Advent Vega Restore Procedure

It took me ages to find the instructions on how to restore my Advent Vega to its original configuration using the restore image off the myadventvega website, so hopefully this'll save you a bit of time:



To restore your Advent Vega to our latest base image, please follow the steps below:
DOING THIS WILL REMOVE ALL YOUR APPLICATIONS – YOUR SD CARD STORAGE WILL NOT BE AFFECTED

• Download the Advent Vega USB Flash driver from www.myadventvega.co.uk
• Download the latest Advent Vega restore image from www.myadventvega.co.uk
• Extract the USB flash drivers to a folder on your PC (eg C:\Advent\)
• Connect the Advent Vega to your Windows PC with the supplied USB cable, you must also have the Vega PLUGGED INTO THE POWER SOCKET
• Place the Advent Vega into recovery mode by: 

     Turn the Vega off by holding down the POWER button for 6 seconds

     Once off, hold the BACK button down for 2 seconds
     Then, whilst keeping the BACK button held, press and hold the POWER button for 2 seconds
     Then release just the POWER button but keep holding the BACK button for a further 2 seconds
     Release the BACK button

• If this is the first time you have completed this you will need to install the Advent Vega recovery driver
• Windows should automatically prompt you for a driver – if so point it to the folder you extracted the driver to above – THIS DRIVER IS CURRENTLY NOT SIGNED – YOU WILL NEED TO ALLOW THE DRIVER TO BE INSTALLED WHEN PROMPTED – DO NOT BE ALARMED BY THIS MESSAGE

• Once installed, double-click on the Advent Vega Restore Image file downloaded above.
• A DOS window will appear – DO NOT REMOVE OR POWER OFF YOUR DEVICE DURING THIS PROCESS.
• Once the image is installed, you will be prompted to press ENTER to exit. Your Advent Vega should now be restored/updated.
• Remove the USB cable.
• Power on your Advent Vega – Your system will now be updated.

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Installing a recovery image (Clockworkmod) onto your Advent Vega / POV Mobii

Hopefully you now have a nicely root POV Mobii / Advent Vega (if not, please see here).
Now it's time to get a recover image onto your system.
A recovery image is a very basic operating system that allows you to do fundamental operations on the system... for those of you old enough, think of it as a boot floppy disk!


It's a bit complicated to get it set up the first time, but here we go...


First you need to install the Android Development Kit.


Then turn on debugging on your tablet : Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Plug in your tablet, and you should see a little bug in the task bar.


Once you have installed the Android Dev Kit (I recommend you install it to the c:\android directory) open up a command prompt and navigate to C:\android\tools


Type: adb devices


You should then see your device listed:

If you don't see it you'll need to go to device manager, find the unknown device, and install the ADB driver from C:\android\usb_driver


Now you are ready to start installing the Recovery Image.


Download the recovery image from:



and extract the two files and place them in c:\android\tools


Then run the following commands:


adb push recovery.img /data/local/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb shell chmod 4755 /data/local/flash_image
adb shell /data/local/flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery.img


Now all you need is a simple way to reboot your Vega into Recovery Mode: just install Vega Recovery Boot from the market. 

Many thanks must must go to Paul at Modaco for these instructions (and the file). I'm a subscriber to Modaco, and am very happy with the support for the Advent Vega there.


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Rooting your Advent Vega / POV Mobii

A lot of posts will tell you that the Advent Vega is supplied pre rooted, however my experience with the latest ROM (the one without Flash installed) is quite the opposite.


So, before you start your plans you customise your Vega, the first this you probably want to do is root your tablet.


To do so, all  you need to do is install Z4 root. You won;t be able to finid it in the Android Market as Google have removed it, however you should be able to pick it up from here


Copy it onto your SD card and then click on it using a file manager (like eStrongs File Manager

or Astro File Manager

This will then allow you to install the APK to your system.


When you have installed it, fire it up and select "Permanent Root" and your system will then make the changes, reboot, and once it's back up you'll be sorted! To check it works, install Titanium Backup which requires boot permissions to run.

Once you have rooted your device, your next step will probably be to backup your system (using Nandroid) so you can always recover from your hacking attempts... click here for the insructions.


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Exchange 2010/2007 servers not routing email internally

When installing a new Exchange 2007 server into my organisation (which already had a Exchange 2007 system installed), I can across a strange issue.


Emails from the new server would be delivered to the old one, but any response from the old one would result in the following message:


Your message wasn't delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.


After much investigation (and a costly call to Microsoft) we found that the permissions on the Default Receive Connector was incorrect and I needed to grant Authenticated Users the "Accept Authoritative Domain Send" permission.


Once this was applied, emails flowed perfectly :)


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Boxee Box displays subtitles in MKV

I've just got the Boxee Box, while I've very happy with it in general, it does have a bug where subtitles in MKV files are always displayed.


There is a temporary workaround:


While playing an MKV, open up the video settings and move to the subtitles section way down off the bottom of the screen.


Problem solved!


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