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[olta777]

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Custom Recovery Image, or SP recovery console, is a mode that allows you to do many things with your Droid, including loading custom ROMs, performing full and simple back ups/restores, running update.zip and many more. Before you can do those, you need to flash the images to the phone, to make the SP recovery accessible.


To Install Custom Recovery Image...

1. Root your Droid.

2. Download the following two files:

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3. Connect phone to PC. Mount SD card and enable USB debugging (on phone: Menu > settings > applications > development > check box for USB debugging).

4. Transfer the downloaded

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and

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files to root of SD card.

5. Flash the files using the following commands:

adb shell

dd if=/sdcard/flash_image of=/data/local/flash_image

-Copies the flash_image file to the Local Data directory

chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image

-Changes the permissions to the flash_image file

rm /sdcard/flash_image

-Removes flash_image from SD card

su

-Connect as a “substitute user” to gain permissions for the next set of commands

/data/local/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.99.2b.img

-Flashes the image to the recovery partition

mount -o remount,rw /dev/null /system

-Readies the null and System filesystems

mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.p.bak

-Renames recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-boot.p.bak. FILE MAY NOT EXIST! If your Droid came preloaded with Firmware 2.0.1, these files do not exist. This step is only necessary if your Droid came with 2.0 firmware.

mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

-Renames install-recovery.sh to install-recovery.sh.bak. FILE MAY NOT EXIST! If your Droid came preloaded with Firmware 2.0.1, these files do not exist. This step is only necessary if your Droid came with 2.0 firmware.

reboot recovery

-Reboots your Droid into the Recovery Console


Once your Droid reboots into the SP recovery console, you will see a greenish-gold Android instead of a large “!” exclamation mark.

Inside the SP recovery, you may use directional pad and center gold button to move around and make selections, or use up/down volume buttons and camera button.


Every time a new ROM or modification comes out, there will be specific instructions as to which menu options to use to install. Visit http://www.mydroidwo...noob-guide.html to learn the back up/restore process.

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Edited by olta777, 01 March 2010 - 12:13 AM.

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[watkins]

when it says to download the flash image and recovery how do you download a file that just shows up as a webpage?

[watkins]

the image is the cone that i am concerned about. any help would be appreciated

[olta777]

watkins said:

when it says to download the flash image and recovery how do you download a file that just shows up as a webpage?

Download / save to PC. Then put it onto SD card. You don't need to open it. This is the guide I followed and all went smooth. :)

[watkins]

when i click on the flash image it just pulls up a webpage and doesn't give me a place to download it. that is what i meant

[olta777]

The links in this thread? I click on this one

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and it brings up a box to open or save. You have to save it to PC. :)

[watkins]

well if anyone has this image saved on their computer could you please send it to me via email because it doesn't matter which computer i try to save it from it never shows up with a box to click for saving

[watkins]

i know this is supposed to be the noob guide to doing any of this stuff but for some reason i'm still struggling. i have gone to sholes and downloaded sirpsychos sprecovery but i guess i still need this image. oh yeah edit from above if you have the image and want to email send it to jameswat19@yahoo.com

[watkins]

starting to think i should just hang this thing up and leave it alone. why couldn't this have been as easy as a blackberry

[GryphonD]

Complete noob issue: Rooted Moto Droid after 2.0.1 update (manual), Superuser.apk for some reason shows no permissions when selected and no Superuser required apps show SU permissions as available, as well, they all say Root Access needed. Unrooted phone, went back to Official 2.0.1 and Superuser.apk is still on phone and still showing no permissions. Now this has turned into a vicious cycle. I can Root and the Root update in Recovery console states the phone is rooted but going into any Root and or SU required application states the same as above. Root access needed and no SU permissions............. Have tried the Terminal Emulator commands but that has done nothing since when my phone is Rooted, it is not actuall Rooted, or at least does not realize that it is.....

Factory img recovery did only a low evel wipe of the phone and left SU.apk on there.....

[MyDroidWorld]

By any chance have you run the superuser_update.zip update?

Or maybe the Sholesmod updater from sholes.info?

[GryphonD]

Thanks to eroccia, this fixed everything.

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I found a quick way to do this as well.

Must be rooted.

download and install root manager
choose remove system apps or apps data
then select apps
then remove
find superuser.apk and click on it
choose remove (no backup)
reboot
then follow the directions on how to unroot (factory reset) or the 2.0.1 update

[MyDroidWorld]

GryphonD said:

Thanks to eroccia, this fixed everything.

Glad you got it working!

[EricJ22]

I made it passed the first steps of moving flash_image to data/local however had to use a little diffrent naming on the file:
$ dd if=/sdcard/flash_image.exe of=/data/local/flash_image
dd if=/sdcard/flash_image.exe of=/data/local/flash_image
115+1 records in
115+1 records out
58950 bytes transferred in 0.103 secs (572330 bytes/sec)
$ chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
$ rm /sdcard/flash_image.exe

Although I cant really tell it made it made it there I then get the following when actually executing under su(and yes I got a pop-up on my phone and click allow:

# /data/local/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.99.2b.img
/data/local/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.99.2b.img
MZP☻♦☼**╕@→☻║►♫▼┤: not found
►♫▼┤: not found
/data/local/flash_image: 4: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
#

[EricJ22]

Sweet. I got passed this. I think my probelm started with the flash_image.exe file I started with. I d/l a flash_image.zip and extracted the file from this zip that did not have a .exe extension. If anyone has this it will mess everything up. Once from there a started over with getting it moved to data/local and was then able to execute the commands un su. Please pass this along to anyone else having issue with file not found when trying to move the flash_image

[past_due]

I've rooted my phone, downloaded and installed the SDK, typed in "adb shell", see a $, and now trying to flash using the code that was given:
dd if=/sdcard/flash_image of=/data/local/flash_image
but I getting the following message: /sdcard/flash_image: cannot open for read: Permission denied
Am I doing something wrong, or is this supposed to say this?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[olta777]

past_due said:

I've rooted my phone, downloaded and installed the SDK, typed in "adb shell", see a $, and now trying to flash using the code that was given:
dd if=/sdcard/flash_image of=/data/local/flash_image
but I getting the following message: /sdcard/flash_image: cannot open for read: Permission denied
Am I doing something wrong, or is this supposed to say this?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Make sure USB debugging is enabled...and when you connect phone to PC, check the phone screen and select "always allow" if you get a permission pop up box...and lastly, when you are in command, don't type symbols...just copy, then right click/paste commands in command prompt. :)

[past_due]

olta777 said:

Make sure USB debugging is enabled...and when you connect phone to PC, check the phone screen and select "always allow" if you get a permission pop up box...and lastly, when you are in command, don't type symbols...just copy, then right click/paste commands in command prompt. :)

I first connected the phone and then mounted, then I went to settings/applications/developement/usb debugging, it's like it turned off the mount ( i wasn't able to access the memory card in explorer) so I mounted again and the USB debugging was still selected.
I did not type any symbols, I did exactly like you said, copied the code, and right clicked and copied into cmd. The $ came up after I typed in adb shell. Hope you make sense of what I'm saying :)

[past_due]

ok, so I got past the part where I was at. I found another link http://www.mydroidwo...s-easy-way.html in this forum , but this one says not to mount when you are running adb.exe. I got up until typing in "su", but now it's saying Permission Denied. Any ideas?

[TemperamentalMan]

past_due said:

ok, so I got past the part where I was at. I found another link http://www.mydroidwo...s-easy-way.html in this forum , but this one says not to mount when you are running adb.exe. I got up until typing in "su", but now it's saying Permission Denied. Any ideas?

Unmount