Amon RA's Hero recovery 1.5.3 issue

[Guest shenshang]

Yesterday I tried to upgrade to 1.5.3 via better terminal emulator (like i normally do):

$su

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

and then it showed me numerous lines beginning with "mtd:" and were like error reports. The last line was something like:

mtd: not enough file space

So I tried rebooting into recovery, and it was stuck on the splash, logcat showed nothing. Then I took out the battery and rebooted the phone normally and flashed the image again, no errors, showed it normally:

$su

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

#

But still can't reboot into recovery. Then i tried it again with 2 other terminal emulators (SUFBS and android terminal emulator) and still the same. Using ADB:

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

but STILL nothing! I have tried redownloading 1.5.3 and nothing =\ Then I decided to try using Flashrec, both .13 and .12 had an unclickable "flash recovery" button and the "backup recovery" gave "Could not run command". Fastboot via adb:

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell reboot bootloader


C:\AndroidSDK\tools>fastboot boot recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY

booting... OKAY


C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell mount /sdcard


C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb push recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img /sdcard/recovery-RA-her

o-v1.5.3.img

1178 KB/s (3463168 bytes in 2.870s)


C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5

.3.img

header is the same, not flashing recovery

So....anyone have any solutions...?

Regards,

Shen

Edited February 7, 2010 by shenshang

[Guest Revoked]

Try using fastboot?

[Guest shenshang]

yup, just added it, had an error:

>adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

header is the same, not flashing recovery

Edited February 7, 2010 by shenshang

[Guest Amon_RA]

yup, just added it, had an error:

>adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

header is the same, not flashing recovery

Try erasing the recovery first :

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

[Guest shenshang]

that works too ;)

[Guest HellSt0rm]

This is the command that Amon RA has on his post for the recovery image.

Copy recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img to the root of your sdcard

Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)

Connect your Hero via usb to your pc/mac/...

adb shell

$su (not required if you have root already)

#mount -a

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

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But since I already have rooted my phone and is using his previous recovery images, I found out that this command works every time.

[codebox]
Copy recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
Connect your Hero via usb to your pc/mac/...
adb remount
adb shell
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.3.img

Edited February 7, 2010 by HellSt0rm

[Guest volatile_ink]

Can someone post a link to download 1.5.3 for Hero please? I can only find 1.5.2 on XDA, Google etc for Nexus.

Thanks.

Edited February 7, 2010 by volatile_ink

[Guest shenshang]

Can someone post a link to download 1.5.3 please? I can only find 1.5.2 on XDA, Google etc.

Thanks.

recovery_RA_hero_v1.5.3.img

Edited February 7, 2010 by shenshang

[Guest volatile_ink]

Respect to shenshang & Amon_Ra, downloaded and installed.

Like the 'power-off' feature, very handy.

Nice one ;)

Edited February 7, 2010 by volatile_ink

[Guest Dr. dre]

that works too ;)

what was the solution which worked for you. Actually i was trying to install this.

[Guest jelbo]

We can't just use FlashRec to install the .img?

Edited February 8, 2010 by jelbo

[Guest kendon]

Respect to shenshang & Amon_Ra, downloaded and installed.

Like the 'power-off' feature, very handy.

Nice one ;)

keep in mind that 1.5.3 has a bug when it comes to restoring the ext partition. use 1.5.2 until the fix is out (should be today i guess).

[Guest Dr. dre]

I'm trying to install this image, it says 'waiting for device' and then nothing happens.

Please Help!!!

[Guest vatvedt]

that works too :(

What was the solution to this? I have the same problem. Flashed Amon Ra 1.5.3.1 using Flashrec in February and it worked nicely. When I try to use Flashrec 1.1.3 to backup the recovery image now, I get "Backup FAILED: Could not run command.".

Is there any way to upgrade to flash recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img via Better Terminal? Or Flashrec? Flashrec 1.1.3 always worked for me earlier. Guess that was before I installed Modaco 3.2 Beta 5 (which runs nicely).

Have never used the adb console, and don't know how to get it to work on Windows 7.

Edit: Nevermind. Made it work <_<

Used Better Terminal and the following:

$su

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img

Thanks! :mellow:

Edited March 9, 2010 by vatvedt