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rom manager fails to install clockwork recovery

so, I'm really confused on how to get clockwork recovery installed via rom manager.
I go to install it, I select "Samsung Epic", and it says its installed, I then reboot and it gives an error of failing to verify the signature. and I get the normal 4 line recovery mode and am able to reboot into my rooted stock everything epic 4g.
am I doing something wrong? a search didn't turn up anything about this via rom manager.
thanks.

Doing it through ROM Manager won't work, you need to do the "one click method" to get CW working.

ok, so wouldn't it be nice of the rom manager author to remove it from rom manager at this time?

You need to have a kernel that works with rom manager installed the stock kernel won't work.

so I was wrong to think that I'd use rom manager to install a non stock kernel after the fact? the non stock kernel actually has to be in place before?

Correct. ROM manager is not useful with the stock kernel.
You can, however, use clockworkmod independently of ROM manager by flashing it with the one-click root/CW.

[Q] About to flash Cyanogenmod 7.1..

Hi.
I'm about to flash my first custom ROM and have a few q's before I do it. Im on a SGS2 rooted with the help of Odin and S2root (like superoneklick I guess). I have flashed CWM recovery via Odin and my kernel is called 2.6.35.7 [email protected] # 12. My build number is XWKI4.
First question is if its safe to flash CM7 with above root and kernel (I know that its never completely "safe" to flash anything but you know what I mean =).
Second question is if I should flash through ROM manager or CWM recovery.
Third question is concerning market and gapps. How do I do to be sure of having at least market when Im on CM7.
Cheers!

I would definitely flash the ROM through recovery, I dont really trust ROM manager for that. Do a full wipe before flash. As for GAPPs, you can flash that through ROM manager.

Can no longer flash Recovery except via Rom Manager

Anyone else getting this issue? I used to be able to, but now I can no longer install custom recoveries.
I purchased the pro version of Rom Toolbox a while ago, and I'm tired of it not being compatible with my recovery (not allowing me to automatically flash roms, etc). Of course Rom Toolbox has an option to download and flash recoveries but it doesn't work any longer. Regardless of what I pick (rom toolbox allows for the download and installation of TWRP, CWR, CWR Touch, and CWR for Rom Toolbox) It always fails when flashing.
I also tried the app "Recovery Manager" which also failed to update my recovery to CWR Touch. It seems that only Rom Manager can update/change my recovery image, which seems very peculiar if you ask me...
Is there any fix to allow Rom Toolbox to flash my recovery successfully? I tried installing one via fastboot, but my computer couldn't detect my phone. (I probably just need to make sure the proper drivers are installed though) but would that really fix my Rom Toolbox issue?

It would be better to be asking the Rom Toolbox dev rather than the Nexus S community. Most people will flash their recovery using fastboot, because that's the always working way.

Disregard wrong thread
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You could also use flash image gui... it's a paid app in the play store, but is also available here on xda by the dev
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I was able to flash TWRP Recovery via Goo Manager, so now I know that it was an issue with Rom Toolbox and not my phone.
However Rom Toolbox tasks still aren't automatically done when I reboot :/ It looks like the modded CWR for Rom Toolbox isn't up and for whatever reason the newest version of Clockwork mod recovery isn't compatible with rom toolbox, even when rom manager is installed.
Well thanks. Hopefully Rom Manager and Rom Toolbox get things worked out.

[Q] 2 recoveries installed, cannot access either

So I flashed a new ROM and when I tried to access recovery so I could factory reset + add gapps it keeps bootlooping back into the ROM
I checked ROM Manager and it said that I had TWRP and CWM installed, so I tried to flash a new version of CWM over but it did not solve the problem.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!

First, see here: [NOTICE]-Don't-use-ROM-Manager!-**New-to-the-Transformer?-READ**
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671598
Next, are you rooted? If so please install a working recovery (not using ROM Manager)
I'd suggest using Goo Manager to install TWRP.

yep I'm rooted and trying to install recovery through goo manager now, hopefully it will work
EDIT: I tried installing recovery through goo.im and pushing it using adb
it still thinks 2 recoveries are insatlled

Going From 2.3.6 (Stock) to 4.4.4 (Carbon)

There's a lot of disparate information on how to do this so wanted to share what worked for me.
Heimdall was way better than Odin in recognizing and flashing ROM's. You need to watch a tutorial on youtube on how to use Heimdall manually in case you can't find a ROM in the right format (compressed as "tar.gz").
I used a rooted Gingerbread 2.3.6 ROM, which was packaged for Odin. Had to decompress the files and set them up manually in Heimdall for flashing.
Once Infuse 4G was running with root I downloaded/installed ROM Manager from Google Play and transfered the Carbon KitKat ROM 4.4.4 (2014-07-06) and GAPPS 4.4.2 (2014-06-06) ".zip" files to the root folder via USB cable from PC (phone connected as USB Mass Storage).
In ROM Manager you can select the ROM you want to install when the phone reboots. At some point I was able to also install GAPPS before finally booting to Carbon KitKat.

kikato said:
There's a lot of disparate information on how to do this so wanted to share what worked for me.
Heimdall was way better than Odin in recognizing and flashing ROM's. You need to watch a tutorial on youtube on how to use Heimdall manually in case you can't find a ROM in the right format (compressed as "tar.gz").
I used a rooted Gingerbread 2.3.6 ROM, which was packaged for Odin. Had to decompress the files and set them up manually in Heimdall for flashing.
Once Infuse 4G was running with root I downloaded/installed ROM Manager from Google Play and transfered the Carbon 4.4.4 KitKat ROM and GAPPS 4.2 ".zip" files to the root folder via USB cable from PC (phone connected as USB Mass Storage).
In ROM Manager you can select the ROM you want to install when the phone reboots. At some point I was able to also install GAPPS before finally booting to Carbon KitKat.
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so how were you able to flash carbon and the gapps? why did you use 4.2 gapps with a 4.4.4 rom????

Used ROM Manager from Google Play to install latest versions of KitKat (2014-07-06) and GAPPS (2014-06-06) from Carbon website. ROM Manager can also install Clockworkmod Recovery.
Files for download at the website have no version numbers, but the phone showed upgrades for 4 of the Google applications.

kikato said:
Used ROM Manager from Google Play to install latest versions of KitKat (2014-07-06) and GAPPS (2014-06-06) from Carbon website. ROM Manager can also install Clockworkmod Recovery.
Files for download at the website have no version numbers, but the phone showed upgrades for 4 of the Google applications.
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okay so you used rom manager to install CWM recovery.....and you selected to flash carbon via rom manager which then took you to the recovery then somehow you were able to flash the gapps.........but how was it able to directly flash on GB CWM version did you have to flash carbon rom twice in order to get the updated CWM version then flash carbon again to get the rom then flash the gapps then wipe cache and dalvik cache?
also you made a "root folder" in your sdcard?
PS. did you use heimdall one click or the more complicated version?

I can't say if the Carbon ROM was flashed twice, but it seems the phone rebooted more than once during the whole process (from rooted Gingerbread 2.3.6 to KitKat 4.4.4).
ROM Manager only requires to save ROM .zip file(s) in your phone SD card, read somewhere to use root folder or topmost location in SD card (not a folder named "root"), but you can use Recovery to select the location of the .zip file to install.
ROM Manager boots into Recovery to install .zip files, whether is Carbon ROM or GAPPS.
After the Carbon ROM was installed (and maybe a reboot), before booting into KitKat, I was in CWM Recovery and used the menu to install GAPPS.
Recovery has a "wipe data/factory reset" menu option.
Used Heimdall 1.4.0 to manually flash a rooted Gingerbread 2.3.6 ROM that was packaged for Odin, but there are other ways to root the phone.
It can take a while for KitKat to install so give it some time.

I thought you had to go to ICS before KitKat. Can you really go straight from GB to KK?
Also when I downloaded "Rom Manager" and tried to install CWM it did not list the Infuse as being supported for installing the CWM Recovery saying I had to find and install one manually.

SirAndroid said:
I thought you had to go to ICS before KitKat. Can you really go straight from GB to KK?
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Apparently can be done as long as you disable lagfix.
SirAndroid said:
Also when I downloaded "Rom Manager" and tried to install CWM it did not list the Infuse as being supported for installing the CWM Recovery saying I had to find and install one manually.
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CWM for the i9000 is supposed to be a valid substitute. I don't use the AT&T version of the Infuse (mine is Rogers), so it didn't work for me at first - still had to flash with ODIN.
Interestingly, as I remember after flashing with ODIN and rebooting into recovery, it was Blue CWM, not Red (which Red is what you usually get by flashing only the ODIN/Heimdall images).

I didn't have to install any other version before flashing KitKat, only had to root the phone. I rooted by flashing a "rooted" GB 2.3.6 ROM, but there are other ways to root the phone.
When I tried to install CWM Recovery with ROM Manager I got an error so I went ahead and flashed with whatever recovery the phone had.
Is possible the rooted GB 2.3.6 ROM had CWM Recovery already, or ROM Manager was able to install CWM Recovery after all (phone rebooted more than once, I kept trying until it worked ).
Read you must use "Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III" in ROM Manager since they have similar partitions.

ROM Manager no longer has the i9300 Galaxy S III option, but you only need to create a Recovery shortcut in Apex launcher and flash from a Carbon ROM .zip file (KK v4.4.4 nightly for Infuse 4G, dirty flashing with no wipes).
The Carbon ROM includes a Carbon Delta, which doesn't update nightlies (it always says "system is up to date").
Have not seen other KitKat kernels or TWRP touch for the Infuse 4G, currently using CWM Recovery 6.0.5.0.