An ALMOST-READY CWM Recovery for the XL Pro 2!!!

[leeb]

A poster in the Allwinner SOC area has an almost-completely-working Clockwork Recovery that soon will be 100% operational on our tablets!!

See

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-0-1-0-a10-ly-f1-treq-tablets.html#post241648

as shown in the post mentioned, I have already tried it and have only the internal storage (/sdcard) and external TF (sd-ext) that need changing!

WIll post again once I find that it works 100%!!!


VERY exciting! This was my only MAJOR issue with the tablet - the ability to do a full backup of everything!!

 

[vampirefo.]

A poster in the Allwinner SOC area has an almost-completely-working Clockwork Recovery that soon will be 100% operational on our tablets!!

See

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-0-1-0-a10-ly-f1-treq-tablets.html#post241648

as shown in the post mentioned, I have already tried it and have only the internal storage (/sdcard) and external TF (sd-ext) that need changing!

WIll post again once I find that it works 100%!!!


VERY exciting! This was my only MAJOR issue with the tablet - the ability to do a full backup of everything!!

I had no problem taking the recovery.img a part, anyway below is the recovery.fstab from the recovery.img, you would edit that to match your tablet then you should be good to go.

/boot emmc /dev/block/nandc
/cache ext4 /dev/block/nandh
/data ext4 /dev/block/nande
/emmc auto /dev/block/nandi /dev/block/nandi1
/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /dev/block/mmcblk0
/sd-ext auto /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
/system ext4 /dev/block/nandd
/recovery emmc /dev/block/nandg

 

[leeb]

You took it apart... with what? Is it zipped/7z'd/????
I know what to do after I get it 'opened'... just dont have the right 'can opener'...

 

[vampirefo.]

I see you are a windows guys, I just used normal Linux tools. Can be done either via split_bootimg.pl or unpackbootimg both are common Linux unpacking tools.

Page size: 2048 (0x00000800)
Kernel size: 8154484 (0x007c6d74)
Ramdisk size: 1623636 (0x0018c654)
Second size: 0 (0x00000000)
Board name:
Command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rw init=/init loglevel=8
Writing recovery.img-kernel ... complete.
Writing recovery.img-ramdisk.gz ... complete.

 

[leeb]

I see you are a windows guys, I just used normal Linux tools. Can be done either via split_bootimg.pl or unpackbootimg both are common Linux unpacking tools.

Page size: 2048 (0x00000800)
Kernel size: 8154484 (0x007c6d74)
Ramdisk size: 1623636 (0x0018c654)
Second size: 0 (0x00000000)
Board name:
Command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rw init=/init loglevel=8
Writing recovery.img-kernel ... complete.
Writing recovery.img-ramdisk.gz ... complete.

Not exclusively... in fact Im on my 'penguin box' (Ubuntu 12) right now...
'standard linux tools'... okay. Ill look for them! Thx!

 

[vampirefo.]

Not exclusively... in fact Im on my 'penguin box' (Ubuntu 12) right now...
'standard linux tools'... okay. Ill look for them! Thx!

No need to look, I will give them to you, as well as some other tools.

tools.zip

 

[leeb]

Thanks!

Most of my tablets are Infotmic based and use cpio-formatted gzip files with a u-boot 64-bit header... REAL EASY to work with.
This is becoming.... fun....

It will actually be easy to fix...
Thanks again!

EDIT:

Tearing it apart and changing it is CAKE!!!

Putting it back together??
a ROYAL PITA!!!

Oh well... Ill finish it tomorrow!

 

[leeb]

Okay! It SEEMS to be happy and functioning!

I did some 'rearranging' in that:

the EXTERNAL TF is known as SDCARD (so that it will RECEIVE the backup),
and
the INTERNAL STORAGE is referred to as BOTH LOCAL AND SD-EXT... so that it gets backed up as SD-EXT.

I did not test any of the formatting functions... tho I did try to get the busybox 'mkfs.vfat' to run on the internal storage and it would not...
So I removed some directories to ensure that the restore would bring them back... and I have my Kindle-books again!

Now, I suppose, I should see if the 'factory restore' it totally hosed. (as I suspect it is. Which is why I made sure I had a copy of it! )

 

[livnbad]

Okay! It SEEMS to be happy and functioning!

I did some 'rearranging' in that:

the EXTERNAL TF is known as SDCARD (so that it will RECEIVE the backup),
and
the INTERNAL STORAGE is referred to as BOTH LOCAL AND SD-EXT... so that it gets backed up as SD-EXT.

I did not test any of the formatting functions... tho I did try to get the busybox 'mkfs.vfat' to run on the internal storage and it would not...
So I removed some directories to ensure that the restore would bring them back... and I have my Kindle-books again!

Now, I suppose, I should see if the 'factory restore' it totally hosed. (as I suspect it is. Which is why I made sure I had a copy of it! )

Are you still working on this? I would be curious to get this going on my tab and/or maybe you could help me with some minor things with it. Thanks.

 

[leeb]

Sorry for the long delay here. Ive been putting my knee back together and haven't paid much attention to tablets... I also no longer own this XLPro2 but would be happy to get you a copy of what Ive done if you have been able to do a backup of the recovery partition...

 

[blacksoul]

Hey I know its been a little bit since your last post, but I was hoping maybe you would be able to post that copy you were working on. It would be a great help. Thanks