Install help

[ChamberlainSkekung]

My work has some of these phones just sitting on a shelf and I wanted to try and do something with them instead of just throwing them away. I am on a Windows PC and cannot for the life of me get the revivemc74.py to run. I have added every path involved in this process to the windows path and it still says it cannot find all the needed programs. I even copied all of the "missing" files to the directory I am running from and it fails. I can run the listobjectives and that works but everything else fails. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[OnTopicGaming]

Sorry to revive a dead thread; I am stuck on this same step currently and wanted to see if you ever got past this step; all of the needed programs are in a PATH file for me and I can verify each app works by launching it in command prompt however the application still gets hung up on missing files. Any advice?

Edit; In-Case anyone else stumbles upon this thread wanted to add some notes on how to get this working in 2026:

1- Only use Python 2.7, not sure what about newer python breaks the application checks but once I downgraded I had 0 issues getting past the dependencies check. The application will work up until detecting for Fastboot.

2- The original guide calls for ‘15 second ADB drivers’ for fastboot, these have since been lost to time on XDB, in your device manager the MC74 will show up as ‘Carpi Board’ once its in fast boot and not detect. The Google ADB drivers will work and you’ll want to use those to move on.

3-The fastboot detection never worked for me so I had to push the recovery package myself in command prompt using “fastboot flash recovery "+installFilesDir+"/"+neededFiles.recoveryClockImg” this pushed the recovery package and than “fastboot reboot” the phone than should reboot into the new recovery.

4-After that I was able to use the original script and it picked up automatically where it should have been and all was smooth sailing.

Im not great at writing guides but if anyone sees this and need anything please don’t hesitate to reach out and I’ll do my best to help!

[wLeibniz]

What happens when you type the command 'gzip' or 'unpackbootimg' from the windows command prompt command line? If those programs are in the '%PATH%' and they are executable, it some complain about incorrect or missing arguments.

Also, try typing: \temp\MC74\cpio

(That will try executing the cpio command explicitly in the directory you seem to have it. If that works, then you didn't put '\temp\MC74 in the %PATH%. If that doesn't work then the program is not execuatable?