Custom Recovery Image

[brianr0131]

5) Opened up terminal emulator and tried all of the following from the $ prompt AND the # (su) prompt:

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img
/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

I also tried to cd into /sdcard/ and run the same two commands. I tried

./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

also and that didn't work.

if flash_image is in the root of the sdcard, you'll have to run

'/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img' since flash_image is not in your $PATH

didn't work :icon_eek:

didn't work because that response was cut and pasted from Alldroid where someone renamed the file to just recovery instead of recovery-0.08

However, I tried it with the 0.08 and it still didn't work anyway LOL

 

[boostdscoob]

thank you brian7, worked

 

[brianr0131]

atually when I type:

/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

I now get a permission denied error instead of the file not found that I was getting before.

hmmmmmm

 

[toka]

atually when I type:

/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

I now get a permission denied error instead of the file not found that I was getting before.

hmmmmmm

can you give us the output of ' ls -l /sdcard/ ' also the output of 'mount' ?

 

[gardobus]

Forgot to mention, the command which seems to get me the farthest is:

/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

What I get from that is:

/sdcard/flash_image: permission denied

I get that even when I su to the # prompt. Any ideas?

atually when I type:

/sdcard/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.08.img

I now get a permission denied error instead of the file not found that I was getting before.

hmmmmmm

:icon_eek:

 

[brianr0131]

can you give us the output of ' ls -l /sdcard/ ' also the output of 'mount' ?

These are both very long outputs....are there specific lines you're looking for?

 

[boostdscoob]

didnt work.. no new recovery, just the stock one. says cant open /cache/recovery/command

 

[gardobus]

Maybe I'll just wait for a newer version...

 

[toka]

can you give us the output of ' ls -l /sdcard/ ' also the output of 'mount' ?

These are both very long outputs....are there specific lines you're looking for?

the line for flash_image and the recovery.img files on the first, and the line for the /sdcard mount on the second

 

[boostdscoob]

i get nothing. it acts like everything works, but then upon reboot, i have to hit vol^ and camera button to get into stock recovery

 

[brianr0131]

i get nothing. it acts like everything works, but then upon reboot, i have to hit vol^ and camera button to get into stock recovery

Did you do this step to disable stock recovery reset on boot?

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.old
sync
mount -o remount,r -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

 

[jinx10000]

have you renamed /system/recovery-on-boot.p
i may be missing the point, I've had a few beers.
edit: Brian beat me to it.

 

[toka]

i get nothing. it acts like everything works, but then upon reboot, i have to hit vol^ and camera button to get into stock recovery

Did you do this step to disable stock recovery reset on boot?

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.old
sync
mount -o remount,r -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

this only applies if you boot fully into android after making your change. i ran the flash_image command, hit power off, held x on start and got into the 0.07 custom recovery image. it replaces the recovery partition as part of the os init. i wouldn't advocate moving that file until you're sure you want the new recovery image to stick =) just remember, if you do normal startup, you're back to factory and need to rerun the commands if you want to go back to custom.

 

[brianr0131]

can you give us the output of ' ls -l /sdcard/ ' also the output of 'mount' ?

These are both very long outputs....are there specific lines you're looking for?

the line for flash_image and the recovery.img files on the first, and the line for the /sdcard mount on the second

----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 26172 2009-12-12 20:46 flash_image

/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 o

 

[toka]

These are both very long outputs....are there specific lines you're looking for?

the line for flash_image and the recovery.img files on the first, and the line for the /sdcard mount on the second

----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 26172 2009-12-12 20:46 flash_image

/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 o

excellent, see that "noexec" in the mount entry for sdcard? that should be your permission denied issue.