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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...

This one is a little weird. Note the attached screenshot. In the upper-right corner it shows the battery is plugged in. Now look below the phone name where it doesn't say "Charging 62%". Though plugged in, the phone just drains the battery away. The details. It's plugged into a wall socket...

I've seen a bunch folks commenting about the GNex battery drain saying something like "what do you expect with such a huge screen?" I've given this some thought and I'm not convinced that's accurate. Let me explain. It has a 4.65" AMOLED screen which is larger than any phone besides the...

AMOLED screens, as I understand them, consist of separate LED pixels (or sub-pixels if you consider each color) which emit light directly and therefore need no backlight. The key pieces to my point are LED emit directly. Yesterday I was in my car waiting for someone with my polarized shades...

I'm unlocked and rooted and I did it before the one-click method so I do have a modicum (a tiny bit) of skillz. I would like to back up the whole phone which I believe means do a Nandroid backup. How do I do that? I do have ROM Manager. Thanks.

I just got my Transformer a few weeks ago and the dock a few days ago. The constant battery drain from the dock is bothering me. I keep them attached, have set the wifi policy to "disconnect when screen is off" and I still find the dock battery draining at an alarming rate. I stuck Juice...

I remember when we used to have a little thingy which showed up in editable text windows and allowed us to position the cursor as we saw fit. It was a little tricky to use until you got the flow of it. Either I haven't gotten the GB flow or this feature is no longer there. I know I can now...

Apparently the Market and I don't get along very well. Over the past week or so, when I try to access many of the apps in the Market through the Market app on my phone, I get the error "The requested item could not be found." These are not obscure apps which won't run on my DX but are current...

I just read the DX bootloader is finally unlocked and Moto has already sent out cease and desist warnings to those releasing the details. It got me thinking about why Motorola would go to such lengths to lock the phone down and I haven't come up with anything good. To keep users tethered to a...

I took advantage of the eBay deal to get a NC for $200. After messing with the NC, I realized that I prefer the Kindle I have as a reader. In fact I feel B&N really crippled the NC with their front end; imported books are treated as second-class citizens without access to the desktop or quick...

Yesterday we got a real web interface into the Android Market (http://market.android.com). Surprisingly there has been little rejoicing. Whatever. I've logged in using my only Google account and it finds all the apps I've bought and downloaded. Sweet! Things go bad from there. When I go...