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Flashing a Radio on Linux

Hi, this may be a stupid question but:
I only found several guides for how to flash a new radio with windows pc. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, have the Android SDK installed and adb ready - do I need anything else or can I just follow the steps given in the Windows guide to flash it?
(adb reboot bootloader, fastboot flash.., fastboot reboot)
Or is there anything else I need to do under linux?
Thanks.

You don't flash that way, download the PG58IMG from the radio thread that you want, copy it to the SD card and boot into HBOOT. It'll update and reboot

I never understood why Mike says "do not use clockworkmodrecovery to flash Radio"
- why not ? - anyone knows ?

AlCapone said:
I never understood why Mike says "do not use clockworkmodrecovery to flash Radio"
- why not ? - anyone knows ?
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Yes because if you download the radio zip file he provides it has ADB files and other files in it so it won't work in clockwork or 4ext.
It isn't a flashable file. **Nor do you flash the PG58IMG in recovery you let bootloader flash it for you**

yes, but would't it be easier for all to provide it as a clockworkmod-file ?

AlCapone said:
yes, but would't it be easier for all to provide it as a clockworkmod-file ?
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Think of it this way.
Bootloader if the radio flash goes bad it cancels itself out and reverts.
CWM/4EXT the flash goes bad it is half done and it doesn't revert. You now own a wonderful wonderful paper weight.

crunkin said:
Hi, this may be a stupid question but:
I only found several guides for how to flash a new radio with windows pc. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, have the Android SDK installed and adb ready - do I need anything else or can I just follow the steps given in the Windows guide to flash it?
(adb reboot bootloader, fastboot flash.., fastboot reboot)
Or is there anything else I need to do under linux?
Thanks.
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Same here, Linux only, - for now, I fire u a virtual XP to flash radio, but this is what I want to try out - I've tried Android SDK before, but I did not add proper USB rights then.
http://androidforums.com/i7500-all-things-root/32481-howto-linux-adb-fastboot-mass-storage.html
please tell me is you succeeded.

Put phone in fastboot and in terminal type fastboot devices
You should see your device if you do then you can continuetype
Fastboot flash radio (drag radio.IMG in terminal) then hit enter and it will flash

Fastboot Linux
You don't get fastboot in the linux version of the sdk. You get it when you compile the android source or by searching for linux fastboot binary.
This thread has a link to compiled version for mac and linux

nice, thank you.

need help with Rooted Jelly bean nexus s!

ih guys i bought a nuxus s for at&t on ebay, the phone is in good condition and the phone has jelly bean
on it so i was really happy to buy the phone what the seller didn't say is that the phone is rooted and jelly bean on the
phone is a rom and not a stock ota and now what im worried about is that jelly bean on this phone is kinda buggy and i
don't know if that's just the rom or if this how stock jellybean is? And with the rom i have will i get updates from Google in the
future or i'm i stuck with what i have, what should i do? any help is appreciated!

Kernel looks like the stock one. Have you tried a factory reset yet? If you're still unsure, you can get the stock images from here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Decompress and take out the images you need and flash via fast boot. Its hard to type it all via phone, but a quick search will help you with everything you need.

chronophase1 said:
Kernel looks like the stock one. Have you tried a factory reset yet? If you're still unsure, you can get the stock images from here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Decompress and take out the images you need and flash via fast boot. Its hard to type it all via phone, but a quick search will help you with everything you need.
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OK i have tgz file do i deconpress it on the my phone or computer and do i do this through boot loader or rom manager, sorry rookie here.

I just hopped on my PC, so I'll do my best to help. Any veterans feel free to correct me, please . Make sure if you set anything up, back it up via recovery and then wipe the phone :
1. Need to do this via the PC(assuming you have ADB and android SDK)
2. Open the tgz file.
3. Remove the boot.img, bootloader.img, radio.img, system.img and recovery.img. He probably has the current bootloader, but I would flash it just to be sure.
4. Reboot into the bootloader(vol up+power button)
5. Open up cmd prompt and get to adb. Ensure your device is recognized by typing fastboot devices
6. Once you're squared away with that, type fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
7. Fastboot flash boot boot.img
8. Fastboot flash system system.img
9. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
10.Fastboot flash radio radio.img
I don't know if there is any particular order those need to be flashed, but once you're done, reboot the phone, set it up, and enjoy.

mattrc77 said:
OK i have tgz file do i deconpress it on the my phone or computer and do i do this through boot loader or rom manager, sorry rookie here.
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Here is a thread that will help you flash that on your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785672
You decompress it on the computer then flash it with fastboot to your phone.

Apparently I've given out too many thanks today. I forgot about that link and typed all that crap out. lol

thanks guys !

Bricked my phone trying to update to 4.2! Help!

Hello, all. I've spent the last four hours trying update my AT&T HTC One X running Android 4.1.1 to 4.2.2 and I failed hard!
First, I used the all-in-one toolkit to unlock my bootloader, flash clockwork recovery, and root the phone. The first guide I was following gave me error status 7 when I tried to flash the ROM so I wen to this guide:
update-htc-one-x-cm101-android-422-jelly-bean-custom-firmware/2/ (from team android website)
I got to the step below using the SDK I downloaded from dev.android.com and now my phone is dead! The HTC logo appears and then it goes to a black screen. Luckily, I can still reach my fastboot and clockwork recovery menu but nothing I try makes the phone boot.
Step 8 - Type the following command and press Enter.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Step 9 - Then, type the following command and press Enter.
fastboot reboot
I just want my phone back to normal please! I don't care about rooting anymore. Thank you.

zenkix said:
Hello, all. I've spent the last four hours trying update my AT&T HTC One X running Android 4.1.1 to 4.2.2 and I failed hard!
First, I used the all-in-one toolkit to unlock my bootloader, flash clockwork recovery, and root the phone. The first guide I was following gave me error status 7 when I tried to flash the ROM so I wen to this guide:
update-htc-one-x-cm101-android-422-jelly-bean-custom-firmware/2/ (from team android website)
I got to the step below using the SDK I downloaded from dev.android.com and now my phone is dead! The HTC logo appears and then it goes to a black screen. Luckily, I can still reach my fastboot and clockwork recovery menu but nothing I try makes the phone boot.
Step 8 - Type the following command and press Enter.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Step 9 - Then, type the following command and press Enter.
fastboot reboot
I just want my phone back to normal please! I don't care about rooting anymore. Thank you.
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Alright, the ROMs you've been trying to flash are for the quad core One X... please stay in this forum and you should be good to go!
Any ROMs and kernels from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1541 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1726. Try to flash something from there and report back (you'll still need to flash boot.img

RollTribe said:
Alright, the ROMs you've been trying to flash are for the quad core One X... please stay in this forum and you should be good to go!
Any ROMs and kernels from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1541 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1726. Try to flash something from there and report back (you'll still need to flash boot.img
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Thank you very much for your help? Could you please point me to a ROM to flash? I looked through those links and have no idea which to pick/what to do. It doesn't even have to be 4.2...I just want a working phone again. Thanks again!

zenkix said:
Thank you very much for your help? Could you please point me to a ROM to flash? I looked through those links and have no idea which to pick/what to do. It doesn't even have to be 4.2...I just want a working phone again. Thanks again!
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Well... What would you like? Completely stock? Sense with tweaks? 4.2 with minor tweaks? 4.2 with a ton of tweaks?

RollTribe said:
Well... What would you like? Completely stock? Sense with tweaks? 4.2 with minor tweaks? 4.2 with a ton of tweaks?
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4.2 with minor tweaks sounds great! Although right now I kinda just want to the stock "boot.img" to verify that my phone is still usable and not totally bricked.

zenkix said:
4.2 with minor tweaks sounds great! Although right now I kinda just want to the stock "boot.img" to verify that my phone is still usable and not totally bricked.
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Alright then CM10.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064621 and AOKP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064724 will both suit you. These have the different boot.img than stock, but just extract and fastboot flash boot boot.img and you should be good to go!

RollTribe said:
Alright then CM10.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064621 and AOKP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064724 will both suit you. These have the different boot.img than stock, but just extract and fastboot flash boot boot.img and you should be good to go!
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Quick update...I flashed boot.img of the first link (CynogenMod) and my phone got passed the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen! But now it seems stuck on HTC One (Beats Audio at the bottom) screen. I'll give it a few minutes...
I'm really worried that I did major damage to my phone in the bootloader and clockwork recovery menus. I literally tried every single option there trying to get my phone to boot earlier.

Oh man...it seems stuck. Maybe I should just flash the completely stock boot.img file. If that works, I will factory reset my phone just to make sure everything is back to how it was before.

Dude it sounds like you're trying to flash a cm boot.img with a Sense ROM, that ain't gonna work. You can't just extract a boot.img and flash it with a different ROM.
You need to extract the boot.img from the ROM you're about to flash, then flash that ROM, then flash the boot.img you just extracted.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Dude it sounds like you're trying to flash a cm boot.img with a Sense ROM, that ain't gonna work. You can't just extract a boot.img and flash it with a different ROM.
You need to extract the boot.img from the ROM you're about to flash, then flash that ROM, then flash the boot.img you just extracted.
Sent from my Evita
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Thanks for your help man. If what you're saying is correct, does that mean my phone is hopeless? I deleted/wiped everything using the ClocworkMod Recovery menu. When I choose "install zip from sdcard" I get "E: Can't mount /sdcard/" and when I try to mount an sdcard I get "Error mounting /sdcard". I don't think I can flash any ROMs right now unless install zip from sideload is an option (I don't know how sideloading works).

Try using TWRP recovery instead, you'll find it here:
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/evita
Download it, check md5 is correct, then:
fastboot flash recovery filename.img
(Filename = exact TWRP recovery filename)
Then issue this command:
fastboot erase cache
Then:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Now you should be able to select recovery on your phone screen and it should boot into TWRP. Next go to mount and mount usb storage. See if it comes up in Windows, it might need to be formatted from the sounds of it. If it doesn't show up as a usable drive, format it to fat32.
Once that's done you should be able to copy a ROM to your phone to flash. So copy it over, then extract the boot.img from the copy on your pc, then put the boot.img in your fastboot folder.
Do a full wipe in recovery (cache/dalvik/factory reset/system), then install the ROM, then reboot to bootloader, make sure phone is connected by usb, make sure fastboot usb comes up on your phone screen then issue the following command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Make sure it's the boot.img from the ROM you just flashed. Now once that's done you should be able to reboot into the ROM.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Try using TWRP recovery instead, you'll find it here:
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/evita
Download it, check md5 is correct, then:
fastboot flash recovery filename.img
(Filename = exact TWRP recovery filename)
Then issue this command:
fastboot erase cache
Then:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Now you should be able to select recovery on your phone screen and it should boot into TWRP. Next go to mount and mount usb storage. See if it comes up in Windows, it might need to be formatted from the sounds of it. If it doesn't show up as a usable drive, format it to fat32.
Once that's done you should be able to copy a ROM to your phone to flash. So copy it over, then extract the boot.img from the copy on your pc, then put the boot.img in your fastboot folder.
Do a full wipe in recovery (cache/dalvik/factory reset/system), then install the ROM, then reboot to bootloader, make sure phone is connected by usb, make sure fastboot usb comes up on your phone screen then issue the following command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Make sure it's the boot.img from the ROM you just flashed. Now once that's done you should be able to reboot into the ROM.
Sent from my Evita
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This sounds like a good plan. I will give it a try tomorrow after work. Thank you guys for your help!

I couldn't sleep...so I followed your steps and my phone is now alive! Thank you!
I think now I need to flash GApps, right? I have this ---> gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip
Any chance that's the wrong zip file? Do I need a special one for CM10.1?

That's the right gapps zip, it's the most recent one so yeah you're good to flash it.
And no problems, you're welcome
Sent from my Evita

Recovery failing to flash

So I flash the stock rom on it without thinking and now it wont let me flash a recovery to the tablet threw fastboot or goomanager and it wont update throguh asus update but its booting fine and wont take any updates at all i need help being pointed in the right direction!

I flashed the wrong bootloader i think and how do i flash the correct bootloader without a recover?

in fastboot im getting the error: cannot load 'file name' :no error weather its cm or twrp it wont load it and i dont know what to do please help

First of all it would be important to know what bootloader you are actually on. You do not want to flash a recovery that is not compatible with your bootloader!
So boot into the bootloader with Volume Down and POWER and read the tiny script. From there select the Android with Volume Down and boot back to system with Volume Up.
And then please report in detail what you are trying to do in fastboot, which commands you use etc.
Without knowing what you are doing we cannot tell you what you are doing wrong.....
First step: In fastboot command: fastboot devices - Do you see the serial number of your tab?

berndblb said:
First of all it would be important to know what bootloader you are actually on. You do not want to flash a recovery that is not compatible with your bootloader!
So boot into the bootloader with Volume Down and POWER and read the tiny script. From there select the Android with Volume Down and boot back to system with Volume Up.
And then please report in detail what you are trying to do in fastboot, which commands you use etc.
Without knowing what you are doing we cannot tell you what you are doing wrong.....
First step: In fastboot command: fastboot devices - Do you see the serial number of your tab?
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bootloader version is us_epad-10.4.4.20-20121026
with a stock rom of 4.1.1
and trying to undo the rom cause im trying to put a stock 4.2.2 on it to get the drivers back on it from the stock rom.
in fastboot i just need to get a twrp installed and i can undo my mess

Skittleskitty said:
bootloader version is us_epad-10.4.4.20-20121026
with a stock rom of 4.1.1
and trying to undo the rom cause im trying to put a stock 4.2.2 on it to get the drivers back on it from the stock rom.
in fastboot i just need to get a twrp installed and i can undo my mess
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So you are on an ICS bootloader with a JB rom... How the hell did you manage to do that?
You did not answer my question about fastboot. What you tried and what did not work.
But anyway, how I would proceed, just to get you back into safe territory, is to download the latest Asus firmware 10.6.1.14.10, unzip the downloaded file once and copy the resulting zip to the root of your internal SD.
Reboot, and hopefully the stock recovery will recognize the update file and flash you to JB 4.2.1 (which BTW is the latest version for our tabs - there never was, and probably never will be a 4.2.2). Flashing the stock firmware will replace the bootloader.
So from there you just have to get fastboot working, flash the latest TWRP and then the custom rom of your choice COMPATIBLE with your bootloader and recovery.
If that doesn't work we have to try something else. But try this first and report.

berndblb said:
So you are on an ICS bootloader with a JB rom... How the hell did you manage to do that?
You did not answer my question about fastboot. What you tried and what did not work.
But anyway, how I would proceed, just to get you back into safe territory, is to download the latest Asus firmware 10.6.1.14.10, unzip the downloaded file once and copy the resulting zip to the root of your internal SD.
Reboot, and hopefully the stock recovery will recognize the update file and flash you to JB 4.2.1 (which BTW is the latest version for our tabs - there never was, and probably never will be a 4.2.2). Flashing the stock firmware will replace the bootloader.
So from there you just have to get fastboot working, flash the latest TWRP and then the custom rom of your choice COMPATIBLE with your bootloader and recovery.
If that doesn't work we have to try something else. But try this first and report.
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thank you so much that fixed it!!

ok i did all that but it removed fastboot what do i do to get it back?

Skittleskitty said:
ok i did all that but it removed fastboot what do i do to get it back?
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Read the text in the upper left corner - current bootloaders enable fastboot in the bootloader menu automatically.

ok i got fastboot working and now it says when i got to flash the recovery it says error cannot open twrp.blob even though its the correct file.

Skittleskitty said:
ok i got fastboot working and now it says when i got to flash the recovery it says error cannot open twrp.blob even though its the correct file.
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Then maybe it's not in your current directory.

Skittleskitty said:
ok i got fastboot working and now it says when i got to flash the recovery it says error cannot open twrp.blob even though its the correct file.
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I think your tablet would be a lot safer if you did some reading here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fastboot+tutorial

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I think your tablet would be a lot safer if you did some reading here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fastboot+tutorial
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i found that and have been reading it but fastboot still cant read the twrp.blob even though its in the directory with fastboot.

ok ive re installed fastboot and adb sdk and did the environment variable path and it still wont recognize the blob it wont recognize cwm .img files ether and what does key driver not found..booting os

Skittleskitty said:
i found that and have been reading it but fastboot still cant read the twrp.blob even though its in the directory with fastboot.
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It has to be in your *current* directory.

_that said:
It has to be in your *current* directory.
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thankyou it moved directorys on me that was the issue

NEXUS 5 stuck at Google logo

Hi Guys,
After some cleanup in CMW i accidently format EVERYTHING. (formatted all single option in CMW, afterall a bad idea) So now i'm stuck at the google logo.
Now i have the 4.4.4 KTU.zip on my computer. Can i flash this via ADB sideload (as a renamed ''update.zip''? Or can i just copy the .zip file to my Nexus from a computer?
I'm @ work so i;m stuck guessing what i must do to get this thing work!
Thanks in advance guys

i dont know what it is, but if its a rom, sideload then flash away. your phine is empty right now, no rom or anything. you need to put something into your phone(sideload) then flash it.

Yes, the whole zip file is the stock ROM in a zip file.
Luckely i can't login as administrator here or else i could get my device working here
Thanks!

Why not just start the bootloader (fastboot mode) and execute the flash-all.bat? It'a the 'official' way to completely restore your phone. I've done it several times and it always worked great

experience7 said:
Why not just start the bootloader (fastboot mode) and execute the flash-all.bat? It'a the 'official' way to completely restore your phone. I've done it several times and it always worked great
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Thanks! Please tell me where to find the flash all bat. Find nothing specific on google...

Alfa Kenny One said:
Thanks! Please tell me where to find the flash all bat. Find nothing specific on google...
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https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
get the factory image here, unzip it, and run the flas-all.bat. make sure fastboot works correctly. it will flash your phone back to stock.