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How to Build a Custom Recovery image?????

So My girlfriend has Garminfone and there is no info on the internet at all on how to overclock or a custom kernel or anything really so i Have rooted it but would like to do more so i have done a lil research and will like to build Custom Recovery for the phone but before i start i thought i would post a thread here with all my Optimus one family that i trust and love to get some tips and hopefully even some instructions as the instructions online are hard to fallow ??? so anything ???

Can give a clear answer about that, because its different for most phones.
Some phones like our Optimus One have a recoverypartition, a phone like Samsung Galaxy 3 has not. It took some work to port CWM to that phone and mumbozver (an XDA-user on de Galaxy 3-thread) managed to port it to that phone).
Guess it's best to post a question in the main android-section for this

make "cat /proc/mtd" in "adb shell".
If there are error - porting will be hard

_Arjen_ said:
Can give a clear answer about that, because its different for most phones.
Some phones like our Optimus One have a recoverypartition, a phone like Samsung Galaxy 3 has not. It took some work to port CWM to that phone and mumbozver (an XDA-user on de Galaxy 3-thread) managed to port it to that phone).
Guess it's best to post a question in the main android-section for this
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Ok so how do I figure out if I do our not and then what's next
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dislplin01 said:
Ok so how do I figure out if I do our not and then what's next
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Maybe start with telling us which phone we are talking about...

Here some specs that might help you:
Garminfone is the market name from "Nüviphone A50".
- MSM7227 chipset
- ARM Cortex A11 procssesor (ARMv6) @600MHz
- 256MB RAM
- 4GB ROM
- A-GPS
- WLAN b/g
- 3MP camera
- display have 480 x 320 Pixel
with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone

Oh... Nuviphone A50. I got this junk for free with their navigation. Well, frankly - you are better off throwing that brick away. One of the worst Android phones ever.
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with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone
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Do not hold your breath.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5864-garminfone-a50/

doktornotor said:
Oh... Nuviphone A50. I got this junk for free with their navigation. Well, frankly - you are better off throwing that brick away. One of the worst Android phones ever.
Do not hold your breath.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5864-garminfone-a50/
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Yea I have seen that thread and some other threads on other forums and sites but they dont tell you much thank you tho and thanks for the specs 2 any info I can get is good
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dislplin01 said:
Yea I have seen that thread and some other threads on other forums and sites but they dont tell you much thank you tho and thanks for the specs 2 any info I can get is good
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Well, if the guys on the thread I have linked are not even willing to team up to finally produce something after basically having wasted about a year on this without getting it even bootable... good luck with this.
I would personally suggest bricking the phone intentionally and claiming warranty. Pretty sure this junk has been EOLed so you might get a decent phone as replacement. (Though, you might be unfortunate enough to get a brand new replacement brick since the Garmin's stock must be full of these collecting dust. )

andy572 said:
Here some specs that might help you:
Garminfone is the market name from "Nüviphone A50".
- MSM7227 chipset
- ARM Cortex A11 procssesor (ARMv6) @600MHz
- 256MB RAM
- 4GB ROM
- A-GPS
- WLAN b/g
- 3MP camera
- display have 480 x 320 Pixel
with this informations you can go at first to the step from mik, if it works might be
you can adapt a custom recovery for that phone
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Thank you andy and mik you guys are awesome for this and all the work you put in will let you know how that goes tomorrow
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Will be another week before I try I have work a newborn baby to take of but will let you know
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I for one would be very happy I dont have the smarts to even attempt this. But yes the garminfone is very very slow boring.. It would be just wonderful to have a recovery even better a rom mayb some point to bring this phone at least upto an ehhh ok phone status := Im willing to test/help what ever it is . Im not the best in the develoment area but I do have a garminfone and enough sense to try and give a hand.

[Q] Touchscreen Lag IncS

Hey folks,
I'm experiencing with my IS, as mentioned in the title, an input lag of the touchscreen. It is not really disturbing, but the fact, that my friends Wildfire recognizes the input better, with Stock 2.1 ROM installed, bothers me really
In the moment I'm S-off on Android Revolution HD 1.1.2, which has a slightly better input than stock 2.3.3, but it is still there. Please tell me, if you are experiencing similar problems.
thanks Max

Only thing I've noticed so far is that if you drag slowly In some applications (like the browser, doesn't matter which browser I'm using) it doesn't scroll at all... but in the settings menu I can swipe downwards as slow as I want to, so I guess what I'm experiencing is software related...
What I really want to know is if I'm alone, or if there has noticed the same thing
Sent from a dumb phone

with my IcS... ive noticed that certain parts of my screen at the randomest times will stop recognizing input.... for me this happens exactly at the O and N key... after leaving it for a few seconds... it starts working again so not much of an issue to me...
there is an app in market place called touchscreen booster... maybe apply that and see if that helps u change the sensitivity...

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with my IcS... ive noticed that certain parts of my screen at the randomest times will stop recognizing input.... for me this happens exactly at the O and N key... after leaving it for a few seconds... it starts working again so not much of an issue to me...
there is an app in market place called touchscreen booster... maybe apply that and see if that helps u change the sensitivity...
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thanks for the advice danial.aw. I tried your method, but the only touchscreen booster app i found in the market was for SGS, so that hadn't had any effect
Keeps annoying me buying a 500$ phone that has such a crappy touchscreen...

Sounds to me like you might have a faulty unit if it's bad with both stock and custom ROMs. Never had any issue with mine.

doctorsax said:
Sounds to me like you might have a faulty unit if it's bad with both stock and custom ROMs. Never had any issue with mine.
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any chance I get warranty for that? the lag is really minimal

Infinite104 said:
any chance I get warranty for that? the lag is really minimal
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Not a clue I'm afraid. Always worth asking them I suppose.

well yes it says thats its for SGS only... but the app worked on my Atrix when i had it... so im assuming it might actually help more phones than that... try it out and see...

Doesn't make any difference no matter what i set in the app. I will drive to a store today to see if it might be subjective but I don't think so.
Edit: well it's not only subjective, I'll give the warranty a try, lets see how the will react

wooh got all of my money back, I'm moving to WP7 now. Android hasnt persuaded me...maybe again when 4.0 comes out.

Infinite104 said:
wooh got all of my money back, I'm moving to WP7 now. Android hasnt persuaded me...maybe again when 4.0 comes out.
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If you are leaving android id probably recommend waiting for the next iPhone not wp7
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

God WP7 is woeful, the mango update had better fix/add a lot of features...

No I've tested the one from my sister for already two months and I'm very content with WP7. A Phone should be fast and I'm not really into Apple's politics.

You will be in microsofts politics though. WP7 is as closed down as ios. At least with apple you get a good warranty service.
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Serious question_replacing processor

It may sound stupid
But still...want to ask! for example i may have a skills to replace a processor!!! for phone...dont think so tho
I just found it interesting
Would it be possible to change our processor to armv7
i havent studied our phone shematics and staff
but if it would fit...and it could be placed and connected right
would everything work? well if someone knows

I like going deep in things!!! some may understand!
dont say it isnt interesting ;D
but how possible it is...i have big doubts about that

go ahead and try.
Ofcourse you can't replace it

but would be cool!

Overclock to 820mhz and this should melt the solder and make your arm 6 easy to remove ha ha. Its a good question, when you were studying did you notice if an arm 7 would even fit? and if it did fit and manage to work well with all other components do you think software support might be a stumbling block. Keep us updated if you do get brave and try it, you might want to see if an x10 mini 5mp lens would work 1st, it would be a nice unique mod.

;D u know how much we want things to be better! But some things are impossible to get done i suppose, however ill try to discover everything about it!

Haha,you are wrong here.nothing is impossible.i believe it would work.and for sure if i had armv7 processor i would try it.if psp has armv7,i will try it.
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goldenr said:
It may sound stupid
But still...want to ask! for example i may have a skills to replace a processor!!! for phone...dont think so tho
I just found it interesting
Would it be possible to change our processor to armv7
i havent studied our phone shematics and staff
but if it would fit...and it could be placed and connected right
would everything work? well if someone knows
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I support you!
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If you have a disposable X8 ofcourse you can try it. Just let us know what happened alright? (;
Sent from my X8 (GingerDX) using XDA App

just reinstal room, works for me
EDIT: sorry, wrong threat

will check all things for that...information about arm type microprocessors!!!
well whenever ill get a new phone..than i can try this thing!
Just would need the processor itslef..but it wont be a big problem!!
well.....if anyone could support me with extra x8 i would immediately try out and see;D just joking not expecting that!
But still if something goes on..ill notice u guys

I want an Intel i7 processor in my X8 :3

Hey if u destroy your x8 please make a scratch test and film it!

Spevky said:
Hey if u destroy your x8 please make a scratch test and film it!
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That would be funny!!! and after destroying it...shoot it with my air rifle with my viral exploding pellets
but i would really try to not destroy it

LFSPovo said:
I want an Intel i7 processor in my X8 :3
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after some n nice years we would have a phone with that powerful processor...no big doubts!

Spevky said:
Hey if u destroy your x8 please make a scratch test and film it!
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no need. You can very easily scrath it PROVED

zvorkapic.os said:
no need. You can very easily scrath it PROVED
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well i have my x8 for 9 months and it looks like brand new ;D
screen is in perfect condition, my case has some lil marks of scratches!
its ok i have droped it like 20 or more times and some times i thought it wont survive...battery was 10m away from phone and case as well
hmm ill dissamble it one day and see how it all actually looks and sww if its possible to desolder it without damaging...obviously will have to use some kind of heat sinks!

I have a few minor scratches.i ran over it with a tractor!and its still in a great shape!
from my x8 and every latest **** on it.

Replacing processor in x8 is different with replacing PC's processor. Afaik, however, there is governor wich the driver of most xda processor, you still need new kernel for your new arm7, it means you have to bypass the bootloader first.. then you make a miniloader for your new chipset. Btw, is x8 like wheels " sell in parts ! " LoL..
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alphine.zzz said:
Replacing processor in x8 is different with replacing PC's processor. Afaik, however, there is governor wich the driver of most xda processor, you still need new kernel for your new arm7, it means you have to bypass the bootloader first.. then you make a miniloader for your new chipset. Btw, is x8 like wheels " sell in parts ! " LoL..
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Youre right, so I thought!!!

ICS for HeroC

What do you guys think, does our lowly HeroC have what it takes? Also, even if it does, do we have the devs left to get it going? Sorry...I'm all geeked up for the announcement tonight. Plus, I'm not due for an upgrade until March...eek!
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

What do you think?
And, also.. please move this to the Q/A or General section.

Sorry. Will do once I'm on my pc. Not sure I can move it from xda app.
Also, I'm hoping for some official cm8 love or something along those lines.

Eventually!? At least I hope we do.

ubnub82 said:
Eventually!? At least I hope we do.
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If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol

I have faith! You got HC to boot.
dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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That would be awesome if it did but i believe that you can do it seeing that you got other things working like HC and Sense 3.5.

I know this is in the wrong section. Anyone tell me how to move it to general? Just thought I would see who else was psyched for ICS like me.
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What do you think?
And, also.. please move this to the Q/A or General section.
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We probably have to wait till a low end device comes out running it, or it gets ported to a similar device, like we had to wait for the Pico. Only time will tell. . .

Jurellz said:
We probably have to wait till a low end device comes out running it, or it gets ported to a similar device, like we had to wait for the Pico. Only time will tell. . .
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Or source is released so CyanogenMod can work on it and CM9 is released...

dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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Man i know you can get it to work You done some pretty amazing stuff on here and if you cant maybe you can get Jaybob to help you or something

with the navigation buttons at the bottom, it might be a little cramped. sure we can change the dpi to like 120 but my phone lags when i try to make everything smaller and fit more on the screen.

Or if the navigation buttons can be removed... who knows. Of course even cramped ICS would be great on our Heroes.

Im almost positive we will get some sort of port of ICS. Ever since froyo the companies have been saying that the hero simply can not handel the new updates because of minimal system requirements. However I red an article with a Q&A about ICS, and one of the questions was what are the minimal system requirements for ICS? The anser was none that i can think of right now. ICS is meant to bring Android tablets and phones toghether in developmental terms. Google is trying to unify android, rather than have phones rounning one type of android and tablets another. It has even been said that ICS will be available for older devices of up to one year old or so. But in closeing im prety optimistic about a port for the Hero, and probably sooner than latter.

Considering that our devs got the source now I'm sure were gona see ICS can't wait
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I downloaded the beta version of ICS for hero to see how it looks and feels it"s a little buggy it has some things that need to be worked out like not being able to pair with bluetooth device and bluetooth turning off completely and not being able to turn it back on again... Also when trying to turn on wifi hotspot the phone just hangs there saying turning on wifi screen I let it run for 5 minutes before I rebooted my phone... This rom is in early stages of devoplement and if and when the stuff that isn't working gets fixed I see this as my next rom of choice... Nice work jaybob on a job will done and a million thanks to you...

Bye bye!

Well guys it`s been a pleasure to spend a lot of time in my life beside all of you, hoping that LG will support their phones better, but that time has and end and this is it. I`ve sold my OB and bought a Desire HD instead. I was tired hoping that something will eventually happen`...
Good luck in the future and very much custom stable ROMs!
Wish you all the best!

byebye spybot

spyb0y said:
Well guys it`s been a pleasure to spend a lot of time in my life beside all of you, hoping that LG will support their phones better, but that time has and end and this is it. I`ve sold my OB and bought a Desire HD instead. I was tired hoping that something will eventually happen`...
Good luck in the future and very much custom stable ROMs!
Wish you all the best!
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the best choice ever made​​!!! Btw I sold my LG OB too

sonic1995 said:
Btw I sold my LG OB too
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I bought another phone (Galaxy S II) and gaved my Black to my girlfriend.

spyb0y said:
Well guys it`s been a pleasure to spend a lot of time in my life beside all of you, hoping that LG will support their phones better, but that time has and end and this is it. I`ve sold my OB and bought a Desire HD instead. I was tired hoping that something will eventually happen`...
Good luck in the future and very much custom stable ROMs!
Wish you all the best!
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Desire HD has a locked bootloader, has it?

allready unlocked

I'm due to a new phone and I need to choose between Desire hd or Optimus black.
Was thinking of the hd but I've read about the small battery, poor GPS performance, camera issues, etc. The weight is 175gr.
On the other side the OB just got Gingerbread, is smaller, has IPS screen. CM7 support for it is also great.
What made you choose the HD over OB?
Thanks!

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allready unlocked
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Well done!
ps Are you use official ROM in ur desire HD?

nope....i`m using SmartDroid T-3.1 2.3.5 with sense 3.5....it`s just amaizing.

s0ulreaver said:
I'm due to a new phone and I need to choose between Desire hd or Optimus black.
Was thinking of the hd but I've read about the small battery, poor GPS performance, camera issues, etc. The weight is 175gr.
On the other side the OB just got Gingerbread, is smaller, has IPS screen. CM7 support for it is also great.
What made you choose the HD over OB?
Thanks!
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well, for me...this kind of phone shouldn`t last for more than a day. Desire HD delivers me a fully working day with 3g data always on with sync over weather and Gmail, and wi-fi when possible and sometimes using hands free bluetooth.
the gps it`s fast I don`t know where did you hear that is poor.
what made me choose HTC instead LG is:
1. HTC sense....is much much much more user friendly than LG UI 2.0 (wich Optimus Black comes with)
2. I don`t really trust Ti OMAP processors, Qualcomm instead gets over clocked at 1.6 ghz with no harm at all.
3. I have a Smart TV and the DLNA works much better instead LG.
4. Bigger screen, metal hard case (i really like the phone to be heavier) instead of crap plastic, truly Gorilla Glass Display, 8mgx camera with dual led flashlight wich is not bad at all I`ve managed some awsome photos with it, 768 mb RAM instead of 512 wich makes the device much more fluid (never crumbles).
5. LG stand for Lie Good, I`ve tried the Wi-Fi direct function with other phones and never managed to really send a file......crap.
6. Very poor video recording on LG 5 mgpx camera...
I hope I made some good arguments.
If I were you...I`d buy Desire HD for sure! But the choise is yours. I can only hope will make the right one take care dude

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If I were you...I`d buy Desire HD for sure! But the choise is yourse
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ok then, just give us your money, so we can buy desire HD for sure.

How about the display?
Which do you think has the much better display? Let's just disregard the brightness because we all know the Optimus Black has the brightest. Is there a big difference of the display basing that Desire HD has 217ppi and the Optimus Black has 233ppi? Which one has the clearest display? I like clear and vivid display cause I alsways want to watch videos and streaming videos online.

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Which do you think has the much better display? Let's just disregard the brightness because we all know the Optimus Black has the brightest. Is there a big difference of the display basing that Desire HD has 217ppi and the Optimus Black has 233ppi? Which one has the clearest display? I like clear and vivid display cause I alsways want to watch videos and streaming videos online.
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I like the display on the Desire HD better. Much more vivid colors from my point of view. you really can`t see the difference from 233 to 217 dpi.
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ok then, just give us your money, so we can buy desire HD for sure.
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well, i would, if i had money....I was lucky to find a guy that wanted really bad an Optimus black for his girlfrind and I simply trade my OB for his Desire HD... as simply as that. so no money involved

Thanks, everyone!
After all, when the Milestone came out, the battery could barely last 10h, with CM7 I can squeeze 2-3 days a year after I got it.
I'm getting the Desire HD tomorrow

s0ulreaver said:
Thanks, everyone!
After all, when the Milestone came out, the battery could barely last 10h, with CM7 I can squeeze 2-3 days a year after I got it.
I'm getting the Desire HD tomorrow
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Well, good for you.
And thanks for letting all users in the P970 forum section know that you obviously never owned a P970 and are going to have a Desire HD!
I could'nt imagine to live without that info. Thanks !!!
EDIT: could the Creator of this Thread change the title to something like "P970/OB rant"? It would be mire Accurate.

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Bye bye!
I need one more post to unlock my 10 post rule!!!

pythoner said:
Well, good for you.
And thanks for letting all users in the P970 forum section know that you obviously never owned a P970 and are going to have a Desire HD!
I could'nt imagine to live without that info. Thanks !!!
EDIT: could the Creator of this Thread change the title to something like "P970/OB rant"? It would be mire Accurate.
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lol XD XD XD XD
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radkor said:
I bought another phone (Galaxy S II) and gaved my Black to my girlfriend.
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I am now using S2 too bro and i am happy with my decision. But OB always one of the kind.
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lesp4ul said:
I am now using S2 too bro and i am happy with my decision. But OB always one of the kind.
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Yeah build a statue for that.
Seriously, what's the so important about our decisions and purchases?
If you want people around you to be informed about what you do, consider twitter or facebook, or even Google+ .... not a forum thread

can some mod delete this thread pls?