Root TWRP site broken?

[hstroph]

After the most recent 4.3 JWR66Y update I've again lost root, and apparently the TWRP recovery as well, since booting into recovery yields "No command" below the opened Android with red triangle above.

# fastboot devices
004323648951e5d9 fastboot
# fastboot update UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.60.zip
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt

Thinking that I should flash TWRP 2.6.1.1 recovery, TeamWin - Home | TeamWin yields during the past 24 hrs:

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HTTP Error 503: The requested service is unavailable


The service you requested is temporarily unavailable

The service may be unavailable because the server has reached the limit of the number of requests it is willing to serve in parallel. This number depends on the type of request you were submitting. If the document you requested was a dynamic document it may be that the application generating these documents is currently not running.
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Assuming that I can find the openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.1-mako.img somewhere and re-name it to recovery.img, what is the exact fastboot syntax to use, please? Without root GooManager doesn't seem to be helpful.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

It's working perfectly fine for me.

I can download img and throw it in my Dropbox if you'd like?

 

[hstroph]

Thanks, but I just found Goo.im Downloads - Downloading openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img

Was that the correct syntax "fastboot update UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.60.zip"? I couldn't find the installation method on xda.

Also having problems with the twrp flash:

# fastboot devices
004323648951e5d9 fastboot

# fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img
sending 'recovery' (9198 KB)...
FAILED (data transfer failure (Value too large for defined data type))
finished. total time: 0.004s

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here ... thanks for the help.

 

[jmar]

Thanks, but I just found Goo.im Downloads - Downloading openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img

Was that the correct syntax "fastboot update UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.60.zip"? I couldn't find the installation method on xda.

Also having problems with the twrp flash:

# fastboot devices
004323648951e5d9 fastboot

# fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img
sending 'recovery' (9198 KB)...
FAILED (data transfer failure (Value too large for defined data type))
finished. total time: 0.004s

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here ... thanks for the help.

It should look more like this:

# fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img

with "/path/to/recovery/" being the directory of the recovery on your computer.

Let me know if that makes sense.

Hope that helps!

jmar

 

[hstroph]

It should look more like this:

# fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img

with "/path/to/recovery/" being the directory of the recovery on your computer. ...

The command is issued from the directory where the file resides, so "/path/to/recovery/" is superfluous. A "file not found" error would have been stated by the shell otherwise.

 

[jmar]

The command is issued from the directory where the file resides, so "/path/to/recovery/" is superfluous. A "file not found" error would have been stated by the shell otherwise.

Fair enough...Windows 7? Running command prompt as admin? Tried a different USB cable? USB 2.0 vs 3.0? 2.0 tends to work better. Just spitballing. Want to help. No sarcasm or snooty intention implied.

jmar

 

[jhawkkw]

fastboot seems to be really picky about only using usb 2.0 ports. Anyone using a 1.0 or 3.0 port has often run into nothing but trouble trying to get it to work.

 

[hstroph]

fastboot seems to be really picky about only using usb 2.0 ports. Anyone using a 1.0 or 3.0 port has often run into nothing but trouble trying to get it to work.

Thank you, that did indeed seem to be the problem. An isolated USB port on the other side of the laptop solved the issue:

# fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.2.0-mako.img
sending 'recovery' (9198 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.366s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.554s]
finished. total time: 0.920s