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Root [Guide][Drivers][Root][Kernel][Recovery] How to install for the ZTE Awe

I am having some trouble using fastboot. I have already rooted my phone with cydia. I want to use cwm to back up my phone and install the oc kernel. I'm using windows 7. Adb recognizes the phone when I type adb devices and spits out a string of numbers. After I adb reboot-bootloader the phone screen turns black. When I type fastboot devices I don't get anything. Just another line appears like nothing happened. When I type fastboot boot cwm.img, adb is stuck on "waiting for device" I have all of the files in the same directory renamed to what they are supposed to be and I installed the fastboot drivers. What am I missing or doing wrong? Thanks for your help!
 
androidfanwinner said:
I am having some trouble using fastboot. I have already rooted my phone with cydia. I want to use cwm to back up my phone and install the oc kernel. I'm using windows 7. Adb recognizes the phone when I type adb devices and spits out a string of numbers. After I adb reboot-bootloader the phone screen turns black. When I type fastboot devices I don't get anything. Just another line appears like nothing happened. When I type fastboot boot cwm.img, adb is stuck on "waiting for device" I have all of the files in the same directory renamed to what they are supposed to be and I installed the fastboot drivers. What am I missing or doing wrong? Thanks for your help!
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Un install any drivers you have for your awe and install pdanet for the drivers. That's where I got mine. Also get the latest adb and fastboot files
 
androidfanwinner said:
dragongart6505, that worked! Thanks for the help. I am very confused as to why that worked, but I don't care right now. Thanks again!
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Pdanet has more compatible adb and fastboot drivers that are universal to nearly every device. Glad your up and running. Come join us in the kernel thread, we could use another tester ^_^
 
androidfanwinner said:
I am having some trouble using fastboot. I have already rooted my phone with cydia. I want to use cwm to back up my phone and install the oc kernel. I'm using windows 7. Adb recognizes the phone when I type adb devices and spits out a string of numbers. After I adb reboot-bootloader the phone screen turns black. When I type fastboot devices I don't get anything. Just another line appears like nothing happened. When I type fastboot boot cwm.img, adb is stuck on "waiting for device" I have all of the files in the same directory renamed to what they are supposed to be and I installed the fastboot drivers. What am I missing or doing wrong? Thanks for your help!
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After you use the adb reboot-bootloader command, and your phone goes to the black screen, is there an entry in your device manager with a yellow alert triangle on it? And does it go away if you unplug your phone? If so, you haven't installed the drivers for it properly. Follow the instructions I have up top for installing the drivers. If not, then try what dragonhart suggests.

dragongart6505 said:
Un install any drivers you have for your awe and install pdanet for the drivers. That's where I got mine. Also get the latest adb and fastboot files
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Yeah, I made my own-ish fastboot drivers. But they are not auto install, so it can be confusing.
 
I am now having trouble with the oc kernel. I followed the steps to side load it - even cleared the dalvik cache. Once I reboot the phone, I get stuck in a boot loop at the green android. I used the kernel linked in the first post. I've tried it a couple times. I've rooted the OV and Nook Color so at least I'm not completely new to this. What did I miss?
 
if you are reading this, do yourself a favor and DO NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDE. Just use Cydia Impactor, it is MUCH easier.

This guide is missing steps and you will end up with a phone in boot mode that cannot talk to your computer, and it wont restart via power button, causing you stress and internet searches.

Cooldudezach, while I appreciate your work, you should not post incomplete guides. If you are posting a guide, you list EVERY SINGLE STEP so a complete noob (I mean, do the pros need guides?) will not end up in a place they should not be, which is directly where this guide leads them.
 
narcoticrex said:
if you are reading this, do yourself a favor and DO NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDE. Just use Cydia Impactor, it is MUCH easier.

This guide is missing steps and you will end up with a phone in boot mode that cannot talk to your computer, and it wont restart via power button, causing you stress and internet searches.

Cooldudezach, while I appreciate your work, you should not post incomplete guides. If you are posting a guide, you list EVERY SINGLE STEP so a complete noob (I mean, do the pros need guides?) will not end up in a place they should not be, which is directly where this guide leads them.
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Actually, if you really followed the guide, it works damn perfectly. The boot mode you are talking about is fastboot, and if you actually installed the drivers correctly, then your computer talks to it just fine. And to restart it via the power button, you are being impatient. You haven't held it down long enough. It's a lowlevel hardware implementation that if the power button is held down long enough that the phone reboots, no matter where you are.

Now mind you, I did write this guide before active development, and have not had time to rewrite the guide. Sorry about that, but the guide will still work regardless. I followed it step-by-step while writing it.

Also, the problem with Cydia Impactor, and why I actively suggest against it, is that it installs the superSU binary, not the SuperUser binary, so you are stuck using SuperSU until you replace the su binary on the device. The recommended way to root is to flash the Superuser.zip in CWM, and we are going to stick with this method.
 
Yea, also there is actively improvements being made daily to produce a more stable kernel and recovery, so these issues will are being worked on. Regardless, this tutorial works just fine. I also have a video tutorial for the "noobs" to follow that explains everything in great detail and shows PIP the phone and desktop so you can see what goes on.
 
Do or have any previous no pc methods work? Framaroot or poor for example? PC killed over and just picked this up on Craigs for 20 bucks.
 
starkraving said:
What exploit does it use? Maybe Giantpune can add it to poot.
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Quite literally? None. Its a symlink command done with the updater-script to push the binary to /system/bin and set the permissions. So far, it has to be done outside of the Android OS

It goes like this...
1: enable USB Debugging
2: install pdanet drivers (select other when asked about which device)
3: download adb and fastboot and cwm (ill include them in a zip when i get the chance to write up)
4: connect to your pc (with drivers installed)
5: type "adb reboot-bootloader" (without quotes)
6: type "fastboot boot cwm.img" (without quotes)
7: flash the cwm.zip (ill include root privileges)
8: wipe cache/dalvik-cache and reboot

Simple, no?
 
Have you tried it rooted on this phone? Wish i could have custom recovery without adb or fastboot. Not that i can't I have a fully custom nexus 7 a Linux box and a Windows 8.1 touch screen laptop. I really wish i could get twrp for this phone. Maybe I'll learn how to compile it. I just got fast internet at home finally.
 
A android B said:
Have you tried it rooted on this phone? Wish i could have custom recovery without adb or fastboot. Not that i can't I have a fully custom nexus 7 a Linux box and a Windows 8.1 touch screen laptop. I really wish i could get twrp for this phone. Maybe I'll learn how to compile it. I just got fast internet at home finally.
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Weve been working on TWRP. You can check out the IRC for details (we havent gotten far last i checked) and contribute whatever you possibly can
Freenode: #zte8930
Were always looking for someone to come aboard

Also in the main section of the forum I have the tutorial complete on using adb/fastboot with the required files to get you going
 
JHell said:
An easier way to flash recovery is to use root recovery tool in the play store
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So if i use this to flash recovery, do i use the CWM.zip or the CWM.img provided in the OP?


I can of course eventually figure it out myself, I'm just wondering, i haven't done anything to the phone yet, just reading around. Also is there anything beneficial to developers from not updating the system software yet? Some OTA thing.
 
DsyMnapTic said:
So if i use this to flash recovery, do i use the CWM.zip or the CWM.img provided in the OP?


I can of course eventually figure it out myself, I'm just wondering, i haven't done anything to the phone yet, just reading around. Also is there anything beneficial to developers from not updating the system software yet? Some OTA thing.
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Cwm.img in fastboot to get to cwm recovery, then flash with cwm.zip
you can't flash unofficial zips in stock recovery, which is why you need to boot cwm first
We are also currently implementing the ota into the next revision of our custom roms. It has a few updates to the system and we havent yet released those in the current state of the customs
 
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