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I have used ROM manager before without any problems in my phone running on Eugene's Kanged C6 Rom. But now, after installing Eugene's RC-4, ROM manager all I get is a black screen with a red question mark. If I do nothing it restarts automatically. But if I press vol up-power, I get a message telling that it does not find the update file.
Any ideas?
TY

Check to make sure update.zip is indeed on your sdcard

elliotshoe said:
Check to make sure update.zip is indeed on your sdcard
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Checked, update.zip is on sd card.
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lol Just asked this in the Q&A section...
I get the same thing you do, and looking for an answer. Ive seen people swear by it in other threads with the slide

Try to remove the update.zip and then reinstall it on the SD card. Have you tried the new Clockworkmod recovery update.zip? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713429

Premium version
I'm just wondering if anyone is having trouble downloading it from the market. So far it's staying on the "Authorizing Purchase".

mine just fails sig check but i dont have the eng build flashed and i think that is my prob

Clockwork 3.0.0

Can any give me a link to the newest cw recovery?
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fliint said:
Can any give me a link to the newest cw recovery?
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http://mrcellphoneunlocker.com/recovery.img

Download it from the RomManager.

Thanks
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its not on the rom manager, (yet)

gnunixguy said:
Download it from the RomManager.
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Rom manager doesn't list 3.0, only 2.5.1.4 as being the latest

ROMmanager is 3.0.0.2 the recovery has not changed since november 10.
There's nothing wrong with cwm. Maybe one will come with GB.
vision

Does this recovery fix the "off issue" what's new in it?

PlatinumMOTO said:
Does this recovery fix the "off issue" what's new in it?
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Support for ext4 file systems, that GB uses. If you're using any Android 2.2 based ROM, stay with CWM 2.5.1.3.
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AllWin said:
Support for ext4 file systems, that GB uses. If you're using any Android 2.2 based ROM, stay with CWM 2.5.1.4.
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For latest mine says 2.5.1.3

omarsalmin said:
For latest mine says 2.5.1.3
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Sorry, that was a typo. Fixed.

i see what you mean... and i just installed 3.0.0 and its my color - orange
-- this is just for the gingerbread build by RHCP I am crazy because I am flashing gingerbread to my phone right now. i think ive gone insane.

androidcues said:
i see what you mean... and i just installed 3.0.0 and its my color - orange
-- this is just for the gingerbread build by RHCP I am crazy because I am flashing gingerbread to my phone right now. i think ive gone insane.
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let us know the results? did your g2 survive?

can anyone let us know if any problems have been discovered with this so far?

warsng said:
let us know the results? did your g2 survive?
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Yes it did --- I kinda jumped into it and did not really heed Cyanogen's big fat warnings... (reckless flashing) and I couldnt get gapps to flash -- the stuff from rhcp's CM7 thread -- but I got gingerbread going -- then I got distracted all night...woke up this morning trying to make the phone shape up for work -- that was a #fail and the battery seems horrible (then again by no means was it a proper battery test) -- so I decided to restore and that involved new drivers..(for some reason my SDK at work couldnt find the phone so I had to reinstall a fresh SDK (which i named gbSDK)... then found the current recovery at mybrainhurts.com and erased 3.0.0 and fastbooted the froyo recovery back in and restored. easy pie --
gingerbread is a whole 'nother game -- i just hope theres a way to go back and forth between froyo and GB (and eclair/cupcake/donut) without having to fastboot erase and fastboot flash relevant recoveries.
I am sure folks want to know if the new one fixes the "off" mode...and the answer is - i dont know. I didnt check. i kind of hope not because its a feature rather than a bug. theres no quick way to get to recovery when the phone is off. (on to fboot then to hboot then to recovery is too much work)

Is it even worth it to upgrade at this point in time? I'm a bit worried as it seems to be working pretty damn good with what I'm doing now. No partitions on my SD card because I don't care to put apps on it (it's not the fastest class card anyway).

androidcues said:
Yes it did --- I kinda jumped into it and did not really heed Cyanogen's big fat warnings... (reckless flashing) and I couldnt get gapps to flash -- the stuff from rhcp's CM7 thread -- but I got gingerbread going -- then I got distracted all night...woke up this morning trying to make the phone shape up for work -- that was a #fail and the battery seems horrible (then again by no means was it a proper battery test) -- so I decided to restore and that involved new drivers..(for some reason my SDK at work couldnt find the phone so I had to reinstall a fresh SDK (which i named gbSDK)... then found the current recovery at mybrainhurts.com and erased 3.0.0 and fastbooted the froyo recovery back in and restored. easy pie --
gingerbread is a whole 'nother game -- i just hope theres a way to go back and forth between froyo and GB (and eclair/cupcake/donut) without having to fastboot erase and fastboot flash relevant recoveries.
I am sure folks want to know if the new one fixes the "off" mode...and the answer is - i dont know. I didnt check. i kind of hope not because its a feature rather than a bug. theres no quick way to get to recovery when the phone is off. (on to fboot then to hboot then to recovery is too much work)
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what exactly happened when you flashed the gapps?
at least it didn't fry your g2. i think i might give it a go once i hear a few more success stories. my main worry atm is the ext4 issue. i guess i could just wait until rc1 i guess.
by 'off mode', are you referring to s-off?

warsng said:
what exactly happened when you flashed the gapps?
at least it didn't fry your g2. i think i might give it a go once i hear a few more success stories. my main worry atm is the ext4 issue. i guess i could just wait until rc1 i guess.
by 'off mode', are you referring to s-off?
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I read the rhcp cm7 thread and i needed to unmount system before flashing the gapps. Thats why gapps failed because i didnt read!
By Off i meant how cw doesnt let the phone turn off when charging... i hope cw 3.0 lets us keep that feature.
Ill probably give it another go this weekend...it works its just if you wanna go back to froyo you need to replace recoveries manually..not a big deal but frankly gingerbread isnt all that more exciting than froyo. I feel i have what i need.in Froyo..the gb keyboard...the gb market... and thats fine with me.
vision

androidcues said:
I read the rhcp cm7 thread and i needed to unmount system before flashing the gapps. Thats why gapps failed because i didnt read!
By Off i meant how cw doesnt let the phone turn off when charging... i hope cw 3.0 lets us keep that feature.
Ill probably give it another go this weekend...it works its just if you wanna go back to froyo you need to replace recoveries manually..not a big deal but frankly gingerbread isnt all that more exciting than froyo. I feel i have what i need.in Froyo..the gb keyboard...the gb market... and thats fine with me.
vision
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appreciate the info , thanks.

Erase Recovery option
Call me naïve, but if people are making full-blown builds with an image recovery and everything from the CM gingerbread source (which includes the Clockwork Mod recovery 3.0.0 image if I'm reading the source properly), could you just go into ROM Manager, go into Settings, and check the "Erase Recovery" option to allow it to erase the recovery between flashes?
I would test this myself, but I need to go home and make myself fresh builds of CM7 and CM6.2 to try swapping/flashing back and forth between. I can report back once I get around to it later this afternoon.
If I understand that option correctly, applying a full flash of these alpha builds of CM7 should write the new recovery image (v3.0.0.0), and if you need to switch back to CM6, you should be able to just reflash a full build of 6.1.1/6.2 back and it will restore the older recovery image (v2.5.1.8 according to the latest froyo version).
EDIT: Negate that thought. Not sure how you would go about forcing the recovery image flash while in recovery. I got to research this a little more...

Please help!!!

ok, so I'm a little new at this. But I downloaded the newest version of Iced Glacier, and put it on the root of my phone, but it turns out that my stupid mac unzipped the folder, so I wasn't able to flash it. And for some reason my clockwork in recovery won't let me restore. Everytime I try to restore it just brings me to the original mytouch 4g boot screen.. So my phone can't function now, and I'm getting worried. Any help would be much appreciated!

Just reflash it from recovery without it being unzipped
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joeman55 said:
ok, so I'm a little new at this. But I downloaded the newest version of Iced Glacier, and put it on the root of my phone, but it turns out that my stupid mac unzipped the folder, so I wasn't able to flash it. And for some reason my clockwork in recovery won't let me restore. Everytime I try to restore it just brings me to the original mytouch 4g boot screen.. So my phone can't function now, and I'm getting worried. Any help would be much appreciated!
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You will need to redownload it and make sure it doesnt unzip it and then install it again as mark manning said.
If you want to restore your backup of a 2.2 rom you must use Clockworkmod recovery 3.0.0.6 or 2.5.1.2 . You can get 3.0.0.6 by making sure you have the latest Rom Manager from the market and then downloading and installing the zip I provide in the dev section or in my signature. You can DL it straight to your phone if you want just make sure to move it out of any folders on your sdcard before you try to install it.

TrueBlue_Drew said:
You will need to redownload it and make sure it doesnt unzip it and then install it again as mark manning said.
If you want to restore your backup of a 2.2 rom you must use Clockworkmod recovery 3.0.0.6 or 2.5.1.2 . You can get 3.0.0.6 by making sure you have the latest Rom Manager from the market and then downloading and installing the zip I provide in the dev section or in my signature. You can DL it straight to your phone if you want just make sure to move it out of any folders on your sdcard before you try to install it.
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The only problem with that is I can't get anything into the root of my sd card since my phone can't boot up..

joeman55 said:
The only problem with that is I can't get anything into the root of my sd card since my phone can't boot up..
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In recovery you can mount your usb... its near the bottom under mount, then mount usb
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thanks! so now I've got cm7 up and running, can't seem to find the market app, it won't sync with my gmail acnt either.. kinda missing the stock os

joeman55 said:
thanks! so now I've got cm7 up and running, can't seem to find the market app, it won't sync with my gmail acnt either.. kinda missing the stock os
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You need to flash the GAPP.zip same way you flashed your rom go to the CM thread you will see it. Once GApp.zip is flashed you will be able to use Market, GMail, ect other Google related service. Normally CM can't supply these packages as they are not allowed to distribute.
http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-gb-20110120-signed.zip
Click the link download it and flash it from SDCard though recovery.

Stupid Question Flashing CM7

I want to test CM7 to see what its about. Do I need to have Gingerbread in order to flash it? I already have Royal Glacier 1.3 flashed currently.

Don_Perrignon said:
I want to test CM7 to see what its about. Do I need to have Gingerbread in order to flash it? I already have Royal Glacier 1.3 flashed currently.
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edit, nandroid backup of course
do a full wipe and flash cm7
when i say a full wipe, i mean everything, sdcard is optional, but recommended
that being said, anything on your sdcard will be deleted, so copy files such as pictures music and backups, part7backup too, somewhere safe and accessibly
then mount sdcard(plug your phone into the computer first) its under the mounts and storace in recovery and transfer the rom, in your case cm7, and any other pics and music and such back to your sdcard
unmount sdcard after file transfer completes
the flash the rom and reboot
done
and btw, royal glacier is a froyo rom, cm7 is a gingerbread rom! just an FYI

Don_Perrignon said:
I want to test CM7 to see what its about. Do I need to have Gingerbread in order to flash it? I already have Royal Glacier 1.3 flashed currently.
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No, but you have to have the most recent version of clockwordmod recovery flashed to your phone to get it to work...i think you have to have 3.x...the version on my phone is 3.0.2.4
oh, and ALWAYS back up before you do this but im sure you already know that if you have royal ginger

colbyrainey said:
No, but you have to have the most recent version of clockwordmod recovery flashed to your phone to get it to work...i think you have to have 3.x...the version on my phone is 3.0.2.4
oh, and ALWAYS back up before you do this but im sure you already know that if you have royal ginger
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Thank you. Yeah, I'm backed up. I have the latest version. Just needed to know if I needed to have Gingerbread first. I just want to do some testing. Again, thank you.

Nope no need for Gingerbread

[Recovery] ClockworkMod Recovery flashable from bootloader

Someone asked if it was possible to flash ClockworkMod Recovery through hboot instead of using RomManager. The answer...yes.
Primary reason something of this nature may be useful, as I see it, is if your recovery is damaged, your ROM is bootlooping, and you don't want to use or have access to ADB.
In that case you would:
remove your sdcard from your phone
place the zip on the root of the sdcard (using an adapter or another phone) and make sure it is named the appropriate "PG05IMG.zip"
place the sdcard back in your phone
boot to bootloader as if you're installing a radio (power+VolDown from powerOff). It will then find the zip, recognize it as recovery and ask if you want to install (if it does not prompt then select "Bootloader" from hboot).
Follow the instructions and after it finishes flashing pull your battery to power off (since the ROM will be bootlooping and hboot will constantly find the zip)
Now remove the sdcard and delete the zip (via adapter or other phone) like you did to put it on the sdcard, then place the card back in the phone.
Boot back to bootloader (Pwr+VolDwn)
Select "Recovery" and use CWR to wipe data/cache, flash a new rom, restore, or whatever you wish.
Obviously not the only reason since some people prefer this method over RM but clearly in that case the whole sdcard switching mess is unnecessary. Just do steps 2 and 4 and reboot when prompted like you do with radios.
Remember to remove any PGO5IMG.zip from your sdcard when done.
If this isn't useful to you, so be it. I just figured I'd throw this out there. Maybe it will help someone.
I will keep this updated as new versions come out for those few that find it useful.
**Credit to Koush and jcase**
All I did was decide to throw them in a zip that was useful in some situations for panicking users.
Updates
8/9/2011: Added latest official stable for mecha (4.0.1.5) released 8/8/2011.
8/30/2011: Added latest official stable for mecha (5.0.0.1) released less than an hour ago. Added mirror.
8/31/2011: Added latest official stable for mecha (5.0.0.8)
9/1/2011: Added latest official stable for mecha (5.0.1.0)
9/5/2011: Added latest official stable for mecha (5.0.2.1)
2/1/2012: Added touch based CWR released this morning (5.8.0.2) *NOTE: Have not personally tested.
If any of these cause problems please let me know immediately.
Latest Official=5.0.2.1
jcase modded=4.0.0.5
Mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?9zt68cegl6qa3
MD5:
66750618ecfba292c0b0e42c50c2c3ee - (CWR3.1.0.2)PG05IMG.zip
1f390edad7e87310fe80b3264a57b14b - (CWR4.0.0.5)PG05IMG.zip
6aac529cedcd2b22afac7391a4cb7efb - (CWR4.0.1.5)PG05IMG.zip
bf25b2601441b9fffb7d68954c4ff3b5 - (CWR5.0.0.1)PG05IMG.zip
dfe1ddf0c574977ee2c1828735ef2dc0 - (CWR5.0.0.8)PG05IMG.zip
8474c8d607177b0144eec624dea687b7 - (CWR5.0.1.0)PG05IMG.zip
c4c1d9c5e553fd7b151352551b931369 - (CWR5.0.2.1)PG05IMG.zip
58557e1e355c795d748c2e6c66251f0a - (CWR5.8.0.2)PG05IMG.zip

Absolute_Zero said:
Someone asked if it was possible to flash ClockworkMod Recovery through hboot instead of using RomManager. I didn't see the need at the time but I took a few minutes to throw together a test. Let me know if it works for you or not.
I tested flashing the stock recovery from the custom firmware, confirmed it had replaced CWR, then used this to install CWR back.
Primary reason something of this nature may be useful, as I see it, is if your recovery is damaged, your ROM is bootlooping, and you don't want or have access to ADB. In that case you would just pull your sdcard, place this on the root (via adapter or someone else's phone) named the appropriate "PG05IMG.zip", place back in your phone, and boot to bootloader as if you're installing a radio. It should then find it, recognize it as recovery and ask if you want to install.
Additionally, seems if it is as easy as swapping the .img out which is all I did, then the original custom upgrade firmware flashed in the last step of the root guide could include this. Then you'd have CWR immediately after finishing the permaroot guide.
If this doesn't work and doesn't have any use for anyone, so be it. I just figured I'd throw this out there.
BTW, this is ClockworkMod Recovery 3.1.0.2 (latest for mecha at time of posting).
Note1: Only tested on Engr hboot with S-off obviously
Note2: I don't have access to an MD5 generator where I am so people that test this should have a booting ROM with RomManager or at least know how to manually reflash ClockworkMod Recovery if it doesn't work.
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Good work.on this... A LOT of people are going enjoy it!! It is also a great way to install the modded 4.0.0.5 Clockwork with the boot to bootloader option.
I always had to "flash recovery" in adb.
Props!!
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good post will definitely come in hand props

DroidTh3ory said:
Good work.on this... A LOT of people are going enjoy it!! It is also a great way to install the modded 4.0.0.5 Clockwork with the boot to bootloader option.
I always had to "flash recovery" in adb.
Props!!
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There's a modded 4.0.0.5 CWM Recovery out there?? Where can I find the post for this ?

Sword.Zero said:
There's a modded 4.0.0.5 CWM Recovery out there?? Where can I find the post for this ?
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Post a link to it and I'll make one when I get home. That way I can test again. Hopefully the modded one you speak of is fully stable and functional.

Absolute_Zero said:
Post a link to it and I'll make one when I get home. That way I can test again. Hopefully the modded one you speak of is fully stable and functional.
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Here is your package with the 4.0.0.5 Modded Recovery ready to flash in HBOOT.
JCASE created the Recovery, so him the love for it. I all I have done is use it. LOL It gives you the option under "advanced" to "reboot bootloader". So you can install the ROM, then simply boot into boot loader to flash the radio.
View attachment (CWR4.0.0.5)PG05IMG.zip

DroidTh3ory said:
Here is your package with the 4.0.0.5 Modded Recovery ready to flash in HBOOT.
JCASE created the Recovery, so him the love for it. I all I have done is use it. LOL It gives you the option under "advanced" to "reboot bootloader". So you can install the ROM, then simply boot into boot loader to flash the radio.
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In your case it would probably be easier to just use flash_image from terminal on the phone (i.e. flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img) assuming your current rom has it (if not just search and download it) or you have RM installed. The main case I saw this being useful was if you didn't have or want to use ADB and your ROM was unusable (e.g. bootlooping). I may add Jcase's modded recovery to the OP as well since it seems useful/wanted by some.

I thought the one JCase made had issues with nandroid backups installing? I could be wrong but for some reason I remember that issue for several people.

Mustang302LX said:
I thought the one JCase made had issues with nandroid backups installing? I could be wrong but for some reason I remember that issue for several people.
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I have been using for a good month now on 3 different bolts... Never had a issue??

Absolute_Zero said:
Additionally, seems if it is as easy as swapping the .img out which is all I did, then the original custom upgrade firmware flashed in the last step of the root guide could include this. Then you'd have CWR immediately after finishing the permaroot guide.
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actually,thats allready how it is ive rooted mr2 twice and the mr1 upgrade allready has clockwork installed.
it is that easy,i have done this,and i have also removed the hboot and stock recovery from PG05IMG RUUs so that i could flash without destroying recovery and my eng bootloader.
thanks for putting it together and offering the download, it has many uses, as people will see. the biggest one allready having been mentioned,if something screws up your OS and recovery,its easy to get it back.
did you make up your own android info file? or what did you take it from?
again thanks for posting this,it was commonplace to install inc recoverys in hboot,and ive done it on the eris as well

DroidTh3ory said:
Here is your package with the 4.0.0.5 Modded Recovery ready to flash in HBOOT.
JCASE created the Recovery, so him the love for it. I all I have done is use it. LOL It gives you the option under "advanced" to "reboot bootloader". So you can install the ROM, then simply boot into boot loader to flash the radio.
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thanks for the download. has he put up any posts on it? or is it still being developed?

scotty1223 said:
thanks for the download. has he put up any posts on it? or is it still being developed?
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I believe he has it posted on rootzwiki
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cool,thanx... ill go over there and look for it.
edot:
here if anyone else wants it

Thanks for this. Just flashed 4.0.0.5 after being afraid/too lazy to do it through ADB (which is also a pain because I have it on my Windows partition whereas I regularly use Mac).

scotty1223 said:
actually,thats allready how it is ive rooted mr2 twice and the mr1 upgrade allready has clockwork installed.
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Figures. It was too simple of a concept not to have been done but I didn't see anyone that had done it in Tbolt. I also hadn't seen anyone mention it was in the custom firmware either and I didn't have time to check this morning before I left for work. I guess I can pull that part out of the OP since you say it's already in there.
thanks for putting it together and offering the download, it has many uses, as people will see. the biggest one allready having been mentioned,if something screws up your OS and recovery,its easy to get it back.
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Exactly my reasoning. I've seen to many people unaware of what to do in that situation
did you make up your own android info file? or what did you take it from?
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I checked a few from the firmware and radios and they all looked the same so I just pulled one of those.
again thanks for posting this,it was commonplace to install inc recoverys in hboot,and ive done it on the eris as well
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First HTC android phone I've owned but as I said, makes sense it would have been done a long time ago for other HTC phones.

DroidTh3ory said:
I believe he has it posted on rootzwiki
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Hey get out of here, you've got candy to make! I keeeed I keeeed! Great work on the recovery guys, VERY useful!
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DroidTh3ory said:
I have been using for a good month now on 3 different bolts... Never had a issue??
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Yup. Been using it since it's release. Restored many backups with absolutely no issues.

Absolute_Zero said:
Figures. It was too simple of a concept not to have been done but I didn't see anyone that had done it in Tbolt. I also hadn't seen anyone mention it was in the custom firmware either and I didn't have time to check this morning before I left for work. I guess I can pull that part out of the OP since you say it's already in there.
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id be willing to bet most people dont know,lol.they prolly just blindly downloAd rom manager and flash it. i checked to see if it was there,after seeing this as one of the last statements in the root post: Reboot your phone. You should now have full root permissions, an engineering kernel and recovery.
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First HTC android phone I've owned but as I said, makes sense it would have been done a long time ago for other HTC phones.
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its one of the things i really love about htc. i got used to installing recoverys,splash screens,etc. on my incredible,then started experimenting with img files on my eris,and discovered it was quite possible to simply move the images around kinda neat if you want to try a leaked ruu but dont want to wait for someone to post a CWM flashable roms. just pull out the hboot and stock recovery and flash away
it was quite common to manipulate things in hboot on the inc,but never mentioned in the eris forum,where most of the gurus frowned upon the s-off bootloader.kind of a shame... more bricked eris's prolly could have been revived after the clockwork fiasco if s-off was part of the common root process.
thanx for the android info info. when i make them up,it doesnt seem to matter which one i use. i dont think it even checks the text inside,i think you just need a text document titled "android info" lol

Thank you for the updated 5.0.0.1 cement recovery.

cam30era said:
Thank you for the updated 5.0.0.1 cement recovery.
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Autocorrect fail? or did you have a problem with 5.0.0.1?