Flashing recovery with unrEVOked3

[Guest spammyspam]

I like the idea of fakeflash, since it doesn't make any changes to my phone. However seeing as everyone is so excited about unrevoked3, I'm considering flashing a decent recovery permanently now. Some questions though:

1) What's the advantages of doing this? Is it just easier to boot into?

2) Once flashed, how do you upgrade/change recovery again? Isn't it more elegant to have the recovery sitting in a file on your SD card so you can upgrade to new versions etc?

3) What "root" does unrevoked3 give (it doesn't seem to touch your ROM)?

Thanks!

[Guest yukkio]

I like the idea of fakeflash, since it doesn't make any changes to my phone. However seeing as everyone is so excited about unrevoked3, I'm considering flashing a decent recovery permanently now. Some questions though:

1) What's the advantages of doing this? Is it just easier to boot into?

2) Once flashed, how do you upgrade/change recovery again? Isn't it more elegant to have the recovery sitting in a file on your SD card so you can upgrade to new versions etc?

3) What "root" does unrevoked3 give (it doesn't seem to touch your ROM)?

Thanks!

It's work with 1.23 version and now i've root access !

BR.

[Guest TheScrub]

I like the idea of fakeflash, since it doesn't make any changes to my phone. However seeing as everyone is so excited about unrevoked3, I'm considering flashing a decent recovery permanently now. Some questions though:

1) What's the advantages of doing this? Is it just easier to boot into?

2) Once flashed, how do you upgrade/change recovery again? Isn't it more elegant to have the recovery sitting in a file on your SD card so you can upgrade to new versions etc?

3) What "root" does unrevoked3 give (it doesn't seem to touch your ROM)?

Thanks!

I'm still using fakeflash atm because it works for me. Considering flashing a permanent one soon and here's what i've gathered so far...

1. This is a permanent recovery image flashed to your device, means you can boot into recovery when starting the device and not rely on rom manager to do thy bidding from a booted device.

2. A custom recovery can be flashed at any time using the same method. Method is down to preference really but I would think that a permanent recovery image is more reliable.

3. I don't think it gives you root at all, merely flashes the recovery tool needed to flash a custom rooted rom.

[Guest spammyspam]

2. A custom recovery can be flashed at any time using the same method. Method is down to preference really but I would think that a permanent recovery image is more reliable.

This is the bit that dissuading me tbh. I don't want to have to use a PC + cable to flash a new recovery. I like how ROM Manager can update fake flash on the phone.

BTW you don't need ROM Manager to fake flash, you can just run fake flash's update.zip.

[Guest TheScrub]

3. I don't think it gives you root at all, merely flashes the recovery tool needed to flash a custom rooted rom.

I was wrong, it does root as well. Don't know what hboot/firmwares though for those that haven't already been rooted.

This is the bit that dissuading me tbh. I don't want to have to use a PC + cable to flash a new recovery. I like how ROM Manager can update fake flash on the phone.

BTW you don't need ROM Manager to fake flash, you can just run fake flash's update.zip.

In that case it may be worth waiting for more robust and feature complete recoverys to hit the scene before flashing. I have a feeling fake-flash may not be updated so much now that unrev0ked is around.

Personally I'm probably going to stick with fake flash for the time being, I agree that updating recovery via PC & Cable is a bit of a faff.

[Guest spammyspam]

Fake-flash isn't the thing being updated, clockworkmod is. That is, both unrevoked and FF ship with the same recovery, so I expect CWM to be maintained a bit yet.

What about this rooting business? Does it root something the fake-flash method doesn't?