Flash recovery image Droid Eris How To

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First of all thanks to Amon_RA for this. I had no part in creating this. I am just providing a how to flash it. There may be an eaiser way but this is what worked for me.



First let me say I am on a Mac. If you are on windows the adb commands should work fine but I can't say how to get adb working for you.



1. download flash_image Here Link updated 3/17/10



2. Open the terminal and copy and paste the following commands.



adb shell [hit enter]

su [hit enter]

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system [hit enter]



3. In a new terminal window (don't close the original one).

adb push flash_image /system/bin [hit enter]
exit [hit enter]


4. Now in the original terminal window
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image [hit enter]



5. Now exit all termainl windows and reboot your phone.



6. Download Amon_AR's recovery Here.



7. Mount your phones sd card and drop recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img on to it and eject your phone.



8. Open the Terminal and copy and paste the following commands with the phone connected to your computer.



8. adb shell [hit enter]



9. su [hit enter]



10. flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img

11. To get into recovery turn off you phone and hold the Volume Up + Power until it boots into recovery.

That's it.

I made an automator script the help all of you having problems getting adb working. Make sure you have the android sdk downloaded and named android-sdk Put it in your home folder and then run this script. Let me know how it works for you.


Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage you may do to your phone. I am only providing instructions on what worked for me. This is very beta. Good luck. Enjoy the nandroid goodness.

First link is Dead...........


ooopps Srry my bad, Its up.

You should mention that the chmod command is in the original terminal window. Also, you could do it in one window if you put:
adb remount
adb push bla /bla/bla
at the begining of everything.

adb push flash_image to /system/bin

I don't think there's a "to" in that command either. lol

Originally Posted by testing567

You should mention that the chmod command is in the original terminal window. Also, you could do it in one window if you put:
adb remount
adb push bla /bla/bla
at the begining of everything.


I don't think there's a "to" in that command either. lol

Thanks. I don't think the "to" is going to work either. I made the corrections.

Just a quick question. What does this boot too. Im new to all this phone stuff. I did the upgrade to 2.1 leaked so just been searching the forum here each day to see if a solution has come about. i just noticed v.1.6.2 in there so was curious as to what this will do.

Will this put the regular android on it or keep it the same, sorry just kinda getting started with android

coupla questions -

For northmendo:

Is the reboot in the middle of this even necessary? ( flash_image won't work right if /system is still mounted rw ?)

For testing567:

Do all the adb shell commands run as root against the 2.1_root install ... or maybe the above could be simplified even more by just running "adb root" first?


For Austinjs0102 (not a question)
This process only applies (at the moment) to phones with "2.1_root" - there isn't a path at present to go from "2.1_leak" to a rooted phone. Assuming that a way to roll back (or get root) for "2.1_leak" eventually is found, then the answer to your question is this: it is a process to apply a custom recovery partition to the phone that include tools that will allow you to perform complete phone backups and restore operations. This can be critical for devs who are experimenting with writing boot or system partitions to their phones - if something goes wrong with their experiments, they can "boot" their phone into recovery mode and restore back to a working configuration. To reiterate, though: this only applies to phones that are already rooted.

bftb0

Thanks a bunch that helps clear up info.
hopefully the hard working dev's here find a 2.1 leaked fix for us early people, if not then i may need to lose the phone lol.

Originally Posted by Austinjs0102

Just a quick question. What does this boot too. Im new to all this phone stuff. I did the upgrade to 2.1 leaked so just been searching the forum here each day to see if a solution has come about. i just noticed v.1.6.2 in there so was curious as to what this will do.

I am in same boat as you...

Let me start off by saying that I'm not a phone dev. I've done software development for many years, but never messed with the phone.

Can someone explain why we can't just load the 1.5 rooted PB001IMG.ZIP file over our 2.1 leaked handset? Is it a matter of the version number being lower? If so, since the 1.5 is rooted, couldn't someone just up the version number to whatever the 2.1 leak is plus one? Then, once it's loaded, write a little app to drop the number back where it should be?

TIA for the education.
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