[Honor 7 General] m_esser:
Hi,

I am using a dual recovery configuration since several weeks. My personal preference is to install the stock recovery on /recovery and to install TWRP on /recovery2.

In order to get rid of the con mentioned above I have used Tasker and Tasker App Factory to make a small program for that purpose.

This APK is definitively not a masterpiece of software engineering (more a q&d solution) but it does what it should (at least for me) ... it shows a (re-)boot menu with some options the reboot the device into several modes including into eRecovery.

A Screenshot and the APK file itself are attached below.

Requirements:

To use this APK

the phone must be rooted (and therefore the bootloader must be unlocked)

root access must be granted to the app

Other Honor / Huawei devices:

Originally this app was intented to be used only on the Honor 7 phone. In the meantime several users on android-hilfe.de have tested it successfully on other Huawei devices as well. As far as I know by now the app is also working fine for the following devices:

Huawei P8 (GRA-LO9)

Huawei P9 (EVA-L09)

Additional comments:

There is no warranty for this app => you will use it on your own risk!

Due to very restricted spare time I will not provide any kind of support and I don't make any promise to continue development

The app does not check which recovery console is installed on both partitions - that's something you have to keep in mind by your own

The APK was developed on a Honor 7 with west-european firmware PLK-L01C432B330 by using Tasker and Tasker App Factory (decompiling will probably not work)

Credits:

Thanks to

@Sminki for the implementation of TWRP 2.8.7 for the Honor 7

@paulobrien for the implementation of TWRP 3.0.2 for the Honor 7 (the only aspect I am still missing is the option to reboot into /recovery2 from TWRP ;) )

Crafty Apps EU for the powerful and easy to use tools Tasker and Tasker App Factory

AlicaFabienne on android-hilfe.de for testing the app on the above mentioned Huawei devices

Best regards

m_esser

---------- Post added at 02:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:36 PM ----------

Hi,

in addition to the above mentioned con I see another weakness regarding dual recovery configurations.

Whenever the current configuration does not meet your needs you have to re-flash the recovery partitions manually by using adb and fastboot on a PC ... and that's quiet difficult if you are not at home or on travel without a PC.

Because of that I have created a flashable zip file for this purpose. When loading the zip file using TWRP you will be able to choose

recovery configuration

- /recovery: stock recovery + /recovery2: TWRP

- /recovery: TWRP + /recovery2: stock erecovery

- /recovery: stock recovery + /recovery2: stock erecovery

- to install the app "Reboot for Huawei & Honor devices" optionally

The only weakness of this approach is the fact that you need TWRP on one of both recovery partitions because the zip file cannot be flashed with the stock recovery :(.

For those of you who might be interested the zip file can be downloaded <here>.

Requirements:

To use this flashable zip file

the phone must be rooted for using the integrated apk file (and therefore the bootloader must be unlocked)

TWRP must be installed on one of both recovery partitions

TWRP's screensaver should be disabled to avoid issues with Aroma Installer

the flashable zip file can only be executed on Honos 7 devices with firmware versions PLK-L01C432B313 to PLK-L01C432B330 (no other device and currently no other firmware)

Additional comments:

There is no warranty for this zip file => you will use it on your own risk!

Due to very restricted spare time I will not provide any kind of support and I don't make any promise to continue development

The zip file was developed on a Honor 7 with west-european firmware B330 by using amarullz's Aroma Installer

Credits:

Thanks to

@Sminki for the implementation of TWRP 2.8.7 for the Honor 7

@paulobrien for the implementation of TWRP 3.0.2 for the Honor 7 (the only aspect I am still missing is the option to reboot into /recovery2 from TWRP ;) )

amarullz for the awesome Aroma Installer

Best regards

m_esser