Hi everyone, for Christmas my screen was crushed by a car .
The screen is completely destroyed (both touch screen & display screen).
However the phone is booting, so I can put it in recovery mod (I rooted the phone and I have clockworkmod).
After many trials, I succeeded in having adb connecting to my phone in blind mode.
I did this:
Code:
adb mount /data
adb pull /data /a_backup_folder
adb mount /system
adb pull /system /another_backup_folder
... and copied back my SD to my computer. I plan to buy another Desire and to revert the instruction by issuing a push for the data & system. This is:
Code:
adb mount /data
adb push /a_backup_folder /data
adb mount /system
adb push /another_backup_folder /system
Will it work ? Or is the system in sync with the flashed firmware ?
Can I selectively push some of the folders (namely applications, and the whole data). I hope to get back my settings, contacts etc...
I'm afraid I cannot do a whole lot more, since I do everything in blind mode.
Any advice on this ?
Thank you !
Just make a nandroid, should be able to restore as long as you don't have a different screen version (AMOLED to SLCD) but not 100% sure.
TheGhost1233 said:
Just make a nandroid, should be able to restore as long as you don't have a different screen version (AMOLED to SLCD) but not 100% sure.
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Thank you for your suggestion.
Can I do it even if I do not have a screen ? I've tried to launch it but I fear it needs busybox (it says that it cannot find nc) and I think I do not have it (and don't know how to put it without the screen).
What are the supplementary steps that nandroid does ?
This is for CWM 2.5.0.7.
Sorry mist the part that you have to do everything blind, when in recovery press 5 times down on the volume rocker and then 2 times on the OJ let it sit for 10 min, should be done sooner but i don't know how to check if it's finished. After 10 min press once again on the OJ, your phone should reboot and in the Clockwork folder on the SD card should be a backup folder with a folder with the current date and time of the back up.
Unfortunately it did not work.
It did the steps as provided, and indeed the phone rebooted, but there is no clockworkmod folder on the sd card.
Is there any way to do a similar operation with adb ? This would be easier since when I'm in adb shell, I can type from the PC .
Try installing amon ra recovery. You should be able to do it. This is what the amon ra thread says:
Scripts available via adb :
* Nandroid v2.2.1 : enter "nandroid-mobile.sh" to start.
Explenation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3046976&postcount=1
I think that this is what you are looking for
Use the command below to find out what partitions each mtd is for (I don't remember)
cat /process/mtd
Then backup with
cat /dev/mtd/mtdx > /sdcard/mtd.img
(Replacing x with whatever number)
Get all the partitions you need, boot, cache, data and system. Then flash to your new phone from fastboot.
fastboot flash boot mtdx.img
You might want to get hold of a tool called unyaffs and take a look inside the images you make to check its all ok before you bin your old phone or send it back.
mercianary said:
Use the command below to find out what partitions each mtd is for (I don't remember)
cat /process/mtd
Then backup with
cat /dev/mtd/mtdx > /sdcard/mtd.img
(Replacing x with whatever number)
Get all the partitions you need, boot, cache, data and system. Then flash to your new phone from fastboot.
fastboot flash boot mtdx.img
You might want to get hold of a tool called unyaffs and take a look inside the images you make to check its all ok before you bin your old phone or send it back.
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Ok the first step worked, but unyaffs does not want to open my imgs.
The size are as follow:
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3*145*728 boot.img
3*145*728 boot_ro.img
41*943*040 cache.img
41*943*040 cache_ro.img
655*360 misc.img
655*360 misc_ro.img
4*718*592 recovery.img
4*718*592 recovery_ro.img
262*144*000 system.img
262*144*000 system_ro.img
154*796*032 userdata.img
154*796*032 userdata_ro.img
which seems good (I also made images from the mtdXro). However I should be able to extract userdata and system from my understanding. I tried with unyaffs both on linux and on windows, on both I get a segmentation fault.
Do I have a way to verify that theses images are good ? I do not want to trash the new phone I will buy with a faulty image...
Flash the same rom from recovery on your new phone, then flash the data image from fastboot, if it works the first boot should take a while as it builds the cache. If it doesn't work just clear data and it wont have done any damage to your new phone.
You will have to zip the data image before you fastboot flash it because it's too big for fastboot to receive.
If you have s-off on your old phone I would flash amon-ra recovery from fastboot then use the nandroid script over adb.
As long as you don't try to flash the recovery you backed up I don't think there's any chance of damaging your new phone doing this.
Ok the final solution was to use the new phone (rooted and with clockworkmod) as a reference.
I did the same backup sequence on the two phones, and have been able to restore the backup on the new phone.
Thank you everyone for your help !
Glad you got it sorted...don't drop your phone under a car again.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Ok...so still have a lingering issue from my root and unlock. I cannot boot into recovery. At all. I just hang at that red triangle of going no where.
Now...the work around has been to just use the USB cable and run Toast's .bat file. That gets me past this screen and into the one with the little version of the red triangle of going no where and then populates that green menu.
From there I can do the zip files and data wipes and stuff.
BUT....I shouldn't have to do that right?
I should just be booting to recovery from that hboot screen.
Where I am right now...
- Rooted per the unrevoked application
- Nand unlocked per the steps at unlocker.com
- Flashed rooted Stock 1.47
- Titanium backup and got all I had.
Now...I did clean up the sd card...so I deleted the pc36img file and that mtd-eng file from the card's root. From what I can tell those commands that I ran move them over into data folders.
BUT...I still do not get to recovery
What did I miss???
Oh..and I ended up with Clockwork...although I had wanted amon-ra...not sure how to switch now.
Copied from toasts part 2, this will flash a slightly modified amon ra recovery for you. the recovery.img is in the popular thread section under toast part 2
once booted into Android put the recovery.img linked above on the root of you sdcard
- on your PC open a shell again and do:
Code:
adb shell
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery- you should now be in recovery mode
FYI, I think if you press the up volume and power button while in the triangle screen you may be able to get into recovery ... I had a recovery on my phone a while back that required that.
- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache
- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup
- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio
- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.
Thanks for your time and response ifly4vamerica.
I had a typo. Damn it. I hate that. The instructions said recovery2.img but it downloaded as recovery.img. I was looking at the exact same thing and comparing Toast's to the one I used. Noticed that the 2 was only difference...(i should facepalm myself again).
Anyway, yes will be using the amon-ra one from toasts in a bit.
Out of no where I got a message on my phone, saying that my sd card was unmounted. I wasn't doing anything other than I normally would. Now when I try to access my SD card, it's not even seen by the G2. I've formatted it to FAT32 and nothing, I've restarted the phone multiple times and no dice, and I have given it time to rest. I cannot seem to find the issue with this, but I have heard about some issue with the SD card latch thing. What can I do to fix this issue? Any advice would be greatly welcome
Have you tried another SD card to see if it is the phone or the SD card giving you problems?
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Out of no where I got a message on my phone, saying that my sd card was unmounted. I wasn't doing anything other than I normally would. Now when I try to access my SD card, it's not even seen by the G2. I've formatted it to FAT32 and nothing, I've restarted the phone multiple times and no dice, and I have given it time to rest. I cannot seem to find the issue with this, but I have heard about some issue with the SD card latch thing. What can I do to fix this issue? Any advice would be greatly welcome
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Is it the SD card that came with the g2 or a different one?
I had this happen with a 32GB patriot class 10 I put in my G2. It would corrupt and do the exact same until I full formatted it on a PC. (long story short it's a issue with the sdcard itself and has to be formatted a special way, but it's ONLY THIS CARD).
Try a different card, if a different card works then full format the nonworking card. If that still doesn't work then there may be a off chance (a very very off chance) that the card went bad.
Went to the T-mobile store and tried 2 different sd cards. Neither of them worked... any way to fix this on my own? If not, then can I un-root my G2 without an SD? If I call up costumer care, they'll probably want me to send my G2 in and will notice it has been rooted and such. I heard somewhere that as long as it looks stock, they won't do/say anything... not sure if this is true though..
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Went to the T-mobile store and tried 2 different sd cards. Neither of them worked... any way to fix this on my own? If not, then can I un-root my G2 without an SD? If I call up costumer care, they'll probably want me to send my G2 in and will notice it has been rooted and such. I heard somewhere that as long as it looks stock, they won't do/say anything... not sure if this is true though..
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Yikes, I'm not sure if you can if it can't read a image off the sdcard to flash.
You do have a legit hardware issue that rooting couldn't cause though.
The sd slot is not fixable most likely.
But getting your phone back to stock is.
if you have an eng s-off bootloader you can usually fasboot update the PC10IM.zip if you rename it to update.zip and place it in your adb/fastboot fodler on your pc like so:
fastboot update
ot
fastboot update update.zip
not sure, it's been a while
if you have an s-on bootloader have no fear, you can still get to stock, it's a little more complicated.
find a PC10IMG.zip that has a stock recovery.img in it.
extract it and place it somwhere it is easy to locate and the path is short for ease. like c:\
download a flashable recovery update zip for the stock rom you want to load back on the device. keep it for later.
download this special recovery image:
View attachment CWM-3.0.2.4-sd-spoof.zip
extract the image and flash it from the OS, you'll need to boot your phone first then when it is up and running you need to enable usb debugging and use it to push the recovery image to your /data partition
adb push recovery.img /data
or the path is required if you put it elsewhere like c:\
adb push c:\recovery.img /data
it should be in /data/recovery.img
then open terminal or since you shoudl have adb open you can use 'adb shell' then type enter to enter a root shell
flash_image recovery /data/recovery.img
it should just spir out a
#
that means it's successful, reboot to recovery
now you will be able to push items to the root of your /data folder (or anywhere in /data really)
when you select the flash zip from recovery option it will spoof the /data folder as the /sdcard and display the contents of your /data folder rather than the /sdcard allowing you to flash without needing the sdcard to work.
now flash any stock rom from recovery.
while still in recovery you will need to flash the stock recovery image as well once you verify the stock rom is in place and boots. you will still have CWM but you wont be rooted so flashing from recovery is required. it can be flashed with the same commands you used to flash the other recovery from the OS
if you get a return of error -1 when you try to use the flash_iamge command to flash recovery PM me, i have a fix for that as well. it should be updated though not to do that any more.
ONCE YOU FLASH THE STOCK RECOVERY AND STOCK ROM, unless you manually root again, which will be tricky, you are stuck.
hope this has been helpful.
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The sd slot is not fixable most likely.
But getting your phone back to stock is.
if you have an eng s-off bootloader you can usually fasboot update the PC10IM.zip if you rename it to update.zip and place it in your adb/fastboot fodler on your pc like so:
fastboot update
ot
fastboot update update.zip
not sure, it's been a while
if you have an s-on bootloader have no fear, you can still get to stock, it's a little more complicated.
find a PC10IMG.zip that has a stock recovery.img in it.
extract it and place it somwhere it is easy to locate and the path is short for ease. like c:\
download a flashable recovery update zip for the stock rom you want to load back on the device. keep it for later.
download this special recovery image:
View attachment 582547
extract the image and flash it from the OS, you'll need to boot your phone first then when it is up and running you need to enable usb debugging and use it to push the recovery image to your /data partition
adb push recovery.img /data
or the path is required if you put it elsewhere like c:\
adb push c:\recovery.img /data
it should be in /data/recovery.img
then open terminal or since you shoudl have adb open you can use 'adb shell' then type enter to enter a root shell
flash_image recovery /data/recovery.img
it should just spir out a
#
that means it's successful, reboot to recovery
now you will be able to push items to the root of your /data folder (or anywhere in /data really)
when you select the flash zip from recovery option it will spoof the /data folder as the /sdcard and display the contents of your /data folder rather than the /sdcard allowing you to flash without needing the sdcard to work.
now flash any stock rom from recovery.
while still in recovery you will need to flash the stock recovery image as well once you verify the stock rom is in place and boots. you will still have CWM but you wont be rooted so flashing from recovery is required. it can be flashed with the same commands you used to flash the other recovery from the OS
if you get a return of error -1 when you try to use the flash_iamge command to flash recovery PM me, i have a fix for that as well. it should be updated though not to do that any more.
ONCE YOU FLASH THE STOCK RECOVERY AND STOCK ROM, unless you manually root again, which will be tricky, you are stuck.
hope this has been helpful.
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S-off and S-on bootloader? Is that the same as having S-on/S-off in general?
Larry was banned this morning, apparently being helpful isnt something highly valued around here.
yeah, you achieve s-off using gfree and you can decide if you want to install the ENG bootloader.
If you did, it should say ENG S-OFF instead of SHIP S-OFF
if fastboot allows you to do anything remotely you're in a good shape and that means you probably have a ENG bootloader.
Long story short im a newb, im sorry for creating a new thread but ive exhausted my efforts looking for a solution to the problem im having. When the problem occured i had restored my original cwm backup that i created when first rooting my phone. I then did a factory wipe and reinstalled cwm and flashed my recovery. I went to install cm9 4-4-12 and i got a pop up that firmware update was available i clicked update system now and got sent to cwm recovery. Every time since then i cannot reboot into the android os, pulling battery. It doesnt matter what i do, ive tried to use a flash recovery zip i found in another thread to exit boot loop. Ive also tried restoring my original back ups and my recent back ups. I have the android sdk installed but having trouble getting adb to work not sure if i should go about trying to fix the recovery or trying to restore phone to its original state either way i think i need to get adb working before i can do either one. Any help is appreciated and im sorry if im wasting your time.
Did you try wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset before flashing CM9?
Yes. The order i took was Wipe data/factory reset> Wipe cache partition> wipe dalvic cache> installed cm9 zip> installed gaps zip. still nothing got adb to work not doing much with it i know it has root access and when i got the state of the device it came up as unknown although im pretty sure im in recovery mode.
ok a few question and maybe a step by step to help you since i had a same promblem with a bad flash of CM9
1A. Can you boot into Recovery ? if not i can help you reflash your phone with the Kdz files took me forever to get it to work but i finilly found all the files needed.
1B. if it does boot into recovery run adb devices ... does it show the phone in recovery mode ? in the list.
If so then you can Download the following 6 files Dropbox Down link its not mine but was posted in another Nitro Recovery topic i will give credits once i re go threw the topic to see the poster
- recovery.img
- system.img
- baseband.img
- boot.img
- firmware.img
- pushall.bat
in your CWM recovery go to mounts or it may be under advanced and turn on usb mass storage and as long as all of those files are in your adb folder you can run the pushall.bat and it will place them on your sdcard.
After that turn off usb mass storage and run adb devices again to make sure you phone is still showing up. If so run these commands
Adb shell
****** notice the SU command isnt used here**** cant get super user in recovery but it will still let you run the commands and i can confirm it does work
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
dd if=/sdcard/firmware.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27
dd if=/sdcard/baseband.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14
You won't be able to issue a reboot command, so just hold power down on your phone til it's off and hold the volume down button so that it comes back up in factory data reset mode. You will want to pull your sdcard at this time if you don't want your data erased.
Hit power twice and your phone should go through its reset process and (hopefully!) come back up in a working (and rooted) AT&T "stock" rom
if not then try to follow this for the CM9 Adb Drivers Wiki for CM adb drivers i know its a little work but it dose the trick then go back up to the previous step and try that to get to stock rooted
i dont think i left anything out but i can help with anything else i know if that doesnt get you back up and running.
Credits to ???? for the drop box link with the godly files for our nitro
and to Malnilion for his guide on unbricking the nitro
edit: re-ran superoneclick for run and it worked! I should be good from here
Got everything to work. Wait spoke to soon tried to reinstall firmware update again got the same problem. oh well guess i should done fw update before installing cwm. Thanks for the help i should be able to repete this problem in the case of another brick... which just occured.
So after going through the process of unbricking my phone a second time my phone was rebooted into software update screen. Updating firmware then software and did not have to go through factory reset. Strange...
I pushed all images to my device via adb,but ota update gets an error when trying to install. At least its not bricked. Anyone know of another method?
Sent from my LG-P930 using XDA
lg nitro in recovery loop
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?
Tokie the dropbox links are not working
reverendyummypants said:
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?
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re push the img file back to the sdcard
adb push boot.img /sdcard/ make sure that he boot.img file is in the same folder as your adb and then try the dd command for it it happened to me once
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Tokie the dropbox links are not working
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im uploading to my own dropbox bare with me ill posyt a live link as soon as it ready guys
cwm recovery loop
_Tokie, retried. still dd command cannot be done. file not found. The files ARE IN the adb folder. Not sure what else to do.
when you type adb push boot.img /sdcard/ what does it say ? i dont see why it will do the rest and not that one
dd: can't open sdcard\boot.img : no such file or directory
i was asking about when you pushed the boot.img to teh sdcard... if yyou want i can look at it threw teamviewer total up to you ... if you deside that pm me then info for it
Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.
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Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.
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im going to assume that he is booting into CWM its thats the case with teh usb cable hooked to the computer he can turn on mass storage from the CWM and just tranfer it that way .. if he doesnt have a reader .. i just dont see why its not copying the boot image
I'm sorry. The files are on the sdcard. When it comes time for the dd command, i get that error which i recently posted.
If you're in CWM you have to ensure your sdcard is mounted. I have got caught up on this step as well lol
Thank you to all that helped! XDA is awesome! Everything is back to normal. It also helps to have the right / or \ lol
None of the "similar" threads have people with this problem. I can access Recovery (Clockwork Mod v5.8.4.0), I can do everything within Recovery, full wipe, erase dalvik cache etc, BUT it still will not get past "HTC quietly brilliant".
I got into this mess by trying to flash a kernel. I think the battery was about 15%.
I can mount the sd card via usb, so I'm going to extract the back-up I did before getting into this bootloop.
I've tried this:
If you have Custom ROM on or nandroid backup internal SD card
Reboot in recovery (If your still in fastboot, choose "Reboot Bootloader" and then go into recovery)
Restore a Nandroid Backup or flash Custom ROM
Reboot and go into fastboot
Clean cache in fastboot
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ANd this
IF YOU HAVE SIGNED RECOVERY:
1.- GO TO FASTBOOT
2.- HIT "SHUT DOWN"
3.- WITH THE POWER OFF PUT IT TO CHARGE
4.- RED LIGHT NOTIFICATION SHOWS THE CHARGING PROGRESS.
5.- NEXT DAY YOU WILL SEE A SOLID GREEN LIGHT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A COMPLETE CHARGE.
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I haven't tried relocking yet. This is the ultimate last resort. Is there a way to know what percentage my battery is?
Any help greatly appreciated before I throw it at the wall and replace with an S3 :silly:
I've got 3737mV
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I've got 3737mV
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try reflashing boot.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
o m f g
I have been stressing to absolute hell and back because I was messing around with kernels and managed to bollocks it up. It never occurred to me to extract the boot.img from the backup and flash that through hboot at the same time doing the backup. THANK YOU!! :good::good::good::good::good::good:
JagSem said:
o m f g
I have been stressing to absolute hell and back because I was messing around with kernels and managed to bollocks it up. It never occurred to me to extract the boot.img from the backup and flash that through hboot at the same time doing the backup. THANK YOU!! :good::good::good::good::good::good:
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Glad u got it sorted
Very Similar Problem - Please Help!
I was wondering if anyone can help me. I have the same problem, all it says is 'HTC Quietly Brilliant' and it is stuck in a reboot cycle.
I was watching a YouTube tutorial on how to flash CM10 onto my One X (I do have ClockworkMod and all of that stuff installed already). Everything was going well, but the video only briefly (for maybe a second) mentioned the fact that you have to put the CM10 zip folder onto the phone storage before you flash the boot.img. I went on and followed the steps and tried to flash the boot.img, but as I said earlier, all the phone will do is reboot over and over again. I have charged it to full battery so this should not be a problem when I go to fix it.
I would be really grateful for any help on the subject as I contacted the person who made the tutorial, and he has not responded. Thanks in advance.
Just an update if anyone has the same problem as I did, all I had to do was go into ClockworkMod and go to:
Mounts and Storage > Mount USB Storage
Then, just connect the device to your PC and put the zip folder on phone storage. Then, flash the boot.img, and install the zip from SD card in ClockworkMod. Hope this helps.
Havoc2510 said:
Just an update if anyone has the same problem as I did, all I had to do was go into ClockworkMod and go to:
Mounts and Storage > Mount USB Storage
Then, just connect the device to your PC and put the zip folder on phone storage. Then, flash the boot.img, and install the zip from SD card in ClockworkMod. Hope this helps.
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which boot? i've same problem!! where i can find boot.img?
thank's in advance
br
How to install Custom ROM on HTC One X.
agentot said:
which boot? i've same problem!! where i can find boot.img?
thank's in advance
br
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First off, I'm sorry if you already knew most of the instructions below, or if you are an experienced user. I'm just writing the full steps out so that any user, novice or otherwise, can follow the steps and get their phone working. I will also assume that your phone is already rooted and has ClockworkMod installed.
Before anything else, make sure you have HTC Sync downloaded so that you have the drivers.
Okay, when you are trying to install a custom ROM, you have to put the full zip file on the phone storage. What I would do is create a new folder in C: drive called 'Android' or 'HTC ROM' or whatever you want to put. For the rest of the answer, I will call it AndroidF (android folder). Copy this zip folder into AndroidF. If you go into the zip folder (don't unzip it), you should find a disk image file called 'boot' or 'boot.img'. Copy this out so that it sits in AndroidF too (do not move it!). Once it is in AndroidF, rename it boot.
Once you have done this, go into the bootloader and go to recovery. This will take you to ClockworkMod. From there go to:
Mounts and Storage > Mount USB Storage
Then, connect the phone to your PC and put the zip folder onto the phone. Then, tap unmount, and go back to the bootloader. Click fastboot, and make sure that it says 'Fastboot USB'. If not, just unplug the phone and plug it back in again, and this message should be there. Leave the phone once this has happened.
Go back to AndroidF, and hold shift, right click and choose "Open Command Window Here". Command Prompt should pop up. Then type the following,
fastboot flash boot boot.img
If this works, skip to the next paragraph. If not, type fastboot flash boot boot.img.img. This should then work.
Go back to the phone, and select HBoot. Then go to the recovery from here. Once in the recovery, go to:
Install zip from SD card > Choose zip from SD card
Find the zip file and install it. And voila! Your phone should be running whatever ROM you have picked. If you have any more problems, message me back and I will try and help as well as I can
You can use "adb push" and "adb pull" in recovery to copy files from and to your phone, but you have to mount sdcard from recovery first.
to browse storage directly on the phone you can use "adb shell" and then "ls" and "cd directoryname" to find file which you want to copy from the device.
Hi there,
Last friday I broke my lcd screen, it simply does not turn on anymore. Tomorrow an UPS employe will pick up my device and ship it to OP for repair.
My device: Oneplus 3 running TWRP recovery and rooted LineageOS. Adb is enabled in dev settings.
So now I am trying to create a nandroid backup to easily restore my system and data when I get my phone back since OP will reset it ...
I had this genious idea to boot into recovery and create a backup using adb but I ran into a problem.
I have to unlock my device in order to create the backup :/
adb console:
> D:\Desktop\Fastboot+ADB\Win32>adb backup -f backupbeforerepair --twrp system data boot
> Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation.
So now I am hoping any of you will come up with another genious idea or a workaround so I can create this damn backup
Thanks alot in advance!
If anyone else would ever find himself in the same situation as me I was able to create the backup by doing the following:
You can use open recovery script in TWRP. See http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/OpenRecoveryScript
If you have the file
/cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript
then TWRP will process it when it starts.
If the file contains
backup BSDO myBackup
then the boot (kernel), system, and data partitions will be backed up in compressed format and named myBackup.
So, on your PC, create the openrecoveryscript file, boot into recovery, use ADB to push the file to /cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript then reboot back into recovery. That should trigger the backup process.
Note, the backup will be written to the default location TWRP for backups.
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