The JB XXLSJ leak and the latest XWLS8 official JB releases have introduced a new partition on /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 mounted to /preload.
This was required due to the fact that the /system partition just isn't big enough to hold all the extra apps the JB leak requires.
The problem with this is that with the exception of PhilZ Kernel and Jeboo, CWM backups in bith Siyah and DorimanX omit the backing up this /preload partition. If you regularly try out different ROMs and restore back, this can mean your ROM's getting a little out of step as it would have the /preload files from the ROM you last flashed, with all other files coming from the ROM you performed the backup on.
Currently, if you are on Siyah/Dori, the only way to backup/restore everything via CWM backups is to:
a) reboot into recovery
b) flash PhilZ/Jeboo
c) go to advanced>reboot recovery
d) make your backup in PhilZ/Jeboo/Apolo recovery
and if you want to revert back to Siyah/Dori:
e) flash Siyah/Dori
f) advanced>reboot recovery
If you ever need to restore, and you are using Siyah/Dori then you will need to:
a) reboot into recovery
b) flash PhilZ/Jeboo
c) go to advanced>reboot recovery
d) restore your backup in PhilZ/Jeboo/Apolo recovery
e) flash Siyah/Dori
f) reboot
NOTE: Later versions of PhilZ require you to specifically set the backup/restore of /preload. This is done in PhilZ CWM Recovery:
1. boot into PhilZ recovery
2. Philz settings
3. Special backup and restore
4. Misc nandroid settings
5. Toggle /preload processing (make sure this says /preload will be processed)
To get around this current omission in Siyah and Dori, I have written the following 2 CWM flashable zips:
GS2PreloadBackup
This will backup your current /preload partition.
The backup is made on a per-ROM basis to /sdcard/MyBackups/preload/[ROM-Name]/preload.tar. Therefore, if you backup on several different ROMs, you will get several ROM folders in this preload backup location, one backup per ROMGS2PreloadRestore
This will restore the /preload backup made by the above script for your current ROM.
So if you are on Siyah/Dori and want to make a full backup without flashing between PhilZ, you can now do the following:
1. Boot up into recovery
2. Make your CWM backup
3. Run GS2PreloadBackup.zip
Further down the line, if you ever wanted to restore this, then
1. Boot up into recovery
2. Restore your CWM backup
3. Flash GS2PreloadRestore.zip
The restore is sensitive to the ROM you are currently on, so it will only restore the /preload for you current ROM, provided you have run the backup script previously for the ROM of course.
Changing the backup location
By default, backups are made to the internal SD card in /sdcard/MyBackups as described above. You can change the backup location to the external SD card if required. This can be done by editing /sdcard/MyBackups/HawkerOptions/MyWipeOptions.prop. Within this file there is a line that tells the script where the backups are to be stored. Edit the following line as required:
BKP_LOCATION=int (backs up to INTERNAL SD Card, ie. /sdcard/MyBackups)
BKP_LOCATION=ext (backs up to EXTERNAL SD Card, ie. /storage/extSdCard/MyBackups)
Please note, that if you change the location between int/ext in MyWipeOptions.prop, your backups will not get automatically moved to the new location. You would have to manually move the current backup over to the new location if you do not want to potentially have two copies of the backups.
Test Mode
The script inside the zip file that does all the work is called GS2Hawker.sh. This can be called via adb shell/Script Manager etc. in order to perform a test dummy-run. The Test Mode goes through all the motions as per a standard CWM Recovery run, but it does not remove any files/folders in any way, and merely shows the commands it would have done.
eg. extract GS2Hawker.sh from the zip using 7Zip or similar
adb shell
sh GS2Hawker.sh PreloadBackup
sh GS2Hawker.sh PreloadRestore
Summary of Files Created/Used
1. /sdcard/MyBackups/HawkerLogs/GS2PreloadBackup.log.
2. /sdcard/MyBackups/HawkerLogs/GS2PreloadRestore.log.
These shows the activity log of what the script has done. This gets overwritten the next time you run the script.
3. /sdcard/MyBackups/HawkerOptions/MyWipeOptions.prop. Options file for all my scripts. Currently this contains the option for backup location, internal or external SD card. (See Changing the backup location above)
These scripts are of course only a temporary measure as I am in no doubt that both Siyah and Dori will both also include the /preload partition in their CWM Recovery scripts very shortly, but for now, I hope this might help one or two of you out.
Known Issues
Free space checking prior to performing the backup always returns free space on internal sdcard even when
backing up to external sd card.
For some reason, when I do a df (on Siyah, not sure about other kernels)
I get the following:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
12063840 231264 11832576 2% /mnt/.secondrom
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 12063840 231264 11832576 2% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
12063840 231264 11832576 2% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30648992 17592608 13056384 57% /emmc
It appears /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 is mounted to /emmc AND /sdcard?????!!!!
All file operations on /emmc gets performed on the extenral sd card as expected (ie your backups WILL go to external), BUT when the df command is issued to check for available space, it is performed on /sdcard! Therefore, if the script is trying to find the space left on /emmc, and the device returned from the df command is /sdcard, then an error is presumed, an no space check performed.
Please Note
I use these scripts myself between many flashes of different ROMS, and are provided here, as-is, out of my passion for development. Although every effort has been made to ensure everything works correctly on my handset I cannot be held responsible if things get messed up, or if you put something in your user-definable files that you shouldn't have included. As with everything else on here, you flash anything at your own risk. I always recommend performing a full CWM backup before attempting to flash anything onto your device.
Current Versions
GS2PreloadBackup 1.05 (22/05/2013)
GS2PreloadRestore 1.05 (02/03/2013)
Note: If the latest versions quoted above do not appear in the download devhost site, then please be patient!
ApriliaM3 should soon be uploading them.
Downoad Here
Download Here
My HUGE thanks goes out to ApriliaM3 for hosting the scripts.
Please give him the thanks he deserves.
To Do
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Work in Progress
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Changelog
GS2PreloadBackup v1.05 (22/05/2013)
1. Extra free space checking. (See OP for known issues)
GS2PreloadBackup v1.04 GS2PreloadRestore v1.05 (02/03/2013)
1. Backups can now go to either internal or external SD Card. See Post #1 for details
GS2PreloadRestore v1.04 (22/02/2013)
1. Now restores /preload/symlink instead of whole of /preload for greater flexibility in dual-boot systems
2. Current /preload/symlink contents removed before restore giving a better snapshot for the restore point
GS2PreloadBackup v1.03 (22/02/2013)
1. Now backs up /preload/symlink instead of whole of /preload
GS2PreloadRestore v1.03 (22/02/2013)
1. Current /preload contents removed before restore giving a better snapshot for the restore point
2. Progress now given in Mb during the restore process
v1.02 (13/02/2013)
1. Numerous display updates
2. Log file now goes to /sdcard/MyBackups/HawkerLogs so that they are grouped with logs from my other scripts
v1.01 (31/01/2013)
1. Progress now given during backup operation of the size of backup complete
Thanks buddy:thumbup::thumbup:. I just wanted to get in first. :thumbup::thumbup:
Edit. I just ran a backup and it worked and so did the restore :thumbup:
In the meantime I'll leave this picture until I can post something constructive.
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SIGNATURE
PHONE : SGSII
Sent via: Tapatalk 2
Main ROM: Alliance rom v5.2
KERNEL : Dorimanx 7.39
(DEFAULT PROFILE AND SETTINGS )
MODEM : BVLP7
BATTERY : Stock 1650mAh
EXTERNAL Sdcard : Samsung Class 10 32gb
LAUNCHER : Apex
My Guides list to install NeatRom and other ROMS and kernels on LSJ + tools to have a bug free rom + how to back up and RESTORE FOM FULLY = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35923600
1.Rom Nuke script
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36268094
2.Kernel Clean script
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34879811
3.Fast Dormancy :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36396636
4. How to install full wipe with rom nuke on LSJ
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36655790
Nice guide
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
Thanks Hawker, great work.
Red you got a nice ass!
Edit. ... I have done a backup and ran the zip after it and it worked great.
Thank you!
Sent From My Galaxy S2 Running
AllianceROM Powered By DorimanX Kernel
Some more great work and another great guide there Paul... well done!
I have now created a directory for your work on my Dev-Host mirror site HERE
ApriliaM3 said:
Some more great work and another great guide there Paul... well done!
I have now created a directory for your work on my Dev-Host mirror site HERE
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Thanks Pete.
I've updated the links in the OP to yours.
I'll let you know if I update the scripts at all.
Cheers mate!
:good:
Thank you, really usefull script.
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Updated to V1.01
See Changelog for details
hawkerpaul said:
Updated to V1.01 (pending upload to ApriliaM3's host.....)
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All done Paul.
hawkerpaul said:
Updated to V1.01
See Changelog for details
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I have been trying to backup preload to my external sd card by modifying /sdcard/MyBackups/MyBakDevice.txt ( see screenshot)
But the backup is stil made on the internal and after every attempt the content of MyBakDevice.txt is set back to the default /sdcard
I'm I doing something wrong here
EDIT: Tried 3 times, same result every time.
Backup to external sd card not possible currently, so I'm looking into getting this working properly. For now, ignore any information relating to MyBakDevice.txt. All backup will go to internal sd card only for the time being.
Updated to V1.02
See post #2 for details
Updated GS2PreloadRestore to v1.03
See post#2 for details
AW: [CWM UTIL] GS2PreloadBackup/Restore scripts for Samsung JB (22/02/2013)
This is awesome, thanks for your work!!!!!
May I ask something? (if not, ignore me)
Is it possible to not backup the full /preload partition but only the /preload/symlink part of it? I ask because it would be very helpful with this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38209559
So, a user could backup /preload/symlink/... Then install a 2nd Rom, that will probably format /preload and just restore it easily with your File. This might be a very big step for Dual boot as it makes so many things easier!
Anyways, thank you very much for your efforts!!!
Greetings
Thomas
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
As far as I'm aware, apart from the generic lost+found folder linux creates under each partition (which 99% of the time will be empty) the only contents of the /preload partition IS the symlink folder.
AW: [CWM UTIL] GS2PreloadBackup/Restore scripts for Samsung JB (22/02/2013)
hawkerpaul said:
As far as I'm aware, apart from the generic lost+found folder linux creates under each partition (which 99% of the time will be empty) the only contents of the /preload partition IS the symlink folder.
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Thanks!
But in my /preload there is the /symlink part of my Sammy Rom (shorted to about 80mb) and the /system of 2nd Rom (MCM's 10.1)
The created Backup with your zip is about 390mb big so I figured that there has to be more than just the symlink stuff.
This could be solved, of course by a clean install of first Rom (Sammy), backup with your file, install 2nd Rom and then restore /preload.
But it would be easier if only /preload/symlink would be backed up and later restored.
But, important, I don't want to bug you, it's awesome as it is, seriously!!
Greetings
Thomas
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
Ok mate, I'll have a look into it for you.
Edit:
Updated to GS2PreloadBackup v1.03 and GS2PreloadRestore V1.04
See post #2 for details
AW: [CWM UTIL] GS2PreloadBackup/Restore scripts for Samsung JB (22/02/2013)
hawkerpaul said:
Ok mate, I'll have a look into it for you.
Edit:
Updated to GS2PreloadBackup v1.03 and GS2PreloadRestore V1.04
See post #2 for details
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Awesome, thank you very much!!!
If it's ok I will add a how-to to my thread and link to yours?
To me, this is an enormous step forward great!!
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Related
Thanks to Ghiki and Imanol00 for testing, 4EXT Recovery is now also available for the Nexus One
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Quick note about themes:
Available themes as of Oct/17:
Themes by pravus_nephilim
Themes by Apaquette420
Themes by Whiskey103
Themes by Amresh
Themes by Apaquette420
Themes by CWhitney24
Themes by DaMyth
Themes by Blindndumb
To uninstall any "flashed theme" and to revert to your own custom settings you had before flashing, just use this Theme Uninstaller in recovery.
It will clear any theme you might have flashed and revert to your own custom settings you had before flashing that theme!
THANKS:
All credits and my deepest respect go to Koush for his extremely great code!
Without him 4EXT Recovery wouldn't have been possible!
Biggest thanks possible go to Sebastiaan15 for his brilliant ideas and who spent whole weeks testing my buggy code with his Desire
Without you I could never have made it!!!
So BIG THANKS to SEBASTIAAN15 and KOUSH for his hard work with CWMR !!!
Many credits to the Desire S community ( especially to loveboatcaptain - LBC Mod Android Development and Marylandcookie ) for testing, very nice ideas, feature suggestions and helping to get the code running on the Desire S!
Special big thanks to RAVENNA from android-hilfe.de board for hours of testing for the Desire!
BIG Thanks to Hussainmushahid who helped me a lot spending much of time with solving a bug I could not reproduce on my device.
And many thanks to all users who reported and helped to identify problems ( can't any longer list all of you here since the list has grown too large )!
Even more thanks to people who 've bought me some beer YOU ROCK!! ZEEKIZ, A USER, PHILOS64, STEVEATHOME, PREACHER65, BEN_PYETT, ULTRA DROID, PTR_HAMILTON, BEANBEAN50, SEBASTIAAN15 and LOVEBOATCAPTAIN
v2.2.6 RC4 Released: Oct/01
Rare Superuser problem when tar backups were enabled (disabled by default) was fixed.
Converting partitions between ext3 and ext4 without data loss now correctly calculates the space needed to successfully complete the operation
New option: check and optionally repair the file system on your sdcard (fat32)
Removed duplicate format cache option inside the format menu (wipe cache does the same)
When formatting fat32 it will now save your 4ext.prop settings and restore them afterwards
Changed partitioning of the sdcard to not use LBA mode for new fat32 partitions as requested by Ghiki
Added new size option (128mb) to the partitioning menu per request
Parted is no longer used to format fat32 in the partition menu
-> This solves a bug where sometimes the creation of the fat32 file system failed and produces better quality results
4EXT Recovery themes should now stay when formatting /system or flashing new roms
New option: format /sdcard fat32
New 4EXT Recovery Control API because I'm forced to drop "extendedcommand" (see App for the reason why)
enables file names and directories to include spaces for installations
calculates needed space to complete a full or advanced backup at the beginning of the backup.
This ensures that you are not left with a non working backup.
Size for recovery greatly reduced
New 4EXT Recovery Control Features
Please see www.4ext.net for more.
Fix permissions
Calculate real values for the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup
Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.
As an example, the following would be possible to do in just one session:
Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,
format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,
flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.
Features: Use 4EXT Recovery Control or Recovery Updater for complete Changelogs and Known issues!
not all features may be relevant for all devices
Displays additional information:
Identifies your current rom and displays its name
Current filesystems on your partitions
Free space remaining of all of your volumes
Current battery charge level
Backup | Restore:
Correctly calculates free space needed to complete a backup ( version > 2.2.6 RC4 )
Tar backups (can be switched on or off)
Complete CWMR5 compatibility
All Backups you create will be named after your currently installed Rom for easier identification.
Never unwillingly get "downgraded" to EXT3 again
Always restores backups using the file systems you HAD on your partitions at the time of creation!
-> all partitions formatted with ext4 at that time, will be restored to ext4. The same is true for ext3.
You can manually change any existing Backup to ext4 or ext3
-> so that after a restore, all partitions and up with the file system you wanted!
Advanced Backup: backup only a single partition
Convert any of your partitions to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss.
Formatting:
When you wipe or format it will always use the same file system you currently have.
-> but you can change that
When you format ext4 it will always create an aligned file system
Correctly identifies unformatted sd-ext partitions
-> if it finds one it displays a warning and suggests you may format them by visiting the 4EXT menu
Filesystem check and repair option in advanced menu
Partitioning:
Alignment check of your partitions
Full support for up to 2 sd-ext partitions + swap (Backup/restore/format/convert, fsck, et.c.)
(RE-) Partition your sdcard for sd-ext without removing your fat32 partition.
All partitions created with 4EXTRecovery will be perfectly aligned to 4k
Installing:
Integrated md5sum checking option
Themes:
Customize all colours used throughout recovery
Use your own icons, background images, progress bars.. more to come.
Assign different backgrounds to different menu categories (version >= 2.1.2)
Create a flashable zip for others to flash your theme.
Menus:
Most popular menu items rearranged
Format menu
Power Menu + option to reboot into bootloader
Less "No's" in confirmation dialogues
Changed Advanced Restore: first select what you want to restore, then select the backup
-> Useful for restoring from "Advanced Backups"
4ext.prop:
Configuration file on your sdcard where you can set options to be used by 4EXTRecovery
Change all settings conveniently with 4EXT Recovery Control
Many more options to come
Share your settings / themes by packing your config into a flashable theme
Other stuff:
USB Storage Autostart (must be switched on)
Mount usb storage exposes all partitions on your sdcard to the os (not just fat32)
-> you could even partition your sdcard from your PC while connected via USB
Switch haptic feedback on/off
You don't need to reboot recovery if you transferred a file to show up in the install menu.
-> This bug affected only some users with either CWMR or previous versions of 4EXT.
Button backlights (Desire S, Desire HD and Incredible S only)
Download:
All downloads are now available through 4EXT Recovery Updater. It's free, no ads, no tracking, no nothing, don't worry
.. and of course via the "pro" version 4EXT Recovery Control
This ensures that your downloads are ok by automatically verifying md5sums and that known issues and changelogs are easily accessible
It also notifies you when there are any new critical bugs found
Recovery images will be uploaded for download soon too, but they can also be acquired easily by using Updater or Control.
You can for example just download a recovery.zip containing the image. The download will be automatically verified for correct md5sums!
4EXT Recovery Control
Free version: Recovery Updater
Fully featured version: 4EXT Recovery Control
For a list of its many features, visit www.4ext.net
Some examples :
Flash as many zip files you want in one go
Automatically Calculate and display the md5sums of all zip files you are going to flash
Check your backups' health to ensure they will restore later when you need them, by verifying their md5sums!
Optionally, but highly not recommended:
If md5sums don't match but you REALLY NEED that backup BADLY, you might want to restore it anyway.
You can you this app to fix the md5sums of a given backup to "forcefully" restore it!
Calculate real values for the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup
Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.
Identifies and adds your romname so you don't need to type so much when chosing a meaningful name for your backup
As an example, the following is possible to do in just one session:
Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,
format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,
flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.
Much, much more! See www.4ext.net
Recovery theming
Uninstall and Install themes with live preview and the option to change their colours without the need to reboot into recovery.
Change all colours with live preview and a nice colour picker.
Thanks to you, for your AMAZING recovery
ghiki said:
Thanks to you, for your AMAZING recovery
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thanks for telling me about Imanol001 for testing
Curious to flash, but need to know how navigation is handled... trackball or volume (or both)? As my trackball is kinda messed up... thanks.
daveid said:
Curious to flash, but need to know how navigation is handled... trackball or volume (or both)? As my trackball is kinda messed up... thanks.
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I'm not exactly sure about the trackball for the Desire as I don't have one. I think it should work. But the volume buttons always work!
Edit: sorry, mixed up the thread, but that also applies to the Nexus One
Volume buttons: definitely
Trackball: most probably
Wait, the free version is a trial? Or did I read that wrong?
Also, what are the benefits of paid?
This isn't meant in a disrespectful way but, if its a recovery, why use yours over Clockwork or Amron?
uoY_redruM said:
Wait, the free version is a trial? Or did I read that wrong?
Also, what are the benefits of paid?
This isn't meant in a disrespectful way but, if its a recovery, why use yours over Clockwork or Amron?
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Recovery is free (of course ! ) and has nothing to do with any apps!
You can compare the app's features on www.4ext.net.
Free "Updater" app:
browse all versions of 4ext recovery
flash or download any version directly verifying md5sums automatically.
view changelogs / known issues while downloading
get news if any new critical bugs are found
send bug reports where you can include your last recovery log by ticking an option if you wish.
This App is a great time saver for me as I can add things to known issues if any very quickly for all devices, or send a notice that something was discovered, that you should know about (like a new bug found in a version released the day before or something).
I also increase the chance that people read the change logs or known issues, because they are immediately and easily accessible!
"Control" app: quite much, please see www.4ext.net
To be able to test all features of the "full version" app (which has nothing to do with recovery itself!),
the "Updater app" includes a full featured 3 day preview with all features of the paid one.
After that, it is just the free version.
There are no ads, or any other bull****
About the recovery features and why to use/not to use it over any other recovery, please see 1st post:
Features: Use 4EXT Recovery Control or Recovery Updater for complete Changelogs and Known issues!
not all features may be relevant for all devices
Displays additional information:
Identifies your current rom and displays its name
Current filesystems on your partitions
Free space remaining of all of your volumes
Current battery charge level
Backup | Restore:
Correctly calculates free space needed to complete a backup ( version > 2.2.6 RC4 )
Tar backups (can be switched on or off)
Complete CWMR5 compatibility
All Backups you create will be named after your currently installed Rom for easier identification.
Never unwillingly get "downgraded" to EXT3 again
Always restores backups using the file systems you HAD on your partitions at the time of creation!
-> all partitions formatted with ext4 at that time, will be restored to ext4. The same is true for ext3.
You can manually change any existing Backup to ext4 or ext3
-> so that after a restore, all partitions and up with the file system you wanted!
Advanced Backup: backup only a single partition
Convert any of your partitions to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss.
Formatting:
When you wipe or format it will always use the same file system you currently have.
-> but you can change that
When you format ext4 it will always create an aligned file system
Correctly identifies unformatted sd-ext partitions
-> if it finds one it displays a warning and suggests you may format them by visiting the 4EXT menu
Filesystem check and repair option in advanced menu
Partitioning:
Alignment check of your partitions
Full support for up to 2 sd-ext partitions + swap (Backup/restore/format/convert, fsck, et.c.)
(RE-) Partition your sdcard for sd-ext without removing your fat32 partition.
All partitions created with 4EXTRecovery will be perfectly aligned to 4k
Installing:
Integrated md5sum checking option
Themes:
Customize all colours used throughout recovery
Use your own icons, background images, progress bars.. more to come.
Assign different backgrounds to different menu categories (version >= 2.1.2)
Create a flashable zip for others to flash your theme.
Menus:
Most popular menu items rearranged
Format menu
Power Menu + option to reboot into bootloader
Less "No's" in confirmation dialogues
Changed Advanced Restore: first select what you want to restore, then select the backup
-> Useful for restoring from "Advanced Backups"
4ext.prop:
Configuration file on your sdcard where you can set options to be used by 4EXTRecovery
Change all settings conveniently with 4EXT Recovery Control
Many more options to come
Share your settings / themes by packing your config into a flashable theme
Other stuff:
USB Storage Autostart (must be switched on)
Mount usb storage exposes all partitions on your sdcard to the os (not just fat32)
-> you could even partition your sdcard from your PC while connected via USB
Switch haptic feedback on/off
You don't need to reboot recovery if you transferred a file to show up in the install menu.
-> This bug affected only some users with either CWMR or previous versions of 4EXT.
Button backlights (Desire S, Desire HD and Incredible S only)
Thank you for your quick response, and I plan to look into your recovery.
My other question would be, how do you install your recovery? On the website, I'm getting an .apk file when I click the link.
uoY_redruM said:
Thank you for your quick response, and I plan to look into your recovery.
My other question would be, how do you install your recovery? On the website, I'm getting an .apk file when I click the link.
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Yes it's currently only available through the Updater app.
You can flash it directly using that or chose to download it and flash manually.
Need to get some sleep now.. again 5:30am here
If there are any remaining questions I'll gladly answer them in a few hours
You can also take a look at the other threads though as 4ext has been available for some other devices for many months already
uoY_redruM said:
Wait, the free version is a trial? Or did I read that wrong?
Also, what are the benefits of paid?
This isn't meant in a disrespectful way but, if its a recovery, why use yours over Clockwork or Amron?
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Alignment of your card, the fat32 & the EXT partition, huge plus. Converting your EXT partition to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss, nice… but the alignment feature & card display info nice touch in recovery.
This will make formatting/aligning my new 32gb CL6 much easier than sibere instructions…
Just installed this and the trackball/volume button is working for navigation, the capacitive back button is for back, the selection is still the trackball.
Tried it. Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And so my Nexus One lives on....
In the screenshots, its shows the system and data partitions etc, but when I look on my partition printout it only shows partitions on the SD card. How can I make this show all partitions on my phone and then convert all of those partitions to EXT4?
Thank you all very much for that awesome feedback
Regarding system data cache extra info on mtd devices with yaffs2 partitions:
Back when 4ext recovery only displayed the current file system types of partitions it didn't make sense to include yaffs2 partitions, because the file system never changes there.
Since then displaying of capacity and free space has been added.
Now it absolutely makes sense, but I hadn't had the time yet to make those changes.
If you "print partition info" Inside the app though, you will see all the info already.
I will change that inside recovery in one of the next updates
Thanks for the info, one other thing. I tried making a backup of my current system, and then converting the backup to EXT4. I had assumed it would convert the yaffs2 partitions to EXT4 as well, but it didn't. When I checked the partition printout in the app, it still showed yaffs. In your screenshots in the OP, all the partitions are showing as EXT4. How can I format all of my system partitions to EXT4 as well?
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Thanks for the info, one other thing. I tried making a backup of my current system, and then converting the backup to EXT4. I had assumed it would convert the yaffs2 partitions to EXT4 as well, but it didn't. When I checked the partition printout in the app, it still showed yaffs. In your screenshots in the OP, all the partitions are showing as EXT4. How can I format all of my system partitions to EXT4 as well?
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This is simply not possible with yaffs2 partitions.
The screens are from Desire HD and Incredible S.
You can only convert sd-ext partitions between ext3 and ext4 on devices using yaffs2 for system, data and cache..
So when you are inside the convert menu you will only see sd-ext partitions to select.
And if you set one of your backups to either ext4 or ext3, only sd-ext partitions inside that backup will be effected.
Got it. So there is no way to format the N1's phone partitions to EXT4? Would there even be a point to doing this if it were possible?
Bohemus said:
Got it. So there is no way to format the N1's phone partitions to EXT4? Would there even be a point to doing this if it were possible?
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It's not possible
At least not without an extreme hack. I don't know if anyone ever did something like that and I lack the knowledge about that matter.
Yes, ext4 would be faster.
awesome!
Best recovery! I've been switching to find the best but have always found problems in each i tryed until i found this! Well done!
hi all,
i juz wana know bout the functionality of all the programs in CWM 4.0.0.9.i had it installed but dun know much bout the stuff inside.juz knw bout back up n storage and applying updates from zip..and what is dalvik cache means...
Need info on dalvik cache? www.google.com will help u.
Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Grif's Cyanogenmod & allinone script.
Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
Yes, just google everything. This factual stuff can easily be found through search.
There you go.... not from v4.0.0.9 but its of a old version but will give you and idea or to anyone else .. will not post a link to some other site so just posting the explaination here
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1.reboot system now
This one is self-explanatory.
2.apply update from sdcard
This can be used for installation of any official or unofficial update, ROM, kernel, theme etc. that is in a zip format installable from recovery, as long as the file is named update.zip and it has been placed on the root of your SD card (i.e. not in any sub-folder). Selecting this option (and most of the options featured below) will bring up a rather annoying confirmation prompt but this has saved us on multiple occasions from a lot of trouble we would have been into due to accidental key presses.
3.wipe data/factory reset
This option wipes all user data on the device as well as cache. Doing this will leave your phone in the state it was in when you bought it or when any custom ROM was first installed. It will also wipe any sd-ext partition that you might have setup
4.wipe cache partition
Wipes the cache partition of the device to clear all the data accumulated there over use. This is often used before installing a new ROM, app, kernel or any similar mod via recovery.
5. install zip from sdcard
This option brings up the following sub-menu:
A. apply /sdcard/update.zip
This one is essentially the same as the ‘apply update from sdcard’ option of the main menu.
B. choose zip from sdcard
Lets you install any zip file (with any name) from any location on your SD card. The file can be for a ROM, a kernel, an application, a theme or any mod as long as it is in recovery-flashable zip format. This is the most widely used option for installing a ROM that you have downloaded and copied to your SD card. Entering this option will bring up a screen that will allow you to browse your SD card for the zip file and select it for installation
C.toggle signature verification
Turns the signature verification on and off. When signature verification is on, you will not be able to install any custom ROMs that haven’t been signed by the developers (most custom ROMs aren’t signed). Switching it off skips the signature verification check and proceeds with the installation.
D. toggle script asserts
Seldom-used option for a vast majority of users. It simply turns script asserts on or off. If you don’t know about these (i don’t), it’s best not to change this option.
E. +++++Go Back+++++
Takes you back to the main recovery menu, obviously!
6.backup and restore
Undoubtedly one of the most important features provided by a custom recovery, the backup and restore feature – also known as Nandroid backup – allows you to take a snapshot of your phone’s entire internal memory including all partitions, and save it on the SD card.
A.Backup
Takes a Nandroid backup, as explained above.
B.Restore
Lets you restore a previously taken backup. Entering this option presents you with a list of existing backups from the SD card that you can choose from for restoration.
C.Advanced Restore
This option is similar to the Restore option but once a backup has been selected to be restored, this option allows you to choose what parts of it to restore. You can choose to restore the boot, system, data, cache and sd-ext partitions
7.mounts and storage
Allows you to perform maintenance tasks on all the internal and external partitions of your android device
A. mount/unmount /system, /data, /cache, /sdcard or /sd-ext
These options let you toggle between mounting or unmounting these respective partitions. Most users don’t need to change these options.
B.format boot, system, data, cache, sdcard or sd-ext
These let you directly format any of these partitions. Take extreme care with this option as formatting any of these partitions will result in losing all data on them, especially the boot and system partitions. Formatting the system partition will remove your ROM and leave your phone without an operating system while wiping the boot partition may brick your phone unless you restore or flash another one before rebooting your device. To learn more about the contents of all these partitions, see our guide to Android partitions.
C.mount USB storage
Lets you enable USB mass storage mode for your SD card right from recovery so that you can connect it to your computer via USB and transfer any files to/from it without having to leave recovery.
8.advanced
This section contains a few options most users will not require, though these can come handy quite often, especially wiping Dalvik cache, which is required before most ROM installations. Here are the options from this section:
A.Reboot Recovery
Lets you directly and very conveniently reboot from recovery right back into recovery. This is useful option for certain back-to-back installations that require the device to at least boot once between them.
B.Wipe Dalvik Cache
Allows you to wipe the cache for the Dalvik virtual machine (the custom-built Java virtual machine for Android).This is required before most ROM installations and at other occasions too, for fixing some problems.
C.Wipe Battery Stats
Wipes the saved battery usage statistics and effectively recalibrates the battery. Useful in various scenarios when Android isn’t showing correct battery levels.
D.Report Error
In case of errors, this feature can be used to save a log of recent ClockworkMod recovery operations on the SD card that you can later report from Android using ROM Manager.
E.Key Test
Lets you press any of the hardware keys to see if they are properly functioning, and to see their key codes.
F.Partition SD Card
This option gives you a no-frills way to partition your SD card properly for use with ROMs that support data2ext (a very handy hack for low internal memory devices that enables an /sd-ext partition on the SD card to be used as the internal user data storage i.e. as the /data partition). Once this option is selected, you will be given options to choose the sizes for the /sd-ext partition as well as an optional /swap partition on the SD card, and will then automatically format it for you, leaving the remaining space for normal SD card usage. This option will wipe all data from your SD card so use it with caution!
G.Fix Permissions
Fixes the file permissions for the internal memory partitions back to default. This is very useful as a fix for several errors and Force-Closes that start appearing after you or an application you installed and provided root access end up messing up the permissions of important files.
Hope it helps :d
@devilcode , permission to add into the newbie guide please
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EmoBoiix3 said:
@devilcode , permission to add into the newbie guide please
Sent from my GT-S5830 using XDA App
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Yea sure bro if you want i can insert screenshots also...before every point
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@devilcode , permission to add into the newbie guide please
Sent from my GT-S5830 using XDA App
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Just quoted one of the sentence there to google and it shows that THIS is the actual source. Dont know if the poster is the author though.
QNBT said:
Just quoted one of the sentence there to google and it shows that THIS is the actual source. Dont know if the poster is the author though.
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yea i mentioned ill not post an outside link in the begging so just pasted it here i dont have permission to post links yet
devilcode said:
yea i mentioned ill not post an outside link in the begging so just pasted it here i dont have permission to post links yet
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ah, sorry. My bad.
devilcode said:
Yea sure bro if you want i can insert screenshots also...before every point
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Do it .
I'd be grateful
devilcode- ur explanation is much appreciated..thank you...
all your guidance are very useful..especially devilcode..thanks man...now i can know the functions well....
EmoBoiix3 said:
Do it .
I'd be grateful
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Their Edited My post With screen shots ...You can post in Newbie Guide now
ravin_jr said:
all your guidance are very useful..especially devilcode..thanks man...now i can know the functions well....
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Ur welcome Glad to help ... N Click Thanks if you are really thankfull
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brand new user interface: "4EXT UI"
touchscreen only
extremely fast
much more useful features than the already feature-packed 4EXT Recovery Classic v2.2.7 RC5 (see 2nd post)
optionally save space by configuring recovery to exclude /cache from backups
you can configure recovery to save even more space by excluding dalvik-cache from backups
calculates real space needed to complete a backup to save you from troubles
detects your local time zone
-> correct time is used for backups you start from within recovery
allows you to change md5sum check behaviour
displays and updates your current battery level in real time
scrollable texthistory (drag down the statusbar)
built-in interactivity (yes/no questions) for updater-scripts
built-in screenshot functionality
extensive theming capabilities!
nearly ALL YOU SEE is changeable.
"worker bar": create your own custom animations, there are (nearly) no limits! Use any shapes/sizes/animations et.c.
extra low cpu needed for that: absolutely no negative impact on backup/restore speed.
async UI rendering for optimal performance for the "heavy tasks" like backup/restore
backups even faster than with usual recoveries.
.. explore the new interface to see more
includes all features of 4EXT Recovery Classic
INFO:
For App and Rom devs:
Make use of the Recovery Interface Api provided by the (free and paid) 4EXT Recovery Apps to push updates/mods/addons for auto installation.
Very easy to use and to integrate into Apps or even shell scripts.
Please check 3rd post.
Info regarding 4EXT Recovery Touch and its yesno feature, or any interactive installer scripts you might already use, please see 3rd post.
Themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch:
Official 4EXT Recovery Themes Index & Discussion Thread
Download
All downloads are available through 4EXT Recovery Updater.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no nothing, don't worry
..and of course via 4EXT Recovery Control
This ensures that your downloads are ok by automatically verifying md5sums and that known issues and changelogs are easily accessible
When you install or download a recovery via the app it makes sure that your recovery config is correctly set up.
It allows to automatically setup your time zone for recovery.
You can use it to get notified about updates regarding your recovery version
You can configure it to get notified in case any critical bugs have been discovered of the recovery version you currently have installed.
It allows me to update known issues/changelogs immediately and to quickly pull a newly released version if there were reports about critical bugs
You can also use it to just download a recovery.zip containing the image. The download will be automatically verified for correct md5sums!
By default the app also saves the recovery.img you flash on your sdcard,
so you can use it to flash the recovery via fastboot in case you need to do that one day.
If you somehow lost those files, there's a direct download for a version you can flash via fastboot.
4EXT Recovery Control
Free version: Recovery Updater
Fully featured: Recovery Control
For a list of its many features, visit www.4ext.net
Some examples :
Very easy to use, but also includes an extensive set of features available via "advanced mode"
Comfortable configure all settings of recovery
Calculate the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup
So you can make sure the backup will succeed before even rebooting into recovery.
Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.
Identifies and adds your romname so you don't need to type so much when chosing a meaningful name for your backup
When you restore a backup, the app does the md5sum check instead of the recovery
This ensures that you know whether the restore process will succeed before even rebooting into recovery
Flash as many zip files you want in one go
Automatically calculate and display the md5sums of all zip files you are going to flash
Check your backups' health to ensure they will restore later when you need them, by verifying their md5sums!
Optionally, but highly not recommended:
If md5sums don't match but you really need that backup badly, you might want to restore it anyway.
You can you this app to fix the md5sums of a given backup
As an example, the following is possible to do in just one session:
Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,
format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,
flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.
Much, much more! See www.4ext.net
Big thanks to craacK for a lot of great icons!
Thanks:
Big thanks to DolphiCom for all the graphics, the worker bar and a whole lot of great ideas and to the many great testers who spent all day/night testing, reporting bugs, making suggestions, helping with decisions:
Jotha, craacK, Patrics83, Euphorie, Mike1986, Whiskey103, ptr_hamilton, Lizard, TheUntouchable
Big thanks to Jotha and Whiskey103 for testing the themes features creating and their first themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch.
Also Big thanks to all the donators to 4EXT Recovery and everyone who has bought 4EXT Recovery Control! Without you I wouldn't be able to spend as much time with the project:
SO A HUGE THANK YOU!
FRANKIE-BOY, SYRAKUS, FISHA21, ZJXPOT, ZEEKIZ, A USER, PHILOS64, STEVEATHOME, PREACHER65, BEN_PYETT, HAWST, ANIT77, ULTRA DROID, PTR_HAMILTON, BEANBEAN50, SEBASTIAAN15 and LOVEBOATCAPTAIN
Of course BIG THANKS to KOUSH for ClockworkModRecovery!
Without him, 4EXT Recovery wouldn't exist!
Thanks a lot to the following users for initial testing for specific devices :
PTR_HAMILTON, SEBASTIAAN15, THEUNTOUCHABLE, BMONSTER, ANDREIGHERGHE, PRESTON74, MADKAI, YASIR, PLAYPETEPP
IPERZAMPEM0, THESHAWTY, JBBANDOS, GREGFERNS and INCREDULOUS
Special thanks to Invasion2 and Stlouie65 for spending at least 10 hours of their time helping me debug a really nasty issue on the myTouch 4G!
Also thanks for obtaining calibration values for the touchscreen:
Wolfepakt
Jaibar
Jayallen1980
Stlouie65
Invasion2
PacerguyDon
Ben_Pyett
Dargocitfer
Darknessrise1234
Lizard
Azazel71
Features of 4EXT Recovery Classic:
(Use 4EXT Recovery Control or Recovery Updater for complete Changelogs and Known issues!)
not all features may be relevant for all devices
Displays additional information:
Identifies your current rom and displays its name
Current filesystems on your partitions
Free space remaining of all of your volumes
Current battery charge level
Backup | Restore:
Correctly calculates free space needed to complete a backup ( version > 2.2.6 RC4 )
Tar backups (can be switched on or off)
Complete CWMR5 compatibility
All Backups you create will be named after your currently installed Rom for easier identification.
Never unwillingly get "downgraded" to EXT3 again
Always restores backups using the file systems you HAD on your partitions at the time of creation!
-> all partitions formatted with ext4 at that time, will be restored to ext4. The same is true for ext3.
You can manually change any existing Backup to ext4 or ext3
-> so that after a restore, all partitions and up with the file system you wanted!
Advanced Backup: backup only a single partition
Convert any of your partitions to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss.
Formatting:
When you wipe or format it will always use the same file system you currently have.
-> but you can change that
When you format ext4 it will always create an aligned file system
Correctly identifies unformatted sd-ext partitions
-> if it finds one it displays a warning and suggests you may format them by visiting the 4EXT menu
Filesystem check and repair option in advanced menu
Partitioning:
Alignment check of your partitions
Full support for up to 2 sd-ext partitions + swap (Backup/restore/format/convert, fsck, et.c.)
(RE-) Partition your sdcard for sd-ext without removing your fat32 partition.
All partitions created with 4EXTRecovery will be perfectly aligned to 4k
Installing:
Integrated md5sum checking option
Menus:
Most popular menu items rearranged
Format menu
Power Menu + option to reboot into bootloader
Changed Advanced Restore: first select what you want to restore, then select the backup
-> Useful for restoring from "Advanced Backups"
4ext.prop:
Configuration file on your sdcard where you can set options to be used by 4EXTRecovery
Change all settings conveniently with 4EXT Recovery Control
Many more options to come
Share your settings / themes by packing your config into a flashable theme
Other stuff:
USB Storage Autostart (must be switched on)
Mount usb storage exposes all partitions on your sdcard to the os (not just fat32)
-> you could even partition your sdcard from your PC while connected via USB
Switch haptic feedback on/off
Button backlights
reserved ...
Recovery Interface Api for Apps and Scripts
Both: free and paid 4EXT apps now provide a very easy to use interface you can use to access 4EXT Recovery from within your shell scripts or apps.
Features:
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe data / factory reset
install multiple zips at once
backup
If you are interested, please download this zip file with examples
How to make use of 4EXT Recovery Touch from within updater-scripts:
Since Beta 1.0.0.3 Beta 4 you can do the following:
identify whether the user is running 4EXT Recovery Touch or not (to use or not to use the following commands)
make use of the native yes/no dialogue (confirm / cancel buttons)
prevent recovery from redrawing the screen ( in case you need to use your own 3rd party interactive binary )
To identify 4EXT Recovery Touch:
Code:
if getprop("ext.edition") == "ng" then
<your code>
endif;
To use the native confirm dialogues:
Code:
ui_print("4ext: show_yesno"); # <-- recovery will pause your script and display "yes / no" buttons.
run_program("/sbin/sleep", "2"); # <-- for safety since the above is executed asynchronous
#check the return value by calling:
if getprop("ext.confirm") == "yes" then
<yourcode>
endif;
To prevent recovery from redrawing the screen ( if you want to use an external binary that needs to occupy the screen and get the focus )
Code:
ui_print("4ext: disable_scrn_update");
# don't forget to enable it again after your yesno binary or graphical installer is finished, by calling:
ui_print("4ext: enable_scrn_update"); #otherwise the recovery will appear to be frozen as it won't update the screen anymore.
let me be the first to congratulate you!
really great work. been using 4ext for a while now and will be flashing this asap
great job mate!
Absolutely wonderful! You my friend have done an outstanding job with this! Touch-recovery, wow, almost sounds too good to be true
pseudoheld said:
let me be the first to congratulate you!
really great work. been using 4ext for a while now and will be flashing this asap
great job mate!
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Theshawty said:
Absolutely wonderful! You my friend have done an outstanding job with this! Touch-recovery, wow, almost sounds too good to be true
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Thank you both VERY much
It is now online
Just bought your Control version on android market and bro, this recovery is amazing!
EPIC!!!
Guineapig said:
Just bought your Control version on android market and bro, this recovery is amazing!
EPIC!!!
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Thank you very much for your support
Great job man, this is simply brilliant.
Sorry i didn't get to test it for you though. I'm using it now and its great.
I'm very sorry.
A bug slipped through in Beta 6.
It was a last minute change.
Some menu items were out of order inside the wipe menu!
Please flash beta 7.
Sorry again!
uoY_redruM said:
Great job man, this is simply brilliant.
Sorry i didn't get to test it for you though. I'm using it now and its great.
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Thanks very much
No problem!
Great stuff! Just messing around in it and doing a few basic operations (backing up, sd card check, etc) it seems to be working great. I had given up hope for a nice touch recovery on my N1 but you've made it
Works fine ! Thank you so much !
Beta 7 is wonderful! No bugs as of yet, and I didn't expect there to be any for that matter
The normal 4EXT Recovery was already awesome, but this is awesome x1000.
Thanks madmaxx82!
Thank you all very much!
Kelvino9 said:
The normal 4EXT Recovery was already awesome, but this is awesome x1000.
Thanks madmaxx82!
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Thanks
If your signature is correct, you are using Beta 6?
Please upgrade to beta 7 asap.
In Beta 6 I added another menu item to the wipe menu. This change went too quick before release and so it happened that the order of some later items got reversed, which can be VERY annoying if you don't watch out when you see the text with the confirm button and just confirm blindly.
This was a mistake that is really bad and should never happen..
This has been fixed in Beta 7 which was uploaded 2 hours afterwards.
This is the coolest ever version of 4EXT
Sent from my Nexus One using xda premium
madmaxx82 said:
Thank you all very much!
Thanks
If your signature is correct, you are using Beta 6?
Please upgrade to beta 7 asap.
In Beta 6 I added another menu item to the wipe menu. This change went too quick before release and so it happened that the order of some later items got reversed, which can be VERY annoying if you don't watch out when you see the text with the confirm button and just confirm blindly.
This was a mistake that is really bad and should never happen..
This has been fixed in Beta 7 which was uploaded 2 hours afterwards.
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Yeah, I didn't catch that bug and ended up accidentally wiping my sdcard, oh well I had a backup at least and it gave me a reason to reformat my card. This is an awesome recovery though, only minor issue I see is scrolling through long lists of folders on sd card is not smooth or fast, it seems like you have to press hard and it doesn't scroll quickly. All in all great job Max.
ctfrommn said:
Yeah, I didn't catch that bug and ended up accidentally wiping my sdcard, oh well I had a backup at least and it gave me a reason to reformat my card. This is an awesome recovery though, only minor issue I see is scrolling through long lists of folders on sd card is not smooth or fast, it seems like you have to press hard and it doesn't scroll quickly. All in all great job Max.
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That's really bad
I'm very sorry this has happened.
I was not fast enough in replacing Beta 6 with 7.
That must have been the biggest failure since the release of the first 4ext version in june.
inblues4u said:
This is the coolest ever version of 4EXT
Sent from my Nexus One using xda premium
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brand new user interface: "4EXT UI"
touchscreen only
extremely fast
much more useful features than the already feature-packed 4EXT Recovery Classic v2.2.7 RC5 (see 2nd post)
4EXT SmartFlash for s-on devices
optionally save space by configuring recovery to exclude /cache from backups
you can configure recovery to save even more space by excluding dalvik-cache from backups
calculates real space needed to complete a backup to save you from troubles
detects your local time zone
-> correct time is used for backups you start from within recovery
allows you to change md5sum check behaviour
displays and updates your current battery level in real time
scrollable texthistory (drag down the statusbar)
built-in interactivity (yes/no questions) for updater-scripts
built-in screenshot functionality
extensive theming capabilities!
nearly ALL YOU SEE is changeable.
"worker bar": create your own custom animations, there are (nearly) no limits! Use any shapes/sizes/animations et.c.
extra low cpu needed for that: absolutely no negative impact on backup/restore speed.
async UI rendering for optimal performance for the "heavy tasks" like backup/restore
backups even faster than with usual recoveries.
.. explore the new interface to see more
includes all features of 4EXT Recovery Classic
About 4EXT SmartFlash
This is a new feature that allows recovery to flash your boot partition just like as if you were s-off.
Credits and thanks to Team Win and Dees_Troy for their commitment to the community, for their amazing idea with the Dumlock and for extra contacting me only to offer that I may use it.
You guys really rock!
SmartFlash is a different approach to Team Win's HTC Dumlock
Just use your recovery like you would if your device were s-off
No preparations needed, other than telling the recovery that your device is actually s-on
This is done when you install recovery and answer the question that you are s-on with "yes"
You can also change that setting later on via RecoveryControl -> Recovery settings, or by editing 4ext.prop manually
Recovery will autodetect any changes done to "boot" and only attempt to flash your boot partition if it was really changed
This even reduces unnecessary writes to "boot" when for example a new rom uses the same kernel as your previous one
Before updating your boot partition, recovery will always backup your boot partition to your sdcard just for the case something goes wrong
Only the 4 latest boot images are stored, older ones will be removed automatically to prevent taking up too much space.
In case you want to enable or disable that feature temporarily, you can use a switch inside the tools menu in recovery
How it works:
Recovery will detect any requested changes for your boot partition
When you reboot out of recovery, it will prepare updating your boot partition on next rom start
This means that your boot partition will be updated when you see the HTC Splash screen, followed by 1 reboot
So basically the only visible difference to when you are s-off is one additional reboot, which takes only a few seconds.
Recovery is NOT flashed to boot and boot is also only flashed once/update
Recovery will only attempt to flash your boot partition if it was really changed
Limitations:
Radio and firmware:
Usually those are flashed via bootloader flashable zips or fastboot even on devices that are s-off.
But in case you wondered: this does not enable you to flash new firmwares or radio images via recovery.
SmartFlash needs a working kernel to be able to upgrade your boot partition.
It cannot work in case your current kernel is incompatible with your device/hboot or has been wiped outside of recovery.
For example you cannot erase boot via fastboot and then start up recovery to update your kernel.
However you don't need a working rom to use it.
The only requirement is that your current kernel is able to start (this happens before you see the boot animation) and that your system partition is mountable.
INFO:
For App and Rom devs:
Make use of the Recovery Interface Api provided by the (free and paid) 4EXT Recovery Apps to push updates/mods/addons for auto installation.
Very easy to use and to integrate into Apps or even shell scripts.
Please check 3rd post.
Info regarding 4EXT Recovery Touch and its yesno feature, or any interactive installer scripts you might already use, please see 3rd post.
Themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch:
Official 4EXT Recovery Themes Index & Discussion Thread
Download
All downloads are available through 4EXT Recovery Updater.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no nothing, don't worry
..and of course via 4EXT Recovery Control
This ensures that your downloads are ok by automatically verifying md5sums and that known issues and changelogs are easily accessible
When you install or download a recovery via the app it makes sure that your recovery config is correctly set up.
Configure 4EXT Recovery comfortably without the need to modify config files.
It allows to automatically setup your time zone for recovery.
You can use it to get notified about updates regarding your recovery version
You can configure it to get notified in case any critical bugs have been discovered of the recovery version you currently have installed.
It allows me to update known issues/changelogs immediately and to quickly pull a newly released version if there were reports about critical bugs
You can also use it to just download a recovery.zip containing the image. The download will be automatically verified for correct md5sums!
By default the app also saves the recovery.img you flash on your sdcard,
so you can use it to flash the recovery via fastboot in case you need to do that one day.
If you somehow lost those files, there's a direct download for a version you can flash via fastboot.
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4EXT Recovery Control
Free version: Recovery Updater
Fully featured: Recovery Control
For a list of its many features, visit www.4ext.net
Some examples :
Very easy to use, but also includes an extensive set of features available via "advanced mode"
Comfortable configure all settings of recovery
Calculate the space needed to create a new full or advanced backup
So you can make sure the backup will succeed before even rebooting into recovery.
Advanced Backups: While you are selecting / deselecting partitions, it will display and update the currently needed space to complete that custom backup set.
Identifies and adds your romname so you don't need to type so much when chosing a meaningful name for your backup
When you restore a backup, the app does the md5sum check instead of the recovery
This ensures that you know whether the restore process will succeed before even rebooting into recovery
Flash as many zip files you want in one go
Automatically calculate and display the md5sums of all zip files you are going to flash
Check your backups' health to ensure they will restore later when you need them, by verifying their md5sums!
Optionally, but highly not recommended:
If md5sums don't match but you really need that backup badly, you might want to restore it anyway.
You can you this app to fix the md5sums of a given backup
As an example, the following is possible to do in just one session:
Restore a backup, set to create a backup / advanced backup before the restore,
format all partitions with a file system of your choice before the restore process starts,
flash additional zip files afterwards, fix permissions and select to stay inside recovery or to reboot automatically once all actions are complete.
Much, much more! See www.4ext.net
Big thanks to craacK for a lot of great icons!
Thanks:
Big thanks to DolphiCom for all the graphics, the worker bar and a whole lot of great ideas and to the many great testers who spent all day/night testing, reporting bugs, making suggestions, helping with decisions:
Jotha, craacK, Patrics83, Euphorie, Mike1986, Whiskey103, ptr_hamilton, Lizard, TheUntouchable
Big thanks to Jotha and Whiskey103 for testing the themes features creating and their first themes for 4EXT Recovery Touch.
Special thanks to Dees_Troy who joined #4ext several times, just to tell me about important things he assumed I didn't know (and he was right! )
Also Big thanks to all the donators to 4EXT Recovery and everyone who has bought 4EXT Recovery Control! Without you I wouldn't be able to spend as much time with the project:
SO A HUGE THANK YOU!
FRANKIE-BOY, BENJAMINNZIS, DESPERANTO86, SYRAKUS, VRC8883, FISHA21, ZJXPOT, ZEEKIZ, A USER, PHILOS64, STEVEATHOME, PREACHER65, BEN_PYETT, HAWST, ANIT77, ULTRA DROID, PTR_HAMILTON, BEANBEAN50, SEBASTIAAN15 and LOVEBOATCAPTAIN
Of course BIG THANKS to KOUSH for ClockworkModRecovery!
Without him, 4EXT Recovery wouldn't exist!
Thanks a lot to the following users for initial testing for specific devices :
SPEEDYCARV, PTR_HAMILTON, JAMESCLINTON, SNOWBOARDKID503, MJESSE81, SEBASTIAAN15, THEUNTOUCHABLE, BMONSTER, ANDREIGHERGHE, PRESTON74, MADKAI, YASIR, PLAYPETEPP
IPERZAMPEM0, THESHAWTY, JBBANDOS, TAZMAN1963, GREGFERNS and INCREDULOUS
Special thanks to Invasion2 and Stlouie65 for spending at least 10 hours of their time helping me debug a really nasty issue on the myTouch 4G!
Also thanks for obtaining calibration values for the touchscreen:
Mjesse81,
Speedycarv,
Wolfepakt
Jaibar
Jayallen1980
Stlouie65
Invasion2
PacerguyDon
Ben_Pyett
Dargocitfer
Darknessrise1234
Lizard
Azazel71
Features of 4EXT Recovery Classic:
(Use 4EXT Recovery Control or Recovery Updater for complete Changelogs and Known issues!)
not all features may be relevant for all devices
Displays additional information:
Identifies your current rom and displays its name
Current filesystems on your partitions
Free space remaining of all of your volumes
Current battery charge level
Backup | Restore:
Correctly calculates free space needed to complete a backup ( version > 2.2.6 RC4 )
Tar backups (can be switched on or off)
Complete CWMR5 compatibility
All Backups you create will be named after your currently installed Rom for easier identification.
Never unwillingly get "downgraded" to EXT3 again
Always restores backups using the file systems you HAD on your partitions at the time of creation!
-> all partitions formatted with ext4 at that time, will be restored to ext4. The same is true for ext3.
You can manually change any existing Backup to ext4 or ext3
-> so that after a restore, all partitions and up with the file system you wanted!
Advanced Backup: backup only a single partition
Convert any of your partitions to EXT4 or EXT3 without data loss.
Formatting:
When you wipe or format it will always use the same file system you currently have.
-> but you can change that
When you format ext4 it will always create an aligned file system
Correctly identifies unformatted sd-ext partitions
-> if it finds one it displays a warning and suggests you may format them by visiting the 4EXT menu
Filesystem check and repair option in advanced menu
Partitioning:
Alignment check of your partitions
Full support for up to 2 sd-ext partitions + swap (Backup/restore/format/convert, fsck, et.c.)
(RE-) Partition your sdcard for sd-ext without removing your fat32 partition.
All partitions created with 4EXTRecovery will be perfectly aligned to 4k
Installing:
Integrated md5sum checking option
Menus:
Most popular menu items rearranged
Format menu
Power Menu + option to reboot into bootloader
Changed Advanced Restore: first select what you want to restore, then select the backup
-> Useful for restoring from "Advanced Backups"
4ext.prop:
Configuration file on your sdcard where you can set options to be used by 4EXTRecovery
Change all settings conveniently with 4EXT Recovery Control
Many more options to come
Share your settings / themes by packing your config into a flashable theme
Other stuff:
USB Storage Autostart (must be switched on)
Mount usb storage exposes all partitions on your sdcard to the os (not just fat32)
-> you could even partition your sdcard from your PC while connected via USB
Switch haptic feedback on/off
Button backlights
Recovery Interface Api for Apps and Scripts
Both: free and paid 4EXT apps now provide a very easy to use interface you can use to access 4EXT Recovery from within your shell scripts or apps.
Features:
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe data / factory reset
install multiple zips at once
backup
If you are interested, please download this zip file with examples
How to make use of 4EXT Recovery Touch from within updater-scripts:
Since Beta 1.0.0.3 Beta 4 you can do the following:
identify whether the user is running 4EXT Recovery Touch or not (to use or not to use the following commands)
make use of the native yes/no dialogue (confirm / cancel buttons)
prevent recovery from redrawing the screen ( in case you need to use your own 3rd party interactive binary )
To identify 4EXT Recovery Touch:
Code:
if getprop("ext.edition") == "ng" then
<your code>
endif;
To use the native confirm dialogues:
Code:
ui_print("4ext: show_yesno"); # <-- recovery will pause your script and display "yes / no" buttons.
run_program("/sbin/sleep", "2"); # <-- for safety since the above is executed asynchronous
#check the return value by calling:
if getprop("ext.confirm") == "yes" then
<yourcode>
endif;
To prevent recovery from redrawing the screen ( if you want to use an external binary that needs to occupy the screen and get the focus )
Code:
ui_print("4ext: disable_scrn_update");
# don't forget to enable it again after your yesno binary or graphical installer is finished, by calling:
ui_print("4ext: enable_scrn_update"); #otherwise the recovery will appear to be frozen as it won't update the screen anymore.
reserved...
So this is for cmda
Sent from my PG86100 using XDA
looks dope.. but im on cdma to.... can we flash this recovery???
looks promising. I'm gonna keep an eye on this. I'm a little nervous about trying a new recovery after my adventures with this phone today...just want stability for a few more hours lol.
EDIT: just to clarify, im not in any way knocking the stability of this recovery, especially since I haven't tried it yet, I was merely saying I'm looking for stability for now since i was surprised to find myself unbricking my phone earlier.
Looks great. I'll give it a shot
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
Of course it is for the CDMA!
I'm mad, but not that mad
Also the app will detect your device as cdma and let you confirm!
This works awesome so far! Even got it themed! Haven't tried any flashes or backups yet, but I'm sure it works just fine!
Thanks!
-Tee Jay
noice noice
Thank you!
Before someone asks:
You can drag down the statusbar to get to the text output history.
For taking screenshots:
Press the search button.
When you are finished taking screens, don't forget to copy them to your sdcard using the tools menu.
Yes, the font is small, there will be something... else.. soon
Themes: all themes for the Sensation, or better 960x540 work perfectly on the Evo 3D
wow someone rated 1 star. no respect -_-
Joey_UFC said:
wow someone rated 1 star. no respect -_-
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Fixed that now its 4 stars
well i did a backup.. then wiped data wiped cash wiped dalvik cash.. then i flashed team nocturals wipe and after it was done the phone rebooted but it went back into recovery??? was it supposed to do that?????
Trying this out right now, i've heard good things about it!! Thanks!
This look amazing! I too could use some stability (3 bricks in 2 days) but hell, cant resist!
Hehe I'm sorry that I cannot give you RC2 which is extremely stable.
But it has no support for wimax backup/restore.
RC3 is meant to fix the 1-2 cosmetic bugs from rc2, but I had to change a little bit more regarding backup/restore of wimax.
And any version I release, will first get a "testing" flag..
This is utterly fantastic. Thank you so much!
its all gOOd just figured id let u kno it rebooted..
MutiTool - Swiss army knife - MUST have tool for Newbies.
Glad to announce a utility tool - MultiTool.
This is state of the art must have tool for all newcomers. You can manage following things with it.
- Root
- Busybox
- EFS Backup/Restore
- Recovery changer
- Kernel changer
- Modem changer
- Backup/Restore System App & Framework folder
- Bloatware Backup-Remove-Restore
- LockScreen Security bypass
- Clean device to prepare for Triangle Away
Details of features under Installation & Features
Installation and Features MUST READ BEFORE USING
So You must have CWM/TWRP Recovery Installed to use this tool. Here is detail guide to get CWM on your device.
Procedure to get CWM :
Step 1
Download Philz_touch_*n7105.tar.md5 Also you need to have Kies OR Samsung USB driver installed on PC.
1.Open Odin and select PDA tab (see image below) (Get Odin from here)
2.Point to recovery file you have downloaded philz_touch_* -n7105.tar.md5
3.Now switch off device and reboot in download mode
press Vol down + Home +Power, And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode
4.Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue) (see image below)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
5.Hit ‘Start’ to flash
6.Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID :COM, you can disconnect device from PC (see image below)
[Note : normally, phone should auto-reboot into recovery.
If it reboots into android and your recovery remains stock, repeat above steps and untick "autoreboot" in odin. Once flash is done, keep pressing power button until it reboots (normally will go to recovery)
when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm]
On successful flashing your recovery change to CWM, Now Next step How to use Multitool
Installation of Multitool and Detail features
- Download N7105_MultiTool-AromaVxx.zip and copy to SD card (Internal / Ext)
- Reboot device to Recovery (Vol Up +Power + Home).
- You will have recovery menu like this(see image below), Select Install zip
- Then select Int/Ext SD card depending on you have copied file.
- Select file you have copied N7105_MultiTool-AromaVxx.zip and hit Entre. (See image File name may be different)
This will Open Aroma Installer and you will have following Option to perform. Read every option in detail before proceeding.
1.Root
Here you will have two option.
A.Root : You can root your device with this option, Also this option cleans leftover of previously installed Superuser/SU of different superuser app.
In case your device is previously rooted and on reboot you can't see SuperSU app in drawer OR if you unable to update binary, simply update from Play store and it should work.
B.BusyBox - Routinely this doesn't needs and most of app needs root works without this too. Still any of your app demand this then you can select this option also you can do it later too.
2.EFS Backup If you are newbies and don't know why you need this then first read this thread. I recommend all user to make EFS backup if you still don't have.
A.EFS Backup : This will make EFS backup in format of raw imahe efs.img to int SD card MyEFS folder
B.EFS Restore : This will restore previously made backup in case you lose IMEI and need it.
3.Recovery - This is recovery changer tool.
You can switch to different recovery like
A.Philz touch CWM based recovery
B.TWRP
C.Stock Recovery- remember if you flash stock recovery, you will have to use odin to flash CWM/TWRP.
Here is Philz Recovery original thread
Here is TWRP official project website
4.Kernel - You can switch between kernel
Available kernels are
A.NEAK kernel B.Perseus Kenel C.Stock Kernel
Here is Neak kernel original thread if you have any queries for NEAK kernel Credit @simone201 for NEAK kernel.
Here is Perseus Kernel original Thread, in case you have any kernel related queries for Perseus Kernel. Credit @AndreiLux for Perseus Kernel
5.Modem
A.Old Modem LK6 : This will Break EFS if you have new ROM, so i have removed this option Accidental flashing this only show msg 'Flashing old modem Not supported to your device'
B.New Modem MG1 :If you downgrade ROM and lose your IMEI, flashing this new modem can restore your IMEI.
6.backup Restore general - Helpful before trying different MODs, if that doesn't work you can restore previous file wuth this.
A.Backup Framework folder - Will make backup of System/framework folder to IntSDcard/DrKetanMod/framework folder -Needs 100MB free space
B.Backup System Folder - will make backup of System/app folder to IntSdcard/DrKetanMod/app folder. it needs appr 700MB space.
C.Backup to ExtSD - will backup System/app + System/framework folder to ExtSDCard/DrKetanMod. Needs 800MB space.
For Restore select option according you have selected backup location.
D.Restore Framework folder from IntSD
E.Restore System/App folder from IntSD
F.Restore System app and framework folder from ExtSD
7.Bloatware
A.Backup Bloatware - Select this to backup bloatware before removing it so you can restore anytime you need it.
B.Remove Bloatware - You can remove batch bloatware with this. To remove selected bloatware use this tool
C.Restore Bloatware
8.LockScreen security bypass
A.Remove Password - If you forget your lockscreen password/Pin/Pattern, you can bypass security with this option. This will remove PIN/Password and you can reset new. In case you bypass Pattern then you may have pattern on reboot but you can unlock with any pattern and you can reset your new pattern.
9.Prepare device to use TriangleAway Newbies are not knowing about their recovery/kernel so this tool will help to reset stock.
A.Clean device - This will remove all left over of Super user app and SU, also remove Busybox and symlink of busybox. As well this will Replace CWM to Stock recovery. But still clean root access will remain present to use triangle away app. That can be unroot with SuperSU settings.
Again if device doesn't have SuperSU app OR fail to update binary then update it from play store.
Remember after selecting this option your recovery will be stock and if you need CWM, you have to use Odin again
B.Select This If you have stock kernel - If your kernel is custom and you want to make device clean you also have to select this option along with A. to use triangle away.
Download :
N7105_MutiTool_AromaV10
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Hope friends you will find this tool helpful to keep on your SD card so you can use it anytime. If Niewbies can't post here in dev section, use this thread instead.
I don't own N7105 so coudn't test this, but there is nothing needed to change in script just i have replaced recovery,kernel and modem file of N7105. Reports are highly appriciated.
GoodLuck And Happy Flashing !
Changelog :
[16.09.13]N7105_MultiTool_AromaV10 - Initial release
Credits : @Phil3759 for his amazing recovery and busybox cleaning tool @Chainfire for his Superuser.apk and SU
Reserved
Wow thanks, this looks interesting. Makes it easier for all the new people who want to root their device I guess. THUMBS UP to you Sir!
Not only for Root as for rooting there are other tool threads are there, But commonest reason to root for most of new comers are, EFS backup, Bloatware cleaning and trying some different kernels. so this tool will give privilege to do all under single roof.
Also helpful to use when user lose IMEI by downgrading ROM. Also it makes awareness of EFS backup if user read this tool while rooting.
Thanks for this mate! Going to download and keep just for reasons. Always good to have and looks very handy. Much appreciated!
Thanks dr.ketan, nice work
Quick question, is the option in your tool to backup EFS done differently for the n7105?
I know the IMEI is handled differently on the LTE n7105 and just wondered if your MultiTool accounts for the differences between the n7100 and the n7105?
It takes raw image backup without any interference in contents. And efs partition is same for both device on checking pit.
Can you elaborate what difference does it have?
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
Thanks
Great tool to have....and keep.....incase of emergency.....many thanks....
dr.ketan said:
It takes raw image backup without any interference in contents. And efs partition is same for both device on checking pit.
Can you elaborate what difference does it have?
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
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On the n7105 we do not have nv_data.bin file...
Because of the different chipset, as far as I know, we need to use QPST
I remember seeing a post on here somewhere with instructions for the i9305 but as they both use qualcomm chipsets, I believe it is the same procedure for the n7105
[edit] here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915
But this method doesn't making backup of nv_data.bin it just backup raw image of EFS partition. Does it have some information to other partition too?
Though i will check it.
Someone have reported this method working, Read post#4 of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175902
dr.ketan said:
But this method doesn't making backup of nv_data.bin it just backup raw image of EFS partition. Does it have some information to other partition too?
Though i will check it.
Someone have reported this method working, Read post#4 of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175902
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Thanks
I guess I'll just use both methods to be safe
Oh thank.
@dr ketan, can you make a flashable zip for deodex a rom under 4.3 (JB) ?
XXUEMK5 N7105 NORDIC VERSION, ROOT, STOCK KERNEL
PLEAAAAAAASE :$ I'm Ready Pay you (sorry for my english ... very bad ...)
Thank in advance.
dr.ketan the download keeps failing. is there another location for N7105_MultiTool_AromaV10.zip?
regards