yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Android Development] casacristo:
from CWM 2.5.7 to ra_admon

Hi guys,

Isn´t there an update file to flash from the cloakwork recovery to move on to ra_admon?

or a way to do it from my linux workstation?
[Desire Android Development] aca85:
Yeah,i agree,that would be the best.

I've tried to flash this rec. with 3 diff.ways and still no success >_> Stupid CWM
[Desire Android Development] andQlimax:
Is NOT a problem of cwm recovery..the only way to flash any recovery is unrevoked (just run unrevoked again and choiche amonra if want it), or fastboot if u have s-off

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Android Development] casacristo:
What are the differences/benefits between CWR and Amon-RA´s ?

Does running unrevoke again have any side effects? (besides replacing the recovery image)
[Desire Android Development] GuestK00150:
Hey Amon_RA!

Thanks for this great recovery 2.0.1! Will there be an update in the near future?

Thanks in advance
[Desire Android Development] BigMrB:
+1 because I cannot restore backups atm :(
[Desire Android Development] nbicho:
+1

it would be perfect ;)
[Desire Android Development] marco.it:
I cant live without volume buttons to go up/down. The trackpad is really annoying. Please, return back that function!

Cheers
[Desire Android Development] TiwitAnoid:
Great work among...was directed here as I pvt4 and ur recovery should be used instead of clockwork ...I tried rooting earlier but wouldn't install the mod USB drivers. I think I need to do it the other way around Iam using unrevoked ....will report the results later...wish me luck

Update: I rooted finally ...whoow. so I did the s-off ...but it installed it installed his mod of clockwork recovery....

So what r the advantages of among RA recovery over clockwork if there is any?

Iam v new and haven't flashed any custom roms yet just wanted to be sure of what to use ..

Thanks in advance for any pointers
[Desire Android Development] echohack:
+1 on that one
[Desire Android Development] Schwarz33:
+1. Same thoughts.
[Desire Android Development] chronicfathead:
I find it a lot faster to use the OJ. Don't take my OJ away!

Is amonra 2.0.1 an official build? I can't remember where I got it from.

sent by touching my Desire
[Desire Android Development] str355:
2.0.1 is in this thread somewhere, fixed ext backups or restores iirc

I never bothered updating at the time as I don't use ext any more

Sent from Mobile..
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
But the reason it isn't an official release is because there are a lot of usb bricks when using it, especially when performing a nandroid backup.
[Desire Android Development] Terepin:
Funny, I did A LOT of em and never had any brick.
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
Well it isn't funny. And it is a recognised bug.
[Desire Android Development] katsucpe:
I never face that problem before or it's may be depends on rom that we flash?
[Desire Android Development] EViollet:
+1.

In my case, it's even worse : my trackpad no longer works. I can press the trackpad to select the options, but it doesn't detect movement any more.

So, if I can't navigate using the volume controls, I can't use this recovery.

Can you confirm that the volume keys don't work in the latest version?

If so, I'll have to stick with CWM then...
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
I'm not sure what it depends on. Different people reported doing different things before having a usb brick. I only ever got them after backing up then doing something else...never could repeat it though, it just seemed random. I think it was only with GB roms though, and Koush said to AmonRa that he thought it was to do with how the usb_mode flag was written.

Eviollet: I think the volume down keys were done by the person who originally ported Amon_Ra to desire, not sure though. I only ever use Amon_Ra because it mounts sd-ext better than CWM for when I want to use gparted. But 2.0.0 doesn't have the volume keys option
[Desire Android Development] tompok82:
Sorry, wrong thread.
[Desire Android Development] Henrik_Nyberg:
Seems like amonRA has stopped developing for Desire, what is the Recovery to use for the HTC Desire GSM version now?
[Desire Android Development] kodein:
It´s a shame. Recovery amon Ra was great.
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
thats absolute nonesense

the reason it wasnt official is because it was a test build and he didnt have enough time to check it all to release it as official and since he made the posts he has since stoped deving for bravo altogether

ive used it since release and never had a usb brick

infact no one here has reported usb bricks on it.

the only time people have had them is when they attempted to restore a backup from cwm

"Well it isn't funny. And it is a recognised bug."

its not a recognised bug at all, i think you are confusing this with CWM 3

nearly every instance of a usb brick has come from something to do with clockworkmod (making backups with rom manager then tring to fix a borked install by restoring with amonRA as you can no longer boot to rom manager recovery which is CWM)
[Desire Android Development] [armitage]:
have to agree on this.I made lots of backups with amonra 2.01 and never had any problems restoring them.Also it's the perfect recovery for pvt4 devices.the last stable cwm version was 2507 which doesn't even work with pvt4 devices.as far as I heard,all newer versions of cwm caused problems cause they were never really made for the desire.
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
I think you're the one that is getting confused:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9952265&postcount=401

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9952926&postcount=403

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9969972&postcount=415

It seems that AmonRA recognised it as a bug and responded with some suggestions, but never produced a fix/test fix.

ONLY happened with gingerbread roms.

Please research this thread...a simple search would have shown you that people HAVE actually reported issues in this very thread. And these same people did not try and restore clockwork mod back ups.

I'd also like to point out that it was never pinned down on what exactly caused the USB-Bricks, but that something in 2.0.1 and early gingerbread builds, there were USB bricks. Now I don't know if later GB builds are different in anyway, but it happened and no fix was produced.
[Desire Android Development] ivgeni:
Partition type

Hi,

If I use Amon-ra to make a partition what type it will be ? EXT2? EXT3?

Regards,
[Desire Android Development] fragargon:
hi, partiton begin with ext2, once done U can convert to partition to ext3 or ext4...

this is what you get with partition menu on amon ra recovery

Partition sdcard
Partition SD :: Interactive SD partitioning
Repair SD:ext :: Repair the ext partition
SD:ext2 to ext3 :: Convert ext2 to ext3
SD:ext3 to ext4 :: Convert ext3 to ext4
[Desire Android Development] ivgeni:
Thank`s.

If I convert EXT2 to EXT3 is their some way to convert it back to EXT2?
[Desire Android Development] reddev0:
No. other than deleting and re-partition
[Desire Android Development] johno168:
How do you Make EXT4 partition on CWM?
[Desire Android Development] fragargon:
... I think U ask that question in the wrong thread. As far as i remember from cmw 2518 i was unable to part ext4. But cmw has changed no idea if it's supported now. U certainly got an answer in the cmw thread.
[Desire Android Development] paul.c:
Hi,

The conversion procedure from ext3 to ext4 erases the data on that partition ?

More to the point: I have a RCMixS installed and there is a patch for it to work on ext4 partition. I would like to avoid reinstalling a bunch of apps and who knows what is on that partition, just to increase the speed which is pretty good as it is.
[Desire Android Development] Misiek_ud:
Make a nandroid backup before and convert the partition. If this delete the datas you can restore nandroid, it should restore ext partition too on new file system :)

But remember "it should.." :D
[Desire Android Development] Rastaman-FB:
im using GV and have done since it was out.

nothing here

there were only a couple of people that reported this issue to Amon_Ra so again this doesnt mean its "recognised" hell it could be that it was early oxygen and not the recovery at all.

ive done research on the thread, ive been using amonRA since 2.0 and currently using 2.1

also i must point out that if it was a widely accepted bug then surely there would be more reports on it. look at the various CWM3 threads, it was flooded.

im not a defender of Amons work and a bit gutted he just seems to of dropped us when some of his recent stuff looks very good.

I just think that making something out to be more than it is from a less than a handfull of people reporting an issue is about OTT
[Desire Android Development] vindieselxxx:
can anyone provide a link to latest amon ra recovery?
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9447821&postcount=152
[Desire Android Development] thanito:
Is there anywhere that I can find an update.zip for the latest AmonRA, to use it as a fake flash method??

Cheers,

T.
[Desire Android Development] Uqbar:
Should not happen. ext3 to ext3 can be done in place.

This is my information source.

A backup won't harm, anyway.
[Desire Android Development] tommeke19:
Hi,

I currently use CW recovery. But I want to try Amon ra, how do I have to install it?

I'm S-OFF also..

Please explain it step by step!

Thanks alot

Greetz
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
fastboot flash recovery recovery(or the img files name).img

or just use fastboot commander\android flasher, they both do the trick
[Desire Android Development] tommeke19:
Thanks man! :-)
[Desire Android Development] interqd:
hi.. so i can still use amon ra if i want to flash baadnewz insertcoin latest rom ?
[Desire Android Development] ghalalb:
I did (though have recently changed to CWM)
[Desire Android Development] Uqbar:
Huston, I think we have a problem!

I use RA-Desire 2.0.0 and this is what's puzzling me.

I was using Sense T v2.0.0 with its nice CRT TV Lockscreen Animation.

Then, in order to test v2.0.1 a went to recovery, wiped everything and then installed the new ROM. The CRT TV Lockscreen Animation was not working.

Then I reverted back to v2.0.0 and put on top of it v2.0.1 *without wiping*.

The CRT TV Lockscreen Animation was then working fine.

What I suspect is that the wiping is not really wiping everything.

I'm sure the EXT3 partition was empty, but have no idea about the other partitions.

How can I check whether this is a (likely) problem with the recovery or an (unlikely) issue with the ROM itself?

[UPDATE]

That's not an issue with the recovery. It's a strange behavior of the spare parts settings ...
[Desire Android Development] deniros:
i'm having trackball movement issues, is there anyway to navigate with the volume buttons?
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
Anyone any idea why both Amon-ra and Clockwork mod both can't make a backup for me anymore. Previous backups of virtually the same system were ~600Mb now after backup craps out i have a 1.85Gb restore file in both recoveries( it seems to just keep going until the sd-card is full). I did upgrade my ext from 500Mb to 1 Gb recently but 600Mb of that is free!
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
If you look in the backup directory, how big are the files?
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
Had another go .img sizes look ok but noticed it stalls or rather just keeps on going when backing up the dtinstall.log i guess the dark tremor log that comes with RCMix s but haven't found the location on the phone , could i delete that when i find it?
[Desire Android Development] iinga:
Looking at the files, should be "/data/dtinstall.log". It should be safe to remove
[Desire Android Development] marco.it:
I asked the same a few months ago, without solution :(
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
Cheers found it deleted it, all fine now it was HUGE for some reason
[Desire Android Development] Meaple:
Why are we stuck on 2.0.1? Did Amon decide that Desire was fine or something?
[Desire Android Development] jenordfoto:
I have AmonRa och my desire now, but how does Rom Manager work together with AmonRa? Do I have to install Clockworkmod through Rom Manager to use it at all? Or do i have to apply rom's on some other way?

Appriciate all help!
[Desire Android Development] fragargon:
Hi, don 't advice to use RM with Ar ... Lot of users have messed up doing this. From my own RM is a wast of time. It s better flashing cust rom in recovery.

That 's my advice.
[Desire Android Development] jenordfoto:
Okey, been reading alot since that post and I go with you. I'll flash from the recovery, and it dosn't seem that hard either.

Thanks.
[Desire Android Development] harrer:
I agree. USB bricked my Desire flashing from RM.
[Desire Android Development] aorifan:
is there any news about fix for usb brick while performing nand restore?
[Desire Android Development] reddev0:
Don't mount usb in recovery and then restore. If you must mount usb in recovery, reboot before doing a restore. Same advice for CWM.

Never had a usb brick with this recovery myself, and I backup/restore alot.
[Desire Android Development] aorifan:
Thanks,will do

Sent from RCmix
[Desire Android Development] mfknboss:
Anyone got a link for cdma recovery?
[Desire Android Development] ADSLgratuit:
Hello

is it possible to program a password to acces to the recovery to secure our smartphone ?

The goal is to not allow thiewes to make a full wipe data factory reset.

excuse my poor english
[Desire Android Development] sieempi:
It would be useless, there are plenty of ways to factory reset your phone.
[Desire Android Development] naguz:
Well, provided you have a unlock pattern/unlock code for when the device is tunred on, have disabled usb debugging, and have a locked down HBOOT which doesn't alow fastboot-functionality (if that is feasible) - how?
[Desire Android Development] andQlimax:
From the bootloader menu every one can factory reset ur phone and through adb can also pull about everything from ur phone ;)
[Desire Android Development] tma24:
how to flash amonRa recovery, when I have s-on? via adb?

adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img

go to? thx
[Desire Android Development] andQlimax:
If u have s-on, the unique way to change recovery is through unrevoked, before run it choice a custom recovery from the menu, then choice ur recovery.img

Be carefull, better do no restore nandroid backups made with cwm, with amon_ra recovery and viceversa, cause usb brick bug
[Desire Android Development] tma24:
omg :-) thx man
[Desire Android Development] Llywelyn:
I'm still amazed with Amon_RA's recoveries...

I hope you will keep updating them ;) (please, get us a 2.2.1 recovery for HTC Desire !)

(HTC Sapphire 1.7 user, then HTC Desire 2.0 user ;) )
[Desire Android Development] gagi75:
i have whit factory s off but cant use uvorked can i put amon ra insted cwm?

say cid eror
[Desire Android Development] resadent:
Until Amon_RA does it or not, you have RMD Recovery by m0narx based on amonra 2.2.1 and it is very stable and useful, I had no problems with it ;-)
[Desire Android Development] kakarot_22:
:)

Or use 4ext , still the best one for me
[Desire Android Development] resadent:
I know 4ext is an excellent recovery, but aren't CWM-based recoveries too slow while doing a nandroid backup? In my experience, amonra is many times faster.
[Desire Android Development] fragargon:
And much more convenient. Try this command while in recovery from adb »»» nandroid-mobile.sh

sgt tab running OC Kratos on xda app
[Desire Android Development] Bigdrago:
2.0.1 :

http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...-0-0-14-11-2010-recovery-ra-desire-v2.0.1.zip

Getting this message from unrevoked when trying to flash this. "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?"
[Desire Android Development] makcrellon:
Bricked HTC Desire

Hey all,

A colleague of mine gave me his bricked HTC Desire which he managed to screw up trying to root it. I don't know what he did to get it in this condition.

I know that there is no S-Off, I can see when I boot pressing Power + Vol Down. When I try to chose Fastboot and try to go to Recovery the device simply restarts.

The problem is this... when you power on the device normally it will simply show the HTC symbol, and then recycle constantly. Rarely it tries itself to get into Safeboot and you rarely get to see the HTC lockscreen before it reboots again.

Does anyone have any suggestions on if it's possible to recover this device? I have installed ADB on my laptop. Is it possible to flash some sort of recovery via ADB or install a recovery on the memory card?

Thanks,

Mack
[Desire Android Development] zoranhr:
After changing my hboot from cm7 to stock and going back into recovery Amora down at the bottom it says E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log What does that mean?
[Desire Android Development] AlxMAX:
HBOOT changed => partition table changed => recovery can't find /cache

You should go in recovery mode and format the cache partition. I would have expected that you knew this since you were able to change the HBOOT. It seems like it's not the case! You replaced the HBOOT blindly without knowing the consequences!
[Desire Android Development] zoranhr:
As far as I can understand it can find cache but not the log file. After changing hboot I did all the wipes before installing the Rom
[Desire Android Development] HandyBesitzer:
Hi

is the AmonRa Recovery a touch Recovery?

Yesterday i reinstalled Runnymede AIO, and i was able to use the touchscreen. i was really suprised, because someone said, no that's not possible.
[Desire Android Development] cirapfc:
No, it is not a touch recovery...

You are talking about "aroma" installer, yea, aroma is touchscreen...
[Desire Android Development] HandyBesitzer:
So you mean it doesn't matter if my Recovery has this Feauture, to use the touch in Aroma?
[Desire Android Development] SynGatesFan20:
Can this be used on a CDMA desire?
[Desire Android Development] effepas:
The link seems not working...
[Desire Android Development] neXus PRIME:
4ext classic and 4ext touch are WAY better then this recovery.. ....just a suggestion, try either and you'll be fine.

Sent from outer space using RF transmitters
[Desire Android Development] Ulumia:
Latest Amon RA recovery
[Desire Android Development] kai84m:
+1

That is also interesting me! R5.1 wiped SD-Card FAT after restoring NAND BU. :(

The option to wipe "everything" with one click is great!
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
Did you try flashing robociks with v2.0.0?

Which error do you get?

Is robociks rom signed or not? If not, did you toggle signature verification?
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
R5 was not made by me... restoring a nand backup shouldn't wipe things...
[Desire Android Development] Sturmtief:
I'm using the fake flash port of your recovery, i've no idea which version i used, because the build info says not set. I think there's only one version of the fake flash port. Everything is working fine with the fake flash version, the only thing is that it can't handle wiping SD ext, it doesn't work. The error on robokics roms says "can't mount sd-ext". But i want to use fake flash in future because it's working fine and i like it! Trackball scrolling lags a bit sometimes but that's not a big thing!

So is it possible to get a fake flash file of your latest version? Could it handle wiping sd ext?

Would be cool to use it with fake flash! Thx for your help and your great recovery!
[Desire Android Development] mercianary:
I also would like this feature.

I use an update.zip that will format system instead. I will upload it later for you.
[Desire Android Development] Twau:
This makes me curious, how come it does not have this feature already?

Do all think wipe of system is necessary?
[Desire Android Development] mad-murdock:
hey amon, thanks for adding htc desire to target devices of this great recovery.

suggestion: shouldn't zip-verification be disabled by default?
[Desire Android Development] mercianary:
The only time I have ever found formatting system useful was getting rid of gapps on cm. Other than this I can see no use for it.

I thought flashing unsigned updates was dangerous. The user should have to disable this feature as a safety feature.
[Desire Android Development] NeoDriver:
Unsigned updates are not always dangerous, I tend to edit ROMs to remove apps that I personally wouldn't use (Twitter, Stocks etc). This always changes the sig of the file and thus verification needs to be off, although I can see what you mean, I guess its just dependant on the amount of people doing the same as me or just flashing raw ROMs :)
[Desire Android Development] Boyz_on:
Hi,

Can i use this with froyo 2.2 OTA official.

tks
[Desire Android Development] StuMcBill:
Is there any chance that this could get PSFreedom built into it?

Keep up the great work Amon Ra.

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Desire Android Development] kai84m:
I was aware of that but i just asked for security reasons.

Thank you very much - Great work!
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
Why would you want to format /system ? Every update.zip formats system anyway....

If you want to do it manually you can just do a :

fastboot erase system
[Desire Android Development] mr.r9:
Thank you Amon_RA for the best recovery for the Desire.

Amon_RA, can you add scrolling with the volume keys + optical joystick (trackball)? My joystick sometimes becomes non-responsive, and the ported R5 recovery had it & I got used to it:p
[Desire Android Development] Amon_RA:
Apparently Unrevoked flashes an Superuser app... this is out of my control.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
So people flashing your new recovery as a .img via Fastboot won't have this problem?

And you're right, Unrevoked does flash a Superuser app. You could add that to the first post... :)
[Desire Android Development] mercianary:
The only reason I ever found was when updating CM and I wanted to get rid of gapps.

No problem here flashing with fastboot, if anything it's easier, but you will need s-off.
[Desire Android Development] Latty:
If you have issues with Unrevoked and your superuser app, all you have to do is to go into settings/applications and "clear data" for the superuser app.

Or, do the better thing and S-OFF your desire so you can use fastboot :D
[Desire Android Development] h00ver:
:eek: thx alot :D
[Desire Android Development] fabioccoelho:
I can´t update new recovery version using Unrevoked method :o I´ve Recovery version 1.7.x-R5 in my HTC Desire.

Thanks for help!
[Desire Android Development] skuddy:
will we get any CDMA desire love? =)
[Desire Android Development] :
sending 'recovery' (3936 KB)... FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))

any ideas?

S-OFF and using fastboot, also N1Table if that makes a difference.

checked md5 which matched exactly too.
[Desire Android Development] mercianary:
I had this too on Linux.

sudo su

Then try again.
[Desire Android Development] vnvman:
When running fastboot flash recovery recovery.img, make sure that the image file you're flashing is like ".img" and not ".img.img" :) Try deleting the extension in the file name...
[Desire Android Development] :
just tried with sudo, same error. using os x so no su :|
[Desire Android Development] :
verified the file type too, definitely just .img
[Desire Android Development] vnvman:
Check the extension, as i posted above, and tell me if it works ;)

Edit: hmm k, then it's just weird...i told you so because i had the same error today, then i renamed (with no .img in the name) it and it just worked :( Did you try that?
[Desire Android Development] :
my bad, i hadn't hit the power button properly and just assumed i was in fastboot :(

flashed fine now
[Desire Android Development] vnvman:
Haha i totally forgot about that option, my bad. Glad you sorted it anyway :)
[Desire Android Development] annewbie:
Thanks Amon_RA. Flashed 2.0 recovery img via fastboot.
[Desire Android Development] _bryan_:
is this compatible with sense and miui roms？