Cannot open TWRP Image

[Arkwright617]

Hey people... Trying to root an Moto G5S, something I have never done, and coming up with an error message when I try and flash the TWRP image.

I have unlocked the bootloader.

Found what I believe to be the correct TWRP image for my phone (Montana) and renamed it recovery.img

Copied the TWRP image into Minimal and Fastboot ADB folder

Ran the command 'Fastboot devices' and got the following response "zy322m6jmm" which I assume means my phone is connected.

Ran the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and get the following message:
error: cannot open 'recovery.img'

Tried downloading TWRP image a couple more times from different sources but still getting the error.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Many thanks...

Arkwright

 

[Dannydet]

Have you verified the recovery image with a md5 checksum?

 

[Unforgiven]

Did you put the recovery file in the same folder as the fastboot command?

 

[bcrichster]

Did you put the recovery file in the same folder as the fastboot command?

That was gonna be my suggestion.. Learned the hard way by dealing with Windows, lol. @ OP, you can leave the twrp.img named that, just change the cmd to:

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

 

[Arkwright617]

Thanks for the replies guys...

I don't know how to verify the image as described, first time trying to root a phone.

I copied the twrp image into the minimal abd and fastboot folder and then opened a command window in that folder. Is that correct?

 

[Dannydet]

http://getmd5checker.com

 

[bcrichster]

Thanks for the replies guys...

I don't know how to verify the image as described, first time trying to root a phone.

I copied the twrp image into the minimal abd and fastboot folder and then opened a command window in that folder. Is that correct?

Just now open the minimal-fastboot_adb program and try cmds again

 

[DarkThug]

just remove .img from your recovery.img file, that's all.