Hi everyone. I'll try my best to not talk nonsense, but there are too many guides on flashing recoveries and rooting. Still people are getting stuck in bootloops and bricking their devices.
I just have one question. can i flash recovery without bricking my phone. i just want to root my phone and install twrp so that i can save my phone if something goes wrong. Please help.
Related
ROM newbie here, but I wanted to know how the pros figure out which ROMs they can safely install.
Over on the development board, I see all sorts of references to hard bricking phones as a result of installing the wrong ROM.
I'd really like to update my rooted/gingerblur'd (I believe, how can I check?) phone to Gingerbread.
Thanks for any tips y'all can give me!
Start here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600
For the rom safety installs ... just read the all information about the rom and understand what you need to have and if it fits to your phone.
Its rare a rom bricks a phone. Hard brick that is. Its the pre rom stuff required that's gets people into trouble. Soft bricks usually have an easy escape route. Its the panic and the omg I bricked my phone because I didn't read the instructions threads that confuses people.
Sent from the coolest voided warranty phone ever.
the only way you'll hard brick a phone is if you use RSDlite to flash an SBF file.
Specifically, if you did the OTA gingerbread upgrade, then flash a pre-gingerbread SBF.
If you do everything through clockwork recovery, then you'll be able to recover in one way or another.
Have you unlocked your bootloader? If not I recommend doing so, check the pudding thread, unfortunately this does involve using an SBF file (no other way I believe?). But thats just once, after you unlock, flash recovery via moto-fastboot, then do everything through moto-fastboot or recovery, 0% chance of bricking. After you unlock your bootloader its pretty straightforwards.
Roms don't usually brick phones. Most ppl tend to brick by messing up on rooting/unlocking.
I used the Automatic Root/Unlocker/CWM installer (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871) to do the setup and it all went fine.
Hello
I was a former owner of LG Nitro HD P930 and I was trying to unlock its ICS Bootloader (to install recovery) but ended up destroying the boot partition, getting it hard bricked. Luckily it was under warranty and technicians couldn't fix it, meaning they couldn't even find out what was wrong so I got free replacement...
Anyway, I am getting Galaxy S3 LTE soon and just wondering if the S3 's boot partition can also be destroyed by any chance. I would like to avoid making the same mistake.
Any other advice on strictly what NOT to do is also welcome.
I'm only going to install CM using the new CM Installer and that's pretty much it. No custom kernels. Nothing to do with bootloader...
ceoleaders said:
Hello
I was a former owner of LG Nitro HD P930 and I was trying to unlock its ICS Bootloader (to install recovery) but ended up destroying the boot partition, getting it hard bricked. Luckily it was under warranty and technicians couldn't fix it, meaning they couldn't even find out what was wrong so I got free replacement...
Anyway, I am getting Galaxy S3 LTE soon and just wondering if the S3 's boot partition can also be destroyed by any chance. I would like to avoid making the same mistake.
Any other advice on strictly what NOT to do is also welcome.
I'm only going to install CM using the new CM Installer and that's pretty much it. No custom kernels. Nothing to do with bootloader...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yea you can, the possibility exists. Samsung does change bootloader from time to time on the i9300 (don't follow the i9305, im going to assume it's not much different). You're not required to mess with bootloader most of the times but people do have reasons to change/not change it. All you need to have a problem with a bootloader is to fail a bootloader flash. Suppose you can even overwrite it with something else or have physical problems in your internal memory.
Afaik, there were some shady ways to reflash it back booting from an sd but i believe it's general acceptance you're screwed and will have to send the phone to service.
That said, the bootloader is small so it's flashed quickly. It's kind of rare for people have problems. /efs problems are FAR more common.
i9300 bootloader is not 'locked' so you don't need to do anything to it. i9305 is similar but not exact, don't get confused.
Suggest you go read the basics in general forum, if you want to avoid bricking your new phone.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
I would like to flash CM 12.1 to my tablet. After searching the internet for days, I finally got my bootloader unlocked and my device rooted. Unfortunately, whatever I do I cannot install a custom recovery like TWRP. Whatever method I try, I keep getting messages about the FOTA Kernel Partition being needed.
Could some body please help me understand what is going on and maybe help me to get around this. Please be patient with me as I am going on 50 and this is my first time trying to install a custom ROM.
Mister-B said:
I would like to flash CM 12.1 to my tablet. After searching the internet for days, I finally got my bootloader unlocked and my device rooted. Unfortunately, whatever I do I cannot install a custom recovery like TWRP. Whatever method I try, I keep getting messages about the FOTA Kernel Partition being needed.
Could some body please help me understand what is going on and maybe help me to get around this. Please be patient with me as I am going on 50 and this is my first time trying to install a custom ROM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
FOTA images.
I recently rooted my phone and I would like to make a backup before I mess around with a few things. The phone I have is a Galaxy K Zoom. It's running 4.4.2 Kitkat.
My problem is that CWM and TWRP don't seem to work. CWM tells me that my phone is unsupported, and TWRP says it will backup, but when it reboots to create it, I get an error. Is there another recovery app that is available? Or am I stuck having to restore to stock if I soft brick it? I'm ok even using ADB and/or Odin to flash it back to the phone, but I just need to make a recovery to start with.
Also, I have a recovery file that I found in a rooting thread for my phone. Won't that recovery file restore to their phone's settings? How can I make my own? I'm sort of a noob at this, so sorry for asking.
Thanks in advance and I really hope I get get some direction here. I'm more than willing to read through threads, I just don't know if I'm searching for the right terms. I noticed that there have been some posts on this before and there were no replies. Hopefully I can get one!
I dont know where else to look for the result to fix my issue.
I cant get my previously Nord N200 (de2118) i say previously because at somepoint ive flashed a 2117 at some point. before SHTF i was running /e/os unlocked and rooted. I was planning on switching to LibremobileOS and the WIKI was down so I decided to try it myself. Well now i cant get it to boot. And me thinking since ive use MDM before to fix it once, I've just been tyrying to flash TWRP and recoveries on boot and recovery and im at a loss. I cant get this tutorial https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...le-slot-requires-unlocked-bootloader.4401113/ or this one https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...l-to-restore-your-device-to-oxygenos.4324431/
i've read almost unbricking and downloaded everything provided and im stuck aganist the wall and need some guideance.
if someone can help me fix this, you will be saving my ass. i have 20 hours beofre i need my phone!
just restore the factory image using the "MSM download tool repacked" thats been posted in the n200 forums. for the de2118 use one below
[OPN2005G] [OOS TMO DE18CB] Unbrick tool to restore your device to OxygenOS
Disclaimer: I hope you don't break your phone, but if you do, it's not my fault. Since you are choosing to modify your phone, you accept full responsibility for whatever happens to it, including any damage that may have occurred as a result of...
forum.xda-developers.com
AiM2LeaRn said:
just restore the factory image using the "MSM download tool repacked" thats been posted in the n200 forums. for the de2118 use one below
[OPN2005G] [OOS TMO DE18CB] Unbrick tool to restore your device to OxygenOS
Disclaimer: I hope you don't break your phone, but if you do, it's not my fault. Since you are choosing to modify your phone, you accept full responsibility for whatever happens to it, including any damage that may have occurred as a result of...
forum.xda-developers.com
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
finally got it to boot, idk what differently i did but ive tried that tutorial a few nights ago. thanks