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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andham95:
I'm sure I will unlock my bootloader eventually, but it would be cool if I could root first, then backup my apps (since it wipes all the data).

OR if its possible to unlock without wiping data, that would be equally useful.

Sorry for the noob question, and I'm REALLY sorry if this is common knowledge, but my searching didn't turn up much info, and certainly not any good info specific to the Nexus 4. Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andham95:
Bump
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leobg:
You could backup using adb before you unlock the BL - check the toolkit that is available in the original development forum. Option 2 is what you need (Backup and restore your device).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Adb is your best bet for a backup because unlocking the bootloader will always wipe everything.
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] vs4vijay:
Do you guys know there are some Easter Eggs in every Android 2.3+ devices..

To access them Go to Settings>About Phone. There You will find Android Version or Firmware Version and Now Quickly Tap it Several Times..

You will See some Art by Android Team or CyanogenMod Team...

In Jelly Bean you can even play with them...Enjoy..:good:

Gingerbread Easter Egg

Honeycomb Easter Egg

ICS Easter Egg

Jelly Bean Easter Egg
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Harpratap:
In 4.2 there is an easter egg..you cannot directly access the developement settings

To activate you need to tap build number 3 times

And for "beanflinger" live wallpaper, open the JB easter egg and long press it :)
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] samfeastdroid:
didnt work
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Harpratap:
It works :p

Which version of android are you on? and which rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] neil.richard:
Ya!..works fine on cm10!

And one more thing there's an easter egg of CM10 also!..

Just touch CyanogenMpd version 3 times and there's an animation also!
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] k1llerm:
dont work on my lenovo k860 ! maybe is coz the lenovo use theirs own firmware ? it said is LenovoMagic 4.0 ????
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] AXAz0r:
Works, thank you for the info, never knew about this =)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ReAlives:
I use paranoid android 2.99 and Trinity a4, sometime when i didn't use my phone and i lock the screen, and i wanna turn it on again, the phone won't response. The only way that i can turn it on is by pulling the battery out, i can't help but wonder Ida's it a hardware or software issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cupfulloflol:
Have you tinkered with kernel settings? Lowered voltages? Changed governors?

Have you tried a different kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ReAlives:
nope, I'm too scared to do that, i just change the screen color, besides, i have already uninstalled it, it's too risky i don't wanna mess up with my gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Go back to stock. If it still does "whatever", then it's hardware, most likely. Common sense.

Sent from my i9250
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] keny312:
maybe try default setting for the screen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] garu12:
Trinity a4 has sod issues. I didnt have any but many did. Your phone is fine (most likely) just flash another rom or kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jubomime:
Change kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nomad4ever:
I have a similar problem with stock 4.2. Sometimes the screen goes blank (like a dark Grey back light), the phone is still on, but I can't get into it anymore. It registers touches etc, just the screen doesn't get back.

Flashed clean stock Image, factory reset and data restore.

Only battery pull helps. Happens 1 or 2 times per day in various situations (texting, browsing, whatsapp). Luckily I don't have any of the other 4.2 problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rodmc123:
i have exactly the same problem... now im on cm10 and it happen less than before, but the issue is still there..

when did your problem start?

i dont know if it is a hardware or software issue, because with some stock roms happen a lot more than with some custom roms.

is there any difference between flashing using toolkit or odin?? if i wanna go back to stock, but i mean totally stock, toolkit or odin are exactly the same??

btw, this freeze that for some people happen "only" when the phone is in lockscreen it's exactly the same issue of the blank screen, the only difference is that you haven't had the the crash in your face XD... but it is the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nomad4ever:
I had it since 4.2. Also the occasional reboot. Before my Nexus never rebooted or locked on its own since March this year.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mk92595:
Is their a tiny USB OTG Adapter? I am getting a micro USB flash drive and I have an OTG cable but its long. I would like a wire that can be as small as possible. Is there such a wire?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj92942000:
I have a micro USB adapter attached to an OTG micro USB adapter ..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Groid:
I had searched Amazon for 'usb otg cable' and there are lots of them. The one I got is 5" long and had a 90 degree microusb connector so the cable is parallel to the bottom of the N7. You can buy one for $1 or less. I also bought a tiny microusb reader and 32 GB microsd card that plug right in and weigh almost nothing.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chiilih:
Hi,

I just received a brand new Nexus 7. I turned it on, logged into my account, and then the first thing I did was go to settings -> about -> check for system updates.

It started updating to 4.2

During the update, I got the android with red exclamation point.

Pressed power and volume up and it shows this. (See attached image)

I'm completely stumped. Its brand new and hasn't been rooted or modified.

I tried sideloading the update via adb but I get the same error.

Any ideas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmm200:
If you got it local, exchange it. You don't have a lot of time invested at this point to try to fix it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JayOui:
I had the same exact problem but it was really easy to fix.

I downloaded the Nexus 7 toolkit and did the following:

1) Installed the Google Nexus 7 Drivers from the Nexus 7 Toolkit menu.

2) Unlocked my BootLoader from the Nexus 7 Toolkit.

3) Downloaded the factory stock rom for 4.1.2 in the Nexus 7 Toolkit.

4) Put my device in fastboot mode (power + volume down)

5) Selected the option to flash the device with the factory rom.

Once it was installed, I was able to apply the OTA update. Apparently many of these devices ship with this issue.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comminus:
If you're going to go through the trouble of flashing a factory image to get the N7 up to date, just flash the latest. There's no need to waste time with the OTA at this point.

edit: the blurry image shows a patch assertion error on the kernel. This means that the installed kernel does not match what the OTA was expecting to find. This is typically indicative of the presence of a custom kernel.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JayOui:
I agree it is indicative of a custom kernel but I had the same problem of a device pulled directly out of the box which was unfortunately shipped from Walmart since they were sold out on Google Play at the time. BTW, the box was sealed so unless Asus is shipping refurbished units as new, I don't see how this could have happened. If you google the error for the LNX device error, you will see this is more common that would be expected.

You are also correct that I could have flashed the 4.2.1 factory image, but at that point I wanted to make sure that I could actually get the OTA updates in the future. This showed I could as I was able to get the OTA update to 4.2 and then the subsequent update to 4.2.1.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comminus:
You don't happen to have the original kernel or kernel information do you? I'd like to take a closer look at it to see what the deal is. Or do you happen top recall the build number that the device was shipped with?

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
This happened to me today, too.

I got a brand new 32GB wifi Nexus7 from the local electronics store.

Sealed box.

CBO serial

4.1.2 JZO54K preinstalled.

Made the OTA update.

At about half of the progress bar the red exlamation mark symbol came and the device rebooted on its own after waiting 1 minute.

And now 4.1.2 is still installed.

(everything stock and locked)

Can I fix it somehow else, without rooting etc?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimonCraddock:
Likewise, mines 4 days old and the update just won't install.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
I tried to clear the "data" of Google Services Framework. Then did the OTA again but it failed again with the red triangle at about 1/3 of the loading bar.

Here is a workaround which didn't work for me (clearing data of Framework)

http://www.adilhindistan.com/2012/07/upgrading-nexus-s-to-jelly-bean-411.html
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
I tried it several times, even wiping /cache in stock recovery doesn't help.

I will continue to try the update. And either it will work all of a sudden or I really need to adb sideload the update manually on a fresh locked, unrooted device. Come on Google.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimonCraddock:
I gave up and flashed mine via ADB there's obviously something wrong with the OTA combined with the Nexus 7 32gb as it only seems to affect this model from looking at the stories.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
I went to my local dealer. And after some evaluating and checking. They were able to to connect to their wifi. I then reproduced the failure in the shop. Then afterwards they called ASUS (The salesman let me talk to Asus directly, but they couldn't help, Google is responsible for software). And after this the salesman checked a demonstration model, which already had 4.21.

Then he asked the store manager I guess (at least he wore a suit as opposed to the others.)

And finally they exchanged my model to a new one. Now I have another CBO device but this time it updates flawlessly.

I'm happy.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sorraia3:
I got my 32gb in December and have had the same problem. Google support said it was an asus issue and of course asus said it was a google issue. Both only had factory reset as a suggestion, which did not work. There seems to be hundreds of users with this issue because I have found tons and tons of people with the same problem, but no real answers. Rooting and flashing is of course a fix but not really a solution. I root my phones, but really do like the nexus as is and like you would want to be able to receive further ota updates without issue. I'm intrigued by your wrong kernal idea. I got mine new from a local gamestop.

I've attached a screenshot of my info. Can you tell me, please, is this the wrong kernal? If so and I follow your steps from the nexus toolkit, what will happen to everything that is on here? Will apps, data, personal file , and settings all be wiped? Are there any backup opttions? Not being rooted I can't use my titanium backup so will a copy to pc get everything?

Thanks so much!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
@Sorraia3

That release - JRO03S - seems kind of old for a device which was purchased in December. Setting that aside though, there have been a few reports on here of "pure factory" JRO03S devices that would not properly accept the OTA update.

To know what the exact error condition is, you would either need to show a picture of the recovery screen with the error message, or if there is none, get a copy of the recovery log file (which might require root and therefore poses a chicken-vs-egg problem).

If you don't want to pursue a return/exchange/repair with Google/Asus, you could try identifying the exact problem - but to do that you would need to unlock the bootloader... which causes a full tablet wipe & in any event would be more difficult than just flashing a (new version of the) full factory ROM.

Look at the "return to stock with fastboot" thread for instructions on the latter.

You need to make backups of anything worth saving as the tablet gets completely wiped during this process. You might also want to look into the "Carbon" app for backing up market apps & their data on an unrooted device before you begin.

Also, the fact that you will be unlocking your bootloader does not mean that you need to flash custom ROMs or any other "rooting" activities - you can certainly just re-lock the bootloader after installing the factory ROM, and stay in a "pure stock" condition (with the newer factory ROM).

good luck
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sorraia3:
I know it has been awhile since I posted in this thread, but I got sidetracked. I'm now going to be taking care of this and was wondering if I can jump right to the newest build or should I graduate up them? If the latter, can someone give me the proper build order? If the former, what is the most current stable build I should use?

Also, I no longer seem to be able to find the thread mentioned "return to stock with fastboot" would you have a link for it?

Wait I think I just found it. Is this it?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1907796

So the recommendation is to go through adb rather then use the toolkit?

Thanks much! :)
[General Questions and Answers] Dmw017:
Hi I have about 13k text messages on my phone at the moment and another +20k in mmssms.db files. My question is, is there an app available that backs up sms/mms messages in a way that it can be viewed at any time (say, on my computer, not just on the phone) without having to restore it, as you would if you used Titanium Backup. I tried SMS Backup+ which sends your texts to your gmail. It was almost perfect, but the way it seperated each group per 100 texts was really cumbersome, especially when I have over +10k from a single person alone.

I know someone is definitely going to ask this so I'll just answer it now. I keep so many around because they are memories, and I'm just trying to save those memories, the way someone would save their photo album.

So, any apps that might do the trick? :)

I could just export mmssms.db every once in a while but the text log is full of code and hardly readable.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] alludem:
XML file?

If you're okay with combing through xml code, you can backup with SMS Backup & Restore.

Definitely not aesthetically pleasing, but I've searched the entire XML code before to find texts I've needed.
[General Questions and Answers] Dmw017:
shoot i just installed that app earlier today hoping itd do the trick but i havent tried it out yet. GUess it wont, I need something that just shows the texts and no code..
[General Questions and Answers] zaprunner:
Memories or blackmail? Ha

Sent from my T999 on ParanoidKangaBadness!!
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
XML is a fairly standard format. Just use Excel (OpenOffice should do the same) and open it as an XML - you will get all the details, but organised into nice columns so you can then just apply a filter to see messages by sender, date etc It's exactly what I do with mine - SMS Backup & Restore runs automatically at 2am every day, uploads the backup to my DropBox account, keeps the last three backups and I can open them on my laptop whenever I want to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ReapersDeath:
So I have Google now disabled and maps location update disabled, battery saver settings enabled, but should my Android system and abdroid OS be so high? Just been kiking all day. Only got 2 hours 30 mins of display time
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GiantJay:
That seems pretty descent depending how much you used apps and what not. I know if I am using Pandora in certain areas with bad reception my battery drops like no ones business. In that pick you only have one bar so that could be a culprit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ReapersDeath:
Eh I have an airave

Move and inch and I go from max to 1 XD but idk in usually 15 hours around 4 hours of screen =/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] imaconeheadXD:
In /system/bin try renaming gsiff_daemon and qosmgr by adding .bak to the end of the file names
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dante32278:
What exactly do those 2 files do? I seen this posted a few times but still not sure what effect disabling them has on the phone. If renaming to .bak, why not just delete them?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] imaconeheadXD:
Personally I delete them, I just think it's better to tell other people to rename incase something goes wrong :p As to what they each do, gsiff_daemon hasn't been shown to really do or affect anything, and qosmgr has something to do with a kernel governor msc or msm or whatever it's called, not a widely used governor and it's not even part of the stock kernel. Both are fine to delete and won't affect anything else on the phone.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neugenusis:
So my N10 replacement arrived due to my first N10 (haven't returned it yet) having some minor light leakage. Right after the first boot on the new N10, there's a single pernament blackline across the screen. Checked if there was light leakage, and found it to be much worst than my first N10.

Anyways, I decided to take a photo of the black line with my DSLR. After a few shots, and then looking back at the screen, there were now 2 black lines. I decided to take a few more shots, and while I was looking at the screen, a 3rd line popped up before my eyes.

Lines are predominately black, but sometimes, depending on the background, the lines will have some brighter colors.

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Gona send the replacement back. Just to be on the safe side, keeping the first N10 since its working perfectly fine and the light leakage is easily tolerable. What do you guys think caused this to happen?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KestrelX:
Strange! Maybe it was damaged during shipping.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitemare3219:
Google may track via serial number the devices they send, so you may want to let them know first in case they realize you sent the replacement back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gnoteuser23:
hello guys i just got another galaxy note and i want to root it and put a custom rom on it and over clock it. the questions are what is the smoothest running rom that really unlocks what you can do with the phone and lets you customize it the most but yet still makes it faster and less laggy. and the second question is. is there anyone here that could help me by doing a screen share and do the rooting and install the rom for me cuz im really no good with this stuff as i soft bricked my last phone trying to do this and i really dont wanna do it again but would like to root my phone could someone please help me thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Agoattamer:
If you can't root and you can't install a ROM then I suggest you stay stock. Rooting will only allow you to do things that you can't and are afraid to do anyways.

As far as ROM preference that is up to you. Read the forum and decide for yourself.

Easiest way to root is here:

http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...y-note-sgh-i717-icsgingerbreadeasiest-method/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kola2121:
Any way to activate flash player.

...or an 4.2 not support flash atall!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thundertroy:
Its not supported at all, though I haven't tried using dolphin browser. From what I know they still had a way of having flash work sometimes.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Not officially supported, you have to sideload it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drawde40599:
Works 100% perfect with aokp 4.2 browser , search the themes and apps thread to get a copy and directions
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassbox:
Just load the latest version of flash for android from adobe.com and a browser who supports the plugin e.g. firefox from market and you're fine. works great for me
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neotekz:
I also find flash works better when you set user agent to android instead of desktop.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wmm:
I'm using it with Firefox and it's great -- high frame rate, good resolution. It's almost as good as a desktop experience playing embedded videos.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edanny101:
HI,

It's my first post here and I'm glad to be a member on this fantastic website.

I have a problem with the swap partition on my device, Xperia arc.

I flashed my device to "LT15i 4.1.B.0.431 Generic Global World" follow by this post.

I found that lacking in memory so I tried to use swap partition and created 256 Linux swap partition on my SD card. But "free" commend still shows swap=0

However, I decided to use swapper 2. Still no effect and I couldn't get swap although swapper did its job without fail!

After few days search I found that the kernel doesn't support the swap, So, I tried to use "Kernel.sin unpacked and added CWM options" form here. It also didn't work, neither "init.d zram scripts from wedgess" from the same page.

However, I'm looking for help to use swap on my device or any suggestion that can help me to improve memory in my device.

P.s. I'm a newbie in Android and still don't understand it very well specially those names like rom and etc, but I have been using Linux (Fedora) for 6 years.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svs57:
Did you try manually turn on swap with "swapon"?

Also you can create swap in file.

cd <to your SD card>
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
mkswap swapfile
swapon swapfile
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edanny101:
Thanks a lot for your kind reply.

I flashed my device to cm10 and it works much better.

I tried to remove this post but I could not.

Thanks anyway for your time to read my post and reply.

Cheers.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notdeadyet01:
Right now I am currently using the stock Rom on my kindle, mainly because of the battery life. I wanted to switch over to Standing on the shoulder of giants but soon after I did, I discovered that the volume is way lower than stock. Is there a Rom that fixes this problem?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guitarman:
Maybe try Hellfire CM7 or Barebones......I am currently running an even more stripped down version of Barebones and the audio volume is fine. I remember running (standing on the shoulders of giants) many months ago and trying to correct audio volume inadequacies with speaker boosting apps which in the end created more issues :(

.....when you hit the walls of sanity, you have no-where to go.....
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notdeadyet01:
Thanks, i will be sure to try them out. Do you prefer one over the other?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guitarman:
Personally I prefer the Barebones ROM because I like my ROMs lightweight and basic as far as CM7 goes. For some reason I wasn't able to do step 2 of the Barebones flash which was a backup(maybe its because an update with TWRP...maybe I did it wrong...IDK.....it worked many months ago with older version of TWRP) but the only stuff that had was the little tweaks that the poster added in. No worries though as I got the ICS theme elsewhere anyways.

I've run Hellfire CM7 but it included too many apps, which might be good for some as it includes Gapps and the Amazon Market app. Both Hellfire and Barebones have the same kernal which can be overclocked to 1.2GHz. I installed Hellfire on my wife's Kindle and she is pretty happy with it.

Recently I tried a CM7 ROM from Goo Manager that was last updated on 11-04-12 but I kept getting the dreaded SoD so I went back to Barebones.

Hope that helps :)

Sent from my rooted SCH-R880 POS
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notdeadyet01:
Thanks i think i will flash Barebones.

Can i bother you with one more thing? Mind if you link where you got the ICS theme?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guitarman:
Here is where I got it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1373295