So with all the great guides and help from others on here I was able to root and check out a few different roms and was even able to switch back and forth using nand backup and restore. Being new I was sticking with the sprint based roms, certain days I do like sense. I had 3 different ones and using amon RA 1.6.2. could navigate between them. Then I went to a froyo aosp which is superfast and I love, but I somehow switched to clockwork recovery...after moving the nands over so I could see them and then tried to restore and got boot loop errors on all of them. Did I do something wrong? I switched to amon RA 1.7 for recovery to see if that helped and same thing. Is there any way to fix?!? Please, any and all help is greatly appreciated...
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Switch back to your original recovery, to restore those nands.
clockwork and amon ra 1.7 use a different a2sd method. If you're not using a cm based rom(or restoring/backing up), you need to run amon ra 1.6.2
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hopefully this is where this goes. >_> if not, please guide me to where i need to be.
OK. so what is going on:
-right now i am using a STOCK version of 2.2.1 FRG83D, that i rooted with superoneclick.
-i used rom manager to flash RA recovery, because somehow i can't flash roms with clockwork anymore. errors out every time, regardless of version
-i can flash new custom roms using RA, etc etc, but cannot flash roms and restore to old backups
-if i try to USE a custom installed rom, no matter which it is (i have tried a few gingerbread, nxsense, and some 2.2.1 roms), they will ALWAYS reboot after using them for a few seconds, regardless of what i am doing (setting up, using market, or just letting it sit and do nothing)
what i have done before this happened:
-i was using nxsense perfectly fine. great rom, ran great.
-updated rom manager, and clockwork recovery
-tried to flash a new boot animation, but noticed that the new clockwork won't install older .zips that use assert-scripts(?)
-tried to downgrade clockwork, and it randomly restarted the phone during the downgrade
-wanted to try gingerbread, so i flashed the new(er) hboot 0.35.0017 even though i think i had it already, and installed the rom succesfully.
-the rom wouldn't let me download from the market, as it restarted when i tried to download anything.
-i thought the problem was with the new hboot, so i went through a tutorial to revert it back to 0.33.0012 and went back to eclair, so i updated up to frg83d (and obviously got the 0.35.0017 hboot back through updating) and rooted.
the rom i am using now (stock with root) runs fine. haven't really found any real problems.
i just have NO clue why i can't use custom roms. i would absolutely LOVE if someone could help me on this.
I also had similar problem two days ago. I upgraded my clockworkmod recovery to 3.0.0.5 and tried to flash MM CM7 v14. All the problem began. I cannot restore any custom roms except the stock froyo and MM CM7 restarts like crazy whenever I try to install any apps from the market. After that, I also tried RA recovery. No luck. Luckily, I finally find out that the latest recovery messes up my ext3 partition. So, I backup and format my SD card, recreate ext3 partition, restore the SD card, downgrade clockworkmod to 2.5.1.4, wipe everything, fix permission and install MM CM7. It finally works. Hope this help.
PS: as long as I downgrade the clockworkmod, I can restore any custom roms.
Never flash now you will brick it soon
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Latest ClockworkMod was known to have some problem, perhaps.
Use Amon_Ra's, if you want to be sure, and wipe everything (data & dalvik-cache) when going from ROM to ROM. Use Titanium Backup for restoring the apps.
ricky9237 said:
I also had similar problem two days ago. I upgraded my clockworkmod recovery to 3.0.0.5 and tried to flash MM CM7 v14. All the problem began. I cannot restore any custom roms except the stock froyo and MM CM7 restarts like crazy whenever I try to install any apps from the market. After that, I also tried RA recovery. No luck. Luckily, I finally find out that the latest recovery messes up my ext3 partition. So, I backup and format my SD card, recreate ext3 partition, restore the SD card, downgrade clockworkmod to 2.5.1.4, wipe everything, fix permission and install MM CM7. It finally works. Hope this help.
PS: as long as I downgrade the clockworkmod, I can restore any custom roms.
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omfg thank you so much!!! <3 worked like a charm
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omfg thank you so much!!! <3 worked like a charm
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You're welcome. Glad to know my experience can help solving yours too.
Definitely a problem with Clockwork 3.0.0.5! I just went through madness trying to figure out WTF was up as well. The only fix was to completely format and re-partition my card then use RA instead of CW, works great now and I don't know if I will use CW again! What a pain...kinda regret having paid for ROM Manager now after this latest fiasco.
Tried flashing a 2.2 Sense ROM in clockworkmod 3.0. Did not work, I was told to flash an older version of clockwork-mod.
flashed the ROM, all was going well until the unthinkable happened.
I now get this system error:
E:Board does not support mtd utils.E:Failure at line 388
write_raw_image PACKAGE:boot.img BOOT:
Installation aborted.
Forgot that clockworkmod would erase my old backup... I can get into clockworkmod by the way. If I mount it, can I sideload someone else's recovery image...??? If so, could someone provide one? thanks
Noob-friendly help plz?
thanks-- just bought my nexus :/
Edit: Also, using a mac. Have access to a pc tomorrow. I just want sense :[
Clockwork 3 seems to have been messing with a lot of peoples partitions. Install a different recovery, like Amon Ra, our an earlier Clockwork.
Then you can try and do a full wipe, and install whatever you want for a ROM.
Clockwork won't have deleted your backup, but if you made it with Clockwork 3, it may not work with other recoveries...
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IMO, AmonRa works better with the N1. I've thoroughly used both. Clockwork works great on the SNS.
Yup. Problem solved :]
flashed Amon-Ra via Fastboot. Coming from a vibrant which features the luxury of odin and wonderful Clockworkmod support. Thanks for the help, was geeking out for a while without odin at my disposal. Never had to partition sd in my life haha. Learning a lot.
I was trying to flash gingerbread on my phone, but it wasn't working with clockwork recovery so i flashed amon ra through rom manager then tried to flash gingerbread after clearing all data.
However this didn't work, and turns out the backups i created with clockwork can only be restored with clockwork recovery, i believe, because they are located in the clockwork folder. I had deleted my other nandroid backups because i was trying to clear space and i thought the backups i created in rom manager were the same.
So i flashed to the only working rom on my phone, cm6.1.1 without google apps. Amon ra also wont flash a variety of google apps ive put on my phone because of a signature error. This signature error seems to come up when i try to flash anything that might help fix this. I have tried many methods from this site to flash back to clockwork recovery, but it does not seem to be working.
what do i do?
thanks
Turn signature verification of in Amon Ra...
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Like danger rat said. Turn off signature verification in amon RA.
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have been using ra recovery forever and in a dumb moment loaded clockwork recovery. When I wanted to revert to an older rom I was surprised to see that all the backups and roms are gone and not showing on clockwork. Is there a way to get rid of clockwork and will ra recovery be there with all data or is there a spot where all the backups and roms are in the clockwork program
thanks
Just reflash the recovery you want with fastboot.
The WIKI on Cyanogenmod's site for the G1 says that Clockwork Recovery has issues with the G1 due to limited memory. Is this still the case, or is it safe to use Clockwork instead of Amon Ra now?
they are both safe. Amon ra has a better menu but in my case the nandroid in amon ra wont restore my backups. clockwork works fine plus you can use rom manager.
My Preference is Amon RA, I had problem with Clockwork Recovery, nanodroid works well for me. I use Amon RA.
I use clockmodwork 3 (Alpha version by Roalex), because I test roms often and it does not check for the signature of a zip on default. Plus, Clockmodwork recovery 3 is the only recovery available for the HD2, so I use that also because I am most familiar with it.
Clock work works pretty good for me!