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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcwizkid1994:
Hey guys,

First post on the forms hear. Do you guys think the Samsung Galaxy S I500 will be able to run JB 4.2? I have my phone running 4.1.2 now and it runs fine. The phone has some decent specs for the time but it lacks RAM. Is there going to be any major changes to 4.2?

Thanks in advance

Matt
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insid3r:
Hi guys,

I've been struggling to find a decent kernelfor CM10. Can you provide me the available alternatives?

Thank You
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Marmite is my suggestion. Make sure to get the CM version.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1719775
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
Also

Trinity

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036996

Matr1x

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1361477

And a few others in here :good:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=883&order=desc
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apatal:
I still suggest you stay with stock CM kernel, like I did. It's optimized to work with the ROM so all your Advanced and Performance settings work without any glitches and issues.

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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ej8989:
Except overclocking.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apatal:
Nope. No issues with OC here. Works fine and dandy. :)

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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ej8989:
i9023 here and i got reboots using stock CM10 kernel, marmite v7.0, and airkernel #251 when OC'ing.

Marmite's fastest on stock clock speeds. Haven't tried matr1x yet.

Edit: Matr1x is stable @ 1320mhz but gaming is so buggy i can't stand it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insid3r:
Trinity has no CM10 version.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
Right right... My bad. Ever since they changed it up and ef'd the code it was dropped. :banghead:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
Hi,

My Nexus S was working great and suddenly the power button stopped working, now when I try to flash anything via fastboot it freezes at the bootloader screen, the volume keys don't work just there.

I wanted to flash stock ICS bootloader, radio and ROM but I guess there's no way to flash without fastboot? adb works though.

Thanks for your help!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Is your power button failing by any chance? If the power button fails and stay in a clicked position, you will not be able to scroll.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
No, the power button, physically, is perfect, just as it was before. it just doesn't 'function' anymore.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
So it works or it doesn't work? That's what I mean by failing, when it stops working, you will not be able to scroll in fastboot mode because it's stuck as clicked in. In fastboot you cannot send 2 keystrokes at the same time, so as long as the power button is stuck you're out of luck.

Sometimes playing with the power button will make it unstuck, sometimes it will not. It's a very common problem with the Nexus S. Some people had decent luck opening up their Nexus and cleaning the power button while others sent their phone to repair.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
No, it does not function. BUT, what I'm thinking is, if i the power button was CLICKED then the first option is "Restart Bootloader" and it would have been auto-selected resulting in a reboot-loop, but I do see the bootloader screen and it doesn't disappear until I remove the battery and restart.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
That's not how it works though. It's constantly clicked, not as clicking only once the bootloader appears. I know it's strange, but it's really a well known issue.

If you remove the battery and put it back in, does your phone start automatically? That's also a sign the power button is stuck.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
No, If I remove the battery and reinsert, it does NOT autostart unless its also connected to the PC via USB.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Alright. Does not necessarily mean the button isn't stuck though.

Do you have a custom recovery? If you use Clockworkmod or TWRP, you can flash nearly anything from there, rom, radio and so on as long as they're zipped in a way one of these recovery will understand.

If you are still able to boot your rom and it's rooted, but you don't have a custom recovery, you can flash one from within Android.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
Oh, I thought you could only flash bootloader, radio and ROM via fastboot, atleast thats how I did so far. I download factory images and they come as .img files, is there anywhere I can find a flashable stock ICS .zip?

Yes, I can boot into the stock JB rom, and yes I can even access clockwork recovery.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
You were doing it the good way though, fastboot is a very strong utility. :)

Here's one flashable with CWM.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1569509&highlight=rom

ONLY for GSM Nexus S. Not for 4G. This is really important.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
One more way I was able to confirm that the phone indeed freezes on bootloader is that adb commands are accepted on the home screen or on CWM (./adb reboot bootloader for example), but neither adb nor fastboot works on the bootloader (error: device not found).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibr4him:
I opened the phone to clean the power button as you suggested, but its already quite clean, there's nothing to do there. However, I broke my sim tray in the process! :'(

Now, no power button and no network!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Ouch! That's not good at all. :|

Some people blast the button with compressed air or clean it with isopropyl alcohol.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cadabena:
Well, after trying to charge my Nexus in the car, it appears the USB has gone kaput and only charges the device now (although it doesn't actually say it's charging, the percentage just increases). Anyway, as it would appear a return is in order, I'd like to remove the unlocked sign on my bootloader to be able to send it back, but without USB, the conventional fastboot/adb method is out the window. Anybody got any suggestions? Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cadabena:
Bump, per chance?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfrancis14:
Use wugfresh toolkit and Hitt the oem lock option
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigcountry520:
The OP clearly said they are looking for a method that doesn't require USB. So your method suggesting he use wugs toolkit isn't the answer he's looking for. And honestly I don't think there is a way to do it without USB capabilities.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kearkan:
I don't think you can.

I'm not exactly a pro at this, but as far as I know you need fast boot mode to lock/unlock the bootloader.

I installed twrp last night (got bored with cwm) and noticed it has a command line section. I don't know if you could use this to lock the bootloader. If you look up one of the manual guides to locking/unlocking maybe try whatever it says to type in a terminal there?

The only problem is then you couldn't put back the stock recovery.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ClintvL:
You can use this to install the stock ROM and kernel, there is also an option to unroot it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1929270 (install zip in custom recovery)

I don't know how to OEM lock your tablet without a pc..

Hope this helps :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JerryMc88:
I would be really surprised if it is not simply a bad micro USB cable. Try another one, if you have it laying around, or pick one up for cheap. My unofficial cable would charge, but not write for some reason.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clio94:
i had the same problem after using a car charger.After some days that i charged with original charger only, charging icon started working and also fastboot.But usb otg functions were still dead either in twrp recovery or inside the rom.

After i flashed ota update (i was in stock 4.1.2) for 4.2 it magically started fully working.First i thought that it was 4.2 that made it work,but i went back in 4.1.2 (nandroid restore) and it continue to work ok.Of course i dont use anymore 3rd party chargers.I see now that my bootloader is 4.13 but it work ok with 4.1.2 too,so i will not change it to 3.41
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cadabena:
I've tried 4 or 5 different cables and no luck unfortunately. Going from my beloved PA 2.54 to stock 4.2 temporarily to see if it fixes it, fingers crossed!

Update: Unfortunately I've not been so lucky :( problem persists...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaMan90:
Adb over WiFi?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cadabena:
And now I'm stuck on 4.2 with root not working, my recovery corrupt, and USB still not working :crying:

Looks like I'll be sending it back and hoping they ignore the little opened padlock on my splash screen
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GldRush98:
Adb won't do it, it has to be fast boot, and it has to be usb.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuck_0:
Hi ! I'm in the same situation and am thinking of returning it. How did it go ? Did they accept it ?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cadabena:
Accepted it no problem :D

However, they'd be well within their rights not to so I'm not guaranteeing. Best of luck!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ben101:
I'm on custom And I'm rooted

But I just got an system update

What will happen if u downloaded it and installed it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
If the update has a new stock kernel (probable), you'll lose root. Easy fixed tho.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rxpert:
Custom recoveries will usually cause the ota to fail.

Losing root is another common result. You can also have a lot of funky things happen like the update will go halfway through and then fail, and that's pretty messy.

I would highly suggest waiting it out for your devs to build it into their ROM
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brewy:
Is there any way to get memory back after you partition an SD card IV lost 700 MB with the last rom I flashed and now I use a rom that doesn't need a partitioned SD, if there's a way to do it could some explain how I do it properly.

APOCALYPSE GT-S5830
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
Make a backup of your important files of your SD. If you are using Windows, use MiniTool Partition Wizard to delete all the partitions and then make only 1 partition (formated as fat32).

If you are using Linux, do the same, but using GParted.

It's better if you connect your SD through a card reader to your PC.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brewy:
That did the trick thanks for the info. It was a bit complicated at the start but hey IV learned something new ;)

lumpy pumpys aren't cool ok !!
[Samsung Captivate Glide] mikaelmolto:
Hey guys after the new update im getting a problem with the audio, when i use my headphones to listen to music or something, the left side of my headphone has a lot of distortion :S...Ive try another headphones and also the same problem..someone with this same problem :(
[Samsung Captivate Glide] incidentflux:
Updated yesterday to stock ICS with Odin3. I listen with a tape adapter in my car. No issues so far.
[Nexus 4 General] AmesCell:
http://www.zdnet.com/google-nexus-4-play-store-debacle-gives-buyers-the-backorder-blues-7000007482/
[Nexus 4 General] glenroebuck:
yes - hence I quoted him.
[Nexus 4 General] Blackice-original:
Its good that a writer from one of the tech sites finally wrote this - it feels like the others are letting Google off the hook.

Google made an excellent choice by hiring Matias Duarte to head up UI creation they urgently need to hire logistical experts.
[Nexus 4 General] iTeeXDA:
It's not even the demand that was the issue. If they knew they would have (say) 100 phones that would be ready to be shipped on Nov 15th. HOW is it possible for them to take more than a 100 orders?

It's really put a bad taste in my mouth for Google. It may be true, all they care about it the data they need from all of us. Everything else (experience, consistency, etc) comes second, at best.

---------- Post added at 05:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:02 PM ----------

They should ask Tim Cook for recommendations. That man is a genius when it comes to this.
[Nexus 4 General] galaxys:
Google deserves bad publicity for their launch failure!
[Nexus 4 General] anirudh412:
If the person who wrote this were on XDA, I would have made a thousand accounts just to Thank him as many times. I am bloody tired of the whole Play Store debacle. Not usually the one to whine and *****, but this is beyond words!
[Nexus 4 General] tweaked:
Only those who got no phone care. /small violin playing.

I clicked buy and it worked for me. But then again, even if I had missed getting one. Its a phone. I just would have waited for the next batch. Or maybe I would piss and moan about something so small, write a 5 paragraph statement on a Non Google Site and then burned down an orphanage. /Waaaaaaaa
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saryu:
question related to note 10.1 but not really related as well.

i'm about to buy note 10.1 in US just because nexus 10 is out of stock in US. For those of you in US (or more importantly in the state of new york), if i buy note 10.1 32 gb (550$ + tax) and i return in the next 30 days, will i get a full refund including the taxes or only the 550$ price tag? I have a tight budget on tablet and I want to decide whether gnote 10.1 or nexus 10. So i decide to buy gnote 10.1, refund it before 30 days, buy nexus 10, decide which 1 i prefer, re-buy gnote 10.1 if i want it back.

I am sorry if this question sounds retarded, i am kinda new in the country (just here as a college student), so i don't know how it works in US. I'm aware that it might be different from each store depend on their return policy but i've been trying to read the return policy and found nothing regarding the tax. So, my question is directed to those experienced in returning items in any specific store (amazon, bestbuy, anything). Thank you.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strabo100:
Best buy refunds include test, as does most retailers. If u purchase online, u might have to pay it own shipping to return.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsiPhiDan:
You'll always get your tax money back. What you want took out for are called "restocking fees," which could be 10% of the purchase price (or more). Purchase through Best Buy to avoid those fees, as they don't charge you for that.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saryu:
thank you both. i guess bestbuy is the safest place to buy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] droidbabyxda:
Anyway to tell if my problem is hardware? I lost all speaker audio but still can hear sounds when i have the earplugs on. Help please!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crashpsycho:
Check with a stock ROM and see if its still there it could be something as small as a bad flash if you do custom ROMs
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jyazzie110:
Happened to me awhile back and just reflashed back to stock via odin and started the root process all over and havent had a problem til my digitizer broke....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
You missed the step where you create the partitions on the nand.

Once magldr is flashed, youwould normally then installinstall cwm, duringwhichthe nand gets partitioned, butyou skippedthat and went for sd based recovery. So,get nand toolkit, phone into magldr, USB flasher, in nand toolkit select whatever size your rom needs, can lower cache from 45 down toto 5, click magldr repartition, thenwhen done you can re enter 4ext recovery bychoosing ad sd( folder to 4ext), or boot to normal cwm using option 8,,, either way you flash the rom and reboot.

There's not much point using sd 4ext recovery to just flash a nand rom,, only if you wanna run nativesd.

EDIT - heh, didn't see your update, stopped reading when i saw the missed step, glad you found it, and it'll help you remember the whole process better in future too, winner.
[Windows 8 General] lehons:
Can anyone tell me when / why I want to use desktop mode (I've got a Surface for Windows RT)?

I know the Office apps force you there. Otherwise, is it only when I want to hit up the control panel or Explorer?

Is there anything else to do in Desktop mode?

Also, stupid question, but is there any way to launch an app (other than the 5 pinned to the taskbar) directly in desktop mode?
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
When you don't have a tablet?
[Windows 8 General] lehons:
Sorry, I should have specified, I'm asking about the Surface for Windows RT
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
I think when Microsoft releases the next visual studio it will be compatible with rt in desktop mode. Also you have calculator, paint etc. on the desktop.
[Windows 8 General] junialum:
I believe Desktop mode is short term legacy support. Should disappear in the next version of RT.
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
And quite possibly in a couple iterations of Windows itself...
[Windows 8 General] lehons:
Thanks.
[Windows 8 General] FiyaFleye:
Windows explorer? IE with addons? Control Panel?

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[Windows 8 General] link68759:
No. Desktop mode is never going to be phased out, "legacy" is just a marketing ploy to accentuate that the new UI is "modernUI".

Desktop mode is for desktop things. Like when you plug a keyboard and mouse into your Surface, and you browse the internet with IE desktop and manage your files with explorer or use office. The full functions of office could never and will never be crammed into an app: it would violate the simplicity/stylistic/touchfriendly guidelines.

Desktop will never be phased out of RT or Windows, I don't know why people think this.
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Other things to use Desktop Mode for:

Scripting (CMD, Powershell, etc.).

Proper multitasking (more than two windows at once).

Task Manager.

Advanced management tools (Management console and all its snap-ins, diskpart and netsh and other command-line tools, etc.).

IE developer tools.

Setting up file and folder sharing.

anything else that apps can't do...

Oh, and (especially once we get this working better), running existing apps that have ben recompiled for ARM.
[Windows 8 General] WebmastuhB:
Yeah, that's how I've been using it. I picked up a bluetooth mouse that works nicely without a dongle. I used desktop mode to copy some files around - it was nice. I plan to use Remote Apps and some other stuff that will only work well in desktop mode.

Its nice. I can switch back and forth with ease. Some things (content consumption with ass parked on a couch) are easier with the don't-call-it-metro mode and some things (content creation/manipulation while sitting at a desk) are easier to do in desktop mode. I can't do that with any of my iOS or Android tablets. Because of this, I see desktop mode as an advantage WinRT has over iOS and Android. Neither of those have anything similar and probably never will have.

But hey - don't like desktop mode? Don't use it.

I see the don't-call-it-metro mode and desktop mode as similar to the way DOS and Windows used to be. Win95/NT/2000 was nice, but sometimes you just needed to drop into DOS to do some things easier. I still use ipconfig /all quite a bit now that I am thinking about it.

I sincerely hope desktop mode is never phased out. I can't imagine why it would be - DOS Command Prompt is still around after all these years and it still has its uses.
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Just to clarify, because this is a pet peeve of mine: THAT IS NOT DOS! It is a command-line shell which emulates certain portions of the DOS user interface and, on 32-bit machines, also the DOS API... but it's not DOS. CMD can do all kinds of things that DOS can't, ranging from UI features like path or command completion to system capabilities like running apps in the background (DOS had no multitasking capability). 32-bit builds of Windows NT (including 2000, XP, Vista, Win7, and Win8, plus corresponding server builds, which all use NT) include NTVDM - the NT Virtual DOS Machine - for running 16-bit DOS apps with emulated hardware (DOS granted full access to the hardware for any app; NT doesn't, so it had to provide virtual hardware for compatibility). NTVDM will *claim* to be a version of DOS, for compatibility's sake, but that's no more true than Wine on Linux claiming to be a version of Windows.

However, I absolutely agree that some things are best done in the command line. I actually rather dislike CMD; its command completion sucks, its scripting language is lame, its quotation parsing rules are bizarre and archaic, and it's missing some capabilities such as what you get from `command-goes-here` on POSIX shells. On versions of Windows which can run it, I prefer to use bash via SUA; on versions which can't, Cygwin is an almost-acceptable alternative. I'm slowly learning Powershell (accelerated somewhat by the fact that the Surface RT has both CMD and Powershell, but neither SUA nor Cygwin) as well; it's very powerful but its scripting syntax feels weird to me and the software itself is very heavyweight and tends to run slowly at times (such as when loading new modules).
[Windows 8 General] WebmastuhB:
Yeah... I know... But its much easier to type DOS than it is to type "a command-line shell which emulates certain portions of the DOS user interface and, on 32-bit machines, also the DOS API..." Don't you agree? :P
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
or "CMD", "CLI", "command line", "command-line interface", "terminal", "command prompt", "TUI", "text user interface", "text shell", "cmd.exe", "powershell", even "NTVDM", ...

Sorry, totally off-topic, I know. It's just frustrating when people claim that 'Windows is just a graphical interface over DOS" (hasn't been true since the early 90s) or 'Windows is still built on a DOS core" (hasn't been true since ME), or "Windows still includes a copy of DOS" (not true at all for 64-bit or ARM or Itanium or anything other than x86, and arguable even there). To people who actually heavily used (or, haven forbid, still use) DOS, or have old DOS apps they need to run, that just results in problems which, annoyingly often, I end up needing to solve. It would help a lot of people who knew better didn't perpetuate the untruths.

Oh, and back on-topic: if you use desktop IE, you can add Tracking Protection lists (and edit the automatic one) and also enable ActiveX filtering (which might not be needed on RT due to its limited Flash list and lack of many other plug-ins, but I still prefer it).