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Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2012 by Dave Thornton in Android General
 
 

ClockworkMod Recovery Release Version 6.0.0.4 for Galaxy Nexus – Now Available via ROM Manager

[CWM][Fastboot][GSM] Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.0.4

 

Now It’s The Final build

 Here is what Koush said on his G+ Account

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ClockworkMod Recovery 6 for Galaxy Nexus

… has been released on ROM Manager.

Changes:
New backup format that deduplicated data between backups.
Faster backups.
Fixed restores > 2GB.
Minor UI tweaks (new background, animated Android)

Future:
In the past, I have merged/rebased every CWM with AOSP. With Jellybean, I have decided this is no longer in the best interest of the project. There are only a few areas of AOSP recovery that are of interest (roots.c – file system, minui, and updater). Those will continue to be merged into CWM. Other than that, doing a full rebase with every code drop has been a giant headache, with the code churn from upstream that providing little to no value to CWM.
In any case, this unties my hands to deviate completely from AOSP, with the primary goal to make a much more polished touch UI.

ROM Manager
ROM Manager is a little over 2 years old, and though it has grown in features quite a bit since its first incarnation, parts are starting to show its age. I’ve been contemplating a significant UI rewrite for some time now, and will pull the trigger on that shortly. I also want to add in some features that I am hoping will be of some interest:
* A paid ROM section for devs to publish their work and support their hobby.
* Upload your current ROM to ROM Manager for anyone to use, from the device.
* Connect ROM Manager to the Recovery Builder for automatic updates of recovery. No device left behind

Speaking of the Recovery Builder; it has been pleasantly successful. To date, around 1700 recoveries have been built. Many for devices ROM Manager currently does not even support.

Anyways, if you have any suggestions for the future of ClockworkMod products, please drop me a line!.

 

Here Koush explains how the new CWM method works that makes the backup files so small in size

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TL;DR:
Don’t delete /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs

I’ve gotten a few questions about how this works, so I figured I’d make a post on it.

Basically, here’s what happens:

The files being backed up are hashed (sha256, not that it matters). Then it checks for a file with the name of the hash in
/sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs

So, if the hash of the file was c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed, it looks for /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs/c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed

If the hash file is found, it continues on to the next file. Otherwise, it copies the file to the blobs directory with the filename being the hash.

ROMs and user data, for the most part, do not change too much between builds and backups. So, your APKs, system files, etc, are generally only stored once. This saves a ton of space. Especially between incremental backups.

Some of you may be thinking “well, how do I delete a backup?”.
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show “Freeing space…” while this is happening.

Download links

CWM v6.0.0.4

Touch CWM v6.0.0.4

Use Fastboot Commands to Flash it

Type ” Fastboot Flash Recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.0.4-maguro.img

or Fastboot Flash recovery-clockwork-6.0.0.4-maguro.img

I take no credits for the Recovery i’m just trying to share it with you guys it’s Done by Koushik as i mentioned

The original Post on G+ :

Many yrs ago Dave was MSDN trained, a web designer and computer shop owner. Loves walking his dogs, Lab & Welsh border collie. Golden Retriever. Plenty of fields around where he lives in Dundee, Scotland and is 2 miles from the beach.

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