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[HTC Sensation] yeantbron:
Hi all, i don't know if it's link, but yesterday i've flash the rc3 (over the beta)

and today my sensation won't charge correctly, connect to the charger at 11h am with 20%, and now, 15h, 45%...

must i reflash or return to the beta? (it's an anker battery, since end september)

Thank you!
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Nothing has changed regarding charging inside recovery since 2 months!

How are you charging it? When your device is off or on?
[HTC Sensation] yeantbron:
thank you madmaxx82, charging with the original charger, with the device on.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Okay then it is absolutely not related to the recovery.

Sorry to be of no help.

Recovery is only responsible for charging while your device is powered off or inside recovery.

If you device is booted, recovery has no effect.

You could even remove the recovery completely and it would still charge inside your rom (but not when off of course)
[HTC Sensation] yeantbron:
ok, i'll search for that, thank you!! ;)
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Hi, thank you.

And sorry for disappointing you, but I cannot take any requests for more devices at the moment because my to do list for 4ext is already far too big.

I can look into it, once most urgent tasks are done, and device requests I have recieved during the last 4 months are completed.

Hi, if you want that feature for recovery, I must say this is no small request at all.

The feature might be small, but the work hours this would take are 50+ at least.

If you want to compare:

Implementing those features in an app where you make use of a very extensive framework would take about 30 minutes.

Inside recovery I have to code everything on my own. Interpret events, decide what a long press is, draw something like a long press menu pixel by pixel, implement something where you can leave this long press menu and touch the background again et.c. etc.

I will do something like that, at least for deleting files in the future, but for now there is far too much work to be done to take requests for additional features for recovery.

Currently I'm working on an Update for the app which is long overdue.

I will definitely add this feature!

Most probably not in the next update but it is very important to me :)
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
Thank you for it least taking the time to respond. I bought the "control" to help out.

if i coded, i'd help out. but i'm way out of practice. Great project!
[HTC Sensation] picachux:
How can I delete certain backups I no longer need?
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
With recovery control: "manage your backups" select a backup -> delete

Otherwise just toggle usb storage, then take a look into the folder clockworkmod/backup on your sdcard and delete the backups you no longer need.
[HTC Sensation] izmenar:
what are the steps of installing free 4ext touch over clockworkmod ? is the hboot version important ?
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
RC3 charges fine with phone off. I think you had a bad flash which definitely could cause charging problems.

I would suggest trying to flash RC3 again.

P.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Hi,

if you are completely s-off and not just unlocked by htcdev it is very easy.

Just download the free 4EXT Recovery Updater App, select "Online Install | Upgrade", select the version you like to flash (newest is best atm) and click "install".

If you are htcdev unlocked only (using the new hboot), you need to flash it via fastboot.

Doing this is also very easy.

Just use the Updater App to download the recovery and flash it via Android Flasher or manually via fastboot: fastboot flash recovery...

If you have any further questions send me an email or a pm.

Thank you!

His case however is really unrelated to recovery.

He observed that behaviour when his phone was fully booted, ie. in his rom.

Recovery has no effect there.. it is only responsible for charging while your device is powered off or inside recovery.
[HTC Sensation] Thermaltake868:
I don't know if you remember me I wrote few days ago about freez problem and I found out it has nothing to do with format and my wiping becouse I enter in recovery now and went to wipe / format and go back and enter again and he froze, so problem is not connected to wiping or formating.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Hi, have you already removed your 4ext folder?

That's needed for RC3 when upgrading from a previous version.
[HTC Sensation] Thermaltake868:
So I need to delete 4ext folder and update EXT4 recovery again from updater ?
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
No, just delete the folder before you boot it next time ;)
[HTC Sensation] mattdub1:
hi maxx, just wondering if there will be a fix for the issues people are getting with the newest recovery's not properly flashing to the data folders ... Capy and Robo from the RCMix team said they would PM you about it, and they recommended to use beta 8 because it doesn't seem to have this issue. thanks
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Hi,

I have never heard of such an issue.

I also didn't receive any PM.

If there is a problem I'd like to fix it asap, but for that I need to know about it ;)

Haven't gotten ANY report about that on ANY supported device.

Edit: this is very strange since nothing changed in code since Beta 8 regarding flashing or formatting.

It's also strange that noone ever contacted me about such an issue.

Please, I need more details. I have contacted robocik.
[HTC Sensation] mattdub1:
Originally Posted by chihliouma View Post

Hi Robo, v3.25 is very fast and I like the keyboard animation. But it seems some obvious issues are found :

1. no bootanimation (data\local)

2. all the APP files under data\app cannot be found after ROM install

So I am wondering maybe all the files under data\ is NOT read correct. Is this something related to 4EXT ? Thanks

REPLY FROM CAPY:

please try search the thread first as xda rules state, you need touch recovery beta8 (included in rom zip) try reflas

... this was in the rcmix ice thread. this seems to be a common issue that users are having, not sure if only related to ICS roms or what. this post was #2552 on page 256 of rcmix thread, but is also referenced in several other places. Bootanimations and other things aren't being properly written to the data folder for some reason. thanks
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
You need at least beta 8 for the yes/no feature the rom installation is using. This is of course also in RC3.

In the text you cited there was no mention about it not working with RC3

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[HTC Sensation] mattdub1:
I was just trying to cite an example. There are numerous posts of it not working with the RC versions of 4EXT as well. that is why Capy and Robo are recommending flashing back to beta 8 and are including it in their roms

this is from yesterday in the thread.... page 248

Just flashed this and it's working great!

I'm getting the stock Android boot screen, but i think i read that it's caused by 4EXT Touch, not a problem though. No FC on settings, Beats working great too! Loving the APM, thats finished the rom off nicely in my opinion! It just keeps getting better and better though!

Thanks!

CAPY's RESPONSE:

you should flash touch recovery beta8 cause your missing files form the data folder, rc2 and 3 mess up

other response:

what is missing?

Edit: Only rc1 is available from the app where can I get beta 8?

Last edited by Ycb04; Yesterday at 04:49 AM.

Capy's Response:

its included in the rom zip you can extract it and flash
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Okay I will flash the rom and find out what's happening there.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Mattdub1:

Could you or someone else with RCMix please help testing?

I couldn't find any problems with RC3.

I did a clean install, the boot animation was there and the rom works very well.

There WAS an issue in RC2 but all issues have been fixed in RC3.

Could someone please confirm?

sent from a phone using xda premium
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
no issue here.... i did the beta 8, rc1, rc2, rc3 and flashed the rom with each of them... checked the folders and all where the same with no issues
[HTC Sensation] aamir123:
I tried flashing aosp gb roms with the 4ext touch recovery and it would hang at the htc splashscreen. I then tried it again using clockwork recovery instead and it worked. Im guessing the 4ext touch recovery is incompatible with the gb aosp roms. I flashed sense gb roms and they worked perfectly. Please let me know as I really like the 4ext touch recovery.
[HTC Sensation] picachux:
Thanks, Had no idea they were also stored in the clockworkmod dir. :D
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
About your incompatibility issues see post below.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Make sure you use v1.0.0.3 RC3 and if you have updated to the new firmware please read from post #23 on: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1459767&page=3
[HTC Sensation] aamir123:
I have the 3.12 firmware, as I said I can run sense gb roms just fine just not aosp. I reverted to clockwork recovery and the rom flashed fine. I will flash back the 4ext recovery when I get a chance to see if I can still run the rom.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Also I had the latest recovery.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Is there anyone else with compatible firmware for gingerbread who cannot flash gingerbread AOSP roms with 4ext recovery latest (RC3)?

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[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Okay, I flashed your firmware (3.12).

Rebooted into recovery (which told me about being in "safe mode" because of the hboot change).

So I formatted all partitions except sdcard and rebooted recovery.

Flashed [ROM][28 OCT]Reverted AOSP v1.1.0 | 2.3.7 | Stock AOSP | FAST !! | Stable

.. and it booted without any problems!

When you change hboot you must format all partitions before you flash a new rom. If recovery is in safe mode because of the hboot change it will tell you that you should do that and then reboot recovery.

if you first tried with 4ext and the rom installation formatted your partitions and then you retried with CWMR, then it was a completely different situation for your CWMR session than your previous one with 4ext.
[HTC Sensation] aamir123:
Actually I tried flashing multiple times using 4ext always got problem but no problem with sense roms. Idk maybe my phone was a glitch or something. But good to know there is great support for this recovery and I am switching back now. ps. I was trying to flash the same rom as you but tried like 2 more just cause this one didn't work. Thanks again
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Funny coincidence.

Indeed very weird that it didn't work for you when it did for me the first time I tried. Same firmware same rom.

If you try again and it still doesn't work, let's take a closer look at your phone and setup (send me a pm).

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[HTC Sensation] namila007:
Hello. can you guyz update this recovery to show a progress bar when backingup,fashing etc ;)
[HTC Sensation] ptr_hamilton:
:D guys is a one man team :D

AFAIK a progress bar would slow the process down. Don't you have a cycle running while backing up?
[HTC Sensation] KAwAtA:
I personally don't care for the progress bar. Just use it a few times and you'll have an estimate as to when the backups/restores are done. Normally my backups take 300-400 seconds to complete. Restores I don't remember but those don't take too long!
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
There is value to a progress bar rather than an ongoing animation. (Not that I dislike the disk with the spinning red lights that look like what's inside a Cylon's head)

The neurotic people of the world (I can call them this because I'm one of them) feel like the update, install, backup, etc is failing if there's no new information on the screen for 5 seconds.

In Clockwork, it'll say "Backing up System Data" then show you the little yellow progress bar. Then it'll say "Backing up Cache" and show you the little yellow progress bar. You kept seeing it moving. It was all very comforting.

But 4EXT works great without the progress bar anyway. It always manages to get it's work done efficiently. Progress bars are just nice for people who can't help but to stare at the screen while it does a backup or recovery instead of just putting it down and walking away for 5 minutes. (Again, I'm not bashing those folks. I'm one of them. I think we need therapy....or a support group or something)
[HTC Sensation] erto90:
I don't know if is rom or recovery related but.. Every time i reboot to recovery, it seems that wipe battery stats(?)

I mean, if i go on battery usage, it show the time passed by the reboot from recovery

If i do a simple reboot, is all ok..

For example

Battery usage shows 5h --> reboot in recovery--> reboot--> battery shows 10s ( btw the time passed with OS on after reboot..)

I'm on RCMix latest ICS
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
No! It never wipes battery stats if you don't tell it to do so.

This might be because you have "fast boot" enabled in settings/power.

However using ARHD 6.2.1 the timer resets everytime I reboot.
[HTC Sensation] erto90:
I've got fastboot disabled!

So if also in ARHD do this thing ( on RCMix it happens only when reboot to recovery, not when simple reboot) i think is rom related..
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Thank you all :)

When I was about to release 4ext recovery touch I decided to only implement an indeterminate "progress" indicator. Adding a real progressbar would have delayed the release.

The indeterminative indicator is far more important, as it works for everything. You don't have a real progress everywhere.

A real progress indicator is planned.

However everyone who likes to see a real progress should know that this will slow down any process that is going on.

For example when you take a backup: to be able to display a real progress it is necessary to count all files that are going to be backed up. This takes some time.

Then it's necessary to count the files while they are being backed up and update the progressbar accordingly.

This is how it works for any recovery not just 4ext.

You can imagine that this slows down the process..

However if you don't care about it taking 10-30 seconds longer to complete, then please wait a bit, the progressbar is coming ;)

It will be a configurable setting to switch on or off..
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Maybe it has something to do with APM.. I don't know.

However the battery stats are not touched by recovery.

You can verify this yourself..

Just take a look at /data/system/batterystats.bin.
[HTC Sensation] erto90:
Ok i understood, was a question only! I have asked to capy if knows something about this, waiting for a reply!

Maybe is a ICS bug/feature..! Or maybe a simple thing to fix
[HTC Sensation] Evil-Dragon:
Thanks max for continuing to update and support 4ext without doing a Koush on us and charging to flash touch recoveries. There's some unhappy people on the market atm, i'm included and have voiced my opinion. I will continue to use 4ext!
[HTC Sensation] WarlockW:
I found many Roms that have a script in: /ect/init.d < folder

that will automatically delete battery stats file on every boot ..

( I always delete or change it )
[HTC Sensation] tarikg:
this recovery is the best job of all times.. Thank you very much.. all hail you
[HTC Sensation] erto90:
in my rom there are 3 script ( i'm watching the downloaded rom )

90-virtuous-run_once

51-tweaks

20-virtuous-package_manager

dunno what they are
[HTC Sensation] ziggy1001:
Open them in notepad ++ and read them, they're from one of Robo's roms?

Maybe ask him
[HTC Sensation] d3vilskid:
I've gone through this problem about three or four times where data didn't get installed on rcmix ics, but I remember you saying something about deleting the 4ext folder. That's what I've done and install seems fine now, but that's awhile back.
[HTC Sensation] joaquinf:
Rc4 coming soon?? Grreat
[HTC Sensation] namila007:
i saw it.but its further look likes animation.not like a progress bar :D
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
thought I saw that popup! nice
[HTC Sensation] resynx:
Best recovery out there! Very much appreciated dev :D
[HTC Sensation] joshndroid:
mate i totally understand, having learnt your a one man machine at this (from another post in this thread?) we all want touch goodness and one man just cant do everything...

definitely though it would be good for looking into this market though especially as the tab scene is pretty good atm and a second control app for tablets would bring in extra cash and be of awesome benefit for all... i bid good luck to you and hope in future you will have atleast one more person as good as you in a team to bring everything to everyone lol :D
[HTC Sensation] Shroomster:
Just bumping this thread to the top :-D
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[HTC Sensation] Kirhe:
madmaxx82,

Can you add possibility to your recovery, to flash *.img files. It can be useful to flash recovery images, splashes, etc...
[HTC Sensation] iJohnny:
I can't enter my recovery. It says booting and count down... Then again... And again...

I need to pull out my battery to stop this.

Version is rc3

Any ideas how to fix this?

And why is 4ext recovery updater breaking my 3G connection?

It starts downloading to about 50% and then it breaks 3G connection. Every time.
[HTC Sensation] WarlockW:
You Need to reinstall recovery ...

And make sure you picked the right one ..

You Should ALWAYS DL Recovery using wifi if possible !

Connect to wifi and try again :)

---------- Post added at 09:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:01 AM ----------

+1 Good Idea :)
[HTC Sensation] iJohnny:
I have reinstalled recovery and its still stuck in preparing boot...

:confused:

EDIT: I just flashed 2.2.7 RC5 and it's the same thing.

Anyone know how to fix this?
[HTC Sensation] thelegendarylegends:
Where's Shnizlon????? He's like the best themer and modder of all time :P
[HTC Sensation] klefreak:
yesterday i had some sort of BUG

was using the Bakcup funktion of 4EXT afterwards i tried to mount usb and got a error like " usb mount file xyz swapp error"

after a reboot my sd was "gone" no data on it, had to reformat it..

if it's a bug, i hope it will get solved in a R4..

thx
[HTC Sensation] craacK:
hes not doing 4ext themes, so why should i add him ?
[HTC Sensation] iJohnny:
I want to thank madmaxx82 for his help in solving my problem with recovery bootloop.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
[HTC Sensation] w_bovine:
Please tell us what the solution turned out to be.
[HTC Sensation] WarlockW:
you need to delete the 4ext dir I bet
[HTC Sensation] fabi280:
I remember such a feature from my HTC Legend.

I don't know if it was only because I've been running CM...

But you could run this in the Terminal Emulator directly on the device.

The command was like the fastboot one...

instead of "fastboot flash recovery XY.img" you used "flash_image recovery XY.img"

Sorry if my English isn't the best right now, it's kinda bit late for me...
[HTC Sensation] w_bovine:
Ah...I'll bet you're right. I remember that coming up a few times in the past. Something to remember in the future.
[HTC Sensation] iJohnny:
Deleting 4ext dir did not solve the problem.

I even deleted theme I had installed.

Finally test version solved it for me.
[HTC Sensation] w_bovine:
Interesting. Not something I would have thought of. Glad to hear you're back up and running.
[HTC Sensation] madmaxx82:
Yes, but I'd prefer not to because flashing things like splash, hboot etc. which are able to brick your device for ever should be flashed via fastboot.

Fat32 is such an easily damaged file system + combined with sdcards is not something I'd like to support for storing files to be flashed which could easily brick your device.

No bug for sure. Fat32/Sdcard problem.

Thank you!

Yes, unfortunately we haven't found the reason because we didn't "have the chance to" do a lot of diagnostics, since flashing the next release solved the problem.

So the reason remains unknown.

It must be something EXTREMELY rare, because there have been > 35.000 downloads for RC3 and noone has reported anything similar yet.

Good to know though that the next release solved it ;)
[HTC Sensation] matt95:
It would be great to delete files on the sdcard by the recovery without using the PC everytime... Will it be possible? However this recovery is the best and with aroma installer feels so ****in good
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
What? Why can't you use any file manager to, um, manage files?
[HTC Sensation] fredcorp6:
Hi quick question...

Can I just install this like I installed CWM recovery? So just place the file on the root of my SD card, boot into HBOOT and confirm update?

Thanks.
[HTC Sensation] Glotzeulor:
Nov,you install it with 4ext recovery updater which can be found in op.

Gesendet von meinem HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio mit Tapatalk
[HTC Sensation] fredcorp6:
Ok, I see.

And that can be done on an S-off device? No root required?
[HTC Sensation] chreguh:
Kindle Fire

Is this recovery compatible with Amazon Kindle Fire? Would be very usefull, because it has no hardware buttons.
[HTC Sensation] marian3k:
You are joking, aren't you?
[HTC Sensation] chreguh:
Why should I?
[HTC Sensation] biggunsv:
Well, at least because this is a Sensation development forum and Amazon Kindle Fire one is here. And it seems that for your device you can use this recovery.
[HTC Sensation] fredcorp6:
Do I need to be rooted to flash this recovery using the updater app, or just s-off?

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
Remove your SD card and reinsert it. Reboot. This solved the issue when it happened to me.
[HTC Sensation] Jonny:
You need to have root and superuser installed
[HTC Sensation] Shroomster:
Not trying to sound rude, but the op already solved this guy's problem....
[HTC Sensation] Jump1ng:
It doesnt take that long to turn on USB storage, i usually get better speed in recovery than when the ROM has booted so I copy the stuff i want to flash from recovery and delete stuff if I have too ;)
[HTC Sensation] wolverin4:
my touchscreen stop working,i only got power and volume buttons.

is it possible to flash the stock rom?with previous version it was,but now with touch i cant.is there a script or something i can do flash the stock rom(in order to send it to service)

solved : ( with fastboot)
[HTC Sensation] liamstears:
Why cant I use menu.row.height = 99?

If I do most of the selction lights up normally then I get aroun 8px of screwed zig zag stuff lol
[HTC Sensation] rickyiswhite:
what do the format options do exactly? compared to wiping

and do i actually need swap and ext on my sensation?
[HTC Sensation] ptr_hamilton:
1. The same. Formatting the partition

2. No. Internal storage has enough space

Cheers
[HTC Sensation] mesiegw:
Very nice and quick :) thanks
[HTC Sensation] liamstears:
Anyone???

Also can someone post the original background from the original theme?
[HTC Sensation] D00mSlayer:
Htc Sensation, how do i get into recovery? I flashed a Sense 4.0 ROM by TripNRaVer from rootzwiki. Now im unable to get into recovery. I power off, remove battery, put it back, hold vol+power. And it still does a normal boot. I've done it a 100 times. No luck. Is there any other way? This ROM is completely unstable!!
[HTC Sensation] xdaco:
Did you try from adb ??
[HTC Sensation] Jonny:
Are you sure you are holding volume down key and not volume up?
[HTC Sensation] WarlockW:
Open the 4ext recovery program in android ..

Open the 4ext recovery program in android ..

And pick: Power Menu - DO IT!

And it will reboot into recovery ..

If it doesnt .. Turn on WIFI !

If you can .. Find The 4ext Folder In /system/4ext or /data/4ext <- And Delete it!

Then reinstall recovery from the 4ext recovery program in android ..

Open the 4ext recovery program in android ..

And pick: Power Menu - Then Press: DO IT!

And it will reboot into recovery ..
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
MAXX what translations do you need still? pm me or let me know how I can helpZ!