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Attempting to repartition SD card = Device not found in recovery

Hello,
I just got my Hero this weekend and I was interested in partitioning the SD Card. I have been following a guide and when I boot into recovery(Screen that shows phone with triangle and exclamation point) the computer does not seem to see the Hero anymore.
When I plug the phone in while it is running Android the computer picks it up fine in Device manager. Once I type adb shell reboot recovery it boots into the screen the computer no longer picks it up. I have tried unplugging and replugging the USB cable while in the recovery screen but still get nothing. If I type adb devices before I run the recovery command I am able to get the serial number, once it boots into the recovery screen it no longer shows me the serial number when I type in adb devices. But this is due to it no longer being picked up once in the recovery screen.
I'm not really sure what I am doing wrong here. Can anyone help me get this issue sorted out?
I have tried it on Windows 7 and read that a lot of people had issues with the syncing so I just finished attempting it on an Windows XP machine and still get the same issue.
One more thing, when in the recovery screen the phone does not respond to the power button anymore. It seems almost like it locks up or something. The only way I can get back out of the screen is by taking the battery out and putting it back in. Is this normal?
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thank you,
Mizex

You need to root the phone and install the recovery partition first.

Mizex said:
when I boot into recovery(Screen that shows phone with triangle and exclamation point)
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jonnythan said:
You need to root the phone and install the recovery partition first.
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Exactly what jonnythan said. If your recovery screen shows the triangle then you haven't installed a modified recovery image yet. Follow any of the guides on this site for rooting.

Oh wow I feel dumb the guide I was following said nothing about the phone needing to be rooted. I attempted to follow a 1 click root and while attempting to do the backup step I get a message saying that it can't complete the command. According to the guide if I get this error then it means I have a patched firmware and need to downgrade to a cupcake firmware.
Anyone know of a good guide for doing the downgrade? Or can perhaps share a bit of knowledge on the error?

Any advise?

I recently upgraded my G1 to the cyanogenmod 2.1 ROM and everything went fine untill i went to the market and installed a program called ROM manager. while i was using ROM manager it had an option, i cant remember what its name was, that said it fixes FC's if needed. Well i was getting those in ROM manager so i clicked it. It did a bunch of stuff and then suddenly tossed an error at me. Next thing i know im getting LOTS of FC's and when i rebooted my phone im suddenly stuck staring at the G1 boot screen and thats where it stays......indefinetly.
I cant get into recovery mode, already tried that. And so far the only thing(that i know of) that i can do is get into fastboot. Does anyone know how i can fix this? Its gotta be software related from whatever that ROM Manager program did to my permissions. But now im basically bricked and cant do anything.
My storage card still has all of the ROM's and files from when i flashed last but i dont know if or how i can use that to re-flash my phone again and start over.
Any suggestions?

I had a similar issue just yesterday. Dowloaded rom manager from the marketplace - attempted to flash recovery - pulled an error and ended up on the G1 screen. Could not get into recovery, but fastboot was available.
I followed these instructions
( reboot holding camera button, connect usb and press back button )
on pc
HTML Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot flash recovery <recovery.img>where <recovery.img> is the full path to the recovery you want to flash
I had to do a full erase in fastboot - that is the first line of text above, I then flashed my recovery.img again - that is the second line of text above (I placed my recovery.img file directly in the adb folder - so it easy to find )
Once I was able to get back into recovery - I restored my last back-up, and the phone booted once again.
If you do not have any backups - I am not aware of the next step. Hopefully someone with more experience can direct you accordingly
Good luck

How is it that you send the commands? I plug in my USB, then hit back and it says FASTBOOT USB but how do i input the HTML codes to get it to do anything?
Do i make an HTML file on the pc and upload it, if so, how? I understand all of it except how to get the commands into it.
Well that and what the full path will be for the recovery.img.

well i feel like a total moron !!! lol
I had been being a script kiddie for the last few years and forgot my roots. I got it figured out and got the commands sent to fastboot in a CMD prompt.
Ugh, i gotta stop using google so much and finding all the easy ways out of things that others have already written.
Thanks for the help, much appreciated and worked a treat. I flashed everything and its working great again

Bricked VZW G2

So I think I've bricked my G2 while updating with the latest update. Was rooted on stock ROM. Tried to install TWRP recovery but could never get into so, didn't think I had it installed. Installed VooDoo and took the update.
Well, my phone is stuck in a black screen. The LG logo comes on but I can't go anywhere from here. Can go into factory reset but it keeps coming back to the black screen. I've read all the forums and tried flash tool, fastboot, adb.... but no luck. My comp (Win 8) won't recognize the device and I get bunch of Local disks when I plug into USB.
I'm at a loss, total loss. I would really appreciate any help that I can get. Just want to get in hard drive and save some photos if I can't save the phone. Thanks!

try to install the drivers in a windows 7 pc and do it again!!

fixing the black screen boot
google and install koush's universal adb driver.
once you have adb..shell into device
adb shell
then
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/misc
then
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
you should be able to boot your phone now
as far as your recovery and root i dont know, this isnt my solution i dont know exactly who found it, but i watched autoprime talk a user thru this and booting up after in the #lg-g2 irc channel and thought i would put it here to help some folks.
any thanks or beer money should be directed to him or whomever he points to lol
good luck

[Q] Help me please, bricked G2

The LG G2 is rooted then I got an update on my phone that asked me if I want to do it and then I accidently did that.
What happend I'm stuck in Teamwin recovery with no rom and no backup and nothing left on the phone everything is erased.
When I try to do a the button thing with volume down and power button I get in to some reset but that won't work as well.
I hope someone have had the same problem or have a solution for it. Please guys help me if no one can help me with that I have to ask you if it's possible to send it to a certified LG workshop and get it fixed thru the warranty.

JoKeRWiLD said:
The LG G2 is rooted then I got an update on my phone that asked me if I want to do it and then I accidently did that.
What happend I'm stuck in Teamwin recovery with no rom and no backup and nothing left on the phone everything is erased.
When I try to do a the button thing with volume down and power button I get in to some reset but that won't work as well.
I hope someone have had the same problem or have a solution for it. Please guys help me if no one can help me with that I have to ask you if it's possible to send it to a certified LG workshop and get it fixed thru the warranty.
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ok if you have adb access on the pc then try the following commands(if you don't know what this is then skip this part)-
adb shell
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota of=/sdcard/fota-backup.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
if you have twrp 2.6.3.3 or later than go to the terminal app inside twrp and type the following-
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
if that one doesn't work you can aso try-
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/misc
and if the above does not work then you are going to have to flash back to stock using the following guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476

If you can get in to TWRP, you should be able to plug in and send a rom to it over USB (I think TWRP has this ability, but I have not used it). Alternatively you could use ADB to push some files to it also. Anywhos, once you have a rom it sounds like you should be able to flash away and be good to go unless I missed something in your OP

I've tried everything and it won´t work. I need to know how to send a rom in to a phone thru usb, but I have another problem the computer recognize a product "g2" but when I plugg it in I can't find it, the drivers that I installed can't find it as well. Please somebody help

[Q] N4 Broken Screen, Desperate, Kit Kat 4.4.2, Stock Everything, No USB Debugger

Hello,
I just came back from my honeymoon and all of my pictures are on my N4. Of course before I pull the pictures, I drop the phone is the screen is cracked and the touch does not work anymore.
I'm really desperate to get these pictures. I've read all over online but my problems are this with all of the help out there:
My phone is the latest 4.4.2 on T Mobile.
It has stock EVERYTHING (bought straight form google), and the USB debugger is not enabled. (next phone I get this is the first thing I'm enabling.
I've been trying to follow instructions online but a lot of items have changed between last year and Kit Kat now and some steps such as unlocking the bootloader seems to wipe out everything on my phone.
I've been trying to use ADB and Freeboot but really havent gotten anymore.
I've also read that I can maybe use a usb mouse to substitute and unlock my phone? USB OTG? How do I know if my nexus has that enabled?
I'm even considering getting a new screen so I can try to replace the current one and get my photos. I dont care what happens to the phone but the pictures are priceless to me.
Is there any thread or guide that incorporates 4.4.2? the more detail the better of course.
Much thanks in advance.

have u tried getting into stock recovery ?, and pulling files with ADB ??
i think stock recovery has ADB enabled by default ...

Shubhamqweasd said:
have u tried getting into stock recovery ?, and pulling files with ADB ??
i think stock recovery has ADB enabled by default ...
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Thank you for the quick reply.
I do manage to get into stock recovery, I get past the green guy lying on his back, though the method isnt always reliable. I get to the screen where it gives you the options to reboot, apply update from ADB etc.
I select to apply ADB file and it says "now send the package you want to apply..."
However, when I go into the command prompt on my PC, and type ADB devices, and nothing shows.
Do I need to install the drivers that makes the phone a ADB device and not the normal MTP device?
Thank you.

zhanism said:
Thank you for the quick reply.
I do manage to get into stock recovery, I get past the green guy lying on his back, though the method isnt always reliable. I get to the screen where it gives you the options to reboot, apply update from ADB etc.
I select to apply ADB file and it says "now send the package you want to apply..."
However, when I go into the command prompt on my PC, and type ADB devices, and nothing shows.
Do I need to install the drivers that makes the phone a ADB device and not the normal MTP device?
Thank you.
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Yes u need proper adb setup on ur pc ..
U can find and install nexus 4 drivers with adb setup from this forum threads..
After u have done that check if you can find ur device using adb from recovery..
If u can find the device by recovery .. Then rest is easy ..
Just follow this link afterwards
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449652

Shubhamqweasd said:
Yes u need proper adb setup on ur pc ..
U can find and install nexus 4 drivers with adb setup from this forum threads..
After u have done that check if you can find ur device using adb from recovery..
If u can find the device by recovery .. Then rest is easy ..
Just follow this link afterwards
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449652
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Thank you for your help. However, while I have gotten ADB to recognize and list the device, I still have the same problem in that I cant unlock my phone using the screen and so when type something like "adb pull /sdcard/dcim/, i get "error closed"
Is there anything more I can do? These photos are priceless to me.
Thanks.

zhanism said:
Thank you for your help. However, while I have gotten ADB to recognize and list the device, I still have the same problem in that I cant unlock my phone using the screen and so when type something like "adb pull /sdcard/dcim/, i get "error closed"
Is there anything more I can do? These photos are priceless to me.
Thanks.
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Get the screen replaced, or do it yourself. ADB in the stock recovery is very limited to "adb sideload" commands only, you can't pull files this way.

acejavelin said:
Get the screen replaced, or do it yourself. ADB in the stock recovery is very limited to "adb sideload" commands only, you can't pull files this way.
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I have same problem with broken screen, i bought for 56$ full kit on ebay, no need separate glass from screen. took me 1h20min, never done before but what a relief seeing everything working

You do not need USB debugging to transfer files. On windows, open file explorer and with your nexus 4 connected it should appear on the left side as Nexus 4. Or if you have osx use http://www.android.com/filetransfer/.