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[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slow_mo_panda:
Thanks for tips, Still hung-up on battery/cord...

I found and wrote down the number for B&N, I will try giving them a call tomorrow. Do you know if they would send me one free if I bought the Nook secondhand? Should I just not tell them I got it used?

Yes, my battery seems to be pretty bad off, and the guy who sold it on eBay of course said it was barely used, and had NO problems. I have emailed him thru ebay asking for a partial refund, and I may contact ebay about this if he does not want to be cooperative. I paid $145 for it, which is basically what I could get a new one for now, I just didn't notice that when I got it a couple months ago. Do you think B&N would sell me a cheap battery? Or do you know where I can get one? I had bought a 'Like NEW' Nook First Edition (still my fav. basic eBook Reader) for my mom around Christmas time for $60, and then after I got it, and she used it for all of 15 minutes, turned it on 2 or 3 times, and it ended up freezing on the screensaver. I tried looking up and attempting any 'fixes' and nothing was working. I've powered it down and removed the battery and it's oddly still showing a screen saver pic. :/ So I had to contact the seller after it had been about 4 weeks since I bought it, and he used the excuse of it being over a month, and said I had emailed him and said it was working great before, when all I'd done was send him an update that I did get it and my mom was happy, but this was before she tried turning it on again. After sending eBay a complaint, they made the guy refund my money. I would have even returned the reader to him if he had worked with me in the refund, but I still have it, for all the good it is. Basically a paperweight. lol

Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I REALLY hope I can figure out the battery thing because I love the Android Nook, and I finally have a tablet with HD movie playback which is what I've wanted for a long time! :)
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagem:
I don't think they will send you one for free, I took mine in and exchanged it, but I was still under my extended 2 year warranty. I also spend a lot of time at my B&N, so that may have helped speed me through the process.

They will not sell you a battery, they claim you have to be a "certified tech" to change them. From the tear-down posted on youtube, it seems quite possible and fairly easy, but don't know where you'd get a battery. It's a risk removing the plastic around the screen, and it seemed like the clips/tabs that hold it on got broken, so you would probably need some two-sided foam tape, kind of like body-side molding tape, made by 3M.

I would try and get eBay to give you a refund or at least enough to cover sending it in for battery replacement and another $15 for the cord replacement as well. "Like new" doesn't have a messed up cord, and a battery that won't hold 30% of it's original charge, offer to send eBay pictures of the damaged cord.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slow_mo_panda:
UGH. Ebay!

Well, I called B&N and after 30 min. wait, spoke to a barely legible lady who checked my account, and said that she was 'placing the order' after she asked if I wanted them to send me a new one. She never once indicated that it would be charged to my account, or that they were charging me for the cord. But then she said that they were out of cords, and to try calling back Monday. But then she didn't sound like she really knew well enough what she was doing, as I had to explain to her 3 times when she first answered my call, that I needed a NEW CORD, because the one I had had a short in it.

As for eBay, the d-bag I emailed (goldnuggetpawn) about the Nook said, "We tested the product thoroughly, and there were no problems with the battery, and the cord was brand new, and the auction showed pictures of the cord. We only offer a complete refund within 14 days of purchase, and it has been longer than that. We do not offer partial refunds."

So basically I have a Nook that's about to crap out any time, that I have to keep plugged into the wall to use, and that I have to fight with multiple time to transfer files on because the cord is junk. I have to say I am BEYOND DONE with eBay and their BS. I seem to have the WORST luck with them, and I have had enough. They allow people to get away with anything, and I am currently stuck with them trying to charge me $67+ in 'seller fees' because I listed 2 items, one which I actually sold (a netbook for $200) and one which someone did use the 'Buy-Out' for, but then never bothered to pay me, contact me, or respond to my emails. So I get charged a huge fee for selling something that I was never paid for! And they are saying it's too late to file a non-paying buyer report, because I did what they told me to do and tried filing a different report first, then was told I had to wait for the buyer to respond (when they had already not replied to half a dozen messages!) and apparently after all that, it had been too long to file another report. This buyer/scammer who made an account just minutes before buying my DVD lot, lives in Tunisia (allegedly) when I had made the auction to sell to US and Canada ONLY. I am just so tired of being burned, I guess.

It's going to be hard to show in pictures, because the cord is still intact, it's just very loose and 'bendy' on the end, and it shouldn't be, it's in a thick rubberized type coating, and does not bend.

Anyway, thanks for the help, and I will keep working on it. I may be forced to just sell it now as an Android CM10.2 (I think it would sell better that way) and get me something else...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidnoobi:
Greetings,

I was searching and hunting and couldnt truly find a definitive answer and I am hoping someone or two or three could chime in.

When flashing a custom ROM and you have done a backup, could that back up be restored? Or is all previous data and such lost?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
If you restore that backup you will be back to that version of whatever ROM/setup you were on prior.

For application backups it is recommended to use titanium backup or helium.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderman905:
Does anyone know if I can use that in the custom 4.3 gpe roms? It's one of the feature in vipers, but I just tried like 3 different xposed mods (gravity box, modaco, and tweak boxand) none of them has it, be a great help if anyone can point me the right direction thanks
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderman905:
Any suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
It would be great
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marc199:
There is an option in gravity box that toggles it by pressing on the lockring.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
i already tested this option but it's not exactly what we want.

With gravity you have to push the power button to go to the lock screen and then push another button (e.g home or volume down) to switch on the Flashlight.

the wanted option is also on the Sense 5 Toolbox xposed modules but i don't think it will work on the GPE
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marc199:
Well i use a custom kernel with s2w and that makes it a lot easier. So you want to toggle it without turning on the phone?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] readmanr:
Not sure about toggling without turning on the screen, but Cyanogenmod ROMs support this from the lock screen.

Under settings >Lock screen > Button actions > Long press Home button, set this to Flashlight.

Hopefully someone else can post more information regarding doing this while the screen is switched off.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
Exactly :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langer hans:
Got you PM and I have thrown the parts of Sense 5 Toolbox responsible for this mod into a new tiny mod. Can you guys test it please and if it doesn't work send me the Xposed log? Thanks :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
Thanks, I have just tested it but it's not working. When I press the power off button to switch off the screen, the screen is going off but push it again, the screen stay black. :) I had to long press the power button to reboot the device. In xposed I only have two lines :

2 janv. 2014 22:29:23 UTC
Loading Xposed v42 (for Zygote)...
Loading modules from /data/app/de.langerhans.xposed.powerflashge-1.apk
Loading class de.langerhans.xposed.powerflashge.XMod

For now, I have to de activate the module in xposed
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langer hans:
Hmhm, I don't run GE myself, I just cheked differencies in the respective files. I'll have to look into it a bit more, maybe even flash GE myself. Can't promise anything for now :|
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
There is no hurry, take your time :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
Do you have any news ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonono:
any thing new?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeNeckbone:
Sense 5 toolbox

Edit:... Gpe....Nvm
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonono:
when I open sense 5 toolbox it crashes because it it is unsupported on ARHD GPe rom

how did you get it to workl?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Padder:
Same here. Not working on GPE
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MerbinJAnselm:
Using an app called Torchie, just press both 'volume buttons' together to turn on/off torch anytime. It runs as a background service and just works anytime, even when screen off (if enabled from Torchie Settings). It kinda make your phone feel like a conventional battery operated torch. No root required.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.blogspot.anselmbros.torchie

XDA Thread here: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-torchie-torch-volume-buttons-anytime-t3270230
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] domisterwoozy:
I was following this guide to root, install a custom recovery, and then flash a ROM onto my phone. I rooted successfully and created a back up. I then copied the backup onto my external sd card. I then put the custom rom onto my sd card and entered recovery mode on CWM. I wiped my device and then realized that the custom rom was the incorrect file. I then went to restore and it gave me an error md5 mismatch. I then went to restore of external sd card and it said it could not find the directory. I then went to restart phone and CWM said I was not rooted anymore and asked if I wanted root access and I hit yes.

My phone will not start and just remains in the Samsung loading screen with an unlocked graphic with the words "custom" under it. I am able to get back into CWM recovery but nothing else seems to work. I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Ol' Dirty Bastard:
You can either use a MicroSD to SD adpater and the computer's card reader to copy a ROM over and flash it, or ODIN back to stock, and start over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fukenbiker:
Much better. Was that so hard? Thank you for details.

(jab)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] domisterwoozy:
Any ideas why it cannot find directory when I try to restore from my external sd card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fukenbiker:
write protected

Clueless here. Made a post about it.

I just discovered today more than just myself are unable to plug the handset into a computer to exchange files. I can get things off the phone onto the computer, but not vice versa.

Also the handset itself is fussy when it comes to viewing it's own external SD card. It would seem it doesn't take much for it to disappear, once in recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
This phone does not support mass USB storage. It uses MTP and PTP protocols. This information is available in several threads in the forum. Now, of course, even with MTP and PTP you should be able to still transfer files from a PC to the Ext. SD card considering you have the correct drivers. Perhaps your SD card isn't playing nice with your phone? Have you tried removing the card from your phone and transferring files to it dierectly from you PC via SD slot or card reader? Have you tried other brands? I find Samsung cards work best, but that is just me, This will help to see if it is the phone (possibly cable) or the card that is having issues.

Also, you can check this out. It supposedly enables Mass USB storage for this phone...though it still says it doesn't work for the Ext. SD card. I have never tried it, so if you do it is at your own risk but maybe it will help? Good luck.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler

The app says it is for the SIII, but people have reported it as working with the S4 as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fukenbiker:
thank you

I am too happy to experiment like that. The AT&T S4 running GoldenEye with no add ons is the best darn handset I've ever enjoyed. I love being rid of the bloatware. I don't miss it a bit. I will fuss around with the SD interface as I do have resources like you mentioned, I can try a different chip. I didn't consider that a bad chip would cause the computer to consider the entire handset as "read only", yet you suggest it's possible?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
Anything is possible and it would be a simple way to maybe help identify where the problem lies. Better yet, take your sd card out of your phone and try a transfer. That will let you know if it has anything to do with it. If it still doesn't work, it more than likely has nothing to do with the SD card.

Can you transfer files from your External SD card to your phones internal SD memory and the other way around (via a file manager on your phone)?

If you can, I can't see how it would be a "read' only problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fukenbiker:
I should unhook my phone from the 3.5mm jack and look into this. As I type, my S4 is piping in my playlist to provide the wife and I musical background for our activities. I remember using "Root Explorer" recently to delete a nandroid backup, and to move said playlist off the SD card into Phone memory. The "write protected" error showed up directly after building this playlist, using the computer to organize it. It's brand new, and as a good troubleshooter, we always look at the last thing you did different. I used the "windows explorer" to edit my playlist on the phone while it was plugged up together.

It's turning out to be a bigger deal than just myself, and I should pursue your recommendation for testing and reports, but it's not broken enough to fix and it's Sunday night, and the music is more important at this juncture.

Edit:

I powered down and then removed the Micro SD, and when I powered back up, it showed that cool padlock icon with the label "Custom" screen during boot up. I hadn't seen that screen on boot up since I used Casual to get a TWRP recovery.

I tethered the handset to the Desktop and opened the windows explorer. Obviously it just showed phone this time, instead of phone and card. I tested copying files and it worked fine, the "write protected" error was gone.

I unhooked, powered down, put the micro SD card back in, powered up and noted the boot up screen was back to normal. Tethered up again and voila! Files can be written to the phone and or the card and no more "write protected" error.

Funny little fluke. Problem solved. Curiosity remains.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] trainman261:
Alright, I hope I have this in the right place. I just recently flashed the TerraSilent Kernel for the Galaxy Player 4.0 US version. The Flash went fine, but my device was running extremely slowly. A re-flash didn't solve it either. I figured that wiping the cache partition might solve the problem - I decided to do this before running a backup, since no important data is stored in the cache (...right?), and since I was worried that backing up while I had this problem could make things worse - so I went ahead into CWM and did just that. Then, it reboots, and I nearly get a heart attack. The stock wallpaper is back, it's using the default launcher again (I had LauncherPro installed), and pretty much only system apps work, all the others have an icon with an SD card on it, and when clicked on, it says something like "application not installed". I did some searching, and it seemed like a reboot might help (although I didn't find anyone with a problem like mine anywhere). The reboot didn't do anything, so now I have it shut down, so that nothing can happen. The odd thing is, it doesn't seem to me like the system messed up and did a full wipe instead, either, because a couple of things I have are still there - for example, some of my bookmarks I made on the homescreen while still using the default launcher are still there. I'm really confused because I have wiped the cache partition before, when I was still on an unmodified stock kernel, and everything stayed the same, the way I thought it was supposed to. And now this happens. What do I do now? I exported my absolute most important data (Astrid Tasks and Calendar) before I installed TerraSilent (but I obviously wasn't able to do a full backup because I wasn't rooted, I figured installing TerraSilent would root it), so my absolute most important data is on my computer. I also did a simple file backup of the internal USB storage and external SD card to another computer before flashing TerraSilent. However, there is still a good deal of data still need, and a lot of data that would just be a pain in the rear to recreate, not to mention my (valuable to me) game data. What did I do wrong - or did something in the system mess up? And - what do I do to get back to where I was before?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ti-pich:
It happened to me when I was on gingerbread with terrasilent. It's a known issue with this kernel. In fact, you didn't wipe the data, but the recovery contain a bug wich format the data as soon as you do an operation wich mount the data partition(I think it's this but I can't remind) but it doesn't wipe the system or anythin else, so the icon, setting and everything else stay there but without anything attach to them. I don't remind what was causing it, I only stopped using cwm with this kernel unless I wanted to flash something or to wipe everything. Sorry but I can't help you more as I don't remind everything, it's been a while since I've been on gingerbread.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] trainman261:
Wasn't that problem solved with a later version of the kernel though?

And, assuming that's what happened (what you describe sounds pretty much like what happened to me), would that mean that the only way to try and get it back would be by trying to recover the formatted data?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ti-pich:
It was said to be resolved, but it happened to some peoples even thought. Maybe you can recover some of your data with your computer and some tools that let you get the erased data, but I can't guarantee the integrity of your data and you would need to replace every bit of data that was there before to get it running nicely. The easiest way would be to try to recover some of your important data, put it on your computer then wipe your player and start from scratch (wipe data/factory reset) and reinstall your apps. Then put back the save, or setting or files that you got back in your apps. Hope this help, I'm not a proffessional with data recovering or where to put it back after you got it, maybe someone else could further help you with this.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] trainman261:
And the conclusion...

OK, my reply is late, but thanks for your help. I managed to copy the partition with all the deleted contents over to the computer, and I'll have to study the contents some other time, because I've spent about 24+ hours on this problem in total, and need my device for more important purposes - those for which the data I managed to copy before the custom kernel and everything else. For those of you who have a similar issue, this is how I managed to save (or that is I am 95% sure this will have saved at least some, as I said I haven't studied it yet) what I hope is a good chunk of my data.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] obscuresword:
Have you tried flashing a different kernel? Terrasilent also gave me some weird in that after a few days my device would boot into recovery by itself then wipe all my data in that only my system apps would remain. So it's a little different than what's happened to you. I ended up using klin's R3 kernel or Steven's kernel that fixed the issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ti-pich:
I've got huge issue with steve's kernel. You can get into recovery, but once you booted in it will simply bootloop. Then you have to flash back with odin. So if you go with steve's kernel, don't boot into recovery. As for klin's kernel, I've never tried it, and will probably never as we have some really nice jellybean rom that I recommend you.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] obscuresword:
I never got that issue with steve's kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] trainman261:
Actually, with my problem, my system apps did remain, so it's almost the same problem, only my device didn't boot into recovery on its own (seriously, it booted into recovery on its own and wiped the data? :eek: ). I only installed the terrasilent kernel to be able to upgrade to JB, so I'm now on JB, running into different problem (the wrong settings are being backed up from google backup, they're restoring from my galaxy mini 2), but thanks anyway. I am really not having any luck at all with this whole update :p . But ti-pich, I agree with you, that JB rom is awesome :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] obscuresword:
Yes it did, after 1 week. I was like ???. I reflashed it again and it did the same exact thing, and it happened to me while I was at my college too.

I also had that same issue where it was restoring from the wrong device. I just had to reflash the rom, and install stuff manually because it was making my device horribly slow.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] trainman261:
Wow that is some scary stuff, now I know why every kernel/ROM/mod has a disclaimer at the beginning :p ... I'm glad I'm off that now and on a stable JB build now. I found a way to have it restore at least some of the stuff from when it was on gingerbread (mostly apps and appdata, no WiFi passwords or other settings - at least I'm pretty sure, I'm still working on getting all the stuff up and running) - go into a terminal, and type

bmgr list sets

It will probably have two different sets, one for when it was on GB and one for JB - or that is, if you had the problem, there will probably be a third set for a different device (maybe more). Then, choose the one you want to restore from, and type

bmgr restore xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and replace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the apropriate ID from the command before. I'm having to type it several times in order to get it to work - I type it once, it restores some apps, then stops, I type it again, and it restores some more - but I'm hoping it gets as much possible onto the JB build. I guess this won't help you much, I've seen you saying on the ICS and JB threads that you've upgraded a while ago, but I guess if someone else comes along with the same problem, I hope it will help :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klemmaniac:
hmmm. I'm about to try Terrasilent with my YP-G1 (US version) running 2.3.6. This is giving me second thoughts. Does this kernel still cause issues with SGP 4.0s running GB 2.3.6?? Maybe I should try the old Steves Kernel? I just want to use voodoo sound - thats really the only reason I want to root and get these kernels.