Nexus 10 Reboots

Many people on XDA have been experiencing odd problems with the Nexus 10, such as reboots and freezes. I have been suffering with the former only, and faultfinding a problem which occurs randomly 2 or 3 times a day is known to be difficult.

I started 3 days ago by stopping all kinds of syncing, and slowing down monitor events quite a bit. Since then I have seen no reboots :) Of course, as soon as I post this, one is likely to occur, but I was getting them fairly regularly..

Today I felt it was time for the next stage. Which of the sync events was most likely to cause trouble? Well those which happen most frequently are Google+ and GMail, so they could be a good place to start. First though I had to find where on earth auto sync is enabled. This turned out to be hidden in Data usage, click on the 3 dots and there it is :)

So, my first step was to enable auto sync and thats all for now. I have not enabled sync on any of the apps, though I believe Jottacloud has been doing its thing all along. That will do for a few hours before enabling sync on GMail and G+.

Firefox and Dropbox sync

I was surfing the Dropbox forum posts the other day, and came across an interesting one in which one could set up a Firefox 3 profile on Dropbox/Profiles (iMac's) and sync not only the two Macs, but also XP once it was updated to FF3 :)

It works well.. I also use Dropbox after downloading an XP app on the Mac, so its ready on the PC when next its booted up.

A while since

The fine summer weather has been taking priority over surfing and solving problems these last few days.. not sure if I clarified what was going on with the iChat and Syncopation issues, but after a lot of searching I came across a guy who clearly knows about security - securiosis blog - and he had analyzed the Leopard firewall back in November and some of what he found was what I have been experiencing.

Using the 'access to services and apps' mode, if the app changes in any way then it will fall out of being accepted without saying, eg like Syncopation. iChat is a weirdo... I have it set to open at login on both machines, but it needs to be quit & reopened, and then 'accept network connections' for screen sharing to work. I'm not sure if that applies only on bootup or also after sleep..

I tried using Patriot on the suggestion by 'Ralph', but that really screwed up and I had to restore from a SuperDuper backup an hour earlier :) Still I learnt about Patriot, which allows you to select from Apple CD contents and install just what you want.

Syncopation trouble again

Posting this now while listening to a new album from iTunes Koppel Piano concerto #3, like Prokofiev.. anyway after downloading the latter I tried syncing but ran into the rotating ball syndrome :(

To cut the story short although I had Syncopation allowed all incoming in the firewall, I had to open to all before it could get through.

I think a temporary fix may be to remove Syncopation and put it back again, in the firewall I mean. Did that at both ends and the spinning ball has gone for now. Will keep my eye on it!

Btw, this was found later as a suggestion on Discussions by an expert..