that's very weird, unfortunately you can't flash a zip Rom directly to the phone without recovery...I already enabled USB debugging and unistalled the adb drivers.
I also disabled real time protection on my Windows Defender since I don't use antivirus.
I still get that adb error in XZDR :
"adb is not recognized as an internal or external command"
I gave up. There was also no prompt to grant access for any permission when I chose any options in XZDR. I tried the latest XZDR and also the packaged one, but to no avail.
Got a feeling it is Windows 8.1 issue as well, I never had this when I was rooting using my Windows 7 last year.
I'm going to try TWRP now, maybe it is much easier. Thanks theduke7
UPDATE : Tried the link you provided to install TWRP using apk, still failed. OMG!
It says 'Remount system failed!'
This is just frustrating, I wonder if I need to factory reset and start all over again.
UPDATE 2 : I've done some checking and they said the TWRP method using XZRecovery doesn't work for newer versions of Android, that is why the remount failed. I hope that is true. I'm seeking another alternative to get recovery into my XZ.
UPDATE 3 : I fixed the adb problem by altering the environment variables after installing adb
Now a new problem emerges. It says that my XZ doesn't have busybox
UPDATE 4 : I tried using TWRP Manager to install recovery, it didn't work. It installed the recovery but did not reboot into recovery. After that, when I accessed TWRP manager again, it said that custom recovery is not installed or detected. I really give up, lol. Is there a way to start all over again? I would like to flash this rom into the XZ without recovery, is it possible?
do you have the xzdr folder directly on the C:\ drive (not inside any folder just directly on C)
there're 2 ways to go from here, 1- post this last post with the screenshots on XZDR thread, people there should know exactly where the issue is, it's not a problem with the recofvery itself but at least i think they should know what's causing it,
my recommendation though from looking at the Screens , you still on .228 firmware, i had issues with it also, so i suggest you flash .222 firmware from Flashtool , this way you're 100% sure there's anything wrong with the ROM itself, a clean install, immediately root it, and then install recovery, if you installed the drivers on windows8.1 right (signature vitrification disabled) it should work, i actually even did it on windows 10 and it works fine,
strange thing also why at the beginning of the screen does it say device not found !!!
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