Recovery and KernelWhat is a custom recovery? Most android phones come out of the boxwith a stock recovery, it is used to factory reset your device, or install thefactory operating system should something go horribly wrong with an OTA . Acustom recovery, is a recovery designed by an individual (or teams ofindividuals), that are not the OEM's, that is designed with special featuresbaked in. For example I'm a TWRP fan (team win recovery project), other peopleswear by CWM (clock work mod), but most recovery's have the same basefeatures,you can take full system backups, (when I say full I mean the entiresystem,user data, boot image, etc.). So say something goes horribly wrong, anda rouge root application crashes your system, and you can't get the device toboot,what do you do?, You boot into your custom recovery (usually a hardwarekey combination), erase the primary corrupted system, then proceed to restorethe system with the previously created backup image. Its always a good idea tohave at least one recent backup on your device if you are running customsoftware of any kind. Custom recoveries can also install custom software/mods,by by passing the signature verification of stock recoveries. Some also haveroot file explores built in. These are also device specific. What is a custom kernel? A custom kernel, is a kernel that, like a custom ROM, or recovery, is developedby someone other than the OEM of the device. Custom kernels will usually grantthe user hardware specific settings such as, but not limited to, frequencycontrol for the GPU, and CPU,control over minum/maximum brightness values, fullRGB color correction, custom touchscreen software, and some hardware specificfeatures, such as double tap to wake, and sweep to sleep. Also things like USB OTGY, host mode charging,and USB DAC sound, would all be examples of custom kernelfeatures. Like ROM's,and recoveries, kernel's are device specific. | |
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How can I use recovery to flash firmware?
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Chryssa replied at 2015-12-11 14:32 Most firmwares or Roms are compiled in the format of a flashable zip. You can flash the zip using custom recoveries such as CWM or TWRP or even stock recoveries of meizu and xiaomi etc. | |
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nice one but most of these not work with flyme yet
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Custom recoveries not for Meizu devices, all the Meizu devices comes with locked bootloader which is very hard to unlock explicitly. Hope to see unlocked bootloader in future so that Meizu can get many 3rd party developers for their devices.
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Will meizu release kernel sources or support rooting official?
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Note: The author has been banned or deleted.
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Edited by zachu at 2015-12-18 19:31
ultrametric replied at 2015-12-16 23:25 According to my knowledge we flash ZIP file(update.zip) using the stock recovery of meizu. Rom update.zip files can be flashed in stock recovery of xiaomi also. also custom roms ported from stock firmware can also be flashed using custom recovery like cwm or twrp without unlocking any bootloader.Please correct yourself. | |
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