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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, and I kinda hate to wreck it with another silly question, but here goes...I finally got the crimebook to do something moderately useful. I found out how to open crosh and get a command shell. When I typed adb devices it did not show the Stylus plugged into it. I...

How do I do that? I don't see any way there, and when I look at share from the pdf file, it's not an option. Please, someone make this easy.

I have the file ready to go, but mail.com is not listed as an option. Looking online shows how with email generally, not that specifically. I think I have sent them a message about that and maybe they'll reply.

It says it might be good to update the driver. How do I do that? I found device in the lower left but it's useless.

I looked up some adb commands. For example, adb devices lists what's connected. It doesn't show anything. How do I make the Stylus get noticed?

This is the most I've ever gotten done with a crimebook. I plugged the Stylus in and it says start. It's blinking. I guess that corrosion in the usb port doesn't matter much. What the heck do I do now?

Ok, in crosh I typed shell and got the $. Then I typed adb. I guess it's there, but how do I use ir? How do I plug in the Stylus, get it recognized, and then get the phone out of fastboot?

Well, I guess I figured out the darn thing. I had to use guest because I don't know the lousy password. How do I get around that? Meanwhile, I went to XDA and found minimal adb + fastboot, only they aren't compatible because they're windows versions. It seems I have to use this crosh to make...

Does somebody know the anatomy of a crimebook? I have to figure which key is control. It's not as if they would mark these things to make it easy. If I can find that, how do I force it into developer mode?

Why would anybody have to do that? Are there any wifi calling apps that work without google? I know talkatone unfortunately uses the play store, not just services.

It's a Moto G 5 g, I think from Cricket. It claims that wifi calling is available, but then it says try again later. The slider to on slides right back. What am I missing?

It comes on, anyway. I've been too busy with other things to do much more. When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your objective was to drain the swamp...

Thanks much, but how do you do that? I'd like to be able to find these things myself. At least it shows they are neither gone nor forgotten...

I looked it up and found that it takes the refresh key (circling arrow) + power. I did that and it came on with a dandelion gone to seed over to the left. That's how it looks anyway. I let it go for a bit and then it beeped twice, loudly. I'm probably going to come back to this tomorrow.

The blue light is on the wall wart. The red/green light is on the left side of the "computer", near where the charge cord plugs into it. If this crimebook doesn't come on, I guess the rest is moot. The secret combo I meant is for it, not the phone. As far as I know, phones never have those keys.

I meant upper right. Is there some kind of secret combo? Is it control alt delete?

Well, I got it cleaned up mostly. When I plugged it in the blue light came on but the computer one was unsurprisingly red. Now it's green. That doesn't explain why the power key in the upper left is not working.

Thanks, that's a big help. I remember posting (some of) that material. Could you please also find the chromebook/crimebook stuff?

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Thanks, I appreciate that. If I can hypnotize it into developer mode, maybe I can fix that Moto G Stylus. It'd be about time.

I'll check. Which is the USB port? What hapoens if a port is corroded? Will it blow up if I plug it? It's the XE500C13-K04US. I'm not sure if that'll help. It's been a looong time since I used it.

Yes, I have referred to it as a crimebook. I had been unable to put it in the developer mode trance and thus let it be for quite a while. I usually have enough tech battles to fight as it is...

I'm sorry for the double post, poor picture quality, lousy lighting, etc. I'm no photographer and this Moto G 5g does not have a good camera. In fact, probably no Motorola does. Who remembers when Android beat Apple just that single year, maybe 2017? I'm sure they've been super careful not...

Yes, that's exactly why. Those darn things almost never work right, at least for me. I suppose another reason could be that as long as I'm stuck with this hunk of junk which I struggled that long and hard to get, I might as well use it for something other than gathering dust. Actually, it had...

I got (stuck with) a chromebook sone time ago and now I can't find my posts about it. Where did they go? I don't want to have to go through that again.