Copy; paste?
~Viper4G 2.0.2 LTEvo; Stuck on Stock for now, phone doesn't like any of 'em yet
[RECOVERY] TWRP 2.6.3.0 touch recovery [2013-09-16]
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~Viper4G 2.0.2 LTEvo; Stuck on Stock for now, phone doesn't like any of 'em yet
I thought of that, but I Dont know if terminal emulator accepts copy/paste. Haven't tried yet. Was more curious about the huge difference in commands.
Commands using Evo 4g were:
Flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery
Command TWRP suggests uses dd =if and weird stuff I don't understand.
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
Just use goo manager its automatic (assuming you're trying to install recovery)
Thanks duce, but I tried that about 15 times last night and it never completed.
Also, I'm really interested in the difference between the commands.
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
I use better terminal and copy/paste works...
~Viper4G 2.0.2 LTEvo; Stuck on Stock for now, phone doesn't like any of 'em yet
dd is a standard unix command, but low level, like cp or cat.
If you don't already understand what the command is doing just by reading it, then you should stay far far away from it. It's a chainsaw. It can create a sculpture or cut your leg off. It doesn't know the difference. YOU have to know that, or else better not pick it up!
It doesn't flash recoveries, it overwrites files or devices (partitions). In this case the input file happens to be a recovery, and the output file happens to be a partition on the flash disk where hboot expects to find a recovery. So in this case, it happens to flash a recovery (also it's used to make a backup with a similar but reversed command), and as long as the options used are correct, and you have sufficient permissions (root), it works. But it doesn't actually know anything about hboot or recoveries or android or anything any more than a hammer knows how to build a house even though a carpenter builds a house with a hammer. It's not safe at all. If you give it the wrong command it will happily destroy anything anywhere on your phone, even the internal and external sd cards.
That's why they are saying just use the more user friendly tools instead, aka goomanager or pj75img.zip. If they don't work, report that and wait for the developer of that tool to fix it.
To understand what the commands you are reading mean, just google "dd" or "unix dd" or "linux dd" and read the "man page" for dd, and compare the command you are reading with the options documented in the man page.
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1st, thanks.
2nd, calm down. You're about to have a stroke.
I went with the boot loader version. But still was curious why the commands would be so different from one device to another and no longer use the flash_image recovery commands. Enjoyed your hyperbole, but go grab a benzo. (Xanax, Valium, etc.).
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
2nd, calm down. You're about to have a stroke.
I went with the boot loader version. But still was curious why the commands would be so different from one device to another and no longer use the flash_image recovery commands. Enjoyed your hyperbole, but go grab a benzo. (Xanax, Valium, etc.).
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
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Who's not calm? Speak for yourself and do not make assumptions beyond that.
I told you exactly how to satisfy the curiosity you professed. What else do you want? Read the man page for dd, then read the commands, now you know what the commands do.
As someone who _does_ know what all those commands do, I see no hyperbole. It's called illustration and analogy. After you know at least the basics only then will you be in a position to contest that characterization.
I didn't say "stay away, you can't understand", I said "stay away until you understand, and here's the outline, and here's how you learn the full details".
Others already, correctly, just told you to use the dummy tools. I was TRYING to give you a little more respect and take the insult OUT of being told to just use the dummy tool by filling in WHY they said that.
Next time I will try to remember to be lazy and uninformative or maybe just not bother to answer at all, at least to you, because it's so rewarding.
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I told you exactly how to satisfy the curiosity you professed. What else do you want? Read the man page for dd, then read the commands, now you know what the commands do.
As someone who _does_ know what all those commands do, I see no hyperbole. It's called illustration and analogy. After you know at least the basics only then will you be in a position to contest that characterization.
I didn't say "stay away, you can't understand", I said "stay away until you understand, and here's the outline, and here's how you learn the full details".
Others already, correctly, just told you to use the dummy tools. I was TRYING to give you a little more respect and take the insult OUT of being told to just use the dummy tool by filling in WHY they said that.
Next time I will try to remember to be lazy and uninformative or maybe just not bother to answer at all, at least to you, because it's so rewarding.
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KEYofR, I've told you to calm down in public and private, you really haven't. While I appreciate you informing people of things, please try to sweeten your posts. Coming off as a know it all isn't good, and that's what you're doing. Also, calling people dummies (indirectly) isn't cool either. Using a tool vs using commands isn't indicative of someone's level of intelligence. Honestly I find it smarter to always flash recovery via hboot, which is just an opinion. Now please, stop your crusade to be awesome, and just be awesome. Do not discuss this further (except via pm), this is a thread about twrp, and we've veered off course. Thanks.
Stuck on boot
I updated the recovery through the bootloader. The file download & installed just fine, but when I went to reboot into my ROM I am not suck on boot. I can't get past the boot animation, it isn't boot looping just like its trying to reboot but can't... I have let is sit for multiple 5-10 mins at a time.
Hboot 1.12 S-Off
ROM - Decks CM10 10/21 buid
Kernel - Komodo rs11
Any ideas on what I can do?
EDIT: I got it working, managed to finally get booted into recovery & had to do a factory reset. As it had gotten corrupted which was causing my problem.
I updated the recovery through the bootloader. The file download & installed just fine, but when I went to reboot into my ROM I am not suck on boot. I can't get past the boot animation, it isn't boot looping just like its trying to reboot but can't... I have let is sit for multiple 5-10 mins at a time.
Hboot 1.12 S-Off
ROM - Decks CM10 10/21 buid
Kernel - Komodo rs11
Any ideas on what I can do?
EDIT: I got it working, managed to finally get booted into recovery & had to do a factory reset. As it had gotten corrupted which was causing my problem.
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updated from TWRP 2.2.2 to 2.3.1 and all worked fine, wiped system, cache and dalvick fine. installed mean rom 5.0 and then 5.3 fine and flashed a new kernel. thanks for your hard work!
ok i am having an issue it keeps saying "E: Unable to mount '/sdcard ' does it with cache internal storage tried reflashing 2.3.1 any advice to fix it?
Have you tried to wipe everything including sdcard, it may be corrupted... And s-on or s-off?
i tried to wipe everything .. i took out the sd card did it and same deal
it says failed and nothing happens
Just wanted to say thanks TWRP and TiB for saving my data *after* my rom was already boot-looping and no way to make a normal backup.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33787128
Did that all right from the phone itself while out for dinner.
As I was waxing smug about how awsome that was, compared to proprietary iphone which needs a pc, and itunes, and an hour to run, and arcane filesystem level directory shortcut hacks (ie: symlinks, except on windows it's uncommon and arcane) just to prevent itunes from filling up ex$pensive tiny ssd c: drive with backups and sync of a 32g phone... My gf just pointed out her iphone never boot-loops in the first place. Has no need of tools to recover from it.
I glared at her as I took a swig of beer.
Whatever. We are on android and we are on ever more rapidly developed and insufficiently debugged hardware, firmware & software, and so we DO have need of great tools to recover from boot-loop and other problems, and twrp and tib sure are that.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33787128
Did that all right from the phone itself while out for dinner.
As I was waxing smug about how awsome that was, compared to proprietary iphone which needs a pc, and itunes, and an hour to run, and arcane filesystem level directory shortcut hacks (ie: symlinks, except on windows it's uncommon and arcane) just to prevent itunes from filling up ex$pensive tiny ssd c: drive with backups and sync of a 32g phone... My gf just pointed out her iphone never boot-loops in the first place. Has no need of tools to recover from it.
I glared at her as I took a swig of beer.Whatever. We are on android and we are on ever more rapidly developed and insufficiently debugged hardware, firmware & software, and so we DO have need of great tools to recover from boot-loop and other problems, and twrp and tib sure are that.
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