First of all, this is for *rooted phones ONLY*.
OK, you should have 2 files (flash_image, recovery-0.99.2b.img) on the root of your sdcard. You can unplug your DROID and do the rest "unplugged".
- Open up
Terminal Emulator (or a like app) on your DROID.
Move the flash_image binary from the sdcard into /data/local:
su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# dd if=/sdcard/flash_image of=/data/local/flash_image
# chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
# rm /sdcard/flash_image
Flash the image to the recovery partition:
# /data/local/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-0.99.2b.img
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(NOTE: You ONLY need to do these next steps of renaming files if you bought your Droid
BEFORE 2.0.1 was out and you updated TO 2.0.1 at some point. If your Droid
CAME with 2.0.1, you don’t need to do this step (the files won’t exist).)
Now, if you want to keep this recovery image installed (which most of you do), you must follow a few extra steps, as Android normally generates and reflashes the recovery image based on the boot image every time you turn on the phone. To change this, run:
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/null /system
# mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.p.bak
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
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# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# sync
That's it. Just exit out of the Terminal Emulator (Menu key > Reset Term)
And turn your phone OFF.
Boot into Recovery Mode (Hold 'X' on the hardware keyboard, the press the power button until you see the Motorola logo, let go.)
Now you should see an entirely different Recovery Console menu. At the top it should read:
Android system recovery <2e>
Patched by SirPsychoS (0.99.2b)
From there, you can do nandroid backups, restores, ROM installations . . . all kinds of neato groovy things!
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