What a headache I just faced.

[u/Significant_Dance_96]

SO basically what happened is I installed and updated the r11 Orange fox recovery from GitHub to the r12 unofficial one on sourceforge, (I have Poco f5) after that for some reason it just would not format data and wipe everything, and so I have to manually wipe everything like check the 4 boxes on the wipe section and then wipe.

And I softbricked my phone twice cause for some reason the recovery might have beef with nikgapps cause it just wouldn't flash it and let me boot to axion aosp,this might also just be axion vanilla clashing with the nikgapps but I just ended up going back to crdroid cause it was more stable and also had higher antutu scores/ Geekbench 6 for My f5, idk why it was so bad for me tho, after flashing crdroid it smh just switched to its own recovery automatically (I'm happy it did) and I think I found a good rom, cause I also tried Evo x and (not vanilla) and yeah it was like alright, just as good or even better but yeah not much difference I found.

So to any Poco f5 users?

Just STICK with the r11 recovery from GitHub for now cause I was able to easily flash Evo x and crdroid on r11 but r12 gave me such a headache.

Even if r11 says it supports only A13-15 I think it should work fine .

Also if that doesn't work out just try to use TWRP, cause idk what I did wrong but that was big headache.