yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
I also have had no problems with 3.12. I back up the defaults and android_secure without issue. I 3rd the motion to try and re-install the recovery. Maybe something is going wrong during the install process.
[HTC Rezound] stoffelck:
No i get the same thing. Thought it was me too
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Ive got it fixed. Just havent had time to rebuild the recovery.img for vigor. Ive been a little side tracked (project wise) with my new acer iconia tab.
[HTC Rezound] a.mcdear:
Awesome.. did you get an a100??
[HTC Rezound] jdmba:
OP?

Will you be updating the original post?
[HTC Rezound] kkryter:
Interesting, I'm curious what the problem was, because I ( kind of ) resolved this on my own finally.

A very short back story : when I first got the Rezound I powered it down after a couple hours use and then immediately removed the 16 GB class 4 sd card, copied it's contents ( music and such ) onto my previous phones 16 GB class 6 sd card and then put it in and started it up. I did this because I presumed that it would be a bit faster. Things ran just fine until I unlocked, installed recovery and flashed my first custom ROM. All that went well too, I just couldn't run nandroid backups. Just the other night it occurred to me that perhaps I didn't do something quite right though I can't imaging what as the file system was the same and such. I powered down and put my original card in and then attempted to run a nandroid backup and everything worked just fine! Following that I reversed the process, copying all of my data back to the original class 4 card and all has been working fine since then. Interestingly enough, the class 4 card actually benchmarks a little faster than the class 6 card!

So anyway, given all of that does that fit into the fix that you mentioned OP?
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
a500 the recovery I made for it is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1459821

yes when done

I doubt that as it was a crash of the recovery main from a null pointer. Unless you patched & recompiled the recovery binary and replaced it in the recovery.img's ramdisk there would be no other way to fix the error I accidentally introduced on the android_secure wipe after 3.06. Anyways you asked what the issue was :)
[HTC Rezound] stoffelck:
sd card from previous phone

re flashed 3.12b no joy. still will not perform nand bu

re flashed 3.10 and no joy either ??? worked initially i should add

My SD card is from my bionic; however i reformatted and re partitioned it prior to receiving and installing in new Rezound(I believe the rezound also formatted it when i initially installed it)

Not a big deal really. I cant forsee an emergency where i would have to have a nand with all the great tools the rezound has but...
[HTC Rezound] kkryter:
LOL, good one OP. Yeah, there's no way I did any of that, just a little bit above my pay grade!

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It does sound like we were in the same situation given that we both have the same problem and both replaced the stock sd card. OP, any ideas as to what might be going on here given that? Even though I'm OK at this point if I can be of any help by giving more details on the format, block size, partitions, whatever...between my two cards I would be happy to do so in order to keep anybody else from going through the same frustration.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
No idea on that. I'll need a recovery.log to look further into that or any other error.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Ok here is version 3.13 I should have the recovery crash on wiping android_secure fixed. Need some testers on it and I'll update 1st post after it checks out.

recovery-ra-vigor-3.13-gnm.img

md5sum 44503f9a48d06b03d892cd601ba0c214 recovery-ra-vigor-3.13-gnm.img
[HTC Rezound] Marcismo55:
In order to test, will I suffer any ill effects from wiping the android_secure file?

Edit: Works great! No more errors! Thank you!
[HTC Rezound] a.mcdear:
Seem to be no problems backing up or wiping .android_secure with the latest 3.13. Thanks for looking out!
[HTC Rezound] PhantomApollyon:
same here, worked just fine!
[HTC Rezound] hoboballer:
I know I am new to this but I am trying to flash this recovery and I see the 3.13 version is out. I downloaded a PH98IMG.ZIP. Should I unzip this file replace the current recovery.img with the 3.13 version and then rezip it with the same name?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me
[HTC Rezound] Marcismo55:
I suppose you could try that but the proper way to flash the recovery is through fastboot.
[HTC Rezound] nosympathy:
Working fine for me, all the small issues I had with 3.12B are fixed with 3.13. Reporting that you can update that OP. :D

you should put the file in the same folder as your fastboot file on the computer, boot phone into fastboot, connect to computer, and open a CMD prompt at the location of your fastboot file, then run the command, "fastboot flash recovery recovery-ra-vigor-3.13-gnm.img"
[HTC Rezound] Quantumrabbit:
EDIT: Never mind, nosympathy answered my question before I asked it.
[HTC Rezound] Tachi91:
Quoted the wrong person :D

If you ever use a PH98IMG.zip, don't extract it since you will loose the signature and hboot will not flash it, Use 7zip which you can add/delete any thing within it and still retain the signature.

If I'm wrong Feel free to correct me :D
[HTC Rezound] TB13:
Does 3.13 let you make NAND backups?
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Yes 3.13 lets you backup the emmc partitions just as the prior ones did.
[HTC Rezound] TB13:
I could never get it to make backups with the version I have now... It said it was, but it never saved them to my SD or internal phone storage. :confused: I will try 3.13 and see if it works
[HTC Rezound] jeph0r3:
If I have CWM installed and want to run amon ra, how would I go about doing it???

Having alot of problems since trying to flash it over CWM... Need in depth instructions LOL..

After trying it, I am basically stuck in a bootloop that i can only get out of sometimes.. Help needed.. If anything, I'd like to restore my phone to factory and start over..

If i have the back cover on the phone, it will not start.. If i take the back cover off it will boot up.. All this happened after trying to flash amon ra.. Any ideas?
[HTC Rezound] mjh68:
Did you flash via fastboot ? As far as the phone not booting up, that sounds more like a rom issue not a recovery one .

To reset you would need to download the latest RUU, from the vigor rom collection. Go to HTCDev and relock your phone, then run the RUU from desktop . Then you would go back through the UNlock process again and then flash the Amon Ra recovery from fastboot and run the Su menu from it and you will be rerooted.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Strange it works for everyone else
[HTC Rezound] androidaddict23:
Okay did every step possible to push the new recovery to my device with no luck. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and getting error loading image can some one help me out?
[HTC Rezound] dejahboi:
Have you tried CleanFlash1.0? And if you prefer to push it through fastboot, is the file in the same folder as the adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and AdbWinApi.dll files? Also in command prompt, double check if the directory matches the location of folder containing all these files otherwise it won't work :)
[HTC Rezound] androidaddict23:
Yes I put the recovery image in the folder that contains those filled mentioned in your post.
[HTC Rezound] dejahboi:
Try using Scrosler Clean Flash Tool instead..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1416791

If not make sure your cmd prompt is corresponding with the location of the folder and not the default " c:\users\ (yourname) " or "c:\system32". Also extract the image from the zip if you haven't done so.
[HTC Rezound] androidaddict23:
I open command promt in the folder that I put the img in.
[HTC Rezound] tbgreen89:
I put all my fastboot and adb files in C:/Android. I then drop the recovery img file in the folder. In cmd I type...

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Should take like 10 sec or so to install and your good.
[HTC Rezound] dejahboi:
+1 what he said :). When it installs its like nothing ever happen lol.
[HTC Rezound] hgoldner:
Just want to say that this recovery was an absolute lifesaver today.

I had to roll all the way back to locked and stock so I could load the OTA update, then roll all the way forward back to my setup immediately prior to that, and this recovery made it a walk in the park, even rerooting the phone (from the developer menu) once I had updated hboot and the radio via the OTA.

That's how a recovery's supposed to work!
[HTC Rezound] Tachi91:
edit :: HAHAH never mind :D
[HTC Rezound] nosympathy:
if you are typing that EXACT command, that is your issue. Instead of recovery.img, it is whatever your recovery is called. so the default name is not recovery.img.

it would be "fastboot flash recovery recovery-ra-vigor-3.13-gnm.img"
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Thanks. Often most people never say thanks much when things work perfect but just complain when they don't. I appreciate your feedback!
[HTC Rezound] stoffelck:
I also had my ass saved by super useful recovery

Dude! I was screwed. mainver after OTA. I did the merge.img fix all from your recovery. Got rooted, slapped on a rom. it was nice.

"You know what that thing can do for you?"

"Paint your whole house orange and give you and and your entire family a permanent afro! "

so ya thanks
[HTC Rezound] andybones:
I would like to jump in here and give my appreciation and many thanks to dres!

You Sir are the man!

thank you for everything you do for the entire Android Community!!
[HTC Rezound] dccoh:
Has anyone had a problem wiping boot?

I have the newest version of Amon Ra from this thread and I flashed the newest OTA today.

I went to put Chad newest kernel on, and I like to wipe boot before doing do. I noticed when I tried to do that the phone gave an error message that it couldnt mount something. I can try again if a better error message is needed once I get home.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Unless you are s-off your boot and recovery are locked except in bootloader. The only way to wipe boot would be "fastboot erase boot" . That option is only there for the future if s-off ever comes.
[HTC Rezound] dccoh:
Thanks for the info. At least I know its not me :)
[HTC Rezound] mjh68:
Quick question , I did see a post in this thread , but was confused on the answer. The backups are automatically named BCD then the date and time. Can we change that name to the name of the rom instead as long as no spaces and its not to long ? and still restore?

The one answer I saw said something about not changing the folder names , but technically all the backups appear as folders in root explorer. Otherwise the backups are useless because I usually backup a few different roms and can't remember what days I did them LOL
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
You can rename the bcd sub folder. However the best way is to just make a file in that folder called xyz_rom with root explorer.
[HTC Rezound] mjh68:
Ok, thank you !
[HTC Rezound] hgoldner:
The backup name reflects what is included in the backup. B is for boot, A for .android_secure, C for cache, D for data and S for system, then the date, then the universal time.

You can change backup names to whatever you want as long as there are no spaces in the name.

(And whatever drelisdee says trumps whatever I say).

Dumped into the innertubes from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] maniac2k:
Is there a 313b? The red font color is very hard to read. Thanks.
[HTC Rezound] Lomallin:
Thanks a ton for this quick walkthrough - things are much different than my OG Droid and I am working on learning the skills. This plus VooDoo OTA Root Keeper hopefully should keep further updates from causing problems.
[HTC Rezound] james_pnut:
I created a ph98img file for the newest recovery. Flash through bootloader

http://db.tt/7lT98lpU it's made for mainver 2.01.605.11

Sent from my HTC rezound with beats
[HTC Rezound] remmy5r:
This recovery saved me! I got a little to in to tweaking things with system tuner, and couldn't open anything without it forceclosing. I had to do a complete factory reset. When my phone booted back up, it was in recovery and I flashed a nandroid and Walla stable phone again. Thanks to the developer of this!
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Np. If someone really wants to thank me can you pm me a link to a working download of the hulu watching app droidlu.apk which I cant find anywhere since it got ganked from market and I didnt back it up :(.
[HTC Rezound] themusicmonkey:
Android Police link

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/01/16/hulu-plus-app-for-android-hacked-to-work-on-more-devices/

Sent from my ADR6425LVW... An HTC Rezound
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Thanks but I wasnt looking for hulu plus but this one specifically droidlu-3.01.apk Thats all Im going to say about it to keep the thread from getting off topic.
[HTC Rezound] jeph0r3:
First Off, I would like to say "Thanks" for this.. I ran CWM for years on my moto droids.. Very familiar with it. I installed CWM and noticed that each Dev recommended using Amon Ra. I have installed it and really really like how smooth it is. The only thing I am unsure on is how to keep up with which backup is which. I'm just wondering how exactly to go about renaming them so that I can easily keep up with when I updated them and possibly which rom I was running at the time...

Again, Thanks!!

Wish I could find that apk for you....

OK, l apologize, like 5 posts up, I see my answer is already been answered... SORRY, I have kept up with this thread thoroughly, and not sure how I missed it.. Still can't find that apk....
[HTC Rezound] Izeltokatl:
3.13 works great! Thanks

Sent from my rezound.
[HTC Rezound] jbg25:
So I got curious and tested out the new "official" CWR "touch".

I tried to make a backup and it froze in the middle. So I pulled battery...and reflashed Amon Ra.

Tried to do a backup as I have done many many times...and now it fails and says to check recovery log....

here is my log...

Edit: Nevermind....memory issue....human error
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Thats why reading the log will most times tell you error reason.

Yours was:

checking free space on sdcard .Error: not enough free space available on sdcard (need 700mb), aborting.
[HTC Rezound] lbiniusc:
So I can just flash this and have the newest recovery?
[HTC Rezound] james_pnut:
Yeah you can.
[HTC Rezound] jmorton10:
If you have the correct mainver, if not you will get an error & it will refuse to install (that's what happened to me at first)
[HTC Rezound] lbiniusc:
Worked perfectly.. Thanks again
[HTC Rezound] james_pnut:
No problem. I just saw he didn't have the new version, with the latest ota mainver up.
[HTC Rezound] TheDigitalSlacker:
I seem to be having a tough time getting this working. I have flashed the img through fastboot but when i go to reboot into recovery it looks like it shows two lines of text at the bottom them reboots the phone. Is there something that I need to delete or clear off? I've gone back and forth between CWM and Amon Ra and neither work right now...
[HTC Rezound] athack:
hoping i can get some help... im unlocked and perm rooted stock htc rezound... ive got the amona ra recovery but when i went to get into recovery i came up with the cwm recovery when i highlighted wipe data or reboot or advanced all that happened is that i got that little symbol and nothing happened... how do i get back to developer menu?
[HTC Rezound] andybones:
u can use the soft keys.. the red keys, home,menu, back, search

back is back, i forgot what the others do, experiment with them, i use only the keys i don't use the vol up or vol down, and only use power when i have to.

I'd like in future builds to be able to use the search key and/or the power button in those situations.
[HTC Rezound] icy1899:
I have also noticed that if you scroll on the main screen with your finger it will move where is the selected line is. What is stopping us from having a touch amines version? Besides the usual lack of time and everyone not having 30 hour days. I haven't ever modified a recovery image but if it's something like gathering data and putting it in a list I can handle that
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
That functionality has been there for a while are you using latest? You can also pick "Return" to go back also. Search = power btw.

I added the framework for it in recovery and used it for acer iconia. However it will kill the use of the cap keys and is somewhat buggy at best (touch that is). I have no plans to use full touch on devices that have cap keys.
[HTC Rezound] DigiDave:
Home: Up

Menu: Down

Back: Back

Search: Select(just like pressing the power button)
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Do you actually have an android_secure img file in your nand? I always have it selected but never get anything for it in my actual nand. I've checked my earliest and latest ones so it has not happened on any version I've used, stock or custom ROM. My backups happen without error and I have restored several of them without issue as well.

From what I've found, it seems that android_secure has something to do with apps having been moved to sd? I have never done that so is that why I don't get anything on the backup?

I searched in root explorer and it found this: /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure so it would seem that I should have it in my backup, no? Although it does appear to be empty...
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
I have the file in every backup I've done since Amon Ra v3.12
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Hmm... do you move apps to sd? Is there anything in your folder? My nands are named beginning with BDAS so it was selected when I made it, perhaps because the folder is empty it doesn't make an img of it?
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
No apps to sd, and I looked at each backup I have individually, BDAS, and android_secure is in each one of them.
[HTC Rezound] mjh68:
Not to derail the thread, but what does android_secure actually contain? I have never backed it up and when i restore my roms have never really noticed anything not working or not being there from when I last used it .
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Do you mind looking inside the .android_secure folder in root explorer just to see if there's anything in there? Mine is empty so I wonder if that's why a back up doesn't get made. Also, what ROM are you on?
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
Root Explorer cannot open it. Currently on joelz ICS Rom.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
It seems to be something to do with moving apps to sd. Looking for more detailed info... I can't read about it on CyanogenMod Forum cuz my antivirus is blocking that site due to a trojan warning! Good thing I don't want their ROM. lol.

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I think it will if you change mount to r/w, if you are so inclined, if not that's cool.

Can people post what ROMs you're on and success with backing up .android_secure?

drellisdee... would this be skipped when making a nand if the folder is found to be empty?
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
It tells me it can't open because it is not a PDF file. Don't know how else to open it other that clicking on it.

I have android_secure file for backups on the following:

Nils BGS (GB & ICS)

dsb's Rezound Cubed

Joelz ICS
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Android secure was introduced in froyo for moving apps to sdcard. Htc has used it on internal storage for phones such as droid inc 1 and on sdcard for others and sometimes switches between the 2 in updates. There will be a hidden folder called .android_secure containg it if you have moved apps to sdcard. To check for it mount the external sdcard and internal sdcard as mass storage and open the folder. Root explorer and the like always show it empty.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Any idea on why my nands don't have android_secure in them but are named with BDAS which I believe indicates that I did have it selected when I made the nand? They all just have the boot, data and system img files along with the md5. I don't know how to get logs and such but would be happy to grab one if it will help and you can tell me how.

One of the nands is from before I ever flashed a ROM, some are with Ineffabilis and some are stock with OTA. None of them have it in there. I've used v3.12b and v3.13 after I got OTA.

Just looked at it on my pc and there are 6 files in there, .asec files.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Yes pick nand backup and select both nandroid options for android secure both internal and external and boot only. Do backup then when done use other menu option to move recovery log to sdcard. Upload me the recovery.log from /sdcard and the nandroid backup.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
I only see one .android_secure option. Above that there is sd-ext but it doesn't say anything about .android_secure.

I made one with sd-ext selected and one without. I guess since I didn't get an error about memory and it didn't take very long it isn't a back up of my external sd card which is what I thought it was. Maybe I was supposed to have selected that? Looking into folders now...

Neither has it... grabbing log now...
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Hmm assume you are using latest? Can you verify that option to flash zip from internal sd and option to mount internal sd as ums are there? Also want to see log and backup folder also. Hoping I didnt leave build flag to enable internal sd off :(
[HTC Rezound] hgoldner:
FWIW, I am also running 1.1.3 and saw this thread; I don't see those options either. Are they nested in a different menu?
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Those are in the ums(mass storage) and flash zip menu's. Please get me a log and backup with whatever androidsecure option is there asap too.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Yes, using v3.13.

Under flash zip I have option to Choose zip from internal_sd as well as from sdcard and also "toggle signature verification".

Under Mounts I have

Mount /system

Unmount /cache

Mount /data

Mount /sd-ext

Mount /sdcard

Just moved log file... rebooting and grabbing... I assume it grabbed the latest I made so it is the one where I selected boot, sd-ext and .android_secure.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Please select and actually run nandroid backup of boot and android secure. Then move the log. The nandroid log was empty there. Then I want the nandroid backup it backedup zipped and uploaded too.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Okay... I just redid it without selecting sd-ext to get that log. Will upload all as zip.

But I did run the nand back up last time... I see a bunch of stuff in the log file... anyway... coming up.

EDIT: Okay, that one that was empty at the log part was the one where I selected sd-ext as well. This one I just attached I did not select that and I think I see what you're looking for in this one.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
I did leave out some of the internal sd stuff. What rom are you using? Is it a stockish rezound rom? I want you to use adb shell in recovery.

Adb shell

mount internal_sd or mount internal_sdcard (forget which)

cd /internal_sdcard/.android_secure or cd /internal_sd.android_secure

ls -l

Does it list your android_secure contents?
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Okay wait....
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Has to be done IN RECOVERY. Whats the rom details also? Stock or stockish made from rezound base rom?
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Sorry, just saw that...

ROM is Ineffablilis GB with dsb kernel.

Based on the 1.02.605.6 RUU for the HTC Rezound

Android 2.3.4

HTC Sense 3.5

De-Odex

Zipalign on Boot

I can't find where to go in Recovery.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Boot recovery. Connect usb then do the adb shell commands listed a few back. Same as you did before but do it while in recovery.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
I'm really not slow, just new to this. :D

Yes, it lists the files. I see the same files I saw when I looked at the folder earlier using my pc.

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Btw... I the first version I ever used of Amon Ra was v3.12b on stock rooted (pre-OTA) and that didn't have the .android_secure folder in the nand either and was also named BDAS.

I think I added that to a post after you had replied so I'm not sure you caught it.

Your support is too fast. ;)