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Trouble reflashing ASUS stock ROM for ZE551KL

I accidentally tried doing a factory reset, and flashing an incorrect rom. So I lost the stock rom, and have no other rom to use. I tried using TWRP to flash ASUS's stock firmware from asus's support website, under firmware. Using firmware file: "UL-Z00T-WW-1.16.40.763-user.zip"
but TWRP tells me "E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/sdcard/TWRP/Stock.zip'
Error flashing '/sdcard/TWRP/Stock.zip"
I still have access to both adb, fastboot, and TWRP but I cant get an OS to install.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, haven't even had this phone a day yet, and already may have broken it.

I don't have an answer to your question , just got this phone yesterday and am in the process of figuring out how to root and install a custom recovery for this specific device.. I have found many methods to root but none for my specific model. I think you have the same model as I do and was hoping you could lead me to the place that will give me the files I need.. the box my phone came in has the model as ASUS_Z00TD (ZE551KL).. Sorry I wasn't of any help to you, hope you manage to figure out how to flash something that will get your device running again!

tmjm28 said:
I don't have an answer to your question , just got this phone yesterday and am in the process of figuring out how to root and install a custom recovery for this specific device.. I have found many methods to root but none for my specific model. I think you have the same model as I do and was hoping you could lead me to the place that will give me the files I need.. the box my phone came in has the model as ASUS_Z00TD (ZE551KL).. Sorry I wasn't of any help to you, hope you manage to figure out how to flash something that will get your device running again!
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I used @rczrider 's post in this thread, and was able to get root. http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-2-laser/general/wip-root-ze550kl-1-16-40-763-t3275760/page3, good luck!

willrox15 said:
I accidentally tried doing a factory reset, and flashing an incorrect rom. So I lost the stock rom, and have no other rom to use. I tried using TWRP to flash ASUS's stock firmware from asus's support website, under firmware. Using firmware file: "UL-Z00T-WW-1.16.40.763-user.zip"
but TWRP tells me "E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/sdcard/TWRP/Stock.zip'
Error flashing '/sdcard/TWRP/Stock.zip"
I still have access to both adb, fastboot, and TWRP but I cant get an OS to install.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, haven't even had this phone a day yet, and already may have broken it.
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Happy to know that it works for you.
Whenever you got stuck in this situation, just flash stock recovery & you will able to flash stock rom again.

rajlko said:
Happy to know that it works for you.
Whenever you got stuck in this situation, just flash stock recovery & you will able to flash stock rom again.
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Do yo mean this stock recovery? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64441364&postcount=9
How do I flash it? just "fastboot flash recovery stock_recovery.img" ?
If so, I've tried that, and TWRP still boot when I try to enter recovery. Also, once I've flashed the stock recovery, do I just place the firmware on the root of the sdcard as 'update.zip' and try to install it from there?
Thanks for your help already, and sorry about the repetitive questions!

willrox15 said:
Do yo mean this stock recovery? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64441364&postcount=9
How do I flash it? just "fastboot flash recovery stock_recovery.img" ?
If so, I've tried that, and TWRP still boot when I try to enter recovery. Also, once I've flashed the stock recovery, do I just place the firmware on the root of the sdcard as 'update.zip' and try to install it from there?
Thanks for your help already, and sorry about the repetitive questions!
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This is not stock recovery, this one is twrp recovery.
once you flashed stock recovery, flash stock rom as you do it.
This one is stock recovey
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64440791&postcount=8

rajlko said:
This is not stock recovery, this one is twrp recovery.
once you flashed stock recovery, flash stock rom as you do it.
This one is stock recovey
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64440791&postcount=8
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Thank you! That worked perfectly!!

CM13 flashing on OnePlus2 from scratch

Hello all, I'm completely new to flashing and rooting stuff.
I would like to install CM13 on my OnePlus 2. I have done some research and unlocked the OEM and then tried to root my mobile in TWRP recovery. But it failed with "dtb not found" error. Can you please tell me if I'm making any mistake? I saw a couple of videos on youtube and did the above steps.
Can you please tell me the exact steps I should be doing before flashing CM13 or any other ROM in my mobile? Like OEM unlocking and TWRP recovery. I have also checked TWRP website but it is very confusing. Few say recovery.img should be fastbooted and few say twrp.img.
Please help me out.

Do you have TWRP installed yet?

fuarkgl3 said:
Do you have TWRP installed yet?
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Not Yet. But I just found a thread. Is this the correct one to follow?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3146568

that looks like an awesome guide. I remember i used a windows script to install TWRP super easy but its the same

fuarkgl3 said:
that looks like an awesome guide. I remember i used a windows script to install TWRP super easy but its the same
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Thank you for the confirmation @fuarkgl3 . I will follow the steps and install CM13 or Resurrection Remix soon

Has anyone rooted a US996 and use a ROM successfully? If so how?!

i am very frustrated, I get into TWRP again and again no matter what i do. Bootloader unlocked, I can finish the dirtycow rooting, flash SU, and a ROM. And then.
I am greeted by TWRP.
There is this one time I booted up the WETA rom, i didn't like something so I reflashed the room, thus beginning my TWRP bootloop nightmare...

Are you saying that after flashing rom your device is rebooting constantly into twrp?

Team DevDigitel said:
Are you saying that after flashing rom your device is rebooting constantly into twrp?
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yes

dangercl0se said:
yes
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70393155&postcount=3
Its a common issue on the ls997
Related to having been on older softwear and
Your phone dl the update.zip and is causing this
Need to delete fota and misc directories
I have walkthrough in above link.

thanks so much. i really appreciate that
i did dive into the directories and can't find most of them, i will try again with the fastboot method. when do i do that? after i completed root and flashed super su?

Axon 7 root help!!!

I tried to root my Axon 7 using the "Axon7toolkit" method and everyting looked like it was going well, installed twrp and unlocked bootloader with fastboot but now it get stuck at the splash screen where it says wait 5sec but it never moves from that screen. when I go into twrp I cannot install anything i get failed error 7 everytime. this is about the 3rd phone i have rooted and i don't know what to do from here... any help would be appreciated, I have the a2017u model which was running the lastest nougat

Which rom are you trying to flash?

JKSurf said:
Which rom are you trying to flash?
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lineage os 14

i figured it out, thanks for help

jjallday said:
i figured it out, thanks for help
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Old TWRP, right?

Probably wrong bootstack

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Old TWRP, right?
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idk how the problem occured I followed the root instructions perfectly . I had the latest twrp out so couldn't have been that. os was missing and nothing i tried could get it back installed, so following more instructions led me to downgrade the twrp and install b29 stock then i just did the whole root process over following the same instructions that sent the phone into a loop but this time everything worked correctly. i updated twrp and installed super su and now i have full root. axon7toolkit provided majority of the tools needed.

Bootloop after flashing twrp

Hi xda,
I'm new into the world of flashing so any help would be nice.
I used this tuto:
https://rootmydevice.com/tutorials/root-samsung-galaxy-a40/
and downloaded twrp image from this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-a40/development/recovery-twrp-galaxy-a40-t3968586
After flash phone restarted as intented but it keeps booting, I tried also some methods how to enter recovery mode while bootlooping but they didn't work out. I also want to flash pixel experience rom.
Thanks for any help provided.

Use the TWRP from this thread.
Your TWRP is not working anymore with actual firmware.

ruffyrisco said:
Use the TWRP from this thread.
Your TWRP is not working anymore with actual firmware.
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Thanks I'll check that tomorrow

Ok, thanks for help, my ROM is currently booting

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