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Help. Fastboot recognized as Flash Mode.

After rooting my Arc with Doomlord kernel on .69 firmware I tried to flash CM9, but forgot to flash kernel first, so phone didn't boot (GB kernel with ICS Rom). So i flashed .42 firmware with Flashtool, but now I'm unable to connect in fastboot mode. Blue LED lights up, but Flashtool says that my phone's connected in flash mode, not fastboot. What could it be, and what should I do?

Do it manually. Download the zip, extract it to a folder and put your boot.image in it, then open a command prompt window (hold the shift key and right click - Open command window here), then copy and paste this in to it, hit enter...
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot.zip

XperienceD said:
Do it manually. Download the zip, extract it to a folder and put your boot.image in it, then open a command prompt window (hold the shift key and right click - Open command window here), then copy and paste this in to it, hit enter...
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot.zip
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Nah, no go mate. Already did it before posting the thread, fastboot just sits there waiting for device.

Not sure then, try flashing a stock ICS ROM.

Still the same, damnit.

Try using the back button.. that may be recognized as the fastboot mode.. There have been such cases earlier too..

flsmidth said:
Try using the back button.. that may be recognized as the fastboot mode.. There have been such cases earlier too..
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It was the first thing I've thought about, but it didn't do the trick.
BTW, I've just find out that adb doesn't "see" my device too
Sent from nowhere

Very strange. It appears that it was PC-side issue. When I connect to another machine everything's good.
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[Q] Trying to install CM10

I tried to root and install CM10 on my HTC One X (AT&T) (v2.20). However, I have run into trouble. Here is what happened:
Successfully rooted phone using Hasooon2000's All-in-one Kit
Flashed Recovery Successfully (I think) using the All-in-one Kit
I'm now able to boot into "TWRP" but I'm not really sure what to do next.

It skips your HBOOT too?

SharkDog2 said:
It skips your HBOOT too?
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Yes, unfortunately.

Is the phone an evita or endevour? (quad core or dual core). What recovery did you flash? CWM or TWRP?
Try connecting the phone through usb and go to your adb folder and type in cmd: fastboot devices / fastboot list devices see if it is recognized.
Also try holding the power button and volume down button for 1 minute, it might reboot a few times and go back to the screen but I think it should jump back to your Hboot.

SharkDog2 said:
Is the phone an evita or endevour? (quad core or dual core). What recovery did you flash? CWM or TWRP?
Try connecting the phone through usb and go to your adb folder and type in cmd: fastboot devices / fastboot list devices see if it is recognized.
Also try holding the power button and volume down button for 1 minute, it might reboot a few times and go back to the screen but I think it should jump back to your Hboot.
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Thanks! Okay, I was able to get to TWRP but I'm not sure what to do next.

Well if you are in the recovery now make sure the rom you have downloaded is on your phone.
First open the rom.zip in your computer and take out the file called boot.img. Put this file in your fastboot folder.
Now boot your phone back into fastboot mode
then run this in cmd. "fastboot flast boot boot.img" from the folder your fastboot is located etc. if you are using the boot.img flasher from the rom make sure to put the boot.img there
It will send the boot.img to your phone and say if it is succesful.
Next boot back into your recovery and install the rom zip from inside the recovery.

wrong section, don't flash anything here..

Wrong Forum1!
Bro u have a dual core(At&t) version.The hardware is totally different ..Please post in in the thread for ur phone.
Dont flash anything from here!

Thanks! This worked. I'm now running Jelly Bean -- way better than all that AT&T garbage!
SharkDog2 said:
Well if you are in the recovery now make sure the rom you have downloaded is on your phone.
First open the rom.zip in your computer and take out the file called boot.img. Put this file in your fastboot folder.
Now boot your phone back into fastboot mode
then run this in cmd. "fastboot flast boot boot.img" from the folder your fastboot is located etc. if you are using the boot.img flasher from the rom make sure to put the boot.img there
It will send the boot.img to your phone and say if it is succesful.
Next boot back into your recovery and install the rom zip from inside the recovery.
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[Q] Arc S, fastboot stuck at " sending 'boot' "

Hi,
I have wanted to try CM10 for some time, and unlocked my Arc S for the first time today. I followed the guides at freexperiaproject, so it seems that I was able to unlock the bootloader successfully. After it was unlocked I rebooted and all my user data was reset (as expected).
I downloaded "FXP150-cm-10-20121208-UNOFFICIAL-anzu" from rapidgator and "gapps-jb-20121011-signed" wich I found at the cyanogenmod wiki. I put both the zip files in the root of my SD card. When I try running "fastboot flash boot boot.img" it says "sending 'boot' <5616 KB>...", but nothing more happens. I let it stay for several minutes and I have to push Control+C to abort it. I also extracted "boot.img" to the platform-tools folder under android-sdk.
In the SDK Manager I have installed "Android SDK Tools", "Android SDK Platform-tools" and "Google USB Driver".
Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything more I should do before running fastboot? Sorry if I have missed a basic step here.
Espen

First, copy the file .img to the fastboot folder, if the file system.img means you have to run the command with the command: fastboot> fastboot flash system system.img, if the file userdata.img means that the command should be fastboot> fastboot flash userdata userdata.img .if the file xxxxboot.img mean form the command fastboot> fastboot flash boot xxxxboot.img
Iam using google translate.so,I hope I helped you and I hope you understand
Sent from my LT18i

The file from the zip file is called "boot.img". I have copied it to the fastboot folder, and I am running "fastboot flash boot boot.img", as the "how to-" says.

Reinstall drivers
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espenta said:
Hi,
I have wanted to try CM10 for some time, and unlocked my Arc S for the first time today. I followed the guides at freexperiaproject, so it seems that I was able to unlock the bootloader successfully. After it was unlocked I rebooted and all my user data was reset (as expected).
I downloaded "FXP150-cm-10-20121208-UNOFFICIAL-anzu" from rapidgator and "gapps-jb-20121011-signed" wich I found at the cyanogenmod wiki. I put both the zip files in the root of my SD card. When I try running "fastboot flash boot boot.img" it says "sending 'boot' <5616 KB>...", but nothing more happens. I let it stay for several minutes and I have to push Control+C to abort it. I also extracted "boot.img" to the platform-tools folder under android-sdk.
In the SDK Manager I have installed "Android SDK Tools", "Android SDK Platform-tools" and "Google USB Driver".
Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything more I should do before running fastboot? Sorry if I have missed a basic step here.
Espen
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did you make the phone enter fastboot mode?
you should run "fastboot devices" to see.

Thanks for the replies!
I tried on a different computer this morning, and here it worked immediately. Not sure what was wrong on the other one, because I installed the same SDK packages and USB driver. Installing ROM at the moment.
[Edit]: Everything seems to be working fine. Very happy with CM10 at the moment

dewa999 said:
First, copy the file .img to the fastboot folder, if the file system.img means you have to run the command with the command: fastboot> fastboot flash system system.img, if the file userdata.img means that the command should be fastboot> fastboot flash userdata userdata.img .if the file xxxxboot.img mean form the command fastboot> fastboot flash boot xxxxboot.img
Iam using google translate.so,I hope I helped you and I hope you understand
Sent from my LT18i
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I just tried to install cm 10 on Arc S mobile...
It's bootloader is unlocked & rooted...
but when I try to connect it in flashboot mode & In flashtool Press "Reboot into fastboot mode (via ADB) ,
It show error that "This action needs a connected device in ADB mode"
what I have to do to flash boot.img ?
I attached 2 screenshots of connecting & error....
device is connected in flashmode , I also attached blue noti. LED pic which on when connect...
How I connect device & flash boot.img ???
Can I flash that kernel directly by clicking "select kernel to flash" ?
& Why it is showing ADB error when I click "reboot into fastboot mode (via ADB) ??
In advance thank you...

Tech-G.ONE said:
I just tried to install cm 10 on Arc S mobile...
It's bootloader is unlocked & rooted...
but when I try to connect it in flashboot mode & In flashtool Press "Reboot into fastboot mode (via ADB) ,
It show error that "This action needs a connected device in ADB mode"
what I have to do to flash boot.img ?
I attached 2 screenshots of connecting & error....
device is connected in flashmode , I also attached blue noti. LED pic which on when connect...
How I connect device & flash boot.img ???
Can I flash that kernel directly by clicking "select kernel to flash" ?
& Why it is showing ADB error when I click "reboot into fastboot mode (via ADB) ??
In advance thank you...
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You already asked for help in another topic, why here again?

Someguyfromhell said:
You already asked for help in another topic, why here again?
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sorry bro....
But my main question is remain....
Why It is showing ADB error... I tried on two laptops, but result is same...
so I thought any one know the exact reason behind it.
ok I will try to flash kernel directly....

Tech-G.ONE said:
sorry bro....
But my main question is remain....
Why It is showing ADB error... I tried on two laptops, but result is same...
so I thought any one know the exact reason behind it.
ok I will try to flash kernel directly....
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i dont like flashing kernel by flashtool, as far i done several 2011 devices the best method allways was over adb:good: & it pretty easy.
download android sdk & open the exe. leave all like it is (only may make sure google usb drivers are checked) & press on install.
after install place the boot.img here: ...\sdk\platform-tools
2. connect device into fastboot mode (blue led)
3.click in a empty space in the folder. now HOLD SHIFT & right click, choose ''open command line window here'' (<-- or sth like that sorry my setup is german)
4. enter 'fastboot devices' --> your device should be recognized as a bunch of numbers.
5. flash kernel by entering ''fastboot flash boot boot.img'' it tells you all done.
6. ''fastboot reboot''
7. enjoy new kernel

[Q] SD card appears empty, and phone is stuck on load screen.

A buddy of mine rooted my phone after I had so much difficulty trying to do it myself. I went to update my ROM this afternoon and was brought to the white HTC loading screen with no more activity. Tried getting into my phone to put a new ROM on the SD card and nothing comes up on the SD card folder. I am able to put a ROM in the empty SD card folder and install it, but than it just gets stuck on the same screen as before. I'm really just in the dark here and that friend isn't any longer available to help me out. Thank you all in advance, hopefully this is fixable. I am quite concerned. I should add that I would like to ultimately just get back to stock and be done with things I don't understand so as to avoid this happening again.

Did you flash the boot.img from the rom.zip? These are the correct steps to flash a ROM:
1. Flash the boot.img from ROM.zip via fastboot. "fastboot flash boot boot.img" then "fastboot erase cache"
2. Boot into recovery and use THIS by flashing it.
3. Now flash the ROM.zip and then gapps.zip via recovery.
4. Reboot.

vin4yak said:
Did you flash the boot.img from the rom.zip? These are the correct steps to flash a ROM:
1. Flash the boot.img from ROM.zip via fastboot. "fastboot flash boot boot.img" then "fastboot erase cache"
2. Boot into recovery and use ]THIS[/URL] by flashing it.
3. Now flash the ROM.zip and then gapps.zip via recovery.
4. Reboot.
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I have tried flashing the boot.img but when I go to put the file onto my phone I don't have any folders such as the boot.img folder to put it in. As for flashing the link above, I am taking a stab in the dark here but I assume that I download that link, extract it and place it on my SD card somewhere. I'm not sure as to how I flash it. Sorry... I really have tried learning the ropes of this, but I can't seem to grasp it.

I somehow now have access to TWRP on my device... I am so confused.

Scalliedhooligan said:
I have tried flashing the boot.img but when I go to put the file onto my phone I don't have any folders such as the boot.img folder to put it in. As for flashing the link above, I am taking a stab in the dark here but I assume that I download that link, extract it and place it on my SD card somewhere. I'm not sure as to how I flash it. Sorry... I really have tried learning the ropes of this, but I can't seem to grasp it.
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1. First you need to download a custom ROM like this one : http://tunsd.de/downloads/ICJ/IceColdJelly421/aokp_ICJ422-V3.0.zip , Gapps : http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip and Super wipe script: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0y31poo1kiaif4y/Super wipe script.zip
2. Open the aokp_ICJ422-V3.0.zip with winrar/winzip and extract the boot.img and place it in the "fastboot" folder in your PC. (since you have already unlocked/rooted it, I guess you know which is the fastboot folder)
3. Connect your Phone to your PC and make a new folder named "ROM" and put the aokp_ICJ422-V3.0.zip , gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip and Super wipe script.zipin it.
4. Turn of your phone. Now hold the power button and volume down button together until the bootloader screen pops up. (White screen with 3 android figures at the bottom)
5. Now select "fastboot" using the volume up/down keys and press power button once you highlight it to get into fastboot. Now connect your phone again to your PC.
6. You will hear a sound on your pc and on the screen it will say "fastboot USB".
7. Now open fastboot folder on your PC and press shift key and simultaneously rightclick and click on "open command prompt here".
8. type the following lines:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
9. Now disconnect your phone and head back to "HBOOT" and then select "Recovery".
10. Now go to "install zip from sd" and select "ROM" folder which you had created earlier on the phone.
11. Now select "super wipe script" and install it. After everything is done you will come back to choose zip from sd.
12. Now again navigate to ROM folder and select "aokp_ICJ422-V3.0.zip" and install it. and then install "gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip".
13. Now go back and select "reboot system now".
14. If you have done all the above steps correctly, you will boot into IceColdJelly Rom!
Scalliedhooligan said:
I somehow now have access to TWRP on my device... I am so confused.
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Irrespective whether you have CWM or TWRP... Steps will be similar for flashing the ROM... Just the names of the buttons/options will be different!
If you want to use CWM, then download this : http://htcfanboys.com/download/seadersn/?action=list&file=2823
Put the recovery.img in your fastboot folder. Boot your phone in fastboot mode and fire the following lines in CMD.
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
Now you can follow the steps which I have given blindly!

My phone was unlocked and rooted from a different PC so I have no fastboot folders or any knowledge on what a fastboot folder is.

Scalliedhooligan said:
My phone was unlocked and rooted from a different PC so I have no fastboot folders or any knowledge on what a fastboot folder is.
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Download HTC Sync Manager: (this is required so that correct drivers are installed on your PC)
http://www.htc.com/www/support/software/htc-sync-manager.aspx
After download is complete, install it and restart your pc.
Download Fastboot Folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?cm2famr3xd2cnom
Extract it somewhere on your pc.
Now look at my previous post and follow the steps...

Everything went swell until step 10. Every time I tried to install anything it came up as failed. I repeated the steps several times with the same results. I really appreciate your efforts in trying to help me.

Scalliedhooligan said:
Everything went swell until step 10. Every time I tried to install anything it came up as failed. I repeated the steps several times with the same results. I really appreciate your efforts in trying to help me.
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What error message do you get while you flash?
what is your HBoot version?
Go to bootloader(Power button+Volume Down)... once you get to that white screen, you should be able to see your hboot version... something like hboot 1.39...

[Q] Stuck in HTC logo, no power

Hi guys,
I am stuck REALLY stuck. I have or now had a rooted htc one x. I tried to flash a rom but this kept on stucking on the logo (carbon logo, cause it was a Carbon rom). When I saw this I got confused so I deleted everything from recovery mode. EVERYTHING the rom and what was on the sd card. Now when i try to turn oi on it is stuck on the htc logo (the first one that appears). I presume its doing so cause it is finding no rom to load. My other problem is the power. The battery got drained and I cannot even see my SD card on the pc ! I found somewhere that in recovery mode i could go to advanced and to side load but i cannot even see this side load option. PLEASSSSE help me I am really desperate!!

When you're in recovery, connect to your PC and mount your sdcard, in twrp it's advanced/mount. The card should then show up on your PC, put the rom zip on your card and let the phone charge for a while. Use fastboot to erase cache then flash the rom.

sinkster said:
when you're in recovery, connect to your pc and mount your sdcard, in twrp it's advanced/mount. The card should then show up on your pc, put the rom zip on your card and let the phone charge for a while. Use fastboot to erase cache then flash the rom.
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thanks for your reply.at the moment i am trying to charge the bat. To tell you the truth i tried mount sdcard in advance mode but still int memory didnt show up on pc. I shall retry when i get some power up

sinkster said:
when you're in recovery, connect to your pc and mount your sdcard, in twrp it's advanced/mount. The card should then show up on your pc, put the rom zip on your card and let the phone charge for a while. Use fastboot to erase cache then flash the rom.
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nothing cant do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!did i brick my phone???
Why cant i see it on my pc. Doesit have to do with the cable i am using???

xxinterboyxx said:
nothing cant do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!did i brick my phone???
Why cant i see it on my pc. Doesit have to do with the cable i am using???
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Try the original cable together with a 2.0 usb port,
if it still doesnt work flash another recovery like philz touch when you have enough juice

xxinterboyxx said:
Hi guys,
I am stuck REALLY stuck. I have or now had a rooted htc one x. I tried to flash a rom but this kept on stucking on the logo (carbon logo, cause it was a Carbon rom). When I saw this I got confused so I deleted everything from recovery mode. EVERYTHING the rom and what was on the sd card. Now when i try to turn oi on it is stuck on the htc logo (the first one that appears). I presume its doing so cause it is finding no rom to load. My other problem is the power. The battery got drained and I cannot even see my SD card on the pc ! I found somewhere that in recovery mode i could go to advanced and to side load but i cannot even see this side load option. PLEASSSSE help me I am really desperate!!
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You should flash boot.img and it should boot fine
So another time read, read, read so you won't get in trouble and be without phone few hours/days

nikola016 said:
You should flash boot.img and it should boot fine
So another time read, read, read so you won't get in trouble and be without phone few hours/days
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Thanks for the advise..but could you please be more specific like making a step by step proceedure. please note that mob is saying "battery level is lowto flash" and i cannot see my sd card on my pc.
thanks again

Extract the boot.img file from the rom, place it in the same location as your adb set up. Reboot to fastboot mode, connect to PC, open cmd window at same location as abd and type:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot.

sinkster said:
Extract the boot.img file from the rom, place it in the same location as your adb set up. Reboot to fastboot mode, connect to PC, open cmd window at same location as abd and type:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot.
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cache erase but getting cannot open boot.img!!!!!!!!!

Don't open it. Just extract it to your adb folder, and flash it via fastboot. If it's not called boot.img then either use fastboot flash boot (bootname).img or rename it to boot.img. Plus if you've erased the system you'll need to flash the rom again via recovery.

sinkster said:
Don't open it. Just extract it to your adb folder, and flash it via fastboot. If it's not called boot.img then either use fastboot flash boot (bootname).img or rename it to boot.img. Plus if you've erased the system you'll need to flash the rom again via recovery.
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i am typing "C:\android\sdk\platform-tools\fastboot flash boot boot.img" is it good? cause its replying cannot open boot.img and the file i extracted is called boot.img. I cant understand were i am wrong. Perhaps cause the battery is still very low?

The extracted boot.img should be in the sdk folder, for example mine is C:\Users\Sinclair\Downloads\adb_fastboot_and_other_tools\adb_fastboot_and_other_tools\Android. Open the folder, shift+right click and choose 'open command window here'. Try 'fastboot devices' to ensure it's been detected, if so it should work. Possibly a bad download.

sinkster said:
The extracted boot.img should be in the sdk folder, for example mine is C:\Users\Sinclair\Downloads\adb_fastboot_and_other_tools\adb_fastboot_and_other_tools\Android. Open the folder, shift+right click and choose 'open command window here'. Try 'fastboot devices' to ensure it's been detected, if so it should work. Possibly a bad download.
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please you are my only hope before i throw this device in the rubbish can. could you send me a detailed step by step proceedure of what to do cause I am completely lost. the files i need to down load where to put themand commands i should write down in command mode. I am completely noob on this and all these words you all use.If you cant and i completly understand could you recomend wewre i can post my problem for more veterans to see or perhaps there is somewhere where i can ship my device and get it fixed at a cost of course.
THANKS

You put literally the boot.img file in that state in the Fastboot.exe folder on the pc. So it goes into the platform tools folder !
Then you put the phone in the bootloader where you see "Fastboot usb" in red text
Then you point with the mouse inside the platform tools folder and hold down shift and click the right button and select "open command window here"
Then you type the command in that window
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot erase cache

By your reply I'm presuming you don't have a full adb/fastboot setup. Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42407269,
and follow the instructions.

Mr Hofs said:
You put literally the boot.img file in that state in the Fastboot.exe folder on the pc. So it goes into the platform tools folder !
Then you put the phone in the bootloader where you see "Fastboot usb" in red text
Then you point with the mouse inside the platform tools folder and hold down shift and click the right button and select "open command window here"
Then you type the command in that window
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot erase cache
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Hi there
Thanks for your interest in helping me out. After i do this right click thing i go to the black window and give these commands as they are no previous path like c:\ etc etc before the commands you gave me? Cause the funny thing i did the erase cache thing and it did it but this boot boot.img isnt doing it. And bdw i redownloaded another rom, copied it to the file tools and extracted it there. In it there was a boot.img file. Did i do the right thing?
Thanks again

When you open the cmd window by right click in a folder then all commands you enter are for that folder path, so it's fastboot flash boot xxx.img(replace xxx with the boot name), and it's only the boot.img for your rom you need extracted to the folder.

I think you are confusing yourself. Just stay calm and read carefully ! It's not rocket science. Open the rom.zip with 7Zip and just drag out the boot.img file to the exact same folder as where your fastboot.exe file is located. Open the command window there and type the commands.
The command fail cannot open is only because the file is just not there !
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904

Mr Hofs said:
I think you are confusing yourself. Just stay calm and read carefully ! It's not rocket science. Open the rom.zip with 7Zip and just drag out the boot.img file to the exact same folder as where your fastboot.exe file is located. Open the command window there and type the commands.
The command fail cannot open is only because the file is just not there !
---------- Post added at 10:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 AM ----------
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904
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I opened the foldet where my fastboot command is pointed the arrow inside the file, pressed down and holded the shift key when i right click the mouse cant see the command open command window here!!!!!!! What I am doing wrong i cant understand http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

xxinterboyxx said:
I opened the foldet where my fastboot command is pointed the arrow inside the file, pressed down and holded the shift key when i right click the mouse cant see the command open command window here!!!!!!! What I am doing wrong i cant understand http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
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AND THE boot.img file is there cause I am seeing it!!!!!!