With custom recovery you’ve got some advantages that not available on original recovery. what? here are few : allows you to perform several advanced recovery, restoration, installation and maintenance operations on your Android device that aren’t possible with the stock recovery, and is one of the most common ways used to gain root access, back up device data, install a custom ROMs, kernels, themes, mods and more. Here below I build them for PICOphone 4 GDF :
Download : cwm-recovery-gdf
EDIT 120314 :
Some say cannot see the extsd, here is the fix using mmcblock node, this should fix the problem :
Download : recovery-cwm-gdf-fix.img
And here is the scatter file you might need :
Download : MT6572_PICOphone4_GDF_Android_scatter.txt
EDIT 120314 :
Download : MT6572_PICOphone4_GDF_Android_scatter.txt
HOW TO INSTALL :
To install this custom rom, you need SPFlashTool program which only available on winblows os platform so … really sorry, I cannot support it because I never use and don’t have winblows. You may refer to this tutorial : MT65xx Flashing Tutorial it is very well explained by Bruno Martin and try to find Flashing only part of the ROM part on the article to flash only the recovery image part.
Please be really careful using SPFlashTool, especially when flashing ROM not for your device, since it may bricked your device forever.
DISCLAIMER :
This cwm recovery somehow display the page turned upside down, eventhough all the functionality runs well. CWM always renders in 16bpp then upconverts the 16 bit framebuffer at the very end steps unto 32 bit. That’s why the screen flipping and there’s nothing much I can do since this is “naked” framebuffer. If any of you had any idea how to fix this, please let me know. thanks.
Happy Flashing !