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May 25, 2024, 9:12pm
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There are two main sets of files to Upload. First the recovery. After this one has to boot into recovery. Did you see a Custom recovery or did you see a Recovery called Android Recovery.
If you saw the unmodified Android recovery, then you need to use this technique to boot into your Custom recovery
“Your first boot into the custom recovery” . This was originally written when TWRP was the standard custom recovery in use. Now we find the more simple /e/ Recovery published with most /e/OS builds.
Many users fail at this point; you should avoid allowing the phone to do a standard shutdown cycle.
Where we have just overwritten the Android recovery with the Custom recovery the user needs to know:
The key combination Volume down + Power on it’s own is Soft reset and will cause your phone to reboot and the device will over-write TWRP back to original, preventing the install of /e/, without further warning.
The instruction set to make your first boot into TWRP is often abbreviated for experienced users, but for a first timer would read:
Please now Force stop the phone – from the current “Download mode”
Disregard the (unhelpful) screen message “Downloading … Do not turn off target”
Use Volume down + Home/Bixby + Power to Force stop.
Attend carefully, keep holding the buttons - it may take about 7 seconds,
the instant the screen goes black (black as in off) and before the device starts to restart
instantly change the finger press to Volume up + Bixby/Home + Power,
Be prepared for another 7 second hold without relaxing, until Teamwin is seen.
Here, as a video.
Another nice wording to achieve the same is:
Press all 4 buttons Volume Up + Volume down + Home/Bixby + Power for 7 seconds till the screen dies,
Release the Volume down the instant the screen goes black
Keep holding Volume up + Bixby/Home + Power till TeamWin appears
… or maybe it is something else … you might look for the log
Where to find the log
The installer creates a log file with a randomly generated name (e.g. 45761d08-711f-435a-881d-a236949654bb.log) that might contain useful information if something doesn’t work as expected.
Location of the log file:
Linux: ~/snap/easy-installer/common
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\easy-installer
if you don’t know how to open this location, press the Windows key plus the “r” key at the same time and paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\easy-installer into the box that appears, then hit the Enter key)