Azpen A729 fastboot interface topic

For those of you who have inter-connectivity through ADB with your Azpen A729 , but have lamented that fastboot seems not to work with this device, listen up. Please note, however that I will not be responsible for what you may do to your Azpen tablet whilst at the fastboot command line. From there you're on your own.

It's all quite easy. This Azpen tablet presents itself with USB vendor id 1f3a to your PC. Surely you're aware of this already as you've been communicating with your tablet through the ADB shell and have included something similar to SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1f3a", MODE="0666" in your udev rules. Oh yeah, remember that... {idVendor}=="1f3a"? It all comes back to you now. All you need to do with fastboot is to explicitly identify the USB vendor id as 0x1f3a on the command line. Let's give it a try:

First put the Azpen A729 in bootloader mode:

Code:

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# adb root
# adb reboot bootloader

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Have a sip of coffee.
Now invoke fastboot with the following:

Code:

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# fastboot -i 0x1f3a devices
Android Fastboot        fastboot

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Notice now that your tablet responds as an Android device in fastboot mode and all fastboot command-line arguments are available to you. Please be careful. May I suggest this one:

Code:

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# fastboot -i 0x1f3a continue
resuming boot...
OKAY [  0.009s]
finished. total time: 0.009s

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That simply continues the boot process and you're back to normal on your tablet.

Once again, please be careful. Be safe. You've been empowered.
- PoFolk