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[Q] cant upgrade to 4.2

so i have cwm bootloader my phone is s-off and is the stock htc 4.1 rom i was wondering how i can restore the stock bootloader and just pretty much make everything stock so i can upgrade to 4.2 detailed instructions would be extremely appreciated thank you so much

austenbuzz said:
so i have cwm bootloader my phone is s-off and is the stock htc 4.1 rom i was wondering how i can restore the stock bootloader and just pretty much make everything stock so i can upgrade to 4.2 detailed instructions would be extremely appreciated thank you so much
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Hi,
is that you get the update notification?
For me (i did'nt have the notification), I did it: being in stock 4.2.1 ROM, s-off, recovery custom, and root, so I changed cid with the fastboot command: fastboot oem writecid HTC__032 (HTC__032 = East Europe, me I had a French HTC__203 cid). Then reflash version 4.1.2 of stock recovery, reboot the phone, check the update, and normally you could do it!
For finalize, back in the bootloader to restore your original cid and reflash a custom recovery if you want !
Good luck!

Well i got the update notification but i cant update to 4.2 because i dont know how to restore the stock recovery. if its any help im running 4.1.2 and im on cricket which is the PLCCL variant

austenbuzz said:
Well i got the update notification but i cant update to 4.2 because i dont know how to restore the stock recovery. if its any help im running 4.1.2 and im on cricket which is the PLCCL variant
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Download the OTA.zip, you'll find it in download folder.
Copy it to your PC. Inside the OTA.zip you'll find a firmware.zip, unzip this on your PC.
Then open the firmware.zip and you will find a recovery.img inside. Unzip this recovery.img.
Now put the recovery.img into your fastboot folder (in your PC) and flash it with the cmd:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If all went well, flash back cwm recovery, make a backup and upload it for us

Hi,
You can find it to thanks this link of old.splatterhand ! Maybe it will be must easy..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317379
I download it here for come back to stock recovery.
Enjoy !

stilflip said:
Hi,
You can find it to thanks this link of old.splatterhand ! Maybe it will be must easy..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317379
I download it here for come back to stock recovery.
Enjoy !
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So i flashed the stock recovery for 4.1 and i attempted to flash the 4.2 update and it says
Device_CW_Install: No CW files. Skip cw installation.
(going to skip writing out what all the update stuff said and ill just show you what it sayed at the end when it failed)
Removing unneeded files...
Patching /system or /data files...
Symlinks and permissions...
set_perm: some changes failed
Installation aborted.

Are you sure, that your system is totally stock (odexed, no apps or something else removed)?

old.splatterhand said:
Are you sure, that your system is totally stock (odexed, no apps or something else removed)?
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i am s-off and not rooted

old.splatterhand said:
Are you sure, that your system is totally stock (odexed, no apps or something else removed)?
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so do you have any idea so basically what i want to do is completley set everything back to stock then update to 4.2 if that is possible . thanks in advance

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austenbuzz said:
i am s-off and not rooted
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you are cricket right?
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if you're cricket than do this
first thing you need to do is flash a working clockworkmod recovery
then download this rar file and extract it somewhere and place it in your CWM restore directory
https://db.tt/C59wTTqK
once it's restored
place this file on the root of your sdcard and reboot into your bootloader,
it will search and find it just follow the directions on your screen to apply it. then reboot into your OS and except all further updates
https://db.tt/M4iqYS19
profit!

absurdly stupid move by me.3113wTWRPv2.6.3.0 only left

I was doing fine with my PAC-4.3.1. I backed everything up. Then I erased all ... yep... no OS. And trying to install something like the MicroDelta-P3110-4.2.2xxx... says its unable to open the zip file. So I probably messed up my root also.
I have very limited access to XP. I run Linux. Ubuntu, Debian ... but I can not find a working way to salvage my tab2.7 this way. odin for XP was how I got to 4.1.2.
I believe I need help in knowing what is the actual correct next step. I read the forum and have failed so far. So would someone be able to point me to the correct link knowing my situation?
I think I was on 4.2.2. Then PAC 4.3.1
I used to have Philz installed. Recently went to TWRP because I was getting very unreliable bootloops and switching helped in the short term...

try flashing PhilZ Touch using adb sideload, reboot into philz touch and try the rom again.... maybe flash the rom using sideload
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Read this: http://teamw.in/ADBSideload
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You can also try flashing any other Rom using adb sideload

canezila said:
I was doing fine with my PAC-4.3.1. I backed everything up. Then I erased all ... yep... no OS. And trying to install something like the MicroDelta-P3110-4.2.2xxx... says its unable to open the zip file. So I probably messed up my root also.
I have very limited access to XP. I run Linux. Ubuntu, Debian ... but I can not find a working way to salvage my tab2.7 this way. odin for XP was how I got to 4.1.2.
I believe I need help in knowing what is the actual correct next step. I read the forum and have failed so far. So would someone be able to point me to the correct link knowing my situation?
I think I was on 4.2.2. Then PAC 4.3.1
I used to have Philz installed. Recently went to TWRP because I was getting very unreliable bootloops and switching helped in the short term...
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Now what do you mean by you erased everything? Even wiping system, user data and both caches won't break root. Was there something else you wiped that you probably shouldn't have? What you could do is set up a virtual machine for XP, or even dual boot. It's a little time consuming, but in the end I do believe it would be worth it If you can't even flash a zip I don't really know what else you could do. Hopefully someone else will chime in with a less exhausting solution. But dual booting or using a virtual machine is certainly option. That way you can easily odin back to stock.
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Android-Andi said:
try flashing PhilZ Touch using adb sideload, reboot into philz touch and try the rom again.... maybe flash the rom using sideload
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Read this: http://teamw.in/ADBSideload
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You can also try flashing any other Rom using adb sideload
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I thought about that, but he said he broke root and can't flash a zip? Would sideloading work around that?

Sure Sideload should work, i think root is not broken (can access to storage be broken in recovery? i don´t think so ) - maybe bad download of the rom or he can only flash signed zip´s ? maybe he can try disable zip-verification (?)

Android-Andi said:
Sure Sideload should work, i think root is not broken (can access to storage be broken in recovery? i don´t think so ) - maybe bad download of the rom or he can only flash signed zip´s ? maybe he can try disable zip-verification (?)
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I've never had to use side load lol... You know more than I on the issue

How to setup ADB on Ubuntu? ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11823740#post11823740
or http://askubuntu.com/questions/318246/complete-installation-guide-for-android-sdk-on-ubuntu
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@canezila can you please check in TWRP -> Settings -> "Zip file signarure verification?" Checked or unchecked? If it´s checked: uncheck it!

Recovery couldn't open the zip. A failed signature verification would return a "signature verification failed" error, no?
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i don´t know what he did (i don´t think he knows it too ) let´s wait for his feedback...
trying to flash a recovery or another rom using sideload might work...
or he can try another file (only flashing a recovery.zip) flashing from a microSD card?
could be a bad download of the file too...
i´m going to sleep now hope my tipps work for him - i am sure he´ll give any feedback
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"(...)I used to have Philz installed. Recently went to TWRP because I was getting very unreliable bootloops and switching helped in the short term..(...)"
a recovery wouldn´t make a rom bootlooping i think he forgot to wipe something.
i never had a bootloop or other strange problems on a working rom! NEVER!
What i am doing:
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvic cache
format /system
wipe data factory reset (on PhilZ Touch "Clean to install a new Rom")
flash rom
reboot
if it´s working i reboot into recovery again
flash gapps
flash NEXT Kernel
flash Proprietary files for NEXT Kernel
reboot again
(sometimes flashing NEXT Kernel + Proprietary files directly after the rom before 1st boot - only if i am on Dual-Boot)
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If you like MicroDelta 4.1.2
Download
MicroDelta-P3110-JB-4.1.2-P3110XXDME3-signed.zip and MicroDelta-P3113-JB-4.1.2-P3113XXDME3-signed.zip
Try this (yes do it again):
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvic cache
format /system
wipe data factory reset
First flash MicroDelta-P3110-JB-4.1.2-P3110XXDME3-signed.zip
directly after that flash MicroDelta-P3113-JB-4.1.2-P3113XXDME3-signed.zip

$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
$ adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.31
$ adb sideload philz_touch_5.15.0-p3110-blackhawk.zip
$ adb sideload blackhawk-next-kernel-2.1.5-p31xx-miui.zip
**probably usless step but I wanted to see if it worked and it installed wo errors***
$ adb sideload miui_3.10.25_p3110_beta2.zip
$ adb sideload proprietary-vendor-samsung.zip
** yes, I have no idea what I am doing because this probably is part of another thread.... but it is ok**
But now that I can easily push ROMs over... I am going to go crazy installing a bunch of similar 4.3.1 roms.
THANKS FOR THE HELP!

I ended up on PAC MAN 4.3.1. at least for now

Rooted Nexus 5 out of box, recently updated 4.4.2 OTA and now root is gone

When I open up superSU, it says:
There is no SU binary installed, and super SU cannot install it.
If you just upgraded to android 4.3, you need to manually re-root.
If I turn the Nexus on in recovery mode, it still says it's unlocked.
So at this point, is there anything I can do to restore root status without factory resetting? I made a backup with titanium backup but it was a while ago so I would rather not use it if there is another way.
I've read somewhere that rooting it should mean OTA updates should no longer work but somehow, it still went through and I updated it without thinking too much.

Download the supersu zip file and flash it in recovery.
http://download.chainfire.eu/371/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.85.zip

This will throw me back into rooted mode while keeping my phone as is?

BruceHsiang said:
This will throw me back into rooted mode while keeping my phone as is?
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this will update the binaries and restore root. no data will be lost or formatted. simply flash the zip in twrp or cwm.

xBeerdroiDx said:
this will update the binaries and restore root. no data will be lost or formatted. simply flash the zip in twrp or cwm.
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I don't have twrp or cwm installed yet. Which one is generally simpler/easier to install/use?

So I installed goomanager and tried to install twrp, but it all goes back to the same problem which was that I am now not in root mode anymore.
Also what do you mean by flashing the zip? Which options am I supposed to use?

BruceHsiang said:
I don't have twrp or cwm installed yet. Which one is generally simpler/easier to install/use?
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I've been using TWRP with no problem and it's been awhile since I've used CWM. I've never used a toolkit or flashify but with adb it would probably take a couple minutes max to flash either one.
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BruceHsiang said:
So I installed goomanager and tried to install twrp, but it all goes back to the same problem which was that I am now not in root mode anymore.
Also what do you mean by flashing the zip? Which options am I supposed to use?
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Choose "Install" in recovery, with either TWRP or CWM is flashing the zip.

wantabe said:
I've been using TWRP with no problem and it's been awhile since I've used CWM. I've never used a toolkit or flashify but with adb it would probably take a couple minutes max to flash either one.
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Choose "Install" in recovery, with either TWRP or CWM is flashing the zip.
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Problem is, I didn't install twrp when I had root access before, and now when I try to use it, it says I need root to use it.
Can I flash the zip using adb in the fastboot recovery menu?
What should I do from here?

BruceHsiang said:
Problem is, I didn't install twrp when I had root access before, and now when I try to use it, it says I need root to use it.
Can I flash the zip using adb in the fastboot recovery menu?
What should I do from here?
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Sorry I've never done that. I guess you could adb push superuser.apk to the system but you still need the binary wherever that goes. Honestly I would just flash TWRP using adb and use TWRP to flash the SuperSu zip.
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Do you have adb already working?

Not yet, I just saw it as an option while reading around.
How would I install twrp with that image file?
All tutorials I've found said I needed root to install it in the first place.

BruceHsiang said:
Not yet, I just saw it as an option while reading around.
How would I install twrp with that image file?
All tutorials I've found said I needed root to install it in the first place.
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No.You do not need root to install a custom recovery. You need an unlocked bootloader. How did you get root in the first place? You must have used a toolkit of some kind? Use it again? I've only every used adb so I can't help with any toolkits but lots of people use them, I guess!

Download the latest TWRP or CWM recovery. Put it in the same folder as your adb and fastboot files. Open a command prompt and type adb reboot bootloader(you have to make sure developer settings are enabled and USB debugging is checked). Then flash recovery using fastboot by typing fastboot flash recovery name_of_file.img and then you can flash the supersu zip file.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Exactly! I'm thinking he doesn't have adb setup yet.
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This is a pretty decent video on how to setup adb, not the newest video out there probably but it should work!

I used chainfires autocf root file from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507211
and followed a youtube tutorial.
When I try adb devices it shows my serial number followed by sideload.
I've tried sideloading both twrp and the superSU.zip, and they fail to verify and the installation aborts =\

[ROM] SU4TL-44 100% Stock

SU4TL-44 Stock Image for XT1254: https://mega.nz/#!v4QWiITb!_0jWWzE4KWCEgT__C36rYe0vaTzGKcEFsZm0vvBtLBg
Flash with TWRP.
This package will flash every image in the SU4TL-44 firmware package except for recovery. It should bring your phone to almost 100% stock. The only image that is not included is the recovery image, because that would overwrite TWRP. If you need the stock recovery, revert to stock by following section 0 of my guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/general/guide-how-to-unlock-bootloader-install-t3292684.
Yes, it does include modems.
No, it will not re-lock your bootloader.
No, it won't erase your data, but you should do a factory reset in TWRP after flashing this. You might be able to get away without it if you're coming from a modified stock rom, but if you leave out the factory reset after coming from a CM-based rom, you're gonna have a bad time.
Thanks to @firstEncounter for letting me incorporate his flashable zip into this package.

Will have to download this later. Looked to go back to stock and wait for mm to come out.
Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

Just to be clear, this doesn't flash re-lock the bootloader, right? So it's just the ROM... correct?

schwinn8 said:
Just to be clear, this doesn't flash re-lock the bootloader, right? So it's just the ROM... correct?
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No it won't relock boot loader just installed it you will not be rooted and twrp will ask you if you want to root before reboot if you click no and want to at a later point just go back into boot loader by doing vol down power combo from power off and select open boot loader and when you click to reboot it will ask you again if you want to root then you can just slide to install

schwinn8 said:
Just to be clear, this doesn't flash re-lock the bootloader, right? So it's just the ROM... correct?
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Correct

Can I install viper and su along with this?

MazinDLX said:
Can I install viper and su along with this?
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Sure. Just flash the rom first and the mods second.

TheSt33v said:
Sure. Just flash the rom first and the mods second.
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Ok last night I tried this in this order.
TWRP Backup & ADB Pulled Back-up folder
I then went into TWRP and wiped everything
ADB Pushed the image onto the phone
Installed, wiped dalvik & rebooted into a bootloop of the Motorola Symbol

MazinDLX said:
Ok last night I tried this in this order.
TWRP Backup & ADB Pulled Back-up folder
I then went into TWRP and wiped everything
ADB Pushed the image onto the phone
Installed, wiped dalvik & rebooted into a bootloop of the Motorola Symbol
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I've never tried to install an image via ADB before. Did you mount the image elsewhere and extract the system folder, and then ADB-pushed that? If not, your bootloop is probably because there's just a big, unextracted system.img on your system partition, and not the actual files within it. Why not just flash it with TWRP? When I tested it, I flashed it via TWRP and it worked.
If you really don't want to flash it via TWRP for some reason, you can extract the system.img from the zip and flash it using fastboot (fastboot flash system system.img).
EDIT: Oh wait, I think I understand now. You just used ADB to put the zip on your phone, and then you installed it with TWRP. Got it. Well my next question is why use ADB at all? Why not just plug in your phone while it's booted into TWRP and use the native MTP to transfer files?

Its chromeos ****, and I'm just a fan of cmd line.
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I'm going to try again later, after wiping everything X5 and reinstalling CM12.1.
Its flawless.
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CM12.1 is flawless that is.

The boot.img should probably be included as well for people flashing this from a custom ROM, otherwise they will experience a boot loop.

MazinDLX said:
Its chromeos ****, and I'm just a fan of cmd line.
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I'm going to try again later, after wiping everything X5 and reinstalling CM12.1.
Its flawless.
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CM12.1 is flawless that is.
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This package only flashes /system. CM flashes its own boot.img, which is why this isn't working for you. I'll try to find some time tonight to add in the other images in the stock firmware to this package. Sorry about that.

firstEncounter said:
The boot.img should probably be included as well for people flashing this from a custom ROM, otherwise they will experience a boot loop.
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Great minds think alike. Do you know if boot.img will cover it, or are there other partitions that are flashed by CM that need to be included as well?

TheSt33v said:
Great minds think alike. Do you know if boot.img will cover it, or are there other partitions that are flashed by CM that need to be included as well?
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Nope, just boot and system.
Feel free to include the bootloader/radio package from my thread into your zip if you'd like to make this equivalent to flashing a full stock firmware.

MazinDLX said:
Its chromeos ****, and I'm just a fan of cmd line.
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I'm going to try again later, after wiping everything X5 and reinstalling CM12.1.
Its flawless.
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CM12.1 is flawless that is.
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I updated the link. It now flashes boot.img in addition to system.img. It should work for you now.

firstEncounter said:
Nope, just boot and system.
Feel free to include the bootloader/radio package from my thread into your zip if you'd like to make this equivalent to flashing a full stock firmware.
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I'm not entirely sure how to write a script to flash those in TWRP. For boot and system, it's easy because the devices that they are flashed to match the names used by fastboot. Bootloader and radio seem to be a little different though. When I list the contents of /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name, there is no "motoboot" or "radio," which is what fastboot uses when you flash these. I do see "aboot" and "modem," and I'm pretty sure those are the targets I'm looking for, but I don't want to go flashing things unless I'm 100% sure. Since there's not a huge demand for figuring that out, and boot + system is all people will need in 99% of cases, I'll leave them out. Thanks though!

Downloading, my XDA hasn't been functioning right lately and I don't get get notified of the 3778328 threads I'm subscribed too lol
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Thanks for the quick responses, you got a tip jar link?

MazinDLX said:
Downloading, my XDA hasn't been functioning right lately and I don't get get notified of the 3778328 threads I'm subscribed too lol
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Thanks for the quick responses, you got a tip jar link?
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No, but I appreciate the thought. Donate to this guy instead. He does way more than me and also needs it way more than me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/development/computerfreekunlocked1-0-t3255945

TheSt33v said:
I updated the link. It now flashes boot.img in addition to system.img. It should work for you now.
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Thus really helped for whatever reason after altering the fxz xml so I wouldn't lose data rsd lite said the xml files didn't match. I have done this before with no issues. I couldn't take the recent Ota because somehow the system was modified. I am guessing it was something from sunshine. I never rooted the phone just unlocked so I don't know how anything was modified. This made it so much easier flashed it flashed stock recovery and took ota thanks.

bigv5150 said:
Thus really helped for whatever reason after altering the fxz xml so I wouldn't lose data rsd lite said the xml files didn't match. I have done this before with no issues. I couldn't take the recent Ota because somehow the system was modified. I am guessing it was something from sunshine. I never rooted the phone just unlocked so I don't know how anything was modified. This made it so much easier flashed it flashed stock recovery and took ota thanks.
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Awesome! That's why we do this

Need a backup boot image from a previous nougat roms

Can anybody help me i need a boot image backup from your working nougat rom backup
I need it so that i can use a nougat rom, because rom wont boot without it.
Also i accidentally deleted my nougat backup thats why i need your help.

Do you need a TWRP image or a odin flashable image?
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Was just taking a look on my drive and apparently I don't have any Nouget stuff anymore. There is this though, instead of downloading the entire ROM, if you just flash the bootloader part and not the recovery since you already have it, I think it has the boot image in there https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-j701f-core-nxt-exynos-7870/recovery-t3693009
By the way, if you have the original ROM still, or a stock one on the drive, you can look in the archive and pull out the boot.img and flash it with TWRP just like that. You don't need to get it from someone else's TWRP backup necessarily. It should be do-able with the above linked file as well. You need to select 'image' instead of 'zip' in TWRP when you go to the restore section.

PantsDownJedi said:
Do you need a TWRP image or a odin flashable image?
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Was just taking a look on my drive and apparently I don't have any Nouget stuff anymore. There is this though, instead of downloading the entire ROM, if you just flash the bootloader part and not the recovery since you already have it, I think it has the boot image in there https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-j701f-core-nxt-exynos-7870/recovery-t3693009
By the way, if you have the original ROM still, or a stock one on the drive, you can look in the archive and pull out the boot.img and flash it with TWRP just like that. You don't need to get it from someone else's TWRP backup necessarily. It should be do-able with the above linked file as well. You need to select 'image' instead of 'zip' in TWRP when you go to the restore section.
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Ok thnx I'll try that:laugh: :good: