yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Lrggenius:
im not sure what u meen by partition size how do i select that and do u know of a way i could connect to active sync so i can just flash stock rom. in MAGLDR i havnt found a way to connect to active sync. any suggestions on how to go back to stock? thanks for helping.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
Power your phone on while holding the vol down button. Your screen will have 4 colored bars. You can flash a stock rom from there. Your phone won't connect to ActiveSync or Windows Device Center while in this mode, but the stock windows rom will flash.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Lrggenius:
so i tried flashing back to stock rom but when it brings up the loading bar it stays at 0% and its been there for about 6 minutes...........
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
sounds like you flashed the wrong rom
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Lrggenius:
i finally got it to work i had to flash the stock radio to get it to flash the stock rom for some reason thanks for helping me
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
No problem, glad your phone isn't wrecked. If you still want to use Android, but don't want to mess with flashing it to your phone's internal memory, you can always use sd builds. Then you still have WinMo, and you can even have multiple different Android builds on your sd card, in different folders, there are programs for Windows Mobile that will even launch Android for you and let you choose which build to launch. It's alot simpler than flashing nand roms, just drag n drop a folder onto your sd card and bot into WM, use File Explorer to navigate into the folder, tap CLRCAD and haret.exe , and Android launches.
[HTC Inspire 4G] s14evil:
Q: is there a honeycomb theam
[HTC Inspire 4G] mattmiller:
Search

CaNt FiX sTuPiD
[Xoom General] RadDudeTommy:
I now cannot put my XOOM down!

Seriously, that and I only have data through verizon. (No internet connection at home, wifi at work but no chance to use) so I've been burning through data like crazy.
[Xoom General] blackte4:
wifi only.... I use my EVO to wireless tether.. unlimited 4g and 5gb 3g service....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eejayyeahuuh:
Anyone try this yet? Is it possible?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warmonger26:
So I did gfree rooting and have cwm 3.0.2.4. Do I need to partition SD card or can I just flash Rom of choice? I do not want pu fail/bricked phone.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Partitioning SD card doesn't help you in absolutely any way.

Please read the relevant thread in Development section, and follow its (only) advice - flash Engineering bootloader.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmakk2055:
No partition the card is like making another storage place on it.you don't need it to flash Rome
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JYoung23:
Ive been trying to get kings cocoa 2 for awhile now and everytime i download and flash it,it got stuck on the white htc evo 4g screen. I tried the mirror download link from the thread and it got me to the blue honeycomb boot animation screen and is currently stuck there since about 15 min ago. Is this normal or is there a problem?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
did you wipe data, cache, and dalvik? if not, do. if you did, then you do have a problem. use a format_all.zip.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JYoung23:
yes i just rewiped and redownloaded and it went through great. thanx for reply
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatwamasi:
Hi guys, I'm having issues with the video recorder on my NS. Whenever I try to record video clips the picture and sound slip out of sync, the image freezes, leaving the sound running. The video then continues but is behind the sound.

I can't find any suggestions about how to fix this. Does anyone here have any idea?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
I just took some footage of 3 mins to test it again and actually the picture freezes near the end of the video. After that the audio is out of sync. I'm on infin1tyROM 1.1.0. :S
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatwamasi:
I have the same ROM installed, I mentioned the issue in the thread but someone else has said they don't have the issue, I wonder if it only affects longer clips or if there's something about the way we installed the ROM perhaps?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
Well actually it was me stating that it works fine, but now i had to correct it. You got a i9023 or i9020?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I have the 4g and last night I was recording 10 minute segments and didn't see anything wrong. I would heavily suspect if a CPU hog app decided to do something while recording video, that it could cause problems. Out of an hour of recording, I think I might have seen a time when something caused the screen to black out for a second and start a new recording. Maybe.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatwamasi:
I9020 here
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
Well if you found a solution please let me know! I*tried uninstalling some apps, several reboots, dalvik cache wipe, permission fix, different video players, no luck. Maybe it's the UV kernel? I*fear that I*had the same problem on CM7 with stock kernel but I'm not sure...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I'm stock rooted. That's it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
Well as soon as I*have time I'll flash back to CM7 with stock kernel and report back.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
@tatwamasi could you please test something for me? maybe this fixes the problem: reboot into recovery, wipe dalvik cache then reboot and go to settings, applications, camera and clear data. take 5 mins of video to see if it worked.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
Here's a thought. If you transfer the videos to the computer and play them there, do they skip on the pc?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatwamasi:
Cheers for the suggestion I'll try that later and report back. Earlier I made a Nandroid backup, did a full wipe, reinstalled the Rom and tested the camera. Video seemed fine then the camera started FC'ing. Not sure what's going on there... I've never had that before. Weird. Back on The backup now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
@herbthehammer I*feel stupid for not having tried that already :S

@tatwamasi have you tried fixing permissions in CWM?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TubeShaped:
After some testing I can confirm that clearing the camera app data actually solves the problem.

Lol sry for all the * after "I" my desktop keyboard is acting weird.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imekul:
Having this exact problem on a Sprint NS4G. It has a CM7 nightly installed. Will try clearing the data on the camera app. Hoping that fixes it!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knothead:
I fubared my royalgingerless glacier this afternoon, it stuck on the mytouch boot screen for over 30 minutes after attempting to flash the new sense 3.0 3d rom. (I know I'm sure I did something dumb)

Before that flash I did a wipe all and flash, it flashed, I rebooted and then it hung on the mytough screen for over 10 minutes. I pulled the batt, and had no boot, went to cwm and tried to restore my cwm backup and it said something like e: cache not found etc..

Well I tried to wipe the cache, same deal, tried a bunch of other stuff, no avail, put the pd15img.zip on my sd card, it ran

Parsing ...[SD.Zip]

Recovery -Fail-PU

Boot -Fail PU

Radio_V2 -Updating

it hangs here, so I pulled batt,

At this time I have lost recovery, still have fastboot and hboot so I am not a brick as far as I know.

fastboot devices returns SH12JRM00507 so somethings happening...

I have showing

GLACIER PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.86.000

RADIO-26.0.3.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sept 27 2010,11:12:59

Ive been at this for a while, slipped my tmo chip back ino my hyperdroid hd2 and am awaiting some good thoughts on what to do next.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Please search the numerous threads about "Fail-PU", including recent "Rooting dangers" thread in Development section. To say it shortly - your phone is dead.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knothead:
Cool thanks

I got it completely kia now I'll call htc fore repairs.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike21pr:
another one bites the dust...... this is getting serious

happened to me a couple of days ago and suddenly its spreading like wildfire. I got rid of the mytouch because of it but i really hope it gets resolved soon

side thought: i dunno about anyone else, but isnt the Sense 3.0 rom being mentioned a lot when this happens? Coincidence? Hope so
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tankmorph:
Same Here

Almost exact same scenario happened to me, except I wasn't trying to flash anything. I was running CM7...whatever the latest nightly was about a week ago. I started getting random reboots, then it just finally stuck on the MyTouch boot screen. I am able to get into HBOOT, FASTBOOT, and CWM Recovery no problem. Attempting to flash ANYTHING just locks up and/or fails.

Time to move to Verizon anyway....boo!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acsi007:
"Almost exact same scenario happened to me, except I wasn't trying to flash anything."

It's crazy that you're able to access the phone thru hboot yet for naught. I've read all the threads like a detective, and it still puzzles, that with the access you still have to CWM and fastboot, that you're not able to repair the situation.

What could these guys have done differently to avoid this?

tankmorph has access to cwm and fastboot - isn't that supposed to allow him to apply some herioc measures to get out of this? At least, that's why I flashed my 085 hboot, to be available in situations like this...

Stinks.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
If you just get partition mount failure - ENG HBOOT will help you out of it.

If you have Fail-PU - you need to replace the eMMC on the board (which I'm not sure is possible). Access to bootloader won't help.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Note that the above process doesn't flash the recovery, just loads it.

If you want to flash the recovery permanently, all you need to do is follow the guide above and then, in step 5, use this command instead:

fastboot flash recovery skitzandroid-recovery.img

You will then have a permanent recovery which you can get to by doing:

adb shell
su
reboot recovery

at any time.

Note that doing just

...for some bizarre reason does not boot to recovery. Open up a shell first, as shown above.

I will also give you credit in the guide for having "Balls of Steel" to steal a phrase from PaulObrien :D

EDIT:

...and the Balls of Steel award goes to *drumroll*

:cool: Egan :cool:

...for having the balls to flash the recovery. Thanks egan. If I was in a battle, I'd definitely want you in our squad :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
FAQ

Does it need unlocked bootloader? Yes, see my other guide for this.

Do I need to wipe, or will it wipe my device? No and No.

Can I return my device to factory default config? Yes. This process does not flash the partition unless you follow the process in post 2 which is optional.

Changelog

0.2 - Added busybox (can be flashed over the top of 0.1 without wipe)

0.1 - Initial Relase

Factory Voda Tab Images

Recovery

Boot

System
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] RaindancerAU:
Awesome news! Thanks to everyone who worked on this - I can't wait!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] appelflap:
Great, great job you guys! This thing needs root so it can grow :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Thanks a lot bcmobile and smaskell! Ill give it a go around launch.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] krotwijk:
Thank you guys, it's working great on my 10.1v
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] black beard:
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this already - but is there anyway of getting temp root on these devices so I can backup all my apps and data (properly) before unlocking / flashing recovery / rooting??
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
This wont make any changes to the partitions. You could undo the whole process by just deleting a few files.

The process in my second post would actually flash the image, and would be permanent if you had no 'factory' recovery image to flash back.

The 'standard' process in post 1 is normally used for testing and doesn't overwrite the recovery partition
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] gjroeleveld:
Thanks a lot. Works like a charm

Now to make a full "original" fastboot flashable restore fileset:

Boot: dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/boot.img

System: dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/system.img

Would this be enough to have a proper "original" image? (With the small addition of root offcourse)

(Did a dd of dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/efs.img too, just to have a backup :)

Will see if I can make a full nandroid back-up now

Before flashing any recovery images etc..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
That's all the backup I have done so I hope so :)

Just uploading a new version of the update zip (v0.2) which includes busybox
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] black beard:
Sorry, I realise that applying the root won't wipe anything, but unlocking the bootloader comes with a nice factory reset if I'm not mistaken..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] black beard:
Sorry for the ignorance, but are these fastboot or a adb commands?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] seraphimserapis:
Good work!

You should mention that you can't unlock and flash the Root-Update in one step.

The recovery complains then that /data/media is missing :)

Regards

EDIT:

These are adb commands you need to do with su!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
That is part of the recovery image, not the unlocked bootloader.

You can always put back a stock image using fastboot which is one of the really nice things about fastboot unlocking vs bootloader exploits. "fastboot oem unlock" can then be undone by "fastboot oem lock" and nobody would know the diff.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Thanks!

Yeah, oem unlock doesn't actually do anything until the next boot :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Works like a charm! Now lets backup the original recovery and then flash the stock recovery :).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Are you going to flash it? :eek:

You will earn the official "Balls of steel" badge
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] CorrieM:
Thanks,

Also remember to enable USB debugging after you have done the unlocked bootloader, took me 5 min to to realize why adb did not want to work, 5 scary :eek: min after the reboot.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] gjroeleveld:
I've tried to make a proper nandroid backup but haven't been able too.

Tried with romdump 0.72 but that crashes :-(

Most tutorials use Rom Manager, but that needs some work from @koush before we can use it.

I'll google on :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Here /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 is the cache partition.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Just use dd

See above post by gjroeleveld
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
When I find a way to backup the current recovery image, yes :).

Any idea where I can find that partition?

I think it is /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 but I need to check more.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
To earn the balls of steel badge, you must flash it without any known fix.

( joking, of course :D )
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] seraphimserapis:
you could read my thread ;-) 0p2 is correct
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Hehe, didnt know you had any :P.

So my guess was right, thanks for the confirmation!

EDIT: Checked your threads, excellent work m8. Going to follow it!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] gjroeleveld:
if I understand it correctly, DD can't be used to backup everything.

That's the reason I'm looking for a difrent way to make a Android backup before doing anything brave and/or stupid :-)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
I flashed it permanently and all is working as it was. May I now please have this "Balls of steel badge"? :p

Still I dont know of a way to enter the recovery though. I tried 'adb reboot recovery' but that only powers off the device, as it did before I flashed it. Also no key combination get me into the recovery menu. Ideas?

EDIT: The command 'adb reboot recovery' does work when I use Remote ADB and thus not with the USB cable. When I use the USB cable it powers off and shows me the battery being charged. It seems the charging screen is taking over when you reboot through ABD.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
That's weird. You may, indeed have your badge. You certainly earned it :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] seraphimserapis:
we need to investigate that for sure
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
I also managed to restore (flash) the recovery_backup.img I made before flashing the new one :).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Hey Egan - what do you get when you use remote adb? Using remote ssh, and with the factory recovery image, I just get the android robot and exclaimation mark ( ! ) screen. Eventually it just reboots itself normally
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] gjroeleveld:
Mind to share how you made that recovery image?

I tried to boot from mine (like with the recovery for root) but that resulted in a brick image :-) luckely I only did a boot, no flash.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Thanks bc, you made my day :D.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
I get the same as you when using the factory recovery.

(no USB attached)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
I used 'dd' to backup the recovery partition (/dev/block/mmcblk0p2). That image I also flashed to restore back.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
..and with the one attached to this thread, do you get the same menu that you get when doing a 'fastboot boot skitzandroid-recovery.img" ?

Was this via remote ADB? I couldnt get to mmcblk0p2 using ADB/USB !?!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Yup, that is correct :).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
This was with ADB/USB. All dumped fine. Did you get an error?

ps. Sorry for the many posts. I noticed your edit too late...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Yeah, and the device wasn't visible. I'll post the error - I just put it into recovery using:

adb shell
su
reboot recovery

...and now Im being punished by Samsung - I have to wait until it reboots itself, cos if I turn it off/on, it just starts the countdown timer again :D

It's a good case for flashing the IO Tab recovery though.

EDIT: User fail! Forgot to su. Now have stock recovery *facepalm*
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
Hehe, glad you have your backup :).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Danidemi:
Thnx for the advice..... Ladies and Gentlemen... I got root.

Q: Is it possible that Rommanager just might work or does it has to be device specific?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Danidemi:
I have Rommanager installed and when i go in to the menu and choose reboot into RECOVERY <<< it boots to recovery.... Funny isn't it.

Now finding the nurve to back up my rom in Rommanager like what can go wrong... now we have root and recovery.

btw : I live in holland but my tab doesn't supprt Dutch any one got an idea?

thnx
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] seraphimserapis:
I used Rom Manager to boot into recovery, too.

But now it always boot into there.. Somehow weird..

Was able to get out of there :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Danidemi:
Mine boots normal into UI.

Dont know tried to flash cwm but it gave me a choise to flash the i900 or another

dont have balls to pick one sinds i got the tab yesterday...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Don't flash cm yet. If the partition layout is different you may end up with a brick.

Between fastboot and the stock recovery you can flash whatever you need. ROM manager is awesome but we will just have to wait for a proper i7100 version.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
It probably flashed over your boot partition. Just flash back your backup over boot from fastboot and you should be OK.

I think another "balls of steel " badge might be in order :-)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] seraphimserapis:
Nah - I didn't install and boot then into recovery ;) I just used it to boot into recovery.

My CWM should be finished as soon as we get sdcard to mount!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Draco32:
Just a note on this there is a fail-safe in the kernel for the 10.1v so when you do reboot recovery from adb and it goes to the Android with an exclamation screen if you leave it on that screen for a few minutes it will automatically reboot the tablet into normal boot mode.

This concludes to me that there is no recovery installed on this tablet. As the kernel is not able to load anything.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Azlock:
how long is it supposed to take

how long is the flash supposed to take my is just sitting there with flashing MBR to device on the screen
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Draco32:
running the fastboot command to load the skitzdroid image took me less then 2 minutes to load.

You will hear usb disconnect noise then about 15 - 20 seconds later it will load recovery.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] djmasque:
Before unlocking their bootloader, did anyone use any software to back up their app data?

I haven't used any non-root backup apps for a while. Do any work well? I remember MyBackup Pro used to work okay.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Just use dd

There is a thread which tells you which partition is which - or there was some discussion about it earlier in this thread
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] djmasque:
Ah, okay. Thanks.

I saw that part but was under the impression that dd was used after unlocking bootloader.

EDIT: So, for clarification, would I:

1. Use adb and enter dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/data.img to backup /data partition

2. Unlock bootloader

3. Permaroot device

4. Restore data.img (not sure how to do this)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Yes, it is. You also need root.

Sorry, I should have been clearer but Im at work and in a rush.

Unlocking the bootloader and booting (not flashing) the root zip will not make any permanent changes which can't be undone (just a couple of extra files in /system). You are safe until you actually flash the recovery, then you would need the backup in order to revert to stock. I have backups of each of these which I will upload at some point.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] djmasque:
Thanks for your help. I'll probably hold off until I understand the process better or another method arrives.

I'm used to Nexus One and was under the impression that once the bootloader is unlocked, it can't be re-locked. Has anyone actually tested fastbook oem lock on this device?

I also thought that unlocking the bootloader wiped all my data, hence my initial question re backup.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] johnblade:
2 minutes for temp root, or permanent??

i try to get a permanent root but it freeze on "flashing MBR to device"

and... the last question.. the difference for temp root and permanent??

sorry but i'm a noob in the Android World!

And sorry for my english language!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] Egan:
When fastboot in the terminal says its done, then you're good to reboot. You can ignore what's on the tab screen.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1v Android Development] bcmobile:
Yes, oem lock definitely works

Yeah, it does, unfortunately.