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Flash roms from "rom manager"

Is it possible to flash roms directly from Rom Manager without having to start via recovery?
My question is because I cant start my phone in fastboot, recovery, bootloader etc. The screen turns all black if I try anything.
So in Rom Manager there is an option "Flash Rom from SD-card"...pretty much the same that you can see in recovery from clockworkmod. And if I click on it, then I can wipe data and cache also.
Is this a way to flash roms for me if I cant make it to recovery or start the phone in fastboot?

Yes you can flash roms directly from ROM Manager, that is how I do it atleast

nice, will test this! if it doesnt automaticly boots in recovery for the flashingprocess? Or does the rom manager creates a own recovery maybe?

It boots into Clockworkmod recovery I think

Infinitum said:
It boots into Clockworkmod recovery I think
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Yes it did! and cant boot into that!! Really this is a annoying thing for me!
And I cant run unrevoked again either because I cant boot into HBOOT, so cant install the android bootloader interface. AAAAHH!

Try installing a recovery from rom manager. If there is some problem with the original recovery, it might help. This works by placing the recovery image as 'update.zip' under your sdcard and rebooting. That will her flashed and HOPEFULLY you will have a working recovery.

hackworks said:
Try installing a recovery from rom manager. If there is some problem with the original recovery, it might help. This works by placing the recovery image as 'update.zip' under your sdcard and rebooting. That will her flashed and HOPEFULLY you will have a working recovery.
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I have tryied that! Or do I have to do something after that? With the update.zip? Run it via astro or something?

Akerhage said:
I have tryied that! Or do I have to do something after that? With the update.zip? Run it via astro or something?
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Ensure you have the update.zip directly under your sdcard and go for a normal reboot. It should flash it and take you to recovery mode.

hackworks said:
Ensure you have the update.zip directly under your sdcard and go for a normal reboot. It should flash it and take you to recovery mode.
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Have that, and have tryed different versions on the recovery, still only black screen for me when trying this!

Have you tried pressing the power button when in the black screen? I was caught unawares when the recovery mod boot and stays in the cloclworkmod image and not go to the options. I have to press the power button to reach the recovery mod options. I have run out of ideas, sorry.

hackworks said:
Have you tried pressing the power button when in the black screen? I was caught unawares when the recovery mod boot and stays in the cloclworkmod image and not go to the options. I have to press the power button to reach the recovery mod options. I have run out of ideas, sorry.
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Thanks for the effort! Have tryed it like 100 times, but cant make it into recovery! Have to take the battery out and restart the phone in normal mode. Thats all I can do, and have tryed all different ways to make it into recovery.
(from rom manager, voldown+power), restart-->recovery, restart-->bootloader)
same results every time...maybe works if I get a new battery or new sdcard or something!

CW Rom Manager can't boot into recovery - freeze at HTC splash screen

Searched, but couldn't find an answer to this. I rooted and installed ROM Manager so I can do a nandroid backup before installing a custom ROM. However, when I press back up in ROM Manager, it restarts and hangs/freezes on the HTC MyTouch 4g splash screen.
What am I doing wrong?

Have you flashed CWM recovery after installing Rom Manager. You must flash the recovery before you can backup/restore or install roms. I almost did that myself but luckily i read the thread concerning it again and flashed REcovery before trying to back up rom.

Yeah, I did that first and the problem remains. I just uninstalled and reinstalled ROM Manager and am about to try "backup current rom" again (unless I should reboot into recovery and back up from clockwork recovery?).

FWIW; Current recovery is ClockworkMod 2.5.1.2

anyone?

Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I just started getting exactly the same. Cant reboot manually into clockwork recovery or from Rom manager :/

If you have flashed a recovery beyond that supported by ROM manager, you will not be able to perform recovery functions from the app (i.e. backup). CW3 is required for CM7 ROMs, but will not be supported by ROM manager until the CM7 RC drops. You can still manually boot to recovery (I always Vol up when powering then select Recovery) and if you have CM7 nightly installed, it has a "reboot to recovery" option in the reboot menu.

You need CWM3 to use CM7.

neronian said:
anyone?
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Sometimes it is necessary to flash clockwork recovery more than once before it will actually stick. Also, occasionally it will freeze on the splashscreen after a backup, but a battery pull and turning out the phone should be fine.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Here's what's going on:
The Clockworkmod Recovery that you can download from the Market only supports up to CyanogenMod 6.x. For CM7, you need to install Clockworkmod Recovery 3.x, but that version isn't available on the Market yet.
What this means is that you need to find the image file for a CWR 3.x on these forums and manually install it through either a terminal emulator or fastboot. The post below explains how to do it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10862819&postcount=3
If you flash CM7 using CWR 2.x, your phone won't boot. There's just no way around it.

hammondnav said:
Here's what's going on:
The Clockworkmod Recovery that you can download from the Market only supports up to CyanogenMod 6.x. For CM7, you need to install Clockworkmod Recovery 3.x, but that version isn't available on the Market yet.
What this means is that you need to find the image file for a CWR 3.x on these forums and manually install it through either a terminal emulator or fastboot. The post below explains how to do it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10862819&postcount=3
If you flash CM7 using CWR 2.x, your phone won't boot. There's just no way around it.
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Careful with the terminology there. ROM Manager, the app you download from the Market, is a GUI front-end to the CWM recovery image, but you can download and install CWM without using ROM Manager at all. Just because you have ROM Manager installed doesn't mean that CWM recovery is also successfully installed.

TeeJay3800 said:
Careful with the terminology there. ROM Manager, the app you download from the Market, is a GUI front-end to the CWM recovery image, but you can download and install CWM without using ROM Manager at all. Just because you have ROM Manager installed doesn't mean that CWM recovery is also successfully installed.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't imply that CW ROM Manager and CW Recovery are the same thing though...

hammondnav said:
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't imply that CW ROM Manager and CW Recovery are the same thing though...
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You said "the Clockworkmod Recovery that you can download from the Market", and that kinda does. No biggie though.

Just an update for my problem, it turned out that clockwork recovery had corrupted for whatever reason and couldn't be reinstalled from rom manager. As I wanted to test Cm7 anyways I just ended up flashing clockwork recovery 3 manually through fastboot and its all gravy again
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How to flash clockwork recovery from fastboot or fron clockwork recovery 2.51?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Thanks, everyone. What happened with mine, I have no idea, but I randomly opened rom manager and was greeted with an update to the recovery. So I downloaded it and voila - I can now boot into recovery and do backups, etc...

[Q] Help required to switch from amonRA recovery to clockworkmod

Hi all,
I have a amonRA recovery installed in my tattoo and have made a nandbackup. Now i want to switch to Clockworkmod recovery. Can i somehow use the nand backup from amonRA recovery in clockworkmod recovery???
PLEASE HELP!!!!

If you used the one click root and recovery method, just stick the downloaded clockword recovery .img file in the sdcard folder. Run the recovery script, and you're done!

sharath.cheeku said:
Hi all,
I have a amonRA recovery installed in my tattoo and have made a nandbackup. Now i want to switch to Clockworkmod recovery. Can i somehow use the nand backup from amonRA recovery in clockworkmod recovery???
PLEASE HELP!!!!
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When the clockworkMod is installed, with the new menu you are able to make backup
all the times the you need.

sharath.cheeku said:
Hi all,
I have a amonRA recovery installed in my tattoo and have made a nandbackup. Now i want to switch to Clockworkmod recovery. Can i somehow use the nand backup from amonRA recovery in clockworkmod recovery???
PLEASE HELP!!!!
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NO
u cant
amonRA recovery backup only use in amonRA

Switch from AmonRA to ClockworkMod
laughingcavalier said:
If you used the one click root and recovery method, just stick the downloaded clockword recovery .img file in the sdcard folder. Run the recovery script, and you're done!
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Where can I find the recovery script??? I have installed Amon-RA using ADB console. I want to flash CM7 and getting "Status 7 error". Want to install ClockWorkMod Recovery. But when I do it from ROM Manager, it always goes to RA-Tattoo Recovery mode...not into ClockWorkMod. Not able to flash CWM from ADB...
Cld u pls help me in switching from Amon-RA to ClockworkMod Recovery.
Or How can I uninstall Amon-RA ???

How to Up-/Downgrade Clockworkmod Recovery?

Hey guys, I am new here and at first I have to say sorry for my bad english :S
However, here is my Problem:
I just made my Wildfire ( Froyo 2.2.1; HBOOT with .01 at end) S-OFF and rooted it manually with this *KLICK* Method.
The Clockworkmod Recovery, which is now on my phone, is Version 3.0.0.6...
And here is the Problem, I can not flash custom Roms based on 2.2.1, it only allow to flash Roms based on 2.3+ and I have no Idea how to update to a newer Version which allow it or to downgrade to an older Version which definitely allow it ...
Any Idea or Solution?
eversearcher

Get ROM manager
click Flash Recovery
wait
click Reboot into Recovery
If you want to use recovery 3.0 reboot the phone into HBOOT and select it from there.
If you want to use recovery 2.5 use rom manager.

or you can use fastboot to install

i`ve got the same problem and i still can't flash less than 2.3+

xanthrax said:
i`ve got the same problem and i still can't flash less than 2.3+
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2nd post of this thread. Flash recovery from rom manager and reboot to recovery from the option in rom manager itself.
If u still face issues, then reboot to recovery and select "install zip from sdcard" and then select "choose zip from sdcard". Then choose the path sdcard/clockworkmod/download/ and enter the sub folders where you find 2.x recovery. Flash it first to get 2.x recovery on the fly. Then you can start the installation of 2.2 roms .
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

Thanks for the answers! I will try it tonight and report if it worked
edit: Worked just fine!! Thank you very much!

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

since I am facing the same problem.... where can I get the .img version of the .zip clockwork recovery??

thanx !
i figured out now !!! i was a little bit obsessed to flash openfire and some old roms but now i came back to cm7 ... and for gps to work i just reflashed radio

I cannot flash cwm recovery v4. with s-off unrevoke doesnot do so and installing it from hboot or recovery 2.5 does not work. any clues?

You have to rename the ZIP file (!) of cwm recovery 4 to "PC49IMG.zip" and than put it in the root of your sd card.
Start to HBOOT (S-OFF!) and click yes when it asks for update.
It should work this way...

this is will not work, signing lost by renameing. best way is get android sdk,when phone restart in fastboot mode, in pc go to cmd (cd to C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools) or where ever you android_sdk installed. extract recovery.img to same folder, insert command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (recovery.img can be a any name.img)

rolks said:
this is will not work, signing lost by renameing.
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I made it this way and worked just fine 0.o
For those how have the same Problem, just have a try, if it do not work try rolks method ...

Stuck with Recovery

Hey, I currently have a CWM based recovery on my phone. But the problem is that I can't change it, I want to get a newer version so I can flash CM 10.2 on my phone. I've tryed to install recoveries with Odin, ADB, Terminal Emulator and even those ROM Manager and GooManager. But each time I try to boot into recovery and see if it works, it still the same old CWM based one. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

rimatox said:
Hey, I currently have a CWM based recovery on my phone. But the problem is that I can't change it, I want to get a newer version so I can flash CM 10.2 on my phone. I've tryed to install recoveries with Odin, ADB, Terminal Emulator and even those ROM Manager and GooManager. But each time I try to boot into recovery and see if it works, it still the same old CWM based one. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Download the recovery for your phone from here in .img format
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Copy to the phone
then from the playstore install this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.bvgemert.flasher&hl=en_GB
Open the app, navigate to where you copied the .img recovery and flash it

winwiz said:
Download the recovery for your phone from here in .img format
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Copy to the phone
then from the playstore install this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.bvgemert.flasher&hl=en_GB
Open the app, navigate to where you copied the .img recovery and flash it
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Thank you for the fast reply! I will try my best.

winwiz said:
Download the recovery for your phone from here in .img format
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Copy to the phone
then from the playstore install this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.bvgemert.flasher&hl=en_GB
Open the app, navigate to where you copied the .img recovery and flash it
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I'm currently on a 4.3 rom, and when I try to flash it tells me that this rom isn't supported yet. :/