CM13(20151128) Broken recovery, Won't flash. - X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I use TWRP 2.8.7.1(which was flashed to the phone) and now after flashing this nightly version, the recovery gets stuck on the TWRP screen and flashes every 60 seconds, but never lets me use it.
I've searched through all the forums, but can't find anyone else with this problem. I just want to flash CM12.1 Snapshot, but I can't without the recovery working.
Everytime I flash the same recovery(TWRP2.8.7.1), the bootloader gives me the error "Mismatched partition size". I've tried "Fastboot boot TWRP2.8.7.1.img, but it sits stuck on the loading TWRP screen. I've cleared the cache, but still nothing.
The only recovery that I can get to work is CWM by booting the .img from the bootloader, but that still does nothing because none of the directories will mount, so I cant flash from the recovery.
I'm waiting on motorola to send me the stock files and just reflash stock and start from scratch, but I really want to save my data.
Does anybody have any clue as to what I'm doing wrong before I reset to stock?

Try this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=61558425
If this recovery doesn't work, you may have to reflash the full stock rom

uluf said:
Try this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=61558425
If this recovery doesn't work, you may have to reflash the full stock rom
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Nope.. didn't work. I had the 5.0 files from motorola that I flashed, and I'll update from there.
I really wish motorola would leave those files open to download instead of having to wait... sucks not having a phone, but I survived.

i have the same issue, any idea how to fix it ?

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[Q] So I wiped System in TWRP...

Like an idiot I wiped my System inside TWRP. Using TWRP 2.6.0.2
Earlier tonight my phone starting rebooting. I was inside GooManager and tapped reboot to recovery. When I did that, for some reason my phone lost root. Meaning when I went to reboot inside TWRP it stated that it looks as if my phone is not rooted. I rebooted anyway without installing SuperSU through TWRP. I was already rooted. Afterwards, it would boot up fine but kept constantly rebooting only after a minute or two.
I went back into TWRP and clicked through dalvik wipe and cache wipe. Still got reboots. I was planning on flashing CyanogenMod anyways so I thought I'd go on and wipe everything. I went in to advance wipe and check everything. As I swiped the slider to wipe I realized I checked System too, but it was too late.
Now my phone won't boot past the HTC logo with the red text underneath. I can boot into TWRP however so I hope all is not lost. I am currently at work so I have no way to try anything on the phone at the moment but was hoping for some advice on what to try later when I get home.
I'm thinking maybe I'll be able to use the "Mount" tab in TWRP to load a ROM on and flash and everything will be well again. Would I mistaken to think that? If not, I'll purchase an USB OTG cable and use a USB stick but I really need this up an running as quickly as possible.
Also, does anyone think it would be best just to go back to stock at this point (if I can) and start from scratch?
Much thanks for your help and advice,
dgb1891
So, oddly enough I did the same thing, How I managed to recover it so you can adb sideload a rom from TWRP and have access to a "working" phone again was to find your stock recovery.img, then flash it via fastboot, and then from the hboot menu, choose factory reset and let the stock recovery do it's thing, then reflash TWRP (I honestly like CWM doe) and adb sideload a rom (presumably what you were using before). It SHOULD fix your problem and you'll be able to mount files again.
hayame said:
So, oddly enough I did the same thing, How I managed to recover it so you can adb sideload a rom from TWRP and have access to a "working" phone again was to find your stock recovery.img, then flash it via fastboot, and then from the hboot menu, choose factory reset and let the stock recovery do it's thing, then reflash TWRP (I honestly like CWM doe) and adb sideload a rom (presumably what you were using before). It SHOULD fix your problem and you'll be able to mount files again.
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By stock recovery.img you mean a stock HTC image? - or do you mean a recovery like TWRP or CWM?
dgb1891 said:
By stock recovery.img you mean a stock HTC image? - or do you mean a recovery like TWRP or CWM?
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Literally stock recovery.img, not TWRP or CWM.
hayame said:
Literally stock recovery.img, not TWRP or CWM.
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K. Thanks. I have a feeling this is going to be a bit more complicated than I first thought...
I followed what you suggested and got the phone back up and working. Thanks again.

[Q] One possibly bricked, halp!

So I tried to flash Omni 4.4, coming from PAC, had to delete my old PAC zips to make space for a Nandroid. During flashing Omni, I got an error, turns out I needed the latest TWRP version which wasn't mentioned in the OP. Tried to restore the Nandroid but TWRP just freezes. Can't mount the storage in TWRP, flashed the latest version in boot loader, tried to flash but setup wizard force closes so that's useless. Flashed CWM recovery and it can't mount either.
Anyone got any ideas?
GANJDROID said:
So I tried to flash Omni 4.4, coming from PAC, had to delete my old PAC zips to make space for a Nandroid. During flashing Omni, I got an error, turns out I needed the latest TWRP version which wasn't mentioned in the OP. Tried to restore the Nandroid but TWRP just freezes. Can't mount the storage in TWRP, flashed the latest version in boot loader, tried to flash but setup wizard force closes so that's useless. Flashed CWM recovery and it can't mount either.
Anyone got any ideas?
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At this point do you want to just go back to stock and try again from there, or still trying for Omni? I would fastboot flash recovery again, wipe with fastboot -w (if you're coming from 4.3 you might as well). If you can, ADB sideload Omni, if not, try your zip again.
Try restoring with TWRP again, too. Put your phone on the charger and start the restore, give it about 20 minutes before you give up, twrp semi freezes on me all the time.
ripin150 said:
At this point do you want to just go back to stock and try again from there, or still trying for Omni? I would fastboot flash recovery again, wipe with fastboot -w (if you're coming from 4.3 you might as well). If you can, ADB sideload Omni, if not, try your zip again.
Try restoring with TWRP again, too. Put your phone on the charger and start the restore, give it about 20 minutes before you give up, twrp semi freezes on me all the time.
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I'll be happy with any sort of life. If I have to wipe everything, go to stock and root again then stick with PAC, then so be it. Do you have any links handy with flashing stock RUU via bootloader?
I'll try that now. Press on the backup to restore it and it hangs at that screen, but I still get feedback if I press the back soft key, is that what you get when it happens to you?
Edit: HA! Plug my phone in to charge, try to restore and it works first time. Cheers for the help anyway!
What's the output of fastboot getvar all?
GANJDROID said:
I'll be happy with any sort of life. If I have to wipe everything, go to stock and root again then stick with PAC, then so be it. Do you have any links handy with flashing stock RUU via bootloader?
I'll try that now. Press on the backup to restore it and it hangs at that screen, but I still get feedback if I press the back soft key, is that what you get when it happens to you?
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Yes, that's what happens to me, only in TWRP
Are you S-OFF? If so you can Super CID and flash the Google Edition RUU
If you're S-ON, here is the AT&T RUU.

Unfixable bootloop?

I'm what you'd call a super noob at this stuff and I've got my poor little SP in a crazy bootloop... I've tried LITERALLY EVERYTHING the internet has told me to try; wiping every cache out there, flashing custom roms, stock roms, you name it. It began when I just got CWM (don't ask me why it happened then, I have no clue why) and this is even BEFORE I put a ROM on! (I was all ready to put a ROM after getting CWM but bootloop happened).
Note: I have CWM recovery, I think I have lost my stock recovery, if I try some ROMS (ex. CM 12) they give me this error 7, once I found certain ROMS (PACMAN ROM, unofficial stock ROM) that would flash and install, they did but still left me with a bootloop, I have tried wiping so many caches it's not even funny, I've tried flashing the original firmware, nothing works... so I'm here for help.
I have looked at every google link and every method possible in trying to fix this thing! I really can't afford a new phone and I just love this one too much... please help!
farahtasnim said:
I'm what you'd call a super noob at this stuff and I've got my poor little SP in a crazy bootloop... I've tried LITERALLY EVERYTHING the internet has told me to try; wiping every cache out there, flashing custom roms, stock roms, you name it. It began when I just got CWM (don't ask me why it happened then, I have no clue why) and this is even BEFORE I put a ROM on! (I was all ready to put a ROM after getting CWM but bootloop happened).
Note: I have CWM recovery, I think I have lost my stock recovery, if I try some ROMS (ex. CM 12) they give me this error 7, once I found certain ROMS (PACMAN ROM, unofficial stock ROM) that would flash and install, they did but still left me with a bootloop, I have tried wiping so many caches it's not even funny, I've tried flashing the original firmware, nothing works... so I'm here for help.
I have looked at every google link and every method possible in trying to fix this thing! I really can't afford a new phone and I just love this one too much... please help!
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please state your current bootloader status. Is it unlocked or still locked?
TechnoSparks said:
please state your current bootloader status. Is it unlocked or still locked?
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I have unlocked my bootloader. Thank you for replying!
farahtasnim said:
I have unlocked my bootloader. Thank you for replying!
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Splendid! Knowing that your BL state is unlocked, this will make the whole process A LOT easier!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/development/ubl-twrp-f2fs-support-xperia-sp-huashan-t3150230
Please go to the above link to get TWRP. Also, please keep in mind that TWRP is now the only still supported recovery around. CWM and PhilZ are both really outdated and no longer maintained due to the introduction of Cyanogen Recovery which is very minimal in features.
Once you get yourself the download, extract the files from the zip and get the twrp.img file. We will need this to flash into the boot partition of Xperia SP, granting you a direct boot into recovery once it is flashed. Please then copy the original zip to your sd card, as we will be flashing the original zip via TWRP later to give you access to TWRP in the future.
Using your preferred tool, flash the twrp.img file into the boot partition.
Connect your Xperia SP via fastboot. Make sure SP is shut down, hold volume up key and connect the SP with your computer.
If you're using a fastboot tool via command prompt, the command would be
fastboot flash boot twrp.img
If you're using flashtool, hit the lightning icon in the toolbar, select fastboot mode. Then select "Select kernel to flash". Make sure the file type is "img" else you won't able to find your TWRP img file. Navigate to mentioned img file and select it.
Afterwards, when flashing complete, you may insert sdcard and start the device. It will boot directly into TWRP as we flashed a recovery to the boot partition.
Clean wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, system. You may leave internal storage.
Flash the ROM zip you acquired (make sure file integrity is checked beforehand!) then the TWRP zip earlier. Flashing the TWRP zip grants you a persisting recovery, as explained in the linked thread.
You may now reboot and enjoy

LG L90 D415 Constant Recovery

So I was in the middle of using Lineage OS 14.1 when it notified that there was a May 20th update. I allowed it to update, when for some reason it just took me straight to Recovery.
When I tried to reboot back to the system, for some reason it continued to boot straight to recovery.
I tried wiping everything and reinstalling Lineage, but the same thing happened. Same with AICP.
I figured it was an issue with the recovery, so I flashed the latest img from recovery (since I can't do it from fastboot) yet the problem continues to persist..
Can anybody help? I can't do anything with fastboot because it always fails, I can't flash anything, I'm just stuck on TWRP no matter what I do. I even checked the system and everything and despite TWRP saying I "successfully installed rom" or whatever, nothing gets installed into the system or anything, it just stays empty. How do I fix this?
I read somewhere that it may be because it's trying to update something, and since TWRP is installed instead of the actual LG recovery, it can't install it or whatever. I was previously on a stock rom before I installed Lineage. Could that be it? I figured I can fix it using THIS method, but I'm not sure. The link to the KZD is dead and the only download available for D415 is "old" so I don't want to risk bricking my device.
Help is appreciated ahead of time!
I also just realized that I can't really do anything about flashing the stock rom manually because the download mode is registered as fastboot and it doesn't seem to properly register in the Device Manager at all...
I've also just attempted to factory reset the device, but the only thing that does is also boot into TWRP..
Fivavoa said:
I've also just attempted to factory reset the device, but the only thing that does is also boot into TWRP..
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In twrp there is a terminal so you might be able to get access to fastboot by removing download mode.
Look at the thread below.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/general/guide-fastboot-l90-d415-t2827825
Hi :3
Fivavoa said:
So I was in the middle of using Lineage OS 14.1 when it notified that there was a May 20th update. I allowed it to update, when for some reason it just took me straight to Recovery.
When I tried to reboot back to the system, for some reason it continued to boot straight to recovery.
I tried wiping everything and reinstalling Lineage, but the same thing happened. Same with AICP.
I figured it was an issue with the recovery, so I flashed the latest img from recovery (since I can't do it from fastboot) yet the problem continues to persist..
Can anybody help? I can't do anything with fastboot because it always fails, I can't flash anything, I'm just stuck on TWRP no matter what I do. I even checked the system and everything and despite TWRP saying I "successfully installed rom" or whatever, nothing gets installed into the system or anything, it just stays empty. How do I fix this?
I read somewhere that it may be because it's trying to update something, and since TWRP is installed instead of the actual LG recovery, it can't install it or whatever. I was previously on a stock rom before I installed Lineage. Could that be it? I figured I can fix it using THIS method, but I'm not sure. The link to the KZD is dead and the only download available for D415 is "old" so I don't want to risk bricking my device.
Help is appreciated ahead of time!
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Hello, look at this page, this would solve the problem:
https://www.androidsis.com/solucionar-problema-bootloop-recovery-actualizacion-ota-linageos/

Help! No cant access Twrp anymore!

Hey guys i need your help. I recently tried to install PA with Twrp but i cant access it anymore. I reflashed it, erased recovery, flash the stock and TWRp again, but i cant get it work. What i think the problem is, that normally during bootup or entering TWRP i had to put in my decrypt pattern, but it doenst show up anymore. How can i get it back?
Sounds like a corrupted boot.img. Flash a stock boot.img then stock recovery, factory reset in stock recovery. Trust me it helps. Then use fastboot to flash twrp.img and u should be ok. If not you might need to send this device back to oneplus.

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