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Help installing recovery

Hi, just bought an S5 G900F (international version)... and i wanted to install a custom recovery than root.. than flash rom. Im experienced in this matter... but ... im having all sorts of odd problems. I tried several reocvery (openrecovery, twrp, philztouch)... non stick when i reboot?
I tried several times... odin says everything installed fine.
I wanted to install cf-root... i did it win odin and when phone restarted it says: "recovery booting.... recovery is not seandoird enforcing ... set warranty bit : recovery
Who can help me??
PS Im on lollipop 5.0 if it makes any difference. All attempts were realized with different versions of odin

People have success with TWRP 2.8.7.0 and ODIN 3.10.6
Then SuperSU from TWRP if it sticks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727406

Tried no luck. I simply get the stock recovery all the time after restart

daniel_cassian said:
Tried no luck. I simply get the stock recovery all the time after restart
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Try unchecking "Auto reboot" in ODIN, and once the flash has finished, pull the battery, replace and boot into recovery

just tried it... still no go (... do you think i would have more success trying from adb?
Lol this phone has smth against me.
Tried adb: as long as i have it in "desktop" mode adb devices finds it; as soon as i adb reboot bootloader, using the fastbootdevices... adb doesnt see it anymore... so i cant proceed to the flashig

I know you know what you're doing when it comes to this stuff, as you said
But just to make sure, can you post the exact step by steps you're using to try and flash CF Auto-Root and TWRP etc with ODIN?

Yes of course. As i doesn't work for me... i (even) hope im doing something wrong, so we can get to the bottom of this.
So, installed S5 drivers, Enabled usb debuggin in phone (dev menu). Put phone in dl mode (vl dwn+power+home), open odin, select at AP the recovery (tried about 3 recoveries, older versions and newer ones, twrp, phil, open). I have both (by default) checked auto reboot and f-reset time... connect phone with usb cables (tried 2) (connected directly to mb, no extension)... hit start... get the pass message.. phone resets... goes into android. I power off, go to recovery mode (vl up+power+home) and... i get the stock recovery every single time.
Tried something wierd... flashed through Odin CF-root first (with intention to flash after twrp ... as it says phone needs to be rooted first)... it flashes ok (odin says pass, successful 1), reboot (or go to recovery mode)... i get that seandroid error.
Tried to to with with apps from android as well... it doesnt let me.. obviously as most ask phone to be rooted.
What am I missing?

Those are the correct steps, it definitely should have flashed
Doing this from a native PC yes? Ive seen people trying it from Macs and it fails every time
Only thing I can think of right now is try using a different PC
You don't need USB debugging enabled for flashing with ODIN, download mode has no idea what settings you have enabled in Android
Like your method, I just do this:
Samsung Drivers (KIES3 installs them for you anyway)
Vol Down & Home & Power for Download Mode
Connect phone to PC USB
Leave ODIN defaults set (3.09 or 3.10.6)
Select CF-Auto-Root-klte-kltexx-smg900f.tar.md5 in AP/PDA section of ODIN
Wait for it to become ready
Hit start
Phone reboots, and I have root
You could try factory resetting the phone, and trying again, see if that does anything, or at least clear the caches from stock recovery first

Bricked D802 - Download mode OK but NO recovery

Hi there,
1. Rooted my phone using ioroot
2. Installed TWRP using AutoRec
3. Rebooted into Recovery
4. Mistakenly wiped everything from my phone using TWRP
5. Pushed CM13 and GApps to my phone using ADB
6. Tried to installed both simultaneously using the TWRP queue option (CM13 first in the queue)
7. Phone rebooted, LG Logo displayed and went to constant black screen after 1 second
8. Can not access recovery mode anymore
9. ADB doesn't recognize the phone anymore
10. I still can access Download Mode using the Vol Up button and plugging the phone to PC using USB cable.
11. Can not install stock ROM using LG Flash Tool. It crashes when reading phone information
12. However the LG Support Tool seems can recognize my phone with Software Version: D80230C and it seems that the "Upgrade Recovery" button works in "Options" menu of it (but canceled it as it downloads 1.6 GB ROM).
So:
1. Seems that I have wiped recovery from my phone
2. Download Mode accessible
3. ADB unusable
Any possibility to push TWRP to my phone without ADB but with Download Mode?
It's new year holidays in Iran and there's no repair center open here.

Heya,
Got in a really huge pickle myself yesterday by installing a bootstack, plus I wiped everything as well. Lost the recovery and LG logo showed for a sec when booting. Fortunately I got it to work again and I'm sure you can too.
So here's what you do:
1. (may not be necessary) Check if your phone is in fastboot mode after the 1 sec boot logo and also if you connect your phone with the PC will you see a lot of partitions. If yes then get yourself the handy tool called SRKTool. Open it up, choose "4" to go to fixing options, then choose "5" to unbrick and choose your model. Next just look at what they write you.
2. Get yourself a "LGD802AT-00-V10b.....tot" tot file which you can find in the forum.
3. Watch the video explaining how the process works and also download the required files mentioned in the video description "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtcPNklrfw".
4. After following the video you will hopefully have a working phone with android 4.2.2.
5. The rest is up to you; flash a KDZ Lollipop ROM and using SRKTool to root and put TWRP to use that or flash CM13.
To sum it up, there is a way out of this problem.
Good luck!

Bootloop issue

Hi,
maybe anyone can help me getting out of the bootloop(LG G6 H870)? reason, why I'm stuck in bootloop: I installed magisk v13.0 (beta) and magisk manager 5.0.3 after unlocking my bootloader to gain root access. A new version came out and I decided to installed it because it switched magisk 13 from beta to stable. I opened magisk manager, updated the manager, downloaded magisk v13.2 and flashed it through recovery (twrp). But i wasn't able to get root access (rebooted a few times, but no difference). So my next plan was to uninstall magisk using the magisk-uninstaller.zip and flashed it using twrp. After this step, my phone rebooted over and over again. The only thing i can do is to get into the factory data reset screen. While booting , i connected my phone to my laptop, but obviously its not recognized so I can't execute any adb commands.
Any suggestions how to access recovery mode or how i can leave the bootloop?
Thanks
edit:
I managed to solve my issue in following way:
1. booted into download mode like Killua96 suggested while connected to my computer
2. opened lgup on and flashed the factory image
3. rebooted into bootloader and flashed twrp image
4. copied my backup (which i made with twrp) into the BACKUP folder
5. restored my backup with twrp
6. after reboot I wasn't able to unlock my phone, because my correct unlock pattern wasn't accepted
7. booted again into twrp, navigated into /data/system and deleted locksettings.db-wall, locksettings.db-shm and locksettings.db
8. rebooted one more time and everything was fine again!

iLikeContainers said:
Hi,
maybe anyone can help me getting out of the bootloop(LG G6 H870)? reason, why I'm stuck in bootloop: I installed magisk v13.0 (beta) and magisk manager 5.0.3 after unlocking my bootloader to gain root access. A new version came out and I decided to installed it because it switched magisk 13 from beta to stable. I opened magisk manager, updated the manager, downloaded magisk v13.2 and flashed it through recovery (twrp). But i wasn't able to get root access (rebooted a few times, but no difference). So my next plan was to uninstall magisk using the magisk-uninstaller.zip and flashed it using twrp. After this step, my phone rebooted over and over again. The only thing i can do is to get into the factory data reset screen. While booting , i connected my phone to my laptop, but obviously its not recognized so I can't execute any adb commands.
Any suggestions how to access recovery mode or how i can leave the bootloop?
Thanks
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Try to connect it to the pc while bootlooping, then turn it off by keeping pressed power and vol- when the display turns off quickly keep pressed vol+ and it should boot in download mode... Good luck

Killua96 said:
Try to connect it to the pc while bootlooping, then turn it off by keeping pressed power and vol- when the display turns off quickly keep pressed vol+ and it should boot in download mode... Good luck
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Ok, I'm able to access the download mode now. I only have access to a laptop running Linux right now, when I'm back home, I try to flash the stock ROM using the official LG Tools! Thanks for your help!

Nvidia Shield 2015 16GB stucked on Nvidia Logo after flash 6.1 - how to solve

Hey guys.
After the time I spent trying to unbrick my softbricked shield 2015 16gb, I decided to share how I was able to solve it.
I was on 5.2 and decided to update to 6.1 since the developer image was released and my previous upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 with flashfire run so smoothly so what could go wrong??
After install lastest flashfire 0.73, I select all but data on the flash firmware package, and let it run.
I had my shield on 5.2 rooted and with TWRP as recovery.
After flashing vendor.img it restart and get stucked on the nvidia logo, and there was where
my problems started.
After 30 min I switched off and on again and same thing. Nvidia logo and nothing more. 1 hour after that I finally was able to go into bootloader mode.
I needed to use the default USB cable that came with the shield connected to OTG and USB on my computer. As soon as I connect the power and the led goes on I pressed the power button until I was
able to see the menu.
From there I was able to run fastboot. I reinstall every build and the shield refused to back to life. Flashed successfully but wont go through nvidia logo.
I enter recovery and did a reset assuming I had some problem with my data. No luck. I start to assume my shield has a hardware problem.
I downloaded both the stock recovery and the developer image 6.1, 6.0, 5.2, 5.1.
Tried to flash all of them one by one. Nothing worked. It complete the flash process but after reboot keep stucked on the logo.
Lots of time reading XDA and googling it I found a TWRP 5.1 flashable zip image, and in last resort I download it, reflash TWRP and flashed the 5.1 zip image.
It worked!!
I run the wizard as a new shield, and return to TWRP and flashed SuperSu 2.79. Rebooted, and install flashfire and run again the process with the 6.1 developer image.
This time flashed ok, and I finally get 6.1 rooted and working perfectly.
So resuming all the steps for those who dont want to read all
If you are stuck on Nvidia logo after flash 6.1
1 - Download firmware 5.1 zip TWRP flashable (search on XDA)
2 - enter bootloader on your shield hardware mode. Connect the OTG port on Shield using the default USB cable, and after connecting the power and the green light turn on press the power button until the bootloader menu appears.
3 - Assuming you already had the shield drivers and ADB installed on your computer, go to TWRP recovery or install it. I flashed TWRP 3.02 (once again search for it on XDA). fastboot flash recovery "twrp filename.img"
4 - Boot to TWRP and upload the firmware with the command adb push "firmware filename.zip" /sdcard/
5 - Upload also the SuperSu 2.79 binaries. adb push "supersu filename" /sdcard/
5 - from TWRP install the firmware and let it run. It will generate some errors but it will work.
6 - Reboot and complete the wizard.
7 - Reboot to TWRP (you can activating developer mode, and run adb reboot recovery from inside the androidsytem) and flash the SuperSU
8 - Reboot again and install the latest flashfire.
9 - Download the 6.1 developer image (search XDA for it)
10- Run flashfire and install the firmware package. Thats it!
Hope this will help someone

Bootloop after updating magisk

I have an asus zenfone 2 laser running android lollipop. I have turned the USB debugging on for my laptop.
I used to install kingoroot for rooting my phone, and it works fine.
For no particular reasons, i switched over to magisk and uninstalled the kingoroot apps.
The installation was successful, then the app asked me to update it via the app. I updated it, and then it asked me to do reboot.
I rebooted............and i got stuck in bootloop.
I got into the recovery mode and factory resetted the phone but i am still stuck with the bootloop.
I tried to install magisk uninstaller zip from sd card but the installation was unsuccessful
I tried to install the latest firmware from ASUS's official website from SD card and was unsuccessful
I tried to flash the latest TWRP to my device via flashboot. Since many tutorials out there have a TWRP Recovery mode to fix the problem which i don't hace at the time. i used "fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img" command and it said finish.
But it lead me to a new problem. I cannot use "power button+vol.down" key combination to access stock recovery mode. And the TWRP recovery mode doesn't come out as well.
One thing that i can use is the "power button+vol.up" key to access fastboot mode..
I stopped messing around with my devices for now so that i don't make the problems worse. I hope someone can help me out with this problem
BIG THANKS