Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on G2x from Linux

October 1, 2011 Posted by mitch | android, G2x | 0 Comments

I said I was going to write about my experiences with this... and never came back to it. I've been running custom ROM's since my first post about rooting my G2x. However, I honestly was a little unsure about the whole process so I didn't want to write about the other bits. I went back through and upgraded ClockWorkMod Recovery again, this time it was a little less unnerving so, I will write down my steps here.

First... I'm following bits from this xda thread

I downloaded the rar file and pulled out the bits needed for ClockWorkMod (CWM) 5.0.2.0, so I could flash it from linux. I originally had a script that I used to flash this... my appologies I don't remember where, nor do I want to claim it as my own... I will include it however at the bottom of this post. Anyway, here goes. After grabbing the files above and the nvflash bin and a script, I put all of this in a CWM-5.0.2 directory

mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ls -l
total 5008
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 3563520 2011-09-06 20:58 CWM-5020.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch    4080 2011-04-21 00:40 E1108_Hynix_512MB_H8TBR00U0MLR-0DM_300MHz_final_emmc_x8.bct
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 1024992 2011-04-21 12:00 fastboot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch     125 2011-10-01 15:59 flash-recovery.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch  526131 2011-10-01 15:58 nvflash

Before running the script, you need to connect your phone, follow these steps:

pull the battery on my phone
plug USB cable in laptop
Hold Volume Up AND Volume Down
*WHILE* holding #3, plug in USB to phone

This should result in a PCI connection to your phone... Your phone will not do anything.

mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ lspci
....
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)

From there, you run the flash-recovery.sh script.

mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ./flash-recovery.sh
Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: unknown
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3
chip sku: 0xf
chip uid: 0x02884207417fe4d7
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: false
dk burned: false
boot device: emmc
operating mode: 3
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 17
sdram config strap: 0

downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: fastboot.bin
/ 1024992/1024992 bytes sent
fastboot.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
sending file: CWM-5020.img
| 3563520/3563520 bytes sent
CWM-5020.img sent successfully

At this point... you phone will be showing a "software upgrade is in progress" screen...
even after it completes... the above output took around 15 seconds to play out... and they say you can
unplug right after this.. I left it pluged in for another 30 seconds... cause it makes me nervous... (probably
unfounded...)

Download files here