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Re: [LUG] Free up my Galaxy Ace 3

 


On 13 Mar 2014 08:35, "info" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 12.03.2014 17:32, damian brown wrote:
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>> yep CWM "ClockWorkMod" is a custom recovery that allows the
>> installation of custom os's and other tweaks. i have always said that
>> if you can get your phone into recovery then you can get it out of a
>> soft brick state
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>> On 12 March 2014 15:02, Grant Phillips-Sewell
>> <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On 12 Mar 2014 14:55, "Philip Hudson" <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>> Very, very reluctantly, I'm about to give up on the quest to free up
>>>> my phone. It seems to require using Chinese-language Android software
>>>> and/or software that runs on MS Windows. Very frustrating and
>>>> annoying. OK Google, you win this one.
>>>>
>>> It took quite some digging and trying things out with the potential to brick
>>> my phone (HTC Sensation) but I did eventually find the tools for Linux that
>>> let you communicate with the phone over USB during boot (if you boot to the
>>> boot menu).
>>>
>>> I'll have a dig around and see if I can find them on my laptop and if they
>>> have a link to their origins - there might be one for the Galaxy Ace.
>>>
>>> Grant
>>>   adb
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> on buntus the tools, adb, are in android-tools-adb and can be installed via apt-get and then run from the command line. There is also a set of similar, older?, tools in the android SDK along with adb.
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Actually the tool I had in mind wasn't ADB.

Grant

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