How to get CWM on your Extreme (Formally-I'm giving up)

[Mitre]

but that wont happen
if you like i can give you the commands to flash the cloakworkmod recovery using terminal emulater on the tablet
you wont need the adb for that
all that the sdk is downloading is the tools for windows to talk to an android device

[KLRichards]

This is not going well...

I've installed the SDK, havent a clue what I'm supposed to do with it though. Its just a set of menus and tick boxes, telling me I need to install packages, but when I say install they whirl away then say failed....

I cant get the PC to reckonise my Android USB driver, no matter what I do...

That's it... I'm back off that horse, and very reluctant to get back on it..

Surly until I can get the drivers installed its not going anywhere.... Starting to wish I bough an iPad, at least they do what they are supposed to...

[Mitre]

Only a inf file in the zipped folder.... Thats not the USB driver .... is it ?

i just downloaded that and had a look thats the one for the excell so prob wont work for the extreme i will have a look at some posts see if suggsy put them up or not

[KLRichards]

but that wont happen
if you like i can give you the commands to flash the cloakworkmod recovery using terminal emulater on the tablet
you wont need the adb for that
all that the sdk is downloading is the tools for windows to talk to an android device

Thanks for the offer, but need to understand how that will help...

1. The commands you will give me, I type straight into the term emul on the tab Y/N ?
2. If Y, do I need to SU to ROOT first Y/N ?
3. I assume doing that way, I then simply copy to the external SD card and put that in my reader for the PC to copy to another driver for BackUP and vice versa to Flash the New CWM Y/N?

If Yes to all above, YES please I'll give it a go... Using a term emul and keying in Unix like commands is more my era

[KLRichards]

Thanks for the quick support Mitre... apreciated....

Back...

[Mitre]

ok you just need to get to a stage where your pc recognises the extreme and you can move files to and from the device from yuour windows machine
what i would do is forget about the sdk for now! as like you say its a lot of downloads to get the short distance where you need to be
have a cup of tea then google pdanet have a read install that on pc
get the app on the extreme and then see if that installs the drivers you need(when i did this for my 1st scroll i never once used pdanet but i could then copy and paste to my android folders when i plugged it in to a usb port
if you can get to this stage you should be able to get to the next

in the mean time i will brush up on my linux and get the commands so that tou or others can push clockworkmod using Terminal emulator app(jack palevik) and you wont need to use the sdk for that
will post back later

1.y
2.y
3.you will need to put the recovery onto the sd card on pc then put the card in the extreme and type the commands in a terminal on the extreme to move the file then reeboot done!

the first thing you need to do is take th card out the device emember to unmount first in settings get it into you pc some how copy two files to it install-recovery.sh and recover.img(from suggst89 cwm folder) just those two files straight onto the root of the sd card then put the card back in the extreme

[KLRichards]

Cheers Mitre...

Would rather get my PC to recognise the Extreme, but it just wont play ball....

I have a card reader for Micro so can physically plug it into my PC to move things arround, if thats the route I need to go, but yet again, I just feel I'm missing something....

Been a long day, may just have to go back read and rethink...

Thanks again for your help.

[Johnny]

Try this driver for the Joytab - I had to use this one at home for some reason as was getting similar problems to you:

http://www.geminidevices.com/downloads/usb-drivers.zip

[KLRichards]

Johnny... well it did something...

We'll see what next.

[KLRichards]

Ok.. went on with step 5 in Peirs instructions, runnng the BAT file....

and I got...

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1. Install ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.7
2. Reboot your Scroll Excel
Q. Quit

I choose (1,2, or Q):1

Running Install Script for CWM Recovery v5.0.2.7
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
remount succeeded
56 KB/s (174 bytes in 0.003s)
3354 KB/s (9560064 bytes in 2.783s)
done

Press any key to continue . . .

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adb server out of date.... What now....