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The backup and restore menu looks like it works right. I made a backup, restored it, and my phone still works. Formatting /system works. I formatted it, then restored my backup and the phone works when I restart it.

Installing zips from the sd card works at least well enough to install the titaniumbackup zip. Has anybody tried any other ones?

Mounting the micro-sd card to your computer works. All the (un)mounting seems to work right. kwknott said he did the "wipe data" and "wipe cache" and everything went smoothly.

EDIT:
If nobody finds issues with this one in the next few hours, I'll whip up a little installer for it.
 
giantpune said:
The backup and restore menu looks like it works right. I made a backup, restored it, and my phone still works. Formatting /system works. I formatted it, then restored my backup and the phone works when I restart it.

Installing zips from the sd card works at least well enough to install the titaniumbackup zip. Has anybody tried any other ones?

Mounting the micro-sd card to your computer works. All the (un)mounting seems to work right. kwknott said he did the "wipe data" and "wipe cache" and everything went smoothly.

EDIT:
If nobody finds issues with this one in the next few hours, I'll whip up a little installer for it.
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I only have one thing to say, man: you're bloody brilliant.
 
I been messing with the new build and no issues I have found..

Edit.. just did a backup, formatted everything and restored and phone still works..
 
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theres only one gp just like theres only one elvis. their kings,just mini kings lmao
 
ktb83 said:
Proceed at your own risk. Be careful. I don't believe CWM has been tested on an Elite running ZV4, but it seems to run well on ZV5.

Install with terminal emulator on your phone:

1. Download the CWM bin file and copy it to the root of your /sdcard (you can leave it in the Download directory if you want, but the following dd command will be slightly different if you do).

2. Run the terminal emulator app.

3. Type su and tap the [Enter] key (Allow root access if you are prompted by Superuser/SuperSU)

4. Type cat /dev/zero > /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 and tap the [Enter] key

5. Type dd if=/sdcard/part_13_cwm_9_21_11_54.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 and tap the [Enter] key

Once it's finished writing CWM to the recovery partition you'll see some output regarding the speed and size of the operation. Close the terminal emulator app.

6. Run a root file explorer (such as Root Explorer) on your phone. Navigate to /system/etc/ and Mount R/W (read/write). Then rename the file named install-recovery.sh to install-recovery.sh.bak. If you don't see this file at this location on your phone, then you're finished.

Finished.
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JUST REPOSTING THIS. I know a new thread needs to be created, but ill let someone more experienced than I do it, so that nothing is left out.

CURRENT CWM BUILD:
www.sendspace.com/file/fqrorq
 
this is sort of off topic but maybe not to far. the original stock ROM may be the reason a number of users were experiencing 3G issues,etc. now that recovery has been achieved,I bet a custom ROM like Harmonia would resolve those issues. I know it was bad on the elites I owned. a ROM might be what the elite needsto get those users working right.
 
FAQ has been largely updated already just by running through the last fifteen pages.

@DsyMnapTic, the install instructions for CWM are also included now, and credits have been added where due. There are some questions still left unanswered, however, which I'm sure will be remedied soon.

I don't know about anyone else, but I can hardly wait to get Harmonia on my OE.

@kwknott, he is indeed.
 
The only quirk I see is backups are dated 1980 but I think it is the phone. It looses track of date if it doesn't have connection to network
 
kwknott said:
The only quirk I see is backups are dated 1980 but I think it is the phone. It looses track of date if it doesn't have connection to network
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I've always wondered why those and system components seem to be dated back to the 80's.
 
quick question. would it harm sprint users if this version were pushed to their optimus elite? same phone, different network. just curious because I didnt want to give bad info to anyone if asked.
 
Also, how would I go about checking my md5? Isnt it required to be a certain value for this to work? And is it safe if i have my lcd density changed? I can change it back to stock if i need to.
 
Heres the very first incarnation of the installer. Download lgoe_cwn from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
md5sum 6ed309ed17d621396df857c984f7338a


Its a commandline program, so run it (with root privileges) from adb or the terminal emulator. It has a full stock recovery built into it, as well as the latest and hopefully greatest CWM build. Its a pretty basic program. It will check a build prop and make sure its running on a optimus elite. Then it will make a backup of whatever recovery you have installed and tell you where it is putting it. After that, it will check for that install.crap.sh script and rename it to .bak.##. Next, it will try to write either the CWM or the stock partition it has built into it, and read it back to verify it. If it can't successfully write the new recovery and read it back, it will try to restore your original one, and read it back to verify. If that fails, then youll still have your original that it created in /data/local/tmp and you can restore it with dd before you reboot.

It should be fairly safe, but as usual, if you can't handle your phone getting destroyed, you can wait until enough people have tried it out and reported that it worked (or didn't). You aren't paying any money for this, and I'm not offering and warranty.



Code: 
j@media-pc:~/android/cwm_install_cli$ md5sum ./lgoe_cwn
6ed309ed17d621396df857c984f7338a  ./lgoe_cwn
j@media-pc:~/android/cwm_install_cli$ adb push ./lgoe_cwn /data/local/tmp
7043 KB/s (16863708 bytes in 2.338s)
j@media-pc:~/android/cwm_install_cli$ adb shell
$ cd /data/local/tmp
$ md5sum ./lgoe_cwn
6ed309ed17d621396df857c984f7338a  ./lgoe_cwn
$ su
# chmod 0777 /data/local/tmp/lgoe_cwn
# /data/local/tmp/lgoe_cwn
2012 giantpune
usage: lgoe_cwn <command>
commands:

  cwm      install cwm to /dev/block/mmcblk0p14

  stock    install stock vz5 recovery to /dev/block/mmcblk0p14

# /data/local/tmp/lgoe_cwn cwm
2012 giantpune
backing up original recovery to: "/data/local/tmp/stockBackup-Ot3243"
verifying md5 for backup of original...
renaming /system/etc/install-recovery.sh...
No such file or directory
writing new recovery...
reading back new recovery...
verifying new recovery matches expected...Done!
# md5sum /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
533f0c0df3c2bebba61ea2eae5d7a759  /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
# /data/local/tmp/lgoe_cwn stock
2012 giantpune
backing up original recovery to: "/data/local/tmp/stockBackup-FU3275"
verifying md5 for backup of original...
renaming /system/etc/install-recovery.sh...
No such file or directory
writing new recovery...
reading back new recovery...
verifying new recovery matches expected...Done!
# md5sum /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
19ae5d3e9ee0f1c3e9d4603be359d65e  /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
The CWM image has the same ramdisk as the last one. It contains the kernel I'm using for myself. Its pretty much stock. There is a virtual file that shows your MSL at /sys/devices/virtual/lg_fw_diagclass/lg_fw_diagcmd/msl in case you haven't gotten yours yet. And most of the printk spam is silenced. Heres just the partition image, in case anybody wants to install it theirself or write a fancy gui installer. http://www.sendspace.com/file/qw8pt4
 
Something that would be very helpful to people like me that are rookies when it comes to this stuff is a video walking us through the steps. Could someone make a video with the installer? I want to make sure I do this right and not screw over my device.

By the way... Keep at it gp...
 
landonh12 said:
Something that would be very helpful to people like me that are rookies when it comes to this stuff is a video walking us through the steps. Could someone make a video with the installer? I want to make sure I do this right and not screw over my device.

By the way... Keep at it gp...
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in my personal opinion, this is one of the easiest things to accomplish in terminal emulator, so long as you type the right commands it will work and if you don't type the right ones then it won't recognize them
 
landonh12 said:
Something that would be very helpful to people like me that are rookies when it comes to this stuff is a video walking us through the steps. Could someone make a video with the installer? I want to make sure I do this right and not screw over my device.

By the way... Keep at it gp...
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yea man i did it the terminal way, it works for me just make sure youre updated zv5, zv4 isnt confirmed yet, do your nandroid back up too just incase something goes wrong in the future
 
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