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Ok, so I was preparing to update to 5.02 now that the UK version is out, but it seems my phone has completely lost recovery.

I'm sure I installed TWRP recovery previously, and I'm currently still on 4.4.4 Rooted with SuperSU installed and I installed TWRP as part of setting that up. However, my phone now will not boot into recovery at all. When I power on the phone, there is no notification LED for me to start pressing Volume Up or Down, it just boots normally into Android. If I just hold down the power button until it turns on, then hold the Volume Down button, the phone vibrates a few times, then just boots normally.
The only thing I can think that's changed is that the phone doesn't have the original MicroSD card in it that I used to have (and that one I no longer have access to).

I have tried re-installing TWRP using this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2785598, and running the install.bat on the Z2-lockeddualrecovery2.8.10-RELEASE version, and this seemed to go through the process successfully, but no luck. The phone just rebooted to normal Android rather than recovery, and I'm still only able to boot to normal Android, so it seems I've lost recovery entirely.


So is there any way I can get TWRP recovery back on the phone so I can proceed with installing a pre-rooted FTF of 5.02?


EDIT/UPDATE - Ok, I went into SuperSU on the phone and had it forget all of the current Superuser access for Busybox and ADB, then re-ran the installer. This time when the phone rebooted it booted into PhilTouchZ recovery rather than TWRP that I was expecting...? Or is it the same thing?

EDIT/UPDATE 2 - Ok, powered off the phone, then powered back on holding the Volume Down button. Now in TWRP. I have to re-learn Android every time I update/re-root :o