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[Galaxy Tab General] sedde:
Yes you got that right, i wanna brick it. Whats the best way to do so? Flash a bootloader and interupt it?
[Galaxy Tab General] rangercaptain:
Put it in a microwave oven on high power for 45 seconds. That should do it.
[Galaxy Tab General] jeffnucci:
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[Galaxy Tab General] Coolsaber57:
Yep, that should work.
[Galaxy Tab General] paulshields:
Maybe something like

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/bml1

?

good luck!
[Galaxy Tab General] btyork:
Why on earth?

Sounds like someone wants payback on someone else...
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
You sir, have a screw loose. :p

I must ask, what's the purpose? To unbrick it?

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab General] knightnz:
Probably so he can return it under warranty as "broken".
[Galaxy Tab General] shollywood:
Does anyone actually have an answer for him.....
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
He answered his own question. Stop a bootloader flash half way through.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab General] jkhouw1:
perhaps he wants a challenge to see if he can recover from what others say is a bricked condition.

or he was simply hit in the head with a brick as a youngster :p
[Galaxy Tab General] spacemoose1:
Remove all traces of CWM, unroot, and delete anything questionable, but leave a copy of your app data and some photos and whatnot. Download Heimdall, download ALL system files (including pit) from a CDMA tab (if you're using the p1000 or vice versa for the CDMA version), except the modem file (DO NOT FLASH THE MODEM! Just in case you... ahem... find your tab in your possession longer than you expected). Proceed to flash. It shouldn't even reach DL mode, or even power on. (It wont boot into android, but if it still powers into DL mode, repeat with another firmware, but yank the cord halfway through the kernel flash to recovery, you'll have to time it right and this should be a last resort if you're insistent on making it look... a certain way.)

You then have a tab that includes Samsung firmware, files from use, but is totally borked for no apparent reason. This is only fixable with a USB pulse probe/JTAG, which the folks at Samsung will merrily use to fix it when they go to put it back on the market as a refurb. :)

If your situation does not go as hoped, there is a list of JTag owners floating around out there and someone on it would do the deed for a few bucks, no problem.

Happy untabbing.

If your motives are for research and not for... whatever...

adb pull /system/recovery.img ~/
adb pull /system/init.rc ~/
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sdcard
adb pull /sdcard/update.zip
adb shell
format system:
format data:
format sdcard:
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
WHy would you do this?
[Galaxy Tab General] Mikroft:
Obviously a warranty scam or so he can return it as defective.
[Galaxy Tab General] sedde:
Rofl some of you guys guessed it. I wanna return it and get something new. How can i flash a bootloader and imterupt it? It takes 1 second or less to flash it. If i can do a adb command to kill it please someone say so.
[Galaxy Tab General] sedde:


Exactly the answer i was looking for. I ordered a jtag myself so i can have it for future devices and if things go wrong i will bring it back to life. Thanks a bunch.
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
You're an idiot.
[Galaxy Tab General] brilldoctor:
Factory reset then sell it on ebay
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
LOL!!! Now now....to each their own. :)
[Galaxy Tab General] sedde:
I would think myself as being smart. Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab General] Jyveafk:
Root it.

Root explorer and delete original launcher.apk

Then factory reset.

It'll boot up into a blank screen that you can't do anything with. That should satisfy them that it's not working without actually breaking anything too seriously and giving them a chance to re-flash it back to use to sell off cheaply.
[Galaxy Tab General] sparkyxda:
Attach sync cable. Chop off end and strip back wires. Stick the wires in power outlet and secure with matchsticks. Flick switch with a long handled broom
[Galaxy Tab General] TheGrammarFreak:
That's how I'd go, the more sparks the better!
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
Now I know why you chose your name. LOL!!!!
[Galaxy Tab General] murdocthc:
You can also flash a faulty boot.ini (i can attach it to this post when I get home)

Speaking from experience on my new sgt ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] RystNET:
I wouldn't want to brick my Tab. @.@
[Galaxy Tab General] DJ NRG:
I reckon this person wants to brick their tab as the iSad has now come down in price.

So they want to return the SGT under warrenty.

Why anyone would want an iSad over and SGT I have no idea.
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
Why anyone would want to call it an iSad, I've no idea? ;)

Almost as "funny" as Micro$oft!

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] sedde:
I aint planning on getting an ipad mate. I made a simple question and i am getting flamed. Its just that my recently bought nexus s from usa broke down on me and i need to send it back to samsung in the states to get a new back and i had my mind thinking. Its kinda hard accepting calls and everyone around me hearing them. So i am guessing i wont brick my tab and wait for my nexus to return.
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
Bluetooth microphone

swyped from a galaxy far far away...
[Galaxy Tab General] DJ NRG:
Ok.

Still dont really get your explanation for wanting to brick your tab, but i guess its your tab to brick if you so choose anyway lol.
[Galaxy Tab General] DJ NRG:
Maybe I call it an iSad because I really dont think that the iPad is anything to get excited about.

Jobs could lay a big fat turd, shove an apple logo on it and the apple fans would be calling him a genius and queeing for hours to buy one!

No im not an apple hater, I have an iphone 4, I just dont see why the ipad is that great.

I prefer my SGT any day of the week.
[Nook Color General] rgreenpc:
I don't need a lot of added functions, but I would love the ability to go "back a level in menus"

Maybe its I am new but can find no reference to the ability.

Can anyone help?
[Nook Color General] cuoreesitante:
Not sure if you are running stock or some other mod, if you are rooted you can get the Button Savior app or Softkeys app. both present the standard android keys on the screen for you to use.
[Nook Color General] rgreenpc:
I will take a look at softkeys.
[Nook Color General] cuoreesitante:
I ended up using Button Savior, because its got the option of having the button displayed permanently (unless you "x" it out).
[Nook Color General] tunwear:
You can swipe to the left on the taskbar to go back.
[HD7 General] pappaterratony:
Hi, guys...

I'm Italian and I want to buy a hd7, but not in Italy...

I want to buy the asian version that is cheaper and has a 16gb memory and not 8gb memory as the italian version....

I know the Englis but I prefer to install the italian language or an Italian rom on it...

Do I can include with an upgrade the italian that isn't inclused at difference of the English?

Do I can install the european roms that inclused the Italian language on it?

How I can solve? now? in future?

Regards:)
[HD7 General] otacon:
You will need the Goldcard to flash stock ROM. There's a post about it in HD7 WP7 Development. Complicated, but will work for you. Thanks.
[HD7 General] pappaterratony:
Whyto flash the rom with goldcard and not without?

My hd7 It's unbrand and unlock...

Also what is the difference between the flashing of the Rom with or withou the goldcard?

If I must do it with the goldcard method there is another method to do it? I sold my only one wm 6.5 smartphone and now I have only nokia with symbian!

Regards and thanks to help me!:)
[General Questions and Answers] MediuM147:
Hi there,

I made a downgrade (1.75 -> 1.32), root, backup and rom change on my Desire HD but I need to know how I can make a fully backup (of the recovery too) of another Desire HD (same as mine, we have a branded version of Switzerland).

Can you tell me how 'dump' my friend's phone to keep his warranty when changing his recovery ?

Thanks !
[HTC Inspire 4G] jerseykirby:
Like it says and I am sure a million people have asked. I have done the research but now I am just looking for others opinions. Would you leave the iPhone 4 for this phone? I am seriously debating it because of the customization options. One thing I like about the iPhone is ease of use. What are your opinions?
[HTC Inspire 4G] MrEastwood2u:
I've had the Inspire for about a week now. I switched from the iPhone 4 for the same reasons you are thinking of. But now I'm seriously thinking of switching back. The Inspire is really cool but the battery life sucks and the ringer is barely audible for me. I work in a warehouse and it pretty loud in there but with my iPhone I had no problem hearing it. And it's aggravating to me to have to take my charger with me to work. I use my phone for about a hour and a half surfing the net through out my work night (breaks and lunch), and if I don't charge itwill almost be dead when I get home. On a good note the display is killer and you can customize it to fit your wants and needs. My favorite part of the phone is the weather annimation. My friend at work has the Evo and this was the closest thing to it that AT&T offers. If they could fix the battery and ringer on it it would deffinatly be a keeper for me. But that's just my 2 cents.
[HTC Inspire 4G] colbur87:
I left the iPhone 4 32gig for the inspire 4g. I haven't looked back. Messing around with an iPhone is like child's play compared to the inspire. (Speaking in terms of rooting vs jailbreaking)

I love this phone. Not to mention 4g.....
[HTC Inspire 4G] brandon827:
I left an iPhone4 for the HTC Inspire. The Inspire is on a another level, makes the iPhone look like a go phone. I am having problems with the "4G" in my area. Phone is switching back and forth between service and causing it to not work that well. If AT&T's 4G works well in your area, I say go for it! It takes a few days to get used to Android, but IMO it is superior.
[HTC Inspire 4G] andycai:
I agree inspire's battery sucks but for me it's OK. With average usage, I could get 12-15 hours per charge. On the other hand, I see people selling 1600mAh battery on ebay for like $11. Not sure if it helps?
[HTC Inspire 4G] EvoKnvl:
I think it depends on what you want. I've been on iOS since the beginning, and I got to the point where I was bored with it. I like the Inspire because I can tinker with it and play with different things. The Sense really helps complete the package. Battery life is a big one. If you have access to power throughout the day, not a big deal. However, having to constantly worry about battery life sucks.

Other things I miss.

- Apps/games. So many more games out there for the iOS.

- Push notifications - Granted, I can use yahoo mail to get my push, but really, I wish there was a good email app for both gmail and yahoo where push would work correctly. Push for facebook. If you use facebook a lot, you'll miss the push notifications. Yes, there is flow and you can work around it, but it's not simple. And half the time, I can't access some pages in flow which directs me to the web version.

- In general, apps on both platform tend to be a little better on the iPhone. ex. Facebook - Can't tag friends in native app. Navigon GPS - Can't have the maps in storage. Yes, I know google maps is there, and it's nice, but it's not quite on the same level.

All in all though, I've already sold my iPhone 4. If the 5 makes some huge strides (and it has to be in the OS, not the hardware) I might switch back. As for now, I'm enjoying my Inspire and it's widgets and integration w/ google. I got an iPod touch for all my iOS games though :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] jerseykirby:
Thanks for the responses guys!!! I said the exact same thing to myself, I have my iPod touch for the games I will miss out on hahahaha!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] wuufer001:
Had the 3gs, iphone4 before this inspire. Never looked back. Im with you on the ease of use on the iphones, but because of that not much customization is available. Before my iphones, i had the touchpro, played around with roms and stuff but still not quite satisfied, then went on to apple. My inspire is not rooted/flashed but much more fun and intuitive then the iphones and the winmo. It should be a while before i decide to change again.

Good luck
[HTC Inspire 4G] notjeffgoldblum:
This.

If you enjoy tinkering with your phone, you'll love the inspire/android.

and if you have an ipod touch, I don't see any reason not to switch anyway. :p
[HTC Inspire 4G] metaldood:
Yup... I have iPod 3G to satisfy IOS needs while Inspire to satisfy Android needs ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] crawlgsx:
Me and my buddy both came from iPhone 4 to Inspire HD (After both buying the Atrix on release day and returning them).

My honest opinion is that I like things about both, I don't find either one a "clear" winner. However I am bored with iOS and Jailbreaking and it is a really nice change of scenary. Android is a lot more fun to play with. The phone itself is great.

With it rooted, overclocked, and rommed the phone runs blazing fast. The stock ringtones/notifications are too quiet but if you download some it can be plenty loud enough. Battery life is perfectly fine depending on the Rom and how you manage it. I have no problems making it through a day with the phone. (6am to 11+pm) but I have made a conscious effort to optimize for battery performance.

If you are going to get in to the root/rom side of things I think you will be very happy with the change.
[HTC Inspire 4G] skyzeroone:
The iphone 4 is predictable day in and day out.. you know every app works for it and the simplicity in the system is a major buying point..

with that being said.. i find it really boring. I went from the iphone 4 to the inspire 4g and even in its stock form, you cant help but be impressed with the HTC Sense system. For example, the integration of social network and daily agendas was nicely implemented in the form of widgets.

The real reason that i bought the inspire though was the ability to root the phone therefore customizing the phone to my needs, the iphone 4 jailbreak can do it but to a lesser degree. For instance, the battery on the rooted inspire can last a whole day of moderate; without me worrying about bringing a powermat portable charger.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MarkPharaoh:
It's a no brainer if you have a Touch. To be honest, I'm still baffled by people who own both an iPhone and a Touch. My recommendation is to buy the Inspire off contract. Costs $400, the next iPhone will be double on eBay (I save my upgrades for this reason).
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
I don't know about the iPhone 4, but last weekend I was showing off the Inspire to some friends who have 3 iPhones in their family and they were all drooling over my phone.

IMHO the only thing the iPhone 4 is better at is the camera.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick3d:
Hello there everyone,

I've tested lots of custom roms since Gingerbread came out, but I still can't find what I'm looking for...basically I would like to have a 720p camera on Gingerbread, that's all, I even flashed some custom kernels in order to get that, but still nothing...

Do you know any custom rom based on Gingerbread that comes natively with the 720p camera? or a Kernel that enable this funcion?

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turbosix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=976435

see post #3
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick3d:
Cheers dude :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevAmiga:
Anyone have this problem? Im running Starbust rom.. if im on a phonecall and someone text's me it comes blasting through the earpiece!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
It's normal, seems to be a 'feature' of Android, at least Sense versions
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevAmiga:
Awesome feature, im sure thats a Health Hazard as its really loud.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuaib_Ahsan:
its in the message settings i believe
[Xoom General] mjpacheco:
So I got my first Verizon Bill, see attached.

What the hell is .25 per minute under the Mobile Broadband?

Is this in addition to the $20 for the first Gig? Any insight would be appreciated.
[Xoom General] JC3:
It's prob because in there system you cant have a just data account so you have and account with 1GB of data and 0 minutes and your overage for data is $20 per GB and your overage for minutes is $0.25. You don't need to worry because the Xoom is not capable of making or receiving phone calls that effect minutes. This might change as the developers from xda start doing their magic.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lars1967:
Has anyone done this on their Xoom?

Any obvious changes for better or worse?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
What version is the update? I have 5.1.1 but IDK whether that's an update or not.

EDIT: Nevermind. I just saw the update. Google Market needs to work on the notification system.... Gonna try it now.

UPDATE: No problems so far. I love Google Maps BTW - One of the reasons to get the Xoom ;)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] diaa08:
it adds dynamic traffic rerouting. but yeah, for some reason google apps don't show up under my apps thats why we aren't getting notified on them; you can search the app and it will give you the option to update.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mgerbasio:
This should be interesting. I'm in NYC several times a week and notice that the traffic on GM is generally wrong especially in Manhattan. Even using it on the approaches into NYC from NJ, I find Inrix and MSN to be much more accurate.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] alexdw369:
The Latitude launcher button moved from next to the menu button to the left side of the screen, all by itself. Took me a sec to find it, but I'm glad I did cause I almost just complained that they removed the button altogether
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ryan562:
should be 5.2.1. update works great
[HTC Inspire 4G] loneBoat:
I installed CyanogenMod 7 after I got my Inspire, but I miss the notification bar task switcher which came in the stock ROM. Does anyone know what this switcher was called? Or instead, can someone recommend some other task switcher which displays in the notification pull-down? I am using TaskSwitcher 1.21 in the meantime, but I really liked how the original one worked (from the notification bar).

Thanks!
[HTC Inspire 4G] atticusmas:
to my knowlege, no way. it is part of sense. And you cannot get it on cm7
[HTC Inspire 4G] atticusmas:
just hold home down to access apps
[HTC Inspire 4G] loneBoat:
Thanks for the replies, folks! I was aware of the hold-Home-to-see-recent-apps, guess it'll have to do as a replacement.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hudsond:
I noticed I don't have my visual voicemail after flashing gingerbread. I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing it, I deleted it, or it just wasn't written in the ROM. Can I add it back somehow?

sent from my HTC hero CDMA, 2.3 Ginger bread. Dirt McGert edition
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hudsond:
I was just thinking, visual voicemail must be a sense app. Can I delete this thread somehow? I started a new thread and that was stupid.

sent from my HTC hero CDMA, 2.3 Ginger bread. Dirt McGert edition
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Can some one provide some instructions on how to go about making a CW zip file to flash and install all the apps that is on my phone?

I've seen a few of these floating around in the forum, and wanted to make my own to save time after every ROM flash

Do I just grab all the APK files throw them into a folder and Zip & Sign it? :confused:

or do I have to do a Nandroid backup first, then only use the app files from the backup?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leyvatron:
I would like to know this too....
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CB620:
Would be nice as well instead of restoring
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Take an existing update.zip type file. Add a folder to it with the full proper path for your apps you want to pre-install (typically this will be /data/app) and put all the apps in that folder. Should look something like this in a windows/mac explorer window:

META-INF
/com/google/android/updater-script
data
/app/myfirstapp.apk
/app/mysecondapp.apk

Then use a text editor to edit the META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script file to include the commands to copy over your stuff. It would something along the lines of:

ui_print("Installing New App Files to /data");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");

Edit out anything in the update template you're working out of that you don't want to happen (ie., format or symlinks, etc).

Repackage the zip file and make sure nothing else got in there by mistake by re-opening it (like those pesky Mac .ds-store files).

You can re-sign it with the android tools, but I don't believe you need to with Clockwork.

I would have a fresh nandroid before testing anything, of course.

You feel this approach is better than just using Titanium to restore apps? You won't get back any app data that isn't stored on the sdcard.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Thanks!

yes, now that makes sense, i recall reading that some where else to add extra APK to the ROMs

so it's the same idea, just without the ROM portion :D

now i get it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
Ya essentially this method is doingan advanced nandroid restore for data only except without the settings.

Sent from my MattedBlues CM7 Nexus S from the XDA Premium app.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I suppose if you want the app data restored as well, you would just need to identify it's location in the /data directory and add it to the /data folder in the update you're making. Seems like most of the app data goes into /data/data.

Just thinking out loud here...

So for a sample app on my phone I have called jefit pro I'd put the following in the update file.

/data/je.fit.pro-1.apk <---apk itself
/data/data/je.fit.pro <--the folder
/data/data/je.fit.pro/databases/data
/data/data/je.fit.pro/lib
/data/data/je.fit.pro/preferences/preferences.xml

I'd just pull the whole folder for the /data/data/je.fit.pro from the phone via adb.

I'm not sure how useful putting the data back is, since that's not a static set of files on many apps, but for some apps where the data is just some settings or preference files it may be a nice touch.

I don't really see any advantage to this over just use Titanium to restore apps and data, but it should work.

(<<---- this would be the whole folder and its subfolders that I pulled via adb off the phone)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
AllGamer, I'm glad you brought this up, while I don't personally have any apps I want to put on the phone in this method, except perhaps titanium itself, I just realized we could of course do the same thing for all those little custom tweaks we put on our phones, like for me I push my personalized ringtones/notification sounds to /system. That's easy enough with adb or rootexplorer, but why not just flash them from a zip while in CW after a wipe or install of a new rom? ;)