Root CWM beta

[junkie2100]

this is an unfinished copy of cwm, tested to be almost completely functional

standard warnings apply, use at your own risk, you try to blame me for breaking your phone i will laugh at you

instructions:
fastboot method is possible, but i will go through the terminal/adb method

download the recovery file, and put it on the root of your sd. no folders, just directly on the sd

get your phone rooted and get a copy of terminal emulator or connect to it through adb on your computer, adb will require zte drivers and the adb program on the pc. the choice is yours

fire up adb by typing

adb shell

in the command prompt, if its not working you dont have adb in the directory youre in, just copy adb.exe and the two .dll files to c:\windows\system32\ and itll work from anywhere, or learn how command prompt works
or fire up terminal emulator on the phone

on adb shell or terminal emulator type

su
dd if=/sdcard/flash_cwm_test2.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

you will then need to run

reboot recovery

and then hit reboot when cwm comes up, if it asks to disable recovery flashing press yes or it will put stock recovery back next time the rom boots


known bugs:
unmounting doesnt work


downloads:
http://www.4shared.com/file/2qBR2Kfr/flash_cwm_test2.html

i apologize for it being 4shared, if someone wants to make a mirror ill put it up

 

[junkie2100]

now we just need a flashable zip of stock, and some custom roms. thats on you guys, ive opened the door but i cant do alot more for you right now

 

[stevestone]

Thank brother

I dont own this device but i sold some.. I have tested your recovery it works. lets see if someone comes up with anything. I had a nandroid backup of it.. will try to upload it..

 

[junkie2100]

Thank brother

I dont own this device but i sold some.. I have tested your recovery it works. lets see if someone comes up with anything. I had a nandroid backup of it.. will try to upload it..

it would be greatly appreciated, just need the system portion of the backup you can leave out the data part. and make sure to get both parts of the tar. one is a map, the other holds the actual files. individually theyre kinda useless

once we have that, we can find someone computer savvy with a decent enough internet connection to toss that and the boot.img into android kitchen, make it flashable, upload it, and then from there you guys can tinker with that and custom roms will come

 

[junkie2100]

ill go through the fastboot/bootloader method for you guys, for those of you who cant get it flashed via terminal

this will not require root, but may require manually fixing drivers. the instructions for that can be found in the warp sequent section. manually fixing adb drivers i believe i called it just remember if its not in boorloader/fastboot mode and plugged in you cant fix the drivers for it

anyway, heres the instructions

get an adb connection, terminal emulator, or a program like rebooter

for adb type

adb reboot bootloader

for terminal emulator

reboot bootloader

and if you get a program like rebooter you run it then hit the bootloader button

then once youre in bootloader mode the phone will appear to be frozen on the black background with the green android guy

it is at this point youll want to check and fix the fastboot drivers, as well as make sure you have the fastboot program, works the same as adb

once its all ready you will want to have the cwm img file in the same directory youre working in on command prompt, if you dont understand that learn more about command prompt so you can use it effectively

type

fastboot flash recovery cwm.img

substitute "cwm.img" for the name of the img file

then youll want to use

fastboot boot cwm.img

substituting again obviously

that will make it load cwm, you can boot it wothout installing with this command but next time you load recovery itll still have stock recovery, similarly the reason we do this command is to make sure stock rom doesnt delete cwm and put stock back

if cwm asks you to disable recovery flashing, say yes or you will lose cwm next time you boot the phone

hopefully this helps some people that have soft bricked

 

[admire123]

found it XD but yeah i did it without instructions and worked thanks dude is it alright if someone else edits your cwm to fix things like usb mount ?

 

[stevestone]

You should do it & send it to him. And so that he can update. And giv you credit for usb mounting

 

[junkie2100]

if you can get usb working that would be great. you are free to edit it all you like i do ask that if you fix it you share how tho

 

[stevestone]

Junkie help me to build zte vital recovery plz ..

 

[junkie2100]

i thought you guys had a recovery already. i can try and work on it later ill head over to the vital section and we can figure it all out there

 

[stevestone]

I tried.. The way you said for vital with dxida kitchen. But i failed got a blank screen.

 

[admire123]

i re flashed this on my new zte flash and now the unmounte works lol

 

[aimzzz]

YaY! I have a recovery now! Thank you for putting together flash_cwm_test2. Even a n00b like me can install it without screwing things up.

A question & a comment:

Question: I'm not sure what you meant when you said that unmounting doesn't work. Unmounting what?

Comment... just a FYI:
On many phones, including mine, the internal storage (usb storage app) is named sdcard. The actual SD card (external storage) is now called sdcard2. In phones set up this way, the flash_cwm_test2.img file has to be put into the sdcard folder (internal storage), not the external SD card. Otherwise it won't be found with the command:
dd if=/sdcard/flash_cwm_test2.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

Just for the heck of it, I left the img file on the SD card (sdcard2) & changed the command to dd if=/sdcard2/flash_cwm_test2.img .... It didn't work... the img file had to be in the sdcard folder (internal storage) with no change in your code command. If I'm not making sense, let me know & I'll try again

Edit:
Yikes! My comment sounds crazy! Let me know if you want me to try again

 

[junkie2100]

makes sense. itll be either /mnt/sdcard2 or /storage/sdcard2. but yea thank you

and if you dont know what im talking about when i say unmounting doesnt work... then it doesnt really apply to you so no nerd to worry. i will explain tho

in the mounts and storage menu you can moint and unmount everything, system, data, sd, etc. but unmounting is said to not work right

 

[aimzzz]

Where can I find the nandroid image? I want to copy it to PC.

 

[junkie2100]

sdcard in the clockworkmod folder, there is a backup folder, in that folder there is a seperate folder for each all numbered. time and date code but its wrong im sure. be aware if you change that folder name at all youll brake its md5 and have to manually repair it via adb shell commands so if you dont know how to do that dont rename the folders in backup

 

[aimzzz]

sdcard in the clockworkmod folder, there is a backup folder, in that folder there is a seperate folder for each all numbered. time and date code but its wrong im sure. be aware if you change that folder name at all youll brake its md5 and have to manually repair it via adb shell commands so if you dont know how to do that dont rename the folders in backup

I must have done something wrong-- there's no clockworkmod folder on sdcard or sdcard2. When I boot up, I do get the CWM bootscreen tho. I repeated the install. Here's a copy of the command prompt part. Any thoughts?

C:\Users\Amy>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
su
root@android:/ # dd if=/sdcard/flash_cwm_test2.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sd
cc.1/by-name/recovery
mg of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery <
14176+0 records in
14176+0 records out
7258112 bytes transferred in 3.408 secs (2129727 bytes/sec)
root@android:/ # reboot recovery
reboot recovery

C:\Users\Amy>

 

[junkie2100]

theres no clockworkmod folder??? there should be if youve made a backup. if youre trying to vopy it via adb shell tho capitalization matters and i dont think i have that right. at least the C is probably capitalized

 

[aimzzz]

theres no clockworkmod folder??? there should be if youve made a backup. if youre trying to vopy it via adb shell tho capitalization matters and i dont think i have that right. at least the C is probably capitalized

... if youve made a backup
UH OH...
I'm a total n00b / space cadet. I guess I had in mind that it would make a back-up when it installed. All is well now

Plz don't hate...

Maybe you can go have a good laugh now
Some of us must leave you shaking your head sometimes. ACH! It's all so embarrassing!

 

[junkie2100]

it happens man. if youve never used it you wouldnt know. i do shake my head alot believe me lol, but someone not knowing how cwm works because theyve never tried it before is nothing to really be ashamed of, you now know problem solved. simple stuff. its the people who cant follow directions, who make silly mistakes that should be common sense, that make me just go wtf...

 

[nsaxiom]

I got CWM installed, but I can't mount /sdcard, so I can't do a backup. Any ideas?

Update: I didn't have a physical sdcard in. I put one in and now it works.

 

[MyKidsAreTeens]

I've found benefit to the "no mount" issue, kept me from losing info I thought I'd moved.. Was a bit weird doing a reset and phone still had my info.. thanks again for your efforts!

 

[junkie2100]

there is no "no mount" issue... factory reset doesnt reset the sd, and yea cwm uses the external sd not the internal, i hate using the internal sd personally especially on phones that use fuse, because then your cwm backups use up the space you have to install applications, every backup would use up a large chunk of your data partition, at least 300mb with the most minimal of things, you really wanna lose 10% of your app storage every backup?

 

[aimzzz]

there is no "no mount" issue... factory reset doesnt reset the sd, and yea cwm uses the external sd not the internal, i hate using the internal sd personally especially on phones that use fuse, because then your cwm backups use up the space you have to install applications, every backup would use up a large chunk of your data partition, at least 300mb with the most minimal of things, you really wanna lose 10% of your app storage every backup?

My clockworkmod folder & the backups went onto the external sd (sdcard2). I didn't change anything or physically move the backup.

I agree about the internal vs external storage. It irks me that app manager says "move to sd card" when it's really moving stuff to the internal storage -- one of my apps has a huge database that I can't move to external storage. The least they could do is to call internal storage something besides sd-- it confuses things that could be clear & straightforward. I resent it when there's no option to use the external sd.

 

[arcana]

Hey, would you happen to still have the recovery.fstab file you used? Mine is slightly malformed so I can't make a flashable zip >.>