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biggest trouble ever installing 2.2

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?
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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™

CW recovery

Im on ra recovery currently and I want to change to cw. I tried flashing it thru rm but it didn't work. Help?
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Run - "flash_image recovery <recovery file name>" from adb or terminal window. Make sure the recovery image is in the SD Card root. Reboot...

neilege said:
Im on ra recovery currently and I want to change to cw. I tried flashing it thru rm but it didn't work. Help?
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The better question is why?
Have you tried flashing it via adb shell or terminal emulator? (assuming it comes as a standard .img file)
adb shell:
Code:
adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/NameOfRecoveryHere.img
terminal emulator:
Code:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/NameOfRecoveryHere.img

fixed it!!
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neilege said:
THANKS SO MUCH.I almost thought I permanatly had no recovery for a minute. That would be bad
i also decided to keep RA. I like care bears lol.
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if you have care bears on your recovery you're running the olddddd version. You should update your RA to darch's unofficial (<- get this one ) or the godspeed recoveries.
You can download either one from HERE

flashing recovery, after root access, 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.

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
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just a wild guess, but how about
flash_image recovery /mnt/sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img
?

[Q] Flashing CM7

Hi all!
Last week I bought a used but still good-looking T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). The previous owner has rootet it (Android 1.6 is installed) and this are the infos:
Firmware-version: 1.6
Baseband-version: 62.50S.20.17U_2.22.19.26I
Kernel-version: 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37
[email protected] #19
Build-number: DRC92
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I looked through the forums here on XDA and found a laggy ICS-port, so I want to flash Gingerbread (CM7).
I've already flashed my Galaxy S, a friend's Galaxy R and my Asus Transformer tab, without any problems.
But flashing HTC-devices seems a little bit more complicated.
So what do I need to do? In the CyanogenWiki there's 'Danger_SPL' mentioned, guess I'll need it?
I don't need a looooong step-by-step-guide the correct threads or pages would be enough.
Thanks,
Lunch

need to know more about your phone, boot into bootloader mode (hold power + camera)
write down everything on this screen

DREA110 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Sep 2 2008
Serial 0
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(at the moment it's connected with my PC for chrarging, this should explain Serial 0, right?)
Hope this helps.

ok so even if it is rooted the radio and spl need to be updated, which recovery is on there. (power on holding home button)

Ok, I bought it like this and didn't change anything...
Recovery: Android system recovery <2e>
(blue font)

ok you want amonra's recovery found here
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Dream:_Rooting
this guide will help you root and update your phone, being your phone is rooted do not flash the dreaming.nbh or you will be reverted back to android 1.0 and loose root
you want to skip that step and go to flash amonra via terminal emulator
then update radio via recovery
then update to danger spl (must have radio updated first or you will brick!)
then i recommended flashing cm5 + gapps found in this link
once you finished this and confirmed all is working you want to update radio and spl further to be able to flash the newest roms, info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139
good luck and let me know if you get stuck (also the search function in xda is great and most of your question will have been answered, peek around a bit its more rewarding than having your hand held)

Thanks a lot for your help, I'll try it!

One quick question about the Telnet-app: do I have to write flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img into the left text field and 23 in the right?
Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused
What do I do wrong? With Terminal Emulator the command isn't found...

telnet may not work thats ok
in terminal emulator you need to give yourself superuser permissions first
type su
then say yes to prompt
you are rooted right? do you have superuser.apk in app drawer?

Yes, I'm rooted and I'm su in Terminal Emulator.
Then there's this message: flash_image: not found
But the file is on the root of the sdcard, named recovery.img ...
And when navigating to /sdcard via Terminal Emulator and typing ls I see the recovery.img-file...

if you use windows it will auto add extentions, ie if you name it recovery.img it will read recovery.img.img
try naming it just recovery
also if it came in a .zip make sure you extract it so its a .img
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No, it's definetely named recovery.img ...
Is there another possibility to flash the recovery-file (via ADB for example)?

yes adb should work fine. i cant remember the command to type when you in adb but just by typing adb into the cmd you will get a list of commands including how to push the file/image you need.
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cd <adb-folder>
adb devices
adb shell
su
adb flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
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Would this be possible (I can't test it now, phone is charging atm).
Thanks

that might just be perfect, but you said that didnt work from terminal emulator and a shell is nearly the same,
its worth a shot. being you are rooted you can try the orange.nbh and you will have an engineering spl where fastboot commands work and i can easly explain those (i dont use adb much but have used fastboot many time) so if adb dosent work for you check out one of the many guides out there or try ornage.nbh and fastboot
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Same message: flash_image: not found, but with ls I can see it...
Ok, my phone is rooted, I have the Superuser-app in my app drawer, I'm root when accessing the sdcard, I see the file when typing ls. What do I do wrong?
I've never run in trouble when rooting my Galaxy S or my Transformer tab. But my G1 seems quite defiant.

well not being there its hard to say, now try the ornage.nbh
youll find this file in the development section under ezterry's thread under 2708+ update 14mb ram hack. rename the image dreaming.nbh and put it on sdcard. now boot into hboot (power+ camera) and say yes to the prompt. this will allow you to use fastboot and allow you to flash recovery, radio and spl. when/if this all works then boot into recovery (home + power) and flash rom
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Ok, I'll try, thanks!
Just to go sure:
- I download orange-1.58......nbh from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139 , rename it and put it onto my sdcard
- Flash it in fastboot (fastboot = hboot?)
- Flash Amon_Ra-recovery from cyanogenwiki
- flash spl (radio needed too?)
- ?

Don't want to mix in, but just some few stuff you should know:
Fastboot is a sort of recovery on your pc, although this has much more safety measures.
That .nbh file is a file that is a fresh new start to your phone: Like you have a new phone
From Fastboot you can flash a recovery, that you can take with you everywhere
The SPL/RADIO are BOTH needed to succeed. Cheers and if I made any mistakes, please point me to them

fastboot is within the bootloader. it is a .exe program in your sdk package and works similar to adb. the orange.nbh needs to be renamed dreaming.nbh and when you boot into your bootloader it will rewrite your recovery, radio, system, spl etc
the new hboot you get will have a fastboot option in it. connect the phone via usb and when in fastboot mode you will see fastboot usb in red on your phone. you will open a cmd in the same way as adb and will type fastboot devices just live adb to make sure you are attached.
the rest is explained in the op of that thread
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Flashing Multiroms special Twrp recovery

Hi there,
I want To flash the recovery needed for the multirom mod, but i'm not sure how To do it. in the multirom thread i can download the recovery but its a ZIP file.
I did also installed cwm and normal twrp before, but i did it through the terminal APP. I just placed an image file in the root of my SD and typed this Command:
su
cat /mnt/sdcard/recovery-6028.img >/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
sync
And it worked.
But in other thread i also saw this Command:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Where are the diffrences? Which one will work?
And one more, can i use all ADB Commands in thE terminal app? Does the terminal APP acces ADB like through fast Boot?
Thx for some help, hope my english is good enough ^_^
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noobiei5 said:
Hi there,
I want To flash the recovery needed for the multirom mod, but i'm not sure how To do it. in the multirom thread i can download the recovery but its a ZIP file.
I did also installed cwm and normal twrp before, but i did it through the terminal APP. I just placed an image file in the root of my SD and typed this Command:
su
cat /mnt/sdcard/recovery-6028.img >/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
sync
And it worked.
But in other thread i also saw this Command:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Where are the diffrences? Which one will work?
And one more, can i use all ADB Commands in thE terminal app? Does the terminal APP acces ADB like through fast Boot?
Thx for some help, hope my english is good enough ^_^
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You can flash the TWRP as a zip in CWM/TWRP or whichever recovery your using!
However if it doesn't work, Boot to boot loader/fastboot, theres a thread on this, put the TWRP recovery.img in the directory with the adb and fastboot.exe's, make sure you have drivers installed, and do this command when in fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery [Name of recovery].img
Check the multirom thread, i have a tutorial posted :3

Oh man !
So easy, can't believe xD
Ty for the other step by step guide, but isn't it the same as if i extract the Boot.IMG, Place it on root and type one oft the commands above?
But THX anyways for the fast answear
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