I want to put a custom ROM on my Nexus 4 (currently unrooted, completely stock Android 5.1.1). Unfortunately, the device has a broken digitizer and about an inch of the screen is irresponsive to touch all the way from left to right (it's pretty much right at the top). Will I ever NEED to press the screen there, during the whole process of unlocking bootloader, putting custom recovery, using said recovery, flashing the ROM, and so on? For example, can you use volume up / volume down to navigate through Clockworkmod, etc?
You don't need touch screen to unlock bootloader, it's all done through volume buttons. As for recovery, use ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) which uses volume rocker navigation.
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I recently changed the lcd of my hd2 because it was broken due to falling on the floor.
When reassembled the volume buttons were broken.
Does anyone know how or if its possible to enter the bootloader and make selections without using the volume buttons. Maybe something with the telephone and hangup buttons.???
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1. Boot in bootloader with active sync.
2. Install clk
3. Compile your own cwr with the keys mapped different.
4. Install your own compiled cwr.
5. Flash you favorite rom.
jan-willem3 said:
1. Boot in bootloader with active sync.
2. Install clk
3. Compile your own cwr with the keys mapped different.
4. Install your own compiled cwr.
5. Flash you favorite rom.
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By bootloader he ment the *SPL Screen.
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode (bottom half of screen is unresponsive). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. Looking at the OP i noticed a "tablet look". Is this on the nexus 7? I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode if i boot into it.besides the thirty second power button hold (bottom half of screen is unresponsive and i cant access the onscreen buttons to reboot from recovery or to go to the advance menu which are located at the bottom). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
chaostrodamis said:
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode (bottom half of screen is unresponsive). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
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TWRP 2.2.2.0 now with USB OTG
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A quick 'google' has answered the question. Anyway, if you cannot use the mouse in recovery for whatever reason (and haven't flashed or done anything, and its unlikely you would since the mouse isn't working) then you can just open up the back of the nexus 7 and take out the battery? Or try holding down power and vol down to get to fastboot (and use volume/power) to reboot back to normal.
Good luck
Mmmm. That is a bit of a dilemma.
I was going to suggest - IF your bootloader is unlocked, you would (in principle) have the option to "soft-boot" different recoveries (even a plain-ole normal OS boot image for that matter) via the command line (or perhaps with a toolkit - I have no knowledge of them).
fastboot boot boot-or-recovery-image-file.img
which would allow you to use just the volume rocker and power button on the alternate recovery. Obviously, you need to have fastboot communications set up (drivers for your PC) as a pre-requisite,
(Nothing about that suggests you need to flash a replacement recovery to the device - soft boot what you need for a single session at a time.). That gives you the option to play around with mouse experiments at your leisure.
In order to do that, though you certainly would need to quit your current boot. Two finger salute for that? Or perhaps doing the reboot through ADB failing the former?
Just an idea anyway. Since you are using multiboot, I might not be aware of kinks between a different TWRP version and getting multiboot kernels to come up - but you said in the OP that you were interested in replacing ROMs, not saving the one that that is there....
cheers
Fallon9111 said:
A quick 'google' has answered the question. Anyway, if you cannot use the mouse in recovery for whatever reason (and haven't flashed or done anything, and its unlikely you would since the mouse isn't working) then you can just open up the back of the nexus 7 and take out the battery? Or try holding down power and vol down to get to fastboot (and use volume/power) to reboot back to normal.
Good luck
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I think the catalog is talking about stick mounts and USB storage. I couldnt find anything on using a mouse in recovery. even youtubed it, only one person shows that a keyboard works on CWM recovery. nothing about TWRP.
I had installed an audio enhancement app on Yota 1. While surfing some settings a dialog box appeared and read something about having a custom recovery. I don't have a custom recovery installed but I accidentally tapped yes and the phone shut. The volume up button is also broken and I cannot access the stock recovery. How do I recover my phone?
Hi,
I recently broke my phone screen. I replaced it but then after reassembling, the power button wasn't responding. The ribbon cable seemed fine and I didn't want to spend more time with this phone in 3 different pieces because its a huge pain to take apart, so I put it back together and dealt with it. I want to install a ROM so I can have better support for using gestures like double tap to sleep, since I have to use some jank app from the play store while i'm on stock. I tried flashing twrp, but then as I rebooted to recovery I realized that I needed a powre button to go to recovery. Does anyone know of a way I can flash TWRP and reboot to it without the use of a power button? Any help is greatly appreciated.