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A "Recovery" is a special space in the internal memory of your phone, set aside by the manufacturer to perform diagnostics and OS upgrades. In Windows terms, it's a rough equivalent of Boot Menu (usually accessed by pressing F8 during boot-up.) It's invisible to the phone under normal operation, and is accessed in a special way (usually by turning the ...
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If you have a fastboot-enabled bootloader version (such as the old 0.76.0000 engineering HBOOT in the EVO's case) you can use that to flash it from a PC via USB. Reboot into your bootloader, then select the "Fastboot" option from the boot menu (if it has one, it may start up fastboot automatically). Once it's ready, go to your PC's shell and execute:
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Clockworkmod Recovery can be used to replace your device's recovery with something more useful. Specifically it can be used to make backups of and restore your current ROM and data, as well as install new ROMs. You can also use an app called ROM Manager from the Market to manage which Clockwork is installed (you need one specifically for your device) and ...
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First, some disambiguation is in order.
Amon_Ra is a developer who created one of the recovery consoles (named after himself.) Just like ClockworkMod (which was created by a different developer named Koushik Dutta, a.k.a. Koush) Amon_Ra's Recovery performs various low-level tasks on Android devices.
Odin is a Windows application that can be used to flash ...
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Starting with version 6, deduplication support has been built into clockworkmod recovery. The blobs directory folder contains a hashed directory structure that holds the deduplicated files across all backups.
See the developer's Google+ post for more, in short:
TL;DR:
ClockworkMod Recovery now deduplicates files between builds. This results in way ...
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The required part of a kernel .zip file looks like this:
META-INF
com
google
android
update-binary
updater-script
You'll also want to have the kernel zImage file somewhere else, easiest if you just have it in the root of the archive.
updater-script contains the following at minimum (assumes zImage ...
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I had the same problem and I found the solution is to rename a file in the system folder:
remount /system in read/write mode (use something like the Root Explorer app or ES File Explorer; both have root modes (check the app's settings) for remounting /system as writable)
rename the /system/recovery-from-boot.p to /system/recovery-from-boot.p-bak
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Two things are important here:
1.) Even if you wouldn't install ClockworkMod, you'd lose your warranty since you replaced the pre-loaded operating system with unsupported one.
2.) ClockworkMod (or any other alternative recovery) is what actually installs CyanogenMod on your phone so it is required.
In short: Replacing your phone OS with Cyanogen will void ...
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Yes, it is possible to install custom kernels on stock roms. The kernel developer will usually say which roms (or types of roms) the kernel supports. If you are not sure you can try reading the kernel thread, and there will always be poeple saying things like "working great on [firmware version here]". This way you can also make sure that it will work ok on ...
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Clockworkmod stores its backups in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup (replace /sdcard with the path for your external card if you're looking for backups to external memory). With versions prior to 6.0, you can move off (or delete) the entire directory to clear space. The entire backup is self-contained.
If you're using a 6.0 or greater version of Clockworkmod, ...
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I would check your /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder and remove any old backups you have in there.
You can also remove them from within Rom Manager under Manage and Restore Backups. Then click on the older backups and select Delete from the menu.
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CWM is the shortform of ClockWorkMod. ROMManager, CWM recovery, Tether etc are their products. CWM Recovery and ROMManager are tools which enables you to backup your current ROM, install custom ROMs etc.
If you are interested in knowing more about CWM, see this page. For rooting you do not need CWM. In fact for installing CWM you need to be rooted.
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If you are talking about a Nandroid backup: Yes, it would. It creates images from the devices file systems -- so all that's stored there gets copied to those image files. You can then even extract single items using e.g. Titanium Backup.
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The general consensus is there's usually different partitions available:
system
data
cache
boot
recovery
When a guide says to flash "partition" where partition is one of the above, then that implies transferring the contents destined for the partition. The mileage will vary depending on the handset/manufacturer as not all of them actually have ...
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Primary reasons for the no swap recommendations are the basic uselessness of swap for most devices, performance reasons, and device longevity.
As Liam mentions, modern devices have no shortage of RAM (Even my old underpowered Wildfire S has as much RAM as my previous desktop.) and that RAM is managed fairly well by the modern Android system, making a swap ...
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If you have a working CWM or 2e recovery you can flash Darky's with it just fine from a stock ROM. If you have a lagfix, particularly the ext2 OCLF, be sure to undo it first. (It appears Darky's uses the Voodoo ext4 lagfix, so no need to disable Voodoo beforehand. See Is the Voodoo lagfix compatible with Darky's ROM?)
Note that your data will be ...
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A nandroid is the name for a complete backup or image of your device. It can be performed in clock work mod (cmw) .
Clockwork mod is a custom recovery because it is a second of tools that can used without booting an os. Think of it has an additional BIOS. When rooting and jailbreaking, u will want to install the clockwork mod. It is the workhorse that has ...
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Strictly speaking, you could try to keep your apps around, but it is generally a bad idea. During the install process you'll want to wipe the /data partition in order to prevent application crashes and weird permission issues after flashing. If you skip that then your apps and data should hang around, but it causes a lot of strangeness. The best thing to do ...
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If you have succesfully rooted the phone and have the ClockworkMod recovery image, you can easily flash a custom 2.2 ROM.
Have a look on MoDaCo for some good options. You should also install the Rom Manager app from the market for easy flashing, booting to recovery, backups, etc.
You shouldn't have to wait long before there are plenty of 2.3 options too :) ...
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"Fake flash"
When you boot into recovery via vol-down at power up, you get stock
When you boot into recovery using RM you get update.zip
You need to flash permanently eg via alpha rev, unrevoked or via adb. I have a desire so what I used may not work for you.
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Have you considered running Android directly from the SD card? It runs great (just don't go cheap on the SD card), is surprisingly easy to set up (the hardest part for me was being patient for the Nook to finish its initial charging), and if you have any problems or change your mind, you just pop out the card and it's a bog-standard Nook again.
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If you are using a version newer than 6.0 I'd recommend you use the delete backup function in CWM.
It's in backup and restore -> delete (and delete from external SD).
Doing this will ensure that you don't delete a blob that is being used in another backup, as all backups now share the same blob directory.
After deleting from either place use the ...
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One way is to open ROM Manager and choose "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery". Select your device when it prompts and wait for it to download the latest (non-touch) recovery. Using a file browser, go to /sdcard/clockworkmod/download/<site>/recoveries and paste your .img there. <site> may be mirror.kanged.net or something else, just check the folders ...
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/emmc is basically ok and accessible if you can 'mount' it. You already have a working CWM installed which comes with adb enabled. This gives you some options.
Boot to CWM recovery and mount your partition in the 'mounts and storage' section. It's now accessible internally and you can use the adb tool (ADB stands for 'Android debug bridge', it's usually used ...
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It sounds very much like the recovery is borked. I recommend using Odin to re-flash recovery (or even the entire ROM if you can get ahold of an Odin-flashable version). Here's a recent guide from XDA.
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Try flashing the Recovery image manually via fastboot, as described in this guide:
Download the latest version of the ClockworkMod Recovery from here.
Place the ClockworkMod Recovery Image in the same folder as fastboot (the /tools folder with the Android SDK folder).
Power the Nexus S down, and hold Volume Up & the Power button until booted ...
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Rooting the Atrix 4G does only that - gives you elevated privileges on stock OS. In order to be able to install a different recovery image and custom ROMs, the phone's bootloader must be unlocked first.
This is a fairly complicated process that carries the usual warnings and disclaimers of modifying phone software. It will most definitely void your ...
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The easiest way to find out if your Galaxy S2 already has ClockworkMod Recovery installed is to try and boot into it. Turn off the phone, then hold the Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons at the same time. (For international version of the GS2 you need to press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power combination.) If it boots into ClockworkMod - you have it ...
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The boot loader is unlocked yes? If it is, I am not certain if it can be re-locked again for the OTA update to proceed.
Do not accept OTA updates if the bootloader is unlocked!
Best bet would be to use the Sony's companion phone software under Windows and let that update it manually instead :)
Do not try that in a virtual machine/virtual box/vmware!
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To unpack a YAFFS2 image, you can use the free unyaffs tool, which is available as pre-build ELF-binary (for Linux) from this page at code.google.com. This page also contains hints on how to obtain the source code, so you could build the binary yourself e.g. with gcc (gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.c).
I use this tool myself, it works fine on Ubuntu 8.04 32bit as ...
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