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[Q] Bootloader locked after OTA XNPH05Q

Hi all,
I just installed the OTA update for XNPH05Q. My bootloader was previously unlocked, TWRP installed and rooted.
Now that the OTA is installed I wanted to re-root (SuperSU Pro Survival didn't work), but when I boot into recovery mode I only get the default 'Cyanogen Recovery' and trying to flash the SuperSU binary fails with 'Signature File unavailable' error.
Any idea what went wrong? My phone was heavily customized and I would really try to avoid the hassle of going through the full process to unlock the bootloader again... It will take several hours to restore everything, and since I'm using some sideloaded apps I don't even know if I will find them again - and now I can't even use Titanium anymore to backup them, the OTA happened already
Thanks for your input!

Your bootloader is still unlocked, it only restored stock recovery. So you only need to flash twrp, you won't lose any data doing that. And to stop the stock recovery getting flashed when installing OTA, go to Settings > Developer options. Then disable the 'Update recovery with system updates' option.

Thanks, that made my day! I'm currently travelling and have no access to a computer, but I'll flash TWRP again as soon as I'm back home and proceed from there.

Viking84 said:
Thanks, that made my day! I'm currently travelling and have no access to a computer, but I'll flash TWRP again as soon as I'm back home and proceed from there.
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You can use Flashify to flash TWRP directly from your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify
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timmaaa said:
You can use Flashify to flash TWRP directly from your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify
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That requires root though which he doesn't have.

Gryphie said:
That requires root though which he doesn't have.
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Yeah, I didn't really think that one through.
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If you have fastboot set-up you can run the command for oem unlock again and it shouldn't wipe anything. Happened with me After going to XNPH05Q my bootlocked got relocked as well and I was trying to flash cm12 and I couldnt figure out for the life of me why it would keep booting to fastboot and recovery wasnt working. So when all else failed and I said eff it I dont care if it wipes, I re-ran the command (after checking bootloader status and seeing that it got locked) and I was able to boot up just fine without any data loss.
That's just my personal experience though.
I did that because even after flashing different version of TWRP recovery and different ROMs my phone kept booting straight to fastboot.

I just arrived back home (literally stepped out of the airport 45 minutes ago) and as of this moment, my OPO is up & rooted again, with all data intact. Thanks for your great support!!!

Viking84 said:
I just arrived back home (literally stepped out of the airport 45 minutes ago) and as of this moment, my OPO is up & rooted again, with all data intact. Thanks for your great support!!!
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Can you please tell how did you flashed TWRP again, as I have the same issue as you had.

Sure. I first had to tell my PC to use the correct drivers again - basically after installing the OTA, Windows recognized the phone anew and used the default drivers. So go to your device manager (Windows-Key + 'Break' -> device manager), search for your phone (I don't remember in which category it showed up, but just browse all until you find 'A00001'. Right klick, select 'change driver'. Go to 'have disk' and select 'ADB' from the list on the left, then on the right you should find the driver that is already installed [given that you had an ADB driver already, otherwise check this site for the driver download: http://twrp.me/devices/oneplusone.html].
To check if it worked, open a command line [Windows-Key + R, write cmd in the field and hit enter]. Now type "adb devices" [enter] and if [device ID] (some random numbers) is listed in the menu, all is fine.
Download the most recent TWRP image file from http://dl.twrp.me/bacon/ and save it somewhere.
Now, in the same command line enter "adb reboot bootloader", this will put your phone in fastboot mode.
Once this is done, check if the driver is still recognizing your phone by entering "fastboot devices", and check if the device is still listed.
If this checks out, enter "fastboot flash recovery [FULL PATH TO RECOVERY FILE]" -> e.g. "fastboot flash recovery c:\Users\viking84\Desktop\twrp-2.8.6.0-bacon.img"
This will take a couple minutes (3-4 for me).
Once it's done, enter "fastboot reboot" in the console, and your phone will reboot into recovery (if it doesn't, just switch it back of and restart it with power + volume up to enter the recovery menu). From there you can just install the SuperSU binary as you're used to.

Thx for the detailed step guide... Will perform these steps today.
Sent from my Oneplus One

Viking84 said:
Sure. I first had to tell my PC to use the correct drivers again - basically after installing the OTA, Windows recognized the phone anew and used the default drivers. So go to your device manager (Windows-Key + 'Break' -> device manager), search for your phone (I don't remember in which category it showed up, but just browse all until you find 'A00001'. Right klick, select 'change driver'. Go to 'have disk' and select 'ADB' from the list on the left, then on the right you should find the driver that is already installed [given that you had an ADB driver already, otherwise check this site for the driver download: http://twrp.me/devices/oneplusone.html].
To check if it worked, open a command line [Windows-Key + R, write cmd in the field and hit enter]. Now type "adb devices" [enter] and if [device ID] (some random numbers) is listed in the menu, all is fine.
Download the most recent TWRP image file from http://dl.twrp.me/bacon/ and save it somewhere.
Now, in the same command line enter "adb reboot bootloader", this will put your phone in fastboot mode.
Once this is done, check if the driver is still recognizing your phone by entering "fastboot devices", and check if the device is still listed.
If this checks out, enter "fastboot flash recovery [FULL PATH TO RECOVERY FILE]" -> e.g. "fastboot flash recovery c:\Users\viking84\Desktop\twrp-2.8.6.0-bacon.img"
This will take a couple minutes (3-4 for me).
Once it's done, enter "fastboot reboot" in the console, and your phone will reboot into recovery (if it doesn't, just switch it back of and restart it with power + volume up to enter the recovery menu). From there you can just install the SuperSU binary as you're used to.
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I have successfully re-rooted by device using the above procedure. The only difference was even after flashing recovery and installing SuperSU through TWRP I was not able to see SuperSU app in phone, but then I went to Playstore and downloaded it from there and it worked!
So thank you for your help and detailed procedure!

TWRP install problem

I run for a problem to install custom recovery.
Running CO12s with bootloader unlocked. have installed on my windows 7 all necessary sdk tools and packages, on windows command i checked adb version and fastboot all is good.
Now after put device to fastboot mode trying flash TWRP, window command saying that write process ok but still no recovery installed, in developer options I did uncheck recovery update. now if I go to recovery (CO12 recovery) in recovery log I can see that recovery update mode is still "true" how i can turn this off, looks like is blocking access to install custom recovery or is any other solution??

Go to the FAQ:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/faq-oneplus-one-frequently-questions-t2895136
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thank you

Dble check command syntax & Use force recovery boot
djcody said:
I run for a problem to install custom recovery.
Running CO12s with bootloader unlocked. have installed on my windows 7 all necessary sdk tools and packages, on windows command i checked adb version and fastboot all is good.
Now after put device to fastboot mode trying flash TWRP, window command saying that write process ok but still no recovery installed, in developer options I did uncheck recovery update. now if I go to recovery (CO12 recovery) in recovery log I can see that recovery update mode is still "true" how i can turn this off, looks like is blocking access to install custom recovery or is any other solution??
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Just had similiar issue, my solution provided by timmaaa:
Flash TWRP again & don't do a normal reboot. After flashing is complete disconnect usb while in fastboot mode, use power + volume down to boot directly into recovery.
Also during command process make sure to use code: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img then skip the fastboot reboot & follow timmaaa's instructions above. Worked for me.

Force reboot to recovery fixed problem

[Nexus 5] TWRP Install No Root

Hi,
Is it possible to install TWRP v3.0.0.0 on a LG Nexus 5 HAMMERHEAD v6.0.1 (MMB29Q) without rooting? Not that it's something I absolutely need to do but by browsing through different sites and tutorials, it seems possible although my own tests prove the contrary...
Firstly, on TWRP official website, it's written that you can:
Fastboot Install Method (No Root Required):
You will need the platform-tools from the Android SDK on your computer. Find the SDK Only section on the page linked and install the SDK and download only the platform-tools to get adb and fastboot binaries.
Windows users will need proper drivers installed on your computer. You can try the Naked ADB drivers or the Universal ADB drivers if you don't already have a working driver installed
On your device, go into Settings -> About and find the Build Number and tap on it 7 times to enable developer settings. Press back and go into Developer Options and enable USB debugging. From your computer, open a command prompt and type:
adb reboot bootloader
You should now be in fastboot mode. Download the correct image file and copy the file into the same folder as your adb and fastboot binaries. Rename the image to twrp.img and type:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot reboot
Note many devices will replace your custom recovery automatically during first boot. To prevent this, use Google to find the proper key combo to enter recovery. After typing fastboot reboot, hold the key combo and boot to TWRP. Once TWRP is booted, TWRP will patch the stock ROM to prevent the stock ROM from replacing TWRP. If you don't follow this step, you will have to repeat the install.
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I tried this method but it didn't work at all:
After typing fastboot reboot, hold the key combo and boot to TWRP. Once TWRP is booted, TWRP will patch the stock ROM to prevent the stock ROM from replacing TWRP.
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Even I booted directly to TWRP recovery mode after I manually flashed it, it obviously didn't patched the stock ROM since after I later booted the phone normally in Android system and rebooted in recovery mode, the stock recovery mode was back, no TWRP!
Secondly, when I used Nexus Root Toolkit (NRT) v2.1.4, I had no choice but to root if I wanted to flash the custom recovery (TWRP). I successfully rooted and installed TWRP permanently using the tool.
Therefore, is installing TWRP without rooting some kind of myth that maybe worked with previous Android build and TWRP versions or is there actually really a way to do so?

I just did it yesterday on the March patch but had to flash twrp twice. The first time it bypassed recovery and booted into the os. After booting back into the bootloader and flashing twrp again it did boot into twrp.
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To install TWRP, the phone needs to have an unlocked bootloader, not root.
You can flash TWRP using fastboot commands. After flashing TWRP in fastboot, use the volume and power button to boot directly into recovery.

How to install TWRP into the LG P500H from Koodo?

I have a Koodo LG P500H. I am having a very hard time installing TWRP.
Firstly Play store doesn't work. It has this old thing called "Market" that has some apps, but not all. Market eventually gets updated to Playstore, but I can't even find TWRP manager. There was another app in the Playstore that I tried called ROM Manager. It said it installed TWRP for me. I restarted the phone, and nothing happened.
Restarting and Holding power/volume down/home will show a picture that seems to be some sort of recovery mode. But it only run for 1-2 seconds before the phone restarts itself. Nothing happens.
I tried to use ADB. But after rebooting the device it just restarted without ever going into recovery mode. So the flash command just get stuck at "Waiting for Device." Does this phone even have a recovery mode?
This phone doesn't support Odin.
I am used to using TWRP. Without it I cannot flash the phone into new OS.
And every single time I fail, the whole phone seems to have reformatted. So I have to enter in my wifi password and gmail again. All of that typing on a very small keyboard takes a lot of time. I had spent hours on this phone without getting TWRP working.
Please help.

going to twrp web site here
downloading the recovery
reboot to fastboot ( bootloader ) than using terminal whit adb driver :
fastboot flash recover '' recovery.img ''

Gw4nM4n said:
going to twrp web site here
downloading the recovery
reboot to fastboot ( bootloader ) than using terminal whit adb driver :
fastboot flash recover '' recovery.img ''
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The problem is when I reboot into fastboot (adb reboot bootloader), the phone will go into "phone off battery charging mode". It never actually goes into the bootloader.

Ok I did the following and it seems fastboot and TWRP works now. Be sure to enable USB Debugging on your P500.
1) Fastboot tutorial (I did everything here. I hit "ok" on the LGMDP 1.5 tool as needed. Do not wait till the countdown timer goes to zero.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15122833&postcount=100)?
FastBoot Tutorial
1. Please download this (or from here) file and unzip it in to any folder.
2. Start LGMDP 1.5 tool with the phone connected (you need to have USB drivers installed) and click on Select Port
3. A separate window should appear like the one below
Just click connect
4. Another window will take shape (LGE Mobile security) with lots of options (links)
Click on the first upper right Browse and select the folder in with you have unzipped the files. You will get some errors that some image, table or headers are missing. Just click OK and in the end everything that should remain selected is Partition Table, APPSBL Image Header and APPSBL Image.
Now just close the window (click on x)
5. Now you are back on the main window and here you'll have to click on Download
6. You are almost done and from now on everything should go on automatically.
NV Backup
Autorestart in Emergency\Download mode and upgrade the files (you selected on step 4)
NV Restore (the last step) Do not disconnect the USB cable until the restore is done
Wait for the phone to restart in normal mode (your current rom).
That should be everything you need to do to get fastboot enabled.
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2) Install PdaNet+ (This was the only thing I did in this tutorial. It fixed the usb driver and the fastboot can then communicate with my PC.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350733
http://pdanet.co/a/
(Note: On top of Partition Table, APPSBL Image Header and APPSBL Image in step 4, I also selected the TWRP image file as my RECOVERY image. Not sure if this make a difference. )
(Note 2: I think you can also get the LG drivers here.)
3) Restart, hold down power + home to boot to the fastboot. Or in ADB type adb reboot bootloader.
4) Open ADB (while phone is still in fastboot mode) and type fastboot flash recovery twrp.img (after downloading the TWRP image, renaming it and moving it to my ADB root folder. I am using TWRP 2.8.0.1 here.)
5) Type fastboot reboot
6) After the phone restarts, type adb reboot recovery. TWRP runs for me. Power+Home+Volume Down (3 button combo) also works now. (Previously this would reset the phone.)

Hey Man, im glad it worked. I could use your help.
I bricked my phone and need the restore file, Do you think you could make a backup from TWRP and upload it?
I would be super grateful.
Thank you.
Here is a zip with CM11, twrp 3.0.2.0 and Gapps for CM11.
Its the best rom I found.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qt7z1cxq92nhpz5/LgP500CM11V4.4.4.zip?dl=0

Hi. What is your "brick" like? Does your TWRP still run? If yes you can just copy a custom OS into your Microsd card and install it from your Microsd.
You can also use ADB push to move files from your PC to the phone.
http://www.androidauthority.com/android-customization-transfer-files-adb-push-adb-pull-601015/
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If you TWRP doesn't run, you need to install that first. Do steps 3 and 4 in the above post to boot into bootloader and install TWRP.
3) Restart, hold down power + home to boot to the fastboot. Or in ADB type adb reboot bootloader.
4) Open ADB (while phone is still in fastboot mode) and type fastboot flash recovery twrp.img (after downloading the TWRP image, renaming it and moving it to my ADB root folder. I am using TWRP 2.8.0.1 here.)

[ROOT][TWRP] Wiko Sunny 2 (SPD7731C) Root process with TWRP port (buggy touch)

Hi all! Now we can root our Sunny 2 phones!
I'd make a TWRP port for this device (adb enabled) so we can just sideload the Magisk installer.
History:
After some time having a Wiko Sunny 2 phone, I'd search a lot and didn't find any method for rooting this little thing.
Then I had the idea to mod the stock recovery to allow test keys and then flash anything, tried to do that and didn't work.
Another idea came to my mind: port TWRP from another phone with same chipset. Started my search for a SPD7731c device with working TWRP and after some time found some guy who made a TWRP port for his "Selecline S6S4IN3G" device and as it had the same chipset it worked. Just gathered the recovery.img from the stock rom (thanks Wiko for giving it on they web page) and unpacked it with carliv image kitchen, replaced the stock ramdisk with TWRP's one and just modded some things inside it (default.prop and the init.rc files). As the vold.fstab is the same, didn't need to modify it.
After some testing, the only problem remaining is that the touch doesn't work well (it receives touch input all the time, even if not touched) but it's enough to get our Sunny2's rooted via ADB and magisk's zip.
REQUIREMENTS:
A PC (or another phone with OTG support, if you use a phone then you'll also need an adb binary compiled for ARM)
ADB, Fastboot and drivers: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N38jqQqX87dEKsBIgDb_9MC-k43YUi85
TWRP image: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DZhL6RckvzQyxGCq2Yy64Cqnpnnm1Ofp
Stock recovery image (in case something goes wrong you can revert to this): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1spaFc1sqqjFdwzt9cYDfSO_KVh1aYuh5
Magisk ZIP (can be latest or this zip): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-OPU1JycSr8nVyAGfdkhdajn8Uap_0dl
ROOT PROCESS:
1. While on Android, go to Settings>About this device and toch 7 times Build number (this will enable Developer Options)
2. Now go back to Settings and then Developer options>Enable OEM unlock and USB debugging.
3. Connect the device to the PC and install the correct driver (for doing this just open Device Manager and force the install of Android Composite ADB Interface on your unrecognized device (should be called SUNNY2)).
4. Open a CMD/Terminal and type this:
Code:
adb reboot-bootloader
5. Now type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery path/to/twrp-suny2.img
and after that just
Code:
fastboot reboot
.
6. Now the phone will start, just type in CMD/Terminal
Code:
adb reboot recovery
and you will boot into TWRP.
7. Okay, this TWRP has a buggy touch so just use ADB to install the magisk zip:
Code:
adb shell twrp sideload
, then
Code:
adb sideload path/to/magisk.zip
and finally
Code:
adb reboot
.
8. Nice, now Magisk should be installed. Now with root access, happy modding!
Some things to note:
1) In this guide I did everything via ADB, never booted to recovery or fastboot using button combinations. Why? Simple, on my device I didn't find the correct combinations.
2) You can use TWRP also for factory resetting or installing anything, but via ADB only (as the touch doesn't work properly).
3) If you need any help with this device just PM me!
I hope this guide will be useful for anyone.
CREDITS:
This guy for his work on porting TWRP to his device
Magisk team for his work on making root as simple as flashing a ZIP!
AndroidMTK website for hosting the ADB installer which
I just mirrored!

Stuck in boot loop
Hi ! Thanks for the HowTo !
But...
I followed the exact same procedure (except I had to fastboot oem unlock before flashing the twrp image, in addition to unlocking it in dev mode).
After flashing, the device was stuck in a boot loop : "orange state your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted / your device will boot in 5 seconds". Tried all manners of key combos to reboot in recovery (Vol Up + power is supposed to be the right combo) but to no avail.
Fortunately Wiko provides an "upgrade" tool that allows you to factory reset the device (support dot wikomobile dot com /maj/Sunny2Plus_V24.zip, window$ only) but no luck installing twrp.
Any idea why ? Thanks in advance

tofleplof said:
Hi ! Thanks for the HowTo !
But...
I followed the exact same procedure (except I had to fastboot oem unlock before flashing the twrp image, in addition to unlocking it in dev mode).
After flashing, the device was stuck in a boot loop : "orange state your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted / your device will boot in 5 seconds". Tried all manners of key combos to reboot in recovery (Vol Up + power is supposed to be the right combo) but to no avail.
Fortunately Wiko provides an "upgrade" tool that allows you to factory reset the device (support dot wikomobile dot com /maj/Sunny2Plus_V24.zip, window$ only) but no luck installing twrp.
Any idea why ? Thanks in advance
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Hmm this device is pretty strange, his key combinations never worked for me (because of that I'd need to reboot into system a few times, instead of booting to fastboot with keys).
You can try this:
After flashing stock rom and allowing oem unlock on settings, reboot directly to fastboot. Then use "fastboot boot recovery.img" and tell me what it says. If it says something about bad boot image, it's normal (that happens in my device even if try to load stock boot.img).
Also there's a tool called SPD Research Download Tool, which let's you flash the phone partitions one by one (manually selectable) from the path you want, while phone is in download mode (volume down and connect USB to PC). However, I don't know if that tool's license allows it's free redistribution, so I recommend research for it before downloading anything.
You can get the stock files by running the wiko upgrade tool, going to the folder it extracted his files and then looking for a file called rom.pac (then unpack it, there are guides here on XDA for doing so). You can even edit the boot splash image lol

Sorry for wasting your time
I'm so stupid ! It turns out my device is a different model, the Sunny 2 Plus.
Sorry, and thanks again

Does anyone know if a custom rom exists for the Wiko Sunny 2?

Klab98 said:
Does anyone know if a custom rom exists for the Wiko Sunny 2?
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Nope, sold the device some days after writing this post so didn't even bother to port anything.
BTW it's a 4-core phone with 512MB RAM, so what would you expect to run there? I thing nothing higher than MM (KK would be nice if it was not so outdated nowadays)

Hi, i have got a problem with my wiko sunny 2 plus.
i flashed twrp via fastboot, it succeed. but after reboot the phone didnt start,
only shows orange state, didn´t connect to pc anymore with same cable. i mean i can hear the win7 sound of connecting device and right after connect sound appear then disconnect sound follows right after. so i cant detect the device with adb anymore. what to do, any idea? P.S. sp flashtool also cant detect device. greets

merci beaucoup j espere sa marche