VERIZON Galaxy S5 recovery error

Exmix

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May 8, 2015
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So, after I had done messed it up, I found out the Verizon Galaxy S5 can't have a custom recovery on it. So I need to get it back, obviously. After lookin around I can't find anyhting for just the recovery. All I can find is how to get it back to stock, and everything back to stock and all I need is recovery. So can anyone help me out here on where I can get the .tar to get back to stock recovery or help me get back to a working recovery in general.
 

Hitsouka

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So, after I had done messed it up, I found out the Verizon Galaxy S5 can't have a custom recovery on it. So I need to get it back, obviously. After lookin around I can't find anyhting for just the recovery. All I can find is how to get it back to stock, and everything back to stock and all I need is recovery. So can anyone help me out here on where I can get the .tar to get back to stock recovery or help me get back to a working recovery in general.
you can pull out recovery.img from your firmware...
1. download your stock firmware
2. open it as zip then take the recovery.img
3. then make it to md5 with tool (just search for it on xda)
4. Boot your phone to download mode
5. Flash the md5 on odin :D
 

Exmix

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May 8, 2015
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you can pull out recovery.img from your firmware...
1. download your stock firmware
2. open it as zip then take the recovery.img
3. then make it to md5 with tool (just search for it on xda)
4. Boot your phone to download mode
5. Flash the md5 on odin :D
Ah ok, didn't know i could take the .img out and make it into an MD5. Thanks. :)

EDIT: Well now I just gotta get it downloaded. All the sites take me to one download site and they throttle it down so bad it's gonna take me 3hours to download the stock firmware. yay... Thanks again, didn't know about the md5 tool. :)
 
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Exmix

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May 8, 2015
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I suggest you use a tool called samfirm. Google it it'll be on xda.
I'll check this out.
Yeah when you mentioned it I found that link and downloaded it, I just gotta get the stock firmware to get the recovery.img out of it. The only sites I find have a HORRID download rate and it says itll take 8 hours, when I try to download t, it fails after 2 hours or so.