yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] billygoat555:
I have just realized after trying each one of them that I can't restore using nandroid, BART or switchrom. With nandroid and BART it always says "restore complete" but I get stuck on the G1 boot screen when I reboot. It won't go past it. I tried changing my recovery image to Cyanogen's and I get the same problem. I have now gone back to RA 1.5.2 and still the same problem. Anyone has any idea what the problem is? Thanks for your help

Edit: I just repartitioned my sd card and tried switchrom and it again failed. Says it restored the ROM but when I reboot it hangs on the G1 boot screen.
[G1 Android Development] yukkio:
Same problem here. Format sdcard and the problem persists.

BR.
[G1 Android Development] yingjai:
I was trying to flash recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2R.img and replace a cyanogen recovery (forgot version) on a Rogers Dream with Dwang rom v1.3 and it won't boot.

First try to boot after flashing the recovery, the power button won't work.. just blank screen and the notification light just blinked. After plugging the phone in the power (phone was charged), it responded.

Trying to boot into recovery doesn't work. It stalls at the Rogers logo.

Trying to boot normally doesn't work either. It gets past the Rogers logo to the Android logo and after a few seconds, the phone shuts off.

bootloader does start..

how can i fix this?
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
So you can get into the bootloader (power on holding camera)? What is on that screen (boot loader [SPL] version; radio version) sounds like you are trying to boot EBI1 kernels with an EBI0 radio. You will need the boot/recovery images to match the radio.
[G1 Android Development] yingjai:
i did not flash the radio. just simply tried to change recovery from cyanogen to amonra for rogers. the phone was working before and was trying to do the hack for the rogers update. i rooted the phone a while ago, so i dont remember which method i used..

dream pvt 32b eng s-off

hboot-1.33.2005 (drea21000)

cplid-4

radio-2.22.19.26i

apr 20 2009, 15:30:43
[G1 Android Development] :
Hey folks,

I've been trying to help a newbie out who was having problems, cracking guy he is too and am getting frustrated for him now because he has been fantasically patient and not filling the forums with crap. All done through pm with him and must admit defeat so was hoping someone could help him.

He has had problems partitioning,, backing up, restoring and almost everything else! I have talked him through everything I can think of and still no joy, he even got a new card!

Here is his last mail, I hope someone can help him cause he really does deserve it!

Here is his phone info...

Phone: G1 Provider: ATT ROM: OpenEclair Recovery: RA-dream-v1.5.2 SPL: Danger SPL Radio: 2.22.19.26I SD Card: 8GB Class 6, fat32/512mb ext3, swap:64
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Rogers uses a 3x radio; your sig says 2x; If you last flashed recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2R.img you are still on 3x; if you wish to return to 2.22.19.26i you will need to re-flash that. (the Rogers hacks install the actual rogers radio;)
[G1 Android Development] yingjai:
so i should have flashed recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2.img instead? how do i get the recovery working again? i need to do a nandroid backup first..
[G1 Android Development] Catrapazau:
this has been a issue discussed in page 106 by shadow31 and I've the some problem :(

" storing app data...

tar: empty archive

Error ocorred during storing of app data...

tar operation failed.

Do you have enough space on the /sdcard?"

Amon_RA responded: " you don´t have any apps/dalvik-cache on your ext partition.

I went to the recov. image and copied bouth to ext/4 in my sdcard. know I've no apps installed!

the questions are:

- having a 32A board shouldn't be a easier way to copy the dalvik to the ext

- i really think it isn't necessary to copy the apps to the ext!

- you can i access the apps i'd intalled??
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
You need to enable apps2sd in your ROM... only moving the apps will not work.
[G1 Android Development] Catrapazau:
i really saw that something was missing but didn't anderstand what!!!!

Aman_GOD_RA you are really GOD!!!!:D

but still is there a way, through fassboot or ADB, to copy the dalvik to the ext3 of the sdcard without resorting to the recovery image?? your app is greater than the sky above my head but i just love ADB and Fastboot commands!!!

If you ever come to Portugal please let me personally buy you a "cervejinha" (bear) :D
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
There's not just one command you can use to move the dalvik-cache to the ext partition of your sdcard, you'll need to do much more for it to work auto-magically ;)

I advise you to search xda for "apps2sd", most threads will explain you how to manually enable apps2sd (which most of the time also includes moving the dalvik-cache to sd).
[G1 Android Development] rumsey:
I've been having an issue lately with nandroid where when I try to make a nandroid backup (just system not ext) it goes on forever, in other words more than an hour. After I manually reboot the phone and check the nandroid folder I find the data.img file is over 2gigabytes and the sd card is full. Any ideas what might be causing this?

I'm on an older version of cyanogen and I'd really like to update but I never flash updates without a good backup.

EDIT: I thought maybe it had something to do with the SD card, so I powered the phone off, took out the sd card, and put in a freshly formatted 2gb sd card (no ext, no swap), booted to recovery, and tried nandroid backup. After 30 minutes of waiting I removed the SD card and put it in my pc. Same thing, 1.8gb data file :(

EDIT2: This isn't really that helpful, but here is my nandroid log:

nandroid-mobile v2.2.1

Using defaultrom- prefix to create a backup folder

mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write

checking free space on sdcard

Dumping boot to /sdcard/bart/defaultrom/nandroid/defaultrom-BCDMS-20100205-0155/boot.img...done

Dump of the recovery partition suppressed.

Dumping misc to /sdcard/bart/defaultrom/nandroid/defaultrom-BCDMS-20100205-0155/misc.img...done

Dumping system to /sdcard/bart/defaultrom/nandroid/defaultrom-BCDMS-20100205-0155/system.img...done

Dumping data to /sdcard/bart/defaultrom/nandroid/defaultrom-BCDMS-20100205-0155/data.img...
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Include the recovery.log file please.

As soon as you get the never ending dots you can use adb to retrieve the log file from /cache/recovery/
[G1 Android Development] Paging Dr B:
holy fudge this is sick!

usb mass storage support is awesome. Great work!
[G1 Android Development] sagementor:
I am using this recovery with the bart add-on. There are two bugs:

1) After typing "recovery" from the console, I can get back to the menu. But when I go to the console again, I cannot type any command.

2) The Bart script can backup my ROM, but cannot restore a ROM successfully. It shows an error with nandroid. I think the SD card is not mounted well. I am not sure whether it is a Bart bug or one with this recovery image. The switchrom script works fine.
[G1 Android Development] superg05:
i have not tried to flash a recovery in a long time do you use adb or on phone terminal??? sorry for asking don't wanna frak my phone up at-least to till i can play with my cliq
[G1 Android Development] ei8htohms:
bart will give a nandroid fail if your battery is too low

I've had this problem whenever my battery was a little low. Try it again on a full charge and see if it works.
[G1 Android Development] free-sidux:
Always had this problem with cm_recovery1.4.

'recovery &' did not work either.

What about integrating the new nandroid, I always use it as nandroid-mobile.sh from console in order to back up the ext-partition at the same time.

Or include this functionality from switchrom, then you can throw out nandroid from the menu.

Additionally, it would be cool to leave the app-folder on the ext-partition. Then you don't have to reinstall all the stuff once again! Just remove app_s and dalvik-cache from the ext, no need to reformat.
[G1 Android Development] DanDroidOS:
The link seems to be broken, can someone shoot me a new link for this please:)
[G1 Android Development] sillyshyme:
I can't get this script to work?

Tried using consous then terminal said no permissions

Then did the fastboot option what should you advice me to do?
[G1 Android Development] DanDroidOS:
If it said no permissions it sounds like you don't have root access:( is your phone rooted? Or could be bad download but it sounds like you don't have root access
[G1 Android Development] ido:
oh nevermind
[G1 Android Development] the_faith01:
can it be uploaded else where too.

I can't access rapidshare....
[G1 Android Development] wcdisciple:
Quick question: Do I have to remove CM 1.4 recovery from the sd card, then replace it with this one? It would seem so, but you never know. There's no mention of this in the op, that I could find.

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] hjlow:
mirror posted at my blog as stated before :/
[G1 Android Development] :
cant get switch rom to work...

Go into console with Alt+X

mount /system/sd

sh /system/sd/switchrom.sh -s

i get an error that says it cannot find switchrom.sh
[G1 Android Development] gottifour:
Thank you! Works GREAT!
[G1 Android Development] notxel21:
I've gotten this before and you may have deleted switchrom from system/sd by mistake.

Check to make sure it's still there. :cool:
[G1 Android Development] :
phoenix@phoenix-laptop:~$ adb shell
# cd /system/sd
# ls
app app-private dalvik-cache lost+found
# cd /system/
# ls
app etc media
bin fonts modules
build.prop framework sd
build.sapphire.prop lib usr
build.trout.prop lost+found xbin
# mount /system/sd
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd failed: Device or resource busy
#

ain't this img suppose to include switchrom.sh ????
[G1 Android Development] sunny.ice:
Just go into console (ALT-X) and type "switchrom" ... and ... tata ... here it is ;)

@Amon_RA:

Very good work! Best recovery.
[G1 Android Development] barracudax:
brother amon

i wanna ask

i bought my htc magic in hongkong

its installed with chinese language and hongkong rom maybe (hiapk.com)

but when i change the locale n text and reboot it. its stuck in htc magic logo

then i do hard reset. and it work again but still in chinese.

so i intend to change my rom to other official rom or maybe mod one.

but im a lil bit confuse,

i have to root it 1st, ok i found the tutorial bout 1 click root.

using flashrec.apk

and then recovery image which i can download it from here. but

in tutorial they said theres 2 diff image. one for 32A one for 32B

mine are 32A

im looking in this thread for 32A recovery image but dont find any image with H initian in the end of image version.

so i want to ask is this 1.2.2.img safe for 32A use with chinese rom ?

after that if i just flash the recovery image then my htc magic already rooted. can i just change the rom to any other english language safety ?

thanx before n after

sorry bout my bad english n long question
[G1 Android Development] chief2842:
Thanks works like a charm.
[G1 Android Development] sillyshyme:
Thanks got it all worked out
[G1 Android Development] bagrus:
Is the phone charging in recovery mode? If not, is it possible to implement it?
[G1 Android Development] TheUriel:
How big are the partition size on the 1.5.2 recovery screen ?
[G1 Android Development] sturmeh:
It lets you choose, but by default it's something like 512MB for a 8GB card.
[G1 Android Development] TheUriel:
Oh, thanks a lot. :]
[G1 Android Development] lordviper666:
Damn it wish I had this before I lost my broken solitaire. I really like all the extra options thanks much!
[G1 Android Development] MrR0ng:
Did I just brick my phone?

I went in via the console, and tried

$su (not required if you have root already)

#mount -a

This part looked to run ok, but then I tried

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2.img

and I got a could not find file. I shut down my phone, and took the SD card out, re-downloaded the img, then tried to start my phone back up, but it won't go into recovery anymore. It just shows the G1 screen. Is my phone bricked? What can I do?
[G1 Android Development] sturmeh:
Why is it whenever I flash the latest version you go out and update it, I haven't flashes 1.5.2 for a month now, lets see what happens. :P
[G1 Android Development] Ace42:
I think he moved on to the Nexus Droid too(?). I doubt but also hope there's a new version but there's not much to fix now.
[G1 Android Development] crzyaznkdxd:
This may have been posted in the hundred or so pages, but to all of those who got the usage: flash_image [-d] partition file.img etc... problem, you have to press (space) after recovery while in terminal.

As in; flash_image(space)recovery(space)/sdcard/recovery.img.

Hope this helps someone as I just spent about fifteen minutes figuring that out. haha, it works now and I am super excited. Thanks for this!
[G1 Android Development] jpeiv:
Best recovery image by a mile! Nice work man! The interactive Partitioning is genius!
[G1 Android Development] Vermithrax:
I have been wanting to repartition my SD card and with this recovery image I was able to without losing anything... For example:

Before:

32MB swap

512MB ext4

7.4GB FAT32

After:

128MB swap

640MB ext3

7.2GB FAT32

Here are the steps I followed:

1. BART backup

2. Mount SD

3. Copy SD contents to PC

4. Unmount SD

5. Repartition SD

6. Upgrade EXT

7. Mount SD

8. Copy contents from PC

9. Unmount SD

10. BART restore

11. Reboot

Everything came back up, no force closes, and everything is still rock solid.

Awesome!
[G1 Android Development] Remanifest:
Flashed via console, and it's been awesome ever since. Thank you for your simple instructions and excellent recovery image!
[G1 Android Development] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
I finally stopped *****ing about possibly messing up my phone and flashed this to my phone from Cyan's old 1.4 and this thing is fantastic. Thank you kindly indeed. I no longer need Paragon and all the options really cuts down on all the hassles I ran into wiping and flashing. Again, much appreciations.

One question however, how can I just turn the phone off without an automatic reboot while in recovery. Apologies if this is an obvious answer, but my g1 and computer don't play nice so I can't mount through usb, so when i wipe and partition the sd card through 1.5.2 I need to pop the card out, throw it in a sd reader, copy my files and then throw it back in my g1. Thanks in advance.
[G1 Android Development] :
The only way is a battery pull once you have finished as far as I understand. This is due to the fact most things done require the phone to reboot and considers that all tasks are completed using the phone (for example the inclusion of the usb toggle meaning a power down was never considered I don't think) but I could be wrong.
[G1 Android Development] olearyp:
Any word on whether there will be a release with the nandroid fix that hit the 1.6.2 Nexus One release? Care Bears optional. :p
[G1 Android Development] olearyp:
Since you have a console, running `reboot poweroff' from it might actually work.
[G1 Android Development] Vermithrax:
Try this to power off the device from the recovery console:

reboot -p #poweroff device

I am pretty sure it will work from terminal... I honestly have not tried it from recovery.
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
Confirmed working in recovery console! :D Thank you for sharing this.
[G1 Android Development] :
Nice work, although I'm lazy and pulling the battery is easier lmao :D
[G1 Android Development] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Thank you all for the quick response and solutions. My computer has always seemed to have an issue with my g1 so when I tried the usb toggle mode and realized that would be a no go, I thought I was going to have some issues on my hand. The solution (both of them) are simple enough so again appreciations for the assistance.
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Updated to v1.6.2

Change-log :

v1.6.2

- Added power off menu item
- New unyaffs binary patched by Koushik Dutta and Packetlss to fix the "losing root"-issue and incorrect file-time after a Nandroid restore
- New dump_image binary (by Brainaid) patched by Packetlss to fix the "bad blocks"- Nandroid restore issue. [COLOR="Red"][B](This will not fix old corrupted Nandroid backups! Please make new backups!!)[/B][/COLOR]
- New mkyaffs2image binary
- New flash_image binary
- Updated busybox to v1.5.3
- Nandroid menu options will NOT backup or restore recovery, cache, misc, splash1+2 (to avoid issues)
- Fixed wipe option not wiping when ext was not present
- Created carebear versions after the idea of packetlss
- Switched the Nexus logo to a Green Carebear with Nexus One logo (Thanks Montalbert!)
[G1 Android Development] :
if I have 1.5.2, how can I update to 1.6.2? I'm running king's eclair hero 1.3. Also, would flashing the new recovery/updating the recovery wipe all my data?
[G1 Android Development] raymasky:
Awesome !! thanks for the update !!
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
Will you be releasing an update for us MT3G users? :p
[G1 Android Development] Mr. Frost:
hahahaha, great ! :P
[G1 Android Development] deuse:
Thank you very much for this update :)
[G1 Android Development] EpedemicOptikz:
pshh, sticking with 1.5.2. Not putting no gay carebears on my phone. >.>
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Ffs... if you don't like the carebear version you flash the normal version! Did you even check the screenshots or try to flash before making this comment?
[G1 Android Development] xrCore:
Then don't. The first link is the same look as 1.5.2. Read before complaining.

Thanks, Amon_RA.
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
I so hope that you update the Sapphire Recovery. Carebear looks awesome lol ^_^
[G1 Android Development] EpedemicOptikz:
oh c'mon I was joking lol. Guess the ">.>" face wasn't enough.
[G1 Android Development] lefeudedieu:
hello

is that with my setup I just flashed your recovery 1.5.2 to 1.6.2 with the SPL haykuro danger?

thanks for you

toulouse france

DREAM

Radio: 2.22.19.26I

haykuro's SPL + Recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2

Rom: CyanogenMod 4.2.14.1 RoustEd v1.6-2beta
[G1 Android Development] Macrophage001:
lol I flashed and I was thinking about changing it to the normal one but then I was like pshh im keeping my carebear and what?! haha =P
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
Thanks Amon Ra
[G1 Android Development] luffyd:
shoot im flashing the blue carebear rite now...that sh**ts the bomb lol
[G1 Android Development] JAguirre1231:
Loving the blue version :D
[G1 Android Development] gtrplr71:
worked great. thank you
[G1 Android Development] Klyentel:
yeah I got the blue version, its tight...flashed it a while ago, thanks for your hard work and the same for those who helped:)
[G1 Android Development] Joe333x:
I flashed via terminal and just tested it and usb toggle works fine.
[G1 Android Development] :
Has anyone actually done any feature testing yet?

Switch rom/Bart/Nandroid - usb toggle - adb - busybox etc?
[G1 Android Development] Joe333x:
I just tested usb toggle and it works. The bart and switch rom scripts havent changed so they should work the same as before, I believe the only thing that has been edited is the straight Nandroid backup option which I have not tested since I always use Bart via the console for backing up and restoring ROMs.
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
switchrom still works....

and a reflash fixed my usb/toggle issue.

lol it reverted back to 1.5.2 on its own...just gonna leave it alone.
[G1 Android Development] SD2691:
.zip

Can anyone upload a .zip of the normal 1.6.2 ? I don't have a usb cord at the moment so I'm downloading from my phone, and it says "content not supported"

Thanks if anyone can help!
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
What colour do you want?

EDIT: didnt read it properly :p I'll upload the original now
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
v1.6.2 Original - In a .ZIP Archive

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.zip?w=bffd6992&dl=1
[G1 Android Development] :
Thanks Joe, appreciated :)

Off to flash me a blue carebear!

(That sounded so wrong on so many different levels lol)
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
lol that is sig material! :p
[G1 Android Development] lefeudedieu:
thanks

i've installed it's nice in blue

ici toulouse france
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
Sorry, the last link I posted required you to install DropBox.

Here is the Public link of v1.6.2 (Original) (.ZIP Archive)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3273991/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.zip
[G1 Android Development] Joe333x:
There are apps in the market that allow you to download any file. I believe astro also has the option
[G1 Android Development] :
how should I update from 1.5.2 to 1.6.2
[G1 Android Development] SD2691:
I have Astro, OI, ApsInstaller, and mmaybe a couple of more but nothing picks it up.
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
If anyone wants the other Recovery images on a DropBox link PM me.
[G1 Android Development] SD2691:
Thank you!
[G1 Android Development] :
SD2691 download 'Download crutch' from the market, it allows you to download any file type.
[G1 Android Development] Joe333x:
Seriously? How about reading directions? If you have 1.5.2 it means you should already know how to flash a recovery.img.
[G1 Android Development] :
well, I know how to flash the recovery I just need to know if it will erase my partitions or rom or anything. :D
[G1 Android Development] :
Don't flash it in public! You might get arrested :D
[G1 Android Development] Joe333x:
When you flash the recovery.img it just replaces the current recovery.img. It has no effect on the partitions on your SD card.
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
Hehe, I actually mentioned in the first post ;-)
[G1 Android Development] :
I know but I'm on my phone and well your asking someone to read the first post! What are you thinking :D

Just figured easier all round to tell them straight, wouldn't want people actually learning anything for themselves, this is XDA after all :P

LoL
[G1 Android Development] YanDroid:
Carebear lol thats funny! Great Job Amon RA!
[G1 Android Development] Amon_RA:
True, could explain why people never read everything... they're viewing xda on their phone and skip a few lines ;) Didn't think of that
[G1 Android Development] iWannaBeAdored:
@Amon_RA

Are you gonna bring some Carebear love to Sapphire?
[G1 Android Development] Ziltoid:
Boot into recovery.

Select console from the menu

(Then type this)

$su (not required if you have root already)

#mount -a

#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img

*note*

I just rename recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img to something shorter so I dont have to type all that in. For example: recovery1.6.2.img
[G1 Android Development] digitallysick:
Just wanted to say that the new recovery images are great! keep up the good work
[G1 Android Development] YanDroid:
-d delete after a successful flash

what do you do after that cuz i did the methods:

Console

Terminal Em

and i get that command and i dont know what to do after.
[G1 Android Development] tribalb:
just to let everyone know, "crutch" is no longer in the market. just checked. i was looking for it myself for future download if i need to use my phone.
[G1 Android Development] asb123:
can someone explain why we would use switchrom over nandroid+ext? :o
[G1 Android Development] luffyd:
if u use astro u gotta go to settings prefenrences and allow browser dl thats all and along with androzip u can dl anything
[G1 Android Development] futangclan:
Astro File Manager has an option to allow downloads of any file type as well and as a bonus, it is a file explorer, process manager, and backs up apps.

I swear that I don't work for them, it's just a good app =P
[G1 Android Development] Christopher3712:
ROFL@Carebears. You're nutty. I'm flashing that green nexus one though.
[G1 Android Development] :
I have Astro and Andozip and am aware of the fact they can do it, just figured it would be easier with crutch as well the others come with to many pretty buttons and didn't want to confuse them :D

Anyway back to the thread topic.....