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[Q] Fake Flash CWM recovery

If there any way to Flash a new ROM to a Sensation using a similar method to what was available with the HTC legend before it got S-OFF? Using the recovery screen (volume down + power) and choosing to install the update.zip to get into CWM. I remember seeing a thread about CWM for sensation, but it said something along the lines of it will only work for S-OFF users.
If I'm wrong, crazy, or missed something, feel free to let me know.

You need to be rooted first and, in case you've had your head buried in the sand, we don't have that yet

EddyOS said:
You need to be rooted first and, in case you've had your head buried in the sand, we don't have that yet
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Wow HaHaHaHa!

Is there a easy way to root the phone

root method in the development section seems to be very complicated. has anyone been able to find a better way to root ?

vikramdhani said:
root method in the development section seems to be very complicated. has anyone been able to find a better way to root ?
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It's actually a very easy process. All you have to do is follow simple directions. It sounds like you may not be ready to root your device. I knew nothing when I started, but jumped in head first and came out the other side better.
Just check the stickies in the dev section its almost noob proof honestly. And its pretty hard to brick this device if you follow directions.
Maybe if I tell you the main steps it may make more sense.
First, use revolutionary or HTC unlock to get the right bootloader. Revolutionary actually flashes recovery for you too.
Second, flash recovery... Either use revolutionary or use adb (theres tons of guides)
Third, either root the stock Rom by flashing su in recovery (you can get the correct file from Rom manager) OR just flash a custom Rom and they come rooted.
Of course each step has a few steps involved but really nothing a small bit of research can't fix.
Sorry if I sound a bit like a jerk but it really is kinda easy.... Intimidating at first but easy.
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Question about recovery. I have come from the HD2 to the sensation. The CWM on the HD2 was quite advanced. They had re-arranged the Yes No menu options to have one Yes and one No. For example do you want to install upgrade zip file. If you selected it, Rather than scrolling through all the no's to get to yes, you had yes first then no.
It is one thing I find annoying with CWM for the sensation and was wondering is there an update, or could a CWM from the HD2 be used on the sensation?

GhostXSeries said:
Question about recovery. I have come from the HD2 to the sensation. The CWM on the HD2 was quite advanced. They had re-arranged the Yes No menu options to have one Yes and one No. For example do you want to install upgrade zip file. If you selected it, Rather than scrolling through all the no's to get to yes, you had yes first then no.
It is one thing I find annoying with CWM for the sensation and was wondering is there an update, or could a CWM from the HD2 be used on the sensation?
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Personally I don't use cwm anymore. I use 4ext touch recovery and its amazing, not a single problem yet. It's so cool to use the touchscreen in recovery. Also twrp v.1 fixed that repetitive yes and no problem too. But no there isn't any way to change that in cwm right now.
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[APP] CWM Recovery Touch - No More Buttons

Just got ClockworkMod Recovery Touch loaded on my EVO 4G.
Look ma no more up and down on the volume button in while in Recovery.
Yes, you can still use volume up/down if you want, but I am liking this new touchscreen action. Koush U Rock my friend.
Video of CWM Touch in Action
Link 5.8.0.1 is what I put on.

Yep I have been running it for a bit now, used it a bunch last night, pretty smooth and not bad touch sensitivity.
Great stuff Koush!

I use the capacitive to navigate cwm (not touch) home = up, menu = down, back = back, and search = select.

Works great! Keep all my back ups
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Awesome, gonna give it a try now
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What is the best way to install the .img file?
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see i would use this but i have had bad experiences using anything but amon.
twrp 1.x > wont do anything with my ext
twrp 2.x > bricked my evo
cwm and thing past 2.x > wont wipe right or flash amend files
amon > perfect...
so unless anyone can attest to this actually being like 100% working im gonna stay away haha

PhxkinMassacre said:
see i would use this but i have had bad experiences using anything but amon.
twrp 1.x > wont do anything with my ext
twrp 2.x > bricked my evo
cwm and thing past 2.x > wont wipe right or flash amend files
amon > perfect...
so unless anyone can attest to this actually being like 100% working im gonna stay away haha
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I can't get it to load, so I'll take that as a sign lol.
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So, how do you install this?

phillymade said:
So, how do you install this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473525
A few ways there, I usually flash my recoveries with the pc36img.zip placed in root and run it in the bootloader. Or flash within ROM Manager, but there is a little donation he wants if you flash it via rom manager, I was hoping that it would be removed and flashable when I installed the premuim version from the market, but no luck. But that post there shows very simple ways to flash CWM. I didn't even know that program existed to flash img files without fastbooting the file, good stuff.
Enjoy!

phillymade said:
So, how do you install this?
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Like many apps I can't live without. I donated and installed via Rom Manager.

Installed using the GUI flasher I got free on xda. Works like a charm.
My EVO is Stock, Rooted and BAD ASS!

Installed it and it seemed to work fine..only thong that bugged me. Was when I tried to reboot into recovery from rom it didn't work.
I had to boot into bootloader then select recovery...
Then I thought why mess with something that isn't broken and I flashed back to Among RA!!
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I flashed it, but it would always freeze 4/5 of the way of installing any ROM. Had to revert back to non-touch

indyjames said:
Installed it and it seemed to work fine..only thong that bugged me. Was when I tried to reboot into recovery from rom it didn't work.
I had to boot into bootloader then select recovery...
Then I thought why mess with something that isn't broken and I flashed back to Among RA!!
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Good work. After that TWRP garbage, I won't even consider going to a touch recovery.

cprielly said:
Good work. After that TWRP garbage, I won't even consider going to a touch recovery.
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Yeah I fried two phones with TWRP... but I think touch is the way to go. To save on physical button usage and wear out. I took the jump when it came avaliable for the Evo4G. Not as flashy as TWRP.... BUT seems stable and usable without bricking phones.
~Max
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phone go to recovery when charging

help me, im rooted with eng spl, my problem is when i power off my phone its goes to recovery mode, now using sparcsco 1.1, also when battery dies and i charge the phone go to recovery mode
any idea why??
before this i flashed cwm touch with flash image gui
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Not sure of the exact reason why your handset does it. But in the early days of development for the Desire HD, this would occur when a custom recovery had been flashed.
The reason behind it was, when your handset was stock, turned off & placed on charge the phone would "boot" into a very basic HTC recovery mode to display the orange or green charging LED. When you replace the stock HTC recovery it simply boots up the recovery you have got installed.

andyharney said:
Not sure of the exact reason why your handset does it. But in the early days of development for the Desire HD, this would occur when a custom recovery had been flashed.
The reason behind it was, when your handset was stock, turned off & placed on charge the phone would "boot" into a very basic HTC recovery mode to display the orange or green charging LED. When you replace the stock HTC recovery it simply boots up the recovery you have got installed.
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Wow, thanks for the explanation. That makes perfect sense. But I thought that issue had been fixed for the Shift? Sorry, been a few months since I had my Shift so I can't remember if it was ever fixed or we just all stopped complaining about it. Or at least I thought it had been fixed on the recent CM7 nightlies. Maybe one of these good for nothing current Shift owners could put down the crack pipe and chime in here

That has never been a problem with the shift. It's weird that it happens to you cause when I was on cwm touch that never happened. I have no idea how to help
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jesusice said:
Wow, thanks for the explanation. That makes perfect sense. But I thought that issue had been fixed for the Shift? Sorry, been a few months since I had my Shift so I can't remember if it was ever fixed or we just all stopped complaining about it. Or at least I thought it had been fixed on the recent CM7 nightlies. Maybe one of these good for nothing current Shift owners could put down the crack pipe and chime in here
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It's a htc charging while off issue only for recovery. The htc charging while off mode was used for the older recovery versions of clockworkmod but has since been depriciated and no longer works for ICS based recoveries like clockworkmod touch. No crack pipe smokers here bud.

sparksco said:
It's a htc charging while off issue only for recovery. The htc charging while off mode was used for the older recovery versions of clockworkmod but has since been depriciated and no longer works for ICS based recoveries like clockworkmod touch. No crack pipe smokers here bud.
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so my phone is fine?
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finally figured out this myself, need to reflash recovery with flash image gui
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hacklana said:
finally figured out this myself, need to reflash recovery with flash image gui
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Yeah I like flash image gui. The main issue I have with the recovery is that it will boot into recovery but if I don't touch anything it turns itslef back off again after about 5 seconds. It's almost like charging off is somewhat working but not completely. Oh well it's not a big deal for me and I'm very content right now with clockworkmod touch. another good way to flash recovery is in fastboot with the fastboot erase recovery command before flashing it.

[POLL] Which Recovery do you prefer?

Hey guys,
i can't decide, which recovery i should use. CWM looks more nice to me. But i have at the moment 4EXT and i don't know if CWM will restore the backups of 4EXT.

alex1301 said:
Hey guys,
i don't know if CWM will restore the backups of CWM.
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this is absolute funny
anyways on topic
most of the sense roms..works pretty well with 4EXT
and most of AOSP /AOKP/ roms prefer CWM over 4EXT ...
so the recovery is not a choice in my opinion ..but a requirement w.r.t the ROM we want to use

my problem is with a sense rom, i have always a bootloop with CWM so i've installed 4EXT, but now i don't know which one i should use.
EDIT: i've noticed what you mean ;-)

imo 4ext is much better than cwm...it is highly supported and very fast, full of options, themes and commands....much much better...cwm is simple and does the minimum

I prefer 4 EXT, no contest x hands down, 4 ext is THE BEST! It's got
More features, its easier, its funner yes fun! You can theme 4ext with some really spectacular themes from xda! There is just no question 4ext is best in my opnion. CWM is just not as nice. Once I installed 4 ext I realized I'll never go back! They Are also really prompt with the updates and notify you as soon as their available! As I mentioned, I love theming my recovery with different themes! It makes it even more personal! 4 ext all the way here! Best wishes to you in whatever your decision!
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4Ext for sure.
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4ext without a doubt the best recovery I have used.
But remember how much we "Flash-Addicts" owe to CWM, for the endless use (And abuse) to our devices over the past years.
Without CWM there would be no 4ext recovery.
I personally call it a draw.
Cheers.

Still enjoying cwm, but 4 ext is also cool...

alex1301 said:
Hey guys,
i can't decide, which recovery i should use. CWM looks more nice to me. But i have at the moment 4EXT and i don't know if CWM will restore the backups of 4EXT.
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To be honest, 4EXT is the best recovery to use with the Sensation. You mentioned boot loops, or you S-off or HTC Dev unlocked. If you are HTC Dev unlocked 4EXT is not an option, it is a must as it has Smart Flash so you can flash the kernel of the ROM like normal instead of having to use fastboot commands to flash the kernel. The kernel not being flashed is a reason for boot loops. Also you could have the wrong firmware, I really am not sure though as I don't know your device set up information.
ganeshp said:
this is absolute funny
anyways on topic
most of the sense roms..works pretty well with 4EXT
and most of AOSP /AOKP/ roms prefer CWM over 4EXT ...
so the recovery is not a choice in my opinion ..but a requirement w.r.t the ROM we want to use
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Shame on you for laughing at the OP's typo.........
I do agree with you though, it really is not so much of a choice as a requirement. 4EXTworks well with ASOP and AOKP ROMs but most people make the mistake of using the Super Wipe script and not the built in Super Wipe in 4EXT before flashing a AOSP or AOKP ROM.
buzzboy said:
4ext without a doubt the best recovery I have used.
But remember how much we "Flash-Addicts" owe to CWM, for the endless use (And abuse) to our devices over the past years.
Without CWM there would be no 4ext recovery.
I personally call it a draw.
Cheers.
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I agree and totally respect what you are saying, but at the same time 4EXT is a way more powerful recovery. Itcan perform several more tasks than CWM and was a fully functioning touch recovery way before CWM. Koush is definitely a legend and deserves major propes. (Requests momentary round of applause for Koush) But CWM was actually not the first custom recovery it just became the most popular. Also Koush joined up with Cyanogen Mod so CWM has had some very good devs work on it. Yet 4EXT is maintained by one dev Maddmaxx82, yes he had some major help translating the recovery, but he maintains it himself. Not to mention 4EXT Recovery Control app is so much better than ROM Manager.

ive always been weary of trying 4ext touch but that is the greatest recovery ever

T-Macgnolia said:
I agree and totally respect what you are saying, but at the same time 4EXT is a way more powerful recovery. Itcan perform several more tasks than CWM and was a fully functioning touch recovery way before CWM. Koush is definitely a legend and deserves major propes. (Requests momentary round of applause for Koush) But CWM was actually not the first custom recovery it just became the most popular. Also Koush joined up with Cyanogen Mod so CWM has had some very good devs work on it. Yet 4EXT is maintained by one dev Maddmaxx82, yes he had some major help translating the recovery, but he maintains it himself. Not to mention 4EXT Recovery Control app is so much better than ROM Manager.
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I understand. And agree 4ext is without a doubt today's best recovery solution. I never doubted that fact.
But originally 4ext used CWM sources. So the Developer built the foundations of today's work from knowledge gained from using CWM in the beginning.
Anyway this is slightly off topic.
I'll leave you with a quote from Maddmaxx82 which is found at the footer of every 4ext thread.
Cheers.

Started with CWM on a olser device came to th senny was still using it till i found arhd an 4ext never looked back
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I was furious when ARHD auto-installed 4EXT over CWM.
"what the deuce is this??"
But i got to love 4ext in the end. Beats cwm to bits. Touch over volume buttons aNy day.
Beamed from my Senny..

I use 4ext touch and I love it! No reason to be weary of it . Once you try it you will love It's features! You can even check md5 sums with it. All I can say is its sweet! I was a little afraid at first because I was used to CWM, but the transition was a lot easier than I thought it would be! It's the easiest recovery I've ever used ! Backups are a snap. Restore is a snap! I just can't say enough great things about it. If you still question it just look at its ratings! Everyone loves it.
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buzzboy said:
I understand. And agree 4ext is without a doubt today's best recovery solution. I never doubted that fact.
But originally 4ext used CWM sources. So the Developer built the foundations of today's work from knowledge gained from using CWM in the beginning.
Anyway this is slightly off topic.
I'll leave you with a quote from Maddmaxx82 which is found at the footer of every 4ext thread.
Cheers.
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Look I think you missed the whole point of what I was saying in my post. Plus check my sig I make 4EXT themes so do really think I had not seen that in all the 4EXT themes already. In fact I started to mention something about that big about out to Koush in all of the threads but decided not to in my last post. Anyway back to my point. Koush made something great, then Maddmaxx82 took that great work and made it even better. And to be honest the things he has implemented in 4EXT probably could have been done with CWM but because CWM is so popular and supports so many devices it either was not fesable to imploment these changes. Or it was not considered necessary as CWM really had no viable challenger until TWRP and 4EXT was released. Custom recoveries are evolving and if CWM, even as great as it is, wants to keep up it needs to evolve too. And don't forget CWM does not support ext4 it only supports ext3.The Sensation uses ext4 natively so obviously 4EXT is the better recovery for the Sensation and any other device that uses ext4.

buzzboy said:
4ext without a doubt the best recovery I have used.
But remember how much we "Flash-Addicts" owe to CWM, for the endless use (And abuse) to our devices over the past years.
Without CWM there would be no 4ext recovery.
I personally call it a draw.
Cheers.
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+1

4ext all the way. You'd be a fool not to go with it.

How much of 4ext is still based on CWM, as the backup directory still resides within clockworkmod?

Sindroid said:
Touch over volume buttons aNy day.
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Except you can use the touch screen on CWM...

Rusty! said:
Except you can use the touch screen on CWM...
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CWM touch has up and down arrows.. its the same as using a volume button
4EXT touch has touch options.. completely different