[Android General] Donphillipe:
Things are not going real great with this install. First of all I used a package called MTK USB Driver2014 which had an exe file named DPInst64.exe which I assumed was a good idea for my Win 7 64 bit. I got a message screen saying Google and two different groups of Media Tek usbser drivers with various ports defined are ready to use. I went through the routine then as was outlined in the first post. First I got USB debugging enabled on the phone after going through the initial user setup (this is a new phone). Then I set on the unlock option to on as well as usbdebuggin. Then I ran "adb devices" and got nothing. A couple of unplugs and replugs of the USB to the phone showed a USB driver installing. One stated it installed OK and the Media Tek failed. I ran another "adb devices" and saw the device listed, so I decided to continue.

The "fastboot oem unlock" went well and finished in a few seconds. Then the XL 2 screen showed text in tiny, tiny white on black with 3 options to choose. the default was on the reboot option and said to push volume up to select another or volume down to select the one defaulted. I pushed volume down and nothing happened. The device appeared locked. Would not respond to volume + power button or any other controls. I waited a half hour. So I looked online and it said this happens but to reboot it. I couldn't figure out how. So after more research I found that entering "fastboot reboot-bootloader" followed by "fastboot continue" would cause the phone to go back into normal mode where I once again reconfigured the phone from scratch and enabled Developer tool USB debugging.

Now I finished configuring again and the USB drivers started auto installing again and I got the MTK error on the driver install. I had to unplug the USB and replug and enter "adb devices" and at this point the phone asked for approval and I selected always from this computer. All is well so with the TWRP renamed to recovery.img in the adb program directory I entered "fastboot boot recovery.img" and the TWRP menu came up. I didn't back up because I don't have a SD card large enough and since I can't see any files from when I connect the USB cable, I wasn't sure how to download the backup image once it is stored on the phone. So at this point I selected the TWRP menu option to acomplete the install where future use of TWRP would not be read-only (forgot the exact wording, there was a slide to the right on the bottom of the screen to accept write mode).

Now I rebooted the phone by pressing the up button of the volume and the power button at once and I am still taken to the same green on black text that I saw before on the BLU "recovery menu" (without an obvious method to select TWRP). Is this something to be expected, that the TWRP menu is only available to boot via the PC using adb and fastboot or should the TWRP image somehow remained on my phone?

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 08:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:07 PM ----------

Not so much for me LOL.

Can you tell me just how to install root, xposed and xprivacyLua on my phone? Would really be appreciative.

See above for how far I have gotten into the process. Not looking for a different image. This is only the second time I have working on this depth of changes. Again, thank you.