Custom Recovery Image

[Randomocity]

soljin (or whoever) I followed your instructions for Terminal Emulator exactly, typing exactly what was in the fields, putting recovery and flash img's on my phone after unzipping flash, but when I get to the end of the typing (where you say the actual flashing occurs) instead of actually flashing it just says permission denied. I went through and made sure that all of my steps were correct, and they are, so what am I doing wrong here?

There should be no space between xbin/flash_image. Remove that and it should stop the permission error occuring.

 

[soljin]

soljin (or whoever) I followed your instructions for Terminal Emulator exactly, typing exactly what was in the fields, putting recovery and flash img's on my phone after unzipping flash, but when I get to the end of the typing (where you say the actual flashing occurs) instead of actually flashing it just says permission denied. I went through and made sure that all of my steps were correct, and they are, so what am I doing wrong here?

I had a typo in step 14 try the new version. Should just be:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

 

[themadlbb]

yep that did the trick. thanks!

 

[AudioCow]

Works great. Thanks.

 

[Bear in NM]

Soljin,

Thanks for the process in Terminal on the phone. This is the way I did it, and methinks that many of the newbs like myself will find this easier to follow. The renaming of 0.08 to just recovery is also a good idea to keep things simpler for everyone, but I do think folks should jot down the image that they are using, in the event it becomes an issue, if they rename.

And for anyone reading this thread, if you find an image file that is less than 0.08 anywhere out on the web, please ask someone here about it. 0.07 supposedly had some major issues.

Craig

 

[yanks]

Thanks for this guide i have no clue on how to do this step: Connect your phone to your computer in debugging mode and use ADB shell to start a root session on your phone by typing su. so i did the entire thing thru terminal emulator :S if someone could teach me how/link me i would appreciate it. im a noob to this since i got my droid 1/2 week ago

 

[blu1080]

0.09.1 work? I've only seen people say 0.08 works

 

[yanks]

0.09.1 work? I've only seen people say 0.08 works

0.09.1 worked for me

 

[blu1080]

just worked for me too. Thanks!

 

[soljin]

Thanks for this guide i have no clue on how to do this step: Connect your phone to your computer in debugging mode and use ADB shell to start a root session on your phone by typing su. so i did the entire thing thru terminal emulator :S if someone could teach me how/link me i would appreciate it. im a noob to this since i got my droid 1/2 week ago

I posted a guide that works through the Terminal Emulator only on the previous page. Here is a link.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/8526-custom-recovery-image-9.html#post71974

Here is the text:
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[ryanm91]

i have done all steps and cant get recovery menu to come up??

 

[cgunn82]

Can someone post detailed instructions on how to do this? I have read through this post and so many people are saying different stuff to try.

 

[tdawg5480]

copied from my redesigned post from boost credit goes to him i just tweaked it cosmetically with bold/red and fixed typo here it is
1 - place the required files (flash_image binary and recovery.img - naming shouldn't matter i kept the version number on it) on your sdcard - you can do this with a microsdcard reader, adb push, whatever you like =)
2 - start a root session using adb shell and type su
3 - mount -o rw,remount /system - this makes /system writable
4 - mkdir /system/xbin - if it already exists you will simply get an error
5 - cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/xbin/flash_image
6 - chmod 700 /system/xbin/flash_image - validate permissions on /system/xbin/flash_image - you are the root user afterall, don't need world and group executable or even read =)
7 - sync - flush changes to block device
8 - mount -o ro,remount /system - remount in read-only - you shouldn't need to make any more changes
9. /system/xbin/ flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
10 - hit power button, select power off
11 - hold x, hit power button
12 - you should be greated by the custom recovery firmware
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[blackngray70]

Everytime I try step one I get Permission Denied.

 

[SwordOfWar]

0.09.1 work? I've only seen people say 0.08 works

0.09.1 worked for me

Same here. Its just a image anyway. it doesn't matter what its named, just make sure your command matches the name of the file.