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[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
So, I just got my Streak 7. I have root, however entering Fastboot mode just gives the "Starting Fastboot USB download protocol". It never goes past there. My computer sees it in device manager, the drivers are properly installed, but that's all I ever get. I can't access fastboot, nor can I access the recovery. The only way out is with a hard reset using the pinhole.

Am I missing something obvious?
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
nothing goes beyond that screen. fastboot is a way too transfer and talk to your device through your pc. its all run through a cmd window. do some reading http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
I know a bit about Android, and that message should go away and be replaced with a menu. If you can't enter recovery, what is the point of flashing ClockworkMod? If you can't access the menu in fastboot, how do you enter recovery mode?

Just so you know I have had Android devices since the G1, currently I own a G1 (retired), a Nexus One, an Archos 43it (broken screen) and my wife's MT3G Slide. I use fastboot on my Nexus all the time, it works as expected. I have root on the A43it as well (and of course the Nexus is Fastboot OEM Unlock-ed)

Also, Windows reports the ADB Composite Device as installed and in fastboot mode. However, fastboot devices returns nothing.
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
dell works different then your average android devices. To enter recovery you press and hold power up and hold power. when you get fastboot working you flash cwr and enter into the bootloader and select option 2 that will present you with cwr. Every android phone ive owned entered recovery this way. never through fastboot. and no the fastboot screen does not go beyond what your seeing. try running a cmd through fastboot. put cwr in your directory and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img if its showing as adb it should work. or try a simple cmd like fastboot reboot. if it works then you have fastboot
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
you can get rom manager from the marketplace and flash recovery that way as well. but nothing else works within rom manager. you have too manually boot into it
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
See, that is what I am talking about. You say to press and hold power up and hold power (I assume you mean volume up), I was holding volume down + power, which must boot direct to fastboot. I could not access the bootloader, was it something as simple as holding the wrong volume key? That is why I posted here. I will try this after I load up my music (which is pissing me off since the media player is reading "Unknown Artist" for all my music).

Thanks.
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
Already have done that, fresh outta the box, CWM to me means CyanogenMod can't be too far away...
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
cm is being worked on atm. yes plus volume and power button brings you into bootloader
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
I figured it was something stupid I was overlooking, thanks a bunch!
[Dell Streak 7] webvan:
About to return my Streak 7, best way to get it back to stock would be to flash the stock ROM or would unrooting with onestep and factory defaults be enough?
[Dell Streak 7] bhuachua:
I keep getting Code 10 error during fastboot in Device Manager.

I tried installing stock driver and also the driver package included in the memory card.
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Web flashing the stock system and boot.img also the stock recovery if you have cwr. Then simply unroot do a full factory reset in the bootloader and your good to go. Just so you know I've tried unrooting mine several times. It pulls su but it doesn't set everything back too r/o. Good luck

Sent from Re-Engineered dInc
[Dell Streak 7] lou0611:
try to download and install dell suite
[Dell Streak 7] webvan:
Thanks, I have system and boot.img so that would be with Fastboot I suppose, but not "stock recovery"...CWR not installed so I guess I don't have to worry about that. Wonder if this will clean up the storage memory too. I'd made a backup just in case.
[Dell Streak 7] webvan:
Well that worked well, sent it back, got refunded and don't miss it (bad screen, home button that gets in the way, poor battery life, GPS takes time, etc...) ...might go back to the Galaxy Tab if the price goes down.
[Dell Streak 7] welbert4u:
can anyone help me...my dell streak 7 tablet home button does not work after i powered it up this morning.?
[Dell Streak 7] jiwengang:
Try to use a pin to reset by sticking it into the small pin hole beside SDCard slot.

And after rebooting, is it still there?
[Dell Streak 7] Big G Rosky:
Someone please help

dell streak 7 version2.2.2

trying to flash clockwork via fastboot so I can flash custom roms. I am somewhat of a newbie but I have had and rooted every tmobile and sprint android phone since the g1 so im not wet behind the ears.

adb is working fine, have verified this by rebooting the device with adb reboot when device is booted into android os. adb devices in command does give the serial number of my dell streak.

when booting the device into fastboot power + volume-, fastboot devices shows nothing just gives me another command line, fastboot reboot or fastboot flash recovery recovery.img to flash clockwork just gives me a waiting for device in the command prompt I have also tried bogdi1988 solution with the modded INF with no luck, I just cant seem to get windows to see it in fastboot, any help would be greatly appreciated im 7 hours in
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Is your streak by chance a wifi streak?

If it was, could you make a nandroid dump of it once you get it working?
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
I assume you grabbed the drivers folder on the internal sd right? Other then that I have no idea.

sent from a tower
[Dell Streak 7] Gravityrat:
I have been having the same problem on my mac.

Sure wish someone could find an easier way to root this monster.
[Dell Streak 7] Big G Rosky:
Its not the Wifi only streak its the tmobile variant. I did grab the drivers off the internal sd, what i did notice was every time i tried to run the installer which came in the driver folder it said driver installation failed. I ended up copying and pasting the driver folder to my desktop then finding the dell streak in device manager and right clicking to update drivers, I put in the path of the drivers folder i pasted to the desktop and it seemed to update just fine that way, thats when ADB started working but still no luck at all with fastboot
[Dell Streak 7] cdzo72:
Still not working for me::::

I'm still not having any luck.... I connected under fastboot mode and uninstalled old driver software and then rebooted my computer. Then I came back in, connected the Streak and in device manager I had a yellow arrow next to Dell Streak 7 (good thing because that means it really did get rid of other software) updated driver by pointing to your modded .inf file in the google usb folder as instructed but unfortunately still not able to flash

Frustrating

EDIT: I should mention that this Streak had the user information erased from within the OS, thus everytime I boot back into Android it's just like I pulled it out of the box... After boot, I switch on USB Debugging and the Streak is listed as one of the ADB devices... but since everything goes back to fresh each boot, what I imagine is happening is that the USB Debugging setting is lost and thus I'm not having any luck with the fastboot flashing....

So the question arises... IS there a workaround for this? This Streak has not previously had CWM installed, but I can get into the original recovery, but that doesn't do me any good I guess... Please genii, help a fella out.... pretty please
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1084526

Here is your work around.

sent from a tower
[Dell Streak 7] cdzo72:
Thanks Hellzya but in doing that I think I just made my problem worse...

For some wacky reason, aside from going back to stock at each reboot, the Streak is also erasing any files I place on the internal SD card. So, I placed the gingerbreak apk on an external sd and installed it from there using quickoffice as my file browser... to my excitement it seemed to go off without a hitch until I rebooted.... now once rebooted everything force closes, including the wizard and the home launcher... I'm worse off than I was before....

Is there anywhere I can find the OTA update.pkg so I can flash that from recovery?

UPDATE:::

Well last night as a grasping attempt I deciced to go the NVFlash route. I was sitting on pins and needles waiting for all the files to download. I was elated when I was able to correctly install the drivers and you can imagine my joy when it went off without a hitch (so I thought). I booted up and entered in all my info and started using my Streak, then I shut it down just to evacuate my fears...:( When I booted up I was greeted with the setup wizard once again as if the Streak had never been used.... I literally shed a tear....

I'll be bald in a couple of days if this keeps up.....
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
I'm going to make a write up tonight.

sent from a tower
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Cdzo72 I just sent you a pm lmk if it worksworks
[Dell Streak 7] bigmac124:
Having the exact same issue. Any luck?
[Dell Streak 7] cdzo72:
Not yet bigmac!

I even tried using the nvflash method posted in the general Q&A threads and it seems to write to the Streak just fine, but when I boot it up and then reboot I get the same thing, and programs are still crashing when I try to do something
[Dell Streak 7] bigmac124:
You know, I have been thinking about this alot today. I am pretty sure people have talked about it before but I think our internal SD cards are stuck on read only, because no matter what we flash on; .img, adb push, or even Nvflash, it reverts back to the same(buggy) original image. I wonder if there is a away through nvflash to make sure we have read write access. Anyone have any ideas or know about NVflash for the d7? I'm at a lose here :(
[Dell Streak 7] cdzo72:
SD stuck on read only maybe

I tend to want to agree with you bigmac and maybe someone can point us in the right direction to change this.

Through all the flashing I've been doing something has changed, I can now flash with fastboot and the Streak takes the command, but when I reboot it comes right back to how it was.

I've flashed CWM and it didn't stick, I tried to flash Steve's ROM through fastboot and it just hung up, I did the NVflash and it didn't change anything either
[Dell Streak 7] nrfitchett4:
but if that was the case, how would we be able to flash custom ROMs???
[Dell Streak 7] bigmac124:
Thats the point we are making, it tells us we have successfully flashed whatever we try to flash, then when we reboot, it reverts back to the original, flawed image.
[Dell Streak 7] nrfitchett4:
I've had the problem with it "reverting back to stock", and was able to still put a custom ROM on it. I guess I will have to see. I think its bad internal storage myself.
[Dell Streak 7] juanaraya92679:
Fastboot and Installing Rom

Just wanted to tell those who think they aren't having any luck what may have gotten this to work for me. I read everything and I expected fastboot to say something other than "Starting Fastboot USB download protocol". The first time i booted to fastboot mode on my tablet a window came up in windows xp trying to install drivers but it failed. At some point in the processes below the drivers instaled. Not sure when though but when they did I just typed the fastboot commands and my rom flashed fine.

1. Installed driivers from the "Drivers" folder on the SD card of the dell streak.

2. Installed dell software from dell website,nero something// not sure it even helped.

3. Booted to fast boot mode and saw "Starting Fastboot USB download protocol"

than I just typed in the command console c:/android/tools/fastboot fastboot recovery recovery.img the recovery.img file was the rom I Wanted to flash. "Honeycomb" in my case.

the screen just said "Flashing something bla bla" the command prompt went through an installation process and than the window closed. After that I expected my tablet to restart and it never did. So to be safe I waited 5 minutes and just hit the reset button on my tablet. "The pin hole next to the SD card"

Honeycomb booted and all was good..

PS. this is the most annoying android device i've ever rooted and installed a rom for. Seriously.
[Dell Streak 7] geekogenius:
where i can find fast boot drivers ??? for windows 7, i used Fastboot+ADB.zip but the files does not work :(

i have official HC on streak 7
[Dell Streak 7] kalibulax:
You can see what's vid and pid have you Dell streak?

In device manager, the Dell Streak 7 must be FastBoot Mode (Volume - and Power Button).
[Dell Streak 7] stevedebi:
Are you saying that you renamed the pkg file from Dell to recovery.img? Or was it one of the zip files found on this forum?
[Dell Streak 7] Smurphjw:
Can someone post the drivers there not on my tablet.
[Dell Streak 7] sakdroid:
I am trying to flash recovery image to upgrade to HC

When i flash, I get below error and just get stuck with <Waiting for Device> message in either of command.

C:\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

< waiting for device >

C:\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot -i 0x413C reboot

< waiting for device >

Any help?
[Dell Streak 7] crush:
Same here no fastboot driver on my pc, it keeps asking for driver.
[Dell Streak 7] cloh:
drivers in the tablet

I belive I saw the drivers in the Streak 7 tablet, it resides in the tablet at:

/mnt/sdcard.

you could access the folder thru any one of this apps, andexploer or astro.

for Andexplor, tab on the device and then tab on the sdcard (underneath the device tab) and scroll all the way down, the driver.zip should be there.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] BlueMass:
Hey,

can someone tell me how i get the white notificationbar like in the older versions (froyo, eclair...)

i can´t find any post on the internet about that and an old theme does´nt work work for me...

sorry for my english :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] sileshnair:
IF you are using CM based roms, the option is inbuilt to change your status bar colours.

IF you want to do it in a stock rom, you need to replace the png file "statusbar_background.9.png" in the /res/drawable-hdpi folder in the Systemui.apk app. You will also need to make xml and smali edits to make your text black so that it shows up on the white statusbar.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymondht:
I'm planning to modify my Archos 101. Got this this website about the rooting process. Before I go to rooting, I want you guys to know my plans to mod my Archos 101, is to have much higher clock speed, not like the stock speed, also no limitations on installing App. Now I updated my OS to 2.1.04. I have no SDcard but mine has a 8GB Internal mem.

I found this forums, and I dont know where to start? Can you guys guide me to the right directions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=930197

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895599

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=897877

I'm kinda confuse, after I found this posts... please guide me before I do some rooting.. Thank you masters...

Also what is the advatage of rooting my device... i'm kinda curious? I love to use all the potential of device. Is this the same?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve.l:
Why would you want to root your device if you don't even know what the benefits or drawbacks of rooting it are?!? Are you so desperate for root that you are ready to void your warranty or install a possible trojan?? I suggest you get familiar with the capabilities of your device before trying to "mod" it in any way. Maybe it will suffice for you without the need to root. If not, you should read all you can on the subject before asking for help, there's a lot of information on the subject already. Someone who needs their hand held shouldn't be attempting to root the Archos.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymondht:
Do we have freedom of choice here...? The reason why I want to root my device, I already read "some" of the benifits... The only thing I need is to make it faster or some sort... Some can run 1200mhz, or 1280mhz. Mine is only running 800-1000mhz. Some has custom desktop... mine is only plain stock, some can install a lot Apps by increasing ROM. Do you understand what I'm trying to express... I'm just asking for help... I'll be not blaming you and other pips... I only need is guidance and just simple tweaks.... Thats all... Please help are In need... Warranty? I thought you can bring it back to the original? and it will not brick, right? So please XDAdevelopers pimp my Archos....!:D
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakkrith:
1. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=930197

I have confirm the above thread is very easy to temporary root or permanent root (without CPU speed up). I have recommend you to read this thread first.

2. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895599

This thread look like difficult for new user and must have some knowledge about linux command.

3. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=897877

This thread very easy to temporary root and you can use SETCPU to speed up CPU. I love this thread but it not ability to permanent root.

Note: I had decided to root my device by myself and I don't mind about warranty :D
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymondht:
Thank you!... See:D... see:D... this is the kind of person you talking to... I'll try second one... then post somefeedback... Its you recommendation, ill do it...
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fuzzer:
You could also try the Archangel root...no SDE needed..very easy for beginners...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928767
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
i have tried installing/reinstalling zune software on my windows 7 64-bit OS and every time it opens and then locks up my entire computer. i can't click on anything nor does ctrl+alt+del work at all. i have to physically restart the PC. this is obviously a big problem for someone with a windows phone. does anybody know what's going on? i wasn't having any problems for months until about a week ago.
[Windows Phone 7 General] failtorespond:
They just did an update recently which is my guess, your problem. Did you reboot when you uninstalled, before you reinstalled?
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
How long do you wait for your pc to become responsive again? I have the same OS and same problem with Zune, I either wait for the pc to start responding again or ctrl-alt-del and eventually kill the process and start it again, which seems to fix it most times.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
i have waited probably 5 minutes before i restarted manually. how long have you waited?
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
tried that. it is freezing everything immediately. i finally got to task manager and shut it down, but i cannot physically do anything in zune at all. any other suggestions?
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
it might sound weird but have you tried installing the 32 bit version of Zune?
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
there is no such thing as zune 32-bit. you download the installer and there is only one file that does the installation for any OS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Run the installer in compatibility mode for XP... thats what my wife had to do on her laptop
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
Wow, I'm running Win7 64bit with no problems, have you tried doing a system restore back to when it WAS working? In case a system file got corrupt somewhere?
[Windows Phone 7 General] jeffgeno:
Clear out the Zune cache in your user profile. There's something in there that it's trying to load and locking up your computer. I'm not near my machine now, but it's somewhere in the AppData section.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
i would give you a huge hug if you were around. i did a windows 7 search and found the appdata folder. clicked on microsoft and then right clicked on the zune folder and deleted all. i did not uninstall zune while i did this, but i did have it closed. after the appdata cache was deleted, i restarted zune and it works perfectly without any hiccups.

thanks so much!! i have never had problems with software so badly!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
Haha, I think you should thank him with the button ;) I think this information should be added to the sticky of FAQs or something incase it happens to other users... Quick reference...
[Windows Phone 7 General] tuffluck:
true that, i actually went back to all 4 websites where i posted this question and made a point to paste in my resolution. one of the damnedest things about the internet is when people post problems on message boards, figure them out and then never post the answer.
[Vibrant General] icystone:
If my Vibrant is stolen, they still can use my stolen vibrant on their new t-mobile account after i reported to tmobile that its stolen? I want to get it back. I don't have Lookout installed on it. I'm bummed out.
[Vibrant General] megatherian:
Sorry for your loss :(

You've probably already done this but just to be sure, change your Google account password asap. You probably should change all your other passwords too as the thief may have already downloaded all your e-mail.
[Vibrant General] icystone:
gmail email

you sure? I don't think i need to the phone is locked.
[Vibrant General] megatherian:
It's up to you but personally I wouldn't take any chances.

do a google search for "bypass android lock screen" :rolleyes:
[Vibrant General] da_dragon2k3:
If you reported it stolen to t-mobile they should have blocked the imei number on their network. Thier is a universal ban list of imei's, but for some reason the carriers never use it... So they can use your vib on att. As for changing the password. I would. They could always be on wifi and still download all your info. Change your gmail password and any password you may have saved in your browser.
[Vibrant General] Soldi3rxx:
that will teach you to get lookout now!
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
or better care of the phone one has :p
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Negetive. They can't do that. someone steals your vibrant, all they do is put in their sim and done.... tmobile won't block their imei.
[Vibrant General] PSP_Hacker:
Well at least you put an entry lock. The only thing I would worry about is the internal and external SD. Mostly the external SD since it's removable from the device behind the battery cover, but also the internal SD because the thief can access recovery mode and wipe data/cache; then there user data and the screen lock settings are gone so they can do whatever they want with your phone.

I wish there was filesystem encryption support in Android... it would save so many people from privacy problems.
[Vibrant General] bstromberg:
If it makes you feel better Lookout wouldn't have helped you. Once the phone is turned off (which is the first thing the thief will do) the phone is untrackable using lookout. I tested it personally. Sucks, but you'll probably never see your phone again.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
DEFINITELY change all of your passwords. Please.