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hi, ive just flashed TWRP onto my lollipop. seemed to be succesful, however when i boot into recovery all i get is the wee android dude lying on his back looking a bit dead! any ideas how to get this working. i just installed lollipop today

If you did 'fastboot flash recovery twrp.img' and not 'fastboot boot twrp.img':
Browse around, I'm pretty sure this has been answered before.
Search topics: install-recovery.sh, recovery-from-boot.p

Boot to Android, then flash again.

Aerowinder said:
Boot to Android, then flash again.
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Ugh... What are you talking about?
What's happening is that every boot, his install is checking for stock recovery, and every time it doesn't find it, it will reflash it.

well I was using the flash method and it didnt work so i tried yor boot method and i could see teh twrp logo for about 5 seconds then the rebooted. i still get the android dude on his back with red triangle

5.0 will check recovery and overwrite twrp if your not rooted. Download latest SuperSU and place on sd. Boot to boot loader/fastboot. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG. then fastboot boot recovery.IMG. then when twrp boots, flash SuperSU. Reboot
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MG386 said:
5.0 will check recovery and overwrite twrp if your not rooted. Download latest SuperSU and place on sd. Boot to boot loader/fastboot. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG. then fastboot boot recovery.IMG. then when twrp boots, flash SuperSU. Reboot
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that worked a treat. is it necessary to flash the MODIFIED BOOT IMAGE?

Can't Access TWRP Recovery

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.
a hammerhead wrote this.

beekay201 said:
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.

Help, MMB29Q update wipes TWRP

Hi all,
Recently I updated my Nexus 5 from Lollipop to Marshmallow 6.0.1 (MMB29Q) - latest build.
everything stock works fine but, once I flash a customer recovery, in my case TWRP it stops working...I get either a startup loop or TWRP gets erased by stock recovery.
I tried various steps ...
flashed TWRP 2.8.7.1 - rebooted to boot loader was able to get into TWRP but, once I reboot system, everything works but TWRP is gone/erased and replaced by stock recovery?
Flash TWRP 2.8.7.1, then flash latest TWRP 3.0, reboot to boot loader and can get into TWRP but once i reboot into system, I am stuck on the initial boot loop.
I have to start from scratch of flashing system and boot etc to get past the loop and it still replaces TWRP with stock recovery.
I can always get into Fastboot but when I go to recovery it seems its being replaced by stock recovery.
anyone experiencing this issue? thanks for your help.

I guess I am doing something stupid but, not sure what...and thanks for your help

If you give more detail on the steps you are taking it will be easier for someone to help. Also, have you tried doing a factory reset when it bootloops?

thanks for the response..here are the details..
I had Lollipop with TWRP 2.8.7.1
yesterday, I downloaded latest build from android site...extracted all files....booted into bootloader and flashed all files..
rebooted - Marshmallow works perfectly...offcourse it not rooted yet or its locedback due to this flash
Scenario:1
So downloaded TWRP 2.8.7.1 and flashed it as recovery, no errors nothing...i rebooted to bootloader and went to recovery to confirm TWRP is there
I rebooted the system - TWRP gives option to root which I said yes so its rooted. I reboot system, this goes into bootloop - I wait for say 5-10 min in this loop mode and I see that adb can recognize the device but nothing else....its stuck in loop
when I force shut down by holding power button for few sec - and go back bootloader/recovery - TWRP is still there
***note*** I did factory wipe in TWRP but that did not fix above condition.
Scenario2:
exact same steps but after I flashed twrp2.8.7.1, I rebooted bootloader and flashed twrp 3.0 as well confirmed twrp 3.0 is flashed and rebooted system - phone start normally no issues - when I restart to bootloader - no TWRP exists, its replaced by stock recovery
Scenario 2, I tried couple of other ways and still the same thing happens - twrp 3.0 get erased.
not sure what I am doing wrong but TWRP doesn't stick
since this is my active device - i flash system.img and boot.img to get the phone to working condition
thanks for your help

Try flashing the latest supersu to get root.

audit13 said:
Try flashing the latest supersu to get root.
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That did the trick.....thank you very much. I was using older version of supersu thinking it was latest.....I downloaded V2.65 and installed it and that fixed all my troubles..
muchas gracias

Need help with recovery please...

I bought this phone so I can get access to a lot of different roms... I'm trying to install twrp as my recovery or cmw but when I flash it after unlocking the boot loader with cmw it doesn't stay installed and revert back to the original request and the twrp I get an error message in twrp about original recovery and then the phone goes into a boot loop. It has the latest OS version running with April Security fixes... please help

Flash twrp as it is a more versatile and widely supported recovery.
Flash twrp in fastboot mode. After flashing, use the power and volume buttons to boot directly to twrp, do not reboot the phone until after you have entered recovery.

audit13 said:
Flash twrp as it is a more versatile and widely supported recovery.
Flash twrp in fastboot mode. After flashing, use the power and volume buttons to boot directly to twrp, do not reboot the phone until after you have entered recovery.
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did exactly what you said and im getting thr error / system to prevent the stock rom from replacing twrp...
whats happening

I recommend flashing the latest stock rom to make sure the phone boots properly.Then, I would flash twrp again.

audit13 said:
I recommend flashing the latest stock rom to make sure the phone boots properly.Then, I would flash twrp again.
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Did that and flashed twrp and I'm still getting the error...
I unlocked boot loader
Flashed twrp
With USB still plugged in I selected recovery from the fastboot menu...
Boots to recovery and still get that error message
Am I doing something wrong

You're flashing 2.8.7 for the hammerhead?

audit13 said:
You're flashing 2.8.7 for the hammerhead?
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No I'm flashing the latest 3.0.2 version is that the problem?

I would try 2.8.7

Softbricked Shield Tablet

Hi,
I am fixing a friends Shield Tablet (not K1) which I believe in on Android 4.4.
Before the Kill Switch was sent down, he tried to flash a custom ROM to avoid this. He had TWRP 2.8.x.x recovery installed.
He attempted something and the tablet stopped booting.
I tried to install LineageOS but it failed, so I installed the latest TWRP (flashed image in old version of TWRP). This caused it to hang on the black Nvidia logo!
I can still do volume down + power and get into a black screen with a few options (continue, fastboot protocol, recovery, reboot, power off). When I click into Recovery from there, nothing happens. Before flashing TWRP 3.x it worked.
I have now flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 again and it boots to recovery again.
So have I done something bad by updated TWRP? Do I need to flash firmware first?
Thanks.

Try flashing this blob in your TWRP before you flash newer TWRP
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=529152257862702195

eoinzy said:
I tried to install LineageOS but it failed, so I installed the latest TWRP (flashed image in old version of TWRP). This caused it to hang on the black Nvidia logo!
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Have you tried flashing latest TWRP (3.2.1-0) using fastboot, instead of within TWRP?

Yes I installed progressively newer BLOBs to update the fastboot mode and once I installed the latest, then the latest TWRP worked, and I could just flash LineageOS no problems!