Help How to port TWRP to your device using Windows?

[1337xhoax]

does anyone know how can I port TWRP to my Samsung Galaxy Tab A using Windows? all tutorials out there are using Linux OS for that. but i don't have any experience in Linux. Any suggestion would be very appreciated

P.S: I do NOT mean how to FLASH

 

[ocnbrze]

does anyone know how can I port TWRP to my Samsung Galaxy Tab A using Windows? all tutorials out there are using Linux OS for that. but i don't have any experience in Linux. Any suggestion would be very appreciated

P.S: I do NOT mean how to FLASH

sorry but android is pretty much done in linux.....not much you can do about that.....gonna have to learn it to do it

 

[mikedt]

I'm not a dev of course, but I'm sure it's because the dev tools you need to build a custom recoery and a ROM are only available on Linux. Maybe try running a virtual Linux OS in VirtualBox? Of course Android itself is an open source Linux kernel OS, so no surprise that it requires Linux to build it.

 

[1337xhoax]

sorry but android is pretty much done in linux.....not much you can do about that.....gonna have to learn it to do it

too bad for me
thank you anyways

 

[1337xhoax]

I'm not a dev of course, but I'm sure it's because the dev tools you need to build a custom recoery and a ROM are only available on Linux. Maybe try running a virtual Linux OS in VirtualBox? Of course Android itself is an open source Linux kernel OS, so no surprise that it requires Linux to build it.[/QUOTE

yeah maybe but rather than letting Virtual box suck my resources can I use WSL?

 

[ocnbrze]

yeah maybe but rather than letting Virtual box suck my resources can I use WSL?

yeah that should work....never set one up.

for those of you who do not what wsl is:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

 

[Alexenferman]

does anyone know how can I port TWRP to my Samsung Galaxy Tab A using Windows? all tutorials out there are using Linux OS for that. but i don't have any experience in Linux. Any suggestion would be very appreciated

P.S: I do NOT mean how to FLASH

Which Tab A is that? TWRP may already be available. I have TWRP for Tab A SM-T350 and there are TWRP recoveries for most Tab A models as well.

WSL is kind of a mess in my experience, due to the way it handles files when compiling TWRP or Android, so I would recommend you to use VBox or simply installing it as dual boot on a separate Laptop, Desktop PC or Hard Drive. Building TWRP requires Minimum 4GB of RAM anyway so you should be fine with VBOX.

 

[bcrichster]

yeah maybe but rather than letting Virtual box suck my resources can I use WSL?

NO. It's not a true Linux and can't install the necessary dependencies need for TWRP building. Really need a true native Linux and LineageOS repo properly installed. Personally, I Use "Mint Cinnamon" (Ubuntu/Debian) as it's so close to Windows design, it makes navigation much easier. Any problems/issues you have can be easily rectified using Ubuntu methods. Your other option would be Lindows but I'm not sure much about that one as I've never used it.

 

[1337xhoax]

Which Tab A is that? TWRP may already be available. I have TWRP for Tab A SM-T350 and there are TWRP recoveries for most Tab A models as well.

WSL is kind of a mess in my experience, due to the way it handles files when compiling TWRP or Android, so I would recommend you to use VBox or simply installing it as dual boot on a separate Laptop, Desktop PC or Hard Drive. Building TWRP requires Minimum 4GB of RAM anyway so you should be fine with VBOX.

my baseband is T515U1ASC7 and i have searched every where
in every thread about SM-T515 but nothing

And BTW i have rooted my tab today with magisk ( by patching the AP file and flashing it) so i don't need TWRP no more but i will try to work on that incase there are other ppl with may baseband that need TWRP

 

[1337xhoax]

Thank you all for helping!
As I mentioned above I rooted my tab a today with Magisk so no need for TWRP
but I will just keep working on that after I set up the right development environment cause I am very curious about it

 

[bcrichster]

Excellent! Glad to hear you are happy with your Tab again. If you DO decide to try TWRP building in the future, don't hesitate to stop by and drop a "Note" .. see what I did there..?? Lol