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[S-Off] and Device Offline for PJ831000

This was answered a little bit in the S-Off thread and I would like to post it for everyone that has the PJ8310000 device and they are running into device "offline" when using adb devices. This is for Windows 8 only. I had the same problem in OSX, but I believe the solution is the same. I cannot post in the thread in the developer section yet, that is why this is here.
First, if you can't see your device in your device manager, make sure you have the latest HTC Device drivers installed or install the latest version of HTC Sync. This is very important for Windows 8.
Second, you will need to download and install the latest Android SDK. Just "Download From Other Platforms" and choose the appropriate SDK installation. You will need to run the SDK Manager.exe to install the latest tools. Note: ADB and Fastboot have been moved from the "tools" folder to "platform-tools".
Make sure your phone is in debugging mode by going into the Developer Options and choosing "Android debugging."
Find your SDK installation and make sure you are under "platform-tools" folder. You can ctrl-shift-right click on that folder to open a command prompt at that folder location. Saves you time.
Type in the command prompt:
Code:
adb devices
Your device should be listed and probably says Offline. This is normal. Take a look at your phone, you should get a prompt on your phone asking you if you trust the device that is trying to connect to it (this should be your computer). Allow it.
Type in the command prompt:
Code:
adb devices
This time, your device should be listed with the word "device" instead of offline.
To restart the daemon, type the following separately:
Code:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
This is the best I can do for everyone and it solved my problems with no further issues. I am not an expert and this is the only solution that has worked for me.

Thanks, this worked for me.

I did this in Windows 7 SP1 no problem. All I had to so was get the latest Android SDK and replace all the adb/fastboot files I already had and it worked no problems.
If you get permission denied when doing the last "adb shell" command, get adbd insecure from the forums here and run debugging mode insecurely from there.
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Desertman123 said:
If you get permission denied when doing the last "adb shell" command, get adbd insecure from the forums here and run debugging mode insecurely from there.
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I had this problem because SU was only allowing apps in CM10.1 (4.2.1). I found the solution by enabling the Dev Options via multiple clicks on the Build number until dev options was enabled, then changed Root access to Apps adn ADB.
FYI for anyone else that gets lost like I was.

ok so i can s-off now?

yes get some, 9 steps to s0ff

Ponarona said:
ok so i can s-off now?
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Yes, you can use the HTC One XL link in the S-Off thread with no issues. I made this to help people with Win8 and trying to get their phones to appear properly in their device manager and to list it under adb devices.

If you get device offline, my issue, I was running android 4.2.2 but had an outdated adb. Just update adb if you still have problems

I know this is exceedingly random, but if you run a mac and can't see your device in adb, and in the past you tried sharing your phone internet with your mac via usb try running this:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/EasyTetherUSBEthernet.kext
./adb kill-server
I need to do that before every adb session.
I'd be amazed someone actually has those conditions, but hey, it might help someone.
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Galaxy S5 with broken screen, need help controlling it from PC

Hi, I've got an old S5 with a broken screen. There's no image going on and there's no indication that the touchscreen is working.
I'm not looking to recover data, I'm looking to play around with it by controlling it from my PC. Last I remember, the phone is running a Cyanogenmod OS (I don't think LineageOS was around at that time) with either TWRP or CWM recovery, but I'd bet on TWRP.
Now: the device reaches the OS properly, I can tell because if I try to turn the ringing sound up it gives me an audio feedback.
If I connect it to a PC from the OS:
- the phone shows up in Windows Explorer as "SM-G900F"
- Device Manager shows me a "SAMSUNG Mobile USB Composite Device" under Universal Serial Bus controllers
However I cannot access any files (Windows Explorer shows the device as empty), and if I attempt to 'adb devices' in the console it shows me an empty devices list.
Now, I suspect that USB debugging might be off. So I also tried connecting it to a PC from recovery and the exact same thing as above can be observed, PLUS:
- Device manager also shows me a "SAMSUNG Android Phone" list which can be expanded to show me one entry called "SAMSUNG Android ADB Interface"
However it's the same as before, no files available and 'adb devices' shows an empty list.
Now I heard that I can theoretically enable USB debugging through ADB, by writing to a config file. That would allow me to enable USB debugging and try something like Vysor in order to control the phone from my PC.
However that's a moot point until I can figure out why the ADB service on my PC isn't seeing the device. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if you need more info I can provide it.
Extra info:
- I installed Samsung USB drivers at some point while trying to make it work
- Windows Explorer shows a phone icon for this device, and if I recall correctly that's what happens when it's connected through MTP (Mass Storage should show it like a memory card)

_sepiroth said:
Hi, I've got an old S5 with a broken screen..........
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I've never experienced this situation myself but, I've seen that the following thread has worked for many individuals.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
Good Luck!
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Ibuprophen said:
I've never experienced this situation myself but, I've seen that the following thread has worked for many individuals.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
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Thanks a bunch, that pointed me in the right direction with my research! I solved my issue, I can now control my phone from my PC.
By doing this I ran into a couple of problems, I'm going to describe them and their solutions:
Problem 1: couldn't ADB into the device when in Recovery Mode. That is because after a long head scratching session I came to the conclusion that I didn't have TWRP Recovery installed (I had Philz Touch CWM Recovery and LineageOS 14.1 instead).
Solution 1: ADB mode is enabled in TWRP by default. So I flashed the latest TWRP through Odin, ADB instantly started working afterwards in Recovery Mode.
Problem 2: USB Debugging was disabled inside the OS.
Solution 2: from the thread that Ibuprophen posted, you can enable USB debugging in your OS by opening an ADB shell into your device and modify the build.prop like so
Code:
Adb shell
echo "persist.service.adb.enable=1" >>/system/build.prop
echo "persist.service.debuggable=1" >>/system/build.prop
echo "persist.sys.usb.config=mass_storage,adb" >>/system/build.prop
reboot
Problem 3: /system was empty so there was no build.prop. If I attempted to create a build.prop file it wouldn't be saved after a device reboot, so USB debugging still didn't work.
Solution 3: it seems like TWRP doesn't mount /system by default, only /data. You can mount it manually through ADB like this:
Code:
mount -o rw /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system /system
I found this out from this stackexchange question: https://android.stackexchange.com/q...data-partitions-in-recovery-mode-in-adb-shell
Problem 4: When an app tries to use USB Debugging you need to allow it to do so from the phone. Since the screen was broken, I couldn't do this.
Solution 4: You'll need to push a public key to your device with ADB. Boot into Recovery Mode and make sure your device is recognized by your PC and type
Code:
adb push <path to adbkey.pub on your PC> /data/misc/adb/adb_keys
This solution is from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions...b-rsa-key-with-broken-touch-screen-on-android
This will make sure that you won't need to confirm debugging permissions for apps coming from your machine.
So for anyone who has a broken phone screen (my screen is dead and touchscreen/touch buttons are kaput too) and wishes to control their phone from their PC but USB debugging is disabled:
1. Boot device in TWRP Recovery (flash it if you don't have it)
2. ADB into the device
3. Make sure /system is mounted (if it's empty it means it's not mounted), else mount it manually like in Solution 3
4. Configure build.prop to have USB Debugging enabled like in Solution 2
5. Push your public key to the device like in Solution 4
6. Restart the phone (into its OS)
7. Download the Chrome extension called Vysor and launch it
8. Connect your phone through a USB cable
9. The device should appear in Vysor, connect to it and have fun controlling it
Note that if you just want to backup your files, steps 1 + 2 are sufficient. After making sure ADB works you can just 'adb pull' all your files which should be located in /sdcard. Google it, it's easy to find.
The same goes for backups, you can do them directly through ADB.
Again, thanks Ibuprophen!

Vysor does not work on all graphic cards. a good free alternative is scrcpy
btw instead of flashing twrp, you can flash a modified system partition with proper entries in build.prop (for those with no custom recovery available)

aIecxs said:
Vysor does not work on all graphic cards. a good free alternative is scrcpy
btw instead of flashing twrp, you can flash a modified system partition with proper entries in build.prop (for those with no custom recovery available)
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Very well pointed out, thanks for this.

Android 10 ADB

Hey guys so question.
Is ADB broken with Android 10 at the moment? I updated through the installer.
Now when I get on fastboot mode and type fastboot devices, I see my phone poop up. But I can't see ADB devices it gives me a no devices found.
*ADB debugging is on
If I do ADB reboot bootloader while the phone is on, it works and it also gives me the device under list when I type it while the phone is on.
Any of you have seen this?
I'm trying to disable some apps through ADB but when the

Cj214 said:
Hey guys so question.
Is ADB broken with Android 10 at the moment? I updated through the installer.
Now when I get on fastboot mode and type fastboot devices, I see my phone poop up. But I can't see ADB devices it gives me a no devices found.
*ADB debugging is on
If I do ADB reboot bootloader while the phone is on, it works and it also gives me the device under list when I type it while the phone is on.
Any of you have seen this?
I'm trying to disable some apps through ADB but when the
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You can't see the device while on fastboot mode of you type adb devices.
You need to make sure debugging is on in the developer preferences.

ADB appears to be working just fine for me.

When using adb make sure you have debugging enabled and grant the popup on screen

adb is not fastboot. You can use adb on twrp or booted system. Fastboot is on bootloader mode.

Also need to make sure that the proper USB drivers on the computer are installed/updated.

Cj214 said:
Hey guys so question.
Is ADB broken with Android 10 at the moment? I updated through the installer.
Now when I get on fastboot mode and type fastboot devices, I see my phone poop up. But I can't see ADB devices it gives me a no devices found.
*ADB debugging is on
If I do ADB reboot bootloader while the phone is on, it works and it also gives me the device under list when I type it while the phone is on.
Any of you have seen this?
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This is working exactly as intended, and not exclusive to Android 10, but rather has been the case as long as I can remember (Jelly Bean? KitKat? Maybe much earlier?):
adb: Only works when booted to OS or in TWRP. Debugging required to be toggle on in phone settings. Does not work in bootloader-fastboot mode.
fastboot: Only works in bootloader-fastboot mode. Debugging is not required to be toggled on.

D:\OnePlus3\Fastboot>adb sideload stock7.zip
opening 'stock7.zip'...
connecting...
adb server version (40) doesn't match this client (39); killing...
* daemon started successfully *
falling back to older sideload method...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Thats what adb gives to me...

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D:\OnePlus3\Fastboot>adb sideload stock7.zip
opening 'stock7.zip'...
connecting...
adb server version (40) doesn't match this client (39); killing...
* daemon started successfully *
falling back to older sideload method...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Thats what adb gives to me...
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Sounds like another adb server is still running. What does adb kill-server and then trying again do

a second adb server was running.
TNX

Can I mount system rw using adb enabled recovery img from the following link:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/7t-pro/development/recovery-oxygen-os-stock-recovery-adb-t3991865

Can't connect to Pixel 3a in fastboot mode

Hi guys
First things first: yes I have searched and tried various things to fix this problem before asking.
USB debugging and OEM unlock is activated, of course.
When I connect my Pixel 3a (in regular Android mode) via USB to a PC, I can see the device via adb and run commands such as adb reboot bootloader. Once the device enters fastboot mode, the connection is gone. adb devices -l and fastboot devices both come back with an empty list.
I've tried with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20LTS, on 2 different computers and with different cables. The Pixel runs on Android 12 beta.
What I'm ultimately trying to archieve is installing GrapheneOS on it.
Any ideas?
Thanks a ton in advance!
Christian
Update: ok, after trying several things I've got it running on Linux. apt-get update + upgrade did the job. Thought my system was already up to date, but not up to date enough obviously.

You don't use ADB for communication in fastboot, you use fastboot
for example
adb devices will see the device with USB Debugging and powered on fully
fastboot devices shows devices connected in fastboot mode
Download Google Chrome and use Graphene's on-site installer rather than downloading the ZIP. Way easier for those who don't generally flash stuff day to day

Chrisp3 said:
Hi guys
First things first: yes I have searched and tried various things to fix this problem before asking.
USB debugging and OEM unlock is activated, of course.
When I connect my Pixel 3a (in regular Android mode) via USB to a PC, I can see the device via adb and run commands such as adb reboot bootloader. Once the device enters fastboot mode, the connection is gone. adb devices -l and fastboot devices both come back with an empty list.
I've tried with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20LTS, on 2 different computers and with different cables. The Pixel runs on Android 12 beta.
What I'm ultimately trying to archieve is installing GrapheneOS on it.
Any ideas?
Thanks a ton in advance!
Christian
Update: ok, after trying several things I've got it running on Linux. apt-get update + upgrade did the job. Thought my system was already up to date, but not up to date enough obviously.
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On Windows, make sure your phone is connected and you can run ADB commands. Enter Device Manager in Windows and verify that there is a listing for Android ADB Interface.
I just connected to a new computer and I could do ADB but not Fastboot. Discovered that instead of ADB Interface in Device Manager, it just said "Pixel 3a."
If this is the same for you, go install the Android USB drivers.

KaptinBoxxi said:
You don't use ADB for communication in fastboot, you use fastboot
for example
adb devices will see the device with USB Debugging and powered on fully
fastboot devices shows devices connected in fastboot mode
Download Google Chrome and use Graphene's on-site installer rather than downloading the ZIP. Way easier for those who don't generally flash stuff day to day
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Yop, tried fastboot as well and didnt work either. Installation via Chrome is a good point. Finally did that and agree that its far more comfortable!

Chrisp3 said:
Yop, tried fastboot as well and didnt work either. Installation via Chrome is a good point. Finally did that and agree that its far more comfortable!
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The issue with the fastboot method (realized this when I upgraded to Win11 Beta) is the ADB Quick Installs are missing some stuff, and cause certain flash methods to not work via flash-all.bat's from Google or Graphene or others.
When I install ADB System Wide, I also download the platform-tools from Google, and over-write everything in the c:\adb folder, also adding the stuff missing. Idk why the adb quick installers don't just download from google directly, would save a lot of headaches

Op7pro not responding to fastboot commands

Hey, im having trouble finding working ways to root my op7pro GM1913 (OOS 11.0.4.1 GM21BA)
Ive been trying this https://www.xda-developers.com/unlock-bootloader-root-oneplus-7-pro/
Currently trying to unlock bootloader. (Step 2)
I can connect via adb but when i go to bootloader/fastboot i lose connection to the phone.
Ive tried regular adb command tools and "TOOL ALL IN ONE" When the phone is on it responds to adb commands but when i need fastboot commands its not working and i can see the device id dissapear from the all in one tool.
I have tried multiple usb ports (2.0 and 3.0) and multiple usb C cords (Op oem + Samsung) Tried removing Windows signature verification and installing oneplus usb drivers, but it gets stuck at "Execute the commands..." (99% or so) When i try again it finds some installation files. When im in bootloader, Windows device manager still shows a generic android phone. Oem unlocking and usb debugging is on, also set default usb configuration to file transfer. No help.
I want to keep Oxygen os, but i want to be rooted and have magisk, preferably TWRP too but im open to other ways.
Windows 10 20H2 if that matters. (Latest update for me)
Oneplus 7pro GM1913 (Eu nordic)
Oxygen os 11.0.4.1 GM21BA

Download a Linux distro and install adb and fastboot like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-unlock-flash-root-for-the-pixel-2-xl-taimen.3702418/
Just download adb and fastboot tools package from Google, extract it,open command prompt inside where you extract it and enter these in terminal:
sudo install adb dmtracedump e2fsdroid etc1tool fastboot hprof-conv make_f2fs mke2fs mke2fs.conf sload_f2fs sqlite3 /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib64
sudo install lib64/libc++.so /usr/local/lib64
Then adb --version (enter) fastboot --version (enter) like Nathan says in guide. Super easy and I guarantee you if you go this route you won't have any hiccups. Sounds like stupid windblows driver issues or outdated adb/fastboot tools. One of the two. Are you flipping on dev options and check marking little box that pops up on your phone to allow it to communicate with PC? A simple : adb devices (enter) should make it appear on phone screen. You don't even have to install Linux, you can boot it off a live USB. Takes about one minute to make one. If you make one you can boot the live USB , download adb and fastboot, and install as Nathan's guide says then reboot when you are done and your back in windblows. IDK why anyone wouldn't want Linux installed though. Best decision I ever made was switching from windows to Linux about 9 years ago. It really makes anything you do to your devices MUCH easier to do!! This may sound stupid but have you rebooted your PC? Because you will definitely need to , probably more than once on windblows to get it to work.

Thank you for the reply. No stupid questions, yes i tried rebooting pc/phone. Ill try your way and report in a couple days.

Solution is simple. From Android 11 on, OnePlus (and Android phones in general) uses the universal drivers, you just need to install them in Windows in order to use fastboot commands. See my answer in this post.

There are a few things you can try if your OP7 Pro is not responding to fastboot commands:
1. Make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your phone.
2. Try using a different USB cable.
3. If you're using Windows, try running the fastboot commands from a command prompt with administrator privileges.
4. Try booting your phone into recovery mode and running the fastboot commands.