First let me get the stats out of the way in case it's a compatibility issue (doubtful):
Mytouch 3g 32b
Hboot 1.33.2005
Radio 2.22.23.02
Running on the last cm6 nightly (307, i believe)
Using this kernel: http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=1531
All flashed through recovery.
Ok, so the problem..
Following this guide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719, I successfully got the ADB to work properly (calling "adb devices" on a terminal returns my device). However when I boot the phone into fastboot, connect it to the PC via USB and call "fastboot devices" through the terminal (yes, I first cd to the android-sdk/tools folder), it returns nothing. Calling something like "fastboot reboot" simply returns "<waiting on device>" indefinitely.
I googled for HOURS last night searching for a solution but to no avail. I uninstalled the drivers via the Device Manager and tried the PDANet method, but nope. Uninstalled drivers again, rebooted everything, and reinstalled using the method posted in the above guide again, pointing it to the google/usb_drivers folder, just in case I had f*'d up somewhere along the way. I just ended up with the same problem. ADB works. Fastboot doesn't. What am I doing wrong? :/
Basically, I'm stumped. While it's not completely necessary to get this working, I'd like to free up some ram on my phone (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139) and for this I need fastboot. I'm not that noobish so I'm willing to experiment. Any help is appreciated.
Nobody? :/
Thanks to my persistence I finally got it working. I'll share in case anyone else has the same problem.
Apparently there were still old HTC related devices under the Device Manager that would not show even when I clicked on "Show hidden devices." I fixed this by adding a new system variable.
Variable name: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
Variable value: 1
This allowed me to see a bunch of HTC labeled grayed out devices under 'Disk drives' and under 'Universal Serial Bus controllers,' some grayed out USB Mass Storage Devices and one USB Composite device which I believe was also a culprit. Uninstalled all of them.
I then restarted the process of setting up ADB using these drivers, mediafire.com/?wzdjcmowziw, which I got from the guide I link to in the first post. Then when I hooked up the phone to the PC under fastboot mode, I used the drivers supplied by PDANet. Worked immediately.
Thanks for all the help. (sarcasm)
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Since I can't post on the actual threads yet, due to being a new account, I will be posting here in hopes that someone comes across this and can help me out.
I have done a pretty hefty amount of reading trying to get my Nexus 7 rooted and for some reason I just can't get past the part of installing the necessary drivers for my computer.
Specs:
- Windows 7 32 bit. (Administrator account)
- Nexus 7 32GB (Wifi) running 4.2.1 w/ OEM cable (Also tried a non-OEM cable)
What I have done so far with Wug's Toolkit:
- Step 1
1. Plugged in my device and made sure USB Debugging was enabled. (At this point, the Device Manager recognized a device and tried installing drivers, but failed.) So the first thumbnail is what I have in my device manager from the start. Nexus 7 under "Portable Devices" and "Other Devices."
2. I uninstalled both of the devices.
3. Unplugged my device and used USBDeview to uninstall anything that resembled "Google" or "ADB", etc. like it states.
4. Rebooted my computer.
- Step 2
1. It says that the recommended solution is #3, so naturally, I tried that one first. I followed the steps and installed the Android Composite ADB Interface drivers successfully and it even shows it under "Android Phone" in my device manager, second thumbnail, when my device is plugged in. (USB Debugging enabled)
2. Now, when I click on the "Reboot Bootloader" button on step 6 is where it just hangs with the dialog box "Rebooting your device into bootloader mode..." but my Nexus never reboots or anything. My Task Manager show two "adb.exe" processes and none ever end. I read the thread and some users were having the same problem and they got it to work by ending one of the adb.exe processes. So I have to end one of them and after a while I get a "Checking Fastboot status" then a few seconds later this message box pops up, third thumbnail. It says that Debugging is not necessary for bootloader mode, so I turn off USB Debugging and my computer recognizes a new device. So it successfully installs Android ADB Interface and I try the Reboot Bootloader button again, and it still hangs. Only this time, there is one adb.exe. So I kill it, and after a while I get the same error dialog box as the third thumbnail. Like it states, I am using driver configuration #3, so I will go ahead and close the dialog box and go to step 7.
3. Since my device is already configured, I go to Step 12.
4. I hit the "Reboot Device" button, but nothing happens to my device.
At this point, I decide to try a different driver solution. So I go through the whole process all over again, with Solution 1. Go through and install the drivers, everything goes according to the tutorial. I get to Step 3, and hit "Full Driver Test" and it hangs on "Checking ADB Status". There are two
adb.exe's so I end one of them. I get a dialog box that says ADB device not found.
Finally, I decide to try Solution 2. So I go through the whole process. Yet I still get the same hanging with adb.exe. I even tried different USB ports, but nothing.
Now, with mskip's Toolkit I never get past the "Starting ADB..." message. It just hangs there.
So the problem lies with ADB.exe I'm guessing. I'm tired and I've spent hours just trying to root this thing. Am I SOL? Anyone have anything that I can try out or the same problems?
Have you tried rebooting your PC after installing the drivers? It took me ages to get mine installed and I think a reboot allowed the device to show up and work properly. I thought it would be easy being a nexus device. Turned out to be a right pain in the ass.
Yep.
davidoff59 said:
Have you tried rebooting your PC after installing the drivers? It took me ages to get mine installed and I think a reboot allowed the device to show up and work properly. I thought it would be easy being a nexus device. Turned out to be a right pain in the ass.
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Hey thanks for the response. Yes I have. I tried rebooting after every driver change. (Uninstalling, re-installing, etc.) My device does show up, almost as if the drivers are working correctly. Though I'm not sure why adb.exe is giving me troubles.
Have you tried 'adb devices' via cmd prompt? I take it your all stock then?
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Have you tried 'adb devices' via cmd prompt? I take it your all stock then?
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No I haven't. Is this what you are talking about? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395
EDIT: I just tried "adb devices" via command prompt in the Advanced Settings, "Daemon not running, running it now, daemon started successfully." Now it'st just hanging. Two adb.exe processes.
What I was hoping to do was to create a backup of all my apps and data before I mess around with it. Yes, I'm all stock.
Add me on gchat and hit me up. Not sure what you are having problems but I could help you trouble shoot.
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Add me on gchat and hit me up. Not sure what you are having problems but I could help you trouble shoot.
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Thanks for the response, I have e-mailed you.
Hello,
First of all I read all topics regarding this issue and I'm using Windows as my operating system (no linux/unix). I do not consider my phone to be "bricked", just it has the display broken.
My problem is I cannot make the device available when issuing the adb device command, in adb, although I ran all steps (read the hole 72 pages from [TOOL] [WINDOWS] ADB, Fastboot and Drivers - 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.4.3 ), maybe it's related to not having activated before the screen damage the debugging mode.
If I start the phone normally I can hear it when connecting it to computer and also it is shown in device manager, under "Portable device".
I read a thread in which someone gave a hint to similar issue, by flashing the stock image to one "CWM Recovery v6.0.3.6.tar" file - which I did, using ODIN (v.307), where I can see my device mapped at some COM port, but after successfully flashing I expected to have my device showed in "adb device" command, but I don't.
Also I tried using the drivers from above topic, the ones from Samsung (which allowed me to use ODIN and successfully flash), I'm using the up volume key after booting in order to put Samsung device in "download mode", but still...I'm not able to see it under adb (because I want to use it to retrieve files).
Is there anything else I can try? As long as I can successfully flash, isn't there an image with debugging mode on? For now I think this is the only "variable" which I'm not able to alter, as I do not have the display.
Many thanks,
i know that it's a bit silly to create an entire thread for one guy's problem, but i am stuck and probably going to give up hope when it comes to rooting my s5 neo (again, g903f), which is running android 5.1.1.
several days worth of research have yielded nothing. i can connect to my device using mtp, and i have usb 2 and 3 ports. lsusb and adb are working for me; i have set udev rules and "adb devices" returns my phone's serial number and its status. usb debugging is enabled as is the oem unlock (though whenever i try to disable developer tools and put them on again, the gui messes itself up and it won't let me turn them off, even if i refuse to put in my device's password). that's the only success i've had.
fastboot isn't working; "fastboot devices" shows nothing and it hangs at "< waiting for device>" with other commands, such as "fastboot oem unlock". adb won't work in download mode, either - though this is expected. rebooting into download mode via adb doesn't fix my problem, nor does using "sudo" or the root account.
odin3 won't work either despite the window opening with wine; the device never shows up in download mode. heimdall also doesn't seem to detect my device - although it might just be down to my ignorance.
the usual root tools, such as srsroot and kingo don't seem to do any good, though neither worked under wine, which helps to diagnose the problem. i have no access to windows, even through vmware.
i feel like everything i do only brings me one step closer to a brick wall, which i'm hitting all the time. it's like i've been chosen to experience this. if any of you guys can help me to get this phone rooted, i'd probably scream out of sheer ecstasy. and no, "try getting a girlfriend" who has windows isn't an answer.
[insert wojak here]
Hi!
It seems a driver issue
have you used already this tool in your pc successfully or is just a problem with your S5?
Reyse said:
Hi!
It seems a driver issue
have you used already this tool in your pc successfully or is just a problem with your S5?
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i don't think that drivers are an issue; i have linux. do i need to use kies to install them under wine? it didn't work with wine 1.8 and kies3; i'm trying wine 1.9 right now.
thefailure said:
i don't think that drivers are an issue; i have linux. do i need to use kies to install them under wine? it didn't work with wine 1.8 and kies3; i'm trying wine 1.9 right now.
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Did you debug (adb, fastboot) another phone already or is this your first one?
I was trying to install the October security updates on my rooted 6P and thought I did so successfully. However, when it rebooted, it just hung on the Google screen for an hour and I tried to investigate. It appears that I no longer have a recovery or OS and that all I can do is go into the bootloader and reboot the bootloader.
I'm using a Windows 10 64-bit laptop with two USB ports and a USB-A to USB-C cable from Anker. When I started this process, I was able to get my device to appear when using -adb devices-, but now it won't any longer. I've installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled the drivers, both manually and by using both Android Studio and SDK manager (like in Heisenburg's Rooting instructions, post 1, Prerequsites: paragraph 4), but nothing will help it appear on my devices list.
As I understand it, I need to enable USB debugging on my phone, but since I can't boot, that seems not to be possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've searched dozens of websites looking for suggestions but nothing I do seems to get my phone to appear on the devices list.
Use fastboot from the bootloader instead of ADB. Use fastboot to flash the factory image. Same thread you mentioned.
ADB does NOT work from the bootloader. Only fastboot does.
You use ADB while booted into Android or in recovery. From the bootloader, you use fastboot.
Try again with "fastboot devices" instead of "adb devices"
Hate to say it, but you wasted a lot of your time reinstalling those drivers. If you had it working earlier, I can't see it just stopping. You just used the wrong command. ADB will only ever work booted to the OS or in recovery. Never from the bootloader, even if correctly installed. Same for fastboot, only from the bootloader and never from recovery or booted into Android, even though everything is installed correctly.
Read over that thread you mentioned a few more times. :angel:
Amazing. I have no idea how I could have not known that. Thank you for your help.
Glad you got it sorted!
Hello there,
I've got a spare essential that I'd like to try getting Lineage on, or one of the other ROMs but today when I tried to do the unlock process as detailed here: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/unlock-bootloader-essential-ph-1-0187597/ the device won't unlock as it can't be seen by fastboot.
I've installed systemwide adb/drivers, and the phone is listed as "Essential Phone Fastboot" but it just refuses to show under the "fastboot devices" command and I only get a 'waiting for device' when I try to run the fastboot unlock commands.
I've also installed essential's driver package but something seems to be missing? I'm really confused.
might be a long shot but i read somewhere else that a person had to type
fastboot -i 0x2e17 < zip/file here >
sorry ; all i know to try.
good luck
maybe @IronRoo can help.
I had the same issue but installed the driver from here and it worked.
https://essentialsupport1493251565....015490828-Windows-Drivers-for-Essential-Phone
Talnoy said:
Hello there,
I've got a spare essential that I'd like to try getting Lineage on, or one of the other ROMs but today when I tried to do the unlock process as detailed here: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/unlock-bootloader-essential-ph-1-0187597/ the device won't unlock as it can't be seen by fastboot.
I've installed systemwide adb/drivers, and the phone is listed as "Essential Phone Fastboot" but it just refuses to show under the "fastboot devices" command and I only get a 'waiting for device' when I try to run the fastboot unlock commands.
I've also installed essential's driver package but something seems to be missing? I'm really confused.
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Connect in fastboot mode and then restart phone with plugged in condition, see if it gives any driver notification.. if dosent then connect the pbone as media device it would show driver disk, you may install driver from there.
Talnoy said:
Hello there,
I've got a spare essential that I'd like to try getting Lineage on, or one of the other ROMs but today when I tried to do the unlock process as detailed here: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/unlock-bootloader-essential-ph-1-0187597/ the device won't unlock as it can't be seen by fastboot.
I've installed systemwide adb/drivers, and the phone is listed as "Essential Phone Fastboot" but it just refuses to show under the "fastboot devices" command and I only get a 'waiting for device' when I try to run the fastboot unlock commands.
I've also installed essential's driver package but something seems to be missing? I'm really confused.
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If non of the above work uninstall all phone drivers & or any other phone connection software that installs phone drivers also eg Samsung Kies/Connect then reinstall Essential drivers, though haven't read about conflicts in recent years ....(Also try different USB ports pref on direct to mother board, people have suggested in the past)