![]() ![]() Not sure if I should post it here or in a xda forum, or someplace else, but I haven't rooted anything since purchasing my cheap HP pad, years, and years ago. I could turn it in for $15 + 20% off a new one, but I'm cheap, and frankly, I'd be fine if I could just turn it into a straight android tablet. I also tried to download some really old recovery tool from ~2014, but it get's tagged by windows as containing viruses.Īny hope that I can do anything with this brick? I can't even find an online service to unbrick it. I can get into the bootloader mode with the power+vol thing, but that's just a blank screen. I downloaded firebox toolkit and firefirefire, but the first doesn't work without having enabled the debugging mode (and it can't see the tablet), and I can't figure out what to do with the firefirefire bin file. I can't do that now since it won't boot at all (stuck amazon logo, and the options when powering on + volume up do nothing on their own). ![]() I've read that in order to do that, I would have had to tap my serial number 8 times and then allow debugging in the following options. I read some info about at least getting it rooted to stock android, if I can't get it to boot, but a big issue stands in my way. Root Jelly Bean (4.0+) Root Kitkat (4.3+) Root Lollipop (5.0+) Root Marshmallow (6.0+) Root Nougat (7.0, 7.1) Root Oreo (8.0, 8.1) Root Pie (9. The device has no problems holding a charge, and I hadn't done anything "exotic" with the tablet, meaning I didn't root it nor side load anything at all. ![]() A hard factory reset worked once, but the next day it was bricked again, and the reset failed, just showing a string of errors when I tried. Then, the next day, I got the dreaded amazon logo of death no loading beyond that. Switching it to a Japanese keyboard (with English characters) fixed it for a bit. The first thing that happened was that the built in US keyboard wouldn't pop up. Nearly 400,000 subscribers received the newsletter complete with a handwritten tip every day.My Kindle Fire HD 10, purchased in 2020, recently bricked. He gave advice on dark web scans on Miami's NBC 6, discussed Windows XP's demise on WGN-TV's Midday News in Chicago, and shared his CES experiences on WJR-AM's Guy Gordon Show in Detroit.Ĭhris also ran MakeUseOf's email newsletter for two years. In addition to his extensive writing experience, Chris has been interviewed as a technology expert on TV news and radio shows. The company's project was later reportedly shut down by the U.S. A wave of negative publicity ensued, with coverage on BuzzFeed News, CNBC, the BBC, and TechCrunch. At CES 2018, he broke the news about Kodak's "KashMiner" Bitcoin mining scheme with a viral tweet. Starting in 2015, Chris attended the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for five years running. His work has even appeared on the front page of Reddit.Īrticles he's written have been used as a source for everything from books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at the City University of New York's Queens College and CNN contributor, to university textbooks and even late-night TV shows like Comedy Central's with Chris Hardwick. ![]() His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called "the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web" and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly. Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's "World Beyond Windows" column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS. He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. ![]()
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