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Sideloading CWM recovery by <fastboot boot> ?

Hi buddy,
My o3d is a stock (unflashed) one. It can enter fastboot mode mainly by this method. (I have tried different methods, like the wkpark one, but finally I have succeeded with that, and with the wkparks fastboot loader tool. Anyway, I can make my way to that white LG logo fastboot place ) And when I do fastboot devices it returns my serial number. (So I am sure it is in fastboot mode.) But when I want to boot a custom recovery from PC, by the command fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img, the command prompt gives the following messages:
Code:
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 5484544 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.770s]
booting...
OKAY [ -0.000s]
finished. total time: 2.790s
Seems alright. But my o3d stays still on that white LG logo. It obviously didnt boot. If I now try fastboot devices again, it gives ??? instead of the serial number:
Code:
???????????? fastboot
I have tried using recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img and recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.1.9-p920.img downloaded from this page, and also the cm-7.2.0-p920 boot.img downloaded from this page. But all give the same result .
I would like to try the custom recovery, by fastboot boot recovery.img, before really flashing into my o3d, by fastboot flash recovery recovery.img .
Any clues?
Thanks so much!
midnite

I thing that you cant fasboot boot, don't work here. Something is mentioned before in some thread by wkpark.
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iodak said:
I thing that you cant fasboot boot, don't work here. Something is mentioned before in some thread by wkpark.
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Thanks for your reply.
There are really so less resources talking about fastboot boot over the internet. Could you give me some hints where can I use fastboot boot?
Thanks!!

Re: Sideloading CWM recovery by <fastboot boot> ?
Try doing Fastboot Reboot after
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JunDavis said:
Try doing Fastboot Reboot after
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Thanks for your reply!
I have tried fastboot reboot and fastboot reboot-bootloader after. But the phone screen turns off and stays off.
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fastboot reboot after fastboot boot recovery.img
Code:
C:\>fastboot devices
0911234567898019 fastboot
C:\>fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 5484544 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.740s]
booting...
OKAY [ -0.000s]
finished. total time: 2.740s
C:\>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 112.290s
C:\>
At the same time, phone screen turns off, and screen remains off.
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fastboot reboot-bootloader after fastboot boot recovery.img
Code:
C:\>fastboot devices
0911234567898019 fastboot
C:\>fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 5484544 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.810s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 2.820s
C:\>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 107.260s
C:\>
At the same time, phone screen turns off, and screen remains off.
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I also tried only fastboot reboot and fastboot reboot-bootloader, without fastboot boot recovery.img:
Code:
C:\>fastboot devices
0911234567898019 fastboot
C:\>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.010s
C:\>
Phone screen turns off at the same time, and back on to charging screen. It is not really booting into the system.
---
Code:
C:\>fastboot devices
0911234567898019 fastboot
C:\>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.010s]
finished. total time: 0.010s
C:\>
Screen turns off, like the first two trials.
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What do those behaviours mean?
Thanks a lot!!
midnite

Re: Sideloading CWM recovery by <fastboot boot> ?
midnite_ said:
Hi buddy,
My o3d is a stock (unflashed) one. It can enter fastboot mode mainly by this method. (I have tried different methods, like the wkpark one, but finally I have succeeded with that, and with the wkparks fastboot loader tool. Anyway, I can make my way to that white LG logo fastboot place ) And when I do fastboot devices it returns my serial number. (So I am sure it is in fastboot mode.) But when I want to boot a custom recovery from PC, by the command fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img, the command prompt gives the following messages:
Code:
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 5484544 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.770s]
booting...
OKAY [ -0.000s]
finished. total time: 2.790s
Seems alright. But my o3d stays still on that white LG logo. It obviously didnt boot. If I now try fastboot devices again, it gives ??? instead of the serial number:
Code:
???????????? fastboot
I have tried using recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-p920.img and recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.1.9-p920.img downloaded from this page, and also the cm-7.2.0-p920 boot.img downloaded from this page. But all give the same result .
I would like to try the custom recovery, by fastboot boot recovery.img, before really flashing into my o3d, by fastboot flash recovery recovery.img .
Any clues?
Thanks so much!
midnite
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Why all the hastle u can just flash it and when u wanna use stock recovery just flash it using the tool provided in the dark lestat unbricking thread ...Its simple ..btw dont use the latest cwm its kinda slow just use the provided in the dark lestats thread. ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540163
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[SOLVED] Can’t unlock bootloader, can’t boot into the system after he has been unlock

So i have both the short story with some important explanation and the long story on what I've already tried.
Short story
So my dad bought a oneplus one 16GB from someone and the phone has a bootloop when you try the boot into the system.
I tried to unlock the bootloader, but it runned the command and it just reboots to recovery and the bootloader is still locked.
Also the tamperflag is true so that means that the bootloader has already been unlocked and is relocked.
I can't also boot from a custom recovery image because the bootloader is locked (I think it can with CM11S).
Rom: I guess it is CM12S (with the blinking Cyanogen logo at startup).
Recovery: probably the recovery from CM12S (Cyanogen recovery as text and it is a touch recovery).
Long story
So I am going to tell you my story.
My dad bought an oneplus one (16GB) from someone that had a boot loop at startup.
When he told me that I just thought that it was going to be pretty easy to fix: unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery and install a custom rom.
Now, it didn’t roll out as we both expected.
When I unlocked the bootloader it told me after 10 seconds that it was OK.
Pretty weird was that it took so long.
After some research I found that you need to reboot from the rom with adb and that you then can unlock the bootloader. On all my other devices I did that, but now I couldn’t because I wasn’t able to boot inside the rom.
After I “successfully” unlocked the bootloader I did the command “fastboot oem device-info” and it told me that the bootloader was still locked but it was tampered.
I tried after that to boot from a TWRP recovery image but i wasn't able to because the bootloader was locked.
After some research I came at a post on the oneplus forum with a guy that approximately had the same issue except that I can still go into recovery.
I founded this post.
And I first wanted to see if I couldn’t go into recovery and sideload a zip that is signed. That was signed in this thread.
As it expected because I didn’t had a custom recovery it didn’t worked and also I used this tool for adb and fastboot.
I didn’t give up by that one so easily so I tried it with this to sideload the files and I renamed it this time to update.zip. Again as expected an error but this time it was another error.
There came a bunch of errors on the phone especially cache errors and one that said that I had an outdated ADB (at least version 1.0.32).
Weirdly enough I had version 1.0.32 .
And now it tried the trick they told me here.
From the thread for windows 7 and 8 here.
I first did this without “erasing the bootloader”.
I tried this both on windows 8.1 and on windows xp with both administrator rights and I switched between 3 cables each time.
As you see in the attached zip, I correctly installed the driver, this was also the fact for the pc with windows xp.
I also verified the files but there were some that failed (also in the pictures).
It flashes the file 8974_msimage.mbn and then the phone shuts down. I tried this at least three times for each computer.
Then I founded this thread.
And tried this also and exactly the same problem as with color.
Then I tried the same with erasing the bootloader and it had the same issue and I couldn’t erase the bootloader doing to that my partition table doesn’t exist(also in the pictures).
The only thing that I only think that I can do is with a flash tool that uses also the above method but I don’t find any with that I know how to use it.
Any help is appreciated.
Ps: I attached a zip file with some pictures to make it more clear and understandable and i am also dutch, so sorry if my English is bad.

ninjawulf98 said:
So I am going to tell you my story.
My dad bought an oneplus one (16GB) from someone that had a boot loop at startup.
When he told me that I just thought that it was going to be pretty easy to fix: unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery and install a custom rom.
Now, it didn’t roll out as we both expected.
When I unlocked the bootloader it told me after 10 seconds that it was OK.
Pretty weird was that it took so long.
After some research I found that you need to reboot from the rom with adb and that you then can unlock the bootloader. On all my other devices I did that, but now I couldn’t because I wasn’t able to boot inside the rom.
After I “successfully” unlocked the bootloader I did the command “fastboot oem get-lockstate” and it told me that the bootloader was locked but it was tampered.
Sadly enough when I typed the command now it takes forever to answer, after more than 10 minutes it still displays that it is waiting.
After some research I came at a post on the oneplus forum with a guy that approximately had the same issue except that I can still go into recovery.
I founded this post.
And I first wanted to see if I couldn’t go into recovery and sideload a zip that is signed. That was signed in this thread.
As it expected because I didn’t had a custom recovery it didn’t worked and also I used this tool for adb and fastboot.
I didn’t give up by that one so easily so I tried it with this to sideload the files and I renamed it this time to update.zip. Again as expected an error but this time it was another error.
There came a bunch of errors on the phone especially cache errors and one that said that I had an outdated ADB (at least version 1.0.32).
Weirdly enough I had version 1.0.32 .
And now it tried the trick they told me here.
From the thread for windows 7 and 8 here.
I first did this without “erasing the bootloader”.
I tried this both on windows 8.1 and on windows xp with both administrator rights and I switched between 3 cables each time.
As you see in the attached zip, I correctly installed the driver, this was also the fact for the pc with windows xp.
I also verified the files but there were some that failed (also in the pictures).
It flashes the file 8974_msimage.mbn and then the phone shuts down. I tried this at least three times for each computer.
Then I founded this thread.
And tried this also and exactly the same problem as with color.
Then I tried the same with erasing the bootloader and it had the same issue and I couldn’t erase the bootloader doing to that my partition table doesn’t exist(also in the pictures).
The only thing that I only think that I can do is with a flash tool that uses also the above method but I don’t find any with that I know how to use it.
Any help is appreciated.
Ps: I attached a zip file with some pictures to make it more clear and understandable and i am also dutch, so sorry if my English is bad.
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Are you able to enter fastboot mode now?

Bobbi lim said:
Are you able to enter fastboot mode now?
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Yes, i can also enter stock recovery but i am unable to boot from custom recovery through fastboot. Because the bootloader is locked.

ninjawulf98 said:
Yes, i can also enter stock recovery but i am unable to boot from custom recovery through fastboot. Because the bootloader is locked.
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Have you tried "fastboot oem unlock" in fastboot mode?
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Bobbi lim said:
Have you tried "fastboot oem unlock" in fastboot mode?
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Yes, after - + 10 seconds it says ok and it reboots the phone to the stock recovery.
When i try to flash twrp it just fails because my bootloader is locked.

ninjawulf98 said:
Yes, after - + 10 seconds it says ok and it reboots the phone to the stock recovery.
When i try to flash twrp it just fails because my bootloader is locked.
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Which stock recovery is it? ColorOS? CM? Or OxygenOS?
I had a similar issue when I tried to unlock mine when I first got my OPO
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My dad bought the phone from someone and the only thing i can see is cyanogen recovery. At boot i have a blinking cyanogen text. Probably it was already unlocked because the tamper flag is tampered.

ninjawulf98 said:
My dad bought the phone from someone and the only thing i can see is cyanogen recovery. At boot i have a blinking cyanogen text. Probably it was already unlocked because the tamper flag is tampered.
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Maybe my previous post was a bit confusing but it is still locked, i meant that the previous owner locked it and then relocked it.

Can you tell us the exact copy/paste and output of below command :
fastboot oem device-info
Regards
Girish Sharma

GirishSharma said:
Can you tell us the exact copy/paste and output of below command :
fastboot oem device-info
Regards
Girish Sharma
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I've got the following:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. Alle rechten voorbehouden.
C:\Windows\System32>fastboot oem device-info
...
(bootloader) Device tampered: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: false
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: false
(bootloader) Display panel:
OKAY [ -0.000s]
finished. total time: -0.000s
C:\Windows\System32>

I am not sure but, what if you paste the output of fastboot oem unlock from the adb folder, I.e just try to run the command from that directory in which fastboot.exe present. Just paste the output as you done previously.
Regards
Girish Sharma

GirishSharma said:
I am not sure but, what if you paste the output of fastboot oem unlock from the adb folder, I.e just try to run the command from that directory in which fastboot.exe present. Just paste the output as you done previously.
Regards
Girish Sharma
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Then i've got the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot devices
866878f3 fastboot
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem unlock
...
OKAY [ 10.112s]
finished. total time: 10.114s
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>
And when i do the command: "fastboot oem device-info" again.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem device-info
...
(bootloader) Device tampered: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: false
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: false
(bootloader) Display panel:
OKAY [ 0.010s]
finished. total time: 0.011s
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>

ninjawulf98 said:
Then i've got the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot devices
866878f3 fastboot
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem unlock
...
OKAY [ 10.112s]
finished. total time: 10.114s
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>
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I don't know if this is an issue but i have both the adb and fastboot tools installed from here and the adb, fastboot and drivers here .

Since I am not an android expert, so I shall wait with you to see other member replies. Between if you can check this link too:https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/stuck-in-fastboot-with-locked-boot-loader.104446/page-2
Regards
Girish Sharma

GirishSharma said:
Since I am not an android expert, so I shall wait with you to see other member replies. Between if you can check this link too:https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/stuck-in-fastboot-with-locked-boot-loader.104446/page-2
Regards
Girish Sharma
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I already founded that thread and did the solution that worked for him and another solution that a guy a few posts above him mentioned. Sadly enough without any results.
Anyway, thanks for the help and all the effort you did!

I just am going to mention it here before I will do it, to avoid to make the situation more worse then it already is.
So you can enter qualcomm hsloader (connect the phone to the pc, press 5-10 seconds volume up + power, screen remains dark).
And there are two tools (which have both the same base) here and here .
Now, when I follow the guide for both tools, always when it flashes the first file (8974_msimage.mbn), after flashing the phone shuts down.
And yes, I gave it administrator rights and the drivers are properly installed.
I tried it also on windows xp (completly clean test computer, yes I have a lot of them )
Now I saw on the oneplus forum a post .
And when I tried the command "fastboot erase bootloader" it gave me the following output:
C:\Windows\System32>fastboot erase bootloader
erasing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: Partition table doesn't exist
)
finished. total time: 0.006s
Well if I try this with the command to erase the kernel partition "fastboot erase boot" I think.
Well might this then work, so that the device after flashing the first file doesn't shutdown?
Again I just want to mention it here before I make the situation more worse then it already is.

ninjawulf98 said:
I just am going to mention it here before I will do it, to avoid to make the situation more worse then it already is.
So you can enter qualcomm hsloader (connect the phone to the pc, press 5-10 seconds volume up + power, screen remains dark).
And there are two tools (which have both the same base) here and here .
Now, when I follow the guide for both tools, always when it flashes the first file (8974_msimage.mbn), after flashing the phone shuts down.
And yes, I gave it administrator rights and the drivers are properly installed.
I tried it also on windows xp (completly clean test computer, yes I have a lot of them )
Now I saw on the oneplus forum a post .
And when I tried the command "fastboot erase bootloader" it gave me the following output:
C:\Windows\System32>fastboot erase bootloader
erasing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: Partition table doesn't exist
)
finished. total time: 0.006s
Well if I try this with the command to erase the kernel partition "fastboot erase boot" I think.
Well might this then work, so that the device after flashing the first file doesn't shutdown?
Again I just want to mention it here before I make the situation more worse then it already is.
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Now actually i think that the partition bootloader doesn't exists but boot does (which I think containts the bootloader and the kernel).
After waiting very unpationtly -+ 24 hours I tried it.
Sadly enough again without success.
CMD copy:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. Alle rechten voorbehouden.
C:\Windows\System32>fastboot devices
866878f3 fastboot
C:\Windows\System32>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: failed to erase partition
)
finished. total time: 5.057s
C:\Windows\System32>

Fried emmc. Sell it for junk.
Sent from my SM-G920T

Hi,
I am stuck with a similar issue. Only the way I landed in this situation is slightly different.
Without unlocking the bootloader (I just forgot to do that!), I ran the below command.
Code:
fastboot format cache
It erased the cache but failed to write to it because the device is still locked.
On rebooting, the device was stuck overnight on the "Cyanogen" display screen.
I forcibly powered it off using the power button.
Then I fastbooted it.
Then from the command prompt I tried to run a few commands - see output below
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem device-info
...
(bootloader) Device tampered: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: false
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: false
(bootloader) Display panel:
OKAY [ 0.031s]
finished. total time: 0.031s
And then this -
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot unlock oem
usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>
commands:
update <filename> reflash device from update.zip
flashall flash boot, system, vendor and if fou
nd,
recovery
flash <partition> [ <filename> ] write a file to a flash partition
flashing lock locks the device. Prevents flashing
partitions
flashing unlock unlocks the device. Allows user to
flash any partition except the ones
that are related to bootloader
flashing lock_critical Prevents flashing bootloader related
partitions
flashing unlock_critical Enables flashing bootloader related
partitions
flashing get_unlock_ability Queries bootloader to see if the
device is unlocked
erase <partition> erase a flash partition
format[:[<fs type>][:[<size>]] <partition> format a flash partition.
Can override the fs type and/or
size the bootloader reports.
getvar <variable> display a bootloader variable
boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] download and boot kernel
flash:raw boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] create bootimage and flash it
devices list all connected devices
continue continue with autoboot
reboot [bootloader] reboot device, optionally into bootlo
ader
reboot-bootloader reboot device into bootloader
help show this help message
options:
-w erase userdata and cache (and format
if supported by partition type)
-u do not first erase partition before
formatting
-s <specific device> specify device serial number
or path to device port
-l with "devices", lists device paths
-p <product> specify product name
-c <cmdline> override kernel commandline
-i <vendor id> specify a custom USB vendor id
-b <base_addr> specify a custom kernel base address.
default: 0x10000000
-n <page size> specify the nand page size.
default: 2048
-S <size>[K|M|G] automatically sparse files greater
than size. 0 to disable
and this -
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing unlock
...
That's it. For some reason,"fastboot unlock oem" takes me to fastboot help and "fastboot flashing unlock" just goes in a long endless wait.
Any way out?
Thanks,
Deepak Gupta

Deep.G said:
Hi,
I am stuck with a similar issue. Only the way I landed in this situation is slightly different.
Without unlocking the bootloader (I just forgot to do that!), I ran the below command.
Code:
fastboot format cache
It erased the cache but failed to write to it because the device is still locked.
On rebooting, the device was stuck overnight on the "Cyanogen" display screen.
I forcibly powered it off using the power button.
Then I fastbooted it.
Then from the command prompt I tried to run a few commands - see output below
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem device-info
...
(bootloader) Device tampered: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: false
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: false
(bootloader) Display panel:
OKAY [ 0.031s]
finished. total time: 0.031s
And then this -
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot unlock oem
usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>
commands:
update <filename> reflash device from update.zip
flashall flash boot, system, vendor and if fou
nd,
recovery
flash <partition> [ <filename> ] write a file to a flash partition
flashing lock locks the device. Prevents flashing
partitions
flashing unlock unlocks the device. Allows user to
flash any partition except the ones
that are related to bootloader
flashing lock_critical Prevents flashing bootloader related
partitions
flashing unlock_critical Enables flashing bootloader related
partitions
flashing get_unlock_ability Queries bootloader to see if the
device is unlocked
erase <partition> erase a flash partition
format[:[<fs type>][:[<size>]] <partition> format a flash partition.
Can override the fs type and/or
size the bootloader reports.
getvar <variable> display a bootloader variable
boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] download and boot kernel
flash:raw boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] create bootimage and flash it
devices list all connected devices
continue continue with autoboot
reboot [bootloader] reboot device, optionally into bootlo
ader
reboot-bootloader reboot device into bootloader
help show this help message
options:
-w erase userdata and cache (and format
if supported by partition type)
-u do not first erase partition before
formatting
-s <specific device> specify device serial number
or path to device port
-l with "devices", lists device paths
-p <product> specify product name
-c <cmdline> override kernel commandline
-i <vendor id> specify a custom USB vendor id
-b <base_addr> specify a custom kernel base address.
default: 0x10000000
-n <page size> specify the nand page size.
default: 2048
-S <size>[K|M|G] automatically sparse files greater
than size. 0 to disable
and this -
Code:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing unlock
...
That's it. For some reason,"fastboot unlock oem" takes me to fastboot help and "fastboot flashing unlock" just goes in a long endless wait.
Any way out?
Thanks,
Deepak Gupta
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The command for unlocking the bootloader is "fastboot oem unlock" not "fastboot unlock oem".
Also sometimes when you type a commando that isn't recognised by the phone it can take forever.
So, I think that the commando "fastboot flashing unlock" doesn't exist.
Anyway I think I know now for sure that the previous owner erased and/or formatted the cache.

Cannot access system to turn on developer mode

Hi I have been working all day trying to get my moto G up and running again.
The problem is that when I boot it shows the boot animations then boots to a blank screen with backlight on.
So far I have tried.
1. Going into the bootloader then into recovery by holding up for 10s then tapping power. From here I wiped back to factory settings. Then I tired to wipe cach partition. When I did this it said ERASING... then rebooted a second later.
It went back to the same black screen after I booted.
1. Flashing a new recovery. TWERP. The flashing process seemed to go ok ... .
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'recovery' (9488 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.318s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.170s]
finished. total time: 0.488s
but when I checked I was still on stock recovery.
Then I went and used fastboot to erase recovery and tried flashing again and rebooted bootloader with fastboot reboot command. Still on stock recovery.
2. Then I tried sideloading falcon to this device it aborted.
3. I discovered the sideload boot recovery and when I was able to load TWERP into RAM and boot from there I thought I had it made.
I tried sideloading my ROM from here and got Error 7 I am on bootloader 4113 and I need to be on a newer on.
4. Flashed bootloader
First with getvar I was able to confirm I was on 13. I downloaded 41.19 and flashed that
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'motoboot' (1953 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.095s]
writing 'motoboot'...
(bootloader) flashing tz ...
(bootloader) flashing rpm ...
(bootloader) flashing sdi ...
(bootloader) flashing aboot ...
(bootloader) flashing sbl1 ...
OKAY [ 1.099s]
but when I rebooted the bootloader with fastboot reboot, and did getvar again. I saw that I was still on 13.
This is only a short summary of the highlights of what I have tried with this phone today. Can anybody give me and idea how to proceed? I'm stuck fast here.
Then I tried simply booting into TWRP recovery with

And yes I unlocked the bootloader. I also tried flashing a stock ROM from here

I've seen similar reports like yours and no solution. It is supposed to be a hardware error. To confirm this, fastboot boot twrp.img and then run adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt and post the file, maybe there are any clues in this kernel log.

_that said:
I've seen similar reports like yours and no solution. It is supposed to be a hardware error. To confirm this, fastboot boot twrp.img and then run adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt and post the file, maybe there are any clues in this kernel log.
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Sorry. I am not sure exactly how to do this. Would you be so nice as to post command here so that I can cut and paste into command line?

jonawald said:
Sorry. I am not sure exactly how to do this. Would you be so nice as to post command here so that I can cut and paste into command line?
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You can literally cut and paste the commands from my post (if your twrp image is named "twrp.img"). Between fastboot and adb, wait for TWRP to start up.

_that said:
You can literally cut and paste the commands from my post (if your twrp image is named "twrp.img"). Between fastboot and adb, wait for TWRP to start up.
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I tried this
adb-mac adb dmesg > dmesg.txt
and this
adb-mac adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt
I am using a mac as you might guess from the -mac piece. When I try this I get
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.32
Revision 760a64fe84b7-android
-a - directs adb to listen on all interfaces for a connection
-d - directs command to the only connected USB device
returns an error if more than one USB device is present.
-e - directs command to the only running emulator.
returns an error if more than one emulator is running.
etc.

fastboot boot cwm.img not working on moto g(4)

I want to boot into cwm to mount system and pull build.prop file from my moto g(4).
I am doing this from my cmd
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot boot cwm.img [B][U]OR[/U][/B] fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot cwm.img
adb command works fine but when I enter "fastboot boot cwm.img" or "fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot cwm.img" it is not starting up in recovery mode. As I have unlocked OEM i get this error message:-
Your device is unlocked and cant be trusted
please visit motorola[dot]com/unlockbootloader
ID : N/A
Your device will bot in 5 seconds
And it boots normally
fastboot devices detects my device when in bootloader and I get this output on cmd after using fastboot boot cwm.img
Code:
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.325s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.159s]
finished. total time: 0.489s
I have also tried twrp recovery but it also gives the same outout

Pixel 3 XL only fastboot but doesn't accept commands

So somehow I seemed to have bricked my Pixel 3 XL. I've bootet into fastboot and ahve enabled OEM unlock beforehand in the dev options. Also the screen tells me "Device state: unlocked" after I ran
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock
.
But now no matter what I do I end up with a black screen. Can't boot into my OS and can't boot into recovery. I also can't flash a factory ROM or temp boot into TWRP. I also can't flash anything.
Code:
fastboot boot twrp-3.2.3-4-crosshatch.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.396s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: Error calling AvbLoadAndVerifyBootImages Load Error)
finished. total time: 0.765s
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.3-4-crosshatch.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending 'recovery' (65536 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.392s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Not allowed to flash (recovery))
finished. total time: 0.758s
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock
...
(bootloader) Device already unlocked
OKAY [ 0.318s]
finished. total time: 0.318s

Do you have the latest sdk platform tools?

jd1639 said:
Do you have the latest sdk platform tools?
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afaik I don't have them at all. Never needed them for my Fairphone 2. I am running Ubuntu 18.04.

Ignore..

IronDude said:
afaik I don't have them at all. Never needed them for my Fairphone 2. I am running Ubuntu 18.04.
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I'm not very familiar with Linux. The latest firmware is compressed with a newer compression method which older versions of fastboot don't handle. What do you get if you run the command fastboot --version? The latest is 28.0.1

sliding_billy said:
Have you tried to get into stock recovery from fastboot? I don't see a screen grab of that. Use key combo to get to bootloader, and then select recovery from fastboot to get to the no command screen and power +volume down to get to recovery options.
Also, did you get a prompt that unlocking the BL would results in a factory reset and did you do one?
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Yes tried all that. When I chood recovery Mode from the menu I get a black screen. A reboot via fastboot into recovery is not possible afaik.
Code:
fastboot --version
fastboot version 1:7.0.0+r33-2
This is the latest version according to Ubuntu.

IronDude said:
Yes tried all that. When I chood recovery Mode from the menu I get a black screen. A reboot via fastboot into recovery is not possible afaik.
Code:
fastboot --version
fastboot version 1:7.0.0+r33-2
This is the latest version according to Ubuntu.
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All right, looks like Linux is a little different than windows. See if these help, https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.

jd1639 said:
All right, looks like Linux is a little different than windows. See if these help, https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.
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Same results

IronDude said:
So somehow I seemed to have bricked my Pixel 3 XL. I've bootet into fastboot and ahve enabled OEM unlock beforehand in the dev options. Also the screen tells me "Device state: unlocked" after I ran
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock
.
But now no matter what I do I end up with a black screen. Can't boot into my OS and can't boot into recovery. I also can't flash a factory ROM or temp boot into TWRP. I also can't flash anything.
Code:
fastboot boot twrp-3.2.3-4-crosshatch.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.396s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: Error calling AvbLoadAndVerifyBootImages Load Error)
finished. total time: 0.765s
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.3-4-crosshatch.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending 'recovery' (65536 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.392s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Not allowed to flash (recovery))
finished. total time: 0.758s
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock
...
(bootloader) Device already unlocked
OKAY [ 0.318s]
finished. total time: 0.318s
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IronDude said:
Yes tried all that. When I chood recovery Mode from the menu I get a black screen. A reboot via fastboot into recovery is not possible afaik.
Code:
fastboot --version
fastboot version 1:7.0.0+r33-2
This is the latest version according to Ubuntu.
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You are right about recovery>fastboot. That is why I "deleted" my comment. Maybe starting back over might help. Were you running BL unlocked already? Did you have TWRP installed? Had you been using the same computer /cable/port to execute commands before?

IronDude said:
Same results
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Try flashing the factory image again. Just use the flash all .sh file.

jd1639 said:
Try flashing the factory image again. Just use the flash all .sh file.
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Doesn't work:
Code:
./flash-all.sh
fastboot too old; please download the latest version at https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html
Code:
fastboot --version
fastboot version 28.0.1-4986621
Installed as /usr/local/sbin/platform-tools/fastboot

Ok the flash all is just broken but it can be forced to do its job simply by deleting the following lines:
Code:
#if ! grep -q partition-exists $(which fastboot); then
# echo "fastboot too old; please download the latest version at https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html"
# exit 1
#fi
I didn't delete them but just made them a comment. Then it worked.

IronDude said:
Ok the flash all is just broken but it can be forced to do its job simply by deleting the following lines:
Code:
#if ! grep -q partition-exists $(which fastboot); then
# echo "fastboot too old; please download the latest version at https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html"
# exit 1
#fi
I didn't delete them but just made them a comment. Then it worked.
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Glad it worked out.

sliding_billy said:
Glad it worked out.
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Me too mate! Was quite a heart attack moment.

IronDude said:
Me too mate! Was quite a heart attack moment.
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Sounds good, glad you got it working again!