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So, on my rooted GSM Galaxy Nexus, I installed ClockworkMod Recovery. After it was installed, I proceeded to go into Recovery Mode, and I saw the Clockwork Mod Recovery icon, so I assumed all was well. However, when I later went back to Recovery Mode to make a backup for my stock ROM, I saw that, instead of taking me to where there were a lot of options to choose from, such as recovery and backup, instead there was a picture of Andy laying down with a red triangle with an exclamation point in the middle.

So, I proceeded to reinstall Clockwork, and the same thing happened again. Does anyone know a fix?
 
I suppose it should also be noted that when I re-installed CWM, I was able to access the normal recovery mode page again, but when returning to it a second time, did not work.
 
Perhaps you would do better in the all things root section of your phone. Not only will you get more hits you can probably get more direct answers. If I was a mod I'd move it for you.
 
BSP said:
So, on my rooted GSM Galaxy Nexus, I installed ClockworkMod Recovery. After it was installed, I proceeded to go into Recovery Mode, and I saw the Clockwork Mod Recovery icon, so I assumed all was well. However, when I later went back to Recovery Mode to make a backup for my stock ROM, I saw that, instead of taking me to where there were a lot of options to choose from, such as recovery and backup, instead there was a picture of Andy laying down with a red triangle with an exclamation point in the middle.

So, I proceeded to reinstall Clockwork, and the same thing happened again. Does anyone know a fix?
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BSP said:
I suppose it should also be noted that when I re-installed CWM, I was able to access the normal recovery mode page again, but when returning to it a second time, did not work.
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See the Flashed custom recovery won't "stick"?" section in this post:

How to install ClockworkMod custom recovery

There's a file you'll need to rename to keep Android from automatically restoring your stock recovery each time you shut down.

That should fix you up :).

Cheers!
 
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BSP - I went through the same issue. As has been alluded to, the Galaxy Nexus bootloader, if you let it go through the normal boot process (i.e. if you don't hold down a volume button combination to get it to boot into recovery or fastboot) will, by default, will overwrite the recovery with the 'factory' recovery. (This seems to be some sort of special feature that only exists in the Galaxy Nexus as far as I know--it appears it's something they added to help keep you from really bricking your phone by installing a corrupt recovery image.) If you use Koush's ROM Manager to install ClockworkMod Recovery, it will overwrite the recovery partition with ClockworkMod Recovery. Then, if you use the ROM Manager feature to reboot straight into recovery, it will work and you'll reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery. But, the next time you reboot normally, the bootloader will (if you didn't hide or remove the special file as instructed) overwrite the recovery partition with the factory recovery. If you rebooted normally and allowed the bootloader to overwrite recovery with the factory recovery image, and then you go into ROM Manager and use that to try to reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery, you will get that error image with the open android and the red triangle. This is because the ROM Manager is attempting to reboot into recovery and specify the ClockworkMod Recovery image, which isn't there. If you then reboot while holding volume-down you will reboot into the normal recovery.

So, to make a long story short: Follow the instructions to make ClockworkMod recovery 'stick.' The above is just an explainer as to why you saw the behavior you did.
 
Just a quick clarification...the stock recovery is flashed upon shutdown unless the mechanism for controlling this is disabled (i.e., for the GNex and possibly other devices, renaming the recovery-from-boot.p file or the install-updates.sh file, etc.).

This appears to be a feature of all Android devices (I've found very early references of this (here's one: HOWTO: Unpack, Edit, and Re-Pack Boot Images - Android Wiki).

The other way to make the custom recovery stick would be to actually replace the recovery image in the operating system so that the custom recovery is the one that gets auto-reflashed. That takes away one of your options for reclaiming the stock recovery, however.

Cheers!
 
Can you tell me then why a tried and true utility like ROM Manager doesn't give you the option of making its custom recovery image permanent? I could swear that when I rooted and ROM'd my OG Droid I didn't have to do anything special to make CWM Recovery 'stick' other than click on the button to install the recovery image from ROM Manager. What's so special or tricky about making it stick on the Galaxy Nexus? It would seem that all Koush would have to do is add one line to his recovery installer.
 
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Can you tell me then why a tried and true utility like ROM Manager doesn't give you the option of making its custom recovery image permanent? I could swear that when I rooted and ROM'd my OG Droid I didn't have to do anything special to make CWM Recovery 'stick' other than click on the button to install the recovery image from ROM Manager. What's so special or tricky about making it stick on the Galaxy Nexus? It would seem that all Koush would have to do is add one line to his recovery installer.
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LOL, I dunno ;) :).

I hadn't run into the recovery-from-boot.p thing until my GNex, so I'm not sure if its only for Google Nexus devices, etc.

I'd imagine it would be very easy for Koush to add an option to handle this file if it was detected. There might very well be a good reason, I just don't know what that would be.
 
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