Hello,
I have a unlocked TMobile G1. Few days ago the phone got dropped on the hard floor and I had to pay $130 to get it's cracked LCD replaced. The phone worked fine after that until yesterday I accidentally dropped it from my computer table. This time, there's no physical damage to the screen or the phone. However, the touch stopped working and I've been getting error(android.acore process) while using the "Gmail" and the "dialer" options. Rest of things were working fine.
So, I choose to do a factory reset. Now, after restarting I am stuck on the "Touch the android to begin" screen. The touch is not working and I am not sure how to go past this screen.
Does anybody know of any keyboard short-cut or any other trick which I can use to go past this screen without touching it?
Also, anybody have any idea on what went wrong with the touch?
Thanks
Raj
Wait, are you still rooted? Use adb from your computer to remove the setup apk.
Use:
Adb remount
Adb shell rm -f /system/app/SetupWizard.apk
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Thanks for the reply. I haven't yet rooted my phone but I can look up on google and do that. Mine is T-Mobile G1 - 1.6 Firmware.
Using adb to remove the setup apk will get rid of the welcome screen or the Google set up screen which comes after that or both?
Currently, I am stuck on the welcome screen and I just need to go past this screen. Google I can set up from phone also if I can get past this screen.
Thanks
Raj
How to know if my phone is still rooted?
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How to know if my phone is still rooted?
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lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.
demkantor said:
lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.
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ccheck the guide in my signature, it has a how-to root method and also a google by-pass method which could also be useful in your situation to get by the little guy, you need to do the google by-pass so you can enable usb debbugging(which allows you to run adb commands) then from there just delete the setupwizard.apk and so on.... but your screen may be screwed lol
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Alright, pretty much my phone was fine, but it fell and now I can barely see the bottom third of my screen, I can still touch the whole screen however. Anyways since it was rooted I couldn't send it in for dead pixels. So what I ended up doing was the 1.56 RUU and I got the error 140. But since I can barely see the screen to do the downgrade through SD card I instead went up to 2.27.651.5.
Now I turned on the phone and it's as if the first time it turned on. My question now is pretty much is the phone un-rooted even though I went up in firmware and if so how do I double check?( Is it through the ADB?) And secondly, will I have to do anything else or am I good from here on out?
Which hboot & recovery were you using?
To see if your unrooted download an app from market that needs root access also I believe I read download Terminal and type the cmd su- I forgot who posted that sorry I cant give credit.
Here useful tool-- SuperOneClick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
or try these links they should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657086
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846173
There is now also an app called root checker in the market free. It works well.
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Or you could finish off the screen with another fall and send it in.
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Try using adb, I figure if you can't see the screen it will be hard to download from market so
cd c:/android-sdk-windows/tools
adb shell
su
if it grants superuser permission you're still rooted
My end button stopped working, so I had to do the same thing, and they never said anything when I went into sprint. They just mailed me a new hero.
So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
rjhall said:
So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.
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If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.
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It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.
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It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.
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If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.
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If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.
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Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?
rjhall said:
Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?
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Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.
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Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.
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Would it be possible for me to get to it in ADB without rooting the phone?
the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
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The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said:
the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
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Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!
rjhall said:
Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!
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Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.
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Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.
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It's hard to explain the problem I'm having. The screen doesn't turn on or respond to touch inputs. If I squeeze the phone's sides hard enough, I can get the screen to come on. Soon as I let up, it goes dark. Keys still light up, though. If I do anything with the keys, it doesn't show up on the screen. I have no idea how to get past this.
I am on stock HTC firmware now. I completely reflashed the entire phone with the 2.1 utility. That is, before it randomly stopped working.
After USB debugging is enabled, I can just pull the entire system directory, no? No need for nandroid or anything?
cracked screen
Hey guys My screen is being repaired for the next couple days and I reallly need to check my text messages....Can I get more clearification on what you guys are tallking about because im lost but Im up for anything as long as I can see my texts,
I don't know if it's possible to do this, but it's worth a try. Have you heard of "Air Droid"? It allows you to interface with your phone via a WiFi connection. If you can download an apk file of Air Droid, then flash it to your phone, you might be able to run it. Although your screen digitizer isn't working, your trackball can still select screen items. If it works, you can do a connect to WiFi, see the code, then use the browser interface. I think through that you can access data on the phone, including text messages.
Also, there are some apps that perform SMS to email. You could theoretically have your text messages sent to your email account.
This morning I woke up and my phone was working fine. I had 2 updates in the market and I hit update all. After that my phone rebooted and it does the Verizon LTE animation and the LG splash screen but it goes into a black screen. While it's in the black screen the phone vibrates and the battery heats up. I tried going into recovery but it did nothing.
Pull the battery fo a few and wait before a reboot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjBRAVZKW4&feature=youtube_gdata_player this is the issue that's happening.
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so you said you went in to recovery and it did nothing? So you couldn't even get recovery to load? and are you stock or rooted with clockworkmod recovery?
I can't even get it into recovery. I hold the volume keys and power buttons and it just does the boot up then black screens.
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Just hold down the volume down button, then hold down the power button also. Continue to hold both through the lg splash, then it should be into recovery.
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isoutsider said:
This morning I woke up and my phone was working fine. I had 2 updates in the market and I hit update all. After that my phone rebooted and it does the Verizon LTE animation and the LG splash screen but it goes into a black screen. While it's in the black screen the phone vibrates and the battery heats up. I tried going into recovery but it did nothing.
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I had the same thing happen to mine 20 days after I got it. I had to have it replaced under the warranty, which means they had to ship it next day air.
I've heard of a few other people with the same problem.
Finally able to get into recovery and wipe data but now phone starts up and its black screen with the status bar across the top. It's acting like it has no home launcher.
Unfortunately you are going to have to get a replacement from VZW. If you are within the 14 day period you can just swap it at the store. otherwise you have to go through the Warranty folks and make sure you have them ship it to you overnight.
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Finally able to get into recovery and wipe data but now phone starts up and its black screen with the status bar across the top. It's acting like it has no home launcher.
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Do you have Clockwork installed?
If so, this is an easy fix.
If not, well, it's a little tougher.
The gist of what's happening is easy to find by connecting your phone while it's booting to USB and running "adb logcat" on your desktop.
That will give you the boot logs and the exact reason for what's happening.
If you're running my decrapified ROM, you may want to switch back to the stock ROM. Go to my stock NANDROID thread, download that, put it in the right folder on your SD card, then boot into clockwork and follow the instructions in the stock nandroid thread.
Make sure you clear data also!
No need to call verizon
I tried connecting the phone to the pc and got nothing. computer couldn't even detect it. I called verizon and got the phone swapped under the warranty. First thing I'm doing when I get the phone is putting the recovery on it. Would have made this process much easier.
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isoutsider said:
I tried connecting the phone to the pc and got nothing. computer couldn't even detect it. I called verizon and got the phone swapped under the warranty. First thing I'm doing when I get the phone is putting the recovery on it. Would have made this process much easier.
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Yep, having ADB access is a surefire way to get your phone up and running again.
But, just for future reference, LG has a failsafe firmware updater that will always work, no matter what state the phone is in.
It's not super easy to set up, but it will fix a phone no matter how broken the software may be.
There's a thread in the Dev subforum with the files and instructions, but the gist is that it's accessed by holding VOLUP+POWER with usb plugged in, then plugging in the battery.
It's successfully recovered 3 phones so far.
It may not be the easiest way to get the phone back, but it has a 100% success rate
I'm having no luck with my new replacement I got from vzw. I've tried rooting it with S1C using both exploits, I've tried rootwiki's manual method and none of them work for me. Anyone got any tips?
isoutsider said:
I'm having no luck with my new replacement I got from vzw. I've tried rooting it with S1C using both exploits, I've tried rootwiki's manual method and none of them work for me. Anyone got any tips?
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Well... you could always try my "toggle ADB" trick.
Turn usb debugging on, then back off, then on again.
Then follow the rest of the rooting instructions, but skip the whole exploit section.
(Basically, remount /system as rw, push su, chmod su, and push superuser, and install busybox)
Ironically, the phone doesn't actually NEED any exploits at all-- it's pretty unlocked to begin with!
Hi,
I dropped my phone on the corner and the LCD broke and leaked through the screen. As a result the phone works, but the screen is dead.
I was able to check ADB USB in dev tools prior to the screen leaking through.
Is there any computer way to access and copy over the sms to another droid turbo, or does it make more sense to just replace the screen? The phone is currently turned off, has a pattern lock screen (since digitizer works, i can technically unlock the phone - i think )
Thanks,
Chris
you should be able to make a backup of the entire phone using ADB, But I don't know the exact steps to do it. Ive seen it done on nexus devices
use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
I used it to migrate all my messages from my old phone to the new one and it worked good
it was the pro version though
£ngland said:
use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
I used it to migrate all my messages from my old phone to the new one and it worked good
it was the pro version though
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That may be difficult to use with a dead screen.
As for using adb, there's an issue. Although you enabled adb, a confirmation screen will still pop up on your phone the first time you use it. So if you've never used it before, you'll still need to accept that confirmation screen, which is a problem. I'm pretty sure that sms messages are stored in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db and /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal. I'm running RR, so I'm not sure if this is the correct location on the stock rom, but I think it's pretty standardized. If you can get adb working, I think the correct commands would be the following:
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db <path to where you want it to show up on your PC>
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal <path to where you want it to show up on your PC>
There's also a chance that you might need to be rooted to do this, but I think you should be okay. Good luck.
my thought is running it on 2 devices at same time sa to know where to click
Chris
So I shattered my display and the screen wont turn on but it still vibrates when i get notifications, i was wondering if anyone would know of a way to sort of project the display onto a TV or PC so i can use apps that i installed to backup messages and app data and stuff?
I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.
BlueForce64 said:
I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.
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Here's the problem with that:
ADB doesn't work unless you first enable it in developer options. Once you do that, you have to click yes on a confirmation dialog the first time you use it. Both of these processes require a functioning screen.
If you have an unlocked phone with TWRP installed, and you can blindly convince the phone to boot into TWRP (maybe by booting into bootloader and using fastboot reboot-recovery, but I'll have to check and see if that command works when I get home. I think it does.), you'll be able to access the data on your phone by simply plugging it into a computer. If you do not have TWRP installed, and you have no lockscreen set up (no swipe, no password, no pin, no nothing), you might be able to access the data by plugging it into a computer after it boots.
If none of those situations apply, and the data is worth about $100 to you, you might want to look into a screen replacement service. Sometimes you can find little electronics places in malls or shopping centers that will do it, and I'm pretty sure there are businesses that you can mail your phone to and they'll mail it back once the work is completed. A friend of mine even found a service that sent someone to her house to replace her screen then and there.
Thanks, booting into TWRP worked and I was able to get most of the stuff I needed. I completely forgot I could get into it that way.