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flashing cyanogen without root?

if i flash cyanogen through the phones stock recovery will it root and unlock my phone? or will it brick it?
lol

It wouldn't let you flash it

nujaxx said:
if i flash cyanogen through the phones stock recovery will it root and unlock my phone? or will it brick it?
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With stock recovery you can flash only official updates.

Ok. I figured that. I can't unlock or root this Asus zenfone 551kl. Fast boot tells me it's unlocked but it's not. Won't root. Won't do anythimg. I've tried every unlock tool for every variant. None work. No one click root apps work. It's mind boggling lol

You have to flash with twrp not the stock recovery

Unable to use any recoveries other then stock

I have flashed the newer firm ware but when I installed a MM rom exodus and now I wasnt able to use the recovery any more. I have tried flashing other recoveries but the only one that worked is the stock recovery

Look for hybrid twrp 3.0.2.0 and flash. Boot into recovery and reflash image. Should hold then.

Curlypengling said:
I have flashed the newer firm ware but when I installed a MM rom exodus and now I wasnt able to use the recovery any more. I have tried flashing other recoveries but the only one that worked is the stock recovery
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Hi, did you relock your bootloader.. Check it's status.

Check Boot Loader Status in developer Mod
After this, go in your fastboot Mod and flash TWRP (Modified) Recovery.
After flashing recovery, you have to boot into recovery as well otherwise your OS will replace your recovery with the STOCK one..
after using this command,
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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use
fastboot boot recovery.img
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Reply if this doesnt work for you.

Sony Xperia Z2, lost root and custom recovery.(sorry i'm new to rooting)

I'm currently running 6.0.3 paranoid version. And I did obviously have root before installing this ROM. I have tried looking in the developer options to see if it wasn't turned on, but the option isn't available anymore. I'm not sure what information i need to supply. Will I need to root again?
Thanks for reading,
Evitov.

The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.

Pirateghost said:
The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.
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It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.

Evitov said:
It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.
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You should go ask in your device forum. I've never heard of recovery being removed after flashing a ROM

Pirateghost said:
The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.
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Pirateghost said:
You should go ask in your device forum. I've never heard of recovery being removed after flashing a ROM
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Okay thanks for your help anyway, i'll try that then.

@Evitov
There may be two reasons for losing recovery:
1.You had dual recovery for stock locked bootloader.
2.You had kernel with built in recovery.
And to get recovery:
Just download twrp for z2
And flash through flashtool.
Thats it

Evitov said:
It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.
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Did you have the latest marshmallow stock build(.291) before this? If so , then connect to computer in fastboot mode, download twrp image for your phone, copy to fastboot folder and type,
Code:
fastboot flash recovery (the twrp image name).img
To get into recovery, hold power and vol down buttons together until sony logo.
I cannot be sure if this will work with your device bc i have a z3 compact
but still, try!

Cant get into bootloader a2017

Just bought this phone...i tried using the toolkit and the recovery menu...phone wont boot into fastboot mode. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to fix this.

Axebladewarrior said:
Just bought this phone...i tried using the toolkit and the recovery menu...phone wont boot into fastboot mode. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to fix this.
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well it actually shouldn't. axon7toolkit should flash fastboot onto your phone
But I thought the Chinese still had fastboot... Did you enable OEM unlocking?
Try enabling USB debugging too, and use a pc with ADB to issue 'adb reboot bootloader'. maybe it'll get there,maybe not

Thanks for the help...i flashed b13 and eventually unlocked the bootloader, flashed twrp and root however when i flash a rom the zte screen comes up then the phone shuts down

Axebladewarrior said:
Thanks for the help...i flashed b13 and eventually unlocked the bootloader, flashed twrp and root however when i flash a rom the zte screen comes up then the phone shuts down
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Just don't lock the bootloader again, like, ever
Did you install the Universal Bootstack and the modem file before flashing the ROM?

Choose an username... said:
Just don't lock the bootloader again, like, ever
Did you install the Universal Bootstack and the modem file before flashing the ROM?
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That was the problem....i flashed them both and the rom flashed with no problems...thanks for all the help. Last phone was the original nexus 5...was a breeze to flash

Axebladewarrior said:
That was the problem....i flashed them both and the rom flashed with no problems...thanks for all the help. Last phone was the original nexus 5...was a breeze to flash
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Just read everything... you know, forgetting about stuff like that can DFU-brick your phone or lose your IMEIs

Left with NO RECOVERY on Redmi 2 prime! HELP NEEDED!

I just did a really silly thing! I rooted my Redmi 2 Prime to flash TWRP. Using flashify, I tried to flash but it wasn't successful. Then I decided to do it sometime later and fully unrooted my device. But the real deal was I forgot to flash the stock recovery. Ik I was been a real noob (as I'm lol) but now I'm without any recovery, a locked bootloader and nothing I can do. I have already tried to unlock the bootloader via ADB and MI unlock tool but I'm not able to do it.
Please anyone help me..

Did you use computer?

alprtewwqfr said:
Did you use computer?
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For what?

Sanyam_March said:
For what?
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For flash TWRP

alprtewwqfr said:
For flash TWRP
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I used flashify to flash TWRP but it was unsuccessful