hey guys im having trouble getting fastboot working, did everything they said here http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/ but nothing works so any help is greatly appreciated guys
robgee789 said:
hey guys im having trouble getting fastboot working, did everything they said here http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/ but nothing works so any help is greatly appreciated guys
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WE need more information. Where does it fail? Error message? Does your tab show up in device manager?
sorry mate i didnt know what would be helpful and what wouldnt, but it shows up in my device manager but i dont think ive set up adb and fastboot up properly, when i type C:\Users\Rob>fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot in the cmd window it says fast boot is not recognized as an internal or external command,
what files do i need need to have and where should they go,
ive got a folder called adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219 with the sdk stuff in it but im not sure what to do with it lol
Quick, easy way is to use the cd command to move to the directory where fast boot is saved. Then use the command you tried first.
ahh yeah i think i remember doing that before what folder am i looking for?
edit: i got it going now i found the folder i need so im all good now thanks guys
You'll need to look through the sdk files until you find the fastboot file. That's the folder you need. I don't have my laptop with me so I can't give you the specific folder name.
it was called platform tools i just found it and i moved it to the root of c drive and renamed it android and all is great now
robgee789 said:
hey guys im having trouble getting fastboot working, did everything they said here http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/ but nothing works so any help is greatly appreciated guys
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You can use this guide : HELP FOR FLASH MORE FASTER WHEN YOU USE FASTBOOT LINE COMMAND
Maybe it will help you
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Been trying all day to get ADB working with no chance, just my laptop is just too screwed up i guess. Wont go into details too much, but I did everything by the book from three different sources and everytime i tried to check it with cmd under the right tools directory, after hitting adb or adb kill-server or adb devices i always get the error that adb is that excutable in that directory so im at a lost.
But off of that matter, i found a great program called Sideload Wonder Machine, that automatally sideloads app with out the sdk or rooting (which ive already done anyways) and works find.
But my question is, why bother? Becuase i have download apk's to my computer, connect and monuted my g with debbuging on and just transfered the file to download and then opened it with any file opener and it easily installed no problem.
So my question is, does sideloading thru the computer which installs it on the device its self do a little trick or something that makes it better to do it that way, or is just moving the file myself to the download folder on my g tab and installing it through the g tab the same?
Thanks for your time.
P.S. sorry for being a windbag.
o and if your intersted in the sideloading program im talking about heres the link:
forum.androidcentral.com/android-sideload-wonder-machine/40770-ac-sideload-wonder-machine-windows.html
sorry about the old school copy n paste method, dont think i can post links yet.
Same idea i usually just use dropbox or bluetooth transfer ive only used adb a handful of times, if you get rootexplorer its even easier, no mounting /system the hard way
KushyMansbridge said:
Been trying all day to get ADB working with no chance, just my laptop is just too screwed up i guess. Wont go into details too much, but I did everything by the book from three different sources and everytime i tried to check it with cmd under the right tools directory, after hitting adb or adb kill-server or adb devices i always get the error that adb is that excutable in that directory so im at a lost.
But off of that matter, i found a great program called Sideload Wonder Machine, that automatally sideloads app with out the sdk or rooting (which ive already done anyways) and works find.
But my question is, why bother? Becuase i have download apk's to my computer, connect and monuted my g with debbuging on and just transfered the file to download and then opened it with any file opener and it easily installed no problem.
So my question is, does sideloading thru the computer which installs it on the device its self do a little trick or something that makes it better to do it that way, or is just moving the file myself to the download folder on my g tab and installing it through the g tab the same?
Thanks for your time.
P.S. sorry for being a windbag.
o and if your intersted in the sideloading program im talking about heres the link:
forum.androidcentral.com/android-sideload-wonder-machine/40770-ac-sideload-wonder-machine-windows.html
sorry about the old school copy n paste method, dont think i can post links yet.
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Hi. I don't see a download folder on my gtab. Is that a folder you created, or am I just missing something?
Bob
BobK58 said:
Hi. I don't see a download folder on my gtab. Is that a folder you created, or am I just missing something?
Bob
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If you don't have it yet, the Download folder will create itself when you download something via the web browser.
I need to revert back to S-ON for a replacement phone. When I get to fastboot and type "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3", my command prompt tells me that fastboot is not a recognized command. ADB works fine when the phone is on and I used it to get into fastboot. Have I missed a vital step?
Also, YES, I searched quite a bit but couldn't find what I was looking for. Any and all help would be appreciated.
Do you have the actual Fastboot executable in your path? It should be in the same place as the ADB executable within your SDK installation. I guess it could actually be anywhere, but that seems like the most logical place.
Thats an excellent question. I'll have to check when I get home.
Yikes. I feel like that's as close to "is it plugged in?" as I ever want to get.
Also, after running the Tmous RUU, the "Revolutionary" went away from the fastboot screen. Wonder if it now looks like those rare phones that were sent out S-OFF right out of the box...
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Okay, yeah. It was in the tools folder instead of the platform-tools folder where I have adb.exe.
Can I simply move fastboot.exe over to platfrom-tools or is there something else it will need to run?
Nah, you can just move it over. Better yet though, you might want to just add the "tools" folder to your path. I do this on Linux, and my ADB executable and Fastboot executable are both in the "platform-tools" folder. I think I might have just moved Fastboot from its original place in "tools" though. Either way, you can just move it over if you wish.
Sorry for the late reply but thank you very much.
I ended up copying the ones I use most often to the root directory on C:\
This way I don't have to poke around to find what I need. Poking around is strictly reserved for time with the wife...well as of today it's girlfriend when I find one...
Wondering if anyone can help me, I have been following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
I get upto installing the drivers and connecting the phone to the PC in fastboot mode, then when I type the "fastboot oem unlock" command it says "waiting for device..." and stays stuck on that.
I have done everything the guide says and tried multiple times and still the same outcome.
It seems that the computer doesn't want to recognise the phone at all.
I have i9023 model with S-LCD screen.
Any ideas?
EDIT: if this helps, when I connect the phone in fastboot mode to the PC it says "STANDARD_SET_CONFIGURATION".
Hmm...do you have the fastboot binaries installed on your computer?
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Hmm...do you have the fastboot binaries installed on your computer?
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Hmm, maybe not, how do I install it?
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I had to copy a couple of .dll files to my tools folder from the platform-tools in order for it to work (may have been the other way around, I've had a couple of drinks and it was a month ago now).
I believe they were the AdbWinUSBapi.dll and AdbWinApi.dll files, but I could be mistaken. Once I did this, I was able to connect to the phone. Otherwise, it just hung at the fastboot screen and didn't do anything.
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I had to copy a couple of .dll files to my tools folder from the platform-tools in order for it to work (may have been the other way around, I've had a couple of drinks and it was a month ago now).
I believe they were the AdbWinUSBapi.dll and AdbWinApi.dll files, but I could be mistaken. Once I did this, I was able to connect to the phone. Otherwise, it just hung at the fastboot screen and didn't do anything.
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Thank you, this worked, I had already transferred the AdbWinApi.dll file, but after also transferring the AdbWinUSBapi.dll file into the tools folder it worked!
Thanks for pointing it out .
Can someone who has webtop tar up thier osh and post a place I can grab it.
I have been working to get a full version of ubuntu going in webtop, and I was working on reverse engineering the way they did it with the bionic and that did not work well
I will buy a beer or coffee for anyone who can do this for me.
Thanks,
Jim
just got home. give me a few minutes
what file format you want?
You rock, does not matter much, a tar or zip or 7zip or bz2... whatever you put it in I can take it and put it back in place from there.
Thanks,
Jim
lol. while it was pulling, i was messing around with my phone and crashed it..
re-pulling
OSH.IMG.TGZ
dd if=/dev/block/webtop of=/mnt/sdcard/osh.img
did you get it?
Yes, I did. I also gave a donation to you.
THANK YOU!
Jim
I was able to get my webtop working again, by whacking tomoyo, that is the Linux FACL that they are using for webtop.
Thanks again for your help.
Jim
I just broke webtop and I was hoping you could explain to me how to restore it using this .img.tar.gz file. I don't have a clue what to do with it. Please help! I messed up my osh file pretty miserably.
matthewsteross said:
I just broke webtop and I was hoping you could explain to me how to restore it using this .img.tar.gz file. I don't have a clue what to do with it. Please help! I messed up my osh file pretty miserably.
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it think it's a dd image, so just do the reverse;
dd if=osh.img of=/dev/block/webtop
I'm sorry. I'm oblivious as to what you're talking about... I'm am sorry for my ignorance, is that a command prompt thing for windows or is that something I would use adb for? Also, how do I thank you for replying?
matthewsteross said:
I'm sorry. I'm oblivious as to what you're talking about... I'm am sorry for my ignorance, is that a command prompt thing for windows or is that something I would use adb for? Also, how do I thank you for replying?
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This thread was from before we had the FXZ files to flash from fastboot.
I believe the proper way to restore webtop would be to grab the 55.11.16 release FXZ. Extract it and extract moto-fastboot to the same directory. Run a cmd and cd to the directory.
Put your phone into fastboot mode by holding volume down while you power it on, hook it up via usb, and
(or you can use the two button salute and choose it from the boot menu)
Code:
moto-fastboot.exe flash webtop grfs.img
You can then use motorola's faux-55.13.26 update to reapply the patches to update the webtop partition to the 55.13.25 version.
This tar.gz file would still work, you'd need to decompress it, adb shell into the phone, run su (to get root) and then run the commands from the directory where the img is stored. I don't think you need busybox to run dd... could be wrong
Flashing with fastboot is the more elegant solution.
(note it's probably not a good idea to write the img files from the fxz directly with dd.)DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
I got it to work by flashing in fastboot, thanks for all your help! All is well again and I even have Linux unlocked and running the XFCE-4 desktop environment. Thanks for all your help!
It's no longer in /platform-tools after a clean install of latest SDK???
Has this tool been removed? How can I fix it? I need to use it!
http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/
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http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/
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so i downloaded it and extracted. doesn't do anything. moved to /platform-tools and still nothing, any ideas?
matt2053 said:
so i downloaded it and extracted. doesn't do anything. moved to /platform-tools and still nothing, any ideas?
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Did u reboot after u installed it. That might help.
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It is missing by mistake:
http://tools.android.com/knownissues#tools_r14
Now how to get it working.... i am running Ubuntu 11.10
why don't you tell us what you have tried?
'cd' to the directory where the extracted binary is.
chmod +x fastboot
./fastboot
I don't understand what you have to get working? You simply run it... for example...
Code:
./fastboot devices
Should show your connected device. Do you have the full SDK installed and configured correctly? Does Ubuntu see your device as a disk drive if you even just simply plug it in?
Are you expecting a fastboot GUI? What are you expecting? Have you used fastboot before? etc?
More info here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
Do you have the phone in USB debugging?
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I had just rooted my Nexus S and I also had issues with Fastboot!
This missing file was really trick to me!
Googled for it and found fastboot.exe somewhere else.
In time for who just didn't get it:
Was an Google prank on droid newbies like me...SDK tool Rev14 and 15 doesn't came with fastboot...
matt2053 said:
so i downloaded it and extracted. doesn't do anything. moved to /platform-tools and still nothing, any ideas?
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huh? you just cd to the directory and run the commands in command prompt/terminal/w.e. Have you used fastboot before?
derekwilkinson said:
huh? you just cd to the directory and run the commands in command prompt/terminal/w.e. Have you used fastboot before?
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FASTBOOT.EXE IS NOT INCLUDED WITH NEWER ANDROID SDK.
This question is not about how to use fastboot. It's about why fastboot.exe is missing. Does everyone understand now?
Does anyone know why that is? Even the newest sdk I just downloaded does not include it.
Fastboot.exe is missing from the tools folder. It will be added later in tools 16. In the meantime it can be found in the tools 13 windows archive.
Keep the latest sdk installed and just download fast boot from Google search. That way your still using latest AND have fast boot. All fast boot is is a single exe file.
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