I am owning a rooted Motorola Xoom running JB 4.2, and planning to flash a new KK 4.4 rom on it. On the thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506997), it suggests that version 2.6.3 of TWRP must be flashed first, I downloaded a zip file already and found out it contains sub folder with a couple of files inside. The img file is named recovery.img. Should I extract the img file first? Last time I flashed TWRP over CWM by use of Recovery Tools app from Play store, but the img is a standalone file.
Any ideas?
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What is the proper method of "returning to stock"?
I see a note in the Hydra Rom installation section that says returning to stock will delete clockwork recovery so I'm ASSUMING "returning to stock" means more than just flash a stock rom because simply flashing a "stock rom" wouldn't affect recovery, would it?
EDIT: So I found my answer, to return to stock you simply need to download the appropriate firmware package from the ASUS website, extract the zip inside of the zip it downloads as, then flash the extracted zip. It returns you to stock ROM and after a reboot, stock recovery.
shrumhead said:
EDIT: So I found my answer, to return to stock you simply need to download the appropriate firmware package from the ASUS website, extract the zip inside of the zip it downloads as, then flash the extracted zip. It returns you to stock ROM and after a reboot, stock recovery.
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Hi everybody,
I'm in the same situation of the author (but for me is CM9).
Like him, i've downloaded asus firmware, extract the zip but i don't understand the step in red bold.
Anyone can explain how to "flash" ?
Thanks in advance (and sorry for my poor english)
if you like to flash stock from recovery. You extract the dl file one time.
You now have a zip file which contains a blob.
Put this zip file to your internal sd.
Goto recovery and choose instal zip, then choose zip, then go to the zipfile and select it, then choose yes and flash it.
After this you are back to stock.
Best doing it with CWM, cause some users like me had problems doing this with twrp
It's currently running cm10.x and using twrp. I've downloaded the firmware file from asus.com. It is a zip file that contains another zip file. Do I just extract the contents and then flash the extracted zip file?
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mrjayviper said:
It's currently running cm10.x and using twrp. I've downloaded the firmware file from asus.com. It is a zip file that contains another zip file. Do I just extract the contents and then flash the extracted zip file?
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yes extract once and flash the second .zip file
JoinTheRealms said:
yes extract once and flash the second .zip file
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I downloaded the latest ROM from the ASUS website. I extracted the zip file once and I then copied the extracted zip file into my tablet. I then open the zip file and extracted the contents using solid explorer. I did this just to verify the zip file can be opened.
After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
Any ideas what I did wrong? thanks
mrjayviper said:
I downloaded the latest ROM from the ASUS website. I extracted the zip file once and I then copied the extracted zip file into my tablet. I then open the zip file and extracted the contents using solid explorer. I did this just to verify the zip file can be opened.
After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
Any ideas what I did wrong? thanks
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Obviously the flash failed since you still have TWRP. You did a little too much at each step. Flashing a complete firmware file wipes/formats everything: system, data, recovery, bootloader. No need to do that prior.
I don't know why your flash failed, but it could be a bad download, could be that the file got messed up when copying to the tablet or when you extracted it.
I would download another copy of the firmware, extract it once on your PC and then transfer that file to your tablet and flash it.
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After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
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That's correct. You wiped your OS, and installed the new firmware to the staging partition. The bootloader will flash it from there to the final partitions after the next reboot (with the blue progress bar).
I have looked for hours for the final stock recovery for Stingray. I have found 4.1.1 and updates, but not what I need to flash my Xoom back to root. Can someone point me to a copy please?
TWRP won't work? Download goomanager and have it download and install it.
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I have looked for hours for the final stock recovery for Stingray. I have found 4.1.1 and updates, but not what I need to flash my Xoom back to root. Can someone point me to a copy please?
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Are you using the stock kernel and stock ROM right now? If you are, just download the JZO54M OTA file from Google. Open the ZIP file, and go under the "recovery" folder. Put recovery-from-boot.p in /system and put install-recovery.sh in /system/etc. Set the permissions on install-recovery.sh to 544 and set ownership to root:root. Reboot and it'll flash stock recovery for you on the next bootup. :good:
i can't flash ''vicksi rom for mt6577 ''''on huawei u8836d.it say that ''Replace boot.img and /system/lib/libfmjni.so from your Base rom 4.2.2, then make .zip again rom and instal via recovery''.where can i get these files?
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i can't flash ''vicksi rom for mt6577 ''''on huawei u8836d.it say that ''Replace boot.img and /system/lib/libfmjni.so from your Base rom 4.2.2, then make .zip again rom and instal via recovery''.where can i get these files?
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You can get these files in the root of your phone in /system/lib/libfmjni.so . Use a root explorer and just copy these file.
As for the boot.img there are methods like these
1) simplest one is to make a backup of your rom and then use 7zip on pc to browse it and find the boot.img
2)use adb to extract it.( never tried this cause the first one always worked for me)
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Hello
Where is the data of sideloaded ROMs and GApps (.zip) are saved so that I can delete them after the recovery flashes them all?
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It depends on the Android Version you have. Can you please specify if you are looking for Recovery Log or Application Data ?
The zip file you flashed would be in the folder you downloaded it to.
Hello
Thank you for your reply.
I'm using Nexus 4 and CM Snapshot M7(4.4.2) with PA Stock GApps (4.4.2).
I switched "Install zip from sideload" on Phillz recovery.
What I want to know is the temporary location of these .zip s so that I can delete them later after booting CM and free some space.
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It would be the same location where you downloaded them from the site. Typically it is /sdcard/download