Black screen after flashing rooted rom

[mastermind88]

Hello! I followed exactly tutorial
(http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.p ... 27#p410693),
everything is ok but after final flash of root image all I see is just
black screen with LED on I've read tons of tutorials, tried many roms, SDEs and still
same results.
May be someone had same issue?

[mls]

Sounds more like you did NOT follow somebody's instructions correctly and just rushed through things.

What really bothers me though is that you say you "tried many roms, SDEs"... which, of course means by now you've gotten things so royally messed up that the only hope you may have is if you are still lucky enough to be able to boot up into Recovery mode.

Hopefully you have a copy of the last original official Archos firmware .aos file that you had last installed downloaded on your computer.

If you can still start up into Recovery mode...

If you have SDE installed, go to the Developer Edition Menu and select Uninstall Developer Edition.
Then, exit back and go to Format System and select Reformat Device.
It will then want you to connect it to your computer to be able to copy the Archos .aos file over.

You should then be back to square one with official Archos firmware. After you have that set up and working again, then you can try doing the SDE and rooted firmware installation again. If you do it correctly it works (the very first time around), if you don't do it right then, of course, things get messed up.

You can find more info about 'rooting' in the Gen9 sections of xda-developers.

[mls]

Just as a side note...

It's also possible that you have a corrupted download. So, if you want to use the package I posted (and I've changed things a couple of times and updated the download links)... you may want to delete what you have from before and re-download it again.

Of course, you still have to get things back to square one with the official Archos firmware up and running first before you can do anything else.

[mastermind88]

Sounds more like you did NOT follow somebody's instructions correctly and just rushed through things.

What really bothers me though is that you say you "tried many roms, SDEs"... which, of course means by now you've gotten things so royally messed up that the only hope you may have is if you are still lucky enough to be able to boot up into Recovery mode.

Hopefully you have a copy of the last original official Archos firmware .aos file that you had last installed downloaded on your computer.

If you can still start up into Recovery mode...

If you have SDE installed, go to the Developer Edition Menu and select Uninstall Developer Edition.
Then, exit back and go to Format System and select Reformat Device.
It will then want you to connect it to your computer to be able to copy the Archos .aos file over.

You should then be back to square one with official Archos firmware. After you have that set up and working again, then you can try doing the SDE and rooted firmware installation again. If you do it correctly it works (the very first time around), if you don't do it right then, of course, things get messed up.

You can find more info about 'rooting' in the Gen9 sections of xda-developers.

"Tried many roms, SDEs" means that I really tried everything. Ofcourse, I checked roms downloaded from different sources for integrity, I tried official SDE and non-official SDE using paul's method. I know how to reformat device, I did it more than a dozen times. I've read all relevent topics on XDA.

I was "dancing with a tambourine" for few days before finally found the solution - rooting doesn't work from linux (at least from mine). I don't know when something went wrong, adb and ram disks works great but after final step (flashing initramfs) my tablet becomes bricked.

I've made the same steps in Windows 7 x86 (fucking Archos provides only x86 drivers) and everything was working like a charm, so thic topic can be closed.