[RECOVERY] CWM for NVIDIA SHIELD

[Entropy512]

I didn't add support for flashing blobs, which is what the official updates require.

Ah. I guess I misunderstood the changelog item for 1.1...

I'm curious now how nv_copy_blob_file works.

Eozik - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388870

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

I didn't add support for flashing blobs, which is what the official updates require.

does flashing blobs do more that just copy the blob to the USP partition?

 

[agrabren]

does flashing blobs do more that just copy the blob to the USP partition?

I honestly haven't looked.

 

[Entropy512]

does flashing blobs do more that just copy the blob to the USP partition?

It's interesting since the /staging partition is mounted as type "emmc" - which pretty much means "used for raw images".

I need to look at how updater-binaries and recovery interact here - it may be a simple matter of adding /staging to the fstab but I'm not sure.

I'm also curious if nv_copy_blob_file is implemented in the source tree NVidia pushed - haven't looked yet. If source code for nv_copy_blob_file exists, it makes things much easier.

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

It's interesting since the /staging partition is mounted as type "emmc" - which pretty much means "used for raw images".

I need to look at how updater-binaries and recovery interact here - it may be a simple matter of adding /staging to the fstab but I'm not sure.

I'm also curious if nv_copy_blob_file is implemented in the source tree NVidia pushed - haven't looked yet. If source code for nv_copy_blob_file exists, it makes things much easier.

the partition that /staging mounts is /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP

as can be seen in the factory recovery's recovery.fstab

# mount point	fstype		device

/recovery       emmc            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/SOS
/boot           emmc            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/LNX
/system         ext4            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP
/cache          ext4            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC
/misc           emmc            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MSC
/staging        emmc            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP
/metadata       emmc            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MDA
/data           ext4            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA
/sdcard         vfat            /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.0/by-num/p1

I would like to know if the line

nv_copy_blob_file("blob", "/staging");

can be replaced with this line

package_extract_file("blob", "/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP");

 

[djGrrr]

I would like to know if the line

nv_copy_blob_file("blob", "/staging");

can be replaced with this line

package_extract_file("blob", "/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP");

This should work, you can always use fastboot though to manually flash it with:
fastboot flash staging blob

I actually did the update without updating the staging partition and it still worked fine, then later manually flashed the blob file with fastboot

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

http://goo.im/devs/agrabren seems to be gone.

This was a simple ramdisk edit.
I don't know for 100% sure if this recovery is 1.1, but if I am correct 1.0 was based on 4.2.2 and 1.1 on 4.3
From that I am guessing that this is 1.1, as to my knowledge there have been two recovery images so far.
Also I have been wrong about 1.1 solving the naming error.


I have edited the ramdisk for 1.1 now and it should work.
Link

device name from update 63

assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "roth" ||
       getprop("ro.build.product") == "roth");

name from 1.1

ro.product.device=thor
ro.cm.device=thor

name for edited recovery

ro.product.device=roth
ro.cm.device=roth

I also want to point out that I could be wrong here.

Link removed it seems to be broken

 

[desertflame]

Upload link is gone. Can someone upload their's for me?

 

[shinratdr]

Upload link is gone. Can someone upload their's for me?

I hope you were able to find it. If not, I located the copy I left on my computer. Enjoy! Hopefully OP doesn't mind me re-uploading it, its a pretty key part of a re-rooting.

http://cl.ly/2o3n3f0C0G2S

 

[GuestD1080]

Please anyone share information about how to remove CWM recovery in my nvidia shield? i want to remove it because its a old recovery and doesnt have support anymore

 

[UrbanRunnerX]

What version do you have

Sent from my SPH-L710 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

---------- Post added at 03:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:46 AM ----------

Want to restore have you used the kit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444525

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[GuestD1080]

What version do you have

Sent from my SPH-L710 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

---------- Post added at 03:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:46 AM ----------

Want to restore have you used the kit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444525

Sent from my SPH-L710 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Thanks for the reply i download here thanks to the user shinradrt.I installed on my nvidia shield but i dont know how to access the CWM Recovery and tell you what version i have.Please can you help me to remove CWM recovery...

 

[Sess]

Development on this seems dead. Update 65 keeps trying to flash, and i show having version 64, yet, i have features from 65. I think i may also need to just remove CWM, since im running stock rooted anyway, its probably not serving any real purpose for me. Who has a link to stock recovery?

 

[tangcla]

Development on this seems dead. Update 65 keeps trying to flash, and i show having version 64, yet, i have features from 65. I think i may also need to just remove CWM, since im running stock rooted anyway, its probably not serving any real purpose for me. Who has a link to stock recovery?

Here's the stock recovery image.
Edit : 4.2.1

 

[psycho1200]

Here's the stock recovery image.

is that the 4.3 stock recovery ?

 

[Trooper_Max]

Stock binary images are always available here too, straight from NVIDIA:

https://developer.nvidia.com/develop4shield

(Scroll down near the bottom, you will need Linux or Cygwin to extract them though I think)

I really love how NVIDIA is supporting the Shield with all this stuff directly from their own website.

~Troop

 

[psycho1200]

Please anyone share information about how to remove CWM recovery in my nvidia shield? i want to remove it because its a old recovery and doesnt have support anymore

Use the nvidia toolkit posted on development to flash the recovery, if not im sorry to tell you this but will return your shield to out of the box using the same toolkit, [TOOLKIT] Shield Root and More! [Shield RAM V1.0](flash the recovery for 4.3), i used this to return out of the box [TOOLKIT] [UNLOCK ] [ROOT] [RESTORE] Kwongger's NVIDIA SHIELD Toolkit v2.0.1 Good luck and let me know if you need something else :victory:

 

[GuestD1080]

Use the nvidia toolkit posted on development to flash the recovery, if not im sorry to tell you this but will return your shield to out of the box using the same toolkit, [TOOLKIT] Shield Root and More! [Shield RAM V1.0](flash the recovery for 4.3), i used this to return out of the box [TOOLKIT] [UNLOCK ] [ROOT] [RESTORE] Kwongger's NVIDIA SHIELD Toolkit v2.0.1 Good luck and let me know if you need something else :victory:

Thanks for the help....but i resolve some time ago my problem.I only flashed the stock recovery with the software minimal adb fastboot.

 

[Thejimmynguyen]

Nevermind! Problem sovled

 

[tooandrew]

evidently, goo is down. another mirror?