I have rooted & unlocked the boot loader on my Nexus S with ICS 4.0.4. I had flashed a custom recovery and had flashed the SU. After re-boot, I found that that the custom recovery had gone and the stock recovery was appearing.
Later I installed ROM Manager and clicked on flash ClockWorkMod recovery. It downloaded & installed. Immediately I could boot in to ClockWorkMod recovery and see all the options. Later I wanted to flash a customer Kernel. When I tried the option in ROM manager to boot in to recovery, it goes in to the stock recovery.
What's wrong? How can I flash a Kernel now. Can I flash using the stock recovery? Why is the phone not saving the ClockWorkMod recovery?
try install cwm throught fastboot first (guide here). The cwm version of the guide is outdated, so make sure to download latest version of cwm.
Delete or rename /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and flash CWM one last time. It'll stick. Each boot, stock ROMs reflash the stock recovery unless you delete/rename that file.
Hey guys, thanks for all the previous help i've gotten from here.
Here's the deal, I have a 2.2, rooted and unlocked ATT HOXL. I flashed the SU binary and have root and everything. I'm on the stock 2.2 ROM.
Do you need to install a different ROM before flashing the kernel? If so, then I will wait until this download finished for CleanROM. If not, then continue below..
I flashed the boot.img for ElementalX-3.1 in Fastboot (Fastboot 1.14), rebooted phone like normal, phone came up, kernel is showing in the information page on the phone, it is running at 1.7ghz. That's fine, but then I realized I had never gotten any installer or anything. So, I went into recovery to flash the whole ZIP file. Go to reboot the phone and it hangs on boot after the first HTC logo.
I tried flashing the boot.img, then rebooting to recovery, and flashing the ZIP, then clearing the cache, and then rebooting. Still hangs. I am able to go into recovery and restore a backup if I need to, so at least my phone isn't dead, but I want to do this.
I also tried installing the ZIP, then rebooting into Fastboot and flashing the img, and then booting the phone up normal.
So as it sits now, I have the Kernel installed from ONLY the boot.img, I did not run the ZIP.
Do I need to flash a stock kernel in Fastboot, and then try just flashing the whole thing in TWRP? From what I have read, the steps for flashing the kernel on 1.14 is:
1. Flash boot.img
2. Reboot to recovery
3. Flash ZIP
4. Clear cache
5. Reboot phone as normal
Are those the correct steps? Do I need to flash a stock kernel before trying this again, or can I just start from square one, as if I were using a stock kernel?
Thanks
You can't flash kernels from recovery on the higher hboot. You have to fastboot them or use the flash image GUI app.
Some ROMs/kernels use a script that works around that, but not all do.
I recently updated my us moto g to kitkat through the system update. I have my bootloader unlocked and whenever I try to flash cwm the recovery doesn't stick. I have tried just booting the recovery, but whenever I try that it never boots into the recovery it just starts up normally. If I try just booting into the stock recovery no options come up, instead just an android logo with a red triangle comes up. Was wondering if anyone has a working method to flash cwm on the kitkat ota
Spartonos said:
I recently updated my us moto g to kitkat through the system update. I have my bootloader unlocked and whenever I try to flash cwm the recovery doesn't stick. I have tried just booting the recovery, but whenever I try that it never boots into the recovery it just starts up normally. If I try just booting into the stock recovery no options come up, instead just an android logo with a red triangle comes up. Was wondering if anyone has a working method to flash cwm on the kitkat ota
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Using the official OTA file, there currently is no way to flash a custom recovery. What you will need to do is restore it back to 4.3 and then flash CWM Recovery. Then you can install the zip here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581548
That will get you up to 4.4 KitKat and allow you to keep a custom recovery. If you want root on 4.4, just flash this in CWM after you have flashed the 4.4 zip i posted above: http://download.chainfire.eu/372/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.86.zip
For flashing back to 4.3 follow the steps listed in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
I am currently using bootloader 10.4.4.25 and cannot install the latest cm 11
And I am using CWR 6.0.4
Can anyone advise how can I update the bootloader so I can install cm11?
Thanks
Download the latest Asus firmware, unzip the file once resulting in another zip.
Copy that zip to your tabet and flash it in CWM (that you have everything you care about backed up off the tablet goes without saying, right?). That will get you onto the latest bootloader but also wipe your custom recovery.
Boot into fastboot, flash a CM11 compatible recovery.
Reboot
Boot into recovery, do a factory wipe and then flash the rom.
Thanks for the advise. I am downoading the latest firmware from ASUS website and will install it.
I am not sure how to flash a CM11 compatible recovery from fastboot. Can you give more details please? Shoudl I follow the root instruction from the ROM post and re-root the machine again?
Thanks in advance
berndblb said:
Download the latest Asus firmware, unzip the file once resulting in another zip.
Copy that zip to your tabet and flash it in CWM (that you have everything you care about backed up off the tablet goes without saying, right?). That will get you onto the latest bootloader but also wipe your custom recovery.
Boot into fastboot, flash a CM11 compatible recovery.
Reboot
Boot into recovery, do a factory wipe and then flash the rom.
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Hi guys, I flashed the latest factory image, then flashed the latest TWRP but can access it 1 out of 10 tries.. What am I doing wrong? Is it a faulty replacement phone? Never had this issue with my other nexus 5 (same recovery file but lollipop and not marshmallow) and now I have this problem.. Tried to riflashato the factory image 5 times, boot to recovery without installing but nothing changed.. Thanks in advance!
If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
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If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
a hammerhead wrote this.
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Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..
carlese said:
Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..
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do you finde fix
slavisa037 said:
do you finde fix
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Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..
carlese said:
Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..
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This is not really a fix, since to use Flashify one needs to be rooted already.
What I did to work around this was reflash LMY48M. After reflashing that, fastboot correctly boots/flashes twrp.
I've read that the issue arises when trying to boot and/or flash twrp with MRA56K installed, AND the device is connected to USB.
Ok, i got some of problems here, i tryied to root my Nexus 5 with other Android 6 version, it was the first one launched after development version. Now i have MRA58K version.
Problem 1 : I have no stock recovery, i first rooted original version of Marshmallow with CWM and i soft bricked, so no backup, no factory images. Installed MRA58K and there is no stock recovery, thanks god i can use bootloader. I can install TWRP, but i want to install the old recovery, Tell me how to do it.
Problem 2: Actual version of Marshmallow ask me to install a patch, but when installing i got stuck in TWRP, it cant install it (yes, android was rooted, but i installed twrp before root, and the update were before it.)
Thanks.
You can flash a stock ROM using the flash-all file in a command prompt. This will install stock ROM with stock recovery. Make sure the phone has an unlocked bootloader and you should be fine.
Official OTA updates cannot be installed with a custom recovery.
I tryied 3 times to install OS with flash-all. All the problems start after i installed CWM and try to root the phone, but after that, i used a stock rom image that was different build than actually one.
I`m not sure yet who`s fault is.
Any ideas?
I don't recommend using CWM, only TWRP.
After you flash TWRP always boot into it, and since you're flashing a custom recovery I'm going to assume you don't care about OTA's, swipe to allow system to be mounted. TWRP will automatically patch the system to survive android trying to overwrite it. Reboot into TWRP a second time to be safe. TWRP should stick from now on until you flash over it or restore stock system partition.
Yes, now i have TWRP as recovery, but i want to replace it with stock recovery.
Problem is, when i upload stock recovery and try to boot in recovery mode, i got the green dead android with red triangle.
But after TWRP uploading and booting in recovery mode, TWRP is there..
I really don`t know what`s wrong.
Flash stock recovery, select recovery from the fastboot menu, hold the power button and press volume up button.