Stop stock recovery from coming back

Have you experienced that you flashed your CWM recovery image and then when you reboot back to recovery you get your old original menu.

Well basically the troublemaker is: install-recovery.sh

when the device is booting it executes this:

service flash_recovery /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

So to stop this from happening you basically have 3 options:

note: it is always a good practice to make backups

Option 1:

Prerequisites:

1) Extra knowledge because the detailed process of unpack-repack boot image is different from device to device. (will write some tutorial on that)

Procedure:

1. Extract the boot image
2. Open init.rc for editing
3. Find “service flash_recovery /system/etc/install-recovery.sh” and comment it (put # before the line and the next lines in this paragraph or the next command)
4. Save init.rc and rebuild the boot image
5. flash the bootimage back

Option 2:

Prerequisites:

1) Root(su) access

Procedure:

1. Get to the root shell on your device
2. remount /system with rw option (http://andwise.net/?p=194)
3. in the shell type: mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.no

Option 3:

Prerequisites:

1) CWM recovery – http://andwise.net/?p=268

2) update.zip to be used to remove install-recovery.sh. Download : http://andwise.net/?attachment_id=293

Procedure:

1. Boot in CWM recovery
2. Make sure signature verification(check) is disabled (use [toggle signature verification button])
3. apply update zip