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[G1 Android Development] Gekx:
New Radio 2.22.23.02

Hey i read that you need to have the right recovery otherwise this may brick your phone! i was wondering if this will work with v1.6.2 and the "Hard" SPL?

Heres the link to the site with the new radio image:

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=640535
[G1 Android Development] tbgreen:
Hi Geks, pls see my sig for the answer of your question. Enjoy! :)
[G1 Android Development] philosophics:
What would happen if I tried to change the background image? Would I be making a brick_file for my device or is it safe?

Can I just re-sign it and push like and other that I would go about theming?

Nevermind. Looked into it myself and I don't even know how to expand the .img and even if I could, sounds like I can break it really easy.

Not a dev. Just a theemer...
[G1 Android Development] xaueious:
Noticed a bug. I am on carebear recovery, but using certain options makes the carebear go away and revert to a hideous HTC screen.
[G1 Android Development] revwillie:
from twitter in response to which is most popular:

...Amon_Ra
[G1 Android Development] prince34:
This is kind of a technical question I guess, but I don't have a problem, just curious.

What is the differences between making a Nand + ext backup or a BART backup?

Seems like they are really similar. Is one strictly better than the other?
[G1 Android Development] isikh:
Could someone make a wallpaper with all of these carebears!?!?! LOL If someone does, please tweet it to me @DeusExVeritas
[G1 Android Development] alongenemylines:
feature request -

Can it be added to the next version to toggle signature and verification checks? This was implemented in the clockwork recovery, and is extremely handy for modifying roms (add / remove apps, and no need to re-sign!)

I highly prefer all the other options (BART, console, etc etc) that aren't available in clockwork though.
[G1 Android Development] TeeJay3800:
http://twitter.com/Amon_RA/status/10184447016

Hmm... Does anyone have any idea what other recoveries he's talking about? The only other two I'm aware of are the Cyanogen 1.4 and the new Clockwork, neither of which come anywhere close in my opinion.
[G1 Android Development] Remanifest:
No idea, but I hope he'll decide to leave this project for someone else to continue with, because it's the best recovery (by far) that I've found.
[G1 Android Development] jon6206:
tried via console and terminal and flash isnt taking im not sure why or what im doing wrong as im not getting any errors
[G1 Android Development] GrandfatherJesus:
I tried installing the latest image using the first process described

copying recovery.img to /data

when i reboot to the recovery image, it displays a mostly red multicolored screen and doesnt show anything.

Any idea on how i could fix this?
[G1 Android Development] ezzieyguywuf:
Question for Amon_ra . Is there any way to change the "Apply any zip from sdcard" to "apply any zip from /sdcard/zip" ? I ask because I personally have loads of *.zips and it'd me neater for me to have everything flashable in its own folder. Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] bassbox:
+1 ! if possible!
[G1 Android Development] Nuwanda612:
Is it possible that the "exit" console command is not working? If I enter "exit", it clears the console, prompts "Press ENTER", and after I do, it brings me back to the command prompt. I had to reboot to leave the console...

I am using v1.6.2-green.
[G1 Android Development] juangil:
you have to type:

reboot recovery if you need to go back to recovery
[G1 Android Development] Nuwanda612:
Good to know. Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] cgingermany:
Sorry

That was all kindsa my bad. I honestly didn't consider the whole thing would post until I saw it. And being a noob, I just figured out today that I can edit what I have posted so I will fix it in a sec. Sorry about that.:D
[G1 Android Development] Burag:
+1.

It would be awesome.
[G1 Android Development] borodin1:
I believe you can also type

exit recovery

and it will take you back to recovery without rebooting. YMMV
[G1 Android Development] :
Or just type recovery from the #

:D
[G1 Android Development] g1doobie:
Great work as always
[G1 Android Development] problem1:
carebears...
[G1 Android Development] Klyentel:
idea

idea for your next update, simply one option that fully wipes everything:

data

dalvik

Ext

battery

Rotate

Call it the Royal flush!
[G1 Android Development] borodin1:
Not all of us want to wipe rotate & battery all the time. To think about it, I've never wiped my rotate stats. Just my 2 cents.
[G1 Android Development] smjfosho:
kings eris port doesnt have the flash_image binary, anyone want to help me push it to my phone, i want to upgrade recoverys
[G1 Android Development] problem1:
yea i never wiped my rotateu mite b by yourself on that 1 lol..... But ext dalvik and data would be a very very good feature
[G1 Android Development] Klyentel:
you should wipe your rotate and your battery....you will know the difference if you do
[G1 Android Development] Klyentel:
Then continue to wipe the way you been wiping.....but for those who do wipe battery and rotate settings, they have the Royal Flush option:D
[G1 Android Development] protomanez:
What does wiping the battery and rotate settings do o_O
[G1 Android Development] Klyentel:
Basically with the battery, if you wipe the stored settings, the battery can refresh itself with a full charge.....not wiping it never really gives its maximum life to the phone...

to put it simply....your battery meter may say you have 30% life left....but actually, the battery has a good 50% left, however it doesn't know that, oddly to the user, the life seems to be shorter, then they blame the rom, lol, and say its draining the battery, heavily....which is not the case.

I will say some builds take a toll on it, but not heavy enough to notice shortage of life,

anyway, to avoid this, wipe when coming from build to build.

Rotate settings? I have no idea:confused::D

but I wipe it anyway..;)
[G1 Android Development] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Thanks for the explanation on the wiping battery part. I know to do that now the next time I have to wipe and flash.
[G1 Android Development] zhourj:
hi, guys. Want to ask how long it usually takes on your g1 for a nandroid backup?

I'm using the back option in RA-dream 1.5.2 (the first one , only nandroid backup)

It's already 10 minutes and the dots are still going. when will it be finished?

by the way I'm connecting the G1 to PC with USB now but not mounted. Just want to charge the battery cause it's only 30% just now. does this affect the backup?
[G1 Android Development] G1sanju:
Charge the phone first, I have seen problems with nandroid if the battry level is not more then 30%.....
[G1 Android Development] domex2k:
wipe sd: ext partition option wiped out the whole my whole SD card not just the ext, is that normal, i was assuming it was going just wipe the EXT.

EDIT: My badI see what did wrong
[G1 Android Development] bkmo:
I just looked at the wipe_ext script that is being called, and all it does is delete everything on the second partition.
[G1 Android Development] domex2k:
Im not sure than why it deleted my whole SD ok this what i did

alt+e

alt+1

alt+4

Thinking it was replacing this option

mount -o rw dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd

cd /system/sd

rm -rf /system/sd/*

Edit ahh damm i think i know my mistake i should have not hit ALT+1
[G1 Android Development] wcdisciple:
anyone?

10 characters
[G1 Android Development] sunny.ice:
If you don´t mind the 4MB wasted space, you can leave the old recovery.img on the sd ;). The file on the sd isn´t needed anymore after flashing, neither you need an old recover.img.
[G1 Android Development] :
this is great work, thanks!
[G1 Android Development] wcdisciple:
Thanks. I appreciate it.
[G1 Android Development] gucy:
Great recovery image Comes in really handy when away from the pc.

Thanks works like a charm.
[G1 Android Development] Boomgawd:
Reboot recovery

reboot recovery doesnt seem to work, just boots rom.
[G1 Android Development] rwp71:
how do you install?

noob here, how does this get installed?
[G1 Android Development] jerhoyet:
Just so I'm clear:

adb shell

mount -a

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recoveryimagefilename.img

reboot phone in recovery mode?
[G1 Android Development] yggdrasil:
Soo nice!

The usb storage feature is a real life saver.

Thanks so much its awesome.
[G1 Android Development] cx92001:
This is really awesome. Good job.
[G1 Android Development] saprano614:
ok i cant get this downloaded. i have tried rapid and mega and even the blog talked about in here. none of them work. the blogs link just brings up a **** ton of text and the others never load at all
[G1 Android Development] :
I installed this thru fastboot and it was quick and flawless.
[G1 Android Development] :
If you still need it, I can email it to you
[G1 Android Development] twics:
You dont have to type (mount -a) just type:

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.2.img make sure you type upper and lower case as seen.

you can do this in terminal emulator app on your phone.

To check just boot in recovery and you will see the added work.

By the way Amon- ra dam good recovery well done.:D
[G1 Android Development] wcdisciple:
Another quick question....

I transferred all my apps and everything on my sd card to my pc's desktop. Wipe reformatted and partitioned the card.

I transferred all apps and everything back to the card. None of my apps are showing. I did a reboot and all that. I'm back to Cyanogen 4.0.4 by the way.

Any help is appreciated.

PS

I downloaded OI File Manager to check my sd card from the phone and all my apps are there. Just don't know how to get them in the "app tray" or "app laucher" I think it's called.
[G1 Android Development] Lou2serious:
The download link doesn't work and the alternative link that was posted on the second page doesn't work either. Guess I have to wait for a mirror link.
[G1 Android Development] speoples20:
Works great but a quick question whats the difference between the apps2SD on the recovery to the one in the ROMS? Because I know that most say don't run and apps2SD programs because it will break it.
[G1 Android Development] zhourj:
OK. But now it's never gonna stop, keep going like..................... ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

How to stop it? what could happen if I stop it now? will it hurt the phone?
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Please upgrade to v1.6.2, a lot of critical bugs were solved in the mean time!

Just pull the battery, it will not damage your phone.

Make sure that your battery is fully charged.

Use adb to check the recovery log next time you see those dots again.

The log is located in /cache/recovery
[G1 Android Development] zhourj:
Thank you. And also thank you for providing us such a nice tool.

I checked on my sd card there is a backup folder. and only a 2.5M boot.img there. I think I can delete it now, right?

I'll do the upgrade now, Thanks a lot.
[G1 Android Development] Diskb0x:
problem booting into recovery after flashing

Hey all

Have read a lot of the threads in here but can't see anyone with the same problem yet.

I've flashed via adb both the sapphire and dream images for the latest but whenever I hold down Home and boot it sits at the vodafone screen and doesn't appear to do anything. (10mins)

Previously had version 1.5x working

I've got a uk vodafone sapphire.

Could someone take a quick look and suggest a way to get this back up and running please.

Edit, just re-flashed back to 1.5.2 and this worked fine.

Diskbox
[G1 Android Development] Macmee:
If I'm Rogers and flash the recovery without the R am I bricked?
[G1 Android Development] flip3547:
Not able to use amonra recovery properly

I have been reading all over, all day, and I have not been able to find a solution to my problem. I'm sure it's been posted somewhere but..... Well anyway I can't seem to get nandroid to work, I get the error telling me to use console. Even using console it gives me an error and tells me to read the log, which I can't find. Sorry to sound like an idiot but I've been reading all day and afraid to post so I don't sound so much like a noob but just frustrated. Fresh install of cm 4.2.15.1 , fresh install of amon ra , fresh install of blue haze. Help
[G1 Android Development] uio88:
Hi amon,please help me =(,yesterday i have flashed for error the recovery for ebi1 rogers on my g1 32b now the phone enter in fastboot but don't enter in recovery,and when i try from adb to flash recovery i have an error like flash_image :not found,i have danger spl and my pc don't recognize fastboot

Please help me =( =(,thanks in advance
[G1 Android Development] G1Joe:
recovery boot up issue

I am having the same issue. Had 1.5.2 working fine, now cannot get into recovery. Tried to flash back to 1.5.2 but am still stuck at the g1 screen. Regular boot and phone works fine, just cannot get into recovery. Any other help? I have tried flashing from terminal and copying recovery.img to /data. I don't know how to do fastboot. Thanks. I have danger spl 1.33.2005, radio 2.22.23.02, running superd 1.9.3

-after more attempts, successfully flashed back to cm recovery 1.4 then ra 1.6.2 and all is working now. now flashing superD 1.10.1
[G1 Android Development] SG_Shadow:
Great job!

I'm rocking the blue care bear, yup!
[G1 Android Development] JAguirre1231:
If only you guys knew the story behind that picture :D
[G1 Android Development] elbebo:
What's the story behind that picture?! I was just about to flash the blue one until I saw this post and now I want to know! Hahaha!
[G1 Android Development] JAguirre1231:
I was whining about not having a Nexus and then people on Twitter started calling me pouty bear and sending me that pic. Then Amon_ra made the care bear recovery and we got him to make the pouty bear recovery (or if you understood the story, the me recovery)

*AS_Twix started the pouty bear
[G1 Android Development] ezzieyguywuf:
What criteria does nandroid use for naming? It seems to have some sort of method to its madness, as the date is obviously in there, but what do all the different letters mean? I'd like to know this so that I can identify my backups beter.
[G1 Android Development] jakijal:
i dunno if you have used it yet or not but, 'switchrom' allows you to name ur backups to whatever you want. well, i guess it prefers names without spaces but i mean, thats not a big deal.
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
Have the Green Beer Recovery..... I mean the Green Bear Recovery.

I have noticed though that I have an issue with empty tar and tar short read, even though restore seems to be fine. can someone shed some light on this before i dig into the script?
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
I always wondered myself what nandroid uses for naming...but anyways....if you go to console in recovery and just type

switchrom

you will see all the commands and they are very simple...three ones that I use

switchrom -s "name" save rom with name "name"

switchrom -r "name" restore rom with name "name"

switchrom -l list stored roms
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Cache = C

Boot = B

Data = D

Ext = E

Misc = M

Recovery = R

System = S

Splash1 = 1

Splash2 = 2

If all the partitions are backed up it should be "CBDEMRS12"
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
I have been finding though when I do a restore that I need to rename the nandroid backup to just the name I gave for the switchrom to store.
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
The post above was for nandroid, not switchrom
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
yes it was for nandroid. but switchrom uses nandroid and when switchrom goes to find the naoindroid backup to restore it, it can't find the backup because nandroid appended the name.
[G1 Android Development] ezzieyguywuf:
Thanks for the help guys! I'll take a look at switchrom (I'm not afraid of the console) but I don't have a problem renaming my roms at a later date as long as I know which is which.
[G1 Android Development] jakijal:
but the nandroid backup that switchrom creates should already be inside a folder with the name you gave switchrom to save your rom.

the nandroid backup switchrom creates doesnt end up in the 'nandroid' folder on the root of your sd card.

so if you check your sdcard, you should go through:

sdcard/switchROM/"name of your backup"/

so in this last folder, you should have an 'ext-backup' file as well as a 'nandroid' folder.
[G1 Android Development] gurugabe:
Idea to add to recovery

Could you add under "flash zip from sdcard" the abiltiy to browse folders. Got the idea from clockwork mod recovery image. It is the only thing you are missing and would make it easier to update from file when you use mod update downloader like cyanogen's or jesusfreke's.

10Q
[G1 Android Development] michel-xda:
Agree with gurugabe and why not the ability to flash zip from folders inside the phone itself, too (very useful if no sd available).
[G1 Android Development] swanniebroo:
Hey, any plans to make an amon_ra recovery for the milestone.

i have a G1 at the moment, with your recovery and freakin' love it. it comes in really handy the amount of experimenting and playing around I do.

I'm thinking of upgrading to the milestone/droid, and there's a cyanogenmod port by koush, just wondering if you planned to port it over to the milestone.

would be really great if you could,

thanks,

swanniebroo
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
switchrom creates the folder the name you gave it. Then it creates the backup folder, inside of that folder is the nandroid backup, but it is appended. So when the switchrom script looks for the nandroid backup it does not match the original name you gave to switchrom.

I have walked through the script putting in debugging to figure this out and that was the outcome.

Say you name your swtichrom rom1, switchrom creates that folder and subsequent folders then it kicks off nandroid to create the nandroid backup. However when nandroid saves the file and appends the name with a -xxxxx-xxx.zip. When you do a restore and switchrom looks for rom1 backup stored in the nandroid backup folder it doesn't find it because nandroid appended the name to rom1-XXXXX-XXX.zip. The result is switchrom fails because nandroid appended the name.

This didn't seem to be a problem in earlier versions of switchrom so I am assuming that nandroid has done something to automatically append the name of the backup. I haven't looked that far enough into it. I can change the name back :o)
[G1 Android Development] jakijal:
so, it doesnt restore your backups tho? is that what u were saying originally?

it works for me. i just dont remember if that was your problem or not.

and i dont think nandroid has to go looking through to match the name. it should just restore whatever switchrom told it 2 restore, no matter what the name is. if switchrom pointed to that 'rom1' folder, then it should go into the 'nandroid' folder and restore whatever is in there no matter what has been appended.
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
But it isn't doing that and when I through some debugging in it was because the name was apended
[G1 Android Development] RaffieKol:
Works Great Thanks.

I would love to see a option that would backup SMS/MMS

It may have been mentioned before but just thought I throw in my 2.5 cents
[G1 Android Development] Arieln92:
Need some help please

I recieved an update, after the update installed with no interruptings, the phone had never worked again. Every time i turn it on, it shows the g1 symbol, then goes to the rainbow screen. I tried flashing it with the latest radio, with the NBH, and the system wipes. Nothing seems to work for me. The phone isnt rooted and to make this even better, i have no warrenty lol......PLEASE, NEED HELP WITH THIS
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
you may want to look here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480

you will need an card reader or 2 cards but it should get you back working and rooted. there is another thread that will walk you through getting your phone back to stock if you want to.
[G1 Android Development] Arieln92:
please help me

my g1 is stuck on rainbowscreen and i have tried almost everything but nothing seems to help.....please help me
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
Did you read the link I posted? have you tried to boot into recovery?
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
You have asked this in another post. Please read the link I provided it will tell you what to do and how to do it
[G1 Android Development] polarbearmc:
stupid question, sorry in advance! haha

ok i'm sorry i know this is dumb, but if i've already been rooted and on the newest superD, but i just want a clean start, more so than just a regular wipe. so i'm REpartioning (using the method in amon-ra's recovery)... i know that that will delete everything on the sd card, but do i still need to go to wipe after i'm done before i then go copy my superD rom over and flash it? and under wipe do i just have to do the data/factory reset one, since the sd card is totally clear anyway? i just want to make sure i'm doing it right.

thanks
[G1 Android Development] toeshot:
I haven't used Amon's RA to partition the SD Card, since I use gparted. I would have to say though if it is creating partitions then it is most likely formatting them also. That being the case you would not need to do the wipe
[G1 Android Development] ezzieyguywuf:
I would like to re-request the addition of flashing from a folder in the SD-card. Also, it'd be nice if I could scroll, as the number of zips I currently have flows off the screen and I can't get to the latest ones that I put in there.

On a side note, I love the fact that nandroid keeps track of what the newest .zip is. Currently, though, it sorts them from oldest to newest. Any way to put the newest at the top? Just makes more sense to me.
[G1 Android Development] javacody:
Maybe I'm goofy in the head, but I get a huge kick out of the care bear menu! :D
[G1 Android Development] toekneebullard:
Quick Question:

I click "Go to Console"

and it takes me there, I do some stuff hooray.

How do I get back to the menu? If I type in "recovery" that works, but then if I try and return to the console, it's unusable. Is there a proper way to exit out of the console without rebooting?
[G1 Android Development] Vermithrax:
I believe the only option is typing "reboot recovery"...
[G1 Android Development] jakijal:
yeah, ive been through the whole unusable console when trying to go back. i would always have to do what Vermithrax mentioned. oh well... doesnt kill me 2 do it so might as well.
[G1 Android Development] toekneebullard:
Thanks guys. 'reboot recovery' is easy enough.
[G1 Android Development] Mardenator:
ok.. i skipped the mount part, but when trying to flash the recovery image, i got

error reading /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img header: I/O error

help!!
[G1 Android Development] Mardenator:
ok.. just one problem.. i skipped the mount -a part, but when trying to flash the recovery, i got

error reading /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img header: I/O error

help!!
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
just type

recovery

no need to reboot

type

recovery&exit

if you think you might want to get a console again
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
yeah, that will be because you skipped the mount -a part

mount -a = mount everything you can in /etc/fstab

or "mount all" for short

so, sdcard not mounted, therefore it couldn't find recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img, therefore no header to read

did you type the whole lot out :)

ash
mount -a
fl<tab> recovery /sd<tab>/rec<tab>

where <tab> is alt then q ( might be alt + q in recovery )

I <3 tab completion

me lazy typist

;)