Help How to tell if I have CWM or TWRP installed on AT&T S4?

[Meerky]

I bought the Samsung Galaxy S4 on eBay as "unlocked". It is definitely rooted verified by Root Checker, I use the phone on Cricket. The model is SGH-I337.

I can't get into Recovery Mode though. Pressing Vol Up-Power-Home just boots the phone normally. I installed ROM Manager, and the first screen it brings up is:

Is it saying that I already have both CWM and TWRP installed? Or is it expecting me to know what is or isn't installed and to pick the right option?

Since I didn't do the rooting myself, I don't want to risk bricking it by doing something stupid. I'm just about 100% certain it's stock firmware, nothing done but rooted, but is there a way I can check any info I need before I go any further?

And if I'm installing a custom recovery now, would you recommend CWM or TWRP? I've used CWM a lot on a previous phone, but TWRP sounds very nice. I've looked around for Goo Manager, but couldn't find it at the Play Store, but I did find TWRP Manager. Has that replaced Goo Manager and should I use TWRP Manager instead of ROM Manager? I also have SuperSU installed in case that's relevant.

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[dynomot]

I used to use ROM manager, but gave up on it after it stopped working properly it would not flash things properly with Philz (a clockwork mod variant) recovery and this led to many a bootloop. I just go to recovery nowadays with the three button method. It is asking which one you have in your screen shot, it expects you to know.

Keep trying to get to recovery, it is difficult to judge releasing the three keys at exactly the right time, I fail a good three times out of four and have to start again. Trust me, you have some sort of recovery on your device be it stock, TWRP or a variation of CWM.

To be sure you can always just flash the one of your choice using Odin, then you got can tell ROM manager and access it from there. I might try ROM manager again now I'm using TWRP recovery to see if it works once more.

 

[Meerky]

I never did get into the Recovery Mode with the Vol Up-Power-Home buttons no matter when I timed it. But I did use ROM Manager by backing out of that screen that wanted to do installations and then selecting "Reboot into Recovery". That gave me this screen (contents moved closer together just to keep file size smaller).

So I take it there's no custom recovery installed and I still need to install either CWM or TWRP, correct?

Using the TWRP Manager makes it seem a simpler process (I've never used Odin before). Can I just install from the prompts from TWRP Manager to get TWRP installed and working (and no ill effects ).

 

[dynomot]

Yes you just have stock recovery. As for flashing a custom recovery with ROM manager I wouldn't know, I've always used Odin.

 

[Meerky]

I let ROM Manager install CWM Recovery. It says I have CWM 6.0.4.7 installed within ROM Manager, but when I boot into recovery, it's still just bringing up the stock recovery. So I'm not sure if it's really installed or not. Are there instructions to install CWM through Odin for the I337 version of the phone somewhere?

 

[wuyiL]

I let ROM Manager install CWM Recovery. It says I have CWM 6.0.4.7 installed within ROM Manager, but when I boot into recovery, it's still just bringing up the stock recovery. So I'm not sure if it's really installed or not. Are there instructions to install CWM through Odin for the I337 version of the phone somewhere?

You have got your phone root first.