I woke up to an update from Windows on July 12th, 2017. It happened in the background while working and it restarted by itself. I usually let these happen, so no big deal. When it restarted, I was in an endless loop of firefox crashing. Uninstalled, reinstalled, lost all bookmarks, etc. Very frustrated. I was …
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I was upgrading my computer to a SSD drive that had a smaller capacity than my current one, and I thought it was going to be an easy process. Once I had the new SSD drive in place, I started Macrium Reflect FREE and then got a message stating that there was not enough space …
I decided that my unlocked SGH-I317 ATT Note 2 running on t-mobile would be great with the t889’s wifi calling feature. Loaded up Odin, used sammobile’s t889 rom and halfway through it failed. This wasn’t my first rom, so I just thought, oh well, back to the one I was using. Insert dramatic music here. …
I have been toying with the idea of replacing my phone with a Samsung Galaxy Note for a few months. I had actually ordered similar things from China a couple of years ago and found that they were totally unusable. The Galaxy Note is what’s considered a “Phablet” (phone/tablet). I currently have an HTC HD2 …
UPDATE: I should have trusted my instincts about something “designed” in Miami… After 2 days, there is a red line running through the display. Sigh….. Sending the phone back and will take the plunge for the galaxy note. —– After a couple of dud phone/tablets that I purchased from China a couple of years ago, …
Recently something happened to my tablet and it wouldn’t boot past the android skateboarder screen (never got to the eye). The /system/bin folder had been deleted, so I couldn’t get into the adb shell. I could get to adb and see the device, though. After pulling what little bit of hair I had left out, …
Kylin Chinese Tablet Android OS Stuck at red eye boot up screen. Here is what I had to do to get the “red eye” to stop showing up on my machine. It took FOREVER to figure this out. I installed a bootmanager that didn’t install well, and when I rebooted, the android device got stuck …
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Was having a very difficult time trying to Superuser this android tablet (kylin MID android 2.2), but finally got it working. Here’s how: From this site: http://androidforums.com/droid-all-things-root/171056-rooting-droid-without-rsd-lite-up-including-frg83d.html The instructions: Whats needed Set up the SDK-ADB for instructions on setting up adb see this video by unlockr You need to be able to get to your phone via …
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Plug in the USB cable from PC to phone/tablet SETTINGS|APPLICATIONS|DEBUGGING *ON* HOME SCREEN Pull down the hidden notification menu and it will say on the USB notification, touch here to use USB storage. Touch it. Immediately connected!