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hi i tried searching for this but couldnt really find anything on it. i tried updating to the cyanogen recovery.img 1.4 using terminal as the guide said here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533731, however now whenever i boot into recovery, the bootloader screen comes up instead. i have tried reflashing the recovery numerous times but the problem still persists. am i doing something wrong? any help would be great. thanks in advance
also i am rooted currently running JF 1.5 rom with latest radio and hard spl.
Put the recovery image on the SD card yourself. Get the file from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523558
i have also tried that. once i placed the file on the sd card, i opened up terminal and typed in the command:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
after i pressed enter nothing happend on screen, so i turned off the phone and tried to boot into recover, but the bootloader screen still appears. am i typing in the wrong command or something?
Do it again and this time wait for the # to appear again. Then type reboot and hold home button while it's booting. Should take you to Cyan's awesome recovery screen
Good luck
... Have you tried flashing it from fastboot like cyanogen recommended if you ran into any issues?
djosiah said:
i have also tried that. once i placed the file on the sd card, i opened up terminal and typed in the command:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
after i pressed enter nothing happend on screen, so i turned off the phone and tried to boot into recover, but the bootloader screen still appears. am i typing in the wrong command or something?
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After you open the terminal, did you type "su"?
billquinn1 said:
After you open the terminal, did you type "su"?
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yeah i did type in su. i have been away for a few days so i ma going to try the suggestions mentioned. and no i havent tried doing it using fastboot as i havent got adb set up yet. i will also try that later. thanks for the suggestions.
I have the same problem. When holding power+home, it flashes t-mobile G1, then the screen disintegrates and it reboots a couple times, finally stopping on a blank black screen.
I have no problem booting straight into the O.S., I've just lost my recovery.
I've done this before and it worked, but I recently had a catastrophic failure and had to start from scratch.
If all else fails or you don't fell like using adb, should be fine if you downgrade and re-root, etc.... unless there is something else messing up your recovery partition.
Put the recovery.img file on the root of your sdcard
Then try:
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system
cat /sdcard/recovery.img > recovery.img
flash_image recovery recovery.img
I've gone from JF 1.5ADP to Modaco using the cyanogen 1.4 recovery without any problems.
when you flash using terminal, you need to wait till you get the # back, and then restart the phone
which recovery image were you previously using as I was using JF 1.43 recovery
djosiah said:
hi i tried searching for this but couldnt really find anything on it. i tried updating to the cyanogen recovery.img 1.4 using terminal as the guide said here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533731, however now whenever i boot into recovery, the bootloader screen comes up instead. i have tried reflashing the recovery numerous times but the problem still persists. am i doing something wrong? any help would be great. thanks in advance
also i am rooted currently running JF 1.5 rom with latest radio and hard spl.
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Hi djosiah
did you read this post ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4569666#post4569666
(Please substitude by the file name "update-cm-4.0.4-signed.zip" by "cm-recovery-1.4.img" in my post - sorry, I was misaken as to the file name ...!!)
My problem was a corrupted cm-recovery-1.4.img (a few thousand bytes of the MBs were missing ...!) A new downloaded cm-recovery-1.4.img (from another URL) solved the problem finally. The rest was cream - totally happy now.
Good luck!
My problem was solved.
Unroot the phone
reformat sd card using gparted live cd to fat32
redo root
flash new radio
flash new spl
flash cyanogen rom
flash cyanogen recovery
tada
I have a T-Mo G1 that had CM 4.1.11.1 on it and I was looking to upgrade to the newest stable, 4.2.1, using CM recovery 1.4. Something went wrong while upgrading so I decided to unroot the phone. I've read many guides on rooting and unrooting, but something just doesnt seem right to me.
1. When I return to rC29 should Telnet be downloading automatically? Does this mean I still have stored info somewhere in there?
2. When performing tasks in CM 1.4, such as flashing, it prompts me to reboot so I do it. Should I be returned to the recovery screen again after boot every time? I don't remember this happening before...
3. Which update.zip do I use when unrooting, the 177kb (droids on skateboards) or 205kb (red, green, blue, white) file?
4. Can someone give me a guide to unroot and fully wipe with CM 1.4?
Any help is appreciated, thanks alot.
I'll give you the steps to unroot which should answer your questions
1) Flash the stock SPL (the tri colour one). If you have 1.33.2005 (AKA Danger) SPL and you do downgrade to 1.1/RCx YOU WILL BRICK.
2) Flash the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh from the SPL - boot in to it by holding power and camera (it should be tricolour). Telnet should not magically be there, even if it was, doesn't matter
3) Put a recovery image of your choice on the root of the sdcard as 'recovery.img'
4) Flash the recovery image
1. Download recovery.img and copy it to your SD card (see the previous instructions on how to copy from your computer to your Phone's SD card).
2. Download the Hard SPL and copy the zip file to the SD card.
3. All files must be on the root of your SD card.
4. Restart your phone. Wait for your phone to start up fully and show the home screen.
5. After your phone starts up, hit the enter key twice, type "telnetd" and press enter. (Yes, it will start up a contact search, don't worry. Just type it.)
6. Download an Android "Telnet" application from the Market and connect to localhost.
7. If you connect successfully, you will have a root prompt "#".
8. Type the following into Telnet (these commands will give you root access easier in the future):
* mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
* cd sdcard
* flash_image recovery recovery.img
* cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img
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After that you can flash the 26I radio then a 1.5/1.6 ROM.
only way i found to unroot completely.. is to go bac thru the unroot process.. then update with an ota.. to remove all root...
unroot g1: http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
unroot mt3g: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g/
*Double post fail*
mrnv45 said:
only way i found to unroot completely.. is to go bac thru the unroot process.. then update with an ota.. to remove all root...
unroot g1: http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
unroot mt3g: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g/
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He wants to re-root I believe, so not point updating.
RC29 and RC7 aren't root enabled ROMs, they just have security flaws which can be exploited to flash root enabled ROMs. Updating doesn't matter...
Thanks for your help, I'll be able to try this in about a half hour, will report back. As you said after step 4, I will need to flash a "26I" radio?
Had to install Telnet manually. Good to see a sign of normalcy here.
Flashing 26I Radio, HTC Recovery 1.6, and CM 4.2.1. Flash Radio, reboot, HTC, no reboot, CM 4.2.1, reboot. Right?
Tried the above, also tried with a reboot in between the HTC flash and CM 4.2.1 flash, stuck at G1 screen.
I'm still stuck at the G1 screen.
Probably be me next.
Finding myself having to do the same thing, somehow doing the CM 4.2.1.? whatever the last one was. I managed to lose root, be really nice to have a second card right now having to move 8 gigs off and repartition it to make it see the R29 image so i get to do literally everything all over again.
As someone once said, Ah Linux! Its Free! assuming your time is worth nothing. So true, lol. well ill be even better once it all works, if i can figure out what it takes to make it all work ill come back and try to help you out. Looks like mine wont see the image cause of my multi-partitioned microSD card. Not sure if yours is like that too or not, something to think about.
virtually painless
Kind of like virtual reality i guess?
Only gotcha i found in going back and reinstalling the RC29 image back on to be able to reclaim root was that my SD card having being partitioned. would cause it to fail. I would hit the tri-color screen, see a real quick gray flash and a message that vanished as quick as it popped up and then i would be stuck back on the colored screen.
So, i backed up the whole card, followed by
removing all data from the card. then running fdisk /dev/sdg. deleting the 3 partitions, writing a filesystem to the root of the disk via mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg , copying the 5 required files over and proceeding to get root and then recreating the paritions and copying data back over.
Back up and running.
mrnv45 said:
only way i found to unroot completely.. is to go bac thru the unroot process.. then update with an ota.. to remove all root...
unroot g1: http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
unroot mt3g: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g/
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Thanks XDA - have to do a TMo warranty exchange and this helps greatly.
so back when i had 1.5 on my hero i had no problem at all installing roms. so when i updated to 2.1 stock awhile back i tried to root it and install a rom on it with the command prompt and unevoked method. it got it rooted and when i got to the recovery menu i nanidroid backedup and wiped and installed it. it then got stuck on the htc boot screen so i tried different rom and still would hang on it. so i said screw it and stayed on stock. i then later used the unlock univeral to root it but i can not stand the stock rom it is so slow and lags so i tried the offiical htc update from .6 to .7 to see if it would be faster but once it downloaded and i pressed install it would yet again hang on the htc screen. i cant even make calls with out lagging. so i tried once more to install 2.2 on it with a recovery img. i download rom manger and put froyo on the sd card but it would yet again hang when i click install rom from sd card. what do i do?!!!!!
update: i tried doing it through the teminal but it say flash_recovery not found
so i tried to do it through rom manger and it did the back up and installed it through the recovery menu but once it was done and rebooted it yet again is stuck on the htc boot screen.
help please!
It might b the recovery ur using if your able to boot into any rom access terminal you can get it from the market try to flash a different recovery I recommend. Darchstar RA 1.6 once u download it place it on the root of ur SD card not in any folders / then open up terminal and type su once the # appears type flash_image recovery /sdcard/ recovery- name of recovery. img wen that's done type reboot recovery and you should boot into recovery then try and flash ur rom from there hope this helps good luck
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laie1472 said:
It might b the recovery ur using if your able to boot into any rom access terminal you can get it from the market try to flash a different recovery I recommend. Darchstar RA 1.6 once u download it place it on the root of ur SD card not in any folders / then open up terminal and type su once the # appears type flash_image recovery /sdcard/ recovery- name of recovery. img wen that's done type reboot recovery and you should boot into recovery then try and flash ur rom from there hope this helps good luck
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
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ill try this when i get home tonite. thanks!
i tried doing it through the teminal but it say flash_recovery not found
so i tried to do it through rom manger and it did the back up and installed it through the recovery menu but once it was done and rebooted it yet again is stuck on the htc boot screen.
I recommend you boot into recovery - wipe your system / cache / dalvik cache and then flash the 2.2 rom of your choice -
if you were just flashing rom after rom without flashing then that could be a lot of your troubles -
also - you mentioned that the recovery file was not found on your sdcard - did you remember to unzip it first before attempting to flash it through terminal emulator? because it wont work otherwise ...
if you have extracted it to the root of your sdcard you shouldnt have any trouble
type
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofyourrecovery.img
reboot recovery
and you should be good to go - let me know how you do and we'll see if we can't help you further if needed
good luck!
cbwhat said:
i tried doing it through the teminal but it say flash_recovery not found
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did you type:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/yourrecovery.img
or su
flash_recovery like your post shows - because you dont want to do it like that - just checking -
Vandelay007 said:
did you type:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/yourrecovery.img
or su
flash_recovery like your post shows - because you dont want to do it like that - just checking -
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no it i type in
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery7.img
flash_image not found
cbwhat said:
no it i type in
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery7.img
flash_image not found
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you said that you are doing this in a terminal window? (i am assuming that is on the phone) is your phone connected via usb to your computer? is the sdcard mounted by the computer? if it is unplug the usb and try again. if the computer has mounted the sdcard you can't access it from the phone.
i dont have it plugged in when i use the terminal on the phone
cbwhat said:
i dont have it plugged in when i use the terminal on the phone
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ok just checking.... that was the only thing that i could think of that would stop you from reading the sdcard.
It may sound silly, bt when I do it I always make sure I account for case sensitivity...
Like flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-Darchstar.img
Have you tried that?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
yep make sure everything that has a capitals in it i capitalized in the terminal
this may sound silly as well.. sometimes when i use adb to push i mistype the location for example: adb push myfile.ext /adcard
everything goes fine until i go to find the file....
don't know though.
i still can't figure out how to install a custom rom.
Try backing up you sd and reformatting it on ur pc then just place the recovery img on your sd and nothing else then try to flash it good luck feel free to pm me I know how u feel man so if I can help I will good luck
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
Hope someone can help me here...I already rooted my CDMA HTC Hero and was in process of installing the CM6 zip file from my sd card through ClockworkMod Recovery...After rebooting, It just shows the HTC screen and it just sits there. I took the battery out and reset back to the original...I am running 2.15 update and a build of 2.32.651.2...This is my first time rooting/modifying a phone...Thanks
douglaspott said:
Hope someone can help me here...I already rooted my CDMA HTC Hero and was in process of installing the CM6 zip file from my sd card through ClockworkMod Recovery...After rebooting, It just shows the HTC screen and it just sits there. I took the battery out and reset back to the original...I am running 2.15 update and a build of 2.32.651.2...This is my first time rooting/modifying a phone...Thanks
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How long did it just sit there? Starting up a new ROM the first time sometimes takes a few minutes or more. It it's not rebooting itself, let it sit and load.
maybe
douglaspott said:
Hope someone can help me here...I already rooted my CDMA HTC Hero and was in process of installing the CM6 zip file from my sd card through ClockworkMod Recovery...After rebooting, It just shows the HTC screen and it just sits there. I took the battery out and reset back to the original...I am running 2.15 update and a build of 2.32.651.2...This is my first time rooting/modifying a phone...Thanks
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more info is needed to help you. What steps did you take EXACTLY? get long winded. Like what root method, what recovery, what wipe process, what flash process, etc.
Okay...I used Z4Mod and went with a permanent root (seemed to be successful)...I grabbed the free version of ROM manager from the mkt place...I then flashed Clockwork Recovery in ROM Mgr...Finally, I selected "Install ROM from SD Card." A prompt showed up and I selected "Backup Existing ROM" and "Wipe Data and Cache." After checking OK, it rebooted and froze on the HTC screen for 15+ minutes two times. I have two zip files on my sd card: "update-cm-6.1.0-RC1-Heroc-signed.zip" and "gapps-mdpi-20101213-signed.zip" This is as far as I could get...thanks!
Well when you chose to backup existing rom that was good. When you chose to wipe data that was bad. Now your phone can't boot into anything because you wiped all of your data. But you were smart and made a backup. A general rule of thumb at least IMO
Is only wipe data if your flashing a new rom or having trouble with an exiting one. With that being said. Just boot into recovery by
Holding home and power until you see your recovery
Then look for an option that says install update zip from sd or update from sd. I don't use clockwork mod but I'm sure its something to that effect. Then choose install from sd or what ever the option was. Then you should see your two rom zips on your sd choose which one to install,let it finish and reboot. Being a fresh install it might take a minute. Or if you want to go back to your factory rom just look for an option that says restore and choose your backup you made when you used rom manger. Hope this helps good luck.
Yea its me Again With the
Modified Hero-
douglaspott said:
Okay...I used Z4Mod and went with a permanent root (seemed to be successful)...I grabbed the free version of ROM manager from the mkt place...I then flashed Clockwork Recovery in ROM Mgr...Finally, I selected "Install ROM from SD Card." A prompt showed up and I selected "Backup Existing ROM" and "Wipe Data and Cache." After checking OK, it rebooted and froze on the HTC screen for 15+ minutes two times. I have two zip files on my sd card: "update-cm-6.1.0-RC1-Heroc-signed.zip" and "gapps-mdpi-20101213-signed.zip" This is as far as I could get...thanks!
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Instead of installing from ROM Manager, select the option to Reboot Into Recovery.
From there, select Wipe Data/Factory Reset, then select Wipe Cache Partition, then go into Advanced and select Wipe Dalvich Cache.
Once those steps are complete, go back to the main menu and select Install zip from SD Card, then select Choose zip from SD Card. Find the CM zip and select it.
Once it completes, select Install zip from SD card again, find the gapps zip and select it.
Go back to the main menu again, and select Reboot now.
That's an old build of 6.1 anyway, grab the "stable" release instead.
Thanks for all of your assistance. Where can I find a current, stable 6.1 download file? I will replace it on my sd card before going forward.
Also, how do I get to the boot/recovery screen? When I choose recovery, it freezes with the HTC screen...I have success getting the phone back to original when I select fastUSBboot, or something similar to that...
Trying powering off, then press and hold the Home button while you press and release (don't hold) the Power button.
If that doesn't work, try pressing the volume up button while pressing the Power button.
Turn off the phone and hold volume down and power. A white screen will appear from there press the home button. It will take a good 15 to 20 seconds to get into recovery. Are you waiting long enough???
Or power off phone and hold power and home untill it boots into your recovery remember it takes a few seconds 10 to 15 seconds
Yea its me Again With the
Modified Hero-
I selected the home key to get into recovery...after 10+ minutes of showing the HTC screen, I think there is something wrong. This goes back to the same issue when I originally attempted to install the CM ROM - it was supposed to reboot into recovery but instead restarted into a frozen HTC screen. What ele can I do? Can I just go back to original and try all over again? I had to take the battery out and reset the device...
After Fastbooting, I lost network access and can't get into the marketplace...When I go into ROM manager to restore the backup, it just sits and looks like it is working on it...How long should this take? Is 10 min too long?
So your able to boot into your rom right.??? So just go to rom manger and choose flash alternate recovery. Place a different recovery on your sd and flash it. Or just flash the clockwork recovery. Basically I think you need to get into recovery first.
Yea its me Again With the
Modified Hero-
I think you're right as far as getting into recovery being the key...Since my network is down, I had to try "Flash Alternative Recovery," but it showed "An error occurred while flashing your recovery" ...Is there another alternative to getting a new recovery installed?
My network connection just started working...I had to uncheck and recheck the connect to network...Clockwork recovery finally worked and I was able to install 6.0 and the Google apps...Thanks for all of your help! I do have one additional question - How do I set up my apps to store on the sd card instead of the internal memory? Thanks again
I'm having a similar issue as OP.
This is my first time trying to load CM7 on my Hero CDMA. I rooted my phone successfully and then installed Amon_Ra's Recovery (v1.6.2) and wiped the data/Dalvik-cache and then flashed CM7 and Google Apps. Everything seemed to install without problem.
However, when I reboot the device it doesn't get past the initial "HTC" screen.
I then attempted to use adb to look at the logs but when I boot into recovery mode and enable USB mode, the computer doesn't recognize an HTC device/serial:
c:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
000000000000 recovery
and trying to access the logs or run shell commands through adb fails.
It's been stuck on the "HTC" logo for 10 minutes; I'm not sure if I just need to wait it out or if something has gone awry. Did I just brick my phone or can this be salvaged?
I managed to flash whatever I had backed up from nandroid, but it's incredibly unstable. Took several resets and almost an hour stuck on the "HTC" splash screen before booting. I have missed calls and can make them, which is a good sign, but I'm repeatedly hit with an error "The application Setup Wizard (process com.android.setupwizard) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.".
I can't post pastebin links since I'm new, but I have dumps of logcat and /proc/last_kmsg.
At this point I'd be happy to either get CM working OR revert back to a stable stock ROM.
How did you root ???
Also what's your baseband/ radio ??
Also what hboot are you currently on ??
Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
I needed to have a phone so I took it back to Sprint and they were able to do a factory reset. So while I'm glad it's not bricked, I'd prefer to have a better ROM on here.
I rooted using the following set of commands:
adb push asroot2 /data/local/
adb shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
Firmware version 1.5
Baseband version: 1.04.01.09.21
Kernel version: 2.6.27-533ce29d [email protected]
Build number: 1.56.651.2 CL85027 release-keys
Software version: 1.56.651.2
Hardware version: 0002
I'm not sure how to find out the hboot version.
When you first rooted or before did you make a backup/nandroid ?? Also after you rooted did you flash a recovery ??
Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
i have two recovery images on my sdcard, and neither of them are flashing, i rooted using z4root. that was the only method i could find to root my phone after the weeklong search. ive recently had to re root because i got a refurb. either way they stuck me with .7 i updated to .2 because i could not root .7 got it rooted , yay, but now i am having the hardest time flasing a recovery image. i tried using rom manager to get clockworks but the download from the market would not download, so i put it on my sdcard and did it myself. so i have rom manager now, but it keeps telling me i need reliable connection, im on wifi and i have five bars. ive had no luck.
i pushed both the recovery images i have on my sd card, and i tried to flash them but it keeps telling me they cant find them.
kyle-markss-macbook:tools kylemarks$ ./adb shell
$ su
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img
flash_image: not found
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
flash_image: not found
# kyle-markss-macbook:tools kylemarks$
is what im getting in my terminal. i need help. please.
i have two recovery images on my sdcard, and neither of them are flashing, i rooted using z4root. that was the only method i could find to root my phone after the weeklong search. ive recently had to re root because i got a refurb. either way they stuck me with .7 i updated to .2 because i could not root .7 got it rooted , yay, but now i am having the hardest time flasing a recovery image. i tried using rom manager to get clockworks but the download from the market would not download, so i put it on my sdcard and did it myself. so i have rom manager now, but it keeps telling me i need reliable connection, im on wifi and i have five bars. ive had no luck.
i pushed both the recovery images i have on my sd card, and i tried to flash them but it keeps telling me they cant find them.
kyle-markss-macbook:tools kylemarks$ ./adb shell
$ su
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img
flash_image: not found
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
flash_image: not found
# kyle-markss-macbook:tools kylemarks$
is what im getting in my terminal. i need help. please.
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If you haven't already checked it. Try making sure the recovery is named .img & not. img.img on your sd card
Edit also make sure the recovery img is not in any folder. As in just on your sd/card
Yea its me again. With the
Modified Hero
Just get rom manager from the market and install clockwork recovery from the app. It sounds like you dont have the binary for flash_image.
sent from a series of tubes.
il Duce said:
Just get rom manager from the market and install clockwork recovery from the app. It sounds like you dont have the binary for flash_image.
sent from a series of tubes.
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i installed the rom manager from apk. the market wouldn't download it for some reason. but it wont let me install the recovery, it says i dont have a reliable signal, which i do.
laie1472 said:
If you haven't already checked it. Try making sure the recovery is named .img & not. img.img on your sd card
Edit also make sure the recovery img is not in any folder. As in just on your sd/card
Yea its me again. With the
Modified Hero
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check, check and check.
i have two on the root of my sdcard named, recovery.img and the other one is recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img they are both the same file, i just used recovery.img as instructed in the old how to root by regaw, back when i knew what i was doing, ahaha.
Sent you a pm
Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA using XDA App
just a wild guess, but how about
flash_image recovery /mnt/sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img
?