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[Galaxy Tab 2 General] wd5gnr:
A story you might find some useful morsels in . If you are impatient, yes, a happy ending.

Monday night I opened the case on my tablet and it was booting. I figured that was strange and after a few minutes realized it was just stuck booting. So I rebooted it. Came up... and then suddenly during the everything loading up phase, rebooted. This repeated several more times.

Uh oh. Working quickly between boots I unset the default on Apex launcher (since it updates frequently) and turned off the live wallpaper. I also shut off Wifi. No effect.

Next stop recovery. Cleared caches, etc. Nope. I had a fairly recent backup but took another one and it worked (whew). Decided that I would do a data wipe from recovery. Uh oh. Any attempt to format /data causes a crash.

I go to Odin to see if I can repartition flash. I can't find a PIT file for the P5113 but did find one for a 16K 7 inch model. Odin repartitioned it but still no joy. Wiping data causes a reboot. So does trying to restore a backup to /data.

Next stop Kies. You can tell it to reload firmware but you need your serial number which is written on the back of your tab (yes it is, it is about the height of a carbon atom). However, it asks you to enter "recovery" mode by pressing buttons that aren't on the tablet. I tried Odin mode but it couldn't connect. Using CWM recovery didn't work either.

So I decided I needed stock recovery. I could not find a P5113 stock recovery that wasn't bundled with an entire update package. So I unpacked an update package to get recovery.img. Flash_image didn't work (seems like it never works on this tablet, and now that I think about it, I think I wrote a thread on how to do it with dd that I forgot about last night! Duh: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31293383&postcount=32). Instead, I repacked just recovery.img with tar. Odin was able to flash this and I was back in the ugly stock recovery.

I never did try Kies though because I asked the stock recovery to reformat /data and it worked! Back to Odin to reflash CWM and then the backup I made Monday night rolled back on and I was back in business.

Restore my screen saver, redefault (is that a word?) Apex, and turn Wifi back on. Oh yeah, and run Triangle Away ;)

So I'm not sure what to make of all this. Open questions:

1) Did I need to repartition? What's the right PIT file to use? I sure wish Odin could dump a clean image, but if it can, I don't know how.

2) What mode does Kies want? This could have been a VirtualBox problem but I got it to work before I got Kies installed on my wife's real Windows box (man Kies is slow!).

3) Why could stock recovery reformat /data but CWM could not?

4) Would it have been sufficient to just reflash the stock recovery, do the data wipe? I suspect so, but don't know.

Anyway.... things are back to normal. Love the tab, but sure wish these big companies wouldn't assume we don't know how to fix our own stuff and muck things up with "simplified" tools. By the way, this is the "touch" CWM that seemed to fail to fix /data. I did not try the normal one.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] wd5gnr:
Here we go again. Same problem but I'm not even getting into the boot. Does anyone know how to actually reformat and rescan flash for bad blocks? I have a feeling I have a bad flash block that is doing something evil.

Sigh.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] wd5gnr:
Tried a different approach this time.

Booted to recovery and did an fsck on /data since it seemed to have the problem.

It did a lot of clean up and now I'm back up. Not sure what got damaged if anything though. Time will tell.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] lancelot2002:
Good to hear that it is a happy ending, bro!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] asdfgh4029:
when i use google map, it cann't show my place.(i turn on the net)

many many things the same, like the weather,i always type my place....

can any one help me, plz!!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] limxyz:
wrong section
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
Hallo,

so i am one of the people who could not get a nexus 4 from the funny Store because of unknown erros in the ordering system! (after a call they say u have one, next day call the told me that there is no transaction)!

I personally (like many other) do not believe that the Nexus 4 is out of stock! unless they hat only 1000 pieces!

I believe there it is one of the following:

either

- It is a markting game! we do not have any information about how many pieces were sold! .... not really sure

or

- Google do not trust this LG nexus really and did offered only limited pieces to be sold, to see how does the Nexus 4 do in the every day use! a kind of real life test!, so they can (maybe/maybe not) prevent the failures in the next shipment of nexus 4. And that is why google did not set a pre-order option on the funny Store!

As i can see it is really better that many of us could not get a nexus 4 first shipment (may be last shipment too!). I also do not like to buy a phone which i did not hold in my hand! or a phone which is not really tested yet!

So be happy like me because u did not buy the nexus 4 yet!

WBR

Siemens Lover
[Nexus 4 General] rottensalad:
I'm sorry but this sounds like your trying to convince you're self and others that its OK you didn't get. BTW I did get one and am stoked. I'll test it and let u know.
[Nexus 4 General] tawfiqmp:
Rosetta Stone.
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
No i am not, i can still get one for 60$ above the price of the funny Store, that is not the Problem.

Then plz can u explain to me why was that not really professional from the Master Google?
[Nexus 4 General] MatAuc12:
Funny how none of those reasons could actually make someone "happy" they didn't get one... its not like you just broke the news that the device is a nuclear time bomb at T - 6:66
[Nexus 4 General] trillo69:
Well, everything has its good side. Those who weren't able to get a Nexus 4 can wait and see people's impression about this device, more reviews (besides the wide anandtech review), possible device issues, etc.

I admit I will buy a Nexus 4 as soon as it becomes avaliable again, but I'm also worried about the non-AOSP thing. So let's see hot it goes now on.
[Nexus 4 General] phillevy:
That's exactly what I told myself on my way to work after my attempts to place an order failed - until an hour later when my wallet showed an accepted order along with confirmation email-and I changed my mind:confused::laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
OP that sounds really stupid. period.
[Nexus 4 General] Sparta507:
I personally think that it's better to wait, since I want to see how durable the device is. And for the most part, I will be buying my Nexus 4 when either Ballistic Cases/Otterbox/Trident release a case for this phone, idk something about that back glass gets me a little worried about how sturdy this phone is...
[Nexus 4 General] fatjivi:
I don't know how you can say that...I had to cry myself to sleep
[Nexus 4 General] munchy_cool:
the grapes are sour
[Nexus 4 General] firstness:
Why not go with an official bumper case? That is the lightest thing that will protect fully against falls (unless you drop it on an uneven surface where the glass touches first.. unlikely)
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
hhhhhhh.. u r a samsung and iphone guy.. so u should not say/write any letter here :D
[Nexus 4 General] jimmygoska:
Are you serious? You really think that there is enough time between the first batch arriving and being used and shipping the second batch of phones they're going to have enough information to make serious hardware changes? A little far-fetched methinks.

How about something positive like Google set a limit on the devices to ensure that each one was sent out in a timely manner and the orders could be processed swiftly before relisting the device that was hugely popular?

I don't think that the glass makes the phone not 'sturdy'. I would guess that the phone is well made, solid and also looks really nice because of the tough Gorilla Glass 2 backing. Obviously, this is purely speculative but I can imagine that with a bumper and - more importantly - a little care, this device will last a while and be great to have.
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
u cry because a phone? A phone that u can/may buy?! :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] phillevy:
All my phones up until now have been on contract, and each upgrade has never coincided with a launch. Part of the appeal with the N4 (along with the price of course) was to get a phone at launch for the 1st time. I'm happy to put up with teething problems -as a long standing Android dabbler, that is part of the masochistic fun. It is just nice to be in at the very beginning for a change.
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
I said they maybe/maybe not prevent the coming issues inthe next shippment!

It is silly... what about a pre-order option from the Master Google in the funny store??
[Nexus 4 General] AmesCell:
Trying to make yourself feel better, but it's not working.
[Nexus 4 General] haloimplant:
I love it when people never use periods, just exclamation points on every sentence! So exciting!
[Nexus 4 General] agtitan:
cool story, bro.

-Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
hhh... i do not try.. i do feel OK!

What about to write something and discusse what i wrote?.. i do not speak about feelings!
[Nexus 4 General] tuffCookie:
Master Google and the funny store...lmfao

this whole thread is pointless, but OP is funny
[Nexus 4 General] phillip1953:
Can't follow your thought. I'm guessing English isn't your native language or you're a very lazy writer?

Posted via my Amiga 3000, EVO 3D , or Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
u r funny too
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
both! :D

But i do not think that is why u can not follow me here!
[Nexus 4 General] Pvt WhoOkid:
You're my hero! Like the commercial says "oh he's doing bettel" lol!
[Nexus 4 General] AmesCell:
You did though. The whole point of the thread is to convince yourself it's ok that you weren't able to get a Nexus 4 by getting others to agree with your reasons.
[Nexus 4 General] yyz71:
lol:good:
[Nexus 4 General] hbkmog:
What's the big deal? It's just a cellphone and it will be back for sale soon once the new batch arrives.

Provided I did order one but I wouldn't feel anything if I couldn't either. Life goes on.
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
If u read well.. i wrote i can buy a nexus 4! that is not the problem.

Just try to explain the hole things happend with the funny store selling action!
[Nexus 4 General] AmesCell:
Then why did you say this?

so i am one of the people who could not get a nexus 4 from the funny Store

So you tried to get one. Didn't get one. And started a thread with some dumb reasons why you are ok with not getting one.
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
+1

But will it be availlable again? or soon?

And the most important thing.. will I/other buy the nexus 4?.... let us wait and see
[Nexus 4 General] fatjivi:
Lol I didn't literally cry...its just something I never expected...I have to sell my s2 in two days and I won't be left with anything but an old Nokia phone...all the more reason to cry
[Nexus 4 General] jader13254:
I don't care
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
Just simple to clear.. i lost my last device (broken) and i do not have a smart phone now, the price is OK.. it was an adventure for me.

I do not really like to buy a phone because it is from sony or HTC or Google or Moto .... without holding it in hand and reading some real tests and every day use reports. (never did it before) because a i buy a phone for the next 2 years which i need in my every day use!
[Nexus 4 General] anirudh412:
But still you logged on to the Play Store, ordered it, kept checking the status AND called customer service? Seems to me like you are trying to find the silver lining here.

Guess what, with your attitude, no one cares
[Nexus 4 General] sahakiap:
i was really lucky. master google and the funny store allowed me to purchase four phones yesterday. two 16g and two 8g. shipping on the 15th so i should get them next mon or tues. will let you know if your hypothesis has merit after i test them all :laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
Read Post #35

u should not!
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
Perhaps we are all just testers of this item. Either way I worked so hard over the past many hours to order. I was successful and am happy.

I don't blame you guys for trying to make yourselves feel better.I would be doing the same thing..
[Nexus 4 General] Jasonhunterx:
He's not convincing his self he's saying possibly first batch of devices could be bad and he possibly avoided it
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
Getting/buying that phone is not the Problem!

But ist worth to buy?? without holding it in the Hand? without tests and reports?

After one day from selling it, issues with the Display (yellow spots), 50$ restocking fee if returned, overheating and and and....

And u lucky guy, bought all that! (i could be lucky as u, but luckly i am not!)

ANd we r not talking about feelings here! ;)
[Nexus 4 General] SiemensLover:
+1

u r the first and may be the only one here in this thread understanding my point.
[Nexus 4 General] tweaked:
This is just a troll thread... Really not needed at all. You didn't get one. Lucky you!

Reported as troll bait.
[Nexus 4 General] heliumrepublic:
LMFAO. OP is desperately trying to convince himself that it wasnt worth the purchase by down playing the phone.

News FLASH - It's an amazing phone get a reality check bro
[Nexus 4 General] djkinetic:
Definitely a troll thread, lets think about this OP makes a thread saying to feel ok that you didn't get one on launch day like him, yet he states that he can get one if he so chooses from Tmobile, so why didnt he, if he really wanted to get one he'd pay the extra 150-200 premium...i know that if i didnt get one yesterday, I'd be considering it.
[Nexus 4 General] :
Thread Closed
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GMoneyDTP:
Im looking the get the optimus g or nexus 4 and my question is they are the exact same hard ware so if I get a lg optimus g is it possible to get a port rom from the nexus4 or like cm10 if they make 1 in order to get jellybean ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reignlight:
This will most definitely be what happens...hardware its mostly a match outside of wireless charging.

My Optimus G is rooted and waiting for clockwork mod to work beyond being tethered to a pc. It will likely not have as many roms, but it will have them.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
Hardware is not exactly the same, but they're quite similar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cwa542:
Is there a rom that's just like the galaxy s3 for the skyrocket that's fast and stable? I can find anything on the xda app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jedah:
There are a few that use the GS3's Touchwiz launcher (example: SkyICS). But, I haven't see any w/ all of the GS3's features (like Smart Stay, etc).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ian1:
Ya it would be cool to have a ROM that had all the gs3 apks and stuff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] houstonsveryown:
yeah people continue to point to those roms but thats not a straight touchwiz rom like on the gs3

i would have thought there would be just about the same amount of TW roms to Stock Android roms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
I had smartstay on my rocket before. It didn't work great and I really just didn't care for it. You can get it though. I'm sure you can poke around with search and grab an apk for it

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Sent from my Skyrocket i727 running PA 2.55
[General Questions and Answers] Gaurav8651000:
if u are in warranty period go to Samsung Gallery n tell them to Flash Stock firmware for free...and if not Flast Stock Firmware again Via Odin...maybe that Will help...let me kno

PRESS THANKS!! ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Youngunn2008:
Try using the market on the PC and add your payment info there. Even buy it there and see if it'll download to your phone.
[General Questions and Answers] lastword:
I had tryed to add card on pc as per your instruction but not working the same error shown. Error while retrieving information from server [RPC : s-7 : AEC : 0]

Please what to do. Please help me!
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
Ask Google - this sounds like a problem with validating your credit card, which is not something anyone on XDA can help with.
[General Questions and Answers] sylvester114:
RPC:S-7:AEC-0 Solution.

I had this problem on a galaxy note II N7100. The thing that worked for me was, flashed the stock ROM, restored the stock boot image, reset the counters etc. and used a SIM card that I had never used before on that device and a Gmail ID that was never used on it. Opened playstore using mobile data and it worked. Then tried it with wifi and again it worked. Also tried it with the Gmail account on which this error had come up and it worked there too. I inserted the old sim that was present when d error came up, on wifi it worked, but on mobile data again the same error (RPC:S-7:AEC-0) came up and after that playstore paid apps dint work on wifi even in the offline mode. After that they only work when used with mobile data on a new sim (as mentioned above).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wickets:
I keep switching between chrome, dolphin and the stock from 4.1......is it my imagination or is chrome still 3rd choice? It just seems so unintuitive to use. Are you guys switching to chrome or staying with one of the other browsers?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CoronaDelux:
I think chrome is better than the default browser... but android beam still does not work with this app!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alves.paa:
I love some of the Chrome features life the lateral-swipe to switch tabs and the zoom bubble that appears if you click in a small link, but I hate how it handles the bookmarks. We can't have everything, I guess :\
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MoosDiagramm:
I use Chrome because it syncs with my desktop browser, but the Android browser is a lot smoother. Chrome stutters all the time when I scroll and often ignores input while it stutters, but I have a hard time getting the Android browser to stutter at all.

If you don't need the synchronization with your desktop, Android browser is still the better choice.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qandrav:
is it possible to have ALWAYS desktop version of a site without requesting it every time???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wickets:
Thanks for the replies.....I keep expecting chrome to be the beez kneez but it always seems lackluster/less friendly than the android version. I dont know why, but after sandy when signals were extremely weak or non existent in my area, dolphin performed the best on a gnex (vzw) 4.1.2 and on an old droid 3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegtfusion:
stock 4.2 browser is the best.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
I believe you can do this in the stock browser under settings->advanced->user agent->desktop. No equivalent option in chrome that I know of.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wickets:
glad you like it. the goog powers that be are probably glad too :)

Ive been trying to use it all day but its not working for me....a shame because i feel like im cheating on google when i use the other browsers haha
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] roadrunnerx7:
I think as long as they dont add the "quick controls" to chrome, the android browser will always have the lead. those controls are incredibly useful for one hand operation, and really anything involving the search bar at the top. no need to move the thumb up there(which is annoying on big screens), just press the side and swype to the url control and bam! and now with "swype" on the keyboard, its actually getting pretty nice having a big screen but only using one hand
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] android.vibrant:
i think there's a bug when refreshing the page if you are using quick control. there'll be a black block on top.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qandrav:
On the stock or opera or dolphin it's possible but it's very annoing click on "desktop version" every time....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gideonMorrison:
I can't seem to find the option (user agent) on stock browser... Do you know where I can find it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Torbennmadsen:
There are 2 things keeping mé away from chrome and that is:

-Quick controls

-full screen mode

Stock browser is also smoother IMO...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gideonMorrison:
It most definitely IS more smooth...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GuestK00230:
I use Google Chrome on PC, and it gets synced up very conveniently with Google Chrome on my Gnex, so I tend to stick with Chrome.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] johnxdaphone:
I could not find the user agent on stock browser either. Yakju version. Just updated to 4.2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] skyrocket727:
i use to like Dolphin browser but Chrome kinda feels solid. I have Dolphin browser with Jetpack on N7 and it indeed loads pages faster then chrome. They've recently added magnifier like in chrome it's still needs a little bit of optimization.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] amir80:
The stock 4.2 browser is faster and more fluid than chrome. Chrome is better in handling all kind of online forms.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dattack:
I love stock browser but I want to give chrome browser a whirl. However, how do you guys adjust the font for chrome where it is readable? There are some fonts on the page which are perfect for viewing and at the same time , other parts of the page, the fonts are so small. Why can't all the fonts be near or equal on the same page like stock browser.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] imadiu:
I don't quite understand why 3D graphics in custom rom is better? I mean, it is better obviously... But what did the developers do, to make it better. Because i'm trying to make myself a ROM, so i was thinking on how to make it better like the custom ROMs. Any suggestions or help? :)
[HTC Rezound] Pennix:
I'm pretty sure that i'm using ICS firmware

Baseband 2.22.10

I have tried cm9 from GrayTheWolf, tried AOKP-Neo 1.6 Linaro and cleanrom 4.5, but none could recoganize the phone storage

Even the stock ruu rom neither.

I tried all the firmware mismatch patch, none works.

Here's my steps:

1. Flash RUU 4.03.605.2 using PH98IMG.zip on sdcard

2. Clear storage from hboot

3. Factory reset from hboot

4. 1-3 again

5. Flash amon ra 3.1.5 recovery through fastboot

6. Flash roms in ar recovery

After days googling, i realized that could probably cause by the block device name

So I checked the /dev/block/ directory

See ? THERE IS NO mmcblk0p38

I readly have no idea why.

Then I tried modifying vold.fstab

from

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 38 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host/mmc0

to

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 37 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host/mmc0

Stock roms work fine

from

dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 38 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host/mmc0 nonremovable,encryptable

to

dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 37 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host/mmc0 nonremovable,encryptable

CM9 and aokp roms works fine

The problem resolved.

But I still don't get a clue WHY

Anybody get an idea?