Sorry, i know you must get this all the time guys, but i'm really struggling with rooting and such.
I'm on 1.72 and have no idea how to downgrade. I know you might say "read the guide" blah blah, but i don't understand it "Moron" i hear you saying. Anyway, Is there a complete noob guide for it anywhere? Like literally one that talks you through every step?
Also, my screen cracked, so i opened it up and replaced the screen myself, didn't have insurance or the £170 to have them fix it. Before the screen cracked it was doing this thing where it looked all psychedelic, Whites have blue coming off them, blacks have reds coming off them, that kind of thing. and its doing it again. This made me think it was a software issue, it happen to anybody else? I was thinking if i put a different rom on it, it'd stop, but i dunno. Anyway, thanks for any help anyone gives.
Does the screen replacement involve the flat ribbon cable between the screen part of the phone and the keyboard? I'm thinking it doesn't, but I'm certainly no expert. A damaged ribbon cable can cause colors to display improperly.
Nah, its attached to the screen so it was a new one.
The screen only comes with a small ribbon cable that connects to the pcb in the front half of the phone.
There is a larger ribbon cable that connects the two halves of the phone together, you can see it if you hold the phone halfway between open and closed. If this cable gets damaged, which happens easier than you may think then it can causes all sorts of things to mess up, including the colours on your display.
Unfortunately this cable is attached to the screen pcb so needs to be replaced as one unit.
So i'd need to replace my main pcb? Damn. Thanks for the help though! Could anyone help me with rooting?!
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at which point are you getting lost? sussed downgrading yet?
emdaftrave;14529179.Could anyone help me with rooting?! :D
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Man, trust me.. It took only 30 minutes for me to root my dz
But, the preparation ( search and search) took 2 weeks
But it worths trying
The main keys are to instal ADB things (sdk android ) and create a gold card. Once you understand how to do that, you already half way.
The links are in the wiki
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Just have a search and there are numerous step by step guides, I was a total amateur and managed to do it, I think the hardest part to try learn would be using ABD (command prompt) and how to navigate to directories and push files but there are numerous guides on this forum so just pick your simplest and go for it!
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Pretty much trying to install the sdk, i think im gonna reinstall it because its being a bit dodgy for me. But thanks for all the help guys!
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silverwind said:
Man, trust me.. It took only 30 minutes for me to root my dz
But, the preparation ( search and search) took 2 weeks
But it worths trying
The main keys are to instal ADB things (sdk android ) and create a gold card. Once you understand how to do that, you already half way.
The links are in the wiki
Cheers
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can you use the SD card already in there as a gold card, or do you need a separate one?
Ok so i have an actual problem now, not just not understanding the guides xD
On the Cyanogenmod wiki guide of how to install ADB, a couple of the steps are:
On success, open the command prompt on the computer, and type in the following command to sure everything is setup properly:
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adb devices
If it lists any devices, everything is fine and you are finished. If not, the drivers may not be installed correctly, please continue.
Open the Device Manager.
Right-click on My Computer (Windows XP) or Computer (Windows Vista/7).
Click on Manage.
Click on Device Manager on the left.
You will probably see Unknown Device with ADB listed under it with a yellow exclamation mark.
Well i did just that, and it doesnt say unknown device anywhere, and yet when i type adb devices in command prompt, it says 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Anybody know what gives?
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Ok so i have an actual problem now, not just not understanding the guides xD
On the Cyanogenmod wiki guide of how to install ADB, a couple of the steps are:
On success, open the command prompt on the computer, and type in the following command to sure everything is setup properly:
Code:
adb devices
If it lists any devices, everything is fine and you are finished. If not, the drivers may not be installed correctly, please continue.
Open the Device Manager.
Right-click on My Computer (Windows XP) or Computer (Windows Vista/7).
Click on Manage.
Click on Device Manager on the left.
You will probably see Unknown Device with ADB listed under it with a yellow exclamation mark.
Well i did just that, and it doesnt say unknown device anywhere, and yet when i type adb devices in command prompt, it says 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Anybody know what gives?
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you either need to cd to the folder within your android sdk that adb is in (I think it's platform-tools), or add the android sdk path to your environment variables (google this, it's easy to do).
open up your command prompt and type:
cd C:\path-to-android-sdk\platform-tools
adb devices
if you don't add the path to your android sdk in the environment variables, you'll have to cd to the folder with adb every time you need to use it... not a big deal if you're not using adb a lot, but it gets annoying if you're opening up a command prompt to push/pull/shell regularly.
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you either need to cd to the folder within your android sdk that adb is in (I think it's platform-tools), or add the android sdk path to your environment variables (google this, it's easy to do).
open up your command prompt and type:
cd C:\path-to-android-sdk\platform-tools
adb devices
if you don't add the path to your android sdk in the environment variables, you'll have to cd to the folder with adb every time you need to use it... not a big deal if you're not using adb a lot, but it gets annoying if you're opening up a command prompt to push/pull/shell regularly.
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ok, i've done it, thank you very much! now to just downgrade and root!
Ok so i'm using the XDA wiki guide on rooting, and i've got to the part where you move all the files onto the phone. Specifically, the files that aren't moving are:
$ adb push flash_image /data/local/tmp/
$ adb push su /sdcard/,
I'm getting a "Permission denied" error in command prompt. I also don't have an /sdcard directory on my phone, maybe thats why i'm getting an error?
EDIT: Never mind, i had the phone in Disk Drive mode when it wasn't supposed to be. Sorry for the double post.
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Hi, i don't know if i am starting this thread in the right section, but here goes. I'm sure you very helpful people will assist me if not.
I have an HTC desire branded to Orange UK but i am wanting to flash/debrand it. The problem i am having is this:
Im following the instructions for flashing/debranding the desire on self titled thread on android forums.
In the first step "how to set up adb" I have done everything that it tells me to do on the page on the unlockr.com
But when i open the CMD and type in all the correct commands it says list of devices attached below, but it is just blank, i don't know what it is that im doing wrong, but i must be somewhere? I need this number to make the gold card don't I? Its obviously a problem with the drivers, am i correct in thinking that? so i uninstalled the drivers and HTC sync, and reinstalled them from the HTC site, but still no joy. I then opened the SDK and installed USB driver package, still no luck.
If anyone can think of what might be the problem, could you please help. I am a total n00b when it comes to android, but this process seems far from hard to follow, maybe this is where i am going wrong?
Thanks in advance
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Hi, i don't know if i am starting this thread in the right section, but here goes. I'm sure you very helpful people will assist me if not.
I have an HTC desire branded to Orange UK but i am wanting to flash/debrand it. The problem i am having is this:
Im following the instructions for flashing/debranding the desire on self titled thread on android forums.
In the first step "how to set up adb" I have done everything that it tells me to do on the page on the unlockr.com
But when i open the CMD and type in all the correct commands it says list of devices attached below, but it is just blank, i don't know what it is that im doing wrong, but i must be somewhere? I need this number to make the gold card don't I? Its obviously a problem with the drivers, am i correct in thinking that? so i uninstalled the drivers and HTC sync, and reinstalled them from the HTC site, but still no joy. I then opened the SDK and installed USB driver package, still no luck.
If anyone can think of what might be the problem, could you please help. I am a total n00b when it comes to android, but this process seems far from hard to follow, maybe this is where i am going wrong?
Thanks in advance
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have you enabled usb debugging in settings/applications/development?
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have you enabled usb debugging in settings/applications/development?
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Sorry i knew i would forget something, yes i did/have enabled USB debugging, I'm getting really fed up with this now, do you think its something Orange may have done to prevent me from doing this?
Thanks
have u tried using adb while in recovery also make sure disk drive isnt enabled when ur phone is connected to the pc
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have u tried using adb while in recovery also make sure disk drive isnt enabled when ur phone is connected to the pc
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just tried that and no its set to charge only, just been looking at the device manager, and when i checked the properties of "My HTC" i get this message
Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.
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Would that effect the adb? sorry to be such a n00b, i only want to debrand my desire, its not as if i want to root and start installing different ROMs and stuff....
you downloaded the adb tools to your desktop correct? something like android-sdk/android-sdk/tools/ ?
so cd (change directory) there using command prompt
when you are on the tools:/ directory type in 'adb shell'
you should now be able to write commands in a prompt starting with #
i have taken a screenshot of this done on a mac (it will be slightly different for Windows)
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you downloaded the adb tools to your desktop correct? something like android-sdk/android-sdk/tools/ ?
so cd (change directory) there using command prompt
when you are on the tools:/ directory type in 'adb shell'
you should now be able to write commands in a prompt starting with #
i have taken a screenshot of this done on a mac (it will be slightly different for Windows)
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Sorry mate, just seen this reply.
I cant post links on here, but i followed the instructions on how to set up adb from theunlockr.com They said that SDK should be downloaded and unpacke to the C: drive which i did, if you can have a look at that site you will see what i have done. Im thinking that there is some sort of problem with the drivers somewhere, i checked on my device manager and checked the properties of "My HTC" and it sates "windows cannot initialize the device driver for this software"
are you using windows 7/xp/vista?
seems to me like your drivers did not install correctly.
plug your phone to your computer
go to control panel -> device manager -> find your phone
right click it and go to properties
go to driver and uninstall it
unplug your phone from the computer
restart your computer
plug in your phone again
wait for the driver to re-install.
if that doesnt work try installing htc sync
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are you using windows 7/xp/vista?
seems to me like your drivers did not install correctly.
plug your phone to your computer
go to control panel -> device manager -> find your phone
right click it and go to properties
go to driver and uninstall it
unplug your phone from the computer
restart your computer
plug in your phone again
wait for the driver to re-install.
if that doesnt work try installing htc sync
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I'm on Vista 32 bit, This is what i have come to the conclusion, that its the drivers, i have uninstalled all drivers, HTC sync then reinstalled them plus reinstalled HTC sync, all with the same result, its even come to the point where i am sending an SD card to another person so he can make the gold card for me, just so i can flash the device. I will try what you suggested.
Thanks
Ok, I have a T-Mobile locked and branded Desire and so trying to create a Goldcard but it just gives me Permission Denied when trying to get the CID, what am I doing wrong? I have followed the steps to the T
try the goldcard program?
YES!! Please seriously need help aswell with this. Have a sim free desire and I get to the line of code in the command prompt with
"ADB shell cat/sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/CID" and it just says device not found.
I am new to android so i'm pretty clueless with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kleptomaniac said:
... and it just says device not found.
I am new to android so i'm pretty clueless with this.
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So about 'device not found'. I had this 'issue' when rooting mine a few weeks ago, so here's what I had to do.
When rooting, you're gonna be using the ADB tools to interface with your phone through USB. This would mean that the computer needs specific drivers for ADB to work properly, which for some reason, did not install well. I'm running Win7 x64 and had a hard time setting it up initially.
SO what you want to do is to first go to Device Manager on the PC and uninstall the drivers for anything related to the phone - it'd probably show up under 'Other devices' with a driver issue. Do that and unplug the phone.
Next, go to install PdaNet. Just run the exe and it will install the drivers you need for ADB to work! Once this is all done you can uninstall the PdaNet program if you don't use it - the drivers will still remain.
When you plug in your phone (it might prompt during the installation, I don't remember) and head to device manager now, you'll see a new entry at the top called Android Phone, with a device called Android ADB Interface. Once you see this, then you're good to go with the rest of the goldcard instructions you were following.
Just to be sure, reboot the PC and go to the Android SDK\Tools in a cmd prompt and type in adb devices. It should return with the serial number of your phone.
That's it, hope it helps!
Thanks alot man its nice to know people here are willing to help. I didn get the drivers but I used HTC sync instead to get them up and running, then after awhile of it still not working I found the goldcard program and it worked! Now all I have to do is wait for this root download to finish...
Hey all,
My Incredible won't be recognized by ADB on my Mac through the terminal. I type in "adb devices" and it returns "List of connected devices" but doesn't actually list anything. If I try something like "adb shell" it says "error: no devices connected". What could the issue be?? I have a PC as well and ADB works fine on the PC.
If it helps at all the phone is recognized through fastboot on my Mac but I can't perform any operations... I tried to flash a new recovery through fastboot and when I tried to do "fastboot erase recovery" it returned something like "erase recovery failed status malformed"...
Thanks!
debug turned on? Thought that it needed to be adb
Yeah debug is on.... also in case it didn't go without saying I'm rooted.
Hope someone can help with this!
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Anyone have any ideas on this one?
Go here and follow steps for your system.....
http://androidsamurai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4&sid=e1f4ce4f9ba69613dca7ba5db4a711a2
if I helped please don't hesitate to hit the thanks button
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Thanks for the advice, but I had already followed those directions when installing the SDK. As I said, the phone is recognized just fine on a Windows machine so I can only assume it's some setting that's perhaps incorrect on my Mac? Maybe in System Prefs?
I dunno. It isn't the biggest deal but it'd be nice to be able to use the ADB on my Mac without needing to boot up the PC. Thanks!
nufan947 said:
Thanks for the advice, but I had already followed those directions when installing the SDK. As I said, the phone is recognized just fine on a Windows machine so I can only assume it's some setting that's perhaps incorrect on my Mac? Maybe in System Prefs?
I dunno. It isn't the biggest deal but it'd be nice to be able to use the ADB on my Mac without needing to boot up the PC. Thanks!
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Are you positive your path is correct..... and if it is check and make sure there are no spaces or weird characters....
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was it working before and it stopped working? I noticed that my Mac doesn't recognized the phone every once in a while with CM7 and the Incredikernel. I have to unplug it and plug it back in couple times to get it to register.
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I'm pretty sure it's correct because the Terminal recognizes the "adb" commands as valid. For example, I can run "adb shell" and it returns "error:device not found". So I don't think that's the issue...
Grooby97 said:
was it working before and it stopped working? I noticed that my Mac doesn't recognized the phone every once in a while with CM7 and the Incredikernel. I have to unplug it and plug it back in couple times to get it to register.
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The thing is, the computer recognizes the phone just fine. I can plug it in and select "disk drive" and both the phone and SD card mount without an problem. But when I try to run adb commands that's when it doesn't seem to see it for some reason.... I really don't get why this could be, when without changing a single setting on the phone it works fine on a PC. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't know what that might be.....
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I'm pretty sure it's correct because the Terminal recognizes the "adb" commands as valid. For example, I can run "adb shell" and it returns "error:device not found". So I don't think that's the issue...
The thing is, the computer recognizes the phone just fine. I can plug it in and select "disk drive" and both the phone and SD card mount without an problem. But when I try to run adb commands that's when it doesn't seem to see it for some reason.... I really don't get why this could be, when without changing a single setting on the phone it works fine on a PC. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't know what that might be.....
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forgive me if im asking a dumb question im just trying to help you narrow down your problem,,,,,, did you check and make sure usb debugging is checked? and if you type adb devices what does it say? ive noticed on the newer sdk that i installed they moved adb to platform tools and out of tools so you might check those things
Yeah, USB debugging is checked... when I type "adb devices" I get "List of devices attached" and it doesn't actually list anything. And yeah, the Terminal is definitely pointing to the right folder, I don't think I'd be getting any sort of response if it was pointing towards the wrong place, right?
ADB definitely works. It just doesn't like my phone for some reason
Well it definitely works on OS X 10.6 that's what my laptop uses. Have you tried parallels or bootcamping into a version of Windows? My work iMac is a piece of dirt and does not like adb thru mac os x but works fine with win xp on parallels.
Yeah, I'm running 10.6 on my laptop as well... right now for when I want to use ADB I've just been running XP on my bootcamp partition, which works fine. It's not the worst solution in the world, but I'd prefer being able to do it on the Mac side of things, which is where I spend far more time.
This is very mysterious....
Ok long story short. I restored. Now no recovery. No super user. Fastboot doesn't see phone but does when in regular mode. Think somehow or another during the restore my internal was mounted/un mounted or however that goes because I'm seeing files/folders within my phone that aren't there and won't let me remove because "a device is missing from the network". A folder named windows and one named edited appear when I'm connected to computer but not when i disconnect. How do i m mount/unmount so phone is read correctly? Adb works fine.
I am current and up to date with the sdk and drivers. I have fastboot installed. I know how to use it, please skip the referrals/how-to because that isn't the issue.
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JediNinjafication said:
Ok long story short. I restored. Now no recovery. No super user. Fastboot doesn't see phone but does when in regular mode. Think somehow or another during the restore my internal was mounted/un mounted or however that goes because I'm seeing files/folders within my phone that aren't there and won't let me remove because "a device is missing from the network". A folder named windows and one named edited appear when I'm connected to computer but not when i disconnect. How do i m mount/unmount so phone is read correctly? Adb works fine.
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As for fastboot, sounds like you need to get the proper driver. It's a different interface than adb. Try the naked driver efrant links to in his 101 FAQ post.
As for the other issue, I'm not sure I follow. Using a file manager on the device, you see files/folder that "aren't there" and via adb shell you don't see them? Please elaborate.
Ok. When i attach phone to computer, my devices lists mtp device (galaxy) under portable devices and Android debug interface under Samsung phones. the window that asks what would you like to do pops up and i choose view files. There were "windows" and "edited" folders that i don't know where they came from. If i click the windows, it will list some of the pics i have on my external drive. If i dismount my external..those folders will say device not attached to network. If i plug phone in without external at all..those folders do not show up in my phones sdcard.
When i open adb from sdk/platform tools that has the fastboot driver while phone is in this strange interface and adb reboot-bootloader my phone reboots but fastboot doesn't see it and both of the adb interface and mtp device disappear and are replaced with Android 1.0 with best driver installed. since it said Android debug while on, i rebooted, did adb devices then for kicks fastboot devices and got the message fastboot does not work with production devices...meaning basically because the Android system is running. So, i.think something had been mounted/dismounted and that's why my drivers are installing backwards
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I saw a thread on gto (?) And stick mount and it seems that my phone is mounting as if i had those programs. Which i don't and never had.
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JediNinjafication said:
Ok. When i attach phone to computer, my devices lists mtp device (galaxy) under portable devices and Android debug interface under Samsung phones. the window that asks what would you like to do pops up and i choose view files. There were "windows" and "edited" folders that i don't know where they came from. If i click the windows, it will list some of the pics i have on my external drive. If i dismount my external..those folders will say device not attached to network. If i plug phone in without external at all..those folders do not show up in my phones sdcard.
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What do you mean by external? The gnex doesn't have an external SD. Forget browsing the /sdcard with Window explorer at this moment, let's try more robust ways first. What do you see using a file manager on your device? What do you see using adb shell? (type ls -l)
When i open adb from sdk/platform tools that has the fastboot driver while phone is in this strange interface and adb reboot-bootloader my phone reboots but fastboot doesn't see it and both of the adb interface and mtp device disappear and are replaced with Android 1.0 with best driver installed.
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Yes, the adb interface device and mtp device are gone because when you are booted in bootloader the phone uses another interface (fasboot). I'm sure it says best driver installed, but if 'fastboot devices' doesn't list your device I beg to differ that's true. Manually update the driver using the naked driver version 0.7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379875
since it said Android debug while on, i rebooted, did adb devices then for kicks fastboot devices and got the message fastboot does not work with production devices...meaning basically because the Android system is running. So, i.think something had been mounted/dismounted and that's why my drivers are installing backwards
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Fastboot won't work if you're booted into Android OS. Again, it's an interface of the bootloader.
Oh..i just remembered..when i did have root, i had a program that would tell me system info and it listed internal memory and sdmemory. This was just before i restored.
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My external harddrive for my computer. I know all this you just said hence i posted the thread
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JediNinjafication said:
I saw a thread on gto (?) And stick mount and it seems that my phone is mounting as if i had those programs. Which i don't and never had.
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Afaik, stick mount is an app that allows you to mount USB thumb drives with your gnex. If you don't have one of those attached and you never used this program, I doubt it's the cause or your problem.
This is not my first Android. each time i post everyone immediately refers me to a toolkit or how to on the sdk. Let's skip all that, assume I'm current and up to date and know how to use it. Now, read the post and continue from there. Not trying to be *****y, but this check drivers and fastboot banter will continue three pages.
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And that's why I'm asking because that's how my phone is mounting.
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I didn't refer to a toolkit or sdk. And from your post, I doubt you understand the difference between fastboot and adb, otherwise you would know trying 'fastboot devices' while Android is booted doesn't make any sense.
Either way, I don't respond well to commands when I'm just trying to help. Good luck solving this, but it will be without me.
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I didn't refer to a toolkit or sdk. And from your post, I doubt you understand the difference between fastboot and adb, otherwise you would know trying 'fastboot devices' while Android is booted doesn't make any sense.
Either way, I don't respond well to commands when I'm just trying to help. Good luck solving this, but it will be without me.
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If you read what i posted...you would see that i said "for kicks" i tried fadtboot and it didn't work obviously because Android was running.
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Nor was there any command issued. It was a request to skip the usual fastboot/adb and get down to the issue...saving each one if us typing and time.
The time spent explaining i am current and up to date with everything is horrible. Only reason i did the fastboot is because i have never seen it say Android debug interface while my phone is powered on...only when it's in fastboot. Nor have i ever had it sharing files with my external hard drive...like it were stick mounted.
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If you read what i posted...you would see that i said "for kicks" i tried fadtboot and it didn't work obviously because Android was running.
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You obviously think you understand what you are doing, but it us clear to everyone but you that you do not. I'm not trying to be mean here, but you are not listen to everyone who has tried to help you. I have tried in your other thread, petrovski80 tried in this one, and others in your other threads that you keep creating. One: you do not have the fastboot driver installed. Period. Two: to answer your question in your other thread, once you do install the fastboot driver, you can follow any one of the multiple guides on how to get root. Three: do not trust what you see in mtp on windows - it is not refreshed properly often. Four: no matter how many android devices you have had and have rooted and no matter how many drivers you have installed in the past, you still have not done the things you need for the GNex.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30778314#post30778314
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30778314#post30778314
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Funny, because no one suggested you use the driver that came with the SDK. If you look up to post #5, you would have seen that the driver that was linked to was the one that you should have used, and you would not have had to make any changes to any setup.inf files, and your issue would have been solved a while ago.
Funny because I had multiple different ones put in my dropboxthat didn't work either. Point being the drivers were there.
And I learned something new. Win/win
Hi, great site you have here. I dropped my GS3 and broke the digitizer. The phone turns on, but has a blank screen. Of course I didnt back anything up to google or save my contacts to my sim. I tried using kies with my laptop and connected my phone, but it says my phone is locked. I enabled a swipe pattern on the phone before i broke it, but I cannot unlock it since the digitizer is not working. Is there anything I can do to disable it? Also, Samsung is quoting me about $175 ($65 for the digitizer, $100 for labor/shipping) to fix the phone, however they wipe then entire thing and of course all my contacts, pictures, music, apps and everything will be gone. If I cant get kies to work because the phone is locked, can you recommend a good place to purchase the digitizer? Is it difficult to install yourself? Thanks for all the help
You can use the "adb pull" command to pull any files/folders off your sd-card even with the screen lock (I've tested this). Install the android SDK and adb can be found in the platform-tools folder. Simply use the windows command prompt to pull the needed folders out. Sorry for your misfortune hope that helps.
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You can use the "adb pull" command to pull any files/folders off your sd-card even with the screen lock (I've tested this). Install the android SDK and adb can be found in the platform-tools folder. Simply use the windows command prompt to pull the needed folders out. Sorry for your misfortune hope that helps.
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Thank you for the help. I will try and you tube how to do what you told me, as I know next to nothing about using computers in this way lol
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Thank you for the help. I will try and you tube how to do what you told me, as I know next to nothing about using computers in this way lol
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No problem! Good luck, there are tons of videos/tutorials on how to set up the SDK. Just make sure to install the right drivers or else your device won't show up in ADB.
Just to simplify it a bit, I figured it might save you some time.
1. SDK installer file:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Once you've got the SDK installed and configured open up "Command Prompt" (if on windows) (have your device on and at the lock-screen).
3. In command prompt, navigate to "sdk/platform-tools/" (or wherever you chose to install the SDK, just make sure to navigate to the platform-tools directory as that's where adb is located) (use cd command)
4. Next, type "adb devices" into command prompt to make sure your device shows up (it might be named something weird, don't worry)
5. Now, type "adb pull /sdcard/*FOLDERTOCOPY* (if you don't remember the names of the folders you can dump the entire sdcard)
This will dump your sd-card files to the "sdk/platform-tools/" directory.
Cheers.
wow, thanks for the time to write that out for me, it is greatly appreciated. I will try this out when i get home from work.
Wont identify my phone
Hello! It seems that I have the same problem. I have followed your directions. However, when I type "adb devices" the next line is blank. I do not think that it see's my phone. I have a Galaxy S3 on Verizon. I am running Windows 8. I have attached the phone through it's USB and the computer sees the phone.
Am I missing something?
Thank you
Hi. Most probably it is due to adb drivers not being installed. Download the galaxy s3 toolkit, and install the android drivers from within.
Toolkit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
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I have just posted this thread to another topic of whom the user may encounter a similar contacts lost situation.
Hope that would help him
I recently had to pull files from a gnote2 with a broken screen. With the lock enabled you won't have access to the files via adb unless you have a custom recovery installed. What I did was enter download mode and then Odin an insecure boot loader. After that I was able to use adb to pull the files.
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illmatic24 said:
No problem! Good luck, there are tons of videos/tutorials on how to set up the SDK. Just make sure to install the right drivers or else your device won't show up in ADB.
Just to simplify it a bit, I figured it might save you some time.
1. SDK installer file:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Once you've got the SDK installed and configured open up "Command Prompt" (if on windows) (have your device on and at the lock-screen).
3. In command prompt, navigate to "sdk/platform-tools/" (or wherever you chose to install the SDK, just make sure to navigate to the platform-tools directory as that's where adb is located) (use cd command)
4. Next, type "adb devices" into command prompt to make sure your device shows up (it might be named something weird, don't worry)
5. Now, type "adb pull /sdcard/*FOLDERTOCOPY* (if you don't remember the names of the folders you can dump the entire sdcard)
This will dump your sd-card files to the "sdk/platform-tools/" directory.
Cheers.
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Thanks for this, I've just recovered data from a Galaxy S2 using this. I was able to activate USB debugging using blind touches, based on a video, and recovered the sdcard using
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/ MYFOLDER
Yea what people seam to forget is that adb only works if it was enabled on the device before hand....
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broken screen with screen lock on, trying to use Kies as a tempory remote terminal
Hi all,
I have the Galaxy S3 SGH-I747, and this morning I managed to break the LCD. The digitizer isn't cracked, but seems to be unresponsive.. I'm not with any of the major carriers, I have GCI in Alaska. I'm on the road, away from home, working. I should be able to get a new case when I get home. Which will be in only 4 days, luckily.
I was also hoping I could use Kies essentially as a remote terminal to send SMS or make calls just until I can get home and replace the case. (Which in my mind is actually an easier quicker repair than the screen digitizer replacement, just not always quite as cheap.)
I have ADB, I'm just not an expert with it. Is there a way to use it to disable to lock screen, even temporarily, so I can use the GUI in Kies? Is there any was to turn on the Bluetooth perhaps? I already have the partnership established with my Laptop, and is set up to connect without confirmation. I might be able to figure out a way to get some sort of functionality out of it until I can get it repaired.
Yea what people seam to forget is that adb only works if it was enabled on the device before hand..
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I don't think I have connected this phone with the ADB yet. I also didn't have the USB debugging mode enabled. Am I SOL getting it connected with the ADB, then?
Hi illmatic24. I need a help - I have a Samsung E7 - broken lcd, forgot the password and usb debugging mode is off. Is there anyway through which I can recover my phone's content? I want access to my internal storage memory. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Ritz