Guest Rusty! Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 (edited) OK so on Sunday whilst pissing about, I flashed a broken recovery to my phone. This resulted in a near brick, the phone wouldn't boot at all, and wouldn't even enter Smartflash. I didn't have a recent backup, so needless to say I was pissed. However, this presented me with a challenge, could I recover my phone without losing anything? Turns out the answer was yes :D I was able to NVFlash (battery out, hold both vol keys and plug in USB) over a good recovery, and the phone booted straight to it, from there I restored the old boot.img that I had, rebooted and held my breath. Success! OK, so wifi didn't work due to the old kernel, but whatever, quick CM reflash fixed that (in hindsight, I could probably have just done that straight away anyway). I created a little batch menu system to handle the command and let you pick from an internal or external recovery (depending on what you normally use) and a couple scripts for Linux users. Hopefully anyone that has bust their phone to the point of NVFlashing will be able to do this instead and keep all their stuff :) http://www.mediafire.com/file/p4t99yy1qn5435g/o2x-nvflash-recovery-v5.rar Edited October 14, 2011 by Rusty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BatfinkUK1 Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 Thanks Rusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anil K Solanki Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 OK so on Sunday whilst pissing about, I flashed a broken recovery to my phone. This resulted in a near brick, the phone wouldn't boot at all, and wouldn't even enter Smartflash. I didn't have a recent backup, so needless to say I was pissed. Hi Russ, thanks for the mini guide. Could you clarify what you meant by a broken recovery? I have fairly good idea what you mean, I just want to be certain, because you build recoveries, and you flashing something that's broken, is, surprising. We're all human after all. Anil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rusty! Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 (edited) I made a change to the init.rc in the ramdisk*, nothing to do with a 'normal' build. It was an experiment that didn't go too well :D *Split the recovery image, edit ramdisk, re-combine. Edit: I didn't expect that a corrupt/broken recovery would ruin (temporarily) the phone. I thought worst case scenario would be just dd the working one again. Oops. Still it's good that it happened as I learned this from it, which is quite useful. Edited August 22, 2011 by Rusty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rusty! Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Updated archive with CWM v5, older v4 based version can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/7nmcuc5qwuvsasd/o2x-nvflash-recovery-v4.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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