yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeremytanner:
Okay, so today I was at work, receiving calls, making calls, sending texts, phone was working fine. I'm on AT&T, using their SIM in the Galaxy Nexus. Suddenly, I have no service. Nothing. So, after several reboots, I finally check the APN. There's nothing there. I attempt to add one, and it promptly disappears.

I went online and found others had a similar experience when they attempted to change their MCC and MNC, but I never had. Just running stock JB with the settings the OS automatically found for my SIM, which has worked for nearly a week.

Thinking my SIM might be to blame, I pulled out my Straight Talk (at&t compatible) SIM that I have on my backup Samsung Captivate. Not only does the Galaxy Nexus not find an APN, any attempt to add an APN fails. I can add one, it'll "save" but it doesn't show up in the list.

Both SIMs work fine in the Captivate.

So I just installed MIUI, in case it was some issue in stock. Same results for both. It seems it's ROM-independent and SIM-independent. Can't make an APN stick.

Any thoughts? Is my phone a lemon? I can't imagine what else to do, since a new ROM and a new SIM doesn't fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeremytanner:
Okay, further update:

I dialed the *#*#4636#*#* number to check the phone info, and the IMEI is listed as Unknown.

I'm assuming this is bad? :|
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeremytanner:
Nevermind, finally found some threads on it. Looks like I'm SOL. /sigh
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stingray209:
I have exactly the same problem, anyone has an answer to this problem...

what tread did you found...did you fix your problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] guinnes.s:
is anyone experiencing a slightly lag once opening the app drawer and swiping the apps?

it only happens when switching screen on and opening the drawer, the first touch it lags ?

i noticed in stock and cm10???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oddfuturejoey:
You literally have NO idea how much that annoys the crap out of me-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fire n mage:
No lag here
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] guinnes.s:
man i so understand you . it drive me crazy ,just that first touch that lags is nerve wreaking!!!!:mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fuego77:
I get the lag too. On every kernel and ROM combo. I think everyone has it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] defconoi:
Enable input boost in trickster mod for the interactive governor
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaksau:
It seems to work. But is it just me or does the touch sensitivity decrease after doing this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] galaxy89:
Yeah I noticed this too. If you open the app drawer and immediately swipe to the 2nd page of apps, there's a minor lag. Very annoying though!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] guinnes.s:
Tried the trickster method but no luck
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zeinzu:
Using Apex. No lag on first open or scroll.

Sent from my AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tlf55:
Hi everyone, is there a keyboard app that use text prediction while using a physical keyboard such as in Droid pro or HTC Status ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banccalif:
Not sure if swiftkey 3 does that but the predictions are TOP of the line
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tlf55:
I don't want swiftkey cuz it is maybe too predictive .. I would like some keyboard like ICS Stock keyboard, or Smartkeyboard pro ..

tried Smartkeyboard pro trial which work with physical keyboard but it has some bug with mine .. so if there is a same keyboard than smarkeyboard which support physical keyboard i would like to try it ..
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machv5:
i was trying to root a phone for someone and after odin completed it said it had failed.

the phone is a telus samsung t959d running froyo.

I followed the instructions from (I would post the url for the link but i am not allowed to.)cyanogenmod's wiki, after it failed I rebooted the phone and it got stuck on the screen in the attached pic. I have tried to boot back into download mode to no avail. From the screen it's stuck on I cannot get any tool to register the device as being present, adb, heimdall, zdiag, etc... I even tried fastboot out of desperation.Before I used odin I tried to get the phone to boot into the bootloader but it only ever went to either recovery or a normal boot and I tried every button press combo I could think of and found and nada.

Even running adb reboot bootloader just made the device boot normally. I think that if I could get it to boot to fastboot usb i could then try fastboot. I am new to rooting devices and have successfully rooted my HTC EVO3D and got s-off and simlock removed for any carrier. So I do know how to follow instructions properly, why flashing the recovery.bin failed I don't know and every fix I seem to find says BOOT TO DOWNLOAD MODE. if I could do that I wouldn't be having this problem lol. Anyway can someone please help me figure this out. Thanks. ANd if you need any further info please let me know. I don't want to have to give my friend my phone due to a software issue.

And YES I did pick PDA not anything else.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machv5:
I kept reading other threads and sadly I din't pully the battery first before disconnecting the usb and repartition may have been checked as I see that it does the as default for my version. Also i turned off ODIN as I was hoping a reboot of my computer might help. I will keep trying to find an answer till someone gets back to me. this post may not even show up if I can't do a second post if no one has replied first.

Everyone was a nub at one time wasn't it FUN hahahahahaha sob cry
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machv5:
I tried a jig and that didn't work. There must be some way of getting the device to give up on completing a task i no longer can give it due to ODIN being shut off.

Why is it that the "how to root/unlocks" never have the "if x fails then do these steps etc..." Had the how to had "pull the battery before disconnecting USB and don't reset or shut off ODIN" I wouldn't be in this mess. I realize that it's user beware but a few important steps like that in case of a fail would go a long way to you guys not shaking your heads. Instead of "silly nub hahahahahaha". No offence but I get that a lot and try to remember that when I teach someone how to use a computer. I am new at phones not at everything.:D
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machv5:
Further Developments Please can someone help?

I was giving someone a new memory card and they had a Samsung SGH-I896 it has an EB575152VA battery and the one I have the T959D has an EB575152VU battery. I exchanged my battery for hers by accident somehow and when I plugged my phone in it didn't go to the phone triangle computer logo screen it booted to recovery and said it couldn't charge the battery and kept rebooting to recovery. I got my battery back and it booted back to the phone triangle computer logo again. Grrrr....

The other thing I saw while the recovery screen was an error message that said

E:/data/fota not accessible

(may not be 100% accurate I don't have the battery to check right now but can get it again if need be) anyway I now see that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. i have the correct stock firmware for the device I tried flashing it while in recovery but the phone kept rebooting before anything got done. My question is how can I get the dang phone to stop asking for Odin and go to recovery so I can flash stock firmware and ROM back to it? As I cannot as far as I know give it what it wants because I reset Odin and nothing seems to see that the phone is connected to the computer. I am going to try the other battery on a full charge to see what that does.:confused:

I am new at all this and want to get it fixed. I cannot afford to send it off to a service center and besides that I want to do it myself as I want to become a developer and droid technician. I would gladly donate to anyone but am still trying to get Google to accept my pay-as-you-go credit card and I don't have PayPal either. Which is really frustrating when it comes to giving back. I posted a Q&A on how to without PayPal or CC but as of the last time I checked no one has gotten back to me about it.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
The CyanogenMod guide is flat out WRONG. I've tried to change it, but anything I do is reverted in an instant. I also tried to use it to install the ROM only, ended up bricking my phone and it took me hours to unbrick. That's how I became acquainted with XDA.

So, to get this straight:

1. you're using the stock USB cable

2. you remove the battery

3. you hold volume down

4. you plug in the usb cable

5. after a few seconds, you release volume down

6. the screen does not display a yellow triangle with an android

Posted from my Galaxy Tab with CM10
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machv5:
That is correct. If you think that my idea below is a bad one or if I downloaded the wrong firmware package please let me know and /or you have a fix that will work? ty

I have though come up with an idea that may work. I am going to charge the "wrong" battery in erm the right phone lol and then use it to trick the device into booting into recovery instead of the cellphone triangle computer (CTC, for want of a better acronym) The I896 battery ends in a V not an ? (sorry can't rem don't have it on me) from the I896 model I think it is, plugging it into USB with the power off sends it to recovery with the "battery cannot be charged " message instead of the CTC screen.

I tried it but the charge in the battery was too low and rebooted. I am hoping that with a full charge (as long as I don't power on the phone first as this will make it go to CTC logo again.

I am hoping that I can install the update.zip that I made by first unzipping the T959UVJFD_firmware.tar I downloaded then unpacked and then repacked into an update.zip as I don't think that it will read the package as a tar file and if it's not called update.zip The recovery is still stock. If I get the phone working I am not going to try unlocking and rooting it again. I will just post two separate adverts one as a carrier locked device and the other one (higher of course to cover buying the unlock from Telus) as carrier unlocked and then I will buy the unlock code if the blah blah you get the drift. sorry for rambling on.

oh and I can't rem if I said this or not, In recovery it "E:/data/fota not accessible" I don't know what that means yet I have been busy with other things and haven't looked it up yet.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
Since you can get into at least some version of recovery, your bootloader is intact and you should be able to unbrick it. You ought to be able to get into download mode using a download jig. You can get one on ebay for a few bucks or you can make one yourself. There's a guide floating around here somewhere that lets you make one from a microusb cable.

Posted from my Galaxy Tab with CM10
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Bad2hold:
Original xda news: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/partition-scanner-helps-your-emmc-bricked-devices/

Original thread by hg42: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1667886

He even provides PITs for our devices, so get a bit into Linux, and fix it by yourself, You can't make it worse I guess.. :p

Anything more to say? Hang onto it, unbrick it and kick Samsungs ass once again!!

Greetings from Australia!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
@Bad2hold - have you tried this yourself as I am desperate for help in unbricking my device that Samsung refuse to repair as it is the P-6200L (non-UK model).

I can't use ADB as my pc won't recognise the Tab, have tried flashing the .pit file and firmware but no joy, can't use the partition scanner as I can't get it to scan the internal memory (it scans the external SD card instead).

I can install CWM recovery and also get to stock recovery but the Tab will not go past the white Galaxy Tab logo.

Any help is highly appreciated
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] chrisrotolo:
There is good chance you can recover. try multiple factory resets. flash earlirst odin package, preferrably with a boot.bin, after flash, and stuck on logo, boot to recovery and factory reset. try wiping a few more times if it is still stuck. i usually have to do this when going back to stock. one time i had to wipe from custom recovery, and a combonation of other things..

If you have recovery, youre lucky.

If you give up, you can for JTAG, normally for hard bricks. mobiltechvideos.com saved me from hardbrick.

Id play around a bit before I send to JTAG.

best of luck..
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
Thanks for the advice mate.

Am going to flash it with the honeycomb firmware it came with from Sammobile and try a few factory resets to see if that works.

If not have found a place in the UK that will JTAG it for £38 if all else fails...:good:

UPDATE: Honeycomb doesn't let me access recovery so no way to wipe from there. Recovery is available on an ICS rom but am reluctant wipe in stock recovery as that's how I go in this mess to begin with :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Bad2hold:
I currently cant help, as iam travelling without a pc... but this guy who developed this scanner, has pit files available for our device. So there is a good chance to get help from him. And iam sure, with some hours off every week, where u get bored, u can actually fix it by yourself as u already figured out that much... i would love to help, its a challange you know? ;) maybe iam gonna buy a laptop... =p

Update: just curious, is it scanning without a external sd inserted? Because internal and sd are swapped in cwm recovery since 3 versions too...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
@Bad2hold - Thanks for the reply, have tried flashing the .pit file but no joy.

Can't get the scanner to scan internal card as it's loaded on my external sd and can't push it to the internal which then means I can't remove the external sd.

Have tried flashing various honeycomb and ICS firmwares with a combination of .pit files, the process flashed fine without errors but still no boot past the white Samsung writing :(
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] unclefab:
Just one question:

do I use it if my device got bricked (fortunately it s not the case), or do I use it to remove the brick bug risk from my device?

Thanks for your answer...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Member90:
I think we cannot remove the brickbug on stock ICS...that pit file just for solving hardbrick issue...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Bad2hold:
U can actually remove the brick bug issue, this is, what this post is about.

Basically, you just have to find the bad blocks in your sd partition.

After you found them, all is left, is to repartition your sd around the bricked blocks, which you have to delete from your partition.

He mentions several methods to use adb and other tools, helping to do this.

And i really recommend reading a bit through his first post, found the same problem after a minute:

Of course, if u r not familiar with linux, u probably wont fix it in an hour.

But you can learn a lot within an hour. First of all, figure out how to connect your device to adb. (Which is still possible, if you didnt smash your tab against the wall or so...) After that, it should be lot easier to follow his instructions.(not just because u have adb working, but because you know what he is actually talking about.)

And he is really willing to help, so figure out as much as possible after connected to adb and just ask in his post if you get stuck.

Dont forget: if its not a issue by malfunctioning/broken hardware, then you actually can fix everything with your pc, you just need to know how.. ;) so dont give up!!!

here his post again: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1667886

And @kersey: what pit file did u flash? The pits he provides are to repartition your SD AFTER you located the bricked blocks. But you cant know, if you cant get his scanner running..? You have to format data partition in recovery after flashing one of those, because of missing file system.

Note: Never flash a stock ICS after you fixed it. It will brick your device again. But u r safe with cm9 and others.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
Good news all, after much trial and error and more flashing than your average pervert I have revived my tablet from the dead with a big thank you to hg42 for his scanner and extra advice.

Thanks to all those who helped in this post too :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Bad2hold:
Dude, if you dont mind, what exactly have you done to revive your tab?

Not exactly, just a quick guide to avoid the most common mistakes.

Thanx! :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
It was pretty simple to revive it with hg42's help.

The first thing you need to do is ensure you have CWM recovery, as the scanning tools only work with that.

Download hg42 emmc partition scanner from the link on the first page of this topic and copy to all 5 zip files to your external sd card. You will also need to download hg42's patched .pit file for your model of tab.

Boot into CWM recovery and flash emmc_find_brick_start.zip. This will scan you tab and will freeze on a bad block. Make a note of the number it freezes on.

Now flash the emmc_find_brick_end.zip file and once again make a note of the number the tab freezes on.

You now need to select the patched .pit file that falls within the range of brick start and brick end. e.g. my brick_start was 1074 and brick_end was 2147 so the patched .pit file I flashed with Odin was "P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-281-and-2160-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-1792-MiB"

I once again entered CWM recovery and did a scan using emmc_scan_all_partitions_once.zip. Which verified there were no errors.

I then booted up the Tab and hey presto it was alive again.

Feeling brave I then flashed the latest Austrian 4.0.4 firmware followed by permanent CWM recovery making sure that I can never do a factory reset using stock recovery which cause the brick to begin with.

Hope the above makes sense to those who need it, I'm sure as you go through the processes above it will.

I'd also like to encourage anyone who uses hg42's emmc tools to offer a donation as without him I would have had a very expensive paperweight or would have had to pay to get it JTAG'd
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] unclewizz:
Happy Boy

Hi all

While trying to root and install custom rom I bricked my friends phone. I have been going crazy trying everything I could to get this brick back to life.

ITS ALIVE AGAIN!!!!!!!!

Thank you kersey for your post on how you got your Tab back.

This is what I did.

I installed the 5 files on the SD card.

120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_end

120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_start

120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_infinitely

120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_once

120824-220105-emmc_scan_write

I put the phone into recovery mode and ran 120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_start.

The program started scanning the memory and first froze on 2188.

I got back into recovery and ran 120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_end

once again the program started counting down and froze about 3189.

For this phone the correct pit files were in " pits-N7000_16GB "

I unzipped pits-N7000_16GB and looked for the nearest pit file , which was

N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-1174-and-3321-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-2048-MiB.pit

I then put the phone back into download mode and using Odin flashed the patched pit file above.

Disconnecting the phone from computer I went back into recovery and ran120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_once

For the first time I was able to do a full scan without the program freezing.

Next step was installing Abyss Kernel 4.2. I then did the regular data wipe/cache wipe/dalvik wipe.

And finally I installed Rocketrom 11.

The phone rebooted and then came back to life.

I checked the internal memory and it was down to 9gb, but who cares as long as its ALIVE AGAIN !!!!

hg42 you sir are an absolute legend. Donation coming your way.

This method definitely works . Just be patient. I hope This helps others aswell :D
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] vegeta2:
EDIT:

Is there any not so hard way to install the original rom with the pit i need? cm10 works, but i dont like it so much.

p6201dbtlpc_p6201xxlpc_p6201xxlp3_home.tar i would like to use

but i only know to flash this in odin, becouse it is no zip, i have no clue how to flash it in cwm :(

thanks for an answer!

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

Your post should be on first post added =)

And in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1807002 !

Thanks for it!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] doaft:
ICS update and emmc bug

Hi; not sure if right forum, but here goes ,

I updated my tab plus to ics 4.0.4 using alpn and xlpn file from sammobile using odin from pc,

tab was never rooted only used a launcher

so my question is after i have installed ics and will not root or use cwm ,will i still have to worry about the emmc bug and if yes

is it best just to go back to honeycomb

btw all is running well on ics just worried about bricking

thank you in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kersey:
If you chose to do a factory restore via stock recovery, which is what you have due to not being rooted and not having CWM installed there is a very big chance you may brick your device. I speak from experience!!!

If you are that worried I would flash back to honeycomb rather than risking having an expensive paperweight :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Androguide.fr:
A little of my own experience with superbrick

You guys can follow this guide I wrote for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 (which also suffers from mmc_cap_erase) : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1862294

Just replace the partition numbers with the ones parted shows you.

The problem is, either way you followed, after being revived your tab will :

- rebrick everytime you flash anything

- Have less than 1gb of internal storage

- Hang everytime you want to download an app or whatever

To fix the last 2 problems, you need to make an ext2sd script to swap your internal-sd and external-sd.

To do so, go to /dev/block/vold : you'll see two files named with numbers (i.e : 22:48 179:48), note the name of those 2 files (one of them is your external-sd mount point)

Then replace the "xxx:xx" in the following script with the name of the first file :

mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/xxx:xx /storage/sdcard0
mount -o bind /data/media /storage/sdcard1

Save this script in a file called ext2sd1.sh and use Script Manager to run it "as root" and "at boot", now reboot and go to settings/storage : if the first file was your extsd mount point your internal and external storage should now be swapped (i.e : if you have a 64gb external sdcard the settings will show : internal storage : 64gb, and you can actually install 64gb of apps).

If it didn't work, replace the xxx:xx in the script with the name of the second file, then it should work.

Good luck guys, this superbrick is a damn pain in the ass, we can thank sammy for it :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Catalinq:
P6200

Hello man... I saw your post ''Good news all, after much trial and error and more flashing than your average pervert I have revived my tablet from the dead with a big thank you to hg42 for his scanner and extra advice.

Thanks to all those who helped in this post too'' ... I have the same problem with my P6200. Please give me that scanner to fix it or tell me how to put my tablet back On... Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] wisnv:
hey dude it's my first post in xda

i've succeded to unbrick my device but my internal memory is shrink a lot into 700+ mb but i don't understand how to use the script so

can u explain step by step ?