And here is was under the presumption that it couldn't be done. Awesome job. I'd buy it again, if I could. 
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[TOUCHCOVERY] 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.6 RC 2
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i used the recovery once. i was able to flash superwipe, but after that, i couldnt flash anything xP after selecting a zip to flash, the load bar would just keep on going with no visible signs of progress. i managed to restore my backup. it seemed to work quite well a the beginning though xD
Works great for me re-flash and try again. Anyways best recovery no doubt KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!
The original older version of superwipe will format your partitons in ext 3 format. That could have been the problem. Do you know what version of superwipe that you flashed?
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i actually used the 4ext supported superwipe+. after superwipe, i formatted my partitions, and moved on to flashing ics. i let my phone sit for 10 minutes and started watching some harry potter. after dumbledore died, i checked my phone, and there was no progress. i pulled the battery and re-wiped partitions and tried to flash again. same problem. i pulled the battery and tried flashing superwipe again, and still no progress. thankfully i had a backup though xD
Awesome work! As stated by others, I didn't think touch support in recovery was possible. You are a God among men sir! So far, I haven't found any problems, although I only gave it a quick test. Flashed and rebooted through the updated Recovery Control app without a hitch.
So far, I haven't found any problems, although I only gave it a quick test. Flashed and rebooted through the updated Recovery Control app without a hitch. 
wow this new recovery looks amazing! Only had a quick look but it looked very promising and nice!! Thanks for your hard work on this!! Gonna use it with much pleasure 
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what kind of safety will be included, incase you forget to reboot after a backup or flash and accidently do some "pocket" wiping? is it not fully touchscreen? requires some trackpad or power button confirmations on certain things? just wondering...
I am not sure how the classic 4EXT is not "touch" - I just touch the 4EXT icon on my home screen --> touch Recovery Menu ---> touch the ROM I want to flash --> touch the answer to a couple of wiping and MD5 questions, set my phone down and come back to a new ROM installed!
so what is the big deal? - lol
what really needs sorted out is this 2.14 vs. 2.27RC5 business, have never figured that one out!
so what is the big deal? - lol
what really needs sorted out is this 2.14 vs. 2.27RC5 business, have never figured that one out!
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First off, this is great! Compared to the cwmr recovery, you've added some stuff I always wanted (advanced backup, ext4 conversions) and fixed some stuff that bugged me before (easy pre-wipe md5 check of backup). Thanks!!
Yeah, the hard button confimations are a good idea.
For instance, I was out and about, you know, doing a nandroid, nbd, and I saw someone who asked me to give them a hand with something. I was thinking "shoot....I don't want to put this in my pocket cuz when it's done I might pocket-wipe stuff." it was kind of a random situation, but you get my point.
But thankfully the classic version is available =) still...best of both worlds?
Sent from my Nexus 6 through tears in rain.
Yeah, the hard button confimations are a good idea.
For instance, I was out and about, you know, doing a nandroid, nbd, and I saw someone who asked me to give them a hand with something. I was thinking "shoot....I don't want to put this in my pocket cuz when it's done I might pocket-wipe stuff." it was kind of a random situation, but you get my point.
But thankfully the classic version is available =) still...best of both worlds?
Sent from my Nexus 6 through tears in rain.
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His comment was not even an attack at you....he was saying if that ever happened then it would be a face palm moment. You have no sense of humor.
Yea dudes wound too tight I guess, bet he's got crazy ass road rage if a /facepalm comment sets him off that bad lol.
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Proudly presenting:
4EXT Recovery Touch
- 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)
- 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.
Download
- All downloads are available through 4EXT Recovery Updater.
- It's free, no ads, no tracking, no nothing, don't worry
- ..and of course via 4EXT Recovery Control
- 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 for a version you can flash via fastboot.
4EXT Recovery Control
- Free version: Recovery Updater
- Fully featured: 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!
Kernel: official HTC kernel sources.
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
9New version: 1.0.0.5 RC2 ( currently testing build 42 )
Parts of the changelog:
- Backup folder creation time does now match the configured time zone
- Using Recovery Control to queue up actions for recovery without choosing to "stay inside recovery" will now result in a countdown once all actions are completed.
During 5 seconds you can cancel the reboot to stay in recovery mode. - For roms which include the recovery:
It's now possible to check whether the version you included in your rom is newer than the one currently installed using some simple edify commands (instead of the separate version check binary)
6Hi Desire Z / G2 users,
Just to bump the thread, as a new version of 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.6 RC1 is now available as of 31/12/2013 and all finally packaged up early morning 01/01/2014 so thanks for this at New Years!
To get your hands on the recovery.img, download 4EXT_Recovery_Touch_v1.0.0.6_RC1.zip using the 4EXT Apps.
The Free 4EXT Recovery Updater v2.4.6b App.
Or the Paid 4EXT Recovery Control App.
Version v1.0.0.6 RC1 is required for the Android 4.4 KitKat ROMs and GAPPs.
Here is the changelog for 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.6 RC1.
- Based on the rock solid v1.0.0.5 RC9
- Added support for SELinux needed by some Android 4.4 roms.
Big thanks to the following testers:
Papete, Dtr204, CChako, and Kingmook!
Hope the above helps!
Happy KitKat Testing,
Rob.
