I think I now understand my mistakes, but I’d love to hear it if there’s a way around this. I have the International version H815. My plan was to end up with a rooted version of Marshmallow. At the beginning of the day, I was not so clear about the difference between unlocking and rooting. I followed directions to install a rooted version of Lollipop. That went well. I flashed TWRP but couldn’t figure out why that didn’t work until I figured out that the bootloader should have been unlocked first. I then went through most of the steps to officially unlock the phone, but my phone just hangs at a fastboot intro screen using the abd reboot bootloader command, so I can’t use the fastboot utility to recover the device ID I would need to get an unlock code. And I can’t get into the original recovery menu using the power-volume down keys. I think I overwrote the stock Recovery utility when I flashed TWRP from within a rooted system. Switching back to a stock kdz didn’t help. The phone still works fine otherwise, but now I see no path to unlocking it and then installing TWRP to load a rooted 6.0 image. Should I just give up now, or are there any other options?
Thanks,
Jim