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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.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk

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?

Can't Install update.zip from SD card!!

Hello all,
So I've been digging through the site for a week or so before i made the plunge to Root my stock Magic. I bought at v1.5, updated to 1.6 (before I new I wanted to Root). I have since gone back to 1.5, created back up with Cyanogen, Flashed, Wiped and am now at the point where Im trying to load my new Rom (Cyanogen's latest) via update.zip.
Problem is, Im using a mac so there is no zip extension by default. I add the extention, plug the SD into my phone, boot to recovery and attempt to install but I fails displaying: "E:Can't access open/sdcard/update.zip (bad) Installation aborted"
Any idea's? I've seen a couple recommenations to rename minus "zip" or reformat the SD card. None of which have helped. Im currently sitting at v1.5 rejecting the Tmobile 1.6 system update messages a couple times an hour!!! *sigh*

if your using a recent recovery rom you should have choose zip option
so just download cy rom leave name as is then put in root of sd boot to recovery and choose zip

sitimber said:
if your using a recent recovery rom you should have choose zip option
so just download cy rom leave name as is then put in root of sd boot to recovery and choose zip
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Thanks for you response.
I am using CyanogenMod v1.4 Recovery. I have the option to "apply any zip from SD" but nothing is displayed in the list unless its named "update.zip" I had other files on the card that don't show up. In fact, Cyanogen's last update links to a Wiki that doesn't even instruct you to rename the new Rom's to 'update' but again, my SD doesnt display them.

Is the zip on the root of your card? You should probably redownload the CM rom and put that one you redownloaded on your sdcard without renaming it or anything. That might work.

how do you copy the file across
phone in recovery mode or phone fully booted
if the first you will need to reboot back to recovery after you copied it accross to show
you could fully format your card fat32 if your using cy rom mount sd card and copy just the cy rom across to the card remember to backup card first

sitimber said:
how do you copy the file across
phone in recovery mode or phone fully booted
if the first you will need to reboot back to recovery after you copied it accross to show
you could fully format your card fat32 if your using cy rom mount sd card and copy just the cy rom across to the card remember to backup card first
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I tried 2 options. 1)Fully booted via usb into the card and 2)removing card and mounting via a Card Reader to my Mac. In both cases I booted to Recovery Mode on the phone and had the same result.
As far as formating the card, its not stock, its an 8 gig that I formated via the phone's erase/format function. Is that not sufficient?
In regards to cy's ROM Im not able to access it after I backup with the apk i have (never get the "Load Custom Rom" button, which is why im using cynoagens.

Anartic said:
Is the zip on the root of your card? You should probably redownload the CM rom and put that one you redownloaded on your sdcard without renaming it or anything. That might work.
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Yup...had already tried that too. *sigh* SD card wont see anything unless its named 'update.zip'.

try the amon_ra recovery
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689412/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img 32a phone
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689411/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3G.img 32b phone
Copy recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img to a location where fastboot can find it.
Boot your Magic into fastboot mode (boot while holding BACK)
Connect your Magic via usb to your pc/mac/...
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your device)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img (remember to change the H to a G if you have 32b)
when booted to recovery
partition card via this
than go to bottom of menu and select mount sd card
copy file across and reboot back to recovery
select choose.zip and ???????

Ohene10 said:
Im currently sitting at v1.5 rejecting the Tmobile 1.6 system update messages a couple times an hour!!! *sigh*
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I'm assuming the quoted statement above is still true. I flash via a Mac all the time, so here's what I would do if I were you.
Have the phone booted into your standard ROM.
Plug in the USB cable.
Pull the top menu down on your phone and choose Mount USB.
You should see a new volume in Finder on your Mac (Mine is called no name)
Put the TWO files required for Cyanogenmod on the root of that volume (one of the files is called HTCRootedBase something or other.zip and the other is Cyanogen's actual changes)
Power off the phone after the file copy is complete.
Unplug the USB.
Reboot into recovery by holding the Home&Power button.
Choose apply any zip
Select the HTCRootedBase file first.
Let it do its thing.
When it says "Install from SD complete", run apply any zip again.
Choose the Cyanogen zip file.
When it says "Install from SD complete", reboot the phone.
Be PATIENT. It may take 5 minutes for the phone to reboot, but as soon as you see the blue Android logo with the guy on the skateboard you can start doing the happy dance.

sitimber said:
try the amon_ra recovery
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689412/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img 32a phone
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689411/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3G.img 32b phone
Copy recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img to a location where fastboot can find it.
Boot your Magic into fastboot mode (boot while holding BACK)
Connect your Magic via usb to your pc/mac/...
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your device)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img (remember to change the H to a G if you have 32b)
when booted to recovery
partition card via this
than go to bottom of menu and select mount sd card
copy file across and reboot back to recovery
select choose.zip and ???????
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Forgive my ignorance but Im completely new to this. After fastbooting and connecting to my Mac Im stumped....

jsnyng said:
I'm assuming the quoted statement above is still true. I flash via a Mac all the time, so here's what I would do if I were you.
Have the phone booted into your standard ROM.
Plug in the USB cable.
Pull the top menu down on your phone and choose Mount USB.
You should see a new volume in Finder on your Mac (Mine is called no name)
Put the TWO files required for Cyanogenmod on the root of that volume (one of the files is called HTCRootedBase something or other.zip and the other is Cyanogen's actual changes)
Power off the phone after the file copy is complete.
Unplug the USB.
Reboot into recovery by holding the Home&Power button.
Choose apply any zip
Select the HTCRootedBase file first.
Let it do its thing.
When it says "Install from SD complete", run apply any zip again.
Choose the Cyanogen zip file.
When it says "Install from SD complete", reboot the phone.
Be PATIENT. It may take 5 minutes for the phone to reboot, but as soon as you see the blue Android logo with the guy on the skateboard you can start doing the happy dance.
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Unable to install the ROM...same error message: "E:Can't access open/sdcard/HTC_ADP_1......zip (bad) Installation aborted"

can you try another sd card

Ok, problem solved! It seems my Mac was not correctly downloading the files in the zip format even though i was manually changing the extention. Luckily i have Parallels so I downloaded via XP and added the correct zip files to my sd from there and success! Thanks for all your help!!!

glad you got there bet you learned alot about adb recovery because of your little problem

Stuck at boot screen

Hi.
It all happend when i wanted to replace the libwebcore.so file in the /system/lib.
So i did it. but its properly the wrong libwebore.
so i restarted the phone, but now, its stuck at the tattoo screen.
I can connect it to the computer. adb can see it. but i cant su neither mount which requires su.
It's the custom rom. i have no recovery image installed.
i CAN access fastboot AND recovery mode
I tried flashing a rom via HBoot by renaming the rom to CLICIMG.zip. but it doesnt work. phone says no image or wrong format.
Any suggestions?

Well, this really sucks
Now i cant even access adb. I pressed home+back key to reset the phone.
now its just stuck on the tattoo screen like just before but adb devices dont see anything.
Pleassee someone? i really need help on this one!
Hboot doesnt seem to help much. it cant detect anything. i had 3 files on the sdcard (all is amon_ra), just named differently: CLICDIAG.zip, CLICIMG.zip and CLICIMG.nbh
but it doesnt do anything :'(

Do you have a backup?
Have you tried to install recovery img via adb? If you can do this you can just do a backup of your current rom, try somehow to get your sd-card seen by the computer and copy the files of your old backup files to your new backup, asked to replace select yes.( I used a different phone to copy my backup files to the sd card when I couldn't get past startup screen.)
Good luck.

XabdullahX said:
Well, this really sucks
Now i cant even access adb. I pressed home+back key to reset the phone.
now its just stuck on the tattoo screen like just before but adb devices dont see anything.
Pleassee someone? i really need help on this one!
Hboot doesnt seem to help much. it cant detect anything. i had 3 files on the sdcard (all is amon_ra), just named differently: CLICDIAG.zip, CLICIMG.zip and CLICIMG.nbh
but it doesnt do anything :'(
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Where you found these files?
To flash the rom from hboot you need the rom.zip file of your stock rom(renamed as CLICIMG.zip)

I have the same problem! stuck on "Tattoo" screen and boot again and again.
I have the goldcard with CLICIMG.zip and it loads on HBOOT and install all (boot,radio,recovery,etc.. ) but when it ends, returns to the same....
HELP PLEASEEE!!!

Do you have Amon_Ra or Clockworkmod recovery installed? If so you can try wiping the Dalvik cache and try rebooting. Most boot loops I had were resolved this way. Wiping data and cache totally might also help.
If you can access adb and device is rooted, you should be able to use "adb shell" command and have a rooted terminal with the "#" sign after running su. In that case you can also manually wipe Dalvik cache by deleting everything under /data/dalvik-cache/
$su
#cd /data/dalvik-cache
#rm *
#exit
$exit
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Good luck!

tihe problem is that i can´t access to the phone by adb
i put "adb shell" and it says: "error: device not found"
the phone screen shows a phone and triangle with exclamation

[Q] Nexus 4 Accidentally Formated (Not able to boot)

Hey,
For starters, xda has been VERY VERY helpful to me over the past few months and I thank everyone who has ever contributed to a question or a discussion I have read.
I have a google nexus 4, and i managed to format the whole phone while i was installing a new rom. Now i can boot into bootloader and CWM but there is no files on the /sdcard/ there so that i can flash the phone
I tried to use the feature "adb push", but it´s not permited as i cannot enable the USB debugging...
I tried these guidelines: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1754018 but they didn´t help.
My phone info is:
Fastboot Mode
Product_Name: mako
HW Version: rev_11
Bootloader_version: makoz101
Signing - Production
Secure boot - enabled
Look state: Unlocked
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Thank You

Boot it to fastboot and flash factory image and you're good to go. You can find instructions in the General section.

andr0idfreak said:
Boot it to fastboot and flash factory image and you're good to go. You can find instructions in the General section.
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Fastboot = Bootloader?
Flash Recovery image, this is what i´m unable to do.
I have tried many methods from the general section, any particular thread do you think is most helpful?
I really appreciate your answer.

You could connect the phone to a PC and use CWM to mount the SD card. Copy a CWM flashable rom (99% of custom roms) to the SD card, disconnect from the PC and use CWM to flash. Job done

madgibbon said:
You could connect the phone to a PC and use CWM to mount the SD card. Copy a CWM flashable rom (99% of custom roms) to the SD card, disconnect from the PC and use CWM to flash. Job done
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In CWM i go to "Mounts and Storage" i see the list:
mount /system
unmount /data
mount /sdcard
format.....
If i press mount /sdcard the screen flashes and nothing happens still says the same "mount /sdcard/"
Any thoughts?

arifagic said:
In CWM i go to "Mounts and Storage" i see the list:
mount /system
unmount /data
mount /sdcard
format.....
If i press mount /sdcard the screen flashes and nothing happens still says the same "mount /sdcard/"
Any thoughts?
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You cannot currently mount SD from recovery. Use adb to push the files you want to flash to your SD, then flash them in recovery.
adb push romname.zip /sdcard/

arifagic said:
Fastboot = Bootloader?
Flash Recovery image, this is what i´m unable to do.
I have tried many methods from the general section, any particular thread do you think is most helpful?
I really appreciate your answer.
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Fatboot = Bootloader, yup! I would read this thread for detailed information.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
If you are not so comfortable with about, you can try out Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit (a bit riskier though) that I have used a couple of times to restore factory images, works fine.
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You could connect the phone to a PC and use CWM to mount the SD card. Copy a CWM flashable rom (99% of custom roms) to the SD card, disconnect from the PC and use CWM to flash. Job done
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This is the most simple way if you have CWM recovery.

Fixed!
Had the same problem just now and it scared the heck out of me.
Solved it by doing the following (Did this using ClockWorkMod Recovery 6.0.2.3 so some steps may be different from yours)
Boot to recovery
Connect your device to PC
Download and extract this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996051
Go to device manager and see that your device has the ! sign
Install the drivers you just downloaded to your device
Rename your rom to update.zip and copy it to where your adb is located
Your device should now be detected by adb so type this - adb push update.zip /sdcard/
In your device, go to install from SD card > apply /sdcard/update.zip
DONE!

Thanks man
I just tried this in boot loader, then i got this error:
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a3ydrw8d
(Device not found)
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Then i booted into CWM v6.0.1.9 and then the device was found, and it seems like it successfully transfered the file.
http://awesomescreenshot.com/03cydsr1c < which is great, but when i go to "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard" the screen blinks and at the bottom it says:
- No files found
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I then formated the sdcard from the advanced menu and retried transfering the files and it worked
Fantastic!!! Jusdavis i can´t thank you enough.

wipe sd card from twrp

so i accidentally wipe my sd card from twrp, and my N4 is not showing up on my computer, download the google usb driver and tried to mount sd within recovery, but my computer doesnt want to install the driver, tried 2 computers. so cant load rom to sd and reflash. tried adb push and adb sideload, but says "error devices not found". any other ideas? thanks

You were in recovery when you ran adb push right?
Also try installing Koush's usb driver.

claudiuslu2011 said:
so i accidentally wipe my sd card from twrp, and my N4 is not showing up on my computer, download the google usb driver and tried to mount sd within recovery, but my computer doesnt want to install the driver, tried 2 computers. so cant load rom to sd and reflash. tried adb push and adb sideload, but says "error devices not found". any other ideas? thanks
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I did the same once. Tried alot of things but as I recall it it was of the toolkits that did it for me. So you should give them a try.