Thank you all to helped make this possible. and i would like to try it! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133
i can not for the life me figure out the cold card thing. i am new to flashing phones. i have visa home premium 64 bit. also ubuntu. i am stuck at the Terminal Emulator, i found the key board (hold menu)/ not only that but you cant use the htc keyboard that is also on this site. but when i type ‘ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid ‘ without the quote sign. nothing happens/ what am i doing wrong! will someone post the complete newbe guide for me..Or lead me in the right direction... thanks in advance.
T-mo MyTouch 3G
zylith said:
Thank you all to helped make this possible. and i would like to try it! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133
i can not for the life me figure out the cold card thing. i am new to flashing phones. i have visa home premium 64 bit. also ubuntu. i am stuck at the Terminal Emulator, i found the key board (hold menu)/ not only that but you cant use the htc keyboard that is also on this site. but when i type ‘ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid ‘ without the quote sign. nothing happens/ what am i doing wrong! will someone post the complete newbe guide for me..Or lead me in the right direction... thanks in advance.
T-mo MyTouch 3G
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I actually have the same issue except it says invalid directory. Also for Qmat where you are supposed to type a number, where does this number come from?
i was having the same problem, try this : download better terminal emulator from the market , press menu , initial command and then type in that code cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid and then press ok and then press the back key and reboot the device once it boots back up run better terminal emulator again and it should run the script for you which will show you the gold card code that you need
awesome.. i so read that you can not use the qmat 4.46 and that you have to use 4.36 and it is not on the site does anyone have a link to that?
ok, im going to try to make it easy for you..
1 - doesnt matter what version of qmat you have - i used 4.46 and it worked fine
2 - you need a kingston sd card - i can confirm success with kingston and failure with sandisk
3 - make sure you have android sdk installed (newest one preferred) and configured - CONFIGURED IS IMPORTANT! if you dont know how to install/configure - READ!!!
4 - once all is setup - plug your mytouch into your computer - for windows: start-run-cmd / linux/mac - open terminal
5 - make sure that you have usb debugging enabled on your phones
6 - in the cmd prompt/terminal type:
adb shell press return and you should have $
type: cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
the result should be a long string of numbers.... copy this string....
7 - open qmat and click on Cyptoanalysis Tools > Crypto Toolbox
8 - paste the number into the blank and click reverse string - copy that string
9 - go to http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html
10 - follow the instructions on that page - you will be emailed your gold card...
11 - save your goldcard to your desktop or wherever you can access it -
12 - install HxD Hex Editor from here:
http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Edi...=uo&tag=button
13 - once installed, open HxD and click on Extra > Open Disk.
Under Physical disk, select Removable Disk, uncheck “Open as Readonly, click ok
14 - next open goldcard img from Extra - open disk image
15 - ctrl A to select all in goldcard image
16 - go to sd card tab (first tab) and place the cursor at the very beginning
17 - paste and save - answer yes to the dialog box.
18 - DONE
The sandisk 4gb card that comes with the mytouch worked fine for the gold card
In Better Terminal Adapter, press "ball M" as enter. The enter key on the keyboard doesn't work. That is the trackball and M at the same time.
Reminder. In windows 7, probably Vista also, run HxD AS ADMINISTRATOR!
Edit: Posted some screen shots so you can see what it should look like when you open the file in HxD. Hope it helps.
i am getting device not found? i went thru the guide http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/installing.html all is good. i have eclipse downloaded but not installed does it need to be?
I will try the Ball +M and see how that works
tried on phone "not found" is what i got.. debugging is checked i don't know what i am doing wrong. i am following all directions i tried once with phone not connected to pc and tired again with it connected and mounted /// idk
well i feel like a noob now. i have adb, i get to adb shell. i type in the command..and i get "no such file or directory" did i miss a step?
issues with gold card
Is anyone else having problems getting their gold card set up?
I have a class 4 4gb Kingston SD card, which I purchased specifically for this, that I've set up a gold card on SEVERAL times that is not working.
Every time I fast boot on my MyTouch it checks the .img file, then I get an error:
"Model ID incorrect!
Update Fail!"
I know for a fact that my model ID is correct as I pulled it from adb, copied and pasted, and I've followed these instructions to the letter including using the hex editor.
I've also verified that the gold card is functioning by testing its ability to be written to.
Does anyone have any suggestions?? If this is not the place to post, please let me know and I apologize in advance as I haven't been able to find any one else with similar issues.
Feel free to get at me on gtalk:
[email protected]
SilverSurfR said:
Reminder. In windows 7, probably Vista also, run HxD AS ADMINISTRATOR!
Edit: Posted some screen shots so you can see what it should look like when you open the file in HxD. Hope it helps.
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downloaded HxD and went to open! this is what i got.almost nothing. your correct has some letters and i have maybe 3 not alot like the wrong pic. i can e-mail the pic
I can confirm success with the sandisk sd card that came with the mytouch 3g from t-mobile.
ugh i was hoping i wouldnt have to ask this, but here it goes...
ive been reading a lot over the past week since i got my mytouch 3g. pretty much in preparation of rooting and flashing roms. im a total noob when it comes to HTC/Android modding (tweaked a few iphones over the past 2 years) and some of this is still greek to me.
i dont use windows often so i guess thats another step back for me as well lol. anyway...i plugged my device into a pc and prepared to make a gold card. i knew i had to select "usb debugging" before making changes but i didnt do it before i plugged the phone in. i was also in the process of downloading the android sdk file when i plugged in and i let windows set up the drivers for my device. it looks like im already stuck before i started is there anyway to reverse this? the steps dont seem to complicated but i just got off on the wrong foot here and im stuck.
when i go to start, run, cmd & type adb shell i get an error message along the lines of "device not found....internal or external command" (i dont remember the exact message. i tried it about 2 hours ago and i dont recall the exact phrasing). i believe i found how i got here i just need some help back tracking and starting over.
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ugh i was hoping i wouldnt have to ask this, but here it goes...
ive been reading a lot over the past week since i got my mytouch 3g. pretty much in preparation of rooting and flashing roms. im a total noob when it comes to HTC/Android modding (tweaked a few iphones over the past 2 years) and some of this is still greek to me.
i dont use windows often so i guess thats another step back for me as well lol. anyway...i plugged my device into a pc and prepared to make a gold card. i knew i had to select "usb debugging" before making changes but i didnt do it before i plugged the phone in. i was also in the process of downloading the android sdk file when i plugged in and i let windows set up the drivers for my device. it looks like im already stuck before i started is there anyway to reverse this? the steps dont seem to complicated but i just got off on the wrong foot here and im stuck.
when i go to start, run, cmd & type adb shell i get an error message along the lines of "device not found....internal or external command" (i dont remember the exact message. i tried it about 2 hours ago and i dont recall the exact phrasing). i believe i found how i got here i just need some help back tracking and starting over.
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you are in the same boat as me. although even though i we plugged in the phone before sdk was installed with driver i when to system settings and tried to update the driver with sdk and i got "driver is up to date" so i don't think that is a problem, although maybe deleting the device would help. go to device manager and uninstall the device, its will be under the disk drive.
is any of that going to help?
*** i can't type in numbers in better terminal emulator help please ***
tried again this morning. removed original drivers and installed the drivers that came with the sdk package. that went smoothly. now i plug in, go to start, run, cmd....try adb and adb shell and get the same error message "C:\documents and settings\new user>adb shell 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program batch or file."
i thought i had the android sdk installed correctly but maybe im wrong on that. any insight? i get the feeling im way off track here...
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tried again this morning. removed original drivers and installed the drivers that came with the sdk package. that went smoothly. now i plug in, go to start, run, cmd....try adb and adb shell and get the same error message "C:\documents and settings\new user>adb shell 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program batch or file."
i thought i had the android sdk installed correctly but maybe im wrong on that. any insight? i get the feeling im way off track here...
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I retried on my 32 bit win xp and got the same thing as you. that is 3 diffrent systems that i have tried this on and no luck.. i am following all directions to the "t" and still nothing- what are we doing wrong?
anybody? im stranded here lol.
step 1 and im lost...modding iphones was sooooo much easier! oh well, i like the challenege.
Hey guys. First of all, sorry I couldn't post this in Devs, still new so I'm not able to.
My question is this: I was having a ton of trouble making a gold card while the sd card was in my phone (could never for the life of me get that 'really long number', so now I'm trying it on my pc. I know the commands for getting the number through my phone, but what are the commands to do it through my computer? Basically what I'm asking is with the whole 'adb shell cat /sys..." will that remain the same or will it be different to get that number?
I'm not TOO new to rooting/flashing as I've done it many times on my Captivate, but then again, rooting/flashing with the Captivate was pretty noob-friendly. Thanks in advance guys!
EDIT: Just to let you guys know about the problems I was having when I was trying to do it through my phone (maybe somebody can point something out that I missed?): I have SDK installed. Formatted SD card (fat32). Turned USB debugging on, plugged in phone, downloaded and extracted hack kit (not sure if location matters but it was something like C:/Inspire Root/...), shift+right clicked on the win folder to open command prompt, and then typed in the commands per the README and kept getting error: device not found. I've searched for this error, but to be honest, everyone who had the same problem didn't get an answer back that really helped. I know for a fact that I'm missing something, just don't know what it is. At first I was ok not being able to make a goldcard, but I read that a goldcard will still be needed to take advantage of the easier way of rooting that's in the works. Any help would greatly be appreciated
Maybe Im an idiot but Im trying to follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996616 to root my thunderbolt and have no idea what im doing with ADB.
I tried reading that ADB workshop but Im still lost. Adb wont seem to let me do anything. Even a simple command to list the connected devices results in a permission denied error. Is there a step by step instruction or video for rooting the thunderbolt that actually includes the EXACT commands needed to do this successfully rather than assuming that people are familiar with the various commands and quirks of ADB?
I've manually and one click rooted other phones before but the most complex it got was mounting my sd card in windows, copying over some files and then rebooting the phone into recovery mode.
Why is this phone's rooting process so over the top complex?
Hey XDA community,
I need to retrieve data from the internal memory.
USB debugging IS enabled.
Anyone know if I can adb pull from the phone? I've tried using adb commands but so far get the "error: device not found" but this is obviously not true because adb is working fine on IntelliJ IDEA and I'm reading the real time logcat of the phone on the IDE so it's obviously connected.
I've thought about using reflection to make an app that forces the USB mass storage on, but I have never used reflection before so this would take me a bit of time to do. I'm looking for an easier solution. If it comes down to reflection being my only option, I guess I'll do it to retrieve some important files on the internal memory.
Any help is appreciated, thanks guys!
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Hey XDA community,
I need to retrieve data from the internal memory.
USB debugging IS enabled.
Anyone know if I can adb pull from the phone? I've tried using adb commands but so far get the "error: device not found" but this is obviously not true because adb is working fine on IntelliJ IDEA and I'm reading the real time logcat of the phone on the IDE so it's obviously connected.
I've thought about using reflection to make an app that forces the USB mass storage on, but I have never used reflection before so this would take me a bit of time to do. I'm looking for an easier solution. If it comes down to reflection being my only option, I guess I'll do it to retrieve some important files on the internal memory.
Any help is appreciated, thanks guys!
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Windows:
Code:
C:\> adb pull /sdcard c:\location\to\store\it
or
C:\> adb pull /sdcard0 c:\location\to\store\it
/sdcard0 could also be /storage0, I forget precisely. I'm in the middle of flashing something right now
Good Evening,
I have a Motorola G.
I was running a rooted version for a while, although I am admittedly not an expert. however, i did follow the steps and it was working fine, for about a year.
Well today i was low on internal memory space available, and tried transferring some more data onto it. I didn't realize the size of the data. I got a message from the computer saying there was no more space, and unplugged and went to work.
Phone was not really responsive, but I figured I would delete a couple things once I got to work until I could clear it out.
I took phone out, and it's on a black screen. I tried to restart it, it's freezing at the blue M .
Nothing seems to work, I think the memory is just so full the phone can't even boot, so I decided to do a hard reset. Unfortunately, I'm having some difficulty. I've downloaded and installed the updated Composite ADB Driver from Google, and it DOES show in the Device Manager when I plug in the phone.
I've also downloaded the SDK manager and updated it. I plug the phone in and administratively launch a command prompt. I direct the Command Prompt to the folder containing a recovery.img file, and from that point I am lost. The computer doesn't seem to identify the phone , i'm getting either or error: Device not found.
I'm not sure what I've done wrong, I am sure i'm using the newest ADB Drivers......
I tried the "adb devices" within the command prompt, and in that case it comes up blank....
Can someone please help me?
Thank you....