yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Take a look at that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

I didn't say it will make a huge difference.. It MAY make a huge difference comparing worst/best case
[Desire HD Android Development] oluwaponmile:
I am not very good at setting rgb / colour codes, what values do I need to set in 4ext.prop to have green colour? And what should those values be?

I can see:

menu.color.red = 184

menu.color.green = 1

menu.color.blue = 26

menu.color.selection = 200

What is the procedure to achieve the colour of ones choice?
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
well,

1. you don't record the video on your app2sd ext partition ;)

2. compared to the already bad performance fat32 has, the impact of misalignment will be even less.

3. usually the fat32 partition should be correctly align, even if the ext partition is not. the fat32 partition on a new sdcard is also allways correctly aligned.

4. if you can give me only one single reproducable examlple of one having a performance drawback due to misalignment on our smartphones i will shut up ;)

edit: in general you are right but due to the nature of usage of smartphones (at least how they currently are) it won't affect us.
[Desire HD Android Development] memnoc:
So, it's safer to format in fat32k? I have to say that I never format my sd card from dhd...I always do this stuff with my pc...
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
huh, what? i don't get your point.

but as far as i have seen you can safly use 4extrecovery to format.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
:D

Edit: I WAS referring to recording hd video on the fat32 partition.. not sd-ext

The Desire people give this a very high priority..

And when you say that fat32 performance is already bad, it might be even more important ;)

take a look at that: http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?3696-HOWTO-Increase-write-speed-by-aligning-FAT32

Aligning fat32 is really not straightforward at all.. I have reproduced that and can confirm the method this guy uses isn't correct.

The bottom post of that other guy makes sense and I tried that.. confirmed with a disk editor

I never did any benchmarks as I wasn't very interested in that.. just started to look at it after I ported 4ext for the Desire.

Edit: but my opinion is that if you don't need any extra % in performance you won't need it. MY fat32 partition on the sd is NOT aligned :D
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Get a rgb mixing app.. where you can see the colour.

You can use gimp for that and I think on windows you can even use paint..
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
btw. my fat32 partition that was already on my bought 32MB sdcard is correctly aligned (also confirmed by your recovefry ;) )

as far as i know they are always correctly aligned when you buy sd cards or usb sticks. but here i am not 100% sure.

p.s. people, especially people without much knowledge about the stuff are allways desperately running after placebo wodner pills ;)

but this is in no way ment as an offence towards anybody! i know this by experience :P
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
You should be right, because they would be crazy if they wouldn't do that as they are interested in their products to have good performance :D

But really getting too much offtopic here ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] claude96:
*NEW* Partition your sdcard without touching FAT32 partition

this is what I mean ( and now I see that it's an option used to format ext 3 or 4 without loosing every thing on the sd card , right ? ) , sorry .

PS: I was reading from my phone before so I didn't get to read every option clearly , but now I'm on a PC and every thing looks clearer , sorry again .
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes :D

No problem at all :)
[Desire HD Android Development] oluwaponmile:
Thanks mate.

For anyone that is interested

http://www.colortools.net/color_mixer.html

I changed mine to dark green and loving it
[Desire HD Android Development] vault1965:
Thanks for your great work man, tested on my DHD, no bugs found...

Sent from my Kalagased LeeDroid Desire HD using laggy Tapatalk
[Desire HD Android Development] c0de_junkie:
loving the sounds of this and I am about to flash now !!! will let you know how it runs on my DHD, just have one question, when you say

does that mean that it just can't be done on the Desire HD? or that its just not working yet? and might possible be added to a future release? :D

this has been something that i have wanted on my DHD since the first time i used CWR on it.....

thanks for everything
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hi!

No, this can be done ;)

Chances are they already work, I just don't know it.. didn't pay attention and don't have the device myself.. I added the text when I was to support the Desire which of course doesn't have any button backlights..

Please tell me if your lights are lit in 4ext. If not I can easily add that ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] c0de_junkie:
OMG lol this would be sweet....as of right now the backlights do not light up while in recovery on my desire HD......

I'm already loving this recovery and it would just be the icing on top if you can make it work... thanks again!!!

**edit - would be willing to test if you come up with something to try.... I guess as long as you don't think anything real serious could happen to my baby lol
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
We'll do it!!

Can you assist me? Have 5 minutes?
[Desire HD Android Development] c0de_junkie:
sure can man... I'll be here!!!
[Desire HD Android Development] DubelBoom:
i have alot more free space.... and at the app i dont have RC3
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Could be possible that I confused the md5 file. Give me 10mins please.
[Desire HD Android Development] DubelBoom:
no problem ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Okay uploaded rc3 ;)

but rc2 should be ok. It is strange that it fails verifying for you.

When exactly does it fail? Before or after uncompressing?

Edit: if it fails before, then your download is definitely broken. If it fails later, the unzipped file does not match the .md5sum file included in the zip which could point to a corrupted file system on your sdcard.
[Desire HD Android Development] DubelBoom:
RC3 says it has been flashed successfully :)

i have no time no to boot in to recovery so........

ill update tomorrow :)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
That's good :)

No problem ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Beta 4 is up :)
[Desire HD Android Development] buzzboy:
Have to say the update app is awesome, worked flawlessly for me on latest beta.

Thanks and regards
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you for the great feedback!

Now I hope there aren't any issues when using rename, delete, (advanced) backup / (advanced) restore :)

If anyone wants to use that, please make a backup before as long as this hasn't been tested on many devices!
[Desire HD Android Development] c0de_junkie:
beta 4 sure is slick rick man, keep up the great work.... I have been using if for modding themes on the fly and flashing recovery's like its going out of style and I gotta say this app sure is rock solid and I haven't had one single issue with it!!!! I really like how this app is progressing man... keep up the great work.....

I did how ever come across a small issue today.... I wanted to use rom manager to check the the VU Rom download section to check for any types of addons or updates and when I clicked on the download section in rom manager it wouldn't let me go any farther because it said I had to have CWMR installed.......Well I know thats not gonna happen lol but I must say "boooooooo" to the rom manager devs for having a monopoly in the open source phone game lol jk... so anyways would there be any way to trick rom manager into thinking that 4ext is CWMR so that ppl can use the Rom download section??? its prob not possible but I still figured I would ask.....lol

Thanks again maxx for such a kick ass recovery and thanks for the sweet app to update it!!!!

take care man!!
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you very much :)

About Rom Manager and 4EXTRecovery:

You can simply allow rom manager to install cwmr once.

After that it shouldn't nag you anymore about flashing cwmr even if you have replaced cwmr again by something else (like 4extrecovery :D ) afterwards.

Thnx again for the great feedback and take care :)
[Desire HD Android Development] c0de_junkie:
Great man, it worked like a charm!!! thanks man!!
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks :)

BTW: Beta5 is out.. the only change is fixes in romname detection.

It also got renamed to Recovery Control so please uninstall Recovery Updater :)
[Desire HD Android Development] janarp:
Where is link?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
You quoted it ;)

link
[Desire HD Android Development] ruchern:
Is it okay if I uninstall Clockworkmod?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
You mean Rom Manager?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Everyone using the app to do backups and use its functionality to select the partitions you want to include/exclude in the backup, please upgrade to 4EXT-Recovery v2.1.3 RC4!

This version also fixes a very very rare bug I stumbled upon by accident :p
[Desire HD Android Development] eliashadow:
its working perfect mate!!!

Thanks!!!!

Is it problem to included it in our DeSense rom???
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks very much :)

The Beta will expire some day, so it would not be good to include it.

The app is meant to support further development of 4EXT Recovery, so I will put it onto the market.

If it's no complete failure I might be able to drop a customer I work for IRL and dedicate more time into this project.

But I will probably make a free version everyone can use to update/install recovery. That one could be included if anyone likes to do that :)
[Desire HD Android Development] aamadorj:
I just used your Recovery Control Beta to update 4EXT-Recovery to version 2.1.3 RC4 and it worked nicely.

Before that process, Recovery Control Beta applied an update to itself without problems.

All your work is really good, madmaxx82. Thanks a lot.
[Desire HD Android Development] Evil-Dragon:
Same here, updated ok for me too.
[Desire HD Android Development] Patrics83:
Same here!

All working fine! Great work as always!!! :D

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD Android Development] Whiskey103:
Well it's not a surprise, it always works when it's made by madmaxx82 ;)

Thanks for the great update :D
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hahaha thank you so much mates :)

Whiskey, I wish that was true :D anyway, big, big, big, big, big thanks!
[Desire HD Android Development] preacher65:
+1 to all the comments above - been using the recovery for a while, but I just installed the app, updated, flashed new recovery - all worked really well. Very impressive! I like the look of the advanced options in the "Manage" section as well, though I've not tried them yet.

I don't usually post to say "thanks", I just click the button. ;) But between the awesome recovery and now the app, this is outstanding stuff. Thank you. :)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
If you all continue like that, I need to release it for free :D

Preacher65: thank you so much for your donation :)
[Desire HD Android Development] preacher65:
Well, that's up to you ;), but I for one would definitely pay for a market version of the app when it's ready. :)
[Desire HD Android Development] vault1965:
Count me in, i see it as excellent means to donate for your hard work and greatest recovery ever for my DHD :D
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you! :)

BTW:

Beta 7 is up :)
[Desire HD Android Development] cwhitney24:
Thanks for your continued hard work and for the beta! I have been slacking in my theming area BUT will be back in the game very soon lol. Been helping with a Team Phoenix project....I've said to much haha. Keep up the great work! :-)
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
@madmaxx: i had to do this earlier but it's never too late i gues.

18X23046R97581128:

grüße aus dem nachbarland ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you VERY much!! :)

Und viele Grüße zurück ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Shidapu:
Any chance I can make a rather strange request with ext4 recovery RC4 without md5 check for recoverys.. ?

If there's any possibility for a modified version to that so I can restore roms again..

Atm I fail everytime a backup creates a md5 sum..

Thank you.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes, but have you seen the feature to check and even correct the md5sums of a backup on your own "risk" inside the app?

Tap on a backup and select Check or correct md5sums.

I'll make you one too if this takes too much time for you.

Maybe I'll add this as a switch to the settings, with a big red warning ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] amresh:
Didn't get a chance to read posts, sorry for that. You have any plan to work on new base (5.0.2.0) of CWM recovery?
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
when it's released as stable... i think he posted this a couple of pages back. wise decision if i amy to add.
[Desire HD Android Development] DumIam:
As would I.

Sent from a little blue planet, third from the sun.
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
i would if i haven't already donated for it :P

but i don't think he can release it as market version because its based on cwm. though not sure here.

but considering this i think this is the better way and i would like all people that are using his 4ext to donate something, no matter how much. what you use often is probably worth a donation, right?

and he definitly is not doing only trivial modding of cwm.
[Desire HD Android Development] Krzysiec:
can someone please give me a link to LATEST STABLE 4ext recovery? I got thru OP but looks like a little mess... Newest is 2.1.3 RC2 in download 2.1.3 RC4 ... confused like never which and what to download...

Is it in recovery.img format? fastboot flash recovery recovery.img is enough to flash it as usual ?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you all !!! :)

No.. I of course could never release the recovery to the market :D that would be really really really weird and absolutely inappropriate!

4EXTRecovery will always be the same as it was and getting better ;)

But I will release the app.. the app obviously isn't based on cwm at all :D

The app is there to support the additional features 4extrecovery got and make it more convenient to use.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Please use the app to install 4extrecovery 2.1.3_rc4.

It should be as stable as the final!

App Beta9
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
somehow i missed this app. what does it beside isntalling your 4ext?

and will i be able to still get 4ext as flashable zip, without your app?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Of course!

Please download and try it out ;) it can do much more.

Also take a look at the options menu :)

Beta10 to come today too
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
ok. will check it out later.
[Desire HD Android Development] eliashadow:
It's really awsome app my friend.better than Rom manager I think!

I want it in DeSense Rom as default,but its better to support it in market when it comes...;)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you very much that is a very big commendation!

However need to add that it is not meant at all to replace rom manager.

Features are different and will stay different.. with rom manager you can do much more you won't be able to do with my app ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] eliashadow:
I must admit that your work is excellent from first betas...I don't know what magic u have done,but in a few time you have create the best recovery and now something...similar to Rom manager but better for me who I m using more functions in your app!

Thanks for your hard work and your kindness sir...
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
i didn't tested your app yet, but i can tell that i do not have rom manager installed. i never used it for anything but installing the cwm and now this over anyway.
[Desire HD Android Development] Wolf:
I have said it before and I will say it again. Thanks for all of your work and keep up the great job.
[Desire HD Android Development] SkOOrA:
Why does the 4EXTRecovery support App need Internet Connection to manage backups etc ???

It is stupid.
[Desire HD Android Development] leith51:
Why don't create the app then instead of saying its stupid
[Desire HD Android Development] SkOOrA:
I have just asked because I don't understand this. Is is really necessary to have internet connection on-line during changing backup name or deleting one???

App is fantastic. That's why I have to ask because I want to use it in future very often.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Wow, thank you so much!! :)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you :)

Now we need an update for recovery as well.. hope to have one soon.. it's getting old :)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
That's a flaw I'm aware of and I will change it.

It's just the app is initializing all available data like getting info about which new versions are available to you, and to translate the version code of your currently installed version in to a nicer name like "4EXTRecovery v2.1.3 RC4" by parsing an xml response.

This name is used on the print partition info screen as well as inside the theming section.

I realize that it is not very good to need an internet connection just for that.

I'm already about to change that!
[Desire HD Android Development] preacher65:
Nice, thanks!

BTW a note about the updating, apologies if you're already aware. If I click on "Check for updates", a toast message pops up saying "You are up to date" and a few seconds later a window appears asking if I want to download a new update. ;) Don't know if that still happens in beta7 of course, as there are no updates for it yet! :)

Other than that, I've been using the app for a few days now and liking it, I usually do stuff straight in recovery, but I've been trying to use the app more just to test. One suggestion - it would be nice if in "Install zip from sdcard", the Back button always took you up a level in the directory structure, and only went back to the menu when you get to the root of your sdcard. Just my opinion, others may differ. :)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
It's Beta 9 now :) but doesn't matter since betas are coming in really fast :D

The message you are stating "you are already up to date" refers to the recovery.. if you had an older recovery version installed it would say: there is a new version of 4EXTRecovery available..

The message box afterwards is just if it finds a new version of the app..

As this update mechanism of the app is temporary anyway I didn't pay much attention.. I should change the text though ;)

I will look at that back button thing.. you are right it would be better.
[Desire HD Android Development] preacher65:
Oh yeah! Sorry, must not have refreshed the page. :o

Awesome. :)
[Desire HD Android Development] wikie:
You can also have the 4EXTRecovery v2.1.3 RC4 Recovery_Control the app. ? install

sorry for my bad english
[Desire HD Android Development] SkOOrA:
Thanks mate. I appreciate.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
sent you a pm
[Desire HD Android Development] a user:
First, great app.i am impressed!

But let me not two things I observed:

1. I clicked on boot to recovery. the popup shows a message that is cut off.i guess it's because the message is in the title and it is too long for that.

2. This is more a question/ suggestion. The feature to select something for flashing... it says it boots to recovery and flashes. Does it then stay in recovery or does it boot back to rom? I hope it stays so that one can also flash more.
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thnx I will correct the text in the title

2. You can select as many zips you would like inside the app.. just click on "add another".. when you are finished it will reboot and do what you wanted.

If you want to do it manually (flash additional zips) or do anything else inside recovery, there is an option "stay inside recovery after completeion". You just need to tick that option and it will stay inside recovery after it has done everything you selected.

Maybe you need to switch on advanced mode for that.. will check that
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
This option is there in advanced mode as well as normal mode..

Just tick it when installing, backing up, or restoring and recovery won't reboot afterwards allowing you to stay there
[Desire HD Android Development] Wacco001:
Wow, what a nice tool you've made and what a promissing features for future releases ..

Just started to use it, and already love it very much !! :)

Very impressed, greatly appreciated..

Always amazing how dev. can create such a nice tools/apps ..

Thank you !!
[Desire HD Android Development] preacher65:
I really like this option, and it's one (of several) improvements over ROM Manager IMO. One reason I stopped using RM to flash was that I wanted to be able to see the text output of any updater-script, so I could check for errors. Being able to select the zips through the GUI, but stay in Recovery once flashed, is a great feature.
[Desire HD Android Development] Sully6789:
Is it possible to extract a specific file from inside a recovery img without restoring the backup itself? Like, say I wanted to extract build.prop from the system.img file. Is this possible?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Yes! Have a look at unyaffs :)

Maybe a feature I should add..
[Desire HD Android Development] ruchern:
Hey just want to ask if it's possible to increase the version count? Each time when there is an update for the app, we have to uninstall then install. If by increasing the version count, we will see an "Upgrade" button instead.
[Desire HD Android Development] Sully6789:
Oh yeah, didn't even think about that. And that would be great btw! Thank you
[Desire HD Android Development] Shidapu:
Tried fixing, I guess I'm stuck, but I'd definitely appreciate that implemented. ;)

Love your work so far and you bet I'll buy your app on market ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] claude96:
hello madmaxx, any chance of adding an option to control the menus transparency !
[Desire HD Android Development] ruchern:
Madman is this possible for you to do?
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
You would like to see the background shine through the menu options inside recovery?

I'll ask him ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thank you :)

So even after fixing the md5sums with the app you still have your old problem where all md5sums check fail?
[Desire HD Android Development] silvio82:
With new version of rom manager the application don't recognize 4ext recovery. There's any tricks? :-)

Inviato dal mio Desire HD usando Tapatalk
[Desire HD Android Development] Anoobossi:
2.1.3. RC4 and app (update from RC3to4) are working well on my DHD.

Thank you for your efforts!
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thnx! :)

RC1 uploaded :)

Recovery Control RC1
[Desire HD Android Development] Patrics83:
Cool!

Thx mate

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[Desire HD Android Development] craacK:
wow madmaxx82, really fast progress with your App :) thats why you are sooo busy!

just had a quick look ..

1) i like the new Backups area .. i will for sure try it the next days or maybe hours if im in need to do a backup etc.

2) nice visual changes .. good choice of colours when choosing the zip or backups.

3) i still love the elevator (even more since there is no "official" APM for ARHD 6.1.0 :D)

Reminder: You still think of the idea when it comes to the "About to install" windows if u add a .zip by mistake or sth else? :)

so long
[Desire HD Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thnx mate :D

Thank you :)

Yes I haven't forgotten ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Wacco001:
Thank you !!! :)
[Desire HD Android Development] napster113:
Very nice nice buddy thank you.
[Desire HD Android Development] ruchern:
Thank you.
[Desire HD Android Development] ruchern:
Thank you. The upgrade button now shows. :D