Any chance of anyone porting Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) to the Inc? I'd give it a shot, but my computer is dead. It looks nice, and has great feature set, including better compatability with Goo Manager (think ROM Manager wotj CWM). Here's a handy little guide: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/23903-how-to-compile-twrp-from-source/
Edit: Now available from Goo Manager.
Sounds cool but I've actually used it on the Galaxy Nexus and have heard about numerous issues with flashing ROMs on that recovery as it doesn't use the standard method. It uses openrecovery scripts I believe. It does have some awesome features such as zip file queuing and faster and smaller backup support. I've actually switched back to CWM touch for that reason which is standard CWM but has a touch screen interface with gestures.
Sorry Pons, didn't mean to sound negative but it does come with some issues from my experience. There were quite a few issues after the devs of that recovery ported it. I may pass as it may be non-trivial to port.
I of course rather you be negative and honest than positive and not completely honest. I still will probably end up doing it myself (if no one else does before me) when I get a computer so I can experience it myself. Unless of course I'm too (hopefully) busy with my new toy that I'm waiting to be released, the Inc 4g. Thanks for the heads up.
i had one built and booting, but it was very buggy and not usable
TWRP on Dinc
I tried flashing TWRP 2.2.2.2 from the goomanager app, but booting into recovery seems to go straight into a stock recovery. (I don't know if it does that by default since TWRP doesn't work) Does anyone have TWRP working on their Dinc? It would be cool to be able to use goomanager to flash Pon's CM10, rather than going into CWM, wipe, wipe, flash, flash, reboot.
spectre559 said:
I tried flashing TWRP 2.2.2.2 from the goomanager app, but booting into recovery seems to go straight into a stock recovery. (I don't know if it does that by default since TWRP doesn't work) Does anyone have TWRP working on their Dinc? It would be cool to be able to use goomanager to flash Pon's CM10, rather than going into CWM, wipe, wipe, flash, flash, reboot.
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TWRP works on mine. I use it to flash my ROM, then gapps from Goo Manager. I got it from Goo Manager app as well. Try installing it again.
Been using it on CM9 for a few weeks with no problems. Thought I saw somewhere that it may take a couple of reflashes to make it stick.
...sorry...I was on the phone...
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TWRP works on mine. I use it to flash my ROM, then gapps from Goo Manager. I got it from Goo Manager app as well. Try installing it again.
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That got it! Thanks!
Just replaced my battery and noticed that TWRP doesn't have an option to wipe battery stats. Am I missing it?
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First things first, if you flashed a previous version of Clockwork Recovery using Odin, FLASH BACK TO A STOCK KERNEL using this Odin package:
http://koush.tandtgaming.com//test/kernel-captivate-stock.tar.md5
This recovery is *very* safe to use. It does NOT flash your kernel; it is a completely uninvasive recovery method.
How it works: The recovery is packaged as an update.zip that you run from STOCK recovery. The update.zip unpacks Clockwork Recovery onto the ramdisk and restarts recovery. When you reboot, it reverts back to the original, unmodified, stock recovery. So, you will need to keep the recovery on the root of your SD card as an update.zip, and apply the zip every time you want to start Clockwork.
HOWEVER, if you use ROM Manager, all of the recovery installation and management instructions are done for you!
Installation instructions:
Download ROM Manager from the Market.
Flash Recovery.
Choose Captivate as your phone.
Accept the Superuser prompt.
Use ROM Manager to create a Backup.
On the very FIRST boot of Clockwork, you may need to manually select "reinstall packages" if Clockwork does not start. You should only ever have to do this once. It will be automatic from then on.
Watch the backup go!
That's it! This is completely painless and safe! There is no need for Odin anymore to replace the recovery or flash updates!
If you appreciate my work, please buy the Premium version of ROM Manager!
Sweet!
Nandroid'd!
Ah yeah....smooth like butter baby!!! Great work once again. Remember to donate people!!!
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Ah yeah....smooth like butter baby!!! Great work once again. Remember to donate people!!!
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For us Noobs, can we get more information on where and when to use this?
In reading everything I get some of it, but not all. This is my first hackable android phone, so I am still learning the lingo.
With other phones, I would just Flash a custom ROM or Flash Factory ROM back.
So how do ROM Manager and Clockwork recovery come into play?
Are there any tutorials - not that just give step by step (like above) but explain what is happening in each step or why?
alphadog00 said:
For us Noobs, can we get more information on where and when to use this?
In reading everything I get some of it, but not all. This is my first hackable android phone, so I am still learning the lingo.
With other phones, I would just Flash a custom ROM or Flash Factory ROM back.
So how do ROM Manager and Clockwork recovery come into play?
Are there any tutorials - not that just give step by step (like above) but explain what is happening in each step or why?
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The long and short of it is that you can now flash ROMs and make backups, and restore, without your computer.
The recovery is the tool that lets you do the backups and installations. ROM Manager is a convenient Android front end to the recovery.
After these steps you won't really have to "hack" your phone lol. Root your phone and download Rom Manager from the Android market...then have it flash a recovery (the first selection at the top) choose your device when prompted. Now after that finishes select "reboot into recovery" and as the above post states you may need to select "reinstall packages" (I did). Once that goes through, you'll see your new custom recovery menu. DO A NANDROID BACKUP of your current Rom as soon as you can....then (as long as your current rom isn't messed up, if its stock your fine) from there on out you can play as much as you want with very little risk of bricking your phone. There are others who can explain it better but your stuck with me till they chime in lol. Its a very easy process and nearly foolproof.
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That's it! This is completely painless and safe! There is no need for Odin anymore to replace the recovery or flash updates!
If you appreciate my work, please buy the Premium version of ROM Manager!
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Awesome work! Premium version has been purchased by me. Thank you for the efforts.
Didn't work at first for me.
I installed Rom Manager (premium)
Installed CW recovery
Accepted SU
Tried to backup from within Rom Manager
I got a "Can't find update.zip" message.
When I rebooted and opened Rom Manager again, I got the "Error Occured" message, but it locked up on me and became unresponsive.
I uninstalled Rom Manager, rebooted, then reinstalled. I flashed CW recovery again, rebooted normally, opened rom manager again, and flashed CW recovery again.
After that I was able to use rom manager to reboot into recovery and backup.
Not sure if mine was just a fluke or what, but I figured I would share.
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Didn't work at first for me.
I installed Rom Manager (premium)
Installed CW recovery
Accepted SU
Tried to backup from within Rom Manager
I got a "Can't find update.zip" message.
When I rebooted and opened Rom Manager again, I got the "Error Occured" message, but it locked up on me and became unresponsive.
I uninstalled Rom Manager, rebooted, then reinstalled. I flashed CW recovery again, rebooted normally, opened rom manager again, and flashed CW recovery again.
After that I was able to use rom manager to reboot into recovery and backup.
Not sure if mine was just a fluke or what, but I figured I would share.
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Titanium Backup did that to me also the first time I ran it....I've had quite a few freezes and slowdowns when opening a program for the first time and waiting for SU to kick in.
It should also be noted that when you chose to partition the sdcard via the recovery menu, it partitions the internal sdcard and not the external.
Maybe that can be made an option? I would like to do my nandroid backup to my external card so I have it for safe keeping.
Everything else working as expected, I enabled advanced options and downloaded the superuser package (from Extras) just to test things. Havent experienced any problems other than the sdcard wipe (which wasnt totally unexpected).
If something should happen to your phone (brick, unrecoverable error, etc), how can we reboot into this custom recovery to reflash the nandroid backup? Can we get into it via adb (adb reboot recovery)?
Yeah, having an external SD Nandroid would be a great option. Not just for safekeeping, but for easy transfer in case of hardware loss or replacement.
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It should also be noted that when you chose to partition the sdcard via the recovery menu, it partitions the internal sdcard and not the external.
Maybe that can be made an option? I would like to do my nandroid backup to my external card so I have it for safe keeping.
Everything else working as expected, I enabled advanced options and downloaded the superuser package (from Extras) just to test things. Havent experienced any problems other than the sdcard wipe (which wasnt totally unexpected).
If something should happen to your phone (brick, unrecoverable error, etc), how can we reboot into this custom recovery to reflash the nandroid backup? Can we get into it via adb (adb reboot recovery)?
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I just did a reboot into recovery mode (the normal way, not with rom manager) and I had to click "reinstall packages" to get into the ClockworkMod recovery menu. So I'm not sure but I'm guessing (hoping) that its still available if we run into problems later.
Yep. It's pretty much how the Droid and N1 people are used to doing it anyway.
Clockwork is hella handy to manage and switch between working ROMs on the fly, as well as triggering recovery mode without keypress acrobatics, but having update.zip on the SD card to fall back on using the normal restore and the stock kernel is great in case of semi-bricking, and as this last week has shown us, the Galaxy phones are a bit prone to this.
THANK YOU!!! Been waiting for this since I got the phone, you are the man, I'll be adding to your Paypal account shortly!
Works like a charm. Thanks Koush!
Thank you. I am new to the scene, but looks like I chose the right hardware for hacking. The swift and easy way in which I have been able to advance my freedom on this gorgeous hardware makes me forget for a while that I am on AT&T, home of the fruit carrying zombie army.
Sweet! Can't wait to try this on my phone later tonight. Will deff be buying ROM Manager Pro
Thanks for this...I just bought the premium version...Since this is my first Android phone I have a question. I previously rooted my phone and uninstalled alll the AT&T bloatware, My question is about the backup I just made using this. If I restore the backup will it restore a rooted backup with out all the AT&T bloatware? Also when I ran the backup I go 2 messages at the end
No /sdcard/.andriod_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.. Is this normal?
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext. Is this normal?
Also I now have 2 ROM Manager icon in my application screens. 1 will open the program and the other tells me that the aplication is not installed on my phone. I tried to delete that icon but it won't go away, Any ideas? FIXED..I rebooted my phone and the extra icon went away...
Thanks for all help and these great apps...
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Thanks for this...I just bought the premium version...Since this is my first Android phone I have a question. I previously rooted my phone and uninstalled alll the AT&T bloatware, My question is about the backup I just made using this. If I restore the backup will it restore a rooted backup with out all the AT&T bloatware? Also when I ran the backup I go 2 messages at the end
No /sdcard/.andriod_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.. Is this normal?
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext. Is this normal?
Thanks for all help and these great apps...
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i got the same message, im assuming that you dont have an external sd card thats why it generated the message...
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i got the same message, im assuming that you dont have an external sd card thats why it generated the message...
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I do have one in my phone but there is nothing installed on it yet..maybe that's why..
Got Rom Premium, CWM, and AmonRa on N1.
Playing and trying to learn about the manual (green) recovery screens.
Q1: What is the Apply Update:Update.Zip for?
Q2: When in those screens, no buttons I try can take me back to previous screen, like vol- does in AmonRa.
Thanks for any help and I read dozens of search results without really understanding Apply Update and no luck on going back on screens.
I am not expert yet, so please keep replies at a for dummy level.
Ken
If your using Clockword Recovery then Ill help ya out.
1: Thats used if you have the rom or update on the root of your sd card and have it named update.zip. This is how we used to flash roms on the old recovery menus on the G1, they just left it in. Now you can just search your sd card for the rom you want.
2: The power buttom will go back, and if your on the main screen the power button will turn off the display to save power.
What do you mean when you say manual recovery screen? Do you mean the stock recovery or are you talking about a custom? With the stock recovery it will only install files named update.zip signed with google keys. If you are talking about a custom recovery that means that it will search for a file named update.zip and flash that.
Thanks a lot,
1. I thought the zip wasn't needed anymore based on my research.
2. Got it, I swore I tried that.
When on main screen how do you exit it?
Ken
rugmankc said:
Thanks a lot,
1. I thought the zip wasn't needed anymore based on my research.
2. Got it, I swore I tried that.
When on main screen how do you exit it?
Ken
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1: It isn't, they kind of just left it in as a fast way of flashing without having to look for it.
2: Just hit the reboot option at the top.
One more question, at least for now.
Is going back and forth between recoveries, as easy as just "flashing alternate recovery" from that selection. I.E. CWM to AmonRa and vice versa?
Your help is greatly appreciated
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One more question, at least for now.
Is going back and forth between recoveries, as easy as just "flashing alternate recovery" from that selection. I.E. CWM to AmonRa and vice versa?
Your help is greatly appreciated
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Yup. Tho id recommend Clockwork, since im a little bias.
And no prob, I was an android noob at one time.
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A warning tho, if you use nandroid, the 2 recoveries don't play nice with each others nandroids.
Thanks McFroger3,
I like what CWM offers just heard some problems with it and AmonRa is rock solid, but more manual and doesn't allow for quick flashes of the CM6 nightlies I am on.
Ken
evilkorn said:
What do you mean when you say manual recovery screen? Do you mean the stock recovery or are you talking about a custom? With the stock recovery it will only install files named update.zip signed with google keys. If you are talking about a custom recovery that means that it will search for a file named update.zip and flash that.
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I am just talking about the green screens where you do your backup/restores, flash roms etc. Bad semantics on my part. It's where you go when you select Reboot into Recovery on the CWM main screen.
I think I am good to go,
Thanks,
Ken
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A warning tho, if you use nandroid, the 2 recoveries don't play nice with each others nandroids.
Right, I am assuming you are talking about Backup with CWM, restore with CWM and same for AmonRa.
Ken
rugmankc said:
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A warning tho, if you use nandroid, the 2 recoveries don't play nice with each others nandroids.
Right, I am assuming you are talking about Backup with CWM, restore with CWM and same for AmonRa.
Ken
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Yea, if you back up with CWM, and try to restore with Amon, you will run into issues lol.
Thanks Again for the heads up,
I read that during my research to solve these issues which you quickly helped me with. I won't mix the two. If CWM works well for me, I will use it most if not all of the time. I got into this helping new rooters on the Nexus One forum when most used 1 click to root and started using Rom Mangager and CWM.
Got to call it a day!
Thanks,
Ken
OK,
I want CWM Recovery to work for me. I flashed the latest nightly from the list in ROM Manager. Followed all prompts and allowed the Google Addons to be downloaded also. OK'd backup. The backup and nightly went fined. But, the gapps hung on installing. Had to pull battery, reboot, and restore to previous backup. All Ok now, but it bothers me and not sure if I want to try again. Have been flashing roms, gapps etc with AmomRa for awhile.
Did I miss something? CWM did all the choosing of what to dl and flash. Something different on gapps? It was hdpi-frf91-2-signed.zip. I know that is not the latest. Latest is frf91-UP. Don't know if that matters.
If I have to copy that to sd and flash, what is the procedure? If I select the latest nightly, I have to tell CWM I don't want the gapps, then does it give me that opportunity to grab the gapps zip from sd card before it flashes the nightly. If not, I have no market on phone to dl anything like Titanium to get phone running.
What am I mising?
I copied latest gapps zip to sd card, did not rename. It has .zip on end. Playing around I selected Install Rom from SD Card and found the zip. Clicked on it. Options under Install Queue screen: Ok or Add Zip. Do I zip since it has one. And this allowing me to queue it and go back and add another rom. Didn't see those choices when I did the procedure from the Download Rom choice on Rom manager main screen.
Easier question may be:
If I want to flash latest nightly and a gapps zip I copied to sd card, the latest. What is the procedure?
It seems CWM won't let me install latest nightly without installing gapps, not the latest. Don't know if that is my problem.
Seems I would need to flash latest nightly again and if ok, just flash latest gapps, no wipe, over the just installed nightly.
And if gapps don't install, I can go back and flash my latest gapps from the sd card.
Any thoughts.
Had to flash my latest .zip fromsd card after the gapps attached to lastest nightly failed to install again.
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EDIT: This is not a result of ROM Manager, this is a result of installing Overstock 1.4.3 which also installs CWM recovery.
Not trying to be rude or anything, but I don't remember this ever not working.
I am having issues with 3e. No matter how carefully I follow the instructions (flash->reboot->reinstall packages always fails) when flashing recovery from current Rom Manager and Premium License, it does not work. Additionally, the premium license is persistent in my applications list and no premium ROMs ever show up in my download list. Even when I select Vibrant MTB and either 2.x or 3.x, all I get is a message that states current recovery will be used. I'm still going thru posts for a possible solution.
Try putting this in the root of your internal SD, reboot to recovery and reinstall packages twice.
Yeah, I was misinformed. This is not a result of ROM Manager, this is a result of installing Overstock 1.4.3 which also installs CWM recovery.
If anyone want to do this it is really simple with the SGS kernel flasher app. Download your overstock kernel of choice from here or your choice of kernel that includes CWM from the dev bible, unzip it, move the zimage to the internal phone memory and then choose that file as your kernel with the SGS Flasher.
Note: I have not been successful with going back to stock kernel when I tried to but that may have been because I didn't disable the lag fix.
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Try putting this in the root of your internal SD, reboot to recovery and reinstall packages twice.
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I'm 100% stock on 2.2Froyo except for root/unlock and am puzzled by this. I know it's not ROM Manager because it worked on my first SGS4G which died and totally bricked after a week (TMO exchanged it happily cause it wouldn't even go into download mode or charge).
What's in this update you linked? Cause I'm smart, but not as smart as most of the posters here and I recognize only a couple things in the file.
It installs CWM.
Are you using a Vibrant or SGS4G?
SGS 4G for TMobile.
BTW... I totally appreciate the help here. I don't know the ins-n-outs of the android phones like I do IOs, not that I'm all that up to date on that either.
Update... Still does not work. I get the failed signatures error and the update is aborted. I tried doing a factory reset and re-rooting the phone in case something didn't work correctly and get the same error. At this point, it's all gravy since the only thing I really needed was the unlock but now I'm in a "I just want to know how this works" mode.
Thanks for the help.
Ok yeah that my be the problem since that zip is for the Vibrant. So just to be straight, you are unable to get CWM on your SGS4G?
That's correct. I can't apply any update.zip nor does flashing CWM recovery work. It says it's flashing but then when I do the 3 button reboot to get to recovery, it's the 3e version still and when I go to reinstall packages, it starts but then fails as it tries to verify signatures.
I wanted to try out the dark side rom however I don't want to nuke my recovery partition if its not needed.
Basically Does the statement "don't use rom manager" apply to cwm.
I was lead to believe the latest CWM supported ext4.
Oh and if anyone knows if the driving interface still works / is themed
I switch between the 2 recovery every time and my device is fine.
If they ask for the Romracer, flash it, why getting into troubles because the recovery ...
Yes, the CWM is the ROM Manager revocery, and we also got the Romracer recovery, only these 2 for the atrix . (updated.. unlike old TENFARS recovery)
Which one should i use ? I heard that some people have issue flashing with TWRP .. Is this a lie ?
tlf55 said:
Which one should i use ? I heard that some people have issue flashing with TWRP .. Is this a lie ?
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Both TWRP ans CWM are good. You could also try Phil`z Touch recovery from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2210081&highlight=phil+z. It`s just that TWRP has some more options and it is themable. For me personaly CWM is fine. Just try them out and keep the one you like most.
I never used CWM as I have always used TWRP.
I would recommend TWRP because its easy to understand and theme-able.
i used cwm for a long time. then tried twrp and well, its better. its faster, i seem to have less problems overall and its finally starting to be aware of what im doing, that means flashing is easier because it tries to guess what you will need next, like wipe/cache buttons after flashing instead of making you click through a myriad of hacky options, things like staying in the folder where you picked your last file or install-queues made me switch.
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i used cwm for a long time. then tried twrp and well, its better. its faster, i seem to have less problems overall and its finally starting to be aware of what im doing, that means flashing is easier because it tries to guess what you will need next, like wipe/cache buttons after flashing instead of making you click through a myriad of hacky options, things like staying in the folder where you picked your last file or install-queues made me switch.
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This guy knows what's up.
+1 to that.
TWRP every time for me.
I just find CWM fiddly and over engineered, especially the touch version.
TWRP has nice big buttons for my sausage fingers too. You're a lot less likely to do something wrong by accident in TWRP due to it's "Swipe to activate" function
Is 2.5 the latest twrp version
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I use CMW on my S3 and TWRP on my N4.
I have been using CMW for years and I'm very use to it. I don't really like how TWRP looks. Although it looks simple to use because of the large tiles but I still prefer CMW any other day.
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CWM is nice and straight forward. It can be a little confusing at first in TWRP how to wipe /data while maintaining /data/media. However, TWRP supports open recovery scripts while CWM uses a proprietary format only supported by its own ROM Manager.
Haven't used either on the N4, but my vote goes to TWRP.
CWM for long time and I like it a lot so never bother myself to change it
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I've never had any problems with CWM or TWRP, but I prefer TWRP's interface. Try them both and stick with the one you like?
Twrp is miles ahead of clockwork.
Queue flashing is brilliant
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Another vote for TWRP. Queuing up your zips is great. There are also themes for it.
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Although I like TWRP better I've had quite a few failed ROM flashes with it. I don't have those same problems with the same files with CWM. This is on three different phones that I currently have.
I prefer to like Cwm than twrp but, I just wanna feel twrp ... How to install twrp? Can it be flashable zip?
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airjyp said:
I prefer to like Cwm than twrp but, I just wanna feel twrp ... How to install twrp? Can it be flashable zip?
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You can have the TWRP recovery in 3 ways, 1) flash it via fastboot, 2) install via flashable zip file in your current recovery, 3) use ROM Manager and flash it.
Easiest way to install TWRP is probably through goomanager.
I've installed TWRP on all my devices so far. I like the interface of it more than cwm. Just flash both and check them out, everybody has its own preferences. (like on kernels and roms ... )
go to the TWRP thread and click on the paperclip in the thread name and you will see a bunch of different version of TWRP but may I suggest the latest for N$ 2.6.3.3... When you flash its generally multiple files and TWRP allows for less usage as far as your volume button is concerned.