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cwm flash without fastboot

How do I flash cwm image without using fastboot (from within my NS)?
Thanks
Heeter
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ROM manager if you are rooted...

Hi NYYFan325
ROM Manager will install my CWM image?
I know it has an older builtin version (3.0.2.4), but I would like to install the new 4.0.0.2
How would it do that? I can see a flash alternate recovery, but it is not picking up my image on the sdcard.
Is there a specific folder that it has to go into?
Thanks
Heeter

Heeter said:
Hi NYYFan325
ROM Manager will install my CWM image?
I know it has an older builtin version (3.0.2.4), but I would like to install the new 4.0.0.2
How would it do that? I can see a flash alternate recovery, but it is not picking up my image on the sdcard.
Is there a specific folder that it has to go into?
Thanks
Heeter
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Someone smarter then me will have to chime in if I'm wrong but if you want the newest one (4.0.0.2) you'll have to use fastboot. Any reason your looking to avoid it?

I just like to waaaaay more simpler menus and wipe menus.
The confirmations are gone too, as well as all the "no" down the screen, with one "yes" in the middle.
Like the different color too.
Heeter

I meant why are you avoiding fastboot? Using it will get you 4.0.0.2 in the blink of an eye...

Fastboot refuses to work on my Windows7 machine. Even using the PDAnet drivers and Android SDK drivers, and everything in between.
Been trying to get fastboot to work for months, but just gave up on it. The are several of my posts in here concerning my fastboot issues.
It did work when I switched to Debian, but, because of work issues, I had to switch back to Windows.
Heeter

are you sure? i'm running win7 x64 and everything works just fine.
if you are rooted, you can put any cwm in your device, it's not easy, but can be done, the trick is that you need fastboot to root your device (you could search a exploit to achieve it without fastboot, but...)

Alright, so what you need to to is this:
1. Download the img file somewhere.
2. cd into the directory
3. fastboot erase recovery to erase the current recovery
4. fastboot flash recovery ____.img and voila!
Good luck!
-As NYYFan325 said, you need fastboot in order to do this quick

Oh yeah, make sure ur in the bootloader while doing all this

Heeter said:
How do I flash cwm image without using fastboot (from within my NS)?
Thanks
Heeter
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You can flash it through ROM Manager with a little tweaking.

Thanks Maximilian Mary,
That is exactly what I was looking for. I renamed it *.img.bak instead of *.img.real. Still worked like a charm, flashed the hotness, LOLOL.
As in previous posts, fastboot is not an option for me.
Thanks again,
Heeter

Put newest recovery on internal usb storage
Rename it recovery.img
Download flash_image gui by Joeykrim
Select recovery and browse to recovery.img

snandlal said:
Put newest recovery on internal usb storage
Rename it recovery.img
Download flash_image gui by Joeykrim
Select recovery and browse to recovery.img
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I actually purchased that application.
But It says it is only good NS4G, not my NS3G. Unless you can confirm it works on my 3G.
Thanks
Heeter

It works on yours also

Heeter said:
I actually purchased that application.
But It says it is only good NS4G, not my NS3G. Unless you can confirm it works on my 3G.
Thanks
Heeter
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it works 100%
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mathkid95 said:
Alright, so what you need to to is this:
1. Download the img file somewhere.
2. cd into the directory
3. fastboot erase recovery to erase the current recovery
4. fastboot flash recovery ____.img and voila!
Good luck!
-As NYYFan325 said, you need fastboot in order to do this quick
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fastboot doesn't work so your instructions are useless.

Try using the app flash image gui
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You should try with "nexus toolkit".Search google how to use it.

Question to update

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523217
I have rooted stock phone with xposed and cwm installed otherwise fully stock....... So do I just follow section c and then b???
Thanks just checking if I'm right or totally wrong
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assuming you made no other system mods, yes, thats the order you would do it in.

Zepius said:
assuming you made no other system mods, yes, thats the order you would do it in.
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Thanks. I still have questions.....do I lose root and when I install the ota.zip do I have to clear data etc. Cause I want to keep my data
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dec1153 said:
Thanks. I still have questions.....do I lose root and when I install the ota.zip do I have to clear data etc. Cause I want to keep my data
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you will lose root, but not your data.
just reflash the custom recovery in fastboot, then supersu from the custom recovery.

Zepius said:
you will lose root, but not your data.
just reflash the custom recovery in fastboot, then supersu from the custom recovery.
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Errr....... I have cwm so why do I need fastboot and is there anyway to get root back?
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Because the OTA may include a recovery and replace cwm
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rootSU said:
Because the OTA may include a recovery and replace cwm
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pretty much this. sometimes the OTA will replace the recovery.

Zepius said:
pretty much this. sometimes the OTA will replace the recovery.
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Yep, anyway we look at this, fastboot is involved so embrace it and learn it because it's a must-know
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rootSU said:
Yep, anyway we look at this, fastboot is involved so embrace it and learn it because it's a must-know
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OK so I install using the CWM then when it installs I lose that beacase of the ota. So Install cwm back then root using fastboot?
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dec1153 said:
OK so I install using the CWM then when it installs I lose that beacase of the ota. So Install cwm back then root using fastboot?
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Yep, sort of. You install cwm via fastboot but then you root via cwm by flashing a zip that has the root files in it.
The best bet is to get fastboot set up now before doing anything. I know it may seem daunting but once it'a set up, it's done and once you've used it, you'll realise you were worrying about nothing
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rootSU said:
Yep, sort of. You install cwm via fastboot but then you root via cwm by flashing a zip that has the root files in it.
The best bet is to get fastboot set up now before doing anything. I know it may seem daunting but once it'a set up, it's done and once you've used it, you'll realise you were worrying about nothing
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OK thanks. Just one tiny question that I need explaining. How do I install CWM through fastboot. Do I download the zip of cwm and boot into fastboot once I'm on 4.4.3 using the button sequence power - then install?
Do I need to install cwm if I don't want root? And in cwm do I just flash on top without clearing data and cache
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dec1153 said:
OK thanks. Just one tiny question that I need explaining. How do I install CWM through fastboot. Do I download the zip of cwm and boot into fastboot once I'm on 4.4.3 using the button sequence power - then install?
Do I need to install cwm if I don't want root? And in cwm do I just flash on top without clearing data and cache
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So a couple of things to clarify.
Ultimately, cwm is an .img file (a bit like a cd image). If you have a flashable zip of a recovery, it will contain a recovery.img.
Other flashable zips that contain .img files are kernels (boot.img) and radio (radio.img) but most other flashable zips such as ROMs and mods do not use image files.
Fastboot is a command line tool that is used to flash image files outside of flashable zips. So if you have a flashable zip of cement you want to use, you must extract the recovery.img
Fastboot works in 2 halves. Half of it is built into the bootloader of your nexus so to use fastboot you must boot into the bootloader and connect via USB.
The other half is the command line tool which is a fastboot.exe that you put on you computer and access via cmd (command prompt).
To use fastboot once it's configured, it's quite easy, you just type "fastboot flash" followed by the partition you want to flash too and the name of the file you want to flash. Usually you will only flash system.img, boot.img, radio.img or recovery.img and each flash to the same named partition.
Example
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
One thing to remember though, is you either put these images in the same folder as fastboot.exe OR you type the full location when flashing for example
fastboot flash recovery c:\users\dec115e\desktop\recovery.img
Have a look in the 2 threads mentioned in my signature as they both should cover setting up fastboot.
Let us know if you have more questions
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rootSU said:
So a couple of things to clarify.
Ultimately, cwm is an .img file (a bit like a cd image). If you have a flashable zip of a recovery, it will contain a recovery.img.
Other flashable zips that contain .img files are kernels (boot.img) and radio (radio.img) but most other flashable zips such as ROMs and mods do not use image files.
Fastboot is a command line tool that is used to flash image files outside of flashable zips. So if you have a flashable zip of cement you want to use, you must extract the recovery.img
Fastboot works in 2 halves. Half of it is built into the bootloader of your nexus so to use fastboot you must boot into the bootloader and connect via USB.
The other half is the command line tool which is a fastboot.exe that you put on you computer and access via cmd (command prompt).
To use fastboot once it's configured, it's quite easy, you just type "fastboot flash" followed by the partition you want to flash too and the name of the file you want to flash. Usually you will only flash system.img, boot.img, radio.img or recovery.img and each flash to the same named partition.
Example
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
One thing to remember though, is you either put these images in the same folder as fastboot.exe OR you type the full location when flashing for example
fastboot flash recovery c:\users\dec115e\desktop\recovery.img
Have a look in the 2 threads mentioned in my signature as they both should cover setting up fastboot.
Let us know if you have more questions
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So I extract the cwm.zip and find the recovery IMG. Boot into fastboot (thorough my phone or computer?!?!!?!?????) And install then its finished......
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rootSU said:
So a couple of things to clarify.
Ultimately, cwm is an .img file (a bit like a cd image). If you have a flashable zip of a recovery, it will contain a recovery.img.
Other flashable zips that contain .img files are kernels (boot.img) and radio (radio.img) but most other flashable zips such as ROMs and mods do not use image files.
Fastboot is a command line tool that is used to flash image files outside of flashable zips. So if you have a flashable zip of cement you want to use, you must extract the recovery.img
Fastboot works in 2 halves. Half of it is built into the bootloader of your nexus so to use fastboot you must boot into the bootloader and connect via USB.
The other half is the command line tool which is a fastboot.exe that you put on you computer and access via cmd (command prompt).
To use fastboot once it's configured, it's quite easy, you just type "fastboot flash" followed by the partition you want to flash too and the name of the file you want to flash. Usually you will only flash system.img, boot.img, radio.img or recovery.img and each flash to the same named partition.
Example
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
One thing to remember though, is you either put these images in the same folder as fastboot.exe OR you type the full location when flashing for example
fastboot flash recovery c:\users\dec115e\desktop\recovery.img
Have a look in the 2 threads mentioned in my signature as they both should cover setting up fastboot.
Let us know if you have more questions
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Sorry ignore previous comment. If I don't want to root after I get 4.4.3 do I still have to do this?
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dec1153 said:
Sorry ignore previous comment. If I don't want to root after I get 4.4.3 do I still have to do this?
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Nope.
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rootSU said:
Nope.
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I watched a YouTube video explaining everything about fastboot so I understand now fully
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Excellent.
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But once I install 4.4.3 will i still have my data? I might hold off rooting for the time being. I have the freedom app allowing me to have in app purchases so in 4,4,3 will these purchases still be there?
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dec1153 said:
But once I install 4.4.3 will i still have my data? I might hold off rooting for the time being. I have the freedom app allowing me to have in app purchases so in 4,4,3 will these purchases still be there?
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It depends how you do it but if you're using an OTA file or flashing the system.img and boot.img you won't lose data.
Only flashing a userdata.img which overwrites the data partition will loose your data
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rootSU said:
It depends how you do it but if you're using an OTA file or flashing the system.img and boot.img you won't lose data.
Only flashing a userdata.img which overwrites the data partition will loose your data
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I'm using the cwm to flash the ota.zip cause I decided I am no longer going to root. Can I not flash on cwm???????
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[Q] So about 4.4.3 update with root, unlocked bootloader and tampered system apps...

I have a Nexus 5 that has been rooted, unlocked bootloader and I deleted some of the system apps (cant's remember which). I received the OTA update for the 4.4.3 update few says back. Clicked the update, after the download process went through, the phone restarted to install. But then my phone just went dead, it popped up a dead android with the word "error" underneath it x-P.
I know the problem has to do with me uninstalling system apps so is there anyway for me to update to 4.4.3 without wiping my data, if not, I have no problem doing it anyway (nothing too important on my nexus...) Thanks.

Download the factory images of 4.4.3 and flash system, bootloader, recovery and radio.. Doing so will not wipe your data!
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danny2146 said:
I have a Nexus 5 that has been rooted, unlocked bootloader and I deleted some of the system apps (cant's remember which). I received the OTA update for the 4.4.3 update few says back. Clicked the update, after the download process went through, the phone restarted to install. But then my phone just went dead, it popped up a dead android with the word "error" underneath it x-P.
I know the problem has to do with me uninstalling system apps so is there anyway for me to update to 4.4.3 without wiping my data, if not, I have no problem doing it anyway (nothing too important on my nexus...) Thanks.
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Put your phone in bootloader mode and flash the 4.4.3 system img you'll be fine:good:

Download the factory image and flash boot.img, cache.img and system.img, and the new radios.
I would recommend a wipe and do it fresh, but it's up to you.
Edit: 3 replies in the same minute, derp.

Just do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53109563
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Lethargy said:
Download the factory image and flash boot.img, cache.img and system.img, and the new radios.
I would recommend a wipe and do it fresh, but it's up to you.
Edit: 3 replies in the same minute, derp.
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Uhh, that went way over my head, maybe a dumb question but how does one flash img on a android phone? Sorry, I'm still a noob when it comes to these things. (is there a way to do it on a linux computer?)

danny2146 said:
Uhh, that went way over my head, maybe a dumb question but how does one flash img on a android phone? Sorry, I'm still a noob when it comes to these things. (is there a way to do it on a linux computer?)
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You'll need fastboot setup on your computer. Once you have is setup just go to the link I posted. You just need to double click on the flash-all
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jd1639 said:
You'll need fastboot setup on your computer. Once you have is setup just go to the link I posted. You just need to double click on the flash-all
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The flash-all.bat/flash-all.sh wipes if I'm not mistaken.
To the OP:
Download the Android SDK and set up fastboot, there are stickied threads for it in the General Section.
Download the factory images and take out boot.img, cache.img and system.img (inside a .zip inside the already compressed file), as well as the radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.1.13.img. put them in fastboot directory
Open a cmd prompt in fastboot directory and type (pressing enter after each line, wait for each individual one to complete):
cmd said:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.1.13.img
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It might be slightly different on a Linux computer but it should be in the stickies, or search

Lethargy said:
The flash-all.bat/flash-all.sh wipes if I'm not mistaken.
To the OP:
Download the Android SDK and set up fastboot, there are stickied threads for it in the General Section.
Download the factory images and take out boot.img, cache.img and system.img (inside a .zip inside the already compressed file), as well as the radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.1.13.img. put them in fastboot directory
Open a cmd prompt in fastboot directory and type (pressing enter after each line, wait for each individual one to complete):
It might be slightly different on a Linux computer but it should be in the stickies, or search
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Not in the link I gave it's a modified factory image
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jd1639 said:
Not in the link I gave it's a modified factory image
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Oh, I missed the link. :silly:
No offense to you nor your thread, but it would be better if he gains some knowledge of fastboot/adb.. You know, the usual.

jd1639 said:
Not in the link I gave it's a modified factory image
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One more question before I do this. I do have to put the supersu zip file in my phone and then flash it after I'm done flashing the factory img, correct?

Lethargy said:
Oh, I missed the link. :silly:
No offense to you nor your thread, but it would be better if he gains some knowledge of fastboot/adb.. You know, the usual.
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Let's get fastboot setup and we'll go from there
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danny2146 said:
One more question before I do this. I do have to put the supersu zip file in my phone and then flash it after I'm done flashing the factory img, correct?
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Yes. because you'll lose root after flashing the factory images. :angel:

Cool, it worked! Now I have to re-root. Thanks a lot for the amazingly quick reply!

danny2146 said:
Cool, it worked! Now I have to re-root. Thanks a lot for the amazingly quick reply!
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Welcome, if you ever run into issues make a thread in the right section if you can't figure it out yourself, we're here to help. You're welcome to PM me too if you don't think something is worth a new thread although people don't mind if it's in the right section. You seem eager to learn too, which is important. :angel:
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Update package missing boot.img

Cannot flash the boot.img file.
It's in the "image-hammerhead-lrx210.zip
Any ideas?
If I try to flash everything manually. It can't load system.img.

Not sure I understand the question. You say you can't flash the boot image or system image?
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I can flash the boot.img manually by fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then if I try fastboot flash recovery recovery.img, it will say it's too large.
If I use fastboot -w update image-hammerhead-lrx21o.zip it will say the boot.img file is missing.

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
I can flash the boot.img manually by fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then if I try fastboot flash recovery recovery.img, it will say it's too large.
If I use fastboot -w update image-hammerhead-lrx21o.zip it will say the boot.img file is missing.
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Did you extract the update image? In there you'll find the boot image and other images. Flash each of those manually
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jd1639 said:
Did you extract the update image? In there you'll find the boot image and other images. Flash each of those manually
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I try to flash system.img manually it gives me "target reported max download size of 1073741825 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
I try to flash system.img manually it gives me "target reported max download size of 1073741825 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'
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I'd try downloading the image again
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jd1639 said:
I'd try downloading the image again
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Where can I get images alone?
I downloaded the factory image twice already from Google's site.

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
Where can I get images alone?
I downloaded the factory image twice already from Google's site.
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You need to download grim Google and extract the file you download. Did you flash the bootloader first then fastboot reboot-bootloader?
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jd1639 said:
You need to download grim Google and extract the file you download. Did you flash the bootloader first then fastboot reboot-bootloader?
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Yes, I flashed the bootloader first, then rebooted. I'll try again.

So I got it to work...
I think last night I assumed I rebooted the bootloader...
So yeah....

Is there an order that I should flash in?
Ran into it again. Don't remember the order I did a few hours ago.

Why not just use the included flash-all.bat in the update? It does it all for you

As I've said.
That doesn't work. At the end, after it says flashing radio, it will saying missing boot.img.

Here's the order I'm trying...
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
And that's where I get the error I can't load it.

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
As I've said.
That doesn't work. At the end, after it says flashing radio, it will saying missing boot.img.
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Sorry, I didn't see anywhere where u mentioned flashing the flash-all.bat file.
You could possibly be using a USB 3.0 port which sometimes gives me issues. It will hang on radio or bootloader. I'll unplug and try again from a USB 2.0 port and it will work. It's worth a shot, although it doesn't sound like it's the same issue.
Did you check MD5? Could be a bad download

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
I try to flash system.img manually it gives me "target reported max download size of 1073741825 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'
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You don't have enough ram available on your computer.

beekay201 said:
You don't have enough ram available on your computer.
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16gbs of ram lol.
I did it last night. But then I couldn't take pictures, or save screenshots. So I was trying to flash it again.
Should I do a full wipe, then flash the bootloader, followed by boot, then system?

Ahimsa310 said:
Sorry, I didn't see anywhere where u mentioned flashing the flash-all.bat file.
You could possibly be using a USB 3.0 port which sometimes gives me issues. It will hang on radio or bootloader. I'll unplug and try again from a USB 2.0 port and it will work. It's worth a shot, although it doesn't sound like it's the same issue.
Did you check MD5? Could be a bad download
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Oh I thought I mentioned it.
I'm using 2.0.
Should I try 3.0?
How exactly do I check MD5..?
Last night I flashed it. But I went to flash it again since I couldn't take pictures or save screenshots.

So now that I'm home, I thought I would attempt this again.

HUNTERANGEL121 said:
So now that I'm home, I thought I would attempt this again.
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At this point I'd try the flash-all.bat file. It well wipe your device. Boot into the bootloader and then in a command window on your pc opened in the same folder as the flash-all.bat start with fastboot devices. If your device is connected then double click the flash-all.bat file.
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Going to 5.0.1 while rooted and custom recovery

Can I just grab the system, boot, and radio images and flash them in fastboot?
Will this retain root and update to 5.0.1?
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Yes, flash then re-root.

rootSU said:
Yes, flash then re-root.
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It will take root away I guess?
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joho5 said:
It will take root away I guess?
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Re-root

rootSU said:
Re-root
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Will i lose custom recovery flashing the system?
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joho5 said:
Will i lose custom recovery flashing the system?
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recovery will be borked. Just flag the twrp image in fastboot
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jd1639 said:
recovery will be borked. Just flag the twrp image in fastboot
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Don't think so.
AFAIK, /system/install-recovery.sh and /system/recovery-from-boot.p only exist when OS has gone through an OTA.
If you use a factory image, either to update or reflash /system, those 2 files won't be there - we get to keep our currently installed recovery anyways.
I even go further - when flashing a factory image.. I just skip stick twrp.img in the zip, overwriting recovery.img. Then I use flash-all.sh.
Tip: if you edit the flash-all script and remove the `-w` argument from the `fastboot update filename.zip`, it won't flash user data.img.

This what I did. Download Google factory 5.0.1 image. Unzip. Edit flash-all.bat and remove the "-w" flag for the one command it's found for. Run the edited .bat file. It'll lose root, twrp, but it'll retain data so just flash the recovery over again after the initial flash finishes, then go into twrp to flash SuperSU again and custom kernel if wanted
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Make sure you flash SU B4 boot or you will loose root.

howard bamber said:
Make sure you flash SU B4 boot or you will loose root.
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You can just flash it later.

Can you validate/comment on my process?
Looking at this thread, I should be able to perform an update with the factory image without having to return to stock. Can those with a little more experience validate the steps I have below or recommend slight modifications? I was hoping to just flash a rooted/flashable Factory 5.0.1 image, but I don't think anyone has created one yet (if I just missed the ROM, please point me in the right direction).
Steps to Update to 5.0.1 while keeping Files/Root/TWRP
1 - Download Factory Image
2 - Modify flash-all.bat and remove the -w option
3 - Add twrp.img to the Factory image
4 - Fastboot Flash flash-all.bat
6 - Boot system
7 - Possibly have to re-flash SU from TWRP (this isn't a big deal either way)
As always, thanks for all the help here!

BigKenW said:
Looking at this thread, I should be able to perform an update with the factory image without having to return to stock. Can those with a little more experience validate the steps I have below or recommend slight modifications? I was hoping to just flash a rooted/flashable Factory 5.0.1 image, but I don't think anyone has created one yet (if I just missed the ROM, please point me in the right direction).
Steps to Update to 5.0.1 while keeping Files/Root/TWRP
1 - Download Factory Image
2 - Modify flash-all.bat and remove the -w option
3 - Add twrp.img to the Factory image
4 - Fastboot Flash flash-all.bat
6 - Boot system
7 - Possibly have to re-flash SU from TWRP (this isn't a big deal either way)
As always, thanks for all the help here!
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Give it a try. I'm not sure that the twrp image is going to work. But the worst case is you'll still have the stock recovery after you boot. You'll lose root in any case and will have to flash supersu in the custom recovery
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BigKenW said:
Looking at this thread, I should be able to perform an update with the factory image without having to return to stock. Can those with a little more experience validate the steps I have below or recommend slight modifications? I was hoping to just flash a rooted/flashable Factory 5.0.1 image, but I don't think anyone has created one yet (if I just missed the ROM, please point me in the right direction).
Steps to Update to 5.0.1 while keeping Files/Root/TWRP
1 - Download Factory Image
2 - Modify flash-all.bat and remove the -w option
3 - Add twrp.img to the Factory image
4 - Fastboot Flash flash-all.bat
6 - Boot system
7 - Possibly have to re-flash SU from TWRP (this isn't a big deal either way)
As always, thanks for all the help here!
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Just to make sure you understand what you're saying.
At step 3..
The twrp img file you download from their website needs to be renamed recovery.img and placed inside the update-rest-of-filename.zip, overwriting the one that's there already (yep, the stock recovery).
You got everything else right.
a maguro wrote this.

Or just type "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" once you do the rest but skip step 3 cuz that is done with the command I wrote at the end of the process before you boot up.
1. Edit flash-all.bat to remove -w option
2. Run it to flash everything.
3. "Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" (rename the twrp file you download to match twrp.img cuz it'll be a long name when you download it
4. In fastboot scroll to recovery, boot into it, it will boot into twrp
5. Flash SuperSU latest version from twrp (so make sure u have this on ur sdcard somewhere like in the downloads folder for example before u begin process
6. Clear dalvik and cache and reboot into lollipop. First boot may take a few min like 5 to 10
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Didn't try it
I appreciate the tips. Just before I was about to attempt this, I saw Vomer posted a flashable image. I decided to go that route. Looks good so far.

BigKenW said:
I appreciate the tips. Just before I was about to attempt this, I saw Vomer posted a flashable image. I decided to go that route. Looks good so far.
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And we were all in suspense to see how it worked out
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