Issue with rooting G1, need assistance

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I am rooting a G1 for a friend right now. He has had the G1 for over a year but never applied a single update. It was still running RC29 when I got the phone in my hands.

I have since gained root and am running 1.6 on it right now. I am attempting to flash CM recovery, but I'm getting an error in the flashrec app...when I click "backup recovery image" it says "backup FAILED: could not run command". If I just click "download recovery image" it downloads fine, says "downloaded & verified" but the "flash recovery image" button is greyed out.

I suspect this is something to do with SU access, but I am stumped as I have never had this issue before.

dont use flashrec then. manually download a recovery image, put it on the sd card after renaming it to recovery.img, then open terminal and type in flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

Originally Posted by kusotare

dont use flashrec then. manually download a recovery image, put it on the sd card after renaming it to recovery.img, then open terminal and type in flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I did this too...flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img

It said flash_image: not found

but the img file is right there on the sdcard.

Originally Posted by hettbeans

I did this too...flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img

It said flash_image: not found

but the img file is right there on the sdcard.

Sounds like you need to verify that you have root.

If you are having trouble with Cyanogn's recovery image try using Amon_Ra's image it is far more superior anyway. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669 Hope that works for you.