superuser help? - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

im having some serious issues with my SU.
i tried temporizer's fix with no help.
it started a while ago when i flashed a theme and i could never get it back.
Ive tried EVERYTHING (to my knowledge which is definitely not vast lol) to no avail. and from what temp and a couple others have told me its a problem with cyan recovery 1.3, but now i cant flash to 1.4. im stuck with no SU, no way to flash a new recovery and pretty much half ass phone. ive never had this type of problem since i rooted back in januaryish. any help would be much appreciated.

anon1ski said:
im having some serious issues with my SU.
i tried temporizer's fix with no help.
it started a while ago when i flashed a theme and i could never get it back.
Ive tried EVERYTHING (to my knowledge which is definitely not vast lol) to no avail. and from what temp and a couple others have told me its a problem with cyan recovery 1.3, but now i cant flash to 1.4. im stuck with no SU, no way to flash a new recovery and pretty much half ass phone. ive never had this type of problem since i rooted back in januaryish. any help would be much appreciated.
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Download cyan's recovery 1.4 to your sdk tools folder, start the phone in fastboot mode [back+power] folder and run:
Code:
fastboot boot cm-recovery-1.4.img
That should boot the recovery image and you can work from there to reflash whatever you want.

sdk tools folder? and that would beeeeeeee?
apparently im not as savvy as i once thought..... lol

anon1ski said:
sdk tools folder? and that would beeeeeeee?
apparently im not as savvy as i once thought..... lol
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Errr... you don't have the sdk?
You don't use adb...?!
That's like trying to play football with no limbs..
Get yourself rigged up with this:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/installing.html
btw.. you won't need to set up eclipse or the adt plugin for this, just make sure your environment variables and java paths are set up as per the guide.

well while football WITH limbs does sound much less entertaining, i am normally no where near a computer, and do almost everything right from my phone.... and i mean everything..... i download all my roms, themes, etc. right to my download folder, find em', rename em' flash em' and im good to go. i went on a computer to get the recovery simply because it downloads wrong on my phone and saves as a text file, seems like it does the same on mozilla for some people but i got it in .img form and its on the root of my card, and nothing.

anon1ski said:
well while football WITH limbs does sound much less entertaining, i am normally no where near a computer, and do almost everything right from my phone.... and i mean everything..... i download all my roms, themes, etc. right to my download folder, find em', rename em' flash em' and im good to go. i went on a computer to get the recovery simply because it downloads wrong on my phone and saves as a text file, seems like it does the same on mozilla for some people but i got it in .img form and its on the root of my card, and nothing.
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I do a lot of stuff from my phone too tbh, Somehow it satisfies my geek cravings more fully.. But adb is massively useful when you're on the pc.. saves a lot of cramped typing on the device keyboard.
Fastboot will be your saviour in this case though, and you're gonna need a proper box to run that on.

i have NO idea what im doing with adb, i just downloaded it and im just starign at my screen like it tried to feed me a cheeseburger.....

anon1ski said:
i have NO idea what im doing with adb, i just downloaded it and im just starign at my screen like it tried to feed me a cheeseburger.....
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lol.. adb is pretty simple.. a few examples:
Code:
adb push localpath devicepath # push files to your phone eg: adb push c:\update.zip /sdcard
adb pull devicepath localpath # pull files from device
adb shell # basically a terminal running on your device that you control from your pc.. im sure you can figure this out if you do everything from your phone.
adb shell reboot # guess?
adb shell reboot recovery # go straight to recovery without holding any buttons
fastboot should be in the same folder as adb.. you can use it to flash .img files from the pc or just boot the images without flashing them.

how do i run fastboot, adb, etc. in relation to them running processes on my phone.
i downloaded everything. i just dont know how to run it or if i have to run a couple things, have my phone in recovery or fastboot(im guessing).
god. i feel like a moron.

anon1ski said:
how do i run fastboot, adb, etc. in relation to them running processes on my phone.
i downloaded everything. i just dont know how to run it or if i have to run a couple things, have my phone in recovery or fastboot(im guessing).
god. i feel like a moron.
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Assuming you're on windows, you'll have to install the adb driver first (not the standard android that windows installs automatically, theres a seperate driver in the usb_driver folder of the sdk). You also need to enable usb debugging on your phone.
Follow this guide if you need to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
You can use adb whatever mode your phone is in.. even when its stuck in a bootloop usually. You don't need to be running anything on the phone, the drivers are switched on by init.rc.
Fastboot can only be run with the phone in fastboot mode (surpisingly).

thanka alot man. im gonna give this all a try.

Good luck

ok. got adb running. ran the command you gave me. it brings up 1.4 but doesnt push it to my phone...... can i actually INSTALL 1.4 from fastboot/adb?

nevermind. figured it out. used common sense and just ran fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and it worked. thanks for everything

my super user still wont work.; so apparently it had nothing to do with the recovery..... im going to wipe, reflash cyan 3.9.1. and see if that works.

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Restore Recovery Image?

I'm trying to install Cyanogen 4.1.99, but I think I screwed up. According to Fingerlickin I need to install cyanogen's recovery image. First, before I even tried this endeavor, I was running Cyanogen 4.11.1 with the EnochXTra theme. I flashed the recovery image as instructed but, when I rebooted (probably where I messed up) I didn't see the usual recovery mode menu, just some triangle with a "!" in it facing a phone/pda (and NO text). Now I can't flash update.zip files. (Yes I tried ALT+S).
Also Fingerlickin pointed me towards fastboot. I know it's the key right now, but I don't know where to go from here. I think I still have root because I have adb running and could "su" without any complaints.
(I decided to start a new thread because the one I was in had a different problem. Also I would search the forum but I don' know what to search for.)
Tactical Fart said:
I'm trying to install Cyanogen 4.1.99, but I think I screwed up. According to Fingerlickin I need to install cyanogen's recovery image. First, before I even tried this endeavor, I was running Cyanogen 4.11.1 with the EnochXTra theme. I flashed the recovery image as instructed but, when I rebooted (probably where I messed up) I didn't see the usual recovery mode menu, just some triangle with a "!" in it facing a phone/pda (and NO text). Now I can't flash update.zip files. (Yes I tried ALT+S).
Also Fingerlickin pointed me towards fastboot. I know it's the key right now, but I don't know where to go from here. I think I still have root because I have adb running and could "su" without any complaints.
(I decided to start a new thread because the one I was in had a different problem. Also I would search the forum but I don' know what to search for.)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523558
instructions are in the OP. if you can boot into the rom, use
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
after putting the new recovery on your SD card
if that doesnt work
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img
with fastboot
instructions to set up fastboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
you shouldnt need to flash the SPL if you have HardSPL or DangerSPL already. Just make sure you have the right drivers, and use the 1.6 SDK since its already out
If you have any others questions or need clarification, post here again
When I was in the rom, I used the terminal emulator, and when I tried to use "su" it said "uid 10031 not allowed to su". I tried "flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img" under adb and that flopped. Under fast boot I get "Error: cannot load 'cm-recovery-1.4.img'.
*Is nervous*
Tactical Fart said:
When I was in the rom, I used the terminal emulator, and when I tried to use "su" it said "uid 10031 not allowed to su". I tried "flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img" under adb and that flopped. Under fast boot I get "Error: cannot load 'cm-recovery-1.4.img'.
*Is nervous*
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what spl do you have and is the recovery.img in the folder you are using fastboot from?
david1171 said:
what spl do you have and is the recovery.img in the folder you are using fastboot from?
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He has the DangerSPL
and do as david said. the cm recovery image must be in the same folder as the fastboot executable
B-man007 said:
He has the DangerSPL
and do as david said. the cm recovery image must be in the same folder as the fastboot executable
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reading fail, that's what little sleep for the past few days does
i have a android folder on my C:\ drive with fastboot.exe, adb.exe, and the AdbWinApi.dll so that is the folder i use whenever i need fastboot, i keep the adb.exe and AdbWinApi.dll file in my system32 folder so i can use adb easier.
david1171 said:
reading fail, that's what little sleep for the past few days does
i have a android folder on my C:\ drive with fastboot.exe, adb.exe, and the AdbWinApi.dll so that is the folder i use whenever i need fastboot, i keep the adb.exe and AdbWinApi.dll file in my system32 folder so i can use adb easier.
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O dont worry he didnt mention it in this thread, it was in the other thread.
I do the same thing haha
@Technical Fart
Don't worry to much, your phone is still booting, its not bricked. Just take it slow and read everything carefully. since you got fastboot already set up, the hardest part is over.
Problem Fixed!!! I didn't know that you had to have the image in that same directory that you had the fastboot command in. Thank-you so much! It feels good to be in a cyanogen rom again.
Tactical Fart said:
Problem Fixed!!! I didn't know that you had to have the image in that same directory that you had the fastboot command in. Thank-you so much! It feels good to be in a cyanogen rom again.
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NP
Can you please put [SOLVED] in the title?
B-man007 said:
NP
Can you please put [SOLVED] in the title?
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How do I do that?
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How do I do that?
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select edit, go advanced, edit the title to include [SOLVED]
ADB working...not so much for fastboot
Hey guys,
I can't seem to get fastboot up and running. My adb is running fine but in all my noobishness I don't know how to get the recovery image running using adb. Is there anyway to do it or am I gonna have to figure out how to get the fastboot going?
to get fastboot going, you phone has to be in bootloader, in fastboot usb mode, and you need to be operating from a folder that has the fastboot.exe, adb.exe and the AdbWinApi.dll (for windows at least). then whatever you are wanting to transfer via fastboot needs to be in that folder as well.
I have all of those things in the tools file. Fastboot shows on my phone but when I type fastboot devices it shows nothing. Also, I tried doing the fastboot commands and it said it is waiting for the device.
When I type fastboot shell to get in to su it gives me the option list as if I just typed in fastboot.
Should I redo the whole adb install process?
Ok, tried going another method and downgrading or changing my rom...no go. Looks like it keeps aborting each installation. This is getting really lame really fast.
Edit: I fixed the problem with my fastboot finally. Apparently when I plugged up my phone in fastboot it recognized it as a mass storage device so I had to uninstall those drivers at startup and reinstall the adb drivers. I think I've spent 4 hours total on trying to fix what happened after this rom and sadly enjoyed the challenge.
simplyTravis said:
Ok, tried going another method and downgrading or changing my rom...no go. Looks like it keeps aborting each installation. This is getting really lame really fast.
Edit: I fixed the problem with my fastboot finally. Apparently when I plugged up my phone in fastboot it recognized it as a mass storage device so I had to uninstall those drivers at startup and reinstall the adb drivers. I think I've spent 4 hours total on trying to fix what happened after this rom and sadly enjoyed the challenge.
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good to see you got the answer yourself
trust me, those long seemingly pointless hours troubleshooting pays off in the long run. you have a better understanding of how everything works
Hi - I have flash_image in the sdk tools folder but when I do:
ad push flash_image /system/bin is says cannot stat no such file or directory.
Please help!
Erris Bueller said:
Hi - I have flash_image in the sdk tools folder but when I do:
ad push flash_image /system/bin is says cannot stat no such file or directory.
Please help!
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did you mount the /system directory?
from CMD:
adb shell
#mount -a
then try it.
afterwards then
#umount -a

help installing apk using terminal

ok i just updated to CM 5. and well none of my apps are there, now im trying
this following :
sh /sdcard/installapk.sh /sdcard/theapp.apk
and no luck i think i can b doing it wrong.
cant DL the app cause i dont have the market app ether
Download DroidExplorer and you can do a bulk install of all your apps straight to the sdcard. Works everytime!!!
Link is in my sig
yea but i have no market on the phone and i dont have adb set up on my pc is it possible trew terminal to install astro so i can go on from there?
If your market is not there then you failed to flash the gapps.
You need to flash those AFTER CM5 or BEFORE. I've heard it works different for some people. First time I flashed it, it was before. Now it's after. Before and after won't hurt.
i figured that but the link on CM page for gapps is not working for me
I'm not really sure what having the market working has to do with anything. Clearly you didn't even take the time to click the link in my sig and go to the DroidExplorer thread.
it seems like that is for computers 64bit and up i have 32
brios86 said:
it seems like that is for computers 64bit and up i have 32
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Are you talking about DroidExplorer? I have it installed on my 10 year old Dell and it is definitely a 32 bit machine. I'm assuming you are talking about something else.
You can use busybox if you have the latest CM ROM installed which you do. Busybox is included in the ROM so you can run busybox commands from terminal.
Put the apps you want to install on the root of your sdcard just to make them easy to find. Once in terminal, su so you have a # symbol
Then
Code:
busybox install /sdcard/yourapp.apk /sd-ext/app
great now i am F*** i tried installing the debug phone ota file that was required for CM 4.x and now i have no recovery it comes out the phone with exclamation mark
trying the droid explorer now
no luck droidexplorer seems to view the device but nothing else
brios86 said:
no luck droidexplorer seems to view the device but nothing else
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Well that makes sense considering Droid Explorer requires root...According to your post on the first page, you are seeing an exclamation point when booting into recovery which means you lost root access by flashing whatever it is you flashed. Time to start all over again.
There is an updated rooting post for the Dream over at theunlockr.com
ok now my thing is i cant have the phone on cause it will keep getting FC and after a few it reboots
im trying to set up ADB on my pc now will that help me fix this? the phone boots up and the it reboots on its owne
It seems pretty clear that you don't really know what you are doing when it comes to modding your G1, and it is also pretty clear that you aren't willing to listen to directions.
I told you that you could batch install applications through Droid Explorer and you blatantly ignored my directions then said that it wouldn't work because you have a 32 bit computer.
I then gave you directions on how to use busybox to install the application that you wanted and never got a response regarding whether you even tried it or not.
You responded further into the thread saying that now you are getting an exclamation point when booting into recovery which MEANS THAT YOU DON"T HAVE ROOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Installing adb and getting it working isn't going to do anything for you as far as installing applications because you lost root access which means you don't have the correct permissions to do anything anymore.
I gave you the link to an updated post on rooting so either do that or update this thread with where you stand exactly. Can you get into recovery? Is it an exclamation point? Can you launch the terminal app? When you type "su" do you get a # or an $? Does it say permission denied? ETC ETC ETC
DirectMatrix said:
It seems pretty clear that you don't really know what you are doing when it comes to modding your G1, and it is also pretty clear that you aren't willing to listen to directions.
I told you that you could batch install applications through Droid Explorer and you blatantly ignored my directions then said that it wouldn't work because you have a 32 bit computer.
I then gave you directions on how to use busybox to install the application that you wanted and never got a response regarding whether you even tried it or not.
You responded further into the thread saying that now you are getting an exclamation point when booting into recovery which MEANS THAT YOU DON"T HAVE ROOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Installing adb and getting it working isn't going to do anything for you as far as installing applications because you lost root access which means you don't have the correct permissions to do anything anymore.
I gave you the link to an updated post on rooting so either do that or update this thread with where you stand exactly. Can you get into recovery? Is it an exclamation point? Can you launch the terminal app? When you type "su" do you get a # or an $? Does it say permission denied? ETC ETC ETC
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My whole point with the no market is if he would have flashed the gapps or found another way to get them he could have installed a file manager then installed the app off his sdcard.
This was a 1 - 2 minute procedure that he has not made an hour/s procedure.
I agree with droidexplorer, I use it quite constantly. However, if he would have correctly installed CM5 this issue would have never arisen.
As for OP, I strongly advise that you unroot and stick to stock. If you cannot successfully do this, there is a high chance you are going to brick and it's just not worth it.
this is not the first time i try this i have a understanding of what i am doing, for some reason i decided to try another sdcard and it magically booted fine, now the gapps link doesn't work for me, so i am trying to install astro threw terminal emulator (astro is on the root of the sdcard) so i can just install the rest of my apps
thank you busybox worked thank you so much
funny after all the stuff i tried i decided to try a diff sdcard and it booted fine and then changed back to the old sdcard and it works fine

[Q] Hero CM7 RC2 stable I think!

flashed CM7 RC2 I think month or so ago. Phone's been running fine slow but fine. Today Im texting the gf and look down and see blank wall paper. Reboot teh phone htc screen comes up vibrates then starts over. Cant do **** with this think besides stick down the front of my pants! Ive powered and booted to hboot, fastboot etc., cant get it to go into recovery any help would be greatly appreciated before I have a stroke!
FAIL. This should be in Q+A. Can you start ADB and access the device? Are you s-off? How did you root the phone? What have you tried? What recovery do you have? Can you read? Is the battery full? Did you search?
well since I rooted the phone about 2 [email protected]##ing years ago memory does not serve. S-off dont know does it do that when you flash the rom or install clockworkmod recovery or the several other steps that you follow when you flash the new ROM? If you have to flash it with the image then no that wasn't an option when I loaded this ROM.
ADB automatically starts when the system boots so I don't have to start it, yes its running no I cannot see the device. Battery was about 75% when the screen went blank.
Im going to ignore the can you read and should be in the Q&A comment el duce as this is the place where the experts play and the other 10000 questions about boot looping reside. Does anyone wanna help or just be an a...?
Questions don't belong in the Development section <---please click link and read....moved to general...
TMcGuire17 said:
well since I rooted the phone about 2 [email protected]##ing years ago memory does not serve. S-off dont know does it do that when you flash the rom or install clockworkmod recovery or the several other steps that you follow when you flash the new ROM? If you have to flash it with the image then no that wasn't an option when I loaded this ROM.
ADB automatically starts when the system boots so I don't have to start it, yes its running no I cannot see the device. Battery was about 75% when the screen went blank.
Im going to ignore the can you read and should be in the Q&A comment el duce as this is the place where the experts play and the other 10000 questions about boot looping reside. Does anyone wanna help or just be an ass?
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I might be an a.., but I am helping, that's why I asked a bunch of questions. You are not s-off, you would know if you were. ADB is a program you use on your computer, not the phone. I asked because you can flash a recovery image using ADB even though the phone won't boot - so my new question here would be do you have ADB on your computer? You should have ADB if you rooted a long time ago, before there were 1-click root methods. I would recommend charging your phone, since many reboots would kill it. Wait til the charging light turns green. Once it's green boot into the bootloader, then access your phone via ADB and see if recognizes the device. If it does we can work from there. As to your BS about posting in dev because it felt better, that's lame as hell, I would have helped in q+a as well, but I would've been less of an ass because you were posting in the correct section. Anyway, charge it up, and reply if you know how to use ADB or not, then we can move on.
EDIT: I just reread your posts, did you say you can boot into your ROM, just not recovery? If so you can also flash a recovery image using terminal emulator. Let me know.
@TMcGuire17
Let’s take the aggression down about 5 notches and remember that when asking for help it is important to post in the correct section. The fact that you want your question answered quickly does not change the fact that this thread has no place in development. XDA is not tech support and while members can be very helpful you should not expect answers from anyone. When you have to search for the answer or figure out a solution…you are able to learn…understand…and then help others…and that is what XDA is about. Calling people names is never acceptable...I have edited your post. I am tempted to close this thread but I will leave it open in the hopes that you find your answer…but any more name calling or bickering and this thread is closed.
@il Duce
Thanks for helping...but next time leave out the "FAIL. This should be in Q+A" and just report the post...it is only going agitate the situation.
Thanks!
krook6023 (mod team)
krook6023 said:
@il Duce
Thanks for helping...but next time leave out the "FAIL. This should be in Q+A" and just report the post...it is only going agitate the situation.
Thanks!
krook6023 (mod team)
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LOL ok my bad. I get angry. It's the Irish in me.
Well there you have it! Im as Irish as they come any good conversation between Irish is gonna start with either a beer or a fight. Now that intro's are over....I do have adb loaded need to update it. I'll be back later to check it out and see if I can access the device.
Peace
TMcGuire17 said:
Well there you have it! Im as Irish as they come any good conversation between Irish is gonna start with either a beer or a fight. Now that intro's are over....I do have adb loaded need to update it. I'll be back later to check it out and see if I can access the device.
Peace
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Scotch-Irish actually, red beard to prove it, lol. You shouldn't need to update your adb If you have adb, and on windows, and it's old, try this: open command prompt from your start menu. type "cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" (or just copy paste that with no quotes) then type "adb devices" and if it says "random numers phone" like "2222555555 HTC recovery" or whatever, you're good. Report back.
I updated the sdk because everytime I run that adb devices command I get a command not recognized as an internal or external command. Wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue with it being out of date. My directory is c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
The adb services is running
TMcGuire17 said:
I updated the sdk because everytime I run that adb devices command I get a command not recognized as an internal or external command. Wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue with it being out of date. My directory is c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
The adb services is running
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So now does it show your device?
sent from a series of tubes.
No it still wont execute the command
If it does, type "adb shell" enter "su" enter "flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameof yourrecovery.img"
Thanks il Duce. If I get adb running Ill try it and post back.
TMcGuire17 said:
I updated the sdk because everytime I run that adb devices command I get a command not recognized as an internal or external command. Wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue with it being out of date. My directory is c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
The adb services is running
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Hey TMcGuire, If you updated to the latest SDK, the new path for ADB is no longer \Tools (unless you moved a bunch of files) Try c:\androidsdk\platform-tools
TMcGuire17 said:
I updated the sdk because everytime I run that adb devices command I get a command not recognized as an internal or external command. Wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue with it being out of date. My directory is c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
The adb services is running
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This is not the correct path. Try typing "cd C:\androidsdk\tools" enter, then try "adb devices" OH YEAH and do you know if you had usb debugging on in the phone settings? You may have to run the RUU if you didnt. That can be done from fastboot, but try the other command first, then the flash command.
Edit, platform tools like posted above mine, sorry I dont have the new sdk.
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Thanks guys. Yes I have the new sdk and I did find the correct directory for the adb. I can run it now but still no device. Im not sure if I had debugging on or not I thought it did but.......ran adb shell device not found. How about a quick tut on fastboot!
so here is where Im at. fastboot lists my device. I've try to flash the rom from fastboot but no go. Tried to copy the ROM renamed update.zip to the sdcard via fastboot then I was gonna run update but it returned: sending '/sdcard' (72819 KB) FAILED (sounds familiar )(remote not allow)
TMcGuire17 said:
Thanks guys. Yes I have the new sdk and I did find the correct directory for the adb. I can run it now but still no device. Im not sure if I had debugging on or not I thought it did but.......ran adb shell device not found. How about a quick tut on fastboot!
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look here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958968
read the info, I think jasonmaloney put the zip you need near the end of the thread.
Read, tried failed. It wont push anything to the device. Always comes back as failed remote: not allow

[Q] Half bricked my Htc Hero.

Has anyone not been able to boot into recovery mode on their phone. When I go into ROM manager and try to change ROMS or something it just turns off?
Probably the obvious answer, but have you tried reflashing a recovery?
Yeah If that's when you press the home button, down on the volume and on button at the same time.
HTC_HERO!!! said:
Yeah If that's when you press the home button, down on the volume and on button at the same time.
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no, reflashing, throught Rom Manager or ADB.
I personally think RM is the devil, it does all the stuff for you so when you run into this problem you crap your pants. Do you have adb and sdk goodies?
I am downloading them right now.
HTC_HERO!!! said:
I am downloading them right now.
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cool, then once you get it all set up and made sure, it recognizes it, place the recovery.img of your choice to the root of your sd card,
then type in a command prompt
adb shell
# <--- (should get that)
flash_image recovery /sdcard/(file name).img
Ok I have downloaded and Installed Android SDK , Java RE, Java RE JDK. Is there anything else I would need to access the device through SDK?
HTC_HERO!!! said:
Ok I have downloaded and Installed Android SDK , Java RE, Java RE JDK. Is there anything else I would need to access the device through SDK?
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lol well you only needed the sdk, those other javas are for developing and other such things. but no problem with being overly prepared. but thats all you need.
just follow these steps, http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK
Hey coffehandle Thanks for the tips.
I read up on that link you posted, and entered some commands that were posted to and it said, that there's not enough space on the phone. Then after doing som3 research I found out that somehow I had deleted the recovery image binary . Installed that fixed all the issues.
Flashed RockSteady ROM its pretty good. Over clocked to 700mhz. ADW launcher. Right now I'm playing Angry Birds Rio. Thanks to all the people at Xda.
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[Q] Help! LG PHOENIX....phone only goes into CWR

I recently purchased an LG Phoenix by At&t, the problem I have is that I cannot leave ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
I rooted it, restarted in recovery. and everything worked fine. I then upgraded my firmware, not sure what version though.. I backed up my phone before I upgraded into the new firmware. I then backedup my phone because it rebooted into recovery. Now everytime it boots it goes straight to Clockwork and I cant get out of it. I restored to my previous restore and it still doesn't work. What could I do? Should I install cwr 3? I read that cwr 5 has bugs and is known to brick phones..
Edit: Also the phone without the sd card still boots into clockworkmod menu
I have a ROM(Phoenix ULTIMATE) I'd like to flash but I'm not sure if I should right now considering I'm stuck at this menu.
Info- in my restores It says;
2011-10-04.21.37.48/
2011-10-04.21.56.13/
I'v tried both.
Another edit with potentially important info getting an error stating;
E: bad boot message "recovery"
Sorry If this is a n00b post.. I'm in sort of a rush because I'm moving in a few hours!
Edit; tried flashing the phoenix, didnt work.
installation was aborted
said i needed to switch to Edify scripting, and amend scripting is no longer supported.
What could I flash too to fix this, please help. I don't care if I lose data. Just need my phone back soon.
I have android SDK.
I was reading up on http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517874 here
Would I be-able to push somesort of boot file or firmware to my phone? Or something in that manner?
THIS:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Seems to be perfect for what I should try, where could I get the stock imgs for my phone? (p505)
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Good luck!!
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I moved this here temporarily for you to be assisted...after that it will be moved beck to the right forum
Good luck!!
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thanks
Really hope I can get this fixed soon.
Xery said:
I recently purchased an LG Phoenix by At&t, the problem I have is that I cannot leave ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
I rooted it, restarted in recovery. and everything worked fine. I then upgraded my firmware, not sure what version though.. I backed up my phone before I upgraded into the new firmware. I then backedup my phone because it rebooted into recovery. Now everytime it boots it goes straight to Clockwork and I cant get out of it. I restored to my previous restore and it still doesn't work. What could I do? Should I install cwr 3? I read that cwr 5 has bugs and is known to brick phones..
Edit: Also the phone without the sd card still boots into clockworkmod menu
I have a ROM(Phoenix ULTIMATE) I'd like to flash but I'm not sure if I should right now considering I'm stuck at this menu.
Info- in my restores It says;
2011-10-04.21.37.48/
2011-10-04.21.56.13/
I'v tried both.
Another edit with potentially important info getting an error stating;
E: bad boot message "recovery"
Sorry If this is a n00b post.. I'm in sort of a rush because I'm moving in a few hours!
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Are you on Ecliar , Froyo or Gingerbread ? Sorry , I don't know much but I would like to help
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Are you on Ecliar , Froyo or Gingerbread ? Sorry , I don't know much but I would like to help
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I didn't change anything, everything is stock I got it yesterday. Rooted it today and it's stuck in recovery. So I guess whatever stock is..
Xery said:
I didn't change anything, everything is stock I got it yesterday. Rooted it today and it's stuck in recovery. So I guess whatever stock is..
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Try adb .
(If you know what it is)
Type these in:
adb shell
su
reboot bootloader
See if it works
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I don't know what adb is. :c
Could you explain a bit more about it?
Xery said:
I don't know what adb is. :c
Could you explain a bit more about it?
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Okay then .
Download and install the Android SDK Tools first
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EmoBoiix3 said:
Okay then .
Download and install the Android SDK Tools first
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OH Android SDK I have that, just updating.. another 30 minutes..
While we wait, could you explain to me what I'd do with it, and just some tips or things I could do?
Xery said:
OH Android SDK I have that, just updating.. another 30 minutes..
While we wait, could you explain to me what I'd do with it, and just some tips or things I could do?
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If you have platform-tools , everything will be done in a flash
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EmoBoiix3 said:
If you have platform-tools , everything will be done in a flash
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"Installed Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 7"
Still installing a bunch of other things though..
"Downloading SDK Platform Android 3.2, API 13, revision 1"
Probably won't be done till tomorrow, horrible internet.
Xery said:
"Installed Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 7"
Still installing a bunch of other things though..
"Downloading SDK Platform Android 3.2, API 13, revision 1"
Probably won't be done till tomorrow, horrible internet.
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All you need now is platform-tools . The rest can be cancelled .
Use cmd (best if used with administrative rights) to navigate to the Android SDK folder , then to platform-tools .
Once you get there , connect your phone through USB then don't touch it .
In cmd , type:
abd shell
su
reboot bootloader
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EmoBoiix3 said:
All you need now is platform-tools . The rest can be cancelled .
Use cmd (best if used with administrative rights) to navigate to the Android SDK folder , then to platform-tools .
Once you get there , connect your phone through USB then don't touch it .
In cmd , type:
abd shell
su
reboot bootloader
Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
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How would I use the cmd to navigate to the SDK folder?
I see the cmd, I also see a window called Android SDK and AVD manager, What now?
Xery said:
How would I use the cmd to navigate to the SDK folder?
I see the cmd, I also see a window called Android SDK and AVD manager, What now?
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Do this
Hold start button and R(on desktop)
Run will open
Type cmd in the box and press enter
A black window will open
CD to sdk dir
E.g.
If u installed sdk in C:\sdk
Then do this
cd C:\sdk\platform-tools
Then this
adb shell
reboot bootloader
cdesai said:
Do this
Hold start button and R(on desktop)
Run will open
Type cmd in the box and press enter
A black window will open
CD to sdk dir
E.g.
If u installed sdk in C:\sdk
Then do this
cd C:\sdk\tools
Then this
adb shell
reboot bootloader
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Follow his instructions .
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cdesai said:
Do this
Hold start button and R(on desktop)
Run will open
Type cmd in the box and press enter
A black window will open
CD to sdk dir
E.g.
If u installed sdk in C:\sdk
Then do this
cd C:\sdk\tools
Then this
adb shell
reboot bootloader
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I opened the cmd, I'm not really suer where I installed SDK but I'm pretty sure it was c:\program files\android\android-sdk\tools
That seemed to work, whenever i type adb shell it says abd is not recognized as an internal or external command, program or batch.
I need more detail because I'm a noob. :/
cdesai said:
Do this
Hold start button and R(on desktop)
Run will open
Type cmd in the box and press enter
A black window will open
CD to sdk dir
E.g.
If u installed sdk in C:\sdk
Then do this
cd C:\sdk\tools
Then this
adb shell
reboot bootloader
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I opened the cmd, I'm not really suer where I installed SDK but I'm pretty sure it was c:\program files\android\android-sdk\tools
That seemed to work, whenever i type adb shell it says abd is not recognized as an internal or external command, program or batch.
I need more detail because I'm a noob. :/
EDIT: GOTIT! got the dir, i typed adb and it says device not found should i connect my phone correct?
Edit: okay,i did that, it just rebooted my phone and it went back into the CWR.. :c wut now?
Are you able to try and boot into bootloader? Try that. Also, try and flash a new ROM in recovery, test to see if it may be the ROM. Don't be afraid to backup again, you can always access the backups based on date.
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What's bootloader?
I tried to flash my backups before the firmware update and it didn't work, I also can't find any wp505 roms.. I found a few but they wont help in my situation. Do you know any? My rom is stock as I only rooted and got stuck in cwr.
Thanks!
EDIT: I did do that adb shell, reboot bootloader, didnt work.
Xery said:
What's bootloader?
I tried to flash my backups before the firmware update and it didn't work, I also can't find any wp505 roms.. I found a few but they wont help in my situation. Do you know any? My rom is stock as I only rooted and got stuck in cwr.
Thanks!
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First off, not to lecture you...but you definitely should look into these kind of things before flashing a ROM.
I haven't looked at the ROMs so I'm not sure. But whatever fancies you, it's just to troubleshoot the problem. The problem itself may actually be the recovery. Do you know how to do logcats in ADB? Try and do a logcat and boot up your device while connected to ADB.
So go "adb logcat". This should show you exactly what your device is doing. When it runs and goes straight to recovery paste all that information into a .txt document and upload it onto xda so others can take a look.
I'll try and help more tomorrow but I have to get some rest. Good luck on getting this fixed.
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