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Hi,
I don't know if this is the correct section to get this question answered, but I'll try:
I have a new tablet, which is not really known at the moment. I managed to root it and next step would be to port Clockworkmod Recovery to it. Since I only found guides where I always have to repo sync the entire CyanogenMod github (which is 19GB+ as I heard), I searched for an alternative where I could save some traffic
I found a clockworkmod recovery from another tablet and wondered if it was just possible to unpack it, modify the recovery.fstab and repack it again.
Is this possible or do I have to modify more than the recovery.fstab? If yes, could you point me to the right direction?
Regards
dump your stock recovery
unpack the stock recovery and save the vold.fstab somewhere.
upload the stock recovery here
http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
get the output and flash`it
if the key`s are not working, unpack the new cwm, and the old recovery, and put the keys from the old recovery.
if you get some mount points erros, you will have to upload also the saved vold.fstab on the clockwork site when you cook the image.
if this does not offer you a good result, you will need to find a similar device (processor, resolution) that has allready a cwm, and try it
the recovery file is ramdisk/sbin/recovery
Hi,
thanks for showing me a way. Unfortunately builder.clockworkmod.com says it didn't find Android magic. This makes sense, as the image is a uImage with lzma compressed data inside. It seems koush's builder handles only "plain" recoveries...
Bad luck
I guess I'll try your second advice and search for a CWM for a similar device, unpack it, replace the fstab file and repack it again.
Thanks again!
hello I have made the porting on http://jenkins.cyanogenmod.com/job/recovery/lastBuild/console
I end up having a zip archive, how can I make my tablet to read that. I have installed cwm recovery and it is rooted. Let me know how can install it and replace my recovery with this.
BTW I have the original stock firmware of my tablet.
let me know thanks
Before you do anything else, make a backup. do it now.
don't even read anything else until you've done that.
seriously. stop reading. make a back up. you reading this means you're getting ready to start flashing things when you don't know if it will work.
download the modified script OTA for 38R from
here
courtesy jaggy
download
CMKeyguard.apk
from
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=06718662084607714036
(thanks to ethanmars)
and follow the instructions on the side of the download page
after you follow the instructions regarding cmkeyguard, as written on it's download page from the link i provided,
reboot into recovery
flash the modified script OTA for 38R
at this point, i flashed a superuser zip (i use supersu, but superuser would probably work. i flashed this 'just in case'. i don't know if it works if you do not flash it)
i also flashed the 61 gold AK kernel for the 11S here
AK is a great developer. probably the most responsive one from whom i've heard this dude
anyway, that worked. before trying to flash 38R, i was running 33R with ak, and a modified lockscreen using this method thanks to this guy.
happy hunting.
this worked for me.
this worked after other methods would fail. i had to go through multiple restores.
my problem was that i was running the 'custom' slide screen on stock 11s, but modified as per
this thread
by this guy
i had been getting multiple 'cmlockscreen' failures, preventing it from booting properly.
Damnnnnnn i did not realise your thread.... I did a clean flash of 38R instead..... But still great work for putting this up!
After a half day war with this update yesterday, i've succeded by doing almost the same you say. by the way, thanks for the tips.
after 2 hours try fixing yesterday, I found the solution thanks to Vomer post, flashing throught fastboot the system, boot and twrp img... :angel:
timothydonohue said:
Before you do anything else, make a backup. do it now.
don't even read anything else until you've done that.
seriously. stop reading. make a back up. you reading this means you're getting ready to start flashing things when you don't know if it will work.
download the modified script OTA for 38R from
here
courtesy jaggy
download
CMKeyguard.apk
from
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=06718662084607714036
(thanks to ethanmars)
and follow the instructions on the side of the download page
after you follow the instructions regarding cmkeyguard, as written on it's download page from the link i provided,
reboot into recovery
flash the modified script OTA for 38R
at this point, i flashed a superuser zip (i use supersu, but superuser would probably work. i flashed this 'just in case'. i don't know if it works if you do not flash it)
i also flashed the 61 gold AK kernel for the 11S here
AK is a great developer. probably the most responsive one from whom i've heard this dude
anyway, that worked. before trying to flash 38R, i was running 33R with ak, and a modified lockscreen using this method thanks to this guy.
happy hunting.
this worked for me.
this worked after other methods would fail. i had to go through multiple restores.
my problem was that i was running the 'custom' slide screen on stock 11s, but modified as per
this thread
by this guy
i had been getting multiple 'cmlockscreen' failures, preventing it from booting properly.
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Hi there! Today i had the OTA finally on my way but i had the modified lockscreen. I then came across your post and i tried to follow your step but with no luck:
1) the link to the OTA are just member profile but i think i can find the modified ones in the "official" thread in here
2)when i tried to perform the action listed in the page you linked to the CMkeyguard.apk i cannot delete the apk from my phone and i don't know how to do it from the PC. I tried then to flash it with the .zip provided by NunHugger (the creator of the modified lockscreen) but still no luck with the original update.
there is a way to perform the ota directly from the updater on the phone or i have to do it from the TWRP with the modified one only?
Also, reading through the thread of the lockscreen, i've read that i can perform a flash of boot.img... question is where to find it?
EDIT: I found the boot.img into the toolkit, so if i perform a flash it should be all back to normal without loosing any data, am i right?
Thank you!
FatPiNi said:
Hi there! Today i had the OTA finally on my way but i had the modified lockscreen. I then came across your post and i tried to follow your step but with no luck:
1) the link to the OTA are just member profile but i think i can find the modified ones in the "official" thread in here
2)when i tried to perform the action listed in the page you linked to the CMkeyguard.apk i cannot delete the apk from my phone and i don't know how to do it from the PC. I tried then to flash it with the .zip provided by NunHugger (the creator of the modified lockscreen) but still no luck with the original update.
there is a way to perform the ota directly from the updater on the phone or i have to do it from the TWRP with the modified one only?
Also, reading through the thread of the lockscreen, i've read that i can perform a flash of boot.img... question is where to find it?
EDIT: I found the boot.img into the toolkit, so if i perform a flash it should be all back to normal without loosing any data, am i right?
Thank you!
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ah, you're right. i fixed my link to the post with the modified script.
in order to delete the file cmkeyguard.apk, you need a file browswer with root access. i use es file explorer (among others).
Greetings,
Quick history of the problem:
*I have a Defy, with stock rom, rooted, and TWRP 2.1. I have a full android backup with TWRP.
*I flash CM9-NIGHTLY-120716-Defy.zip. I reboot, everything is fine.
*I reboot into new CWM recovery, make another android backup with CWM.
*I install TWRP 2.1 again.
*I flash CM10-20120924-NIGHTLY-mb525.zip.
*But then, I immediately flash again TWRP 2.1 (I think that was a mistake).
*I reboot, CM10 works fine.
*But when trying to boot into recovery from (new) bootmenu, TWRP immediately crashes and phone reboots I have no recovery mode available.
*At this time, phone still boots into CM10 just fine.
*I spend many hours trying to find how to flash a proper recovery, but to no avail. In desperation, I then follow the same recovery install procedure I followed many time ago after rooting the phone (see for example "wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jordan"). So bootmenu 0.61 is installed.
*And now the phone always reboots into bootmenu 0.61; recovery cannot be accessed ("recovery.sh not found"); CM10 does not boot.
So the phone is (probably soft) bricked.
At this point, after reading different posts, the only solution I have in mind is to flash a stock sbf file. However, since most of my previous actions have resulted in worse and worse situation, I am not sure this is the best solution.
What would you advise?
Thank you,
Colinou
EDIT: after reading different posts, finally flashed stock rom with sbf file following tutorial in forums. No problem encountered, apart from starting over everything.
EDIT2: I now realise that the reason for always booting to bootmenu, was that bootmenu 0.61 was set to always boot to bootmenu! There is an option in the bootmenu to start phone to "default" instead of "bootmenu". Anyway, the recovery was still broken, so I needed to flash a SBF file anyway.
Help with SBF
ColinouRussie said:
Greetings,
Quick history of the problem:
*I have a Defy, with stock rom, rooted, and TWRP 2.1. I have a full android backup with TWRP.
*I flash CM9-NIGHTLY-120716-Defy.zip. I reboot, everything is fine.
*I reboot into new CWM recovery, make another android backup with CWM.
*I install TWRP 2.1 again.
*I flash CM10-20120924-NIGHTLY-mb525.zip.
*But then, I immediately flash again TWRP 2.1 (I think that was a mistake).
*I reboot, CM10 works fine.
*But when trying to boot into recovery from (new) bootmenu, TWRP immediately crashes and phone reboots I have no recovery mode available.
*At this time, phone still boots into CM10 just fine.
*I spend many hours trying to find how to flash a proper recovery, but to no avail. In desperation, I then follow the same recovery install procedure I followed many time ago after rooting the phone (see for example "wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jordan"). So bootmenu 0.61 is installed.
*And now the phone always reboots into bootmenu 0.61; recovery cannot be accessed ("recovery.sh not found"); CM10 does not boot.
So the phone is (probably soft) bricked.
At this point, after reading different posts, the only solution I have in mind is to flash a stock sbf file. However, since most of my previous actions have resulted in worse and worse situation, I am not sure this is the best solution.
What would you advise?
Thank you,
Colinou
EDIT: after reading different posts, finally flashed stock rom with sbf file following tutorial in forums. No problem encountered, apart from starting over everything.
EDIT2: I now realise that the reason for always booting to bootmenu, was that bootmenu 0.61 was set to always boot to bootmenu! There is an option in the bootmenu to start phone to "default" instead of "bootmenu". Anyway, the recovery was still broken, so I needed to flash a SBF file anyway.
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Hi, can you please send a link for SBF, because I am having hard time searching.It seams that default link for SBF-s doesent work.
Thanks
Matija28 said:
Hi, can you please send a link for SBF, because I am having hard time searching.It seams that default link for SBF-s doesent work.
Thanks
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Hi, Can you send me how to add twrp to stock sbf like which file will work from Motorola recovery menu or any apk ?
Hello,
Could you help me? The site sbf.droid-developers.org is offline. I need any retail sbf file to unbrick my defy mb526. Does anyone have a mirror for a stock rom of this device?
gabrielms26 said:
Hello,
Could you help me? The site sbf.droid-developers.org is offline. I need any retail sbf file to unbrick my defy mb526. Does anyone have a mirror for a stock rom of this device?
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There is a link on quarx page,i used this to unbrick & root mine,if it helps ,i cannot post links so find it own.
Hai,
I don't remember where I downloaded the stock sbf file from, most likely from sbf.droid-developers.org, which is down now
However I kept a copy of the sbf file on my computer , it is a french retail version (but langage can be changed later), in case of desperate need, I can post it somewhere.
Nr
ColinouRussie said:
Hai,
I don't remember where I downloaded the stock sbf file from, most likely from sbf.droid-developers.org, which is down now
However I kept a copy of the sbf file on my computer , it is a french retail version (but langage can be changed later), in case of desperate need, I can post it somewhere.
Nr
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I'm in need of an sbf file. I have a tmobile us defy will this work with it? my phone is in a bootloop. I searched high and low in this forum and on the internet all the links point to sbf.droid-developers.org or multiupload both are down. If anyone has any sbf files please upload them. thanks in advance.
axel2230 said:
I'm in need of an sbf file. I have a tmobile us defy will this work with it? my phone is in a bootloop. I searched high and low in this forum and on the internet all the links point to sbf.droid-developers.org or multiupload both are down. If anyone has any sbf files please upload them. thanks in advance.
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I will send you a link by private message. I don't know if it will work with Tmobile, but at least you can boot your phone and flash another rom afterwards. At start it will ask you to login to motoblur, just cancel the requests, change language to english, and you're set.
Nr
defy stuck on CMR
hi guys i defy was stuck on boot it keeps on showing motorola logo then i think there is a problem i think i did a mistake that i nstalled Cynogen 7 and after using it for some time i again installed a back up from miui rom there i did a mistake and when iam on the recovery menu i cant select any option touchscreen is not working..pls help me guys
I finally managed to install Android 5.0 Lollipop on my Nexus 4.
First I flashed it using the factory images and fastboot and it was working fine, but after one week the sensors did not work anymore. CPU-Z showed no avalaible sensors. So I tried to reflash system.img and then the misery started. I was not able to boot, having the 4 spinning dots for hours, even over night (~8h). I tried every combination one could think of, e.g. installing the factory image, sideloading the OTA, installing flashable zips of the stock rom, I also tried custom roms and formated and also erased every partition using "fastboot erase ... or fastboot format ...". Literally nothing worked except installing the Android 4.4.4 factory image. So I ended up having a nandroid of Android 4 and from time to time installing Android 5 which did never work.
Today I was using the file manager in the TWRP custom recovery and I thought Android 5 not booting may be due to the encryption I had, when Lollipop was running well, the next thought was to try to reset the phone to a "real" factory state, because factory reset in recovery may format /system and /cache etc but the rest of the root file system is still present.
After some search I found this tutorial and I am happy to say that it worked and I rebooted my phone twice without having a "bootloop".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060
I did it on a Windows 7 laptop and followed the tutorial closely except I did not flash the flashfactory.zip he mentions (the links are down anyways), but I flashed the Android 5 factory image in fastboot. I have a 8GB Nexus, so I did not have to do the part for the Nexus 16GB.
I hope I can help some of you who tried to install Android 5.0 and ended up like me. First thing to try is always a factory reset, but if it does not work like in my case, this tutorial may help. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!
Also found this:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/8de29d6
greetz
HI,
I'm also facing same problem and tried all things mentioned in OP except the worked one. The links in the referenced thread are down. Can you please upload the LGNPST and the factory image flashable with LGNPST ?? Searched for so long, no result.
Please help to fix my phone..
Thanks in advance.
njarun said:
Searched for so long, no result.
Please help to fix my phone..
Thanks in advance.
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Seriously?
Your searching skills Sir, leave much to be desired.
I was able to successfully DL all files from the following links as of this posting.
Working link to LGNPST_1.3+Components in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47787622&postcount=32
AND
IN this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/wip-unbricking-nexus-4-using-qpst-t2208289
Working link to N4 Android 4.2 JOP40C TOT file HERE and LGNPST w/ Nexus 4 Unbricking Tools Package HERE
Best of luck
Hi,
I'm trying to get a Thinkpad Tablet 1 I have back up and running. It's currently running stock 4.0.3, and is rooted. I want to install the CWM Recovery image that's available in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831161
Specifically, the attachement here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1292481&d=1346343910
However I keep getting randomly redirected to the registration page, or get a permission error, when trying to access that thread.
Does anyone have that CWM image? Or one that will work on the original Thinkpad Tablet?
Thanks!
Luckily I've found a handy thread on a Russian Lenovo forum: https //translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http //lenovo-forums.ru/topic/282-recovery-cwm-%25D0%25B4%25D0%25BB%25D1%258F-ics-thinkpad-tablet/&prev=search&pto=aue
And the link to the CWM Recovery image is http //lenovo-forums.ru/Files/OS/Tablets/ThinkPadTablet/recovery.rar
Hi there,
can you guide me on this how to root and install custom ROM on Lenovo ThinkPad 1838.
Thanks
thinkpadboy said:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a Thinkpad Tablet 1 I have back up and running. It's currently running stock 4.0.3, and is rooted. I want to install the CWM Recovery image that's available in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831161
Specifically, the attachement here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1292481&d=1346343910
However I keep getting randomly redirected to the registration page, or get a permission error, when trying to access that thread.
Does anyone have that CWM image? Or one that will work on the original Thinkpad Tablet?
Thanks!
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Hi there,
can you guide me on this how to root and install custom ROM on Lenovo ThinkPad 1838.
Thanks