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[Q] Back to stock recovery for OTA update.

Hello my dearest XDA friends,
I've got a problem preparing my phone for an OTA update to 4.0.4, then to 4.1(.1?).
My situation is like this:
- My phone is rooted (SuperSU)
- It has what I believe to be TWRP Recovery on it
- I tried to flash stock recovery on it.
But now when I use OTA Rootkeeper and start the update, it gives the red triangle exclamation mark error.. I've tried to flash it using the All-in-One Kit, and also by booting into the bootloader and using "fastboot flash recovery.img", it then says the flash is successful but when I try to boot into Recovery mode it gives the same error..
I'm out of ideas, what to do? I'd rather not lose any files.. thanks!

Oh - I have the S4 version btw

Bump - Sorry for triple post just really want to know.

You need to lock your bootloader

It is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and NOT fastboot flash recovery.img
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Goatshocker said:
You need to lock your bootloader
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But am I even able to flash a recovery to it then? I can flash TWRP or CWM to it just fine, and I can boot in it after I flashed it, just not with the stock Recovery..
luxandroid said:
It is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and NOT fastboot flash recovery.img
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I know, I got that wrong the first time

Don't lock your boot loader. No need to do that.
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Download the update through hitting software update.
Then flash stock recovery. Boot up phone. Hit install update. After finished, boot to bootloader, flash twrp. :thumbup:
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tominozh said:
Don't lock your boot loader. No need to do that.
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Download the update through hitting software update.
Then flash stock recovery. Boot up phone. Hit install update. After finished, boot to bootloader, flash twrp. :thumbup:
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Yep no need for locking the bootloader for an OTA.

tominozh said:
Don't lock your boot loader. No need to do that.
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Download the update through hitting software update.
Then flash stock recovery. Boot up phone. Hit install update. After finished, boot to bootloader, flash twrp. :thumbup:
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I've tried this, but when I start the update I get the red triangle error again.. I tried it by locking the bootloader, didn't work, then unlocked it again, so obviously everything was wiped, I've installed ParanoidAndroid now, if I don't like it I'll just install a custom ROM with Sense+.
Thanks for the help guys!

Yes you got red triangle because you need stock recovery to install official updates.
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tominozh said:
Yes you got red triangle because you need stock recovery to install official updates.
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Yes, but when I flash stock recovery, then boot into recovery I get the green circle-arrow update thingy, then the red triangle, why is that?

You'll need to boot into android, with the stock bootloader installed, and the update will boot bootloader and install.
You'll get a prompt telling you what to do.

jvb76 said:
You'll need to boot into android, with the stock bootloader installed, and the update will boot bootloader and install.
You'll get a prompt telling you what to do.
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So, re-lock bootloader, flash stock recovery, update OTA?

Don't do relock. Boot up your phone. Go to setting---> about phone sw update. Hit update now and wait.
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Man.. I'm having the same issue. Was rooted with TWRP, flashed ZenRom fine (with intentions of getting the OTA to JB), booted fine. Then had to switch computers cuz windows 8 sucks. Flashed stock recovery img, successful, now device won't boot past the green circle, then red triangle.
Any suggestions? I supposed I'll try flashing another recovery and see what progress I can make there.

I posted this instruction like 3 times in the xda forum in one week...
if you follow this step by step correctly there should be NO ! issues by reverting to stock JB
take a look here, or take two looks or more or whatever
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37942416&postcount=2
why using rootkeeper? follow this instructions and root again.
I used this method 3 times on windows 8 with latest HTC drivers, original HTC data cable, and TWRP 2.4.1.0.
no issues

[Q] Tried rooting and stuck on htc screen with red text

Hi, I'm still rather new to this and I was trying to root my HTC one sv because I had my mopho rooted and was using some apps that I really liked.
I went and used this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113671 and did all the necessary steps.... When I went to start up my phone is gets stuck on the screen with htc's brand name and below it in red text it says "this build is for development purposes only do not distridute outside of htc without htc's written permission. failure to comply may lead to legal action".
when it first did this i thought it would just take awhile to load, i waited for 30 minutes.
I've tried many things:
clearing all caches
redoing the rooting process in the above url
redownloading the files, double checking everything
factory reset
I've even research the other htc one models and problems through google. I found another superuser with busy box in it for the htc one sv and tried it as well
the service I'm on is cricket and I can still use fastboot and my recovery which is twrp2.6

@deadruin1991
When you flashed TWRP on to your device, what command did you use?
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Root isn't your problem right now. You flashed something incorrectly. And it sounds like you flashed a custom recovery into your boot partition.
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That red text shows up when you replace a boot partition or recovery partition with a custom img. Which is why I would like to know what command you use. The tutorial you went to will work assuming no typo was made.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341016
Go to this thread. Download from link in first post. Extract its content. Look for a file that has the word boot in it. Insure it is named boot.img. Change it to boot.img if it has other extension names to it. Flash that boot img in fastboot.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Modding.MyMind said:
@deadruin1991
When you flashed TWRP on to your device, what command did you use?
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Root isn't your problem right now. You flashed something incorrectly. And it sounds like you flashed a custom recovery into your boot partition.
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That red text shows up when you replace a boot partition or recovery partition with a custom img. Which is why I would like to know what command you use. The tutorial you went to will work assuming no typo was made.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341016
Go to this thread. Download from link in first post. Extract its content. Look for a file that has the word boot in it. Insure it is named boot.img. Change it to boot.img if it has other extension names to it. Flash that boot img in fastboot.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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First off thank you so much ^^ my phone booted after I did that it booted perfectly but I don't know if its rooted. I have to finish up the setup up, what I did was this
Code:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP2.6-92113.img
that was the last step I had did was this and re-install the superuser.zip through the recovery. I really don't know what I did to cause it to go to the boot system so thank you. If you could would you explain how I did that?

@deadruin1991
You accidently flashed your custom recovery in your boot partition. When it was suppose to be flashed to your recovery partition. That is why your android os wasn't loading because the boot partition was jacked up. The boot and recovery partitions are different sizes so there was a major conflict lol.
The only way to have done that was by typing
***DO NOT DO THIS***
fastboot flash boot customrecovery.img
When it should have been:
fastboot flash recovery customrecovery.img
Anyways, I have created a flash zip with the latest SuperSU and busybox. Just click link below. It will take you to my thread. Click on link in the OP and download SuperSU 1.75. Place it on the root of your internal sd card and boot in to your custom recovery.
Then flash it. And you will be good to go. If you are already rooted then congrats .
Click Here
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Please help only twrp booting

Hello all
Please, Please help, none of the guides have worked, Every guide is just a little different from my situation and nothing works
I have a att inspire.
S-on
boot unlocked
hboot 2.0.0
shipped with 2.2
I installed ran ace tool to unlock hboot. clockwork 5.8.0.0. Backed up. verified back up. Tried installing a few roms. No Success.
Then found a thread that referred to CWM needing flash boot.img, tried that, no luck. then I realized that I have flash a boot.img from a different rom. So I install TWRP 2.6.x which is supposed to flash boot.img automatically. So I went ahead and tried a few other rom installs, DR.Ni, Aosp, carbon, fallen Each rom preceded by a full wipe. No luck. So I verified back up again and "restore" .....no success. The process completed successfully, but every time I "reboot" it prompts for SU install, I have tried both accepting and declining this step neither work...Every reboot the HTC white screen green letters comes up, then blacks out, the HTC screen again, then TWRP loads.

Dude..your boot loader is locked and ur s on. Ur gonna screw up your device
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Clockwork mod is best for this device
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Plug it in to your PC and open cmd and type adb devices. Let's see if PC recognizes the phone
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chrisb906 said:
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Plug it in to your PC and open cmd and type adb devices. Let's see if PC recognizes the phone
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It was recognizing it this morning, and not not. but I haven't done anything to it between then and now.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why nothing worked.... Everything I read said that I only need s-off to flash radio.
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I can execute adb device while twrp is loaded (adb devices)
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
HT12FT210685 recovery
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(adb reboot bootloader)
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
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fastboot screen (adb devices)
List of devices
c:\doc's
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Okay,
Even though win xp does not load driver correctly, I was able to flash recovery to CWM 5.8.1.3 successfully. basically opened bootloader and @ CMD fastboot flash CWM.img then was waiting for device..... selected fastboot from the menu and bam...it flashed. this occured even thought there was a xp windows ....show me where the drivers are.
restore backup "successful" reboot gives white screen HTC in green letters then to black screen, then back white with HTC and then CWM loads.
So if I can flash what do I need to do and if there are files I need please, I hope for the love of all that is holy someone can provide a working link.
got an error at the bottom of screen in CWM
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e: unknown volume for path /sc-ext
fixing permissions
done!
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wiped cache and reboot...... No go. same boot reboot, then CWM.
Tried wipe/factory reset in CWM response "completed" No Go! same boot reboot then CWM
When phone is off and power cable is connected the green battery appears, then a few moments later CWM loads. Weird!

I wanna refer u to gizmoe..he can help ya. I had this happen to me, but all I did was reflash cwm and it worked. Yes.odd issue. Find gizmoe..he most definitely can help
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Is your boot loader unlocked?
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When all else fails,running a ruu can help u restore your device. I think u need to be s off ,unlocked bootloader and supercid..
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I get the unknown volume path too..that's nothing to worry about your best bet is to contact gizmoe. He rocks at this device.
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This guy..give him a shout..and plz keep me posted. Thanks and good luck
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458066
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Wait, you said you are unlocked and then ran the "ace tool." How? It's unsupported, and the files it needs are no longer there. What does your bootloader say right now? And do you want to flash a radio or a ROM?
If you want to flash a radio (why?), you do need S-Off. If you just want to flash ROMs, unlocked S-On is fine. Each time, you'd need go flash the ROM zip from recovery on your phone, then extract and flash the boot.img from the ROM zip in fastboot from your computer.
chrisb906 said:
When all else fails,running a ruu can help u restore your device. I think u need to be s off ,unlocked bootloader and supercid..
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And you definitely don't need S-Off and actually can't be unlocked to run a RUU. If you want to run a RUU you'd need go relock.

VERY top of screen says "unlocked"b in magenta.
thn blow that s-on
I don't care about radio, just wanted to try out some different roms.
Every freaking rom I fashed would just sit at HTC white screen. I tried like 6 different roms. Not one would work after a completed flash with either CWM of Twrp, that is why fastboot flash boot boot.img, then the problems began I think.

Youssefa said:
VERY top of screen says "unlocked"b in magenta.
thn blow that s-on
I don't care about radio, just wanted to try out some different roms.
Every freaking rom I fashed would just sit at HTC white screen. I tried like 6 different roms. Not one would work after a completed flash with either CWM of Twrp, that is why fastboot flash boot boot.img, then the problems began I think.
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Yes, you need to fastboot flash the boot.img each time. Extract the boot.img from the ROM zip, then flash it from fastboot.

maybe this is the key element I am missing.
bananagranola said:
Yes, you need to fastboot flash the boot.img each time. Extract the boot.img from the ROM zip, then flash it from fastboot.
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Okay,
Then when you do a restore from backup in CWM do I need to flash a boot.img. Is there a boot.img in the backup zip? would I need to extract it? or would "restore" do that.
anyone have a known clean stock rom and boot image. or update.zip the os version I was at originally 2.3.5

I believe restoration of backup doesn't require flashing the boot.img. But if it doesn't boot on restoration, try reflashing the boot.img.

Did he get it to work?
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I did a adv restore and selected restore boot, that did not work. there was a boot.img in root of sd card adb pull ang then flashed....no go.
Unfortunately I cannot locate the path for the CWM backup I made prior to all this shYte.,
So I am going to try Dr. NO 2.3.7 GB and then fastboot flash D_boot.img.
.

Don't. Dr. No is no good
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Ur gonna mess your phone up dude by adv restore. Pm me when ur online
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Well I got Dr. No to work....
Install zip...then flash boot.img
So at least it isn't completely hosed...
I cannot get original backup to work...
Now that I have the process down I think I will be able to find some rom that I can see easily.
The whole reason I started this was to find a rom with a little bigger font or dark background to menus etc, being that I am visually impaired.
Dr No has white back grounds, very hard to see. I tried aosp but that one jjust sits at boot animation.
Anyone have link to best optimized stock'ish rom
Thank you ALL

Dude. Pm me
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Check your inbox
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Ugh. I can't help ya u don't respond. Lol
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Hey banana..is there an exploit to still s off this device?
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chrisb906 said:
Hey banana..is there an exploit to still s off this device?
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I PMed you, but I'm reposting my reply here in case others see your question and want an answer.
The original AAHK's author wrote a guide for manually doing what AAHK used to do. That's at http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=411. There's also AAHK2, which I've seen but never used. That's at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2367322.

4.4.4 - 21.11.21 recovery

Does anyone have the recovery for this version? I tries flashing my original recovery that I've used in the past, but it won't flash. I get a boot loop after trying to flash with mfastboot.

you can use an app from the play store called rashr it flashes recovery images. i might have the stock recovery somewhere... but not with me right now

here is the recovery.img
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7UkJ98hza7mN01fSWFWZHdEcEU/edit?usp=docslist_api
hope it helps you.

Lordomn said:
you can use an app from the play store called rashr it flashes recovery images. i might have the stock recovery somewhere... but not with me right now
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My phone is unlocked but I'm still using Safestrap. Do I need to flash stock before flashing TWRP or can I flash TWRP using Safestrap?
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no need to flash stock. but you can't flash twrp with safestrap.
i'm using twrp 2.8.1.0 or something like that.
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you have to fastboot it or use the app i mentioned before

Lordomn said:
no need to flash stock. but you can't flash twrp with safestrap.
i'm using twrp 2.8.1.0 or something like that.
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you have to fastboot it or use the app i mentioned before
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Thank you Lordomn!
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How to update when you have CWM istalled?

I have unlocked the bootloader on my MT7-L09 and the phone is rooted. I recently downgraded the firmware to C00B137SP03 using the method of placing the update.app in the dload folder on the SD card. Ever since then I cannot get any other update to install using this method as once the phone reboots it goes straight to CWM. I have tried using various *.img files but they simply give ‘error 7’ messages. The phone at the moment tells me it has a new version available which is C00B145, but again I cannot install it as it simply reboots to CWM recovery.
Any ideas please?

manic_minor said:
I have unlocked the bootloader on my MT7-L09 and the phone is rooted. I recently downgraded the firmware to C00B137SP03 using the method of placing the update.app in the dload folder on the SD card. Ever since then I cannot get any other update to install using this method as once the phone reboots it goes straight to CWM. I have tried using various *.img files but they simply give ‘error 7’ messages. The phone at the moment tells me it has a new version available which is C00B145, but again I cannot install it as it simply reboots to CWM recovery.
Any ideas please?
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You always need the stock bootloader to flash a stock ROM. See several threads pertaining to this issue in the forum.

vonotny said:
You always need the stock bootloader to flash a stock ROM. See several threads pertaining to this issue in the forum.
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Not bootloader, but recovery. Stock recovery.

tuddu said:
Not bootloader, but recovery. Stock recovery.
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Of course

if your phone unlocked you can easily switch CWm or stock
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adb reboot bootloader command
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then post with adb stock rom
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