Here are two flashable zip for you to flash the recovery, CWM or TWRP into your Xperia ZR.
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What are the advantages of this method ?
Every time you flash a kernel, the recovery gets changed, because the recovery is present in the kernel. But if we are hotbooting a recovery in the fotakernel partiton, then even after flashing a new kernel (given that it supports extract_elf_ramdisk), your recovery is not changed. Thus even if the kernel's inbuilt recovery is broken, you can continue to use the recovery you have flashed onto your fotakernel.
All I have done with the installer script is pushing the recovery.img into your fotakernel so the recovery you prefer will always stay in the device no matter what kernel/ROM you flashed.
Benefit?
You will not need computer to perform the installation as you only need to flash on your device and you're good to go.
How to install?
1. Download the recovery zip you want
CWM: View attachment clockworkmod_touch_6.0.4.5.zip
TWRP: View attachment twrp_2.6.3.0.zip
2. Copy onto your device, boot into recovery and flash like normal zip
3. Reboot recovery to see if it changes your recovery to the one you flashed
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wai10691 said:
Here are two flashable zip for you to flash the recovery, CWM or TWRP into your Xperia ZR.
Quoting from this thread by @championswimmer:
What are the advantages of this method ?
Every time you flash a kernel, the recovery gets changed, because the recovery is present in the kernel. But if we are hotbooting a recovery in the fotakernel partiton, then even after flashing a new kernel (given that it supports extract_elf_ramdisk), your recovery is not changed. Thus even if the kernel's inbuilt recovery is broken, you can continue to use the recovery you have flashed onto your fotakernel.
All I have done with the installer script is pushing the recovery.img into your fotakernel so the recovery you prefer will always stay in the device no matter what kernel/ROM you flashed.
Benefit?
You will not need computer to perform the installation as you only need to flash on your device and you're good to go.
How to install?
1. Download the recovery zip you want
CWM: View attachment 2587832
TWRP: View attachment 2587840
2. Copy onto your device, boot into recovery and flash like normal zip
3. Reboot recovery to see if it changes your recovery to the one you flashed
If you like my work, press the THANKS button or consider to buy me a beer.
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Can we have dual recovery pls?
If we need to remove what is the way. Once I was in boot loop when using nut recovery and only thing I had to do add a file to sd card recovery folder to stop recovery
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Lasantha said:
Can we have dual recovery pls?
If we need to remove what is the way. Once I was in boot loop when using nut recovery and only thing I had to do add a file to sd card recovery folder to stop recovery
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The intention was only install one recovery in FOTAKernel. DualRecovery using another method but if you want you can use the other dualrecovery.
I have made CWM and TWRP available for user to move around without losing any recovery.
wai10691 said:
The intention was only install one recovery in FOTAKernel. DualRecovery using another method but if you want you can use the other dualrecovery.
I have made CWM and TWRP available for user to move around without losing any recovery.
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Thanks this is only for unlocked boot loader right?
Will it work on ZU?
wai10691 said:
Here are two flashable zip for you to flash the recovery, CWM or TWRP into your Xperia ZR.
Quoting from this thread by @championswimmer:
What are the advantages of this method ?
Every time you flash a kernel, the recovery gets changed, because the recovery is present in the kernel. But if we are hotbooting a recovery in the fotakernel partiton, then even after flashing a new kernel (given that it supports extract_elf_ramdisk), your recovery is not changed. Thus even if the kernel's inbuilt recovery is broken, you can continue to use the recovery you have flashed onto your fotakernel.
All I have done with the installer script is pushing the recovery.img into your fotakernel so the recovery you prefer will always stay in the device no matter what kernel/ROM you flashed.
Benefit?
You will not need computer to perform the installation as you only need to flash on your device and you're good to go.
How to install?
1. Download the recovery zip you want
CWM: View attachment 2587832
TWRP: View attachment 2587840
2. Copy onto your device, boot into recovery and flash like normal zip
3. Reboot recovery to see if it changes your recovery to the one you flashed
If you like my work, press the THANKS button or consider to buy me a beer.
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Great work!! I just have two questions:
1. Does this work on LB?
2. Does offline charging work with this recovery?
is it possible to use recovery in kernel when fotarecovery is installed?
how can it be uninstalled?
can u plz make a fastboot .img file to cwm or twrp ?
Can you find newer versions of CWM/TWRP? Or, can you teach me how to make em myself?
If I flash kernel that contains recovery (i.e CM11) will it be overwritten?
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adize said:
If I flash kernel that contains recovery (i.e CM11) will it be overwritten?
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Yes !
But if the previous recovery was in system and was not with Kernel then they both may stay together.
any update to twrp 2.8?
Yes.Find it herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3047602
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Right now I have no recovery on my XZR, so I cannot flash the recoverys.
What must I do, to get a recovery on my ZR, so that I can flash?
Lemmi1 said:
Right now I have no recovery on my XZR, so I cannot flash the recoverys.
What must I do, to get a recovery on my ZR, so that I can flash?
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Install XZ dualrecovery from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
Tapped from my furious ZR
It works perfect, thank you so much.
Need urgent help
wai10691 said:
Here are two flashable zip for you to flash the recovery, CWM or TWRP into your Xperia ZR.
Quoting from this thread by @championswimmer:
What are the advantages of this method ?
Every time you flash a kernel, the recovery gets changed, because the recovery is present in the kernel. But if we are hotbooting a recovery in the fotakernel partiton, then even after flashing a new kernel (given that it supports extract_elf_ramdisk), your recovery is not changed. Thus even if the kernel's inbuilt recovery is broken, you can continue to use the recovery you have flashed onto your fotakernel.
All I have done with the installer script is pushing the recovery.img into your fotakernel so the recovery you prefer will always stay in the device no matter what kernel/ROM you flashed.
Benefit?
You will not need computer to perform the installation as you only need to flash on your device and you're good to go.
How to install?
1. Download the recovery zip you want
CWM: View attachment 2587832
TWRP: View attachment 2587840
2. Copy onto your device, boot into recovery and flash like normal zip
3. Reboot recovery to see if it changes your recovery to the one you flashed
If you like my work, press the THANKS button or consider to buy me a beer.
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How do I enter in to recovery. I hav etried all the possible PnC's found online but nothing seems to worlk andI end up starting the phone.
help me flashed twrp with official twrp app , not device is not booting in recovery mode with key combination and twrp app to... my device is bootloader unlocked and rooted help me to flash twrp in device
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Hi..
after moving to 4.4 someone screwed me for taking AOKP which didn't include recovery. When I tried to flash boot.img to gain recovery, I didn't. At the end, I went and installed TWRP to FOTAkernel partition.
Now, If I would like to install CWM using boot.img from (lets say latest CM11), I cannot boot to CWM because TWRP loads up every time.
I've sent emails (TWRP team) and private messages to people responsible for some "recovery" topics here and didn't get any reply.
1. Can someone tell me how to get to normal, CWM recovery from boot.img (meaning how to uninstall TWRP from FOTAkernel partition)
2. If I go back to pure stock and install everything through flashtool, will the FOTAkernel partition also get erased?
Thank you for your replies.
Regards! :laugh:
Just get hold of any FTF and flash fota kernel only with flashtool.
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I'm on a C6603 with an Unlocked Bootloader running 10.5.A.0.230 from an FTF flash.
I flashed this recovery's boot.img via fastboot and it worked fine. Went in to recovery and it can't flash anything. The internal storage only shows default folders but it claims they are all empty. SD Card wont mount at all, when I click on it it just hangs for like 30 seconds then errors saying unable to mount. I'm guessing this may be due to not flashing the full zip and only the boot.img? If so, how do I go about flashing the full zip since my recovery wont find it? I amen't rooted since I can't flash the SU APK & Binary zip in recovery...
Any ideas on how to fix recovery then gain root? (I'm having the battery drain issue and I can't live with like 2 hours screen off time)
Roscobigfoot said:
I'm on a C6603 with an Unlocked Bootloader running 10.5.A.0.230 from an FTF flash.
I flashed this recovery's boot.img via fastboot and it worked fine. Went in to recovery and it can't flash anything. The internal storage only shows default folders but it claims they are all empty. SD Card wont mount at all, when I click on it it just hangs for like 30 seconds then errors saying unable to mount. I'm guessing this may be due to not flashing the full zip and only the boot.img? If so, how do I go about flashing the full zip since my recovery wont find it? I amen't rooted since I can't flash the SU APK & Binary zip in recovery...
Any ideas on how to fix recovery then gain root? (I'm having the battery drain issue and I can't live with like 2 hours screen off time)
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Try a different recovery like twrp
For twrp img file click here
androidtweaker1 said:
Try a different recovery like twrp
For twrp img file click here
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The install instructions, if you could actually call them that, are horrendously worded. Any more understandable ones? (I'm not a noob, I'm pretty experienced, those instructions are truly just ****ty)...
uninstall recovery & reinstall latest xzdual recovery by nut.
Try Dual Boot recovery with Philz Touch CWM Advanced Edition and TWRP by @shoey63
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Hi, its 11:30 and i give up!
ok i first installed cwm using the kernel, and falshed SuperSU and than wiped data and cache and dalvik and flashed resRemix so i can reboot again and flash cwm, the problem is when i flash reRemix it goes to rom but also replaces the recovery with cyanogenmod one which doens't have any flashh zip and if i re flash the kernel with fastboot it will get stuck in sony logo reboot !
if i install both without booting to rom first it will reboot in middle of setup(first time setup name etc always at activating cellular)
this time i don't know what happened but it also freezed and rebooted on the bare-rom, but it worked before that (i assume i was tired and did something wrong)
what should i do?!
kamranhaghighi said:
Hi, its 11:30 and i give up!
ok i first installed cwm using the kernel, and falshed SuperSU and than wiped data and cache and dalvik and flashed resRemix so i can reboot again and flash cwm, the problem is when i flash reRemix it goes to rom but also replaces the recovery with cyanogenmod one which doens't have any flashh zip and if i re flash the kernel with fastboot it will get stuck in sony logo reboot !
if i install both without booting to rom first it will reboot in middle of setup(first time setup name etc always at activating cellular)
this time i don't know what happened but it also freezed and rebooted on the bare-rom, but it worked before that (i assume i was tired and did something wrong)
what should i do?!
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Flash other kernel with flashtools, entry in recovery wipe cache davilk cache and data/factory reset, flash the rom with recovery and the boot.img with flashtools.
Sorry for my bad english
I have linux, ia flashtool the only way?
My problem is flashing gapps, if i want to flash it i need cwm and cwm gets replaced when i flash the rom, and xda tutorial for flashing cwm (kernel.elf) makes mt device get stuck in sony logo and bootloop!
Guizão BR said:
Flash other kernel with flashtools, entry in recovery wipe cache davilk cache and data/factory reset, flash the rom with recovery and the boot.img with flashtools.
Sorry for my bad english
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wait, what do is boot.img?! why do i have to flash it?! i have no idea what it is! this was much easier on my nexus
kamranhaghighi said:
wait, what do is boot.img?! why do i have to flash it?! i have no idea what it is! this was much easier on my nexus
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Boot.img is the kernel, you have to flashing him because the latest version of this rom is for unlocked bootloader
Guizão BR said:
Boot.img is the kernel, you have to flashing him because the latest version of this rom is for unlocked bootloader
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where can i get it? and I will get CWM with it? (for flashing gapps)
kamranhaghighi said:
where can i get it? and I will get CWM with it? (for flashing gapps)
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Is inside the rom file, you have to unpack and flashing after using flashtools, you know how to use flashtools?
Guizão BR said:
Is inside the rom file, you have to unpack and flashing after using flashtools, you know how to use flashtools?
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Im not sure, i know how to use fastboot btw! (btw i got ubuntu, if its a software or something i need it to have a linux version)
Guizão BR said:
Is inside the rom file, you have to unpack and flashing after using flashtools, you know how to use flashtools?
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i will just google flash tools and do what you said when i get the chance, will post abck if i get into trouble
kamranhaghighi said:
i will just google flash tools and do what you said when i get the chance, will post abck if i get into trouble
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You can flash kernel with normal fastboot too of course! if the kernel name and formal will be boot.img just type command in fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Spasik said:
You can flash kernel with normal fastboot too of course! if the kernel name and formal will be boot.img just type command in fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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thanks, but i don't get it, boot.img is the kernel isn't it going to be flashed with the rom?! and how can i flash the GAPPS after rebooting, because it quires me to do it after doing the first boot!
kamranhaghighi said:
thanks, but i don't get it, boot.img is the kernel isn't it going to be flashed with the rom?! and how can i flash the GAPPS after rebooting, because it quires me to do it after doing the first boot!
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Ok i will try to explain the metod i use
First of all i have functioning phone on any rom
than i flash doomkernel or williams kernel
in these two kernels there are integrated all 3 recoverys cwm twrp philz
i boot the phone to any recovery i like (i preffer cwm)
in recovery i wipe data, cache, system, and internal memory because i have zips on sd card
flash the rom
if in the tutorial of rom is to flash gapps after first boot i just boot the phone to new rom
then i power off the device and flash doomkernel/williamskernel
after that ,i flash from recovery of these kernels the gapps
after flash of gapps is complete i power off the device and flash original kernel from rom i have
viola magic is complete
Spasik said:
Ok i will try to explain the metod i use
First of all i have functioning phone on any rom
than i flash doomkernel or williams kernel
in these two kernels there are integrated all 3 recoverys cwm twrp philz
i boot the phone to any recovery i like (i preffer cwm)
in recovery i wipe data, cache, system, and internal memory because i have zips on sd card
flash the rom
if in the tutorial of rom is to flash gapps after first boot i just boot the phone to new rom
then i power off the device and flash doomkernel/williamskernel
after that ,i flash from recovery of these kernels the gapps
after flash of gapps is complete i power off the device and flash original kernel from rom i have
viola magic is complete
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thanks will try that when i see him again
Hi guys,
I want to flash this ROM>> [ROM][LB/UB][LP 5.1.1 .228][ v5.0.3 ] CustomiZed Sony 5.1.1 | The Fully featured ROM!.
About my phone:
I have Sony Xperia Z C6603 with customized Indian firmware 5.1.1 i.e. 10.7.A.0.222.
Bootloader unlocked? = NO
Bootloader unlock allowed? = NO
Root status = YES, rooted by kingroot
Busybox installed!!
So I wanted to flash that firmware to my xperia Z. This is my first time of flashing firmware. I know how to flash from recovery mode, but now I am stuck on recovery. I am not able to go in recovery. I tried several method to go in stock recovery like pressing volume up or down key while booting but nothing helped. Then I tried TWRP recovery. I flashed recovery, it downloaded the recovery and flashed. Even I got message that recovery flashing successful. Then when it asked would you like to reboot and try to go in recovery? Yes. Then it rebooted like normal. No recovery, nothing!! Now, the recovery status in TWRP recovery is saying custom recovery is not installed, that I installed before reboot. I tried direct flashing the zip rom from the app (they have a option to flash roms). I checked to wipe cache, dalvik and again it rebooted as normal. Nothing!!
Please help me to go in recovery mode!!!
Thanks
Durgesh
Rocking Durgesh said:
Hi guys,
I want to flash this ROM>> [ROM][LB/UB][LP 5.1.1 .228][ v5.0.3 ] CustomiZed Sony 5.1.1 | The Fully featured ROM!.
About my phone:
I have Sony Xperia Z C6603 with customized Indian firmware 5.1.1 i.e. 10.7.A.0.222.
Bootloader unlocked? = NO
Bootloader unlock allowed? = NO
Root status = YES, rooted by kingroot
Busybox installed!!
So I wanted to flash that firmware to my xperia Z. This is my first time of flashing firmware. I know how to flash from recovery mode, but now I am stuck on recovery. I am not able to go in recovery. I tried several method to go in stock recovery like pressing volume up or down key while booting but nothing helped. Then I tried TWRP recovery. I flashed recovery, it downloaded the recovery and flashed. Even I got message that recovery flashing successful. Then when it asked would you like to reboot and try to go in recovery? Yes. Then it rebooted like normal. No recovery, nothing!! Now, the recovery status in TWRP recovery is saying custom recovery is not installed, that I installed before reboot. I tried direct flashing the zip rom from the app (they have a option to flash roms). I checked to wipe cache, dalvik and again it rebooted as normal. Nothing!!
Please help me to go in recovery mode!!!
Thanks
Durgesh
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since you have Bootloader unlock allowed? = NO you cant flash a custom rom
ExCuTioN said:
since you have Bootloader unlock allowed? = NO you cant flash a custom rom
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Thanks!! I appreciate your reply. Then is there any way to change it to allowed YES?
Rocking Durgesh said:
Thanks!! I appreciate your reply. Then is there any way to change it to allowed YES?
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No sadly But you could fix your recovery http://nut.xperia-files.com/go here then
XZDualRecovery --> XZDualRecovery 2.8.23 --> XZ-lockeddualrecovery2.8.23-RELEASE.combined.zip and download it to your pc, unzip the file and execute the install programm then follow the instruction ( in order to do this you must have Supersu)
ExCuTioN said:
No sadly But you could fix your recovery http://nut.xperia-files.com/go here then
XZDualRecovery --> XZDualRecovery 2.8.23 --> XZ-lockeddualrecovery2.8.23-RELEASE.combined.zip and download it to your pc, unzip the file and execute the install programm then follow the instruction ( in order to do this you must have Supersu)
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badluck dont I have the stock recovery? I am not able to go in there too.. and can you please explain me containt in that link? How should I use that?
Rocking Durgesh said:
badluck dont I have the stock recovery? I am not able to go in there too.. and can you please explain me containt in that link? How should I use that?
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you cant boot into stock recovery, you cant do anything with stock recovery. So you need a custom one like TWRP or Philz Touch.
Ok now that this is settled, did you move to Supersu?
If not follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/general/tutorial-how-to-root-add-recovery-method-t2342120
hello i want to acces recovery menu, but won´t flash anything to my phone.
is it possible?
have download twrp-3.0.2.0-yuga.img unnamed it to recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img
it tells download ok
starting ok
than phone is booting normaly
what am i doing wrong?
xperia z with android 5.1.1 open bootloader
Hi, use this: https://twrp.me/devices/sonyxperiaz.html
(dd install method), download terminal emulator from playstore and type commands
Xperia Z doesn't support "fastboot boot" command
If you want to do this without flashing anything - this is impossible
damn
i have flashed twrp recovery, it worked without problems. device started into recovery, great but it boots always in the recovery.
-flashed xperia z with emma tool
-fastboot flash boot twrp.img
-reboot into recovery
fine but since them it boots always into recovery
have reboot from recovery into system or reboot or just turn device off and on.
(havent pressed any key while booting)
it boot everytime to recovery
can someone help pls
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steve233 said:
i have flashed twrp recovery, it worked without problems. device started into recovery, great but it boots always in the recovery.
-flashed xperia z with emma tool
-fastboot flash boot twrp.img
-reboot into recovery
fine but since them it boots always into recovery
have reboot from recovery into system or reboot or just turn device off and on.
(havent pressed any key while booting)
it boot everytime to recovery
can someone help pls
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You have flashed a recovery image to your boot partition, so it always boots to recovery. You need to flash a boot image to the boot partition.
But why do you want recovery if you won't flash anything to your phone?
By flashing recovery, you are doing exactly that anyway.
You have an unlocked bootloader, so you may as well flash an advanced stock kernel. It is stock kernel with twrp built into the boot.img. Check android development section.
thank you
since i know that i can't boot recovery without flashing, i have no other option as to flash.
can't i flash it to FOTA partition?
i have 10.7.A.0.222 firmware and need root access but like to do it manually
You can't boot directly to FOTA on XZ. Need modified boot.img or flash twrp to boot (like you did before). Then while in TWRP, flash Supersu.zip to get root. Afterwards flash kernel only in flashtool to get stock boot back
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steve233 said:
i have flashed twrp recovery, it worked without problems. device started into recovery, great but it boots always in the recovery.
-flashed xperia z with emma tool
-fastboot flash boot twrp.img
-reboot into recovery
fine but since them it boots always into recovery
have reboot from recovery into system or reboot or just turn device off and on.
(havent pressed any key while booting)
it boot everytime to recovery
can someone help pls
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same problem please help asap with instruction. thank you
shoey63 said:
You can't boot directly to FOTA on XZ. Need modified boot.img or flash twrp to boot (like you did before). Then while in TWRP, flash Supersu.zip to get root. Afterwards flash kernel only in flashtool to get stock boot back
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can u pls help me with instruction how to fix that plssssss.....
utsavgarg said:
can u pls help me with instruction how to fix that plssssss.....
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Is your bootloader unlocked?