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[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Will look into that! Noted :)

Thank you so much for that great feedback :)

But most features are still missing :)

And you are absolutely right, I will change that asap.

The rest is also still a bit rough around the edges, needs to be improved ;)

Like those dialogues.. they don't need to be displayed everytime.

Also I don't yet know how to tell the user that "blue" version entries mean older, yellow/orange means currently installed and red means newer..

But first need to start adding more features ;)
[Desire Android Development] fire_kid2003:
Thankx

Looks brilliant

Will Test it tomorrow
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
cause i'm not s-off because i have bad experience with that tool from alpharev.. crashed my bootloader took me 3 days and a nice person to get it back working ;-)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Only if you test one or two things and report back :D

Nah ok... here you are: 66040da69fa69754b16c468f2852dce2
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
How do you flash my recovery if you are not s-off?
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
cheers man ,will try it now :cool:
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
i had it in older cwmr just flashable radio.zip files which u can run through flash any zip.. when i try with yours I get an error with something saying about scripts.. im not a native english speaker so i dont really understand
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
did it with unrevoked ;-)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Please send me your recovery.log in a pm (you can use the menu item in advanced to copy it to sdcard)

And please tell me how you "enter" 4ExtRecovery without flashing it..

Are u using the fake flash version I posted a few pages before?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Does that mean the recovery is now permanently on your recovery partition?

And stock recovery was replaced by it?
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
flashed through android flasher (hboot)

wow that looks the dogs bollocks.

cheers, will report after trying out, thanks again:cool:
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
thats exactly what it means

u got pm
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
cool, worked a treat. using android commander

here is a screen shot, somehow on the picture, its showing 4, but on the phone itself is just one, and the top screen where the menu, could'nt get a shot of it, but it is on the phone.

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
This is using amend scripting which isn't supported since version 3 in cwmr..

Send me the zip file pls, maybe we can change it.

But please use multiupload.--
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Nice :)

And thnx for the feedback :)
[Desire Android Development] rophaq:
signature change. DONE:cool:
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
can you explain what this actually means? Here it is: Radio.zip

btw. i really like the extra features.. this is why Ive chosen yours over all the others ;-)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you!

And sorry, but I won't convert this to "updater-script" .. I don't know enough about the desire and really don't want to mess something up.

If this is a new release, then I think it's strange it comes with this old amend script.. there must be a reason for that..

Or is it an old release?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
:)

BTW: You are running RC1, or did you flash the Beta from first page?

I will update this now..
[Desire Android Development] Sashtheflash:
i have to thank you not the other way round..

it's the actual radio recommended for leedroid rom
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Do you know when it was posted?

Is there a thread with radio releases?
[Desire Android Development] 2WildFirE:
Great recovery! thx madmax82
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
While loading its come up EXT4 NG Soon, Please explain :) or is it a secret.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
You are the first one to notice that :D

There's another hidden hint somewhere in recovery :)

"soon" unfortunately only means during the next month or so.. been to busy and I think I'll add some other devices first, together with a bigger v2 update :)

Not yet fixed though..

Thank you :)
[Desire Android Development] :
How can i flash zipthemer morphs? What do I need to get that working? Because i really like my Lockscreen being themed!
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Love easter eggs, let me do some more searching and i'll find the other hint :)
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
Love the updater app :) Can flash new recovery without killing my +10000 internetz uptime.

2.1.3 RC2 also seems to fix the slow boot from 2.1.2... well at least the menus are up straight away which is all that mattery really :)
[Desire Android Development] Smiffyboots:
Loved this recovery on my desire, are you going to make a version for the sensation?
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
Yes he will but we gotta be patient, use trwp till then ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you! :)

Yes of course, but first I'll finish the app.

Currently it looks like that:

Update 4EXTRecovery reducing recovery boot up time on the Desire (hopefully) and probably adding missing features. Then I'll start with supporting more devices.

ETA very difficult to say, but don't expect that there will be something like an "open beta" earlier than 2 weeks.
[Desire Android Development] Smiffyboots:
Check sig ;)
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
Sorry, no sigs in xda app :)
[Desire Android Development] LiooO:
I'm awaiting for Aligned Fat32 Formatting and this recovery will be without doubt the one that rules all other... :)

Edit:

Added Fat32 :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Please add the keyword Fat32 to that list since it already perfectly aligns ext4 and everything else :D
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hehehe excited to know if you'll find something
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Woo hoo!! Guess who's back?! Easter egg hunt eh? Seems the game is afoot then. :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yeah!! Welcome back!!

Missed you already :)

BTW: You could try the alpha 8 of the support app preview:

You can now change all colours with "live preview" and install themes without the need to reboot into recovery and also modify all their colours ;)

http://www.4ext.net/get.php?apk

Would be interested to hear what you think ;)
[Desire Android Development] :
Why doesnt the recovery boot when no Rom is installed? It only shows the info text. But no options to install anything...
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
That's strange.. first report of such an issue for the very first time.

Can you try that again?

If it still doesn't work for you, please try 2.1.0 final and report back.
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Im on it bud!! :)
[Desire Android Development] :
Well I had that before... I installed cwm original again, restored my rom and then flashed 4ext again...

Edit 1:Flashed the final and am still waiting on that info screen without any options. Gonna wait another 10 Minutes and hope it will fully boot at some point.

Edit 2: Alright 2.1.0 final did boot finally :) But the 2.1.3 i had about 20minutes in process and nothing happened. I reflashed it twice...

But thx for your advice;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
So when you have no rom installed and you boot recovery it doesn't show any menu?

What exactly means no rom is installed?Complete wipe of system/data/cache and then switch phone off and boot into recovery again?

Thank you for reporting.

Noted to check if there's an issue before I release the next update!
[Desire Android Development] :
Yeah excactly. Complete wipe except for the sdcard ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
And may I ask why you rebooted, or powered off your phone after a full system wipe instead of installing another rom immediately after formatting all partitions while still in recovery?

Just for my interest :D
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Well isnt this just cool as hell.. wow! It would be great if you could connect to 4ext themes by all ther guys that are making them but cool as hell as it stand right now.. ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thnx very much bud :D
[Desire Android Development] :
I wanted to change Hboot as well in fastboot :)! Not only I wanted to... I did it as well :P
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Oh, understood :)
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
Great Max!!

Uninstalled previos theme. After that customize theme showed me the basic theme to customize, no fc. Installed a new theme, got a preview. Customized it and choose install. Amazing! Theme has been installed from app :eek:

Keep it up

Grüße Peter
[Desire Android Development] :
Ah and why doesnt 4ext print me the partition infos? It only shows sdext and sdcard?!
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
Because it only shows ext partitions. Other partitions deped on hboot and stay are actually uninteresting in recovery :rolleyes:
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Weirdest thing jus happened... i used Recovery updater to flash to latest recovery.. intered recovery through app and it took forever for it to start up.. when i tried to reboot it hung on splash screen for 15 mins before i decided to try a restore but when i got there i didnt have a backup of current rom ( my fault lol ) so i restored a old CM7 backup and it booted jus fine. Weird eh? So maybe a way to perform backups like Rom Manager does would be great.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
**** :(

I still think there is something wrong with your sdcard judging from your sporadic really strange problems days before like not being able to save an app to sd because of no space available message while there was enough space..

If you reboot into recovery from inside the app it is the same as if you entered adb reboot recovery.. so nothing special there..

I'm currently working on the backup functionaility ;)
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Awesome bud!! Yea im figuring theres something wrong with sdcard also. Forgot to say.. when i booted back into recovery after.. it was only like 3 or 4 seconds before startup. ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Great ;)

Thnx for the feedback!

Hope to finish minimum necessary features soon and then immediately start working on an update for recovery addressing that startup delay on the desire and hopefully most feature requests.. and then adding more devices..
[Desire Android Development] :
Couldnt get the #180 nightly to flash. Always hand on splash :( Tried with or without custom mtd, tried an untouched .zip(although I dont the whole crap, like wallpapers and themes...). I really dont know what else I can do :(
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
:(

I guess you wiped everything before installing to rule out any bad chances?

If so, please try with Clockworkmodrecovery and report back.
[Desire Android Development] :
Okay I will give it a try ;) Which cwm would you recommend?

Edit: Well of course I took my chances with a full wipe:P
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
none :D

Just kidding.. I don't have a desire so I don't know which versions are available to you. You could just use rom manager.

BTW: Are you using 4extrecovery with fake flash?
[Desire Android Development] :
I dont like Rom Manager... I got many troubles with that before.

And what excactly is a fake flash?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Fake flash is basically a test signed update.zip (which is normally used for rom upgrades) which contains a recovery itself.. when the shipped/default/whatever recovery tries to install it, it gets replaced by the one inside update.zip.

Rom Manager on the Desire always uses fake_flash and does not flash a recovery to your recovery partition.

If you are s-on that is the only option you have..
[Desire Android Development] :
Since I never tried it before... But if I do a full wipe. Can I restore after flashing the romupdate the sd-ext from a nandbackup?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
You are using sd-ext with cyanogenmod?

I can't say for sure if it will work without trouble because sd-ext scripts can be tricky.

But don't you have a full backup too? So if the upgrade doesn't work you can always revert to the full one.
[Desire Android Development] :
Well as you can see in my signature ;) I am S-OFF and if i want to try the recovery I always can boot it with fastboot. Should be the same thing as this fake flash thingy...

So far I will use cwm 2.5.0.7. Never had any problems with that ;)

OT: Are you going to watch the game on friday?
[Desire Android Development] :
Yeah well since the desire lacks some internal memory space I need to use sd-ext ;) I got about 80 apps...

And the restore of sd-ext is only for getting my apps back instantly ...instead of restoring them with tb.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Technically it's completely different, if you start a recovery by using fake flash it will run inside the original recoveries kernel and environment.

But doesn't matter much.. waiting for your report ;)

No, I can't watch it, far too busy.
[Desire Android Development] :
Oh okay I see. But is that required since your recovery is based on cwm? On which cwm is it based actually?

Well I flashed the Rom. Tried with custom mtd. Hope it wouldnt take too much time to boot and will work after all. But that would meant that there is some trouble with your recovery :P If that fails. I will try flashing it without custom mtd ...

OT: far too busy on a friday night?

Edit: Well it doesnt work either way... So I guess it's about the hboot afterall. Even if it doesnt make sense. Since the zipped rom is about 70MB big and my hboot provides 145MB for /system... Even my custom partition table should have done the trick with about 125MB...

But thanks for your help;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
obsolete post, didn't see the edit half an hour ago :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Great!!! No problem with 4ext :D

Sorry, just kidding.

:(

So what you are trying to do now? Maybe a logcat would help?
[Desire Android Development] :
Well I am not so sure. For now I try to restore my nandbackup :P But in previous cases (earlier that day) I had big problems with that. No backup I made with 4ext I was able to restore :\

But now it works :P Puh ... Da fällt mir ein riesen Stein vom Herzen :) (dunno how to express that in english :P) maybe it's a load off ...

But have you any further suggestions? I really have no clue afterall :( Maybe I will work for now with this #172 build and wait for Gingervillain to be updated.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
I really don't know why you can't get 180 to flash with neither recovery.

Maybe it's bad luck and you already got some bad blocks?

Maybe try again a few times..

But logcat might be of interest.

Well the only difference between your restore with 4ext and cwmr is that you are now on ext3 instead of ext4 from 4extrecovery ( I suppose you were on ext4), because cwmr restored that backup as ext3.

And after trying so much, flashing different hboots etc, you now have a different situation than earlier that day..

To be sure about that, one must repeat that and start out the same as with cwmr -> set your backup manually to ext3 (you can do that in the 4ext menu) and restore it again with 4ext trying to reproduce it.

Edit: Maybe you found a problem, but I think the chance is low.. the current version has been out for far too long and there were too much downloads to have no single bugreport for such a major issue!

There were 2, or 3 reports, but all of them, without exception found that they were wrong.

But.. if there is a problem, I will of course fix it asap. But for that I need this to be confirmed (also to get an idea about where to start looking ;) )
[Desire Android Development] :
Well I guess the problem is somewhere on my side...

So even if I restored and backedup with 4ext, my sd-ext is now in ext3?

And I thought cm7 is compatible with ext4?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes of course it is.

But it CAN make a difference if you start out with your partitions formatted ext4 or ext3 (some installer scripts might expect a certain fs. if they think they will be used with cwmr and tell you to wipe prior to installation, they can expect your partitions to be mountable with ext3 as an example.. it's just far more common to have a recovery that formats ext3 no matter what)

No, if you backup with 4ext recovery when your partitions were ext4, they will also restore as ext4. But not if you restore that same backup with CWMR. Because then they will end up ext3!
[Desire Android Development] :
well I got that now. :) Gonna have a deeper look into my problem with #180 tomorrow. It really is annoying that it doesn't work:(

Thanks for your patience and help ;) Gonna recommend your recovery to my friends.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Can imagine..

I really hope you get it working and I would be very interested as to why it doesn't work.. I mean CWMR is part of CM.. , it should install with it :D

Have a good night :)
[Desire Android Development] :
Thanks;) I will keep you post it when my freaking phone has finally made it:p

Have a good one, too! :D

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
You see bud.. this is why i say youre one of the best! You always help people even if its a stupid question or a smart question.. youre here for EVERYONE!! I love that!
[Desire Android Development] :
Hey, I read that :cool: But nevermind. My phone bugged me all evening... So I thought would be much more helpful to ask even the "dumbest" question :P
[Desire Android Development] :
Would it be possible to implement an option to kill previous NANDBackups or replace them after finishing another one?
[Desire Android Development] Andreas75k:
I read something about cm7 growing too big for the cm7r2 hboot. Maybe that's worth a closer look?
[Desire Android Development] :
I can for sure now rule that out. My /system partition is 145MB. Decompressed gapps and rom take 117MB of my space. So i can not be an size issue...

But I can state that 4ext works perfect with Oxygen 2.2.2 :D
[Desire Android Development] ghiki:
Only for testing, try installing cm7 AFTER deleting "Androidian.apk" and "Cyanbread.apk" from the cm7's zip file (biggest and useless files, and are installable from the market). If /system have small amount of free space, it produces this annoying errors
[Desire Android Development] :
As I stated before... I already deleted the useless apps like wallpapers, themes and some more to get down to 65MB. So I guess it must have been something else. But Now it really doesnt matter anymore ;) I am happy with Oxygen.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
How does this relate to this recovery? Thread hijack attempt?
[Desire Android Development] :
Well 4ext is based on cwm... Maybe he can use something out of this new cwm built?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Of course I update the cwm code inside 4extrecovery from time to time when there's something new and it's stable.

An update that will also include updated cwm sources will come soon.
[Desire Android Development] PlayPetepp:
Will it also decrease recovery boot time?
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Definitely ;)

But must be evaluated by you as I still don't have a Desire and most probably won't get one.. just got a refund for the broken one I had bought.

And that recovery bootup time delay is Desire specific.
[Desire Android Development] PlayPetepp:
The only thing that kinda bothers me with this recovery (v2.1.3 RC2) is it's long boot time. Everything else is very fast and without issues. So, guess I'm saying I'll test it when it's ready. ;)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
That"s great to hear :)
[Desire Android Development] johno168:
Faster boot time?! Sweet! 5.0.1.0 just came out too!
[Desire Android Development] steveathome:
Have used most versions of your 4ext recovery and wouldn't be without it. Have Dark Rain theme and looks really cool. Not bothered myself about boot times as don't use regularly. Running IC-Oz 1.1.1 Cm7. :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you very much :)

BTW: Did you already try the preview app? It should be already nice for viewing partition data, customizing and installing / uninstalling / previewing themes without the need to reboot.

You can grab the current preview version from www.4ext.net/get.php?apk :)
[Desire Android Development] steveathome:
Didn't know about the APK but I have just installed and is brilliant. Very cool. Thanks to you and your testers. :)
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks for the positive feedback :)
[Desire Android Development] ptr_hamilton:
A new preview version again?! :rolleyes: Gotto test it tonight! Thanks Madmaxx
[Desire Android Development] beanbean50:
*as a temporary stop gap you can use the 'reboot into recovery...take the elevator' option found in the main menu of Max's wonderful 4EXT recovery updater app, it somehow managers to bypass that 1-2 minute dely that occurs during the normal reboot into recovery :)
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
+1 I just tried the elevator and got high! It cuts the root to recovery from over 1 minutes down to 35 seconds...... I just got to remember to access it via the programs rather that using the power button approach.'....... Oh! That probably adds back those 30+ seconds! But it's a phycology thing :p

Sent with Desire.
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Wow bud! 4ext recovery and updater app just keeps getting better and better! :-)

sent from my awesome fone
[Desire Android Development] bmonster:
Great App Dude, everything seems to be coming along nicely.

I'm still looking for the hidden easter egg, and hints :)
[Desire Android Development] PlayPetepp:
Doesn't decrease recovery boot time, only decreases power down time before booting to recovery. Still an improvement so I'll continue to use it. ;)
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
hahaha i like that.. take the elevator. Heres something wierd pretaining to my sdcard problems. I restored an Oxygen backup last night and it will let me send apps to the sdcard.. but on the other hand.. recovery wont install a fresh rom of Oxygen.. Install Aborted!! I hate seeing them words in recovery! hahaha
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Wow! thank you all for that great feedback :)

Really really strange again ;) I guess you checked md5sums?

When will you get a new card? 1 week left or so right?

Are your "send apps to sdcard" problems from inside the rom completely gone or is it just that it works with oxygen but still not with cm?
[Desire Android Development] John_Blaze:
Ive tried with CM7, Pheonix ( wich is a build of CM7 ) and a Froyo 2.2 rom.. no luck.. Backup of the Oxygen rom i have now is ok except it has force closes with launcher pro plus on reboot ( very annoying ) but still wondering why i cant do a fresh install of Oxygen.. weird
[Desire Android Development] angusc:
Madmaxx,

I just had to come back today to say a further thank you for the "EXT$ Recovery Updater" I find myself using it continually to access Recovery fast, fast....will be great when the other features are enabled such as installing .zips from the menu before rebooting to Recovery.
[Desire Android Development] madmaxx82:
Sorry bud that I can't help you with this. There seems to be something wrong with your card or your device I think :(

The issue with not being able to move apps to sd from inside roms, which now works suddenly and that sometimes installing works and sometimes not, is really weird.

I guess you already checked the md5sum inside recovery of the rom you wanted to install?

Thank you very much for that great feedback again :)

This function is already implemented ;)

But be careful if you use it as it wasn't tested by a lot of people yet.

Just update the apk to Beta2 and you will get some more options.. and take a look at the settings menu ;)