Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Flash Controller Part-Number: Unknown(??) Pen Drive

You can Flash pen drive with unknown chip number with Flash tool for Alcor mp controller.



Ex:

Controller Vendor: Alcor Micro
Controller Part-Number: Unknown(??) - 0xE512 - F/W FF00
Flash ID code:      45DE9493 - SanDisk - 1CE/Single Channel [MLC] -> Total Capacity = 8GB

 

Go to http://flashboot.ru/forum/index.php?topic=1293.0 

 

And download software for chip number if you have it . 

 

Pls run cgip genius and view chip number

 

Ex: Kingston DT 101 G2 (8GB)

Controller Vendor: Phison
Controller Part-Number: PS2251-60(PS2260) - F/W 01.01.50 [2010-11-25]
Flash ID code:      8988285F - Intel JS29F64G08AATE1 [TLC-8K]


This is controller ( PS2251-60(PS2260))

 

If not shown

 

Ex: Controller Vendor: Alcor Micro
Controller Part-Number: Unknown(??) - 0xE512 - F/W FF00
Flash ID code:      45DE9493 - SanDisk - 1CE/Single Channel [MLC] -> Total Capacity = 8GB


Controller Part-Number: Unknown(??)

 

Therefore we know  Vendor: Alcor Micro

 

find controllers for ID code  45DE9493 - SanDisk or All Alcor

 

You can download tool by  http://flashboot.ru and Run.

Plug the flash Drive

if detect you can start to lolevel format. if not try another one.


good luck


Saturday, September 20, 2014

Getting Better Battery Life from Your Smartphone

Getting Better Battery Life from Your Smartphone

 As technology continues to improve in the wireless industry, cell phones and tablets are doing much more in less time.  We have the ability to make payments, unlock applications through fingerprint scanners, and read barcodes from our mobile phones.  Take a guess at how many applications are available through all the app markets...over 1.7 billion!  So our phones have more functionality, access to more applications, transmit more data, have better processors, and run faster upload & download speeds, but one thing hasn’t improved – battery life.

As phone technology has developed at an amazing rate, battery life seems to have gotten worse.  My iPhone 5S battery seems to have about half the life of my iPhone 4, which I was using 4 years ago.  And compared to the flip-phone I used 8 years ago, where a full charge would last days, new 4G phone batteries can be dead after hours of heavy use.  This is no shocker, as phones are doing more and transmitting data at all times, but here are some tips to help save battery life when you need it.

  1. Set the “sleep mode” on your phone to 1-2 minutes.  When your phone’s screen is turned off, it’s using much less battery.

  2. Turn the backlight brightness down.  If the screens brightness is turned all the way up, you’re using more battery while your phone is turned on.

  3. Kill background apps when they’re not being used.  If you just were using Waze, the CNN app, or google maps, programs will continue to run in the background.  You can kill these apps after your done using them, and it will help to save on battery life.

  4. Perform backups at night, using wifi, when your phone is on the charger.  Backups through gmail, icloud, Verizon cloud, and backup assistant use a good amount of battery life, especially when it’s done on your service provider’s network.  Set automatic backups to run on wifi, and do them when you’re phone is normally on a charger (i.e. in the middle of the night).

  5. If you’re really in a pinch to conserve battery life, turn off wireless data for your applications.  Almost all aps transmit data, even when the applications are not open and being used.  You can turn off data to applications, or you limit the data to wifi.

  6. Don’t worry about waiting until your battery is dead to charge it.  Phone batteries are typically lithium-ion these days.  The old rule, waiting until your phone is dead to charge it, no longer applies.  It’s good to occasionally let it fully run down before charging it, but don’t worry about doing it every time.  If you expect to use your phone a lot, or you need as much battery as possible, fully charge it regardless of how much battery life you have left.

  7. If you’re in a remote area with bad coverage, turn off the data and cellular signals.  Your phone is going to spend a lot of effort and battery life trying to find a signal, and if the coverage is really bad, you probably won’t get a signal anyway.  Restrict the data and cellular signal, or put the phone in airplane mode, and you’ll have some battery life left when your back in service and need it.

  8. Things like GPS apps, streaming video, and streaming music will deplete your battery life quickly.  Anything that constantly relies on data transmission will use up the battery faster than normal.

  9. Choose the right phone.  If battery life is extremely important to you on a daily basis, look into phones that come with extended batteries.  Phone like the Droid Maxx, LG G2, and the HTC One Maxx all have larger stock batteries for better life.

  10.  Extended batteries and external chargers.  Aside from a few phones with internal batteries (i.e. iPhones and some Android devices), most phones have an extended battery which will provide longer battery life.  It is even possible to put en extended battery in an iPhone or android phone with an internal battery, although it’s a lot of work and it may void the manufacturing warranty.  In additional to extended batteries, you can purchase an external, portable battery pack. 

     

     These are very common and I use on all the time.  Anytime I travel, or know that I won't have access to a power source (car or home), I bring my portable charger with me.  They are small, have mulitple connection ports for different devices, and can fully charge a device 1-3 times depending on the portable charger. 

 

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Flash a Custom Recovery Image on the Samsung Galaxy Tab (All Versions)

Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Yg-duhVnkY


I. Before You Begin

1. You must have done our How To Root the Samsung Galaxy Tab procedure first then come back to this one.

II. Setup ADB

1. Go to our How To Setup ADB procedure and do that until you can see the serial number when typing adb devices into the command prompt then return here to continue.

III. Flash the Custom Recovery

1. Download and extract the flash_image file and the appropriate kernel file to the AndroidSDK\tools folder (the folder from doing the how to setup ADB procedure above). All the files should be inside the same folder as adb.exe.

Flash_Image

Verizon Kernel File
Sprint Kernel File (this file says VZW but it is for Sprint, don’t worry)
T-Mobile Kernel File
International GSM Kernel File

2. On the device, go to Settings > Applications > Development > and Enable USB Debugging.

3. Plug in the device via USB cable.

4. On your device download and install ROM Manager from the Market.

5. Open it and click flash recovery and choose your device. After it is done, do NOT boot into recovery, instead continue with this procedure.

6. Open a command prompt by clicking on the Start menu and typing cmd and hitting enter in the search box.

7. Now do the rest of the procedure only within the section for your device:

A. Sprint Galaxy Tab -

1. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb push flash_image /data/local/bin/flash_image
adb push zImage /sdcard/
adb shell
su
chmod 755 /data/local/bin/flash_image
/data/local/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/zImage
sync
exit
exit
adb reboot recovery

2. Your tab should reboot into recovery, and automatically begin backing up for fs conversion but it will fail at data and cache. This is fine.

3. In recovery do Wipe Data/Factory reset, then do Wipe Cache

4. Select reboot system. It will hang on the Samsung logo, when it does, just hold both volume keys down and the power key untill it powers off.

5. With the device off, hold down volume up and power until you see the Samsung logo, when you do let go.

6. Once it boots back into recovery it will restart the backing up procedure but this time it will finish.

7. Select reboot system now.

8. Now open ROM Manager again and click Flash Recovery again, choose your Tab version and wait for it to finish.

B. Verizon Galaxy Tab -

1. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb push flash_image /data/local/bin/flash_image
adb push verizon_zImage /sdcard/
adb shell
su
chmod 755 /data/local/bin/flash_image
/data/local/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/verizon_zImage
sync
exit
exit
adb reboot recovery

2. Once it boots into recovery it will restart the backing up procedure but this time it will finish.

3. Select reboot system now.

4. Now open ROM Manager again and click Flash Recovery again, choose your Tab version and wait for it to finish.

C. T-Mobile Galaxy Tab -

1. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb push flash_image /data/local/bin/flash_image
adb push tmobile_zImage /sdcard/
adb shell
su
chmod 755 /data/local/bin/flash_image
/data/local/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/tmobile_zImage
sync
exit
exit
adb reboot recovery

2. Once it boots into recovery it will restart the backing up procedure but this time it will finish.

3. Select reboot system now.

4. Now open ROM Manager again and click Flash Recovery again, choose your Tab version and wait for it to finish.

D. International GSM Galaxy Tab -

1. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb push flash_image /data/local/bin/flash_image
adb push international_zImage /sdcard/
adb shell
su
chmod 755 /data/local/bin/flash_image
/data/local/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/international_zImage
sync
exit
exit
adb reboot recovery

2. Once it boots into recovery it will restart the backing up procedure but this time it will finish.

3. Select reboot system now.

4. Now open ROM Manager again and click Flash Recovery again, choose your Tab version and wait for it to finish.

IV. Boot into Recovery

1. To boot into recovery in the future, simply go into ROM Manager and select Reboot Recovery.

V. (Optional) Load a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Galaxy Tab procedure to flash a custom ROM on your device.

Thanks to Koush over on XDA for his recovery image and kernels! If you appreciate his work, please let him know or donate to him!