Adb\fastboot for rookies

[kitsunisan]

There's plenty of great tutorials to get you started, check out the links in CT's sig, read up on it a bit and decide if its something you really want to do. If it is, make sure you get Nandroid down, I've had to wipe my phone several times this week playing around with things, it saved me a lot of frustration.

[crazythunder]

There's plenty of great tutorials to get you started, check out the links in CT's sig, read up on it a bit and decide if its something you really want to do. If it is, make sure you get Nandroid down, I've had to wipe my phone several times this week playing around with things, it saved me a lot of frustration.

have you used the nandroid gui yet? it seems quicker than the command prompt. just seems like it is,i'm not positive though. regardless,it's still very convenient. and easy.

[LazyGenius]

ima try this today lol...

[here.david]

HOW TO USE ADB FOR ROOKIES--

Very Nice, however, you list Ubuntu to get...is there a fastboot for Ubuntu to restore the Android backups...

[crazythunder]

ima try this today lol...

you are not lol. you'll put on the hockey game, or go flash your phone or something and forget all about it. lol

[crazythunder]

Very Nice, however, you list Ubuntu to get...is there a fastboot for Ubuntu to restore the Android backups...

no. the only thing you'll need ubuntu for is partitioning your sdcard. seems most people prefer paragon though. i like ubuntu because as soon as i'm done formatting\partitioning, i can immediately copy whatever files i need to my sdcard. ubuntu see's all the drives in my pc.

[LazyGenius]

you are not lol. you'll put on the hockey game, or go flash your phone or something and forget all about it. lol

haha no im being serious! in fact if my internet would stop acting up i would get started now!

but i have a question. when i flash the hard SPL or SPL or whatever that thing is on the front page i need to flash on my phone, will that mess up my new SPL i got now? im on the .2005 one right now...

[crazythunder]

haha no im being serious! in fact if my internet would stop acting up i would get started now!

but i have a question. when i flash the hard SPL or SPL or whatever that thing is on the front page i need to flash on my phone, will that mess up my new SPL i got now? im on the .2005 one right now...

if you have the 1.33.2005 spl, you're all set as far as that goes. fastboot,nandroid,adb all work fine with the latest spl.

[LazyGenius]

if you have the 1.33.2005 spl, you're all set as far as that goes. fastboot,nandroid,adb all work fine with the latest spl.

so you are saying i can skip flashing the SPL on your tut?

[here.david]

no. the only thing you'll need ubuntu for is partitioning your sdcard. seems most people prefer paragon though. i like ubuntu because as soon as i'm done formatting\partitioning, i can immediately copy whatever files i need to my sdcard. ubuntu see's all the drives in my pc.

Tx's for the reply, however, it like saying "you will just drive the car", one has to know a lot more than just copy ...like were are you driving (placing the files) what are you taking (which files in what kind of format, etc) and the list goes on and on...

A step-by-step like you did for windows....

All the websites I found assume one knows "how to" whereas there are way to many "I" before "E" except after "C" kinds of things...

LIKE (which on my system is off by "./" needs to be in front everything):

$ adb devices (./adb device)

You should see your device in the console output generated by the command

Flash the System Image Package to the Device
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For the fastboot method only, after you've successfully updated the radio firmware, the next (and final) step is using the fastboot tool to flash the system image package to the device. Note that you should always update the radio image whenever you update the Android system image on your device. (If you are using the recovery-image method, you do not need to flash the system image package to the device - see Copy the Recovery Image Package to the Device instead.)

Follow the steps below to flash a system image package to your device:

1. Boot the device in fastboot mode.

To enter fastboot mode, power up the device (or reboot it) while holding down the BACK key. Hold the BACK key down until the bootloader screen is visible and shows "FASTBOOT". The device is now in fastboot mode and is ready to receive fastboot commands. If you want to exit fastboot mode at this point, you can hold down the keys MENU+SEND+END (on the Android Dev Phone, SEND is the "Call" key and END is the "End call" key).

Note that the bootloader screen may vary across devices. For Android Dev Phone devices, the bootloader screen shows an image of skateboarding robots. Other devices may show a different image or color pattern. In all cases, the bootloader screen shows the text "FASTBOOT" when in fastboot mode. The bootloader also shows the radio version.

After rebooting, the device should start normally. If the device does not start normally, you can try flashing it again. If you did not erase the userdata partition and the device hangs during boot, try erasing the userdata partition and then reboot.
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Were to start..."what if"...

something like:

Performing a NANDROID Backup

At this point you should backup your phone via NANDROID
1 Turn your phone off.
2 Hold Home, press Power button to boot into Recovery Mode
3 Press ALT+B to start the backup.
4 Once the backup has completed press Home + Back
Next your phone will reboot and load the OS, at this point you should copy the files you just backed up to your PC in case you need to recover your phone
================================================== ===================================
Restore Phone Via NANDROID Backup & Fastboot -
So now you've just backed up your phone or bricked it and want to know how do I recover my phone with these backups ... in UBUNTU...assuming the 9 files ("img" of boot, cache, data, misc, recovery, splash1, splash2, system and the nadroid.md5) are in:

nandroid/HT840GZ30985/20090429-0421_ADP_Hv15_r2

It is always getting started that folks seem to think "everyone" knows/understands "how to" when I find mostly those 1st steps are the hardest to find..."priming the pump"..kind of issues.



A step-by-step of:

Updating G1's ROM -

1 Download the build.
2 Rename it to "update.zip".
3 Copy it to the root of your phone's SD card.
4 Turn your phone off.
5 Start up in recovery mode by holding Home and pressing Power.
6 Press ALT+W to wipe your device. (You need to do this, or the device may hang at the flashing Android screen)
7 Press ALT+S to apply the update.
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and:

Reboot the device into recovery mode by holding down the HOME key during reboot. Then when the device enters recovery mode:

To enter fastboot mode, power up the device (or reboot it) while holding down the BACK key. Hold the BACK key down until the bootloader screen is visible and shows "FASTBOOT".

To exit fastboot mode hold down the keys MENU+SEND+END (on the Android Dev Phone, SEND is the "Call" key and END is the "End call" key).

In all cases, the bootloader screen shows the text "FASTBOOT" when in fastboot mode. The bootloader also shows the radio version.

$ cd android-sdk
$ cd tools
/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb remount
remount succeeded
/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb shell

/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb push /home/david/Desktop/Clicker.apk /system/app/Clicker.apk

/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb push /home/david/Desktop/HTC_IME.apk /system/app/HTC_IME.apk

/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb push /home/david/Desktop/libt9.so /system/lib/libt9.so

/android-sdk/tools$ ./adb shell reboot

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root@a6110n:~/android-sdk/tools# ./adb devices
List of devices attached
HT842GZ40519 device

root@a6110n:~/android-sdk/tools# ./adb fastboot devices
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.20
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I still can not understand "how to" get the backup from my PC to the G1, guess I am just slow....it seems it must be a very easy tasks, yet is not known...