[TOUCHCOVERY] 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.5 RC 5 | USB unbrick with autodetection

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spitjo

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bmonster said:
Did a Backup and now my desire won't mount any sd cards, any ideas??
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You are usb bricked like i was.
This recovery is messed up.
If u are soff check the post right before yours to fix it.
If you are son is a little tricky but still fully recoverable. Check the "desire index" thread for the usb brick fix guide.
Good luck!

Meantime people, stay with non-touch 4ext or with clockworkmod.....
 
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spitjo said:
You are usb bricked like i was.
This recovery is messed up.
If u are soff check the post right before yours to fix it.
If you are son is a little tricky but still fully recoverable. Check the "desire index" thread for the usb brick fix guide.
Good luck!

Meantime people, stay with non-touch 4ext or with clockworkmod.....
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I dont now what your problem is
I flashed all recoverys from the begining beta or none beta
I get them all from madmax for testing or new version
And never and i mean never have any problems With it
So people dont listen to him or get scary about flashing it
Download his app
Or read on xda how to flash it correctly tru adb
I now madmaxx from the beginning
And i have this recovery on phone before you have



Runnymede AIO
 
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Well I sorted the SD card mount problems,By flashing back to stock with ruu, re-rooted and s off again, then tried the touch recovery again and got the same sd card problem.
This time I did a backup, wiped, installed a rom and a few addons, and rebooted.
Rom loaded but couldn't mount SD card, went back into recovery and that also couldn't mount the sd card, tried other cards with no luck either.

Went back to stock, rerooted and s-off again, flashed non touch recovery, and all is good again.

My phone or the touch recovery I don't know. :)

Great work though Maxx, I'm sure you'll fix it if it is the recovery. :)
 
DonHuan

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Excellent work

sebastiaan15 said:
I dont now what your problem is
I flashed all recoverys from the begining beta or none beta
I get them all from madmax for testing or new version
And never and i mean never have any problems With it
So people dont listen to him or get scary about flashing it
Download his app
Or read on xda how to flash it correctly tru adb
I now madmaxx from the beginning
And i have this recovery on phone before you have



Runnymede AIO
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Mine recovery works fine, too. Updated it through the 4EXT Recovery Updater, made a backup - the phone is still alive. :)
 
PlayPetepp

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DonHuan said:
Mine recovery works fine, too. Updated it through the 4EXT Recovery Updater, made a backup - the phone is still alive. :)
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Made a backup (213 secs), wiped everything a few times, restored a backup (308 secs), flashed kernel, flashed some other zips, everything went fine. Big ups for madmaxx82 and 4EXT Recovery Touch! Awesome Christmass gift for all 4EXT Recovery desire users. Have a very mery Christmass everyone. ;)
 
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sebastiaan15 said:
I dont now what your problem is
I flashed all recoverys from the begining beta or none beta
I get them all from madmax for testing or new version
And never and i mean never have any problems With it
So people dont listen to him or get scary about flashing it
Download his app
Or read on xda how to flash it correctly tru adb
I now madmaxx from the beginning
And i have this recovery on phone before you have
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Hi all, i have also installed it via 4ext recovery control and it is working great.

Thanks madmaxx, great job.
 
spitjo

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PlayPetepp said:
Made a backup (213 secs), wiped everything a few times, restored a backup (308 secs), flashed kernel, flashed some other zips, everything went fine. Big ups for madmaxx82 and 4EXT Recovery Touch! Awesome Christmass gift for all 4EXT Recovery desire users. Have a very mery Christmass everyone. ;)
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Did you rebooted after saving the backup and before restoring it?

Guys i'm not blaming the dev. I read beta on this recovery. Just bug reporting. Isn't this normal? Maybe i've been too rude... sorry...
I'll just stay with non-touch 4ext by now

@seb I flash recovey always with fastboot. I downloaded only from the app, extracted and flashed manually. I don't think is a bad flash...
 
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Sebby

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spitjo said:
Did you rebooted after saving the backup and before restoring it?

Guys i'm not blaming the dev. I read beta on this recovery. Just bug reporting. Isn't this normal? Maybe i've been too rude... sorry...
I'll just stay with non-touch 4ext by now

@seb I flash recovey always with fastboot. I downloaded only from the app, extracted and flashed manually. I don't think is a bad flash...
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Why dont you flash tru the apps works perfect

Runnymede AIO
 
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Well they say third time Lucky, and It was for me.

Everything seems to be working fine now, guessing it was me or my phone playing up.

good work Maxx :)
 
boscovich

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All ok here, also backup and restore... Great breaktrough for our desire.. Una Pietra Miliare! Greets from Sicily!

Sent from my HTC Runnymede using Tapatalk
 
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THANK YOU all VERY MUCH for that extremely awesome feedback and all the kudos! Many of them I don't deserve, but it was very nice of you to say!


Sorry, I had to leave immediately after setting up the thread because of "Christmas duties" :D

And unfortunately this hasn't stopped. I need to leave the city for 2 days in a few hours, which is very bad because I don't like it to leave you alone with this first release for the Desire!


Regarding usb bricks some of you had:

Relevant parts of recovery have NOT changed in 4EXT Recovery Touch compared to "classic" 2.2.7 rc5/6

The only thing different is the size of the recovery.
And this IS a problem! It is nearly at the limit of maximum allowed size for the Desire. This has caused problems in the past and it is of course a big problem now.
.. For devices that have already some bad blocks on the recovery partition.

I will cut down the size considerably as soon as possible.

I would also like to implement an USB unbrick feature.

I'd even do it now before I leave (if time permits), but for this I'd either need a brave tester who is bricked, or to brick my own Desire which I bought 1 week ago.

Does anyone know of a way with a relatively high chance to get the device usb bricked? It should happen "by accident" of course and not by manually writing some garbage to misc :D


EDIT: And before someone says: go flash your own recovery :D You can imagine that I did that excessively while developing. But I never experienced a brick.

Thank you!
 
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snakeeyes21 said:
Does that for the first 20 odd seconds, presumably to
load the touch drivers etc
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In fact it doesn't take longer to load than classic. It should be on par at least.
Like on classic it depends on your configuration and sdcard how long boot will take.
On classic you just had a black screen, where you now have a splash with a timer.

For me it often takes only 2 seconds to boot, sometimes I need 20.
 
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Thank you very much max, it's really a nice upgrade! Hope we'll see 4ext for Flyer as well! ;)

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Inviato dal mio HTC Flyer P510e usando Tapatalk
 
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No problem here, the recovery works fine and the Desire is still functioning as always.

Thank you for your work, best recovery ever.

Merry christmas!

P. S. Bought the app on market, great work for that as well!

Sent from my HTC Runnymede using XDA App
 
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madmaxx82

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Thank you very much for your support :)



Compiled and uploaded the recovery for the Desire CDMA. I hope the calibration is the same. If not, tell me so it can be fixed.

Need to leave now. Once returned after 2 days: shrink recovery.img size -> no issues for devices with already few bad blocks on the recovery partition, add usb unbrick ;)

Good night everyone and have some great -hopefully free- days ;)
 
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    Proudly presenting:
    4EXT Recovery Touch

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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)
    • USB-Unbrick feature with auto detection.
    • 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​





    • 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 (Desire GSM), (Desire CDMA) for a version you can flash via fastboot.




    4EXT 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

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    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




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    I need to leave now for the next few hours unfortunately.
    Info on how to prevent recovery from updating the screen (needed for interactive updaters like yes/no scripts) or how to use 4EXT built-in yes/no feature will be posted here.

    A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL :)
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    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.
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    Just returned home.. and working on the shrunk version.
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