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Hi, I am a relative newbie to ROM flashing and the like. Additionally I dont have a very deep computer knowledge base. I have rooted my Samsung Captivate and have flashed a ROM (which flashed properly, but didn't quite work). I have three questions about ROM usage and such:
1. I know kernels basically add aspects to the ROM you are running, but when should you flash these? How do you flash them (same process as with ROMs? do you just do it over-top of the Rom you currently have loaded? etc...)
2. If a newer version of the ROM you have running comes out, do you have to start over and completely wipe the device over again and do the whole process from start, or can you load a newer version of your current ROM over the one you have?
3. I have been hearing/reading about some problems with the Android Market disappearing on certain ROMs when the market updates, how can i avoid this/fix this?
Thanks. Sorry the basic/stupid questions.
1. Yes
2. There are WIPE versions and NO WIPE version. Usually you can use the NO WIPE version and keep everything. But sometimes if the roms are too different you get problems and errors, then it is recommended to flash a WIPE version.
3. Hm did not experience this yet, but there are fixes somewhere .
Whats up... No question is a stupid one buddy.... (Sometimes )
To answer your first question about kernels. Flashing kernels aren't a must. You don't have to flash them really, unless there is a need. Kernels for the most part can often change the way Android handles stuff like memory management, battery resources and even multitasking. They change (tweak) the way the Android OS itself interacts with the phones hardware. That's all a kernel is really. So read up on them before flashing them because each has their advantages and disadvantages. For example, the kernel I use gives me a good RAM boost and much better battery life but it suffers on the multitasking side and I have to do other stuff to compensate for that. That's how it is. As far as flashing them is concerned. That depends. Usually, you just flash them through recovery (Like a ROM) but I would suggest you follow the instructions they give you (if it exists).
Your second question is simple. Just follow the instructions they give you for installation. Some ROMS require a full wipe and others don't. It just depends on the ROM. When in doubt, follow the instructions (again if it exists).
Your third question is a weird one, I've never heard about that really. BUT.... Some ROMS may or may not include the GAPPS applications (Google Apps).
If the ROM you flash doesn't have Google Apps built in, it would literally be missing. You would have to flash it separately. Usually in those cases though, at the download location for that ROM, they would also provide links for GAPPS zip files to flash separately so you can have the option to go with Android Market, Gmail and such OR you can use an alternative. Short of that..... never heard of that issue before..... If the issue is happening after the Market app updates, in that case it might be some type of ROM issue, you'll probably have to somehow get the updated Vending.apk (Android Market) remove/backup the original and reinstall it manually (the way you would a regular apk). I'm guessing though....
Don't you just love research........
Thanks. And now, inevitably, answers lead to more questions.
With regards to kernels, how do I know which one's do what, are compatible with which ROMs etc. I feel like its the kinda thing that needs a giant database for them, but i know there isn't.
Also, is the process for flashing other .zip files the same (though either Rom manager or a built in Recovery option). For example, a bootanimation.zip?
Ultimately I hate the idea of asking overly simply questions, but I just don't know what I dont know, nor what is supposedly implied. Thanks.
Don't sweat it...... I'm in the same boat so I have no hangups....
I think I know what you mean when it comes to kernels. Ultimately, learning about kernels requires a lot of reading in many forums (Just like this one)... Why?.... Because in many instances the persons posting the kernels might not always give you an exact breakdown on exactly what it does..... so I understand. Your best bet would be scanning XDA. I've found all sorts of really excellent kernels lying around and the devs here love documentation so there is a good chance you'll know what it does...
You could also try DroidBasement: http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/
They actually have just what you wanted, a database....kind of. They have a very large variety of kernels for different devices so its a good place to start as well.
They also tend to do a breakdown of what each kernel is capable of, the device it should be used on and so on.
About flashing zip files. Generally speaking, most zip files are flashed through recovery but its not written in stone. Following the instructions concerning said zip files are always very important. Always look for instructions before you do so at least at first. In the case of bootanimation.zip.... They are not always flashable. But if it is flashable, you can flash it through recovery which would be the best method....
If you want though, you can replace the original bootanimation.zip file with the new one manually, once you have root and some type of root explorer (for example RootExplorer for Android).
Generally, the boot animation directory is usually, /System/Media so you can check to see if its there and if it is, just backup the original and replace it with the new one.... That should work... Always nandroid before doing so though.... before doing anything really....
Thanks. I actually had a question about nandroid but forgot. Basically, what is it. I realize contextually that it's a backup program and apparently works through the recovery menus. I read a ROM flashing step-by-step that mentioned it but couldnt figure out where to get it (not in the market unlike Ti-bu which i use currently).
Nandroid is a backup program that basically creates a flash image of your phone... If you've ever heard of "Ghosting" or "Imaging" a Hard Drive, its exactly the same thing.
Its really as good as it gets as far as data backup is concerned. Its also a low level backup, so even file structures would be recorded.. In other words, you can completely screw up your phone (file partitions everything!!!!) but once you can boot to recovery, your phone can be restored. That's why its so important because its your safety net....
Its not something that you can install like an apk, so its not in the market.
You would have to flash a custom recovery. If you have one already, it should be located in one of the menus (It changes depending on the type (brand) of recovery).
If you don't see the option in your recovery then its probably not custom and you're going to have to do some digging on these forums and maybe a bit of googling for instructions on exactly how to do so. Because it could change from device to device.
Nandroid also allows you to backup your sd-ext partition as well, so if you switch cards, you can restore to another card.... Its really incredibly handy and I wouldn't suggest you do anything until you can create nandroid backups....
Now, I'm having an interesting problem I posted this same thing in general Captivate forums but maybe someone who is looking at this/answering me knows. here's what i posted there:
have a Captivate that I recently flashed Di11i's 7.1.1 to, before that I had flashed my first ROM which was Serendipity 6.2. Both times I have found that I don't get incoming calls. People calling me get 2-3 rings, and then a traditional "busy signal" sound. On my end, either the phone vibrates once but the screen doesnt change from whatever screen I'm on. Or, The screen goes black like its going to the incoming call screen, but the black screens only flashes and goes away, as does a force close message box that goes away quickly without me clicking it.
Everything else on my phone works as far as I can tell, I've been running my current ROM for about 5 days without issues other than this one. This same exact problem also happened when I flashed Serendipity 6.2 (which I only kept for like a day because of this problem)
Ok....I currently use a G1 and most of my experience has been on HTC Devices. I'm not sure of how to reply to this as I have never really modded Samsung devices before. So I'm not really familiar with software and hardware differences (Like Bootloader, Recoveries, Radios and such). But based on what you're describing.... It sounds like a ROM or maybe a radio issue. Maybe its an issue with the phone app itself. If the app is somehow buggy then thats exactly what would happen. When the phone rings the phone app would try to run but then force close....
I'm guessing here, but it could also be a radio issue because you're getting a busy tone as well which is not good. Maybe the ROM requires a specific Radio version BEFORE its flashed.... Check the source of the download and determine if it requires a specific Radio version.
In my experience though, if the correct radio version isn't used for a ROM that requires it, the phone just won't boot..... but then again, I don't know what would happen on a Samsung Captivate.... Not sure if I can help on this one because I don't have any info on that type of hardware. I don't own one you see.....
What about if you found out a new kernel isn't as good as the old kernel, how would you go on to take away the new kernel to replace it with the old kernel? Is it the same process or even harder?
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What about if you found out a new kernel isn't as good as the old kernel, how would you go on to take away the new kernel to replace it with the old kernel? Is it the same process or even harder?
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NOW THIS IS ANNOYING..
u have to flash ur rom again..
but fortunately u dont need to do and wiping data or partitioning sd card.. jus flash rom..
Its not something that you can install like an apk, so its not in the market.
zeemar007 said:
NOW THIS IS ANNOYING..
u have to flash ur rom again..
but fortunately u dont need to do and wiping data or partitioning sd card.. jus flash rom..
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The rom kernel that I downloaded, or flashing clockwork recovery mod? Like adrenylyne's kernel for the thunderbolt.
EDIT: Never mind, I found out. I didn't mean any harm if MY POST was annoying.
If you have two kernels, in a flashable zip, you can just flash them over each other to exchange them (turn off any modification the kernel did befor though, like lagfix).
New question, I had an app (quick office) that came on my captivate. Now that I've flashed di11i's 7.1 I don't have it anymore. This is particularly peculiar because all the other native apps are still here:samsungs media player from example. How do I go about getting this missing app back on my phone. I have all the backup files on my computer so I should have the .apk (although I'm not entirely sure how to install those properly) thanks
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Hi guys,
for those of us who are waiting for at least the M1 of CM12 before switching lanes, I did a build of Carbon (and a few of CM11, previously) for our Photons.
This is an odexed ("user", not "userdbg") build, running on the cm-12.1 kernel branch and using the latest available f2fs_tools. It also features a modified init which can use either f2fs or ext4 for /cache and /data - so switching to f2fs is highly recommended, but not mandatory. Superuser is included.
This is esentially for those who switched to CM12 just for f2fs; it's miles faster than cm12, and a bit more responsive that the old official cm11 nightlies.
A word of warning. TWRP's "change filesystem" function formats the partition (PhilZ does too, but at least it makes that explicit).
So what you want to do when switching from an ext4 ROM is,
before you begin: copy everything in the internal sdcard somewhere on the external sdcard; this is needed, since the "internal sdcard" is actually a folder in /data;
in TWRP, begin by creating a backup of /data (that saves everything except the "internal sdcard" and /cache - that's why you need step #1);
do the FS change for both /data and /cache
restore the /data backup, on the freshly formatted /data partition; ignore the "different filesystem" warning, it's inconsequential;
install the ROM;
once you booted the phone, copy back the old contents of the internal sdcard
You only need to do this when you change filesystems, which will be exactly once if you like my ROMs And obviously, if you don't, you have to use the exact same procedure before flashing an ext4 ROM, if you don't want to lose data.
Though, in all fairness, I'd recommend flashing this cleanly - unless you're upgrading from an ext4 Carbon build.
A note on the radio
I have included a tool called radio-tool (of my own design) that allows people to enable/disable the US GSM lock and individual network bands;
if you're having the SIM mod, and are from, or have business in, the US, you can use it to kill the CDMA and Sprint LTE bands altogether, as well as to enable US GSM bands and disable the US GSM lock;
the source code is here
Use (as superuser)
Code:
radio-tool [dbg] [{+|-}opt [...]]
where opt is one of
uslock - US GSM lockout
cdma - CDMA bands (CDMA800 / CDMA1800 / CDMA2000 1xEV-DO)
usgsm - US GSM/HSPA bands (GSM850, GSM1900, WCDMA850, WCDMA1900)
eugsm - EU GSM/HSPA bands (GSM900, GSM1800, WCDMA900, WCDMA2100)
sprlte - Sprint LTE (LTE25, 1900)
vzwlte - Verizon LTE (LTE13, 700)
Download:
ROM: CARBON-KK-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-20150526-moto_msm8960.zip
Recoveries: TWRP-2.8.6.0-20150526-f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl-xt897.img, PhilZ-6.59.0-20150520-crkk_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl-xt897.
You do not need to use a su app with this; but if you want to, please use the latest SuperSU. Attempting to use a different, or older, su app could result in no radio.
Changes from stock Carbon:
alternative mount points support - this enables the ROM to work with either f2fs or ext4 for /data and /cache
tuned mount settings - kickass speed with both ext4 and f2fs
256MB of lz4-compressed swap space (zram0)
built on gcc-4.8-sabermod
build.prop tweaks - this defaults to GSM/WCDMA - plus a few radio and network tweaks;
added a few goodies that are present in CM builds (Term, Apollo, Calendar, CMWallpapers, VideoEditor, plus the cmdline utils);
removed the stats and the update apps (for obvious reasons)
added Romanian (programmers) keyboard support in Asanti Keypad
built with: twrp 2.8.6.0, cm12.1 kernel, cm12.1 f2fs-tools, cm12.1 e2fsprogs, cm12.1 exfat, cm12.1 fuse.
(this will allow me to pick up any improvements in kernel, file systems, and recovery, with great ease )
Quirks:
MTP doesn't start by default in TWRP, despite the fact that it claims to be enabled; disable and re-enable MTP, and it will work
in PhilZ' mount menu, entries for cache and data are duplicated; this is cosmetic - mounting and umounting works just fine, regarless which of the two entries for each partition you choose
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Older, CM11 vanilla builds:
Download:
cm-11-20150427-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip - repo syncs, builds with TWRP, uses branch cm-12.1 of the kernel, uses latest available f2fs-tools
Use latest SuperSU with any of the CM ROMs - older, or different, su apps might make the radio not work.
NOTE. These ROMs are actually moto_msm8960_jbbl, so they should work on all devices for which official moto_msm8960_jbbl builds did, as long as they're still on the JB bootloader (jbbl) and you have a device-specific recovery that supports f2fs. A suitable PhilZ touch for non-xt897's can be found on the AtrixHD thread, courtesy of @palmbeach05, or you could use PhilZ-6.59.0-20150506-crkk_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl-mb866 (note, despite the -mb866 suffix, it should work on any moto_msm8960_jbbl device except xt897).
The current repo is available here. To use,
repo init -u https://github.com/mionica/android.git -b cr_kk_gcc-4.8
repo sync
. build/envsetup.sh
breakfast carbon_moto_msm8960_jbbl
edit the .repo/local_manifests/roomservice.xml, changing the device project for android_device_motorola_moto_msm8960_jbbl to
Code:
<project path="android" name="mionica/android_device_motorola_moto_msm8960_jbbl" remote="mionica" revision="cr_kk_xt897" />
repo sync again
finally, (cd vendor/carbon && ./get-prebuilts).
After you do that, you're good to go - (optional) configure ccache (if it's your first build), (optional) enable ccache, choosecombo, then mka carbon 2>&1 | tee BUILD.LOG.
If you're not sure how to do any of these, either just use the provided ROM, or search on youtube for "building CyanogenMod" - that should help, I know it helped me Anyway, this thread is not the right place for learning how to build Android.
Mirrored for archival purposes.
This server WILL BE SLOW. You've been warned.
http://lionspaws.net/cm-11-20150401-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl/
98e652a97965ba5d88cb9068fe7d4dbe *cm-11-20150401-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip
Using it for the last few days, seems good so far. Thanks
taking a break
Quick one. I'll take a break from this for now - my little sister's phone broke down, so she got my Photon. I just ordered one from the States today, but between that arriving and cornholiogsm doing the SIM mod, it might take a while (US to Ireland to Czech Republic to Ireland - and Tomas is pretty busy in my experience).
Thanks much for building this!
Forgive my ignorance, I've been using CM11 a while but other than the initial installation in which I followed wiki instructions, have only ever updated thru the phone. But since there hasn't been an update in a couple months, I'm considering installing this, particularly to solve the google service problems. If it makes the phone faster with better file system and ram stuff, that's a bonus, although concerned that might cause problems in the future. I don't fully understand what you mean by messed up build and odexed user stuff means. Basically I wonder can I just install this on top of the latest CM11 nightly without issues ("dirty flash")? My "recovery" is recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.4-xt926 clock but I only used that cuz that was what the wiki said, I've never used it since the initial install.
If the answer is yes, and I understand your post right, these are the install steps:
1. Download cm-11-20150408-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip
2. Download & install TWRP-2.8.6.0-20150408-cm11_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.img
3. Change filesystem of /cache and /data to f2fs using TWRP
4. Install cm-11-20150408-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip using TWRP
You said something about flash SuperSU alongside this. I don't recall having to do that before, can you provide a little more info?
Do I need to reinstall gapps, and if so, is it the same as I used before, gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip?
And a couple more easy questions I could probably find by searching... how do I install that twrp....img file, can I do that thru clockwork... and how do I get into clockwork anyway, I remember it was holding some volume key during power or something but last time I tried to guess weird things happened with robots getting operations and such so if you happen to know the right keys/etc that would be convenient... will twrp replace clockwork and have the same keys to get boot to it, if not, what keys?
And last but not least... when CM11 M13 finally comes out, will I be able to upgrade to that from this, or perhaps because of the stuff you've taken from CM12 (f2fs/zram/etc) maybe I can't, or maybe I can if I set the filesystem back to default with TWRP first? How bout if one day I decide to use Lollipop (which I may never do anyway as I understand it's only recommended for phones with more than 1GB memory), will I be able to upgrade to CM12 the same way as regular CM11 user? I'd always used official stuff so this unofficial is making me nervous, but I really want my google stuff working right again and my battery to last all day like it used to...
Wait what wiki told you to use CWM for xt926!? CM's wiki?
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Thanks much for building this!
Forgive my ignorance, I've been using CM11 a while but other than the initial installation in which I followed wiki instructions, have only ever updated thru the phone. But since there hasn't been an update in a couple months, I'm considering installing this, particularly to solve the google service problems. If it makes the phone faster with better file system and ram stuff, that's a bonus, although concerned that might cause problems in the future. I don't fully understand what you mean by messed up build and odexed user stuff means. Basically I wonder can I just install this on top of the latest CM11 nightly without issues ("dirty flash")? My "recovery" is recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.4-xt926 clock but I only used that cuz that was what the wiki said, I've never used it since the initial install.
If the answer is yes, and I understand your post right, these are the install steps:
1. Download cm-11-20150408-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip
2. Download & install TWRP-2.8.6.0-20150408-cm11_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.img
3. Change filesystem of /cache and /data to f2fs using TWRP
4. Install cm-11-20150408-UNOFFICIAL_f2fs-moto_msm8960_jbbl.zip using TWRP
You said something about flash SuperSU alongside this. I don't recall having to do that before, can you provide a little more info?
Do I need to reinstall gapps, and if so, is it the same as I used before, gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip?
And a couple more easy questions I could probably find by searching... how do I install that twrp....img file, can I do that thru clockwork... and how do I get into clockwork anyway, I remember it was holding some volume key during power or something but last time I tried to guess weird things happened with robots getting operations and such so if you happen to know the right keys/etc that would be convenient... will twrp replace clockwork and have the same keys to get boot to it, if not, what keys?
And last but not least... when CM11 M13 finally comes out, will I be able to upgrade to that from this, or perhaps because of the stuff you've taken from CM12 (f2fs/zram/etc) maybe I can't, or maybe I can if I set the filesystem back to default with TWRP first? How bout if one day I decide to use Lollipop (which I may never do anyway as I understand it's only recommended for phones with more than 1GB memory), will I be able to upgrade to CM12 the same way as regular CM11 user? I'd always used official stuff so this unofficial is making me nervous, but I really want my google stuff working right again and my battery to last all day like it used to...
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I agree with @arrrghhh you should use what your device maintainers recommend you use. I would also recommend you looking at what bootloader you have before trying this as there are KKBL builds in a different thread on I believe the RHD section. Odexed is like what you get from the manufacturer. It has .apk and odex files in it. odex assist the apk files. 6.0.4.4 is outdated, as 6.0.5.1 is the most recent. The install method you just recited is exactly what the OP just said. Per the OP, SU was not built into the 4/8 ROM, so you need to flash it as well. Yes you should be able to flash that Gapps, you just have to update your Gapps after finishing setup via playstore. Lollipop is able to be used on your device, as it currently has official builds. 5.0 had issues, 5.1 just got its official release yesterday. As far as unofficial builds go, I refer you to epinter and krystianp who both took an older device and provided unofficial updates that were very stable, despite the neverending work on a custom kernel. Furthermore, you can go talk to Quarx about unofficial builds, since his builds has been running the Defy for years. So being nervous about an unofficial build is like saying you're nervous about using a generic brand of something vs the more publicized item. Battery life will always be an issue if you have a bad setup (wifi and bt on all the time, max bright screen, hrs of listening to music or streaming, etc.)
@enigma9o7 Personally, I can't wait to do an unofficial cm11 build based on the cm11 m13 code base - with f2fs, and I expect, by then, zram (if it proves useful on cm11 at all - this thing works unreasonably well to begin with ). So I wouldn't worry about m13, as I'm pretty sure to release a parallel build on its side.
Now, I'm a bit impaired re. testing equipment atm but I have a mind to keep building this weekly or so anyway, while I judge the commits to be low-risk, and resume the riskier stuff once I get the new toy. Was away from Dublin this week, hence from my home PC , but that gets fixed tonight...
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@enigma9o7 Personally, I can't wait to do an unofficial cm11 build based on the cm11 m13 code base - with f2fs, and I expect, by then, zram (if it proves useful on cm11 at all - this thing works unreasonably well to begin with ). So I wouldn't worry about m13, as I'm pretty sure to release a parallel build on its side.
Now, I'm a bit impaired re. testing equipment atm but I have a mind to keep building this weekly or so anyway, while I judge the commits to be low-risk, and resume the riskier stuff once I get the new toy. Was away from Dublin this week, hence from my home PC , but that gets fixed tonight...
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One question i did have that i was wondering, when you built the kernel, did you set it up for GSM, CDMA, or both? I know we've talked via pm about things, but i've gotten it to boot up with your kernel, but no signal and baseband unknown
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palmbeach05 said:
One question i did have that i was wondering, when you built the kernel, did you set it up for GSM, CDMA, or both? I know we've talked via pm about things, but i've gotten it to boot up with your kernel, but no signal and baseband unknown
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Mmm will have to check. For me it's working in the EU using GSM/HSPA on the xt897 with the SIM mod.
I used the stock config from the cm12.1 xt897 kernel - I'll have to diff that with the cm11 one.
Another possibility is that it wouldn't work because of SElinux mismatches between kernel and userland. The following has to be in the fstab:
Code:
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware ext4 ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,[b]context=u:object_r:radio_efs_file:s0[/b] wait,check
If it doesn't, on the xt897 you get no WiFi, but I expect results might vary by device
All I'm saying is, it might or might not be a kernel config, would have to check when I get to my PC.
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I used the stock config from the cm12.1 xt897 kernel - I'll have to diff that with the cm11 one.
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I reviewed the entire changelog from cm-11.0 to HEAD, and couldn't find anything that looked even remotely radio-related, so I reckon it's most likely the SElinux thing. And now that I built a TWRP that has a chance of running on AHD, I guess you could tell me whether that's the case
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Wait what wiki told you to use CWM for xt926!? CM's wiki?
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Yep, pretty sure. All started a year ago when I was looking for an android smartphone with a keyboard, this one was rated best, wikipedia itself said CM was required for kitkat, so looked into CM, found their installation wiki http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_xt897 which step #2 is install clockworkmod recovery. Right now if I follow the link it leads to recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.3-asanti.img, but I'm pretty sure at the time I originally installed it lead to that version I used, which did work fine for installing CM as I do have it installed. But it's possible something else lead me to that version, I can't really remember for 100% sure, but I definitely started from CMs wiki.
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I would also recommend you looking at what bootloader you have before trying this as there are KKBL builds in a different thread on I believe the RHD section
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The install method you just recited is exactly what the OP just said. Per the OP, SU was not built into the 4/8 ROM, so you need to flash it as well.
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Yes you should be able to flash that Gapps, you just have to update your Gapps after finishing setup via playstore.
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So being nervous about an unofficial build is like saying you're nervous about using a generic brand of something vs the more publicized item.
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Thanks. My understanding is there is no KKBL for Photon Q anyway, but anyways I've always used the msm...jbbl roms.
Okay, will add installing SU to install steps.
Since I already have that version of gapps, my question is do I need to reinstall it then update everything. Shouldn't it already be good? I didn't have to reinstall gapps with the official nightlies, so want to know if I really need to for this.
My concern with unofficial is not that I dont trust it or think it's less stable, just that it may make it more difficult in future to upgrade or get back onto official path as I may not be able to follow the same steps as everyone else.
I'm still unsure if it's okay to dirty flash over CM11 nightly. I do actually use my phone for work so don't want to mess it up... but really want google stuff working again and can't keep waiting forever for official cm11.
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Yep, pretty sure. All started a year ago when I was looking for an android smartphone with a keyboard, this one was rated best, wikipedia itself said CM was required for kitkat, so looked into CM, found their installation wiki http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_xt897 which step #2 is install clockworkmod recovery. Right now if I follow the link it leads to recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.3-asanti.img, but I'm pretty sure at the time I originally installed it lead to that version I used, which did work fine for installing CM as I do have it installed. But it's possible something else lead me to that version, I can't really remember for 100% sure, but I definitely started from CMs wiki.
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Thanks. My understanding is there is no KKBL for Photon Q anyway, but anyways I've always used the msm...jbbl roms.
Okay, will add installing SU to install steps.
Since I already have that version of gapps, my question is do I need to reinstall it then update everything. Shouldn't it already be good? I didn't have to reinstall gapps with the official nightlies, so want to know if I really need to for this.
My concern with unofficial is not that I dont trust it or think it's less stable, just that it may make it more difficult in future to upgrade or get back onto official path as I may not be able to follow the same steps as everyone else.
I'm still unsure if it's okay to dirty flash over CM11 nightly. I do actually use my phone for work so don't want to mess it up... but really want google stuff working again and can't keep waiting forever for official cm11.
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Yes, you can dirty flash this ontop of an existing CM11 after switching /data and /cache from ext4 to f2fs. Gapps will be fine since they install on the /system partition.
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Switched to Carbon, but preserved most of the goodies from CM; links in the first post.
Also added a note on how to hack your radio to disable CDMA/LTE - so you could go with this phone in the US and never register on Sprint's network (unless they have a GSM/WCDMA network in place too, which should be fine).
I decided to give it a try with your latest CM11. I installed the TWRP from your first post, was able to backup fine, but don't see how to reformat as f2fs....
enigma9o7 said:
I decided to give it a try with your latest CM11. I installed the TWRP from your first post, was able to backup fine, but don't see how to reformat as f2fs....
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There should be an option to wipe things, go there
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palmbeach05 said:
There should be an option to wipe things, go there
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Thanks, found it.
And now I'm stuck. But I bet it's an easy solution.
I changed filesystems, restored data & cache, installed cm (04/27), installed superuser (wasnt sure if needed, but figured it couldnt hurt), and I booted.
No wifi or phone service but I'm hoping the last step will fix that, restoring sdcard0. However, I can't figure out how to copy that back. I used ES File Explorer to copy it to a folder in sdcard1 before I started. But now I can't paste it back to /storage, always told copy fails. There is a 0 byte file called sdcard0 there, if I delete it, it comes back. Since it's not a directory I can't change to it and copy the contents of my previous save into it... I tried deleting it and making a folder called sdcard0 before it recreated the 0 byte file but that failed too.
I thought maybe I'd try command line, but I'm no expert there... I su'd and tried similar things as in EX but similar results.
I thought I'd try to copy it back with TWRPs file manager, but I couldn't figure out where to put it, there was no /storage directory, so I tried putting it in / and that started copying for a while but before it was done it rebooted and just hung at the TeamWin screen until I powered off...
So yeah. Dunno how to restore sdcard0. Help please....
edit: maybe superuser doesn't work? I tried to use default "file manager" and it wont let me switch to root mode. Then I noticed that while trying ES File Manager again I didnt see the popup about "root granted" or something like that that I normally see. But superuser is installed, its in the apps menu and runs and a quick look thru the settings seems okay to me, but I don't recall ever setting anything before.
edit2: I'm giving up and going to try to go back to last cm11 nightly and hope my phone starts working again. I tried reflashing multiple times, eventually tried supersu instead of superuser and that worked to get root explorer working, but I still couldn't copy over sdcard0 using ES anyway, but using default filemanager I could start (although I hate that filemanager cuz I dont know how to change directories, usually have to tap about 15 times before it opens a folder), but it would always start then reboot before it finished. So I still dunno how to copy that back.
enigma9o7 said:
No wifi or phone service but I'm hoping the last step will fix that, restoring sdcard0. However, I can't figure out how to copy that back. I used ES File Explorer to copy it to a folder in sdcard1 before I started. But now I can't paste it back to /storage, always told copy fails. There is a 0 byte file called sdcard0 there, if I delete it, it comes back. Since it's not a directory I can't change to it and copy the contents of my previous save into it... I tried deleting it and making a folder called sdcard0 before it recreated the 0 byte file but that failed too.
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Superuser is probably not a smart choice on KK. Use SuperSU instead.
The very first boot is somehow handled differently - I discovered this when I worked on integrating SuperSU into a catch-all zip of mine (alongside Windows Mobile ringtones, Midnight Commander, patched hosts, and a few other goodies). I got no radio with my package, but if I flased SuperSU instead, it worked.
It took me a coupe of tries to find the culprit - a flag file in /etc that SuperSU created after the first boot (and I attempted to create that from my zip). Made my zip not create that, and bang! everything worked just fine. Btw, removing that file after the first boot had no effect, the phone'd be screwed until you wiped /data.
Now, the fact that SuperSU handles the first boot differently kinda makes me think that older su's might very well not work (properly) on KK - and what you're reporting seems to confirm that.
I would strongly suggest going Carbon instead; that includes a working su. It's essentially CM with a different boot logo and a good few extra customization options (which you can safely ignore if you're not into that sort of thing).
So if you didn't go back yet, try either
flashing carbon and being done with it, everything will work;
flash the cm rom alongside supersu, not any other root app,
Either way, root will work, phone will work, and you'll be able to copy stuff around to your heart's desire.
As for a FM, I strongly suggest an app called Total Commander. The UI is atrocious as of late (the author is obviously better at coding than designing icons ), but it' probably the most complete FM solution for Android, bar none. And it's free, without adds; wait til you try it in landscape
I'm sorry for you inconvenience, but I also somehow feel it's earned - the OP said SuperSU back before Carbon replaced CM; because that's what I was using, and it worked for me - no guarantees if you went your own way. I've re-added the limitation and made it bold+orange in the CM part of the post (Carbon has its own, fully working, su).
Added the 2015.05.03 build of Carbon; links to 2015.04.30 removed.
At this stage, CM users should have everything they liked about CM, already compiled in (except for WhisperPush, the point of which I don't quite see).
Changelog from 2015.04.30:
added Calendar (!!!) - why on earth would the Carbon guys build an ROM without this?!
built on gcc-4.8.x-sabermod-20150429
added CMWallpapers, Video Editor
added the previously-missed vim, unrar, zip and gdbserver
synced with upstream; in particular, there was a noteworthy GPU memory allocation improvement in the kernel
Todo:
add an app for messing with the NV settings (enable/disable bands, enable/disable US GSM lockdown)
enable zram.
Added the 2015.05.05 build of Carbon; links to 2015.05.03/04 removed.
Changelog from 2015.05.04:
set default governor to msm-dcvs - better out-of-box performance
imported the cm-12.1 init support (including swap enabling)
Changelog from 2015.05.03:
support for fstab alternatives, cm12-style (my own code in fs_mgr); now you can use the ROM with either f2fs or ext4 for /cache and /data
massively improved FS performance for both ext4 and f2fs - tuned the fstab settings for best performance;
added radio-tool to enable/disable US GSM lock and groups of radio bands (CDMAs, US GSM/HSPA, EU GSM/HSPA, Sprint LTE, Verizon LTE) - see spoiler in first post
Todo:
figure out why swapping doesn't want to start, despite the device being there and mkswap succeeding (error -16).
Updating the recovery to a 20150505 build is highly recommended.
This thread is a direct continuation of @Hashcode's work for porting to Lollipop. Because of his and @verygreen's heavy lifting, porting to CM12.1 happened almost painlessly, for which I'm grateful. Their contributions compelled me to share something back. Thus, I'm uploading personal builds of CM12.1 for HD and HD+ in this shared Box folder. While I do not own a hummingbird, sister builds are generated more or less concomitantly.
Some of the important device-specific changes from KitKat/CM11 are described in Hashcode's thread. The goal is to keep as close as possible to CM upstream, and integrate whatever fixes and enhancements we find over time. More progress information will be added here gradually, as I have time. A lot of useful discussion happened on the CM12.0 thread, and the status of things is available to anyone willing to search. Hunting for possible bug fixes, understanding how to actually boot a newer kernel are some of my current priorities. I am not a developer, and the usual disclaimers apply.
Recovery Information
Up to date eMMC TWRP images are included in the respective device folders. Personally, I've had a good experience with TWRP, and do not plan on looking at other recovery distributions. Now, there have been (very) sporadic reports of broken partition tables, soft-bricked devices, etc, blamed on recovery. Although recovery is usually not the actual culprit, here are some ways you can rescue a completely unresponsive device:
It's a good idea to keep a microSD card around, with verygreen's external recovery image from here.
Once booted off the external recovery, you can easily fix whatever is broken (ADB is your friend here). There's no need to re-install CM11, as re-flashing recovery and/or boot will most likely fix your issue.
Recovery partition: dd if=<path to recovery image> of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/recovery
Boot partition: dd if=<path to boot/kernel image> of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/boot
Afterwards, you should at the very least have a working internal recovery. I don't recall any instance where /system and/or /data became corrupted because of recovery, but you can certainly fix them now.
I've never tested this part, but I believe that you may be able to install an eMMC CM12 ZIP with verygreen's external CWM, even if /data and /cache are F2FS (assuming you copied all ZIPs onto the external card). My understanding is that only /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system (always ext4, mountable by any recovery) is touched during installation, so you may even bypass TWRP completely.
P.S. If you broke you bootloader by flashing the wrong recovery flavor, despite all images being clearly labeled as hummingbird or ovation, well, no sympathy for you… Still, you can bring your device back to life within minutes as described above.
Progress towards Official CM12 Nightlies
As of now, most things are ready for turning official nightlies on, including official TWRP images and SELinux Enforcing support, albeit with this proviso:
My HW composer changes described in post #3 and #602 are not included upstream, since the plan was to fix upstream for all devices using CyanogenMod/android_hardware_ti_omap4.
The stumbling block with SELinux Enforcing had been remounting /system upon each new install, to write the customized WLAN NVS BIN. I'm avoiding this step by modifying the scripts to store the Wi-Fi calibration data in /rom now, with the added benefit that it only needs to be generated once. These changes are also not captured upstream, and may never be. If someone figures out an upstream-approved way of writing to /system upon first boot under Enforcing, then we'll probably switch back to the old fix-mac script.
On a personal note, posting on my threads is pretty tricky business... My builds were never intended for general consumption, but rather a way to move porting and development forward, and I often debate only keeping the GitHub repositories for people to build themselves. Obviously, that would upset hundreds of people at this point, so I make an effort to upload reasonably bug-free builds, as well as help even with trivial non-problems whenever I can. Nevertheless, low quality, or badly written posts (and I don't mean bad English) are a sure way to get ignored, and my memory is pretty long term Basically, I won't police content here, but I also don't want to deal with the the kind of stupidity and entitlement so prevalent in real life.
In conclusion, no need to thank (unless you really want to), or ask about donating, etc, but do reassess the limits of your current understanding before making bold claims, as I do too. Nothing worse than having to fix a trail of misinformation... Also, comparisons to other people's work (unless constructive), complains about the state of things, or simply starting with "no offense" and such, will make your problem much less likely to be solved by me.
XDA:DevDB Information
UNOFFICIAL CM12.1, ROM for the Barnes & Noble Nook HD, HD
Contributors
amaces, Hashcode, verygreen, Jon Lee
Source Code: http://github.com/airend
ROM OS Version: 5.1.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2015-04-16
Last Updated 2015-09-14
All Things Kernel
The information below (branch names, kernel progress, etc) is slowly becoming out of date (post #2 in the Marshmallow thread has more details). Although it feels pretty archaic at this point, I'm leaving this information here, mostly for historical reasons.
My primary focus has been and continues to be an even better kernel. Instead of opening a separate thread, I will be using this space for kernel updates and related information, in a sort of log format.
Since making any of the fancier OMAP-specific kernel trees work properly is a huge headache with limited benefits, I just merged the linux-3.0.101 patches, mainly for testing (the d-3.0 branch). These patches may help with the ARM core, not so much with OMAP parts, and certainly no change to any of the Nook-specific systems. Subjectively, the normal kernel still feels marginally more stable, but hey, everything still works.
It's mid May, and for the past couple of weeks, branch g-3.0 has slowly become my default kernel. It contains additional merges from the Google 3.0 OMAP kernel, the .101 commits, plus cherry-picked changes from various sources. Hopefully, all these make for a better kernel, although the holy grail remains K3.4…
I've been experimenting with improvements upon KSM; UKSM and PKSM are supposed to better recover duplicated/lost RAM (the former in the default g-3.0 branch, the latter in p-3.0). As with KSM, they need to be enabled (and optimally tuned) through the sysfs interface (echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/[up]ksm/run).
A significant number of patches were added for LZ4 support, and to make zram/zcache actually use it. I think it makes things snappier, but we'll have to wait and see. Also, it turns out that good old KSM is better after all; PKSM creates instability, and UKSM is a lot more CPU hungry, very much undesired on an already underpowered device.
Another exciting week for K3.0… @Hashcode uploaded a bunch of LMK/low RAM/etc optimizations for some AMZ/OMAP44xx variants, which I'm stealing for the HDs. As I'm better understanding the use of MFLAG/QOS for frame prioritization, I ported some of these changes from K3.4. The most exciting however, is the DMA-buffered K3.0 that I have working (branch dma-buf). It definitely feels better, although figuring out how to completely switch away from memory carveouts, fix the communication with OMX/Ducati for HW accelerated video, is complicated. This branch will remain an experimental project till K3.4 is up and running.
Just for testing, I'm rebasing most of my changes on top of the official CM12.1 kernel, and made the new iosched branch default for a while. This branch contains many changes to the block layer, cherry-picked from @faux123's tuna kernel. We now have newer I/O schedulers, such as FIOPS, ROW, and eventually BFQ. The current default elevator is ROW with 256 KB readahead. A few other interesting patches popped up, mainly related to unaligned access on ARM, and related optimizations.
Since July, all changes are grouped into feature branches on top of the upstream kernel, which are finally merged into the cm-12 branch, the default for the foreseeable future. This way of doing things is easier to maintain, and makes these changes easier to read, when deciding what to keep/discard for upstream.
HW Composer Issues & Fixes
The goal, and probably one of the base requirements to have these devices included in the CM12 nightlies, is to have a stable ROM with normal HW accelerated overlays. As of now, we achieved this by mostly reverting to the HW composer in CM11, although understanding why the newer code in hardware/ti/omap4 creates these underflows is equally important. Post #602 contains more information about this issue.
Starting with the July 14th builds, disabling HW overlays shouldn't be necessary any longer.
Before mid-July, we were using the upstream HWC in CyanogenMod/android_hardware_ti_omap4. As discussed ad nauseam, that combination of upstream K3.0/PVR modules/SGX DDK binaries/HWC runs into serious GFX buffer underflows. With five or more composer overlays, the panel attempts to reset constantly, which causes display flickers, followed by reboot (dumpsys SurfaceFlinger|grep -A 10 type will show how consistent this bug is).
In the meantime, a poor workaround was to disable HW overlays in Developer options. To make it stick across reboots, you could use this /data/local/userinit.sh:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
(while :
do
sf=$(service list | grep -c "SurfaceFlinger")
if [ $sf -eq 1 ]
then
service call SurfaceFlinger 1008 i32 1
break
else
sleep 2
fi
done
) &
First!!! Great to see you start your own thread. Thanks for all the great work
ac-t660 said:
If I have the 3/24 ROM already installed, should I dirty-flash the 4/8 version or do I need to reset and fresh install it in order to properly get the changes?
And like everybody else has said - thanks amaces and hashcode, incredible job!
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Doh! I must have been typing my question as you were creating this new thread. Moving it since you and everyone using your builds are moving over here. Thanks again!
Based on this, I'd say that should be possible soon, if not already. However, that wasn't the case with the initial builds. I'd say no harm wiping just /system, and maybe /cache, flashing a CM12.1 ZIP, plus the proper GApps, and see how it goes.
Thanks!
I've flashed your 8 Apr build, and it (mostly) looks good. I still get the occasional forced reboots after some flickering. The flickering tends to occur when changing from portrait to landscape and pulling down the settings bar.
I very much look forward to see some progression.
Can you provide some instructions with installing TWRP on the HD+? I have Cyanoboot installed and flashed your build using CWM recovery.
Thanks.
In response to this post in the 12.0 thread.
amaces said:
The changelog would basically be the CM12.1 one
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Great, so can you point to the latest CM12.1 commit that you've included when you make a release? Knowing the date doesn't pin it down completely.
amaces said:
About the ovation kernels, those images were for CM12.0, and while they may work with current builds (for reasons stated above), they don't provide any benefit anymore.
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So we should use our original boot/kernel images?
Thanks!!
Hey amaces,
Thanks so much for the 12.1 builds. On the 4/4 build and will be testing out the 4/8 build over the weekend.
Thanks!!
shdware said:
Can you provide some instructions with installing TWRP on the HD+? I have Cyanoboot installed and flashed your build using CWM recovery.
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Flashify can do that for you inside the ROM, or you could dd if=recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/recovery inside adb shell or terminal. Also, current TWRP allows flashing of boot/recovery images directly.
MossyTC said:
Great, so can you point to the latest CM12.1 commit that you've included when you make a release? Knowing the date doesn't pin it down completely.
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Sure, can do, although that kind of tagging needs to be thought out. I could simply append the CM review change number, but that's not very useful since most changes are in repositories that don't affect our devices. I'll look if anyone found a good way to do it (frankly, I don't recall seeing it done).
MossyTC said:
So we should use our original boot/kernel images?
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The ROMs come with their own kernel. Those independent kernels were simply testing a few patches for the buffer underflow/flickering issues, and were meant for easy swapping within compatible CM12.0 builds.
Hi amaces,
I had done the 5.0 build, what do I need to do in order to pull in the 5.1?
TIA
andtron said:
Hi amaces,
I had done the 5.0 build, what do I need to do in order to pull in the 5.1?
TIA
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I think it's better to backup your apps (I use titanium), do a full wipe and then install the 5.1 rom and gapps.
I am running the 04/08 and it is working fine except one major problem that is the bane of Android everywhere since kitkat...
It keeps telling me I have insufficient storage space to do anything, update apps or install new apps, and there are hardly any apps on the device.
When I go to Settings -> Storage it says total space 12.67GB but "Available" is only 700MB, which doesn't add up and doesn't agree with the graph.
I have:
Apps 0.92GB
Pictures, videos 5.62MB
Audio 296KB
Downloads 1.20GB
Cached data 1.24MB
Misc 1.65GB
Adding that up is just under 3.8GB total so I should have about 8.9GB free, but it only reports 700MB.
Something is wrong with the free space calculation. Any help here? This wasn't a problem on the previous CM12.
BTW I did a clean install (full system wipe) before installing the CM12.1.
Any help is appreciated. I am at my wit's end on this issue.
Thanks Tschumi.
My question is more on how to pull the sources and build the 5.1 myself.
mr72 said:
I am running the 04/08 and it is working fine except one major problem that is the bane of Android everywhere since kitkat...
It keeps telling me I have insufficient storage space to do anything, update apps or install new apps, and there are hardly any apps on the device.
When I go to Settings -> Storage it says total space 12.67GB but "Available" is only 700MB, which doesn't add up and doesn't agree with the graph.
[…] Adding that up is just under 3.8GB total so I should have about 8.9GB free, but it only reports 700MB.
Something is wrong with the free space calculation. Any help here? This wasn't a problem on the previous CM12.
BTW I did a clean install (full system wipe) before installing the CM12.1.
Any help is appreciated. I am at my wit's end on this issue.
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That must be… frustrating. So, you're saying this happened on CM11, then CM12.0 was fine, and now the bug is back on CM12.1? There are a couple of unusual/puzzling issues that people report, including the reboot-instead-of-poweroff bug. Never having experienced these, it's hard to figure out the cause, but I'll keep it in mind.
andtron said:
My question is more on how to pull the sources and build the 5.1 myself.
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These days, it's very easy; you simply upgrade your LP5.0/CM12.0 sources with: repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-12.1
mr72 said:
I am running the 04/08 and it is working fine except one major problem that is the bane of Android everywhere since kitkat...
It keeps telling me I have insufficient storage space to do anything, update apps or install new apps, and there are hardly any apps on the device.
BTW I did a clean install (full system wipe) before installing the CM12.1.
Any help is appreciated. I am at my wit's end on this issue.
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I think it has something to do with updating from stock to cm. Go to 'terminal emulator' app, type 'su' then 'df'. Let us know what is the output.
Also, backup all your data. Do you mind clean install again? Which recovery are you using? If you convert your data partition to F2FS I'm sure it'll fix it. Not because F2FS will fix it, but because converting it to F2FS will format the entire /data partition (including the virtual /sdcard). There might be old files downloaded when you used stock rom.
extrem0 said:
...If you convert your data partition to F2FS...
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Quick question, how does one go about converting the partition to f2fs on the ovation? I've done a couple searches but can't find anything definitive such as which recovery I should have installed and if it is a zip that I would need to flash.
Thanks!
J-Pod said:
Quick question, how does one go about converting the partition to f2fs on the ovation? I've done a couple searches but can't find anything definitive such as which recovery I should have installed and if it is a zip that I would need to flash.
Thanks!
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I did it using twrp recovery 2.8.6.0 built by amaces. There's an option that allows you to convert some partitions to f2fs. Remember, it will erase all your files in your nook. Do a backup of your files before converting to f2fs.
J-Pod said:
Quick question, how does one go about converting the partition to f2fs on the ovation? I've done a couple searches but can't find anything definitive such as which recovery I should have installed and if it is a zip that I would need to flash.
Thanks!
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Using @amaces TWRP, go to Wipe, check the data box, select "advanced wipe then it's something like " repair file system". I'm sure you can figure it from that.
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 7.1 (Nougat), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
Code:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you.
*
*/
LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. You will need to provide your own Google Applications package (gapps). LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.
All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit our Gerrit Code Review.
Download Links
LineageOS:
Downloads: https://download.lineageos.org/d2vzw
Google apps addon:
OpenGapps: http://opengapps.org/ (you'll want a zip for the ARM platform, Android version 7.1)
HEADS UP: Be sure you flash the gapps package with your rom. If you boot your rom, then go back and try to flash gapps after the fact, you're gonna have a bad time.
Firmware:
Your best bet is to be on the MF1 bootstack/NE1 modem combo. Here's a flashable zip (this only needs to be done once): http://www.invisiblek.org/firmware/d2/d2vzw_MF1_firmware_NE1_modem.zip
Misc Links
Changelog:
Link: https://download.lineageos.org/d2vzw/changes/
Learn to build yourself:
Link: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/d2vzw/build
The LineageOS team would like to thank everyone involved in helping with testing, coding, debugging & documenting! Enjoy!
XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 14.1 Nightlies for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 (d2vzw), ROM for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III
Contributors
invisiblek
Source Code: http://github.com/LineageOS
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
Version Information
Status: Nightly
Created 2016-12-05
Last Updated 2016-12-05
reserved
Hallelujah!
Is this the eighth or ninth life of this great phone?
@invisiblek, are there plans for the release of a Snapshot of CM13.0 for the d2vzw?
Congratulations on the "official" release!! Thank you for such an excellent and stable ROM for our ooooold, but no longer irrelevant, s3!
Nice job! Wich partitions can I mount as f2fs?
Just out of curiosity regarding the CM14.1...
Anyone having issue with internet connectivity specifically with the Play Store only (downloaded from Open GApps)?
Also, is anyone having issues with their external MicroSD. Though the external MicroSD can be viewed and can browse it, I'm Specifically stating the inability to execute, open, write to, etc...?
I had already sent the issues I'm having along with all my log files to @invisiblek and was curious as to any others experiencing the same/similar issues I experienced.
Thank you all for your time and understanding!
Thank you @invisiblek and other contributors. This is a great rom for this old phone. My DD is a LG G4, again, I went back to that after three Note 7's and all that drama. It's sad when a years old Galaxy S3 is running the latest and greatest but my LG G4 is still on last years Android! Yikes
I'm only using the SGS3 as a Wifi device so I can't comment on Cell radio functions but it's very smooth and seems markedly faster than when I was last using it as a DD. The only issue I've had and it may not even be related to this rom... I wanted to use Chainfire's PryFi to stick it to Kohls and Walmart that use WiFi Mac trackers, but when I launch PryFi and turn it on, it almost immediately crashes no matter what I do. Wipe cache, dalvik, reset and I get the same thing.
Thanks for the great work. Much appreciated!
@invisiblek, I'm reading elsewhere that the CM14.x should be installed first, then after the setup is accomplished, reboot back in to the recovery, then flash the GApps package.
Is this correct?
I just wanted to be sure in regards to the unconventional method of flashing the CM and the GApps together then reboot.
But, as you may know, after installing the 2 conventionally, I'm having trouble with the Play Store as well as the External MicroSD after setup.
I'd really appreciate your confirmation.
Thanks a Bunch!
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Ibuprophen said:
@invisiblek, I'm reading elsewhere that the CM14.x should be installed first, then after the setup is accomplished, reboot back in to the recovery, then flash the GApps package.
Is this correct?
I just wanted to be sure in regards to the unconventional method of flashing the CM and the GApps together then reboot.
But, as you may know, after installing the 2 conventionally, I'm having trouble with the Play Store as well as the External MicroSD after setup.
I'd really appreciate your confirmation.
Thanks a Bunch!
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I had a problem installing the first time - I put build+Open GApps Aroma in the que and when the Aroma install was supposed to come up everything went black but the phone was still on. I flashed one and then the other without booting and it booted into initial setup normally.
But, I created a Nandroid with TWRP 2.8.7.0 and tried to restore the last Unofficial 14.1 build nandroid that worked normally but I couldn't get the sim card to work. Same when I tried to restore the new official. I tried numerous different ways to hold my mouth but it would never mount the SIM and settings was crapped out. I was able to restore my last MM nandroid and have it work normally. I've just switched to the latest TWRP 3.x.x.x. Don't know if that has anything to do with it....
I'm clean installing the new official again! It got stuck on boot (wrong boot animation, too) but pulling the batt and restarting, it went normally. (My Tibu settings were in the /data wipe. Gotta mount one and pull them )
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I had a problem installing the first time - I put build+Open GApps Aroma in the que and when the Aroma install was supposed to come up everything went black but the phone was still on. I flashed one and then the other without booting and it booted into initial setup normally.
But, I created a Nandroid with TWRP 2.8.7.0 and tried to restore the last Unofficial 14.1 build nandroid that worked normally but I couldn't get the sim card to work. Same when I tried to restore the new official. I tried numerous different ways to hold my mouth but it would never mount the SIM and settings was crapped out. I was able to restore my last MM nandroid and have it work normally. I've just switched to the latest TWRP 3.x.x.x. Don't know if that has anything to do with it....
I'm clean installing the new official again! It got stuck on boot (wrong boot animation, too) but pulling the batt and restarting, it went normally. (My Tibu settings were in the /data wipe. Gotta mount one and pull them )
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Thank you for your response!
I always had the latest TWRP 3.0.2-0 installed.
I flashed the CM14.1 20161207, Open GApps Pico 20161207 and, at first, SuperSU 2.78 Stable then when I retried a fresh install, i used SuperSU 2.78 SR5.
The same issues occurred (primarily) with the Play Store not being able to access the Internet the Internet and being able to see everything on my External MicroSD but, still not being able to read, write, move copy, install, etc...
I did see, during the initial bootup where you have the initial setup of CM & Google, the Google setup went fine but, I did notice that the carrier name reflected "no service" or "unknown" or something similar. I had ventured in to the network settings and did see everything needed in there so I didn't give it another thought.
To be honest, my opinion is that i really don't think that the release of the OFFICIAL CM14.1 Nightly was not ready yet.
I had to E-mailed @invisiblek the list of issues along with the installation log files from both the CM14.1 and the GApps but, I haven't even received an acknowledgement of at least a thank you.
@invisiblek is listed as the primary point of contact for Cyanogenmod and other than e-mailing him along with posting the issue here to his attention, I'm not sure how else to report any issues/feedback to Cyanogenmod... Cyanogenmod doesn't really pay attention to their own forums that has resulted in most individuals not even bothering with posting anything there anymore.
I'm personally going to put CM14.1 on hold till there's either some indication of improvement or finding some information reflecting my issues with some fixes, tryouts, solutions, etc...
I'm real disappointed with this...
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Thank you for your response!
I always had the latest TWRP 3.0.2-0 installed.
I flashed the CM14.1 20161207, Open GApps Pico 20161207 and, at first, SuperSU 2.78 Stable then when I retried a fresh install, i used SuperSU 2.78 SR5.
The same issues occurred (primarily) with the Play Store not being able to access the Internet the Internet and being able to see everything on my External MicroSD but, still not being able to read, write, move copy, install, etc...
I did see, during the initial bootup where you have the initial setup of CM & Google, the Google setup went fine but, I did notice that the carrier name reflected "no service" or "unknown" or something similar. I had ventured in to the network settings and did see everything needed in there so I didn't give it another thought.
To be honest, my opinion is that i really don't think that the release of the OFFICIAL CM14.1 Nightly was not ready yet.
I had to E-mailed @invisiblek the list of issues along with the installation log files from both the CM14.1 and the GApps but, I haven't even received an acknowledgement of at least a thank you.
@invisiblek is listed as the primary point of contact for Cyanogenmod and other than e-mailing him along with posting the issue here to his attention, I'm not sure how else to report any issues/feedback to Cyanogenmod... Cyanogenmod doesn't really pay attention to their own forums that has resulted in most individuals not even bothering with posting anything there anymore.
I'm personally going to put CM14.1 on hold till there's either some indication of improvement or finding some information reflecting my issues with some fixes, tryouts, solutions, etc...
I'm real disappointed with this...
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I'll attempt to try to help with some of the issues here, as I have direct contact with invisiblek pretty much daily. First I will start off with a few questions, NOT poking, just asking, this also may address some previous posts as well... You have a verizon SCH-I535 correct, and not another variant? Just making sure. And to start you wiped data in TWRP (wipe to install new ROM option basically). Told it to flash your 12/07 build? Did you ADD the "opengapps 7.1 ARM Pico" build to the multiple flash option, or did you flash rom, then go back in and flash opengapps? After it rebooted, it sometimes takes a while to get the setup to actually start and display, sometimes it goes to a black screen for minutes, but be patient, it will come.. At that point in time, it will initialize sim card and be connected, as this was my experience on all 3 of my S3 phones in my household. Then proceed through setup...
Is your external card formatted as "portable storage", or is it formatted as "Adopted storage". Also what type of filesystem do you have the card formatted with? What file manager are you using to try to access your card with? There was some expected changes that might have to be worked out as the "unofficial" roms were running Selinux in permissive mode, and the "official" roms are running it in Enforcing mode. That is bound to cause some small differences in the way the 2 roms behave. Also, I need to ask why you are trying to install SuperSU on a rom that already has Root (and the ability to manage it) built into the rom? There might be some issues being caused by that in itself.
I know that personally BusyBox (I rely on it daily) will NOT install on the official for me, but installs fine on the unofficials. Also, I have had limited luck with the built in file manager. I have used ES File Explorer forever, and it continues to behave well on this rom. Also, even if you are going to nandroid back and forth between official and unofficial, it is best to do a wipe of DATA before the nandroid... As far as the play store goes, I haven't experienced any lack of connectivity. I do get very small intermittent blips where it seems like it isn't connected for a second or 2, but it is very rare, and it has always been like that as far as I can remember.. Part of the reason that is for me is because I use a network extender, and it has always been the achilles heel with CM.
Try going into TWRP, do the "wipe to install new rom", add the cm zip, and ALSO add the latest "Opengapps arm 7.1 pico or micro" (your choice) build into the zip queue so that they are flashed in succession. Let it rip, and see if that offers you any different results. After you get it initially setup, go into developer options and enable root as needed. Give it a run and see what issue are still present, if any. I am surprised to hear some of these issues, as between myself, my kids, and a handful of friends, everyone is super stoked at how well these early builds are running... I myself have less than 3 reported issues from friends that we are looking into, and they are all just cosmetic bugs so far... I will be glad to try to help in any way possible..
P.S. There have been quite a few things resolved/changed between TWRP 2.8.7.0 and 3.0.2-0, I would highly suggest not only upgrading to the latest TWRP version, but also making sure you are on the firmware versions that are mentioned in the OP.
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Stealth111 said:
I'll attempt to try to help with some of the issues here, as I have direct contact with invisiblek pretty much daily. First I will start off with a few questions, NOT poking, just asking, this also may address some previous posts as well... You have a verizon SCH-I535 correct, and not another variant? Just making sure. And to start you wiped data in TWRP (wipe to install new ROM option basically). Told it to flash your 12/07 build? Did you ADD the "opengapps 7.1 ARM Pico" build to the multiple flash option, or did you flash rom, then go back in and flash opengapps? After it rebooted, it sometimes takes a while to get the setup to actually start and display, sometimes it goes to a black screen for minutes, but be patient, it will come.. At that point in time, it will initialize sim card and be connected, as this was my experience on all 3 of my S3 phones in my household. Then proceed through setup...
Is your external card formatted as "portable storage", or is it formatted as "Adopted storage". Also what type of filesystem do you have the card formatted with? What file manager are you using to try to access your card with? There was some expected changes that might have to be worked out as the "unofficial" roms were running Selinux in permissive mode, and the "official" roms are running it in Enforcing mode. That is bound to cause some small differences in the way the 2 roms behave. Also, I need to ask why you are trying to install SuperSU on a rom that already has Root (and the ability to manage it) built into the rom? There might be some issues being caused by that in itself.
I know that personally BusyBox (I rely on it daily) will NOT install on the official for me, but installs fine on the unofficials. Also, I have had limited luck with the built in file manager. I have used ES File Explorer forever, and it continues to behave well on this rom. Also, even if you are going to nandroid back and forth between official and unofficial, it is best to do a wipe of DATA before the nandroid... As far as the play store goes, I haven't experienced any lack of connectivity. I do get very small intermittent blips where it seems like it isn't connected for a second or 2, but it is very rare, and it has always been like that as far as I can remember.. Part of the reason that is for me is because I use a network extender, and it has always been the achilles heel with CM.
Try going into TWRP, do the "wipe to install new rom", add the cm zip, and ALSO add the latest "Opengapps arm 7.1 pico or micro" (your choice) build into the zip queue so that they are flashed in succession. Let it rip, and see if that offers you any different results. After you get it initially setup, go into developer options and enable root as needed. Give it a run and see what issue are still present, if any. I am surprised to hear some of these issues, as between myself, my kids, and a handful of friends, everyone is super stoked at how well these early builds are running... I myself have less than 3 reported issues from friends that we are looking into, and they are all just cosmetic bugs so far... I will be glad to try to help in any way possible..
P.S. There have been quite a few things resolved/changed between TWRP 2.8.7.0 and 3.0.2-0, I would highly suggest not only upgrading to the latest TWRP version, but also making sure you are on the firmware versions that are mentioned in the OP.
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Okay... I tried to sort out and answer all the questions the best i could.
I also attached the log files. They are dated according to the Nightly releases.
Q: You have a verizon SCH-I535 correct, and not another variant?
A: Yes. I have an SCH-I535.
Q: And to start you wiped data in TWRP (wipe to install new ROM option basically).
A: 1) Factory Reset. 2) Wipe Dalvik, Data, Internal Storage, Cache and System. 3) Format Data. Then Restart Recovery back to TWRP.
Q: Told it to flash your 12/07 build?
Did you ADD the "opengapps 7.1 ARM Pico" build to the multiple flash option, or did you flash rom, then go back in and flash opengapps?
A: Install and select CM14.1 12/07 build then the Open GApps 7.1 ARM Pico. To add... I tried flashing the 2 above only, then tried the same 2 above with SuperSU 2.78 Stable, lastly the 2 above with SuperSU 2.78 SR5. All resulted with the same issues.
Q: Is your external card formatted as "portable storage", or is it formatted as "Adopted storage".
A: Portable Storage.
Q: Also what type of filesystem do you have the card formatted with?
A: VFAT
Q: What file manager are you using to try to access your card with?
A: Stock & ES File Explorer Pro
Q: Also, I need to ask why you are trying to install SuperSU on a rom that already has Root (and the ability to manage it) built into the rom?
A: I'm aware of the stock root manager but, i've always preferred SuperSU's root management.
I really appreciate your assistance and please don't hesitate to defer to @invisiblek if necessary.
Also, please keep in mind that I'm not in a race. Take your time because patience is a virtue...
Thank you very much!!!
I wonder if the GApps issue is the underlying issue. I hope @MastahF & @Rapper_skull is aware of and working on it?
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I know that personally BusyBox (I rely on it daily) will NOT install on the official for me, but installs fine on the unofficials.
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I installed Stericson BusyBox Pro using Google Play and it works fine! Lucky me!
Ibuprophen said:
Okay... I tried to sort out and answer all the questions the best i could.
I also attached the log files. They are dated according to the Nightly releases.
Q: You have a verizon SCH-I535 correct, and not another variant?
A: Yes. I have an SCH-I535.
Q: And to start you wiped data in TWRP (wipe to install new ROM option basically).
A: 1) Factory Reset. 2) Wipe Dalvik, Data, Internal Storage, Cache and System. 3) Format Data. Then Restart Recovery back to TWRP.
Q: Told it to flash your 12/07 build?
Did you ADD the "opengapps 7.1 ARM Pico" build to the multiple flash option, or did you flash rom, then go back in and flash opengapps?
A: Install and select CM14.1 12/07 build then the Open GApps 7.1 ARM Pico. To add... I tried flashing the 2 above only, then tried the same 2 above with SuperSU 2.78 Stable, lastly the 2 above with SuperSU 2.78 SR5. All resulted with the same issues.
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I know this may sound funny but I've had this EXACT response from clean installs using the tiny GApps packages. Try one of the larger ones or the Aroma installer. (I know it's annoying if you want to keep all that crap off your phone ...)
As I said, I installed without using the qeue. I also wiped Dalvik/cache AFTER the installations, as per the OpenGApps instructions.
Oh, and my phone is purring like a kitten with 12/7 on it! XD
PS - Except for that dang restore issue. Scared to try it again but I gotta try it again eventually.
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I installed Stericson BusyBox Pro using Google Play and it works fine! Lucky me!
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I have the same version as well. I go to the store, click install on the Pro version. It installs just fine... I then go in and open the program, it immediately asks for the needed root permissions, which I promptly give it, then I close the welcome message. When I actually then click install from within the program, it then tries to install for about 2 seconds and then says "oops, it looks like the installation was unsuccessful, maybe try a different location"....
Who knows.... :laugh:
Other than that, I agree, purring like a kitten!
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Master Cylinder said:
I installed Stericson BusyBox Pro using Google Play and it works fine! Lucky me!
I know this may sound funny but I've had this EXACT response from clean installs using the tiny GApps packages. Try one of the larger ones or the Aroma installer. (I know it's annoying if you want to keep all that crap off your phone ...)
As I said, I installed without using the qeue. I also wiped Dalvik/cache AFTER the installations, as per the OpenGApps instructions.
Oh, and my phone is purring like a kitten with 12/7 on it! XD
PS - Except for that dang restore issue. Scared to try it again but I gotta try it again eventually.
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I tried the nano on one attempt thinking that pico was the culprit but, the same issue...
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Sorry to ask this again but wich partitions should be remounted as f2fs for better performance?
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I tried the nano on one attempt thinking that pico was the culprit but, the same issue...
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I had the same problem with Nano. If you're gonna spend the time to do it, go big. Bigger rather than smaller.
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Sorry to ask this again but wich partitions should be remounted as f2fs for better performance?
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Here's a link that, i believe, will answer your question:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537119
Good Luck!
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I had the same problem with Nano. If you're gonna spend the time to do it, go big. Bigger rather than smaller.
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There was a member in the GApps thread who had mentioned that he had a similar issue.
He stated that what worked for him was flashing a GApps Pico package on from about 30 days ago.
I believe that others had to flash their GApps packages from about 30 days ago had worked for them.
I know that this is an issue for many others who also reported it to the Dev(s).
I can't think of what in the world is going on...
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Running smooth as ice.......only issue I've had was a single browser hicup. Incredible work, makes me smile knowing I have a newer version on my ancient phone than most of the $700+ flagship phones. Invisablek you sir are the man:good:
I understand that the TWRP team is apparently still working on an official release for Android 13, but is there even an unofficial build available for the P7Pro? If not, is there a recovery alternative? I really want to be able to do a full system (all partitions) backup of my device. Thanks!
You can create dumps of your partitions using ADB shell in system; TWRP is not required to do this.
Though it wouldn't necessarily be any good for doing full partition backups, I'm currently running the recovery from the StagOS ROM in combination with the stock Pixel ROM. I like it because it allows flashing recovery zips without having to say "Yes" every time due to signature stuff.
A very similar thread with the same topic has been discussed a few days ago - you can check here
Anyone can compile TWRP - it's opensource. Pixel 6+ owners are unlikely to get an official build from TWRP since it requires a volunteer to maintain the repo, deal with bug reports, etc.
It's recommended to simply compile the image on an individual basis (you really don't want to rely on a third-party supplied image when you have no way of knowing whether it's safe or not). Compiling isn't a difficult process, but does require an hour or two of reading TWRP's and Google's applicable developer pages, along with ~30 - 60 minutes of set up time on a PC/laptop (I prefer to compile within an Ubuntu VM, but I believe it can also be done in Windows' WSL).
robroy90 said:
I understand that the TWRP team is apparently still working on an official release for Android 13, but is there even an unofficial build available for the P7Pro? If not, is there a recovery alternative? I really want to be able to do a full system (all partitions) backup of my device. Thanks!
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They still haven't finished official support for Android 12. Since recovery resources on A12+ are located in vendor_boot, bigbiff is trying to figure out a decent way for TWRP to live there, at least as far as the Pixel 5 is concerned. Not sure what other obstacles may be present on the Pixel 6 series and above.
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Though it wouldn't necessarily be any good for doing full partition backups, I'm currently running the recovery from the StagOS ROM in combination with the stock Pixel ROM. I like it because it allows flashing recovery zips without having to say "Yes" every time due to signature stuff.
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Hey thanks for this! How did you flash just the recovery partiton on the Pixel? I am an old hand with Odin on the Samsung devices, but Google official devices are still new to me. Will the StagOS recovery recognize an external USB-C flash drive for storage?
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A very similar thread with the same topic has been discussed a few days ago - you can check here
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Thank you, I went over there and read everything. Much appreciated!