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[Unlocked Only][RECOVERY][2011-11-14] Custom CWM-based Recovery 5.0.2.7-atrix5

This is a modified CWM-based recovery for the Motorola Atrix 4G. It is based on my own custom code forked from the CyanogenMod team's recovery. The major changes I have made include full support for dual SD cards, support for webtop partitions (SD card and internal) and changes to Nandroid backup/restore for this phone's additional partitions.
Some highlights include:
Dual SD card support
ADB support
USB Mass Storage support
Nandroid additions/changes
ext3/4 formatting
Unified kernel for international users
Probably others
This recovery is only for UNLOCKED devices. It is intended to be flashed directly to the recovery partition. Additionally, I have an AT&T phone so that is the kernel I am using. I doubt the memory issue would matter in recovery mode but testing from UNLOCKED international users would be appreciated. UPDATE: Initial indications are it works fine on UNLOCKED international phones. Versions for different tegraparts have also been compiled. UPDATE 2: Unified kernel patch has been applied. Choose whatever color you prefer regardless of phone version!
UNLOCKED users can flash this recovery using:
Code:
moto-fastboot devices
moto-fastboot erase recovery
moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery-atrix5.img
Example from my phone:
Code:
$ moto-fastboot devices
TA20700KXH fastboot
$ moto-fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.741s]
$ moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (4780 KB)... OKAY [ 0.490s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.544s]
This is posted in a DEVELOPER forum and is being released to help further the development of Android for the Motorola Atrix 4G. I have personally tested this on my phone but YOU assume full responsibility for any damage incurred to YOUR phone!
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ALL USERS
Orange 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 aebe29124d8c6d6c4b9873bd9ea4ca3b / 1f9a1d6fc83610e5c7c8f2d60e489b69
Cyan 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 eb44b910983434d3996383098dff53b6 / 91365993488a9ae060b22c8b820d1c5b
Light green 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 e7c7ec152e9e3269ef2ab1ce99b8943e / 1e720c8760898549226a10d4776f5077
Dark green 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 c8a4438e5889d5e681a754555c40bc51 / 121d8d9102eac3ed24f1e0be6f8cd5d1
Blue 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 9a1fd3c8796d2e768b54d39143c17ea3 / 9059c0c37fd2c547ec8508c893986815
Red 5.0.2.7-atrix5 / ZIP version.
MD5 036a9d9cc390a6071011d4d50b008875 / aa069d1aed20c5cbd13b2098b6a88975
Original ROM Manager installable zip thanks to SolidHelix. You must still be UNLOCKED to use them.
Source is here.
A few notes:
The capacitive buttons can be used to navigate as well. Back is back, search is select. Menu and home are up and down.
The "osh" partition is webtop. It is the largest by far and will take some time to backup. Nandroid is not frozen!
The "sd-ext" partition is an ext3/4 partition on your external SD card. Veterans will know this as apps2sd and data2sd from other phones. The only use I'm aware of on our phone currently is Sogarth's webtop2sd.
Thanks to:
Koush and the CM team for CWM
Everyone who has made unlocking the Atrix possible

** Changelog **
2011-11-14 (5.0.2.7-atrix5):
Minor bugfix release mostly
Added the ability to convert an ext3 partition to ext4 under advanced. Shouldn't break anything, but it is experimental.
2011-09-24 (5.0.2.3-atrix4.1):
Fix an issue with using ext4 formatting on stock ROMs
2011-09-23 (5.0.2.3-atrix4):
Updated to CWR5 base source.
The blue version is now the new CWR5 color. Old blue is gone. New photos welcome!
2011-09-17 (4.0.1.5-atrix3.3):
Unified kernel patch from eval-
New kernel to fix the stuck at "Entering Android Recovery" prompt. Big thanks to bamastang for helping test this.
Added a verify option to the backup and restore menu.
Renamed internal SD card mount point to /emmc and external is now /sdcard (this is largely cosmetic).
Merged in the CM7 device config when building the recovery image (again, just cosmetic).
Merged in miscellaneous fixes from the official CWM. Version 5 will be merged in once its ready.
2011-08-17 (4.0.1.5-atrix3.2):
Added 0MB option to ext3 partition size under External SD card partitioning which removes any ext3 partitions from the card (choose 0MB ext3/0MB swap to have only a FAT32 partition).
Added a red build to the mix.
Updated the update-binary in the CWM zips to be tailored for this phone.
Minor fixes to sdparted (log file related mostly).
2011-08-14 (4.0.1.4-atrix3.1):
Swap kernels to re-enable soft keys. Ext4 support should still work.
Fix for external SD card partitioning (internal is not supported).
CWM zip changed slightly.
2011-08-12 (4.0.1.4-atrix3):
Experimental ext4 support. Thanks to SolidHelix for testing it.
Fix for restoring large yaffs2 images (greater than 10,000 objects).
Tweak to the SD card space check before starting Nandroid backup.
Miscellaneous minor bugfixes and tweaks.
2011-08-07 (4.0.1.4-atrix2):
User is now prompted to wipe sd-ext (webtop2sd) on "Wipe data/factory reset".
User is now prompted to backup or restore webtop (/osh and /sd-ext) during Nandroid.
Four alternate colors created.
Versions for different tegraparts (international phones) created.
2011-08-05 (4.0.1.4-atrix1):
Initial release
Screenshots
Thanks to DarkSim2o9 for the following screenshots:
Orange
Cyan
Blue
Light green
Dark green
Red
Known Issues
sd-ext (webtop2sd) is inadvertently wiped on "Wipe data/factory reset". Next version will make this optional. Fixed in -atrix2.
Miscellaneous
If you'd like ROM Manager to see this recovery as "official" you can try XCellPhoneSalesRep's suggestion posted here.
Alternately, you can try dcarpenter85's suggestion here.
For issues with recovery not sticking or crashing, see here:
Thanks to mrinehart93 for pointing this out.
The system runs /system/etc/install-recovery.sh on boot with the stock rom. On boot it checks the recovery partition for some update and with CWM installed decides to reflash the stock recovery over it. Rename or delete the file and the CWM should stick.
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Old versions
You can browse and download old versions here.

If I currently have tenfar's latest recovery, is it worth installing this one?

xploited said:
If I currently have tenfar's latest recovery, is it worth installing this one?
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yes..Nandroid support

ok.. for some reason I can not enter recovery with Tenfar's or this CWM... I can enter it when plugged into AC using the Root Manager CWM.. Any ideas? I always get stuck at the "Entering Android Recovery Mode" screen and that is it... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bamastang said:
ok.. for some reason I can not enter recovery with Tenfar's or this CWM... I can enter it when plugged into AC using the Root Manager CWM.. Any ideas? I always get stuck at the "Entering Android Recovery Mode" screen and that is it... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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were you using Tenfar's old version.

I had at one-point tried using the old version... after trying to flash the new version and having the problem. I flashed the new version I believe right after unlocking (first time flashing the CWM) It had never worked on my phone unless I used the ROM Manager version. I was hoping this would take care of the issue since I did the erase recovery and flashed this...

munchy_cool said:
yes..Nandroid support
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So, backup and restore is COMPLETELY working on this recovery?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

bamastang said:
I had at one-point tried using the old version... after trying to flash the new version and having the problem. I flashed the new version I believe right after unlocking (first time flashing the CWM) It had never worked on my phone unless I used the ROM Manager version. I was hoping this would take care of the issue since I did the erase recovery and flashed this...
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Hmm not sure I've experienced that. Do you have install-recovery.sh in /system/etc? Maybe it's conflicting

Javi97100 said:
So, backup and restore is COMPLETELY working on this recovery?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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Very interested in this as well. The big problem (only problem iirc) with Tenfar's is its inability to properly backup and restore the PDS partition.
If this release gives us all of the features of the official CWM, I will be ecstatic!!!
DK

Javi97100 said:
So, backup and restore is COMPLETELY working on this recovery?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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It should be from my tests, but you should also test it.

romracer said:
It should be from my tests, but you should also test it.
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I have several backups of my PDS partition. I am very busy tonight, but was planning on spending tomorrow re-building my laptop. So while I'm doing that I'll do a backup, wipe, and restore to see what happens and report back.
DK

DeathKoil said:
Very interested in this as well. The big problem (only problem iirc) with Tenfar's is its inability to properly backup and restore the PDS partition.
If this release gives us all of the features of the official CWM, I will be ecstatic!!!
DK
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PDS is definitely backed up. It's not restored by default, just as a wimax partition is not on those devices that have them. It is available under Advanced Restore but you should help test it and have a separate backup just in case.
Backup early and backup often.

romracer said:
Hmm not sure I've experienced that. Do you have install-recovery.sh in /system/etc? Maybe it's conflicting
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The only install-recovery.sh I had was in the /etc not in the /system/etc
I don't know if there is something missing that CWM is dependant on or what. But like I said if I use the one from ROM manager which is 4.0.1.4 I can boot into recover with the plugged in via AC.

Bug during backup?
So I am starting my backup of my phone using this recovery.
I booted into recovery, chose "Backup and Restore", then chose "Backup", and finally told it to makeup to the external card.
Here is my output:
CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.4-atrix1
SD Card Space free: 4331MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
Backing up .android-secure...
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Backing up osh...
Backing up pds...
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete!
It seems somewhere in the backup code it tries to backup the contents of the SD-Card (external), but the mount point is referenced as "sd-ext" instead of "sdcard-ext".
This isn't a big deal for me at all, as I only have videos and music on the external card - both of which I have copies of on my PC. For some people, they may want to be able to backup the external card as well.
Edit: In the advanced restore options there is also an option to restore the external sdcard, but it is against referenced as the mount point "sd-ext" instead of sdcard-ext".
Like I said, I'll wipe the phone clean tomorrow and test restore it then make a new post with the results.
So far so good!!
DK

bamastang said:
The only install-recovery.sh I had was in the /etc not in the /system/etc
I don't know if there is something missing that CWM is dependant on or what. But like I said if I use the one from ROM manager which is 4.0.1.4 I can boot into recover with the plugged in via AC.
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Boot regularly and then in Settings enable USB Debugging. From a command prompt, "adb devices" should show your phone. From there, "adb reboot recovery" and wait 10-20 seconds.
Does that get you into recovery? Does the "Motorola Dual Core" boot image change at all when you try to boot into recovery? Like to a little Android guy with a yellow hazard sign?
The "plugged into AC" recovery is just a hijack of the normal system, so if your phone boots normally I'm not surprised that method works.

DeathKoil said:
So I am starting my backup of my phone using this recovery.
I booted into recovery, chose "Backup and Restore", then chose "Backup", and finally told it to makeup to the external card.
Here is my output:
CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.4-atrix1
SD Card Space free: 4331MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
Backing up .android-secure...
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Backing up osh...
Backing up pds...
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete!
It seems somewhere in the backup code it tries to backup the contents of the SD-Card (external), but the mount point is referenced as "sd-ext" instead of "sdcard-ext".
This isn't a big deal for me at all, as I only have videos and music on the external card - both of which I have copies of on my PC. For some people, they may want to be able to backup the external card as well.
DK
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"sd-ext" refers to an ext3 partition on the external SD card. On other phones, this is used for crap like "data2sd" and "apps2sd". On our phones, the only current use I've seen of this is for Sogarth's webtop2sd.
Standard CWM does not backup SD card contents (it backs up to them) so there is no support for that in mine. I could consider adding it eventually.
You will see references to "sdcard-ext" in my recovery if you do something like Apply update.zip and then choose External SD card (look at the path it shows you for update.zip on the confirm screen).

I used to get issues to wipe data in the original 4.0.1.4
Is data wipie fixed in this custom recovery?

guidoido004 said:
I used to get issues to wipe data in the original 4.0.1.4
Is data wipie fixed in this custom recovery?
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Yes. I have personally tested this particular item a few times. mke2fs from Koush's CWM segfaults, but I have supplied a working one.

Will you be including international support?

[Q] CWM error

I get this error while backing up using CWM
Error: Ext sd cannot be backed up, your device may not support backup of Ext sd!!!
And when restoring i get
Error: Ext sd cannot be found.
Why does these errors occur?

At a guess you are on an ics ROM?
Why do you want to bloat a nandroid with a back up of an external sd?, just copy contents to pc if you want to format it
Sent from the depths of despair

slaphead20 said:
At a guess you are on an ics ROM?
Why do you want to bloat a nandroid with a back up of an external sd?, just copy contents to pc if you want to format it
Sent from the depths of despair
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came back to stock GB Rom. Some apps were FCing so decided to reset.
Missing Ext_Sd didn't cause any trouble.
All went well now need to check if those app work or or not.
But one question:
I have a really nice backup with all the installed apps and there data but couldn't restore it correctly as i forgot the kernel that i flashed with CWM using odin.
The backup file looks like a CWM 2 & i remember it was green CWM, but when i use any other kernel with CWM 2 other than the one used to back it up the files isn't restored properly. But i restored it once properly but forgot to see which kernel it was.
Is there any way to find out the kernel & CWM and restore it back properly?
How to find the real CWM used to backup those file?

[Q] Loop - does nandroid restore delete intern data?...No!!! :)

Hi,
I have a Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE (7320) with Ichi Arlic Rom 4.0.4 for months now and everything run fine.
Today I got a few FC (first time ever with this rom) and I thought, better doing a nandroid backup before sth happens...
Well in the CWR hit the backup button...failed...everytime (even with cach/dalvic wipe) the backup freezed for hours...no way to do a backup.
When I restarted System I got a loop now...so I cannot save my data!
Q1: Is it possible to get usb mass to work?!
In Download Mode my PC recognized the tab, but no mass storage is mounted.
My CWR has v. 5.5.0.4. without a file manager so i even cannot delete my broken nandroid backups and my tab ran full.
Q2: When I reflash an old clear/empty nandroid backup (*.zip) does this delete my internal data?! Cause my Tab dont have an SDCard...
Thx in advance for tipps!!
Greetz, Rob

Re: [Q] Loop - does nandroid restore delete intern data?
To question 2, it will not delete your internal memory. You can use adb to pull info for your first question, but I'm not that familiar on how to use it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727

jd1639 said:
To question 2, it will not delete your internal memory. You can use adb to pull info for your first question, but I'm not that familiar on how to use it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
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noooo way...after i tried a restore from a clean nandroid i got a message "error while restoring /data"
holy moly...

Re: [Q] Loop - does nandroid restore delete intern data?
Rob1972 said:
noooo way...after i tried a restore from a clean nandroid i got a message "error while restoring /data"
holy moly...
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You got something else going on. Restoring a nandriod will not delete data on the internal sd card.
What recovery are you using?
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done!!
Rob1972 said:
noooo way...after i tried a restore from a clean nandroid i got a message "error while restoring /data"
holy moly...
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even with the error message the tablet is back alive...booting softly with all data!!
maybe the error occured cause I had no space left in the tab cause of all the broken nandroid backup attempts...
Now I quick do a backup and a clean flash...
Everything fine!
Thx Bro!!

SD card and Permissions Error

Morning,
First of all:
s-off and bootloader unlocked
CWM touch 6.0.3.2 (latest)
InsertCoin 2.0.5 - first time installing custom ROM.
I have installed InsertCoin however whenever i click on the stock camera (or any camera downloaded) i get the following message: Unable to save to SD card due to insufficient file permissions. I have even tried to format and re-install the ROM however I still get the same issue. I have no idea how to fix it. If i download an image from google this works correctly and gets place in the download folder. I have tried clearing the data of the camera but this also did not work.
I moved all of my data from /data/media to the folder /data/media/0 as this is what a tutorial said regarding file paths if you move to the new 4.2.2. However for some reason now when i go into /data the folder is empty. All of my data is in the folder storage/emuated/0 (or /sdcard) I have taken 2 backups using CWM yet I have no idea where these are.
Also, when i was initially the recovery, when i first installed the recovery and entered it my computer stated 'usb device not recognised' and no adb commands would work, but as soon as i reboot manually to bootloader it was recognized. Is this normal?
Using the app 'disk usage' it states my storage card has a total size of 26206 MiB.
Clearly I have borked something up along the way.
If somebody could help that would be great, and this is rather annoying and starting to wreck my head haha.
Thanks,
Vizzy

Have you tried fix permissions in the advanced menu in CWM? Give that a go, if it doesn't work back everything up, wipe cache and SD card in CWM and re-install the rom via push or using a OTG

Okay I'll give it a go, when I'm hone tonight . Do I have to format the card into a specific format or is it just literally 'wipe SD card' like it is for cache etc.
Is the USB not recognised issue normal ? I don't fancy wiping everything then finding out I can't adb push.
Adb method: adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip
OTG doesn't work in the latest CWM, correct?
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Try with the TWRP...

Try what ? Everything in general ?
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vizzy said:
Try what ? Everything in general ?
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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Yes, everything!
TWRP support OTG, and is better then CWM
It's clean and simple

From my point of view ..Any mistake occurred at migration with 4.1. on 4.2. symlinks for compatibility with the previous version 4.1 aren't created correctly. Be restored with nandroid backup and try to flash stock 4.2 ROM, and only then custom 4.2.2.

The only back up I have is when I booted into recovery and took a nandroid. The one I took after I installed recovery is lost.
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If I understand correct , you don't have 4.1 nandroid backup ,only 4.2 ?
If yes.. save you apps and data to PC and make factory reset with formating SD (under 4.2 ) and then restore your apps and data.

Nandroid backups in 4.2.2 can be found on phone (not SD card) under data/media btw

Freezing on boot when data is restored

So I have an Exhibit that started freezing up on the red AOIP logo with "pulse" animation..
Clearing cache/dalvik doesn't help -- phone reboots to "optimizing apps" but gets stuck on "starting apps". If power cycled, it gets stuck at AOIP logo (it's an AOIP rom)
Tried reflashing the rom (AOIP-2.0-ancora_tmo-OFFICIAL-20131006) -- same result
The internal SD card appeared to be out of space -- mounted it over USB (thanks to CWM) and cleaned it out so it's at ~60% now.. but the phone still doesn't want to boot!
Created a backup with CWM and wiped the data (after removing the ext sd card) -- phone boots up properly!
Restored from the backup -- phone doesn't boot
What else can I do?

Fry-kun said:
So I have an Exhibit that started freezing up on the red AOIP logo with "pulse" animation..
Clearing cache/dalvik doesn't help -- phone reboots to "optimizing apps" but gets stuck on "starting apps". If power cycled, it gets stuck at AOIP logo (it's an AOIP rom)
Tried reflashing the rom (AOIP-2.0-ancora_tmo-OFFICIAL-20131006) -- same result
The internal SD card appeared to be out of space -- mounted it over USB (thanks to CWM) and cleaned it out so it's at ~60% now.. but the phone still doesn't want to boot!
Created a backup with CWM and wiped the data (after removing the ext sd card) -- phone boots up properly!
Restored from the backup -- phone doesn't boot
What else can I do?
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wipe both internal and exernal sd cards and do a fresh install

det0xx said:
wipe both internal and exernal sd cards and do a fresh install
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I think it was implied that I'm able to boot after /data wipe -- but I'd like the data back!
And it's not so much the apps themselves (which can be reinstalled pretty easily) -- but the data that they saved for the user.
Oh, and it's not my phone per se

BTW, I have adb set up on my laptop, and I'm able to get shell at the frozen boot.. just don't know what command(s) to give it since I'm not really familiar with android environment

Fry-kun said:
BTW, I have adb set up on my laptop, and I'm able to get shell at the frozen boot.. just don't know what command(s) to give it since I'm not really familiar with android environment
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do you have your app data in a nandroid backup?
if you do install the rom freshly and download app nandroid manager. app will let you restore apps and its data through its app to your current rom

det0xx said:
do you have your app data in a nandroid backup?
if you do install the rom freshly and download app nandroid manager. app will let you restore apps and its data through its app to your current rom
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No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..

Fry-kun said:
No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..
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cwm backup is a nandroid back up...

Fry-kun said:
No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..
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In CWM look in advanced restore.
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det0xx said:
cwm backup is a nandroid back up...
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After trying a few things, looks like Nandroid finally found my backup and is letting me restore things one by one.. yay