Root Clockwork/Amon RA PC36IMG Files

Just a quick question, can I use my RA 2.2.1 nandroids with the new RA 2.3?

Good so it should be safe to flash this through hboot, I'm just going to make sure that I am the backup I want to keep for now just incase.

Thanks alot guys. I was thinking maybe I should make 1 backup of only my wimax so I'll never have to worry about losing it and then just do the boot, system, and data anytime I need to do a nand backup. Or I guess it wont hurt to just do it everytime either lol

Sorry about quoting the post this way, just wasn't sure if I could pull just what I wanted to quote from the start of the thread. Thank you all for your help and patience with my noob like self.

First thing - Amon RA 2.3 was released this afternoon. I have uploaded the PC36IMG.zip to the mediafire folder. This one I got directly from the RA thread, courtesy of Tiffany84 at XDA. These guys are too fast for me . Here is the change log:


Quote:


-Nandroid will skip sd-ext backup when it's not present.

-Nandroid will not check the battery percentage anymore.

-Switched off signature check by default (Stop asking now, ok?).

-Cache is not selected as part of a default Nandroid backup anymore.

-Added wipe Boot, System and sdcard to the wipe menu.

-Re-ordered some items in the wipe menu.

-Switched to a CM android-msm-2.6.35-unified kernel (should stop the endless dots).


As of 4:30 PST, I don't see this in ROM manager yet, so if you want this, this is the place to get it, for now.


Second thing - I have uploaded a flashable zip for flash_image. flash_image is a command line tool used from the terminal emulator (or a remote terminal as the case may be) to flash images to various partitions. If you want to flash any of the provided images here, but want to save time, Follow these steps to do so:


1) Verify you don't already have flash_image (open terminal and type "which flash_image". If it just says not found, you need to flash it. If it gives you a location (most likely /system/bin/flash_image) your ROM already has this, and you can skip to step 4.

2) Flash flash_image-signed.zip from recovery.

3) Reboot normally when done.

4) Extract recovery.img from the PC36IMG.zip for the recovery you want

5) Copy recovery.img to the root of your sdcard

6) From the terminal type:


su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img


Once you reboot into recovery, you'll have whatever recovery you just flashed. Note that steps one and two only have to be done once.

I apologize if I'm posting this to the wrong place but a quick question. I've been trying to flash the "flash image zip" mentioned above. I must be doing something wrong. I did read further in the post and saw a response saying to just put the whole zip to root. But I also see something that says to extract the recovery img and place it in the root folder, but in that zip are more than one file. am I just picking the wrong file? Or do I even need it if I haven't partitioned the sd card. Atm I'm rooted and it shows clockwork mod 2.6. But for some reason when I go into the terminal and type in the command I get permissions denied. I'm thnking I need to pull the flash_image file that's buried in the zip and put "that on the card. Maybe I'm blind (its been known to happen) but if that's so what's the file's name?

I thought 2.3 was released about a month ago?

Well I downloaded one of each that you had posted waay back at the beginning of this thing. I was wondering though, there's mention of a change in the code? I'm not much of a coder or anything, but as my wife will tell ya, can't help but messin' with stuff When I rooted the thing I was able to get root and it was clockwork 3.0. something happened though, the phone started acting strange. i re-rooted it and it "stuck". But for some reason it went from 3.0 to 2.6, seemed weird to me. You also talk about google changing there coding language? If everybody has to change their roms and whatnot in the future to utilize this language, is there some way to go around this deal where i won't haven some kind of an issue the future? That's what I thought would be the deal when i saw clockwork 3.0 on my phone. I've run Ubuntu on my laptop for a awhile so I have a faint idea of what open source is like.Bu I've seen some videos of Roms and whatnot that people are running on this thing and they're really nice. I'm not some intense pc/smartphone guy. But I'll be damned if I'm not gonna do my best to get my money's worth out of this thing would you happen to have any advice for a rom and kernel set-up that's dependable and fast?

@ akazabam. Thanks for the info. Got the recovery deal to work per your advice. Used the easier of the two methods you told me. Also thank you for the info on the 3.0 vs. 2.6 issue. I went with the amon ra 2.3 recovery. With the thought that it being a more recent release it would take the code deal into account. Not sure if my thinking is correct or not on that.

ok noob here but ya, tried all the steps, copy, rename, reboot hboot, finds zip but never asks to flash. Running clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 and cant seem to get rid of it no matter what. tried alt recovery thru rom manager and rom manager says its running alt recovery but when i roboot it always says clockwork. I cannot install any other roms. HELP

did you make sure to name it exactly PC36IMG.zip and didnt by accident add another .zip at the end of it?

that is the most common mistake, i swear i have pointed that out to at least 5 people and they had all named it .zip.zip lol because their file extensions are hidden.

I dont think hboot would have found it though if it wasnt named properly...

evomattnc said:

that is the most common mistake, i swear i have pointed that out to at least 5 people and they had all named it .zip.zip lol because their file extensions are hidden.

I dont think hboot would have found it though if it wasnt named properly...

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made sure of that. the first time before my help post I did have the .zip.zip but than corrected it and still it never askes me to flash. and no matter what I get clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 and I cannot flash new roms. I have tried all of the tips and clockworkmod is still there. It wont go away. is there anyway to nuk everything and start for scratch?

akazabam said:

Are you using the stock sdcard or a different one?

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stock sdcard

akazabam said:

Maybe a silly question, but you do have S-OFF, right?

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Not a silly question. Now that u mention it i noted in hboot it said s-on. How do i change that.

akazabam said:

Maybe a silly question, but you do have S-OFF, right?

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Not a silly question. Now that u mention it i noted in hboot it said s-on. How do i change that. And what is it

If you were rooted before, then something you did unrooted you. You will have to rerun unrevoked. Try that first.

The security on your phone that keeps you from making changes to it is turned back up. You need to get s-off through unrevoked before you can change anything

I am now using this recovery...Will the nandroid backups that I made before flashing this still work?

ClockwordMod backups will not work with Amon RA, and vice versa.