[Custom Recovery] Xionia Clockwork (CWMA v1.2518.6)

[wharmecht]

Why do I get a permission denied when I type su from the $ prompt? Any help would be great.

 

[sfhub]

Why do I get a permission denied when I type su from the $ prompt? Any help would be great.

When you run su for the first time there will be a prompt on your phone asking you for permission. Unlock your screen and acknowledge the prompt.

 

[wharmecht]

I do not get the prompt asking me to allow or deny any more. I still have the superuser installed on my phone and it shows unknown has connected yesterday. It just won't come back up.

 

[sfhub]

I do not get the prompt asking me to allow or deny any more. I still have the superuser installed on my phone and it shows unknown has connected yesterday. It just won't come back up.

So either you lost set-uid root permission on the su executable or the permissions were denied when you were prompted. To rule out the latter, run Superuser within Android, look at the App tab, click on the "Unknown" entry, and see if status says "Allow"

Assuming it does, see if you can open up a terminal or adb shell and type:

ls -l /system/bin/su

It should say something like
-rwsr-xr-x root root 26264 2011-09-14 19:56 su

the important part is the "rws" and the first root of "root root". If those are not present, you lost root and need to redo it.

 

[bubbagump]

I am new to rooting, but I have used gingerbreak sucessfully on my phone. Now I have tried to install Xionia to create the nandroid backup. I followed the instructions provided by Zefie. I received no errors and it appears to have installed, but when I go into recovery I get the Android system recovery <3e> instead of Xionia. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Problem solved.
Thanks for your help.

 

[accrajoe]

I am new to rooting, but I have used gingerbreak sucessfully on my phone. Now I have tried to install Xionia to create the nandroid backup. I followed the instructions provided by Zefie. I received no errors and it appears to have installed, but when I go into recovery I get the Android system recovery <3e> instead of Xionia. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Same issue with me. I never had this problem before Ginerbread.

I upgraded to gingerbread and rooted, but can't get into Xionia.When I complete the instructions and enter the 'reboot recovery' command it just boots back to the Android homescreen.

EDIT: I tried again and suddenly it works. Pretty weird...

 

[skinny_pete]

Works like a charm. Thanks!

 

[andyr0413]

It's my first time really using adb command shell. When I type "cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image", I get a "/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory" response. Is the flash_image file also supposed to be extracted?

If the answer was somewhere in the previous 75 pages of the thread, I apologize - I got to page 17 without seeing the answer and decided to just skip to the end and ask...

 

[jstntp]

It's my first time really using adb command shell. When I type "cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image", I get a "/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory" response. Is the flash_image file also supposed to be extracted?

If the answer was somewhere in the previous 75 pages of the thread, I apologize - I got to page 17 without seeing the answer and decided to just skip to the end and ask...

Yes, both files need to be extracted to your sd card

 

[andyr0413]

Thank you! Couldn't hope for any better results!

 

[Infinity]

I successfully went from 2.3 VH (gingerbread) back to 2.2 VD (froyo) with the help of the reverting thread. I am now on the stock 2.2 rom (rooted) and put xionia custom recovery on it. A few quick quesions:

I plan on just keeping the stock 2.2 VD rom, but I don't want my phone to OTA update to gingerbread as I had issues with it. From what I understand this recovery it won't let my phone do any OTA updates, is this correct? The OP say something about not changing signature verification, which is fine, but I couldn't even find a signature verification setting in xionia.

It seems like the only risk I have with the custom recovery is if I do a factory reset from within android via the privacy menu. Is this still the case? I wasn't sure as I saw posts that Xionia added support to prevent this from being an issue, but it looks like this support was removed?

 

[sfhub]

Xionia should come default with signature verification turned on. It is in the advanced menu. I believe it won't install the Sprint update in this state but don't have an Optimus anymore to confirm.

Xionia *is* compatible with privacy->resets (ie resets within Android), unlike other recoveries.

 

[Infinity]

Ok, thanks again for all your help.

 

[albeit]

My question is regarding the black screen issue on recovery reboot. I haven't done anything to this phone yet, but on the last one, I had the black screen issue,(used ROM manager) so I'm going to assume this one will also have the newer screen. Is the flash_image file in this post the one that I should use, or is the one in bigsupersquid's fix thread an updated version that works better on newer phones? I'm only asking because that post is newer than the last edit on this one.

Also, if I'm reading correctly, this already has the correct kernel version suggested in the fix post, so I'm assuming I won't need to flash it separately after I install this ROM. Is that correct? I'm sorry if that's answered in this thread already. I went back a few pages, but didn't see what I was looking for.

UPDATE: Urp, never mind. I flashed it the way it is, and it all worked just fine. Can't say the same for the ROM I tried to flash, but luckily I had this recovery working and I got it back to stock. Thanks so much for this.

 

[sparks555]

When using this recovery to partition the sd card through recovery does it partition the card with a ext4 or ext2 file system?

Does anyone know the answer to this? What file system does Xionia Clockwork use EXT2/3/4 ?

 

[jasthomas]

does anyone ever have problems when wiping the dalvik cache? i always get an error that it cant find than still allows me to wipe it and says its completed ... does that mean anything?
this is what it exactly says
-E:Can't mount /dev.block/mmcblk0p2 (no such file or directory)
and then it still askes me if i wanna wipe and when i say yes it says its complete should i be worried ... i feel like this is what causes problems when i flash new roms... cuz its usually somewhat of a hassle but i have found ways around it ..

 

[blackops1125]

Does anyone know the answer to this? What file system does Xionia Clockwork use EXT2/3/4 ?

If I remember correctly you have a choice. I choose ext4 since its more stable than ext2. But I done this awhile ago so I don't remember. But I do love the 1Gb of internal storage.



sent from my CM7/Reborn w/ 1 Gb internal storage Optimus S

Always happy to help, hit that thanks button if I did

 

[sparks555]

Does anyone know the answer to this? What file system does Xionia Clockwork use EXT2/3/4 ?

If I remember correctly you have a choice. I choose ext4 since its more stable than ext2. But I done this awhile ago so I don't remember. But I do love the 1Gb of internal storage.

I partitioned my card but I didn't get a choice for file format just file size, how can I check what file type it is?

 

[blackops1125]

I partitioned my card but I didn't get a choice for file format just file size, how can I check what file type it is?

Actually you do in when you do the adb shell commands to install the data2ext.
These are for ZVD Radio ONLY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
First one is the data2ext-V4- modified which is for reborn rom!
The second one data2ext-V4 is for CM7( Confirmed working on Drew's CM7)
Follow the directions from here:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...118297-how-data2ext-reborn-froyo-2-2-cm7.html

 

[moritzio]

Took two tries but the OP steps worked for me.
I needed help getting the USB drivers for my phone and found unlocker dot com had a article about that titled "how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices". Turns out I needed to install pdanet on the PC to get it all working.