Root Custom recovery on x!!!!!!!

bosox2k1 · Aug 18, 2010

droider13 said:
And now I just restored my backup just for fun

How does one go about doing this? Mind explaining in idiot terminology?

D13 · Aug 18, 2010

hdokes said:
Where would one find this handy app? I searched on android market but did not find there. Can one provide a link?

I put the link in the OP

bosox2k1 said:
How does one go about doing this? Mind explaining in idiot terminology?

Install it
open it
press bootstrap recovery
done

Now if you want to make a backup press reboot recovery and then when you get there use the camera up+down buttons to scroll and the camera button to select and the power button to go back

If you ever get in trouble and your phone won't boot then do a battery pull and it will boot you into recovery

mezdup · Aug 18, 2010

hdokes said:
Where would one find this handy app? I searched on android market but did not find there. Can one provide a link?

http://koush.tandtgaming.com//motorola/droidx/DroidXBootstrap.apk

bosox2k1 · Aug 18, 2010

droider13 said:
I put the link in the OP

Install it
open it
press bootstrap recovery
done

Now if you want to make a backup press reboot recovery and then when you get there use the camera up+down buttons to scroll and the camera button to select and the power button to go back

If you ever get in trouble and your phone won't boot then do a battery pull and it will boot you into recovery

So if i do the reboot recovery, is there certain options I should choose over others? Can I easily get back into normal phone mode by just turning it off and on again?

Also, the whole battery pull method--what if I take my battery out to do something to my sd card, if it boots into recovery mode, is it easy to rectify and just reboot into "normal mode".

Sorry for the, maybe pointless, questions, I just want to get some things clarified before I start doing this. First smartphone and never realized all this stuff was possible.

budd1983 · Aug 18, 2010

Do i need titanium backup anymore now that i have bootstrap?

bosox2k1 · Aug 18, 2010

It says something about the logwrapper, logwrapper.bin and another file must be there or we are screwed.

What could I have done to remove those files? Is it safe to assume that they are still there and I did nothing to them---but then again, I really don't know. Basically, would I have to know exactly what I am doing to have somehow removed those files?

Really, thanks so much for the help to everyone.

Fabolous · Aug 18, 2010

Any brave REVOlution users can try the custom font

Obviously, it works. I was brave enough to try , heh.

Evolution_Font.zip

Put it on the root of your sdcard, select install .zip from sd card, choose the file, and go

uknowme3331 · Aug 18, 2010

how long until we have actual roms for this thing? any guesses?

hdokes · Aug 19, 2010

In the words of "the King"..... Oh man.... I can not believe it! Somebody toss me some biscuits and gravy! ..... Backing up my x right now.... It's like a fix.... now I can hardly wait for 2.2!!!!

Fabolous · Aug 19, 2010

uknowme3331 said:
how long until we have actual roms for this thing? any guesses?

I have the entire system from the dev phone...but I'm too afraid to try to flash it, lol.

uknowme3331 · Aug 19, 2010

Fabolous said:
I have the entire system from the dev phone...but I'm too afraid to try to flash it, lol.

lol i don't blame ya....if it worked though it would be amazing

bosox2k1 · Aug 19, 2010

Fabolous said:
I have the entire system from the dev phone...but I'm too afraid to try to flash it, lol.

Now that this bootstrap has been released, isn't it safe to try? Or if that doesn't work then the SBF would work, right?

Fabolous · Aug 19, 2010

bosox2k1 said:
Now that this bootstrap has been released, isn't it safe to try? Or if that doesn't work then the SBF would work, right?

Yeah, if it fails, then I'll have to SBF back to stock, root it, reinstall Clockwork, and I can nandroid back to my backup.

It's just a matter of making the updater-script and packing the .zip with the dev phone files.

Maybe I'll try it, but I've never used RSDLite before....

bosox2k1 · Aug 19, 2010

Pardon my ignorance but what does nandroid back to your backup mean?

I was under the impression that if bootstrap failed b/c the phone was trashed, you'd have to SBF it, re-root, download bootstrap again--then go back into recovery and then just hit restore since it was backed up to sd card (at least i thought). From reading your previous post--that seems like a no.

Fabolous · Aug 19, 2010

bosox2k1 said:
Pardon my ignorance but what does nandroid back to your backup mean?

I was under the impression that if bootstrap failed b/c the phone was trashed, you'd have to SBF it, re-root, download bootstrap again--then go back into recovery and then just hit restore since it was backed up to sd card (at least i thought). From reading your previous post--that seems like a no.

It means exactly what you just posted.

Nandroid is the mechanism by which we make and restore our backups.

Retrokid223 · Aug 19, 2010

Fabolous said:
Yeah, if it fails, then I'll have to SBF back to stock, root it, reinstall Clockwork, and I can nandroid back to my backup.

It's just a matter of making the updater-script and packing the .zip with the dev phone files.

Maybe I'll try it, but I've never used RSDLite before....

u never used RSDLite o_0

Fabolous · Aug 19, 2010

I just thought more about loading the dev phone /system files but it's not going to work.

It needs a Froyo kernel (doh!). Lol, can't believe I forgot about that.

Until a build of Froyo is modified to run on our 2.1 kernel, OR, we figure out how to flash the kernel, we'll have to wait.

Retrokid223 said:
u never used RSDLite o_0

Yeah, I've never had my phone in a situation where I couldn't fix it with recovery (Droid 1), or unbootable (Droid 2)

hdokes · Aug 19, 2010

First observations/feedback:

Performed a backup. Had the following errors:

1. E: Can't open /tmp/recovery.log
2. No /sdcard/android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
3. No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
4. Backup complete
5. E: Can't open /tmp/recovery.log

Is there the potential of a secondary sd card besides the one contained within?
Should there be a recovery log in the tmp directory? The directory exists however there is nothing within.

Backed up images of the cache, data, and system seem to be intact.

paul89 · Aug 19, 2010

hdokes said:
First observations/feedback:

Performed a backup. Had the following errors:

1. E: Can't open /tmp/recovery.log
2. No /sdcard/zandroid_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
3. No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
4. Backup complete
5. E: Can't open /tmp/recovery.log

Is there the potential of a secondary sd card besides the one contained within?
Should there be a recovery log in the tmp directory? The directory exists however there is nothing within.

Backed up images of the cache, data, and system seem to be intact.

there are no errors. it is simply saying that you do not have apps2sd

hdokes · Aug 19, 2010

Cool! I figured the big 'E' probably stood for .... oh ... I don't know... perhaps... 'Error'?

If I understand you correctly, as the 2.1 does not allow for apps to run from the sdcard.... there are none to be 'backed up'.... correct?

BoLTroid · Aug 19, 2010

soooo, now that this is out, and X has been successfully rooted...

What does this mean for the OTA rollout of Froyo 2.2 in Sept by the big VZ?

Should I...

1) Wait for the Froyo rollout, and then root, & recover, and theme, and rom?

or

2) Root, Recover, Theme, ROM up....now?
a) And what does this mean if I do it now, and then the OTA rolls out? Do I accept the OTA, by unrooting, unrecovering, etc? Or just completely ignore the OTA?

Could use some valuable advice, thanks guys!

p.s. I WOULD be doing this on my Mac, using Terminal. (or whatever I need to do on the computer)

dB Zac · Aug 19, 2010

anaphora68 said:
I'll say this. I'm hoping, beyond hope, that Birdman and Rainabba can get over their differences with Koush and release the 2.2 ROM they've been working on.

Past that, I just ran a Nandroid backup...

I wasn't aware of bad blood, whats the 411 on that

paul89 · Aug 19, 2010

hdokes said:
Cool! I figured the big 'E' probably stood for .... oh ... I don't know... perhaps... 'Error'?

If I understand you correctly, as the 2.1 does not allow for apps to run from the sdcard.... there are none to be 'backed up'.... correct?

yes and if we had custom roms and kernels too then we would have apps2sd without the need for 2.2

JrzDroid · Aug 19, 2010

i wanna do all that crazy stuff like deoDEX, use app inventor, cook roms and stuff
i have no fear when it comes to technology
i also wanna be a cool Phone Guide and be all green

sodaboy581 · Aug 19, 2010

I know how everybody wants Froyo now, but what I think would be cool for me (until Froyo comes out), is just as close to a stock Android 2.1 ROM as possible.

Root Custom recovery on x!!!!!!!

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