I have TWRP flashed to my device right now but want to switch back to stock recovery for a moment.
I used the app Flashify to flash TWRP onto my S5 and it works flawlessly. I forgot to backup the stock recovery image beforehand.
Can someone who is rooted that doesn't have a recovery flashed please go into the Flashify app and backup their stock recovery and upload it here? Or send me a recovery backup of any other form? Maybe even the recovery portion of the odin stock rom files that I can flash through odin. It'd be a helpful file to a lot of those on here that only need to flash stock recovery partition to return to stock.
Even anyone with the stock 1.5gb odin files, if you can extract the recovery.img file for me, please upload
I know I can flash the 1.5gb stock firmware through odin but I'm away from home with limited data right now
Thanks for anyone who can help.
Not keeping backups is a bad habit as you are now finding.
You've made an odd request as well, but the attached should be what you want. I doubt that you'll run into any problems using this, but there are absolutely no guarantees. Write at your own risk.
Should you run into any unexpected difficulties, you should be able to revert by restoring your TWRP backup, another custom recovery or a full stock firmware image as required.
edit - the attachment below is a 900T TWRP 2.7.0.0 recovery image
It can be restored with TWRP. It is not a stock recovery image
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Not keeping backups is a bad habit as you are now finding.
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Thanks a lot for that quick response.
I definitely made a full system backup in TWRP after flashing TWRP recovery, I just forgot to backup the stock recovery itself. Oops.
What format is this zip in? It doesn't seem to be backed up using Flashify app and cannot be restored using flashify. Is this for odin?
You said that you were using TWRP, so the attached is a TWRP archive. Restore it from TWRP and presumably you will have a stock recovery after you reboot.
It is not a flashable type zip file. i don't use flashify, so you'll have to look to someone else to reply if you need it in only that format.
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Ahhhhhhhh. Makes perfect sense. Thank you.
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You said that you were using TWRP, so the attached is a TWRP archive. Restore it from TWRP and presumably you will have a stock recovery after you reboot.
It is not a flashable type zip file. i don't use flashify, so you'll have to look to someone else to reply if you need it in only that format.
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Hmm, I extracted the folder properly into my TWRP backup folder in the correct format. TWRP saw it and gave my the option to restore recovery, restore success. Recovery is TWRP still.
Hmm, strange.
It seems the files you gave me is a backup of TWRP 2.7.0.0 where I was previously running TWRP 2.7.1.0
Flash was a success but instead of factory stock recovery image that you uploaded, it's an image backup of TWRP 2.7.0.0
thanks
Err.. that sounds like my backup was mislabeled and was actually a TWRP recovery rather than a stock one. I'll look again and if I have an older and presumably stock recovery, I'll post it.
Or with any luck someone else can provide a stock image for you with more alacrity.
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I'll look again and if I have an older and presumably stock recovery, I'll post it.
Or with any luck someone else can provide a stock image for you with more alacrity.
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That would be so awesome if you have an old backup of stock recovery. Thanks for your help. :good:
Okay, what I originally posted for you was self-labeled "baseline_900T". As it turns out that was a baseline from immediately after installing TWRP 2.7.0.0. Seems that at some point I deleted my stock backup, no doubt knowing that I could always write a full firmware image if I had need.
So I've extracted the stock 900T recovery for you from Chainfire's CF Autoroot thread. You'll need to write this with Odin. Or you could pad the end of the file, rename it and restore from TWRP. The difference being that TWRP writes out the entire partition while Odin eschews the EOF padding.
You may not prefer Odin but it gives you something to work with if you don't see anyone posting a Flashify file for you.
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Okay, what I originally posted for you was self-labeled "baseline_900T". As it turns out that was a baseline from immediately after installing TWRP 2.7.0.0. Seems that at some point I deleted my stock backup, no doubt knowing that I could always write a full firmware image if I had need.
So I've extracted the stock 900T recovery for you from Chainfire's CF Autoroot thread. You'll need to write this with Odin. Or you could pad the end of the file, rename it and restore from TWRP. The difference being that TWRP writes out the entire partition while Odin eschews the EOF padding.
You may not prefer Odin but it gives you something to work with if you don't see anyone posting a Flashify file for you.
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Awesome, thank you.
But now I'm a bit stumped where ODIN will not flash a regular .zip needing a .tar, .md5, smd instead and will not flash a .zip or the img file in the zip directly.
A cursory Google search would have told you that all you need to do is add the img file to a tar archive.
Google search: how to tar img file for odin
Top search result
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fffft said:
A cursory Google search would have told you that all you need to do is add the img file to a tar archive.
Google search: how to tar img file for odin
Top search result
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Thank you. I'm learning. That script to create a tar.md5 worked great. Flashed that file worked via odin, but now my recovery doesn't appear to be stock recovery. It is the Auto-root script recovery and nothing else. Going to try digging for a small package somewhere floating around with the stock recovery.img the best I can.
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I have a retail galaxy tab 10.1 16gb and was wondering how do I flash the newest clockwork recovery touch .img? From what I understand we don't have access to fastboot and doing the method on terminal emulator doesn't work either. Is their another option to do it without having to go to rom manager and purchasing the touch recovery
You could tar it and flash the new tar with Odin. Also, you can find cwm in pershoot's blog and flash it with Odin, sans the "tar it" part.
http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=2487
Well koush finally released a new version so trying to get the touch version of it installed.
I'm using a CM9 ROM, it has ROM Manager included and I can flash cwm touch without problem and free of charge (cwm touch works well).
Anyway, I made a .tar.md5 from the recovery.img of cwm touch and tried to flash it via Odin, but Odin crashes when is doing the analysis of the file. If you want I can upload it, maybe it works for you (the error is non descriptive, so I don't know what's wrong).
I think you might have to rename the touch img to recovery.img but thats what was my next plan of action. I have Rom Manager premium and yet I don't find any way to select the img itself besides selecting I want to pay for it.
coldconfession13 said:
I think you might have to rename the touch img to recovery.img but thats what was my next plan of action.
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Do you mean for the .tar.md5 for Odin? Because i did.
Edit: Damn! I don't know what I did wrong, maybe the download was bad =/ but I tried again and now works fine for me. You can flash this with Odin: recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-p4wifi
Thank you for that link to the odin recovery!
How can I install TWRP on my unrooted Note? and Which is the easiest way to install it?
Searching through the forums I haven't found any specific instructions but if I've read correctly it seems that through ODIN is the easiest way.
Where can I get the latest ODIN for the Note i717?
Could someone be so kind to provide some instructions and links?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
You don't need to be rooted to flash a rom or install a recovery. Root is for access to the system files of the rom after it boots and loads.
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You don't need to be rooted to flash a rom or install a recovery. Root is for access to the system files of the rom after it boots and loads.
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How can I install a recovery without having to root my phone first? What's the procedure
All the instructions I've found require the Note to rooted first.
Rom already on sdcard.
Recovery tar in Odin.
Flash recovery with Odin
Boot into new recovery and flash rom.
Rom will be rooted once booted.
Bingo, the EASIEST way th go from bones stock to custom rom.
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How can I install TWRP on my unrooted Note?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Well?
studacris said:
Rom already on sdcard.
Recovery tar in Odin.
Flash recovery with Odin
Boot into new recovery and flash rom.
Rom will be rooted once booted.
Bingo, the EASIEST way th go from bones stock to custom rom.
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thanks for this , man..my wife's Note was never rooted, and she wants it done, so I will try this way..
sounds waaaaay too easy though!
I didn't mention that that this method will trip the flash counter
As I don't give one care about what my flash counter says unless I get a hardware defect within my year of ownership I didn't mention that before.
There are ways to reset it so don't even worry about until the day comes where you need to.
And just where do we find the TWRP. tar...... That we flash with Odin.....
All I see is how to Install TWRP using
GOO MANAGER..... And that requires root..
Which the OP doesn't want to do....
Thanks...
jimmbomb said:
And just where do we find the TWRP. tar...... That we flash with Odin.....
All I see is how to Install TWRP using
GOO MANAGER..... And that requires root..
Which the OP doesn't want to do....
Thanks...
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flash the CWM tar first, and after you go through all the other steps, and are rooted, download and install TWRP..
Like the above poster said, but skip the root step. So CWR using Odin and occasionally, then TWRP by using CWR, done.
Ok..... So we need the CWR.tar, for Odin...
Any links please?
Then.... We need the TWRP file to put on our SD...
Any link to the TWRP too please?
Thanks for all your help...
In keeping the OP's note un-rooted...
See the super everything thread. The tar file is there. The TWRP zip is in the original development thread.
Hey guys. Thanks for the responses.
I see that some of you are recommending to odin CWR and then use CWR to flash TWRP.
On the TWRP page there is this link to the following page http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/sgh-i717/ which has the different TWRP files and there is a TWRP .tar file. File name: openrecovery-twrp-2.3.2.3-quincyatt.img.tar
Can I just odin the above file instead of odin CWR first?
Where can I find the latest ODIN? I've looked for downloads but haven't found it. A link would be much appreciated.
Once again, thanks.
testdummy said:
Hey guys. Thanks for the responses.
I see that some of you are recommending to odin CWR and then use CWR to flash TWRP.
On the TWRP page there is this link to the following page http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/sgh-i717/ which has the different TWRP files and there is a TWRP .tar file. File name: openrecovery-twrp-2.3.2.3-quincyatt.img.tar
Can I just odin the above file instead of odin CWR first?
Where can I find the latest ODIN? I've looked for downloads but haven't found it. A link would be much appreciated.
Once again, thanks.
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please learn how to use google...
http://www.android.gs/download-odin-3-07/
good question.....
coul;dnt he just Odin the TWRP .tar alone??
And skip the Odin CWR all together??
PS... Thanks for the direct Link to the Latest Odin!!!!
Yup
As long as its a .tar and contains a recovery.img whichever you choose is just that, your choice.
What we have hare is a TWRP flashable of Lollipop that is pre-rooted, and will only overwrite the "System," "Boot," and "Modem" partitions. I performed a factory reset before performing the backup anyways. It will not overwrite the EFS, data, or cache partitions, so previously installed apps might stay, but no promises, so be prepared to lose all your apps. If your phone doesn't act right, perform a factory restore and wipe your Cache/Dalvik. It is recommended to do a full backup before flashing this image.
To install, install TWRP (if not already), and un7zip (7-zip on PC or ES File Explorer on Android) the folder from the TWRP file link into:
"/TWRP/backups/<device serial number>/" (The serial numbered folder will be present if a backup of something has been made from TWRP.)
Then boot into TWRP and 'Restore' "Sprint Note 3 Lollipop Prerooted."
You can Odin the TWRP file from here:
http://dl.twrp.me/hltespr/twrp-2.8.6.1-hltespr-4.4.img.tar
And here is the TWRP file:
Sprint Note 3 Lollipop prerooted.7z
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2iEgzRTFjrQWVVzSkdUMlVMUkk&authuser=0
I forgot to do this before making the image, but this app fixes SD write permissions no problem:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sdfix&pcampaignid=APPU_1_yNg1VcDzJLTasAS274Fo
I don't know how much bandwidth Google will allow before flipping people the bird. If this happens, let me know and I'll get another method of sharing worked out.
This looks like it will get me to the latest firmware/modem easily, but don't want to be the Guinea Pig. Anyone else have success with this?
mhoepfin said:
This looks like it will get me to the latest firmware/modem easily, but don't want to be the Guinea Pig. Anyone else have success with this?
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I'll try this today, thank you!
I flashed the boot and the modem, but baseband still shows as NK4 for some reason
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I flashed the boot and the modem, but baseband still shows as NK4 for some reason
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Did you try flashing the System as well? I know mine is OC5
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Did you try flashing the System as well? I know mine is OC5
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As far as my knowledge goes , you cant flash a modem via recovery , no matter what
It has to be done via odin .
so its better to restore the image and then straight away boot in download mode and flash the modem via odin ( if there is available an ODIN image for the OC5 modem ) and then do a reboot
But the rom will work fine with NK4 provided the firmware version is the same that is NK4 as any lower bootloader wont let it boot after the first Reboot.
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As far as my knowledge goes , you cant flash a modem via recovery , no matter what
It has to be done via odin .
so its better to restore the image and then straight away boot in download mode and flash the modem via odin ( if there is available an ODIN image for the OC5 modem ) and then do a reboot
But the rom will work fine with NK4 provided the firmware version is the same that is NK4 as any lower bootloader wont let it boot after the first Reboot.
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OK, so how does the ota update flash the modem?
And basically, as long as the bootloader is compatible, it doesn't matter too much?
Greaper88 said:
OK, so how does the ota update flash the modem?
And basically, as long as the bootloader is compatible, it doesn't matter too much?
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I was referring to the custom recovery. I dont know how ota does that. Butvi am more than 100 % sure that you can't flash the modem with a custom recovery . its a well known fact now .
Sent from THE NOTE 3 .. size matters and so does the battery backup .....
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I was referring to the custom recovery. I dont know how ota does that. Butvi am more than 100 % sure that you can't flash the modem with a custom recovery . its a well known fact now .
Sent from THE NOTE 3 .. size matters and so does the battery backup .....
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Actually that is not true. You can flash the modem.bin in recovery. You need the devblock/partition and then add the script to the updater in the zip. You'll need the correct binary as well in order to flash it but you have that already.
I was just looking for some stock note 3 lollipop framework & apk's for some work i'm doing and come upon this thread. I thought i'd give my input on the modem flashable thing while i was here.
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Actually that is not true. You can flash the modem.bin in recovery. You need the devblock/partition and then add the script to the updater in the zip. You'll need the correct binary as well in order to flash it but you have that already.
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Can you please elaborate on this? I was looking for TWRP flashable modem for note 3 and did not find one neither for Sprint nor for any other carrier.
I tried to create an ODIN flashable modem. It looks like modem.emmc.win has the same format as modem.bin (at least the same header and similar size) so i just renamed modem.emmc.win to modem.bin then used:
c:\cygwin420\bin\tar -H ustar -c modem.bin > modem.tar
c:\cygwin420\bin\md5sum -t modem.tar >> modem.tar
copy modem.tar modem.tar.md5
info came from this guide: [TUTORIAL] How to repackage ODIN files and then tried to flash resulting file via ODIN , but that failes with : "secure check fail modem"
leond said:
Can you please elaborate on this? I was looking for TWRP flashable modem for note 3 and did not find one neither for Sprint nor for any other carrier.
I tried to create an ODIN flashable modem. It looks like modem.emmc.win has the same format as modem.bin (at least the same header and similar size) so i just renamed modem.emmc.win to modem.bin then used:
c:\cygwin420\bin\tar -H ustar -c modem.bin > modem.tar
c:\cygwin420\bin\md5sum -t modem.tar >> modem.tar
copy modem.tar modem.tar.md5
info came from this guide: [TUTORIAL] How to repackage ODIN files and then tried to flash resulting file via ODIN , but that failes with : "secure check fail modem"
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I don't know the devblock for the modem on the Note 3 but once you get that you can add a line to your updater-script inside the zip and it will flash the modem in recovery.
The line will be similar to this...
package_extract_file("modem.bin", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem"); Do some searching and maybe somebody has already pulled the devblocks for dev/chef's to use as references. You can make an odin flashable mode but that's a totally different beast. The point of my post was that you CAN do it in recovery easily.
Edit: Here is the mount point for the Sprint note 3 modem...
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
also you can do it this way... /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem like i suggested above. If you know how to create flashable zips then all you need to do is put it together and bam... you have a recovery flashable modem. No need to go through all the trouble with creating an odin flashable... that's a lot more unecessary work.
leond said:
Can you please elaborate on this? I was looking for TWRP flashable modem for note 3 and did not find one neither for Sprint nor for any other carrier.
I tried to create an ODIN flashable modem. It looks like modem.emmc.win has the same format as modem.bin (at least the same header and similar size) so i just renamed modem.emmc.win to modem.bin then used:
c:\cygwin420\bin\tar -H ustar -c modem.bin > modem.tar
c:\cygwin420\bin\md5sum -t modem.tar >> modem.tar
copy modem.tar modem.tar.md5
info came from this guide: [TUTORIAL] How to repackage ODIN files and then tried to flash resulting file via ODIN , but that failes with : "secure check fail modem"
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Here is Just My Lollipop Modem.
TWRP recovery.
https://app.box.com/s/w9cs93h3ftmw2g8tgblmvv81ci0g5ulq
rbeavers said:
Here is Just My Lollipop Modem.
TWRP recovery.
https://app.box.com/s/w9cs93h3ftmw2g8tgblmvv81ci0g5ulq
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it's a recovery backup not a recovery flashable file. It has already been posted and as before it cannot be flashed
leond said:
it's a recovery backup not a recovery flashable file. It has already been posted and as before it cannot be flashed
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Unzip put in twrp folder and RESTORE!
I've restored the lollipop backup for the note 3 and a note 4 backup on my note 3 and it ALL worked.
rbeavers said:
Unzip put in twrp folder and RESTORE!
I've restored the lollipop backup for the note 3 and a note 4 backup on my note 3 and it ALL worked.
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As with previous versions posted n this thread it shows as working but if I check baseband version it's still NK4.
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As with previous versions posted n this thread it shows as working but if I check baseband version it's still NK4.
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Your right, tried to duplicate, no go.
Guess We have to wait for the Devs.
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Your right, tried to duplicate, no go.
Guess We have to wait for the Devs.
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Something is really wired:
Someone has posted a complete stock odin tar file here (ROM)(ODIN)OC5 stcock firmware tar
most (but not all) people report that after flashing baseband gets updated to OC5. I took the tar and repackaged first to only include modem.bin & NON-HLOS.bin like the rest of the odin modem tars. Now it successfully FLASHes with odin but after reboot it still says NK4 in baseband.
I went even further and created a tar that has everything besides system, cache and recovery - again it flashes successfully but but after reboot it still says NK4 in baseband. It almost loks like the update is done but the version number is not updated somewhere.
i can post links to files if anyone wants to try as well
Ok, I was finally able to update basdeband to OC5. to do so I had to go back to NH7 modem first. For some reason it would not upgrate modem from NK4 to OC5 doesn't matter what i did, but went from NH7 to OC5 in the first try. so here is what i did:
1) Downgrade modem to NK4 using this:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jk7qevy1swwfw2e/N900PVPUDNK4+MODEM+BOOTLOADER.zip
The link and instructions are provided by this thread: [ROM] kk 4.4.4 [N900PVPUDNK4] NO KNOX [DEODEX]
Download zip above ( NK4 modem and bootloader )
Extract the zip files
Boot into download mode
Use odin 3.07 from zip click PDA box flash modem first (you should be able to use any other version of Odin as well)
I did not FLASH the bootloader. The NK4 odin tar file contains 2 files : modem.bin and NON-HLOS.bin So I prepared the OC5 modem tar with the same files from OC5 stock tar.
Reboot and make sure your baseband now ends with NK4. After a minute or so the popup came up saying system is being updating. Wait until it's done and reboot to download mode again.
2) Download OC5 modem and bootloader zip file from the link below and extract:
https://www.mediafire.com/?6qeh035h9xh60ng
Now you can flash OC5 modem,. reboot in to Download mode again and follow the same steps as above, but select modem-OC5.tar.md5, flash, reboot in to Download mode for the 3rd time and upgrade bootloader using bootloader-OC5.tar.md5 file (in Odin click the bootloader box flash bootloader).
reboot, verify that your baseband is now OC5
reply please
is this a rom that I can flash?
Only if you have a custom recovery. If you don't, or don't know what that is, then you need the "Odin" ROM
I looked around for one but was unable to find one. Maybe Twi5sted's stock has the original kernel but encryption fails when I attempt it.
Any suggestions?
Yep, muinz_ri created a Stock De-Odexed ROM. I was successfully able to install Xposed by flashing everything through FlashFire and still have Knox 0x0.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...ow-to-update-to-stock-rooted-ob1-5-0-t3049676
Direct link to ROM download: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347762756
TheAH said:
Yep, muinz_ri created a Stock De-Odexed ROM. I was successfully able to install Xposed by flashing everything through FlashFire and still have Knox 0x0.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...ow-to-update-to-stock-rooted-ob1-5-0-t3049676
Direct link to ROM download: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347762756
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That's awesome, wish I had known before I tripped Knox but oh well.
I'm getting a bootloop with a very bright split second tmobile splash screen just before it reboots. I have latest TWRP, link2sd and encryption... I wonder what the problem could be...
how to make stock recovery flashable?
I do have another question regarding this rom - would you happen to know how I may be able to make the embedded recovery image flashable? TWRP doesn't seem to be working at the moment with regard to decrypting and formatting /data but the stock recovery does. It can come in handy if there is a way to do it via mobile odin possibly or via some other program.
fishinpercolator said:
I do have another question regarding this rom - would you happen to know how I may be able to make the embedded recovery image flashable? TWRP doesn't seem to be working at the moment with regard to decrypting and formatting /data but the stock recovery does. It can come in handy if there is a way to do it via mobile odin possibly or via some other program.
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Do you have twrp installed right now?
ShinySide said:
Do you have twrp installed right now?
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Right now I have stock recovery as I recently reflashed the Rom. At some point however I plan to go back to TWRP.
If I run into encryption problems and need to do a reset, I would like to see if I can flash TWRP using TWRP app while booted in safe mode (if I am able to get that far).
What do you think?
fishinpercolator said:
Right now I have stock recovery as I recently reflashed the Rom. At some point however I plan to go back to TWRP.
If I run into encryption problems and need to do a reset, I would like to see if I can flash TWRP using TWRP app while booted in safe mode (if I am able to get that far).
What do you think?
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Well encryption will be fine on stock recovery. I thought you had twrp and just wanted the stock recovery which I was going to tell you to post the stock recovery and I'll put it in a twrp flashable zip
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Well encryption will be fine on stock recovery. I thought you had twrp and just wanted the stock recovery which I was going to tell you to post the stock recovery and I'll put it in a twrp flashable zip
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I appreciate that... at some point I will be on TWRP though so I can post the stock recovery when I get home. Or how can I do it myself?
fishinpercolator said:
I appreciate that... at some point I will be on TWRP though so I can post the stock recovery when I get home. Or how can I do it myself?
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Here, download this, extract the zip, put the recovery.img in the extracted folder, highlight meta-inf system and recovery.img and zip all three and flash it. Only use this zip for stock or custom recoveries
ShinySide said:
Here, download this, extract the zip, put the recovery.img in the extracted folder, highlight meta-inf system and recovery.img and zip all three and flash it. Only use this zip for stock or custom recoveries
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Hey thanks! So I did as you said and flashed the stock recovery from the deodexed rom and it's still TWRP. Strange isn't it? It would make sense if the deodexed ROM came with TWRP but when I initially flashed it I can confirm it was stock android.
I'm confused....
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Hey thanks! So I did as you said and flashed the stock recovery from the deodexed rom and it's still TWRP. Strange isn't it? It would make sense if the deodexed ROM came with TWRP but when I initially flashed it I can confirm it was stock android.
I'm confused....
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Obvious question - did you reboot back to recovery after flashing?
fishinpercolator said:
Hey thanks! So I did as you said and flashed the stock recovery from the deodexed rom and it's still TWRP. Strange isn't it? It would make sense if the deodexed ROM came with TWRP but when I initially flashed it I can confirm it was stock android.
I'm confused....
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Oh wait, I did something very wrong... fixing now...
Yay it worked, thanks a lot
I guess I should keep the stock recovery installed with this thing encrypted because TWRP seems broken (at least version 2.8.7.0). I emailed the developer about it.
Now I'm wondering for added flexibility, how I may be able to flash the stock recovery from MobileOdin. That seems to take .md5 files and not zips. Is this feasible to do?
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Yay it worked, thanks a lot
I guess I should keep the stock recovery installed with this thing encrypted because TWRP seems broken (at least version 2.8.7.0). I emailed the developer about it.
Now I'm wondering for added flexibility, how I may be able to flash the stock recovery from MobileOdin. That seems to take .md5 files and not zips. Is this feasible to do?
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Post the img I'll make you one tonight. It'll be 10x easier for me since I run Linux then telling you how on windows
ShinySide said:
Post the img I'll make you one tonight. It'll be 10x easier for me since I run Linux then telling you how on windows
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Well thanks! Maybe you can point me toward the Windows way as I would like to do the same for the stock kernel, xposed, and the tethering addon.
fishinpercolator so are you having trouble with TWRP? What I did in FlashFire was flash the pre-rooted de-odexed ROM (that I linked earlier) then booted that. It was de-odexed and worked fine but boot took about 15 minutes (as it is de-odexed).
In FlashFire you need to hit the + and press Flash ZIP or OTA.
Then I installed FlashFire again (it was erased because I flashed a new ROM) and downloaded the Samsung 5.0 Xposed ZIP and flashed that in FlashFire using Flash ZIP or OTA. Basically since I have Knox 0x0, I use FlashFire as my "recovery" and it might be easier for you than finding a working TWRP image (although I am sure ShinySide is more than eager to help you). Then I installed the Xposed APK and had to reboot before it recognized the Xposed ZIP was installed.
After that, most Xposed modules started working for me.
TheAH said:
fishinpercolator so are you having trouble with TWRP? What I did in FlashFire was flash the pre-rooted de-odexed ROM (that I linked earlier) then booted that. It was de-odexed and worked fine but boot took about 15 minutes (as it is de-odexed).
In FlashFire you need to hit the + and press Flash ZIP or OTA.
Then I installed FlashFire again (it was erased because I flashed a new ROM) and downloaded the Samsung 5.0 Xposed ZIP and flashed that in FlashFire using Flash ZIP or OTA. Basically since I have Knox 0x0, I use FlashFire as my "recovery" and it might be easier for you than finding a working TWRP image (although I am sure ShinySide is more than eager to help you). Then I installed the Xposed APK and had to reboot before it recognized the Xposed ZIP was installed.
After that, most Xposed modules started working for me.
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I haven't used flashfire but will look into it. I've already tripped knox a while ago so that's not my prime concern. I want this phone to be encrypted and would like to learn a way to fix on the fly while on vacation (and without a laptop) in the event a catastrophe happens. It seems TWRP may not be removing the crypto footer when I format data as I still get the encryption password prompt.
Seems like flashfire allows you to flash roms from USB? I will need instructions for that.... <pokes around>
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For some reason I thought flashfire was command line driven... I have Mobile Odin and I read that it contains flashfire, something worth looking into.
Is there a way to flash roms using ADB from a usb stick?
(NOTE- I should clarify, is there a way to flash from a command prompt assuming custom recovery is not installed and the phone is soft-bricked).
fishinpercolator said:
Well thanks! Maybe you can point me toward the Windows way as I would like to do the same for the stock kernel, xposed, and the tethering addon.
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Here https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347792016
ShinySide said:
Here https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347792016
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Well thanks!
This is the Odin flashables for the PH1 update retrieved from Kies3. I find it different that the ROM is in four files, and I don't know how to combine them. You will actually need to select all four check boxes in Odin 3.11 or newer, and select the correct files based on their prefixes. Just a reminder: remember to backup everything so you don't lose anything!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2iEgzRTFjrQVjd1ZDZNTmFaazQ/view?usp=sharing
Here's my pre-rooted TWRP ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-custom-recovery-rom-stock-pre-t3449350/page1
Here's my non-rooted TWRP ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...stom-recovery-rom-stock-rooted-t3449321/page1
Thank you!
cameljock said:
Thank you!
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Did it upgrade your system, leaving your apps intact, or did it factory reset?
Greaper88 said:
Did it upgrade your system, leaving your apps intact, or did it factory reset?
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Factory reset
Sent from my Nexus s using XDA-Developers mobile app
Thank you for this! I have a G900P I had flashed over to boost and used for several months and now going to flash back to sprint.
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This is the Odin flashables for the PH1 update retrieved from Kies3. I find it different that the ROM is in four files, and I don't know how to combine them. You will actually need to select all four check boxes in Odin 3.11 or newer, and select the correct files based on their prefixes. Just a reminder: remember to backup everything so you don't lose anything!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2iEgzRTFjrQVjd1ZDZNTmFaazQ/view?usp=sharing
Here's my pre-rooted TWRP ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-custom-recovery-rom-stock-pre-t3449350/page1
Here's my non-rooted TWRP ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...stom-recovery-rom-stock-rooted-t3449321/page1
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Thank you for this, if I'm wanting to keep my custom recovery and be rooted would I just select the BL, CP, and CSC then flash the stock rooted in TWRP? And can I load all 3 in Odin at once or is there an order I should flash in? I remember when I flashed to OK2 I had to do a specific order and pull the battery in between, wasn't sure if that's still the case. Thanks in advance.
I honestly don't know about the custom recovery using the Odin flash. You could try it, but you'd have to reinstall your SU binaries. These files will not work in TWRP. As for loading the files in Odin, yes, you load all of them at the same time. I would recommend trying the prerooted ROM I posted first.
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I honestly don't know about the custom recovery using the Odin flash. You could try it, but you'd have to reinstall your SU binaries. These files will not work in TWRP. As for loading the files in Odin, yes, you load all of them at the same time. I would recommend trying the prerooted ROM I posted first.
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Thank you, the pre-rooted ROM is in 7zip, doesn't it have to be zipped? Should I just extract and zip?
**edit** Nevermind, I bit the bullet and flashed the Odin file then my custom recovery afterwards. All is working, thank you for the guide and files.
Problem extracting files from the PHI zip
I'm trying to extract the files to a folder, but getting "unknown compression method" error so files won't extract. Is this common? Anyone seen this before? Is there another way to extract the files so I can load them individually into Odin?
Thanks