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Default How to Build a Custom Recovery image?????

So My girlfriend has Garminfone and there is no info on the internet at all on how to overclock or a custom kernel or anything really so i Have rooted it but would like to do more so i have done a lil research and will like to build Custom Recovery for the phone but before i start i thought i would post a thread here with all my Optimus one family that i trust and love to get some tips and hopefully even some instructions as the instructions online are hard to fallow ??? so anything ???
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Can give a clear answer about that, because its different for most phones.
Some phones like our Optimus One have a recoverypartition, a phone like Samsung Galaxy 3 has not. It took some work to port CWM to that phone and mumbozver (an XDA-user on de Galaxy 3-thread) managed to port it to that phone).
Guess it's best to post a question in the main android-section for this
 
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make "cat /proc/mtd" in "adb shell".
If there are error - porting will be hard
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Can give a clear answer about that, because its different for most phones.
Some phones like our Optimus One have a recoverypartition, a phone like Samsung Galaxy 3 has not. It took some work to port CWM to that phone and mumbozver (an XDA-user on de Galaxy 3-thread) managed to port it to that phone).
Guess it's best to post a question in the main android-section for this
Ok so how do I figure out if I do our not and then what's next

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Ok so how do I figure out if I do our not and then what's next
Maybe start with telling us which phone we are talking about...
 
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Here some specs that might help you:

Garminfone is the market name from "Nüviphone A50".
- MSM7227 chipset
- ARM Cortex A11 procssesor (ARMv6) @600MHz
- 256MB RAM
- 4GB ROM
- A-GPS
- WLAN b/g
- 3MP camera
- display have 480 x 320 Pixel

with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone
Current Devices: Nexus S, HTC One X
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Oh... Nuviphone A50. I got this junk for free with their navigation. Well, frankly - you are better off throwing that brick away. One of the worst Android phones ever.

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with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone
Do not hold your breath.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5864-garminfone-a50/
 
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Oh... Nuviphone A50. I got this junk for free with their navigation. Well, frankly - you are better off throwing that brick away. One of the worst Android phones ever.



Do not hold your breath.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5864-garminfone-a50/
Yea I have seen that thread and some other threads on other forums and sites but they dont tell you much thank you tho and thanks for the specs 2 any info I can get is good

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Yea I have seen that thread and some other threads on other forums and sites but they dont tell you much thank you tho and thanks for the specs 2 any info I can get is good
Well, if the guys on the thread I have linked are not even willing to team up to finally produce something after basically having wasted about a year on this without getting it even bootable... good luck with this.

I would personally suggest bricking the phone intentionally and claiming warranty. Pretty sure this junk has been EOLed so you might get a decent phone as replacement. (Though, you might be unfortunate enough to get a brand new replacement brick since the Garmin's stock must be full of these collecting dust. )
 
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Here some specs that might help you:

Garminfone is the market name from "Nüviphone A50".
- MSM7227 chipset
- ARM Cortex A11 procssesor (ARMv6) @600MHz
- 256MB RAM
- 4GB ROM
- A-GPS
- WLAN b/g
- 3MP camera
- display have 480 x 320 Pixel

with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone
Thank you andy and mik you guys are awesome for this and all the work you put in will let you know how that goes tomorrow

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