Samsung Galaxy Note3 SM-N9005 Android 5.0 - no recovery

Hi All... help...

I have a Note3 SM-N9005 which is rooted. I have been trying to get CWM installed.

I started by using ROM Manager and this just didnt work at all - the recovery partition stayed stock.

So I downloaded the Samsung Note 3 (International) recovery image (6.0.4.6) (non-touch) from https://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager.

I used Cygwin to convert to a .tar file and then flashed to PDA using Odin.

All looked OK and Odin passed the install - however when I tried to reboot into recovery my Note3 just gets stuck in a boot loop - the only way I could get it working again was to re-flash using Odin and when it reboots it starts and works normally - but if I reboot into recovery mode it just keeps re-booting!!

Any thoughts on how to fix this or whether the best option is to flash a whole ROM with CWM already packed? Alternatively - any ideas on where I can get a CWM file which will work on my Note3?

Also - now this has started getting messy, any advice on backing up EFS (just in case :rolleyes:)

Thanks in advance