trackball broken, how to use recovery mode?

[Guest martijnvl]

My pulse's trackball can no longer move right, down and select an item. This wouldnt be a problem as i mostly use the touchscreen anyway. However in recovery mode you need to press the trackball to select an option in the menu (you can go up and down in the menu with the volume rocker).

Does anyone have an ideas to either fix the trackball (replace it like most blackberry devices maby?) or find a way to click an item whilst in recovery mode?

[Guest McSpoon]

Not sure if this helps but there are various scripts available in recovery mode. Use "adb shell" to access them.

• 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.
  

It's quite likely that any of the recovery functions can be performed from the shell prompt if you happen to know the right command.

[Guest soulehs]

up / down with volume switch, select is green button

[Guest Richard_Arkless]

someone should think about implementing touch into the recovery menu because isnt the trackball another way to navigate the same with the touch screen so I would have thought it would be rather easy to implement

[Guest BigBearMDC]

someone should think about implementing touch into the recovery menu because isnt the trackball another way to navigate the same with the touch screen so I would have thought it would be rather easy to implement

The trackball is - compared to the touchscreen - very easy to implement.

If you press the touchscreen you have to get the coordinates of the touch.

Then you have to compare the coordinates of the touch with the coordinates of the items that you can choose.

With the trackball you just switch from item to item.

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest Richard_Arkless]

The trackball is - compared to the touchscreen - very easy to implement.

If you press the touchscreen you have to get the coordinates of the touch.

Then you have to compare the coordinates of the touch with the coordinates of the items that you can choose.

With the trackball you just switch from item to item.

Greetings,

BigBear

yea but cant the same stuff that the android os use to be used in the recovery menu or are they too different, im not very technical in this field so sorry if this sounds stupid to you (more into the hardware side than the software side)

Edited February 17, 2010 by Richard_Arkless

[Guest BigBearMDC]

yea but cant the same stuff that the android os use to be used in the recovery menu or are they too different, im not very technical in this field so sorry if this sounds stupid to you (more into the hardware side than the software side)

Sure, but somebody would have to implement it.

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest xangma]

Recovery is supposed to be completely separate to the other stuff, hence the recovery. This is why we don't say have ... bluetooth support for transferring files and can only do it using USB. This could be implemented in theory, yeah, but the recovery partition on the decive may be too small to store all these new functions.

[Guest martijnvl]

The green button does not work to confirm a menu option, can anybody confirm that it is supposed to work because my greeen button seems to work correctly. No other button for that matter confirms an option.

[Guest Bendolfc]

Doesn't do anything on mine either.

[Guest martijnvl]

I think this might be a bug or a feauture that has not yet been implemented, however i think it is a good idea to put the "green button to confirm" functionality into future releases.