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(Q) Lost root and custom Recovery !! i9505

hi all.
I'm really struggling here and dont know what to do.
Ive been rooted and have been running EchoeRom 4.4.2 with an Alucard kernel thats been brilliant.
Last week i seemed to have lost a load of apps - which in hindsight were some that i had moved to SD card. I couldnt update the apps, reinstall or reinstall via titanium.
Long story short I used mybackup after reflashing the ROM but started getting some f/c
A factory reset didnt help so I decided to unroot and flash stock 4.3 NG8 firmware then re-root through ODIN. This is something I/ve done before - but now it wont work.
Ive tried CF Autoroot but the Superuser app says missing Binary.
If I try to get to recovery it just reboots again after 2 seconds to normal startup. I have tried just flashing CWM and TWRP recoveries both with auto reboot checked then un-checked with a battery pull about 20 times.
On 2 or 3 occasions I've had the CF red splash screen for rooting, but that seems to finish with a 'restoring stock recovery' message and i'm back to square one after it reboots.
Ive tried a different superuser app but it couldnt update the binary.
I even attempted a different rooting method with Towelroot but after accessing the APK it starts phone not supported.
Im really stumped now and have no root and no access to any recovery. If i could get to recovery Id be ok.
I dont know if ive destroyed root forever - when updating on ODIN I usually get a PASS message so i suspect something bootloader related may be overwriting the installed recovery ?
Any clues folks !!

1. Reflash android 4.4.2 GN8 firmware through ODIN
2. Download this FILE and copy it to your phone (in SDCard better)
3. Go to DOWNLOAD MODE and Flash TWRP (for example) through ODIN.
4. Remember the combination for go TWRP is a lil difficult and sometimes your phone will reboot normally. This happend to me too:
- Power off your device completely.
- Press and hold Volume Up, Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
- Release the buttons when the phone’s screen flickers or the TWRP Recovery logo blue appears.
- That is it, after you release buttons, you will be taken to the main Recovery Mode menu..
5. Install the file of the step 2 with TWRP.
6. Done

sorry for delay in responding.
I was about to follow your advice, when at random when using the phone it flashed up a message..
something along the lines of 'unauthorised activity detected - reboot phone'
I did this only to go straight into Philz recovery and since then have been able to load a backup, reflash a new rom and all seems ok.
Very strange !
Thanks for the help though.
Robin

Root, recovery and custom rom setup for Galaxy S5 (SM-G900I)

Hi all,
How are you?
I've been looking at these forums for most of the day, though am still quite confused. If someone could assist to clarify it would be much appreciated (as I would like to avoid to brick my phone).
I'm currently running Stock Android, Marshmallow version 6.0.1 with the 1 November 2016 Security Patch.
The model of my phone SM-G900I (Australian edition).
So I've come across the following links with the instructions on how to root and install recovery, though quite confusing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2699648
Recovery Query?
I understand that you need to download the Samsung Drivers and Odin.
I've downloaded the TWRP files for my phone - twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar and twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar.asc
Do I need to use the twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar.asc file at all?
Root Query
Is the towelroot method of rooting the S5 still relevant. The reason I ask, is that when I had posted an initial question on the XDA assist, I was advised that this may not work.
If the towelroot method is no longer relevant, would the CF-Autoroot method below work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2696537
If neither of the above methods work I have seen mentions of "flashing root" via TWRP.
Are there any known instructions on how to do that on XDA or any other website?
Or is it just a matter of obtaining the superSU zip file from https://download.chainfire.eu/696/supersu/ and flashing it?
The other information seems straight forward re using the Samsung Tool to backing up the device and the EFS .
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

just flash the .img file in download mode, and dont use the asc file at all. also dont use twrp 3.0.2-2, just use 3.0.2 (not 3.0.2-1 or 3.0.2-2 as they can be pretty buggy). Towelroot has long since become irrelevant back in the 5.0 days unfortunately so all you need to do is find the appropriate supersu.zip file and put it on your phones sd card (either internal or external), boot into recovery an install that zip via TWRP then reboot. Should be good to go. The classic "root via recovery" method

Paul_Lunardi said:
Hi all,
How are you?
I've been looking at these forums for most of the day, though am still quite confused. If someone could assist to clarify it would be much appreciated (as I would like to avoid to brick my phone).
Recovery Query?
I understand that you need to download the Samsung Drivers and Odin.
I've downloaded the TWRP files for my phone - twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar and twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar.asc
Do I need to use the twrp-3.0.2-2-klte.img.tar.asc file at all?
Root Query
Is the towelroot method of rooting the S5 still relevant. The reason I ask, is that when I had posted an initial question on the XDA assist, I was advised that this may not work.
If the towelroot method is no longer relevant, would the CF-Autoroot method below work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2696537
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1. Plug in your phone and let the drivers load.
If phone unrecognized then head to Playstore you can find loads of apps for drivers
2.unplug your phone and turn it off
3.Load odin.
Some versions of Odin are outdated. So watch for that.
4.Holding your turned off phone. Hold the volume down power and home buttons. Done correctly it should bring you to a page saying custom Roms can damage your blah blah. Volume up to continue down to reboot. Plug your phone in then Push volume up if you feel ready to Join us Oh Padawan.
Now I am sorry for the lengthy information, most likely you have already gotten to this point, but I just want to make the same page for you and future readers. No point in asking a bunch of potentially irrelevant questions when one explanation is sufficient.
5. Odin should find your phone which will be represented by a lit up colored square on the left side indicating a Com:value# which number is of little consequence just tells you which port it found it at. Do not dwell on this.
6. Using an extraction program such as .7z take your CF auto root .Tar file, not the .Asc, and extract. You should be able to find an file with ap in the extension.
7.Take the path from the URL bar of this window including the name of the ap file and copy it over to Odin. In Odin you will see the place to put it is represented by AP.
8. CLICK START AND WAIT WITH JEOPARDY MUSIC.
9. IT MAY REBOOT A FEW TIMES BUT UNTIL IT SAYS success OR FAIL IN ODIN DO NOT TOUCH.
10. Repeat steps 7-9 for twrp.img
10. Now taking this was a success turn your phone off. Unplug and holding volume UP power and home Gets you into twrp recovery. If all is well you can reboot into system. Ignore the kernel warning.

^^^^^ theres the long explanation LoL ^^^^^^^^ i disagree with step 9, but meh

Hi all,
Thanks for the detailed instructions.
So it appears that you can perform the task in 2 ways, ie
* By initially flashing TWRP first using Odin (whilst phone is in download mode), then running the TWRP and then copying over the supersu file to the sd card, then flashing this.
Or alternatively, following the above steps which first
* roots the phone by using Odin within download mode and the "cf auto root" file. Then once again using odin and flashing the TWRP file via odin.
This is my understanding.
Please let me know if I've misunderstood, otherwise thanks all. I'll be giving it a try soon.
My eventual goal is to install the Resurrection Remix Rom, so fingers crossed.

Paul_Lunardi said:
Hi all,
Thanks for the detailed instructions.
So it appears that you can perform the task in 2 ways, ie
* By initially flashing TWRP first using Odin (whilst phone is in download mode), then running the TWRP and then copying over the supersu file to the sd card, then flashing this.
Or alternatively, following the above steps which first
* roots the phone by using Odin within download mode and the "cf auto root" file. Then once again using odin and flashing the TWRP file via odin.
This is my understanding.
Please let me know if I've misunderstood, otherwise thanks all. I'll be giving it a try soon.
My eventual goal is to install the Resurrection Remix Rom, so fingers crossed.
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the cf auto root file usually isnt necessary, nor is flashing supersu really as the newer twrps have the root function built right in. Itll ask you if you want to enable superuser rights the first time you boot into it. Just swipe right and its rooted. Alternatively, flashing supersu from within twrp or the cf auto root also work. CF is the acronym for the dev ChainFire, he is the man (or she, and conversely "the woman" or whatever LOL)!! But the crux of what you need is twrp installed, from there youre usually set. Get rooted, make a nand of your stock setup and flash away. Also, id make sure to download the stock tar.md5 file of your phones firmware in case all goes awry (or to hell in a handbasket or enter clever euphemism for stuff going bad here) so you can flash the stock tarball in Odin if you get stuck in an endless bootloop and your stock restore file doesnt work. Also, when resoring from AOSP to TouchWiz or vice versa, does require a few boxes to be checked for it to work, but it happens all the time. Happy flashing and feel free to ask away if you run into anything man!

Thanks all for clarifying.
I did have some difficulties along the way though I did successfully install twrp.
So I downloaded one of the latest versions of odin on mums computer. Laiche the twrp tar file in the ap section. Loaded it then restarted the device. Ran recovery though it was still the default android recovery ie it appeared as though nothing had changed. I looked at another forum which suggested to turn ooff the auto reboot option in odin and perform a battery pull and then launch directly into twrp. This actually worked after much agony.
I then loaded a superuser zip and flashed it onto the phone.
Rebooted confirmed that the phone was rooted.
I then relaunched the twrp recovery and ran a nand? backup of my device. Then I attempted to install a custom rom ie resurrection remix. Unfortunately it did load though the screen appeared to freeze after boot and was therefore unusable. Thank goodness the restoring of the backup worked.
I'll reattempt the installation of a custom rom very soon. Fingers crossed.
Thanks.

Root S7 helio x25

is it possible to root this version?

Yes, just follow the same steps as with the x20 version and it'll root. I just got my x25 version yesterday and have it rooted.
Note, I did have to flash the recovery image four or five times till it stuck and was able to boot into TWRP, but it got there and I've now got root, AdAway and ROM Toolbox Pro up and running.

Lurker_0 said:
Yes, just follow the same steps as with the x20 version and it'll root. I just got my x25 version yesterday and have it rooted.
Note, I did have to flash the recovery image four or five times till it stuck and was able to boot into TWRP, but it got there and I've now got root, AdAway and ROM Toolbox Pro up and running.
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Working on my X25 just received. Have lost count of the number of times I have tried to get TWRP to stick. Flashtools always shows 100% on the red loading bar and then "success" but only have stock recovery. I have re-downloaded TWRP zip. I am having trouble getting to recovery using power/vol up so using ADB to reboot recovery but TWRP should replace stock ? Can you give me any suggestions since you mention that it took you four or five times to succeed (or help from anyone will be greatly appreciated).

Use home button + power to reboot to recovery. You'll get a little menu, click the home button till the arrow points to recovery, then hit Vol Down to select. If TWRP finally stuck it'll come up, else you'll have stock recovery. It was frustrating to figure that part out, and once I did it still took a couple attempts to make TWRP stick, but it can work if you keep at it.

Thanks for the encouragement. I did finally get it to stick. First time it went to bootloop so had to flash stock ROM and start over. Pretty much a full day job. I did catch on to the unusual button combination to get to recovery. Like you, hard to live without root once used to it.
Sent from my Elephone P8000 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

Lurker_0 said:
Use home button + power to reboot to recovery. You'll get a little menu, click the home button till the arrow points to recovery, then hit Vol Down to select. If TWRP finally stuck it'll come up, else you'll have stock recovery. It was frustrating to figure that part out, and once I did it still took a couple attempts to make TWRP stick, but it can work if you keep at it.
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Don't know if this is a fact or if it makes flashing TWRP easier but found this on the Elephone "bugs" forum
"Before using the SPFlash Tool you need to unlock the bootloader with the adb command "fastboot oem unlock" and press the volume + button. After this, they can use the SPFlash Tool normally to be able to flash a ROM or only recovery. ".
Seems to be a possibility for next time.

bluiis48 said:
Don't know if this is a fact or if it makes flashing TWRP easier but found this on the Elephone "bugs" forum
"Before using the SPFlash Tool you need to unlock the bootloader with the adb command "fastboot oem unlock" and press the volume + button. After this, they can use the SPFlash Tool normally to be able to flash a ROM or only recovery. ".
Seems to be a possibility for next time.
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Awesome, that oughta help with any future OTA updates. And glad ta see ya got it working. Nothing quite like having proper control of one's device.

Lurker_0 said:
Awesome, that oughta help with any future OTA updates. And glad ta see ya got it working. Nothing quite like having proper control of one's device.
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Still "playing" because it is not my "daily driver yet" forgot that there is a switch in developer options for unlock bootloader. Makes life even easier and TWRP flashes first try now !:good:

Problems with twrp
always stuck on ele logo after successfull install TWRP

fabiofloyd said:
always stuck on ele logo after successfull install TWRP
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Are you assuming that TWRP flashed successfully because you got a green check mark in SPflashtools ? I struggled with the same thing and boot problem. I suggest you flash a stock ROM. Put superSU on the SD card, if you have one, so it is ready to go. When you have the boot problem solved go to developer options and unlock the boot loader. Flash TWRP again. Remember that the home/fingerprint button acts as volume up on this phone. This worked for me after many hours of "successful" messages in SPflashtools. I believe unlocking the bootloader is the key to real success otherwise boot gets corrupted.

Ota updates
It Will mess with anything?

fabiofloyd said:
It Will mess with anything?
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It will wipe apps, pictures, music video, basically a factory reset but you will not be stuck at boot logo. If you want the latest OTA (not much of use in it as far as I can tell) make sure to do that before you start the TWRP and root process but you can bring the phone back with the February stock ROM (in a different thread in this forum) and flashtools.

Lurker_0 said:
Yes, just follow the same steps as with the x20 version and it'll root. I just got my x25 version yesterday and have it rooted.
Note, I did have to flash the recovery image four or five times till it stuck and was able to boot into TWRP, but it got there and I've now got root, AdAway and ROM Toolbox Pro up and running.
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Hai bro,where to view the same step for x20 to root ?

Hello i port twrp for elephone s7 4g x25....https://www.needrom.com/download/twrp-3-0-2-x25/ ?

and another port twrp 3.1.1
https://www.needrom.com/download/twrp-3-1-1-x25-version/

Mensagem de erro no twrp
I'm having problems after installing twrp I can not start the android and I can not install super su rom among others I got the following message in twrp: failed to mount '/ custom' (invalid argument) my android is 7.1.1 elephone s7 4 / 64gb me help, please

Elephone S7
Hello
I have an Elephone S7 Helio X25 brand phone.
I have followed a lot of tutorials but I cannot root it.
I am not familiar with this process, can you help me with some simple explanations for Root this phone.
The SPflashtool was successful, but when I go to dan recorvey and select from SD card (SR5-SuperSU-v2.82-SR5-20171001224502) I get the message "installation aborted"
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cordially.
Sorry for the French / English translation

How to root SMJ500FN?

Hi guys, I'm asking here because I'm really confused about the large number of versions of this phone. I'm looking for a simple method to root my SMJ500FN. I see lot of variants so i can't know if the process of a 'x' version is equal to mine. Tia

Jacopo97 said:
Hi guys, I'm asking here because I'm really confused about the large number of versions of this phone. I'm looking for a simple method to root my SMJ500FN. I see lot of variants so i can't know if the process of a 'x' version is equal to mine. Tia
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This is quite common question and already answered before... I've wrote the guide below, took me some time since I've done it on phone :S
Anyway, next time please search before asking a question as there may be already an answer.
There is also a thread with Q&A, basic informations and ROMs / kernels list.
Click below to see the guide.
TWRP for 5.1.1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j5-t3468844 .
TWRP for 6.0.1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/development/recovery-samsung-galaxy-j500f-t3416960 .
If you already have TWRP installed, then check step 3) and then skip to step9).
1) Download Odin. I'm using v3.09.
2) Download the right TWRP according to your android version and J5 model.
3) Download one of these:
- SuperSU
- phh's SuperUser which is Open Source.
- Magisk Systemless Root which is Open Source too.
4) Go to Settings > About phone and tap 7 times the build number to unlock Developer Options.
5) Go to Settings > Developer Options and enabled OEM unlock option (something like that).
6) Boot the phone in download mode, by holding Power + Home + Volume down buttons same time and choose continue or something like that.
7) Open Odin and connect your phone to PC. Make sure that the USB drivers is installed on your PC. Usually this is done automatically by Windows when you connect your phone to PC.
8) Now in Odin you should see a number at ID:COM or similar. Press "AP" button and choose the TWRP file you've downloaded and start to flash.
If you're flashing TWRP 6.0.1, then untick the auto reboot option in Odin before starting to flash. Once the flashing process is done, unplug your phone from PC, take out the battery and boot in TWRP by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons same time.
9) Boot in TWRP by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons same time.
10) Flash the root file you've downloaded at step 3) (SuperSU / phh SuperUser / Magisk).
11) Reboot and profit.
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Cheers.

Not working
#Henkate said:
This is quite common question and already answered before... I've wrote the guide below, took me some time since I've done it on phone :S
Anyway, next time please search before asking a question as there may be already an answer.
There is also a thread with Q&A, basic informations and ROMs / kernels list.
Click below to see the guide.
Cheers.
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I followed this guide exactly but its not working for me.also tryied CF AUTOROOT METHOD but that also not worked as i got RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID error
My phone model is J500f
OS 6.1 marshmallow

amarpal120 said:
I followed this guide exactly but its not working for me.also tryied CF AUTOROOT METHOD but that also not worked as i got RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID error
My phone model is J500f
OS 6.1 marshmallow
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So you flashed TWRP 6.0.1 right?
You did this?
If you're flashing TWRP 6.0.1, then untick the auto reboot option in Odin before starting to flash. Once the flashing process is done, unplug your phone from PC, take out the battery and boot in TWRP by holding Power + Home + Volume UP buttons same time.
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I never had problems with the rooting process.

#Henkate said:
So you flashed TWRP 6.0.1 right?
You did this?
I never had problems with the rooting process.
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this also not worked
when i try to boot straight into recovery after inserting battery again i get "recovery is not seandroid" error

SM-G530T Custom Recovery Issues

I need some help.
I'm trying to get a 7.1.2 build of Android running on my SM-G530T. (Preferrably, the most stable and functional build that currently exists.) So here's what I've done so far:
I unlocked the bootloader, I think?
Rooted the phone using CF-Auto-Root
Installed the TWRP official app.
Put the fortuna3g custom recovery on it, using the TWRP app
I used the TWRP app to boot into recovery mode, and that's when my problems started.
Sometimes it bootloops, sometimes it gets to the recovery page. If it gets to the recovery page, there's no touch response. I can still control the phone via CMD in windows. Any suggestions?
-Bludude4

this forums not letting me post links and its pissing me off. how do i post videos?

Doesn't the T model use the gprimelte recovery file rather than fortuna3g? I kept coming across the fortuna3g while looking for the twrp .tar file for the grandprime 530T. I used this link to flash the twrp recovery with Odin and had no issues.
dl dot twrp dot me slash gprimelte

Use Odin to flash TWRP from the official website. "dl <dot> twrp <dot> me <slash> gprimelte"Your device's codename is "gprimelte" The versions 530T, 530T1 and 530W have it too. I encountered no issues whatsoever. My device is a 530W.
1. Put phone to download mode (power+home+vol.down) then Volume up to confirm
2. Open odin then connect your phone to your computer. Odin should output an "added!" message.
3. Add the twrp .tar file to AP slot then click start.
4. Disconnect phone from PC after the process is done. It should reboot automatically.
Hope this helps!

droidity said:
Use Odin to flash TWRP from the official website. "dl <dot> twrp <dot> me <slash> gprimelte"Your device's codename is "gprimelte" The versions 530T, 530T1 and 530W have it too. I encountered no issues whatsoever. My device is a 530W.
1. Put phone to download mode (power+home+vol.down) then Volume up to confirm
2. Open odin then connect your phone to your computer. Odin should output an "added!" message.
3. Add the twrp .tar file to AP slot then click start.
4. Disconnect phone from PC after the process is done. It should reboot automatically.
Hope this helps!
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Yeah, I was toying with the auto-selector in TWRP and it kept pointing me to the fortuna3g, and i eventually decided to use that over the gprimelte one, after being torn over which one to use. I guess I should've posted a question asking that first before I tried to flash. So I just have to repeat the procedure using gprimelte?

yes, using the gprimelte worked on my 530T

NECRO:
Haha, put the phone on the shelf for a year and 9 months, just spent 5 hours trying to figure out how to get my buddy back into his J2 core after he forgot the new unlock password he set on it. After getting a little frustrated at not being able to find a custom recovery for it by myself, I thought to myself "I wonder if I can take another crack at getting my Grand Prime working again." So I installed the latest version of Odin on my PC, put the Grand Prime in download mode, and slapped the gprimelte TWRP on there, it was booted in 20 under 20 seconds. XD
Now I just need to figure out how to get my friend's lock screen password off of his phone without losing his data...