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Root [CWM] Development Thread

uhhh dont you know what partition that is?

part of porting cwm is setting up the fstab, which tells recovery what partitions are what, an incorrect one could have you formatting your bootloader thinking it was data or cache...

you can get it in teh stock recovery when you unpack the img
 
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uhhh dont you know what partition that is?

part of porting cwm is setting up the fstab, which tells recovery what partitions are what, an incorrect one could have you formatting your bootloader thinking it was data or cache...

you can get it in teh stock recovery when you unpack the img

That's what I did, I unpacked the stock recovery and took the recovery.fstab then added it to the builder thing
 
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ah ok, recovery should be listed in there, i dont think many here will know what partition it resides on :)

Would this help

Code:
# mount point	fstype		device			[device2]

/boot		mtd		boot
/cache		yaffs2		cache
/data		yaffs2		userdata
/misc		mtd		misc
/recovery	mtd		recovery
/sdcard		vfat		/dev/block/mmcblk0p1	/dev/block/mmcblk0
/system		yaffs2		system
 
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i seriously hope that isnt the true fstab, if someone with the device can do adb shell mount that will tell you where data and system reside and see. i wouldnt put it past them to use such an old (*&^ty setup, but is there a fstab emmc in the etc folder in teh recovery.img as well?

That is the fstab for the stock recovery.img and there's no fstab emmc in there
 
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Dam, so in your words what does this mean;)

this phone is even crappier than originally thought :p

but this means that flashing recovery should be a lot easier, since its mtd you can just use flash_image to flash it, no partition needed it will figure it on its own :)

i did cwm for teh venture and they had to do the similar steps someone found a much easier way to flash for the end users, might wanna look into it

virgin mobile venture btw on these forums
 
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this phone is even crappier than originally thought :p

but this means that flashing recovery should be a lot easier, since its mtd you can just use flash_image to flash it, no partition needed it will figure it on its own :)

i did cwm for teh venture and they had to do the similar steps someone found a much easier way to flash for the end users, might wanna look into it

virgin mobile venture btw on these forums

Alright bud thanks for the info and help. Imma look into this some more;)
 
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So I was wrong and I have to update the Koush's CWM 5.x.x.x script to work with the new compilers. It's terrific... I hate that the phone has no ICS update!
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Would this help (it contains some dev things which i dont fully understand)

So I was wrong and I have to update the Koush's CWM 5.x.x.x script to work with the new compilers. It's terrific... I hate that the phone has no ICS update!

What needs to happen next? I don't know what to do with the zip package, but I can do compiling if it's spelled out for me. I'd be glad to help if I can...I just don't have much experience in this area.
 
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