[Solved] Erasing Data on OnePlus One - Missing Wipe Setting in Recovery Menu

/e/OS Devices OnePlus
1

Hey there,

so I wanted to install /e/ on an OnePlus One and followed this tutorial: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/bacon/install

Sadly I got stuck at “Installing /e/ from custom recovery”, because I’m missing the described entries in the Recovery menu.
There I can only see:

  • Reboot system now
  • Apply update
  • Factory reset
  • Advanced
    • Reboot Recovery
    • Reboot to bootloader
    • View recovery logs
    • Power off

I guess the menu is different, because I installed CyanogenMod before (At the top there is the CyanogenMod Logo).
I tried Factory Reset, which deleted all my data, but not the OS.

Not quite sure were to go from here.

Cheers
Johannes

2

Hey, welcome in our community :slight_smile:

I think you should install TWRP.

3

Hi and thanks for the welcome! I think I did that… I just tried again and got this log:

C:\Users\Johannes>fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.3.1-0-bacon.img
Sending 'recovery' (13886 KB)                      OKAY [  0.470s]
Writing 'recovery'                                 OKAY [  0.190s]
Finished. Total time: 0.670s

However I still get the cyanogen menu when calling adb reboot recovery afterwards

4

Sadly I can’t help you more, wait for somebody else.

5

Still, thanks a lot, I now understood that the problem was the bootloader. I found the solution here: https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/help-after-install-twrp-recovery-phone-reboots-only-to-cyanogen-recovery.306774/#post-11437424

Seems like Cyanogen likes to overwrite the bootloader, but you can work around that :slight_smile:

6

When I swapped from UT to e on my bacon I have first installed the stock rom. Than I have flashed TWRP via fastboot. After reboot into TWRP I was able the push the e.zip to the internal storage and could flash it via twrp.
I have used twrp-3.3.1-0-bacon.img

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Hm, interesting! For me it worked to get to TWRP by rebooting directly into the bootloader (by pressing Volume down and Power button at the same time). So in what I did was:

Doing things in this order allowed me to finally boot into TWRP recovery:

  • Run fastboot boot twrp-x.x.x-x-bacon.img
  • Run exit to close the command line
  • Unplug USB cable from phone. Phone screen should still say Fastboot Mode.
  • Hold power button, till device powers down.
  • Press and hold Power & Volume Down until devices starts and a bbit longer. If you hold it down too long you might power it off again.
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Don’t know from what OS you where coming. I have to flash stock rom first, because I have had UbuntuTouch on it and for e.OS not all firmware was available. Flashing without all needed firmware ends with error 7.