Development [RECOVERY][OFFICIAL] TWRP for ASUS ROG Phone 5 & ROG Phone 5S

[Madbullben]

Figured it out. It was a faulty driver that worked in fastbootd mode but not the bootloader for whatever reason. Manually updated the drivers in device manager and it all works now.

At least it works now

 

[TiklMiPickles]

Installed and working, but for some reason, the button vibration is either causing the speakers to make a hissing sound, or it doing something terribly wrong to the vibration motors. I turned it off in settings and the sound went away.

 

[Madbullben]

Installed and working, but for some reason, the button vibration is either causing the speakers to make a hissing sound, or it doing something terribly wrong to the vibration motors. I turned it off in settings and the sound went away.

Odd, but vibrations Don't really matter too much at least

 

[Devaanp]

Do you have USB debugging on and allowed the computer to use it? Otherwise I'm not too sure.

Turned on USB debugging, plugged my phone into the side port, allowed pc to use it when the popup came up, then followed the instructions.

Also just learned that if you flash the twrp. Img when you first do it it'll replace the system so don't do that.

So you mean if we gonna use TWRP, we must flash from pc again?
I mean if we don't flash twrp.img in TWRP

Also after I flash twrp.img what button combination to enter TWRP3, it is same button to enter recovery mode?

 

[TiklMiPickles]

So you mean if we gonna use TWRP, we must flash from pc again?
I mean if we don't flash twrp.img in TWRP

Also after I flash twrp.img what button combination to enter TWRP3, it is same button to enter recovery mode?

No, so once you do 'fastboot boot twrp.img' and it boots into twrp you are going to copy the twrp.img file over to your phone, then in twrp go to install > install image > choose the twrp.img > install recovery ramdisk. The command to boot literally only boot into the recovery image, it isn't actually flashed to the device yet at that point

 

[Devaanp]

No, so once you do 'fastboot boot twrp.img' and it boots into twrp you are going to copy the twrp.img file over to your phone, then in twrp go to install > install image > choose the twrp.img > install recovery ramdisk. The command to boot literally only boot into the recovery image, it isn't actually flashed to the device yet at that point

Oh I get it, then after I install it to recovery ramdisk then should I use "fix recovery bootloop" option or reboot the device normally?

Also I just try to install TWRP a couple minute ago and boot it for first time I hear something weird from my speaker when I press every option, turn off all vibration in settings and weird sound is gone, I don't know it is normal or not but it happen on my previous phone too

 

[ace091]

Thanks developer to make twrp real for rog 5, we were waiting for some development to start. And that's a nice start to it.

 

[chairman011]

Oh heck yes!!!! This phone will finally be perfect. Thanks for your work and effort.

 

[thieftime1980]

Colleagues, why after installation, the phone automatically goes into TWRP mode? Why is it not starting?

 

[Captain_Throwback]

Colleagues, why after installation, the phone automatically goes into TWRP mode? Why is it not starting?

Because you didn't read the OP.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Because you didn't read the OP.

You know that old saying there is one in every crowd? Ours went pro.

 

[Madbullben]

Because you didn't read the OP.

The op says nothing on how to actually keep it, so of course people are going to experiment trying to get it to work.

Besides saying that flashing is done at your own risk, is the only thing that op said and that warning is done on every module.

 

[Madbullben]

Colleagues, why after installation, the phone automatically goes into TWRP mode? Why is it not starting?

While I'm not 100% sure, I believe by flashing the twrp. Img it replaced the system img, so you no longer have something to boot into besides twrp. We need a recovery. Img to replace the recovery and not system.

I hope you did a backup before flashing? Otherwise you'll have to flash the original raw firmware and have a fresh device.

I was gonna do the same but luckily got told in a telegram group that would happen.

 

[twistedumbrella]

While I'm not 100% sure, I believe by flashing the twrp. Img it replaced the system img, so you no longer have something to boot into besides twrp. We need a recovery. Img to replace the recovery and not system.

I hope you did a backup before flashing? Otherwise you'll have to flash the original raw firmware and have a fresh device.

I was gonna do the same but luckily got told in a telegram group that would happen.

You wouldn't flash a complete raw firmware to replace the system, unless you managed to somehow break the bootloader or partitions. You would flash a stock system image just like you flashed TWRP

Known issues​

Device-specific

• To boot into system from TWRP, you need to flash stock boot.img. Fix Recovery Bootloop doesn't work

Did you actually install it or just boot into it? Once you are in twrp, you have to use twrp to install the recovery img. fastboot boot twrp.img only boots from the image, it doesn't install it.

No, so once you do 'fastboot boot twrp.img' and it boots into twrp you are going to copy the twrp.img file over to your phone, then in twrp go to install > install image > choose the twrp.img > install recovery ramdisk. The command to boot literally only boot into the recovery image, it isn't actually flashed to the device yet at that point

Maybe not in the OP, but the thread has all the necessary information. If you are unsure about how to do something and jump right into doing it without reading through the thread first and asking when you don't find an answer, you are either risking it all to write the guide or making a huge mistake.

 

[Madbullben]

My apologies then, I somehow missed that.

 

[mohammed510]

Would it be possible to install system updates using this recovery?

 

[Anubarak16]

using fastboot version 31.0.3-7562133
For whatever strange reasons

adb reboot bootloader

does not reboot to fastboot but into the bootloader where fastboot commands are not available for me.
I need to use

adb reboot fastboot

to go into fastboot mode, from there on

fastboot devices

will list my device. However

fastboot boot twrp.img

will show the following error

Sending 'boot.img' (98304 KB)                      OKAY [  0.343s]
Booting                                            FAILED (remote: 'Unrecognized command boot')
fastboot: error: Command failed

I also tried

fastboot reboot fastboot

as suggested here
Tried both ports, different USB-cables, different USB ports on my PC and I have the latest ADB drivers.
Can someone help me?

Edit: I highly doubt it but could this be something with the Ultimate edition?
Edit2: Yes the twrp.img file exists and it's the correct name and in the same path

Edit3: also tried "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img"

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Sending 'recovery' (98304 KB)                      OKAY [  2.238s]
Writing 'recovery'                                 FAILED (remote: 'No such file or directory')
fastboot: error: Command failed

Edit 4:
Just tried it with another pc and yet another cable on both ports... Still the very same error.

 

[Madbullben]

Just flashed twrp and then the boot.img but now I can't access anything at all, only thing I've got is the bootloader without recovery. Tried to boot into twrp using fastboot but says that it's failed to load boot.img.

I don't know what to do.

 

[Madbullben]

Everything I try is saying locked state or permission denied. Tried to change slots but says it's in a locked state. Looked at the bootloader state through fastboot and this is the results:
(bootloader) Verity mode: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: true
(bootloader) Device critical unlocked: false
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: true
(bootloader) Device authorized: false
(bootloader) Device authorized2: false

Does this mean that my bootloader is locked now? Anything I can do to fix it or am I now screwed?

 

[Madbullben]

All fixed