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So I got my Kindle Fire a few months ago, already rooted. I went from TWRP to a CWM-based recovery, and I've been installing ROMs ever since without any issues. I'm currently running a CM9-based ROM, and I decided to play around with the softkeys, because I was tired of the bland white look. So I found some custom softkeys and flashed the .zip. I made sure to make a Nandroid before flashing, of course.
Upon rebooting from the flash, my KF got stuck in a bootloop. No biggie, this has happened before. I shut it down and rebooted to recovery, to restore the backup. But when it boots into recovery, it automatically reflashes the softkeys zip, and then reboots into the never-ending bootloop.
So the KF isn't necessarily bricked, I just can't get into recovery without it flashing a corrupted zip. I've tried two different unbricking tools, neither had any effect on it. Any ideas?
Can you mount SD card in Recovery and delete the Zip file through your PC?
linktohack said:
Can you mount SD card in Recovery and delete the Zip file through your PC?
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I only wish I could. As soon as I boot into recovery, it flashed the zip, then reboots into the bootloop. I suspect this happens because I used ROM Manager to flash the zip, and recovery hasn't reset itself because the device isn't booting up all the way. So every time I try to access recovery, it performs the last action I gave it, which was to flash the zip.
I hope you aren't using Hashcode's (older) CWMR or you might be looking at a much larger problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1651413
I'm not sure what's going on with your device, but the only way I know to get the recovery to do something on start up is to create a /cache/recovery/command file. That file should be a one time use command and get deleted after use, so your report of it happening each time you boot into recovery is puzzling.
If you want to take that out of the equation, I think you should either get to a shell prompt and delete the file manually or erase the cache partition entirely. Try getting to fastboot mode, boot a copy of the TWRP image, and hopefully it won't reboot on you automatically so you can use adb shell. Alternatively, erase the cache partition entirely with fastboot. If you do the latter, you'll probably need to remake the ext4 filesystem on the cache partition. Here are some fastboot references to get you started...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668159
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747804&postcount=3
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I hope you aren't using Hashcode's (older) CWMR or you might be looking at a much larger problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1651413
I'm not sure what's going on with your device, but the only way I know to get the recovery to do something on start up is to create a /cache/recovery/command file. That file should be a one time use command and get deleted after use, so your report of it happening each time you boot into recovery is puzzling.
If you want to take that out of the equation, I think you should either get to a shell prompt and delete the file manually or erase the cache partition entirely. Try getting to fastboot mode, boot a copy of the TWRP image, and hopefully it won't reboot on you automatically so you can use adb shell. Alternatively, erase the cache partition entirely with fastboot. If you do the latter, you'll probably need to remake the ext4 filesystem on the cache partition. Here are some fastboot references to get you started...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668159
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747804&postcount=3
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Thanks for all that, but I managed to fastboot into it, and then wipe system and data. Then I rebooted to recovery and restored my backup. Never fastbooted into a device before, or done anything with adb commands, so it was a fun experience.
same symptoms: KF bootlooping, no recovery
Hi there,
I have a rooted/modded KF with MIUI, FFF 1.4a and TWRP.
After I gave it away to someone, who only "used it", it is now stuck in a bootloop.
I can get into fastboot via fastboot.exe and re-flashed FFF and TWRP, but no change: KF boots with the white/blue logo, I can press the powerbutton to get into recovery, but TWRP doesn´t show up. When I boot normally, it looks the same: Black screen after a few seconds.
I read about the battery issues, so I booted the KF with a fastboot command waiting to the device. The white/blue KF logo showd up and I left the device at the USB port at my PC for a complete night: no change
I tried to set another bootmode via fastboot.exe but the code doesn´t seem to make any difference.
I have a second KF which runs just fine (now with AOKP M5.1).
Is it bricked now?
Elviz42 said:
Hi there,
I have a rooted/modded KF with MIUI, FFF 1.4a and TWRP.
After I gave it away to someone, who only "used it", it is now stuck in a bootloop.
I can get into fastboot via fastboot.exe and re-flashed FFF and TWRP, but no change: KF boots with the white/blue logo, I can press the powerbutton to get into recovery, but TWRP doesn´t show up. When I boot normally, it looks the same: Black screen after a few seconds.
I read about the battery issues, so I booted the KF with a fastboot command waiting to the device. The white/blue KF logo showd up and I left the device at the USB port at my PC for a complete night: no change
I tried to set another bootmode via fastboot.exe but the code doesn´t seem to make any difference.
I have a second KF which runs just fine (now with AOKP M5.1).
Is it bricked now?
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I'm not an expert on the KF, but from what you've described, I don't think it's bricked. Have you tried fastboot wiping system and data?
Mardenator said:
I'm not an expert on the KF, but from what you've described, I don't think it's bricked. Have you tried fastboot wiping system and data?
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I just did:
D:\root>tools\fastboot erase system
erasing 'system'... OKAY [ 51.245s]
finished. total time: 51.246s
D:\root>tools\fastboot erase data
erasing 'data'... FAILED (remote: : partition doesn't exist)
finished. total time: 0.002s
D:\root>tools\fastboot erase userdata
erasing 'userdata'... OKAY [108.555s]
finished. total time: 108.577s
D:\root>tools\fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.001s
D:\root>
I tried to get into Recovery but no change.
Maybe it's a problem with TWRP. Have you tried fastboot flashing a CWM-based recovery?
Doesnt sound like you have twrp installed or its broken just resend twrp it should overwrite whatever is there
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Doesnt sound like you have twrp installed or its broken just resend twrp it should overwrite whatever is there
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He might want to fastboot erase recovery and then reflash TWRP.
I tried CWM:
D:\root>tools\fastboot flash boot recovery\fff.bin
sending 'boot' (243 KB)... OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'boot'... OKAY [ 0.052s]
finished. total time: 0.117s
D:\root>tools\fastboot flash recovery recovery\cwm.img
sending 'recovery' (5198 KB)... OKAY [ 1.321s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 1.418s]
finished. total time: 2.740s
D:\root>tools\fastboot oem idme bootmode 5001
... OKAY [ 0.667s]
finished. total time: 0.668s
D:\root>tools\fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.002s
D:\root>
No change, same behavior: Starts with white/blue letters and than "off". Entering recovery is not working.
Are you pushing the power button several times quickly when you see the white kindle blue fire and selecting recovery?
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You need to select with the power button or the new fff will just tell it to boot normal also twrp is better if you intend to flash anything ics related
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Are you pushing the power button several times quickly when you see the white kindle blue fire and selecting recovery?
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Yes. I also tried to enter recovery just by setting bootmode to 5001 with fastboot. This didn´t work either.
Try setting the bootmode to normal then use the power button to toggle to recovery after reflashing twrp also how your flashing them is incorrect
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fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery <file path> <name of recovery>
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader<file path><name of bootloader>
not fff.bin to recovery as you are doing but to bootloader
D:\root>tools\fastboot flash boot recovery\fff.bin
sending 'boot' (243 KB)... OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'boot'... OKAY [ 0.052s]
finished. total time: 0.117s
this one is really wrong your flashing the bootloader to the recovery partition dunno your doing something strange and thats your issue
you may wanna use firekit to get your bootloader and recovery correctly sent to avoid further issues http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
or like this leaving the id out
fastboot flash bootloader \path\to\fff.bin
fastboot flash recovery \path\to\twrp.img
Hi,
i did flash fff.img to boot(loader) , and after that CWM.img to recovery. But the image is in a folder called "recovery", perhaps this was confusing.
you wrote that you flashed it to boot not bootloader but yes its confusing
try again after an erase I guess
fastboot erase bootloader
fastboot erase recovery
or with the id -i 0x1949
Did that, no success:
D:\root>tools\fastboot getvar product
< waiting for device >
product: kindle
finished. total time: 0.000s
D:\root>tools\fastboot erase bootloader
erasing 'bootloader'... OKAY [ 0.511s]
finished. total time: 0.512s
D:\root>tools\fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 2.429s]
finished. total time: 2.429s
D:\root>tools\fastboot flash bootloader recovery\fff.bin
sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)... OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'bootloader'... OKAY [ 0.052s]
finished. total time: 0.117s
D:\root>tools\fastboot flash recovery recovery\openrecovery-twrp-blaze-2.1.1.img
sending 'recovery' (5568 KB)... OKAY [ 1.404s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.543s]
finished. total time: 1.947s
D:\root>tools\fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.001s
D:\root>
ok unplug it then hold your power button down for 1 min then power it on use power button to toggle to recovery option in boot menu see what you get if that doesnt work redownload twrp img and send that again without erase also there is a small chance you could be remaining in fastboot but I doubt it try select reset bootmode as well but you have no system at this point so getting to recovery is imperative
What does "fastboot boot twrp.img" do for you?
Hi, my kf2 is stucked at fastboot, i'm not able to boot into recovery or system, i have succesfully installed fff-1.4a using a factory cable (because it was bricked with the stock bootloader) and have installed the otter2-twrp-2.4.4.0-recovery.img from hashcode..
It boots and i see the blue kindle logo, and have a menu, but when i select recevery it just turns on the amber light and stays there, i have left it for about 5 minutes waiting to see if it get to revery with no luck.
I tried this:
Code:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 getvar product
< waiting for device >
product: kindle
finished. total time: 0.000s
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem format
...
OKAY [ 0.068s]
finished. total time: 0.068s
Then
Code:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash boot fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
< waiting for device >
sending 'boot' (243 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.051s]
finished. total time: 0.115s
sudo fastboot reboot
rebooting...
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash boot fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
< waiting for device >
sending 'boot' (243 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.051s]
finished. total time: 0.115s
It succeed as you can see, it has the fff bootloader and twrp recovery is installed!!
Then i tried
Code:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash zip cm-10.1-20130704-NIGHTLY-otter2.zip
< waiting for device >
sending 'zip' (155204 KB)...
OKAY [ 38.806s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: partition does not exist)
finished. total time: 38.813s
It seem like a partition table problem maybe because i'm trying to install Cyanogenmod and not a stock image...
I think maybe i must reformat the partitions but i only have access to fastboot and i have read the documentation of Android Fastboot in OmapPedia but i'm not sure it's a "generic" information and don't want to mess up things more.
I have read many trheads in the forum but all of them use adb and there's not a thread with instructions about it..
Or maybe i need to flash all the images (system, kernel, etc..) with fastboot but i don't know where to get it, the main problem is that i'm not able to boot into recovery and maybe that point to the real problem
Any help is appreciated !!
Thank's
You can't write CyanogenMod from fast boot.
Sounds like somewhere in there you formatted the system partition. You need the stack file on the system partition in order to boot into recovery.
Restore to stock using fast boot and try again.
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How?
mindmajick said:
You can't write CyanogenMod from fast boot.
Sounds like somewhere in there you formatted the system partition. You need the stack file on the system partition in order to boot into recovery.
Restore to stock using fast boot and try again.
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Maybe it is the problem as fastboot oem format seems to do the job...
I have downloaded the stock update-kindle-6.3.2_D01E_4110520.bin, please can you point to the thread explainig how to do that using fastboot or it's just as easy as rename the file to update.zip and flash it directly?
Edited: also i'm not completely sure it's a kf2 and can't get a hint on how to discover it without knowing the is version :banghead: I've looked one the motherboard and is a MB0090 F3F.
I've downloaded the stock bin for the kf2 too...
Thank' for your quick reply
Well. If you have a kf2... The update you downloaded is wrong. IT'S FOR THE ORIGINAL KINDLE FIRE.
Without knowing what device u have u better slow down a sec. Any advice i give COULD permabrick u of you're on the wrong device.
What color was the BOX it came in? What is the model# on the back? (Same for kf1 AND 2 BUT NOT THE KF HD 7" OR 8").
Be advised- this device is EASY TO BRICK. BE CAREFUL.
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Also. The correct update file wont work either.
You can only flash image files from fastboot.
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It's apparent you have a KF1 and not a KF2. The command "fastboot -i 0x18d1..." would not work on the KF2 because it still has the stock bootloader (unless something miraculous happened while I was AFK). The stock bootloader has a VID of 1949, and will not answer to commands using a different VID. 18d1 is Goggle's VID and is indicative of having FFF installed (KF1 only).
BTW, the "-i 0x18d1" part is completely unnecessary on FFF.
That's not your biggest problem though....
Code:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash boot fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
That command is completely wrong. What you're doing there is flashing the bootloader (fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin) to the boot (kernel) partition. Obviously, there is no way that could possibly would work out for you. After the "fastboot" portion of the command, you need to specify what you want done with the image in question: flash or boot. "Flash" is persistent, "boot" is for one boot only. In the next part of the command, you need to specify which partition the image in question goes to; bootloader, recovery, boot, etc.
What you need to do is get an actual recovery.img and flash it to your recovery partition before you can even think of accessing said recovery to flash a ROM and get your device working again.
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It's apparent you have a KF1 and not a KF2. The command "fastboot -i 0x18d1..." would not work on the KF2 because it still has the stock bootloader (unless something miraculous happened while I was AFK). The stock bootloader has a VID of 1949, and will not answer to commands using a different VID. 18d1 is Goggle's VID and is indicative of having FFF installed (KF1 only).
BTW, the "-i 0x18d1" part is completely unnecessary on FFF.
That's not your biggest problem though....
Code:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash boot fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
That command is completely wrong. What you're doing there is flashing the bootloader (fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin) to the boot (kernel) partition. Obviously, there is no way that could possibly would work out for you. After the "fastboot" portion of the command, you need to specify what you want done with the image in question: flash or boot. "Flash" is persistent, "boot" is for one boot only. In the next part of the command, you need to specify which partition the image in question goes to; bootloader, recovery, boot, etc.
What you need to do is get an actual recovery.img and flash it to your recovery partition before you can even think of accessing said recovery to flash a ROM and get your device working again.
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Well you are completely right!! Didn't realize I was flashing it to the kernel partition, I bought this on eBay and it was already bricked, when I used the factory cable first time I got a lab26 device, and it was a 1949 so, if I'm right it's a kf2.
I've already flashed a twrp recovery but it won't boot.. I'll try sintering else and post the results here
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LUC4X said:
when I used the factory cable first time I got a lab26 device, and it was a 1949 so, if I'm right it's a kf2.
I've already flashed a twrp recovery but it won't boot.. I'll try sintering else and post the results here
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No. The stock bootloader on all generations and variants of Kindle Fires have vendor IDs of 1949. The fact that your device responds to the "fastboot -i 0x18d1..." clearly means you have a custom bootloader installed in its place. If you have an actual custom bootloader installed (not 2nd bootloader) then you clearly cannot possibly have a KF2.
In this thread, you say you have installed recovery twice, but the information given seems to suggest otherwise.
So to try and get to the root of the problem, what is the exact command you used to install custom recovery, and what custom recovery (version) did you install?
Glad you are here soupmagnet!
I didn't even look at the commands he was using but i definitely learned stuff from your posts. Thanks again
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soupmagnet said:
No. The stock bootloader on all generations and variants of Kindle Fires have vendor IDs of 1949. The fact that your device responds to the "fastboot -i 0x18d1..." clearly means you have a custom bootloader installed in its place. If you have an actual custom bootloader installed (not 2nd bootloader) then you clearly cannot possibly have a KF2.
In this thread, you say you have installed recovery twice, but the information given seems to suggest otherwise.
So to try and get to the root of the problem, what is the exact command you used to install custom recovery, and what custom recovery (version) did you install?
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Sorry guys i was out of town...
These are the commands (bootloader & recovery) i've used till now:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash bootloader fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
< waiting for device >
sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.065s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [ 0.083s]
finished. total time: 0.148s
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash recovery otter2-twrp-2.4.4.0-recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (8153 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.042s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.705s]
finished. total time: 4.748s
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Also tryed the twrp from teamw's site in both versions (otter & blaze) just to make sure, by issuing the following commands:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-blaze.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'recovery' (6144 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.540s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.514s]
finished. total time: 3.054s
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With this, when i reboot and select the recovery it turns on the amber light for 2 seconds and shuts down.
Then when i install the other recovery version (blaze from teamw):
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-otter.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'recovery' (6144 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.540s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.684s]
finished. total time: 2.224s
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When select recovery i get the same result: amber light for 2 seconds and turns off.
And with hashcode otter2-twrp-2.4.4.0-recovery.img:
sudo fastboot -i 0x18d1 flash recovery otter2-twrp-2.4.4.0-recovery.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'recovery' (8153 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.042s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.894s]
finished. total time: 2.937s
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It hangs on amber light and i have to manually turn it off holding the power buttom for 10 seconds...
So you think it is a kf1 based on the device id?, it shows that id after i installed the fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin from hashcode that i intended for the kf2...
Well, based on that i have installed a kf1 bootloader:
Downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.9.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192818
Unzipped it (as i'm GNU/Linux)
"Grepped" recursively till find the web address to download files from
Downloaded fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
Downloaded openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-blaze.img
Followed the install procedure
Same result !!, still can't get it to boot into recovery...
Really i hope someone here can point me to the right direction to fix this tablet, can't figure out what's wrong with kf(?)
LUC4X said:
So you think it is a kf1 based on the device id?, it shows that id after i installed the fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin from hashcode that i intended for the kf2...
Well, based on that i have installed a kf1 bootloader:
Downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.9.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192818
Unzipped it (as i'm GNU/Linux)
"Grepped" recursively till find the web address to download files from
Downloaded fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
Downloaded openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-blaze.img
Followed the install procedure
Same result !!, still can't get it to boot into recovery...
Really i hope someone here can point me to the right direction to fix this tablet, can't figure out what's wrong with kf(?)
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Lets get a few things clear right off the bat. The file named fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin is the custom bootloader for the KF1. The bootloader flashed in the KF2 2nd bootloader installation is named otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin. If you flash the fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin (FFF1.4a) onto a KF2, you would end up with something that is slightly less useful than a doorstop.
Why you re-installed it is a mystery to me. You already had FFF1.4a installed. I know this (as I explained earlier) by the fact that your commands, using the "-i 0x18d1" switch, were successful. If you had a stock bootloader, no commands containing that particular vendor ID would work at all. If you had a KF2, there is absolutely NO WAY you would have a device that responds to fastboot commands using "-i 0x18d1". Even with a modified KF2, with 2nd bootloader installed, the vendor ID would still be 1949 and all fastboot commands must include "-i 0x1949" or they will not work. You can confirm the fact that you have FireFireFire installed by entering a fastboot command without adding "i- 0x18d1". With FireFireFire (KF1 only), the commands will still work because it is unnecessary to specify the vendor ID.
That being said, I'm not entirely sure what's going on with TWRP using both "otter" and "blaze" for the board name (I think it has something to do with Goo Manager?), but anything you get from the TWRP website should work for the KF1 (for the time being at least). Anything you get from Hashcode will be for the 2nd generation KFs.
I would suggest, to avoid complicating things any further, that you download Cannibal Open Touch recovery, confirm that the MD5sums match after downloading, and flash it to recovery in fastboot. COTR only works for the KF1 (not made for the 2nd Generation devices yet) so there is "practically" no way you can get the wrong one. If that works and you still want to try TWRP, download the one for Blaze, check the MD5 (as you should with everything), and try flashing it in recovery again.
If you still can't get your device to boot into recovery, try the command again, but replace the word "flash" with the word "boot" and leave out the partition (i.e. 'fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-blaze.img'). If the device boots into recovery, then you know you have the right one and you may have bad blocks in your recovery partition preventing it from booting, but you won't know for sure without checking a few things out first.
Followed your instructions and get the same result...
Maybe i should install a complete system from fastboot and let it try to boot, but where can i get those files?
What do you think?
soupmagnet said:
Lets get a few things clear right off the bat. The file named fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin is the custom bootloader for the KF1. The bootloader flashed in the KF2 2nd bootloader installation is named otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin. If you flash the fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin (FFF1.4a) onto a KF2, you would end up with something that is slightly less useful than a doorstop.
Why you re-installed it is a mystery to me. You already had FFF1.4a installed. I know this (as I explained earlier) by the fact that your commands, using the "-i 0x18d1" switch, were successful. If you had a stock bootloader, no commands containing that particular vendor ID would work at all. If you had a KF2, there is absolutely NO WAY you would have a device that responds to fastboot commands using "-i 0x18d1". Even with a modified KF2, with 2nd bootloader installed, the vendor ID would still be 1949 and all fastboot commands must include "-i 0x1949" or they will not work. You can confirm the fact that you have FireFireFire installed by entering a fastboot command without adding "i- 0x18d1". With FireFireFire (KF1 only), the commands will still work because it is unnecessary to specify the vendor ID.
That being said, I'm not entirely sure what's going on with TWRP using both "otter" and "blaze" for the board name (I think it has something to do with Goo Manager?), but anything you get from the TWRP website should work for the KF1 (for the time being at least). Anything you get from Hashcode will be for the 2nd generation KFs.
I would suggest, to avoid complicating things any further, that you download Cannibal Open Touch recovery, confirm that the MD5sums match after downloading, and flash it to recovery in fastboot. COTR only works for the KF1 (not made for the 2nd Generation devices yet) so there is "practically" no way you can get the wrong one. If that works and you still want to try TWRP, download the one for Blaze, check the MD5 (as you should with everything), and try flashing it in recovery again.
If you still can't get your device to boot into recovery, try the command again, but replace the word "flash" with the word "boot" and leave out the partition (i.e. 'fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-blaze.img'). If the device boots into recovery, then you know you have the right one and you may have bad blocks in your recovery partition preventing it from booting, but you won't know for sure without checking a few things out first.
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Followed your instructions and get the same result...
Maybe i should install a complete system from fastboot and let it try to boot, i've found you uploaded a system.img to androidfilehost...
What do you think?
I posted that ages ago. I'm not even sure what device it's for.
Check the file size. If it's around 350MB go ahead. If it's closer to 500MB then it's probably for the HD.
I can't imagine why you couldn't load recovery using the 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command. Did you receive any errors when trying?
soupmagnet said:
I posted that ages ago. I'm not even sure what device it's for.
Check the file size. If it's around 350MB go ahead. If it's closer to 500MB then it's probably for the HD.
I can't imagine why you couldn't load recovery using the 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command. Did you receive any errors when trying?
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There's not error message, this is the output:
Code:
sudo fastboot boot CannibalOpenTouch-v2.1_otter.img
< waiting for device >
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.394s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.004s]
finished. total time: 1.398s
But it never boots up and stays off.
I'm seriously thinking it may be a hardware failure but i wont give up until i'm completely sure about it.. that's why i though i should reformat partitions at the first time but the fastboot oem format command "seems" to work, perhaps it takes very short time to execute 0.068s and it is a very short time, so i though maybe it isn't really formatting anything, is it a "normal time"?
Right now i'm downloading the file it's 380MB maybe something good could happen!!
I'll try the following and will post the results:
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot
LUC4X said:
There's not error message, this is the output:
Code:
sudo fastboot boot CannibalOpenTouch-v2.1_otter.img
< waiting for device >
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.394s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.004s]
finished. total time: 1.398s
But it never boots up and stays off.
I'm seriously thinking it may be a hardware failure but i wont give up until i'm completely sure about it.. that's why i though i should reformat partitions at the first time but the fastboot oem format command "seems" to work, perhaps it takes very short time to execute 0.068s and it is a very short time, so i though maybe it isn't really formatting anything, is it a "normal time"?
Right now i'm downloading the file it's 380MB maybe something good could happen!!
I'll try the following and will post the results:
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot
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The command 'fastboot oem format' will only make sure the partition layout is stock, it does not format the partitions themselves. The information within the limits of the partitions will remain untouched, so it won't do you much good in this situation. The only way to properly format any partition is with recovery (or 'parted' which is usually run from recovery anyway). Your situation is rather unique because the "fastboot boot' command doesn't write anything to the recovery partition. It loads the disk image you choose, into active memory, as if your computer were a separate partition on which that image is stored. There shouldn't be any reason for it to not work properly.
Try to flash the system partition you downloaded and see how it goes. I would also suggest that you make absolutely sure the md5sums match before installing any image to your device, including the recovery images you downloaded before.
soupmagnet said:
The command 'fastboot oem format' will only make sure the partition layout is stock, it does not format the partitions themselves. The information within the limits of the partitions will remain untouched, so it won't do you much good in this situation. The only way to properly format any partition is with recovery (or 'parted' which is usually run from recovery anyway). Your situation is rather unique because the "fastboot boot' command doesn't write anything to the recovery partition. It loads the disk image you choose, into active memory, as if your computer were a separate partition on which that image is stored. There shouldn't be any reason for it to not work properly.
Try to flash the system partition you downloaded and see how it goes. I would also suggest that you make absolutely sure the md5sums match before installing any image to your device, including the recovery images you downloaded before.
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Code:
sudo fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (389120 KB)...
OKAY [ 97.308s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 36.819s]
finished. total time: 134.131s
sudo fastboot erase userdata
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [116.935s]
finished. total time: 116.935s
sudo fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 29.189s]
finished. total time: 29.189s
sudo fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.000s
Must be hardware, it's sad... if it where a SMD flash memory i would try to changed it but it's a tyni BGA chip...
Thank you very much for your help
I wouldn't give up just yet. You can still try to usbboot, using the shorting trick.
soupmagnet said:
I wouldn't give up just yet. You can still try to usbboot, using the shorting trick.
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I'll try tonight !!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
soupmagnet said:
I wouldn't give up just yet. You can still try to usbboot, using the shorting trick.
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./usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp
Loading FFF through USB...
?
waiting for OMAP44xx device...
sending 2ndstage to target...
waiting for 2ndstage response...
sending image to target...
Fixing partitions...
< waiting for device >
... OKAY
Installing x-loader...
sending 'xloader' (128 KB)... OKAY
writing 'xloader'... OKAY
Flash FFF...
sending 'bootloader' (211 KB)... OKAY
writing 'bootloader'... OKAY
Flash TWRP...
sending 'recovery' (5260 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY
Resetting bootmode to standard boot...
... OKAY
Loading TWRP...
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY
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Same as before, it won't reboot after sending the boot to recovery command and if try to get into recovery it turns off after an amber light..
LUC4X said:
Followed your instructions and get the same result...
Maybe i should install a complete system from fastboot and let it try to boot, but where can i get those files?
What do you think?
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At the begining i saw you were using "fastboot flash zip...." that's wrong command.. should be "fastboot flash update xxxx.zip"
so if you find the totally package, youcan use it.
also you has mixture the boot.img and bootloader.bin..
recovery is not needed if you can flash the right bootloader and boot.:laugh:
I flashed clockworkmod recovery a couple days ago, not knowing that TWRP was out there. I'm trying to flash TWRP but now my phone won't boot into recovery after flashing. I tried erasing the cache and still no luck. Here's how I did it
Code:
#fastboot erase cache
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.672s]
finished. total time: 0.672s
# fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-m7.img
sending 'recovery' (8432 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.116s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.877s]
finished. total time: 1.992s
Then when I try to boot into recovery I get the HTC logo with pink text saying it's booting into recovery, it stalls, and then reboots normally. I'm running CM 10.2 and using adb in linux mint.
i had the same problem, i just left clockwork on there, i gave up after flashing it like 30 times. I did all the exact same things as you. Also checked the MD5 and verified what i had was what it was. Just letting you know i had the same problem as you, id love to find a answer myself. BTW you can still flash clockwork back on it to do recoveries.
I've come across more than one person online who has the same problem too but no definative answer.
I wonder what would happen if you wiped the recovery partition in CWM and then tried flashing twrp...
What if you tried the recovery in the thread about taking the update. And then flash twrp...worth a shot.
Sent from my One.
Chilidog said:
I wonder what would happen if you wiped the recovery partition in CWM and then tried flashing twrp...
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I'll give that a shot this afternoon.
brymaster5000 said:
What if you tried the recovery in the thread about taking the update. And then flash twrp...worth a shot.
Sent from my One.
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Which thread are you referring to?
I had this same issue , here is what I did to fix the issue . I flashed a modded hboot to remove the red text and now I boot into recovery every time .
cbrown245 said:
I had this same issue , here is what I did to fix the issue . I flashed a modded hboot to remove the red text and now I boot into recovery every time .
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Hmmmm, now you got me.... Still doesnt explain why it works for some and not others
cowmoo32 said:
I flashed clockworkmod recovery a couple days ago, not knowing that TWRP was out there. I'm trying to flash TWRP but now my phone won't boot into recovery after flashing. I tried erasing the cache and still no luck. Here's how I did it
Code:
#fastboot erase cache
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.672s]
finished. total time: 0.672s
# fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-m7.img
sending 'recovery' (8432 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.116s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.877s]
finished. total time: 1.992s
Then when I try to boot into recovery I get the HTC logo with pink text saying it's booting into recovery, it stalls, and then reboots normally. I'm running CM 10.2 and using adb in linux mint.
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You're using the wrong image for TWRP on the HTC One. What you want is
"openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-m7vzw.img".
I had a problem while trying to flash TWRP as well (I got my root and s-off with rumrun) , I'm just going to stick with CM, its much simpler anyway.
cowmoo32 said:
I'll give that a shot this afternoon.
Which thread are you referring to?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469057
Sent from my Oney Bone.
Hi
Last year i was using Android Revolution custom firmware, after which i went back to stock, i stayed with stock about 1 year , then yesterday tried install Android Revolution HD, but i think i mess it up big time because i am stuck in boot screen . I tried looking for a RUU but apparently my phone is using a newer version of RUU which i can not find. I spent 1 day looking for solutions but none helped, now i am stuck. Please help. Sorry for my English , Thank You
give more info : hboot number ? what recovery ? flashed the boot.img ?
Mr Hofs said:
give more info : hboot number ? what recovery ? flashed the boot.img ?
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version-main: 4.18.401.2, hboot 1.72.000 .recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.0-endeavoru , 5.1204.167.31
. i think i flashed the boot.img , at least one of them, i did a lot of flashing , trying to recover from my mistakes
okey here we go, first flash this recovery (for working touch in recovery)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqzlpqo8illa53j/Philz recovery 5.15.9.img
then you flash the boot.img from the rom.zip (copy it again to the fastboot folder and make sure its the correct one)
then enter the recovery and perform a full wipe
- factory reset (full)
- wipe cache partition
- ADVANCED - wipe dalvik cache
- MOUNTS & STORAGE - format cache, data, system
then install the rom.zip and reboot
Mr Hofs said:
okey here we go, first flash this recovery (for working touch in recovery)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqzlpqo8illa53j/Philz recovery 5.15.9.img
then you flash the boot.img from the rom.zip (copy it again to the fastboot folder and make sure its the correct one)
then enter the recovery and perform a full wipe
- factory reset (full)
- wipe cache partition
- ADVANCED - wipe dalvik cache
- MOUNTS & STORAGE - format cache, data, system
then install the rom.zip and reboot
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just waiting to charge a little bit, because i can not flash anymore, As soon as i charge my phone i will fallow you instructions and revert with updates. Thanks
ursache marian said:
just waiting to charge a little bit, because i can not flash anymore, As soon as i charge my phone i will fallow you instructions and revert with updates. Thanks
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make sure you charge inside the recovery, it does not charge in bootloader or the bootscreen !
Mr Hofs said:
make sure you charge inside the recovery, it does not charge in bootloader or the bootscreen !
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C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery "Philz recovery 5.15.9.img"
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.159s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: battery low)
finished. total time: 1.369s
any suggestions ?
I found that batch file in other post , and i just started charging now.
ursache marian said:
C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery "Philz recovery 5.15.9.img"
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.159s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: battery low)
finished. total time: 1.369s
any suggestions ?
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yea put your phone in the recovery and hook it up to the main charger !!! and leave it there for 2 hours
Mr Hofs said:
yea put your phone in the recovery and hook it up to the main charger !!! and leave it there for 2 hours
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I can not access recovery , it's staying only in boot menu , but i found a batch file witch apparently if i run it it will charge the phone for me to be able to flash the recovery that you sent .
Yeah cool. How many mV is it ?
Mr Hofs said:
Yeah cool. How many mV is it ?
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Managed to charge so i can flash , but no luck
C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery "Philz recovery 5.15.9.img"
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.172s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.379s.
ursache marian said:
Managed to charge so i can flash , but no luck
C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery "Philz recovery 5.15.9.img"
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.172s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.379s.
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remote not allowed indicates a relocked/locked bootloader ! and to be sure rename the recovery to just recovery.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
Mr Hofs said:
remote not allowed indicates a relocked/locked bootloader ! and to be sure rename the recovery to just recovery.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
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C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.167s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.377s
C:\New folder>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.217s]
finished. total time: 0.217s
C:\New folder>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (8050 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.169s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.378s
unlock the bootloader !
Mr Hofs said:
unlock the bootloader !
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OK, bootloader unlocked , flashed your recovery, now waiting for it to charge a little bit more. After i do a recovery wipe , i would like to install Android revolution HD, Yesterday i got stuck when i installed android revol HD becouse i couldn't select "next" button, my touch was not working, and using the Up and Down buttons was impossible. Now i see that in this recovery touch is working so maybe i will be able to install this Android HD firmware afterall.
Thank you for you help
ursache marian said:
OK, bootloader unlocked , flashed your recovery, now waiting for it to charge a little bit more. After i do a recovery wipe , i would like to install Android revolution HD, Yesterday i got stuck when i installed android revol HD becouse i couldn't select "next" button, my touch was not working, and using the Up and Down buttons was impossible. Now i see that in this recovery touch is working so maybe i will be able to install this Android HD firmware afterall.
Thank you for you help
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no problem, let me know the result
Mr Hofs said:
no problem, let me know the result
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i managed to flash boot and flash android hd 31.3 with your recovery.img, on mine the touch was not working . Thank you again.
Okidoki !
CASE CLOSED !
Hi guys, I would like to ask for a help. I was on New Layout (SlimKat 9.0). I wanted to try something at Old Layout ROM, so like a stupid I wiped everything (cache, data and system thru recovery), then I flashed fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win (Old Layout Backup) and Old Layout TWRP.
But after that, I can't access recovery (I only see picture of TWRP for 1 second, then it reboots with bootloop). So I flashed New Layout TWRP again together with fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win (I got backups from Old & New Layout).
Then I tried
fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win
fastboot flash system system.ext4.win
fastboot erase cache
but nothing helps. I am simply without ROM and accessible recovery. Anybody has idea what to do please? Thx a lot!
lesmil said:
Hi guys, I would like to ask for a help. I was on New Layout (SlimKat 9.0). I wanted to try something at Old Layout ROM, so like a stupid I wiped everything (cache, data and system thru recovery), then I flashed fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win (Old Layout Backup) and Old Layout TWRP.
But after that, I can't access recovery (I only see picture of TWRP for 1 second, then it reboots with bootloop). So I flashed New Layout TWRP again together with fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win (I got backups from Old & New Layout).
Then I tried
fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win
fastboot flash system system.ext4.win
fastboot erase cache
but nothing helps. I am simply without ROM and accessible recovery. Anybody has idea what to do please? Thx a lot!
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Download this guide and follow it. It should get you back to old layout.
How do I get back to the Old Layout?
Guide on Going Back to Normal Layout
Updated link to old recovery.
teemo said:
Download this guide and follow it. It should get you back to old layout.
How do I get back to the Old Layout?
Guide on Going Back to Normal Layout
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Thx for reply teemo. Already tried that. Still getting bootloop (blue image of TWRP appears for 1 second, then it reboots). Battery was fully charged (green LED). Even got this result from CMD:
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.232s]
writing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Format partition LNX done
OKAY [ 0.675s]
finished. total time: 1.910s
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp-recovery-hox-2.8.1.0.img
sending 'recovery' (7720 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.136s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Format partition SOS done
OKAY [ 0.623s]
finished. total time: 1.761s
C:\fastboot>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.222s]
finished. total time: 0.223s
No idea what to do now
lesmil said:
Thx for reply teemo. Already tried that. Still getting bootloop (blue image of TWRP appears for 1 second, then it reboots). Battery was fully charged (green LED). Even got this result from CMD:
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash boot boot.emmc.win
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.232s]
writing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Format partition LNX done
OKAY [ 0.675s]
finished. total time: 1.910s
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp-recovery-hox-2.8.1.0.img
sending 'recovery' (7720 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.136s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Format partition SOS done
OKAY [ 0.623s]
finished. total time: 1.761s
C:\fastboot>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.222s]
finished. total time: 0.223s
No idea what to do now
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Can you boot to recovery ?
teemo said:
Can you boot to recovery ?
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Nope. I wish I could. I only see TWRP blue image for 1 second or so, then it goes to bootloop.
Did you try the famous:
fastboot erase cache ?
teemo said:
Did you try the famous:
fastboot erase cache ?
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Sure I even pasted it in post I never forget to do this.
lesmil said:
Sure I even pasted it in post I never forget to do this.
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Hmm everything look right.
Could you try the recovery from my link.
teemo said:
Hmm everything look right.
Could you try the recovery from my link.
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The file was not found But I got this version of TWRP (from you) stored on external hdd as a backup, and on my D partition. It's still the same. Bootloop. I wish I could transfer some ROM zip to sdcard and install it lol.
lesmil said:
The file was not found But I got this version of TWRP (from you) stored on external hdd as a backup, and on my D partition. It's still the same. Bootloop. I wish I could transfer some ROM zip to sdcard and install it lol.
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No not the link from the guide. The link I posted in post #2. Download and flash.
teemo said:
No not the link from the guide. The link I posted in post #2. Download and flash.
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Still the same result :/
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp2810-HOX.img
sending 'recovery' (7720 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.157s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Format partition SOS done
OKAY [ 0.638s]
finished. total time: 1.798s
C:\fastboot>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.221s]
finished. total time: 0.223s
try this may help
also try adb push commands
dado323 said:
try this may help
also try adb push commands
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Thx, but no progress :S
u can try one x click to install recovery ,like long time ago i **** everthing on my phone ,i didnt have anything on my phone so i use Philz 5.15.9 the SD card mount function work only on that recovery that was like 2 years ago
dado323 said:
u can try one x click to install recovery ,like long time ago i **** everthing on my phone ,i didnt have anything on my phone so i use Philz 5.15.9 the SD card mount function work only on that recovery that was like 2 years ago
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I tried to flash every recovery now via One X click by now, no success to enter recovery. Always 1 second "blink" and reboot. No idea, maybe time for bed now lol
OH YEAH, at least managed CWM 6.0.4.8 WOHOO At least some progress... ^^
good luck
dado323 said:
good luck
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Thx but I am stuck again lmao. As I was on New Layout, UMS doesn't work. Sideload - same. omg. Will do it tomorrow. But weird thing is, that only latest CWM and philz touch 6.19.3 were able to be installed.
After this, TWRP 2.8.1.0 installed. Everything's going to normal. Thanks both of u guys