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Root Can someone help, noob and problems flashing recovery

Ok, let's try one more thing.

Instead of
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin

Type
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin

Then continue with:

chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I don't need donations though. ;) It's what I'm here for!

(oh, and make sure you're still at the # prompt when you're typing this)
 
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Ok, I really apologize... I'm helping like 8 different people at once and it's getting late... I mistyped that command once again. Reboot your phone and go back into the shell (adb shell, then su, make sure you're at the # prompt)

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

Make sure to type them exactly! I triple-checked the commands this time and they're correct.

I think you typed it wrong as well though, you probably left out the > character and that's what caused all the scrolling, but I also left out a part as well, so both our faults. ;)
 
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# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
#

no errors! does that mean it worked? or more? do i just exit terminal and reboot phone now or am i just too excited and jumping the gun
 
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I recently rooted my phone using the kaosfroyo zip file and i wanted to return my phone back to the original 100% stock form. here are the steps i used to get to the point to where i am stuck

This must be done from a PC with Fastboot, which comes with windows. Linux/Mac users will have to find it and compile it. You will need to have Amon's recovery image installed to use this downgrade, at the end we will overwrite his image with the stock one.

Inside unzipme.zip are three files

downgrade.zip md5sum: c440c87f1e67f4b62e05da0d255e80e9
-Do not unzip/open/alter this file
--Contains your kernel, radio firmware, and system.

recovery.img md5sum: 71a4b633bdb32de9dcdd8953fef43cdc
--stock recovery image

hboot.nb0 md5sum: 38899da4e5e002e3be22900f5f4eb6f7
--Original bootloader

Step one:
Put hboot.nb0 and recovery.img in the tools dir of your sdk.
Put downgrade.zip on the sdcard of your phone

Step two:
Turn your phone off, then turn it back on holding the power button (red) and send button (green). Once in the boot loader press volume down, then volume up to get to Amon's recovery image. Go to wipe, wipe dalvik cache, and do a factory reset (aka wipe data). Then choose flash zip from sdcard, and flash downgrade.zip. The phone will flash the kernel, and system softare, then ask you to reboot. Let it reboot so it can flash the radio, it will restart back in the recovery image. You can power down your phone now.

At this point if your just wanted 1.5 back, you are done.

If you want the original bootloader and recovery image, (ie 100% stock) continue on.

Step three:
Plug your phone into your PC. Power your phone on using the power button (red) and send button (green). Your phone should now be sitting back at the bootloader screen and say FASTBOOT USB. Now on your PC, go to the sdk tools dir in command line. Issue this command

Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Let it flash, when done wait a minute (just to make sure).

Then issue this command

Code:
fastboot flash hboot hboot.nb0
Once this is done, wait a minute then pull your battery and restart your phone.

You are now back at factory stock.

The part that I am stuck at is when it says to issue the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and the next command for "hboot.nb0"

I do this and it starts then says the following

sending ' recovery' (2004 kb)...
FAILED (remote: not allow)
finished. total time: 0.002s

I get this error for both the recovery.img command and the hboot.nb0 command. can someone please help me so i can return to stock phone and get my android 2.2 stock back. PLEASE

Along with this the 1.5 tries to update it reboots after update is downloaded and fails saying

E: No signature (689 files)
E: Verification Failed
Installation aborted
 
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I recently rooted my phone using the kaosfroyo zip file and i wanted to return my phone back to the original 100% stock form. here are the steps i used to get to the point to where i am stuck

Forget what you are trying to do - it is way too hard. And, I think that you are rooted without an S-OFF bootloader, so that will not allow you to use fastboot.

Rather than that, download the Flashback21_v2 ROM from here: [ROM][03/06/2011]FlashBack21 v2 -Return to Factory Stock - March 2011 OTA - xda-developers (the one without the radio is fine) and flash it just like you did KF. In other words:

- make sure your battery is well-charged. Over 60% should be fine.
- restart the phone in Recovery
- backup/restore menu
- Nandroid backup (just in case)
- VolDn to go back to main menu
- Wipe menu
- Wipe data/factory reset
- Wipe Dalvik cache
- VolDn to go back to main menu
- Flash a zip menu
- Choose Flashback
- When done, reboot the phone
 
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