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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totallybeachin:
Kindle screen is unchanging

......BUT....!!! :o

I have another laptop (running windows 8.1 :(...) that I decided to give a go at it with...

The android ADB Interface is showing up in device manager with the kindle plugged in.

I have the ADB file created under the C drive....

I attempted the adb fastboot and also fastboot reboot

neither of them did anything, BUT, at least I have a driver one a computer now!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
try the flash recovery command from instructions
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
adb fastboot is not a good command
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totallybeachin:
Would that be this?

Step 7: Flashing TWRP and FFF (custom Recovery and Bootloader)

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.1-blaze.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader fff-u-boot_v1.5.bin

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000

fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

....or post #7 from the same thread?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
yes, Try that.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totallybeachin:
ok....the kindle is still not doing anything, but it looks like those commands did SOMETHING (it looks like that to me, but then again, I don't know how to read all this stuff)

.....it's 'stuck' right there
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
press enter
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
there are 4 commands, you have to press enter to run the last one
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totallybeachin:
Duh!....

This has been so frustrating. Thanks so much for your patience and HELP!.....

it has rebooted!

Yeah....now I have to try and figure out what I was doing and where I left off before all this madness started!......:o
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you should have a new bootloader and option to boot into recovery(TWRP)

Now you need to decide if you are going to install a custom rom, and if so which one...
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
anyone else having these symptoms? mine started out of nowhere, like 2 weeks into owning it lol go figure. it's on the right hand side near the volume and power buttons. if I'm holding with my right hand and I push down to tap on the screen, it creaks really bad. like, really bad and loud lol awful. wtf samsung? I never had these quality issues on the s3 or s4. stupid samsung.

video:

Galaxy Tab S Creaky Back Cover Issue: http://youtu.be/34LPt5wxhZY
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Do you have the back warping as well? Hard to imagine what could be happening that would be so loud. No idea.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
nope. back is perfectly level. it's just this one spot that's creaking. my old nexus 7 original did this as well, but that can be expected from a 200 dollar tablet... but not a "premium" tablet. oh well. annoying. it didn't do anything until like today, so it just wore out over time I guess? crappy but whatever. this is always an issue with samsung products i know, but it's the first time I've experienced it with a Samsung.
[Galaxy Tab S General] remydegreat:
I have a creak when i touch beside ir blaster,is annoying considering its a 500 euro device,i think this is comon with a plastic body device
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
My Samsung galaxy s5 and note 2 are quite creaky so I expect my tab s to start creaking at some point.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
that's exactly where my creak is too lol woo, creak club.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Would using the book cover improve this?
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
It would indeed, but lots of people like to go naked with their devices. Personally I prefer my tablets in a case/cover and my phones naked. At the end of the day we shouldn't have to use cases or covers to disguise creaking.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
True. I actually prefer the book cover. Naked this tab is so light and smooth I feel like I'm always going to drop it. The cover gives it just enough grip and heft.
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
I actually prefer this tab naked as I like the way it feels and handles. The main reason I got the book cover was for protection.
[Galaxy Tab S General] remydegreat:
Yea,my creak is very suttle,but i notice it,not good for the ocd lol,i get mine when i touch the gold rim,not worth returning,too much hassle
[Galaxy Tab S General] rey_1178:
Same here simacca. It's not a bulky otterbox but it offers some protection to put my paranoia at ease. The book cover much like the titanium Tab is so elegant.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Although I got my cover on sale for half price I would have gladly paid full fair. It's that nice.
[Galaxy Tab S General] remydegreat:
Any1 else any build quality issues ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
I'm pretty sure it's the gold trim that creaks, not the back cover. oh well. I ordered a ten dollar magnetic sleep wake book case, like the one I had on my nexus 7. we'll see how that works.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
That's the problem with cheap trim. Looks good at first but then you always end up regretting it. :)
[Galaxy Tab S General] ShadowFlare:
I checked my S 8.4 LTE for creaks, but I have the book cover on and don't ever want to go through the horror of putting it on again. So the only accessible area on the back is about half towards the side where the IR Blaster is, which is where you are having creaks on anyway.

I do not hear any creak on mine, pressed that whole exposed area, especially around the IR Blaster, the trim all around.

I wonder how big is the intel LTE modem is, cause I'm thinking, what if this is where the modem is located on the LTE model. So, for WiFi model, the modem would be missing and leaving an empty gap under the hood, and pressing against this area would flex the back plate resulting creaking.

Just making wild theories :)
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Once you've put on and taken off the book cover a few times it becomes much easier. Just needs some breaking in.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ShadowFlare:
Haha yeah, just that I don't want to accidentally damage the screen while breaking it in. I'm over protective (or paranoid) when it comes to my electronic devices :D
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Lol, yes there is something disconcerting about the whole crunch snap thing :)
[Galaxy Tab S General] abnoob:
I got my creak if I plug in the usb charger.

It needs your thumb and index finger to pinch the back and the panel, the right area near the usb port.

the back cover creaks.

It seems the official usb charger push out something, I don't know.

Using other usb charger will release the condition.

Does anyone have this problem?
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Reminds me of the old Hee Haw (yes I'm that old) episode where the guy goes into the doctors office and says, "Doctor, my arm hurts when I go like this...". The doctor says, "Don't go like that...".
[Galaxy Tab S General] kms108:
I don't have any creaky noise, near that power and volume button, but I do see that area is slightly higher especially the corner, it's not really noticable.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
kinda hard when the spot it creaks is where you hold it with your right hand, and tapping any portion of the right hand side of the screen makes it creak... guess I'll just not use the right hand side of the screen huh? ;)
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Actually I was making a joke. :) I know this is a serious issue for you. If I were you I would just exchange it. Haven't seen enough of these reports to think this is normal.
[Galaxy Tab S General] clintonroche:
Time to use your left hand.... Jk

You should take it back and get a new one.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
no point in exchanging it, besides i'm over the 2 week window anyway, and that's what best buy's return policy is.

every samsung i've had has had issues, so even if i were in the exchange timeframe, i wouldn't bother bc there's a good chance the next one will have the same issue as well. their quality control pretty much sucks, but there's something about their devices that i do enjoy, so i live with it.

besides, atleast it just squeeks and doesn't have touchscreen issues like my other tablet, the 2013 nexus 7. that's something that i should have exchanged, but they didn't start happening until like a year into owning it lol. either way, i still really like the tab s.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
That's cool. I get 45 days to exchange stuff at BestBuy and forget that not everyone gets that. I could literally wear stuff out before returning it if I wanted to but I never do. If I don't like something I always take it back in a few days.

Its kind of like my book cover. It has one small imperfection on it. I was going to exchange it but then thought, oh hell the next one might be worse and nobody that wasn't looking for this tiny defect would notice it.
[Galaxy Tab S General] gregoryostrom:
I have the 10.5 inch version and ended up exchanging mine for another. The trim between the micro USB port and the bottom right corner became loose. I noticed the charging cable was very hard to plug in. It was so tight in fact, that I was quite worried I was going to break something. It did loosen up a bit over the two weeks I had it, but not as much as I would have liked. I don't recall if I tried another USB cable or not, but I remember thinking to myself that it was the tablet connector that was the problem, not the cable, but I can't say what made me think that. My new tablet is totally different. It was snug, but not insanely tight. I've had the new one for about two weeks and there's no signs of any noises from the case at all. You may be onto something
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
How do ya get 45 days?
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
Sign up for MyBestBuy online. If you spend over $3500 a year you get 45 days to return stuff. I'm an Elite Plus Member, woohoo! Lol. Also get bonus bucks and early access to sales.
[Galaxy Tab S General] remydegreat:
Exchanged mine,creak gone,coukdnt be having creaks as its a premium device
[Galaxy Tab S General] abnoob:
My creaky, too
[Galaxy Tab S General] LoVeRice:
Small creak in the gold frame below home button and above of usb port
[Galaxy Tab S General] win81-64:
Mine has a few creaks as well.
[Galaxy Tab S General] xRevilatioNx:
Creaky free here
[Galaxy Tab S General] rey_1178:
I've been looking for a creak on mine but fortunately there's none.
[Galaxy Tab S General] matw01:
I have a creak if I push on the back cover on the bottom on the right side of the usb port.
[Galaxy Tab S General] raze1000:
Creak here top left near power and headphone socket
[Galaxy Tab S General] skorpionvenom:
q

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[Galaxy Tab S General] mordeith:
Have mine in a poetic hardncase,not much more weight addedd..and unknown if in have creaks(case does though)
[Galaxy Tab S General] DUHAsianSKILLZ:
No creak for me on the tab s 10.5 inch. Its just that i have a miner little bump on the right side of my back
[Galaxy Tab S General] JoeHawkins609:
fix

I found that putting a suction cup on the back casing near the creaky area and gently pulling completely removed the creaking.

Origionally i was going to try and pop the back cover off and wedge some paper/bluetack in there. It seems that when the tablet heats up the back cover warps, Ill see how long until the creak returns.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Vampiro2000:
Same here...
[Galaxy Tab S General] chemcup:
tab s 8.5 creak if I push on the screen up right side corner. Samsung = bad quality.
[Galaxy Tab S General] neograniceni:
Yea, the same with my 8.4 from the day 0.
[Galaxy Tab S General] LinT766:
I've had two tab s 8.4 both with creaks.

The first had a very loud creak at the bottom right by the usb port, noticeable each time I pressed the back key. The one I have now has a creak in the top right by the volume and power key. The bezel in that corner is also a bit iffy....

I was debating exchanging again but it sounds like both are quite common issues!

The build quality on other samsung devices has also been poor. My samsung phone has a nice gap between the screen and bezel
[Galaxy Tab S General] MarkLI88:
Tab S 10.5, no creak on mine that I can find. I keep mine in a case but took it out and flexed it all over and did not experience any creak.
[Galaxy Tab S General] DUHAsianSKILLZ:
had mine since july. Kept my tab s naked (10.5) and no problems so far.
[Galaxy Tab S General] bonerp:
Mine creaks too - top left corner next to the volume controls.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Hruffmann:
sqreeek

My 1st. Tab S 8.4" didn't creak at all, I returned it for another reason. The 2nd did after a couple of days. On the right side where the volume rocker is..

I noticed it's also where it's get hot during heavy duty games, etc. I'm thinking; could it be to bad quality adhesive? Though a lot do not experience this creaky sound and others do get them elsewhere around the frame..

I'm not really pressing the bezel there, it's just annoying to know it does creak.
[Galaxy Tab S General] droid fetish:
My tab has started to de laminate On the top left corner, don't know if the two are related.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jhaz123:
Remedy

Mine started to creak on the top right corner. I've put some lotion and oil on it. Hahaha. It disappeared. Then I'm noticing some creaking on the right side, near the volume rocker. I did the same thing., though not that successful. Hahaha
[Galaxy Tab S General] Tinderbox (UK):
Try not to bend your tablet as the display connector can come loose easily, I have seen an number of Samsung tablet opened up, To see one of the connects to be loose.

John.
[Galaxy Tab S General] DionWhite33:
I took the 1st one back! Just because it was soooo squeeky! Then I got another one and Ihave the 8.4 32GB one so they dont have alot in stock...I complained and the girl told me GEEKSQUAD at Bestbuy has to check it out, they did and I got another one...I was soo happy...then after about 2 days this one did it too? Just not as loud but nine the less its still annoying...

---------- Post added at 02:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:39 AM ----------

My squeeks are right behind the volume and power buttons on the back. ..and likw I mentioned before, its my second one...
[Galaxy Tab S General] kms108:
I returned mine for similar reasons, and also a defect battery, I'm getting the tab S2, seems to have better quality.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jbwitt:
I have a rooted ATT M8 running the stock ROM. They recently released new firmware and my phone wants me to install. I can tell when they release one because I get a notice saying that "google services are running in the background."

I do NOT want the new firmware, but I can find no way to turn off the update service and it's causing my phone to reboot. I assume that installing this update will break my root. Anybody got any solutions?
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] liermam:
I've been wrestling with this the last 2 nights as well. I also didn't want the firmware update. I also had the google services annoying me.

Here's my advice:

1. Take the firmware update

2. Reboot

3. Update SuperSU immediately (use the app itself, it will boot into TWRP and update as necessary, if you don't follow this step, your root WILL be broken, and your phone will likely get locked into a ~3minute reboot cycle).

You shouldn't be affected beyond this point, unless you're like me and your phone automatically reinstalls all the AT&T bloatware on every reboot.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] lostangelintx:
Install Titanium backup and kill the update service. I think it is "Software Updates"

Then you won't have this problem. At least I don't.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jbwitt:
I use titanium backup and have looked for the service but the only one I see is called updater. And from what I can tell that's not the right one.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Alaris:
Hmm I haven't gotten any updates
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] redpoint73:
1.54 was the software version at release (April), then the started rolling out 1.58 in May. I haven't heard of any other updates rolling out yet, although an update to 4.4.3 or 4.4.4 is supposedly upcoming.

What version is your phone currently?

---------- Post added at 10:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:44 AM ----------

Try what is stated in Post #7 here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2752718

You can just "freeze" (instead of uninstall) the service if you're afraid of breaking anything.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] lostangelintx:
Never mind. The poster above me answered it for you.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jbwitt:
Ok I froze HTC dm. We will see what happens. I am running 4.4.2. Thanks everybody.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] redpoint73:
There's a button for that. ;)
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jbwitt:
Mind telling me where? Nowhere do I see a thanks button. I'm not a forum expert, obviously.

Also, none of the above suggestions worked. Today, when I got home, the phone rebooted again. I believe getting on my wifi is what triggered it (like it was trying to download the new firmware again). I also tried accepting the update but that didn't solve it either. All it did was reboot the phone again when told it to install...and I'm still at 4.4.2.

EDIT: Err, never mind. I reloaded the page and the thanks buttons showed up.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] redpoint73:
Interesting, it seemed to work for others. Try freezing updater, FOTA, and/or HTCdrm.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Wonders_Never_Cease:
Freeze these

Updater.apk

HtcOMADM_SettingsPlugin_ATT.apk

HtcOMADM_ATT.apk
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdbase:
Hey my 925 seems to run in qualcomm mode

while taking out usb plug than vol - and pwr than after vibrate i put cable in

And quickly Press vol + win 7 ask me for qualcomm device driver , i never flashed

It sińce it came from warehouse
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compu829:
The screen is black, right? if so, that's the Qualcomm bootloader, and your phone is in what is called QDL or Qualcomm Download mode. This mode allows you do update the PBL/SBL among other things.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrippen:
How to get the Lumia 925 out of qualcomm mode? Is that possible somehow?
[General Topics] jlmancuso:
Q. What is a donor flashed phone?

A. You get cricket service with a cheap android phone the swap esn's with a better phone (like S5, M8, G2, etc..).

So you got cricket service and your old phone had muve music... What you dont know muve music? It come with almost ever cricket android phone. You get unlimited music downloads from massive database (what beats music has turned into). So you now have this cool phone on cricket service but no muve music. Cricket says oh well use our junk phones or your out of luck. Well a few years ago while learning development skills on the htc og evo 4g I learned device spoffing.

Q. What is device spoffing?

A. That is where you mod the build.prop of on device to reflect another.

Q. Why would I care about device spoffing?

A. Well if you are on a cricket muve music plan with a donor flashed phone you can use muve music!

Q. How?

A. Since cricket introduced the samsung S4 to there line up they open up the door for use.

The introduction of the cricket S4 gave cricket a high end device and they could not have its features hampered by muve music. Can you imagine an S4 with a 4gig external sdcard? Lol!! So cricket updated the app to only require info from the build.prop and cricket service plan (need muve music plan) to run. So now you have your S4 with a 64 or even 128 gig sdcard.

Q. Why cant every android phone do this?

A. Because they are not S4's lol!

Yet with a change to a few lines in your build.prop any phone can be a S4! Even if you dont have the best phone (like the kyocera torque) it is probably better than most phones cricket offers. So why not have the best of both worlds? Cricket's muve music and a non cricket phone.

If there is any interest in this I will do a nice step by step. If not then let this fall far out of our vision.
[General Topics] jlmancuso:
For step by step just in case it is wanted
[General Topics] Geofferey:
Not related to cricket, but I've also noticed apps such as Spotify examine your devices type. For instance on my handheld device I can only play radio/shuffle playlist, but on my Tab3 I can actually pick and choose songs. Maybe I could spoof device on my phone to aquire the features tablets receive?
[General Topics] jlmancuso:
Yes sir it should work. Open both build.props and copy over device related lines. See attached for some reference.
[General Topics] Geofferey:
I'm currently using the XDA app so I can't view attachments. Could you post the lines which you would modify? An example of standard prop and modified would be nice. Thank you BTW, I saw your post and knew it could be of use to me. I could probably script this process as well.
[General Topics] jlmancuso:
ro.product.brand=samsung --- this

ro.product.name=t0ltespr. --- this

ro.product.board=smdk4x12

ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a

ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi

ro.product.manufacturer=samsung --- this

ro.product.locale.language=en

ro.product.locale.region=US

ro.wifi.channels=

ro.board.platform=exynos4

# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device

ro.build.product=t0ltespr --- this

ro.product.model=SPH-L900 --- this

ro.product.device=t0ltespr --- this

Now you might not have everyone or slightly different but if you compare the two you should be able to figure it out.
[LG G Watch] xx_blam_xx:
Hey everyone. I just got an LG G Watch and I've liked it so far, but one thing annoys me a bit. I get a card about every 15 minutes or so telling me which Wi-Fi network my phone is connected to. I've tried muting things like Android System, but it isn't working. Does anyone have any idea what else I can try to mute? Thanks.

I'm using a stock Moto X running the latest firmware from Verizon.
[LG G Watch] spiderflash:
Do you get the notification on the phone as well? The watch should only show the notifications that you also see on the phone. Next time the notification comes up, don't swipe it away. Long press it, select app info and then disable the notification.
[LG G Watch] xx_blam_xx:
I figured it out with your help. While I couldn't disable the notification from App Info, going into Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Advanced -> uncheck Wi-Fi notifications did the trick. I can't believe I didn't think to look there sooner. Thanks!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bvrr0:
So I have a nexus 10 32gb that I got yesterday that I updated to 4.4.4 and I wanted to root it so I could get some apps that I love to use. Here's what happened:

Everything was going smoothly with nexus root toolkit. I set up adb and all of the drivers. Everything with that was working and I made sure to check nexus 10 with 4.4.4 in the drop down. I press the unlock bootloader button and the device says it's going into bootloader mode, but it just goes to a black screen. Then a message pops up saying I have to factory reset if i'm on 4.4.4, but that never shows up on the tablet, so I just hit OK. Then the device supposedly reboots, but now it's stuck in a bootloop and whenever I hold down the buttons to go into the bootloader the screen will turn black and the device will vibrate once after I hold the buttons for a while, then it tries to reboot again and gets stuck bootlooping. Then I try the factory reset method through the nexus root toolkit, but fastboot fails to see the device since I can't get it into the bootloader! It also doesn't show up as the correct device when it is bootlooping and connected to my computer.

Am I scewed if i can't get to the bootloader? I don't know what went wrong. I just got it yesterday and assumed it would be super easy to root since it's a nexus device. :'(

Any help/ suggestions would be great.