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Mods Forcing fastboot [Root only]

sammyz

LG Whiz Kid
This is for devs that know how to get partition informtion from their device:

If a phone doesn't go into fastboot by command:

Code:
adb reboot bootloader

One must simply erase the boot partition using dd.

First you must have your boot.img backed up if you want to ever get out:

Code:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/[COLOR="red"]path to boot[/COLOR] of=/sdcard/boot.img
exit (type exit again if not out of shell)
adb pull /sdcard/boot.img

Now to erase boot partition and force fastboot:

Code:
adb shell
su
dd if=dev/zero of=dev/block/[COLOR="Red"]path to boot block[/COLOR]
reboot

You are now in fastboot.
To get out:

Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot continue

This guide is missing parts of cmds because different blocks are located in different places for different devices.
 
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