Twrp nandroid restore help

[w1ll1m]

Trying to restore a build from twrp but im getting an error.

E: cannot restore system -- mounted read only

Anyone have any idea?

 

[w1ll1m]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[w1ll1m]

No one come across this issue?

 

[Telyx]

By chance, are you using a ZTE ZMAX and flashed the switcher zip at some point? If so, you need to flash the restore zip to give TWRP the ability to write to system again.

 

[w1ll1m]

By chance, are you using a ZTE ZMAX and flashed the switcher zip at some point? If so, you need to flash the restore zip to give TWRP the ability to write to system again.

I'm not using tha zte device. So I don't think I've used such a zip.

I'm running cm12. 1 on a Xiaomi mi4c and I'm trying to restore a nandroid of a miui build. I have done a new nandroid build of cm12. 1 that I can't restore either.

Could running xposed be an issue?

 

[Telyx]

Not sure--someone with experience with Xiaomi phones might know, but I don't. (Reason I thought maybe it was a ZMAX is that to get system write ability with that phone, the bootloader has to be flashed to the recovery partition because something in the bootloader partition locks down the system. We have zip files that swap the two to each other's partition and swap them back, and if we forget to use the restore zip, recovery won't be able to write to system.)