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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iorecki:
Tried the ruu one more time...after getting a different screen and a bit of hope. The Evo bricked now....wont turn on..no amber light when plugged in to wall charger. Well there goes that idea. Now I'm scared to flash again with my own Evo :/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Did you try taking the battery out for 5 minutes, try again, or with a different battery?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iorecki:
ive tried with 3 different batteries.

pulled sd card out....pressing power no response. power + vol down nothing.

plug it in.....still no amber light. im really willing to try anything at this point. can taking it apart save it ?

i bought it for $100 on craigslist, so maybe flip

as is

for parts on ebay. hopefully get my hundred dollars...or atleast 75 for it.

let me know what you think ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
I think you bought a phone that was semi-bricked already. It probably had a bad hboot and that's why they sold it. Almost everyone posting on this site has flashed their phone with something well over 100 times without an issue, so don't think that bricks are a common problem. You tried to get a good deal, and it didn't work out. It happens all the time, man. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

I think you'll get $100 on eBay easy for it; even as a parts phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iorecki:
yeah...im going to post it on ebay today.

im seeing ones with water damage go over $50

also see one that is at $150 labeled as broken and screen isnt on in any of the pics.

:o

**update: my gf wanted to be curious. she called htc directly and the phone is still under manufacturer warranty. they said as long as the phone doesnt have water damage or physical damage it would be covered. if warranty is voided in any way then it will cost me $30 for them to ship it back broken.

so now i figure if S-ON...and they somehow get the phone back on and see the phone wasnt rooted then i should be golden right ?

i feel like charlie sheen right now WINNING!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iorecki:
wow....i dont mean to double post but im really feeling good about this.

i have 2 other evos that i also bought on craigslist.....and i never noticed that the both of them are missing the water damage sticker under the cover.

this random evo has the water sticker in tact and had s-on....

im literally doing backflips...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marxus_Rainbow:
Hey guys!

I know I don't even have 1 post, but I read a lot here and I hope you'll help me...

Google says either "Battery too hot" "not enough power to load (too less mA for charging) or "battery is dead" and nothing was really helpful, so I wanna try my luck here with you.

I'm currently running my HD2 with Android, before I had WP7. I bought a CarCharger and everything was fine. I have a voltage transformer in my car with a 500mA USB charging port: charging was fine. But now neither of them both are charging my HD2 anymore! I can only charge in car if I use the USB port on my car radio or with the adapter HD2 MicroUSB -> USB -> Socket outlet.

I use this "Current Widget" on my Android. When I try to charge at the voltage transformer in my car, it shows me over 800 mA and charges fine. When I try to plug it into the Socket outlet at home, android thinks its connected to an USB device and aks me if it should start debug or give the SD card free to use on my Computer. And the current widget shows values about 260 - 360, as it does when I'm using the phone with a lot of features (3G, WiFi enabled, browsing etc). With the difference, when i wake up my phone it usually shows 4 mA. But not so now, its always over 260 mA. And it's charging fine.

"Battery Doctor" tells me, that the battery health is "GOOD" and the temp is mostly about ~34 - ~36°C.

So: Can you think of a reason why charging the battery in car doesn't work anymore all of a sudden?

Many thanks for everyone with a hint what the problem might be...

Marxus

€dit: Thread can be closed/deleted. Just tried charging the Blackberry. Same Results as HD2, so the point of failure must be the car. Thc
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] pegaxs:
Anyone struck this hurdle yet ?

Got my tab all set up yesterday... charged it over night, played with it today... thought, right... about to go to bed, might load up a few videos to watch...

Well... I think i was expecting to much for it to play anything out of the box when i went looking for the video player app and there isnt one. You can open files in Gallery... but there is another issue... divx/xvid files with avi extensions do not even show up as being on the device. MKV files do. And they play... all be it with no sound. This started me on a quest... over to the Xoom forums to have a look at those guys... download all of their suggestions... Ok, got the divx sorted. every video player i downloaded would play divx/xvid files with ease. no surprise there... still no files showing up in gallery...

The closest i got to playing a 720p mkv file was with rockplayer... but i ran into the similar issues with rockplayer. when i used it to play the mkv files, if i used hardware decoding, crystal clear picture... no sound. If i used software decoding, sound works... but now the picture it all chopped up and way out of sync...

For the moment it looks like it's back to encoding the mkv files back to xvid... As for this device being able to play 1080p video... i wont hold my breath. From what i have seen of how it plays 720p, it may come in the next update, but for now it even appears to be struggling to play 720p let alone 1080p...

Any ideas, tips or trick you have found that works for playing different video types???
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] dsousa:
I'm using MoboPlayer which downloads the needed codecs from the Android Market. Tried both divx and xvid, works great.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Emilewan:
Also using rockplayer. Will try mobo.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] RaindancerAU:
I've also tried QQPlayer which isn't bad and Vital Player, which so far seems to be the smoothest player I've used so far.

I haven't tried mobo yet though.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] latfen:
mobo rulles;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] pegaxs:
no suggestions on MKV yet ??
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] dsousa:
MoboPlayer is supposed to support the mkv container format (haven't tried myself).

Quote from MoboPlayer official site:

"The current Mobo version will not support mkv, mov container format which have built-in subtitle streams, but we will complete this feature as soon as possible."

So, it supports MKV as long as it doesn't contain built-in subtitles. I will try it later tonight and report the results.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] veeeee:
mVideoPlayer: mkv + subtitle
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Sutorcen:
Mobo player plays .mkv incl. streams. That is ofc on a Galaxy S phone. On a tegra 2, device as far as I have read, there isn't much luck plying .mkv files as the soc doesn't support them. Go figure.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duucfho:
I'm having an issue with Titanium Backup and restoring my apps properly. I've been using workshed's ROM for quite a while without issues. I recently went from GSB v3.0 to GSB 3.1. I always do full & dalvik wipes when flashing. In the past, I was able to restore my apps and data from Titanium without issue.

But now, the restore process just powers through all the apps very quickly, says it's done, but nothing is actually restored. I dont mind having to download the apps again, but losing my data kinda sucks. Anyone else have this issue?

P.S. I would post in the ROM development thread, but I'm not allowed yet...sigh.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super_Dork_42:
I had that too. Only 5 apps actually backed up before I flashed. I also full wiped data and dalvic before the flash and it looks as if the problem came during 3.0 when I was backing up. Titanium, in my experience didn't like 3.0 very well. It's working great on 3.1 though so idk what to tell you. Once the data is gone, it's gone.

P. S. - if you ever have another q for shed I can post it for you. Just shoot me a pm with a link to the post and I'll quote it over there for you if I can't answer it for you.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duucfho:
luckily, i did a full nand backup before flashing, so I guess I could always wipe and go back to 3.0 to monkey around with Titanium some more if i want.

i really don't want to start Angry Birds over again....lol
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super_Dork_42:
Why are you playing that on an Eris, is the real question. lol
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duucfho:
not gonna lie...it can be painful on an Eris, lol. but i'm stuck with it for about 2 months, so I make do.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super_Dork_42:
Well, all I can tell you is that when I had tried to run it, there was a full game unlocker on the market for free. Don't know if it's still there but you could look.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super_Dork_42:
Here it is.

http://market.android.com/details?id=com.pommedeterresautee.angrybirdsunlock
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klobkelosh:
I found Titanium acting weird on 3.1 as well. Just downloaded a new busybox and everything worked fine. Maybe shed has a bad busybox file in 3.1?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Super_Dork_42:
Maybe. Might want to check it out.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrkSynDc8:
I noted that GSB 3.0 uses Busybox V1.16.2. The latest one is V1.18.4 - with a TON of updates leading up to this latest version (one, a memory leak fix). Perhaps Shed could roll the latest version into GSB 3.2?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duucfho:
haha, thanks. i'll have to give it a shot.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliav8r:
I have been using VEGAn-Tab Ginger Edition for about 2 weeks and it was nearly perfect. THEN, yesterday I started the Tab and it only made it to the "G-TABDEVs" screen and stayed there.

I turned it off and every start gave the same response.

I applied the NVflash and only got past the Viewsonic bird screen then the Gtablet screen got stuck...same.

I applied the NVflash with the CWmod in part 9 and was the same, but now I can access the CWmod screen.

I tried to partition (2048, 0) and it gets stuck every time (have to power down)

It seems that the partition table or something is lost or corrupted.

I can not perform any of the CWmod commands, it just freezes and I have to power down.

Is there any other way to set partitions or does this seem like another issue.

I have looked tirelessly among all the great information here to no avail.

Thank you in advance!!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
nevermind........ didnt read carefully and my answer was not going to be helpful so I deleted it
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huntar:
Ditto for me.. except

Except that my tablet will eventually run CWM, but everything is SSSSLLLOOOWWW............................................. as in 5 minutes to wipe cache, plus the 10 minutes and errors about "Can't mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 (Not a directory)" before I even get a menu in CWM.

All of this happened after flashing Clemsyn's latest PIMP kernel (and wiping appropriate areas, cache and Dalvik)... obviously the two incidents seem related, but I see reports of folks on the forums running this combination all the time and my tablet booted three times with no problem before it experienced terminal slowdown...

So why the "nevermind"... how was this fixed? :)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliav8r:
Not fixed yet.... Don't know what the "nevermind" was about...
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huntar:
Oh, OK, sorry. possibly a mis-post... I am currently backing up my internal SD card and preparing to NVFlash, repartition and reformat my internal SD card and load everything new. I am hoping that the issues are filesystem related and that a total clean out will fix it. I will most likely not use Titanium Backup to restore my apps, as that has been mentioned as a source of issues with the GB Vegan ROM - especially boot issues. Long process ahead - I have over 350 apps to sift and sort through manually - not looking forward to it...

I will post here if this fixes the problems in the chance that our issues are related.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliav8r:
Little more info.... Using ClockworkMod v2.5.1.1 Bekit 0.8

no problem accessing APX mode and applying NVflash.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huntar:
After a full NVflash and reload, not restoring anything from Titanium Backup, i am running again. I am also booting faster... <1 minute. Not the simplest fix but it worked.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetguy35:
This happened to me as well. I had vegan ginger rc1 running for a couple of weeks and then I chose to reboot the gtab because I couldn't get an app to work when I was trying to open it. Upon reboot, I got stuck in a boot loop. It would make it to the flashing vegan ginger screen and would just keep looping. I nvflashed and then got stuck at the gtablet screen like yourself. I had to nvflash with cwm built in to get back into cwm. It was a real pain and I thought my gtab was toast. I'm back running and haven't had a problem yet (knock on wood). But a few weeks have gone by and it is running stable.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jroger0707:
Hi,

I'm having a very similar issue. I can NVFlash till I'm blue in the face bug I can't repartition the SDCARD; just hangs or spits an error (1.1 or 1.2). I notice that NVFlash only ever starts flashing at part4.img; wondering why it doesn't do the ealrier part2 etc.

How can I get the partitions fixed without CWMod as it ain't working for me. I've disco'd the battery also, no luck. All the flashing with and without CWMod works but I hit the bootloop or stuck on gtab logo (after birds). I'm really leaning toward "It's dead Jim"

Seems I have to repartition but can't do with CWMod of any flavour; also tried format.zip image; no joy.

HELP ME PLEASE!!!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
nvflash cannot fix your SD-card partition problems. See this post for why. You have to either use ClockworkMod or the system commands available in recovery mode to re-partition your SD cards.

If you can get a working adb set up, I can walk you through the steps to manually repartition the internal SD card.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jroger0707:
WhyDidI

Thanks for the reply. I've got adb installed and working and have been trying to do it with parted and sdparted. I've tried sdparted -es 2048 -ss 0; it just sits there forever checking requirements. Parted can't seem to find anything. I don't have /dev/block/mmcblkXXX shown only mtd and loop (for current state at least)

I also tried mknod b 179 XX based on my good gtab to try to recreate but I'm a little over my head there so may be doing something wrong or missing additional steps.

For s+g I've uploaded dmesg for my good gtab and badtab. Some notable diffs including version; likely because one is Vegan 5.1.1 based and the other is 4349 based and the Warning and backtrace info. later in init.

This should help someone who knows what to look for.

Still trying and looking for help!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
This is the kind of problem report that we'd like to see on the board, ie., one with log files and pertinent information.

Let's look at the important differences between the kernel messages. Lines prefixed with a '- ' are from the good kernel, and those prefixed with a '+ ' are from the bad kernel.

The good kernel was compiled in Oct 2010, and the bad one in Jan 2011 by the same person.

This is where it gets interesting. I've formatted the differences in the NAND flash partitioning schemes for better readability:

Good gTablet:

Bad gTablet:

1. The second message fragment indicates that the bad gTablet is one of the non-standard (because newer?) ones with the swapped (misc) and (bootbmp) partitions. Mine is the same, and as a consequence I have to be careful about which nvflash files I use. For this gTablet, make sure you use the nvflash zip file which has a '46_2010112600' in its name, instead of this version: 'nvflash_gtablet_2010110500'. This latter you can use on your good gTablet.

2. Here's my gTablet's NAND flash partition structure:

and you can see that there are differences compared to yours. Your system partition has been expanded in favour of the cache partition following it.

Q: Did you try to install Honeycomb on the bad gTablet? That would account for the size differences.

Looks like you have bad blocks on both gTablets affecting the cache partition in both cases. This is not unusual for this hardware--I've got a couple in my system partition.

Next. From the good kernel:

I'm not sure what this is, but the SD card controller seems to finish ok.

Now, we get to the problem message:

The bad gTablet is unable to initialize the internal SD card (mmcblk3) for some reason. The -110 is actually a -ETIMEDOUT error, meaning, "Card took too long to respond" to a command.

This could either be a kernel problem (you have an old kernel) or a SD card hardware fault. Get pershoot's latest Froyo kernel and see if installing it fixes the problem. boot-cm_2632.41-oc-uv-xtra-vfpv3_fp-060311.zip for the 1.1 bootloader or boot-cm_2632.41_newbl-oc-uv-xtra-vfp_fp-060311.zip if you have the 1.2 bootloader.

If an updated kernel does not fix the problem, you can

a) either send the tablet back for replacement, or,

b) open that gTab up and replace the internal SD card--if it's in a removable socket--with another similar capacity (16GB) SDHC card. You could also try removing the card and cleaning the contact points.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jroger0707:
Thanks alot; you seem to have a handle on this stuff. Ya, I've tried the 46 route. I end up in what appears to be an APX loop in that case; although I did try it as you suggested.. and this time I did it fresh in linux (typically in windows). My tab could very well be newer. I got it fresh last month from tigerdirect and it came with 4349. I can give you the s/n if that might help. Damn, if I knew the SDCARD could be in a socket I would have paid more attention when I had it open. So, now I'm back to Roebeet's 4349 stock w/CWMOD. Not sure I can mount SD-EXT anymore (been a while since I tried) but if I can does it make sense for me to update the kernel with the one you suggest (I have it now). I assume I just put it on SD-EXT as update.zip and then use CWMOD to navigate to it... Any suggestion as to why I end up in APX loop with 46 and not the others; doesn't that mean that the non-46 is my 'mapping'? If you can help further I would appreciate it; just let me know what to try and what logs, captures etc. I was thinking to dump my entire good gtab and put that on the bad one; but I don't know if that makes sense nor how to do it completely. I know of the dump_flash etc. commands but that's only a piece. HELP STILL!!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
how can i tell if I have one of the non std gtablets?

I have mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 file exists error when wiping dalvic. I dont have any of the other issues.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
1. Check the kernel messages.

2. Or, use nvflash to get your partitioning scheme.

That's a harmless diagnostic. See this post.

And, BTW, that is not the correct error message string. For any sort of troubleshooting, it would help if you supplied the exact error messages in your posts.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
I get this "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk2p2

(File exists)" when trying to wipe Dalvik Cache.

How do I fix it.

I see the link and the information is helpfull but how do i fix it?

Same error when I remove the external microsd card and try to wipe Dalvik
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Correct.

I'm not a nvflash expert--I've never needed to do a full nvflash--but, I suspect it is because your gTablet came installed with the newer 1.2 bootloader and the newer NAND-flash partitioning scheme. Roebeet, who's probably seen more gTabs than the rest of us ever have, can comment on this.

For your SD card problems, try the latest pershoot kernel. If that doesn't work, I can compile a custom kernel for you. While trawling through the MMC device driver source in the kernel I saw an option, which, if enabled, might fix the detection of your SD card. The option is only there to support marginal and quirky MMC SD cards and so it's normally left disabled.

Note that if the custom kernel fixes your probem, it won't be a permanent solution, as you'll have to come to me every time you decide to upgrade the kernel (or you'll have to compile one yourself from pershoot's or clemsyn's sources).
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
1. Hardware fix: Always have an SD card with 2 partitions in the external SD card slot.

2. Software fix : Modify the ClockworkMod source so it doesn't print an error message if the second partition does not exist on the external SD card (or there is no SD card in the external slot).

3. User fix: Just ignore it.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
Thanks, Why would it come up one? it did not before.

I have a 16gb micro sd in the ext slot.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Does it have 2 partitions on it? The first one a VFAT partition and the second an ext3 partition?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
no it has one fat32 like it has had from day one.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
That's one of the reasons for the diagnostic message you got. The other is not having an SD card in the external slot.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjsooley:
I have a external sd in the slot why did the message start all of a suddon?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Well, if the hardware hasn't changed, then it's the software that has.

Have you, recently, changed to any of these versions of CWM? ClockworkMod v 2.5.1.1-bekit.08, v 2.5.1.3 (what I have) and the latest version from the CyanogenMod github (more precisely, the latest one from about a month ago--the last time I checked this) all will display that message.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jroger0707:
Hi Again,

Yes, I'm all for some sort of diagnostics; via kernel or otherwise. I thought BCT was sent (programed) each time NVFLASH was run ...bct...--create etc. so won't dmesg just show what was last pushed out?? I tried pershoot's latest; no help and I think I ended in APX loop but if not I'll try to get dmesg o/p. Is there a way to ID the SD card via adb commands; see if it's there; try to init manually etc.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dada1111:
I just opened Rom Manager it it has Partition SD card as a utility in the application try it as it sure saved my butt yesterday My clockwork mod corrupted and I was able to install a new clockwork mod for rom manager