can't flash stock recovery (GPE 5.1) - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, I have got some troubles in flashing stock recovery. Currently my m8 is running Android 5.1 (GPE) and I have rooted it via TWRP. When I tried to flash the stock recovery to get an OTA, it showed the recovery had been flashed successfully. However, when I reboot to recovery, I saw a Red triangle with an exclamation mark says error. This is not my first time to flash stock recovery and it used to work. I have no idea on what is going on at this moment. Need your help.
Android version: 5.1
s-off
unlocked
build number: LMY470.H9

If you get a red triangle in the recovery, that is normal. I have it on my phone as well and the OTA worked successfully.

Vigz said:
If you get a red triangle in the recovery, that is normal. I have it on my phone as well and the OTA worked successfully.
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hey thanks for replying.
I have tried to upgrade my phone under this condition, however, it comes with an error again. (also a red triangle when OTA)
Last time when I flashed the stock recovery, the phone became unrooted. And the OTA worked successfully. But this time even I flash the stock recovery, it is still rooted. I don't know how to deal with it.

I have heard that some of the recent OTAs do not update properly if the phone is rooted. I've never rooted my phone at all so my updates have worked fine. You might need to unroot before you proceed. That can be done via the SuperSU app.

It's a fact that on sense roms ota don't even work when you unroot the rom !
In that case you need a NEVER rooted rom and stock recovery. This came in the picture since lollipop ! Guess its no different for GPE

Vigz said:
I have heard that some of the recent OTAs do not update properly if the phone is rooted. I've never rooted my phone at all so my updates have worked fine. You might need to unroot before you proceed. That can be done via the SuperSU app.
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thanks man! I have unrooted it and now the OTA works

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[Q] Hey gais! Help me out a bit.

So i update to the new Evo update and i get stuck on a black screen with an android guy confused as hell with a triangle...whas mean?
what state was the phone in before u tried to update. was it rooted, custom recovery, completely stock?
...another victim.
You tried booting into recovery, but stock recovery is no recovery, marked by the triangle and red !. If you're still s-off, flash a recovery, CWM or amon_ra, then flash a rom.
Gilly11277 said:
So i update to the new Evo update and i get stuck on a black screen with an android guy confused as hell with a triangle...whas mean?
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That's stock recovery
I would say pull the battery and leave it for 10 minutes or so. Worked for me once in the past. Hope that helps. Good luck!
it was rooted with the newest (nightly) of CM7, i booted into clockwork mod recovery cause i wanted to switch to stock so i could recieve new update. so i cleared all my data then performed a recovery that put me to the stock ROM (rooted) then cleared phone again to have a total fresh install and then searched for the update and downloaded it and tried installing it but its all like, HEY YOU CANT DO THAT DLFJOEIFJDKFJDF. Halp.
Gilly11277 said:
it was rooted with the newest (nightly) of CM7, i booted into clockwork mod recovery cause i wanted to switch to stock so i could recieve new update. so i cleared all my data then performed a recovery that put me to the stock ROM (rooted) then cleared phone again to have a total fresh install and then searched for the update and downloaded it and tried installing it but its all like, HEY YOU CANT DO THAT DLFJOEIFJDKFJDF. Halp.
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If you're still s-off, do what I said in my first post.
Whats s-off sry for my ignorance, for I am just a casual phone flasher.
Gilly11277 said:
Whats s-off sry for my ignorance, for I am just a casual phone flasher.
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Boot into the bootloader, turn your phone off, while turning it on, hold the vol+down key till you see a white screen with androids skateboarding. At the top you'll see either s-on or off; If s-off, reflash a recovery via PC36IMG, then flash another rom.
okay, i am s-off so basically find a stock ROM flash it then check for the update?
Gilly11277 said:
okay, i am s-off so basically find a stock ROM flash it then check for the update?
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No...the rooted stock OTA roms aren't out yet. Probably by the end of the day. Just flash a rom and just coast till now; like I said, virus should have it by the end of the day.
Okay, I mean my phone works and everything I'm just on the stock rooted ROM (previous to the newest 2.3) I'm just a little confused as to how its not letting me update, I thought the fact that i was rooted didn't really matter cause it would just unroot and wipe out everything.
Triangle Update Error
I am getting the same triangle update error. I have a rooted phone using unrevoked 3. My buddie has the same set up and we both are getting the error. We are trying to un-root our phones to a stock rom but neither of us can find one that removes unrevoked root. Can anyone help. I am a web/graphics computer guy. I don't know much about roms.
Thanks,
Nick
Gilly11277 said:
Okay, I mean my phone works and everything I'm just on the stock rooted ROM (previous to the newest 2.3) I'm just a little confused as to how its not letting me update, I thought the fact that i was rooted didn't really matter cause it would just unroot and wipe out everything.
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Well if you're on aosp, you can't update, you'd have to be on a sense rom. And you should never accept an OTA while rooted, as it can brick your phone, or permanently use root.
i am on a sense ROM its the stock ROM and i just ran unrevoked.

[Q] Upgrade procedure from rooted 4.1.2

I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?
desirus said:
I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.
BWolf56 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.
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Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?
desirus said:
Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?
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Tibu is my fav backup app, just make sure you don't restore system app/data. Just make a batch backup and restore once you've flashed KK.
Unroot can be done directly in SuperSU (app).
Yes you can go directly to KK (or any other version), just don't downgrade once you'll have the 4.3+ bootloader or you'll brick your device.
And yes, use Odin on your PC, mobile Odin doesn't flash bootloaders.
The entire process is fairly simple. Just gotta be patient
galaxy S3 AT&T: from stock 4.1.2 to 4.4.2
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards
franzrocamolina said:
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards
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Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
AT&T I747 from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2 Perfect procedure
BWolf56 said:
Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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BWolf56...you are right!!!
Ran all procedure http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2789917.
My I747 AT&T is now in 4.4.2. No problems at all. Still Unlocked.
One point more:
When I was in 4.1.2 Stock, I was not able to use "USB Theter" because I am not with AT&T SIM Card. With this version I can USB Theter without restriction.
unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I'm in the exact same boat. I was rooted with stock rom and recovery previously. No matter what I've done, it always fails.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using XDA Free mobile app
Yellow triangle did not solve problem
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I spent several hours on this again today. I thought I had discerned the fix when I found a post showing the custom download count on the download screen and references to the yellow triangle program to reset it. I rerooted the phone, put stock recovery back, zeroed out the counter with yellow triangle, put the stock image back with ODIN, factory reset, and ended up with an unrooted phone with zero count. The download screen now says:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE (in light Grey)
I thought that would do it but the OTA still fails and I still see the red triangle on the stock recovery page. The only thing I can think of now is that SuperSU is still on the phone. It is disabled but still has 12KB of data that I don't know how to clear. I used the stock image from the skipsoft Android Toolkit.
Any ideas would be really appreciated.
I would steer clear of the toolkit. Follow enewman17's how to update thread in the General section. Seems to have a pretty good success rate.
get KK 4.4.2 in your AT&T SG3 without OTA
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Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I did the same than you and also what n01un0 says but couldn't get OTA update to 4.3 or 4.4.2.
If you want the 4.4.2 in your S3, follow enewman17's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 Thread.
It worked perfect for me from 4.1.2 stock to 4.4.2. The final result is the same that you get by OTA (if OTA works)
unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android - solved
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I solved my problem by a convoluted process that I could not recommend but will lay out as best I can in case anyone is that desperate. I had re-rooted and un-rooted a couple times since my last post and finally decided to try a different stock image. I found a link to one in an article
how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747 (sorry - not allowed to post URL)
The link is to stockroms.net. Really slow download - it took a couple hours. After the download (and unzip),
I attached my unrooted phone via USB cable to my computer.
Installed it with ODIN and watched the phone reboot
It seem to get stuck on the Samsung splash screen.
I went into recovery mode and noticed that - at last - I did not have the red triangle and no dead android. I tried wiping the cache a couple times from the recovery screen but it still seemed to get stuck at the splash screen (not sure if I waited long enough).
I finally did the factory reset from the recovery and it finally came back to life and went through the whole initialization thing. I confirmed a couple times that the red triangle was gone and noted that I had gone from Android version 4.1.1 to 4.04. Maybe that was the key or maybe I had a bad stock version of 4.1.1. IDK. But I started going through a series of updates. I am currently at version 4.3 and downloading what I hope will be the last update.
Started with 4.1.1 and used outdated stock image to go back to
4.04 - small update but version still
4.04 - cleared data from AT&T Update App to get around the wait 24 hours - got the update installed to version
4.1.2 - checked for update and got upgraded to
4.3 - check for update wanted me to wait 24 hours and I could not see how to clear the data - so changed the phone's date to next day. Automatically started downloading a new update - I'm hoping its the last

[Q] i317 still on 4.1.2... :( SOLVED!

my work requires encryption. i was on slimkatv22 at the time and had to encrypt. as encryption kept failing, i went back to stock. way back to stock.
so i'm running
JZO54K.I317UCAMH3 ROM
TEAMWIN Recovery
I317UCUCNE5 Bootloader
with Root and Busybox installed.
everytime i try to update via device update, it downloads, reboots and runs TWRP, I decrypt using password, reboots and the update fails with "Update Interrupted" message.
Is there a way to update ROM and keep encryption?
You can't OTA stock ROMs without stock recovery.
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You can't OTA stock ROMs without stock recovery.
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Thanks for your response. I tried updating ROM via ODIN and was not successful. Always got stuck in boot logo after i flashed new ROM.
Is there a stock recovery I should flash over TWRP to try?
Thanks for your help.
I have never used encryption so I can't really help if there are specifics around that. What exactly are you trying to install through Odin? If it's the firmware such as THIS it should overwrite the custom recovery with the stock one. If the stock ROM isn't booting you might have to boot into recovery and factory reset/wipe dalvik cache. This is my first Samsung phone so if nothing helps someone else who'd like to offer their assistance would probably be more knowledgeable.
I was going back to stock, which I guess, was mostly successful. however, I've not been able to install new ROM, namely 4.4.2 I317UCUCNE5. so if I install from your link, that should overwrite custom recovery and allow me to upgrade to 4.4.2 ROM either OTA or via Odin?
Maybe? Using the OTA always tells me there isn't an update (cause I'm on T-Mobile I guess?) and I haven't seen any files to update to Kitkat firmware through Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
i'm going to try this.
thanks,
miserly said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
i'm going to try this.
thanks,
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haven't had time to try. tbutbut i noticed that foxfi doesn't work even though i'm rooted. i searched for tether and doesn't seem to be a working solution for a free app.
SOLVED
finally got around to following the directions from dicksteele and voila! i'm on 4.4.2!
thanks all!
m

ee 4.4.3 ota not working

Hi all, in need of advice. My m8 is currently rooted with twrp and s-on. I flashed stock recovery a while back for an update which I thought was 4.4.3 but turned out it wasn't so went back to twrp. Now update has finally hit I've flashed stock recovery and tried to install ota and its not working, even tho it worked fine for last update (which turned out to be a Firewater patch)
My q is. Can I install it using custom recovery if I have the update zip even tho I'm s-on? Happy with sense so not looking at custom roms for this phone.
houston33 said:
Hi all, in need of advice. My m8 is currently rooted with twrp and s-on. I flashed stock recovery a while back for an update which I thought was 4.4.3 but turned out it wasn't so went back to twrp. Now update has finally hit I've flashed stock recovery and tried to install ota and its not working, even tho it worked fine for last update (which turned out to be a Firewater patch)
My q is. Can I install it using custom recovery if I have the update zip even tho I'm s-on? Happy with sense so not looking at custom roms for this phone.
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Have you removed any stock apps i.e bloatware ??????
None. That's what's really bugging me. It's worked fine last update so only thing I did was put twrp back on so I could use external sd and left everything else as it was so I was ready for update coming.
I even wiped phone and started it from New and I still get the red exclamation.
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None. That's what's really bugging me. It's worked fine last update so only thing I did was put twrp back on so I could use external sd and left everything else as it was so I was ready for update coming.
I even wiped phone and started it from New and I still get the red exclamation.
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Have you still got TWRP installed?
You will need stock recovery
Same issue for me this morning. I have stock recovery and removed xposed. The update aborts shortly thereafter
To try and get further I used an older nandroid backup (1.54.61.5 cid orang001) and stock recovery, it updated itself but not to 4.4.3, it was just to the 1.74, and from there it just will not update.
I have the 4.4.3 correct cid zipped update file from here. Is there no way of restoring it?

[Q] How do I get my phone back to normal?

So the other day I sucessfully rooted my phone by flashing SuperSU with a tethered CWM recovery. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of performing an OTA while the phone was rooted, causing a bootloop. I managed to get the device up and running by reflashing the bootloader, recovery, and a pre-rooted system.img. However, I now would like to get the phone back to how it was out of the box so I can get OTA updates. How can I do this? My phone is a ZE551ML WW.
vishnureddy17 said:
So the other day I sucessfully rooted my phone by flashing SuperSU with a tethered CWM recovery. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of performing an OTA while the phone was rooted, causing a bootloop. I managed to get the device up and running by reflashing the bootloader, recovery, and a pre-rooted system.img. However, I now would like to get the phone back to how it was out of the box so I can get OTA updates. How can I do this? My phone is a ZE551ML WW.
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just flash stock rom from Asus download desk and flash it via adb...Btw u can get updates on this one too but just make sure you un-root first before applying any OTA and yeah don't delete any bloatware or system app
mhp1995 said:
just flash stock rom from Asus download desk and flash it via adb
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I can't seem to get my computer to recognize the phone while it is in recovery mode. ADB works fine when booted into android though.
I was able to update the phone by putting the zip file in internal storage. Everything seems to be normal now.

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