yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sharpe351:
Thanks for this recovery. I had to flash it through fastboot using the .img file due to the fact that I'm on the newest boot-loader and the other method didn't work properly... which I found to be a common thing. Nice work, like all the features.
[EVO 4G Android Development] johnny.dalvik-cache:
by your logic, I'll call you 'his toilet paperness'

That just makes more sense, though equally gay.
[EVO 4G Android Development] buckhunter:
Lmfao good one

Edit: btw this recovery is great really like the extra options, themes and using the buttons.
[EVO 4G Android Development] dmels28:
bootloader not picking up file

Any thoughts on why bootloader wont pick up the zip, I have S-off
[EVO 4G Android Development] MBQ_:
Rename it to PC36IMG
[EVO 4G Android Development] dmels28:
I named it to PC36IMG.zip should I get rid of .zip? thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] volk9029:
Yes, get rid of.zip. It's already zip file.

Sent from my lair.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
Get rid of the ".zip" if renaming from windows, do NOT get rid of the ".zip" if renaming from your phone.

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] shinesthru:
Why do you have to talk like a child?
[EVO 4G Android Development] atljatl:
The gay part was not necessary.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Soap:
He's just jealous that I've been a member for 2 months and have 100 more thanks than him.

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Android Development] MBQ_:
I'm not homosexual, but it is an extremely offensive word. You could of said a plethora of words different than that!! (Figured I'd just quote your post even though you're obviously not the one who made the post bashing soap)
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
The gay post wasn't necessary but the word gay itself is certainly not offensive. What do these posts have to do with smelkusMOD?

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Soap:
Could we get someone to clean the thread? I agree with rope. Lets get back on topic guys.

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Android Development] MBQ_:
Okay, well it doesn't offend me, but it can be offensive to some. (I don't mean to argue with you) anyway, yeah. I think its best we get back on topic
[EVO 4G Android Development] OdinF1R3:
help!

Ok so I'm having a bit of a problem here and I haven't been able to figure it out. HBoot isn't giving me the option to accept the PC36IMG.zip. it reads it, loads, then goes back to the hboot screen! Im sure I missed something simple but I have no clue what it is! please help me!
[EVO 4G Android Development] OneoftheRabble:
As always here..... You have to have the children that just want to post tripe so they can see their names on the screen. Makes 'em feel important and all. Big numbers means something special you know. :silly:

See ya'

OotR
[EVO 4G Android Development] shinesthru:
You can ask my wife, I am not gay. However, I have some great friends who happen to be. I don't think it's cool to equate someone's life with something considered to be bad, just like it's not acceptable to call something you don't like "retarded." At the very least, it's immature.

On another note, I have moved on to the SGS3, and while it is amazing, I really miss having a recovery half as awesome as smelkusmod.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
congrats man and thanks for always giving me and Reloaded much love. You made a stellar choice.

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] shinesthru:
He'll yeah! I can't wait until rope is a regular on the SGS3 forums. It's blowing up over there, and it's only getting started.

Ok, I will stop littering this thread after this: smelkusMOD for L710! PLEASE!
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
I should be getting my Nexus 7 tomorrow or Wednesday, so that will give me another device to at least attempt porting. If I can figure that out and I get the SGS3, maybe it will make the move. What I am wondering is will it still be tops compared to TWRP? I know as EVO owners there is a distaste for TWRP given the bricking problems on v2+, but there has been a lot of development going on with TWRP and it has some great features. For me, I kind of like the old-fashioned, bash-style UI of Amon Ra for a thing like a recovery. I feel like I'm in the bowels of the phone throwing levers. Just like when I go into BIOS on my desktop to change boot priorities or whatever. You feel like a mechanic or something compared to touching buttons like you do on an app.

That said, I think porting will be hard (at least for me) given all the differences in buttons (or lack thereof) on the new devices. Plus the partitions and internal and external SDs, etc. Who knows. I would feel better if a more experience developer brought it over first, but I don't know if any one else even looks at it. Amon Ra (the person) did fork drellisdee source the other day. Not sure what he has up his sleeve. I don't think Amon Ra (the recovery) has ever been on a Samsung anything, but drellisdee brought it to the Acer Iconia A500 with a touch UI. Cool stuff.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mattlebla:
I have been trying to flash the 5.07.651.1 PC36IMG version that I found. I think Cpt Throwback posted it. I cannot make it stick. I accept the update in bootloader and it says it successfully flashes but when I reboot into recovery its still my old amon ra. Any suggestions?

I am not s-off but my boot loader is unlocked via htcdev.

Thanks.

Matt
[EVO 4G Android Development] Soap:
Look up how to lock your boot loader. You can go into cmd and type fastboot oem lock and I think that will lock it but if you want to return the phone, you need a different method to have the watermark display correctly.

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Android Development] mattlebla:
Thanks. I am going to have to climb up into my attic and bust out the old windows machine. The old beast is still set up for some android tinkering. I really am not liking that my GF decided to buy a mac and made me put my win/linux beast in the attic. It's about 95 and humid here right now. I just can't get my mind off of recovery and rom flashing today so sweat I must. Plus its going to be 100 and humid tomorrow.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Mediatech1:
fastboot: Smelkus

Hi,

I'm 90% there. Have fastboot, adb, etc. working. In this statement:

fastboot flash recovery /path/to/<recovery>.img

where <recovery>.img is Smelkus 4.2 [for example], I take it this is the path on the SD card where it resides at

root level

?

1. For a noob, what would that [path] command line instruction look like?

2. When I download "recovery-ra-supersonic-4.3-smelkus-ics.img" it does not end up with a .img extension, rather a .ndif extension. I don't know why. Seems like it would be difficultt to execute fastboot mode "flash recovery" without a file with a .img extension, no? I'm on OSX.

3. Barring that, I take it I could put "PC36IMG_ra-supersonic-4.3-smelkus-ics.zip" on the root drive and run "Install .zip from SD" in CWM recovery? I initially had renamed "recovery-ra-supersonic-4.3-smelkus-ics.img" as "PC36IMG.zip and tried my HTC Supersonic barfed and it "aborted", hence I'm trying via fastboot now.

thanks!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] Soap:
When you download the .img, if it doesn't end in .img, rename it to that extension. Then flash through fast boot and you should be good.

When using the zip file, rename to PC36IMG.zip and place on the root of the SD card. In NO FOLDERS OR DIRECTORIES. Then boot to boot loader and follow the prompts if you are S-OFF

The Creator of Suds N' Bubbles
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
I always just have the .img on my computer and issue this (running Ubuntu linux):

fastboot flash recovery /home/smelkus/ra-recovery/images/recovery-ra-supersonic-4.3-smelkus-ics.img

If it's on your sd card, you'd have to run that type of command from adb shell I would imagine. If I'm installing a recovery from the sd card, I always just use the PC36IMG.zip approach.

Not sure about OSX.

Renaming an .img file to PC36IMG.zip does not work. The particulars of the .zip are in this thread and I think every other recovery thread.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mattlebla:
I ended up installing flash image gui from the play store. It was well worth the $.99. It took about 30 seconds to flash the recovery and I didn't have to pull my hair out at my mac or go into the attic for my desktop. Im wicked lazy anyway.

Thanks for the replies and thanks for this recovery smelkus!
[EVO 4G Android Development] jamieg71:
Someone replied to a tweet of mine the other day, pointing out that I hadn't thanked Smelkus in my previous tweet.

Well here and now, Thanks BRO!! Since I moved to another device I hadn't really put this recovery to my normal crazy flashing routine. Here in the past week, flashed a few dozen different things, and I have to say...

This is BY FAR, the best recovery available for the supersonic, and I look forward to you saving me from TWRP (no disrespect) on my LTE. You rock man, and we (Rope and I) will.soon be presenting the (thing) you hooked us up with.

OVER THE TOP, thanks for this. You rock.

"Hey, that's not a bug, that's a feature!" Linus Torvalds, 2001
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Thanks Jamie. It's guys like you and Rope I owe the most to. I hope to bring this recovery forward to some of these new devices. Might need some help along the way, but I am sure you guys can jump in when needed. Thanks bro.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Joshmccullough:
"The thing [Smelkus] hooked [you] up with....."

C'mon, no hints or anything??????? :fingers-crossed:
[EVO 4G Android Development] bboy_201:
Just wanted to say thank you and i ended up using Flash Image gui because when i would try to use bootlader it would says Parsing PC36IMG.zip
[EVO 4G Android Development] shinesthru:
Right?!
[EVO 4G Android Development] JusticeAA:
I was wondering why doesn’t the superwipe include the sdext or android_secure wipe? I could not imagine doing a superwipe and leaving those two things “dirty” without causing problems.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
Why would I want to wipe my ext partition (sdext), eliminating all of my apps unless I purposely wanted to? There's a separate wipe command for that. There's also a factory reset for that. Many of us use a2sd and don't need to or want to redownload all of our apps from scratch again or have to restore a backed up sdext partition as an additional and unneeded step every time we wanted to flash a rom. It is not needed, wanted or particularly useful. I can't think of anything more ridiculous when it comes to flashing another rom. I can't imagine running a wipe script like VR Superwipe or calkulin's format all (both of which are included in smelkusMOD) without keeping the ext partition dirty. Cleaning then is what would cause the problems. Have you honestly been wondering why all of this time?

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
If you are wiping those you're just adding time with no benefit. Even superwipe is unnecessary, but people seem to like it. One format all is all you need to switch ROMs.
[EVO 4G Android Development] JusticeAA:
I probably should let this go but I did not expect this type of answer. A lot of people transfer their app data to the ext partition and i would think that when flashing a new rom (especially going from gb to ics or jb) it would cause problems with app compatibility, UID mismatches and the like. Even the Reloaded instructions specifically say to wipe everything except the sdcard. The only problem that would be caused by wiping them would be having to download the apps again.

I understand that it is personal preference but it I would find it helpful to have a one click options to wipe everything except the sdcard and start totally clean.

So yes, maybe I am OCD, but I have been wondering why all this time.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
incompatibility will only happen in a few apps (browser) and those apps won't populate or be installed anyway when going to ics from gb as running the market will make clear because it will have app updates for those apps. As for the wiping instructions, a wipe all doesn't include the ext partition as it signifies those things that all devs mean when they say wipe all which are contained in calkulin's format all script and they are: boot, system, data and cache unless the dev specifically states otherwise. Believe me i'll be sure to have our wiping instructions modified so as to leave no doubt in our next update. if you enjoy redownloading all of your apps again and again and again for no good reason then go ahead. I'm saying it's not needed, warranted, desired or helpful one lick. It accomplishes one thing, it expends time and does nothing to help your apps run better. your ext is either corrupt or it isn't.

ropodope

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[EVO 4G Android Development] JusticeAA:
I probably have been wasting my time and creating huge nandroids with the esdext included for no reason for some time now. Live and learn, right? Thanks for your help.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
no problem. I always keep a backup in case I ever corrupted the partition and can't repair it or in case I ever needed to partition a new card. I will nandroid just that ext separately and every so often delete it and create another to keep my apps current.

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Joshmccullough:
I thought that moving app data to the SD card when setting up A2SD was a no-no? If I'm way wrong, that'd be cool because it sounds like it'd make flashing different ROMs and re-setting up apps a bit easier, wouldn't have to re-set up every app's settings.
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Moving /data to sd never worked well for me. I just use titanium backup to restore data only for those apps that need setting up again like Tapatalk, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Joshmccullough:
Do you need to save the app data separately in TB, or if you save the apps themselves can you just restore the data from there?
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Exactly. You just set TB to do regular backups of the apps and data (even though I have an sd-ext backup made by recovery too) and then when restoring just click data only. Goes very fast.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
We were talking about restoring app data from different rom frameworks not running app data from the ext on a2sd.

ropodope

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[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Ummmm..... Yes. Exactly. What he said. ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] Keyz450:
i just tried this, when i tried to rename the file 4.67.651.3 it was already there, so i re-zip it, renamed it, before i put it on my SD card, reboot to bootloader.......it reads, then stop saying Parsing...[PC36IMG.zip]?

what did i do wrong?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Captain_Throwback:
If you took the latest OTA, you'll have to update it to 5.07.651.1.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Keyz450:
i thought it wasn't safe to take OTA when rooted? r u saying its safe? or i should flash a rom with this build then flash the new recovery as posted before, with those steps....
[EVO 4G Android Development] Captain_Throwback:
If you didn't take the OTA, that's good. Then your problem is something different. I was simply trying to do some troubleshooting and offering a possible solution. The fact that you quoted that specific post suggests that you are UNLOCKED, S-ON. If so, the version smelkus posted should work for you, as long as you hadn't updated to the latest OTA. It sounds like you didn't, so your issue apparently lies elsewhere.

Maybe we should back up. Are you UNLOCKED, S-ON? Or are you S-OFF? Are you rooted? What ROM are you running? HBOOT version? Software version?

Did you first try flashing the zip as-is, without changing the android-info.txt file? What happened?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Keyz450:
ok cool, here what i got

unlocked, rooted with S-on

hboot 2.18.0001

av: 2.3.5

bv: 2.15.00.12.19

b# 4.67.651.3

recovery v2.3

running classic rom, but i wanna try other roms, but when i read their OP, they saying use recovery smelkus?

when i first flash it, the blue bar fills up and freeze @ Parsing...[PC36IMG.zip] so im @ a stand still, pulls battery and try again, same results but i did find your OTA update but i have no clue witch 1 to get, gotta research the difference between odex and deodtex:eek:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Captain_Throwback:
You can just use the Recovery you have if you can't figure it out. But the version smelkus edited should work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Nilxchaos:
I have a rather odd case for this. Nandroid won't restore.

Nandroid was made using CWM Touch and Firerats. I imagine that's the problem, but I can't be sure, and can always use a second opinion.

http://pastebin.com/gQaPZBMd
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
A pastebin log!! Thank you!

It failed with a syntax error of unterminated quoted string likely because you renamed your backup with a single quote for "Deck's Reloaded." Try renaming to something like "deckreloaded722" and see if it works.

Thanks for the log.
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
10,110 total downloads from dev-host and goo.im for all themes and versions. Thanks everybody! Didn't expect to see that.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
that's just sick bro! Way to go!

ropodope

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[EVO 4G Android Development] Ferenczy68:
...that's because I downloaded and re-downloaded it a total 6,722 times instead of reading the previous pages to find out what my problem was... :silly:
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
How soon people forget the greatness of a real recovery because it somehow isn't "fun". You'll be back. You thousands of users should be standing in line to buy this guy a beer for what he has done for you. I promise in between your bong hits you won't miss a thing.

ropodope

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[EVO 4G Android Development] MBQ_:
Hahahah I know EXACTLY what you're talking about dude.. and I completely agree with you, even in between my bong hits, I still manage not to forget to be thankful. ;)

We don't need a stupid touchscreen recovery, we need a recovery that WORKS and has ALWAYS worked, not one that bricks peoples phones and gets updated a year later, SmelkusMOD>all other recoveries

:good:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Robobob1221:
Well I'd rather have it updated and fixed than still broken. Having the choice is to our benefit I feel. But yeah, SmelkusMOD is the choice for EvoOG.

If it's was possible to batch flash the zips - sometimes you wanna change the kernel in the rom you flashing too, and I'm a lazy git - that would make this the undisputed recovery in my opinion.

an enviousOG
[EVO 4G Android Development] MBQ_:
Eh, sometimes you gotta quit while you're ahead lol. Anyway, I am biased so I shouldn't say much. I agree though
[EVO 4G Android Development] kluster1999:
Legacy will always have its place. Reliability is great, I don't knock it.

I'm in my 20's, and I don't smoke weed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gphunkplp:
i give alot of credit to all dev of recoveries and roms the time taken is a lot. i think some are perfectionist but thats what it takes its the details that make our evos happy. im partial to smelkus 4.3 thank you
[EVO 4G Android Development] Mazda:
I agree, you guys tend to forget that this recovery although is based on Amon and the haters might hate on it by calling it this and that.......this recovery has got over 11K downloads since it's arrival on Rootzwiki and XDA!

Most ROMs don't even get half of that in that same time frame! Say what you want about this Recovery or another Recovery but smelkusmod has made life easier for not only users BUT for developers!

I can't begin to tell you how much time I spend in recovery in a week! I mean using a regular recovery you spend a good 5 minutes wiping each thing one after another and by using smelkusmod I'm able to be in and out in 1-2 minutes! That's wiping and flashing the ROM that I'm working on!

To sum it up.........don't be ungrateful and start calling the next new thing the BEST just because it has a few bells and whistles on it!

Give me Smelkusmod or give me death! :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Thanks guys. At the bare minimum, this recovery even has the EVO in the background. That's gotta make the processor happier. It just has to. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Joshmccullough:
And it won't brick your phone, at least I haven't heard of anyone report that, not like that TWRP version that was doing that here and there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wackydroid:
not an idiot, I swear...

I'm no idiot, but for the life of me cannot figure out which version to d/l for my OG4G running (Myn's) Synergy...

Any help from the Smelkus fan club (or the man himself) would be greatly appreciated!!

Using the newest TWRP, but I'm always nervous it's gonna brick my (beloved) OG4G if I ever have to restore.

:p
[EVO 4G Android Development] Robobob1221:
v4.3

Anyone is fine. They're just themes. Choose your colour preference. I got team D.I.R.T's theme.

an enviousOG
[EVO 4G Android Development] spyder3:
Aren't you jumping to TWRP? lol

You could always add a TWRP restore option in this piece, and give 'em the ol' "Look what my old, outdated recovery can do..." :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] ropodope:
that would rule!

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Hehe. That would be funny. It's all good in the recovery world though. We'd be screwed without these things.
[EVO 4G Android Development] KevinGee:
I had to learn the hard way with TWRP, damn thing soft bricked my phone when I flashed a kernel. Luckily there is a search button and awesome people here on the OgEvo forum that always get out their way to help the needy. And I'm back to this recovery. It was an obvious choice after what happened, am I right or am I right?

Sent from my Og Evo 4G
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Glad you got it sorted out. I've never had a soft brick, so I'm sure it wasn't a pleasant experience. If you were up for it, it would be a help to the TWRP folks to do those exact steps again and pull a log to see if it really was their recovery. Probably not the most appealing thing to do though... but at a minimum, it would be good to go post a summary of your experience including all those relevant details on the TWRP thread so it can be discussed further or at least be made known. Right now your experience was all on the mason thread, so the TWRP folks probably don't even know about it and the people that have also installed TWRP don't either. I've seen people report successful backups and restores over there, but I don't think anyone has talked about flashing kernels. There's no way it was Mason.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Captain_Throwback:
Is this a recent brick with the new version of TWRP?

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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G LTE | ROM: Viper4G 1.0.0 | Kernel: 3.0.8-AwesomeSauce1.2
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Yeah, he was using TWRP 2.2.1, running CM9, wiped cache and dalvik, flashed Mason-EI-0.1.5-RC5-sbc and soft bricked. I believe he was unlocked through HTCdev unlock tool. That's my understanding. Had to RUU and then regain s-off using your 2.18 guide.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Muffycheeks:
Smelkus, is there a soft key version in the works?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Savetheknot:
Nevermind
[EVO 4G Android Development] smelkus:
Nope. :(