Originally Posted by android007

My problem may be that I'm using a Mac, but I cannot get my Terminal to recognize the "loop" command. I've tried many things and it won't work properly just keeps giving me errors. I'm gonna keep trying though.

Loop is just a batch file (.bat). I don't know about Macs using batch files. All it's doing is looping the "adb devices" command to see if it detects the device.

Originally Posted by fermunky

Having trouble at step 5. ADB works when the phone is powered on. However, when in Recovery, adb devices list is blank.

Other problems: is Step 8 really a step? It says to select Update.zip... is this just anecdotal, as in "Now we will select an update.zip"...?

And how are you "selecting" things in Recovery? My recovery simply has the phone with a triangle...

You have to Repeat then... It Don't always work everytime!! That's why I said Repeat.. You have to Power Off, run loop & if you see now Devices then you have to Repeat again!!

You Must boot into bootloader First!! Run Loop, Then to Recovery!

my computer doesn't find the device in recovery mode. Any advice on getting around this? adb works when phone is on.

Originally Posted by eugene373

You have to Repeat then... It Don't always work everytime!! That's why I said Repeat.. You have to Power Off, run loop & if you see now Devices then you have to Repeat again!!

Wow, cant believe I missed that order. May need to update the how to though... it says to run loop, then go to bootloader, then to recovery. You need to add a step after getting into bootloader of "Wait for device to be listed, then goto recovery"... or similar.

My error when trying to invoke the loop file:

: command not founde 1: :TOP
sdk/tools/loop: line 2: adb: command not found
sdk/tools/loop: line 3: GOTO: command not found

Sweeeet! Awesome job guys.

On Mac replace the loop.bat with loop.sh and change the contents of the file to the following:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
adb devices
done

On the command line, run "chmod 755 loop.sh" to give it execute permission. To run the file type "./loop.sh"

Are there any roms for it yet?

Originally Posted by android007

My error when trying to invoke the loop file:

You have not added the tools directory to your PATH system variable. Explained on the SDK page. Also, you don't need to be in the /tools folder, just go to the folder you extracted the files to.

Eugene, I noticed while the loop was running, I chose recovery, and on one instance, I saw an offline device, but then subsequent loop commands, it stopped listing them. Also, it is still not clear what to do on Step 8. Most of us only see an image in recovery, no menus.

With no menus, anyone know how to reboot the phone in recovery other than removing the battery?

Originally Posted by marvinp

On Mac replace the loop.bat with loop.sh and change the contents of the file to the following:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
adb devices
done

On the command line, run "chmod 755 loop.sh" to give it execute permission. To run the file type "./loop.sh"

you think you can do quick little rewrite of the tutorial for us mac users