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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] d3xtro.:
You're going to want to be buying a new USB cable. There is no other way to root other than doing it on a computer.

Never mind, I realized you said port and not cable. I don't think there is anything you can do. Sorry.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jax184:
How broken is the port? It's pretty easy for anyone who's handy with a soldering iron to replace.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] wm2485:
The solder points are just sooo close together. I don't think I could do it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jax184:
I've done them myself. Know anyone who solders a lot? Maybe you can get them to replace it for you if you order the part.

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/10103593-0001LF/609-4049-1-ND/2350356?cur=USD

This should be a compatible part.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
If you are brave enough to do it... just pour solder over all the pins, then use your iron plus solder-wick to suck up all the solder in between the pins. ...and remember to use your multimeter to check for shorts before powering up. Make sure there is a lot of solder on the retention tabs too so it doesn't break again.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jax184:
You're forgetting one key point. BUY LIQUID FLUX. A dry joint will be impossible to work with. But if you add some extra flux, the solder will flow nicely and tend to hug the pins instead of bridging.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
[Q] Chronic "Unexpected Lack of Boot Partition on the SD card! Please Report"

Hi,

First let me say - YES, i have searched all of the forums here (and a number of other sites) and seem to have tried almost every option.

I have Chronic "Unexpected Lack of Boot Partition on the SD card! Please Report" problems. The farthest I get guaranteed is the cyanogenmod boot and menu (if I try and bring it up). I'm simply trying to get the SD card with cm7 to boot reliably and not eventually loose the boot partition.

Off and on since spring I was able to burn a CM7 image (verygreen's size agnostic, and one or two others I have since lost track of) to a SD card; have had it boot to cm7 and it work for awhile - but then eventual degraded into the no partition found error. the majority of the time it just doesn't work and results in that annoying purple black screen.

When it does work, it only works for awhile and then the boot partition can't be found; a few very small 3 of times - if I copied a new update it woke back up ad worked for a couple of reboots then lost the partition again.

Anybody got time to take pity on my melted brain and take a few guesses?

Clearly I'm not only missing something - but as things have gotten worse, am now missing more (if that is possible) as I'm going backwards to see why it no longer works at all.

At this point wrong has happened so often, I'm just lost on what even worked way back when I started.

I'm trying to backtrack to where it at least worked a little for a few days...but noob world is decaying into worse world.

I tried a couple of other, older processes and a multiboot menu one that seemed promising (plus could handle the new naming conventions for 7.2 CM7); but that one never even got past the missing boot partition.

I have tried approx 10 2gb SDCards, Sandisk, Kingston, Unknown; Class 4 and mixed.

I have tried 3 8GB SD Cards, Sandisk, class 4

I have tried 1 16gb SD Card, Sandisk, class 4

I have tried a Vivitar Micro SD Card Reader

I have tried the micro SD card Adapters in a laptop, and then in a sandisk USB adapter.

I even tried doing it all using the Nook color via a USB cable.

I even tried leaving the nook color off and connecting the USB cable to the PC to initiate a boot.

Using Windskimager

Using SD formatter

Have formatted Full erase and overwrite.

Tried leaving partition size alone

Tried partition resizing up to 250mb

Tried cm7 zip alone and with gapps

WinXP on 2 desktops and a laptop
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
It sounds like you have run the gamut of attempted resolutions.

That message is part of the verygreen partitioning script that runs every time the verygreen recovery is run. So, that means the normal boot kernel for CM7 is not loading.

The way the verygreen SD should operate is it starts with uImage and uRamdisk on the boot partition. Those are verygreen's recovery files. The first time it is booted, it looks at your emmc to be sure it is a nook. Then it looks at the SD to see if it has been partitioned yet. If it is not, it partitions it into those partitions necessary for installing ROMs. After partitioning, it looks for a zip to install. If it does not find one, it shuts down and the next time it boots it does the same thing until it finds the first ROM zip to install. If it finds one, it installs it. The first time it installs a ROM, it renames those uImage and uRamdisk verygreen files to uRecImg and uRecRam and they become the verygreen recovery files. And it installs new uImage and uRamdisk files from the zip to become your CM kernel and ramdisk. These are what normally will load in the future to start CM.

Now, with the disk partitioned and CM installed, ordinarily, after the cyanomod logo comes up, it boots by default to CM via the uImage and uRamdisk files. If you intercede with the boot menu and tell it to boot to SD recovery, it looks for uRecImg and uRecRam to load the verygreen recovery. If that is loaded, the verygreen script does all its checking again, it verifies that emmc is a nook, then tries to verify if the SD is partitioned. If it is, it looks for a new zip to install. If, in checking to see if it is partitioned, it cannot find partition 1, it gives that message that has been bugging you.

So I see two things that are happening to you.

First, it is booting to the verygreen recovery first instead of CM. That could be due to a recovery bootloop happening. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature to see an explanation as to what that is and how to possibly get out of it.

Second, after it boots to the verygreen recovery, it does its checking and cannot find partition 1 of the SD and gives you that message.

What I cannot understand is, if you have no partition 1 on your SD, how is it booting to the verygreen recovery?

What you have not told us is what you have on emmc. Stock? Does it boot properly without the SD installed? Or does it go to stock recovery?

After this happens to you again, take the card out and put it in the PC. Tell us what you see. What files are there? Maybe look at it with Mini-Tool Partition Manager and see what partitions it reports.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Ditto on that - especially as it boots happily to that error message time after time after the green cyanomod screen appears and I can also do the menu trick to get it to go into recovery.

Just as a clarifier: A number of times it tried to do the install (text flowing by) and at the end claims it can't find the boot partition - odd (unless I have less of an idea of what I am doing than I think) as isn't all that running from that partition? A fairly even number of times it doesn't even run the install and just errors out right up front.

Once in a great while it all works, and I'm good for a few days - but eventually upon rebooting to get it back to normal (either by menu choice or by pulling the sd card) - all I get is that lack of partition again.

Yes with the SD card out it boots to stock, although a few time what looked like the CWMod menu came up after I shut down and started up without the SD card installed. Maybe only 2 or 3 times out of WAY to many boots to stock so the kids could read their books while I went to work.

I have even tried resetting the nook to factory on the off chance I did something dumb while mucking about to cause that.

Will do so later tonight and will read the notes in your signature as well.

I saw something go by about the boot partition having to start at the 63 block or something - I can't believe ALL my SDcard adapters / writers are bad, but could the nook reader be screwy? Anyway to do a real test? I've been using the Easeus Partition Manager, but will try the Mini-Tool Partition Manager.

Thanks for the step by step explanation of exactly what happens in the process so I can again get a handle on what it's all doing. That all makes sense to what it looks like it tries to do. Deeply appreciate the time!.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
You know, I am beginning to suspect something is wrong with your card reader built into the nook. Some sort of intermittent thing like a pin not making a good connection to the card. Put an ordinary SD in it and see if your stock can consistently read it.

Is your unit still under warranty? You might want to explore seeing if you can get it replaced.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j8048188:
Your downloaded verygreen image might be corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
I had thought of that too - at stock it seems to have no problems reading consistently; I've done surface tests using partition manager - but haven't located any real other options of hard testing like once done for hard drives.

Plus the fact that sometimes, it will work for days before it craps out.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
A number of times - I went through and wiped all my downloads for the latest try.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
You do not need to remove the SD to test booting to emmc. Just press and hold the n button during the boot until the boot menu comes up. Then select emmc/normal and boot. It will boot to stock. The only problem with doing that is now your SD boot partition is 'sdcard'. But should work for testing stock.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Yes, I know - but it's two separate tests to see which one caused the problem.

:(

Turns out that neither was needed - it was easier to create; my son simply turned it off (not a reboot cycle as I had been doing which worked).

When it was turned on, it no longer boots - it goes straight to BSOD (actually deep purple).

Booting into recovery gets me:

Penguin Logo

rcS!

Populating /dev using udev: done

Initializing random number generator.... done.

modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory

Starting Network...

Detected Standard B&N nook layout, emmc first

Error! Unexpected lack of boot partition on the SDCARD!

Please Report!

Poweroff when ready

Since I'm till held to the noob reposting limit of once every 5 minutes and the captha I can barely read - I'll post MiniTool result in about 5 minutes. I'll link a screen capture if i can here.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
I tried to boot per menu to the EMMC stock; Clockworkmod Recovery v3.2.0.1 came up. I know I did emmc and what ever the second default is (which should be normal) - I'm pretty sure it was normal.

I offed it and did the same and confirmed it was the default; THIS time it came up Nook stock.

Is there some way I installed something to the stock NOOK and didn't remove it when I restored to factory? The other day I did the restore from that same clockworkmod screen NOT from the stock Nook environment.

I'm wondering if I somehow created my own monster way back when I first started this and was playing in the android environment.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
I just edited what I wrote a few seconds ago. The reason it went to emmc recovery is because the recovery flag was not reset when that SD Recovery told you that error. Did you read my tips about recovery bootloops? When you exited 3.2.0.1, it cleared the flag and booted normally.

I still suspect hardware issues.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Just for Ha, Ha's I hooked the Nook via USB to the PC.

G Drive "Removable Disk G" (wants a disk to be inserted)

E Drive "MyNookColor" ( Lots of what I assume to be standard Nook folders.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
See my edit above.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Attachement # 1

SD Card from Mycomputer:

Attachment # 2

MiniTool View of SD Card
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Boot Partition

Properties using Minitool Partition Wizard (attached):

Used

Partition Info

File System Info

Surface Test of Boot Partition:

Perfect - so no picture.

:mad: This is SO aggravating - I almost would accept just knowing why rebooting wrecks something if I knew WHAT). :confused:
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Sorry,

apparently not closely enough

- got lots of time again.

....didn't expect that anyone would be watching, was busy posting pictures so I could go away and read and think...

Probably is hardware - wish I had some way to vigorously test that, I get that basic use in Nook Stock doesn't really prove everything is good.

Plus I bought refurbished and I have to go dig up the warranty, it was months ago, so not too hopeful and boxes long gone. Don't know how nice B&N is, free replacement charger and cord is one thing - whole another refurb unit is different if I can't show stock SD card reading is an issue, not sure how much they check, but I don't think they care about CM7 off a SDcard not working!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
Everything looks perfect on that card. All the right files, partition sizes, etc. You have stock on emmc, CWM 3.2.0.1 on emmc recovery.

I still suspect hardware issues. Powering off makes card semi-unreadable. Can still boot to it but when checking for partition information on SD fails.

If you registered your nook, the serial number is all you need. Refurbished usually have a one year warranty. Mine did. Just tell them card reading is intermittent. Which it is. They are pretty generous. You still have stock on there.

Edit: Try just an ordinary SD and power off, reboot, and repeat many times and in between check card reading ability.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Yup, it's really the only thing that hasn't been able to be changed through all of this.

I've mostly gotten these results - I've managed to make it worse as I redid things and apparently got sloppy. But when going back to methodically following instructions I have what I had months ago. I had hoped buying other cards would make it at least act differently.

Thanks for all of the reviews and double checking, at least I now it's not something obvious (but wasn't obvious to me) that I missed along the way!

I'll have to call B&N and see how strict they are and if they take the "It just has trouble reading any SD card consecutively".

Now where was that review of the Nexxus 7.... and I wonder how all the tablet prices are going to drop especially for the Galaxy Tab. Buying is not as fun but I am completely beat with modding failures. :eek:
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
We are too fast with each other. Lol. See my edit above.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWBug:
Good to know about the warranty - Will do the call and try the SD test in the meantime.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommybrrr:
To all the kernel developers here, I have a simple question?

How do you measure the performance of your kernels?

Do you use benchmark apps from the market or do you have some profiling tools that may tell you other facts that just:

- max. CPU throughput

- max GPU frames per second

- max I/O writes/reads in bytes per second

I think most of those points are rather useless for a phone, they seem like they come from the old days of computer benchmarks. For example GPU fps will usually capped by vsync. and min. frame rate(bellow 25 fps) percentage over time is usally not even mentioned. Max I/O writes/reads are not really important, for most of the time it's more important to have higher priority for I/O reads than for writes, because they occur less frequently and may "interrupt" any reading process like music players, with the only exception of video/audio recording. For the CPU, measuring the total active time+power draw to perform a task is also more important than just the spike performance.

So, I would really like to know, how you all do proper profiling of your kernels.

NOTE: PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE THIS POST AS DISRESPECTFUL OF ALL YOUR HARD & DEDICATED WORK - I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!

Thomas
[About XDA developers] Torkrench:
What happened to the "Search this thread" button? It was there last night, but gone today. Am I just not seeing it somewhere?
[About XDA developers] macevanscb:
What's up with search?????

Me too.

I'm logged in, yet every forum page I go to does NOT have a search tool.

What's going on with these forums.

This happens all the time!!!!!
[About XDA developers] theniel:
Yeah I'm also having this issue. At least now I can post stupid threads in the wrong places and no one can say to search before I ask dumb questions.
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
This site has been riddled with nothing but problems a lot of yesterday and so far today. Hopefully, the team will be able to get it sorted ASAP for us

Sent from Sony Xperia S using XDA Premium

Join my threads here and here
[About XDA developers] conantroutman:
If you're using the new theme then it may be in the collapsible side bar. Otherwise it's a bug.

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[About XDA developers] macevanscb:
Why does search keep disappearing and reappearing?????

What is going on with this site????

Search is absolutely essential to get anything done here.

Why does it keep going away???????
[About XDA developers] weboide:
It's gone again..?
[About XDA developers] V@no:
Perhaps it's in maintains mode?

Would be nice have some kind of notification/warning when such things happened.
[About XDA developers] Tabtoub:
yeah it's gone again coz i'm not seeing it :/
[About XDA developers] Azurael:
It's gone... And the n00bs are going to be even more dumb if they don't even have the option to search :( Help!
[About XDA developers] TheEvilVirus:
+1 I need search!
[About XDA developers] nomisunrider:
This is really annoying. Makes large threads hopeless to search...
[About XDA developers] syncopath:
It's already started!
[About XDA developers] woody1:
I understand if the site is having a problem with the search function. Those kind of things happen. But if it's broken,

then please put up some prominent stickies to let people know it's broken and what the status is

!!!

Because, well, with the search function broken, we can't search the forum to find out if the search function is broken! See how that works?
[About XDA developers] khellific:
Please bring this back!
[About XDA developers] woody1:
FYI, I was using the 2010 theme and "Search this thread" disappeared. I just switched to the new beta theme, and now I can see a "Search this thread" function, but when I use it, I get a message that "search is temporarily not working". An error message is definitely an improvement over a disappearing function.
[About XDA developers] Henry_01:
I really hate this too. If its broken mods could easily let all us know in the portal.

The google search function works but it **** hard.

I always get this error

vBulletin Message

Search is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.
[About XDA developers] thepieguy:
They must want everybody to stop using the pesky search function and just post new threads. Easier for everybody that way.
[About XDA developers] Ron G:
nooooo

without search function it's hard to find anything in lots of pages thread
[About XDA developers] syncopath:
It's back!
[About XDA developers] Ron G:
SEARCH IS AGAIN GONE?

I'M GETTING THIS ERROR WHEN I TRY TO SEARCH MY POST HISTORY

An error occurred while performing a Searchlight query:

connection to 10.41.47.194:9312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused)

If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.
[About XDA developers] syncopath:
Search has gone again for me too. I get:

if I try to search for all my posts.
[About XDA developers] planckstime:
I found this thread thru Google

Search is a necessity

I am a noob, maybe I should bother some experienced developers with my noobish wrath?
[About XDA developers] ThePhoneGeek:
This is beyond frustrating. Has absolutely nothing to do with being a n00b or not... I never have a need to post here but learn a bunch here and having the ability to search is the most basic element of a forum...
[About XDA developers] Avilove.Cullen:
Search is working on tapatalk but not on xda :(

Please fix this asap:(
[About XDA developers] Ron G:
now search is working again
[About XDA developers] ThePhoneGeek:
but searching within a forum is not...
[About XDA developers] Ron G:
it's working fine for me
[Android] roxdragon:
Hi guys!

I have cooked my rom!

Deodexed - rooted and zipaligned!

I have tryed flash with recovery.. it's OK!

when the phone starts I get an error

"the application has stopped working "

what is the APK name of message?

How to solve this error?

I have Galaxy S3
[Android] thewadegeek:
Only thing I can suggest is grabbing a logcat and seeing what is crashing, you aren't giving a whole lot of info there.
[Android] roxdragon:
how do I view the logcat?
[Android] thewadegeek:
After you have recorded it then just open it in a text editor.
[Android] wes342:
not sure if you ment how to open the logcat file

or how to actually get the logcat file.

heres how to get it.

use adb

best way to do it.

you need to have adb setup on your computer

connect device to computer

open terminal or cmd

adb

this will give you usage info about adb if not adb needs to be added to PATH

adb logcat -d > path/to/ desktop/logcat.txt

you can find market app that will save logcat to your sd card

if I remember correctly "alogcat"
[Android] roxdragon:
This is my logcat

App "Message" crashed!

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1062350/

line 7777

Help please :'(
[Android] wanam:
Did you remove CSC folder?
[Android] roxdragon:
I never had a folder csc

gianni@gianni-desktop:~/Scrivania/ROM/WORKING_062512_024231/system$ ls
app cameradata framework media usr vsc
bin etc hdic preloaddata vendor wakeupdata
build.prop fonts lib tts voicebargeindata xbin
[Android] wanam:
You didn't extract it :D , it's included on the "cache.img", we can work without it on sgs2 but it's a must on sgs3.
[Android] wanam:
Use "24" option on Advanced options then "Extract_SGS2_CSC_from_cache.img", i think cache.img must be the root working folder, it will convert it to ext, then follow the displayed steps.
[Android] roxdragon:
PLUGIN SCRIPTS
--------------------------------------

(1) Extract_SGS_CSC_from_cache.rfs
(2) Decompile_and_Compile_Deodexed_File
(3) Install_SGS2_CWM_Manager
(4) Batch_Deodex
(5) Sample
(6) Extract_SGS2_Kernel_Initramfs
(7) ReadMe
(8) Extract_SGS2_CSC_from_cache.img

--------------------------------------

0 - Exit r - Refresh list

Enter an option: 8

Samsung Galaxy S2 CSC Extractor
-------------------------------

This script will extract the CSC (Customer Software Customization)
from the cache.img of a stock Samsung Galaxy S2 firmware. The CSC
comes in a file called 'sec_csc.zip' which contains location and
carrier-specific configurations and software.

Proceed (y/n)? (default: y):

Creating folder /home/gianni/Scrivania/ROM/csc_062712_205036 ...

---> Place stock cache.img or cache.img.ext4 into the folder mentioned above <--

Press Enter to continue

Compiling simg2img ...
simg2img successfully compiled

Unpacking cache.img into a format for unpacking ...
computed crc32 of 0x20453d0a, expected 0x00000000

Mounting ext4_cache.img to loopback device and then extracting files ...
[sudo] password for gianni:

Finished! Your file is at csc_062712_205036/sec_csc.zip.

You can unzip this file and copy the contents of the 'system'
folder to your ROM's system folder.

I have a package "sec_csc.zip"

I have extracted sec_csc.zip and i have into *.zip

META-INF

system

i need copy all files into system to /WORKING_FOLDER/system? and META-INF?

now??
[Android] roxdragon:
Solved thank u

Another quesyion..

How to remove default app during installation of custom rom?

MyTaxy.apk, videohub, rhs hotel .... etc...?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drdagreenphd:
Wondering if someone has come up with a flashable transparent dock bar mod. I am running fresh 5.1.1. Been searching the forums but can't seem to find an answer.