[Q] Advice on problem: Unable to change my FLASH recovery - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

I have MDK stock ROM rooted from the start. In the past I have installed ROM manager and used it to flash recovery. Sometime in the past I flashed TWRP (v2.6.3.1) and I don't remember how I did that flash, I think GOOMANAGER. Anyway I would like to use ROM manager again and no matter how many times I have tried to use ROM Manager to flash recovery the phone ONLY shows TWRP.
Any Ideas? Has this happened to anyone else?
Thank you in advance!!
The Necris

TheNecris said:
I have MDK stock ROM rooted from the start. In the past I have installed ROM manager and used it to flash recovery. Sometime in the past I flashed TWRP (v2.6.3.1) and I don't remember how I did that flash, I think GOOMANAGER. Anyway I would like to use ROM manager again and no matter how many times I have tried to use ROM Manager to flash recovery the phone ONLY shows TWRP.
Any Ideas? Has this happened to anyone else?
Thank you in advance!!
The Necris
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You could flash the factory mdk image and that will pit a stock BL on your phone. Then re root and flash recovery same as before. Just don't take an ota obviously.
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I rooted my tab and installed rom manager to install clockwork mod. went to reboot into recovery and pphhhttt! it keeps cycling through the samsung icon. I know I had root with the su app installed I'm just not sure what I need to do to restore or how to get it off this boot loop could someone please help me?
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rom manager can sometimes create issues. im still not sure why people use it when you can easily flash cwm recovery through odin and it only takes about 2 seconds. im sure you didnt make a backup considering you were trying to flash recovery. the only thing you can do now is flash a stock rom via Odin now to get back up and running. for the future i would suggest you flash cwm through odin instead of trying to do it via rom manager.
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I have Galaxy note 1 i717D from Telus canada. it was giving me some troubles so i decided to download stock firmware from this link
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Update your recovery to TWRP 2.5.
rangercaptain said:
Update your recovery to TWRP 2.5.
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Could you please let me know how can i do this, I am trying to find it myself too but if anycase you have tried please let me know, Do i need to do it even when I am trying to do stock recovery ?
I don't see what installing TWRP 2.5 has anything to do with this install. OP is installing stock ROM with odin which means stock recovery.
You should be using Odin to do the install as instructed in the link. I don't understand why the stock recovery is even showing after a restart or why the you would toggle it after a flash.
Agoattamer said:
I don't see what installing TWRP 2.5 has anything to do with this install. OP is installing stock ROM with odin which means stock recovery.
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Let me draw you a picture. Flash TWRP with Odin. Let it root the phone. Use TWRP to flash the rom, stock or custom.
Installing stock anything doesn't mean stock recovery. Odin is used when phone is in download mode.
But the ROM he is flashing is a stock.tar. That can only be flashed with odin. Custom recovery has nothing to do with it and will not help him achieve what he is wanting to do. OP has even mentioned he wants stock recovery. What he is doing in stock recovery after flashing the ROM with Odin has me baffled.
I don't know why "Install TWRP" is the answer to all problems on this forum. Running the updated CWM has suited me just fine and has been able to flash any ROM I wanted to try.

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jmdearras said:
My son's S4 is rooted, and a while back he loaded GooManager, and tried to install recovery with it. Phone still works, but tries to load code over the USB on power-up.
What does GooManager do to the system, and how can we undo it? Or should the phone just be wiped and odin flashed to 4.3?
Jim
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That's a common problem. You can't install a custom recovery using GooManager. At best, if you're running MDK, you can use Loki to flash a custom recovery.
The best fix for your situation is to flash a stock ROM. At the very least, grab the recovery from the stock ROM and flash that.
k1mu said:
That's a common problem. You can't install a custom recovery using GooManager. At best, if you're running MDK, you can use Loki to flash a custom recovery.
The best fix for your situation is to flash a stock ROM. At the very least, grab the recovery from the stock ROM and flash that.
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Do you know what GooManager does before rebooting? I'd like to manually remove it.
Where is the stock ROM for Verizon 4.2.2? Or can I just Odin 4.3?
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hobokenshmo said:
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what rom firmware where you be fore flashing the new rom? did you tried to wipe cache/date after flashing?
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From what I've read about that issue is people have had to Odin back to stock then start over. Now maybe you could try installing another recovery like Philz maybe using Odin or try Goo for TWRP before you Odin back to mdk and go through all that.
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I had a similar thing a few years ago, with what I know now I think the recovery is temporarily flashed with CWM to gain root and stock recovery is replaced after, I'd look for an actual CWM recovery to flash in.
Same applied to me using a ROM Manager, said it was v.xxx made a backup, flashed a ROM, turns out was left without a backup..... noob-old days
Bashing away at my HTC Desire C
Thank you for the solid replies, I'm interested in getting experience with the other recovery methods anyway so I'll try those and worse case I start from scratch.
I have pretty much this same issue. I was happily running 6.0.44 CWM, installed via CWM.
Then I happened to check and see there's an update to 6.0.47. I installed via ROM manager which reported success. Except that it isnt. I basically have 2 recoveries as far as ROM manager is concerned. It thinks I'm on 6.0.47, but 6.0.44 is what boots. I'm betting it's the same issue you have.
I re-flashed Twrp trying to fix it. Now twrp is what recovery always boots; but Rom manager still thinks 6.0.47 is installed. Rom manager shows BOTH recoveries in the "Recovery already installed" menu.
Seems the issue here is the 6.0.47 when flashed via Rom manager. It bugs the crap out of me that it seems like I have 2 recoveries installed somehow. Not sure how that's possible, but everything seems like it's functioning for me.
Compare the sizes of the recoveries, one thing I've come across is when you flash a new .img in because of the NAND chip process for writing/erasing I have had 'remnants' from previous files.
In one respect it is unlikely but I wouldn't rule it out until you check yourself. It could just be left on the list as a marker that it has previously been installed.
Personally I don't use ROM Managers now, it's into TWRP Recovery and backup from there
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I'm just getting back to this because work was crazy. No Matter what recovery I try always comes up with Android System Recovery 3e. Stock MDK and re-root it is.
Maybe try using GooManager to install TWRP after you've gone back to stock.

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