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Root TWRP and Stock Recovery

shinru2004

shinru2004

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For those of you that want to root but continue using stock recovery. You DO NOT have to flash the twrp recovery in order to achieve this.

From fastboot do a:

fastboot boot recovery.img

This will boot the recovery and allow you to make a stock image of every partition needed. Therefore if anyone needs the stock recovery i will have a copy of it. And since we now have root that means i can start working on a custom kernel among other things :) If you need the stock recovery of boot.img i will be making a stock rom zip to post up in this OP.
 
you don't have to be rooted in order to boot recovery without flashing. this is only if you intend to keep stock recovery after rooting
 
looks like i got what i wanted lol

Dear Shinru2004,

Thank you for the information provided.

I went ahead and sent it to our developer department. Please stay tuned to HTC Dev as the Kernel Source should be posted shortly.

Have a nice day.
 
Thanks for all help Shinru.

I let this be a lesson to myself... Never, never, never ,never, ever ever, relock without the stock recovery. Or try to perform a wipe because this automatically locks the phone as well. I went out and bought another 510 just so I could do it right this time. On a side note i have a dedicated dev phone once the ball gets rolling.
 
Shinru--does the TWRP work with the cricket 510? I thought cricket sells the 64-bit version, but the TWRP is "TWRP for A11_CHL and A11_UL 32-bit only"??
 
shinru2004 said:
For those of you that want to root but continue using stock recovery. You DO NOT have to flash the twrp recovery in order to achieve this.

From fastboot do a:

fastboot boot recovery.img

This will boot the recovery and allow you to make a stock image of every partition needed. Therefore if anyone needs the stock recovery i will have a copy of it. And since we now have root that means i can start working on a custom kernel among other things :) If you need the stock recovery of boot.img i will be making a stock rom zip to post up in this OP.
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Im not sure Im doing this right. Ive got the bootloader unlocked and am recognized in adb and fastboot. Im on the boost variant and trying to use http://www.androidfiles.org/getdownload.php?file=A11_Unified/Recoveries/TWRP_2.8.1.0_A11.img
Is this the correct recovery for me? I wanted to take a backup before doing any mods (stock recovery and firmware)
but when I use <fastboot boot recovery.img> (I renamed the file recovery.img) I do not boot into recovery to make my backups. I really think I should be able to do this, can you guys see what I am missing? I gotta be missing a step somewhere.....

Edit: Ill try it out later to confirm, but is the command....

1) fastboot boot recovery.img
or
2) fastboot boot recovery recovery.img?

Another edit: so I know now it's the bright TWRP, and that the correct command is #1, but I still don't know why that command won't work when I use it. Guess I can live with that but ... Well I don't like not knowing :)

Last edit: I noticed my md5 was wrong then when I went baqck to get the file again I noticed that I was dling a 0 bytes file. I hope its here in the forims somewhere
 
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