Recovery Won't Load - HTC One V

So I've fallen victim to a Clockwork Mod issue. (Why I decided to try Clockwork is beyond me) I've never had this issue with any phones, and after searching around I was unable to find anything that would fix the problem. I tried erasing the cache in fastboot, but it still doesn't work. I'm hoping there is something I can do to repair "recovery" without having to flash RUU. Any help would be awesome. I really hope this isn't a repost because I seriously search all over this board. I have the CDMA version of the HTC One V.

Hi
Just reflash recovery with fastboot
Either CWM or a stock one
fastboot flash recovery <recovery image file>
max

maxwen said:
Hi
Just reflash recovery with fastboot
Either CWM or a stock one
fastboot flash recovery <recovery image file>
max
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Yeah that's what I was trying to do, but I'm having trouble finding CWM for Primo C on here. I guess I'm just horrible with the search function. :laugh:

beelzenoob said:
Yeah that's what I was trying to do, but I'm having trouble finding CWM for Primo C on here. I guess I'm just horrible with the search function. :laugh:
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flashed to stock recovery. cleared fastboot cache. still not loading. i guess i've got to go through the whole process of flashing the ruu?

having trouble finding an image file of the CWM recovery. I have tried flashing to stock recovery to no avail. I want to try flashing the CWM but all I can find are GSM versions, and unforunately I have CDMA. I was able to get the .zip file from the ClockworkMod website but none of those methods will work. I can't use Clockwork Mod to flash the recovery, and I can't use Recovery to flash a .zip file. Any suggestions would be very helpful. +karma and possibly some mons to anyone that can help me solve this issue.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30132873&postcount=15

sorry thanks for the link man

Have you tried the link I gave above instead of double posting ?

ckpv5 said:
Have you tried the link I gave above instead of double posting ?
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Thanks so much. I really appreciate everything you've done. What's the total?

What's that ? I don't get you.

ckpv5 said:
What's that ? I don't get you.
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I was asking how much I owe you! hahah, but I am still having issues, clockwork loads into recovery but nothing works....

Hi
AFAIK CWM is not recommended for CDMA devices
Use TWRP instead
And make sure you use the correct one for CDMA primoc!!!!!
max

maxwen said:
Hi
AFAIK CWM is not recommended for CDMA devices
Use TWRP instead
And make sure you use the correct one for CDMA primoc!!!!!
max
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worked perfectly! thanks so much max!:highfive:

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[Q] Noob needing help

Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
slixter said:
Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
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ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
matt95 said:
ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
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I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
slixter said:
I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
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Phone is also unlocked again using Hasoons all in one kit.
Happy to hear of a fellow iphone convert :thumbup:
Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
Do you by chance have a nandroid backup?
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Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
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I've got no idea to be honest.
I've got no back ups.
If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
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If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
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Can you direct me to a stock rom?
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
matt95 said:
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
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Pretty sure i didn't
slixter said:
Pretty sure i didn't
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that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
matt95 said:
that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
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So do i need to flash the boot.img and the rom from CWM and I should be ok?
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
jonnyboiii said:
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
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Thanks for the info - think I have a rom I can use.
1 more question before i continue, how do i flash the boot.img file? I have a zip with the rom / boot.img
I have mounted as usb storage and copied the zip file across
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
slixter said:
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
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Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
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Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
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I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
slixter said:
I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
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download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
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How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
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How do you tell how much charge it has?
matt95 said:
download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
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Fastboot won't let me flash cos of the low battery, so will let the phone charge for a bit then try again. Thanks.

Both CM9/CM10 hangs at boot.

My procedure in chronological order:
Flashed recovery TWRP 2.3
Wiped everything possible in the wipe-tab
Installed CM9/10 from zip on SD-card (zip contains META-INF, system and boot.img)
Flashed boot.img from the zip file CM9/10
Issued the command fastboot erase cache
Unplugged cable and reboot
What happens is that I am stuck at the HTC booting screen. I have been here for about 30-40 minutes. If I try any adb shell command I receive this error: - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -. Clearly, something is not right here. I will not speculate because I lack the knowledge to do so. Any help is appreciated because I have been phone-less for a day now and it is getting irritating. Thanks!
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
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I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
zettez said:
I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
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Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
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Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
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No, I have not. Maybe I should give it a try? Or is it not required? Should I not be able to start the phone without any gapps?
Do you by chance have any ROM you can recommend that works so I could try it out and exclude problems? Would very like to know if it is my phone or ROM that is buggy.
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
Sent from my HTC One X
If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
TToivanen said:
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
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Would you mind telling me which CM10 build you are using and which boot.img you flashed?
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If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
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I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
zettez said:
I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
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Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
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Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
irundaia said:
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
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You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
zettez said:
Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
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Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
TToivanen said:
Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
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Will try again. I got the latest build from http://get.cm/?device=endeavoru. Will try cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip as it came out today.
zettez said:
You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
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I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
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hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
irundaia said:
[/COLOR]hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
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You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
irundaia said:
I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
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I see, then it is not only I who have this problem.
And a heads up, if the backup would go wrong, I currently use this ROM and it works pretty good if you want stock or cannot be arsed to get a root exploit for the stock ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035203.
Would be great if anyone has any ideas why irundaia and I cannot make CM10 work?
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You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
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You're right, I forgot to do that. I does boot now, still at a loss though. Can't we downgrade our Hboot to a version in which we know that CM can be flashed?
Kinda out of ideas here...
Can you confirm that the boot.img flashes ok? (should say OKAY)
Also confirm that you have endeavoru and not evita.

Can't get twrp recovery to work

Hey guys, I'm having a little problem getting TWRP recovery working on my DINC2. I'm HTC DEV unlocked with S-ON and rooted. Currently I'm running Miui .30 ROM. I had flashed CWM recovery during the initial rooting operation and now that's the only thing that I can get working. If I go into goo manager and download the recovery, it seems to go OK, but still comes up in CWM recovery 5.02. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or something else to try?
Thanks in advance,
Eric
scheirere said:
Hey guys, I'm having a little problem getting TWRP recovery working on my DINC2. I'm HTC DEV unlocked with S-ON and rooted. Currently I'm running Miui .30 ROM. I had flashed CWM recovery during the initial rooting operation and now that's the only thing that I can get working. If I go into goo manager and download the recovery, it seems to go OK, but still comes up in CWM recovery 5.02. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or something else to try?
Thanks in advance,
Eric
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Someone may have a better answer than me, but I think your solution may be flashing the recovery image. They can be found at
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/vivow
And you will probably flash it with fastboot, not CWM. Look in the twrp thread to see if it gives more info before doing anything.
gtdtm said:
Someone may have a better answer than me, but I think your solution may be flashing the recovery image. They can be found at
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/vivow
And you will probably flash it with fastboot, not CWM. Look in the twrp thread to see if it gives more info before doing anything.
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That was the ticket! fastboot flashed the recovery zip file and all is well. Now to figure out the S-OFF stuff.
Thanks again!
Eric
scheirere said:
That was the ticket! fastboot flashed the recovery zip file and all is well. Now to figure out the S-OFF stuff.
Thanks again!
Eric
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No Problem
Don't forget to hit the thanks button. Not just for me, but there are a ton of awesome people on this forum that always help out.

Recovery not working.

EDIT: Resolved by following Naman Bhalla's Unbrick Guide.
I'm on latest Freedom OS community build right now. I have this problem where my OP3 won't boot into recovery at all. Trying to do it just kills it and only a very long power button press is able to revive it.
I have tried flashing the recovery via fastboot but that also doesn't work. Is there a way out of it? I can't flash zips. Are there factory images I can flash via fastboot that can replace everything? I don't care about the data. Any help would be appreciated.
flash modified recovery via fastboot
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I have tried Garak's TWRP and the other TWRP. It doesn't change anything. Are there factory images like Google provides which can be flashed using fastboot?
i have the same problem, flashed the previouse version of Oxygen OS. But now i can't get in to recovery.. when i flash it trough fastboot everything goes ok, but when i want to go into recovery the screen is blank and the device does nothing.
Maybe read the OP of FreedomOS rom.
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Maybe read the OP of FreedomOS rom.
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I have read the OP of Freedom OS. I understand that obviously I overlooked something because of which I ended up where I am but I am looking for solutions here. I did not dirty flash the community build if that's what you mean.
n33raj18 said:
I have read the OP of Freedom OS. I understand that obviously I overlooked something because of which I ended up where I am but I am looking for solutions here. I did not dirty flash the community build if that's what you mean.
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You need the modified twrp version, the only way to recognize it, it has a mouse cursor in the middle of your screen.
n33raj18 said:
I'm on latest Freedom OS community build right now. I have this problem where my OP3 won't boot into recovery at all. Trying to do it just kills it and only a very long power button press is able to revive it.
I have tried flashing the recovery via fastboot but that also doesn't work. Is there a way out of it? I can't flash zips. Are there factory images I can flash via fastboot that can replace everything? I don't care about the data. Any help would be appreciated.
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I tried that I got the same error and wipe everything even internal then got a thread in unbrick oneplus 3 and it worked try method 2 link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700)
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You need the modified twrp version, the only way to recognize it, it has a mouse cursor in the middle of your screen.
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I had the same problem with 'no recovery' and this helped!
Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68691560&postcount=56
vvverma said:
I tried that I got the same error and wipe everything even internal then got a thread in unbrick oneplus 3 and it worked try method 2 link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700)
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Yea, I used exactly the same thing to get back my device working correctly again. I missed the crucial information that modified TWRP was required.

Installing TWRP over CWM?

Hello,
I am wondering if it is possible to install TWRP over top of CWM? When I initially rooted my phone CWM was installed, however to install a new rom I need TWRP. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Skyty said:
Hello,
I am wondering if it is possible to install TWRP over top of CWM? When I initially rooted my phone CWM was installed, however to install a new rom I need TWRP. Is this possible?
Thanks,
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Yes. It's been a loong time. Best I can recall, I did the following:
1. Flash'd a ZIP of an old TWRP (couldn't find latest in ZIP file)
2. Rebooted into Recovery
3. Used old TWRP to flash IMG file of new TWRP
Just to make sure I understand (as it's been a while since I rooted a phone or done anything like this).
1.) When you say flashed, do you mean in the TWRP app on the screen where you select your phone model?
2.) So if I flash TWRP (in the manner I described above assuming that's what you meant) and reboot into recovery it will overwrite Clockworkmod and then I'll be in TWRP recovery?
3.) If I do this with the most recent TWRP version I'm assuming this step will be unecessary?
My apologies if I misunderstood what you were trying to say! Thanks for taking the time to respond!
Skyty said:
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1.) When you say flashed, do you mean in the TWRP app on the screen where you select your phone model?
2.) So if I flash TWRP (in the manner I described above assuming that's what you meant) and reboot into recovery it will overwrite Clockworkmod and then I'll be in TWRP recovery?
3.) If I do this with the most recent TWRP version I'm assuming this step will be unecessary?...
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Quick answers: No, no, and maybe.
It appears that you may be confusing the TWRP app (which is basically useless bloat) with the actual TWRP recovery. You need to find and download the latest TWRP recovery for your device model. If you can find a ZIP of it, great; because CWM can then install TWRP recovery for you (so that when you reboot into recovery, you'll see TWRP instead of CWM). In my case, there was no ZIP available for the latest TWRP; it was available only as an IMG file. An old version of TWRP recovery, however, was and likely still is available in a ZIP file. So use CWM to install that ZIP of older TWRP, which can then install newer TWRP as an IMG file. I'm just a struggling noob myself, but I'm pretty sure CWM is not able to install an IMG file. Good luck!
MrGoodtunes said:
Quick answers: No, no, and maybe.
It appears that you may be confusing the TWRP app (which is basically useless bloat) with the actual TWRP recovery. You need to find and download the latest TWRP recovery for your device model. If you can find a ZIP of it, great; because CWM can then install TWRP recovery for you (so that when you reboot into recovery, you'll see TWRP instead of CWM). In my case, there was no ZIP available for the latest TWRP; it was available only as an IMG file. An old version of TWRP recovery, however, was and likely still is available in a ZIP file. So use CWM to install that ZIP of older TWRP, which can then install newer TWRP as an IMG file. I'm just a struggling noob myself, but I'm pretty sure CWM is not able to install an IMG file. Good luck!
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Ahhhh, okay that makes sense. I think I follow. Now in another thread you mentioned that if I need to go back and restore I'd use TWRP to flash CWM, hen I can use CWM to recover my old nandroid backups.
A couple final questions. Will I need to do a wipe when I flash the old TWRP zip (side note, do you know a good place to find those)? If I need to go back to CWM is there any place I can find it to flash with TWRP?
Thanks for all your help!
Skyty said:
... if I need to go back and restore I'd use TWRP to flash CWM, hen I can use CWM to recover my old nandroid backups ...
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Correct. That is IF you can find TWRP and CWM as ZIP files. I used to switch back and forth frequently, but that was years ago. TWRP is so much more useful, I no longer have anything CWM related nor the ZIPs; and can't even find where I got them. I'm pretty sure they were here on XDA. Spent some time searching, no luck. Then I tried Google. The first snippit nail'd it, here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/development/recovery-cwm-twrp-philz-t3182207
Skyty said:
.... Will I need to do a wipe when I flash the old TWRP zip...
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I never wiped. I seem to recall that when installing to the recovery partition, one of the steps I saw in the log was a wipe or maybe even a reformatting of that partition taking place along the way.
Skyty said:
.... (side note, do you know a good place to find those)? If I need to go back to CWM is there any place I can find it to flash with TWRP?
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They're both in the link (above).
Skyty said:
.... Thanks for all your help!
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That's what the [Thanks] button is for, here on xda.
MrGoodtunes said:
Correct. That is IF you can find TWRP and CWM as ZIP files. I used to switch back and forth frequently, but that was years ago. TWRP is so much more useful, I no longer have anything CWM related nor the ZIPs; and can't even find where I got them. I'm pretty sure they were here on XDA. Spent some time searching, no luck. Then I tried Google. The first snippit nail'd it, here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/development/recovery-cwm-twrp-philz-t3182207
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I appreciate the link, however, I think those zips are for a different model of phone than mine. However, I think I possibly found versions that will work for me... Is there any real way to confirm?
The serranoltexx CWM Zip
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980&page=99
The serranoltexx TWRP Zip
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347768468
However, I'm not 100% certain either of these will work, and I'm not sure how I'd figure that out.
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That's what the [Thanks] button is for, here on xda.
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Done!
Skyty said:
... those zips are for a different model of phone ...
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OMG! You're right, those are for the Value Edition. I completely miss'd the "ve" in them. Sorry.
Skyty said:
... I think I possibly found versions that will work for me..
The serranoltexx CWM Zip
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980&page=99
The serranoltexx TWRP Zip
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347768468 ...
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I remember using that very CWM zip version 6.0.5.1, so it should work okay. Good find.
I'm not familliar with that particular TWRP zip. It does clearly indicate being for the i9195 model; I'm just not sure about what "open" means at beginning of zip's filename. Still, worth a try. (If it fails, you can more easily find a TAR file of the most recent TWRP and use Odin to install it.)
MrGoodtunes said:
OMG! You're right, those are for the Value Edition. I completely miss'd the "ve" in them. Sorry.
I remember using that very CWM zip version 6.0.5.1, so it should work okay. Good find.
I'm not familliar with that particular TWRP zip. It does clearly indicate being for the i9195 model; I'm just not sure about what "open" means at beginning of zip's filename. Still, worth a try. (If it fails, you can more easily find a TAR file of the most recent TWRP and use Odin to install it.)
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So, just thought I'd let you know that I'm up and running with LineageOS and I tested reverting back and forth to CWM and TWRP. Eveything seems in working order! I appreciate you help and have clicked the thanks button on your messages! All the best!
Skyty said:
... I tested reverting back and forth to CWM and TWRP. Eveything seems in working order!
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That's excellent. It's really amazing how much we can do with this little S4mini device; thanks to the work of devs, several of whom are still providing updates. After all there's never been a more powerful device (other than S4mini VE) that weighs under 4 oz.
MrGoodtunes said:
That's excellent. It's really amazing how much we can do with this little S4mini device; thanks to the work of devs, several of whom are still providing updates. After all there's never been a more powerful device (other than S4mini VE) that weighs under 4 oz.
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Yeah, its amazing! I've been able to breath new life into my old phone, I'm shocked at how well it runs on the S4; not as well as my newer phones, but better than before. Funnily enough, its actually running a newer version of Android than my S8 and S10e haha. Now onto those phones... been trying to get them both rooted but it's looking like a no go haha.

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