[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
DISCLAIMER:

Rooting your phone and using custom Recoveries and ROMS have risks and may result in bricking your device, and has nothing to do with Google or the device manufacturers. In case of any mishap I am not responsible if you brick/ruin your phone in any way.

Basic computer skills are required and minimal knowledges about phones and phones utilities too.

Make sure that whatever you do, you are doing it at your own responsibility.

It is a CWM based recovery and is compatible with any other CWM based recovery. It works with KITKAT kernels. In this version I used Napstar-xda's full touch module as base. The navigation it is posible by touching the menu item. In long display menu (as choose zip from sdcard) for scroll page down Swipe Right and for scroll page up Swipe Left. For Go Back also Swipe Left.

If the Swipe doesn't work (usually if your phone is multitouch but has only 2 points of touch), use bottom virtual navigation keys or volume buttons Down for Scroll down, Up for Scroll up, and the back button for Go Back.

Version 3.3 update (21-apr-2015):

This is the last batch of builds for porting. I won't do that anymore.

- many fixes in code;

- cleaned up the source code;

- reset battery stats option;

- wipe all - preflash option;

- removed nvram backup/restore because it can corrupt the bootloader;

All screenshots are made with my new tool from here.

For port follow my new guide from here.

In kitkat recovery, the lunfile isn't used anymore. Sdcards are voldmanaged, and it is used fstab version 2.

There are 15 images for 15 resolutions. Choose the one that match exactly your phone resolution. If your phone has the resolution 720x1280, then take an image with "720x1280" in name. There are few landscape versions for tablets with landscape format, so don't confuse "720x1280" with "1280x720". Always, and I mean always, in my files name, for resolution first is width and second height -> "width x height". So if you have a phone, which has the height bigger than the width in all the cases, don't take anymore "1280x720" instead of "720x1280", as I've seen many of you did lately. Here is how it looks a bad choice of resolution (a tablet one used for a phone):

Also, here you can see some screenshots with font size on every screen resolution (may be slightly inaccurate because are made in emulator).

IMPORTANT:

These are compiled recoveries for porting purposes only. DON'T take any of them and flash it in your phone as it is. It won't work, they include a dummy kernel. You need to port it to your device as I show in my guide, to make it work. Use them only if you have a kitkat kernel for your phone

CREDITS:

- Napstar-xda - for touch module;

- Philz-cwm6 - for get partition size method;

- C3C0 - for initial mtk tweack hint - Unused now;

- Koush and all CWM team for the recovery;

- bgcngm for unpack/repack utils;

- sk8erwitskil for aromafm menu

RULES for posting your ports!

If you manage to port this to your device, add proper credits in your thread, post or article.

If you want that to be posted in a list with working devices, then post here a link to the thread or the post on xda (only on xda). Why not a free hosting link, like google drive, dev-host, mega-coz or other? Because if in the future you will port a new version, you have to replace it in that thread or post and the link from list remain the same.

ATTENTION:

There is a possibility that the touch feature to not work in all phones. It was tested in many phones, and in some of them it doesn't work. There isn't a switch, a toggle or other method to make it to work, it depends on your phone touchscreen capability from recovery. If this doesn't work in your phone, I'm sorry, it happens, and my advice is to try something else.

Few clarifications:

I provided all necessary infos to help you to port it to your devices.

It is ment to be ported to all MTK devices, but this doesn't mean it will work in all.

In some devices with a cheap screen display (usually those with anly one or two points of touch) there is a big chance to not work, or to work only partial.

The main purpose for this recovery was to keep it under 6Mb, to fit in that small recovery partition that was used in these MTK phones.

If your phone's kernel is bigger than 4.3Mb and the recovery size is 6Mb, don't botter to try it. It won't work, because it will exceede those 6Mb.