Android 4.0.4 firmware for the Essential

[suggsy89]

This is not compatible with the "Old" Essential
Only use this if you are 100% sure the proccessor is an Allwinner A10

Development place-holder for Android 4.0.4 firmware for the Scroll Essential

Ported from here http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/32261-n ... urora-404/

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Based on work for the Excel
They are both the same, apart from the Touchscreen which is resistive rather than capacitive.
Thats why its cheap lol.

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Should be working for the Essential, got it to boot within an hour.
I have not fully tested as i dont own the Essential.

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Uses stock Yarvik kernel... Base image here > http://www.yarvik.com/userfiles/yarvikf ... TAB220.img
Thank user "Piers" for this.

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Download > CWM Image - Beta_0.2 > https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7111682_3432376_08856
Download > Livesuit Image - TBC

Kernel is 3.0.8+ Inet #31

Working

Boot
Sound
Display
Touch (should work)
Auto-Rotate (should work)
Camera

Work continues if needs be...

[Piers]

Seems to work nicely so far. Flashed one Essential - now flashing the other.

A few notes: Google Play works perfectly - thank you. When you first boot it asks which apk you want to run and has a choice between 2 - one called setup and can't remember the other one, I chose the setup option and it worked fine.

Tested iPlayer with latest Flash from Play and it's amazing - no lag, jitters, freezing etc. I was even able to skip forward 20 minutes and it played without any issues or lag! Actually works better than the Extreme at iPlayer

Sent a fiver your way for a beer or something

[3stage]

hi, how do i go about flashing this to my essential? tried installing clockworkmod but says not compatible with scroll essential, really dont want to try without a recovery method of some sort, any advice appreciated

[suggsy89]

Piers should be able to help you out, he has done this to both his Essentials
I cant because i dont own one, sorry dude

[3stage]

Piers should be able to help you out, he has done this to both his Essentials
I cant because i dont own one, sorry dude

ok cheers fella, hopefully he will be along shortly, itching to get this working on ics lol

[Piers]

Hi 3stage. If you follow the steps in this post: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2581#p20729 then you should be able to get CWM installed on your Essential in under a minute.

[3stage]

Hi 3stage. If you follow the steps in this post: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2581#p20729 then you should be able to get CWM installed on your Essential in under a minute.

i will read that now and let you know how i get on, any major issues you noticed?

this link seems to be dead? http://upld.eu/droid/livesuit.zip any mirrors?

[Piers]

Link fixed

[3stage]

Link fixed

thanks

i have all files now but CWM doesnt seem to be installing, i follow the steps with "CWM Recovery Script Scroll Extreme_TEST" 1 first which looks likes completes succesfully, the 2 reboot, but still boots android recovery not CWM

[Piers]

Hmm. suggsy - got any ideas?