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sandeepsb · Jan 29, 2013

...Awesome... said:
Time to call Google and get an exchange just tell them u had it charging over night with the power off and woke up and won't turn on. Nothing else u can do .

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Just went through Google. Here's my problem..

I went to the US last week and bought the Nexus 10 from Amazon. Came back to the UK and the thing died on me. Called up Google but they don't support devices not bought in the Play Store. Amazon want me to send it back to them in the US. Samsung tell me that they don't support the Nexus 10 and if they did they wouldn't be able to use the warranty on a US device.

I'm lost. I don't know what to do now. Any ideas?

freshlysqueezed said:
Let it charge for a few hours, then turn it on.

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I've tried that with no luck.

...Awesome... · Jan 30, 2013

sandeepsb said:
Just went through Google. Here's my problem..

I went to the US last week and bought the Nexus 10 from Amazon. Came back to the UK and the thing died on me. Called up Google but they don't support devices not bought in the Play Store. Amazon want me to send it back to them in the US. Samsung tell me that they don't support the Nexus 10 and if they did they wouldn't be able to use the warranty on a US device.

I'm lost. I don't know what to do now. Any ideas?

I've tried that with no luck.

Amazon is your best bet Idk you have no family in US to ship it to them?

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vizzy · Jan 30, 2013

Ignore.

SacGuru · Feb 1, 2013

A friend who is in the UK has just bought a Nexus 10 for me. She would be coming for a visit to India, where I live, next month, and I would get my device from her then. Can anyone please advice me on what are the things I should ask her to check in the device while she's in London, so that I dont get any surprises when she brings it over here? I have heard that many pieces have been defective in one way or the other.
Also, can you write down the simple steps to check the RAM storage? I couldn't figure it out with her over skype.

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DN66 · Feb 1, 2013

Good Morning All,

I am having a very strange issue that started last night. While installing some app updates, the tablet reset itself and went into a bootloop. The tablet turns on, flashes the "Google" screen and then resets.

It continued to do this through the night until the battery was drained. This morning when I plugged it in to charge, as soon as there was enough power, it started the bootloop again. I am not rooted or unlocked and am running andriod 4.2 stock (I have ingored the 4.2.1 update because of the bugs reported). I have tried to get into the recovery mode, but when I get to the screen with the adroird robot on it's back, it reboots again. Its almost as if the tablet thinks the power button is being pressed when its not! Any help would be appreciated!

hongphooey · Feb 2, 2013

Hello there, I'm in desperate need of help.
I unlocked the bootloader and had problems with bootloop.
I couldn't figure out how to factory reset so I flashed cwm recovery and superboot r1 root tool kit.
I now have cwm v6.0.2.3 and have problems mounting /sdcard/
I tried flashing a rom with fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
I can't seem to do a factory reset with recovery.
I downloaded the factory image and tried to flash that with fastboot and i think that failed..
Now I dont even have a bootloop...
Can you point me in the right direction?
I'm thinking if I had a rom I could probably flash it. Problem is I can't seem to get a rom in the root of my SD card.

Trusstopher · Feb 2, 2013

I seem to be having a Similar problem to DN66:

Used my N10 quite a bit last night with no problems, last thing I did before I went to bed was told it to install the 10 pending app updates, closed the case lid and when to bed.

This morning I went to use it and it was having trouble connecting to my WiFi so I rebooted using the menu reboot.

This is when the troubles started.

I wasn't really paying attention as it rebooted, but I noticed after 5 or 10 minutes that it was still at the "Google Screen". This being much longer than usual for a reboot, I forced another restart by holding the power button to get the same result.

Booted into the bootloader and selected recovery. I was showing the TWRP screen for about a minute before it returned to the Google boot screen, then gave me the Nexus "X" for booting, but then gave me a "Enter password to Decrypt"...only problem is that my device is not encrypted.

Tried a couple random passwords with no luck, used the power menu again. Tried Recovery again where it keeps hanging at the TWRP boot screen with no progress until back to the "Google" screen.

I have no tried to use Wug's NRT as well as the Nexus 10 Toolkit to try and restore the tablet. With Wug's it says that it has flashed the stock imgage and to wait for it to reboot, but the Nexus doesn't indicate that it ever connected with the computer. With the Nexus 10 Toolkit I have tried to flash stock image as well as flash stock recovery.

When flashing stock image, it gets to the point where it sends the bootloader, succeeds, then hangs at "Writing Bootloader" and the N10 shows "Fastboot Status - flash:bootloader".

When flashing stock recovery, it sends recovery successfully but then hangs at "Fastboot Status - flash:recovery".

It seems that my device is having problems any time it tries to access and/or write to the device.

Any thoughts?

Edit: Running AOKP latest MR2

Trusstopher · Feb 3, 2013

Trusstopher said:
I seem to be having a Similar problem to DN66:

Used my N10 quite a bit last night with no problems, last thing I did before I went to bed was told it to install the 10 pending app updates, closed the case lid and when to bed.

This morning I went to use it and it was having trouble connecting to my WiFi so I rebooted using the menu reboot.

This is when the troubles started.

I wasn't really paying attention as it rebooted, but I noticed after 5 or 10 minutes that it was still at the "Google Screen". This being much longer than usual for a reboot, I forced another restart by holding the power button to get the same result.

Booted into the bootloader and selected recovery. I was showing the TWRP screen for about a minute before it returned to the Google boot screen, then gave me the Nexus "X" for booting, but then gave me a "Enter password to Decrypt"...only problem is that my device is not encrypted.

Tried a couple random passwords with no luck, used the power menu again. Tried Recovery again where it keeps hanging at the TWRP boot screen with no progress until back to the "Google" screen.

I have no tried to use Wug's NRT as well as the Nexus 10 Toolkit to try and restore the tablet. With Wug's it says that it has flashed the stock imgage and to wait for it to reboot, but the Nexus doesn't indicate that it ever connected with the computer. With the Nexus 10 Toolkit I have tried to flash stock image as well as flash stock recovery.

When flashing stock image, it gets to the point where it sends the bootloader, succeeds, then hangs at "Writing Bootloader" and the N10 shows "Fastboot Status - flash:bootloader".

When flashing stock recovery, it sends recovery successfully but then hangs at "Fastboot Status - flash:recovery".

It seems that my device is having problems any time it tries to access and/or write to the device.

Any thoughts?

Edit: Running AOKP latest MR2

After trying many different routes (and successfully getting into TWRP a couple times after waiting for 10+ minutes, but it being unable to mount system, boot, cache, or anything else) I tried the "-w" fastboot command (erase userdata and cache) and surprisingly it worked with no problems and cleared the way for everything else to work the way it should. I had pretty much convinced myself that something had been corrupted beyond repair and I was about to be SOL... but I guess not.

addicted1900 · Feb 4, 2013

Bricked my Device

Edith : Factory Images are nice ^^

KindleFireGuy · Feb 4, 2013

hongphooey said:
Hello there, I'm in desperate need of help.
I unlocked the bootloader and had problems with bootloop.
I couldn't figure out how to factory reset so I flashed cwm recovery and superboot r1 root tool kit.
I now have cwm v6.0.2.3 and have problems mounting /sdcard/
I tried flashing a rom with fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
I can't seem to do a factory reset with recovery.
I downloaded the factory image and tried to flash that with fastboot and i think that failed..
Now I dont even have a bootloop...
Can you point me in the right direction?
I'm thinking if I had a rom I could probably flash it. Problem is I can't seem to get a rom in the root of my SD card.

Try adb flashing though cwm

meishkov · Feb 5, 2013

Similar problem to hongphooey. Tried the 1-click method in the toolkit and I fudged up somewhere. I think I ended up erasing my internal storage after doing the factory reset before I could flash a ROM. I ended up having an unlocked bootloader, unrooted, with TWRP installed but no OS installed according to TWRP. Then my laptop wouldn't recognize my nexus 10 and once I flashed the goog factory image I couldn't get developer options to appear, clicking on Build Number multiple times did nothing. Finally got the drivers back installed, but I can't transfer any files between my PC and nexus 10 thru windows explorer. Basically that's my main problem now, well for the time being, that if I could transfer files from my PC I could flash a ROM n be done. And the backups I made prior to erasing everything, trying to restore those 2 doesn't change anything, like nothing new has been added to the device. Not sure what is going on with this.

Irieone · Feb 5, 2013

meishkov said:
Similar problem to hongphooey. Tried the 1-click method in the toolkit and I fudged up somewhere. I think I ended up erasing my internal storage after doing the factory reset before I could flash a ROM. I ended up having an unlocked bootloader, unrooted, with TWRP installed but no OS installed according to TWRP. Then my laptop wouldn't recognize my nexus 10 and once I flashed the goog factory image I couldn't get developer options to appear, clicking on Build Number multiple times did nothing. Finally got the drivers back installed, but I can't transfer any files between my PC and nexus 10 thru windows explorer. Basically that's my main problem now, well for the time being, that if I could transfer files from my PC I could flash a ROM n be done. And the backups I made prior to erasing everything, trying to restore those 2 doesn't change anything, like nothing new has been added to the device. Not sure what is going on with this.

You will need to sideload a ROM to root storage. You need to have working adb. Just rename the ROM so that it reads as rom.zip

The sideload option is in advanced section of TWRP

put the rom.zip in a known directory

type adb sideload /pathway/rom.zip (if you put the rom.zip in same folder as adb/fastboot the command is just adb sideload rom.zip)

It takes longer, but it will work

meishkov · Feb 5, 2013

Irieone said:
You will need to sideload a ROM to root storage. You need to have working adb. Just rename the ROM so that it reads as rom.zip

The sideload option is in advanced section of TWRP

put the rom.zip in a known directory

type adb sideload /pathway/rom.zip (if you put the rom.zip in same folder as adb/fastboot the command is just adb sideload rom.zip)

It takes longer, but it will work

I found that sideload option in TWRP (well I tried CWM as well to see if it made a difference but still same problem) last night and was trying to get it to work. Problem is when I try to install adb and get to the step where u run that command to get to system properties on your PC then environment variables, there is no "PATH" folder for me to select from. That's the point where I'm at now, I don't want to rely on the toolkit to do stuff and I just want adb setup correctly so I can just run commands from my PC plugged into my nexus. Any idea regarding that environment variables step? I appreciate the help.

Irieone · Feb 5, 2013

I just sent you a PM

crgbrstl · Mar 10, 2013

Just had to try TWRP

My own fault, i know. I always format data when installing a clean rom with CWM. Tried the same in TWRP and wiped my OS. I really have no idea what to do. I don't even have a backup to push, even if i could figure out how. If anybody could help me save my Nexus I'd sure appreciate it.

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crgbrstl said:
My own fault, i know. I always format data when installing a clean rom with CWM. Tried the same in TWRP and wiped my OS. I really have no idea what to do. I don't even have a backup to push, even if i could figure out how. If anybody could help me save my Nexus I'd sure appreciate it.

Never mind, I got it. Anybody else as dumb as me needs a bailout, use TWRP to boot into recovery and then mskip's tool kit to flash a factory image. Easy Peasy - and for God's sake pay the man!

vizzy · Mar 10, 2013

Stupid question' not really an emergency but....... Is there a HTC sense theme ? I've tried searching and I cannot find one.

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...Awesome... · Mar 10, 2013

vizzy said:
Stupid question' not really an emergency but....... Is there a HTC sense theme ? I've tried searching and I cannot find one.

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No, only for Apex, ADW launcher themes

iamikon · Mar 11, 2013

meishkov said:
I found that sideload option in TWRP (well I tried CWM as well to see if it made a difference but still same problem) last night and was trying to get it to work. Problem is when I try to install adb and get to the step where u run that command to get to system properties on your PC then environment variables, there is no "PATH" folder for me to select from. That's the point where I'm at now, I don't want to rely on the toolkit to do stuff and I just want adb setup correctly so I can just run commands from my PC plugged into my nexus. Any idea regarding that environment variables step? I appreciate the help.

You don't choose a path for example (on Linux) adb sideload /home/ikon/download/ROM.zip or for windows adb sideload c:/documents/user/downloads/ROM.zip or whatever the path to the file is

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Astrel · Mar 15, 2013

Nexus 10 [No ROM] [Wiped Data]

So yeah, I was an idiot. I wiped my ROM and then wiped my data. But I am having trouble installing any other ROMs via fastboot.

It will connect via fastboot to the PC but then it will sit there for ages on 'Sending Data' sending the bootloader and it never completes even though the bootloader is like 4MB big.

Could someone please help or link me to a thread that can help?

C:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot flash recovery recovery-twrp-2.3.2.3-manta.img
sending 'recovery' (7246 KB)...
FAILED (data transfer failure (Too many links))
finished. total time: 298.811s

I dont know why it keeps failing.

...Awesome... · Mar 16, 2013

Astrel said:
So yeah, I was an idiot. I wiped my ROM and then wiped my data. But I am having trouble installing any other ROMs via fastboot.

It will connect via fastboot to the PC but then it will sit there for ages on 'Sending Data' sending the bootloader and it never completes even though the bootloader is like 4MB big.

Could someone please help or link me to a thread that can help?

C:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot flash recovery recovery-twrp-2.3.2.3-manta.img
sending 'recovery' (7246 KB)...
FAILED (data transfer failure (Too many links))
finished. total time: 298.811s

I dont know why it keeps failing.

Try renaming the recovery to just recovery.img

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