Nexus 7 repair

Recently my Nexus 7 tablet refused to boot up into Android 5.1.1. It appears the flash memory developed some kind of unrecoverable error. I found a refurbished motherboard on ebay through Ascendtech list as “ASUS NEXUS 7″ ME571K SERIES 32GB TABLET MOTHERBOARD 60NK0080-MB2700 31YF2MB00E0”. Yesterday, Mason was able to install this in maybe 20 minutes. […]

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This post was written by matt on November 22, 2015 Comments (0)

Fedora 22 to 23 upgrade

Issues: Stale ubuntu packages created problems and were difficult to remove because one wanted to remove over 1,000 packages. The commands to fix this were lost from the history buffer. Nvidia X11 would not start due to due to some new ABI feature. Most reliable fix seems to be to downgrade: dnf –showduplicates –allowerasing –releasever=22 […]

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This post was written by matt on November 21, 2015 Comments (0)