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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
Sometime after I installed safestrap and a second rom, I lost the ability to write or delete from my external SD card. It may have something to do with SAFESTRAP, or possibly an app called SDFix: KitKat Writable MicrosSD which I installed and may have ran in preparation for any type of KitKat update. Anyone have any ideas of what I may have done?

edit for more info : The weird thing is, it lets me go through the motions to delete a movie file with say ES File Explorer, but when I reboot, the file is still there and I am able to watch the same exact file I thought I deleted. Also, if I set my camera to write external, it seems like it works, but when I reboot, the files aren't there anymore. Luckily the few pictures I tried taking like that were uploaded to my dropbox before I reboot..... Also, if I create a new folder and paste a file into there, the folder won't be there when I reboot. Also, it seems like my titanium backup files aren't updating, they all seem to be dated February 28 and they won't update even though it goes through the entire backup process!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airmaxx23:
Have you tried taking the card out and seeing if it works properly on a computer?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
That is a good idea. I'll try once my co-worker comes back from lunch so I can borrow their microsd-usb adapter. The weird thing is, it lets me go through the motions to delete a movie file with say ES File Explorer, but when I reboot, the file is still there. I am able to watch the same exact file I thought I deleted. Also, if I set my camera to write external, it seems like it works, but when I reboot, the files aren't there anymore. Luckily the few pictures I tried taking like that were uploaded to my dropbox before I reboot.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
The card is an 64GB Sandisk, and the computer won't recognize it, I believe because of the way it is formatted. When I get home, I will try to connect via USB 3.0 and see if I can dump everything to my PC and go from there....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airmaxx23:
Your computer should still recognize it though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
uhh ohh, its a VDI virtual system, and it says this card needs to be formatted before windows can recognize it....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
I am copying everything over to my PC over USB. I will try the card in a card reader to see what can be done. If I format it, and if it works after format, should I have confidence that the card won't crap out on me in the future¿???
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssmaster:
I am finally able to format it using a slow format in Windows 7, lets see if it works...

Nope, still broken with all previous files in tact.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickgordi:
I'm having the exact same issue and I bet others are too. At first I thought it was something to do with an ESexplorer update since I never happened before it, but I've deleted ES and tried many other file managers/explorers and still have it happen. Someone has to know how to fix this.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TroyLeeWells:
I had the same issue with the same card. After a lot of research I found that my SD card had somehow become locked...I know...WHAT? My sd card is looked with no way to unlock it. I can view files on it but i cannot add files or delete from the card.

I emailed Sandisk asking them if they had a solution but I never heard back from them

I have tried every solution that I have found and none have worked...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopolotin75:
I've gone through 6 San disk 64gb class 10 cards between my Note 2 and Note 3 with my last cropping out 2 weeks ago. San disk will replace your card and tell you to contact the phone manufacturer. I did that contacted Samsung...at 1st I got the run around but I was persistent and got a hold of a good tech support agent. Samsung phones have issues writing info to the 64gb class 10 cards. They are aware of the issue and are working on a fix as of 2-3months ago. He told me the will work fine. He said they don't recommend over 32gb and a class 4 card because of the stability issues of files being corrupted on class 10s particularly 64gb 1s. Funny thing is i called San Disk back and told them what i was told and asked for a 32gb lower class and he told me i could buy it buy they could only replace it with the same one i had. Good luck!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acdnykon:
You know this is not the first time that I've heard of this. I actually had a 10s 32Gig SanDisk micro that I ended up losing because of this problem with my Galaxy S3. I got to work one day and set my phone down on the desk and it just seeming stopped working. I don't know what it is with the 10 series cards but it seems like they all have some kind of problem.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickgordi:
Thanks everyone for all the info. I guess I'll have to get another card and I'm going to be sure it's NOT another SanDisk.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paddington:
As most of you know, IB Times and Christian Post are the absolute worst sources for Android news. They post completely fictitious rumors without any sources and without mentioning that the past 1010928 rumors they posted were wrong. I made the mistake of clicking on a few of these stories, so for a few months, I've gotten nearly daily notifications in Google Now about Nexus articles posted on these websites. I want to remove these websites from my Google Now completely.

I did some research on how to do this, and Google said to click the menu button on the individual notification inside of Google Now and I can request that no more results from that website be displayed. However, that's not a choice. Instead, I have the option of whether or not to continue to receive articles relevant to the Nexus devices. I do want to receive articles about Nexus devices, just not from these sources.

Can anyone tell me how to remove notifications from specific websites without removing notifications for the subject of the articles? Thanks in advance. Also, I wasn't sure if this went in Q&A or Apps & Themes, so I made a judgment call and went with the Q&A forum. Apologies if it should have gone elsewhere.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilipTD:
Try deleting the offending pages from your Google browsing history. You may have to wait a few days after that for the cards to stop appearing.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paddington:
I'll try that and see if it works. I thought of it as a possible solution, but figured I'd see if there was an easier way first. Thanks.

Edit: Ok, so I tried that, but it can't be the solution. Apparently I had already done this for both Christian Post and IB Times, and the only history results I had were three IB Times results from the past month where I clicked the link based on the headline without looking at the source first. All of the earlier IB Times visits and all of the Christian Post visits were gone. However, I received a Christian Post notification as recently as two days ago.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntrix:
I've never been to those sites before GN, and they keep showing up.

I agree with what you are saying... garbage articles that shouldn't show up in my GN. Subscribing!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Citizen_Snips:
I would like an answer to this too!

I think I'll just email CP and IB and tell them to stop posting crap. :/
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0087:
I'm curious too. I keep getting GN notifications for international soccer scores and it says below them that I searched for this team. Trust me, I have not. I don't search for any sports or teams. I went as far as reporting it to Google but haven't gotten a response. I've checked my search history and also deleted it. But they still appear at random.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paddington:
I have actually emailed the authors/editors of articles on both sites pointing out all of the incorrect information and asking about sources. I have never gotten a response.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paddington:
Anyone have any ideas?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Bump. This is the most annoying part of google now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsychDrummer:
Agreed. I like the automatic nature of GN, but I would love more control over what pops up. Regarding those two websites, I'm sure they're just click bait. They always pop up whenever you search any rumors, so they get a ton of clicks for people to view ads. I doubt they care what they post, as long as people get them ad money.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kunaltyagii:
dont you get that three buttons menu option at the right top corner of the card? i think you can remove the updates from there. atleast it shows me that option from some other sites that i visit on google.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CalculatedRisk:
This might be a stupid question and so I apologize in advance, but you do have the latest version of google now right?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DroidDavi:
Hopefully we get an answer for this I want my android and tech news but it's from a bunch of BS websites
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vbz89:
I too hate that crappy news feed that Google now gives. There should be a voting system or report spam/irrelevant option in Google now so that these dumb sites don't keep posting in our 'interested' feed
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Yeah. There is no option to remove specific sites any more. We can remove news about a topic, but that doesn't help as I want news about android, just not from these horrible sites.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CalculatedRisk:
Alright. Hopefully someone can come up with something.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nate0922:
Same problem here. These sites are annoying.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahulpat13:
I guess then Google must be pulling them from a list of most visited or best ranked news item. It just happens to be from these sites. I guess nothing much can be done on the user part :(
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMikeP:
Question: I want to wipe everything from my HD+ and start completely fresh. What is safe to wipe and how do I do it in TWPR or CWM? A "factory reset" isn't good enough. It leaves old data around. But I've read too many stories about bricking a device by formatting /data using CWM.

Background: I've been running CM 10.2.1 for a few weeks now. Given what Jon Lee posted about Google and security, I thought I'd try a clean install of CM 10.2.1 without installing gapps, just to see what that's like. (And what services don't run.)

So I did the usual "factory reset" from TWRP and reinstalled CM 10.2.1. To my surprise, when I booted, the latest version of Google Play was still showing on the launcher!

I had used Link2SD to integrate the latest version of Google Play with the OEM system app. So apparently, that this was not wiped. And of course, internal media data is not wiped (not by TWRP, anyway) in a factory reset. But I thought /system was.

The TWRP FAQ has a page about wiping. It says

But they don't tell you which to select.

TWRP makes it confusing by offering to 1) wipe data, 2) internal storage, 3) SDcard or 4) SDcard data in Advanced Wipe. Which is it for wiping your media stuff?

From what I've read, "internal storage" should be the same as "SDcard." So why both? And how is "SDcard data" distinct from those two?

To make matters worse, in the Nook I thought there was an additional element of confusion because the Nook doesn't call the internal SDcard memory what everyone else calls it.

So let's say I am selling my HD+. Would I select all of the above and still be able to install a ROM clean?

Or would I brick?

I know that on a desk top computer if you want to start bare metal, you format the hard drive, wiping everything, and install onto that. But judging from what Succulent wrote in his blog about recovering from an EMMC crash, you can't start totally clean with Android. Apparently, Android needs some preexisting files on the "drive" in order to install. (Like the devconf folder, which contains your MAC and your serial number.)

[Am I understanding him correctly? He was talking about recovering from a tablet wrecked by the EMMC brick bug. Perhaps no /data partition at all, as he offers a script to rebuild/expand that partition?]

I have read stories of people bricking their tablets by formatting /data from CWM. I don't understand why that should brick it. Why couldn't you boot into recovery? How can the /data partition affect the /recovery partition?

So - has anybody done a complete wipe on their Nook HD+? Please explain, for those of us who are obsessive compulsive, exactly how you do it.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
To wipe your device with CWM go to mounts and storage and format /system, /cache and 'data and datamedia'. A normal factory reset only wipes /cache and the portion of /data that does not hold your media files. It does not wipe /system. Usually the ROM install does that, but the install script has a feature that saves gapps if you are installing the same version of the ROM (eg, CM11 over CM11). So to get rid of everything, including media files and gapps, do what I said in the first sentence. Of course after formatting /system you must put a ROM back on it for it to boot.

And it is not /data formatting that is the brick problem, it is formatting the /bootdata partition. They are different things. Don't format that.

And succulent was talking about /rom partition which is different yet that needs to be left alone. That is where the devconf folder is. It contains things you need to keep.

If you want to understand the partition structure of the HD/HD+ go to my HD/HD+ Tips thread linked in my signature and read item 16.

And please read my PM to you about removing those assert removal instructions from my dummies thread.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMikeP:
Best Answer

Thanks for the thorough answer. And explanations. I always find it easier to remember something when I understand the reason for it. So I didn't know before that the install scripts keep gapps.(But that's what I was deducing.)

I know to stay away from /rom and /boot. Hopefully, TWRP would not let one format those in their numerous choices for Advanced Wipe.

From what you've written before in one of your other threads, I know that you're not a fan of TWRP. So I still don't know what the similar commands are in TWRP for a total clean. But for now I can delete /system in TWRP and do the reinstall without gapps. When I'm ready for a total wipe, I'll revert to CWM.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMikeP:
Can we trade /factory for /swap?

Read it. (And made an image of my factory partition. And then moved it to my extSDcard for safer keeping.)

So, the Nook HD+ partition structure is a bit different from the stock Android partition stuff I had found on the web.

So, for those of us running a custom ROM, I presume the factory image doesn't do us much good anymore. Will the HD+ automagically restore after 8 failed boots?

If not (or even if it will), is there a way to take that 448MB in the /factory image partition and use them for, say, a /swap partition instead? I think an xda developer is doing something like this for the Galaxy Tab 2, where he's using some memory that Samsung uses for animations and uses them for ZRam instead. Since I've backed up the factory image, and since I already have your factory 2.0.2 ROM, I really don't need the image any more. Seems like wasted space.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
You can play with the partitions all you want. Just don't ask me to help you fix it. You don't seem to heed my warnings anyway.

But other users be warned that factory partition has vital backup information there (it has more than just the factory zip there) and if you lose it, your device is as good as a paperweight. That is why I recommended all users back that partition up. Not for the factory zip, but for the backup files there. The device has other safety backup routines other than just restoring the stock ROM. An example is, I told you and succulent told you that devconf has vital files all ROMs need in /rom. Well, /factory has a backup of /rom there and if the device discovers /rom is messed up, it tries to repair itself. No /factory and no repair. Paperweight!
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMikeP:
Thanks for the quick response.

I am sorry that I seem to have gotten on your bad side. I did what you asked and moved my previous comment out of your thread. And I warned everyone that you don't think it's a good procedure.

And I did heed your warning. I made a backup of the factory partition and even moved the copy to my ext SD card for safer keeping. Especially since we were talking about wiping the sdcard. (Unless you're trying to say that storing the /factory img on the ext SD card is a bad idea because I won't be able to get it back to the internal SDcard if/when I need it.)

As for the devconf files, they're in the /rom partition. I don't understand how using the /factory partition for a /swap is going to ruin the /rom partition.

From what you're saying, the HD+ still has a "safety routine" built in, even when running custom recovery and a custom ROM? Does that mean that its safety routine is hard coded somewhere? Or part of the /rom code itself? How does the HD+ know to look in /factory when its running a non-factory OS? Does CM tell it to do that?

You're the expert. I'm just guessing here. If the /factory partition were used as a /swap, and if the system turned into a paperweight because it needed the /factory image later someday, then couldn't one go into recovery and copy the /factory partition back over, per your instructions? As a minimum, couldn't one use succulent's emmc recovery procedure to get back to factory status?

I'd be willing to trade that off for more performance.

How does one know when the HD+ goes into this safety routine? Does it tell you? Or is it transparent to the user? It would be interesting to know how often that happens. Does the safety routine then repair the /rom partition once booted if it detects a problem in /rom?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
If you want to know more how the automatic repairs work, go to my Nook Color Tips thread linked in my signature and read item A12. The partition numbers are different but the repair process works exactly the same way on the HD/HD+, including the need for stock recovery to be installed. There are two ways to get your device automatically repaired if you have CM and CWM/TWRP recovery installed on internal memory. One is to flash stock recovery back per my item 5 in my HD/HD+ CWM thread, and the second is to flash the plain stock zip from item 6 there. That puts stock recovery back. Then it can repair /rom if need be.

And there is no real drawback of removing the factory.zip file from /factory partition since it is basically the same as a plain stock zip I have published. But the other files there are vital and should not be touched.

You got on my bad side by publishing that assert removal procedure on the help forum after I asked you to remove it from my thread. I don't want to make it easy for any user to do that as I consider it dangerous for noobs to do. See my response to your posting of that procedure.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMikeP:
Thanks for letting me know. Later last night, I saw a post of yours on the Nook Color (I think it was) where you thought that anyone who would remove the updater-script safety check was an "idiot."

Okay, so I'm an idiot. But I am free to be an idiot and start my own thread in the Help forum, right? Just as you are free to respond there as you did. That's what makes the forum go 'round.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
As I recall, I did not say the person that removed the assert was an idiot, it was the person who recommended it that I said was an idiot. The user was a noob and knew no better. He was trying to flash a Nook Tablet ROM to his Nook Color and the assert kept failing (doing what it was designed to do). The idiot was the one that told him just to remove the assert. He did that and bricked his Nook Color.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] waranty92:
Is it possible to unlock Samsung SM-G900A - from AT&T and use different sim card in another county
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] rafaelpinaf:
I have the same doubt. Any way?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] nikhilppatel:
I'm not sure, but maybe you can ask the AT&T customer care to give you the unlock code as well as the method to do it.

That's what I tried for my S2 and S3. I had them under contract. And if you buy it without contract, shouldn't it be unlocked already? Just curious!

I'll ask about the unlock process to AT&T tomorrow and let you know if the same trick works or not ;)

Unless I'm not mistaken, you are not talking about rooting the device already, are you! :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] enigma99a:
If you ever want to modify your phone, I recommend returning during your 14 day trial period. Otherwise, you will be stuck with a worthless piece of junk. Although nobody has verified this yet, the SM-G900T (tmobile) appears to support the same bands but I need someone to test with a ATT SIM
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] waranty92:
I want to root the phone because it may be blacklisted by at&t
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] rafaelpinaf:
I unlocked mine whit Swift Unlock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Product F(RED):
The T-Mobile version (SM-G900T) supports all of the frequencies of AT&T, plus WCDMA 1700 MHz. Additionally, it's the only variant with an unlocked bootloader. I know people using it on AT&T.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] waranty92:
Is unlocked bootloader avaliable on this forum and is it flashable on stock version,
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Product F(RED):
That question makes no sense. By "bootloader unlocked", I mean that the T-Mobile version is the only variant that lets you flash anything without stopping you (e.g. custom ROM, custom recovery, custom kernel). Depending on what you flash, you will trip Knox though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] waranty92:
I'm not getting answer of main question, can I flash custom rom or root Samsung SM-G900A and use it with any sim card even if it is blacklisted by AT&T
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Product F(RED):
Blacklisting means the phone is lost, stolen or was not paid for completely. That means you can't use it on AT&T, and on any carriers that enforce a blacklist (most do in the US). It has nothing to do with custom ROMs or root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] waranty92:
I don't want to use it in US, it will be used in the different country, and my question is simple, can I unlock it to use in different country with different operator witch don't care if the phone is blacklisted by AT&T, i need the phone just accept new sim and work with it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] AMOVS3S:
Help

I think what he is trying to say is, in the case I have a blacklisted non-unlocked SM G900A, is there a way possible to use this phone with another SIM under a non US based carrier in a different country. Also what he is wondering is maybe this is possible through rooting? if not is there any way that this can be done if yes please help... Thank you for all the feedback!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Product F(RED):
I don't think there's a way to do it through root. AT&T won't help you because it's blacklisted. You would need an eBay unlock service or something along those lines.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] npp7495:
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