I just unlocked my TF201 and tried flashing CWM with fastboot. I rebooted into recovery and selected fastboot, plugged my tablet into my computer, and then typed the command to flash the recovery, but fastboot just says "<waiting for device>".
I tried this on both Ubuntu x64 and Windows 7 x64 and they both did the same thing. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: I figured out the problem. On linux I didn't use sudo when using fastboot. After using that, it worked just fine. I wasn't able to get it working in Windows, but that doesn't matter to me anymore since I was able to flash it.
As I have noticed, many users here in the DX Forum have problems connecting their phones to the PC via fastboot / adb. So I decided to write a short tutorial on how to achieve this with the help of a linux live cd. As you may know, there won't appear problems in linux with the drivers because they're already included in the kernel.
First, lets start with what you need.
You'll need:
A blank USB pendrive
A PC capable of booting from USB (will explain that later)
A micro USB cable
An HTC Desire X
If you meet all these requirements, first download a few things:
YUMI: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
A linux live CD. For this tutorial I use system rescue cd: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
adb and fastboot binaries for linux, which I'll attach to the thread.
Then, you need to make your stick bootable using YUMI. Just start the downloaded file and follow the instructions. Be careful to choose the right volume! All data on the volume chosen will be lost! Scroll down to find the entry for system rescue cd and choose the appropriate iso image you downloaded before, let YUMI finish your stick. Before rebooting, copy the adb and fastboot binary to the USB drive using explorer.
After this is done, restart your PC. Check boot priority in BIOS to be sure it will boot your stick before your harddrive. In the YUMI boot menu, choose System Tools -> System Rescue CD. In the system rescue cd menu, choose "Directly start graphical environment". Wait for Linux to boot up. You'll be greeted by the LXDE screen with a terminal window showing a root prompt. There, you just type "cd /livemnt/boot". Connect your HTC Desire X to the PC. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled. Now, you can type "./adb devices" and see if it recognizes your phone. If you want to use fastboot, just type "./adb reboot bootloader" and your phone will directly boot into fastboot mode. There, you can test connectivity with "./fastboot devices".
If you want to flash a kernel, be sure to copy the boot.img to your USB drive before booting the live cd. When you successfully tested connectivity with your phone via "./fastboot devices", just issue "./fastboot flash boot boot.img". For a recovery, do a "./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (make sure the file recovery.img exists).
I hope this will help many users with the procedure of flashing kernels via fastboot and connect their phones via adb.
Thank you very much
Good work
navmad
thanks man cant connect with win8 properly adb dont work but fastboot does
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Give this a try on Win 8.1 (not win 8) .. got both adb and fastboot permission denied.
ckpv5 said:
Give this a try on Win 8.1 (not win 8) .. got both adb and fastboot permission denied.
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When did you get permission denied? On which step? adb and fastboot binaries are for linux only. They're extracted from platform-tools folder of android-sdk for linux and to be run on a linux live cd as I wrote in my tut. Just follow the steps exactly.
dansou901 said:
When did you get permission denied? On which step? adb and fastboot binaries are for linux only. They're extracted from platform-tools folder of android-sdk for linux and to be run on a linux live cd as I wrote in my tut. Just follow the steps exactly.
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It works on Win7 but not Win8.1
And I guess it works on Win8 too.
ckpv5 said:
It works on Win7 but not Win8.1
And I guess it works on Win8 too.
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I already said. The goal of my tutorial is to be able to run adb and fastboot from a linux live system, not to run them on Windows. The usb stick has to be prepared in Windows though, which should work on Win 8.1 too (didn't got the oppurtunity to test, I'm waiting for the official update rather than running beta software).
dansou901 said:
I already said. The goal of my tutorial is to be able to run adb and fastboot from a linux live system, not to run them on Windows. The usb stick has to be prepared in Windows though, which should work on Win 8.1 too (didn't got the oppurtunity to test, I'm waiting for the official update rather than running beta software).
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Let's forget it as I said before that I don't really need this, it may come handy for some people.
And this
It works on Win7 but not Win8.1
And I guess it works on Win8 too
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is referring to running by booting to the linux live cd which is in the usb stick not on windows itself
(more or less the same way I run the gparted live cd)
ckpv5 said:
Let's forget it as I said before that I don't really need this, it may come handy for some people.
And this
is referring to running by booting to the linux live cd which is in the usb stick not on windows itself
(more or less the same way I run the gparted live cd)
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You mean you can't boot the usb stick? You have to set the options in BIOS correctly. If you have a new PC with Windows 8 or 8.1 preinstalled, you need to disable Secure Boot and activate CSM Boot Modus.
dansou901 said:
You mean you can't boot the usb stick? You have to set the options in BIOS correctly. If you have a new PC with Windows 8 or 8.1 preinstalled, you need to disable Secure Boot and activate CSM Boot Modus.
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I can boot the usb stick, no problem with that.
There's something in DX and One S that got problem with Win 8.1 but not for One X and One V.
hi , this is great , but any way to use it with sony xperia models ? thanks.
I don't know those, so I can't tell what you need there exactly to do similar things with your phone through adb and fastboot, so maybe just try yourself and find out?
I boot my Acer Iconia Tab A200 into fastboot mode (robot lying down and RED exclamation mark over it). I plug it into my Windows 7 (64bit) desktop computer with SDK installed, and from the directory with fastboot.exe I type FASTBOOT DEVICES but the device is not being seen, it just goes back to the prompt, like the command executed but didn't do anything. I assume this is because the drivers aren't installed. But I don't know how to install the "adb drivers". How is this done?
Go to Acer support page, you'll get the drivers there.
This device will not fully boot. It gets stuck at an "encryption unsuccessful" message. I'm trying to flash a rom image from my desktop computer using fastboot, but when my tablet is in fastboot mode, my desktop computer won't recognize it. ie adb devices command doesn't show that there is any device connected, and I think it's because the drivers aren't installed. I think those Acer drivers only work if the tablet can be fully booted.
Installed the Google USB Drivers from the SDK Manager already. Don't know what's wrong.
Alright I figured out how to get fastboot to interface with my Android tablet. The problem was that I wasn't getting the tablet into fastboot mode to recieve commands.
But now it's working. However, I'm trying to unlock the bootloader and it gives me an errors that says:
SetUnlockedMode: Error occured while unlock the device ...
Fastboot: Failed to set unlock mode
I have to unlock the bootloader before I flash an image to the tablet, right ?
Yep, surely.
Hi guys,
I am trying to root Flyer but I cant get fastboot access to unlock the bootloader.
I have installed drivers (this guide; tried this also) but I am getting always the same error: Windows could not recognize the device.
Do you guys have any ideas how to get fastboot access on windows 8.1 x64?
If anyone will need this for any older device follow this
http://plugable.com/2012/12/01/windows-8-and-intel-usb-3-0-host-controllers
So, I was messing some things up in safestrap and I decided I want to do a fresh start on my phone. So I went to the wipe section and wiped everything.. Now as I can tell, I have no /system folder, no OS, nothing. I can access bootloader. After intense reading and searching, I managed to connect my phone via adb, adb devices command shows the ID of my phone in a sideload state. Sideloading a rom never worked, tried many of them, at best I got an error about getprop file missing - tried to modify the updater-script using an editor after instructions but still nothing. My main issue is that while adb works fine, drivers are 100% fine, upon entering phone into fastboot mode, it disconnects and there is nowhere to be found under device manager. If I could get it to work in fastboot I could then use RSD lite to flash a stock rom. Also, the only command that works from adb is the # adb sideload filename, anything else returns error:closed. Even tried #adb usb #adb remount and so on. Is my phone a garbage at this point?
forgot to say also, tried to connect via fastboot under windows 7 sp1 / xp sp3 / ubuntu 14.04 .
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