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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
I'm sorry but that's your fault.

It's being said 1 million times already, that wiping your data in CWM while running stock 4.0.4 ROM with a stock kernel will BRICK your phone.

Your inability to read might have left your phone bricked.

Read through the forum next time, ask questions if you don't understand anything and I can assure you will be luckier next time.

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sachidanand444:
Yes there are many threads in this section and on xda portal warning you about the brick bug...

Almost all 4.0.4 have a brick bug... moreover it is caused when we do a data wipe. I believe you have bricked your device... sorry for that:mad:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HANDSY:
Hi, I thought the brick bug was present in only the leaked firmwares and those highlighted on samfirmware eg the Russian release LQ6 I think.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
that's why I blamed you for this. You did not read or ask before wiping but was only guessing.

This is a sticky thread under General section warning everyone about the buck bug. Here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1756242

I and many others have also warned people about this bug but the unfortunate thing is that most of ask these kind of questions after the problem has occurred.

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HANDSY:
Er I'm not the OP
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stileth:
As far as I know all 4.0.4 ROMS have MMC_CAP_ERASE enabled, so in case of having bad chip and using wipe under temporary CWM floating around you will brick your phone. Although seems the problem is only in touch version of CWM. More detailed information can be found in 1st guide in my signature where Phil was talking with Entropy512.

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HANDSY:
Will do thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kranti2064:
^^Not only with touch CWM but also with "temporary CWM" wjich is what you were using.

Take it to a service center as your phone now needs a motherboard replacement..and I hope you still have warranty..!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
Sorry dude

You might have to send your phone to device center for repairs but if you are out of warranty or wants to try to Fix things yourself, then the advise/instructions below is for you:

-boot your phone with usb jig, if you can get to download mode, then proceed to next step

-Visit this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1841099

Good luck

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UrbanDesigns:
Is the brick bug present in ICS? I want to upgrade from Gingerbread to ICS 4.0.3, will I be safe when flashing then?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
Brick bug is only present on ICS 4.0.4.

ICS 4.0.3 is safe

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satish0101:
Thanks

Hi guys,

Thanks for all your replies.

I already figured it out that I have bricked my phone. But I was under impression that Data wipe with CM9 ROMs is not dangerous. At the time of failure I had already installed CM9.

Guess now I'll have to send the phone to Service center.

One thing I want to ask, "If the phone is hard bricked, is there any chance of them knowing that I had installed a custom ROM?"

If they can't then it might help me since my phone is still under 1 year manufacturer warranty.

Please reply and Thank you for your replies. The latest adventure of mine turned out to be painful one!!:(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
I don't think so. since you can't boot into either recovery or download mode.

Even if you have an increased binary counter, it will be cleared once your device is forced with a usb jig to boot into download mode.

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satish0101:
Then USB Jig is my last hope and if that doesn't work then I have to send the phone to the service center.

So if you can't enter into download or recovery mode there is no way to find out if i have used any custom ROM or rooted the phone?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

And thank you for your reply. In this desperation every reply from community member is like gold.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
Absolutely no way. You are right

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satish0101:
Thanks buddy.

I believe I have to send the phone to Samsung Service center then!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satish0101:
Hello guys,

After receiving positive feedback from members I have finally submitted my phone to service center.

Please pray and hope they don't find out about my little adventure!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
I hope things work out for you

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satish0101:
Yuppie!!

Hello guys,

Just got back from the service center with fully functional S2.

They replaced entire mother board. The customer care Representative, Bless him, didn't even know that I had tried to flash CM9.

All is well when the end is well.

Thank you guys for your support and advises, without them I wouldn't have dared to go to Samsung Care.:good:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
You are the lucky one!

Enjoy your brand new old galaxy SII

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmomo:
From the Link2SD FAQ:

Why is this the case? There are other Linking apps which do move /data/data files. Why would Link2SD not do this?

I wish to ask this before I go bothering the application author. I figure there is some well-known issue here which I am not aware of.

I may have to switch linking apps because my /data part is getting too full, mostly due to Google's crappy maps and browser apps, which are horrifically fat.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_bizzzz:
Data Linking ?

I too have this issue, and am now running low on internal space (mainly due to the huge data\data folder) ...

Can you tell me the name(s) of the other apps that provide linking the data folder ?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
I believe app data isn't moved, because it will make your phone laggy as hell. Guess the dev chose for finding more space, but not at the cost of speed.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmomo:
This makes no sense at all. In many cases, newer SD cards are FASTER than the internal flash on older phones.

Please don't guess wildly about stuff you don't understand.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmomo:
S2E does it, but from what I've seen, it's only for Cyanogen.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
Sustained write/read speeds don't tell the whole story, as you may know (probably not). You probably believe the more megapixels a camera sensor has, the better? Also, the phone must support those faster µSD cards. Seeing you've only been here for half a year and you've only contributed with a dozen posts, I can say for certain that you've never read any warnings for not moving app-data. It's not your fault.

Unfortunately, I noticed that all the new people coming here have no respect or decency and think they know everything already. Guess what: you don't know **** :). So, like I already said before, drop the attitude.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmomo:
Respectfully, you are simply wrong.

Modern SD cards are faster than the internal flash on older phones, which are the phones that need apps like Link2SD. I don't know about more modern phones.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934087

Bonnie++ is the best way, that I know of, to benchmark a flash storage devices, but it's not for noobs

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1169910

I remember running bonnie++ against my Nexus One and a cheap 16GB card about a year ago when that above post was made and my SD card was faster than the internal flash in almost every way, and that was then.

Yes, my post count is low. XDA Devs is full of loud noobs who think writing a java app or rooting a phone makes them a leet technical resource. I've been writing software and managing unix systems for over a decade.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
Well, sir, you go ahead and put your app-data on your µSD :). Benchmarks are for [random word].

Did I also mention that somehow some new members are bragging about what they have achieved and are capable of, while they haven't made themselves useful in any way? If not, now I did.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealCrogge:
Is there still no possibility to move also the data folder (e.g of games)? Most of my applications are rather small and most space is taken by the game data folders.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andi747:
tommert38 is correct here.

Because there is no guarantee, that if your sdcard is fast, it'a also faster than your internal flash. There are more dependies than only the speed of the card. What are the specs of the nexus one sd-reader? This could be an popotentially barrier.

At least: Which size supports the nexus one for sd-cards?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerbiyoso:
I agree with the OP about this. If it is a worry about the speed, i'm sure mr. bulent akpinar can at least provide an option in the app to enable/disable saving /data/data to the link2sd partition. everybody happy! :)

here's a link to the original link2sd thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919326 maybe the app author can take note of it as a suggestion for future updates
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesh-42:
One other benefit of not placing /data/data on the SD card is for the case if your sd-ext partition fails to mount for some reason (e.g. failing a file system check). If /data/data was on the SD card, then most of your application settings will be gone, including for builtin apps like the launcher. It will look very similar to a factory reset.

With /data/data on internal storage, your settings will be still be visible in this scenario and it will only be the downloaded apps that disappear. This should be somewhat easier to recover from.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SM4JL:
Consider all the risks and if you are willing to take them you might find this thread usefull. Just be sure you know what you are doing;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_bizzzz:
LINK2SD v3.4.1 - No links data/data

apologies for posting to an aged thread, but just today LINK2SD has been updated to include linking of the /data/data

I'm already enjoying the new found space made available, it seems to work very well so far ...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ik8vwa:
May I ask you if you noticed a lag or performance slow down? I also love link2sd but I fear to upgrade to the latest version cause I don't want to compromise the reliability of my system, which so far, has been excellent.

I have read that moving the /data files could slow down the phone or cause overheating of the sd card. Actually I have a class 10 ultra II Sandisk.

Thanks for any report and opinion.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_bizzzz:
I haven't done any benchtesting or anything but haven't noticed any slowdown or battery drain what-so-ever.

My phone runs just as good as before.

I only link my game apps to SD because I expect one day the SD card will fail (like most media storage devices) and most of my essential apps are un-linked and stored on the internal phone mem.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ik8vwa:
Thanks, I have linked all my apps and it is now almost an year. I was very curious about the possibility to move the data too but was a bit on the standby, because if you check on the play store, there are some complaints. Now, I don't know what to do, maybe I'll give it a try.:D

Thanks for your kind reply.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d_bizzzz:
I guess some reviews may be on different phone models.

All I can advise is check the gppd & bad reviews and the phone model. Also to have a titanium backup of your older link2SD so you can roll back if needbe.

Worth just linking a few & see how it goes.

No complaints on my Galaxy S3, works fine & has done for the past 2 years :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ik8vwa:
Well I downloaded the new version (I have the plus option) but I don't understand how to move the data to sd since in the options it is specified that only future installs will be moved (if I flag the option).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BellaMay95:
Back to the original question. I use Mounts2SD for my Nexus One. I check to move Apps, Data, Dalvik, and Libraries. The rest I leave alone. I have no problems with space with this set-up. Speed is decent, I think the issues I have are probably related to the various custom ROMs I've been using but I can't be 100% sure.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KunalKene1797:
Truth Time!

Link2SD Have Introduced /Data/Data Linking...but is it still fast using class 10? No!!! you ask why!:confused: Because Flash Memory is way faster than a Class 10 card Not regarding Benchmarks...but you can feel the difference once you use both...i did have...it does not make a big difference but a yeah your Device will get a bit laggy when you Link /data/data...accept it or not thats the truth!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 239:
SD card misconception

The problem might be that most people think that a higher class card is better (faster) for smartphones.

This misconception is pretty serious since there is a big difference between sequential and random memory access!

High class cards are primarily faster than low class cards when accessing the memory sequentially (r/w big files like videos). But they can have a very poor random access performance which is needed for r/w many small files. So a (good quality) class 2/4 card is much better for storing data in Android.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Real-world_performance
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cityhunter62:
Recently flashed my phone with a supposedly extreme fast rom. It was a good opportunity for me to try internal data link2sd... I configured it to link EVERYTHING upon installation. And so far, performance seems to be terrible. Most of my apps (the one that are linked, included Google Play Services) experience extreme lags / Freezes on startup.

Given the excellent reviews the custom rom has, I guess the responsible for this is link2sd. I'll make other trials, but I think moving everything on the sd card is not such a good idea after all...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ronaldheld:
I am planning to upgrade to a new phone by year's end. Is it worth while to flash to. 232 just to be on ICS? Does it perform better than eclipse 3.0? I suppose that I have to reroot afterwards?,
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Steve125:
I've been running since it came out and its like night and day compared to stock blurred gingerbread. You don't need to re root just use voodoo ota root keeper from the play store to back up su binary then update to 232 and restore su binary. Motorola did a nice job with blur in ics. Its very close to a stock aosp experience. Also you can use safe strap to flash versions of cm9 and aokp for the ics leaks, which are fully functional. I definitely think its worth it. Once the ota comes out, its easy to fxz back to 905 and take the ota.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
I didn't like ICS due to adobe discontinuing Mobile flash. I use my phone to watch online videos and hook it up to the tv so I'm pretty disappointed with their decision. I understand the whole html5 argument, but html5 is still a few years from becoming standard. I don't see it happening until html5 has developmental tools similar to what flash has.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ronaldheld:
I did not think to consider that. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] projektorboy:
I'm running ICS Leak 6.7.230 and Flash works perfectly. I don't know what there is to be concerned about.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ronaldheld:
How do the ICS leaks compare to Eclipse 3 in terms of wireless reception and battery life?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] repilce:
Just kill the cat already and try it? not as if you can't FXZ and nand restore.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
Flash didn't work for me, nor is it working for many other users.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ronaldheld:
Isn't Flash not available from the play store, for those who migrate to ICS leaked ROMs?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
Flash was removed a few weeks ago from Google play. If you have the direct link, you can access it, but it won't come up in a search and it wasn't showing under my apps for me. I do a lot of online video with my phone so flash is necessary. Thanks to the HDMI port, I hook it up to the tv at night and turn on some justin.tv, whom is full of crap in their reasons why they don't have a streaming app for Android, even though another developer had an unofficial one.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SyCoREAPER:
Link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer&hl=en

As for Flash. It will not work in Chrome for me. It does however work in the built in browser and possibly Opera.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
It won't work with chrome, but it also wouldn't work in Firefox, dolphin, or the stock browser for me. The closest I was able to get it working was being able to hear the audio but not seeing the video.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SyCoREAPER:
Thats odd. Installed the flash player, opened the stock browser and works great on .232
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ronaldheld:
With the same ROM, why are there variations in fucntionality of Flash?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
My guess would be is the same reason some bionics on the leak are clocked at 1.2mhz while others are only 1. I don't think anyone knows, its just the way it is unfortunately.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] moizsami:
Hey guyz got a very noobish question, didnt find any answer any other place...so im posting my question here...

Could i just flash any custom 4.1 roms like miui, aokp, cm10 and im on stock ics, rooted witch franco's kernal..? is it possible or i must have stock jelly bean inorder to flash these roms..?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Abhilesh7:
Provided you have unlocked your bootloader. You can flash custom jelly bean ROMs from stock ICS..

I have a Sony Ericsson Neo V. I flashed Polish Blood Aosp ROM from Stock Sony ICS without any issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
You can flash any version you want. It makes no difference what you currently run. Just wipe like normal and flash your day sired ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sergioosvaldo1:
As long as you wipe cache and data everything fine!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mssam:
You do not need stock jellybean in order to flash a custom 4.1 rom like miui, aokp or cm10. All you have to do is pick a rom you like, make a backup, wipe the stock ics on your phone, flash the custom 4.1 rom/gapps of your choice, then restore your apps.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant2555:
Hey just wondering, when htc release jelly bean for the one x, would it be possible to make a sense 4 custom ROM for the nexus 7 somehow, seeing as they have similar processors, ram and their screen resolution s are not that different?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilphil240:
You want a manufacturer skin over stock?!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duloz:
Every android device I have ever owned, someone has always wanted a sense ROM. I just don't get it. Sense is a battery and performance nightmare from my experience. Of the two HTC devices that I have owned, the FIRST thing I did on each is install a non-sense ROM.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkRazorZ:
I hate Sense with a passion, I don't know why you would want it... everyone has different tastes, I guess :confused:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiewee3:
I love sense, but it probably isn't possible.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superfasty:
Sense on the Nexus 7 would be awesome. I know it can be a battery/cpu hog or whatever but seriously, I'm pretty sure the Nexus 7 could hardware could handle it. Sense has so many nice features that I miss. The UI is gorgeous (subjective, I know), the included widgets are fantastic especially the clock, and small things like the fact that navigation is linked to calendar events so you can just bring up an event in your calendar and then click on the location and it will take you there.

Edit: nearly forgot to mention the great music player, and the latest keyboard is main thing I miss.

Have no idea if it would be possible, but I would LOVE to see a sense rom for the nexus. What about a ported Flyer rom? I have no idea about development though so forgive me if it would be impossible.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poondog:
I like sense

But the screen is a different resolution which will make it harder

Also things will look really really big

Best shot at a port will be if HTC release a tablet with sense and the same resolution as ours, along with a tegra

Also the flyer is a lower resolution

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edge3uk:
The resolution is basically the name as the one x is it not? Also, the hardware is pretty similar, tegra included. I don't think it would be that difficult to get a one x ROM going on the nexus? I wish I could do it myself!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant2555:
Well sense 4 looks and feels great in my opinion. ( yeah it would be worse probably ) but it is pretty cool!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
You can download Sense Themes and launchers and pretty much be set. Their 3rd party apps are buggy at best. My coworker constantly has problems with his HTC dialer and email apps.

Sense pretty much is just a launcher with special Widgets... and a couple of custom apps.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant2555:
What launcher does the sense 4 effect?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superfasty:
None can match Sense 3.x or 4 in overall cohesiveness and polish. All the clock widgets that try and copy the sense clock are subpar imitations. You can try to give your phone the sense look but it will never be as nice. I challenge anyone to screenshot their phone/tablet to prove that it can be done!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sierramike:
Hi,

Sorry to revive this post, but I just got my Nexus 7 and the first thing I miss so much is the Sense UI of my HTC One X ...

I buy HTC since the TyTN, and had the Touch HD, HD2, Sensation XE and now One X. Sense came with the Touch HD, and one main reason I keep buying HTC is the Sense layer (over their phone design that I still find better than other brands).

I never had issues so far with Sense since 4 years of using Sense on all these phones ...

I wonder if the Sense launcher can be output of an HTC Rom as an APK to install on other devices ?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
While it may be possible to get sense working on a Nexus 7, it would be a ridiculous amount of work. I understand the request though as I used to love Sense. These days it's more like an ex girlfriend. I have fond memories of it but would never consider going back to it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sierramike:
LOL, I love your comparison with "ex-girlfriend" ;)

Anyway, I'll try to live differently with the Nexus 7 ... Hope I'll find a nive widget for time/date/weather ...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YankInDaSouth:
Great line right here LOL!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skyzen:
hi

im sure this topic has been brought up before. but searching i see that we dont have access to EQ the incall quality .

all apps i have come across like Volume plus etc..only affect headset output. and not the phone call speaker .. in the new Samsung Galaxy S3 there is now an option to eq the incall audio. is there anything option like this for Gingerbread? or coming in the near future in ICS or Jellybean?

thank you