Root How to switch from SPRecovery to CWM-Based Recovery?

BlackTigress · Mar 11, 2014

I have the OG Motorola Droid - with the Jelly Bean mod!

There's only one problem. Before I did so, someone before me tried to upload their own custom mod onto the phone along with their own kernel and such.

I believe that it causes problems with the wifi - as it constantly drops all of a sudden (while another android phone of mines - that never had a custom mod - never drops wifi all of a sudden.)

Unfortunately, I can't find a way to install the kernel within SPRecovery. If anyone knows a way how - please tell me.

If not, can someone tell me how I can have CWM-Based Recovery instead of SPRecovery within my phone? How can I switch the two?

BlackTigress · Mar 12, 2014

I have the Jelly Bean Mod on my OG Motorola Droid, so I also installed the kernel along with it (as it was included separately).

However, when I look onto my "About Phone" section, the Kernel Version is still the same.

Is there anyway I could change it?

codesplice · Mar 12, 2014

Hi BlackTigress,

I've moved your threads into the Droid-specific All-Things-Root subforum since you're asking about things pretty specific to your device, and I also merged them since I think the questions are related. :thumbup:

1) Recovery - You should be able to switch to the ClockworkMod Recovery pretty easily by using the free ROM Manager application. Let me know if you run into any issues going that route.

2) Kernel - You flash a kernel in exactly the same way that you flash a ROM. Copy the kernel's .zip onto the SD card, boot into recovery, flash from .zip, and browse to the kernel's .zip. Easy peasy

A kernel is always included with a ROM, and it should overwrite whatever kernel was previously in place when you flash a ROM. You can (and I do) flash an alternative kernel after-the-fact just by flashing it ontop of your existing ROM (no wipes!).

Please let me know if you have any futher questions.

teddyearp · May 17, 2014

Again, another late reply, but codesplice is correct, the best way to get CWM recovery is through Rom Manager. Although back in the day, many people hailed SPRecovery and faulted CWM/Rom Manager; there is a huge limitation in SPR. Every file (rom/kernel/etc.) you want/need to flash must be renamed to 'update.zip'. Not so with CWM, and with rom manager it can all be done while booted into android.

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