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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.
9) Then select the file you stored on the sdcard (use vol down button to navigate to it) and
press power button.
10) You will see a few messages on the screen (like cannot load volume /misc and then
some update messages).
11) After a few minutes a menu appears on screen and then select reboot system now (1st
item on menu) by pressing power button.
12) Now you are done and the bootloader is unlocked and you have root access.
C. Build the kernel image from the kernel sources and
flash kernel image
1.
Build the kernel image from the kernel sources
1) Download kernel source package “A195/dell_venue_kernel.tgz”.
2) Download Android AOSP 4.4 source codes from android.com. The detailed download
https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
\> pwd
/localdisk3/dell_venue
\> mkdir aosp
\> cd aosp
\> repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.4_r1.2
\> repo sync .
3) Download gcc for linux-x86.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-
x86/x86/x86_64-linux-android-4.7
4) Copy “x86_64-linux-android-4.7/*” directory to “prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/x86/x86_64-linux-
android-4.7/”.
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