yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbbb:
Woah, I'm assuming that's in F, but damn that's pretty high. Try turning brightness down, or if you're overclocked, revert back to stock kernel? Either that or just flash a different rom that might be able to hand flash better?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshochoa187:
It only happens when I'm watching flash vids. I'm not running any OC's
[G2 and Desire Z General] shadymnms:
I found a really easy way to flash the new recovery. My fastboot didnt seem to have an option for a terminal so I thought of this genius yet n00b way. Here are the steps.

Steps:

1. Install clockworkmod from market.

2. Flash Clockworkmod recovery from Rom Manager.

3. Navigate to clockworkmod/download/koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries (or where ever your recovery was downloaded to. This can be done in File Manager, Astro, or Androzip.

4. Mine was "recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.3-vision.img". Rename it to "recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.3-visionXXX.img" or something obviously different.

5. Download clockworkmod 3.0 from hereish:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893933

6. Move your recovery.img to clockworkmod/download/koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries and name it recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.3-vision.img

7. Go into ROM Manager and Flash Clockworkmod recovery, it will say its still 2.5.1.3 when your done. Reboot into recovery and you'll be welcomed by a new orange 3.0

More than likely i could have done it much easier but it just kinda clicked and i didn't wanna bother with fastboot as it feels clunky on the G2.
[G2 and Desire Z General] charlieton:
there's nothing noob about it. that is a bonafide hack. nice!
[G2 and Desire Z General] slinky1914:
I tried something like that but I didnt rename it correctly. So nice to know though. Good work.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wineguy13:
Can u put that in a zip for lazy people like me
[G2 and Desire Z General] rsxtypes72:
How is that a hack? LOL
[G2 and Desire Z General] g_grey:
not really a "hack" per se but it tricks ROM manager into flashing a newer clockwork while still thinking it is the same old one. i thought about doing this the other day but never got around to it so great job on this
[G2 and Desire Z General] xyrcncp:
You need this is a zip to simply move a file to your SD card? Wow, that IS lazy. lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] wineguy13:
I followed the thread but the download take u to a bunch of jumbled code.. is that right?
[G2 and Desire Z General] overpower:
Typo

Nicely done, flashed it via your method.

You may want to correct the typo you have in there as I first tried to copy and paste your file names. It's clockwork, not cockwork. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] rp1783:
How does it feel clunky? fastboot flash recovery recovery.img is a lot easier than this method.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ikarma:
For some reason flashing recovery from fastboot hangs everytime on my phone. This way is good but I did it in terminal. I actually had to flash a cyanogen rom to get the fastboot command, this method would have saved that step.
[G2 and Desire Z General] shadymnms:
Fixed. Thanks lol. I was doing in between flashing villian and was going back and forth. Ahhh... "cockwork", really? Musta slept in too late too.
[G2 and Desire Z General] spotly:
And the downgrade?
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
fastboot is a lot easier than this IMHO !

You will have fastboot if you have got adb setup on your PC. See the adb guide in this forum for how to setup adb (and fastboot too). It's worth going to the effort, because fastboot will help you with various things in the future. Also you will need the eng hboot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Bzerk1:
thank you so much! man now this i can do. i was trying to adb or find terminal in my fastboot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] illithid:
I'm just starting to install custom ROM tho my DZ, but is this means that ROM Manager will never integrate the new Clockworkmod Recovery?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Vandale:
Thank you kind sir.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kalipedia:
Thanks for this simple guide! Before I move forward though, a couple of questions - I need this recovery to flash gingervillain or the CM7 that's being worked on, right? But if I want to revert back to my nandroid backup of cm6.1.1, will I have to flash the old recovery before doing so? Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z General] veritasaequita:
now cmon stevie, i agree its good to have adb and proper sdk w\ drivers installed. But for the super ober noob thats wants shiny pretty new cw3 for whatever reason be it cm7 or just because, even trying to teach the super ober how to cmd and cd to the sdk is a larger challenge than this. Im just saying your a well respected source of info on xda to a lot of super obers and to say this is easier on the big picture, well thats just crazy talk. This is pretty easy for just about anyone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] knifer:
from what i've read this seems to be the case. i think i'll wait for a stable cm7 release before updating to 3.0
[G2 and Desire Z General] raitchison:
Emphasis mine

Unless you flash the eng hboot the fastboot method will not work regardless of if you know have an know how to use ADB. The GFREE root method instructions on the wiki say clearly:

Is it necessary or not?

Also, to the OP, I suspect that flash_image should allow you to easily install any recovery from your phone via terminal emulator without needing the eng hboot or using ROM Manager. It's a hard utility to find and people here are not always helpful when you ask questions they think should be obvious, but you can extract it from the CM 6.11 update zip, once you unzip the file look in /system/bin, you will need to put the file on your phone (I put it in /system/bin) and chmod it to make it executable (I used 777).
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
It's not necessary if your aim is to root and S-OFF so you can flash a custom ROM.

It is necessary if your aim is also to be able to use fastboot, to give you more flashing/recovery options.

So it's correct to say that it's optional. It's not totally necessary.
[G2 and Desire Z General] raitchison:
But many people here (such as yourself) seem to feel it should be done, it seems that a lot of people expect that users will be borderline technophobes (use ROM Manager) or be hackers/coders (use fastboot) but there is no middle ground for people who want to go outside the mainstream without having to go all the way to the other end of the spectrum.

Now one could certainly argue that running a pre-release ROM (the reason you'd want to install CWM 3.0 in the first place) is already pretty far into the hacker/coder spectrum but I still feel there needs to be a mid-point somewhere.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ianmcquinn:
An optional step in a S-OFF guide doesn't mean it's optional if you trying to do something else entirely (like flash a recovery using fastboot). People recommend it because it provides more flexibility in what you can do with your phone (and consequently, more options if you should do something to screw it up). I do agree with you that some users are not as helpful with things they believe should be obvious just because they know it already though (and most likely, if you were to look through their post history, they were the ones who asked the same questions when they first joined). Unfortunately, just the nature of things, especially on internet forums. And yes, I would say trying to run a pre-release ROM that in completely different than all previous ones (in that filesystem has completely changed) very clearly on the hacker/coder side of the spectrum.

Slightly off-topic, but out of curiosity, do you have an example of what this middle ground would be? To me, all of this is really on the hacker/coder side of things, and programs like ROM Manager/Clockwork Recovery make things more convenient/pretty it up/do other things (so in a simplistic sense, kind of like command-line vs GUI, though in actuality the devs of those types of programs do so much more---don't want to take anything away from them). What would you envision a process in the middle ground would look like? Could be a possible coding opportunity for future development...
[G2 and Desire Z General] raitchison:
For example using a tool like flash_image to flash recovery, it's certainly not a new tool as I used it on my G1 way back in the day, and it's available and working for the G2 but none of the guides (that I've seen) for flashing recovery even mention it, they try to push you towards ROM Manager or if you don't want to use that use fastboot (without even bothering to mention that using fastboot requires the eng hboot). It took me a while to find flash_image and I already knew it was there and was looking for it.

There are people who like simple tools that run on your phone such as ROM Manager or Visionary.

There are people who like to use advanced tools such as ADB & fastboot

And then there is a third group who isn't afraid of a command line but likes straightforward tools that can be done 100% on their phone.

For another example based on my limited understanding of the GFREE process I suspect that all of those steps could be done on your phone without needing to use ADB, though when I perm rooted my G2 I did use ADB because I wanted to make sure I followed the steps exactly (I'm not much of a risk taker).
[G2 and Desire Z General] raitchison:
BTW on a related note I just confirmed that using flash_image it's super easy to flash CWM 3.0 and back to CWM 2.x, no fastboot and no ROM manager needed.
[G2 and Desire Z General] paintermanscott:
Ok. This is the way I flashed cwm 3.0 through my phone.

download cement 3.0, move to root of sdcard with file manager (i use astro)

Open terminal emulator:

Su (enter)

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (enter)

All done...

In gingervillian or cm7 enter rom Manager, update recovery and you just flash 2.5.1.3 recovery back on your phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] paintermanscott:
Sorry guys, I meant cwm 3.0, not cement 3.0! Damn auto correct! Lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] ianmcquinn:
I kind of see what you are saying, but to me, a program like flash_image is no less advanced than tools like ADB or fastboot. Just as powerful, can do just as much harm. Even uses the same syntax as fastboot. It doesn't sound like a question of how advanced/complicated a technique might be so much as how convenient (you just want advanced tools that don't require an external computer). In fact, in most guides for stuff that happen to use ADB, the commands are limited to things like push, pull, and shell. Push and pull are just ways to copy files to and from the phone to a computer and shell just creates a shell console on your phone (which is niceif you are already on your computer since you don't have to start up a terminal session on the phone itself). So for most people's uses, ADB itself is actually a very simple tool.

Really, I think it's just that people may not know what tools are already out there. Often times, a person will write a guide explaining how they managed to get something working. It's not the only way, just one way. Then other people will follow the guide and it works for them as well, so they become familiar with that method used. Then when others ask, they will suggest using that method (which may be the only method they know). If someone else who knows a different method happens to not read that particular thread, then their method might not be shared.

There are definitely users in this forum who use flash_image to flash recoveries, but I don't think anyone has written it up as an official guide by itself (their instructions are simply within other existing threads---I think I remember it being discussed in the main ClockworkMod Recovery thread but I'd have to search to be sure). And I know there are actually lots of posts about fastboot needing the eng hboot and it's in the wiki. So a lot of the tools/information really are out there already, just not all in a single place. Not sure if there is a better solution or not. That's just how forums work (and why the search button/reading everything is so important). But a great part of it being a forum/online community though is you can write your own guide to share. Then in the future, people will be pushing your methods... :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] raitchison:
Actually I put together a little guide today after this conversation (put up or shut up) I'm just waiting for a mod to get back to me as to whether it belongs in here in Q&A or in the Dev forum.

When I was looking for flash_image I did search, both using the built in forum search and using Google, and saw several posts/threads talking about flash_image and other people looking for it, but I did not find a source for it, eventually I did find it, but it was after I had given up and used ROM manager to flash CWM.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Groboto:
I tried this and it said it flashed right but when I boot into recovery its green still. Also can someone tell me how to fast boot with ubuntu? :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z General] T-Fanatic:
I've done this and the original method posted by the OP and My phone will not boot into recovery. It just stays at the HTC screen.

Any help would be appreciated.
[G2 and Desire Z General] psylink:
i've been doing this for months

it was nice on the nexus one, with amon ra under alternate recoveries in rom manager, could then just swap between the actual cwm or my alternate recovery for psfreedom which was named for amonra

i just flash via terminal on g2 though, honestly less work than renaming and moving files
[G2 and Desire Z General] robwscott83:
k this is horrible BUT when you say "fastboot" what exactly do you mean.... HAHA :S...(sorry) i mean... i rooted and s-offed my g2 using visionary and a mixed methods from the wiki and the unlokr video... :-/ i dl'd the sdk's and did the adb stuff that i needed.. but when i look up fastboot on g2 i just get a bunch of videos showing the phone loading in 4 seconds... ive read through all these posts and about 50 other pages of another post before i asked this question just because i know some of you guys can be pretty critical.... but.. what exactly is fastboot???

and also.. could we not jus email the devloper of rom manager and ask them to update clockwork to this 3.0 or whatever?? isnt that a valid option as well??? sorry for this rediculousy noobish question... :s please go easy on me... with your answers...
[G2 and Desire Z General] bhang:
"flash_image recovery [filename.img]" should work from the local term app

It always worked on my g1

Bhang
[G2 and Desire Z General] mejorguille:
My guess is that most of the users that are familiar with adb and fastboot and terminal commands are people like you or me who have been with android since the beginning where there were no automation tools like there is now and the only way we could modify our phone's to our liking was learning the code. I mean, how else do you flash a recovery on a g1 other than flash_image? We had CM/SuperD/JF updater but that was about it and everything else was done manually. There are tons and tons of information from the G1 section that is very relevant here. Take, for example, the OP of this post. I applaud his efforts for figuring out a solution to his problem, but he took a more redundant 7 steps instead of just 1.

Who would be interested if I decided to make a guide rephrasing a lot of the information learned from other phones, like setting up adb and fastboot, some basic commands, hell I could even dedicate a section explaining things like what a radio is or a kernel. I wouldn't just copy and paste an old guide, but reform it so that the most relevant information is easy to see. I mean, who needs help to partition their sdcard and create a swap partition anymore?
[G2 and Desire Z General] djfoo000:
^would be greatly appreciated, especially the part about kernels and HBOOT. I'm particularly interested when you flash a custom ROM, like what is replaced and what is not in the system, and the same thing for when flashing a kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z General] robwscott83:
^^ +1.......

Or ya know......what fastboot is....lol..:s
[G2 and Desire Z General] blackknightavalon:
Did both the fastboot and the Terminal Emulator versions on the G1 and could only do the Terminal Emulator version on the Cliq. You can also do this via ADB:
[G2 and Desire Z General] EdKeys:
Count me in. I would definitely be interested.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
Sounds good. Check what's in the dev section before you reinvent the wheel though, e.g. there's already a guide to adb in there. Also you might want to put some of that stuff in the Wiki rather than just on the forum, the Wiki could do with fleshing out too.
[G2 and Desire Z General] djfoo000:
@mejorguille also make an easy to understand analogy of the entire android system and it's components, if possible. :-P
[G2 and Desire Z General] goister:
Hi,

I'm trying to reboot to recovery to wipe my battery stats, and I'm a little confused with the proper procedure. I've installed Clockworkmod ROM Manager(free) from the Android Market, and I've tried to reboot to recovery(no flashing), and that didn't work. It simply showed a red exclamation mark in a red triangle when rebooting. It seems I need to flash to a recovery ROM first? I've a few questions...

1. Do I need to download this recovery ROM image somewhere or is it included in the download?

2. Is the recovery ROM image a temporary image or do I need to backup and restore my original image?

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
I presume your question is actually about flashing the regular ClockworkMod 2.x version of recovery (the 3.0 version is being used with Gingerbread ROMs).

You need to specifically go and flash that image from within ROM Manager. Though often, for some reason, you need to flash it twice to make it "stick".

If you are coming up with the screen that you describe then that's the stock recovery, ClockworkMod hasn't been flashed correctly onto there yet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Tommebaas:
Dude... your awesome!

Thanks Bro!
[G2 and Desire Z General] hoes714:
would this work for mytouch 4g???
[G2 and Desire Z General] hoes714:
thanks so much i tried it with mytouch 4g and it worked thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nighte:
This is very clever, thank you! :)

I didn't want to go through the trouble of installing the Eng Hboot, and there wasn't a clear cut way of flashing the recovery otherwise, but this is great.

Again, thank you.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dhkr123:
I find it very disturbing that rom manager doesn't verify file integrity before flashing. There are two reasons why this is a dangerous program to use:

1) your sdcard uses the incredibly unreliable fat filesystem, so it could be flashing gibberish.

2) there is a potential for this vulnerability to be exploited by having another application perform this hack and have its own recovery image installed rather than the one you intend.

Until this vulnerability is fixed, I suggest UNINSTALLING THIS PROGRAM.

As for fastboot terminal... no, fastboot doesn't give you a terminal, fastboot is used FROM the terminal.... of your computer. "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". You should, of course, verify the recovery.img (using encrypted hash along the lines of md5sum or sha1sum).
[G2 and Desire Z General] hueby:
So I'm still on clockwork 2.5.1.0 and I just flashy cm7 nightly and it works. How come?
[G2 and Desire Z General] trock62:
I just installed Clockwork recovery 3.0+ and CM7 V3 on my G2 and had everything setup. Went to do Backup in recovery and now it just bootloops at the HTC screen. I can get into fastboot and the menu before recovery. I tried reflashing the recovery but still does the same bootloop. I have 26.04.02.17 radio and Hboot 0.76.2000 and s-off. any help appriciated :eek::eek::eek:
[G2 and Desire Z General] Masterphill99:
Thanks a lot! Flashing it from recovery didn't work for me and I tried this and it worked flawlessly. Very clever.
[G2 and Desire Z General] s00paSold3r:
Does your GAPPS work? I did the same thing and it works but I have no GAPPS and don't know how to put them back on...any info???
[G2 and Desire Z General] skulk3r:
cannot flash GAPPS without CWM 3.0.0+

when I tried to flash CWM 3.0.0 I ran into problems - fastboot/terminal didn't work...but then I discovered that I needed ENG H-BOOT, whoops lol. Hope that might clear some stuff up for people.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tvdang7:
will this back up my apps that are already installed and all my settings? or only the fresh rom.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bobcatuk:
Thank you, this method worked fine for updating to the newer 3.0 and was a lot less hasstle to complete, thanks for sharing :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] imakul8:
Thanks. I tried something like this, but didn't do it right and even if I did you would have already done it.:D
[G2 and Desire Z General] faylix:
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but with this way you can use the rom manager front end again to flash and install updates - which you couldn't do with the fastboot method.

i like it.

-J
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ntorress:
Worked great! Im assuming to go back to 2.5.x you just reverse the process?
[G2 and Desire Z General] larafinga:
Good my friend great..
[G2 and Desire Z General] bongd:
Same here, man! Did you fix this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] TrueYears:
awesome I was just asking about this

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] hungyellow:
Ok I know I am a noob and I am just started flashing and rooting last week. So I did the steps in the original post and it worked to perfection. Now my question is that, I am trying to calibrate my battery since I just flashed GingerVillain 1.5. When I reboot to recovery and I go to wipe battery stats and I click yes. There is no confirmation that it was successful nothing happend except it went back to the main screen. So did it work or is something wrong? Thanks in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z General] robot_agenda:
i have followed your steps, but it doesn't update my cwm. it stays at 2.5.1.3 :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] imakul8:
Yeah, it's still gonna say 2.5.1.3, but when you boot into recovery you will see the difference...everything will be orange.
[G2 and Desire Z General] robot_agenda:
correct. i have booted into recovery and everything is still green.

Edit: flashed through terminal and now on cwm 3 something

Edit: have to constantly flash through terminal for it to stick...anyone else having a similar issue
[G2 and Desire Z General] joemm:
Just read a tweet from koush that he is going to be releasing the CWM Recovery 3.0.0.x officially very soon, he is just waiting on cyanogen to finish running some test with it, so for people having issues with flashing CWM recovery 3.0.0.x you should see some official support from koush real soon.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HotShotAzn:
I'm having problems flashing CWM 3.0

I tried the relabeling method the OP posted but I still have the green recovery menu.

I tried the following in a terminal prompt:

Open terminal emulator:

Su (enter)

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (enter)

reboot recovery (enter)

And i reboot into the green recovery.

I booted into FastBoot but I don't have a prompt to get into terminal/command.

EDIT:

Some where along the line, I managed to get into CWM 3.0. It was either uninstalling Rom Manager and trying the command line prompt. But either way, it worked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] PatrickHuey:
i attempted to get cw3 with this method, but i did not work for me. i replaced the file and i booted into recovery and its still green. i also tried to flash via terminal and it said the image cant be found. so i offically give up. im just gonna have to wait for the offical support. im assuming when the actual recovery to be released you will be able to switch back and forth between recoveries depending if you are flashing froyo or gingerbread. which i guess you can already do.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mykew:
legend. Thanks for that. Fast boot and adb were giving me ridiculous grief,
[G2 and Desire Z General] WarBird87:
i have done it this way a couple weeks ago and it worked i got the orange CWM but i went back to CM6.1.1... and not that i want to go back to CM7 i tried this 5 times over and over and i still keep getting the green CWM... and i dont know why.