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HELP i cannot istall CWM recovery!!

Hello friends,
I had unlock the bootloader and root my one X.The next step is to install the CWM recovery but i cant and i need your help!!
I tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819 with exactly this steps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lMHUgxwww&feature=relmfu but is says all the time 'error cannot install recovery.img'
I am not doing nothing wrong!pleaze help me!!
(i am sorry wrong thread....my mistake)

Try and reboot your computer and phone. It sometimes gives an error. Rebooting can help.

i had reboot and try it again and again 1000 times!!

Try and redownload the recovery.img.
Can you give the commands you enter?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...hp?attachmentid=1104242&stc=1&d=1338750100100http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1104241&stc=1&d=1338750100

paris07121978 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...hp?attachmentid=1104242&stc=1&d=1338750100100http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1104241&stc=1&d=1338750100
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Probably you didnt put "recovery.img" into "c:\fastboot" folder. Copy "recovery.img" into "c:\fastboot" and rerun flash recovery command

Serge.C said:
Probably you didnt put "recovery.img" into "c:\fastboot" folder. Copy "recovery.img" into "c:\fastboot" and rerun flash recovery command
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I have done many times ... what else can I do laths

paris07121978 said:
I have done many times ... what else can I do laths
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You dont navigate the CMD prompt to the right place ... or you dont have installed android drivers.

Ive just rooted my one x. When i downloaded CWM my file was not called recovery.img. Are you sure youve downloaded the correct file. I had to type: fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
Re-download it from: http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
Stick that file in your fastboot folder and try again.

you obviously have the drivers installed as you unlocked the bootloader, so if the command is not working for you and you're typing recovery.img, is your .img file ACTUALLY CALLED 'recovery.img' you need to type the exact filename
from your screenshot you are typing literally 'recovery.img' yet I BET YOU THE FILE YOU DOWNLOADED IS NOT NAMED RECOVERY.IMG
OT: We really need a basic technical literacy test for people to pass before they flash lol
99% of these issues are fundamental errors like not even having the android usb driver installed, typing in the wrong .img name (because they copied and pasted a command without understanding what its really doing), not having the .img file in the same folder, rushing and doing fastboot flash boot recovery.img or something similar.

Also I wonder why the size of that recovery.img is 5797 KB when the right recovery is 5760 KB.
So I suggest to download again the recovery, maybe use the one from RichardTrip : http://xda.richardtrip.org/HTC/reco...kwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru_fixedadbusb.img

http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1108250&stc=1&d=1338901907
thank you all you .. Eventually the problem was the writing of keyboard Thanks again

PLEASE HELP!!! Have got myself without a boot img stuck in recovery

Have completed rumrunner root for htc one.
Have installed twrp through adb using command prompt.
Then when trying to reboot system it boots up in recovery.
Need help to find out how to get back on my phone.
Have found similar sites with information but not clear enough for me to understand
I'm able to access twrp so i would assume it's a mount of the sd card but i am not seeing that option anywhere
twrp v 2.6.3.0
I know it's late guys thanks for your help!

if you ever get this issue please understand that there are websites out there that are making you use "fastboot flash boot blah.img" which is making you flash recovery on top of your boot img. please understand that you have overwritten something that is necessary for your phone to work so just open a rom you are preparing to flash and unzip. Copy the boot.img from the unzipped folder and move it to your fastboot folder where your going to open command prompt.
after you open command prompt in the same folder as your adb/fastboot/ and such using shift right click
you then type in the command prompt "fastboot flash boot boot.img" that should flash the boot image back and you should be able to turn on your phone.... wow that took a lot of stress but figured it out in the end. JUST HAD TO GET A GRIP! now happy flashing thanks!

kiit408 said:
if you ever get this issue please understand that there are websites out there that are making you use "fastboot flash boot blah.img" which is making you flash recovery on top of your boot img.
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Either the tutorial was completely written wrong, or you read them wrong. There's no way of telling which happened, but the point is to be very careful with fastboot.
The command "fastboot flash boot file.img" doesn't flash recovery in your boot partition unless you mis-labeled your .img file and flashed the wrong file in the wrong place.
Most people modding their phones are going to be using fasboot to flash to boot, recovery, system, or bootloader. It's important to understand all of the places that fastboot can flash before you start pushing in .img files. Understanding fastboot commands can also help you possibly identify if someone made a typo in their guides.
Want to put in recovery? "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". Want to put in a new kernel? "fastboot flash boot boot.img", and so on. Ensure that you've got files that are properly named and you won't ever have to worry about flashing the wrong thing in the wrong place.

kiit408 said:
if you ever get this issue please understand that there are websites out there that are making you use "fastboot flash boot blah.img" which is making you flash recovery on top of your boot img. please understand that you have overwritten something that is necessary for your phone to work so just open a rom you are preparing to flash and unzip. Copy the boot.img from the unzipped folder and move it to your fastboot folder where your going to open command prompt.
after you open command prompt in the same folder as your adb/fastboot/ and such using shift right click
you then type in the command prompt "fastboot flash boot boot.img" that should flash the boot image back and you should be able to turn on your phone.... wow that took a lot of stress but figured it out in the end. JUST HAD TO GET A GRIP! now happy flashing thanks!
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Jjust understand what you're flashing, you can't 100% trust a tutorial..
If you do the command, fastboot flash boot boot.img, you BEST DAMN be sure that is a kernel/boot.img you are flashing and make sure your working is right, if you fastboot flash a boot.img to say recovery.img, you are screwed.
make sure the file is right my MD5, also make sure the tutorial is good, messing with ANYTHING in fastboot is dangerous.

Possibly Bricked Pixel XL

Hi, I am i dire straits. I have a pixel xl running pure nexus, rooted and on tmobile. I am trying to get back to completely stock. i tried followig the instructions but somewhere I messed up. Currently phone will just bootloop. I went into cmd, typed adb devices, nothing came up so stupid me, I continued anyways with flash-all.bat, something went wrong in command prompt, then i proceeded to reboot from fastboot, this is where i am now. I have attached pictures of the command prompt screens and of the folder in adb fastboot on my pc that I think contained all the files. I do't know where I went wrong. If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. I can only correspond via pc. Please, I hope someone can help me.
If someone has the time to walk me through step by step, it would much appreciated.

Doesnt looked bricked to me
maybe your factory image is incomplete.
Flash the parts individually see what happens.
Commands i use. note you need to use your own paths or copy mine
) Execute fastboot commands
fastboot flash bootloader c:\_PIXEL_XL_\bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio c:\_PIXEL_XL_\radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot_a c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash boot_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash system c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system.img
fastboot flash system_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system_other.img
fastboot flash vendor c:\_PIXEL_XL_\vendor.img
fastboot flash modem c:\_PIXEL_XL_\modem.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot boot c:\_PIXEL_XL_\twrp.img
In TWRP, install twrp.zip
Reboot into the installed recovery
In TWRP, install supersu.zip <--- if you want to root.
5 Still in twrp flash verifiedboot signer.zip
6 Reboot

parakleet said:
Doesnt looked bricked to me
maybe your factory image is incomplete.
Flash the parts individually see what happens.
Commands i use. note you need to use your own paths or copy mine
) Execute fastboot commands
fastboot flash bootloader c:\_PIXEL_XL_\bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio c:\_PIXEL_XL_\radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot_a c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash boot_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash system c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system.img
fastboot flash system_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system_other.img
fastboot flash vendor c:\_PIXEL_XL_\vendor.img
fastboot flash modem c:\_PIXEL_XL_\modem.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot boot c:\_PIXEL_XL_\twrp.img
In TWRP, install twrp.zip
Reboot into the installed recovery
In TWRP, install supersu.zip <--- if you want to root.
5 Still in twrp flash verifiedboot signer.zip
6 Reboot
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No offence but i am lost by what you said, I am trying to get back to completely stock. Is part of my issue the fact that command prompt didn't detect my device? or no?
I'm not exactly sure what to do with the information you shared, sorry
I the tutorial i found it says to make sure the command prompt sees your device but doesnt say what to do when it doesnt see it.
Also, I downloaded the may factory image, i believe it was version O

Am I suppose to use the O image or the L image (verizon). I am on tmobile. I used the O image when i ran into trouble

jreink01 said:
Am I suppose to use the O image or the L image (verizon). I am on tmobile. I used the O image when i ran into trouble
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If you did not get your phone from Verizon use this
7.1.2 (N2G47O, May 2017)
Download the zip
unpack all the zip files some are nested so unzipping one creates more keep unzipping until there are no more then gather the following img files
bootloader.img
radio.img
boot.img
system.img
system_other.img
vendor.img
modem.img
Some of those names are cut down as i hate typing long strings, jsut rename them as such.
Create a folder on root of c:\_PIXEL_XL_
put all the files there.
You will use way less files than you unpacked
once you have done that run the following commands
copy and paste
fastboot flash bootloader c:\_PIXEL_XL_\bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio c:\_PIXEL_XL_\radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot_a c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash boot_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\boot.img
fastboot flash system c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system.img
fastboot flash system_b c:\_PIXEL_XL_\system_other.img
fastboot flash vendor c:\_PIXEL_XL_\vendor.img
fastboot flash modem c:\_PIXEL_XL_\modem.img
fastboot reboot
After last reboot just wait and you will be back at stock
if that doesnt work
Download latest version of TWRP place it in C:\_PIXEL_XL_
rename it twrp.img, again i hate typing long strings
from bootloader run
fastboot boot c:\_PIXEL_XL_\twrp.img
This will take you into twrp
you might need to wipe system and cache and data,
From memory the fourth entry at bottom is internal memory or user data, in any event if you do not check that your data stays on the phone.
Once you have wiped the other 3 rerun the fastboot commands and you will be back at stock
add the twrp and supersu commands from earlier to add root.
dont forget the signatureverify.img if you are doing that.
good luck.
you arent bricked
you just need to find the correct combination of steps to get your phone where you want it to be

Thanks for the response. I am having a hard time with this, the zip file i downloaded from the google website, when i open it, there are only 6 files, 1 of which is a zip file (marlin). When I open marlin it shows a bunch of files, none of which you mentioned. I am confused, was wondering if you would be nice enough to walk me through this over the phone, i would be really grateful.

Is there anyone that can walk me through this this on the phone, the more i try to understand this, the more cofused i get. pLeASE!!!!

jreink01 said:
Is there anyone that can walk me through this this on the phone, the more i try to understand this, the more cofused i get. pLeASE!!!!
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Yes, i sent you a PM.

HALV0RS3N said:
Yes, i sent you a PM.
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thanks, sent you my #

Okay so I had the exact problem yesterday. To to the Google developers site and download the official Google pixel or xl 7.1.2 nougut ota update. Once that's downloaded, go to your phone, I had all the exact same screens on my phone so it should work. Hold down the power button until it completely shuts down. Then hold the power and volume down to go to recovery mode, if it goes back to the ext 4 screen, try it again until it goes to recovery mode, then on command prompt type, fastboot boot twrp.img then once it's in twrp, go to advanced-then adb sideload and click both boxed and then swipe to enter sideload. Then on your computer, type adb sideload "file name for Google update" and hit enter. That should do the trick. Like I said, I had the exact same problem yesterday
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Also, I forgot to mention, download the twrp image file from the Internet. Shouldn't be hard to find just make sure it's the latest. Put that file in the adb file on your computer same with the Google update for your phone. Do not unzip either file. That's very important. DO NOT UNZIP THE UPDATE File. When you type in the twrp.img make sure you type img. And when you flash the update, make sure at the end of the file name you put
.zip ex( marlinpixelxl7.1.2.zip)

jreink01 said:
Hi, I am i dire straits. I have a pixel xl running pure nexus, rooted and on tmobile. I am trying to get back to completely stock. i tried followig the instructions but somewhere I messed up. Currently phone will just bootloop. I went into cmd, typed adb devices, nothing came up so stupid me, I continued anyways with flash-all.bat, something went wrong in command prompt, then i proceeded to reboot from fastboot, this is where i am now. I have attached pictures of the command prompt screens and of the folder in adb fastboot on my pc that I think contained all the files. I do't know where I went wrong. If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. I can only correspond via pc. Please, I hope someone can help me.
If someone has the time to walk me through step by step, it would much appreciated.
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Looking at your screen shot you didn't let the file finish flashing. It sticks at the "does not contain" for a bit before it continues.
You were doing it right. You just didn't wait.
If it wasn't going to work it would eventually give you a failure and jump to the command prompt.

jreink01 said:
Hi, I am i dire straits. I have a pixel xl running pure nexus, rooted and on tmobile. I am trying to get back to completely stock. i tried followig the instructions but somewhere I messed up. Currently phone will just bootloop. I went into cmd, typed adb devices, nothing came up so stupid me, I continued anyways with flash-all.bat, something went wrong in command prompt, then i proceeded to reboot from fastboot, this is where i am now. I have attached pictures of the command prompt screens and of the folder in adb fastboot on my pc that I think contained all the files. I do't know where I went wrong. If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. I can only correspond via pc. Please, I hope someone can help me.
If someone has the time to walk me through step by step, it would much appreciated.
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i had the same issue and this worked
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70972735&postcount=3
dont follow it word for word as that its not the XL version in the post.

RedBlueGreen said:
i had the same issue and this worked
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70972735&postcount=3
dont follow it word for word as that its not the XL version in the post.
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OP was flashing to stock. Didn't let it finish though.

Can't find original post

So i combed through the threads and either i missed it or it was removed but i'll ask anyways. So, BND-L24 with unlocked bootloader, no root, no twrp installed. How do I go about backing up my stock files. I tried booting into the twrp image through fastboot and it kept saying "remote connection not allowed" or something along that line. I'd like to back up everything including the stock recoveries and have something to fall back on in the event that something goes not to my liking. So what options do i have as far as this goes? Backup through a booted (not flashed) TWRP, backup through ADB commands? Any knowledge would be appreciated.

Here's a backup .bat file.
May want to try flashing TWRP instead of booting
You need to ADB while in TWRP, make sure you have a microSD card installed.
Its just a $ shell
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AkZ0s7FIa8vvgQwGOiDaAEuaixNGDWEl

tlxxxsracer said:
Here's a backup .bat file.
May want to try flashing TWRP instead of booting
You need to ADB while in TWRP, make sure you have a microSD card installed.
Its just a $ shell
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AkZ0s7FIa8vvgQwGOiDaAEuaixNGDWEl
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But if I flash twrp, I won't be able to backup the stock recovery correct? So if something goes wrong down the line I won't be able to revert back to compete stock or install ota updates

boot into twrp dont flash, that way stock recovery isnt touched

tlxxxsracer said:
boot into twrp dont flash, that way stock recovery isnt touched
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That's what I was attempting do but it wouldn't boot into it. It kept saying failed. I think I tried two different versions of twrp that are posted. Is there a different command line besides "fastboot boot twrp.img" that I need to be using? Or am I missing something else? I unlocked the bootloader and it is showing up in "fastboot devices" I moved the recovery image into the adb folder and renamed it twrp.img. Should've been pretty straight forward, never had problems with adb before

str8stryk3r said:
That's what I was attempting do but it wouldn't boot into it. It kept saying failed. I think I tried two different versions of twrp that are posted. Is there a different command line besides "fastboot boot twrp.img" that I need to be using? Or am I missing something else? I unlocked the bootloader and it is showing up in "fastboot devices" I moved the recovery image into the adb folder and renamed it twrp.img. Should've been pretty straight forward, never had problems with adb before
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Hey OP were you able to figure this out?

mjtschmid said:
Hey OP were you able to figure this out?
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Nah man. I thought about doing the no twrp install root method posted but decided against it because the twrp available isn't 100% made for our phone. And I keep reading they disabled "fastboot boot" command. I'm gonna hold off until they release the stock firmware did the L24 before I did into root and twrp

Well I can tell you I followed the steps for backup and took it for granted that it worked. Turns out my system.img and userdata.img we're 0 bytes. If someone has done it successfully I would appreciate if they posted their system.img for BND-L24

i'm not 100% sure but i think in order to boot twrp using "fastboot boot" command you have to specify, according to "fastboot help" , it's something like "fastboot [kernel] [ramdisk] boot [xxx.img]" and in other posts i see it being written as "fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot <path to recover.img>" but i'm not sure which device that's for. i don't mess with adb and fastboot enough to know what's going on in there. maybe one of you guys can figure it out.

How do I find a post #??I was told to look at ..... .....post # but how do I find this???

Trouble installing Magisk

Any help would be appreciated. This is my first time dealing with Magisk, I've always used SuperSU in the past. I finally used my unlock code and the bootloader says unlocked, that was easy. I installed the Magisk Manager apk but am having trouble with Magisk itself. I'm used to flashing in TWRP, which I apparently can't install until Magisk is installed. I have two options, install - download zip only, and patch boot image file...
So I was trying to use the boot image file from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-20-x/development/guide-mate-20-x-root-t3883269 and either patch it or used the patched one, but when my phone goes into the bootloader screen, adb is not recognizing the phone or finding the file which I set inside the adb folder itself. Sorry, I am not a noob to flashing. Done many many phones rooting, unlocking, roms, modems, etc. I am just new to adb and Magisk. Any help would be great as I've been at this all day reading and downloading things I needed. Thank you.
EDIT: I'm not sure if I'm putting the .img file in the wrong folder??? I am stuck on step 5 in that thread.

So more specifics on where I am stuck, hoping for help. I've tried, tried and tried and Googled lots...
When I run fastboot devices it does show my phone. I took the Patched Recovery Ramdisk for EVR-AL00 from the site above. I renamed it to recovery.img and put it inside the folder c:\adb where adb and fastboot are located. When I am in the command prompt under c:\adb> I put "fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdiskMagiskrecovery.img". And I get this error... fastboot: error: cannot load 'recovery_ramdiskMagiskrecovery.img': No such file or directory

DavidMT909 said:
So more specifics on where I am stuck, hoping for help. I've tried, tried and tried and Googled lots...
When I run fastboot devices it does show my phone. I took the Patched Recovery Ramdisk for EVR-AL00 from the site above. I renamed it to recovery.img and put it inside the folder c:\adb where adb and fastboot are located. When I am in the command prompt under c:\adb> I put "fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdiskMagiskrecovery.img". And I get this error... fastboot: error: cannot load 'recovery_ramdiskMagiskrecovery.img': No such file or directory
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If you renamed the file recovery.img then the command should be
'fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery.img'

lightning413 said:
If you renamed the file recovery.img then the command should be
'fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery.img'
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Thank you, but I may have messed up my phone now. I was trying this from the thread above, and even his example shows Magisk in it.
Step 5:
-Once the device is in bootloader and connected to the PC, run the command "fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdiskMagiskVARIANT" with VARIANT being whatever ramdisk you downloaded. For example with AL00 you would input "fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdiskMagiskAL00.img"
As soon as I tried your way it seemed to work... except when I booted it still did not have root. And now I cannot get into fastboot or recovery. It just keeps rebooting to the phone if I try recovery or fastboot. I used to be able to do this stuff following directions. It just doesn't seem to be working out. Thanks for trying.
My devices still lists in adb, but not fastboot. I'm still working on this. I do make an effort to do things myself.
Okay, I don't know what happened. My Magisk had an update, I installed it and rebooted and for the first time two green checks in Magisk, ran root checker and I have root. So hopefully I can install TWRP now and on to the ROM. Slow progress...
I have TWRP. Time to make a backup, and I'll install a ROM next.