Managing Stock Recovery
Starting with 5.0.5_r3, stock recovery gets disabled. This means you cannot reboot in to stock recovery manually or automatically because of a system update. This will make it safer for people who forget to disable updates. You should still disable updates though. If for whatever reason, you want to reenable it, or verify it is disabled, you can use the manage_recovery program. Under normal circumstances, you should never need to use manage_recovery.
- Connect to adb and start a shell
- Switch to root with su
- Run manage_recovery (if you do not run su first, it will seem to run, but won't actually be able to do anything)
Code:manage_recovery
There are 3 different scenarios that manage_recovery will detect and prompt for.
The first is when stock recovery is disabled, it will look like this:
Checking current stock recovery status... NOT STOCK Checking for reason... DISABLED Stock recovery is currently disabled, Would you like to enable it? Type 'yes' to enable it, anything else to quit.
Checking current stock recovery status... NOT STOCK Checking for reason... WRONG VERSION Would you like to disable stock recovery? Type 'yes' to disable it, anything else to quit.
Checking current stock recovery status... STOCK Would you like to disable stock recovery? Type 'yes' to disable it, anything else to quit.
WARNING: DO NOT FLASH 5.0.5.1 OR EARLIER IF YOU STARTED WITH VERSION 5.2.1.0 OR LATER
NOTE: If you were at 5.2.6.6 or below, you MUST flash 5.2.6.7 before going to 5.2.6.8 or later.
Changelog and Downloads:
- December 7, 2019 - 5.2.7.2_r1 (md5sum: b91c6b596ef5daae085ddf08c1c504e5)
- September 21, 2019 - 5.2.7.1_r1 (md5sum: 0d72e930cee2652d324d2fceebdd4202)
- June 29, 2019 - 5.2.7.0_r1 (md5sum: 1e402185cefb91276d811f1321494863)
- March 30, 2019 - 5.2.6.9_r1 (md5sum: a3e23a7f337346a4638f8c8895632046)
- February 10, 2019 - 5.2.6.8_r1 (md5sum: bd0daa677635e04e368d1b2b235e03e9)
- December 2, 2018 - 5.2.6.7_r2 (md5sum: b50a1fddb3e01c18c353195c9f7f50cd)
- This ROM contains updated DRM firmware.
- November 27, 2018 - 5.2.6.7_r1 (md5sum: b0ee16b57b37a934778ca1436f29916a)
- This ROM contains updated DRM firmware.
- September 28, 2018 - 5.2.6.6_r1 (md5sum: 37ce0c6dda850fa2d462835496b68576)
- June 24, 2018 - 5.2.6.3_r1 (md5sum: 08982269022c01c9a1eac8ff94adf637)
- January 28, 2018 - 5.2.6.2_r1 (md5sum: 0967de2a707f173ca8715356a20ea88e)
- October 8, 2017 - 5.2.6.0_r1 (md5sum: 84eedbb2e9fd4b57679747ecb8fae797)
- July 27, 2017 - 5.2.4.2_r2 (md5sum: a96e73478cdbe8659f6758a5d27b4738)
- This includes updated firmware to fix Hulu and HBO.
- July 3, 2017 - 5.2.4.2_r1 (md5sum: 0719fde0db90702c2407461003217977)
- May 1, 2017 - 5.2.4.1_r1 (md5sum: 64915fceb4e7d1c0de9d1ef625db48e7)
- December 10, 2016 - 5.2.4.0_r1 (md5sum: 77af47d3c43fe79e82740d0cc0c4bce5)
- September 10, 2016 - 5.2.1.1_r1 (md5sum: fd7c06bce26d4aa611eef402ef156322)
- July 4, 2016 - 5.2.1.0_r2 (md5sum: a69981f6d4dce77cf1f9907f8a39b391)
- This is the same as the previous 5.2.1.0, just with the updated version that Amazon released.
- June 1, 2016 - 5.2.1.0_r1 (md5sum: 81693eae0ce3b497cf425691bc4ad041)
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-5.
- April 8, 2016 - 5.0.5.1_r1 (md5sum: c6d8a11b7ca7a0b45a38af4f9f70cf2d)
- The updated TWRP in this version should disable auto flashing amazon updates.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-5.
- February 14, 2016 - 5.0.5_r4 (md5sum: 9145c8f6d52fda2c3cfdd1d091bcb331)
- The updated TWRP in this version should fix the issues certain keyboards were having.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-4.
- February 13, 2016 - 5.0.5_r3 (md5sum: 92d08a12d240cf9bf6d25005a65bd82d)
- Starting with this update, stock recovery will be disabled to prevent stock updates from being flashed. Please refer to the instructions above for managing stock recovery.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-3. Because this comes with a newer 2ndinit version, do not flash an older recovery package. Doing so will disable su.
February 12, 2016 - 5.0.5_r2- OTA updates are permanently disabled, otherwise the same as r1.
- This breaks booting with a factory reset.
- February 12, 2016 - 5.0.5_r1 (md5sum: 211a15f949e317b02c637b2927a7c8ba)
- This includes 2ndinit version 743aa4 and TWRP version 3.0.0-3.
- February 8, 2016 - 5.0.4_r2 (md5sum: ebcecf89e9b81c02f22ed2706fe5f796)
- This comes with TWRP 3.0.0-2
- This comes with the same 2ndinit version
- February 6, 2016 - 5.0.4_r1 (md5sum: 87ce4f7802d21bd1f14c45d473783713)
- This comes with 2ndinit version fe3362 and recovery version 3.0.0-1
- February 6, 2016 - 5.0.3.1_r1 (md5sum: e38d66dce235c9c0122dfbde2db5a6b6)
- This comes with 2ndinit version fe3362 and recovery version 3.0.0-1