Root Recovery for commando

[getitnowmarketing]

Just an fyi I released the recovery for commando. Be sure to read the notes and the post here on the interesting security on commando

http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/330813-all-one-recovery-thread.html

 

[jova33]

What exactly is recovery for? And if the commando is screwed up to a point, you can't boot into recovery to fix it.

 

[getitnowmarketing]

What exactly is recovery for? And if the commando is screwed up to a point, you can't boot into recovery to fix it.

Its required to flash a custom rom. Maybe now we will see some roms pop up for commando.

 

[paxchristos]

What exactly is recovery for? And if the commando is screwed up to a point, you can't boot into recovery to fix it.

If someone makes a nandroid backup before futzing with their phone, it can save you alot of pain if you screw it up...

 

[jova33]

Ok, well I'm a n00b to smart phones, with this being my first one. What benefits come from a custom ROM? And if you can't boot into recovery, what good is a backup?

 

[Rafael]

Any chance of finding a 2.2.1 recovery for commando?

2.3.3 is slow and more bloated than ever, VERY slow even after rooting and stripping it down.

I would love to go back to 2.2.1!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rafael]

Thank you for this!!!!!!!

 

[jova33]

Ok, in instructions for alot of things I'm seeing, if you mess up, you may have to reboot into recovery and reflash your ROM. If you can't reboot into recovery, then how can you reflash your ROM?

 

[rjglenn]

Thank you for this!!!!!!!

Rafael:

Have you installed the recovery? If so, can you actually do anything with it - i.e how do you select anything from the recovery menu?

The stock recovery, such as it is, is useless because there aren't any buttons that select anything.

 

[matt8508]

anyone try this yet...would really like to see a ROM for this phone

 

[4DAIVI PAI2K5]

Commando:
There is no known way to boot recovery from device powered off. To enter recovery its adb reboot recovery or use many of the apps from market to reboot into recovery. This means that if you flash a bad rom or boot.img you cannot enter recovery to fix and will have to get a new phone. Be carefull!!! You have been warned.

So can this be used on the commando or not?

 

[rjglenn]

It can in theory, with great risk...

Being able to boot to recovery from off gives us the ability to fix almost anything we do to the phone. Since the Commando doesn't allow this, you have to boot to recovery from a powered on state. If you really screw the phone up (like with a failed rom installation or a corrupted libaudioflinger.so file), you won't be able to do boot into recovery and will have a paperweight.

That being said, has anyone been able to get this installed? installed-recovery.sh does not exist anywhere on my phone. Flash_image does not download as a zip, it has no extension. Adb will not move it because it says it does not exist. The flash_image from the older version does download as a zip and it can be moved. Since its 60 kb smaller I don't think it is the right file. Trying to flash from adb gives a single error, flashing from terminal gives a screen full of errors and then says it failed.

I hope I am just doing something wrong...

 

[Rafael]

Rafael:

Have you installed the recovery? If so, can you actually do anything with it - i.e how do you select anything from the recovery menu?

The stock recovery, such as it is, is useless because there aren't any buttons that select anything.

No sir. Not tried....yet.

I plan to do some more reading......am still not sure how to do it or what I need.

If you can't do it I am pretty sure I have zero chance of success.

 

[Rafael]

rjglenn;

When I thanked the author I had not yet read through the thread.
I was thanking them for making progress.

Now that I have tried to understand the "instructions", I realize I have no idea what part of that post is instruction and what part is just general discussion.

I am sure I am not up to the task because, to me, that post may as well be a foreign language. I have no idea what the author is talking about.

My phone lacks the file you mentioned as well.

 

[Rafael]

It can in theory, with great risk...

Being able to boot to recovery from off gives us the ability to fix almost anything we do to the phone. Since the Commando doesn't allow this, you have to boot to recovery from a powered on state. If you really screw the phone up (like with a failed rom installation or a corrupted libaudioflinger.so file), you won't be able to do boot into recovery and will have a paperweight.

That being said, has anyone been able to get this installed? installed-recovery.sh does not exist anywhere on my phone. Flash_image does not download as a zip, it has no extension. Adb will not move it because it says it does not exist. The flash_image from the older version does download as a zip and it can be moved. Since its 60 kb smaller I don't think it is the right file. Trying to flash from adb gives a single error, flashing from terminal gives a screen full of errors and then says it failed.

I hope I am just doing something wrong...

Correction!

installed-recovery.sh does exist on my 2.3.3 Commando, just where the instructions say:
In the /system/etc folder.

What is this /dev/block/mtdblock2? Is it a folder or a file?

 

[rjglenn]

My phone does not have it. I do not know why. The mtdblocks are flash memory or how memory is managed in a linux device.

 

[Rafael]

You want a copy of mine?

 

[rjglenn]

No, I don't think I need it. The directions call for the renaming of it anyhow. I just wonder why I don't have one in the first palce.

 

[getitnowmarketing]

Correction!

installed-recovery.sh does exist on my 2.3.3 Commando, just where the instructions say:
In the /system/etc folder.

What is this /dev/block/mtdblock2? Is it a folder or a file?

Install-recovery.sh is an evil script that will overwrite recovery with the stock one. That file only exists on phones that have done an OTA update. Like the directions state if its not found move on. If it there it has to be removed.

 

[jova33]

So anyways, for those of us not so tech savvy, when will we see custom roms and will it be easy to install them? I mean it took me like 45 mins just to root 2.3.3

 

[getitnowmarketing]

I updated the install of recovery to make it easier via a script. See 1st post in thread linked above and of course it requires root to do.

 

[rjglenn]

Recovery installed and working on my Commando.

 

[Rico ANDROID]

...heh heh.. (oh)... THAT..commando...

Spoiler

.........oops, my bad....

 

[rjglenn]

Bawhahaha

 

[getitnowmarketing]

So anyways, for those of us not so tech savvy, when will we see custom roms and will it be easy to install them? I mean it took me like 45 mins just to root 2.3.3

Now that I gave you guys that ability its up to the commando community to make the roms.