yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I was doing a stock restore on my phone (manually with fastboot as I was in Ubuntu.) and erased system and userdata and recovery, then flashed system (no need to do boot on my case) and tried recovery, but it kept giving me preflash validation failure. Now I have no stock recovery?!?! This could end up being a problem at some point, so How can I get it back. It wouldn't go as part of the stock restore scrip yet. Haven't tried RSDlite.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
Bump, really need help here.
[Motorola Atrix 2] daavvis:
Dude did u try bpears one click method to restore? It works for me
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
yep, but it doesn't even try recovery at all
[Motorola Atrix 2] daavvis:
Damn.... did u pm jim? Bet he knows... lol... no way to pull it from a different phone and push it to yours i bet either.....:/
[Motorola Atrix 2] rdhoggattjr:
Try rsdlite it might see your phone. Even if your screen is blank it still might be in fastboot mode. Rsdlite will tell you
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
all because we have a locked boot loader. now I'm even more pissed about it. I don,t think I can update to ics without it
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
my phone works fine. I just have no stock recovery on it, which may be a problem down the line. RSD does not try to flash recovery and it won't flash with manual fastboot, so I don't know how to get it back.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
You mentioned manual "fastboot", now you are using the moto-fastboot utility, correct?

You might try both of these things, one at a time though:

1) Try and flash the device_tree.bin file with the moto-fastboot util, then try and flash them in this order - system.img, boot.img, recovery.img, radio.img, cdrom, preinstall.img, webtop (grfs.img)

2) Restore the backup that some others had to do to get going again after I think something similar.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1493386
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I'll try the dev tree thing. I sort of tried the other one already, but I will do it completely too. Thanks.
[Motorola Atrix 2] daavvis:
Lol..... called it!!! Lol
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Now if you are flashing the 2.3.5 over 2.3.6 or even ICS, you still have to replace those files the same as you would for RSDlite.

Not sure if you knew that, so I thought I would just throw it out there.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
LOL!

Oh Jim, why must you know so much! If I do end up getting another phone you better join that forum t0o. I suppose I should fix this before I trade it away though.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
speaking of ics, and totaly off topic for here, do you think I can flash the boot.img that I got dumped from someone who had it working on my ATT phone or no. Will it hurt anything/can I get back to the original one.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Let me know which phone you go to.... I am also looking for something else. I am keeping the A2, so that I can really tear it apart.

Right now it looks like the Galaxy S III will be out soon, so I might be looking into that. I will definitely NOT have another Moto phone though, after this... now if Google guts them and they actually produce a true open phone, then maybe.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I'm kind of broke so I will be trading plus maybe some cash. I have possible offers for an gs2 skyrocket and htc vivid. Both look pretty good. Development is pretty good for both but probably better for the skyrocket.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
I would say give it a try, but, I would have a computer ready that can run RSDlite.... My macbook pro has windblows 7 installed in bootcamp just for this purpose. Previous to this phone, I NEVER had a need to actually BOOT windblows (never had bootcamp working), I have it running in VMs on my ubuntu and my macs/hackintoshes, for other things.

YOU MUST NOT RUN RSDLITE IN VMWARE!!!! I tried and it was dismal, I had to exchange that phone it was so bad, that it would not even power on, and RSDlite said success.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Gadgetz:
Same here...was considering the HTC One X but man, the non-removable battery and lack of microSD slot are deal breakers for me since 12gb of useable space just won't cut it. So i'm holding out hope the SGS3 comes out here by July and is around the $250 price point on contract.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Hey, haven't seen you in a while...

I was thinking the exact same thing. The one x just is not doing it for me... all in the cloud.... LOL... that is the next crap carriers are going to sell us, cloud space and a more expensive data plan for that.

Yeah the gs III is it for me.. I hope it is 299 or less on contract.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Gadgetz:
Emotions were running high there for a bit so I had to take a break and let things simmer down. As popular as the SGS3 is, the dev for it should be awesome...especially with guys like you owning it ;) It will be my first high end Android device so i'm hoping it lives up to the hype
[Motorola Atrix 2] daavvis:
Dude love ur profile pic lol
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
LOL... I took a break for a short while as well... It did get kinda crazy in here...
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
we all freaked out when we thought you had left!! I am also not going to get a new phone. If I start down the path of trading, I am afraid it will never end. I'll be with you until I get my discounted upgrade in over a year. It may even be longer, as there are 3 people on my plan with different times for upgrades, and we want to switch off of AT&T.

I just realized I may not be able to upgrade to ICS without getting this recovery thing figured out, unless I can use bootstrap, which worked for 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 (I tested it).

After tonight, I am going to have a lot more free time for the summer, so I hope to get a lot more work done. If any of you devs have stuff you want me to help out with (ICS DUH) send me a PM.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Yeah I had to get away for a while, I was getting 50 PMs a day asking me to help with some issue someone was having. When I would tell people to make a post or do a search many would get upset. So I had to disappear for a short while. That plus I was doing some work in my recording studio.

I am getting a new phone this month. It looks lik the SGS III will be out before the end of the month, and I get an upgrade about every 6 months, so, the SGS III seems to be the best one for the next 6 months. I am keeping the A2 to hack... I still have my infuse 4G, it is not much of a backup though, since I fried it during one of my A2 exchanges, I flashed a version of CM7 to it, and it would not power on, I think that was the end of the line for that thing. The ONLY phone that is still kicking without issue is my HTC hero, and it is my ONLY true backup. It has been running CM7 for about a year.

I will PM you with some things, if you want to help me start delving into custom CM9 for the A2. I am going through code and a few other things at the moment, and I am sure later this week, I will have more of a plan, and I can share some tasks to get it off the ground.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Question guys, and I know this isn't right on point with the topic here exactly, but I really didn't want to start a new thread as this has most likely been discussed before -just can't find the thread or one similar to it on my phone.

So, I AP Fastboot restored to 2.3.5, then OTA updated to 2.3.6, rooted, installed the bootstrap and CWM Recovery, and without doing ANYTHING else, wanted to make a CWM restore of ONLY the rooted, stock 2.3.6 image.

CWM said something to the effect of 'no data, backup failed, blah blah'... but, there WAS a restore point within CWM titled as the date created. So, testing the restore, it gave me a MD5 sum failure message -no restore to stock rooted 2.3.6.

Am I not doing this right? I was just looking for an easier way to"flash back" to stock root, without having to AP Fastboot 2.3.5 and going through all that rigamarole. :confused:
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
hmm, I don't know what that's about. you seem to have done it right. I would just try re installing bootstrap and doing it again.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
I'm going to attempt again this evening, and do it uninterrupted. May be that I fugged up along the way with kids rifling through my home office while I was in there doing this. I don't know why it told me no data to backup or whatever it said, but created a backup for it anyway. Don't get the MD5 sum error either... :confused:
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
it probably made the folder first, the failed to backup the data into it. how big was the folder? it could have been empty or incomplete.

the md5 error came from the file not being complete, that would certainly make it fail.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Yeah, not sure what went awry. I'll shooting for it again, and if the same thing happens I'll be sure to note exactly what it says so I can give more accurate info. Post back in here what I find out?
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Hate to say it, but there really is not an "easier" way to get back to 2.3.6.

You HAVE to use the fxz if you muck up your phone. And so at that point it does not take any less time to restore a backup than to do the OTA and re-root.

Just sayin'...
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
but this is still beter if you just bootloop and have cwm on boot. then you can get back to stock rooted without a computer
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Would that be something that theoretically could be accomplished if the bootloader was unlocked? What about creating a stock 2.3.6 rom from stock system dump, or am I just not grasping something?
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Yeah, that's kinda what I was shootin' for.
[Motorola Atrix 2] rdavisct:
How much memory do you have left on your card? .

Ive had issues if i dont have atleast 800mb free. Itll same the same thing. even though it only takes about 400mb or less for a backup ,it will give errors ive noticed.the same you mentioned.

U need atleasy 400mb extra left on top of the 400mb(give or take) that the backup will use.

Try freeing up space to 1gig if u can,and try to attempt a cwm backup again.let me know what happens.

Like ive said , ive had this issue before,hopefully this is your problem.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
I have a class 4 32GB Kingston sdcard. Tried the stock rooted backup after wiping everything, including sdcard -so that shouldnt be the culprit. I'm going to try again, and if I see the same thing I'll try to get more accurate info...
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
I hate to say it though, that if you do a bad ROM flash or the like, you will NEVER get back to the CWM on boot, since it is technically just a boot recovery hack (meaning that you HAVE to boot enough of the os to get to CWM), and then that backup is useless, and an fxz is it.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Okay, trying to create a backup of rooted stock 2.3.6, after fxz'ing to 2.3.5 and OTA'ing to 2.3.6, wiped cache and Dalvik and formatted sdcard, and I got this:

--Wiping cache...

Formatting /cache...

E: unknown volume path for [/sd-ext]

Dalvik Cache wiped.

SD Card space free: 30587MB

Backing up system...

Backing up data...

Backing up .android_secure...

Backing up cache...

No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.

Generating md5 sum...

Backup Complete!

Rebooted, and then booted back into CWM. Restored the stock rooted 2.3.6 and got this:

Checking MD5 sums...

Restoring system...

Restoring data...

Restoring .android_secure...

Restoring cache...

Restore Complete!

Don't know what happened the first time in trying this, but seems to work now. As for going forward, I will rely on the 2.3.5 fxz if anything ever goes horribly wrong, but for now I think my issue was some fluke. Working and in order now!

EDIT: Posted a new thread, running .bat file from Restoretostock2.3.5.script no longer works for me. Are we being Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher here? WTH?
[Motorola Atrix 2] KEB64:
To the OP. The same exact thing happened to me during an attempt to fxz with opensuse Linux. That SAME error restoring recovery. I ended up using RSD lite and Windows 7 to do the fxz restore. [Shrug]
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
Well, nothing is working. I really need help here. without stock recovery I can't update to 2.3.6 or eventually ICS. I can run 2.3.6 roms fine, becauseI can flash them on top of 2.3.5 after an fxz, but this is gonna be a problem when ICS come around.

Please help!!

EDIT: More Detail: So heres what I have done/tried. 1. accidentally deleted recovery (moto-fastboot erase recovery) that succeeded.

2. tried to flash again with the one from fxz. (moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)

3. gave preflash validation failure.

4. re downloaded file. same results.

5. flash full fxz with rsd, turns out that never does anything to recovery.

6. tried both things jim mentioned earlier, no luck.

7. now I am here
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
I will see what I can cook up.... gimme a little bit to test a few things out.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
rsd does not even try to flash recovery though?
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Rsd lite what is that.... some kind of sorcery.... LOL

I am trying looking at this from either a way to force a flash in linux or to cat my recovery partition.... just give me a bit too see what I can come up with.

Jim
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Stupid double post
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
thanks. I forgot to mention that I even tried doing all that stuff through windows. I almost always have better luck with Ubuntu though. Do you think it would be possible to flash it through bootstrap with write raw image or whatever it is in edify. Or would that still fail once it tried to boot seeing it was not a valid signature.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Well, I have not figured this out quite yet, but I did find something that might allow us to patch a boot.img with CWM in to, to look like the "stock" recovery....

This is for the razr, but I am sure we can work on something to make it work here..... I know this does not help you at the moment, but.... I after I figure your issue out, I am looking into this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1702233
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
interesting. however at least for now there is nothing there to patch.

You are right that we need to figure out what the problem even is. everything else flashes fine after being erased.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Ok, I did look and RSDlite DOES try to flash recovery..... This is from the 2.3.5 xml file:

<step operation="flash" partition="devtree" filename="device_tree.bin" MD5="9119C536712EDB3605A2CD87F2CC4C3E"/><step operation="flash" partition="system" filename="system.img" MD5="F9A74CA080A8EA2BADB09C6D06BADC42"/><step operation="flash" partition="boot" filename="boot.img" MD5="8E9D7DD161180EC898E4F2BA5395B29E"/><step operation="flash" partition="recovery" filename="recovery.img" MD5="E0F3D8A778ECE612869E8200F0C21B26"/><step operation="flash" partition="radio" filename="radio.img" MD5="81FCE48667988E383CCFEB622EB9944D"/><step operation="flash" partition="cdrom" filename="cdrom" MD5="35765A42ECBB28A6AAFE14494295E371"/><step operation="flash" partition="preinstall" filename="preinstall.img" MD5="E317A63312E7C36F69B27DD242F323B2"/><step operation="flash" partition="webtop" filename="grfs.img" MD5="22b2eacc30b574db7df175dc32e64f0e"/>

I have something for you to try.

I cat'd my recovery partition (/dev/block/mmcblk1p16), into a recovery.img

I would suggest you try and flash this from moto-fastboot first just to see... then I would try making a flash-able zip and attempting a flash from CWM... What I found out is that the mtd filesystem that the recovery resides on is a "memory resident" filesystem (flash-able memory).

Here is my cat'd recovery.img:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45576654/recovery.img

It should be about 9MB

Let me know if any of these ideas work. At this point we are in uncharted waters here.

Oh, I also just thought of a third Idea, just cat the recovery.img file into that same device on your phone from the terminal app or from adb.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
wow!!!! cat ing it over worked perfectly!!!!!!

I owe you one big time. I should have thought of that. I probably could have just used the one from the fxz too.

Thanks so much.

My fxz does not have that recovery line. I think that is because I used the replace files to let me flash over 2.3.6 and it has issues flashing recovery similar to what I just went through. I think that is one of the lines it takes out.

EDIT: That got me thinking. does it actually check signatures on boot, or only during flashing. if it does not check on boot couldn't we theoretically do that same thing with a kernel image? Or a real CWM. that would be great. no more fxzing for a soft brick. just boot into recovery like a normal person.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
What that makes think, is that it seems to do the checking during the flash... so, if we can do a lot of cat-ing with the things we want, we might be able to get some things we want like a true CWM recovery.

Not the kernel that is something totally different, I have tried every way from Sunday to get another kernel to boot, and it is checking during boot from the bootloader.

However I think that all those other checks might happen during a flash, and not during boot, I mean look at custom ROMs.

So now the question is how to de we get CWM into that recovery parition and get it to come up by holding the power and both volume buttons on power up.... that is a question for another thread that I will start tomorrow so we can brainstorm on it...

Glad you have a working recovery now!

Oh and now we have a way to recover, recovery if mess it up testing a CWM thing.
[Motorola Atrix 2] aatif69:
i want cat'd recovery.img:

Here is my cat'd recovery.img:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45576654/recovery.img

It should be about 9MB

plz provide me with dis
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chillteddy:
th pc odin message says.....

<ID:0/007> added

<ID:0/007> dn v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

my fone shows dis screen

Android ststem recovery <3e>

Enter: OK Key. Select : Vol UP ? Vol Down

reboot systen now

apply update from sdcard

wipe data?factory reset

wipe cache partition

test redbend fots[FS]

actually i had clicked start on pc odin aft adding .tar file IN PDA

edit i had gone into download mode by pressing up button volume+power +home ....now wht do do shd i disconnect? cz tht was rong nw wht to do???

edit..i closed pc odin nd rebooted fone prob soved yay :)

nw hw do i delete di thread??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Belfia:
You dont delete it. Just thank those who helped you and be happy your phone is alive:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chintamanijaipuri:
Lucky man :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
Fast Form

Based off of OMGBBQROM with a pinch of magic from Antiochasylum​

6.1.12​

​

Information

'Fast Form' is a minimalistic stock ROM created from the latest Honeycomb firmware by Samsung.

This is one of my first public released ROMs so it's not the greatest, however I really want to try and make it the best I can!

I'm trying to keep this ROM stable and smooth so I won't add something that benefits one feature, but breaks another. I want a

smooth device for myself to get through my first year of high school. In order to meet these standards, the ROM is based off of

OMGBBQROM by bdds13. Big thanks to him for letting me use his ROM as a base! As of 1p.m. PST 6.1.12, the ROM now also

includes the favorable ICS theme by Antiochasylum! Thanks for letting me use it in my ROM! :D

Features

Latest Honeycomb firmware by Samsung

Rooted

Zip-aligned apps

De-odexed

Stability and Support

Includes latest version of the Market or Playstore

De-Bloated

Speed Enchancments

Build.prop Tweaks

And many more other modifications!

Coming Soon

Better stability

More speed tweaks

New included apps

Other cool features

Special Thanks

I just wanted to thank bdds13 for the base and Antiochasylum for the theme + all of my friends on XDA for teaching me a little bit about how ROMs work!

Disclaimer

I am not responsible if you brick, break, blow up, drop, lose, or get your device pregnant. Everything you do is your responsibility.

This ROM is only made for the GT-P6210/WiFi only Tablet, It is not compatible with Gary's Kernel, and it may not work on everyone's device.

I'm not a real developer and I don't know how to fix your device if you break it!

Installation

MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN. Place ROM zip on your device. It may go on the Tablet storage or an external sdcard. Enter the recovery by pushing Power+Vol_Up (releasing power after the tab is turned on), then install.

It's recommended to wipe all of your caches and if coming from a different ROM, a full data wipe. DO NOT WIPE YOUR SYSTEM!

Download

Download Last beta release here: http://ge.tt/96I2LuI/v/0?c (Note this is NOT the last ROM update)

Download the latest build [Beta 0.3 - 6/5/12] Here: https://hotfile.com/dl/158635278/bfda5a0/FastFormUpdateB3-signed.zip.html

Download build Beta 0.2 Here: http://ge.tt/1pgv2cI/v/0?c

Download build Beta 0.1 Here: http://minus.com/lbaxBivXJJvhMw

Changelog

Fixed Bluetooth? (Maybe)

Edited Build.prop again

Other stuff I'll add tomorrow :P ~Night!~

(Old)

Fixed GPU errors

Edits to Build.pro

Updated apps

Updated all applications to the latest version out

Fixed Google Talk (I think)

Build.prop tweaked a bit more (Lemme know results)

Themed the ROM to an ICS theme by Antiochasylum! (Thanks dude!)

Fixed a WiFi Issue where the signal came in weird/really weak for no reason randomly

Fixed some more junk I broke on a .15(ish) build

It should boot up faster now
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
More Screenshots

Camera Samples
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Ceelos09:
Will give this a go today and report back soon.

Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
No problem! I have a new build uploading right now too if you would like to try that one whenever it decides to finish!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Zadeis:
If you don't mind but if you could either list the build.prop tweaks you did or upload the build.prop. If not no hard feelings I'm just curious what you did :D
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
Uhmm a few lets see...

ro.max.fling_velocity=12000

ro.min.fling_velocity=8000

persist.sys.use_dithering=1

persist.sys.purgeable_assets=1

And some more. Not sure what else. I haven't gone to bed and I don't have an organized change-log

Pretty much I did some smooth scrolling adjustments and made the image quality on pictures slightly better. The camera on this device still isn't going to take and breathtaking photos. It won't ever :P

Edit: If you have any recommendations on what to add please let me know! :D This is like my first public ROM
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Zadeis:
I will be sure to post a couple once I test the ones I have found. I want to make sure there are no bad side effects.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
Awesome! Thanks dude! I'm just starting out on this stuff so I'm a little fuzzy on what to do. I think I'm doing good though I mean it runs better then stock; well that doesn't take very much effort to do >.< xD
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
Ok guys! OP updated and so has the screeny post! I also threw in some camera samples in that post. The latest ROM version is still uploading so gimme a bit!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] nickmcghee:
Reply deleted.....
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] albotz21:
Ill give it a go.... I hate go laucher it drives me crazy lol so i went back stock/ root. lets see what we have!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
Yeah I didn't like it either. Stock Launcher stays in memory perm and has hw acceleration.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Brabusik:
How to install it on xxkl7 rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] StrumerJohn:
This is only for the GT-P6210/WiFi only Tablet.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kevintangi:
Umh.. to bad i cant have it... ck..
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] nguyen47:
I dont know what you do with this room but it improves perfomance on my tablet :-) the stock rom lag as hell :-)

Big thanks