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[ROM][MOD] Lenovo A820

Dear Owners,
Discontinued
In this post you can find a multilingual (mainly European) modified rom for the smartphone Lenovo A820.
IMPORTANT NOTE!
The newer phones do not work well with S138 or older kernel (no info about S147).
The sympthom is that the touch screen works on inappropriate way: after the first screenlock it does not work again.
For this reason it is highly recommended that update your kernel if you have got this issue.
The kernel changer to S150 zip can be run from modified recovery (CWM, TWRP, COT, Carliv, etc...).
Note that all the things in this thread you do with your phone can be dangerous. I cannot take responsibility for your phone damage.
So, do it at your own risk.
Before you do anything, I recommend you to save your current ROM (I would say it is mandatory!)
There are many ways to save and I highlight some (links will be added later):
1, for non-rooted phones:
- SP_Flashtool, readback option.
- CWM (or TWRP) backup, if it is available on your phone
2, for rooted phones:
- MTKDroidTools backup
- command line dd-backup
In order to install this ROM, you need to have CWM recovery on your phone.
If you have not got this recovery or you do not know which recovery you have got, you have to read post#3 before you do anything.
If you get error during the installation of the ROM, see post#4.
The restore option of the CWM rcovery is not as good as it could have been expected, so please read post#4 carefuly for CWM restoration issues, tricks.
Update: CWM 6.0.4.0 with S150 stock kernel.
Just to clarify the power-on modes:
Normal phone mode: press the power button
Meta mode: VOLUME DOWN + POWER
Factory mode: VOLUME UP + POWER
Recovery mode: VOLUME DOWN + VOLUME UP + POWER
Consider the warranty issues, you need to backup you rom.
In addition, I always suggest to do a backup before install any new ROM to your phone.
You can do it with CWM recovery in backup menu.
About installation in general.
Pre-requisites: CWM recovery menu installed on your phone. (This ROM can be installed from CWM recovery.)
The ROM file must be saved on your physical SD card.
Enter into CWM recovery.
In CWM recovery you can go up/down with the volume up/down keys. The “enter” is the power button.
Choose the “install zip from SD card” menu item.
Choose the “choose zip from SD card” menu item.
Select the rom you want to install.
Choose “OK” in the menu item.
If you need a detailed explanation of its use, see the tutorial : http://bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com/2012/02/complete-guide-to-clockworkmod-recovery.html
Right after the ROM installation has been finished, you can install gapps as well, before restart.
Windorws driver installation:
Please do not ask me about it. I use mainly Linux, which is more friendly.
What I did in XP under Virtualbox was:
Downloaded the Lenovo drivers from here: <link>
Manually added the com ports in control panel.
MOD CP4.0
V1
The modified rom has got the stock kernel - Lenovo A820_ydss_S135_130403
This completely changes your phone appearance, your Lenovo UI will be disappeared.
Also Lenovo applications are not integrated to this rom.
It will look like the stock Jelly Bean.
Main features:
-The firmware is rooted.
-Boot logo, boot/shutdown animations and sounds are changed to Lenovo.
-Minimalist appearance and content, for this reason you have to install google applications manually, from CWM recovery <link>. After gapps installation everything works well (many people wants to have mainly Google Play. It do work.)
-Slide unlock.
-Multilingual. For supported languages, see the screenshots.
-The default language/region is Hungarian, but you can easily choose your one.
Known bugs:
- I found was that the charging logo with turned off phone is not proper.
-the camera does not work adequately in video-camera mode.
-the default setting in some of the application is V987.
V2
The modified rom has got the stock kernel - Lenovo A820_S135_130403
The camera was changed to a non-multilingual one. It looked that the black screen in camcorder mode solved.
But after googleapps something went wrong... black screen again.
V3
The modified rom has got the stock kernel - Lenovo A820_S135_130403
In V3 there is not any significant changes (camera app was changed back to the multilingual one), but I modified the gapps, which caused the camcorder issue.
So, for this modified rom you need to use this gapps.
V3 download link: CP4.0-by-cappa72-v3 - dropbox
or
CP4.0-by-cappa72-v3 - 4shared
Bug: Still, the camera has got green lines in the case of playback.
CP4.1
V1
The kernel has changed to A820_YDSS_S130_130324.
The camera application does not generate green bands in playback.
The default language was set to English, default time zone was set to London.
CP4.1-by-cappa72-v1
You can use the googleapps mentioned for CP4.0-v3
CP4.2
V1
The kernel has changed to A820_S138_130419
CP4.2-by-cappa72-v1
Bug list
#3 - CP4.2-v1 - Wen try to choose themes, the laucher is Force Closed (FC) - Settings was modified to resolve this issue.
#4 - CP4.2-v1 - Serial number is 0123456789ABCDEF instead of the original S/N - not a real bug
#5 - CP4.2-v1 - Under the battery level of 15% the SystemUI is Force Closed (FC) - was a user error, when people deleted the necessary ui files.
CP4.3
This release will be the continuation of the 4.2, but with the newest available kernel (S150) and will (plan) contain all the things that are included in the 5.3.
This will not be with Aromainstaller and will contain the gapps.
Hopefully comng within two weeks.
MOD CP5.3
Available now (25.11.2013.)
CP5.3
V1
Change log; what’s new compared to CP4.2
Aromainstaller is used for optional installation possibilities.
- still Jelly Bean 4.1
- kernel is the stock S150
- Modified systemUI by [email protected] (1% battery signal; automatic hide function for non-used sim signal)
- Modified Settings by apeelme (sloving bug #3)
- Baseband is from the stock ROM S150.
- gps.conf is set to EU by default
- apns.xml is modified for Telenor-HU from “net” to “online”
- gps-tracker solver added to build.prop (dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:fast)
- libvcodecdrv.so replaced to solve green bars in case of video playback.
- updated MobileUncleTools (2.9.5) in case of 3rd party SW.
There is no default ringtone set! Right after the installation you have to set the ringtone, message alert and so on... otherwise your phone will not play sound...
Important feature!
If you have already repartitioned with the script, you can simply install this ROM, it will recognise that the repartition had been done; and you do not have to run "disable internal SD card" script from CWM.
But please note that this function is onyl available with the repartition script; with Meteos rom editor repartitioning this function is not available.
Right after the installatio, there is not any sound set. Nor the ringtone, nor the message an alert. So, you have to set it first.
Available on mediafire : Link
md5sum: 86e241fcac6faf4fa6baf0f9cc4a18a0
Additional possibility:Change of FM radio
The FM radio can be changed back to Lenovo’s one with this script. It was requested by some people due to the fact that Lenovo’s FM radio can work without connecting the earphone.
The link is here. http://data.hu/get/6494163/FM-radio-change.zip
You can install it from CWM recovery, with the same method that you used during the installation of the ROM. This script does not affect any other part of the ROM, but the FM radio.
Repartition
Please DO NOT USE IT for Lenovo-based ROMs. Sometimes it can cause bootloop or other inconvenience.
The repartition of internal memory of the Lenovo A820 phone has been solved already.
With this action youd intednal SD card will be disappeared and will be added to the /data partition.
Before you do anything, make a CWM backup, and save all your data from internal SD card!
The easiest way is to use this CWM script, if you want to have the maximum available size (2,7GB) for the /data partition.
You have to install it from CWM recovery.
After the installation you need to do a factory reset.
After the factory reset, you have to disable your internal SD card, with CWM script.
And then, you can reboot your phone to check if yo have got the new size of /data partition:
settings --> storage
"internal data storage; full capacity 2,7GB"
"internal SD card; full capacity <your physical SD card capacity"
If the above data appear, you have successfully repartitioned you phone's internal memory!
If you want to have your data back, go into CWM recovery, and choose
backup and restore --> advanced restore --> <choose your save> --> Restore data
And then, your data are available again, after the reboot.
Please do not use it, if you do not want to have the 2,7GB of /data partition!
For Lenovo-based ROMs you need to use Meteos-apk for repartition of A820.
Internal/external SD card exchanger
If you want to use your physical SD card as the default one, and still want to use your emmc-SD card (aka internal SD card by default), you can change it by this CWM script.
Important link in summary:
The driver what works is here.
The original stock recovery is here
The autoroot package can be found here.
The preferred CWM is here.
The root script is here, you can install is from CMW, and your phone will be rooted.
The usable Flashtool is here.
The scattel file for Flashtool is here.
Credits:
bgcngm for the base of the ROM (BM1.0 for ZTE V987), and his amazing tutorials
iBotPeaches and brut.all for apktool
dsixda for his ROM kitchen which is really helpfull for easy-deodexing
Koush for his wonderfull CWM recovery
amarullz for his amazing AROMA installer
...and finally to all the devs whose apps, tweaks and scripts I have used on my custom ROMs

Very nice Thanks for your hard work and good luck

CWM recovery
Installing CWM on your phone
You need to install proper drivers to your computer.
Available (ported) CWM recoveries:
With newest kernel:
CWM recovery 6.0.1.2 - S150 - ported from [email protected] ZTE V970 recovery.
CWM recovery 6.0.4.0 - S150 - ported from [email protected] ZTE V967S recovery.
CWM recovery 6.0.1.2 - S138 - ported from [email protected] ZTE V970 recovery.
CWM recovery 6.0.1.2 - S135 - ported from [email protected] ZTE V970 recovery.
Option 1, with SP Flashtool
Download the SP_Flashtool software to your computer. Extract it to a directory, where you want to run it from.
Download the scatter file, which you will need if you want to use SP_Flashtool.
Download the CWM
(5.5.0.4, 6.0.1.2, 6.0.2.8; it is your decision)
Run the SP_Flashtool.
Browse your scatter file.
Choose only the recovery.
Tick the “DA DL all with checksum” (you can find it close to the download button). It is a really important point!
If your phone is connected, let’s disconnect it from the computer.
Turn off your phone. Take the battery out from your phone for 5 sec. Insert the battery to you phone. Keep it still turned off.
In the flashtool press the Download button.
Choose OK to the warning message.
Connect your phone to the computer.
The flashtool will flash the recovery into your phone.
When the green circle appears, wait for 5-10 secs, and the unplug your phone.
If everything went well, you can enter into the recovery menu (see 1st post, power-on modes)
Option 2, on rooted phone, with MobileUncleTools.
Install MobileUncletools 2.8.x or higher from the Play Store.
Save one of the CWM I linked to the root directory of your physical SD card.
- select menuitem Recovery Update. The program will list the available recovery images.
- choose the one, what you want to install
- It asks back: "Are you sure flash recovery!" - Use recovery file: <name of the recovery what you choose previously>. Tap to OK.
- After the flashing process it offers you to reboot into recovery. If you tap OK, it will automatically reboot your phone to recovery. If you tap cancel, you can use your phone as a phone.
- Before you tap to "reboot to recovery", I suggest you to wait approx. 5-10sec.
Use of the CWM.
If you enter into the CWM (6.x.x.x) recovery, the following buttons can be used:
- Power button : “enter”
- Volume down : step down in the menu
- Volume up : step up in the menu
- Soft key “option”: step down in the menu
- Soft key “back” : step back in the menu
In 5.x.x.x you cannot use soft keys, but the physical buttons works on the same way as in the case of 6.x.x.x
CWM restoration
I experienced failures in restoration of the CWM backup.
This was a real surprise for me because I have not faced this issue with other MTK phones.
So, the issue is that the CWM restoration does not work immediately.
In details:
-I saved the stock rom by CWM 6.0.1.2 (CWM was complied by Bruno, and I modified it for A820)
-For checking the restore function, I did a factory reset: the phone stopped working.
-I did the CWM restoration, but still the phone stopped at the boot animation. And stayed it for 15min. I removed the battery then.
In order to solve the issue, the following method was done:
-In the advanced restore I choose the restore /system (only!)
-After restoring the /system I turned off the phone took the battery out, waited 5 secs, inserted the battery back.
-Turning on the phone it worked again with the restored data, BUT the internal SD card was injured! I formatted the internal SD card – with this action I lost all my data that were saved on the internal SD card.
So, please be careful using it! Save your internal SD card data before the CWM restoration!
This was experience in case of all the available CWM (5.5.0.4, 6.0.1.2, 6.0.2.8).

Installation issues
Post#4 troubleshooting
If you cannot install the ROM by an error:
Code:
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.model") == "Lenovo A820"
E:Error in /sdcard/Lenovo-a820-update-CP4.0-v1.zip (status 7)
This is a safety feature, not a bug.
This error message is a warning that you have not got the proper CWM. (Most of the available CWMs are based on ZTE, STAR phones and contain improper model description.
My CWMs contain the proper one, I modified them, so you need to install a CWM I mod for Lenovo A820.
In this case you have to update your CWM to a ported one that I did.

Great!
I would love an multi lingual rom, but for now I just want to root it. (ones it gets delivered that is)
Are there tools specific for this device to root is with out flashing?
Checking out your rom in the meantime. :fingers-crossed:

ebsbow said:
Great!
I would love an multi lingual rom, but for now I just want to root it. (ones it gets delivered that is)
Are there tools specific for this device to root is with out flashing?
Checking out your rom in the meantime. :fingers-crossed:
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If you have got CWM recovery on your phone (or a chinese one that has got "xx SD yyy ZIP" menuitem), then you can use root-zip, installing it from CWM recovery.

Thanks

Thanks
Where are the screenshots?

please add some screenshots.

deathhand said:
please add some screenshots.
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I tried to upload some, but the server was down that time.
I will try it again tomorrow.

Thanks for this rom, I flashed it succesfull on the Lenovo A820, it also takes away that terrible skin from Lenovo.

Gapps link
Thnak you for your ROM. I tried it for a couple of hours and there some minor problems that I don´t know if there are rom related.
1. There is no link to the gapps, so I downloaded a random one and I have errors with google search.
2. The videocam record with a green band on one side.
3. The gps is slow, doesn´t pick satellites easily.
4. If you choose automatic time the it always consider that you´re in china. If you choose manually your timezone then it is ok.
Overall it is a very well-done rom and I would keep it for daily use.
Thanks

1. Are you sure you downloaded the Gapps for Android 4.1.x? You should have this gapps version: gapps-jb-20121011-signed, this the right version you should flash. I first flashed the rom and after that the gapps.
I have reproduced your issue and you need to update the Google search app in the playstore, after that the errors are gone.
2. I have reproduced what you reported, I want to try if I can grab the original camera app from Lenovo and see if it still has the issue, but I don't think its a big problem, I bought the phone for someone else, but this issue is not to big, I don't suppose people often record with an smartphone and this rom at least got Dutch in, the original phone firmware was bloated with China Unicom bloatware, Lenovo skin and had no Dutch support.
3. Try GPSfix, ussualy this kinda works, but the MT6577 chip was know for having GPS problems, perhaps its the same with MT6589? But there are many apps out there that can help you fix it.
I think this in a great rom, Lenovo is a big brand in China, so many will choose Lenovo and with this rom you get rid off the terrible lephone skin, I mentioned this rom in my review about this phone
Oh here you got some screenshots.
Feel free to use them in the OP.

Don't know about you but I do use my device a lot for video recording.
I think it is imperative that all basic functions work flawlessly.
The custom rom's with android 4.2 also have an video bug at this time, which is a bit unacceptable.
I'm sure it will be sorted out :victory:

Well yes, but having fully Dutch support is better, you can always flash new update off the custom rom when it get fixed. I only recorded a few time video with my own smartphone.

Lebrija said:
Thnak you for your ROM. I tried it for a couple of hours and there some minor problems that I don´t know if there are rom related.
1. There is no link to the gapps, so I downloaded a random one and I have errors with google search.
2. The videocam record with a green band on one side.
3. The gps is slow, doesn´t pick satellites easily.
4. If you choose automatic time the it always consider that you´re in china. If you choose manually your timezone then it is ok.
Overall it is a very well-done rom and I would keep it for daily use.
Thanks
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1, I have added the link.
2, Thanks for the feedback, it is really useful to know. The playback contains the green band, the file itself does not.
I changed the kernel to the '130'-one, and now it works with the camera application, and the playback is also correct.
3, You shall try the EPO / A-GPS support for getting it better. Or thy DexterMorganNL's suggestion.
4, I have never faced this issue, but in the new version I set the default time zone to London.
The new one is available, you can see it in the first post.

cappa72 said:
1, I have added the link.
2, Thanks for the feedback, it is really useful to know. The playback contains the green band, the file itself does not.
I changed the kernel to the '130'-one, and now it works with the camera application, and the playback is also correct.
3, You shall try the EPO / A-GPS support for getting it better. Or thy DexterMorganNL's suggestion.
4, I have never faced this issue, but in the new version I set the default time zone to London.
The new one is available, you can see it in the first post.
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Thank you for your time. I will try the new version. But, why have you used an older kernel?
By the way, with version 3 I also had some problems with the gyroscope when playing Real Racing 3.
Great work

Its great you released the update so fast, you brought us really good work. I think new owner off this phone is going be thankful, they requested me to buy a phone for them while I'm in China, and when I got it it was not fully Dutch supported, had the terrible skin.
So its great have this phone, because this way I can deliver it without the Chinese bloatware and with full Dutch language and ofcourse Google apps.
EDIT
The newest release gives me a black screen after I boot it up after having it flashed, so I have reverted back to your previous release.

OK. I'm ready to weep.
I've previously had a ROM from NeedRom on my A820.
I'd like to give Cappa's ROM a try, but when I try to install from CWM Recovery I hit the Error outlined in Post 4.
I then follow the advice of Post 3... But there are no links to A820-compatible CWM Recovery installations. I found one on a hungarian site linked to Cappa, but all I get is a .img file and no idea how to get that on to my phone.
Can anyone post detailed instructions, or send me to a page (in English) where I can find instructions on how to get the ball rolling so I can use Cappa's ROM?
Thanks.
Google is my friend. Yes. But Google Translate isn't.

TheTen said:
OK. I'm ready to weep.
I've previously had a ROM from NeedRom on my A820.
I'd like to give Cappa's ROM a try, but when I try to install from CWM Recovery I hit the Error outlined in Post 4.
I then follow the advice of Post 3... But there are no links to A820-compatible CWM Recovery installations. I found one on a hungarian site linked to Cappa, but all I get is a .img file and no idea how to get that on to my phone.
Can anyone post detailed instructions, or send me to a page (in English) where I can find instructions on how to get the ball rolling so I can use Cappa's ROM?
Thanks.
Google is my friend. Yes. But Google Translate isn't.
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Update, I think I sorted it...
Bit of imagination (and could have totally done the wrong thing, but it seems to be making progress...)
I decided to take a known ROM install that I've tested and that works, which has a recovery.img included, and I renamed the recovery.img to recovery_bak. I then renamed my 'new' CWMRecovery image to recovery.img and dumped it in the directory with the ROM data that I got off NeedRom. I loaded up SPFlashTool and loaded the scatter file from that ROM, then deselected every component except 'recovery' and flashed it.
End result is that I have a phone which recovery-boots to the version 6 cappa-modded CWMR which I found on the Hungarian site, and in turn that CWMR has just installed both the required ZIP updates outlined in Post 1, and Cappa's ROM is now sat on my second A820 awaiting setting up...
I hope I did the right thing, and this won't come back to bite me in the ass later... The newer recovery.img was slightly larger than the old one, but I'm assuming that the scatter file isn't about storing specific pieces of the ROM in specific places based on exact size of file, and thus perhaps all things will continue to work swimmingly.

[DEV][WIP][RECOVERY][TWRP 2.7] TWRP Touch Recovery for Samsung Galaxy S Duos[ALPHA 1]

Team Win Recovery Project 2.x, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.
Phone look:
Tablet look:
CHANGELOG for 2.7.0.0:
-Faster graphics rendering by disabling alpha blending on fully opaque objects thanks to Tassadar
-Allow sideloading from /tmp on encrypted devices
-Check for a crypto footer before asking for a password to prevent user confusion
-Additional checks for validity to auto generated backup names
-Text wrap in the console output
-Proper caps lock support in the keyboard
-Mouse support via USB OTG for devices with a broken digitizer
-Improve scanning of storage locations for OpenRecoveryScript
-Haptic feedback for buttons, keyboard, and vibration at the end of longer running actions thanks to Samer Diab
-Fixed ext4 wiping when no selinux contexts are defined for that partition (e.g. sd-ext)
-Update SuperSU to 1.93 and improve installation process
-Added selinux contexts restoration to fix permissions
-Load RTC offset on Qualcomm devices to fix the date/time in recovery
-USB Mass Storage fixes Add SELinux support checking
-Add Disk Usage class to better handle excluded folders (e.g. Google Music cache)
-Add 4.4 decrypt support
-Add some toolbox utilities to TWRP (namely to support SELinux functions not supported in busybox)
-Various SELinux fixes and bug fixes
Note: 2.7 marks the first time that we are dropping support for older devices. We are doing this because of the SELinux support needed to install 4.4 Kit Kat ROMs. The non-TWRP parts of the recovery image have to be built in at least a 4.1 tree and the kernel that is included in the recovery image has to support writing SELinux contexts. We don't own most of the devices that we support so we depend on outside testers and developers to help us update devices. In many cases we can't find someone readily. Come to #twrp on Freenode if you want to help bring your device up to date. You can tell right away if your device will support 4.4 ROMs in 2.7. Boot TWRP and press the console button (the square-ish button either in the bottom middle or upper right) to view the console output. If it doesn't say "Full SELinux support" in the console, then your device still needs some work. Help us help you.
CHANGELOG for 2.6.3.0:
-Proper backup and restore of SELinux contexts (thanks to Tassadar)
-Pull in some ROM information for backup name generation
-Merge all recent patches from AOSP bringing TWRP up to date with Android 4.3
-Add 1200x1920 theme (thanks to Tassadar)
-A few other fixes and tweaks
CHANGELOG for 2.6.1.0:
-Initial SELinux support (only a few devices, need testers so come by IRC if your device doesn't have it and needs it)
-Initial support for f2fs file system formatting (Moto X)
-Update SuperSU install for 4.3 ROMs
-Fixed a permissions bug on files created during backup
-Fixed a bug that caused TWRP to not wait for compressed backups to finish causing 0 byte files and md5sums to not match
-Fixed decryption of encrypted data so that both TouchWiz and AOSP decryption are possible
-Ignore lost+found folder during backup and size calculations
-Various other minor bug fixes and tweaks
DOWNLOAD:
Latest Release
INSTALLATION
Power off your Galaxy S Duos
Get into Download mode by pressing Volume (-) + Home + Power Keys followed by Volume (+) to Confirm.
Step:1 - Press "PDA" button and choose the filerecovery.tar.md5 !
Step:2 - Press "Start" button under Execution.
BUGS:
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
SUPPORT:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.
Credits-
@coolamit for testing.
XDA:DevDB Information
TWRP - kylexx, Tool/Utility for the Android General
Contributors
v_superuser
Version Information
Status: Stable
Stable Release Date: 2014-04-21
Created 2014-04-21
Last Updated 2014-08-18

Note - There might be some things broken, you need to keep calm.
Also, you need to install with the update package from codename13. (Thanks to @coolamit )

Man this recovery almost screw up my phone. for no reason from a certain point the restored backups doesn't boot anymore, stuck at Samsung logo, tried making other backups, reflash twrp, first cwm then twrp but nothing.
The only one working was AN old backup of a week ago, restored that.
I can't use this if it isn't 100% reliable sorry

holymoz said:
Man this recovery almost screw up my phone. for no reason from a certain point the restored backups doesn't boot anymore, stuck at Samsung logo, tried making other backups, reflash twrp, first cwm then twrp but nothing.
The only one working was AN old backup of a week ago, restored that.
I can't use this if it isn't 100% reliable sorry
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What else do you expect from an Alpha build? :/

v_superuser said:
What else do you expect from an Alpha build? :/
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ok, I will wait for a more stable version, I like this recovery specially for the compression of backups that saves a lot of space

Awesomee and good work sir ...
can weget for ldpi devices like galaxy pocket,y etc phones ..?? in zip format

Does anyone know if it also works on ace 2x?
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Need help for s duos
do you have still s duos and could you please tell how to fix the animation problem in cm11 4.4.4 for s duos( in your cm11 there is no such problem)

I just installed sucefully, but when boot in recovery mode, just hang up.... therefore, the phone boot normally... well, I also lost the root

Not booting in TWRP. Getting restarted every time I am trying to boot with VolUP+Power+Home. If I hold the keys it keeps rebooting, and if I release it boots to system.
If I execute the command from terminal
Code:
adb reboot recovery
it boots into Samsung stock recovery.
Also showing a yellow symbol (!) while booting.
Should I flash it to stock recovery image?
Or is there any other way out to update the recovery to TWRP?

Solved
Thanks to KlinkOnE and m4jonez.
First I installed (ROOT) Rashr - Flash Tool from Play Store as suggested in the post.
Then downloaded Recovery - TWRP 2.8.0.1 and Recovery - TWRP 3.0.2 as mentioned here .
Placed both of the .zip files in the internal memory.
Now I open Rashr and flashed the recovery selecting the .zip file of TWRP 2.8.0.1 (My phone is rooted, so Rashr was able to flash it). Then rebooted to TWRP. But, failed. Removed the battery and insert it again. Now with Vol + Home + Power key, booted the phone in TWRP. From TWRP installed the TWRP 3.0.2. Rebooted to TWRP. It works fine now.

hcp006sl said:
Thanks to KlinkOnE and m4jonez.
First I installed (ROOT) Rashr - Flash Tool from Play Store as suggested in the post.
Then downloaded Recovery - TWRP 2.8.0.1 and Recovery - TWRP 3.0.2 as mentioned here .
Placed both of the .zip files in the internal memory.
Now I open Rashr and flashed the recovery selecting the .zip file of TWRP 2.8.0.1 (My phone is rooted, so Rashr was able to flash it). Then rebooted to TWRP. But, failed. Removed the battery and insert it again. Now with Vol + Home + Power key, booted the phone in TWRP. From TWRP installed the TWRP 3.0.2. Rebooted to TWRP. It works fine now.
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pls help i'm new to the whole rom flashing thing. i tried what you wrote but the Rashr dosnt seem to find the TWRP both in my phone and external memory. i tried it on both core prime (SM-G360H) and (GT-I9060). i rooted both with kingroot via pc. thanks in advance for your assistance.

digitzonline said:
pls help i'm new to the whole rom flashing thing. i tried what you wrote but the Rashr dosnt seem to find the TWRP both in my phone and external memory. i tried it on both core prime (SM-G360H) and (GT-I9060). i rooted both with kingroot via pc. thanks in advance for your assistance.
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I don't think this TWRP is for those two models - Core Prime and Grand Neo. Please download TWRP for your phone.
For GT-I9060 follow the thread [RECOVERY][GT-I9060] TWRP 2.8.0.1 touch recovery [UNOFFICIAL] and you can download the TWRP recovery for I9060 from here -Mod edit link removed ppc
For SM-360H follow the thread [Recovery] Official TWRP SM-G360H.
Please don't use king root for rooting. If you have used, replace it with SuperSU. Super-Sume Pro is the app that replaces KingRoot by SuperSu.

12,5,14[Saga] CWM 6.0.4.8 Advanced Edition / PhilZ Touch 6.41.5 (libtouch_gui 1.21)

Main thread + features + install instructions + dev support
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
CWM Touch for Ace was a bit old and outdated compared with others recoveries. Now it seems one of the most functional.
PhilZ Touch is a CWM Advanced Edition that adds all the features you could ever miss in CWM.
It is a well proven recovery for many phones,It also adds a full touch interface a completely configurable GUI.
USB mount not working
device will go into recovery by itself when charging
one thing need to tell you, you can't use this recovery flash a aroma2.56 package just like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960734, maybe need update aroma to 2.70B4.
Don't PM me about this recovery，just post at this thread.
If you like my work，please click on the “Thanks” button on the left.
Instruction:
For Unlocked Users:
Download recovery Image and adb tools,
Rename this Image to recovery.img ,Put in
Open the device's USB debugging, run "Run me.bat".
Then will automatically flash recovery.
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Download links:
http://d-h.st/pkh
Changelog:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39433912&postcount=5
Githubs:
CyanogenMod
SAGAAIO
Phil3759
Thanks and credits:
Phil3759
Andromadus
devil-kin
CodeAuroraForum
BananaGranola
Epic Beard Men
eXistZ
Flemmard
Flinny
Juansheng
paulb_nl
randomblame
synergye
Koush for having created and maintaining cwm
Cyanogenmod for making all this possible
ClockworkMod
Dees_Troy from TWRP team for pigz source and many great ideas in their recovery + source for backups compatibility
kbc-developers for the base semi-touch code and much more
[email protected] for his great job / support
sk8erwitskil for his recovery source, a great place to start learning
shoe63 for his help from the start across many devices
dougiebee for his work on fixing time on many Qualcom devices
Chainfire for his support (stock recovery flash) and all his work for the Android community
All the rest that have helped to construct these builds and develop software for ace directly or indirectly in the past.
A special thank also to the below, and ALL who I do not mention but did contribute a lot with their efforts

[EOL][RECOVERY] Modified CWM (non-touch) for port to all MTK phones[EOL]

This is a Clockworkmod modified (very) recovery.
DISCLAIMER:
Rooting your phone and using custom Recoveries and ROMS have risks and may result in bricking your device, and has nothing to do with Google or the device manufacturers. In case of any mishap I am not responsible if you brick/ruin your phone in any way.
Basic computer skills are required and minimal knowledges about phones and phones utilities too.
Make sure that whatever you do, you are doing it at your own responsibility.
Update (21-apr-2015):
This is the last batch of builds for porting. I won't do that anymore.
- new GUI theme;
- an extra version with swipe touch support;
- cleaned up the source code;
- reset battery stats option;
- wipe all - preflash option;
- removed nvram backup/restore because it can corrupt the bootloader;
-full track of changes here.
I used it as base for my touch recovery. Basically is a CWM 6.0.3.7 for jellybean and CWM 6.0.5.1 for kitkat modified by me with many extra features.
- aroma file manager menu
- rainbow mode menu
- separate power menu
- separate wipe menu
- nvram backup/restore menu
- advanced backup/restore menu
- toggle signature, toggle md5sum.
To port it follow my new guide from here
All screenshots are made with my new tool from here.
For jellybean version currently there are two lunfile paths in the world of mtk phones. This will make your USB Mass storage to work in recovery or not. Search that path in your device to see what you have.
Lunfile path 1 (old): "/sys/devices/platform/mt_usb/gadget/lun%d/file" - this can be found in many devices mt6572, mt6589, mt6589T, and other old ones.
Lunfile path 2 (new): "/sys/devices/platform/mt_usb/musb-hdrc.0/gadget/lun%d/file" - this is related to new devices mt6582, mt6592...
Find where is your path and download the image to port from correct section.
Depending of your resolution width, choose an image which contains exactly that value or one close to it, and follow the tutorial to port it.
CREDITS:
- Philz-cwm6 - for get partition size method;
- C3C0 - for initial mtk tweack hint - Unused now;
- Koush and all CWM team for the recovery;
- bgcngm for unpack/repack utils;
- sk8erwitskil for aromafm menu
RULES for posting your ports!
If you managed to port this to your device, add proper credits in your thread, post or article.

List of compiled or ported recoveries for various devices.
Lenovo S660 (CN version S026)
THL T100S
THL T11
Elephone P7 mini
Bluboo X1 (mt6582)
Doogee Rainbow DG210
Kuphone 1phone 5s (sanstar72_wet_jb3)
iNew V3 for fw versions up to 1.0.7 (different kernel)
ONN M7 tablet
ZTE V967S
XOLO A500s
XOLO A600
ZOPO ZP999
LAVA Iris 458Q
Wiko Darkfull
Elephone P6000
Ulephone Be Pro
Acer Liquid Jade S (S56)
Acer Liquid Z410

Nvm. Got a black screen same with CTR recovery. Any help?

gatgat23 said:
Nvm. Got a black screen same with CTR recovery. Any help?
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Usually that means the recovery is bigger than the recovery partition. It happens in some devices with an unusually big kernel (I saw kernels with 4.7 Mb for a recovery at 6 Mb - not much room for ramdisk). Other thing is if you use MobileUncleTools to flash it - this doesn't work in some cases, and you need to flash it with SPFT. Remember, if you have a small partition, any recovery bigger than 5.9 Mb (you need some reserved space) will not work. You can try to shrink some images, or to replace them with blank dummy pngs, but not for stitch and buttons. These have to remain in rgb format, otherwise you have that black screen again, and the phone will reboot to system.

carliv said:
Usually that means the recovery is bigger than the recovery partition. It happens in some devices with an unusually big kernel (I saw kernels with 4.7 Mb for a recovery at 6 Mb - not much room for ramdisk). Other thing is if you use MobileUncleTools to flash it - this doesn't work in some cases, and you need to flash it with SPFT. Remember, if you have a small partition, any recovery bigger than 5.9 Mb (you need some reserved space) will not work. You can try to shrink some images, or to replace them with blank dummy pngs, but not for stitch and buttons. These have to remain in rgb format, otherwise you have that black screen again, and the phone will reboot to system.
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My device's recovery partition got 6MB. Ported recovery got 5.4MB.
I actually used MobileUncleTool to flash, then I tried to flash using SPFT.
Same issue, black screen. Need to reinsert battery to reboot.

gatgat23 said:
My device's recovery partition got 6MB. Ported recovery got 5.4MB.
I actually used MobileUncleTool to flash, then I tried to flash using SPFT.
Same issue, black screen. Need to reinsert battery to reboot.
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Try to access the recovery log from temp directory (cache/recovery/last.log), after that happens. If there is nothing there, than the phone didn't even boot in recovery, otherwise you will see where it's stuck.

I think it actually didn't boot recovery.
Log's showing what I did when I was still on Stock Recovery. (Wipe data/cache)
Even the .prop values are using stock ones. (I changed adb secure, debuggable, etc in the one I ported.)

hello carliv,
is it possible to have a version 1.4 with custpack?

@carliv
Thanks for your activity.
Are this recovery compatible with most recent Mediatel ROM based on Android 4.4?

bovirus said:
@carliv
Thanks for your activity.
Are this recovery compatible with most recent Mediatel ROM based on Android 4.4?
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All my recoveries are compiled on cm-10.1 building environment and in theory they will work better with kernels built for android 4.2 top (in these builds are missing sepolicy files and all selinux related files), but some users report that they used it for flashing and backup lenovo kitkat (vibeUI something) and it was successfull. I can't test that, but my advice is if you have an official Android 4.4 mtk powered phone, I'm sure the recovery partition is bigger than 6Mb, and for that I would recommend you PhilZ recovery if you want to stay on CWM base, or TWRP. I made my recoveries with only one reason in mind: to be small enough to fit a recovery partition of 6Mb.

Thanks for the explanation. What's about Androdi 4.3 compatibility? Like 4.4 ?
Recovery compatibility
Android 4.2.x - OK
Android 4.3.x - ?
Android 4.4.x - ?
Note: personally I like the non touch recovery.
Do you have a link for Philz recovery for Mediatek chipset?
Thanks again.

bovirus said:
Thanks for the explanation. What's about Androdi 4.3 compatibility? Like 4.4 ?
Recovery compatibility
Android 4.2.x - OK
Android 4.3.x - ?
Android 4.4.x - ?
Note: personally I like the non touch recovery.
Do you have a link for Philz recovery for Mediatek chipset?
Thanks again.
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I think it should work in Android 4.3 but I have no feedback on it. The reason is there are very few mtk devices with Android 4.3 or 4.4 (real not spoofed), and I didn't tested personally any of them.
For PhilZ recovery you can check his official thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860 , that support mtk devices nativelly, but you must compile it in cm-11 source,
or the mtk dedicated one started by my friend @yuweng here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2748169

The PhilZ recovery require many times a recovery partition bigger than 6MB.
In many acses teh recovery partition is limirted to 6MB.
For this if you can create your recovery from CW11 (compatible with KK) you can sue it.

bovirus said:
The PhilZ recovery require many times a recovery partition bigger than 6MB.
In many acses teh recovery partition is limirted to 6MB.
For this if you can create your recovery from CW11 (compatible with KK) you can sue it.
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If a mtk phone gets Kitkat then I assure you the recovery and boot partition will be increased by producer in that firmware along with the new kernel. The 6Mb partition is specific to 4.1.x-4.2.2 devices. For these even my recovery, if it's built in CM11, will oversize 6 Mb because of the new modules.

gzip support
Thanks for this non-touch version! Can you update to include the gzip support as in the latest touch version? Thanks.

Hey Sir @carliv.
I ported this recovery to Xolo A500s.Please add it device list.
Here is the link:-Click here

port
Hi Sir ,
I ported it for my device XOLO A600
Please update it in device List .
Thanx Again
Here Is the Link

CWM Recovery MTK 6.0.3.7 carliv non-touch
Hi all!
I just combined some scripts to have a auto make custum recovery.
It is based on BM / michfood / yuweng / carliv work! Version 2014-06-29. See beginning of this thread.
Thank you!
usage: cwmr.bat stock-recovery.img
MTK6575 and MTK6577 tested. May work with MTK6589... (option 3 -> MTK6577)?
It is a question if fstab is matching. It is complete batch source, so you can adapt to alternate partition tabel.
Have fun!
EDIT:
What I did:
I took "old lunfile path" "normal font" file from carliv first thread, I extracted it and added to some old scripts from yuweng (I cannot find anymore to download). I tested it and made it public to all.

The latest CWM is 6.0.4.4 and Carliv release this update. Should be possible to aplly it?

Well, I am not sure about what I understand. You can use my upload and mod it any way you like. I hope to have helped to get latest CWM Recovery.

[UNOFFICIAL][RECOVERY][coriplus] TWRP 2.8.7.0 [2015-12-18]

Team Win Recovery Project 2.x, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.
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This is an unofficial port of TWRP for Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus. The original work code is done by @Alonso1398 but since he disconnected his updates for our device I'm carrying this project from now on
About
TWRP is an open source, community project that was originally formed to work on porting WiMAX to CM7 for the HTC EVO 4G. After their work on the EVO 4G they wanted to work on a project that would work on more devices than just the EVO 4G and they settled on working on a recovery. Today TWRP is the leading custom recovery for Android phones.
A custom recovery is used for installing custom software on your device. This custom software can include smaller modifications like rooting your device or even replacing the firmware of the device with a completely custom “ROM” like OmniROM
Disclaimer
I am not responsible for bricked devices or dead SD cards, your are the one who decided to flash this recovery
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Bugs/What's not working?
-Themes, will its not broke but use 240×240 themes (its preferable to stay away from it)
Download links
- TWRP Flashable zip
- recovery.fstab
- recovery.img
How to take a backup
1 - Open the terminal emulator.
3 - type "su" (without quotation marks).
3 - Grant root permission.
4 - Type "dd if =/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 of=/sdcard/recovery.img".
5 - Go to the root of the device's internal memory (sdcard) and copy that backup to a secure location.
How to install
- Installing as flashable zip
1 - Download the TWRP recovery.zip and place the root of the memory card.
2 - Reboot your custom recovery.
3 - Select install zip from SD / choose Zip.
4 - Choose TWRP recovery.zip.
5 - Then reboot to recovery.
6 - Enjoy TWRP installation mode.
OR
- Flashing as an image
1 - Download the file and place in in the root of the device's internal memory (sdcard).
2- Open the terminal emulator.
3 - Type "su".
4 - Type "dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p6".
5 - Wait a few seconds, then restart the device and enter recovery mode and enjoy your TWRP.
OR
- Installing with ZIT flasher
1 - Download ZIT Flasher, recovery.fstab, TWRP recovery.img.
2 - Install and open the ZIT Flasher.
3 - Press in settings, click on recovery.fstab, look for the file and press it.
3 - click MAIN, press in BROWSER, search for "recovery.img".
4 - Restart the device and enter recovery mode and enjoy the TWRP.
FAQ
Visit the official TWRP FAQ
Support
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it in this thread, also grab recovery.log in /tmp or I can't help you.
You can find the source code for TWRP at github.com/omnirom/android_bootable_recovery/

Changelog
12-12-15
-Ported again
-Full SELinux support
-Updated keys
-Official changelog
14-12-15
-Initial Port
-Official changelog
Opensource
-Device Tree : https://github.com/XadoA/android_device_samsung_coriplus
-Kernel Source : https://github.com/Alonso1398/android_kernel_samsung_coriplus

Gotta try dis

Which version is more stable for samsung galaxy pocket plus, 2.6.03 or 2.8.7? Regards
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I can not install rom breeze with this version of recovery, instead with version 2.6.3, I do it without problems..saludos
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hey hey. i need this. the links are broken. can you put here new links?. please

rodrigo151515151515151 said:
hey hey. i need this. the links are broken. can you put here new links?. please
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in case anyone needs this, here is twrp 3.4 for coriplus
twrp-34-coriplus.img | by MLXProjects for Generic Device/Other
Download GApps, Roms, Kernels, Themes, Firmware, and more. Free file hosting for all Android developers.
androidfilehost.com
Just leaving this for the future (you can already find it at galaxy pocket forum)

MLX said:
in case anyone needs this, here is twrp 3.4 for coriplus
twrp-34-coriplus.img | by MLXProjects for Generic Device/Other
Download GApps, Roms, Kernels, Themes, Firmware, and more. Free file hosting for all Android developers.
androidfilehost.com
Just leaving this for the future (you can already find it at galaxy pocket forum)
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thanks!! :U