
After receiving multiple notifications saying the ‘CM13.******* is available for download’ I finally gave in and downloaded it. At this point, my phone had been working fine with both CM Recovery and CM12.1 with root enabled and a Custom Xposed Framework that worked with Lollipop. However, after updating, I attempted to factory reset my phone as it was full of many apps and files I didn’t need. So as usually, I went to the settings and went to ‘Reset’. It sent me to the my recovery, which at that time was the latest CM13 recovery (I had the setting on that the recovery updated with the OS), and after trying to Factory Reset, and clear the cache and then the data, it just rebooted me back to my usually phone, apart from the fact that all my data had gone, but not the apps. I tried this multiple times, each with no success, untill I decided to Google the issue.
I found the aparently, some people are having problems with the new CM13 recovery, so because of this, I decided to try and flash TWRP or CMW. I couldn’t find a download link for either specifically for my phone (all seemed down or incomatible) , so I went here and found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto…overy-t3088800
This seemed quite simple as all I want to do is factory reset or flash a new OS once in a while, so I tried to download it. After also downloading the file ‘twrp-2.8.7.0-thea.img’, I loaded up the SDK’s ‘platform-tools’ and went ahead with this:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery twrp02.8.7.0-thea.img
This came back with the response:
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (9034 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.368s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.301s]
finished. total time: 0.685s
and showed on the phone similar things bar the ‘Mismatched Partition’ Error at the bottom of the boot loader. I just ignored this and rebooted back into my phone. I now did ‘adb reboot recovery’, only for it to go to the bootloader. Then, when attempting to get to the recovery from the bootloader, I get the error:
Can not boot.
And now I don’t know what to do. In the end, I am hoping for:
- A Working Recovery
- Cyanogen Mod 13
- A Factory Reset
Any help would be much appreciated.