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Christian Weiske edited this page Apr 27, 2020 · 6 revisions

When you brick your OUYA, you need Android’s recovery mode to get it back into a working state.

alt + print + i

  1. Have usb keyboard connected to ouya.
  2. Turn ouya on.
  3. Press and hold alt + print screen + i button, if you do not have print screen button use sysrq button.
  4. Now tricky part is to keep pressing i button for 2 seconds so that the screen flickers for about 4-6 times until ouya reboots.
  5. When it reboots you will see a red exclamation mark and u. Now hit your home key button.
  6. Eat a muffin, you are in recovery mode.

Taken from http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php?4247-How-to-Put-OUYA-in-Recovery-Mode

Also: https://web.archive.org/web/20160407124522/https://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/1380/recovery-mode

X + SysRq + RAlt

This adds the magic key X which when pressed with SysRq and the Right Alt key, will dump the device back into bootloader (fastboot) mode for easy recovering.

https://github.com/ouya/ouya_1_1-kernel/commit/55141bc1c80f082648a18ded8278ea5b2d937354

SysRq = Print screen button

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