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June 8

no idea what to do

I found a android samsung N7000 mobile phone in a public trashcan, when I press the on button, the phone show me something called "CWMR touch" and ask me, from which device he has to boot. I have no Idea what CWMR touch is, I have never ever had a android mobile phone in my hand and there is quiet nothing in German to read about CWMR touch.

Is this something like the old BIOS on the older computers and laptops? What do I have to do, insert a android OS installed on a SD Card and choosing this to boot from there and the phone will start?? or ist CWMR touch something like a Jaikbreak and the mobile device is really now only for the trashcan because somebody has damaged the whole system? Is it normal to see the CWMR touch display or is this a jailbreak feature? This is something I couldn't find out if this is now positiv or negativ. Help me!--Ip80.123 (talk) 22:35, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

for example, if I go to youtube and write there "CWMR touch" there came up videos, how to install it, this is not really a help because it seems to be now installed but this looks to me like a bios and not like a installed program. Is there a way out of the CWMR touch head display? --Ip80.123 (talk) 22:37, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh my bad, I did now how I assume to do. I just had a android OS zip file of jelly bean and than I have let this CWMR extract the file and install the system. Now there is NOTHING working. When I turn the mobile device on it plays start music but the display is complete dark and hard reset does not work. How could my install damage this *!?§&/& device more than it was yet??? A computer never gets broken only because I do a new windows installation.--Ip80.123 (talk) 01:10, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Are you saying that the following procedure does not work? Take out the SIM card and SD card. Hold and press Volume Up + Home button + Power button. Release when you see the Samsung logo. Now select option "wipe data/factory reset" using Volume butttons and confirm with Power button. Choose option "yes" with Power button. After that press Power button to confirm operation "reboot system now". If this does not work, then maybe it is time to contact the manufacturer. It is not impossible that the phone was stolen at some point, and if that has been reported then they may have some questions for you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:09, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

ClockworkMod Recovery (CWMR) is not the standard recovery firmware, so I doubt that those instructions will work (especially since it's the touch version). But the first step, holding volume up + home while turning the phone on, should get you back into ClockworkMod, if you want to keep futzing with it.

Having nonstandard firmware installed doesn't make the phone useless (you can always re-flash it). But I suspect this phone has some hardware issue that does make it useless. People do toss perfectly good hardware because of software malfunctions, but this phone's previous owner knew enough about Android to re-flash the recovery ROM; there's no way they didn't try reinstalling the OS several times before giving up. -- BenRG (talk) 08:02, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Tell me something about it, BenRG. It this like a Bios, did I got this right? I turned off and on the phone like 3 times and because the display hasn't light up I have left it turned off . After so many hours the phone isn't know booting, when I plug on the micro usb cable there is shown a battery for 1 second and than the Display goes immediately off. After 3-4 Seconds there comes the same Play, a battery for 1 second and than the Display goes immediately off. --Ip80.123 (talk) 08:12, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Oldest toponym with "New" in it

Where is the oldest place with "New" (or its equivalent in any language) in the place name?—azuki (talk · contribs · email) 23:06, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

I'll start the bidding with Aqua Anio Novus - 38-52 AD. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:11, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

I'll raise (lower?) it to Carthage, 9th century BCE. The name is from the from the Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt, "new city". Tevildo (talk) 23:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

New Ogk. 2,000,000 BC. Old Ogk destroy by glacier. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 23:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Human evolution, Quaternary glaciation, and One Million Years B.C. might be useful follow-up articles to consider at this point. Tevildo (talk) 23:34, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Sagittarian Milky Way, we have no articles about Ogk, New Ogk or Old Ogk. What are you referring to? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Re:Dweller: As writing wasn't invented until the neighborhood of 3000 BC this is obviously fake. On the off chance art existed there'd be no way to know what they called anything even if they had a grunt for new. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 12:49, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Naples (nea polis - Greek for new town). The name goes back to the 6th century BCE, but the Greek settlement is several centuries older. There are about 20 other places in the ancient Greek world also called Neapolis - but it might prove very difficult to work out which of them was the earliest. Wymspen (talk) 10:54, 9 June 2016 (UTC)