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No space left on device

Afternoon all,
Last night I left my Desire charging as normal, having recently installed the Remote Media App. I suspect it used up all my storage with some sort of indexing process, as I returned to the phone this morning to find it perpetually showing the glinting HTC logo.
A reboot failed to clear it, and booting into recovery mode reveals"E:Error in DATA:data/recovery/log, (No space left on device)"
I've tried connecting to it with adb, but I get the following error
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
Is there any way out of this bind? I had/have ClockWorkMod recovery installed in order to use ROM Manager, but I'm not terribly clued up on what else is out there on offer.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Kyle

Try rebooting the phone into recovery mode and wipe/factory reset and see if this fixes it?
(Although you will loose all your apps/settings/scenes, though)
This should resolve the problem though.

hehe, there is always that option. I was hoping not to lose texts, settings, etc though this time round. Sadly my backup is more than a few days old.
I was mistaken in thinking I had ClockWorkMods recovery image installed, it appears to have gone back to the default image. I've just discovered a modified recovery ROM from JesusFreke here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=443041 which may be of use.
Having to wipe and start from scratch again is a disgustingly appaling out of space failure mode. >:-/

bin the phone and use a pineapple

That recovery image is for G1! Don't even think about flashing it.
Even if you have stock recovery, you should still be able to clear storage from HBOOT.
Regards,
Dave

One other thing that might be worth trying is booting the device in safe mode.
Whilst the phone is power down, hold down the menu button and then power on - keep menu held down until the phone is fully booted.
I doubt that it will help in this situation, since clearly /data is completely full, but there's always a slim chance it work.
Regards,
Dave

munkehman said:
bin the phone and use a pineapple
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Thanks for the advice m, I'll be sure to kick you in the nads next time you cross the border

Sadly Safe Mode fails too. The HTC logo appears and glints for a while, and then briefly vanishes just to reappear again. My thumb got sore after 5 minutes of holding the button down
I realised that was a G1 ROM shortly after reading more about it! I see there may be a more suitable recovery ROM at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709146 that I can flash. Failing that, then I'll clear storage and consign myself to failure

Wahey! It's sorted! Well, it was sorted a couple of hours ago, but a meeting got in the way
Wrote up some of the details here - http://lodge.glasgownet.com/2010/08/31/recovering-a-htc-desire/ if anyone is interested!

kylegordon said:
Wrote up some of the details here - http://lodge.glasgownet.com/2010/08/31/recovering-a-htc-desire/ if anyone is interested!
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Sorry to dig up an OLD OLD thread, but your "guide" helped me out last night.
In addition to looking for "big" items in the data partition, I also moved some of the Google updates (5meg Maps.apk anyone ?) from /data/app to /system/app ... renaming to overwrite the original version from my Rom.
Thanks Again.

Recover / Hard Reset

Anyone have the steps to take to preform a hard reset of fix a non booting device?
I am stuck on the amazon Fire TV part where the boot animation is doing nothing. Can't get past this screen and have been stuck for the last 10 minutes.

jamesrascal said:
Anyone have the steps to take to preform a hard reset of fix a non booting device?
I am stuck on the amazon Fire TV part where the boot animation is doing nothing. Can't get past this screen and have been stuck for the last 10 minutes.
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End Result. If you brick you box Amazon has no troubleshooting steps outside of rebooting the box. Once you get past that step and your still having an issue Amazon will issue you a replacement FireTV.
You will need to call Amazon as the Live chat is useless: 866-216-1072 Press 0 and ask to be transferred to the Fire TV department.

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Anyone have the steps to take to preform a hard reset of fix a non booting device?
I am stuck on the amazon Fire TV part where the boot animation is doing nothing. Can't get past this screen and have been stuck for the last 10 minutes.
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Oh, boy. That is unfortunate. What did you do that lead to bricking your box?

I am in the same situation with one of my FireTV box. What caused it was one of the SQLite editor I used to explore the settings database: it changed the permissions on the files. I only realized the problem once I rebooted it
On the other box, I used the SQLite3 command line client from TitaniumBackup instead, and directly did my edit as root. No problem there.
Unfortunately, I am not in US; so if there is a way to do a hard reset, I would be glad to know.

if you bought yours at a local best buy and are a select customer, you may have an extended return policy.

You must have edited something you shouldn't have with the sqlite editor. I edited mine to allow package installs and did a factory reset and its all good. Did you only disable the updates through pm disable com.amazon.dcp or did you also edit the /etc/hosts? Lets get this figured out so others don't end up the same way.

Stupid question, did you pick TWRP as a method of recovery during the rooting process? I did that on my note 10.1 and boy did it mess up that tablet when I tried to recover it. Luckily I had Odin at the time.
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I am in the same situation with one of my FireTV box. What caused it was one of the SQLite editor I used to explore the settings database: it changed the permissions on the files. I only realized the problem once I rebooted it
On the other box, I used the SQLite3 command line client from TitaniumBackup instead, and directly did my edit as root. No problem there.
Unfortunately, I am not in US; so if there is a way to do a hard reset, I would be glad to know.
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Do you recall which sqlite editor app you used that caused the problem?

Be interesting to know if there's a stock recovery, and if there is, if it's looking for an update.zip file on a thumb drive in the USB slot. We can tell that USB slot is getting polled at start time by the way that certain connections to it will hang the device.
If it were me, I'd try is to obtain a 1 gig or so USB drive, format it fat32 and copy the OTA update to it.
- Leave it zipped.
- Name it update.zip
- pull the plug on the FTV
- put the USB stick in
- power it on and leave it for a bit. Watch it - is the power LED going out? If so, it may doing a recovery install of the signed OTA and rebooting - many Android devices will install anything on the sdcard called Update.zip if it's there at boot time.
The idea is that if there's a stock recovery it may be able to see that USB storage and read the OTA file as a recovery source.

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Be interesting to know if there's a stock recovery, and if there is, if it's looking for an update.zip file on a thumb drive in the USB slot. We can tell that USB slot is getting polled at start time by the way that certain connections to it will hang the device.
If it were me, I'd try is to obtain a 1 gig or so USB drive, format it fat32 and copy the OTA update to it.
- Leave it zipped.
- Name it update.zip
- pull the plug on the FTV
- put the USB stick in
- power it on and leave it for a bit. Watch it - is the power LED going out? If so, it may doing a recovery install of the signed OTA and rebooting - many Android devices will install anything on the sdcard called Update.zip if it's there at boot time.
The idea is that if there's a stock recovery it may be able to see that USB storage and read the OTA file as a recovery source.
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There might be something to this idea. There was a review posted on Amazon and the reviewer had a Best Buy box that wouldn't go past the Amazon screen. They said Amazon told them how to use the USB to get it to work. A couple people asked for more info but they never responded. I have tried going back through the reviews to see if they ever did, but there are almost 6000 reviews.

kairnage said:
There might be something to this idea. There was a review posted on Amazon and the reviewer had a Best Buy box that wouldn't go past the Amazon screen. They said Amazon told them how to use the USB to get it to work. A couple people asked for more info but they never responded. I have tried going back through the reviews to see if they ever did, but there are almost 6000 reviews.
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i have only sideloaded a few apps , no root or root attempt was made before issues.
i have a similar boot issue ( stops at amazon first screen and led flashes white) . i believe my remote is fried , batteries heated up while pressing the home button to pair remote , i removed battery and found the plastic wrap on one starting to burn . i believe remote is toast .
can anyone verify that the boot will stop until remote is paired ?
ps : amazon phone help mentioned reset on remote was hold right arrow key ( ie right circle ) and home button for 10 secs , to reset just the remote ,. nothing helped mine , i say its dead. another is on the way ,. he also said the lack of pairing with remote should not have stopped the ftv boot , it should have gone past first amazon screen . other than restarting the ftv by disconnecting power he offered no other reset method .

bkdg100 said:
i have a similar boot issue ( stops at amazon first screen and led flashes white) . i believe my remote is fried , batteries heated up while pressing the home button to pair remote , i removed battery and found the plastic wrap on one starting to burn . i believe remote is toast .
can anyone verify that the boot will stop until remote is paired ?
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Removed batteries from remote and rebooted FTV, boots like normal, could not find a way to delete a paired remote otherwise I would have tried that too,

userr12 said:
Removed batteries from remote and rebooted FTV, boots like normal, could not find a way to delete a paired remote otherwise I would have tried that too,
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thanks ,. i called amazon they confirmed normal boot even without pairing ,. also said how to reset "just the remote" ,. right tab and home for 10secs.

kairnage said:
There might be something to this idea. There was a review posted on Amazon and the reviewer had a Best Buy box that wouldn't go past the Amazon screen. They said Amazon told them how to use the USB to get it to work. A couple people asked for more info but they never responded. I have tried going back through the reviews to see if they ever did, but there are almost 6000 reviews.
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I'm trying to find that review now. so far nothing

fireTVnews.com said:
Do you recall which sqlite editor app you used that caused the problem?
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I have reviewed the logs of what I did, and it was my fault:
I used a non-root SQLite editor, which means I had to give -rw-rw-rw- access to the database folder and content, which I did.
With the SQLite editor, all I did was to explore the database structure.
Once done, I restored the original permissions, fist -rw------- (chmod 660) on the database folder and database file itself.
Finally I restored read-only -r-------- (chmod 600) to the extra files (settings-*), and that was my mistake: I did not notice my chmod line had 2 entries, with the first one being the database folder (wrong)
If only I would have root write access to the file system with adb, I could easily fix it, with a simple chmod 660 on the database folder.
In hindsight, I was very careless to do that directly on the FireTV; I should have taken a copy of settings.db, and explore it on the PC.

Luxferro said:
I'm trying to find that review now. so far nothing
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Yeah I took a look again today. Their search doesn't really drill down very well.

Luxferro said:
I'm trying to find that review now. so far nothing
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Yeah I took a look again today. Their search doesn't really drill down very well.
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Here are all the reviews with the word "USB" in them on one page:
http://firetvnews.com/review_usb.html
I skimmed through it but couldn't find the elusive review.

@Firetv: please review post #15 in this thread, and consider adjusting the post on your website accordingly - when I saw your site, it was stating that adjusting values in the settings databases risked changing the permissions on those databases.
That does not appear to be the case, but rather reflected confusion on the part of the person who was doing the settings changes and permissions changes from the shell at the same time.
I haven't seen a db editor that changes the permissions of the dbs themselves....'
Back to softbricked devices: I see that Amazon sells a thing called a "fastboot cable" which in theory forces the Kindle Fires to reboot into fastboot mode if attached to a computer. I'd be interested in what one of these did in conjunction with an A to A converter, since I haven't seen fastboot mode available yet (that I know of)

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@Firetv: please review post #15 in this thread, and consider adjusting the post on your website accordingly - when I saw your site, it was stating that adjusting values in the settings databases risked changing the permissions on those databases.
That does not appear to be the case, but rather reflected confusion on the part of the person who was doing the settings changes and permissions changes from the shell at the same time.
I haven't seen a db editor that changes the permissions of the dbs themselves....'
Back to softbricked devices: I see that Amazon sells a thing called a "fastboot cable" which in theory forces the Kindle Fires to reboot into fastboot mode if attached to a computer. I'd be interested in what one of these did in conjunction with an A to A converter, since I haven't seen fastboot mode available yet (that I know of)
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I've definitely been tempted to remove the warning about SQLite databases after reading arman68's update. I haven't, however, because I've been individually contact by someone stating they used a free SQLite app from the Google Play store which caused them to lose their ethernet connection and soft-bricked after a restart.
I have gone ahead and updated the post to reduce the concern and stated that the SQLite Editor app everyone is using here seems to be safe.
Also, a fastboot connection can be achieved with any A to A USB cable. You simply need to boot the Fire TV while it's connected to a computer and it will boot into fastboot. I've done this myself with a Mac (have not tried a PC). The Fire TV displays a white Amazon logo on the screen and stays there until you reboot it without the cable plugged in. There doesn't seem to be much that can be done with the locked bootloader, but then again, I'm not the one to know as that is all new territory for me. Got any suggestions on things to try with fastboot?

fireTVnews.com said:
I've definitely been tempted to remove the warning about SQLite databases after reading arman68's update. I haven't, however, because I've been individually contact by someone stating they used a free SQLite app from the Google Play store which caused them to lose their ethernet connection and soft-bricked after a restart.
I have gone ahead and updated the post to reduce the concern and stated that the SQLite Editor app everyone is using here seems to be safe.
Also, a fastboot connection can be achieved with any A to A USB cable. You simply need to boot the Fire TV while it's connected to a computer and it will boot into fastboot. I've done this myself with a Mac (have not tried a PC). The Fire TV displays a white Amazon logo on the screen and stays there until you reboot it without the cable plugged in. There doesn't seem to be much that can be done with the locked bootloader, but then again, I'm not the one to know as that is all new territory for me. Got any suggestions on things to try with fastboot?
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I didn't mean to say you can't hose your device by changing settings with an editor, just that I don't think any of them change permissions. so using them to look but not change is pretty safe, IMO, and I'd hate to see folks discouraged from doing so.
I'm surprised that there's not a better onboard recovery on this device, or at least not one anyone's figured out how to get moving. I'dthink it'd be cheaper for Amazon if the devices had a viable recovery, or if there was a solid reset to factory which actually did a full reinstall of the OS.
Interesting about the fastboot mode - when i connect the FTV to my laptop using an A to A cable I don't get a device recognized in fastboot, but it may be down to not having a driver for it.

[Q] attempted kitkat revert, almost completely unresponsive

I have a bone stock 2013 Nexus 7 32 Gb Wifi, never had a problem with it. A few weeks ago, it notifies me of an update (Lollipop) so I apply it. Nothing but problems since then. It was very laggy and would glitch every few seconds while playing video (either local files or streamed over Plex, both had same issue). Sometimes when I'd wake it from sleep, the screen would look like an old CRT TV with static (except it wasn't moving, it was a fixed image). It would hang like this for seconds or sometimes minutes. Rebooting would usually resolve this for a while.
Tried a few 'lollipop tuning' tweaks, but when these failed to fix the video glitching and lagginess, I decided to revert to kitkat and followed an online tutorial (exactly like the one here except it had me install a standalone ADB/fastboot instead of full SDK) . No problem installing USB driver or setting nexus into USB mode. No problem getting it into fastboot mode and "fastboot devices" correctly listed the device, and "oem unlock" appeared to work fine as well. Running the flash-all batch file also seemed to go normally. But now my device is even worse than before:
- won't boot/run normally... no boot-up logo or video ever displays (or if it does, it's just a partial static image). Appears to get to a 'welcome' screen but the display is all messed (part of the screen is just repeated several times, so you can't see the entire screen). Unresponsive to touch, though it will make some sounds when you press in certain areas, but the display never changes. If I sleep it and wake it up, it shows the 'CRT static' mentioned above for many seconds before showing slowing showing the tiled/corrupted welcome screen. I can access the nexus' file system over USB on my PC even while it's in this borked state.
- display is now blank when getting into fastboot mode... i can time pushing the down-volume and power button so I know I am in fastboot mode ('fastboot devices' correctly lists the device) but the display is now completely black (not on, no backlight) in this mode.
I tried flashing to factory 4.4.4, 4.3, and 4.2 (always using 2013 wifi images) and it doesn't make a difference. Same results. Is there some bit of code that doesn't get reflashed during this reset that could explain why I'm having these issues? Any advice how to fix?

flyingsherpa said:
I have a bone stock 2013 Nexus 7 32 Gb Wifi, never had a problem with it. A few weeks ago, it notifies me of an update (Lollipop) so I apply it. Nothing but problems since then. It was very laggy and would glitch every few seconds while playing video (either local files or streamed over Plex, both had same issue). Sometimes when I'd wake it from sleep, the screen would look like an old CRT TV with static (except it wasn't moving, it was a fixed image). It would hang like this for seconds or sometimes minutes. Rebooting would usually resolve this for a while.
Tried a few 'lollipop tuning' tweaks, but when these failed to fix the video glitching and lagginess, I decided to revert to kitkat and followed an online tutorial (exactly like the one here except it had me install a standalone ADB/fastboot instead of full SDK) . No problem installing USB driver or setting nexus into USB mode. No problem getting it into fastboot mode and "fastboot devices" correctly listed the device, and "oem unlock" appeared to work fine as well. Running the flash-all batch file also seemed to go normally. But now my device is even worse than before:
- won't boot/run normally... no boot-up logo or video ever displays (or if it does, it's just a partial static image). Appears to get to a 'welcome' screen but the display is all messed (part of the screen is just repeated several times, so you can't see the entire screen). Unresponsive to touch, though it will make some sounds when you press in certain areas, but the display never changes. If I sleep it and wake it up, it shows the 'CRT static' mentioned above for many seconds before showing slowing showing the tiled/corrupted welcome screen. I can access the nexus' file system over USB on my PC even while it's in this borked state.
- display is now blank when getting into fastboot mode... i can time pushing the down-volume and power button so I know I am in fastboot mode ('fastboot devices' correctly lists the device) but the display is now completely black (not on, no backlight) in this mode.
I tried flashing to factory 4.4.4, 4.3, and 4.2 (always using 2013 wifi images) and it doesn't make a difference. Same results. Is there some bit of code that doesn't get reflashed during this reset that could explain why I'm having these issues? Any advice how to fix?
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So your bootloader is blank right? I would flash a new bootloader asap! And see if that fixes anything

noahvt said:
So your bootloader is blank right? I would flash a new bootloader asap! And see if that fixes anything
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I have to confess my ignorance here... I'm brand new to flashing android like this so I don't know the answer to your question. If part of tutorial I followed blanks out the bootloader (and doesn't write something in?)... then you're probably right. I shall look into this more tonight when I'm at home with the nexus. Thanks for at least giving me something to look into, that's exactly what I was hoping for!

This sounds more like a hardware issue than software to me. See if you can get a warranty repair or replacement.
From another thread by a user with a blank screen like yours:
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a7medmo7eb - We're very sorry to hear of this. Kindly email us at [email protected] with this copied problem description along with the serial number of your tablet and we will do our best to provide you with troubleshooting and servicing options.
If you have any further questions, comments or concerns please do not hesitate to let us know. We will be more than happy to assist you. Once again, thank you for choosing ASUS products and services.
Thank you.
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nhizzat said:
This sounds more like a hardware issue than software to me. See if you can get a warranty repair or replacement.
From another thread by a user with a blank screen like yours:
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Thanks, you're probably right. I did read up to understand all this stuff a bit more, so I know it's not lack of a bootloader or anything. All img files install just fine, so my pc can talk to the nexus, just the screen is all wonky no matter what i do.
Unfortunately I bought this 1.5 years ago so I don't think it's under warranty anymore. Everything was fine until I updated to Lollipop! Seems a big coincidence that I had a hardware failure at the same time as that update... I feel like Google ruined my tablet...

There is a bug where sometimes when you unlock the bootloader it zeros out the data partition. This might be the cause of your problem. It happened to me when I unlocked mine and I got stuck in a bootloop where it kept booting into recovery then shutting off. I fixed the problem by using fastboot to format data. Also, the flashall script didnt work for me. I put all the .img files in the same folder as fastboot then used these commands.
fastboot format data
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
after this I booted into recovery and did a factory reset for good measure and the problem was fixed. This may solve your problem. It may also be possible that you got a bad download. I hope this helps you

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There is a bug where sometimes when you unlock the bootloader it zeros out the data partition. This might be the cause of your problem. It happened to me when I unlocked mine and I got stuck in a bootloop where it kept booting into recovery then shutting off. I fixed the problem by using fastboot to format data. Also, the flashall script didnt work for me. I put all the .img files in the same folder as fastboot then used these commands.
fastboot format data
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
after this I booted into recovery and did a factory reset for good measure and the problem was fixed. This may solve your problem. It may also be possible that you got a bad download. I hope this helps you
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Hmm, thanks for the idea, but fastboot wouldn't do "format data", giving me the error: Formatting is not supported for filesystem with type ' '
Googling that makes it not look good. Weird, thing is, it still technically boots up, just the screen is so wonky you can't see where you are or interact with it properly. Not sure what else to try (opening it up and re-seating touchscreen cables?).

Controlling Recovery for FireTV Stick

I need to come up with the best way to control recovery for the FireTV Stick. Right now, I'm leaning towards requiring USB ADB and having people use the mouse emulator. And then the bootmenu would not auto boot and you would need to manually select what to boot every time. Unless someone else has any better ideas?

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I need to come up with the best way to control recovery for the FireTV Stick. Right now, I'm leaning towards requiring USB ADB and having people use the mouse emulator. And then the bootmenu would not auto boot and you would need to manually select what to boot every time. Unless someone else has any better ideas?
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Would you not be able to make it boot normally like it auto loads on the aftv2 but instead of saying select left to boot normal or right for recovery you could say you have 6 seconds to use a certain adb command to enter recovery? (But not in those words HAHA) maybe auto display the ip address of the stick on-screen at the same time at the top of the screen?) I don't know if this is possible or not but just helping with sum ideas? Good luck mate

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Would you not be able to make it boot normally like it auto loads on the aftv2 but instead of saying select left to boot normal or right for recovery you could say you have 6 seconds to use a certain adb command to enter recovery? (But not in those words HAHA) maybe auto display the ip address of the stick on-screen at the same time at the top of the screen?) I don't know if this is possible or not but just helping with sum ideas? Good luck mate
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I guess I could autoboot after some long delay, I don't think 6 seconds is enough, something like 10 or 15 would probably work. It would have to be USB ADB, and not network ADB, because getting wifi to work is a little tricky. I looked into it when I was working on the FireTV2 stuff, and wound up shelving the idea.

So I found some information for setting up an ad-hoc wifi network, so I'll look into if that can be used for easier wifi...

rbox said:
I guess I could autoboot after some long delay, I don't think 6 seconds is enough, something like 10 or 15 would probably work. It would have to be USB ADB, and not network ADB, because getting wifi to work is a little tricky. I looked into it when I was working on the FireTV2 stuff, and wound up shelving the idea.
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Sounds ok though, for a working recovery I'm sure most users wouldnt mind waiting a few more seconds so if something goes wrong It can be undone/saved via a backup
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So I found some information for setting up an ad-hoc wifi network, so I'll look into if that can be used for easier wifi...
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You know best mate

Is there any way to see if it got stuck or didn't boot last time, and then boot to recovery once after that? like a file that gets touched early in boot and then deleted later? not sure if that really would make sense, but an auto recovery on failed boot would be pretty awesome. maybe ANY adb input on boot at all, counts as boot recovery so it can be faster? 1,
enter or something?
Any way to just detect if a pc is connected via adb and if so, then boot recovery?
Not sure if these will be useful, but wanted to share the ideas that came to my mind. I definitely would like it to standard boot to OS if possible though.
edit: actually if a-a cable was used on original fire tv didn't it auto go to fastboot?

ImCoKeMaN said:
Is there any way to see if it got stuck or didn't boot last time, and then boot to recovery once after that? like a file that gets touched early in boot and then deleted later? not sure if that really would make sense, but an auto recovery on failed boot would be pretty awesome. maybe ANY adb input on boot at all, counts as boot recovery so it can be faster? 1,
enter or something?
Any way to just detect if a pc is connected via adb and if so, then boot recovery?
Not sure if these will be useful, but wanted to share the ideas that came to my mind. I definitely would like it to standard boot to OS if possible though.
edit: actually if a-a cable was used on original fire tv didn't it auto go to fastboot?
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So I can't figure out what happened the previous boot. Would need to modify the kernel for that. So I can detect if you're plugged in to the wall versus plugged in to a computer. But I think some people plug theirs into the tv usb port, and it would probably detect that the same as the computer. So maybe if it's wall, always boot straight, and if it's not plugged in to the wall, it's either plugged in to a tv or a computer, then it will show the bootmenu. You'll have I don't know, 10 or 20 seconds to adb shell in and run a command that will boot to recovery, otherwise it'll boot normally.
I was playing around with adhoc wifi, and I coudln't seem to get anything to work. Once I get recovery starting I may play around with it some more. The good news is I'm like 95% done for FireTV1... I think I figured out all the way I can possibly brick the stick, so I can avoid doing it. Haha. That was one of the reasons I wanted to get the FireTV1 working first. Because FireTV1 and FireTV2 I have ways to recover, the stick if anything goes wrong it's pretty much a lost cause.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to work on much in a few days, for a while, so it'll probably be 2 weeks before I can release something for FireTV1 and really get stuff going for the Stick.

If I remember correctly one or more android devices I have seen would auto boot recovery if device failed to boot a certain number of times. A delay at boot could be as long as you wanted since its not like people reboot the device often. Another though is if the stick can detect the difference between a reboot and a power-on, maybe the delay could be different between them. If I wanted to reboot to recovery there are apps that can do that, so delay for a reboot could be shorter than one for power-on.

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If I remember correctly one or more android devices I have seen would auto boot recovery if device failed to boot a certain number of times. A delay at boot could be as long as you wanted since its not like people reboot the device often. Another though is if the stick can detect the difference between a reboot and a power-on, maybe the delay could be different between them. If I wanted to reboot to recovery there are apps that can do that, so delay for a reboot could be shorter than one for power-on.
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Thanks. I'll play around with some of these ideas too.

The PC with dual operating systems come to mind. Where 1 OS is set as default and you have 30 seconds (default time, but adjustable) to choose the 2nd OS. If no choice is made it boots to the default.

2WhlWzrd said:
The PC with dual operating systems come to mind. Where 1 OS is set as default and you have 30 seconds (default time, but adjustable) to choose the 2nd OS. If no choice is made it boots to the default.
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That's how it works, the problem is how to make the selection. On FireTV1 and 2 it's with a keyboard. But you can't do that for the stick.

Use the power cycle as the trigger. The bootloader should have a time window (6 seconds) where a file (/cache/boot_recovery) is written to flash and removed after the time window has closed. If someone power cycles the device during this window, the file remains and can be checked during start up and evaluated.
For example.
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> none found
1s Show begin of recovery time window -> touch /cache/boot_recovery -> countdown 6 seconds
2s user power cycle
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> found
0.2s booting recovery
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> none found
1s Show begin of recovery time window -> touch /cache/boot_recovery -> countdown 6 seconds
7s rm /cache/boot_recovery
7.2 booting normal image

malfino said:
Use the power cycle as the trigger. The bootloader should have a time window (6 seconds) where a file (/cache/boot_recovery) is written to flash and removed after the time window has closed. If someone power cycles the device during this window, the file remains and can be checked during start up and evaluated.
For example.
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> none found
1s Show begin of recovery time window -> touch /cache/boot_recovery -> countdown 6 seconds
2s user power cycle
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> found
0.2s booting recovery
0s Booting up.
0.1s checking file which indicates recovery in (/cache/boot_recovery) -> none found
1s Show begin of recovery time window -> touch /cache/boot_recovery -> countdown 6 seconds
7s rm /cache/boot_recovery
7.2 booting normal image
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Interesting... very brute forcy, but it could work.

...in Addition, one could think of a small little app called reboot to recovery, that does nothing more than writing that little file to cache and reboot?
Edit: and thank you so much rbox for your efforts! Im on aftv1 and completely rely on your magic thanks mate!

dafunkydan said:
...in Addition, one could think of a small little app called reboot to recovery, that does nothing more than writing that little file to cache and reboot?
Edit: and thank you so much rbox for your efforts! Im on aftv1 and completely rely on your magic thanks mate!
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That would be a great idea, maybe put the apk as a systems app so it can't be deleted by mistake would also be a good move
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OK. So time for some good news. I figured out how to get wifi going on the FireTV2. So using the same method, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get it going on the Fire Stick. If it all works out, you won't need USB to control it. In other news, I think I've figured out how the wifi remote works, and I think I may be able to make it work in recovery too. I won't hold up the FireTV 1 recovery for it, so I'll release that as is without wifi and without the remote working, and then as I'm working on recovery for the Stick, I'll get wifi and remote working for everything. I had some issues with the FireTV1, so I don't know if I'll be able to get wifi working for it.

Hmm will the new WiFi remote be a requirement? I have the original with the bt remote. I did like that timing method as an option though as I plan to have stick to travel and not have otg most of the time so slightly faster default boot would be nice.

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Hmm will the new WiFi remote be a requirement? I have the original with the bt remote. I did like that timing method as an option though as I plan to have stick to travel and not have otg most of the time so slightly faster default boot would be nice.
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No. There will be a few options.

ImCoKeMaN said:
Hmm will the new WiFi remote be a requirement? I have the original with the bt remote. I did like that timing method as an option though as I plan to have stick to travel and not have otg most of the time so slightly faster default boot would be nice.
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I think by wifi remote he means the app for android not another device. If you havent tried the app its pretty handy.

highspeedfelon said:
I think by wifi remote he means the app for android not another device. If you havent tried the app its pretty handy.
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No, I mean the physical "Voice Remote" that uses Wifi Direct. I think the android app probably uses a complicated Amazon protocol that requires more than I can throw at it in recovery.

Nexus 7 (2013) multiple "Unfortunately..." after motherboard swap / image reflash

Nexus 7 (2013) multiple "Unfortunately..." after motherboard swap / image reflash
Hello all - I'm hoping someone can provide some assistance / suggestions...
A few months ago, my son's tablet went for a quick swim (dropped into the toilet ) Unfortunately, I wasn't at home (on a business trip) to immediately power it down and pull the battery. I'm not sure if it was turned off / back on / off again or what, but it was quickly put into a bag of rice to try and minimize the damage until I came home to review.
Inspection of the tablet confirmed it was dead - no response to either buttons or plugging in the charger. Found the ifixit how-to, and after obtaining some tools I popped the back case off to see what was what. Disassembly revealed an nice scorch mark on the underside of the motherboard, right where the main chip was, so it was pretty obvious what the failure was.
I decided that I'd give repairing it a go, and bought a replacement motherboard from ebay a couple of weeks ago. Swapping the board over was no problem, and I was happy to see that after letting it charge fully, it booted up and went into the 'Setup' routine.
However, this is where the problems started - as it was working through the setup (language / wifi / copy apps/data from other device etc) there were numerous "Unfortunately, xxx has stopped" messages. I kept 'ok'ing them, and the tablet made it to the point where it was starting to download the saved apps etc from the playstore before it rebooted.
When it powered back up, the 'Unfortunately" pop ups were worse than before, so after doing some searching I decided to try flash a factory image (razor-mob30x) , as per the link on the Nexus help forum. The flash seemed to work (no errors in fastboot mode, laptop was communicating with the tablet) but the pop ups were still as plentiful as before. I have tried the flash multiple times, even going back to lollipop, but with no real improvement. The last thing I tried tonight was to start the recommended flash process from step 1, re-downloading and installing all the required programs, but without success.
I'm not sure what else to try, as the factory image reflash should erase all the installed files.
My only thought is maybe trying to sideload the correct gapps / play services / etc in fastboot mode?
Any suggestions appreciated,
Roadie73

Update..
So, because I'm a glutton for punishment, I've been playing with the N7 again this evening...
Grabbed my old laptop, and went through the complete routine again - loading adb and fastboot onto the laptop, then the N7 factory image - and ended up with basically the same result - the tablet will look like the files have taken, but almost immediately after restarting and loading to the blue set up screen, the "Unfortunately..." messages start again.
I was able to get all the way through the set up, and have it copy and start to download the files off the tablet I was using previously, but the pop ups persisted, and it gets to a point where it is looking for a google play services update, and the process comes to a screeching halt.
I found another 'How To" and tried sideloading a rescue OTA update, which might be a little better, but the messages persist....
I'm almost wondering if it's worth reflashing the factory image back to whatever the N7 shipped with, and then trying updates from there, as it seems to be the play services / store / apps that is the issue.
The other strange thing is that when I sign in with my google account, it shows as a Nexus 7 2012, even though it's a 2013 - might the original software on the replacement motherboard have been corrupt?
Still trying...

Roadie73 said:
it shows as a Nexus 7 2012, even though it's a 2013 - might the original software on the replacement motherboard have been corrupt?
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Interesting, please post the output of the 2 commands...
boot the Nexus in fastboot mode (when off press power+vol.dn)
connect it to your PC
on PC run:
fastboot getvar all
fastboot oem gpt-info​
If you can, also attach logs...
download get-logs.zip to a FAT32 flash drive
connect the flash drive to your N7 with OTG adapter
download TWRP to your folder with fastboot and adb apps
boot the Nexus in fastboot mode (when off press power+vol.dn)
on PC run: fastboot boot twrp-3.1.0-0-flo.img
when TWRP is up, go: install/select-storage/usb-otg/get-logs.zip/flash
logs.tgz will be saved on the flash drive
attach logs.tgz here
It's simpler if you have TWRP already installed. You can also use get-logs.zip from internal storage.

Hi k23m,
I ran the two commands you suggested (getvar all and oem gpt-info) , and grabbed the outputs of both as screen captures and dumped them into a ppt file (which I can't seem to attach - there is no 'manage attachments' option I can see )
I installed TWRP on the N7, but was unsuccessful in creating / grabbing logs.tgz file - which might have to do with the USB connector on the N7 being flaky - if the otg cable wasn't held in exactly the right way it wouldn't recognize the flash drive.
If I can figure out how to add the attachment I will in a separate post, or I can always email it to you direct.
Thanks,
Roadie

Hello k23m,
Finally ad a couple of minutes to play with the N7 again - copied the get-logs file over to the tablet (that was behaving for once).
Unfortunately, despite copying the file off the N7 onto the laptop, a *.tgz file can't be attached. So I did the next best thing and copied the screen caps into an excel doc, which is one of the valid extension.
Please see the attached file - I had a look at the output, but it means nothing to me...
Thanks,
Roadie

added 'logs.tgz' file run previously - please rename from *.xls
Hopefully it might provide some insights into why the N7 is mis-behaving.
Thanks,
Roadie

The logs are OK.
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when I sign in with my google account, it shows as a Nexus 7 2012, even though it's a 2013
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If you have followed the factory image installation instructions and you see the error messages before setup's initial sign in, then your hardware is faulty.
If it happens after sign in, then perhaps Google has corrupt account data ("it shows as a Nexus 7 2012"). Try a new account. Try a custom ROM with Gapps.

Ok, thanks.
Just tried a factory reflash as per the link, but fastbooted the individual files (boot / recovery / system / userdata / cache) separately as from what I have read using the 'flash-all' batch file has intermittent results.
Looked like the files loaded in successfully, but I'm still getting the "Unfortunately.." messages popping up on the initial sign in screen for set-up
So, based on k23m's assessment above, it sounds like it's a hardware problem
As far as I know the touch screen is ok (it's responsive in all areas, as far as I can tell). The daughterboard is not the original (that took a swim) - it was swapped out of another N7 when the charging port started to spread (and that tablet was issue free) So it looks as if the issue is in the replacement motherboard.
I guess I could try removing and reinstalling it, on the off chance it's a flaky connection somewhere.
I will also check to see if there was any sort of gaurentee / replacement policy for the replacement mobo, but it sounds like I'm out of luck
Any other suggestions / checks I can perform to see if I can narrow down where the issue lies?
Thank you,
Roadie