Can anyone tell me how I flash a recovery to the device from a zip file? Going into CWM and flashing the TWRP recovery initially seems to work, but if I then interrupt the reboot and go straight into recovery, I still see CWM, not TWRP. I'm stuck on the CWM recovery and need TWRP to try to install the Kitkat upgrade.
Should I unzip the components first and then flash the image using fastboot, or is there another way? I'm wary of fastboot as I've already (temporarily) "bricked" the Xoom by flashing a zip instead of an image that way. None of the instructions I've read has much advice on getting round installation problems.
I'm guessing the persistent CWM was caused by my selecting (at an earlier stage) the CWM option to fix the problem of the stock recovery being reinstated at each reboot. Can this be undone? Although I've installed Xoom-Universal-Root, apps that require root access - including GooManager - also fail with an access error. It's hard to tell whether the device is now rooted or not, so if there's any method of getting further without root access, that would be great.
====================
Edit: it looks as if the instructions I saw online, which mentioned two separate TWRP recoveries, were incorrect. To get Android Kitkat 4.4 onto my Xoom I didn't need the initial TWRP recovery, only the BigPart version. Once I skipped to the BigPart recovery, the problem described above did not recur.
Related
After installing openscript recovery TWRP 2.2.1 via goo manager and then realize the recovery could not mount system or install any zip. I then try to revert back to team rogue xm recovery 1.5.0 with sucess by installing the recovery zip in TWRP (although some error due to system unable to mount). Got pretty happy that I'm able to revert back to rogue recovery but now faces this STUCK in automatic rebooting to recovery everytime I've try to reboot. I wipes everything completed 3x and install new rom but can't ever boot pass the recovery. I have yet to revert back to stock via softbrick method and figure I should ask for help first before unroot and unlock to start from scratch. below is an image of when ever I booted my xoom. Thanks for any help.
Oh, I've search first but noon seem to have the same problem as mine.
I've searched and found a few different solutions for each of my problems. However, nothing has resolved the issue.
I tried to flash CM 11.0 to my Galaxy Tab 2 (GT-P3110) and now I can't get anywhere but my CWM Recovery screen.
When I try to install the ROM, I get a "Status 7" error. I've attempted the steps found here but they have not worked.
So, I decided to just recovery what I had before - easy enough. But then when I attempt to recover, I get an error of "MD5 Mismatch".
I've looked up ways to resolve this issue, but I can't complete the steps for 2 reasons. Firstly, I can't get to my File Explorer because my tablet won't completely boot. Secondly, my laptop has stopped recognizing my tablet for some reason. So, I'm unable to edit the file from there.
Lastly, when I just try to reboot system, I get an error explaining that I "may" have lost root access. If I select to "fix" this, it does nothing - just reboots back to recovery. If I choose no, same thing.
I've cleared dalvik, cleared cache partition, cleared data/factory reset, and formatted system - nothing makes a difference.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.
IS there kitkat update for tab 2. Please inform about That}.
chandru andriod said:
IS there kitkat update for tab 2. Please inform about That}.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe so, yes.
@ohhello update your recovery. your recovery needs to be up-to-date to flash KitKat Roms. Link in my signature, all my latest recoverys can handle KitKat-Roms.
Android-Andi said:
@ohhello update your recovery. your recovery needs to be up-to-date to flash KitKat Roms. Link in my signature, all my latest recoverys can handle KitKat-Roms.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay - easy enough.
If I'm unable to get to ROM Manager, is there a way to update my Recovery within Recovery Mode?
I've zipped the .img file for the update.
Should I just install the zip from Recovery Mode?
THANKS!
download a flashable zip for your device from my thread and flash it in recovery. after that reboot the recovery to see the new recovery.
Ive been trying to install katkiss lollipop 5.0 on my tf101 but every time it comes up with errors that leaves my tablet bricked i think i need to update my recovery ive got teamwin 2.6 how do i fix this or update my recovery pls give a detailed guide
Timmieh14 said:
update my recovery
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
download TWRP 2.8.1.1 zip for TF101.
Boot into recovery and choose 'Install'
search for your downloaded signed_twrp-2.8.1.1_tf101.zip and flash it.
I assume you have no working ROM installed, so this part is a bit different from normal
Now choose 'Reboot'(a warning pops up that no ROM is installed), and don't install root (we do that later).
While rebooting, you will notice a progressbar. When the progressbar is finished, you have to force a reboot to the recovery (since you are without a working ROM, nothing else will work anyway).
you should now have twrp 2.8.1.1 (look in the statusbar on top of the screen)
from here it is straight forward:
flash Katkiss, Supersu and gapps in that order.
if things still does not work I find it useful to format data (not just wipe). especially useful when coming from another ROM
Hi everyone,
I retrieved a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5110 which has a strange behavior: it boots up correctly, but always reboots after around one minute. In order to try being able to use it, I uninstalled a few apps before it rebooted, but after the reboot the uninstalled apps were still there. After that, I tried a more radical method: I booted into the stock recovery mode, and wiped data and cache. It doesn't seem to have any effect as the tablet boots with the same customized background and all the apps are still installed.
As these steps weren't successful, I wanted to wipe everything and install a new ROM: in order to do that, I need to install TWRP. I followed the instructions of the Lineage wiki to do it, but it doesn't work. Here are the steps I followed:
Boot into download mode
Flash the TWRP image with heimdall on Ubuntu:
Code:
heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img --no-reboot
Wait for download success
Reboot into recovery mode
The stock recovery is still launched instead of TWRP
I have read a lot of possible issues and tried quite everything I've read and think of:
Use heimdall with different USB ports to download TWRP to be sure that it's not an USB issue
Use different images of TWRP (and even CWM) to be sure that the recovery image is not the cause of the recovery not being installed:
Code:
TWRP GT-P5110 3.0.0-0, TWRP espresso common 3.1.1-1, CWM 6.0.5.1
Disconnect the battery between the different steps described above, and particularly after downloading TWRP in order to avoid the tablet overwriting TWRP with the stock recovery at boot
Use Windows and different versions of Odin (3.10.6, 3.11.1, 3.12.2) with the No reboot option checked to download TWRP, instead of Ubuntu and heimdall
Even flash the kernel along TWRP with heimdall:
Code:
heimdall flash --KERNEL lineage/boot.img --RECOVERY recovery.img --no-reboot
It seems that whatever I try, the TWRP recovery image is overwritten by the stock recovery after I download it. Or that the tablet is protected in some way avoiding wiping data and downloading new images.
Any ideas of what I could do to be able to install TWRP on this tablet?
dohseven said:
Hi everyone,
I retrieved a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5110 which has a strange behavior: it boots up correctly, but always reboots after around one minute. In order to try being able to use it, I uninstalled a few apps before it rebooted, but after the reboot the uninstalled apps were still there. After that, I tried a more radical method: I booted into the stock recovery mode, and wiped data and cache. It doesn't seem to have any effect as the tablet boots with the same customized background and all the apps are still installed.
As these steps weren't successful, I wanted to wipe everything and install a new ROM: in order to do that, I need to install TWRP. I followed the instructions of the Lineage wiki to do it, but it doesn't work. Here are the steps I followed:
Boot into download mode
Flash the TWRP image with heimdall on Ubuntu:
Wait for download success
Reboot into recovery mode
The stock recovery is still launched instead of TWRP
I have read a lot of possible issues and tried quite everything I've read and think of:
Use heimdall with different USB ports to download TWRP to be sure that it's not an USB issue
Use different images of TWRP (and even CWM) to be sure that the recovery image is not the cause of the recovery not being installed:
Disconnect the battery between the different steps described above, and particularly after downloading TWRP in order to avoid the tablet overwriting TWRP with the stock recovery at boot
Use Windows and different versions of Odin (3.10.6, 3.11.1, 3.12.2) with the No reboot option checked to download TWRP, instead of Ubuntu and heimdall
Even flash the kernel along TWRP with heimdall:
It seems that whatever I try, the TWRP recovery image is overwritten by the stock recovery after I download it. Or that the tablet is protected in some way avoiding wiping data and downloading new images.
Any ideas of what I could do to be able to install TWRP on this tablet?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
sounds like a broken emmc
http://andi34.github.io/faq.html (scroll to the bottom of the site)
the best solution for this problem is, buy a new motherboard on ebay.
smart-t78 said:
sounds like a broken emmc
http://andi34.github.io/faq.html (scroll to the bottom of the site)
the best solution for this problem is, buy a new motherboard on ebay.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, it seems to be exactly my problem. Guess I will try to find a new motherboard if it's not too expensive.
Hi everyone,
I've been trying to get TWRP to stick for a while now, but still haven't been able to get it to install. A while ago I managed to flash Resurrection Remix using Lineage recovery which does work, but since Lineage recovery is quite limited, I really wanted to get TWRP to work. Since TWRP 3.5.0 released yesterday, I gave it another shot hoping that they fixed the issue, to no success.
I can get into TWRP just fine by temp booting it with fastboot, but after flashing the installer zip, any recovery that was previously installed gets wiped and the device will reboot when trying to get into recovery. I can still boot my phone otherwise.
The steps I took to get to this point:
Unlocked bootloader
fastboot boot twrp.img
Decrypt using screen pattern (successfully)
Flashed twrp installer zip (no error messages, process finishes successfully)
Reboot into recovery (both from twrp and bootloader at a later point)
Things I've tried:
Use a different TWRP version. Same problem as described above on both 3.4.x and 3.5.x, can't get it to decrypt on lower versions due to Android 10.
Install to recovery ramdisk, this just breaks things even more, probably because it's an A/B device?
Try a different recovery. Lineage recovery works just fine, but it's very very limited. Would really like to get TWRP working.
Trying to flash the zip results in no error messages, but any previously installed recovery gets wiped and magisk is uninstalled, which leads me to believe that it has done at least something to the boot img.
Thank you in advance.
EDIT 25.02.2021:
- Attached TWRP log
EDIT 12.03.2021:
- Log didn't want to attach, they can be found here: https://pastebin.com/awnhHDBU
Same question here. It seems that you can only boot from TWRP, not install it.
Tried installing again today, to no avail. However, I was smart enough to save the log this time. I have attached it to the main post, would be much appreciated if someone could check it out.