I am trying out the Airmirror mode which is working alright but I can't get the computer keyboard function to work. The computer just goes beep beep when I try to enter text using the computer keyboard even with the feature enabled.
Now to the actual question: When I granted AirDroid root access I noticed that some paths flew by as granted, looked like commands. Does AirDroid INSTALL something into the system when granted root? WHAT is being installed and how do I fully uninstall this if deciding that I don't need airdroid?
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After spending my entire Saturday trying in vain to get my win 7 laptop to recognize my captivate I've decided I need to reach out for some help.
Right when I gore my phone, without too much hassle I did the superoneclick root via my pc with great success. Did the lagfix after that and all was well. Go me right?
I used my phone for a little bit and decided that it was time to but sonera music and pictures on it. This is where it all went wrong.
For background, I have done up to this Point: tried both driver sets that are floating around (and exe and the version most often linked to in help threads with a simple setup file), Ive tried kies, I've tried going into device manager to manually locate the divers. Nada.
At this point the drivers with the setup file will no longer install because the install of the exe screwed up at some point. Windows is only showing the device as us composite hub or as a unknown device. I can sometimes get it to say Samsung android usbb device but it shows that it is in error and it still wot see the phone. Someone else asked me if I had used the mount option when I comes up in my notifications bar which I haven't because it never gives me the option. I've tried disabling launcherpro, undoing the root, undoing the lagfix, formatting and wiping user data on the phone, still nada. I've tried all usb modes. Nada.
First things first, can someone explain to me exactly what I should do in device manager to get the drivers in order? I'm pretty sure this is the root of my problem. Any idea on how to get rid of the erroneous drivers that are causing the driver setup to fail?
Any help would be great :S
Need to try and manually remove three old drivers, then try and re install. Id suggest using the ones design gears posted on his one click back to stock post
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I snipped this from one of my old posts in the Vibrant section...
For those of you having a problem with Windows 7 recognizing your Vibrant ... here is how I fixed it on my system.
*Note: You do not need to load any special USB drivers for your phone to be recognized in Mass Storage mode in Windows 7.
*Warning: You follow these instructions at your own risk ... no screaming at me if you try it and something gets screwed up!
1) Navigate your way into the Device Manager / Universal Serial Bus Controller
2) Uninstall the device(s) "USB Root Hub" (My system had 2 listed)
3) You will lose mouse and keyboard control (because you just removed the USB Hubs)
4) Reset your PC and allow Windows to boot normally.
5) Go back to the device manager and wait for all of the "!" marks to go away as windows re-installs the USB Hubs and reinitializes all of your devices.
6) Make sure your Vibrant is in mass storage mode and has USB debugging OFF
7) Plug in your Vibrant via the USB cable and be amazed as windows recognizes your device and assigns the drive letters. After you select the mount option on your phone you will have normal access via windows explorer.
Hope this helps some of you out there !!!
~Stresa
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thanks for the good responses guys but both of those have failed. Odin cant even see my phone, same issue with superoneclick root. I even just tried on an enitrely different PC and got the same "device could not start" message.
tried deleting all the drivers for the USB devices. nada. still no connection
Subrock said:
After spending my entire Saturday trying in vain to get my win 7 laptop to recognize my captivate I've decided I need to reach out for some help.
Right when I gore my phone, without too much hassle I did the superoneclick root via my pc with great success. Did the lagfix after that and all was well. Go me right?
I used my phone for a little bit and decided that it was time to but sonera music and pictures on it. This is where it all went wrong.
For background, I have done up to this Point: tried both driver sets that are floating around (and exe and the version most often linked to in help threads with a simple setup file), Ive tried kies, I've tried going into device manager to manually locate the divers. Nada.
At this point the drivers with the setup file will no longer install because the install of the exe screwed up at some point. Windows is only showing the device as us composite hub or as a unknown device. I can sometimes get it to say Samsung android usbb device but it shows that it is in error and it still wot see the phone. Someone else asked me if I had used the mount option when I comes up in my notifications bar which I haven't because it never gives me the option. I've tried disabling launcherpro, undoing the root, undoing the lagfix, formatting and wiping user data on the phone, still nada. I've tried all usb modes. Nada.
First things first, can someone explain to me exactly what I should do in device manager to get the drivers in order? I'm pretty sure this is the root of my problem. Any idea on how to get rid of the erroneous drivers that are causing the driver setup to fail?
Any help would be great :S
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kies or mass storage?
for kies debugging in settings>aplications must be disabled. i dont remember what works better ask on connection or to have connection type preset in settings>applications>usbsettings. im on froyo which works a million times better, kies on jf6 was like a 90% fail rate. it just didn't work for me.
for mass storage you need to mount the phone from a message in the notification bar, even if it asks the connection type and you tick mass storage it will not be mounted, you still need to mount from the notification bar.
you can also mount the sdcards from the notification bar in debugging mode which bypasses the connection type setting in settings>applications>usbsettings.
i tend to leave debugging on in case i need adb to fix my phone, i only turn it off to use kies which is useful to fix my contacts when i have multiples (it's alot easier to fix 200+ contacts on a computer screen using a mouse and keyboard), or install an update if i choose to run the phone stock.
tried in every combination of modes, cant get it connect any possible way. I also dont get the option to mount it from the notification bar so perhaps I have a hardware issue.
Are you using the stock usb cable? I've had problems with some but not all generic cables.
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I actually had a similar problem, though not the same. My phone charges and I can use mass storage without issue, but I could not get Odin One Click updaters to ever "see" my phone. I tried every USB port on my box, tried several different driver sets (including the ones DG recommends). Eventually, I tried on a different computer. Odin saw it fine, updated no problems, first time out of the gate.
I know, I know, not everyone has access to two computers, and furthermore there "should" be no reason it can't work on a particular one, but for me, short of formatting my PC and reinstalling OS, I tried everything else I could think of.
Good luck, either way!
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I don't think there should be a logical reason as to why this would ever work, but Windows (and computers in general sometimes) has a tendency to surprise me like that... but what if you try removing the drivers by whatever automatic means you are provided with, and then check and remove them manually (if necessary), and finally run CCleaner or some other program with registry cleaning capabilities to give your PC that last little enema.
Then use DG's drivers and install them in whatever way he recommends (been a while since I installed the drivers). That's really all I can think of on the PC side... maybe putting a cheap little USB hub between your phone and your PC if you have one laying around as another mostly futile attempt.
Fair warning, it is possible for CCleaner to mess up your PC... any program that messes with the registry can potentially do so. I've never seen the program cause harm, but it is possible.
I've had the same problem with my Crappy from day one. I still somehow got SuperOneClick to Root my phone through multiple attempts. But if all you need to do is transfer files from your phone to PC, and vice versa. I would recommend Android Sync Manager. It can read most of the file systems in the phone, and transfers at a decent speed.
same here
One of my PCs recognizes Cappy with the same cable, OS, drivers. Other one doesn't.
So I ended up using "ADB Wireless" from Market. It works pretty good, slower than USB, but works.
Also - if you are willing to make your PC work - try fresh reinstall of Windows 7SP1 and disable driver update from Internet.
Since your just trying to put music and pictures on the phone, try Kies Air from the market. Install it on your phone then you can transfer files wirelessly with the browser from your computer.
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Are you using the stock usb cable? I've had problems with some but not all generic cables.
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Definitely check the USB cable. I had this exact issue before. I checked drivers, did a bunch of un-installing and manual installing of drivers. Finally I tried my stock USB cable and all worked perfectly!
As many of you may know, there's currently no native way to screenshot an Android Wear device, and at this point it's pretty cumbersome to need to get to a computer to run ADB just to get a screenshot.
I've managed to at least remove the need for a computer, as long as your phone (or whatever your watch is paired with) is rooted (your watch does NOT need to be rooted), through a simple script I threw together, wearcap. It properly loop-back connects to your device and then connects to the watch over ADB. I'm sure this can be made into an actual app, but I don't care enough or have the time to do it. All you need to do is run it as root with whatever terminal app you desire. Wearcap assumes you've done all the necessary USB debugging settings, which can be found below. Screenshots are saved in /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots/ on your device and then removed from the watch.
Everything else is pretty self-explanatory, just push the script onto your device, give it executable permissions and be on your way. As noted in the script itself, make sure your screen is on during the connection process, my Moto 360 would typically fail to connect if it was off.
For a reminder of how to setup USB debugging for the devices: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...nlock-the-bootloader-and-root-the-lg-g-watch/
And here is the Google+ thread: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113601948978986762347/posts/6dD6xBrvpjs
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an apk will be wonderful
I can wrap it into app tomorrow if CEnnis91 is OK with it, I'm thinking to add change of the density as well through adb.
Hi all.
Basically, my display and touchscreen aren't working. For why, you can see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...eakerphone-t3043151/post67360800#post67360800
So I managed to get access to files (pictures mainly) on my phone by, without access to the screen/touch, installing TWRP and entering into recovery mode and using ADB (pull). Installing TWRP was all from computer, and I didn't have much interactivity with the phone itself during this process. Luckily my phone already had unlocked bootloader (which I believe during that process you have to confirm something on the phone itself?).
So now, I want to go a bit further and get more access to my phone. Best way to do that, for me, seems to use VNC server on the phone. Unfortunately I don't already have one installed. And it looks like most of them need root access?
So (as the subject implies), I'm wondering if its possible to root my phone from my PC without needing to do anything on my phone -- well, if I need to push volume up/down and power button to select stuff, that could work, just can't press anything on screen of course.
Assuming that is possible, I'd have to find a nice VNC server apk and install it via ADB install, correct (sorry I'm not very experienced in all this).
Assuming that works, I'd need to ensure that the VNC server starts on boot.
Assuming that works, if I remember correctly from when I was rooted before, when the VNC server (or any root-needing app) starts, SuperSU pops up and asks if I want to grant that app access. So somehow I'd have to have SuperSU (or whatever alternative) automatically grant it...
So, anyone think this is possible? If so, any hints?
I'm also open to any other way to gain more access to my phone (ie, not using VNC etc), if anyone has any feasible suggestions.
Thanks
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I'm also open to any other way to gain more access to my phone (ie, not using VNC etc), if anyone has any feasible suggestions.
Thanks
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What exactly do you want to access on your phone?
Hah. Good question. I don't really know. Wanna poke around and see if I'm missing anything.
I know I missed a bunch of WhatsApp messages that came in while phone was on and I couldn't see anything. Of course that's not super important.
Basically would like to poke around to see if I missed grabbing anything.
Now that I say it out loud (or type it on the forum), I begin to think it's not worth the hassle.
Maybe the real reason is the challenge, and seeing if it can be done?
Like I said. Good question!
After buying some bluetooth tracking keyfobs, I installed the app as instructed in the manual. The app was not from the play store but direct from the chinese manufactures. After installing I was asked to grant a bunch of permissions relevant to the functions and I granted all. Shortly after, having paired the app with the keyfobs, the app was not performing as expected and kept going to a page asking for consent to allow unknown sources from the app. Stupidly I granted this. Not long after, my phone locked me out, asking for a PIN. My lockscreen had previously been a pattern lock, and indeed it still is, however after entering the pattern I now get ask for a PIN, which I dont know.
So it appears I've installed malware and stupidly granted it all the permissions it needed to **** me over. Fortunately I was using a firewall and so it may not have been able to phone home (hopefully).
I have USB debugging on and can access the phone via ADB.
What can I do to get pass the PIN request and remove the malware to restore my phone, ideally without losing my data etc?
Since you can access phone via ADB you always can try to pull out your user-data by means of ADB.
Afterwards it's recommended to re-flash phone's Stock ROM to be on the safe side.
You could try deleting the app via adb
Hello, I just broke the screen of my OnePlus8t Verizon network unlocked phone. The computer I previously linked 8t with also has a broken screen. ... Rains it ..... My Phoe has some important information in docs and screenshots I need to get. I just turned off ADB debugging thinking "Oh I don't need that just yet" the very morning I broke the LCD. Good news, I can still answer it. I already have adb.exe except in ADB shell it shows as unauthorized. I need those files like yesterday. I have an otg/ADB flash drive, but I still can not connect to retrieve files. I can see my phone when I directly connect to comp without the flash drive, however, I can not access it. I have tried to put the phone into recovery, but I have no way to enter the pin as I have tried to guess where it is. How can I receive the data I need from my phone?
Thank You.
P.S. I have little knowledge and only learn what I need to know for whatever project, in other words, I can not code and I barely speak dos.
Is the touch screen still working then?
If it's showing "unauthorized" you can try to plug it into your desktop and then hit the "authorize" button on the popup that you can't see.
Here is where ok is on a different phone. It's somewhere near there on yours.
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Is the touch screen still working then?
If it's showing "unauthorized" you can try to plug it into your desktop and then hit the "authorize" button on the popup that you can't see.
Here is where ok is on a different phone. It's somewhere near there on yours.
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I have tried that. The finger print unlock screen only works ⅔ of the time. I have no way of knowing if it's unlocked. I keep my touch sounds silent. I keep trying to find where it might be. I have tried to slide as if answering a call. Is there a way to force the USB settings for media transfer? Maybe through Google? If any platform knows it's my phone is Google. I can go to the play store and push apps onto it. Unfortunately the two adb drivers I have installed on my Android didnt work.
Oh, actually, you've got it easier! The OnePlus 8t supports HDMI over USB Type C.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/does-one-plus-8t-have-video-out-through-usb-c.4465629/
Buy an adapter and hook up an HDMI monitor/TV.
Or just use a new monitor on the computer that is already authorized.
Is there any other way. Right now it is not with in the budget to afford any extras even with the price tag of $20. I am hoping there is a way within an adb shell to force turn on the adb debugging. I have developer options enabled. I would just rewrite the documents, except some of those items I need include the text messaging history. If I can't force the adb, can I remotely back up the phone? Is there a trustworthy app for that? I do have quick settings installed and if my memory is correct, I believe I have sideline installed even.