Hello, I recently dropped my vibrant. I am trying to pull my media from my internal sd, but cannot. There is no way to mount the sd's without having a functional screen. I am wondering, is it possible to pull files from the internal sd while in download mode via some type of adb like cmd for example? I have already tried booting to recovery and counting clicks manually with the volume rockers to enable "mount usb" from recovery with no luck. I am hoping to just use my "jig" to get into download mode and type some kind of command into cmd to copy my priceless media to my pc hard drive. Unfortunately I am no dev or programmer and have no idea what commands those would be or if this is even possible. I do know there have been allot of threads started in these and other forums with allot of people responding who are in the same predicament. Any help would be more than appreciated. Thanks in advance. Im sorry for the super long post.
Here is my suggestion and i'm sure someone will have a better one. If you have adb installed, you can use a program called android commander to pull things off sd card while in recovery mode. Also you can screencast to see the recovery on your pc.
Thanks for your response. That's a great idea. I'll try that and report back. Fingers crossed
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Thanks Alex, you saved the day! Android commander worked like a champ.
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ok so today i dropped my vibrant breaking the screen from inside. i cant do anything. but im pretty sure i can get it to load into cwm
now ive tried accessing the phone from adb because i have important videos and pictures of my daughter that i would like to get from the internal memory
but when i type adb devices nothing is listed. ive checked the device manager and the computer recognizes the phone but adb wont.
somebody please help as i would like to have my stuff from the internal memory
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i actually tried the 6 clicks power 2 clicks power and nothing happened. going to try droid explorer tho im pretty sure debugging was on
ive tried droid explorer too and my device wont show. man idk this sucks
Have you tried using kies? Did you ever have adb running prior? What happens when you type adb remount?
Install adb drivers again and then download the android sdk.
Start run
Cmd
Mkdir c:\sdcard
Cd C:\androidsdk\tools
Adb pull /sdcard c:\sdcard
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Have you tried screencast? It was very helpful seeingthe recovery behind the rainbows. Runs on your pc shows the android screen on it
Beware of angry gingerbread man
im gonna try all these new suggestions and tell u if they work
well i never really used adb before this. but when i type remount it says operation failed: operation not permitted
and for screencast where would i download that
not exactly sure why but now when i try droid explorer it will connect. thanks for the help guys . getting my pics and videos as we speak. now just gotta wait for the gay insurance haha
Hello,
I just got my first Android phone, the Atrix 4g. So I'm relatively new to Rooting although I have jailbroken my iPod and my iPhone but I know jailbreaking is much easier and simple. My problem is that when I try to start GingerBreak.exe, nothing happens. I've installed all the drivers, set the USB Connection to "None", and turned on Debugging. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but when I start GingerBreak.exe, I suppose it appears on your phone but nothing appears or opens on my phone nor computer.
Can anyone help me? Anything is appreciated!
Thanks!
Edit: BTW, I have an external MicroSD card mounted as well.
Get adb and type adb devices in command prompt
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Blehh, as I've said, I'm new so can you please tell me what adb is and where to get it?
And how would I use it?
Download adb from superoneclick. Using command prompt navigate to the directory. Then type adb devices.
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Hello,
I just got my first Android phone, the Atrix 4g. So I'm relatively new to Rooting although I have jailbroken my iPod and my iPhone but I know jailbreaking is much easier and simple. My problem is that when I try to start GingerBreak.exe, nothing happens. I've installed all the drivers, set the USB Connection to "None", and turned on Debugging. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but when I start GingerBreak.exe, I suppose it appears on your phone but nothing appears or opens on my phone nor computer.
Can anyone help me? Anything is appreciated!
Thanks!
Edit: BTW, I have an external MicroSD card mounted as well.
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You did check your app drawer right? Gingdrbreak APP should be installed.
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Fixed guys.
It couldn't detect the phone because I needed to download the MotoHelper drivers from the Motorola websites, the x64 drivers downloaded from the guide didn't contain the Motorola ADB Interface driver.
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Hi, I have made a Multiboot USB-stick witch contains Win 7 install, Ubuntu Live, Hiren's and many other distros. But is it possible to some how move the files from the external SD-card on my android phone and make the computers boot directly from the phone?
Can you in that case force the phone to use the right usb-mode so that the computer recognizes it as a ordinary bootable USB-stick?
I saw some old post from 2009 where some user managed to get a computer too boot BCD from the phone. But the catch was that he had to click the "mount usb" on the phone directly after the PC started booting. And many computers may have passed the booting point before the USB-mode had finished mounting.
I tried booting Damn Small Linux from my Supersonic earlier with no luck. Android requires certain drivers to mount and the BIOS typically has the bare minimum to boot from USB, DVD, and HDD.
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I'm sorry if this isn't what you are looking for as I don't have an answer to your specific question. But if you're just looking for a way to boot other OS's check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153
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csking33 said:
I'm sorry if this isn't what you are looking for as I don't have an answer to your specific question. But if you're just looking for a way to boot other OS's check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153
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Well no, I want my android phone to behave as a bootable USB-stick when connected to a computer that is rebooting.
burton6666 said:
Well no, I want my android phone to behave as a bootable USB-stick when connected to a computer that is rebooting.
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Keep trying man, ure near there.. try multi sd.
burton6666 said:
Well no, I want my android phone to behave as a bootable USB-stick when connected to a computer that is rebooting.
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Ah I'm sorry. Needed to sleep some more.. it sounds like that would be difficult to do though. You would need the phone to be mounted as USB before the computer even started booting. That's way beyond me though, good luck.
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It seems feasible. Never tried it..
But, i would start by looking for an app called unetbootin. Its a free app that allows you to build a bootable flash drive. I've used is several times with actual flash drives. As long as your device is setup to allow the pc to mount it as a disk, in theory it should work.
As far as android accessing the disk after its been formatted, i have no idea.
I boot in with dual sd and yumi. But I think my boot file configuration is wrong or what..cus I'm trying to boot spotmau 2011. Which is unlisted iso. Anyone can provide a small bootable file so I can try boot it..
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Ah I'm sorry. Needed to sleep some more.. it sounds like that would be difficult to do though. You would need the phone to be mounted as USB before the computer even started booting. That's way beyond me though, good luck.
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Mount USB via cwm, simple.
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Questions should be asked in Q&A forums, not Development forums.
Thread moved.
Today my Tablet (Hyundai A7HD) with CM9 started behaving very strange.
It doesnt recognize my sd card, nor its own internal nand storage anymore.
I dont know what to do, since i cant even flash an update through CWM anymore without a functioning storage medium.
the sd card works fine on my pc and i cant format the internal storage through my tablet.
what else can i do to fix this?
I could really use some help, if someone knows a way to do it.
IndigoHD said:
I could really use some help, if someone knows a way to do it.
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Supply more information. How do you know it's not detecting the internal storage? What are the symptoms? In my point of view, the device would be bricked in this case. Can it boot at all? Or is it fastboot complaining , trying to flash it? The internal memory, is it a MTD for /system plus an MMC for /data, or only an MTD? Only one MMC? Does the devices still exists or not? The partitions..?
Give us some more information, and we'll see if someone here can come with an intelligent suggestion.
Thank you for your reply!
The Device is an Hyundai A7HD and it says that what it calls "sdcard" but actually is its internal storage is damaged. Formatting doesnt work.
It still boots fine but cant access the internal storage, so nothing can be downloaded onto the device and such.
It has a special partition where applications are installed, but nothing can be saved there.
im guessing that something is wrong with the OS, and maybe i could fix it using ADB (if someone could explain to me how)?
Ok, so no /sdcard and /sdcard is supposed to be the phones internal memory, no /data partition, hence not able to download new apps, but the phone boots and so, i.e. system partitions works fine.
This sounds quite like this (confusing) thread to me. In summary, we are talking about three devices, the internal MTD device with /system, boot image, cache etc, the internal MMC device with /sdcard and /data plus an external sdcard named something like /sdcard/external_sd. The internal MMC broken beyond repair (hardware failure).
Still it may be something else only reassembling this.
If you believe your problem is due to some problem with your ROM I suggest you try to reinstall stock ROM using the vendors standard flash tools.
If this doesn't work, we can see if a solution similar to the one in the thread above may be applicable to you.
When i use Astro file manager to look at my phones storage the internal memory calls itself "sdcard" and my ACTUAL micro-sdhc calls itself "extsd" in a folder called "mnt".
the original flash tool doesnt seem to function anymore since i would normally hold down the "menu"-button, then plug the cable into my pc and while STILL holding menu id press power 7 to 10 times and then flashing would start automatically. but ever since installing cwm and a cm9 custom-rom, this doesnt seem to function anymore.
EDIT: in Clockwordmod recovery its called "emmc" for internal memory and "sdcard" for my actual sdcard.
Ok, this is consistent. Can you do a couple of shell commands?
# mount
and
# ls -l /dev/block
... and paste in the result here. As root or as shell user (or any other user) doesn't really matter.
when i plug the device into usb it says debugging enabled. so i open adb and type in "adb devices" and it starts listing devices. But no device is recognized.
EDIT: it recognizes my phone tho.
IndigoHD said:
when i plug the device into usb it says debugging enabled. so i open adb and type in "adb devices" and it starts listing devices. But no device is recognized.
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Tricky. And not possible to install apps, so no ConnectBot or similar ...
Do you have a link to the CM9 you are using?
kuisma said:
Tricky. And not possible to install apps, so no ConnectBot or similar ...
Do you have a link to the CM9 you are using?
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wait! i CAN install apps from the market!
and yes, one second.
http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/33373-rom-cm9-nightlies/
im using version 20120711
EDIT: Its an Allwinner A10 Device.
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wait! i CAN install apps from the market!
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That makes all the difference!
So, what does "mount" say?
when i type "adb mount" it just gives me a long list of commands and explanations.
EDIT: there are many versions of connectbot. which one do we need?
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when i type "adb mount" it just gives me a long list of commands and explanations.
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No, run mount from the command line using ConnectBot. ADB didn't work, you told me before.
$ mount
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but which connectbot on the market is the right one? There are so many.
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but which connectbot on the market is the right one? There are so many.
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Please. Show a little more effort.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot
i installed it and started it.
now it asks me to connect to a host.
i honestly dont know what im doing here.
IndigoHD said:
i installed it and started it.
now it asks me to connect to a host.
i honestly dont know what im doing here.
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Select "local", give the session some name of you choice and connect. Now you are running a local shell in the same way as using "adb shell". You are familiar with "adb shell"..?
kuisma said:
Select "local", give the session some name of you choice and connect. Now you are running a local shell in the same way as using "adb shell". You are familiar with "adb shell"..?
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isnt adb shell a terminal that accepts commands either locally or by usb connection?
EDIT: What should i do now on connectbot?
Can anyone help me, perhaps?
I need help, either im missing something or none of the bricked threads had the same issue as me. I was trying to flash a different rom onto my phone with TWRP and wiped EVERYTHING, OS and all, and now i cant get android file transfer on my mac to recognize it so i cant put the rom on the phone to flash, and my PC wont recognize its attached.
Anyone know what to do? apparently im a complete moron when it comes to phones lol
thanks in advance
EDIT** i found something about adb sideload but it keeps saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command" in command prompt even tho i installed the android SDK. i feel like im missing something
crash087 said:
I need help, either im missing something or none of the bricked threads had the same issue as me. I was trying to flash a different rom onto my phone with TWRP and wiped EVERYTHING, OS and all, and now i cant get android file transfer on my mac to recognize it so i cant put the rom on the phone to flash, and my PC wont recognize its attached.
Anyone know what to do? apparently im a complete moron when it comes to phones lol
thanks in advance
EDIT** i found something about adb sideload but it keeps saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command" in command prompt even tho i installed the android SDK. i feel like im missing something
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install and use toolkit from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994961
This is solved he pm'd me and I got it sorted
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a sorry didnt see that you are using mac... well then you need to add your adb command to your path variable so bash can find it... should be the same principle on mac as for other operating systems. just google that or execute the command directly from within it's directory so bash can find it.
edit: ah ok then good that it's fixed
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This is solved he pm'd me and I got it sorted
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yep, Lloir is my hero. as for using a mac, i have a pc as well. one for school one for games haha