Can I turn on USB mass storage through the recovery console?

[Mason_S]

Hey folks. Been searching for an answer for a few hours now and my efforts have yielded me nothing.

Plain and simple, I seem to have "soft-bricked" my phone loading the latest SPL from Haykuro's dl site. I found a lot about others who have done this, but nothing very productive for my situation. Still, I wanted to try something and need to know if I can.

What I want to do is flash a different update.zip (such as a different version of the SPL, such as the one I had before, or perhaps a different ROM). Problem is, since the OS doesn't boot, I am unable to turn on USB mass storage. I also do not have access to a thumb drive or card reader that will take my microSD card. So, for now, I'm stuck with needing to push any update.zip to my sd card while it's in the phone, connected to USB. That is, if that's possible.

I'm able to easily access the recovery console and just need to know if there is any command I can enter there to mount my sd card for USB mass storage.

Other ideas are also welcome. For anyone interested in lending a helping hand, here are my symptoms:

When turning on the G1, the phone hangs at the "T-Mobile G1" screen and does not move past this no matter how long I wait.

This occurred after flashing the JF 1.43 SPL, dl'd from Haykuro's dl site, in preparation to flash the Hero ROM.

I am on the latest version of the radio and performed a wipe prior to flashing the SPL (since I was going to need to in order to flash the Hero ROM anyway).

I'm currently running JF ADP 1.5.

There were no errors during the install of the SPL. It finished, I rebooted using home+back. I saw the chip with the arrow screen for the barest moment before the device rebooted. It went to the G1 screen briefly before launching into recovery mode again. I rebooted again using home+back and it just hung on the G1 screen. After about ten minutes, I removed my battery, waited about two minutes, replaced the battery and booted again. Same deal; just hung on the G1 screen. I am able to boot into recovery mode and can get to the console.

Thanks for any help and for your patience in enduring one more new thread.

[konzern]

i just glanced thru your post and if u wanna access the sd card thru recovery this is what u have to do

if u know how to use adb just

1.plug in your phone and open command prompt
2.change directories to where u have ur sdk stuff (ex. cd c:\thenameofdirectory/tools)
3.type this in
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

[konzern]

of course, u have to be in recovery to do this and it will show your sd card.

just put the rom of the build u want in the root of your sd card
rename it update
alt-w
alt-s

[Mason_S]

So, let me see if I understand; from the command prompt in the recovery console (booting to recovery, hitting alt-x), I CD to the directory where I have the android sdk stored on my computer.

Then I run those commands.

Is this right?

I just tried this, so you can perhaps tell me where I went wrong.

I placed the sdk on the root of my "C" drive. I renamed it android-sdk for convenience. So the path is C:\android-sdk\tools, right?

From the command prompt in the recovery console, I typed:

cd c:\android-sdk\tools

and hit enter.

I got the message:

sh: cd: can't cd to c:android-sdktools

Thanks so much for any more help you can offer (as well as the help offered thus far, of course!).

[konzern]

no u run command prompt from your computer. sorry for the misunderstanding the commands are run completely from the computer not from console

[crazythunder]

in the sdk, take these files out of the tools folder and place them in the root of your c drive adb.exe and adbwinapi.dll. boot your phone into recovery. plug it in to pc. now, open command prompt and cd to c:\ . like this cd c:\
now type adb shell
you should get a # symbol.
now type or copy paste this
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
give it up to 20 seconds or so for the drive to be available.

[Mason_S]

I get;

error: device not found.

Man, I thought I was on to something!

But, I'm learning all the way!

[konzern]

do u have the device drivers installed?

[crazythunder]

while your phone is in recovery and plugged in, go to device manager and see if there is a listing called adb interface. if so, do you know how to manually update the drivers? by pointing the driver update to the usb folder of the sdk?

[konzern]

u might also need the newer updated driver
http://sapphire-port-dream.googlecod...er_updated.zip