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[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
"This bootloader can only be flashed using nvflash. You can use the guide here http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1622425"

This is from the OP of the thread you linked to...and is the reason you have ended up "bricked?" If you had followed the guide you would have saved yourself alot of grief....You cannot, I repeat, cannot flash the bootloader or an ICS rom via cwm

This is "fastboot mode" only available on the unlocked bootloader

to get into APX MODE use a paper clip to press and hold the reset button,

then press and hold the power button for 3 secs and release it - after another second release the reset button.

Your tab screen will be black and the power light will be on

yeah, impatience can cause alot of problems - to fix this you must have the acer drivers installed and the USB drivers from the android sdk

you must get this to have any hope of recovering your tab - go to the cpuid link in my sig - theres a guide there by "srbeen" on how to retrieve your cpuid with linux - the only other way i know for someone in your position is "usbdeview" - that is in the same post,

yup, recently the forum is full of posts like yours

Patience and following instructions to the letter!!! You must use nvFlash to fix this - I have given you enough info for you to recover your tab BUT you cannot do anything without your cpuid - so I suggest you begin by reading the cpuid guide thoroughly first - everything you need is in there...
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
As Dibbs informed, when you update your bootloader to V8, you can only do this via NVFlash.

For those of us who installed all Skirlax_CZ bootloaders, the CWM function did not arrive till Version 4 of the bootloader. Only then could you CWM the bootloaders. But..... you had to be on a version 4 bootloader "First", before you could CWM the subsequent versions of the bootloader.

If you are just starting out, then you must use NVFlash to initially install any version of the bootloader.

MD
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dalrym05:
So a few months back I bought the gs3 from best buy after my thunderbolt pushed me over the edge and it made very hard contact with a brick wall. I went to best buy and paid cash for the gs3 despite I could of used an upgrade did not want to lose my unlimited data plan. When the note 2 came out my wife said I could buy it and she wanted my gs3. Well last week I ordered it and popped my sim in it and they transfered my old sim to her number and ever since the gs3 locks up 5-6 times a day. The screen will light and go off but is frozen. Have to battery pull. It literally started doing this the first time 15 minutes after Verizon reporgrammed her sim card. I called them today and told them to send me a new one. So now I am waiting. I just really hope this isn't a hardware issue as I don't want a refurb of something I paid 700 bucks for 4 months ago. Has anyone else had this problem. Yes I have wiped front to back several times. No dirty flashes. Never over clocked locks on every ROM I try and never did this once until reprogram of sim. Please someone tell me they have had a sim do this to make me feel a little better. The only good thing that can come out of the phone being bad is she wants the white one so I could have them send me it instead of another blue. Thanks in advance for some responses and input.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dalrym05:
Know one? I guess I'm just gonna Odin and send it back. Piece of crap 700 bucks for a phone and in 3 months now I'm gonna have a refurbished pos.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
Have you just odined to stock and see if it works right
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dalrym05:
Not yet. I'm waiting on a new sim card should be here today Verizon told me sometimes the sim cards fail after switching the numbers in them. Sounds like bs but i figured I'd wait for the sim so I didn't have to do unnecessary steps. If that doesn't work I'm going to Odin. If that doesn't work I guess I'll settle for a refurb. Seems like Samsung has some of the least reliable phones especially in the past but there the only phones I've had lockup issues with. I don't over clock. I try not to under volt or even change kernels from stock unless its packaged with ROM. But this phone even locked in aroma installer one time before I could even click next. Pretty aggrivating.

Its actually doing the exact same thing both of my fascinates did. And I odined them lots to try avoid getting refurbs. 6 months later the refurbs were back to doing the same thing. Battery pulls all day long. Should have stuck with HTC I'm beginning to think.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andybones:
I'm a long time HTC user myself, went thru the Eris, Inc1,Inc2,Inc4, Rezound, and HTC DNA. and at one time had a gnex before trading for my rezound, I always loved HTC, but I did not like the HTC DNA at all.

It would be tough decision for me though over the sg3 and HTC one X+

I had to switch back to VRLHE modem/RPM, and take out my sdcard to fix my horrid battery life, and idk if it was the modem/RPM or sd-card yet, but im leaving it as is for now lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dalrym05:
Well installed new sim card as per Verizon and within 10 minutes screen locked up. Nice. Just odined back to 4.0.4 stock relocked boot loader thanks Verizon rep for dropping my brand new phone and f-ing it all up so now I get stuck with a refurb. Go jump off a cliff.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm6291:
Hi I am wondering what way Is best to perform these two operations. As without an SD card when I try these and then perform a factory reset they get deleted and I'm back to square one as when I first got the phone.

Cheers
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jubakuba:
Post 2 of the guide in my signature or stickied at the top of this forum.

Also, a factory reset from within a custom recovery (CWM/TWRP/ETC) will not wipe your SDcard contents.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm6291:
I definitely recall a few times when my titanium backup has got deleted.. must of being doing something wrong.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EraVulgaris:
Ultra Noob here

So I had my first android-TF700 for about 10 days. Played around with it, read around this site and realized it was a tablet for someone with experience.

So I now have an N10. Charged, not even turned on yet. What should be my next steps? I see a couple toolkits,an auto root, and ASOP-

What would you suggest a noob start with?

I know, I know, turn it on :rolleyes:

Thanks!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johno86:
Depends on what you want to accomplish with the device. If you want to try or at least gain some understanding as to the different features you might be interested in, read the first post of the different ROMs available and see if anything sounds enticing.

I personally use me for taking media with me on the go, be it news or videos, so I don't have to carry a laptop around. I'm on CM10.1 right now but cycle through every rom to see how everything works. Good luck!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rauschkugl:
First step is unlocking the bootloader and installing root and a custom recovery. Even if you don't need it at the moment there will come the time you want to try it. When you unlock the bootloader you will lose all your data so it's the best if you do it at first when you get your tablet.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetguat:
And how do you unlock the bootloader and install root?

What do you mean a custom recovery?

Are there other ways to root the device with out wiping it? Seems like most android smartphone you can load up an exe or something to shift the su app around or something.

Thanks.. (still waiting for my N10 to arrive.. meanwhile.. still playing with my ICS Bionic)
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rauschkugl:
There are tons of threads here about unlocking the bootloader, rooting and installing a recovery like teamwin or clockworkmod.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetguat:
Found the threads. Look easy enough to follow. Something I'm not understanding . What does it mean to install a recovery? whats the purpose of that. I've search and (at least not yet) found a good description of what/why that it. I'm sensing that devices are different (duh!) and I didnt need to install a "recovery" on my Droid Bionic when I rooted it, but this N10 must be different.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rauschkugl:
With the custom recovery you're able to install zip files, make a backup of your Rom,... You can't do that with the recovery that comes with the nexus 10.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garciaw:
Recovery is like a separate system that you can boot to, if you want to mess with the main Android OS. Like rauschkugl said, you can boot to a custom recovery to flash different ROMs that are distributed in flashable ZIP files. You can also make (or if anything goes wrong, revert to) a complete backup of the device's internal memory.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EraVulgaris:
Ok I am rooted and unlocked with mskip's awesome toolkit and DroidModderX video which really helped.

I picked all in one click option and choose TWRP. I fell asleep when I got to TWRP, so I guess I will have to reboot to the recovery page to pull it up.

After that I have no idea what to do :o I really haven't played with the N10 much. I was planning to leave it stock for awhile (as suggested by rauschkugl).

Do I need to do any backup or anything with TWRP if it's a new tablet? if so what and how ? Please point me to a tutorial for noob types.

Other question is I have a system update and 6 new updates waiting for me to install, can I go ahead and do that rooted and unlocked with stock ROM and no TWRP backup yet?

Thanks!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetguat:
Great questions. You are one step ahead of me on my new N10. I've not turned it on yet, really wanting to, but I dont want to do much to it, until after I unlock/root/ and learn how to make backups. Though since i've got a TBpro license, I'll probably use that. I dont want to tweak the OS. so I think I need root just to be able to run TBpro. I just want to be sure I'll still get OFA updates, and I want to learn more about if and how backup work for a multi-user N10.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huggogguh:
I would suggest straight away that you perform a backup with TWRP, so that if you decide to delve deeper into ROMs and playing with your system files, you'll have a completely stock backup to rely on. Simply boot into recovery and select 'Backup', then you can rename the backup file if you want, then swipe the slider across and wait, then you're done! :)

When it comes to system updates, you'll most likely have to use your root toolkit to unroot the device, else the update will fail. You can however continue to update all your apps as you normally would. Hope this helped :)
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EraVulgaris:
OK

So I kinda started from the beginning of Droid ModderX's video, picked yes to update the toolkit i had donated- (got an update) accessed TWRP (pain to get to- could I download goomanager now after I have TWRP?) and backed up my stock set up just as you said Huggogguh :good:.

Then I went ahead and touched "install system update" that was hanging around in the upper left corner of my tablet (I'm being really specific for other noobs) and it updated my system to 4.2.1 and my apps. Build number changed to JOP4OD

Looked at root checker app. I am now not rooted, so I will go back through toolkit and choose 4 once I am in fastboot mode to reroot I hope:fingers-crossed:.

Thanks!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huggogguh:
Sounds like a great success then :) so are you saying that you performed the system update while you were rooted and you retained the root access?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EraVulgaris:
Nope. Got the OTA system update and it knocked me off root. But I got it back easily with the toolkit.
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[Galaxy S III Accessories] bhags8:
lol
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Diamondback:
No solavei stuff on XDA please. :)

Closed.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bOkz:
Hello Guys,

Just wanted to know if it's possible to use the GS3 battery in the GS3 Mini? I have an GS3 Mini and I'm kinda curious if the battery of the GS3 will fit the mini. It'll be cool to have a larger batt for the mini.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Revobase:
I don't have either, but seeing the GS3's battery is larger is terms of dimensions, it won't fit.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] durlano:
It seems that battery from samsung galaxy ace 2 is the same as in S3 mini. You can choose 1700 mAh battery already in ebay for ace 2 as well as for s3 mini
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Hello Everyone,

I've been tempted to purchase a Droid 4 but I'm currently on the Page plus Network. I've seen many tutorials for flashing 4G LTE phones on to page plus but I didn't really see a tutorial for the Droid 4. I was wondering since the D4 is similar to the RAZR/BIONIC, if I can just follow those tutorials. I really want to use the D4 and would appreciate it if someone were to help guide me through the flashing process.

Thanks A lot,

jeanr464.
[Motorola Droid 4] olegfusion:
Razr xt912 has even same hardware, it shouldn't be a problem to use tutorial for razr and doing same thing on d4
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Droid 4 on ICS different Method. Data Challenge.

So I received my droid 4 and unfortunatly it was shipped with ICS. So following a lot of the common RAZR/BIONIC tutorials didn't really work out well for me. I saw a lot of people also having trouble trying to get the Droid 4 to work properly on PP with ICS. So I just wanted to say I followed the following steps on this following tutorial and it worked our flawlessly and I was able to get my phone working on talk/text 1X data.

howardforums. com/showthread. php/ 1774610-Droid-BIONIC-ICS-manual-activation-talk-text-mms-3g-all-working

Now my only challenge is getting 3G Data. For every razr/bionic tutorial I saw they went to the Phone info (*#*#4636#*#*) to try to set the radio test settings to get 3G/EVDO. For some reason on my Droid 4 when I enter this it simply disappears on the dialer and nothing happens. Does anyone know how to get 3G working on the Droid 4. So far all I did was disable all the LTE APNs, Enviroment, lte bbpanic disable, and change the sim type to 3g test uicc.

Can anyone help me out with this?
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Solution to 3G on D4 ICS running on Pageplus.

OKAY! After hours of playing with my Droid 4 on ICS on the Page Plus Network, I finally got 3G to work!!!!

First off, I realized the *#*#4636#*#* aka the INFO code wasn't working on the Droid 4 model because it doesn't exist in the firmware. Instead going through the program menu (##PROGRAM) I was able to access the test mode there and change options.

From my D4 ICS experience, to get 3G instead of 1X I had to

1. Access the Program Menu from the dialer ##PROGRAM aka ##7764726

2. Enter the SPC (000000)

3.Scroll Down to LTE TEST SETTINGS

4. Click SIM TYPE and then Choose 3G Test UICC then click Apply

5. Scroll down to LTE bppanic and select disable then click Apply

6.Then Scroll down and Click (Disable Class 1 APN, Disable Class 2 APN, Disable Class 3 APN)

7. Then choose LTE Movement detection and select Disable.

8. Click back twice the phone will restart.

At This point according to tutorials you should have 3G but if you're like me and unlucky didn't have 3G then do this.

1. Go to the dialer

2. Enter ##PROGRAM aka ##7764726

3. Then enter SPC (000000)

4. Then click Test Mode

5. Click Next and then click next again then you should be on the field test Screen

6. HDR hybrid mode should be (ON)

7.EVDO revision should be (A)

8. CDMA RX Diversity should be (OFF)

9. HDR RX Diversity should be (OFF)

10. Finally look up to where it says Network Mode

11. Change it to EVDO only and Check the top where your signal bars on. Give it a minute, it should pop and say 3G. If it says 3G and you can proceed to the final step and change the network selection to CDMA and EVDO and then back out of the menu.

12. There you go! You should have 3G on the Droid 4 now in ICS running on Pageplus.

In Gingerbread it was a whole lot more simpler. I hope this solution will help people running ICS.
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Forgot to mention.

By the way. My 4G lte sim card was in my phone the whole time. I don't know if it makes a difference but from the moment I got the the D4 and started flashing I left my D4 LTE sim inside my phone.
[Motorola Droid 4] devinpatterson:
Hi Jeanr464. Does the 3G survive a reboot? The link to the howard forums tutorial in post #3 seems to indicate you need to;
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Hey devinpatterson!

I can't tell you how many times I rebooted my phone or my phone died and has to turn on. The 3G does stick after reboot and the activatiion doesn't come back. I guess once the phone is succesfully activated the screen doesn't come back. Once you configure your phone settings to get 3G just leave those settings alone. I can confirm on. The droid 4 that it sticks after reboot.

Although, I can tell you if you remove the sim then the phone acts crazy with activation and all that jazz. While I was experimenting for hours getting 3G on the phone I saw some places that you have to remove the sim. So I did. And then activation and emergency calls and everything popped back on,until I put the sim back and reboot the phone.

According to all the tutorials I saw and my experience as long as you use a blank lte sim and successfully activate the phone (manually/*228 etc) the phone sim is programmed to work with your phone and removing or putting another sim with cause activation and data settings to trigger again.

Hope this explaination helps! Best of luck,

jeanr464
[Motorola Droid 4] tubaman101:
Hi jeanr464. Thank you for all of this brilliant info about the Droid 4 with ICS. I'm a newbie also wanting to set up my new Droid 4 with PagePlus and wondering, does Snoop's step of dialing *22800 for activation work on this phone? If not, is manual activation something different, and if so, how do you manually activate? And in general, do all of Snoop's steps work except for dialing *#*#4636#*#* work for this phone?

Thanks in advance,

tubaman101
[Motorola Droid 4] jeanr464:
Manual vs *228

Hey tubaman101,

To answer your question, manual activation is basically manually programming the phone and doing all the steps that *228 would have done. From my droid 4 experience getting on to pageplus, *228 didn't work right off the bat because of sim restrictions or some type of error. What you have to do is manually program the phone first with the correct settings to make basic features works then you'll be able to dial *228 where it will correct everything and fix everything to work like data and roaming etc. According to Snoops tutorial, basically what the manual programming is is the step where he enters ##7764726 aka ##PROGRAM and fixes the min and the mdn and settings the cdma only option. From there you have manually programed the phone. Then after setting those options when you try *228 it should work and then *228 will correct and program automatically all the phone options which then you should have perfect talk text and 1x. To get 3G just follow my steps above on how I did it.

To make it all simple(I'm going to summarize snoop' method) once you get the D4 and a blank sim, insert sim, enter bptools (tutorial shows how), set the phone to nvonly and evdo rev a with cdma workshop, dfs tool or qpst (tutorial shows how to) then from there enter ##PROGRAM in the dialer manually program your phone min and mdn (if you don't know what it is you can request PP customer service or PM me to help you get it, and set your phone to cdma only mode (tutorial explains how) and afterwards *228 and your set.

After to get 3G follow my steps.

It was very troublesome for me at first because I had no clue how to do this but I've done 4 droid 4s and a razr with this method so far so I've became slight savvy with it. If you have ANY trouble just list it here or PM me and I'll be more than happy to help out.

Good luck,

jeanr464
[Motorola Droid 4] tubaman101:
Hi jeanr464. I sent you a PM about if it is necessary to load a PagePlus prl file during the process, but I have a couple more questions.

I started with the steps you outlined using DFS. I don't think the nvonly and evdo rev a settings stuck because I got some sort of error message in the DFS Tools log, and I was not able to complete the next step of dialing ##program.

I'm wondering if it is because my sim isn't blank. I bought my Droid 4 on eBay new. (It was actually a warranty replacement phone that had never been opened or used.) It came with a new Verizon 4G sim card on top of the box. I wonder if this card was "assigned" to the previous owner, and so perhaps isn't blank.

Do you think I need to buy a new "blank" sim card? …and if so, do you have any recommendations as to where to get one?

Also, I was wondering if the port I chose in the CDMA tools was the right one. I chose "COM 6" in the attached picture. Was that correct?

(In case it matters, I'm doing this in Windows 7 on a partition created on my Mac computer.)

Thanks again!

tubaman101