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[Q] installing 4ext touch recovery without root

My question is simple: how can I flash 4ext recovery touch before I have root?
I have s-off but still on the stock ROM. I know I can just follow the s-off guide and in step 2 install CWM recovery, but I need 4ext touch instead.
How can I do this?
Thanks

Yes is should be fine!

GhostXSeries said:
Yes is should be fine!
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Sorry.. not sure u answered my question there? lol

anyone who can help?

fredcorp6 said:
My question is simple: how can I flash 4ext recovery touch before I have root?
I have s-off but still on the stock ROM. I know I can just follow the s-off guide and in step 2 install CWM recovery, but I need 4ext touch instead.
How can I do this?
Thanks
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Just interested why do you "need" 4EXT ?
Anyway, as you're still on the stock ROM and I assume the Stock HBOOT, you have two options:
i) Use Fastboot flash to flash the recovery img to the phone. You'll need to install adb etc. onto your PC/Linux system.
ii) Load the appropriate PG58IMG.zip file onto the root of your SD-card, complete power off (pull battery) reboot (Power & Vol -)
As I don't use 4EXT I'm not certain what downloads exist for it.
The bottom line is that it's the same process for either CWM or 4EXT.

gol_n_dal said:
Just interested why do you "need" 4EXT ?
Anyway, as you're still on the stock ROM and I assume the Stock HBOOT, you have two options:
i) Use Fastboot flash to flash the recovery img to the phone. You'll need to install adb etc. onto your PC/Linux system.
ii) Load the appropriate PG58IMG.zip file onto the root of your SD-card, complete power off (pull battery) reboot (Power & Vol -)
As I don't use 4EXT I'm not certain what downloads exist for it.
The bottom line is that it's the same process for either CWM or 4EXT.
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The reason I need it is because I want to install ARHD, and with 4EXT you are able to pick what kernel, addons etc you install with the ROM. As far as I know CWM does not let you do this?
I think option 1 is my best bet... do you mind giving me a few more details on how to do this?
I have adb set up and I am capable of using it. I also have the 4ext recovery zip file - it contains an image file called "recovery" and a text document containing an md5 sum.
Thanks a lot for your help so far

fredcorp6 said:
The reason I need it is because I want to install ARHD, and with 4EXT you are able to pick what kernel, addons etc you install with the ROM. As far as I know CWM does not let you do this?
I think option 1 is my best bet... do you mind giving me a few more details on how to do this?
I have adb set up and I am capable of using it. I also have the 4ext recovery zip file - it contains an image file called "recovery" and a text document containing an md5 sum.
Thanks a lot for your help so far
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CHECK AND RECHECK the MD5 for the IMG file..
The ADB and FASTBOOT commands might or might not be in the same folder, depends where you got it and what version.
Connect the phone via USB and debugging enabled.
i) make sure "adb devices" can see your phone.
ii) Get the phone into Fastboot (usual Bootloader then Fastboot, it should say "Fastboot USB")
iii) fastboot flash recovery "recovery.img"
where "recovery.img" is the name of the 4EXT.img file
iv) fastboot reboot-bootloader
v) Go into Recovery and osh bosh done.

fredcorp6 said:
The reason I need it is because I want to install ARHD, and with 4EXT you are able to pick what kernel, addons etc you install with the ROM. As far as I know CWM does not let you do this?
I think option 1 is my best bet... do you mind giving me a few more details on how to do this?
I have adb set up and I am capable of using it. I also have the 4ext recovery zip file - it contains an image file called "recovery" and a text document containing an md5 sum.
Thanks a lot for your help so far
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It is very much possible to install 4ext recovery without root. But your phone must be S-OFF. To install 4ext touch do the following.
1. Download an appropriate PG58IMG.zip file from this thread. By the word appropriate I mean that the PG58IMG.zip is having your CID and MID. Hope you know your CID and MID. The PG58IMG.zip can be of any version. I would suggest V1.17 as it has less files.
2. Download latest 4EXT recovery touch from the development forum. It will be in img format. Rename it to "recovery.img"
3. Open the PG58IMG.zip by winrar on your pc.
4. Delete all the files except the android-info.txt.
5. Add "recovery.img" into the PG58IMG.zip .
6. Now your PG58IMG.zip contains only two files i.e "recovery.img" and "android-info.txt"
5. Save the PG58IMG.zip.
6. Copy the PG58IMG.zip on the root of your sdcard.
7. Boot your phone into bootloader.
8.Your phone will prompt for update.
9. Say "yes" by pressing volume up key.
10. Once it is finish your phone will reboot and you will have 4ext touch recovery on your phone.

musarraf172 said:
It is very much possible to install 4ext recovery without root. But your phone must be S-OFF. To install 4ext touch do the following.
1. Download an appropriate PG58IMG.zip file from this thread. By the word appropriate I mean that the PG58IMG.zip is having your CID and MID. Hope you know your CID and MID. The PG58IMG.zip can be of any version. I would suggest V1.17 as it has less files.
2. Download latest 4EXT recovery touch from the development forum. It will be in img format. Rename it to "recovery.img"
3. Open the PG58IMG.zip by winrar on your pc.
4. Delete all the files except the android-info.txt.
5. Add "recovery.img" into the PG58IMG.zip .
6. Now your PG58IMG.zip contains only two files i.e "recovery.img" and "android-info.txt"
5. Save the PG58IMG.zip.
6. Copy the PG58IMG.zip on the root of your sdcard.
7. Boot your phone into bootloader.
8.Your phone will prompt for update.
9. Say "yes" by pressing volume up key.
10. One it is finish your phone will reboot and you will have 4ext touch recovery on your phone.
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Sounds like the option 2 gon a dal was talking about...
Thanks a lot guys
BTW... I already have the PC58IMG file from downloading CWM - could I just paste the recovery.img into this file? Deleting the CWM one first ofcourse

fredcorp6 said:
Sounds like the option 2 gon a dal was talking about...
Thanks a lot guys
BTW... I already have the PC58IMG file from downloading CWM - could I just paste the recovery.img into this file? Deleting the CWM one first ofcourse
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Sure, as I said either way works. If you have the IMG and are happy using commands at a prompt, the fastboot is probably faster. If you don't have the ready made PG58IMG.zip file the instructions above also work.
Either way, check and recheck the MD5.................
EDIT: If you flash via the PG58IMG.zip method, pop the SD-card after it's finished for a clean boot. Then remove/rename the PG58IMG.zip file on the card, or remove/rename via a PC before the boot.

gol_n_dal said:
Sure, as I said either way works. If you have the IMG and are happy using commands at a prompt, the fastboot is probably faster. If you don't have the ready made PG58IMG.zip file the instructions above also work.
Either way, check and recheck the MD5.................
EDIT: If you flash via the PG58IMG.zip method, pop the SD-card after it's finished for a clean boot. Then remove/rename the PG58IMG.zip file on the card, or remove/rename via a PC before the boot.
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Thanks for poiting out. I forgot to mention these.

Can you give me a link to 4ext?
thx

bibihtc said:
Can you give me a link to 4ext?
thx
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Look herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20015407
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk 2

Get your own CWM recovery for newer devices and dont beg anywhere - 2 simple steps

Those who struggle to get CWM recovery for thier newer devices and who are facing problem on romdump your stock rom to get stock recovery.img here you have 2 simple steps to get your CWM recovery for your new device
Step -1
Creating A Dump\Backup
Note: Root Required
1. Set "Settings" -> "Display" -> "Sleep" -> "10 minutes"
2. Install or update "Busybox" from play store
3. Set your phone to "Airplane" mode
4. Make sure that the card is not less than 2Gb of free space
5. Use any one of the following:
BakupTool_sdcard.zip saves a backup copy on the path: /mnt/sdcard/backup_v2
BakupTool_sdcard2.zip saves a backup copy on the path: /mnt/sdcard2/backup_v2
6. Extract the BakupTool_* to sdcard. Full path to the file should be: / sdcard / gscript
7. Install program: /sdcard /gscript /"GScriptLite.apk"
8. Open the program "GScriptLite". Press "Menu button" -> "Add Script"
9. Set tick "Needs SU"
10. Click "Load file" and select "back_mt657x.sh"
11. Click the button "Save"
12. Tap on a new script, "back_mt657x.sh". After that give the program root permissions if asked and wait for 5- 10 minutes. Do not use the phone during the process.
A sign of a normal shutdown of the script is:
Message in the terminal:
100% Backup Complite!!!
Saved to / sdcard/backup_v2/GGGGMMDD-ChChmm
Star Time: hh: mm: ss; End Time: hh: mm: ss
The appearance at the root of SD-card phone the following structure of folders and files:
backup_v2
YYYYMMDD-hhmm
* BDRS-YYYYMMDD-hhmm
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
* misk
cache.img
cmdline.info
config.info
cpu.info
nvram.img
nvram.tar
ram.info
rom.info
* over
expdb.raw
full_preloader_part.raw
misc.raw
pmt.raw
sec_ro.raw
seccfg.raw
unknown.raw
boot.img
dsp_bl.img
ebr1.img
firmware.info
MT6577_a4_v2c.info
logo.img
mbr.img
preloader.img
recovery.img
system.img
uboot.img
data.img
step - 2
upload your stock recovery.img to get cwm recovery
kaushik Dutta has developed a clockworkmod recovery builder on the official site....
http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
so upload your stock recovery.img and get exact cwm recovery.img of ur device....and flash it.
if yours is a new devicw please select new device column.
thanks for this awesome build.
- after u upload your stock recovery.img on clicking fro new device just click on Build icon on the last of the page.....
- then u will be qued and u will gwt build number please save it for further refference...
- click proceed to that server and find ur build number,,,if it finished successfully u will see green icon on the left
- then click on your build number then click status there u will get something like this
Project recovery
Last Successful Artifacts
android_device_lge_cayman.zip 5.12 MB
inputrecovery.img 16.00 MB
manifest.xml 53.95 KB
recovery.img 6.92 MB
finally download recovery.img which is ur cwm recovery and flash it via Mobileuncle MTK tools which can be downloaded from playstore
If something goes wrong u can revert back ur rom or stock recovery itself by flashing ur stock recovery.img from the back up folder...or u can flash ur rom back using SP FLASH tools
IF i helped u please press thanks :victory::victory::victory:

anybody tried???
meanwhile how to extract stock recovery.img from stock ICS

I did test it. The image build does boot for me. But the build recovery i got this way did miss some *.ko files my device needed
The site is not new by the way..
Read here how to dump you're recovery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935162

Re: clockworkmod for newer devices - now get CWM recovery for every android
[email protected] said:
I did test it. The image build does boot for me. But the build recovery i got this way did miss some *.ko files my device needed
The site is not new by the way..
Read here how to dump you're recovery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935162
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Dumping rom is bit confusing....because I'm a dentist...
Can u please explain in simple steps to get stock recovery.img
I'm having intex aqua flash which is new in the market but it has all the feature of high devices...
One more thing can I do this in windows? Or should I need linux?
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium

Trying this right now. Hope the recovery.img from a stock nandroid works.

Re: clockworkmod for newer devices - now get CWM recovery for every android
McJesus15 said:
Trying this right now. Hope the recovery.img from a stock nandroid works.
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Share in simple steps to extract stock recovery.img after u successfully get ur cwm
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium

Re: clockworkmod for newer devices - now get CWM recovery for every android
drganbds said:
Share in simple steps to extract stock recovery.img after u successfully get ur cwm
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium
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My device is different. Technically I have cwm recovery already. It's just only accessible through a fast boot command. This allows me to have a nandroid back up already so I just took the recovery.img from a stock back up
Sent from my Zio using xda app-developers app

check this thread is updated...

I tried this for a Lenovo IdeaTab A2109 to try and build a touch recovery. It already has a unofficial cwm recovery non touch, so I used that as the recovery.img. It put out 2 recovery.img's. One was a recovery.img and the other inputreovery.img. I'm not sure what one I should flash or if I'm supposed to flash both. Would it put out errors if it didn't work?
Thanks for this post and any help you can give.

linsalata28 said:
I tried this for a Lenovo IdeaTab A2109 to try and build a touch recovery. It already has a unofficial cwm recovery non touch, so I used that as the recovery.img. It put out 2 recovery.img's. One was a recovery.img and the other inputreovery.img. I'm not sure what one I should flash or if I'm supposed to flash both. Would it put out errors if it didn't work?
Thanks for this post and any help you can give.
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Inputrecovery.img is wat u uploaded and recovery.img is wat u get as cwm recovery.
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium

drganbds said:
Inputrecovery.img is wat u uploaded and recovery.img is wat u get as cwm recovery.
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium
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Oh OK. What about the question I asked about errors? Will it give any errors if the recovery wont work?
Thanks for the quick reply.

linsalata28 said:
Oh OK. What about the question I asked about errors? Will it give any errors if the recovery wont work?
Thanks for the quick reply.
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If it gives error like black screen or volume key unfunction means it is not compiled properly but don't worry your device won't brick and u can revert back ur recovery by placing original.img on the root of phone storage and flash through mobileuncle tool..all the best
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium

Three Questions and I'm gonna try this out:
1. If the CWM recovery I build from CWM builder doesn't work, can I flash back the stock recovery by Mobile Uncle Tools, I mean won't it brick the device, can I still boot? I have a MT6577 device.
2. Does the script provided here backups up the stock recovery on Ice Cream Sandwich?
3. What else does this script do? Backup the whole phone?

ApplePriest said:
Three Questions and I'm gonna try this out:
1. If the CWM recovery I build from CWM builder doesn't work, can I flash back the stock recovery by Mobile Uncle Tools, I mean won't it brick the device, can I still boot? I have a MT6577 device.
2. Does the script provided here backups up the stock recovery on Ice Cream Sandwich?
3. What else does this script do? Backup the whole phone?
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1. Yes u can reflash you stock recovery back via mobile uncle tool
2. Yes it will work on ICS
3. I have shown that wat the backup folder will have...it does full backup of your phone....
Sent from my Aqua flash using xda premium

Okay, Thank you.
I will try and update you on this.
Edit: After flashing recovery, I got blank screen in recovery mode.

thanx mate , really a helpfu guide i have Xtouch x714 with Allwinner A13 chip
before i tried many A13 CWM none of them worked not even boot , they nearly damage my tablet
thank god there is Phoneixcard i was able to revive it .
Anyway , your methode of getting the recovery.img from [gscript] did not work for me , it kept give me errors
even though it shows 100% complete
so i used another method to get my recovery.img , hence my tablet is an Allwinner A13 chip, so
i used [ Rom Dump ] which a small and powerful tool run it in Windows from [ http://www.techknow.me ]
it uses ADB so u have to be rooted and enable developer mode in your device and have ADB drivers in your PC
it backup image of your system and boot.img , recovery.img and data
so i used the extracted recovery.img in the site you provide me and i got my new recovery.img and flash it to my tablet via NovoTools 1.0
and i test it , it works like charm , thanx again mate really helpful

step 2 no working....website down?

Black Screen
When I flashed recovery made through it, it gave me a black screen Is there any way to fix this??

the online one is not working
i tried twice for micromax a84... i got the CWM recovery and flashed it via mobile uncle tools...but it didnt work

?
after hitting "build" it states
your build has been queued.The
build id is
9b42b141e21a35c4007c250f45ab2039
continue to the build sever
view the current build output
when i hit either option i get "HTTP ERROR 404.
can anyone else see my build id and if so can you download it and link it to me via PM.
or what can i do to get my image

[TUT]Install clock work recovery using mobile

For this method u need to have rooted phone.
Hello guys.
I will show u the way how you can install cwm recovery mod on your android device using android application.
It's much easier then using adb command (for some users) .
First you need to download mobile_uncle _tool.apk.
You can download it from google play store or from this link: DOWNLOAD
Then you need to download cwm recovery from their official site or just google cwm and your device name.
When you download recovery, copy file to root on sd card and rename it to "recovery".
Note: if is recovery zipped, unzip it using winrar or 7-zip and rename it to recovery and copy into root of sd card.
Open mobile_uncle_tools and press "flash recovery from sd card", select recovery.iso and then program will do everything.
Your phone will reboot into new recovery.
Done
Cheers :highfive:

[HOW TO] Flash a new recovery

Hello guys!
Here is a little (but useful) tutorial by me.
Lets start!
You will need a PC with ADB and fastboot drivers.
As I own a Pico,I installed HTC Android Phone USB drivers.
First recovery that I flashed was Yannous CWM recovery.
It was good but I found better one. Thats PhilZ CWM Touch 5 recovery. It is for advanced users.
Download this file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=913094&d=1329843100
Extract it on your desktop.
Next: Download the recovery you want. This is the link for PhilZ CWM that I use. http://d-h.st/jg9
Extract the recovery file and find recovery.img
Replace that recovery.img with the one in A310E folder.
Now connect your HTC Pico via USB and enter FASTBOOTmode.
Open the CMD founded in A310E folder
Write this in CMD----- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Make sure your recovery is named "recovery.img" (without punctations)
Wait until its over and reboot the bootloader.
Enter the recovery mode and flash this (no need of wiping,this will wipe all) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2693524&d=1397802687
After that,flash desired ROM.
Thanks for reading!!!

Arnel Babić said:
Hello guys!
Here is a little (but useful) tutorial by me.
Lets start!
You will need a PC with ADB and fastboot drivers.
As I own a Pico,I installed HTC Android Phone USB drivers.
First recovery that I flashed was Yannous CWM recovery.
It was good but I found better one. Thats PhilZ CWM Touch 5 recovery. It is for advanced users.
Download this file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=913094&d=1329843100
Extract it on your desktop.
Next: Download the recovery you want. This is the link for PhilZ CWM that I use. http://d-h.st/jg9
Extract the recovery file and find recovery.img
Replace that recovery.img with the one in A310E folder.
Now connect your HTC Pico via USB and enter FASTBOOTmode.
Open the CMD founded in A310E folder
Write this in CMD----- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Make sure your recovery is named "recovery.img" (without punctations)
Wait until its over and reboot the bootloader.
Enter the recovery mode and flash this (no need of wiping,this will wipe all) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2693524&d=1397802687
After that,flash desired ROM.
Thanks for reading!!!
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Thanks a lots
Problem solved for me.

Worked
Great tutorial, Thanks.

[Guide] ROM install

/*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
*thermonuclear war,
or the current economic crisis caused by you following these
directions.
*YOU are choosing to make these modificiations, and
* if you point your finger at me for messing up your device, I willlaugh at you.
*/
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I have readed lot about how to flash custom ROM or stock ROM on Android device readed some comments that many people wiped their internal storage while installing ROM.
i found a Very Safe and easy way to do this.
First of all you need these things.
1.Philz Touch recovery. OR TWRP.
For Your device
2.Flashify app from Play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify
(For 1time process)
If you have PC then skip 2nd.
3.Only for PC users
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
If you have ADB installed skip this also.
After downloading follow my steps.
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*Mobile users NO PC*
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1. Place Your ROM in Sdcard .
Flash the downloaded philz touch recovery.img OR TWRP recovery with flashify to recovery partition..>
[Caution:->Do this carefully it can harm device if you didn't flashed right partition]
2.Boot to recovery.
3.Select Clean to install new ROM. (For Philz)
For TWRP :-> Click Wipe , Advanced wipe and Select Dalvik Cache, System, Data and Cache then swipe to wipe..
Wait for completing...
4. Select install zip and select install from external sdcard.
5. Find your ROM and flash.
if you want to install Gapps.
Flash the zip file of gapps after installation of ROM .
Done
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*For PC USERS *
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1.Download ADB and fastboot drivers.
(link is given above only for Windows)
if you are using linux you can find adb and fastboot in software manager App.
And
Philz Touch Recovery.img Or TWRP recovery.img
Place in a folder and open that folder press
Shift and Right click and select open in CMD. (Without selecting anything ((click on empty place inside folder)))
2.Open CMD / terminal.
Type:-> "adb reboot bootloader"
Without quotes abd Press Enter.
[Remember device connected with usb and usb debugging turned on)
3. Type :-> " fastboot flash recovery 'Name of your recovery"
in my case it is recovery.img
So example:-> "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
Without quotes and Press enter.
Flashing done..
(You can skip this step if you don't want to install Custom recovery in your phone.
Simply follow 4th step)
4. Type:-> fastboot boot recovery.img
Phone will boot into Recovery.
5.Select Clean to install new ROM. (For Philz)
For TWRP :-> Click Wipe , Advanced wipe and Select Dalvik Cache, System, Data and Cache then swipe to wipe..
Wait for completing...
6.Select install and select install form external sdcard.
Choose ROM and it will flash.
if you want to install Gapps.
Flash the zip file of gapps after installation of ROM .
Needed Any Further Help feel free to comment below.
And
if you find it useful Press Thanks button.
Credits:
@Snoop05 for ADB
@cgollner for Flashify.

Very nice guide
But i have a doubt :/
How philz will work for every smartphone?

sohamsen said:
Very nice guide
But i have a doubt :/
How philz will work for every smartphone?
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It is available for almost every phone i think.
Just need to search.

@[email protected] said:
It is available for almost every phone i think.
Just need to search.
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i have 3 phone but no one have philz

sohamsen said:
i have 3 phone but no one have philz
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Thread Updated for TWRP