Rooting the G-Slate with Ubuntu wubi

As long as you back up any partitions before you flash over them, you *should* be able to restore them by flashing the backups. I flashed five megs of zeros over my kernel, booted to an "invalid kernel" error, and then successfully restored it, so I'm feeling pretty comfortable with nvflash as a rescue mechanism.

As long as you're careful and stick with --download to partitions that you're pretty sure you've identified and backed up, you should be reasonably safe.

Thanks for all the help guys. I kinda figured that my device not showing up in lsusb would cause problems.

Quick question - I have drivers installed for my G-slate already...but do I need any additional drivers to access apx mode? Because when I originally plugged it in, Windows popped up and said that it recognized the "apx" device, but could not install any drivers for it.

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I'm not really sure how Windows drivers interact with VirtualBox. If you were doing the nvflash commands under Windows, you need the APX drivers that Nvidia distributes on their Tegra 2 developers page.

But at this point if the APX device isn't showing up in the VirtualBox USB device sharing menu I'd punt and do a Wubi install of Ubuntu. It's not significantly more of a risk/commitment than the virtual install, and with Ubuntu running directly on the hardware there are no driver issues in this story.

Got it. Going to do a wubi install now.

Edit: Found the apx drivers HERE.

Going to try VBox one more time...maybe the updated drivers will make it work.

Edit 2: Still no dice. wubi install underway.

I hope you get it all sorted out bro. Its so much easier when you have Linux installed natively. I am positive you will get it!

Didn't get around to registering here until now, but I wanted to post a big THANK YOU to Chandon. I followed Bling over here from XDA, thinking we'd never see a solution without a forum section over there, and was wearing myself out in the wee hours trying to stumble across it...I had only gotten as far as figuring out that nvflash was the way to go, but would never have guessed the 'black screen' button combo was the right place, and had no bootloader file to use. With your instructions, it all clicked together...fortunately I had an extra box laying around, so I threw Ubuntu on it and wham bam thank you ma'am, I am rooted!

(Yeah, I know, as a proper geek I should at the very least have a dual boot with a penguin on my main winbox, but I had a bad experience with M$ getting greedy back in the dawn of Vista, so I only run virtual secondary OS' on my main now. And though VirtualBox's USB is pretty good, not sure I trust it with flashing.)

This forum was a great idea, Bling!

Ubuntu now natively installed. Let's try this crap again...

This forum was a great idea, Bling!

No problem. I actually have quite a bit of experience in web design and forum management so this thing was a breeze. Unlike rooting.

bealesbane wrote:Didn't get around to registering here until now, but I wanted to post a big THANK YOU to Chandon. I followed Bling over here from XDA, thinking we'd never see a solution without a forum section over there, and was wearing myself out in the wee hours trying to stumble across it...I had only gotten as far as figuring out that nvflash was the way to go, but would never have guessed the 'black screen' button combo was the right place, and had no bootloader file to use. With your instructions, it all clicked together...fortunately I had an extra box laying around, so I threw Ubuntu on it and wham bam thank you ma'am, I am rooted!

(Yeah, I know, as a proper geek I should at the very least have a dual boot with a penguin on my main winbox, but I had a bad experience with M$ getting greedy back in the dawn of Vista, so I only run virtual secondary OS' on my main now. And though VirtualBox's USB is pretty good, not sure I trust it with flashing.)

This forum was a great idea, Bling!

Any idea how we can get Clockwork Recovery working on this device? I don't know where to start!

Hey guys, just to confirm - the nvflash files I need to download from chandon's dropbox - it's just the "nvflash_linux" and "nvflash_gtablet", correct? And then I unzip them and place all files in the same directory i put su, superuser and bootloader.bin, correct?

you are correct Bling, but don't forget the Xoom zip file also

Finally got lsusb to work! Wooo!! Baby steps...

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0955:7820 NVidia Corp.

EDIT: And that's where my luck ends.

./nvflash: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

No idea what that means.
Starting to get pretty discouraged here.

I'm out of ideas man. I wish I could help. It would be nice if we had an IRC channel to continue helping people and to work on development.

If you can see the device in lsusb then you're almost there. It's a computer, so it's going to whine about stupid stuff, but you're backing it into a corner and it's almost out of stupid problems to have.

For your libstdc++6 error, try running these:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++6
sudo apt-get install build-essential

So Bling, have you had any luck with the rooting process? I'm just curious if you were able to get it working for you.

Afraid not.

I tried both of chandon's suggestions. Neither worked. I'm at a dead end. Installed Ubuntu natively and followed instructions on XDA thread. Chandon if you can get someone else to confirm this process, I'll give you your $50. Sucks it doesn't work for me, but I'm not gonna go back on my word. I'll just have to figure out some other way to root it, or wait for someone to figure out how to root it using Windows.

Thanks anyways for trying to help guys, I really appreciate it.

I was bored and set up an IRC channel for the G-Slate! irc.freenode.net and the channel is #G-Slate

Admin wrote:I tried both of chandon's suggestions. Neither worked.

You really are almost there, it just feels horribly painful and hopeless because you've been dropped in a foreign land with no map.

If you're still getting the same error, then you must be on a 64-bit Ubuntu.

Luckily, that just changes the command to install the missing library:

sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6

I am on a 64-bit ubuntu. Forgot all about it. Didn't realize that would cause an error but yeah now it makes sense why it would. Rebooting out of Windows and back into Ubuntu now. Will edit on status of next attempt.


EDIT: FINALLY! Step 5 done. Note: before entering ./nvflash etc., I had to enter "sudo". First time I got it, it came back permission denied.

On to step 6.

EDIT 2: Ok - I think I did it! Not real sure how to verify. I see superuser is in my apps. Opened up a terminal, entered su, and terminal was granted superuser permissions. Guess that means it worked.

Admin wrote:Ok - I think I did it! Not real sure how to verify. I see superuser is in my apps. Opened up a terminal, entered su, and terminal was granted superuser permissions. Guess that means it worked.

Congrats. If you typed "su" and got a "#" prompt, then you're rooted. I'd give you some great suggestions for root-only apps, but honestly the only thing I installed was busybox.

Chandon wrote:

Admin wrote:Ok - I think I did it! Not real sure how to verify. I see superuser is in my apps. Opened up a terminal, entered su, and terminal was granted superuser permissions. Guess that means it worked.

Congrats. If you typed "su" and got a "#" prompt, then you're rooted. I'd give you some great suggestions for root-only apps, but honestly the only thing I installed was busybox.

Yeah I got a #, and I just downloaded rootcheck off the market and it came back root-positive

PM me your mailing address and I'll send you the reward (hope you don't mind a check). Thanks again!

i am so bummed i cannot get past
#7 ./nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --getpartitiontable ptable.txt
#8./nvflash -r --read 8 system-orig.img
Wait while 400 meg of data copies. ( i cant get it to the part where it shows its copying anything just automatically goes to the next prompt as if it copied everything in 1 second. so im stuck here: here is exactly what my terminal looks like:

suzanne@ubuntu:~/Desktop/v909$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b1d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0955:7820 NVidia Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
suzanne@ubuntu:~/Desktop/v909$ sudo su
[sudo] password for suzanne:
root@ubuntu:/home/suzanne/Desktop/v909# ls
bootloader.bin nvflash su Superuser.apk
root@ubuntu:/home/suzanne/Desktop/v909# sudo ./nvflash –bl bootloader.bin –getpartitiontable ptable.txt
root@ubuntu:/home/suzanne/Desktop/v909# sudo ./nvflash -r –read 8 system-orig.img
root@ubuntu:/home/suzanne/Desktop/v909#

Thats really odd that it won't progress past that point. Are you using 32bit Ubuntu? Or 64?

Admin wrote:Thats really odd that it won't progress past that point. Are you using 32bit Ubuntu? Or 64?

I think i am using Ubuntu 64. god o please o please tell me thats why its not letting me do it !

Yes, if you are using 64-bit Ubuntu you won't be able to do it until you download the necessary libraries. I don't remember the exact command but if you check the rooting thread on XDA, Chandon edited his first post to list the command under troubleshooting steps. I actually had the same issue myself, thats how we know about it.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. It was like 3 posts above.

sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6

I'm glad I found this place. Been looking for a forum....stupid XDA...lol

Anyway, we've got root. Hells yeah. I hope someone gets a one click method soon. Great job guys!