[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] madmaxx82:
Thanks to cjward23 and friends for testing, 4EXT Recovery is now also available for the Desire Z / G2.

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Quick note about themes:

Available themes as of Aug/28:

Themes by pravus_nephilim

Themes by Apaquette420

Themes by Whiskey103

Themes by Amresh

Themes by Apaquette420

Themes by CWhitney24

Themes by DaMyth

Themes by Blindndumb

To uninstall any "flashed theme" and to revert to your own custom settings you had before flashing, just use this Theme Uninstaller in recovery.

It will clear any theme you might have flashed and revert to your own custom settings you had before flashing that theme!​

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THANKS:

All credits and my deepest respect go to Koush for his extremely great code!

Without him 4EXT Recovery wouldn't have been possible!

Biggest thanks possible go to Sebastiaan15 for his brilliant ideas and who spent whole weeks testing my buggy code with his Desire :)

Without you I could never have made it

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So BIG THANKS to SEBASTIAAN15 and KOUSH for his hard work with CWMR !!! :)

Many credits to the Desire S community ( especially to loveboatcaptain - LBC Mod Android Development and Marylandcookie ) for testing, very nice ideas, feature suggestions and helping to get the code running on the Desire S!

Special big thanks to RAVENNA from android-hilfe.de board for hours of testing for the Desire!

BIG Thanks to Hussainmushahid who helped me a lot spending much of time with solving a bug I could not reproduce on my device.

And many thanks to all users who reported and helped to identify problems ( can't any longer list all of you here since the list has grown too large :D )!

Even more thanks to people who 've bought me some beer :) YOU ROCK!! ZEEKIZ, A USER, PHILOS64, STEVEATHOME, PREACHER65, BEN_PYETT, ULTRA DROID, PTR_HAMILTON, BEANBEAN50, SEBASTIAAN15 and LOVEBOATCAPTAIN

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v2.2.6 RC4

Released: Oct/01

Rare Superuser problem when tar backups were enabled (disabled by default) was fixed.

Converting partitions between ext3 and ext4 without data loss now correctly calculates the space needed to successfully complete the operation

New option: check and optionally repair the file system on your sdcard (fat32)

Removed duplicate format cache option inside the format menu (wipe cache does the same)

When formatting fat32 it will now save your 4ext.prop settings and restore them afterwards

Changed partitioning of the sdcard to not use LBA mode for new fat32 partitions as requested by Ghiki

Added new size option (128mb) to the partitioning menu per request

Parted is no longer used to format fat32 in the partition menu

-> This solves a bug where sometimes the creation of the fat32 file system failed and produces better quality results​

4EXT Recovery themes should now stay when formatting /system or flashing new roms

New option: format /sdcard fat32

New 4EXT Recovery Control API because I'm forced to drop "extendedcommand" (see App for the reason why)

enables file names and directories to include spaces for installations​

calculates needed space to complete a full or advanced backup at the beginning of the backup.​

This ensures that you are not left with a non working backup.​

Size for recovery greatly reduced

New 4EXT Recovery Control Features

Please see www.4ext.net for more.

Fix permissions

Calculate real values for the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup

Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.
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As an example, the following would be possible to do in just one session:

Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,

format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,

flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.​

Features:

Use 4EXT Recovery Control or Recovery Updater for complete Changelogs and Known issues!

not all features may be relevant for all devices

Displays additional information:

Identifies your current rom and displays its name

Current filesystems on your partitions

Free space remaining of all of your volumes

Current battery charge level

Backup | Restore:

Correctly calculates free space needed to complete a backup ( version > 2.2.6 RC4 )

Tar backups (can be switched on or off)

Complete CWMR5 compatibility

All Backups you create will be named after your currently installed Rom for easier identification.

Never unwillingly get "downgraded" to EXT3 again

Always restores backups using the file systems you HAD on your partitions at the time of creation!

-> all partitions formatted with ext4 at that time, will be restored to ext4. The same is true for ext3.​

You can manually change any existing Backup to ext4 or ext3

-> so that after a restore, all partitions and up with the file system you wanted!​

Advanced Backup: backup only a single partition

Convert any of your partitions to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss.

Formatting:

When you wipe or format it will always use the same file system you currently have.

-> but you can change that​

When you format ext4 it will always create an aligned file system

Correctly identifies unformatted sd-ext partitions

-> if it finds one it displays a warning and suggests you may format them by visiting the 4EXT menu​

Filesystem check and repair option in advanced menu

Partitioning:

Alignment check of your partitions

Full support for up to 2 sd-ext partitions + swap (Backup/restore/format/convert, fsck, et.c.)

(RE-) Partition your sdcard for sd-ext without removing your fat32 partition.

All partitions created with 4EXTRecovery will be perfectly aligned to 4k

Installing:

Integrated md5sum checking option

Themes:

Customize all colours used throughout recovery

Use your own icons, background images, progress bars.. more to come.

Assign different backgrounds to different menu categories (version >= 2.1.2)

Create a flashable zip for others to flash your theme.

Menus:

Most popular menu items rearranged

Format menu

Power Menu + option to reboot into bootloader

Less "No's" in confirmation dialogues

Changed Advanced Restore: first select what you want to restore, then select the backup

-> Useful for restoring from "Advanced Backups"​

4ext.prop:

Configuration file on your sdcard where you can set options to be used by 4EXTRecovery

Change all settings conveniently with 4EXT Recovery Control

Many more options to come

Share your settings / themes by packing your config into a flashable theme

Other stuff:

USB Storage Autostart (must be switched on)

Mount usb storage exposes all partitions on your sdcard to the os (not just fat32)

-> you could even partition your sdcard from your PC while connected via USB​

Switch haptic feedback on/off

You don't need to reboot recovery if you transferred a file to show up in the install menu.

-> This bug affected only some users with either CWMR or previous versions of 4EXT.​

Button backlights (Desire S, Desire HD and Incredible S only)

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Download

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All downloads are now available through 4EXT Recovery Updater. It's free, no ads, no tracking, no nothing, don't worry :)

.. and of course via 4EXT Recovery Control

This ensures that your downloads are ok by automatically verifying md5sums and that known issues and changelogs are easily accessible

It also notifies you when there are any new critical bugs found

Recovery images will be uploaded for download soon too, but they can also be acquired easily by using Updater or Control.

You can for example just download a recovery.zip containing the image. The download will be automatically verified for correct md5sums!

4EXT Recovery Control

Free version: Recovery Updater

Fully featured version: 4EXT Recovery Control

For a list of its many features, visit www.4ext.net

Some examples

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Flash as many zip files you want in one go

Automatically calculate and display the md5sums of all zip files you are going to flash

Check your backups' health to ensure they will restore later when you need them, by verifying their md5sums!

Optionally, but highly not recommended:

If md5sums don't match but you REALLY NEED that backup BADLY, you might want to restore it anyway.

You can you this app to fix the md5sums of a given backup to "forcefully" restore it!​

Calculate real values for the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup

Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.​

Identifies and adds your romname so you don't need to type so much when chosing a meaningful name for your backup

As an example, the following is possible to do in just one session:

Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,

format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,

flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.​

Much, much more! See www.4ext.net :)

Recovery theming

Uninstall and Install themes with live preview and the option to change their colours without the need to reboot into recovery.

Change all colours with live preview and a nice colour picker.

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