@DeathMaskSalesman It's a bit of a grey-area. I'll leave it, see what crowd it brings.

@Izzy Still looking for a Tablet?

@DanBrown Just got one a few days ago (Lenovo Tab 3-7 Essential). Unlocked it, flashed TWRP, rooted, then unpacked and took a look. So far OK, but TiBu is having issues with it. Joël is working on a fix, but so far we couldn't find the culprit... Why, what have you found?

I was looking at the new Asus Transformers tonight. The Transformer 3 is just a Windows laptop in a funny form factor

@Izzy I'm selling my tablet, that's all. It don't like titanium backup? Huh.

@DanHulme I was gonna pick one up, as a student laptop, but I got given a chrome book.

*chromebook

@DanBrown Seems to have issues with certain types of the UI, namely progress bars and "system overlay windows" (e.g. the red ones from Xprivacy).

Odd. Is that just a badly built OS? Actually, is it a mediatek chip? They tend to be fiesty.

Those red ones are "sticky" (you only get rid of them by switching the display off, wait 3s, and switch it back on – though the action of the pressed button is performed, the screen is frozen until then). TiBu crashes on scheduled backups, and claims "not enough free storage" (4G+ internal, 30G+ external available – Joël confirmed the error message is misleading). On single backups it claims failure, though the backups are made. Restore is working.

@DanBrown Yes, you hit the nail. MTK81xx AFAIR.

Ahaha, my mediatek boys. They Hate modding. Even hate adoptable storage (and cause fun boot-loops, yay!)

(Unrelated) On Google Play, 'Firefox' is now 'Firefox. Browse freely'

(Back on topic) The only thing stopping me from rooting my BUSH phone is that it tends to corrupt chunks of the not image when rooted.

*boot

@DanBrown But the nice thing is, they're pretty easy to unbrick. I can tell, I had mine bricked before its first boot #D

Cannot deny a certain similarity between that "flash tool" and the screenshots I saw from Odin ;)

@Izzy Hah, That's true. Probably look like ODIN just to seem familiar.

@DeathMaskSalesman OP Has removed it, perhaps they deemed it off-topic.

@DanBrown Maybe. But reviving the thing was easy: shut it down, open the flash tool, load the PIT.. ahem, scatter file, check the boxes for the partitions you want, hit go, connect the switched-off device – and everything else runs automagically.

Ah, speaking of it: MT8127 it is.

@Izzy Scatter file? First time I've heard that. Seems easy though.

@DanBrown Odin calls it PIT, for MTK it's called scatter – basically the very same thing, listing partitions with their start and end addresses.

Same difference? And besides, that's almost the universal fixing method for bricking these days. It even applies to a 3ds (That kernel is some odd crap- A downgrade requires solder, Ubuntu 16.04 and About 4Gb of programs)

Example for the fastboot partition at this pastebin

Fairly simple, was expecting more actually. Guess you don't need a lot.

if the file_name listed does exist, flash-tool matches it and marks it for "download" (eh, to the device that is – got me confused as I had expected "upload" here)

I had somehow broken the thing when flashing TWRP before having at least booted once, so it went boot-loop afterwards. Couldn't boot up normally, recovery was not working either – so I used flash-tool to flash the original images. Doing that I figured someone had prepared TWRP for the same way, plus a patch for fastboot to recognize some more commands – so I used flash-tool for that as well. All went smoothly then.

@Izzy Ambiguous names for ya. Hah, I remember trying to use ODIN with no documentation when I was 12 - A lot of stuff Was badly named (What's the difference between Phone, phone, and PDA?)

Now I'm only having issues with those "red alert windows" from Xprivacy – and with TiBu unable to do normal backups. Not sure about the former (well, at least I've found a work-around for that), but Joël is working hard on the latter. Great support! I never regretted buying the Pro license of TiBu.

@DanBrown LOL What's a PDA? #D Phone Display Advanced? #D#D Reminds me of those old days with my Palm Pilot ~15 years ago...

@Izzy Not even giving Stock a chance? Only the mighty Izzy would do that! I mean, some stock recoveries these days are more full-featured than CWM. And I love TiBu, I just never get round to buying Pro. I really should. ODIN used to ask that the OS/ CF Autoroot was loaded into PDA. No idea why 'PDA' was chosen. Huh, is it me, or does tasked feel somewhat more limited these days?

@DanBrown Ever tried to put together an arranged PIT? I once flashed one PIT I made, and my phone had the guts to refuse it, saying "verification failed", or something along these lines.