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Problem trying to backup with ROM Manager

I have just rooted my phone recently on my Droid X using Z4root and it worked fine. Then I backed up my phone using Titanium Backup, which also worked fine also. Then I installed ROM Manager and then flashed ClockworkMod Recovery within ROM Manager. When I click on Backup Current ROM the phone reboots fully without going into recovery. So I open ROM Manager and click "Manage and Restore Backups" and there is no file there.
I tried clicking "Reboot into Recovery" to see if I could select it there and the phone just reboots back to android without going into recovery. So then I turned off my phone and held down the home+power to go into recovery which works. When I'm there it doesn't have an option to backup my ROM. I don't want to flash this ROM I want to try until I can backup my current stock ROM, in case something goes wrong.
When at the blue recovery screen I notice at the bottom in yellow a message is displayed "E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command. Wondering if this is my issue. I also notice in recovery it gives me an option to "apply sdcard:update.zip" but I don't see an update.zip on my sd card, so I'm not sure if I should select this before being able to backup my stock ROM. I'm afraid to flash the ROM before knowing this current problem. Can anyone help me with this issue? I am new to the whole root and ROM hacks, but have been researching in depth and taking all precautions so I'm trying hard not to brick my phone. Thanx in advance.

First off update.zip is just an update.zip package. Could be anything thats an update and can be flashed. Yeah...not sure why rom manager doesnt work for you but all the same your better off doing it from recovery anyway. You can make backups in recovery you don't need rom manager just use rom manager to manage your backups it will see them no matter what! It will allow you to rename them as well so they are easily identifiable also. If your rom manager works youll be able to name the backup before hand! If you ask me rom manager doesnt update the roms fast enough anyway they are usually like 2 days behind! Good tool either way but not so good at replacing roms as recovery does a better job. I have never had one problem using recovery but I've had a problem every time I try to flash a rom using rom manager!

Okay I figured out that the ClockworkMod Recovery must not have flashed properly or something bc I was just at the dev's site and the picture of the recovery is different than mine bc it's green and has many more options to choose from. Plus it says ClockworkMod Recovery on the recovery screen and mine doesn't. It's blue and says android recovery at the top. When I open the ROM Manager it says that I have the ClockworkMod Recovery but I don't. I even tried reflashing but it didn't work either. So how do I get the ClockworkMod Recovery to flash correctly?

I am having same problem but I just use bootstaper and it works fine

I tried downloading the bootstrap from the creator of ClockworkMod Recovery but the link seems to be broken. What bootstrap are u using?

I found the bootstrap for the Droid X on the market and that fixed the issue I was having. Wish I would have known from all the other posts/articles I read that it was a requirement for the Droid X to have the bootstrap to run recovery

[Q] Backing up front to allow restoring to factory?

I got my Motorola DEFY recently, and I'm new to Android, but I want to install stuff that needs root. However, I want to be able to restore everything to how the phone was when I got it, should the need arise.
I successfully rooted using z4root and installed ROM manager, at which point I did some googling and discovered that if I install ClockworkMod Recovery it's not easy to revert back to the normal recovery console. It's not that hard, but I understand it requires an image of the original recovery console. I thought that the backup option on ROM Manager would help, but it requires ClockworkMod Recovery to be installed.
So the question is, can the recovery console be backed up prior to installing ClockworkMod Recovery, or alternately can the entire phone state be backed up, including the recovery console and the rest of the ROM.
Help would be appreciated. Thanks!

If you install CWM Recovery you can do a nandroid backup of your stock ROM so that you can revert later. You don't need to worry about a stock recovery image because once you restore the backup you made, the custom recovery will be overwritten with the stock one with every reboot.

Problem with Rom Manager

So just a while ago i tried to download a Cyanogen Mod nightly off Rom Manager for my G2x and I backed up my stock rooted rom of course before going through with the wipes and everything and it seemed to have gone though very quick and when it booted back on all it did to my phone was wipe it and pretty much restore it. Now when I go try to Manage and Restore backups nothing is there! So in other words the Nightly didn't go through for some reason and for another weird reason my Backup I did right before isn't there and showing up either. I know it's there also because I checked under Linda File Manager and it's under my Clockwork Mod file. Any ideas or thoughts?

Try moving the backup from internal SD to external SD its in a file called clockworkmod
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it's already in that folder. this isn't my first time flashing and backing up before and all but this is the first time I have on the G2x and the first time i've ever encountered a problem like this. is there something i'm supposed to do to make rom manager work completely? i remember i used to boot into recovery a couple weeks back and I wouldn't be able to properly navigate and choose what I wanted but then now when I randomly tried today it worked and i was able to boot into recovery perfectly through rom manager but for some reason my backup won't show up and now I'm a little scared lol

have you not tried search yet. If you did search then you would have found that Rom Manger does not work with the G2X you need to use the recovery flashed from NVflash to do backups. So you have to boot into recovery by holding down vol-d + power. If you have not flash recovery from NVflash then do not do the vol-d + power or you will hard reset your phone.

[Q] Rom manager keeps asking me to install CWM Recovery but it is already installed

I have a rooted Sony Ericsson X8. I installed rom manager to backup my current rom before doing anything else (other than rooting). When I tried to backup I got that warning saying I had to install CWM Recovery. I looked for tutorials and flashed it thru xRecovery. Next time I booted into recovery I saw that CWM Recovery was installed. I booted into normal mode and opened Rom Manager. Then, when I tried to backup, I get the same warning saying I need CWM Recovery installed (even though it is allredy installed).
I did try "manual flash override" but it keeps prompting that damn list of CWM Recovery phone images where my phone is obviously not listed.
What am I doing wrong? Do I screw Rom Manager and backup/flash manually via the recovery boot mode?

Screw this app, I am doing this the manual way, there seems to be no way to make Rom Manager work.

Bump. I would like to know the answer to this one. I am running cm6. ROM Manager asks me the same thing, and as stated above our beloved sony x8 is mentioned in the list of phones. What do ppl have against our glorious phone

If you are rooted, but on a stock ROM, the stock Recovery will be persistent, i.e it will replace the custom one on every reboot of the device. You can stop this by deleting certain files, (whose names i don't remember, but could probably be found with a search of the forum.)

It's a common issue on Rom manager
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start the rom manager and press menu then press manual flash override. should stop asking you.

Help with making a backup of my rom

I have a cheap Tablet softwiner_evb and have tried cwm manager but cant install recovery ( the tab is ready rooted from factory and has an in built recovery feature) I just cant back my rom up incase it all goes South, I have used titainium backup but it appears to only back my apps up.
Have also tried goo manager, like I said the recovery and installing News roms is covered in the main menu of the tablet, just not rom back up:crying:

Adamblake said:
I have a cheap Tablet softwiner_evb and have tried cwm manager but cant install recovery ( the tab is ready rooted from factory and has an in built recovery feature) I just cant back my rom up incase it all goes South, I have used titainium backup but it appears to only back my apps up.
Have also tried goo manager, like I said the recovery and installing News roms is covered in the main menu of the tablet, just not rom back up:crying:
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in my experience you must have a custom recovery to backup your rom. some DEV needs to make one to work on your device if your factory recovery doesn;t allow making a backup