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kwknott said:
Gave it a try on mine. Zeroed the recovery block and tried rebooting into recovery. I was able to get into fastboot and wasn't able to get out to reboot normally until I wrote the stock recovery back with the "fastboot flash recovery" command. Tried pulling battery and even the fastboot reboot command and took me right back into fastboot.

Once I wrote recovery back it rebooted into rom normally

Zeroed recovery block again and rebooted phone without trying to acess recovery and it wrote recovery back upon reboot

Zeroed recovery again and flashed one of the non working cwm builds and verified it bootlooped. Got phone to boot normally and sure enough it rewrote stock recovery.

So what ever LG was nice enough to patch for us the phone checks for changes to stock recovery and if it finds something it restores the stock recovery from boot block.
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Thanks for checking that out. I'll try zeroing it out again later.
 
Hey guys, new here. Been reading up on this quite a bit. I am sad to say I don't really have any way or donating or i'd help. But I came across an app called ZipSigner2 on the market. Idunno for sure if this might help signing an update.zip to work from the stock recovery. (I'm a noob when it comes to how stuff works like coding and scripts.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but would that app maybe work at all for rewriting the recovery using the stock recoveries install update.zip option? If we got a recovery into a .zip package, ran it through ZipSigner2 is there a possibilty of being able to use the stock recovery to do so then? Like I said; Still a noob in training, so not quite sure as if it would work. If anyone wants to give it a try let me know the results? I will check back every day. Don't have money to risk doing so on my phone as I don't wanna risk anything. This phone is my baby lol. :P

EDIT: Another app I found especially for flashing Boot and Recovery is $6.22 called Android .img Flasher.
 
drewwalton1921 said:
OK, folks. I liked the WePay suggestion a lot, so I set up a simple donation page.

https://www.wepay.com/donations/optimus-elite-development
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We are at 58% funded for this. Anyone that can, please chip in $5-10 (that is what a cup or two of Starbucks?) so we can get a recovery on the Elite.

If you don't have a credit card you should be able to go to just about any grocery store and buy a prepaid visa and use that. ( Check with Wepay.com first to make sure they will accept a prepaid credit card)
 
MacFett said:
We are at 58% funded for this. Anyone that can, please chip in $5-10 (that is what a cup or two of Starbucks?) so we can get a recovery on the Elite.

If you don't have a credit card you should be able to go to just about any grocery store and buy a prepaid visa and use that. ( Check with Wepay.com first to make sure they will accept a prepaid credit card)
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"9. Accepted Forms Of Payment

WePay accepts most domestic credit, debit, prepaid or gift cards with a Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover logo."
https://www.wepay.com/about/terms
 
HaTrEd360 said:
Hey guys, new here. Been reading up on this quite a bit. I am sad to say I don't really have any way or donating or i'd help. But I came across an app called ZipSigner2 on the market. Idunno for sure if this might help signing an update.zip to work from the stock recovery. (I'm a noob when it comes to how stuff works like coding and scripts.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but would that app maybe work at all for rewriting the recovery using the stock recoveries install update.zip option? If we got a recovery into a .zip package, ran it through ZipSigner2 is there a possibilty of being able to use the stock recovery to do so then?
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This may very well be the case. I needed ZipSigner2 for Titanium Backup to write a signed update.zip to my sdcard where recovery will see it and be able to use it. While I haven't used it, the write and sign was successful, and I can see it in recovery. So this may very well be the case.

More on topic: I will chip in when able, I would love to be able to have a recovery for the Elite going (so we can get/use Leslie ROMs without potentially bricking our phones).

EDIT: Just sent $10 in for the donation.
 
HaTrEd360 said:
Hey guys, new here. Been reading up on this quite a bit. I am sad to say I don't really have any way or donating or i'd help. But I came across an app called ZipSigner2 on the market. Idunno for sure if this might help signing an update.zip to work from the stock recovery. (I'm a noob when it comes to how stuff works like coding and scripts.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but would that app maybe work at all for rewriting the recovery using the stock recoveries install update.zip option? If we got a recovery into a .zip package, ran it through ZipSigner2 is there a possibilty of being able to use the stock recovery to do so then? Like I said; Still a noob in training, so not quite sure as if it would work. If anyone wants to give it a try let me know the results? I will check back every day. Don't have money to risk doing so on my phone as I don't wanna risk anything. This phone is my baby lol. :P

EDIT: Another app I found especially for flashing Boot and Recovery is $6.22 called Android .img Flasher.
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Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, the issue does not appear to be flashing/installing/writing a custom recovery to partition 14, that process seems to have worked using a couple methods - su terminal commands or fastboot.

The problem appears to be that the phone simply will not boot any recovery other than the stock one. We are not sure why that is, but it may be caused by a checksum feature that is built-in to the system.

I suppose it's possible that the ZipSigner 2 app might might allow us to flash an update.zip with a custom recovery in it, but I don't believe it would help the booting issue we are experiencing.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, one would need the original signing key used by VM/LG, not a generic key provided by an app such as this one.
 
The ZipSigner2 app said it uses the Certificates in the System itself to sign the .zip's so it could work. Idunno, I figured maybe if they were signed like that and worked through our stock recovery that it might actually work. Maybe they added something to check whether it was signed or not? And if it isn't signed then it boots back up the original ones. Also; Would it be possible to find a such file or whatever it is causing the phone to keep rewriting back our stock one? Maybe if we found out how it does this, someone could patch it, or change it's permissions so it wont be able too? Sounds like we need to do some more tests on this system and do some comparisons here to other phones that are like this one. And did you see my edit? I had also found the app Android .img flasher and that one allows you to flash boot images. So we could possibly do something with that maybe..?

And idk if we found it yet or what this is but just an idea lol. I found a script in my System/etc/ called install-recovery.sh and I hit View on it. It apply's a patch and mentioned block 14 and block 9. Idunno if this points anything out important or not but just an idea. Still a noob on understanding stuff lol.
 
just curious,where is the donated optimus elite being purchased from? on vm the total is only 158.99. other sites have it cheaper. so where does the $165 come in?
 
I was also wondering about the $165.00 price.
Best Buys normal price is $149.99. I looked at today and it's $20.00 off right now. Selling for $129.99
 
Not that I am 'expecting' a recovery from anyone, but I would like to just chime in and say that if the original agreement was we get money for an Elite in exchange for getting a working recovery, then I think it is safe to say that for $130 we should be golden. Anything after that amount should not be expected but is up to the users to decide if they want to continue to donate in appreciation of the development.
 
Maybe drew plans on getting the insurance from best buy or VM since its always possible to brick doing this and it would protect all who donated. I'm just guessing but I've followed drew from the optimus s and I personally feel we are in good hands. Just my opinion.
 
Tejer said:
Not that I am 'expecting' a recovery from anyone, but I would like to just chime in and say that if the original agreement was we get money for an Elite in exchange for getting a working recovery, then I think it is safe to say that for $130 we should be golden. Anything after that amount should not be expected but is up to the users to decide if they want to continue to donate in appreciation of the development.
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He was probably anticipating paying $149.99 for the phone and then tax. Maybe he threw in a few extra bucks for gas to go pick it up somewhere.

I'm sure if we let him know it on sale somewhere he'll pick it up before reaching $165
 
I presented an estimated price range which should have covered all purchasing situations, depending on what would be most convenient for the developer, current prices and tax rates (I don't know where the developer lives).

In my opinion, it would be best for the dev. to purchase an OE from a place like Best Buy with their cheap insurance option. In case anything bad happens before/during the development process, getting a replacement would likely be quick and easy. If he lives near enough to one of their locations, that sounds ideal to me.
 
giantpune said:
Then let him spend the extra money on a screen protector and case. Or dinner and a movie.
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ill save my cash for my own dinner and a movie. which i don't see to often. that is the movie...i do eat. thank god!! lol no offense and drew hasnt even chimed in so the whole dinner and a movie thing is pure speculation and jumping the gun there a bit lol. just noticed there are cheaper alternatives available to lower the donation goal a bit.
 
ehh, what's $15 if drew gets us a working recovery right? I mean, jcase said that it would have taken him several weeks to do it, so its not like it's easy or anything. And if he didn't volunteer to do it, then a lot more money would be spent on replacing bricked phones.
 
Has anyone thought about porting the CWM Touch Recovery? I also found another app with several 5 star reviews for flashing CWM Recovery called Recovery Manager. Worth a shot right? There are a few more ideas for ppl to try out. :) I made an account just to share them so I hope someone trys them out. We know how to get out of boot loops so it doesn't seem like there is much risk anymore.
 
kwknott said:
He was probably anticipating paying $149.99 for the phone and then tax. Maybe he threw in a few extra bucks for gas to go pick it up somewhere.

I'm sure if we let him know it on sale somewhere he'll pick it up before reaching $165
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And again I didn't mean to try and make his request seem unfair. He probably has everything fairly broken down like you said. I was more directing my comment towards the suggestion that he added extra for dinner and such.which I am certain he didn't do regardless.
 
So; I once again do not know if this has anything to do with us not being able to boot our recoveries. But has anybody viewed the init.rc file from data/local/tmp? Does that have anything to do with what a phone does and installs upon boot? Cuz I onow that's where we push files using adb usually. And in that file it mentions a few things about install_recovery, and recovery_from_boot and somethimg about permissions and whatnot. I feel like an idiot as I do not know anything about this stuff so I'm just kinda looking at system logs for anything about rewriting and checking recoveries and am putting what I have seen.
Saw something that mentioned a service that runs or something?
"Service flash_recovery /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
oneshot" idk does that have to do with constantly rewriting our recovery?

I also found possibly a zip file from the ZV5 OTA update with some kind of .pem file that is apparently a certificates file required for the update to apply and work.
 
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