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[Q] Ruined my Recovery Mode?

Hi everyone.
I was able to successfully unlock the bootloader and root the phone.
However, I have trouble trying to get into the Clockwork Recovery Mode. Every time I try I just get a message saying that this is a special distribution and some other legal stuff. I can't get into recovery mode.
Anyone else have this problem and fix it? If so, how so? I would like to install some custom ROMs.

Have u flashed the recovery in fastboot?. The screen with red letters is normal.it shows u have installed custom firmware on ur phone.
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mihirengg19 said:
Have u flashed the recovery in fastboot?. The screen with red letters is normal.it shows u have installed custom firmware on ur phone.
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I believe I have. I have also done it via the Clockwork Mod app.
How would I go about making backups and installing custom roms?

For that u have to flash custom recovery. Flash it again...
Download appropriate recovery.img for ur phone. place it in fastboot folder.rename it recovery.img.go into fastboot n connect phone 2 pc.it should say fastboot USB. Now use command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img while in fastboot( not in boatloader screen).
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I think I did that. But I will try again
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Did it twice, unfortunately all I get is the disclaimer instead of the Clockword Mod recovery options. I can't even do a factory reset.

Here is what I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635520
Still doesn't work.

If you flashed the clockworkmod recovery.img via fastboot and it says successful it should be on there. The HTC disclaimer boot screen is normal. You must boot into the bootloader and select recovery to get into clockworkmod.

The only recovery I can get working is Team Win. I Unfortunately after I install a rom it either freezes at the disclaimer or the rom reboots the system. The I can't even restore the stock recovery.
Any advice?
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TWRP is more convenient than clockworkmod for this particular phone in my opinion. When flashing rom don't forget you have to flash boot.img (kernel) from the rom (usually extracted from the zip). If your having problems with roms you may have to RUU back to stock.

Help, soft bricked my device.

I was attempting to unlock/root and long story short, now I have TWRP installed, and I can get to FASTBOOT but if i try to boot normally I get the Nexus logo, and no further. When I unlocked, I installed TWRP then loaded it. After leaving TWRP it said 'Seems you are not rooted, want to root"? or something to that effect. I clicked YES and now I'm stuck. Since I had just unlocked it, it *should* have reset my entire device(which was all stock anyway) so I am not sure what went wrong. I have been trying everything I know but I'm now out of ideas. Would appreciate any help. I see now that the version of SuperSu that it would have pushed would have been wrong, would that be preventing the tablet from booting?

If you can mount in fastboot you're not bricked. You tried to check md5 and push the recovery image again? And also try to throw new ROM on it.
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ronni.rasmussen said:
If you can mount in fastboot you're not bricked. You tried to check md5 and push the recovery image again? And also try to throw new ROM on it.
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It wont boot so I don't know how to put anything on it, it's empty and doesn't show up in windows. Also I don't know what you meant exactly by push the recovery image again. Twrp is working fine. Sorry I am hardly a pro at this stuff.

Landara said:
It wont boot so I don't know how to put anything on it, it's empty and doesn't show up in windows. Also I don't know what you meant exactly by push the recovery image again. Twrp is working fine. Sorry I am hardly a pro at this stuff.
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Try to get to fastboot and connect PC and check if it connects. You will need the USB drivers installed
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ronni.rasmussen said:
Try to get to fastboot and connect PC and check if it connects. You will need the USB drivers installed
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Oh I can do that no problem, been using ADB. But now it just won't boot normally. But I can use the terminal and everything.

Landara said:
Oh I can do that no problem, been using ADB. But now it just won't boot normally. But I can use the terminal and everything.
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Then it should be possible to flash and push recovery and ROM to device even get a stock image back.
Which recovery image did you install?
And did you flash any ROM or kernel?
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Landara said:
Oh I can do that no problem, been using ADB. But now it just won't boot normally. But I can use the terminal and everything.
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I would suggest you just restore your N7 back to stock. No need for root yet, seriously! But this should help get you going in the right direction.
Power it off completely. Hold Power + Volume down until it boots into the bootloader. Run the following commands:
fastboot devices (to confirm you are connected)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If you haven't unlocked your N7 yet, run fastboot oem unlock first.

ronni.rasmussen said:
Then it should be possible to flash and push recovery and ROM to device even get a stock image back.
Which recovery image did you install?
And did you flash any ROM or kernel?
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I put TWRP on there, immediately after unlocking. So it should have been completely stock since as far as I know it wipes it when you unlock. After putting TWRP on there, i told it to reboot normally(from within TWRP) and it detected that I was not rooted and asked me if I wanted to install SuperSu. I said yes and now it will not boot to the operating system. It boots fine to Bootloader and Recovery. And I am certain it's connected to my PC because I can even tell it ADB REBOOT BOOTLOADER/RECOVERY and that works. But I don't see how I can load a ROM onto it if I can't access it via windows. I don't know how to get a ROM onto the SD card. Surely there could be a way but I don't know it.

Landara said:
I put TWRP on there, immediately after unlocking. So it should have been completely stock since as far as I know it wipes it when you unlock. After putting TWRP on there, i told it to reboot normally(from within TWRP) and it detected that I was not rooted and asked me if I wanted to install SuperSu. I said yes and now it will not boot to the operating system. It boots fine to Bootloader and Recovery. And I am certain it's connected to my PC because I can even tell it ADB REBOOT BOOTLOADER/RECOVERY and that works. But I don't see how I can load a ROM onto it if I can't access it via windows. I don't know how to get a ROM onto the SD card. Surely there could be a way but I don't know it.
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Start over by downloading recovery, Superuser and a clean stock rom image.
But before that you could try to reset all data in recovery (factory reset) and cache if you haven't tried.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2380913
Thanks to this thread I have booted! Still have to root it but now that I know that you have to flash the NEW SuperSu not the one TWRP flashed for me, I shouldn't have a problem Thanks so much for your help everyone!

Landara said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2380913
Thanks to this thread I have booted! Still have to root it but now that I know that you have to flash the NEW SuperSu not the one TWRP flashed for me, I shouldn't have a problem Thanks so much for your help everyone!
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Super

[Very serious]Non-booting/non-changing/not working problem

I woke up today to a bootloop. After pulling out the battery, I cant turn it on, it was stuck at the google logo. I thought it was some rom issue or something. When I had the time, in the afternoon, I just boot to recovery, and wiped data+sd card. Turns out sd card was not wiped.
Just now, I found a way to boot it. (AFTER WIPING DATA) I used the gnex toolkit and boot with insecure image, and guess wat? My old rom boots. Everything was the way it was, and then it crashed and stuck on the google logo again.(I made sure i wiped things two to three times, data and sd) I did a few experiments:
1) Flash using ODIN
2) Flash CWM using toolkit--it changed back to twrp after reboot
3) Changing the icon on my homescreen after boot--- everything was the same again after booting
4) Flash stock image using toolkit
5) Wipe data using manual adb
6) Try to lock my bootloader
Everything I tried changing, change back to the original state after reboot. What is the problem?
Device: Galaxy Nexus
ROM: Purity 7 sept release
Kernel: Fancy r42
Logs in twrp are showing updating partition, not FAIL. So I really don't think there is a need to show the recovery log.
HELP ME!

are you flashing your recovery or just booting the recovery?
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
use ClockWorkMod. I've heard nothing but problems with TWRP.

player911 said:
are you flashing your recovery or just booting the recovery?
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
use ClockWorkMod. I've heard nothing but problems with TWRP.
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umm, i can boot recovery. i cannot flash cwm. i tried, but when i reboot, it went back to twrp.
what is oem unlock for? coz its smth i havent tried.

jacktay94 said:
umm, i can boot recovery. i cannot flash cwm. i tried, but when i reboot, it went back to twrp.
what is oem unlock for? coz its smth i havent tried.
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Oem unlock will unlock your bootloader and wipe the internal storage in the process. I saw you didn't use fastboot. You could try that. Flash the Factory image via fastboot. If that fails try omap flash.
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mrgnex said:
Oem unlock will unlock your bootloader and wipe the internal storage in the process. I saw you didn't use fastboot. You could try that. Flash the Factory image via fastboot. If that fails try omap flash.
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Yup,I tried it already thru toolkit. Not working either.

Dude the toolkit blows, flash back to stock manually via adb command prompt. There are tutorials around here on how to do it. It's guaranteed to work if you don't screw it up.
Honestly flashing back to stock via adb should be something everyone should learn if you plan on flashing roms.

SoHaunted said:
Dude the toolkit blows, flash back to stock manually via adb command prompt. There are tutorials around here on how to do it. It's guaranteed to work if you don't screw it up.
Honestly flashing back to stock via adb should be something everyone should learn if you plan on flashing roms.
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i did adb bro, its the last thing i tried, i learnt and try.
Sent to Samsung centre, they told me its my flash IC thats blown. sobs

Help! Have I screwed up my bootloader?

So in the rush to get CyanogenMod installed on my newly-S-Offed phone, I downloaded CWM from the appstore and started looking through the various devices to flash ClockWorkMod Recovery to. I selected the vanilla HTC One, not the verizon-specific model. I have not yet rebooted my phone yet, but I am worried that doing so will brick the phone since I technically don't have the right bootloader. Looking through CWM's list on my phone, there is not a verizon-specific model bootloader. There is one on Cyanogen's site (can't post the link due to XDA restrictions), but it appears to involve rebooting the phone. How should I go about safely flashing a good bootloader onto my phone?

ab2 said:
So in the rush to get CyanogenMod installed on my newly-S-Offed phone, I downloaded CWM from the appstore and started looking through the various devices to flash ClockWorkMod Recovery to. I selected the vanilla HTC One, not the verizon-specific model. I have not yet rebooted my phone yet, but I am worried that doing so will brick the phone since I technically don't have the right bootloader. Looking through CWM's list on my phone, there is not a verizon-specific model bootloader. There is one on Cyanogen's site (can't post the link due to XDA restrictions), but it appears to involve rebooting the phone. How should I go about safely flashing a good bootloader onto my phone?
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CWM is a custom recovery, not bootloader. Download your choice of CWM or TWRP, reboot into the bootloader and use Fastboot to flash it.

NotATreoFan said:
CWM is a custom recovery, not bootloader. Download your choice of CWM or TWRP, reboot into the bootloader and use Fastboot to flash it.
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I am referring to ROM Manager from the android app store. When you bring it up it asks you to flash your bootloader. The bootloader I selected was the one for the Vanilla HTC One.

I don't use ROM Manager, but I just installed it on my phone. The prompts all refer to recovery, and make no mention of bootloader. See below.
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ab2 said:
I am referring to ROM Manager from the android app store. When you bring it up it asks you to flash your bootloader. The bootloader I selected was the one for the Vanilla HTC One.
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Its most likely referring to the recovery, not the bootloader; Assuming you're root, Rom Manager is there to flash custom ROMS and custom recoveries. I don't think you'll have bricked your phone if you installed a bad recovery, but I think your best bet would be install a compatible one manually.
SO pick a thread and follow the directions under installation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2416273 CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2416431 TWRP
i'd pick twrp

Well my phone will reboot safely, which is good.
However, rebooting into fastboot or recovery just reboots into normal mode. Recovery will say the first time that it's going into recovery, but will reboot again and go into normal.
Thoughts?

Success! I just had to keep scrolling. there was a version in Rom Manager, all the way down at the bottom under "m7vzw." Flashing that did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers.

ab2 said:
Well my phone will reboot safely, which is good.
However, rebooting into fastboot or recovery just reboots into normal mode. Recovery will say the first time that it's going into recovery, but will reboot again and go into normal.
Thoughts?
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The S-Off exploit removes stock recovery, so it will go nowhere until you flash CWM or TWRP. Fastboot will work regardless.
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ab2 said:
Success! I just had to keep scrolling. there was a version in Rom Manager, all the way down at the bottom under "m7vzw." Flashing that did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers.
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All that said, I can now boot into recovery no problem, but typing "adb reboot fastboot" just reboots the phone normally. Any idea why that might be?

I've never used that command personally. I have Quick Boot (Reboot) from the market and use it for getting into recovery and fastboot from Android.
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ab2 said:
All that said, I can now boot into recovery no problem, but typing "adb reboot fastboot" just reboots the phone normally. Any idea why that might be?
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Do you have fastboot unchecked under power settings? Phone doesn't totally reboot with that checked.
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ab2 said:
All that said, I can now boot into recovery no problem, but typing "adb reboot fastboot" just reboots the phone normally. Any idea why that might be?
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adb reboot recovery = takes you to recovery
adb reboot bootloader = takes you to fastboot/booloader
I don't believe adb reboot fastboot is a command, so it just does adb reboot

Tried to flash two and deleted stock recovery.

Hi all. Yesterday I rooted my ze551ml and tried to flash twrp onto my device. It was not successful and now I have no stock recovery. When I try to enter recovery by pushing the power button, it just returns to normal boot. I unlocked my bootloader with a file I found in the zenfone general section. How do I go about flashing the stock recovery. I downloaded a stock firmware from Asus and extracted it. But the recovery does not show up as a recovery.img. can someone give me some assistance or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
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if you're rooted flash twrp with twrp manager from play store , you tried ??
quicksilver53 said:
Hi all. Yesterday I rooted my ze551ml and tried to flash twrp onto my device. It was not successful and now I have no stock recovery. When I try to enter recovery by pushing the power button, it just returns to normal boot. I unlocked my bootloader with a file I found in the zenfone general section. How do I go about flashing the stock recovery. I downloaded a stock firmware from Asus and extracted it. But the recovery does not show up as a recovery.img. can someone give me some assistance or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
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Use twrp manager from play store if rooted and flash twrp, or google and this came up
http://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-58401-1-1.html

timbernot said:
Use twrp manager from play store if rooted and flash twrp, or google and this came up
http://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-58401-1-1.html
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I have tried flashing twrp with twrp manager and it says successful. But when I try to enter recovery, it goes back to normal boot. No dead android. I have downloaded the firmware package for my phone and extracted the files. I found the recovery, but it does not appear to be a recovery.img file. I believe I need and image file to flash through ADB.

quicksilver53 said:
I have tried flashing twrp with twrp manager and it says successful. But when I try to enter recovery, it goes back to normal boot. No dead android. I have downloaded the firmware package for my phone and extracted the files. I found the recovery, but it does not appear to be a recovery.img file. I believe I need and image file to flash through ADB.
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Theres all stock recoveries
in the link i posted eaRrlier:good:
check `windroid toolkit` out for zenfone 2 on here too if you`re not too sure, once you have the correct recovery from the link above, lazy i know but.....

timbernot said:
Theres all stock recoveries
in the link i posted eaRrlier:good:
check `windroid toolkit` out for zenfone 2 on here too if you`re not too sure, once you have the correct recovery from the link above, lazy i know but.....
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Thanks. I have tried downloading the stock firmware and extracted the recovery, buy can't seem to flash it as it is not a recovery image. Also the windroid toolkit doesn't recognise that USB debugging is enabled on my phone.
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quicksilver53 said:
Thanks. I have tried downloading the stock firmware and extracted the recovery, buy can't seem to flash it as it is not a recovery image. Also the windroid toolkit doesn't recognise that USB debugging is enabled on my phone.
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I don't know then I have no time today , all stuff is in that link re flashing recovery , stock or custom , full firmware etc etc ..you have minimal fastboot and adb installed ? Drivers etc , your fone is recognised in adb ? eg, adb devices ?
What I would do , is fastboot flash recovery.img (twrp) and be done with it .Although if you have damaged other stuff ..flash full firmware , all info is in the link ..

@quicksilver53 Are you saying that you wiped your Bootloader? Otherwise, if you've unlocked your Bootloader, go into Fast boot and flash the latest TWRP IMG with adb tools using the command "fast boot flash recovery TWRP.img"

Saamyo said:
@quicksilver53 Are you saying that you wiped your Bootloader? Otherwise, if you've unlocked your Bootloader, go into Fast boot and flash the latest TWRP IMG with adb tools using the command "fast boot flash recovery TWRP.img"
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I have tried to flash the latest TWRP recovery with those commands. It fails to flash. My bootloader has been unlocked with the unlock and relock program I found in the General section. I also have root. I have used root checker to verify. When I try to enter recovery, it goes right back to normal boot. I get no dead Android nor bootloader menu. I think when I tried to flash TWRP, it deleted my stock recovery. I am at a loss here. I never had this happen when flashing on my HTC one x or M7.
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I have trouble getting into recovery through the power button too. Try turning on advanced power menu in developer options. Then try to reboot into recovery through the power menu.
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quicksilver53 said:
I have tried to flash the latest TWRP recovery with those commands. It fails to flash. My bootloader has been unlocked with the unlock and relock program I found in the General section. I also have root. I have used root checker to verify. When I try to enter recovery, it goes right back to normal boot. I get no dead Android nor bootloader menu. I think when I tried to flash TWRP, it deleted my stock recovery. I am at a loss here. I never had this happen when flashing on my HTC one x or M7.
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I don't think your Bootloader is unlocked properly. Try unlocking again, as I myself have wiped my recovery partition more than once. The fast boot flash never fails me.

kenbo111 said:
I have trouble getting into recovery through the power button too. Try turning on advanced power menu in developer options. Then try to reboot into recovery through the power menu.
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Thanks. I will try that next.
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quicksilver53 said:
Thanks. I will try that next.
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Can't seem to find that listed in developer options.
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Quicksilver ? A few questions need answering please
1) do you have 'minimal adb and fastboot ' installed on pc ?
2) do you know the commands to flash a recovery in fastboot ?
3) and that you know how to get into fastboot ?
4) have you adb debugging enabled
Things to try, install 'reboot recovery' app from playstore and give it su rights then ..reboot bootloader ..then press the vol + once ...then try flash twrp in windroid toolkit ..the one for zen 2.
A few things to try there

timbernot said:
Quicksilver ? A few questions need answering please
1) do you have 'minimal adb and fastboot ' installed on pc ?
2) do you know the commands to flash a recovery in fastboot ?
3) and that you know how to get into fastboot ?
4) have you adb debugging enabled
Things to try, install 'reboot recovery' app from playstore and give it su rights then ..reboot bootloader ..then press the vol + once ...then try flash twrp in windroid toolkit ..the one for zen 2.
A few things to try there
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Thanks timbernot. I have those installed and I do know the commands to flash recoveries and Roms. I will look and download what you have suggested.
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quicksilver53 said:
Thanks timbernot. I have those installed and I do know the commands to flash recoveries and Roms. I will look and download what you have suggested.
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Also , if you flash twrp successfully with windroid , don't reboot fone with keys into recovery, select reboot recovery in windroid first..then if you get into twrp , select reboot ..then select recovery ...before rebooting system .also try another data cable if fails lol..how many times I had a fecked data cable,also right click on windroid and run with administrator rights

timbernot said:
Also , if you flash twrp successfully with windroid , don't reboot fone with keys into recovery, select reboot recovery in windroid first..then if you get into twrp , select reboot ..then select recovery ...before rebooting system .also try another data cable if fails lol..how many times I had a fecked data cable,also right click on windroid and run with administrator rights
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Well, I'm beside myself. I have tried everything suggested to me with no success. I just don't understand where I am going wrong. Never had this much difficulty before. My warranty expires next month and I was hoping to get it going and not have to send it in.?
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You say you successfully flashed twrp but couldn't boot into it(at the beginning) . Can you flash it again , then 'adb reboot recovery' this time ? Then if recovery comes up , press reboot ,then recovery... in twrp before rebooting system?
PS what build number do you have ?
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/setyy42t2cymy#ay747csly77a3
This is for all builds ,from the link earlier .. in the sub folders of stock recoveries in the link..click on your build number file and it will open...if on .184 and its not there ,it maybe here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/stock-recovery-t3381283
That's the last from me apologies if nothing worked !

timbernot said:
You say you successfully flashed twrp but couldn't boot into it(at the beginning) . Can you flash it again , then 'adb reboot recovery' this time ? Then if recovery comes up , press reboot ,then recovery... in twrp before rebooting system?
PS what build number do you have ?
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/setyy42t2cymy#ay747csly77a3
This is for all builds ,from the link earlier .. in the sub folders of stock recoveries in the link..click on your build number file and it will open...if on .184 and its not there ,it maybe here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/stock-recovery-t3381283
That's the last from me apologies if nothing worked !
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Thank you for your efforts timbernot. I am on .174. I did download the stock recovery but for my build, but was unable to flash it. It showed up as recovery in my download folder. It is my understanding that I have to ad .img to it when I flash" fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". I will leave it for this evening as I am terribly frustrated at the moment. I'll try again on the weekend.
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quicksilver53 said:
Thank you for your efforts timbernot. I am on .174. I did download the stock recovery but for my build, but was unable to flash it. It showed up as recovery in my download folder. It is my understanding that I have to ad .img to it when I flash" fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". I will leave it for this evening as I am terribly frustrated at the moment. I'll try again on the weekend.
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Understandable , although I just dloaded your recovery.img from the link and it is 11.6mb..? Is yours ?and in my files not as recovery on its own but with .img on the end ...