Let me tell you a story. I once brought a Galaxy Note form Flipkart.com . When it arrived, it had features rivalling that of the iPhone 5, but had half the price and a larger screen size at that. I was over the moon. It seemed like nothing could go wrong.
I rooted it the day after it came. Almost miraculously, you had features like dual-boot animation. I, of course, in my inimitable stupidity, forgot to make a Nandroid backup. But who cared ? The device was up and running.
That's when the nightmare started. It just started out as minor blips - Google Play saying that authentication required or sevrver error or offline mode ( whatever the hell that means ) ; Google Talk forever on offline mode ; Gmail not being able to sync. These and more warning signs appeared, but I brushed them aside, thinking that they would be fixed with the passage of time. In retrospect, this was a very stupid thought.
Then the hell started. Galaxy offered a Jelly Bean Update. In my steadfast optimism, I downloaded it and installed it. Nothing changed. Absolutely ****ing NOTHING. My mother's sister, who was Android Development Head, informed me that it was due to some conflict between TouchWiz not being compatible with Android Jelly Bean. Then apparently, since the update was downloaded and not installed, it kept informing me that your update is due, and kept asking me whether I would install it. I, obviously kept saying NO. Some stupid person on androidforums told me to freeze Samsung Updater using Titanium Backup. But, my friends, the worse was yet to start.
As soon as I froze Updater it crashed. I had to force start using Recovery. Then the device wouldn't give any signal and even WiFi stopped working.
I then unfroze Updater, since that was the natural action one would take. It crashed again and on force start it said - " Android Updating, Start Applications... ". There was no signal whatsoever.
Then it seemed like Satan had reserved a special place in the depths of Hell for the Note. Every thirty seconds the Note would crash and give the same message which I listed above. Some person on some random forum suggested moving all the apps from the SD Card to Internal Memory. Well, great suggestion, because whenever I tried to open settings, Note would, very conveniently, crash again.
I tried backing up using ADB. Crash. Factory Reset attempt. Crash. Crossing my fingers. Crash. Just isolating it and keeping it on a bookcase. Crash.Crash all the way.
I've run out of ideas, so from my long post, if you have figured anything that might be of use, don't hesitate to reply
Regards And Thanks
Sid
I rooted it the day after it came. Almost miraculously, you had features like dual-boot animation. I, of course, in my inimitable stupidity, forgot to make a Nandroid backup. But who cared ? The device was up and running.
That's when the nightmare started. It just started out as minor blips - Google Play saying that authentication required or sevrver error or offline mode ( whatever the hell that means ) ; Google Talk forever on offline mode ; Gmail not being able to sync. These and more warning signs appeared, but I brushed them aside, thinking that they would be fixed with the passage of time. In retrospect, this was a very stupid thought.
Then the hell started. Galaxy offered a Jelly Bean Update. In my steadfast optimism, I downloaded it and installed it. Nothing changed. Absolutely ****ing NOTHING. My mother's sister, who was Android Development Head, informed me that it was due to some conflict between TouchWiz not being compatible with Android Jelly Bean. Then apparently, since the update was downloaded and not installed, it kept informing me that your update is due, and kept asking me whether I would install it. I, obviously kept saying NO. Some stupid person on androidforums told me to freeze Samsung Updater using Titanium Backup. But, my friends, the worse was yet to start.
As soon as I froze Updater it crashed. I had to force start using Recovery. Then the device wouldn't give any signal and even WiFi stopped working.
I then unfroze Updater, since that was the natural action one would take. It crashed again and on force start it said - " Android Updating, Start Applications... ". There was no signal whatsoever.
Then it seemed like Satan had reserved a special place in the depths of Hell for the Note. Every thirty seconds the Note would crash and give the same message which I listed above. Some person on some random forum suggested moving all the apps from the SD Card to Internal Memory. Well, great suggestion, because whenever I tried to open settings, Note would, very conveniently, crash again.
I tried backing up using ADB. Crash. Factory Reset attempt. Crash. Crossing my fingers. Crash. Just isolating it and keeping it on a bookcase. Crash.Crash all the way.
I've run out of ideas, so from my long post, if you have figured anything that might be of use, don't hesitate to reply
Regards And Thanks
Sid