Nandroid Backup, HELP - Hero CDMA Android Development

Hello everyone,
I have succesfully rooted my Sprint Hero, I am even using a cache app that you have to be rooted to use so I KNOW I am rooted. The only problem is NO MATTER WHAT I try I can not successfully flash the recovery img. It shows as flashing ok but when I go to boot in recovery it either flashes the HTC sign real quick then dies or stays on the HTC screen and doesnt do anything. Ive literally been trying this for 2 days now! Ive rerooted 10 times, Ive tried as many different recovery imgs for CDMA that I could find and I STILL get the same result. I even switched sd cards!! Could there be a problem with my phone thats not allowing it to work? Someone please help this is driving me nuts! Im ready to return the phone and get a new one just to try it,LOL!!PPlease help??

What images have you tried?

Just ones Ive found around the internet. Most of them were recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img

How are you trying to install it?
Flashrec?
flash_image?

Anyone??? Please?????Im about to return it and try again Id hate to find out it was something simple cuz this Hero has been perfect except for this problem, which is pretty useless to have it rooted if I cant flash, And I wont be able to update if sprint has an update also correct??

packetlss said:
How are you trying to install it?
Flashrec?
flash_image?
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I follow f directions online that I go into cmd and get to the root and type" flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img, when I hit enter all that happens is it shows exactly what I typed AGAIN then just #
So it will look like this:
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
#
Then when I type reboot recovery it just reboots and shuts off, so Ill pull the battery and try the hardware method power volume down and it does THE SAME thing or it will just stay stuck on the HTC screen.

Do it like that.
then then use the:
"reboot recovery" command on the # prompt. See if that helps.

packetlss said:
Do it like that.
then then use the:
"reboot recovery" command on the # prompt. See if that helps.
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Ya I did that, same thing happened. ):

One last try.
Redownload the the image from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581521
Download md5sum.exe from this site: http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
Save it in them in same folder as you have the adb command in.
Then from the command line run:
md5sum recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
It should output something like this:
0bdcea0f2c734035ba960d76aba0fa6a *recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img (Don't forget to copy it to the sdcard again )
Bolded text is the checksum of the file, it should match perfectly or your image is damaged.
If the checksum is the same, try flashing it again.

ahh i see clearer now.....
yes as suggested in the last thread you posted in... do a sprint RUU and try agian... this will put you at a known good baseline.... follow steps exactly...
as a added measure to cancel the option of bad sd card, get an external micro sd card reader and format it in windows as fat32

johnsongrantr said:
ahh i see clearer now.....
yes as suggested in the last thread you posted in... do a sprint RUU and try agian... this will put you at a known good baseline.... follow steps exactly...
as a added measure to cancel the option of bad sd card, get an external micro sd card reader and format it in windows as fat32
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I actually already formatted to fat32,lol. How do I flash RUU??? To start over?

packetlss said:
One last try.
Redownload the the image from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581521
Download md5sum.exe from this site: http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
Save it in them in same folder as you have the adb command in.
Then from the command line run:
md5sum recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
It should output something like this:
0bdcea0f2c734035ba960d76aba0fa6a *recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img (Don't forget to copy it to the sdcard again )
Bolded text is the checksum of the file, it should match perfectly or your image is damaged.
If the checksum is the same, try flashing it again.
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Where do I input that? Once I get in root?
I did adb shell
$su
#md5sum recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
it says md5sum not found

No, md5sum in run before you do the adb shell command (it's a normal PC program).

aaron130 said:
Where do I input that? Once I get in root?
I did adb shell
$su
#md5sum recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
it says md5sum not found
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windows command line not adb shell.... make sure you are in the directory in which you downloaded md5sum

obdcea0f2c734035ba960d76aba0fa6a *recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
thats what happened Good??

That is the correct checksum.
Try and flash that one.

Nope Same DAM thing it gets stuck at htc or htc then quits and shuts off

I'm out of ideas then. Could be that it's broken, unless someone else has the same problem. (Haven't seen any of that though).

packetlss said:
I'm out of ideas then. Could be that it's broken, unless someone else has the same problem. (Haven't seen any of that though).
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Thx Im flashing the RUU now. Thx for your help though I appreciate it alot!!

Related

110 Error RUU 1.56 Fix - 100% unroot too!

Update - 2/21/2011
If you have bricked an HTC EVO this will likely NOT work for you and this is the wrong info to be reading. I have gotten a few emails from this link about EVO 110 errors.
12/26/2010 - This thread is super old now:
If you ran the 1.56 RUU and your phone no longer turns on visit htc.com, go to support, choose Hero (Sprint) and download the 2.1 system update.
Remove battery from your phone and start it up again, then run the exe file that you just downloaded -
http://member.america.htc.com/downlo...2.27.651.6.exe
------All the info below is kept for reference -------
(As of 3/31/2010 - I am 10 for 10 for getting these back and working!! 3/3 of going back to 100% stock)
Edit: I have no longer kept track... its been over a month and I know personally I've done about 15 more of these... with about half being return to stock.
If you need to contact me, PLEASE EMAIL instead of using private messages, it'll probably turn into a google talk chat anyways, so add me on there, [email protected] (Its just easier than having to log in here and reply to private messages, since I get emails on the go as well.)
So you just ran the 1.56 RUU and got a 110 error. Now your screen turns on and stays black and if you plug the phone into USB you see the HTC logo. Unplug it and see the RUU menu.
Like you, I decided to attempt to roll back using the RUU 1.56. I was hit with the 110 error, and nothing but fastboot would work, I was able to launch ./fastboot-mac oem boot to get into the system.
I tried ./fastboot-mac boot image/bootname.img and a billion other things like everyone else who is having the issue, but just like them I had no success. In the second post below are the steps to resolve this issue. This will either take you to your first Nandroid backup or to whatever ROM you choose to flash once you get recovery back. I have not found a way to get back to 100% stock, but at least your phone wont be a brick.
EDIT:As of 3/30/2010 @ 8:30 PM I was able to get my phone completely 100% to stock. I was able to do this by retrieving a Nandroid restore from someone who used flashrec to make their initial backup. This restore does not touch the recovery image but I was able to boot into my recovery then write the HTC recovery back on top of it. I now have 100% un-rooted phone. See Post number 2 for the right way to do this.?
I've helped a few people over log me in now.
I'm willing to continue doing this but it is cutting into my family time, I will do this for a "respectable" amount of money.
Feel like I've helped you??
Buy me some coffee!
(Zip attached includes fix and stock folders. Use the fix folder FIRST to get completely booted. You can use the stock folder if you want to get 100% stock after you have a running unrooted system but have RA recovery.)
Steps to resolve:
(You SHOULD have a Nandroid backup of some sort, if not download a ROM... Fresh1.1??)
1) Boot the phone to black screen
2) Plug phone into PC/MAC - The HTC logo should appear at this point
---- If you've been doing anything else, rerun the RUU and let it fail and reboot to the HTC logo.
3) PC - fastboot oem boot | MAC - ./fastboot oem boot
(Make sure you turn on USB Debugging under Settings --> Applications --> Developer)
4) Root your phone using asroot2
Code:
adb push asroot2 /data/local/
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
adb shell
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4775 su
5) This is where your Nandroid backup comes into play.
(Browse to your nandroid folder, find your first backup and copy all of the .img files except system and cache to your SD card root directory)
NOTE: At this point you should dismount the SD card if you mounted inside of Android OS(Sense/Launcher)
6) run adb shell (PC - adb shell | Mac - ./adb shell)
7) type su
8) Run the following commands (if you get out of memory errors, type su again and try once more)
NOTE: Do not copy the "#"'s in the commands, the # just means you are running as SU, as opposed to the "$"
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
# flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
# flash_image misc /sdcard/misc.img
9) now... type reboot recovery
This time you should get your recovery menu, should have been RA or whatever you used... from there I did a complete nandroid restore and my system booted.
Also, after I did this I did try to let it boot without doing a recovery and it wouldnt go anywhere... but I'm fairly impatient... it may have wanted to load. I figured it best to do an entire Nandroid restore though.
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100% Stock Configuration Work Around
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Non-Rooted Nandroid Backup:
nandroid.7z
I was able to get my phone completely 100% to stock. I was able to do this by retrieving a Nandroid restore from someone who used flashrec to make their initial backup. This restore does not touch the recovery image but I was able to boot into my recovery then write the HTC recovery back on top of it. I now have 100% un-rooted phone. I'm not sure how to go about posting a 127MB file, what do you think it the best place?
After restoring the Nandroid backup I tried this:
Code:
Dustan-Bonneys-MacBook:tools dustanbonney$ ./adb shell
$ su
su: permission denied
Then I rebooted to recovery (I used RA 1.5.2)
Code:
Dustan-Bonneys-MacBook:tools dustanbonney$ ./adb remount
remount succeeded
Dustan-Bonneys-MacBook:tools dustanbonney$ ./adb shell
/ # mount -a
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd failed: No such file or directory
/ # cd /sdcard
/sdcard # flash_image recovery /sdcard/Stock/recovery.img
flashing recovery from /sdcard/Stock/recovery.img
/sdcard # reboot recovery
I was booted to the Triangle and exclamation mark... I pulled the battery and booted up normally.
Stock Kernel - 2.6.27-533ce29d [email protected] )
Stock Build - 1.56.651.2 CL85027 release-keys
Other things that should be mentioned:
If you used RA 1.6.2 - I was unable to get my boot.img or the stock boot.img from the RUU's rom.zip to flash back to the recovery partition. I had to use the RA 1.6.2.img and "flash_image recovery /sdcard/recoverynamegoeshere.img"
It seems that if you've flashed the radio update, the RUU does not write the radio back successfully. Others have had issues going back to the stock radio using the upgrade.zip option as well.
I attempted to use the boot.img, recovery.img, from the RUU's rom.zip with no success. I might try it again. I was able to get to stock recovery (Triangle and exclamation) and to the Hboot menu... but from hboot I had to run the RUU and rebrick the device cause I couldnt get anything at that point, even fastboot oem boot wouldnt load.
There have been times when I get weird issues writing the flash recovery, boot, or misc and when you reboot and load "fastboot oem boot" it wont look like it goes anywhere.... check "adb devices" and your device should be listed. From there do an "adb remount" and then "adb shell" and reflash once more and then "reboot recovery".
If all else fails, I'm available for a small fee.
[email protected]
Anxiously waiting your news. Just encountered this problem today.
Updated ...
imekul said:
Anxiously waiting your news. Just encountered this problem today.
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Wow! If you've fixed this, I think you're everyone's hero now. We won't have to worry about using the RUU now
I was going to try something similar to this today, but i was unable to brick my phone using the 1.56.651.2 RUU. I was running Flipz updated radio and DamageControl v2.0r2.. The RUU completed successfully..
I was reading over the forum post in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645002 and i read that you could boot the system using the command 'fastboot oem boot' I was going to try to use FlashRec to do the work of Flashing the recovery, then booting into recovery and use nandroid.. but you beat me to it! Good work!
I attempted flashing a new recovery image this way with no avail... I also attempted only
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
and still was unable to boot the phone into recovery. I think it had to have been something with doing boot.img and recovery.img at the same time... I dont know what the misc.img does and I'm assuming data.img is userdata... but I did them all and then it worked...
Other users also tried flashrec and with no success... right track though.
chavo2005 said:
I was going to try something similar to this today, but i was unable to brick my phone using the 1.56.651.2 RUU. I was running Flipz updated radio and DamageControl v2.0r2.. The RUU completed successfully..
I was reading over the forum post in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645002 and i read that you could boot the system using the command 'fastboot oem boot' I was going to try to use FlashRec to do the work of Flashing the recovery, then booting into recovery and use nandroid.. but you beat me to it! Good work!
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What do u mean by 3) PC - fastboot oem boot | MAC - oem boot?
blankd3ckskat3r said:
What do u mean by 3) PC - fastboot oem boot | MAC - oem boot?
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if your using a pc type fastboot oem boot
if your using a mac type ./fastboot oem boot
This!
Thanks Regaw
regaw_leinad said:
if your using a pc type fastboot oem boot
if your using a mac type ./fastboot oem boot
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Trying this right now.
So far, am getting lots of "mtd: write error" and "mtd: re-read error" Out of memory errors for flashing the recovery image. Guess I'll give this some time, and try to su again and reflash? Or should I kill it as soon as the Out of memory errors pop up and try again?
If you get errors like...
adb shell
su
flash_image recovery .........
(out of memory... etc)
Then...
just su again... so you really su twice
its what I had to do.
imekul said:
Trying this right now.
So far, am getting lots of "mtd: write error" and "mtd: re-read error" Out of memory errors for flashing the recovery image. Guess I'll give this some time, and try to su again and reflash? Or should I kill it as soon as the Out of memory errors pop up and try again?
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Trying it a second time, and so far am getting a bunch of Out of memory errors. After the first one "finished," I did as you recommended and typed "su" a second time, and then typed the "flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" command.
So far, looks like it's giving the same errors the second time around.
This second attempt, it ended with "error writing recovery: No space left on device."
Just to be sure, I checked the SD card, and that has over 1 GB of free space.
If you're willing to allow something like logmein.com or some way for me to remote assist you, I would like to try. [email protected] if you're in.
imekul said:
This second attempt, it ended with "error writing recovery: No space left on device."
Just to be sure, I checked the SD card, and that has over 1 GB of free space.
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Sounds awesome. Thanks. I'll e-mail you now.
Dun Dun Dun... The results are in!
imekul said:
Sounds awesome. Thanks. I'll e-mail you now.
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dfbonney is the man!!
After a friendly little session on LogMeIn Express, I am good as new! How awesome!!
imekul said:
dfbonney is the man!!
After a friendly little session on LogMeIn Express, I am good as new! How awesome!!
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We ended up just needing to run
Code:
adb shell
reboot
fastboot oem boot
adb shell
su
//flash commands here
that seemed to do it. so make sure if you're having issues to restart the device and try again!
Edit: Also, we didnt get data.img to work so we only did boot, recovery, and misc.img's

Clockwork Recovery for Coby Kyros MID-7015--Updated

All credit for this goes to Razor950
Coby Kyros MID-7015
Download recovery.img from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
use flash_image and flash recovery to tablet. (ex flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img)
Navigating:
Home is down
Menu is select
Back is back
Everything works and I'll post stock nandroid dumps on here soon.
Update some are reporting that they are unable to Flash to the recent firmware update that was posted
on the coby website do to the clockworkmod being installed.
Thanks to Kasten for coding this then thanks to adamdietrick for creating a new zip
That can be flashed with the clockworkmod installed.
Clockworkmod Coby Firmware update
Donate if you like Razor950's work!
thanks for posting
any issues that anyone gets with this recovery, please pm me.
enjoy
havic said:
Everything works and I'll post stock nandroid dumps on here soon.
Donate if you like Razor950's work!
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Here's my backup
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5ALHYN80
You must be rooted (I assume z4root or universal android root works)
then either using terminal (grab terminal app from market) or using adb.
Grab the recovery.img and drop it into sdcard via usb or adb push.
Open terminal and type su and then flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
or if using adb, its adb shell and then su and then flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Note: I am not the best at writing noobie guides but hopefully it helps
Thanks for this. I do not have mine yet( lol, just ordered it) but I donated for your work!
Thanks!
Anyone have a idea on how to get back into recovery? I have it installed but have tried holding every button to get me back and nothing kinda sucks since I have been testing new mods for this and cant get to my backup because the first shot at the mod was a fail.
I was able to get clockwork installed thanks to you. Do you know of any images that are out for the 7015?
Lawful123 said:
I was able to get clockwork installed thanks to you. Do you know of any images that are out for the 7015?
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Aside from stock(rooted) dump, there is nothing, I'll work with havic to get a rooted dump with google apps(market mostly) working correctly.
Besides that there is nothing else from my end for now. I personally don't like telechip tablets, bad experience from a gentouch :X
Also telechip company are retards and don't release kernel source, it'd help developers optimize a 2.1 rom and also be able to port kernel to a newer one for 2.2
I can see that this model gained popularity this black Friday. We are just now starting to see android tablets hit " Joe User ". I think that the telechip tabs will become popular so long as the price is on point. Thanks for all you do.
what exactly is this recovery for?
does installing this offer me additional features, or is it merely what we would restore to in case of disaster?
Deenybird said:
what exactly is this recovery for?
does installing this offer me additional features, or is it merely what we would restore to in case of disaster?
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For now it is a good way to backup your unit so that if you screw it up you can go back. In the future people will make images for it. Hopefully someday android 2.2
Which version of flash_image tool is needed to flash this recovery or is the tool stock on the tablet?
EDIT: figured it out. stock. Looking through the dump now =)
adamdietrick said:
Here's my backup
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5ALHYN80
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If you try and recover from the backup that is in the link you may or may not get a error.The error is md5 mismatch. So the recovery fails to install.
What needs to be done is need to have busybox installed then shell in and run the following commands.
This has to be ran from the dir. that contains the backup files.
Which will more than likely be similar to this
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-12-01.20.41.18
#busybox md5sum -c nandroid.md5
boot.img: OK
cache.img: OK
data.img: OK
recovery.img: OK
system.img: OK
# reboot recovery
reboot recovery
Once in clockwork then run a recovery.
If you have a Issue let me know I will try my best to get you some answers.
razor950 said:
You must be rooted (I assume z4root or universal android root works)
then either using terminal (grab terminal app from market) or using adb.
Grab the recovery.img and drop it into sdcard via usb or adb push.
Open terminal and type su and then flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
or if using adb, its adb shell and then su and then flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Note: I am not the best at writing noobie guides but hopefully it helps
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When I type this it it says its file not found.
I double checked and in astro I see
sdcard/recovery.img
any ideas?
beccaannabell said:
When I type this it it says its file not found.
I double checked and in astro I see
sdcard/recovery.img
any ideas?
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where are you when you type that? does it not find the flash_image binary or the .img?
Worked for me
I got it working by doing the following.
1. Download and installed "Android Terminal Emulator" on to the device.
2. Download and installed Z4Root 1.3.0.apk from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
3. Run it and pressed the "Permanent Root" button. It took a bit and it auto rebooted.
4. Place the recovery.img on the root of my sd card. (Razor950's recovery.img is from post#1 on this thread.)
5. Opened "Android Terminal Emulator".
6. Entered the following.
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
7. Locked everything up for about 5 min and it went back to # prompt when it was done.
8. I powered off the device.
9. After it turned off I pressed and held the back button then pressed the power button. Kept holding it until you see clockworkMod v2.5.1.3. (If it says Android it's too late.)
I have a question myself what is sd-ext on clockwork? Also is there a way to do a selective backup? Just system with no data?
Thanks.
Thanks for your procedure, will try it when I receive my tablet.
Regarding your question about sd-ext, it's a partition of your sdcard. One will be in fat32 and the other in ext2 or ext3. Usually ext2 is used when you have app2sd or 12sd+. The purpose of this is to have more apps in install by installing them on your ext partition instead of internal memory. I use it for my HTC desire (smartphone)
Regarding your second question, I don't know anyway of doing a backup without data but pretty sure it's possible, for example, if you go in your Android do a factory reset. reboot in recovery then do your backup. Not sure if there's another way to do it
Yezir!
Kasten said:
I got it working by downing the following.
1. Download and installed "Android Terminal Emulator" on to the device.
2. Download and installed Z4Root 1.3.0.apk from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
3. Ran it and pressed the "permit root" button. It look a bit and it auto rebooted.
4. Place the recovery.img on the root of my sd card.
5. Opened "Android Terminal Emulator.
6. Entered the following.
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
7. Locked everything up for about 5 min and went back to # prompt when done.
8. Powered off device.
9. Press and held the back button then pressed the power button. Kept holding it until I saw clockworkMod v2.5.1.3. (If it says Android its too late)
I have a question myself what is sd-ext on clockwork? Also is there a way to do a selective backup? Just system with no data?
Thanks.
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this is perfect!!!!! thanks for thinking of us dummies
Daali said:
where are you when you type that? does it not find the flash_image binary or the .img?
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same thing for me
"error opening /sdcard/recovery.img:No such file or directory"
Help
noonerealy said:
same thing for me
"error opening /sdcard/recovery.img:No such file or directory"
Help
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Can you see the recovery.img on your sd card from a file manger app like Astro? If so when your in the terminal can you cd to /sdcard? If so can you enter ls -l recovery.img? Check the size to make sure it is all there.
I have anther question myself.
At cobyusa.com/?p=prod&prod_num_id=10498&pcat_id=1013 there is a firmware update. in the update.zip in system in the build.prop file i see a line that says "ro.build.version.incremental=eng.enzo.20101125.200217". I notice that the build number on the device says "MID7015 1.6a_20101105-2". Looks like they may have changed somethings but not sure what. What would be bet best way to figure out what they changed?
I tried to run it from clockwork and i get
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "tcc8900" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "tcc8900"
E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
To install this update would I just have to unroot my device? Not sure how to look what the current ro.build.product is now.
Thanks.

NS4G Recovery Question

So I just rooted via Pete's instructions, I'm on CWM 3.1.0.1 or something but I see some people are on 4.x.x.x what should I be on? Rom manager only lists the 3.1.0.1 thanks in advance.
DigitalDementia said:
So I just rooted via Pete's instructions, I'm on CWM 3.1.0.1 or something but I see some people are on 4.x.x.x what should I be on? Rom manager only lists the 3.1.0.1 thanks in advance.
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you should upgrade to the latest, 4.x.x.x.
Im not really finding a link to that CWM version, if I flash one of the kernels will it give me the newest recovery? I know that's how people did it on the fascinate.
Going into the nexus s developement thread and look for cwm 4.x.x.x section posted by j_r0dd. The latest should be 4.0.1.4. Grab that .img file and put it into your C:\AndroidSDK\tools folder or wherever you have it located.
1. Open cmd,
cd C:\whateveryounamedit\tools
2. Boot into bootloader
3. Plug in usb and type: fastboot devices, your devices # should pop up, sometimes if its blank its still connected.
4. Type: fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
I would give a link, but im on the app.
Sorry.
EDIT: oh and be sure you grab the one for ns4g devices.
Wow thanks for being so helpful! I'll do that ASAP.
Your welcome.
kijp15 said:
Going into the nexus s developement thread and look for cwm 4.x.x.x section posted by j_r0dd. The latest should be 4.0.1.4. Grab that .img file and put it into your C:\AndroidSDK\tools folder or wherever you have it located.
1. Open cmd,
cd C:\whateveryounamedit\tools
2. Boot into bootloader
3. Plug in usb and type: fastboot devices, your devices # should pop up, sometimes if its blank its still connected.
4. Type: fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
I would give a link, but im on the app.
Sorry.
EDIT: oh and be sure you grab the one for ns4g devices.
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adb doesn't seem to recognize fastboot as a command? I'm in the bootloader though.
Anyone have a zip of the cwm 4.x.x.x recovery?
Did you install android sdk on your computer? If not, you should do that before you proceed.
EDIT: or did you put adb to your path on your computer
I'm on W7 so I just went to platform-tools and typed cmd in the address bar. However fastboot isn't in platform-tools?
So I went to tools but got another error trying to flash.
Sorry for all the questions I've never had to use fastboot.
Or just put the .img file on the root of your sdcard.
Open terminal
type flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery.img
Download android terminal
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery.img
Hit enter, it should now read the .img file
After that type reboot recovery to check it. Hope this helps.
kijp15 said:
Download android terminal
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery.img
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If it says no image found?
DigitalDementia said:
If it says no image found?
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Are you doing correctly?
I've done it a tons of time and it never gave me that msg.
When downloaded it, did it say .txt at the end, if it did change it from
.txt to .img.
And try again.
Positive. I renamed it cwm4.img for ease of use and I type:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cwm4.img
Then it says flash_image: not found
kijp15 said:
When downloaded it, did it say .txt at the end, if it did change it from
.txt to .img.
And try again.
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Still an image file.
Is your img file in any folders?
If it is your doing something wrong that I don't know about. Ha. If it is take out and out it on the root of your sdcard.
I've just flashed a img wit this same exact process and it went threw.
kijp15 said:
Is your img file in any folders?
If it is your doing something wrong that I don't know about. Ha. If it is take out and out it on the root of your sdcard.
I've just flashed a img wit this same exact process and it went threw.
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Ugh... frustrating! It's not in a folder, it's right on the root mocking me. Okay just so I know I'm doing it right I do it like this:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cwm4.img
Right? With the spaces between recovery and /sdcard/ ?
Hmmm... that is right.. is your terminal a black or blue background?
If its black your have the wrong terminal.

TF101 booting into Recovery

Hi.
First, I'd like to say I tried searching but no luck.
Second, I'm a total Asus noob. I'm pretty good with my HTC Legend, but I don't quite understand the transformer.
My problem: It boots directly into recovery. I bought it used, and it was rooted and running ARHD. When I bought it the seller showed me how to boot it : Boot it regularly, then select "reboot" in recovery, hold "vol-" and it boots into some sort of "menu" where I should press "vol+" to do a cold boot. This is necessary every time. He claimed that all rooted Transformers were like this; I highly doubt that.
So, is there any way I can make it boot normally?
He got it into a boot-loop, you can try fixing it by running my One-Click PERI tool, and then choosing the 'fix-bootloop' option.
This is not normal for rooted transformers, but is a very common and relatively easy to fix problem.
Thing O Doom said:
He got it into a boot-loop, you can try fixing it by running my One-Click PERI tool, and then choosing the 'fix-bootloop' option.
This is not normal for rooted transformers, but is a very common and relatively easy to fix problem.
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Downloaded, but ADB doesn't recognize my TF101 (adb devices returns nothing)
Tried installing the supplied .inf , but it isn't supported (Windows echoes "The selected INF-file does not support this installation method") and nothing is changed.
So I guess I need some drivers now..
EDIT: Okay, I got the drivers working thanks to Brk's rootkit.
Ran your tool, with "u" as first argument.
Finished without problems.
Still goes to recovery and not booting Android.
Tried applying the "r" option, still boots into CWM 5.5.0.4.
EDIT2: New touch recovery installed, new ROM flashed but still no instant boot.
Ok good, you got out of the bad CWM.
Now you need to reflash your bad bootloader, goto the asus tf101 site, pick download, android, firmware. Then find the firmware for your Region (it'll be WW I believe)
download blobunpack from either searching 'windows' in rayman's blobtools thread or downloading the blob.zip from my boot splash change guide, take the new firmware, unzip the file called 'blob' to a folder with blobunpack.exe in there, then open cmd and cd to the folder, then run 'blobunpack blob', the blob will now be split into many smaller blobs. What you'll want to do is take the one named blob.EBT, then put it on the root of your transformer's INTERNAL storage (So either adb push blob /sdcard/) or use windows to just place it there.
Then go into adb shell or terminal emulator app and type"
Code:
su (Grant root if it asks)
dd if=/sdcard/blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
reboot
It will reboot, you'll see a blue bar for just a moment, then it reboots again, and *Hopefully* won't get stuck.
Thing O Doom said:
Ok good, you got out of the bad CWM.
Now you need to reflash your bad bootloader, goto the asus tf101 site, pick download, android, firmware. Then find the firmware for your Region (it'll be WW I believe)
download blobunpack from either searching 'windows' in rayman's blobtools thread or downloading the blob.zip from my boot splash change guide, take the new firmware, unzip the file called 'blob' to a folder with blobunpack.exe in there, then open cmd and cd to the folder, then run 'blobunpack blob', the blob will now be split into many smaller blobs. What you'll want to do is take the one named blob.EBT, then put it on the root of your transformer's INTERNAL storage (So either adb push blob /sdcard/) or use windows to just place it there.
Then go into adb shell or terminal emulator app and type"
Code:
su (Grant root if it asks)
dd if=/sdcard/blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
reboot
It will reboot, you'll see a blue bar for just a moment, then it reboots again, and *Hopefully* won't get stuck.
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This pad is bought in the US. So I guess I should go with the US file?
Edit: Went for the US file, extracted blob.EBT, tried your command in the Terminal Emulator (i had to add ".EBT" after if=/sdcard/blob to make it work) but it still didn't- It moved the file, and I typed in "reboot". It rebooted, but no blue bar and I went straight to recovery. Trying again, but I doubt it will be any different.
Edit2: Nope, same sh*t. Getting kinda annoyed now...
No you don't want .ebt
You want the file to jsut be 'blob'
You may want to run roach's fix directly after, run the above, then also type:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Then reboot.
Thing O Doom said:
No you don't want .ebt
You want the file to jsut be 'blob'
You may want to run roach's fix directly after, run the above, then also type:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Then reboot.
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Oh thank you very much,this worked. The trick was to let the blob be extensionless.
However, I saw no blue bar, but it booted without going into recovery atleast
Glad it's finally working right
Go call the seller and complain >.<
Thing O Doom said:
Glad it's finally working right
Go call the seller and complain >.<
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I thought it was solved, but no.
This comes back every time something in CWM is flashed - flashed a bootanimation, it came back, i ran your commands and it was solved. Flashed a new kernel now, it came back.
Ran the commands, it went away but I noticed my kernel wasn't changed and I can't overclock... I think I have a bad CWM accually.
You need to reflash a working CWM recovery then, I take it you're on that infernal ROM manager version. I'd flash Rouge XM 1.5 touch
Thing O Doom said:
You need to reflash a working CWM recovery then, I take it you're on that infernal ROM manager version. I'd flash Rouge XM 1.5 touch
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Tried PERI but apperantly I cant give ADB SU rights, because wrote failed at /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 because of denied permissions.
Can I use dd to flash it like I did previousley?
Edit: I looked at the sauce of PERI and saw that it was flashing using a shell and DD so I entered it in a regular elevated ADB shell. Finally saw that blue bar I've been looking for and I have Team Rouge's (5.0.2.8) 1.5.0 recovery now. Thank you very much.
Actually, the same has happened to be, and i was trying to go back to stock ww, and i seem unable to find some kind of tutorial for that... I will try what was posted here at least to remove that initial loop.
MarkInDaPark said:
Tried PERI but apperantly I cant give ADB SU rights, because wrote failed at /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 because of denied permissions.
Can I use dd to flash it like I did previousley?
Edit: I looked at the sauce of PERI and saw that it was flashing using a shell and DD so I entered it in a regular elevated ADB shell. Finally saw that blue bar I've been looking for and I have Team Rouge's (5.0.2.8) 1.5.0 recovery now. Thank you very much.
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Running PERI In CWM always gives root access x)
Try doing the fix bootloop function inside cwm.
Nice to see that you figured it out!
Thing O Doom said:
No you don't want .ebt
You want the file to jsut be 'blob'
You may want to run roach's fix directly after, run the above, then also type:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Then reboot.
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That did the trick for me, my "boot direct to recovery" problem started when I accidentely selected Reboot to recovery under Advanced when I was "on that infernal ROM manager version" of recovery.
im having similar problems ..... Yep i updated CWM via ROM Manager to 5.8.3.4 (although since managed to downgrade it in theory to 5.8.2.1)
only way i can get into full Android is via a cold boot (but then i have no SD card or Wifi support) or by flashing a full new ROM each time I reboot !!!
problem i have is that im on my holidays and have no access to a PC
Google brought up a patched CWM version but even after flashing that in recovery it was still booting straight into CWM.
Well you r on holiday so can't do anything now... when you come back home try easy flasher to unroot and root again by that way you can get rid of that recovery....
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda app-developers app

[Q] Bricked Note. No Samsung Logo

hi all,
So, I've been a bit of a idiot.
In a nut shell I was trying to manually remove the flash count and followed the wrong tut.
I did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1 count=1 seek=3145732 and now when i try to boot the note I dont get the Samsung logo splash screen, I get a screen full of static.
I can access the recovery partition, I can also access in download mode with odin.
If I try to flash the stock rom, it completes ok but doesn't auto restart and stays on the odin mode screen.
I do get E:\ unable to mount /efs when i wipe the cache's.
I have a 2nd note 10.1 (both n8010) so I'm hoping I can fix/copy/image from the 2nd working device.
Any ideas on how to fix? or is it now an expensive paper weight?
I have flashed the stock firmware and rom from samsung-mobile but no joy.
thanks,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087567
blastman said:
hi all,
So, I've been a bit of a idiot.
In a nut shell I was trying to manually remove the flash count and followed the wrong tut.
I did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1 count=1 seek=3145732 and now when i try to boot the note I dont get the Samsung logo splash screen, I get a screen full of static.
I can access the recovery partition, I can also access in download mode with odin.
If I try to flash the stock rom, it completes ok but doesn't auto restart and stays on the odin mode screen.
I do get E:\ unable to mount /efs when i wipe the cache's.
I have a 2nd note 10.1 (both n8010) so I'm hoping I can fix/copy/image from the 2nd working device.
Any ideas on how to fix? or is it now an expensive paper weight?
I have flashed the stock firmware and rom from samsung-mobile but no joy.
thanks,
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You are in a tough situation my friend
I think as long as the recovery and odin work there is a chance...
can you give me the link to that tutorial .. I think i may help
Or do you remember where that sector was??
Anyways you may try to backup both devices EFS (backup that of the non working device in case you need it for anything) .... (But i think the EFSPro wont work) (you may do that using EFSpro or i think it may be done through the shell by "dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p? of=/sdcard/efs.img" where "?" is the number of EFS partition you can know that from shell command mount "i think its mmcblk0p3") .... then restore the EFS of the working device to the non-working one (EFS pro or using "dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p?" "i think its mmcblk0p3")
I hope this would succeed although i red that it contains MAC address data which may prevent both devices connecting to same network
(N8010 has no connection to cellular networks so i think no problem)
Scorpion_Ibm said:
I think as long as the recovery and odin work there is a chance...
can you give me the link to that tutorial .. I think i may help
Or do you remember where that sector was??
Anyways you may try to backup both devices EFS (backup that of the non working device in case you need it for anything) .... (But i think the EFSPro wont work) (you may do that using EFSpro or i think it may be done through the shell by "dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p? of=/sdcard/efs.img" where "?" is the number of EFS partition you can know that from shell command mount "i think its mmcblk0p3") .... then restore the EFS of the working device to the non-working one (EFS pro or using "dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p?" "i think its mmcblk0p3")
I hope this would succeed although i red that it contains MAC address data which may prevent both devices connecting to same network
(N8010 has no connection to cellular networks so i think no problem)
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this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37465299
jaydubbbbs said:
this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37465299
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But before all these go to shell and try "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/efs.img" and "tar -cvf /sdcard/EFS.tar /dev/block/mmcblk0p3"
if these commands succeed you would have a backup of old efs before changing any thing (keep it in a safe place)
Look you may try just backing up and then restoring the same EFS of the device
Try this first: use the tar command to copy the files of EFS "tar -cvf /sdcard/EFS.tar /dev/block/mmcblk0p3"
then do " mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p3" the last thing is to restore the tar with "tar -xvzf /sdcard/EFS.tar -C /dev/block/mmcblk0p3"
I prefer you try what i said first as it's shorter and makes nearly the same thing except that it takes all files not just the nv_data.bin
You can then try that tutorial in the link i think it works and you can get the that file nv_data.bin from your other device or from the non-functioning one if you can extract it from the tar backup in the first step
Cheers for the replies guys.
I'll find the tut I followed and post a link.
I'll also look into the link and suggestions you've mentioned.
My main issue seems to be that I can't get a adb connection to the device as it won't boot.
Even with cwm 6.1 installed, I still can't connect. Bear in mind, I've flashed back to stock but not been able to boot it to put it into usb debugging mode. does this mean I'll never be able to get a shell open?
I have managed to create a efs.img from the working device but have no way to push to the broken one.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
blastman said:
Cheers for the replies guys.
I'll find the tut I followed and post a link.
I'll also look into the link and suggestions you've mentioned.
My main issue seems to be that I can't get a adb connection to the device as it won't boot.
Even with cwm 6.1 installed, I still can't connect. Bear in mind, I've flashed back to stock but not been able to boot it to put it into usb debugging mode. does this mean I'll never be able to get a shell open?
I have managed to create a efs.img from the working device but have no way to push to the broken one.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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You say that adb wont work even from CWM??
Try this and see if it works http://www.dominantwire.com/2012/11/how-to-solve-adb-device-not-found-error.html
yep, even when booted into cwm recovery i still can;t connect to adb
just downloading a custom rom now to see if it's the stock rom causing the issue.
although I am able to access adb in cmw recovery from the other working device, even with USB debugging turned off.
sadly that link is no good.
I'm able to connect to the working device on the same cwm recovery version, using the same cable, so setup and PC are ok.
I dont know if the roms are the same (maybe not) but I'll flash the broken one with a custom 'pre rooted' rom in case it helps.
blastman said:
yep, even when booted into cwm recovery i still can;t connect to adb
just downloading a custom rom now to see if it's the stock rom causing the issue.
although I am able to access adb in cmw recovery from the other working device, even with USB debugging turned off.
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Ok try another rom as i think roms have diferences in adb !!
if not working also and If you know you can safely flash a new recovery .. try TWRP it has an inbuilt shell .. the keyboard is not that good but you can try it better than nothing
ok so....
I've flashed an different custom rom via cwm install from ext_sdcard. After a reboot I now have the samsung logo back!!!!
It's hung on the samsung logo for a wile now, 5 minutes or so, but I'll let it sit there for a good 30 minutes to be sure.
I'll see what happens from this rom flash, but failing this I'll stick TRWP on and have a go with the inbuilt shell. even if i can mount ext sd I should be able to restore the block i over wrote.
getting closer!!!
thanks so far,
blastman said:
ok so....
I've flashed an different custom rom via cwm install from ext_sdcard. After a reboot I now have the samsung logo back!!!!
It's hung on the samsung logo for a wile now, 5 minutes or so, but I'll let it sit there for a good 30 minutes to be sure.
I'll see what happens from this rom flash, but failing this I'll stick TRWP on and have a go with the inbuilt shell. even if i can mount ext sd I should be able to restore the block i over wrote.
getting closer!!!
thanks so far,
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Good to hear .. i hope it finishes the problem .. but in case it fails before flashing TWRP try from adb .. adb kill-server then adb start-server and adb usb and see if it works
will do, thanks.
I've just noticed that the command i ran I outputted to mmcblk0 and your commands refer to mmcblk0p3.
Am i right in guessing the the 0 part lists the disk and the px part is referring to the partition on that disk (so to speak)?
so my original command which broke it basically wiped the internal storage? this would explain a lot about failed connections as well.
blastman said:
will do, thanks.
I've just noticed that the command i ran I outputted to mmcblk0 and your commands refer to mmcblk0p3.
Am i right in guessing the the 0 part lists the disk and the px part is referring to the partition on that disk (so to speak)?
so my original command which broke it basically wiped the internal storage? this would explain a lot about failed connections as well.
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Did the device work or did you manage to get adb connection??
Anyways ... from what i read during searching is that if=/dev/zero and bs=1 count=1 seek=3145732 parts of your command writes zeros only to one byte, one time after seeking 3145732 blocks of the storage which seems to be in EFS partition which says cant mount ... So the commands i wrote are to take a backup of whatever files in there then format the drive and restore the files back to it ... after formating using mke2fs reboot the device before restore and see if it shows the cant mount message again
arh ok, that makes sense.
I've managed to tar the efs files form the working device.
I then opened the shell in twrp and did a mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 which completed ok.
But when i try to tar -xvzf EFS.tar -C /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (from the external sd dir, it tells me that the mmcblk0p3 isn;t a directory.
any ideas?
thanks again
how about doing a dd if=efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3??
I got a efs.img from efs pro on the working device..
blastman said:
arh ok, that makes sense.
I've managed to tar the efs files form the working device.
I then opened the shell in twrp and did a mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 which completed ok.
But when i try to tar -xvzf EFS.tar -C /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (from the external sd dir, it tells me that the mmcblk0p3 isn;t a directory.
any ideas?
thanks again
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try remove -C from the command it's for directory my mistake
and you can also try dd with (if=/"path of extsd"/EFS.img) but try the tar first .... after that see if it tells you cant't mount EFS by opening mount and select EFS and see if it becomes with an 'x' then going to the upper right corner of the screen and pressing the icon beside back and home and see if it shows cant mount EFS
sorry, before you replied i went and did a dd if=efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
I then flashed the stock ROM and BOOM!! im in!!
YEAH BABY!!!
only issue now is that the boot loader isn't quite right.
1 - it doesn't show the 'Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1" splash screen
2 - instead of above I get a screen showing the last thing i was doing, ie, download mode, but with static across it.
any ideas on how to correct this?
blastman said:
sorry, before you replied i went and did a dd if=efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
I then flashed the stock ROM and BOOM!! im in!!
YEAH BABY!!!
only issue now is that the boot loader isn't quite right.
1 - it doesn't show the 'Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1" splash screen
2 - instead of above I get a screen showing the last thing i was doing, ie, download mode, but with static across it.
any ideas on how to correct this?
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Can you answer some questions??
what do you mean by you are in?? .. can you get to android or not yet?? ... what do you mean with getting download mode with static ??
would you try going to recovery and clear cache and dalvik cache to try??
sorry, by I'm in I mean that I can now boot to Android.
when i say download mode with static, image the download screen but fuzzy and punctuated with white nose.
I've done a cache format and a reset to factory but I still get the same issue.
Also, I'm still unable to get an adb connection to the device.
I have noticed that the serial number has now changed to the same as the working device but thats expected as we copied the efs contents from one to the other.
thanks for all your help. you saved my bacon

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