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[Pete Woods <pete.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've suffered similar issues to this with the MX4. The USB connection
degraded in reliability for me over time, and I ended up having to get a
replacement MX4, which so-far has been good.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Tm_T <tmt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I still cannot get any "menu" or any other visible functionality in
> recovery mode, but adb functionality issue was solved in an interesting
> way, here's steps I went through with help of Dave and others in
> #ubuntu-touch
>
> 1. flash the mentioned recovery.img with: fastboot flash recovery
> recovery.img
>
> ​2. initiate flashing in fastboot mode with: ​ubuntu-device-flash touch
> --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en --bootstrap --recovery-image
> recovery.img
>
> Note, that --recovery-image here is most likely unneeded at this point
>
> 3. flashing hangs to the same spot as before, unplug phone before adb
> attempt of the flash tool times out
>
> 4. check adb status with "adb devices" until you get status saying magic
> word "recovery"
>
> 5. now I could try flashing again: ubuntu-device-flash touch
> --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en --device arale
>
> Aand I finally got my device flashed, no data loss that I could see.
>
> Apparently there needs to be a good timing with adb use in recovery mode
> in order to have successful connection.
>
> Thanks to everyone who were helping. (:
>
> On 25 February 2016 at 11:13, Michael Zanetti <
> michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 25.02.2016 09:48, Tm_T wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > While I was trying to bring my Meizu back to life after failed
>> > OTA-upgrade on RC-channel, I noticed that recovery mode doesn't seem to
>> > work. All I get is an ubuntu logo, ubuntu-device-flash gives error
>> > "Failed to enter Recovery." Below is full output:
>> >
>> > $ ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en
>> > --bootstrap
>> > 2016/02/25 10:39:16 Expecting the device to be in the bootloader...
>> waiting
>> > 2016/02/25 10:39:46 Device is |arale|
>> > 2016/02/25 10:39:46 Flashing version 10 from
>> > ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en channel and server
>> > https://system-image.ubuntu.com to device arale
>> > Failed to enter Recovery
>>
>>
>> Unless you want to delete all your data, you probably do not want to use
>> --bootstrap
>>
>> Br,
>> Michael
>>
>>
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