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Root ClockworkMod Recovery [For Motorola Triumph]
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isaacj87
Android Expert
Links?
And kernel sources for the X6 and variants won't work. They are MSM8255, which only contain GSM radios. The Triumph is the MSM8655 which is differnet: Snapdragon (system on chip) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also, I've already looked for the CWM source code for the X6/A99/Mi-410 devices. If you know where these sources are, share them with me so I can make the appropriate changes for the Triumph. I believe the Triumph has a different key layout (capacitive buttons) than the other Foxconn variants. That will need to be adjusted in a custom recovery_ui.c.
danthemanohyea
Newbie
Considering the HTC Thuderbolt, Droid Incredible 2, LG Revolution, and Sharp IS05 share the same chipset, is there any chance that looking at recovery files from those phones would help? Just a thought.
The capacitive buttons are as follows, left to right: menu, home, back, search
Hey isaac87,
I know you said you looked through tjstyles git stuff - I'm confused, is this source here generic, or is it for a specific device (there never seems to be much in the way of descriptions, or I'm just missing them)?
https://github.com/tjstyle/android_bootable_recovery
I know you said you looked through tjstyles git stuff - I'm confused, is this source here generic, or is it for a specific device (there never seems to be much in the way of descriptions, or I'm just missing them)?
https://github.com/tjstyle/android_bootable_recovery
isaacj87
Android Expert
Yeah, I've looked through his stuff. He's the one that says he ported CWM to the Foxconn variants. What you guys would need is something like, "android_device_huawei_u9000" or "android_device_spice_mi410." Basically, you would need the device configs. The link above is his personal changes to the actual recovery code. Judging by the commits, he wrote a new function to stop the recovery from bootlooping on certain Samsung devices: https://github.com/tjstyle/android_bootable_recovery/commit/c54c2d1d7c24b8c38ad5e21457c923ffdadd0b06
However, it is true, I based most of what I have so far on the Thunderbolt (Mecha). I'd like to see the configs for the LG Revolution, but would prefer something closest to the Triumph itself. Interestingly enough, it would seem that the MSM8655 is 4G capable (Thunderbolt and Revolution), so I wonder if the Triumph is actually a 4G capable device? But that's for another discussion.
apsterling
Member
As a recovery thing seeing as i've boot looped myself, could I get someone to make an image of the system directory? My understanding is that this'll do it:
As isaacj87 said, DD is powerful.
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p7.imgAs isaacj87 said, DD is powerful.
merkuralex
Newbie
Me and apsterling discovered something wonderful! We can get write access to what appears to be all the partitions on the device over USB I just fixed my bootloop through the method I outlined here: Motorola Triumph is an open book. | Coderah
isaacj87
Android Expert
Interesting, seems kinda like a security issue, but hey it's just a phone, right?
Oh, BTW. If you open up GUIs with sudo, it's better to use graphical sudo:
Code:
gksudo nautilusor with KDE (on Kubuntu, at least):
Code:
kdesudo dolphinLooks like there's some very interesting things about this phone.
merkuralex
Newbie
Interesting, seems kinda like a security issue, but hey it's just a phone, right?
Oh, BTW. If you open up GUIs with sudo, it's better to use graphical sudo:
Code:gksudo nautilus
or with KDE (on Kubuntu, at least):
Code:kdesudo dolphin
Looks like there's some very interesting things about this phone.
Oh interesting thanks for that! you should hop on that IRC channel with me and apsterling. yeah it seems like its incredibly open..
LOL...well, it is now
[I've moved it for you guys.]Hey, by the way, forgive me for intruding here, but I actually stumbled across this forum by seeing merkuralex's new thread "General Great Info!" and this led me to this thread too. Make's me want to boot my DX into bootloader mode and check out how Ubuntu "sees" all of the partitions...
[could it be that no one has ever thought to do this for over a year?]I must say I've found this to be a very interesting thread and have learned a lot myself. I've "dabbled" in custom recovery stuff before (I tweaked and recompiled Amon_RA's custom recovery for the Eris, so a lot of this is familiar to me--but a ton is not since I didn't have build it from scratch like you guys are doing for the Triumph).
Anyway, I have one little thing I thought I try to contribute here since I see that isaacj87 has built you guys a custom recovery to try to boot. I believe that you don't have to actually flash it and touch anything on your phone's internal partitions, but you can use FASTBOOT to boot the test custom recovery directly, like this:
c:\android-sdk-windows> fastboot boot triumph_recovery.img
which will load-up and boot the custom recovery into and from memory and not from a disk partition (which is a little safer and less destructive, eh?
.Anyway, I'll be following this thread with great interest and I wish everyone the best of luck!
Cheers!
isaacj87
Android Expert
Great news! The Motorola Triumph now has Clockworkmod Recovery!
Of course, the obligatory picture:
It still needs a lot of work, but at least the first step has been taken care of. As always, my device configs for the Triumph can be found here: https://github.com/ikarosdev/android_device_motorola_triumph There are some changes that need to be made, but I'll try and commit those changes tomorrow. The device folder can also be expanded and used to build CM7. It definitely possible, but it'll take awhile to get to that point.
I have some good people to thank (seeing how I don't actually own the phone) for getting CWM on the phone:
- apsterling (photo credits as well)
- merkuralex
- foobarX
- danthemanohyea
- isaac13
- fireball9199
- and of course, 903tex for wrangling me in here.
If I missed anybody, I'm sorry. I'll try and work on CWM (and possibly some ROMs if I get the phone). I'm big on transparency, so if there's another dev wanting to work on it and has a question, please ask. I'm willing to share anything I can.
Of course, the obligatory picture:
It still needs a lot of work, but at least the first step has been taken care of. As always, my device configs for the Triumph can be found here: https://github.com/ikarosdev/android_device_motorola_triumph There are some changes that need to be made, but I'll try and commit those changes tomorrow. The device folder can also be expanded and used to build CM7. It definitely possible, but it'll take awhile to get to that point.
I have some good people to thank (seeing how I don't actually own the phone) for getting CWM on the phone:
- apsterling (photo credits as well)
- merkuralex
- foobarX
- danthemanohyea
- isaac13
- fireball9199
- and of course, 903tex for wrangling me in here.
If I missed anybody, I'm sorry. I'll try and work on CWM (and possibly some ROMs if I get the phone). I'm big on transparency, so if there's another dev wanting to work on it and has a question, please ask. I'm willing to share anything I can.
merkuralex
Newbie
LOL...well, it is now
Hey, by the way, forgive me for intruding here, but I actually stumbled across this forum by seeing merkuralex's new thread "General Great Info!" and this led me to this thread too. Make's me want to boot my DX into bootloader mode and check out how Ubuntu "sees" all of the partitions...
I must say I've found this to be a very interesting thread and have learned a lot myself. I've "dabbled" in custom recovery stuff before (I tweaked and recompiled Amon_RA's custom recovery for the Eris, so a lot of this is familiar to me--but a ton is not since I didn't have build it from scratch like you guys are doing for the Triumph).
Anyway, I have one little thing I thought I try to contribute here since I see that isaacj87 has built you guys a custom recovery to try to boot. I believe that you don't have to actually flash it and touch anything on your phone's internal partitions, but you can use FASTBOOT to boot the test custom recovery directly, like this:
c:\android-sdk-windows> fastboot boot triumph_recovery.img
which will load-up and boot the custom recovery into and from memory and not from a disk partition (which is a little safer and less destructive, eh?
Anyway, I'll be following this thread with great interest and I wish everyone the best of luck!
Cheers!
Well as this is a huawei X6 variant its much different then other motorola devices.
and we actually don't have fastboot access at all which is odd.
Liquidplacidit
Lurker
Awesome job guys. Haha
bobloadmire
Android Enthusiast
Great news! The Motorola Triumph now has Clockworkmod Recovery!
Of course, the obligatory picture:
It still needs a lot of work, but at least the first step has been taken care of. As always, my device configs for the Triumph can be found here: https://github.com/ikarosdev/android_device_motorola_triumph There are some changes that need to be made, but I'll try and commit those changes tomorrow. The device folder can also be expanded and used to build CM7. It definitely possible, but it'll take awhile to get to that point.
I have some good people to thank (seeing how I don't actually own the phone) for getting CWM on the phone:
- apsterling (photo credits as well)
- merkuralex
- foobarX
- danthemanohyea
- isaac13
- fireball9199
- and of course, 903tex for wrangling me in here.
If I missed anybody, I'm sorry. I'll try and work on CWM (and possibly some ROMs if I get the phone). I'm big on transparency, so if there's another dev wanting to work on it and has a question, please ask. I'm willing to share anything I can.
You win the entire internet. congrats everyone.
Aha, sorry, I saw/read the prior references to fastboot on the second page of this thread and wanted to make sure you guys knew there was an alternative to flashing when/if you can ever get into fastboot mode.
By the way, many of the more "scary" (if you will
) fastboot commands (like fastboot flash) are not available unless you have an unsecured bootloader (for HTC phones, that's the S-OFF mode...I obviously don't know what it is for your guy's phones).Anyway, don't mean to intrude or detract from the important post that isaacj87 just made, so congrats and good luck guys!
Cheers!
apsterling
Member
Aha, sorry, I saw/read the prior references to fastboot on the second page of this thread and wanted to make sure you guys knew there was an alternative to flashing when/if you can ever get into fastboot mode.
By the way, many of the more "scary" (if you will
Anyway, don't mean to intrude or detract from the important post that isaacj87 just made, so congrats and good luck guys!
Cheers!
Actually, we can entirely bypass flashing as a whole seeing as when you put the phone into bootloader it provides access to every little partition. I was able to fix a boot loop caused by a framework-res.apk problem through this method. Pretty exciting news all in all.
Yeah, I saw merkuralex's thread re. that (which is what pointed me here in the first place, LOL). Pretty cool (and I'm probably going to grab my Ubutu laptop in the morning and try this on my DX
...surely someone has already tried that?).Would be handy if this were possible on all phones, but I'm guessing that's not going to happen (unless Moto really changes their bootloader locking policy).
Cheers!
merkuralex
Newbie
Yeah, I saw merkuralex's thread re. that (which is what pointed me here in the first place, LOL). Pretty cool (and I'm probably going to grab my Ubutu laptop in the morning and try this on my DX
Would be handy if this were possible on all phones, but I'm guessing that's not going to happen (unless Moto really changes their bootloader locking policy).
Cheers!
Pretty sure they haven't cause from what I hear the Photon they released at around the same time as the Triumph had a locked bootloader.
No it doesnt. I believe those phone listed above have a different radio for the 4g mode. I read that somewhere though am not able to find the link right now.
AND ALSO great work on the CWM recovery. Awesome! keep it up!
AND some sources/roms
From XDA forums thread,
Person installed X6 roms on his ascend of cincinnati bell http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=214
"kernel source from Mi410
Mi410_v3.18D_kernel_source_2.6.32.9.7z
i think we will have good news soon "
AND from my post on howardforums Porting Gingerbread to Motorola Triumph
Porting Gingerbread to Motorola Triumph
Guys as you all know Triumph is based off the Huawei X6 line of devices. And it seems that many phones in that series have gotten Ginger bread roms (2.3.4). For eg
Cherry Mobile Magnum HD got Gingerbread officially. The ROM for the Cherry Mobile version is at http://www.cherrymobile.com.ph/downloads/MAGNUM_softwareupdate2.zip&ver=3.2.1&plugin=WPv1.2.1 . The instructions to install it on Spice Mi 410 (another X6 variant) is at Install Gingerbread on Spice Mi 410 now [Official build from Huawei X6 variant] | AndroidOS.in
And here is a video of Spice Mi 410 running Gingerbread ‪Spice Mi 410 Full Review - 1 GHZ Android Phone VFM‬‏ - YouTube
Here is another page where instructions are given for getting Gingerbread on Cherry Mobile Magnum HD A400, Spice CSL Mi 410
isaacj87
Android Expert
fireball9199
Newbie
irc.freenode.net #motorolatriumph-dev
By HSPA+ do you mean this phone supports GSM based networks ( though it wont be useful without SIM card slot) right?
Also combining That Spice's kernel sources with Thunderbolt's might give a good starting point till Motorola releases the sources for Triumph.
Also one more question in the Thunderbolt's spec it is listed that it can play xVid videos. so could that be used to make it work on Triumph. ( I know we can do it on Triumph using Moboplayer/Rockplayer - but that is all software decoding) And if we can get it with hardware decoding it will be smoother playback and lesser battery drain.
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