[elbeee]

Thanks Paul for the quick reply!

I'll try them all tonight!

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[simonb29]

Paul, on Oct 15 2009, 10:29, said:

This is a custom recovery image based on Cyanogen's v1.4 recovery. The purpose of this recovery is to avoid using adb by accessing all features directly from the menu.
...
Features include:
* Partition SD-card : 500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32

Can this be changed to Partition SD-card : 500MB Ext2, remaining Fat32 so the MCR can be installed.

I keep reading

Quote

Fixed issue with A2SD and SD card mount. You must NOT have a swap partition on your SD!

I am really struggling to put the ext2 partition on my SD.

Can someone explain what the Swap partition is for?

Thanks,

[demusss]

simonb29, on Oct 28 2009, 21:14, said:

Can someone explain what the Swap partition is for?

Thanks,

Simon, the swap partition is used to help your system run faster. When your system runs out of physical RAM during operations, it uses the swap partition as RAM and writes little bits of stuff that is currently in RAM, but not needed, to the swap partition. This allows you to run more programs at once.



Paul,

As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions?

Thanks
Anthony

[joners]

demusss, on Nov 14 2009, 00:59, said:

Simon, the swap partition is used to help your system run faster. When your system runs out of physical RAM during operations, it uses the swap partition as RAM and writes little bits of stuff that is currently in RAM, but not needed, to the swap partition. This allows you to run more programs at once.
Paul,

As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions?

Thanks
Anthony

Hi now that we have the kernel source efforts are being made to make linux swap work, so i doubt that this request would be filled.

well i think thats the way they would play it! lol

[bas-r]

demusss, on Nov 14 2009, 01:59, said:

Paul,

As the current modaco rom doesnt like swap partitions, any chance of adding another partition option to create just ext2 and fat32 partitions?

Thanks
Anthony

Same question here, would it be possible to make a partition option as to make it work well with the Modaco rom & use the A2SD proper, say 1,5GB fat32 and 0,5GB ext2?

[Aton]

Hi,

how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image?

[kevwright]

Aton, on Nov 15 2009, 18:33, said:

Hi,

how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image?

Did you ever find out this, gotta return my to the shop and if they do a data clear this will give the game away :-)


Kev

[geHuC]

Hi,

New Pulse owner here I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary)

[mapero]

geHuC, on Nov 20 2009, 01:36, said:

Hi,

New Pulse owner here I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary)

Ur phone is in bootloader (blue screen)?

[geHuC]

Yup :S

[niko1986]

geHuC, on Nov 20 2009, 00:36, said:

Hi,

New Pulse owner here I'm trying to do do a Nandroid backup but when i start the install-recovery-windows.bat i pops up a terminal window and says "waiting for device" forever :S I'm using Win7 :/ also i haven't rooted my phone (not sure if it's necessary)

I solved my exact same issue

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...7/#entry1117727

This post has been edited by niko1986: 28 November 2009 - 12:55 AM

[martinmax]

Aton, on Nov 15 2009, 18:33, said:

Hi,

how can I reverse the process and uninstall the recovery image?

I also need to backup to stock , Paul or someone help please !!!

[Nikki Locke]

Paul, on Oct 15 2009, 10:29, said:

- Download the Superboot zip file and extract to a directory
- Put your device in bootloader mode - turn if off, then tap the powerbutton while holding the 'Volume Down' and 'End (Red)' keys
- WINDOWS - double click 'install-recovery-windows.bat'

...

We haven't yet found the key combination for starting recovery mode from power-off on the device, so you have to enter recovery by doing either 'adb reboot recovery' or by installing 'Quick Boot' from the market (which is also included in my superboot solution).

I followed the instructions (having first copied AdbWinApi.dll into the 1.1-pulse-superboot folder created by the zip file).

I had to disconnect the USB cable before I could start the machine in bootloader mode, because it seemd to boot by itself before I could press the requisite keys if the cable was connected.

It started into a screen which said USB FastBoot: V0.5, so I reconnected the USB cable and started the Windows batch file.

Very quickly it seemed to finish. The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY

I then took the battery out and put it back in again (is this the only way to get it out of USB FastBoot?).

I then went into Quick Boot (which seemed to have been installed), and pressed the Recovery button.

I got a page which said "/system/bin/sh Wants to run:/system/bin/sh as root:root" - I pressed the "Allow" button.

The phone started booting, and a message "can't access /cache/" <something - couldn't read it> flashed up.

The phone seemed to boot normally then. Is this working as designed?
If so, how do I get into this recovery mode to do a nandroid backup?
If not, what do I do now?

BTW, I repeated the whole process again from the start, just to make sure, and it made no difference.

[swatcheez]

I know nothing but what I have read in the 3 topics about custom ROMs and this recovery mode.

Am I right to say that I need to partition the SD card to reap the benefits of the custom ROM I have just installed (apps2sd), and I would be able to do that using the recovery image, but for the fact that it puts a swap partition as well?

So is there a simple way of partitioning my SD card without using alternative OS on my laptop to my xp (or vista on my other one if needs be)

[niko1986]

swatcheez, on Dec 2 2009, 16:55, said:

I know nothing but what I have read in the 3 topics about custom ROMs and this recovery mode.

Am I right to say that I need to partition the SD card to reap the benefits of the custom ROM I have just installed (apps2sd), and I would be able to do that using the recovery image, but for the fact that it puts a swap partition as well?

So is there a simple way of partitioning my SD card without using alternative OS on my laptop to my xp (or vista on my other one if needs be)

Your going to have to use something like gparted. Download the live cd from here burn it and pop it in ur pc and restart, then partition ur card through that. It is a hassle but it is fairly easy to use.

[rjm2k]

Hi all and thanks for all the info on customising my Pulse! First Android phone for me, got it for £137 at the weekend. I just did my nandroid backup in order to start investigating whether or not the radio rom is in there and whether or not a simlock workaround can be done, not very hopefuly tbh because of little time and motivation but who knows. Just thought I'd mention that rather than install the modified recover image (thereby updating my pulse) I used the boot option

fastboot-windows.exe boot recovery-RA-pulse-v1.2.3.img

This seemed to download the patched recovery image and booted it ok but I assume didn't actually flash the recovery image so the original is still there. I will be waiting for the newer versions of Android to be made available before I change anything.

[joners]

Hi,

Are there any plans to update the recovery image? Amon-RA recovery is now up to version 1.5 with the Dream, it has some great new features in it that would be great to have.

See here!

http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=566669

Thanks,

J

[PaulOBrien]

Ask Amon_RA that question!

P

[shuangg]

>>sdparted v0.5.3 : enter "sdparted" to start.
this tool is very easy to use (from adb shell), I partitioned my 2g SD to 500M ext4, rest FAT32 no swap

[Amdathlonuk]

Where can I get a copy of the Recovery from?

I see it's not attached to this thread?

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