Newbie questions. What is the advantage of custom recovery?

[Atento]

Hello...
Sorry for my question, but I didn't find any answers to it.
The question is: What is the advantage of custom recovery? And, what advantages of custom roms?

Thanks for your attention and sorry for newbie question.

 

[RogerPodacter]

Umm custom recovery let's you flash custom ROMs on your device. Custom ROMs have many more options over stock, like 720p video recording, themes for Your status bar and icons, transparent widgets, more control ever settings and more options, etc. The list goes on and on, its endless. Custom ROMs are far better.

 

[JHaste]

custom recovery is really just a GUI to make it easier to run commands you would normally have to do in a terminal or command prompt... makes flashing roms, kernels, wiping data, recalibrating your battery, ect. all much much easier...

custom roms have a lot more features built in, have some bug fixes and hacks that allow you to do things that you would not on a vanilla rom...

 

[Atento]

But is necessary a custom recovery to install a custom rom?

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[OzCDN]

I believe that the stock Recovery will only flash ROMs that have an HTC digital signature. Whereas the custom Recovery will flash whatever you want.

So if you want to put custom ROMs on your phone the first step is to put on a custom Recovery.

 

[nxt]

The #1 greatest reason is nandroid backup.
It's like an image backup of the whole phone.
So if you make a nandroid backup, and screw the phone up, or do what you want, you can restore the nandroid backup and it will be 100% exactly as it was.

 

[RogerPodacter]

Yes custom recovery best function is certainly the nand backup. You can restore your phone to any instant in time exactly as it was at that point, down to every single file.

 

[Atento]

The last question. What is the difficult to back to stock rom from a custom rom/custom recovery?

I have seen many peoples here with problems to upgrade your custom roms (custom eclair rom) to a stock froyo when it come out.

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[RogerPodacter]

There is no problem at all. You can flash any ROM you want in a few minutes.

 

[Samurai Drac]

Newb question, to which I have been unable to find the answer, but:

Is it possible to flash a custom recovery (which I assume must be done after unlocking the bootloader), but keep stock Android? Despite all the advantages of custom ROMs, my heartstrings are tied to OTA updates and pure stock.

My biggest reason for wanting Amon Ra's recovery is the nandroid backup as well.

Would a custom recovery/stock ROM still get OTA updates?

 

[nxt]

Newb question, to which I have been unable to find the answer, but:

Is it possible to flash a custom recovery (which I assume must be done after unlocking the bootloader), but keep stock Android? Despite all the advantages of custom ROMs, my heartstrings are tied to OTA updates and pure stock.

My biggest reason for wanting Amon Ra's recovery is the nandroid backup as well.

Would a custom recovery/stock ROM still get OTA updates?

Yes you can have custom recovery but everything else stock.
And No you will not get OTA updates with custom recovery installed.

You can always just keep flashing custom recovery to do nandroid, then flash back to original recovery. Takes seconds on the PC.

 

[EarthsiegeTA]

From what I understood, if you were on stock 2.1 with Amon-RA recovery, you couldn't update to OTA 2.2 due to an error.

 

[mr_raider]

The last question. What is the difficult to back to stock rom from a custom rom/custom recovery?

I have seen many peoples here with problems to upgrade your custom roms (custom eclair rom) to a stock froyo when it come out.

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

There is no difficulty in reverting, sinc ea custome recovery will allow you to flash anything.

BTW, you can also flash ROMs from your PC using the fastboot command line.

The main issue with reverting to stock is that unlocking the N1 bootloader voids your warranty. There is now a method of flashing a custom recovery without unlocking the bootloader. I recommend that method.