came across rkflashtool which I was able to use for interrogating the hudl through Ubuntu 16.04 terminal. Using this interface I was able to read the various partition such as the "kernel, boot, system" etc.

I was also able to mount the "system" partition on to my my machine " see below.

; All command used with elevated privileges
root@ubuntu16dot04:/home/onio/Downloads/rkflashtool-6.1-src# ./rkflashtool p
rkflashtool: info: rkflashtool v6.1
rkflashtool: info: Detected RK3188...
rkflashtool: info: interface claimed
rkflashtool: info: reading parameters at offset 0x00000000
rkflashtool: info: size:  0x00000292
FIRMWARE_VER:4.1.1
MACHINE_MODEL:rk30sdk
MACHINE_ID:007
MANUFACTURER:RK30SDK
MAGIC: 0x5041524B
ATAG: 0x60000800
MACHINE: 3066
CHECK_MASK: 0x80
PWR_HLD: 0,0,A,0,1
KERNEL_IMG: 0x60408000
#RECOVER_KEY: 1,1,0,20,0
CMDLINE:console=ttyFIQ0 androidboot.console=ttyFIQ0 board.ap_has_alsa=0 vmalloc=512M init=/init initrd=0x62000000,0x00800000 mtdparts=rk29xxnand:
0x00002000@0x00002000(misc),
0x00004000@0x00004000(kernel),
0x00008000@0x00008000(boot),
0x00010000@0x00010000(recovery),
0x00020000@0x00020000(backup),
0x00100000@0x00040000(cache),
0x00002000@0x00140000(kpanic),
0x00200000@0x00142000(system),
0x00020000@0x00342000(factory),
-@0x00362000(userdata)


root@ubuntu16dot04:/home/onio/Downloads/rkflashtool-6.1-src# ./rkflashtool v
rkflashtool: info: rkflashtool v6.1
rkflashtool: info: Detected RK3188...
rkflashtool: info: interface claimed
rkflashtool: info: chip version: 310B-2012.11.30-V100


root@ubuntu16dot04:/home/onio/Downloads/rkflashtool-6.1-src# ./rkflashtool r system > hudl-system.img
root@ubuntu16dot04:/home/onio/Downloads/rkflashtool-6.1-src# mkdir -p /mnt/hudl 
root@ubuntu16dot04:/home/onio/Downloads/rkflashtool-6.1-src# mount hudl-system.img /mnt/hudl

 I was wondering if someone has hudl restore images that they can share so I can use to flash my devices back to its original state. I don't mind whatever solution is available Window 7 or Linux. A brief description on how to reprogram the device would be most highly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

 

onio

 

[Guest flurry]

I believe you'll need rktools (windows), not rkflashtool (linux) to use this backup. It's a backup of the stock 1.3.1 software that I downloaded from here some years ago, but I've not used it myself.

Either way, the file is re-uploaded: here

[Guest onio]

Hi flurry,

Thanks for your reply, I was able to download image and re-flash one of my Tesco hudl's. I would try and repeat the process on the other 2 hudl tablets but thought to express my appreciation for your help.

Regards

onio 

[Guest onio]

Hi Kirt7,

Thanks for your reply. The issue has been solved. 

Regards

onio