Adb\fastboot for rookies

[crazythunder]

Crazy, I'm going to follow your advice on the Acronis backup. My question is, when you say you can make a image of C: is that on another drive (such as a another internal or external). My main drive with the OS, is a 750gb drive. Do I need another drive just as big to do this. I have no problem buying another, Fry's Electronics has 1TB's for $87 bucks. Also when you say "bootable backup to dvd" thats similar to the XP bootable disc, correct?

when you image your c drive, it will be compressed. say your c partition is 25 gigs. but windows is only using 10 gigs. your compressed image will be around 5 or 6 gigs. maybe even smaller. you can image to a usb drive,another internal drive, a partition on your main drive or to cd\dvd. i swear by imaging my main drive. saved my %$ many times. just like nandroid.

[crazythunder]

hey, that worked great. nice instructions!

just one small issue:

i went ahead and installed the hard spl. in bootloader mode, i got "serial 0". pressing back didn't get me to fastboot; still serial 0. so i plugged the phone in and then it showed fastboot.

i'm glad it worked for you! if one person was helped,it was well worth my time.

[Toby4059]

When I press Alt-b nothing happens.

[crazythunder]

When I press Alt-b nothing happens.

what is on the screen when you hit alt+b? describe it please. if you're on the recovery screen and alt+b does nothing,i've got some homework to do.
if you can use adb,do this ...
adb remount
adb shell
getprop ro.secure
tell me what number pops up.

from terminal emulator...
su enter
getprop ro.secure

this will help me figure out which recovery image you're using.

[Toby4059]

what is on the screen when you hit alt+b? describe it please. if you're on the recovery screen and alt+b does nothing,i've got some homework to do.
if you can use adb,do this ...
adb remount
adb shell
getprop ro.secure
tell me what number pops up.

from terminal emulator...
su enter
getprop ro.secure

this will help me figure out which recovery image you're using.

I apologize, I just had the wrong recovery image.

[DLorenzoD]

what is on the screen when you hit alt+b? describe it please. if you're on the recovery screen and alt+b does nothing,i've got some homework to do.
if you can use adb,do this ...
adb remount
adb shell
getprop ro.secure
tell me what number pops up.

from terminal emulator...
su enter
getprop ro.secure

this will help me figure out which recovery image you're using.

same thing happens to me when I try to do a backup with alt+b from the recovery screen...nothing shows up. I followed your instructions (the getprop ro.secure stuff) from adb and terminal emulator and I get the number 0 for both.

[JohnnyLicious]

stil tryin to figure out adb on a mac :/

[crazythunder]

if you're getting 0 zero after doing getprop ro.secure, you're using a fastboot capable recovery image. do you even see the alt+b option? which spl are you using?

[naturalraven]

I am computer stupid and that list of steps is crazy to me,lol. I have a G1 and i dont even know if its rooted or not nor do I know what rooted is. I want to get the cupcake so could someone hit me up with a link for the braindead folks like myself, ....I would be more than grateful.

[crazythunder]

I am computer stupid and that list of steps is crazy to me,lol. I have a G1 and i dont even know if its rooted or not nor do I know what rooted is. I want to get the cupcake so could someone hit me up with a link for the braindead folks like myself, ....I would be more than grateful.

we were all new to this at one time,so no need to call yourself braindead. unless you really are lol. are you just impatient on waiting for cupcake? or are you looking to modify your g1 and change features that are not normally allowed? believe me,if you don't know if you're rooted or not, you're not. but i'll help if you just use google once or twice. or....just ask nicely.