Guest Paul Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Amon RA and I have collaborated to make his excellent recovery image available for the T-Mobile Pulse, and it's now ready! This is a custom recovery image based on Cyanogen's v1.4 recovery. The purpose of this recovery is to avoid using adb by accessing all features directly from the menu. Features include:full ADB access in recovery mode Busybox v1.15.2 Extended menuReboot system now :: reboot your phone Go to console :: bring up the console USB-MS Toggle :: enable/disable USB mass storage (use when the phone is connected to your PC) Backup/Restore (recovery partition not included!)Nand backup :: Make a Nand backup Nand + ext backup :: Make a Nand + ext backup Nand restore :: Restore a Nand backup BART backup :: Make a BART backup (Nand + ext) BART restore :: Restore latest BART backup Flash zip from sdcard :: Flash a zip update file from your sdcard WipeWipe data/factory reset :: Wipe /data and /cache Wipe Dalvik-cache :: Wipe Dalvik-cache both on /data and ext Wipe SD:ext partition : Wipe the ext partition on your sdcard Wipe battery stats : Wipe the battery stats in /data Wipe rotate settings : Wipe the sensor settings in /data Partition sdcard Partition SD :: Interactive SD partitioning Repair SD:ext :: Repair the ext partition SD:ext2 to ext3 :: Convert ext2 to ext3 SD:ext3 to ext4 :: Convert ext3 to ext4 Other Fix apk uid mismatches :: Does extacly that Move apps+dalv to SD :: Moves all apps and Dalvik-cache to sdcard (This will NOT enable apps2sd!) Move recovery.log to SD :: Moves the recovery log file to your sdcard. (Use when you want more detailed recovery log information) [*]Scripts available from console :Nandroid v2.2.1 : enter "nandroid-mobile.sh" to start. [*]BART v1.0.1 (Backup and Restore Tool) : enter "utility" to start. [*]switchrom.sh V1.1 : enter "switchrom" or "u" to start. [*]sdparted v0.6 : enter "sdparted" to start. [*]This very much opens the door to custom ROMs for the Pulse! How to install - Mac, Linux and OSX - Download the recovery zip file and extract to a directory - Put your device in bootloader mode - turn if off, then tap the powerbutton while holding the 'Volume Down' and 'End (Red)' keys - WINDOWS - double click 'install-recovery-windows.bat' - MAC - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-recovery-mac.sh' followed by './install-recovery-mac.sh' - LINUX - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-recovery-linux.sh' followed by './install-recovery-linux.sh' That's it, job done! Enjoy! :) We haven't yet found the key combination for starting recovery mode from power-off on the device, so you have to enter recovery by doing either 'adb reboot recovery' or by installing 'Quick Boot' from the market (which is also included in my superboot solution). P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 After reading the threads in this Pulse forum I have some questions I'm hoping someone can answer: 1. Is there are difference between recovery and boot mode (and is there also a recovery mode for this device out of the box)? 2. Is it possible to backup the current ROM, boot (and recovery if any) out of the box (without actually changing/installing anything to the phone)? 3. Does a recovery mode mean there is also somewhere a recovery partition on the device with a recovery/restore image? And then the next question if there is: can we free this part of the device memory to gain swap/cache memory? 4. Adb devices does not return my device while fastboot devices does, if in bootloader mode. How can I get adb to work (i've read some things with vendor codes but in this thread 'avoid using adb' is mentioned)? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 1. Boot mode is for booting the OS, recovery is for recovery. There is an out of the box recovery, but it's not that useful. Plus, we haven't yet found how to access it via a key combo. 2. Flash recovery and do a nandroid backup. 3. There is no recovery image on the device. 4. You need to add the USB ID to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini - i'll create a seperate post about it when I have a minute! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Thanks Paul for the quick reply! I'll try them all tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest simonb29 Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 This is a custom recovery image based on Cyanogen's v1.4 recovery. The purpose of this recovery is to avoid using adb by accessing all features directly from the menu. ... Features include: * Partition SD-card : 500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32 Can this be changed to Partition SD-card : 500MB Ext2, remaining Fat32 so the MCR can be installed. I keep reading Fixed issue with A2SD and SD card mount. You must NOT have a swap partition on your SD! I am really struggling to put the ext2 partition on my SD. Can someone explain what the Swap partition is for? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demusss Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Can someone explain what the Swap partition is for? Thanks, Simon, the swap partition is used to help your system run faster. When your system runs out of physical RAM during operations, it uses the swap partition as RAM and writes little bits of stuff that is currently in RAM, but not needed, to the swap partition. This allows you to run more programs at once. Paul, As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions? Thanks Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joners Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Simon, the swap partition is used to help your system run faster. When your system runs out of physical RAM during operations, it uses the swap partition as RAM and writes little bits of stuff that is currently in RAM, but not needed, to the swap partition. This allows you to run more programs at once. Paul, As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions? Thanks Anthony Hi now that we have the kernel source efforts are being made to make linux swap work, so i doubt that this request would be filled. well i think thats the way they would play it! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bas-r Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Paul, As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions? Thanks Anthony Same question here, would it be possible to make a partition option as to make it work well with the Modaco rom & use the A2SD proper, say 1,5GB fat32 and 0,5GB ext2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aton Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Hi, how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kevwright Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hi, how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image? Did you ever find out this, gotta return my to the shop and if they do a data clear this will give the game away :-) Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geHuC Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 Hi, New Pulse owner here :) I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mapero Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Hi, New Pulse owner here :) I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary) Ur phone is in bootloader (blue screen)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geHuC Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Yup :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest niko1986 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 (edited) Hi, New Pulse owner here :D I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary) I solved my exact same issue http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...7/#entry1117727 Edited November 28, 2009 by niko1986 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martinmax Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Hi, how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image? I also need to backup to stock , Paul or someone help please !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nikki Locke Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 - Download the Superboot zip file and extract to a directory - Put your device in bootloader mode - turn if off, then tap the powerbutton while holding the 'Volume Down' and 'End (Red)' keys - WINDOWS - double click 'install-recovery-windows.bat' ... We haven't yet found the key combination for starting recovery mode from power-off on the device, so you have to enter recovery by doing either 'adb reboot recovery' or by installing 'Quick Boot' from the market (which is also included in my superboot solution). I followed the instructions (having first copied AdbWinApi.dll into the 1.1-pulse-superboot folder created by the zip file). I had to disconnect the USB cable before I could start the machine in bootloader mode, because it seemd to boot by itself before I could press the requisite keys if the cable was connected. It started into a screen which said USB FastBoot: V0.5, so I reconnected the USB cable and started the Windows batch file. Very quickly it seemed to finish. The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY I then took the battery out and put it back in again (is this the only way to get it out of USB FastBoot?). I then went into Quick Boot (which seemed to have been installed), and pressed the Recovery button. I got a page which said "/system/bin/sh Wants to run:/system/bin/sh as root:root" - I pressed the "Allow" button. The phone started booting, and a message "can't access /cache/" <something - couldn't read it> flashed up. The phone seemed to boot normally then. Is this working as designed? If so, how do I get into this recovery mode to do a nandroid backup? If not, what do I do now? BTW, I repeated the whole process again from the start, just to make sure, and it made no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swatcheez Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I know nothing but what I have read in the 3 topics about custom ROMs and this recovery mode. Am I right to say that I need to partition the SD card to reap the benefits of the custom ROM I have just installed (apps2sd), and I would be able to do that using the recovery image, but for the fact that it puts a swap partition as well? So is there a simple way of partitioning my SD card without using alternative OS on my laptop to my xp (or vista on my other one if needs be) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest niko1986 Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I know nothing but what I have read in the 3 topics about custom ROMs and this recovery mode. Am I right to say that I need to partition the SD card to reap the benefits of the custom ROM I have just installed (apps2sd), and I would be able to do that using the recovery image, but for the fact that it puts a swap partition as well? So is there a simple way of partitioning my SD card without using alternative OS on my laptop to my xp (or vista on my other one if needs be) Your going to have to use something like gparted. Download the live cd from here burn it and pop it in ur pc and restart, then partition ur card through that. It is a hassle but it is fairly easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rjm2k Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Hi all and thanks for all the info on customising my Pulse! First Android phone for me, got it for £137 at the weekend. I just did my nandroid backup in order to start investigating whether or not the radio rom is in there and whether or not a simlock workaround can be done, not very hopefuly tbh because of little time and motivation but who knows. Just thought I'd mention that rather than install the modified recover image (thereby updating my pulse) I used the boot option fastboot-windows.exe boot recovery-RA-pulse-v1.2.3.img This seemed to download the patched recovery image and booted it ok but I assume didn't actually flash the recovery image so the original is still there. I will be waiting for the newer versions of Android to be made available before I change anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joners Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Hi, Are there any plans to update the recovery image? Amon-RA recovery is now up to version 1.5 with the Dream, it has some great new features in it that would be great to have. See here! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669 Thanks, J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 Ask Amon_RA that question! :D P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shuangg Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 >>sdparted v0.5.3 : enter "sdparted" to start. this tool is very easy to use (from adb shell), I partitioned my 2g SD to 500M ext4, rest FAT32 no swap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Amdathlonuk Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Where can I get a copy of the Recovery from? I see it's not attached to this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rss2k Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Where can I get a copy of the Recovery from? I see it's not attached to this thread? Check the 1st post in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martinbrook Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Hi Paul, I have AMON's recovery booting on the pulse. I split the boot image, replaced the kernel with a pulse one and merged/copied files into the pulse ramdisk, leaving the ones which are pulse specific. Menu comes up with a HTC background and I can navigate the menu with the volume up/down and the jog button. I can't select a menu item either with a jog push or any other key combination. Did you have this problem porting the last version to the Pulse. Martin Ask Amon_RA that question! ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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