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[GUIDE][MAC] How to Unlock and Root the Xoom with a Mac

This is a super simple method taken from Arcadia 310 on another thread.
This is assuming you have The Android SDK already installed and updated.
Download these files XoomRoot.zip HERE
and FASTBOOT for MAC - HERE
Unzip both archives into your ~/sdk/platform-tools folder.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU SCREWING UP YOUR DEVICE, THIS IS VOIDING YOUR WARRANTY ANYWAYS. HIT ME UP ON TWITTER OR HERE IF YOU NEED HELP OR HAVE QUESTION. ON TO DIRECTIONS.
Follow these steps: (After you have unzipped into your folder)
1. Follow the pre requisites above.
2. Open a terminal (located in the utilities folder)
3. Navigate to your sdk/platform-tools folder
Example: "cd /home/b16/Desktop/sdk/platform-tools" (no quotes)
4. Type "./adb devices" and make sure your Xoom shows up on the list.
This command will show you if your device is connected to the Android Debug Bridge.
5. Now type in "./adb reboot bootloader" (You can skip the next 3 steps if you’ve unlocked with fastboot previously)
This will reboot your device into bootloader mode accepting fastboot commands.
6. I had to type "chmod 755 fastboot" first to get it to execute.
This will change the permissions of the FASTBOOT BINARY so it can execute.
7. Now type in "./fastboot oem unlock" and choose to unlock it. (wait for reboot)
This will make your device "Hackable" and will VOID your warranty, you can re-lock it later if you like using another guide on this forum. Located HERE.
8. Once it has rebooted type "adb reboot bootloader" and hit enter.
Now you are going back into bootloader mode to finish the job.
9. Once in bootloader mode type "./fastboot flash boot rootboot.img"
This is going to flash the boot image needed to have root working properly within the system.
10. Type "./fastboot reboot" (wait for reboot)
command wil now boot you back into Android.
11. Type "./adb remount"
We are now mounting the system partition in order to push the Super User binary.
12. Type "./adb push su /system/bin"
Does what it says. Pushes binary to system folder.
13. Type "./adb shell" You should now see a "#" sign.
This will put you into a root shell to change the permissions of files in the next step.
14. Type "chmod 4755 /system/bin/su"
You just changed the permissions of the super user binary to run properly.
15. Type "exit".
You will now be back in your home terminal ready to push the Super User Apk.
16. Type "./adb push Superuser.apk /system/app"
You should now have root acces! Enjoy!

Thanks for posting this. Another thing I did, because I use ADB quite frequently, was add the SDK tools to my path. For those that need help, it looks something like this:
Open Terminal and type echo 'export PATH=~/Downloads/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
This only works if your SDK folder is in your Downloads folder inside your Home folder.
The next time you open a Terminal window, you can simply type adb remount or whatever you need without having to add the ./
Another bonus is this makes it much easier to keep kernels, ROMs, and modules out of your SDK tools folder, where they do not belong.

First off thanks for doing this... I figured out my n1 and I can do this too... I'm stuck at the chmod 775 line... I enter that command and its like I didn't enter it... after I proceed to fast boot OEM unlock it tells me that it can't be executed .. what am I doing wrong... God I hate being noobed out... I'm so close!!!
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EDIT: got past that with the help of using fastboot-mac from htc's website... but now I'm stuck on getting the rootboot.img over
Morgan-Brants-Mac-minilatform-tools Chongo$ ./fastboot-mac flash boot rootboot.img
sending 'boot' (2902 KB)... OKAY
writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: (0000000f))
Morgan-Brants-Mac-minilatform-tools Chongo$
EDIT2: Well it was due to my xoom being almost dead (not enough juice to flash)
on the other hand this was a refresher course and I now understand ADB a whole lot more... thank you for this educational piece I am now a tiger blood enfused SUPER USER

I am glad I could help, I have this tutorial on my website along with many other devices, http://rootzwiki.com if there is any other devices you would like to see

b16a2smith said:
I am glad I could help, I have this tutorial on my website along with many other devices, http://rootzwiki.com if there is any other devices you would like to see
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Thanks.. ill let you know when I get a new phone.. should be soon
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thanks for this. Cant wait to get mine on the 27th

wheeeler said:
Thanks for posting this. Another thing I did, because I use ADB quite frequently, was add the SDK tools to my path. For those that need help, it looks something like this:
Open Terminal and type echo 'export PATH=~/Downloads/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
This only works if your SDK folder is in your Downloads folder inside your Home folder.
The next time you open a Terminal window, you can simply type adb remount or whatever you need without having to add the ./
Another bonus is this makes it much easier to keep kernels, ROMs, and modules out of your SDK tools folder, where they do not belong.
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Well the default shell in a mac is bash so wouldn't be:
Code:
echo "export PATH=$HOME/bin/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:$HOME/bin/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools:$PATH" > .bash_profile
This is a video walkthru of rooting that happens to be on a Mac but the process is the same for Windows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YkIw0y_Os4

im not sure if it is just me or not, but i get stuck at step 5 for some reason?
i type ./adb reboot bootloader it shuts down then turns on and i get stuck at "starting fastboot protocal support" it sits forever then i have to hold volume up and power to reboot and its fine, but cant ever get past that.
it no longer shows as attached device at that point either

Magenta you say.

chevyman46933 said:
im not sure if it is just me or not, but i get stuck at step 5 for some reason?
i type ./adb reboot bootloader it shuts down then turns on and i get stuck at "starting fastboot protocal support" it sits forever then i have to hold volume up and power to reboot and its fine, but cant ever get past that.
it no longer shows as attached device at that point either
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can anyone help me?

OK, thanks for the initial post and outstanding directions. I've updated what you listed based on what I have seen on my mac. I've just been through this process now and everything is working great. I hope this helps.
1. Follow the pre requisites above.
* I also had to download the fastboot-mac file from the HTC site- http://developer.htc.com/adp.html​
2. Open a terminal (located in the utilities folder)
3. Navigate to your sdk/platform-tools folder
Example: "cd /home/b16/Desktop/sdk/platform-tools" (no quotes)
4. Type "./adb devices" and make sure your Xoom shows up on the list.
This command will show you if your device is connected to the Android Debug Bridge.
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
028040c743e111d7 device​
5. Now type in "./adb reboot bootloader" (You can skip the next 3 steps if you’ve unlocked with fastboot previously)
This will reboot your device into bootloader mode accepting fastboot commands.
FYI - your xoom will just say "Starting..." but it is ready to accept the next step.​
6. I had to type "chmod 755 fastboot" first to get it to execute.
This will change the permissions of the FASTBOOT BINARY so it can execute.
7. Now type in "./fastboot oem unlock" and choose to unlock it. (wait for reboot)
This will make your device "Hackable" and will VOID your warranty, you can re-lock it later if you like using another guide on this forum. Located HERE.
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./fastboot-mac oem unlock
... INFO To continue, follow instructions on the device's display...
OKAY​
8. Once it has rebooted type "adb reboot bootloader" and hit enter.
Now you are going back into bootloader mode to finish the job.
*after the reboot, initially, I got this error:
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb reboot bootloader
error: device not found
when the reboot completes, you will come to the original setup screen. it is worth noting that you need to select the language and follow the on screen directions. Re-enter your account information etc. When you get to the desktop, your device will then be re-seen by your mac.​
9. Once in bootloader mode type "./fastboot flash boot rootboot.img"
This is going to flash the boot image needed to have root working properly within the system.
* Again, need to use the fastboot-mac:
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./fastboot-mac flash boot rootboot.img
sending 'boot' (2902 KB)... OKAY
writing 'boot'... OKAY​
10. Type "./fastboot reboot" (wait for reboot)
command wil now boot you back into Android.
* Again, need to use the fastboot-mac:
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./fastboot-mac reboot
rebooting... ​
11. Type "./adb remount"
We are now mounting the system partition in order to push the Super User binary.
no issues
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb remount
remount succeeded​
12. Type "./adb push su /system/bin"
Does what it says. Pushes binary to system folder.
no issue
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb push su /system/bin
701 KB/s (26336 bytes in 0.036s)​
13. Type "./adb shell" You should now see a "#" sign.
This will put you into a root shell to change the permissions of files in the next step.
no issue
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb shell​
14. Type "chmod 4755 /system/bin/su"
You just changed the permissions of the super user binary to run properly.
no issue
# chmod 4755 /system/bin/su​
15. Type "exit".
You will now be back in your home terminal ready to push the Super User Apk.
16. Type "./adb push Superuser.apk /system/app"
no issue
goonmac-2: platform-tools goon$ ./adb push Superuser.apk /system/app
1137 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.168s)​

still stuck at same step, after ./adb reboot fastboot i cant go any farther, the xoom just isnt connected to recieve and additional commands, heres a copy n paste from my terminal...
Mac-Users-Mac-mini:tools Home$ pwd
/Users/Home/desktop/sdk/platform-tools
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
161c10c94180d557 device
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$ ./adb reboot bootloader
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$ chmod 755 fastboot
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$ ./fastboot oem unlock
-bash: ./fastboot: cannot execute binary file
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
Mac-Users-Mac-minilatform-tools Home$
any help/suggestions?

Are you using the Mac fastboot binary? I'm not by my computer right now, but I believe the Mac version is called fastboot-mac by default. Download it, make sure it's executable (chmod 755 fastboot-mac), then try fastboot-mac oem unlock. After you run adb reboot bootloader, you will lose your ADB connection, and your Xoom won't display anything but the boot logo and something about starting fastboot. This is your cue to unlock. Hope this helps.
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wheeeler said:
Are you using the Mac fastboot binary? I'm not by my computer right now, but I believe the Mac version is called fastboot-mac by default. Download it, make sure it's executable (chmod 755 fastboot-mac), then try fastboot-mac oem unlock. After you run adb reboot bootloader, you will lose your ADB connection, and your Xoom won't display anything but the boot logo and something about starting fastboot. This is your cue to unlock. Hope this helps.
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that was exactly it, i was using the fastboot from another post, got the fastboot-mac from the website adn it works perfect!! thanks!!!
xoom unlocked, finally

thats why I amended the steps
1. Follow the pre requisites above.
* I also had to download the fastboot-mac file from the HTC site- http://developer.htc.com/adp.html

goon55 said:
thats why I amended the steps
1. Follow the pre requisites above.
* I also had to download the fastboot-mac file from the HTC site- http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
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For some respason I didnt realize the difference between the two fastboots until he mentioned that and thankfully your ad was right above with the link to htc thanks to you guys im now have rooted and unlocked and overclocked my xoom and its incredible now! Thanks for the patience with me

I did a video that was done on my MAC in the MAC OS. If anyone wants a more visual way to see how this is performed. I follow all these steps exactly. I show how I set my environment PATH, and this actually is what tripped me up, because my user profile wasn't looking at the PATHs I originally setup, but all that is required is entering
echo 'export PATH=xyz:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile (this whole line )
Where 'xyz' is your path to the android-sdk/platform-tools/ from the root of your Hard Drive, for most Macs it should be ' /Users/[Ur User Name]/android-sdk/platform-tools '
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EhGGOGUus
Hope this helps

I also have a WiFi Xoom Video Tutorial available available as well. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6J-hV6SM4
I try to go over common hiccups that I have seen some users have come across as well in the video.

I'm getting the following error:
./fastboot-mac flash boot rootboot.img
sending 'boot' (2902 KB)... ERROR: usb_write failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (data transfer failure (No such file or directory))
fastboot-mac is chmod 755, rootboot.img is there, alongside it, I'm in as root and it's still failing for me.
Edit: Nevermind. Right after pulling the reboot before the rootboot.img - or boot.img for wifi users - immediately go into the aforesaid command and it should work just fine.
Took me a couple of times.

Can you unroot on mac?

[Q] how to mount SD card in recovery on one x

how to mount SD card in recovery on one x

This isn't possible yet, dev's are working on it.

Nice, how the hell can I transfer new rom onto my internal sd if I had to remove my stock rom???

This was posted earlier today by Jotha
jotha said:
Assuming you have latest cwm-recovery, do the following:
Copy rom to your adb-directory on PC
Switch OFF phone
Connect phone to PC
Wait until you hear the "USB-Connect"-sound on PC
Go into command window in adb-directory
Type "adb push rom.zip /sdcard/"
(where rom.zip is name of rom-file)
pushing is rather slow so it will take a while. Eventually you get an "OK". Then you can go into recovery and flash it.
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adamgaltress said:
This was posted earlier today by Jotha
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OK, i found my adb directory, and entered this in cmd, but it stays without any notice, just lower _ remains blinking..
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push leedroid_one
_xtreme_v6.0.0.zip /sdcard/
---------- Post added at 05:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:53 PM ----------
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push leedroid_one
_xtreme_v6.0.0.zip /sdcard/
1675 KB/s (621988319 bytes in 362.421s)
Transfer did finish, but when I enter CWM to update, it says no such file or directory found, instalation aborted...

Stegy said:
OK, i found my adb directory, and entered this in cmd, but it stays without any notice, just lower _ remains blinking..
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push leedroid_one
_xtreme_v6.0.0.zip /sdcard/
---------- Post added at 05:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:53 PM ----------
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push leedroid_one
_xtreme_v6.0.0.zip /sdcard/
1675 KB/s (621988319 bytes in 362.421s)
Transfer did finish, but when I enter CWM to update, it says no such file or directory found, instalation aborted...
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Try downloading the rom again and transferring it a second time

adamgaltress said:
Try downloading the rom again and transferring it a second time
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Tried for 2nd time now, and this is what I get:
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push update.zip /
sdcard/
error: device not found
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>
If anyone has few minutes to help me, i would really appreciate it, I'm even considering paying someone for help, over skype, gtalk or wlm!!!

Stegy said:
Tried for 2nd time now, and this is what I get:
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push update.zip /
sdcard/
error: device not found
D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>
If anyone has few minutes to help me, i would really appreciate it, I'm even considering paying someone for help, over skype, gtalk or wlm!!!
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try adb devices it should list any devices that are there. If there are none then you can try rebooting the phone into fastboot and see what that does?

Replied on my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26047704&postcount=7

this worked for me
go to recovery then:
adb devices
adb shell
mount sdcard
then open another command prompt prompt and:
adb push name_of_rom.zip /sdcard

okay i can push my rom file on the phone but i see nothing in the recovery on my phone
my problem is, i flash the Android_Revolution_HD-One_X_6.0.0 works wonderfull but than i flash the fix for adw lauchner and i flash the wrong one
now my phone hang on start - i start the bootloader bzw fastboot no problem
any ideas?
lg

Can you go to recovery ?
Reflash the rom.zip ?
If everything already wiped, nothing left inside sdcard, try this:
fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
then
adb devices
then
adb shell
then
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 > /sys/devices/platform/fsl-tegra-udc/gadget/lun0/file
the sdcard windows will open

you are my hero ckpv5
my phone is alive - thx for your help
lg

ckpv5 , mate, you are truely a genius, i trawled for days and days trying to fix this, i encountered every possible error. from flat battery to no software on device, you have saved me from further hours of despair. thankyou

ckpv5 said:
Can you go to recovery ?
Reflash the rom.zip ?
If everything already wiped, nothing left inside sdcard, try this:
fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
then
adb devices
then
adb shell
then
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 > /sys/devices/platform/fsl-tegra-udc/gadget/lun0/file
the sdcard windows will open
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CKPV5, please, help me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714264
Thank you!

thank's 4 U
xeexou said:
you are my hero ckpv5
my phone is alive - thx for your help
lg
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ckpv5 said:
Can you go to recovery ?
Reflash the rom.zip ?
If everything already wiped, nothing left inside sdcard, try this:
fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
then
adb devices
then
adb shell
then
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 > /sys/devices/platform/fsl-tegra-udc/gadget/lun0/file
the sdcard windows will open
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Relly U R MY HERO THAAAAAAAAAAANK'S VERY VERY VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL SO MUCH :good:

River825 said:
this worked for me
go to recovery then:
adb devices
adb shell
mount sdcard
then open another command prompt prompt and:
adb push name_of_rom.zip /sdcard
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[Q]Help stuck on fastboot and cwm

Hi this might be a noobish question but i cant find the answer anywhare:
so here's the problem i was trying to fix a badly installed rom, so i wiped the phones storage I then tried to kick myself when i realized that i had just deleted my backup and all the data on the phones internal storage, so now i can only get onto fastboot and clockworkmod recovery 5.8.3.1.
So is there a way to flash a rom in fastboot usb, or mount the phones internal storage so i can copy in a rom zip?
I would be grateful for any help

There is an option in cwm to mount storage you can try that not sure if they work tho.
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malcovitch said:
There is an option in cwm to mount storage you can try that not sure if they work tho.
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It will not work.
What you can do other than flashing a RUU is:
Boot to fastboot
fastboot boot CWM_recovery_full name.img
Once it boot to recovery
adb shell
adb push rom_name.zip /sdcard
It will take some times to finish as the rom_name.zip is big.
Once complete, you can flash the rom_name.zip as usual
To make it easier, change the rom_name.zip to update.zip, so you can
adb push update.zip /sdcard

Thank you I have done as you said but i must be doing something wrong because i get this error:
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
~ # adb push update.zip /sdcard
adb push update.zip /sdcard
/sbin/sh: adb: not found
~ #
(The update.zip is Android_Revolution_HD-One_X_5.1.0.zip)
do you think it could be a problem with my adb.exe or something on the phone?

did you do the "fastboot boot CWM_recovery_full name.img"
going to recovery via hboot will not work.
you need to fastboot boot recovery
and it is adb devices , not adb shell... sorry
see this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25774374&postcount=24

yes that's how i got to cwm as below
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>fastboot boot recovery-clockwork
-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.771s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.010s]
finished. total time: 0.781s
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
~ # adb push update.zip /sdcard
adb push update.zip /sdcard
/sbin/sh: adb: not found
~ #

River825 said:
yes that's how i got to cwm as below
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>fastboot boot recovery-clockwork
-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.771s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.010s]
finished. total time: 0.781s
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
~ # adb push update.zip /sdcard
adb push update.zip /sdcard
/sbin/sh: adb: not found
~ #
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my bad
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb shell
change to
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb devices
Then adb push rom.zip /sdcard

ok i think that worked but when trying to find the zip in cwm i just get "no files were found", but in the command prompt it looks like it was copied to the sd card:
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT23WW118450 recovery
C:\Documents and Settings\me\Desktop\Android>adb push update.zip /sdcard
1586 KB/s (577044654 bytes in 355.290s)

That's wierd.
You mean that when you click "choose zip from sdcard" you have nothing in sdcard ?

yes clockworkmod says that the sd is empty.
I'm going to try again with a smaller file and maybe try and access the sd with a different recovery

River825 said:
yes clockworkmod says that the sd is empty.
I'm going to try again with a smaller file and maybe try and access the sd with a different recovery
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No. It won't work as sdcard need to be manually mounted first.... that's why I said something about adb shell earlier.
I'll do the testing now:
my step will be:
fastboot boot xx-recovery.img
adb devices
adb shell
mount sdcard
open another cmd prompt
adb push xxx.zip /sdcard
will let you know in a short while
Just tested: this should be the correct way... I can see my xxx.zip when I choose : choose zip from sdcard
*you need to mount the sdcard first before adb push

thank you it worked fine I downloaded the zip to the sd and flashed the rom in cwm, but it didn't work and now i cant boot into recovery it just shows the revery screen for 1/2 a second, and reboots into the bootloader i tried flashing different recovery images but they didn't work.
Is there some way to wipe the phone recovery?

River825 said:
thank you it worked fine I downloaded the zip to the sd and flashed the rom in cwm, but it didn't work and now i cant boot into recovery it just shows the revery screen for 1/2 a second, and reboots into the bootloader i tried flashing different recovery images but they didn't work.
Is there some way to wipe the phone recovery?
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Do:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Then press power once to go to hboot then select recovery. It should work.

Thank you
Thank you so much for all your advice i've just successfully flashed a rom and got my phone working again i was starting to fear for my phone.
Thanks again for all your help

ckpv5, when I try to follow your steps, I get "error: device not found" when doing adb shell in the command prompt? How do I fix that?
(My problem is that I formatted everything like an idiot in my phone and the internal sdcard seems to be unmounted or something like that)

Sam.Lambert said:
ckpv5, when I try to follow your steps, I get "error: device not found" when doing adb shell in the command prompt? How do I fix that?
(My problem is that I formatted everything like an idiot in my phone and the internal sdcard seems to be unmounted or something like that)
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If you're on stock ROM, you don't have to do all the step, just simply flash RUU.

ckpv5 said:
If you're on stock ROM, you don't have to do all the step, just simply flash RUU.
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I don't have the executable RUU for the Rogers handset, I only have a zip containing a bunch of img files and the executable RUU for the AT&T version (which didn't work, gave me ERROR [131]: Customer ID error or something like that).
Which the zipped RUU for the Rogers handset, I tried flashing the recovery_signed.img and boot_signed.img, relocking the bootloader and then flashing the system.img file but it would give me an error saying data length too large or something like that.
I really don't know what to do anymore

Sam.Lambert said:
I don't have the executable RUU for the Rogers handset, I only have a zip containing a bunch of img files and the executable RUU for the AT&T version (which didn't work, gave me ERROR [131]: Customer ID error or something like that).
Which the zipped RUU for the Rogers handset, I tried flashing the recovery_signed.img and boot_signed.img, relocking the bootloader and then flashing the system.img file but it would give me an error saying data length too large or something like that.
I really don't know what to do anymore
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Which custom recovery is working for for your set ? Is the one from One X dev section works for you ? If it is not, I'm afraid unable to help you.
Which custom ROM that you use before the brick ?

ckpv5 said:
Which custom recovery is working for for your set ? Is the one from One X dev section works for you ? If it is not, I'm afraid unable to help you.
Which custom ROM that you use before the brick ?
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Pretty much the only one available for the Evita One X (this one doesn't work if that's the one you are talking about http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819):
http://www.modaco.com/topic/354009-interim-clockworkmod-recovery-for-the-s4-based-one-x/
Also, I wasn't able to succesfully flash a custom ROM, when I tried to it just kept giving me random status errors in CWM, I'm starting to think the problem is the hardware and not the software since every solution I try is giving me errors related to unable to install/transfer/blahblah

Sam.Lambert said:
Pretty much the only one available for the Evita One X (this one doesn't work if that's the one you are talking about http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819):
http://www.modaco.com/topic/354009-interim-clockworkmod-recovery-for-the-s4-based-one-x/
Also, I wasn't able to succesfully flash a custom ROM, when I tried to it just kept giving me random status errors in CWM, I'm starting to think the problem is the hardware and not the software since every solution I try is giving me errors related to unable to install/transfer/blahblah
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So it seems that yours is not on tegra but S4. You need to find a solution for your problem here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1538

[Q] SERIOUS PROBLEM! Save Me...

Okay, here's what happened,
2 days ago, i installed ARHD ROM, works perfectly fine,
next day, i saw a kernel by franco. installed it, then after rebooting.... baamm! my unit is not working anymore, stuck in boot screen,
i tried different ways, followed different forums, like Tutorial Disaster. still to no avail,
the sad thing is, i forgot to back it up before doing the upgrades, i know its my fault..
i tried to erase everything via recovery, still not working,
Just today, went to HTC service center, i'm from the Philippines, but i bought my unit from online selling. as per HTC service center its from indonesia, they tried to re-flash something but they said its not working, so they said that they will need to change the mother board, and it will cost me 14,000 pesos or $350.. i don't want to spend that much, feels like i bought a new one..
can someone please enlighten me?

?!
You can erase everything in recovery, but you have to flash something afterwards, maybe like ARHD.
There's nothing wrong with your device, don't panic. Just do a wipe, then flash the ROM as the directions are given.

if you can still get into recovery
relock it
flash stock recovery
flash stock RUU
done

Download ARHD and CWM Recovery
Rename ARHD to update.zip and CWM to recovery.img
Place update.zip and recovery.img into a folder with fastboot and adb
Extract boot.img from update.zip and place in your fastboot folder
Put your phone into fastboot mode with unlocked bootloader
Flash boot with command 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
Boot recovery using 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command
Use command 'adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip' to send ARHD to phone
Then install rom from update.zip in recovery

It's nothing serious with your phone. It is easily can be recovered. Just don't run here and there so the XDA community can assist you.
There are two ways to recover your phone.
1) flash RUU
2) push xxx_rom.zip to your device.
Already tell you about flashing RUU in the disaster thread.

well, i would like to give thanks to all of you, who answered my questions, helped a lot. trying to read more here before doing another run in fixing my device.
where can i get stock RUU? my device is from indonesia. and one more thing, how to flash RUU?
djpoe said:
Download ARHD and CWM Recovery
Rename ARHD to update.zip and CWM to recovery.img
Place update.zip and recovery.img into a folder with fastboot and adb
Extract boot.img from update.zip and place in your fastboot folder
Put your phone into fastboot mode with unlocked bootloader
Flash boot with command 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
Boot recovery using 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command
Use command 'adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip' to send ARHD to phone
Then install rom from update.zip in recovery
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very detailed instruction here
where can i get adb BTW?

wintermute000 said:
if you can still get into recovery
relock it
flash stock recovery
flash stock RUU
done
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This and finish with: fastboot erase cache
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

wolfraim said:
This and finish with: fastboot erase cache
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
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thanks man.. where can i get the stock RUU and stock recovery? and also why do we have to re lock the device?
EDIT: i almost forgot, because this problem started after installing a new kernel by franco, so i guess i need to install a stock kernel? where can i get it?

mikey0105 said:
thanks man.. where can i get the stock RUU and stock recovery? and also why do we have to re lock the device?
EDIT: i almost forgot, because this problem started after installing a new kernel by franco, so i guess i need to install a stock kernel? where can i get it?
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I had the same problem with franco's kernel, what I did was, go to recovery and re-flash my xx_rom.zip, then it boots ok. You should try the same, provided you still have the ARHD.zip in your sdcard.
Your device from Indonesia ? I believe this is the RUU for you (same for me too):http://hoxroms.serveftp.com/RUU_END...Radio_1.1204.103.14_release_257076_signed.exe

ckpv5 said:
I had the same problem with franco's kernel, what I did was, go to recovery and re-flash my xx_rom.zip, then it boots ok. You should try the same, provided you still have the ARHD.zip in your sdcard.
Your device from Indonesia ? I believe this is the RUU for you (same for me too):http://hoxroms.serveftp.com/RUU_END...Radio_1.1204.103.14_release_257076_signed.exe
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thanks ill try it later.. i don't have it on my sdcard, as i've said i erased everything already..
but i guess i'll try the step on top provided by "djpoe" to put the ARHD inside my SD card. hope everything will work..
1 Download ARHD and CWM Recovery
2 Rename ARHD to update.zip and CWM to recovery.img
3 Place update.zip and recovery.img into a folder with fastboot and adb
4 Extract boot.img from update.zip and place in your fastboot folder
5 Put your phone into fastboot mode with unlocked bootloader
6 Flash boot with command 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
7 Boot recovery using 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command
8 Use command 'adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip' to send ARHD to phone
9 Then install rom from update.zip in recovery

For item 7 & 8, maybe you like a safe-proof guide that I posted here
Just replace "D:\HTC\One X\HTC Dev.com unlock\android-sdk\platform-tools>" to your own fastboot/adb folder path
and "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img" to "recovery.img" if you renamed it.
and "xxx.zip" to "update.zip"

thanks, i'm downloading the files now...
quick question, if i erased all data/cache, the kernel that i installed? will it be deleted as well? because i need to have a stock kernel and i can't see one?

erase all data/system/cache will not delete the installed kernel.
As you said you will follow djpoe's guide, see no. 4 & no. 6 regarding kernel flashing.
Remember the ROM.zip that you have earlier (see Disaster thread), inside the ROM.zip there is a boot_signed.img, that is the stock kernel. But you don't really need the stock kernel, what you need is the AHRD's kernel (see. no.4).

ohhh i see! now that good to know thanks... waiting for the files to be downloaded.. will give you feedback later... fingers cross...

additional question, just wondering, why is it important to re-lock the device before flashing ruu?

i tried to copy the update.zip by doing this
adb push update.zip/sdcard/update.zip
then there are lots of command on the CMD.. see below
C:\fastboot>adb push update.zip/sdcard/update.zip
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.29
-d - directs command to the only connected USB devic
e
returns an error if more than one USB device is
present.
-e - directs command to the only running emulator.
returns an error if more than one emulator is r
unning.
-s <serial number> - directs command to the USB device or emulator w
ith
the given serial number. Overrides ANDROID_SERI
AL
environment variable.
-p <product name or path> - simple product name like 'sooner', or
a relative/absolute path to a product
out directory like 'out/target/product/sooner'.
If -p is not specified, the ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT
environment variable is used, which must
be an absolute path.
devices - list all connected devices
connect <host>[:<port>] - connect to a device via TCP/IP
Port 5555 is used by default if no port number
is specified.
disconnect [<host>[:<port>]] - disconnect from a TCP/IP device.
Port 5555 is used by default if no port number
is specified.
Using this command with no additional arguments
will disconnect from all connected TCP/IP devic
es.
device commands:
adb push <local> <remote> - copy file/dir to device
adb pull <remote> [<local>] - copy file/dir from device
adb sync [ <directory> ] - copy host->device only if changed
(-l means list but don't copy)
(see 'adb help all')
adb shell - run remote shell interactively
adb shell <command> - run remote shell command
adb emu <command> - run emulator console command
adb logcat [ <filter-spec> ] - View device log
adb forward <local> <remote> - forward socket connections
forward specs are one of:
tcp:<port>
localabstract:<unix domain socket name>
localreserved:<unix domain socket name>
localfilesystem:<unix domain socket name>
dev:<character device name>
jdwp:<process pid> (remote only)
adb jdwp - list PIDs of processes hosting a JDWP transport
adb install [-l] [-r] [-s] <file> - push this package file to the device and i
nstall it
('-l' means forward-lock the app)
('-r' means reinstall the app, keeping its data
)
('-s' means install on SD card instead of inter
nal storage)
adb uninstall [-k] <package> - remove this app package from the device
('-k' means keep the data and cache directories
)
adb bugreport - return all information from the device
that should be included in a bug report.
adb backup [-f <file>] [-apk|-noapk] [-shared|-noshared] [-all] [-system|-nosy
stem] [<packages...>]
- write an archive of the device's data to <file>
.
If no -f option is supplied then the data is wr
itten
to "backup.ab" in the current directory.
(-apk|-noapk enable/disable backup of the .apks
themselves
in the archive; the default is noapk.)
(-shared|-noshared enable/disable backup of the
device's
shared storage / SD card contents; the defau
lt is noshared.)
(-all means to back up all installed applicatio
ns)
(-system|-nosystem toggles whether -all automat
ically includes
system applications; the default is to inclu
de system apps)
(<packages...> is the list of applications to b
e backed up. If
the -all or -shared flags are passed, then t
he package
list is optional. Applications explicitly g
iven on the
command line will be included even if -nosys
tem would
ordinarily cause them to be omitted.)
adb restore <file> - restore device contents from the <file> backup
archive
adb help - show this help message
adb version - show version num
scripting:
adb wait-for-device - block until device is online
adb start-server - ensure that there is a server running
adb kill-server - kill the server if it is running
adb get-state - prints: offline | bootloader | device
adb get-serialno - prints: <serial-number>
adb status-window - continuously print device status for a specifie
d device
adb remount - remounts the /system partition on the device re
ad-write
adb reboot [bootloader|recovery] - reboots the device, optionally into the boo
tloader or recovery program
adb reboot-bootloader - reboots the device into the bootloader
adb root - restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions
adb usb - restarts the adbd daemon listening on USB
adb tcpip <port> - restarts the adbd daemon listening on TCP on th
e specified port
networking:
adb ppp <tty> [parameters] - Run PPP over USB.
Note: you should not automatically start a PPP connection.
<tty> refers to the tty for PPP stream. Eg. dev:/dev/omap_csmi_tty1
[parameters] - Eg. defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns
adb sync notes: adb sync [ <directory> ]
<localdir> can be interpreted in several ways:
- If <directory> is not specified, both /system and /data partitions will be u
pdated.
- If it is "system" or "data", only the corresponding partition
is updated.
environmental variables:
ADB_TRACE - Print debug information. A comma separated list
of the following values
1 or all, adb, sockets, packets, rwx, usb, sync
, sysdeps, transport, jdwp
ANDROID_SERIAL - The serial number to connect to. -s takes prior
ity over this if given.
ANDROID_LOG_TAGS - When used with the logcat option, only these de
bug tags are printed.
-------------------------------
then tried to install it via CWM, apply /sdcard/update.zip
it says
finding update
opening update
E: Can't open sdcard/update.zip
(No such file or directory)
Installation aborted

It should be C:\fastboot>adb push update.zip /sdcard not C:\fastboot>adb push update.zip/sdcard/update.zip
where is your adb files ? In the fastboot folder too ? If yes, try this:
1. C:\fastboot>fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
2. C:\fastboot>adb devices
enter
C:\fastboot>adb shell
enter then type after ~ # mount sdcard
3. don't close anything, open another cmd prompt
C:\fastboot>adb push update.zip /sdcard
then enter
once completed, choose install from sdcard - choose zip from sdcard, the update.zip should be there

here whats happening. see attachment

mikey0105 said:
here whats happening. see attachment
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There is no AdbWinUsb.dll in your folder ?

GUYS!!! AT LAST!!!! I'm so happy!!! its all okay now! oh man! this is crazy! hahaha! thank you so much to all!. the feeling is really great! WOOOOOWWWWW!!!!

problems rooting

I have KFHD 8.9 v8.3. I am having problems getting fastboot working. I have read threads that there are specific "fastboot drivers" and then I have seen other threads where fastboot drivers are a part of the Kindle Fire drivers installed by ...\sdk\extras\amazon\kindle_fire_usb_driver\KindleDrivers.exe. No matter what I do I am unable to get "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" to work. At one point I had it rooted with validation from suchecker, still couldnt get fastboot to work, but factory restored to 8.3 to validate steps and instructions and it is a nogo at the moment.
Any help would be appreciated.

So, is your device rooted or not? Your post in another forum seems to contradict what you are saying here.

Liek Soupmagnet said are you positive that your device has root access? If so, I would try wipe the drivers and start from scratch.
As far as I know and it worked for me, fastboot drivers are loaded when you install Android SDK on your PC. See picture bellow.
However in case you need the fastboot drivers you can download here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B4lZEJI5lYeMdzJobG5jSk9QSEk/edit?pli=1 as referenced here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34589184&postcount=6
These ADB drivers worked for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1890413
For Kindle drivers and Amazon drivers for Windows 8 (if the case),please take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2185402 however I did need not need them.
Is your Kindle showing up when you type the command ADB Devices cmd/terminal window?
I hope it helps.

soupmaget,
I responded to your PM and I said I would try the SoupKit tonight. Calling me out in forums doesn't help you or me and dont know why you keep doing that. I am trying many things but it boils down to the same specific commands. I have even tried the below downloads manually grabbing the commands and typing them in manually.
Last night I refreshed my env following the amazon tutorials step by step. I finally got root by running Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v25 twice and then Kindle_Fire_Utility_v0.9.6 rooting via recommended option twice. ADB does work, I can "adb reboot", "adb shell" push files, mv files, etc. SUCheck validates I have root.
When I continue to hashchodes TWRP and 2nd bootloader tutorial it states that "you should have working fastboot drivers" which to me means that there is a separate download/driver to install for it to work. I know fastboot.exe is included in the ADK and tried using the other tools for getting fastboot working but its not working.
I do run these with administrative rights....
D:\android\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
B0CA060424841KF0 device

So technically this thread is specific to rooting and can be closed as I am passed rooting now and on to fastboot issue...

rwideman said:
So technically this thread is specific to rooting and can be closed as I am passed rooting now and on to fastboot issue...
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You are blowing my mind right now with your refusal to be helped. Why are you so hell bent on making this difficult for yourself? You have a $300 device that doesn't work and you're being resistant to someone who can most likely help you get it working again. Why? I don't get it...
From what I gather in your various posts, your device is rooted but you cannot access fastboot via the traditional method of entering "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" in the terminal and powering the device up.
Assuming you have a usb/adb/fastboot connection problem with your Mac, you can use SoupKit, but only in certain VMs. But if you have had a previous connection with either fastboot or adb, that probably isn't the case.
Theres a good chance that you can install the Android Terminal Emulator, enter 'su' to gain root privileges and enter "reboot bootloader". That should boot your device into fastboot so you can enter fastboot commands. But, as I told you before, if there is a usb connection problem, and you cannot send fastboot commands to your device, you will be stuck in fastboot. If you have another non-Mac computer available to you, it would be best to boot it into Linux and install soupkit to make sure that doesn't happen. BTW, that is nearly verbatim to what I told you via the first PM.

Are you looking at the timestamps of my postings? Things change over time....
Did you read my PM response? I will try SoupKit tonight, I mentioned this after you told me to try it.
Thank you for your efforts.

My wife took the MBP for the night so I tried 2 old laptops with win7 x64 on them. copied over files and installed the kindle drivers as normal, got KFHD working with adb and then fastboot sits at the prompt waiting just like on my other env, even installed latest jdk 6 and nogo. I am SOL for the day so I will have a drink or 2 tonight and take one of those old laptops to work and install ubuntu 12.10 tomorrow and try again.
Thanks for the help.
FYI, I tried installing the terminal emu and runing "reboot bootloader" with a few fastboot command tries and nogo. I was able to hold the power button and get it to shut off once I got to fastboot mode.
FYI #2, under my previous env with vmware workstation 9 running unbuntu 12.04 in a vm I could not get fastboot to recognize the device but adb was recognizing it perfectly. Trying native ubuntu tomorrow.
FYI #3, In the professional world it is better to stick to non-psychologist bashing, what someone is and is not doing/thinking/acting, and sticking to the issue at hand. I have been in the IT world for 15 years and troubleshooting is my day job (windows, vmware, SAP, *nix, .net, java, j2ee, storage, UCS, routers, switches, nexus, cloud automation, orchestration, etc). Professionalism frowns upon psychologist speak.

rwideman said:
My wife took the MBP for the night so I tried 2 old laptops with win7 x64 on them. copied over files and installed the kindle drivers as normal, got KFHD working with adb and then fastboot sits at the prompt waiting just like on my other env, even installed latest jdk 6 and nogo. I am SOL for the day so I will have a drink or 2 tonight and take one of those old laptops to work and install ubuntu 12.10 tomorrow and try again.
Thanks for the help.
FYI, I tried installing the terminal emu and runing "reboot bootloader" with a few fastboot command tries and nogo. I was able to hold the power button and get it to shut off once I got to fastboot mode.
FYI #2, under my previous env with vmware workstation 9 running unbuntu 12.04 in a vm I could not get fastboot to recognize the device but adb was recognizing it perfectly. Trying native ubuntu tomorrow.
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You're most likely looking at a driver issue. You might still be able to get them working in Windows. What did you use to install your drivers? Did you use an install package or did you do it manually?

I think I have the same problem. twrp installed on my device, but no OS running, and it can't be recognized on my computer, said driver incorrect, tried so many times, but can't get adb and fastboot work without driver supported. Don't know how to do.

soupmagnet said:
You're most likely looking at a driver issue. You might still be able to get them working in Windows. What did you use to install your drivers? Did you use an install package or did you do it manually?
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I used these instructions:
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/connect-adb.html
using ...\sdk\extras\amazon\kindle_fire_usb_driver\KindleDrivers.exe
I tried a few different driver sets/packages by different places on the XDA threads but they all ended up being the same driver or detected the KDFHD89 exactly the same.

rwideman said:
I used these instructions:
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/connect-adb.html
using ...\sdk\extras\amazon\kindle_fire_usb_driver\KindleDrivers.exe
I tried a few different driver sets/packages by different places on the XDA threads but they all ended up being the same driver or detected the KDFHD89 exactly the same.
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When it's in fastboot, do you see anything show up in the device manager?

soupmagnet said:
When it's in fastboot, do you see anything show up in the device manager?
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Unfortunately no. I haven't had time doing linux with soupkit yet.

I had exactly the.problem still can't get fastboot too see my kindle8.9.
used amrzon driver from sdk.
Adb devices is fine i see the kfhd serial number. .but once use fastboot cmd waiting for device then.never boot in fastboot mode. just boot back to lock screen .This is rooted 8.9 with 8.3 os.
maybe i should do a factory reset.
in order to install a 2nd bootloader and tw-recovery u have to have a rooted kindle hd8.9?

jonahy said:
I had exactly the.problem still can't get fastboot too see my kindle8.9.
used amrzon driver from sdk.
Adb devices is fine i see the kfhd serial number. .but once use fastboot cmd waiting for device then.never boot in fastboot mode. just boot back to lock screen .This is rooted 8.9 with 8.3 os.
maybe i should do a factory reset.
in order to install a 2nd bootloader and tw-recovery u have to have a rooted kindle hd8.9?
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Yes, you have to be rooted to install the 2nd bootloader and TWRP. I put together the SoupKit so people with driver issues such as yourself can use Linux without much trouble because it is 100 times more reliable than Windows. You should look into it. You can use RootPlus to get root but don't use it to install the 2nd bootloader on 8.3.0 or you will be bricked, likely permanently. But you will be able to use fastboot without any problem to do it manually.

soupkit Folder Empty out
soupmagnet said:
Yes, you have to be rooted to install the 2nd bootloader and TWRP. I put together the SoupKit so people with driver issues such as yourself can use Linux without much trouble because it is 100 times more reliable than Windows. You should look into it. You can use RootPlus to get root but don't use it to install the 2nd bootloader on 8.3.0 or you will be bricked, likely permanently. But you will be able to use fastboot without any problem to do it manually.
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Hi Thank you for the direction.
I made a Ubuntu 12.10 usbkey booted
then copied ur soupkit folder on desktop Run install.sh ( have to go into permisions check the allow excute)
Run in terminal then terminal show 2 " closed then all the file in soupkit is gone..ha.
didnt see option 1 and 2.
Then i try in Ubuntu termal do abd and fastboot but same as in window 7 KFHD89 just boot into lock screen.
(adb devices it can see devices though
Setting up android-tools-adb (4.1.1+git20120801-1) ...
[email protected]:~$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
B0C9100425160LG8 device)
fastboot not
([email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
android-tools-fastboot
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 337 not upgraded.
Need to get 48.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe android-tools-fastboot i386 4.1.1+git20120801-1 [48.6 kB]
Fetched 48.6 kB in 0s (105 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package android-tools-fastboot.
(Reading database ... 161214 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking android-tools-fastboot (from .../android-tools-fastboot_4.1.1+git20120801-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up android-tools-fastboot (4.1.1+git20120801-1) ...
[email protected]:~$ fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
< waiting for device >
I was thinking maybe its the Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v26 mess up somthing? I know my KFHD is rooted it by, but if i load any app need root never show the window ask me if i allow this app in superuser massege.
anyway any tips abot that soupkit Folder Empty out issue?
(just got this tablet last friday, good device so far but put a recovery on it seems a bit harder then my other tablets...But hey I guess thats part of fun too right? )
Thank you in advance.

I think you're confused in how fastboot works. The device must be in fastboot (display says fastboot) in order for fastboot commands to work. There was no need to install android tools. There's a possibility that in doing so you may have made things worse, but we'll see...
Since you have access to adb, try the following command to boot into fastboot:
Code:
adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
This, of course, assumes your device is already rooted.
[Edit:] Also, to access Root Plus after installation, enter "rootplus" (without quotes) in the terminal.

Installed 2ND-BOOTLOADER
soupmagnet said:
I think you're confused in how fastboot works. The device must be in fastboot (display says fastboot) in order for fastboot commands to work. There was no need to install android tools. There's a possibility that in doing so you may have made things worse, but we'll see...
Since you have access to adb, try the following command to boot into fastboot:
Code:
adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
This, of course, assumes your device is already rooted.
[Edit:] Also, to access Root Plus after installation, enter "rootplus" (without quotes) in the terminal.
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Great! Got Installed the 2nd bootloader and recovery .
adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader" boot device to fastboot mode.
thanks a lot! SoupMagnet.
Share steps:
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
B0C9100425160LG8 device
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
product: Jem-PVT-Prod-04
finished. total time: 0.006s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.003s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_h
smmc.1/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/stock-boot.img"
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 0.939 secs (8933554 bytes/sec)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_h
smmc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img"
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 0.937 secs (8952623 bytes/sec)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_h
smmc.1/by-name/system of=/sdcard/stock-system.img"
1814528+0 records in
1814528+0 records out
929038336 bytes transferred in 116.782 secs (7955321 bytes/sec)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/stock-boot.img
2794 KB/s (8388608 bytes in 2.931s)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/stock-recovery.img
3008 KB/s (8388608 bytes in 2.723s)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/stock-system.img
3004 KB/s (929038336 bytes in 301.978s)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb push stack /data/local/tmp/
571 KB/s (4096 bytes in 0.007s)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "dd if=/data/local/tmp/stack of=/dev/b
lock/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1"
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
4096 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (4096000 bytes/sec)
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system"
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /s
ystem/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak"
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell su -c "mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system"
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-
8.1.4.bin
< waiting for device >
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.026s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [ 0.045s]
finished. total time: 0.075s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.3.0
.img
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'boot' (8173 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.455s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.567s]
finished. total time: 1.030s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-twrp-2.4.4.0-r
ecovery.img
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'recovery' (8173 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.454s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.567s]
finished. total time: 1.029s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.004s
D:\sdk\sdk\platform-tools>

FIXED
soupmagnet,
Finally had time to install ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. I used soupkit for KFHD89 and root-plus from the same posting you had. This worked like a charm. rootplus' version of the play store actually worked compared to other versions I had installed, same for youtube and a few other google apps.
I will toy with TWRP tomorrow. Just glad I got normal google apps installed now.