Stock Excell images

[Mitre]

ok meanwhile i will sign the zips then upload to dropbox and pm the url

[blueeagle69]

No joy mate.
Cannot get into recovery. Screen backlight flashes then goes straight to that Balloon Screen

[Mitre]

think you need to push a new busybox before anything can be done

[Charlie]

ok meanwhile i will sign the zips then upload to dropbox and pm the url

@mitre - good plan, & a new busybox might be need too

@blue - here is the original build.prop, which you may need to put back for the .zips to work

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18307166/be2/build.prop

[Mitre]

need to find from wully how he overwrote the stericson for an older version

[blueeagle69]

@Charlie
In the meantime I have pushed the stock build.prop to /system/

Thanks mate.
In fact, thanks to both of you.

[blueeagle69]

Could this be adapted for my purposes?
BusyBox
download busybox binary to your adb tools directory
cd to your adb tools directory
adb push busybox /data/local/busybox
adb shell
su
cd /data/local
chmod 755 busybox
./busybox
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mkdir /system/xbin
/data/local/busybox cp /data/local/busybox /system/xbin
/data/local/busybox cp /data/local/busybox /system/bin
cd /system/xbin
busybox --install .
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
sync
reboot

Also found this on another site.
----------------------------------------
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
cp /sdcard/busybox /system/xbin/
chmod 04755 /system/xbin/busybox

(optional) Install busybox applets in /system/xbin so that commands like "grep" can be used directly without the "busybox" prefix. Most apps that use busybox usually execute the commands with the "busybox" prefix, like "busybox grep", so this step is not necessary if you are installing busybox only because its needed by some app. If the app doesn't detect busybox, even after you complete step 3, then this step is necessary.

/system/xbin/busybox --install /system/xbin/


Just got to find a binary now of a good Busybox I think.

Edit: I think I may have found the binary for Busybox 1.17.1, its only 954k though.
I have also found a generic 1.17.2 binary which is 1.8mb
@Charlie
@Mitre
I don't expect you to be on here helping me now. Now I have left this post I will go and do something to take my mind off it for the night.
A huge thanks to the both of you, for the help you have provided so far. I pray the above is of use.

Update:
I just checked my /system/xbin folder.
And that's where all the Busybox applets(commands) are.
Right, bed I think.

[blueeagle69]

Apologies if this reply is a long-winded

I seem to be learning on the job.

I pushed the new Busybox 1.17.1 to /system/xbin/
Pushed recovery.cpio to /cache/

Re-ran the script
And got this;
C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb shell /data/install-recovery.sh
mkdir failed for /cache/recovery, File exists
mke2fs: invalid option -- t
BusyBox v1.17.1 (2010-08-12 23:44:34 CDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: mke2fs [-Fn] [-b BLK_SIZE] [-i INODE_RATIO] [-I INODE_SIZE] [-m RESERVED_
PERCENT] [-L LABEL] BLOCKDEV [KBYTES]

-b BLK_SIZE Block size, bytes
-F Force
-i RATIO Max number of files is filesystem_size / RATIO
-I BYTES Inode size (min 128)
-L LBL Volume label
-m PERCENT Percent of blocks to reserve for admin
-n Dry run

12522 blocks
rmdir failed for /cache/recovery, Directory not empty

That seems better.
Just got to try and get into recovery now....

I don't bloody believe it.
I am now staring at the CWM5 recovery screen
How the hell did I do that on my own???? Arghhh. Right, now I am defo going to bed.
Next is the zips.

Can I copy these files from the Excel-2.3-clean folder now to my external sdcard now I have CWM5 working?
nandroid.md5
cache.ext4.tar
recovery.ext4.tar
boot.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
system.ext4.tar

Will wait for further instruction now. I ain't gonna push it. I'm amazed I managed to push busybox, and install CWM5.
BTW Charlie, your install-recovery.sh script worked Superb.
If I ever get half as good as you mods on here I'll be happy.

[Charlie]

@ blue - GREAT news, well done.

It was that 1.9xx version of busybox, that has caused all this. Glad you figured out how to get an older version of busybox on. All that is left now is to put Mitre's (link at the start of this thread) 'Excel-2.3-clean' folder and file contents on an external SD card and then boot into CWM5 then select 'restore'. This should do it. (as long as it can read from the sd-card and that busybox has not messed that up)

[Mitre]

Good morning
Cant believe you where still at it at 3.30 i got told of by the wife and sent to bed
wow glad you managed to overwrite the busybox nice one where to next?
you should be able just to flash the 2.3 clean from the root of sd as charlie said
i have signed the zips but and heres the but
i could not get into the sdk to sign the zips last night so downloaded a root app that signs zip and apks for flashing problem is its made by stericson