Ok guys, I'll chime in to help if I can...
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Originally Posted by treedog5
sorry to keep bothering you, but i did what you said and got the alt flash. now how do i use amon? is it a differnt app? when i try to use any of the options under rom manager it says i have to flash clockwork back.
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Correct, the devs of Rom Mgr and CWM recovery work together and you will only have all the functions of Rom Mgr when using CWM recovery. (I'm sure the devs work with Amon_Ra as well but the functions of Rom Mgr are only built to work with CWM) ... Like other's have said though, Rom Mgr is a quick easy way to get Amon_Ra recovery on your phone
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Originally Posted by jayhuffdaddy
Can someone explain this whole clockwork problem. I'm using it and don't seem to have any problems.
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Here's is what I know about how all the problems probably started with CWM which I have used most of the time (alomst exclusively, but have used Amon_Ra to check it out)
reference OMJ's post here as has been posted already ...
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/2031815-post5565.html
Now that you have a little background on update vs. updater scripts... a little while back CWM updated their recovery from 2.5.x to 3.x.x at which time he switched everything so it would only work with updater scripts. When this happened and ppl ran Rom Mgr it said "hey there is an update for CWM recovery" which most ppl probably did. This happened to occur between releases of OMJ's rom. When his next release came out everybody started running into problems becuase his roms use an update rather than an updater script (he may and probably will change this in the future but ... I don't speak for OMJ). CWM made this change in preparation for CM7 b/c for some reason they said 3.x will be required by CM7. After all the problems (not just with OMJ's rom but all the roms and flashable .zips out there that use update scripts), CWM has made a 2.6.x version of CWM which also now shows as the most current update from within Rom Mgr. The 2.6.x version handles both update and updater scripts and backs up WiMaxx. Now I can't speak to the previous posts about CWM having issues with backing up WiMaxx b/c I haven't read that thread, don't know when it was posted, or what version of CWM it is referring to... what I can tell you is that I have done a Nand backup with CWM v2.6.x and when I go browse the \clockworkmod\backup folder there is a wimax.img ... so to me it is backed up but I have never had a need to "use" this backed up Wimax.img so maybe something in that previously mentioned thread is referring to this (ver 2.6.x) not creating a "good" backup image of the Wimax I don't know?
Hope that helped a little and if anybody has anything to add feel free to do so
... now having said all this, I would certainly never dispute OMJ and if he says Amon_Ra is a better recovery then it probably is. I have simply stuck with CWM because it has worked for me, I paid money for Rom Mgr and like it to be useful, it enables me to be lazy and make backups a little quicker and easier from w/i Rom Mgr plus I can name them, and you can browse folders from w/i recovery rather than have to put everything in the root of the SD card ... this last reason, which was one of the main ones for me sticking to CWM is no longer an issue with the latest Amon_Ra recovery since he has added the folder browsing ability now
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Originally Posted by Curb71
I also noticed that rom manager seems useless without using clockworkmod. I flashed back to clockworkmod. It works fine with this ROM.
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Yes it does so long as you never updated CWM from 2.5.x to 3.x.x (in the short timeframe that 3.x.x was showing as the most current from w/i Rom Mgr) OR if you did so and have since updated it again "back" to 2.6.x ... so basically, so long as you either have the old 2.5.x version or the 2.6.x version then CWM will work just fine as they both handle the update script that OMJ uses