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[Legend Android Development] LSM1:
Yesterday I posted my adventures in rooting in post 60 in the USB Unbrick thread. I see above in posting 84 it was useful to some in this thread. I now have more to report.

Not being content to leave well enough alone I tried this Howto Update HBOOT to 1.00 keeping your Legend rooted again. I have a stock, unrooted RUU 2.2, so I followed the "Already OTA updated with HBOOT 1.00" although I actually have HBOOT1.01.

As I noted in the other thread, and have seen in several other reports, I could not get ROM manager or clockworkmod recovery to work. I installed superuser and confirmed that the 2.1 version that is installed from testimage.zip (i.e., LEGEIMG.zip) is indeed rooted. Despite getting ROM manager to install clockworkmod recovery I could not get it to do anything.

Since the Howto got me downgraded and rooted from a rooted stock Froyo I was happy but stuck in getting to an unrooted Froyo. My solution was to use the "Howto: Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Legend" by David Cogen at the unLockr.

Simply substitute this ROM installation advice instead of the nonworking (for me) clockworkmod recovery process.

In essence, with a unrooted ROM zip file (I used the excellent new KIS froyo ROM from curto) on a gold card, put your phone into recovery mode (i.e., charge only, usb in debug mode, startup with fastboot) and with the usb cable installed run the "recovery-windows.bat" file from the "r4-legend-root" directory (from r4-legend-root.zip) in a MSDOS window on your WinXP machine.

The recovery menu is a bit touchy so you may have to try it more than once, but once it is running, simply do a data/factory wipe then use the install from sdcard option to install your rooted froyo rom. To navigate this custom recovery menu you must use the trackball, which is a bit touchy, so be careful.

This alternative ending to the otherwise excellent HOWTO on HBOOT 1.00 and 1.01 may help those with the same problem I had and get YOUR Legend on a rooted Froyo OS.
[Legend Android Development] mbrio:
Sorry to ask, but what is the significance of the original misc partition and how bad is it if I accidentally lost my backup of it while formatting my sdcard to get the LEGEIMG.zip to be recognized?... :o

Btw. the guide worked perfectly despite my little mishap, so thanks :)
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
The significance is such, that you have to tamper it with a version number that is older than one you are trying to flash. That's how you trick the fastboot. Flashing a RUU will then overwrite the version number again so basically it is not that important for you since from now on you won't flash a RUU any more.

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] diegooo:
I have rom manager problem. I have no problem with this guide to downgrade obtaining su. I also checked superuser from shell and i can access all folders.

But after downgrade i'm unable to have rom manager working properly. Everything thing i do with rom manager nothing happen. Someone has an idea about what is wrong ? Or a suggestion to flash the froyo rom from this guide in another way ? Here i miss some info of course, cause i tried to rename it as legeimg.zip but recovery don't like it. Sorry for my noob question. Be kind.
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
So you have ROM Manager problem and this is HBOOT HOWTO ;)

I have never used ROM Manager so I can't help you with this. And you can't use just any plain update renaming it to LEGEIMG.zip and expect it to wokr. It just doesn't work this way...
[Legend Android Development] diegooo:
I post here about rom manager cause nobody else around has this problem so i tought it coulb be erelated to this precedure. Can you point to a guide to flash this legend's rom without rom manager ? i really don't care to use it. It's just reported here in the guide.
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Power off you phone, then power on with vol. down held. You should be at a white screen. Press volt. down once, then the power button. Wait until you see a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it, then press vol. up and power. Wait for the blue menu, then press vol. down then power. There you go, clockworkmod recovery, no ROM Manager used. Of course, "reboot to recovery" in ROM Manager does exactly this.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Legend Android Development] diegooo:
thx for this help. I put update.zip in the sdcard with clockworkmod recovery and i'm able to use it via recovery. I still have problem btw cause the OTA rom is not installing. I think this can depend from my vodafone brand. I'm gonna try again with unbranding before to try. At the moment i'm only able to obtain 2.1 rooted and 2.2 unbranded unrooted. Better then nothing.

EDIT

I can be more specific now. When i try to install ota voda froyo rom from clockworkmod i receive error.

E:error in /sdcard/otafroyovoda.zip

(status 7)

installation aborted.

Someone know what is this (status 7) ?
[Legend Android Development] TeCH-Guruz:
Hi I am rooted on HBOOT 1.01 just decided to go a resotre my misc partition. so i boot up in to clockwork recovery

adb shell

flash_image misc /sdcard/misc_backup.img

but get this error message

error opening /sdcard/misc_backup.img: no such file or directory

so then I tried to pull the img and get a does not exist message but once I reboot the phone and do the pull command I can pull the file no problem.

Any ideas?
[Legend Android Development] mbrio:
Mount the sdcard? Or is it not possible to have it unmounted in recovery?
[Legend Android Development] TeCH-Guruz:
I just presumed that it would auto mount thanks I think that it is done now is there any way to actually find out if I have restored my backup?
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
Make new backup and compare both or make a md5 checksum of both.

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] schMATKA:
Good Work!
[Legend Android Development] nae64:
Just to clarify, I can use this to root my OTA 2.2 Legend, which has never been rooted before?
[Legend Android Development] qzem:
Yes.

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[Legend Android Development] MontseCat:
You may also pull that backup to your PC:

when doing this last point got a message

adb: permission denied

thanks
[Legend Android Development] loupiac45:
My phone has a goldcard... and in the bootloader, the phone doesn't find the archive LEGEIMG.zip in my sdcard !!

Can you help me ?
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
If you have read everything that was written on this matter and haven't found an answer to your question, then I doubt I could help you.

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] loupiac45:
I checked everything and the phone does not find the archive LEGEIMG :

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=475691&stc=1&d=1293627950

Thank you for your help.
[Legend Android Development] fabi280:
Don't Upgrade your HBOOT!

At least not now.

Wait until Team Alpharev releases 1.8 for Legend.

It gives you S-OFF and HBOOT v1.0

You cant get S-OFF if you are already at 1.0
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
Be sure you have FAT32 partition on your SD card and that file name is LEGEIMG.zip and not legeimg.zip or LEGEIMG.ZIP.

Some ppl had exactly the same problem... formatting SD card proved to solve the problem.
[Legend Android Development] loupiac45:
Ok, I have found my error : sdcard was not in FAT32 !!

Thank you very much Blayo !!
[Legend Android Development] lindows:
please help,

i'm stuck in the bootloop

it is now upgraded to HBOOT 1.0

but it just keeps rebooting, i'm afraid i may have bricked it
[Legend Android Development] lindows:
hi BlaY0

please tell me where i can download this not OTA file, i'm stuck also in the boot loop, same as maxq1 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9563655&postcount=51

thanks

lindows
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
It is exactly in this forum. Just search for Legend_Froyo_S_Vodafone_FR...
[Legend Android Development] justcookiesncream:
EDIT

Still having error with LEGEIMG.zip

Details:

Tried formatting to Fat32 4kb allocated space using my laptop, placed LEGEIMG.zip into the sd card and not into any subfolders, It didn't have a CID error so I don't think that that I've got an invalid goldcard so I've ran out of ideas to troubleshoot on my own, any suggestions?

(above solved by removing .zip from the file name)

Edit:

Using Blay0 0.6 now, I like the notification bar!:D
[Legend Android Development] gelim:
Hi,

first of all, thanks BlaY0 for taking the time to explain all of that and as I can see to answer every questions :)

My case is the first one "Already OTA updated with HBOOT 1.00".

After following your instructions I'm stuck with a loop boot. Acutally I did a mistake. Forgot to backup the misc partition. Is that the main reason for the loop ?

I also need some clarification when you say "Put FroYo update ROM zip to your sdcard and install it via ClockworkMod recovery". Do you speak about the whole "OTA_Legend_Froyo_S_Vodafone_UK_3.14.161.1-2.05.161.1_R_release_135177_156984u2k321537x1cpy3d.zip" or just the extracted firmware.zip ?

because firmware.zip won't install with Clockwork while it will via bootloader (and renamed to LEGEIMG.zip)

If the loop boot is due to the "misc backup" mistake then is this possible to get a fresh one by download ? I bet they are the same among all European phones, mine was sold by the french carrier SFR.

Cheers
[Legend Android Development] gelim:
Well I did successfully upgrade to RUU_Legend_Froyo_S_HTC_WWE_3.15.405.3 but then it upgraded HBOOT to 1.01+recovery so that recovery flashing seems broken (test-keys apparently not accepted for the update.zip)
[Legend Android Development] fksuperstar:
hi all wanna ask , can we use this method to root for hboot 1.01 , tq
[Legend Android Development] tjlaoli:
can we use this method to root for hboot 1.01 ?
[Legend Android Development] tjlaoli:
Is this really ?
[Legend Android Development] Llywelyn:
Hi !

I just have one small question: is it possible to downgrade from a 1.00+ hboot to recover the ability to S-OFF our phone ?

Thank your for your help !

Llywelyn
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
I'm sure it is possible somehow, but we (unfortunately) don't know how. Yet.

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] Llywelyn:
Thank you for your reply. Hopefully some people will get a closer look to this !

I'll have to stick to my stock recovery then :D
[Legend Android Development] branch8:
Or just use fakeflash ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] z4ziggy:
Introducing z4mod 0.12

(c) Elia Yehuda, aka z4ziggy
​

About:

version 0.12 marks a complete redesign of the z4mod project. As for now, z4mod adds the following enhancments to patched kernels:

init wrapper which comply to linux standards: mounting /etc/fstab partitions and execute /etc/init.d scripts

optional embedding binaries (root, CWM-recovery, busybox, and users-specific) into the kernel

z4mod app - an Android app which takes advantage of z4mod patched kernels to apply a lagfix.

How to use:

If you have root :

1) Install z4mod app from the market or download link.

If you don't have root:

1) Either apply root using z4root or other method, and then use z4mod app.

OR

1) visit the website, upload your zImage, make sure you select 'root' in the options, patch and download.

2) flash using odin the patched zImage

3) Install z4mod app from the market or download link.

OR

1) visit the website, upload your zImage, make sure you select 'recovery' in the options, patch and download.

2) flash using odin the patched zImage

3) visit the website to generate a customized update.zip, download to your /sdcard, and apply.

Sources:

https://github.com/z4/z4mod

Thanks:

RyanZA: Moral support, APK magician, amazing ideas and solutions, laziness master

DamianGto: Continuously testing and reporting bugs, endless efforts into the late hours...

supercurio & Unhelpful: Valuable source of information

you: for using it...

---

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] DocRambone:
Holy s**t :D

Want to try. Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Fr4gg0r:
Does this mean we can hope for scp?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] z4ziggy:
what is scp? :confused:

And looking through the sources will reveal all answers. As the announcement states - Anyone can add anything to the kernel (be it root, his own recovery, etc).

One of the biggest "highlights" if z4mod 0.12 is the use of /etc/fstab and /etc/init.d scripts - Finally our Android acts as a real linux system should, and allowing us to manipulate all the boot process from "userspace" (using /etc/init.d scripts).

The z4mod apk is just one example of what can be done with z4mod patched kernels. Your imagination is the limit.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] exadeci:
Well it's copy over SSH, it's a linux bin

One of the missing ones on android
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] z4ziggy:
sorry, i didn't make the connection :o

and ofcourse, you can add whatever you like. scp too.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
This is my first attempt at this so please do a backup before attempting to use my theme files. I have tested them but your mileage may vary. Those are

not

flashable files, they are meant to be installed with MetaMorph and a reboot after the installation is strongly recommended.

Note: Those files were tested with the Viva! theme but since not every theme is built the same way, they may or may not work with the theme you have.

Update 11/19/2010

- Added a link for the car type battery meter

- Added the 0 signal graphic for the signal strength meter

- Added download link for 3G 'Ball' graphics.

WiFi (http://www.multiupload.com/P9DUQHC2P7)

Car-like battery meter (http://www.multiupload.com/TBRENVS2IV)

(Seen in post #2)

Signal Strength (http://www.multiupload.com/NC2BP80LM4)

Sync Animation (http://www.multiupload.com/2T4F2C1WQH)

File Transfer (Upload and Download) (http://www.multiupload.com/SWXUTDAWQG)

3G simple http://www.multiupload.com/E8FCAMMYNC

3G with up/down lights (http://www.multiupload.com/6VBIHJNUZ8)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Looking for opinions, how would this look as a battery meter?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Scblacksunshine:
Love the fuel gauge design, can you make one that will work with Virtuous 3.1 rom?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Metallice:
I think it would look cool if you put an odometer in the image and use that to display percent.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
With the signal one can you make one for 0 bars because I think there are 7 img total

Sent from my slutty assistant. (HTC Incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
+1 MILLION
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Oh I love that idea... I don't love how much work that would be but I do love the idea!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
It looks really good but even with bigger numbers, once on the phone, its going to be so small that you won't really be able to read it.

If you look at the meter once on the phone, it really lacks details
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Update:

- Added a link for the car type battery meter

- Added the 0 signal graphic for the signal strength meter
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
i like the pokeball. will you release that one?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fernando sor:
lol what happened to not wanting to be bothered? looks good nic!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
lol my background changed to a bright bubbly red after appplying the fuel guage, anyone have lou's original?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fernando sor:
if you want i can mod it for you. what cortland theme are you running?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
2.2.0

but i tried to reinstall his circle battery through metamorph and boot looped, so i just restored

thanks though
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fernando sor:
no i wouldnt use metamorph. this would work. up to you
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
link no worky for pokeball :(
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
It works for me so I'm not sure why it doesnt work for you

Sent from my personal space
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
Idk either, but it says "505 error: no such directory found"?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] pete_kowalski83:
I actually really like the fuel battery gauge but to me all the icons would have to be similar to make it look less cobbled together. id love to have my icons look like a dash of an exotic car though
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Should be working now, the link was missing the .zip
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
ahhhh. super-fantabulous thanks. that INCredible distINCtion really turned me onto the blue lol

*for some reason it's not working to overwrite the 3G icons in distINCtion?

Could it NOT be in that themes resources apk?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Its possible that the 3g images are in another folder

Sent from my personal space
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
I just went into the theme BEFORE flashing and put the images in, so I knew they were there
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
So use 7zip, put the pokeball images instead of the standard ones and reflash.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crazyg0od33:
yeah, i edited my post to say that I did lo, sorry for the issues :P
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jskolm:
I love the sync icons. I grab them and tossed them into my phone. Good job with these!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Masterpiece Finishes:
None of the download links are working?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] pete_kowalski83:
I have an idea on how to change up the car fuel battery gauge a bit. so the image is round, why don't you try taking off the bottom portion to where it's a little more than half moon. then make it a little wider and taller so you have more room for details like the odo % and leave out the RR. I love how it looks as it is but I agree with the lack of detail in reality cuz it's fairly small
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] carbon coupe:
Anyone try these with the SR 3.3.4 ROM?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TPR300C:
Any mirror links. All links are down!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Sorry about that, my little NAS server was set to hibernate after 20 minutes of being idle so I think that's what was causing a problem. If you clicked a few times on the file it would download once the server would be back up.

I changed it so that it doesn't hibernate so that problem should go away. I could use multi-upload or a site like that but I thought it was just silly to wait 45+ seconds to download a file that takes 10 seconds to download.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] xyojimbox:
Can u make red ones for cortlands theme?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Cortland already made red ones, they were on his original post on the theme's thread. I think he took it down though, I'm not sure why.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Masterpiece Finishes:
Dude, you're links are STILL DOWN! Why have a thread? Please address this
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Enjoy the multiupload links.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fitness12:
Thanks nic for the work and don't let "I got my panties bunch guy" about fixing your links get to ya...

Would you be able to do any of your icons in a different color?

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] carbon coupe:
If at all possible, can these be ported for use with the Skyraider ROM??

Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
This should work on sky. Do a backup and try.

Sent from my slutty assistant.(HTC Incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] carbon coupe:
Did that. Didnt throw any errors but didnt apply any different graphics.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] scarfoot:
I think it looks great!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Which one did you try specifically? Usually, most roms will have the battery, WiFi and the upload/download graphics in the same folder, but there are 2 possibilities for the rest (3G, WiFi) so maybe that's the case. Shouldn't be hard to fix though, if you let me know which ones you want, I can make a metamorph file for them.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] carbon coupe:
Isnt it funny, it was the 3G I tried first. I like both of the 3G icons. Going to have to see it in action to pick. So I guess just the 3G ones for now.

But, it would be nice to eventually have all of them.

Thanks. I know its a pain to try and cover all the roms.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
There are only 2 types of extensions

Drawable-hdpi-v4

Or

Drawable-hdpi

If it doesn't work just navigate to you Android theme folder. And delete the -v4 at the end and do it again. It will work.

Sent from my slutty assistant.(HTC Incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] aharper:
Just did all, but the battery, on RR2.2. Works great. I'd love to see that battery at half height like recommended earlier. If there is a way to turn the red on the icon into blue it would match the rest of the icons, too. Great work on these... I love this forum!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Thanks for your comment! I've tried a few new ideas on ways to do a nicer set of battery graphics. I haven't been able to come up with something that works though but I'm still searching. The problem is that once you reduce the image to it's final size of 38x38, it loses a lot of it's details. Text for example, for it to be readable at such a small size, means the font has to be rather big but a big font hides a lot of the graphic so it's hard to balance both.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] aharper:
I'd say scratch the fonts altogether on it... it's a meter, afterall. If you chuck the bottom half of it you will have room to double it's height. Change the needle to blue and bam, sexy. ;)

pardon my MS Paint pic... an idea, though...

If you can stretch the E and F further down the graphic, maybe slightly larger, I think that you will have the added space to pull this off. Obviously the blue would match what you have already.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
That's a neat idea. I can chop the bottom half for sure but that doesn't give me double the height really because that would give me an egg-shaped meter and that might look weird, which is why I was considering doing a quarter dial where the "F" is up and the "E" is to the left for example. What would give me the top left corner free for a charging / near empty warning light.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] aharper:
Even better! If the needle pivots in a corner and has a full 90* worth of "swing" then it should be enough to know, at a glance, if you're at 50% full, etc. This would be one of the better mods on my phone. :D

Flip it around so that it pivots in the lower left corner... would give more space on the needle side by the clock for easier reading (so that it's not butted up against the next icon in).
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Nic2112:
Well I saw the background you use so yeah, a car themed battery meter would fit.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] umphreak:
Does this work on myn's two point two, tried it and got an error in metamorph.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ssglemieux:
Awesome Graphics

Just what im looking for. havent seen a responce to if they will work with

Myn's 2.2 SL1
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Zerospeed8:
Second that. Keep em going look awesome
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] bghouse10:
Nick, these are sick & would look pimp on my INC since I'm running rover blue/carbonite themes...but will they work on CM7? Great work bud!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Tommymac1039:
Awesome!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] boogerboy72:
everything worked for me on redemption rom 2.4

great work!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] boogerboy72:
spoke too soon, everything but the signal works, no clue why it dosnt.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hyjaqd:
Any chance these will work for Warm Z? Love the fuel gage.