Elonex OneT System Recovery
Description:
It seems that lots of people using the official Elonex ONEt recovery instructions are failing to get the Elonex Recovery Image to work. They are sending them back, as ‘bricked’, simply for lack of useful instructions. Brian Reid Beetson Robert amended the Trendtac Recovery instructions found elswhere on this site so that they will work for the Elonex OneT. Thanks Brian!
WARNING:
Save everything first that you need to restore because this involves formatting the SSD.
How to install:
1. Download the recovery imagefile found at the bottom of this page (336MB for Elonex, all current patches have been slipstreamed) and unzip it.
2. Format an SD card or USB Memory Drive to “FAT” or “FAT32″ (VEHO 4GB SDHC worked on Elonex ONEt+)
3. Copy the two recovery files: “uImage” + “Recovery.rec” to the SD
card or USB Memory Drive.
4. Plug the SD card or USB Memory Drive into your Little Linux Laptop
( no need to remove it, until restore is complete if step.7 successful)
5. Turn your Little Linux Laptop on.
6. Once the Power LED (Green) lights press the Fn + Shift + F1 keys at the same time, i.e. immediately after turning on your ONEt.
7. If it is successful, there will be a white screen. If so, release the three buttons. If you don’t see the white screen, try step 4-6
again.
8. Wait until the normal loading screen (the Elonex black screen)
appears.
9. Wait 5 seconds and turn your Little Linux Laptop off by pressing
and holding the power button until it shuts down.
10. Turn your Little Linux Laptop on again.
11. Once the loading screen (the Elonex black screen ) appears, press the “F3″ button and hold it.
12. If successful you will see the “Welcome To Begin Recovery the System” + MAC no. screen. Press “Enter” to continue.
13. You see the second screen. Press “Enter” to continue or press “Q” to exit.
14. You will see the third screen. At this stage insert the SD card or USB Memory Drive (with the Recovery files) if not already in place. Press [enter] to continue or press “Q” to quit the recovery.
15. You see the fourth screen. If you press “enter”, the system will be completely reformatted and recovered. All your stored information will be lost. In theory if you press [s], the system will only be re-installed and your stored information will be retained. This did not work for me, with additional programs installed it was necessary to reformat first.
Press “b” to return to the previous screen.
16. Your Little Linx Laptop will automatically reboot. (DON’T TURN IT OFF BEFORE IT REBOOTS) On the Elonex ONEt+ the progress is shown by dots on a line.
17. The recovery process is complete. Power down, and restart – it takes about 25 seconds for the first restart, rather than the normal 12 seconds.
Necessary files – (right)click to download
Elonex’s recovery image can be found HERE . If you have problems dowloading the Elonex Recovery image (slow connection / connection keeps breaking up) then download the recovery image HERE . (Special thanks to Jason Smith for the Rapidshare link)
Credits: Trendtac.nl / Elonex / Brian Reid Beetson Robert – © 2008
Please read the disclaimer before installing or using this software
Tags: elonex, onet, recovery image, System recovery
September 11th, 2009 at 14:04
hi i just followed your steps word for word and still just shows the loading screen any idears?
September 11th, 2009 at 14:05
sorry wrong e-mail try with this one
September 13th, 2009 at 11:42
I got to stage 7 OK, but after that, it boots, into the broken OS: doesn’t give the normal black loading screen, and trying to follow the subsequent instructions regardless does nothing.
Perhaps I’ve got a duff machine?
September 24th, 2009 at 14:13
Sound as a pound, Thanks.
September 28th, 2009 at 00:31
wont the reset button under the laptop achieve the same effect as running the recovery software??
October 5th, 2009 at 10:08
it should.
November 27th, 2009 at 19:15
Hey i got to step 15 no problem but when it says recovery… it finishes in 1 second and when it reboots it just keep showing the lading screen… I left it for a whole nigh… What is the solution?
January 2nd, 2010 at 00:21
Does this work on the Allfine PC 703?
January 16th, 2010 at 09:15
I have the same Problem with the Allfine PC 703 Mini Netbook. System is dead in cause of registry manipulation. How can i hardreset the PC 703 or do a system update? Did anybody know the Update Password by pressing F1 on Boot?
Regards Yogi
March 9th, 2010 at 08:28
if you have a Allfin pc703
or a mini netbook with cpu of “AKARM 926EJ-S AKCHIP” ,you are lucky. now i have some important resources to share for you, yes,it is about BSP and BCPA and all source code,
you can read it and understand
HOW to port linux, HOW to burn OS,
HOW to enable H.264, H.263, RMVB hardware video codec,
HOW to increase battery life
….
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Happy Play,geeks.
March 17th, 2010 at 15:19
netbook forum
Gute Tests zum Thema findet du auf http://www.netbook-community.de.
Hab dort sogar viele gute Berichte rund um das Asus Netbook gefunden gerade dieses ist im Themenbereich netbook review(s) ja ein richtiger Newcomer.
Schaut es euch mal an mich hat dieses iPad überredet.
August 11th, 2010 at 00:54
i got the same problem with Ainslee Testa.
i got to step 15, and then it just keeps on loading.
left it over night too.
Any ideas?