Alright, so I decided to rip the ROM off this unit as insurance and/or backup and to aid those who happen to own one and would like to repair or restore theirs to factory condition themselves without going through customer support. And before you ask if this is legal or otherwise, it's been common practice with Android hobbyist sites such as XDA-Developers, and companies are fine with it for the most part.



Build number for the ROM is ABD7AG20160823A00. The ROM's unsigned and may only be flashed with SP Flash Tool 5.1532.00. And it goes without saying to BACK UP YOUR STOCK ROM (basically everything, especially NVRAM, seccfg and secro; from my experience if you lose these, you're SOL) before installing this image!

I won't be telling you guys how to install this in detail, but there are plenty of guides on the web on how to flash an MTK device - run SP Flash Tool, open the scatter file (MT8127_Android_scatter.txt), uncheck all but BOOT, RECOVERY and ANDROID (or just ANDROID if the other system partitions are still intact), click Download, press and hold the Volume + button whilst plugging in the device, and wait until the tool starts flashing. Grab a cup of tea or coffee, and wait until the process is finished. If done correctly your device should be good as new.

Download:

Newbie here. I'm glad to have found this great online community. I'm hoping to have fun and learn more from the other members here. Cheers!

EDIT: Replaced download link with a fixed version as the previous one had a seemingly-intact yet broken boot.img that works fine at first glance, but would cause an error message if you attempt to perform an OTA update.

Here's a working dump taken off my personal unit which received the December 15 update.


ROM build number is KOT49H.user.1.1.95.20171215.140555. Should work on all editions using SP Flash Tool v5.1744 and later. Just make sure to BACK UP the stock ROM first before flashing this, and clear /data and /cache via recovery mode after flashing. Trust me, I bricked one of my Epic demo units before and it helps to keep the stock secro, seccfg and NVRAM prior to doing anything with the Epic.

I bought this leapfrog on line for my daughter but not realizing theres no activation code on it. is anybody can help me? thank you

-30C out here happy new year to all of you

My name is refana, and I roleplay the fan fiction character Blackberry Bun. I like drawing with my rusty but trusty tablet PC, and I also like writing fan fictions about my own character.

All in all, I'm generally nice and helpful. Or at least I try to be.

As some of you may know, I am preparing to make my next step towards independent living. I am moving into my own apartment about a week from now.

It's exciting, and a bit nerve wracking too. When you realize just how much stuff you have to move, you begin to think about your mass of things. And right now, I'm thinking about my very large retro video game collection.

Before anyone asks, no, I'm not selling the entire collection off. I am changing focus on how I collect games moving forward.

See, when I was in a nearby city mall a few weeks ago, there was this Indian guy selling these knockoff NES Classic consoles. Below is a rather good sounding review of the unit, which I did post in the Spam Thread. I'm reposting here for context and for those who don't frequent the spam thread.




This is what begun the process of my current train of thought. If the CoolBaby is indeed built well, has many popular games already loaded, and is HDMI enabled, then what's the point in keeping the same copies of the games? They may end up sitting on the shelf collecting dust when they could be sold off to someone who is into the retro collecting craze than I am at the moment.

There is also the Virtual Console. It's not perfect and it's essentially a money making device for the big N, but gaming on the VC is more convenient on both Wii/Wii U and 3DS. I don't have to mess with game carts that don't start on the first try and I don't need a large CRT set to play those games. It's also nice to be able to play a Mario game on the go.

Thirdly, I may have gone a bit overboard with the game collecting thing. Rather than focus on games that I genuinely want to play, I just bought games left and right and ended up with a lot of carts that I likely will never play at all. 

What I plan on doing is to sell off copies of games that I can get on the VC or on the CoolBaby device. This includes many first party games like the Mario, Zelda, Metroid, or other popular titles. I will instead focus on the games I actually want, and games that will likely never see a re-release on a VC or a knockoff device. Seeing as how I'm more into collecting for the Wii and DS at this point, I may need the space.

The only collection that will be mostly spared is my Sega Genesis library. AtGames is coming out with an HD version of their plug-and-play systems, and they actually got the sound emulation correct, based from reviews I have seen so far. I will basically sell off games that are already built into the device.

In the end, I will get some return on my investment. These popular games command good prices on the open market these days.

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/30/rpcs3.html

Just got word about this courtesy of Traditional Frog  - sure, I know emulators have been used to play pirated titles, but this reeks of being way too draconian. While emulators have earned a somewhat dubious rep for the above-mentioned reason, Atlus' argument that RPCS3 can be used to play their games for free doesn't hold much water when one can play said games downloaded off the usual venues (whose names I won't obviously mention) on a jailbroken PS3 anyway. Granted, some have somewhat profited from these emulators (which can be indeed legally sketchy), but DMCA takedowns on such projects do cause a chilling effect on those who only intend to emulate a particular system as a hobby and not to profit unfairly from it.

One of my friends was right in a rebuttal he made when we had a chat recently, in that things like emulators can be used for legitimate purposes and the association with piracy is just an unfortunate consequence. With Atlus' logic, perhaps the government should ban the sale of performance auto parts as illegal street racers are using it, right? Furthermore, third-party emulation (and some forms of reverse-engineering) has been deemed legal for as long as no copyrighted code (e.g. BIOS logic, game ROMs) is used. Sony lost in its case against Bleem (at great expense to the latter, sadly; they were forced to close shop due to legal fees) owing to the courts who determined that the PlayStation was reverse-engineered fairly. Also, the problem here is exacerbated by mainstream media casting emulation in an unfairly negative light, due to its apparent association with pirate sites and the relative ease of downloading a ROM over dumping it off a cartridge.

What do you guys think?

I have a Flickr account. Flickr is a place where people can share pictures and it was quite popular before the age of Facebook and Instagram. I have had an account there for nearly 10 years now and seen many things there, both good and bad. This is sort of a bad experience that ties into people sharing far too much information through online photo albums.

Every now and then, I come across this one particular Flickr user. I won't name names or link it here, but it's an account run by a family in the southern United States. This family documents their entire lives in this account including their own children, going on trips and documenting family events. That seems normal, until you find out that they end up sharing family moments that are best left as private images or not uploaded at all. Said images were taken during their kids bath time. They aren't illegal images and are just innocent pictures documenting that family's life. Even so, these are pictures that they should have AT LEAST been uploaded as private. They chose to upload them as public instead, and this is where it starts getting downright creepy.

I only came across these images when I wanted to take a look at this family's "About" page, where Flickr users can write some text introducing themselves and all that. The "About" page contains a gallery of said users most popular pictures, sorted by either the most "Faved" or most commented. Guess which pictures got the most faves?

Yeah... the bath pictures ended up being on their most popular list because sick perverts faved them the most. And this family doesn't seem to realize that their innocent pictures are being used in this manner.

I'm kind of at a loss of words on what to say here other than... I was genuinely creeped out by the entire thing. I will state that these images aren't pornographic at all. It's just bath time pictures that this particular family should have thought twice about uploading into a public space. I'm grossed out by the fact they did this for many reasons, and I'm sickened by the fact that perverts ended up creating an unintentional gallery of their sick desire on a family's Flickr About page due to how the site sorts out the most popular photos on any given account.

I don't know how to go forward with this. Something obviously needs to be done to let this family know that they should NOT be uploading their kids' bath time pictures as a public photo, but rather as private. If they would have done that, then these pervs wouldn't have done what they did to make this family's About page so damn scary.

I know I've already posted this on Fanfiction, but thought I'd leave it here as well.

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE STORY
Legal stuff: The following is a work of fiction, and does not in any way intend to either depict an actual record of events or disparage those mentioned or portrayed. 'Sides, it's a tongue-in-cheek fic anyway.

A/N: The events of the prologue, as you can see here, were largely based on historical fact as you may have noticed. A number of cultural references were made though; see if you guys can guess where I took them from.

The line "Five minutes earlier I had no idea of going…" was also actually taken off Lightoller's memoir Titanic and Other Ships, which was written in the 1930s on the insistence of his wife Sylvia, but was later initially withdrawn due to legal issues with the Marconi Company. You can find a copy of it on Amazon or Project Gutenberg.