Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> I don't know where it is stored in the tablet. > > It depends on the device, but usually it is one of the flash partitions. > > Is there a /proc/mtd file?
Yes, there is one. > Is there anything in the subdirs of the /dev/disk/ directory? There is no /disk subdirectory under /dev. >> My tablet is the SmartPad 8.0 S2. > > I can't read Italian but I think you are talking about this? > > http://www.mediacomeurope.it/Prodotti/Scheda.aspx?XRI=2082 Yes, it should be. > Did your device come with any kind of offer of source code or legal > information? This might be in the Android UI itself. I can't find > anything on their website. It doesn't seem so. > I note that the website comes with firmware downloads, the tablet has > a Rockchip ARM CPU Doesn't it rather have a Cortex-A9 CPU? > and that there is a Linux flasher for Rockchip > based devices here: > > https://github.com/linux-rockchip/rkflashtool > > I noticed that this flasher can also unpack Rockchip firmware downloads. > > So I would suggest downloading the firmware, unpacking the archive > with unar (not unrar since that is non-free) and then unpacking the > image with rkflashtool. I did as you suggested. I downloaded the firmware, unpacked it with `unar' and then ran rkunpack over the file update.img. Some other files were created. What now? > It would be really cool if you could also package rkflashtool for > Debian. You can read through this to get an idea of how to do that: > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers I'll try to, admitted I have the necessary skills... Thanks indeed for your help... What comes now? Cheers, Rodolfo
