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[Desire Android Development] Jemus42:
According to this post beta5 already had the new name, and the app I installes was named Recovery Control, so… yeah, first I ran beta5, now it's beta6 :)

As far as the recovery is concerned, I am running 2.1.3 RC2.

Yet, fs still off with beta6.

And now… I'm going to look for the changelogs and test the app a little more :)

EDIT:

btw, did I mention that themes are the most pointless yet coolest feature a recovery ever had?

Like it :) Although I'm a little confused whether Desire HD themes will work properly on my Desire (since I assume that bootanimations and splashscreens wouldn't work due to resolution differences etc)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
So upgrading worked now for you..

Did you also boot rc2 once?

BTW: Please install rc4!
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hehe yes.. you know I need to fix the big startup time some of you have on the Desire.

Maybe yes, that would be a great feature. But will take a little i guess.

I need to make a long due update for 4extrecovery, support additional devices as promised et.c.
[Desire Android Development] :
Arent we desireable? :P

Well I guess I have to get on your nerves again... I flashed the rc4 through the app, booted through the app into the recovery. Took some time but worked well. I did nothing but rebooting back to the rom. Now it hangs in splash :(
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
I really guess you already have some bad blocks. That might explain why you had trouble flashing it in the first place.

4EXTRecovery got extremely big and is very tight at the limit of the recovery partition for the Desire!

I already sent you a PM to join me on irc so that I can help you.
[Desire Android Development] :
Havent used IRC in a long time tho :P

Can offer gtalk, skype, msn, huddle, fb ;)
[Desire Android Development] Jemus42:
Upgrading worked well the first time since I only upgraded fein beta 5 to 6 :-)

And yes, I booted rc2 after I installed it via beta 5. Had no problems with upgrading, I only wondered about ROM name and fs, but you cleared that up now :-)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
One question to someone who knows more about the custom hboots available for the desire:

It seems that this patches your current recovery?

So if you install a new version of recovery would you need to install that hboot again to re apply any patches?

That might be the reason why it failed for Bertosch.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
hehehe yes Desire HD themes should all work..

But since there is a speed problem booting recovery for some on the Desire with the current version of 4extrecovery it might be good to skip themes that are really really big.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Okay it seems you cannot upgrade recovery without hassle if you have a custom mtd installed.

Might be the reason for some crazy boot times too!

You would at least need to repatch recovery..
[Desire Android Development] :
State that in the first post ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Better put that into the custom mtd thread, since it has nothing to do with 4extrecovery, but with any recovery you permanently flash *after* you flashed a custom mtd.
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
Desire can either have cmtd which needs to be flashed after recovery change iirc. Hboot permanently changes the partitions and recovery has nothing to do with it. Personally not sure why people still use cmtd.

M.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you for clarifying! Yes, the custom mtd is the one that was making trouble. After a flash of a new recovery version.. I hope there are not that many ppl left using that or at least they hopefully are aware of that problem.. I really don't want to bother everyone with a Desire with a big Warning just for the case it might be someone using cmtd..

:)
[Desire Android Development] n0j0e:
Yes, it says 'successfully'.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Bad flashs can happen.. even stated in the notes of Rom Manager! Please flash it again :)

And I also hope you don't have used that custom mtd script thing ;)
[Desire Android Development] n0j0e:
Yes. That's also my problem. See my previous post.

Flashing v2.1.3rc4 via fastboot works fine.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
He reflashed and it worked.
[Desire Android Development] n0j0e:
Will check with next rc! ;-)

So flashing the rc4 via fastboot was faster.

Info: No custom HBoot or other scripts! Only the sig. specs + S-Off.
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
Quick q about the app. Can you only update 4ext with the app or can you also use itto install 4ext for the first time. If the latter, do you still need to be s -off?.

Reason I ask is that my Rom sometimes causes permissions issues and I get users onto 4ext for the fix, but they are not always super tech savvy so easy install methods are good :-)

God damn I need to find a new keyboard app.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
:) thanks!

Really, the app was downloaded by >1000 desire users (counting updates, so actual number is of course much less). I understand that flashing with it might not work for some for the first time. But that should be a minority of users, otherwise we should have much more than 2 reports about that.

Please anyone for whom the app does not flash recovery properly, try it a second and third time. Also Rom Manager states to do that in such a case.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
You can use it to install it for the first time too ;) but it needs root permissions and s-off! I could add fake flash though.... (but root would be required nonetheless)

The by far best keyboard app I ever had and still use is smart keyboard pro :)

If you don't know it, give it a try, it's completely customizable and really just rocks ;)

Good night! Need to go to sleep now ;)
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
Cheers! Understand about root and everyone in my case will have that anyway :) Even if we can't avoid S-OFF, at least it still makes it easier flashing the recovery... so good stuff all the same!

Will have to check out the kb too ;)

M.
[Desire Android Development] VenomGBR:
On a

HTC Desire GSM - S-OFF

4GB Class 4 SD Card.

Trying to partition.

EXT4 - 768mb

Swap - 128mb

Rest FAT32

Any idea why i get this error:

"error formatting sdcard fat32"

Then it completely breaks my SD Card

I had to use a partition manager during USB-MS toggle to completely format it to fresh. I had to then use another recovery to properly format.
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
Hi.

I've rebooted several times since I first installed the APK some time ago... :)

And I've had your recovery installed for a couple of months now.

Are you interested in any logs?
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
On the topic of the partition info screen (in the app) mine is doing the same as a previous user - reading EXT3 in recovery but EXT2 in the app. RC4 recovery, beta6 app, just rebooted through recovery and did a print partition info in there and still shows the same (EXT2) in the app.

Actually a good reminder I need to go back to EXT4 lol... had CWM on for a bit and totally forgot about why i moved to 4EXTR in the first place :P Darn magical changing file systems.

M.
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
Hi Madmaxx,

I just updated to Recovery Control beta 6 then from there updated and installed 2.1.3 RC4 everything went without any hitch!

I'm loving the features of this duo thanx for everything that you do on this. All my partition and Recovery info is showing up correctly from Recovery control.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Android Development] PlayPetepp:
Did the same and updated to RC4, worked like a charm. Recovery still boots 2-3 days though. :)
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
I dont know why, but it seems that the long delay to boot was greatly reduced for me on RC3 and RC4(when i upgraded once before to RC3 i had to revert back to latest final due to recovery taking forever to boot).

The only thing comes to mind that i did differently was erasing the recovery before i flashed the new version(on RC3 at least), dunno if thats the case, but worth the shot innit?

Although latest RC4 was flashed via Recovery updater, so the whole point i was trying to make seems moot now :\
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
Madmaxx, some more feedback.......so do not have a data plan I find that i'm unable to access the backup menu in beta 6 as it is always checking for the 4ext server. Is it possible to only do this from the update checking menu.....our if you are collecting device data then could you allow it to proceed to the backup function after it detects no data connection is available?

Beta 6 now picks the name of my ROM ok for the backup.

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hi! This is strange! So I guess you used "start from scratch" ?

Never had a report about that until now. Will take a look at that today and if someone else could try that, I'd be more than happy for a confirmation :)

Error formatting fat32 means parted was not able to format it.. However that is at a stage where the partition table was already written via fdisk.

So partition info inside the app is still not showing your correct filesystems..

And you have version 2.1.3 rc4 installed?

Sorry to ask again, I forgot ;)

Thank you very much :)

Thanks :)

Those slow recovery startups must be taken care of.

Out of interest, do you have a custom mtd?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Did I get you right there? When you booted to recovery it then also showed you ext2 instead of ext3?

If so, then a script is removing jounraling from ext3 on boot! Ext3 without journaling is ext2 :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks for the heads up, I will try to remove that from that menu item.

I understand it's not good if it needs an internet connection when not absolutely necessary.

About data plan if you or someone else wondered:

Updating info from 4ext servers is about 1kb.

It gets the list of available versions for your device + changelogs/known issues and news.

Also the app will NEVER connect to anywhere else than 4ext.net. I don't like google analytics and anything that might be collecting data.
[Desire Android Development] PlayPetepp:
Yes they must :)

Don't have any custom mtd, just normal, basic, run-of-the-mill cm7r2 hboot.

Oh yea, thank you. ;)
[Desire Android Development] VenomGBR:
Yeah, I tried "Start from Scratch".

Does it have anything to do with having no rom installed at that point?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
No, really should not have any effect!

When you used your OS to redo all that, did it show you the partitions you created with 4ext, or was your partition table empty?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
I ask because I think it should have created everything, but since it failed formatting fat32 it stopped formatting your sd-ext partition either, so you had partitions, but no file systems on them.. that's what I would think.. doesn't mean it was like that of course.

I will drop that old, parted for formatting fat32 anyway..

Nonetheless i will now take an empty sdcard and try that out.
[Desire Android Development] loukasz:
delete

delete
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
desire radios dont know when it was posted sorry
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
no i'm running the one you've posted on this page, the sig it's just copied and pasted from the title of the thread.

thats why i asked for the md5

cheers
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Oh they are quite old.. 2008.. that explains why..
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Ah I see..

v2.0.1 RC1 is ready.. last one for some time maybe..

Anyone wants to try?

93723eb92feeb7c74509583ed008aa2a
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Okay, updated..

Take a closer look to the area above the download links, otherwise you might be a little bit surprised :D
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
is this a newly updated one or is it the same as the one on page 12, that i'm using.

regards.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
A new one :)
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
nice one, will flash it straight away ... sir.:D

**** i'm becoming a flash junky now lol :D

cheers
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
:D

But watch out about the config change.. didn't add any code to upgrade.. it would be best to delete it.. will be recreated...

If there are changes in the future I will do this automatically (save settings), but for now there really are only 4 values.. so deleting is ok I think..
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
does that mean, i'll delelte the one that i'm using or flash the new one, the old one will deleted when flashing the new one.

flashing through fastboot, the log says deleting the old img.

cheers
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
No that's perfect, I mean the configuration change in /sdcard/4ext/4ext.prop..

Maybe you don't know it since you are themeing your recoveries anyway, but there you can set colours.. up until now it was only possible to set the menu colours.. now you can change all of them..

But for that the file needs to be recreated with the new config version.. and this won't happen before you delete it..

Because there were only 4 values to change I didn't write code to automatically do the upgrade and convert old -> new..

If this file gets deleted it will be recreated on next recovery boot with default values.
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
thanks for clarifying that. it make sense. i was just being thick, or maybe tired.lol

cheers
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
I'm also extremely tired.. nearly 5am here..

BTW: Do you have sd-ext partitions? Does recovery show you the file system or does it say they are unformatted?

I might have a bug here in this version :(

But it might also be that my sdcard got corrupted during testing and many exceptions

Increased delay by 0.5 seconds to boot.. and it is solved..

Will update and reupload just in case..

If you don't have any problems (sd-ext not being listed or recovery saying it is unformatted.. you don't need to reflash)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Puhh.. glad I found it before going to sleep...

Reuploaded..

You don't need to reflash if you have no problems.. it's just the timeout increased.. some hardware needs a bit more time to settle after boot to be visible..
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
it's just pink now. lol

it did say the ext4 is unformatted, but i've formatted it anyway, everything is normal.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Was it not formatted?

If you now reboot directly into recovery.. it should show again as not formatted.. if this is the bug I just corrected in last minute..

Please try that out.. if it's like that, please re-download and PLEASE report back if it is solved so I can go to sleep :D
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
i will ,just waiting for the phone to reboot and i'll check.
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
ext4 was formatted. as i had 1G for it , it's showing 1048.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Can you try while in recovery to directly reboot recovery (power menu)?
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
yep, it did, power menu, rebooted to recovery
[Desire Android Development] VenomGBR:
I should think that sounds realistic.

It showed the partitions yes (Obviously though, it doesnt recognise what EXT4 or SWAP is so they said unknown as to their type, the FAT32 partition was unformatted.

I just deleted all the partitions, and used this recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1137763

To format it in the end.

My reason to swap to your recovery was that, the latest MIUI seems to change my partitions to EXT2 upon installation. Its very odd.
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
It's OK... :)

Yes, running latest APK, and 2.1.3 RC4 (double-checked by booting recovery)

Still no joy when displaying partitions: black screen
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
I tried it out with the same sizes you had chosen, and it worked..

I then rebooted recovery and tried it a second time, which also worked..

Then I tried doing it a third time.. first I selected all the sizes and then when it asked me if I want to commit the changes I selected no and redid it again.. this also worked.

I don't know what was wrong when you tried that, but it definitely works like it has since the last months.

Could it be possible that there is something not completely ok anymore with your sdcard?
[Desire Android Development] VenomGBR:
I tried it with 2 different SD Cards :)

A 2GB Class 4, and a 4GB Class 4. Did exactly the same thing with both.

Only things I can think of:

- I didn't have your recovery properly installed.

- Is there a minimum capacity of SD card your formatting procedure requires?

- Is there a minimum class of SD card your formatting precedure requires?

Since both my cards are obviously, low class, low capacity.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Very strange.. as I posted, I tried that 3 times now and it always worked..

Maybe it would have worked for you too if you did it a second time and it was just some sort of "bad luck". I know there shouldn't be things like bad luck and it's not anything near an accurate statement :D

But I really think that if there was a problem with that I would have gotten more than 1 report by now.. maybe your card isn't completely healthy anymore and parted tapped on some bad blocks or anything when trying to format fat32.. I really don't know.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
If MIUI is changing ext3 to ext2 it means they disable journaling. There is nothing a recovery can do about that.

But if you use ext4 than disabling journaling will still be ext4..

Ext3 though is ext2 without journaling.

Ext3 is ext2 + journaling.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
No..

Absolutely not.

I don't understand that, because noone else ever had a problem with it!

My formatting fat32 procedure is just calling parted to format your fat32 partition (which will change in a later update!).

So it means that parted was not able to format your card.. and why I really don't know.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
It is completely black?

When it shows you that, can you tap on the screen and try to change colours? Or does the app hang?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Your case is very interesting since it is unique.

If you had some time left, could you try it again and then send me your logs?

Are you able to use adb? just use adb pull /tmp/recovery.log recovery.log or if you are on windows you might want to use adb pull /tmp/recovery.log %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\recovery.log

Could you send that to my mail address? It's in my sig :)
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
View partition table working here as well...
[Desire Android Development] dirkw01:
No luck on ROM name

Hi madmaxx82,

I've updated the app to Beta6 and afterwards through the app the recovery to 2.1.3 RC4.

In the app under 'Recovery | View partition data' my ROM (see sig) is named correctly like 'LeeDrOiD_HD_V3.3.3_GB-R5'.

BUT (you know there comes the 'but' :D) after 'taking the elevator' into the recovery the ROM is still named only like '3.3.3-R5'.

Cheers

Dirk
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks for the confirmation.

I'm sorry I'm already above the xda 24h limit with the thanks button ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Okay so the app does a better job in detecting your romname ;)

Will improve the detection algorithm in the recovery ;)

But it isn't top priority as there are a lot of things I need to add for the next version.
[Desire Android Development] dirkw01:
No problem ;)

At least it produces unique names for the backups and THAT is important.

Cheers

Dirk
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
Screen is completely black except for the notification bar at the top.

Tapping on the screen does nothing.

However, the application doesn't seem to hang because I can leave the screen using the 'back' button.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Weird!

Does the same happen when you use themes & more -> change colours?

And can you tap on the screen then?

Edit: that you see a notification bar at the top is even more strange.. it should be fullscreen..

Would be great to know if this happens for you also when you use change colours in the themes section and when you use it to install a new theme..

Thank you very much!
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
That's funny because I see the same thing: notification bar at the top and I can't change anything.

This used to work though, because I know that I changed the colours using a previous version of the app.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hmmmm.. when did it last work for you? Was it an Alpha?

Does it happen also if you use the app to install a theme? You would get a preview of the theme if you do that..
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
It worked with early alpha versions, yes.

So, I installed a theme using the app (previously I had installed a theme by hand), and everything now works. I would never have thought it would display the partitions using the installed theme... :)

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
GREAT!!!

It seems there was a problem with your 4ext.prop then or something else.

Could you do me a favour and uninstall your theme and then again try it out?

If you again see a black screen only, I know what's the problem and can easily fix it.

Thank you :)
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
Confirmed.

I uninstalled the theme and, black screen again.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks :) Will correct that.
[Desire Android Development] Stretlow:
Anyone got another link for the download, the one in OP is extreamly slow (2hours for mb) :(
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
If you had used the app you would have gotten a notice that there are currently problems with the backbone of the hoster. They will very soon be fixed.

For the future I will add a fallback server.
[Desire Android Development] Stretlow:
Apologies, phones wiped already, thanks for the quick response...

Stret
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
NP, I must apology for that extremely slow connection.
[Desire Android Development] Siupermen:
The best recovery.

Hello Madmaxx82, congratulations for this great recovery!

I've been using it for several weeks and I think is the best recovery of all.

A few days ago, I discovered the APK with the control panel, and it's amazing how easy it is to update it. :eek:

Really, this recovery is awesome!, again, congratulations! :)

This text has been translated by Google-Translate. Sorry, I do not speak English very well, I hope you understand me. :o

Greetings! ;)
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
No, recovery still shows EXT3, app shows EXT2, despite all the updates reboots etc :) I'll eventually jump back to EXT4, but will stay here for the time being if you want me to test anything.

M.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hi!

You are very good to understand!

Thank you very very much for that great feedback :)

That's strange, if you have a few minutes, maybe you could check something out for me.
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
For sure, just let me know what you'd like me to do.

Btw I love the keyboard you recommended ;)
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
Madmaxx,

I completed a back up a couple of times now via the Control Console.....I still prefer the naming culture of 4EXT RECOVERY over that of the Console.... :(
[Desire Android Development] sjknight413:
I have an extremely strange problem with 2.1.3 rc4,

Since updating if I restore a nandroid backup I cannot dial out on my phone. If I do phone somebody their phone rings and they can pick it up and answer it, but I hear no dial tone and no voice on my end. They hear me perfectly though.

The roms I am restoring are completely stable, and calls work perfect if I just full wipe and reinstall the Rom, its only when restoring a nandroid!

Any thoughts?