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Rom Manager S-off; reinstall clockwork?

Hello,
I have Froyo 2.2 installed with S-off. I used unrevoked and unrevoked forever to get to this point. Here's my question:
I just downloaded Rom manager for the first time, and it is giving me a message that I need to install Clockwork Recovery before using the program. But of course, I already have CWR installed from using unrevoked. I'm confused about the various responses in this forum as well as others. Some say you can reinstall CWR on top of the existing one just fine; others say if you install on top of an S-off version, there will be problems.
Which is true and how can I start using ROM manager?

Stockmoose16 said:
I just downloaded Rom manager for the first time, and it is giving me a message that I need to install Clockwork Recovery before using the program. But of course, I already have CWR installed from using unrevoked. I'm confused about the various responses in this forum as well as others. Some say you can reinstall CWR on top of the existing one just fine; others say if you install on top of an S-off version, there will be problems.
Which is true and how can I start using ROM manager?
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You either need to manually edit the ROM Manager .settings file to get it to realize that you already have CWM recovery, or you have to let it download it for you. Doing so doesn't cause any problems (anyone who reported that it does is wrong).

Stockmoose16 said:
Hello,
I have Froyo 2.2 installed with S-off. I used unrevoked and unrevoked forever to get to this point. Here's my question:
I just downloaded Rom manager for the first time, and it is giving me a message that I need to install Clockwork Recovery before using the program. But of course, I already have CWR installed from using unrevoked. I'm confused about the various responses in this forum as well as others. Some say you can reinstall CWR on top of the existing one just fine; others say if you install on top of an S-off version, there will be problems.
Which is true and how can I start using ROM manager?
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Well I used the unrEVOked RC I got in there irc today on my friends Incredible, about 2 hours ago actually. I found out the it now does the unrEVOked root and unrEVOked forever (S-off) all in one. After I did that I made him buy ROM Manager. When you open it at the very top there is a button that says something along the line of Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. I clicked on that button, it asked if I was on the Incredible CDMA. I clicked yes and it automatically downloaded it for me. I was able to use ROM Manager to put CM6 on his Incredible with no problems.

why stuck on modaco??

hello all, i recently installed clockwork3.0 to try out the cm7 rom and did so. afer that i wanted to go back to cm6 but decided to try out a custom baked modaco in between. I went no problems to the modaco vision rom and then tried to go back to the cm6 and thats where i ran into the problem. It seems as if though all i can flash and boot now is the modaco vision and desire roms. i try enomther and cm and after the flash and reboot im always stuck at the HTC boot screen which i know shouldnt be there and cant format boot in cwork3.0 without failure error. Even a nandroid back to cm6 wont work. Im assuming this has something to do with the modaco rom writing some apps to /system during install. If anyone can point out my error or explain why this could happen it would be greatly appreciated. Thanke, veritasaequita

You need to flash back to the old ClockworkMod Recovery using fastboot? You have done that haven't you? CWM Recovery 3 is only for 2.3 roms atm afaik.

Cool, thanks for the input bro. Yes I sure have. I did see in the dev forum a thread titled install cw3.0 easily from phone. Is it possible to go back to the old cw by way of using the phone also? Once again thanks for your help
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oh yeah, indeed you have hit upon something. Try installing ROM manager via the Market,... then use that to re-install the old recovery.
But if that fails,... then yes, you SHOULD be able to use a Terminal Emulator to flash without using fastboot commands.

Help with flashing roms

Hey everyone I just recently rooted my phone and I'm new to the while roms and flashing roms. Can someone give me a breakdown on how and what I should use to flash roms. My friend told me its risky business
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Look in the sticky on this forum "Fascinate Sticky Roll-Up Thread **Check this thread BEFORE posting**"
It has all the links and info you need to get started.
You're going to need ROM manager and cwm installed.
P.s. for future reference this kind of post belongs in "general" not "development"
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1. You need ROM Manager. It can be downloaded from the market. Free or paid both work.
2. Use ROM Manager to install the ClockWorkMod recovery. NOTE: after you install the recovery, there will be something named update.zip on the root of your sd card. Don't **** with that..
After you have CwM (as you'll see it called, and not to be confused with CM -- or CyanogenMod) you can 'flash' ROM or kernels (or anything else) via update_packages.zip. You find the package you want, put it on the root of your sd card, and then use ROM Manager to reboot into recovery.
You can put things on your sd card by simply mounting it on your pc and dragging the file over. This may also be a good time to download the android sdk, or at least adb (android debug bridge) and install it and get it working. This is strongly recommended as it can save your ass. For this to work you must also enable usb debugging under Applications (strangely) then Development in your settings menu.
Finally, I strongly recommend the voodoo lagfix. It makes your applications load faster and puts a permanent CwM recovery on your device. This means you can boot into a useful recovery just by holding both volume buttons and the power button. Alternatively, if you have adb set up you can type "adb reboot recovery"
This is the general outline of things. It is safe so long as you read everything 3 times over before you get greedy and start messing with your phone and most importantly, don't do something if you don't know what it's going to do..
All of this is documented on this site and in these forums for get digging through the stickies!!

Sweet thanks. How exactly do you put on the the voodoo lag fix and where can I get it cause I have seen a ton different voodoo kernals
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The Voodoo lag fix is installed automatically when you flash any Voodoo kernel. Just make sure you flash a Voodoo 5 kernel, not an old version 4 one, as those have issues. I would recommend one from Adrynalyne or jt1134, which can be found in the dev forum.
Posted from my DL09 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo

dcow90 said:
1. You need ROM Manager. It can be downloaded from the market. Free or paid both work.
2. Use ROM Manager to install the ClockWorkMod recovery. NOTE: after you install the recovery, there will be something named update.zip on the root of your sd card. Don't **** with that..
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You will also need to flash CWM using Odin. Flashing through ROM manager alone won't install

I think that's why it hasn't been working then cause I haven't flashed through odin I tried that jt voodoo kernal and it kept on failing when i attempted to flash it
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Rom Manager

Ok guys so here is a little something i have been working on for yall. some of you may know rom manager and all its abilities (download roms and flash them without needing a computer, aka "OTA custom roms") well its done. only one team has the roms up and listed right now. now here is for the issues;
-rom manager does not recognize anything but 2.5.1.0 which is the first version of cwm we had going. afaik there are no plans to let it see cwm3 on teh epic
-any roms put on the list will be under premium, sorry ive tried talking to koush but this means you would need to have rom manager premium
now i am hoping we can get more rom devs up on the list and push for cwm3 to be recognized so that users of a certain rom can get notifications of updates and download them via wifi/4g/3g whenever they want. obviously i dont expect people to pay for the premium rom manager when they cant get the free one working.
if any rom devs wish to have their roms added to the list i will not do it for you but after a couple of hours of screwing with the lists (they are javascript.... >.<) i can offer some help on what may not be working. i am in the irc channels almost all the time, if you cant reach me there then shoot me a pm..
P.S. you may be wondering why i posted this in general eh? because this is partially for devs, but its for the users of the epic.. if this is a feature you want then yall need to speak up cuz as it stands now its pretty useless, im hoping by putting this out there that there will be enough of a cry for it that the situation gets handled and then everyone can use koush's awesome program

shabbypenguin said:
Ok guys so here is a little something i have been working on for yall. some of you may know rom manager and all its abilities (download roms and flash them without needing a computer, aka "OTA custom roms") well its done. only one team has the roms up and listed right now. now here is for the issues;
-rom manager does not recognize anything but 2.5.1.0 which is the first version of cwm we had going. afaik there are no plans to let it see cwm3 on teh epic
-any roms put on the list will be under premium, sorry ive tried talking to koush but this means you would need to have rom manager premium
now i am hoping we can get more rom devs up on the list and push for cwm3 to be recognized so that users of a certain rom can get notifications of updates and download them via wifi/4g/3g whenever they want. obviously i dont expect people to pay for the premium rom manager when they cant get the free one working.
if any rom devs wish to have their roms added to the list i will not do it for you but after a couple of hours of screwing with the lists (they are javascript.... >.<) i can offer some help on what may not be working. i am in the irc channels almost all the time, if you cant reach me there then shoot me a pm..
P.S. you may be wondering why i posted this in general eh? because this is partially for devs, but its for the users of the epic.. if this is a feature you want then yall need to speak up cuz as it stands now its pretty useless, im hoping by putting this out there that there will be enough of a cry for it that the situation gets handled and then everyone can use koush's awesome program
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I thought this app was a cool idea when I first saw it..... then I realized it didn't work, and I never installed it anymore. if you can get it going, that would be awesome.... you've got my vote!

yogi2010 said:
I thought this app was a cool idea when I first saw it..... then I realized it didn't work, and I never installed it anymore. if you can get it going, that would be awesome.... you've got my vote!
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He got it working <_<'
Thanks a bunch shabby! This should help with user error issues when it comes to flashing =D

I never see any roms when I go to download roms and I have the premium I thought that was bs.
Epic 4g

jbadboy2007 said:
I never see any roms when I go to download roms and I have the premium I thought that was bs.
Epic 4g
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tahts because no one ever took the time to post em on there. im hoping to change that

I'm currently running cwm3; but when I open ROM Manager it tell me im running 2.5.1.0...
With that said.. I wonder if it'll work? ;p

wait you get rom manager to work with cwm3???

shabbypenguin said:
wait you get rom manager to work with cwm3???
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No no no. I'm a moron disregard what I said haha.
All thats happened is ROM Manager thinks I'm running 2.5.1.0 when I'm not.
But; shouldn't this just be a redirector issue?

right but even with it thinking you have 2.5.1.0, what version of cwm do you have? does it pop up and ask you to install cwm version x.x.x.x???

I'm running cwm 3 running ext4.
Rom manager works on the phone; but anytime it needs to go into cwm it fails.
It'll hang at the sammy logo. Pulling the battery and powering the phone up normally does the same.
However..doing the three button recovery boot it attempts to load cwm and fails then gives me the Triangle with an Exclamation point inside it..along with the green android.

so how do you get into recovery? also is it 3.0.0.5 or 3.0.0.6?

shabbypenguin said:
so how do you get into recovery? also is it 3.0.0.5 or 3.0.0.6?
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3.0.0.6
I'm unable to get into recovery through the manager it self. Once I do the three finger salute..it attempts to load and fails; I pull battery and just hold the power button and it loads into cwm.

ok so sounds like 3.0.0.6 is sorta working but we just need to be able to get into recovery normally now....
3.0.0.5 is confirmed to not be working at all

I would love this... had premium on my hero, but sadly I cannot use it on my epic.
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shabbypenguin said:
ok so sounds like 3.0.0.6 is sorta working but we just need to be able to get into recovery normally now....
3.0.0.5 is confirmed to not be working at all
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Seems to me like it's just a redirector issue; but I've yet to dig into this too deeply so I could be wrong.
It seems to work fine..it just has issues loading directly into cwm.

Hey peeps hopefully someone here can help with almost similar problem.
I used one click root with cwm recovery 2.5.5 in both 2.1 DI18 and EB13. The recovery installed just fine on both.
When I download Rom manager from clockworkmod it doesnt detect that the recovery is installed. I cant do anything without installing the recovery according to ROM manager.
BUT it is installed! Why doesnt it detect it??
How can I get the rom manager to see that I do have clockworkmod recovery 2.5.5 installed?
Or is it not possible yet? I too am a suckered premium owner.

ErlyD said:
Hey peeps hopefully someone here can help with almost similar problem.
I used one click root with cwm recovery 2.5.5 in both 2.1 DI18 and EB13. The recovery installed just fine on both.
When I download Rom manager from clockworkmod it doesnt detect that the recovery is installed. I cant do anything without installing the recovery according to ROM manager.
BUT it is installed! Why doesnt it detect it??
How can I get the rom manager to see that I do have clockworkmod recovery 2.5.5 installed?
Or is it not possible yet? I too am a suckered premium owner.
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I don't think that ROM Manager can detect recoveries on the phones partitions. I believe it downloads and installs recovery to the sd card.

I some how managed to get an older recovery installed 2.5.1 But still get "an error occured while downloading your recovery." when I click any option and select samsung epic from the prompted list. In an attempt to install the recovery.
If it doesn't install to the fixed partitions how does it install the recovery to boot from? I thought thats where it had to be? That would mean the current recovery I have is in the SD card? then a simple edit of a file would allow it to be detected?

ErlyD said:
I some how managed to get an older recovery installed 2.5.1 But still get "an error occured while downloading your recovery." when I click any option and select samsung epic from the prompted list. In an attempt to install the recovery.
If it doesn't install to the fixed partitions how does it install the recovery to boot from? I thought thats where it had to be? That would mean the current recovery I have is in the SD card? then a simple edit of a file would allow it to be detected?
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I believe ROM Manager uses the stock recovery to redirect to a zip file on the sd. If the redirector isn't set up right it won't work. The One-Clicks we use to install CWM install it to fixed partition.

I do see that the ACS team is on board with this, hope to see more support soon. On my buddies Fastinate there is quite a bit to work with in Rom Manager, it is a very cool option.
Thanks to all the Dev's
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[Q] Non rooted Gingerbread Stock - Custom Revery Which one ??

Hi,
My warranty has just run out on my Nexus One so I've decided to unlock the bootloader.
My Aim is to get from stock non rooted Gingerbread to rooted Gingerbread with busybox, SU, and ultimately being able to boot into ubunto in chroot, I've been reading up on all this for a few days now but just need a small amount of help with Recovery, Gingerbread ROM choice, and the order that thing should be done, by someone who's done this before.
I take it the first thing is to install SDK and get The USB Driver working on PC, its running XP by the way.
Then I unlock the bootloader, !HELP! to do this do I enter hboot or fastboot, before connecting the phone to the PC? I have to copy 3 files somewhere and use ADB and run command for **** OEM unlock, can't remember the exact command, (I've got instructions for this) and then agree to void my warranty etc.
I then find and download the correct custom recovery image and copy this into the tools folder of the SDK. And install (got instructions for this to).
!HELP!
Which custom recovery image should I use? and which Rooted Gingerbread ROM is most popular ?
After installing the custom Recovery can I just flash a custom ROM? I've seen something about SU.zip mentioned, is this necessary?
If I can just flash a custom ROM, I do this by downloading and copying the custom ROM of choice to the root of my SD card. Start phone in recovery mode and install from SD? I then install the google add ons .zip (if required) using the same method.
Sorry for such a long post and so many questions but I can find all the information for what I'd like to achieve but not in one place and nowhere in any chronological order.
Any advice appreciated .

Please read the Wiki, "Root" guides, "Unlock bootloader and install custom ROM" thread. Execute until the point of installing custom ROM.
Look in "Recovery" section for recoveries, install the latest Amon_RA.

Ive Successfully Rooted Gingerbread by following this method http://chensun.net/android-development/root-nexus-one-with-android-2-3-3-gingerbread/8/

GB ROM
Im running CM7RC4 and am happy w/ it

MouseIdt said:
Ive Successfully Rooted Gingerbread by following this method http://chensun.net/android-development/root-nexus-one-with-android-2-3-3-gingerbread/8/
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Thanks everyone, but this looks like the one for me, going to unlock bootloader now install custom recovery and flash su.zip.
I'll post back with how I went on. Wish me look
A apprehensive newbie ;-)

Flash this as well, otherwise you will lose your custom recovery...
http://db.tt/cp7De8G
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Good show with unlocking the bootloader, it's the best way.
However... looking at your flag, you're in the UK... this means your phone is still in warranty, as we get 24 months.

Nooooo
Rusty! said:
Good show with unlocking the bootloader, it's the best way.
However... looking at your flag, you're in the UK... this means your phone is still in warranty, as we get 24 months.
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My understanding was 12 months but, your probably right. I've unlocked the bootloader now and fortunately my N1 is in good condition, funtioning correctly ( well at least for now, I'll have to cross that bridge if and when I get to it )
Getting on to custom recovery, I realised something wasn't quite right after my first attempt. I installed custom recovery but without su.zip on my SD card. I managed after rebooting my PC to complete the custom recovery with su.zip on the SD card and was successful in that I've got SU on my N1. However I am quite sure I do need to fix something with the recovery, can someone explain what method or how I do this now. I've unlocked the bootloader, I am rooted with gingerbread but with a dodgy recovery.
Or do I do exactly the same as I did with su.zip and push recovery from ADB and flash from SD card, making sure that fix-recovery.zip is indeed on the SD card.
Hope this makes sence?
Any help appreciated.

After I unlocked my n1 I used rom manager for everything else, first flashing clockwork mod, then selecting a stable cm 7 build and flashing that, since then I've done everything through recovery, flashing custom kernels and nightlie builds, I'm currently using cm7 rc4 highly recommend rover theme too!
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sparkyryan said:
After I unlocked my n1 I used rom manager for everything else, first flashing clockwork mod, then selecting a stable cm 7 build and flashing that, since then I've done everything through recovery, flashing custom kernels and nightlie builds, I'm currently using cm7 rc4 highly recommend rover theme too!
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I've got ROM Manager installed and if I want to try anything it tells me I have to flash clockwork mod recovery, I was unsure if It was safe to do this after using a completely different recovery image to get where I am now.
Sorry for being such a paranoid newbie, but we all got to start somewhere ;-)

sparkyryan said:
After I unlocked my n1 I used rom manager for everything else, first flashing clockwork mod, then selecting a stable cm 7 build and flashing that, since then I've done everything through recovery, flashing custom kernels and nightlie builds, I'm currently using cm7 rc4 highly recommend rover theme too!
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I think CM7 rc4 is next, I do want to get Linux up and running though, even if it's in a virtual environment (chroot). and deffinately would like to check some nice themes out, I've not even looked at themes yet, I suppose it's quite easy after unlocking bootloader, installing custom recovery then flashing su.zip though. But still any pointers where to start my quest wouldn't go a miss ;-)

Recovery
its safe to let rom manager flash clockwork,ive done it

I heared about amonRA but it seemed like clockworkmod was more commonly used so I went for that, but yeah it's fine to flash a new recovery, just remember that whilst it's rare things can go wrong, it's YOUR fault not anyone's here regardless of the advice you may get here if your phone gets bricked or screwed up.
That said I'm still new to this but I'm learning as I'm going, just remember to backup your phone using rom manager before doing anything major so that you can always recover your phone/rom.
I started out hacking my nokia 5800 so was keen to have a go with the android platform.
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CM7 stable
Have you upgraded to cm 7 stable? its a definate upgrade