[Q] AAccount's Diamond Rom 4.4.4 installation on p4 - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey,
As i don't have enough posts i have to make thread in to this silly Q&A board.
1. I have completely stock p4 (p7500) tablet with 4.0.4 android. I am wondering
is it possible to install he's/her's rom directly without rooting or do i have to
flash some other recovery with Odin before i can install recommended TWRP
recovery.
2. As the tablet is completely stock i haven't rooted it, but as with all tablet tutorials
they always flash some recovery with Odin before rooting. With stock recovery
i get these errors.
"Unknown volume path for /sdcard" so i simply can't install recovery from original named zip file.
Mr. google doesn't really help with the subject
When trying to
<code>
adb push twrp.zip /sdcard/update.zip
</code>
It simply says that action is denied, probably because i haven't rooted the tablet.
Instructions on dev forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2777161
are quite short and doesn't say anything about coming from stock rom/recovery.
So is it possible to do this straight from stock recovery or do i have to pull some
fancypancies before i can use desired recovery / rom.
Waiting for reply.
Regards,
Pottumaa

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pottumaa said:
Hey,
As i don't have enough posts i have to make thread in to this silly Q&A board.
1. I have completely stock p4 (p7500) tablet with 4.0.4 android. I am wondering
is it possible to install he's/her's rom directly without rooting or do i have to
flash some other recovery with Odin before i can install recommended TWRP
recovery.
2. As the tablet is completely stock i haven't rooted it, but as with all tablet tutorials
they always flash some recovery with Odin before rooting. With stock recovery
i get these errors.
"Unknown volume path for /sdcard" so i simply can't install recovery from original named zip file.
Mr. google doesn't really help with the subject
When trying to
<code>
adb push twrp.zip /sdcard/update.zip
</code>
It simply says that action is denied, probably because i haven't rooted the tablet.
Instructions on dev forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2777161
are quite short and doesn't say anything about coming from stock rom/recovery.
So is it possible to do this straight from stock recovery or do i have to pull some
fancypancies before i can use desired recovery / rom.
Waiting for reply.
Regards,
Pottumaa
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First flash custom recovery(twrp) with odin. Then using your custom recovery flash your root.zip or whatever the rooting zip file is named. That will get your tab rooted. But you should be able to install your custom rom with just the custom recovery installed as the rom is already rooted.

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L3R0N said:
First flash custom recovery(twrp) with odin. Then using your custom recovery flash your root.zip or whatever the rooting zip file is named. That will get your tab rooted. But you should be able to install your custom rom with just the custom recovery installed as the rom is already rooted.
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So really only way is to flash custom recovery with Odin. After that rooting is kind of useless,
most rom installation scripts have root access or superuser integrated.
And no developer doesn't provide recovery that is flashable via odin so that's why i was asking
if it is even possible to do from stock recovery.
Any experience of using heimdall with p4?

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pottumaa said:
So really only way is to flash custom recovery with Odin. After that rooting is kind of useless,
most rom installation scripts have root access or superuser integrated.
And no developer doesn't provide recovery that is flashable via odin so that's why i was asking
if it is even possible to do from stock recovery.
Any experience of using heimdall with p4?
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Here's one: http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=3158
After flashing, flash TWRP 2.7.1.0 and reboot to recovery again. Then you can start flashing custom ROMs.

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eushaun99 said:
Here's one: http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=3158
After flashing, flash TWRP 2.7.1.0 and reboot to recovery again. Then you can start flashing custom ROMs.
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Just don't forget to move the rom and gapps zip files to the 0 folder ib your sdcard or else.

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SystemDoctor said:
Just don't forget to move the rom and gapps zip files to the 0 folder ib your sdcard or else.
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Or else i have to adb push files to root?
So as everyone seem to ignore completely question about can you flash custom recovery from android stock recovery
and goes yapping about Odin i assume it cannot be done. It's just extra hassle and no i ain't fan of Odin, means that
i have to use windows intended programs on linux. F**k my life!
eshaun99 said:
Here's one: url
After flashing, flash TWRP 2.7.1.0 and reboot to recovery again. Then you can start flashing custom ROMs.
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This wasn't anything i asked. It's good to be helpful, but seriously didn't give even one bit of information...

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pottumaa said:
Or else i have to adb push files to root?
So as everyone seem to ignore completely question about can you flash custom recovery from android stock recovery
and goes yapping about Odin i assume it cannot be done. It's just extra hassle and no i ain't fan of Odin, means that
i have to use windows intended programs on linux. F**k my life!
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No, you CANNOT flash zips with stock recovery. Happy?
And you didn't said that you had Linux instead of windows which is why you were told to use Odin.
This wasn't anything i asked. It's good to be helpful, but seriously didn't give even one bit of information...
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You asked for a recovery that could be flashed with Odin, so I gave you that link.

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eushaun99 said:
No, you CANNOT flash zips with stock recovery. Happy?
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Finally straight answer. Yes, very happy.
Just for the record they can be flashed through stock recovery. Little harder than expected, but possible.
When mounted you can get to root folder and simply rename your zip file to update.zip and place it
in to /sdcard/ directory. In my case internal storage of the phone was found at /mnt/sdcard/.
Should also work if update.zip is placed in to /cache/ directory of the phone.
eushaun99 said:
And you didn't said that you had Linux instead of windows which is why you were told to use Odin.
You asked for a recovery that could be flashed with Odin, so I gave you that link.
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I didn't ask recovery that could be flashed via odin, but i did ask if anyone had experience of
using heimdall. Perhaps that qualifies as odin in some universe.
pottumaa said:
And no developer doesn't provide recovery that is flashable via odin so that's why i was asking
if it is even possible to do from stock recovery.
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Yeah, i did miss comma there, at the "and no, developer..." but still can't see where i asked link for recoveries. Still repeating question
if it can be done from stock recovery.
We could argue about semantics all day here, there just ain't any point in it. Got my answer.