[Q]CWM recovery not flashing after odin and root topic

Hello all and thank you for your time. been doing this for a while and i cannot figure out what im doing wrong. hopefully someone can help me figure out what i missed. I was odin'ing back to try and fix a LTE modem issue. followed the sticky guide like i did originally to root. first wiped everything, then odin MDK (never OTA'd), flash MD2 kernel, ticked appropriate boxes, updated super su and binary, checked root with TBU, odin'ed MDK kernel, then flashed with rom manager CWM. root was granted at the respected times. everything seems right until i boot into recovery and the screen goes to the stock recovery and the android man has a red exclamation mark. the recovery is usable but it does not help me much..

thanks for the time and suggestions.

take care.
electroman789

[Q]CWM boot loop topic

Just got the ATT gpro e980, and installed freegee CWM, downloaded a stock rom with extras, made a backup of current stock rom then wiped everything, flashed the zip and then it said error loki-fying. Tried restoring backup, had no errors, tried rebooting but always ends up back at CWM. Tried booting to bootloader, goes to CWM. Only way to fix this is using LGFlashtool? Any advice appreciated.