Root twrp confusion

[harold95]

so i rooted my lg g stylo, successfully. installed link2sd, formatted my sd card, 1/2 ext2 1/2 fat32.
backed up my systed using flashify, installed the twrp img file.

so now, how do i access twrp?

i tried the power button and volume down, and i get to a screen that asks for a yes or no for a factory data reset, which is not what i want to do. or is it?

i've only ever used cwm. so with this new phone and twrp, i'm hesitant to proceed further.
i don't want to destroy what i've painstakingly set up, but i want to look at twrp and make sure i know how to use it when the time comes.

anyone?
thanks in advance...
harold

 

[Blu8]

i tried the power button and volume down, and i get to a screen that asks for a yes or no for a factory data reset, which is not what i want to do. or is it?

It is what you want, you can ignore that warning if you're 100% sure you have twrp installed. Alternately, you can use this to boot right to TWRP.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gt.recovery.reboot

 

[harold95]

ok, i tried the recovery reboot app, that didn't work so i tried the power/volume down and answered yes twice. my phone just rebooted.

it wasn't reformatted. so that's ok, i didn't loose it all.

somehow twrp isn't there.
i reflashed it again too.
still not there.

 

[Blu8]

Which Stylo do you have?

 

[harold95]

should i flash twrp as a recovery img or a boot img?

 

[Blu8]

Recovery, if you flash it as a boot image you'll brick your phone.

 

[harold95]

Which Stylo do you have?

lg g stylo lollipop 5.1.1

 

[Spec2nirvash]

If the TWRP doesn't flash try downloading the img file again, or try from another source.

@Blu8 does different Stylo make a difference in rooting and recovery install? Curious. Want to run something else on mine. Unfortunately the Stylo ATR forum is a mess and I didn't see any thread dedicated to TWRP install.. ?

 

[harold95]

Recovery, if you flash it as a boot image you'll brick your phone.

ok, thats what i did.
still no joy.
thanks for helping figure this out. kinda strange this thing is being.

 

[Blu8]

I was asking about the carrier variant, that is do you have a T-Mobile, MetroPCS, or Boost/Sprint/Virgin Stylo?
@Spec2nirvash
Look around the stickied threads for that info. Only T-Mobile and MetroPCS Stylo's have unlocked bootloaders. If you have a boost or any other carrier Stylo there is only root, no twrp or roms. As for the rooting methods, I rooted mine months ago so I'm not sure of the procedures are 100% the same.

 

[Spec2nirvash]

Have MPCS G Stylo so I guess I'm in. Hopefully GT's ROM will do something for this phone. LG seems to keep pumping duds into Metro stores

 

[harold95]

metroPcs here.

 

[harold95]

doh! what a dumb@$$. I forgot to enable oem unlocking. all fixed now!
thanks guys!

 

[joethe 1]

doh! what a dumb@$$. I forgot to enable oem unlocking. all fixed now!
thanks guys!

funny i did the same thing had to read the instruction a couple of times too

 

[Blu8]

Oh I forgot about that, nice

 

[harold95]

has anyone had problems with twrp excepting your password for an encripted filesystem?

 

[harold95]

i was able to flash superSU beta with twrp, and accessed the system folder and copied a file to it. so i think i worked around it.

 

[Ivan bliminse]

maybe you can try it flashing img file from the command prompt.