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[Q] Clockwork Recovery

any chances of us getting it?

Contact KOUSH from the forums here. He made it and ported it to the galaxy s phones so he might be able to help..
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so after getting in the irc room for koush i was directed to http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html
i must say that his blog is very appropraitely named.
I'm trying to get my ubuntu box setup to do the stuff he's asking but my phone isn't here yet it's in the mail. (i'm hoping this one has a clean esn.............)
i do however have my Sylvania Tablet that i would love a custom recovery for and am a little lost on the guide as well. I'm completely new to any kind of android dev work at all. and have very little programming background.
I'm enough of a nerd though that i feel i should be able to tackle anything i set my mind to. so when my interecept gets here tomorrow i'll be headed down this road and seeing where i end up.

bigwooly said:
any chances of us getting it?
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get rom manager from the market

StaticMaal said:
get rom manager from the market
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i thought rom manager needed CWR to function properly

bigwooly said:
i thought rom manager needed CWR to function properly
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I have tried Rom Manager, and there is no Clockwork option for the intercept in it.

CM01 Custom Recovery
CM01 Custom Recovery by Inxane works well for our Intercepts.

Why don't any of the MT4G devs use ROM Manager?

Only the CM team does. I wanted to fool around with some eye-candy.

read a few reasons before.....all I do now a days is just download the rom directly from the phone. Move the file to root of sd card and go ahead flash away. Works out well for me, if any issues just nandroid back to previous.

TheBiles said:
Only the CM team does. I wanted to fool around with some eye-candy.
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You would have to ask the devs of specifics ROMs you are interested in directly. Maybe they are too busy to support integration in a 3rd party app? Maybe they don't want their ROM to be "that" point-and-click as it would cause even more support requests than they already receive?
No one knows but them. Really, it's not hard to download a zip (even from your phone browser!), reboot to recovery, and hit flash.

Kline said:
You would have to ask the devs of specifics ROMs you are interested in directly. Maybe they are too busy to support integration in a 3rd party app? Maybe they don't want their ROM to be "that" point-and-click as it would cause even more support requests than they already receive?
No one knows but them. Really, it's not hard to download a zip (even from your phone browser!), reboot to recovery, and hit flash.
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True that it isn't that hard, but I'm that lazy.

Root - Yay Koush!

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html

Yep was going to post this myself but didn't have enough posts to link outside XDA..
Grats Koush

That didn't take long. Of course, according to Koush, it isn't fully functional yet if you don't have a recovery or ROM manager support.
I wonder what the devs will unlock with root...

Good news and good info. XD
But does this means that we are not getting the boot soon?
As I mentioned, I have a working recovery, but will not be releasing it until Google or I get the SD card working.
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Here's my question. Being a google experience device, does the xoom automatically install apps when you wipe the OS? The Nexus One did right, and all the CyanogenMods.

yes it does automatically installs apps

What exactly is CM7 for the Kindle Fire

so my KF is rooted, google market, gapps and all that good stuff is working fine.
I see in the DEV thread that cm7 is about to be released but im wondering what exactly does this really mean?
Is cm7 just a custom OS that the KF will boot to? What OS will it be? What benefits does this have over currently having the KF rooted with all the apps working properly from the the google market place as well as amazon?
Sorry for the noob question, i want to go install cm7 when its ready but wondering what it really is all about.
Thanks

okay i think i figured it out, its just wiping out everything that is on it now, like a format, and putting a gingerbread OS on it instead.
it will just be a full blown version of gingerbread with no limitations to anything you can do on it.
right?

It's this http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/about
I'd recommend their website for a start. Basically they are a team of developers that develop aftermarket firmware for a number of different Android based devices. The OS is a modified version of AOSP - Android Open Source Project.
One reason why CM7 is such a big deal is because Cyanogenmod is such a leader in Android development. Many other developers leverage the work done by the CM team in order to create custom ROMs and make improvements to Android devices. At a user level, running CM7 will give you an enhanced vanilla Gingerbread AOSP.
There are a lot more qualified people that could give you better info, but that's a start - and i'm sure someone will correct me if I said something wrong...

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
have a look there are multiple versions and cm 9 ....ice cream sandwich is not far away ... Cyanogen is the most used custom ROM on Android .... unofficially over a million kmobs said he is a cyanogen dev
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joelags said:
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Is cm7 just a custom OS that the KF will boot to? What OS will it be? What benefits does this have over currently having the KF rooted with all the apps working properly from the the google market place as well as amazon?
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I think one difference that you may consider a benefit is that the automatically installed updates, periodically pushed by Amazon, will no longer unroot your device and remove your system/app installs (Android Market, gApps, etc.) like the last one did for rooted users, because it will not be an Amazon device at all anymore. And you can still install the kindle app (and Amazon Video, I hope?) which makes this machine an awesome value for its retail cost.

gruuvin said:
I think one difference that you may consider a benefit is that the automatically installed updates, periodically pushed by Amazon, will no longer unroot your device and remove your system/app installs (Android Market, gApps, etc.) like the last one did for rooted users, because it will not be an Amazon device at all anymore. And you can still install the kindle app (and Amazon Video, I hope?) which makes this machine an awesome value for its retail cost.
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amazon video will require an extra help from an app for that...it can work on other unrooted devices but if it detects your device as rooted then it wont let you stream videos

joelags said:
so my KF is rooted, google market, gapps and all that good stuff is working fine.
I see in the DEV thread that cm7 is about to be released but im wondering what exactly does this really mean?
Is cm7 just a custom OS that the KF will boot to? What OS will it be? What benefits does this have over currently having the KF rooted with all the apps working properly from the the google market place as well as amazon?
Sorry for the noob question, i want to go install cm7 when its ready but wondering what it really is all about.
Thanks
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Everyone get's the be a noob (including me at this site) I've been on CM since the 5.x days for my Nexus dev phone and it's in my opinion the best aftermarket ROM out there. In my case what I like so much about it is the enablement of all of the capabilities that the hardware actually supports. My Nexus when initially released it didn't have 802.11N and no FM radio (even though the hardware supported it) CM is basically what you really wanted out of a ROM (and not just what the manufacturer or marketing wanted to give you)
Take the plunge (once things settle down a bit unless you like alpha's and the constant change) You'll not look back...

[Q] Google Apps Not Installed After Flashing AOKP?

So I flashed AOKP and the Gapps package but when I started up my phone my Google apps aren't installed. Everything else seemed to work fine. Is there anything else I can try or do I have to wipe everything then reflash? What could have gone wrong?
I got the files from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025939

you have to flash gapps.you probably got the wrong ones
1. wipe
2. flash aokp
3. flash gapps

zephiK said:
you have to flash gapps.you probably got the wrong ones
1. wipe
2. flash aokp
3. flash gapps
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I got them from the official thread, don't know why they'd be wrong. Do you have to reboot after flashing AOKP before Gapps? I guess ill probably end up just redoing it if there's no other ideas.

Evil_Betty said:
I got them from the official thread, don't know why they'd be wrong. Do you have to reboot after flashing AOKP before Gapps? I guess ill probably end up just redoing it if there's no other ideas.
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no. flash gapps after flashing rom.

Yeah you probably flashed gapps before the rom.

I tried it again and same thing. Play Store is there but no Chrome, maps, People, navigation etc. Is installing this package any different than just manually downloading the apps from the play store? I really don't know what's going on.

I would try re-downloading the gapps package.

Evil_Betty said:
I tried it again and same thing. Play Store is there but no Chrome, maps, People, navigation etc. Is installing this package any different than just manually downloading the apps from the play store? I really don't know what's going on.
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If the play store is there, it flashed. You can download the rest.

Those apps were removed from the rom you flashed.

estallings15 said:
If the play store is there, it flashed. You can download the rest.
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This, they really need to stop calling it a gapps pack when it is really just the play store with which you can then download gmail/chrome/maps/books/etc.

Ok, didn't realize those weren't supposed to be in there. Thanks guys

Evil_Betty said:
Ok, didn't realize those weren't supposed to be in there. Thanks guys
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Gapps is really only useful for account setup, play store, and talk in my experience.

threeclaws said:
This, they really need to stop calling it a gapps pack when it is really just the play store with which you can then download gmail/chrome/maps/books/etc.
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It is a gapps package. When they first gave the package a name, chrome, maps etc weren't on the android market. Eventually it became a a available on the market and to avoid confusion it wasn't renamed.
Those apps were removed because it was more convenient to manually get them from the store as when a new update is pushed. Gapps wouldn't have to be updated
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I think the package manager will always pick the newest package provided two have the same signing. An update will normally not overwrite locally installed app updates, even if older. I think.

Locally installed apps are in /data/app. Flashing a gapps package puts apps in /system/app.
Like others have said there is no reason to include all the crap in the package that you can download yourself in the market. It has been this way for quite some time now.

zephiK said:
It is a gapps package. When they first gave the package a name, chrome, maps etc weren't on the android market. Eventually it became a a available on the market and to avoid confusion it wasn't renamed.
Those apps were removed because it was more convenient to manually get them from the store as when a new update is pushed. Gapps wouldn't have to be updated
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Gapps only came out because google was pissy about CM including google apps in their releases, it was called gapps because it actually included google apps (maps/gmail/store/etc.) that weren't available on non google approved devices. Since now gapps just has the play store (at least from what I can tell) they should just call it gplay or something so people don't expect gapps on their freshly flashed devices.

threeclaws said:
Gapps only came out because google was pissy about CM including google apps in their releases, it was called gapps because it actually included google apps (maps/gmail/store/etc.) that weren't available on non google approved devices. Since now gapps just has the play store (at least from what I can tell) they should just call it gplay or something so people don't expect gapps on their freshly flashed devices.
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Why are you giving me history when I already know this? You're just quoting me just to few quote me. Hence my signature says G1.
Renaming gapps to gplay makes no sense. They can call it whatever they like, it's just a name and their fault for not reading.
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zephiK said:
Why are you giving me history when I already know this? You're just quoting me just to few quote me. Hence my signature says G1.
Renaming gapps to gplay makes no sense. They can call it whatever they like, it's just a name and their fault for not reading.
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You threw chrome into the mix when discussing gapps creation, that is a pretty clear sign you don't know the history since chrome wasn't around at the time. Your broken english doesn't help either, "Hence my signature says G1".

It is not just the play store. It is all Google apps that are not available separately on the play store and stuff that is not open source. So when you build aosp it is not included.
It is very simple and was already explained.
You can pull your current play store.apk and toss it in your roms .zip /system/app prior to flashing it. Then don't flash the gapps package since oh its just the play store.

threeclaws said:
You threw chrome into the mix when discussing gapps creation, that is a pretty clear sign you don't know the history since chrome wasn't around at the time. Your broken english doesn't help either, "Hence my signature says G1".
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During the time of gapps creation, Chrome for Android didn't exist, so those apps were included in the original packaging of the gapps. So no, I didn't bring it into topic. I was saying that those google apps (such as Maps, Chrome [now its available], etc) weren't on the Android Market. So because they weren't on the Market, it had to be included in the gapps flashable zip, but now that they're included, it isnt necessary to include them in the zip as you can get them from the play store.
I don't care, I'm not writing a essay where I'm graded on my english. This is a forum, I shouldn't have to proof read what I said if I got the point across. Don't reply back to me just for the heck of it, oh man you insulted me over the internet over my grammar and english. Does that mean you're going to insult everybody else who's primary language isn't English? Most engineers aren't the greatest when it comes to english, so dont insult them either