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[RECOVERY] Permanently replacing your recovery with ClockworkMod Recovery Image

Since the Evo just got NAND protection removed, I figured I'd share the persistent version of ClockworkMod recovery
Currently ROM Manager is using a recovery hot replace to give you a custom recovery. But I'll eventually be packaging this into ROM Manager's flashing process like the other phones it supports. I'll wait a week or so to switch, while everyone switches over to the new root.
For those that want to make ClockworkMod their default recovery on recovery boot, use this image:
These step assume you have already unlocked your NAND using the "Part 2" thread in the forums.
http://www.droidaftermarket.com/koush/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-supersonic.img
http://www.droidaftermarket.com/koush//recoveries/flash_image
Place these files on the root of your SD card.
Then run this from a root Android shell.
cd /data/local
cat /sdcard/flash_image > flash_image
chmod 755 flash_image
./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-supersonic.img
Done!

For insurance stuff, will we need to flash stock recovery img to get rid of everything?

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Will we be able to update this with ROM Manager?

Re: Permanently replacing your recovery with ClockworkMod Recovery Image
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TheBiles said:
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Will we be able to update this with ROM Manager?
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Yes, in a week, when everyone has done their NAND unlock, ROM Manager will start flashing and replacing your recovery for you, so you don't need to do this manually. I do not want to switch right now, because that will leave people who haven't unlocked out in the cold.

Does this mean that for right now if we make this the real recovery that when we choose "Reboot to Recovery" in ROM Manager that it will not work until ROM Manager is updated?

HTC6800 said:
Does this mean that for right now if we make this the real recovery that when we choose "Reboot to Recovery" in ROM Manager that it will not work until ROM Manager is updated?
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No, that will still work.
This is just an option for people that want to boot into recovery via the power key combination. Or those that don't want to apply the update.zip on the root of their SD card to switch to ClockworkMod. It's just a convenience/safety net people wanting to replace their recovery now.

HTC6800 said:
Does this mean that for right now if we make this the real recovery that when we choose "Reboot to Recovery" in ROM Manager that it will not work until ROM Manager is updated?
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no, it means when you choose reboot to recovery in any application, ROM manager, quickboot or thru adb it will reboot to the phone's recovery partition but instead of loading the stock recovery, it will load this custom recovery!
this is basically a permanent or "sticky" recovery where as before we had to load the custom recovery every time as a temporary or "non-sticky" recovery. the days of temporary or non sticky recoveries are OVER ... at least until the next update from HTC/Sprint!

Koush, I m still a completely rookie on root part, EVO4G is my first androind phone, and 0 experience on root. Besides, i haven't done anything about rooting evo4g yet (still kinda struggle here, worrying to brick such a$$kicking phone, anyway). So please forgive if my question sounds ridiculous and stupid.
lets say if i decide do root like next months, so i should follow the 1st part root my phone by "PC36IMG.zip", then what's next step? should I use adb shell complete flash recovery, and 2nd part to remove NAND protection, at last run ROM Manager flash recovery permanently? or I can just directly use ROM Manager after root'd phone, like the instruction "[TUTORIAL] IDIOT-PROOF Root Guide! No ADB, no fuss!" by theBiles, to flash recovery permanently?

Koush said:
No, that will still work.
This is just an option for people that want to boot into recovery via the power key combination. Or those that don't want to apply the update.zip on the root of their SD card to switch to ClockworkMod. It's just a convenience/safety net people wanting to replace their recovery now.
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This doesn't seem to be the case on my phone. After going through Toast's NAND unlock process (replacing his recovery image with yours in the last step, only change) I boot back up and try to "reboot into recovery" from ROM Manager. It takes me to a screen with an android and a white triangle with a ! in the middle.
From that point I have to take out the battery to turn off the phone, afaik. For the record, at that point I turned on the phone while holding down vol down and got into the stock hboot screen where it checks for PC36IMG.zip. It didn't find anything because I have moved the files, so I selected recovery, and it booted right into ClockworkMOd Recovery v1.8.2.0

phinnaeus said:
This doesn't seem to be the case on my phone. After going through Toast's NAND unlock process (replacing his recovery image with yours in the last step, only change) I boot back up and try to "reboot into recovery" from ROM Manager. It takes me to a screen with an android and a white triangle with a ! in the middle.
From that point I have to take out the battery to turn off the phone, afaik. For the record, at that point I turned on the phone while holding down vol down and got into the stock hboot screen where it checks for PC36IMG.zip. It didn't find anything because I have moved the files, so I selected recovery, and it booted right into ClockworkMOd Recovery v1.8.2.0
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Hrm, let me double check on mine

phinnaeus said:
This doesn't seem to be the case on my phone. After going through Toast's NAND unlock process (replacing his recovery image with yours in the last step, only change) I boot back up and try to "reboot into recovery" from ROM Manager. It takes me to a screen with an android and a white triangle with a ! in the middle.
From that point I have to take out the battery to turn off the phone, afaik. For the record, at that point I turned on the phone while holding down vol down and got into the stock hboot screen where it checks for PC36IMG.zip. It didn't find anything because I have moved the files, so I selected recovery, and it booted right into ClockworkMOd Recovery v1.8.2.0
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I get the android with the white triangle as well when using reboot into recovery from rom manager. However the normal recovery is now clockwork great job and thx K!

Confirming this as well.
Booting to recovery via adb or hboot works as expected, reboot from Rom Manager doesn't.

jeremydk said:
Confirming this as well.
Booting to recovery via adb or hboot works as expected, reboot from Rom Manager doesn't.
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Found the problem Fix is being uploaded!

Flash this:
http://www.droidaftermarket.com/koush/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-1.8.2.2-supersonic.img

Koush said:
Flash this:
http://www.droidaftermarket.com/koush/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-1.8.2.2-supersonic.img
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Just did this, works perfectly. Thanks for the fast response, Koush. Sending some beer your way.
Edit: When I boot into recovery manually (hold down voldown, select recovery) I get into version 1.8.2.2.
When I boot into recovery from ROM Manager I get into version 1.8.1.9. Does this mean there are two different recoveries on my phone and it is booting into them distinctly based on which method I use? Or is it just a error in reporting version numbers?

So what exactly does this do or look like? I'm a bit confused on that one.

phinnaeus said:
Just did this, works perfectly. Thanks for the fast response, Koush. Sending some beer your way.
Edit: When I boot into recovery manually (hold down voldown, select recovery) I get into version 1.8.2.2.
When I boot into recovery from ROM Manager I get into version 1.8.1.9. Does this mean there are two different recoveries on my phone and it is booting into them distinctly based on which method I use? Or is it just a error in reporting version numbers?
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Booting via ROM Manager still uses the recovery hot replace, which is using a recovery with a different version number. They're exactly the same, no worries

Koush said:
Booting via ROM Manager still uses the recovery hot replace, which is using a recovery with a different version number. They're exactly the same, no worries
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Oh gotcha. So thats what that progress bar is before it loads up? And this won't happen with the updated ROM Manager coming in a week. I guess thats not really a question, but if I'm wrong feel free to correct me

Koush said:
./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-supersonic.img
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Worked great but it might help to change that to
./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-1.8.2.2-supersonic.img
Took me a second to figure out why it said directory or file doesn't exist
Thank You for all your work

[Q] Cant flash clockwork recovery through Rom Manager

Have been trying to flash clockwork recovery through rom manager for a couple of days. It always says Flashed succesfully but when I try to go to recovery it takes me to the bootloader. it happened after i updated to the newest version. anyone else have this issue or is there any other way without using ADB? Im not good at that.

do you mean when you go into the bootloader (vol up + power) it doesnt automatically bring you to recovery? (this is not supposed to happen) or when you select the recovery menu from the bootloader it just reboots the bootloader again

it just reboots the bootloader

This may be of help to you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13109088&postcount=47

jerrycycle said:
This may be of help to you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13109088&postcount=47
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Thanks! Booting recovery (either from the bootloader or from 'reboot to recovery in ROM manager' was just hanging on "Google" for me. This fixed it!

i finally was able to adb got it thanks for your help

[Q] Unable to boot into Recovery

When I hold Power and Vol Down I get the text prompts, I hit Vol Up promptly and get the Android with gears turning animation for about 10 seconds, then get the Android with the warning triangle and can't go any further.
Any Suggestion? Tablet is a B80, rooted via Nachoroot. I have an SD card in the microSD slot.
I have Clockwork Mod (reboot into recover does a normal reboot) and Gnufabio's Reboot2Recovery (which ends with the Android and the warning symbol). It is my understanding that Rom Manager can't update the bootloader, so I haven't even tried.

Col.Kernel said:
I have Clockwork Mod (reboot into recover does a normal reboot) and Gnufabio's Reboot2Recovery (which ends with the Android and the warning symbol).
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Are you sure you have CWM? Have you installed it?
When reboot to recovery doesn't load CWM is usually because CWM is not installed.

AzureusPT said:
Are you sure you have CWM? Have you installed it?
When reboot to recovery doesn't load CWM is usually because CWM is not installed.
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Let me clarify. I have ROM Manager, and yes it's installed. I can't install a 3rd party Recovery because the bootloader is encrypted. It's a new Transformer (B80 s/n), not one of the older ones.
I am unable to boot into the stock recovery by any of the methods listed in the OP.

Col.Kernel said:
Let me clarify. I have ROM Manager, and yes it's installed. I can't install a 3rd party Recovery because the bootloader is encrypted. It's a new Transformer (B80 s/n), not one of the older ones.
I am unable to boot into the stock recovery by any of the methods listed in the OP.
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ROM manager doesn't do anything for the TF. Just because you have ROM Manager install doesn't mean you have cwm recovery install.
You need to install CWM recovery as suggested by AzureusPT.
Go on the theme and app section and look for RecoveryInstaller. That will help you flash cwm.
Edit: here's the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19319421

baseballfanz said:
ROM manager doesn't do anything for the TF. Just because you have ROM Manager install doesn't mean you have cwm recovery install.
You need to install CWM recovery as suggested by AzureusPT.
Go on the theme and app section and look for RecoveryInstaller. That will help you flash cwm.
Edit: here's the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19319421
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Thank you!!!!

MY tf700 isn't working

my tf700 showing the screen of asus in white ( like when you turn it on )
and get stuck on it..
i cant enter it to recovery .. i haven't recovery ..
when i press power and volume dn it doesn't shows the screen of wipe data..
what i can to doooo :crying::crying::crying::crying:

What did you do?
Because I highly doubt this miraculously happened for no reason whatsoever...

I tried to flash the pardroid android rom and he gave me an error and then I wiped the data, tried to download an other twrp recovery, then I tried to enter recovery mode and... He won't turned up..
Only at the first screen( what I already mentioned )

JusTeN_ said:
I tried to flash the pardroid android rom and he gave me an error and then I wiped the data, tried to download an other twrp recovery, then I tried to enter recovery mode and... He won't turned up..
Only at the first screen( what I already mentioned )
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What recovery version you had when you do the wipe? and what twrp version you tried to install after?

Did you wipe data from the bootloader? Depending upon which custom recovery you were running and which bootloader you have you might be in trouble.......
Do you know which versions you had?

I had the touch cwm recovery and it didn't work with the Rom then i downloaded from goo master the TWRP recovery 2.5.0.0 ...
i cant turn on the pad or put it on recovery mode, only APX mode, can i restore it from apx mode ? plz helpppp

JusTeN_ said:
I had the touch cwm recovery and it didn't work with the Rom then i downloaded from goo master the TWRP recovery 2.5.0.0 ...
i cant turn on the pad or put it on recovery mode, only APX mode, can i restore it from apx mode ? plz helpppp
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If you don't have nvflash backups then unfortunately you can't restore from apx mode.
Can you answer the question - which bootloader were you on and where did you wipe from? In recovery or in the bootloader?

sbdags said:
If you don't have nvflash backups then unfortunately you can't restore from apx mode.
Can you answer the question - which bootloader were you on and where did you wipe from? In recovery or in the bootloader?
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boot loader is the version ? i was in JB 4.2.1 i think..
i wiped it from the CWM or Twrp.. im not sure..
all day long i looked for guides in the net.. there are so many people that stuck on the boot logo...
but i didn't find any solve for me...
plz help me !!

JusTeN_ said:
boot loader is the version ? i was in JB 4.2.1 i think..
i wiped it from the CWM or Twrp.. im not sure..
all day long i looked for guides in the net.. there are so many people that stuck on the boot logo...
but i didn't find any solve for me...
plz help me !!
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Did you do a full wipe from CWM? Dansrule32 posted about a possible brick in the CMM thread, have a look there.

sbdags said:
Did you do a full wipe from CWM? Dansrule32 posted about a possible brick in the CMM thread, have a look there.
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i did a factory reset and a salvik wipe..
can you give me a link plz?

It's in the dev forum - page 2 I think. Look for the ClockWorkMod Recovery thread.

sbdags said:
It's in the dev forum - page 2 I think. Look for the ClockWorkMod Recovery thread.
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i found only Twrp recovery. and it ain't helped me..
what can i do to device from apx mode?
restore? burn rom ? something?

JusTeN_ said:
i found only Twrp recovery. and it ain't helped me..
what can i do to device from apx mode?
restore? burn rom ? something?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40698998#post40698998
Post 157
Anyway I don't think it's going to help as if you only have APX mode and can't get into the bootloader or recovery then you are bricked
Nothing going ot get you out of that unfortunately if you didn't backup with nvflash......
Sorry.

sbdags said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40698998#post40698998
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Anyway I don't think it's going to help as if you only have APX mode and can't get into the bootloader or recovery then you are bricked
Nothing going ot get you out of that unfortunately if you didn't backup with nvflash......
Sorry.
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Then my tablet is gone?

You have a warranty?

JusTeN_ said:
Then my tablet is gone?
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If you are unable to get to the boot loader, or recovery, then yes the tablet is bricked. APX mode does not allow access to the parts containing the recovery or boot loader. If you can get to the boot loader, aka holding down power button and volume down button, should be able to see what boot loader you have a flash a compatible recovery. If not, then your tablet is bricked, which seems to be the case.
Tylor
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ROM: Cromi-X 4.3
Kernal: Hundsbuah's V3.0.5 Kernal

Tylorw1 said:
If you are unable to get to the boot loader, or recovery, then yes the tablet is bricked. APX mode does not allow access to the parts containing the recovery or boot loader. If you can get to the boot loader, aka holding down power button and volume down button, should be able to see what boot loader you have a flash a compatible recovery. If not, then your tablet is bricked, which seems to be the case.
Tylor
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk HD
ROM: Cromi-X 4.3
Kernal: Hundsbuah's V3.0.5 Kernal
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I have the warranty but it rooted then no.. but they can't turn it on ..
if i give the tab to Asus and play like i dont know what is root ( im 12 years old ) and looks like 10
they will fix it to me and after it know that i have root.. what they gonna do afteR?

They know from when you used the unlock tool it matches up with your serial

KinetiClutch said:
They know from when you used the unlock tool it matches up with your serial
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then they know my device is rooted?

JusTeN_ said:
then they know my device is rooted?
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They only care about unlock, (if unlocked, your device SN is registered in their database, they don't need to check your device, but you can get away if just rooted since your device is dead.

RCK not working

Hi,
I was using Phil recovery before and I tried to flash TWRP.
For some reason, after I have flashed TWRP, I cannot get into RCK again and the machine will freeze (the one with 4 icons)
How can I reinstall recovery? It will be good to get it through irdin as I don't know how to fastboot. Can I use erminal emulator to install it again?
I have installed goomanager and when I tried to boot the device into bootloader, it will just freeze on the ASUS screen
Thank you

eatout said:
Hi,
I was using Phil recovery before and I tried to flash TWRP.
For some reason, after I have flashed TWRP, I cannot get into RCK again and the machine will freeze (the one with 4 icons)
How can I reinstall recovery? It will be good to get it through irdin as I don't know how to fastboot. Can I use erminal emulator to install it again?
I have installed goomanager and when I tried to boot the device into bootloader, it will just freeze on the ASUS screen
Thank you
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If you have 4 icons you are on the wrong bootloader. Tread carefully as you are <--> this close to hard bricking your device now. DO NOT WIPE IT - if you do you've lost it.
You should flash the latest asus stock rom to get your bootloader updated but you will have to do that over fastboot from a pc now...... Instructions are in general I think.