Help with Rooting my tablet Please, sorry if a duplicate post or in the wrong spot

[Shawn Eastman]

for Hi, I appreciate your time taken to read this and help me out.

I purchased what I thought was an allwinner a13 tablet, it turns out that may not be the case

the model number is gs701b and it is a little slow plus it is not rooted. I have read so many guides and tips and tricks to count, I followed the you tube video and I bricked my tablet for a few day, then I reflashed the old firmware. I tried z4root, gignger break, androroot, and i tried all I could find on the xda website as well nothing has worked so far

I run linux (ubuntu) on my pc at home, the tablet has android ics on it, it will not install zip files when booted in safe mode and choose any option in the menu. I have tried adb shell but ubuntu doest see the tablet as a tablet, it calls it a semiconductor, I have debugging enable and software from other sources. I will answer any questions you ask The major issue is the lag when typing on forums but I found a hepful solution to most of the lag, go into settings, language and imput, and disabe spelling correction, now my keyboard can somewhat keep up when i type into forums.

 

[Ryandroid86]

for Hi, I appreciate your time taken to read this and help me out.

I purchased what I thought was an allwinner a13 tablet, it turns out that may not be the case

the model number is gs701b and it is a little slow plus it is not rooted. I have read so many guides and tips and tricks to count, I followed the you tube video and I bricked my tablet for a few day, then I reflashed the old firmware. I tried z4root, gignger break, androroot, and i tried all I could find on the xda website as well nothing has worked so far

I run linux (ubuntu) on my pc at home, the tablet has android ics on it, it will not install zip files when booted in safe mode and choose any option in the menu. I have tried adb shell but ubuntu doest see the tablet as a tablet, it calls it a semiconductor, I have debugging enable and software from other sources. I will answer any questions you ask

Well I dont know anything about the allwinner a13 or Ubuntu. But I do know that cheaper tablets have less support and makes it tougher to root. you will probably need the drivers installed on your PC. (hoping you do) also ubuntu could also be causing the issue since the terminal acts differently than windows. You might need root access ($) and just make sure you have all the proper files from the SDK platformtools.

do you know if the bootloader is locked?

 

[Shawn Eastman]

Ubuntu is alinux operating system, I use it because I like it better

: i dont know if the bootloader is locked or not, however this method on youtube does work to load a firmware onto the device
Tablet PC Q8, gs701b, MIPS, ATM 7013, root files - YouTube







or you can search "q8 gs70b MIPS ATM 7013" and the process should ccome up however the one you find gives the wrong firmware, and the touchscreen stops working. I fixed that by reloading the firmware from the site however I am not understanding what the files at root_gs701b_.rar are for or how to use them. it is possible i9 did the process wrong i suppose, The firmware that my tablet uses is http://ele-china.com/soft/tablet/Atm/Q8/New/Q8-New-UPGRADE_FAST.zip.



sorry if the typing is bad, I am currently using this lagtastic tablet to write this lol,

I have also tried Root_SuperSU, UnlockRoot, CF-Root-SGS2, Android_Root, Root_Transmission, SparkyRoot, instant-root.

I am hoping I missed something with the root files link on the video site, and also the bad firmware is also listed in a directory at the site with the correct firmware.

Thank you for you time. I still would like to root it though, I have also tried superoneclick with a windows computer and got nothing, I tried drivers for another tablet tobut got nothing. I read somewhere that you can use the drivers for a gl5201 to do it and many had great success but not me so far.

 

[Shawn Eastman]

ok I got it rooted and here is is how to the best of my memory. (windows users will need to install drivers from pdanet and have an adb sell or android-sdk)

1. On ubuntu you need to get eclipse and android-tools-adb from the software center or synaptic

2. once those are downloaded and installed you will need to edit a few files, so open a terminal and run:

lsusb

mine looks like this:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0e8f:0002 GreenAsia Inc.
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0461:4d42 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 10d6:0c02 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

In this list you will need to find your device and my tablet is:

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 10d6:0c02 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd

now you need to edit the file located in .android this will be in you home folder and you need to view hidden files to see it. the command would be:

sudo leafpad /home/(username)/.android/adb_usb.ini or sudo gedit /home/(username)/.android/adb_usb.ini

Add the vendor id and device id to this list (mine are bolder above) and delete anything other than numbers in this file mine looks like this:

0x10d6
0x2080
0x18d1
0x0c02

Then you will need to edit a udev file and create a rule, the command is:

sudo leafpad /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules or sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

And add these lines to the bottom:

#Actions Semiconductor
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0x0c02", MODE="0666"
#Actions Semiconductor
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="10d6:0c02", SYMLINK+="android_adb", MODE="0666" GROUP="plugdev"
TEST=="/var/run/ConsoleKit/database", \
RUN+="udev-acl --action=$env{action} --device=$env{DEVNAME}"

The bold part will be what you got for lsusb in the terminal earlier. These steps will make the tablet visible to ubuntu. Ubuntu does not need drivers for tablets in most cases and that is true for this one. at this point open a terminal and type this:

adb devices

And you should see your tablet in the list, mine looks like this:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
Actions Semi. 71197615 device

Now from here the process should be a breeze, easy peasy. You will need to download this file: (windows people start here.)

root_gs701b_.rar

Assuming it downloads to your download folder extract the file there, then open a terminal and go to the folder:

cd /home/(username)/Downloads/gs701b-root/files

Now we install superuser to the device and push some software:

1. adb Install Superuser.apk
2. adb push busybox /sdcard/
3. adb push su /sdcard/

In the same terminal now we open adb:

adb shell

enter the command for superuser

su

Then you will get a password prompt, this password is "actions123" without the "

Now these you will copy and paste in order each one:

1. mount -o remount,rw /system
2. mv /system/xbin/su /system/xbin/oldsu
3. cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
4. cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
5. chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
6. chmod 0755 /system/bin/busybox
7. ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
8. exit su (may say something about a bad number
9. exit
10. adb reboot