TWRP on the Cat S22

General
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I wanted to some editing on my Cat so I wanted to back things up.

I knew nothing about TWRP but I figured I’ll give it a try. So I found this XDA thread https://xdaforums.com/t/twrp-for-the-new-cat-flip-phone.4381359/post-89759038 and downloaded this and flashed it.

When trying to back up my data it was all encrypted. The super’s size was 0 MB. And there wasn’t much else to back up so it was useless.

Then I tried rebooting and got stuck in TWRP bootloop. I flashed a new boot image, but it didn’t help. Then ChatGPT tried telling me I may have to reflash my ROM and potentially lose my user data.

For some reason it didn’t tell me to flash my stock recovery (which it told me to backup beforehand). I flashed the stock recovery and now it is Baruch Hashem back up and running.

I am not trying to simply share my horror story. I want user feedback and others to share their experience with TWRP on the Cat S22.

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i tried temporalirly flashing that recovery and i got error no dtb found
i used - fastboot boot <name.img>

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i didnt want to try flashing it permanently because im not sure if the stock recovery provided i the actual original one

4

If flashing to recovery you need to flash to recovery not boot not sure how your phone booted with no boot image

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He ran ‘fastboot boot’ not ‘fastboot flash’

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So nothing was even flashed i guess