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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Based on your symptoms, I would have to say that you nvflashed one of the older versions of CWM 5504. The version of CWM 5504 from the viewsonic gtablet for dummies site is known to have the "hangs at reboot" problem you describe.

The temporary fix--to allow you to boot--is to format the MSC partition using nvflash. The permanent solution is to install the latest version of CWM 5504: beta15.

To format MSC, run these commands in a CMD.exe window--make sure that you're in the directory which contains both the nvflash program and the bootloader.bin file, then:

C:\SOME\PATH> [B].\nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --getpartitiontable part.txt[/B]

After the command completes, look through the part.txt file for the partition number for the MSC partition. Assuming it is 7 (most commonly it is), format the partition to let you boot the tablet:

C:\SOME\PATH> [B].\nvflash -r --format_partition [I]7[/I] --go[/B]

---------- Post added at 08:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 PM ----------

No need: You can use CWM 5504 Beta 15 with any ROM, not just ICS.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huckbucket:
Thanks guys. Technically, rajeevvp your post helped, but only when I implemented it this way;

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23467943&postcount=48

I'm up and running now. Seems pretty stable. Have rebooted 4-5 times and it comes back every time.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Some clarification would help. There are a lot of steps in that link, and most of them don't have any bearing on your problem. The same goes for the steps in nobe1976's post, above.

In both sequences only the 1st full nvflash command changes the MSC partition--and so fixes your problem as a side-effect. All the other steps are basically irrelevant, and more importantly, needlessly wipes the ROM and the user data.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
First things first: Recovery mode never goes to sleep, so a Sleep-of-Death (SOD) there is out.

What actually would've happened is most likely this:

Some background first: the recovery program in CWM-5.5.0.4 sets a timeout before waiting for any input. This input timeout is set to 1 hour, and if an hour elapses without any user input, recovery is coded to reboot the system. (There is a bug (actually, two) in the coding which prevents this from actually happening every time, but, that is a matter for the developers.)

So, in your case:

- You were sitting in the main menu, and the input timeout expired after 1 hour of inactivity.

- CWM rebooted the tablet as programmed.

- Tablet booted silently into ROM (most likely ICS).

- USB cable most probably also connected.

- ICS goes to sleep with USB connected.

- ROM SOD.

As you can see from the above, the SOD happened in the ROM (and not in CWM), and the new timeout behaviour is not likely to trouble most users, so you can, in fact, use CWM-5504 instead of 3028. I currently have 5504 on my 1.1 bootloader and it works pretty much as advertised.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nobe1976:
Actually what happened when my tablet "Timed Out" as you say I was actually setting things in CWM to get it ready for update 1.0. Never did I once let it sit doing nothing. So I selected "Power Off" option so that the tablet can Charge before I flashed the new update and no I already unplugged my usb connection I used for NVflash, I have all my updates, backups and ROMS on a 16gig external SD card so there was no need for the USB connection while in CWM 5504. When I selected the Power Off option it just stayed there saying "Powering Off" for over 15 mins, which uses to just close CWM and power off the Tablet. This time it never booted out of CWM and never Powered off. That was a good reason for me creating my own DRH. The Second time was during a Reboot after flashing a 2.3 based ROM., also no need for the USB since I downloaded and transferred everything needed to my External SD before hand. So with that being said do you really think that CWM 5504 doesn't cause a form of Timing Out or Freeze up that requires the need to either press the rest button to recover.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
You said you had a SOD problem, but this isn't Sleep-of-Death at all. Its something completely different: lockups when powering off or rebooting. The cause of that is usually some kind of kernel bug--badly coded device drivers are one possibility. It could also be some kind of transient hardware problem--wonky hardware can cause even well written device drivers to go nuts. And both of those mean that we can, again, exonerate CWM. Specifically:

When you select reboot or power off in CWM, it just calls a (Bionic) C library function which, on the gTab, immediately calls the kernel which starts the reboot/power off sequence. And, if the kernel can't reboot or power off the tablet, then that's where the problem lies. The fact that I've heard this problem report only from you--and that too only on 2 occasions--just makes the case stronger. As a good example of the former (bad kernel code) consider the nVidia/Malata-written mtdblock device driver for the NAND flash. It is known to have problems. Try this simple command in CWM:

C:\SOME\PATH> [B]adb shell[/B]
~ # [B]dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock0 of=/dev/null[/B]

I wouldn't be surprised if the tablet locked up instantly; though it usually takes 2 or 3 tries. You can try this on any CWM version you want. You can even lockup the ROM the same way.

See above.
[Motorola Photon 4G] silverhawknike:
Hi, im an owner of Samsung Epic 4G. Im grateful for XDA developers and CM for supporting Samsung Epic. But now, it getting old and Im looking in getting used Motorola Photon for faster user experience and longer battery life. I have some questions for this forum. I recalled somewhere that if you unlocked the bootloader, it will break 4G. Not sure if they got it working now. Second, I see some threads that CM9 will support this device. Is that true that moto photon devs working on it. Thank for taking ur time to answer my few questions! I hope Motorola Photon will exceed my exception:D!
[Motorola Photon 4G] magui43212:
Ya, unlocking the bootloader does break 4g, and we don't have a workaround.

Cm9 doesn't officially support the photon but we do have a wonderful cm9 kang that I'm running right now. Battery life is good, and pretty much everything works aside from some small things. I

Also, it requires an unlocked bootloader.
[Motorola Photon 4G] silverhawknike:
really? Thanks! Are they working on 4G or it is impossible to fix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] boggsie:
There are obviously many devs spending countless hours to extract the maximum benefit from the hardware. Unfortunately Sprint & Motorola forces the enthusiast to cripple network performance as the price for experimenting.

I was naive and uneducated and bought the Photon before I realized this limitation. This is the first Android device I'be owned with a locked bootloader. It is an unusual feeling. /whiner :)

Best regards,

-boggsie
[Motorola Photon 4G] silverhawknike:
is it possible to root it without unlocking bootloader?
[Motorola Photon 4G] trcurren:
Yes, rooting does not break 4G, only unlocking the bootloader will break 4G.
[Motorola Photon 4G] boggsie:
As trcurren mentions, it is possible to root without unlocking. You'll probably want to go to a Sprint store and take some time to try to setup the Photon with stuff you're likely to want if you choose to buy one.

You may not be that particular. For the last 18 months, I had always run Cyanogenmod on my devices, so that is the user experience I had come to expect. It's a great phone but, for example, when the last four devices I had on Cyanogenmod, I could setup the home screen with Launcher Go Pro in a very particular way. With the Photon, I can't quite get there.

You may end up being very, very happy. Just investigate and dive in an informed buyer.

Best regards,

-boggsie
[Motorola Photon 4G] silverhawknike:
Well, it either this or Sprint galaxy SII. Motorola Photon is cheaper and it have longer battery life than Galaxy SII.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
I have noticed that my battery has very poor idle when it is sleeping while docked. I have attached 2 images where you can see the issue I have been having. I thought this would have been cleared up after all of the updates we've had but I've experienced this since the beginning. When it is not on the dock I lose about 1% every 8-10 hours, when it is docked I lose more than 1% each hour. I do not have my tab set to wake from keyboard, wifi was off and I was in power save mode.

Thanks

Anyone else have this?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] almightywhacko:
Its just a shot in the dark, but you might wanna try checking this setting under Battery Saving:

It will prevent keystrokes and such from waking up the tablet. It is possible that your keyboard has a stuck key or something and this is preventing the tablet from actually sleeping.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
I have had that checked, something else is causing it not to sleep
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] almightywhacko:
Did you try a hard reset? Its kinda a pain but if there is a software bug or a rogue app that might fix the issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
I did a long time ago but re-downloaded all of my apps since. I suppose I can try again. It's strange because it's only when I'm docked. When I'm not docked there is no drain. The keyboard seems to be the cause not software.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] fazerrider:
Hi there, I have the same issue. At first (begin of january) it worked OK. Later (february) I noticed this issue. The undocked dock keeps its power well, the undocked tablet also.

But when docked... the dock can be drained in less then 10 hours, IF the tablet is under 70-80%. Then the dock starts charging the tablet and is quickly drained. When drained, the tablet starts charging the dock, and so on.

I think there is a problem with the battery of the dock.

Do you recognize the above?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
Yes same thing exactly with me. I have been leaving the tab separate from the dock when not using it, very inconvenient.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gruntguy:
I've noticed this too, but I had always thought it was just a side effect of some kind, or just a general design/software flaw with the way the tablet interacts with the dock. Didn't realise it was quite an isolated issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Deano_XEXEC:
I had the same problem, go into the developer settings and turn off the option that says keep tablet on while charging. when the tab is in the dock it always gets power from the dock so never sleeps.

that should sort it.

Dean
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nhshah7:
lol i think your issue is something putting on a wakelock keeping your device awake, that's why it is on and off all the time under the awake bar. Try the app better battery stats (free via XDA) and check the process wakelock pane to figure out what's keeping your tab awake
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mountain King:
Same problem here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gixie:
@nhshah7:

Sorry for the noob question, but how do you get better battery stats for free via xda?

Thanks in advance
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nhshah7:
Not a problem...google for the better battery stats thread here on xda and I think you can download the full version via the sites thread. Or I'll try to find it right now..

See the second post. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Hit thanks if this helps!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Scumbag Inc.:
Yesterday my tablet had run down to around 30% so I docked it into my fully charged keyboard. When I came home from work, my dock was fully discharged and my tab had barely been charged (or had charged then discharged, I'm not sure.)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
i get the same thing. once my tablet runs down to 70 the dock starts charging it and itll just continue to charge it without it fully charging and eventually my dock will run out of battery.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] orampc:
Same problem here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nhshah7:
check out this thread I started here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1535723

I want to figure out what normal drain on teh dock should be. On my last tablet (BCOK s/n), I had about 10% / hour drain while using it. Now I get 20% with the newest updates and a C10 s/n tablet. After 1.5 hours of use, the tablet was down to 70% and the dock kicked in. After charging for an hour, tablet's up to 90% but the dock is down to 50% lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
OP here.

I seemed to have fixed the issue. I had an SD card in the dock, when I took it out and put it in the tab (it was a micro SD inside of a regular sd card) the battery life at idle seemed to be normal. SD card in the dock seems to cause wakelocks. Anyone else can try this to confirm
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ajk511:
Ha, I was wondering why I was suddenly getting amazing battery while docked today. I took out the SD card I keep in the dock this morning and didnt put it back in. I guess I can randomly confirm this.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
Seems like there's enough evidence that this is the case. Asus should address this issue
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jbendaou:
i have the same issue. well after a factory reset it fixed the problem, but after a couple of weeks the battery leak started again, granted not as bad but still.

this is frustrating. i love my prime but my ipad 2 has an insane battery life. 2% drop in 24hrs! i wish i could say the same about the prime.

i do have a micro sd in my prime, not the dock. i will try removing it.

also i noticed that rebooting the prime will improve its battery life...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gixie:
Hi

My dock had no card plugged in and it still happened...

This sucks big time, I bought the dock to protect the tablet but it's useless since I can't leave the tablet docked:-(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jrush4:
I've been having the same problems, Prime around 60% and dock at 100%, when docked the dock will charge the Prime until it is empty, but the prime will only reach about 70%.

I've had the plastic SD card dummy that shipped with the dock inserted, just removed it and will see if it improves from here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nhshah7:
i'm planning on picking up a second dock to see if it behaves the same way. i'll update here if i find any difference. if not, i'm just going to assume that .15 killed my dock's battery lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ogg1e:
I noticed that the process called 'android media process' (I think) was using up a lot of cpu and could be the one preventing it from sleeping. Maybe you're onto something here. SD cards are media, and I believe that process is for them.

I'll try it out when I get home later tonight.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] extremepizza:
What I did to solve this is to turn of wifi while sleeping. Never had the drain since.

I leave a SD card in the dock 24/7.

Extremepizza
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ogg1e:
Since I removed the sd card from the dock, I no longer get the battery drain and it now goes into deep sleep when docked.

I wonder if Asus will ever fix this one...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Havagan:
I'll add my name to the list. The tablet + dock combination drains the battery quickly enough that it overwhelms the ability of the dock to charge the tablet. Settings: MobileDock Battery saving mode (on); Stay awake: screen will never sleep while charging (off); Keep Wi-fi on during sleep (off); Bluetooth (off)

Here's a screen capture of my tablet battery level decreasing at the same time it was charging from the dock (screen and wifi off).

Paul
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] K999rrl:
i hop asus will fix this asap.. when my tablet is not docked in it loss 0-1% in 8 hours over night but today i carried the prime around with my dock and the battery just keep droping fast!...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] K999rrl:
does any1 knows whether the first transformer has the same problem?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mr_President:
Hey! You ppl might wanna check out my thread here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1556014. It worked wonders for me, like day and night ^^. And yes, the original Transformer had/has the same problem since ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Hawke84:
thanks ill give this a try see if it helps... im wondering though if its just down to basic physics that the 2 different battery capacities causes this random drain.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mr_President:
I highly doubt that actually. It's just too big of a coincident that the problem went away after the fix. It's been flawless since. Yesterday the TFP was docked, asleep, at home for 10 hours. Lost only 2% battery on the slate! Before my dock battery could be completely dead, and slate battery far from full. My guess is that it's a coding error on Asus side =/.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Hawke84:
i hope so, gonna try your fix soon as im home but will take a while of testing to be sure, left my prime fully charged this morning :/
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mr_President:
Ouch. If you're unlucky then the dock battery could be dead by the time you get home =/. It was my only gripe with the Prime before. I mean, you shouldn't have to disconnect them all the time because of a reason like this! Might have to repeat the fix whenever you download a new FOTA. Haven't downloaded one yet so don't know :).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Hawke84:
it only seemed to happen to me when the tablet was below 90% so the dock charge kicked in but didnt stop, storing both fully charged and switched off was fine.

On a side note im seeing people reporitng cracking issues with leaving the tablet docked so maybe another reason not to leave it docked :(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mr_President:
Well when the tablet goes below 70% battery then the dock starts charging it. That's how it's meant to work. Problem for me was that the tablet never slept. So it used up alot of battery. So when the dock eventually started charging the tablet it used up more of it's own power than needed since the tablet just kept on going, never sleeping. If I were to shut them off then yeah, that would've fixed it. Tablet would've been sleeping then :P. But that's not a fix either...

Yeah read about it... but then again there's atleast one who had it crack without a dock. Think I'll take the risk :P.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Dark Polleke:
Hello,

I have just rooted my samsung galaxy tab. I have lost 180 holiday foto's en i read that with Hexamob, yu can get them back. But when i start that app , it says that i don't have root permissions. Fix this from your superuser app.

I rooted my tab. I have got superuser, but still it doensn't work.

Can anyone tell me what i have done wrong.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] MapleSyrup:
Are you sure the app has root permission? If you aren't, open Superuser, and "Hexamob Recovery" must be in the "allow" list.

If it's not there, open Superuser, then (without killing Superuser) open "Hexamob Recovery" (a prompt from superuser will pop) and allow root permission.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Dark Polleke:
finally i got soperuser working. something with the permission for usb controlling.

But I still can find my device in Hexamob. Normally I can use recuva to get delete files back, but that also doens't work. It also doesn't see my divice. Is there another way to get deleted files or foto's back, from a tablet?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] MapleSyrup:
Maybe you could try another app, e.g.: Undelete
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Dark Polleke:
Is there als o a way, that you can connect your tablet to your pc en use your pc to searce throw your tablet?

When i connect my tablet on my pc i can see and open the folders on my tablet, but i can't use any programs to searce throw the tablet
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] SaneinOne:
Not compatible with Tab.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Dark Polleke:
Is there any other way?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Benzoman:
It's something to do with mtp mode and the tab not being mass storage recognized by the PC. I've seen a thread where Misledz dealt with this. Can't remember if it was ever resolved but some searching might get you some more info about it being possible or what solution, if any they came up with.

Hope this helps.
[HTC Rezound] a.mcdear:
I have removed just about every single file on this entire list, including all the ones you have in red marked as not safe to delete... and no ill effects on my device at all.

There are also a few htc/sense related files in /system/lib that I have removed, but I can't remember the file names off the top of my head. I'll see if I can figure it out and I'll post which of those I removed as well.
[HTC Rezound] retepdgp:
com.htc.idlescreen_SN.apk - Lockscreen

idlescreen_photo.apk - Lockscreen

IdleScreen_Stock.apk - Lockscreen

IdleScreen_Weather.apk - Lockscreen

verizonWave.apk

These are safe to delete.
[HTC Rezound] champdr0id:
I always remove epst. I recall hearing about it being used for some kind of tracking. Never had any problems after uninstalling it though.
[HTC Rezound] nightrainbow:
The DFPI.apk stands for Demoflo package installer.

I beleive is there so you can install some sort of demonstration recovery for the phone.

Which I think is obviously useless for us.

I always remove it before flashing.
[HTC Rezound] Kilch:
This is a great post for all to use and try. May I suggest this be Stickied/Pinned as this is could ba a project for just anyone who isn't afraid to reflash a ROM to determine what can and cannot be removed.

:D
[HTC Rezound] drizztzou:
how about filepicker.apk?
[HTC Rezound] Quantumrabbit:
I have frozen EPST with Titanium before. I didn't know exactly what it did... but it always seemed to be running, and I could never see any benefit. I was told by Scott not to remove it... and he knows way more than I do.

The other ones in Red are really if you still want sense. You can remove virtually all HTC files if you desense it... but that really isn't the point of this, because there's scripts and tools if you want to de-sense it... this is really about trimming down while still keeping using sense.

Thanks everyone so far, I'm updating these per your posts now.
[HTC Rezound] Quantumrabbit:
I don't see that in the CleanROM zip, but I could have deleted it without realizing.

Is that one from the stock (pre cleaning/optimizing)?
[HTC Rezound] yardi4life:
hmmmm. i thought TrimIt.apk was the app that allows you to clip photos /short video from video recordings....
[HTC Rezound] Quantumrabbit:
Could be... I always remove both because I never use either.
[HTC Rezound] danutzz:
Trim it is used to make ringtones from the mp3's loaded into the HTC media player.

Nice list though, might be removing some of the extra apks in the de sense util when I get a chance
[HTC Rezound] racinwarrior:
SAFE TO DELETE:

htc_vmm_hux.apk - Verizon Media Manager

MyTask.apk - Management Application (Tasks List)

PlusOne.apk - Google+ (should be safe to delete)

VVM.apk - Visual Voice Mail
[HTC Rezound] stilger:
I also think this should be Pinned. I was looking for the old list of freezable apps we used back when we had temp root to clean out some of the bloat in the current rom. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks OP.
[HTC Rezound] walloftvs:
Awesome thread. Thanks!
[HTC Rezound] smartbusiness2003:
Guys,

Have any of you deleted or frozen the majority of these apk's and seen a substantial battery life increase?