seansykes, tooks a 3 seconds at most, Does the USB Stick in NTFS?, everything looks fine,

nigelmoore67,

brw------- root root 179, 10 2009-02-13 23:31 mmcblk0p10 this is where we need to rewrite, this is the recovery partition, and the gtvhacker-recovery we created in linux are a kind of symlink ...

Any error mesage? Cj_000 fix the comand to create the gtvhacker-recovery file


Hi again bovoro,

No messages or error messages. My output looks the same as SeanSykes previous post above. not throwing the towel in just yet! (Maybe soon lol)

Not sure if this helps :-

$ ls -l /dev/block
ls -l /dev ...

That doesnt matter i have the same issue Yesterday, cj_002 help me toó much at IRC CHAT what i did was do the last command cp /mnt/media/USB.xxxx..... Many times and works now .


Hi borovo,

Still no go i'm afraid. I have ran the cp /mnt/media/usb.......... command at least 50 times in succession ...

bovoro wrote:That doesnt matter i have the same issue Yesterday, cj_002 help me toó much at IRC CHAT what i did was do the last command cp /mnt/media/USB.xxxx..... Many times and works now .

Thanks bovoro, I will give it a go!

Just FYI.

I tried to copying the following directory over to /data/sys/ and then create symalinks.

/system/app
/system/bin
/system/chrome
/system/etc
/system/framework
/system/xbin

Now on boot all I get is a the blue spinning circle. Luckily, I installed the new custom recovery before hand. So ...

Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the help and advise. The command now completes without any errors however once restarted I still do not have a custom recovery. My box does not appear to have been altered in any way. I have tried booting into recovery mode with and without the USB inserted an still arrive ...

Hi cj_000,

My error differs slightly :-

$ cp /mnt/media/usb.2B041D1828B4AD41/CustomRecovery-Sony-GS7-GS8-GTVHACKER.bin /mnt/media/usb.2B041D1828B4AD41/gtvhacker-recovery
cp /mnt/media/usb.2B041D1828B4AD41/CustomRecovery-Sony-GS7-GS8-GTVHACKER.bin /mnt/media/usb.2B041D1828B4AD41/gtvhacker-recovery ...

Same problem here bud!