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Root [MetroPCS & T-Mobile] [RECOVERY] LTE2 Recovery App now with Touch

Awesome. Thank you.

Can anyone confirm if it in fact does work. I'm not ballsy enough to try it myself yet because I can't take the risk of bricking my phone.
 
PG, says that he "thinks" it worked on the VM version, dunno for sure. But I have successfully made a backup and a restore with this recovery on my Metro F3.
 
First, you need to be rooted, you can use motochopper listed here in the forums. After installing the apk, open it and choose apply recovery and wait for app to be granted SU permissions and confirm, next press reboot. You MUST use this app each time you want to boot into recovery, for now anyways. There is a key combo to reboot into recovery, but it will do a full reset, so it's not recommended to boot to recovery this way.

There's only a couple guys working on this, so it may take a while to get the ball rolling on more features for this phone
 
kenboyles72 said:
First, you need to be rooted, you can use motochopper listed here in the forums. After installing the apk, open it and choose apply recovery and wait for app to be granted SU permissions and confirm, next press reboot. You MUST use this app each time you want to boot into recovery, for now anyways. There is a key combo to reboot into recovery, but it will do a full reset, so it's not recommended to boot to recovery this way.

There's only a couple guys working on this, so it may take a while to get the ball rolling on more features for this phone
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few guys? We have 6 posts in this subforum and we have root and recovery already! God bless this few guys!
 
djrbliss has added the Optimus F3 to his git, so a loki'd kernel could pop up pretty soon. I'll get with a few dev's and see if I, or someone else, can get one compiled.
 
kenboyles72 said:
djrbliss has added the Optimus F3 to his git, so a loki'd kernel could pop up pretty soon. I'll get with a few dev's and see if I, or someone else, can get one compiled.
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Great.. i just upgraded phone .. came from motion wish still hav this f3 im playing with it to see where i can get it go up to.. and decide later if im gonna keep it.
 
yeah, i broke the screen on my motion, so i got his phone. pretty good little phone, besides the lack of int storage.
 
kenboyles72 said:
I have installed PG's touch recovery for the Spirit on this phone and it works. I have gone through and tested most stuff and have made a backup, haven't done a restore yet.

Download:

LTE2 Recovery App
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Do I need to DL the recovery app to my computer and transfer to my phone? When I attempt to dl the file using my phone, chrome force quits.
 
Installed to my VM F3. Attempted a backup, it failed at the system backup. Attempted a reboot and now Im stuck in a loop.
 
This was working for me at first and now when I try to reboot into recovery my device just reboots back into a normal boot without going to CWM
 
I've been trying to just make a stock rom out of a backup but it doesn't seem that I'm getting a good backup...when I try to tar the system it gives me an hof error....and unable to restore properly makes me think that the backup is not working correctly
 
Yeah, creating a rom from the backup is not a very good idea, as it will result in a corrupt system. I, as well as a few other devs, have been trying to get a custom rom cooked up for the F3 and haven't got a stable rom yet. I have even tried a straight up, non-bloated pure stock rom and it failed.

The best option of getting good images, is to pull them via adb. Do the following commands to pull the files.

1. Open a console window and type "adb shell"
2. Now type su and prompt will change from "$" to"#" and should say "root@android:/ #"
3. Now type in each of these commands separately and wait for each command to finish.

PHP: 
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot of=/storage/external_SD/aboot.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=/storage/external_SD/boot.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery of=/storage/external_SD/recovery.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system of=/storage/external_SD/system.img

These files will be copied to the root of your external sdcard. make sure you have plenty of space left on sdcard, as the system.img will be 1.2GB
 
kenboyles72 said:
The best option of getting good images, is to pull them via adb. Do the following commands to pull the files.

1. Open a console window and type "adb shell"
2. Now type su and prompt will change from "$" to"#" and should say "root@android:/ #"
3. Now type in each of these commands separately and wait for each command to finish.

PHP: 
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot of=/storage/external_SD/aboot.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=/storage/external_SD/boot.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery of=/storage/external_SD/recovery.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system of=/storage/external_SD/system.img
These files will be copied to the root of your external sdcard. make sure you have plenty of space left on sdcard, as the system.img will be 1.2GB
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That is super awesome.... to state the least.

I've wanted to do a CMD backup forever.

Q.... what do I put in place of the "" by-name "" entry?

I'm on LG F6 if that is the replacment??

Well thank you for the code. REALLY!
 
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