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[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
You mean the time format I guess.. I thought it would be nice to have your correct time instead of UTC.

I will add a setting to use the same timezone as in recovery.

However I wanted to do the contrary (too). Let the app tell recovery about your real timezone, so you could have your correct time inside recovery.

Never heard of such a thing! First tip would be radio, but since it doesn't happen on fresh install..

I don't have any idea to be honest.

It shouldn't be necessary as recovery is doing that anyway, but can you try formatting all volumes before restoring the nandroid?

If that doesn't help, try with 2.1.0 or 2.1.1 and tell me.
[Desire Android Development] sjknight413:
formatting the partitions doesnt help because i do that before every nandroid restore anyways.

can confirm that it is still happening if i create and restore a nandroid on rc2, which is strange because it never used to. calling out works perfect before the backup by the way. next time i need to create a backup i will revert to 2.1.0
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Strange, the question is if 2.1.0 solves your problem.

The code for that should be the same..

Your problem seems extremely strange!

I'd rather guess that this is an issue with the nightly.
[Desire Android Development] sjknight413:
Man, im such an unbelievable idiot! haha.

really sorry to waste your time but it turns out it was the 3g supercharger script i have been applying!
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks for reporting back!

Glad it's resolved!
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Having an issue when trying to restore a backup thru the app, keeps force closing.

Otherwise all is good.:)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks for testing ;)

Does the app fc for you with any backup you try to restore or only with a certain one?

I couldn't reproduce it yet, but will try harder ;)

Was it a normal full backup or a restore of an "advanced" backup made in recovery? Advanced mode? Thank you!
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Tried it with 3 full backups I have, my stock virgin, ic112, and Cool3d Bliss, all FC.

Currently using IC112
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks! Are you using Advanced mode?

When does it fc? After it asks to confirm reboot or before?

Is the app force closing for anyone else if you try to restore a backup?
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Yer i was in advanced mode, with no other advanced options changed.

Switched off advanced mode, and it now working, no more fc.

Edit.

Still having restore problems with app,it boots into recovery, does m5d check, then says restore complete but nothings restored.

All roms originally backed up with, rc3. Also just done a backup through app with no problems, but having same issues while trying to restore it.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thnx!

I fixed the fc bug and another one.

Could you try again please?
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Woooo! Yea.. im still here! Hey bud.. what beta version are we on now? Im not sure what i have now.
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Advanced mode fc problems gone, not sure if superwipe works, i select it but don't see it doing anything.

Also can't restore thru app, boots into recovery ok, check md5 ok, then where it says what it going to restore nothing comes up, just says restore complete.

Manually restoring works fine and after md5 check, it says restoring system, data, etc, and starts restoring as normal.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Welcome back bud!! :)

Beta 8 at the moment, but soon 9 :)

Thank you! I'm fixing this bug at the moment..

Advanced restore should work, but not the basic one.

Will also take a look at superwipe now. If you say it doesn't do anything then I guess it's like that :D
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Ill jus wait for 9 then.. ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Fixed :)

But only updated beta8, will now check about superwipe and also add it as an optional item to restore because some ppl seem to like doing that before a restore. And then probably make it beta9.

Hehe good idea ;)

But now you could try and download it. Bugs mentioned above should be gone (except maybe superwipe doesn't work will work on that now)

BTW: You would need to uninstall it first if you haven't upgraded for a while..
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Advanced restore worked fine :)

Is there any reason the app requires a network connection, when accessing recovery and themes from the menu, i like to backup my roms with wifi off. But need it on to access the menus.

boot into recovery works without needing to contacting your server.

Another tiny bug is, when i check for update, it says I'm up to date, but then says there is a newer version.

Thanks for a great recovery and support app, rom manager has now been uninstalled :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hahaha thnx.

But rom manager can do so much more.. I didn't mean to try to replace it.

BTW: About the superwipe: I just tried it with superwipe ext4 and it worked..

Is there maybe a misunderstanding? Maybe I have done a poor job presenting that in the settings..

Did you actually enable Superwipe ext4 or ext3 in the install dialog?

Enabling it in the options doesn't do anything other than giving you two extra options when you want to install something..

I also found a small bug regarding that: After enabling superwipe in the options you need to restart the app to make those options to appear in the install dlg..

Will change that..

The reason why the app is contacting the server on "recovery" and "themes" is to translate your current version code name into a nicer name like 4EXTRecovery vxxx RCxx.. it parses an xml response for that.

It needs that info only for the show partitions option and for the theming option to be able to correctly write its name..

I will try to workaround that!

Edit: of course it gets all the other data too like when you go to install update: all versions available for your device, if there are any news to display or whether there is an update for the app available.

But this is not needed for those items.. I will translate the version number by code now so it doesn't need to contact the server.
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
wheres the download at bud? you need to take you a break sometime bud! you work to hard.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
:) Thank you :) But I cannot.. I need to get this finished because i need to update the recovery which is overdue already and I still need to support the other devices as promised :)

Download link is here:

Beta9
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Ok bud.. thanks.. :)
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Superwipe fine after restart, normal restore working fine as well :)

Another tiny bug is, when i check for update, it says I'm up to date, but then says there is a newer version.

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
thank you!! That's great!

The you are up to date message is regarding your recovery version.. if you had a lower version it would tell you that there is an update for 4EXTRecovery available.. this is independent of the update check of the app.

But you are right it could use a better logic ;)
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Also another thing I've found is if I change the txt colour on a theme, when i go into partition info, it shows a blank black screen, with no info.

This only happens when I change a colour.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks I will fix that..

BTW: Did you have a theme installed when you discovered that bug or was this without theme?
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
With a theme installed, then i uninstalled it, and went to change colour. Said something about no theme installed,using default background, but then gave me a black screen so had to back out.

Reinstalled theme but changed colours before installing it, still got black screen on partition data, then reinstalled theme with no colour change, and partition data was fine. Seems to have a bug when changing colour.

Also another one, when changing colour with no theme installed.

Off to bed now, will do somemore testing for you tomorrow.

But its coming along nicely :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you very much and good night :)

I can't reproduce this problem though :(

With or without theme.. changing colours and then into view partition info works always for me..

Difficult to track down that one I guess...

See you tomorrow and thanks a lot for testing!
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Managed to get a black screen!! :)

But only if I had my sdcard unmounted.. need to put a check there..

I guess this wasn't the reason for what you reported though..

Maybe someone else could join trying that out and we could finally find what ppl getting a black screen there would have in common :)
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Morning,

Tried a couple of things this morning.

I uninstalled the app, flash standard clockwork recovery version 5 now.

Deleted all the 4EXT folder from my SD card and System.

Reinstalled your app beta9, then used it to install the recovery RC4, No problems at all.

Went to change the recovery colour again and still got Black screen on partition data, also with no theme installed, I get a black screen when I go into change colours.

No biggy for me, the theme colour are ok, and work as long as I don't change the colour.

Anyone else seen this, as it could just be me.:)
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
Hi,

what does it say if you try to uninstall theme with the app, after you installed on through recovery?

Could you please try that?

Regards
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Someone posted before about a similar behaviour that was resolved simply by installing a theme through the app.

I still don't know exactly what's causing that.

When you first change colours, (through the change colours option, not WHILE installing a new theme) does it work? Do you see the changed colours?

And when you leave that screen and immediately come back the screen is already black?
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Its says theme removed successfully.

I have No problems installing themes thru app or recovery, but as soon as I change the colour, my partition data screen is blank, and if i then go back into change colour again that's just a blank screen.

I Install theme again, and both partition data and change colour are fine, until I try to charge colour again.

It's strange????

Are there any free apps to capture my screen as video, and then i can show you.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes there is Shootme, but it might or might not work so good.

But I don't need a video because your description is detailed :)

I'd just like to know one more thing: If you go into change colours when it is still working and then change a colour. Does the colour get applied? And then if you leave the change colours screen and immediately re enter change colours.. is the screen then black too?

Edit: After you changed colours and the screen is black when entering change colours again, please can you send me your 4ext.prop file (inside /sdcard/4ext/4ext.prop) to my mail address in my sig?
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
If i load and install theme without changing anything its fine, if i load theme change colours and install, partition data and change colour are immediately blank.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Please install a theme and don't change its colours.

Then enter change colours and change them. Leave change colours and immediately re-enter change colours.

I guess the screen will be blank again.

Then please send me your /sdcard/4ext/4ext.prop file and send it to my mail address :)

I hope to be able to fix that then much faster.

Thank you!
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
I've attached the files, one is the 4ext.prop, and the other is a screencast of me doing it, sorry for the speed I did it, the trial version only allowed 30seconds, so had to be quick.

I get this same blank screen on partition data too. :)

Good luck..
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Done a fair bit of testing, with different themes, and some were working, when i changed the colour, i thought strange.

So I choose the theme i wanted and set the colours, and got no blank screens.

I thought even stranger, what have I done different???

So i done it again, and got blanks.???

Turns out if i select the colours as white, top left corner when choosing colour, i get the blank screens. Any other colour and its ok.

Try it and see if the same happens.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks I sent you a pm :)

I think I know what the problem is now that you told me that ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Bug fixed :)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
No problem, love testing stuff till I can break them :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hehe you are the ideal tester then :)

Did you try the fixed version I sent you?
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Yer sent you a pm. :)
[Desire Android Development] zorglub!:
install crashed

Hi all

I was under4Extrecovery 2.1.3-bravo...and wanted to install 2.1.3 rc4...

Installation immediately aborted !!!

Any idea why ?

thks in advance
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Where did you try to install it?

In case you were trying to flash it from inside recovery.. that doesn't work..

Could you download and try flashing it with the app?

Beta 9
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
@Angusc:

The option you wanted is now integrated :) Just (re-)download the current version!
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
You mean that now when i click on "New" within the Backup menu that it pops up with a "Choose name for your backup"?
[Desire Android Development] teorouge:
Hello, I really love your recovery and I wondered if you could add an "Erase backup" in Backup menu. That would come handy for people with little space on SD and no computer access: I've sadly been there, couldn't backup ROM for low SD space and neither delete some backups, flashed a test zip anyway and got boot loops, so had to flash the ROM from scratch.

Thanks anyway, you did an outstanding job so far! :)
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
You know you can delete backups with a normal file explorer?
[Desire Android Development] teorouge:
In recovery?
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
No, when you are booted normally.

They are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.... just delete the entire folder for old backups you don't want any more.

I use ES File Explorer, but any file manager will do this...
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
And thru the app.
[Desire Android Development] teorouge:
I mean, I know about that. I was asking a different thing, to be able to do that

in recovery

without booting up and reboot to recovery again. Got it now?

EDIT: and I'd also like to know whether a full restore implies a full wipe or should I do that myself beforehand?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
?? I'm confused now.. you could do that long ago already.. you told me that you didn't like the default date format it used.. now you can turn on UTC timezone + the same format recovery uses for the default backuup names in the settings.

Thanks!

I will add that, you are not the first one that would like to have that feature.

Regarding full wipe before full restore: no you don't need to do that as any recovery formats any partition prior restoring it.
[Desire Android Development] live_0978:
Any chance of adding the fake flash in Recovery Control? I updated to cwm 5.0.2.0 in rom manager and now when I reboot into recovery using the power menu it's cwm 5.0.2.0 not 4ext.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
You can of course flash 4ext again with the app and rom manger won't replace it automatically anymore after it did that for one time.

If you prefer having CWMR flashed fix and 4ext as fake flash, yes I'd need to add that.. will probably do, but don't know if it will be already there when the app is ready..
[Desire Android Development] themoviesss:
hi all, strange thing happened. Now after updating 4ext to rc4 within the app, recovery shows only the sd-ext en sdcard in partitions. Booted i seem to have lost root access. Superuser is there (reinstalled) and grands acces but all the apps malfunction: no root access. Can this be caused by flashing from within the app? need i tot re-root?

Edit:

nandroid back to VU1.31.0a and root is back! so seems to be a problem of Bliss rom. 4ext App now shows all my partitions.

Will reboot now in recovery ans check again..... still just the sd-ext and sdcard partition info.... strange
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes that is a strange problem. But flashing from inside the app or using fastboot is nearly the same.

It only touches your recovery partition and nothing else and it is the same process rom manager is using to flash cwmr since 5.x.

Regarding partition info inside recovery: it was always like that, it only shows your sdcard and sd-ext partitions on the Desire.

I still don't display the yaffs2 partitions..

system, data and cache are only displayed on other phones that use ext filesystems on those partitions too.

I will add that for the Desire in a next update.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you for reporting back!

The App might show other partitions too, but recovery always only shows sdcard and sd-ext on the Desire..

I will change that soon :)
[Desire Android Development] themoviesss:
oke, didn't know that. (ediited my earlier post on this). So in recovery it's oke to just see 2 partitions, and within the app you see all partitions.

Just wanne say. Great job and thnx for you're fast response. Love you're recovery and app!
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks a lot :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
RC1 uploaded :)

Recovery Control RC1
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
New logo is looking nice Madmaxx :) I also like the colors in the app, that two orange colors which divide odd and even rows are great, imo

Now bug detected until now, I'll keep searching

Thanks for that recovery anyways, combined with that app it's unbelievably nice and easy to handle ;)
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
No I was confused not you! So yes I found the menu setting and it works.....can it work but using local time? I mean it was just the naming configuration that did not match that was my "bug" if a can have local time but in the same naming format a the main recovery that would be the cherry on the cake!

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Android Development] YorickRise:
4EXTRecovery v2.1.3 RC4 bug report:

1. After getting info that my partitions are not aligned, repartitioned (ext4 partition only) to find the same result :( During format it mentioned something about not enough space, even while there was 1024MB partition before

2. Recovery restarting:

- Fastboot-ed radio (update) and CM7r2 Hboot

- recovery showed main screen only to go to dark and restart (only recovery - i.e. wenc black and again initialization)

- after restoring stock hboot all works fine...
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
I can confirm mine is working fine with CM7r2 HBOOT.. no idea about the rest.

M.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you very much :)

Yes, but wouldn't it be better if recovery and the app were using the same timezone? Otherwise you might create a backup inside recovery, then with the app, and you wouldn't know which one was newer (depening on your local time zone there could be many hours difference of course).

I will change the format of using local time to match the other one.. but best would be to tell the recovery about the local timezone so that it also uses the right times..

You cannot change alignment if the new partition would fit exactly into the free space only.

When you align your partition which was previously not aligned you need to take into account that the new aligned partition's start would move! So there will be a tiny bit of free space that must remain (if you don't remove all other partitions and start from scratch that is)

About the hboot change I also have no ideaa why it didn't work for you.

Please flash the recovery again after changing the hboot :)

Thank you :)
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
I've also had problems when changing hboot, but found if I do a full wipe, then flash new hboot all is fine.
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
You are very correct, as always, but as the recovery console works faster than the traditional Desire recovery access then it is likely for me to always use the console..... I know not every device suffers the lag to get in to recovery so it is a small part of your clients affected.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
That could be the difference... i always full wipe if I change hboot.

M.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
By console you mean the app and then rebooting into recovery to do your selected actions by "console"?

I will change the time format for local time to match too :)
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Recovery could be looking for theme, that could be on a different partition after hboot change. That's my thoughts :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Shouldn't be because it does that even if you wipe everything before.. also the partition doesn't change device name.. it always looks the same for recovery..
[Desire Android Development] YorickRise:
OK, for now I leave it as it is then (unaligned). Thank you.

For the Hboot change - I've tried re-flashing recovery but result was the same. I think I did full wipe beforehand all fastboot stuff, but I'm not 100% sure now :( Anyway I'll stay on stock hboot at least for a while ;)

In general thank you for your effort in development of this tool and support :)
[Desire Android Development] ghiki:
Strange, on RC4 it gives me "Error creating fs for FAT" when partitioning SDcard with FAT32+ext, I backed to RC2 and it worked ok

EDIT: How I can get "4ext" log without SDcard?.

EDIT: I found it in /tmp/recovery.log , I attached to this post
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Just wanted to ask you about it.

adb pull /tmp/recovery.log recovery.log

if you are using windows, for example like that: adb pull /tmp/recovery.log %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\recovery.log

Could you send it to my mail address? madmaxx82 <at> mailspot .at

I cannot reproduce this with rc4.. it's really strange.

Please could someone else try that out? It would be great to know if that's reproducible.
[Desire Android Development] ghiki:
And there's a log with same steps but in RC2 (without any error)

(if you need dmesg or some like this, please, ask about it)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you, but that log is completely ok.

I would need the log from the session where this failed..
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
He attached the log to his initial post..

@ghiki: I installed the latest rc4 on my desire and tried to create partitions twice, right now. It worked without any issue :) Do you have another SD to check if it's hardware defect?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Ohh missed it, sorry ghiki.

Was your sdcard formatted when you first booted rc4 before you tried to partition it the first time ?

If so then there MIGHT be a problem with your card as parted couldn't determine either the free space or capacity of the fat32 partition.

Could be possible though that the filesystem was just corrupted, which is meaningless for partitioning of course.

But if you got the time, please either retry it with rc4 or better: with another sdcard.

I cannot reproduce this. and ptr_hamilton neither.