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issues with SetCPU

i had SetCPU installed on my phone, and when the phone would shut the screen off, by timing out or being locked, it wouldnt wake up from sleep.. i know at least one other person this has happened to, but removing SetCPU got rid of that problem.. does anyone know whats up?

You're lucky. SetCPU didnt even work on my SGS. It just FC'd everytime I loaded it. I didnt have root, which probably accounts for this issue, however it should still load up - just with locked speed setting bars.

I had the exact same problem you have mentioned below. I also get this issue with the autokiller app.
soraxd said:
i had SetCPU installed on my phone, and when the phone would shut the screen off, by timing out or being locked, it wouldnt wake up from sleep.. i know at least one other person this has happened to, but removing SetCPU got rid of that problem.. does anyone know whats up?
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I'm pretty sure that SetCPU won't work with the SGS as things stand, root or not, for changing the clock rate (unless that built-in thingamagig for unlocking HTC phones' clock rates works).
Did you make sure no default profiles were set up when you installed SetCPU that were set to underclock the CPU or do anything else weird when the phone goes to sleep/is idle? That would be a good place to start.

If anyone could get me a log (force close/crash) or a /proc/last_kmsg (reset) that would be great.

coolbho3000 said:
If anyone could get me a log (force close/crash) or a /proc/last_kmsg (reset) that would be great.
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You, sir, are a credit to this forum.

coolbho3000 said:
If anyone could get me a log (force close/crash) or a /proc/last_kmsg (reset) that would be great.
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I'm sure someone's probably told me before, but how would we do this?
I installed SetCPU, I have root, but it just FC all the time

When rooted setup works fine as long as you just use it for monitoring and don't change the profile
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Okay, that's odd. It's worked this time, although I did nothing different.
coolbho3000, tell me what I need to do to send a logcat and I'll use profile to see if it crashes. For me, profiles are rather important, when the screen is off I want to limit it to like 200mhz or something.

i figured out why SetCPU makes my phone never wake up, the settings i was using was ondemand 100 min 1000 max. SetCPU is set to 100 in standby and this is just too slow and puts the phone completely to sleep.
ive since moved up the phone to 400 min and ive gone a day without any sleeping.
and SetCPU works fine on my phone, and a few friends who have the phone aswell, this was our only problem, and i dont believe it was a problem, its just the way the app is designed, to give full control, leaving the only room for error on our hands..
but still an fyi would be nice lol.. i read the entire huge description of SetCPU, like a half hour read

Try setting the scaling to 'ondemand' or 'performance' if it was set to 'conservative' as default (mine was).

AndyCr15 said:
Okay, that's odd. It's worked this time, although I did nothing different.
coolbho3000, tell me what I need to do to send a logcat and I'll use profile to see if it crashes. For me, profiles are rather important, when the screen is off I want to limit it to like 200mhz or something.
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Logs can be done by getting the Log Collector app from the Android Market. Or, you can plug it into a computer with ADB and run:
adb logcat
I'm interested in the FC crash and why it works for some and not others.
Thanks

In fact, everything seems to work for me too....

I'm especially interested overclocking this thing, as it's the 45nm ARM CPU released in an Android phone en masse. I might get myself a Vibrant if it gets rooted.

The whole problem is that the default is conservative... changing it will cause phone to freeze.
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lgkahn said:
The whole problem is that the default is conservative... changing it will cause phone to freeze.
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Then change the Freq Step in Advanced to 100%, should have the same effect as ondemand.

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The whole problem is that the default is conservative... changing it will cause phone to freeze.
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Ahh, I was getting the 'not waking' issue that was mentioned before.
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Then change the Freq Step in Advanced to 100%, should have the same effect as ondemand.
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This will fix it not waking? Is this better than making the minumum to be 400mhz?
When it was not waking, I changed all the minimums to 200mhz, but it was still dropping to 100mhz? Why would it do this?

With my phone rooted didn't work on first install, whenever I launched it, it kept crashing so I uninstalled and installed back and it works perfect

I went through the whole resetting to factory defaults several times until I determined not coming back from sleeping was setcpu.
I do not think it is a crash problem.
I had the scaling set to ondemand.
Do we know what the minimum CPU speed is for the samsung? I had it on 200 and still had a problem. If I have min at 400 is there a point in using setcpu, because the existing OS will scale for us?
I really loved the product, but I need to feel like we have a more confident answer to this problem.
Kudos to coolbho3000 for a great product. For the avoidance of doubt, I purchased the product.

I'm having a lot of trouble with this app too...
So I'm returning it until someone can post some settings that work flawlessly

Any Battery power saving tips?

So as the thread name states does anybody have any tips for helping have the WildFire's batterey last longer?
So far ive turned the screen brigtness down by half of what it was & turned off touch vibration.
Any other tips?

ATOJAR said:
So as the thread name states does anybody have any tips for helping have the WildFire's batterey last longer?
So far ive turned the screen brigtness down by half of what it was & turned off touch vibration.
Any other tips?
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I have not tried many things but one thing i am pretty sure of is go to MARKET >>>> Download and use Advanced Task Killer .. kill the running apps.. i leave my installed keyboard..and mobile security app ON rest most of them i kill... its a useful app.. i mean why to keep music app or weather app or news app or messaging app running when u are not using them..
Have Fun

warriorvibhu said:
I have not tried many things but one thing i am pretty sure of is go to MARKET >>>> Download and use Advanced Task Killer .. kill the running apps.. i leave my installed keyboard..and mobile security app on rest most of them i kill... its a useful app.. i mean why to keep music app or weather app or news app or messaging app running when u are not using them..
Have Fun
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Yeah ive been using the Advanced Task Killer for a while now already.

I have read that usage of ATK is not required at all because of Androids near perfect RAM Management. And you also could come into trouble because android looses a small amount of ram capacity every time you use ATK untill the next reboot.
other than that you could try Juice Plotter and Juice Defender

find a app can auto turn on/off fly mode.
I ve tried Juicy defender, it seems not fit wildfire very well, some function not working. like auto fly mode, and auto turn off wifi when over 50M.
(btw,it will change your apn setting,cause me can not connect after uninstall it.)
after 1 month, I found navigation app take me 80% of battery.like google map/navi.

rasenzhang said:
find a app can auto turn on/off fly mode.
I ve tried Juicy defender, it seems not fit wildfire very well, some function not working. like auto fly mode, and auto turn off wifi when over 50M.
(btw,it will change your apn setting,cause me can not connect after uninstall it.)
after 1 month, I found navigation app take me 80% of battery.like google map/navi.
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use the automatic brigtness option under the phone settings. much better batterty performance

Read:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701567
Not sure if these steps actually improve the efficency of the battery OR wheter the S/W behind the battery guage becomes more accurate as it goes through a process that alows it to better estimate the SOC of the battery.
Andy

Yup, even I have read a lot that Android manages the apps in a beautiful way. When I first used Android, the first question that came to my mind was how to exit apps as none of the apps had an exit button. Coming from nokia, sony erricson etc this was an obvious question to ask. Then after some research I found that Android just freezes the apps when we go back. The app is not actually running in the back end.
But anyway, yesterday my battery again went to 8% and on checking the used status, it showed that the android system used 92% of the battery lol.
One more thing I would like to suggest is that there is a Power control widget built in the wildfire. Its pretty useful to decrease the brightness, turn off gps, wifi etc from the home screen itself.

sumeetchawla said:
One more thing I would like to suggest is that there is a Power control widget built in the wildfire. Its pretty useful to decrease the brightness, turn off gps, wifi etc from the home screen itself.
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Thanks for this!
I installed this widget and it said that GPS was on even though it wasn't appearing in the tool bar along the top. I had run several apps that use GPS, but had assumed if the GPS icon was gone, GPS was off.
Is that wrong?
(good news if it is, as I was struggling to keep enough power to in my phone to get through the day without charging)
joan

Avoid task killers like the plague. They cause more problems than they solve. Trust the android os to manage ram.
Just discovered the most powerful app I have ever seen called "Tasker". It its only £4, but will make your android so much more diverse. You can, for example, have it go into airplane mode between certain times (i have between midnight and 6am) but periodically check for sms or voice mail every hour. It saves stacks of battery.
I have it turning wifi on only when it knows I'm at home or at work.
I have it turning off wifi, dropping screen brightness down, and playing a louder notification when battery gets to 15%.
It silences my phone when I get within 100m of the two cinemas I use.
It is not the most easy app to use, be patient with it. Look up some of the "recipes" on the internet to get a good tutorial on how to work it. £4 is a steal for something so potentially vast. Its limited only by your imagination.
Oh and having run Tasker for 24 hours, (how long my battery normally lasts) only contributes to a 2% drain, and its adding roughly 6 to 8 hours extra! It would cost you ten times that for an extended battery!

I use an free app called timeriffic to auto disable WiFi
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Try program JuiceDefender....you can download free from Android market.

my battery life is really awful too,i noticed it a couple days ago,that it drains to fast,so i started looking into it,and i found out,that my device won't go too sleep. so in settings/about phone/battery the awake time and up time are the same. i had similar problems on my hero, but there it was the messaging apps fault.
here, i kill everything with advanced task killer,it still can't go too sleep,android battery use shows,that android system is using most of the battery.
anybody else with similar problem?solutions? i have stock 1.25 rom rooted with unrevoked.

What? You mean your screen is permanently on? .....
Ive head bad things about using task killers too, I dont use on anymore.
Some things i have done that have helped my battery like quit alot actually is turn off Wi-Fi, Turm off GPS, Turned off haptic feedback(vibration when pressing buttons), Screen brightness to automatic & screen timeout too 15 seconds.
I can now have a really good fiddle with the phone and it can last more than a day without needing a charge.

As I understand when screen goes auto shut off, all apps are idle, even WiFi or gps is on. I tried with music on continuously for 2 hrs in flight mode, I still have about 80% power. With gps on for 1 hr continuous, I still have about 80%. With normal use my power can last the whole day.
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ATOJAR said:
What? You mean your screen is permanently on? .....
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no,the screen turns off,but something still runs in the background what eats the battery,and I can't find out what it is. I tried multiple task managers,and they show that everything is closed.i have it in flight mode,with everything turned off,still something runs,what shouldn't.

Did you solve this? It's happening on my phone now, and it's very frustrating.
(just installed ATK - very scary the apps I never use are running) and killed everything except ATK. Touch the power switch to turn off the screen. 15 minutes later, up time and awake time are still the same.

jefmcg said:
Did you solve this? It's happening on my phone now, and it's very frustrating.
(just installed ATK - very scary the apps I never use are running) and killed everything except ATK. Touch the power switch to turn off the screen. 15 minutes later, up time and awake time are still the same.
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2 updates from me, to help anyone else with similar problems:
1) I uninstalled any recently installed or updated apps** and widgets now I have a 1:6 ratio of awake time. So, fixed?
2) In the meantime I logged a call to HTC via their website. Answer:
With regards to your problem, if the battery is going down significantly and you have turned of applications when your not using them and used task killer. It might be better to call us up so we cann look into it further and we might have to book the phone in for repair especially if you have noticed it not charging properly or overheating at any time.
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Yup, those problems started occurring at the same time as the other, so it looks like I have an underlying hardware fault. Dammit! I don't want to be without my phone for 2 weeks.
joan
**including CardioTrainer! When I reinstalled it I'd lost around 900km of workout history.

Just out of curiosity
What gain of time are we actually talking about here ?
I tried lots of different things but never suceeded to receive more than two full days.
What is your max. with all the different programs and hints ?

ebioman said:
Just out of curiosity
What gain of time are we actually talking about here ?
I tried lots of different things but never suceeded to receive more than two full days.
What is your max. with all the different programs and hints ?
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If you are asking me, the answer is "about 6 hours".
I've (partially) fixed my uptime = awaketime problem. But I obviously have some more serious battery issue.
Hopefully someone else can chime in with happy battery life.
joan

Android system - partial wake lock

Android system is holding a 25% partial wakelock which over a day of isage is about 2 and a half hours.
i had the same problem on my old desire and i have been through most of the configs that oi can think of, mainly disabling all account syncing however it seems to persist.
does anyone have any ideas? i have searched this forum and modaco but any idea is welcome.
thanks

I had the same problem. I've installed OSMonitor and noticed Android system was running all the time using about 60% of CPU. HTC Sense was using another 30%, so my CPU was running all the time at full load. It was resolved after removing the HTC Sense sync account. Now Android System is using only ~10% in battery status (it was using 30-50% before). Hope this helps.

Install Watchdog and set threshold for notification. If some app is using lot's of CPU. You will be notified.

DeXa said:
I had the same problem. I've installed OSMonitor and noticed Android system was running all the time using about 60% of CPU. HTC Sense was using another 30%, so my CPU was running all the time at full load. It was resolved after removing the HTC Sense sync account. Now Android System is using only ~10% in battery status (it was using 30-50% before). Hope this helps.
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yeah ive removed htc sense sync account but android system is still running 30% of the time, rather frustrating, i'm going to try flashing revolution hd ans see if that helps

I have had the same problem with no fix yet. Has anyone including the OP come across a potential fix for this,

wbbigdave said:
I have had the same problem with no fix yet. Has anyone including the OP come across a potential fix for this,
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i'm pretty sure its a bug in htc sense, i'm running cm7 nightlies at the mo and no wakelocks,
what i would say is that in the end even with the wakelock i was only using about 2/3 % battery per hour so was having great standby times when combined with juice defender and ultimate juice, cant recommend those two enough

[Q] phone never goes into deep sleep

i figured out that to have arround 5 ma in standby ur phone must goes in deep sleep wich seems to be one of the cpu frequencies (i guess so) that is lower than 245 mhz ...u can check that by installing cpuspy ( a small app that shows the time spent on each frequencie ...) well in my case the app show the deep sleep as unused and spend all the time stuck on 245 mhz while screen is off ...
is there any way that might help to make the phone goes in deep sleep or to find the app that let the phone awake after screen is off

SetCPU, It;s available for free on XDA (and donation is avaible on market) has a lot of different settings, including profiles. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419

Eelkede said:
SetCPU, It;s available for free on XDA (and donation is avaible on market) has a lot of different settings, including profiles. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
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i tried it before ..but there's no option that will let the phone goes in deep sleep when screen is off ...u can just set the lowest value wich is 245 ...and my phone do it even without set cpu ... i need something that will force my phone to that state ...or to know how to find the app preventing my phone from sleeping.
thnks anyway

im not really sure this is of any help but Sleep myPhone is available on the market free. it will send your phone into airplane mode so im not sure if thats what you would want though. if you think its a app doing it install a app backup program if you dont have 1 already (i like appmonster) and uninstall 1 by 1 or as a short group intill it works again.

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im not really sure this is of any help but Sleep myPhone is available on the market free. it will send your phone into airplane mode so im not sure if thats what you would want though. if you think its a app doing it install a app backup program if you dont have 1 already (i like appmonster) and uninstall 1 by 1 or as a short group intill it works again.
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if ur battery drain is about 7ma in standby it means ur cpu goes in deep sleep with airplane or without ...but my battery drain is 60 wich mean my phone stay awake in standby with airplane mode or without ...u understand my issue now:-D :-D
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i had to read it a 2nd time but yeah i follow now it was pretty early in the am when i wrote that and could of benifited from some sleep. haha.

htccraze said:
i had to read it a 2nd time but yeah i follow now it was pretty early in the am when i wrote that and could of benifited from some sleep. haha.
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I guess u and my phone need a deep sleep haha

hey dude, have u tried using watchdog lite to see what apps are running in the background. Could easily be a rogue app thats stopping the phone from sleeping. You could backup your rom with CWM then do a fresh install of hyperdroid and see if you still have the issue.

DramatikBeats said:
hey dude, have u tried using watchdog lite to see what apps are running in the background. Could easily be a rogue app thats stopping the phone from sleeping. You could backup your rom with CWM then do a fresh install of hyperdroid and see if you still have the issue.
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i did many times and with diffrent roms ... and this happend even with a fresh install and nothing installed yet ...so iguess that might be caused by an app included in the rom

i installed the app & mine showed the same thing on RAFDROID HD at 1st. it listed deep sleep as "unused CPU states" along with several others. i let my phone rest a few mins and its showing deep sleep for about 4 mins and at 4%. i was thinking maybe there might have been a clitch in the app some how but with my testing it seems that the app works fine. what ROM are you using? kinda curious now. maybe i'll flash it over to see if i have the same problem.

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i installed the app & mine showed the same thing on RAFDROID HD at 1st. it listed deep sleep as "unused CPU states" along with several others. i let my phone rest a few mins and its showing deep sleep for about 4 mins and at 4%. i was thinking maybe there might have been a clitch in the app some how but with my testing it seems that the app works fine. what ROM are you using? kinda curious now. maybe i'll flash it over to see if i have the same problem.
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i'm using hyperdroid cm7 ...but i tested in typhoon cm7 and nexus hd ...and a sense rom i dont remmember the name, it's annoying to drain battery in standby

[Q] Android 4.2.2 and battery drain issue

Hi everyone,
been a while since I last posted here.
but lets cut straight to the point in this thread (not being rude here, I hope).
I'm pretty sure most of you know of this issue and I have been going on around
the net looking for a solution. and have yet to find any reliable solutions to this issue.
so hopefully some kind souls here who knows of one can guide me..
I'm sure most of you know what issue I am having here but I guess it is better
I type it out here to avoid any miscommunication
I have a nexus 7 (rooted) and ever since I got the 4.2.2, my battery drain is insane.
about 62% drain in nine hours alone in IDLE mode.
I've tried most every suggestion in the net (turning off autosync, brightness control. blah blah blah)
but the issue persists.
so is there a real solution to this issue..?
thanks for reading in advance.. thanks..

Get BetterBatteryStats and check for unusual wakelocks etc.
Also try a different rom and kernel. I personally use Purity with M-Kernel a56 and I get about 7 to 7.5 hours of screen on time per charge.

veeman said:
Get BetterBatteryStats and check for unusual wakelocks etc.
Also try a different rom and kernel. I personally use Purity with M-Kernel a56 and I get about 7 to 7.5 hours of screen on time per charge.
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though I rooted my nexus 7, i am an extreme noob in rooting processes.
but for now, I will try and get betterbatterystats and see what processes is eating up my batt in idle mode.
note :- even in idle mode, i do note that my nexus 7 is pretty warm and I suppose this is not suppose to
happen when the device is in idle (sleep) mode..
will post when I have betterbatterystats show me whats eating my batt soon

hamiksu said:
though I rooted my nexus 7, i am an extreme noob in rooting processes.
but for now, I will try and get betterbatterystats and see what processes is eating up my batt in idle mode.
note :- even in idle mode, i do note that my nexus 7 is pretty warm and I suppose this is not suppose to
happen when the device is in idle (sleep) mode..
will post when I have betterbatterystats show me whats eating my batt soon
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That sounds like it has something to do with the CPU control. Normally the CPU frequency varies between 513MHz and 1300MHz in addition to the amount of cores active (1 - 4) depending on activity. It could be that your CPU frequency and cores are unable to scale down when inactive. But luckily that can be fixed by adjusting the speed manually.
http://androidforums.com/xperia-mini-all-things-root/513426-android-cpu-governors-explained.html

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That sounds like it has something to do with the CPU control. Normally the CPU frequency varies between 513MHz and 1300MHz in addition to the amount of cores active (1 - 4) depending on activity. It could be that your CPU frequency and cores are unable to scale down when inactive. But luckily that can be fixed by adjusting the speed manually.
http://androidforums.com/xperia-mini-all-things-root/513426-android-cpu-governors-explained.html
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CPU control... hmm..
can BetterBatteryStats show whether it really is this CPU control being the culprit for the battery drain?

hamiksu said:
CPU control... hmm..
can BetterBatteryStats show whether it really is this CPU control being the culprit for the battery drain?
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I would not know as I do not use BetterBatteryStats. But if I set my CPU to have all cores on at max frequency, the CPU would be at 60c and drain the battery fast.

Username invalid said:
I would not know as I do not use BetterBatteryStats. But if I set my CPU to have all cores on at max frequency, the CPU would be at 60c and drain the battery fast.
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but why would the CPU go all out in IDLE mode?
well, just installed betterbatterystats.. so Lets give it an hour or so of idle mode and see
what it reports. will post a screenshot of the report as soon as I have them..
afternote :- am I the only one to have this problem at 4.2.2 update for the Asus Nexus 7?

ok, got a screenshot..
in less than an hour, i lost 5% on the batt without even using the nexus 7 for anything.
and here is the screenshot for betterbatterystats..
note :- note sure this is what you guys wanna see so if you need me to SS something else from
betterbatterystats, let me know... really hope there is a solution to this batt drain problem. sigh.

Most likely there is an app running crazy and keeps running the CPU. Have a look at the battery usage statistics and there on the CPU usage times for the different apps. Here you should be able to individuate the 'crazy' app easily.
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heres the battery usage screenshot

or do you mean this one?
..

So anyone?

just factory hard reset due to lack of ideas.
same thing, drains like a leaky bucket..
sigh..
is there no one out there who can help me ?

this is tiring...
ok, can anyone at least point me to a guide or something to flash my nexus 7 back to android 4.1.2? thanks

hamiksu said:
this is tiring...
ok, can anyone at least point me to a guide or something to flash my nexus 7 back to android 4.1.2? thanks
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One of the tool kits should work for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda app-developers app

I recommend Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit as it is more user friendly then a command prompt. It explains to you the function of each option by hovering your mouse over it and when confirming an action.

thanks for the two links, guys..
but sad to say, I'm not sure what I did wrong.
I used the first link and tried to flash my nexus to 4.1.2
but something went wrong somewhere.
I follow the steps
but right now, everytime I start the nexus, it shows the google sign with the unlock keylock icon at the bottom
and shows a big arrow pointing to my power button.
inside the arrow is start (or by pressing the volume buttons) or restart bootloader or power off.
at the upper left corner, when I tried starting, that corner shows in slightly small letters, Booting Failed.
I hope I didnt brick my nexus.. it is barely half year old..

hamiksu said:
thanks for the two links, guys..
but sad to say, I'm not sure what I did wrong.
I used the first link and tried to flash my nexus to 4.1.2
but something went wrong somewhere.
I follow the steps
but right now, everytime I start the nexus, it shows the google sign with the unlock keylock icon at the bottom
and shows a big arrow pointing to my power button.
inside the arrow is start (or by pressing the volume buttons) or restart bootloader or power off.
at the upper left corner, when I tried starting, that corner shows in slightly small letters, Booting Failed.
I hope I didnt brick my nexus.. it is barely half year old..
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Seems like you deleted your ROM and Recovery. Normally it should go Start > Power Off > Recovery Mode > Restart Bootloader. Assuming your other settings have not changed such as Fastboot enabled, Unlocked and Verison 4.18, you can store restore the ROM then the Recovery.

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Seems like you deleted your ROM and Recovery. Normally it should go Start > Power Off > Recovery Mode > Restart Bootloader. Assuming your other settings have not changed such as Fastboot enabled, Unlocked and Verison 4.18, you can store restore the ROM then the Recovery.
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hmm, i see.. ok, have to wait till after work and I'll try and rescue my bricked nexus 7
and Thanks for helping me out, Invalid. Really appreciate it lots.