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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] XenomorphXx121:
I was asked to update my review of the case so here it is.

The case is good for carrying the note 10.1 around but as for drawing with it on, I wouldn't.

The magnets in the case cause the s pen to slightly go off a bit and I found my lines not to be so straight anymore and sometimes causes jagged lines.

I would suggest if you were to buy a case then buy one without any magnets.

I downloaded the samsung manual and in the manual it says clearly to keep the s pen away from any magnets because it may cause the s pen to malfunction or freeze.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thee GOC:
So I rooted my phone well over a year ago now and had no issues with CM7 and updates. I have been reading about the CM10 on Jellybean and would like to upgrade to that. Now I have never had an issue before now installing .zip files but yesterday I went to install it yesterday following this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1795647.

After downloading the files, wiping, installing from SD, wiping and rebooting the phone just goes into a boot loop mode. I was able to get back into the recovery and revert back to CM7 to at least stabilize the phone to use and noticed that the Android being run is Gingerbread (see screen capture) and from what I read and understood I needed to be in Froyo? Correct me if I am wrong.

I am wondering if I am using the wrong gapps file or possible the 2ndboot, I still have the original 2ndinit on the phone, could that be the issue? Or perhaps I need to go back to Froyo to go up to Jellybean?

Any help is appreciated, I am tech savvy but perhaps not the best at understanding all the nuances in rooting a device.

Here are the files I installed:

CM10-20120924-NIGHTLY-mb525.zip

gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip

kernel-froyo-222-179-4-signed.zip
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thee GOC:
Or should I have used this kernel kernel-gb-234-451-134-signed.zip?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunil_defy:
how do i find green or red lens defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thee GOC:
Check out this thread.....http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116694
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunil_defy:
how to find green and red lens defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thee GOC:
Are you looking to identify your phone or to buy a Defy?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thee GOC:
I think I may be the first person to successfully brick a Defy. I tried following this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1691901) and succeeded in getting the bootloader screen to show Err: A5,69,4E,00,41

It seems I may have gotten in over my head so any suggestions would be appreciated at this point. Trying to not have to buy a new phone.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] who where:
This happened to me as well...i think it's to do with the version of the cmg files inside the sbf. keep this thread handy - Defy is unbrickable: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1216982
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SaHiLzZ:
This is really weird and did NOT happen on 4.1.2. I installed bigxie's 4.2 OTA file, and today installed the 4.2 fastboot packaged files as well with a system/user/data wipe. Same issue.

This issue only shows up for numbers not added as contacts. I dialed a random number to show this issue.

[YOUTUBE]TJQFix351O0[/YOUTUBE]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SaHiLzZ:
Installed Minco v6 4.2.1, same issue again. =( Help anyone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mm404:
I am having the very same issue.

My phone number has an area code of 770 - and that is the code that any SMS will be sent to, following with the rest of original 7 digits.

This was not happening on toro 4.2.1 CM (10.1) but it's happening with 4.2.1 mmozzy (1/11)

Has anyone found a solution to this?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfinockio:
I'm running Strawberry 4.1 with Marmite 6.7... lately I've found Google Now very slow to respond when I hold down the "Search" button - takes anywhere from 3-10 seconds to load up (sticks at the white screen). It used to be faster on this same combo I thought, and I also read somewhere someone had found a way to speed it up... but I can't remember where.

Any thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nichtverstehen:
Hi! After latest OTA update I was left with an unbootable Galaxy Nexus (zygote couldn't start) and I lost root (su needed activitymanager up). So I needed to unlock to revive the phone, but I really didn't want to lose my data. After some exploration I could come up with a way to unlock bootloader without wipe and without root. I have seen several questions about this here and this was deemed impossible, so I decided to share my findings and expect they might help someone. Should work with GSM tuna phones.

Components for success:

— unlocking without wipe via putting a byte in param partition (needs root):

[1] http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1650830&page=15

— OMAPFlash, a low-level utility for manipulating and flashing chipset (usually used to unbrick phones)

[2] http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...9250-galaxy-nexus-gt-i9100g-gt-i9300-1465412/

Take the two of them and you have a solution. I could successfully flash unlock byte to param partition using OMAPFlash.

A sketch of a guide:

1. Boot windows xp, download OMAPFlash (http://d-h.st/XNv), connect a turned off phone without battery, install drivers for omap device. (Mod edit: I've updated the download link.)

2. Dump a part of param partition. You don't need to dump the whole partition, but I think it is safer if you dump a sector-aligned area (512*n). I used 4KB (8 sectors).

OMAPFlash -omap 4 -2 -p OMAP4460_TUNA_8G_HS_PRO -t 36000 chip_upload EMMC@1800000 1000 param.img

chip_upload is for downloading data from device memory

EMMC@1800000 is the start of params partition (check /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p4/start, multiply by sector size 512 and convert to hex)

1000 is to copy 4KB.

Sometimes the process stalls (esp if you try to download larger dumps), just reconnect and retry.

3. Verify that the content is similar to first 4 KB of the dumps of param partitions attached in the thread [2]. For me they matched entirely.

4. Change the byte at offset 124 (0x7C) from 01 to 00.

echo -ne "\x00" | dd obs=1 count=1 seek=124 of=param.img conv=notrunc

5. Flash it back to the device.

OMAPFlash -omap 4 -2 -p OMAP4460_TUNA_8G_HS_PRO -t 36000 chip_download EMMC@1800000 param.img

Reboot, you are unlocked.

Additional links:

[3] http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f634/gt-i9250-pinout-enjoooy-1463061/ GT-I9250 JTAG pinout. Not directly releavant to the guide, but I found it while searching for solution, thought that can help someone in future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nichtverstehen:
Additional reading

The dangers of OTA when you have root, or why I was stuck with an unbootable phone at all

I learned the hard way that OTA may cause unpleasant results if you are trying to preserve root and mess with filesystem.

I was trying to preserve root in a way similar to one used by rootkeeper apps: put a copy of su somewhere in /system and make it immutable. So I went and put my su to /tts (thought that it's unprobable that OTA will do something there), and made it immutable.

And then the update came. As part of the the update process it copied a new version of /system/usr/share/zoneinfo/zoneinfo.version file and the file got 660 perms (package_extract_dir("system", "/system") in the update_script). Then it went on to recursively fix permissions so that the mentioned file would be made readable (set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0644, "/system")). But the set_perm_recursive was met by immutable su in tts directory, chmod returned error and the recursive process was stopped before it got to zoneinfo.version file. So the latter file remained unreadable.

Unfortunately during startup zygote preloadsClasses, static constructor in some sqlite class needs DateFormat, and DateFormat reads zoneinfo. And fails cause it's unreadable. Exception, System.exit. Phone boot stuck.

To work my copy of su needs to send a message to ActivityManager service using binder. I wrote a dirty mock for AM but servicemanager didn't accept my fraud, it checked uid. I tried to bypass preloadClasses with overflowing system file descriptors count to prevent zygote from reading preload class list, but somehow it didn't succeed. Thus the only option I had was unlocking bootloader.

So it may end bad if you mess with /system on a stock rom with locked bootloader and want to receive OTA. It may seem natural, but sometimes the changes seem irrelevant, and then a chain of small failures leads you to loss of everything: boot, root, and data.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
This is great work! Kudos to you for figuring it out.

By the way, where did you find the syntax for OMAPFlash commands?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nichtverstehen:
There are some docs in OMAPFlash_tuna.zip package. The most interesting is OMAPFlash.txt that lists options and commands and has some examples.

Also I was lucky that there is a complete example for unbricking GT-I9250 in Targets/Projects/tuna. This is where I took the options specific for this device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Exactly. I haven't needed this yet, but i had looked in those board files, cross examining with omap 4460 manual that can be found on the web. Thanks for sharing.

I was not aware that JTAG method had been found. Great news.

Sent from my i9250
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] codeslicer:
Works!

Awesome - this worked for me! Unlocked, unrooted, TAKJU Galaxy Nexus w/JB 4.2.2. I used OMAPFlash_tuna.zip (download link).

I had issues when the downloaded param.img file was long, so I replaced 1000 with 200 in the commands. Regardless, it still took me probably 5-10 tries on each command to get it working (unplugging and replugging the phone in between), and sometimes it would freeze up and I'd have to restart Windows. If it takes longer than 5 seconds, you should press Ctrl+C and restart that step.

My problem was that one of my volume buttons is messed up, and as a result the fastboot screen doesn't work - Windows doesn't detect a fastboot device, and none of the hardware buttons or the touchscreen works either. As a result I needed to unlock the bootloader without using fastboot (oem unlock), and this did the trick!

Also, on Windows, I downloaded a hex editor (i.e., HxD) to do the editing. My modified param.img (only 512 bytes) is attached as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hallysson:
Thank you!!! It worked for me too!

The volume buttons on my Galaxy Nexus didn't work and I can't recharge the battery via USB. The USB works only as data connection. Despite all these issues on my phone, it worked for me too!!

I replaced the size in the commands from 1000 to 400 (1024 bytes = 2*512), and I had to put the battery on the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] techobrien:
Sweet jesus I cannot express enough gratitude for this post. While I was a little worried about bricking my device, it would up working perfectly.

A couple of confusing points for anyone out there trying to do this:

- The dump / reflash should only take a few seconds each. If it hangs, cancel and re-start the process.

- Install the drivers with the device OFF but plugged in. You will have an OMAP device without a driver in your device manager. Update the device driver and you're good to go.

- I didn't know how to get the dd command to work on windows, so I also went the Hex editor route it it worked flawlessly

- The only snag I ran into was that it did not boot into my flashed CWM after doing an "adb reboot recovery" from the stock rom. It went back to the stock android recovery. From there I did "fastboot boot cwmrecovery.img" and installed my rom and gapps. After that initial boot, it rebooted into recovery just fine! It seems like a weird glitch (maybe just a one-off).

Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
This is a critical step right here. This thread either should be linked on the 101 FAQ if it's not already or stickied.

a maguro wrote this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cupfulloflol:
Sounds like you are getting hit with the /system/recovery-from-boot.p file. When you boot into Android, this file checks to see if you have stock recovery...if not, it replaces it with stock recovery. You can rename, move, delete the file safely. It shouldn't exist in custom ROMs, which would explain why after installing a ROM and Gapps you were fine.

This is pretty cool. Nice find OP.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
This post thread have not been getting the attention it deserves..

Beamed from my Maguro.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] techobrien:
Good to know for next time round. The flimsy headphone ribbon cable is the bane of my existence and it seems like a somewhat common problem. I didn't think that the custom rom would touch the bootloader so I was confused, but /system/ makes sense. Thanks for the tip.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hillbillymo:
Just in case anybody was wondering, this method also worked for my Verizon GNex LTE. I also used a HEX editor.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kappa70:
Hi,

i'm thinking to use this method to unlock my Nexus' bootloader, in order to gain root privileges without wiping the memory.

This because i need to try and undelete files i have lost on my phone, to do this i need the root but i can't use the normal procedure that would wipe forever all the data i need to restore.

As i am new to this kind of operations, i never even rooted my Android phones, i wanted to ask if this procedure can fit my situation, and if there are any risks....

Thank you very much

EDIT: It worked perfectly!!

Thank you very much!! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MarkusSchnizer:
Did anybody try it on MAGURO device? Does it require any change in the procedure?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] My Gnexi:
Um... The op (and others) did it on a maguro? After all, the title says "on GT-I9250".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
Isn't a i9250 a Maguro?

Beamed from my Grouper
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mielli1:
Mod edit: removed quote of the OP.

Is WinXP really required for this process or will it work on newer versions of Windows ie Win8?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Please do not quote the first post of threads when you reply.

As for your question, if you can get the driver to install on Windows 8, the program will work fine. The driver installs fine in Windows 7 by the way.

Don't forget to disable driver signature verification if you are trying to install drivers in Windows 8.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Windows 8 - stuck at installing drivers

I have a Nexus with a broken volume up button, so am trying this method as a way of unlocking the bootloader and rooting my device.

When I plug the powered off device into the usb port, constantly get the sounds of a device being inserted, and then unplugged (two different beeps.) This continues until I unplug the phone.

Is this the step where I should get a "found new hardware" notification? It is not happening for me, and I'm wondering if this is Windows 8 related.

FYI - I have already disabled driver signature verification.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
Remove the battery, then connect your phone to your PC, look for a OMAP4460 in the device manager, then update the drivers for it.

Beamed from my Maguro
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Almost worked. I wound up installing the driver manually from Device manager (after phone did it's first connect/disconnect thing.) Now the driver is installed, and my phone shows up in device manager, but it reappears/disappears every second or so (with a connect "beep" and disconnect "beep" each time.) Hopefully the connection will hold when I actually have to do something with it.

Anyway, now I'm ready to try to dump the param partition but am not familiar with ADT. I downloaded SDK and JDK, am able to launch ADT but am not sure where the command gets typed. I'm in the midst of a search to learn how to do this now, but I figured I'd ask while I'm poking around.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] My Gnexi:
I think computer beeping disconnecting/reconnecting is normal.

As soon as you type OMAPFlash command, it starts working and stops beeping.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Just in command prompt? What folder should I be in to type the command?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sr21:
Worked for me in Android 4.3 :victory:

This should be a sticky thread!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
And the connecting and disconnecting is normal, it will stop doing that once it receives the commands from OMAPflash.

Beamed from my Maguro
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Yes.

In whatever folder you have OMAPFlash.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Finally worked! Mostly held up by my own typos, but this was definitely well worth it. Thanks OP and all who answered questions!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Benjamin Linus:
Hi, I'm having trouble with drivers under win 8.1 because the system doesn't recognize the device, there's a message popping up every 2 sec aboute USB device non properly recocnized. I've already install the driver 4460 and it shows under TI Boards in device manager, but with a yellow triangle. :(

Do you have any advice how to install drivers properly?

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
See post 26. He answered the same question for me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Benjamin Linus:
Yes, but OMAPflash doesn't find any device
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Sorry - I see your question was about drivers. Just as an FYI, when you do finally get your drivers installed, you'll continue to get the beeping, and your device will continually connect and disconnect itself.

As for the drivers - I remember searching a number of websites for guidance on this. Ultimately the best way to go was to install the drivers manually (I could not get plug and play to work with Windows 8 at all.)

After you download your drivers, go into control panel > hardware and sound > Device Manager. For the life of me I can't remember all of the steps once I got in there. I think I had to find a USB device that failed installation (should have a question mark) and one of the tabs should have a button for installing drivers. Then I had to browse to the folder where I downloaded the drivers to install them manually. I know I'm missing a step here - something regarding an option in the top menus in Device Manager.

Sorry for not remembering all of the exact steps. Just know that this was extremely frustrating for me to accomplish, but so very worth it just to unlock the damn thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Benjamin Linus:
I will try again tonight, btw I've installed manually driver packed in the zip file in the first page of this thread. Maybe this procedure doesn't perform well under win 8.1, if I can't get working under 8 I'll try under xp.

Thanks a lot ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jerry42570:
Good luck
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Benjamin Linus:
Done!!!! Thank you so much :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] QualCZ:
Thx for great tip!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fenvarien:
This worked like charm and was very, very helpful! Thanks for this great guide :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kel29738:
my volume are broken. i really don't know how to do this. help me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MisterX2015:
OP, you saved me a lot of headaches. Don't know how you figured this out but you're a genius! :good::good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vinavinay:
Paper weight

Hey,

Thank you for the tutorial. I followed all your steps but my phone is still stuck at locked bootloader. I used oem unlock, it says phone is unlocked then I do reboot-bootloader and it locks itself again. I am stuck with a expensive paper weight now. I have used ODIN, fastboot method to flash stock roms, they say job is done but my phone won't boot up. My phone loops at Google screen.

However, once it started for two seconds and that moment I can see the old screen lock with the wall paper. So, I am assuming that my phone is not getting formatted correctly and the files are not being sent to phone while flashing using fastboot or ODIN though they give a pass.

Could it be a issue with EMMC chip. Thanks for any help. Its been months trying to figure out and lots of googling with no solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] poioq:
I have a bootlooping GSN with bootloader PRIMED04 and this method does not seem to work anymore. I successfully wrote the param.img to the device after a lot of retries and if i restart to bootloader, it says i am still locked and if i reread the 4KB even without rebooting, just disconnect-> connect, the bit I switched (0x7c) is "1" again.

Does anybody have an idea what else i could try to get out of this bootloop without wipeing all of my beloved data?
[Acer Iconia A500] crp181:
I have spent over 8 hours yesterday researching, reading posts, trying to partition my SD card for an A500 with:

1. 2 Partitions

2. FAT32

3. Primary

I don't have an andriod phone so it is not an option to format it by connecting the phone to the computer. I have rooted my tablet and installed Titanium backup, android assistant, superuser and link2sd. The problem that I am having is the tablet is not recognizing either the first or second partition because it does not have a drive letter. When I assisgn it a drive letter and set up all the specs listed above and click apply, the program tells me it has successfully completed but then immediately replaces the second primary partition drive letter with an *. From my hours of reading yesterday I understand that my computer does not recognize a second primary partition so therefore replaces the drive letter with an *. I have tried mini tool partition wizard and easeus and both produce the same results. PLEASE HELP. Thanks in advance
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
i'm fairly sure your card MUST be formatted using android....

u could try SDformatter but it didnt work for me,

not sure if it can be done thru linux, maybe someone who knows more about these things can advise you

what is it you are trying to achieve with the 2 partitions - there maybe other options available to you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ratkid2271:
Hey Guys,

I've been playing around with the idea of using google voice as my primary phone number, especially because of the extremely weak signal I have at home. I've seen a few apps on the market that let you use google voice over wifi (grooveip, spare phone, sipdroid) and was wondering what experiences people have had with these apps, and which they recommend.

Thanks,

Ratkid
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
I used talkatone. It worked well using the free wifi in the hotel in Maui to Vancouver. Being Canadian we couldn't get a number so all calls were outgoing only.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ratkid2271:
So i bit the bullet and purchased / tried the ones I originally mentioned. Here is what I found:

Sipdroid: very complicated to set up. After an hour or two of trying to get it to work, no dice. This was verified by the reviews of the app.

grooveip: when it works, its ok, the problem is it crashed more often than working (may be specific to my setup). It was, however, less power hungry than spare phone, only sipping about 0.5% to 1% more per hour idle. Also, when it works, it used less than half as much power (over wifi) as a normal phone call (i was able to sustain a 1 hour call and it used up only about 5% of my battery).

spare phone: it works better, with less delay than groove ip. I have yet to have it crash on me. The biggest draw back is it's more power hungry. It seems to eat up about 2.5% more battery during idle than not having it. Overall, since i'm almost always by some power adapter, I think i'm going to go with this one. Also tried it over 3g with 3 out of 5 bars. Still sounded pretty good on my end, another +.

I'm not sure how many people are looking for apps like this, but if you are, hopefully my post helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rrktt:
i've been using groove ip on sky-jb rom and it works without issues. i flashed cvd nibbles and now groove ip crashes all the time. i don't know what the issue can be.