I couldn’t find a way to force the device to start in TWRP instead of the out-of-the-box recovery mode.īut luckily, there’s another workaround available! I spent a while reflashing, using different medias, rebooting the device (which somehow takes multiple minutes), but to no avail. I couldn’t make anything out of it, so I decided to pursue another route.
+Vol and power would take the Android tablet to recover mode – but even with TWRP successfully flashed to the recovery partition, you’d always be greeted with the useless, out-of-the-box recovery mode.Ĭuriously, though, -Vol takes the user to a diagnostics mode that’s in Chinese(?). But Lenovo had, unfortunately, made more annoying decisions.
If that gives you an error, try this command instead: fastboot flashing unlockĪll good? Awesome! Onwards, then: Install custom loader such as TWRPĪfter this, it’s supposed to be easy to flash TWRP to the device and boot to it using the commands below (the mentioned image needs to be in the folder you’re running the commands from): adb reboot bootloaderįastboot flash recovery TWRP-3.0.2_TB-X103F-beta.img To do this, connect the device with USB, debugging enabled, and run the following: fastboot oem unlock-go Next you’ll need to make sure you can boot any media instead of the built-in one. You should make sure your adb and fastboot installation path is included in your PATH variable – or, alternatively, just open your command line window (as an admin) to the installation directory directly.
And if you’re following tutorials on or something, be mindful which links you’re clicking and which files you download on MediaFire. The tutorials do a good job detailing most of the steps, but fell short when you run into issues.Īlso, you won’t need Magisk or similar if you’re working with an otherwise useless device, and don’t need any backups (because nobody’s been able to generate anything worth saving on the device so far). I won’t go into details, as I suppose you’re following a tutorial on XDA-developers or something, and only ended up on this article since you ran into the same issues I did.
How to load TWRP without replacing the built-in bootloader.
my Galaxy S II is the best pice of garbage that they have sold jejejejejejejeeje. I really men it man, galaxy family, managed by google are a nightmare. It means that it is the international version and I have to contact Samsung in London to check if they can help me the problem is that I AM IN VENEZUELA. I've just called to Samsung customer servicie in USA, and they told me that they can't give me any support becuase my phone is the GT-I9250 model. In my case, the phone makes it until the step 4 and restart to complete the step 5, but it never gets unlocked.ĭid you biorck your phone? can you enter to Download mode? I know you wrote that you can turn it on, but you know, I have to ask, just to be sure jejejejejejeje It should take me to bootloeader mode.Ģ) connect the phone and install adb driversģ) open command line windows (cmd) type "fastboot oem unlock".Ĥ) go to the phnone's screen and press vol up, choose "yes" and hit power.ĥ) The phone will restart and will show "in very small print" at the bottom "state: unlocked" 8if it was the case or locked. If I could only unlock the bootloader it would be easier, i think.Ĭlick to expand.Well I know that sometimes the keys configuration may be confusing, you are right, but as far as I know this is the sequence:ġ) (phone off) Press and hold vol ip + vol down + power. Now, why all this did happen?, well I was trying to install the stock firmware that I downloaded from sammobile, and it never installed, the program crashed and my phone got. I tried to erase the boot and the recovery images, but it just says "unknown partition". I can get into download mode, but as soon as the odin starts to flash the ROM, the program crashes. I can't get into recovery mode, so it is impossible to restore any previous backup i've made. Beside that, my bootloader is locked, and if I try to unlock it, it goes to the unlock screen, it ask me if I want to unlock it, but even if I say "YES", it doesn't unlock. No matter what I do, anytime I turn it on, it goes directly to the bootloader mode and gives me a message that says "fastboot mode-no boot or recovery img" in red. The fact is that my phone is stuck in the bootloader mode. I've been looking arround for a solution before posting my situation, but I didin't find any help, so I hope you can help me over.