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Archos G9 Special developer edition firmware (SDE) now online

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Archos has just made available their Special developer edition firmware (SDE) for their G9 tablets. This special firmware helps developers or advanced users to flash a custom kernel or boot a custom image on their Archos G9 tablet.

Archos Generation 9 SDE features

Installing the SDE on your G9 tablet will give you access to a special SDE menu offering the following features:

Flash Kernel and Initramfs

Export Data Partition

Export Hard Disk (H models only)

Uninstall Developer Edition (Media Storage will not be affected)

Remove Android Kernel (Media Storage will not be affected)

Archos Generation 9 multiboot

See also our article about Archos G9 multiboot system, which relies on Archos SDE to be installed.

Archos Generation 9 SDE remarks

Generation 9 SDE firmware consists only in an enabler for being able to flash a kernel or install a new system image through Archos recovery. Note that no real system image (e.g. Ångström distribution) is provided in this SDE firmware, there is only a small Linux kernel that display a logo on the screen and then reboots. (see http://gitorious.org/archos/archos-gpl-gen9/blobs/master/Readme_SDE.txt)

Archos Generation 9 SDE instructions

Important notices to be acknowledged before downloading and installing the SDE firmware:
Once the SDE firmware is installed on…

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