[Please help] TWRP recovery for Elephone A4
[Please help] TWRP recovery for Elephone A4
(25-06-2018, 07:40 PM)gigi_13579 Hello,
I tried to port TWRP to my new A4 ( which is Android 8.1 on MTK6739) using MTK Auto TWRP recovery porter 1.2,
but the recovery won't boot, the device just freezes on bootscreen then reboots after a few seconds.
(Tested with recovery.img from Stock ROM and with backed up recovery from my phone, same result on both)
I noticed that after patching the porter tool says something like "DM_Verity found, You'll need to patch boot.img"
If this is the source of the problem, What do I need to do?
Thanks in advance!
(26-06-2018, 05:35 PM)hovatek(25-06-2018, 07:40 PM)gigi_13579 Hello,
I tried to port TWRP to my new A4 ( which is Android 8.1 on MTK6739) using MTK Auto TWRP recovery porter 1.2,
but the recovery won't boot, the device just freezes on bootscreen then reboots after a few seconds.
(Tested with recovery.img from Stock ROM and with backed up recovery from my phone, same result on both)
I noticed that after patching the porter tool says something like "DM_Verity found, You'll need to patch boot.img"
If this is the source of the problem, What do I need to do?
Thanks in advance!
I thought as much.
There are two possible things that might have been wrong:
1. 8.1 could either be 8.1 or 8.1 Go Edition. For Go Edition users, they forget to select 8.1g and select 8.1 instead. If yours isn't Go Edition then ignore this
2. DM Verity presence. If there's DM Verity then your device will reject the TWRP untill boot.img is patched.
Upload the boot.img so we can patch it . You first need to flash the patched boot.img then boot up. If the phone boots up fine, you can then proceed to flash the TWRP
(26-06-2018, 07:06 PM)gigi_13579 OK, here is the stock boot.img:
dropbox.com/s/0yjec8lv1eufzox/boot.img?dl=0
(27-06-2018, 06:12 PM)gigi_13579 Thanks for the advice!
After patching boot.img with Magisk and flashing it to the phone, it boots up fine and root is working as expected.
However, TWRP still refuses to start :-(
Is there something else I could try?
(28-06-2018, 07:47 PM)gigi_13579 Tried it. Same result unfortunately.