The mediacom M-MP800 is a low cost smartpad with 4GB flash a resistive (also in understanding human input) single-touch-pad. It is tremendously similar to Coby Kyros MID8024 (See model in ). Out of the box, it ships a non-rooted quite bare-bone Android 2.2 without google market. I bought it as I intended to use it as an e-book reader, a music player and a picture frame all-in-one replacement. The buggy gallery, the poor and little controlled AppsLib alternative market, made this device seem like a Tomos motorbyke in front of a Rolls-Royce cyanogenmod rom. Now, this is not what I mean for an android device.
BEWARE: the following lines are intended for people having deep knowledge about how Android devices works. Don't blame me if you brick your device: I wont even listen at you. Prepare your tools:- Root the device
In Linux, add your device to udev and add the following line to the /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666" then reboot your system (or try with /etc/init.d/udevtrigger restart) - adb push busybox /data/local/
- adb push psneuter /data/local/
- adb push su /data/local/
- adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
- adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
- adb shell
- /data/local/psneuter
- adb shell
- mkdir /system/xbin
- /data/local/busybox cp /data/local/su /system/xbin/su
- chown 0:0 /system/xbin/su
- chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
- ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su
- exit
- Install the right market and other apks extracting them from gapps.zip :
- adb push GoogleServicesFramework.apk /system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
- install MarketUpdater.apk NetworkLocation.apk Vending.apk
- install VoiceSearch.apk to enable voice search on your mediacom
- Clear Google Services Framework cache and market cache.
- Reboot (if necessary) and log in google market.
- Extract (/system/app/Gallery3D.apk) and install the full-bleed Gallery3D.apk from CyanoGenmod project ( http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/update-cm-6.1.0-DS-signed.zip )
- Install Superuser (ChainsDD) from the new google market to complete rooting in the graphical environment.
ToDosPossible? Please help: - Unlock the power of Multi-touch (driver?)
- Unlock the power of Text-To-Speach (Missing in settings menu)
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