[RECOVERY] j_r0dd-mb501-v2.0 (2.7.11)

[j_r0dd]

phone is fully charged, tryed on n off the charger, n i ahve 3.2G of space on SD....only thing that worked so far in recovery is partition the SD,Fix permissions,clear cash,restart...nothing else woks

nothing else works lol. that's a bold statement. good luck to you

[IllBlew]

So what if I flashed this but did not backup? There is an update zip on my sd card would I use that to get back? put of there any other way to?

[brfield]

finally got it. I had to do the flash from a terminal on my phone. For some reason, I cant get root from adb shell.

[wayne_griffin]

finally got it. I had to do the flash from a terminal on my phone. For some reason, I cant get root from adb shell.

you can. once adb shell is connected you have to type su ,then on the phone it will pop something up asking for permission, you give it permission and you have Root thru adb shell.....

now I'm running into the problem its saying not enough space to flash the recovery.

I've been trying to remove all the stuff I don't need from my phone (ringtones, bloatware, ect) but it keeps telling me its a read-only file system.
from adb shell how do I changed the filesystem so I can remove the bloatware.
I went to get root explorer but don't currently have the cash (yes I know its not alot but still, bills suck!) to purchase it.

any suggestions?

[noptuno]

you can. once adb shell is connected you have to type su ,then on the phone it will pop something up asking for permission, you give it permission and you have Root thru adb shell.....

now I'm running into the problem its saying not enough space to flash the recovery.

I've been trying to remove all the stuff I don't need from my phone (ringtones, bloatware, ect) but it keeps telling me its a read-only file system.
from adb shell how do I changed the filesystem so I can remove the bloatware.
I went to get root explorer but don't currently have the cash (yes I know its not alot but still, bills suck!) to purchase it.

any suggestions?

Dude verify your PMs :P

[wayne_griffin]

Dude verify your PMs :P

I got them sorry for not replying.
ty again for it.

hoping once I clear up some of the bs I don't want on the phone I can get the recovery in

on a side note good lord the crap TMo bloats their phones with

[brfield]

on a side note good lord the crap TMo bloats their phones with

LOL, so true, I am currently in the process of uninstalling a lot of apps.

you can. once adb shell is connected you have to type su ,then on the phone it will pop something up asking for permission, you give it permission and you have Root thru adb shell.....

now I'm running into the problem its saying not enough space to flash the recovery.

I've been trying to remove all the stuff I don't need from my phone (ringtones, bloatware, ect) but it keeps telling me its a read-only file system.
from adb shell how do I changed the filesystem so I can remove the bloatware.
I went to get root explorer but don't currently have the cash (yes I know its not alot but still, bills suck!) to purchase it.

any suggestions?

Thanks for the su trick. It worked.

For your issue, try to do it through a terminal on the phone, and make sure you delete recovery.img in the /system folder

[wayne_griffin]

LOL, so true, I am currently in the process of uninstalling a lot of apps.


Thanks for the su trick. It worked.

For your issue, try to do it through a terminal on the phone, and make sure you delete recovery.img in the /system folder

thing is I'm not finding anything called recovery inside the /system folder.....
only thing I'm finding is:

Directories:
app
bin
etc
fonts
framework
lib
lost+found
media
usr
xbin

Files:
build.prop
default.prop


edit: recovery flashing is still failing, and I've removed a TON of stuff (ringtones, sounds)
root explorer is saying that for /system I have:
127.54MB used, 33.71MB free
can't think of anything else I can remove

[j_r0dd]

the recovery is on it's own partition removing all that other stuff is not going to make a bit of difference. the only thing you should have removed was the recovery.img from /system because the init is set to write the recovery on every boot if it is found in system. if your flashing is failing, just name it recovery.img and copy it over to /system. when you reboot it will automatically be written for you

[wayne_griffin]

the recovery is on it's own partition removing all that other stuff is not going to make a bit of difference. the only thing you should have removed was the recovery.img from /system because the init is set to write the recovery on every boot if it is found in system. if your flashing is failing, just name it recovery.img and copy it over to /system. when you reboot it will automatically be written for you

I feel completely stupid and blind (going more with the combination of both) then cause I can't find the recovery anywhere on my phone to get rid of it.....

I was looking under /system and what I posted previously was the only things I seen in it.

going to just rename it and move it to /system and see if it works

edit 2 moved it over, renamed
booted holding down the camera key, hit volume down for recovery, I briefly seen some hex coding, then it stopped at a blue screen that said:

USB FastBoot: V0.5
Machine ID: Zeppelin 0a00
Build Date: Apr 8 2010, 07:03:28

Serial Number:

** Security on, fastboot disabled **


and it was stuck, had to take battery out to do anything with it

[j_r0dd]

Nvm.

[wayne_griffin]

you might wanna figure out the key combinations to access recovery NOT the bootloader

I did on power up holding down camera, it tells me to release the camera key. then shows a menu that says volume up for bootloader, volume down for recovery. I hit volume down, see the hex stuff, then it dumps into the blue screen I described

if I hold the menu button while its powering on, it loads the Bootloader USB init

edit:
redid all steps (both trying to flash and renaming and moving it over, then rebooting)
still the same problem results....
think I'm cursed

[onilink67]

any chance of getting "flash any zip from sd" option?

[j_r0dd]

any chance of getting "flash any zip from sd" option?

um...it does flash any zip

[Alex469]

Just another way to install j_r0dd-mb501-v1.7.4.1 recovery. I have made SBF file. It contains j_r0dd's recovery only.
So download it, unzip and flash j_r0dd-mb501-v1.7.4.1.sbf using RSD Lite and you are done.

If you would like to root your phone after that, just put Root-1-5.zip file onto root of you sdcard,
boot phone into j_r0dd's recovery, select "Flash zip from SD" menu option, choose Root-1-5.zip and reboot.