How To Root your Scroll Tablet - NOT Excel

[Warpedflash]

root explorer is nice but please do buy it if you have a working market.

[mhoust42]

Just rooted my scroll and cat /proc/meminfo only reads 146888kb - that seems rather low - I thought the specs said it has 256mb?

Worryingly once the terminal emulator is running there is only 5768kb free.
Does my scroll have a malfunctioning memory chip or something?

[Charlie]

Just rooted my scroll and cat /proc/meminfo only reads 146888kb - that seems rather low - I thought the specs said it has 256mb?

Worryingly once the terminal emulator is running there is only 5768kb free.
Does my scroll have a malfunctioning memory chip or something?

mine says 147508kb - i have noticed that same info in app's - The total ram should be 256mb -

[mhoust42]

I think it is because some of the mem is used for the os databases etc too. There are several devices other than the NAND (SSD) and the SD card.

It is a design decision that makes a heavy pitch towards having fast loading programs rather than huge amounts of data space for those programs to do serious number crunching - but that is what this baby is for - the data can live on sd storage and only small amounts are needed at any one time.

Some of the machines I deal with at work have over 128GB main memory so the Scroll is quite different to what I am used to

[Detection]

The scroll is indeed advertised to have 256MB RAM - but every single app I have used tells me also there is only around 147Mb.. now this seems to be an odd number considering RAM standards

109Mb RAM missing..... it doesn't really make sense, which makes me think the rest is just not being displayed as usable RAM and is reserved for the OS / graphics

But you would think at least one app would show the actual amount.

It would not surprise me to find out where was less RAM than advertised though


As for the /data partition, the place we have to install Apps TO, is a pathetic 130Mb or something - so it does not take long before you run out of space and need to remove some apps.

/nand is 1.4GB and only used to store downloaded apps, a basic storage drive - a bit backwards if you ask me, considering it has an SDCARD slot capable of supporting a 32GB Mini HC SDCard

[Boots]

I followed the instructions and successfully rooted and renamed the 3 .apk files. All was going well until I noticed I no longer have my wifi.
I have tried everything I can think of including a factory reset, but still no wifi.

Can anyone help me please?

[Fonefixer]

Boots: Welcome to the madhouse!

No wifi? thats an odd one...might sound silly but can you be a bit more specific please?
i.e.
Do you get an error msg? of so, what is it?
What wifi channel is your router on?
Can the scroll see the ssid of your router if you tell the scroll to forget the network then rescan?
Are you getting any wifi interference from neighbours that may be on the same channel?
What does the scroll say when you turn wifi on? should say "turning wifi on" then "obtaining ip address from (ssid)" then "connected"

Ive noticed my scroll can be picky about connecting, sometimes it just says "not in range, remembered" and i have to walk to the router and it will suddenly connect

[Boots]

Hi Dave,

I don't get any error messages.
The wifi icon from the top bar is no longer there. It no longer sees my router or connects to the internet.
Before rooting it seen my router and my neighbours connections.
Turning my wifi on only gives the message turning wifi on then the tick lights up, but still no wifi icon.

While I was trying to fix things I did get a strange message saying that no sim card was found, I don't know if that has any meaning.

It seems to think it's a mobile phone.

I changed the names of the files to Phone.old etc. Was that correct?

[Fonefixer]

I presume you did them in the right order (PMT) and rebooted after the first one? Have you renamed the correct files? You were correct, just replace the extension with .old or whatever
Lets try some other things...

In the wifi settings screen at the bottom you should see "mobile networks"in there data roaming should be unticked and use only 2g networks ticked.
In your main wifi screen click the menu hard button, a menu will appear at the bottom. Click advanced/wifi sleep policy and make sure never is selected. Also is there a mac address listed under the sleep policy setting?

[Boots]

The 2g and sleep options where different but I have now changed them now. Yes I have a mac address

There is still no wifi icon even after reboot.