I rooted using UniversalAndRoot, which worked according to the app. Installed ROM Manager and flashed ClockworkMod Recovery.
This is where I stumble. I've tried selecting Reboot into Recovery, Install from SD, powering up with Vol Down pressed and selecting Recovery. All three boot as far as the X, flash a bit of white at the bottom of the screen then the phone turns off.
Waiting for a minute/pressing buttons or pulling the battery lets me boot back up fine, but I still can't boot into Recovery.
I've tried choosing install AltRecovery and old versions of Clockwork but they both behave the same way.
Any advice guys? Is it because I rooted with UniAndRoot?
top_bunk said:
I rooted using UniversalAndRoot, which worked according to the app. Installed ROM Manager and flashed ClockworkMod Recovery.
This is where I stumble. I've tried selecting Reboot into Recovery, Install from SD, powering up with Vol Down pressed and selecting Recovery. All three boot as far as the X, flash a bit of white at the bottom of the screen then the phone turns off.
Waiting for a minute/pressing buttons or pulling the battery lets me boot back up fine, but I still can't boot into Recovery.
I've tried choosing install AltRecovery and old versions of Clockwork but they both behave the same way.
Any advice guys? Is it because I rooted with UniAndRoot?
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You probably have SLCD screen. Then you have to use Amon_RA 1.8.0.1 recovery which is only one (as far as i know) intended for SLCD screens.
Ah okay. Is there an easy way for me to flash that? Not really comfortable with the SDK approach...
Thanks for the fast reply btw
If you don't have unlocked bootloader you have to use flash_image binary to flash new recovery because amon_ra 1.8.0.1 recovery don't show up in rom manager.
Download it from here http://cyanogen-files.carneeki.net/flash_image.zip. Put it in root of sdcard as well as 1.8.0.1 img file and in phone terminal type
1) cd /sdcard
2) flash_image recovery 1.8.0.1.img (replace with name of img file)
houmles said:
2) flash_image recovery 1.8.0.1.img (replace with name of img file)
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I'm getting flash_image: not found
I've double checked the file name is correct
Did you unpack the zip file? There is only one file named exactly "flash_image" so you should not getting not found error if you have that file in root of sdcard and you are at /sdcard in terminal.
Send me output of "ls -la" command from /sdcard.
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 17638414 2010-09-10 20:20 gapps-hdpi-20100817-signed.zip
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 70864056 2010-09-10 20:22 update-cm-6.0.0-N1-signed.zip
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 11818685 2010-09-10 21:05 FRF50-radio-4_06_00_12_7.zip
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 4145152 2010-09-10 23:10 recovery.img
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 26172 2009-10-03 18:07 flash_image
Try ./flash_image instead of just flash_image.
One more thing: type this as the first command when you enter the Terminal:
su
Then type:
cd /sdcard
./flash_image recovery <insert_recovery_img_name_here>
Jack_R1 said:
Try ./flash_image instead of just flash_image.
One more thing: type this as the first command when you enter the Terminal:
su
Then type:
cd /sdcard
./flash_image recovery <insert_recovery_img_name_here>
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./flash_image: permission denied
top_bunk said:
./flash_image: permission denied
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Weird. Try:
1) su
2) cd /sdcard
3) chmod +x flash_image
4) ./flash_image recovery file.img
Well, that's because SD card isn't a good place to put flash_image. Permissions inherited from FAT32 are awkward and aren't changeable. But there's a way around it.
Do the following sequence: run Terminal, enter the following commands:
su
cd /sdcard
cp flash_image /data/local/tmp
chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/flash_image
/data/local/tmp/flash_image <insert_recovery_img_name_here>
houmles said:
3) chmod +x flash_image
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Won't work for 2 reasons:
1) In Android, chmod seems not to recognize letters for permissions.
2) On SD card formatted with FAT32, the mount assigns default permissions for all files, and they can't be changed - since the file system doesn't support it.
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Won't work for 2 reasons:
1) In Android, chmod seems not to recognize letters for permissions.
2) On SD card formatted with FAT32, the mount assigns default permissions for all files, and they can't be changed - since the file system doesn't support it.
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It didn't work...
Jack_R1 said:
su
cd /sdcard
cp flash_image /data/local/tmp
chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/flash_image
/data/local/tmp/flash_image <insert_recovery_img_name_here>
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cp: not found
Have any file explorer installed? Astro / EStrongs / whatever?
Copy the file manually in file explorer, and skip the "cp ......" instruction.
Jack_R1 said:
Have any file explorer installed? Astro / EStrongs / whatever?
Copy the file manually in file explorer, and skip the "cp ......" instruction.
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I just thought of the same thing
Installing Astro now (it's a new phone no apps!)
Jack_R1 said:
Won't work for 2 reasons:
1) In Android, chmod seems not to recognize letters for permissions.
2) On SD card formatted with FAT32, the mount assigns default permissions for all files, and they can't be changed - since the file system doesn't support it.
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ah, didn't know that
Jack_R1 said:
Have any file explorer installed? Astro / EStrongs / whatever?
Copy the file manually in file explorer, and skip the "cp ......" instruction.
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As Jack wrote, you can only copy the file manually with some file explorer.
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As Jack wrote, you can only copy the file manually with some file explorer.
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It won't let me copy it... I've tried Astro and ES.
Lots of complications...
Install Busybox from the Market. Then you'll have "cp" working.
If it still won't work, try "busybox cp" instead.
If you have adb connection you can try this:
unpack zip I sent you and recovery.img to root of c:\ for example .. then:
1) adb push c:\flash_image /data/flash_image
2) adb push c:\recovery.img /data/recovery.img
3) adb shell
4) chmod 755 /data/flash_image
5) /data/flash_image recovery /data/recovery.img
Jack_R1 said:
Lots of complications...
Install Busybox from the Market. Then you'll have "cp" working.
If it still won't work, try "busybox cp" instead.
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Lots
...but it's done! Thanks a lot for the help guys
I've gotta be up in a few hours so I don't have time to install a ROM and faff about, but hopefully it will be all good from here on in.
Cheers again!!
So I got bored at work today and created a boot animation. This is what it looks like GIF. The link to download this boot animation is HERE. Let me know what you guys think of this haha.
Steps to change boot animation:
**Using Root Explorer…**
1. You have to be rooted in order to do this.
2. Download Root Explorer from the market.
3. Download the boot anim: bootanimation.zip (from the link above)
4. If you downloaded via PC, mount your Droid and drop the bootanimation.zip file onto the root of your SD card.
5. Unmount your Droid.
6. Open Root Explorer, tap on “system” then "media" and locate bootanimation.zip.
7. Rename bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zipbak incase you want to revert back. *Make sure you tap on Mount R/W so it changes to Mount R/O before moving any files or renaming.*
8. Go back all the way and select sdcard folder. Locate bootanimation.zip
9. Long press on bootanimation.zip and choose “Move”.
10. Hit the back button once and locate the “system” folder.
11. Tap and open “system” and then “media”.
12. Hit “Paste” which should be an option at the bottom of your screen.
13. Back out of Root Explorer, reboot your phone, and BAM!
14. Enjoy your new new boot animation.
**Using Terminal Emulator…**
1. You have to be rooted in order to do this. Rooting info here and here.
2. Download the Droid Life boot anim: bootanimation.zip (from the link above)
3. Drop the file on the root of your SD card.
4. Open Terminal Emulator and type the following commands:
su
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/
reboot
5. Your phone should reboot with the Droid Life boot anim!
"no man, i just do the "Africa"-face" ^^
just saw that movie a couple days ago, brilliant!
In case it's unclear, I have CM7 on eMMC and am setting up a Honeycomb/Phiremod dual-boot on SD, and would like all three ROMs to use the storage partition (7th in this case) on the card. The following post suggests to me that it's possible:
racks11479 said:
No need to root your stock nook. If you have a CM7 sdcard, root explorer or file expert(free from market), and a terminal emulator app. Which you should have with cm7. Try the following steps.
-using root explorer or file expert. Mount system as R/W
-open up a terminal emulator and run the following commands
Code:
$ su
# mkdir /mnt/nooksys
# mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/nooksys
-now exit out of terminal emulator
-open up root explorer/file expert
-navigate to /mnt/nooksys
-you should now be able to see the stock nook system partition
-open up the /etc directory
-long press the vold.fstab file.
-it should give you an option to open with text editor
-change the line where it mounts the /sdcard from auto to 4
-exit out of root explorer
-reboot to stock
-it should now mount the 4th partition of your sdcard
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The file path specified, however, did not work, and I don't know enough about linux in general or the specific file structures to figure out the necessary changes. The system I want to redirect is the CM7.1 beta running dalingren's 5/13 OC kernel.
I also don't know for sure whether the above works for redirecting a stock 1.2 install.
Hello...i've search4ed and searched and no answer pertains to my problem that I can find. I followed this guide to get CM7.2 loaded on my 16gb sandisk sd card: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 The gapps I'm using the CM7 download link. The CM7.2 rom is the newest one available on the download link
Everything loaded smooth and works great except when I get to the part of installing gapps, I reboot into recovery mode (blue penguin with scrolling writing) and everytime it cannot find gapps installer so it ignores it!! I don't know what else to do here.. I've verified the hash using md5sum and it matches... I have my gapps.zip file located on the ROOT of my sd card /sdcard/gapps.zip. I've also tried putting gapps in /sdcard/boot. I've also tried changing the name to gapps-update.zip, update-gapps.zip, gapps-gd....etc.zip, etc etc etc. No matter what or where I put the file it isn't found.
When I boot the NC i can get to a boot menu from there, i've tried all combinations of booting (internal, sd, normal, etc etc). I've tried installing through boot manager and that doesnt work. It reboots to recovery mode and still doesn't find the file. I've flashed clockwork in boot manager and that didn't help anything.
I'm not sure what I just did, but i rebooted and now I have a "burrito manager" icon. I tried installing through that and no go. Don't know what else to do.
I DO have wifi setup/connected.
*EDIT... not sure if it matters, but I do seem to have an issue. I'm connected to wifi but NTP isn't updating my clock settings. It is setup in settings to auto update the date/time using network settings and it doesn't update. Could this be an issue with getting market to show up if the time is wrong??
Its most likely you are not placing gapps in the root of the boot partition... try this:
if adb works for you:
adb shell mkdir /sdcard/boot
adb shell mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot
adb push ***GAPPS INSTALLER*** /sdcard/boot
then when you reboot to sd recovery mode it will see the gapps installer.
DizzyDen said:
Its most likely you are not placing gapps in the root of the boot partition... try this:
if adb works for you:
adb shell mkdir /sdcard/boot
adb shell mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot
adb push ***GAPPS INSTALLER*** /sdcard/boot
then when you reboot to sd recovery mode it will see the gapps installer.
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Hello...thanks for the reply! But I'm a little confused what you mean? I manually put the gapps.zip file on /sdcard/gapps.zip AND also copied to /sdcard/boot/gapps.zip. The file is there. What is the filename supposed to be??? I've tried gapps-...zip, update-gapps...zip, gapps.zip, etc.
Is there something that adb does that copy on the terminal doesn't do??
See attached screenshot, the file is there. For some reason the installer script in recovery mode isn't finding it. That's why i was asking what filename it's looking for?
ballgum said:
Hello...thanks for the reply! But I'm a little confused what you mean? I manually put the gapps.zip file on /sdcard/gapps.zip AND also copied to /sdcard/boot/gapps.zip. The file is there. What is the filename supposed to be??? I've tried gapps-...zip, update-gapps...zip, gapps.zip, etc.
Is there something that adb does that copy on the terminal doesn't do??
See attached screenshot, the file is there. For some reason the installer script in recovery mode isn't finding it. That's why i was asking what filename it's looking for?
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Do not put the file in 'sdcard'. It needs to go in the boot partition like dizzy said. Take the card out of the nook and put in your PC. That will show the boot partition. Put the gapp file there. Make sure the name starts with gapps-gb-. Put the card back into the Nook and reboot to recovery like before.
leapinlar said:
Do not put the file in 'sdcard'. It needs to go in the boot partition like dizzy said. Take the card out of the nook and put in your PC. That will show the boot partition. Put the gapp file there. Make sure the name starts with gapps-gb-. Put the card back into the Nook and reboot to recovery like before.
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That worked! thank you very much...
I have stock VS980-12B and rooted (just updated from ioroot23 to ioroot25). When I check the cache its empty and no fota folder. I want to get 24A kitkat. What must I do to get the fota folder (I can't create a new folder in cache).
Su
You must have root access in order to create a folder there.
You can do this one of two ways:
1. Use a root enabled file browser like ES File explorer and grant it root access. (Menu->tools->Root Explorer), then navigate to your desired location and create the folder,
2. Using a command line (ADB or Terminal Emulator) type su<enter>. The terminal will request root on your phone, grant it, then type cd /cache<enter> then mkdir fota