[INFO] Clockworkmod for Arc

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So just to start off this topic with any insight in cwm for this unit.


As far as I know, under fastboot mode, there is a way to flash an update.zip:

C:\Users\user>fastboot
usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>

commands:
update <filename> reflash device from update.zip
flashall flash boot + recovery + system
flash <partition> [ <filename> ] write a file to a flash partition
erase <partition> erase a flash partition
getvar <variable> display a bootloader variable
boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] download and boot kernel
flash:raw boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] create bootimage and flash it
devices list all connected devices
continue continue with autoboot
reboot reboot device normally
reboot-bootloader reboot device into bootloader

options:
-w erase userdata and cache
-s <serial number> specify device serial number
-p <product> specify product name
-c <cmdline> override kernel commandline
-i <vendor id> specify a custom USB vendor id
-b <base_addr> specify a custom kernel base address
-n <page size> specify the nand page size. default:
2048

C:\Users\user>

So perhaps, that can work to flash a cwm when it's built?

It would nice to see cwm on Arc. but we finally got root so this will come to and more custom roms

Fastboot update.zips are different to the ones for recoveries.

When I listed out the partition mapping on the device, I do not see any recovery partition on the unit though:

# df
df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 167M 76K 167M 4096
/mnt/asec 167M 0K 167M 4096
/mnt/obb 167M 0K 167M 4096
/system 312M 213M 98M 4096
/data 380M 216M 163M 4096
/cache 225M 7M 217M 4096
/data/idd 10M 1M 8M 4096
/mnt/sdcard 31G 3G 27G 32768
/mnt/secure/asec 31G 3G 27G 32768

# cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 13880000 00020000 "system"
mtd1: 00a00000 00020000 "appslog"
mtd2: 0e100000 00020000 "cache"
mtd3: 17c00000 00020000 "userdata"

yes device may not have recovery partition
however we can always stick to xrecovery attempt do we not?

Did you try to download Clockwork mod from market and install recovery from the app itself?

or we could just build a "fastboot boot"able recovery. Y'know, no actual "real" one on the phone itself but we can always tetherboot a recovery!

We have to talk to Amon Ra and xrecovery guys

What does CWM have that xrecovery doesn't?

Originally Posted by im_iceman

What does CWM have that xrecovery doesn't?

Ability to run when /system partition is empty/missing files.