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I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9195) and successfully installed CyanogenMod 13 with the CM 13 Recovery on it. Now I am stuck with the installation of GApps by means of TWRP.

I have tried to follow this tutorial to install TWRP (3.0.1 or 2.8.7):

  1. App Install Method: it tells me that something went wrong and it does not boot the recovery, indeed. What seems wired to me is that when I have to choose an image it shows me the device code serranolteusc and serranoveltexx for my S4 Mini rather than serranoltexx, like on the website of CM 13. Is this normal?

    (I even tried Flashify instead of the TWRP manager, but it did not function!)

  2. Since I am on Linux and have no Windows, I cannot use the Odin method. But I tried Heimdall via heimdall flash --RECOVERY twrp.img --no-reboot to no avail.

  3. I tried the dd Install Method via dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery, but it still does not boot into recovery mode. Is it possible that there is an issue with the path in of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery?

Is it possible that there is no TWRP for serranoltexx available?

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    I'm far from being familiar with Samsung devices, but speaking about Odin and Linux: Have you tried JOdin3? That's a web-based Odin variant and should work on non-Windows systems. Could be helpful in your case – and finally answer my curiosity on whether it works on Linux (I can't test that without a Samsung device ;)
    – Izzy
    Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 12:40
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    After flashing the recovery using dd, what did you immediately do? How did you reboot into recovery mode later?
    – Firelord ♦
    Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 17:10
  • @ Firelord, I pressed Vol Up, Power, and Home, only to find out that the CM 13 recovery was still installed.
    – Til Hund
    Commented Mar 20, 2016 at 8:59

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If you are ever in doubt about partition paths (and said device is supported by CyanogenMod or Lineage OS), you can check this from their sources. But to your question at hand, looking at TWRP device trees, you need to use "serranolteusc" as "serranoveltexx" is meant for the newer 64-bit variant (why name them the same is beyond me). Using the image for "serranolteusc" with the Heimdall or terminal and dd command should be enough to get TWRP installed.

If that doesn't work, maybe provide a logcat of when you try to dd and see if it complains about anything specific.

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I rooted my serranoltexx (s4 Mini with LTE) using Kingroot and flashed TWRP using TWRP-App.

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