[Klug-general] linux-like geekiness on android tablet

[james morris]

On 16 March 2013 10:16, Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/03/13 22:46, james morris wrote:
>>
>> the XDA Developers website. All that use of coloured text in big
>> font sizes and capitalizations.. It's enough to make me vomit.
>
>
> Tell me about it.
>
> I have joined in order to root and backup my phone but the styling of the
> web site is truly awful.
>
> Good content, but it takes an age to find anything.
>
> I have an average of 10 browser tabs open from the same site in order to
> find 1 piece of infomation.
>
> TIP: when rooting or roming your phone, read the instructions. Then read
> them again. Then do it.
>
> :)
>
> So far, so good...
>

Yeah... Um... My Tab2 was an effective brick for several days but
after fixing it I felt confident to have a go at my phone (the tab2
was a free gift with the phone on contract).

It's a Galaxy Ace, GT-S5830i. decided I wanted Android Jellybean,
found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35603363&postcount=3

Ignored the "For flash v3.0, you must have first to flash stock rom
via odin, then you can flash 3.0." warning as had not flashed the
phone, meaning it was on the stock rom.

Now it doesn't get past the Samsung Galaxy Ace logo. I can't get it
into CWM recovery, but I can get it into download/odin mode.

So I put it into download mode and plugged it in via USB and in
VirtualBox (in order to use Odin) I selected the device and after a
few moments it reports USB errors.

dmesg says:

[  255.706655] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[  255.938608] cdc_acm 2-4:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its
own. It is not a modem.
[  255.938695] cdc_acm 2-4:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[  257.364592] usb 2-4: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  257.369128] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[  257.369131] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB
modems and ISDN adapters
[  259.203322] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[  259.503540] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[  259.759984] usb 6-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[  274.866657] usb 6-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  290.076652] usb 6-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  290.286648] usb 6-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
[  305.393317] usb 6-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  320.603315] usb 6-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  320.813321] usb 6-2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using uhci_hcd
[  322.439979] usb 6-2: device not accepting address 4, error -71
[  322.493336] hub 6-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
--- re-plug ---
[ 2360.933124] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 2376.039779] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2391.249776] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2391.459774] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
[ 2406.566443] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2421.776441] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2421.986438] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[ 2427.396436] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 7, error -71
[ 2427.503106] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[ 2432.913103] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 8, error -71
[ 2432.913125] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
[ 2433.169769] usb 7-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 2448.276436] usb 7-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2463.486435] usb 7-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 2463.696430] usb 7-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd


I'm considering making a real installation of Vista again :-(

Which means deleting my Debian install (a new version will be out soon
anyway) and moving the root partition of Arch Linux as Vista needs to
be on first partition of HDD (IIRC). Oh what fun..