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[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] napsterstiffler:
Thank you for the swift reply. I didn't. I am really new at this so you'll have to pardon my ignorance. Will i have to flash the GB kernel with fastboot? Where can I get this kernel and is there a particular version I have to use? Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
Hey guys,

I hope you can help me. I am aware of the ICS Kernel Bricking bug, and the faulty chip with the faulty firmware, as described on the xda portal, and I read all the stickies. Nevertheless I want to ask you for your opinion on this matter, to prevent turning my note into a brick :)

So thats what happend last night:

I was on LPY for about 1 month (since released) with root, stock kernel. Before I was on GB DarkyRom 3.3. Everything went normal until I made 2 changes the last hours:

1. I modified the build.prop with this tutorial:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1687156

2. I installed Super Video (like popup player on the galaxy s3) and had several freezes when I started to watch 2 videos. So I took out the battery like 4 times.

Phone booted normally. So I locked the screen, and went to a party.

Then I realized that within 2 Hours the battery got from 50% to 15%. I was too busy to look at betterbatterystats, so I just rebooted the phone with the stock Power Menu.

Now my phone won't boot anymore. It stucks on "Samsung Galaxy Note N-7000" Screen.

As I said, I have not wiped, or do anything with cwm or 3e recovery. However, I can get into DL mode and 3e recovery.

What can I do now? Flash LPF? Reflash LPY?

I read somewhere by someone, that it could be, that even without wiping, the phone can get brick at anytime... Did that happend to me?

I haven't tried to flash anything else, because I wanted to share this with you and get your opinion.

Thanks in advance :) :confused:

k!DDa
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
So now donot try anything.I suppose you were in darkyrom 3.3 re.If so,you should have known about the counter.So flash it and you will be fine.I again say it will increase counter if you use 3.3 re.

If you don't want the counter,flash a stock gb rom/stock-rooted gb rom.I prefer 3.3 re because it is a wipe rom ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
Hi vijai2011,

thanks for your answer but I was on darkyrom BEFORE I switched to LPY (that was just a side note^^)

> the last month, including today, I am on LPY, which isn't booting anymore.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
thats not a problem.you can try.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
wow you're fast^^

okay but isn't it possible to revive my note? e.g. just flashing a non wipe ICS version via PC ODIN (I do not care about the counter or triangle)

like criskelos ICS No wipe http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1609252
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
the inability to boot you describe sounds like something a corrupted build.prop might cause so it's probably nothing to worry about. you'll need to restore your build.prop somehow, probably by flashing something in Odin
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
ok thanks, I will try. but one good and one bad thing:

I saved the original build.prop before :)

But on the internal SD card and not my external :( ^^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinyWiz:
If you want to be absolute sure Flash a stock ICS (a full wipe version) rom from pc odin. If all goes well there is no brickissue for you. Then you root using Dr Ketans method.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
No problem.As I said already its better to go for a wipe rom because of the repartition thing...;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
one last qustion,

I decided to reflash LPY. But it has only an tar.md5 file. I cannot use MobileOdin. Can I just put it in PDA at PC Odin? (Rename it before to .tar?)

The last 20 firmwares I flashed hadn't that extension.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
yes that will work fine, but don't rename it. it works as .tar.md5
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anubis1126:
yes put the md5 in the pda section and flash with pc odin as normal
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k!DDa:
Thanks guys my phone is booting again :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] b3ltazar:
I was reading this article saying windows embedded compact 7 is arm based and booting quick on the tegra 2 chip set. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Toradex-Colibti-T20-boot-demo/ check it out. If this turns out true let's get something started. I don't know much about building android,but have made a few custom windows 7 builds. And windows compact 7 runs much like windows 7 has media center support for games flash silverlight pretty much everything. They are trying to market it for cable boxes, Htcp media centers. It clearly states tegra t250 has been supported from day one. And boots in 800 milliseconds. I might have read it wrong but its worth a look from a few android developers.if you do a search u will see the things that we could do with wec7. Please no flames I'm posting i n development to get some development going on this. Here's a quote.

Updated, Dec. 5] -- Toradex announced that its SODIMM-sized, Nvidia Tegra 2-powered module can boot Windows Embedded Compact 7 in 800 milliseconds, faster than any other 3D-accelerated graphical operating system. The Colibri T20 ships with 256MB or 512MB of RAM and 512MB or 1GB of flash storage, supports 1080p video playback, and offers interfaces including Ethernet, USB, I2C, and SPI, says the company.

Check it out

There's so many more sites with news about wec7 on tegra2 and other arm based processers.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] PVLMTREE:
Wow that is amazing to hear. Never thought a Tegra 2 has enough power to support the Window-base system. Although I bet there will be cons, always. Great find!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] tommrazek01:
Oh yea. The tegra 2 is more powerful than you think :). Anyway, if we could get the windows UI and file formats running on this...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] KonstantinKeller:
This would be ****in great :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] scoffyburito:
Did none of you guys check the release page Microsoft released describing features and versions and I'm pretty sure they are planning an ARM version.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] b3ltazar:
lets do it

Does anyone know how we can get this started I can strip windows embedded down if we need the space. If any one has any ideas post em. Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] lp894:
Idk if it helps but here a link that may be of assistan. Has windows embedded for tegra 2. Link goes to t nvidia developer site

http://forums.developer.nvidia.com/devforum/discussion/391/does-tegra-support-windows-embedded-compact-7/p1
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] b3ltazar:
wow

unfortunatly i no little about android building but im sure thats agood start for a seasoned developer.thanks for finding that img file.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Step666:
Forum rule number 1 states that you should search before posting - if you had, you would've found a number of threads discussing the possibility of porting various versions of Windows to the Tab 10.1, any of which would've been a more suitable place to post than starting yet another thread.

Forum rule number 15 states that you must post threads in the correct section - the Dev section is not the appropriate place for asking questions or having discussions.

Please continue any further discussion in the new Windows-on-Tab sticky.
[HTC One X] s4one:
1. Why are the pictures that my friends send to me via whatsapp, viber, etc smaller than the actual hox screen? I never had this issue when I used my HTC Sensation, and when I transferred the photos from the Sensation to my hox, the photos are smaller as well. Is there a resolution that I need to change? On the other hand, the photos that I take with my hox, always appear full size on the screen.

2. How do I disable wallpaper scrolling? Due to this, I am not able to get a full picture that I want to set. As many will know, we are only able to crop a certain area of the photo. I remember my Sensation had this issue but I some how bypassed it and was able to set any of my photos as a wallpaper.

Thanks a lot
[HTC One X] NitNav:
1. The screen resolution of the HOX is 720x1280 pixels, whilst the sensation is 540x960 pixels. Your friend's photo may be smaller than the actual resolution, hence looks smaller. That's what came to my head.

2. Unfortunately, that's what I hate about the wallpaper customisation, what I do is go to Google Play and download the app "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper". It's confusing at first to use, however, it's the best app (I believe) out there.
[HTC One X] s4one:
thanks a lot, ill give it a shot!
[Acer Iconia A500] MrR0ng:
I am currently stuck without being able to get into bootloader or recovery. I have a rom that is currently working for about 10 minutes at a time (FLEXREAPER-RF1_rv3-CUSTOM-ICS for HC).

I was orignially on the HC bootloader, using CWM v5. I then used the file found here http://skrilax.droid-developers.org/a500/nvflash/images/a500_a501_bootloaders_apx_ics_v7.zip and installed it from CWM. It looked like it installed just fine.

The problem is that now, when I try to get into recovery, I just see this screen

Using Afterota, I was able to get my CPUID and the rest

Tablet Serial	: 11920475015

Tablet Cpuid	: 011920475015

Tablet Sbk	: 0x6AA1E101 0x69CCD301 0x991D3003 0x07580203

Bootloader	: 0.03.0X-HC

Android Build	: FLEXREAPER-RF1_rv3_Acer_AV041_A500_1.031_033_041.00_CUS_WW_GEN1

But when I try to use blackthund3r or Timmydean, my tablet goes into APX just fine (with the screen blank and the power button white), but none of the tools can get my tablet to go into bootloader download mode.

I am totally stuck, and have no idea what to do. I have tried following instructions for http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1516012, but neither of them can get me into bootloader. When I use the TimmyDean tool and put my tablet into APX manually, I get to the screen where I put in the CPUID, but i tells me that the CPUID I am entering is invalid. I've checked using multiple methods, and I always get my CPUID back at 011920475015. Is this a valid CPUID?

I am going crazy here.
[Acer Iconia A500] xgutterratx:
I have the same problem,

i cant boot into recovery mode.

and i cant get it to boot into APX mode i just get a black screen.

and can not find any wifi networks wont even search.

Would love some help.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, first off, your UID is fine. For ICS that is. TimmyDeans tool requires an HC UID. So you can't use it in TimmyDeans. Theoretically the SBK is the same for both in a lot of cases, just the UID number changes. But you have your UID so all is not lost.

Probably just the recovery image got toasted. Also, there are reports that a small percentage of tablets don't get along well with certain version recoveries. No know reason for this.

Can you boot into fastboot mode? (vol+ amd PWR) if so, you can try to fastboot a new recovery image through the android SDK. You can access fastboot through the Android SDK/Platform-tools folder on your PC (open a command window there. Put the tab in fastboot mode, plug in to PC, make sure windows recognizes it as fastboot device.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

(recovery.img being the name of the recovery you wish to use)

or

You can try the manual method of NVFlash. Personally I use one of the older tools from BlackThund3r to do this. It's not listed anymore, so if you need it, I'll have to package it in a zip file and post it.

Anyhow, those are a couple of methods to use.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] xgutterratx:
Hi

i need more info on how to fastboot through the Android SDK/Platform-tools.

i have downloaded the android sdk but look like just a package DOWNLOADER developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

cant use the other methods ( NVFlash BlackThund3r) it just hang on the black screen
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
First off, you have to download and install the Android SDK. When finished, it should install (under Win7) C:\program files (x86)\android\android-sdk

When you install it. make sure you right mouse click and "install as administrator". A good practice to get into when installing things.

Everything you need to know about installing the SDK (including platform tools) can be found here;

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

In there is a folder \Platform-tools. This is where you find Adb And Fastboot. If you hold SHIFT + Right mouse click, you can open a command window there. (win7)

But this is all dependent on whether you installed the correct drivers. Some say Acer Drivers will work. Personally I prefer to use the Google USB Drivers for Android. (google USB Drivers Android).

How do you know your drivers work? Easy, put your tab in APX mode, display will be black but you see the PWR button lit.

Check Windows Device manager with the tablet plugged in. Should list an APX device or Recovery Device. If it doesn't, you need to install the drivers manually by selecting the folder where you extracted the google drivers to. Ignore any incompatibility message.

Whether APX Mode, or Fastboot, Windows should load the specific drivers. If Device Manager doesn't reflect this, then you need to sort it out.

If you want to reflash something using Fastboot, like a boot.img or recovery.img, place the .img file in the same directory as the fastboot command. In most cases with the newer version SDK, it will be in Platform-tools.

The more common fastboot commands can be found in this thread, which I posted the command for recovery.img earlier.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1619913
[Acer Iconia A500] xgutterratx:
When i open fastboot.exe the window opens for 1 second and then closes again. am i missing something else.

i am starting to think i may have bricked my tab.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Dude, you can't "double click" fastboot.exe. Don't work that way.

As I posted earlier, open a CMD window in the platform-tools folder on your PC.

Then put your tab in fastboot mode (vol+ and PWR) till your tab says "fastboot mode". Then plug it in, and check Windows loads the fastboot drivers. (you should see it loading drivers in the windows taskbar).

After that, then you can run the fastboot command to install a recovery image. "IN THE CMD WINDOW"

If you don't feel comfortable doing this, then don't. We can find some other method that may be more comfortable for you.

I can zip up the app that I use, and maybe you should try that first. It uses NVFlash. As I really don't want you to bork things up anymore than they are now. Especially if you're not comfortable with fastboot (you can really bork things up with this).

Give me a little bit, and I'll post something for you guys to try.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Now, this is the tool I generally use. It requires the tab be in APX mode.

http://www.4shared.com/zip/ycbdG0qY/Ver4_BL_and_CWM.html

Extract the zip to your PC. It contains ver4 unlocked bootloader and CWM. I know this combo works.

Put your tab in APX mode. Connect to PC and verify windows loads the correct APX drivers. Then unplug the tab.

Start the app by "right mouse clicking A500APXFLASH.exe, and select "run as administrator".

Plug your APX Mode Tab into the USB when the app tells you. ( i think you have to do this first, or the app will do it for you. Can't remember, an don't feel like flashing another bootloader to find out)

Get your SBK number (usually I have this in notepad so I can copy and paste it).

Usually I select Manual as I only want to select the Ver4 unlocked.bin and the Thor Recovery and none of the other stuff.

Then I select Automatic when prompted. And follow the prompts when asked.

NOTE: After plugging in your APX mode tab, you may still see a message at the bottom of the app stating "No APX Devices Detected" Ignore this and click Next.

This was a small bug.

Also, sometimes on Win7 you may get a windows error box. Ignore this also and close it.

DO NOT UNPLUG the tab until the apps says complete. The whole process takes about 5 minutes or so to complete.

Then it's safe to unplug the tab. Shut it down, and reboot to recovery to make sure it works.

Also something I want to mention. If you guys installed OTA's, make sure you delete the "boot to recovery.p" in your tabs System file as states in Civato's thread. Otherwise, when you boot normally, it will delete your Custom Recovery, and you'll be doing this again.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
Hi MD,

thx for trying to help out here, much appreciated.

I've just tried your steps, the apx flash utility stays put at "stage two - uploading image..." and the nvflash cmd prompt stays at "[resume mode]". Waited for 10 minutes...nothing.

Is there anything else to try ?

ta,

T
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, there's always some tricks to try.

Did you use the Google drivers and verify you tab is registered in Windows Device Manage as APX device or Recovery Device?

To manually go to APX, shut down tab. Put a paper clip in the reset button, and hold. With your other hand, press and hold PWR for 3 seconds, release PWR, then about 1 second later remove paper clip. You should have black display with pwr lite on. Plug in tab and check device manager.
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
apx flashutil claims "Acer APX Mode device detected"

device mgr shows "Acer USB Boot-recovery driver" under "Universal Serial Bus controllers"
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
OK, that's good (I had to double check with mine)

Now, did you run the package I posted earlier? Reason is, it uses a .bin file instead of an apx package.

Also, as I am dealing with several other folks, do you have a bootloader when you boot? Like Skirlax_CZ blah blah blah version xxxx?
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
I tried the bootloader_ics_v4.bin and the recovery you supplied.

There's no mention of a bootloader on the A501 :(

Supposition : if my cpuid were wrong, would apxflash throw an error?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
@Tommmii, Which tablet do you have? a 500 0r 501?

Generally, if the UID/Sbk were wrong, the apps would throw an error.
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
A501

I'm beginning to suspect my UID (037c700140c0941) could be wrong.

If so, i'll be stuck up a creek without a paddle
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Looks like an HC UID. But it doesn't matter. If this was the UID you pulled under HC. Basically, ICS will change the UID. As a matter of fact, it may change it several times when you install ISC Roms. What shouldn't change, in most cases, is the SBK. Usually the SBK is the same under HC and ICS. At least with my tab it was.

Naw,,,, you still got a paddle. ;)

I got a 501 also.

So tell me, do you have any bootloader at all when you try to boot normally?

Also, you didn't tell me what happened when you tried running the app I posted with the Ver4 unlocked bootloader. Did it work? (don't worry if it said 500 or 501, can fix that later)

Attached is my 501 ver4.bin Throw it in the same directory as the tool I posted.
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
Power On gives the white Acer logo, followed by a bootlogo ("android" metallic type letters) From memmory that could be the stock HC bootlogo. Stuck in a loop though...

VolDown & PWR gives the HC Andy with an exclamation triangle dangling above his head.

edit : just tried renaming SD_Acer_A501_1.309.02_COM_GEN1 to update.zip , it updated the rom but no boot same as above

edit2 : didn't see your attachement...just tried it, stuck at [resume mode] in the nvflash debug window
[Acer Iconia A500] MrR0ng:
You rock so hard!

The super ridiculous fastboot method worked PERFECT for me. Took me all of 2 minutes. I was pulling my hair out. Thanks so much for the AMAZING support. Love the android community.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Ewwww.... right now, I am at a loss for a plan of attack.

After running the rom, and it updating ok, the Acer with the metallic logo's tells me it's a modified bootloader (I saw this in the earlier unlocked bootloader logos. Ver3 I believe. However, this ver3 I don't believe had flashboot capability.

Ver3 is ok. You can run it. Why we can't get it updated to ver4 right now, is beyond me.

Hmmm.... will have to come up with a different plan.

One thing puzzles me, why when you ran that .... "update", it didn;t put a stock bootloader on it.

Ewwww... too bad you are not near Moscow. I would love to get my hands on it.
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
could i run nvflash manually when connected in APX mode ?

Perhaps it would show more debug info then...?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
You can. You would have to get with Skirlax_CZ for more info on that.

I used to have some NVFlash script in the early days of the bootloader. Tried to find them, but can't. As I thought about posting it. Seems like the old stuff, got deleted or overwritten.

Try posting in his V7 bootloader thread. Give all possible info, and maybe he knows what to do. Right now, I have some theory's, but really need to have the tab in hand. Some things, you just have to have a feel for.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
creek...paddle. Knew it.

I noticed an error in the nvflash cmd window...it flashes away real quick, didn't see earlier.

See attachement
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Nope. Still have a paddle.

Send the exact thing to Skirlax_cz in his ver7 thread.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
One more tool to try.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1675939

Also, I asked you post in Skirlax_CZ BL7 thread, not Civato's Instruction thread. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
fastboot mode is vol UP and pwr - if that is available I'd be using it!!!

isn't this an HC Rom? Are you rolling back? if you're flashing the unlocked BL you need to download an ICS Rom for that

yeh the program can get stuck here - altho' not with the error you have, but it is not unrecoverable by any means...so no need to panic

just close the command window,

disconnect yr cable and power down yr tab -

power on again and take notice of any writing that appears on yr tab screen....

you can try a hard reset then reflash yr ICS rom to fix yr boot looping

a rollback to HC may be yr only solution for yr nvflash errors - all links to doing this are in the first post of my cpuid thread (link in sig)

To Perform a Hard Reset

1) Turn off your tablet,

2) Rotation lock to your left;

3) Press Vol+ (closest to the rotation lock) and power on simultaneosly

4) As soon as the tablet vibrates you can release the power on button and you should start to switch rotation lock left and right till you see

Erasing Userdata...

Erasing Cache...

Vol+ is still pressed;

5) The tablet starts to format
[Acer Iconia A500] Tommmii:
My bad, I apologize. I saw a BL7 thread, and failed to notice it was a [Guide].

Thx for reposting in the right thread!!

Had tried this prior to posting, tool is of no use to me, adb is not active.

---------- Post added at 09:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 PM ----------

fastboot isn't avail, had tried before.

It is indeed a HC rom, but at this point it doesn't matter what brings the tab to life, as long as it lives! :D

Hard reset never goes to "Erasing...", just has me flipping the rotation lock btn for about a minut after which cramps set in. :|

EDIT : hard reset did occur, then the tab reboots to the acer logo with top left, red letters: "boot verified failed ..."
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
the hard reset and reflash an HC rom are to fix yr bootlooping...i assume that didnt work??

and u did u notice any 'white' writing on boot-up regarding 'v4 UNL BL'??? u will see something like this when the BL has flashed correctly

the boot verified failed error is normally only fixable by running an EUU to rollback, link to gen1 or gen2 rom in my sig and follow jazzyjames post on How to roll back to HC