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[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ErrieR:
I used [US/WW/JP/TW/DE/TB] One-Click Universal root for stock firmware - V4 to root my device. But I did not install CWM because I thought I didn't need it by then.

But why isn't there a nvflash CWM install option? Sounds logical to me. But maybe I should unroot/reroot my TF and choose yes when opted to install CWM.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ErrieR:
Please reread my post, I think there is a misunderstanding here. What I was asking for is a way to flash recovery without the need for CWM.

Is it possible? I downloaded Prime 1.7 and there is a CWM recovery.img inside.

But how do I flash it. I can't find a guide, and I have been searching for over 2 hours now. Maybe my search capabilities are below par :p
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jerdog:
Please read all the Guides and Info posts - they all provide elements of this information.

You cannot flash a Custom ROM without a Custom Recovery, i.e. CWM. There are steps as well for using nvflash to put cwm on. Do some reading and research instead of asking for everyone to do it for you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SilverZero:
Jus to be clear: CWM is a recovery, and a pretty good one. I actually don't know what "stock" recovery is, or if there is one. Flash CWM, it doesn't affect your ROM at all, it's a separate environment. Its where you go to flash zips like kernels and such, or to make backups.

And I think you can just re-run the one-click root utility and choose the option to flash CWM, it will just flash it and you'll have it. Boot while holding volume-down, then hit vol-up when the text appears at the top of the screen to get into it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jefbal99:
Interesting, somehow I ended up back on the old recovery, not sure where it came from.

Re-flashing now...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] bitter1:
Lemme expose my ignorance.

After the 3.2 update I ran the re-root and CWM tools found here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15974068&postcount=1

Oddly enough I cannot get into the recovery using the volume down + power then volume up, it just reboots regularly.

So now I can't seem to get CWM installed at all (but I still have root thankfully)

What am I doing wrong?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dictionary:
Why are some people, mods included, completely unable to follow and answer a simple question? He obviously knows the difference between a ROM and a recovery. He wants to know how to install CWM to install a KERNEL on his stock ROM. It's actually super easy to see that. Yes he should have looked a tad harder, but replying to him about how he needs CWM to flash a ROM, and blah blah isn't productive, as he knows that, and only wants to install a kernel.

ErrieR, can you try re-running the Super One-Click v2 or newer, as it includes the option for CWM. From there you'll be able to install your KERNEL, on your stock ROM.

Not trying to ruffle feathers, but seriously, it's very simple reading comprehension. He asked if he had stock recovery, how he could flash CWM, without actually having CWM already installed, since these threads both require CWM already installed to install these versions.

Edit: Thank you!! I read your post after I posted, lol.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dictionary:
Try this. Hold the power button for around 14 seconds. This will fully power device off. Then, hold the volume down key first, and continue to press and hold both that + power. When you see the the text, then hit volume up. See if that works for ya.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Same here, for some reason today when I booted into recovery I'm on solarzn's version.???
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rufik:
Is it possible to use CWM to apply update from ASUS? I mean, downloaded firmware like WW_epad-user-8.6.5.7.zip ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SilverZero:
Me too! I nandroided before flashing Prime 1.7 a few days ago, and I know the "Advanced Backup" option was there. Just booted into recovery to do a new nandroid in prep for Prime 1.8, and it booted into 3.1.0.1.

What's going on here?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
Prime 1.7 had CWM 3.1.0.1 bundled with it. This was a repackaged version to avoid an issue with an older update that caused recovery to stop working.

If you installed 1.7 recently it would have downgraded your CWM if you were already on 3.2.0.1.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
I don't think so, it has to be in cwm compatible zip file

Ah that make sense, I did nandroid back to 1.7 at one point. Thanks roach
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SilverZero:
Ah, well that explains it. Makes more sense than it just reverting back to a different version spontaneously. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jhanford:
So it's safe just to re-flash 3.2.0.1?

EDIT: I'm on PRIME 1.8.3
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Yes.................
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gee one:
did you figure this out?

You can flash it via nvflash without the --create flag

The actual command will be somehting like nvflash -r --download 5 your-recovery.img

Search around for some of the nvflash scripts that backup/restore your tf. You can get the exact syntax from there.

Edit: if nvflash is too scary, you can pack up cwm in a blob and flash it via the staging partition, but nvflash would be easier.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jefbal99:
I had to reflash 1.7 awhile back after a bad kernel flash, makes perfect sense now :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
Maybe you have a bad file there that can't be deleted by normal means.

A fix might be to use 3.2.0.8 for a format as that performs a proper format of /data whereas the newer CWM recoverys only remove all files and folders except /data/media.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mallman:
i didnt know 3.2.0.8 existed. i will go try to find it. As an extra note, it cant partition my sd card wither so i may have an SD card crapping out as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
Typo sorry, it's 3.0.2.8.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] drnizeguy:
recovery works fine, only i cant use the dock. I used older/other versions of recovery so I think it is my tablet/dock. It is one of the early B70's (with root offcourse). Before this one I had a B50 and on that one the dock worked.

I couldn't find it in this topic or search, but is dock support limited in recovery wih some hardware versions?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SpEnTBoY:
I'm having the same issue with the doc ... also for some reason flashing this through cwm is not working for me :confused::confused:

my version still shows v3.1.0.1 (solarnz-R3-230511-1902) but I flashed cwm_recovery-3201_roach-tf101-r1.zip and verified the md5sum before hand:

# md5sum cwm_recovery-3201_roach-tf101-r1.zip
b28dca7b9dce48627e5e849586f633d1 cwm_recovery-3201_roach-tf101-r1.zip

It showed that it was successful yet I see no version change, any ideas what I may have done wrong? :o
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
Hmm,

After installing you should reboot and see a blue progress bar as the new recovery is written to memory. Then you should be able to see the new version.

Do you get the progress bar after installing?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SpEnTBoY:
Actually I did not BUT ... I tried again and did a 'reboot recovery' from cwm THEN it rebooted and I saw the blue bar. The amchine booted normally and did not boot recovery but when i manually go into recovery now it's the new version!! AND My KB works! ... sweet :) .... any plans to add the ability to use the SDcard slot in the doc for updates and nandroids etc? or just working on the internal sdcard?

Thanks! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ErrieR:
Yes, I took the easy road by running one click root again. And answered yes when asked if I wanted to install CWM.

But your answer about nvflash is exactly what I was looking for when posting my question. Thanks for that.

Later I found this thread, which helped me a lot to "understand" what nvflash command line options do:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1129308
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
Glad it's working for you now.

I've been busy with the rom and flash issues but will hopefully get more time to work on recovery soon and the internal sdcard should be available for use in the next release.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ultraman666:
Good to know that would be a nice feature for sure
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] fear_factory84:
fix_permission scripts

Hi,

I had problems with permissions in /data/media after restored all the files via tar.

I made the tar from /sdcard (id=0, gid=1025), but that was the fuse mountpoint, instead I should have made the tar from /data/media (id=1023, gid=1023).

Hi tried to use the fix_permissions script on cwm, but it simply ignores that path.

Could you please hack that script to include a "chown -R 1023:1023 /data/media".

Is the 1023 id and gid fixed?

Where I can find a list of ids and gids on my current rom?

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SpEnTBoY:
[REQUEST]

Ok so I've done some more poking around and was able to connect to recovery through adb and manually mount the scdard from the doc to /sdcard. I could hack around a bit but figured I'd just ask the current maintainer ;-)

Can you make another option in the menu for "Mounts" that includes the ability to mount sdb/sdb1 on /sdcard? If not the other possibility would be to brows the /dev/block directory for non system mounts and select the partition etc? either way I am currently successfully doing a nandoid back-up to the SD-Card in the doc :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jefbal99:
Hey Roach, are you going to continue developing this recovery based off the changes that Clockwork 5.0 released last night?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ultim:
I have a 32gb card formatted to ntfs. I cant seem to mount the card in recovery mode, is this correct?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dicko99:
Is that an SD card or a microSD? CWM can only access the microSD slot I believe.

R
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ultim:
My microsd card.

There are no slot to fit an SD card into the device?

Sent from my mobile
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dicko99:
There is is you have the keyboard/dock. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
What rom and kernel? Think it has to be FAT 32 unless the kernel sport ntfs
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ultim:
Default kernal in prime 1. 8
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] fear_factory84:
recovery doesn't support ntfs as far as I know... format it as fat32 and it will work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Sei911:
I would love to see an update to CWM v5 too so I can choose to flash either internal and external whenever I want. :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] heyman123:
Recovery only supports fat32....
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] vrundmc:
I tried both fat32 and NTFS and nothing worked for me until I got a proper SD formatting app. Windows format did nothing but the app dedicated to it helped to format and make my card work in CWM. Though it does not work in windows now :).
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] hajen78:
When i make a backup it says that it cant find sd-ext and is skipping it ? and then my backup dosent work, do anyone know what i am during wrong ?

It says:

no/sdcard/.android_secure found. skipping backup of applications on external storage

backing up cache...

no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext.

And then if i try to use my nand it just goes into a bootloop.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SpEnTBoY:
MobileDock version EP101-0213

Ok has anyone upgraded to this doc version? I did the upgrade of Honeycomb and it updated my doc firmware ... now again I can't use my damn keyboard in recovery?? It was working before the update. :mad:
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] walkaway:
I have the same problem. Does anybody know why this is happening.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
You have a micro sd card in the slot right? Format correctly?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] xpgroup:
"E:Can't mount /sdcard" error can be fixed by proper formatting your SDcard by using http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16385872&postcount=6
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] magicdave26:
SOrry for being numb, but do I have to have already flashed an custom rom to be able to install CWM ?

I used Brk's Rooting which worked fine, I have CWM recovery saved to the removable sdcard

I boot into normal recovery and the exclamation marked android sits there and then reboots into HC

I was trying to keep the stock rom in tact, and chose not to flash recovery during Brk's rooting method...

Do I have to run Brk again and choose recovery ? Or is there a way to flash CWM with what I have atm ?

Cheers
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
You need to flash the recovery when doing the root.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] magicdave26:
Ah I had a feeling I should have done that, thanks.

It`ll be ok to run the Brk root script again and just say no when asking for everything except the recovery ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Hammerfest:
So, Search hates me today, add to that fact my bad day at work, and my drinking for the last hour...

well ANYWAY

is anyone doing nightly recovery's?

And by that Ill reference/example my HD2/Hero, in that there are nighty's of CWM Recovery done each night after any daily push's to the GIT repo...

Thanks... (also, backup/restore DONT MATTER to me, its the install update I utilize for package structure...)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] markp1989:
Is it possible to install this on the B70 with the new key?

I am unable to root using NVflash like on the older revisions and I want to use CWM to install Android Revolution HD

Thanks in advanced, Mark
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
No.........................................
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] thebadfrog:
There is no root exploit right now for the new SBK. Which means no root, no CWM, and no custom roms.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MISFITZ:
Thanks and will update mine
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gparry:
md5 of link un first post not match

been trying to upgrade my cwm from slanz to this one... but link to zip in first post does not work... gives me an error when trying to isntall and the md5 does not match,,, can anybody repost link to correct doiwnload?

thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
try a different browser, maybe chrome or FireFox if not already
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Hammerfest:
CWM: 5.0.2.3

On HTC HD2 and HTC HeroC, zero issues, as well as (for me at least, anyone else can chip in on testing on other devices) working backup/restore

Can anyone point me to where I can find nighty's or even version updates for CWM since we still are back on 3.2.0.1?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] thebadfrog:
They don't exist
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Hammerfest:
that sucks! maybe someone could make them "exist" :P

thanks entailed of course
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Sib64:
Did I use your recovery with another rom like Modaco's rom?

Thk's for your answer
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
do you mean can you use this recovry with other ROM? Yes you can.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] parmend:
I'm new to tablet rooting, I just rooted my TF and every time I try to flash something I never can see the file in the recovery. I tried to flash the new CWM and couldn't see it. I put it on the root of my SD card but it s not there when I try to flash it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ultraman666:
Has to be in the removable sdcard for it to work
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jerdog:
I highly recommend you put the tablet down and begin reading before you do anything else. You questions have been answered and there are some really handy guides available as stickies.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] AllanJacques:
What is the sd card filesystem? As far as I am concerned cwm can't see ntfs partitions...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Hammerfest:
yeah... GL with NTFS or exFAT (my prefered format) on CWM...

also, pub CWM now to 5.0.2.6 (smexily on my HD2/Hero)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dgcruzing:
Well..got to send a donation Roach.. been meaning to do it for sometime..once I get settled on the desktop it will be done..

Anyway the story goes ike this..

A couple of weeks back in Aus doing family visits after a years work in China..and I decided to go it alone with the transformer..

All went well..running all of your hard work Roach..thanks..

Pulled the latest updates down, installed well using the recovery..no drama,s ..happy chappy I was..

Anyway on way back home after a blistering weekend in Jakarta..golf,girls and lots of fun..(if any of you get the chance its a good hit out if you know the right places)..

So here I am in Singapore airport with a 5 hour delay and decide to have a little play..loaded up V8 scripts..worked well.. then decided to load the kernel tweak.. now this is like 15 minutes before I was going to get kicked out of the transite hotel..anyway had myself timed for a shower and a leisurely stroll around Changi..

But..

F$%k me dead..kernel tweak ended in loops..so here I was.. booked in for a shower and a plane to catch with a bootlooping tranny..

So what is a poor man to do.. take it into the shower and start the replacement cycle..first C&B,s kernel..didn't stop the loops.. then a reinstall of latest prime..

Mind you this is while using the recovery to get me into edit mode..and jumping in and out of the shower...

So.. thanks again for providing us the tools to screw our tranny's and bring it back to life again...;-)

sent from a htc evo on the fast train back to Tianjin..
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] redsnake80:
Hi, to install CWM Recovery in my Asus stock. The steps are the same 3.1.0.1?:

Download the recovery zip file

Place the recovery zip on the sdcard where clockworkmod can read it.

Reboot into recovery using "adb reboot recovery" or any other method

In recovery, select flash zip from sdcard and select the recovery zip you downloaded

Once it has flashed the zip file, be sure to reboot your transformer so it complete the flashing process.

It's ok?

Edit: Is necesary root?

Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] hawkxcore:
Wow. -_-

Just wow.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Hammerfest:
I eagerly await the day when I no longer get UMS lunfile error's...

till then, rom < usb connect < file transfer < flash new rom...

great work
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] finalhit:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...just too much :P
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Roach2010:
The transformer can't mount the MicroSD card as UMS so the only way to get rid of that error is for me to comment it out in the source mate.

Everyone get's that error, it's not just you.

I either adb push updates or take the MicroSD card out and plug it into the PC.

Another option is to download the updates with the Transformer itself but I've never done this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dgcruzing:
Raff, Raff.. I thought I would bring a smile or two with that little tale of woe..

sent from yet another htc evo
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ajamils:
Does CWM support internal SD yet? Also, what about NTFS support?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] SpEnTBoY:
probably a moot point but if you have the doc you can just adb in and mout the external SD card to /sdcard :-) meh I'm lazy it's the easiest way for updates for me, just need my laptop handy :p
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] miro_i:
Hello, i am new to Transformer and wonder how to install CWM? I can see the zip download in first page, but how can i install it on the tab?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ondoy1943:
Have you spent some time going over threads, the subject of which is about "rooting the tf101"?. Searching and reading is your friend. ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
You have to flash it via CWM recovery which you can only get when rooting.

Once root you can come back and flash this updated version of CWM recovery.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] miro_i:
Hey guys, should i ask a question without reading?

Yes i rooted with Brks_rootkit_v7.exe before to ask you. I have superuser permissions and already tried to write in /data/data/ directory.

It is still not clear how to flash "this updated version of CWM recovery".
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gee one:
In the first post in this thread, there is a link to the original thread, which has the info on how to flash.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093818

You might have to search around on how to reboot into recovery- it's probably in the General or Q&A sections.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] miro_i:
I have HTC Desire and HTC Sensation. I can enter recover by holding vol- and pressing power. This action is entering something on the transformer but i am not sure if this is the recovery or not.

Another ways i am booting in recovery my HTCs from terminal emulator

su
reboot recovery

This just reboots on TF.

On my HTCs i can boot in recovery from rom manager too (and update CWM from there) but it seems not working with the TF.

Is the only way to boot in recovery from adb then?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Sib64:
Rom Manager don't working.

If you want to go on your recovery, you can use Transformer reboot to recovery ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] miro_i:
Wonderful, thank you. Is it difficult to write the instructions in first post?

Another question: should i upload the cwm installable zip files on sdcard or i can upload to the internal memory?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Sib64:
On your Sdcard.

When you reboot in recovery, it was on your sdcard ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] 0ss0:
Hello, I've serched a lot but I cannot root my tf101g (8.6.6.15). When I do the adb gingerbrakBB command, it wont end. Where can I find an updated guide for my transformer?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Sib64:
Go on this thread : ASUS Transformer Root ToolKit V7.1 Universal (Windows) [v6 WW,US,TW,TB,DE(8.6.5.x)]

It's a thread about the tool and guide for rooting your TF.

Good luck ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] TooSlo:
Has anyone successfully flashed the updated CWM through the .zip file in the initial post?

We're having issues where after installing the CWM update .zip, the TF will attempt to boot into recovery and hang with the message "Booting recovery kernel image" as ss4rob was having in this post.

Does anyone have instructions on how to push the recovery.img file to the TF? I've done this with phones in the past (Dream/G1), but I'm unsure if this will work on HC devices as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gee one:
what rom version are you using?

---------- Post added at 02:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:36 PM ----------

As far as pushing the recovery to the TF, there are a few options

0) use recovery to flash it, but this isn't working for you.

1) flash it using nvflash- this is similar to using fastboot to flash the recovery on the G1

2) make it a blob and flash it via the staging partition. This is a bit more convoluted, but doesn't require nvflash, just root.

I asked about the rom version because I have this suspicion that the transformer doesn't play well when the boot and the recovery don't have the same kernel. Just a suspicion...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] 006fazer:
Hi,

Same problem for me since dock upgrade to 203 firmware. No keyboard in recovery :-(