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Root Clockwork/Amon RA PC36IMG Files

Good so it should be safe to flash this through hboot, I'm just going to make sure that I am the backup I want to keep for now just incase.
 
Thanks alot guys. I was thinking maybe I should make 1 backup of only my wimax so I'll never have to worry about losing it and then just do the boot, system, and data anytime I need to do a nand backup. Or I guess it wont hurt to just do it everytime either lol
 
SiGuy11 said:
Thanks alot guys. I was thinking maybe I should make 1 backup of only my wimax so I'll never have to worry about losing it and then just do the boot, system, and data anytime I need to do a nand backup. Or I guess it wont hurt to just do it everytime either lol
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Yeah, that's fine if you want to do it once, just don't forget which backup it is, and keep it in a safe place. If you update manually next time there's an OTA, make at least one other nandroid backup with wimax after you update, as you won't want to have to go back to an older nandroid backup just to get wimax keys back if you ever lose them.
 
Sorry about quoting the post this way, just wasn't sure if I could pull just what I wanted to quote from the start of the thread. Thank you all for your help and patience with my noob like self. :)

First thing - Amon RA 2.3 was released this afternoon. I have uploaded the PC36IMG.zip to the mediafire folder. This one I got directly from the RA thread, courtesy of Tiffany84 at XDA. These guys are too fast for me . Here is the change log:


Quote:


-Nandroid will skip sd-ext backup when it's not present.

-Nandroid will not check the battery percentage anymore.

-Switched off signature check by default (Stop asking now, ok?).

-Cache is not selected as part of a default Nandroid backup anymore.

-Added wipe Boot, System and sdcard to the wipe menu.

-Re-ordered some items in the wipe menu.

-Switched to a CM android-msm-2.6.35-unified kernel (should stop the endless dots).


As of 4:30 PST, I don't see this in ROM manager yet, so if you want this, this is the place to get it, for now.


Second thing - I have uploaded a flashable zip for flash_image. flash_image is a command line tool used from the terminal emulator (or a remote terminal as the case may be) to flash images to various partitions. If you want to flash any of the provided images here, but want to save time, Follow these steps to do so:


1) Verify you don't already have flash_image (open terminal and type "which flash_image". If it just says not found, you need to flash it. If it gives you a location (most likely /system/bin/flash_image) your ROM already has this, and you can skip to step 4.

2) Flash flash_image-signed.zip from recovery.

3) Reboot normally when done.

4) Extract recovery.img from the PC36IMG.zip for the recovery you want

5) Copy recovery.img to the root of your sdcard

6) From the terminal type:


su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img


Once you reboot into recovery, you'll have whatever recovery you just flashed. Note that steps one and two only have to be done once.

I apologize if I'm posting this to the wrong place but a quick question. I've been trying to flash the "flash image zip" mentioned above. I must be doing something wrong. I did read further in the post and saw a response saying to just put the whole zip to root. But I also see something that says to extract the recovery img and place it in the root folder, but in that zip are more than one file. am I just picking the wrong file? Or do I even need it if I haven't partitioned the sd card. Atm I'm rooted and it shows clockwork mod 2.6. But for some reason when I go into the terminal and type in the command I get permissions denied. I'm thnking I need to pull the flash_image file that's buried in the zip and put "that on the card. Maybe I'm blind (its been known to happen) but if that's so what's the file's name?
 
Ken C said:
Sorry about quoting the post this way, just wasn't sure if I could pull just what I wanted to quote from the start of the thread. Thank you all for your help and patience with my noob like self. :)

I apologize if I'm posting this to the wrong place but a quick question. I've been trying to flash the "flash image zip" mentioned above. I must be doing something wrong. I did read further in the post and saw a response saying to just put the whole zip to root. But I also see something that says to extract the recovery img and place it in the root folder, but in that zip are more than one file. am I just picking the wrong file? Or do I even need it if I haven't partitioned the sd card. Atm I'm rooted and it shows clockwork mod 2.6. But for some reason when I go into the terminal and type in the command I get permissions denied. I'm thnking I need to pull the flash_image file that's buried in the zip and put "that on the card. Maybe I'm blind (its been known to happen) but if that's so what's the file's name?
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You have two options. The first options is easier, and doesn't involve flash_image. Just download the PC36IMG.zip of the recovery you want, rename it to PC36IMG.zip, exactly, as the instructions say, put it on the root of your sdcard (top level of the card, not under any folders), then turn the phone off, and turn it back on while pressing and holding volume down. That will take you to hboot, where it will scan for PC36IMG.zip files. When it finds it, it will ask you to flash it. Once it is done, you will the recovery of whatever version you downloaded.

If you want to flash a new recovery without rebooting, you can do the second option, which is to flash the flash_image.zip. That is a zip that you need to flash from recovery. Put it on your card, reboot into recovery (not hboot), then flash it. Once you do, you need to extract the recovery.img file from whatever PC36IMG.zip you want. Put that on the root of your card, and type in the command to flash it from the terminal emulator using flash_image. Don't forget to type su, first. I highly recommend you avoid flash_image, and just use the PC36IMG.zip, as this second method is more confusing if you aren't as familiar with the command line.
 
Well I downloaded one of each that you had posted waay back at the beginning of this thing. I was wondering though, there's mention of a change in the code? I'm not much of a coder or anything, but as my wife will tell ya, can't help but messin' with stuff :) When I rooted the thing I was able to get root and it was clockwork 3.0. something happened though, the phone started acting strange. i re-rooted it and it "stuck". But for some reason it went from 3.0 to 2.6, seemed weird to me. You also talk about google changing there coding language? If everybody has to change their roms and whatnot in the future to utilize this language, is there some way to go around this deal where i won't haven some kind of an issue the future? That's what I thought would be the deal when i saw clockwork 3.0 on my phone. I've run Ubuntu on my laptop for a awhile so I have a faint idea of what open source is like.Bu I've seen some videos of Roms and whatnot that people are running on this thing and they're really nice. I'm not some intense pc/smartphone guy. But I'll be damned if I'm not gonna do my best to get my money's worth out of this thing would you happen to have any advice for a rom and kernel set-up that's dependable and fast?
 
Basically, Google changed the scripting language for the update scripts used in recovery. It used to be amend, but was updated to edify. Clockwork 3.0.0.x supports edify, only, while CW 2.6.0.1 is backwards compatible, and works with both edify and amend. When you rerooted, you must have used the latest unrevoked, which had a slight update to use CW 2.6.0.1 rather than 3.0.0.x. There is no harm in using 2.6.0.1, as it will work with everything. If you intend on using GB based ROMs, only, you may as well use CW 3.0.0.x, but it's not a huge deal. I'd say, once GB is officially released for the Evo, no update scripts should still be using amend, so you might as well update to 3.0.0.x at that time, if you want.
 
@ akazabam. Thanks for the info. Got the recovery deal to work per your advice. Used the easier of the two methods you told me. Also thank you for the info on the 3.0 vs. 2.6 issue. I went with the amon ra 2.3 recovery. With the thought that it being a more recent release it would take the code deal into account. Not sure if my thinking is correct or not on that.
 
RA 2.3 is a good choice. It will work with both amend and edify, so it's the same as CW 2.6.0.1 in that regard, which is fine.
 
ok noob here but ya, tried all the steps, copy, rename, reboot hboot, finds zip but never asks to flash. Running clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 and cant seem to get rid of it no matter what. tried alt recovery thru rom manager and rom manager says its running alt recovery but when i roboot it always says clockwork. I cannot install any other roms. HELP
 
that is the most common mistake, i swear i have pointed that out to at least 5 people and they had all named it .zip.zip lol because their file extensions are hidden.

I dont think hboot would have found it though if it wasnt named properly...
 
evomattnc said:
that is the most common mistake, i swear i have pointed that out to at least 5 people and they had all named it .zip.zip lol because their file extensions are hidden.

I dont think hboot would have found it though if it wasnt named properly...
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made sure of that. the first time before my help post I did have the .zip.zip but than corrected it and still it never askes me to flash. and no matter what I get clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 and I cannot flash new roms. I have tried all of the tips and clockworkmod is still there. It wont go away. is there anyway to nuk everything and start for scratch?
 
If you were rooted before, then something you did unrooted you. You will have to rerun unrevoked. Try that first.

The security on your phone that keeps you from making changes to it is turned back up. You need to get s-off through unrevoked before you can change anything
 
Yep, Xtreme is right. Either you never got S-OFF correctly, or you flashed the S-ON tool at some point. Either rerun unrevoked, or download unrevoked-forever, and flash it from recovery. Flashing unrevoked-forever if probably the fastest option. You can get it here. Just put it on the root of your sdcard, reboot into recovery, and flash it. Once you do, you'll have S-OFF, and you can flash whatever you want. Likely, you have a rooted ROM, but lost or never had S-OFF. That would make it look like you were flashing recovery from something like ROM manager, but it would never work.
 
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