Question about flashing Recovery

[dmo580]

Okay, so I come from the world of 1.5 years of Motorola MIlestone and dealing with locked bootloaders and then about 9 months on my Nexus S.

What I've noticed is that ROMs always come as just ROMs (esp with the Milestone because of its locked bootloader). The Nexus S would have custom kernels and stuff, but recovery was always separately flashed.

I've recently been helping my friend mod her Captivate and I just got an SGS2 yesterday. How come ROMs in SGS2 and Captivate world are bundled with the recovery? This definitely confused me when I did CF-Root because it gave me CWM 4, but I wanted a newer one obviously. People suggested that I just flash some other ROM and I'll get a newer recovery. I'd just like to know how come recoveries are bundled with ROMs and what not.

 

[umarian]

Man try this link:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

 

[dmo580]

Man try this link:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

I know how to root, and I have achieved Root already. I'm just wondering why these phones bundle CWM and other recoveries with ROMs, while on my Nexus S, it's always separate? ROMs are just ROMs without CWM...

 

[JJEgan]

Really its because CWM is the method used for flashing most custom roms and as many users are not able to read the guides i guess devs just add CWM .
That saves posters saying help i flashed xxx rom and have lost CWM .

Standard method of updating CWM is to flash a later CWM and root Kernel not a custom rom .


jje