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- Page 1 Dell Open Source Guide For Venue7 3740 and Venue8 3840 Version: 1.00 8/6/2014 Copyright © 2014 - 2015 By Dell Inc.
- Page 2 Dell Open Source Guide Dell Tablet Flash Notes Welcome to the Dell Open Source Guide. Here you'll find the guide that describes on how to download, build and flash the appropriate kernel for Dell Venue7 3740/Venue8 3840 tablet device. * For Wi-Fi/LTE device on A195...
- Page 3 Dell Open Source Guide 3) Select the second “MRD AO/BO + MOOR AO + CRC” tab as the following: 4) Set GP Flag to “0x80000007” in “Download Options” tab as below: 5) Select Firmware files as the following from SW Image directory: FW DnX= dnx_fwr_PRQ.bin...
- Page 4 Dell Open Source Guide OS DnX= dnx_osr_PRQ.bin OS Image= droidboot.img.POS.bin 6) Power off the tablet device (long press power key for more than 15 seconds). 7) Click “Begin Download” in Flash Tool, it will display waiting time is 60 seconds.
- Page 5 Dell Open Source Guide 11) After flashing firmware, the tablet device will switch to fastboot mode automatically as the following: 12) Double click file “P802_flash_device_wifi_only.bat” or “P802_flash_device_lte.bat” in SW image folder. The following CMD window will show up, and begin to flash OS system image.
- Page 6 Dell Open Source Guide 13) After flash is complete, “press any key to continue” will shown in the cmd window. Please click any key, and the device will reboot automatically. * You can either do part B (B. Rooting and bootloader unlocking process using OTA package) or do part C (C.
- Page 7 Dell Open Source Guide 3) Choose “Options”->”Modify Settings”, set GP Flag to “0x80000007” in “Download Op- tions” tab as below. 4) Select two Firmware files: FW Dnx: fwr_dnx_PRQ_ww27_001.bin IFWI: IFWI_MERR_PRQ_UOS_TH2_YT2_ww27_001.bin Keep Operating System option “N/A”. Page 7 of 13...
- Page 8 Dell Open Source Guide 5) Turn off the tablet(Venue 7 3740/Venue 8 3840). 6) Click “Begin Download” button. 7) Press the volume up button and then plug in the USB cable. 8) If it’s your first time to connect the tablet to PC, it’ll need some time to recognize the driver.
- Page 9 2014-07-16-22_OSS.zip”; for A195-LTE, download the file “A195/OTA/YTD802A519600- f-2014-07-16-16_OSS.zip”. 2) Copy “YTP802A119600-f-2014-07-16-22_OSS.zip” or “YTD802A519600-f-2014-07-16- 16_OSS.zip” to a micro-sd card and insert that card into the micro-sd card slot of dell venue tablet. 3) Power off the tablet. 4) Enter fastboot mode on the tablet (power + volume down button).
- Page 10 Dell Open Source Guide 7) Now hold down the power button and briefly press the volume up button at the same time to get to the recovery menu. 8) Select “apply update from external storage” – second item from top (use vol down to navigate to it) and then press power button to select it.
- Page 11 Dell Open Source Guide 5) Extract the kernel source package “dell_venue_kernel.tgz” to the Android source root directory, i.e. aosp directory in this example. \> pwd /localdisk3/dell_venue/aosp \> tar –xzf dell_venue_kernel.tgz 6) Once done, you should be able to see the “linux” directory inside aosp directory.
- Page 12 Dell Open Source Guide 4) In a cmd window, type “fastboot devices” and you should see the screen. 5) Download droidboot.img and A195/boot.img (or you can use boot.img you build), put it in the directory which contains your built boot.img.
- Page 13 Dell Open Source Guide D. Unbricking Process If you encounter some issues when doing the OTA or flash new firmware and boot image, please reference section “Flash A195 image to the tablet” to unbrick the tablet. Page 13 of 13...