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christiansoto said:
i just installed 4ext recovery on my device and it works well
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Hey, I am wondering how this will work on the elite since it is made for a totally different phone. Im not trying to sound like a jerk but can you provide proof, like a picture?
Thanks so much!
 
slutyman said:
what device do i select i get htc devices
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Nexus One is the only thing I see listed other than HTC devices.

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Carefull... If our phone isn't listed it probobly won't work. A bit more information from the poster would be helpful before we start having people bricking phones!

Edit... Don't think this will work. Looks like it's for HTC phones.. Requires root, s-off or unlocked bootloader..

From play store page..
Currently supported devices:
HTC Sensation / XE, Incredible S / 2, Desire Z / G2, Desire S, Desire, Desire HD, Inspire 4G, myTouch 4G, Nexus One, Thunderbolt, Evo 3D GSM / CDMA, Amaze
 
the boot loader is the issue on the elite. its locked or has protections in place to prevent anything unwanted from being installed. unlike lg,htc has provided the ability to open up your boot loader. lg is a big fail on listening to customers. the optimus v would be long dead,in the dust and definitely not still being sold in quantity by vm if there were no ability to root,rom and update the device. it would just be another turd phone instead of a hit. i guess lg didn't feel like making any money on a device that costed them pennies to make...using all that chinese slave labor they probably already made a killing..no need to open it up for development to boost sales when you've already made out like a bandit eh?? hmm..rant over. carry on :)
 
I don't think is the bootloader being locked that is the issue. The Optimus V's bootloader was also locked but look at everything we could do with that.

It's whatever kind of b.s. LG put into place to verify what the recovery hasn't been changed. Whether it's a checksum or whatever I don't know but I do know it's really holding this phone back. The thing has such potential and we can't do crap with it yet until LG's security is broken.
 
Do NOT do this.

I could be wrong, but, while you may get it to install, it doesn't understand your partitions. If you do manage to get the recovery to run, and then try flashing a rom, you will overwrite the wrong spots and brick your phone.

Mostly though, I really highly doubt this worked. From everything we have seen with the checksums and such, the odds of some random recovery just installing at the click of a button are astronomical. Based on his other posts, I am pretty sure he has an Evo V and accidentally cross posted.
 
if you need guys need help on testing cwm im willing to help, i really think the elite has the potencial to run cm9, furthmore i doubt VM will give it in an OTA update, we need devs is there any progression yet?
 
When there is progress or something noteworthy, Drew will notify us in this board. Until then, stay tuned and wait for an update.
 
I think our issue is may not be a checksum. I wrote my own little recovery program which works independently of the boot and recovery partitions so i can patch either/or without fear of bricking. Then for some tests, I left the stock recovery alone and started poking the boot partition with a stick.

I have extracted the boot partition, extracted the ramdisk, repacked the ramdisk, and inserted it back into the boot partition. My MD5 for the partition is now different, but it has the same contents as original. The phone boots up fine. I copied the original boot partition to the phone, but I intentionally screwed up the sha1 hash in the header, and the phone boots up fine. I started changing some unused bytes in the header and after the ramdisk to see if they weer included in any checksum and still the phone boots up like it is supposed to.

When I use my recovery app to clobber the boot partition, I get sent into fastboot mode. So far, from that fastboot mode, nothing I try has gotten me anything good. I tried booting the stock kernel and ramdisk from there and depending on what I do, it either crashes and gives a little message in teh ugly fastboot-blue text that it crashed, or it hangs forever on the fastboot screen, or it boots up to the LG logo and hangs.
 
yeah this is definitely progress. definitely will share any and all info on all the forums i frequent. although i dont own the elite any longer i STILL want to see this happen for everyone who does still own it. good people here on the elite forums. and it would be a pleasure to post to every forum i know of.
 
So I did get something to happen here. But to be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing. I've never used CWM or any other recovery for android. For shits and giggles, I grabbed the one for the POS Venture, unpacked it, unpacked our stock recovery, and mixed and matched the files in the way that made a bit of sense. Then I packed it up and installed it. On the phone, I get a blackscreen and the 4 buttons light up.

The kernel is tossing up the endpoints to expose all those diagnostic features that you can access with the LG/qualcomm tools and when I connect to it, I can get the framebuffer. It is apparently booting some part of the CWM because I recognize what this image is supposed to be. And the kernel is running fine enough to initialize the diag crap. When I try to connect with adb, I get a message that it can't find /system/bin/sh. So it must be messing up somewhere for mounting the partitions. But adb itself is working :D. Below is the screwed up image I get from it. Maybe somebody that has messed with CWM before can tell me if they have any idea what I screwed up.

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