I am in a real mess now . I have wireless adb enabled and this turns off the micro usb port when having usb debugging enabled . I can turn off usb debugging and then the device will mount as MTP so I can access files and such , but not having access to the mirco usb debugging I can not figure a way to install recovery now. I have not found the correct way to disable wireless adb . Any help or suggestions would be appreciated thanks..
What ever happened to the open hackable Ouya we were promished in the Kickstarter. To me it seemed to say that we could do what we wanted. So... why is it so hard to install a custom revovery, where are the nvflash codes?
Last edited:
NVflash isn't even needed. We need a hardware button method to get into fastboot mode. From there you could boot a recovery image and then sideload the full rom. If they have a hardware method to get in, they aren't sharing it right now, and that's just ridiculous.
Success !!!! I fixed my problems by finding an .Apk for wireless adb which once installed you can turn it off and on and this will allow use of the micro usb port . Which in my case allowed me to finally install recovery.
Well.... don't keep it a secret which apk is it? Others might like to know if by chance they ever need it!
Sorry I did not save the page . I just opened the browser on the Ouya and did a Google search and downloaded one of the first one I came to. I will try and look it up....
---------- Post added at 11:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:37 PM ----------
Try this thread there is a link in it....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961466
Great work with the recover, just wish there was a way to block updates.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda app-developers app
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda app-developers app
No recovery
I soft bricked my ouya one time using adb but fixed it with CWM and a nandroid backup. Now I just rooted my Ouya and it works fine but I discovered I no longer have recovery mode I have reflashed CWM 3 times and still no recovery mode. All i get is a black screen with "OUYA" and a "!" under it and it stays there for a minute the reboots back in the system. So I just dont have recovery mode. Is there a way of fixing this? Like i said I have done reflashed CWM 3 times since this has happened and its not fixing anything. Just scared its going to get bricked again and be a hard brick because recovery does not exist. And one other question is there not a download mode on the ouya and a tool to push software to it? Like samsung having ODIN?
I soft bricked my ouya one time using adb but fixed it with CWM and a nandroid backup. Now I just rooted my Ouya and it works fine but I discovered I no longer have recovery mode I have reflashed CWM 3 times and still no recovery mode. All i get is a black screen with "OUYA" and a "!" under it and it stays there for a minute the reboots back in the system. So I just dont have recovery mode. Is there a way of fixing this? Like i said I have done reflashed CWM 3 times since this has happened and its not fixing anything. Just scared its going to get bricked again and be a hard brick because recovery does not exist. And one other question is there not a download mode on the ouya and a tool to push software to it? Like samsung having ODIN?
The Ouya stock ROM flashes over the recovery partition on boot (kind of annoying). The script that runs with the 1-click should prevent this from happening. Not sure what's up.
You can use fastboot to do odin-like activities. Be careful though. If you flash an improper kernel, you'll brick the device (gets stuck in nvflash mode and we have no physical way to get back into fastboot).
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
I used the one click method for cwm. Is there another method of trying to put cwm? I'm a noob when it comes to using fastboot.
fastest flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
(this is assuming fastest maps to recovery correctly, the first post has a flashable zip that can be installed after just booting the recovery via fastboot)
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda premium
(this is assuming fastest maps to recovery correctly, the first post has a flashable zip that can be installed after just booting the recovery via fastboot)
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda premium
Last edited:
Fastboot doesnt work it just hangs at "waiting for device" adb works perfectly and when i tried "fastboot" after "adb reboot bootloader" it installed drivers for fastboot. After the drivers were installed i went back and tried it all again and fastboot just hung at "Waiting for device" Is there any way to manually push the partition just by using something like "dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p??" That what I used to flash twrp to my s4 before all the scripts came out to do it for you. I just know being the system works there has to be a simple solution to fixing the recovery. The one click doesnt work, and fastboot just hangs around and waits for device even though i know it is in bootloader mode and i watched the fastboot drivers install so i know i have those.
Edit: is there a way to just update it and let the update overwrite the recovery with the stock recovery? I know the script with the one click blocks it from the updates over writing it but is there away to undo it?
Last edited:
I've never had a problem running fastboot. Then again, I don't run windows.
You can dd if you are comfortable doing that and know you won't brick your device. Open the script (the script in the one click os folder and the one in the resources folder). There's not much to the scripts. You at least need working adb to do everything.
Sent from my Nexus 7
You can dd if you are comfortable doing that and know you won't brick your device. Open the script (the script in the one click os folder and the one in the resources folder). There's not much to the scripts. You at least need working adb to do everything.
Sent from my Nexus 7
Ok. Well I have noticed under device manager that fastboot has a yellow triangle next to it which usually means something with the drivers. But I've looked all over the internet and cant find fastboot drivers for the ouya. If tried fixing it by using the google usb drivers from adb with the code for the ouya added in but still no luck. Any suggestions?
---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:51 AM ----------
---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:51 AM ----------
There isn't a dd any where in the script. I don't know how it works without it but it looks like it does some how.
Last edited:
Look in resources/CWMFlashScript. The second dd is what you're looking for.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
You can do it with adb. Just make sure you run su after running adb shell so you have the right permissions
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Thank you so very much. I knew how do to it I just couldn't find the dd thanks for pointing me where to find it. My cwm is backup working properly now. Maybe you could tell me why the script couldn't do it but yet I could using dd manually wouldn't it be the samething? The script worked fine when i did it the first time. Then after cwm messed up windows kept saying it was successful when trying to flash it again but wasn't doing anything on the ouya's end of it. I'm just curious why it worked one time and never worked again but yet a manually doing dd worked fine.
Hard to say without looking at the command prompt output. If you or anyone else runs into this again, please put it into a pastebin.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
i tried unning the lines in the batch file one by one until i got to 'adb shell /data/local/tmp/CWMFlashScript.sh'
it gives me this error..
I get to the black screen with the ouya logo and an exclamation under it.. after about 30secs it then reboots into normal mode.
I think it may be because I dont have win7 drivers for fastboot (yellow exclamation) and dont know where to find/install them.
Last edited:
I get this same thing, maybe it has something to do with the latest update? I am not sure.i tried unning the lines in the batch file one by one until i got to 'adb shell /data/local/tmp/CWMFlashScript.sh'
it gives me this error..
I get to the black screen with the ouya logo and an exclamation under it.. after about 30secs it then reboots into normal mode.
I think it may be because I dont have win7 drivers for fastboot (yellow exclamation) and dont know where to find/install them.
Our Apps
Get our official app!
The best way to access XDA on your phone
Nav Gestures
Add swipe gestures to any Android
One Handed Mode
Eases uses one hand with your phone