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Rooted, Backed-Up, Flashed to Synergy...First timer...How to load backups now?

So I left Apple, came to Android, rooted my VZW GS3. First time I've ever done anything like this, so I'm new to it. I backed up EVERYTHING using TiBu, did the IMEI backup, Full system/image backup using CWM, unlocked bootloader, etc. Then I flashed to Synergy r46 (august 20th - yesterday's release).
Now I'm at work and my back-up pulled my contacts via Verizon's server, but how do I get back EVERYTHING else? SMS/MMS logs, call logs, apps, app data, etc? Do I need to download TiBu again (fresh from google market) and then load my backups off my Ext-SD card, or what? I guess I'm a bit confused as to where my TiBu items were even stored/saved...I assume it was the ExtSD card, otherwise I would have lost them all upon flashing to Synergy, correct?
Any help to get all my apps and data back on my newly Synergized phone would be awesome!!!! Thanks in advance!!!

Yes download titanium and then point it to the directory you had your back ups saved to (its sd card by default, and which is your phone storage btw) then tab to backup/restore click the check, then once your app data populates, and select run next to restore apps and data.
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And no flashing roms will not wipe all your user data unless you do a complete wipe.
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I used titanuium backup pro to back up all my Apps and system data. And when I flash a new rom I just redownload titanium pro and it automatically restores all my Apps and system data. It is the easiest app I have used. So to answer ur question.....back up ur apps with titanium then after flashing a new rom go and redownload titanium and restore your system data and apps or just apps alone if that's what u prefer? Does that answer ur question or would u like more detailed instructions?
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Welcome to android!
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Another very nice feature of Titanium Backup is its ability to pull data from CWM nandroids. There have been a few times where I was quick to flash a new rom without doing a backup of my apps. This has saved me much time from having to re-flash the nandroid backup, backup via TB, then re-flash to the new rom.

voodoomanx said:
And no flashing roms will not wipe all your user data unless you do a complete wipe.
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This is one thing that scares me...I don't quite understand what's being wiped or how to perform a full wipe. I hope I don't do this on accident on day...When I flashed the ROM, I basically booted into CWM recovery and installed from there....I was unable to install by opening the ROMs ZIP file via ROM Manager. When I tried to install this way, it failed.
Can somebody confirm if I flashed correctly, just to put my worries to rest? Here's how I did it...
I backed everything up, unlocked bootloader, and tried to install Synergy r46 via ROM manager, but I had problem. I had the ZIP for the ROM downloaded to my Ext-SD card, like the installation instructions say. I then opened ROM Manager and went to "install ROM from SD card." The phone rebooted and opened in CWM to install...But kept having problems finding some "path" or something.
So I decide to wing it and rebooted into CWM. I cleared davik cache(sp?), then user data, then navigated to my Ext-SD and selected the ROM ZIP to install. Now, everything seems fine and it says it installed successfully, but I still think I installed in a way that wasn't described.
Is this a legit install and is this how most people flash ROMs, from booting directly into CWM, or should ROM manager have worked for me via "install ROM from SD card???" If so, why didn't ROM Manager work for me?
Rather urgent question: When I restore my items, do I want to click "RESTORE MISSING APPS + ALL SYSTEM DATA?" ill this restore the bloatware that was on my phone prior to flashing????? If so, is there any way around it
Thanks a bunch! Just waiting on an answer to the later questions before I restore.

Weioo said:
This is one thing that scares me...I don't quite understand what's being wiped or how to perform a full wipe. I hope I don't do this on accident on day...When I flashed the ROM, I basically booted into CWM recovery and installed from there....I was unable to install by opening the ROMs ZIP file via ROM Manager. When I tried to install this way, it failed.
Can somebody confirm if I flashed correctly, just to put my worries to rest? Here's how I did it...
I backed everything up, unlocked bootloader, and tried to install Synergy r46 via ROM manager, but I had problem. I had the ZIP for the ROM downloaded to my Ext-SD card, like the installation instructions say. I then opened ROM Manager and went to "install ROM from SD card." The phone rebooted and opened in CWM to install...But kept having problems finding some "path" or something.
So I decide to wing it and rebooted into CWM. I cleared davik cache(sp?), then user data, then navigated to my Ext-SD and selected the ROM ZIP to install. Now, everything seems fine and it says it installed successfully, but I still think I installed in a way that wasn't described.
Is this a legit install and is this how most people flash ROMs, from booting directly into CWM, or should ROM manager have worked for me via "install ROM from SD card???" If so, why didn't ROM Manager work for me?
Rather urgent question: When I restore my items, do I want to click "RESTORE MISSING APPS + ALL SYSTEM DATA?" ill this restore the bloatware that was on my phone prior to flashing????? If so, is there any way around it
Thanks a bunch! Just waiting on an answer to the later questions before I restore.
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I am wondering if you didn't do the full wipe. If you are using CWM v6.0.1.0 then there is no option labeled "user data" it is "wipe data/factory reset" which is the full wipe like I mentioned.
As far as doing it correctly, as you may have already noticed there is more than one way to do about anything. Personally, I still use CWM v6.0.1.0 and flash the zips there.
P.S. I see you are enjoying your freedom of losing your apples!
Also, tell me how your r46 is working ... I have held off at r23 while they are playing around with kernels and ramdisk tweaks for awhile.

Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.

dan_joegibbsfan said:
I am wondering if you didn't do the full wipe. If you are using CWM v6.0.1.0 then there is no option labeled "user data" it is "wipe data/factory reset" which is the full wipe like I mentioned.
As far as doing it correctly, as you may have already noticed there is more than one way to do about anything. Personally, I still use CWM v6.0.1.0 and flash the zips there.
P.S. I see you are enjoying your freedom of losing your apples!
Also, tell me how your r46 is working ... I have held off at r23 while they are playing around with kernels and ramdisk tweaks for awhile.
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I'm fairly certain I did "wipe data/factory reset," I just wasn't sure how it was labeled when I typed that out, but that's really ringing a bell. I think I may have gotten the errors before (using ROM Manager) because I hadn't factory reset? Seems to me I'm good to go! However, my question regarding TiBu still remains.
Edit: In regards to informing you about r46, I'm not sure what to report as I've never used a previous Synergy and have no idea how to compare, other than to the rooted stock ROM. I have heard reports of battery life being worse than the stock ROM, and I can confirm this. I've barely used the phone since I flashed to Synergy and it's dropped 15% battery life in ~3 hours. Seems faster than before but I'm unsure.

nguyenvn said:
Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.
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I started getting that sort of behavior so I just restored back to my stock rooted backup and reflashed Synergy 1.7 r23 and then reflashed the theme I'm using. I thought my issues came from other modifications I had tried so I will try to remember to report back to this post tomorrow and tell you if I'm still having those similar issues or if I'm stable again.

dan_joegibbsfan said:
I started getting that sort of behavior so I just restored back to my stock rooted backup and reflashed Synergy 1.7 r23 and then reflashed the theme I'm using. I thought my issues came from other modifications I had tried so I will try to remember to report back to this post tomorrow and tell you if I'm still having those similar issues or if I'm stable again.
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Was 1.7 r23 supposed to be a really stable release? I read through some of the Synergy thread and didn't see anyone having the issues I had. I felt like I was doing something wrong.

nguyenvn said:
Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.
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I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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voodoomanx said:
I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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I used the EZ-unlock app in the play store. I did see that a custom kernel was loaded however when i flashed back to my nandroid (stock rooted) I am back on the orignal kernel. Would the way I rooted have an effect on the reboots? I used the non flash method by Noxious Ninja.

voodoomanx said:
I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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I agree I have yet to have Synergy boot loop although I'm still on 1.7. I would try to wipe cache and dalvik cache and see if that helps or you could be over clocking to high.
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nguyenvn said:
Was 1.7 r23 supposed to be a really stable release? I read through some of the Synergy thread and didn't see anyone having the issues I had. I felt like I was doing something wrong.
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I don't know the answer to that specifically. All I know was that I was stable before another modification I made (that said it wouldn't work but I tried it anyway). Since restoring from backup and reloading Synergy and theme I have not seen any weird rebooting anymore.
nguyenvn said:
Would the way I rooted have an effect on the reboots? I used the non flash method by Noxious Ninja.
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I'm not familiar with that method. I've only used Odin, even when I did have to redo everything I used Odin to stock de-bloated rooted .md5 then CWM'd from there.

So I'm giving it another shot on r50. I made sure to clear dalvik, cache and data. After flashing It gave me the reboot problems again. I installed system tuner to change the cpu back to 1.5. Maybe it's from the overclock but we'll see how it goes. Is everyone leaving it overclocked on 1.9 not having issues?

nguyenvn said:
So I'm giving it another shot on r50. I made sure to clear dalvik, cache and data. After flashing It gave me the reboot problems again. I installed system tuner to change the cpu back to 1.5. Maybe it's from the overclock but we'll see how it goes. Is everyone leaving it overclocked on 1.9 not having issues?
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That may very well be the issue. 1.9ghz is a very aggressive overclock, and i wouldn't be surprised if was unstable on a good number of phones. Synergy's supposed to boot at 1.5ghz max by default - I don't know whether that was successfully implemented. I personally think it's silly to OC such a capable phone, anyway. Back in the days of the Droid 1, an overclock from the stock 550mhz to 800mhz-900mhz was an enormous improvement. Today, the only thing OCing the S3 gets you is a <10% improvement in Quadrant, more heat, possible instability, and no perceptible difference outside of those silly synthetic benchmarks.
Anyway, in this thread, there seems to be a fair bit of confusion as far as what's what in the android partitions. I'll give you a short rundown.
"aboot" is what's referred to here as the bootloader. It checks to see whether the next partition in the boot sequence, "boot", is authorized. When you unlocked your bootloader, you overwrote aboot with a version that does not perform that check.
"boot" contains your kernel. If your ROM has a custom kernel, it contains a boot.img to overwrite boot.
"system" is the meat of the OS. This is primarily what ROMs flash.
"data" contains all of your apps and settings. When you perform a factory reset, you're reformatting data. If you're flashing a ROM that is significantly different from what you're on now, some of those old settings and data can cause errors, force closes, random reboots, and boot loops. When in doubt, wipe data before flashing a new ROM. When going from one version of a ROM to a newer, very similar version of the same ROM (nightly to nightly), you probably don't need to wipe data, but make a backup just in case. dalvik-cache is also in data; if you wipe data, you've automatically wiped the dalvik cache. It's redundant to wipe data and then wipe dalvik cache.
"cache" is just that, the cache partition. Clearing it won't make you loose anything, at least not anything Android won't silently replace.

So far it seems to be pretty stable on r50. I installed system tuner and brought it down to 1.5 Ghz. I'm not sure why 1.9 is set to default. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Thanks all for the help/advice.

Phone keeps rebooting, even in recovery?

Hi. I was toolin' along doing real well on CleanRom 4.5 for several days. Starting yesterday, the phone would randomly reboot itself to the HTC screen. I figured I had a bad app or something. Today, I went to open an app (Draw Something) and the phone froze for a bit. Then it rebooted, and now I cant get it booted back up. I usually never make it past the HTC screen. Got into recovery once but it rebooted in the middle of clearing the cache.
Any advice?

Welp, just made it through cache and dalvik and rebooted in the middle of factory reset. I wonder if I'm doing more harm than good.

Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.

hcricket said:
Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.
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Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:

omario8484 said:
Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:
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Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?

hcricket said:
Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?
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So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?

omario8484 said:
So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?
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Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?

hcricket said:
Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?
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What's your battery at?

Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*

hcricket said:
Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*
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Keep that simmy in there..now what's your battery ....when does it reboot ...when trying to get into aroma installer?
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Worst case scenario you can relock the bootloader and run an RUU. But I think u can get out of this without having to do that

I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.

hcricket said:
I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.
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Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird

omario8484 said:
Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird
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Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.

hcricket said:
Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.
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Hold down your power button until your screen turns black and than see if it's still rebooting

Still no go. Thank you for your help - I've got it to 98% battery, powered it down, and I'm going to the bar, hah hah.

try flashing CM10 instead of a Sense rom. Aroma can cause freezes and reboots on its own. I would also be scared to run the RUU also since your phone freezes randomly. whats was your stock version?

It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.

denversc said:
It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.
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I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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kleeman7 said:
I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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I told him to flash a rom that doesn't use aroma. He is getting freezes all the time. TWRP used to freeze up on me all the time after the 2.20 ruu until twrp 2.2.2.0 was released. Phone still has trouble getting into recovery from the bootloader though. He should install CM10 or codefirex without using a custom kernel. Maybe run "fastboot erase cache" in bootloader then wipe cache,dalvik,factory reset,system,external in recovery then flash CM10 or codefirex and gapps. keep it plain until you find issues you can attribute to the rom or to the phone. i have had very few issues with latest builds of jb aosp roms besides some battery stuff.

Well, although I had fully charged it and then powered down, now that I am ready to work on it this AM, it wont start at all. I'm thinking she's gone, captain.
Thank you everyone for the replies.

[Q] Jelly Bean update done but now hangs on boot

I've just done the JB update on my TF700, and it's now dead... :crying:
Update downloaded OK, went into the update process. Seemed to go fine. Did the "Optimising applications" bit, rebooted, and stuck on the boot screen with the spinnywheel.
I let that run for half-an-hour (tablet was getting very warm) then did a paper-clip reset (no response to buttons). Same thing, won't boot.
It's an unmodded device apart from being rooted. I've encrypted the storage; I've set the default browser to Dolphin. I have Titanium installed, but not frozen any apps.
Suggestions for how to recver from this gratefully received ....
Thanks
Alan
[UPDATE: Oh, and I did not have the tablet in the dock when I updated. Significant??]

Same problem here. Please help!!
Did the update and it went all ok.. untill first reboot (stuck on boot screen with the spinnywheel).
Unmodded rooted device. Tried cold boot, but nothing changes.
Tried to download some files for recovery and didn´t work:
TF700T WW_10.4.4.16-20120927 OTA.zip
WW_epad-user-9.4.5.30.zip
any ideas?

Piruelo said:
Same problem here. Please help!!
Did the update and it went all ok.. untill first reboot (stuck on boot screen with the spinnywheel).
Unmodded rooted device. Tried cold boot, but nothing changes.
Tried to download some files for recovery and didn´t work:
TF700T WW_10.4.4.16-20120927 OTA.zip
WW_epad-user-9.4.5.30.zip
any ideas?
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try booting into bootloader and selecting the "wipe data" option. This will delete all your files on the devices but will also mean you can use it again

Piruelo said:
Same problem here. Please help!!
Did the update and it went all ok.. untill first reboot (stuck on boot screen with the spinnywheel).
Unmodded rooted device. Tried cold boot, but nothing changes.
Tried to download some files for recovery and didn´t work:
TF700T WW_10.4.4.16-20120927 OTA.zip
WW_epad-user-9.4.5.30.zip
any ideas?
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To recover from that just wait until Asus post the full JB update on their site and use that to do a Factory Restore with stock recovery (follow the how-to guide in my signature for more details).

Thanks!!
Will the 'Factory Restore with stock recovery' erase my internal storage?

Piruelo said:
Thanks!!
Will the 'Factory Restore with stock recovery' erase my internal storage?
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It shouldn't wipe the sdcard, only the Wipe Data option from the stock recovery should do that.

Pretoriano80 said:
To recover from that just wait until Asus post the full JB update on their site and use that to do a Factory Restore with stock recovery (follow the how-to guide in my signature for more details).
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Thanks for that.
A newbie question, though (I'm a Windows dev, and Android is quite new to me) - what would happen if did this with the .30 ICS firmware with the device in this state?

SpooRancher said:
Thanks for that.
A newbie question, though (I'm a Windows dev, and Android is quite new to me) - what would happen if did this with the .30 ICS firmware with the device in this state?
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You can try to do that,but i guess it will just fail to install...You could also try the "Wipe Data" thing from the recovery ,but i don't think it will work.

Pretoriano80 said:
You can try to do that,but i guess it will just fail to install...You could also try the "Wipe Data" thing from the recovery ,but i don't think it will work.
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OK, many thanks. I'll give it a go - otherwise it's just wait for Asus to post the files

SpooRancher said:
I've just done the JB update on my TF700, and it's now dead... :crying:
Update downloaded OK, went into the update process. Seemed to go fine. Did the "Optimising applications" bit, rebooted, and stuck on the boot screen with the spinnywheel.
I let that run for half-an-hour (tablet was getting very warm) then did a paper-clip reset (no response to buttons). Same thing, won't boot.
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I have the same exact problem.
Most probably, it's because of the encryption.
Perhaps ASUS thought that nobody would use Android encryption ...

i have exactly the same problem, was stock and only rooted. i did a backup with titanium backup and one of my internal sdcard via the dock sdcard and adb now but i'm still trying to find a way to boot without wiping because i fear that i will lose root and so goes my titanium backup..
anyways, it seems i've got adb access (no root because su crashes) during this neverending spinning wheel. i've dumped logcat during the boot process. maybe someone has a suggestion what's wrong here? i have a good understanding of linux but not the logcat output or android boot phase. it seems many services can't find files and many things fail (wifi, gps, tethering, ...), no idea if that's also the case for a valid boot, and then after some time nearly all services die.
logcat part1: http://pastebin.com/HTSULj59
logcat part2: http://pastebin.com/ncgjzwsY
logcat part3: http://pastebin.com/071hWwRm
i also tried to wipe cache via fastboot, but it didn't help.
i also think it has to do with encryption because it says something like:
"E/VoldConnector( 401): NDC Command {6 cryptfs checkpw $pwd} took too long (10418ms)" and then services get restarted or die

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0x000 said:
i also think it has to do with encryption because it says something like:
"E/VoldConnector( 401): NDC Command {6 cryptfs checkpw $pwd} took too long (10418ms)" and then services get restarted or die
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Does this imply that it's not possible to recover from this without completely resetting the SD card? Does a Wipe Data do that?
Two extra things I've thought of here: I changed the encryption password from screen lock PIN to something else with EncPasswdChange; however, the "enter encryption password" screen accepted the correct password and rejected anything else. I also have BusyBox installed.
Personally I'm not bothered about having to reset everything - I'm sure JB will be rootable soon, and I have no data I care about. Very annoying for those that do have valuable stuff, though.

ASUS have the JB files on their website now (US and WW SKUs) [Sorry, system won't let me post a link...]

Downloaded from asus, renamed to 'EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip' in microsd card,and succesfully unbriked, without loosing any data :victory:

Updated fine. Rebooted fine.
Stock, locked and rooted. Supersu+voodoo, unencrypted.
After update I had extreme laggyness only after a sleep. Cold boot seems to have fixed that.
I would like to encrypt. Has anyone successfully encrypted AFTER updating?

I've managed to unbrick mine too
However I had to do a Wipe Data - trying without gave me the dead android with the red triangle as soon as the upgrade started.
Never mind, it's back and running JB. There wasn't any data on it I cared about, so apart from losing root I'm happy.
Thanks for all the advice, everyone. Very much appreciated.

i've also tried to fix the problem in recovery by using the zip file posted on the asus servers. it did something, had some blue progress bar, then it rebooted, had to enter my encryption password and.. it did not work :crying: still spinning wheel and it hangs. i can still use adb, my old su binary is gone, but i'm stuck as i don't want to wipe my data. i need root for using titanium backup again. and yeah, i don't want to unlock for now too :/
did it work for anyone who has their tablet encrypted?
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i've tried to downgrade to ICS .30 firmware via recovery method and it worked (although i'm not unlocked). it did wipe my whole data though and the tablet is not encrypted anymore. at least i can root again now, upgrade to JB and then encrypt (i hope..)
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Piruelo said:
Downloaded from asus, renamed to 'EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip' in microsd card,and succesfully unbriked, without loosing any data :victory:
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was your internal storage encrypted?
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0x000 said:
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i've tried to downgrade to ICS .30 firmware via recovery method and it worked (although i'm not unlocked). it did wipe my whole data though and the tablet is not encrypted anymore. at least i can root again now, upgrade to JB and then encrypt (i hope..)
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How did u downgrade to ICS?
did u placed the .zip from asus again in sd card and powered on with pressing volume donw?

How did u downgrade to ICS?
did u placed the .zip from asus again in sd card and powered on with pressing volume donw?
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yes, i placed the (extracted & renamed) zip from asus to my external microsd card and used stock recovery (volume down).
i've already installed JB now with root and i'm currently restoring my apps with titanium backup

[Q] Wiping Data wont wipe data.

So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!

namcost said:
So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!
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have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS

je2854 said:
have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS
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mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.

namcost said:
mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.
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yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page

je2854 said:
yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page
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yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.

namcost said:
yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.
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yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.

je2854 said:
yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.
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I can't get into the phone, it wont get past the setup wizard. all the applications force close over and over and over again. i did however use the factory recovery mode to wipe and that did nothing either....
I just set it to "unmount" on both the data and system and now im wiping. I remember when I first started with this after wiping once with CWM the next few times wouldn't take long at all because there was nothing to wipe....

so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it

namcost said:
so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it
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can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you

je2854 said:
can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you
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ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....

namcost said:
ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....
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you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?

je2854 said:
you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?
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can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?

namcost said:
can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?
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Flash that in CWM (I assume it's a CWM zip? Didn't bother to check) and flash Tweaked 3.1 full CWM afterwards. Have both on the card ready to go.
Edit: oops I meant 3.2 not 1
Edit 2: nope, definitely meant 1. What am I doing this morning?
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium

have that CWM zip and another installation ready to go on the root of the SDCard.
flash the wiper and then install the OS
doesn't matter what ROM you have...

Did that zip work?

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Did that zip work?
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haven't tried yet. i was given samsung pst so im trying that atm. afterwards as a last resort ill use what you mentioned.

okay, so i did it. put on cwm, both tweaked 3.1 rom and that wipe all file on the sd card. booted it up. ran the wipe file. then ran tweaked. booted up, and it stuck at the samsung logo. then i figured it was wiped, so i went and hooked it up for odin and put EP4D on it again so i can get fresh, and as soon as i got in all my apps were there, and everything was crashing one process after another.
i think the phone is borked and non recoverable.

Did you happen to mount the /system and /data first as previously mentioned?
That should have forcefully removed everything. Also on a normal basis (if not using a PIT) it won't erase /data ... it never has for me anyways.
How much time does it give you when you get the FC's until it happens again (the FC) can you try
To manually uninstall? ( Applications -> Manage Applications and then deleting then one by one? Or take titanium backup and run a batch to delete the applications in one go....
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to figure this out and help you the best way possible.
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Also have you tried a non rooted ODIN? With a PIT?

[Q] Having trouble installing CROMI and MAX

I started with a factory wiped system when I bought it.
I unlocked and rooted
I installed CROMI-X 4.68 and patched to 4.69 with _that v3+ (I think that is one of the stock options for CROMI)
I then installed the MAX kernel RC1 and everything was running pretty well. Still a little laggy here and there but not bad
I had been making Nandroid backups along the way so I felt pretty confident
Then I heard that doing a clean install might be even better and I wasn't exactly sure what options I had selected when installing CROMI the first time so I decided to try a clean install
I got a microsd card and put all of my ROMs and kernels on it
I rebooted into TWRP an went to Wipe-->Advanced Wipe and selected everything but the microSD and wiped it
I then formatted the data partition (I don't think that I had to do this but it felt like it was even more clean somehow)
I then installed CROMI 4.6.8 (this time I selected to disable fsync where I am pretty sure that i didn't last time because I didnot know what it did)
It rebooted fine
Installed 4.6.9 patch
It rebooted fine
Installed MAX RC1 (just like I had before)
Started booting, updated 37 apps and the hung on the starting apps dialog.
Waited a while and rebooted manually and it would hang on the boot animation toward the end
I got a little worried so I tried restoring my last Nandroid backup
Seemed to restore fine but again hung on the boot animation
Started to get more worried now because I thought that this was always my safety net and it didn't seem to be working
Wiped everything again (same as above)
restored the stock JB backup that I had and it booted fine. whew...
Tried a factory reset through stock JB ( I thouugh tthat this would put me back in a situation like I was in during the first install so I could reinstall CROMI and the MAX kernel and be on my way
Again, I then installed CROMI 4.6.8 (disabled fsync again)
It rebooted fine
Installed 4.6.9 patch
It rebooted fine
Installed MAX RC1 (just like I had before)
Started booting, updated 37 apps and the hung on the starting apps dialog.
Waited a while and rebooted manually and it would hang on the boot animation toward the end
This was all done around midnight ladst night and I need to get some sleep so I could come to work today (and write this post )
I am not sure what to do at this point. I really just want a nice clean install of CROMI 4.6.9 with the MAX kernel that I can start using like I want to. I would also like to try disabling fsync to see if it is any less laggy but at this point I may try all of the above steps but leave it enabled to see if that is the variable that is causing my problem. I will try fooling with it again tonight to see if I can get it working. I even re-downloaded all of the zip files in case one of them got corrupt somehow (just trying to cover my bases.
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
sorry for the long post
Jeff

gixxer340 said:
I started with a factory wiped system when I bought it.
I unlocked and rooted
I installed CROMI-X 4.68 and patched to 4.69 with _that v3+ (I think that is one of the stock options for CROMI)
I then installed the MAX kernel RC1 and everything was running pretty well. Still a little laggy here and there but not bad
I had been making Nandroid backups along the way so I felt pretty confident
Then I heard that doing a clean install might be even better and I wasn't exactly sure what options I had selected when installing CROMI the first time so I decided to try a clean install
I got a microsd card and put all of my ROMs and kernels on it
I rebooted into TWRP an went to Wipe-->Advanced Wipe and selected everything but the microSD and wiped it
I then formatted the data partition (I don't think that I had to do this but it felt like it was even more clean somehow)
I then installed CROMI 4.6.8 (this time I selected to disable fsync where I am pretty sure that i didn't last time because I didnot know what it did)
It rebooted fine
Installed 4.6.9 patch
It rebooted fine
Installed MAX RC1 (just like I had before)
Started booting, updated 37 apps and the hung on the starting apps dialog.
Waited a while and rebooted manually and it would hang on the boot animation toward the end
I got a little worried so I tried restoring my last Nandroid backup
Seemed to restore fine but again hung on the boot animation
Started to get more worried now because I thought that this was always my safety net and it didn't seem to be working
Wiped everything again (same as above)
restored the stock JB backup that I had and it booted fine. whew...
Tried a factory reset through stock JB ( I thouugh tthat this would put me back in a situation like I was in during the first install so I could reinstall CROMI and the MAX kernel and be on my way
Again, I then installed CROMI 4.6.8 (disabled fsync again)
It rebooted fine
Installed 4.6.9 patch
It rebooted fine
Installed MAX RC1 (just like I had before)
Started booting, updated 37 apps and the hung on the starting apps dialog.
Waited a while and rebooted manually and it would hang on the boot animation toward the end
This was all done around midnight ladst night and I need to get some sleep so I could come to work today (and write this post )
I am not sure what to do at this point. I really just want a nice clean install of CROMI 4.6.9 with the MAX kernel that I can start using like I want to. I would also like to try disabling fsync to see if it is any less laggy but at this point I may try all of the above steps but leave it enabled to see if that is the variable that is causing my problem. I will try fooling with it again tonight to see if I can get it working. I even re-downloaded all of the zip files in case one of them got corrupt somehow (just trying to cover my bases.
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
sorry for the long post
Jeff
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I hoped that you had a latest bootloader and TWRP. You can try to follow the procedures below. It works fine for me every time.
1. Boot into TWRP and select "Wipe"
2. Use "Format" instead of Wipe Caches and Data. They are probably the same but I prefer Format method.
3. Install Cromi X V4.6.8. When it is finished, install Patch V4.6.9 on top of V4.6.8 in the Same Session.
4. When you see install the Successful message, now you can reboot and let it update.
5. When you see the Setup Screen, leave it there for about 1 minute and boot it back into TWRP and install the Kernel that you prefer
6. After the Kernel is completed, you can reboot your device and start using it. Good luck and please report back, thanks.
BTW, you don't have to disable FSync during install process. You can manually toggle it on/off after you are happy with your installation and with all the update. If you have some kind of root file manager, you can navigate to this folder: system/ect/init.d and add this line at the end of the 50CleanTWEAKS file: echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/fsynccontrol/fsync_enabled. 0 is disable and 1 is enable.

I have TWRP 2.5, not sure about the version of the bootloader.
I will try your suggestions but i do have one question though.
You say "5. When you see the Setup Screen, leave it there for about 1 minute and boot it back into TWRP and install the Kernel that you prefer"
Do you mean when I see the white setup screens just wait for 1 minute and then power off back to recovery? Don't finish the setup?
Thanks again
Jeff

gixxer340 said:
I have TWRP 2.5, not sure about the version of the bootloader.
Jeff
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This may be the clue!
Boot the tablet with Volume Down and Power buttons and read the tiny script. You should be on the 10.6.1.14.4 or 10.6.1.14.8 bootloader.
If you are not, grab the bootloader/TWRP package from the CROMi-X OP, flash it in TWRP and reboot.

gixxer340 said:
I have TWRP 2.5, not sure about the version of the bootloader.
I will try your suggestions but i do have one question though.
You say "5. When you see the Setup Screen, leave it there for about 1 minute and boot it back into TWRP and install the Kernel that you prefer"
Do you mean when I see the white setup screens just wait for 1 minute and then power off back to recovery? Don't finish the setup?
Thanks again
Jeff
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Yes, you are correct.
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berndblb said:
This may be the clue!
Boot the tablet with Volume Down and Power buttons and read the tiny script. You should be on the 10.6.1.14.4 or 10.6.1.14.8 bootloader.
If you are not, grab the bootloader/TWRP package from the CROMi-X OP, flash it in TWRP and reboot.
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Bootloader Version: 1.00e and Released by Firmware Version: 10.6.1.14.8 :good:

My bootloader is 10.6.1.14.4. is that new enough?
Jeff

gixxer340 said:
My bootloader is 10.6.1.14.4. is that new enough?
Jeff
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I believed that the bootloader version is the same on both 10.6.14.4 and 10.6.14.8 firmwares. Maybe, someone with a better knowledge can confirm it.

LetMeKnow said:
I hoped that you had a latest bootloader and TWRP. You can try to follow the procedures below. It works fine for me every time.
1. Boot into TWRP and select "Wipe"
2. Use "Format" instead of Wipe Caches and Data. They are probably the same but I prefer Format method.
3. Install Cromi X V4.6.8. When it is finished, install Patch V4.6.9 on top of V4.6.8 in the Same Session.
4. When you see install the Successful message, now you can reboot and let it update.
5. When you see the Setup Screen, leave it there for about 1 minute and boot it back into TWRP and install the Kernel that you prefer
6. After the Kernel is completed, you can reboot your device and start using it. Good luck and please report back, thanks.
BTW, you don't have to disable FSync during install process. You can manually toggle it on/off after you are happy with your installation and with all the update. If you have some kind of root file manager, you can navigate to this folder: system/ect/init.d and add this line at the end of the 50CleanTWEAKS file: echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/fsynccontrol/fsync_enabled. 0 is disable and 1 is enable.
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I followed your recipe exactly and it seems to have worked like a charm. I did leave fsync enabled this time as well. I am now setting everything back up. Thanks a lot for the help.
Jeff

gixxer340 said:
I followed your recipe exactly and it seems to have worked like a charm. I did leave fsync enabled this time as well. I am now setting everything back up. Thanks a lot for the help.
Jeff
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It is great that you got your tablet going. About the FSync, you don't have to hurry to disable it. You can manually toggle it off later when everything is running good. It improves your I/O speed quite bit. Just to remember to enable it when you do a major update or app installations. Good luck.

gixxer340 said:
My bootloader is 10.6.1.14.4. is that new enough?
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LetMeKnow said:
I believed that the bootloader version is the same on both 10.6.14.4 and 10.6.14.8 firmwares. Maybe, someone with a better knowledge can confirm it.
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The 10.6.1.14.4 and 10.6.1.14.8 bootloaders are identical (except for version number and build date).

_that said:
The 10.6.1.14.4 and 10.6.1.14.8 bootloaders are identical (except for version number and build date).
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Thanks _that for the confirmation. :good:

gixxer340 said:
I followed your recipe exactly and it seems to have worked like a charm. I did leave fsync enabled this time as well. I am now setting everything back up. Thanks a lot for the help.
Jeff
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For completeness sake I would like to add a couple other things that I did differently from my previous attempts. I don't know if they made a difference or not.
1. Reformatted the microSD card to FAT32 instead of exFAT
2. Redownloaded all images and verified their MD5 sum after copying them to the SD card/
Again, not sure if it made a difference but I am up and running now.
Thanks again
Jeff