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[RESOLVED] Charge root problem - adb drivers

Edit: Kept messing around until my Charge finally mounted itself again as a CD drive; then I opened the "drive" and quickly grabbed the USB driver package, which I installed from the desktop. Now my Charge is recognized and I was able to root using adb with no problem.
The driver package is an 8.1MB .exe file; PM me if you need it emailed to you.
Problem:
I'm trying to root my Charge and can't get adb to see the device. I have Samsung drivers installed and my Fascinate is seen just fine. Not only can I not access the Charge via adb, I can't even connect to USB storage to see the Micro-SD card on it.
Any help much appreciated!
Edit: Thanks to a post by imnuts on another forum, I learned that the Charge has its own drivers which can be installed if it is first connected with USB debugging turned OFF. It mounts as a virtual CD drive, from which the drivers can be installed. This at least allows me to open the SD card on the device. However, when I turn USB debugging back on, my computer STILL can't find the drivers and isn't happy with any directory I point it to.

droidmark said:
Edit: Kept messing around until my Charge finally mounted itself again as a CD drive; then I opened the "drive" and quickly grabbed the USB driver package, which I installed from the desktop. Now my Charge is recognized and I was able to root using adb with no problem.
The driver package is an 8.1MB .exe file; PM me if you need it emailed to you.
Problem:
I'm trying to root my Charge and can't get adb to see the device. I have Samsung drivers installed and my Fascinate is seen just fine. Not only can I not access the Charge via adb, I can't even connect to USB storage to see the Micro-SD card on it.
Any help much appreciated!
Edit: Thanks to a post by imnuts on another forum, I learned that the Charge has its own drivers which can be installed if it is first connected with USB debugging turned OFF. It mounts as a virtual CD drive, from which the drivers can be installed. This at least allows me to open the SD card on the device. However, when I turn USB debugging back on, my computer STILL can't find the drivers and isn't happy with any directory I point it to.
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Hi - Would really appreciate your help here. Thanks for the tip on turning debugging off to get to the phone so I could install the USB drivers. Problem now is that ADB just refuses to connect to it. It shows up asa disk drive in Devices, but when I do a kill-server then start-server then adb devices, it doesn't list any devices, and an adb shell just says device not found.
Do I need to reboot Windows, or the phone? Seems unlikely. I can open a window to the phone, but can't get access to install the Gingerbreak and su files I need to root it. Going crazy!
Thanks,
Eric

Try rebooting both. Couldn't hurt.
Oh yeah, and if you haven't make sure the phone is back in debug mode.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App

Black-Falcon said:
Try rebooting both. Couldn't hurt.
Oh yeah, and if you haven't make sure the phone is back in debug mode.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
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Well, I'll be a monkey's brother in law. I rebooted both, checked debig mode - and it wasn't on, to my surprise. I've turned it on and off a bunch of times, so...
Anyway, I was able to finally get adb working!!! Yaaaayyy! But now I'm trying to root it, and Superuser doesn't show as an app, and Root Explorer says the f-er isn't rooted. And the Gingersnap Root Utility I've been trying to use, says it's all good to go, but its not.
Gonna try a different method, but if anyone has any ideas, I'm open.
Thanks!!!!

Use gingerbreak.
You gotta download superuser from the market
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ClarkSt said:
Well, I'll be a monkey's brother in law. I rebooted both, checked debig mode - and it wasn't on, to my surprise. I've turned it on and off a bunch of times, so...
Anyway, I was able to finally get adb working!!! Yaaaayyy! But now I'm trying to root it, and Superuser doesn't show as an app, and Root Explorer says the f-er isn't rooted. And the Gingersnap Root Utility I've been trying to use, says it's all good to go, but its not.
Gonna try a different method, but if anyone has any ideas, I'm open.
Thanks!!!!
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Try downloading busybox from the market, or downloading titanium backup and hit the "problems" button when you open it and select get busy box

Black-Falcon said:
Use gingerbreak.
You gotta download superuser from the market
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
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Tried GingerBreak. No good. "permission denied".

Good idea - I got Busybox installed this way, but still no joy from Gingerbreak.

Just flash the ED1 odin package and done
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DroidXcon said:
Just flash the ED1 odin package and done
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If I could flash anything I'd be rooted already, wouldn't I? How do I flash? ROM Manager needs root. Vicious circle.
I've heard that its not possible to root the Charge using current methods since the f-ing update the other day.

ClarkSt said:
If I could flash anything I'd be rooted already, wouldn't I? How do I flash? ROM Manager needs root. Vicious circle.
I've heard that its not possible to root the Charge using current methods since the f-ing update the other day.
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Check the development thread for the Charge. There's a thread on how to rollback to ED1 with root using Odin.
Edit: Direct link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085190

droidmark said:
Edit: Kept messing around until my Charge finally mounted itself again as a CD drive; then I opened the "drive" and quickly grabbed the USB driver package, which I installed from the desktop. Now my Charge is recognized and I was able to root using adb with no problem.
The driver package is an 8.1MB .exe file; PM me if you need it emailed to you.
Problem:
I'm trying to root my Charge and can't get adb to see the device. I have Samsung drivers installed and my Fascinate is seen just fine. Not only can I not access the Charge via adb, I can't even connect to USB storage to see the Micro-SD card on it.
Any help much appreciated!
Edit: Thanks to a post by imnuts on another forum, I learned that the Charge has its own drivers which can be installed if it is first connected with USB debugging turned OFF. It mounts as a virtual CD drive, from which the drivers can be installed. This at least allows me to open the SD card on the device. However, when I turn USB debugging back on, my computer STILL can't find the drivers and isn't happy with any directory I point it to.
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Dude - THANK YOU!!!! I could not get those drivers to install!!!
Please - Stickie!!!

If you want the drivers and don't trust the sources posted anywhere (we're not trustworth ?) you can get them from the phone itself. They are located in the file /system/etc/autorun.iso and you can extract them from it.

[Q] Why can I no longer mount usb

I have erased the contents of the phones internal USB storage. Now I notice that I cant mount to my PC.
Anybody know what happening or had same problem

Have you already tried formatting with CWM?
Perhaps this thread contains some useful information for you.

maksymillian said:
I have erased the contents of the phones internal USB storage. Now I notice that I cant mount to my PC.
Anybody know what happening or had same problem
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I know this is a long shot but go to your dialer and input *#*#8778#*#* and make sure it looks like this pic. I fool with QPST and other things and sometimes forget to change the settings back to PDA and it will not mount. Long shot but what the hey...

alnova1 said:
I know this is a long shot but go to your dialer and input *#*#8778#*#* and make sure it looks like this pic. I fool with QPST and other things and sometimes forget to change the settings back to PDA and it will not mount. Long shot but what the hey...
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Typed it in and got nothing. Using the android dialler when I pressed the last * the dialer cleared and did nothing.
Just installed the SDK so I could use (hopefully) ADB. When trying to install the Google driver rev4 windows says that rev 4 is no better than the one currently installed.
Also when I connect to the PC it says that the USB device is not recognised either.
I reckon my next thing to try flashing a new Rom via ROM manager.

well that didnt work in fact it has got considerably worse. I used ROM manager to download and install a new rom but didnt install the Gapps how daft do I feel now cos all I got is version of Blandroid running with no Android Market access to download ROM Manager.
I can access my WiFi network so I thought I would simply visit XDA via the mobile browser and download a fresh version of CM7 and then re-flash via ClockworkMod . However all I get is download fail error. I guess it doesn't know where to save the file.
So to recapp I have the following
a Nexus S (running Blandroid ROM)
a Win XP laptop that does not recognise my Nexus S (therefore cant install the Google driver to use ADB)
The Nexus S recovery is ClockworkMod and accessible.
I cannot accept that it is bricked (not just yet anyway)
I have another Laptop with Ubuntu installed. Will this help me in anyway to find a fix. I am not that experienced in Linux unfortunately.

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i have the same problem. only thing you can try is.
pull out battery. let something metal touch the usb conecter .conecting the metal to a unload source(for static electricity.)
wait couple of hours,and try again.
if that didnt work.
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open your nexus.
unplug all cables and screws from the main board.
again touch the usb conecter with something metal that has a ground source.
and try again.
the last step worked for me the 1st time pluging it in after i did that.
after that. usb didnt work again.
it probably has to do something with the usb phone charger and static electricity.
but i havent tested it.

will give that a try when I have a bit more time.
In the meantime I have been setting up ADB on my other laptop running Ubuntu 11.04. But unfortunately the Nexus S didnt register on the OS either. I thought you didnt need additional drivers for Linux only windows! I am really puzzled now as I thought the Linux option would have allowed me to flash a different ROM other than Blandroid (which isnt bad its just I dont have the Gapps installed)

maksymillian said:
will give that a try when I have a bit more time.
In the meantime I have been setting up ADB on my other laptop running Ubuntu 11.04. But unfortunately the Nexus S didnt register on the OS either. I thought you didnt need additional drivers for Linux only windows! I am really puzzled now as I thought the Linux option would have allowed me to flash a different ROM other than Blandroid (which isnt bad its just I dont have the Gapps installed)
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you still have wifi/3G and CWM or bloothoot?
download the Gapps zip. put it on dropbox or any hosting site.download it trough your mobile browser and flash it trug CWM.
or use blutethoot to download it.
might be a short fix.until you get USB to work.
(this is how i do it cuz my usb doesnt work.)

I did try that but for some reason after stating that the download had started - Download Unsuccessful was displayed in the notification area. As useual I open a door only to find a brick wall on the other side.
In the meantime I am back with my HTC Hero.
Thanks for helping anyway!

maksymillian said:
I did try that but for some reason after stating that the download had started - Download Unsuccessful was displayed in the notification area. As useual I open a door only to find a brick wall on the other side.
In the meantime I am back with my HTC Hero.
Thanks for helping anyway!
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try difrent download solutuins.
seeing you have HTC here.why not tranver your zip trug your hero to your Ns?(with bluethoot)

boy, i hope you haven't started tearing your phone apart yet...
since you still have access to cwm: try to format your sdcard with it. looks like you haven't done that yet.

I would try to uninstall all drivers and associated programs on your PC. Then reinstall the drivers. Windows can be very finicky as you know. Also try PDANET drivers.

ghost010 said:
try difrent download solutuins.
seeing you have HTC here.why not tranver your zip trug your hero to your Ns?(with bluethoot)
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10 out of 10 - I just got my market back . downloading rom manager will shortly be back on CM7.
USB connection still not working yet but at least I got my account back on the NS and so the phone is usable

wild1z said:
I would try to uninstall all drivers and associated programs on your PC. Then reinstall the drivers. Windows can be very finicky as you know. Also try PDANET drivers.
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The NS wouldn't connect to laptop with Ubuntu running. I am beginning to think that I have a faulty micro USB port.
Ill try the pdanet drivers later tonight - are they different from the google rev 4 drivers?

maksymillian said:
The NS wouldn't connect to laptop with Ubuntu running. I am beginning to think that I have a faulty micro USB port.
Ill try the pdanet drivers later tonight - are they different from the google rev 4 drivers?
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Same PC with dual boot? Yeah, try another cord and a another PC. The fact that you plugged it in and it's recognized in some way in the tray says something is fubar. I just don't know if it is the phone though. Best of luck.

Nah, different laptop and different cable. Hope that it charges OK. Gonna have to get a WiFi file transfer app working to move files to and from.

glad to help out :3
there are allot of people that have this USB isue and its HW NS related. nothing we actually can do about it.plus it also happens after changing kernels and roms(i supose) overclocking might be 1 of the reasons thus the voltages not being original.
btw,sorry for my half assed english x3

Double check the modem/pda settings mentioned in post #3. Should be set to pda to see the files on the SD.

Moritzio said:
Double check the modem/pda settings mentioned in post #3. Should be set to pda to see the files on the SD.
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Having the same issue. I tried that, no such luck.
My computer *did* connect at one point though... couldn't mount USB storage (wasn't prompted) but it did ask for a driver, and currently has a Samsug USB one installed. It won't accept the SDK driver (not 64-bit capable? Or NS4G? Idk...)

Moritzio said:
Double check the modem/pda settings mentioned in post #3. Should be set to pda to see the files on the SD.
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I got nothing when I entered *#*#8778#*#*. I simply typed it in using the keypad on the dialer. Is there something else I should be doing?

i9023 - HELP! "No Boot or Recovery IMG & can't connect via USB

Hi guys,
I just have received a i9023 from a friend to repair. I put fastboot on and the device is unlocked, then I copied over Matr1x kernel via USB to the SD card and flashed CMW to recovery.
From here things went bad.
When trying to update the kernel to Matr1x, it showed that the file wasn't on the SD card anymore, so I tried to mount the SD card to copy it back, but it my computer wouldn't see it. Since then I tried many things to get the USB working - updating drivers etc... after awhile I decided to format SD card, which didn't help, so I formatted all the partitions on the phone.
Now, every time the phone comes on, it boots straight to fastboot, but also the PC will still not recognise the phone via USB.
I've tried getting into Download mode and using ODIN to flash a new kernel & ROM, but this wont work without USB working.
Can anyone help?
PS. I have read many other guides and posts, but nothing has helped.
Many thanks.

*Bump*

Are you running Ubuntu or similar? You need to be root to use fastboot and edit the right config files
wait, did you go to the mount menu in cwm? You can mount as usb storage in that menu... Are you saying it doesn't show up on your computer? Are you running windows?

I've a friend in the same situation.
We managed to make the phone recognizable using pda.net driver for nexus S, but weren't abel to find a single tar file to use on Odin.
Seems that all stocks rom were deleted from any storage.

bedalus said:
Are you running Ubuntu or similar? You need to be root to use fastboot and edit the right config files
wait, did you go to the mount menu in cwm? You can mount as usb storage in that menu... Are you saying it doesn't show up on your computer? Are you running windows?
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Yes, I tried to mount as USB Storage in the Recovery Menu - didn't work, but now, I've only got fastboot - Booting up the phone normally jumps straight to fastboot, trying to boot into recovery doesn't work (just the fallen over Android pic with the red "!" on his chest).
I'm using Windows 7 and computer will not recognise the phone at all (it was working before this & the MicroUSB port is not damaged).
My GT-i9100 works perfectly via USB.
Piemo said:
I've a friend in the same situation.
We managed to make the phone recognizable using pda.net driver for nexus S, but weren't abel to find a single tar file to use on Odin.
Seems that all stocks rom were deleted from any storage.
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If I can get it to connect to my PC so I can throw a stock ROM on there via ODIN I should be right (Pretty sure SAMFIRMWARE has some).

I've found often that the sdcard only gets mounted when you "choose zip from sdcard" in recovery. I panicked once with a galaxy s when I had forgot to put any rom on the sdcard and couldn't mount it subsequently. Ended up using heimdall with success. Also make sure you have latest version of fastboot, from platform tools 4.0.3.

Yeah, try Odin

If you can download sdk with the google drivers and install the drivers through device manager, you should be able to get your usb to connect again to fastboot. There is a bootloader driver inside the kit!

twadda218 said:
If you can download sdk with the google drivers and install the drivers through device manager, you should be able to get your usb to connect again to fastboot. There is a bootloader driver inside the kit!
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Yeah, it is definitely not connecting via fastboot. Windows 7 just comes up with UNKNOWN DEVICE., as does my WinPX machine. It's very strange.

Can you try Ubuntu? Any luck with Odin?

KLoNe1 said:
Yeah, it is definitely not connecting via fastboot. Windows 7 just comes up with UNKNOWN DEVICE., as does my WinPX machine. It's very strange.
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Does it say unknown device in device manager?
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

I don't have a machine with Ubuntu on it unfortunately.
Yes, Unknown Device in Device Manager - it won't accept it when I point the new driver to the modified Google USB .inf file

KLoNe1 said:
I don't have a machine with Ubuntu on it unfortunately.
Yes, Unknown Device in Device Manager - it won't accept it when I point the new driver to the modified Google USB .inf file
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Did you click the "Have disk" option, point it at the file then click one of the options? That's what I had to do
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

DarkhShadow said:
Did you click the "Have disk" option, point it at the file then click one of the options? That's what I had to do
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
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Yes, I did - it said that this inf (driver) doesn't contain information about the device in question.

I think I came across a USB driver problem once that was rectified by deleting the relevant keys from the registry. Could be worth looking into.
EDIT: Found it!
Open regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Enum > USBSTOR
and look for any devices that could be your nexus s.
I think they might be these:
Disk&Ven_Android&Prod_UMS_Composite&Rev_0001
Disk&Ven_Google&Prod_File-CD_Gadget&Rev_0000
You should be able to delete them (if not, change the permissions).
Then reboot and hopefully next time you plug in your phone, the drivers will reload.

Many thanks for all your help everyone; unfortunately I still have yet to figure out how to get this working. Please keep throwing out your ideas
bedalus said:
I think I came across a USB driver problem once that was rectified by deleting the relevant keys from the registry. Could be worth looking into.
EDIT: Found it!
Open regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Enum > USBSTOR
and look for any devices that could be your nexus s.
I think they might be these:
Disk&Ven_Android&Prod_UMS_Composite&Rev_0001
Disk&Ven_Google&Prod_File-CD_Gadget&Rev_0000
You should be able to delete them (if not, change the permissions).
Then reboot and hopefully next time you plug in your phone, the drivers will reload.
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I gave this a go as it sounded like a great idea, but unfortunately it still isn't working.
I ended up deleting the drivers it was installing which wouldn't work & now it will only show up as 2x Unknown device under 'Portable Devices' heading.

I think you should try installing ubuntu, and the android sdk so you have access to fastboot again.

[Q] i deleted everything somehow all i have is twrp

i deleted everything and now all i have is twrp. when i mount my phone to my computer it just says i need to format it in order to use it.
is there anything i can doi? am i stuck with a paperweight?

Ricky-016 said:
i deleted everything and now all i have is twrp. when i mount my phone to my computer it just says i need to format it in order to use it.
is there anything i can doi? am i stuck with a paperweight?
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You need to install the drivers for the phone.
AT&T HTC OneX
Android 4.1.1
ViperXL

Google for HTC Sync, download it, install it, then just uninstall the sync application, it'll install and keep the usb drivers on your computer (Provided it is a Windows PC, otherwise get the driver from ADB on linux machines, as for OSX I am of no help there)

htc sync is so useless just download the drivers
download the 2 rar files from either thread below extract it and install the exe
[DRIVER] HTC Driver 4.0.1.001 (2012-11-07)
[DRIVER] HTC Driver 3.0.0.007 (2011-01-03)

You can just click on format. Make sure you have a ROM handy so you can copy it to storage and install it after.

Ricky-016 said:
i deleted everything and now all i have is twrp. when i mount my phone to my computer it just says i need to format it in order to use it.
is there anything i can doi? am i stuck with a paperweight?
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never factory reset in bootloader if you have a custom recovery it will corrupt sdcard

DvineLord said:
never factory reset in bootloader if you have a custom recovery it will corrupt sdcard
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Agreed. I made this mistake once. But it's fixable.
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[Q] CWM Recovery Red: Access hidden files SDCard?

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for anyone replying to my dumb question.
Today I was preparing to use the Aroma Toolkit to restore my phone to a basic stock. I placed it in a folder called ".rom" on the internal sdcard so it would appear at the top. (can you believe it?) I have CWM Red and it doesn't see ".rom" as it is now hidden. (I guess) Unfortunately, I already wiped AND formatted "system" so I can't boot the phone up to change the folder to something more sensible. I cannot restore from Odin OR Heimdall because my phone won't show up on ANY PC and it only shows "Unknown USB Device." I've been up and down with that one too. Also, I tried to put the toolkit on the external sdcard both as is and as update.zip but it says there are no files. I think my only way(s) out of this would be to Odin or Heimdall, if I can get either working again, or if there is a way to get the CWM Red to see that hidden ".rom" folder.
ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading this.

folders and files that begin with a dot are hidden in linux systems like android. you are seeing an unknown device because you dont have samsung drivers installed. you should be able to go into mounts and storage and select usb mass storage or something like that and it will mount as a mass storage device where you can rename the file in windows where that doesnt show as a hidden file.
if you wiped system, if you turn off your device, you might not be able to get back into recovery and youll have to use odin or heimdall. you can download the samsung drivers from http://d-h.st/xEG and when you are in recovery mode, go to device manager and select from the list of device and choose samsung composite device or something like that i dont remember.
next time you want a folder to show at the top of the list, i think you can start it with an underscore. i could be wrong about that though. you can try it out and see.

I don't recall if red CWM has the mount as usb storage option. If not...
Next step is getting the drivers on your PC. Easiest option from there is Odin or Heimdall - unless you want to download the android SDK and use adb shell to rename the directory.
Underscore should work for sorting...
fwiw I use exclamation points.
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Thanks for the reply! Although I did have the Samsung drivers installed with Kies mini, I removed Kies and installed the drivers in the link you gave me but no luck. USB used to work fine in Win as well as Lin but it stopped suddenly. I am able to get into both recovery and download mode fine but I can't go anywhere from there. I tried to "mount sd_ext" under mounts and storage in recovery, hoping to access the aroma toolkit file from there, but I get a can't mount error that says /dev/block/mmcblklb1p2 (file exists). "mount USB" doesn't help either. I really did it this time....
Thanks again for the input

well, if youre not going to download mode to run odin, and you cant do usb mass storage in red cwm, and you want to do it from recovery, you need to choose samsung adb device in device manager. then you need adb and can do adb shell and run "mv /sdcard/.rom /sdcard/_rom"

mrpectate said:
Thanks for the reply! Although I did have the Samsung drivers installed with Kies mini, I removed Kies and installed the drivers in the link you gave me but no luck. USB used to work fine in Win as well as Lin but it stopped suddenly. I am able to get into both recovery and download mode fine but I can't go anywhere from there. I tried to "mount sd_ext" under mounts and storage in recovery, hoping to access the aroma toolkit file from there, but I get a can't mount error that says /dev/block/mmcblklb1p2 (file exists). "mount USB" doesn't help either. I really did it this time....
Thanks again for the input
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sd_ext in red recovery does not refer to the external sd card (even though you would think it does from the name)
For compatible drivers, remove all Samsung phone related drivers from your system and install the first driver package located here (not the mini-kies one):
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-I997ZKAATT
Some things that may help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982306&page=2
Also, turn off auto driver install in Windows 7 - could be your PC is deciding what is best for you before you can install working drivers:
Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Hardware > Device Installation Settings > "No / Never"
Then install the driver, then connect your phone. Once the driver and devices are fully installed you can change the above setting back to what it was or to "No / Install" (that's where I usually leave it)
Good luck

Well I sincerely appreciate all the help from you guys, and Zen Arcade, thanks for the toolkit that brought me back from disaster quite a few times. I tried all of your suggestions, but it seems like I might have a hardware failure which occured before all this. I was able to connect to USB fine and out of nowhere it just wouldn't anymore. That was OK. I still rom-hopped along with straight to phone rom aquisition, but then I made a mistake. One I have learned from. I'm not able to get the phone to show up AT ALL. I even tried a clean install of WinXP then the drivers from Zen's post, and Nicky's Win7 laptop. I also tried several versions of Linux. Only Mint's Gparted could see it as /sdb/ with a corrupted partition. I even gave Haiku's Drive Probe a shot. Jack of Clubs, I tried the SDK shell but it just scans and sees nothing. I just think that the USB thing is roadblocking any hope of saving this heap. Recovery is there, download mode is there, but the connection required to utilize either of those is gone.
Again, I truly appreciate the help.

Well I've been trying to get CWM to see the Infuse Toolkit (and various roms) on external_sd but it keeps saying:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
I've tried 4 different microSD's formatted as FAT, FAT32, and I used SDFormatter (I saw someone recommend that somewhere). I really see this as the very last ember of hope for this phone before I let it go.
Any ideas?
BTW, my CWM is v2.5.1.3 - Voodoo lagfix
Thanks again and in advance.

Infuse GB recovery menu will not see external SD card.
If you can get adb working - connection to your PC - you have some options. From adb there are commands that will allow copying files from PC to phone ... also from external to internal sd card depending on which kernel you are running. You could also rename your hidden folder too.
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Thanks again for your continued help Zen. I just can't get it recognized (in a constructive way) by anything. I tried Santoku linux today and nothing. I've just been beating my head with this thing. Well here it is: CWM is accessible, as is download mode, and it charges fine, but no PC connection. When it was given to me, the glass was cracked, but it always worked fine for me. It's in a Ballistic case. If your interested in it, I'll be happy to send it to you, even if it's just for parts. I loved this phone, and had a lot of fun with it. (thanks to this community and all of its' contributors) I think it's time to move on.
I'm gonna start looking at a phone with a good selection of custom roms cuz I just love flashin' 'em
Let me know if your interested in this phone Zen.