[Recovery]CWM 6.0.4.5[UPDATED WITH INSTRUCTIONS][25/12/2013]

[nelsontky]

Well here is cwm 6.0.4.5 for our beloved a500. You will need this to flash KitKat ROMs like the new kitkat rom that was recently relased for our tablet. It is recommended that you flash this in secboot as I am not very sure what works and what does not. It pays to have a working recovery in your recovery partition.
To flash this rom in your secboot, you must have skrilax bootloader installed from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619913

Download link of recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?myy59371lsrs6u4

Instructions:
1. Use this awesome tool from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979 to install adb and fastboot on your windows pc easily. (Remember to run the downloaded exe as administrator)

2. Install Acer A500 usb drivers from http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers (Just search for A500 in the search by product model search box.)

3. Make sure you have Skrilax_CZ's bootloader installed on your A500.

4. Turn off your A500 and turn it on again, this time holding the volume up button.

5. When the bootloader screen appears, scroll with the volume buttons and select Fastboot with the power button.

6. Now, copy the recovery.img which you downloaded from the download link above to the root of your C:/ drive.

7. Press start and open cmd.

8. In cmd, type cd C:/

9. Now, connect your A500 to the PC via usb and wait for a while before typing

fastboot flash secboot recovery.img

in cmd.

10. After the process is done, type

fastboot reboot

into cmd.

11. When the tablet boots, hold volume up and when the bootloader screen shows, scroll to Boot Secondary Kernel Image with the volume keys and select it with the power button. CWM should load and have fun!!!


Thanks to @pjsports for his 4.3 device source and vendor blobs

 

[nsciucco]

Well here is cwm 6.0.4.5 for our beloved a500. You will need this to flash KitKat ROMs in the future. It is recommended that you flash this in seboot as I am not very sure what works and what does not. It pays to have a working recovery in your recovery partition.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?myy59371lsrs6u4

Installation:
fastboot flash secboot recovery.img (recommended)
Or
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Thanks to @pjsports for his 4.3 device source and vendor blobs

ok this is what i get when i try to flash this or any recovery

C:\sdk-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (5132 KB)... OKAY [ 1.278s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: (00030003))
finished. total time: 1.675s

C:\sdk-tools>



any ideas?


ok I got a recovery on there but now it is not seeing any files within my folders- this is so strange

 

[tire_007]

I tried flashing this recovery but i get this error
also i tried flashing the img recovery with this app but i don't work either
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify

 

[nelsontky]

ok this is what i get when i try to flash this or any recovery

C:\sdk-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (5132 KB)... OKAY [ 1.278s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: (00030003))
finished. total time: 1.675s

C:\sdk-tools>



any ideas?


ok I got a recovery on there but now it is not seeing any files within my folders- this is so strange

Erm what ROM are u using. And yea do you have like zip files in your folders cos I think the recovery only see zip files

 

[nelsontky]

I tried flashing this recovery but i get this error
also i tried flashing the img recovery with this app but i don't work either
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify

Dun use the app (idk those apps never worked for me, well except for the Acer recovery installer) and when using fastboot, make sure the recovery.IMG is in the same directory as fastboot

 

[nsciucco]

I was on cm10.2. My tablet froze so I held the power button down to hard reset. Then it never booted up. I tried to go into recovery to install a new rom and I'm not even able to get into downloads. If I click sd or sd-ext there is no folders anything. It's like my device is wiped. I'm stuck. Only thing I can do is get into bootloader or apx mode. I've downloaded roms that I can supposedly flash in apx mode with that blackthunder tool. But I can't figure it out. I'm not an idiot either. I've rooted well over 200 phones . I do it for extra cash...and never had a issue like this

Sent from my SM-N900P using xda app-developers app

 

[nelsontky]

I was on cm10.2. My tablet froze so I held the power button down to hard reset. Then it never booted up. I tried to go into recovery to install a new rom and I'm not even able to get into downloads. If I click sd or sd-ext there is no folders anything. It's like my device is wiped. I'm stuck. Only thing I can do is get into bootloader or apx mode. I've downloaded roms that I can supposedly flash in apx mode with that blackthunder tool. But I can't figure it out. I'm not an idiot either. I've rooted well over 200 phones . I do it for extra cash...and never had a issue like this

Sent from my SM-N900P using xda app-developers app

Hmmm download a working recovery and flash into your recovery partition. Then flash this into secboot

 

[nsciucco]

Flash what?

Sent from my SM-N900P using xda app-developers app

 

[nelsontky]

Flash what?

Sent from my SM-N900P using xda app-developers app

Well you can download twrp from http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/88 and flash it to your secboot partition with "fastboot flash secboot [name of recovery].img" Then go to your boot menu (hold volume up when booting) and choose the akb partition (second partition) This should get you booted into twrp where your files should be there. If there are still no files, you have to use an external sdcard good luck

 

[kronflux]

any chance you can build this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
against our device + CWM version 6.0.4.8?

I'd do it, but I have no idea where to start. I love PhilZ touch recovery, it's very customizable and also very useful.

 

[nelsontky]

any chance you can build this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
against our device + CWM version 6.0.4.8?

I'd do it, but I have no idea where to start. I love PhilZ touch recovery, it's very customizable and also very useful.

Well i can try but no promises

 

[kronflux]

thanks! apparently it's easy.

Once you can build stock CWM, just replace your bootable/recovery folder with this one and lunch for your device

I just don't have the sources, or the knowhow to compile this myself.

 

[kronflux]

Well i can try but no promises

had a chance to try yet? not to bug or nag, just curious for an update

 

[nelsontky]

Now updated with instructions

Now this is updated with instructions!

 

[micky387]

thanks man.
good work

 

[kronflux]

Now this is updated with instructions!

can you provide building instructions? I tried using the sources you used, but I get errors using his repos. He's got some repos from "loosethisskin" which don't allow building. I can't remember the exact errors, but I'm wondering what you did to avoid this(if you encountered this at all)
By simply not replacing those repos(ie: removing them from the manifest before syncing) I get a resulting recovery.img that fails to fastboot flash.
I've even tried using acer recovery flasher, and a couple other tools, but it doesn't boot.

I'd like to try building 6.0.5.0 as well as PhilZ Recovery, but again, I can't get it to build.

 

[bovirus]

@nelsontky

Thanks for your job.

I want to make a backup before to install the new Bootloader ( Skrilax_CZ's), but to that I cannot do it with stock recovery (the stock recovery didn't have the option to backup/restore).

Is there some problem/incompatibility that avoid to load your recovery (6.0.4.5) before to load Skrilax_CZ's bootloader?
Or in another way the function of your recovery are based on Skrilax_CZ's bootloader?

Could you update your recovery with new file from CWM Github (recovery version is now 6.0.5.0)?

Could you post the configuration file (Board parameters) that you use to compile the recovery.
I downloaded the source of CWM and I want to test it myself.

If you update your CWM repository via GitHub pull command just recompile the recovery.

Proposal to download the file: could be better to distribute the recovery as zip (like A500_CWM_recovery_vx.x.x.x.x.zip - it's self explantory) with inside the recovery.img file. It's always better to avoid to download native recovery image to avoid partial download or corrupted file.


Thanks.

 

[kronflux]

@nelsontky

Thanks for your job.

I want to make a backup before to install the new Bootloader ( Skrilax_CZ's), but to that I cannot do it with stock recovery (the stock recovery didn't have the option to backup/restore).

Is there some problem/incompatibility that avoid to load your recovery (6.0.4.5) before to load Skrilax_CZ's bootloader?
Or in another way the function of your recovery are based on Skrilax_CZ's bootloader?

Could you update your recovery with new file from CWM Github (recovery version is now 6.0.5.0)?

Could you post the configuration file (Board parameters) that you use to compile the recovery.
I downloaded the source of CWM and I want to test it myself.

If you update your CWM repository via GitHub pull command just recompile the recovery.

Proposal to download the file: could be better to distribute the recovery as zip (like A500_CWM_recovery_vx.x.x.x.x.zip - it's self explantory) with inside the recovery.img file. It's always better to avoid to download native recovery image to avoid partial download or corrupted file.


Thanks.

The Skrilax_CZ bootloader is absolutely necessary, because it allows flashing and booting from the secboot. The recovery is too large to fit in the recovery partition. That having been said, I may be able to shrink it to fit, if I could get it to compile and boot.
I've had to do the same thing to the recovery for the HTC ChaCha,

He's not using a straight up CWM repo, he would be using the repos for CM10.2, which automatically compiles CWM along with it(or if you give it the arguments, it can compile just recovery)

The bootloader can only be flashed using nvflash, and for a backup, you'll need an older copy of CWM and flash that via fastboot. I personally recommend the tegraowners recovery(I don't like the tegraowners team, but their recovery really is best out of the older ones) you can find it here

 

[kronflux]

Apparently windows 8 hates my tablet. so I tried it on a windows 7 machine, the result was a working recovery. although oddly, it build 6.0.4.6, not 6.0.5.0. weird. maybe I'll poke at it later and try to update just the cwm repo. whatever the case, this gives me a working setup to try PhilZ Touch Recovery

 

[bovirus]

I believe that the main scope should be to have a recovery that use no more space than the partition size.

It's due to avoid not use unofficial bootloader and to avoid overwiting importan partition like NVRAM (IMEI).