[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EternalGrump:
I try, I dislike things randomly exploding in my face. :p

That's rather useful, I'll probably run that memory test before anything else then, just for good measure.

It's nice to have confirmation that the memory isn't likely to die mid flash.

When you say it's admittedly possible from recovery, does that mean that restoring the pre-root backup would take care of all those issues or that something identifiable would still be left behind?

If so, what?

Would having replaced the recovery with carliv still show up somehow even after re-flashing the stock recovery?

Also just to be clear, when re-flashing the entire stock rom does that also restore the stock recovery?

I think it does but I can't recall for certain.

If the device were really hosed beyond the ability to even re-flash it I would probably go the route of just saying "I have no idea what happened, it just died" as there'd probably be some truth in it by that stage.

I think lenovo has a pretty good record at least where it comes to pcs, my dad has had a lenovo for some time and it's been fairly reliable.

His company has caused more problems with the proper operation of the computer than lenovo itself.

The one thing I can think of that was occasionally wonky was the wireless, maybe there's a pattern there... :eek:

Well what I need to do is still what I'm figuring out.

The new tablet is capable of so much more than the old one was that I'm still learning what all my new options are.

My last tablet got to a point of not being very functional as anything other than a reader after a point, it needs to be restored badly.

I was just a bit too paranoid to do it while having no other tablet to rely on.

After the lenovo is set up and I'm happy with it then I may well go back and experiment with fixing my old tablet.

Well, it would if I install that update.

Up to this point the tablet gave me the option of updating to the latest version of 4.4.4 but it actually hasn't offered me a lollipop upgrade option through the system updater app.

I'm not entirely sure how I would even go about doing that upgrade if I wanted to.

After the 4.4.4 update the tablet says I'm up to date and has no other install packages for me through the updater.

As long as the update file number matches isn't it going to be the same update either way?

I get that having the file backup would mean that in a worst case I have it even if lenovo stopped offering the update so there's that value but would it make any other difference besides that?

Thanks for that. :)

I'm probably missing something but how exactly is google profiting from backups and limiting our ability to perform them ourselves?

Isn't RAM volatile memory?

Wouldn't that mean the custom recovery is being written to the active memory every time you boot the tablet?

How does that affect the startup time of that tablet after a complete rom flash and how long does that first post-stock flash startup usually take?

Yeah, if someone else knows how normal and speedboot work and what they are for I would be very curious to know.

Ok, that's what I thought.

Being as inexperienced as I am with this though I wanted to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding or forgetting something that would make this method a problem.

I largely avoided samsung because they had some weird formatting setup where only certain types of files could be saved to certain areas of the internal sd card.

They had something like multiple partitions that were all file type specific, I've seen few things as dumb and didn't care to repeat the experience.

Samsung is just too much of an all around control freak for my liking, it's my tablet, I just want to use it my way and still have a warranty.

Somehow this seems to be too much to ask... :rolleyes:

A 16gb microsd should be arriving sometime soon so I'll probably use that to see if I can get away with backing up to the microsd directly, if not I'll give the recovery file manager a shot assuming it will run.

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I had that problem with my previous tablet, it bugged the crap out of me, I haven't tried with this one yet.

I never did find a way to solve it, I'd love to know how to get the wallpaper to fit to the screen size properly.