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Fastboot Mode
You must have the proper drivers installed for fastboot to work. You can get them and the fastboot executable file from this post at XDA (hit the thanks button on that post by TheManii) by downloading the Fastboot+ADB.zip. The file includes windows drivers and the executables for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
Connect your USB cable to your PC and then to enter fastboot mode on the Venue:
- Power off your Venue
- Turn the vibrate mode switch ON (you will see red)
- Hold VOL DOWN and the power button at the same time, you can release the power button when the leds light
You will see this on the screen:
Dell Venue fastboot mode screen one
Plug the USB cable into the Venue and you should see:
Dell Venue fastboot mode screen 2
You are now ready to use fastboot commands from your PC to flash files to your Venue. If you don’t see this second screen then your drivers are not correct.
Warning
The Venue is very similar to the Streak so I would heed this warning from the flashing guide for the Streak at the the XDA wiki:
The fastboot program on the streak has issues and attempting to erase partitions with it may result in it hanging.
If it hangs the Streak will not be able to start up and is likely not rescuable by any manner (including QDL Tool)
Use factory reset via recovery mode instead. .
Fastboot Commands
Fastboot commands are simple.
fastboot reboot
This will reboot your phone
fastboot flash
This is just a stub of a command flash is the instruction that you use to tell fastboot to install a file to the Streak.
fastboot flash where what
where is the place on the phone to put the file and what is the filename.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
This is the command to install (flash) the file recovery.img to the partition recovery on the Streak. This would install a recovery image.
fastboot flash amss amss.mbn
flashes the amss.mbn file to the proper partition
fastboot flash dsp1 dsp1.mbn
This flashes the dsp1.mbn file to the proper partition
The last two commands are to update low level firmwares, often referred to as baseband files. It is not recommended that you install these with fastboot if the stock ROM is available to install. Installing the stock ROM installs all of the lower level firmwares needed for a particular baseband.
Notes
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