yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
I bought a used MDA I recently and was quite happy with it for a while. First bought a 512MB SD for it and installed TTN5. Then noticed that I needed more space when I was in Belgium and wanted the Maps for France and got me a 1 GB SD.

I must tell a story first which also occured with the 512 MB SD (but I belileve it isn't SD related anyway): During fiddling with the TTN5 installation, Active Sync and all that (removing programs out of memory or deinstalling them) , it occured several times that the MDA got so slow in response that I had to do a soft reset. The effect when it was slow, was that clicking a menu item took about 5 seconds until the respective action occured. Not only menu items, also action in this bubble game - name escaped me for the moment - was in the same range of slowness.

Doing a soft reset cured the problem.

Now it happened that when I was in Belgium I had connected the cradle to my notebook and was dumping the France maps over USB into the unit. This took an hour or so and I left the setup unattended.

When I came back the notebook had powered down (idle mode). I took out the MDA from the cradle and wanted to switch it on but it didn't react on the on-switch.

Putting it back into the cradle suddelny lit the display and the T-Mobile screen appeared.

From then on the havoc started. I did a soft reset to no avail. A hard reset - nothing.

Accidently (or should I say intuitively) - without knowing that this combination existed - I

pressed the on switch and the soft reset at the same time and got into some strange

Wallaby bootloader which didn't do anything, I think. It timed out or something.

Anyway, I put back the MDA into the cradle, switched it on and left it there with the T-Mobile screen on.

After minutes, may be 10 minutes or so a WM 2003 initial screen had appeared which invited

me to do an initialization.

I went through the interactice dialog and suddenly had a working WM 2003 but is was again

very slow in the menu action.

Also shutting off (switch off) the unit worked but then I couldn't switch it on again.

So in a nutshell, my unit is messed up somehow and I want to get it back into a working state

looking for help in this forum.

How should I proceed now?
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] saldous:
flash it with the latest ROM first. If that doesn't work send it off for repair.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
Thanks. Since I'm new to the matter: I remember that the version number of the T-Mobile screen

had - at the times it was working - some extra letters above the 4.01.19 (a G and some more

letters). These are gone as if some backup ROM is activated after the (hard) reset (?).

The person who sold me the MDA has unbranded it as she said. How do I get the ROM unbranded? When I download it from T-Mobile it is branded for T-Mobile, isn't it?

I got told of a site "lumpisteffan" which I visited already. Do they

carry the ROM I need? And do they have the instructions to do that or can that be found on this site here? Excuse my ignorance at the moment.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] LumpiStefan:
You could use nearly any rom of the kitchen to flash your device.

Because you have the 4.01.19 ROM installed on your device, you have to flash your device using a SD-Card.

Instructions how to do this could be found here in the forum, or in the wiki.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Wallaby

When you restart your device, what is shown on the Bootscreen, where also the 4.01.19 appears. The 2 Other lines, what do they contain?

Slowing down your device on using it for some time could be a memory outage.

If you "close" your running applications by pressing the (X) on the top of the screen, they are not closed, but put in the background. So they do use memory..... Just as little hint for you...

Stefan
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
Thanks, Stefan. That's of great help. Probably gotta get me a card reader for my desktop first

or could I use my camera also? Probably I can.

> The 2 Other lines, what do they contain

It is puzzling me that I don't see any other letters or lines obove or beyond the line

4.01.19 in the bottom right corner.

But will have to look again at the device later when I have it with me after lunchtime.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
Regarding the lines above 4.01.19. They are indeed there (must have had hallucinations).

Comment (reedited):

I noticed that after a soft reset the T-Mobile screen appears with only

4.01.19 in the bottom right. Then after a few minutes the G and R are there.

It reads:

G

R

4.01.19

in magenta letters/digits.

Thanks for the explanation about possible causes for the slowness, but

it is already slow as soon as I have gone through the WM2003 initialization and want to chosse the first dropdown menu item. So no programs in memory at that point in time.

Another effect I forgot to mention:

The first time I put the XDA into the cradle the "charging" LED is red.

After some minutes, when the T-Mobile screen is there it is off.

Normally it is immediately orange when the devie is in the cradle.

I read in another thread that this might be an indication for a blown fuse.

Or blown fuses.

Since that happened in Belgium at the coast in a vacation area it could well be that power spikes have lead to this illbehaviour.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
Hi Stefan,

I downloaded the file 4.01.19_GER.exe from the site I was pointed to when visiting your site - I just wanted to go through the steps with an unmodified ROM.

I verified the MD5 sum ok, copied to 17 MB file to my notebook. I had the MDA in the cradle and connected via USB. MS Active Sync had a connection to the device.

At this point I wonder how that would be done with the XDATools OSImagetool which requires to name the source location of the ROM Image. But what I downloaded from your site is an installer .exe.

Anyway when I run the 4.01.19_GER.exe it tells me "Please plug the power adapter in your pocket PC".

Could this be a sign for the malfunction of my device?

How do I get the ROM Image ?

OK. I found that your kitchen builds ROM images while the link to the original ROM obviously delivers the full installer.

Will report further progress.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] LumpiStefan:
Looks like your fuse has been killed, or you have problems with your Radio Stack.

Flashing a new ROM wouldn't help to fix that problem......

You could try to repaor the Radio stack by following these instructions:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Wallaby_HT_GSMError

If you have a exe-file and you want to have a nb1/Nbf File, you have to extract the exe useing winzip.....

Stefan
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Krischu:
Since the connection via USB sometimes seems to work I tried the XDATools stuff, got me a .nbf file.

I tried the tools intuitively by clicking on the start.bat file.

It told me it had no .nbf file, so I created on from your site.

Thank it told me it didn't have the file in the English subdirectory.

OK, I put it there. The start.bat seems to invoke a adaptrom program. After that the English folder was named German. But some program still requires a GetConnectionType.dll which ain't there.

Anyway, what is pointing to a blown fuse is that I get with all these USB uploaders I'm getting this error telling me I should connect the power cable to my device.

I opened my device and bridged the one fuse (near the lower navigation button) to no avail. Didn't try the other fuse though since I thought that one would be for the piggy back battery, or is it also responsible for the power coming from the cradle?

Could it be my cradle is broken? Ah no, when I insert my spare MDA (the one with the broken display) the orange led lits immediately after inserting the device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricorico94:
Hi,

I need to do a factory reset (to see if it solves a problem that Asus could not solve) and in anyway I read it's safer to wipe data before sending to factory for repair.. So I'd like to make a full backup before this wipe and before the sending to repair..

I installed free Titanium backup (my tablet is rooted), but I'm confused on what I should do before doing the reset and the tutorials I found on Titanium even confused me more..(if you're aware of a nice tutoriel, link would be welcome, because I found none very explicit on xda and even on the web..)

-first, should I use the Asus tool for backup or Titanium ?

- Should I perform a full backup of apps only or apps+system ? I read that system restore could create issues in case restore is not done on same firmware, and I don't know with which FW my tablet will come back from repair.. so should I use apps+system anyway, or make 2 backups (apps first then system or vice versa ?) I'd prefer to restore my tablet as clsoe as it is today, even if possible with bluetooth pairs and wifi connections..

-Should I backup manually my personal files (videos ,various docs, pictures,..) before using Titanium ? (for instance to save space and make nbackups smaller?) If yes, how do we know which folders are backuped up by Titanium and which are not ?

- My sdcard is already largely used with only a few GB left. Can I ask Titanium to save directly to a PC ? Or should I use another sdcard (but then, what will happen to apps installed on sdcard ?) ?

Thanks a lot for your hints.

Ricorico94
[Asus Transformer TF700] wrynn7:
There are several different options for you to choose from but I will share the way I usually back up my tablet. I flash different ROMs frequently and have had to use backups quite a bit.

I usually use Titanium Backup to backup everything but only restore non-system apps and data. You're right that restoring system data can result in problems if restoring to different ROMs, not necessarily firmware. It depends on how much the firmware has changed. Since there might be big enough changes that it might screw everything up then I'd avoid restoring system apps and data. If your tablet is backed up to Google, it will sometimes keep the WiFi and Bluetooth pairings and restore them once you log back into your Google account. Not always though. Also I'm not sure that the free version of Titanium Backup can save any place other than an SD card. The paid version can save to Dropbox and Google Drive.

If you're sending your tablet in for repair, you should move all of your personal files to your computer or SD card, deleting them off the tablet. At least, that's what I'd do.

There is one more option which would make saving a lot easier and that is if you have a custom recovery installed like TWRP or CWM you can create a Nandroid Backup of everything, System, Data and all. With all your pictures, etc the file would be huge but you could move that to your computer and restore it when your tablet comes back. That would keep an exact copy of your system and replace whatever ASUS does to it with what you currently have. If I wanted to keep my tablet as close to how I set it up, this is what I would do. Of course, your tablet has to be rooted and unlocked to do so.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricorico94:
Hi,

Thanks a lot for this advice. Do you know if I can still make 2 separate backups, so that I could use system backup if there's no FW change ?

Regarding the TWRP custom recovery, I understood that since I am already with FW 10.4.4.25 (android 4.1.1) and only rooted, there's no way to install customer recovery. Did I understood properly, or is there a way to downgrade to previous versions first, istall custom and upgrade again back to current FW ?

What do you mean by "tablet backed up to Google" ? I have "save my datas" checked under "backup" menu of parameters, but is there a way to check that there's indeed something in their servers already ?

br,

Ricorico94
[Asus Transformer TF700] wrynn7:
You could make as many backups as you wanted. :p Titanium Backup allows you to restore whatever you want it to so you really only have to make one backup. You can restore everything but the system apps and data or everything. You can even use it to uninstall or freeze what you're not using (as long as it's not an integral part of the FW of course). It's not an all or nothing deal. I would still move all of your personal data to a computer or SD card so nothing happens to it.

My understanding is that installing CWM or TWRP require your device to be unlocked using an app that is provided through the ASUS website. Just being rooted isn't sufficient. If you don't want to unlock your device then you're stuck with using the Titanium Backup method. Just make sure it is saving your apps to an external SD card and not the internal one.

And yes, I was referring to the setting that you already have checked about Google backing up your data. It doesn't always restore everything though so you might have to pair everything again anyway.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
I don't think it is a good idea to install a custom recovery if you are about to send the tablet to Asus - I assume for a warranty repair. You would have to unlock your bootloader and that negates your warranty. So just forgettaboutit.

Google backs up some of your data: Calendar and contacts mainly, but also all the apps you have downloaded or bought from the Play Store.

But it is much faster to restore apps with Titanium instead of downloading them from the Play Store.

So backup apps and data in TiBu and move the backup to your PC.

I don't quite understand why you want to backup system data. It's always potentially disruptive to mess with system data yourself. And you are on a pretty old rom and bootloader - so you're due for an update anyway.

Pictures, videos etc, I would just move to an external drive/card or your PC.

When you got everything backed up, do a Factory Reset. That will wipe your data partition.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ricorico94:
Thanks to both of you for your help!

You're right. I was asking this for future, when tablet comes back from repair: at that time, I might want to have a stronger debug/backup using a custom recovery (at least that's what I understood it's very helpful at): I'm soon at warranty end, so I can wait expiration.

It's a good news that the unlock tool of Asus can still be used to allow installation of custom recovery. I'll need to read more on how to do it, etc.

Thanks again !
[HTC Sensation] anonymous0612:
Anybody know how i can go back to stock?

Will it remove the frequent sense restarts?

Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] astar26:
Going back to stock - the best way is to use an RUU or a backup of your stock ROM (if you have one).

No, it won't remove it, as it's cause by low RAM, so android does what it does best - cleans RAM by closing apps. And sometimes it's the Launcher - Sense (Rosie).

However, there are mods to keep the launcher in RAM. I don't remember the name, but a quick google search might bring up some results.
[HTC Sensation] MidnightDevil:
Correct me if I'm wrong...but I don't think its possible to backup stock ROMs?
[HTC Sensation] rzr86:
what do you mean by that?

to make a nandroid from recovery or are you saying something else?
[HTC Sensation] Aca902:
I dont know what sense restarts are you talking about, and what rom are you using, or are you s-on or off? If your S-OFF, first thing you need to do is to lock your bootloader via fastboot 'fastboot oem lock' and then you can flash RUU.
[HTC Sensation] MidnightDevil:
Last time I tried to backup a stock rom through 4ext, I couldn't, it returned a error which I don't remember.

I google a bit by then and I've read in some forums that we cannot backup a stock rom due some different structure. By then I was dealing with a Samsung / Touchwiz, not sure sure if same applies to Sense Stock.
[HTC Sensation] rzr86:
i asked you that because i used to use the stock rom for a long time and i was able to make backups from recovery
[HTC Sensation] MidnightDevil:
What recovery did you use by then? Maybe it only applies to Touchwiz. Btw, I made a mistake and I wasn't using 4ext by then, it was clockworkmod.
[HTC Sensation] rzr86:
from the beginning i am using 4ext recovery
[HTC Sensation] MidnightDevil:
Must have been a specific issue with clockworkmod & touchwiz, nevermind what I said then :)
[HTC Sensation] rzr86:
i can't tell you what could be because i had clockworkmod only for one day hehe:)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] HansPsy:
I found it weird when I swipe2wake my nexus7 with bulletproof kernel.

Sometimes I can turn on the screen but cannot control it.

I thought it was a hardware problem but after exchange a new one , same problem-----turn on the touchscreen and can't control it to unlock.

Not always happen, just one or two times.

I guess it is related to the kernel and volts, so i use CM instead.

Who else finds this？
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] daraldf:
Mine works just fine.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] 150198:
I have 2 Samsung Infuses and one just decided that it's battery was dead. So we swiched the batteries. Both have almost a full charge, and I've tried charging both in the working Infuse. Neither battery will be recognized as charged. It recognizes that there is a battery, but says that it is empty and shuts off. I have everything backed up and a hard reset would be do-able, but I can't get it to recognize the battery long enough to go to the boot screen to hard reset it. How do I get the phone to acknowledge either battery?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deboopi2:
Is anybodu also using Faux Sound control?

Up to now I did not have problems with it but now I try to use it for

changing the left-right balance on the headphone speakers.

When using VLC or the built-in music player ypu do not seem to

have control over the balance, I know some other aps like Poweramp

do have this control but I do not like to add another app.

So then I remembered I'm already using the Faux sound control app.

Up to now I was using it for setting up a silent, loud or quality profile.

But with the custom profile you can change all the settings yourself.

So first of all I tried to change the analog g ain controls because I'm using the headphones with the audio jack but this did not help.

So then I changed the Digital gain controls, but when lowering the left or the right channel the result was that both of them went to the lowest volume.

In the sound control app they had a separate setting but in real life they took the lowest of both volumes.

I know I should ask this on Paul Reioux the creator of the app but I cannot find his email or support for his apps.
[Micromax A116] shaggy_:
Please point me to the features that can be explored after rooting a116 ??
[Micromax A116] VatsalRaj:
You can make each and every tweak to the system after rooting your phone.:good:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boki9999:
Is anyone else having this problem?

The paint started peeling off about a month after I got this phone (March 2012). Even though I have the phone in a protective case, the black paint around the edge of the screen is still chipping off...

Are there any tips to atleast slow it down? Does warranty cover this?

Sent from my GT-i9100
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huzefaonline:
Hi,

My friends Samsung nexus s is stuck on the X screen. since the phone is on stock rom and no recovery installed and he doesnt want to root his phone and wants all his previous data back, what should i do to get back in orignal state without loosing data?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mabry:
Well, if you unlock the booloader, then his data is gonna be lost anyways because unlocking the bootloader will factory reset the phone. The only way to get his phone working again is to unlock bootloader, and flash the firmware images, or a custom rom through recovery. Your friend is going to have to accept the change on his phone and data lost. Sorry, but I can't think of no other way to restore it WITHOUT losing data.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
I bought a second hand GT-I9000 running stock OS. I want to root it, put on a new ROM and then unlock to other phone providers as its locked on Vodafone.

I have rooted a bunch of devices previously without problems but hit a big problem with this phone.

First I downloaded and installed the samsung drivers. I then plugged in the phone and it recognised it.

I am using the latest version of Odin 3.07 and downloaded the .tar file for my baseband version - XXJPY:

cf-root-xx_xeu_jpy-v1.3-busybox-1.17.1.tar

I got the phone into download mode, showing the green (yellow) triangle, added the .tar file in PDA mode with F. Reset Time and Auto Reboot on.

The bar on Odin was blue and the box said "added" so I hit start. The large first box at the top of the Odin screen (left hand side) came up with KERNEL and the whole process started but seemed to be taking ages then the phone screen scrambled.

The phone was soft bricked and I have got it back to download mode.

The problem I have now is Odin wont recognise the phone in download mode. I am installing new samsung drivers in the hope this will solve this problem.

I have got the .pit file for my phone from another thread and if I understand correctly I use this file in Odin to get the phone back to life??

If I can get it working again can anyone tell me why the root failed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markan1:
Hi...Hm never had this problem, maybe something went wrong with USB connection, hope you get it working...

I was using this method for rooting and there was no problems.

http://theunlockr.com/2012/10/22/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-s-i9000-cf-kernel-method/

Best regards!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
I cant get the phone to be recognised by my PC - damn thing comes up as unrecognised USB device!

Installingmkies, anyone ever seen this problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
I have the phone recognised by my PC and have run the .pit file which Odin said was a success, however, the phone wont start except in download mode

how can I install anything?

do I need to install factory firmware first??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DumF0rGaming:
A new version of Odin is NOT DESIGNED for GT-I9000. Use Odin 1.83 and older
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
Thanks for that.

The problem I have is that I cannot get any firmware to install - it starts fine then fails and the screen scrambles.

I have used the pit file to repartition first but it still fails
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DumF0rGaming:
I guess you have to try install JVU via Heimdall v1.1+zadig, then root it and go directly to the newest CM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
It is wrong Odin version.

Our forum mate [MENTION=5054799]DumF0rGaming[/MENTION] already wrote you correct answer, if Odin use 1.82 or 1.83, or use Heimdall as he wrote you. Odin v3.x or 4.x will usually recognize device, but instantly freeze by try to flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
Hi, many thanks for the information, due you have any links or information. I have not used Heimdall yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1holland1:
I have got the device recognised and partitioned with the pit file using 1.83 Odin but cannot find a stock file which works

It starts and just hangs with a tiny sliver of the green bar on the phone.

Its driving me INSANE!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Patience, mate... cool head helps better. Use this step-by-step guide of mine where all download links still work. The workflow there is about installing Froyo stock ROM (big choice for all regions) and after that you can flash SpeedMod kernel which features CWM recovery. That ROM seems to be good ground to upgrade further to CM10x, I had no bugs at all (some people upgrading from other ROMs seem to be more prone to bugs).

Here is the guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44710247#post44710247

And you are sure that you have i9000?