Recovery on top of a recovery question

[checcles]

I'm running asop CM7 and have its recommended recovery.

Looking into trying out a bunch of other ROMs and looking into Rom Manager but it wants me to flash a new recovery first.

WILL I LOSE MY BACKUPS IF I FLASH ANOTHER RECOVERY OVER THE TOP?!?!?!? Thanks.

 

[Nit3H8wk]

For one don't use rom manager to flash a recovery on this phone it will not work. second it would flash over your old recovery and most likely brick your phone. third you need to flash a clockwork mod recovery that is for the optimus v which you can find in this forums in order to use the features of rom manager and as far as i know the paid version of rom manager is the only one that actually works on the v.

 

[checcles]

For one don't use rom manager to flash a recovery on this phone it will not work. second it would flash over your old recovery and most likely brick your phone. third you need to flash a clockwork mod recovery that is for the optimus v which you can find in this forums in order to use the features of rom manager and as far as i know the paid version of rom manager is the only one that actually works on the v.

I have the clockwork mod recovery (at least I think I do...aospCWMod-VM670-20110516). And I have the "paid" version of rom manager...well, unless there is a way for the system to figure out that I don't have a real key.

 

[bennyhu22]

I flashed another recovery, for Optimus one, over the x recovery and I'm not bricked. I used yaffsexpert to flash my x recovery over the Optimus one recovery when I was done

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[zedorda]

I flashed another recovery, for Optimus one, over the x recovery and I'm not bricked. I used yaffsexpert to flash my x recovery over the Optimus one recovery when I was done

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Since you didnt say you used Rom Manager to flash your recovery ur statement doesn't apply. Since Rom Manager does not directly support the Optimus V there are alot of chances for it to screw you.

 

[mmarz]

You can flash any recovery you want. A recovery by itself will NEVER brick your phone. The recovery isn't used until you purposely boot into it. Using a different recovery usually means that your old back ups won't be usable until you flash back to it. This is generally the case. But your backups don't go away. They are stored on your SD card. Whenever you want, flash back to the recovery you used to make the backups and restore.

 

[checcles]

You can flash any recovery you want. A recovery by itself will NEVER brick your phone. The recovery isn't used until you purposely boot into it. Using a different recovery usually means that your old back ups won't be usable until you flash back to it. This is generally the case. But your backups don't go away. They are stored on your SD card. Whenever you want, flash back to the recovery you used to make the backups and restore.

thanks, but how do you select which recovery to boot into? (boot into recovery option when you hold the power button would go to the default recovery right?)

 

[vegetajin8]

When the phone is off Home volume down power if your using aosp power then reboot then recovery.

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[AZImmortal]

thanks, but how do you select which recovery to boot into? (boot into recovery option when you hold the power button would go to the default recovery right?)

If I'm reading you correctly, then you seem to think that when you flash a new recovery, your old recovery is still accessible, which would be incorrect. When you flash a new recovery, it overwrites the old one.

 

[checcles]

If I'm reading you correctly, then you seem to think that when you flash a new recovery, your old recovery is still accessible, which would be incorrect. When you flash a new recovery, it overwrites the old one.

so basically IF I do flash a new recovery....that means that I'd loose my initial "stock VM everything" backup.?!?!?!?

 

[mmarz]

so basically IF I do flash a new recovery....that means that I'd loose my initial "stock VM everything" backup.?!?!?!?

Your backups are on the SD card. When you want to restore them, reflash whatever recovery you used to create the backups and restore them. It is really that simple. You can change recoveries as often as you want. It doesn't effect your rom or the backups you've already created. The only time your recovery matters is when you are restoring a backup or installing a new rom.