I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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Its a known issue that is yet to be fixed. You did nothing wrong.
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leelaa said:
Its a known issue that is yet to be fixed. You did nothing wrong.
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Alright. Thanks for the reply!
SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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You need to have a USB cable connected to the Nexus 7, and if you're in fastboot it'll load into recovery. Known bug
Wrong section dude but as said before known bug
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flash twrp recovery, its not buggy and is more functional.
SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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It's a problem with the boot loader. For now you will need to be plugged into a computer to go into recovery. It doesn't even have to have drivers or anything installed.
Plug in tablet into computer
Use power and volume buttons to get into recovery
And no, this problem won't be fixed by flashing twrp because it deals with the boot loader.
Just boot to recovery from Rom manager or similar.
I can confirm that quick boot does work to get you into recovery.
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Same problem
I've read in other threads that deleting the stock recovery, or modifying it's filename, will fix this problem. Does anyone know if this is true? I can boot recovery through Rom manager or through the power menu. The only worry I have is if I ever get stuck in a bootloop, or brick. It is good to know about the usb trick to load CWM, thanks for that.
Flash TWRP, and use an app like quick boot to reboot into recovery.
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I use TWRP and boot to recovery through the roms power menu. I've been very happy with TWRP though, I use a recovery because of stability and performance. I could really care less if it's touch or if it has themes, so when I recommend TWRP it's because I've been using it so long on my transformer prime and nexus 7 and it has done nothing but work exactly like it should.
veeman said:
It's a problem with the boot loader. For now you will need to be plugged into a computer to go into recovery. It doesn't even have to have drivers or anything installed.
Plug in tablet into computer
Use power and volume buttons to get into recovery
And no, this problem won't be fixed by flashing twrp because it deals with the boot loader.
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Weird because today I tried to get into CWR for the first time since I rooted, and it wouldn't work. I got the red ! triangle [sticking out of the green robot].
I plugged it into my laptop.. [and btw I was holding vol UP/DOWN, press power, in the bootloader then selecting 'Recovery' then <Power>] and this time it showed the "Google" and the unlocked lock.. but then booted into the Android OS.
So I flash TWRP [using Ubuntu, and $ fastboot install recovery {TWRP-filename.img}. And what do you know. It booted perfectly into recovery.
So how do you explain that?
mvmacd said:
Weird because today I tried to get into CWR for the first time since I rooted, and it wouldn't work. I got the red ! triangle [sticking out of the green robot].
I plugged it into my laptop.. [and btw I was holding vol UP/DOWN, press power, in the bootloader then selecting 'Recovery' then ] and this time it showed the "Google" and the unlocked lock.. but then booted into the Android OS.
So I flash TWRP [using Ubuntu, and $ fastboot install recovery {TWRP-filename.img}. And what do you know. It booted perfectly into recovery.
So how do you explain that?
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The only possible ways to boot into recovery from a working system partition is by either using an app that reboots for you/terminal command.
To reboot from bootloader/button combination you need to have a USB connection otherwise it will freeze at the Google logo. This is bootloader related and not recovery related as any recovery (stock/cwm/twrp) show the same behavior.
You can try fully powering off the tablet and try booting by button combo and you will see it freezes. Using the power adapter will completely freeze your bootloader if you try, so you require a USB connection to a computer to get into recovery.
For me to boot into recovery , I have to use the tool kit all the time. Is that what everyone is doing??? Because every time I go to fastboot and choose recovery (with my N7 plugged on the usb) I get the Android with the exclamation point.
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Skunk2 DC said:
For me to boot into recovery , I have to use the tool kit all the time. Is that what everyone is doing??? Because every time I go to fastboot and choose recovery (with my N7 plugged on the usb) I get the Android with the exclamation point.
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I had the same thing, but I flashed TWRP and it works most of the time. let me know if you try it.
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So I just unlocked my boot loader and rooted it + installed CMw recovery, and after I did that I was able to get into recovery mode, however I put a custom kernel in my internal storage so that I could flash it but now I can't get into recovery mode... when I clicked recovery it goes to the black screen with the Google symbol on it and stays there.... any idea what I can do here?
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MRsf27 said:
So I just unlocked my boot loader and rooted it + installed CMw recovery, and after I did that I was able to get into recovery mode, however I put a custom kernel in my internal storage so that I could flash it but now I can't get into recovery mode... when I clicked recovery it goes to the black screen with the Google symbol on it and stays there.... any idea what I can do here?
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You can't get into recovery without a USB cable connected. Install Quickboot from the Google Play Store. That's how i boot into recovery.Quickboot is the only way to do it without a cable.
theandroidrooter88 said:
You can't get into recovery without a USB cable connected. Install Quickboot from the Google Play Store. That's how i boot into recovery.
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oh damn, lol thanks alot, had no idea that you needed to be connected, i'll definately be installing quickboot i feel like such a moron
IF A MOD WANTS TO DELETE THIS NOW THEY CANT, THANKS AGAIN!
Yes you can get into recovery without a usb . I'm not sure what the quickboot thing is all its doing is executing a command like
#reboot recovery
That's all it does. If you have terminal execute that command.
But if you're recovery is broken just reflash it using
#fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
Or just use the toolkit.
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OK so I got quick boot and it works like a charm.. I just click recovery and it takes me to recovery, works like a charm
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I updated TWRP today to 2.3.0.0 from within GooManager then rebooted into recovery and fixed my permission. It was done unusually fast and when I rebooted, it would get stuck on the booting screen. When I tried to boot into recovery by pressing power and both volume buttons, it would get stuck on the google logo.
Please advise.
Any other way I can fix this or somehow restore from a backup?
A lot of users are having issues with cwm and twrp not booting with new boot loader. You can revert back to old version or some have had success by deleting "recovery-from-boot." file. You can look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779092 I'm going to wait patiently for a twrp update that should resolve the issue.
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A lot of users are having issues with cwm and twrp not booting with new boot loader. You can revert back to old version or some have had success by deleting "recovery-from-boot." file. You can look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779092 I'm going to wait patiently for a twrp update that should resolve the issue.
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Thank you very much!
I'm sorry but I'm not too much of an expert on Android. AFAIK Recovery mode is the only way I know to do some low system stuff. If I can't boot into recovery, how else can I do anything to fix this?
How can I revert back to old version?
I know you linked the other thread but there are 33 pages I was hoping you would have a short answer hehe thanks.
Is it constantly rebooting at the google screen or just stuck?
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Is it constantly rebooting at the google screen or just stuck?
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If I try to boot into system, it's stuck on boot animation.
If I try to boot into recovery manually (power + volume buttons then select recovery) it would get stuck on Google. It doesn't loop.
I see that you posted over on the twrp thread, hopefully those guys can help you. I am assuming that you have updated to 4.1.2? If you're really stuck maybe try a tool kit like wugs or n7 toolkit? Sorry but SDK isn't one of my strong points either
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woshiweili said:
If I try to boot into system, it's stuck on boot animation.
If I try to boot into recovery manually (power + volume buttons then select recovery) it would get stuck on Google. It doesn't loop.
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You can reflash recovery from fastboot. If you've updated to 4.1.2 you might be experiencing same issue as many of us - being unable to boot to recovery. If that is the case, flash bootloader 3.34 from the JRO03D factory image as well.
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comminus said:
You can reflash recovery from fastboot. If you've updated to 4.1.2 you might be experiencing same issue as many of us - being unable to boot to recovery. If that is the case, flash bootloader 3.34 from the JRO03D factory image as well.
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From what I understand, in order to reflash recovery from fastboot would require me to get the file to the device. However, right now I can't seem to get access at all as it never boots up whether into system or recovery. Are there any other ways to get files onto there?
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OK this is weird. I tried rebooting into recovery again and it worked! I then rebooted into system and that worked too! This is so strange because I didn't do anything different. I guess it just took 20+ tries... I am not rebooting in a while... lol
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From what I understand, in order to reflash recovery from fastboot would require me to get the file to the device. However, right now I can't seem to get access at all as it never boots up whether into system or recovery. Are there any other ways to get files onto there?
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OK this is weird. I tried rebooting into recovery again and it worked! I then rebooted into system and that worked too! This is so strange because I didn't do anything different. I guess it just took 20+ tries... I am not rebooting in a while... lol
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Hey, glad to hear you're in. In an earlier post you described
woshiweili said:
If I try to boot into recovery manually (power + volume buttons then select recovery) it would get stuck on Google. It doesn't loop.
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which sounds like you were able to get to fastboot mode (power + vol buttons) - your N7 should look like this. From there you can issue fastboot commands to the device to flash recovery. kerne, and bootloader to name a few.
Actually I spoke too soon.
I can boot into recovery TWRP 2.3 with USB plugged in, but still can't boot into system.
Is it possible for me to downgrade to TWRP 2.2 from within TWRP? I kind of doubt it but am pretty desperate at the moment lol.
Yes, I can get into fastboot, but I'm not sure how to do anything besides pressing volume up or down to start, recovery, fastboot or shut down.
woshiweili said:
Actually I spoke too soon.
I can boot into recovery TWRP 2.3 with USB plugged in, but still can't boot into system.
Is it possible for me to downgrade to TWRP 2.2 from within TWRP? I kind of doubt it but am pretty desperate at the moment lol.
Yes, I can get into fastboot, but I'm not sure how to do anything besides pressing volume up or down to start, recovery, fastboot or shut down.
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If you can get in to fastboot you are in good shape. :good:
You'll need the fastboot program (and the driver if on Windows) on your computer in order to issue commands. This guide can direct you on how to get that set up.
comminus said:
If you can get in to fastboot you are in good shape. :good:
You'll need the fastboot program (and the driver if on Windows) on your computer in order to issue commands. This guide can direct you on how to get that set up.
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Thanks for all your help comminus!
Fortunately I was able to wipe everything while I was in recovery and restore from my most recent backup and now it's working fine. At the very least it's allowing me to boot into system
OK I'm really not rebooting for a while lol
I installed twrp a few weeks ago through GooManager and made a backup. When the 4.1.2 update came out, I downloaded it manually with the intent on flashing it via cu custom recovery, but low and behold twrp wasn't working at all. Even with my device plugged into my Win 7 pc... nothing but the exclamation point droid.
I was able to install an updated version of twrp and get everything sorted out, but now I don't have a lot of faith in it, and am booting into recovery at least once a day to make sure it's still working. I never had any problems with cwm.
Twrp has been updated if you're still having issues.
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I'm using twrp version 2.3.0.0, and have no plans on updating it because it's stable and working great now
Gigabitex2 said:
Twrp has been updated if you're still having issues.
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Updated to 2.3.1.0 but still having booting issues
The title says it all. In fastboot, selecting recovery shows "Google", then a black screen for a moment, then "Google" again, then the tablet boots normally. I am aware that there's a problem with booting to recovery if you don't hook up a USB cable during Fastboot mode, but I've done that and I still can't get to recovery. I've tried it with stock recovery and after flashing CWM recovery, but no dice on either.
Thanks for any advice you can provide!
Edit: For anyone wondering, this is a 16gb wifi-only Nexus 7 running unrooted 4.2.1.
Have you tried...
adb reboot recovery
or
adb reboot bootloader
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veeman said:
Have you tried...
adb reboot recovery
or
adb reboot bootloader
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I had to down grade to the 3.34 recovery image to get my N7 to boot into recovery and it only does so from an app licate Quick Boot.
do you have the correct bootloader? if not, flash the appropriate version of the bootloader. also try the goomanager app from the market, it installs a (in my opinion at least) better recovery call twrp, or team win recovery project.
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Have you tried...
adb reboot recovery
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adb reboot bootloader
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The exact same thing happens with reboot recovery - shutdown, Google logo, black screen, Google logo, normal boot. With adb reboot bootloader, I get into fastboot mode, then selecting Recovery does the same thing - Google logo, black screen, Google logo.
Billchen0014 said:
do you have the correct bootloader? if not, flash the appropriate version of the bootloader. also try the goomanager app from the market, it installs a (in my opinion at least) better recovery call twrp, or team win recovery project.
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This happens with the stock recovery from the Google Nexus 7 Toolkit and with CWM. I believe I did install twrp earlier but the fact remains, I cannot access any recovery under any circumstances, they just progress to a normal boot.
Maybe do a fresh setup(Stock Rom) with nexus 7 toolkit and then try to flash the recovery(again), just an idea.
bigmike87 said:
Maybe do a fresh setup(Stock Rom) with nexus 7 toolkit and then try to flash the recovery(again), just an idea.
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Did that before posting on this thread, but sadly, no dice.
Billchen0014 said:
do you have the correct bootloader? if not, flash the appropriate version of the bootloader. also try the goomanager app from the market, it installs a (in my opinion at least) better recovery call twrp, or team win recovery project.
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How do I determine the bootloader version? And why would this cause a problem?
shellsonthefloor said:
How do I determine the bootloader version? And why would this cause a problem?
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Bootloader 3.41 was problematic (for some) in earlier versions of CWM and TWRP. The correct bootloader version for JOP40D is 4.13. Use this with CWM 6.0.1.9 or TWRP 2.3.2.1
To determine the current version reboot in fastboot mode - power off device, hold vol down + power. Your device should then look like this
My Nexus 7 is at Android 4.2.1 and after installing the Elite Kernel to make it boot faster with CLockWork Mod, its stuck at the X animation. I can still access fastboot mode and clockwork recovery mod but I still can start the device. Please help
reflash your rom in your cwm recovery.
Tried
simms22 said:
reflash your rom in your cwm recovery.
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I just tried doing that and it said it was succesfully installed but I need to reboot. After tapping reboot system my Nexus 7 is still stuck in that X animation and wont boot.
1100G19 said:
I just tried doing that and it said it was succesfully installed but I need to reboot. After tapping reboot system my Nexus 7 is still stuck in that X animation and wont boot.
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go into the bootloader/fastboot and try booring from there. you also might need to wipe data/factory reset then reflash your rom. also, sometimes force rebooting from a bootloop will boot it(long press the power button while in the bootloop, hold the power button for 10-20 seconds).
I had this happen to me yesterday when trying to flash a custom kernel to use with CM 10.1. The way I was able to fix it, was to pull the boot.img from the ROM zip and flash it through fastboot in the bootloader. The short and simple way is this:
Open the command prompt or terminal in the folder where fastboot is on your computer, extract the boot.img from the zip file of the ROM your using and place it in the folder with fastboot, then on your Nexus 7, hold in power + volume up + volume down to turn it off. Then hold down volume down and press power to boot into the bootloader. Once there, type in the command prompt/terminal: fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot and you should be good to go.
Can I just remove the ROM?
simms22 said:
go into the bootloader/fastboot and try booring from there. you also might need to wipe data/factory reset then reflash your rom. also, sometimes force rebooting from a bootloop will boot it(long press the power button while in the bootloop, hold the power button for 10-20 seconds).
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So if I back up the devices files with CWM and factory reseting it will remove the backup, so is there a way to send the backup onto my laptop?
Also is it possible to just remove the rom because I feel like my life would be easier if I unintalled it.
Thank You!
Hmmmmmm
Hanger84 said:
I had this happen to me yesterday when trying to flash a custom kernel to use with CM 10.1. The way I was able to fix it, was to pull the boot.img from the ROM zip and flash it through fastboot in the bootloader. The short and simple way is this:
Open the command prompt or terminal in the folder where fastboot is on your computer, extract the boot.img from the zip file of the ROM your using and place it in the folder with fastboot, then on your Nexus 7, hold in power + volume up + volume down to turn it off. Then hold down volume down and press power to boot into the bootloader. Once there, type in the command prompt/terminal: fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot and you should be good to go.
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Its a bit complicated. Also how do I get the boot.img to my computer from my nexus 7 because when I connected the Nexus 7 folder is not under "My Computer"
Thank you
Sounds like you need to go to fastboot and flash 4.13 bootloader.
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Dont know
rebel1699 said:
Sounds like you need to go to fastboot and flash 4.13 bootloader.
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How do I flash 4.13 bootloader?
All you have to do is download the same ROM on your computer that you have on your phone. If its stock 4.2.1, then download the factory image of it and extract the boot image from the zip file and follow the same steps I outlined, though instead of using: fastboot flash boot boot.img, it would be fast boot flash boot <name of boot image>.img
If you still have trouble, feel free to message me here or on GTalk and I'll walk you through it.
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There's an important lesson to be learned here, and you unfortunately learned it the hard way. Never, ever, blindly flash something. You need to read the OP as well as catch up on at least the last page or two of the thread. Had you done so, you would have noted that Clemsyn's Elite kernels are not compatible with 4.2.1.
I'm not saying this to be a condescending, but rather to save you the possibility of getting into situations like this again. Fortunately, Nexus devices are easily recoverable from various user errors.
Hey XDA, Recently installed Paranoid Android coming from Chroma and it's not stuck in a boot loop. I can boot just fine every time besides the annoying corruption google warning, but no matter how many times I try to install TWRP it just won't let me boot into recovery. I'm using WugFresh's NRT kit. Can't seem to figure it out. Any suggestions?
carterl96 said:
Hey XDA, Recently installed Paranoid Android coming from Chroma and it's not stuck in a boot loop. I can boot just fine every time besides the annoying corruption google warning, but no matter how many times I try to install TWRP it just won't let me boot into recovery. I'm using WugFresh's NRT kit. Can't seem to figure it out. Any suggestions?
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My suggestion is for you to fastboot flash the TWRP recovery image instead of using a toolkit. You cant see the inner workings of a toolkit and have no idea of what it is doing. The toolkit could be using the wrong commands to install a recovery image to your 6P. Go to www.twrp.me and search for the recovery image for your specific device and download the file. Next, rename the file to recovery.img Then, on your PC, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the TWRP image. Open a command prompt in that folder by pressing and holding the SHIFT KEY + RIGHT CLICK on your mouse and select OPEN A COMMAND WINDOW HERE. Boot to the bootloader on your device and connect it to your PC. Then type this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then type this:
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot reboot recovery
Here is the link to download TWRP for your Nexus 6P
This will reboot your device to TWRP
All of this is based on the assumption that you have a working ADB installation and unlocked the bootloader and have USB Debugging turned on in DEVELOPER OPTIONS.
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Same thing, successful install and it won't open. Just shows the dead android when going to recovery.
carterl96 said:
Same thing, successful install and it won't open. Just shows the dead android when going to recovery.
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You get the same results after fastboot flashing the TWRP image? I'd say your next step is to start fresh by fastboot flashing the factory images to return to a fully stock state. Then fastboot flash TWRP again.
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Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought
tech_head said:
Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought
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I thought about that too. What is probably happening is his custom recovery is being patched by the ROM each time he boots into recovery. Thanks for picking up on that. I forgot to include that in my last post.
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tech_head said:
Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought
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That's correct. After flashing TWRP the next step is reboot into the bootloader using the volume keys and power key , then from there boot into recovery using the volume keys and power key, then the phone can be rebooted from TWRP into Android and then after that TWRP should stick.
If the boot image is not patched, the ROM will overwrite TWRP once you reboot. flashing latest SU from TWRP will prevent this.
Thanks for all the replies guys! All the advice combined got it to work. I did some more research and found that Paranoid doesn't actually come preprooted like all the other roms I've been used to. So using the tool kit I just had it root it with the latest SuperSu and also flash a custom recovery. It has booted into TWRP no problems now a few times. Hopefully it will stay like this. Will keep everyone posted and appreciate the advice. Thanks XDA!