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Root [GUIDE]How to install ClockworkMod Recovery with ROM Manager

tripdoc79 said:
little off topic.. but does anyone know how to pull the boot.img fromt he phone? trying to figure out a way to enable the bootloader.. ive tried adb pull /dev/mtd/mtd0 boot.img.. but i get a permmission denied error and i cannot get SU to work via adb shell either.. says permission denied.. i can use terminal to get su.. but not adb.. wierd.. i could try this from Vbox linux, guess ill try that

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Nm got it.. just used cat command through terminal
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I seem to remember having a similar problem with adb before. Try booting into recovery and see if advanced gives you root that way. As for the boot.img you can also extract one from a rom using a perl script or kitchen. It will unpack it, you can make changes and then repack it.
 
So I keep trying this, heh, now that my phone is done being a paperweight...

Every time I rename the downloaded file, copy in this recovery renamed EXACTLY, rom manager re-downloads the file like it don't see it...
 
somedood81 said:
So I keep trying this, heh, now that my phone is done being a paperweight...

Every time I rename the downloaded file, copy in this recovery renamed EXACTLY, rom manager re-downloads the file like it don't see it...
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if you rename it exactly it wont redownload it. I goofed up myself 2 or 4x the other night renaming it, but I eventually got it. But it never stopped my phone from booting up normally into the OS.
 
LOL I just bricked my phone again with this damn tutorial. I don't know why but it keeps downloading a new file instead of using my renamed one, I am copy/pasting the damn name to rule out spelling... I even installed the recovery in terminal after rom manager ****ed it up, install in terminal worked fine, I redownloaded from the OP too, Did the file in the OP get changed or something I flash the thing from terminal and it don't work, wtf?

Now I gotta unbrick from a flashing lg screen again, dammit
 
PlayfulGod said:
if you rename it exactly it wont redownload it. I goofed up myself 2 or 4x the other night renaming it, but I eventually got it. But it never stopped my phone from booting up normally into the OS.
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EVERY time I flash the wrong recovery I get flashing lg logo on every boot, just pressing power, not going into recovery..

Fixing flashing lg logo is not fun.
 
somedood81 said:
Heh fixing the flashing lg logo isn't too bad when you have a proper working QPST service programming backup. :)
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Thats how my DX is, I brick, I fire up RSDLite and flash the sbf file back to sock and start all over.

I know its a pain when things dont go right, I been there n still do it myself. Thats how I learn. ;)
 
PlayfulGod said:
you used the all-in-one to flash CWM?
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Red = file link

1. I downloaded flash_image and your recovery.img put it into the root of my sd card

2. Type the following into terminal emulator (do not type $ or #)

$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
# sync

3. Party

Thank you to PlayfulGod for his CWM Recovery Image and getitnowmarketing for the All in One Recovery GuideCan be done with adb shell but it didn't work for me...
 
after I download one of the recoveries through ROM manager I go through root explorer and look for the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries, but all I have is the folder clockworkmod/download. Inside this folder are just two files with numerical names (-1868634303 and -2110140792), one is 4.22mb and the other is 28.49kb. I can't find any recovery.clockwork.##.##.#.phone.image files anywhere, so I'm not sure if I should create the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/ directory, then just throw PG's recovery image into there, or rename his recovery.img to the 4.22mb numerically named file in the clockworkmod/download location.

Any thoughts?
 
puyow18 said:
after I download one of the recoveries through ROM manager I go through root explorer and look for the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries, but all I have is the folder clockworkmod/download. Inside this folder are just two files with numerical names (-1868634303 and -2110140792), one is 4.22mb and the other is 28.49kb. I can't find any recovery.clockwork.##.##.#.phone.image files anywhere, so I'm not sure if I should create the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/ directory, then just throw PG's recovery image into there, or rename his recovery.img to the 4.22mb numerically named file in the clockworkmod/download location.

Any thoughts?
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I had this same problem or choosing something like eris gave me a zip not img. I thought it wouldn't make a differencem so i renamed it to zip and the recovery failed to load. So i just did what i posted above and got it working.
 
puyow18 said:
after I download one of the recoveries through ROM manager I go through root explorer and look for the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries, but all I have is the folder clockworkmod/download. Inside this folder are just two files with numerical names (-1868634303 and -2110140792), one is 4.22mb and the other is 28.49kb. I can't find any recovery.clockwork.##.##.#.phone.image files anywhere, so I'm not sure if I should create the clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/ directory, then just throw PG's recovery image into there, or rename his recovery.img to the 4.22mb numerically named file in the clockworkmod/download location.

Any thoughts?
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Try creating the path: clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/ and renaming my recovery to: recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-thunderc.img and copy it to there.
 
NeoSabin said:
Red = file link

1. I downloaded flash_image and your recovery.img put it into the root of my sd card

2. Type the following into terminal emulator (do not type $ or #)

$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
# sync

3. Party

Thank you to PlayfulGod for his CWM Recovery Image and getitnowmarketing for the All in One Recovery GuideCan be done with adb shell but it didn't work for me...
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yeah i did these steps the other day and got it to work, but i thought just doing this doesn't get Rom manager to recognize the CWM, and the directions in the OP were so that Rom manger would recognize the CWM recovery.
 
PlayfulGod said:
Try creating the path: clockworkmod/download/download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/ and renaming my recovery to: recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-thunderc.img and copy it to there.
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Yeah I'll try that. Unfortunately I made the mistake of rebooting my phone during all this, so right now I'm in the process of unbricking the phone. <sigh>

I'll get it figured out. Thanks for all the help.
 
puyow18 said:
yeah i did these steps the other day and got it to work, but i thought just doing this doesn't get Rom manager to recognize the CWM, and the directions in the OP were so that Rom manger would recognize the CWM recovery.
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Remove all CWM downloads and files, then reinstall and hit reboot in recovery. Mine booted into PlayfulGod's CWM.

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I see the problem, just tried doing a backup in ROM manager and it asked for CWM recovery to be installed. Fail...
 
puyow18 said:
Yeah I'll try that. Unfortunately I made the mistake of rebooting my phone during all this, so right now I'm in the process of unbricking the phone. <sigh>

I'll get it figured out. Thanks for all the help.
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If you try again, pick the Optimus V one, thats the one I used last time and it didnt brick my phone, just broke recovery.

Always can wait til its made official and install it from RM.
 
PlayfulGod said:
If you try again, pick the Optimus V one, thats the one I used last time and it didnt brick my phone, just broke recovery.

Always can wait til its made official and install it from RM.
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Ready to try, try again. PG, you mention choosing the Optimus V recovery in the list . . . maybe I don't have the correct version of RM, but I don't see any Optimus recoveries in the list, just a bunch of Huawei's, Dell streak, spice, commtiva, etc. This is where you are referring to, correct?
 
puyow18 said:
Ready to try, try again. PG, you mention choosing the Optimus V recovery in the list . . . maybe I don't have the correct version of RM, but I don't see any Optimus recoveries in the list, just a bunch of Huawei's, Dell streak, spice, commtiva, etc. This is where you are referring to, correct?
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Yea, thats weird, very weird, but so is me being able to see all available recoveries in RM too lol.

A good full proof way of installing it til its officially built n merged into RM by koush, is Flash Image GUI from the market, it cost $.99 tho. ;)
 
PlayfulGod said:
Yea, thats weird, very weird, but so is me being able to see all available recoveries in RM too lol.

A good full proof way of installing it til its officially built n merged into RM by koush, is Flash Image GUI from the market, it cost $.99 tho. ;)
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would flashing your recovery via Flash Image GUI allow it to play nice with RM? Because as I said to another user a few posts back, I am able to get your CWM recovery working, the problem is getting RM to recognize it. If Flash Image GUI can do that then I'll think about purchasing it.
 
puyow18 said:
would flashing your recovery via Flash Image GUI allow it to play nice with RM? Because as I said to another user a few posts back, I am able to get your CWM recovery working, the problem is getting RM to recognize it. If Flash Image GUI can do that then I'll think about purchasing it.
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That I dont know, the cricket ppl told me about it and how easy it was too use, that about all I know about it.
 
puyow18 said:
would flashing your recovery via Flash Image GUI allow it to play nice with RM? Because as I said to another user a few posts back, I am able to get your CWM recovery working, the problem is getting RM to recognize it. If Flash Image GUI can do that then I'll think about purchasing it.
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Flash Image GUI will flash the recovery over beautifully every time.

Rom Manager will not recognize CWM installed in any other way than through Rom Manager. I have not been able to get it to recognize, have cleared all RM data, have cleared all dalvik, it will not recognize if not installed from RM.

Now my problem is, I got the OP trick to work the first time without a hitch, Now every time I install from RM and try the changing names trick, it re-downloads.

I tried on a friends MT3G to install CWM from RM, on the first run, it downloaded and installed, I immediately reinstalled the exact same recovery and it re-downloaded and installed.

I can NOT get RM to install a locally cached file on 2 completely different phones.

I'm going insane cuz I DEFINITELY got this to work ONE time... I think someone updated Rom Manager when I wasn't looking and killed cached file installs...
 
reppard said:
I seem to remember having a similar problem with adb before. Try booting into recovery and see if advanced gives you root that way. As for the boot.img you can also extract one from a rom using a perl script or kitchen. It will unpack it, you can make changes and then repack it.
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Yeah i got the boot.img extracted.. its siting on my HD waiting for when i habe time to do something with it.. trying to enable bootloader mode.. as far as i can tell the only time the bootloader mode will work with this phone is when its bricked at LG screen.. if u bricked it.. you can flash a recovery through fastboot and then go from there without having to go through all the LGNPST stuff..
 
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