{"id":446,"date":"2013-04-12T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=446"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:59:25","slug":"not-rooting-rk3066-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"(Not) rooting RK3066 systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The update updated, 2014-04-28: unbricking is fairly easy, see <a href=\"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=517\" title=\"Unbrick the Minix Neo X7 Mini \u2013 with Linux\">https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=517<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that I received some reports from people that tried to flash their RK3066 stuff &#8211; but it would not boot afterwards. And in fact, that&#8217;s what I experienced when I tried to flash my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minix.com.hk\/Products\/NEOX5.html\" title=\"Minix Neo X5\" target=\"_blank\">Minix Neo X5<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using the procedure as described <a href=\"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=382\" title=\"Rooting your RK3066 tablet\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, all seemed to work well: I could read the flash memory, dump it to a file, mount the file, replace some stuff, write it back, but then &#8211; nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Re-reading the file that I just wrote gave me a different file. So in fact, there might be something in the newer RK3066 firmware that prevents rkflashtool from working. It <em>seems<\/em> to work &#8211; but it does not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reading<\/em> the same blocks of memory always gave me the same results (and the first time, the block seemed a correct Linux filesystem), so I don&#8217;t think the problem is in the reading. <em>Writing back<\/em> the flash memory however was problematic: writing a block and reading it back would not give me the same information. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have the time to find out what&#8217;s wrong &#8211; I don&#8217;t own Windows machines and subsequently gave away my X5 to a RK3066-Linux-developer (that was never heard of afterwards, but that&#8217;s another story).<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for some, there&#8217;s always the original RK3066 firmware flasher: from within Windows, you can easily flash a firmware &#8211; even if you completely bricked your tablet. But for those working with free software, the possibilities are fewer: you might need to turn to a friend who does run Windows to unbrick your RK3066.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The update updated, 2014-04-28: unbricking is fairly easy, see https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/?p=517 Please note that I received some reports from people that tried to flash their RK3066 stuff &#8211; but it would not boot afterwards. And in fact, that&#8217;s what I experienced when I tried to flash my Minix Neo X5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82,79,81,9,80,76,77,78],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-hacking","tag-bricking","tag-flash","tag-flash-memory","tag-linux","tag-nand","tag-rk3066","tag-rooting","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentijn.sessink.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}