No longer able to boot to Android – SOLVED

[Gal]

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“OEM1 ACPI table parse error” in my case got fixed in bios, setting in Boot menu

Boot Option Priorities

Boot Option #1 [Windows Boot Manager]”

Could you try that?

[needabottle]

Thanks. Yea tried that. Still the same thing.

One of the things with the dual boot is there doesn’t seem to be an easy return tablet to factory defaults. You can do it with Windows and Android individually but there doesn’t seem to be a “completely hose the thing and start fresh”. Read that power and VOL- would give a reset menu but it doesn’t.

[Gal]

So.. it there an easy way to reset the Android part alone?

[needabottle]

Don’t know the exact steps on the x98 Plus as I can’t boot into Android but it is 5.11 so it should be a simple go to settings and reset

[Gal]

But didn’t you say you can’t boot into Android?

[needabottle]

Man, this really is a pain. Blocked at every attempt.

Used the X98 Plus Bios updater as shown on Chris’ video. Moved it and the latest Bios Bin file to C: ran as Admin and it keeps just saying I have latest Bios. Doesn’t seem to have any file manager / bin file selector which would allow a manual flash.

Rooted through the Teclast downloads and found the Teclast OsSwithch Android to Windows and Windows to Android files but of course it turns out the Windows to Android one has the Spursint.A trojan in it. Arrrgh…..

(Hey, Chris, if you read this might be worthwhile deleting that file. It is the one in the X98 Air 3G location. I found another one which was OK). Erm, but it didn’t work anyway.

The mission continues

 

[Gal]

So…all in all,  we need to avoid clicking on the folder icon on the boot menu?

If you eventually fix it, let us know here.

[needabottle]

Yep, will do. I’ll keep searching for a week or so and if no solution I may just make it one partition and have it all Windows.

[dst6se]

Hi !

 

I dont know if this will work , but when you run the BIOS update exe , it will unarchive a couple of files to C:\Users\$user\AppData\Local\Temp\$folder

Then copy that folder to another directory , and quit the installer !

In the folder there is a file with name default.xml

that foldere point to an online xml

http://ota.teclast.com/BIOS/x98plus_a5c6/update.xml for my a5c6 !

Download that xml file , and edit the

<command force=”false“ name=”update_bios“>   ,, replace false with true , and place it on a local web server or another internetplace,

Then point the url line in default.xml to that file instead !

run BiosUpdate.exe and see if it will flash your file

If that does not work , you could flash the bin file manualy with fptw64.exe command , it thought it should work the same way , but I do not recomend that.

 

 

Good luck

 

[needabottle]

Thanks. Where is the Biosupdater.exe file? I’ll give it a try if what I’m doing doesn’t work. I read on a Chinese forum that doing a Windows restore would bring the menu back so I went into the settings and have got it doing a complete reset to factory on Windows. Darn thing stuck at 55% for 2 hours but has now got to 97% so looks like it is working.

 

[dst6se]

The Biosupdater.exe is in the same folder as the other extracted files from the temp folder !

 

[needabottle]

Well the restore of Windows did a big fat nothing. Still getting the error…….

“OEM1 ACPI table parse error”

If I knew where the OS Select page was being pulled from I might stand a chance but there is nothing in the Bios and the OEM1 error just won’t clear with the usual fixes I’ve tried.

[Aris Batatolis]

needabottle wrote:

Woooooooo, got it fixed. Man that was a couple of days of misery trying everything and reading just about every post on an X98 tablet. In the end what I did was disable everything in the bios. I set OS Image ID to Android. (It normally defaults to Windows.) In Boot option priorities I disabled everything. Saved changes then hit Android-IA in boot override. The tablet tried to boot to Windows but crashed with a blue screen with a large <noscript></noscript>saying it couldn’t complete and would shut down and restart. I let it sit for a couple of minutes and it restarted and went into the OS Select screen with the Android and Windows logos. I went to the top of the screen on the left and there were the small Android, Windows and Folder logo. Touching the Folder showed OS and Menu. I touched menu and it brought the 3 little icons back. I pressed folder again and it put a check (tick) mark in it. I pressed the large Android logo and it booted into Android. Couple of shutdowns and boots into Android and Windows using the OS Select screen and everything is back to normal. The bios had reset to showing Windows as OS Image ID and the Boot Priorities now show Boot Option1 Android-IA Boot Option2 UEFI Boot Option3 Disabled (I changed them to Android, Windows and UEFI) Everything seems back to normal. Phew……..

That’s great! Can you write what steps you took to make it dual boot?

[needabottle]

It always was dual boot. I bought the dual boot version.

[Bubbah]

Many thanks to you needabottle! I was in the exact same situation with no more boot selector (I obviously must have cleared the check mark beside the top icons a some stage, then booted to Windows). I was about to take some drastic and desperate mesure but saw your solution just on time and everything’s back to normal now!

 

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