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Flashing an AllWinner device via LiveSuit from Windows 8
Flashing an AllWinner device using the LiveSuit tool from Windows 8 isn’t as obvious as it seems. First, as usual with a new operating system, not all drivers works and you must find the “right” version. Second, as the previous issue wasn’t enough, with Windows 8 isn’t possible without some trick to install an “unsigned” driver. “unsigned” driver means a device driver that isn’t approved by Microsoft; on previous Windows versions, when installing an unsigned driver Windows asked for approval to the user. Today, Windows 8 doesn’t ask for approval and sometime refuses the installation without telling anything, it silently exits the driver installation window. So, first you need to…
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Building AllWinner Android Firmwares
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Building AllWinner Android Firmwares
Foreword This is a work-in-progress post. I'll periodically update this page with new informations, tweaks and tools, because I wanted a single page to collect all the valuable informations about this theme. Introduction The AllWinner A10 platform is a relatively new System-on-chip (SoC) product developed by a Chinese Company. His strength point is certainly the low cost compared to computation power and peripheral integration. The A10 SoC is based on Cortex-A8 ARM core, and provides a Mali-400 GPU on chip. Another very interesting point about the A10 based products, is that since the SoC has an hardwired primary bootloader, they are practically unbrickable, that makes the A10-based tablet a great…