Can't Decide Which Recovery Image to Use?

[adrynalyne]

Requires Busybox.


Why choose when its easy to switch?


Ok, so koush has his clockwork recovery image which is very nice. However, support from most devs goes to sprecovery.

I've set up a script that installs two other scripts, so that you can flash either of them, in seconds, just by accessing su and typing one of two commands:

clkwrk
sprcvry

This is probably going to be of more interest to the power users and devs, but here ya go!


rcimage.zip



Unzip the files all to the base of your sdcard.

Then, follow these easy commands:

adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/rcimage of=/data/local/rcimage
cd /data/local
chmod 755 rcimage
./rcimage

Thats it. Both commands should now be at your disposal. I have tested this via adb, but not via the terminal emulator. This is considered highly beta and I am not responsible for your phone turning into a smoldering chunk of coal, or your Droid eloping with your cat!

[kevdog]

This script is a good concept -- however my only problem is that I don't want these files cluttering up the root directory or /sdcard directory. If I could run them from a different directory I would (but an easy script modification could be done to change this!!)

[adrynalyne]

The only files that need to stay there after install are the two recovery images. I kind of hoping a dev will pick up on this and start putting it into their rom. Its a win win situation.

[thebowers]

Why not put these scripts in /system/bin? Otherwise when you wipe data you are going to have to do this all over again.

[adrynalyne]

They are in /system/xbin.

The rcimage script runs from /data/local and copies them from the sdcard and puts them there.

Thank google for their infinite wisdom thT you cannot run scripts from the sd card. At least, I couldn't.

The real issue is that each new rom install erases it. Thats why I was kind of hoping the devs could do something like this for their ROMs.

[unix.punkx]

Nice! I'm curious to try koush's recovery image and his ROM

[Se7enLC]

Thank google for their infinite wisdom thT you cannot run scripts from the sd card. At least, I couldn't.

Correct. You cannot mark files as executable because the SD Card is formatted as Fat32. You can get around this by typing "sh /sdcard/script_to_run", but that's a pain. The other option is to put scripts on the /data partition - but that's effectively the same problem as putting them in /system.

Can you post more information about this clockwork recovery image? This is the first I've heard of it and I'm curious. Is there a web page for it or some screen shots?

[adrynalyne]

My Brain Hurts: Clockwork Recovery Image v1.4.2

[thebowers]

Here is the terminal commands for anyone wanting to do this that way.

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
busybox cp -R /sdcard/rcimage /data/local/rcimage
cd /data/local
chmod 755 rcimage
./rcimage

[hydrogenman]

Or, why not just get Developers to use the superior recovery image, Clockwork