Needing to fastbbot with no screen.

[hillmom]

So my phone got dropped, screen first, on a concrete floor

The phone "comes on" when I plug it in viva factory cable, but there is no back light. I need to fastboot it. I know I can use ADB to do it, I just don't know how. Any willing to walk me through the process?

Much thanks!

[hillmom]

I'm set up to flash images with fastboot, and know the commands to wipe everything. I just want to make sure if I use the command prompt "adb reboot fastboot" in normal mode, that it will boot into fastboot and I can wipe everything from there. Just needing some reassurance.

[GoCliffGo05]

adb reboot fastboot will boot you to fastboot assuming it's set up properly on your computer.

Make sure you are in fastboot by typing "fastboot devices" and seeing your device returned.

Then issue: (basically just "erase" whatever you want to flash.

Don't wipe the boot.img just flash it.
fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot erase system
fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot erase data
fastboot flash data data.img

If you have a cache.img to install just use this:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img

[GoCliffGo05]

Also thinking about it, if adb doesn't work for you (it should) then just power it off, manually hit the pow + vol u + vol d and ap fastboot should be the first selection. Just hit vol up. I know you can't see anything, just gotta get the timing down.

Sucks about your phone though.

[hillmom]

Also thinking about it, if adb doesn't work for you (it should) then just power it off, manually hit the pow + vol u + vol d and ap fastboot should be the first selection. Just hit vol up. I know you can't see anything, just gotta get the timing down.

Sucks about your phone though.

It won't turn on at all if not connected with the adapter. The part that has me most upset, my replacement will probably come with the new version of 4.1.2

[GoCliffGo05]

Ah, yea that sucks. Have you started yet?

[hillmom]

No, not yet. I'm working on dinner.

[GoCliffGo05]

Let us know how it works out.

[hillmom]

Will do!

[hillmom]

Do you know if it is possible to pull a phone log and text messages first?