yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MisterAnthonyxD:
Well, so here's my story. Dropped by tablet and broke the screen BAD on March 16th. RMA issued on the same day. Shipped via UPS March 19nd. Arrived March 23rd.

ASUS never updated my RMA status beyond "we have not received the machine etc etc." However, when I checked on Wednesday, March 28th, they removed my RMA from their system. I get a "System can't find records of your inquiry" message. I called ASUS and they told me that it is currently being sent in to be evaluated. That was 2 days ago.

So my question is: Is it normal for ASUS to take down your RMA while it's being evaluated?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xGary:
I sent my Prime in for RMA as well and my number never showed up in their system. So after calling them 2 times they gave me a new RMA number and gave me the status of my Prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] reNeglect:
The fact that you induced the damage might not be so appealing to Asus, as they don't cover wear and tear i think. Also +1 on Gary, there has been several reports on some other forums stating you would have to call them for an updated rma number.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MOD64:
This seems to be typical of the service that Asus provides. I submitted a request (online) for support (broken charger\connector port) on March 15, I got a response back from support on March 28 with an RMA submittal form. It basically took them almost 2 weeks to respond. Now I'm faced with the decision of whether I'm going to send my device in for support or keep my nice and shiny paper holder
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MisterAnthonyxD:
I have called them twice. Both said they'll update me via email about prices and stuff. And I specifically told them it was CID
[HTC Desire S] catherall:
Hello,

I developed a

guide

and

software package

to

boot a phone with a fried emmc

.

The trick is to use modified kernel files and mount all partitions to image files on SD card - however, kernel files and software are different from phone to phone.

My guide already works nice for HTC Desire Z / G2:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1572924

To port that guide and the linked package to HTC Desire Z

I need a tester with a custom rom

(ClockworkMod recovery, 3Ext ...). For porting the package I need someone with a full working phone. For testing later someone with a fried emmc would be helpful. :)

If you want to support me then

send me a private message on XDA

or

visit me on freenode IRC channel #G2ROOT

(web interface: http://webchat.freenode.net - channel #G2ROOT)

Best regards,

Catherall
[HTC Desire S] RolF2:
Excellent idea !

If you need tester with fully working phone - I'm in .

Especially as we can use this as some sort of dual boot on working phones to test new roms without installing it :)

R.
[HTC Desire S] maxpowermne:
Hello,

I have fried emmc on htc desire s. I sent my phone about 10 days ago to local service. I will get my phone soon. If they don't succeed I will be your tester. :)

I had a call with service man 2 days ago and he said to me that they can repair it and repair will cost 15€. He said that they will reprogram emmc or something like that and they are waiting to receive 1 file for phone software and when it comes phone will be repaired. :)

If you need aditional info PM me.
[HTC Desire S] yyi333:
How about the progress on porting to desire s?. I´m available if you look for a tester with a fried chip
[HTC Desire S] RolF2:
All is working as I can say. But not sure if I can post needed files... Lets wait for catherall answer .

R.
[HTC Desire S] maxpowermne:
He is offline since 23. april so if anyone know to make this work do it ;)
[HTC Desire S] RolF2:
Ok, all credits going to catheral. I'm tested this with working desire s and phone is booting from recovery without any problems. You just need to extract downloaded files to sdcard root and apply update.zip from recovery ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5nusi7ojg65q8e/Saga_recovery_boot.rar

R.
[HTC Desire S] maxpowermne:
Great! Thank you. This is big thing for desire s now because emmc problem is now fixed.

One question: When I restart or turn off phone do I need to do update in recovery again or this will be permanent ?
[HTC Desire S] incrediblealex:
So im confused what does this do? Is there anyway to port it to the htc incredible s?
[HTC Desire S] yyi333:
first thanks for the great work which catherall has done.

Just put this on my sdcard and booted from recovery via update.zip. I can confirm that this rom is booting on my desire s with fried emmc. Overall the performance is pretty fast but there are few limitations:

Wlan doesn´t work

Each time when an app is trying to acess the internal memory, it crashes(since there is no internal memory due emmc brick)

Working (tested):

phone calls

text messages

acessing internet via HDSPA,Umts,...

everything which doesn´t need access to internal storage

app installs
[HTC Desire S] maxpowermne:
Great!

Rolf can you fix wlan ?
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
Hey catherall.

I was just thinking when reading your thread..i don't have a fried emmc but it might help you or someone else develop a permanent fix for this issue.

If you can boot the phone from the sdcard via this "temp fix" which is brilliant btw (hats off to you)..i guess that you could try to do this natively.

Bear with me as i am no expert in android or any other programming development but i do have a technical inclination.

To my understanding the emmc holds these partitions: /system; /data; /cache

Also, the partition layout is dictated by the HBOOT (am i right?).

Thus, if HBOOT is functional after frying the emmc can't the hboot be reprogrammed so as to allocate the /system; /data; /cache to the sdcard thus natively run them on the sd and by this fixing the current issues? I'm thinking yes because if the rom is installed with the mentioned partitions being on the sd it will not try to access the emmc thus no failures, issues, kernel oops or panics.

Keep in mind that i'm not properly educated in this domain of expertise and what i wrote might just be a huge load of *$#& and that what i said is purely a principle based on what i understand about the android platform.. no idea how to code or reprogram HBOOT so i might be wrong.

P.S. sorry about cloning posts..
[HTC Desire S] paul.robo:
Hands up to the original Dev of this great project. this will help a lot of people. who are having problems with their fried chip. however once this ROM is stable you wont be able to upgrade it or anything so you will be stuck with this Rom. now. you can replace your chip for very little cash. you just need the brains to replace it with the old 1. Is this rom even good enough. i mean in eyes of people who are serial flasher's they are going to want to flash a new rom lol. and 2 is there any way we could just have a new development section that is FOCUSED on development with fried chip roms like this 1. i think this could be extended. i think if this can be done with cyanogen then it can be done with stock Rom also. im very intrested in asking the mod to set up a dev section for this so we can develope roms that are aimed at peple with fried chips. as this will help a lot of people. we could develope or mod the roms out at the moment for the people with fried chips. if anyone else agree's with me then please reply if enough peole on this forum want it done i say we get on it now :)
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
hey Paul.

Im with you 100% but i think that there needn't be specific emmc-fried roms (the rom components can be extracted and installed to the sd manually by each user if a guide is made). The problem i believe are the kernels as they are the subsystem that communicate to the hardware, not the rom itself.. if my previous post is right though, then i believe that the roms can be flashed normally and be directed to new partitions on the SD automatically.
[HTC Desire S] paul.robo:
in that case there would have to be a new kernel with every rom made for this. im my experience i would say that i wouldnt go ahead as ask for a dev section for this to be opend. i will infact tho test this out and see if the rom itself can be installed to a new partition on the sdcard. i will let you know if the rom is able to install onto the sdcard later tonight. i very much dont think it will tho. but worth a shot. if it does work then does that mean we could get this more stable and without crashes ?
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
The rom will definetly not boot if you just install it to sd..no need to test that.. The partition table needs to be rewritten for this to work (the partition layout being stored in the HBOOT to my knowledge). This is why i suggested rewriting the HBOOT, because if i am right the recovery will flash every rom and kernel to the new partitions on the "fake" emmc (SD that is).
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
Hehe, good luck with your port..i really like your ICS tab_mod!

As for the "who would risk bricking their phone"...i don't think that with a fried emmc there's anything else to brick. :P

Anyway, on a serious note though, i have no idea how hard rewriting a HBOOT would be, nor if it will actually work..i am no experienced programmer, this is why i recommended the "method" to a more experienced user in hope that the emmc damaged guys could catch a break.

Sure, as you said, replacing the emmc is a waaaay better solution but hardware modifications are not that easy and should be done only by specialized personnel which can be $$$.
[HTC Desire S] paul.robo:
above is the mount info from desire s hboot 0.98.0000 and below is for hboot 2.xxxxx.

Thanks my rom is nice lol :D. im making the same rom but with sense :P its going well just need to port rosie from flyer then its done ;)
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
This information is available in this sticky

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1180513

Looking forward to sense tablet version
[HTC Desire S] RolF2:
if emmc is "fried" you can't write to it ... it's then in some sort of read only state ... So if you want use this hack - you must have custom recovery writen before emmc is fried ...

R.
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
Mhm, i see now...

Seems that my idea is trash. I was assuming that the HBOOT and recovery were stored on a different chip, not on the emmc itself as they worked (again i was assuming that a fried emmc is fried both ways: read and write thus leading to my conclusion about another chip)

Sorry guys..seems that emmc physical replacement is the only permanent fix.
[HTC Desire S] voongoto:
I'm not a HTC owner (galaxy nexus), but I have the very same problem. eMMC is somehow unwritable. I can install bootloaders, custom recoveries and stuff like that, except the userdata files :/

CWM gives me I/O errors, that it could not mount /data, /cache partitions.

So as someone mentioned before - the memory is one chip, just with few different partitions. So I think, that the term "fried" is incorrect, because if it was fried - the phone won't boot up.

Here's how I approach this problem (I'm completely newb at android programming, never did that, so excuse me for incompetence)

In my case I guess that the chip is all right (because I'm able to write files to different partitions)

The system could not write to userdata partition because it probably doesn't have permissions to do that

I don't know exactly, how the system works, but after a lot of researching, I found that this problem usually happens when the phone hangs updating the apps and the battery is taken out. So I think, that somehow the app becomes the owner of partition and gets full permissions to write to it and when this process is interrupted - the system ownership is not restored and it can't make changes to files/partition anymore. So when system tries to mount it or write to that partition - it's not possible, because the owner is the app which was updating and the lastly executed command was interrupted.

If it's true, than it might be possible to repartition the memory and reset the ownership of it and it should work.

Sorry for my english, it's not mother tongue of mine. I hope you understood what I tried to say :)
[HTC Desire S] xxmorph3u5xx:
Hey, and welcome to the Desire S forum.

If you can flash new HBOOT than i guess it's good news and my method might work if a dev is kind enough to have a look..you guys who have the fried emmc should motivate a dev to give it a shot.

As for the permissions explanation that you indicated i do not think that this is the case as the permissions when installing a app are only granted at the ROM level..the recovery is like Jesus in the permissions dept. and the HBOOT is God himself as far as i understand it. They have higher powers than the ROM. (please excuse the religious metaphor but i don't know how else to put it..)

But of course as i mentioned before i am a complete noob to this and my conclusions and ideas are only basic logical priciples..i may as well be wrong but i guess that there's no harm in pointing a programmer/dev/expert (in short words a guy who had an idea about the android mechanics) towards this thread..

My best guess as to who may have the expertise to give my theory the thumbs up or put it to shame is someone from the Revolutionary or Alpharev team as they are the only ones in the Desire S forum that fiddled with the HBOOT..
[HTC Desire S] tieff:
:rolleyes:so what you say is that, even with your emmc fried, DS works?
[HTC Desire S] brandonbyronh:
first time poster...

This is my first post. Please let me know what information to provide.

I have a G2 that started randomly turning itself off, then one day (July 5th 2012) it turned off. When I turned it back on, it stayed stuck on the HTC splash screen, white background with HTC green logo. From what I've gathered, it seems like the emmc is fried. I have tried reloading the factory software but with no success. How can I tell if my emmc is bad?
[HTC Desire S] chleoj:
how about for TMOUS MT4G with fried emmc, i'm willing to try :D, cause now im only booting my phone from sd card with CM7
[HTC Desire S] totiadrenalin:
If you could somehow reflash the hboot?

It should repartition the /system, and /data partitions!

I don't know which are the /system and /data partitions, on desire s, /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 = /system

/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 = /data

so if somehow we could port the gparted binaries to android, the we could correctly repartitions those partitions.

But as you mention the /system and /data partitions are in "ro" state, then the binaries must be ported to the recovery, or if the /cache partition is can be mounted as rw the it should be allwrite and put the binaries in there and run them from there.

If you could somehow repartition the corrupted filesystem of the bricked partitions then they should be mounted and remounted rw and ro.

I don't know if the boot partition is corrupted to?

Since the emmc chip on my desire s isn't "fried", then I can only guess!
[HTC Rezound] mikeyasuragi:
Has anyone been able to get ICS Browser + or Quick ICS Browser to work on their Rezound? They both FC on me without opening on Clean Rom ICS 4.2... :confused:
[HTC Rezound] brando56894:
I've had it working flawlessly since the day it was released.
[HTC Rezound] mikeyasuragi:
What ROM are you using?
[HTC Rezound] Dalamar1320:
RezRom ics 3.3 and Nils businessSense works flawlessly with ics browser +
[HTC EVO 3D] njd.sina:
I used the Live CD tool in the development section and succesfully downgraded my Hboot to 1.4 from 1.5, but my firmware is still on 2.17.651.5. When running revolutionary, it says "failed to gain root :(". I believe this is because of the newer firmware version despite the bootloader version. Can anyone link me to an old RUU link so I can run Revolutionary and get root again or steer me in the right direction if I'm mistaken? Much thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] wloftus:
http://goo-inside.me/stock/shooter/ruu

take your pick...
[HTC EVO 3D] njd.sina:
Nevermind, got it, it was in the original post for downgrading Hboot, not the LiveCD. Here's the link to save the trouble if anyone else has a similar issue.

http://bitshare.com/?f=1e5ce0uy
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
[Script Generator] Lite-ROM Creator

At my request goddamnit has added user defined database support. May need some minor edits to get the script to work on the MoPho but should save fellow devs some finger time.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheChronicDroid:
This also kinda means more roms! Yay! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cshoffie:
Hey everyone,

I flashed to Calkulin's FC24 (his 1.3a ROM w/ Battery Saver Script) 2 days ago. I charged the battery all the way, and then used the Battery Calibration app to delete the batterystats.bin file. I went ALL day yesterday without needing a charge. In fact it was nearly 17-18 hours since I charged it fully and calibrated the battery.

I charged my phone last night, and finally took it off the charger about 5.5 hours ago and I'm already at 43%. I did some light web browsing and a bit of Facebook (as you can see in the attached file).

Does this seem normal? I had a tremendous charge all day yesterday compared to today. Just doesn't seem right.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cshoffie:
Forgot to include the picture...

View attachment 975888
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tkemack:
I would try a different browser. Seems very odd that an app is higher than screen %
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rsloan:
Agreed. 10 characters
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cshoffie:
Ok, I will try that... I was using Dolphin Browser and never seemed to have an issue like this before.

What browser would you recommend?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tkemack:
Try ICS browser from the market, it's pretty nice. Though I use stock mainly
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MeWarning:
And battery calibration by wiping battery stats doesn't actually do anything. The battery stats file is already automatically wiped every time you recharge your phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cshoffie:
Ok, so does the 'wipe battery stats' option in Rouge do the same thing?
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
***WARNING***​

I am not any ways responsible for anything that happens to your device regarding digital data loss/corruption, hardware/software malfunctions, bricking your device, voiding your warranty or any other physical/emotional/financial pain and suffering that you may feel or have felt as direct result of using anything I provided here.​

INTRODUCING:​

Pure Entity ICS​

(Based on Stock 3.32.401.5, with some Virtuous Inquisition KANG)​

STOCK HTC 3.32.401.5 Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3​

AOSP-LIKE Feeling​

Majority of Sense Removed​

Some Apps Removed to Decrease Size​

THINGS TO DO:

*Merge 4.0.4 Source

*Custom Theme

*WiFi Issue

*Fix Any Issues You Have

*Custom Boot Animation

DO NOT USE SUPER WIPE SCRIPT!

Recommended to use 4EXT Recovery, wipe all partitions and dalvik cache.

All credit goes to the Virtuous Team for providing some essential pieces for this KANG.​

*Please Report Any Problems In This Thread*​

CHANGELOG:

v2.0.0

*Revived!

*Merged with new Virtuous sources!

*Stand by for much more to come!

v1.1.0

*Removed All Facelock Instances...Since It's Insecure Anyways

v1.0.8

*Updated Apex Launcher

*Reorganized ROM Layout

*Removed More Junk

v1.0.2

*Initial Release

CLICK HERE TO BRICK YOUR DEVICE
[HTC Sensation] greves1:
edit: don't want to hijack top comment with my original comment. feel free to delete this, mods.
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
It's obviously a joke.
[HTC Sensation] spuri78:
+1, unless the person was being sarcastic but sometimes sarcasm doesn't come across well in words.

Screenshots? As you mentioned in your OP, would love to see some custom themes.

Keep it up mate!
[HTC Sensation] overthinkingme:
Can't wait to try! Thank you!
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
Screens coming in a few.
[HTC Sensation] spuri78:
No worries!
[HTC Sensation] overthinkingme:
In settings and About. Build number reports 1.0.0 while I'm on 1.0.2

Still playing with the rom
[HTC Sensation] kirwis:
What about camcorder? works perfectly?
[HTC Sensation] overthinkingme:
I didn't test the stock rom camera since I flashed the camera mod from another thread. But since this is HTC based, I'm confident it works.
[HTC Sensation] mckellick:
anyone got screenies?
[HTC Sensation] sachin30us:
I hate HTC Sense.. it just slows the phone down. I would love to try your rom. The download link is not working. Kindly fix it or post the rom elsewhere. Many Thanks for your works and effort. Cheers
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
Screens coming in about an hour, along with a new link. Sorry guys, it was a late night.
[HTC Sensation] overthinkingme:
ROM is smooth.

I used the virtuous inquisition service pack by socali to add volume wake and quad unlock screen and it's working without a problem also.

Wallpaper was fixed on reboot. But I had seen this issue on another rom too so it's no big deal.

Enjoying the rom so far.

I would post screens but it looks just like stock aosp.. We all know what it looks like
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
Very smooth

ROM IS NICE...

Bugs that i have found:

when you switch from apps to downloaded apps or widgets in the app drawer the apps disappear until you re-open the app drawer...

other than that... pretty sweet...

loving the minimalistic roms.... keep it coming!!!!!!:D:cool:
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
ROM Updated!

v1.0.8 Released. See changelog in OP. Much more to come. Enjoy!
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
DOWNLOADING NOW.... THANKS!!!

i will report if i find anything

have you tried any other kernel? should Faux kernel work?

EDIT: and do i have to wipe data if im coming from initial release?
[HTC Sensation] sachin30us:
Thank you for the updated links.. but the download speed is super slow.. not sure but the download speed is super slow.. please upload it on mediafire or something (just a suggestion) getting downloaded at 23kbps. Many Thanks
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
i can send you a DB link??
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
I know. I am attempting to get the ROM under 200MB right now, so that I can get it on MediaFire. Sorry about the speeds.
[HTC Sensation] mckellick:
Sounds like someone was partying lol..

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
mine is downloading at over 60kbps....just sayin....

if you want me to post a link for Drob Box let me know:)
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
Go for it. But, if you get to many people downloading from DropBox, your account will get suspended, happened to me yesterday.
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
hahaha... i didn't know that.... well o well.. if it makes it faster for people to download.. idc...

gimme a few min and ill have the link posted
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
Cool. I got the ROM down to 191MB, so I'll be uploading to MediaFire in about 30 minutes.
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
sweet... so we will have three download links... so everyone shouldn't have a problem getting it downloaded...

thanks again... if you need anything let me know...
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
No, it'll just be the MediaFire link. It will be v.1.1.0.
[HTC Sensation] sachin30us:
Looking forward to the link.. it would be great if you can add the installation instructions. I have clockwork recovery installed and S off. Let me know when you have the mediafire links.
[HTC Sensation] troby86:
v1.1.0 posted. Enjoy!
[HTC Sensation] sachin30us:
Thank you SOO much.. this downloading at 700kbps. Many Thanks
[HTC Sensation] fatall:
Hi, just tried to install your rom, but it got stuck?

I went into touch recovery, did a a super wipe, installed your rom and rebooted.

It flashed the Sensation banner then changed to Android banner and I left if for a good 10 minutes and no change, still at the android banner.

I guess more information on how to install would helpful or what are the software requirements.

Hope to get this installed soon

I should have mentioned that this was on v1.1.0
[HTC Sensation] overthinkingme:
I don't think superwipe is compatible.
[HTC Sensation] fatall:
Once I flashed the rom and tried to reboot and it hung, I went back to recovery and tried the standard wipe and reboot, but it still hung.

I have gone back to my previous rom. But I could try recovery> standard wipe> install rom > reboot. But I am not confident that would work either but I might have a go at that later.
[HTC Sensation] stafly17:
no super wipe. Just factory reset/wipe data