Root Access

12:40 AM

Well, SSD 950 PRO is warranted for 5 years or 200/400 TBW (256/512 GB models).

TBW values are based on binary units, while capacities are based on decimal units, which means that the drives are rated for about 0.47 DWPD.

...which means that the SSD 950 PRO is designed to do nearly half a drive write per day over five years. Absolutely incredible for a consumer SSD. Wow.

(The TBW oddity can be seen in Samsung Magician.)

Hand-computing the TBW value in binary units from the SMART Total LBA Written attribute confirms this.

Journeyman Geek

is that a reply to something?

bwDraco

No, just continuing the SSD discussion.

Journeyman Geek

12:56 AM

@allquixotic I think these are non standard thickness. Closer to a 'server' 2.5 inch drive. Assuming they even use sata (many 2.5 inch drives just integrate everything), they wouldn't fit in anything at all.

and I'm not talking 9.5mm.

bwDraco

6 hours ago, by bwDraco

@allquixotic Well, those drives are 15mm z-height. They will not fit in a laptop.

Journeyman Geek

also, performance is not solely based on cell density (is that a word?)

the dramless drives are slower and use MLC. You could get away with a large cache and slow memory to an extent

And I've had/have a tlc drive

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek All SSDs have DRAM built in for things like the mapping tables. The write cache is a small portion of the NAND that is treated as SLC.

Journeyman Geek

(used to be on my desktop/laptop)

@bwDraco most of them have a large cache

the current/next gen drives have a very small amount

and rely on fast processing to negate the need for cache

bwDraco

Not every drive has an SLC write buffer. For starters, it results in data being written twice, once to the buffer and once to the main NAND area.

Journeyman Geek

1:02 AM

I'm not talking SLC write buffers

theverge.com/2016/1/7/10733106/…

:(

Anonymous

1:26 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy happy to help (yes i did set that up some time ago)

Anonymous

@ThatBrazilianGuy if you give me a shell I can happily set it up, or if just want me to assist, i'll do that too

Canadian Luke

Anyone awesome with Android? I got a serious problem on my phone

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke ask away and probably someone will be able to help you

Canadian Luke

OnePlus Two, with CM installed on it. It's boot-looping, and I can only use fastboot on it - adb can't find it, because it won't get passed the OnePlus logo

bwDraco

@CanadianLuke Can you reach the recovery?

Canadian Luke

1:36 AM

Nope

Normally, it's Vol- and Power, but it doesn't do anything. Press Power, and it boot loops. I can go into Fastboot mode (Vol+ and Power)

Plus, I'm on a Mac, so I can't use the Windows tools

bwDraco

@CanadianLuke Are you able to flash a new recovery image? This won't touch the OS proper, apps, app data, or personal files.

Canadian Luke

Haven't tried... One sec

bwDraco

Try flashing TWRP.

Canadian Luke

Haven't tried... One sec

bwDraco

Then pull as much data as you can off the phone (I'd suggest taking a NANDroid as well), wipe it, and flash a new ROM.

I know this means you'll lose app data, but there doesn't seem to be much you can do about it.

Anonymous

1:42 AM

@bwDraco or, take the latest logcat and try to fix it without wiping (if you prefer that)

bwDraco

Not sure if the logcat would provide useful information about what's wrong. Sounds like a kernel panic at boot time to me.

Anonymous

@bwDraco then last dmesg

bwDraco

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Q: Read logs from recovery

I want to read logs of Android device having stucked at boot logo,I don't have adb access,So is it possible to read logs displayed by logcat in recovery by mounting /system/ partition ?

Hmmm...

Anonymous

@bwDraco hmm that wasn't how my cyanogenmod phone did things... maybe worth a shot anyway

Anonymous

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Canadian Luke

1:46 AM

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (28144 KB)...
OKAY [  0.697s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: device is locked. Cannot flash images)
finished. total time: 0.714s

bwDraco

@CanadianLuke Uh-oh. Bootloader is locked.

Now what?

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/…

Anonymous

just unlock it

Anonymous

you had a oneplus, right?

bwDraco

Be advised that doing this will wipe all data on the device.

Michael Frank

1:47 AM

Gotta wipe the device to unlock it though...

Anonymous

fastboot oem unlock really did wipe your device too? oh wow

Anonymous

@bwDraco well then he could still use fastboot to take a nandroid backup... or not?

bwDraco

I don't believe so.

Canadian Luke

fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (remote: oem unlock is disabled)
finished. total time: 0.004s

Michael Frank

lolwut?

Canadian Luke

1:49 AM

Nandroid Backup?

bwDraco

*sigh*

Not sure what to say at this point. The device seems to have factory reset protection.

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke to be able to use fastboot oem unlock on your particular modem you have to activate it in the developer options... on Android

Anonymous

so it's a fucking catch-22

bwDraco

Unfortunately, you'd have to boot to the OS to do that.

Canadian Luke

Shit...

Anonymous

1:51 AM

@CanadianLuke Mega Unbrick Guide for A Hard Bricked OnePlus 2

Canadian Luke

My Mac isn't sending messages properly

bwDraco

Beat me to it.

Anonymous

bloody markdown

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke this guy had the same problems as yours: (SOLVED) Bootloop. No recovery. Bootloader locked.

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz would that be safe for (reasonable) work?

Anonymous

1:54 AM

@JourneymanGeek I don't know, I mean it's only showing quite a lot of scantily clad ass

Anonymous

it depends on where you work (tho the video's title is self-explanatory)

Journeyman Geek

Which is why I asked

Canadian Luke

What is a nandroid backup?

Michael Frank

It's a backup of the NAND memory.

Pretty sure you need root to do it though...

Canadian Luke

I can only access fastboot... And I don't have access to Windows to run the recover tools

bwDraco

2:22 AM

@CanadianLuke I suspect you hated Windows enough to migrate to Mac? Tell us your story with Windows.

I've looked into buying a Mac several times but could not see a convincing reason to prefer OS X over Windows, at least for my use cases.

I'm asking because you don't even have a Windows installation via Boot Camp or virtualization.

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke borrow a notebook, do bootcamp or use a VM

Anonymous

now @bwDraco beat me to it lol

bwDraco

Well...

Jul 17 '15 at 18:24, by Canadian Luke

Well, Windows 10 RTM is installed on my SP2 now... Still 'Preparing Windows' with my first log in :P

Something wrong with your only Windows device?

...or he may be away from a Windows computer.

Okay, can a mod review this? I'm not sure it deserved to be deleted as the post contains substantial useful information; a historical lock may make more sense. (@JourneymanGeek)

Journeyman Geek

2:41 AM

@bwDraco its a hugely broad question

and well

bwDraco

I wouldn't suggest reopening it. I'd like to see it undeleted and historically locked.

Journeyman Geek

if no one noticed in six months

bwDraco

I am about to put a custom mod flag on it.

Journeyman Geek

And the correct answer to "I literally kicked my pc" is "don't"

bwDraco

Not sure if I can agree with this. It's a real scenario. superuser.com/questions/1020398/…

As I said, it doesn't make sense to reopen it, but there's useful information in the answers.

Journeyman Geek

2:44 AM

That's a terrible question

bwDraco

That's why I suggested a historical lock.

Sure, it's broad, but I hate seeing the answers being gone for anyone with less than 10k reputation.

The question made it to HNQ and got lots of votes before it was deleted.

nc4pk

wth, Truecrypt's old website/doc pages were excluded from Wayback Machine

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

Canadian Luke

I just liked using osx on my Mac instead

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco might I suggest meta then?

bwDraco

3:03 AM

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Q: Undelete and historically lock question 913055: Troubleshooting a physically damaged (kicked) desktop computer

Question 913055, "I literally kicked my computer. Analysis and to do list for this situation?" (10k only), was deleted by a moderator after being closed as too broad. While the question is certainly too broad, it and its answers received a substantial number of views and upvotes prior to being d...

discussion deleted-questions locked

Canadian Luke

3:14 AM

Finally! Had to re-register an old SIM card to get a phone so Google could text me my 2FA code so I could log in to SE and say... I effing hate my phone right now!

Anyways... All these methods are not working that I keep getting linked to

And hey, good thing I turned on the device encryption to "protect" myself...

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke oh god all the odds are stacked against you

Canadian Luke

Yup

bwDraco

3:34 AM

Here's a useful userscript if you want to easily access the timeline of any post as a non-moderator. I've updated the code to make it work on all Stack Exchange domains and use a current version of jQuery. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126447/…

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A: Add a link to the timeline of a post

Well, here's a greasemonkey script that does this for you, and while I'd really appreciate an official link, this will do (for me, at least) in the interim. // ==UserScript== // @name SOTimeline // @description Adds a 'timeline' link to Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow posts // @include ...

Canadian Luke

4:16 AM

So a friend told me it might just be a boot loader problem. Searching for "OnePlus Two Bootloader" doesn't show me anything useful. Any ideas where I could get more info?

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