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Originally Posted by rupor
@benze
Testing mode is an app (or set of apps)
Recovery mode is a special boot used in recovery and upgrade process of the device.
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Ahhh - thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize that there were two terms being used.
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To tell you the truth - I am not really sure I could explain your desire to do all that given the level of your knowledge and understanding. You could brick the device easily and all of this is totally unnecessary for "am trying to root it". Normally you just install AMR follwing WiKi instructions and you got yourself fully functional and rooted device.
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Well, to be honest, right now I just wanted to make a clean image of the unit as it came out of the box so that if I ever wanted to restore a clean version of it, I would have a full image I could dd back to the device. However, I need to be able to get access to the unit via serial to do a dd (or RoadKill, etc), and from what I can tell, the only way was when in Recovery Mode. Which according to the Russian Translated page, was using the recovery-firmware on the microSD.
Of course, putting the firmware on the microSD makes things significantly safer; if ever you screw up, pop the SD and it should boot clean.
But I guess what I still don't understand is if both recovery mode and test mode are both built in, why do I need separate firmware? Is there no way to reboot the device into either recovery or test mode without making any changes to the device's files?
Thanks for the info! I'm new but learning quick.
Thanks,
Eric