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[Droid Incredible Android Development] airjordanmmix:
how did you Switched? can you share so may e i can do the same please
[Droid Incredible Android Development] davwman:
Just download latest pb31img.zip in opening post and reboot into booloader via reboot menu or with phone off, hold volume down plus power. Wait for it to recognize .zip file and press up. Literally takes less than a minute. Also make sure sdcard is formatted fat32 and the file is not in any folders or what would also be called the root of the sdcard.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] airjordanmmix:
the only thing i'm missing right now is where can i get that lastest version of pb31img.zip. because all the ones that i already used my phone don't read them.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Quantumrabbit:
Noob question since I've only used CWM since I got my phone over a year and a half ago...

Will Amon RA work for most/all ROMs or do you have to get ROMs specific to Amon style recovery?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Testingchip:
As far as I can tell it works for all roms. Works like cwm just looks a little different and maybe faster.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] br125:
format your sd to fat32 and retry
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
All roms should work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] airjordanmmix:
I rooted last night with Unrevoked and downloaded ROM Manager today, I selected the Stable CM 7 and requested backup, and ROM with GAPPS at the same time. It all seemed to download but when it reboot the CyanogenMod 7 icon is displayed with arrow circling eternally. Please help...I have tried booting in recovery mode but it doesn't seem to response either when I press the power button to select any of the menu items.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
Drell or anyone else.

I have been advised that your recovery doesn't work as well as ClockworkMod with Cyanogenmod 7. I used your recovery with my LG Ally and used it with my Incredible until my camera stoped working and went through 3 replacements. I want to use your recovery again and have very little reservations about using it. I just hate to hear that ClockworkMod recovery goes hand in hand with Cyanogenmod and yours does not. I really don't like CWM recovery but am only using it right now because I would like to hear your response. (I do really believe it is superior to CWM). I know you are busy. If you respond I will be grateful. Thank you GNM.

jmar

P.S. I know many have donated (I am one of them) to you. If you send a response, I'll send you another donation. Thanks again for doing the work I one day dream to do.

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
I use have used cm7 for months. Actually when testing the recovery I was using cm7. Clockworkmod is integrated with rom manager for one click backup via rom manager etc. Other than the shortcut stuff in rom manager it works perfect with any rom stock or otherwise. Also this recovery has quite a few features you wont find anywhere else either.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
Its trackball vol up and vol dn to navigate.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] br125:
Never had any problems with any rom, especially cm7 which has been on my phone for most of its life.

This is the best recovery option for the inc. in my opinion.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
When I flash a nightly I wipe cache and dalvik. Then flash. Am I missing a step? And why would anyone say that CWM goes hand in hand with cyanogenmod and AmonRa does not? A guide from android forums said he got this info from a dev in xda forums. Thanks again GNM.

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] br125:
did you wipe data and do a factory reset first in recovery? This is necessary for the first time you flash any rom.

Once you have a cm7 nightly up and running and want to flash another nightly on top of that, then you can wipe cache and flash.

cwm recovery is seen as "hand in hand" probably because koush (the creator of cwm) is a part of the CM team. Both recoveries will do what you need and it kind of comes down to personal preference. This recovery works great, anyone who says otherwise hasn't tried it or is biased.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
I see I see. Going to flash the latest now. GNM: Donation on the way on 9/2.

Edit: Still the best recovery...hands down! Thank you drell.

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
Hey all. Wondering why a boot sound zip isn't working. What I mean is that when I flash in recovery, the zip pushes the mp3 to system/media but the sound doesn't play. I've even extracted the file manually and manually pushed it in adb and manually placed it there using root explorer. Any ideas. Btw...when I flashed it when I was using CWM recovery and it played. Just started using drells recovery again and don't want to revert back to CWM to get this to work. Also, when I push/place any other ogg or mp3 the sound doesn't play either. Thanks for your help in advance.

Edit: here is a copy of the description of the boot animation and it accompanying ogg file, this is the other boot animation with sound I'm having problems with. The other was the zip I flashed which put an mp3 in system media. In this case I extracted the ogg file and bootanimation.zip file and placed both files in system media. Here it is:

# 540 wide, 960 tall 15 frames per second

540 960 15

# p means we're defining a part

# first number is repeat count, 0 means infinite

# second number is delay in frames before performing the next part

# so if you are playing 15 frames a second 15 would be... one second

# string defines the directory to load files from

# files will be loaded in order but names don't matter

# s defines a sound for a part

# sounds will be loaded from /system/media

# oggs with loop points will loop automatically

# only one sound will play at a time

# timing is driven by the part, not the sounds

# if you want no sound, leave blank

# droid

p 1 7 01_droid

# mobility

p 1 0 02_mobility

s Bionic.ogg

# loop

p 0 0 03_loop

Any ideas?

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
Always start with a full wipe...thanks. Appreciate the question.

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
Hey drell...sent you 5 bucks today...not much but where I live that's 3 tall cans of natty ice...anyway, still can't get boot sounds to work. I refuse to use CWM again though. Any help would be awesome.

Also, I want to build a rom for the LG Vortex. I rooted a friends and placed your custom recovery on it. Any chance you could hook me up? I'm guessing I would need the stock rom base, I have the sdk of course and if I could use your custom kernel then I would be grateful. I read about someone who dev'd for this phone only to steal your kernel IP. I would most certainly follow all protocol.

Thanks for everything.

Jmar

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Just a little issue. I renamed the zip to PB31IMG.zip (downloaded to phone and removed everything from the file but PB31IMG.zip) and it is in /sdcard but HBOOT refuses to recognize it. I flashed the previous 2.2.1 via rom manager and did flash a few radios. It says no image file but it flashes by so fast I don't really see it.

I'm assuming that my filesystem on sdcard is fat32. I thought I did but perhaps not.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
It is FAT32 and named PB31IMG.zip but it still won't flash. HBOOT just says no image. It is also in /sdcard. I'm trying to flash the latest recovery.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
Are you sure its not named PB31IMG.zip.zip. Else if still having trouble unzip and place recovery.img on root of sd xard and boot current recovery. Adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

Then reboot
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
I'm positive it's not misnamed. Either way, I did flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img as you suggested from clockwork and it booted fine. I just didn't know if it was safe to flash recovery from recovery so I didn't want to try it. I could never get fastboot working before as I tried as soon as I saw you post a suggestion so I'm glad that your flash_image works. fastboot always shows remote: not allowed even though I'm s-off. Maybe with HBOOT .92 it doesn't work at all.

Thank you!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Testingchip:
Make sure it's on the root of the SD card. I've mistakenly had it in a folder so just make sure you have the PB31IMG.ZIP outside any folders on your SD card.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
That was the case still didn't work. As I posted above I flashed it using clockwork recovery and flashed image file manually and it works fine.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Testingchip:
Glad you got it running.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tiny4579:
Just wanted to let you know drellisdee, it's not your image at all. It seems that my phone will not take PB31IMG.zip's at all. I tried flashing a radio and that didn't work as well. I had done some partitioning on my sdcard and I think it screwed up reading those files in HBOOT. I think I have to do a sdcard wipe and reformat again which I will wait to do as it will take about an hour and a half to take care if. I need to do something about it soon as what if I need to do an emergency flash in HBOOT then I'll be stuck until I reformat.

EDIT: Yeah, I can flash the radio with my 2GB sdcard so it's definitely a format issue despite what I originally thought.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
Updated to 3.06 see 1st post. Many new features
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
Between you and raidzero's rzrecovery, I'm starting to flash more recoveries than ROMs lately.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] fudplayers:
Is there a secret to installing the new one (3.06)? I downloaded the img file,put it on the sdcard and went to terminal and typed flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img then i get an error. Not sure what im doing wrong?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
What's the error? I use flash_image all the time. Else just open one of my old PB31IMG.zip and rename new recovery to recovery.img replace the one in zip and rezip it.

flash_image done from root # shell as flash_image recovery /pathto/nameofrecovery.img
[Droid Incredible Android Development] fudplayers:
It would say error 1. I will try what you just suggested, youre not known to lead ppl astray. Back when i had the Ally you were the man! Glad that youre still around with the Dinc.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
Should be PB31IMG.zip
[Droid Incredible Android Development] gsgleason:
make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32 and not fat16
[Droid Incredible Android Development] yankies77:
somehow my volume rocker keys dont work in the recovery to do selections

i am s-off and flashing through hboot..tried 3.02 and 2.21 :S what am i doing wrong here? ..
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bukithd:
have you tried using the trackball?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] yankies77:
thankyou very much sir, i totally forgot about that being a possibility :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Stupifier:
Ok....wow. Thank You! I'm glad I stumbled upon this. CWM was giving me headaches. CWM would completely freeze up when trying to Wipe Dalvik. Then just recently, I wasn't able to do a Nandroid backup in CWM.....it would completely freeze up on 'Backup Cache'. Furthermore, CWM was getting slower and slower and slower for me. Backups were taking over 15-25 minutes. I had a guess CWM did not like the new SD-Ext3 partition I created (btw Link2SD is awesome). CWM wouldn't do a Nandroid after I setup that Partition.

I find this thread....flash Amon RA...and spit out a full Nandroid backup in 5 minutes (including my SD-Ext partition). In comparison to what I saw with CWM, I'm impressed. I'm still extremely noob when it comes to all this stuff but knew something was wrong with CWM.....Amon RA saved me.

****I do have a simple question though****

My Amon Ra backup is stored on the SDcard at this location:

\nandroid\HTxxxxxxxx\xxxxx-[the date]-xxxx\[*.img files]

Which folder can I safely rename? I would like to label my backup but do not want Amon Ra having any restore issues.

Update: Searched around some more and found a fairly consistent answer. You can rename the "xxxxx-[the date]-xxxx" folder to whatever you want....just don't use crazy characters or spaces.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Seanzle:
Maybe I'm a total moron but I don't understand how to install 3.06
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dajmacd:
Here's what I did. DL the file and move to the root level of the SD card (/sdcard). Open a terminal emulator on the phone and type SU at the prompt and hit enter. The prompt should now be a "#". Then type "flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery.img" and hit enter (replace nameofrecovery with the actual filename).

daj
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
Can someone put up a link to the old one pls...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] OKstate11:
I'll also ask, why would I want this over Clockwork?......
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
It is "better"....like as in,more advanced...clockwork is more lire and noob friendly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mozetti:
Very informative answer ...

I think that those of us who are new to the scene and haven't used Amon_RA recovery before would like some more info about what these "better" and advanced features might be. If you don't know,can't explain it, or don't want to explain it -- that's fine. But just saying it's "better" and "advanced" doesn't do anyone any good.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andybones:
I have this installed and I tried to load a new rom, and i get an error for my nand back-ups and it wont let me install a rom, how can i put clockwork back on without being able to load the rom?? through hboot? please help!!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Empedox:
Why would you want him to remove a plug for his company?

If it was a sarcastic remark, I take it back!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
it can only flash

SIGNED ZIPS!!!!!!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andybones:
in order for me to do a nand back up I had to change "clockworkmod" to nandroid and backup to the number of my device.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
@op: you should put up a warning on the title that this is not noob friendly.....it cant flash some zips (signed and unsigned).

just my 2cents
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mb02:
um, this recovery is more noob friendly than CM is. installing unsigned zip vs installing signed zips? means less of a chance of installing something not quite right. the new to root people need a recovery that is strict on signing. yea you have to get everything signed, but thats not exactly difficult.

also, thats BASICALLY the only difference between these two recoveries other than amon ra is required for certain software. neither one is "noob-friendly" or "noob-hating".
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
I know the one posted had a few bugs it was pulled down so I can fix it. Still working on it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GMK83:
It was pulled before he made that comment.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Amon_RA can format all three useful types SD card partions, CM cannot. Amon_RA can fix permissions, CM does not. Amon_RA can make Nand+Ext backups/restores, CM does not.

These are all reasons why Amon_RA is both n00b-friendly and more advanced. CM is handy because it's integrated with an android-native app, but many users on other devices don't need clockworkmod, or at least aren't dependant on it, like so many here seem to be!

In any case, keep on truckin', OP! :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] adrynalyne:
Yeah...I am gonna disagree with you there.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
I kinda agree and disagree with him too...my biggest gripe is that it can only flash signed zips.....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mb02:
CM does literally all of that. the only problem is creating ext partitions doesnt really work for the incredible for some reason. fix permissions is in RM, dont even have to reboot recovery. definitely backs up EXT partitions, unless you dont pay attention while youre making a backup and how it says "backing up ext partition" at the end.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
I'm sure you guys are at least partially right, but being partial to CM Recovery doesn't change the fact that I'm not exactly a n00b and I've been using CM for about 2 months and didn't know those features existed in it -- whereas they're obviously available in Amon_Ra--ipso facto, Amon_RA is easier to use, more n00b friendly, and def more adept from the menu in formatting ext, upgrading to 3 or 4, etc. Whether or not our particular versions of Android support ext or a build offers fix_permissions from a command line is immaterial. Besides, Amon_Ra built his recovery menu from JesusFreake's 1.3 for the Dream/Sapphire, and that makes it better cuz I said so! :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] adrynalyne:
What I like:

That you can backup google proprietary apps.

The scrolling speed is sweet

Can power off.

What I don't:

Menus are not organized worth a damn.

can't clear battery stats (that I can see)

can't clear dalvik-cache (that I can see)

Only bottom volume and trackpad support? Really? Come on....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andybones:
I agree, power off is something I have been asking clockworkmod to implement.. also the scrolling speed is too fast, and I miss the power button for back button rather than vol down.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andybones:
"can't clear battery stats (that I can see)

can't clear dalvik-cache (that I can see)"

im pretty sure those are there.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
Got a tip from koush last night on how to handle wiping partitions of /cache and /data that are in ext3 format for incredible instead of yaffs2 and have a very ugly but working workaround for wiping the partitions with a script but that script will not handle a Format: DATA from a update.zip. Can someone who wants to help and is good at coding twitter me @ getitnowmarket

Hopefully with a little help we can get this released in a few more days.

Basically it needs a rewrite where when the Format: DATA & erase_root: DATA and Format :CACHE & erase_root :CACHE commands are given it instead executes a rm -rf /data or rm -rf /cache.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] adrynalyne:
......where?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
just updated to beta v1.7.0.2
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
Can you provide some info on what works and what doesn't work?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jgrimberg1979:
The partitioning of the sd card does not seem to work it says that it cant mount the sd card after i go trhough the initial partitioning process
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PaulG1488:
This recovery has potential looking forward to future updates going back to clock work mod
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
I'm uploading v1.7.0.3 everything should be functioning properly. Fixed the sdcard partitoning.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
Should be everything working.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
Awesome! Is it setup to clear this folder on a wipe? /emmc/.android_secure

Clockwork is setup to clear the folder on the sdcard, but that's not where ours is located.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
not currently will try to add it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Wait, wait -- that's all fine and good for AOSP/Sense 2.2 ROMs, but CM6 ROMs use the vfat sdcard partition (still, unfortunately). How about a switch for cyanogen<or>AOSP, if you're going to change anything?

BTW, thanks for the new version(s). One request: post the .img with md5sums . . . I personally hate the PB31IMG.zip method because a) bootloader doesn't like my sdcard and b) It just adds complexity to something that is easily done in adb or fastboot.

that's all, I'll let you know if I find any issues, but what I've been doing is keep the Koush update.zip on /sdcard that clockworkmod deposits to "temp" boot into recovery, and simply select and flash that from your version 1 in case I have anything that needs to be flashed/done in clockworkmod recovery. When I reboot, it disappears and I'm back to amon_ra. Pretty handy! :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
I think that is what the sd-ext folder is for in clockworkmod. When it does a wipe it checks for the existence of both.

I have tried fastboot to flash recovery and it doesn't seem to work even with s-off. Have you been able to do it?

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (4518 KB)... OKAY [ 0.637s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.639s
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
I trust your knowledge on the first point (I guess android_secure would be mounted the same in /mnt whether on not the file system was using sdcard or emmc or ext) :o

And yeah, it does fail in fastboot/bootloader, I guess because we don't have an engineering bootloader. Thinking back to G1 days -- HTC/T-Mo accidently shipped a user a refurb/repair unit with an engineering bootloader still loaded, which allowed fastboot commands. Reverse-engineering an hboot&bootloader must be a ***** . . . Assuming we still need signing keys at that level, or not?

EDIT: My way of doing it comfortably is to flash the recovery.img from the command line with adb or terminal emulator:

then powering down and *manually* booting into recovery--to prevent a brick should something have gone wrong in the image or flashing procedure.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
Ok, tried this out and it seems to work great. Thanks a lot for working on this. After trying this I now remember the only thing I do not like about Amon_Ra's recoveries. You can only flash zips that are in the root of your sd card. Is there any way you can fix this to allow for directory surfing like clockwork?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PaulG1488:
This recovery is slept on back too using it again thanks to the op for making it possible
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Wow. Google Translate or alcohol?:p
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PaulG1488:
And what does this make you my english teacher?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] aaronjb:
New meme: "slept on back".
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Milton1964:
Hey try this but really don't like it because when I try to get my old Nandroid recovery install it won't let me restore them. Would like to restore back the way it was before I install this program. Also when I go into Rom Manager it won't let me restore any of my Nandroid backups Please Help.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
Rom manager is compatible with clockwork, not ra. At this point, rom manager is useless.....and if you just mod the nandroid forlder you will be fine.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Milton1964:
I'm kind of a noob at this, how do you do this process of Mod.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
Take the backup folder from the clockwork folder in your sd, paste it on the root of yoyr sd and name it nandriod
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
At this point do not interchange nandroid backup with clockwork.

New version with toggle signed verification on zips, ability to usb removable drive mount phone?emmc storage, and gui mount of /system, data, sdcard, sd-ext. It will be uploaded soon.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
Eta?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Milton1964:
Got it guys thanks for all your help. Got it going. Got all my Nandroid backups. thanks again.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drellisdee:
just updated to new version