[Q] Flashing CWM via ROM Manager Edit: or cLK

[redplate]

Hello. The USB Connector from a friend is broken and not usable anymore. Now we want to try ICS on his mobile and therefore we need a bigger Recovery Layout.

Its not possible to flash CWM with the edited flash.cfg via USB. But it is possible to flash CWM via ROM Manager.

What i want to know now is, is it possible to set the size of the system and cache (like we can do it in flash.cfg on PC) with ROM Manager as well? And if yes, how?

Sent from my NexusHD2

 

[samsamuel]

im pretty sure not (never used it, but also never seen that mentioned as possible, and im sure such a feature would be well discussed), , also, rom manager doesn't work if you are using magldr.

 

[jwchips]

Hello. The USB Connector from a friend is broken and not usable anymore. Now we want to try ICS on his mobile and therefore we need a bigger Recovery Layout.

Its not possible to flash CWM with the edited flash.cfg via USB. But it is possible to flash CWM via ROM Manager.

What i want to know now is, is it possible to set the size of the system and cache (like we can do it in flash.cfg on PC) with ROM Manager as well? And if yes, how?

Sent from my NexusHD2

You cannot do this with magldr, BUT YOU CAN WITH CLK!!!!!

cLK 1.5rc has the ability to flash via sd card, and was made by a user with a broken usb port on his hd2. CWM is bundled with clk, and you can repartition straight from the device. No PC required!

Theres some pros and cons to clk that you should be aware of. The biggest downside is clk only supports ppp data connections which are faster but less reliable (you may experience data drops). Reports show this isn't as bad in ICS as it was in GB. Also, please be aware when flashing ROMS, you will need to flash a clk-compatible kernel after flashing the ROM, or the ROM will not boot (most devs include a clk kernel link for their ROM's)

On the plus side, you can repartiton recovery straight from device, charge the phone while off, use ROM Manager, and the GUI looks a lot like the stock HBOOT on native Android HTC devices.

cLK 1.5 rc0

How to flash:
1.make sure you have hspl
2.rename the nbh file as LEOIMG.nbh and place in root of sdcard.
3.enter SPL by holding VOL DOWN key while powering/resting the phone.
4.Press power button to install the nbh and then take out the battery for a second and power the device up.

 

[redplate]

Thanks i will do this now. Wanted to test clk for a while. And I thought there might could be a config file for rom manager.

Doesnt sounds that bad

Sent from my NexusHD2

 

[jwchips]

Hehe no it's not bad at all I think the pros outweigh the cons, add the fact that magldr is over a year old now with no updates and its kind of a no-brainer

Once you've flashed clk hold the back arrow key at boot to enter the UI.

 

[redplate]

Ok, i've copied the LEOIMG.nbh to the root of my sd-card, started into SPL. But now when i press the powerbutton nothing happens. Shouldnt there come an install statusbar?

If i take out the battery, powering it up and holding down the back button MAGLDR loads.

There is one file in the cLK 1.5-rc0 (LEOIMG.nbh) but 76 files in cLK 1.4.0.1?

 

[jwchips]

Leave v1.4.0.1 alone, thats old, made by a different person and not flashable via sd card. v1.5 rc0 is the one you want.

You do mean HSPL and not SPL yes? It looks as though HSPL isn't noticing the leoimg.nbh file, or you're not entering update mode in HSPL. Keep holding vol down after SPL is booted, until you see 'loading...'


If this doesn't work, I'd try using a different sd card if you have one lying around (formatted to fat32), with nothing else on it but the nbh. I've heard unconfirmed reports leoimg is case sensitive, so you could try it in all lowercase if the above methods fail.

Let me know how you get on.

 

[redplate]

Doesnt work. I did try a different SD Card, formatted to Fat32. The only file on it is the leoimg.nbh.

When im holding down the VolDown button while starting it appears the 3Colored Screen (SPL-2.08.HSPL 8G etc, CotullaHSPL).

And there is no message with "loading" only a "Serial" appears.

I've read that there should come a grey screen which asks me if i want to install leoimg.nbh? But there is nothing...

 

[jwchips]

I'm sorry you're having trouble. Flashing by sd card is a bit hit-and-miss, but afaik its your only solution. All I can say is keep trying! Keep holding down vol down after tri-colour screen, or try briefly letting go of vol down when hspl appears, then quickly press again. Try switching from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa. Hopefully you'll get there eventually.

Again, let me know how you get on.

 

[redplate]

Tried my 32gb sd card, tried my 16gb sd card. nothing worked.

Now i've tried my 8gb sd card from my 5800 nokia and for some reason it works...

I am now able to install leoimg.nbh. (it appears automaticly to install leoimg.nbh, after loading in HSPL with VolDown button)

And i dont know why?

I have to check the format of the 8gb sd card, although i've formatted the 16gb sd card (which was locked by WP7) with my nokia 5800 about an half an hour ago..

So the 16gb should have worked as well.. weird.

Any suggestions to the problem with the sd card?

Edit: Update success. Im hopefully now loading into cLK.
Edit2: I'm in. Now i have to figure out how to resize the Recovery layout (of CWM) to 220mb for installing ICS.
Edit3: That was just easy

Thank you very much, jwchips. Much appreciate it

 

[jwchips]

Aaaah typical, it would be the one thing I didn't mention! There has been reported issues when using sd cards larger than 8GB (but I've managed to use 16GB cards before, which is why I didn't mention it). At least now you know what the problem was..

Glad it all worked out!

 

[redplate]

As always, yeah

Again, thanks.

 

[moase]

4.0 ICS doesn't boot

Hey there

just installed successfully following ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354267
with CWM.

After seeing "Install from sdcard complete" I "reboot system now" and it starts booting like always "123456 GO GO GO" but than the black screen with the green HTC letters just stays....
Left it like that for approx. 30 mins before I started trying other roms, with the same result.

PLS HELP...

 

[redplate]

Which recovery size do you have? And which version do you want to flash, MAGLDR or cLK?

And you have to flash CWM with an edited flash.cfg.

For ICS and many other ROMS i am using following config (open up the flash.cfg file that comes with the CMW installer; do this with Notepad++):

misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery-raw.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 220M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize

Hope this will help you out.

 

[kylew1212]

I'm sorry you're having trouble. Flashing by sd card is a bit hit-and-miss, but afaik its your only solution. All I can say is keep trying! Keep holding down vol down after tri-colour screen, or try briefly letting go of vol down when hspl appears, then quickly press again. Try switching from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa. Hopefully you'll get there eventually.

Again, let me know how you get on.

Flashing by SD card is not a hit and miss.

Also, redplate, if you're still having trouble, check out my guide. It's written for clk.