Hello all. I'm am trying to flash a recovery but I don't know the commands to do it through terminal emulator. Is this even possible on the Nexus 7 or do I have to do it through fastboot? If possible to do, what are the commands? Thank you in advance.
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Hi, codyahiggins...
Yes... it's possible, but you need root to do it.
If you're flashing a Custom Recovery via terminal emulator with the intention of rooting, you're out of luck I'm afraid. You'll need to use
fastboot to flash the Custom Recovery of your choice; TWRP or CWM. This of course requires unlocking the bootloader first (and the subsequent wipe/factory reset)... and with your installed Custom Recovery, you can then root.
But assuming you already have root, the syntax is as follows...
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/your_custom_recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/SOS
Here you're
'writing' your Custom Recovery.img to the SOS partition (recovery) and where...
if stands for INPUT FILE (your Custom Recovery .img file - TWRP or CWM)
of stands for OUTPUT FILE (your target/destination partition).
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Whilst this is possible, and it certainly works... it can be a pain typing the PRECISE command.
You might be better of checking out these two apps...
Flash Image GUI or
Flashify.
Both of these will flash a Custom Recovery without resort to fastboot... but again, you'll first need to be rooted to use them.
Hope this helps.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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