[GUIDE] How to Root - Insignia Flex 8" NS-14T002

Merry Christmas, I recently got this tablet. This advice is only for NS-14T002 (as far as I know). How to get Root access.

After finishing here, see my Guide on installing ClockWorkMod on Insignia Flex 8 NS-14T002.

Rooting

1. Make sure USB debugging is enabled on the device. For instructions, see my previous thread on adb insignia flex 8.
2. Download Cydia Impactor for your OS.
3. Reconnect the tablet via USB to your computer.
4. Start the program as Administrator (run as root/sudo on Linux)
5. On Windows, you will need to have the USB drivers for the device installed. You can also try the inbuilt Driver Scan function in Cydia Impactor to automatically construct and install a driver for your device. From the menu choose: USB > Driver Scan
6. Making sure that # drop SuperSU su to /system/xbin/su is selected in the dropdown menu, and click the Start button.

Wait a few seconds and your tablet should be rooted. The tablet already comes with a generic version of busybox preloaded, so you may not need to install busybox from the play store. Congrats.


Device partition information:

Code (Text):

1. mtdblock0 misc
2. mtdblock1 kernel
3. mtdblock2 boot
4. mtdblock3 recovery
5. mtdblock4 backup
6. mtdblock5 /cache
7. mtdblock6 /data
8. mtdblock7 kpanic
9. mtdblock8 /system
10. mtdblock9 /sdcard

PS.
This tablet is also mistaken for model NS-14TOO2 (Someone in marketing put "OO" on the box instead of "00" zero zero). You will find NS-14T002 under the model in the device settings.

 

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Did you enable USB debugging on your device? (Step #1)
If yes, then I can only recommend going through the steps again. After plugging in the USB, wait a few minutes to see if your machine recognizes the device. Also, perhaps try a different USB port.

 

Hi MrDayAndNighT. I'm not sure why it isn't working for you. You must "enable" adb/debugging access on the device as step number #1.

I use Ubuntu Linux as my OS, and that's the software I used to rooted my device. The Cydia software should work the same for Linux and Windows.

It may help to tell us anything you can about your system, or any possible abnormalities:
32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7?
USB 2.0 or 3.0?
other?

 

Hopefully, someone with Windows will post and give some insight on how they got it to work.

No need to worry about bricking your device until after it's rooted. Perhaps "no device found" means that there is a problem with the drivers?

Before using Cydia Impactor, I tried over 5 other different rooting methods, and they all failed. So getting Cydia to work is key.

 

I didn't want to recommend this, but as a last ditch option, you might try using an Ubuntu LiveCD.

Essentially, the steps would be something like this

1. Download Ubuntu
2. Burn it onto a CD or install to USB
3. Reboot your computer in Ubuntu ("Try Ubuntu")
4. Download Cydia Impactor (32bit) for Linux
5. Open a file browser, extract the Impactor "tgz" archive file
6. Go into the Cydia folder and run the Impactor file

 

Wow, that's great news to know everything worked out for you. Glad to hear it. I'm interested to acquire CWM also. I contacted Shabbypenguin and he was Very kind to provide me a couple different CWM binaries, but unfortunately they didn't work on our device. We don't know why. So currently I have no recovery.

I haven't seen this recovery you are referring to. Post a link and I would be willing to test it. If it works, I'll post up a new guide for that.


(For your question about the outdated "su", I personally wouldn't bother with it, because it won't provide any noticeable difference in operation.)

 

I avoid kingo because it is reported to contain malicious virus software. Perhaps why it only runs on Windows? As a Guide on our forums, I couldn't recommend kingo in good conscience- especially when the job can be done with a perfectly open source tool like Cydia Impactor.

So thanks for the link to the CWM. i will definitely try it out a little later today. If all goes well, I should have a new How To guide for everyone soon.

 

Good news. It works. You need to write it over the partition /dev/block/mtdblock3. I don't know if it has any bugs, but it works. Cheers
:smokingsomb:

 

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