[RECOVERY] : RA_Recovery for ZTE Blade [OLED+TFT]

[Guest vareBlade]

Just a heads up for people using this. Backups created using Clockwork Recovery will not restore using Amon_RA. Bart mentioned this on Twitter today. Both recoveries use Nandroid but do so differently.

Is there a way to convert?

Well except restoring then flashing the other recovery and rebacking up

Edited January 10, 2011 by vareBlade

[Guest fredewis]

Just a heads up for people using this. Backups created using Clockwork Recovery will not restore using Amon_RA. Bart mentioned this on Twitter today. Both recoveries use Nandroid but do so differently.

So can I flash this using the android terminal ...? And its it guaranteed that ask roms can be flashed trough this amonra recovery?

[Guest vareBlade]

So can I flash this using the android terminal ...? And its it guaranteed that ask roms can be flashed trough this amonra recovery?

should be yes (to both questions)

Edited January 10, 2011 by vareBlade

[Guest Simon O]

Yes ROMs will install fine but backups created in Clockwork cannot be restored using Amon_RA because they use different tools to make the backup. Amon_RA uses Nandroid, Clockwork uses a custom made backup tool. I prefer the Clockwork backup purely because of the backup options which I can use through ROM Manager too. But Amon_RA is a great recovery too.

BTW latest ROM Manager supports Amon_RA too :D

[Guest vareBlade]

Just installed it on my ZTE Blade Greek TFT.

Getting this but with a blue tint (not sure cause i saw some talk about cyanogen colors?)

Yes ROMs will install fine but backups created in Clockwork cannot be restored using Amon_RA because they use different tools to make the backup. Amon_RA uses Nandroid, Clockwork uses a custom made backup tool. I prefer the Clockwork backup purely because of the backup options which I can use through ROM Manager too. But Amon_RA is a great recovery too.

BTW latest ROM Manager supports Amon_RA too :D

Does that mean we can install this version of Amon Recovery on our Blade and then use it with Rom Manager?

Edited January 10, 2011 by vareBlade

[Guest TheDOC1]

Does that mean we can install this version of Amon Recovery on our Blade and then use it with Rom Manager?

No, it still just says, you have to install clockworkmod recovery when I'm trying to backup/restore.

Edited January 10, 2011 by TheDOC1

[Guest vareBlade]

No, it still just says, you have to install clockwordmod recovery when I'm trying to backup/restore.

Ohh then i guess it supports Ra Recovery in general, just not Seb's version.

[Guest Xenon0816]

Ohh then i guess it supports Ra Recovery in general, just not Seb's version.

And what about the other recoverys? I'm still on the old CWM 2.5.0.9 and it's not supported by rom manager...

What about the other versions? 2.5.1.3 by Paul? 2.5.1.8 by Seb?

[Guest vareBlade]

And what about the other recoverys? I'm still on the old CWM 2.5.0.9 and it's not supported by rom manager...

What about the other versions? 2.5.1.3 by Paul? 2.5.1.8 by Seb?

None are officially supported by Rom Manager (since when you load Rom Manager for 1st time, it gives you some choices to choose what device you got and there is no option for ZTE Blade/SF).

But if you let it flash any of them (i personally chose Pulse) and when finished you go and (fastboot) flash again the clockworks recovery that works on our phones then Rom Manager should work. (at least it works for me)

Didnt try much yet, i just installed it myself with clockworks 2.5.1.8 and simply tried a rom backup from Rom manager which worked.

Edited January 12, 2011 by vareBlade

[Guest Xenon0816]

None are officially supported by Rom Manager (since when you load Rom Manager for 1st time, it gives you some choices to choose what device you got and there is no option for ZTE Blade/SF).

But if you let it flash any of them (i personally chose Pulse) and when finished you go and (fastboot) flash again the clockworks recovery that works on our phones then Rom Manager should work. (at least it works for me)

Didnt try much yet, i just installed it myself with clockworks 2.5.1.8 and simply tried a rom backup from Rom manager which worked.

Nice to know thank you very much!

Will try it now...

[Guest fredewis]

what the diferent betwen v2.0.0cm and the v2.0.0 download zip?

[Guest vareBlade]

what the diferent betwen v2.0.0cm and the v2.0.0 download zip?

This is not Clockworks recovery but Amon RA's recovery. Its an alternative recovery mode

[Guest TheDOC1]

I'm desperately missing an option to restore single partitions only (system, boot etc). Otherwise this recovery is pretty much perfect.

[Guest retrocat]

I think I found a bug:

when selecting 'Flash zip from sdcard' and pushing home on a folder beginning with '!' (e.g. !updates) it goes back to the prev. menu and doesn't list it

[Guest Sebastian404]

I think I found a bug:

when selecting 'Flash zip from sdcard' and pushing home on a folder beginning with '!' (e.g. !updates) it goes back to the prev. menu and doesn't list it

Where I come from that's called user error... who is going around putting illegal characters into file names?

[Guest Sebastian404]

Finaly updated to 2.2.1

Selective backup/restore seems to be the big new feature with this one..

[Guest kallt_kaffe]

Nice, I'll give it a go. I've been using your RA (with CM colours) for some time now and it works very well.

[Guest tttonyyy]

Colours fine on my TFT (non CM)

Nice work Seb ;)

Edited January 18, 2011 by tttonyyy

[Guest whatcolour]

Thanks, Seb. Great work!

Minor bug: "toggle signature" under "others" seems to do nothing now, but new one under "flash" works a treat

[Guest digital0]

Where I come from that's called user error... who is going around putting illegal characters into file names?

"!" is not illegal in FAT, NTFS, extX and probably in almost all the filesystems in the world.

Edited January 18, 2011 by digital0

[Guest Sebastian404]

Thanks, Seb. Great work!

Minor bug: "toggle signature" under "others" seems to do nothing now, but new one under "flash" works a treat

I'm not sure if that's my typo or in the original, I made the mistake of upgrading the NDK and had to re-write a few a lines, I might of missed that... I'll check it out.

[Guest fonix232]

"!" is not illegal in FAT, NTFS, extX and probably in almost all the filesystems in the world.

Actually it is. Most of the characters (!?:| etc) are illegal, and won't accepted by the systems. Even if the file system supports it, the driver mostly won't (or a final-layer security disables it like Windows).

[Guest digital0]

Have you tried to check information or at least to create a file called "!" before posting nonsense? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFAT:

Legal characters for DOS file names include the following:

Upper case letters A–Z

Numbers 0–9

Space (though trailing spaces in either the base name or the extension are considered to be padding and not a part of the file name, also filenames with space in them could not be used on the DOS command line prior to Windows 95 because of the lack of a suitable escaping system)

! # $ % & ' ( ) - @ ^ _ ` { } ~

Values 128–255

[Guest retrocat]

Where I come from that's called user error... who is going around putting illegal characters into file names?

I'm not a programmer or any kind I just use it to prioritize the order of files and folders. If it's illegal than I'll take the prison for it :)

Oh, wait: I can't, but could you ESCAPE it? ;D

(Sorry, I'm just trying to help ;)

[Guest Stevvie]

Nice one, LOVE the ext2 to ext3 to ext4 conversion section.