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Root [CWM] Development Thread

Killah1994

Killah1994

Android Expert
This recovery doesn't work, links removed: seems that whenever building from the site it builds the updated version of cwm which is 6xx... but we need 5xx so for now I'm leaving this to the real devs;)
 
uhhh dont you know what partition that is?

part of porting cwm is setting up the fstab, which tells recovery what partitions are what, an incorrect one could have you formatting your bootloader thinking it was data or cache...

you can get it in teh stock recovery when you unpack the img
 
Shabbypenguin said:
uhhh dont you know what partition that is?

part of porting cwm is setting up the fstab, which tells recovery what partitions are what, an incorrect one could have you formatting your bootloader thinking it was data or cache...

you can get it in teh stock recovery when you unpack the img
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That's what I did, I unpacked the stock recovery and took the recovery.fstab then added it to the builder thing
 
Shabbypenguin said:
ah ok, recovery should be listed in there, i dont think many here will know what partition it resides on :)
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Would this help

Code: 
# mount point	fstype		device			[device2]

/boot		mtd		boot
/cache		yaffs2		cache
/data		yaffs2		userdata
/misc		mtd		misc
/recovery	mtd		recovery
/sdcard		vfat		/dev/block/mmcblk0p1	/dev/block/mmcblk0
/system		yaffs2		system
 
i seriously hope that isnt the true fstab, if someone with the device can do adb shell mount that will tell you where data and system reside and see. i wouldnt put it past them to use such an old (*&^ty setup, but is there a fstab emmc in the etc folder in teh recovery.img as well?
 
Shabbypenguin said:
i seriously hope that isnt the true fstab, if someone with the device can do adb shell mount that will tell you where data and system reside and see. i wouldnt put it past them to use such an old (*&^ty setup, but is there a fstab emmc in the etc folder in teh recovery.img as well?
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That is the fstab for the stock recovery.img and there's no fstab emmc in there
 
jeez, to put in perspective the nexus s was teh last big name phone to use MTD :/

(you know when Gingerbread came out :O)
 
Killah1994 said:
Dam, so in your words what does this mean;)
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this phone is even crappier than originally thought :P

but this means that flashing recovery should be a lot easier, since its mtd you can just use flash_image to flash it, no partition needed it will figure it on its own :)

i did cwm for teh venture and they had to do the similar steps someone found a much easier way to flash for the end users, might wanna look into it

virgin mobile venture btw on these forums
 
Shabbypenguin said:
this phone is even crappier than originally thought :P

but this means that flashing recovery should be a lot easier, since its mtd you can just use flash_image to flash it, no partition needed it will figure it on its own :)

i did cwm for teh venture and they had to do the similar steps someone found a much easier way to flash for the end users, might wanna look into it

virgin mobile venture btw on these forums
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Alright bud thanks for the info and help. Imma look into this some more;)
 
Ok i did some research and found a way how to properly do this, still don't know if it will work. So do at your own risk. Thanks Shabby for the info
 
tryed it and it just goes to black screen saying recovery mode and sits there. I put stock recovery back on just letting you know it didn't work. Im working on it as well so if i get CWM on it ill let you know.
 
gpjavan said:
tryed it and it just goes to black screen saying recovery mode and sits there. I put stock recovery back on just letting you know it didn't work. Im working on it as well so if i get CWM on it ill let you know.
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OK thanks for trying ;), also I added a quote from which you made to the op
 
So I was wrong and I have to update the Koush's CWM 5.x.x.x script to work with the new compilers. It's terrific... I hate that the phone has no ICS update!
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Killah1994 said:
Would this help (it contains some dev things which i dont fully understand)
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killcmd said:
So I was wrong and I have to update the Koush's CWM 5.x.x.x script to work with the new compilers. It's terrific... I hate that the phone has no ICS update!
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What needs to happen next? I don't know what to do with the zip package, but I can do compiling if it's spelled out for me. I'd be glad to help if I can...I just don't have much experience in this area.
 
You do NOT have to use cwm5, cwm 6 will work just fine. WTF does these misconceptions come from?

I am looking into it by request of a friend, but no promises as I do not have the device.
 
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