[Q] disable fastboot on gingerbread - Motorola Photon 4G

I want to disable fast boot in my photon 4g. How do I accomplish. Any help will be appreaciated. I am rooted using stock rom.

Since when has fastboot been enabled?

Isn't that a feature of HTC phones?
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Yeah, it was an option with the 2.3 update. I've never seen it on the stock Photon, unless you download quickboot, you don't have that option. Lol.

Fastboot is on every android phone. As far as disabling it im not sure. Why would you wont to? How to get into fastboot hold volume down and power button at the same time volume up to select
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pgill34 said:
Fastboot is on every android phone. As far as disabling it im not sure. Why would you wont to? How to get into fastboot hold volume down and power button at the same time volume up to select
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Thanks, Need to disable because animation I am working on gets cut off.

ok this is a thread full of misinformation. fastboot isnt on every single phone. its a program used to flash firmware. this phone boots up as slow/fast as its gunna get, on that note how can you possiblely need more time? this phone takes forever to boot up compared to my nexus/epic

Every phone does have fastboot but htc sense devices enable it by default right? Ive never heard of an aosp rom doing this...

no not every phone has fastboot most samsung devices have something called download mode

shabbypenguin said:
no not every phone has fastboot most samsung devices have something called download mode
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You're right i do remember this on the samsung moment. Thanks!

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[Q] Phone freezes during boot, stuck on rethink possible

My phone started the day by not booting after a reboot. It stops at rethink possible and the screen will stay on forever and do nothing. If I swipe the fingerprint I get a double vibe like it didn't accept the scan. The only thing I have done to the phone is rooting it.
I did notice one thing this morning. I took it out of the laptop dock and the icon for the dock stayed there even after I then put it in the car dock. I then rebooted it because it had frozen and never came back up. Help!
At me too, my atrix was freeze on loading screen "rethink possible". That I wanted to make all before, to reboot it.
I tried to pull out a battery but unsuccessfully, always freeze on boot screen.
Please help me, i really don't know what i need to do.
And i can't call to motorola support because I live in Russia.
Help
Can either of you boot to RSD to flash a sbf?
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how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
leonlw said:
how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
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I am not home at the moment, so I will post links to flashing sbf guides after I get home tonight.
You get to RSD by holding down the volume UP button while rebooting until it days RSD Protocol at the top of the screen.
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leonlw said:
how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
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Instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
SBFs located here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
thx for links, i will try to recover my phone.
jruweaver said:
Instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
SBFs located here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
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Thanks for posting that. Will be a while before I am home.
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CaelanT said:
Thanks for posting that. Will be a while before I am home.
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Your advice is sound. Many such bootloops can also be eliminated with a "fastboot -w"
Not really sure what specific changes in /data (some .db setting somewhere prolly) can cause it to barf on boot but it happens a lot, especially when switching builds (froyo->GB, etc)

[Q] Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted [Resolved]

After trying to use Revolutionary to root my phone, it rebooted to fastboot twice and gave me the error "Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted" and said "Press (almost) any key to exit..." so I just pressed enter and rebooted the phone from the fastboot menu. The reboot was successful.
Should I try running revolutionary again or am I doing something wrong?
I didn't do temp root + factory reset if that matters but the guide said it wasn't required.
EDIT: Although I got those errors, it gave me S-OFF and allowed me to flash the files needed to root. Looks the issue was resolved. Thanks for your help!
is the phone set as charge only?
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shaanwarrior said:
is the phone set as charge only?
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Yes. Does it have to be in disk drive?
no ur doing it correct then. try doing it one more time.
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shaanwarrior said:
no ur doing it correct then. try doing it one more time.
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Okay, I'll try it again.
cool, let me know how it goes!
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cool, let me know how it goes!
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I tried it again and it got the same issue. It rebooted into fastboot once, rebooted into fastboot again and gave me the same error. This time, I booted it up and it did the hands-free activation on my phone. Did it successfully S-OFF?
I also read that I have to disable any antiviruses I have. I don't know how to disable McAfee, but could that potentially be interfering with the process?
it may have! you can check if its s-off by rebooting into the bootloader and looking at the top of the screen.
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oh yeah, make sure fastboot is unchecked first.
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shaanwarrior said:
oh yeah, make sure fastboot is unchecked first.
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Alright, I just unchecked it from the power settings. I don't think it should matter since it still boots into fastboot. Is that an official part of the guide?
I'm running it and hoping for the best.
EDIT: It still gave me the error, but I have S-OFF and it says -revolutionary- at the top. Does this mean I can continue to flash TWRP?
EDIT: I flashed the PG86IMG-TWRP zip. It worked.
EDIT: I flashed the Super User zip and I have super user now. I guess the rooting was successful. Thanks shaanwarrior! I can piss now...
well if you uncheck it you can get into the bootloader easy. just press and hold the volume down button for about 3 secs and then press and hold the power button. keep holding on to both then u'll see the bootloader!
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shaanwarrior said:
well if you uncheck it you can get into the bootloader easy. just press and hold the volume down button for about 3 secs and then press and hold the power button. keep holding on to both then u'll see the bootloader!
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The thing about rebooting into bootloader is that I can't turn on my phone after turning it off with fastboot off until I take out the battery and put it back in. I will just download the fastboot app to boot into bootloader, recovery, etc.
yousefak said:
Alright, I just unchecked it from the power settings. I don't think it should matter since it still boots into fastboot. Is that an official part of the guide?
I'm running it and hoping for the best.
EDIT: It still gave me the error, but I have S-OFF and it says -revolutionary- at the top. Does this mean I can continue to flash TWRP?
EDIT: I flashed the PG86IMG-TWRP zip. It worked.
EDIT: I flashed the Super User zip and I have super user now. I guess the rooting was successful. Thanks shaanwarrior! I can piss now...
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cool!!! enjoy! and hahaha
My friend had the same exact problem and ended with the same exact results.
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EricSS619 said:
My friend had the same exact problem and ended with the same exact results.
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I also remember reading a thread about somebody saying their friend had a problem that was this. (or similar? can't remember.)
I have this same issue, I have tried multiple computers, with and without the SD card in the phone, with and without the fastboot box checked, I have 2 EVO 3Ds, both with 1.40.000 and this method worked for one but not the other, any ideas?
Thanks for this post! I had an issue with my root on a different device... but it turned out what you did wrong is the same exact thing I did wrong.
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[Q] stupid mistake?

I was trying to flash shabbys kernel and I installed the CWM Bootstrap. It went well untill It came With a message saying "fail to boot 2 starting RSD mood". I was rooted stock with Bootloader lock. Any help please?
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Flash the mr5 sbf.
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Just for others info, I believe you need a full cwm with unlocked bootloader in order to be able to flash kernels.
Yes you do. The bootstrap will only work with the P-Rom's like Laser, once you unlock bootloader you do need the custom CWM. Which is what I ended up having to install. Works good though. :]
What is the best way to flash mr5? Is there a guide? Thanks In advance
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Im glad that all the devs put up indepth guides for all of us noobs to follow along with, especially the ones where they skip steps that we all should know by this point!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666
Follow those steps......Then when RSD asks to manually power up the phone do a battery pull and when powering back up HOLD THE VOLUME DOWN KEY till it boots into recovery. Then scroll down with the volume down key to "boot Android (no BP)" hit the volume up key. Let it do its thing. You should be up and working again.
These are the steps I used last night to solve the EXACT SAME problem you have....My device is now working again I just have to reactivate it when I take the loaner phone back later.
enoch42 said:
Im glad that all the devs put up indepth guides for all of us noobs to follow along with, especially the ones where they skip steps that we all should know by this point!
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Most of it is cuz us noobs want to try stupid **** to see what we can get away with. That is why I did what I did yesterday, I was about 95% sure it would cause a problem but I chose to do it anyway.
So I have a new problem after restoring my device. Now I can't install any new apps from the market.every time I get the message "can't install ____ due to insufficient space on phone" of am at work now but I an gonna try to figure this out tonight.
Every time i plugin my phone It rellano me that battery is too low to flash. How do i charge It? It turns on every time to the fail to boot message
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And I am all fixed!!
To the OP try plugging it in with the phone off for a while and see if that works for ya.
Took it to Sprint and they gave me a new phone thank you for the info.
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And I am all fixed!!
To the OP try plugging it in with the phone off for a while and see if that works for ya.
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Possibly bricked phone?

Okay, so I just bought my Galaxy S2 a few hours ago came home and went to root it just like I've done every android phone when I get it. So far I've had a G1, HTC Hero and a HTC Evo 4G. So I'm not really new to doing any of this but I wouldn't say I'm any expert either. I used the tutorial for rooting from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301682) and it was this youtube video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Z2dKsuio) I tried to do it and got all the way until the point where you push start and then it said that it failed. Now all I can get my phone to do is pop up to a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I have looked for a recovery mode option in Kies but can't find anything. The only thing I find is something about an Emergency Recovery and when I try that it asks for a pin or something. If anybody can help it'd be awesome!
What were you trying to flash? with Odin, right?
Remove the battery, hold both volume buttons, plug in USB, keep holding volume buttons.... does it enter download after ten seconds or so?
Try with this stuff using odin if you can enter download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
Then enter 3 button recovery and wipe data.
See if it boots.
Disclaimer: I'm no pro. This is just what I'd do. I'm not 100% certain new phones are identical to phones from October 2nd.
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jc1337 said:
Okay, so I just bought my Galaxy S2 a few hours ago came home and went to root it just like I've done every android phone when I get it. So far I've had a G1, HTC Hero and a HTC Evo 4G. So I'm not really new to doing any of this but I wouldn't say I'm any expert either. I used the tutorial for rooting from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301682) and it was this youtube video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Z2dKsuio) I tried to do it and got all the way until the point where you push start and then it said that it failed. Now all I can get my phone to do is pop up to a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I have looked for a recovery mode option in Kies but can't find anything. The only thing I find is something about an Emergency Recovery and when I try that it asks for a pin or something. If anybody can help it'd be awesome!
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i still have a similar issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461620
then the phone says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue"
weirdly the only way i was able to get back to download mode is when i flash the root(GalaxyS2ATTRootZedomax) via odin (put in pda)
you can try , but im still stuck and my phone isnt booting or flashing
dont know if this will work with you (so dont do my way unless your sure it wont harm)
33t said:
What were you trying to flash? with Odin, right?
Remove the battery, hold both volume buttons, plug in USB, keep holding volume buttons.... does it enter download after ten seconds or so?
Try with this stuff if you can enter download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
Disclaimer: I'm no pro. This is just what I'd do. I'm not 100% certain new phones are identical to phones from October 2nd.
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It kind of goes to download, it goes to that screen where it tells you to click volume up to go into download and then you click volume up and it goes to the screen where it says the whole "firmware upgrade encountered an issue....." and which one should I try out of the four? I wasn't able to root my phone or install custom roms or anything. it messed up right from the beginning... :/
jc1337 said:
It kind of goes to download, it goes to that screen where it tells you to click volume up to go into download and then you click volume up and it goes to the screen where it says the whole "firmware upgrade encountered an issue....." and which one should I try out of the four? I wasn't able to root my phone or install custom roms or anything. it messed up right from the beginning... :/
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http://www.attdroids.com/forum/samsung-galaxy-s2/3471-how-root-your-galaxy-s2.html
this was what i did
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alsaqr said:
http://www.attdroids.com/forum/samsung-galaxy-s2/3471-how-root-your-galaxy-s2.html
this was what i did
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wait, so is your phone working now?
I'm confused. You never flashed anything and the phone won't boot?
Can you enter recovery? (Hold all three buttons until you see text)
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Also make sure youve exited Kies. Kill the process. You just need the drivers.
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I'm confused. You never flashed anything and the phone won't boot?
Can you enter recovery? (Hold all three buttons until you see text)
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I tried flashing the .tar from this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Z2dKsuio) video to give myself root but it gave me an error and didn't actually flash. and now my phone is just an expensive piece of plastic sitting on my desk and I can't go to sleep until I turn it back into a phone. I have a feeling work tomorrow is going to suck. ha should have waited until the weekend.
jc1337 said:
wait, so is your phone working now?
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no it is not working
i can only get into download mode
i think i have a bootloader problem after flashing gt-i9100 rom
alsaqr said:
no it is not working
i can only get into download mode
i think i have a bootloader problem after flashing gt-i9100 rom
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well I was never actually able to flash a rom or anything so I don't think we have the exact same problem. some of the same symptoms though.
Dude i was just Googling your error message. Its all over the internet. Doesn't look like a disaster. The only way you can truly **** up is by flashing something from the wrong phone.
Look around. Its out there.
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Remove your battery. Hold power down for a while. Release. Keep battery out of phone. Hold both volume buttons (not power) and plug in usb. See of it enters download.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309293&page=5
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Dude i was just Googling your error message. Its all over the internet. Doesn't look like a disaster. The only way you can truly **** up is by flashing something from the wrong phone.
Look around. Its out there.
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I know, I googled it for about 2 hours trying all sorts of different things and none of them are working. I'm still trying different stuff though. odin still recognizes my phone just nothing works when I try it.
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Remove your battery. Hold power down for a while. Release. Keep battery out of phone. Hold both volume buttons (not power) and plug in usb. See of it enters download.
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the phone just keeps going buzz....buzz....buzz but the screen doesn't ever come on and nothing happens when I leave the battery out.
PS. I also noticed earlier that the phone would stay on that screen where it asks about entering download mode until I would raise my fingers off the volume buttons and then it would go back to the screen that tells me to do the recovery with kies or w/e
Sorry no idea.... if you can't get to download with what I said a few times, then in lost.... there are a number of folks here who know way more than I do. I'm bowing out.
At the very least, check out the unbrick/return to stock thread in detail...
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Sorry no idea.... there are a number of folks here who know way more than I do. I'm bowing out.
At the very least, check out the unbrick/return to stock thread in detail.
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I just tried that one, it failed also. uhhhhhh I guess at the very least I can use the tutorial to return the custom binary download count to 0 and just return it and get a new phone
I was thinking that too.
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Blank screen and no signs of life

So I was in the middle of messing with my note, rooted already and working great. Just downloaded a ROM to the SD. Not installing anything. Note not plugged in but 98% on battery.
All of a sudden the screen is blank. Can't get anything to turn on. Don't see anything on the screen. Nothing. Changed battery, plugged it in, no dice nothing.
Ideas? Hardware issue?
Any and all help is appreciated.
By the way was on stock ROM.
Really any help is appreciated.
Try downloading and running the is odin one click. And try to put your phone in download mode. if it does not work. hardware failure and youll need a new device
I would try the above, download mode, all different modes of the phone to see what's working.
Also i would try holding the power button for 8 mississippi seconds and see if it vibrates.
hmmm
lmike6453 said:
I would try the above, download mode, all different modes of the phone to see what's working.
Also i would try holding the power button for 8 mississippi seconds and see if it vibrates.
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I have the same problem, and no vibration when i hold the power button. I take out the battery try different comboc, and nothing, seems like a dead phone, but i did nothing to mess it up...
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I think i found the problem, after reviewing whAT i think i had done, I was tryuing to root and install a custom rom to galaxy note, but in odin i flashed cwm recovery to the bootloader instead of PDA...can this be fixed?
Sometimes phones die... Good new is sammy will probably never know that you rooted it when you send it in for exchange.
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Sometimes phones die... Good new is sammy will probably never know that you rooted it when you send it in for exchange.
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wow thanks yeah thats what i was thinking, if there is not water damage or anything and no power, then they should give a new one?
right? i dont see how they could diagnose it if no power
If your not getting any response try holding the volume up and down buttons at the same time and plugging it into a charger that brought my phone into recovery mode, I did a factory reset and I was up and running again
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android4545 said:
If your not getting any response try holding the volume up and down buttons at the same time and plugging it into a charger that brought my phone into recovery mode, I did a factory reset and I was up and running again
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nada, could it be from me using the bootloader tab for installing CWR?
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nada, could it be from me using the bootloader tab for installing CWR?
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Could be, you could always play dumb and get a replace through att
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Flashed a CWM image to your boot loader ?
Uh...yeh......thats a bad day right there, if you whacked the boot partition...it's bye-bye phone.....
Hello ATT ?...yeh, it just quit....LOL
trade it....g
No wonder these "smart"phones cost so much.
How true ....LOL
samsung galaxy note SHV-E160K no sign of life
i tried your answer. still no live on computer what should i do. phone is samsung galaxy note SHV-E160K
ysambo said:
Please do this:
1. Replace battery
2. Insert batery
3. Hold down volume key + home key + power key for 15s to 20s
4. Press volume up key
5. Open Odin
6. connect your phone to pc
7. flash new bootloader(2.tar) by odin
Please see this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354888
and download attachment file then extract it and choose 2.tar to flash.
After complete your phone can boot to download mod and you must flash original rom for galaxy note by download form www.sammobile.com
Good luck.
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If your not getting any response try holding the volume up and down buttons at the same time and plugging it into a charger that brought my phone into recovery mode, I did a factory reset and I was up and running again
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JTAG it.
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