[RECOVERY] Ouya CWM Recovery

[foil]

Does anybody know why CWM does not display on some TV's. Is this going to be fixed or something to live with. I have taken to using a HDMI to DVI adapter when I need recovery but that means moving everything each time.

It's hard to say, with there being so many different types of tv's... I have a 60" Mitsubishi DLP, and everything is off of the screen, unless I have it plugged into the HDMI port 1. Apparently HDMI 1 on my tv is a "pc" input (which is not labeled anywhere on the tv at all,) that I figured out by reading the manual (who woulda' thought, huh? haha) and when I use that one, everything fits my tv properly, and I have more options for aspect ratio/resolution and such.

 

[RiesVLD]

Works for me

 

[Kaos2K]

I'm stuck at this point:

7) Using your USB keyboard's arrow and enter keys, select "install zip from sdcard", "choose zip from sdcard", and "OuyaCWMrecovery6.0.3.2flashable.zip". This flashable zip writes CWM to the recovery partition and renames a pesky file that causes the stock recovery to be written on reboot.

Tried 3 times and i always get the same error (See the image below).

Any ideas? My Ouya is on latest firmware, rooted and with Busybox installed. I made a backup of the system with this CWM just before trying to flash it permanently.

Thanks

EDIT: I figured it out by myself. I think that it was i copied the .zip file to flash onto /sdcard/ using a File Manager and not with ADB, this and having low space on disk after the Backup messed up something. I just deleted the backup (But keept a copy on my PC) and copies the .zip file with adb and i was able to flash CWM. Thanks!!!

 

[billouetaudrey]

Hi, how can I go back to the stock recovery if I need? thx

Envoyé depuis mon Transformer en utilisant Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[foil]

Hi, how can I go back to the stock recovery if I need? thx

Envoyé depuis mon Transformer en utilisant Tapatalk 4 Beta

I found myself needing to go back to stock recovery once, and I had to download the newest OTA (any previous firmware did not work,) and boot into CWM, and choose the "install zip from sideload" option. Then, I opened a command prompt on my computer and did
"adb sideload c:\path\to\ouyaOTA.zip"

This will put you back to stock, but it was the only way that I could get it.

 

[skrypj]

How do you return the Ouya to stock recovery?

Edit: I'm Dumb ^

 

[Oscar_david]

I found myself needing to go back to stock recovery once, and I had to download the newest OTA (any previous firmware did not work,) and boot into CWM, and choose the "install zip from sideload" option. Then, I opened a command prompt on my computer and did
"adb sideload c:\path\to\ouyaOTA.zip"

This will put you back to stock, but it was the only way that I could get it.

Hey Foil, I actually didn't use the tool for recovery install; I was impatient and used dd (from another thread). Thing is one thing in those instructions was to make a backup of the stock recovery. Does your tool not do that? The other thing was renaming a file whose sole purpose is to flash stock recovery on boot. So I'm thinking in my case all I really have to do is rename that file and stock recovery will be installed on boot (as initially intended by Ouya). Just realized I can't test this ATM since I've installed the stock plus ROM, and I don't know if it's different in this respect.

Point being, this seems a relatively easy add to your toolkit (which is already awesome).

Cheers.

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[foil]

Hey Foil, I actually didn't use the tool for recovery install; I was impatient and used dd (from another thread). Thing is one thing in those instructions was to make a backup of the stock recovery. Does your tool not do that? The other thing was renaming a file whose sole purpose is to flash stock recovery on boot. So I'm thinking in my case all I really have to do is rename that file and stock recovery will be installed on boot (as initially intended by Ouya). Just realized I can't test this ATM since I've installed the stock plus ROM, and I don't know if it's different in this respect.

Point being, this seems a relatively easy add to your toolkit (which is already awesome).

Cheers.

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Thank you for the info., but no, my program doesn't do that..it just pushes a temporary cwm boot image, and then the user decides whether to install it permanently from there. I had tried to make a backup of the stock recovery image before, but was unsuccessful. I'll give it a other try now though, if you say that it works.
Thank you for the compliment! It still has some work to be done, but it does everything that I've needed it for, so far haha.
If I can get a working backup of stock recovery image, I'll definitely implement it, thank you.

 

[SilentAce07]

As posted in another thread, I love the work everyone is doing but I do have an issue.

CWM won't register any of my keypresses with my USB keyboards. Is there any way around this to get cwm on there?

 

[Kaos2K]

As posted in another thread, I love the work everyone is doing but I do have an issue.

CWM won't register any of my keypresses with my USB keyboards. Is there any way around this to get cwm on there?

Be sure to connect your keyboard before powering on the console, otherwise, ir won't work.

 

[Oscar_david]

I don't know if this has been addressed on this thread. But since the recent OTA killed my root I thought I'd mention that it also kills CWMrecovery... which I had hoped it didn't.

So what I learned from it is:
Since the OTA is actually installed by CWMrecovery (given you have it when the OTA comes down);
keep a copy of the CWMrecovery flashable zip on sd.
Make sure to reflash CWMrecovery after the OTA is installed; before rebooting.

cheers.

Sent from my OUYA Console using xda app-developers app

 

[zonatar]

i have some trouble with the driver on the pc, i'm running win8 and when i connect the ouya doesn't install the driver, i try to install manually from the file zip but it come from an error on the "android composite ADB interface".

 

[DrROBschiz]

Damnit I finally get this to reboot and all i get is OUYA with a red exclamation point

Then over time it just reboots itself back into the Ouya Menu


What am I doing wrong here?

 

[mikeones42]

Damnit I finally get this to reboot and all i get is OUYA with a red exclamation point

Then over time it just reboots itself back into the Ouya Menu


What am I doing wrong here?

Attach a USB keyboard and when you see the red exclamation point, hit the Home key to bring up thr CWM menu. Make sure the keyboard is detected by looking for lights on the keyboard when hitting the caps lock or number lock.

 

[DrROBschiz]

Nice

Will try this when I get home!

 

[TadeoNYC]

Nice

Will try this when I get home!

Or you can use the toolkit or another app to reboot in to recovery that will go straight in to CWM recovery.

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[billouetaudrey]

personnaly, i going on recovery with QuickReboot ( playstore )

Envoyé depuis mon Transformer TF101 en utilisant Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[DrROBschiz]

I don't think I elaborated how much trouble I have been having trying to install recovery on this damn thing

been working on this for days now with little luck.

I have been using both the one click, manual, and toolkit options. Most of them fail to push the recovery img resulting in black screen on the ouya (bootloader mode i guess) and waiting for device on the terminal.

The one thing that did work was running the one click on my laptop (starting from scratch) and I was able to get ouya logo with red exclamation in the bootloader mode.

Going to try the keyboard commands and see if I can actually get the recovery installed

 

[jaestoner01]

hi...

i've been trying this method for sometime now. but all I get is a balck screen follow by thisscreen with out the arrows >>> OUYA !
now do I need to be root it in order to get cvm recovery .? any help will be great thanks in adv.:cyclops:

---------- Post added at 09:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:55 PM ----------

dude you just answer my questions thanks

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I should had read the last page before I posted.dude you answer my questions thanks

Or you can use the toolkit or another app to reboot in to recovery that will go straight in to CWM recovery.

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[emulation]

I don't know what happened but... Every time i tried to install CWM i got a pink/purple screen :S
someone can help me please?