[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Proudly presenting:

4EXT Recovery Touch

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brand new user interface: "4EXT UI"

touchscreen only

extremely fast

much more useful features than the already feature-packed 4EXT Recovery Classic v2.2.7 RC5 (see 2nd post)

4EXT SmartFlash for s-on devices

optionally save space by configuring recovery to exclude /cache from backups

you can configure recovery to save even more space by excluding dalvik-cache from backups

calculates real space needed to complete a backup to save you from troubles

detects your local time zone

-> correct time is used for backups you start from within recovery

allows you to change md5sum check behaviour

displays and updates your current battery level in real time

scrollable texthistory (drag down the statusbar)

built-in interactivity (yes/no questions) for updater-scripts

built-in screenshot functionality

extensive theming capabilities!

nearly ALL YOU SEE is changeable.

"worker bar": create your own custom animations, there are (nearly) no limits! Use any shapes/sizes/animations et.c.

extra low cpu needed for that: absolutely no negative impact on backup/restore speed.

async UI rendering for optimal performance for the "heavy tasks" like backup/restore

backups even faster than with usual recoveries.

.. explore the new interface to see more ;)

includes all features of 4EXT Recovery Classic

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About 4EXT SmartFlash ​

This is a new feature that allows recovery to flash your boot partition just like as if you were s-off.

Credits and thanks to Team Win and Dees_Troy for their commitment to the community, for their amazing idea with the Dumlock and for extra contacting me only to offer that I may use it.

You guys really rock!

SmartFlash is a different approach to Team Win's HTC Dumlock

Just use your recovery like you would if your device were s-off

No preparations needed, other than telling the recovery that your device is actually s-on

This is done when you install recovery and answer the question that you are s-on with "yes"

You can also change that setting later on via RecoveryControl -> Recovery settings, or by editing 4ext.prop manually

Recovery will autodetect any changes done to "boot" and only attempt to flash your boot partition if it was really changed

This even reduces unnecessary writes to "boot" when for example a new rom uses the same kernel as your previous one

Before updating your boot partition, recovery will always backup your boot partition to your sdcard just for the case something goes wrong

Only the 4 latest boot images are stored, older ones will be removed automatically to prevent taking up too much space.

In case you want to enable or disable that feature temporarily, you can use a switch inside the tools menu in recovery

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How it works:

Recovery will detect any requested changes for your boot partition

When you reboot out of recovery, it will prepare updating your boot partition on next rom start

This means that your boot partition will be updated when you see the HTC Splash screen, followed by 1 reboot

So basically the only visible difference to when you are s-off is one additional reboot, which takes only a few seconds.

Recovery is NOT flashed to boot and boot is also only flashed once/update

Recovery will only attempt to flash your boot partition if it was really changed

Limitations:

Radio and firmware:

Usually those are flashed via bootloader flashable zips or fastboot even on devices that are s-off.

But in case you wondered: this does not enable you to flash new firmwares or radio images via recovery.

NOTE: You cannot use SmartFlash to SWITCH between Gingerbread and ICS roms/firmware. You must do that manually.

SmartFlash needs a working kernel to be able to upgrade your boot partition.

It cannot work in case your current kernel is incompatible with your device/hboot or has been wiped outside of recovery.

For example you cannot erase boot via fastboot and then start up recovery to update your kernel.

However you don't need a working rom to use it.

The only requirement is that your current kernel is able to start (this happens before you see the boot animation) and that your system partition is mountable.

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INFO: ​

For App and Rom devs:​

Make use of the Recovery Interface Api provided by the (free and paid) 4EXT Recovery Apps to push updates/mods/addons for auto installation.

Very easy to use and to integrate into Apps or even shell scripts.

Please check 3rd post.​

Info regarding 4EXT Recovery Touch and its yesno feature, or any interactive installer scripts you might already use, please see 3rd post.​

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Themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch:

Official 4EXT Recovery Themes Index & Discussion Thread

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Download​

All downloads are 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

When you install or download a recovery via the app it makes sure that your recovery config is correctly set up.

It allows to automatically setup your time zone for recovery.

You can use it to get notified about updates regarding your recovery version

You can configure it to get notified in case any critical bugs have been discovered of the recovery version you currently have installed.

It allows me to update known issues/changelogs immediately and to quickly pull a newly released version if there were reports about critical bugs

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

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By default the app also saves the recovery.img you flash on your sdcard,

so you can use it to flash the recovery via fastboot in case you need to do that one day.

If you somehow lost those files, there's a direct download for a version you can flash via fastboot.

4EXT Recovery Control

Free version: Recovery Updater

Fully featured: Recovery Control

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

Some examples

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Very easy to use, but also includes an extensive set of features available via "advanced mode"

Comfortable configure all settings of recovery

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

So you can make sure the backup will succeed before even rebooting into recovery.

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

When you restore a backup, the app does the md5sum check instead of the recovery

This ensures that you know whether the restore process will succeed before even rebooting into recovery​

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​

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 :)

Big thanks to craacK for a lot of great icons! :)

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Thanks:​

Big thanks to DolphiCom for all the graphics, the worker bar and a whole lot of great ideas and to the many great testers who spent all day/night testing, reporting bugs, making suggestions, helping with decisions:

Jotha, craacK, Patrics83, Euphorie, Mike1986, Whiskey103, ptr_hamilton, Lizard, TheUntouchable

Big thanks to Jotha and Whiskey103 for testing the themes features creating and their first themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch.

Also Big thanks to all the donators to 4EXT Recovery and everyone who has bought 4EXT Recovery Control! Without you I wouldn't be able to spend as much time with the project:

SO A HUGE THANK YOU!​

FRANKIE-BOY, SYRAKUS, FISHA21, ZJXPOT, ZEEKIZ, A USER, PHILOS64, STEVEATHOME, PREACHER65, BEN_PYETT, HAWST, ANIT77, ULTRA DROID, PTR_HAMILTON, BEANBEAN50, SEBASTIAAN15 and LOVEBOATCAPTAIN

Of course BIG THANKS to KOUSH for ClockworkModRecovery!

Without him, 4EXT Recovery wouldn't exist!​

Thanks a lot to the following users for initial testing for specific devices :

SPEEDYCARV, PTR_HAMILTON, JAMESCLINTON, SNOWBOARDKID503, MJESSE81, SEBASTIAAN15, THEUNTOUCHABLE, BMONSTER, ANDREIGHERGHE, PRESTON74, MADKAI, YASIR, PLAYPETEPP

IPERZAMPEM0, THESHAWTY, JBBANDOS, GREGFERNS and INCREDULOUS

Special thanks to Invasion2 and Stlouie65 for spending at least 10 hours of their time helping me debug a really nasty issue on the myTouch 4G!

Also thanks for obtaining calibration values for the touchscreen:

Mjesse81,

Speedycarv,

Wolfepakt

Jaibar

Jayallen1980

Stlouie65

Invasion2

PacerguyDon

Ben_Pyett

Dargocitfer

Darknessrise1234

Lizard

Azazel71

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Kernel: official HTC kernel sources.