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[Motorola Droid 4] marcusnsandy:
For some reason SuperUser was no longer able to gain root access on my DROID 4 after the last update. I am not totally illiterate as to moving around in android...I was able to successfully root my phone at least and the reason I say this is I have seen what I think are possible solutions to this issue but not quite comfortable with understanding the process descriptions. Can someone please hold my hand and walk me through what seems to be an easy fix?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] abbas-h:
I Want test ths Rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2172896 that required JB kernel

My phone (XT910) is In Stock ICS .

can i return to ICS kernel after change kernel to JB ?

flash JB kernel via BMM 3.4 and erase CID ...

is this method is safe ?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] alanlee1994:
you can flash ICS kernel via BMM

I've flashed kernel via BMM many times and it works flawlessly to me:good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] navi7512:
Is very safe ... just follow carefully the instructions in thread ...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] marconz:
You can return to ics kernel and it's very easy. Be sure to back up your current kernel (ics) and most importantly back up your cid before you erase your cid then flash jb kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
Recently, the Google Play store stopped working for me. It kept saying "No Connection" and the Retry button didn't do anything.

I looked up a few solutions, and none of them worked. Finally, I gave up and reset my device to factory settings.

Now, when I try to set up my account, it sits for a minute and then says "Cant establish a reliable data connection to the server".

What should I do?

INFORMATION

Device: Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2

Android 2.3.6
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] soccerfan6789:
By the Android Version I think you probably dont have a custom rom. Now since you don't, the easiest way without spending hours on the internet researching is to call your phone provider's technical service and they'll help you. This is a direct and easier method rather then searching online.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
What phone provider? This is a Galaxy Player, which isn't a phone...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] soccerfan6789:
Sorry about that. :( Well if you didn't root it, you should have your warranty and Samsung would definitely help you.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jistropy:
I wouldn't recommend taking any device back unless you have exerted all the possibilities of a fix. People's time is precise in my opinion.

What you can do is try factory resetting your device, it might of been a issue relating to updating the Google Play (Market) application.

Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] soccerfan6789:
As stated above, he already did that.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jistropy:
Apologizes,

Clear the data from the Play Store, it's been known to be effective.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
Just tried that, didn't help.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanjosep:
Oh gosh let me think..... last time I remember, you need to sign out of Google play account from settings then sign back in...? Is that what you mean by clearing the data?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
To clear the data, you find the application (Market) in the applications section of Settings, and then press the button that says "clear data".

I did that, and nothing changed.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] soccerfan6789:
That's not what clearing data means. You would have to go to settings, apps, find the play store, and then clearing the data
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jistropy:
By any chance, is your device rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
Yes, my device was rooted before I reset, and it still is. I have been able to get most of my apps back by using Aptoide (alternative to Market, doesn't require google account).
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] soccerfan6789:
Well since you have a Google account, try this. Log into your Google account on the computer. Go to the play store. Go to my apps. And download it from there. I highly doubt this will work because you don't have a connection but its worth a quick shot. Also since you do have root, did you backup your apps via titanium or any other app? You could get all your apps and data back that way.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
I tried downloading from my PC, but it didn't work because the account wasn't synced. I was able to get pretty much everything back by using the Aptoide store and downloading the .apk files manually. I don't need an account on the device to use it anymore, so everything's fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jistropy:
I came out with a solution for you, but you will need to take a couple of steps to get it completely working.

First thing you need to do, is download a Play Store APK file, and save it onto your device. (Click here to download)

Next step, since you're rooted is finding a Root File Explorer to remove the Play Store file you have installed on your device. ( Try This *Note, haven't tested myself*!! ) )

When it's removed, feel free to install the play store apk from the first step to your device.

Hope this helps, is so, feel free to like. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] misterfox20:
I already used an alternative app store to update Market to Google Play, but it still won't let me sync my google account with my device
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] nightfire37:
The SGP has a bug inside the wifi that consistently drops and somehow reconnects without any notification. I believe that this is the problem your experiencing and there is no fix for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] said2010:
Problam in system/etc/hosts

Try download app change host like adfree or adaway ..if works after that so problam in host ^^
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] peztoa:
Actually thats a gingerbread problem i think, i got it fixed by switching my wifi password from wpa2 to wep on the router settings, maybe he can try that
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maicrosoft:
Hello everyone,

I have been searching my hat off for this and couldn't find someone else with the same problem as me. I don't know if this is also the correct forum to ask this (there are so many), but since I have a TF300T, I thought I'd leave this here. I hope someone can help me further with this. Any help is appreciated! :)

If I get a new message with Gmail, I get a notification, which is very nice! There is only 1 thing bothering me, and that is that it will display a preview of the message with the sender. It will display the sender and the subject on the bottom right corner when a new message arrives I believe and if you tap on the bottom right corner a taskbar thingie comes up with even a preview of the message. I would really love have those previews removed and the only thing I would like is a notification that I have a new message instead of all the previews. I don't know if such thing is possible, even if it's with an external application. I just love to lock my devices apps (yes my gmail is password protected) and don't want everyone to see my incoming mails when using my tablet.

Like i said before, I hope someone can get me a step further in achieving this so I can get rid of my only annoyance of Gmail for Android and any help is appreciated! :D

I'd also like to add that I love the TF300T! I just got it a few weeks ago and have a lot to get used to since I finally decided to upgrade from my Gingerbread device :) The TF300T just screams value for your money, thats why I ended up buying it in the first place :D
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobdaryl:
Please Standby!

Asus has released news that in March they will release a 4.2 update for the tf300. Android 4.2 includes multi-user features. At that time you can set a second user for others to use and they will only have access to what you have allowed.

4.2 is available in a couple of custom roms now but stock is on the way.

Good Luck!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maicrosoft:
Thanks! Sounds very promising! :) Will wait for 4.2 :D
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobdaryl:
It has landed! Here is a link to a download in case you don't get the update. I'm waiting for Asus to release the update on their server.

Here is the active thread on the update.

Good Luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] abhijitro:
Does anybody knows how to run free internet in android??
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] soccerfan6789:
Could you be more specific? What is free internet?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] arpitkh96:
lol mods please delete this thread.he is asking for a hack to get free internet
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] hyelton:
Not even a possible way. Even if there was the person asking could prob never even figure it out
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ast00:
If he is st*pid enough, then wifi could be free internet. At least at mcdonald's.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synomenon:
Ok, I come from the Apple world where you have to restore the iPhone / iPad first to update to the latest iOS then re-jailbreak.

With the N7, if I wanted to upgrade to a newer version of Android (currently on 4.2.2, so whatever comes next), would I have to re-flash the N7 to stock 4.2.2 then re-unlock and re-root it?

What if I just want to do a factory reset to start over? Do I have to re-flash stock 4.2.2 then re-unlock and re-root in that case too?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travisjustin:
To do an official ota yes. There are stock odexed/deodexed ROMs you can flash in the dev forums without having to go through that though.

Sent from my Paranoid 3.0 Nexus7 running M-Kernel mr1
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Locking/unlocking of the boot loader is completely independent from other "rooting" activity. Under normal circumstances, it is only unlocked once and then left that way.

In Android, there are 5 principal partitions: recovery, boot, system, data, and cache. In pure stock devices, it is intended that recovery, boot, and the system partition are always used in a read-only fashion by the end user. All user changes, customizations, settings, and data are recorded into the data (sometimes also called "userdata") partition. (The cache partition is used for temporary/transient stuff)

So, the Android "factory reset" is not precisely what you are thinking of - it is a procedure which erases only the cache and data partitions. IT RESTORES NOTHING - IT ONLY DELETES.

So, if a device "rooter" comes along and alters the boot/recovery/system partition, those changes stay on the tablet/phone even when a "factory reset" procedure is performed. THOSE CHANGES CAN BREAK THE SUCCESSFUL INSTALL OF AN OTA BUNDLE, so, yes - it is generally cleaner to install a pure stock ROM for the purposes of performing an OTA upgrade... at which point you need to re-root and re-customize ( not including the boot loader unlock step).

One more thing, too: because the Nexus 7 has no physical SD card, it has an "emulated" SD card which is stored in the /data (userdata) partition. When the "stock recovery" performs a "factory reset", it erases EVERYTHING in /data - including this psuedo SD card! The newer versions of the CWM or TWRP custom recoveries define "factory reset" a little differently - they erase everything except what is stored in the /data/media/ folder - the location of the emulated SD card (usually /data/media/0). This is important to understand, as your backups will be stored in there.

HTH

PS There is no need for you to "hurry up and install an OTA" if you are using a well supported custom ROM - generally after a few weeks a ROM dev will rebase their ROM onto the new release, and you can simply "dirty flash" the replacement ROM over the top of the existing ROM. That will save you some effort if you just wait a little.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synomenon:
So I just unlocked and rooted my N7 last night.

Since it is unlocked and rooted, do I have to do anything different if I want or have to perform a factory reset (using the hardware buttons to go into recovery mode and use the "wipe data/factory reset" option)?

If I do this factory reset, it stays unlocked right? Does it stay rooted too?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Yes and Yes.

PS. The most important skill set you can develop right now is making backups using the custom recovery. You should be 100% comfortable using the backup/restore menus of the custom recovery ... and almost as important knowing where they are stored so you can get copies of them off the tablet for safe keeping.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ciphersbak:
Thank You!

Thank you bftb0:good::good:
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
This is a ported rom from the LG Optimus Me but with some mods and some stock LG apps:

Quick Memo

HOLO LAUNCHER (Thanks to kristiankira)

HOLO LOCKER

SOME NEW LG WALLPAPERS IN CMWALLPAPERS (Thanks to kristiankira)

ICS SETTINGS

YAHOO WIDGETS AND COLOR NOTE

LG UI 3.0 THEME

Tip

Go onto theme chooser and change to the lg ui theme.

This is my first ported rom and hope everyone enjoys it.

Credits

Everyone behind CM7

kristiankira

The ported rom is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1995399

Screenshots are on the link.

Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?10ibi8n0e8yecx7
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Bugs

The only bugs I found was that you can't take a screenshot whilst using quick memo neither can you save it.

Please report if you find any
[Wildfire Android Development] gobz:
Re: Lg ui 3 cm7

First.

Nice to see ppl developing..will try out soon.:):sly:

"If I could I would, but I can't so I shan't."
[Wildfire Android Development] alesterrods:
someones listening to users. Thnaks for the port. :)

but wheres d download link?
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Sorry will be up in a min. ;)
[Wildfire Android Development] infernale:
I would like to try it but ...... where?
[Wildfire Android Development] nrjwgh:
Re: LG UI V3.0

Thanks for your efforts in porting new rom!! :)

Just one thing, public dropbox links are automatically disabled if traffic to them increases ...so there is a chance that the link will be dead once many people start using it....
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Re: LG UI V3.0

Yeh I am just using drop box for now. I will create a mirror soon :)
[Wildfire Android Development] alamgirqazi:
Re: LG UI V3.0

Use mediafire
[Wildfire Android Development] infernale:
I'm feeling fine now and does everything that I use ....

pity that there is unlock trackball....

I installed gapps gb, start out setup wizard but not the puppet Android to start configuring!?
[Wildfire Android Development] alesterrods:
strange it doesnt boot up for mr tried it 5-8 times by using 250 25 mtd and without mtd too
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
It is booting for me, try changing the recovery, I am using cwm 4 but I don't know what the problem is. :confused:
[Wildfire Android Development] infernale:
I started it all ok with cwm 5.0.2.8. only setup wizard does not start
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Changed the link to mediafire, I don't think anyone needs the setup wizard but if you want I can implement it in the rom
[Wildfire Android Development] alamgirqazi:
Re: [rom] [gb] lg ui v3.0

Tried it. Nice rom but seems very much similar to cm7 nightly.

Anyways good job :thumbup:
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Re: [rom] [gb] lg ui v3.0

Yeh that's what the room was based on. Nice to know you liked it
[Wildfire Android Development] infernale:
I have two because lockscreen when I have to unlock the phone?'s rest is ok!
[Wildfire Android Development] Mubz_C:
Sorry thanked by accident. Go in cyanogen settings. Tablet tweeks and switch off lockscreen
[Wildfire Android Development] infernale:
thank you, now it is more beautiful!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Help.... A100 was running fine last night, but hung.... I rebooted it and just got the acer logo and nothing else....

I was running ICS, (not sure which version)....

I've tried quite a few roms as 'update.zip' but all i get is the 'droid' picture, then it lies down with a big red '!'.

Now, all I can do is get into 'bootloader v0.0.13-ICS: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol'

If i connect to pc, doing adb devices shows no devices..

any ideas? :crying:
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] plznote:
Yeah eMMc is a goner.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Adb commands don't work in fastboot mode, you need fastboot devices instead, so adb devices not working doesn't mean anything. If it did work that's odd though lol. Also, booting in fastboot is the wrong mode anyways, use the other volume key for recovery, for now remove the external sd then boot recovery and report back what happens there.

Tapatalked from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Ok, removed the usb and external SD.

Do the other boot I get a quick message saying 'erasing cache before sd-update'

Hold on...

While typing this, it's changed..

Before I had the 'droid' then he fell over when '!'... it's done that again, but straight away it's got loads of messages.

E:Can't open /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

(no such file or directory)

that is repeated several time for dif files/directories...

Then it displays the recovery menu.....

reboot,

apply update

wipe data

wipe cache

apply update

1st time it's shown that....

Next step?? :D
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Anyone help??

I have the Android system recovery utility...

What now?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
You can try wiping but that error is usually a dead or dying emmc.

Also, have some patience, we have lives to live we answer when we can.

Tapatalked from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
lol, sorry... 2nd post wasn't meant as a 'hurry up and fix mine, because i'm more important'.....

I was typing something else in, then i decided that was stupid, so i deleted and put that instead....

my bad...

:angel:
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
just as an update, this may seem silly to some but if I don't tell you i'll never know...

The recovery does nothing, so I put it in bootloader mode...

connect up the usb,

then typing 'fastboot reboot' does reboot the device... so maybe other commands will work??

how do i wipe?

and i'm clutching at straws....

:)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Fastboot commands will always work provided drivers are installed and it can boot into fastboot, it doesn't mean you aren't in the process of bricking, just hasn't gone all the way yet. When its final you won't even get a screen that lights up or vibration.

Since you asked though in recovery you can wipe cache but that will likely give errors again. The nuclear option is fastboot erase userdata but that's like massive data destruction, even internal sd I think.

As you're stock, stop now, and get in touch with acer and see if they'll cover it for warranty repair under their 1 year BS coverage.

Tapatalked from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Please excuse my ignorance to some things.

The tab isn't under warranty, it's 15 months old :(

It wasn't stock, i had one of the modded roms installed... (but i can't remember which one, I did it last year sometime to swap internal disk for external one to give me more space)..

I'm not worried about anything on the tablet at all as luckily I did a complete system backup on titanium 2 days ago on my external sd.

Cheers
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
I said stock because you have a stock recovery, though fastboot mode says you rooted and all that at some point. Probably ran a stock based Rom and ended up overwriting recovery which makes this harder to figure out. But its 99% likely its dying.

You can manually flash a recovery in fastboot and try to factory reset there or just do the fastboot command in my last post.

Tapatalked from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Thanks for all the replies... I'll look round the forums to work out how to flash recovery in fastboot mode, then i'll try the wipe userdata.

If that fails,i'll just wait.... I noticed that the genius's are currently looking at ways to fix the numerous brick problems so maybe in the future there will be a simple solution..

Has there been an actual reason for the brickage... Is is motherboard related?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Read the brick thread for info on it, but short answer is emmc died.

Tapatalked from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] filking:
Well, acer support want £55.15 just to post it back to them, then they will call with cost of repair... lol I don't think so somehow..

Luckily I am in a good position at the mo, so i've just purchased a nexus n7...

I'll monitor this site until 1 day maybe one of the genius's on here will find a cheaper cure..

Good luck all...

(i'll be moving to the nexus section now then.. look out overthere.... :silly:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oliverthered:
Hi, I've been looking at running GNU Linux apps on a rooted android. device with modern hardware and I've yet to find a 'nice' way to run x apps with acceptable GUI performance. Currently I've tried the java implemention of x on android which is barely useable and various vnc - rpc intergrations running x11 using a virtual frame buffer which is much better but laggy.

My idea to solve this problem is to completely do away with the vnc etc.. proxying. that 8s hack the virtual frame buffer version of xorg so that the main pixel map surface is in ipc shared memory and use ipc to render this through the android api.

So is it possible to statically link the needed android libraries to allow abdroids ipc to work between a hacked xorg vfb and abdroids shared memory ipc to a native android app. Thus making high performance rendering with near zero memory coppies possible.

Secondly, and this would be a bonus, could I even get rid of ipc and a native android app by getting xorg on my root GNU Linux install to work directly with android graphics and UI apis. This would be ammazing.

Hopefully ipc is at a kernel level so it may be possible to just port the needed parts of android to GNU Linux to do this if the statically linking method is known not to work.

Any ideas and suggestions, what do you think of this idea for intergraring GNU Linux x apps and android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jthree2001:
I really like this idea and I've been looking for something like this. You said you used the "X server" android app? I'm kind of curious on the performance. Was it laggy or just that it wasn't fully what you expected?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oliverthered:
Currently I'm running xrdp and tightvncserver in a gnu/linux environment (using inode linking not chroot) and xfe as the windows manager.

I connect to this from android using a rdp client.

The main issues appear to be very slow performance on graphics updates, visably slow, which I put down to the overheards of running everything through vnc/rdp - over sockets - mem coppies, compression (which I should turn off to see if it helps) encryption and all that stuff that goes along with rdp and vnc that's not needed if you use something like shared memory and blit to that.

Performanc of the apps in xfe &co, for instance libraoffice or eclipse etc.... seems to be pretty good, so that's not the issue, just the graphics.

Running a Asus transformer infinity T700
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oliverthered:
my current messing arpund has been trying to get the Android NDK to compile and run on ARM, which in theory should be no problem so long as it doesn't rely on x86 machine code to do the job (which I doubt).

idky google locked down the architecture in the builds and didn't just leae it as any old gnu/linux or whatever and let the person making the build tweek any bugs, instead of having to hack googles custom build system for building the toold chain to for a specific architecture.