any way to push/apply update.zip on non-booting phone? - myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development

Here's my situation:
Was running Qteknology Hero rom, decided to try the pure black hero rom.
copied new rom update.zip to sd card. unmounted sd card. Noticed an error saying 'sd card damaged' but ignored it (stupid I know). rebooted phone into fastboot, booted recovery image, apply update.zip.... failed.
rebooted phone, loops at HTC screen.
Now, I don't have an adaptor for my SD card. Is there any other way to push a new update.zip onto the phone and apply it?
adb only works if you can boot the phone :/
edit: hmm, never mind, nandroid restore worked despite the 'damaged' sd card

I know you've sorted your problem but for anyone else I've found that even if it's looping on the boot screen you can still do adb push to the phone, saved my bacon when I got stuck on a looping boot screen

i can never get adb to work says no device found but the drivers are isntalled as i can use fastboot etc from command prompt

use an sd card adapter... somtimes if you buy a new sdcard there is an adapter inclusive

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Possibly bricked.. Can I access SD via Fastboot?

So I've managed to basically brick my HTC Desire whilst attempting to install the Cyanogen ROM via ROM Manager (forgot to wipe my device so it ended up looping at the Cyanogen welcome screen). I then tried to restore my device to the backup ZIP file that I made with ClockworkMod but it didn't work - said file wasn't found when I tried to select it.
From there I tried to factory reset the device from the ClockworkMod Recovery screen, but when I try to boot the device it now get's stuck looping at the white HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
I've installed the SDK on my Mac and have fastboot recognising my device. Is there a way I can access my SD card using fastboot so I can put a ROM on it and attempt to install it? I don't have a card reader and I'm miles from a store that sells them.
Sorry if my terminology is off - I'm new to this
Your help is VERY appreciated!
Marty
Actually the phone isn't even making it to the white HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen now, it's stuck at the O2 Welcome screen.
After reading countless forum posts I think I need to 'flash' the Desire with another ROM that includes A2SD - I just need to get the ROM onto my SD card via Fastboot (since I don't have a card reader).
Does that sound about right?
I have the same problem with my tattoo!
Whats really annoying is that before uppgarding to recovery 3.0.0.6 with RomManager this was not an issue 'cause the previous recovery I was using(green) had the option to connect and access the SD card with PC USBcable.
I tried in 3.0.0.6:
Mounts and storage menu:
mount sdcard
mount USB storage
Still ain't seeing my SD card on my laptop.
Being on a remote island right now I hope I can find someone here with a microSD card phone with USB cable that I can borrow to load a working ROM on my fuc***** SD card .

[Q] Help: bricked and read only

Hello,
I rooted my tf101, all went well. Put clockworkmod recovery on it and still no problems. Now I wiped all partitions by mistake of my tf101. The only thing left is the recovery image (cwr) but if i try adb tool to push a file on the system it says the system is readonly. If i try nvflash tool is also says error onable to write and it disconnect the tf101.
Can any body help me, or do i have to put it back to repair
thanks Ernst
Well, if you have a microSD card, and a CWM that can read from it, you could just hook the card up to your PC (using a phone with microsd slot, or a cardreader, etc) and place the new image on the card.
Also, have you tried running 'adb root' to make sure ADB is running as root?
@Goatshocker
I tryed to insert a microSD card, but cwr does not recognize it, at least it does not appear in the menu structure.
Also tryed adb root, it sayed hat it is already in root.
ernst99999 said:
@Goatshocker
I tryed to insert a microSD card, but cwr does not recognize it, at least it does not appear in the menu structure.
Also tryed adb root, it sayed hat it is already in root.
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If you are using cwm 5.5.0.4, go to the following link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23256536
@kokopopz
I have indeed version 5.5.04, have read the tread you mentioned, but no solution. My problem is that if i try to push a file to the TF than it says "read-only file-system". Tryed in cwr to fix permisions, but no help.
Problem stays the same.
@kokopopz Thanks for your link.
I Found the solution !!!! My TF is UNBricked. YES YES YES.
For the record: "adb push rom.zip /data/media/rom.zip" will do the trick, after that reboot to cwr and do install zip from sdcard.

[Q] Stuck at booting with HTC white background

Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
bugzy0509 said:
Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes happens, try turning phone off, take out sd card, put back in and try again
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
Skipjacks said:
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
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Thanks Skipjacks!!
I do not know what solved it but here is what I did....
- formatted the SD card (have no important data in it anyway)
- copied ROM to SD card
- set phone to Recovery mode without SD card
- Hot plug SD card
- tried to update from SD card and it was able to recognize it...!
- i was able to install my ROM..
thank you! I appreciate the help!

Can't mount/access external_SD after flashing

After flashing a stock ROM, my A701 is stuck at the first screen with the "acer" logo.
I can get into fastboot mode and also start CWM recovery, but can't access external_SD - when I try to mount it in CWM, it gives an error.
So I can't copy an image to the A701 to reflash again.
Any idea how I can fix this problem ?
Many thanks in advance !
This usually happens to me when the card is removed without proper unmounting it, put the card into a cardreader and plug it in to your computer, maybe it checks for errors automatically, if it does not, scan manually.
This usually helps me when my sd card is not mountable.
Since you're able to get into recovery, have you tried to do the adb push method? Something like adb push /ROM.zip /sdcard0" I can't recall of the top of my head what the default sdcard directory is, but I hope you get the picture..
Thanks guys, I succeeded with flashing Iconian ROM from another external SD and my tablet is running again.
Now I would like to go back to a stock ROM, preferably 4.0.4 - is there any version which is CWM flashable ?

[Q] Need to skip 0P6IMG.zip and go to recovery

So through trying to re-root my M8, I caused it to boot loop and decided to flash a new ROM. I have S-OFF and TWRP installed. Unfortunately, I tried installed it by naming the ROM 0P6IMG.zip and putting it on my sd card. That didn't work, but now I can't get into recovery because at the bootloader it instantly reads the zip and tries to install (and then makes me shut down). Is there a way to bypass the system trying to read/install 0P6IMG.zip so I can go into recovery and delete the file?
So far I've only found that holding power causes a shut down
wdickers said:
So through trying to re-root my M8, I caused it to boot loop and decided to flash a new ROM. I have S-OFF and TWRP installed. Unfortunately, I tried installed it by naming the ROM 0P6IMG.zip and putting it on my sd card. That didn't work, but now I can't get into recovery because at the bootloader it instantly reads the zip and tries to install (and then makes me shut down). Is there a way to bypass the system trying to read/install 0P6IMG.zip so I can go into recovery and delete the file?
So far I've only found that holding power causes a shut down
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Take the SD card out.
Use an SD card reader to rename it.
Or use another SD card until you have a ROM booted.
If you have a backup, you can restore that while SD card is out.
santod040 said:
Take the SD card out.
Use an SD card reader to rename it.
Or use another SD card until you have a ROM booted.
If you have a backup, you can restore that while SD card is out.
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I JUST remembered the external sd card can be removed. Woohoo!
Thank you, that worked

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