Attempting to root, won't boot into custom recovery.

I'm following along this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNgg1_JZrSE

I downloaded the files, opened and ran odin, that went well, I copied the SuperSU file to the root of my tablet storage and powered off. Unplugged the USB and booted into recovery using power and volume up. But his screen looks custom, while mine looks like the default screen with a big "No command" message, with options like reboot system now, apply update from ADB/external storage, etc. How do I get the custom display to show up like his does at 9:19 in the video. Thats where Im stuck at right now :(

Attempting to flash the official English OS and firmware onto a Chinese g5, see desc

After a little asking around and searching I found bubbl3's tutorial here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...gapps-t2904863

everything seemed easy enough and doable until I doublechecked the firmware on my phone which is G9008VZMU1ANI4, which defers from the one used in the tutorial, which was G9008VZMU1ANH3.

Has anyone attempted the same process on a phone with my version of the firmware? As I got this phone from a friend who paid a hefty sum for it, I want to make sure everything goes as I want it to to avoid accidentally bricking it.

I would appreciate any help. Thank you!

Attempting to recover from soft brick

I have been trying to recover from a soft brick that suddenly happened on my phone, I think I can fix it as I can get into fastboot..

However I am trying to flash system and I am getting a write failure.

I am using this guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...2XP6wjJE4/edit

and the latest stock android (the newer 5.1.1.)

I was having problems before in steps before that but I actually found that doing a fastboot oem lock / unlock and then trying actually let me get farther then I was able to before (before it failed on the bootloader-hammerhead part)