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Trying to switch from clockwork to RA recovery- wont work

Another noob so please bear with me.
I tried to switch from clockwork to RA through simpleroot, after doing so it threw a lot of error messages at me and rebooted the phone, After that, in Boot menu I went to select "recovery" and it reloaded the boot menu. It simply will not go into recovery mode anymore, and all my attempt to load any of the recovery.img files to the SD, it will continue to not load in into recovery. Please help!

looks like a q & a post but
indephenit said:
Another noob so please bear with me.
I tried to switch from clockwork to RA through simpleroot, after doing so it threw a lot of error messages at me and rebooted the phone, After that, in Boot menu I went to select "recovery" and it reloaded the boot menu. It simply will not go into recovery mode anymore, and all my attempt to load any of the recovery.img files to the SD, it will continue to not load in into recovery. Please help!
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if your good to go, booting and rooted, get to the market and install rom manager - re-install clockwork mod recovery...
tons of other methods - this seems simple?

lwarranty said:
if your good to go, booting and rooted, get to the market and install rom manager - re-install clockwork mod recovery...
tons of other methods - this seems simple?
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Yes that seems simple, but what if I want to install RA recovery instead? do I have that option and if so, where would I D/L Ra from?

rom manager will download it, my latest version shows RA 1.7.0.1 as "Flash Alternate Recovery" and install it, you can switch back and fourth, I have the premium version, not sure if the freebie does it, but support them anywoo and send some bucks!

Yes it does allow you to, the free version just doesn't allow you to access the ROM Manager, online ROM list. But it does allow you to hot swap between ROM's on the fly (essentially).
~Jasecloud4

i've gone back and forth between the two using adb to flash the recovery.
Launch adb and run the command below (assuming you are familiar with adb and fully rooted)
flash_image recovery <path-to-recovery-image>

I purchased the premium...
jasecloud4 said:
Yes it does allow you to, the free version just doesn't allow you to access the ROM Manager, online ROM list. But it does allow you to hot swap between ROM's on the fly (essentially).
~Jasecloud4
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I purchased the premium version right off the bat - good info!
Personally, I use the crap out of it regardless of my adb and shell skills, but on the road, this little ditty is awesome!

"Flash Alternate Recovery" is blacked out and unavailable for selection, am I skipping a step or will I need to purchase the premium version to access this feature to download RA Recovery?

I never used the free version...
indephenit said:
"Flash Alternate Recovery" is blacked out and unavailable for selection, am I skipping a step or will I need to purchase the premium version to access this feature to download RA Recovery?
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I have the premium version, perhaps more info is on the market? Regardless, I'd pop for it, you won't regret it.
http://gh-pages.clockworkmod.com/ROMManagerManifest/CHANGELOG.txt

Did you install Clockwork recovery first? Then try to switch to RA. The free version works fine for me will let me switch no problem.

Just by chance...
indephenit said:
"Flash Alternate Recovery" is blacked out and unavailable for selection, am I skipping a step or will I need to purchase the premium version to access this feature to download RA Recovery?
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Does it allow you to flash the ClockworkMod recovery - maybe you spanked root?

lwarranty said:
Does it allow you to flash the ClockworkMod recovery - maybe you spanked root?
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Flashed Clockwork and now flashing alternate...

Good nuff - it's well worth the bucks if you like to flash on the spot, backup and restore. I can flash till my hearts content, screw the pooch and restore in a heartbeat with all my stuff ready to roll.

How about the reverse question,,, I already have amon recovery image. I have tried to flash the clockwork over but no go. I have tried to installed from the rom manager, no go. I have fixed the permission. any Idea's, I would like to use the rom manager........ Someone Please help!

Search the forum for the RA zip file and just flash it with clockworkmod.

maxcala said:
Search the forum for the RA zip file and just flash it with clockworkmod.
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Here is the link for RA...there is a .2 version for those with bad blocks but .1 is the norm thus far. ROM manager should include the clockwork for you and once you've switched between the two it is pretty slick for on the fly mashing. Just know that CW has known issues with cleanly wiping...FYI
http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.1.img
EDIT: There was a recent update to ROM Manager

maxcala said:
Search the forum for the RA zip file and just flash it with clockworkmod.
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Ummm, no, don't do that, it is a recovery IMAGE not a ROM. Search for the thread for amon_ra's recovery, get the image file, use a terminal shell app from the market to flash the image. The instructions are in the first post of RA's thread.
I have the same problem, I used to be able to flash RA with rom manager, but stopped working for me as well. Even tried new SD card, wiping, nothing seemed to fix it. Now I jus keep the image in the root of my sd card and use the terminal commands. Almost as fast as clockwork, done it enough. Though as of late not use clockwork at all, just ra.

He's trying to go opposite from the OP?
itchy17 said:
How about the reverse question,,, I already have amon recovery image. I have tried to flash the clockwork over but no go. I have tried to installed from the rom manager, no go. I have fixed the permission. any Idea's, I would like to use the rom manager........ Someone Please help!
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dpilcher said:
Here is the link for RA...there is a .2 version for those with bad blocks but .1 is the norm thus far. ROM manager should include the clockwork for you and once you've switched between the two it is pretty slick for on the fly mashing. Just know that CW has known issues with cleanly wiping...FYI
http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.1.img
EDIT: There was a recent update to ROM Manager
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He's trying to flash clockwork over RA - the OP was trying to install RA over cw...
If this is true - try uninstalling rom manager completely, if your not using it for backups and/or your nandroids aren't located in sdcard/clockworkmod - delete the folder and try to re-install from market. I don't believe nandroid and/or RA save to clockworkmod folder unless you have previously used rom manager?
And I have heard CW doesn't wipe cache or some such properly - never experienced issues to date...

This is true, but the rom manager was installed in my latest rom.. I will completely re-install the rom if needed just give me the order and directions, thank you in advance.

should I install a rom with out a rom manager, install the clockwork then reinstall my current rom????

[Q] ClockWork Recovery App question.

Hi
I root my HTC EVO about 2 weeks ago. When Unrevok ask me to install the custom recovery I answer yes (CWM V4.0.1.4). Everything went great. After that I download the Rom Manager App to manage my backups.
On the Rom Manager App when I press on "Backup Current Rom" I get this prompt "You must have ClockworkMod Recovery installed before continuing!. Install the recovery though Rom Manager First".
It is safe to install the ClockworkMod Recovery even do I have CWM V4.0.1.4 ?
Thanks in advance.

Yes, rom manager will just re-flash it to the latest version.

Do yourself a favor and get Amon Ra and dump ROM Manager

HipKat said:
Do yourself a favor and get Amon Ra and dump ROM Manager
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Amon-Ra vs. CWM
Is it really that much better? I kinda like the ROM manager that came with my CM7 Rom, and I know that prefers CWM.

Or do yourself a bigger favor and install twrp.

Journeyman83 said:
Is it really that much better? I kinda like the ROM manager that came with my CM7 Rom, and I know that prefers CWM.
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ROM Manager has a history of not being as efficient as it promises and making mistakes in backups. It also will not do a correct wipe of your system before flashing a new ROM, which creates problems, potentially, with FC's, etc...

atyoung said:
Or do yourself a bigger favor and install twrp.
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TWRP is not there yet. They lack the wipe boot feature which will screw up alot of ROM installs. Ra Recovery is still the way to go, plus all ROMS that have issues flashing in CWM have issues in TWRP. Once TeamWin fixes the major issues with TWRP then it will be the recovery to use. Presently it is still flawed.

If I have ROM manager can I just download and flash RA Recovery over that without having to flash the PC36IMG.zip? I'm new to this so I just want to make sure I'm doing this right.

LandOfLinkin said:
If I have ROM manager can I just download and flash RA Recovery over that without having to flash the PC36IMG.zip? I'm new to this so I just want to make sure I'm doing this right.
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If you have the android sdk installed on your system just boot to your bootloader and select fastboot. Then place the file in .img format in your android-sdk-windows\tools directory then rename the file to something shorter, I usually go with amonra.img. then navigate to that directory with cmd. Then type fastboot flash recover amonra.img this will flash the new recovery. However if you don't have the sdk installed then you will need the pc36img.zip format place it on the root if your sdcard and reboot the phone while holding power+vol up. The bootloader should detect the file and ask if you wish to apply the update. Press vol up to accept the update, and it will flash the new recovery. Now once you do this you will need to make all new backups because any backup made with CWM will not work with ra recovery.
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Thanks for the help. I actually downloaded Android terminal emulator and flashed it from the SD card. You guys are just too darn helpful!
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Thanks guys for the help.

Clockwork android app + link2sd + googleplay failure
I buyed the app but cant install the 42kb premium key :-/
please help

How do you switch recovery's?

I have TWRP and want to switch to newest CWM. It seems a lot of flash files say "flash with CWM."
Anyone?

EVOme said:
I have TWRP and want to switch to newest CWM. It seems a lot of flash files say "flash with CWM."
Anyone?
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No need to change. TWRP should be suitable for all your flashing needs. Most of the time when a thread says flash in CWM, it is interchangeable with TWRP.

I find twrp to be better than cwm.

CamFlawless said:
No need to change. TWRP should be suitable for all your flashing needs. Most of the time when a thread says flash in CWM, it is interchangeable with TWRP.
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Good to know..I'll stay put. Thanks!

I'm actually on cwm and wanted to try out twrp because people tell me it's better, how do I switch?

infamous_801 said:
I'm actually on cwm and wanted to try out twrp because people tell me it's better, how do I switch?
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install goo manager from play store. open app hen hit menu- install openrecoveryscript. thats it all done

MoeisHere said:
install goo manager from play store. open app hen hit menu- install openrecoveryscript. thats it all done
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You can also flash either recovery using mobile odin. Works great.

[Q] HELP! TWRP and CWM installed at the same time!

So I did something silly a while back and I've yet to be able to fix it. When I first rooted my phone I flashed TWRP and all was well. Then a while later, forgetting that I had TWRP, I installed CWM through RomManager. So now I have two recovery partitions and I'm unsure of how to fix this issue. I would ideally like to only use CWM. Has anyone had this problem? Can someone give me some advice on how to fix it? Any and all help would be appreciated

Mattamizer said:
So I did something silly a while back and I've yet to be able to fix it. When I first rooted my phone I flashed TWRP and all was well. Then a while later, forgetting that I had TWRP, I installed CWM through RomManager. So now I have two recovery partitions and I'm unsure of how to fix this issue. I would ideally like to only use CWM. Has anyone had this problem? Can someone give me some advice on how to fix it? Any and all help would be appreciated
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One will overwrite the other. Why do you think you have two recovery partitions ?

hednik said:
One will overwrite the other. Why do you think you have two recovery partitions ?
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If I reboot from RomManager I get dumped into CWM, but if I reboot manually and enter recovery it's TWRP.

Mattamizer said:
If I reboot from RomManager I get dumped into CWM, but if I reboot manually and enter recovery it's TWRP.
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You could try uninstall rom manager and then install goo manager and flash TWPR again. Then use goo manager to boot into recovery and see where it sends you
A way that would work for sure would be to just flash back to stock with Odin, using the pre rooted rom

hednik said:
You could try uninstall rom manager and then install goo manager and flash TWPR again. Then use goo manager to boot into recovery and see where it sends you
A way that would work for sure would be to just flash back to stock with Odin, using the pre rooted rom
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I just got goo manager last night (I've been running AOKP) so perhaps that is the route I'll take initially. I'd like to avoid flashing back to stock if possible as it would be a lot of work to get rid of one partition. I suppose it won't hurt anything if I just use one of the recoveries exclusively.
EDIT: Rebooting with goo manager dumps me into CWM. So does rebooting into recovery manually so it seems that you were correct. I don't know what the hell the deal was earlier. Must've been a hiccup or I'm an idiot. Thanks hednik!

I have the same issue only I would like to keep TWRP and lose CWM how do I uninstall? Thanks in advance
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Mattamizer said:
I just got goo manager last night (I've been running AOKP) so perhaps that is the route I'll take initially. I'd like to avoid flashing back to stock if possible as it would be a lot of work to get rid of one partition. I suppose it won't hurt anything if I just use one of the recoveries exclusively.
EDIT: Rebooting with goo manager dumps me into CWM. So does rebooting into recovery manually so it seems that you were correct. I don't know what the hell the deal was earlier. Must've been a hiccup or I'm an idiot. Thanks hednik!
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Re-install the stock rom via-odin, it will reset you're root and reflash the old recovery. Then restore you're root and reflash you're recovery (TWRP recommended).
Edit: BUT FIRST REVERT TO STOCK

simpson173 said:
I have the same issue only I would like to keep TWRP and lose CWM how do I uninstall? Thanks in advance
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try flashing this with odin... worked for me
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/d2att

Odin Says "Pass", But phone is not rooted.

Hey guys I followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2235366
I used a file called "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar"
Everything goes well and I get a green pass from oden3, the phone reboots. But superSU is not installed and when I check "Root checker" there is no root....
I have 4.1.2
Thoughts?

Just download superuser and simply place it on your phones SD card it's really easy
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ricanjoe said:
Hey guys I followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2235366
I used a file called "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar"
Everything goes well and I get a green pass from oden3, the phone reboots. But superSU is not installed and when I check "Root checker" there is no root....
I have 4.1.2
Thoughts?
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Your phone is not finishing the process it seems. After Odin says pass do you get a big red Android on the screen? If not flash the cf auto root file but uncheck auto reboot in Odin first. Then when it finishes, pull the cable and remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and manually boot to recovery by holding volume up+home+power and it should finish installing root.
I don't know what the post above me is taking about. Installing superuser isn't going to magically give you root. js

billard412 said:
Your phone is not finishing the process it seems. After Odin says pass do you get a big red Android on the screen? If not flash the cf auto root file but uncheck auto reboot in Odin first. Then when it finishes, pull the cable and remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and manually boot to recovery by holding volume up+home+power and it should finish installing root.
I don't know what the post above me is taking about. Installing superuser isn't going to magically give you root. js
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Yes its a screen with red letters and numbers saying the phone will reboot in 10 seconds.... So I re root in oden? then I pull the battery out before reboot? Could this brick my phone?
Thanks foe the help

ricanjoe said:
Yes its a screen with red letters and numbers saying the phone will reboot in 10 seconds.... So I re root in oden? then I pull the battery out before reboot? Could this brick my phone?
Thanks foe the help
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It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.

billard412 said:
It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.
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About to give it a shot. Placing the root file on my external SD and phone into download mode, about to launch the odin app on pc.

billard412 said:
It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.
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my man, so far im in a 'team win recovery project screen' its all blue and stuff
this is pretty exiting for me.
So what do I press now? what does this screen mean?
(some personal insight, I have rooted my old evo 3d back in the day but il still pretty noobish, the twrp thing rings a bell)

ricanjoe said:
my man, so far im in a 'team win recovery project screen' its all blue and stuff
this is pretty exiting for me.
So what do I press now? what does this screen mean?
(some personal insight, I have rooted my old evo 3d back in the day but il still pretty noobish, the twrp thing rings a bell)
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You want to press install then hit "up a level" until youre in the root "/" directory. Then choose "external_sdcard" then tap "root.zip" and swipe to confirm at the bottom.

billard412 said:
You want to press install then hit "up a level" until youre in the root "/" directory. Then choose "external_sdcard" then tap "root.zip" and swipe to confirm at the bottom.
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sweet man, Im in root checker and it says "congratulations this device has root access"
I wanted to ask you how does this method differ from the method I was trying to perform?

ricanjoe said:
sweet man, Im in root checker and it says "congratulations this device has root access"
I wanted to ask you how does this method differ from the method I was trying to perform?
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It's basically the same thing. Cf auto root will install a special recovery made by chainfire and a cache.img with a root zip. It's supposed to flash that zip then restore stock recovery. I've never seen cf auto root fail to do the job so im not sure what went wrong.
But the way you did it was you installed your own custom recovery and manually flashed a root zip created by me instead. Only thing different here is that you still have that custom recovery instead of stock recovery now.

billard412 said:
It's basically the same thing. Cf auto root will install a special recovery made by chainfire and a cache.img with a root zip. It's supposed to flash that zip then restore stock recovery. I've never seen cf auto root fail to do the job so im not sure what went wrong.
But the way you did it was you installed your own custom recovery and manually flashed a root zip created by me instead. Only thing different here is that you still have that custom recovery instead of stock recovery now.
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Got it man, is this custom recovery better than the stock or is it essentially the same? I plan to install a custom rom soon.
(I didn't find many threads like this on google nor the search tool so hopefully people with the same strange problem as me will now find it. Should be useful)

ricanjoe said:
Got it man, is this custom recovery better than the stock or is it essentially the same? I plan to install a custom rom soon.
(I didn't find many threads like this on google nor the search tool so hopefully people with the same strange problem as me will now find it. Should be useful)
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The custom recovery is the same with the exception that it gives you additional privileges over stock recovery. Like installing custom roms, so if you're planning on a custom rom soon then you may as well just stick with the custom one. I do however recommend you download goo manager from the playstore and updating your recovery to the newest with it before trying to flash anything. The recovery I gave you may be a little outdated. And if for any reason you want stock recovery back I'll make a odin tar of it and place it in this post
STOCK RECOVERY TAR

billard412 said:
The custom recovery is the same with the exception that it gives you additional privileges over stock recovery. Like installing custom roms, so if you're planning on a custom rom soon then you may as well just stick with the custom one. I do however recommend you download goo manager from the playstore and updating your recovery to the newest with it before trying to flash anything. The recovery I gave you may be a little outdated. And if for any reason you want stock recovery back I'll make a odin tar of it and place it in this post
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I got the goo manager, which recovery do I update to?
The app wants me to update to open recovery twerp 2/6/2/0/d2spr.img

ricanjoe said:
I got the goo manager, which recovery do I update to?
The app wants me to update to open recovery twerp 2/6/2/0/d2spr.img
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Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
Edit:sorry had to reread that. Twrp 2620 is right

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billard412 said:
Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
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Alright man I wont waste anymore of your time here, just want to say thanks for all the help, this gives me the courage to continue to learn more about rooting and custom roms. I was about to give up last night because of this frustrating issue I had. Thanks again!

ricanjoe said:
Alright man I wont waste anymore of your time here, just want to say thanks for all the help, this gives me the courage to continue to learn more about rooting and custom roms. I was about to give up last night because of this frustrating issue I had. Thanks again!
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No problem glad to help. And just in case u need it, the stock recovery tar is attached below.

billard412 said:
Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
Edit:sorry had to reread that. Twrp 2620 is right
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about to install moar rom. I saw a video saying you should wipe dalvic cache and do several other things before.
Is there anything you reccomend I do before I flash this custom rom (Moar)

ricanjoe said:
about to install moar rom. I saw a video saying you should wipe dalvic cache and do several other things before.
Is there anything you reccomend I do before I flash this custom rom (Moar)
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Just a factory reset. It should automatically wipe the cache and other areas that need wiped. I've ran moar before it's am awesome rom

billard412 said:
Just a factory reset. It should automatically wipe the cache and other areas that need wiped. I've ran moar before it's am awesome rom
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Awesome im working on it now, also do you backup efs? Or is that just for the paranoid crowd?
(I will give you a shout out on my next vid

ricanjoe said:
Awesome im working on it now, also do you backup efs? Or is that just for the paranoid crowd?
(I will give you a shout out on my next vid
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Personally I think the chances of your efs going bad are slim and a backup is more for paranoid people. With that said it never hurts to back it up. I just wouldn't restore it unless you have to.