Recent content by phonetrips

I wish I had good news for you, but I never came up with a solution. I called Google and they accepted this as a warranty problem and exchanged it for another one. I have no idea how Samsung would handle yours.

I bought it from the Play store so I need to call Google for support. My concern is whether they will repair/replace if under warrantee since the bootloader is unlocked. One of my symptoms is that the command fastboot oem lock sppears to work, but nothing happens and the padlock icon is still...

Kitchen-2:android admin$ ./fastboot format system formatting 'system' partition... Creating filesystem with parameters: Size: 681574400 Block size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 6944 Inode size: 256 Journal blocks: 2600 Label: Blocks: 166400...

I had been doing all this on a Windows machine. For something completely different, I installed adb and fastboot on my Macbook. I haven't tried everything yet because I am still copying the recovery files to the Mac, but so far I have tried using fastboot on the Mac to oem lock and to format the...

I'm having the weirdest problem with my Nexus 7 and I'm wondering whether it is hardware or software. I have searched everywhere and only found one person with a similar situation and he had already sent his back for repair before anyone responded with things for him to try. My 16gb Nexus 7 is...