Clockworkmod recovery not installing?

[Guest scoobydoo99]

Running the T Mobile 2.1 official rom.

Downloaded the clockworkmod zip file to a folder on my PC desktop (Win XP)

Extracted the zip file

Connected Pulse to the PC with the USB cable - PC can see the SD card

Started phone in bootloader mode (fastboot blue screen)

Ran the 'install recovery windows' bat file from the PC

Dos window appears, runs the batch file, does something quickly and shuts the Dos window - guess it completed?

Removed battery and restarted phone as normal - first time it hung on the T mobile flash screen, started fine second time.

Quick look around the folder structure on the phone - can't see a Clockworkmods folder anywhere - ?

Trying to download the Pulse recovery and it gives me 'an error occurred while attempting to run priviliged commands'

Any other option I try in rommanager tells me I must have the clockworkmod installed first.

Anyone see where it's going wrong?

[Guest drossco]

Yep, I've had that. It means you've lost root. Try re-installing Superuser.

Click on http://forumsticky.com/phones/android-deve...2010-05-16.html

[Guest DanWilson]

Have you actually tried booting ClockworkMod? I mean, the app will only think you have ClockworkMod installed if you installed through the app. Make sure you can boot the recovery (Home+Red on boot) and then try to flash FLB-Mod (Thats what you wanted?). Then you'll have root, and can flash Clockwork recovery through the app.

Hopefully this helps and you get sorted.

[Guest scoobydoo99]

Yep, I've had that. It means you've lost root. Try re-installing Superuser.

Click on http://forumsticky.com/phones/android-deve...2010-05-16.html

I know I don't have root, that's why I'm installing the FLB rom.

But the first step to installing the FLB rom is to install clockworkmod recovery - which seems like it will only install on a rooted pulse.

I'm very quickly disappearing up my own arse with this latest mod.

I managed the MCR 1.7 and the official T Mobile 2.1 - why is this seemingly so difficult?

[Guest scoobydoo99]

Have you actually tried booting ClockworkMod? I mean, the app will only think you have ClockworkMod installed if you installed through the app. Make sure you can boot the recovery (Home+Red on boot) and then try to flash FLB-Mod (Thats what you wanted?). Then you'll have root, and can flash Clockwork recovery through the app.

Hopefully this helps and you get sorted.

Home+red on power up just takes me to the blue fastboot screen.

Sorry, replying too quick.

The Home+red on power does nothing at all.

Fastboot is volume down+ home + power.

Edited September 12, 2010 by scoobydoo99

[Guest DanWilson]

Home+red on power up just takes me to the blue fastboot screen.

Sorry, replying too quick.

The Home+red on power does nothing at all.

Fastboot is volume down+ home + power.

That's weird - Home+Red should give you the default recovery if anything...

Try installing it through fastboot in a command prompt. (I assume you have Windows)

Copy both the "fastboot-windows" and the custom recovery image to C:\ (and rename the recovery image "Recovery.img") Start - Run - "cmd". Boot into fastboot.

cd C:\

fastboot-windows flash recovery C:\Recovery.img

fastboot-windows reboot recovery[/codebox]

This should work, otherwise, I'd try on a Linux live CD or something, just in case Windows is raping you.

[Guest scoobydoo99]

That's weird - Home+Red should give you the default recovery if anything...

Try installing it through fastboot in a command prompt. (I assume you have Windows)

Copy both the "fastboot-windows" and the custom recovery image to C:\ (and rename the recovery image "Recovery.img") Start - Run - "cmd". Boot into fastboot.

cd C:\

fastboot-windows flash recovery C:\Recovery.img

fastboot-windows reboot recovery[/codebox]

This should work, otherwise, I'd try on a Linux live CD or something, just in case Windows is raping you.

I'm getting a windows error running the command - it can't find AdbWinApi.dll?

[Guest DanWilson]

I'm getting a windows error running the command - it can't find AdbWinApi.dll?

Damn Windows... Try copying that over to your C:\ drive, and try again. It's been so long since I've had to think of Windows...

[Guest scoobydoo99]

Damn Windows... Try copying that over to your C:\ drive, and try again. It's been so long since I've had to think of Windows...

Before giving this a go, I went out for the afternoon and I've just gone through the whole process again - this time it's worked :P

Now have the FLB 1.5 running.

Thanks for the help.