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[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Hi everyone, I need some help. Just flashed AmonRA with Unrevoked3, which worked fine, but now I can't restore the Nandroid backup I made with ClockWorkMod Recovery... are they incompatible? Every time I try (after moving them to /sdcard/nandroid/), I get an error message (Error, use ADB command), and the ADB command tells me that it can't find any backups.

Any ideas? Or do I have to wipe etc and restore from my Titanium backup?

Only flashed the current ROM so that I could flash AmonRA R5 with Unrevoked (OpenDesire was identifying as a Nexus One over USB, so Unrevoked wouldn't run), and made a Nandroid backup beforehand so that I could get my system back to normal quickly... am I SOL? :p
[Desire Android Development] Pyr0x64:
Put clockwork mod recovery in the root of your sdcard as update.zip and flash it from amon ra recovery... Then you should be able to restore your nandroid backup
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
But then won't I have Clockwork back as the Recovery? The whole only happened because I was trying to switch to AmonRA :p
[Desire Android Development] Pyr0x64:
no, you will still have AmonRa recovery image flashed permanently on your phone

flashing the clockworkmod update.zip will allow you to use clockwork temporarily to restore backups or any other option

just download either

http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.1-bravo.zip

rename to update.zip and put in the root of the sd for "fake-flashing"

or

download rom manager from the market...
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
"Fake flash" via AmonRA Flash menu? Or do I need to do something else?
[Desire Android Development] Pyr0x64:
yup, just flash the update.zip via amonra recovery and it will change to clockwork
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
any one done a full nandriod back up on this? i tried once and took so long that i had to take the battery out, i waited almost 30mins.
[Desire Android Development] Qliratu:
That's not normal, i did multiple 50+ nandroid backup/restores and never had this problem.. how big is your sd?
[Desire Android Development] Pyr0x64:
no problems here. i've made lots of backups including ones with ext2/3 partitions
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
You, sir, are a god. Restoring now (although it seems to be taking a long time on dalvik-cache...). Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Hmmm, unfortunately, after the Nandroid restore completed, I'm unable to boot past the white HTC screen. Any ideas? Do I need to remove the update.zip again?

I'm afraid the bright white screen will run down the battery if I leave it too long... what now? :(

-edit- Is it possible that AmonRA causes the phone to hang on boot if there's a zip file in the SD card root? If I repartition the SD card in AmonRA, it boots all the way. Then, after I've added a few files to the SD card, it hangs on boot again :(
[Desire Android Development] Rambo87:
I have a same case here except im stuck at the HTC screen. I backed up with the Amon recovery. The restoring claims its successful though..
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Try removing the SD card. If it boots without the card, repartition or try deleting all zip files in the root directory.

Helped for me, although I'm not sure why. My Desire's been acting really funky since I installed AmonRa (although I did upgrade to OpenDesire 3.0.3 from 3.0.2, so that might be what's causing it)...
[Desire Android Development] SavageCore:
after flashing this with unrevoked I try and boot into recovery and just get the htc logo and a single black bar at the top then a black screen.

Any ideas? HBOOT 0.83
[Desire Android Development] pexon:
Is it possible to do nand backup of ext4 with this recovery?

EDIT: It is and I am happy that it does. Thank you.
[Desire Android Development] miamivice:
unrevoked doesnt do a f**k except getting on my nerves, and reading through 33 pages didnt bring me anywhere except that i begin to hate any 1/0 device existing.

PLEASE!

how can i flash amonra?

got windows 7, xp and a desire. not more not less.

need to partition an 16gb sd, because if i insert it in any desire, the roms wont boot. neither open desire 3.0.0.5 nor leedroid 1.6.
[Desire Android Development] Donkey Kong:
How do I use this on my desire.

I had my desire under debug and ran this unrevoked under administrator.

All it does is reboot.
[Desire Android Development] kuailan:
Hi Donkey, there is a html file where you need to read carefully before running unrevoked. The reason you got only reboot is because you have not install the DRIVER properly. Check your system device setting! If you have installed properly you will reboot into recovery MODE to whichever custom recovery you choose to flash. Personally I used ArmonRA as my device permanent recovery while I can always use Clockwork mod if I want to from the ROM manager.
[Desire Android Development] blud7:
You need to be more specific about your issue with unrevoked. Esp since instructions on first post says you need it to flash AmonRA.

First off, do you have root?

I can tell you straight away that it can be done on Windows7 no problem and that you don't need to partition your card for any of these ROMs to work.
[Desire Android Development] Donkey Kong:
Thank you all. The issue is with windows 7. I have installed the driver successfully but it failed to transfer the image to the phone (ran with admin permission on). It works fine under windows xp. I have not tried it yet but I guess I can reboot to recovery next time without my pc.

Wonderful, as I have just confirm that it could boot into recovery without my pc :) :)
[Desire Android Development] miamivice:
i got root. the thing why partition the card ist because a friend of mine bought a bigger card and leedroid doesnt boot without ext3, so he couldnt use the card until this morning when 1.8 arrived and he could start the fresh sys with an unpartitioned card.

4 unrevoked i installed some time ago when i started to try rooting with unrevoked some other hboot drivers contained in the download package.

unrevoked starts, tells me to set usb debugging mode, so i did. then i chose amonRa.img as recovery; unrevoked said then: custom recovery. so far, so good. then i plug in my or the other rooted desire.

sometimes unrev says pushin img. wich is an endless thing or the other times it says nothing except plug in phone. it doesnt recognize it until i unplug and then i get an err cause of interrupting the connection.

so long.
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
hey SD is 8gb with about 6GB free, this only happened with amonRa, with clockwork nandriod backup is nice and quick
[Desire Android Development] craig26283:
Hi!

This might be a silly question...

I rooted my phone months ago and it had a recovery image, but its a bit long winded! I must power on and hold down vol, select recovery, get to a wee desire with '!' screen, power and up vol, get to a blue screen, apply update.zip, then i sit at the green one with all the options (wipe, flash, nandroid and so on)

How would i replace that with this one? :)

Craig!
[Desire Android Development] Levanteri:
Does AmonRa support SLCD-equipped Desires? I also have HBOOt 0.83 and i'm in trouble. I used Unrevoked and Clockwork to root my phone and succesfully did it. But the problem is, now the recovery is 'broken'. Phone freezes every time I try to access recovery. Only removing the battery helps.
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
I heard there is a clockworkmod that supports slcd display now. This recovery hasn't been updated for a long time.
[Desire Android Development] woolmonkey:
Recovery isn't broken really it just doesn't have a driver for the SLCD screen. If you had instructions you could "blindly" folllow them and still flash/backup the device.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
I'm also having problems with Nandroid (once again - switched to AmonRA because of Nandroid problems with Clockwork): Nand + Ext backup is taking forever. Nearly half (-edit- 5 minutes later: 3/4!!!) the screen is filled with the "progress dots" - is that normal? I did a Nand-Only backup a few days ago and seem to remember that it only filled a few lines of dots... now I've got about 20 lines! :eek:
[Desire Android Development] soupratt:
While this has a great wipe (factory wipe) feature to allow installing new ROMS the wipe Davlik (cache) feature doesn't work. Can this please be fixed in the new release :)
[Desire Android Development] ram130:
how do you know?
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
i think nandriod full backup with amon is not working properly. i use rom manager to switch to clockwork which works nicely
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
Nand backup and restore works just fine for me. Has for months. Ext3.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
I've just found out that it works fine if you delete all the old Nandroid backups off of the SD card.

Shouldn't be a space issue (always more than 1GB free)... but maybe it's trying to overwrite the old files and having trouble? Quite strange...
[Desire Android Development] soupratt:
Because when I select "wipe Devik cache" and then select yes it just jumps straight back to the menu (and the data is still there). Its almost as if I select No - I wonder if it is a menu issue.

Plus, if I use ClockworkMod recovery it actually shows the cache being deleted (sometimes takes a 3-5 seconds).
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Strange, on the latest ClockWorkMod I had exactly what you described for AmonRA: Selecting Yes when wiping Dalvik-Cache just jumps back into the menu, with no confirmation of the wipe appearing like during data wipe or cache wipe. On AmonRA I had the impression that Dalvik Wipe was working...

These recoveries are strange sometimes :p. Wish there was more error output, so that we would know what's going on and/or going wrong.
[Desire Android Development] pexon:
+1
[Desire Android Development] ram130:
Same here with ClockworkMod, it just blanks out for a few secs then I get a confirm, select yes and I'm back to wipe davik cache menu, can anyone confirm it actually wipes the Devik cache??

AS for Amon, just tried the regular 1.7.0.1 and it works great(i think, where is the devik cache stored?). For some reason I can't flash the R5 in fast boot, keeps saying "signature verification failure.." ..thoughts?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Unrevoked worked here. Lots of driver crap to go through first, though - not sure how to use the custom recovery option in Unrevoked on Linux, probably some extra command line option.

Dalvik Cache is stored in different places depending on the ROM... some move it to /cache/, some to the sd card, others just leave it in the original place (somewhere in /system/, I think)...
[Desire Android Development] ram130:
Well I'm on cyanogen, i guess on the sd then?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Very possible.
[Desire Android Development] kmetek:
what is davlik cache etc?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
IIRC it's the cache for the Dalvik Virtual Machine, which is basically the engine for executing all the Java apps on Android... please correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm going on very stale memories here ;)
[Desire Android Development] heavymetalmage:
Does anyone know if support for SLCD (HBOOT 0.83) be added at all?
[Desire Android Development] djoni1980:
tried it few days ago, it works great
[Desire Android Development] Dave_G7:
yeah and if that's not working?! (unrevoked: "Phone not supportet atm")

using MAC OS X, so NO Hboot drivers needed, ROM: NeoPhyte 5.0 atm ... (sup ext4), partitions were made over a rooted Hero (with AR), but on my Desire

the Clockworkmode 2.5.0.1, I think it can't handle with ext4 and corrupts it... possible?

THX Dave_G7
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
I wonder if this project is still ongoing. No activity on the Google code page for it and no updates for a while. Worstenbrood is still active on these forums. Maybe he's just busy?
[Desire Android Development] maciekdobry:
anyone tried to install recovery this way:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rt5R7_AdU&feature=related

????

I would like to know is this method works??
[Desire Android Development] mrbishi:
That method won't work on a Desire unfortunately, you

have

to do it through unrevoked. If we ever manage to get the security turned off in the bootloader then flash_image should work.

Also if anyone is having problems with unrevoked getting stuck on 'waiting for reboot' in windows, do you have Droidexplorer installed? It runs a service that automatically connects to the phone with ADB and prevents unrevoked from working its magic. Just uninstall Droidexplorer and it should work fine.
[Desire Android Development] dread123:
any update on this? been a while ?
[Desire Android Development] tkm89:
+1 :confused:
[Desire Android Development] hsnmz:
just installed it using unrevoked. previously was on clockwork. I was looking for some recovery to handle formating sd card with ext3 and ext4 and this did it perfectly
[Desire Android Development] worstenbrood:
Just got back from Spain, expect an update in a few days :)
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
Ah great news. There is nothing at all wrong with the current release i just think we all got excited at the planned updates you mentioned :lol:
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Awesome. :)
[Desire Android Development] Sebby:
great recovery

can you add : -scrolling

-ext4 to ext3
[Desire Android Development] Davindy:
Please add support for SLCD, I would much rather be using this recovery over clockwork.....

Thanks for all your hard work!
[Desire Android Development] ho-ll:
Hi guys, need some help here. I just flashed the .img file and in the recovery mode, it seems like i cant scroll down or up the selection bar. Does anyone know what's wrong with it??
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Scroll with the optical joystick, not with the volume keys :)
[Desire Android Development] J-Zeus:
COuld someone please tell me the key combination so the Desire boots in recovery mode?

thanks all :)
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Hold Back while powering on. Then use the volume keys and power button to select bootloader. Then at the next screen same thing, but select recovery.
[Desire Android Development] J-Zeus:
Thanks!!!

Another question - how do I get the AmonRa recovery to install - it has installed the Clockwork recovery.

cheers
[Desire Android Development] kmetek:
erm

load it through REVOKED and flash.

http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire/

# Start the reflash.exe in Admin mode (Right Click > Run as Admin (Only required for Windows Vista + 7)

# If you want to install Amon Ra Recovery (Not needed unless you want to), download it and in UnrEVOked go to File > Custom Recovery and select the recovery image.
[Desire Android Development] Androhyp:
That could be great ;)
[Desire Android Development] ho-ll:
I tried to move with optical trackpad too, but it cant work as well. Anyone know why I cant move the selection bar in recovery???
[Desire Android Development] pablo34:
damn, i lost recovery completely so i cant flash anything and unrevoked3 fails all the time is there any other method currently trying through fastboot but no success
[Desire Android Development] NChief:
Is it possible to get this as an update.zip so I can use it with ROM manager?
[Desire Android Development] Dancube:
I failed to flash this on a friends Desire last night using Unrevoked, It got to the point just after flash where it was rebooting and it was showing the htc white loading screen with a small black bar at the top. Has this happened to anyone else?
[Desire Android Development] matt95:
i flashed it with unrevoked great work!:D
[Desire Android Development] cma123:
thanks very much!
[Desire Android Development] emalf:
Hi, Is unrevoked work with untouched 2.2 OTA update(HBoot 0.92) ?

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] Muyfa666:
Working perfect. Totally undramatic to flash with unrEVOked 3.1. :-D
[Desire Android Development] RavinShubh:
Hi i have flashed this successfully but unfortunately i dont have have access to recovery. I mean i go thru the usual steps. But upon clicking recovery i still remain at the white screen. It does not show the Red Triangle where you press volume up and power. Kindly please help. I am also unable to flash roms thru rom manager. Kindly advise. Thank you.
[Desire Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
Download Reboot Control and if the recovery is good you will and up in the Amon-Ra
[Desire Android Development] RavinShubh:
Thank you for the suggestion. I have used quick boot since i do not have access to paid apps. It still does not work. I appreciate it thou :)
[Desire Android Development] Latty:
I think quite a few people would like this as well. I'll ditto the post :)
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Yesterday AmonRA ate my Nandroid backup 3x when trying to restore. First two times it restored for a whole half hour (screen was FILLED with the progress dots) and the third time it only restored about half way - was done in 30 seconds and 80% of my apps were missing... WTF?:confused:

Would it be possible to add an error message when something goes wrong, instead of just leaving the user in the dark with "Progress dots"?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Great... now my backups won't restore completely at all any more :(

After restoring Launcher Pro and a bunch of other apps don't work any more. Apparently parts of the memory (maybe SD-Ext?) aren't restored properly. Can anyone offer some insight?
[Desire Android Development] Lennyuk:
Well if the dots go any more than 4-5 lines then you know there is probably a problem anyway, is it really worth the hassle trying to program an error message?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
IIRC Nandroid already outputs error messages. They're just not being shown ;)
[Desire Android Development] Lennyuk:
ah ok, that would make it easier :D
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Alright then, just flashed the ROM version I made the backup from, wiped, and tried restoring again, and it worked.

Why?

Isn't Nandroid supposed to back up everything including all the system files etc.? :confused:
[Desire Android Development] kai84m:
For the recent Unrevoked Version this applies, but the Version with Clockwork Recovery 2.0.1.0 should support Ext-Partitions.
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
Isnt this recovery the same as ahmgsk ported?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=689778&highlight=recovery
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
I don't care as long as someone makes power button. Confirm work lol. How do you use a. Img recovery tho?
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
This on is directly flashed into your phone, so use of pc isn't needed anymore.
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
im using it as a fake flash, so no use for a pc as well, you probably mean no use keeping an update.zip on SD card...
[Desire Android Development] Sareas:
ahgsmk only did the custom version of recovery based on Amon_Ra. This is port so it's AmonRA Recovery for Desire.
[Desire Android Development] ephumuris:
So how do we use this? I thought it would be fake flash style update.zip?
[Desire Android Development] zeepsop:
Hi there!

Please help me out... I dont see the use of a permanent flash?

This is the way I flash:

1. Enter recovery mode (power + vol. down) goto 2. recovery, 3. power + vol. up, now the original recovery starts and i choose 4. apply update.zip (update.zip is RA- recovery) then i get the new recovery screen and then i choose flash zip from sd.

I cant see the use of a permanent flash? (besides not having to make step 3 and 4)
[Desire Android Development] kai84m:
Afaik you cant use Nandroid with fake Flash recoverys, please correct me if Im wrong on that!
[Desire Android Development] dread123:
some one pls post how to flash the image file..there must be a way as the unrevoked.exe obviously is a script of somesort?..
[Desire Android Development] kai84m:
The guys of Unrevoked are keeping the process secret to keep this exploit open!

So I dont think (and also hope a bit) that any body comes with a script soon.
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
Any crucial differences between the two?
[Desire Android Development] silvake:
Fake-flash recovery differences

From my experience so far, I noticed that koush's clockworkmod fake-flash can't handle nandroid+ext backups, especially if ext is ext2. Restoring is also broken in this case.

Also, the partitioning sdcard menus are missing from clockworkmod.

I used clockworkmod fake-flash for a while, even tried flashing it permanently using the unrevoked2 method, but eventually I experienced so many problems using it, that I had to go back to using the AM Desire Recovery fake-flash posted by ahmgsk. If flashing it permanently will be soon possible, I salute this initiative and I'm looking forward to it...

Meanwhile, I subscribe to the question of how do we use this .img file...

Is there any flash_image binary available that could overwrite the recovery partition with this image? Behnaam, maybe you could enlighten us?
[Desire Android Development] lethalfriend:
C'mon guys release it already :)
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
I share that thought.
[Desire Android Development] laupc:
just tried to flash it via fastboot: fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-desire-v1.7.0.1.img , but get error on INFOsignature checking: FAILED (remote: signatureverify fail)

any idea??
[Desire Android Development] 77flem:
same here bad signature
[Desire Android Development] POWERK:
same here singture
[Desire Android Development] narta:
Wait for the port ppl
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
Well everybody is a little impatient i think, including me :D
[Desire Android Development] monyozt:
i hope next version will be complitable with SLCD phones
[Desire Android Development] monyozt:
confirm not working. i got blank screen. must use clockword slcd recovery image
[Desire Android Development] dread123:
any eta on new version pal? eagerly awaiting :p
[Desire Android Development] Lennyuk:
works perfectly on my Hboot 0.83 SCLD desire :)
[Desire Android Development] monyozt:
bro do you mean amonra recovery works on sldc phones? amonra confirm not working to me via twitter.. afaik hboot 083 not sure slcd phone.. you should test your display on dark place to makesure if you have amoldd or slcd on your phone
[Desire Android Development] billias:
I am experiencign a problem:

'adb reboot' is not working with AmonRA but with other recovery works.

it returns: 'error: closed'

Also when you press system reboot it is not unmounting the /sd-ext and a2sd sometimes crashes the /sd-ext mounting

Cheers,

Vassilis
[Desire Android Development] monyozt:
confirm on mine and my friend, this AmonRA recovery not working on 083 Hboot and SLCD desire
[Desire Android Development] sultanbrunei:
There's an option of :

- NAND Backup

- NAND + EXT Backup

- Backup google proprietary system files

I wonder what does each of those do actually ? What is NAND ? does it mean backup all my applications and data ? How about my personal preferences such as profiles, display settings, and login informations ? How do I backup them ?

What does it mean by backup google proprietary system files?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
NAND backup basically backs up everything in your phone memory. OS, apps etc.

NAND + Ext is the same thing, but also makes a backup of the files on your EXT partition, if you have one.

Google proprietary system files... Not sure, but I'm guessing that means the Google apps which people like Cyanogen aren't allowed to include in their custom ROMs. THis way you don't need to reinstall them manually every time...
[Desire Android Development] Lennyuk:
well then looks like I have the only desire in the world with an Amolcd screen that came with HBOOT 0.83?
[Desire Android Development] sultanbrunei:
so just by using NAND + ext backup, I dont have to use applications such as titanium backup or mybackuppro anymore ?

Will it really backup everything such as apps, data, and preference settings?
[Desire Android Development] bjehsus:
Yes, but restoring them will also restore the ROM