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[Sony Tablet S] ascariss:
Android tablets are far from perfect, sure some of the current applications are good but many are lacking and no where near the lever of current iOS tablet apps. I don't hate apple nor do I like them but I will give apple credit where it is due, for now the iOS has the upper hand in the apps game.

I'm a PC guy so I've used windows since almost forever. Windows will never be perfect but windows 7 is very close to being a good OS. Arm is still not that powerful as the intel atom, and once it goes to 22nm, I feel the 28nm adv snapdragon pro now has may fade, I feel that might be CES 2014 though sadly, so perhaps CES next year will be the year of the windows tablets.

One big advantage windows RT has over android right now is true multitasking. I know samsung claims they have it on their note 10,1 but it is not as responsive as in windows RT I feel.

I wouldn't mind though seeing either windows RT or windows 8 in a tablet from Sony, especially one like the tablet Z with full HD and the uber sexy design. I'm sure it will be thicker probably, but if it came with a keyboard dock with an extra battery inside that would also be nice.

I'm looking forward to MWC but feel I will be disappointed, perhaps computex will have something new from Sony, if not then perhaps CES next year.
[Sony Tablet S] Zer0K3wL:
App store offers nothing tiles are way to big show little usefull stuff apart that its big.

Their no usefull widgets and everything is bloated.

If you think tile acts like a widget your sadly mistaken.

Windows 8 feels like masive step back

I run it on my computer i'm thinking off going back windows 7 and uninstalling this junk unless find way to disable the slow autorun because i run on ssd in windows 7 its instant and boots faster.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pellos:
Hello guys, sorry to bother you but i need your assistance.

I tried to flash to a new rom with odin for a friends phone ( have done it a million times on my phone never had problem), and suddenly odin stopped and was doing nothing, had to turn it off and on again the programm but the damage is done to the phone!

now it wont change, wont start at all, bought a jig and used it but nothing! is there anything else to do?

please help me!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samichiban:
Refer to these threads:

http://xdaforums.com/sitesearch.php?q=bricked phone

You will find some helpful advice.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slow--welder59:
have a look here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30415128&postcount=1 or here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330491&highlight=usb+jig
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
Hi all, I built my sdcard per: http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/...r-nook-tablet/ (built by"Succulent")

My kids have two NT's. With two 16GB Sdcards, one class4 the other class 10. I know class4 is recommended, but one poster in forums said he's taken images of CM built on class4's and applied this image to class 10's in several cases and has had no problems. So I thought what the heck, can't hurt to try, so that's what I did (using Winimage). It booted fine 5 or 6 times for me, and I installed several APK's of games from Humble Bundle . I turned over the Nook to my little girl and she brought it back to me later showing she gets errors on boot, after swiping the lock symbol to unlock it. One is "Unfortunately, Talk has stopped". If you click OK on this, you get ""Unfortunately, Trebuchet has stopped". Clicking OK on this does nothing, it keeps popping up indefinitely. I don't know if the sdcard is hot pluggable (can be removed with power to the tablet), but she did admit to doing this. So I'm wondering if some corruption occurred to the CM build on the sdcard. Has anyone seen these errors? I could reflash it from the image I made off the class 4, but want to understand what happened so we don't run into it again. The funny thing is, I don't recall the startup wizard off the 1st class4 card prompting me with several screens regarding Google crap like it did on the 2nd card which was flashed from the same image. That was even after telling it I had no Google acct hoping it would leave me alone.

can anyone explain the boot menu you get when you press the N button? (I'm not including the faded selections) I'm wondering especially about the recovery options. Here's my menu:

INT BOOT ( I assume will boot to B&N native OS?)

INT RECOVERY ?

SDC RECOVERY ?

SDC BOOT (Iassume, boot to CM10 off sdcard?)

SDC ALTBOOT ?

START FASTBOOT ?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
Yes,

internal boot - boots Rom in emmc

Internal recovery - recovery in emmc

Sdcard boot - boots your sdcard Rom.

Sdcard recovery - boots sd card recovery ( keep recovery.img in root of sdcard for it to load recovery)

Sdcard altboot - alternate recovery ( not necessary, unless you want both cwm and twrp at same time)

Fastboot - fastboot mode , fastboot commands to flash .img file etc with this method .

As for your problem, try entering recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache partition (I've done this on emmc version, never tried sdcard version of any Rom) this may solve the issue. If not try factory reset.

And removing sdcard while device is switched on is called hot swapping :) , hot plug is a CPU governor. Not sure if sdcard roms are hot swappable, but I think not.

Sent from my ST27i
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
Thanks.

emmc=internal nook memory I assume?

Oh, and...just to clarify, I haven't modified (rooted) my tablet. (you mention factory reset). I should mention that with the sdcard out, it boots B&N OS just fine.

And the part you say about wiping the two caches, so I should go into SD Card Recovery to do that? Once you get into it, you have various choices like the ones you mention? (I'd read that this choice was to backup your NT to sdcard). And please, I want to be

very, very

careful

not

to wipe out the B&N stock OS, so please, any detailed instructions you can give so I don't make that mistake, I'd greatly appreciate it. (I see so many posts on these forums about people bricking their Nook tablets it worries me.)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
Um I don't know much about how it works for sdcard Rom. I've always only used emmc version. I guess if you were to enter recovery, it would access the stock cache partition by default , and we aren't trying to clear that.

Try this - use titanium backup (only talking about your sdcard Rom here, nothing to do with your stock) and in options, you may be able to wipe your cache or dalvik cache.

Or,

boot into your sdcard Rom, in settings > backup and restore > factory reset. This will delete all user data and return Rom to original Cm10 that you flashed on sdcard.

Or if it's only google talk and trebuchet launcher issue, install a new launcher (go launcher, adw etc) , then use titanium backup to uninstall trebuchet and talk.

Sent from my ST27i
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
From what I see, titanium backup is an android app. If I can't boot to Android (Trebuchet error loops as I said) I don't know how I can install this to do anything? Nor can I install another launcher or go into Settings as the error doesn't let you get any further.

I guess if there was a way to browse files/folders on the sdcard partitions on the sd to manually delete the cache files.....but if they're linux partitions (ext3 or4) you can't do that under windows...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
In cwm, enter mounts and backup, then (if) you see /sdcard /cache, mount that and format that ONLY.

Do not format anything else as some options can brick device (Rom, bootdata, factory etc)

Wiping cache is safe (99%) :p

Again, I have never used sdcard Rom so I don't know what will show up in your recovery. But if you see something like sdcard cache, it can be cleared. If it doesn't specify sdcard, let us assume it refers to stock emmc.

Sent from my ST27i
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
How do I get into CWM?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Select SDC Recovery on the Cyanoboot boot menu -- see steps 7 & 8 of the post at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2061536.

If you want to backup the BN stock ROM just in case, see step 9.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
I chose sd recovery, chose Backup & Restore, then Backup. It started running right away. It said:

SD Card space free: 228MB

Backing up boot image

Backup of boot image completed

Backing up recovery image

Backup of recovery image completed

Backing up system

Error while making a backup image of /system!

I plug sdcard into PC card reader and the FAT partition has 0 bytes free. So, appears it ran out of space. I saw your comment about 600MB space being needed. So I'm redoing the partitions now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
Why backing up now when it's not working? Fix your issue, then make a backup. So the next time there's a problem you can restore to working condition.

Sent from my ST27i
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
Well, backing up, I think, was a good suggestion by Digimax. So I'm glad I did it. and now i know how to do it for future. Just in case anything EVER goes wrong, I'll always have that image now on my pc. Bad thing was, apparently B&N nook OS apparently keeps lots of APKs around after installing them. I had to make my 1st fat32 partition over 2GB for the entire backup to process without running out of space. backup size=1.6gb

I ran into lost chains - convert to cluster msgs trying to delete the folder of the first failed backup, but it never would delete even after a chkdsk, so I formatted the card and put the original image back onto it, adjusted the partitions, and then ran into a new probem.....the Cyanomod spinning logo never stopping spinning so it won't boot up. So I give up. I don't know if it's that it's a class 10 card that all these problems are happening. barring any other suggestions, I guess I'll make sure the other NT we have runs stable for a few weeks and if so I'll order another class 4 like that one has.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
I don't know about your bootloop issue, but I don't think it's a sdcard class issue.

Anyhow, now that you have stock backup, aren't you going to consider flashing cm10 internally? Do you actually use stock?

Sent from my ST27i
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
I'm a little leery of it, at least while it's under warranty. I don't know how reliable recovery is.? Besides, my daughter wasn't thrilled with it being down for several days with me fussing with it and asked if she could have her "B&N boot" back :) I admit It is a bit of a pain having to pull it out of it's case, lift the flap, pop-in or out the sdcard to switch between them. (& also to have to remember to always turn it off b4 removing/inserting)

I may do it in the future though. Thanks for the help ;)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
FWIW, you don't have to actually remove the card to boot into stock. Just reboot, hold "n" to get into Cyaonoboot menu and choos "int boot" or something like that, and it will boot to stock with the sd-card still inserted.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
Great, thanks for that tip!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] baytee:
Card died

I think many of these symptoms could have been caused by a dying card. It did have a corruption error once, and then it finally completely died. Just for anyone else that runs into these.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
FWIW, /cache does not need to be backed up, which should help reduce the backup space requirement.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaborayyan:
I have a gingerbread G.Note (the international version) since 6 month and I need to install ICS to install some applications. but I read that Stock ICS either 4.0.3 or the 4.0.4 are not safe as they may cause damage when simply resetting to factory settings or when doing other things.

I read about many custom ROMs but can't decide which is better because ROM fans always write positive review but also I found many people with negative feedback on the same ROMs.

I am not a game freak. so speed is not very important to me. I just need stable and bug free software because I am a busy person and I have no time for installing new ROMs every week plus I read that flashing ROM after another is a great way to damage your phone.

Any Suggestions ??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiDai:
Download a stock Rom ICS and root it with PhilZ Kernel. Nothing else.

After that your are not in danger or the brick bug anymore and you have all ICS features you need.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaborayyan:
Thank you for replying

just to be sure that I understood.

First I will root my stock GB and Install stock ICS like it's said here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1424997

Second I will root the stock kernel and install safe kernel like it's said here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1901191
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaborayyan:
Any more suggestions

I'll be very thankful if there's more suggestions.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djoni_gitara:
You dont need root GB to flash stock ICS. Just follow the steps in first link how to flash ICS via PC odin.

Download all necessary drivers, pc odin etc... install these, reboot pc.

After that, download ICS rom which you want, charge your battery.

Open PC Odin, reboot phone into download mode, connect usb cable to phone, check in odin (check box must turn yellow), place rom files into odin, then flash. I wrote these steps but it is all described in detail, in the first link, so follow it

When it boots into ICS, when all is finish, download philZ kernel from second link (depends which kernel, considering which version of rom you have now), place your kernel.zip in internal sd card

Reboot phone into recovery mode, follow steps written in post #3 from Philz kernel thread.

Which means, flash philz kernel from stock recovery, just reboot your phone and thats it.

Now you are rooted, and safe from brickbug :good:

But be aware that your apps will gone (not pictures and stuff from interal sd, but to be sure, backup your important files to pc), and your warraty if you have one will be void.

Good luck, if you have question, and you are not sure what you need to do, better ask here, before going into trouble, somebody will respond...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaborayyan:
OK I'll try this way

I began downloading everything That I'll need.

I'll tell you the result after I finish.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazibasit:
Re: [Q] Stock ICS vs Custom ROM

I am on stock ics rom with stock kernel. My device has the 0x9 brick bug thing. I tried everything to get my device brick because its still in warrenty. But fortunately or unfortunately didnt got it bricked. So i am still not sure what advice to give u. I think u should go for a philz kernel if u feel unsafe. But being deprived of ics despite ics being on this device for half a year now is not wise.

Make the most of ur device rather than being afraid. Brick bug is not ur fault its samsungs fault, so u can always take the device to them and can yell at them.

For me i want my device to get brick so i can take it back to samsung and if they didnt own it. I would take them to the court. People make money from that. I know a lawyer who always welcome such suits with a % share.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoey63:
Re: [Q] Stock ICS vs Custom ROM

@quazibasit. If you want to brick your note, download Cwm.zip from rootgalaxynote.com or youtube, flash it in stock recovery from extSdCard and do /wipe data factory reset with it. It a temp recovery and will disappear on next boot so Samsung won't know what you did.

Let us know if it bricks on first wipe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaborayyan:
Everything is perfect

Everything went perfect.

I have rooted ICS 4.0.4 now with philz kernel.

Thank you all for your help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazibasit:
I rooted my device downloaded rom manager flashed cwm, give my phone a complete wip and rebooted. It deleted all the data and my device was like a fresh decice. But didnt find anything that explains the brick bug. Some OPs said that its not necessary that it happens when one wipes the data. It can happen anytime even file deleting a large file. But fortunately i didnt experience such thing. So i am no more scared of this bug.

I even flashed slimbeans on my stock ics with stock kernel, but didnt find any bricking, yes it went into bootloop once, but on wiping data it was all ok.

Sorry folks wont advice any of u to do this, it was just experiment which ended smoothly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wutang200:
Guys,

I've just received my Nexus 4 after deciding to give Android a try. I've always been a big fan of all the Nexus phones knowing that they're completely free of bloatware and offer a pure Android experience as it was meant to be experienced by Google.

Currently, I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 16GB but I wanted to try something different after my 24 month contract and decided it a no brainer to go for the Nexus 4 16GB especially at the price Google Play are offering it at. Also I was getting bored of iOS and fancied a change especially given that the screen size of iPhones are pretty small in comparison.

However, I just have a few questions on how to do a few simple things as below if anyone would be kind enough to answer.

1. How can I get a battery percentage like I had on the iPhone? Any recommendations that work well with the Nexus 4?

2. I just want a black ground for the wallpaper to maximise battery life. How can I do this?

3. Is there a way to add toggles to the notification bar to enable or disable Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Location, Airplane Mode, etc?

4.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohitrocks:
Root + a custom ROM can solve pretty much all of this (except for the background)

1.) Many custom ROM's/mods have battery percentage available as an option, so the easiest way for you to get the battery percentage is to install a custom ROM. CM10 does this perfectly. For steps on how to root + install a custom ROM, try using one of the toolkits available in the Nexus 4 Original Development section, or try to find some guides in the Nexus 4 General section or the Original Development section. I'd link you to them, but I'm on my phone right now, and its too cumbersome a task to go back and forth between the browser and the XDA app. You could pm me however, and when I'm on my computer I'd be glad to help.

EDIT: Another way you could get battery percentage is using an app from the play store -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naeem.batterystatusnotification

It's not optimal, but it works.

2. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure a black background vs any other non-live background won't make a significant difference in terms of battery life. I think this is because the Nexus 4 has an IPS display. Super Amoled displays, however, are a huge culprit in terms of battery life and so a black screen is beneficial to only those with samoled screens.

3) Have you tried swiping down from the notification bar using two fingers? ;) While those only act as shortcuts, they still do work. If you're not satisfied with this, get an app on the play store called "Elixir 2" and that should suit your needs

If you need anything else, feel free to shoot me a PM

-Mosh
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laba86:
1. I would also recommend you to root your phone and install a custom ROM, there you can change the statusbar with battery and clock and so on

3. As far as I remember you even have a widget on stock ROM for toggles. And if you want them in the notifcation bar you again should use a custom ROM. Some of some can change the quicksettings to real toggles.

I would recommend AOKP ROM but thats a matter of taste.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjeff2:
Power toggles https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc will allow you to add some pretty looking toggle widgets to the notification bar. It also has the ability to add a the battery percentage to the status bar as a separate icon.

This is a good solution if you want to remain stock.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zevim2005:
You need to try awesome ROMs like aokp,but READ A LOT BEFORE!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zakoo2:
as for the background, I'm pretty sure it doesn't make any difference, just set brightness to auto.

there's an app in the play store called 'notification toggles', which does a pretty good job at bringing toggles to the notification bar.

and i would also recommend installing a custom rom, especially CyanogenMod, because that's the closest to aosp (vanilla android) as you can get.

just search for 'mako' (the codename of the nexus 4) on get.cm, and you'll find detailed instructions on how to unlock/root your device, and install cm. i recommend using the monthly/milestone release, is quite stable and bug free.

sent from my Nexus 4...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Selmak:
Paul O'Brian's Modaco rom changes the factory shortcuts in the notification bar into quick toggles. You short press to toggle, or long press for the shortcut. He makes two versions of his rom. One is based on the stock rom, and the other is built on Cyanogenmod. If you subscribe to his site you can "bake" your own rom with the features you want.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wutang200:
Wow tanks for the quick responses guys! Wasn't expecting this many suggestions seriously. Definitely a knowledgeable community!!

Right, I've installed a widget called battery percentage which has solved my problem. It seems very accurate so far too.

In regards to the toggles, I'm very happy with the 2 finger slide down option and I've learnt something new about my phone.

Got the brightness set to manual but at the lowest setting as this is how I used to use my iPhone most times to maintain decent battery life.

I'll see if I can download a custom wallpaper app that will allow me to change it to completely black and I'm pretty much done.

As much as custom ROM's sound tempting, I think I'll leave them for now as I'm extremely happy with the way the system operates just now. Leaving it stock will allow Google updates to be installed easily too.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] floepie:
Black backgrounds or any backgrounds for that matter won't make a lick of difference on an IPS screen. The light is shone from behind the screen and doesn't change in intensity based on pixel variation. The AMOLED screen is an entirely different ball of wax, where lighter pixels would indeed draw more power because the light is generated by the pixels themselves instead of a backlight.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rizy7:
Power Toggles is a near enough essential app.. You wont regret it.. plus you can change the icon in power toggles to show your battery percentage in the notification bar.

As youre new to android youll probably find many apps that are useful and satisfy your needs, but then you might start to notice the limitations of stock, resulting in eventual rooting and finally installing custom roms etc.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarcPlusTwo:
I use AOKP in which you get the toggle page by one finger swiping. I also use CircleMod which is built in and gives you the opportunity to replace the stock battery icon with it.

I rooted a week after I got this phone, and after the weeks I installed my first custom ROM. This is my first Android phone btw.

Thus AOKP or CM 10.1 would be your choice.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wutang200:
I uninstalled Battery Percentage for Power Toggles. It pretty much ticks all the boxes for me.