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fastboot binary for windows!

I've compiled a fastboot binary for windows from the git source, using cygwin.
I had actually compiled it a couple of weeks ago, but I never could get it to work. I was looking into it again tonight and discovered that windows had installed the USB Mass Storage driver for the phone in SPL mode, instead of the android driver. So after updating it to the android driver, it worked! woot
Instructions:
(note: you have to check the USB device in Computer Manager when the phone is in fastboot mode. The computer sees the phone in fastboot mode as a different device than the phone in normal mode)
Download the file and extract it in the same folder as adb. (if you don't have adb yet, it's included in the android SDK for windows. go download it!)
Take out the usb cable and boot up your phone into the SPL (back + power). You have to have the dev bootloader for this to work (white background with 3 skateboarding androids).
Plug in the usb cable, and make sure the display on the phone changes from "Serial0" to "FASTBOOT". If it doesn't, try pressing the back button.
If it asks you to install drivers, then go ahead and use the same usb drivers that you used to get adb working. You can skip the rest of the instructions. Fastboot should be working for you now.
If it doesn't ask you to install a driver, you need to figure out if the correct driver is loaded already.
Right click on My Computer, and click Manage, then go to the device manager
If you see an "ADB Interface" category at/near the top, with "HTC Dream" under it, then you're good to go. Fastboot should be working for you.
If you don't see an "ADB Interface" category, then it's likely that windows loaded the USB Mass Storage driver for it automatically. In the device manager, go down to "Universal Serial Bus Controllers", and see if you have at least one "USB Mass Storage device". If you have multiple ones, you'll need to go through each to find the correct one.
To find the correct one, right click on the USB Mass Storage device and click Properties. Go to the Details tab. In the combo box at the top that says "Device Instance Id", bring up the pull down and choose "Compatible Ids". If that is the correct device, then you will see 3 entries:
USB\Class_ff&SubClass_42&Prot_03
USB\Class_ff&SubClass_42
USB\Class_ff
Once you find the correct device, go to the driver tab, and click "Update Driver". Choose "No, not this time", then "Install from a list or specific location", then "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install", and then choose the same usb driver that you used to get adb to work.
After that's done, you should be good to go. Open a command prompt and type fastboot devices and it should list the phone.

This is a great Christmas Present lol !!!!! Thanks again JesusFreke !!!!!

JesusFreke said:
I've compiled a fastboot binary for windows from the git source, using cygwin.
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Just four minutes shy of delivering on Christmas day too I kid, I kid. Great work. This will be quite nice for those of us still working primarily in Windows. b

Really Good!!!!!!!

Thanks JF, not for the files, I already had them compiled but because I found out why they weren't working...
USB MassStorage driver was as well on! LOL Its the simple things sometimes.

That's fantastic thanks JF. Now since we got fastboot in windows how does that change the process for having our custom boot image. I could not for the life of me get fastboot to recognize my device in ubuntu no matter what I did.

pablizzo said:
That's fantastic thanks JF. Now since we got fastboot in windows how does that change the process for having our custom boot image. I could not for the life of me get fastboot to recognize my device in ubuntu no matter what I did.
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Let me take a shot in the dark and say that it would allow you to do the "fastboot flash splash1 image.rgb565" part from windows instead of ubuntu?
Don't forget about koush's .NET application to convert an image to the correct format: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462489

Thank you JesusFreke!
Way faster than booting Ubuntu under Sun's VirtualBox

Pardon my ignorance, but all that I can see with search about fastboot is it allows us to flash cupcake and new splash screens.
Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly this is? Does it simply bypass key signatures or error checks? Being that I don't turn my phone on and off a lot, a custom splash is really not necessary and being that cupcake is severely limited, don't want to even toy with that until it has more work in it.
Thanks in advance!!!

anyone try this on vista 64 yet?

Damn, someone needs to hire you or something. You've got talent!

Ha, thanks. But it's not like I wrote it or anything. The windows code is all there. I just figured out how to get it to compile in cygwin. (and figured out the driver thing, of course)

Valicore said:
Damn, someone needs to hire you or something. You've got talent!
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JesusFreke and Stericson need to partner up and start a company for Android apps.

I think your givin me too much credit....JF could handle the app shop all by himself, he's just that good
Stericson

THANKs alot i didnt feel i installing ubuntu on my laptop. once again thankss

hi，can i use this tool flash the cupcake to my G1？the driver is good，fastboot is good work，but when i use the command that FLASHALL，its told the products specified and android-products-out must be setted。i dont know whats that means~

"Waiting for device" with Fastboot
Edit: Got it working, thanks.

I've had issues with fastboot depending on which USB cable I used (I have different kinds with different shielding)... I assume my "cheap" cables didn't have enough shielding and corruption happened when trying to communicate... also noticed that this happened as well while using a USB hub... I now have a good cable connected to the BACK port of my PC... I used the back port because front ports have extensions running from the motherboard through the inside of the case that were making interference as well... hope this helps!

what the heck is fastboot?
Sorry, JF. What exactly is this?

texasaggie1 said:
Sorry, JF. What exactly is this?
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http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/fastboot-cheat-sheet

Issue using ADB and Windows 7?

I apologize if this is not the right forum and I would request that it be moved, not deleted, if possible if its the wrong forum. I'm kind of stuck here.
Have a bit of an interesting situation. I am running Windows 7,
got the USB driver successfully installed... boot up the command prompt and BAM:
C:\android>adb remount
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
C:\android>adb devices
List of devices attached
Here is the weird thing...
C:\android>fastboot devices
HT97JLV05321 fastboot
It looks like the fastboot is recognizing that my phone is attached but the adb shell will not. Any ideas what the issue could be?

LOL, I just switched back from Ubuntu to Windows 7 just to see how things have progressed. There are so many little Windows 7 quirks that drive me crazy that drove me back to Ubuntu almost instantly. Give Linux a try. A good starting Linux OS would be Linux Mint:
http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php

I had a similar issue when I tried it. Despite the fact that there are 64-bit drivers for Vista/7 available, I don't believe they actually work for ADB currently. I'm pretty sure everyone who has ADB working is using Windows XP 32-bit.

I actually burned a copy of Ubuntu that I was just going to run off of the CD. I'll give that a shot and see if it lets me do what I need to do. Thanks for the quick responses.

I am using Windows 7 final (RTM) (64-bit) and also Windows 7 Beta (32-bit) on two different computers. They all work fine with adb commands.

ch4dr0x said:
I apologize if this is not the right forum and I would request that it be moved, not deleted, if possible if its the wrong forum. I'm kind of stuck here.
Have a bit of an interesting situation. I am running Windows 7,
got the USB driver successfully installed... boot up the command prompt and BAM:
C:\android>adb remount
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
C:\android>adb devices
List of devices attached
Here is the weird thing...
C:\android>fastboot devices
HT97JLV05321 fastboot
It looks like the fastboot is recognizing that my phone is attached but the adb shell will not. Any ideas what the issue could be?
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I faced the same problem a few days ago. I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and in a first installations the drivers work fine and the device has been displayed, but BAM when I try to use ADB no way.
After many tries I resolved the issue running the Command Prompt as "Run as administrator" and VOILA worked fine.
I hope this can help you.

ch4dr0x said:
I actually burned a copy of Ubuntu that I was just going to run off of the CD. I'll give that a shot and see if it lets me do what I need to do. Thanks for the quick responses.
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Try Mint instead of Ubuntu. Mint is Ubuntu based. The big difference with Mint is that it already has all of your codecs installed - great for beginners.

If you installed first the htc sync, you have to remove the current drivers..
and had the drivers from the androidsdk pack! There's is a a lot of program who delete usb installed hardware/drivers.. delete all from htc on this programs!
Hope this solves ur issue!

I use Win7 64bit(rc1) .. i have the amd64 driver installed..
I see the phone from adb (not fastboot) when it's normally connected with USB debugging turned on.
I see the phone from fastboot (not adb) when it's in fastboot mode.

I have no choice but to laugh at myself, just realized I was IN FASTBOOT on my phone and not recovery. Fail me.
Now if I could just edit this apps2hd code /sigh.

ricardomega said:
If you installed first the htc sync, you have to remove the current drivers..
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and remove htc sync, there are a process than cause problem with adb (i don't remember the name)
I kill this process and adb 100% work fine, or unistall HTC Sync..

GOOGLE KNOWS EVERYTHING!!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHNB_enUS326US327&q=remove+usb+drivers+programs+android+htc&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

ricardomega said:
GOOGLE KNOWS EVERYTHING!!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHNB_enUS326US327&q=remove+usb+drivers+programs+android+htc&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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Except that... that wasn't my issue Its ok thanks for the input.

"error: device not found"
I can't get ADB to work with my Windows 7 X64 Ultimate. Windows automatically install a driver for the phone when I plug it in. When I try to install my own driver with the one in the SDK, I get:
"....doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems."
Doing a update to the driver, it says the one I have installed is already up to date.
I have the latest Win 7 with all important Window updates.

parrot5 said:
I am using Windows 7 final (RTM) (64-bit) and also Windows 7 Beta (32-bit) on two different computers. They all work fine with adb commands.
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The same confi, the same result

Everything works fine here with Win 7 Ultimate x64, you just install the driver in the Android SDK.

make sure u have usb debugging checked... cause i have windows 7 rtm ultimate and my adb works fine... i just loaded the needed file into windows/system32 and also put my fastboot.exe in there and added the tools folder to the environment variables and have no problems

What do I load to the system32 folder? I can't install the drivers from the SDK package. Is there a way to overwrite the ones Windows automatically installs and thinks is more up to date?

detonate said:
"error: device not found"
I can't get ADB to work with my Windows 7 X64 Ultimate. Windows automatically install a driver for the phone when I plug it in. When I try to install my own driver with the one in the SDK, I get:
"....doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems."
Doing a update to the driver, it says the one I have installed is already up to date.
I have the latest Win 7 with all important Window updates.
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Make sure your phone is in recovery mode and NOT fastboot mode.

Finally, I experienced that error you people had been reporting. It MAY have to do with the HTC Sync driver, as suggested, but it really had worked fine with other roms before, so I am not sure. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, tried to push the ADB driver manually, but that didn't work. And, before I try to uninstall the HTC Sync driver as suggested (I don't even know if I have that installed), I got it working by just plugging in another USB flash drive. Go figure.
So for anyone still having the issue after trying all other solutions, try this bizarre one:
1. Go to device manager and uninstall the HTC disk drive device. (This alone won't work, I tried)
2. With phone still plugged in, plug in a USB disk drive (or maybe just any USB device?) into another USB port.
3. Suddenly Windows 7 detect that unknown ADB driver, as it should. Now you can go ahead to install the correct ADB driver.
As a side note, this computer running Windows 7 Beta/RC have had a lot of problems with USB disk drives in general. The problems disappear after Windows 7 RTM (final).

Trouble getting adb to work

Sorry about the uninspiring title, but after an afternoon of this I'm uninspired. All I wanted to do was root this Xoom so I could take some screenshots..
I can get the tablet to stage where it says
--> fastboot
starting fastboot protocol support.
at which time I assume I can start adb. I've tried the USB drivers from the PDAnet package, but when I plug in the Xoom I get a desktop notification saying 'HTC Exit -1' (sorry, that may not be the exact wording, but the same effect).
in that 'fastboot' state, adb devices tells me there aren't any devices connected
the Xoom show up OK when booted into Android, Windows (7, 64 bit) sees it as a drive, and Device Manager sees an MZ604. adb still doesn't see anything
I started off by using the minimum set of utilities (adb, fastboot and their dlls) and then installed the SDK and used its tools (yeah, I've pathed everything properly, I was writing DOS batch files in 1985... and now am a grumpy old man )
The Xoom is Australian WiFi only, runs Honeycomb 3.2.2, hasn't been rooted (I'm trying to do that)
speaking of old, though, the fiddly volume rockers get that way (and or so ironically are used for screenshots in ICS I believe)
I have a feeling that I don't have the proper USB driver installed, I've uninstalled PDAnet, and the Xoom still shows up in windows, but since I can't get a root prompt on the Xoom have no idea what it's using
Any ideas?
Rob

SD card not found
I may as well get all my woes into the open
When in Recovery Mode, the Xoom won't recognise the SD card, it seems to be trying to mount it on /sdcard
I have some zip files of a rooted Honeycomb image, and was going to triple cjeck whether flashing a zip file was a good idea or not first, but I don't get that far
I can see the card and contents from Windows while it's mounted in the Xoom
I should be able to use the card from recovery mode, right?
Rob

emueyes said:
Sorry about the uninspiring title, but after an afternoon of this I'm uninspired. All I wanted to do was root this Xoom so I could take some screenshots..
I can get the tablet to stage where it says
--> fastboot
starting fastboot protocol support.
at which time I assume I can start adb. I've tried the USB drivers from the PDAnet package, but when I plug in the Xoom I get a desktop notification saying 'HTC Exit -1' (sorry, that may not be the exact wording, but the same effect).
in that 'fastboot' state, adb devices tells me there aren't any devices connected
the Xoom show up OK when booted into Android, Windows (7, 64 bit) sees it as a drive, and Device Manager sees an MZ604. adb still doesn't see anything
I started off by using the minimum set of utilities (adb, fastboot and their dlls) and then installed the SDK and used its tools (yeah, I've pathed everything properly, I was writing DOS batch files in 1985... and now am a grumpy old man )
The Xoom is Australian WiFi only, runs Honeycomb 3.2.2, hasn't been rooted (I'm trying to do that)
speaking of old, though, the fiddly volume rockers get that way (and or so ironically are used for screenshots in ICS I believe)
I have a feeling that I don't have the proper USB driver installed, I've uninstalled PDAnet, and the Xoom still shows up in windows, but since I can't get a root prompt on the Xoom have no idea what it's using
Any ideas?
Rob
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What USB cable are you using? Try to use your Xoom oem cable. Also, make sure that you try different USB ports, especially the ones tied more directly to the pc motherboard. It's finicky like that. Recheck your drivers. I'm not familiar with that PDAnet source. Motodev is the place to get them from. You may also need the java sdk from oracle.
There are some useful guides on setting up adb/fastboot/rooting in General...you may have to go back a few pages but it will be worth it to make your task easier.
Good luck!
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emueyes said:
I may as well get all my woes into the open
When in Recovery Mode, the Xoom won't recognise the SD card, it seems to be trying to mount it on /sdcard
I have some zip files of a rooted Honeycomb image, and was going to triple cjeck whether flashing a zip file was a good idea or not first, but I don't get that far
I can see the card and contents from Windows while it's mounted in the Xoom
I should be able to use the card from recovery mode, right?
Rob
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Which recovery mode are you talking about? Have you unlocked and installed a custom recovery, as in a ClockworkMod-based recovery? If so, which one? They have some different behaviors. If it is stock recovery, I don't think it sees the external sdcard at all.

Also make sure usb debugging option is enabled. And flash another recovery image.
You don't really need to root. Just unlock the bootloader. Push the recovery image. Reboot to recovery. And flash a pre rooted rom from team EOS.
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[Q] Phone not recognized by computer

Alright, here goes my first post. I have lingered in these forums for awhile, and have always found what I needed. This is the first time my searching on here, as well as google, has let me down.
To clarify, if I connect to my computer and have USB Mass Storage on, I can see it, move files to it and everything. My problem is, I am using my old phone (P500) to learn and practice ADB (I own a GNEX), and would like to install CWM via ADB, but I need to move files to the root of my sd.. but my phone won't show up if it's in debugging mode!
I have the drivers installed, and used a toolkit to root (worked fine, no errors). Am I missing something here or is there another issue?
Info:
Windows 7 64bit
Telus Mobility (Canada)
Model: LG-P500h
Android 2.3.3 (stock)
stock kernel

MissBizz said:
Alright, here goes my first post. I have lingered in these forums for awhile, and have always found what I needed. This is the first time my searching on here, as well as google, has let me down.
To clarify, if I connect to my computer and have USB Mass Storage on, I can see it, move files to it and everything. My problem is, I am using my old phone (P500) to learn and practice ADB (I own a GNEX), and would like to install CWM via ADB, but I need to move files to the root of my sd.. but my phone won't show up if it's in debugging mode!
I have the drivers installed, and used a toolkit to root (worked fine, no errors). Am I missing something here or is there another issue?
Info:
Windows 7 64bit
Telus Mobility (Canada)
Model: LG-P500h
Android 2.3.3 (stock)
stock kernel
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Since the device is not getting detected with USB Debugging enabled it's safe to assume a bad driver installation. To verify tho, enable USB Debugging on the device and connect it to your PC. Go to Device Manager. Somewhere towards the top, assuming the drivers were installed will be a device "ADB Interface" with a subitem "Android Platform Sooner Single ADB Interface" or something similiar. If the "ADB Interface" item isn't there then the drivers weren't installed correctly. Uninstall them. Reboot computer. Rerun driver installation program. When it finished, reboot your PC. Power off the device. Connect it to your PC. Power on the device and let all drivers install. You should be good to go from here.
If you'd like a good known set of LGE USB drivers, download Android Flash Recovery, link is in my signature. Hope this helps.
EDIT:
Oh, and Welcome to XDA

[Q] Have TWRP No OS no SU can't install os

Hey everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster, and always grateful.
Okay, so I took a good look at some related threads. They all seem to have been resolved by using tools specific to their particular device. I have not had luck following their lines. So, here's what's up with me:
Asus Transformer Tf700 US edition
Had Cyanogen Mod. Wanted to sell my tablet, so I decided to wipe and go back to factory. Unfortunately, while fooling around in TWRP, I managed to putz it up and wipe the system and data. So no more OS, and apparently no more super user (whoops), although I may be wrong about that.
I can reboot the device into TWRP, but I can't mount the microsd card. When I plug my microsd card into my device, I just get an error that says cannot mount external sd card. So, since that isn't working, I've tried to sideload via adb.
I have the SDK but can't run ADB sideload because ADB on my computer does not recognize my device. I have tried to install updated drivers, though the drivers that I did find, when I point windows to the folder with them, it doesn't see a driver. SO maybe I'm doing that wrong.
I'm completely at my wit's end here. Can someone give me a little help?
Thanks everyone for your help in advance.

Specifics please????
CM, TWRP, Windows, drivers: What version?
You may want to try this, it installs the drivers for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

berndblb said:
Specifics please????
CM, TWRP, Windows, drivers: What version?
You may want to try this, it installs the drivers for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
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Hey there, thanks so much for replying!
I'm using TWRP v2.6.0.0.
Windows 7 x64 SP1
The CM version that I had, I actually don't recall now. I had flashed it back to stock though, before this, by using TWRP recovery. I noticed after that that I had not flashed my saved files properly. That's when I pooched it, hah.
I removed the existing USB drivers via device manager, restarted, used the installer that you linked to, restarted, and plugged in my device. It said installing drivers, and then failed to install drivers. ADB does not recognize a connected device. Merp.

I still haven't had any luck. Does anyone have any ideas?

You have to get the Windows drivers working to get ADB and fastboot access to your tablet and that can be tricky. Any chance you can get your hands on a Linux machine?
If the ADB tool I linked to didn't work (and I don't understand why - I used it on Win7 32 bit without a hitch) try to install the Google Universal Naked Drivers (google the term and should find them easily).
Actually - do you have the Asus device drivers installed? What happens if you connect the USB cable? Does Windows recognize the device at all? If not try to download Asus Sync, install it and try again. Once Windows recognizes the tablet as a MTP device, run the adb tool again and then try "adb devices" when you are booted into Android and "fastboot devices" when the tablet is in fastboot mode.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646279

berndblb said:
You have to get the Windows drivers working to get ADB and fastboot access to your tablet and that can be tricky. Any chance you can get your hands on a Linux machine?
If the ADB tool I linked to didn't work (and I don't understand why - I used it on Win7 32 bit without a hitch) try to install the Google Universal Naked Drivers (google the term and should find them easily).
Actually - do you have the Asus device drivers installed? What happens if you connect the USB cable? Does Windows recognize the device at all? If not try to download Asus Sync, install it and try again. Once Windows recognizes the tablet as a MTP device, run the adb tool again and then try "adb devices" when you are booted into Android and "fastboot devices" when the tablet is in fastboot mode.
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Hey, thanks for the reply. When I plug in the device, it tries to install drivers and almost immediately fails. It then shows in the device manager as shown in the attached file. When I right click, select update driver, and point it to the folder with the google naked drivers (or the asus drivers), it says that "Windows cannot find drivers for this device." This seems strange to me. It has no idea what the transformer is when it is plugged in. Is there a different manual method of installing drivers, or cuing windows to recognize that these are the correct drivers?
I had Asus Sync installed, and that didn't seem to do anything for me. Windows would not do anything differently than it had already done. Grrr. This hurts.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2646279
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This method looks promising, but it requires one to go into Android and turn on USB debugging mode. Problem is: I have no OS to log in to in order to do so

Whoops, forgot screen shot

Jeez - this is frustrating. I'm running out of ideas how to get Windows to work...
You are running Windows with administrator rights - yes?
Consider installing Linux as a dual boot on your Windows machine. I did that just to get rid of these ADB/fastboot driver problems....

berndblb said:
Jeez - this is frustrating. I'm running out of ideas how to get Windows to work...
You are running Windows with administrator rights - yes?
Consider installing Linux as a dual boot on your Windows machine. I did that just to get rid of these ADB/fastboot driver problems....
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I'm running shy on space on my OS SSD, but would it potentially work running off of a boot disk? I have Fedora lying around here somewhere. Would the process be especially different? I have so very little experience working in Linux.
Also, I wonder if this is important. When I tell TWRP to reboot the machine, it informs me that super user isn't installed, and offers to root my device for me, but when I select that option, the screen just goes blank and it appears to hang, and I have to reboot it with the volume and power keys.

hardshank said:
I'm running shy on space on my OS SSD, but would it potentially work running off of a boot disk? I have Fedora lying around here somewhere. Would the process be especially different? I have so very little experience working in Linux.
Also, I wonder if this is important. When I tell TWRP to reboot the machine, it informs me that super user isn't installed, and offers to root my device for me, but when I select that option, the screen just goes blank and it appears to hang, and I have to reboot it with the volume and power keys.
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I have no idea if you can run adb or fastboot if you boot Linux off a boot disc - but what the heck? Why not try it at this point?
I do not understand your driver problems at all. I helped someone today with a lot of the same problems: The tablet only booted into recovery, TWRP would not mount the microSD, didn't see any files on the internal... The ADB tool I linked to earlier allowed him to adb reboot to the bootloader - the rest was a breeze... Something in your Windows setup is just effed up... Sorry - wish I had that magic wand...

berndblb said:
I have no idea if you can run adb or fastboot if you boot Linux off a boot disc - but what the heck? Why not try it at this point?
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Sure, if you have compatible adb and fastboot binaries it should work. Linux doesn't care where it was booted from.

_that said:
Sure, if you have compatible adb and fastboot binaries it should work. Linux doesn't care where it was booted from.
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I had to install the adb and fastboot binaries on my distro. You can't do that on Linux running off a disc - can you? You would have to find a distro that comes with them?

berndblb said:
I had to install the adb and fastboot binaries on my distro. You can't do that on Linux running off a disc - can you? You would have to find a distro that comes with them?
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On some live distros you can install additional software to a ramdisk. For adb and fastboot, any live distro with 32 bit libraries should have the required libs so that you can just copy/download the binaries and run them.

So here is an interesting development: I am now able to see my micro SD card when it is plugged into my device. Why? I haven't the foggiest. However, I still can't see any of its contents. Curious....

hardshank said:
So here is an interesting development: I am now able to see my micro SD card when it is plugged into my device. Why? I haven't the foggiest. However, I still can't see any of its contents. Curious....
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Okay. I can't believe this worked, but I'm back in action. Here's how it went down:
- I tried doing a Linux USB drive, but was having difficulties getting it to boot, and my knowledge of Linux is so limited, I basically gave up hope.
- Today, I picked up my tablet (which has remained plugged in for power all of this time), and rebooted it. At the opening screen, which allows me to choose to go into TWRP, boot into (I think) Linux, or wipe data, I had never selected Wipe Data. Why? Because accidentally wiping the wrong partition is what got me in this mess to begin with.
- SO then I think, what the hell. It seems to have actually done something (though I don't know what), so I grab my micro SD with stock Android loaded on it, and pop it in. Voilà! It is recognized (as above).
- For some reason, no contents of card are visible
- Restarted device: card contents visible!
- Selected "Install" in TWRP menu, and selected my stock ROM
So. This has been a weird month. Thank you to EVERYONE who helped out on this. I'll be sure to hit the Thanks buttons!

hardshank said:
Okay. I can't believe this worked, but I'm back in action. Here's how it went down:
- I tried doing a Linux USB drive, but was having difficulties getting it to boot, and my knowledge of Linux is so limited, I basically gave up hope.
- Today, I picked up my tablet (which has remained plugged in for power all of this time), and rebooted it. At the opening screen, which allows me to choose to go into TWRP, boot into (I think) Linux, or wipe data, I had never selected Wipe Data. Why? Because accidentally wiping the wrong partition is what got me in this mess to begin with.
- SO then I think, what the hell. It seems to have actually done something (though I don't know what), so I grab my micro SD with stock Android loaded on it, and pop it in. Voilà! It is recognized (as above).
- For some reason, no contents of card are visible
- Restarted device: card contents visible!
- Selected "Install" in TWRP menu, and selected my stock ROM
So. This has been a weird month. Thank you to EVERYONE who helped out on this. I'll be sure to hit the Thanks buttons!
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Glad you got it working!
Out of curiosity: Was your tablet booted or completely off until you picked it up today? Did you reboot into the bootloader or did it do that by itself?
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