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Can anyone help me downgrade to 2.2.1? I am on a Mac

I can't figure out how to downgrade my 2.3.4 to 2.2.1, I am on a Mac and everything you need to use to do it seems to be for windows...

You can run windows on a mac. There are ways to get a copy of windows for free, but that's not for this forum
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I'm not interested in putting that on my mac.. I am a bit of a Mac purist!!

Look for a tutorial in how to setup adb with terminal.
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manleyaudio said:
Look for a tutorial in how to setup adb with terminal.
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I got adb set up through terminal, but the downgrade directions tell me to put certain files into my "platform-tools folder". IDoes that mean on the phone, or is that supposed to be somewhere on my mac.
I hate that I was just sent this replacement phone, I was rooted before on my old mytouch 4g, and it was so easy...

Dont forget to To start the SDK Manager, by executing the program "tools/android"
The platform-tools folder is within the sdk folder on your mac.

manleyaudio said:
Dont forget to To start the SDK Manager, by executing the program "tools/android"
The platform-tools folder is within the sdk folder on your mac.
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I did that... when I type "> adb shell cat /dev/msm_rotator" into terminal with the SDK Manager started nothing happens, it just sits there... I am obviously doing something wrong, but I have no clue what.

tacopimp said:
I did that... when I type "> adb shell cat /dev/msm_rotator" into terminal with the SDK Manager started nothing happens, it just sits there... I am obviously doing something wrong, but I have no clue what.
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Did you navigate to /yourPathToSDK/tools/android and launch it?
This will start the SDK manager and you will need to install the SDK platform tools, by clicking on the checkbox and hitting the install package on the GUI.

manleyaudio said:
Did you navigate to /yourPathToSDK/tools/android and launch it?
This will start the SDK manager and you will need to install the SDK platform tools, by clicking on the checkbox and hitting the install package on the GUI.
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Yes, I have all of that installed and launched. I have the usb plugged into my phone and I am trying to type the comand into the terminal on my computer... nothing happens, it just sits there.

here is what the terminal looks like

tacopimp said:
Yes, I have all of that installed and launched. I have the usb plugged into my phone and I am trying to type the comand into the terminal on my computer... nothing happens, it just sits there.
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Do you have USB debugging turned on in settings> applications> development ?
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manleyaudio said:
Do you have USB debugging turned on in settings> applications> development ?
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yes, i have...

tacopimp said:
yes, i have...
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Check this tutorial.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649663
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see post below...

So that link you gave me helped me to solve my problem... I actually used that link plus a youtube vid that explained where I should be placing al of my SDK stuff. My phone is downgrading as we speak! Hopefull all goes well!
Thank you so much for all of your help and suggestions!

tacopimp said:
So that link you gave me helped me to solve my problem... I actually used that link plus a youtube vid that explained where I should be placing al of my SDK stuff. My phone is downgrading as we speak! Hopefull all goes well!
Thank you so much for all of your help and suggestions!
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Glad you got it working.
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[Q] Can't Get Kindle Fire to show as a storage device

Hopefully no one has already asked this question. I've looked through the search and found nothing. But anyway, I have windows 7 64. When I try and connect the Kindle to windows it doesn't see it. Yes I've made sure it's not sleeping and yes I've Reset the Kindle. Now in the task bar it shows it to safely remove device. If I look at devices it's there. When I click on my computer it's not. At work they still use windows xp it works just fine there, Comes up as it should. I've tried all my usb ports . I've tried 4 different usb cables. Is there some usb drivers that I could delete in the windows system that could get it to work. Hell I can't even root this thing till it see it. Any help would be awesome.

nofear0705 said:
Hopefully no one has already asked this question. I've looked through the search and found nothing. But anyway, I have windows 7 64. When I try and connect the Kindle to windows it doesn't see it. Yes I've made sure it's not sleeping and yes I've Reset the Kindle. Now in the task bar it shows it to safely remove device. If I look at devices it's there. When I click on my computer it's not. At work they still use windows xp it works just fine there, Comes up as it should. I've tried all my usb ports . I've tried 4 different usb cables. Is there some usb drivers that I could delete in the windows system that could get it to work. Hell I can't even root this thing till it see it. Any help would be awesome.
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Does the kindle say file sharing is on?
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I don't know if this will help but I had to uncheck USB debugging to get mine to show up. (Also on Windows 7)

Where do you find usb debugging. I Know where it's at on my phone. Also jm it does say on the Kindle itself that files are ready to be transferred.

nofear0705 said:
Where do you find usb debugging. I Know where it's at on my phone. Also jm it does say on the Kindle itself that files are ready to be transferred.
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Hm.... Have you tried different USB ports?
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Yes I have. This is so frustrating

nofear0705 said:
Yes I have. This is so frustrating
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As a last resort you could use device manager to check and make sure that windows is seeing it. Also, certain versions of windows will hide certain drives. Just right click my computer and click manage. Then click device manager.
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Thanks, As soon as I get home that's my next step.

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Where do you find usb debugging. I Know where it's at on my phone. Also jm it does say on the Kindle itself that files are ready to be transferred.
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Look under Applications and then Development. Default is ADB android debugging so I guess you have to turn that off to use USB.

meturne2 said:
Look under Applications and then Development. Default is ADB android debugging so I guess you have to turn that off to use USB.
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He is on stock if I'm not mistaken.
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Yes, I'm on stock. Ok deleted the android drivers. Now It will see my kindle and i can move stuff to it. Although I can't get adb to work with it. About to give up.

nofear0705 said:
Yes, I'm on stock. Ok deleted the android drivers. Now It will see my kindle and i can move stuff to it. Although I can't get adb to work with it. About to give up.
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Use kfu in the development thread to install the drivers again.
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That's the weird thing. When I uninstall the drivers the computer will see the kindle. When I install the kfu drivers it doesn't see the kindle anymore

I just went through this make sure you have
Path c:\ windows\system32

Yeah I have C:\windows\system32.

so when you type "Path" in a cmd you see c:\windows\system32

if not refer to this
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

Posted in wrong thread, sorry.

nofear0705 said:
That's the weird thing. When I uninstall the drivers the computer will see the kindle. When I install the kfu drivers it doesn't see the kindle anymore
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How did you uninstall the Drivers?

KoolAidJunkie said:
How did you uninstall the Drivers?
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remove drivers:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539/en-us
http://www.petri.co.il/removing-old-drivers-from-vista-and-windows7.htm

Nexus 7 - how to on linux

Hello All,
I've read that linux does not open up the file system of nexus 7 when connected? Is that right? if yes, how can one transfer files to nexus 7?
Am waiting on my device which should arrive in few days. I really dont want to go some where else to copy my files or use apps to transfer files over the air. My phone is android and linux shows me the sd card folder right away after plugging in...
Also, can you guys please point me towards howto on rooting my device while on linux? I have seen wndows has one click method which is pretty awesome. I realize we might not have one click methods in linux, am willing to do it the hardway too..just need some direction.
Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks for taking your time.
Linux mint user here if that makes any difference. Thanks

Boomboy said:
Hello All,
I've read that linux does not open up the file system of nexus 7 when connected? Is that right? if yes, how can one transfer files to nexus 7?
Am waiting on my device which should arrive in few days. I really dont want to go some where else to copy my files or use apps to transfer files over the air. My phone is android and linux shows me the sd card folder right away after plugging in...
Also, can you guys please point me towards howto on rooting my device while on linux? I have seen wndows has one click method which is pretty awesome. I realize we might not have one click methods in linux, am willing to do it the hardway too..just need some direction.
Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks for taking your time.
Linux mint user here if that makes any difference. Thanks
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I have no problems loading the file system on my Arch System. However, I personally rooted using Windows and the One-Click. Since all it does is use adb to push files onto the system, it is 100% possible to root and unlock using Linux. Just make sure you have the Android SDK installed. Follow this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395 for the acutal rooting
-Twitish

twitish said:
I have no problems loading the file system on my Arch System. However, I personally rooted using Windows and the One-Click. Since all it does is use adb to push files onto the system, it is 100% possible to root and unlock using Linux. Just make sure you have the Android SDK installed. Follow this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395 for the acutal rooting
-Twitish
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Thanks for taking you time out. When you say you had no problem on arch, are you saying the file explorer just showed the nexus files? were you able to just copy and paste stuff into nexus?
Thanks for the link..will go through it

Boomboy said:
Thanks for taking you time out. When you say you had no problem on arch, are you saying the file explorer just showed the nexus files? were you able to just copy and paste stuff into nexus?
Thanks for the link..will go through it
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By "showing Nexus files" do you mean the SD card? Linux supports PTP / MTP so this won't be a problem. You won't be able to directly view any other files without some other server installed on the Nexus, such as NFS or CIFS. As already stated, if you install the Android SDK, you will be able to root the device using adb / fastboot shell commands.

I think it depends on which distribution you are using. Ubuntu doesn't have mtp support by default.
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gbroon said:
I think it depends on which distribution you are using. Ubuntu doesn't have mtp support by default.
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Easy to get it though.

Yes, i am able to mount my internal storage in Arch if that's what you are asking. As stated before, you must have MTD support in your distro. Since Mint is based on Ubuntu, you may have to do some work. Sorry, not really sure how in Ubuntu.
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twitish said:
I have no problems loading the file system on my Arch System. However, I personally rooted using Windows and the One-Click. Since all it does is use adb to push files onto the system, it is 100% possible to root and unlock using Linux. Just make sure you have the Android SDK installed. Follow this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395 for the acutal rooting
-Twitish
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Easy to get it though.
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Thanks a ton buddy! Guess I gotta follow that link as am a Mint user..

[Q] Adb always says "Device offline"

Hi guys,
I'm currently experiencing a probem with my Nexus 4. No matter what OS I use (Linux or Windows) or what driver I use adb keep saying that my device is offline. As I saw elsewhere I tried an other usb cable or port but nothing seemed to work. Does anyone got an idea for this ? This thing is gonna drive me crazy !
Thanks

Task Manager, then kill the ADB one. Then open ADB, adb devices again.
Otherwise, did you check the debugging =.= Or reinstall the driver manually (not by WIndows).

I have had a problem with this and it has been unsolved as of yet, but I may be able to help you. In the SDK Manager, there is an extras area, if you don't have the drivers from there I have found you may have trouble. It could be something else, but this should be a sufficient launchpad.
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Thanks to you both, but I mainly use Ubuntu and not Windows. I've tried killing and restarting adb a lot of times.

saintjimmy said:
Thanks to you both, but I mainly use Ubuntu and not Windows. I've tried killing and restarting adb a lot of times.
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Are you on 4.2.2 they changed somethings with the update. Have you updated your SDK?

Try installing PDAnet drivers. They will make it work.

xdaOSdev.team said:
Try installing PDAnet drivers. They will make it work.
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I can verify this, it solved the problem I have been having for a few months in Linux OSes.
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saintjimmy said:
Thanks to you both, but I mainly use Ubuntu and not Windows. I've tried killing and restarting adb a lot of times.
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Guys, he said he's using ubuntu lol there are no usb drivers to install
try this...it sounds like your adb may be out of date. This will also reinstall fastboot, unless you leave 'android-tools-fastboot' off the last command
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
btw, if you haven't already done so, you should get the full sdk installed. It's better to have it and not need it than to not have it and realize after three hours of pulling your hair out you should have had it all along lol (I've done it, so I speak from experience)

Thanks @hp420 but sadly the device is still offline. I'm just realizing it now but I didn't have the warning message about the association with the computer that I usually have when activating USB debugging with 4.2.2

Load latest SDK version. Load driver inf fix. Search forum. Known problem. Easy fix.
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This is due to the new whitelist for adb in 4.2.2.
Some of these steps may be unnecessary, but I know this works (I've had to do it a few times to all my devices that have been upgraded to 4.2.2).
You need the adb from the latest SDK.
Untick USB Debugging.
Reboot the phone.
Tick USB Debugging.
Reboot the phone.
On your PC, make sure you add the new SDK/tools to the PATH then do adb kill-server; adb start-server
Unlock your phone.
Plug it in to your PC.
A message on your phone will appear asking to add the PC to the whitelist.
Accept this and your phone should appear when you do an adb devices

No need for driver i'm running linux...
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Nark.GA60 said:
This is due to the new whitelist for adb in 4.2.2.
Some of these steps may be unnecessary, but I know this works (I've had to do it a few times to all my devices that have been upgraded to 4.2.2).
You need the adb from the latest SDK.
Untick USB Debugging.
Reboot the phone.
Tick USB Debugging.
Reboot the phone.
On your PC, make sure you add the new SDK/tools to the PATH then do adb kill-server; adb start-server
Unlock your phone.
Plug it in to your PC.
A message on your phone will appear asking to add the PC to the whitelist.
Accept this and your phone should appear when you do an adb devices
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Tanks fort that answer I'll try it as soon as possible !
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Try typing
adb kill server
adb start-server
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scream4cheese said:
Try typing
adb kill server
adb start-server
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Already did that countless times...
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saintjimmy said:
Already did that countless times...
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try a live cd of ubuntu and see what happens. that will at least narrow it down to whether it's your ubuntu installation or your phone. if it still won't mount in the live cd we can assume it's an issue with your phone. from there you can run a nandroid backup and reflash the factory images to see if that fixes the issue. if it does, you can try a fresh install of the rom you're using. if it still works, then restore all your apps/app data
if it's your ubuntu installation there are other avenues you can try.

saintjimmy said:
Already did that countless times...
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You can try uninstalling SDK and perform a fresh install. Move your platform tools to a more convenient locations and change the path under windows properties.
I don't know if you tried this already but..
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for phone?
switch to another USB port? A different usb cable?

scream4cheese said:
You can try uninstalling SDK and perform a fresh install. Move your platform tools to a more convenient locations and change the path under windows properties.
I don't know if you tried this already but..
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for phone?
switch to another USB port? A different usb cable?
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UBUNTU!!!!!
lol

hp420 said:
UBUNTU!!!!!
lol
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Or try using Ubuntu. LOL.
But dual-booting to another OS is a hassle.(?) If ubuntu is not your daily driver, you're gonna have to keep rebooting in between OSs.

scream4cheese said:
Or try using Ubuntu. LOL.
But dual-booting to another OS is a hassle.(?) If ubuntu is not your daily driver, you're gonna have to keep rebooting in between OSs.
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Thann you all for your answers! I use linux mint which is my main OS. I manage to resolve my problem in a weird way: first I push a CWM recovery with fastboot and then I flash the ZIP from SuperSu ! From now USB debugging is working properly and I get the usual warning !
What I would like to know now is why ? Does the SuperSU ZIP reset something ?
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How to root Lg G2 Verizon on MAC?

have a mac at home and wanted to see how to root with Mac. Help me please with a step by step instruction and what files to get. Thanks!
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I haven't tried it myself but look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451900

I had to run parallels to use win 7.
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Everything is the same with Mac,n download android sdk for Mac, use terminal and commands just remember to put . before everything. Like... .adb devices

duyl27 said:
Everything is the same with Mac,n download android sdk for Mac, use terminal and commands just remember to put . before everything. Like... .adb devices
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I'm running OS X 10.8.5 and commands are preceded with " ./ " — minus the quotes of course.

hobo2424 said:
I had to run parallels to use win 7.
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Did that work? Never tried it thru parallels. I always bring my work laptop home and use it.

lumpysherman said:
Did that work? Never tried it thru parallels. I always bring my work laptop home and use it.
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yes it worked quite well.