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[FIX] Enable download mode by force adb push update.zip without permission

MY Phone Condition:
My phone was previously install with voodoo rom and use clockwork recovery to restore to my stock rom that i backup and it crash half way.
My phone was hardware lock this mean no matter how i press the volume and power button , i will never get into download mode. non of the method posted work !
My phone cannot use "adb reboot download" because there is no OS and it was stuck in the recovery loop.
It does not have clockwork recovery because i formatted my internal sdcard
If i do have clockwork recovery and i use restore image or install new from zip , i still stuck in the recovery mode after reboot several times.
My phone does not mount to internal sdcard because i don't even know what i did on this part.
I believe i screw up my partition of the phone.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You need the Samsung USB driver and you can get it from Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
First Part
1. Download update.zip from the link below. This was post by another member.
The post is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
2. Place the update.zip in tools folder so you can push it into your phone by using adb command
3. Plug usb into the phone and your phone should be on the Android system recovery <2e>
4. Use your volume button to select reinstall package, don't press power button yet.
5. constant "adb push update.zip /sdcard" from computer , you will get permission denied.
6. While you are constantly pushing the adb command from computer. press the power button on the phone so it install update.zip from sdcard.
7. This is the part where it force adb push into sdcard without permission
8. once the update.zip install completed. unplug the usb cable from the phone and take the battery out.
9. put the battery back to the phone then press on both volume button.
10. While holding both volume button , plug in your usb cable and it will boot to download screen.
If you need use Odin to flash your phone to original stock rom. Go to the Second Part

Second Part:
If you get black screen with only 4 light on the bottom after flashing from Odin.
Follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728698
There should be T959-PDA.tar,T959-CSC.tar and T959-Phone.tar within the package.
Check "Re-Partition" , "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" check box. Use the PIT 0512 version. Use "PDA", "PHONE" and "CSC" from the link above.
After flashing with Odin, you will loose the download mode. repeat the first part and you are good to go.
Here is the link on rooting the phone
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Samsung_Galaxy_S_(Vibrant)

If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
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mr2t32 said:
If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
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my hardware lock mean cannot use the button method to get into download mode and using adb reboot download does not help too.

Im pretty sure hardware lock does not mean no recovery. Just no button download mode
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you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration

No, it means both.
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muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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i was about to give up. i was trying to push update.zip and do adb reboot download left and right and no luck untill i found this method. It took me a week to figure it out

wildklymr said:
No, it means both.
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my recovery was working because i was stuck in the a loop. ya , this update.zip pretty much do both download mode and recovery mode.

What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??

Master™ said:
What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??
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Are you asking or you are insulting ?

jaex said:
Are you asking or you are insulting ?
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probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?

nermie said:
probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?
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You figure it out after all. I already stated the condition of my phone ! My phone was pretty bricked at that point. There is way for me to push any files into the phone because i don't have permission and my phone will not go to download mode by using the volume button. It just stuck at recovery mode.
There are guide out there teach you to use "adb push download". This method only work if you are in your phone and you turn on debug mode. My phone crash at the clockwork recovery bootloader. Then i formated my internal sdcard that hold the clockwork. next i push a stock update.zip that does not have su and busybox so i lost the capability to push anything into the phone.
no download mode , no permission, no sdcard --> You tell me how can i use the method that post few week ago ?

muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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Thank You

Thank ! You save my phone !

unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.

atlaswingpasaway said:
unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.
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i use shell to create the file that disable voodoo. after disable voodoo , i was able to do restore and install new rom unfortunately after restore or install new rom , it still reboot into recovery.

I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.

muncknr said:
I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.
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nice , you just have to re-root and install the new rom again , if it brick again , just use this method and you are good again.many of us forgot to disable the voodoo before we restore or install new rom and this crashes the phone.

Need some help really bad
Ok so I have a similar situation as you did (OP), only mine is a bit worse... In my irrational "in the moment" fear of the situation, I used adb reboot recovery to get into recovery mode (HW locked phone) and I did the option that deletes all the **** on the phone and restores the phone to its original format (I think it reinstalled the OS or something, because it looks brand new). So now, whenever I boot up, it does the annoying black screen with the 4 glowing buttons thing for a while, and then eventually the OS actually shows up on the screen. Then it does "scanning media" thing over and over again, but thats not the main problem. I figured, hey this isnt so bad atleast I found your thread and would be able to use your method to help restore my phone... the problem is that somehow my "settings" button is totally gone from the app menu, and I cant get it into debug mode, so I cant use either adb or your method or ANYTHING!! My phone is practically bricked as I cant do anything because its constantly laggy and turns back to the black screen thing, and then when it is showing the homescreen I cant do **** because even swiping to another screen takes like 5 minutes to do cause its so laggy. So basically I ****ed up, and I really need some help.. Im kinda a noob at this whole thing and im really outa options as far as I can tell.. does anyone know what I can do to repair my phone? Thanks!

[Q]Accessing Recovery With Broken Power Button

So I have a bit of an issue. Over the weekend my power button stopped working like it has for many people.
I finally got to a computer last night and was able to turn it on using a method I had read about.
I was using madaco's desire port but I didn't have the option for wake with trackball baked into it. Which I need to have my phone usable. So I had another ROM baked on his site with that option in it but I forgot to tick the option to have the .zip signed. (I'm using an older recovery, had been to lazy to update)
I didn't realized it wasn't signed until I had go into recovery, wiped everything and then attempted to flash at which time it said no because it wasn't signed. So I said F it I'll do it in the morning.
So today I realized I can't boot the phone up because I had wiped everything, including the ext partition. It just sits at the X screen with the unlocked paddle lock on it. Due to this I can't access it with ADB to get to recovery.
If I restart the phone and put it into HBOOT I can't select recovery because you have to press the power button to select the option.
I also tried finding a fastboot command to boot into recovery but didn't locate one.
SOO
Does anyone have a clue how I can get this damn thing into recovery? I'm normally really good with this stuff but I am stumped at this point.
And before anyone says it I can't exchange it because my screen is cracked.

If you can grab a kernel and and recovery image on your PC you can boot them using
fastboot boot <kernel image> <recovery image>

Is that going to get me to a point where I can flash a new rom on it? I was running all of my cache on SD so when I wiped it is messed the rom up.
It already has Amon_RA recovery on it, the release prior to the newest one. So do I really need to flash another one to it?

All I can think of is possibly reverting to stock via the passimg method, but I can't remember if you need to use the power button to confirm during the process?
Once you have a working ROM, you can root via superoneclick, and install superboot to boot into recovery.
Problem is, you'll then have a stock recovery...
Once you're booted and rooted though, you can always use adb, or ROM Manager right?
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danger-rat said:
All I can think of is possibly reverting to stock via the passimg method, but I can't remember if you need to use the power button to confirm during the process?
Once you have a working ROM, you can root via superoneclick, and install superboot to boot into recovery.
Problem is, you'll then have a stock recovery...
Once you're booted and rooted though, you can always use adb, or ROM Manager right?
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Yeah that's the route I'm thinking about taking. But I think there are option you have to use the power button to confirm.
I'm messing around with different boot.img right now to try and get it to boot. If I could just get the damn thing to boot I'd be all set cause I can use adb from that point. But right now when it stops at the X screen ADB can detected the phone but if you try to access the shell you get "failed to link /system/bin/sh
Thanks for the input man

If your bootloader is unlocked, you can re-image with fastboot.
Also, if you're not unlocked, I'm pretty sure the passimg only selects options with the volume keys...
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I went with the superboot method. When I ran the .bat files it restarted the device and put it into recovery. I flashed a fresh ROM from there.
It's made it to the boot animation so I'll see if it fully boots up in a minute .

Okay, I'm back in action. Thanks for the in put guys.

Great!
D'ya need an unlocked bootloader to use superboot (I've never used it)?
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Just discovered this gem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825909
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danger-rat said:
Great!
D'ya need an unlocked bootloader to use superboot (I've never used it)?
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I'm pretty sure you do. It says you'll probably need to as a foot note in the directions for superboot.
I may be wrong, I haven't kept up on much relating to rooting the Nexus since it first came out.

I think you're probably right... Thanks!
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Why can´t I get root access?

Okey, before FRG83D I rooted my phone with SuperOneClick. Then I decided to go back to the original ROM, and update to FRG83D. As you know, this revoked my root access. So now I unlocked the bootloader and ran Superboot. However I don`t get rooted. My suspicions are that because my old Superuser apk is left, something goes wrong. Plz help me figure this out!

Well all need a root for 2.2.1
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Shivammcool said:
Well all need a root for 2.2.1
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Are you telling me there is NO way to root 2.2.1 ? :O

No, I think the other guy is just thinking of a root-without-unlock method.
You are already unlocked. So it's just a matter of changing the system correctly to root it. Easiest way is to probably flash an already rooted stock build over it. (I assume you want to remain stock)
Or at least you need to find the correct way to root 2.2.1, which is hard because there are probably a lot of people out there looking for a root without unlocking, so that will pollute your search results.
Edit: Of course, I could be way off base and not know what I'm talking about.

Yup, flash a rooted stock rom, like Geo's.

I still don't know why people love to make things harder on themselves than it needs to be lol.

Okey, this is kinda crazy, because Adblock is working and has all permission, but nothing else!
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MrSvedberg said:
Okey, this is kinda crazy, because Adblock is working and has all permission, but nothing else!
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Not familiar with Adblock, but if it is similar to AdFree it just works by replacing your /system/etc/hosts file with one that directs every advertising address to the loopback address, thus preventing the apps from loading. If that file was in place before you lost root, it will continue to block ads for you.

Okey, but if I just want to flash CM, what do I do? Can't get to recovery :/
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You're unlocked, right? Super easy :-D
Download a recovery *.img (or extract it from a recovery .zip).
Reboot your N1 to fastboot mode (press and hold VOL-DOWN while powering on - press Power to select Fastboot USB when the option is presented).
Connect your USB cable.
Run fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (replacing "recovery.img" with the appropriate file name). When complete, you have an aftermarket recovery again.
Boot to recovery and install whatever ROM you want

codesplice said:
You're unlocked, right? Super easy :-D
Download a recovery *.img (or extract it from a recovery .zip).
Reboot your N1 to fastboot mode (press and hold VOL-DOWN while powering on - press Power to select Fastboot USB when the option is presented).
Connect your USB cable.
Run fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (replacing "recovery.img" with the appropriate file name). When complete, you have an aftermarket recovery again.
Boot to recovery and install whatever ROM you want
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Thx a lot m8, but could you dumb that down just a little bit? Still a bit n00b in the area x)
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Those steps are broken down a bit more specifically (including prerequisites) in this thread, which I found from the NexusOne Wiki, which is a great place to look for such common information.

Done it, and I'm 110 % sure I did it right! Still does not work!
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What part are you having trouble with?

Can't boot into recovery...
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MrSvedberg said:
Can't boot into recovery...
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I'm afraid you'll have to be more descriptive than that.
HOW are you trying to boot to recovery? There are several methods:
1) Issue the adb reboot recovery command
2) Boot to the bootloader (press and hold Volume-Down while powering on), use the volume keys to scroll down to Recovery, and the power button to launch it.
3) Use an application like Quick Boot to reboot directly to recovery from the OS, though that may require a working root.
Have you tried these methods? If so, what happened? What did you see on the screen?

Number 2. Just seeing an Android and a triangle.
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MrSvedberg said:
Number 2. Just seeing an Android and a triangle.
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Then that is the stock recovery. Flashing a third-party recovery was not successful. Did you receive any error messages from the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command?
Your bootloader IS unlocked, right? You have a padlock icon on the bottom of the screen immediately after poweron?

The flash was successful, no error messages. And yes, the padlock is there.
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The flash was successful, no error messages. And yes, the padlock is there.
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What recovery image are you trying to use?

New Captivate...

I have a problem, I just recently bought one, but the problem is that the screen is black. Every time I swipe to unlock it, I get a black screen. I'm able to see my contacts, receive calls, but can't see my home screen.

Try changing the wallpaper maybe?
assonance 5.2

apbamaman said:
I have a problem, I just recently bought one, but the problem is that the screen is black. Every time I swipe to unlock it, I get a black screen. I'm able to see my contacts, receive calls, but can't see my home screen.
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Did you set a new homescreen lol?
Obvious question is have you done anything to your phone? Can you give any details about what has gone on prior to it going black, has it always been a black background?

flashman2002 said:
Did you set a new homescreen lol?
Obvious question is have you done anything to your phone? Can you give any details about what has gone on prior to it going black, has it always been a black background?
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Never done anything to it, except charge it up. Bought it from ebay and when I hold down the home screen button, I get the task manager pop-up, but that's it. But the screen is completely black, except the top half with the time, wifi connection, battery life, etc.

apbamaman said:
Never done anything to it, except charge it up. Bought it from ebay and when I hold down the home screen button, I get the task manager pop-up, but that's it. But the screen is completely black, except the top half with the time, wifi connection, battery life, etc.
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Hmmm, that sucks. Since it is purchased off ebay you might be out of luck. Has it been that way since you purchased the phone or did it just happen out of the black one day? Sorry for the dry humor.

flashman2002 said:
Hmmm, that sucks. Since it is purchased off ebay you might be out of luck. Has it been that way since you purchased the phone or did it just happen out of the black one day? Sorry for the dry humor.
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Just got it today.

Flash stock using odin, then master clear. What every is going on, you want to get back to a fresh software. Do you know what odin is?
If not I will help you a&d much as I can
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mcord11758 said:
Flash stock using odin, then master clear. What every is going on, you want to get back to a fresh software. Do you know what odin is?
If not I will help you a&d much as I can
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Is there an option for odin with Mac?
I got into download mode and I see "ClockworkMod Recovery"

apbamaman said:
Is there an option for odin with Mac?
I got into download mode and I see "ClockworkMod Recovery"
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There is no odin for mac, but there its heimdall. It its more complicated them odin and takes more to understand what you are doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Software can be found at samfirmware.com
But before you go crazy with that, you said you can get into recovery. Have you tried a factory reset?
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There is no odin for mac, but there its heimdall. It its more complicated them odin and takes more to understand what you are doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Software can be found at samfirmware.com
But before you go crazy with that, you said you can get into recovery. Have you tried a factory reset?
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Haven't tried that yet

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Haven't tried that yet
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I assumed you get into recovery using three button combo. What happens, do you boot directly into clockwork recovery green letters, our standard recovery blue letters? If clockwork what are your options?
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I assumed you get into recovery using three button combo. What happens, do you boot directly into clockwork recovery green letters, our standard recovery blue letters? If clockwork what are your options?
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It says, "ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.2" and it's green letters.
The way I got to that was when I got forced it into recovery mode, I clicked on the option to reinstall packages.
Sorry about that:
There is 'reboot system now', 'apply sdcard:update.zip', wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from sdcard, backup and restore, mounts and storage, and then advanced

Do you have a external sd you can hook up to your computer?
Who ever sold you the phone obviously was playing around with the phone.
if you have an sd there may be a way to recovery but it is a long shot.
What happens if you hook your phone into your mac
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In clockwork select install zip from sd, it should list the files on the sd . What does it say?
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mcord11758 said:
Do you have a external sd you can hook up to your computer?
Who ever sold you the phone obviously was playing around with the phone.
if you have an sd there may be a way to recovery but it is a long shot.
What happens if you hook your phone into your mac
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In clockwork select install zip from sd, it should list the files on the sd . What does it say?
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it says, 'apply sdcard:update.zip', 'choose zip from sdcard', toggle signature verification, and toggle script asserts

Choose zip from sd
What does it say then
I am thinking a rom may be in there that you can try to flash. It could mess up your phone but lets be honest, it isn't actually working at the moment
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mcord11758 said:
Choose zip from sd
What does it say then
I am thinking a rom may be in there that you can try to flash. It could mess up your phone but lets be honest, it isn't actually working at the moment
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Alright, I see:
Android/
DCIM/
LOST.DIR/
TunnyBrowser/
Voodoo/
clockworkmod/
data/
download/
external_sd/
gameloft/
layar/
media/
sd/
tapatalkxda_download/
tmp/
Battery_Mod.zip/
Cognitionv2.2BETA9.1.3.zip/
Doc_Kalpic_ROM_Modified_v1(2).zip/
JPM_Froyo_Lockscreen.zip/
Themed Rom.zip/
killer23d_Doc_Kalpik_JP6_v6.zip/
update.zip/

Cognitionv2.2BETA9.1.3.zip/
Doc_Kalpic_ROM_Modified_v1(2).zip/
killer23d_Doc_Kalpik_JP6_v6.zip/
These are all roms. So obviously the last owner was busy. Listen if you try to install one if these 2 things can happen, 1 your phone boots up and you are saved, 2 you get stock in a boot loop and you will have to find a windows pc to use odin.
What do you want to do? If you want to try to install a eoin I would go with cognition. Scroll down to the zip, select, confirm, cross your fingers. Before you do anything give newer one minute, I want to confirm something
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I would try cognition, if you are going to try.
Let me know what you are thinking
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mcord11758 said:
I would try cognition, if you wetter going to try
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Okay, right now I'm at my brother's place and he has windows, so I'm going to dl that Odin link you put up and see what's up, until then I'm going to try to load cognition.

apbamaman said:
Okay, right now I'm at my brother's place and he has windows, so I'm going to dl that Odin link you put up and see what's up, until then I'm going to try to load cognition.
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The link I posted was heimdall for mac. This is odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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3.41 bootloader info from google support

Well I decided to call Google about the boot loader recovery not working as it should. I was hoping this call would help them to work on another update but they say that's the way its supposed to work. Here's the email Instructions:
1. Power down your device
2. Press and hold both volume keys and the power button to enter
Bootloader mode
3. Press the volume keys to cycle to the Recovery mode option
4. Press the power button to select Recovery mode
5. From the Recovery mode screen, press and hold the Power button then
press the Volume up button.
6. Use the volume buttons to select wipe data/factory reset.
7. Select Yes -- delete all user data.
8. The factory data reset process will now start. Once its finished,
select 'Reboot system now.'
The only option we have in the new recovery is to wipe data. Maybe for those having problems accessing twrp or cwm will be able to a access it with step 5. I don't know haven't rooted yet. So I decided to ask about nvflash and they said they're not going to release any nvflash tools or files.

um, yup. thats how stock bootloader and stock recovery work. lol
whats the issue? if your not even rooted, you wouldn't even know if you have an issue or not with the new bootloader.

Are you saying that you can't flash a different recovery? Or that when you do you still get the same stock recovery? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here, because that is exactly how the stock bootloader, and recovery are supposed to work.
Are you making sure to unlock fastboot before trying to flash recovery. I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone say anything about not being able to get to clockwork mod once its installed.

xjman said:
Are you saying that you can't flash a different recovery? Or that when you do you still get the same stock recovery? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here, because that is exactly how the stock bootloader, and recovery are supposed to work.
Are you making sure to unlock fastboot before trying to flash recovery. I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone say anything about not being able to get to clockwork mod once its installed.
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No. I saw people posting they couldn't get go cwm and could only see the red exclamation point. And I was just saying maybe after choosing recovery then holding volume up and power it would then go to cWm or twrp. I was hoping for someone to try it who is still on 3.41 Recovery. A lot of people downgraded back to 3.39 or whatever version it was

kieso said:
I was hoping for someone to try it who is still on 3.41 Recovery. A lot of people downgraded back to 3.39 or whatever version it was
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I can confirm that to get in to the stock recovery you hold down 'power' and then tap 'vol up'.
At present I am running the latest CWM touch recovery. This boots straight into it from the bootloader without any extra button presses.
My personal preference to go into CWM is from either QuickBoot or ROM Manager.
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smirkis said:
didn't know being informed makes me an asshole. stupid me, reading and understanding.
for what its worth, im on the newest bootloader, and selecting recovery goes straight to twrp. which is the recovery i installed.
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I wonder why some on 3.41 can't go straight to twrp and some can. Sorry for the ahole comment I thought you were trying to be a smartass towards me. I'm just trying to find out as much info from people before I root. I am experienced at flashing and a little adb but I just read a lot of HELP BRICKED MY NEXUS posts. Did you use wugs toolkit or adb to unlock and root?

mr_tris said:
I can confirm that to get in to the stock recovery you hold down 'power' and then tap 'vol up'.
At present I am running the latest CWM touch recovery. This boots straight into it from the bootloader without any extra button presses.
My personal preference to go into CWM is from either QuickBoot or ROM Manager.
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Thanks for the info. I'm going to try unlocking and rooting when I get home. I really want to use the OTG cable and the 720p mod.

kieso said:
I wonder why some on 3.41 can't go straight to twrp and some can. Sorry for the ahole comment I thought you were trying to be a smartass towards me. I'm just trying to find out as much info from people before I root. I am experienced at flashing and a little adb but I just read a lot of HELP BRICKED MY NEXUS posts. Did you use wugs toolkit or adb to unlock and root?
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When I first flashed TWRP onto my Nexus 7 after that official 4.1.2 OTA update, I wasn't able to boot into it. I then flashed it again via fastboot, and then booted the TWRP image that was on my computer, and then TWRP loaded.
I believe TWRP does work normally now as well (I can boot into it and reboot into it).

kieso said:
I'm going to try unlocking and rooting when I get home.
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Well if I was you I'd just use mskips toolkit, its absolutely epic it'll save you a lot of farting around. I take it that your fully updated? ( Not that it matters) You seem to know and understand your way around adb so just go for it and enjoy.
Its works smooth as silk and save you a lot off time. The options available to you are just staggering!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
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going to recovery from bootloader works fine after 3.41.....wat r u talkin abt? (i m stock rooted+twrp)
oh yea...u hav 2 remove that recovery stock.p file thingy first.

There are plenty of people that are having issues with recovery on 3.41 bootloader.... Its confirmed some have it some don't.
The issue is that with 3.41 bootloader on some Nexus 7 Devices a custom recovery is unbootable no matter how you try, every time it will try to load recovery and fail at a black screen then reboot into the OS. It does not matter how you try from ADB reboot to recovery or from bootloader with USB attached or not.

psycho2097 said:
going to recovery from bootloader works fine after 3.41.....wat r u talkin abt? (i m stock rooted+twrp)
oh yea...u hav 2 remove that recovery stock.p file thingy first.
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Ohh crap I read about that in some thread. Any idea exactly what has to be done. The only way I can get into cwm is with ROM toolbox but I have to reflash cwm every time then hit boot into recovery.

kieso said:
Ohh crap I read about that in some thread. Any idea exactly what has to be done. The only way I can get into cwm is with ROM toolbox but I have to reflash cwm every time then hit boot into recovery.
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In your system folder there's a file called 'recovery-from-boot.p'
Go into a file manager with w/r access and rename it ' recovery-from-boot.p.bak'
When the system boots it reads that file and resets the recovery to stock, by changing the name you remove the problem.
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In your system folder there's a file called 'recovery-from-boot.p'
Go into a file manager with w/r access and rename it ' recovery-from-boot.p.bak'
When the system boots it reads that file and resets the recovery to stock, by changing the name you remove the problem.
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Thank you for all the help! I appreciate it.

kieso said:
Thank you for all the help! I appreciate it.
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No problem, a click on the 'Thanks' button for me and my colleagues on this thread would really make our day. :thumbup:
I hope you get sorted mate, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night until I got custom recovery working properly on any of my devices!
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i tried changing the name of the file, but.. after reboot, the tablet gets stuck on google screen, recovery never loads... any suggestion? Thanks =)