[Q] My efforts so far

[jon_f]

I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).

After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.

And that's where I am at... looking back, I could have summed that up.

Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ghostofcain]

I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).

After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.

Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)

 

[Leechoonhwee]

You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.

 

[jon_f]

Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)

If you mean from the boot menu (achieved by holding power+volume down - not sure of the actual name), again, I don't seem to have the option to "flash recovery". From fastboot, I have the options to HBoot Mode (vol down) or Reset Device (menu).

 

[jon_f]

You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.

Within RomManager, it does indicate I have the ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1 and it did say "Successfully flashed Clockwork recovery". Maybe I need to throw it at the wall. That seems to make problems go away.