Can you get to recovery image without PC

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is there a way to do this?

Do you mean can you replace the recovery image without a PC, or are you just asking if you can get in to it?

With the phone off: Hold Volume Down and hit power and this will allow you to get in to recovery.

As far replacing it without a PC... not that I know of. Well I mean assuming the use of the world "PC" means any OS (windows / mac / linux).

I dunno, it would seem that all the stuff done could be done through a terminal on the phone instead of ADB (running the exploit, enabling root, and flashing).

Originally Posted by jmhalder

I dunno, it would seem that all the stuff done could be done through a terminal on the phone instead of ADB (running the exploit, enabling root, and flashing).

It's possible but it's a pain. (This isn't tested but I'm not sure that I can see how it wouldn't work...the idea is still similar to get to root and once you're in root, you can do all of it)

Download the files (which should get saved to your sdcard under the downloads folder) and then install a terminal app from the marketplace...run all the commands to escape out into root and you should be able to flash from there (though honestly, it seems easier to download flashrec and just flash a recovery rom that way...that's how I did it )

Originally Posted by thecodemonk

(though honestly, it seems easier to download flashrec and just flash a recovery rom that way...that's how I did it )

You know, if you take the flashrec .apk apart, it has asroot2 in it, so I assumed that flashrec could root the phone in order to make its backup of the existing recovery image.

Was anyone able to back up the existing image? I ended up using adb shell to flash the recovery image since I couldn't get flashrec to back up the image (made me think it wasn't working correctly, and I got paranoid).

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Originally Posted by posguy99

You know, if you take the flashrec .apk apart, it has asroot2 in it, so I assumed that flashrec could root the phone in order to make its backup of the existing recovery image.

Was anyone able to back up the existing image? I ended up using adb shell to flash the recovery image since I couldn't get flashrec to back up the image (made me think it wasn't working correctly, and I got paranoid).

Ah, I wasn't aware of that...I only learned that I could unpack the .apk about an hour ago. >.< (I'm still terribly new to android :P)

The image backup worked fine for me, I have the file it generated saved to my computer. (Why I am saving it, I'm not sure...I'm paranoid like that when it comes to data :P)

there is a lot for me to learn, many, many thanx