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Commit 8223aabe authored by Manoj Nair's avatar Manoj Nair
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Merge branch '1159-update-download-template-to-ask-user-to-pick-partitions-from-rom-or-recovery-zip' into 'master'

Resolve "Update download template to ask user to pick partitions from ROM or recovery zip"

Closes #1159

See merge request e/documentation/user!1422
parents a0f04b13 bc44348c

htdocs/_includes/templates/before_recovery_install_boot_stack.md

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{% include alerts/warning.html content="This platform requires additional partitions to be flashed for recovery to work properly.The steps to flash the partitions are given below" %}



{% include alerts/tip.html content="In case the partition files are not available in the /e/OS recovery zip, users can try and download them from the LineageOS wiki install page specific to this device and OS build. " %}

{% include alerts/tip.html content="The partition files will be available in the /e/OS build or /e/OS recovery zip folders. Look for the file name starting with the partition name. For example, the vbmeta.img file may be named vbmeta-e-3.6-a15-20260314594305-community-a52q.img. You can rename it to vbmeta.img if you want to — the part after vbmeta is just an indicator of the build date when it was compiled. If the files are not found in these zip folders, users can download them from the LineageOS wiki install page specific to this device and OS build" %}



1. First unzip the /e/OS Recovery file linked in the section marked `Downloads for {{ device.codename }}` . The following files would show up in the location where you unzipped the contents of the eRecovery zip file

htdocs/_includes/templates/before_recovery_install_samsung_qcom.md

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    * From within the Developer options menu, enable OEM unlock.

{% endunless %}

3. Download the /e/OS build zip file from the section marked 'Downloads for {{ device.codename }}'. Extract the contents of the /e/OS build zip file. You will find a `vbmeta.img` in the extracted files. 



{% include alerts/tip.html content="The partition files will be available in the /e/OS build or /e/OS recovery zip folders. Look for the file name starting with the partition name. For example, the vbmeta.img file may be named vbmeta-e-3.6-a15-20260314594305-community-a52q.img. You can rename it to vbmeta.img if you want to — the part after vbmeta is just an indicator of the build date when it was compiled. If the files are not found in these zip folders, users can download them from the LineageOS wiki install page specific to this device and OS build." %}

4. Open a Command Prompt in the folder where the file was downloaded and TAR the file by running `tar --format=ustar -cvf vbmeta.tar vbmeta.img`

5. Power off the device, and boot it into download mode:

    * {% t device.download_boot %}