Flashable Zips for System R/W

Read the whole first and second post before downloading and using these zips.

Post #1 Disclaimer, Credits, and Necessary Warnings
Post #2 Instructions For Use and Other Stuff You Should Know
Post #3 Download Links

Hi everyone, something that has been bothering me is the fact that in order to have write access to the system partition while booted in Android, you have to copy the boot.img to the recovery partition. This has been causing a lot of people to brick their phones because they messed something up and didn't have a recovery installed. My idea was to create flashable zips that will allow you to easily copy the boot.img to the recovery partition while still having TWRP installed (on your boot partition). This allows you to have full root capabilities while still having TWRP on your phone.

All credit goes to hroark13 for building TWRP for all of us. Special thanks to xtremeasure ( Android Forums Profile, XDA Profile ) and imattmodz for helping test my zips and for valuable advice which helped take a lot of the risk out of using these zips.
Please make sure that you thank hroark13 for his work. Hit the like/thanks button to show your support or buy him a beer.

DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE THESE ZIPS OR POST DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS!!!
This is very important because if you upload these zips and one of the files gets corrupted it may potentially brick someone's phone. It is also very important that you dont post direct download links because anyone who downloads these files needs to be able to check the md5 sums to make sure that they didn't get a bad download.

You must check the md5 sum for both zips after you download them in order to make sure that everything is good. If you skip this very important step you could mess your phone up badly. If your md5 does not match, delete the files and download them again and then check the md5 again. Also, I recently moved the switcher & restore zips that I use from my internal storage to my SD card and one of the files got corrupted. This means that you also need to check the md5 sums again whenever you to move or copy these files.
You can use md5 Checker to check the md5 and make sure that you did not get a bad download.
If there is anything that you are not 100% sure of, ask before you flash!!

I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone. If you use my zips you are doing so at your own risk. I have thoroughly tested these zips and they work perfectly. If you have a problem after using my zips then you did something wrong.

DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OTA UPDATES.
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO FACTORY RESET FROM THE SETTINGS MENU(THIS WILL CAUSE A BRICK). IF YOU HAVE FLASHED A SWITCHER ZIP YOU HAVE TO FLASH THE RESTORE ZIP AND REBOOT RECOVERY BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH TWRP.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE FLASH A SWITCHER ZIP BEFORE YOU FLASH A ROM BECAUSE THE BOOT.IMG THAT COMES WITH THE ROM WILL OVERWRITE TWRP AND AS SOON AS YOU EXIT TWRP IT WILL BE GONE WHICH WILL LEAVE YOU WITH NO RECOVERY INSTALLED AND THIS CAN POTENTIALLY CAUSE A BRICK IF YOUR PHONE SOMEHOW GETS STUCK IN A BOOTLOOP. IF YOU FLASH A SWITCHER ZIP AND THEN TRY RESTORE A BACKUP (some users incorrectly refer to a backup as a recovery) THIS WILL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AND WILL LEAVE YOU WITHOUT A RECOVERY. LASTLY, IF YOU FLASH A SWITCHER AND THEN FLASH A DIFFERENT KERNEL, THIS WILL ALSO LEAVE YOU WITH NO RECOVERY INSTALLED. TO SUM IT ALL UP, YOU SHOULD NEVER FLASH, BACKUP, RESTORE, OR WIPE ANYTHING AFTER FLASHING A SWITCHER. THE ONLY THING YOU SHOULD EVER FLASH WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR PARTITIONS SWITCHED OUT IS THE RESTORE ZIP THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE SWITCHER YOU USED. If you don't fully understand these warnings and instructions then don't do anything without first asking for help. I only ask that you try to use the correct terminology and proper grammar and spelling. The more clear and precise your explanation, the better help you can expect to receive.
@john buhrman (@beerthirty on XDA) found this out the hard way when he flashed CARBON5.1.1-SWITCHER, Carbon ROM, and GApps in that order back to back. This left him with no recovery installed and somehow he got stuck in a bootloop when he exited TWRP. Now his spare zmax (may it rest in peace) is stuck in a bootloop with the boot.img on both the recovery and boot partitions and adb won't recognize his phone so there is no way to fix it. All of this applies to the Grand XMax+ as well.

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.

Flashable Zips for System R/W