When you reboot into recovery, what do you see?

Turn off the phone and hold X then press the Power button while continuing to hold X. If your recovery is all green-ish text, you're on Clockwork. If it's blue text with an Android guy in the background and says something about SirPsychos up top, it's SPRecovery. If you have the triangle with the exclamation point (I think.. haven't seen it in a while), you have the stock recovery and need to reflash one of the other ones from ROM Manager before you can proceed.

 

Ya, you lost your custom recovery. That's happened to most people using EasyRoot. Open ROM Manager and flash Clockwork Mod Recovery. Should be the first option on there. Then you can install from ROM Manager and it should work. The reason it's not installing is because you don't have the custom recovery on there right now.

 

I want to point out since most of the rooting veterans wouldn't need this application and haven't seen how it works.

I'm new to the rooted Android scene, but most of the standard techiques seem to all involve flashing a rooted firmware with RSD Lite and pretty much directly afterwards installing the custom recovery. Full disclaimer that I have still not updated to a custom recovery or firmware yet, and I'm running the FRG01B OTA update version.

From that version I installed EasyRoot from Market this morning, and the only system permissions it required was Bluetooth access. I had Bluetooth turned off when I started EasyRoot and noticed it turned Bluetooth on during the "rooting process" which took a few seconds only. It then instructs to reboot your phone and from that point on you have root access.

It seems it does not do anything with firmware or custom recovery whatsoever, and maybe most of the users who used EasyRoot are having problems since they don't realize you NEED to install a custom recovery to be able to install the custom (unsigned) firmware. Please correct me if I'm wrong, this is what I understand from reading these forums, not from experience!

 

That doesn't seem to work either. I had the same problem and even after reflashing the clockworkmod recovery with Rom Manager, it would boot into clockworkmod one time, then after that, it was back to the standard exclamation point. The only way I have found to permanently fix it, is to flash the SP Recovery file onto the phone using the tried and true method with RSD Lite. Once that's done, you can then use Rom Manager to flash clockworkmod on and it will take hold. Until you flash SPRecovery on with RSd Lite however, it won't work except for the first time after flashing.

OP, go read the guide to how to root your phone by OMJ or Trident and follow it step by step. You don't have to go all the way through, just the first few steps to get SPRecovery onto the phone. It's really very easy and only takes a few minutes. Once it's done however, you can flash clockworkmod back onto the phone using Rom Manager and flash any rom you want from that point on without fear of something like this happening again.

 

So the lesson here is don't trust EasyRoot. It doesn't seem to give you consistent ongoing root access. Do it the right way and you shouldn't run into these problems.

 

I am having luck using the version of clockword modrecovery that is the version before the current one. 2.0.5.0 I believe. You can find that at the bottom of the ROMManager screen just select the one second from the top. Using that version I have been flashing roms and kernels like crazy.

Brandon

 

LOL. Called it.

 

No, you can't logically come to that conclusion. OP probably never installed a custom recovery.

If anything, these problems to me it sounds more likely that there is an issue with the current version of clockwork, especially since previous versions have no problems. Has anyone had issues using SPRecovery instead of clockwork?

I wish I cared to install a custom rom myself now, and I can put all this speculation to rest I'm sure I will eventually though, and will share my findings. So far everything I've tried on my "Easy Root"ed 2.2 has worked fine by following directions and researching what I was trying to do before doing it.