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Need Help on Manual Recovery Screens Clockwork Mod

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

rugmankc said:
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:
Ninja Edit:
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.
Resolved

[A] Bootloop after flashing a ROM via 3.0.0.5 Recovery image.

What you did .. .. ..
Okay so you've rooted your newly bought MyTouch4G, and you've made sure that s=off and you've flashed Clockwork ROM manager's recovery image that you got from the market. That is all the correct order. But when you flashed a ROM you got stuck in a bootloop.
Am i screwed???
Don't worry you are just in a "soft brick mode", or "limp mode" if you will.
What happened? Why is it doing this?
The Image that you downloaded and installed 3.0.0.5 is for 2.3 (Gingerbread) based ROMs only. [n3rd note] these are ext4 style ROMS. They act and store information differently than 2.2 which are Ext3 ROMs[/n3rd note].
This could also be caused by trying to flash a 2.3 using a older 2.x.x.x version of the Recovery Image. Those will only support the Ext3 style ROMs, which are FroYo (2.2) based ROM.
Okay what do i need to do to fix it, there are two methods.
This is Method one it's the older version.
You must use this method if you do not have the engineering screen
If you are using the 3.0.0.5 Recovery image
To fix your problem you need to flash any 2.3 based ROM, for time sake i will recommend Cyanogen(mod). Link to Cyanogen(mod)'s CM7RC4. While you are there you need to also store the G/Apps.
If you are using the 2.x.x.x Recovery Image
To fix your problem you need to flash any 2.2 based ROM, for time sake i will recommend RoyalGlacier Thread can be found here
- Question: How do i find out what Recovery image i am using
- Answer: Boot the phone into the recovery mode. We'll touch on that in a little bit
Now when you download both of those files you also need to store them to SDCard.
NOTE: If you are using 2.x.x.x and going to flash RoyalGlacier you will not need the g/apps. They have included this in their ROM, and MAKE sure to follow their specific directions for installing the ROM.
- Question: Now how in the world i am going to do that since my phone is in bootloop.
Answer:
Two ways one can do that
1) use a SDcard reader and just plug the card into a main USB port.
2) Mount the SDCard in the phone via the Recovery Image. *** i'd recommend this method since you are going to need to be in recovery anyway ***
Pull the battery from the phone an put it back in, then put the back on the phone. turn the phone on holding the power button along with the volume down rocker button. That will boot the phone into the HBoot (Engineering) Screen. From there you will see an option that says "recovery" [this is what i mentioned earlier, about the different versions] use the volume rocker to select it, then tap the power button to select it. The phone will reboot into what is called the recovery image. From there you will select "mount" then USB. That will mount the SDCard to the Computer.
If you are using the 3.0.0.5 Recovery image
Once you have move Cyanogen(mod) and the g/apps to the SD card unmount the SDCard.
Then navigate to "wipe data/factory reset" you will want to wipe the phone. That will format everything to a fashion that can be written over w/o problems.
Then navigate to "install .zip from sdcard" > " choose .zip " > then flash the main Cyanogen(mod) ROM. Then do the same but flash the g/apps that you downloaded.
Once those are done you can re-boot the phone. That will boot you into cyanogen.
If you are using the 2.x.x.x Recovery image
Please use the link i supplied above to get that ROM up and running once it is done, according to their instructions come back here.
Now i understand that may or may not want Cyanogen nor RoyalGlacier on your phone. Well take care of that
What can i do to prevent this from Happening again?
Once you are up and running (make sure to log into your Google Account) go to the market and download Clockwork ROM manager again, and re-flash the recovery image.
Once you are done with that i HIGHLY suggest upgrading to the newest 3.0.0.6 Recovery image. You can do that one of two ways.
one way is to flash True_Blues method for installing 3.0.0.6 recovery image. Use this thread..
This is the way that i would personally recommend.
The second way is download the 3.0.0.6 recovery image, which i've attached and flash it via the ADB commands. If you want to do it this way you do not need to download Clockwork Rom Manager, you can "just flash it". If you need help with that, if you are using Windows or Mac, see my signature for True_Blue's method on EZ ADB. If you are using Unbutu 10.10 use this This Method to get ADB running. This is the method i used to ADB running on my Linux NetBook.
Download the file that i've attached and store just the recovery image from the .zip to the SDCard, from the ADB commands type
adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
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More information on this process can be found here
That will flash the newest recovery image to your phone
Once you have installed the 3.0.0.6 ROM Manager you can wipe and flash ANY MyTouch4G ROM that you want. It will handle both 2.2 (ext3) and 2.3 (ext4) ROM formats.
This is the New Method - Which is a little easier.
AND YOU MUST HAVE THE ENGINEERING HBOOT
Thanks to TeeJay for inspiring this.
I am going to assume that since you have the Engineering Screen you are more familiar with what you are doing so i'll be more to the point with this walk-through.
you will need to have ADB up and running for this method.
1) Download the attached file and store just the .img to your folder from which you preform all of your ADB commands
2) plug the phone into the computer
3) boot the phone into HBoot
4) from the ADB commands change the drive to the folder where you stored the recovery image.
5) type these commands
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
the screen should say something to the degree of
Code:
sending 'recovery' (3426 KB)... OKAY [ 1.172s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.797s]
finished. total time: 1.969s
6) then select "bootloader"
7) navigate to "reboot recovery"
8) flash your ROM of choice.
9) enjoy your ROM of choice.
Please feel free to use this in your signature or link people back to. If you feel i made an error in this post please PM and i'll edit it accordingly.
If this thread has helped you solve your problem please hit the "thanks" button.
THE RECOVERY IMAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO THE NEWEST ONE.

good summary. originally when i flashed cm7 I had to search a bit to come up with what you said above. one addition, CWM lets you mount sd storage to usb so you can copy files to sdcard (say the recovery image). then update CWM 3.0.0.6 with ADB.

leo221 said:
good summary. originally when i flashed cm7 I had to search a bit to come up with what you said above. one addition, CWM lets you mount sd storage to usb so you can copy files to sdcard (say the recovery image). then update CWM 3.0.0.6 with ADB.
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Added that method as well.

May want to mention that the opposite could be true as well > same boot loop but from flashing 2.3 rom with recovery 2.5.1.2

Thank you for this!! Exactly what I needed...!

austengeist said:
Thank you for this!! Exactly what I needed...!
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Glad it helped, just make sure to hit the "Thanks" button in the first post.

dang man you're the Q&A champ, every time i'm on this you're answering questions.
well this worked like a charm, idk why people on xda always make things more complicated than it has to be.

option94 said:
May want to mention that the opposite could be true as well > same boot loop but from flashing 2.3 rom with recovery 2.5.1.2
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Added.
aalsmadi1 said:
dang man you're the Q&A champ, every time i'm on this you're answering questions.
well this worked like a charm, idk why people on xda always make things more complicated than it has to be.
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Well i work in the Imported Automotive parts. My job requires me to basically sit around and answer the phone when it rings. We have our own "call center" room. I just pick up the phone and answer question and sell parts. Like right now i'm working on a engine rebuild kit for a 1975 2Ton Mercedes Bens..... so i get some free time from time to time, and XDA is one of a few sites they allow me to visit.... BGR/ Android and Me, Android Central are the others....
I can see why some people blow up, spend +$200.00 on a phone then turn around and blow through something w/o taking the time to read something and then you get stuck in a bootloop.... i can see why people go bonkers. But slowing down and reading would solve alot of problems. Heck i've got 3 great threads in my signature that would solve alot question that one could have with a new device.

fixed my problem

Thread stuck.

Great guide!

Same issue, except i flashed 3.0.0.6 beforehand to prevent any problems. Iced Glacier flashed okay, I just didn't care for it much. Ive wiped all the necessary parts prior to flashing as I would before flashing any roms. Ive managed to retrieve and restore a previous back (I can haz backups) so Im not stuck. I would like to be in the cool kids cyanogen club. Any ideas?

DHSdrone said:
Same issue, except i flashed 3.0.0.6 beforehand to prevent any problems. Iced Glacier flashed okay, I just didn't care for it much. Ive wiped all the necessary parts prior to flashing as I would before flashing any roms. Ive managed to retrieve and restore a previous back (I can haz backups) so Im not stuck. I would like to be in the cool kids cyanogen club. Any ideas?
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Meaning you want to run Cyanogen(mod)? Well jump over to their site and download the ROM of your picking; Nightlies are alpha builds, and the RC's are beta builds. I've ran both and both are extremely stable. I have links supplied in the first post. and directions for that matter. just make sure to do a nandroid backup before wiping and flashing.

Thanks ....Saved ME LIFE

Posting so I can see the "thanks" button. Doubley thanks you saved my bacon....err phone!! Hmmmm bacon!

Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!

b0rnsusp3ct said:
Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!
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Pull the battery. Hold vol down power on them restore cm7. Then flash cwm 3.0.0.6.
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b0rnsusp3ct said:
Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!
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What button are you pressing to select the option? you should just use the trackpad.

Loll...wow, I am such a noob i def. shouldn't be rooting or anything.
Thanks so much!

b0rnsusp3ct said:
Loll...wow, I am such a noob i def. shouldn't be rooting or anything.
Thanks so much!
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Why do you say that?

[Q] Installing CyanogenMod on Nexus S 4G?

I am a total noob and am having trouble installing CyanogenMod onto my Nexus S 4G. I barely rooted the darn thing, and I am using a guide that involves ROM Manager. It says I have to mount the SD card using ROM Manager, but I can't figure out how to. If there is a better way to install CyanogenMod, please tell me, because all the guides I have been finding are way too technical for me to understand, and I have been trying. Any help is appreciated.

Can you tell us which guide you are using and which step you are on? I think you must mean ClockworkMod not ROM Manager.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

If you already have clock work then all you have to do is drag and drop cyanogen into the root of your sd card. Then flash through clock work.

ht tp://ww w.redmondpie.com/install-cyanogenmod-7.1-gingerbread-rom-on-nexus-s-4g-how-to-tutorial/
That's the guide I was using, I got stuck on step 4.
Is the rom the .zip file I downloaded from the cyanogen site, or is it inside the folder?

The rom is the zip file. Boot into recovery and select choose zip from sd and navigate to it and install it.make sure to do a back up and wipe cache,dalvic and do a factory rest before flashing the rom
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Paleryder said:
make sure to do a back up and wipe cache,dalvic and do a factory rest before flashing the rom
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Can you explain this part more? Is this the part of the guide that says "make a nandroid backup"?

1. Mount USB and drag and drop cm7 zip & Google apps into root of SD card.
2. Turn off nexus.
3. Boot into fastboot by holding volume up and then power button.
4. In fastboot go to recovery (power button is used as enter button, volume buttons represent up and down)
5. In recovery go to backup and restore and back up your current rom.
6. Go back and then wipe data factory reset and also wipe cache.
7. Go to advanced -> Wipe delvik cache.
8. Go back and then go to install zip from SD, find cm7 flash it, then flash Google apps. You can flash kernel right now if you want.
Hope this clears anything up
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

I got to your step 5, but when I choose Recovery, after showing the Google logo it briefly shows a box and an arrow coming out of the box and an Android logo, then the box changes to a triangle with an exclamation mark. It stayed like that so I just rebooted the phone.

seb0910 said:
I got to your step 5, but when I choose Recovery, after showing the Google logo it briefly shows a box and an arrow coming out of the box and an Android logo, then the box changes to a triangle with an exclamation mark. It stayed like that so I just rebooted the phone.
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That means you don't have Clockwork recovery installed. You need to download the latest Clockwork recovery image and place it in the tools folder of your Android SDK Folder(wherever you placed it). Then press shift and right click on the tools folder and select "open command prompt here". Then boot your phone into bootloader by pressing volume up and power button at the same time. Connect your phone to your computer via usb cable and in the command prompt you opened type: fastboot flash recovery name of recovery image here.img and press enter and you will see in the command prompt window it will say sending image. When it is done scroll down to recovery on your phone using the volume buttons and press power to enter. Your phone will reboot into Clockwork recovery and from there you can continue on the previous posts steps. Hope this helps. You can download the latest Clockwork by going to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078213 and clicking on the brown "CWM Recovery" under 'How to: Root the Nexus S 4G'.

well I'm pretty sure I do have clockwork because there's a folder on my phone that is called clockworkmod, and I did root the phone successfully at the very least, but I'll try putting a new one there.

seb0910 said:
well I'm pretty sure I do have clockwork because there's a folder on my phone that is called clockworkmod, and I did root the phone successfully at the very least, but I'll try putting a new one there.
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Alright here is a little run down on whats going on with your ns4g, you probably already flash clockworkmod on your nexus, but what samsung did was that it will try to revert back to the stock recovery. So what you have to do is flash Clockworkmod again to make it stick. Honestly it is good that it doesn't stick because then it would be easier to unroot the phone.
So now you have 2 different options on how to flash clockworkmod. 1) you can do it through fastboot but you have to have adb set up. I'm not sure what method you used to root your phone so i am just assuming.
2) you can download rom manager and flash clockwork through there. (Honestly i haven't done it through this method so i cant tell you of the pros or cons that are attributed with this).
NOTE: If you dont have super user yet it would be a prime time to flash it once you got CWM going.
For me, I only needed to flash clock work twice through fastboot in order to make it stick.
Good luck.

The guide I originally was using for this had me using rom manager, but it kept telling me I had to mount the SD card even though it was shown up in my computer.
If I were to flash clockwork again with adb setup, how would I do that? Sorry to be so asky, I just want this process to end correctly.

You have to set up adb if you don't have it already, go to ns4g development and go to vandam's thread that has all the list of rom's and rooting guides. Check out wolverines rooting guide, he goes indepth on how to set up adb. It make take awhile to set up but learning how to work in fastboot is essential in rooting the nexus.
Good luck
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Well it was confusing and I almost asked for help again, but I finally got it flashed again and now cyanogen is working. I really appreciate the help and for pointing neon the right direction. As a final note, is there anything else I should know, like updating or something, just general knowledge (basically, "now what?")?

seb0910 said:
Well it was confusing and I almost asked for help again, but I finally got it flashed again and now cyanogen is working. I really appreciate the help and for pointing neon the right direction. As a final note, is there anything else I should know, like updating or something, just general knowledge (basically, "now what?")?
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Did you get all the Google Apps installed too? That's the only "unusual" aspect of CyanogenMod.

Yep I got the Google apps.

Congrats dude its good you got it all working, BTW when ever you switch roms like from CM7 to miui you always have to wipe data, cache, and delvik cache. Delvik cache is in the advanced tab of CWM. If your just up updating from different versions of the same rom, you just need to wipe cache and delvik cache. That's about it, the hard part is done, enjoy flashing.

chewbz said:
Congrats dude its good you got it all working, BTW when ever you switch roms like from CM7 to miui you always have to wipe data, cache, and delvik cache. Delvik cache is in the advanced tab of CWM. If your just up updating from different versions of the same rom, you just need to wipe cache and delvik cache. That's about it, the hard part is done, enjoy flashing.
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Actually if you are updating from different versions of the same rom, you don't need to wipe anything, you just flash it.

can't change TWRP 2.1.1 settings to stop official recovery from reinstalling

Hi all,
I have a Nexus 7, rooted, running stock 4.1.1 rom, and just installed TWRP 2.1.1
I have been reading this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779092 , however I cannot post on the thread due to being a new/low post count member.
I read that, and it does happen, that each time I reboot, the stock recovery reinstalls itself.
I attempted to follow this....
NOTE: The stock ROM may automatically replace TWRP with the stock recovery. To prevent the stock ROM from replacing TWRP, boot TWRP, go to the mount menu and mount system, press the home button, then press Advanced -> File Manager. Browse to /system and select the file named recovery-from-boot.p then choose to rename the file to recovery-from-boot.bak
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but it doesn't seem to work.
Firstly, when I go to the "Mount" menu, there is only 3 entries.....1 large button which says "Mount USB Storage", and 2 boxes which are selected with a cross in the box, "Unmount Data", and "Unmount Cache". If I do press Mount USB Storage I can only Unmount it to return to menu.
So regardless of that part, if I then go to the file manager, and browse to the system folder, the folder shows up empty, and the only thing showing is a Bin subfolder (also empty)
any ideas whats wrong?

Use the one-click root tool. Install TWRP via GooManager. Profit.
Sent from my Nexus 7

TheBiles said:
Use the one-click root tool. Install TWRP via GooManager. Profit.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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hi,
yeah I did use the tool, all is rooted fine. If you install TWRP from GooManager, and then press to reset to recovery, TWRP loads fine. Once you reboot again however, the stock roms overwriting the TWRP so it no longer works each time. The steps there were supposedly to stop this from happening, from within TWRP, however the options aren't even there. Sadly, I can't post in the TWRP thread due to having less than 10 posts

How r u booting into recovery? Do u power off then use button combo? I use quickboot from market. Its free and boots u into recovery without having to manually turn off the device. I had the same exact issue u drescribe when attempting to follow op instructions. I couldn't do it so I said what the hell, let me see if I boot into recovery using quickboot it overwrites. I was happy to discover that it didn't.
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

Hi.
I booted into recovery directly from the GooManager option which restarts it into it for me. After a reboot though choosing the same option gives the official recovery I presume (android robot with chest open and exclamation mark)....until I tell it to install the OpenRecoveryScript again
I'm not familiar with Quickboot - take it its just a button to press to get it into recovery the same way as the GooManager option of "Reboot Recovery"?
I'm looking at this TeamEOS nightly build at the moment, toying with the idea of whether to stick with stock rom or flash their custom rom over it.....hard call as its still early days for the roms I think, but if spend ages again installing my apps, will have to do it again afresh when do eventually change the rom

Midnight Tboy said:
Hi.
I booted into recovery directly from the GooManager option which restarts it into it for me. After a reboot though choosing the same option gives the official recovery I presume (android robot with chest open and exclamation mark)....until I tell it to install the OpenRecoveryScript again
I'm not familiar with Quickboot - take it its just a button to press to get it into recovery the same way as the GooManager option of "Reboot Recovery"?
I'm looking at this TeamEOS nightly build at the moment, toying with the idea of whether to stick with stock rom or flash their custom rom over it.....hard call as its still early days for the roms I think, but if spend ages again installing my apps, will have to do it again afresh when do eventually change the rom
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Yes quickboot is as u describe. I know what u mean about starting to flash. It's a bit early for me considering conditions of the roms ( early stages). I am getting tempted tho...lol. won't be long I'm sure.
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pathtologos said:
Yes quickboot is as u describe. I know what u mean about starting to flash. It's a bit early for me considering conditions of the roms ( early stages). I am getting tempted tho...lol. won't be long I'm sure.
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yup....just installed Quick Boot (Reboot),
chose Recovery, and again its rebooting back to the original recovery instead of the TWRP.
Guess I'll have to flash to a custom rom to get around it if want it sorting now....or wait till I have the minimum post count to post on the main TWRP thread
Not end of the world to reinstall apps and games I guess when the custom roms are more mature, so long as I remember to use Titanium Backup to save my games progress

you need to rename the recovery-restore.sh file in /system/etc/ (I forget the name offhand - if you look at the filenames there you'll figure it out). It restores the stock recovery at every reboot unless deleted or renamed. Then flash your 3rd party recovery.

Hi,
thats the trouble.....I use the file manager in TWRP, and I can't see that file anywhere.
The TWRP page says to go to /system......but when I go there its empty, only one subfolder, /system/bin, which also shows up empty

Booting multiple roms question

Hi there guys!
I have rooted and unlocked the bootloader for my Nexus 10, and just wondering how do i go about installing & booting multiple roms? Do i need some special software?
Thanks!

chronosoft said:
Hi there guys!
I have rooted and unlocked the bootloader for my Nexus 10, and just wondering how do i go about installing & booting multiple roms? Do i need some special software?
Thanks!
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I always find zedomax's videos to be extremely helpful for visuals. He also shows how to load custom roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997227
You'll need to download a recovery program like Clockwork Recovery or TWRP. Both have official websites with the latest release of their recovery programs. Just Google them.

DizoAZ said:
I always find zedomax's videos to be extremely helpful for visuals. He also shows how to load custom roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997227
You'll need to download a recovery program like Clockwork Recovery or TWRP. Both have official websites with the latest release of their recovery programs. Just Google them.
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Thanks for the reply, I have TWRP installed, so do i just flash the downloaded rom as per normal and use TWRP? Is there an option in TWRP?
Thanks!

chronosoft said:
Thanks for the reply, I have TWRP installed, so do i just flash the downloaded rom as per normal and use TWRP? Is there an option in TWRP?
Thanks!
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Yeah, so for example. Download CleanROM which is pretty much a stock ROM and all functions of the tablet seem to work that I've tried so far, GPS, WiFi, Camera. Haven't tried HDMI or Audio port yet. Microphone works too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113048
Once you download the .zip file for CleanROM to your tablet, it will be in the Downloads directory under the directory /sdcard/0/Dowload.
Then reboot in to fastboot by holding down the volume +/- at the same time along with the power button held. Once you get to the fastboot screen, use the volume rocker until you see Recovery Mode, then hit the power button. This should put you in to TWRP which you said you have loaded as the recovery program. I have Clockwork, it's just a different recovery program, but I've used both before fine. Watch this for TWRP and how to make backups. http://youtu.be/EDZ1WAwXvbE?t=1m30s
Normally, I do a complete clean install each time, but I've also been successful loading from one rom to another and not performing the factory reset. As long as you don't perform the factory reset your apps and settings should remain.
However, I'm a person who likes to do a clean install, so I usually wipe all cache options first, then perform a wipe/data/factory reset and load the rom I want. From there, there should be an option to install from a .zip file, that is where you would go to load the custom rom, then select it and let it do its thing. After installing the ROM, I repeat the steps of wiping cache and factory reset after the ROM install is complete, before I reboot the tablet. Once I do all that, I reboot the tablet and let it load.
People say you should perform a backup of your existing ROM/Settings by using the recovery program to do so, that's really up to you if you want to do it, but it does provide a method to restore your prior rom/settings. I don't, because I just got the tablet and don't have a lot of settings/programs installed at the moment.
If for some reason your tablet just gets stuck at the Nexus X when loading, you may need to perform the wipe data/factory reset from Recovery. If you need to do it from the PC, you can load in to Fastboot (power and volume +/-) let it sit there with your USB cord connected and from your PC go to the directory with fastboot.exe and run "fastboot -w" to wipe. You will lose all your settings and programs just like when doing the wipe through recovery.
Hope this helps. Note, some ROM's suggest loading GApps, I haven't messed with those ROMs yet, but imagine it just requires installing a 2nd .zip file after installing the rom .zip file with recovery.

ah that's how it's done. Thanks for clarifying this DizoA, that's really helpful, appreciate it!