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I've been reading up about what to do after I tried to "factory reset" my phone and then was stuck at the htc start up soon, which kept looping.
I've been trying to load recovery.img during fastboot (back+power) and then to apply update.zip during recovery (home+power).
However, the problem is that during fastboot, the device isn't recognized (when I go to adb devices on command prompt, no device is listed). I know that my drivers are good bc the device is found when I start up in the recovery mode. I tried to skip the part where I load recovery.img (since when I try to do that, it tells me that it can't be loaded), and to go straight to apply update.zip, but then the phone tells me that update.zip is either bad or can't be mounted.
I have a Rogers Magic (32A). I am a complete newbie, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I should also say that before I tried to do the factor reset, the phone was on the hero rom loaded by a previous user.
try this:
boot in recovery:
fastboot boot recovery.img
then, push update.zip on your sd card ( need a good rom in the tools folder on your computer)
adb shell mount /sdcard
adb push update.zip /sdcard
and apply update.zip with the recovery menu.
thanks for your reply, but it didn't work:
first, it said "cannot load recovery.img"
and then when I tried to mount, it said "mount: mounting dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: Device or resource busy"
replace recovery to correct path to your recovery image. (your phone mut be in fastboot mode power with back button pressed)
ex:
fastboot boot c:\sdk\tools\recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img
then your phone must boot on recovery and you could push update.zip
thanks so much. I figued it out - just a simple problem of the update.zip file being corrupt.
pato17 said:
thanks so much. I figued it out - just a simple problem of the update.zip file being corrupt.
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i am having the same issues.
any help?
beastmods said:
i am having the same issues.
any help?
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What exactly have you tried to do?
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Hi. My magic is having the same issues. Although I believe it is my own doing. I was going to create a gold card and I flashed the sappimg.zip, I can boot the phone into fastboot but it us not seen, when I run the fast boot command it just says waiting on device..
I can boot the phone up normally but it does not want to connect to the market our link my gmail account to it..
All to jailbreak... Any ideas?
Edit....
I must have had a poor internet connection last night. I have got the market working.
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I am having the same problem.
I have a 32b on vodafone uk.
all the device adb drivers have installed fine. I have tried this on both my laptop and desktop (win 7) and when the phone is turned on - it shows fine under adb devices.
When i boot to fastboot, the phone doesnt show, and therefore i cannot load a custom rom.
Trying to root the phone I have so far used the goldcard method to downgrade to get back to 1.5, if i try to flash the recovery img from the phone (using flash rec) then when i boot to recovery (home+power) it hangs on the vodafone screen - this is why i wont to flash from fastboot.
any ideas?
Thanks
phone rooted?
FlashRec is out of date, I'm pretty sure. Is your phone rooted already, or are you at stock?
I flashed with the latest cyanogen on a 32A in CM's recovery image, i had the patch for the kernel (take it from 32B to 32A) but i didnt get to apply it yet.
when i rebooted my phone it hangs on the Rogers screen, i can get to fastboot and recovery mode (stock recovery mode). I made a nandroid backup (before the flash) but i cant get to it from the recovery mode menu, and when i connect the fastboot usb, my sd card doesnt show up on my computer. so i cant run the fastboot command to load the recovery image...
is there anything i can do?
some more information:
when i go into recovery mode, the "removable disk" shows up in my computer, but clicking on it just says "please insert a disc into drive..." which leads me to believe it is not mounted, any way to do this from recovery?
It'll never boot when you haven't installed the 32A patch.
And that means that you'll never be able to mount the SD card to have it show up in Windows. You can use adb to push the update.zip file to your SD card while in Recovery mode.
(You'll need the Android SDK installed for this)
Start up your phone in Recovery mode using the Power+Home buttons.
Once in recovery, wait for Windows to detect the phone (about 30 seconds).
Copy the 32A patch to your Android SDK tools folder, then run:
Code:
adb push <filename for your 32A patch>.zip /sdcard/update.zip
This will push your 32A patch to your SD card as update.zip.
Then apply update.zip through your Recovery environment.
A note to you... Before running the adb push, try running:
Code:
adb shell
mount /sdcard
exit
adb push <filename for your 32A patch>.zip /sdcard/update.zip
This will make sure that your SD card is properly mounted before copying the file to it.
To check that the file is there before trying to update, run this from your Command Prompt.
Code:
adb shell
cd /sdcard
ls | grep update.zip
You should see update.zip listed there.
After you've applied the 32A patch zip file through your Recovery environment, reboot your phone.
Should work now...
If you haven't installed the Amon_RA Recovery yet, it would be a good idea. It lets you save and update zip file to the root of your SD card without renaming it to update.zip first. You can apply any update zip file as an update.
thanks for the reply,
when i type adb shell i get:
"error: device not found"
typing adb devices also yields that the device is not listed
but windows does make the noise notifying that a device is connected, and the Removable disc still comes up in my computer
when i go into Device Manager, under disc drives it shows up as
HTC Android Phone Usb Device when the phone is in recovery
and if this makes any difference, press home+power again and look at the options in recovery the bottom says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
it worked in fastboot/recovery before, but that was when i had USB debugging selected and before i flashed CM i wiped. could this be the reason why im not able to access the phone with adb in recovery/fastboot?
for some reason i was able to fastboot into cm's recovery image and then the device was listed in adb, i followed your instructions and applied the patch, the phone booted up!
thank you!!!!! phew, that was a close one
zeotrope said:
for some reason i was able to fastboot into cm's recovery image and then the device was listed in adb, i followed your instructions and applied the patch, the phone booted up!
thank you!!!!! phew, that was a close one
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The CM recovery works great but without a hardware keyboard it's not entirely functional.
I'd recommend flashing Amon_Ra recovery and using that. Read the directions carefully though. Make sure you use the right one for your phone.
got amon-ra's recovery permanently flashed on there, thanks again for your help
Okay, I tried to root a friend's phone with the new fresh kitchen and when the phone rebooted, I'm stuck on a screen with a phone and an exclaimation point in a triangle.
Any help here would be appreciated.
I've tried to mount the phone through sdk, but nothing..... HELP!
Turn off the phone, pull the battery if it won't turn off.
Hold the volume down key when you power it on. This should bring you into the factory bootloader.
Push menu to factory reset, this will erase all the phone's data. Then try to reboot.
While in fastboot...volume down and power button... You can try and flash the custom recovery via fastboot and adb from here
danknee said:
Turn off the phone, pull the battery if it won't turn off.
Hold the volume down key when you power it on. This should bring you into the factory bootloader.
Push menu to factory reset, this will erase all the phone's data. Then try to reboot.
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Okay, holding the volume key down during boot brought me to the menu and I selected fastboot mode and it loaded back like nothing happened. But it appears that either the phone's not rooted or I can't get into recovery.
When I press home from that menu I just get the exclaimation point error again?
Any ideas?
jmoch2 said:
Okay, holding the volume key down during boot brought me to the menu and I selected fastboot mode and it loaded back like nothing happened. But it appears that either the phone's not rooted or I can't get into recovery.
When I press home from that menu I just get the exclaimation point error again?
Any ideas?
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While in fastboot...volume down and power button... You can try and flash the custom recovery via fastboot and adb from here
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Follow the instructions in RoidRage's link.
Or root your phone and install recovery .....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583291.
Are you able to send it adb commands from fastboot?
Try
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adb devices
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While in fastboot...volume down and power button... You can try and flash the custom recovery via fastboot and adb from here
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The recovery image is on the SD card but when I type the commands, I keep getting kicked back to android-skd-windows\tools command prompt.
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Are you able to send it adb commands from fastboot?
Try
Code:
adb devices
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yes, and I get the device name.
Image is on the SD card, can seem to get the recovery image to flash.
Edit: I'm thinking the rooting didn't go through.... I get permission denied
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yes, and I get the device name.
Image is on the SD card, can seem to get the recovery image to flash.
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Phone may not be rooted? Follow the guide RR posted to the T. This will root the phone and flash the recovery image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583291
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Phone may not be rooted? Follow the guide RR posted to the T. This will root the phone and flash the recovery image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583291
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Okay, got it done with the above instructions, however now when in recovery if I try to do a nan backup I get the following error:
Error : Run 'nadriod-mobile.sh' via adb!
Also, if i'm at the command prompt, I can use adb devices to see the device, however when I type adb remount... I get "remount failed: Operation not permitted"
My phone is rooted and an adb shell command gives me #
But my friends phone which I've tried to root using fresh kitchen and manual gives me a $
What am I doing wrong?
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Okay, got it done with the above instructions, however now when in recovery if I try to do a nan backup I get the following error:
Error : Run 'nadriod-mobile.sh' via adb!
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I remember seeing this error before and it has something to do with the SD card. The fix was something like backing up the card then formatting it. How much free space do u have on the card?
Edit: Run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb! error > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621940
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Also, if i'm at the command prompt, I can use adb devices to see the device, however when I type adb remount... I get "remount failed: Operation not permitted"
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Are you in recovery when you try the "adb remount" command? And u went thru the rooting process w/out any errors running the "adb push" and "adb shell" commands?
Edit: you can get su(#) by typing "su" after in shell ($)
kyouko said:
I remember seeing this error before and it has something to do with the SD card. The fix was something like backing up the card then formatting it. How much free space do u have on the card?
Edit: Run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb! error > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621940
Are you in recovery when you try the "adb remount" command? And u went thru the rooting process w/out any errors running the "adb push" and "adb shell" commands?
Edit: you can get su(#) by typing "su" after in shell ($)
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That did it! Thank you Kyouko and Danknee!
Rom: Stock
Rooted with KFU 0.9.5
TWRP 2.1
fff 1.4a
The problem I'm having is that when I boot my KF up it goes to fff. I get 3 options to boot from (this is whenever I power down the KF). When I choose to boot to recovery, the power light turns orange for two secs and then it boots; but back to the fff screen. I did this about four times in a row and it still boots back to the ffa screen.
If I choose ~normal boot~, It boots up fine. When I try to use KFU to boot to recovery or fast boot, it says that it is waiting for device. I tried this several times but no luck.
I want to get into recovery. That's my goal. I'm guessing that the KF is not booting in fastboot for it to go into recovery. I tried to reinstall TWRP 2.1 with KFU and it gets to the point where it's waiting for the device and nothing happens.
I'm not very advanced in this stuff. Please be patient with me. Thank you for all your help.
what command are you using to install recovery?
ok
download twrp 2.1.1.img onto pc
turn off kindle (20 second hold) with the usb cable unplugged from the kindle
open terminal where you have fastboot located.
type the following:
fastboot flash recovery </enter/path/to/recovery.img/here>
press enter
you should see waiting for device
then plug in your usb to kindle
this should power up the kindle and fastboot flash a new recovery.
then type
fastboot reboot
note:
(there is a space between recovery & /
i also find it easier to put a space after "recovery" then drag & drop recovery.img into terminal)
ok...
I did everything you said and the cmd console was still <waiting for device> after I plugged in the KF.
I checked in device manager and that's ok for the adb (it says: android composite adb interface).
Still looking to get into twrp recovery.
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I want to get into recovery. That's my goal. I'm guessing that the KF is not booting in fastboot for it to go into recovery. I tried to reinstall TWRP 2.1 with KFU and it gets to the point where it's waiting for the device and nothing happens.
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There's probably something wrong in KFU's process. Could you at least show us its log or a screenshot?
reflash twrp using smirkit. than try to get into recovery again
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if its waiting for device your pc is issuing fastboot command. so as you say its your kindle.
one of the above methods should work.
imho smikis's smirkit is nice to use
edit: can you copy and paste your commands after you try to flash new recovery
Hi folks!
I wanted to install Cyanogenmod as described in Cyanogenmod Wiki.
So I downloaded ioroot, rootet my phone via adb and used AutoRec to install TWRP (version 2.7.0.0).
Then I rebooted into recovery mode, wiped EVERYTHING and wanted to sideload the CM image via adb.
So in TWRP I selected Advanced/ADB Sideload and swipe to start sideload but all that happens is the notification "Starting ADB sideload feature...".
Consequently the phone is not recognized by adb on my PC.
What can I do to make the sideload feature work?
BTW: TWRP tells me that my devices doesnt appear to be rooted when I want to leave TWRP (reboot). Moreover when i want to enter TWRP again (by pressing POWER + VOLUE DOWN) I first get a screen that asks me if want to do a factory hard reset! Only if I agree (by pressing the power key) I get into TWRP.
Contrary when I enter the Download Mode (VOLUME UP when when connecting the powered off phone to the USB port) I am told that the phone is rooted. Moreover the LG Mobile Support Tool is able to detect the device and tells me that the installed software is up to date.
Thx!!
have you tried typing 'adb sideload rom.zip' on a command window on your pc? name the rom, rom.zip, and have it your adb folder.. also type the command from that folder
Make sure you're in the proper folder in prompt and the device name will be sideload if you do, adb devices.
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meangreenie said:
have you tried typing 'adb sideload rom.zip' on a command window on your pc? name the rom, rom.zip, and have it your adb folder.. also type the command from that folder
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Thanks but this doesnt help either. Same error message "error: device not found"
boot into twrp, don't start sideload
try adb devices, if you get not find you need to change the usb drivers
when you have it working, type, adb push /sdcard/ rom.zip .. check the syntax on that command, but i think that's right from memory