I recently rooted my Eris and I'm unable to flash a custom recovery because I can't get the USB drivers to update with those found in the SDK files. When I try to update the drivers Windows tells me that I have the most up to date drivers installed. It's because of this I cannot see my phone in the command prompt and can't get the custom recovery to work.
Has anyone tried putting the recovery files on their SD and using a terminal emulator?
Any ideas on updating the USB drivers?
If I flashed a custom Rom (as risky as that is without a recovery) could I then use nandroid or some other recovery? Or would I still need to use SDK?
joshw0000 said:
I recently rooted my Eris and I'm unable to flash a custom recovery because I can't get the USB drivers to update with those found in the SDK files. When I try to update the drivers Windows tells me that I have the most up to date drivers installed. It's because of this I cannot see my phone in the command prompt and can't get the custom recovery to work.
Has anyone tried putting the recovery files on their SD and using a terminal emulator?
Any ideas on updating the USB drivers?
If I flashed a custom Rom (as risky as that is without a recovery) could I then use nandroid or some other recovery? Or would I still need to use SDK?
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download htc sync that should fix ur problem , it did for me
Yes HTC sync updated mine as soon as your phone is acknowledged by HTC sync it should update your usb drivers
FYI HTC sync did NOT work for me on Windows 7. I had to do some pretty annoying stuff to stop windows from installing the regular drivers automatically. If HTC sync doesn't work I can try to help.
If HTC Sync doesn't help, try the following steps.
1. Unplug your Eris from the PC
2. Open Device Manager and delete the Android device
3. Reboot your PC
4. Once in Windows, connect your Eris
5. The drivers should load automatically, if not point it to the SDK drivers folder
Good luck!
Any more ideas
First I tried downloading HTC Sync on my laptop (running Vista) and that didn't do it. Then I deleted the drivers and tried to manually download them back with the ones in the USB folder of SDK and still it wouldn't work.
So I started over and downloaded SDK and Java to my pc (Windows 7) and tried to update the drivers with the ones found in SDK and it wouldn't let me. So I deleted the drivers, unplugged my phone, and plugged it back up. Before I could attempt to direct it to download the intended USB drivers, Windows 7 had already updated with the drivers of it's choice. I can't win for losing.
If you don't mind using one of those "Live" Linux CDs, you could install the recovery using fastboot.
No need to install anything on the PC, and no drivers are needed for Linux, no SDK, no Java, no adb; just make sure to run fastboot as root.
The downloads of fastboot and the Amon_RA recovery are small, so they will easily fit in /tmp.
bftb0
I've never used Linux but I'm willing to try. Please tell me more. Are there "how tos" for this?
When you have your phone plugges in do you have it set to "charge" or "sync"? I know all the how to's say yo have it set to charge only but the inly way my computer ever finds my phone is if it us set to sync.
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I set it to charge. I was finally able to install the correct driver. I selected a Google driver from the list it gave me (which my computer did not like) then went back and updated the drivers with those found in the tools usb folder of SDK. IT FINALLY LET ME!
Now I have a new problem. I'm using the command prompt and trying to create a custom recovery. I set it to the tools directory in SDK (where the flash and recovery images are) and I'm entering the commands exactly like the "how to" instructions have them. I keep getting "adb: not found" errors.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
joshw0000 said:
I've never used Linux but I'm willing to try. Please tell me more. Are there "how tos" for this?
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Well, in the long run it is probably a good idea to resolve the driver install problems you are having on your PC, because it is very useful to have "adb" around, even if you are already rooted and have the ROM of your choice installed.
But, if you would like to do this, here's an outline below. Note that the point of the "Live" CDs is that you are not installing Linux on your machine, you are just booting it directly from the CD - the OS and hard drive on your PC are untouched.
1) Download an ".iso" file from your favorite Linux distro [ 3 ] for their "live" CD. (BIG download, usually 600+ MB)
2) Burn the .iso file to a CD as a bootable CD. (Most decent CD/DVD burner programs know what an .ISO file is, but might refer to them as a disk image).
3) Boot your PC off it! (You might need to hit a key on your PC right after you power it on to go into a boot menu, or the BIOS setup to change the boot order so your PC will try to boot from the CD/DVD before it tries the hard drive).
4) Copy the fastboot [ 1 ] executable for Linux and the Amon_RA recovery image [ 2 ] to /tmp "somehow" - you could just download it using the Linux browser if your network come up automatically (wired ethernet), or you could put them onto a USB key beforehand, and plug that in after Linux has booted; it should mount automatically.
5) Then, open up a terminal window and become root. (Type either "su" or "sudo /bin/bash" - depends on the Linux distro)
6) Attach your (well-charged) phone to the phone via USB, and power it up in fastboot mode (Send+End simultaneously)
cd /tmp
chmod 755 fastboot
md5sum recovery.img (check file sig)
./fastboot devices (check to see you are connected)
./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Obviously, if you need to look something up on the internet, it is useful to be networked, so you can use a web browser. The Linux boot will try to autoconfigure network interfaces automatically, but this is going to be most straightforward with a wired connection (Ethernet). Alternatively, if you have another PC or laptop nearby, you could use that.
Good luck.
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[ 1 ] Find Linux version of fastboot from HTC midway down this page - md5sum 9851bb6ad29cd4b60c9ba9d011ba9efd
[ 2 ] Amon_RA's recovery is located on this XDA page - md5sum e3932991f097993602af3c7a4b61a4f8
[ 3 ] Ubuntu's Current (x32) CD for v10.04 this page
NOTE: This CD is both a "Live" CD and an Install CD. You DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL ANYTHING; you are using the "Live" CD function - see the "show me how" link under Item #3 ("Try It!") on the above linked page
[ 4 ] Various OpenSuSe 11.2 Live CDs
Thanks for the info. I was able to get my drivers installed and run a nandroid recovery. Then I think I bricked my phone:
I just ran a nandroid backup for my Eris which was at stock 2.1 w/ root. I first partitioned the sd to swap - 3072 MB, ext2 swap 3072 MB, and fat32 - remainder. Realizing this was stupid, I went back and changed the partition to swap - 0, ext2 - 512 MB, fat32 - remainder 7680 MB or 7.5 GB. I moved ext2 to ext3 and booted the phone. All my sd was cleared so I copied everything back on (I saved all sd contents to my computer prior to this). I went back to recovery and flashed Eris Lightning 3.02. Everything went successful and when it rebooted, I saw the droid guys, then the "quietly brilliant", then "Verizon" screens. It then began running the "quietly brilliant" and "verizon" screens over and over. I pulled the battery and powered up again but it's still running those two screens over and over. I booted into recovery and attached my phone to the computer. I opened command prompt, entered " sd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" and then entered "adb devices". It reads "List of devices attached" but there are none. I attempted to add the driver back to my device but when I go to device manager and click "update driver" and point it to the tools directory in SDK, it says that "Windows could not find driver software for your device".
If I can't communicate with my phone via usb and it wont boot, how can I get it to recover?
Any suggestions would help, I'm scratching my head here. I really don't want to have to buy another phone.
joshw0000 said:
Thanks for the info. I was able to get my drivers installed and run a nandroid recovery. Then I think I bricked my phone:
I just ran a nandroid backup for my Eris which was at stock 2.1 w/ root. I first partitioned the sd to swap - 3072 MB, ext2 swap 3072 MB, and fat32 - remainder. Realizing this was stupid, I went back and changed the partition to swap - 0, ext2 - 512 MB, fat32 - remainder 7680 MB or 7.5 GB. I moved ext2 to ext3 and booted the phone. All my sd was cleared so I copied everything back on (I saved all sd contents to my computer prior to this). I went back to recovery and flashed Eris Lightning 3.02. Everything went successful and when it rebooted, I saw the droid guys, then the "quietly brilliant", then "Verizon" screens. It then began running the "quietly brilliant" and "verizon" screens over and over. I pulled the battery and powered up again but it's still running those two screens over and over. I booted into recovery and attached my phone to the computer. I opened command prompt, entered " sd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" and then entered "adb devices". It reads "List of devices attached" but there are none. I attempted to add the driver back to my device but when I go to device manager and click "update driver" and point it to the tools directory in SDK, it says that "Windows could not find driver software for your device".
If I can't communicate with my phone via usb and it wont boot, how can I get it to recover?
Any suggestions would help, I'm scratching my head here. I really don't want to have to buy another phone.
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First, relax and take a deep breath; everything's going to be fine.
In the recovery main menu, there is an Item called something like "MS-USB toggle" or something like that. It does not use the adb driver, it uses a standard "Mass Storage Device" USB driver already on the PC. The purpose of this function is to make the SD Card mount on the PC when the Amon_RA recovery is running.
Try that - it should work.
Then, download a conservative ROM such as Ivanmmj's Official 1.0 alpha, or Jcase's "Plain Jane", and copy it to your SD card.
After you have done that, make sure to check the MD5 sum of that .zip file on the SD card. (You should be doing this already).
Then, cleanly dismount the USB drive from the PC with the "Safely Remove Hardware" thingamabob, and toggle "off" the MS-USB toggle on the phone. Return to the main menu, wipe /data, and then flash the "conservative" ROM.
Then boot the conservative ROM just to verify everything is OK.
Next, Backup anything from the SD card that you don't already have (this step might be optional), and boot into recovery, and unpartition your SD card so that the only thing that is there is the VFAT partition.
For the moment, I'll give you some advice: f*ck A2SD. You need to gain some familarity with how the various versions of a2sd work before you start using it..
Very likely you were just stuck in a boot loop created by the re-partitioning you performed after initial configuration of a ROM that uses a2sd. Frankly, it is easy to create conditions for this, especially if you switch between ROMs that use different versions of a2sd, and/or don't understand that certain versions are not correctly backed up with Nandroid at the moment (e.g CLB).
bftb0
Go in to the start menu of your computer or laptop right click on computer and go down to properties and open it up look to the right and you will see something that says advanced system settings click that and it will open up another window for system properties.. Okay look at the bottom of that small window you will see something that says environmental variables, click that. Now you want to scroll through the system variables and find the one that says "path" you want to change that to you ";C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" and save it.. That is where your adb file or app is in your sdk tools folder, so when you open up a command prompt type in adb devices it may say something about killing daemon starting successful.. Don't worry just type it in again you should get your phones serial number thats when you know your good and you can start talking to your phone.. You can try a simple command like adb reboot and it will reboot your phone.. All else fails and you do this and your phone is responding but you can get anything to run in the command prompt type with 1 space cd then another space and then copy and paste "C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" that.. So it will look something like this
cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools.. That should def do the trick.. Or absolute worst case scenario and you want to make it real easy and not have the fun of doing all the hard but fun work just use the "all in one root script" it will root your phone and it will also install "amon RA recoveryv1.6.2"... Hope this helps you out. LoL I know its long but yo dude I went through the same hell and I finally got everything where I want it!!!!!! Also make sure your HBOOT is under 1.49, if you have 1.49 you cant root... For example 1.46 your good...
Go in to the start menu of your computer or laptop right click on computer and go down to properties and open it up look to the right and you will see something that says advanced system settings click that and it will open up another window for system properties.. Okay look at the bottom of that small window you will see something that says environmental variables, click that. Now you want to scroll through the system variables and find the one that says "path" you want to change that to you ";C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" and save it.. That is where your adb file or app is in your sdk tools folder, so when you open up a command prompt type in adb devices it may say something about killing daemon starting successful.. Don't worry just type it in again you should get your phones serial number thats when you know your good and you can start talking to your phone.. You can try a simple command like adb reboot and it will reboot your phone.. All else fails and you do this and your phone is responding but you can get anything to run in the command prompt type with 1 space cd then another space and then copy and paste "C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" that.. So it will look something like this
cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools.. That should def do the trick.. Or absolute worst case scenario and you want to make it real easy and not have the fun of doing all the hard but fun work just use the "all in one root script" it will root your phone and it will also install "amon RA recoveryv1.6.2"... Hope this helps you out. LoL I know its long but yo dude I went through the same hell and I finally got everything where I want it!!!!!! Also make sure your HBOOT is under 1.49, if you have 1.49 you cant root... For example 1.46 your good...
Win 7 x64
AT&T Xperia X10a
I was trying to root my X10a, using the one click method (X10Root.1.0.8.apk), and got hung up when trying to side load the app. ADB nor SWM could find the device. I finally got ADB to find my device. Here is how I got it to work.
Xperia- have debugging on
- have titanium backup free installed
- have busy body free installed
- do NOT mound SD
- have allow mock locations on
- have stay awake on
PC- have pc companion installed BUT terminate the process
- have the android sdk installed. (when installing I just installed everything)
- have android-sdk_r07-windows folder in C:/
- I changed the folder name above (android-sdk_r07-windows) to sdk
- have X10Root.1.0.8.apk file in C:/
- if google calander sync installed exit it.
With X10 plugged in and all above met.
Open command prompt
Type or copy and paste(if you changed folder name) cd C:\sdk\tools
Hit enter
Type adb kill-server
Hit enter
Type adb shell
Hit enter
Type adb install C:\X10Root.1.0.8.apk
Hit enter
Now the app should be on your phone. I hope this helps some AT&T X10 owners out there. Everyone keep up the good work.
Good info, I bet it will become very usfull to other in case they need to SideLoad. I did mine after 4 hours of time spending and finding the issue couple days ago.
Cheers,
Someone did post a fix for this on a java issue too...I like the adb method though..The sideloader and at&t just don't like each other! Would be awesome if we could use RSDlite to flash it though!
download and install this driver :
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/825/494/1279522933/X10_drivers.zip
PS : APK files are like setup.exe on wondows... you must to copy it on your X10's SD card, and execute it on the X10, NOT on your PC !!
I've been sitting on my 4.5.91 update for a month or two now, out of sheer laziness/I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm currently running Android 2.2.2, update 4.1.83, and GingerBlur 3.1. I have a recovery image, yet when I try to boot into Fastboot, nothing happens and holding the up volume button only locks me into a "Starting RSD protocol support" screen. I'm a little lost,and my Android-savvy roommate is as well. Any help would be appreciated!
-My roommate has reviewed my post and says I should mention I'm trying to push a ROM through Fastboot, but my PC won't recognize my phone.
download and extract
Android-sdk-windows
to the c:\ on the pc
then go to android-sdk-(yourpc) folder open it and run the installer
choose the first 2 packages check tools
and platform tools then unckeck 4.0
and all the rest (it should do it but you might need to uncheck manually)
then install 2 packages ok,
inportant note below!
go to:
start,
computer right click and choose properties /advanced /enviromental varialbles
second wimdow scroll down to PATH
highlight it scroll all the way to the far right and type C:\android-sdk-yourpc\platform-toolsC:\android-sdk-yourpc\tools
reboot pc and go to start/run type"adb
enter; you should get a big list of options
plug your phone into pc Dont mount sdcard to pc just plug it in
adb devices
# attached devices
output will read a device secific code
and time it took
there is a video refrence for indepth investigation
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=oaNM-lt_aHw&v=oaNM-lt_aHw&gl=US
to "change directory you will need to type
into command promt cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
for windows pc for linix and mac (sellit and by a windows
Hi - new to all this so please bear with me. I have an Archos 101 g9 250gb model. I updated all the stock firmware and as you may guess found so many problems with the tablet after upgrading to the latest that the tablet became almost unusable. So i did a bit of research and decided to try and root it. I downloaded the SDE files and installed them no problem. I then downloaded the rooted archos firmware - 3 files to be extracted and copied over to the archos, but here was the problem, when i tried to copy the extracted files a dialogue box pops up telling me that i only have 299mb available and the files to transfer are bigger - where has all my gb's of space gone??? I went to the recovery menu and formatted my archos but it still only shows up as being 299mb even when linked to my laptop in 'my computer' !!!
Please help someone as i am going round in circles and not finding a solution.
Thanks in advance.
Hello, and welcome to XDA
You are trying to install it wrong. I know it sounds logical to try and do it as upgrade, but SDE loads the image from your flash memory.
Restart your tablet back to stock. If you did not remove android kernel, normal restart is only thing required.
We need to use ADB to move the file, so download android sdk, or adb only zip if you find that somewhere. Then enable usb debugging on settings->developer. then install these drivers http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates_adb.html?lang=en. You might have to open device manager and force the drivers to install. http://www.ehow.com/how_6299394_force-windows-use-different-drivers.html
Now move archos.ext4.update to the same folder with adb.exe (it is in platform-tools in android SDK), open commandline and cd to directory with adb.exe
as an example, android SDK is in C:\android, you do
Code:
cd \
cd android
cd platform-tools
And then you move the archos.ext4.update to /data/local with following command:
adb push archos.ext4.update /data/local/android.ext4
notice how i dropped the update? It works better for me without the update in the end, but that is just personal experience. Then restart your device to recovery, go to sdk and choose: Remove Android Kernel. After that, Flash Kernel & Initramfs. It opens a new driver. copy there zImage & initramfs.cpio.lzo. Then press ok and device and wait for a moment. After that you can just reboot. Now you should have root.
I am working on trying to root my Alcatel A50 (nice little phone I picked up on the cheap). In order to install SuperSU to get root access, I need to install a bootloader. By the looks of it, I should be able to make a working bootloader if I have the boot.img file. In order to extract boot.img from the phone, I need root access... a bit of a catch22...
I have so far managed to unlock the bootloader and download an official MBN file via the official Alcatel Windows updater. If I can figure out how to extract boot.img from this MBN file, then I may be able to get around the above3 catch 22.
From this MBN file (3.4 GB in size), I have managed to extract a bunch of apps (see my journal in the hidden section below for details of how I did that). However, part way through the extractor chokes and quits. Based on the size differential of what I am able to extract vs the overall size of the MBN file, I am sure that there is more lurking inside of this file beyond what was extracted - such as the desired boot.img.
What I have gleaned so far in my reading suggests that these MBN files are, in fact, a sort of executable binary file. To that end, I am wondering if anybody has had any luck disassembling these files/fully extracting their contents.
In case it helps (either for my query or some future endeavor in a related vein), here is what I have documented of my quest thus far (follow the directions/links/downloads at your own risk):
https://web.archive.org/web/2017070...bile.com:80/global-en/support/smartsuite/list
Enable OEM Unlock: http://techbeasts.com/how-to-enable-oem-unlock-on-android-nougat/
Install ADB and Fastboot. Go here: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools scroll down to the Downloads section and click on “SDK Platform-Tools for Windows” - it should be a 4-5 MB download. Unzip the files and navigate to the folder via CMD.exe.
As Alcatel seems to have merged with another company, it would appear that links to useful software, drivers etc have all been broken in the midst of their overhaul. I must say I was unimpressed with the limited information/downloads available from their present sites (even checking many of their international sites). At any rate, I managed to find a link to the Alcatel Smart Suite (https://web.archive.org/web/2017070...bile.com:80/global-en/support/smartsuite/list) via Archive.org. I simply selected the newest one and – behold – it downloaded.
Download Smart Suite → Install and load application. Plug in phone to install Alcatel ADB Driver. Reboot Windows
I did run into an issue when running “adb devices” after launching the Smart Suite where it was saying:
adb server version (31) doesn't match this client (40); killing...
could not read ok from ADB Server
* failed to start daemon
error: cannot connect to daemon
I found someone else had a similar issue (https://stackoverflow.com/questions...rsion-31-doesnt-match-this-client-36#38447003). As per the link, I closed Smart Suite and ran the following terminal commands:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
And that seemed to resolve the issue.
You will want to reboot the phone into fastboot mode with this command:
adb reboot bootloader
And verify that you have connectivity by running:
fastboot devices
Then type in this command:
fastboot oem unlock
Your phone will display some text prompting you to unlock the bootloader. Mine says:
Unlock bootloader?
If you unlock the bootloader, you will be able to install custom operating system software on this phone.
A custom OS is not subject to the same testing as the original OS, and can cause your phone and installed applications to stop working properly.
To prevent unauthorized access to your personal data, unlocking the bootloader will also delete all personal data from our phone (a “factory data reset”).
Press the UP/Down buttons to select Yes or No.
Yes: (Volume Up): Unlock (may void warranty)
No: (Volume Down): Do not unlock bootloader.
To continue, Press the Volume Up button on the phone.
Another site suggested I also run: fastboot flashing unlock. I am not sure if that is necessary, but I ran it for good measure. The procedure is the same as above.
Once it finishes, press and hold the power button to power the phone off. Then power it back up. Once it is finished erasing, set up the phone again, enable developer mode and USB debugging.
Next, we will need to obtain root access. To do this, we will install SUPERSU. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, the official website only gives us XML files when trying to download the files. I did track down an unofficial mirror, though am not 100% sure of its veracity. Download the latest version (the zip file) and use ADB to push it to the phone (adb push filename.zip /sdcard/) and then use the onboard file manager to move it to your external SD card. Then reboot into recovery mode (adb reboot recovery).
Getting Original Firmware
http://www.alcatel-mobile.com/cari/support/softwareUpgrade/list
Download Mobile_Upgrade_S_Gotu2_v5.2.1_Setup.exe
• Install
• Shutdown Phone
• Load software & select 5085O
• Plug in Phone to initiate the downloaded
• (?Unplug phone) and wait for download to complete
• Go into C:\Mobile Upgrade S Gotu2 v5.2.1\download and grab the big file.
Extract Zip → Get MBM File
Either using CYGWIN or running it on Linux directly, execute the following perl script (as per this thread discussion - https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...p-4s-help-rooting-installing-t3514186/page9):
cat system.mbn | perl -pe 's/(\xFF{5}\x00{4}\xFF{54})[^\xFF]{10}(\xFF{16})/\1\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\2
/g' | perl -pe 's/(\xFF{32})\xA8\xCF\x56\xCF\xFA\x43\x09\x9F\x79(\xFF{32})/\1\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\2/g' > system.img
On Linux, install simg2img. Use this utility to convert the system.img to system.img.raw (cannot recall where I saw this tidbit)
Mount system.img.raw (mount system.img.raw /mnt/tmp)
sudo cp -R * /home/Downloads/temp/