[SOLVED] See below
Hello,
I need to return my phone to repair service and would like to flash a zip from recovery to go back to stock recovery.
(I can't flash thru odin : stuck at "Nand write start").
I just flashed Philz recovery to backup my internal SD data, but want to make it look cleaner... (I'm clean on download screen).
I found this thread but it's a flashable zip for sgh-t879 t-mobile galaxy note :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072255
Do you think I can try to flash it ? (phone is almost dead already but I don't want to have it says T-mobile at boot or in the recovery ! and be stuck like this :cyclops:!)
Thanks in advance !
Edit : Solved
To create a flashable stock recovery so that my bricked phone looked like untouched for repair service here is what I did :
(follow this guide only if you know what you're doing)
- I took an existing flashable kernel/recovery (tried with Abyss Kernel or Speed Core 15)
- Unzip it in one of my computer folder
- from a stock rom .tar I took the zimage file and copied it over the zimage file in the unzipped folder, replacing previous file
- I selected both zimage file an META-INF folder and zipped them in a new zip named stockrecovery.zip (right clicked with 7zip, chose add to zip...) with Normal compression Level (note when opening the zip file you must directly find zimage and META-INF folder)
- Copied the zip to external SD and installed zip from recovery (signature check disabled)
Hope this may help others.
Note: I can't go in adb shell since though my device is seen. I don't know/think I'm unrooted, but I'll say I did all I could (at my level to make the phone looked like genuine/untouched)...
NB: I prefer not to post the file I created.
Re: Going back to Stock Recovery
I think if you look Dr Ketan in the stickies has posted links to original firmwares and kernels.
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I really looked in the thread and didn't find a flashable stock kernel from recovery. (My phone does'nt work with odin anymore...)
eljuggy said:
I really looked in the thread and didn't find a flashable stock kernel from recovery. (My phone does'nt work with odin anymore...)
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What about Modile Odin? does it get stuck with Mobile Odin as well?
Re: Going back to Stock Recovery
Download the philz kernel ics rom zip file. Also download the stock kernel from the stock ics rom. This will be a zimage.
Now open the philz zip file and replace the zimage in that zip file with the stock one. Place it on sd card. Now boot into recovery and flash it. As you have Cwm this should flash.
As always. Do this at your own risk.
Edit: Use speedmod as it has a simple updater script.
Ok, so I tried exchanging the zimage file in the Phil'z zip with the zimage file from the stock rom tar, but it states "installation aborted" when trying to flash...
surely there's a signature system in the meta folder or something...
I also noticed that in Phil'z zip is busybox and superuser apk... which I don't want ...
well, I'll post in Dr Ketan thread... for help again.
Thanks !
Re: Going back to Stock Recovery
Yeah. I forgot that. I check speedmod k15 and it just has a zimage and the updater script. Try with that. If it fails, try the signature verification toggle in recovery.
Well...
without signature verification I also got "installation aborted"....
with signature verification I get "signature verification failed"
there's something blocking the update and it's before the script into the zip starts and prints "Flash SpeedMod Kernel"...
Re: Going back to Stock Recovery
Can you tell me how are you replacing the zimage?
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Do not EXTRACT the package. Just open it using 7z and replace the zimage.
Ok, I used 7zip to build the zip and compression level was none... that was the problem.
I used normal compression and was able to flash the zip...
Now my phone really looks like stock (I've got the white box and the little green droid when trying to go to recovery then lot of errors and Android System recovery (3e) and also a clean bootloader screen) !
Ready for repair service !
Thanks a lot !
Ok Great
Ok I edited first post... and I'm ready to go to repair service !
One last thing, is it normal I can't do "adb shell" anymore once in stock recovery (adb devices list my devices, but adb shell is stucked) ?
I wanted to verify that the phone is unrooted now? Do you think it is ?
just replacing the kernel to stock doesnot unroot the phone. hopefully they will not know.. not sure about adb shell
I downloaded the latest omnirom nighty for xperia v. Extrated the boot.img and flash using flashtool. Boot to recovery using the recovery within the kernel, tried installing the rom, but it doesnt mount my sdcard. Error cant mount sdcard. What should i do??
You should have just used the recovery you already had. If you had to "extract" the boot.img from the zip file, then the boot.img gets flashed during install, so I don't see why you'd need to flash it separately. Flash a different kernel/previous kernel, or a different recovery and flash your zip normally.
How can i flash a OTA Zip manually?
I tried it with CWM but get the eror Message "/system/build.prop": No such file or directory
no way Jose!
the OTA Zip is ONLY for the normal recovery.. not work in Custom recovery like CWM or TWRP ...
flash a stock ROM to works..
greetings..
:good:
mario93 said:
How can i flash a OTA Zip manually?
I tried it with CWM but get the eror Message "/system/build.prop": No such file or directory
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You must do it from a clean system without root (in theory) and the recovery of stock
so you must prepares a clean install with RSD lite and from there you have the zip ota, you must place it on the external SD and reboot into bootloader mode and choose to enter recovery, once in the recovery you must install zip from external sd
ota file has specific restrictions in origin (compilation of your operating system) to destination are upgrading so ota files will verify that you are in the point of origin of the operating system for which it was designed that update.
see here one example
http://forum.xda-developers.com/razr-i/general/kk-brazil-retail-tested-t2917886
guys... i've searched everywhere... how to install recovery ?
i have root and bootloader unlocked.
everywhere i go i see it's a flashable zip... but how do i install a flashable zip when i don't have a recovery installed ?
i've tried flashing the recovery.img from those zip through fastboot. but no luck... i'm on .283 kernel.
You can use adb commands or Flash Tool!
1)Download any dogo ROM or any flashable kernel zip!
2)Open that zip and find boot.img file.
3)Extract that to a folder.
4)Use adb or flashtool method
adb method:
Install adb drivers and adb cmd
Go to the folder where you extracted the boot.img
Press CTRL + Right Click and click on open with adb
Once adb is opened in that directory,
Type this : fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
Flashtool:
Open flashtool
Click on thunder sign and select fastboot
Select kernel to flash
Navigate to folder where u extracted boot.img
By default *.sin are shown. Change it *.img by selecting it in the menu
Select boot.img and in 10 sec u r recovery will be flashed
found my way....
- download any stock .283 kernel ftf.
- extract the kernel.sin using winrar
- send it over to nut's recovery website
- it generates a flashable recovery.
- extract the boot.img
- flash it using flashtool's fast boot method.
- done
check out nut's recovery... pretty handy script there that generates most of the recovery flashable.
alchemis said:
guys... i've searched everywhere... how to install recovery ?
i have root and bootloader unlocked.
everywhere i go i see it's a flashable zip... but how do i install a flashable zip when i don't have a recovery installed ?
i've tried flashing the recovery.img from those zip through fastboot. but no luck... i'm on .283 kernel.
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Use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
I was on Oreo then I go to twrp make clean wipe
Then I flashed stock recovery but I forgot rename rom to update.zip ...how I can install ROM on my device pls help me.
How I can access my phone's internal storage .
1st Alternative : You can just reflash TWRP from fastboot and rename using TWRP's file manager. Then you can re-flash stock recovery from twrp itself.
2nd Alternative: If you have access to ADB in recovery, try this ADB file manager utility:
http://motyczko.pl/qtadb/QtADB_0.8.1_windows.zip