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Installation instructions:
YOUR PHONE MUST ALREADY BE S-OFF. SEE THE OTHER THREADS IN THIS FORUM ON HOW TO DO THAT.
I recommend getting on Wi-Fi.
Download ROM Manager from the Market. You MUST have at least 2.5.0.6.
Flash Recovery.
Choose G2 as your phone.
Accept the Superuser prompt.
Use ROM Manager to create a Backup.
Watch the backup go!
That's it! This is completely painless and safe!
If you appreciate my work, please buy the Premium version of ROM Manager!
If you can't seem to get ROM Manager off the market, you can get it from my homepage:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html
http://koush.tandtgaming.com//recoveries/RomManager.apk
Or to manually install the recovery via fastboot, use this:
http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
Great work!! Would this happen to work on the Desire Z as well?
Got the premium key off the market, but it doesnt list g2 in device selection
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Dalamak said:
Got the premium key off the market, but it doesnt list g2 in device selection
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I'm not seeing the G2 as an option, either
EDIT: I enabled "Advanced Mode" in settings and rebooted, G2 now shows up. Thanks, Koush!
Get on wifi if you don't see it.
Purchased, keep up the good work.
instructions for fastboot method?
I keep getting an error message "can't open cache\recovery\command" upon reboot when I try to create a backup. Any ideas?
John5788 said:
instructions for fastboot method?
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fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
Same problem as yayitzben... Any suggestions?
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How can I backup my current rom?
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usunoro said:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
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I tried that after rebooting into fastboot mode, but it gets stuck at:
Code:
$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
sending 'recovery' (4040 KB)...
for over a minute. i dont remember it taking this long on the G1 to flash recovery
Any reason selecting reboot in the recovery causes it to just black screen, and then pushing power button returns it to the recovery?
Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?
funkeee said:
Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?
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hold vol up and power button at the same time. then using the volume bar to go to reboot... and press the power button.
~~Tito~~ said:
Any reason selecting reboot in the recovery causes it to just black screen, and then pushing power button returns it to the recovery?
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Be sure to use the trackpad (button below the screen) and not the power button for "select". Power button is "back".
funkeee said:
Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?
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This happened to me (and a few others in the other thread). Pull the battery, restart, reflash recovery (via rom manager), fix permissions (via rom manger, might not be needed), start a new backup. Should work.
(Thanks temjinzero for this method)
Thanks Koush for an awesome job!
If your phone restarts while in Clockwork after flashing and gives you a screen with a red triangle, do not panic and start using it as a paperweight immediately.
Pull the battery, reboot and reflash Clockwork.
I wasn't able to boot again for a few minutes after the battery pull. The power button did not have any effect. Not fastboot nor regular boot. After 2-3 minutes of pain, utter pain, I was able to get into fastboot, then reboot like normal.
Thank you to Koush, cyprusxr3 and mdel.
If you do not see g2 liste go to settings/applications/manage downloaded/rommanager and push clear cache clear data bam fixed
Purchased. And thanks for all the hard work
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Ahh the touch pad, from what I was hearing, it wasn't working lol.
Just installed beacon bits lol.
Today I installed advanced task killer/manag er from the market as my phone was acting up lately. I set security to low and task killer to run when the screen is off. I rebooted and now im stuck on the white htc screen. I tried pulling the battery several timesand rebooting but still no boot. I cant boot into recovery because my volume down switch stopped working in the past week. Is the re any way around this I only have 1 phone and really need it working. Thanks in advance.
andy905 said:
Today I installed advanced task killer/manag er from the market as my phone was acting up lately. I set security to low and task killer to run when the screen is off. I rebooted and now im stuck on the white htc screen. I tried pulling the battery several timesand rebooting but still no boot. I cant boot into recovery because my volume down switch stopped working in the past week. Is the re any way around this I only have 1 phone and really need it working. Thanks in advance.
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Never seen this before. Why did the volume button stop work?
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addemod said:
Never seen this before. Why did the volume button stop work?
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Not sure, one day it worked and next day it didn't. Volume up works but volume down doesn't, the trackpad has also stopped working. The phone was ok before doing a reboot with the task killer.
andy905 said:
Not sure, one day it worked and next day it didn't. Volume up works but volume down doesn't, the trackpad has also stopped working. The phone was ok before doing a reboot with the task killer.
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Ok that's weird :S
Try press harder on the volume down or like hold the tumb on the minus symbol so it covers more then the minus symbol and push hard then hold the power button when it is off, it should boot in recovery.
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While phone is off press back button + power. That takes u to fastboot then use fastboot commands to boot recovery
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addemod said:
Ok that's weird :S
Try press harder on the volume down or like hold the tumb on the minus symbol so it covers more then the minus symbol and push hard then hold the power button when it is off, it should boot in recovery.
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His vol down button dont work so he cant navigate to recovery
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jmcclue said:
His vol down button dont work so he cant navigate to recovery
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I meant it was maybe just a glitch on the button so he had to push harder but, thx for replied to him xD
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Ive tried extra pressure on the volume down button but doesnt work, ill try the power and back buttons and see if that gets me anywhere. I appreciate all your replies guys.
andy905 said:
Ive tried extra pressure on the volume down button but doesnt work, ill try the power and back buttons and see if that gets me anywhere. I appreciate all your replies guys.
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I managed to boot into recovery but because the trackpad isnt working I cant select any options. This is damn frustrating. I should have installed a touch recovery. What are my options now?
andy905 said:
I managed to boot into recovery but because the trackpad isnt working I cant select any options. This is damn frustrating. I should have installed a touch recovery. What are my options now?
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So not even vol+ doesn't work? Really? You can choose with vol+ too
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addemod said:
So not even vol+ doesn't work? Really? You can choose with vol+ too
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I can scroll through recovery options using vol+ but I cant select any options. Im using clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0. Is there another way to select by any chance.
andy905 said:
I can scroll through recovery options using vol+ but I cant select any options. Im using clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0. Is there another way to select by any chance.
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Why can't you select? Use the power button at the top left.
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download PB99IMG (4ext recovery) and extract the recovery.img from it and put the recovery.img directly into ur C:\ drive. use fastboot commands and flash the recovery.img.
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
then
fastboot boot recovery
jmcclue said:
download PB99IMG (4ext recovery) and extract the recovery.img from it and put the recovery.img directly into ur C:\ drive. use fastboot commands and flash the recovery.img.
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
then
fastboot boot recovery
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Had a major stroke of luck this morning. While frantically trying all combinations of button pushes while in recovery a notification appeared that the back button had been activated with menu functions. The search button then acted as a select button like the trackpad. I was able to reflash my rom without losing any data or apps. :laugh: Thanks to everyone for all your suggestions. That was a close one.
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Had a major stroke of luck this morning. While frantically trying all combinations of button pushes while in recovery a notification appeared that the back button had been activated with menu functions. The search button then acted as a select button like the trackpad. I was able to reflash my rom without losing any data or apps. :laugh: Thanks to everyone for all your suggestions. That was a close one.
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Yay, I were just going to say that, that you can use the trackball or whatever it is called, you know between back and menu button. You can navigate there too
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addemod said:
Yay, I were just going to say that, that you can use the trackball or whatever it is called, you know between back and menu button. You can navigate there too
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The trackball also wasnt working and thats why I had such a headache, luckily clockworkmod seems to have extra button functions which allowed me to select. Thanks again.
andy905 said:
The trackball also wasnt working and thats why I had such a headache, luckily clockworkmod seems to have extra button functions which allowed me to select. Thanks again.
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Hah, I am glad you fixed it!
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hello i am having some problems with cmw auto installer although it says that cmw is installed i cant reboot to recovery it just restarts like normal. And when i try to do a nandroid the app just crashes... i have the 5 version since the new ui is kinda difficult to understand can anyone recomend anything?Any help will be much appreciated.
hisoka99 said:
hello i am having some problems with cmw auto installer although it says that cmw is installed i cant reboot to recovery it just restarts like normal. And when i try to do a nandroid the app just crashes... i have the 5 version since the new ui is kinda difficult to understand can anyone recomend anything?Any help will be much appreciated.
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To boot into recovery you must press volume down when the phone shows the blue light(power button)
Xperia Gamer said:
To boot into recovery you must press volume down when the phone shows the blue light(power button)
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oh didnt know that but i tried from the menu in the app already
hisoka99 said:
oh didnt know that but i tried from the menu in the app already
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thank you very much sir it work with the volume button now i got a backup of my rom. Have a nice day!!!
Every time I open ROM Manager I get a message that there is a clockwork mod recovery update. How do I update it? Is there an app for that or do I need to keep downloading it and copying over manually? Does this affect my backups?
Thank you in advance,
BR
bob_ross said:
Every time I open ROM Manager I get a message that there is a pdate clockwork mod recovery update. How do I update it? Is there an app for that or do I need to keep downloading it and copying over manually? Does this affect my backups?
Thank you in advance,
BR
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Do you mean an update to the recovery itself? If so, just hit the Recovery Setup button at the top of the app and flash the lastest version from there.
billard412 said:
Do you mean an update to the recovery itself? If so, just hit the Recovery Setup button at the top of the app and flash the lastest version from there.
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Thank you that did the trick, I'm still a little confused about all this rooting. Clockwork, busy box, titanium, nandroid, mybackup. So Clockwork is just the recovery app? Like for Vol UP + HOME + POWER?
bob_ross said:
Thank you that did the trick, I'm still a little confused about all this rooting. Clockwork, busy box, titanium, nandroid, mybackup. So Clockwork is just the recovery app? Like for Vol UP + HOME + POWER?
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Yes clockwork is what you're booting into when u hold that combo
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Yes clockwork is what you're booting into when u hold that combo
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So are root type apps tied to clockwork somehow or is it totally independent functions?
bob_ross said:
So are root type apps tied to clockwork somehow or is it totally independent functions?
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They're independent. Only app related to clockwork is ROM manager
billard412 said:
They're independent. Only app related to clockwork is ROM manager
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Is that for updating it or for other functions?
bob_ross said:
Is that for updating it or for other functions?
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Mostly it's also for flashing and downloading roms
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Mostly it's also for flashing and downloading roms
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Got it. Thank you for all your help, much appreciated! :good:
delete
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delete
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try going to hboot. it's already highlighted. hit the power button. the option for recovery will be there.
EDIT: you deleted when i was mid reply. lol
xunholyx said:
try going to hboot. it's already highlighted. hit the power button. the option for recovery will be there.
EDIT: you deleted when i was mid reply. lol
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thanks anyways...i flash older twrp and it worked...prolly bc 2.8. wasnt compatibly wit 4.4.2...ive got it flying now with leedroid....pretty cool fone...