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Posts tagged Archos 7 Firmware
Building your own Custom Android Firmware for the Archos 7
91 year ago
The experts on the ArchosFans Forum are at it again, this time giving us a nice little tutorial on building your own custom Android firmware for the Archos 7. Forum users pmarin and knightdominion teamed up to write the tutorial which shows you step by step how to access and modify the filesystem image, allowing you to create a totally custom load for your needs.
Getting Started
In order to create your own firmware you will need a few things, a base firmware, MyDroidDevTool, and a Linux environment.
Base Firmware
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Increased Storage (and root!) on the Archos 7
41 year ago
Well, he’s at it again. Dom has released his newest Archos 7 Firmware version over at the ArchosFans forums. This time he’s managed to pull off root access on the device and give us extra storage space for applications. I’ve hit the application storage space limit multiple times while using the tablet, so this is a very welcome update for me. I plan on starting fresh and testing all new applications after this update and the extra storage space will help. Be sure to post in the thread to let Dom know you appreciate More >
Archos 7 Custom Firmware
21 year ago
Dom has recently updated the Operation Unbrickable firmware for the Archos 7 to version 3. This is the same firmware I used in my first Hacking the Archos 7 Home Tablet post except he has now corrected the issues with wifi setup by holding off on the Google setup wizard until you first launch one of the applications. The Google Contacts application provider has been hacked to work now, as well, but I have yet to fully test that personally. (At some point I will migrate my contacts, until then they are stored in my local More >
Hacking the Archos 7 Home Tablet
81 year ago
One of the users on the ArchosFans Forums has been building a custom firmware image for the Archos 7 HT to bring full Google application support to the device. I decided tonight to go ahead and give his update a try and see if hacking the firmware would be something I’d bother digging into or if I should stick with pure application development. Flashing the firmware on the device means I will lose all data and installed applications, but since I had just documented the applications I use in a previous post on here I wasn’t too worried.
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