[UNOFFICIAL BUILD] Samsung Galaxy A51 (a51) for /e/OS-T

piero · September 22, 2024, 9:12pm

7) Flash the custom recovery manager, TWRP or recovery-e

see Brands exceptions steps
see Samsung Linux steps

[HOWTO] an Unified Install Guide Project for /e/

For recent devices (s8 and newer), you must flash first the vbmeta file to disable encription protection, it is foundable
included into the /e/OS installable.zip (extract it)
or aside with the TWRP file on their website

From terminal application on PC, navigate to file path where you have downloaded the recovery-e-for-your-device.img or the TWRP-for-your-device.img, (could be in the “/platform-tools” folder

execute the following command to install it .

using Heimdall

$ heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img --no-reboot

It will result in the following output on PC:

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending ‘recovery’ (33684 KB)…
OKAY [ 1.048s]
writing ‘recovery’…
OKAY [ 0.346s]
finished. total time: 1.394s

If needed,

$ heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img --VBMETA vbmeta.img --no-reboot