Recent content by Paul pinckston

Hi all, my fiancee was using the dreaded Facebook app and her phone froze, she performed a restart and it resulted in a hard brick! Windows device manager shows qhsusb 9008 or something similar, need the tot file to try to reflash using boarddiag. Tried converting kdz to got but can't find the...

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has managed to get a fully working app to SD method? I'm using link2sd with Vicky Bonick's mount script from apps2sd, it works for some apps but others force close on startup. Even removing the link doesn't stop the force closes, the app has to be reinstalled and...

Hi all, my sd card recently corrupted, luckily I could still retrieve the data using Linux mx-14. However, I could not reformat using any tool, not parted, not even using the dd zero write method! Tossed that card and bought a class 10 SanDisk 16Gb. I also installed the flashable stock rom from...

Hi all, my daughter updated snapchat this morning, subsequently her screen suddenly went black and the phone was unresponsive. She pulled the battery and now the phone is completely dead, no charge animation, no vibration on power button press, nothing! Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Hope someone can help, I am trying to create sd card as internal on cm13, it keeps coming up as corrupted even though it says "your sandisk sd card is working". tried it after formatting in pc to ext4 and fat32, same issue. I can't use link2sd either, that cannot create mount script, gives a...

Hi, just checked my bill and have been charged for a "long message" which appears to be an sms which was converted to mms. Is there any way to turn this off? I can't find the option in sms settings like other android handsets. Thanks.

Hoping someone can help me, been reading forum after forum to no avail! Managed to unlock bootloader fine, but tried to fastboot recovery and got a message along the lines of "no space on device" or something similar. Since then I've tried to dd recovery to recovery partition, zero out laf and...

Hi all, I googled this as I couldn't find anything on the forum, has anyone tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40162121 I think it looks promising but don't want to risk a bootloop as I haven't got a custom recovery installed yet! Thanks ☺