ADB worked while bootlooping...

[hecksagon]

I had flashed CM10 but forgot to reboot into fastboot and boot the CM10 kernel. As the thing was bootlooping, I was able to successfully do an adb reboot recovery, completely skipping using a USB keyboard and pressing Ctrl - Print Screen - I key combination normally used to get to recovery. Apparently at some point, even if the rom isn't booting, the kernel somehow starts adb. Anybody else have any luck with this or know any reason why this even worked? If this is the normal way for android to boot, maybe it would be possible to still get into recovery even if we flash a different kernel.

 

[huckjam]

I had flashed CM10 but forgot to reboot into fastboot and boot the CM10 kernel. As the thing was bootlooping, I was able to successfully do an adb reboot recovery, completely skipping using a USB keyboard and pressing Ctrl - Print Screen - I key combination normally used to get to recovery. Apparently at some point, even if the rom isn't booting, the kernel somehow starts adb. Anybody else have any luck with this or know any reason why this even worked? If this is the normal way for android to boot, maybe it would be possible to still get into recovery even if we flash a different kernel.

Interesting I wonder if its repeatable? I guess its will be hard to test unless you already messed up, nobodys gonna mess up on purpose just to try this out without a hardware recovery option but maybe someone who messes up on accident will report back here on what they found out.

 

[hecksagon]

Wasn't able to repeat it on the Ouya kernel with CM ROM installed but it seems to work all the time if you get a boot loop in CM10 kernel and CM ROM. I'm still not feeling safe enough to actually flash the CM kernel, so I am still using fast boot to boot the kernel from a laptop.

On a side note, I do have xbmc set up as my launcher and have list of working skins that can launch android apps from. Once I figure out how to get the crazy CPU usage I am getting worked out I plan to make a guide for a full media center.