DeprecatedInstallAndroid

Introduction¶

Here's a tutorial that covers the installation of a previously built or downloaded Free Android Image,we will assume that:

you don't have the engineering bootloader
you have root access
you have a blank vfat sdcard in your android phone with enough free space

Howto¶

/!\ first backup your current version...in case something is wrong we need it
then if you want the proprietary wifi firmware,execute the following command on your computer(/!\ the firmware is proprietary,we don't know what it does and we are not even allowed to redistribute it):
```
# ./adb pull /system/etc/wifi/Fw1251r1c.bin ./
```
download an image that can flash our Free Android, like cm-recovery-1.4.img for instance (/!\ we didn't check cm-recovery-1.4.img's freedom)
```
# wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.4.img
```
Then we will boot on the image that will flash our android:
shutdown your phone if it isn't shut down
press the camera button first,keep pressing it while pressing the power button...that will give you a screen with skateboarders
use fastboot to boot:
```
# ./fastboot boot cm-recovery-1.4.img
```
press on the back button(<-) that is under the menu button at the right of the trackball
it will boot
backup your image selecting "nandroid v2.2 backup"

then use adb to push your images but first we need to look where to push them:

./adb shell
# mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard
# ls -d /sdcard/nandroid/*/*                   
/sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455
# exit

write down the last line before the exit command,because it will differ from device to device

push the images:

# ./adb shell
# mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard
# exit
# ./adb push boot.img /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455
# ./adb push system.img /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455

then we need to compute the md5sums:

./adb shell
# md5sum /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455/boot.img 
a491db2000489c7fb7c5f7fe4b103b8c  boot.img
# md5sum /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455/system.img 
610b10a715ea1a5db4e6badd6a8a2989  system.img

write down the result of both md5sum commands

download the nandroid.md5 file

# ./adb pull /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03334/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455/nandroid.md5 ./

change the lines where there is boot.img and system.img to the ones you've written down previously

push them:

# ./adb push nandroid.md5 /sdcard/nandroid/HT935NG03936/CBDMRS12-20090917-1455/nandroid.md5

unmount the sdcard
```
# ./adb shell
umount /sdcard
```
then select "restore the latest backup" on the screen,with the trackball
press home like it is said
then select "wipe data/factory reset" on the screen,with the trackball /!\ it will erase all the data of your phone...
then select reboot system now
wait for the system to boot(the boot will take longer than usual)

then do the following:

# ./adb shell
# cd /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases
# sqlite3 settings.db
SQLite version 3.5.9
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> INSERT INTO secure (name, value) VALUES ('device_provisioned', 1);      
sqlite> .exit

then if you want the proprietary wifi firmware,execute do the following: (/!\ the firmware is proprietary,we don't know what it does and we are not even allowed to redistribute it):
```
# ./adb remount
# ./adb push Fw1251r1c.bin /system/etc/wifi/
```
then reboot:
```
# ./adb shell
reboot
```