yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
Flashed this recovery 2 days ago and was quite happy with it .... till some min ago when i found out that "backup nand + ext" doesn't do what it says ...

It doesn't backup "sd-ext/" but only "/sd-ext/apps/" and "/sd-ext/app-private".

This isn't problem as long as you don't have an "sd-ext/ext4" file wich contains your "/data/data" ........

It would be nice if in the next release the "backup nand+ext" option either does what it says or if there would be an option "backup nand+complete ext".

Well, i'm lucky i used Titanium Backup.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9447821&postcount=152
[Desire Android Development] melethron:
Thx. I Didn't read the complete thread.

Flashed it and see if it's working.

@Amon Ra: would be nice if you add at least a warning in your first post (i've read it completly). There are quite a few ppl that are trying to use data2sd atm.

EDIT: Tested 2.0.1 and it's backing up everthing fine (checked the tar). Also tried restore and its working. Thanks.
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
there might be something missing in that rom that does not allow tools like unrevoked to backdoor root it.

remember that rom has been built from the ground up and doesnt use much of the base code written by htc therefore may not have the same loop holes.

its might be a case of flashing an RUU, rooting and pushing amonra then installing oxygen again.

the reason i say this is because alpharev uses the same exploit so its also likely to fail
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
I totally agree. unrevoked is tested against the official roms, since it is a first step tool. It's probably much less tested against custom roms. Get s-off or use a stock comparable rom like leedroid.for the recovery part. I.suggest s-off

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] nyunyu:
I'm currently using clockworkmod recovery but want to try this recovery.

Can anyone point me to the guide of how to flash this recovery over clockworkmod? and the process of course.

Yes, I know some of you might reply to this asking me to use google etc but appreciate if there is someone who can honestly offer some help on pointing me to the right direction.

Appreciate it so much,

Thanks.
[Desire Android Development] Glotzeulor:
I posted Here how to do it.
[Desire Android Development] nyunyu:
Thanks, appreciate it.
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

do i need to s-off?
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
yes, unfortunately its an assumption that everyone has s-off

i have it but didnt for ages, its recommended as it makes things alot simpler

for you though who currently doesnt have s-off, the other method is to

load unrevoked, before connecting device select the custom recovery option and then select the ra recovery.

connect device and start the process.

it should go through the rooting proceedure again and load the recovery
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
Thanks,

tried that, unfortunately i get the same HBOOT stock recovery :/

am i doing something wrong?
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
hboot will remain the same but recovery should be Ra instead of clockwork?

are you definately selecting the ra-recover img file before applying unrevoked
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
Yes im sure i chose the ra.

Let me describe the process:

1)choosing the ra image.

2) connecting the phone via usb sync without the htc sync installed.

3) it reboots

4) what now? the unrevoked says "waiting for hboot to load" or something... and if i choose the recovery i get the original one... :/

again- many thanks.
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
does it ever move from waiting for hboot to load?

you should also have it set to charge only not sync

boot to hboot and connect device, make sure it can be seen within windows as my htc or android bootloader
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
i dont know if it moves i diddnt wait for long...

right now the unrevoked is on and the device is on "charge only" and nothing is happening...

the booting to hboot process shouldnt be made by the unrevoked?

EDIT:

i dont think i have the right drivers!!!

where did you download them from?
[Desire Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
Wenn you downloaded UnREVoked did you even toolk time to read the 'hboot driver.htm' ?
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
yea i found it.. my bad :/

Progress:

after installing the drivers, loading the image ra file, connecting the desire it restarted a couple of times and then i reached the part where the unrevoked is saying: "waiting for root (restart is safe if this doesnt work)"

so ive wait a couple of minutes, nothing happend so i pulled off the battery and from there im lost :/

what should i do?

by the way-

with the unrevoked im just uploading the ra recovery for a single time or it flashed to my device for good?

Many thanks, sorry for the noobish...
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Missing/wrong usb drivers. Read the tutorial, get the drivers done like they should try again. or use linux, which is the easy way.

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
What you should do? Maybe boot to recovery, since it should be different now?

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
Hi,

ive tried that :/

pulled of the battery- boot to recovery- and i have the old

"apply update.zip"

"wipe partition"

etc.

when i apply the update.zip i get the clockwork offcourse :/
[Desire Android Development] cap11:
Want only to report back, that the restore-and-su-issues are gone with 2.01 :-)

Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] shokka9:
Where is the official thread for 2.0.1 Recovery.

Seen as the HD ROMs kinds need it to do a restore, i would of thought there would be a thread up?

I just found Amon_Ra's post linking it, but no thread?

:)
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
when using ths recovery to covert ext3 to ext4 do you lose data?

i recently tried ext3 to ext 4 but did wipe but when i checked in gparted it said ext3

so i decided to try ext2 but now i want to try ext4 but dont want to wipe and reinstall rom

so wanna know if i can to ext2 to ext3 then ext3 to ext4 but wondering if it will actually convert it
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
update.zip is the old fake flash method that rom manager still uses.

you should wait, unrevoked can take ages to root sometimes, if you pulled the battery you could cause some damage.

go through the process again and wait for it to report something.

if its been on waiting for root for 10mins or more then check device manager on the pc and makesure the device is still seen as my htc/android bootloader.

impatience is the killer of devices
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
he loaded it as a patch for some people to test, its not official as hes going to improve upon it and make it choseable

im running 2.0.1 perfectly though
[Desire Android Development] ascot17:
@Amon_RA:

Quick question please. If I upgrade to the new 2.0.1 version will I still be able to restore nandroid backups created with an older version of your recovery?
[Desire Android Development] lambrospower:
Excellent job my friend. I just received my ddesire from sefvice center and this recovery works great
[Desire Android Development] LfcFan1977:
I don't think I have seen anybody comment on this so please shoot me if i missed it.

Also, just before flashing this over the top of cwm, I had solved an issue with my sdcard not mounting and being visible as a mass storage device on my winxp laptop. So can't be sure it is not related.

Anyway, just tried usb-ms toggle and no usb mass storage device visible on my laptop.

Tried, connecting phone to laptop, then selecting usb-ms toggle.

And usb-ms toggle, then connecting phone to laptop.

Usb mass storage device is visible when in normal android operation.

"adb devices" cmd confirms phone is connected.

What could be wrong?

Oh btw, flashed the img with fastboot, partitioned sdcard, TYVM

I can push files to sdcard with adb while in recovery.
[Desire Android Development] Spitniv:
Ok, will try this tomorrow,

but i reached the point where the unrevoked tells me:

"waiting for root, it is safe to restart"

or something like that...

will report :)

thanks.

EDIT: WORKING!!!

THANKS! :-)
[Desire Android Development] remizik:
Hello,

I'm not S-OFF.

I rooted my phone and installed the ClockWorkMod Recovery automatically using Unrevoked.

I would like to install Amon_RA instead.

Is there a way to do it without going S-OFF ?

And without using Unrevoked again.

thanks :)

edit : ok I read this in previous posts :( "The only way to install this WITHOUT S-OFF is via Unrevoked, AFAIK"
[Desire Android Development] rraaka:
Well, if you remember me guys, i was using Amon Ra recovery 2.0.0. I had flashed the image thru Windows Vista with unrevoked.Im S on even now.

I wanted to go over to recovery 2.0.1 because of its additional features and i was on DHD Old Fashion v 14. I couldnt get unrevoked to work on Vista this time. I tried flashing Leedroid 2,2f, and blackdroid, -- unrevoked didnt work. Then I flashed update-oxygen-0.2.2-signed-htctheme.zip and then unrevoked worked !! Now Im on Amon Ra recovery 2.0.1. Formatted my sd card with this recovery flashed to my earlier DHD OF v 14 rom.

I had used my 2.0.0 for formatting my sd card ext 2->3->4 and for all DHD rom with data2sd releases , even the earlier ones by ownhere and rob and each time I had clean reboots into the rom after flashing.

I think for those using windows XP installing HTC syn and then uninstalling it leaving the drivers there would work for unrevoked to flash the recovery.

Sorry to take up so much of your time.

Im happy Amon is developing this recovery further :-)
[Desire Android Development] lapator:
It would be very nice if you have an option to custom setup mtd partition sizes...

Thanks for your work Amon_RA..
[Desire Android Development] dislok:
Woww, Great job:)
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
check the last 2 pages of this thread please, ive already explained and advised how to do it
[Desire Android Development] jazacoop:
Support for Vol +/- Keys

Fantastic Recovery (as usual).

I'd love to see support for menu navigation using the Vol +/- keys in the next version, as using the optical trackpad can be a pain.

Also, for anyone with a GSM Desire who is having trouble flashing the Recovery using the UnRevoked method (hangs saying waiting for root) try flashing using UnRevoked Version 3.14 (link here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/recovery/3.14/reflash_package.exe).
[Desire Android Development] darkmanlv:
Thanks!! Helped me alot. Have trouble to update Ra-Desire-1.7 to this 2.0. New Unrevoked hangs saying waiting for root and nothing happens. Now all fine, i`m on amon ra 2.0 :)

Version 3.14 helped me to update amon ra from 1.7 to 2.0 with LeeDroid 2.2f installed. But after this my LeeDroid have boot loop (HTC logo and then reboot). Wiped cache, dalvik cache and flashed LeeDroid again. Programs left, all other left. So all is good.

Why new version of Unrevoked can`t do this?
[Desire Android Development] sergienko4:
good work, Thank
[Desire Android Development] JPeltonen:
I was also having this exact problem, even with S-OFF and eventually flashed RA v.2.0.1 using fastboot.

But it's good to now this version of Unrevoked is working so I can use it in the future (if I'm at a computer without SDK/fastboot). So thanks!
[Desire Android Development] jazacoop:
No worries, although I think it is actually the S-Off component of UnRevoked (i.e. UnRevoked Forever) in version 3.22 that prevents it from flashing Recovery ROM's. Have not tested this, but I suspect that if you unticked Disable Security on Phone in the File Menu before connecting your phone in version 3.22 that it would successfully flash.

Would be interested to know if this is the case.
[Desire Android Development] bluemetallic:
What do I do with a GSM/WCDMA Desire

The answer to this might be obvious but I'm a bit confused :confused: I have a Desire that has got both GSM and 3G (WCDMA) capabilities, should I back off this? My main concern at the moment is A2SD and I found this thread after searching for the amon-ra because it's recommended by Turkeys' guide to rooting.

So, what to do with a GSM/WCDMA Desire?
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
its gsm

cdma only has no sim card
[Desire Android Development] jchoong:
Like many here who don't have S-OFF and wanted to use Amon RA Recovery to increase their Ext from 512 MB to 1GB, I struggled the past couple of days to achieve this. After searching and reading lots of helpful postings, etc, I finally managed to succeed. Allow me to share the "simple" procedure:

1) Run Unrevoked 3.14 (does not work with Unrevoked 3.20)

2) Before connecting Desire, select the Amon RA Recovery (from your PC where this has been saved)

3) Connect Desire to USB and select "Charge Only"

4) Unrevoked will start and complete the process.

Thanks to all for their most helpful leads.
[Desire Android Development] warriorofice:
Great!!!

I´ve missed this recovery for all time that i had the Legend.

Now i´ve it again. Thanks!!!

One question that i have.

are there any button combination to open recovery directly with the Desire off whithout open HBOOT or FASTBOOT?
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
With GSM I mean your phone, the GSM/WCDMA phone, so you can flash it on your phone. The CDMA version is only sold in the US.
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
this works with .93 bootloader?
[Desire Android Development] bluemetallic:
Thanx, I'll try as soon as I have time :)
[Desire Android Development] jchoong:
Yes, I am on 0.93 HBoot.
[Desire Android Development] jussy:
I've rooted my desire GSM with unrevoked 3.21, can I flash this recovery just using unrevoked again or must I go back to stock before?
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
thats mad, cos the whole reason 3.21 was created was becuase previous versions didnt work with the .92 and .93 hboots

or was it a combination of hboot and stock froyo

cant remember
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Yes, you can. Read the last few pages for more details

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] jussy:
Thanks for kind reply.

PS: may I restore my old clockwork backup with amonRA?
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
No, both nandroid backups are not compatible. But you can use rom manager to fake flash clockworkmod and restore that way. AT least.the first few weeks when you still use clockworkmod backups. They longer you use the new recovery, the less you need clockworkmod

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] Lunchboxbob:
Flashed this in fastboot last night and im loving it so far :D Did a nand+ext backup, popped in my new 16 GB Class 6, and RA restored everything perfectly. Now enjoying my faster card.

Many thanks for this great feature-rich recovery.
[Desire Android Development] dkawa:
I think I have learned something today... AmonRa is totally new for me.

I have installed a 2.29 stock rom with A2SD+ and ROOTED. Partioning went fine etc etc... AFter installing all my apps with Titanium Backup I had about 80Mb Free storage left. So that is a good thing. But then I went installing a battery mod and a Espresso Mod. And it went wrong with the Espresso MOd. With restart it went in bootloop. So then I though let's wipe everthing before restoring but this was not a good idea.

My phone was empty but my internal storag was about 70Mb Free with NO apps installed. So something went wrong with WIPING before you put back the NANDROID backup.

So basically:

restore a NANDROID backup: do NOT WIPE before restoring??? That is the basic rule??
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
no thats not the rule

the device should be wiped.

3 times last night i did switched between 3 nand + ext backed up roms wiping between each one.

nand backup is as it says, it backs up the complete nand in its current state.

where you went wrong is you have a2sd+, you should have backed up nand +ext not just nand

as such when you restored it only restored your nand and not your a2sd ext partition.
[Desire Android Development] ascot17:
Nandroid Restore Causing Boot Loop

I flashed the RCMix HD 0.14_OF ROM a couple of days ago and all was working nicely.

Yesterday, I made a nandroid backup (using Amon_RA 2.0.1) and flashed the Z0.2 ROM. I then tried to restore back to the HD v0.14_OF but the phone got stuck in a boot loop.

I can restore my Modaco r9 and MIUI backups withoug a problem, but not the HD ROMs. Does anybody have a solution for this please ????

(It might be worth pointing out that the boot animation screen that loops is a black screen from the r9 ROM. This should not be appearing at all. I should be seeing the stock white screen from the HD ROMs. Can this have anyting to do with different locations of the boot animation screen.......???)
[Desire Android Development] dkawa:
I have backed up Nand+ext. But i can only restore Nand and not Nand+ext....
[Desire Android Development] Terepin:
I converted from ext2 through ext3 to ext4. But second converting took only few seconds. How can I check in which format is converted partition?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
There's only one restore option, and it restores everything you've backed up. If you restore a backup that was made with NAND+Ext backup, you'll be restoring the EXT partition as well.
[Desire Android Development] matrix825:
Can anyone please tell me if unrevoked is compatible with my desire Hboot 0.80??

Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
well i and many others have tested the nand + ext backup and it fully restores it

maybe try 2.0.1 rather than 2.0

maybe you have a slightly different setup and you have more custom stuff moving to the ext partition that isnt backed up (hense trying the 2.0.1 as it corrects it)

if its standard a2sd+ script that most people with custom rom use (not the froyo implementation) then backing up nand+ext works
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
D'oh, what's with the new buttons? :p

IIRC my Desire was HBoot 0.80 before I used Unrevoked to root. Should be fine...
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
Can confirm
[Desire Android Development] matrix825:
Shall i connect the phone to the computer, with it in recovery mode?? Or normal?

Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] takabriga:
best radio

Excuse my English ... I would ask you a question ... WHAT 'THE BEST USE OF RADIO IN ITALY WITH ROM RCMIX V14?:confused: THANK YOU.:p
[Desire Android Development] takabriga:
sorry I was wrong post
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
But for sure you impressed (:

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] rraaka:
unrevoked 3.21 worked for me on hboot 0.80

and i used it with phone in booted up (normal) mode

Ps - i just tried the thank button..it seems you cant 'un-thank' someone after thanking :p

like the 'love' button on facebook !!
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
Thank yous are everlasting!

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire Android Development] Opperpanter:
How to flash this image to my desire? You say "Use Unrevoked", but that flashes a clockwokmod recovery image, not the RA one. Fastboot commander doesn't work for me.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
You can specify a custom recovery image to flash in place of Clockwork. :)
[Desire Android Development] Opperpanter:
thanks, i just found out. I tried to extract the exe and see if I could overwrite the image or something. But nothing, then I found out that you need to disconnect your phone from the pc before starting unrevoked in order to select custom recovery image from the file menu. If you have your phone connected while starting unrevoked, the root-ing starts instantly and you cannot select a custom recovery image.
[Desire Android Development] Opperpanter:
well, flashing didn't work. unrevoked told me "recovery: custom", but didn't flash it. It also didn't get root, so maybe that's the problem? I already have AuraxTSense 8.1.4 on it (rooted).
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Try a different ROM.... some Sense ROMs cause problems IIRC ;)
[Desire Android Development] Opperpanter:
I was succesfull after I applied the latest 2.29.405 RUU.
[Desire Android Development] chrisvr4:
Hi.

i just tried this on my desire, copied everything exactly and when i pressed the enter key im getting a load of scrolling error messages

mtd: read error at 0x00000000 (out of memory

Also in terminal emulator i noticed 2 $ $ and on the vids ive watched theres only one $ ?

any help much appreciated

cheers
[Desire Android Development] vivmar:
Why latest version in first page is 2.0 and at page 16 there's a 2.01 version?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9447821&postcount=152
[Desire Android Development] 9600pro87:
Please make a version with Volume + and Volume - for navigate in the menu. Trackpad is too sensitive for my hands.

Thanks.
[Desire Android Development] chrisvr4:
Anyone else have had issues flashing recovery with terminal emulator?
[Desire Android Development] najar360:
nope. you must s-off first before can flash recovery through terminal.
[Desire Android Development] remizik:
Hi,

is it possible to have the MD5 file for the 2.0.1 version :confused:

thanks a lot :D
[Desire Android Development] dkawa:
So do I have to wipe everything (all user date, SD card, SD ext etc.. etc) prior to RESTORING??
[Desire Android Development] remizik:
up :(

I really want to flash this recovery but I don't want to brick my phone :D
[Desire Android Development] jazacoop:
RA v2.0.1

md5 for RA v2.0.1 is 528D44D511A27EB30C3105ED54078130

Cheers
[Desire Android Development] dkawa:
Nobody????
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Is there any harm in wiping? No. So wipe. ;)
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
Don't manually erase the content of your SD FAT partition, I assume you want to keep your pictures/nandroid backups etc..

A nandroid restore will overwrite everything for you, so a wipe is not really needed...

I do however advice you to wipe sd-ext before a nandroid restore if you are using sd-ext to store different things than apps only (e.g. themes etc...).

In v2.0.0 the sd-ext restore will only restore (and thus overwrite/wipe) apps on sd-ext.

It will not touch/wipe/restore/backup/delete/... other stuff on your sd-ext.

I'll add full nandroid backup/restore of /sd-ext in the next version.

Please post a recovery log if you get an error while using this recovery.

Without recovery log we can not help you.
[Desire Android Development] remizik:
thanks a lot,

MD5s files should be on the 1st page of every topic :D

edit : Flashed ! :p
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
v2.0.1 is not official, that's why it's not on the 1st page of this thread.
[Desire Android Development] dkawa:
I have experienced the following:

I have installed a 2.29 stock rom with A2SD+ and ROOTED. Partioning went fine etc etc... AFter installing all my apps with Titanium Backup I had about 80Mb Free storage left. So that is a good thing. But then I went installing a battery mod and a Espresso Mod. And it went wrong with the Espresso MOd. With restart it went in bootloop. So then I though let's wipe everthing before restoring but this was not a good idea.

My phone was empty but my internal storag was about 70Mb Free with NO apps installed. So something went wrong with WIPING before you put back the NANDROID backup.

So what went wrong in my case? This is the V2.0.0 version.
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
As I mentioned before please provide a recovery log so we can see what went wrong. Without recovery log we can't know what went wrong.

Bootloops are not related to this recovery, use ddms to trace what is going wrong and contact the dev who made the update that made your phone to bootloop.

So :

1. Wipe sd-ext if you are using anything different than apps on your sd-ext (you didn't answer if you are or not).

2. Restore your nandroid backup.

3. Provide us the recovery log.

4. Don't use BOLD, it makes my eyes bleed.