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fastboot questions

I come from the world of Windows Mobile and have just recetly delved into hacking my G1. While I've had no problems installing jesusfreke's images or themes...I'm struggling with how to get fastboot to work.
Perhaps someone can give me some guidance. Anyone willing to give me some simple step by step instructions. I've searched for this and i think I have everything i need, but I'm unable to get to a point where I can type in commands. when i try to run adb, it open very briefly and closes.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jason

Go to start -> run -> type in CMD
Navigate to the folder where adb is located.
Then type in adb devices to see if it finds ur device.
If not then make sure you have it plugged in and USB debugging is turned on in the phones settings under Development.
Also download the usb drivers/or the whole SDK if you havent yet.

nosaj13 said:
when i try to run adb, it open very briefly and closes.
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If you try to execute a text mode executable in windows, it will close the terminal window as soon as the program finishes. If you run adb without any arguments, it will print the arguments out terminate. I could say the solution is to open run as and type cmd, but the true answer is to install Linux

nosaj13 said:
I come from the world of Windows Mobile and have just recetly delved into hacking my G1. While I've had no problems installing jesusfreke's images or themes...I'm struggling with how to get fastboot to work.
Perhaps someone can give me some guidance. Anyone willing to give me some simple step by step instructions. I've searched for this and i think I have everything i need, but I'm unable to get to a point where I can type in commands. when i try to run adb, it open very briefly and closes.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jason
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1. Download this
2. Extract the contents of the fastboot directory to the root of your C drive.
3. Go Start -> Run -> type 'cmd' (no quotes) and hit enter
4. Type 'c:' (no quotes) and hit enter
5. With your phone plugged in, you should be able to type 'adb devices' and it should return your phones serial number, which is usually in HTXXXXXXXX format. If it does not, make sure debugging is enabled on your phone and you have the adb drivers installed.
6. type 'adb shell reboot bootloader' and hit enter. The screen on your phone will go blank for a second and then you should be in the SPL with the skating androids. Make sure you see "FASTBOOT" at the bottom of the screen.
7. type 'fastboot devices' and hit enter. If you see your phone's serial number again, you have successfully established a fastboot connection with the phone and can run commands such as:
fastboot erase <partition> (erases the given partition)
fastboot flash <partition> <file.img> (overwrites and flashes given partition with given file. This is how one would restore from a nandroid backup)
fastboot reboot (reboots the device into user mode)
Hope that helps. Have fun

when i type adp devices i get an error that says "adp is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file"
what am i doing wrong?

nosaj13 said:
when i type adp devices i get an error that says "adp is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file"
what am i doing wrong?
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First, the command is adb devices not adp. Second, make sure you copied the contents of the fastboot directory to the C drive. Third, make sure you that when you type 'c:' into the command line, the command prompt actually changes to "C:\>"

Datruesurfer said:
1. Download this
2. Extract the contents of the fastboot directory to the root of your C drive.
3. Go Start -> Run -> type 'cmd' (no quotes) and hit enter
4. Type 'c:' (no quotes) and hit enter
5. With your phone plugged in, you should be able to type 'adb devices' and it should return your phones serial number, which is usually in HTXXXXXXXX format. If it does not, make sure debugging is enabled on your phone and you have the adb drivers installed.
6. type 'adb shell reboot bootloader' and hit enter. The screen on your phone will go blank for a second and then you should be in the SPL with the skating androids. Make sure you see "FASTBOOT" at the bottom of the screen.
7. type 'fastboot devices' and hit enter. If you see your phone's serial number again, you have successfully established a fastboot connection with the phone and can run commands such as:
fastboot erase <partition> (erases the given partition)
fastboot flash <partition> <file.img> (overwrites and flashes given partition with given file. This is how one would restore from a nandroid backup)
fastboot reboot (reboots the device into user mode)
Hope that helps. Have fun
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i did all the above steps with no problem at all till i got to number 7. when i typed in fastboot devices it just goes to the next prompt without my phone showing up.
If i plug in my g1 in normal mode i see it at the top under adb and in the usb section as a mass storage device.
In bootloader mode with fastboot on the screen it doesnt show up anywhere in the device manager.
Also when i follow the above quoted steps and type in the "adb shell reboot bootloader" and hit enter i hear the ding you hear when you unplug a usb device, and all instances of the phone then leave the device manager.
i have also uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers for the phone and all drivers that have to do with the usb ports on my win xp machine.
Anyone have any ideas i could try?

I think you need this program. I put it on my desktop, then just ran cmd, directed to it, and type in fastboot.

I7oobie said:
I think you need this program. I put it on my desktop, then just ran cmd, directed to it, and type in fastboot.
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thats not it. i have that in the sys 32 folder and also on desktop

Fastboot mode not recognized
I'm having the same problem. I've installed all the correct drivers and in normal mode, I see the Android Composite Device (or something similar) in Device Manager.
As soon as I go into SPL mode (the 3 skateboarding androids screen), the device does not show up.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Datruesurfer said:
First, the command is adb devices not adp. Second, make sure you copied the contents of the fastboot directory to the C drive. Third, make sure you that when you type 'c:' into the command line, the command prompt actually changes to "C:\>"
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When I'm in the Command Prompt and I type C:, the directory still reads C:\Documents and Setting\Reids. It won't change to only C:

Hi,
You have to do this to get back to c:
cd\
press enter
That should do it.

bestwebs said:
Hi,
You have to do this to get back to c:
cd\
press enter
That should do it.
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Ok, thanks a lot. Got it working now.

I need help trying to flash my cupcake images that I have stored in my fastboot folder. I attached the pictures below. I will accept any help I can get.

EDIT: Doh, I thought I was in another topic.
My bad.

Are adb & adb's dll files located inside the same folder as fastboot??? They are suppose too be.
Is your usb cord directly plugged into your system or thru a hub??
Your phone, i bet is under usb mass....to check, expand your device manager window.
Expand your USB-Mass storage list.
With your phone in fastboot mode, click on the camera key and the back key. With enough time inbetween for your system to recognize that there might be a device hooked up.
Notice any change in the list??

Anyone wanting good instructions
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f28/nandroid-v2-0-full-nand-backup-and-restore-tool-9336/
Read post 2 and go!

this seems like the most easiest thing to do but i still cant get it to work
i have downloaded everything needed and see ADB Interface on my device manager with a yellow mark on it when i try to update the dirver it fails and i got the drivers and point them to it but seems not to work
my phone is on the fastboot screen with the android skateboards guys
i dont know whats going on if someone know what am also doing wrong can tell me please...
This is what i get

Completely unable to boot into download mode

As the title says i am completely unable to boot into download mode. I gave tried every method other than adb (I can't for the life of me figure out how to use adb) and my device simply WILL NOT boot into download mode. This is a rather discouraging issue for me, since it disables me from flashing kernels with odin3...
I have tried booting while plugged in and turned off with Odin open, tried with the phone unplugged and turned off (volume down + power) and every method simply starts the phone as normal, or loops boot animations until I release the buttons. And both volume buttos +power simply leads to recovery mode.
Please help >.

you aren't /completely/ unable. You just refuse to use the easiest way. ADB is ridiculously easy to use, you plug your phone in and type stuff into the command prompt. If you aren't able to use a computer, I'm not too sure you should be messing with your phone anyway.

1.Remove the battery, sim card, sdcard if you have one
2.Insert the battery
3.Hold both Volume buttons
4.Plug in the USB cable and continue holding both Volume buttons

Even easier than navigating is shift clicking on the tools folder and opening the prompt that way.
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masterofthebass said:
you aren't /completely/ unable. You just refuse to use the easiest way. ADB is ridiculously easy to use, you plug your phone in and type stuff into the command prompt. If you aren't able to use a computer, I'm not too sure you should be messing with your phone anyway.
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I don't refuse, I just don't know how. Almost every tutorial takes for granted you know how to use adb pretty well...
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rkorzuch said:
1.Remove the battery, sim card, sdcard if you have one
2.Insert the battery
3.Hold both Volume buttons
4.Plug in the USB cable and continue holding both Volume buttons
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You're my hero. Thank you.

djgleebs said:
I don't refuse, I just don't know how. Almost every tutorial takes for granted you know how to use adb pretty well...
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I'm going to guess you are using windows.
1. download android sdk (google it)
2. open up a command prompt (windows+r cmd)
3. navigate to the sdk tools folder (using cd to change directories)
4. type whatever adb command you are supposed to. (adb reboot download in this case)

Please next time when you have questions, post in the general. Unless you are helping with development, post it in the general with all your questions. Please also learn how to read and learn how to use the search button.
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Why doesnt anyone read the stickies anymore??

I think the easiest way is (from rooted phone):
Open Terminal Emulator
>su <ENTER>
>reboot download <ENTER>

Easiset way is to google Android SDK. Open the folder, then open the tools folder. In there you will see adb. Drag adb onto your command window that you've opened to run commnads and then type in what you want it to do, ie: reboot recovery, reboot download then hit enter.

masterofthebass said:
I'm going to guess you are using windows.
1. download android sdk (google it)
2. open up a command prompt (windows+r cmd)
3. navigate to the sdk tools folder (using cd to change directories)
4. type whatever adb command you are supposed to. (adb reboot download in this case)
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Step 3 is not necessary unless you are using adb push or adb pull.
Open command prompt, type command. Using ADB is not a skill. There are a whole 5 commands. adb shell, adb pull, adb push, adb reboot, and adb remount.

[Q] [HELP BRICK] power button broken bootloop

nexus s i9023 with ics offical rom rooted and unlocked but power button suddenly stopped working so i flashed a jb volume wake zip to enable this feature but it gave me a bootloop now i cant even recover because of the power button i managed to get in the fastboot mode by putting the battery and quickly press volume up but in fastboot the device is not even detected by the usb (original) i have sdk and usb drivers but the problem is i put my phone in usb its like ive put a potato nothing happens and the sentences usb control init and usb control init end have disappeared in fastboot mode so i cant send commands to the phone through adb is there a way to make my phone detectable although when my phone is in the bootloop process its detected by the computer normally but no response of course.
THANKS in ADVANCE

osos96 said:
nexus s i9023 with ics offical rom rooted and unlocked but power button suddenly stopped working so i flashed a jb volume wake zip to enable this feature but it gave me a bootloop now i cant even recover because of the power button i managed to get in the fastboot mode by putting the battery and quickly press volume up but in fastboot the device is not even detected by the usb (original) i have sdk and usb drivers but the problem is i put my phone in usb its like ive put a potato nothing happens and the sentences usb control init and usb control init end have disappeared in fastboot mode so i cant send commands to the phone through adb is there a way to make my phone detectable although when my phone is in the bootloop process its detected by the computer normally but no response of course.
THANKS in ADVANCE
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EDIT/UPDATE 1: i managed to get into recovery mode :victory:
HOW? NOTICE: IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OF ANY KINND YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
1. keep phone plugged in usb
2.download SDK Manager from (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
3.install it in root path in Windows 7>>>>>C:/Users/[yourusername]/SDK
4.boot your phone NORMALLY in boot loop
5.connect your phone in usb if you neglected step one
6.your computer should detect it
7.open command promote (CMD) (shortcut windows flag+R) type cmd
8.a black screen will appear type in it "cd SDK/sdk/platform-tools" and press enter
9.path now should be C:\users\[your user name] \SDK\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell second line [email protected]:/ #
10.now type this (copy and paste is recommended) "mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /system /system"
11.now simply type reboot recovery and your phone should reboot in recovery img
12.wipe factory settings now you should be good

osos96 said:
EDIT/UPDATE 1: i managed to get into recovery mode :victory:
HOW? NOTICE: IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OF ANY KINND YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
1. keep phone plugged in usb
2.download SDK Manager from (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
3.install it in root path in Windows 7>>>>>C:/Users/[yourusername]/SDK
4.boot your phone NORMALLY in boot loop
5.connect your phone in usb if you neglected step one
6.your computer should detect it
7.open command promote (CMD) (shortcut windows flag+R) type cmd
8.a black screen will appear type in it "cd SDK/sdk/platform-tools" and press enter
9.path now should be C:\users\[your user name] \SDK\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell second line [email protected]:/ #
10.now type this (copy and paste is recommended) "mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /system /system"
11.now simply type reboot recovery and your phone should reboot in recovery img
12.wipe factory settings now you should be good
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I will try it now! If this works, then you are superman for me :good:
Edit:
1. should I type "adb shell second line [email protected]:/ #" after the new path is set and press enter?
2. if I do it, i always get the message "the command mount is wrong or can not be found"

!Lür said:
I will try it now! If this works, then you are superman for me :good:
Edit:
1. should I type "adb shell second line [email protected]:/ #" after the new path is set and press enter?
2. if I do it, i always get the message "the command mount is wrong or can not be found"
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Was much easier for me, don´t know why.
Solution for me:
1. Turn device into Bootloop
2. Connect it via USB (PC founds it)
3. type in CMD "adb reboot recovery"
4. device is in recovery
Requirement is a working Android-SDK.

!Lür said:
Was much easier for me, don´t know why.
Solution for me:
1. Turn device into Bootloop
2. Connect it via USB (PC founds it)
3. type in CMD "adb reboot recovery"
4. device is in recovery
Requirement is a working Android-SDK.
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yup i just made it a step by step tut for noobs and your welcome

How to unroot phone without having a volume down button

Hello,
I have an acer liqduid E2 with a custom rom from Bonell and i'd like to reset my phone to the original ROM.
Unfortunately my volume down button is broken.
How can I get into the recovery startup mode without having the posibility to use the volume down button

Here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=phongit.quickreboot
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quick reboot? why

Either your rom has a option in the settings to get a detail reboot menu (with the recovery option).
Either via adb program with your phone connected to your pc
1-Download adb and install adb drivers for your phone
2-extract the files to your c directory in a folder named adb(creat one)
3-once the files are located in c:\adb go to start menu then search for cmd
4-type in
cd c:\adb then click enter
5-type in
adb devices it will show the connected devices
it should be bunch of numbers
6-if you can,t see them it means adb drivers for your device are NOT INSTALLED
7-THEN FINALY IF YOU WANT TO REBOOT
Boot loader
type in
adb reboot boot loader
if you want recovery
type in
adb reboot recovery
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Superuser app
Go into the settings of your superuser app and select "full unroot"

[ROOT] Coolad Modena 2 / Sky 2 (E502)

Recently, I successfully ported TWRP from Coolpad Note 3 Lite to Modena 2. After testing, everything works fine, on both devices. Since this device has locked bootloader, we need to bypass this by enabling fastmmi mode and factory mode to enable temporary root access and make initial backup and flashing. So, let´s get started.
Remember to read this post carefully. I am not resposible for any damage to your device. If you brick your device while flashing the TWRP you can *almost* always recover it using SP Flash Tool and YGDP Tool
IF YOU ACCIDENTALY BRICK YOUR DEVICE AND YOU WANT TO FLASH IT VIA SPFT, DO NOT FORMAT THE DEVICE IN SPFT!!! If you´ll format partitions in TWRP, that´s fine, but don´t do FORMAT ALL + DOWNLOAD or FIRMWARE UPGRADE! This will brick your device, like mine This tutorial will not (hopefully) brick it, but just in case something goes wrong, now you know what not to do.
Preparing the environment on your computer
Windows
Download ADB and Fastboot from this link
Open it
Install it system-wide
Also, install the drivers
GNU/Linux (Ubuntu / Debian based distros)
Open terminal
Type "sudo apt install adb fastboot libusb-dev" without the quotes (")
Other things, that are required
Since the file size of the recovery exceeds the maximum 8MB of allowed upload size, you can download it from DataFileHost.
Preparing the device
First, you need to remeber that this could render your device unbootable and will void warranty.
Enable developer options
Go to Settings -> About phone
Tap the build number 7 times
Go back
Go to Developer options
Make sure OEM unlocking and USB Debugging is enabled
Enabling factory mode
Open dialer app
Dial *#9527*#
Click on "DM"
You will be prompted to insert RD personnel password. Enter: 54321
Click cancel button
DM button should change colour to RED
Exit the app by clicking home button
Installing and setting up openrp app
Open terminal / command prompt
Type:
Code:
adb start-server
Type:
Code:
adb devices
Now, click on your phone allow debugging and make sure to tick the radiobutton to remember / always trust this computer
Type:
Code:
adb install
Press spacebar after the install word and drag and drop the downloaded openrp.apk file to terminal
Hit enter
After it´s done, type:
Code:
adb shell monkey -p com.yulong.openrp -v 500
Now, the fun part. ROOTING the device
But before that, BACKUP
Now, keep your phone plugged in, and do a normal reboot by pressing and holding the power button and clicking reboot
When it vibrates, press and hold the Volume down key (Vol-)
You will see these lines on the screen:
Code:
=>[Factory mode]
Code:
=>VolumeDown key is pressed
Code:
=>[fastmmi mode]
After that, you´ll see the LED turns green and "Up Down" text on the screen
Now, back to your computer, type in the command prompt
Code:
adb devices
You should see XXXXXXXXXXXXXX device listed (where XXXX... is the serial number)
Type in the command prompt:
Code:
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/recovery of=/storage/self/primary/stock_recovery.img
and
Code:
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/boot of=/storage/self/primary/stock_bootimg.img
Flashing the TWRP Image
Type in the command prompt:
Code:
adb push (drag and drop the recovery image file here, like you did with the openrp.apk file) /storage/self/primary/
Type:
Code:
adb reboot
Press and hold VolumeDown key (Vol-) to boot to fastmmi mode
Type:
Code:
adb shell dd if=/storage/self/primary/recovery_twrp_e502.img of=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/recovery
Type
Code:
adb reboot
Press and hold the VolumeUp key (Vol+) to boot into recovery. If you see white screen with "Recovery" text in it, congrats. Everything is working. If not, try again.
Flashing the SuperSU package
Download the zip from SuperSU website
Copy the zip over to the device, with TWRP running
In TWRP, click install, click the zip and confirm the installation.
Factory reset is not required, but you should at least wipe the cache
If this post was useful for you, hit the thanks button

RESERVED

Hi i have a problem here. at the part to drag and drop the openrp file. When i have downloaded the file a drag it and drop it after the install word. The problem is that if I want to drop it there it will do nothing, nothing there shows or anything. Please respond.

I guess you can type the path to the installation file instead of dragging.

Hello,
Very helpful thread, my coolpad Modena 2 (E502) is now rooted.
Don't forget to disable the factory mode once everything is done, or you won't be able to access the storage to usb anymore.
Thanks.

helo, can i get help, when i try to install openrp on abd and fastboot, it printed this message "Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_SHARED_USER_INCOMPATIBLE]"
can anyone help me on that step, so i can root my e502

TCRakt said:
Hello,
Very helpful thread, my coolpad Modena 2 (E502) is now rooted.
Don't forget to disable the factory mode once everything is done, or you won't be able to access the storage to usb anymore.
Thanks.
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how to disable the factory mode ?? :crying:

Firefa23 said:
how to disable the factory mode ?? :crying:
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Hello,
If I recall correctly (I don't have the phone anymore, just touched it once to root it at the time), you basically undo the "Enabling factory mode" step.
I think if you dial the number, you'll be back in the menu where you have the option to disable the factory mode.
Factory mode should be disabled when 'DM' is green.
Good luck

very good

Need Custom rom please
nougat / pie

Hello, could you resend the twrp recovery file for this phone again?. old links not work!.
(sorry for my bad english)