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[Q] Install ROM from PC application

I swear i remember reading about a application you could install on the computer, that when you connected your phone to your pc and used the software you could install downloaded ROM's straight on.
I have googled and havent found it.
Was it a dream?

using adb?

Android Commander?

I thought i was on "Phandroid" but it was a GUI that you could install on your pc and then connect your phone via USB and you could install apks

Android Commander?

Installing APKs is one thing, there is PC app for that.
Installing ROM is another thing, there is no app for that. Given an unlocked bootloader you could, of course, flash the ROM image using fastboot, but I don't believe that's what you're looking for.

Droid Explorer
You mean Droid Explorer??
http de[dot]codeplex[dot]com

louieG1 said:
You mean Droid Explorer??
http de[dot]codeplex[dot]com
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Yes, I think he means droidexplorer. That is what i use to install roms on my n1

Why not just use Rom Manager? Works great and you can back up the rom to try new toys .

Fastboot..

Clockwork recovery...

Does anyone know an easier way to put clockwork onto my phone? I mean other than (adb).. for some reason it doesn't pick up my phone.. Is there an recovery App coming out soon?
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make sure you have debugging mode on and that your Windows or Mac proper LG drivers are installed so that the phone is recognized also put CMD in the same folder as platform tools in sdk manager folder vice versa for files needed to be pushed to phone.

I got the drivers from the LG website for my cell, hmmm... ill have to recheck everything else because ADB has never gave me this much trouble
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I'd be willing to code a one click solution if it would be helpful. Its pretty easy as it is tho
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I had the same problems. I followed everything step by step and made sure I had the right drivers along with everything I would need with Java. Still no luck. I have the combination of feeling stupid and frustrated. I have rooted and installed custom roms on three different phones before.
A one click solution would be amazing if you could come up with that. I will try the ADB way again later.
Vince

Yes a one click, alot of people would thank you ....and i would be gratefull
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i agree. ive been trying the adb method all day. for some reason just wont work. im prolly missing something

Try updating all the drivers for adb. It would be helpful for you and it would probably solve your issue.
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Does one click root work for you? If it does, there is nothing wrong with your drivers.
Once you get one click root working, put the recover in the ADB folder that is part of one clock root.... then open that fold, hold shift and right click, select open command prompt, then type in the adb commands from the CWM instructions thread.
LG uses the same drivers for all their Android devices, I used their driver installer app and selected the Verizon LG Fathom since it didn't have the Thrill listed anywhere, have had no problems.

Some reason my comp doesnt do any of this correctly... so much for brand new tech

Does one click root work for you?
If not, you have a driver problem, fix it by downloading LG's driver installer, select Verizon for the carrier and then select the Fathom. If you have a drive issue, and that fails to fix it, try a different USB port... make sure you have your phone in debug mode... can you mount your SD cards?
If one click root does work, then YOU, not your new technology, is doing something wrong. So the question is, what are you doing wrong...
Please answer the question, does one click root work? From there, tell us step by step what you are doing, and we will tell you what needs fixing.

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pjcforpres said:
Does one click root work for you? If it does, there is nothing wrong with your drivers.
Once you get one click root working, put the recover in the ADB folder that is part of one clock root.... then open that fold, hold shift and right click, select open command prompt, then type in the adb commands from the CWM instructions thread.
LG uses the same drivers for all their Android devices, I used their driver installer app and selected the Verizon LG Fathom since it didn't have the Thrill listed anywhere, have had no problems.
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i put recovery in the adb folder, get all the way through the adb process and it says img can not be found? lol wtf

Did one click root work for you?

installed the fathom drivers, my iphoney 4, or my htc inspire was never this hard to work with

one click is the way i rooted my phone

robertmoore208 said:
one click is the way i rooted my phone
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Ok, then driver issues isn't a problem, I would take a really close look at your ADB commands, and be sure to wait 30 seconds after each one to let it process.
I would recommend copy pasting the longer commands (right click copy, right click paste, the keyboard shortcuts don't work in command prompt window).

now it says permission denied on first command?

Then you don't have root... run one click root again. I would use it's driver check feature as well before running it.

lol i lost root? wow ok strange... i have superuser

Well... if you get accessed denied you either are typing something wrong, skipping a step, or trying to do something that needs root and you don't have root.
Do you have debug mode turned on? Do you see this active in your phones notification bar? That first line doesn't even need root access, if IIRC.

[Guide/How To] Flash Hboot's OTG

How To Flash A Different HBoot On The Go. I miss the good ol days when we could just flash an hboot on the go via the bootloader itself. Looks like this is the closest were getting for now.
Requirements:
S-Off
Terminal Emulator (Get it free from Google Play)
Commom ADB/Fastboot experience to understand this...
On the device, open Terminal Emulator
Step 1:
Run:
su
Step 2:
Run:
cd sdcard
Step 3:
Run:
dd if=/sdcard/LOCATIONOFHBOOT/HBOOT.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12
Notes:
Replace "LOCATIONOFHBOOT" with the actual location it is stored on. For example, the 3 Hboots I have are stored on /sdcard/System/HBoot/
Replace "HBOOT.img" with the actual name of the hboot file. Example: enghboot.nbo or stock_hboot.img
Final example for my device would be: dd if=/sdcard/System/Hboot/hboot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12
KEEP IN MIND, ONCE YOU FLASH AND BOOT INTO THE ENG HBOOT, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BOOT BACK UP UNTIL FLASHING ANOTHER HBOOT VIA FASTBOOT.
Sent Via My HTC One, On The Now Network By Sprint!

Or you could just have an hboot.zip (hboot.nb0 and android-info.txt) and flash it from the hboot screen. ._.

Have you done it? Doesn't seem to work that way anymore unless I missed something...
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Seems that every way I've seen to flash hboot involves adb. Does either mentioned method here actually work on a One?
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Scrufdog said:
Seems that every way I've seen to flash hboot involves adb. Does either mentioned method here actually work on a One?
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Lol I wouldn't post it if it didn't work. xD
Sent Via My HTC One, On The Now Network By Sprint!

For it to work you need to use a USB OTG cable.

@Indirect no. Lol I didn't list that anywhere in O.P. -_- I simply named the thread OTG for on the go...
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Rydah805 said:
@Indirect no. Lol I didn't list that anywhere in O.P. -_- I simply named the thread OTG for on the go...
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I was saying to flash through hboot using PN72IMG.zip's

Indirect said:
I was saying to flash through hboot using PN72IMG.zip's
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This is what I want to do, but can't get it to work.
To be clear, on my old Evo 4G LTE, I would package the hboot or recovery into a zip file with android_info.txt, put it on my SD card, and at next boot it would find it and flash it (having s-off of course).
Now with the Sprint HTC One, I connected a USB stick via an OTG cable, verified the phone can see the drive fine while running Android normally (using Solid Explorer), placed a recovery or hboot zip on the USB drive named PN72IMG.zip, and rebooted to the bootloader, but no dice.
In the past you could see the bootloader searching for a valid file on the external card, but now the bootloader doesn't seem to do that anymore, it just starts right up in the fastboot screen, even with my OTG cable and USB drive attached.
So, have you been able to do this successfully, and if so, can you post an example file with that IMG name I could try to get recognized (I don't actually need to flash it), because maybe there is something wrong with the contents of my android_info.txt file? Can anyone think of something I am missing that prevents my quest for bootloader flashing via USB OTG from happening?

PillowMetal said:
This is what I want to do, but can't get it to work.
To be clear, on my old Evo 4G LTE, I would package the hboot or recovery into a zip file with android_info.txt, put it on my SD card, and at next boot it would find it and flash it (having s-off of course).
Now with the Sprint HTC One, I connected a USB stick via an OTG cable, verified the phone can see the drive fine while running Android normally (using Solid Explorer), placed a recovery or hboot zip on the USB drive named PN72IMG.zip, and rebooted to the bootloader, but no dice.
In the past you could see the bootloader searching for a valid file on the external card, but now the bootloader doesn't seem to do that anymore, it just starts right up in the fastboot screen, even with my OTG cable and USB drive attached.
So, have you been able to do this successfully, and if so, can you post an example file with that IMG name I could try to get recognized (I don't actually need to flash it), because maybe there is something wrong with the contents of my android_info.txt file? Can anyone think of something I am missing that prevents my quest for bootloader flashing via USB OTG from happening?
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I haven't been able to get that to work. Maybe @Indirect knows a trick or two.
Sent Via My HTC One, On The Now Network By Sprint!

Still trying to get flashing from the bootloader to work and tried renaming files to PN72IMG.zip, PN07IMG.zip, and even PN072IMG,zip to no avail
Something I noticed though is that while in Android where my OTG connection works fine, a little light illuminates on my USB drive to show that I am getting power/data. However, when I boot into the bootloader that light is not on, indicating to me that no power/data is being supplied to the port for the USB. So no attempt is even being made to try and read it.
So my question stands if anybody has ever gotten this to work? Maybe it depends on the model of USB drive being used?

[Q] From 2.3.3 to 4.2, no usb connection

Hello, I've got a Galaxy S, and it works great apart from the usb port. My pc (and others too) isn't able to recognise it. I mean, it detects the phone connected but I can't go further... Already tried with many versions of samsung drivers, kies too, windows 8, 7, xp... It seems that usb port is fault.
So the question is, since there's the 3a recovery on it, is there any way to root, and install CWM on it, without using a pc?
Or am I stuck on 2.3.3?
I've already tried zroot and similars... They just don't work.
Sorry for my English, and thanks to everyone

Have you tried using the USB drivers in this forum?
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enable usb debugging
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Thanks for your replies... Yes I've already tried driver, three different versions, with usb debug enabled and disabled... But the result is the same. :/
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When I connect the phone to my pc, I can hear a sound but there're no notification about usb connection.
It's probably hardware-related...
So I was wondering if there's a way to do everything on the phone, without a pc

Mobile ODIN?
installed from external sd?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899

yea I saw that... But it requires a rooted phone, and mine isn't... And for rooting I need to use odin... It's a vicious circle :|

Z4root v1.3.0
makro88 said:
yea I saw that... But it requires a rooted phone, and mine isn't... And for rooting I need to use odin... It's a vicious circle :|
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You try this one? it works for me with a 2.3. rom that i flashed, and i cant'n conect usb
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834428

Yes, I tried exactly that. I guess it hasn't worked because of the 3e recovery, which doesn't allow to flash unsigned zips...
When I try to root the phone through that app, it stucks and then the app crashes.

searching the web... one idea
makro88 said:
Yes, I tried exactly that. I guess it hasn't worked because of the 3e recovery, which doesn't allow to flash unsigned zips...
When I try to root the phone through that app, it stucks and then the app crashes.
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Download an update of GB from www.sammobile.com/firmwares, I think it may be signed by manufacturer, and install update zip from recovery. Maybe it solve 3e hell.
waiting news...

Thank you very much! I'll try it today and post here the results
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I got an error: "E:Short write of /tmp/sideload/package.zip (No space left on device)
But, I have wiped everything and there are GBs of free space... Now I'm looking for an eventual solution for this

good luck!!
makro88 said:
Thank you very much! I'll try it today and post here the results
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I got an error: "E:Short write of /tmp/sideload/package.zip (No space left on device)
But, I have wiped everything and there are GBs of free space... Now I'm looking for an eventual solution for this
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I think you have to find how to "downgrade 3e recovery to 2e" without usb (odin or haid..)
take a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108
or search on google "downgrade 3e recovery to 2e"

After some days of research, I'm about to give this up...
The last option was downgrading to 2e recovery. No usb working, no root, 3e recovery doesn't let me flash anything.
I haven't found any official/certified/signed firmware released by Samsung which works on 3e recovery, and OTA update doesn't find anything.
Firmwares from sammobile aren't signed, I've tried, they don't work.
Apparently there is no solution apart from getting the usb port fixed, if I want to mod the phone.
Anyway, thank you all!

Unbelievable, but finally I've solved everything
I've just spent an hour scratching the microusb port on the phone, again and again, and now I'm running cwm and rooted 2.3.6
Again, thank you all

Sometimes it is really unbelievable
Small reason and great effect :good:
But it`s perfect when it not works ,fine !!!
So now you can go through to 4.2.2

[Q] need help with adb

my htc one was previously on a 4.3 rom. I formatted data to go back to 4.1.2. Normally this is no problem as i just sideload a rom using adb. However now when I try to use the adb sideload command or any command it just brings up a list of adb commands. I updated sdk and made sure i installed all 4.1-4.3 apis. What can i do now? adb devices command does show the device connected and in sideload. Is this a problem on the phone end? Please any help would be appreciated, freaking out right now!!

Are you running your commands from you android-sdk/platform-tools folder?
When you say you get a list of adb commands it seems you are not issuing the commands from the proper folder.

and ccesbt
bigdaddy619 said:
Are you running your commands from you android-sdk/platform-tools folder?
When you say you get a list of adb commands it seems you are not issuing the commands from the proper folder.
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Yes i am issuing them from the platform-tools folder. Its worth mentioning I have literally done this a hundred times before. Fortunately I was able to put a rom.zip on a usb drive and use USB OTG to flash it. I still would like to know what is going on with my adb though. Do you think it could be a problem with the recovery? I am using TWRP and i believe it might be one version old, but it did work before so i really dont know. Going to try a new recovery and see. Thanks for the reply.

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Yes i am issuing them from the platform-tools folder. Its worth mentioning I have literally done this a hundred times before. Fortunately I was able to put a rom.zip on a usb drive and use USB OTG to flash it. I still would like to know what is going on with my adb though. Do you think it could be a problem with the recovery? I am using TWRP and i believe it might be one version old, but it did work before so i really dont know. Going to try a new recovery and see. Thanks for the reply.
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I'm using TWRP 2.5.0.0 and don't have any problems sideloading or pushing files to my device I know there is a different file structure for 4.2.2 and 4.3 roms that could be the problem the path you are trying to use is wrong just a thought not 100% sure though

So apparently it seems to be a driver problem. My computer stopped recognizing the device when it went into recovery. Fastboot works and I was able to use fastboot commands, so it was just recovery. I tired using multiple types of recoveries as well and i still nothing. ADB devices resulted in nothing showing up and any adb command resulted in a list of commands showing. So if you are having this problem try reinstalling drivers for HTC and ADB. I had to use a whole other computer all together because i think sometimes drivers do not work correctly on windows 8. Everything worked perfectly on my windows vista pc.

I have helped a few folks with Win8 rescue their phones in the past couple weeks so I can confirm it will work on Win8

bigdaddy619 said:
I have helped a few folks with Win8 rescue their phones in the past couple weeks so I can confirm it will work on Win8
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I know it will work because it did before for me too. I am just saying sometimes dealing with windows 8 can be tricky.
I am grateful for people like you who come to the aid of less proficient folk such as myself. Thanks for your help and input!

hituinthedome said:
I know it will work because it did before for me too. I am just saying sometimes dealing with windows 8 can be tricky.
I am grateful for people like you who come to the aid of less proficient folk such as myself. Thanks for your help and input!
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NP

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