CLOCKWORKMOD5 based recovery on Excel

[kaos120]

@mitre - from ics thread
Installed ICS and lost CWM Recovery

Tried to re-install CWM Recovery, output from command prompt as follows:-
> adb shell /data/install-recovery.sh
/data/install-recovery.sh[14]: mke2fs: not found
mount: Invalid argument
12522 blocks
failed: Invalid argument
rmdir failed for /data/recovery, Directory not empty

[Charlie]

I have just dumped all blocks a-h onto my pc -

nandh - is the largest one I have at 2.11GB - I wonder if that is the internal memory (SDCARD) mnt/sdcard

P.S. - I had a thought on the info in recover.cpio, I wonder if recovery needs its own version of a build.prop to boot into recovery, hence why that information is there for recovery, whereas the other build.prop in /system/ is for when you boot into the main OS.

[Mitre]

must be a command that wil ID these blocks properly cat/proc was so simple before!!
@kaos 120 i have another recovery that was made by fun for Ainol novo7 running ICS he made the last one i used for novo7 running GB and it works fine on excell it may work on your tablet dont know.
you can get it here http:/
you can try it if you like worst case you will have to flash ICS again
Edit: worst case you can brick it

[Charlie]

@mitre - from ics thread
Installed ICS and lost CWM Recovery...

I think I know why that is - that version of ICS -changes the nand blocks around recovery is NOT nandf any more and the CWM5 script works on the path to nandf

NOTE: The list below is NOT for the Excel with OS 2.3.4

nanda is bootloader area, vfat(same as GB ROM) but u-boot is loaded instead of linux kernel.
nandb is u-boot environment.
nandc is boot.img
nandd is /system
nande is /data
nandf is empty(maybe misc partition?)
nandg is recovery.img
nandh is /cache
nandi is internal NAND area (usually mounted as SD card on stock ROM)

NOT 100% sure if this is the ROM you flashed - but it shows that the structure has changed to what the Excel was, as someone with an Excel has flashed this rom (v0.3 ICS ROM for NOVO7A)

[Mitre]

@ Charlie thats why i deleted the link to the ICS clockworkmod as someone has tried it on the momo9 on xda and cant boot
if i pm you te link can you unpack it and look at the cpio file

[Charlie]

Hi Mitre

Just getting ready to put CWM5 on the Excel - How can I check to see if I have busybox or not?

make sure you have a working version of busybox on your excel
v1.18.3 and v1.17.1 are known to work

Cheers

EDIT: P.S. - Never realised that you could use z-zip to extract the contents of recovery.cpio, to view the files inside. Just tried it now and the build.prop info I have been talking about in it, is actually the default.prop for the recovery partition.

[Mitre]

Hi Mitre

Just getting ready to put CWM5 on the Excel - How can I check to see if I have busybox or not?

make sure you have a working version of busybox on your excel
v1.18.3 and v1.17.1 are known to work

Cheers

EDIT: P.S. - Never realised that you could use z-zip to extract the contents of recovery.cpio, to view the files inside. Just tried it now and the build.prop info I have been talking about in it, is actually the default.prop for the recovery partition.

yes i use 7zip and as long as the files not too big (i.e a rom) you can open an archive and veiw everthing inside the archive without extracting anything usefull for not filling up your C: drive thats why i asked the other day how you unpack a .img i was trying to get inside a rom and 7zip culd not open an archive
in treminal

Code: Select all

su
busybox

it will show you the version you have and a list of functions

[Charlie]

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su
busybox

Thank you - How easy was that - Doh

It says I have v1.18.3, so I should be good to go.

[Mitre]

yeah thats why i put it in the biggest code box i could find
i updated second post to show this

[Charlie]

yeah thats why i put it in the biggest code box i could find
i updated second post to show this

Just out of interest, say I want to put the stock recovery (nandf) back, is this easy to do?

Would it be a case of doing just the reverse of getting nandf?


EDIT:- Update - Thanks Mitre for the 'How to' get CWM5 onto the Excel and thanks to fun (over on xda) for CWM5 for the Excel. I have just installed it and made a backup - Very happy