So many thanks for the ROM and this thread! Today my brand-new Lenovo arrived here in Europe - of course with shipping & taxes it ended up higher in price but zero regrets, the build quality is really amazing!
When working my way through the installation manual, there are several items where I please ask for a little bit more details, especially:
"a flash tool that supports qualcomm’s firehose/sahara protocols, like bkeerler’s edl " - what exactly do I have to download? Going to Release 3.52 · bkerler/edl · GitHub I have loaded the code, unpacked it but how do I execute?
“start the flash tool with the provided xml files” my first problem is: I don’t get EDL started so once I get it started, how do I tell EDL to use the files in the 7z file?
Sorry for the beginner’s questions, this is my first touchpoint with Android.
Hi, great job!
I stuck at first point: Download - where?
When I do: ./edl qfil bin/rawprogram.xml bin/patch0.xml flash/ --loader=bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mb
I get: sahara - [LIB]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mb'
Can you help me?
At $20 each I’d be crazy not to stock up on these. Have any videos of them in action? I’d like to try to replace most of my panels with these if they perform well (compared to my cheap used Fire tablet 7s).
Many thanks - from a starters point of view it is sometimes not easy to work through all the stuff that may be pre-existing on others’ computers. So what I did:
Installled Python from the link in the EDL instructions
Installed git
Installed QC9008 drivers
Installed UsbDkInstaller
“Test on device connect using “UsbDkController -n” if you see a device with pid 0x9008” fails as my command line does not find “UsbDkController”
“fhloaderparse newstuff Loaders” fails as my commandline does not find “fhloaderparse”
no idea where to put the 7z file so that EDL finds it
Do I need to do all this or just go to the edl directory and execute the command line above?
thanks so much for this awesome work! currently have a thinksmart en route and have a lenovo smart display at home as well. would love to see if you can get the smart display @rohankapoorcom mentioned going as well.
Many thanks again for every help provided - is there any help video available that describes how to run EDL? Really, I am working all the installation guides but it simply does not work. I have installed all the above but my command line accepts nothing like “UsbDxController” or “fhloaderparse” or “qfil”
Thanks for pointing out the OS topic - if it helps, I would set up a Raspi just for flashing the Lenovo - which OS is recommended? DietPi? Raspbian? Really, this device is great, I am just an Android newbie.
I’m currently at the password stage as well. Currently in the process of inputting the wrong password haha.
As for the initial installation, I’m on Linux (Ubuntu) and I was having some confusing path resolution going on and ended up getting lazy/rage-quit-y - so I just ended putting ALL the files into a single flat directory and running edl qfil rawprogram.xml patch0.xml ./ --loader=prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn.
so once I get it started, how do I tell EDL to use the files in the 7z file?
