… and that these files can be unzipped from the “eRecovery zip file” available in the Downloads section. But the Downloads (e.g. dev build for guacamole, which I’m using, and also “stable”) only has links for:
recovery.img files
the OS installation ZIPs
Nether of these have any other *.img files extractable from them in any way I can tell. But the Easy Installer is doing that somehow because I’ve seen it install dtbo.img & vbmeta.img when automatically installing the R (stable) build on the guacamole.
How is it getting those files, and how can we get them to use in a manual install?
p.s. the procedure I ended up using was in fact this one; it was simpler (not requiring the Go language) because the 2 images required are both directly available from the payload file… that is, the 2nd half of the procedure, with mounting all the individual images, was also not required.
I’ll be posting more about the overall experience of getting T (dev) to work on the guacamole (edit: here). Maybe most important: although dtbo.img was the same (checksum) between the latest dev S and T versions, the vbmeta.img was different:
From reading through all the OnePlus “touch screen doesn’t work” postings today, I would guess a lot of those problems could come from flashing the wrong version of the vbmeta image (or not flashing these 2 images at all).
No need to use that solution now that 1.17 has been released. The “Recovery and Boot Image” file is a .zip file that you can extract and get the dtbo.img and vbmeta.img files from.
from fastboot, after install the recovery1.17S when i go to recovery mode, the phone just come back to the fastboot and never reach the recovery installed
btw i’ve solved going with eos R without using these img and it seem all ok. then i downloaded the 1.17S via OTA… testing these days if all is ok