How to Install TWRP with 16.04 for Phone?

Question

I am trying to install Cyanogenmod 13 in Oneplus 2 but I cannot get TWRP flashed in the phone because I cannot get adb work as expected with Ubuntu 16.04 in common Ubuntu, Persistent Live Ubuntu and Live Ubuntu.

Common Ubuntu

The command adb devices and fastboot devices returns nothing, although it should not, since my Android phone is in the developer mode with enabled fastboot. Work flow

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ wget -O - https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+archive/cd048d18e0b81338c1a04b9749a00444597df394/platform_tools/android/bin/linux.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - adb
--2016-08-15 17:16:09--  https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+archive/cd048d18e0b81338c1a04b9749a00444597df394/platform_tools/android/bin/linux.tar.gz
Resolving skia.googlesource.com (skia.googlesource.com)... 74.125.136.82, 2a00:1450:4013:c01::52
Connecting to skia.googlesource.com (skia.googlesource.com)|74.125.136.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                   [<=>   ]       0  --.-KB/s               adb
-                        [        <=>            ]   1.31M  70.0KB/s    in 19s     

2016-08-15 17:16:29 (70.0 KB/s) - written to stdout [1374340]

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ sudo mv adb /usr/bin/adb
masi@masi:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/adb
masi@masi:~/Downloads$ adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.32
masi@masi:~/Downloads$ adb devices
List of devices attached 

masi@masi:~/Downloads$ sudo adb devices
List of devices attached

I think the adb version works at least in 14.04 but not now with 16.04.

Inspecting with lsusb shows that the device is detected in Ubuntu as Bus 001 Device 050: ID 2a70:f003.

Settings where I already authorized USB debugging

I do when masi is in the group plugdev but still unsuccessful result

# OrganicMarble
sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

masi@masi:/$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules 

masi@masi:~$ groups masi
masi : masi adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev staff lpadmin sambashare

masi@masi:/$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2a70", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

masi@masi:/$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

masi@masi:/$ sudo adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached 

masi@masi:/$ adb devices
List of devices attached

Persistent Live Ubuntu

Fails with bugs in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts, not related to this case but reported here

Live Ubuntu 16.04

This attempt fails in trying to get adb to work

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget -O - https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+archive/cd048d18e0b81338c1a04b9749a00444597df394/platform_tools/android/bin/linux.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - adb
--2016-08-15 17:16:09--  https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+archive/cd048d18e0b81338c1a04b9749a00444597df394/platform_tools/android/bin/linux.tar.gz
Resolving skia.googlesource.com (skia.googlesource.com)... 74.125.136.82, 2a00:1450:4013:c01::52
Connecting to skia.googlesource.com (skia.googlesource.com)|74.125.136.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                   [<=>   ]       0  --.-KB/s               adb
-                        [        <=>            ]   1.31M  70.0KB/s    in 19s     

2016-08-15 17:16:29 (70.0 KB/s) - written to stdout [1374340]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mv adb /usr/bin/adb
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/adb
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ adb version
bash: /usr/bin/adb: No such file or directory

Ubuntu: 16.04
Linux kernel 4.6
Phone: Oneplus 2
Phone settings: Oxygen OS 3.20, Developer mode, fastboot on

hhh · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-18T10:12:30.317

The reason you do not get anything from adb devices is that your phone is not in the fastboot mode. So put your phone there and try again.

Shortly, here the work flow without rooting your phone. Do where recovery.img is the renamed TWRP image but has to be renamed like that

Enable Developer mode in your phone; enable smart bootloader and the other setting in Developer settings
Start your phone in fastboot; power + volume up; press so long as your phone vibrates
fastboot devices should return the device id; fastboot oem unlock and phone phone reboots
Again to fastboot and run fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Go now to the recovery mode by Power + volume down
Wipe everything else except internal data
Install and flash with Switch_to_OOS3_H2OSMM.zip such that you can flash your OO Rom
Flash now with Cyanogenmod Rom and Pico Gapps (Arm64) - only for Google Play Store
Wipe Cache/dalvik

Sources

Systems: Ubuntu 16.04, Windows 10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '16 at 16:56

You didn't mention it, so it's possible that you didn't update /etc/udev/rules.d/51‌-android.rules to include your device.

If this file doesn't exist, create it, and add a line for each device using this format.

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

(all entries are just as written except for idVendor. Look that up in this table.)

Once your file is complete, then execute

sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

If all else is well, you should be able to connect using adb.

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