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Just like the title suggests, I need help. I have been working on this for three days and have not accomplished anything.
I have been rooted for six months, flashed many roms, kernels, enabled apps2sd, etc.., etc.., but I do not know how it all works(just to give you a little FYI).
"I do not have a recovery screen anymore." At first I just wasn't able to push a new one, it would tell me "usage flash_image partition.img" or something very similar. I searched for that phrase and found something with it in the G1 forums, tried it(probably should have asked first), and now I don't even have a recovery image. Like I said I've tried almost everything and it may be simple but this is beyond me, someone please help.
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secbrad said:
Just like the title suggests, I need help. I have been working on this for three days and have not accomplished anything.
I have been rooted for six months, flashed many roms, kernels, enabled apps2sd, etc.., etc.., but I do not know how it all works(just to give you a little FYI).
"I do not have a recovery screen anymore." At first I just wasn't able to push a new one, it would tell me "usage flash_image partition.img" or something very similar. I searched for that phrase and found something with it in the G1 forums, tried it(probably should have asked first), and now I don't even have a recovery image. Like I said I've tried almost everything and it may be simple but this is beyond me, someone please help.
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what happens when you hold home then press the power button? Is there any sort of screen if you get a screen you need to install android sdk and flash a new recovery image using adb

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what happens when you hold home then press the power button? Is there any sort of screen if you get a screen you need to install android sdk and flash a new recovery image using adb
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Yes there is a screen, it's the green HTC w/ white background. It will just sit there forever. I am at work right now so I can't do it yet but when I get home I'll try it, hopefully that works.
BTW, from my phone I can't tell if you have a donate button. I was serious about that.
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Try downloading the RUU and then re-rooting your phone. It will be wiped clean from the RUU install then you'll be able to push a new recovery img over. If you don't want to do that my other suggestion is if you can't manually flash the recovery try downloading RomManager from the market and using that to flash a recovery.
As far as why you can't flash a recovery where are you placing the recovery.img when you try? are you doing it from your computer or from your sdcard using a terminal emulator? If its from your computer make sure that the recovery.img is in the tools folder and make sure you type it word for word (caps included) if your trying to do it from the terminal emulator and its on your sdcard the same applies as it must be letter for letter and word for word, but before you can type anything you have to gain root access in the terminal you do this by simply typing su and then enter. SuperUser Permissions will ask you if its ok to use root click ok then type in what you need to.
Since you said you've been trying to flash it I assume you know what to type but if you need it again just ask I'll post it up for you. Hope this helps.

Here's something I wrote a few days ago to help someone who was trying to flash a custom recovery might be helpful.
Flashing a custom recovery is pretty easy there is a couple of ways to do it some find it easier to do by putting it on the sd card and flashing it through a terminal emulator or if you have your htc sync and adb set up already you can throw it on your sd card and type this
Code:
adb remount
Code:
adb shell
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
You should see this below
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
#
Reboot into recovery and you should be all set to go. The other way by using the terminal emulator you'll just type in this in:
Code:
su
Accept Root access request from SuperUser Permissions then type:
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
You should see the same output to know you did it correctly. Hope this helps.

secbrad said:
Yes there is a screen, it's the green HTC w/ white background. It will just sit there forever. I am at work right now so I can't do it yet but when I get home I'll try it, hopefully that works.
BTW, from my phone I can't tell if you have a donate button. I was serious about that.
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No donate needed
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Also try quick boot to get in to recovery
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Thanks
Thanks everyone for all you help. I ended up being able to do it through terminal. I guess next time I won't wait three days to ask for a thirty second fix.

[Solved]Mount storage with broken screen?

Hello all. Searching didn't get me an answer. I'm curious if there's a way to mount the internal storage to a PC with a cracked screen. Phone definitely turns on but screen is shot. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.
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Are you lucky enough to have cwm recovery? You van mount it through there with just button presses. Done it myself, granted I had a second phone to guide me through how many times I needed to press the buttons, but it worked like a curse!

studacris said:
Are you lucky enough to have cwm recovery? You van mount it through there with just button presses. Done it myself, granted u had a second phone to guide me through how many times I needed to press the buttons, but it worked like a curse!
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Unfortunately no. Its a friends phone so it was never rooted. Does stock recovery have that option?
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Well....damn.
I'm pretty sure it's not in stock recovery.
Was usb debuging turned on? You can use adb to pull everything from /sdcard

Not sure its worth a shot.
Adb pull /sdcard?
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No luck with adb what is download mode? Any way to use that?
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No. download mode is for flashing software onto the phone.

Been a while since I messed with my captivate but couldn't he use Odin to flash a kernel with recovery and go from there?

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Been a while since I messed with my captivate but couldn't he use Odin to flash a kernel with recovery and go from there?
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****, you are exactly right!!
note to self:dont answer questions until you've had your morning coffee!!
op grab a .tar from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893880&highlight=speedmod
and research how to use odin. then you will need a screen shot of cwm to guide you through how many button presses you need.

And this wont wipe the internal SD?
And I don't need root first?
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doesn't touch the internal SD
and download mode happens outside the OS no root needed.

Ill give it a go tonight or tomorrow will report back.
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ok after flashing the kernal through odin the phone is found in adb. what is the command to pull the files from the internal sd and save them to my desktop?

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#commandsummary
Adb pull /mnt/sdcard c:\users\(you)\desktop
I believe or something like that. I honestly don't use adb too often.
if you boot into recovery (with adb reboot recovery) it should be volume down 6 times, then power, vol up twice then power and that should get you to mount the sdcard so you an just use windows gui to copy everything over instead of a command prompt

Got it! Thank you very much! For reference its /mnt/sdcard.
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Awesome man!
Glad to hear.

I am in the same situation but the phone is rooted and has a custom rom.

fapulous said:
I am in the same situation but the phone is rooted and has a custom rom.
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If you can get adb to recognize the phone the command is adb pull /mnt/sdcard
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After having a really bad day at work I ended up putting my phone into a wall as hard as i could - the result: A destroyed screen
The instructions here work like a charm & I was able to copy the entire contents of the SD card over to my computer - adb pull /mnt/sdcard Ti Backup is a little outdated but I am not complaining. Thanks all!

studacris said:
if you boot into recovery (with adb reboot recovery) it should be volume down 6 times, then power, vol up twice then power and that should get you to mount the sdcard so you an just use windows gui to copy everything over instead of a command prompt
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THANK YOU! Worked like a charm.

Another messed up phone

So, I figured with all my time off from classes during spring break that it would be a good idea to update my HTC One. It was running a rather old version of the HD rom and i assume some old version of TWRP or Clockwork.
Using Windows 7 and fastboot, I erased the cache and pushed over TWRP 2.7 then used "fastboot reboot". At the time, I was unaware of what trouble that last command would get me into. Upon further investigation, I found out that I needed to erase the cache again and use "fastboot reboot-loader". Once i sent "fastboot reboot" the phone shutdown, then made it to the boot screen and shut off I think.
At the moment all my phone will do is turn the red light off and on. If the red light is off, holding down the power button for ten seconds turns the light on. Holding down the button for three seconds turns off the light. Holding down the power button and volume down button at the same time for any amount of time does nothing.
Does anyone have ideas on how I get it to work again?

Try holding it to a bright light while holding the power key for 15 seconds, also, it's "fastboot reboot-bootloader"
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Whoareyou said:
Try holding it to a bright light while holding the power key for 15 seconds, also, it's "fastboot reboot-bootloader"
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Held it close to my lamp while holding the button for 15 seconds. Tried it multiple times and nothing happened but the red light by the speaker going off and on every 15 seconds or so.

I did so more digging around and found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301007
I tried option one and it worked. I love how well these phones are setup to avoid perma bricks.
I should be good at attempting to put TWRP on it correctly, right?
Update: I turned the phone off after booting up the first time since the issue. The phone would not start up without using one of the button tricks. I was able to properly flash TWRP 2.7. I still have to use one of the two tricks to get it to do a cold boot.
TWRP 2.7 is confirmed to be on the phone. When I got to install with .zip, none of my .zip file are shown by TWRP. Any ideas why this is happening?
Update: Idk if this is normal, but there is a folder named "0" in the internal storage area that Windows can see. TWRP can only see the "0" folder and not the area that Windows sees.

Madog7 said:
IUpdate: I turned the phone off after booting up the first time since the issue. The phone would not start up without using one of the button tricks. I was able to properly flash TWRP 2.7. I still have to use one of the two tricks to get it to do a cold boot.
TWRP 2.7 is confirmed to be on the phone. When I got to install with .zip, none of my .zip file are shown by TWRP. Any ideas why this is happening?
Update: Idk if this is normal, but there is a folder named "0" in the internal storage area that Windows can see. TWRP can only see the "0" folder and not the area that Windows sees.
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Yes, this is probably normal. Earlier android versions stored data in /data/media, while newer ones use /data/media/0. The TWRP UI is smarter than the part that shows the files via USB.
But what do you mean when you say none of the files are shown by TWRP? Cant the computer find the files, but TWRP cannot? Is the contents of the "0" folder empty?
The first thing I would check is to unmount /system, /sdcard, and /data, then run these commands to check whether there's filesystem corruption:
Code:
e2fsck -n -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
e2fsck -n -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
(You can use the built-in shell to run the commends, or use the ADB shell.)

[Q] Device Brick!!! HELP!

I think I bricked my phone.... :'(
I was running Android Rev 61.1 and then my screen started to flash and then it would reboot. It kept doing it and so then I decided to try to wipe my phone and install Android Rev 6.1 GE and then it would get to the "pick a language screen" and then after 2 or so seconds it would shut the screen down and if I press the lock button then it would reboot.
I went to format my storage and then (like a complete IDIOT) I formatted the whole thing causing me to lose all my ROMs on the internal storage.
Now I can't put any ROMs on it cause the only place that I can access without it rebooting is the TWRP recovery.
I'm soooo stupid....
idk the ROM was really messed up..
Any way to load a ROM onto my phone (like CM) while I'm in recovery?
I am trying the Android Revolution method.
I have the mini-sdk downloaded and put on my c:\ drive. I download the HTC Sync Manager to get the drivers and after that I run the cmd.exe in the mini-sdk folder. When I type in adb shell it puts out the line ~ # ←[6n
What do I do then?

Bump.... Please help?

Adb push or adb sideload is your friend. Plenty of guides on such things
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nateboi81 said:
Adb push or adb sideload is your friend. Plenty of guides on such things
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Happened to me two weeks ago, and like you I panicked best thing to do is go into TWRP, and in advanced settings turn ADB sideload. Now open the latest fastboot in cmd (you need the newest, else it wont work). and type "adb push rom.zip /sdcard/" (without the " ofcourse)
rom.zip is the rom name and should be in the fastboot folder.
adb will sideload a filename called sideload.zip to the root of your phone.. You can install this like any regular rom

Yes this is what you have to do

[Q] BRICKED Lg Flex D950

I have accidently bricked my device, I rooted the phone and installed the Freedom Flex TWRP. I then thought to take the OTA for KitKat which ended up bricking my Flex. Whenever the phone turns on it boots past the LG logo and straight into TWRP. I tried sideloading the DFUSE stock att rom but I get an error saying "cannot read sideload". I have no other options, any help is appreciated.
Solved thanks to jacktackle!
His steps:
from the TWRP terminal command type
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
then hit enter (it should copy some file. if nothing happens then twrp backup is only option.) if there is some activity then type the next command.
where you have to change only the last word
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/misc
then hit enter and reboot

Good news. U can get to recovery you are not bricked. Even better news it is a easy fix. I was in the same boat.
To fix it:
Download the stock JB zip room. It is large, about 1.7 Gig. Make sure it downloads correctly.
Copy the file in your adb directory.
Boot into recovery and connect your phone to the computer.
Adb devices should give you the device info. Afterwords enter:
adb push <name of the zip> /sdcard/
It will take about 10 minutes for it to complete. In the meantime you will see no activity. Wait.
After it completes, do a factory reset and install the zip as normal.
Done.
Reboot, do a factory reset from the settings, accept the ota and root with stump root.

johny101010 said:
Good news. U can get to recovery you are not bricked. Even better news it is a easy fix. I was in the same boat.
To fix it:
Download the stock JB zip room. It is large, about 1.7 Gig. Make sure it downloads correctly.
Copy the file in your adb directory.
Boot into recovery and connect your phone to the computer.
Adb devices should give you the device info. Afterwords enter:
adb push <name of the zip> /sdcard/
It will take about 10 minutes for it to complete. In the meantime you will see no activity. Wait.
After it completes, do a factory reset and install the zip as normal.
Done.
Reboot, do a factory reset from the settings, accept the ota and root with stump root.
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Its not showing up, re installed drivers about 3 or 4 times now, im going to try to update adb drivers.
Im running Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit
Edit: Didn't work doesn't even show up in device manager.
Going to try it on my WIndows 8 laptop

Mine was on Win8 laptop but if all fails just connect it to a Linux box and it should work fine.

johny101010 said:
Mine was on Win8 laptop but if all fails just connect it to a Linux box and it should work fine.
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Same problems, tried to sideload but i get "cannot read sideload" and adb push shows device not found. I don't have a linux box, but is there any other to fix this? I hear the pop up sound whenever I plug the phone into my WIn8 Laptop but nothing comes Up (i.e. USB/adb/etc.)

What happenes if you enter <adb devices> ?

52me52 said:
Same problems, tried to sideload but i get "cannot read sideload" and adb push shows device not found. I don't have a linux box, but is there any other to fix this? I hear the pop up sound whenever I plug the phone into my WIn8 Laptop but nothing comes Up (i.e. USB/adb/etc.)
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This LG fLEX is full of problems thanks for XDA Developers site for retriving so many devices and next is you in the list brother.
Ok it's very easy.
do you have a backup of twrp? saved somewhere? if not ask any one on the forum with d950 varient who have a backup can help you to upload it.
after you get a twrp backup, come back to me. it's a piece of cake then.
in the mean time, try this from TWRP recovery
from the TWRP terminal command type
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
then hit enter (it should copy some file. if nothing happens then twrp backup is only option.) if there is some activity then type the next command.
where you have to change only the last word
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/misc
then hit enter and reboot

jacktackle said:
This LG fLEX is full of problems thanks for XDA Developers site for retriving so many devices and next is you in the list brother.
Ok it's very easy.
do you have a backup of twrp? saved somewhere? if not ask any one on the forum with d950 varient who have a backup can help you to upload it.
after you get a twrp backup, come back to me. it's a piece of cake then.
in the mean time, try this from TWRP recovery
from the TWRP terminal command type
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
then hit enter (it should copy some file. if nothing happens then twrp backup is only option.) if there is some activity then type the next command.
where you have to change only the last word
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/misc
then hit enter and reboot
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edit: Tried the terminal emulator thing and it worked! Thank you SO much!

52me52 said:
edit: Tried the terminal emulator thing and it worked! Thank you SO much!
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wellcome anytime. glad that we can help the needies

same boat as op but cwm
Hi I have tripped and stumbled down the exact same path as the op, but with cwm. Will this fix work for me?
I could really use someone's help with this, there is no terminal emulator in cm and my computer reads my D950 in device manager as a D959.. I don't know what to do to fix it..