[Q] Flash official factory image with TWRP - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys & gals!
Quickly: I want to flash the official 5.1 image with TWRP. The reason is that my USB port doesn't work anymore (I'm charging with QI) so I'm not able to adb / fastboot.
Is it possible and if so how do I do it? I tried to "unzip" the tgz > tar until I had a zip with the official image available on google's page but TWRP kept telling something along "this image is not valid".
FYI I'm currently on cyanogenmod 12.
Thanks in advance!

You can't flash the factory image in twrp. There should be a flashable zip of stock 5.1 floating around here that you can flash in twrp though.
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You can only flash boot and recovery img's in twrp. Just download a stock flashable zip
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Lite ROM is a stock zip with bare Gapps.I'm using it and it's the best my photos has been.flashes in twrp
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JoinTheRealms said:
Best way is to download the firmware from asus website extract it (theres a zip inside the zip) and flash it with twrp, this will get rid of twrp so after the first boot find the approprate version of twrp and reflash it with fastboot, from there you can flash custom roms/ kernels at will
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Doen't work, will try the method above
extract the blob from the firmware zip.
usw via cmd: fastboot flash system blob
thats all
Hi
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set_progress(1.000000);"
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- put zip on sdcard and install from cwm-recovery
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PsychoXr said:
Hello,
my Nexus 5 is trying to installiert the 4.4.3 update. Everytime my device is switching to the TWRP Recovery. It will try to installiert it.
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Thanks in advance
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