So how much am I really missing?

[Kevin Gossett]

I've had my SF since day one, rooted, de-Binged, etc... I'm a Mac user, so I can't use Odin and haven't messed with trying to get CWM to work. Am I really missing out by not having CWM and the ability to flash ROMs?

My wife has Vista on her MBP via boot camp, so I could just use that if needed. Just wanted to get everyones thoughts before messing with it.

 

[Fappy Jones]

Well jt's super clean rom and kernel are nice and smooth, so imo yes you are missing out. But if you can just use a windows comp, your fine.

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[Chris3D]

I've had my SF since day one, rooted, de-Binged, etc... I'm a Mac user, so I can't use Odin and haven't messed with trying to get CWM to work. Am I really missing out by not having CWM and the ability to flash ROMs?

My wife has Vista on her MBP via boot camp, so I could just use that if needed. Just wanted to get everyones thoughts before messing with it.

I wouldn't say you're missing out on too much. If you've de-bloated the phone and have it set up to your liking, what more do you really want? Clockwork is great for backing up your existing setup if you'll be messing around with it or another ROM, but if you won't be doing any of that stuff, it's not necessary.

Personally, I've tried several ROMs, but keep coming back to my optimized (de-bloat/bing'd) setup. It runs fast and stable and that's all I really want. So, if you don't intend to mess around with your system or try out different ROMs, you're really not missing out on anything.

 

[iTz Nicholas72]

You can install CWM via Rom Manager.

I was running JTs ROM which is great but I like just removing/changing what I need fromm the stock ROM.

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[Fappy Jones]

You can install CWM via Rom Manager.

I was running JTs ROM which is great but I like just removing/changing what I need fromm the stock ROM.

Sent from my rooted, de-binged, overclocked, and de-bloated Fascinate using Tapatalk

Are you using a voodoo kernel or a JT kernel?

 

[lolreconlol]

You're missing out on jt's rom.

 

[bL33d]

Coming from a droid and loving cwm i find it next to pointless on my fascinate its good for flashing files but thats about it. I have made a few backups but if i ever try to use one i just fc errors at bootup.

And yes i format everything i can before i do a restore. I hope koush is working on this version to make it better. Including a partition menu with a way to easily format boot/system/ would be nice and prob help with the issues.

 

[dkoss]

Coming from a droid and loving cwm i find it next to pointless on my fascinate its good for flashing files but thats about it. I have made a few backups but if i ever try to use one i just fc errors at bootup.

And yes i format everything i can before i do a restore. I hope koush is working on this version to make it better. Including a partition menu with a way to easily format boot/system/ would be nice and prob help with the issues.

That's strange I flash and use backups all of the time and have never had fc issues with my restores. Do you have a voodoo kernel?

 

[iTz Nicholas72]

Are you using a voodoo kernel or a JT kernel?

LV 1000 Kernel

Im going to try the LV 1200 today...

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[Kevin Gossett]

So I installed CWM via ROM Manager, and when i try to make a backup it fails. Any suggestions?

 

[Fappy Jones]

LV 1000 Kernel

Im going to try the LV 1200 today...

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Hope it works for you

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[dkoss]

So I installed CWM via ROM Manager, and when i try to make a backup it fails. Any suggestions?

If you just used ROM Manager to install CWM that will not work. I tried that myself and when it boots into recovery I was still in the stock recovery screen. Unfortunately you have to use Windows to install the .tar file to your phone with Odin then you can flash it with ROM Manager.

I do find it a little unfortunate that there aren't other options for other OS's like Linux and Mac but that is why I have a dual boot computer, for the software that absolutely, positively has to have Microsoft.

 

[dkoss]

To be sure you do/don't have ClockwordMod Recovery use ROM Manager to reboot into recovery. At the top it should say:

ClockwordMod Recovery v2.5.1.0

With the list of options below it in green if your recovery does not look like this then you do not have CWM installed. I believe the stock recovery says something to the effect of Samsung Recovery. Not sure of the exact terminology.

 

[NOsquid]

If you just used ROM Manager to install CWM that will not work. I tried that myself and when it boots into recovery I was still in the stock recovery screen. Unfortunately you have to use Windows to install the .tar file to your phone with Odin then you can flash it with ROM Manager.

I do find it a little unfortunate that there aren't other options for other OS's like Linux and Mac but that is why I have a dual boot computer, for the software that absolutely, positively has to have Microsoft.

Yeah, I can't run it on my virtual machine unfortunately (Samsung drivers don't play nice). You only need Odin for like 15min, so I did it on someone else's computer. Of course, if you really #$%* things up, then you need Odin. I will need to dual-boot Winblows one of these days before I mess with anything

 

[dkoss]

Clockworkmod installation how to for windows / *nix - xda-developers

Just found this post over at xda if you wanna give it a try.