Remember this post about a Synology 1812+ failure? Well, today I had another one. Well, it wasn't the same, really. This was a transient failure. I noticed that backups weren’t completing. It took me a while to find the NAS box with the problem, since I’d neglected to label all … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
Struggling with the Nexus 7
A reader chided me for giving up too easily with my semi-bricked Nexus 7. I decided to see if I could reflash it myself. I downloaded a set of tools from http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/ and installed them. The main window is fairly comprehensive. At first, the program … [Read more...]
A Nexus 7 meets an untimely death
My 2013 Nexus 7 died. It hangs at the Google logo during the boot process. Hard reset (Power/Vol up/Vol down) produces the same result. I looked on the web for solutions, and found some, all of which require using the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). It doesn’t seem right … [Read more...]
What to do about VoIP
I talked to an AT&T level 3 tech a few days ago, and I understand from him what happened at the second attempt to turn up the VoIP part of IP Flex. The turn up tech asked us whether the voice and data were coming to and from the same IP address. We said yes. She programmed … [Read more...]