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Root [International Tegra 3] USB Mount From Recovery...

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LondonVirus

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Hi Guys,

I kind of wipped the phone memory, including system, I need to copy the firmware to the SD-Card to flash it, but can't seem to find a custom recovery that has a working USB mount...

Tried Team Win Recovery Project 2.1.2 (TWRP), and the new version of ClockworkMod... any help? how do I get the firmware on the phone SD-Card?

Thanks

PS: can boot in bootoader and recovery, thats about it, if I bootr normal all I see is the HTC logo...
 
So just to be clear, you don't have a nand backup you can return to? Or a previous rom still on the sd card partition that you can reflash?

If no, to the above questions, do you have the sdk installed for adb usage?
 
Nothing on the SDCard what so ever... just bootloader and recovery on the phone at the moment... I did try to use adb push... and this is what happends...

Code: 
c:\>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT23RW101***    recovery


c:\>adb push ROM1.29.zip /sdcard/
1875 KB/s (36678264 bytes in 19.099s)

c:\>

You would think its worked, but when booting in recovery mode, there is no file to install...???
 
Got an idea. Go into recovery. Select the "install zip from sd card" option, then the "choose zip from sd card" option (or similar verbage). Now stop, don't actually try to locate anything. I believe this action may mount the sd card in the background.

Now use adb to try the push command you used earlier. After the push, go into recovery and see if you can install/find the zip on the card.
 
If that doesn't work, try it all from the command line:

adb devices
adb shell
mount sdcard
adb push ROM1.29.zip /sdcard/
 
iowabowtech said:
Got an idea. Go into recovery. Select the "install zip from sd card" option, then the "choose zip from sd card" option (or similar verbage). Now stop, don't actually try to locate anything. I believe this action may mount the sd card in the background.

Now use adb to try the push command you used earlier. After the push, go into recovery and see if you can install/find the zip on the card.
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Hi, thank you for your help...

when in recovery mode the devices does not show in:

Code: 
c:\>adb devices
List of devices attached

I will try your other suggestion now...
 
iowabowtech said:
If that doesn't work, try it all from the command line:

adb devices
adb shell
mount sdcard
adb push ROM1.29.zip /sdcard/
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Done that, same issue, it looks like the file has uploaded...

Code: 
c:\>adb push ROM1.29.zip /sdcard/
1835 KB/s (36678264 bytes in 19.517s)

c:\>adb shell ls -l /sdcard/
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      36678264 May 15 20:07 ROM1.29.zip

c:\>

But when in recovery the file is not there to install...
 
LondonVirus said:
Done that, same issue, it looks like the file has uploaded...

Code: 
c:\>adb push ROM1.29.zip /sdcard/
1835 KB/s (36678264 bytes in 19.517s)

c:\>adb shell ls -l /sdcard/
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      36678264 May 15 20:07 ROM1.29.zip

c:\>
But when in recovery the file is not there to install...
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Tried:

Code: 
~ # mount sdcard
mount sdcard
~ # recovery --update_package=sdcard:ROM1.29.zip
recovery --update_package=sdcard:ROM1.29.zip
sh: /sbin/postrecoveryboot.sh: not found

???
 
What worked:

Unplug USB cable...

Turn the phone off via "Switch Off" option in bootloader...
Wait for the phone to go off (Black screen)...

Plugin USB cable...

Wait for red charging light to come on (top front of the device)...
Wait for windows USB connection sound...

Open CMD window

NOTE: This part assumes that tha you have adb and its 2 dlls in the C:\ dir
it also assumes that you have the rom you want to push on the phone in the same dir and that the file is called ROM.zip... I also assume that you have the right HTC drivers installed...

Type adb devices & press enter (Your device should now be listed)...

Type adb shell & press enter (Wait for the "#" to appear)....

Type mount sdcard next to the "#" sign & press enter...

Now press CTRL+C (This should close shell and bring you back to "C:\")

Type adb push ROM.zip \sdcard\

Wait until a confirmation message apperars (Time/speed/Size & so on...)


Press & hold the Power & vol - Buttons until the bootloader is up...

Select Recovery...

Wait for the phone to boot in Recovery mode....


NOTE: This section assumes that you have a cutom recovery installed, I have CWM installed at the moment...

(Use vol +/- to scroll up/down and power button to select)

Select "Install zip from sdcard"...

Select "Choose zip from sdcard"...

Select "ROM.zip"...

Select "ROM.zip" (Again)...


Wait for the ROM to install...


Select Go Back...

Select "Reboot System now"...

!DONE!

I hope this help other users having similar as it took me over 24 hrs of trial & error along with LOTS of web browsing to get this far...

Tutorial by LondonVirus
 
Now how do i get round installing a stock ROM (HTC ONE X 1.29) with rooted divice?

When atempting to I get error 7...

I had to install "Ir1-1.29.401.7-DUO-endeavor" for now...
 
hello LondonVirus. i have tried your method. it seems to be successfull in the CMD. but when i go to my cwm recovery, it seems that the rom.zip i just push is not there.

any help? please :(
 
I just ran into this thread by mistake. I have a solution to try, instead of pushing to /sdcard/ROM.zip try pushing to /internal/ROM.zip . I was having the same issues as the previous few, and then I noticed I couldn't mount my sdcard in recovery but /internal was mounted. So I tried to push to /internal/ROM.zip instead and well it popped up in the install from zip in recovery. Hope that helps.

Cheers
xWhizdumbx
 
Got it working thanks to LondonVirus' advice. At first I couldn't do as described. Despite having the HTC drivers installed I couldn't see the phone when phone wasn't turned on. However I installed One_X_One_Click_v1.8C booted the computer and used One_X_One_Click_v1.8C ADB to connect. Problem solved! THANKS VERY MUCH LondonVirus!
 
tillort said:
Hi LondonVirus,
How do you get Windows 7 to detect your device without turning it on? My HTX One X is only visible to Windows when I have turned it on. For me that currently means starting in bootmenu mode. If I try to start the phone then it hangs on the splashsceeen and doesn't want to start! I really stuck and haven't been able to use my phone in two days :-(
Thanks!
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What have you done to get your phone where it is now? If you can get in to the bootloader, you should be able to issue fastboot commands, meaning we should be able to sort you out. :)
 
El Presidente said:
What have you done to get your phone where it is now? If you can get in to the bootloader, you should be able to issue fastboot commands, meaning we should be able to sort you out. :)
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see, this is the sort of thing that's holding me back.. I did (eventually) root my Desire, but only when I was down to the last 6 months or so of my contract

By no means am I a technophobe, and enjoy this sort of stuff - but, there is a lot of duff info out there. I've tried following some XDAforum guides, byt have lost the will to live after 96 pages :)

So, yes please. Do a how-to-root sticky, but NEVER add to it - just change the original post with the latest steps / developments etc
 
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