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Was running Clean Rom 4.1 & decided to try a new rom. Flashed Xi40, after install & upon reboot, phone got stuck in boot screen (was black). Went into recovery & tried to restore from a nanadroid back up & now im getting a MD5 Mismatch. Tried several times & the same thing.
When I try to just reboot the phone normally it gets stuck on the white htc splash screen & thats as far as it goes. Then tried to just RUU & am getting a USB connection error. Checked my pc for connnected devices & my phone isnt showing up. Yes I have all the drivers, never had an issue connecting my phone to pc before now. I can get into recovery but thats about it. Cant nandroid or ruu. Im running out of ideas & phone is usless right now, this sucks any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

doin-it said:
Was running Clean Rom 4.1 & decided to try a new rom. Flashed Xi40, after install & upon reboot, phone got stuck in boot screen (was black). Went into recovery & tried to restore from a nanadroid back up & now im getting a MD5 Mismatch. Tried several times & the same thing.
When I try to just reboot the phone normally it gets stuck on the white htc splash screen & thats as far as it goes. Then tried to just RUU & am getting a USB connection error. Checked my pc for connnected devices & my phone isnt showing up. Yes I have all the drivers, never had an issue connecting my phone to pc before now. I can get into recovery but thats about it. Cant nandroid or ruu. Im running out of ideas & phone is usless right now, this sucks any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Did you try a factory wipe then reflashing?

gunnyman said:
Did you try a factory wipe then reflashing?
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Yes a few times, rom installs but upon reboot screen just goes balck & never boots any further.

doin-it said:
Was running Clean Rom 4.1 & decided to try a new rom. Flashed Xi40, after install & upon reboot, phone got stuck in boot screen (was black). Went into recovery & tried to restore from a nanadroid back up & now im getting a MD5 Mismatch. Tried several times & the same thing.
When I try to just reboot the phone normally it gets stuck on the white htc splash screen & thats as far as it goes. Then tried to just RUU & am getting a USB connection error. Checked my pc for connnected devices & my phone isnt showing up. Yes I have all the drivers, never had an issue connecting my phone to pc before now. I can get into recovery but thats about it. Cant nandroid or ruu. Im running out of ideas & phone is usless right now, this sucks any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Boot into the bootloader, enter fastboot mode, and then run the RUU.

can you still access recovery? I wouldnt think there's a need to ruu if you still can get into it. wipe cache, dalvik, and do factory reset and try flashing a different rom perhaps. If you want to ruu then you'll need the drivers installed and be in fastboot on the bootloader. You may need to relock the bootloader as well in fastboot, but by doing that then your only option will be to ruu.

rohan32 said:
Boot into the bootloader, enter fastboot mode, and then run the RUU.
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Tried this the RUU starting to work was happy for a minute but then half way through it failed ! ugg this isn't looking good.

doin-it said:
Tried this the RUU starting to work was happy for a minute but then half way through it failed ! ugg this isn't looking good.
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did you relock the bootloader? you need to do that before running ruu.

rohan32 said:
Boot into the bootloader, enter fastboot mode, and then run the RUU.
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xaey said:
did you relock the bootloader? you need to do that before running ruu.
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Ahh that was it had to relock then the ruu worked. Thanks alot was starting to sweat for a minute lol At least i have a working phone again. Now to do everything else all over...

[Q] LG p505 stuck at LG screen....

and nothing I do get's it to go away. I have spent the better part of 8 hours screwing around with it and can't figure it out. Here is what I know:
If you just try and turn on the phone sans power cord, it won't turn on. If you plug it it, it displays the LG screen and stops. If you hold down the power, down, home keys, then power cable, it will boot into fastboot and take fastboot commands. I have followed the procedure to flash a recovery image listed here in the forums to no avail. It will erase the recovery, flash it, but will not reboot on the reboot command. When I disconnect the data cable and reconnect, it will go right back to the LG screen. I have tried KDZ and downloaded the original rom via the Original LG Firmware tool. It will communicate with the phone if I put the phone in emergency mode via the simultaneous back and volume down button while connecting the power cable. KDZ will start to install the rom but after some time, the phone spontaneously reboots and then hangs at the LG screen. Upon reboot back into emergency, the KDZ routine finishes and says it's finished but when I reboot it goes right back to the LG screen. I have tried the kdz tool in diag and emergency modes while shaking the phone. I have tried the software update tool but it says it cant communicate properly with the phone. I don't know what else to try.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a bunch!

After you succesfully flashed the recovery using fastboot, do you try to boot into recovery manually?
If that doesn't works you could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723

gabo_lope said:
After you succesfully flashed the recovery using fastboot, do you try to boot into recovery manually?
If that doesn't works you could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723
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By recovery do you mean clockworkmod? If so, the phone is stock, unrooted so no, if not, what do you mean and how do I do that?
Thanks a bunch!
PS, If I follow the method I found for entering recovery it goes right back to fastboot.
PS Part two, the app you link did the same thing as I did manually and did not help.... thanks anyway...
J

Check if this thread helps...
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723
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jackler1 said:
By recovery do you mean clockworkmod? If so, the phone is stock, unrooted so .......
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Hey jackler1, it will not allow you to install any custom recovery if your phone is still not rooted as you mentioned.
Hence using the Home+Vol-+power combo takes you to the fast boot screen.
1st thing you need to do is to root the phone, for it to allow installation of a custom recovery.
Many root tools are available for the P500 - eg Gingerbreak, Super one click.
try this for rooting - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832485

pmvyas said:
Hey jackler1, it will not allow you to install any custom recovery if your phone is still not rooted as you mentioned.
Hence using the Home+Vol-+power combo takes you to the fast boot screen.
1st thing you need to do is to root the phone, for it to allow installation of a custom recovery.
Many root tools are available for the P500 - eg Gingerbreak, Super one click.
try this for rooting - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832485
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Hey,
I am unable to get into any other mode but fastboot or emercency mode so I have no idea how to root the thing. The thread you mention is of no help, thanks anyway and will take suggestions if you have them

DpAk007 said:
Check if this thread helps...
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723
ROM - Paranoid Android By ByteCode.
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I had already attempted this method as well to no avail, thanks anyway!

[Q] RAZR HD XT 925 Boots into recovery by default

So, today I trade my HTC One for a RAZR XT925, $350, and a water proof 32GB Sandisk ultra sd card on Kijiji. I thought it was kinda weird to get all of this stuff, but it seemed fine at the time. Afterwards however, I found out that every time you turn off or reboot the phone, it tried to go into recovery mode or something with the android guy and a bar at the bottom in a loop and always factory reset the phone, so no matter what, every time you turned it off, it'd reset it. After hours and hours of work, I have the bootloader unlocked, rooted, CWM installed, and Cynogenmod also installed. It no longer factory resets it (I think, but i sent a text to a random number and when I rebooted it was still there), however, everytime i power off and power on, it goes into recovery mode. This is very annoying and will make it very hard to sell again, but if I can fix this last thing, I'll have a solid phone until the waterproof S4 comes out as well as having made like $100.
So basically, I need to know what to do to make it boot into the rom by default and not the recovery. Also, I searched it up and someone else had a problem where they kept booting into AP fastboot mode I think, I tried that line, it said successful, but it didnt work. For me, it's booting into the recovery by default.

Does it boot into stock recovery?
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jmcdonald58 said:
Does it boot into stock recovery?
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I root it, unlocked the boot loader, flashed cwm recovery, and installed CyanogenMod. Now it boots into cwm recovery by default and if I click reboot system now, it just boots back into cwm. Only way to get to the system is to go to the boot menu by pressing all three buttons and selecting boot normally.
Stock recovery is gone. Cwm asked to replace it so that the phone doesn't reinstall it on reboot. Cwm doesn't, but when the phone booted it stock recovery, it used to get wiped.

roguezz said:
I root it, unlocked the boot loader, flashed cwm recovery, and installed CyanogenMod. Now it boots into cwm recovery by default and if I click reboot system now, it just boots back into cwm. Only way to get to the system is to go to the boot menu by pressing all three buttons and selecting boot normally.
Stock recovery is gone. Cwm asked to replace it so that the phone doesn't reinstall it on reboot. Cwm doesn't, but when the phone booted it stock recovery, it used to get wiped.
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Strange If it was me I would try a toolkit and redo the whole process something went wrong somewhere wish I could help Good Luck

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jmcdonald58 said:
Strange If it was me I would try a toolkit and redo the whole process something went wrong somewhere wish I could help Good Luck
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No the problem was in stock. When I got it it wasn't rooted or anything, rooting helped fix the problem partially by not making it wipe every time I boot it. Now the only problem is that whenever I boot it up after a shut down or restart, it boots into recovery mode instead of the ROM.

roguezz said:
No the problem was in stock. When I got it it wasn't rooted or anything, rooting helped fix the problem partially by not making it wipe every time I boot it. Now the only problem is that whenever I boot it up after a shut down or restart, it boots into recovery mode instead of the ROM.
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did you ever find a solution for this? I just bought a used phone and am facing the same problem - I can't even boot into recovery, it will just start bootlooping again. Only thing that seems to be working is fastbood mode. (or regular reboot, but then everything is wiped every time)

coldtech said:
did you ever find a solution for this? I just bought a used phone and am facing the same problem - I can't even boot into recovery, it will just start bootlooping again. Only thing that seems to be working is fastbood mode. (or regular reboot, but then everything is wiped every time)
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Fastboot the stock ROM. That should return the phone to it's bone stock condition.
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mentose457 said:
Fastboot the stock ROM. That should return the phone to it's bone stock condition.
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trying right now. RSDLite is giving me an "unknown fastboot command getvar" error...still trying to figure out why.

coldtech said:
trying right now. RSDLite is giving me an "unknown fastboot command getvar" error...still trying to figure out why.
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I wouldnt mess with RSDLite. Google gave us fastboot for a reason.

mentose457 said:
I wouldnt mess with RSDLite. Google gave us fastboot for a reason.
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is there an alternative to flash the stock ROM on a locked device?

coldtech said:
is there an alternative to flash the stock ROM on a locked device?
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Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.

mentose457 said:
Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.
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Thanks for the hint, will give it a try. RSDLite just completed flashing, but the odd behaviour of the phone is still the same. Guess I might just have a broken phone... :/

mentose457 said:
Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.
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After a few hours, I (somehow) ended up being able to enter recovery. On the downside though, now it always goes automatically into fastboot, because everything seems to be screwed up. I even got CWM installed though (unlocked the device because I didn't know what else to do).
Now every time it goes into fastboot, the reason given is: "sticky bit fastboot"
Any ideas left?
Oh btw, I have a german phone, in case that matters somehow. I can't flash in any fastboot way anymore, now I always get some message about a downgraded version. Of course details can be supplied if needed.
edit: was now able to flash CM, no idea what I did so that it didn't give me errors anymore. It still goes into fastboot by default on every reboot though, I always need to select "reboot device" manually every time.

coldtech said:
After a few hours, I (somehow) ended up being able to enter recovery. On the downside though, now it always goes automatically into fastboot, because everything seems to be screwed up. I even got CWM installed though (unlocked the device because I didn't know what else to do).
Now every time it goes into fastboot, the reason given is: "sticky bit fastboot"
Any ideas left?
Oh btw, I have a german phone, in case that matters somehow. I can't flash in any fastboot way anymore, now I always get some message about a downgraded version. Of course details can be supplied if needed.
edit: was now able to flash CM, no idea what I did so that it didn't give me errors anymore. It still goes into fastboot by default on every reboot though, I always need to select "reboot device" manually every time.
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Sounds like you are able to use the phone. That’s good.
The error is saying it can’t downgrade the trust zone (tz) right? That is normal for a phone with an unlocked bootloader. You can simply ignore that.
The sticky bit fastboot problem looks like it can be fixed by issuing this command while in fastboot mode: fastboot oem fb_mode_clear

mentose457 said:
Sounds like you are able to use the phone. That’s good.
The error is saying it can’t downgrade the trust zone (tz) right? That is normal for a phone with an unlocked bootloader. You can simply ignore that.
The sticky bit fastboot problem looks like it can be fixed by issuing this command while in fastboot mode: fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
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the fb_mode_clear was the culprit, thanks a lot!
and the error says: "downgraded security version. update gpt_main version failed. preflash validation failed for GPT" - which is still keeping me from flashing stuff via fastboot.
since I can't fastboot flash at the moment: do you happen to know where I can get the german modem image so that I can flash it using CWM? I think through all the flashing and trying I have a corrupt or wrong modem file (probably the US version). I can not log into the carrier network right now. it asks me for my SIM PIN and unlocks the SIM, but that's it. so I can't make phone calls or anything right now.

[Q] [Help] Phone only boots to TWRP

having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16

mangler1055 said:
having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16
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I had a similar problem when I first S-Off'd and rooted my M8 with the firewater method, could only get the phone to boot into recovery. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708628 and look for the section of the first post for -- *Unsecured Kernel --, try flashing that, it finally let me boot to the ROM and return to normal functionality.

Zhamel said:
I had a similar problem when I first S-Off'd and rooted my M8 with the firewater method, could only get the phone to boot into recovery. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708628 and look for the section of the first post for -- *Unsecured Kernel --, try flashing that, it finally let me boot to the ROM and return to normal functionality.
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you flashed it to the wrong partition..if so all you need to do is fastboot flash twrp an then reboot your recovery it will be twrp in the right place. Just restore a backup you made an you will be all set...if you have no backup..smh then load a ROM to your SD card via PC then do as above flash ROM of SD card an that will fix your issue.
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mangler1055 said:
having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16
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Read my above post. I meant to quote you.
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Power & vol down no longer loads bootloader after flashing

Hello,
I am getting myself deeper into trouble working on this.
First I will explain what I did, I wanted marshmallow and read TWRP needs to be updated to load it and also that that I cannot restore from older backup, so I figured I update TWRP first then do a backup.
I did the TWRP update via app, verified the partition and when done and rebooted to recovery, TWRP was still v2.7 and the phone won't boot, the OS was gone.
so then I figured I flash Dottat M8firmwareandRecovery to get the new TWRP and backed up the Data partition.
then found out that I can't use that Data partition with a different OS. So I figured I flash KitKat back on.
did that, now I can not get back into recovery, holding the Vol down with power will not go to HBOOT.
now KitKat loads, had root, but the dang thing auto updated to 4.4.3 and now lost root. I thought it can't auto update with s-off
so it as asking for another update now and I turned it off. Waiting for someone to help , I keep making it worse.
my phone was unlocked and s-off, I hope it still is, can anything undo that?
Please help

Fireflynj said:
Hello,
I am getting myself deeper into trouble working on this.
First I will explain what I did, I wanted marshmallow and read TWRP needs to be updated to load it and also that that I cannot restore from older backup, so I figured I update TWRP first then do a backup.
I did the TWRP update via app, verified the partition and when done and rebooted to recovery, TWRP was still v2.7 and the phone won't boot, the OS was gone.
so then I figured I flash Dottat M8firmwareandRecovery to get the new TWRP and backed up the Data partition.
then found out that I can't use that Data partition with a different OS. So I figured I flash KitKat back on.
did that, now I can not get back into recovery, holding the Vol down with power will not go to HBOOT.
now KitKat loads, had root, but the dang thing auto updated to 4.4.3 and now lost root. I thought it can't auto update with s-off
so it as asking for another update now and I turned it off. Waiting for someone to help , I keep making it worse.
my phone was unlocked and s-off, I hope it still is, can anything undo that?
Please help
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I've personally never seen a device go back to S-ON without the user doing it with the cmd.
That isn't to say it's never happened before.
I'd assume you are still S-OFF.
What happens when you flash a ROM that has a power menu and you select to reboot to recovery or bootloader?
Or you can root and download an app that works the same way. curious what it does.
Also how long are you holding the buttons?
If everything else is working you should be able to get to hboot/recovery - but I honestly don't know.
My suggestion?
Get a more recent RUU .exe and run it on your PC and see what happens.
here is the link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347812372

andybones said:
I've personally never seen a device go back to S-ON without the user doing it with the cmd.
That isn't to say it's never happened before.
I'd assume you are still S-OFF.
What happens when you flash a ROM that has a power menu and you select to reboot to recovery or bootloader?
Or you can root and download an app that works the same way. curious what it does.
Also how long are you holding the buttons?
If everything else is working you should be able to get to hboot/recovery - but I honestly don't know.
My suggestion?
Get a more recent RUU .exe and run it on your PC and see what happens.
here is the link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347812372
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I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.

Fireflynj said:
I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.
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Download the .exe and click open. Follow directions on the screen. It doesn't get easier, trust me you'll be fine. Wouldn't steer you wrong.

Fireflynj said:
I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.
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The only time I've seen a phone be a pita when trying to enter boot loader is when it's connected to USB.
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dottat said:
The only time I've seen a phone be a pita when trying to enter boot loader is when it's connected to USB.
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My Galaxy Tab2 did that. I tried the M8 again today with USB unplugged, did not get boot loader menu, but then while it was on, I did a Vol up and power (forced shutdown) then while still holding the power button switched to Vol down right when the screen blanked, then I got the boot loader! :victory:

Fireflynj said:
My Galaxy Tab2 did that. I tried the M8 again today with USB unplugged, did not get boot loader menu, but then while it was on, I did a Vol up and power (forced shutdown) then while still holding the power button switched to Vol down right when the screen blanked, then I got the boot loader! :victory:
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and to correct myself.. one other condition. The older version of software included a "fastboot" option in settings->power that was more like a hibernate feature. That feature when enabled would prevent you from getting into bootloader.

dottat said:
and to correct myself.. one other condition. The older version of software included a "fastboot" option in settings->power that was more like a hibernate feature. That feature when enabled would prevent you from getting into bootloader.
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That makes sense, 'fastboot' was on, its now off.
The bootloader works, KitKat OS is working, but not recovery. I get 'Entering Recovery . . .' on white htc screen and stuck there.
I used adb command prompt to flash recovery with fastboot then I tried HTC_fastboot and different versions of TWRP.
tried flashing with Flashify , no errors, it just doesn't load. I think something else is broke.
dottat, do you have an image of RUU rooted Kitkat with TWRP?
Thank you for the help.

Fireflynj said:
That makes sense, 'fastboot' was on, its now off.
The bootloader works, KitKat OS is working, but not recovery. I get 'Entering Recovery . . .' on white htc screen and stuck there.
I used adb command prompt to flash recovery with fastboot then I tried HTC_fastboot and different versions of TWRP.
tried flashing with Flashify , no errors, it just doesn't load. I think something else is broke.
dottat, do you have an image of RUU rooted Kitkat with TWRP?
Thank you for the help.
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Your firmware is too old. That's why the newer recovery won't work. Do you want to update everything first and then RE-root?
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dottat said:
Your firmware is too old. That's why the newer recovery won't work. Do you want to update everything first and then RE-root?
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Yup , that was it, the older one worked.
So dumped the idea of getting KitKat back and I flashed the Marshmallow custom s-off RUU with TWRP that you provided. so far good now I just need to re-root it.
Thank you