custom recovery with dropbox support?

[vernotzy21]

I only have 2 gigs of sdcard then I said to myself this would be sweet if I could flash from my online storage probly not going to happen.....but could it? That would be sweet
Ahem---drew?

 

[eletendre84]

I only have 2 gigs of sdcard then I said to myself this would be sweet if I could flash from my online storage probly not going to happen.....but could it? That would be sweet
Ahem---drew?

not going to happen. think about it. you want a recovery kernel with wifi drivers? yeah, no.

not a bad thought, but im thinking thats a no go.

solution....buy a bigger SD card for like twelve bucks.

 

[Va1ha11a]

you could upload to dropbox, than download, flash, than delete?

 

[kylemaguire]

not going to happen. think about it. you want a recovery kernel with wifi drivers? yeah, no.

not a bad thought, but im thinking thats a no go.

solution....buy a bigger SD card for like twelve bucks.

Why is that bad? Maybe if it could only reach a few servers it wouldn't as bad

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[eletendre84]

Not possible. The recovery would be as large and as complicated as a rom essentially

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[eletendre84]

Apparently this has already been done. Which is pretty cool. I apologize for thinking our great devs couldn't do it

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[drewwalton19216801]

This is correct. Optimus V developer tdm has figured out how to enable WiFi in recovery. I am working on some concept code that will allow direct ROM downloads from within recovery, though this will take some time.

 

[harsho1]

Omg. This would be SO sweet.

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[vernotzy21]

Drew you rock

 

[vernotzy21]

Currently I do upload flash and delete but man I found it just faster to redownload from source however if I could put my rom collection in a cloud and flash that would be worth it
Hey that reminds me I have a couple of roms saved on CD I can't find them anywhere
and I don't know who made them its been awhile since I looked at them so I forget their names if I double check and can't find them or who made them am I aloud to post them maybe under a "lost and found rom's"

 

[drewwalton19216801]

Currently I do upload flash and delete but man I found it just faster to redownload from source however if I could put my rom collection in a cloud and flash that would be worth it
Hey that reminds me I have a couple of roms saved on CD I can't find them anywhere
and I don't know who made them its been awhile since I looked at them so I forget their names if I double check and can't find them or who made them am I aloud to post them maybe under a "lost and found rom's"

PM me with the names of the ROMs and I will try to find the correct developer of each. Do not post them prior to doing this.

 

[epidenimus]

Wouldn't a home network share over wifi be easier than a Dropbox implementation? Or is it about the same?

I just started using Wuala and have not played with Dropbox much, so if the question seems silly, punch a mime and call him by my handle (he can't refute verbally anyway...).

 

[drewwalton19216801]

Wouldn't a home network share over wifi be easier than a Dropbox implementation? Or is it about the same?

I just started using Wuala and have not played with Dropbox much, so if the question seems silly, punch a mime and call him by my handle (he can't refute verbally anyway...).

Yes it would be. But I'm planning something much much more robust. It will take some time but a working proof of concept should be available in the near future.

 

[vernotzy21]

I don't know when ill be able to do this heck I'm going to be in Colorado soon (month maybe) I'm traveling around in my RV and they are on CDROM and I don't have a PC currently so no hurry hey maybe we'll get together and geek out if I get in the area

 

[ShadowEO]

OTA Recovery? Drew, you are a genius!! Can't wait to see how it will work, Will we be able to setup our own way of hosting, like over a HTTP/FTP server with MD5 or SHA1 calculation?

 

[vernotzy21]

how much space does the recovery partition allow? Is it resizable?