yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
seems like you borked your data partitions and if you are able to re lock and s on....you can send back to htc for a replacement. But what I trying to think is was this because of the recovery or was is a coincidence
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
I've wondered the same thing but this thing has been rock-solid since Nov. Does recovery mess with any of the partition blocks & tables? I know that I was having no troubles until I tried to reapply the nand I made with 6.0.0.0. I think I just answered my own question....... Backup just copies and translates evidently, it's RESTORE that clears...or wipes....or formats those partitions and something went awry during THAT process. (or am I way off.....)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
I think it was as unfortunate coincidence because I was able to backup and restore 2 backup made in CWM 5.5 and 6.0
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
GOOD! I'm sure glad it's not CWM 6 because it IS sweet. Now my issue is to get it back to S-on and down to T-Mobile for a replacement. But if nothing has been working so far for me, do you have a suggestion as to how I would go about that? Right now H-Boot clearly shows S-off and CWM wasn't even on there. And my splash screen for SURE isn't T-Mobile's! LOL
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Yeah new Recovery can mess with partitions. With the Kindle Fire our main hacker (Hashcode) made a CWM 5.5 Port. After a while people had partition issues. Blah, blah, blah. Hundreds of bricked Kindles.

Sent from my MIUI V4
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Would an HBoot 'Factory Reset' have any detrimental effects or should I work my way thru Blue6ix's method about 4 pages back?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] jonnycat26:
You could try restoring via the PG159IMG.zip file (the full version, linked to in my HTC unlocker thread stickied here). It will restore you to factory stock, but you will retain S-OFF. This may fix your issue.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Thank You! Let me give that a shot. BRB.........
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Wowzers.

This is the shiznit.

Nice moves.

Just heard you working on jellybean also.

You are on a roll. Thank you for providing the goodness to our device. This and everything else you and teamDS do is much appreciated.

Thanks :D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
Cant wait for the bugs to get worked out. Flashed Clockwordmod Touch on a buddy's SGSII and its great!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Corrupted Partition

In a conclusion to my own tale of terror, it looks like I'm going to have to go for a swap out on my phone.

I'm inclined to agree with XMC that my problems HAD to be a nasty coincidence since nobody else is having any problems.

I couldn't get back to trying to resolve things until later last night and when I did I took Jonnycat26's advice & tried to go back the "brand new" state. When loading his image thru HBoot it progressed right on down to the loading of "user data" and froze right there. Since it warned me not to power down during the process I just left it on the rest of the night. It had shut down by the time I woke up but fortunately when I booted it back up it had replaced MY splash & boot animation with T-Mobile's original ones. For that, I am very grateful as that was the most obvious initial sign of it being rooted. It left my HBoot "locked" with S-off too so I'm a little anxious about that on a phone swap but many of you have said that they rarely even check the HBoot if returned for a warranty issue. I'm going to try it one more time just to be sure but it looks like this is the state it's going to be buried in. LOL

MANY HUGE thanks to all of you who offer your wisdom and suggestions on a daily basis & in trying to resolve this issue with me. All I can say is thank God it at least says "T-Mobile" on it when it boots up now. ;) (Wish Me LUCK!)

Update: As most people have stated about a return, evidently most T-Mobile employees aren't even aware of HBoot or the "S-off" signature. My new phone will be here by Saturday. :D;)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nbetcher:
Me too! :D I should have a build on my phone tonight, but I don't anticipate a release for a couple days until I iron out any (inevitable) bugs that arise. We'll see.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
I would have thought trackpad select to be dangerous....

For example if you selected an option by mistake (e.g. format sdcard) you would inevitably need to press the back key. However the trackpad is right next to the back button.... hence this would be much more prone to error.

Considering recovery is performing low level technical edits I would preference the select key as power button as a safety feature.. as its much less likely we will make a mistake.

Seeing it this way you may or may not appreciate why the trackpad is disabled here in recovery 6.0 :thumbup:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] karri0n:
Hah, congrats. I think if they actually do know about it, they're an XDA user and just say "yeah looks legit" regardless of their findings :cool:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Thanks! I was thrilled. Ya know, you make a very good point. As a matter of fact, when I was walking up to the counter I was thinking, "I sure hope this guy doesn't know about XDA!" LOL :laugh:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ibawanzingee:
Can someone take a pic of the recovery with a camera and post it? I might upgrade, but I wanna see what it looks like first b/c I like my recovery as it is. Sounds awesome tho!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] manimmal:
That would be cool, the pics. I'm just waiting on the update tho. I already know I'm gonna be using it. Already using xmc's previous recovery and its working great. Just waiting... :D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ibawanzingee:
Heck yeah! I love xmc's last recovery. Especially with the android in the background. Love it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
I can Official confirm based off 2 bricked devices, that this recovery is Evil Xo My brother flashed 6.0 on his (New to Rooting) and he got the same I/O errors. He freaked out, called me. Then I had to flash it to see whats up. Then I got the I/O errors too :3. His device restored to Lock, and S-On (He was on U). I'm locked, but still S-Off. Is it safe to send into HTC? Whats the process like? How long does it take? I miss my baby-kins YoY
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Wtf . That is sh1t.

I just peroformed a nand backup of cm9 to flash JB, then restored back to CM9 with this recovery with no problems.

But since reading your post I might go back to my previous recovery to be safe. As I'm in london and to replace this device would not be too easy.

Good luck with your phones
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
You can officially make that 3 devices. But the swap-out wasn't bad....at least for me. If you're still under manufacturer's warranty (12 months) probably the BEST thing to do would be just to take it to the nearest TMo store. I did and the guy just tried to reboot it a couple of times and had to do battery pulls to stop it. He just said "Yup....hardware problems" and had one sent to me. Fried last Wednesday.... returned Thursday......and got a new one Monday. NOT a 'Q' model either! A REAL MT4Gs. Running it right now.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Well you guys shared enough for me to be uber cautious hence I flashed to a safe recovery from Rom Manager. I really don't want a brick.

As sh1t as this news is for you few people, I wanna thank you for sharing your experience & potentially saving my device... whether your brick was solely down to recovery6.0 or not, I wanna be as fail safe as can be.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
Really sorry for any problems my recovery may have caused, If I was getting any of these errors when I tested it out...I wouldn't have released it :/
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
No problems here so far. I noticed when a battery dies, if you plug it in, the phone will automatically boot into recovery and charge. Not a bug, just a nice feature I noticed.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
It's cool I'm in the process of getting a new phone I'm not sure if I can get one tho'. I have a broken home button, so I might have to pay the replacement fee . Also here is a gift for being so coolio.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Had the same problem some time back with the G2. Corrected it by loading up 4EXT recorvery and using the format all but SD card. I have not come across 4EXT for MT4GS so i'm really not sure how to fix this on this device.

I am having the same problem now after loading up the recovery and trying to do a fresh install of a rom.

Can someone please show us the commands to force a full format on adb?

If i had the skill i would have ported 4EXT to this device, sadly i dont, and i am very limited on time to learn such stuff :(
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
Ironic that this post was bumped as I came on here to post an issue ive never had before. I make a back-up, but towards the end it says

"Error while making a backup image of /data!"

What the hell?!? Happens no matter how I enter recovery (through HBOOT/Rom Manager, etc)

I haven't changed anything. Just making my usual back-ups and restoring. What could the issue be?

Anyone know if an older version of CWM will properly restore backups made by CWM6.0?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
How long have you been running CWM 6? Made many backups or attempted restores? Don't do anymore just yet.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
Uh, roughly since it was released, so July 10/11-ish. I've made quite a few backups and restorations, as I 'm currently switching between 4 roms (CM, MikEx, Virtuous, and Rubix 5.2 [for the stock doubleshot camera] ).

I flashed CWM via Rom manager, so it's 5.0.*.*. then I flashed CWM 6 on top and attempted a backup, but I got the same error. So I flashed 5.0.*.*. again, and its just created a backup with no issues, so I'm going to be using that from now on (it's okay I have a 32 gig sd).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
Just to restate from the OP...I highly suggest not to use this recovery until current issues are resolved. Sorry for any issues this recovery may have caused.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Good. If you're not having any other issues then you're one of the lucky ones it looks like. Just KEEP running the previous version & don't use this one until XMC lifts the warning he put on the OP. It seems to have an issue when it works with the user data partition. (I think) A couple of us bricked our phones.

---------- Post added at 10:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:48 AM ----------

Like he said......
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
So how to fix this problem? Can anyone please help?

The recovery functioned perfectly since the day I flashed it, which was the first day it was posted, until I decided to install a rom a fresh with it, and thr errors started.

Edit: ii really miss my Doubleshot. Its really hard to get unused to it and used to the G2 once again.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
There's no way to fix it. Once you hit that point, your funked. Just flash back to 5.5, and see if it helps. Otherwise you have a unflashable phone. If you wipe data to much, it'll mess the phone up.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
I knew what I was getting into when I flashed it, I hold no grudges. For what it's worth, it was great..:D

Can't wait for a finalized version.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
I really liked the touch recovery. It was awesome while it lasted. Thanks XMC for the taste of awesome :D

As soon as I figure out how to fix that recovery log error on my DS, I'll post it here.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
There should be a way. I fixed it on my G2 a while a go, though it involved loading up 4EXT recovery which we don't have on this DS. I just need to find a work around.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] jmcoffey:
When problems like this happened to us kindle fire users, we just redid the partition table from scratch and it fixed most, if not all, of our problems.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Could you link me to the guide or post what you did to achieve that please.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
i tried flashing the RUU through HBOOT and it would freeze at "updating userdata". Luckily it didnt brick it. Not sure if i lost S-off coz now it reads i have 1.44.0007 ( was 1.44.1107 with revolutionary.)

Now that that didnt work, i need to figure out how to format the partitions manually. Anyone got ideas?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
fastboot erase data

in a command window
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
i get the following error:

D:\adb>fastboot erase data

erasing 'data'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.000s

Any more ideas?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Wish I could find a fix for this. Now that I can't send the phone back to T-Mobile :(

Sent from using xda app-developers app
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Why is that? Is it over a year old?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
i didnt get it from T-Mobile, got it off ebay, plus i am not in the united states. Thats why.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Coug76:
Have you tried HTC directly? They may be able to give you some relief...

Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
ill try emailing them and see what response they give.

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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
I just helped somone overseas who had pink lines all through his camera. I had him send the phone to me and I sent it in. They was giving him some grief so I handled it, now all I have to do is get it to the post office and shipping paid for back to him. It just sucks that I clock in before the post office opens and clock out after the close, so Saturday it is

Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikXE
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
That's VERY nice to go out of your way for someone like that!! KUDOS Strapped!!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Its all about helping the next guy in my eyes. Same goes for this user if I can pull it off without them thinking I have a million and one doubleshots id be more than happy to help

Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikXE
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
GREAT attitude, my friend! :good: ;)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mr.e.ferran:
alright, so I used this recovery just fine for a while until the other day. In case it helps, it does look like Agent Cherry cola was correct and using aroma installer borks the crap out of the partitions. I couldnt' even flash the pg95 zip. (it wouldnt get past updating user data) anyway, does anybody know if the aroma installer will mess up anything on another recovery? I was trying to flash the mods for sense 4 when I screwed up my phone.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Only on this one. If you use Aroma on any other recovery, you just need to reboot to get recovery working. I'd just stay away from this recovery. It's a ticking time bomb, just waiting to go off. Nothing on XMC, but the OP should be changed and just say stop using. Then the thread should be locked after we feel everybody knows not to use it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
Can you port 4EXT recovery non-touch? A recovery that can repartition the phone would definitely help.

Sent from Spaceball One.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
As MANY threads as have been locked here for one reason or another you'd think this one would be too as well as having the links to CWM 6 disabled. Like you said....nothing against XMC or any developer but sometimes a mistake can be made unintentionally in any software that makes low level system calls like a Recovery program and it just HAS to have the possible damages stopped in its tracks. IMHO, of course.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
The DL is down since it was hosted by Goo. I really liked this recovery. Hopefully he could figure out the issue, or just port over TRWP.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
The added features & the touchscreen were GREAT! I would love to see it fixed. While on this subject, do you know if there is a way to repartition the DS that doesn't have to be done by a NASA engineer??
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] bhang:
I flashed this the day it came out & never read the thread again and had no idea of any issues I have used it to backup and restore many times without any issues, sometimes on reboot it will go to recovery but it may only be when plugged in (as stated in this thread)

Should I go back or just keep using this one?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
If it were me I would take the developers advice and look at how many phones HAVE bricked and just go back to 5.5.0.4 or 5.0.2.7. New links are now here......

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1835645

BUT....there are a few people like you that had no problems UNTIL they tried to go back. It's your call but GOOD LUCK whichever you decide.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mr.e.ferran:
Definitely go back. I used this recovery from day one just fine until about a week ago and then it crapped out. I'm now on DS number 3 and its a beeyotch to s-off these suckers
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
Hey xmc, I still say you should port over 4EXT recovery so we can repartition the phones. I have a copy of it for the G2 if you need an example.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Wow! Thats amazing! That is very kind of you and its really rare to find one as kind hearted as you.

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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Let me just leave this here, to save him the hassle of having to ask for it :D :p
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
is there one for the sensation? maybe I can talk to the developer
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Yeah, EXT 4 & TWRP.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Not sure if this will help but the boot.img file in the archive attached in this thread is the actual 4EXT recovery image for Sensation/XE/4G

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840102

And Madmaxx82's thread for the recoveries http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1377759

Just PM him. I am sure he will let you port it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Hi! Won't this recovery work out of the box?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840102

I can see that it also supports only thing I could think of that may make it not work is that if the touch drivers are different.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
I actually meant the non-touch version.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
If you want your phone to become a brick. The Sensation 3G/4G/XE are all the same phone. Thats why that one recovery works on all of them.

::Sense 4.0::
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Actually it seems our device is closer to the sensation than it is the G2. Which makes it more fit for the port

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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
True, but the idea's still the same. My fastboot still works. If I can flash a working 4EXT recovery I can fix the partitions...unless someone leaks out an ODIN-like program.

Sent from Spaceball One.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Sorry wrong link what I meant was this one.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1402820
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
The Glacier is not even close to the Doubleshot.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Seriously recoveries should work globally since it's just a linux exe/elf file. Recovery.img are just basically the same as boot.img which consists of a ramdisk(where the recovery resides) and a kernel. Problem is the mt4gs I am holding right now is just 2 days old so I still have no ideas on how to unpack/repack the image files. Now if somebody would be willing to shed some light on me regarding mt4gs basic development perhaps I could assist in porting stuffs on this device.

I have no idea yet what's the header to be stripped to be able to unpack the image files and some offset values needed to repack a ramdisk & kernel into an image file :(
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
I thought with recoveries the overall picture is the same, but with subtle differences like partition layout size, mapping and drivers. I have always thought of it as comparable to motherboard bioses and the little differences in different models and the way a forced flash would result into a dead mobo.

That's my opinion, but I could be wrong.

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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Recoveries are the same as boot.img it consists of a kernel of its own and ramdisk. What's different is the ramdisk's init rc file was modified to bootup the recovery binary instead of booting up the /system files. Basically the recovery executable is almost nearly identical to each other what differs is like what you said the partition tables defined in the configuration files(recovery.fstab?) and most important of all is the kernel included in the recovery. If the kernel included is not compatible with the device that's where mostly the cause of all the boot problems in the recovery. So my conclusion is in order to port 4ext recovery into mt4gs we basically need a 4ext recovery used to a device almost very identical to mt4gs(touch drivers & board) extract the recovery unpack our existing cwm recovery and replace it with the one's we extracted and repack it. I would like to go for the challenge but I must say my knowledge with this device is still little to nothing as I just used mt4gs for 2 days today.

I came from Sony Xperia devices which does not have a recovery partition(we integrate recovery directly into the main ramdisk of boot.img and just hackup chargemon to capture key events to boot up the recovery) so I am really not very familiar with mt4gs stuffs yet.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
thanks for the lesson. very enlightening. glad you joined our forum. we could use more like you :D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] smokeyser:
If you're running a windows PC, you can unpack boot.img and browse their contents with unyaffs. If you're running linux, look up yaffs2utils.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
I know how to repack/unpack a kernel I just don't know what's the offset value of it for doubleshot. But I think I know now but I'll start with boot.img before proceeding with recovery.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Ok guys! After countless spells and prayer to the god of information technology "TRON" lol! :D A little good news for everybody. I got word directly from madmaxx and I quote.

Looks like we aren't just getting a normal 4Ext recovery but is expecting a new generation one :p
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
That's PHENOMENAL news! It's great to know that we will finally have a way to back out of a catastrophe. It's ALSO amazing how you just keep coming up with things like this be they patches, information in the form of inside scoops and workarounds for issues, Mr. Fix-it!! Way to GO! AGAIN!:good::cool: ;)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
I talked to him like a month ago on the same, and yeah he had promised those devices the recovery. But as he is working alone on those recoveries, he told me he couldn't be able to give a time frame for when he could build one for us(MT4GS) and also thanks to the fact that he is also busy with duties in his personal life.

So brace yourselves, it may not be soon, but at least now that several people have been in contact with him about this, it means we have a more likely chance to get the recovery.

Sorry I didn't post the info earlier.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
:D if it weren't for you I wouldn't have contacted him :D so it all returns to you for starting things up. He said he could finish the new recovery by october and if not then november so it should be approximately 2 months from now. :highfive:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] blackknightavalon:
I want to know why this thread hasn't been closed yet.

Sent from Spaceball One.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
Because this thread has a working recovery. It may be buggy but it's still working.