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    [International / GSM] why doesn't format of /data in recovery blow away all your personal images, music, documents, etc?

    In ICS 4.0, /mnt/sdcard and /data/media are the same thing. How come when we are in ClockworkMod Recovery and we format /data, we don't also blow away all the personal images, music, application documents, etc. on the "SD card" storage area? I would have guessed something like /data/media is a...
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    Help Upload to YouTube fails to start

    Anybody else getting this: Take a video on your phone, and then through either the 'social share' icon from the video, or directly from the YouTube app itself, try to upload the video to your YouTube account. After I hit the Upload button, the button's text changes to 'Starting...' but the...
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    Help Trying to connect your Nexus to Windows XP? Samsung says: "No working MTP drivers yet"

    I just got off the phone with Samsung "level 2" tech support. I have been trying to get my Nexus to connect to my Windows XP host (it's actually in a VirtualBox VM running under Linux, but anyway...) so that I can transfer files to it. I downloaded the drivers from Samsung's support site, and...
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    Help Copying files between your GNex and a *LINUX* computer

    So sooner or later, I'd imagine nearly everyone here's going to want to copy files between their new GNex and a computer. It's definitely a "Day-1" task for me. I have a lot of stuff on my OG Droid's SD card that I want to copy over to the new GNex. My workstation is a Linux laptop and so...
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    [International / GSM] commonly-available boot.img doesn't work for everybody

    I'm doing the manual adb unlock & root. Unlocked just fine, but now trying to 'fastboot-linux boot boot.img' and it appears that the commonly-available boot.img isn't working for all phones. For some it works, for some (like me) it simply hangs on the white "Google" screen, for others it seems...