Yes The updated Rom Manager works on the bionic. You do need to use bootstrap once and then flash the recovery in rom manager and you are good to go.

 

Occaisionally I have to flash the recovery in rom manager else when I try to boot into recovery, the phone boots up all the way.

 

Yeah, I always bootstrap every time just to make sure. Unl3ash3d has something like auto bootstrap, so I wouldn't worry, but I do.

 

what if we didn't flash bootstrap the first time before flashing a recovery?

I, uh, have a friend....yeah...a friend that did that....

 

What is the point of bootstrap? I'm a previous htc user. Never dealt with bootstrap.

 

Bootstrap is a method of dealing with the locked bootloader so that a custom recovery and custom roms may be installed. It does not allow installing other kernels.

 

I guess I knew that but how do I actually use it? What does it actually do? What does it do that room manager doesn't?

 

Best explanation I could find...

Android is comprised of 2 main partitions, System and Data. When android is running we cannot safely change any of the files in the System partition, just the Data partition. This becomes a problem whenever we need to update the system, officially or not. To overcome this all Android devices have a

 

You can boot into cwr from rom manager or bootstrap but you cant boot into cwr with the power and volume buttons that will only boot you into stock recovery with no access to flash or restore custom zips.

 

ok gotcha. this is because the bootloader is locked, correct? with my droid incredible, I could boot into recovery using the volume and power button and it would boot into clockwork mod recovery. I think anyways. oh well it doesn't really matter the incredible is in the past now, the future is the bionic!

was the droid 1 bootloader unlocked out of the box or did it just get hacked rather quickly?

 

this is because the bootloader is locked. The og droid came unlocked out if the box. That was one of the things that made it great.

 

So which bootstrap do I use for the bionic and do I need to be rooted to use it. If so what to root with using my macbook pro?

 

There is a bootstrap in the market for the bionic. You need to be rooted to use it. The sticky thread at the top if the bionic root forum has instructions on how to root with a mac.

 

Greetings,

Ok can somebody answer several questions I haven't been able to get answered due to limited google search string writing abilities:

1. I installed from the paid version of Bionic Bootstrap Recovery from the Market which seems to function as intended and identifies itself as "ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.5". However upon selection of a number of its options, Rom Manager insists " You don't have ClockworkMod Recovery installed..." It's starting to slowly dawn on me that there must be a component of the "Bionic Bootstrap Recovery" installation, the "bootstrap" element, that will remain in place once a second installation of ClockworkMod Recovery is flashed from Rom Manager and whatever remains other than the "bootstrap" element will be overwritten during the second installation of ClockworkMod Recovery. Is this correct? And necessary?

2. Under that setup, if a flashed rom fails such that I'm unable to set the installed recovery to boot upon rebooting, is that what is referred to as a "boot loop", and how will I be able to break from it if all I have access to is the oem boot menu? Once I flash the CMR from Rom Manager, will the program that is invoked when I select "Recovery" from the oem boot menu be CMR? If so, then why isn't the version I currently have installed invoked in the same manner?

Thanks in advance for any and/or all answers.

 

Why did someone make roms not for the bionic available on the bionic version of rom manage?

 

There is no such thing as a Bionic Version of Rom Manager. Rom manager is a program that run on multiple phones which has a compiled list of roms that are made available to your particular phone. This list is compiled by the author of the program I believe and he/she is not going to know every single rom available for a particular phone unless he/she is notified by the rom designer.