TWRP DOES NOT WORK with Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE with kernel 3.17xxxORD
No No NO!
ClockWorkMod DOES NOT WORK properly on this device. TWRP is the ONLY fully working recovery that will not bork important device partitions.
Please do not give bad advice.
P.S. Why bump this month old thread? I'm sure this issue has been resolved.
---As of today it is Not resolved.
This my experience,
not opinion.
CWM is the ONLY thing that works at all. If TWRP had keypress controls too it would be fine. I have a Sprint HTC EVO/Jewel 4G LTE, that had a 3.17xxxORD kernel and jb4.12. I tried several versions of TWRP from 2.8.1.0 on back, none worked, No touch. I fastbooted an img of CWM (recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.8-jewel.img) and all was golden. Couldn't get MeanBean or BeanStalk to work, but after several tries EOS (EOS-full_jewel-20140724.103928.zip) is now running fine. I used CWM 6.0.4.8 to flash CWM-SuperSU-v0.87.zip and gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip after Rom install. I have kk4.4.4 now, I guess the latest versions of EOS have it.
How specifically does CWM damage partitions? When every other solution has been eliminated, whatever is left, appears to be the only answer.
I unlocked hboot with HTCDev option. Then fastbooted TWRP, it looked awesome, but was useless. Couldn't get root until I fastbooted CWM. Phone appeared to be a brick after flashing ROM, but HTC Sync would open after holding power and volume keys, telling me there was some life in the phone. After CWM, then SU, then reflashing EOS with fastboot phone rebooted within a couple minutes, right as I was getting ready to order another phone.
WinDroid also works, if the phone appears to be a brick only the fastboot tab works, but a cmd window and DOS commands work better. How hard would it be to insert key commands into TWRP for redundancy? TWRP may the ONLY fully working recovery that will not bork important device partitions, but it did not work at all on this unit with this kernel, and CWM worked.