[RECOVERY] CWMT Recovery 5.0.2.7-th8.1 (Froyo-friendly!)

[prowlingfox]

Try flashing recovery to the boot partition

Why do I get the feeling that I SHOULDN'T actually try that....

 

[Va1ha11a]

because you shouldn't

 

[vernotzy21]

I knew you your skills were bad ass!
Your the man! Whoo hoo!! completion!!

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[drewwalton19216801]

Why do I get the feeling that I SHOULDN'T actually try that....

Not that you should, but you can. It's like having two recovery modes and no Android.

Experiment:
1) Flash stock ZV(whatever) recovery to the boot and recovery partitions (yes, BOTH).
2) Take phone into Sprint repair center.
3) ROFL as the Sprint techs scratch their heads trying to figure out what happened.
4) Whip out your laptop, and use KP500 to restore the phone to it's proper state and ROFL some more as the Sprint techs continue to scratch their heads.

 

[Seditec]

Think they would void my warranty if I did that?

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[hlxanthus]

Lol, maybe if they had any clue what you did lmao

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[drewwalton19216801]

Think they would void my warranty if I did that?

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Possibly, depending on if the techs were "cool" or not.

 

[gollum18]

thx drew rebooting did the trick, I can confirm that xionia backups do indeed work.

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[drewwalton19216801]

thx drew rebooting did the trick, I can confirm that xionia backups do indeed work.

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Awesome! Situation averted!

Conversely, backups made in CWMT th8 or above will (read: should) work with Xionia.

Backwards compatibility FTW

 

[LeoLawliet]

Just curious, is there any chance this might work on the V as well?

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[drewwalton19216801]

Just curious, is there any chance this might work on the V as well?

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Possibly but I can't guarantee anything.

 

[blackops1125]

ok i keep getting flash image not found.
It's on my /sdcard.
I am typing : Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
and yes i have su. #

 

[LeoLawliet]

Possibly but I can't guarantee anything.

The older version worked fine for me so I'll take my chances, I just saw that it was Froyo friendly now and that caught my attention. Thanks

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[LeoLawliet]

ok i keep getting flash image not found.
It's on my /sdcard.
I am typing : Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
and yes i have su. #

Flash Image GUI will work on the S since it's supported and it's probably the easiest method I found for flashing recoveries or kernels

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[blackops1125]

ok i keep getting flash image not found.
It's on my /sdcard.
I am typing : Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
and yes i have su. #

Should i be boot into android or recovery when i do this?

I even tried this
C:\Users\Costco>adb shell
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory<----- should I be getting this?
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
failed on '/system/etc/install-recovery.sh' - No such file or directory
# mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
Flash_image: not found

Drew tell me what I am doing wrong....I know it me, but i just can not see my mistake

 

[epeereboom]

ok i keep getting flash image not found.
It's on my /sdcard.
I am typing : Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
and yes i have su. #

I had the same message come up. I used sfhub's autoroot tool to install xionia recovery. After that this went right through.

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[blackops1125]

Ok I am reading the directions on installing Xionia recovery seeing if there is a way i could use that to install CWMT. The first thing i noticed is that to install Xionia you have to put both flash image and xionia_cwma_12518.6.img on your sdcard.
My question to you Drew is this: Why is there just the CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img to install on sdcard for CWMT? I am missing a step somewhere, should I only put the one image on sdcard or should there be 2 images?

I am just baffled that i can not figure this out!

 

[prowlingfox]

Should i be boot into android or recovery when i do this?

I even tried this
C:\Users\Costco>adb shell
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory<----- should I be getting this?
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
failed on '/system/etc/install-recovery.sh' - No such file or directory
# mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
Flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img
Flash_image: not found

Drew tell me what I am doing wrong....I know it me, but i just can not see my mistake

you should be able to flash the recovery image from either the OS or recovery. I've done it from both.

i'm not sure what you're doing wrong....but i'm sure Drew could tell you. when I flash recoveries, I connect the phone, enable usb storage, copy the recovery.img to /sdcard/ and then unmount usb storage, then open up adb and

adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/
flash_image recovery <name-of-recovery>.img

Actually, I just noticed, are you writing "CWMRecovery..." or "CWMTRecovery..." when you use the flash_image command? that would definitely give you the 'file not found' error...

you could even rename the file to "cwmt_th8.1.img" and then

adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cwmt_th8.1.img

or

adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/
flash_image recovery cwmt_th8.1.img

look up at the bold part of the quote, those two should be CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img

 

[prowlingfox]

Ok I am reading the directions on installing Xionia recovery seeing if there is a way i could use that to install CWMT. The first thing i noticed is that to install Xionia you have to put both flash image and xionia_cwma_12518.6.img on your sdcard.
My question to you Drew is this: Why is there just the CWMTRecovery_5.0.2.7-th8.1_thunderc.img to install on sdcard for CWMT? I am missing a step somewhere, should I only put the one image on sdcard or should there be 2 images?

I am just baffled that i can not figure this out!

yeah, try putting that file (the one from the xionia instructions) on the root of your sdcard

 

[leneard183]

yeah, try putting that file (the one from the xionia instructions) on the root of your sdcard

:what:

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