Recovery Woes

[life2monkeys]

Hi all,

So coming from a Samsung craptivate, Im having a little bit of trouble flashing CM 6.1.1 on my new N1

so far starting from stock I have
- Unlocked the bootloader
- used fastboot to flash the latest clockworkmod

now I am trying to boot into recovery to flash the CM zip on my SD and I keep getting to a screen with the android guy and an exclamation point, and have to do a battery pull to reboot, I have tried using adb and 3 button combo to get into clockwork,

so, what idiotic thing am I doing wrong?

 

[danger-rat]

You're booting in between installing the recovery and booting into recovery.

There are two files that restore the stock recovery upon a system boot (which is what you are seeing). If you go straight to recovery after flashing, the stock recovery won't be restored, then you can install a custom ROM.

The two files are missing from custom ROMs, so you won't have this problem again.

Typically, people remove these files once they have root access, but since you don't have root yet, that isn't an option...

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

 

[life2monkeys]

thanks very much for your help, got it working

 

[Jack_R1]

Reading the Wiki guides for installing recovery should have solved your question before you wrote it.