Welp, it happened. I bricked it. Tried to install the wallpaper fix via adb one click. nope. it doesn't work. don't try it.
Side note.
Apps I did get to work..kind of
-Maps (won't sign in and slow)
-Hangouts (won't do video. Resets device)
-Gmail (works great)
-Play Music (works great-didn't try to sign in though)
Not Working
-Google+ (constantly FCing)
-PlayStore (we already knew this)
Amazon will give you a replacement. 1 year warranty for anything that may happen to the device(aside from damage of any kind). Ill have it on Friday. Whew.
holeshot77 said:
Welp, it happened. I bricked it. Tried to install the wallpaper fix via adb one click. nope. it doesn't work. don't try it.
Side note.
Apps I did get to work..kind of
-Maps (won't sign in and slow)
-Hangouts (won't do video. Resets device)
-Gmail (works great)
-Play Music (works great-didn't try to sign in though)
Not Working
-Google+ (constantly FCing)
-PlayStore (we already knew this)
Amazon will give you a replacement. 1 year warranty for anything that may happen to the device(aside from damage of any kind). Ill have it on Friday. Whew.
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On a new note: you do not have to replace the device. This will eventually lead to Amazon changing their policies, or raising prices.
All you have to do is open the script you were using, find what changes it was making & use adb to undo those changes. Bootloop is not a brick. QHSUSB_BULK is not a brick. They are only symptoms of something amiss & usually easily remedied.
I tried using the program to undo but it does not recognize adb. Without adb I wasn't doing anything. Tried on two different PC's.
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holeshot77 said:
Welp, it happened. I bricked it. Tried to install the wallpaper fix via adb one click. nope. it doesn't work. don't try it.
Side note.
Apps I did get to work..kind of
-Maps (won't sign in and slow)
-Hangouts (won't do video. Resets device)
-Gmail (works great)
-Play Music (works great-didn't try to sign in though)
Not Working
-Google+ (constantly FCing)
-PlayStore (we already knew this)
Amazon will give you a replacement. 1 year warranty for anything that may happen to the device(aside from damage of any kind). Ill have it on Friday. Whew.
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I just recently acquired a HDX 8.9 and I followed basically the same steps as you did. As soon as my HDX rebooted after the "wallpaper fix" I get a black screen. I can see the that tablet is on, the black screen is illuminated and the good news is can send commands via ADB. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this?
I was trying to get all the ground work in places so i can install CM as soon as a solution is available. OOPS
--Zim
xxtzimiscexx said:
I just recently acquired a HDX 8.9 and I followed basically the same steps as you did. As soon as my HDX rebooted after the "wallpaper fix" I get a black screen. I can see the that tablet is on, the black screen is illuminated and the good news is can send commands via ADB. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this?
I was trying to get all the ground work in places so i can install CM as soon as a solution is available. OOPS
--Zim
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I would suggest you saunter over to here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588608
Where hopefully your problems can be solved.
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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.
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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.
So I was all rooted. I had Go Launcher, Market, and Swiftkey all working awesomely. My NT life was good. Then Swiftkey started throwing up errors. So I went to Any Cut to find a shortcut to Swiftkey's settings. There was like 8 settings under activities but not a specific Swiftkey settings. So I created shortcuts to the 8 settings and thought I would try them all and maybe one was for swiftkey.
When I clicked on the second settings shortcut the NT through up an error that stated there was an authorization error and the tablet would reset. When the tablet restarted it forced a wipe to factory settings. I thought...that sucks...but whatever I'll start over.
When the tablet had finished and restarted It started to go through the setup screens as one might expect. However, Swiftkey is apparently still selected as the keyboard and the NT keeps giving the Swiftkey force close errors. I can't enter in my registration info because I haven't an effin' keyboard. I didn't have usb debugging turned on so I don't think I can use adb to remove swiftkey. Although, I've never really used ADB unless I'm rooting and following very specific instructions from one of these forums.
Is there a way to bypass the initial registration and sign in crud so I can install root explorer and remove Swiftkey?
Sorry for the long story. Hopefully someone will have a suggestion on how to fix this.
Thanks in advance.
tldr- NT hard reset and now stuck without keyboard because Swiftkey was still selected and Swift key won't work during initial registration....argh!
Tip the screen corners starting top left in clockwise motion.
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Factory_Mode/Skip_Out_of_Box_Experience
This has worked for people to skip registering their device good luck god bless.
I did test this method when i got t the last prompt to skip Oobe(out of the box experience) I did get a force close error. However I just reopened the menu by hitting the volume up and the lower right portion of the screen. The Oobe button came back up and i clicked it with success, bypassing the registration.
Well I was able to bypass the Nook Experience BS...Thanks for the tip! But I still didn't have a keyboard to download any apps from the browser. So I created an epub file with Callibre that contained web addresses of all the software I needed to get rid of Swiftkey from system/app. I then transfered the epub to the nook...opened it with Nook's reader....selected a web address....and did a google lookup from within the reader. I was able to download and install what I needed, and it worked. All Better.
demonhater said:
Well I was able to bypass the Nook Experience BS...Thanks for the tip! But I still didn't have a keyboard to download any apps from the browser. So I created an epub file with Callibre that contained web addresses of all the software I needed to get rid of Swiftkey from system/app. I then transfered the epub to the nook...opened it with Nook's reader....selected a web address....and did a google lookup from within the reader. I was able to download and install what I needed, and it worked. All Better.
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I think what you did is really smart( never mind the semi brick part) and important. This could help out a lot of people that lose keyboard access or other issues that occur. Using the nook reader with google search was a great way around your problem.
SwiftKey force closes on me randomly and will not stop until I re-run the apk inside /System/App again but after that it works fine for awhile. I wonder if it's just SwiftKey because I haven't tried any other keyboards yet
I've noticed several keyboards don't stick after a reboot. Thickbuttons and Hackers seems to be the only 2 I've tried that do stick.
yaggermr said:
I think what you did is really smart( never mind the semi brick part) and important.
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The scary part was that the NT forced a random wipe on it's own after a quick error about "authorization."
Sorry didn't know about the authentification error and I was joking about the semi brick part. I just thought your recovery method could help somebody out of semi brick hell.
No need to say sorry. I knew you were joking. And hopefully, it will help someone else.
hey everyone I'm having a weird problem with my TP. The speakers on this thing work well for a while but, at random times the sounds and music I play comes out with static. If I reset the tab it goes away or sometimes if I even plug my head phones in and out it goes back to normal but not often. I've even done a tablet reset and ran webOS and it still happens from time to time. I've contacted HP and they just keep telling me its software related so I'm stuck. I'm running the latest version of webOS now. Its not rooted or anything either but I'm considering turning on developer mode to see if it will work but I don't know. Any ideas/suggestions. Thanks guys I appreciate you looking into the matter for me.
Do you mean the sound become distorted? Like muffled? Its happening to me also when the screen turns off. But if I turn on screen, its gets good. Also it happens only if its on highest volume?
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I've had both problems listed above. Booting into WebOS then back to Alpha 3 solved it temporarily. I imagine with CM9 ICS being the major focus now, we will have to live with it for now.
I have noticed that when I am on Pandora with classical it does not pop; only my 80's Techno pop makes the speakers squeal. Maybe the TP is making a comment on my music?
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hey everyone I'm having a weird problem with my TP. The speakers on this thing work well for a while but, at random times the sounds and music I play comes out with static. If I reset the tab it goes away or sometimes if I even plug my head phones in and out it goes back to normal but not often. I've even done a tablet reset and ran webOS and it still happens from time to time. I've contacted HP and they just keep telling me its software related so I'm stuck. I'm running the latest version of webOS now. Its not rooted or anything either but I'm considering turning on developer mode to see if it will work but I don't know. Any ideas/suggestions. Thanks guys I appreciate you looking into the matter for me.
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Install prepare and install sound app that restarts the sound drivers, gets rid of the static temporarily. It is software related since the 3.0.4 update.
benfikaman said:
Install prepare and install sound app that restarts the sound drivers, gets rid of the static temporarily. It is software related since the 3.0.4 update.
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Yes I meant distorted and it also happens when I use either Pandora or play videos on YouTube. Where can I find that benfikaman?
This app is called PulseAudio Restarter (covered here)
You could also do it manually with xterm :
Code:
pulseaudio --kill
I don't remember if you have to type pulseaudio --start after, but anyway the app does it so you won't need these commands.
I guess then I am going to have to unlock my tab and install preware to get that app first. Thanks guys I'll post my results soon. Oh if I run preware will that void the tablets warranty or something? I'm sure ppl have asked this before but I'm not sure how this works. Thanks guys!
franky619 said:
Oh if I run preware will that void the tablets warranty or something?
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Preware is featured in the official HP catalog, and I've haven't seen any warning about warranty on the webOsInternals Preware page.
If you really need to use your warranty, you'll be able to restore your TP at its original state with webOsDoctor.
You'll see, it's easy to install preware
EDIT : some more infos here, didn't found official link about it.
preware and patches won't void the warrenty. An overclocked kernal could, if applicable
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benfikaman said:
Install prepare and install sound app that restarts the sound drivers, gets rid of the static temporarily. It is software related since the 3.0.4 update.
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I ran into the same issue this morning with a bad static sound. I ran the pulseaudio restarter app and that did not fix the issue. I also have had times when no audio at all and the pulseaudio app fixed that. A full reboot fixes the static issues but I agree that it is annoying. I haven't moved into Android yet and I'm running an up to date Touchpad.
So far so good for me. Im hoping it works. I have another question-if any of you guys are in yahoo fantasy leagues or have done it before than you may know what I am talking about. With the touchpad I can't use websites like yahoo fantasy or pizza hut. The browser keeps refreshing itself or like in yahoo's case, each time I click on a little note thats supposed to open as a small window on the site it wont do that either. Is there anything that can fix this?
I tried to run same music apps in webos and they were fine. I have sound problem only in android and only when screen is off. Should I try that pulseaudio app?
It won't help, the screen off sound issue is a CM issue, on the android side, this webOS app can't do anything about it. And I doubt that's the same problem, restarting pulseaudio by adb or console in android won't fix it.
hey guys so here's what's up....the speakers worked fine for a few days after running pulse audio but now its back to the same thing. Any other suggestions? Thanks guys!
I don't recall seeing any app updates, and I didn't do any additional clear cache, but today, Gmail just all of a sudden, well, started working!
FYI, the version I got is 4.7.1 (946962) according to App Info screen.
Did you had done a reboot after installing it? It's good to hear that,cause I have 4.6 working and was hesitating to update to the newest version. Although I am using the stock email app
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Did you had done a reboot after installing it? It's good to hear that,cause I have 4.6 working and was hesitating to update to the newest version. Although I am using the stock email app
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It would be nice to know more about how you installed gapps, what version of the hdx you are talking about 7 or 8.9 LTE or Wifi. Gmail works fine for me as long as I start it with wifi off. I can turn wifi on once it's open.
Why is gmail such a pain in the balls? I decided to flash gapps rom so I could have some live wallpaper action, after flashing and getting setup I installed gmail. Gmail was working great, then all of a sudden it starts force closing... then i try to restart it and it force closes again. I can turn off wifi and it runs fine. Toggle wifi back on and it immediately force closes. I had it working before where it would stay running when I turned wifi on, but would not start with wifi on. That was when I had installed gapps myself and didn't use this rom. So, don't know what the trouble is... but I'm glad live wallpapers are working now. Of course adwlauncher won't work with widgets anymore, but the live wallpaper continue to run. It seems its always one thing works and another doesn't with this tablet. I'm loving the form factor though. Wish we could get safestrap for the 8.9" too.
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Why is gmail such a pain in the balls? I decided to flash gapps rom so I could have some live wallpaper action, after flashing and getting setup I installed gmail. Gmail was working great, then all of a sudden it starts force closing... then i try to restart it and it force closes again. I can turn off wifi and it runs fine. Toggle wifi back on and it immediately force closes. I had it working before where it would stay running when I turned wifi on, but would not start with wifi on. That was when I had installed gapps myself and didn't use this rom. So, don't know what the trouble is... but I'm glad live wallpapers are working now. Of course adwlauncher won't work with widgets anymore, but the live wallpaper continue to run. It seems its always one thing works and another doesn't with this tablet. I'm loving the form factor though. Wish we could get safestrap for the 8.9" too.
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It's not the device itself, and it's the combination of fixes installed... I've gotten my kindle to a point where all Google Apps work, including Nova Launcher + working wallpaper.
The only thing I lack is a working Google Play Store that won't disable the Amazon Playstore, and as it's required for Freetime as far as I can tell...
You should check out the latest from ptiwee/crashdump/gsleon3 as it modifies files instead of just replacing them and likely holds the answers for working everything...
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It's not the device itself, and it's the combination of fixes installed... I've gotten my kindle to a point where all Google Apps work, including Nova Launcher + working wallpaper.
The only thing I lack is a working Google Play Store that won't disable the Amazon Playstore, and as it's required for Freetime as far as I can tell...
You should check out the latest from ptiwee/crashdump/gsleon3 as it modifies files instead of just replacing them and likely holds the answers for working everything...
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I think that is only for the 8.9? I already applied what you are talking about (via tutorial) on the 8.9, which makes the 8.9" pretty great, but still no live wallpapers. Not sure how that was got to work in thor-gapps rom for the 7".
About Gmail on the 7" though. What order did you install to get everything working? Did you flash the gapps rom over stock? Amazon playstore would be nice... but I don't need it at all.
dcoig1 said:
I think that is only for the 8.9? I already applied what you are talking about (via tutorial) on the 8.9, which makes the 8.9" pretty great, but still no live wallpapers. Not sure how that was got to work in thor-gapps rom for the 7".
About Gmail on the 7" though. What order did you install to get everything working? Did you flash the gapps rom over stock? Amazon playstore would be nice... but I don't need it at all.
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For Q1, and see what I posted in that thread.
For working gmail on 7, I use 7" root, safestrap, KindleFree and one of Android Cowboys general threads.... Anything cpasjuste put out has broken gmail, so I've had to revrt and remove any of his changes... FYI, I still don't have a working play store, but I want a working Amazon Appstore for Freetime, so I'll continue to sideload for now.. Oh and no lwp, but I haven't even tried or cared, and as I have working Nova + widgets + wallpaper...
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kschang said:
I don't recall seeing any app updates, and I didn't do any additional clear cache, but today, Gmail just all of a sudden, well, started working!
FYI, the version I got is 4.7.1 (946962) according to App Info screen.
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And now Gmail is NOT working... again.
SOMETHING strange is happening behind the scenes?
And now its working again I have no idea what happened
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Hello All,
I bought two 2014 fire hd's for my 4 yr. old twins for Christmas. I installed a really nice children's app launcher - KIDOZ. It had just one flaw, it wouldn't lock out the Amazon Home Screen Launcher. So, after reviewing these forums, I figured out how to block com.amazon.kindle.otter. Problem is, I forgot to re-install the other app launcher before re-booting.
Now I can't get back in using the adb tool, because I can't confirm on the device screen. I also tried to install another app launcher through the es file explorer file on my pc. Neither option worked and I couldn't find anything to help on the forums.
I hope I can get it working before Christmas!
Cheers :}
Hard reset the Kindle Fire and try again.
The only way I know to do a factory reset is from the screen, I think it's in device options. Do you know a different procedure for hard reset? I tried holding the volume down, with power for 40 seconds, etc.
Anyways, I was fortunate and they sent me a replacement, although it's a refurbished one. Now that I've gotten one stuck, does that make me at least an "apprentice" developer?
Happy Holidays