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[Help] Fastboot Stuck

JJPR97

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Apr 20, 2013
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Well my Lucid is rooted, has cwm, and is running CyanogenMod 10. I got ADB working properly. I wanted to put CWM Touch on my device through fastboot, so in platform tools I start cmd (I have already downloaded CWM Touch through the ROM Manager Website and placed it in the correct place). I boot my phone into recovery mode (while connected to my PC), I do "adb devices" it IS detected, and in recovery mode (Yes drivers are installed and working properly. So next I move with what I want to do and I type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and it stays stuck on "< Waiting for Device >" and doesn't do anything. Any fixes/suggestions?
 
Guys, not an expert on your particular device (in fact, I have no experience ;) :)), but in all of my other devices, you need the device in fastboot/bootloader mode vs. recovery mode in order for fastboot to work.

Hope that helps :).

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edit: if your bootloader is locked, you won't be able to flash recovery via fastboot; the way image flashing works outside of fastboot is via the flash_image utility (which I'm pretty sure ROM Manager utilizes)
 
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Guys, not an expert on your particular device (in fact, I have no experience ;) :)), but in all of my other devices, you need the device in fastboot/bootloader mode vs. recovery mode in order for fastboot to work.

Hope that helps :).

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edit: if your bootloader is locked, you won't be able to flash recovery via fastboot; the way image flashing works outside of fastboot is via the flash_image utility (which I'm pretty sure ROM Manager utilizes)

Our bootloader (at least the gingerbread one) is not locked, but I'm pretty sure that fastboot never worked. There's no bootloader mode, but fastboot might conceivably work in "recovery mode". If you're desperate to try this (and risk a brick), try turning off, holding both Volume Up and Volume Down, and holding Power to turn back on as if you were running the unbricker. While this is "recovery mode" and not bootloader, it might work for you.

Even more risky, you could boot into CM10, put the recovery.img into your sdcard, and use dd to put it onto the right partition (believe it's 13, info in this post). It is an .img file right?
 
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