Root Stock Images

[dtalley11]

Hello Hydro owners! Over in the land of the Rise I have made a thread that is a compilation of images of every firmware version we can get and I feel this is something that should be done over here as well! If you are interested in helping out all I need is as close to stock images as you can get and upload 3 images: System, Boot(the kernel) and recovery. I will cover capturing the image in the next post.

There seems to be 5 different firmware versions of the hydro among 3 different carriers.

1.005VM
1.001CR
1.006BT
1.000BT
1.001BT

I assume they are Virgin Mobile, Cricket and 3 Boost Mobile.

 

[dtalley11]

How To make images:

First you need to know where the partition is. Here is a cheat sheet I made for the rise, it could be inaccurate on the hydro so I would suggest taking a look at the output of the mount command and cat /proc/partition for some clues:
[HIGH]boot /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
cache /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
data /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
misc /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
recovery /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
sdcard /dev/block/mmcblk1p1
system /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
sysprop /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
carrier /dev/block/mmcblk0p18[/HIGH]

Now, knowing where the partition is you want to create the image of, you have to either open up adb shell or the terminal emulator app then run the command
[HIGH]dd if=/dev/block/<partition> of=/sdcard/<partition>[/HIGH]
so if I wanted to make an image of recovery, the command would be
[HIGH]dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p15[/HIGH]
Then you can find the image on the root of your sdcard. From there I will let you figure out how and where you want to upload it.

 

[xInterlopeRx]

HAHA FUNNY FUNNY!

Can someone on this thread possibly dump the first 72mb of mmcblk0 and link me to it? Just like that:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/path/to/sdcard/mmcblk0.img bs=1024 count=73728

Thanks.

 

[dtalley11]

HAHA FUNNY FUNNY!

Can someone on this thread possibly dump the first 72mb of mmcblk0 and link me to it? Just like that:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/path/to/sdcard/mmcblk0.img bs=1024 count=73728

Thanks.

Seems things are rather dead around here... ah well

 

[Wiesshund]

I got one that kind of soft bricked when a firmware update didnt go as planned
(boost updating, not me tinkering)
Any idea if it is possible to bring it back to life?

 

[dtalley11]

I got one that kind of soft bricked when a firmware update didnt go as planned
(boost updating, not me tinkering)
Any idea if it is possible to bring it back to life?

I know that in sprint-rise land we can just use the command adb reboot bootloader and fastboot boot customrecovery.img and get out of that situation if you can use adb

 

[Wiesshund]

I know that in sprint-rise land we can just use the command adb reboot bootloader and fastboot boot customrecovery.img and get out of that situation if you can use adb

It goes right form the HYDRO splash to Error 8704

Wish i could find some kind of diagnostic driver to try to fix it, something that can read it at a hardware level.
I know kyocera has such an app/driver but noooo they wont let anyone have access to it.
Wonder if there is a phone with similar design that there is a diagnostic driver for that might work?

ADB does not seem to detect the phone, windows only detects it for a moment.

Since it wont ever boot to the recovery sceen i assume the boot loader got hosed when the update failed, nice of kyo to do an update sequence that has no method of recovery in the event of failure