• computer: ubuntu 23.10
  • device: asus X00PD, can only root it from the computer (no install from usb option available on the device).

On the computer, I ran:

fastboot flash recovery /home/alice/TWRP/twrp.img

it returned:

Sending 'recovery' (50272 KB) OKAY [ 1.596s] Writing 'recovery' OKAY [ 0.464s] Finished. Total time: 2.068s

I thought I have flashed TWRP to the device’s recovery partition.

However, after booting to recovery, I don’t see TWRP, I see the stock Android recovery.

Unless the recovery partition can support both Android recovery and TWRP at the same time I haven’t installed TWRP.

How do I install TWRP?

  • @[email protected]English
    6•11 months ago

    Have a look on xdaforums for your device, there will be guides. With the Samsung for example you have to enable bootloader flashing in existing rom developer options otherwise it will overwrite on a fresh boot. Gxda is a trove of info though

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      It looks like the native OS will flash the original recovery partition back if you try to boot Android without flashing a custom. ROM.

      so if I cannot install lineage on my device (package no longer maintained) and I’m stuck with the native OS, that means I’m also stuck with the original recovery partition and cannot install TWRP?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•11 months ago

        The same thing can be seen on some MIUI device that i used before. Need to quickly press the recovery keys combination to enter TWRP. Entering recovery command from terminal would directly boot into OS.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•11 months ago

    You need to unlock your bootloader.

    1. Enable USB debugging in the developer options;

    2. Reboot the phone in fastboot;

    3. Connect the phone to your PC;

    4. Run the commands bellow, line by line:

    touch key.txt
fastboot oem get_unlock_key key.txt
fastboot reboot-bootloader

    1. It should show a warning that the bootloader is unlocked;

    2. Reboot in fastboot and install TWRP again.

  • UsedRealNameB4English
    1•11 months ago

    Its been a while since i tinkered around but i think firstly you can try directly booting into twrp recovery and see if that’s working.

    For some phones overwriting the recovery straight away doesn’t work they will just let you temporarily run custom recoveries.

    If that’s the case then you can figure out for your specific phone how to overwrite the stock recovery permanently.

    Again i could be completely wrong but you can give this flow a try.