Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hello there, I've spent almost two days trying to put a custom rom onto my san francisco, and its driving me mad. Ive followed the guide here and as soon as i get to the recovery manager section, i load clockwork and then follow by trying to install the firmware from the zip on my sd card, like the video says. But all i keep getting is "you need to install a custom firmware before i can install a new firmware!" Any idea what the hell is wrong? Cheers for reading. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phoenix Silver Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 just use fastboot method to flash clockworkmod (fastboot flash recovery clock............img) fastboot reboot boot in recovery mode (power + vol- ) install the rom's zip in clockworkmod that's all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Ive loaded clockwork fine with recovery manager, and it boots into it alright, but i didnt wanna risk killing my phone by doing it manually, thus i wanted to do it through recovery manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phoenix Silver Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 you have a lot more chance to kill your phone with recovery manager than with the manual method because recovery manager is heavily in development anyway it's impossible to kill the blade :P if one method doesn't work pick up another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xenon0816 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 To avoid this problem you have, you need to install a recovery first... Just download the 3.0.0.5 recovery img from the sticky thread here and install it via recovery manager... Afterwards you should have a recognised recovery and should be able to install a custom rom! hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 To avoid this problem you have, you need to install a recovery first... Just download the 3.0.0.5 recovery img from the sticky thread here and install it via recovery manager... Afterwards you should have a recognised recovery and should be able to install a custom rom! hope this helps! I've done that, did it again just in case i had a dodgy version, but i install the img file and i just get a message saying "currently installed recovery: unrecognised" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xenon0816 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 I've done that, did it again just in case i had a dodgy version, but i install the img file and i just get a message saying "currently installed recovery: unrecognised" Do you have the newest version of rm installed? Because it has a updated database and therefore might recognise the new recovery version... Otherwise try an older image like 2.5.1.8. It worked for me... (attached it)recovery_clockwork_blade_2.5.1.8.img Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Your a diamond! Its now installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IronDoc Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 you have a lot more chance to kill your phone with recovery manager than with the manual method because recovery manager is heavily in development anyway it's impossible to kill the blade :P if one method doesn't work pick up another Not particularly true, but yeah bricking using clockwork is pretty unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Right its now been on the adroid 'flash screen' for well over 10 minutes, i assume by the video somethings gone wrong? >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Down&Out Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Right, sorted, booted into clockwork, cleared the cache and factory resetted. Now booted fine. Thankyou for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Good points - I have added more instructions to the guide. http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...-the-zte-blade/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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