There are two famous recovery application for android, which is TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) and CWM (Clockworkmod Recovery). They both build by amazing developers and they both do pretty much the same thing, which are : allows you to perform several advanced recovery, restoration, installation and maintenance operations on your Android device that aren’t possible with the stock recovery, and is one of the most common ways used to gain root access, back up device data, install a custom ROMs, kernels, themes, mods and more. Which one is better? I can say both program are very good, but personally, I like TWRP better. CWM seems to be more popular, though. The main thing I like about TWRP is the USB OTG functions and smaller backup footprint but besides that, CWM works just as well.

Here is i build the two flavour of them for axioo users, whichever one you prefer, you can have it :

TWRP :

Download : recovery-twrp-ggm.img

CWM :

Download : recovery-cwm-ggm.img

HOW TO INSTALL :

To install this recovery application on your axioo PICOpad device is very easy, follow this steps and you’l be good :

• Download the recovery img file whichever you want from above link, and rename it as recovery.img and copy them to the root of the sdcard.
• Download the installer script, extract it into install-recovery.sh and put it on the root of the sdcard.
• Install Android Terminal Emulator from PlaysStore and run it
• In Android Terminal Emulator, type this :

  1 2 3

  $ su # cd /mnt/sdcard # sh install-recovery.sh

  

• To reboot into recovery just use the settings menu, Go to Settings Menu -> Back up and Reset -> Reboot into recovery mode.
• Done

I believe there are no key shortcut from the power off state to enter recovery mode on this device, at least i cannot find it, … so, you can only reboot into recovery from the system, if you’re using stock rom use the Reboot into Recovery from Settings menu, and if you’re using cm base from ugers, ctroy, shaun, …etc, you must use cyanogenmod advanced reboot menu from developer option, or you can use this reboot-recovery script if you’re using your DIY-build like me.

Have fun flashing ROM and mods on your PICOpad device.

Here is i build the two flavour of them for axioo users, whichever one you prefer, you can have it :

TWRP :

Download : recovery-twrp-gjt.img

CWM :

Download : recovery-cwm-gjt.img

This 10inch tablet PICOpad GJT and PICOpad GJE is pretty much the same device, and have the same specs including the internal peripheral, the only differencies is the software OS which means maybe from different vendor, thus you can use this both recovery twrp and cwm for both models without problems.

HOW TO INSTALL :

To install this recovery application on your axioo PICOpad device is very easy, follow this steps and you’l be good :

• Download the recovery img file whichever you want from above link, and rename it as recovery.img and copy them to the root of the sdcard.
• Download the installer script, extract it into install-recovery.sh and put it on the root of the sdcard.
• Install Android Terminal Emulator from PlaysStore and run it
• In Android Terminal Emulator, type this :

  1 2 3

  $ su # cd /mnt/sdcard # sh install-recovery.sh

  

• To reboot into recovery just use the settings menu, Go to Settings Menu -> Back up and Reset -> Reboot into recovery mode if you’re on stock rom.
• Done

I believe there are no key shortcut from the power off state to enter recovery mode on this device, at least i cannot find it, … so, you can only reboot into recovery from the system, if you’re using stock rom use the Reboot into Recovery from Settings menu, and if you’re using cm base from ugers, ctroy, shaun, …etc, you must use cyanogenmod advanced reboot menu from developer option, or you can use this reboot-recovery script if you’re using your DIY-build like me.

I don’t test this myself since i have no device to borrow, but some of my friends confirms it works good on theirs. Thank you for Fajar Kurniawan who tested the cwm version on another thread of this blog, and also Rinaldi who tested the twrp version.

Have fun flashing ROM and mods on your PICOpad device.

Here we go the features :

• Android 4.1 with 3.4 kernel
• Rooted, busybox, fully deodexed, zipaligned
• build.prop tweaks (network, wifi, hsdpa, streaming, dalvik, safe-battery, etc)
• rooted boot.img
• init.d support + more tweak
• Superuser by Clockworkmod (thanks to Koush)
• some gapps 4.2 applications (taken from my nexus4)
• entropy generator tweak (thanks to lambgx02)
• Removed chinese bloatware / malware apps
• Fix Smart Bright and Exact Mode features
• Fix leather cover auto off / wake up feature
• Fix Smart HandsFree feature
• … something i forgot to list

And here is the custom rom :

Download : picopad_gew_2.03_A410_jfdesignnet_040913_100738
Mirror        : picopad_gew_2.03_A410_jfdesignnet_040913_100738
MD5sum   : d84697ac14cb9f2ef0a2e74aa93e794b

Known Limitation :

• Photosphere not working and will never works on this picopad GEW since photosphere needs gyroscope to work. There is no gyroscope sensor on this picopad GEW. So, this isn’t a bug, and don’t bother asking why photosphere not working, ok ?
• Some additional applications from me such as MXPlayer, FlashPlayer, Adobe Reader, YouTube, i put on the data partition for easy uninstall reason (for novice users). Thus, if you Factory Reset the device, this added apps will gone. This is not bugs, this is a feature and i did that on purpose.

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GEW. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like.

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on this device, so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you to put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it.
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Done

Here is the result after flash :

Repartition Internal Storage into 2Gb :

If you want to repartition the internal storage from 512Mb into 2Gb, you can use my old script : Repartition mod PICOpad GEW 2Gb Internal Storage and enjoy large space for all your applications.

Swap External SDCard and USB Phone Storage :

Some of heavy gamers needs to install many or some of huge size application that will consume the system or data space in their internal storage. The above 2Gb extra space suddenly become so tiny and useless, and the only way out is extending them using app2sd unto external sdcard. Here is the script of mine : to swap the internal USB phone storage with the external SDCard. The system will see the external sdcard as their USB Phone Storage with this script. I create and write on that article, the script is for PICOpad GEA, but it will work also for this PICOpad GEW.
However, please remember, anytime you’re using app2sd, your device speed performance is compromised. so if you’re satisfied with 2gb space for apps, don’t use app2sd.

DPI change feature :

I am no longer change the default DPI for this custom rom and leave it as it is from now on. There are users who delighted and grateful by the dpi change on my past custom rom (usually teenage ), but many also are grumpy because that was too tiny for their old eyes … so i wash my hand.
If you want to change the dpi of this custom rom, do it yourself. There are many applications on playstore who can do this easily. One thing you must know, if you change the dpi of your device, some application will not show up on playstore because of this modification. Somehow google will check the dpi of your device for compatibility with the application you want to search or install. To trick this, you can use this MultiDPI hack of playstore apk, so it will ignore the dpi checking by google.

Custom ROM in SPFlashTool Format :

This is for future, no need to use this format for now.
One day, axioo will release their own Jelly Bean stock rom, and i can guarantee 101% they will use different partition than mine. So, for future user who wants to use this custom rom replacing the stock rom axioo Jelly Bean, you must use this SPFlashtool format custom rom to flash and repartition your device, because if not you will getting into bootloop.
Download and flash this image using SPFlashtool and everything will be good.

Download : PICOpad_GEW_2.03_A410_jfdesignnet.rar
MD5sum   : 390ed13c31c259f5277293c5361db0d2

This SPFlashtool format custom rom already included my TWRP-GEW recovery, rooted boot.img and my PICOpad GEW Rev. 2.03_A410 custom rom.

Enjoy Jelly Bean on your PICOpad GEW.

Added on 10/05/2013 :

Asking my chinese friend to fix the Export Import simcard issue, and he finally made it, here is i create the update zip for you to easy install using recovery.

Download :  signed_picopadgew-contacts-fix.zip or here.

Here we go the features :

• Android 4.1 with 3.4 kernel
• Rooted, busybox, fully deodexed, zipaligned
• build.prop tweaks
• rooted boot.img
• init.d support + more tweak
• Superuser by Clockworkmod (thanks to Koush)
• some gapps 4.2 applications (taken from my nexus4)
• entropy generator tweak (thanks to lambgx02)
• Removed bloatware
• Many apn list
• Fix Smart Bright and Exact Mode features
• Fix some busybox runparts scripts error
• Fix incompatibility gapps
• … something i forgot to list

And here is the custom rom :

Download : picopad_gew_2.01_A328_jfdesignnet_040313_005539
MD5sum : 3d517a8663e785fd84a62fca1fcc2080

Known Limitation / Notes from me :

• Photosphere not working and will never works on this picopad GEW since photosphere needs gyroscope to work. There is no gyroscope sensor on this picopad GEW. So, this isn’t a bug, and don’t bother asking why photosphere not working, ok ?
• The leather cover auto shutoff / wakeup feature seems to not working according to user reports.  I cannot test because my borrowed gew device doesn’t have the leather cover, so i don’t know what to fixed.
• I change Chrome Browser with the default stock browser for small footprints reason, not because Chrome is bad. of course you can install for yourself from playstore
• Some additional applications from me such as MXPlayer, FlashPlayer, Adobe Reader, YouTube, i put on the data partition for easy uninstall reason (for novice users). Thus, if you Factory Reset the device, this added apps will gone. This is not bugs, this is a feature and i did that on purpose.

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GEW. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like.

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on this device, so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you to put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Done

Here is the result after flash :

Repartition Internal Storage into 2Gb :

If you want to repartition the internal storage from 512Mb into 2Gb, you can use my old script : Repartition mod PICOpad GEW 2Gb Internal Storage and enjoy large space for all your applications.

Swap External SDCard and USB Phone Storage :

Some of heavy gamers needs to install many or some of huge size application that will consume the system or data space in their internal storage. The above 2Gb extra space suddenly become so tiny and useless, and the only way out is extending them using app2sd unto external sdcard. Here is the script of mine : to swap the internal USB phone storage with the external SDCard. The system will see the external sdcard as their USB Phone Storage with this script. I create and write on that article, the script is for PICOpad GEA, but it will work also for this PICOpad GEW.
However, please remember, anytime you’re using app2sd, your device speed performance is compromised. so if you’re satisfied with 2gb space for apps, don’t use app2sd.

DPI change feature :

I am no longer change the default DPI for this custom rom and leave it as it is from now on. There are users who delighted and grateful by the dpi change on my past custom rom (usually teenage ), but many also are grumpy because that was too tiny for their old eyes … so i wash my hand.
If you want to change the dpi of this custom rom, do it yourself. There are many applications on playstore who can do this easily. One thing you must know, if you change the dpi of your device, some application will not show up on playstore because of this modification. Somehow google will check the dpi of your device for compatibility with the application you want to search or install. To trick this, you can use this MultiDPI hack of playstore apk, so it will ignore the dpi checking by google.

Custom ROM in SPFlashTool Format :

This is for future, no need to use this format for now.
One day, axioo will release their own Jelly Bean stock rom, and i can guarantee 101% they will use different partition than mine. So, for future user who wants to use this custom rom replacing the stock rom axioo Jelly Bean, you must use this SPFlashtool format custom rom to flash and repartition your device, because if not you will getting into bootloop.
Download and flash this image using SPFlashtool and everything will be good.

Download : PICOpad_GEW_2.01_A328_jfdesignnet.rar
MD5sum : 4a1ef8c2a20760eb40aa37f6e4aaf34c

This SPFlashtool format custom rom already included my TWRP recovery, unsecured boot.img and my PICOpad GEW Rev. 2.01_A328 custom rom.

Enjoy Jelly Bean on your PICOpad GEW.

Added on 090413 :

Please use the new Revision of this custom rom here.

Here is the features :

• Android 4.1 with 3.4 kernel
• Rooted, busybox, fully deodexed, zipaligned
• build.prop tweak
• rooted boot.img
• init.d support + more tweak
• Superuser by Clockworkmod (thanks to Koush)
• some gapps 4.2 applications (taken from my galaxy nexus)
• entropy generator tweak (thanks to lambgx02)
• MultiDPI playstore hack (thanks to MyLifeRocks10)
• Removed bloatware
• Many apn list
• … something i forgot to list

And here is the custom rom :

Download : picopad_gew_0.07_B18_jfdesignnet_032213_153114.zip

MD5sum : 2a9f41700e08af10361639778bed8f9f

Known Limitation :

• Photosphere not working and will never works on this picopad GEW since photosphere need gyroscope to work. There is no gyroscope sensor on this picopad GEW. Below are the sensors on my Galaxy Nexus on left and the PICOpad GEW on the right. So, this isn’t a bug, and don’t bother asking why photosphere not working, ok ?
  
• Smart Bright and Exact Mode features on old ICS version is gone now, i cannot make it work on this jelly bean release. Instead, there are two additional features on the menu settings :
  Smart HandsFree :
  this feature using proximity sensor to detect distance between the device from yours in hands free mode. Will switch to speakerphone if far away from your cheek and automatically switch to normal phone if near.

  Smart Stay :

  this feature using front cam as sensor, detect your eye or face pattern and control the screen timeout.  in short, if you look at the screen the screen will never goes off (during reading or browsing) and back to normal screen timeout mode if you’re not looking at it. a bit like latest s4 eyescroll feature, but the screen timeout is the object.

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GEW. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like.

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on this device, so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you to put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen  then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Done

Here is the result after flash :

Repartition Internal Storage into 2Gb :

If you want to repartition the internal storage from 512Mb into 2Gb, you can use my old script : Repartition mod PICOpad GEW 2Gb Internal Storage and enjoy large space for all your applications.

Swap External SDCard and USB Phone Storage :

Some of heavy gamers needs to install many or some of huge size application that will consume the system or data space in their internal storage. The above 2Gb extra space suddenly become so tiny and useless, and the only way out is extending them using app2sd unto external sdcard. Here is the script of mine : to swap the internal USB phone storage with the external SDCard. The system will see the external sdcard as their USB Phone Storage with this script. I create and write on that article, the script is for PICOpad GEA, but it will work also for this PICOpad GEW.
However, please remember, anytime you’re using app2sd, your device speed performance is compromised. so if you’re satisfied with 2gb space for apps, don’t use app2sd.

Enjoy Jelly Bean on your PICOpad GEW.

Added 04042013 :

Update Jelly Bean Custom ROM for PICOpad GEW Rev. 2.03_A410 is ready, get it here

Here are the ingredients of the new custom rom :

• see the complete list of tweaks i’ve done before on old release custom rom
• fix root and replace superuser with supersu
• rooted boot.img
• some dalvikvm performance tweak (different from the old one)
• init.d support (of course)
• some gapps 4.2 applications (launcher, camera, gallery w/ picasa, googleplaymusic, chrome, new gmail, contacts, clock, keyboard, sound and fonts)
• entropy generator tweak (thanks to lambgx02)
• MultiDPI playstore hack (thanks to MyLifeRocks10)
• mt6620 module hacks kernel 3.4.0 (thanks to yuweng and X-Dron)

And here is the custom rom update release 130313 for PICOpad GFI with mt6620 chipset :

Download : picopad_gfi_mt6620_signed_031313_124605.zip

MD5sum : d0975b6b61240d18e43f92ad3398a5d4

Known Limitation :

Photosphere not working and will never works on this picopad GFI since photosphere need gyroscope to work. There is no gyroscope sensor on the picopad GFI. Here is the proof capture between my galaxy nexus and this picopad gfi sensors :

So, this isn’t a bug, and don’t bother asking why photosphere not working, ok ?

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GFI. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like, but personally I prefer TWRP more than CWM for this device because of their feature to backup the camera type setting, trust me, you’ll gonna need this for not to screwed the camera setting and the IMEI numbers. From now on, i will assume we are using TWRP recovery for this flashing process

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on picopad GFI so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen  then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in TWRP recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• This is IMPORTANT STEP!!!
  BACKUP your camera setting and IMEI using this tutorial : backup camera settings and imei using twrp
  Make sure you can restore the backup by trying it first. I warn you, do not continue if you don’t done this backup properly.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu by touching the Home icon, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it by swiping the slider.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Try the new custom rom and check the IMEI numbers and your camera (back and front), if it lost, not working or turned upside down, go back to recovery mode and restore your backup of imei and camera setting on step 4. See? the backup is very important.

Here is the result after flash :

Feel the difference before and after using the custom rom especially the responsiveness.

Enjoy your PICOpad GFI on steroids.

Added on 16032013 :

Here is the custom rom in SPMDT format :

Part1 : picopad_gfi_mt6620_signed_031313_124605_SPMDT.part1.rar

Part2 : picopad_gfi_mt6620_signed_031313_124605_SPMDT.part2.rar

Here are the ingredients of the new custom rom :

• see the complete list of tweaks i’ve done before on old release custom rom
• fix root and replace superuser with supersu
• rooted boot.img
• some dalvikvm performance tweak (different from the old one)
• entropy generator tweak
• init.d support (of course)
• some gapps 4.2 applications (launcher, camera, gallery w/ picasa, googleplaymusic, chrome, new gmail, contacts, clock, keyboard, sound and fonts)

And here is the custom rom update release 020213 :

picopad_gfi_20121206_jfdesignnet_6628_120213_1419.zip

MD5sum : 76a34f9f161874c79227a0809362de00

Known Limitation :

Photosphere not working and will never works on this picopad GFI since photosphere need gyroscope to work. There is no gyroscope sensor on the picopad GFI. Here is the proof capture between my galaxy nexus and this picopad gfi sensors :

So, this isn’t a bug, and don’t bother asking why photosphere not working, ok ?

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GFI. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like, but personally I prefer TWRP more than CWM for this device because of their feature to backup the camera type setting, trust me, you’ll gonna need this for not to screwed the camera setting and the IMEI numbers. From now on, i will assume we are using TWRP recovery for this flashing process

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on picopad GFI so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen  then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in TWRP recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• This is IMPORTANT STEP!!!
  BACKUP your camera setting and IMEI using this tutorial : backup camera settings and imei using twrp
  Make sure you can restore the backup by trying it first. I warn you, do not continue if you don’t done this backup properly.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu by touching the Home icon, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it by swiping the slider.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Try the new custom rom and check the IMEI numbers and your camera (back and front), if it lost, not working or turned upside down, go back to recovery mode and restore your backup of imei and camera setting on step 4. See? the backup is very important.

Here is the result after flash :

Feel the difference before and after using the custom rom especially the responsiveness.

Enjoy your PICOpad GFI on steroids.

added 13March2013 :

Old device variant with mt6620 WiFi (20121026 release version) :

As you may already know, this device were released with some variant which has different type of peripheral device on it, such as wlan, bt, gps and camera type.
This custom rom is intended to work only on newer device (20121027 release), all peripheral will works as we expected.
If you use this custom rom on older device (20121026 release) it will run normally, but some peripheral will not work, such as wlan, bluetooth, gps … etc.
I’ve create the new custom rom that supporting this mt6620 chipset, go here : custom ROM PICOpad GFI with mt6620 chipset update 130313

Here are the ingredients of the new custom rom :

• see the complete list of tweaks i’ve done before on old release custom rom
• fix root and replace superuser with supersu
• rooted boot.img
• some dalvikvm performance tweak (different from the old one)
• entropy generator tweak
• init.d support (of course)

And here is the custom rom update release 020213 :

picopad_gea_signed_020213_011834.zip

MD5sum : 1a4c76d6245ce836af415ba6b6099e09

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!
  Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : TWRP and CWM recovery PICOpad GEA. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like, but personally I prefer TWRP more than CWM for this device because of their feature to backup the camera type setting, trust me, you’ll gonna need this for not to screwed the camera setting and the IMEI numbers. From now on, i will assume we’ll be using TWRP recovery for this flashing process

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on picopad GEA so you must know it’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen  then release it. Wait a sec or two … then you’ll be in TWRP recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• This is IMPORTANT STEP!!!
  BACKUP your camera setting and IMEI using this tutorial : backup camera settings and imei using twrp
  Make sure you can restore the backup by trying it first. I warn you, do not continue if you don’t done this backup properly.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu by touching the Home icon, and choose Install
• It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it by swiping the slider.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Try the new custom rom and check the IMEI numbers and your camera (back and front), if it lost, not working or turned upside down, go back to recovery mode and restore your backup of imei and camera setting on step 4. See? the backup is very important.

Here is the result after flash :

Feel the difference before and after using the custom rom especially the responsiveness.

Enjoy your PICOpad GEA on steroids.

How to backup :

1. Go into twrp recovery mode : press volume + button, hold and press power button until you see axioo logo appear, then release them both.
2. In twrp menu, choose backup.
3. Choose set backup name and name it such as : mypicopad-settings
4. Disable system and data backup so the backup only contain the config settings. this is very useful if you’re in the custom rom and just loosing the configs only. of course you can backup system and data later using another backup name, but that’s another story.
5. Enable uboot and nvram backups
6. Choose the destination sdcard to save, internal or external it doesn’t matter.
7. Swipe the slider to backup
8. choose Reboot the system
9. Connect the device to the computer and mount the sdcard to your computer, go to TWRP folder -> BACKUPS -> <device-name> -> mypicopad-settings folder
There will be this kind of files :

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-rw-r--r-- 1 jfdesign jfdesign 5242880 Jan  1  2012 nvram.emmc.win
-rw-r--r-- 1 jfdesign jfdesign      49 Jan  1  2012 nvram.emmc.win.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 jfdesign jfdesign  393216 Jan  1  2012 uboot.emmc.win
-rw-r--r-- 1 jfdesign jfdesign      49 Jan  1  2012 uboot.emmc.win.md5

it’s only a couple of megabytes.
10. Backup the mypicopad-settings folder to your computer.
11. Did I already say backup to your computer? oh yes, then backup again to your notebook. Is it enough? well no! backup again to your dropbox folder, your GDrive, Wuala, mediafire, your flashdisk, your mom external hdd … the point is, you may loose it if you put only on your device sdcard.

How to restore :

1. Go into twrp recovery mode : press volume + button, hold and press power button until you see axioo logo appear, then release them both.
2. In twrp menu, choose restore.
3. twrp will automatically search on sdcard if there are any previous backups, if there it will be shown.
4. choose your last uboot and nvram backups, let’s say it is named as : mypicopad-settings.
5. Swipe the slider to confirm backup restore.
6. There will be a console output windows, it must returns succesful.
7. Reboot the device and check your camera and IMEI settings.

Now, for you flash junkies, now you can flash with peace in mind :-)

Here is i build the two flavour of them for axioo users, whichever one you prefer, you can have it :

TWRP :

Download : reccovery-twrp-gdk.img

CWM :

Download : recovery-cwm-gdk.img

HOW TO INSTALL :

To install this recovery application on your axioo PICOpad device you need SPFlashTool program which only available on winblows os platform so I cannot support it. You may refer to this tutorial : MT65xx Flashing Tutorial it is very well explained by Bruno Martin and try to find Flashing only part of the ROM part on the article to flash only the recovery image part.
Please be really careful using SPFlashTool, especially when flashing ROM not for your device, since it may bricked your device forever.

Have fun flashing ROM and mods on your PICOpad device.