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Botched my old recovery, and can't flash a new one...help?

I've been playing around with some of the JB ROMs, and was using Goo Manager and TWRP to do it. Then, because I'm an idiot, I decided I wanted to upgrade TWRP to 2.3.3.0 (I think I was running 2.3.1.0).
That's when I ran into the "TWRP doesn't always install properly" problem. I've now tried updating TWRP from within Goo Manager more than 5 times, but it's not working.
So I decided I'd install the new recovery via the FASTBOOT method.
I have HBOOT 0.92. I have ADB and FASTBOOT loaded on my laptop. (I'm pretty sure this is the way I originally installed CWM 5.0.2.0 when I first rooted my phone ages ago.)
When I boot the phone into the bootloader and choose FASTBOOT, then plug it into my laptop, I get the "FASTBOOT USB" indication that it's connected, so that's good.
However, when I open a terminal window on my laptop, navigate to my miniadb folder (where the fastboot.exe and recovery images are located), and try to flash the recovery image, I see the green bar in the upper right corner of the phone, but on the laptop I get this:
c:\miniadb>fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.0-inc.img
sending 'recovery' (3642 KB)... OKAY [ 11.235s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 11.268s
So then I decided to give up on TWRP and go back to CWM, but there's no joy there, either:
c:\miniadb>fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-inc.img
sending 'recovery' (3064 KB)... OKAY [ 12.370s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 12.402s
What causes the "FAILED (remote: not allowed)" response? Clearly I'm sending the data to the phone, but the phone's rejecting it for some reason.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a foolproof way to get a recovery (either CWM or TWRP--at this point, I'm not picky!) back on my phone?
Thanks!
MC

Check the last two pages of the tarp thread for a twrp hboot PB31IMG.ZIP or see my direct link below.
http://goo.im/devs/tiny4579/mods/PB31IMG-TWRP-2.3.3.0.zip
This method works without fastboot.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Many thanks, tiny! I'll give that a shot.

MysticCobra said:
What causes the "FAILED (remote: not allowed)" response? Clearly I'm sending the data to the phone, but the phone's rejecting it for some reason.
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For what it's worth, I think you need to upgrade HBOOT to 1.02 or 1.07 and unlock it through htcdev to be able to use the fastboot flash commands. But the flashable zip for TWRP should fix it for you too and that way is easier and just as reliable.

[Q] Bricked ?? Please Please Please Help

Hi
I have tried going back to Sense stock after trying out GPE edition lollipop flavour.
Unfortunately somewhere along the way something has gone horrible wrong and I'm now stuck in a bootloop with a Red Triangle
My bootloader is currently locked, althougth I am S-Off. I can still access fastboot and RUU but the problem is when I try to flash standard or twrp recovery i get the following error message
From RUU
./fastboot flash recovery recov.img
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16092 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.442s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.447s
So I currently have no os, no recovery and no way of loading a recovery back on as you can see above... am I screwed ???

Have now managed to put stock recovery back (via ruu) on and at the top of the screen it says entering recovery but never gets any further ...
Have tried again to install twrp ... no joy there what so ever

Dont' Worry I got the same problem but I fixed it!!
gsusx said:
Hi
I have tried going back to Sense stock after trying out GPE edition lollipop flavour.
Unfortunately somewhere along the way something has gone horrible wrong and I'm now stuck in a bootloop with a Red Triangle
My bootloader is currently locked, althougth I am S-Off. I can still access fastboot and RUU but the problem is when I try to flash standard or twrp recovery i get the following error message
From RUU
./fastboot flash recovery recov.img
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16092 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.442s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.447s
So I currently have no os, no recovery and no way of loading a recovery back on as you can see above... am I screwed ???
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Hi
Press power,volume up and down for 90 seconds.It will enter into bootloader.
Then press recovery. If it is not going to recovery,stay in the bootloader mode. Connect to the pc.
Download this software from this website.
http://www.hasoon2000.info/
Click your phone model.
(If it is HTC ONE M8 CLICK this link http://www.hasoon2000.info/?device=One%202014%20(M8))
Unzip it.
open the software.
Unlock the bootloader by following the step shown on the software.
After,
Click any recovery but I prefer TWRP.
Install custom rom and you are good to go

Absolute legend ... thank you !!!

[Q] Swapping Cyanogemod Recovery for TWRP or Philz?

Hi I've been trying to flash a new recovery image over the recovery that I'm currently using ("cyanogemod recovery" (I understand that this is purely for CM updating)) but I can find no way of doing it. Via fastboot this happens (using mac terminal) after typing "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img:
sending 'recovery' (11044 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.693s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.696s
Do I need to delete the cyanogemod recovery and run this command?
Cheers in advance! (if laymans terms could be used as much as poss that'd be appreciated too!!)

flashing twrp on lg g4 no error, but no twrp

I'm trying to flash twrp to my lg g4. I've reached the part where I run
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
And everything seems to work fine, but when I try to enter recovery mode, I get the default lg recovery (restore factory mode options) and not twrp.
Here's what it prints out when I run the flash command:
Code:
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (32060 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.827s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.341s]
finished. total time: 1.168s
What am I doing wrong?
I tried doing it from a different computer and tried flashing older version of twrp.

No mate, you're not doing something wrong. You must overwrite the stock recovery, because it auto-flashes every time when phone starts. Best way is to use these commands :
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot boot recovery.img (rename recovery recovery.img , without .img (that's the extension, only "recovery", to make it clear)
I'm waiting the results....

Boot the image like. Azza_09 said then when TWRP has booted click on install then change to img instead of zip and select your twrp image. That should work, but Lg front end will be shown when booting to bootloader, simply answer both questions with yes then TWRP will load

Question I bricked my phone, any advice?

So, here I was thinking things couldn't hurt to do some customisation.
This evening, I flashed a custom logo... using fastboot. (fastboot flash logo logo.bin)
That was the last thing I saw on my device, it won't show anything anymore.
Any advice on how to get any connection to my device again?

Right... So as before I found the solution myself.
I used the BROM to reflash the logo with the proper image.
For whoever wants to know. I used the MTK bypass utility to bypass the authentication stuff, and the SP Flash tool to flash.
I did have to use libusb-win32 for the python part, took me some hours to figure that one out. All sources told me UsbDK would work for that.
Kind of relieved I actually managed to unbrick my phone.

Did you get solution?

As mentioned in the post right before you; yes.

Hello,
I'm a beginner in the field of flasing custom roms but I would really like to abandon using google on my phone and find your work here really awesome. So yeah, I hope my question doesn't sound stupid but I'm seriously stuck and hope I didn't completely break my phone.
I am using a Redmi Note 8 (2021) and wanted to flash lineageOS. So I unlocked the bootloader via my mi account, booted into fastboot mode (usb-debugging was of course enabled) and tried to flash twrp to recovery using the cmd-window via platform-tools.
This didn't work because when I typed:
./fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
I got the reply:
Sending 'recovery' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.743s]
Writing 'recovery' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
I therefore started googling and found a threat on xda where someone had solved the problem by replacing 'recovery' with 'boot':
./fastboot flash boot twrp.img
What I got was:
Sending 'boot_a' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.818s]
Writing 'boot_a' OKAY [ 0.827s]
Finished. Total time: 2.681s
After that my phone was bricked. I cannot enter recovery mode anymore and even fastboot mode appears a bit different (I don't see the bunny anymore, all I see is the word 'fastboot' in orange letters on a black screen). When I enter fastboot mode, the device is detected by my computer - the only sign that still gives me an inch of hope. When I'm not in fastboot mode my phone keeps vibrating and then turning of, then suddenly it vibrates again and turns on, the logo 'redmi' appears and then it suddenly turns off again - and it just keeps repeating this procedure.
I downloaded the mi flash tool and tried to flash the Xiaomi ROM, but that didn't work either - after about five minutes of waiting I get an error. I tried different versions of MIUI but keep getting errors. When I try to flash the Xiaomi ROM via cmd-window, as suggested here ( https://www.droidwin.com/unbrick-redmi-note-8-fastboot-commands/ ) I get this:
fastboot flash xbl_a xbl.elf
Sending 'xbl_a' (3449 KB) OKAY [ 0.105s]
Writing 'xbl_a' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Is there anything left for me to do or should I give up and save money for a new phone?
I would be very, very grateful for help

You could try this: fastboot --set-active=b