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No device found ONLY during fastboot - help needed please

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?

[Q] bootloop help

i have a mytouch 4g that i had perma rooted with s off 0.85.2007 clockwork recovery and evil desire hd rom. I have had this setup since the evil rom was available with no problems at all. All of a sudden the phone is in a bootloop. I can get into the hboot but adb and fastboot will not recognize the phone. I had a spare mytouch so I switched to that perma rooted s off and 0.85.2007with clockwork and the newest version of the same rom with no problems at all. I let the older 4g sit for a day with no battery, sim or sd card then i put the sd card in and it booted up. I went thru rom manager and selected reboot to recovery and I am back to a bootloop. I have tried to to go thru the hboot and select recovery manually and as soon as i press power to select back to a bootloop. I did some reading and tried to go back to the pd15img file by placing the file on a formatted sd card using a card reader and then put it in the phone. It went thru the process bypasing #7 and #8 (they show TP next to them) the phone now shows S-on with 0.86.0000 with radio 26.03.02.26_m. I am still stuck in bootloop with no way to get to recovery and still not being reconized in adb.
I guess at this point I could just do an exchange on the phone since I do have the other 4g running with no issues. But was wondering if anyone had any ideas on getting the phone out of bootloop.
Sorry if its a little wordy just wanted to make sure that I listed the steps i took to help narrow it down.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Load the PD15IMG on your MyTouch4G (not 5G) and boot into Bootloader, the phone will ask if you want to update the system, press the up volume button to do so.

neidlinger said:
Load the PD15IMG on your MyTouch4G (not 5G) and boot into Bootloader, the phone will ask if you want to update the system, press the up volume button to do so.
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sorry edited. I have done that already and since i did i went from s-off and 0.85.2007 to S-on with 0.86.0000 but still in bootloop.

boosted22 said:
sorry edited. I have done that already and since i did i went from s-off and 0.85.2007 to S-on with 0.86.0000 but still in bootloop.
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Try reformatting the SD Card to entirely FAT32 and try again.
or since you can get into fastboot try flashing a Recovery image, then boot into HBoot then select recovery and flash a ROM. Try using Cyanogen CM6.1.2RC2.

neidlinger said:
Try reformatting the SD Card to entirely FAT32 and try again.
or since you can get into fastboot try flashing a Recovery image, then boot into HBoot then select recovery and flash a ROM. Try using Cyanogen CM6.1.2RC2.
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ok tried formatting the sdcard and placing the file on the card. It went thru the process and bypassed the same two files and still in a bootloop.
I am able to get to the fastboot on the phone however adb and fastboot will not recognize the device.

boosted22 said:
ok tried formatting the sdcard and placing the file on the card. It went thru the process and bypassed the same two files and still in a bootloop.
I am able to get to the fastboot on the phone however adb and fastboot will not recognize the device.
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Do you have the phone drivers installed on your PC?

Genocaust said:
Do you have the phone drivers installed on your PC?
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yes the drivers are there. adb recognizes my spare 4g and just to test it out i adb pushed a file and was successful.

anybody have any ideas or suggestions?

What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the sdk tools.

jggimi said:
What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the ADB Drivers.
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fixed for ya. See my signature for TrueBlue's ADB guide.

jggimi said:
What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the sdk tools.
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neidlinger said:
fixed for ya. See my signature for TrueBlue's ADB guide.
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Thanks for the help.
I have the sdk installed and it is working properly on my other 4g however when i boot into fastboot it does not detect the 4g that loops but i can unplug the bad one and plug the good one in and it recognizes immediately and allows me to use both adb and fastboot.

[Q] Phone Not Going To Recovery! Need Help!

So my rooted Mytouch 4g S=OFF is stuck at the MyTouch screen and stays there, then when i do volume down plus power it takes me to hboot then automatically starts going through my sd card for like 3 files then says do u want to start update volume up yes down no i have tried both in the end it reboots and is again frozen! I tried rebooting it with the vol down and power with my sd card out but i still cant do anything! Please help!

ashmal411 said:
So my rooted Mytouch 4g S=OFF is stuck at the MyTouch screen and stays there, then when i do volume down plus power it takes me to hboot then automatically starts going through my sd card for like 3 files then says do u want to start update volume up yes down no i have tried both in the end it reboots and is again frozen! I tried rebooting it with the vol down and power with my sd card out but i still cant do anything! Please help!
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It sounds like you have a PD15IMG.zip file in the root of your SD card. That's what the bootloader is detecting when it asks you if you want to update or not. Remove that file and it will bypass the update step and take you to the bootloader main menu. There you can select recovery. From there, I would re-download your ROM installation file, full wipe (data, cache, Dalvik-Cache), and re-flash your ROM.

I tried that
i tried that too but it still checks for those but then lets me select recovery but when i click recovery it gives me a picture of a phone and a red triangle thanks though any more help would be much appreciated!

ashmal411 said:
i tried that too but it still checks for those but then lets me select recovery but when i click recovery it gives me a picture of a phone and a red triangle thanks though any more help would be much appreciated!
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I don't think you have a custom recovery yet, download the rom manager from the market and have it flash a recovery for you. When you go back you should see something very different.
If for you already have flashed the recovery, press the power button when you see the lil phone pic and your recovery should come up

mark manning said:
I don't think you have a custom recovery yet, download the rom manager from the market and have it flash a recovery for you. When you go back you should see something very different.
If for you already have flashed the recovery, press the power button when you see the lil phone pic and your recovery should come up
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I cant download anyting because i cant even get to my homescreen

ashmal411 said:
I cant download anyting because i cant even get to my homescreen
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can you get into your phone using adb/fastboot?
flash recovery that way.

saranhai said:
can you get into your phone using adb/fastboot?
flash recovery that way.
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sorry im a noob at this i dont know how to do that thank you for trying to help though if you have anymore please help

ashmal411 said:
sorry im a noob at this i dont know how to do that thank you for trying to help though if you have anymore please help
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google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those. once you get adb set up, connect your phone (USB DEBUGGING ON! enable in settings/applications/development).
type "adb devices" without quotes to see if your device is connected. then type
Code:
su
adb reboot bootloader
the phone should reboot into fastboot, if it isn't in fastboot, manually scroll to it with the volume buttons and select with power button.
now, you need the recovery image, i'll post it at the bottom of this post. after you get the recovery image, move it to androidSDK/tools or wherever your adb/ fastboot folder is located, and rename it to "recovery.img".
now, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it should give you two OKs, if it does, then you're all set, reboot the phone into bootloader, select recovery, and flash a rom on there

saranhai said:
google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those. once you get adb set up, connect your phone (USB DEBUGGING ON! enable in settings/applications/development).
type "adb devices" without quotes to see if your device is connected. then type
Code:
su
adb reboot bootloader
the phone should reboot into fastboot, if it isn't in fastboot, manually scroll to it with the volume buttons and select with power button.
now, you need the recovery image, i'll post it at the bottom of this post. after you get the recovery image, move it to androidSDK/tools or wherever your adb/ fastboot folder is located, and rename it to "recovery.img".
now, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it should give you two OKs, if it does, then you're all set, reboot the phone into bootloader, select recovery, and flash a rom on there
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here's the recovery image:

saranhai said:
google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those.
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To make it easier for the OP, this thread gives you all you need to know to get ADB up and running.
Also, the above fastboot instructions are correct, but will only work with the engineering bootloader. Hopefully the OP's phone has that.

i cantturn on usb debuggiing because io cant get into my phone

TeeJay3800 said:
To make it easier for the OP, this thread gives you all you need to know to get ADB up and running.
Also, the above fastboot instructions are correct, but will only work with the engineering bootloader. Hopefully the OP's phone has that.
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lol thanks for the tip

ashmal411 said:
i cantturn on usb debuggiing because io cant get into my phone
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was usb debugging on before..?

nope it was not on

ashmal411 said:
nope it was not on
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oh.... that's a problem...

ashmal411 said:
nope it was not on
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ok that's ok, you can still flash recovery through fastboot, which doesn't need USB debugging on.
so steps:
1) download the recovery image and rename to "recovery.img"
2) move the image to wherever your adb/fastboot tools are located
3) open command prompt (in windows)
4) cd to where your adb/fastboot tools are located
5) REBOOT PHONE INTO HBOOT, THEN CONNECT TO COMPUTER
6) manually scroll and select fastboot using the volume and power buttons
7) type
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sure your phone is detected.
8) if it is, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
should give you two OKs.
9)once the recovery is in there, flash a rom on

Annoying MyTouch 4G Reboot Freeze.

I know I read somewhere with a few people having this issue, but every time I am going into recovery, flashing or backing up, I seem to always freeze on a black blank screen. The only way out is to take the battery out and put back in and try booting with Hboot, or whatever its called when you hold volume down.
I am so annoyed with this after months and really just want any help or suggestions possible. I tried fixing permissions, wiping data and even factory reset from HBoot.
I am out of options known to me on fixing this. My last thought was to reflash the bootloader or something. I would just like to be able to reboot without having the phone freeze. Thanks in advance.

Jp2010 said:
I know I read somewhere with a few people having this issue, but every time I am going into recovery, flashing or backing up, I seem to always freeze on a black blank screen. The only way out is to take the battery out and put back in and try booting with Hboot, or whatever its called when you hold volume down.
I am so annoyed with this after months and really just want any help or suggestions possible. I tried fixing permissions, wiping data and even factory reset from HBoot.
I am out of options known to me on fixing this. My last thought was to reflash the bootloader or something. I would just like to be able to reboot without having the phone freeze. Thanks in advance.
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try reflashing the recovery...

Are you on the eng bootloader or stock one?
From my fist to your face, enjoy!

I have tried it a few times via rom manager.

Mr.Highway said:
Are you on the eng bootloader or stock one?
From my fist to your face, enjoy!
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I have
Glacier PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT - 0.85.2007
MICROP -0429
Radio - 26.03.02.26_M
eMMC- boot

Try flashing a older recovery for the phone, then the new one. I had that problem before,I just pulled The battery an put it back in. Then it started to do the backup. It's a risky move though, wouldn't advise it. I'll try to think of a better solution
From my fist to your face, enjoy!

Jp2010 said:
I have tried it a few times via rom manager.
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Don't flash the recovery via Rom manager. Flash it manually through hboot
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Thank you all for your help, flashing through HBoot seemed to have fixed it. You guys are great, thanks for the tips.

Jp2010 said:
Thank you all for your help, flashing through HBoot seemed to have fixed it. You guys are great, thanks for the tips.
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Hi guy, my Mytouch 4G have this error, sometime it reboot and freeze. Please explain in detail how you fix it !!!
Thank you so much!

trongkhoi said:
Hi guy, my Mytouch 4G have this error, sometime it reboot and freeze. Please explain in detail how you fix it !!!
Thank you so much!
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flash the recovery through bootloader.
DEVICE MUST BE S-OFF AND ROOTED BEFORE CONTINUING!!
YOU MUST HAVE ADB INSTALLED, AND KNOW HOW TO USE ADB BEFORE CONTINUING, IF YOU DON'T KNOW, READ THIS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928370:
1) download the recovery image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242901
2) rename the file to recovery.img
3) VERIFY THAT THE MD5SUM IS CORRECT (USING MAND5 APP FROM THE MARKET) IMPORTANT!!
4) move recovery.img to where ever your adb tools folder is located, EXAMPLE: C:/androidSDK/tools
5) reboot the phone into bootloader (make sure fastboot is OFF)
6) connect the phone to your computer, and your computer should recognize a fastboot device
7) type:
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sure your phone is seem by adb
8) then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
ALTERNATIVE WAY:
1) download the recovery file
2) VERIFY MD5SUM
3) put the file in your adb tools folder EXAMPLE: C:/androidSDK/tools
4) connect the phone to computer
5) type:
Code:
adb devices
to make sure the computer sees the phone
6) type:
Code:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
this will put the recovery image to your SDCARD
7) then download terminal emulator from the market (any one will work)
8) type the following:
Code:
su (hit enter)
flash_image recovery /sdcard recovery.img (hit enter)
reboot recovery (hit enter)
VIOLA! CONGRATULATIONS, YOU NOW HAVE MANUALLY INSTALLED CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY 5.0.2.0 TO YOUR HTC GLACIER!
hit the thanks button if it worked please!

Thank you very much!
My phone is OK. Thanks again

Dang Saranhai. Nice Tut.
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[HELP]?Bricked Nexus 4!

SO long story short I followed the rooting guide below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2266654
What I did:
I Unlocked Bootloader & Installed Custom Recovery, but after
I clicked Reboot, TWRP prompted me to "Fix Root Permission"
and install Root, which I made the grave mistake of swiping to
accept..
Now everytime the phone boots I see a "Google" Logo with a padlock
underneath, for a good few minutes, then a never-ending bootloop!!!
I can get into Recovery, but I can't see the Phone connected to any of my
computers, So I am unable to add in a file to flash and possibly fix my Nexus...
(I also can't mount, nor can I wipe anything except cache)
Please please please, is there anything I can do to save this phone???
:crying::crying::crying:​

When you're in recovery mode you need to use adb to transfer files to your Nexus. Look for a howto that tells you how to use it.

Go into recovery and factory reset. If it still bootloops go back to recovery then on your PC go to device manager. Plug your phone up and see if it starts trying to update the drivers if it does stop it and manually direct it to the driver folder and let it install. Download super SU and use adb to push it to the phone
adb push su.zip /sdcard/
Flash it in recovery then reboot
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There is a sweet yummy feature in recovery called "adb sideload". Boot into TWRP recovery -> Advanced -> ADB Sideload.
Typing "adb sideload path-to-your-flashable-zip" in the command line will send the zip to your phone and flash.

Nothing seemed to work however I got it working using one of the tool kits that was able to pull me out of the boot loop in the bootloader thanks guys
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Adizzzle said:
Nothing seemed to work however I got it working using one of the tool kits that was able to pull me out of the boot loop in the bootloader thanks guys
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Please, how did you do it, I am in the same situation.

saidddo said:
Please, how did you do it, I am in the same situation.
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Hold your power button for 15-ish seconds (even hold it for a while when the screen is black)
After that, hold the volume up+down+power button this will boot you into the bootloader.
After this you can just simply push a rom through adb on your phone, or try the factory reset in the recovery mentioned above.

so finaly how you decide your problem? cause i have the same problem