Stock Excell images

[Charlie]

For some stupid reason my Excel has gone nuts.
I haven't dome anything to it, other than install Busybox.
Now the Excel reboots, and gets stuck at the Hot Air Balloon screen.

Could I simply use your stock image if I rename it update.zip, and push it to the sdcard?
And do I need CWM5? Flippin thing.

I wonder if busybox has messed something up. You could try doing a factory reset from recovery - It might not help, but worth a try 1st. Otherwise...


Mitre's .zip file is not an update.zip - it contains the nand dumps and a clean CWM5 backup.

You will most likely need to put CWM5 on the Excel and then copy the folder 'Excel-2.3-clean' and contents (from within Mitre's 'excel-backups.zip') to an external sdcard, put that into the excel and boot into CWM5 then do a 'restore'.

[blueeagle69]

Thanks Charlie.
Tried a system wipe/restore but nothing. Still stuck on the Balloon Image

[blueeagle69]

I take it I can follow the CWM5 howto on this forum mate?
What if I have installed a version of Busybox that is incompatible with the method on this forum.

Sorry for being a complete pain Charlie.

[Charlie]

I take it I can follow the CWM5 howto on this forum mate?

Yes but make sure you do the right one for the Excel - which is in this thread :-

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1800

You will need to install ADB on your PC 1st if you have not already done so. If you run into issues with the ADB drivers see here:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1983

EDIT: - Update, Once your have ADB on you pc and the Excel connected via usb - Try turning the Excel on and when stuck on the balloon - type in the windows command prompt:

adb reboot

If it does not work 1st time with that command, try 1 more time. That might save you from having to go down CWM route. If it does not get the excel to boot properly, then it will be CWM5 etc.

EDIT 2:

What if I have installed a version of Busybox that is incompatible with the method on this forum. Sorry for being a complete pain Charlie.

We will cross that bridge if and when we come to it - We might need Mitre's help there.

No need to apologise, these thing happen.

[blueeagle69]

Thanks for your understanding.
Tried ADB reboot, just boots back to the Balloon screen, and stays there.
Tried pushing the install-recovery, and got the following message
C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb push install-recovery.sh /data/
failed to copy 'install-recovery.sh' to '/data//install-recovery.sh': Read-only file system

[Charlie]

Thanks for your understanding.
Tried ADB reboot, just boots back to the Balloon screen, and stays there.
Tried pushing the install-recovery, and got the following message
C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb push install-recovery.sh /data/
failed to copy 'install-recovery.sh' to '/data//install-recovery.sh': Read-only file system

You need to type this 1st

adb remount

It should then come back and say 'mounted successfully' (or something like that) - now you can continue following the 'how to'

That command makes the system writeable instead of read only.

[blueeagle69]

Thanks for your understanding.
Tried ADB reboot, just boots back to the Balloon screen, and stays there.
Tried pushing the install-recovery, and got the following message
C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb push install-recovery.sh /data/
failed to copy 'install-recovery.sh' to '/data//install-recovery.sh': Read-only file system

You need to type this 1st

adb remount

It should then come back and say 'mounted successfully' (or something like that) - now you can continue following the 'how to'

That command makes the system writeable instead of read only.

Tried adb remount. Came back as succeeded. However got the same message the system was read only when trying to push the file to the Excel's /data/ folder

[Charlie]

Try this is instead of adb remount (not 100% sure this command is correct)

type: (after each line hit 'Enter')

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adb shell

su

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/nandd /data

then continue as normal

[blueeagle69]

Sorry about this.
Tried that command and got mount: Invalid Argument

[Charlie]

Sorry, as I said before I was not sure of that code, hopefully Mitre will know,

EDIT:- It could be this:

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adb shell

su

mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/nandd /data