Just got this new to me 530NU, wanted to put TWRP on it to get a good recovery and root it. Not looking to flash roms or anything, just recovery and root guide, it's been a while since i played on Galaxy/Odin stuff.
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I have rooted and flashed recoveries to my fair share of Android phones, but all have slightly different methods, my friend recently bought a GT540 and wants to update to atleast Android 2.2 so he can install apps to his SD card since his internal storage is full, he doesn't know much about Android and I suggested that I will take his phone and root etc and put either 2.2 or 2.3 on it for him, I have seen the ROMs available and thats all fine and dandy but need a root guide and flashing recovery guide please.
Thanks in advance.
for rooting download z4root, search in google. recovery.img look here. and for flashing it download my app, Root Toolbox below. place the recovery.img in the root of you sdcard and rename it recovery.img(/sdcard/recovery.img). go into advanced and click flash recovery. wait a few seconds and it will be done. go to the reboot menu and click reboot recovery. you may need to unlock it first by flashing a fastboot rom with kdz updater, not shore though.
Hi
A while ago i flashed leaked android 4.3 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2368401
and suddenly i realized that i have lost root access. I can't get into recovery (TWRP)
What should I do? Please help!
why do you think that you wouldnt lose root after flashing stock? and you didnt lose your recovery, it got replaced by stock recovery, as always when you flash stock. you need to flash your custom recovery of choice via fastboot, then flash the su binaries via your newly reflashed custom recovery. thats all. a simple search would have found you the answer, because mamy people get stuck there after every single new android version. to prevent this from happening, do some research before flashing anything.
simms22 said:
why do you think that you wouldnt lose root after flashing stock? and you didnt lose your recovery, it got replaced by stock recovery, as always when you flash stock. you need to flash your custom recovery of choice via fastboot, then flash the su binaries via your newly reflashed custom recovery. thats all. a simple search would have found you the answer, because mamy people get stuck there after every single new android version. to prevent this from happening, do some research before flashing anything.
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TWRP is still there because when small update comes (3.9 MB) is doesn't install. Instead it reboots into TWRP
I posted yesterday on this topic but wanted to give an update.
I downloaded the cyanogenmod for my LG G2. The you tube video I watched as watch?v=tyBc45ScZzw. When I try to reboot into revovery mode all I get a black screen and little Android guy with a red triangle over the top and a exclamation point in it.
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Any help as to what I am doing wrong to get into recovery mode? I actually factory defaulted yestersday and tried again and the same thing is happening.
Thanks for the help
TheBull50 said:
I posted yesterday on this topic but wanted to give an update.
I downloaded the cyanogenmod for my LG G2. The you tube video I watched as watch?v=tyBc45ScZzw. When I try to reboot into revovery mode all I get a black screen and little Android guy with a red triangle over the top and a exclamation point in it.
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Any help as to what I am doing wrong to get into recovery mode? I actually factory defaulted yestersday and tried again and the same thing is happening.
Thanks for the help
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Seems you haven't installed a custom recovery yet buddy, if you tried, you've failed.
First root your phone, then install a custom recovery, then try again booting into your recovery.
If your already on stock kk, I don't believe you can install a custom recovery yet, only root it. So you would first have to downgrade back to JB.
Check the
Merfy said:
Seems you haven't installed a custom recovery yet buddy, if you tried, you've failed.
First root your phone, then install a custom recovery, then try again booting into your recovery.
If your already on stock kk, I don't believe you can install a custom recovery yet, only root it. So you would first have to downgrade back to JB.
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What would be the best custom recovery to install? I def know my phone is rooted. That I already check. I have yet to go up to KK . My phone says Android Version 4.2.2
TheBull50 said:
What would be the best custom recovery to install? I def know my phone is rooted. That I already check. I have yet to go up to KK . My phone says Android Version 4.2.2
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Well there only 2 options really, I'd say TWRP is more user friendly, so i would recommend that to you, before installing a rom first read the instructions and make sure they haven't first recommend a recovery for that specific rom installation.
Once you have a custom recovery its very simple to switch between them.
Follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469995
It's an old method but is very easy. This will install twrp but an old version.
So before using the method above first download the latest twrp onto your phone, i don't know what version of the g2 you have so if you reply i can try point you to the latest, but if you search for twrp 2.7 for your phone you should find it. You want it in .zip format.
So after saving the file to your phone, go ahead and follow the instructions above, if it says it successful, try booting into recovery again, the same way you managed to format your phone but this time it should boot your recovery, then press install .zip and flash the latest twrp.
Then your ready to go! just follow the instructions for the roms you'd like and flash them.
Best of Luck!
Merfy said:
Well there only 2 options really, I'd say TWRP is more user friendly, so i would recommend that to you, before installing a rom first read the instructions and make sure they haven't first recommend a recovery for that specific rom installation.
Once you have a custom recovery its very simple to switch between them.
Follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469995
It's an old method but is very easy. This will install twrp but an old version.
So before using the method above first download the latest twrp onto your phone, i don't know what version of the g2 you have so if you reply i can try point you to the latest, but if you search for twrp 2.7 for your phone you should find it. You want it in .zip format.
So after saving the file to your phone, go ahead and follow the instructions above, if it says it successful, try booting into recovery again, the same way you managed to format your phone but this time it should boot your recovery, then press install .zip and flash the latest twrp.
Then your ready to go! just follow the instructions for the roms you'd like and flash them.
Best of Luck!
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I'm using a Verizon LG G2 VS980 . I just downloaded TWRP 2.7 though so I am going to give that a go !!
I know many of you must be tired of reading that noobs like me get stuck in such a simple process... But I've tried everything I can, so now it's my turn to ask for help.
I've updated via OTA to lollipop, but I'm tired of such lagginess, so I wanted to flash some other ROM. I've used the toolkit to unlock bootloader, which worked flawlessly, but I cannot get it to root. I don't get any error or anything, the device resets, it says the process was successful, but I don't get SuperSU and the apps to check root say I don't have the permission. I've tried some other methods, but I failed as well.
What the hell can I do to root, flash a recovery and flash this ROM? I've always done it with my other devices, but I can't manage to do it with my N7 even though it should be the easiest one as it has so much development!
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for my noobness
Take a look at this thread:
Lollipop Update
You don't need anything installed on the sdcard, but you need to be able to fastboot flash files from your pc. I used this process and successfully got Lollipop with SuperSU and root.
Groid said:
Take a look at this thread:
Lollipop Update
You don't need anything installed on the sdcard, but you need to be able to fastboot flash files from your pc. I used this process and successfully got Lollipop with SuperSU and root.
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Thanks, I'll check it out!
I solved this, thanks!
I've been doing some research to understand rooting, unlocking, and other Android stuff, but one thing I still haven't figured out is how people "make" a stock recovery image, so that for example after flashing TWRP you can go back to the stock recovery (which I read is one way to install future updates). I think in general it would be possible if rooted, but for ZE551KL, so far I'm pretty sure the only way to root is to unlock and install TWRP. So, how would one make a backup of the stock recovery? If it can't be backed up without root, do people get it from somewhere else, firmware releases maybe? I looked but seems to be mostly a giant system.new.dat file...
Past that specific question, where can I learn more about the partition structure of my phone? Like where is the recovery in the file system?
Thanks for the help!