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[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irisclara:
1. That only happens to me on my first boot after updating my ROM, and only since I installed to internal (emmc).

2. Yeah, there's a camera app too and several other useless things. No, you shouldn't get rid of it. Some apps and Google stuff won't run if you do.

3. I have found that Android Assistant is a good noob alternative to Titanium Backup. TiBu can really let you screw things up. Android Assistant isn't as powerful but it does let you back up your apps.

For a noob learning to use power apps I have found it is best to have a particular goal in mind. If you just go looking for things to fiddle with the thing you'll learn is how to reinstall your ROM and apps.

If you don't have a dropbox account, get one. It will make your life easier and give you a place to store backups.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
What part are you from? My dad grew up in Kissee Mills and Forsythe. I have cousins in Branson.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hephaestus_:
Most apps are noob friendly by design... just don't mess around with overclocking/voltage tweaking apps such as nook tweaks and setcpu unless you know what you are doing. That's the only way I can think of of how someone could permanently brick their nook. ;P

Edit: Technically, you can get rid of the phone app by a process called freezing/blocking. You can do so with gemini app manager, BUT I wouldn't just freeze things willy-nilly. Some apps, like contact storage, are required for gapps to run; though I've successfully frozen the camera and phone app without any adverse side effects. To freeze, press the menu button, go to more, then click expert mode. Then navigate to the apps you want to freeze (camera and phone), hold your finger down on them, and it will bring up a menu with an option to freeze the app. If, for whatever reason in the future, want to have this app back, you can do so by navigating to the app in expert mode, hold for the menu and unfreeze it and the app will function as normal.

Edit 2: A fix you might want to try for the boot problem would be to wipe dalvik cache. If you are using clockwork mod recovery, boot into it through recovery mode, go to advanced, and select wipe dalvik cache. Then reboot and see if the problem is gone.

Edit 3. For apps you might want to install, here's a list of apps I use:

Dolphin Browser HD- Best internet browser imo, though you might want to disable dolphin sonar to prevent it from bothering you.

Poweramp/DoubleTwist + Air Sync: These are both music players. The difference between the two is that poweramp is more manual+cheaper and gives more input options while DoubleTwist is more automatic. I personally use Poweramp because it gives you the option to play flac lossless music files, but it requires you to manually copy music files to your sd card from your computer or download them from Google play. On the other hand, DoubleTwist is more expensive, but when paired with airsync, it gives you an option to install a program on to your computer that allows you to automatically sync wirelessly as well as plugged in. It also is compatible with iTunes.

Doubletwist Alarm: Best alarm I found. Simple to use, works, can calibrate to sleep cycles, etc.

B&N Nook App: For reading books from your nook library!

Battery Monitor Widget: Allows you to closely monitor your battery as well as see if your battery is drawing more power than the charger is inputting.

Swype Beta keyboard: A very fast keyboard that allows you to swipe between letters to input words. Also, free! Google it, it's not on the app store yet since its still in beta. The website will give you instructions on how to download. What I'm using right now to type this post!

HD widgets: Very nice aesthetically pleasing widgets that tell time, weather, etc.

That's all I can think of now but I might add more later.

Best of luck,
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Hey! All!

Leapinlar, I'm a bit north of Kissee Mills, I'm northwest of Durbin, south of H highway in Wright county. I was born in St. Louis, but mostly raised in northern Missouri and southern Iowa. My father worked as a supervisor for the railroad and we moved quite a bit for his work. I bought my property here back in 1961. It was somewhat isolated and had been clear cut by loggers and was pretty barren. I spent 6 years replanting and cleaning it up and put in a small dam on my creek for a pond. Built my home, garage, barn, tool shed, and workshop from 63 to 69. This became our permanent residence in 65. We raised 3 boys and 2 girls here and spend a happy 46 years living here until my wife passed. Will probably move to the city when I hit 80 or so, starting to get a bit difficult takin care of the place.

irisclara and Hephaestus - Thanks for the suggestions, I will give them a try.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DizzyDen:
GPB... any time you need any help... shoot me a pm and I'll fire you my cell #
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krylon360:
This place sounds very very familiar...... you wouldn't happen to have a dome shaped house would you?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Back on the correct subject

DizzyDen, Thank you for your offer. May have to take you up on it some time. I'm really trying hard to muddle through this and learn it. Keeps the old brain workin and I enjoy lickin a problem. Hardest part is finding out what folks are talking about sometimes with caches and such. I kinda like to know what something does and why it does it before I mess it up.

I do have another question about power usage. I've noticed that I can power down the Nook after using it and I'm assuming that it should be totally off, but I've noticed that the battery can read half full when I shut down but later ( 8 or 10 hours) when I try to turn it back on it will be dead. I then have to recharge it to use it again. I understand or maybe misunderstand that the battery will only take so many charge cycles and I dont want to run through those cycles willy nilly since the battery isn't user replaceable and it would leave my Nook a paper weight. How do I find out what is using the power when the Nook is supposedly off? I've done some searching through settings and don't see or I'm missing seeing the setting I need to stop this.

Also how do I shut down the Sonar in Dolphin? It's a royal pain and I don't want to install google voice. Hepheastus_ said it could be disabled but I don't see a setting to do so. Being old as dirt and half blind I'm probably not seeing the setting.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DizzyDen:
GPB... one thing to note... just pressing the power button only shuts the screen down... to truly power it off... hold the power button in for several seconds... you can select power off from the menu that comes up... or simply keep holding it in and the nook will truly power off.

Can't help with the dolphin sonar question... haven't used dolphin in a while... but can re-install it if you don't get it figured out.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
DizzyDen, I shut the Nook all the way down with the menu. I put a full charge on it last night and shut it all the way down at 10 pm. I turned it on this morning at 7 am and checked the battery icon and it shows about 2/3 discharged. Don't know what would be causing the battery drain or if the battery drain is only in Cyanogenmod. I am going to pull the SD card out, charge the battery up and then shut it down in the regular Nook andriod. I will let it set for 9 hours and then check it to see if the battery is down. This way I figure I will find out if it is a general problem with my Nook or if it is Cyanogenmod generated.

I'm feeling a bit foolish at the moment. I just discovered that the Q & A forum wasn't the only one with folks asking questions about the Nook. There are a couple of others that I completely bypassed.:o The old brain sure has been asleep on that.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
I don't know how some of this stuff happens. A couple of months ago a user was complaining that even though he completely powered everything off via the menu and the charging cable was disconnected, it would wake itself up in the middle of the night. I would not think that was possible, but he swore it was happening. Maybe there is some circuit inside the nook that stays on even though it is supposed to be off. I don't know how one tests for that.

GB, experiment for us. Instead of shutting down with the menu, hard power off and see if that makes a difference. Hard powering off is holding the power button for a long time until the screen goes black.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Leapinlar,

I will do the hard power off when I get back home this evening. I'm in Springfield at the moment,had to take a some produce and goats milk to some customers that buy from me. Got to make a living even if it aint much.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shumash:
As both an suggestion to your OP #3 question and the power use issue, I found that it's pretty easy to get confused as to whether the Nook has entered "deep sleep", i.e. you press the power button and the screen animates into a single white line and goes black, or it actually shuts down. I use these apps to both preserve the mechanical integrity of the hardware button and to make sure I get what I want.

Quick Shutdown (Just shuts down)

or this

Quick Boot (Gives you configurable shutdown/reboot options).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
leapinlar,

I charged up the Nook to make sure the battery had a full charge. I powered up Cyanogen and gave it a bit for everything to settle down, I then did a hard shutdown as you said. I powered on the Nook this morning after letting it sit for 10 hours and it still has a full charge on the battery. Does this indicate something isn't turning off or all of the way off during a normal shutdown?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
GB, for some reason your software is not really turning it off. I recommend getting one of those software apps like the ones shumash recommended above. I personally use Nook Color Power Button Donate by Otis. There is a free version, but it only puts it to sleep. The donate version (I think it was 99¢) lets you configure several things, including making full power off the default. Like shumash said, it saves wear and tear on your physical button and works very quickly with one tap. And it was made specifically for the Color.

Another thing, something is running in the background while it is sleeping. I suspect it is you leaving the wifi on during sleep. Most people don't need that. Go to settings, wireless, wifi settings, then hit menu for advanced. There is a setting to configure how wifi behaves with sleep. Set it to 'when screen turns off'. This makes wifi sleep when the rest of the system is sleeping. That should reduce battery consumption when sleeping.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Will give the wireless setting a try tonight. I'm probably going to have to put my Nook up for a bit. Summer veggies are ready for harvest and I'm getting a mite behind. Thank you all for your help.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Haven't had a chance to try anything else with the Nook; my almost 15 year old ( in Oct. ) grandson has sort of hijacked my Nook. He's down here to help me for a bit and the second the work is done and he's cleaned up he grabs the Nook and is on Angry Birds. Guess grandpa's not as interesting and fun as he once was. May trade some produce and meat for a Nook Tablet for him so I can get my Nook Color back.:laugh:
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrampaBear:
Is there an age limit for members here on the forum? My grandson has been reading the forum and has become somewhat attached to my Nook. He's already made his own Cyanomod 7 SD card and is using it in the Nook. He makes it do more wiz bang things than I was able. He's almost 15 and pretty doggone smart and has questions about CM7. Can he post them here with an account of his own? He's going to be heading back home to Colorado soon and looks like he will have the Nook with him.:D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
Yep. Have him register and join the fun.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotlurve:
Please can anyone help.

Up till a couple of days ago my s3 would automatically connect to my wifi signal at home as soon as I walked into my house, haven't changed any thing but it no won't connect until either I reboot or switch wifi off and then back on again . Tried rebooting phone which works for the first connection but subsequently won't connect again after sleep or at least the phone not being used for a while. Also switching wifi off and back on again works but as before once wi fi shuts down it won't reconnect by just swiping the screen and taking the phone off of standby.

Hope that was clear enough lol

Many thanks Ian
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Its a well reported problem for some a search may find an answer .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Reboot the modem/router and try again. If that doesn`t help press your wifi connection in settings and reinsert the password and reboot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotlurve:
Yes I've found plenty of things relating to wifi issues on the phone but none specifically to this one so if anyone could help I would be grateful.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadimsoze:
I assume you've tried forgetting the network and re-entering the details.

Also try playing with the Wi-Fi sleep policy, in the past this has caused some problems with the stability of the connection. Settings, Wi-Fi, menu, advanced.

Also it might be on the router side. Try changing the channel on the router, and if it's dual band set it to 2.4ghz instead of 5.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Back up data. Factory reset.

Update firmware.

Change kernel.

That's three possible fixes.

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djcla:
Im getting very similar issues with my s3 trying to connect to a dlink router, works fine with the netgear one though. Did you manage to fix?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikemikenz:
I cannot seem to get the WIFI Sleep to work at all. Even when set to NEVER on when asleep I can see in the battery stats that WIFI has stayed on the entire time. Any idea why this is?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inscythe:
can you tell us the ROM and kernel you are using (if you are using custom)? I have never had any issues with stock kernel myself.

also, did you hide your wifi SSID? in the past, it might cause some issues...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JVaras:
I was having the same problem, try this.. Setting - wifi - advanced - keep wifi on during sleep - Always.

I haven't noticed more battery use,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToaderBoat:
if you want another option besides backing up your data, doing a full wipe, and reloading your data, try a different kernel...easy fix that seems to fix these problems most of the time...the kernel is responsible for your wifi, gps, bluetooth, cpu, gpu, etc...so swapping it out should fix an issue like that
[About XDA developers] SaHiLzZ:
Please fix. I am not ready to move to 2013 theme yet.

I like and used the compact view on 2010 theme, however as of today is looking like 2013 compact view. Is it just me?
[About XDA developers] Lesicnik1:
Yeah, I noticed it too.

I dislike it.

Takes too many steps to get to a sub-forum.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] animal24:
So ever since i ran mmuzzy's jb rom for the vzw nexus, my sim card has been hot to the touch. Its easy enough, should I replace it? I think its only 5 dollars even from the "Authorized Retailer" thats next to my house.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Liskrig:
It may not even be the SIM (it could be though) it may just be residual heat from another part of the phone, especially if you are OC-ing the processor, or you tweak the kernel too much.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Troggie81:
I know there are the Seidio-style spring clip holsters, but I've always preferred the top loading ones. Does anyone have one or can recommend a brand to look at?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] krackerjac:
I got one from the att store

Leather top longing belt clip
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Troggie81:
Can you post a pic when you get a chance?
[HTC Incredible S] micho119:
Hi All,

The mobile shows that update to ICS is available OTA, I've successfully downloaded it but when the phone restart to install it it got stick on the blue android icon with warning sign,

the device is S-On, HBOOT-2.00

I am based on Middle East.

Please support, I really want to download the update.

Thanks,

Michel
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Androgenic:
I'm new here and have no rights to post in dev section.

I have tried many possible tools and tips for getting root on o4x... No success yet..

But I found out that SupeOneClick tool could write on some sections on /data.

The main problem remains that we couldn't get WRITE access to /system section.

I'm not expert on Linux but I let run some scripts on /system/bin and /root... Till now unfortunately no success.

I found interesting scripts for FOTA like lgdms.fota_update.rc.

As I see our system path is /dev/block/Platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system

can someone of devs confirm that?

That would mean all other tools trying to gain access with "mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p33 /system"

will not help us anyway.. Or I'm wrong?

cat /proc/mounts cmd brings me no other /system path...

Here what I get on "cat /proc/mounts":

app_107@android:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

app_107@android:/ $ cat /proc/mounts

rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0

proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0

debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0

tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,resuid=1000,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAL /cal ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MLT /mpt ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DRM /persist-lg ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

app_107@android:/ $

P.S. Excuse for my bad English.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ianford10:
Thanks for posting

I also have two files that might be worth having a look at.

http://db.tt/dPOQmB5H
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Androgenic:
WOW!

Thanks... Thats interesting to look at...

Can you tell me how you dump sys files? I would take a look on some other too..
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Androgenic:
So I found a complete dump of /system... Thats fine.

Maybe there would be something that would help to gain write access to /system.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mcwups1:
Why does it look like this when I start it up?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
All of our phones do this I believe what's the issue the white bars?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] wileout:
Its because the app wasnt designed for screens of our size/resolution

Tux approves of my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] LiquidSolstice:
We have 720P resolution displays. The XDA app is designed for the majority of current gen (since we have "next gen" phones) phones that are HDPI. The actual app elements themselves will scale properly to your phone, but fixed-resolution images such as splash screens and other images will be a bit distorted.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mcwups1:
Yes, the white bars. Looks terrible.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SoraX64:
Better question: Why does it matter?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mito8485:
Dude he was just asking a harmless question. Chill a bit.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mito8485:
If you use the dark theme under settings it changes it to black and makes it less noticeable
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maatae:
Can the oleophobic coating on a screen protector wear off?

my sgp is 2 monthes old...seems to get greasier the more i touch it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] negrobembon:
Yes it does
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] oO FLowzilla Oo:
I downloaded the update.zip for my phone using a barcode scanner thing on this website. (This was about 15 minutes ago)

Specifically here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1378660

The update.zip folder was in the download folder but then I moved it to the root of my SD card as instructed. The problem is that when I tried to go to recovery mode to 'root' the phone another thing came out. It was like a warning, something like this:

Warning (!)

Using a custom OS....blah blah blah

press Volume-up to install custom OS

press Volume-down to cancel

So I canceled it and tried to go to recovery again. This warning came out again so I pressed yes because I thought it was part of the rooting process.

Now I'm stuck on this ODIN MODE and don't know what to do.

The screen I'm on say's this:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME : GT-S5360

CUSTOM BIN DOWN : NO(0 counts)

CURRENT BIN : SAMSUNG OFFICIAL

Downloading...

Do not turn off target !!

I know it say's not to turn it off but I'm itching to do so since I'm not seeing any progress. Is my phone bricked? Can I turn it off? WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS???
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] alkesh95:
U entered in download which is used to flash kernels, firmwares etc

For recovery

Volume up+ Home button+ power button

sent using repencis 3.5 wid a2sd

press thnxxx
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] oO FLowzilla Oo:
Is it safe to turn it off, It say's not to? Should I hold the power button? Rip off the battery?

EDIT: Nevermind, I turned it off and it's ok now. Thank you.

*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

EDIT #2: I finally got access to recovery mode and selected "search SD card" or something like that....and selected update.zip. A bunch of weird symbols scrolled down the screen and then it said "Installation Aborted". The root was unsuccessful, why?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Catalyste:
Try the other update.zip

I had the same problem so i tried the other Update.zip provided in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1611830 and it worked...

direct link : http://dl.xda-developers.com/attachdl/06cc9448bc1aa95a231e765622876abf/500db41e/1/0/2/0/7/3/7/update.zip

EDIT: it flashed successfully but didnt provide root :/ sorry for my mistake :/
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] oO FLowzilla Oo:
Still got nothing.....
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Filip98:
HMm tey the one feon galaxy y gaming ... it worked for me
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] oO FLowzilla Oo:
The download link on their site is messed up. I think my phone is not rootable...

The model number of the phone is GT-S5360L...
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Mitko:
Try "Universal Gingerbread root" method.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1603273

It's how I rooted my Galaxy Y.