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This is the latest Sprint Rom based on the latest RUU leak with A2SD support (I used Darktremor A2SD 2.7 since it was easy to add it).
I have verified that A2SD is working as I downloaded and installed a couple of programs from the market. The programs are being stored in /system/sd/app.
Here's the link: http://www.darktremor.info/files/2.1/2.1-ruu-a2sd-signed.ziphttp://www.darktremor.info/files/2.1/sprintstock-21-a2sd-b-signed.zip
This one now has adb rooted (thanks to nfinitefx45 for his assistance) and does flash (heard complaints on the symlink issue...never sure what causes that, but ended up starting over and porting the files from the previous build).
This is for those people who want to keep with the stock installation but want the addition of A2SD. If you want a customized look, faster performance and A2SD support, I suggest a custom rom. Fresh 2.1.2 or FreshToast is a good one to use.
Note: It will not affect recovery.
Enjoy and I'll answer any questions you may have (if I can answer them).
did you manually edit the init.rc? and you should mention that this is a ROM, not an RUU
tkirton said:
This is the latest Sprint RUU leak with A2SD support (I used Darktremor A2SD 2.7 since it was easy to add it).
This is definitely an RUU as when I go into adb shell, I get the dollar sign as a prompt rather than the pound sign...I'm pretty certain it is not rooted.
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This makes no sense at all.
Good point about the Rom vs RUU. Edited to correct.
As for the init.rc. Mainly it was init.rc edit.
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did you manually edit the init.rc? and you should mention that this is a ROM, not an RUU
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Don't look at me...that's what I'm getting. Doesn't make much sense to me, either. I just know if I do adb shell, I don't have root access. But A2SD works fine.
I went ahead and released it since the goal was to get A2SD working...and I did that. Everything else is for a Rom developer.
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This makes no sense at all.
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tkirton said:
Don't look at me...that's what I'm getting. Doesn't make much sense to me, either. I just know if I do adb shell, I don't have root access. But A2SD works fine.
I went ahead and released it since the goal was to get A2SD working...and I did that. Everything else is for a Rom developer.
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Thanks, I'll just use your boot image for RegawMOD 2.5. saves me a few minutes
working perfectly all apps installed and 132 megs still open internal
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sandboxlove said:
is it a general consensus that if you want to run a2sd successfully you should use a class6? i currently have a class4
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right now, I switched back to my class 4 and its working great
nvmchars....
tkirton,
here is your exact rom that's in your first post, but I deodexed it. You can add that to the OP if you'd like.
Everyone else, here it is too:
http://www.4shared.com/file/Fm3pXapi/21-ruu-a2sd-deodexed-signed.html
I have not tested it, but it should work fine. Deodexed /system/app and /system/framework
sandboxlove said:
i just want to be clear...this is the latest sprint leak? you seriously deodexed the whole thing?
i thought vince was crazy for trying, your completely BANANNAS
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yeah, i thought I'd post it in here. Didn't think since it's the same thing as he posted but deodexed that I should make another thread.
and yes, the latest sprint leak. you should test this. I can't right now.
Oooh...cool. Enhancements. I like enhancements.
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tkirton,
here is your exact rom that's in your first post, but I deodexed it. You can add that to the OP if you'd like.
Everyone else, here it is too:
http://www.4shared.com/file/Fm3pXapi/21-ruu-a2sd-deodexed-signed.html
I have not tested it, but it should work fine. Deodexed /system/app and /system/framework
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Oooh...cool. Enhancements. I like enhancements.
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Well, I like your work, so that's for you
did anyone test it out to make sure it boots?
Sorry to be such a noob, but what is "deodexed" a ROM mean?
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tkirton,
here is your exact rom that's in your first post, but I deodexed it. You can add that to the OP if you'd like.
Everyone else, here it is too:
http://www.4shared.com/file/Fm3pXapi/21-ruu-a2sd-deodexed-signed.html
I have not tested it, but it should work fine. Deodexed /system/app and /system/framework
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Well I flashed it and stuck on the HTC screen. Flashed the non deodexed version and loads fine.
So apparently i f***ed up deodexing lol. I guess that ROM that I did wont work..
well just loving this rom, but one question, can we get a updated boot.img with the adb enabled for access as root?
Now that the A2SD stuff is behind me, I'll take a look at that. Flipzmode or Toastcfh may be able to shed some light on how you get this image rooted correctly, especially Flipz since he's using the latest leak for Fresh 2.1.1.
The original goal was to get A2SD working on a stock rom, which I did....but it is rather annoying that it isn't rooted (or fully rooted).
Damage said in his point that it was rooted, but I got the same thing you did...no root when doing adb.
I'll talk to Flipz or Toast and see if they can point me in a direction to go.
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well just loving this rom, but one question, can we get a updated boot.img with the adb enabled for access as root?
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well this is a piece from some of the reading I've been doing I beleice this needs to be done with in the boot image. I dont know if this will help in your research,
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You also need to modify the ROM update script to change the default permissions for /system/bin/su so it can be used to elevate privileges to root. The script is in $WKD/dst/META-INF/com/google/android/update-script. Open it in your favorite editor and find the line starting with set_perm 0 2000 0550 SYSTEM:etc/init.goldfish.sh and after it add the following set_perm 0 0 04755 SYSTEM:bin/su
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Hi tkirton,
Nice job on this and thanks for all your hard work on everything! I am also wondering what dedoxed means? Is it like where application data is also stored on the SD card instead of on the phone itself?
Thanks!
I have created the vendor files for the advnet vega based apon the cyanogen ones for the Gtab, and compiled CM6 for the vega. This is not supported by cyanogen's team yet as the vega isnt officialy supported by them yet so please take that into mind (dont ask for support on the cyanonen irc ect u probably wont get it) but feel free to ask support on this thred.
Nither me or the CyanogenMod team take no responsability for any damage caused bu this rom. by flashing it means u understand this risks and accept the risks.
What doesnt work :-
- Camera
- Rotation can be funny (if it works at all)
[UPDATE]
- Black Screen Of death can occur when rebooting (looking into this ASAP) so be prepared to restore
What works :-
- Every thing else (i think)
[INSTALL]
1) get the .zip file from the bottion of the post
2) copy it to SD card
3) reboot into recovery
4) MAKE NANDROID BACKUP
5) flash zip from recovery (you will get a boot write error thats normal)
6) reboot
7) DONE
[DOWNLOAD]
http://db.tt/UmV1dYK
[CREDITS]
CyanogenMod Team for there src
Bekit for the Gtab vendor this is based on
Anyone else i have forgotten
[MY VENDOR]
If anyone else wants to try and improve on this please feel free.
https://github.com/BuzzBumbleBee/android_device_vega/tree/froyo
(Please note at the current time the boot.img that the compile creates will not work on the vega to u will have to make one by extracting the original ramdisk from the boot.img)
thanks mate been tring with cyanogenmod for gtablet..gonna try now. THis bad boy vega need some action
got error message:
assert failed: package_extract_file("boot.img" ,"/temp/boot.img")
E:Error in /sdcard/CM-6.2.0-Vega.zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted.
edit: fixed.
I successfully installed, I put the original boot.img from vega into the zip, taking it for a spin now. Thanks Apache14.
I sold my Vega because of the screen imo wasnt great and the wi-fi issue.
Would have loved to have tried this rom though.
Good work !!!
Thanks to apache14 and everyone involved
How do we get market onto the tab. thanks in advance
Dunno about market any CM6 compatable gapps will work ..... also the adding boot.img isnt needed as there is no need to flash the boot.img (the stock advent one works pritty well for now)
Apache14 said:
Dunno about market any CM6 compatable gapps will work ..... also the adding boot.img isnt needed as there is no need to flash the boot.img (the stock advent one works pritty well for now)
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thx mate, misread the first post
Anyone working on fixing the black screen of death on cold boot a lot of people are getting with clockwork? I know there are enough people who don't have CW installed because of this that anything that depends on it will have a more limited appeal.
arad85 said:
Anyone working on fixing the black screen of death on cold boot a lot of people are getting with clockwork? I know there are enough people who don't have CW installed because of this that anything that depends on it will have a more limited appeal.
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I have installed clockwork a couple of times and no black screen of death. Its straight forward.
Follow the instruction paul gave on modaco.
Download the Recovery image and flash utility and extract to desktop
open terminal
adb devices to make sure your device is connected
cd to the directory of file you just extract
then type
adb push recovery.img /data/local/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb shell chmod 4755 /data/local/flash_image
adb shell /data/local/flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery.img
thats done.
If you on mcr 6, the vega reboot recovery is already installed if not download from the market.
cheers
alphaola said:
I have installed clockwork a couple of times and no black screen of death. Its straight forward.
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Yes, it's very straightforward. I've done it a few times too and followed the instructions. I still get the bsod as do a number of others. Without CM installed, no bsod...
Try power cycling your Vega back-to-back using the power button. I bet you'll get it to bsod reasonably quickly.
BSOD
Some people have reported black screen of death when rebooting with the power menu. so be careful and be prepared to restore (or flash stock boot,img again)
I am looking into this error now and hope to have a fix pritty soon
Apache14 said:
I am looking into this error now and hope to have a fix pritty soon
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Brilliant - thanks
Apache14 said:
Some people have reported black screen of death when rebooting with the power menu. so be careful and be prepared to restore (or flash stock boot,img again)
I am looking into this error now and hope to have a fix pritty soon
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arad85 said:
Brilliant - thanks
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i fixed it. Copy boot.img,system.img and ramdisk.img from vega into the cyanogenmod zip,then flash, it also boot into recovery using rom manager.
Note: Do not unzip the cyanogengenmod, just use winrar to open it and copy those files into it then close it
alphaola said:
i fixed it. Copy boot.img,system.img and ramdisk.img from vega into the cyanogenmod zip,then flash, it also boot into recovery using rom manager.
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Sorry, being particularly thick today. How do I get hold of the three .img files?
arad85 said:
Sorry, being particularly thick today. How do I get hold of the three .img files?
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download the advent vega system file from advent vega website,zip it using winrar.
alphaola said:
download the advent vega system file from advent vega website,zip it using winrar.
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<facepalm>
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<facepalm>
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no stress man. Its quite smooth and fast, love the animation as well
alphaola said:
no stress man. Its quite smooth and fast, love the animation as well
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So I did all this, and now have a device that is....
... exactly the same as before but with CWR installed (even says it's MoDaCo ROM). The flashing process took only a few seconds and no boot write error. Am I missing something here?
EDIT: hang on... just realised the zip file was wrong!!
To get the market and apps
Download http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-mdpi-tegra-20101020-signed.zip, then flash using rom manager. then once you reboot you should get all your apps and market. enjoy
arad85 said:
So I did all this, and now have a device that is....
... exactly the same as before but with CWR installed (even says it's MoDaCo ROM). The flashing process took only a few seconds and no boot write error. Am I missing something here?
EDIT: hang on... just realised the zip file was wrong!!
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ahahha mate,it works.
Download button savior to make navigation easy
Hello all
Really looking forward to a stable version with an idiot proof install for folks like me.
Great work
Rgds
Lok
For experienced users only.
First of all props to roebeet for coming up with this idea over at the gTablet thread here.
This 'Recovery Pack' will install AmonRA-v1.6.2 and ClockworkMod-2.5.0.7 binaries in a folder 'recovery' created in /system/etc and 2 shell scripts in /system/bin used to call flash_image and flash the recoveries from Terminal Emulator.
How to use:
1. Flash the Recovery Pack
2. In Terminal Emulator:
$su
#amonrecovery.sh ~ for AmonRa-v1.6.2 Recovery
#cwmrecovery.sh ~ for ClockworkMod-2.5.0.7 Recovery
As you can see there's minimal typing and easy to remember names.
If you like you can add/replace recovery images in the /system/etc/recovery folder and create/adjust the shell script.
HeroC-Recoveries-signed.zip ~ Just the 2 recovery images and 2 shell scripts.
md5: 7414ee444eea7bdbf1e85e2ac89d7b86
HeroC-Recovery-Pack-signed.zip ~ Same as above but also installs flash_image in /system/bin.
md5: 936c949548de760ea2c135dccf0d60f8
As always Nandroid and proceed at your own risk. (read first line)
cant you do the same thing through rom manager this seems kind of pointless rom managers actually better to because u dont have to mess with TE.
I don't use ROM Manager all that much myself (GTablet doesn't play nice with it), but I assume you'd need an active Wifi connection to get the download, in case you wanted it? And what if the download site itself was offline? The scripts are more convenient, imo - you know that it will work since it's local, and it's pretty fast to run them. Terminal Emulator is a pretty good app to have, anyway.
And, it will always be the same version each time - which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on your needs of course. But options are always a good thing.
Bierce22 said:
cant you do the same thing through rom manager this seems kind of pointless rom managers actually better to because u dont have to mess with TE.
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You can, but what if you can't boot in to the rom or you borked your recovery?
thats true i guess.
ill keep my mouth shut on these things for awhile ive already had enough shouting matches for one day lmao.
aiwetir said:
You can, but what if you can't boot in to the rom or you borked your recovery?
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Well if you can't boot into the rom then you can't use terminal emulator either
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trip187 said:
Well if you can't boot into the rom then you can't use terminal emulator either
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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adb
10characters
Bierce22 said:
thats true i guess.
ill keep my mouth shut on these things for awhile ive already had enough shouting matches for one day lmao.
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I just had a shouting match on Facebook so I'm probably a bit grumpy, I should have said:
"Yes, you can do these things in ROM Manager, but if you can't boot into the rom or recovery, you can use these same scripts with ADB. I've had a hard time finding flash_image in the past so this whole pack is probably useful if you are in deep poo with your phone."
jazzruby said:
As always Nandroid and proceed at your own risk. (read first line)
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I agree with that and this tool. Rom manager isn't better than this just because the server could be down, you have to download the recovery for the first time, etc, etc. Not saying its bad because I used to use it but now I use this if i'm on mobile and adb shell if on computer. Thanks
Thanks for this to all involved. I doubt I'll ever need it since I'm s-off, but it's a pretty awesome tool! I'm sure it will be useful to other users, I will link them to your thread
Rogue XM Touch Recovery v1.5.0-R1
(CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.8)
For the Asus Transformer TF101
First off, thank you to...
Team Rogue
Koush
CyanogenMod Team
j-r0dd
Solarnz
Roach2010
All I did slap together all their hard work to make it work on the TF101.
Sources
Rogue Recovery
The source and more info for Rouge Recovery is available in the Xoom release thread from Team Rogue. I have not made any modifications to it to work with the TF101. You can find that thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235170
The discussion of the touch release in that thread begins here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235170&page=13#123
Recovery Kernel
I used the kernel from Roach2010's ClockworkMod Recovery 3.2.0.1 release here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213723
Device Tree
Mostly based on AOKP's TF101 device tree, just picked out the parts needed to compile the recovery. Particularly BoardConfig.mk:
https://github.com/rburrow87/android_device_asus_tf101_recoveryonly
Updates
[2012-05-25] 1.5.0-R1 (5028-based)
Updated to Rogue XM Recovery v1.5.0 which is touch-enabled with the same features as before. See the Xoom release thread for more information on Rogue Recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235170
Can also finally use the boot to recovery option available in some ROMs thanks to the recovery boot loop fix from Roach2010 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213723
Workaround for small menu targets
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26142147&postcount=151
If I can figure out a way to just make the menu items taller, I'll make an update. Otherwise I'm waiting for Rogue to implement it first.
[2012-01-14] 1.3.0-R1 (5027-based)
Original release, non-touch
Info
Mounting as USB storage does not work. (Accessing the tablet or SD card from your computer when plugged in via USB)
Installation
I tested this the best I could, but use at your own risk. I am not liable for data loss, spontaneous combustion, temporal anomalies, or anything in between.
Just flash the attached zip from CWM.
There's also an nvflash version that has the recovery.img in it and will only flash the recovery if you prefer that method. Or just so you don't have to unpack the blob file if you need the recovery.img.
Misc:
I did this because I thought it'd be nice to have a newer recovery for our TF101s, but also because I want to learn to do some sort of development even if it's just building for similar devices. I'm still new to using anything like git or using C/Java like this so don't expect miracles right away if bugs come up! I have some experience with other languages, but not in this kind of application.
Thank you, looks nice. Doing a nand backup right now with it.
there was someone in one of the ics threads, looking for this, they,ll be chuffed to bits.
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Cam you just rename this img if u wanna flash with nvflash?
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baseballfanz said:
Thank you, looks nice. Doing a nand backup right now with it.
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Awesome!
will8578 said:
there was someone in one of the ics threads, looking for this, they,ll be chuffed to bits.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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I saw that post! I've been watching that thread and trying it out when there's an update.
80slovechild said:
Cam you just rename this img if u wanna flash with nvflash?
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To do that, you have to extract the zip and then unpack the blob file... but I updated the OP with an extra nvflash version that flashes just the recovery and gives you the recovery.img.
Finally...a relatively current back up for the TF!!
THANK YOU!!
Backing up with 3201, then installing this.
Beautiful work!! Works flawlessly!
Finally! A 5.x.x.x CWM recovery
Does this allow flashing from both internal and external?
On my Galaxy Nexus, they also have a touch softkey mod that has softkeys for up, down, back, and select. Not a big deal but something cool to look into if you get bored.
LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - CM9 AOKP
Asus Transformer - Revolver
Can we get a list of features? I've never flashd CWM 5.x.x.x so just curious, and would make a good addition I think..
luna_c666 said:
Can we get a list of features? I've never flashd CWM 5.x.x.x so just curious, and would make a good addition I think..
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It's basically the same as 3207 with the ability to flash from and back up to internal memory.
And seems a bit more stable.
Worked for me. Way way way better color scheme and it booted quick! Thanks!
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It's basically the same as 3207 with the ability to flash from and back up to internal memory.
And seems a bit more stable.
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its definitely not the same as v3.x.... that being said however, simply look at the android_bootable_recovery github to see the differences since v3.x
I think with the latest versions its even possible to use the mount usb with the tablets own MicroSD card where-as in the v3.x tree it wasnt (thanks to v5.x's inclusion of dual mount support, specifically done to support devices with large internal storage)
Still, i have to agree with everyone else, its REALLY nice to finally see a v5.x CWM... using it on my HD2, Evo Shift, and HeroC, it really was a surprising difference from when I was sticking with v3.x
Just awesome!!! Thanks so much!
this needs to be moved to the dev section, but great job!
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Thanks! Installed successfully on two separate rooted B60 TF101's(ARHD 3.2, and Krakd 1.4.2)without any issues. Works great nice job!
New recovery works great!
Just flashed this without any issue. Nice look and feel. Are there more options available under the 'wipe' option, such as ability to wipe only cache or Dalvik cache like the 3.2.0.1 had? I haven't had a chance to look yet and didn't want to chance inadvertently wiping my device. Thanks.
[EDIT] I've now had time to look around and answer my own question. Yes, the other wipe options are there under the wipe menu item. Good to not see that sd card error all the time. So far it seems pretty flawless and better looking, too. I had to reflash my ROM last night and got to put it through it's paces.
Good job and thanks for carrying forward with recovery.
I did notice that at least on mine, I saw no 'connection' between the progress bar when doing a full advanced backup to the plugin SDCARD (normal backup as in the old days), or in other words, no sign of progress despite it working fine. I'm looking around the code to see what might have caused that.
The other interesting change not mentioned is that the backup file format/suffix is now .tar instead of .img. I tried using Titanium to restore an app from the backup with the .tar files, and it worked fine. Is .tar what the current versions of cwm are using?
Lastly: I know that to burn a kernel you have to use blobs on the tf101, so which .tar file contains the kernel blob? (I've not yet analyzed this yet and have assumed that you have to actually burn a kernel afterward to get one in place). What I was wondering is if we could get the equivalent of 'boot.img' from other v5 cwm's that are around, but I suppose ours would have to burn a blob rather than just unpack a .tar file.
EDIT: After reading through the original post about Rogue Recovery, I realized that in the last / prior release notes it mentioned this:
*Progress indication disabled by default again for speed (create /sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress to enable progress)
Which took care of my initial gripe so check on off to me not reading enough ..
Thanks again --
I tested this by doing a full backup and restore. After the sucesfull backup, I then did the restore which it did restored from backup but wifi got broken and no way to turn was wifi on.
jwilliamf said:
I tested this by doing a full backup and restore. After the sucesfull backup, I then did the restore which it did restored from backup but wifi got broken and no way to turn was wifi on.
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I also did a back up and restore and my Wifi is fine.
I did not do the advance backup just the regular backup.
Someone else reported this wifi problems using Roach's 3.2.0.1 CWM also.
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I tested this by doing a full backup and restore. After the sucesfull backup, I then did the restore which it did restored from backup but wifi got broken and no way to turn was wifi on.
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Hmm, weird, I'm not sure why the recovery would break that unless it's failing to restore something or possibly failed to back something up. I did several backups and restores when I was checking to see if everything worked and never encountered that. Maybe try restoring the one giving your trouble a couple of times to see if it comes back?
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Good job and thanks for carrying forward with recovery.
I did notice that at least on mine, I saw no 'connection' between the progress bar when doing a full advanced backup to the plugin SDCARD (normal backup as in the old days), or in other words, no sign of progress despite it working fine. I'm looking around the code to see what might have caused that.
The other interesting change not mentioned is that the backup file format/suffix is now .tar instead of .img. I tried using Titanium to restore an app from the backup with the .tar files, and it worked fine. Is .tar what the current versions of cwm are using?
Lastly: I know that to burn a kernel you have to use blobs on the tf101, so which .tar file contains the kernel blob? (I've not yet analyzed this yet and have assumed that you have to actually burn a kernel afterward to get one in place). What I was wondering is if we could get the equivalent of 'boot.img' from other v5 cwm's that are around, but I suppose ours would have to burn a blob rather than just unpack a .tar file.
EDIT: After reading through the original post about Rogue Recovery, I realized that in the last / prior release notes it mentioned this:
*Progress indication disabled by default again for speed (create /sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress to enable progress)
Which took care of my initial gripe so check on off to me not reading enough ..
Thanks again --
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Looks like somewhere around CWM 4 is when the switch to tar was made. It has better the speed along with the ability to back up and restore the correct filesystem. Sounds like the progress thing was added somewhere around then as well.
[ Found here: https[colon]//plus.google[dot]com/103583939320326217147/posts/G4VQuCpR25y Sorry, can't make outside links yet. ]
Looking at a kernel zip, it uses dd to put the blob in /dev/block/mmcblk0p4, which is also where the recovery goes... I clearly need to learn more about what's going on here when flashing a kernel or recovery to the same thing and what the function of the blob is.
Looking in the nandroid backuip system tar though, it grabs the /system/lib/modules folder which some kernel zips add to, so the nandroid is backing that up. I'm not sure if nandroid, at least in its current state, is able to back up or restore the kernel itself because of the whole blob thing?
Hmm, perhaps I should make a feature list instead of just saying look at the Xoom release thread!
I wanted to get some opinions because I saw a friend use twrp and it looked pretty nice, but cwm is good too.
Diumlol said:
I wanted to get some opinions because I saw a friend use twrp and it looked pretty nice, but cwm is good too.
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TWRP all the way. Only thing I see it doesn't have is battery stats wipe, but you can use an app or a root file manager for that. It's touch for free, has more options for back/restore, is faster, supports open scripts, has a file manager(made my crash course in init.d scripts and tweaks much easier just by letting me delete a script or copy an old backup of a file back over and reboot), has a terminal(useful for things like restoring permissions to an individual file), and is able to format sd-ext in ext4 instead of ext3(big boost for my sd-ext partition), moreover there is no limit big or small to the size of swap and sd-ext partitions).
Diumlol said:
I wanted to get some opinions because I saw a friend use twrp and it looked pretty nice, but cwm is good too.
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yes cwm is good but twrp is better
TWRP better than CWM
Try this one
Diumlol said:
I wanted to get some opinions because I saw a friend use twrp and it looked pretty nice, but cwm is good too.
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I used to have TWRP installed, but after I installed my last ROM, I noticed that my backup created a 0 folder, and another 0 folder in it with duplicate folders, so I made a little research and I found Philz touch recovery.
I haven't had that issue again, and it works fine.
You can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028103
TWRP, easier to use and better UI.
my favourite is cwm :good:
I've only recently gotten into the Rooting/Modding "scene" but I've caught the addiction.
I find myself now backup up (what I find) stable instances, and installing new roms over and over.
I started with TWRP because of the guide I initially used to root my phone, but I have since switched to CWM..
I switched to CWM initially as the ROM I was installing recommended it, but since I have grown to it's simplicity.
Keep in mind when using these recoveries, that some people will find that they get errors using one or the other when installing new roms..
So in using these, I would say it can be based on personal taste, and what's been working for you.. but if you find a rom that errors during install, some developers on these forums may suggest something just as simple as switching to another version of that recovery, or switching from TWRP to CWM (and vice versa).
Are these answers technically based? I mean, is there any technical difference between them?
I only got errors on installing Int2Ext4 saying invalid zip file which also happened on another ROM with CWN and Int2Ext. So I unzipped it, pushed it back to phone and used TWRP's file manager to copy to /system/etc/init.d and its terminal to set proper permissions. When CWM errored, I had to use ADB to do what TWRP let me do right on the phone. Both ways worked but TWRP saved headaches in that instance
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They both work well, but in my experience twrp is faster and have a more user friendly interface.
i think more people use a cwm,i have system cyanogenmod i i love use a cwm with this software
Twrp- because its less painful thanks to touch.Makes it easier and fast to navigate
chiragjn said:
Twrp- because its less painful thanks to touch.Makes it easier and fast to navigate
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There is CWM with touch for a while now... :good:
I have used both and I didn't find any difference, but maybe I just did very basic stuff.
I have painfully (and maybe stupidly) found out that TWRP has an option to wipe /system and, with that, it will wipe ITSELF! :silly:
I am using cwm,its very good!