Does anyone know of a custom recovery that would work on an ASUS Zenfone 2e? I have one that is rooted but I need a custom recovery so I can flash mods and roms on it. I tried to find instructions on porting one over but I am scared of bricking my phone by messing up, and also the instructions i found are hard to understand. Thanks for your help. EDIT: OK, i actually need a bootloader unlock first so if anyone can help me with that I would appreciate it. Thank you.
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I began rooting my G-Slate with the newly released rooting method to unlock the bootloader. I was able to root fine, and then I went on to flash the custom kernel. Well, I misunderstood and thought that the root unlocked the bootloader, and now after flashing the kernel, my tablet is stuck in fastboot mode telling me the kernel image is invalid. I am sure this happened because I didn't unlock the bootloader. I have been trying to find a way to unbrick it. I was thinking of four possibilities -
1. I could flash the original kernel (which I do not know if that will work...). I am still looking for the original kernel for 3.1 so if anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be great!
2. I could get a recovery image from somebody (..?) and flash that with fastboot
3. If I could somehow push a zip file to my gslate with fastboot, or if I could burn a zip to an img and flash it that would be amazing, then I could flash the unlock zip.
4. I could buy another, and return it saying that it was messed up, but keep the good one and give them my brick (I'm joking of course)
I would like to refrain from option 4, so PLEASE if anyone knows a solution, let me know ASAP. I am grateful for any help, even if you tell me that I'm screwed.
Hi!
I might have to send in my device because of light bleeding but I have unlocked it and have installed TWRP.
I have already installed the "default" ROM so thats fine but I cant find any threads about "locking" the device and replacing TWRP with the original ones.
If anyone could point me in the right direction it would make me very happy =)
When you flash the stock rom it should also replace twrp with stock recovery.
There is no way to relock and asus keeps your serial number anyway.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803343
found this link in the dev sticky... these are very helpful
lafester said:
When you flash the stock rom it should also replace twrp with stock recovery.
There is no way to relock and asus keeps your serial number anyway.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803343
found this link in the dev sticky... these are very helpful
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Okay then I am probably "as good as can be" anyway
thx!
I have some short general questions. Maybe someone can help me
1. At the moment my asus tf300t running with android 4.0.3 (stock) - It the bootloader locked? (I think so)
2. Can i flash a rom with a locked bootloader?
3. Can I unlock the bootloader without using the official bootloader-unlock-tool from asus?
--Then I have to find a good guide to root and install recovery. can anyone recommend one?
THANKS
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
seven09 said:
Then I have to find a good guide to root and install recovery. can anyone recommend one?
THANKS
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That's depend the rom that you want to flash.
But for my part, I give a little advantage for the TWRP recovery, which is used by more than devs therefore access to more than Roms, and which has less of problems that CWM.
seven09 said:
I have some short general questions. Maybe someone can help me
1. At the moment my asus tf300t running with android 4.0.3 (stock) - It the bootloader locked? (I think so)
2. Can i flash a rom with a locked bootloader?
3. Can I unlock the bootloader without using the official bootloader-unlock-tool from asus?
--Then I have to find a good guide to root and install recovery. can anyone recommend one?
THANKS
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I'll take the first three and let someone who has done the last recently so your information is more up to date.
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
Note: If you unlock you give up your warranty. If you update to JellyBean you can't go back to ICS. At this time most people who are on JB wish they were on ICS instead.
Good Luck!
WoW I typed to slow on that one.
Good information has already been provided.
Hello guys how are you? i found this thread here which explains how can i root my phone without unlocking bootloader. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41714109). I just wanted to ask one thing that how can i install a software so that i can backup official rom incase anything goes wrong and i have to re-flash that rom and if anyone can tell me the procedure to do it. And if you guys could, can anyone one of you tell me how can i unroot it if i need to sent it for warranty. Thanks that is all i wanted to ask
Hi!
You can ask questions in the thread you linked. For any help, that's where to ask.
I'll tell you though, after looking at that, you can't install a custom recovery.... So backing up your whole system won't be possible. Not without a custom recovery to do it.
If you're very concerned.... Don't do it.
Good luck!
KJ said:
Hi!
You can ask questions in the thread you linked. For any help, that's where to ask.
I'll tell you though, after looking at that, you can't install a custom recovery.... So backing up your whole system won't be possible. Not without a custom recovery to do it.
If you're very concerned.... Don't do it.
Good luck!
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So i did root this phone although not by the one mentioned in the thread (i installed the drivers but the unlock root couldn't detect my device). I followed another method in which i have to unlock bootloader and in that i could only reach to the point of unlocking boot loader and flashing twrp recovery but twrp recovery screen wasn't working so i was stuck with unlocked bootloader and browsed the net for several hours until i found the
ProHunter method of Modaco forum in which he provided a complete software to unlock, install recovery, and then install SuperSU. But now i am concerned about one thing. Can anybody of guys tell me how can i completely backup my system so that i can restore it if something bad happens? And can any of you guys be kind enough and tell me how can i backup my stock rom i would be in forever debt of you. Thanks for the reply.
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So i did root this phone although not by the one mentioned in the thread (i installed the drivers but the unlock root couldn't detect my device). I followed another method in which i have to unlock bootloader and in that i could only reach to the point of unlocking boot loader and flashing twrp recovery but twrp recovery screen wasn't working so i was stuck with unlocked bootloader and browsed the net for several hours until i found the
ProHunter method of Modaco forum in which he provided a complete software to unlock, install recovery, and then install SuperSU. But now i am concerned about one thing. Can anybody of guys tell me how can i completely backup my system so that i can restore it if something bad happens? And can any of you guys be kind enough and tell me how can i backup my stock rom i would be in forever debt of you. Thanks for the reply.
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You need a custom recovery installed, like twrp or cwm, then you do a nandroid backup in the recovery.
Any further questions about that device should go here...
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Good luck!
I was trying to upgrade my opo and I found my bootloader was locked but to unlock it I needed a recovery installed and somehow it had dissapeared. Please help asap
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I was trying to upgrade my opo and I found my bootloader was locked but to unlock it I needed a recovery installed and somehow it had dissapeared. Please help asap
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None of that makes sense. You don't need a recovery to unlock your bootloader. Your bootloader can't disappear either. Look, you're going to have to provide a lot more information if you expect anybody to be able to help you. We need details, lots of them. We need to know exactly what you did to the device, we need to know exactly what the device can and can't do now. You need to explain everything with as much information as possible, because honestly, with the information you've given so far nobody can help at all.
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None of that makes sense. You don't need a recovery to unlock your bootloader. Your bootloader can't disappear either. Look, you're going to have to provide a lot more information if you expect anybody to be able to help you. We need details, lots of them. We need to know exactly what you did to the device, we need to know exactly what the device can and can't do now. You need to explain everything with as much information as possible, because honestly, with the information you've given so far nobody can help at all.
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Ok well..
I was recently trying to flash the new oxygen OS onto my oneplus, but when i was trying to flash a custon recovery to do so like TWRP, it said bootloader needed to be unlocked, I did what was needed but my phone wouldnt boot into the stock recovery (or recovery of any form) and just stayed at the boot screen. This made me unable to unlock my bootloader so i am basically stuck on the current version of Android and cannot upgrade or flash.
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Ok well..
I was recently trying to flash the new oxygen OS onto my oneplus, but when i was trying to flash a custon recovery to do so like TWRP, it said bootloader needed to be unlocked, I did what was needed but my phone wouldnt boot into the stock recovery (or recovery of any form) and just stayed at the boot screen. This made me unable to unlock my bootloader so i am basically stuck on the current version of Android and cannot upgrade or flash.
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That still doesn't make sense. Where did you read that you need to boot into recovery in order to unlock your bootloader? That isn't true. You use fastboot to unlock your bootloader, not recovery. Have a look at my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471