I have an older Hipstreet Flare (1) HS-9DTB4-8GB which worked fine for the past years. And before someone says it; yes, some might consider it as a China knockoff. ;)
The device is rooted by default. I can for example write files into / via ADB. A few weeks ago I tried to install busybox but it ended up in a loop. So I deinstalled it and could continue working.
Next time I booted all was in Chinese, with the main screen having no icons (links to) apps. In the secondary app menu only default apps were there, none of those I installed over the years. Still the SD card directory (is all internal though) was unaffected.
Listing the file system of the underlying Linux showed most files with a date stamp of 2-1-1970 and a few with 2013, the year I purchased it. I still could create files there via ADB. Could also install apps and set it to English again. But the next time I booted all this was forgotten (apps and files I created gone and it was in Chinese again).
I used volume-up and the power button to get into the (what ever you call it) and selected "wipe data". Rebooted, set it to English and rebooted again. But again it came back in Chinese. Same when I used the menu "Backup/Restore".
Assuming the firmware (rom?) was damaged I was also contacting the Hipstreet support. Who were friendly but also only told me to wipe the data into factory reset. But I did this already several times, see above. They also couldn't help with firmware.
Before I throw it away. Does anyone has any idea what I could to? May be with suggestions taking in account I am a Linux user on my PC (no Windows or Mac installed here)?
Thanks you.
The device is rooted by default. I can for example write files into / via ADB. A few weeks ago I tried to install busybox but it ended up in a loop. So I deinstalled it and could continue working.
Next time I booted all was in Chinese, with the main screen having no icons (links to) apps. In the secondary app menu only default apps were there, none of those I installed over the years. Still the SD card directory (is all internal though) was unaffected.
Listing the file system of the underlying Linux showed most files with a date stamp of 2-1-1970 and a few with 2013, the year I purchased it. I still could create files there via ADB. Could also install apps and set it to English again. But the next time I booted all this was forgotten (apps and files I created gone and it was in Chinese again).
I used volume-up and the power button to get into the (what ever you call it) and selected "wipe data". Rebooted, set it to English and rebooted again. But again it came back in Chinese. Same when I used the menu "Backup/Restore".
Assuming the firmware (rom?) was damaged I was also contacting the Hipstreet support. Who were friendly but also only told me to wipe the data into factory reset. But I did this already several times, see above. They also couldn't help with firmware.
Before I throw it away. Does anyone has any idea what I could to? May be with suggestions taking in account I am a Linux user on my PC (no Windows or Mac installed here)?
Thanks you.
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