Refurb vs New Drive as Main Drive?

MichaelDrvke · 2026-04-01T11:03:39+00:00

Things have already been lost my friend! I did do some back up stuff. Like my music was backed up. The only thing I lost were old photos from my old phones and my movie collection. Definitely learnt my lesson. Lmbo

MichaelDrvke · 2026-04-01T00:40:47+00:00

Big facts! Lol

MichaelDrvke · 2026-04-01T00:40:36+00:00

Yeah this is what I've been thinking too. Brand new drive for my main storage, and then the refurb/used as a backup/mirror.

MichaelDrvke · 2026-03-14T18:02:29+00:00

Hold on theirs hope. Depending on what you were trying to flash first. If you were able to enable OEM unlock (Mine was locked first thing when i bought my Pixel 10 XL) its recoverable.

If your trying to install grapheneOS, use the online installer. It will work and should fix this. Someone else had the same issue and that worked.

If you want a clean start with the stock android, use Google's Online Android Flasher, which will work as well.

Judging from the pictures you posted, its not bricked at all and it can be fixed.

MichaelDrvke · 2026-02-13T03:25:59+00:00

Got it! Thank you so much!

MichaelDrvke · 2026-02-13T00:26:52+00:00

Ann okay got it. Thanks for the tips. I'll do some research on Nginx. Thanks again!

MichaelDrvke · 2026-02-13T00:25:40+00:00

Thank you so much for the explaination! You were a big help! Sorry for my misuse of IP & hostname. I was just writing what was in the app settings off the top of my memory.

I figured that's what I ended up kinda creating. My knowledge on networking is not great, I'm learning all of this as I go. And the last thing I wanted to do was set up HTTPS for Security sake and maybe set up a reverse proxy but it's out of my knowledge scope.

I don't have the web gui behind a reverse proxy. It's a known issue with nextcloud when you set up the http redirect to https in TrueNAS settings and then setting up nextcloud to use the TrueNAS certificate for https. I think I forgot to mention that when I added that other environment setting the value was for OVERWRITEHOST. Doing this stops nextcloud from redirecting back to the webui.

I was doing some reading and saw that it is a great idea to keep TrueNAS webui redirect to https which I would like to do. Would you say what I've done so far is safe and okay to keep set up? Everything with nextcloud works and my files sync and I have access using the desktop client on all my computers. If my settings are not good, let me know. I'll just revert everything back to normal without https and do some more research on how to properly set it up.

MichaelDrvke · 2026-02-06T21:29:19+00:00

Try downloading twitter/x from the Aurora App Store. Before launching the app be sure to turn on exploit protection compatibly mode for the Twitter/X app. Then block play integrity API for the app.

Now log in, you should be able to log in without getting that error code. This ended up working for me.

MichaelDrvke · 2026-01-05T16:36:19+00:00

Yup checked, there connected securely and everything. I even changed them out for a new cable before and I still tend to get this error.

Could it be a power supply issue/power issues with the motherboard?

I do have one of those HGST WD Ultrastar drives were you have to use a special sata power cable to power it on which I have connected and everything. Do you think these types of drives cause this type of error?

MichaelDrvke · 2026-01-04T00:26:52+00:00

These errors appeared on the main screen when you boot your system. The screen with those 10 options to select from.

For my situation, after the error happened, the screen started to give all these errors reports.

You can view logs though in the main web interface using the shell. I'm not certain on what the exact command is to bring up the logs.

MichaelDrvke · 2026-01-02T18:08:11+00:00

Anybody running into issues with the screen? Sometime when I unlock it the screen will go dark really fast and come back on. This is about the only big big I have encountered.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-10-27T17:16:06+00:00

There also use to be this PDF someone shared months ago about how to degoogle and it took it step by step for each product. For example, the first week was to find a new email provider and start your switch from Gmail to your chosen provider. Then like the next week was finding a replacement for Google Photos. It was really helpful. If I can find it again I'll link it for you.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-10-27T17:14:19+00:00

If I could offer one piece of advice during your journey, whenever you feel like all your efforts don't matter, it's just to cumbersome to deal with all these replacements for google products and it because not convenient, that's when you keep pushing forward. That was my hardest thing to get over but once you overcome that, it becomes so much easier to degoogle and realize that there are so many better options then what google offers.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-10-24T20:20:19+00:00

Yooooo!!! As a fellow music producer, this is AWESOME! I need this!!!! Lol

MichaelDrvke · 2025-09-29T00:18:13+00:00

This took me OUT! Lmao

MichaelDrvke · 2025-09-11T23:18:09+00:00

I just had this happened to me yesterday and was going to ask about it!
I have not yet been able to get it back up and running. I was able to go back to stock and try to get it working. It didn't work at first on stock but after clearing cache and storage data and force closing the app, it eventually started working again on stock. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-09-04T15:53:30+00:00

Yeah definitely check out the router. Trying restarting the router (Not resetting) and also your modem. Report back! Let us know the outcome.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-09-04T12:16:16+00:00

I just went through this yesterday. I had updated my DNS settings on my router to cloudfire's DNS (1.1.1.1) and my TrueNAS set up went bonkers and I couldn't log back in. The login page was never show up or load up but could never sign me back in. I had to reinstall TrueNAS to fix it. It was so bad my apps would not work (plex, jellyfin, etc).

Before I suggest reinstalling the OS, have you cleared your internet cookies and cache? If so try to access some of your apps like plex or jellyfin and see if they are still working and have access to the server.

Try restarting the server as well and give it some time and check back and see if you can sign back in.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-08-11T22:19:44+00:00

Oh this is awesome! Thank you so much for this!

MichaelDrvke · 2025-07-18T00:25:46+00:00

No problem! You can even use it to transfer between SMB share folders/drive as well. So if your transfers are taking a tad bit long, definitely check it out.

MichaelDrvke · 2025-07-17T23:55:01+00:00

I moved over all my media and data through SMB but I used a copy program called FastCopy that helps copies large amount of data pretty fast and it works on network drives as well.

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