yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] petesimon:
why do versions 7.x suck?

I prefer 6.x. Version 7.x takes away features I like and does not add "features" that I do like. Also using Xposed framework with GravityBox module to tweak maps and other stuff.

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] kevinrubio1:
What framework do I download to use it?

I have the app but I need to download the framework
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nbeebe24:
Why don't you just use the latest Infamous ROM? It has the framework implemented already.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] kevinrubio1:
I stick to stock, I don't like custom roms
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nbeebe24:
Well if its just the framework apk then you should be able to pull it from the ROM previously mentioned and flash it. Are you rooted?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kaparo:
DISCLAIMER: Updating RECOVERY is always a dangerous task, please read carefully and I am not responsible if your device is bricked somehow (unbricking is possible, though :silly:). Update: Please have a backup handy since it seems is not suitable for every MT6589 out there.

Prerequisites:

At least half of battery life.

mod edit

Make sure your battery has some juice before doing this. Download the CWM file and put it to the root of the SD card. Download and run the Mobileuncle MTK tools (from Google Play, the link above).

​

Choose "Recovery update", and the first entry should be the .img file you have downloaded. Follow the steps, and you should have the English version of CWM available. The stock recovery (chinese TWRP, I believe) will be overwritten.

Notice 1: When you update another ROM, be sure to not update the recovery, as the CWM will be overwritten again.

Notice 2: I have tested this on Jiayu G4 and G3S, and since most MT6589 phones are based on the same SoC, I assume this will work with all MT6589 (mostly chinese) based phones on the market. Please try and update this thread with your successful device.

Notice 3: The F6770 phone is not compatible to this.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] m0tyrider:
Anybody had success doing this on different phones?

I got my Chinese phone yesterday - Flying F6770 (same as the Star F6770)

I cannot find ANY information about custom roms/recovery's and I am willing to give this a try.

Update: Sadly Flashing your recovery did not work on my phone, it just crash's now when I try and get into recovery. Anybody know a way to get the stock recovery back lol?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kaparo:
Hmm, how did you try to boot to recovery? Can you try from the Mobileuncle tool?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] m0tyrider:
Yeah I tried to get in via mobile uncle tool, and used the adb reboot recovery command. No success, just crashed when I went in. Lucky I had a backup :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] greeny2010:
I can only managed to flash on one of my phone. A A89 running 4.2.2

However, on the other phone (I9500) it just cycle thru the logo screen. Using MobileUncle just hang the system.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lightofhonor:
No go on the BLU Dash 4.5. Goes to a white screen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tumam:
Thanks a lot! It works with my Jiayu G3S.

Some notes: CWM is up side down :)

USB connection dont work - not important
[Miscellaneous Android Development] basementcat:
same here! working with my Jiayu G3T (1.5GHz turbo version of the G3S)

CMW is upside down here too!

didn't test USB... :silly:

thanks again :cowboy:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Elaba:
Anybody found a solution to fix the white screen after reboot into recovery? I tried this tutorial on my Jiayu G4 Advanced, and recovery looks just like a plain white screen with nothing else. I gues i don't have a recovery right now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zppinto:
Same thing happens to me!

Do you know how to correct it?

USB doesn't work too...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] basementcat:
download and flash again, sounds like a bad corrupted download, check CRC MD5 checksum
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brunoisa10:
you have to install Jiayu es and download the recovery from it and apply it

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.jiayu.jiayuid&hl=en

worjing fine on my G4 :)

and noticed a new rom (30th October)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] alex.X:
It's invisible in my case can somebody post screenshots
[Miscellaneous Android Development] alex.X:
Up please
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Overture:
Doesn't work on star n9000 note 3 1:1
[Miscellaneous Android Development] SinWei97:
Not working on my mt6589 phone...when boot into recovery it become white screen and then gone black...but i know cwm was installed because when i choose the first option with the power button...the phone restarted
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petesimon:
same for me on same phone. even when I use a Rebooter app (root access needed) to go into any available recovery. before I installed this cwm file, one time I rebooted and got a green droid icon with his belly flap open and a red ! mark and 3 chinese characters (hm me no speak).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petesimon:
CWM recovery for Jiayu G4A

Thanks! Jiayu.es from Google Play Store/Market works. I downloaded G4ArecoveryCWM60 inside the Jiayu.es app (apk file), and installed the ZIP (do

not

extract and install the IMG file). Your file maybe spelled differently based on your exact phone's model, but be sure to get a file with "CWM". I used a Reboot-to-recovery app to access the CWM recovery mode screen. I took screenshots while running in regular mode. (click'em).

*EDIT* Cannibal Open Touch Recovery, and Carliv Touch Recovery are other options for advanced recovery management. They both are based on CWM recovery. See this post for more info.

By the way, here is some hacking tool that runs in Windows for MTK65xx phones.

http://dfiles.ru/files/vdz2lejbs

OR

http://www.4shared.com/zip/Q9TZXqhz/MTK_DroiD_TOOLS.htm
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brunoisa10:
I didin't find how to reboot when the phone is off

so I've installed Quick reboot and it's fine
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amit4patil:
Not working on A110Q canvas 2 plus (MT6589)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] petesimon:
Jiayu G4 recovery. / two recovery modes in G4A?

Yes Reboot app works nicely. Another method: This requires a computer with ADB drivers (or here on ge.tt)installed and USB cable -- when phone off, hold volume up (do NOT press power), connect USB cable, continue holding volume up until recovery screen shows. If stock/chinese recovery screen shows, then quickly press power once. Luckily CWM recovery was intact after soft-bricking the phone with a bad custom rom.

*EDIT*

I have the G4 Advanced (big battery) model with stock rom G4GH-20130816-151656. I discovered something interesting. When phone power is off, and I press and hold VOLUME DOWN button and connect USB cable to phone and to computer, the phone boots into a different recovery mode, "factory mode". The screen shows Chinese language menu. Can you please tell me what that means in English? Xie Xie. haha. :D

What's going on here...uhm why are there two recovery modes, or two boot modes when connecting a USB cable? :confused:

and here are basic android drivers for MTK phones.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hamsam:
Use mtk droid root and tools to flash it patches recovery to work on your phone if recovery is not suitable it aborts installation..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Klen2:
It's o all Mediatek devices I think (on my MT6577 ZTE it is). It's factory mode where you can test keys, screen, sensors etc.

Odesláno z mého ZTE V807 pomocí Tapatalk
[Miscellaneous Android Development] greddy:
Hello,

i have the TCL Hero N3 with the MT6589T and no luck, it will not work.

I try also the 6.0.3.3 and 6.0.1.2 (from this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2589405) and with this both i have the same problem another user here have with the white screen :)

With this 6.0.2.8 and the MobileUncle Tool and i can flash .. and have no white screen, the device are booting in recovery but the original recovery is loading and not cwm :(

any idea ?

cheers, Peter
[Miscellaneous Android Development] calabia2000:
Worked perfectly on ZTE Grand S Lite

Hey guys,

Works on ZTE Grand S Lite (S118) with mt6589. I flashed it as instructed through mobileuncle tools without any issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
I was following the direction (to the tee) on the easy root thread and have hit a snag.

I'm on a Sprint GSIII LTE v4.1.2 phone.

Everything woks fine until step 13. The part where it says chose zip from sd card. The console spits out "E:Can't mount /sdcard/

:confused:

What do I do now?

CWM-based Recovery is v5.5.0.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
I suggest you go HERE and do a bit of reading ;) . Did you make sure to place the Zip on your Internal SD Card ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Yes, and I get this message before I can even select a file

E:Can't mount /sdcard/

I've done the reading, have not found anyone else with this issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Try putting the Zip on your External SD, and see if it will Flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Ok so the problem was that my device was encrypted. You think they would tell you that as one of the preparations steps. Decrypt your device.... :rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Wait I spoke too soon. Its not rooting. Everything seems to go ok

But when I use root checker and busy box it says its not rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Is the SuperUser App in your App Drawer ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Ok so I got it rooted. The confusion (atleast for a noob) is here; there are two Easy guides. This guide does not work and this guide works.

If you're coming in from a google search you will be lead to the guide that

does not work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Glad you got it sorted out, and are now Rooted :) . You may want to check out THIS THREAD ;) .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Thank you for the help, sorry if I was in panic mode for a sec there :)

Cheers,

B_R
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Your very Welcome :) . We've all been there at one time or another.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Ok, now that I'm rooted I'm confused with all this information spread all over the place. Do I need to do anything essential from here on out? I did a backup to SD cad from VOL UP/HOME/POWER.

Do I need to backup or change anything else? I'm just like sitting here rooted.

Is there something I need to backup or save for future use? Do I need to protect myself somehow from carriers detecting I'm rooted? I'm looking at all sorts of FAQ's and honestly its overwhelming and confusing. Can someone just tell me in plain English what I need to do next? Not even thinking about custom ROMs yet. :confused:

EDIT: Just did a NANDROID BACKUP
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Not really on the carrier question. For the most part they don't really care. If you don't already use it I'd suggest Titanium Backup. There are several other backup apps but TB is the best

EDIT: Good idea on the nandroid backup

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
You made a Nandroid Backup of your Stock Rooted Rom. Now as an extra precaution you can copy that backup to your PC \ Laptop. As for Rooted Roms, there are many to choose from. If you want to stay close to Stock, but good extras. You can try TPR ( The People's Rom ) . If you want Stock looking, but insane built in customization. You can look at M.O.A.R ( Mother Of All Roms ) . If you want completely Customized, Themed, and a Ton of built in Extras. Then JellyBomb is a Rom you need to check out. All of the ones I mentioned are Rock solid daily drivers. But they are by no means the only ones around. Also as stated above. If you have a lot of Apps, Titanium Backup is never a bad purchase. Just be careful what you restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
Thanks for the info. What is the difference between a TWRP and Clockworkmod backup? I have the option for both
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vikraminside:
Not sure alt twrp. From cwm na.driod backup perspective, copu the backup.woth date to your pc. Cwm backuo is lifesaver you will come to knoevwhen you soft brick and restore. Also you can flash through odin vol down instead of up its called download mode. Check xda for suitable firmware rom for your phone. Hope this helps. Thanks button makes you first one for me :)

---------- Post added at 12:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:17 PM ----------

Forgive spelling mistakes that was my first past through xda dev app.

Basically cwm backup is otherwise called nandroid backup. Odin flashes firmware and wipes data in the process in my experience.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigpappags3:
Now I would just continue to read and learn from all the good threads and people around here. From this point forward its really just what you want to do. Take it slow...and remember never ever flash international roms or roms not meant for your device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
They are both CWM, and TWRP great Recoveries. IMO it's a matter of what you like, and what your Device likes. From my experience it is slightly dependent on your Device. Some Devices work better on one Recovery vs the other. Thankfully it's fairly easy to switch between the two. Especially using The Recovery Switcher.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigpappags3:
Exactly what I use.
[HTC Desire C] jaistudy1996:
In my desire c when I go to install custom ROM it boots into recovery and instantly an error comes showing a phone with an exclamation mark.

Please help . Then I seen somewhere what to do after that I pressed up volume key and then power button , then an error came E:not found /system/cache/recovery/ . Then i went to install zip from sd card , it says , "error invalid keyword , rebooting success " and then phone turns on .

But I wanna install http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2190799

this is revolution mod v3.3.

Please help me !!!!:(:(:(
[HTC Desire C] intel007:
Have you installed a custom recovery? Clockwork mod or twrp?

The red exclamation warning usually occurs with stock recovery.

Here's a link for twrp recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37985010

And link for clockwork mod recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40196574

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Desire C] jaistudy1996:
@intel007

Thanks for help dude. But I just again tried with Hasoon's 2000 toolkit by extracting in to c drive and it flashed the Recovery , 2ndly I have got some Modwin Recovery which was placed in the data folder of the toolkit.

and I would be happy if u help me in flashing the awesome ReVoLuTioN Mod v3.3 . I want a working wi-fi but I am not able to understand the steps.

:o:o:D

and for ur reply:good:
[HTC Desire C] aashay960:
Maybe this article can help you http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1947613
[HTC Desire C] jaistudy1996:
@

Thanks a lot , this guide helped.:good::good::good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] shadowcaster666:
It kinda bothers me that the speaker on the infinity points backward.

I usually wind up cupping my hand around it for better sound, but i got sick of doing that so I made an echo chamber out of the side of a juice bottle.

It works really well, you get much more high and mid range sound making voices clearer.

Check out the attached photos to see the end result. I think its ok for a first go, it proves that it works nicely so i may have a go at making one out of better materials at some stage.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
Interesting solution. Also, nice cover Oo

I still prefer headphones, especially if there are other sounds in the room. ;)

And Diceplayer has a 400% volume boost option, that helps. (my neighbours came over yesterday to ask if I could please turn the volume down, it was so noisy :p)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Drenus:
Cool! I've been thinking about doing something like this so this is really helpful. I've been using a folded post-it note every now and then to create a similar effect and will try to make something like this as this is certainly more permanent.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shadowcaster666:
Having used my creation for a couple of days I'm really happy with it.

I covered the it in black electrical tape, looks much more professional now :)

I usually don't have the tablet set to max volume but it really bugs me that all the sound points away from you, this fixes that problem.

Its been great for watching movies in bed and not having to cup your hand or such.

It stays on quite well but if i did not have a skin on my tablet i would be concerned that it would scratch the back of the tablet.

I guess for an unskinned tablet you might not include the front clips and just use blutack or similar to keep it in place, that would avoid scratches.

All up a successful experiment and I recycled :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] stanglifemike:
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! I've been thinking of doing something similar to this. Think I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Oh also, is that the Ghost Armor gunmetal grey full body on your Infinity? That's what I have on mine and yours looks identical!

SwiftKey'ed from my White Sprint Note 2 using XDA Premium
[Asus Transformer TF700] shadowcaster666:
The skin is a skinomi black carbon fiber skin.

Not really carbon fiber (some kind of vinyl i think) but its got a good texture and is waaaay more scratch resistant than the normal shinny metal back.

I actually got the skin because i saw another user on this forum posted photos of their infinity skinned and I just thought it looked awesome.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hollyca:
Same for me, way more resistant than metal back, and the feeling is amazing
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] frobbe:
after some extensive googling, a lot of swearing and general frustation, i simply cant seem to find himaupgradeut_197.exe, can anyone here be so kind as to point me in the right direction?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] jamil_mhmd:
Why do you want to search for that file? If you want the file to upgrade your Xda II, well I think I got the right file for you (without '_197' at the back).. Anyway, this file came with 'HimaClearJumpCode.exe', 'HimaGetDevice.exe', 'ms.nbf', nk.nbf' and 'Radio.nbf', which is necessary when upgrading

Hope this is the right file.. :)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] frobbe:
well, the _197 version of HimaupgradeUT is supposed to ignore Country and language codes, afaik, i have all the other files for upgrading, as ive already upgraded to WM 2003 SE
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keyman91:
Hi guys, is it just me or does any TWRP above 2.3.2.3 not get detected by ADB when in recovery mode? I've tried using TWRP 2.5.0.0 that's linked in the development section but my computer does not detect the phone at all when it is plugged in (USB 2). I've also tried other computers and none detect it, they don't even make the plugged in notification sound.

Using TWRP 2.4.0.0, all computers (3 different PCs) manage to detect it being plugged in but it shows up in device manager as "Unknown device" and no amount of reinstalling the drivers help at all.

So now I am using the 2.3.2.3 as it's the only recovery that seems to work properly with ADB. I have tested with CWM so can't comment on that but it seems like ADB is broken on TWRP above 2.3.2.3.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keyman91:
Just tried the new experimental 2.6.0.0 in the development section and it has the same problem as 2.5.0.0. My computer doesn't detect the phone being plugged in at all.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stesaint:
I have had the same problem, I'm honestly not sure that this feature is supported anymore.

It used to be(on my older Atrix) that in recovery, when you mount sd or external sd, it would pop up on the computer with its own drive letter, and with adb support. Did this ever work for you with your Razr M? And if so, what recovery/version?

Now(with the Razr M) I have tried cwm and twrp, and mounting sd or external sd does nothing as far as the computer is concerned. My device manager doesn't even show unknown devices. I think it has something to do with the fact that the razr has no drive letter(s) when you plug it in, but I could be wrong about that.

If you find a driver that works, I would really like to try it out as well.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbanj:
even if a device doesnt have a drive letter it should still show up in device manager
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stesaint:
True, I only mean having no drive letter might be the reason mounting from within recovery isn't functioning.

I tried out like 4 different drivers before I found one that worked for ADB. It might be that my computer thinks it has a driver for it, and it just doesn't work. I do hear the device inserted sound..
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keyman91:
The Razr M doesn't get a drive letter because starting with Honeycomb (Android 3.0) USB mounting was ditched in favor of MTP. The problem isn't a driver issue because for TWRP 2.5.0.0 and 2.6.0.0, in both those versions, the phone doesn't get detected at all by any computer. If it were a driver issue, the phone will at the very least show up in device manager as "unknown device".

This is more to do with a recovery problem concerning TWRP. For some reason, those two versions somehow break USB support on the phone when in recovery.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aviwdoowks:
Does anyone know where a flash-able version (zip) of TWRP 2.3.2.3. might be?

We could easily flash "back" , reboot recovery and try the older version.

For the 'm of course.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stesaint:
I guess I just thought the issue had a slightly larger scope than the recoveries being bugged. I don't recall every having a recovery on the M be able to mount USB, though my experience is limited to the last week and a half. I had CWM at first, I tried one(don't remember the version) and then updated to 6.0.3.2, and it still wasn't able to. I tried with twrp 2.3.2.3, 2.5.0.0 and 2.6.0.0 and it wouldn't work in any of them.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cue_32:
My HTC One is with Rogers and I had it rooted using the all in one toolkit. The last time it was running I was on the Nandroid backup as listed below which comes unrooted, but I rooted it with CWM recovery. .

Nandroid Backup: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2207874, in particular Rogers Nandroid Backup from Whampahoofus

(http://bugsylawson.com/files/file/1857-m7-cwm-nandroid-backup-cid-roger001-12963117/)

So tonight I decided to go and unroot and flash the stock recovery because there was an OTA update available but would not install due to custom recovery. I followed the same process which is restore the nandroid backup from Whampahoofus as it is by default unrooted, I restored my data from tonights nandroid backup, booted up fine and tested that I was able to use the phone as is. I then went ahead and flashed the stock recovery (which is below)

Stock Recovery : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270552&page=3

Success, I now had stock recovery, and unrooted. I didn't relock my bootloader as I didnt feel it was necessary just to successfully install an OTA update. I went ahead and it did go through and download the OTA, it started to install the downloaded OTA and about a quarter of the way through the progress bar, it is still there. Going for the past >30 minutes now. I cant seem to reboot out of it or anything. Thankfully cause that would probably be a bad idea if it was still going.

Anyway, anyone experience this before or have suggestions?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samflorin:
Mine also hanged during update and required the "press power under bright light" trick. Then after reboot it hanged again (for 30-40 minutes) and i restarted it. After the second restart it rebooted successfully BUT the sdcard contents were still under /data/media instead of /data/media/0 so i rooted and moved the files manually from adb shell.