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Question on TWRP with Samsung Skyrocket

I'll post my question after some background:
I was on CWM Touch, downloaded and installed the TWRP from google play. Rebooted into recovery, created backups to internal and external, and flashed SkyICS 4.2f6 by Seanz. I followed OP instructions on how to flash. Did not have any problems and it was very easy to use.
Used TWRP and flashed several MODS and ROM updates without any hitch. All I did was reboot into recovery selected the zip files and swipe to install, did not even had to wipe cache or anything. I am not sure if this is the correct way but I was able to do so without any problems.
I wanted to install the same rom but to do a clean wipe since the rom had several updates. So, I rebooted into TWRP recovery, did OP flashing instructions which were:
-reboot into team win recovery
-wipe system
-factory data reset
-then go to mounts and choose external sd
-no go back and find the rom by choosing install zip
-swipe to confirm
-then install the radio you downloaded
and when complete reboot phone
-at this point everything will be settling and caching
which may or may not seem laggy.... and yes that white line is normal
its a battery representation mod
-im sure youll be eager to update busybox immediatly but let me tell you no
first open super user app.. find preferences and update user binary
hit it twice giving it root permissions
now .. is when to update busy box through the provided installer
-after you have done this
-power down phone
reboot into recovery and flash the latest update
and email package only
However, I was not able to reboot into recovery. I have a Samsung Skyrocket but was not able to put the phone into recovery mode by pressing and holding the power, volume up, and volume down buttons. The phone kept vibrating but the Samsung screen wont come up. Frustrated, I rebooted the phone, downloaded CWM, updated to Touch and proceeded to flash using CWM with no problems.
At this point i'm hesitant on using TWRP. I am not even sure if ODIN supports it. I'm afraid that if i'm on TWRP and brick my phone, I will not be able to use ODIN.
Questions:
Has anyone encounter the same problem?
Is TWRP compatible with ODIN?
Can anyone using Samsung Skyrocket confirm the recovery steps used above is correct?
Thank you for your help.

i am currently using twrp and ive had no problems flashing roms including sky ics which those directions are from also a recovery isnt compatible with odin if you want to odin back to stock or flash anew recovery image you just go into download mode and procedd from there

RAVEN6 said:
I'll post my question after some background:
I was on CWM Touch, downloaded and installed the TWRP from google play. Rebooted into recovery, created backups to internal and external, and flashed SkyICS 4.2f6 by Seanz. I followed OP instructions on how to flash. Did not have any problems and it was very easy to use.
Used TWRP and flashed several MODS and ROM updates without any hitch. All I did was reboot into recovery selected the zip files and swipe to install, did not even had to wipe cache or anything. I am not sure if this is the correct way but I was able to do so without any problems.
I wanted to install the same rom but to do a clean wipe since the rom had several updates. So, I rebooted into TWRP recovery, did OP flashing instructions which were:
-reboot into team win recovery
-wipe system
-factory data reset
-then go to mounts and choose external sd
-no go back and find the rom by choosing install zip
-swipe to confirm
-then install the radio you downloaded
and when complete reboot phone
-at this point everything will be settling and caching
which may or may not seem laggy.... and yes that white line is normal
its a battery representation mod
-im sure youll be eager to update busybox immediatly but let me tell you no
first open super user app.. find preferences and update user binary
hit it twice giving it root permissions
now .. is when to update busy box through the provided installer
-after you have done this
-power down phone
reboot into recovery and flash the latest update
and email package only
However, I was not able to reboot into recovery. I have a Samsung Skyrocket but was not able to put the phone into recovery mode by pressing and holding the power, volume up, and volume down buttons. The phone kept vibrating but the Samsung screen wont come up. Frustrated, I rebooted the phone, downloaded CWM, updated to Touch and proceeded to flash using CWM with no problems.
At this point i'm hesitant on using TWRP. I am not even sure if ODIN supports it. I'm afraid that if i'm on TWRP and brick my phone, I will not be able to use ODIN.
Questions:
Has anyone encounter the same problem?
Is TWRP compatible with ODIN?
Can anyone using Samsung Skyrocket confirm the recovery steps used above is correct?
Thank you for your help.
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To reboot into recovery you hold power, volume up and down and when you see the first samsung logo let go of the power or it will keep rebooting.
As for being compatible with odin, I'm not sure what you mean. You can flash TWRP through odin, you can get into download mode with twrp installed also.
Have you tried reinstalling TWRP?

Stuck while installing Pacrom, no backup, safestrap gs4

I started to install pacrom on my verizon galaxy s4 and am havings troubles. I'll start from the beginning.
I rooted the phone via Towelroot app and checked it with rootchecker.
Then i downloaded the following.
downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS4/SCH-i545/roms/PACMan/pac_jfltevzw-nightly-20130913.zip
downloadandroidrom.com/file/gapps/PA/pa_gapps-full-4.2-20130610-signed.zip
androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001603023 this is safestrap for "FOR USERS OF MJ7/MK2" IDK the difference between that and ME7/MI1 but i used MJ7/MK2
From here I opened up the safestrap app and installed the recovery and loaded it up. I left it on the stock rom slot while i continued to wipe everything and install the rom and GAPPS. This was a mistake, however, because i it bootlooped. I tried wiping and installing many different ways and still ended up with a bootloop. I realized in needed to use a rom slot and set that up. I wiped all the necessary things and installed the rom and GAPPS. Still it bootlooped. I have even tried to install without GAPPS with no avail. I forgot to make a backup of the stock and the stock slot just bootloops the pacrom boot screen. I cant find a way to add filed from my computer because whenever i connect it during the boot screen it shows up as a disc drive on my computer. Normally i would choose USB settings and make it where i can transefer data files, but i cant do this. I really need some help with this as I have done all I know to do. The downloads may be the problem, but from what i understand they are the correct ones. Thanks

Download this rom, move it to your phone and flash with recovery.
If you can't get the file on the phone I will help you out.

[q][help urgent][samsung j500f] no download mode/no os/twrp present/no booting

Hi,
okay, so i had a rooted samsung j500f phone running android lollipop 5.1.1 stock rom (downloaded from sammobile). I was using Apps2Sd for linking my apps to the external SD Card. Few days ago, my phone turned off on the battery getting empty and when i turned it on, all linked apps were missing. I was getting an error that "Disable mount namespace seperation in Chainfire SU". I did that but nothing happened and the App2Sd was unable to remount 2nd partition.
Frustrated, i contacted their developer who suggested to reinstall SuperSU. So, i opened the SuperSU app (chainfire) and went to settings and then chose the option "Reinstall from google play store". It uninstalled SuperSU which i later downloaded from Google Play Store. After it had installed, it asked to install binaries and gave me two options:
1) Normal in-app method
2) TWRP/CWM recovery method
I chose the second one (because i had TWRP installed).
Then my phone rebooted into recovery and ran a few scripts. However it later stated that there is no root on your device (which i believe may have been removed when SuperSU was uninstalled). TWRP gave me options to reinstall SuperSU but it did nothing. I downloaded the latest SuperSU zip file from chainfire site and tried to flash it. But the script would show failure. Now, my phone wouldn't boot into the system. Only into recovery mode.
Being really pissed, i decided to do a factory reset. So i did a factory reset from within the TWRP (normal wipe). Still, my phone wouldn't boot but would go to recovery. So i got angry, went into the Advanced wipe option in which i selected dalvik cache, internal storage, SYSTEM and wiped them all.
Now on trying to reboot, TWRP would say "There is no OS installed. Are you sure you want to continue?"
I knew i had messed up my phone and so i decided to flash it with stock rom again using ODIN. But, whenever i try to go into download mode it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy J5 Logo screen with "ODIN Mode" written on the top left along with a couple of other details such as Knox void 0x1(4), Rom statusfficial, etc.
Clearly, i am unable to flash using ODIN as my phone isn't being able to go to Download Mode. ODIN doesn't detect my device.
So i thought of flashing the stock rom using TWRP, which failed.
I also have a TWRP Backup but TWRP won't let me select it. I have the backup folder on my SD card.
Now my phone has just TWRP, Can't get into download mode using the key combinations or through TWRP bootloader option which on selection gives me the "No OS" error. I can't boot my device up as it goes into recovery.
Kindly help as soon as possible.
Thank you.

If you wipe the SYSTEM Partition, then of course that no OS is installed. Like a Hard Brick. Good Job...

[Completed] Soft bricked i9300 and can't get to recovery

So let's start the story. I rooted my phone with KingRoot, all was good. Replaced it through the "Terminal Emulator for Android" app to SuperSU (The SuperSume app didn't work for me because "Your system is incompatible with this version"), all was good. Wanted to install Lineage OS. Installed it without GApps (I forgot it...), all was good. Downloaded the stock GApps for my phone, and flashed with Lineage OS through TWRP. It was working, but the Google app and Google Play Services were crashing every second. I searched that up and I found an article that said that I should just flash the GApps again (with no wipe needed), tried it but still no help. So i thought to download the mini GApps package. I wiped everything that was needed (Dalvik cache, Cache, System, Data) and flashed them both. since then, it never booted up. It showed the LineageOS boot animation, and that's it. waited and hour, but still nothing. tried to shut it down by pressing the power button for long time, and then turn it on again, but it doesn't help. Problem is, for some reason I can't get to the recovery! I press the power,home and volume up, and it just boots up normally, but that wasn't working also before flashing lineageOS. When i go to download mode, (which i can, but can't to the recovery) and connect it to Windows pc and Odin, it says "USB wasn't recognized" and doesn't work. i also tried another pc, but no luck. Of course USB Debugging is disabled, because i never had a chance to turn it on. I do have a Nandroid backup from TWRP, but i can't get to the recovery, so that's not helping. Can someone help me fix it?
Info about the phone:
Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300
Original android 4.3
Russian firmware (It had a problem with the GPS, so we fixed it there when we been there, and they replaced the motheboard with a russian one)
Running TWRP custom recovery
If any more info needed, tell me and i'll add.
Thanks for helping me.

R3t0nix7 said:
So let's start the story. I rooted my phone with KingRoot, all was good. Replaced it through the "Terminal Emulator for Android" app to SuperSU (The SuperSume app didn't work for me because "Your system is incompatible with this version"), all was good. Wanted to install Lineage OS. Installed it without GApps (I forgot it...), all was good. Downloaded the stock GApps for my phone, and flashed with Lineage OS through TWRP. It was working, but the Google app and Google Play Services were crashing every second. I searched that up and I found an article that said that I should just flash the GApps again (with no wipe needed), tried it but still no help. So i thought to download the mini GApps package. I wiped everything that was needed (Dalvik cache, Cache, System, Data) and flashed them both. since then, it never booted up. It showed the LineageOS boot animation, and that's it. waited and hour, but still nothing. tried to shut it down by pressing the power button for long time, and then turn it on again, but it doesn't help. Problem is, for some reason I can't get to the recovery! I press the power,home and volume up, and it just boots up normally, but that wasn't working also before flashing lineageOS. When i go to download mode, (which i can, but can't to the recovery) and connect it to Windows pc and Odin, it says "USB wasn't recognized" and doesn't work. i also tried another pc, but no luck. Of course USB Debugging is disabled, because i never had a chance to turn it on. I do have a Nandroid backup from TWRP, but i can't get to the recovery, so that's not helping. Can someone help me fix it?
Info about the phone:
Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300
Original android 4.3
Russian firmware (It had a problem with the GPS, so we fixed it there when we been there, and they replaced the motheboard with a russian one)
Running TWRP custom recovery
If any more info needed, tell me and i'll add.
Thanks for helping me.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. Does kies/smartswitch recognise your phone in download mode ? You could use the emergency firmware recovery option or you can try and use adb to reboot the phone into recovery
Good Luck
Sawdoctor

Nope, not working

I cant install TWRP on SM-P900 ;(

Hi
This is really frustrating. I own many Samsung devices and never had any issue installing twrp, so I am not a noob when it comes to firing up Odin and flashing the image however I am stuck with this device.
I used couple guides with no success. ;( I cant get rid of the Samsung recovery and replace with TWRP. Odin says success but that is just a lie.
I tried both the lollilop bootloader and the older one then TWP with various versions (3.1x , 2.8.x) No luck.
Can anyone please provide me "working files" with "simple steps" in case I am missing out on some minor details. This is SM-P900 Kitkat 4.4.2 version.
- I flash the bootloader using the BL slot in dl mode
- I reboot to downloader again and and install TWRP
- I type adb revoot recovery
Boom, I am back to frigging Samsung recovery

Hi ,
This is a follow up
The only guide that worked for me is this one. It might be helpful to others.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...guide-install-official-lollipop-p900-t3154362

I had trouble getting TWRP to take at first too. It seems Samsung overwrites the recovery upon rebooting so even though TWRP flashed successfully it just gets overwritten when the system restarts. The simple solution for me was to disable the Reboot option in Odin, install TWRP, manually shut down and then enter Recovery mode. Hope that helps. I came across this suggestion either in the thread linked to above or while googling.

Im installing into properly rooted and I have twrp 2.8.7. I want 3+ TWRP.
I flash with PDA/AP and with "autoreboot" unchecked. I power off and power+home+volUP for recovery.
Tablet enters a "enttering recovery" bootloop which can be only disrupted by going into power+home+volDWN to enter Download, and than I can flash with ODIN 2.8.7.
2.8.7 is the latest I can boot into. WHAT IS WRONG?!!!!!!!!! I lost hope, with flashing 100x

Did you try updating TWRP from inside TWRP?
Sent from my Samsung SM-P900 using XDA Labs

try do a full wipe from stock recovery . after that flash twrp selecting the ap and bl in ODIN twrp3.1....tar booth of them (AP & BL)

no no no i tried everything. but than I found out this post : https://s4.postimg.org/s3pel2ekd/this_guy.png and that solved the day!!

With p900 work perfect, but install hard. With this twrp 3.1 i install lineage 14.1, all works good.