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Root [WIP][DEV] Custom Recovery/Bootloader unlocking Work In Progress Thread

OptimusSlime said:
I was brave and installed the app. Thought it was time I helped out. :) Seemed to have installed just fine. Ran the app. Gonna restart we'll see what happens.




Good news, phone didn't brick. Bad news, reboot into recovery caused standard reboot.
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Did you select install recovery, reboot phone normally using power button, then try reboot recovery from within app? So this tells me we gotta look into the scripts and/or the recovery ramdisk for answers. Thanks everyone for being brave souls :)
 
Just for reference. The original Dev for this method on xda for the 4x posted that after you install the app, to reboot normally once before booting into recovery.

Also, once you do that, to boot into recovery, you could use: adb su reboot recovery (from term emu or a computr), or apps like "anreboot." Another way would be by going to "factory reset" in settings. That should reboot the phone into recovery. But it could be different on this phone. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

That would be in case the apk doesn't automatically reboot you into the recovery.
 
enigmadroid said:
I just tried installing on emulator and reading logs it gave me cert error. I signed it with multi tool and it installs on emu. But our device isn't emu. Just uploaded to dropbox again.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5b46qyfc52eqv16/MS770-Recovery.apk
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The apk installed fine. Went to install recovery. Said it was successful. So I hit recovery boot.. the phone simply rebooted as it normally would. So I tried reboot recovery with the app "anreboot" and it booted into the stock "factory reset" recovery and formatted my phone.

(I used the stock backup app right before, and to my surprise it worked okay)

But this apk didn't install the new recovery, or at least not in the right location. Also the reboot recovery button on it doesn't work. Btw. I tried it twice.
 
benalmighty said:
The apk installed fine. Went to install recovery. Said it was successful. So I hit recovery boot.. the phone simply rebooted as it normally would. So I tried reboot recovery with the app "anreboot" and it booted into the stock "factory reset" recovery and formatted my phone.

(I used the stock backup app right before, and to my surprise it worked okay)

But this apk didn't install the new recovery, or at least not in the right location. Also the reboot recovery button on it doesn't work. Btw. I tried it twice.
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Thanks for testing! The recovery we want will be installed to /system/bootmenu. Aftermarket and built-in power menu solutions will boot to recovery partition which is where stock recovery lives on our device. Looks like we'll need to keep digging, perhaps in the bootrecovery script. The CWM in the original app at least showed up onscreen.
 
enigmadroid said:
Thanks for testing! The recovery we want will be installed to /system/bootmenu. Aftermarket and built-in power menu solutions will boot to recovery partition which is where stock recovery lives on our device. Looks like we'll need to keep digging, perhaps in the bootrecovery script. The CWM in the original app at least showed up onscreen.
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how are you building CWM??

And most likely this will be just like the D2/DX etc and the bootstrap app will have to be used to reboot to CWM.
 
PlayfulGod said:
how are you building CWM??

And most likely this will be just like the D2/DX etc and the bootstrap app will have to be used to reboot to CWM.
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I used the builder.clockworkmod solution providing our recovery.img and fstab. Maybe should build from source?
 
jpizle said:
How do I manually reboot into recovery?
It installed fine but the recovery reboot didn't work. I know there had to be a easy to do it manually
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I tried running the scripts with adb shell and terminal emu and I get "sh applet not found" from busybox.
 
omgbossis21 said:
There is a update for busybox in the playstore try that
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Got past the busybox error by downgrading to v19. Now I ran script with adb shell and got errors stopping services and unmounting filesystems. When phone reboots I get screen saying encryption failed, encryption was interrupted and data is not accessible click reset to erase all data. Data will be restored from Google account blah blah blah. I just held power button to force restart and all is well. So, I believe some tweaking is in order for the bootrecovery and/or bootunsecure scripts to better reflect our device. Just my thought.
 
Bricked my motion:mad: got a new one ordered and using a backup galaxy attain. It will be Friday before i'm of anymore help
 
sammyz said:
hey playfulgod, how did you (or they) unlock the bootloader on the LG Spectrum?????????????
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From what I know, the phone started out with Gingerbread. The Team found an unlock method for that. Later LG updated the phone with ICS, so The Team ported the Gingerbread bootloader to the ICS update.
The installer rooted, installed the bootloader, and installed CWM.
Please correct me If I'm wrong. LG began to distribute this pita bootloader with their ICS builds.
 
benalmighty said:
From what I know, the phone started out with Gingerbread. The Team found an unlock method for that. Later LG updated the phone with ICS, so The Team ported the Gingerbread bootloader to the ICS update.
Please correct me If I'm wrong. LG began to distribute this pita bootloader with their ICS builds.
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i think you are correct....hmmm i wonder if the spectrum bootloader could work on motion.
 
sammyz said:
i think you are correct....hmmm i wonder if the spectrum bootloader could work on motion.
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let's see...so mrpnut has a tester, but he is ultra distracted on the s3 forum...

but officer has a phone with total protection, so he could test and if it bricks get a replacement



sorry for offering you up dude but i think you're the best person to test something like that....
 
plasticarmyman said:
let's see...so mrpnut has a tester, but he is ultra distracted on the s3 forum...

but officer has a phone with total protection, so he could test and if it bricks get a replacement



sorry for offering you up dude but i think you're the best person to test something like that....
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Talk to neph81 I messaged him last night to see how it was done, he wrote everything himself said it was a pain in the a$$ but I just asked idk anything about this but was curious how he unlocked theirs. Someone with some more knowledge should contact him.
 
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