Clockworkmod broke my recovery, any suggestions?

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SOLVED it myself - read below:

The super quick version:

During an attempted downgrade from 02 2.1 6941 (it was buggy as hell) back to ATT 1.6, I tried a method someone posted involving clockwork 1.8.1.7. Unfortunately, clockwork can only burn .zip clockwork formatted roms (you cannot simply rename a pkg a zip). All attempts to switch back to any other recovery program simply resulted in a black screen after selecting update - many recovery roms were tried. So I was stuck with no way to even try to burn a regular pkg rom and a broken clockwork (1.8.1.7 "works" but with errors).

TLDR: Black screen after "press camera button to update" on all recoveries except clockwork 1.8.1.7 on 02 1.6 4399.


Solution:
Installed clockwork formatted rooted 4399
Installed older recovery rom I found

I can provide links to these later. I don't have them on me at the moment.

If anyone has any idea how to solve FOTA name mismatch, or even wtf it means, let me know.

WOuld be great if u could tell the forum what u did
You may not be alone

Originally Posted by r00tcause

Solved my own problem after hours of trial and error - no thanks to anyone here.

The Streak community seems to be pretty small at this time. Until we have a bigger user base we are all kind of breaking new ground. People might not have had the same experiences as others, such as yourself, so maybe you could share your story and help someone in the future.

Originally Posted by drgopoos

WOuld be great if u could tell the forum what u did
You may not be alone

I was busy raging at the time.


I am *still* stuck on o2's OS (but 1.6 which works fine instead of the seriously bugged 2.1, which worked "ok" at first and got so buggy that it wouldn't allow me to answer incoming calls) but at least my recovery is no longer broken.

I can't swap back to ATT though due to a "FOTA name mismatch", whatever the hell that is.

The black screen recovery error seems to be caused by the ROM itself. Certain recoveries simply do not work on certain builds. It seems as though pretty much all of them failed with the build I had. However, I found an older recovery (smaller than the rest at 2.7mb) and used that along with a rooted ZIP format (clockwork) version of 4399.

It was really just about finding the right files and the right combination.

I hope I can upgrade to the ATT froyo when it gets here without issue. For now, I am staying with what works.

Download the attached recovery, flash it and you should be able to update any official rom.

Originally Posted by crash6

Download the attached recovery, flash it and you should be able to update any official rom.

**I looked through my recovery roms and I had already tried THAT EXACT ROM, so perhaps stop making assumptions, eh?**


The only recovery that worked was the 2.7mb one. I tried many others. They all resulted in a blank/black screen after selection.

The files I used to fix the issue are linked below.

The first is a zip/clockwork version of O2's 4399 build which clockwork can burn. The second is the stock 4399 recovery (2.7mb).

4399-update-streak-stock-rooted-signed-clockwork.zip - 80.1 Mb

recovery.stock4399.img - 2.7 Mb


*This fixed the black screen on all recovery roms except clockwork 1.8.1.7 issue. It won't do a thing for FOTA mismatch.