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Root recovery?

4Ext, though I wish 4Ext had multiple selection like twrp. So you wouldnt have to look for ROM, flash, look for gapps, flash, instead you could select all your desired zips at the same moment.
 
xploPR said:
4 ext
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I've noticed that there is a touchscreen, and non-touchscreen version of 4EXT on the market. What about a version that supports both? I know it's a long shot, but I can forsee a situation where someone's digitizer either stops working, or part of it stops working. It would sure be nice if the volume rocker would allow for up/down movement, and the pwr button could select. If it already does this, then I apologize. I recall testing this many weeks ago, and it didn't work...so hopefully, my memory isn't off :p
 
Austrie said:
4Ext, though I wish 4Ext had multiple selection like twrp. So you wouldnt have to look for ROM, flash, look for gapps, flash, instead you could select all your desired zips at the same moment.
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A lot of DEVS reccomend flashing thing seperatley. I could go either way. But I tend to flash things seperatley
 
Sadly, 4Ext only support either or, not both.

Edit: @nsciucco
1. Why did you put 'devs' in all caps for? For some reason it just stood out to me.
2. I haven't seen any notice in the evo v section or the evo 3d section about this "tip", but the only reason I would see not to use this useful feature is to help elimate POSSIBLE bugs. If a user encounter a unusual issue, it MIGHT be because of recovery not installing the zip properly or in the right order. So to prevent against this scenario, a bug that can't be "fixed" and other users don't have, a developer might advise against this feature. Though I trust the makers of twrp enough, to believe that they tested this feature enough to prevent this scenario from happening.
 
Austrie said:
4Ext, though I wish 4Ext had multiple selection like twrp. So you wouldnt have to look for ROM, flash, look for gapps, flash, instead you could select all your desired zips at the same moment.
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Just wanted to make sure that you are aware that multiple zip files and other actions like clearing cache+dalvik can be "stacked" if you set up those actions in the app instead of doing everything in recovery.

Palmetto Fellow said:
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I've noticed that there is a touchscreen, and non-touchscreen version of 4EXT on the market. What about a version that supports both? I know it's a long shot, but I can forsee a situation where someone's digitizer either stops working, or part of it stops working. It would sure be nice if the volume rocker would allow for up/down movement, and the pwr button could select. If it already does this, then I apologize. I recall testing this many weeks ago, and it didn't work...so hopefully, my memory isn't off :p
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There was never a non-touch version of 4EXT for the Evo 3D/V but that's a good suggestion and Max (madmaxx82 on XDA) is still working on the next generation to support other features and devices. It would be nice to have the option to use the hardware keys even if it meant having to activate them with a combination like Power+VolumeDown so you might consider posting that suggestion in his Evo 3D thread on XDA or sending him a PM.

ramjet73
 
ramjet73 said:
There was never a non-touch version of 4EXT for the Evo 3D/V but that's a good suggestion and Max (madmaxx82 on XDA) is still working on the next generation to support other features and devices. It would be nice to have the option to use the hardware keys even if it meant having to activate them with a combination like Power+VolumeDown so you might consider posting that suggestion in his Evo 3D thread on XDA or sending him a PM.

ramjet73
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I thought I saw something about choosing touchscreen or not during install. It's been over a month now probably, so I can't be certain. I am not on XDA, so perhaps you can suggest it to him? :)
 
Palmetto Fellow said:
I thought I saw something about choosing touchscreen or not during install. It's been over a month now probably, so I can't be certain. I am not on XDA, so perhaps you can suggest it to him? :)
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I just checked the settings in both the app and the recovery itself and couldn't find anything related to using the hardware buttons. Perhaps that was in TWRP2 touch recovery?

ramjet73
 
Erik-_-Chavez said:
What recovery would you guys recommend for someone who flashes ROMs a lot.
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4ext! Especially if you are s-on





Palmetto Fellow said:
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I've noticed that there is a touchscreen, and non-touchscreen version of 4EXT on the market. What about a version that supports both? I know it's a long shot, but I can forsee a situation where someone's digitizer either stops working, or part of it stops working. It would sure be nice if the volume rocker would allow for up/down movement, and the pwr button could select. If it already does this, then I apologize. I recall testing this many weeks ago, and it didn't work...so hopefully, my memory isn't off :p
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Well if you simply couldn't touch the screen anymore in the recovery you could just flash a different recovery :p only takes a minute
 
Brian706 said:
4ext! Especially if you are s-on







Well if you simply couldn't touch the screen anymore in the recovery you could just flash a different recovery :p only takes a minute
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If this does happen to me, and I need a new recovery, is TWRP fully compatible with 4EXT backups?
 
When I was working on getting the Harmonia ROM installed, I started out with TWRP. I wasn't able to get Harmonia installed with TWRP, so I decided to try 4EXT.

BUT, first I made a nandroid backup with TWARP, before installing 4EXT. After installing 4EXT, I made an nandroid backup with 4EXT, before flashing the ROM.

So even though I have a backup made with 4EXT, if I ever to go back to TWRP, I have a TWRP backup too, I can restore.

on edit: having all these backups, including Titanium Backup, do hog the SD card, especially having only 8GB, but I just move those rarely needed backups to the computer
 
sisu said:
on edit: having all these backups, including Titanium Backup, do hog the SD card, especially having only 8GB, but I just move those rarely needed backups to the computer
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If you switch recoveries and the backups aren't compatible you can boot the old version without flashing it by using the following fastboot command:

fastboot boot recovery.img (where "recovery.img" is the file name of your old recovery)
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Then you only need to keep the recovery file around instead of duplicate backups. The current 4EXT backups include the recovery.img by default when started from recovery so you can always use that copy if necessary.

ramjet73
 
I don't play much around with recoveries and such, I guess any of those great recoveries would fill my needs, but the reason I ended up with 4EXT is that for now, I am keeping my phone S-ON, and I believe I needed 4EXT to flash Harmonia with S-ON. The brief moment I had TWRP (both v1 and v2) I did like it though.
 
sisu said:
I don't play much around with recoveries and such, I guess any of those great recoveries would fill my needs, but the reason I ended up with 4EXT is that for now, I am keeping my phone S-ON, and I believe I needed 4EXT to flash Harmonia with S-ON. The brief moment I had TWRP (both v1 and v2) I did like it though.
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4Ext is just "easier" if you're S-On I guess. IMO S-Off is very easy and 120% worth the hassle
 
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