my usb port is broken and i was curious if i could root simply by using my micro sd in the computer, and transfering the files that way. ive searched the net for days now, but i wanted definite confirmation before attempting to try this. or if there is any other way, any help is appreciated! and no i cant afford to fix the port as of right now lol.
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my usb port is broken and i was curious if i could root simply by using my micro sd in the computer, and transfering the files that way. ive searched the net for days now, but i wanted definite confirmation before attempting to try this. or if there is any other way, any help is appreciated! and no i cant afford to fix the port as of right now lol.
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All of the rooting methods use fastboot and adb shell, which need USB.
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Is there anyone willing to help me with adb?
I just had to buy a new Dinc because I screwed the other one up so bad and I did not have any kind of backup on my computer! I did not know how to do anything whatsoever with the advanced with my last phone, even though I rooted it and get around a little bit and change ROM's and Kernals almost daily.
So, my question is: Is there anyone willing to help me go through and do everything with the adb step-by-step?
Also will someone help me to do whatever I have to do to setup a backup on my computer so that I won't have to go through losing everything and having to buy another phone?
Thank you very much!!
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What are you asking to do? What can't you do with adb? Your post is a bit confusing
Trying to help in your last thread (here), I have some questions:
What is your computer knowledge level here?
You can make a backup of the SD card by hooking it up to a computer, setting the phone from Charging to Disk Drive (unless you've defaulted it for Disk Drive mode when plugged into a computer), and dragging all the contents of the SD card to a folder on your computer. I suppose this could be done with internal storage too if you wanted...
In order to use ADB, you need to install Android SDK. ADB is a command you run from the command prompt. You'd use it to push, pull, and manually remove items from the system. I don't think you need ADB at this time. It doesn't do backups.
I know what you're thinking, "god this guy's being a ****". But if you're asking for help with something, especially something like using SDK, rooting phones, and flashing ROMS, there needs to be some idea of your level of experience/expertise with computers. I don't think your other phone was lost from the way it sounds. You could have spent less than $10 on a USB to SD card adapter, hooked it up to your computer, formatted the card as FAT32, downloaded a ROM, put the ROM on the SD card, put the SD card in your phone, then booted into recovery, and flashed the ROM.
Don't flash ROM's and kernels daily, stick with something for a bit until you understand what you are doing, and how things work. I don't think you can get a sense of how something is going to work if you're constantly flashing things. You need to give time so that the system can "settle". As far as the backups go, you are the backup for your SD card contents, so you have to back up everything to your PC once a week, once every two weeks, or a time that you feel is right.
Hey guys....first off, you guys all do great work as this is the first question I've needed to ask that I couldn't find the answers for....so my problem is I've been rooted for the last 5 months and I was making a NANDROID back up in recovery, went to reboot the phone and got the dreaded 5-vibrate, green LED error. I've searched all over and see that there really is no fix for that. My replacement is already here and I'm sending the old one back tomorrow. Problem is, the phone can't access the SD card so I can't put S-On......in hboot the phone does say S-on but I can boot it up if its plugged in through USB (and of course OMFGB boots up).
I've looked through these forums and found some similar results for unrooting without an SD card, but nothing seems to work. My laptop doesn't detect internal storage or SD card.......so do I just have to hope the factory doesn't get the phone to boot (if they dont try with it plugged in it won't)? Or is there some way you could download a file from the phone browser that could be applied??
Thanks in advance
To get s-on you could try using z4root. It has an unroot option
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Can you not download the windows installer of the stock ROM? The RUU can be found here and just hook your phone up via USB cable and load it up
I don't think you need an SD card for that.
Worth a shot
Well the problem was my computer wouldn't recognize the phone either, would just say something like "qualcomm device" then would error out after a few seconds. Once my replacement got here I put the stock ROM on the SD card and tried again with the defective phone and, miraculously, it unrooted........thanks for your advice!
Hi guys, I am having a problem with my HTC WFS a510c, I am trying to follow this guide here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399872) to s-off the phone, but I am unable to get the phone to connect in "disk drive" mode. I have the drivers installed, the computer recognizes the phone and shows the drive in explorer but does not show up in the gold card creator. Or when trying to open it from explorer it says "please insert a disk". The last time I connected through the usb cable this worked fine i was able to move pictures and music back and forth, but as soon as I went to try this it wont work. Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thank you guys in advance.
Did you select mass storage in the menu that comes after connecting the usb??? And BTW you need to use a Card reader to create a goldcard.
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Did you select mass storage in the menu that comes after connecting the usb??? And BTW you need to use a Card reader to create a goldcard.
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I did pick that option on the phone when it asked, ive had it working in the past.
Thank you for the advice on Gold Card Creator, I was just confused in the guide it said to plug the phone in and pick mass storage mode. Will try using my card reader thank you again.
Thank you for the tip about using a card reader, I am now S-off and Rooted, thanks again.
The only problem I am having is my phone is still not functioning as a USB storage device
could be a hardware problem on the phone......try another usb cable.....it might be that your usb cable is malfunctioning
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could be a hardware problem on the phone......try another usb cable.....it might be that your usb cable is malfunctioning
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Ill give that a shot, and hopefully that will solve it. It's just been an odd problem because the computer recognizes the phone and installs drivers and everything just now joy with storage mode.
my storage mode stopped working after i installed link2sd and made an ext2 partition. wifes still works with 2 FAT32 partitions using the same cable.
Mine stopped working before I did link2sd or data2sd, not sure what caused it, just ordered a new cable today and sd card, to see if that helps it.
Dburdett84 said:
Hi guys, I am having a problem with my HTC WFS a510c, I am trying to follow this guide here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399872) to s-off the phone, but I am unable to get the phone to connect in "disk drive" mode. I have the drivers installed, the computer recognizes the phone and shows the drive in explorer. Or when trying to open it from explorer it says "please insert a disk". The last time I connected through the usb cable this worked fine i was able to move pictures and music back and forth, but as soon as I went to try this it wont work. Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thank you guys in advance.
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i have ANDROID 2.2.1 HTC WILDFIRE AND i experience the same exact problem,
i think the problem is in the phone as i tried another pc and it did the same
i've reached a solution but its retarded and time wasting which is restarting the phone (and sometimes the pc) which also tell me that its not a usb cable problem...
i still searching for a radical solution for this damn problem
any help will be appreciated
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i have tried searching threads for this problem but i only got confused....i hope some good people can help me with my note 2 international version problem....the pc does not detect my device...it has been a recent problem....it used to be detected by the pc but now it cant be detected...i also have tried different pc and cables and same results...it cant be detected as a usb storage device...funny thing about it is it charges and works well with otg cable...i tried connecting a mouse and a keyboard and it works...also can read usb flash disks....the only problem is i cant acess its internal contents because it not shown on pc.... i suspect it has something to do with a software....anybody please help me out in here....iam also currently project aosp rom,,,,i used xnote rom but usb connection is not detected as well...i also tried reverting back to stock rom but still no luck being detected,,,iam planning to format the internal sd card and installing stock rom to see if it fixes the problem...if anyone out there willing to help please do so...much appreciated...thanks in advance.....
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i have tried searching threads for this problem but i only got confused....i hope some good people can help me with my note 2 international version problem....the pc does not detect my device...it has been a recent problem....it used to be detected by the pc but now it cant be detected...i also have tried different pc and cables and same results...it cant be detected as a usb storage device...funny thing about it is it charges and works well with otg cable...i tried connecting a mouse and a keyboard and it works...also can read usb flash disks....the only problem is i cant acess its internal contents because it not shown on pc.... i suspect it has something to do with a software....anybody please help me out in here....iam also currently project aosp rom,,,,i used xnote rom but usb connection is not detected as well...i also tried reverting back to stock rom but still no luck being detected,,,iam planning to format the internal sd card and installing stock rom to see if it fixes the problem...if anyone out there willing to help please do so...much appreciated...thanks in advance.....
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first uninstall kies and samsung driver ,reboot.
reinstall samsung driver it will try to update just cancel the update and it will install fine. do not install kies now plug in your usb to the pc and then to the phone.
if it detects good if not then the usb flex of the phone is the culprit take it to ss for a repair and be ready to make it all stock and status normal and yes despite the bad flex it does charge the phone gone through the same prob before
I used to have a galaxy s 2 it would not be detected on the pc..because while it was charging at one time it fell down the whole weight of the phone landed on the stub/pin of the charger...it continued to charged though... took it to Samsung repair store they just changed a small circuit board which had the charger and Mic...very simple and fast hardly 5 min...if all fails for you..try this option
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white_wolf29 said:
i have tried searching threads for this problem but i only got confused....i hope some good people can help me with my note 2 international version problem....the pc does not detect my device...it has been a recent problem....it used to be detected by the pc but now it cant be detected...i also have tried different pc and cables and same results...it cant be detected as a usb storage device...funny thing about it is it charges and works well with otg cable...i tried connecting a mouse and a keyboard and it works...also can read usb flash disks....the only problem is i cant acess its internal contents because it not shown on pc.... i suspect it has something to do with a software....anybody please help me out in here....iam also currently project aosp rom,,,,i used xnote rom but usb connection is not detected as well...i also tried reverting back to stock rom but still no luck being detected,,,iam planning to format the internal sd card and installing stock rom to see if it fixes the problem...if anyone out there willing to help please do so...much appreciated...thanks in advance.....
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Reboot your PC.
Hi there guys
I've just Rooted my HTC WILDFIRE (buzz) to the Cyanogenmod 9. I really enjoyed the speed and new functions I have on my phone now.
However, when I try to insert my USB cable into the USB port of my destkop, I can't see my phone storage. I tried to 'reinstall' CM 9 but it still doesn't work. I've tried it on different USB ports and computers, but my phone isn't recognized anywhere.
My SD card is not 'dead' or anything, cause I am still able to install apps from the store on it.
Anybody who can help me out here ?
EDIT: I managed to get on my storage again via recovery, but do I have to do this each time if I want to remove or add something on my phone/sd card via USB ?
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Hi there guys
I've just Rooted my HTC WILDFIRE (buzz) to the Cyanogenmod 9. I really enjoyed the speed and new functions I have on my phone now.
However, when I try to insert my USB cable into the USB port of my destkop, I can't see my phone storage. I tried to 'reinstall' CM 9 but it still doesn't work. I've tried it on different USB ports and computers, but my phone isn't recognized anywhere.
My SD card is not 'dead' or anything, cause I am still able to install apps from the store on it.
Anybody who can help me out here ?
EDIT: I managed to get on my storage again via recovery, but do I have to do this each time if I want to remove or add something on my phone/sd card via USB ?
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More probably a problem of drivers.
Quick solution : Disable USB debugging on your device before connecting in USB Mass Storage Mode.
Permanent solution : Uninstall and re-install USB drivers
HTH