Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried the Dr. on two different computers with no luck, it hangs at 12% every time. What got me here was -> ran preware this morning to speed up touchpad, ran uber kernal? to clock to 1.5 and tablet froze, charged all day, ran webos doc and hangs
I have a feeling i bricked the unbrickable :'(
ANY help would be appreciated, I loved this thing this morning, starting to hate it now... sigh
On both comps are they the same browser? If so maybe try a different browser. Also not sure if you've done this but turn the device off completely and then turn it on holding the power plus vol. Up button and that will but you into recovery mode. Hope this helps. Just had to send mine off to HP for repairs because sound quit working. Lemme know.
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Have shut it down with power/center button and back on with power/up volume to get the usb prompt so webos doc will see it. webos doc runs find but hangs solidly at 12% every time. Running windows 7 on both machines unfortunately.
Ok, try this go to palm.com/palmprofile and sign in with you sign in info you use on the tablet then click on get webos doctor and download that one from there. Also make sure device is not connected until it prompts you after dling the doctor and going through the setup.
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Ok downloaded from palm thought it seems I was using the version already, it did install some java stuff though. One note is that is I try to start the tablet normally I get the palm dot com/ROM message
Still completely hung up at 12% - Have a feeling "Hell hath no fury like a Touch pad scorned"
Hmmm, yeah not sure what to tell you. Might got a defective one. Call HP and they can hopefully replace it for you.
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Mines doing the exact same thing right now. It's only two days old, this is insane.
Insane is right mine is being shipped to HP as I type this for repairs because no sound, friggin sucks because I've only had it for about three days or so.
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I have figured out how to fix the WebOS Doctor / 12% issue!!!
It seems that this particular issue is revolving around an issue with "resizefat /dev/mapper/store-media" and the fact that the fat size is different than the backup.
I did a bit of research and came up with the following solution:
Run WebOS Doctor via CMD line "java -jar webosdoctorp302hstnhwifi.jar"
When the Dr. hangs up at 12% open novaterm and connect to your device
Then type the following command:
dosfsck -r /dev/mapper/store-media
And follow the prompts to correct the fat size to the backup
Now put your tablet back into recovery mode and re-run WebOS Doctor. The error where it is hanging up should be gone and the system will flash completely.
(Comments from attempts appreciated)
OK - I had an issue after running webos doc 3.0.2 so I ran 3.0.0 - after it finished I had to plug the tablet into a power outlet and let it charge for a bit before it let me set up the system. It was hung up at the stupid HP splash screen for maybe 5-10 minutes but once it charged I got the prompt to select a language.
@OP
READ THE RULES!
Please don't create new threads for an open and existing topic especially one that you have created.
Question about novaterm
Hey! This is great news. I'm living abroad and did not want to have to ship the touchpad back.
I have a quick questions because I am not so computer literate. I don't understand when you say "When the device hangs up, open Noveterm and connect your device." First, it hangs up but goes into a never ending loop of messages scrolling in the comand window. How do I stop this? How do I open novaterm, and wouldn't my device already be connected?
Thank you so much for your help!
BEst regards from Norway
Gergey
Not ignoring Gergey - Discussing the issue w/ him on another forum
so i here is what i did and it actually solved the problem:
system details/programs used:
running Win7 x64 via Parallels on Mac OSX
WebOS doctor 3.0.2
Novaterm x64 (webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux)
exact steps that i did (some may not be preformed, but this is what i did)
restarted the touchpad: center + power
upon reset, held: power + volume up to enter dev mode
ran webos doctor through the command "java -jar webosdoctorp302hstnhwifi-3.0.2.jar"
went through the normal hoopla and got to the 12% hangup where it goes in an endless loop.
launched novaterm
used the command: "mkfs.msdos /dev/mapper/store-media"
restarted the touchpad: center + power
upon reset, held: power + volume up to enter dev mode
re-ran WebOS doctor
hung at 12% for a minute then the process jumped to 25% and finished installing.
5 min reboot and back to the "select language" screen.
Hope this is of help to someone.
Also, I won't be back to this forum, so I can't answer questions.
Good luck!
credit to NexusCrawler over at precentral
bad news
i tried the same thing on my touchpad:
if i thyp:
mkfs.msdos /dev/mapper/store-media
then it says no such file or directory
if i look for store media, in the directory it exists, i also can still boot into the webos. but i can not paste anything into the toucpad, most of the aplications wont work either. its like the file store-media is corrupted, and i can not access it with novaterm. it can not find it.
does anyone know a solution?
i would be greatfull
is there a way to manually flash webos on the touchpad, maybe i can then overwrite the corupted files
Sorry for necroposting, but i've registered just to say thank you, because this method really helped me with my veer after some not-so-lucky experiments with partitions. Thank you very much!
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Hey guys. as many of you know i am no stranger to the Android system, although i have been pretty much totally absent from the forums since i got a job with limited privelages on my comp.
Before I explain what happened to me, i should say that i have not made ANY changes to my system for at least 4 months, with the exception of build.prop updates, which i my phone has been running fine on for weeks. i found a setup i liked and ive been running it, along with the same root applications, for quite some time.
With that said, heres my timeline of events:
Normal day, doing what i always do on my phone everyday: phone was plugged in to a wall outlet at my desk. streaming music, browsing web, youtube, etc. nothing out of the ordinary
i first noticed something wierd was up when i went to install an old .apk i had saved on my sd card. i opened it through file manager which, naturally, brought up the stock package installer. i clicked ok to install, and it said "installing"..however it nevver finished. it was stuck on "installing" for several minutes. i tried a couple more times, same thing kept happening. i had no idea what was going on.
i went into settings>applications>manage applications. i scrolled down to package installer and clicked on it, with the intention of clearing cache/data, however the values never loaded, it just kept saying "computing". it was doing that for all other apps i checked as well.
then i opened titanium backup and wiped data for package installer through that. operation was performed successfully.
i went to reboot my phone, and thats the last thing it remembers. now whenever i try to turn my phone on, it gets past the kernel splash screen and its all black from there (i have the "no boot anamiation" command in my build.prop). the only response i get at that point is the led buttons will light up if i tap them. i have to pull the battery to turn the phone off/reboot.
i tried pushing packageinstaller.apk to /system/app using adb but that didnt solved anything. i also tried wiping cache/dalvik and fixing permissions through clockwork. nothing has worked.
i am running Froyo Trigger w/ Bali kernel.
sorry for the long post, but i figured id be as detailed as possible to minimize questions.
any suggestions would be great. i ask that no one please suggest factory reset/reflash/odin. i realize that those options are there, but i consider them last resorts. id rather brainstorm a solution than bail immediately.
thanks ahead.
also i forgot to mention, there was nothing wrong with the .apk i was originally trying to install. i have installed it/uninstalled it many times. i tested other .apk files i had, but package installer still behaved the same way
Got your PM
Have you tried to capture a logcat while you're phone is booting? That might tell us what is failing or hanging your boot cycle.
I wouldn't call Odin a last resort personally. Most of the time its the cleanest way to get back to a perfect running state.
Try to get that logcat though, and post it up here. It might not work at all, depends on whether the phone even gets to the portion of the boot cycle where logcat even works, but its worth a shot if you want to investigate the problem.
Br1cK'd said:
Got your PM
Have you tried to capture a logcat while you're phone is booting? That might tell us what is failing or hanging your boot cycle.
I wouldn't call Odin a last resort personally. Most of the time its the cleanest way to get back to a perfect running state.
Try to get that logcat though, and post it up here. It might not work at all, depends on whether the phone even gets to the portion of the boot cycle where logcat even works, but its worth a shot if you want to investigate the problem.
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not sure if i should be embarrassed to admit this, but ive never used logcat...ill look into that
Your first step there is to get the android sdk setup on your pc, then once adb is part of your command line the simple command is "adb logcat" without it quotes. That will start the log displaying in the command line window.
There are other options with the logcat command, that output the log to a text document and its more in depth, but I dont remember it off the top of my head. Maybe someone can post it for you.
The only caveat is how far your phone is booting before it hangs, I think logcat will show something, but won't know for sure until you try it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319802
Eugenes Froyo that doesn't brick, followed by an Odin to jfd.
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I'm hoping this is the right place for this post, if not just move it or nuke it, whatever works.
I've cobbled togther what I did to take my stock Photon and turn it into a fire breathing dragon, or well at least a fully functional netbook equivalent with openoffice, gimp, local network based printing etc. This works for both the HDMI dock as well as a converted refurbished Atrix dock. You can even change your screen resolution to match your monitor capability on the HDMI dock. I would assume this would work with both the little mini dock thing as well as the non-HDMI dock changes that let you use a monitor directly without the dock, however these are untested.
This assumes you have a fast microsd card installed in the Photon and are willing to wipe it and let webtop2sd erase and format it. Back up your data on the sdcard before starting down this path.
I wasn't ambitious enough to go down the full updated bootloader cwm path, instead I stayed with rooted stock and slowly built up what I needed. Hopefully this helps someone out there trying to do the same thing. The side benefit is that you keep your 4G and can install updates down the road (assuming you don't lose root).
Credit goes to those very smart folks out there that figured all this out, I just bolted the steps together for my needs. I've included a reference link for each major step. This isn't intended as a step by step guide, more like the links I found and followed with hints tossed in along the way.
To root, – use torpedo, it worked for me even after the most recent OTA update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216131
Next, install webtop2sd, format the card and copy the existing instance to your sdcard, enable the various advanced things, read through the process. Major kudos for this app and the time and thought that went into it, amazing stuff.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119555
(for photon you need to download webtop2sd-2.0.1.apk - [Click for QR Code] )
once booted into the sdcard side, launch webtop configurator and let it update the files and then install lxterminal and the other application, you need to pay attention to the color of the buttons to know if it has installed. If the webtop configurator won't launch, follow the steps in the above link to figure out if you are actually running from the sdcard or not.
once you install, go back into the webtop configurator and install them both again if they didn't actually install, for me it acted like it installed but really didn't, took me a couple times.
This next part is the key to stability, an amazing feat of scripting to fix all the package dependencies and then build placeholder packages for the missing bits, and then locking (“hold”) for the motorola provided packages so they don't get messed up further down the road. Doffing my cap to you sir.
run the apt-get package script fixer, say yes to everything and it will sort it all out for you, it runs for a long time, just leave it alone and answer the questions when prompted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16131577
Install a different desktop interface if you want. I used xfce4 to give me a real “start” menu with all the expected things. At this point you are using the synaptic package manager to install applications.
(from an lxterminal window) type in “gksu synaptic”
install xfce4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054213&page=2
Assuming you don't want AWN to load at startup, then edit the file that controls what launches at startup. Using leafpad you can edit the file to have the menus you want for your setup.
cd /osh/usr/local/bin/
sudo leafpad start-oshwt-2.sh
The section needs to look like the below, comment or uncomment (the # at the beginning of the line) to omit or include what you want. I opted for the webtop-panel at the top of the screen along with the xfce4-panel at the bottom of the screen along with xfdesktop for the desktop background and associated right-click menus.
# start OSHWT 2 scripts
sfalv -i "xfce4-panel"
sfalv -i "xfdesktop"
#sfalv -i "awn-autostart"
sfalv -i "webtop-panel"
#sfalv -i "webtop-wallpaper"
sfalv -i "evbridge"
sfalv -i "window_switcher"
sr-test avahi_start &
reboot the phone for the updated menus
At this point you can start installing packages – I opted for openoffice and gimp as well as the chm viewer to read chm formatted help files.
From a lxterminal window enter “gksu synaptic” and choose openoffice and whatever else you need.
install openoffice
install gimp
install chm viewer
let things run to completion.
At this point you are getting close to complete but might want better control of your monitor resolution. To fix the screensize issue on different monitors on the hdmi dock, you need to edit the xorg.conf file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198230
cd /osh/etc/X11
sudo leafpad xorg.conf
Do a search on “Screen HDMI” and then change the “1366 768” to “1920 1080”:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen HDMI"
Device "Tegra HDMI"
Monitor "HDMI"
Option "ARGBHWCursor" "false"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
# Uncomment to override the preferred resolution chosen by UseEDIDModes
Modes "1280x720"
ViewPort 0 0
# Defaults to the size of the chosen mode
Virtual 1920 1080
EndSubsection
then from a lxterminal window type
xrandr -s 1920x1080
undock and reboot the phone
You can select the desired screen resolution from the xfce4 “monitor settings” app, not from the webtop display app (or at least not on mine).
Hopefully this helps someone and minimizes the amount of googling and reading to get what you need.
Many thanks to the all the smart folks on XDA – you are the best!
The initial Ubuntop was a step by step before I prepackaged it. I pulled the "build your own" guide after the first release. Thanks for putting this back up. It won't be optimized like UbunTop but is a good learning tool for those interested.
I miss messing with linux
Thanks guys for your awesome contributions.
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I've tried to get the webtop configurator to run a dozen of times, reinstall it, even reformat partitions, redo the webtop2sd process, but every time I click on the configurator, it seems to load (glowing, blinking background on the icon), and then only stays highlighted (grey background on icon).
Am I supposed to just wait for a very long time ? Is anything happening at all ? There's no progress window or even a new window opened from clicking on the webtop configurator. AWN manager is actually the only thing that I didn't use to have that launches, even LX terminal 1st opens a black window then closes...
I know nothing about Linux but I'd like to be able to run openoffice and pidgin.
My guess is the phone isn't running from the sdcard properly. Go back into webtop2sd and then within settings enable the diagnostics tab, verify you see mmcblk1p2 listed under the currently mounted webtops. If all you see is the one ending in 13, then it's not loading from the sdcard right.
Also, did all the steps within webtop2sd seem to complete ok? It should have went through formatting then copying etc, updating the various components.
I'd go back through the steps in the webtop2sd link and see if anything sticks out. Post what you find and I'll try and help.
Hope this helps.
You're correct, it only shows p 13. All the steps seemed to complete correctly, on to find out why it's not booting from the sd card correctly.
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So, after my 4th attempt, both p2 and p 13 now show up on the diagnostic tab. But there's nothing under webtop configurator on that same tab, even after clicking on reinstall webtop configurator and rebooting. So the result is still the same, nothing happens when I click on the webtop configurator.
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Edit: So I just flashed 198_7 SBF, re-did all the webtop2sd process, and still no version showing in webtop configurator diagnostic tab. Wtf. Both partitions show, p2, p13.
Finally! Got it to work, synaptic installing Pidgin, next : OpenOffice.
Great news! I was just starting to think what might be fighting back, glad you figured it out.
I have to reiterate here how awesome it is to finally have unleashed the full Webtop power of this phone. What an amazing feat of progress to be able to use our cell phone as a full computer (I have a BT wireless keyboard and mouse combo, not even a dock necessary).
I confirm this works great with the Webtop HDMI hack : just apply the hack 1st, then do the Webtop2sd afterwards, and voila, no dock needed.
I have successfully installed Xfce, Exhale audio player, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Gimp, and they can all run concurrently, just like a real computer would.
Thanks again for the guide reposted here, it was definitely something I wanted to do but since I didn't want to lose 4G by unlocking my phone, I had been waiting for an alternative.
e-motion, what did you end up doing to make it work? I'm having the same issues you were. I've run webtop2sd at least 4 times and it always boots from 13. Getting frustrated!
Edit: Took about 237 more tries of doing exactly the same thing, but it finally worked! Woohoo
awesome thread.
So I did everything in this mod, and I was loving my new set up. The only thing I hadn't messed with was the resolution. So I decided to do that last part of the hack.
Something must have went wrong. I was trying several different resolutions, and I couldn't get one to fill my monitor without issues. Sometimes it would be squished and my mouse would be showing in one place, but hovering over another, if that makes sense. The only thing I changed was the xorg.conf file, and the resolution on webtop itself using xrandr -s.
The problem is that now, my phone won't bring up the options menu when HDMI is plugged in. The monitor still shows the batwing M as a screen saver, so they are definitely connected, but I can't get my phone to bring up the options for mirroring, webtop, etc.
Can anyone help me? Maybe if someone had a clean xorg.conf file that they could upload? I could try replacing that with mine in case I screwed something up there.
I went through and cleared the data for all of my apps that could have been related to webtop or this problem. Including "webtop", "webtop2sd", "webtop connector" and a couple of others. Nothing brings back the option. I have rebooted several times as well.
One strange thing is that my app for "webtop connector" shows 0.00b in total, application, and data, it's as if it's there, but there is nothing there? Is that because I did webtop over HDMI hack?
Any help you guys could offer would be greatly appreciated. I would hate to have to start all over on everything.
Here is my xorg.conf, hopefully it pastes in ok..well turns out it didn't..
I attached it, peel off the .txt on the end just in case.
Hope this helps
larrybiggs said:
Here is my xorg.conf, hopefully it pastes in ok..well turns out it didn't..
I attached it, peel off the .txt on the end just in case.
Hope this helps
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Thanks a ton. I will give it a try. If it doesn't work, I will try re-doing the webtop over HDMI mod again.
If anyone else has any other suggestions, I am grateful for any help.
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Can anyone look in their apps list and see how much space "webtop connector" is taking up?
So, I flashed the xorg.conf file from Larrybiggs, it didn't work on first try, but then after a few reboots it did. I noticed that your xorg.conf file wasn't the stock one, it was one you had modified right?
Something strange has happened, and I don't know if it's related, but now the touchpad mouse and keyboard that are part of the screen will not respond at all. My bluetooth mouse and keyboard work fine, but the touchpad doesn't work at all.
Is it working fine for you with this file? I am not even sure if that's the root of all my problems, but I am just trying to figure it out. Thanks.
Sorry for so many replies about this. But, I got it all to work, and I figured I would post it. Sometimes in these threads, all you ever see is the problems people ran into. I found in the motorola owners forum that I wasn't the only one with this problem.
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/57460
"I originally posted here hoping to find an answer. Here is what I did and I got it to WORK!!! I turned the TV off. I also went ahead and rebooted the phone. Once the phone was back up, I plugged the cable into my phone then into the HDMI port on the TV. I then turned on the TV and made sure I was on the correct TV input for viewing. When the TV came on I got a notification on my phone asking me what I wanted to do. It worked!!!"
Once I did that, it was all working. But I noticed at any resolution higher than 1280x720, the phone mousepad, or the touchscreen on the phone stops responding. Haven't solved that one yet, but at least I figured I would post how I solved the other problem. Thanks.
Got it working. Thanks.
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bwillet said:
e-motion, what did you end up doing to make it work? I'm having the same issues you were. I've run webtop2sd at least 4 times and it always boots from 13. Getting frustrated!
Edit: Took about 237 more tries of doing exactly the same thing, but it finally worked! Woohoo
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What exactly did you do? Mine is also not booting from the new external ext3 partition.
Well, I posted about this in another thread but figured I would post here to get more exposure.
So, here is the issue. I rooted my NT and renamed the LatinIME.apk to LatinIME.apk1 so I can move my swiftkey apk (which I was going to rename LatinIME.apk). Of course, I had a blonde moment and renamed the built in APK before renaming the swiftkey apk and I lost the keyboard. No big deal right? Just reset device. So, I reset by going into settings and doing the reset/deregister device. Got back into the set up....still no keyboard. So I tried a hard key reset (n and power) and still no keyboard.
It appears that, when doing a reset, the device wipes all data but does not actually RESET the OS through any recovery type process.
Question........any ideas? I can't get adb obviously because I have lost debugging.
Curious if there might be anyway to boot the device differently to access shell or something. Hopefully someone has an idea, I have to wait tell monday to replace it if it comes to that
what about installing nook color tools then you can get back to the development menu. enable usb debugging and take care of the rest with adb.
Drewmungus said:
what about installing nook color tools then you can get back to the development menu. enable usb debugging and take care of the rest with adb.
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As I understand it. Nook color tools is an apk...which I cannot install due to not being able to get past the B&N account login screen. Can't get past that without a keyboard
I'm in a similar boat. Was trying to get the market working following the thread on the other page, and I copied the entire apps folder over my existing one (why I didn't backup the old one!) Now I have no keyboard either, and I'm getting constant force closes!
Maybe someone could post an un-modified system folder?
Try a failed 8 boots, turn on, after black N screen hold power until screen turns off and repeat 8 times.
^. After a certain amount of failed boots the nook will default into a total factory reset. Witnessed it earlier today when after installing Chainfire the NT went into a a boot-loop. Then automatically reset itself.
Worth a shot.
Well, I tried 8 failed boots, and it didn't re-image. I then peeked in the rom/devconf/ folder and there's no "bootcnt" file?
*edit* Got it to work. Took 10 times.
Ok, so I kept trying to boot which resulted in it eventually giving me a screen saying "please reboot your device. If the error continues contact customer support or goto nook.com/tablet/support". The website was no help. Took it to a store, they called customer support and got confused. Customer support told them to replace it. So they did...I didn't even have to give back my charger...so now I have an extra!
Returns
I really hope B&N Customer Support figures out it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to let us run our own image off an SD card, and not have to deal with all the customer support calls and returns.
Unfortunately - they are much more likely to yell Warranty Violation and refuse to do anything...
Would it have been possible to mount the device and access it from Ubuntu and then just renaime the file?
Got mine to re-image. Re-rooted and market installed. I'm happy again!
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Details please. How did you do it?
You power down, then power back on. As soon as the white screen comes up (with the "n" on it) hold down the power button until it powers down again. Do this ten times in a row and it will automatically start the re-image. If at any time the boot animation starts up you have to start over.
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tonyp22 said:
Would it have been possible to mount the device and access it from Ubuntu and then just renaime the file?
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For the particular issue I was having...no. Since I reset the device I was not able to get past the B&N login screen and therefor had no access to the /system/app folder. Although, it seems that some people are having success with the re-image process. I think mine was trying to re-image but something was corrupt and caused my to have worse issues that resulted in nothing but replacement.
Hello,
Earlier today, my phone just started acting up. All day, every single app was force-closing to where I cannot even use the phone anymore. Email, google docs, dialer one, calendar, everything. It was annoying.
I decided to run a hard-reset by pressing the up/down arrows and power button. I chose factory reset and saw the lock screen.
I got to the HTC vision and I was able to enter my google account so I can start synching up my phone.
After clicked the "finish set-up I get a force Close again. Here is the exact error.
Sorry!
The application Setup Wizard (process com.android.setupwizard) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Since I can't click on anything else, I click on force close and I basically cannot see anything after that. No home screen, but I do see the taskbar on top. When I turn off and turn the phone on, I will get stuck at the Dell Logo.
Please help!!! I don't know what to do.
I have the Dell Froyo Stock Rom, can't remember exactly what build.
Thank you guys
I also don't see anything if I press on the physical menu button. I put it on my dock, I clicked the clock icon and it automatically force close, did not even see the clock.
This is so wierd. I appreciate all the help.
Thank you
Nim
Wrong place to ask question. This is for developing thread.
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The mods will move the thread to the right place, but to try and help the OP out, it sounds like the inner MicroSD may be going bad. Run a diagnostic on it by getting the Streak into Fastboot mode (instructions on the wiki), then tapping *#301# into the keypad that pops up in Fastboot. You should see a list of options of which one should be to test the MicroSD.
If the MicroSD passes the diagnostic, then the ROM somehow became corrupt and you need to flash a new copy. If the MicroSD doesn't pass the diagnostic, it will need to be replaced.
I am really sorry.. I thought I was in the proper thread.
Mods, please delete, I will make a new thread to the other sub-forum. I apologize once again.
Strephon Alkhalikoi: Thank you for your help. I ran the diagnostic and fortunately SD card and SIM card is working fine.
So looks like I have to reflash the ROM, I kind of have an idea. I flashed the official Dell Froyo long time ago but I cannot remember exactly how. I guess I'll have to wait until Monday coz my computer at work is set-up already for ADB and all that.
Hit the thanks button next to my post if I was helpful. And...deleting a thread isn't necessary. The mods may move it if they feel it belongs in another section, and for them that's not a great deal of work.
Here in favor for ASUS to update ICS on the Prime to include a restart button say "I"
This tablet needs a restart option, not just a turn off option. I am constantly having to restart my tablet due to apps that won't free up components or services that fail after they've been used.
Google, ASUS, you already know Microsoft is going to have this available for Windows 8.
Why not get the jump ahead of them and put out an update that add more common computer functions to these tablets which are after all computers. But right now they feel like crippled computers.
Google, there's no reason why you offer free phone calls from Gmail phone for Windows based PC browsers, but don't offer it on the Android browsers, your own child. What a shame. Am I the only one recognizing this whole in thinking?
Just download one from the market, foo.
David522d said:
Just download one from the market, foo.
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Exactly!!!!!
be warey of the restart apps, there have been some reports that they do not fully "off" the prime. If you do any hardcore changes you are still best to fully turn off the prime, count to 5, and start er up again.
Be warned!
LOL, is that anything like, "say aye".
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Right about now Asus is in talks with StaplesUSA, they want their EASY button....lol
Aye! Yaar me hearties! Aye be waiting fer a reboot button!
I fully agree, I wish there was a restart button.
BUT, the problem I'm assuming is that it would imply that the system isn't reliable and may need be restarted sometimes. Just a wild guess.
I'd love to see this function implemented in stock rom. Just place it in the "hold power button" menu next to the shut down option.
+1
Asus go ask Archos how to do it.
buy yea seriously it's not anything hard to implement yourself and anyways how hard is it to turn it off wait 3 seconds and hit it again
Can't you just hold down the power button for a few seconds? That's what I always do.
guys I'm not asking for Prime to part the red sea, I'm just wanting their to be a simple computer function like a restart option, due to frequency I'm experiencing of having to shut the damn thing off and turn it back on to get certain components to work i.e. camera after it fails between use from programs.
If Windows and Apple's iOS have a simple restart option, why would this be a pain to ask from Google.
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guys I'm not asking for Prime to part the red sea, I'm just wanting their to be a simple computer function like a restart option, due to frequency I'm experiencing of having to shut the damn thing off and turn it back on to get certain components to work i.e. camera after it fails between use from programs.
If Windows and Apple's iOS have a simple restart option, why would this be a pain to ask from Google.
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There's already one on the TFP. It's called the "reset button".
All you need is a pin to push it.
Personally, I think that if you are having to reset your TFP that much, it's either defective or you are running bad software on it.
Download quickboot from the market. multiple reboot options including recovery and bootloader
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****, I mean I!!!!
The Prime already has a Restart option...that's what the random reboots are for. Duh!
***** please yo folks! I am on the latest update and the uptime is 47 hours. I believe I restarted my prime while I was trying to root it. By looking at the logs on my computer, I did the rooting 47 hours 9 minutes ago, since the time of this posting...
No random reboots here!
I'll keep an eye on it though.
I just open terminal emulator.....(rooted)
su
reboot
that's funny because iOS dosen't have a restart option and it takes more work to turn it off at that even though it's not really hard i'm not sure if windows phone has a restart though.