Recent content by artician

First, thank you so much for taking the time to answer all that. Yeah I'm thinking Cyanogenmod is not what I expected... I started it up and was immediately greeted by Yahoo(???!!!!#@$%^&*) Weather, probably the worst corporate Privacy-R apist at the moment. There's just no answer, is there...

*ping*

And again. Lame. Sorry for the noise.

Just posting again because the post-count limit is getting in my way.

I wrote a reply and then it disappeared... It seems my bad luck with the device is rolling over into my desktop experience. ;) Thank you for your reply and help!

I’m tinkering with my Nexus hardware/firmware/software and could really use some feedback. My primary reason is for privacy and app control. I’m just going to rattle off some loosely related questions and hopefully someone more familiar with this territory can help me out! - Is there any...

No, flo. I realize the steps I was following were for the 2012 model, but at that stage I was certain it didn't matter. Was I wrong? This is my first android, but I'm an experienced tinker and this absolutely confounds me.

Device lives again! I do not know why! The battery was not dead. After it's presumed "bricking" I disconnected it and moved it aside to focus on other work. From time to time I'd sadly reach over and press the power button, or press and hold a combination of buttons. Sometimes a long press...

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I think I bricked my device by trying to boot into recovery! Working my way through Cyanogenmod installation instructions: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_grouper I'd updated to Marshmallow 6.0 prior to this. Device unlocked and in fastboot. Attempted to install new recovery...

I'm having a similar issue. My PC (win7) recognizes the Nexus7, but when I attempt to access its internal storage from a windows explorer window, the device appears connected but its contents appear empty. It looks like everything was moved from the "Storage" folder to the SDCard 'folder' on...