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Root 4EXT Touch Recovery?

aye, you have to remember, when you use custom MTD you need to patch the recovery to those sizes. if you dont then it cannot work with those constraints as it its not a hard flashed partition governed by hboot. its an overide.

i dont know if the recovery patcher part of the cmtd patch is compatible with 4ext
 
Rastaman-FB said:
aye, you have to remember, when you use custom MTD you need to patch the recovery to those sizes. if you dont then it cannot work with those constraints as it its not a hard flashed partition governed by hboot. its an overide.

i dont know if the recovery patcher part of the cmtd patch is compatible with 4ext
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it works ok on my desire. just had issues getting it working wether this was my own issue or the recoverys, best to ask dev, i know hes working on getting it right for cmtd(its a pain in his ass cmtd but i love it)
 
im pretty sure it should be like the other cmtd things where you flash recovery, flash the cmtd recovery zip, flash rom, flash cmtd boot zip

did you flash the cmtd recovery patch zip file after flashing the recovery via fastboot?
 
Rastaman-FB said:
im pretty sure it should be like the other cmtd things where you flash recovery, flash the cmtd recovery zip, flash rom, flash cmtd boot zip

did you flash the cmtd recovery patch zip file after flashing the recovery via fastboot?
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im pretty sure this is what i did in the end did need to erase boot first
 
Emailed the Dev, he responded with instructions that worked fine. If any one wants them ill post them
 
Instructions for installing 4ext with custom MTDs:
So:
1. download the 4EXT Recovery Control or 4EXT
Recovery Updater.
2. Choose the version you want to install, but do
not hit "install", only press the download button.
The app will prepare the recovery config and make
sure everything is setup while you download the
recovery.
It will place the recovery into a zip file on your
sdcard.
Copy this file to your computer for later use to
flash the recovery.
3. Then boot into your previous recovery and
create a nandroid!
4. After that, format all partitions except your
sdcard (needed to be formatted are: /cache, /data
and /system)
5. After that is done, boot into bootloader and
unzip the recovery zip file you previously
downloaded and put on your computer.
6. Use fastboot flash recovery or AndroidFlasher
to flash 4EXT Recovery. (please tell me if you
don't have AndroidFlasher et.c.)
7. boot the recovery.
8. Enter the tools menu and select "format all
partitions except sdcard"
9. Reboot recovery
10. Flash your cmtd zip file with your settings
11. Reboot recovery
12. restore the nandroid
13. Finished :)

These instructions come straight from the dev maddmax.
 
yeah,so what i get is that you do the custom mtd patch in the same way you would cwm recovery.
the only difference is that you need to flash the recovery manually first as the app cannot work within cmtd constraints
 
Rastaman-FB said:
yeah,so what i get is that you do the custom mtd patch in the same way you would cwm recovery.
the only difference is that you need to flash the recovery manually first as the app cannot work within cmtd constraints
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yeah after flashing recovery ive installed app works fine now , these instructions need to be easily found for people on cmtd
 
I'll bring this thread back to life instead of making a new one.

Is it still recommended to partition via GParted? Or does 4EXT get the stamp of approval?
 
Well, I've re-partitioned using GParted. For some reason it was a doddle considering the first time I did it it took me the best part of a day to fix the mess I created. Am I actually becoming competent? :p
 
Just downloaded this and thought I'd give it a try. Used it to flash update to Euroskank rom. Everything seems to have gone OK and the phone is working fine, but I've noticed an issue. In 4Ext it shows my SD Ext partition as FS - Ext4, Capacity 0mb, free 0mb. So I browsed to the Sd Ext partition using root explorer and it shows the partition as empty. So I took the SD card out of the phone, put it into a USB card reader and examined it under gparted. That shows Ext4 partition as 1GB, in use 50mb.

Anyone care to explain what is going on, and which one is correct?
 
Just installed and made a nandroid. Noticed that 4Ext tried to make a copy of EXT (nothing remarkable about that) and EXT2...

Why would you have another EXT-partition on the sd card?

Dual core phones?
 
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