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Me:

  • Android Activist since 2010
  • Author/translator of multiple Android books

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 reviewed Close Battery percentage going down while charging!
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 comment Battery percentage going down while charging!
@SSumner even when plugged into a wall charger, this could easily happen (see my answer here). A wall-charger usually delivers up to 2A; tethering + download + screen on easily comes to the same power consumption.
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 comment /data partition corrupted?
I'm not 100% certain, but to me that sounds like trouble with the equivalent to "bad blocks", so formatting gets stuck due to write errors/locks or the like (I'm not that deep into low-level storage modifications). If you can watch logcat parallel to that process (e.g. using adb logcat while in CWM), that might give you some additional clues.
4h
 reviewed Close Is there a way to edit the Share menu?
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 comment /data partition corrupted?
If you really talk about formatting (and not simply wiping) which fails, I'm afraid that might rather be a hardware issue, and the memory chip got corrupted.
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 awarded  Announcer
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 answered How can I prevent an app being uninstalled from the Play Store?
12h
 comment Device not booting after factory reset
Have you tried taking out the battery, and keeping it out for about a minute before placing it back?
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 revised Device not booting after factory reset
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 comment Remove files from phone that won't boot
Not an answer, rather thinking aloud: Does it succeed to boot in any mode (recovery, fastboot) that makes it accessible for flashing? Then, maybe, only maybe, you could flash a custom recovery. I never tried, and don't remember the name currently, but there was one including a file manager, or the file manager could be flashed separately. If that would succeed, you could use that to copy your important files from the device to a card, and then take the card and attach it to your PC using a card reader.
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 revised Remove files from phone that won't boot
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20h
 comment Reinstall OS on GT-S5830i
A factory-reset is supposed to help here, yes. And you also assumed correctly that it would delete all your data (except that on SDCard), so you would need a good backup before -- for the stuff you want to keep, that is.
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 reviewed Edit suggested edit on Something wrong with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 7.0 GT-P3100
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 revised Something wrong with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 7.0 GT-P3100
title 'eith' replaced with 'with', tag corrected
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 comment Something wrong with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 7.0 GT-P3100
@AneeshKarthikC especially if it's really Cupcake - Froyo #D (sorry, couldn't resist: but Cupcake/Donut/Eclair/Froyo/Gingerbread where never shipped with this device, which originally came with ICS -- see its tag-wiki. But right, the Android version might give a clue -- even if we can restrict it to ICS/JB :)
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 comment Reinstall OS on GT-S5830i
You need to get yourself a fitting ROM (aka device-firmware, see also rom tag-wiki, Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?), and then flash it to your device (instructions are usually provided where the ROM is provided).
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 reviewed Reviewed Something wrong with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 7.0 GT-P3100
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 comment Something wrong with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 7.0 GT-P3100
Have you tried to remove the battery for about a minute, then re-inserting it and powering up the device? Also: Does anything happen at all when you try starting it (display flashing, led flashing, boot-logo, some noise (other than neighbor screaming)...)?
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 reviewed Close Stock email client crashing
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 reviewed Close Why are there two AVD for the same API
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