How does one perform a Fastboot wipe? - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

From my understanding it can only be done via ADB? And I have to perform "fastboot erase system -w"
But what exactly are the steps to do so?

- Connect your phone to ADB on your PC (with the phone booted normally)
- run the command "ADB reboot bootloader"
- Once your phone reboots into the boot loader, run the fastboot wiping command
There might be an easier way to do, but that's what works for me.

TeeJay3800 said:
- Connect your phone to ADB on your PC (with the phone booted normally)
- run the command "ADB reboot bootloader"
- Once your phone reboots into the boot loader, run the fastboot wiping command
There might be an easier way to do, but that's what works for me.
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Thanks a lot man, have always read your helpful comments all the way back to my G1 days. Appreciate the quick reply.
And btw, do you perform a fastboot wipe rather than the traditional wipe via a recovery? And does this have any particular advantage doing this?

mackster248 said:
Thanks a lot man, have always read your helpful comments all the way back to my G1 days. Appreciate the quick reply.
And btw, do you perform a fastboot wipe rather than the traditional wipe via a recovery? And does this have any particular advantage doing this?
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Glad I could help. Honestly, I've never done a wipe via fastboot, but talking about it actually makes me want to try it. I've always done it through recovery, so I really don't know if one is better than another. Let me know how it goes.

TeeJay3800 said:
Glad I could help. Honestly, I've never done a wipe via fastboot, but talking about it actually makes me want to try it. I've always done it through recovery, so I really don't know if one is better than another. Let me know how it goes.
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I just did it and works like a charm. Thanks again! And the recent CM7RC4 was very buggy for me so I'm gonna see if a fastboot wipe will solve my issues. Also, I know you're a big sense rom fan, I just tried the Thunderbolt rom via team royal, I was wondering if Evil's HD port is better? Is it the same version of sense?

mackster248 said:
Also, I know you're a big sense rom fan, I just tried the Thunderbolt rom via team royal, I was wondering if Evil's HD port is better? Is it the same version of sense?
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The Thunderbolt is said to have Sense 2.0 whereas eViL's D-HD port is 1.84, but there's no difference that I can see. RoyalThunder doesn't have the new features that Sense 2.1 has. In my opinion eViL's is better, but I'm probably being partial since I've been running his ROM for months with great success...no bugs, 100% stable, and fast. Tomorrow I might upgrade to the latest version with includes Ext4, and for the first time I'll try Faux's Froyo/Sense kernel with it. I'll let you know what I think.

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The Thunderbolt is said to have Sense 2.0 whereas eViL's D-HD port is 1.84, but there's no difference that I can see. RoyalThunder doesn't have the new features that Sense 2.1 has. In my opinion eViL's is better, but I'm probably being partial since I've been running his ROM for months with great success...no bugs, 100% stable, and fast. Tomorrow I might upgrade to the latest version with includes Ext4, and for the first time I'll try Faux's Froyo/Sense kernel with it. I'll let you know what I think.
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Alright thanks! Biggest problem for me is getting GPS to work.... My GPS is so buggy, didn't work at all on RoyalThunder, and sometimes doens't work on CM. I'm not sure if I have a defective unit or not but I can see that most people have GPS problems as well. Kinda disappointing since my little ol G1's GPS locked on instantly every time and on every ROM. =/

mack- what you on now that gps doesnt work? i assume you tried reflashing the rom, and also gps fix from the market?
also, which version of RG was bad on GPS? im on 1.6 and the worst i have to do is reboot and it comes back. I'm thinking of flashing 2.1 now, i'm hoping that doesnt have a gps issue as well.

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2.1 sucks...how can I get 1.5 back?

Not sure what they did on this thing. I thought 2.1 was supposed to IMPROVE performance...and add some BT functionality.
I got no BT improvement. Instead, I got:
1. Random reboots
2. Slow/crashing Navigation
3. Useless voice recognition on Navigation
4. Random phone calls placed when fiddling with BT
5. Slow opening notifications
6. WIFI won't turn on
I could go on and on...
Sprint says I can't go back to 1.5, but I'm sure there's a way to do it.
HELP PLEASE! I'm rooted, if that helps.
Greg
theres noway. your H-Boot has been updated. thats the end of it. 1.5 just wont work anymore.
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troublestylist said:
HELP PLEASE! I'm rooted, if that helps.
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Yes it does. Just find a 1.5 ROM for CDMA hero. However, before most of our devs moved on to the EVO almost all of them stop developing 1.5 and moved to 2.1
I would suggest trying out some 2.1 ROMs and see what you like.
If you are rooted you should have put a recovery on your phone that you can get to by pressing home and turning on your phone. The first thing you will want to do is make a nandroid backup in case you don't like things. Then stick a ROM on your sdcard. Select all the wipe options except for battery and rotate and then flash a new ROM.
Id try wiping and reloading a 2.1 rom. I never had any of those problems when I went to 2.1.
I'm running the latest DamageControl and can honestly say I am not having any of those issues. I say you should try using a different ROM.
centran said:
Yes it does. Just find a 1.5 ROM for CDMA hero. However, before most of our devs moved on to the EVO almost all of them stop developing 1.5 and moved to 2.1
I would suggest trying out some 2.1 ROMs and see what you like.
If you are rooted you should have put a recovery on your phone that you can get to by pressing home and turning on your phone. The first thing you will want to do is make a nandroid backup in case you don't like things. Then stick a ROM on your sdcard. Select all the wipe options except for battery and rotate and then flash a new ROM.
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I didn't root until I got 2.1, so I surmise the 1.5 is gone, right?
derekwilkinson said:
I'm running the latest DamageControl and can honestly say I am not having any of those issues. I say you should try using a different ROM.
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RegawMOD was also recommended. Any reason why to pick one or the other?
Thanks for all the help. Sad that unpaid and unsupported independent developers can do this job better than HTC.
In a best case world, I'd be able to get ad hoc networking to work. I followed the directions but didn't have any success. My ultimate goal was to enable my Hero to display photos wirelessly from my computer. Many programs do it the other way around.
Originally I thought BT would be the easiest wireless protocol, but it seems pretty weak for that sort of data transfer. So 802.11 seemed a better solution...but for some reason Android folks decided to cripple the OS from recognizing ad hoc networks. Odd.
troublestylist said:
I didn't root until I got 2.1, so I surmise the 1.5 is gone, right?
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You can still flash 1.5 ROMs. You just can't flash the 1.5 RUU.
Great...
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
Sprint sent me a new phone. Once I confirm it's got 1.5, they can have this 2.1-infected POS back.
troublestylist said:
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
Sprint sent me a new phone. Once I confirm it's got 1.5, they can have this 2.1-infected POS back.
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Look... there's a good chance your new Hero WILL have 2.1 on it. If it does, just root it and install a custom 1.5 rom.
troublestylist said:
Tried Damagecontrol 2.09, did a clean wiped install, and everything seemed fine. Didn't seem much faster, but whatever.
Too bad I waited until I was at work to reboot. Now it's in a bootloop, and I'm stuck at work with no phone.
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This might mean you simply didn't wipe everything before you flashed the new ROM. Always perform a full wipe before flashing new ROMs.
Take the battery out of your phone. Put it back in and reboot to Recovery (hold Home and press Power). Then select the Wipe option, and go down that list and wipe every single category (I do them each twice just to make sure).
Then go back to the main menu and flash the ROM again. That should probably solve any bootloop problems.
(I don't know if it works exactly this same way with the rooted 2.1 RUU [I'm still on rooted 1.5], so if any of the above is wrong, anybody please correct it...)
HeroMeng said:
Look... there's a good chance your new Hero WILL have 2.1 on it. If it does, just root it and install a custom 1.5 rom.
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Yeah, I was thinking about that. If so, I might as well keep MY phone and install a 1.5 ROM on it. Less work, and they can have their "new" phone back.
chromiumleaf said:
This might mean you simply didn't wipe everything before you flashed the new ROM. Always perform a full wipe before flashing new ROMs.
Take the battery out of your phone. Put it back in and reboot to Recovery (hold Home and press Power). Then select the Wipe option, and go down that list and wipe every single category (I do them each twice just to make sure).
Then go back to the main menu and flash the ROM again. That should probably solve any bootloop problems.
(I don't know if it works exactly this same way with the rooted 2.1 RUU [I'm still on rooted 1.5], so if any of the above is wrong, anybody please correct it...)
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Wow, so working with this ROM is like dealing with my kids. I have to tell it everything twice No thanks. Not worth the hassles.
2.1 doesn't do anything better that I can see. I'll deal with wired tethering considering how rarely I use it. The Navigation on 1.5 works better, or at least the voice recognition does.
Why exactly are you still using 1.5??? What custom 1.5 ROM would you guys recommend? Any that have ad hoc networking built in so I don't have to hack it myself?
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Pretty sure all of them do.
Sure wish we could get WPA working for us....stupid kernel.
troublestylist said:
Wow, so working with this ROM is like dealing with my kids. I have to tell it everything twice No thanks. Not worth the hassles.
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You don't have to do them all twice, I was just saying that I do to make sure -- personal preference. Considering how those wipe options only take like 1 second each, there is no "hassle" of which you speak. Adds maybe an extra 4 to 5 seconds to your day at most.
troublestylist said:
Why exactly are you still using 1.5??? What custom 1.5 ROM would you guys recommend? Any that have ad hoc networking built in so I don't have to hack it myself?
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I'm not still on a 1.5 ROM, I just haven't yet updated my phone to stock 2.1 using the can't-ever-go-back-again 2.1 RUU. What I meant is that I still have the 1.5 root, but I have been using 2.1 ROMs over top of that for at least a couple months now. I think all these 2.1 ROMs are much faster than 1.5 ever was. Slow speed and lag were my biggest annoyances in stock 1.5.
We probably won't be able to answer all your questions or remove all your doubts. You won't know completely until you try some of them yourself.
If you look in the Wiki there are several 1.5 Roms out there that you can use. However, there are some apps that will only work with 2.1. Once your rooted you can flash any ROM from 1.5 or 2.1. You might also consider an AOSP rom which doesn't have Sense UI. But as I stated in another thread yesterday, most people end up adding apps to try and emulate certain characteristics of Sense UI. I don't like vanilla android, but it is supposed to be faster.
Here are all of the ROMs available. If you want a 1.5 Rom I would suggest Gumbo 1.5c, Modaco 2.2, or Fresh 1.1.
Thanks all. I honestly can't imagine how anyone could find 2.1 faster than 1.5, but I guess maybe once I'll reload 1.5, it may remind me. The "other half" of the people are (like me) saying the CPU can't handle the extra 2.1 features.
I never found 1.5 slow for anything other than phone calls. Now, those are WORSE, and the lag time to do anything else now exists, where it didn't before.
I ran DC all day, and it was just as annoying as the stock ROM. Maybe a little better in places, worse in others.
I guess I'm running "basic" stuff compared to all you guys running heavy apps or something.
Pancake 1.5 running now...refreshingly smoothly Yea, a bit of the glitz is gone, but wow, no lag.
And I have a Navigation program back that has a functional voice recognition. I hesitate to update because I'm not sure how far the revs go under 1.5. I don't want the new version back and I don't know if it's 2.1-only.

Clockwork 3.0.0

Can any give me a link to the newest cw recovery?
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fliint said:
Can any give me a link to the newest cw recovery?
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http://mrcellphoneunlocker.com/recovery.img
Download it from the RomManager.
Thanks
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its not on the rom manager, (yet)
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Download it from the RomManager.
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Rom manager doesn't list 3.0, only 2.5.1.4 as being the latest
ROMmanager is 3.0.0.2 the recovery has not changed since november 10.
There's nothing wrong with cwm. Maybe one will come with GB.
vision
Does this recovery fix the "off issue" what's new in it?
PlatinumMOTO said:
Does this recovery fix the "off issue" what's new in it?
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Support for ext4 file systems, that GB uses. If you're using any Android 2.2 based ROM, stay with CWM 2.5.1.3.
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AllWin said:
Support for ext4 file systems, that GB uses. If you're using any Android 2.2 based ROM, stay with CWM 2.5.1.4.
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For latest mine says 2.5.1.3
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For latest mine says 2.5.1.3
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Sorry, that was a typo. Fixed.
i see what you mean... and i just installed 3.0.0 and its my color - orange
-- this is just for the gingerbread build by RHCP I am crazy because I am flashing gingerbread to my phone right now. i think ive gone insane.
androidcues said:
i see what you mean... and i just installed 3.0.0 and its my color - orange
-- this is just for the gingerbread build by RHCP I am crazy because I am flashing gingerbread to my phone right now. i think ive gone insane.
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let us know the results? did your g2 survive?
can anyone let us know if any problems have been discovered with this so far?
warsng said:
let us know the results? did your g2 survive?
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Yes it did --- I kinda jumped into it and did not really heed Cyanogen's big fat warnings... (reckless flashing) and I couldnt get gapps to flash -- the stuff from rhcp's CM7 thread -- but I got gingerbread going -- then I got distracted all night...woke up this morning trying to make the phone shape up for work -- that was a #fail and the battery seems horrible (then again by no means was it a proper battery test) -- so I decided to restore and that involved new drivers..(for some reason my SDK at work couldnt find the phone so I had to reinstall a fresh SDK (which i named gbSDK)... then found the current recovery at mybrainhurts.com and erased 3.0.0 and fastbooted the froyo recovery back in and restored. easy pie --
gingerbread is a whole 'nother game -- i just hope theres a way to go back and forth between froyo and GB (and eclair/cupcake/donut) without having to fastboot erase and fastboot flash relevant recoveries.
I am sure folks want to know if the new one fixes the "off" mode...and the answer is - i dont know. I didnt check. i kind of hope not because its a feature rather than a bug. theres no quick way to get to recovery when the phone is off. (on to fboot then to hboot then to recovery is too much work)
Is it even worth it to upgrade at this point in time? I'm a bit worried as it seems to be working pretty damn good with what I'm doing now. No partitions on my SD card because I don't care to put apps on it (it's not the fastest class card anyway).
androidcues said:
Yes it did --- I kinda jumped into it and did not really heed Cyanogen's big fat warnings... (reckless flashing) and I couldnt get gapps to flash -- the stuff from rhcp's CM7 thread -- but I got gingerbread going -- then I got distracted all night...woke up this morning trying to make the phone shape up for work -- that was a #fail and the battery seems horrible (then again by no means was it a proper battery test) -- so I decided to restore and that involved new drivers..(for some reason my SDK at work couldnt find the phone so I had to reinstall a fresh SDK (which i named gbSDK)... then found the current recovery at mybrainhurts.com and erased 3.0.0 and fastbooted the froyo recovery back in and restored. easy pie --
gingerbread is a whole 'nother game -- i just hope theres a way to go back and forth between froyo and GB (and eclair/cupcake/donut) without having to fastboot erase and fastboot flash relevant recoveries.
I am sure folks want to know if the new one fixes the "off" mode...and the answer is - i dont know. I didnt check. i kind of hope not because its a feature rather than a bug. theres no quick way to get to recovery when the phone is off. (on to fboot then to hboot then to recovery is too much work)
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what exactly happened when you flashed the gapps?
at least it didn't fry your g2. i think i might give it a go once i hear a few more success stories. my main worry atm is the ext4 issue. i guess i could just wait until rc1 i guess.
by 'off mode', are you referring to s-off?
warsng said:
what exactly happened when you flashed the gapps?
at least it didn't fry your g2. i think i might give it a go once i hear a few more success stories. my main worry atm is the ext4 issue. i guess i could just wait until rc1 i guess.
by 'off mode', are you referring to s-off?
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I read the rhcp cm7 thread and i needed to unmount system before flashing the gapps. Thats why gapps failed because i didnt read!
By Off i meant how cw doesnt let the phone turn off when charging... i hope cw 3.0 lets us keep that feature.
Ill probably give it another go this weekend...it works its just if you wanna go back to froyo you need to replace recoveries manually..not a big deal but frankly gingerbread isnt all that more exciting than froyo. I feel i have what i need.in Froyo..the gb keyboard...the gb market... and thats fine with me.
vision
androidcues said:
I read the rhcp cm7 thread and i needed to unmount system before flashing the gapps. Thats why gapps failed because i didnt read!
By Off i meant how cw doesnt let the phone turn off when charging... i hope cw 3.0 lets us keep that feature.
Ill probably give it another go this weekend...it works its just if you wanna go back to froyo you need to replace recoveries manually..not a big deal but frankly gingerbread isnt all that more exciting than froyo. I feel i have what i need.in Froyo..the gb keyboard...the gb market... and thats fine with me.
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appreciate the info , thanks.
Erase Recovery option
Call me naïve, but if people are making full-blown builds with an image recovery and everything from the CM gingerbread source (which includes the Clockwork Mod recovery 3.0.0 image if I'm reading the source properly), could you just go into ROM Manager, go into Settings, and check the "Erase Recovery" option to allow it to erase the recovery between flashes?
I would test this myself, but I need to go home and make myself fresh builds of CM7 and CM6.2 to try swapping/flashing back and forth between. I can report back once I get around to it later this afternoon.
If I understand that option correctly, applying a full flash of these alpha builds of CM7 should write the new recovery image (v3.0.0.0), and if you need to switch back to CM6, you should be able to just reflash a full build of 6.1.1/6.2 back and it will restore the older recovery image (v2.5.1.8 according to the latest froyo version).
EDIT: Negate that thought. Not sure how you would go about forcing the recovery image flash while in recovery. I got to research this a little more...

What's the use of roms now if recovery is flaky?

I know they are two different things that one relies on the other to work. I understand that rom devs are usually different people than those working on the recovery program.
You gotta start somewhere...
2.5.x.x recovery in the root thread works enough that you can flash roms with no issues.
I don't know if there's a new version of recovery yet. What I meant by flakiness was the issue that some were having, including me, that the phone would always boot into recovery if it was off and you were trying to charge it.
herbthehammer said:
I don't know if there's a new version of recovery yet. What I meant by flakiness was the issue that some were having, including me, that the phone would always boot into recovery if it was off and you were trying to charge it.
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That's a known issue with ALL clockwork recoveries and there probably will NEVER be a fix.
This may be the case but since the evo and epic used cwm recovery, the shift is the first phone I've experienced this snafu with. Maybe I was just lucky in the past. And yeah, I'm impatient for it to be fixed. I gotta chill out.
Why are you charging with the phone powered off anyway?
Compusmurf said:
Why are you charging with the phone powered off anyway?
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because bump charging makes unicorn for reals
Compusmurf said:
Why are you charging with the phone powered off anyway?
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It charges about 10 times quicker.
cloverdale said:
It charges about 10 times quicker.
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Definitely
So is this recovery causing all the issues that are happening after root? Like the heating up/lag/low quadrant scores?
I'd like to root just to be able to remove things and use wireless tether, but honestly the phone works fine for me right now.
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You don't actually need to flash the CWM 3.0 recovery. I too like to charge my phone while it's turned off, and after reading about that bug, I just set up my phone to fastboot boot the CWM from preludedrew. What that does is it loads the new custom recovery, but without over-writing the original. From there you can follow the directions to install the custom ROM.
I'm running Evervolv, and so far it seems to be pretty great. Of course you don't get 4G and the camera is buggy still, but you can take pictures and the wifi actually goes faster now.
Then what's the best rom and recovery out for the shift?
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Quick question guys, since were on the topic of recovery idk if this is the correct "recovery" or not, I came from the evo so its not much different for me but when I did a nandroid backup for my evo I would select backup/restore and select backup google proprietary system files or something like that, I don't get that option with my shift, I just get backup, is that the same?
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That's a known issue with ALL clockwork recoveries and there probably will NEVER be a fix.
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This is not the case with my EVO 4G. I can charge the phone when it's off without the recovery booting up. This is the case with CWM 3.0/2.6.X.X
Where can I download the recovery for the shift?
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ClockworkMod Touch Recovery For Shift

Now available for the Evo Shift, go try it out and let us know what ya think about it!
If it aint broke, don't fix it.
VICODAN said:
If it aint broke, don't fix it.
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I don't care I would still like a ICS touch recovery for the shift that works with rom manager.
I saw this a couple of days ago. I wouldn't mind getting it.
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Been using it on the EVO. It's good, but not quite as responsive as TWRP was. It's basically just an enlarged CWM that's touchable, not quite designed for touch yet. On the otherhand its still nice and can't wait to see future progressions with it
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Been using it on the EVO. It's good, but not quite as responsive as TWRP was. It's basically just an enlarged CWM that's touchable, not quite designed for touch yet. On the otherhand its still nice and can't wait to see future progressions with it
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Yeah according to koush's twitter he just "hacked" touch into cwm recovery so I'm sure he'll work on it more. Twrp is a nice recovery and koush is a really good recovery developer so I'm sure he'll make it better if possible. It's funny after finding out about twrp 2.0 being in development before it was even released I asked koush if it was possible to have touch in cwm. Now we're getting it lol.
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Been using it on the EVO. It's good, but not quite as responsive as TWRP was. It's basically just an enlarged CWM that's touchable, not quite designed for touch yet. On the otherhand its still nice and can't wait to see future progressions with it
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Using it on my NS4G and honestly I like it better than TWRP. Everything being larger is reassuring, in TWRP I was always nervous because there was such a small area to select. With the items being so close in TWRP I always wanted my volume keys to work so I could make fine maneuvers and in CWM Touch they do. So you can use it just like regular CWM or with touch. Nice if you mess up your touch screen. And of course it also works with ROM Manager. I downloaded it from the site but I may actually donate the $2 for it too.
Touch recovery has just become available on my SHIFT!!! CHECKIN' IT OUT NOW, VERY COOL!
Let Me Put My Shift In U
letmeputdatipin said:
Touch recovery has just become available on my SHIFT!!! CHECKIN' IT OUT NOW, VERY COOL!
Let Me Put My Shift In U
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I know I tested it for him last night but it's not stable. I wouldn't purchase it quite yet. Download it from the site and test it out. It will boot into recovery for about 5-10 secs format your cache then reboot to system/rom. Strange bug. It would be nice if someone else could confirm this.
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I know I tested it for him last night but it's not stable. I wouldn't purchase it quite yet. Download it from the site and test it out. It will boot into recovery for about 5-10 secs format your cache then reboot to system/rom. Strange bug. It would be nice if someone else could confirm this.
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I just flashed it through fastboot and haven't seen that issue. I'm actually in the process of making a backup
Edit: Weird thing.. made a backup and rebooted, everything was gone. It brought my ROM completely back to barebones.. even gapps were gone. Restoring with Touch now to see what happens.
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crump84 said:
I just flashed it through fastboot and haven't seen that issue. I'm actually in the process of making a backup
Edit: Weird thing.. made a backup and rebooted, everything was gone. It brought my ROM completely back to barebones.. even gapps were gone. Restoring with Touch now to see what happens.
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Hmm, well I did fastboot erase recovery before flashing, not sure if that has anything to do with it. What recovery did you flash this on top of, just the previous cwm recovery? You can also report bugs to him on irc freenode #koush
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Hmm, well I did fastboot erase recovery before flashing, not sure if that has anything to do with it. What recovery did you flash this on top of, just the previous cwm recovery? You can also report bugs to him on irc freenode #koush
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Yeah I was coming from the previous version of cwm. I just did a restore and everything is fine. Ill probably mess with it a little later when I have some free time.
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I'm not at my pc to try fastboot again but I did flash the previous cwm recovery and it works fine. Then I flashed the new touch recovery with the flash_image command in terminal emulator and I'm getting the same results as before. This is really annoying me because I would like to get this recovery working and I don't know WTH is going wrong here. Maybe it's the new firmware update? I doubt it. Anyways hope to here from more people that try this out.
Edit: when I get a chance later I'll flash with fastboot without running the fastboot erase recovery command and see how it goes.
I must have got lucky... I used joey krim's GUI Flash App and flashed it over the top of the prior clockwork mod recovery... I'll spend a little time tonight trying to replicate...
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Well just used the touch recovery to flash my first ROM and had no issues. Maybe my first experience was fluke.
Anyway, liking this recovery so far.
I'm gonna be using GUI flash like Drob since its just easier for me
question for the pro's, if I understand all this I just rename the recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.6-speedy.img to PG06100.img , boot into fastboot and flash ?
jrny99 said:
question for the pro's, if I understand all this I just rename the recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.6-speedy.img to PG06100.img , boot into fastboot and flash ?
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I'm nit sure about that (although I feel it should be .zip but probably wrong), but you could use Flash Image GUI from the Market or use fastboot from your PC. You'd just stick the .img file in the same folder as fastboot, cd there and type "fastboot flash recovery whateveryounamedit.img". Personally I like Flash Image, works well for flashing kernels too.
jrny99 said:
question for the pro's, if I understand all this I just rename the recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.6-speedy.img to PG06100.img , boot into fastboot and flash ?
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Yeah, just to reiterate what J-Ice already said... don't rename the img, just flash through fastboot.
I can confirm this is not working for at least one other person on the latest firmware update via twitter messaging...I've tried GUI, fastboot, flash_image, all same results.

ICS Emulator?

I have an interesting problem/challenge I know if anyone knows the answer it will be here. I would like my Mytouch to play nice with Citrix at work and my understanding is that I need ICS to get that done. This is (was) my first android device I had left stock and I really liked the way sense operated. I rooted it and got S=off and flashed several (like 10) ICS roms and either hated them (without sence) or no camera. Finally just went back to GB. Running RoyalMint and love it. Since I only need ICS to log onto the VPN for work is there a ICS solution - I mean I guess I could flash everytime I need to log on but that seems silly. Maybe an emulator app?
I think there is an app in the play store called boot manager that lets you partition your sd card and let you dual boot. FYI all AOKP, AOSP, and MIUI have working camera for ics.
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I will try both of those options. Working with the HTC has been difficult about 50% of the ROMs I have tried have failed to flash so the dual boot maybe my best bet.
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I will try both of those options. Working with the HTC has been difficult about 50% of the ROMs I have tried have failed to flash so the dual boot maybe my best bet.
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Roms have failed to flash for you? You have got a problem buddy
hmsulli said:
I will try both of those options. Working with the HTC has been difficult about 50% of the ROMs I have tried have failed to flash so the dual boot maybe my best bet.
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Use 4EXT Recovery to perfom a FULL wipe. If you don't wipe correctly you'll have a bad time. Kind of like in real life.
Good luck with Boot Manager + ICS. Be sure sure enable large boot.img.

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