Not trying to tie up the threads here am just curious. Is there a way to establish a recovery password on a MYT3G 32B in case it is lost, Does anyone know? if it possible? How would I go about establishing something like that?
Also just wanted to say thanks to the developers / and for Everyone! who has made rooting possible. "Kept me busy since ive had the phone." Ive used alot of roms... Thanks!
Recovery RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G - Cyanogen 4.2.13 -
this is interesting. Would be nice if we can password protect the recovery a la BIOS.
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How would i go about making a password protected recovery image?
brandon15811 said:
How would i go about making a password protected recovery image?
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If you have root on your phone than this is worthless as everybody can change the recovery, nonetheless you need to add the loginutils to busybox, chmod 4755 the busybox binary and add all the relevant passwd, shadow,group and gshadow files. You need also to start a login shell from inittab before running
the recovery menu.
And... don't forget that adb access is not password protected, neither is fastboot (or the SPL for that matter) so honestly.... plugging one hole, doesn't really help matters much if your phone gets into the hands of someone who can do a simple Google search to find the other ways to manipulate it.
not to mention flashing back to RC29 via the bootloader would flash a new recovery (IIRC) and would also flash the radio (which is fine if you're not running the DangerSPL) if you ARE running the DangerSPL, then the person that so desperately cant get past the recovery, probably now bricked your phone... most theives probably couldnt figure out how to get into the recovery to save their lives.... and IF they are smart, as mentioned, fastboot will do the thief just fine IF they are smart enough.
password protected recovery image?
What do you mean? You want to encrypt the recovery image itself so that it can only be installed by someone with the password?
Or you want to keep people from messing with the data on the phone?
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password protected recovery image?
What do you mean? You want to encrypt the recovery image itself so that it can only be installed by someone with the password?
Or you want to keep people from messing with the data on the phone?
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I'm thinking the latter, he wants to keep people from accessing the recovery menu without knowing a password. The points have been raised above, pretty much impossible to secure a Dream.
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I'm thinking the latter, he wants to keep people from accessing the recovery menu without knowing a password. The points have been raised above, pretty much impossible to secure a Dream.
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Any particular reason you need to shove in your two cents? What you think is, quite frankly, not relevant. My question is to the OP regarding what HE MEANS.
After about 4 hours of online searching, the closest i got to backing up my rooted Milestone was un-successfully trying to enter clockwork recovery only to see my milestone starting to load it, then restarting and loading the operating system.
rom manager says that clockwork recovery is istalled but fails to enter it.
and please dont offer droidroothelper, im sick of reading about it but being unable to use it since the "tools" file was removed from mediafire and there is nowhere to download it from.
please advise, this is getting annoying.
anyone? comon guys..
a day later and still nothing?, can i gather from this that there is no way for some one with a milestone to back up his phone?
thanks alot XDA.
hi all,
recently I installed XDAndroid using the CAB-install version (post here), and seems not really work on my Touch Pro.
Now I'd like to remove it, but don't know how. I tried to search on this forum, but cannot find any. Can any of you educate me on how to completely remove it?
thanks,
Lam
Format your microSD. There is no uninstall because it is installed to your device by default.
I formatted my microSD already, but there's still Android icon on the phone, and somewhere else in the registry I guess.
You can remove that from the start menu folder. Trust me, it doesn't touch (rather it shouldn't have touched) anything in the registry unless you modified something in there yourself.
Alternatively, if you really are interested, do some reading up in THIS (updated) thread.
n-Joie!
i have a similar problem i installed Gen.Y PX-D R0 with XDANDROID (Core) decided it was not for me and tried flashing a stock rom because i want to sell the phone, the problem is i still get the "gen.y px-tp preparing dual boot" splash screen appearing when i boot the phone up - how do i remove it?
[Answer] Task29
I've never flashed that ROM but there to again, I'm not really a subject matter expect at this either So.... HERE WE GO!!!!!!
To my knowledge, flashing stock (if that is what you are indeed flashing) does nothing more than over write what is on the phone. With that knowledge, I would have to say that it is safe to assume that the STOCK ROM is LESS THAN (in terms of size) the CUSTOM ROM. Meaning, if you want to completely over write what is on your phone you will have to, in a sense, format your device. I say all of that to say this, the answer lies in the use of Task29 before flashing a stock ROM. I would mention that this will more than less likely get rid of everything that is currently on your device and as long as you are "OK" with that, then by all means, please use it as you would flash a normal ROM. The only difference is that, you will have to flash the stock ROM from bootloader. If you are unfamiliar with this, I would say, get familiar!
I don't mind hand feeding you links but I do expect you to do some of the leg work!
n-Joie! (Enjoy)
Hello guys,
a few days ago I dared to root my Xperia X10 Mini Pro with SuperOneClick and flashed a Cyanogenmod 7 Android 2.3.3 ROM. All in all, it worked pretty well.
After doing some apps installation stuff I rebooted in the Recovery (Clockworkmod which obviously came along with the ROM) and made a backup, just for the case. Afterwards, I selected "power off" in the CWM menu because I wanted to go to bed.
Then, immediately, CWM said something like "Error - This recovery seems to be bad" and something with a "risk". I managed however to power off. Can't remember if that worked via CWM or if I pushed the power off hardbutton or removed the battery.
Yet - the ROM seems to work. Now I'm a bit anxious because of the CWM error.
Is there really a risk? I planned to dare unlocking the bootloader soon. Is it dangerous to do this with a "bad recovery" or doesn't that matter at all?
Is there a possibility to repair CWM? Can I just install a new CWM? If yes - how?
Sorry - pretty noobish questions, I know.
Can you help me anyway?
Thanks a lot!
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Thank you for your help! I already thought that no one would answer because the thread disappered on page 3 of this forum
I've never heard from Odin before and therefore googled it. It only occured in connection with Samsung devices. Are you sure it is compatible to my Sony Ericsson?
Anyway, can I also install a new CWM via ROM Manager or wouldn't you recommend this?
Warning: I'm a noob. Take my advice at your own risk!
From what I understand, flashing CWM via Rom Manager is exactly the same as manual flashing (perhaps better, since the Rom Manager presumably keeps up to date). So I think you should be able to do so and make another recovery (without going through any of that manual flashing stuff). You should get a second opinion just because I'm so noobish, but I think this is the case.
However, from my limited understanding, I don't think the recovery will make any difference when dealing with the bootloader. The bootloader is, more or less, the very first set of instructions executed when the phone turns on. If you mess that up, your phone won't even be able to get into recovery mode. Also, the recovery images are stored on your sd card, which is wiped upon unlocking. Once again, I could be wrong.
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Dude, what are you talking about? You can't use ODIN on a non-Samsung phone.
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don't use rom manager just use the odin for your safety, you can bet that samsung users are the one benefiting on odin but as you can see erricson and samsung are both android phones and if you examine them both device have similar programs, and one thing, always keep in mind that you have to back up your current rom for emergency uses so you can still get back to were you started in case something went wrong.
if i helped you with this problem you could click the thanks button >>>>
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OK now this is flat out wrong. Each Android device has a different program used. Samsung has Odin, HTC has an RUU. Not sure about SE. But never use a software made for one device on another unless you want a brick. Just because they both use android doesn't mean they are the same.
Thanks to everyone, especially Product F(RED)!
No offence, trich025, but I guess you were wrong.
Can I destroy something by re-installing or updating CWM via ROM-Manager just in case my CWM has a bug?
i am extremely new to the rom/flashing/rooting scene. i recently used a "back door" rooting process, which worked great and i did all the recomended actions and apps: supersu titanium backup, root browser, etc. then i wanted to change my boot animation->samsung device-> flash a zip file to allow bootanimation.zip->samsung requires signature verification from stock recovery mode->cwm recovery(which flashes itself to the phone... curious why a custom recovery...or any recovery for that matter is even required if it isnt necessary...) -> recovery menu no longer accesible. i cant flash anything to my phone i tried changing the recovery to twrp but no dice. its giving me this dialog along with caution sign:"system software not authorized by verizon wireless has been found on your phone...etc" the phone is a samsung galaxy legend on verizon prepaid plan it is the jasper version of the samsung galaxy stellar. now for the question... What do i do so that i can flash files to my device?
i dont know much about unlocking the bootloader except that doing so with the wrong program will brick your phone and since im doing this recreationally on my primary phone i dont want to buy a new one. how can i regain access to my recovery menu/ unlock my bootloader?
its not a popular phone so i doubt anyone is going to be able to offer a one touch application to unlock the bootloader but any information would be helpful.if youre still reading this i thank you for any advice and i apologize if i : posted in the wrong section, offended anyone, or came off as a cheap experience-less n00b
EDIT: my phone is running 4.1.2 jellybean, baseband:i200ppvramh1, kernel: 3.0.31, build: jzo54k.i200ppvramh1, dont know if that will help any and before anyone criticizes me remember i am completely new to this forum posting thing but i guarentee i have scrounged this site the world over trying to get help but there just seems to be noone working on this problem the same as me...