Help Help with 4.4.2 on a watch required!

[nataliegizfish]

Hi,
I have an issue with an android watch....imacwear m7 running 4.4.2 that i have purchased 2nd hand from ebay.
The device is rooted and running the following apps
advanced task killer
back up restore - empty, no restore files.
blapkmarket - wrong password despite creating account and trying all login details i can find on the net.
camera
clock
alarms
calculator
calendar
email
file manager
music
soundrecorder
browser
downloads
settings
lockscreen
phone
messaging
people
todo
videos
voice search
youtube
runtastic
search
sim toolkit
strava
new apps
play store
places
qr & barcode scanner
lock screen
magazine
mobile uncle
music player
gmail
google setting
heart rate pro
king user
es file explorer
everything me
gallery
games

The previous owner has managed to kill the googleside of things.
There is no account listed in settins-personal - accounts
If i click add account and then google nothing happens, the screen briefly flickers but stays on the same screen.
if i try to open play store the white screen with grey header starts to load but then crashes and returns to previous screen with no visual error or fault or message of any kind displayed.
so i figure a factory reset is on the cards, i try that but the watch will not get past boot screen (white with imacwear logo).
Since then i've tried clearing the cache and data in every single app listed in settings-device-apps-ALL and editing system-etc-hosts but when i try to save #127.0.0.1 localhost with es text editor i get an unable to save error.

So.....
what the hell i do!

 

[James L]

Well if it's rooted can you get into the custom recovery?

 

[nataliegizfish]

apologies, i've no idea how or what that is!

 

[nataliegizfish]

i've managed to get blapkmarket working, it turns out i just needed to donate 1usd.
i've downloaded twrp and tried boot to recoveryand i get the same issue as factory reset, just a boot screen, white with the imacwear logo. battery out restart and it turns on as normal (but still faulty google bits)

 

[nataliegizfish]

any suggestions?

 

[James L]

Read through this thread.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma...ad-everything-related-to-imacwear-m7-t3089024

Once you get a custom recovery installed and booted, my suggestion would be to flash a gapps zip for 4.4.2

 

[nataliegizfish]

i've been through that page, the instructins are directed at windows users, i'm on ubuntu.

 

[nataliegizfish]

i'm still stuck with this.
i've installed eclipse & sdk on my ubuntu laptop
everything talks to each other and i have used adb to place gapps.zip on the sd
i then asked twrp to flash gapps.zip at recovery
the watch again stops at boot screen.
as i said above i'musing ubuntu and the only instructions i can find for installing mtk tools are for windows

 

[nataliegizfish]

shit.
following instructions on another site i have tried to clear the dalvik cache
i've gained root access through adb
then command .... data wipe
and now only the clock face works. launcher has stopped message on screen... think i've killed it.

 

[nataliegizfish]

it no longer talks to adb

 

[nataliegizfish]

it'll go into safe mode but launcher is still missing.
any ideas?

 

[nataliegizfish]

i can still open it as mass storage

and it is still visable in lsusb
Bus 002 Device 059: ID 0bb4:0001 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.)

 

[mikedt]

i've been through that page, the instructins are directed at windows users, i'm on ubuntu.

Can you beg, steal or borrow a Windows system? Make things much easier, because the required MTK Droid Tools suite to do anything with the firmware is Windows only. Preferably Win XP, Vista or 7, not sure if compatible with anything later.

 

[nataliegizfish]

i could but the phone isn't even communicating with adb any more

 

[mikedt]

 

[nataliegizfish]

What about the resistor in the usb trick I've read about?
Would that get things talking again?

 

[mikedt]

Wasn't that to do with fast charging Openmoko devices or something. Which is absolutely nothing to do with what's going on here. And frankly I think you've managed to brick the thing completely and totally, period.

 

[nataliegizfish]

no, it switches download mode on amongst other things. my only problem (if i can get it talking again) is that i don't have a backup or factory rom since it was already screwed up.

 

[mikedt]

no, it switches download mode on amongst other things. my only problem (if i can get it talking again) is that i don't have a backup or factory rom since it was already screwed up.

FYI, there's no factory ROM on Imacwear's website either. Although the XDA thread seemed to indicate that some other brands of Chinese cheapo Android smart-watch, are exactly the same thing as the Imacwear, i.e. they use the same hardware and ROM. And in fact if you look at their "Factory show" pictures, it looks like they're just doing final assembly by hand, testing and packaging, and the actual electronics for this device come from somewhere else.
http://www.imacwear.com/en/about-us_l59.html

 

[filik]

Well if it's rooted can you get into the custom recovery?

Hi,

please could you advice how to get the watch into recovery mode....press switch off/on plus ??? there is no volume button...
I have X01 watch and I would like to upgrade...Thank you filik