Pantech Element TWRP Recovery and Stock Rooted Roms

This is TWRP recovery and Stock rooted roms for the ICS firmware on the tablet.

These will only work if you currently have ICS running on your tablet. If you still have honeycomb then do the upgrade first.

Nothing was added or removed from the stock roms besides root and busybox.

Only bug with TWRP is that you can't mount sdcard in recovery. Just use adb push.


Instructions for installing TWRP Recovery:

1. Ensure you have Android SDK installed with adb and fastboot working

2. Download both the twrprecovery.img and twrprecovery.zip from here

3. Copy twrprecovery.zip to external sdcard

4. Reboot tablet to bootloader by issuing the command "adb reboot bootloader"

5. Then "fastboot boot twrprecovery.img"

6. When in recovery choose install then browse to /sdcard and choose twrprecovery.zip and flash that zip

7. Now TWRP is installed permanently.


Thanks:
attn1 - gave me some help since I am new to pantech devices
Dees_troy - for TWRP code obviously
Tassadar - for his rotation code for twrp. Without this it wouldn't have been possible

Disclaimer: Flash this ROM at your own risk. I am not responsible for what you do on your device. I left this stock to provide a base for anybody that wants to use it. Mod this rom how you want. Just please remember to give credit where credit is due.


This is a pure stock rooted rom. It has items like busybox, init.d support and so forth. No apps were added or removed. Both Odexed and Deodexed versions below.


Downloads

jumblies said:

I know this is hail mary pass, but does anyone have a ROM image they could share?

Since Pantech is no longer a going concern, I cannot find either the pantech recovery software or any available ROM images for download.

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I have the ICS rom and the upgrade tool in a zip, but it's too large to attach. Site won't allow it.

mavblues said:

Tada!!!

Thanks, you rock!

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OK, stupid question:

How do you reboot to TWRP? It loaded the first time, and I did a backup.

After reboot, I can only seem to get into the standard recovery.

What is the button combination to get to TWRP?

Also, will we be able to use goo manager to update TWRP as new versions come out, or is this a custom version?

TIA

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Read the instructions. You HAVE to flash the zip I provided for recovery to be installed permanently.

This recovery required some special code for screen rotation. Dees_troy is working on getting it added to mainline. So right now you can't get it through goo manager. But I work closely with Dees to make sure all my builds are officially supported. I will post here when it becomes available through there

Sent from my M7 using xda premium

ICS upgrade package from Pantech

Huge thanks to mavblues on this!

and if anyone needs root, I confirm the web page loaded Towelroot works. Just install apk and then SuperSU from play store.