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 Question - TWRP for the new cat flip phone? | XDA Forums and downloaded this and flashed it. When trying to back up my data it was all encrypted.…

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

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

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

He ran ‘fastboot boot’ not ‘fastboot flash’

So nothing was even flashed i guess

The cat has 22 has a separate recovery partition

I’ve only really experimented with the qin where the recovery is built into the boot image

I was playing with twrp on the qin and decided to look into the cat as well. @kosherboy posted above about experiencing a recovery loop when using TWRP on the cat . He says that he reflashed stock recovery and broke the loop. There is a simple way to break the loop and still persist TWRP (requires PC…

Where were you until now :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: could really use this type of stuff here thanks for contributing The e4810 has the same concept with fastboot fastboot erase chkcode is necessary or it will just keep booting back to bootloader once there

[image] ars18: Where were you until now Lol. I don’t usually have time… I just got the qin so I decided to dip back in and “learn it”. I’ll definitely pop in though.

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dfrydman December 26, 2025, 7:00pm 12

@sh7411usa maybe you can get this twrp working on the new qins