Recent content by RichSz

I rooted this beast early on when the only way got me TWRP as a recovery. My problem with that is I can't take OTA updates. In fact I get prompted every few days and have never been able to get the tablet to take the update. So I need to flash stock recovery. But I can't seem to find the...

Yesterday I read on Twitter that people were walking in to Walmart, asking for an N7.2 and suggesting the clerk look in the back room. They would then get their tablet 5 or 6 days before the official release. I thought of doing this but felt it was slightly unethical so I bailed on the idea...

This problem is solved but I wanted to document it here in case anyone else had the same issue. Yesterday, I decided I was too impatient to wait for 4.3 to download on its own so I remembered the trick where you clear data from Google Services Framework and make the tablet recheck the server...

I didn't expect it but that may be what happened. I got tired of the nagging about the OTA of a week or so ago (yes, they wore me down) so I took the stupid OTA from the stupid carrier and let it do whatever to my stupid phone. I figured I'd lost root so I didn't even check. This morning I...

Dear Samsung, Hi! My name is Rich and I bought a Galaxy S4 a few weeks ago. Overall it's a pretty good phone but nothing is perfect and it could be better. The weak areas revolve around where you try to hold my hand unnecessarily. Holding a new or non-technical person's hand is good customer...

I had a weird problem on Friday and Saturday with my N7 which I thought I'd share. On Friday, I installed Verizon Messenger and got it working. Shortly afterwards I noticed the tablet was unusually warm. The battery had drained more that it ought to have for what I was doing (reading with the...

I just installed the latest yesterday and am still learning it's ins and outs. One thing I can't figure is why I get and alarm sound then I get a notification. It keeps going until I pull down the notification bar. I thought I covered all settings but I've clearly missed something. Any idea...

I realize this is fixable but at this point I can't figure out how to get out of it. I decided to install JBSourcery and followed Chief's instructions to the letter. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nugdF8dCvmDxvDcuI2xV_fa8RXLXZdy00U5caIxPKYk/mobilebasic It went horribly wrong. I can get...

I mentioned in another thread my Nexus had issues. The screen's contrast was extremely low even during the boot screen so it wasn't a weird setting or app. I contacted ASUS via web chat and the agent told me it should be returned for repair then gave me the proper URL to get it going. I...

Yesterday something in my display fried. The display went to a very low contrast where the blacks on the screen look much brighter than they ought to. It's like screwing with the contrast on a TV. I'm bummed because I love this tablet but do understand hardware issues happen. That's life...

I played with new boot animations yesterday, flashed a few looking for one I liked. I installed a Star Trek animation which turned out to be pretty crappy but I seem to be stuck with it. I flashed several others afterwards but the crappy one is still being used. I looked in...

That is if you ordered straight from Google. If you ordered from another source, that's a whole other ballgame. One theory as to why some people haven't received their N7s yet is because they ordered a case which is back ordered. I ordered a 16GB N7 with case on 6/27 and haven't heard...

I think it's funny. :) Montage: Unboxing the Nexus 7 is fun! - YouTube

I've read that part of what Google is trying to accomplish with the N7 is to create their own consumer ecosystem like Amazon has done with the Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime. I'm not sure that's going to work. With the KF you get Amazon Prime (not sure if access comes with the KF or you have to...

The Nexus 7 is definitely gunning for Amazon's Fire and from what I can tell so far, they've kicked its ass. I wonder if Amazon is going to play games with users of the N7 tablet. They could always list their apps on Play as incompatible with the N7 and screw over us as users. I generally...