yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Maybe the wrong section, sry for that, but could you maybe also add the galaxy s3 to the list (at least the international version)? Would be great :)

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[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Hey Madmaxx,

Some people have reported that 4ext doesn't wipe the /system/lib partition.. Maybe you could take a look at that...

Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
+100

and there is a battery drain when i m in recovery,the rom uses less battery than the recovery
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
What do you do inside of the recovery that takes long enough for you to notice Battery Drain??!!:confused:

I'm just curious...:p
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
Nothing xd

It s this the problem

For ex. I m in recovery and i m sending a rom to my phone from my pc

When the rom is sent i already lost 10% of battery....

Sorry bad eng
[HTC Desire S] Sib64:
+1 - I'm so also curious.

Since that you use 4Ext this is the first time that you report this problem...

Are you sure about 4ext ?
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
yes i m sure
[HTC Desire S] Sib64:
Have you recently changing your kernel ?
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
i m using kernel 3.0
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
You need to enable that in the settings.

sent from a mad droid
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
That must be some strange reading. Other than the display no other part of your hardware is stressed really.

Verify that for yourself and open an adb shell while you are copying your files and enter:

"top"

You'll see that your cpu is almost idle.

I have never heard of something like that on ANY device I support.

sent from a mad droid
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
An other strange thing

In rom:

The phone is connected via usb

After +/- 30 mins : +20%

In recovery

Usb storage(or just recovery)

After +/- 30 mins : +1% or nothing:confused:
[HTC Desire S] korenisko:
I havent any problems with charging in recovery. In recovery is my batt charging good.
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Sorry for the late reply ;)

Yes I will probably add it, but it's such an ugly thing :D

I'll really regret that if I have to buy it for that.
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Luckily tastes differ :P

I'm always there if you need someone for test purpose :)
[HTC Desire S] korenisko:
And have you good charger? My phone charges in recovery. Also in usb on pc
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
Yes,with a rom it works
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Thanks ;)

Today I've seen the white one live. Looks a lot better than on the web.

But in my opinion the design is still no match against most of HTC's models.

The texture on that frame that surrounds the edges of the phone looks really cheap :/ don't understand why they did it that way.

Doesn't matter at all though, I will try to support it sometime during the next 1-3 months.
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Kylon, I have no idea what's wrong there, but don't you think that a whole lot of users would have already mentioned something as critical as that?

I have no idea what the problem is on your phone.

Maybe your usb port is really low on power.

In any recovery there is, the screen has full brightness (I'll add a feature in the future to allow you to configure that).

Since the screen draws most power, maybe your usb port is so low on power that your phone simply cannot charge any faster than that.

In your rom, you usually don't have max brightness.

That's just a possible explanation.
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
In rom i use auto

Maybe you add this

But it s strange,the rom can charge the phone,while the recovery uses so much battery that it uses all the power

sent from my desire s
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
The recovery doesn't draw that much power.

It's very much less than making phone calls, playing games or browsing the web.

Please try an ac charger and check how it behaves then.
[HTC Desire S] kylon:
Ac seems to work ok

sent from my desire s
[HTC Desire S] Px80:
Hey,

ive got a bug in the latest recovery.

The processing image is running from right to left in its small window.

The buttons arent visible until i push ie. "yes" or "no".

cheers
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
That's a problem with your (4ext-)theme.

Either the theme is really incompatible with the latest version or it has been corrupted somehow.

Just uninstall it.
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
A feature request again for the Control app

The below batch operation would be useful when we select

New Backup -> Wipe Partition -> Flash new ZIP ( multiple of course)

Restore backup -> Take Nandroid and then restore
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
This and more is already possible ;)

Make sure you have advanced mode on ;)
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
@madmaxx82 You've made me lazy with that feature !!! Now booting to recovery, backing up an flashing separately seems too much work :p:p:p Seriously, thanks. Have been using this for months :)
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
I am still unable to do below

Restore backup and take nandroid before restoring

Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
that is certainly possible

Take nandroid

Full wipe

Restore data

flash new ROM

Flash any number of additional zips

Boot

ROM flasher dream

Swyped from my DesireS
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
No, i want to do the below

Take Nandroid

Restore different Nandroid

Guess its my dumb day today :D
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
Just click on Recovery>Manage your Backups>Click on the backup you want to restore>Click restore on the pop-up menu. The options you will be presented will include one that says "Backup before Restoring". Check that box and proceed. This will restore your backup and backup your current ROM.

P.S. Enable Advanced mode from recovery control app settings to enable these and more advanced options.
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
Sorry I don't think I explained myself well, I was saying that you can easily instigate all of these actions from the application so that they run in order, one after the other

As explained advanced is the key to unlock

Swyped from my DesireS
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Thank you all for the support :)

Thanks :)

There is so much I would like to change and add, but it must wait until the most urgent current tasks are completed, which won't be so soon :/
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Thanks all, got it working

As I said,it was a dumb day for me

As the app started to check md5 I thought it will not ask to choose other options

Thanks

Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!
[HTC Desire S] Tirofog:
Bootloop after nandroid restore

I flashed my first custom rom the other day followed by the boot.img in fastboot (s-on) and all worked fine. I now need to restore my stock rom nandroid to retrieve important sms drafts which didn’t backup. The nandroid seemingly restores okay, I then flashed the stock boot.img but reboot just keeps bringing me back to recovery with the message ‘unconfigured: use 4ext app to set me up’. I was able to restore the custom nandroid/boot.img with no problems, then went into the 4ext app to check the settings. ‘Use tar backups’ was ticked, which I don’t recall doing, so I unticked it. Now when I try to restore/reboot I get the same bootloop as before but without that message. Searching only came up with an issue when changing themes, which I haven’t touched. The only possible problem I’ve found is the parted.log which says Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk.

I’ve tried wiping/formatting everything possible, changed the nandroid from ext3 to ext4 and back again but nothing has succeeded so far.

I find 4ext is way better than cwm, unfortunately I discovered Smartflash too late so I’m hoping someone here is able to please help me out.

Bootloader "UNLOCKED" (HTC dev)

SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.00.0002

RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M

eMMC-boot

Aug 22 2011, 15:22:13
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
You shouldn't disable tar backups.

But this is unrelated now.

Did you change firmware/hboot or anything via bootloader since you created your stock nandroid backup?

Did you enable to include system/lib in your backups when you created your nandroid?

Which recovery did you use to create this backup?

sent from a mad droid

Edit: to get your sms, flash a rom that uses the same or similar base as your stock rom or flash stock, then advanced restore only data.
[HTC Desire S] Tirofog:
The only actions I took after stock nandroid were flash custom rom/boot.img..

No system/lib included..

Using v1.0.05 RC3..

Thanks for the quick reply.. and the tip, but for some reason stock sms backup didn't backup :eek: drafts, plus I have a couple more reasons to want the ability to go back.

Edit.. and another reason is curiousity, to check if tar backups is disabled or not, because I just seem to remember it was unticked by default when on the stock rom :confused:
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
When you advanced restore data, your drafts don't come back?

If that's so, then this backup was taken after they were gone already.

sent from a mad droid
[HTC Desire S] Tirofog:
I haven’t yet tried advance restore data, I was waiting to see if there might be a simple answer to the reboot issue.. I’ve had the same thing before with the HTC stock sms backup, double-checked it at the time and still no drafts, it just slipped my mind this time. It's not just this though, amongst other things I really want the option to be able to receive the ICS ota, and the ability to easily switch roms by nandroid restore was a factor in initially deciding to try a change.
[HTC Desire S] korenisko:
That way, you cant receive anything via ota. And as madmax82 replied you, you possibly havent backed up lib partition. Without lib, rom will no start...
[HTC Desire S] kbeezie:
This of course is really annoying to require the market app just to get the recovery.img, for example right now I'm stuck in clockwork mod because it won't restore a 4EXT backup, and course I cannot obtain 4EXT recovery.img as there seems to be no place to download it, and likewise I'm unable to obtain it because I can't boot into the system to access the market to download the app to install it.......
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
You don't require anything.

If you installed the recovery via the free or paid app it additionally saved your configured recovery.img to your downloads folder.

Also there is a link on first post to a version you can flash via fastboot.
[HTC Desire S] saftschubse:
@madmaxx82:

What's about your plans to make 4ext available for the Galaxy Nexus?

I'm really really missing it... :crying:;)

Cheers
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Hello, why does 4ext stores backup in clockworkmod folder ? I'm still in my begins, but if i understand, 4ext is better alternative of clockworkmod.
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Yes it is, but it also sets up on cwm and provides backward compatibility, means if you choose to go back to cwm anytime, you still can use your backups.
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
A few issues on JB with 4Ext recovery control...

I am on CM10...

This may be due to the new way SDCARD is mounted in JB.

It doesnt recognise zip's in the app. this has also been reported on the CM10 thread here

The recovery works well...
[HTC Desire S] kalvin807:
Can any one teach me to change cwm to this recovery please.

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Just read the first post carefully

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Fixed JB compatibility, but because it's already very late at my location I cannot release it anymore (changelogs, updated translations still missing) .

For anyone who'd like to use it before it's released "tomorrow" (which is in about 15 hours), without changelogs and translations updated,

you can download it: unofficial v2.4.2

Update: removed, because of official release, which btw has some additional bugfixes.

Uninstall your app first please. This will install besides the official version, so when the official update comes, please uninstall that.
[HTC Desire S] codryn:
Will this ever be a final version ?
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
There is always scope for improvement :)

Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
The latest recovery is a final, but not labelled as such.

This is just a name, I mean when a new Windows version goes final, does it not contain any bugs at all? ;)

Quite the contrary is true and still it's called a final.

The latest recovery versions are basically bug free. There are some cosmetic issues like 4ext built-in screenshots functionality not working correctly on the Sensation and Evo 3D. But that's about it.

Sorry the update for Recovery Control is delayed because crowdin.net is still offline :/
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
The update is online now and includes some additional bugfixes.

Please get rid of the unofficial one.
[HTC Desire S] CfYz:
madmaxx82

Any plans to adding backing up/wipe/restore for system/lib for Desire S?
[HTC Desire S] c.m.b:
I guess its a bug, because in version v1.0.0.5 RC5 I'm able to choose the options. But on RC6 I'm not.
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
It's already there, but you need to enable that in recovery settings via recovery control or updater app.

This is not enabled by default because it takes extra space and time for backups and restore and most custom roms don't make use of that partition.

Whether you are using RC6 or RC5 has no effect on those settings being available or not.

It only depends on whether your lib partition was detected to be present or not.

So with hboot 2.x the settings should be there, with something different, they wouldn't appear.

Theoretically a problem with Superuser could also lead to the settings not being available.
[HTC Desire S] c.m.b:
On RC6 the options are there but I can't choose the. They are grey

My HBOOT version 7.00.1002

Sorry if my first post wasn't clear
[HTC Desire S] CfYz:
madmaxx82

Same here for RC6 - options to save/restore lib are present, but grayed out, and recovery updater 2.4.2 says that my "recovery build is too old to use this function". Reverted back to RC5 - all works fine now, huge thanks again :)

there is hope...
[HTC Desire S] indtram:
Hi!!

I am having some issues........My SD card crashed and also I think My DHD was stung by a VIRUS !!!!

I have formatted the SD card....and want to Flash Another ROM.....but when I booted into Recovery.....I got this message at the bottom of the screen..... Unconfigured:use 4ext app to configure ...

I tried making a nandroid backup of the existing ROM.....IT backed up everything but.....says...

NO .android_secure found...skipping backup of applications on external card

NO sd-ext found...skipping backup of sd-ext

NO sd-ext2 found..skipping backup of sd-ext2

need help...folks......

thanks
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
Just to point out - this is the forum for the Desire S, not the Desire HD
[HTC Desire S] Kolo39:
Can we expect a Nexus 7 version anytime? :D Or do you only want to support HTC devices
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
Morning Max,

Apology if this has been logged already, just flashed latest cm10 version as last minute thing Sunday night before restoring daily for my working week to see where theyre.up to on Cm10, very impressed, although.experienced issues using 4ext recovery application it wouldn't boot into recovery from the application, All attempts to get to recovery, using both recovery and power menu routes failed, both simply restarted the device, had to use the APM restart recovery option to finally get into recovery. Once there the scripted actions backup, wipe, restore etc all worked fine, was just dropping into recovery that was the issue. Could well be issue with 4ext latest JB market update version or cm but thought I'd log it anyway to see of anyone else had witnessed it? Am I the only one experience it?

Sywepd form my DsereiS
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Morning Ben,

this only ever happened when there were bugs in the currently installed version of the su-binary.

Updating it should resolve any issues regarding that. Other things to check is whether reboot mode inside the app is set to default and not to slow mode, which can cause problems on some roms.

If after upgrading the su-binary the problem persists, please reinstall the app.

If for some weird reason the problem isn't resolved by that, please contact me via RC.

Have a nice day,

Max
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
It was a bug checking the build number. Only happened in the very first RC6 build. ;)

N7: most probably ;)
[HTC Desire S] infernalMan:
hi madmaxx,

would you bring ur 4ext recovery to other devices such as samsung??

i've read on 4ext website that u're currently building 4ext for galaxy nexus.

is there still a hope for nexus s??

i'd really need 4ext features on my nexus s.

since i found it very great on my desire s with 4ext.

thanks.
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Hi madmaxx82

thank you for the recent update. It has some changes towards lib partition management so here is a feedback on them:

After update to RC7 now there are two entries for /system_lib in the mount | storage menu. In RC6 there was only one and it worked as it should (formatting, wiping, backup etc.) Also with RC7 some users have troubles unmounting the /system_lib after pasting files to it in the Recovery.

I hope this will be useful for you

PS: my bootloader is ENG 2.00.2002 so my lib partition is on mmcblk0p28. I guess you made the change for hboot 2.02.0002 that has the "extra" partition on mmcblk0p28 and lib on mmcblk0p29
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
I'm sorry. It seems this happened when it was nr 28. Thanks for reporting that.

This should be fixed in testing build nr. 10. Could you please verify that?

Hi,

oh, I forgot to mention the Nexus S.

I haven't taken a closer look at this device yet, but it is very unlikely that it won't get it since it's very similar to the Galaxy Nexus which isn't such a problem either.

Wished all Samsung devices were that way ;)
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Yes it is fixed. Thank you!
[HTC Desire S] JackyJack:
Hello, planning to buy a Razr i, officially unloackable from moto website, I really think it will be a phone with a large community, users and devs.

I have to say that I actually love 4EXT touch recovery, so I'd like to know if you would help me porting it for my next beloved phone ?

Thanks :D
[HTC Desire S] Fredericosilva:
I installed Free 4EXT Recovery Updater v2.4.3 selected "Online install | upgrade" and install new Touch recovery, but when I boot into recovery the old 4EXT classic recovery boots instead the new one.

Im S-ON HTCdev Unlocked.

What im doing wrong?
[HTC Desire S] Chiller89:
I had the exact same problem, and I'm also HTCdev unlocked. The only way I found out to be able to update, Is to download the recovery image using the app, transfer it into the adb folder on a pc, and then flash it via fastboot with the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command :)
[HTC Desire S] Fredericosilva:
It works, thanks :)
[HTC Desire S] Haomuch:
What's the difference between this and cmw touch recovery?
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
IMO this is better, enough said.

Sywepd form my DsereiS
[HTC Desire S] infernalMan:
wow glad to know that.

u've been mention nexus s on ur web.

i'm really exited.

i'll be waiting 4ext on my crespo :D :good:

thanks.
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
"Better" doesn't even begin to describe it. You really should try it yourself, there are so many features that I don't even feel like writing them. Once you switch, you won't go back ;)
[HTC Desire S] avensakias:
That's why I am waiting the new release for my ONE-X.
[HTC Desire S] adridu59:
Is 4EXT open source ?
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
As far as I know it's not.

Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus
[HTC Desire S] sMhsn:
CWM to 4EXT!

I am on CWM right now I want to try this how I can do it without damaging anything I mean removing one recovery and flashing another one will it do any harm to my ROM or is it safe and is it worth using 4EXT recovery I heard it's better than CWM, thanks!
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
You can flash 4ext straight over cwm, it will just replace it. No problems should arise. And yes its far better in so many ways.

I'm your huckleberry
[HTC Desire S] courghan:
Hi, I have a problem updating to 1.0.0.5 RC build 40 using 4ext control. The process seems to be completing correctly but if I reboot into recovery it still shows 1.0.0.5 RC8, am I doing anything wrong? I have a rooted Desir S, HTC-DEV unlocked running flinny cm10.1 latest build.

How can I flash the rc9 zip manually?
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Your recovery has to be flashed via adb if your htcdev unlocked but still s-on.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
That's because on the Desire-s it's impossible to write to the recovery partition if your device is not s-off.

In that case you need an extra step after installing (and configuring) the recovery via RC: you need to flash the recovery manually via fastboot.

BTW in that case you also need to flash boot manually after flashing new roms as the boot partition is also protected.

Contact me if you have RC and need help flashing the recovery after installing it.

sent from a mad droid
[HTC Desire S] courghan:
Thanks, I suspected that. Got it to work now!
[HTC Desire S] petru.tomsa:
Re: [TOUCHCOVERY] 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.5 RC 6

When I install a new Rom what I must wipe, but data from apps to remain? System, or data and dalvik cache? In this recovery what is erase all without ad card? This option I must use? Please help, used only cwm and now I want to give a try to 4ext.
[HTC Desire S] Aquous:
Wiping data is enough.
[HTC Desire S] StormShadowBK:
If I understand right, and he want´s to dirty flash a ROM(without losing Apps & Data), he should wipe Cache & Dalvic.

For a clean install(always recommended) you should use Format all(except SD Card)
[HTC Desire S] Px80:
where can i download the latest recovery version as a zip? my phone is S-On so i must flash through adb.
[HTC Desire S] StormShadowBK:
You have read on the official homepage? -> 4EXT

You can read there:
[HTC Desire S] Px80:
actually i can't connect to the 4ext server. It says getting information but than error...
[HTC Desire S] hisname:
Re: [TOUCHCOVERY] 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.5 RC 6

no problems for me....

Sent from my supercharged :tank:
[HTC Desire S] yabadabadooo:
Hey guys is there a zip to flash via cwm of the latest 4ext recovery? Cant boot my Phone i get stuck on splash screen. Bootloader and cwm still works

Sent from Tapatalk 4
[HTC Desire S] StormShadowBK:
Your solution is flashing the recovery through fastboot.

It´s something like

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

But only if I remember right. :fingers-crossed:;)
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Correct :thumbup:

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

― David Brin
[HTC Desire S] readmanr:
Hi All,

Just to bump the thread, as a new version of 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.6 RC1 is now available as of 31/12/2013 and all finally packaged up early this morning 01/01/2014 so thanks for this at New Years!

To get your hands on the recovery.img, download 4EXT_Recovery_Touch_v1.0.0.6_RC1.zip using the 4EXT Apps.

The Free 4EXT Recovery Updater v2.4.6b App.

Or the Paid 4EXT Recovery Control App.

Version v1.0.0.6 RC1 is required for the Android 4.4 KitKat ROMs and GAPPs.

Here is the changelog for 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.6 RC1.

- Based on the rock solid v1.0.0.5 RC9

- Added support for SELinux needed by some Android 4.4 roms.

Big thanks to the following testers:

Papete, Dtr204, CChako, and Kingmook!

Hope the above helps!

Happy KitKat Testing,

Rob.
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
About bloody time ;)

It's been quite difficult keeping quiet, great work....keep it up

as i said on irc, this really is the next level, lack of theme is irrelevant

Swyped from my Desire S using XDA Premium
[HTC Desire S] madmaxx82:
Thank you all soo much for that amazing feedback :)

Need to get some sleep now, but will answer any questions/posts tomorrow!

It's very unlikely that the stock rom is ext4 compatible, so you cannot convert its file system without changing the kernel/rom...