ADB on the Venture

[b_randon14]

Has anyone been able to get ADB to pick up the Virgin Mobile Venture? I can't find any driver downloads for this phone and I can'tget Linux or windows to pick it up using ADB!

 

[AlexJGonzalez]

Has anyone been able to get ADB to pick up the Virgin Mobile Venture? I can't find any driver downloads for this phone and I can'tget Linux or windows to pick it up using ADB!

Unfortunately not. :l anyway I can help?. Ima noob but willing to help.lol.

 

[markzombie82]

Has anyone been able to get ADB to pick up the Virgin Mobile Venture? I can't find any driver downloads for this phone and I can'tget Linux or windows to pick it up using ADB!

Wow is there nothing for this phone i had thought about trading in the wfs for this one i have thirty days would that be advised havent really researched it much is it easily rootable?

 

[GreyCelt]

Nothing that I've tried works. I can't get adb to pick it up and none of the commands in Terminal Emulator work for anything. I'm at a loss with this one. The problem is that it's a Chinese off brand so who knows what they used to lock it down.

 

[edthebear]

Has anyone been able to get ADB to pick up the Virgin Mobile Venture? I can't find any driver downloads for this phone and I can'tget Linux or windows to pick it up using ADB!

Yes, but not on Windows. I tried drivers from Allcatel's site, Quallcom, the generic Android drivers that come with the SDK and none of them worked. I had to do it through a Linux box running Ubuntu 11.10

Since I'm a new user here I can't post links or images, but I figured it out from a thread here on androidforums

If you put this after the slash on androidforumsDOTcom/

esteem-all-things-root/528294-adb-ubuntu-11-10-a

and then put a DOThtml on the end, you'll get the link.

Post number 2, where PlayfulGod talks about /etc/udev/rules.d was especially helpful. I ended up creating two rules files, just to be on the safe side. One is named 51-android.rules and contains this line.

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="19D2", MODE="0666"

The other is named 70-android.rules and contains the same line. I don't know which one it uses, and as long as it works, I can live with having an extra one line text file on my Linux box. Supposedly a Mac machine doesn't need a driver or a rules file, but I don't have a way to test that.

After I got ADB working, I worked off of this thread (prepend the androidforums url and add DOThtml to the end)

virgin-mobile-venture/517720-anybody-out-there

And tried rooting it with Zergrush. It failed, and there was wailing and crying throughout the land. I've tried several of the one-click Root exploits but they all seem to be patched.

I reallyreallyreallyREALLY wish I'd taken this thing back to BestBuy and got the Optimus V instead before their 30 day return policy expired.

(If someone who can post links could fix those URLS for me it might be helpful for others... )

 

[b_randon14]

Yeah : had the same luck. I finally git adb working using linux but no root method has worked so far :-(

 

[edthebear]

Yeah : had the same luck. I finally git adb working using linux but no root method has worked so far :-(

I got tired of all the phone's problems and got an Optimus Elite. I might try rooting it later just for fun, since I don't care if I brick the thing or not.

 

[Kin Kira]

I got adb working just fine on my laptop but I've got no idea how to root it from there I can send my phone commands and all I'm just no developer though.

 

[th3gam3]

i hope someone can figure this out for me im tired of the ads on the phone and would like more power from this pos. im not really working right now so its the only phone i have till i get this interview im trying hard for.

 

[divinebovine]

I got adb working just fine on my laptop but I've got no idea how to root it from there I can send my phone commands and all I'm just no developer though.

Where did you find the USB driver? Got instructions for getting as far as you got?

I probably won't be able to root it, but there is a non-root hack I want to try for moving unmovable apps to the SD card.

 

[divinebovine]

Where did you find the USB driver? Got instructions for getting as far as you got?

I probably won't be able to root it, but there is a non-root hack I want to try for moving unmovable apps to the SD card.

Ah, figured it out. All I had to do was post about it, and suddenly my brain put it all together, I guess. Installed PdaNet based on half of a clue found buried in some other post about another phone and PdaNet installer provided the driver.

Once I did that, the app move hack worked perfectly. No more low memory! Additionally I've discovered PdaNet, which apparently will let me USB tether, a function I was hoping to have.

Therefore, ADB driver success! OP, install PdaNet and you'll be good to go.

 

[Kin Kira]

I just gotta thank Windows for some odd reason. I plugged it in with and had no problem. Whats this trick you've got cause I'm tired of low space -.- I've got NO space at all with almost no apps on it.

 

[divinebovine]

As a new user I can't post links, but if you google these terms:
android move unmovable apps to sd
you should come up with a site whose domain name is bongizmo dot com, with a blog entry titled "How to move almost all Android apps to SD card (no root required)" By Sergey Povzner Published September 24, 2010. My summary of it:

1. Install the Android SDK
2. Maybe install the generic USB driver that comes with the SDK
3. Connect the phone using USB cable and do not enable USB storage mode. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable USB debugging.
4. Start terminal window on your computer (on Windows: click Start, type

 

[slutyman]

can someone pull the stock recovery and pastebin?

 

[divinebovine]

Got a link to instructions for doing that?

 

[slutyman]

adb shell ls -l /dev/block

and pastebin that please

 

[Shabbypenguin]

adb shell ls -l /dev/block

and pastebin that please

that isnt going to pull recovery, just would have let me know what commands to tell you on how to get recovery.. i was under the impression you had the device since you pm'd me about it

 

[slutyman]

i do have the device adb wont read it

 

[Shabbypenguin]

i do have the device adb wont read it

you can always use terminal emulator

ls -l /dev/block > /sdcard/dev-block.txt

and then upload it

 

[divinebovine]

You need to install PDANet, which magically installs drivers that work with the Venture.

FWIW, here's the output:

# ls -l /dev/block
ls -l /dev/block
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2012-09-11 07:45 vold
brw------- root     root     179,   1 2012-09-11 07:45 mmcblk0p1
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2012-09-11 07:45 platform
brw------- root     root     179,   0 2012-09-11 07:45 mmcblk0
brw------- root     root      31,   7 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock7
brw------- root     root      31,   6 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock6
brw------- root     root      31,   5 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock5
brw------- root     root      31,   4 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock4
brw------- root     root      31,   3 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock3
brw------- root     root      31,   2 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock2
brw------- root     root      31,   1 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock1
brw------- root     root      31,   0 2012-09-11 07:45 mtdblock0
brw------- root     root       7,   7 2012-09-11 07:45 loop7
brw------- root     root       7,   6 2012-09-11 07:45 loop6
brw------- root     root       7,   5 2012-09-11 07:45 loop5
brw------- root     root       7,   4 2012-09-11 07:45 loop4
brw------- root     root       7,   3 2012-09-11 07:45 loop3
brw------- root     root       7,   2 2012-09-11 07:45 loop2
brw------- root     root       7,   1 2012-09-11 07:45 loop1
brw------- root     root       7,   0 2012-09-11 07:45 loop0
brw------- root     root       1,   7 2012-09-11 07:45 ram7
brw------- root     root       1,   6 2012-09-11 07:45 ram6
brw------- root     root       1,   5 2012-09-11 07:45 ram5
brw------- root     root       1,   4 2012-09-11 07:45 ram4
brw------- root     root       1,   3 2012-09-11 07:45 ram3
brw------- root     root       1,   2 2012-09-11 07:45 ram2
brw------- root     root       1,   1 2012-09-11 07:45 ram1
brw------- root     root       1,   0 2012-09-11 07:45 ram0
#

 

[slutyman]

never mind he found it

 

[Shabbypenguin]

holy crap, MTD partitions? how old is this phone? who makes it?

lol ok well uhhh lets get started then eh?

adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock0 of=/sdcard/mtdblock0
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock1 of=/sdcard/mtdblock1
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock2 of=/sdcard/mtdblock2
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock3 of=/sdcard/mtdblock3
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock4 of=/sdcard/mtdblock4
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock5 of=/sdcard/mtdblock5
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock6 of=/sdcard/mtdblock6
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mtdblock7 of=/sdcard/mtdblock7

then lemme know how big each one is, ideally we are looking for 12MB's or less

does this phone have fastboot? or any other downloading software flashing mode?

 

[divinebovine]

Made by Alcatel, distributed by PCD, branded and sold by Virgin Mobile, running Gingerbread (2.3.5), with low-spec hardware, its purpose is to be incredibly cheap.

Did you want me to find the size of those, or slutyman?

Would it be more convenient to do something like wc -c /dev/block/mtdblock0? (Edit: Doesn't work. Nevermind.)

FYI, here's some mount info...
/dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 /data
/dev/block/mtdblock3 /cache

So 1, 3, and 5 are not the one you're looking for.

 

[divinebovine]

Oh and BTW it's /mnt/sdcard not /sdcard...that'd be important to others who are trying this.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

ive never dealt MTD phones before so im not sure on how its mapped out etc.

boot kernel will work but recovery would be ideal. so if 1, 3, 5 arent it then its gutta be one of the others