[RECOVERY] Official TWRP 3.2.1 for Zuk Z2/ Lenovo Z2 Plus

[varotone]

Disclaimer

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What's this?

This is TeamWin Recovery Project for our ZUK Z2 / Lenovo Z2 Plus (z2_plus, z2131, z2132).

This is an official recovery support thread.

Known Issues

• None

Requirements

• Unlocked bootloader
• Common sense and a Z2

Downloads, changelogs, installation info
All of this info can be found at the official info page.
If you use fastboot to install TWRP, you may have to specify a vendor ID in the commandline, like so:

fastboot [B]-i 0x2b4c[/B] flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot [B]-i 0x2b4c[/B] reboot

Frequently Asked Questions
Why are some of the downloads on the download page much bigger than others? Which ones should I use?
I only recently became the maintainer for the official images, and I changed the sources in doing so. This means that I do not know why the images built by the previous maintainer weigh more. You should always use the latest one available.

Why are some of the downloads for z2 and others for z2_plus? Which ones should I use?
The previous maintainer used the z2 codename, whereas I am using z2_plus because it's the standard most devs are using nowadays. Again, you should always use the latest image available

 

[kmw03062]

Congratulations!:highfive:

 

[amogh1988]

Trouble restoring my backup

Hi varotone,
Hey I having some problems in restoring my backups made using the recovery, flashing seems to be fine but when I try to restore it fails and phone just restarts and starts to blink the led. But if you back to recovery and flash a new ROM it works fine.
I am using the latest version of twrp ,so just wanted to chk its just an issue with me or anyone else also facing this issue.

 

[varotone]

New release uploaded today (twrp-3.1.0-3-z2_plus.img) on https://dl.twrp.me/z2/.

Decryption should be fixed in this build, but needs testers!

 

[varotone]

Hi varotone,
Hey I having some problems in restoring my backups made using the recovery, flashing seems to be fine but when I try to restore it fails and phone just restarts and starts to blink the led. But if you back to recovery and flash a new ROM it works fine.
I am using the latest version of twrp ,so just wanted to chk its just an issue with me or anyone else also facing this issue.

Haven't run into that issue. Can you try to get a log? /tmp/recovery.log is fine

 

[Klanac89]

Flash it under Linux, no problems. Backup also no problem and flash last LOS build works also without problem!

Thank you!

 

[fcnz]

flashed it, doesn't work for me

fastboot install succeeded as you can see on the screenshot, but when I boot with vol down + power, get to the black screen with options that boots up, i go to Recovery, click it and all that happens is my phone reboots, no TWRP

any ideas?

 

[Klanac89]

Which version u try to flash?

 

[educavalcante]

deleted

 

[Philo.Phineas]

fastboot claims to work, but doesn't

[email protected] ~/Downloads> adb reboot bootloader
[email protected] ~/Downloads> fastboot -i 0x2b4c flash recovery twrp-3.1.1-0-z2_plus.img 
target reported max download size of 1610612736 bytes
sending 'recovery' (18372 KB)...
OKAY [  0.569s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  0.145s]
finished. total time: 0.714s
[email protected] ~/Downloads> fastboot -i 0x2b4c reboot
rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.072s

It comes up with a menu which indicates that the bootloader is unlocked. Then when I select recovery as the option, the screen goes black and nothing happens until hold down the power button for a long time.

 

[Bfmv9451]

Can i flash it with their offial twrp app or with my existing twrp?

 

[ams73]

I see at https://twrp.me/devices/zukz2.html that the Fastboot Install Method doesn't require Root. If I follow this method will I be able to install custom ROMs? Any disadvantages of this method?

Also doesn't it required the boot loader to be unlocked?

 

[ronhoover88]

I see at https://twrp.me/devices/zukz2.html that the Fastboot Install Method doesn't require Root. If I follow this method will I be able to install custom ROMs? Any disadvantages of this method?

Also doesn't it required the boot loader to be unlocked?

You have to unlock the bootloader first, only then can you modify.

After fastboot method you can flash your desired rom

 

[Araa01]

@varotone any update? New TWRP out cuple on time.

Wysłane z mojego Z2 Plus przy użyciu Tapatalka

 

[stellarroar]

Hi varotone,
Hey I having some problems in restoring my backups made using the recovery, flashing seems to be fine but when I try to restore it fails and phone just restarts and starts to blink the led. But if you back to recovery and flash a new ROM it works fine.
I am using the latest version of twrp ,so just wanted to chk its just an issue with me or anyone else also facing this issue.

Same issue as this. Unable to restore backups. Screen goes black after restoring about 20% and only hard reboot works to get back to Twrp.

 

[varotone]

@varotone any update? New TWRP out cuple on time.

Wysłane z mojego Z2 Plus przy użyciu Tapatalka

Don't know what you mean but all downloads are at https://dl.twrp.me/z2_plus/.

Same issue as this. Unable to restore backups. Screen goes black after restoring about 20% and only hard reboot works to get back to Twrp.

I haven't seen this. Which TWRP version are you running? Which filesystem for /data and /cache?

 

[stellarroar]

Don't know what you mean but all downloads are at https://dl.twrp.me/z2_plus/.


I haven't seen this. Which TWRP version are you running? Which filesystem for /data and /cache?

I'm using twrp-3.1.1-0 version and default filesystem formats only.

Edit: In twrp I am unable to mount system partition which is why I can't provide a log. Could this be related to the issue?

 

[varotone]

I'm using twrp-3.1.1-0 version and default filesystem formats only.

Edit: In twrp I am unable to mount system partition which is why I can't provide a log. Could this be related to the issue?

Well, yes, yes it could. If TWRP can't mount /system it can't restore /system, which I guess would be the reason of the failure.

 

[stellarroar]

Well, yes, yes it could. If TWRP can't mount /system it can't restore /system, which I guess would be the reason of the failure.

I can wipe system no problem while flashing new roms, it just doesn't mount system when I try to copy the log to my computer. What could be the reason any idea?

 

[mGforCe]

@varotone any update? New TWRP out cuple on time.

Wysłane z mojego Z2 Plus przy użyciu Tapatalka

@varotone I guess he / she meant about updating the title of OP to reflect the latest recovery version.