Hey guys.
I'm trying to flash twrp 3.0 goyave recovery on my sm-t111. Since Odin crashes with .tar file, I managed to convert it to a tar.md5 file and then flash with Odin. But when I try to boot to recovery tab gets stuck on the boot logo and won't go into recovery or allow me to boot the tablet normally. I then flashed the stock recovery from stock rom and managed to boot the tablet.
I need to root my tab and so need to install latest twrp (3.0 or above). Appreciate any help
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Hello, my friend has a Ace 2 (GT-I8160) and he wanted me to try and install CM 11 on his phone. I managed to root it and install temporary CWM on it, however his version of CWM could not flash CM 11 ROM's because it was outdated. I Googled around and found a TWRP .img file that I decided to flash via ODIN (CWM couldn't flash any TWRP .zip files for some reason). Everything went perfectly fine with ODIN, however my friends phone could not go pass the Samsung logo, it would appear for a few seconds and then the screen would go black. He also couldn't go into recovery but he could go into Download mode. Thinking that it was a recovery problem, I managed to get a .img file of TWRP 2.8.6.0 by Chronomonochrome and flash that via ODIN. Still the same problem - phone won't go pass the logo, however it can go into recovery.
So, now the phone boots perfectly to Download mode and recovery - and it can do everything from the recovery, like making backups, wiping, etc, but it cannot boot to the OS itself. I still haven't flashed a custom ROM on his phone because he didn't have the ROM file on his phone at the time nor could be transfer it to his phone via his PC because of some driver issue.
I'm currently downloading I8160XXBN1 firmware from Samsung Updates to flash via ODIN and try to get his phone back into working state. However, I also planned on placing my SD Card (which has the CM rom and Gapps on it) into his phone and flashing a new, custom ROM instead of flashing the firmware.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Should I flash official firmware via ODIN or just flash the ROM using the recovery?
Thanks in advance.
I recently installed the latest version of TWRP (3.0.0) on my I747 running OctOS marshmallow. I installed it using to image flash tool on TWRP 2.8.7.0, and accidentally flashed to boot image instead of just the recovery. Now the phone only to TWRP, and can't boot to the ROM. Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as my phone is virtually useless right now. Thanks!
Any idea which bootloader is on the phone?
audit13 said:
Any idea which bootloader is on the phone?
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Whenever I tried to install the new TWRP recovery, using the image flash tool in TWRP 2.8.7.0, there was an option to flash the .img file to the boot partition and recovery. I accidentally chose the boot partition. I'm going to try to install the ROM again, I think that should override the custom recovery boot loader.
Odin it, will be okay. Just don't panic.
Odin will not work if the phone is running a 4.3 or newer boot loader. Flashing a ROM via Odin to a phone with a 4.3 or newer boot loader could brick the phone.
:what: try to reflash image to recovery :what:
"err on the side of kindness"
Thanks guys, I got it . I had to reflash the ROM
First time flashing ROMs, installed resurrection remix tryed to install Gapps which failed, yet RR booted up on its own just fine. Then tried to flash a new recovery on it (TWRP 3.0) yet the phone would just never boot up to complete the recovery install. So now i have a phone which wont enter recovery mode and cannot complete the download of the new recovery.
TLDR: Phone wont boot into recovery as ROM is broken so download cant be fixed?
Previous: recovery TWRP 2.6
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-19195
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks
Are you sure that you have flashed the right Recovery for your Phone.
Normally the way is.
Boot into Recovery
Install the Recovery .zip file
Reboot into Recovery.
Reboot into System ( ROM )
Can you post a link where you download the Recovery and which file.
bierma32 said:
Are you sure that you have flashed the right Recovery for your Phone.
Normally the way is.
Boot into Recovery
Install the Recovery .zip file
Reboot into Recovery.
Reboot into System ( ROM )
Can you post a link where you download the Recovery and which file.
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That would only work from TWRP ver 2.8.4, I think you missed he is still on very old TWRP or maybe he edit later , he would have to install with Odin method
@Spec77
If you can boot into download mode you should be able to flash new recovery with Odin method (NOT use zip file).
As Bierma suggests maybe you flashed wrong TWRP does your phone have another letter and after gt-19195 if so it is a different phone & you need different TWRP. Or maybe you just tapped wrong link.
IronRoo said:
That would only work from TWRP ver 2.8.4, I think you missed he is still on very old TWRP or maybe he edit later , he would have to install with Odin method
@Spec77
If you can boot into download mode you should be able to flash new recovery with Odin method (NOT use zip file).
As Bierma suggests maybe you flashed wrong TWRP does your phone have another letter and after gt-19195 if so it is a different phone & you need different TWRP. Or maybe you just tapped wrong link.
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This way works also if you come from a CWM or PhilzTouch Version.
If you come from TWRP =>2.8.4.0 than you can flash an *.IMG File ,but you can flash on all Versions a *.zip file.
Managed to fix the brick
Thanks for the help, I managed to fix it by installing TRWP 3.0 from ODIN, and now that i have that I'm fine
Thanks!
Guys i've really messed up, I was trying to flash twrp theme to my A720f I flashed this img. file to the boot partition and now everytime i tried to boot my phone it goes straight to the twrp recovery menu and touchscreen won't work .all i can do with my phone now is stare at the twrp menu fortunately i can still access odin download mode. Is it possible to install the stock rom using odin?
kevinumiten said:
Guys i've really messed up, I was trying to flash twrp theme to my A720f I flashed this img. file to the boot partition and now everytime i tried to boot my phone it goes straight to the twrp recovery menu and touchscreen won't work .all i can do with my phone now is stare at the twrp menu fortunately i can still access odin download mode. Is it possible to install the stock rom using odin?
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If you are using custom rom, then simply download rom extract boot.img and place it on desktop, open odin and flash twrp in odin, after that reboot to recovery and put extracted boot.img in your phone, after that just flash it on boot partition! If stock then download latest firmware and flash it on odin!
RootingPro-18 said:
If you are using custom rom, then simply download rom extract boot.img and place it on desktop, open odin and flash twrp in odin, after that reboot to recovery and put extracted boot.img in your phone, after that just flash it on boot partition! If stock then download latest firmware and flash it on odin!
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I'll try that thanks
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If you are using custom rom, then simply download rom extract boot.img and place it on desktop, open odin and flash twrp in odin, after that reboot to recovery and put extracted boot.img in your phone, after that just flash it on boot partition! If stock then download latest firmware and flash it on odin!
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It's fixed now thanks for the help
I flashed TWRP then switched to CWM to try HYPER-ROM 11, then lineage-16, but they both ended up causing a boot loop,
so I decided to go back to stock,
but when I enter recovery mode it says: "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
And when I try to flash stock recovery with Odin 3.13 it gets stuck at recovery.img,
and when I try to flash stock ROM it gets stuck at system.img!
Your time and help are highly appreciated!
you need to enter download mode...not recovery mode
then use odin to flash stock rom
higger said:
you need to enter download mode...not recovery mode
then use odin to flash stock rom
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I did, it gets stuck at system.img
Use odin to Flash twrp again ?