I'm a new Android user; Had my htc hero for a month now. with the help of this forum i was able to root it and flash a recovery image/MCR3/unlocked SPL/custom boot&splash screens.
Today, i wanted to change the splash screen again but i couldn't get fastboot to see my device. ie it just keeps < waiting for device > forever, even when when i do it as root. adb can see my hero fine, but not fastboot. I've searched the forum but couldn't find any working solution for this, so any help is appreciated.
I'm using ubuntu 9.10. Thanks
I tired again today, and it worked perfectly. I didn't change anything, so probably i was doing something wrong in the first place, i blame the drugs.
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I apologize in advance if this is the wrong section, but I am a brand new member and can't post in the developers' section if I was supposed to. Also, I need help ASAP
So I rooted my AT&T LG Optimus G with no problem. Then went to unlock the bootloader. I decided to pay the dollar to get the app that does it for you. So I ran it and it said I successfully unlocked my device. Well I went to reboot into fastboot mode and the LG logo flashed on my screen and just went to black. It won't do anything more than that. I can't get into recover, fastboot, or any other screen. That's it. Am I SOL? Did I really mess my device up?
Please help! Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I have no idea what I did but somehow managed to boot into fastboot mode and went to CWM and installed The Base just fine. I have no idea what happened but I am soooooo happy right now.
EDIT 2: Maybe I spoke too soon. I started running "The Base" and went it prompted me saying it's gonna restart my device, it did and the screen is black again (The same black that appeared after my LG logo from before)
EDIT 3: So I decided to run it again and this time, I picked the other kernel. It booted up fine this time. All is well.
If you run into anymore problems, there is a program available in this irc channel. It is used to restore a bricked phone.
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=lg-optimus-g
hi all been a while since i been on here but find myself in bit of a pickle.
my dad gave me his old android tablet for my son to play but its not working like the os has gone from it all it does is stay on the main screen with the android or i have been able to get into the tablets default recovery mode where it asks things like apply update from zip or apply update by adb etc etc. the tablet in question is an avaco stb7012 v1 and i know its a cheap ebay china knock off just looking to flash it but cant seem to get anything to work in order to flash anything on there anybody have an idea ive tried using commands like fastboot and adb but says device null on adb and fastboot it says waiting for device and nothing happens. am i doing something wrong is there a guide i can follow to do it or is it naff coz i thought as long as it does boot into recovery then there is some glimmer of hope i dont no what else to do spent hours researching any roms for this tablet but nothing. hope someone can help all i want to do is be able to install a new os of android onto it and get it running again.
thanks
Hello everyone,
First of all, I am a new member here. Hopefully "ROM Developer Education" is a proper section for this thread and if it is not, please redirect me to right forum
So, I tried to root my M8 following this (htconeroot.com/htc-one-root/how-to-root-htc-one-m)tutorial. Everything was going fine until the last restart. My phone is frozen and shows the startup screen with HTC and Android logos. The only thing I can to is to restart it woth power + volume up buttons but the problem is still there. I tried to find a solution, but it seems I cannot do much without at least partly working Android. I am even unable to do anything with HTC tool (htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html), since it does not find the phone connected to the computer.
Is there anything I can do to make the phone work again?
Thanks for help
Hello all!
First of all, I am no developer.
Long story short.. I purchased an HTC 10 because I was sick and tired of my at&t galaxy s5 being bootlocked. I received the 10 and set out the next day to root it. I followed a video on youtube (not saying that the info was not correct...I may have done something wrong...not trying to discredit anybody) to the letter and lo and behold I ended up in a bootloop. My heart probably came close to a complete blockage at this point. This bootloop lasted maybe a minute before it would reboot. So... In my infinite wisdom I chose to relock the bootloader. Oh Boy!!! Fun times were ahead for me!! As soon as I relocked said bootloader, the bootloop increased its timing to about 1 point 5 seconds. I remember waking up on the floor in the fetal position. Now I am stuck with a phone that adb will not recognize. It does however recognize the device at the fastboot devices prompt. So my question is this.... Is this a salvageable phone? If so, How would one go about fixing this problem?
*** Relocked ***
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I would prefer that the money I spent on this thing would amount to something more than a small ant bed.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Also I have been doing a lot of digging around and (I may be wrong) but. I could not find this scenario in the forums here. I apologize if this has already been covered.
...So..after looking around for a bit more, I discovered out that there is a way to flash a ruu/zip from an sd card. I have tried multiple times with what I thought were the right ones. As I am unable to boot into recovery, I feel I am limited as to what I should do. I have read about that I should wipe dalvik but I am very limited in my knowledge on an android system and would prefer to not mess this phone up anymore than it already is. I was trying to root and I used TWRP as the recovery but I never made it to the end before it started the loop. The Phone is an htc 10 unlocked version. and it just constantly reboots about 3 seconds apart. ADB says no device connected, so I cannot execute commands that way... really at a loss here. all the tutorials I have read refer to using and and being able to boot into rrecovery. when i boot into recovery, I get an immediate reboot and the 3 second bootloop forever. Is there a way to use twrp to somehow resolve this?Is there a tool that will help me at least get into recovery mode?
SOLVED... Ran across Batchtool by sneakyghost. Quite the bunch of tools there! Ended up solving my problem by placing the stock RUU in the root folder as the batch tool. Before I could not install from a factory RUU (would not recognize the phone through ADB or install the RUU. After the install of the batch tool I was able to get a clean install back to my factory settings.. Now I am free to mess it up again!!
BIG THANKS TO SNEAKYGHOST!!!!!
I'm unsure why the batch tool has worked for you and the sdcard method didn't - getting fastboot to work and all the bits and pieces together (drivers, Windows VCRedist, correct fastboot, correct adb) is usually more error prone than just identifying the correct zip and placing that in your sdcard root.
At this time, I'm a bit in a "scratch my head" mood, thinking this is weird. Same zip? Really the same zip didn't work from sdcard but would work in fastboot? I think I haven't come across that myself yet (non booting phones are a daily thing, almost).
I wish I had the time to analyze your steps with you, so I could gain understanding as to why that happened, so I can use that in the future, but alas! I have no time for XDA and deep digging around in issues of other people. Lately I can't even solve my own phone's problems anymore due to too many other things going on.
Well, glad it worked for your phone, anyhow. I'll keep this in mind for the next one messing up his/her phone.
Hey all,
I've never rooted a phone before so since I have a spare model, I figured I'd give it a go.
Hearing about this forum, I checked it out and was sent to the Sony site. I understand I needed to unlock the bootloader first, which I did and can confirm I get that alert as my phone starts about it not being safe.
Hint for future readers: don't do this in a virtual environment, I had issues doing this until I used an actual computer and not a VM (mods and folks with more experience: feel free to correct me on this or shed some light). To be clear, I have a separate host running Proxmox (Type I hypervisor) and was able to forward my USB connection to test with ADB and such. I do most things in a virtual environment to not mess up my physical computer.
This was all done last week. Well today, Monday, I decided to continue with my rooting excursion, only to run into the issue I am currently facing.
After many, many Google attempts and following whatever links in this, I finally found this link. Well, I was within a VM, downloaded the linked flashing tool, and ran the first two commands:
- adb devices
- adb reboot bootloader
After doing this, my phone turned off and I wasn't sure what to expect, so I pressed the Power button to see what would happen - nothing. So then I remembered that Friday I was having issues communicating with my mobile phone in the VM to unlock the bootloader in the first place, so I figured I'd try to move it to my physical computer....then I was stuck on a reboot cycle!
To be clear, my issue is that I am stuck on a boot loop. It prompts the error of the device being unsafe, waits 5 seconds, then displays the Sony splash screen. Rinse, wash, repeat; same thing.
I have a Sony Xperia XA1 (G3123) model.
Can anyone shed some light?
Am I screwed?
Please halp!
I dug around a bit more, found this link but the issue is that I cannot boot into anything, at least not that I'm aware of.
tryingToSurvive said:
I dug around a bit more, found this link but the issue is that I cannot boot into anything, at least not that I'm aware of.
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have you tried installing a custom recovery?
this may help https://forum.xda-developers.com/xa1-ultra/development/g3221-built-sources-t3622886
keifus.rahn said:
have you tried installing a custom recovery?
this may help https://forum.xda-developers.com/xa1-ultra/development/g3221-built-sources-t3622886
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Hey @keifus.rahn for following up.
I did find that thread after continued poking, which I am still checking now. And I eventually made a post on there just now discussing my current dilemma.
I downloaded the Flashtool but didn't understand how it worked, nor do I still yet. I tried debugging it and the issue is that the "java -version" call doesn't work within the directory's own structure. I do have java installed on my test Linux VM though.
Past that, I tried with the latest boot.img as well as the recovery.img that I found. I think that the build numbers are off, or maybe I am just not understanding where I am lacking.
You can look at the bottom of the last page for a breakdown of what I did:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xa...21-built-sources-t3622886/page94#post80481385