Adb\fastboot for rookies

[crazythunder]

what does that mean?

if you can't figure that out,you'll probably not figure out adb\fastboot. if you go to the bottom of my tutorial, count up 27 lines from the bottom, it say's how to do a backup. i didn't know how to be more specific.

[ROGUE7474]

Hey Crazy, Great job! One suggestion though, the part about making sure the phone has usb debugging on should be in BIG BOLD RED LETTERS.


"TURN ON USB DEBUGGING"


I was up until 4:00am last night trying to figure out why adb wasn't working. I had it working before just fine. I followed the "adb for dummies" from XDA. I uninstalled everything and started from scratch, followed it to the letter and it still wouldn't work. I said "I'll be damned if a let the thing kick my ass", so I started reading everything I could find. The problem seemed to lie with the drivers again, every time I connected the phone windows would tell me I had the correct drivers installed and wouldn't let me install the latest ones. I even went Microsoft's website to find out if it was a XP issue. Finally after more than 5 hours of digging, 1 guy over at XDA blindly mentioned to make sure you have usb debugging enabled. I thought "what the hell" this is the only thing I haven't checked and sure enough it wasn't enabled. As soon as I turned it on, everything was back to normal. I think it got turned off when I flashed something. I'm not sure.

I never used ddms before. On the push/pull of files, you mean, from and to the sd card or the phone itself. I'm not clear on this. Thanks

[crazythunder]

Hey Crazy, Great job! One suggestion though, the part about making sure the phone has usb debugging on should be in BIG BOLD RED LETTERS.


"TURN ON USB DEBUGGING"


I was up until 4:00am last night trying to figure out why adb wasn't working. I had it working before just fine. I followed the "adb for dummies" from XDA. I uninstalled everything and started from scratch, followed it to the letter and it still wouldn't work. I said "I'll be damned if a let the thing kick my ass", so I started reading everything I could find. The problem seemed to lie with the drivers again, every time I connected the phone windows would tell me I had the correct drivers installed and wouldn't let me install the latest ones. I even went Microsoft's website to find out if it was a XP issue. Finally after more than 5 hours of digging, 1 guy over at XDA blindly mentioned to make sure you have usb debugging enabled. I thought "what the hell" this is the only thing I haven't checked and sure enough it wasn't enabled. As soon as I turned it on, everything was back to normal. I think it got turned off when I flashed something. I'm not sure.

I never used ddms before. On the push/pull of files, you mean, from and to the sd card or the phone itself. I'm not clear on this. Thanks

i'm glad you got it working.i'm the same way...if something get's corrupted,i'll sit there forever trying to fix it. that's how most people learn troubleshooting. on all of haykuro's latest builds,usb debug is enabled by default. not sure about the dudes or jf's.

as far as ddms pushing\pulling files...you can push\pull anything you want...just about...to anywhere-sd or internal memory. that means apps,music,pics etc.

[deserttopping]

hey, that worked great. nice instructions!

just one small issue:

i went ahead and installed the hard spl. in bootloader mode, i got "serial 0". pressing back didn't get me to fastboot; still serial 0. so i plugged the phone in and then it showed fastboot.

[smasraum]

I guess I posted my similar write up in the wrong forum a couple weeks back.

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...de-easy-17732/

[deserttopping]

I guess I posted my similar write up in the wrong forum a couple weeks back.

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...de-easy-17732/

hmm, i missed that. it's not in the wrong place.

[ROGUE7474]

hey, that worked great. nice instructions!

just one small issue:

i went ahead and installed the hard spl. in bootloader mode, i got "serial 0". pressing back didn't get me to fastboot; still serial 0. so i plugged the phone in and then it showed fastboot.

Do you want the latest SPL, because the SPL that you are showing with the "Serial 0" is the older one.

Here's the latest one:
http://sapphire-port-dream.googlecode.com/files/spl-signed.zip

Make sure you have the latest radio update before you flash it.

[deserttopping]

rogue, is that the haykuro spl?

edit: i think i answered this one...yes.

i have the htc radio update that i did w/ jf1.5.

edit again: as i understand it, i need to re-flash 1.5 after this spl. that's gonna take a spare card or card reader.

[ROGUE7474]

i highly suggest getting an imaging program for windows such as acronis true image or nti backup now. there are quite a few. even a few free ones online. once you get everything running good,make an image of c and make a bootable backup to dvd. you won't regret it,because,windows will get corrupted eventually.

Crazy, I'm going to follow your advice on the Acronis backup. My question is, when you say you can make a image of C: is that on another drive (such as a another internal or external). My main drive with the OS, is a 750gb drive. Do I need another drive just as big to do this. I have no problem buying another, Fry's Electronics has 1TB's for $87 bucks. Also when you say "bootable backup to dvd" thats similar to the XP bootable disc, correct?

[ROGUE7474]

rogue, is that the haykuro spl?

edit: i think i answered this one...yes.

i have the htc radio update that i did w/ jf1.5.

edit again: as i understand it, i need to re-flash 1.5 after this spl. that's gonna take a spare card or card reader.

Yes, what ever OS you currently have at the time of flashing the SPL is the one you have to reflash after you finish (in your case you have JF1.5, so after you flash the SPL, you reflash the same JF1.5 rom. Just make sure you flash the latest radio before you flash the SPL, because some guys said they bricked their phone. Haykuro said the only phones that seemed to be having this problem were the DVT, not the PVT. You can check which one you have by powering into fastboot mode (camera+power) and if you see PVT anywhere in the first line, you should be good to go.

Here's the link for the latest radio: http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/

I follewed the instructions here and it worked perfect: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517595

I did it the second way since I have a card reader.