[RECOVERY][TWRP 3.3.1][For all Quark][Moto Maxx/Turbo and Droid Turbo]

[RECOVERY][TWRP 3.3.1][For all Quark][Moto Maxx/Turbo and Droid Turbo] - Moto Maxx Original Android Development

Team Win Recovery Project, or TWRP 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.
How it looks :
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* This must work on all devices model quark (XT1250 and XT1254) or quark_umts (XT1225) * custom ROM may display only quark
To know you device model just open the app Terminal Emulator for Android and see the quark after the @ like below.
Main download folder
Mirror download folder
The folder contains the Mod TWRP version base on the latest official with proper support to all android versions (The one from TWRP site doesn't have the proper support For Nougat, Oreo or newer OS's, I tryed to push the changes so the one from they site can be updated they did not answer me so I give it up), the mod other than having the proper support for all OS that prevent bug as the "Bootloop to TWRP after a Factory Reset" it has extra backup option (Radio/Modem, boot logo etc), NTFS support for USB-OTG devices, all possible TWRP languages, full encryption support (For Nougat and earlier, Oreo and up encryption is not suported) and etc improves...
All the extras featuring can be seen in the Changelog click here
Big thanks:
A big thank for those that donating to thanks for my work on TWRP.
@ChazzMatt for his donation, and his help on many other threads of Moto Maxx on XDA.
Renan R. R. for his donation
And all the other users that I contribute.
On the developer side, thanks to:
@Dees_Troy for his work on TWRP, for the tutorial and help to bring the official support...
@Skrilax_CZ for his hard work on building the first stable CM to this device
@Aadi for a tutorial.
@respider for his original work on TWRP for quark.
Developer donation link:
To donate via paypal click here
No other donation option is available.
XDA:DevDB Information
TWRP For all Quark(Moto Maxx/Turbo and Droid Turbo)
Contributors
fgl27
Source :
Android :
omnirom M source
LineageOS source
Device :
Device tree for omnirom source
Device tree for LineageOS base source
Kernel tree for LineageOS source
TWRP Version: 3.3.1
Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2015-08-16
Last Updated Check changelog (click here)
I use many tutorial to make this TWRP, here some to help those who want to do the same.
tags: how to port TWRP recovery, how to compile TWRP recovery, how to make TWRP recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943625
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294800
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_quark#Build_CyanogenMod_and_ClockworkMod_Recovery
http://xda-university.com/as-a-developer/porting-clockworkmod-recovery-to-a-new-device
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
https://source.android.com/source/building.html
https://source.android.com/source/building-running.html
https://source.android.com/source/initializing.html
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/89474/1/recovery.te

Check Changelog click here
How to install it.
Using Fastboot:
Download mfastboot
The fastboot I share is need replace fastboot with mfastboot in the commands below...
Copy the file you download form OP to the folder of fastboot and use the command in the bootloader screen
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_name.img
! replace recovery_name with the name of the file, example:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-quark.img
Via app Flashify (for root users)
If you have root, try Flashify is really simple.
Install the app, download the recovery to the phone internal memory, open the app, chose recovery image, chose from file, confirm and flash, after you will go straight to the new recovery.
Via TWRP:
Yes TWRP can flash images recovery and boot image.
- install
- images... (is in the bottom right of the screen)
- select the image and image type (boot or recovery)
- swipe
- reboot to test, to recovery if flash a recovery or to system if is a boot...
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keep system read only?
This will be asked in the first time you boot to recovery after flash the recovery, if you not accepts it TWRP may be replace by the previously recovery of your device, but read way...
Devices that ship with 5.0 and higher as their initial OS are using block level OTA updates. With this style of OTA update, the update script checks to see if the system partition has ever been mounted read/write. Further, the script also usually runs an SHA sum of the entire system partition to detect if any changes have been made. If any changes have been made, the OTA update will refuse to install. Since not all OEMs and devices have factory images available, we have created a new feature in TWRP that detects if the system partition has ever been mounted read/write. If not, you will be prompted asking if you want TWRP to mount system as read/write. If you choose not to allow TWRP to mount as read/write, TWRP won’t prompt to install SuperSU and TWRP won’t try to patch the stock ROM to prevent TWRP from being replaced by stock recovery. The goal of this option is to hopefully allow the user to make a raw system image backup that they can use to get back to a state where they can take OTA updates again.
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Note about restore from Stock 5.x.x to 4.4.4 and vice versa:
The format of data partition is different, in 4.4.4 is ext4 and 5.x.x is f2fs.
I have restore more then 100 times in my test, in some i end-up in a "bad/bug ROM" and it happens when flash 4.4.4 over 5.0.2 or vice versa, in the most bad one the device lost response of the touch screen even in the recovery, the bug was simply resolved by restoring to stock via fastboot using files from a stock XML rom. In others bug's android boot after boot i try to unlock to use and it reset, and stay in that loop, boot try to unlock reset, i try to wipe everything but system and did not work, in all those case partition format of data was wrong.
TWRP will backup the partition exactly how it is, If the backup is EXT4 and the Data partition of the device is f2fs TWRP will restore the data and will not change the format.
That may cause a problem, so when restoring to a different OS version advanced wipe the partition and change the format.
To do that click Wipe>advanced Wipe> select Data> click on Repair or change File System>change File System>
For Kitkat android 4.4.4 choose EXT4
For lollipop android 5.x.x choose F2FS
Swipe to change
Now restore.
But be aware that the data partition is were internal memory is, so if you change the file system you will loose all the files in internal memory
The wipe of internal memory doesn't happening if you only wipe data partition without change file system.
This will not affect custom ROM, but i recommend to use f2fs.
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Note about encrypt
Test done in Nougat in the link below
Last Nougat test
Test done in Lollipop below
TWRP supports backup a encrypted system, but i only test this on lollipop stock ROM.
This is a simple description how to encrypt backup and restore the encrypted system.
Stock ROM
You can only encrypt if you have stock recovery and no modification to yours ROM, that means no root or rooted app like xposed modules etc, so if you have uninstall everything and do a full un-root.
To encrypt go to setting>secure>encryption the process take a while...
If you already have stock encrypted ROM you can flash TWRP and make a backup of it.
To remove the encryption you need to flash back the stock recovery and do a factory reset in Settings>Backup & Reset>Factory Reset
Factory Reset will deleted all the files of the device! so make a copy of important data...
Wiping all the partition in TWRP will not remove the encryption.
After the device finish the factory reset all the data of you phone will be deleted and the encryption will be gone.
Now you can flash back TWRP again and have fun...
If you need to restore that encrypted backup you can but after it finish restoring you will see that it is un-encrypted.
Custom ROM
I tested encrypt on custom Marshmallow AOSP base ROM (all the CM's), it is not need any recovery the only thing that is need to encrypt is that the encryption block of data be clean before encrypt.
Cleaning the encryption block of data
TWRP can't clean that so if the user encrypt the device the only way of clean that is by erasing the data via fastboot:
Code:
mfastboot erase userdata
The down side of it is that the partition will be erased lost every file of data and internal memory + when the system boot the data partition will be formatted as EXT4 that have a small performance lost over F2FS, to have it back to F2FS is need to give the command then start the OS, after the device finish boot and optimized it will format the partition and is need to go back to recovery and format the data as F2FS, going on wipe > advanced > select data > "repair change..." >change file sys> F2FS... then boot to the device and use it...
Note about official TWRP, USB driver via USB-OTG work, but your driver need to be formatted as FAT32(small drivers) or exFAT (big drivers), on the Mod version I have update the NTFS support and it now works
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Collection of "Special_flash_zip" to go with the Mod TWRP
As some things are not directly attainable through TWRP menus, but they can be achieved via extra zips...
Clean_modem_status.zip
Logo_Flasher.zip
Modem_Flasher.zip
Clean_modem_status.zip
as the name implies this will erase the modem status partition, and erase any bad modem status, this can help in situations were the users is with some radio problem, one most famous on Quark is when user can get a GPS lock...
I test the GPS after flashing this and it works... (I did not had a GPS problem, but will test after I get one...)
Logo_Flasher.zip
This is a zip that can flash logo.bin via TWRP, is need of the user to have the logo.bin then place it inside of the root of the zip, then flash it over TWR.
Modem_Flasher.zip,
This is a zip made to flash the Radio.img + Clean modem status, thus achieving the update of Radio and clean any bad old radio status.
This zip is empty need the user to add the files on the future I will make a zip with the radio image inside... the below explain how to put the files inside.
As on Quark the radio.img is complex image that can't be flash via TWRP it is need to have a special zip, this zip contains the content of radio image after the user have flash it via fastboot, then for that I made this tutorial in how to use the zip, see the below hide...
Tutorial how to make this zip to work...
This zip must be used with a full backup of stock Modem image that can be achieve via app using apk called partition backup or via ADB
1# APP process... config the app Click on the tool, then in backup formats section, mark only Raw partition image
The partitions name to backup are
modem
mdm1m9kefs3
the file must be in sd/Partitionsbackups, the file names need to be just like describe below
before you put they on the zip so rename the files according the below...
modem.img
mdm1m9kefs3.img
make no modifications to the files, and place it on the root of this zip
The just flash the zip via TWRP
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2# ADB process, you must have SuperSu from Chainfire installed before making this, CM root will not work.
use the commands "adb devices" to check if the device is connected it will show the device serial number if it is...
then do the next two lines
Code:
adb shell
su
* after command "su" press enter 3 or more times... until the cmd displays
[email protected]:/ #
then... do the next 4 lines
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/modem.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p32 of=/sdcard/mdm1m9kefs3.img
the files will be on the internal memory, the file names need to be just like describe below before you put they on the zip
modem.img
mdm1m9kefs3.img
make no modifications to the files or to the file name, and place it on the root of this zip
The just flash the zip via TWRP
The recommendation is to make a modem backup of yours device after you get a GPS lock, and store it to use whenever you need because you have a radio related problem, or make one to share on XDA with other users, be aware to share Radio zip and describe from with device model and ROM you pull it from, because flashing other device Radio may cause problem...
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This TWRP is theme-able, go to the tread to change the looks:
[THEME][TWRP] TWRP Materialised - Dark / Light / Play

Support, any bugs and errors just post in here, I will answer as soon as possible.

Can I flash it over using flashify?
Thx
Enviado desde mi Moto MAXX mediante Tapatalk

icondeg said:
Can I flash it over using flashify?
Thx
Enviado desde mi Moto MAXX mediante Tapatalk
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i didn't try that only via fast-boot, but i will.
should not give any error, if you try let me know....
yes it work i just did over TWRP 2.8.1 :good:

baybutcher27 said:
i didn't try that only via fast-boot, but i will.
should not give any error, if you try let me know....
yes it work i just did over TWRP 2.8.1 :good:
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It works fine!!!
Thanks for all
Enviado desde mi Moto MAXX mediante Tapatalk

omg great work! congrats
muito obrigado!

Awesome work! Thanks man! Can't thank you enough!!

Thank you!
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Thank you guys i really appreciate the supporter. Of every one.

Small, but big improvement change.
Change log in the 2° post. The TWRP now is much faster to wipe, restore or install a ROM, no more lag to format...

Ok
I believe in you men
If you say that this no affect anything, that's fine by me
Regards
Enviado desde mi Moto MAXX mediante Tapatalk

Update my source.
I can now compile TWRP from CM, Mokee and Omni source's.
Omni source is the best one because is the TWRP source, but it doesn't have quark device tree, so i need to create/port everything and that take time, i'm finishing the testing of the new TWRP no new feature just a more slim image but more complete.
My CM tree is incompatible with TWRP source, Dees_Troy was not able to use my previously tree to build the Official one he tried.
Now after the test i will send the new source and he will be able to produce a new TWRP from TWRP server and if that work make this Official.
+ Now that exist a quark device tree working on omnirom may some one make a AOSP ROM using it (i don't have time right now but i will try in the future after the Official TWRP).
Omni is the most close AOSP source to google AOSP so a rom from they is really clean and very update. I believe that CM kernel tree should work, if any one try let me know...

baybutcher27 said:
Update my source.
I can now compile TWRP from CM, Mokee and Omni source's.
Omni source is the best one because is the TWRP source, but it doesn't have quark device tree, so i need to create/port everything and that take time, i'm finishing the testing of the new TWRP no new feature just a more slim image but more complete.
My CM tree is incompatible with TWRP source, Dees_Troy was not able to use my previously tree to build the Official one he tried.
Now after the test i will send the new source and he will be able to produce a new TWRP from TWRP server and if that work make this Official.
+ Now that exist a quark device tree working on omnirom may some one make a AOSP ROM using it (i don't have time right now but i will try in the future after the Official TWRP).
Omni is the most close AOSP source to google AOSP so a rom from they is really clean and very update. I believe that CM kernel tree should work, if any one try let me know...
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What about a kernel??
@w4tchout is trying to make a kernel but it seems so hard to do it
A kernel that we can use is the second dream of this forum
Jejejeje
Regards
Enviado desde mi Moto MAXX mediante Tapatalk

icondeg said:
What about a kernel??
@w4tchout is trying to make a kernel but it seems so hard to do it
A kernel that we can use is the second dream of this forum
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@w4tchout
 @Skrilax_CZ
Has Motorola ever released the mandatory kernel source code for 5.1 for the XT1254? Been two months since 5.1 was released for the Droid Turbo. It's a Quark, just like the XT1225...
I know @Skrilax_CZj is using the kernel sources from stock 5.0.2 for CM12.1 (Lollipop 5.1). But would be nice to be able to use something from Motorola updated 5.1, if possible.

ChazzMatt said:
@w4tchout
@Skrilax_CZ
Has Motorola ever released the mandatory kernel source code for 5.1 for the XT1254? Been two months since 5.1 was released for the Droid Turbo. It's a Quark, just like the XT1225...
I know @Skrilax_CZj is using the kernel sources from stock 5.0.2 for CM12.1 (Lollipop 5.1). But would be nice to be able to use something from Motorola updated 5.1, if possible.
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I don't know the actual problem as to why my kernel doesn't boot, it could be the dt img or the kernel itself. I'll try to figure it out though.

##W4TCH0UT## said:
I don't know the actual problem as to why my kernel doesn't boot, it could be the dt img or the kernel itself. I'll try to figure it out though.
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I don't know much about Kernel yet so i cant see what is going wrong in yours...
But i find a workaround, to compile the recovery.img without compile the boot.img i generated a boot.img but use pre build dt + kernel.
That way i can compile recovery in under 13 min and without a kernel folder in the source, before it take over 30, and when i'm resolving bug and error, how much fast i can produce a image better.
The workaround i copy from victara and put in the omni folder of my device source, is need the mkbootimg.mk + dtb (dt image renamed) + kernel.
Then check BoardConfig.mk kernel lines, the dt and kernel i use from a previously build of my on, after you have one no need to compile the kernel every time...
Don't know if this will help but this way you may grub a previously working dt + new kernel or vice versa, and combine to see what works.
My CM source folder is working but not update do to that yet but i believe will work in others source other then omni.
if something work or not let me know.

I finished all the tested with TWRP compile in omni source, i update the download link.
No need to change TWRP unless you use a encrypted device, or you wanna to test it.
Put a note about encryption on 2# post.
If any bug found let me know.

glad to see someone resumed/restarted TWRP work for Maxx. Nice job buddy!
Unfortunately my Maxx was stolen back in Brazil so I wont use this as much as you guys.

respider said:
glad to see someone resumed/restarted TWRP work for Maxx. Nice job buddy!
Unfortunately my Maxx was stolen back in Brazil so I wont use this as much as you guys.
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too bad bro
i hope you're ok
regards!

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[MOD] [unofficial] Multirom V28 (GPE/STOCK - testing)

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Introduction
I was able to get multirom working on Motorola Moto G and would like to share with you guys. Moto G (falcon) is my first android phone (ya, you heard me correct. It took a longtime for me to switch to android ) and I am new to android development and XDA community.
I have converted my XT1033 to single sim variant after flashing XT1032_RETAIL-GB_4.4.4_KXB21.14-L1.40_36_cid7_CFC_1FF.xml.zip firmware. I did this to install Parandroid (currently it only supports single sim). It might work on the default firmware.
MultiROM is one-of-a-kind multi-boot mod for Nexus 7. It can boot any Android ROM as well as other systems like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Active, Bohdi Linux or WebOS port.Besides booting from device's internal memory, MultiROM can boot from USB drive connected to the device via OTG cable. The main part of MultiROM is a boot manager, which appears every time your device starts and lets you choose ROM to boot. You can see how it looks on the left image below and in gallery. ROMs are installed and managed via modified TWRP recovery. You can use standard ZIP files to install secondary Android ROMs, daily prebuilt image files to install Ubuntu Touch and MultiROM even has its own installer system, which can be used to ship other Linux-based systems.
Features:
* Multiboot any number of Android ROMs
* Restore nandroid backup as secondary ROM
* Use for example Ubuntu Touch or Desktop alongside with Android, without the need of device formatting
* Boot from USB drive attached via OTG cable
You can also watch a video which shows it in action.
There are stil many issues, and I am still testing and learning :angel:.
- Only for falcon stock firmwares. Doesn't work on falcon GPE.
- Sometimes Wifi not able to get IP address (static config works) on secondary rom. (same issue is observed on primary rom - fixed after flashing latest kernel)
- Sometimes secondary rom boot failure. Need reboot.
- Touch doesn't seem to work on multirom, so need to use volume down key for navigation and power button got selection. (Fixed)
- On GPE sometimes when booting I see "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied" errors. reinstalling the rom in multirom fixes this issue. Need to check.
You can get the relavent files at following location
http://d-h.st/users/montamer
Multirom Files
TWRP with Mutirom changes
multirom-20140902-v28-UNOFFICIAL-falcon.zip
multirom_uninstaller.zip
Patched Kernels
Stock Kernel (only for Stock firmware not GPE)
Modiefied 3.4.103-XPerience-STK-14-gpemod for GPE stock firmware (original kernel from TeamMEX)
PA Kernel
I have tested booting following roms
- CynogenMod
- ParanoidAndroid
- Boot2Gecko
I will share any code modifications as soon as possible.
Warning!
It _is_ dangerous. This whole thing is basically one giant hack - none of these systems are made with multibooting in mind. It is messing with boot sector and data partition. It is no longer messing with data partition or boot sector, but it is possible that something goes wrong and you will have to flash factory images again. Make backups. Always.
Installation
1. Via MultiROM Manager app
Not supported at the moment.
2. Manual installation
Firstly, there are videos on youtube. If you want, just search for "MultiROM installation" on youtube and watch those, big thanks to all who made them.
Note 1: Your device must not be encrypted (hint: if you don't know what it is, then it is not encrypted).
Note 2: There have been reports that (not only) MultiROM does not work properly with older bootloaders.
MultiROM has 3 parts you need to install:
Modified recovery (TWRP with Mutirom changes) - download the IMG file from Multirom Files section and use fastboot or Flashify app to flash it.
- Fastboot command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
Patched kernel - You can use either one of the stock ones in Kernel section or third-party kernels which include the patch. Download the ZIP file and flash it in recovery. or flash the img from fastboot.
- Flash the "Stock Kernel (only for Stock firmware not GPE)" if your using STOCK 4.4.4 firmware images using below fastboot command
fastboot flash boot stock_boot_patched.img
- Flash the 3.4.103-XPerience-STK-14-gpemod from recovery if you are using GPE 4.4.4 firmware.
MultiROM (multirom-XXXXXXXX-v28-UNOFFICIAL-falcon.zip) - download the ZIP file from Multirom Files section and flash it in recovery.
Note: make sure to disable screen timeout in recovery (multirom_patched_recovery.img) (not required in latest recovery build)
You current rom will not be erased by the installation.
Download links are in the second post.
Adding ROMs
1. Android
Go to recovery, select Advanced -> MultiROM -> Add ROM. Select the ROM's zip file and confirm. As for the space, clean installation of stock 4.2 after first boot (with dalvik cache generated and connected to google account) takes 676mb of space.
2. Ubuntu Touch
Use the MultiROM Manager app to install Ubuntu Touch.
Ubuntu Touch is in development - MultiROM will have to be updated to keep up with future changes in Ubuntu, so there's a good chance this method stops working after a while and I'll have to fix it.
Using USB drive
During installation, recovery lets you select install location. Plug in the USB drive, wait a while and press "refresh" so that it shows partitions on the USB drive. You just select the location (extX, NTFS and FAT32 partitions are supported) and proceed with the installation.
If you wanna use other than default FAT32 partition, just format it in PC. If you don't know how/don't know where to find out how, you probably should not try installing MultiROM.
If you are installing to NTFS or FAT32 partition, recovery asks you to set image size for all the partitions - this cannot be easilly changed afterward, so choose carefully. FAT32 is limited to maximum of 4095MB per image - it is limitation of the filesystem, I can do nothing about that.
Installation to USB drives takes a bit longer, because the flash drive is (usually) slower and it needs to create the images, so installation of Ubuntu to 4Gb image on my pretty fast USB drive takes about 20 minutes.
Enumerating USB drive can take a while in MultiROM menu, so when you press the "USB" button in MultiROM, wait a while (max. 30-45s) until it searches the USB drive. It does it by itself, no need to press something, just wait.
Updating/changing ROMs
1. Primary ROM (Internal)
Flash ROM's ZIP file as usual, do factory reset if needed (it won't erase secondary ROMs)
Go to Advanced -> MultiROM in recovery and do Inject curr. boot sector.
2. Secondary Android ROMs
If you want to change the ROM, delete it and add new one. To update ROM, follow these steps:
Go to Advanced -> MultiROM -> List ROMs and select the ROM you want to update.
Select "Flash ZIP" and flash ROM's ZIP file.
In some cases, you might need to flash patched kernel - get coresponding patched kernel version from second post and flash it to the secondary ROM sama way you flashed ROM's ZIP file.
Explanation of recovery menus
Main menu
- Add ROM - add ROM to boot
- List ROMs - list installed ROMs and manage them
- Inject boot.img file - When you download for example kernel, which is distrubuted as whole boot.img (eg. franco kernel), you have to use this option on it, otherwise you would lose MultiROM.
- Inject curr. boot sector - Use this option if MultiROM does not show up on boot, for example after kernel installation.
- Settings - well, settings.
Manage ROM
- Rename, delete - I believe these are obvious
- Flash ZIP (only Android ROMs) - flash ZIP to the ROM, for example gapps
- Add/replace boot.img - replaces boot.img used by this ROM, this is more like developer option.
- Re-patch init - this is available only for ubuntu. Use it when ubuntu cannot find root partition, ie. after apt-get upgrade which changed the init script.
Source code
Original MultiROM - https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom (branch master)
Falcon modified MultiROM - https://github.com/montamer/multirom
Falcon modified kexec-tools - https://github.com/montamer/kexec-tools.git
Falcon CM kernel with kexec-hardboot-patch - https://github.com/montamer/android_kernel_motorola_msm8226.git
kexec-hardboot-falcon.patch
Modified TWRP - https://github.com/montamer/Team-Win-Recovery-Project
XDA:DevDB Information
MultiROM, a Tool/Utility for the Moto G
Contributors
Tasssadar
Montamer
Thanks
h2o64 for the post template

willing to test I've got an xt1034. all I need is a link.
montamer said:
I was able to get multirom working on Moto-G and would like to share with you guys :highfive:. Moto-G is my first android phone (ya, you heard me correct. It took a longtime for me to switch to android ) and I am new to android development and XDA community.
I have converted my XT1033 to single sim variant after flashing XT1032_RETAIL-GB_4.4.4_KXB21.14-L1.40_36_cid7_CFC_1FF.xml.zip firmware. I did this to install paranoidandroid (currently it only supports single sim). It might work on the default firmware.
There are stil many issues, and I am still testing and learning :angel:.
- Only for falcon stock firmwares. Doesn't work on falcon GPE.
- sometimes Wifi not able to get IP address (static config works) on secondary rom.
- sometimes secondary rom boot failure. Need reboot
- touch doesn't seem to work on multirom, so need to use volume down key for navigation and power button got selection
You can get the relavent files at following location
http : // d-h.st / users / montamer
mutirom files - falcon/multirom
patched kernels - falcon/hardboot_patched_kernel
I have tested booting following roms
- CynogenMod
- ParanoidAndroid
- Boot2Gecko
I will share any code modifications as soon as possible.
INSTALLATION:
- Flash multirom_patched_recovery.img from fastboot.
- Flash stock_boot_patched.img from fastboot if you are on stock rom
or flash PA-falcon-kernel-signed.zip (build kernel from aospal, should work on other roms????) from recovery.
- reboot to recovery
- Flash multirom-20140819-v27-UNOFFICIAL-falcon.zip from recovery
WARNING
Port is not tested completely and might damage your device. Not for the faint hearted
I will not be responsible for any damage. Try at your own risk and make sure to backup
Credits:
Tasssadar (multirom aurthor).
paranoid android team.
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I'll try it out.

Does this replace the kernel on stock ROMs?
Also, does this modify the eMMC partitioning to store the second ROM system files or can you use external storage such as a USB stick via USB OTG

DustArma said:
Does this replace the kernel on stock ROMs?
Also, does this modify the eMMC partitioning to store the second ROM system files or can you use external storage such as a USB stick via USB OTG
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same question... multirom needs kexec support in the base rom. so this is just mutirom system or does it flashes a kernel with kexec support?

Amazing! I'll try as soon as possible. Could you share with us your device tree and your kernel sources? [emoji4]

@TeamMex perhaps something interesting for u man!
OP any instructions on how to use it?

Has you patched memory allocator's and kexec the kernel? Port Multirom is easy xD I have the sourse moded on my github but kexec isn't easy so tell me about your kernel patch
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abhifx said:
same question... multirom needs kexec support in the base rom. so this is just mutirom system or does it flashes a kernel with kexec support?
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DustArma said:
Does this replace the kernel on stock ROMs?
Also, does this modify the eMMC partitioning to store the second ROM system files or can you use external storage such as a USB stick via USB OTG
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The stock_boot_patched.img and PA-falcon-kernel-signed.zip are patched to support kexec. You need to flash one of the kernels based on your primary rom, before flashing multirom.zip.
I think new version of multirom doesn't mess with the eMMC partitioning and I have not tried flashing secondary rom on USB OTG.

TeamMex said:
Has you patched memory allocator's and kexec the kernel? Port Multirom is easy xD I have the sourse moded on my github but kexec isn't easy so tell me about your kernel patch
Sent from my XT1032 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Yes the kernels shared are patched with modified kexec_hardboot.patch from Tasssadar . I will share the changes soon.

yeshwanthvshenoy said:
@TeamMex perhaps something interesting for u man!
OP any instructions on how to use it?
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Instruction should be similar to any other multirom flashing. check the original post from Tasssadar for more clear instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403

montamer said:
Yes the kernels shared are patched with modified kexec_hardboot.patch from Tasssadar . I will share the changes soon.
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Interesting, I will be tuned to implement patch in my kernel.
cheers.

TeamMex said:
Interesting, I will be tuned to implement patch in my kernel.
cheers.
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Awesome.
I'm just curious : how many time do you take to do this @montamer ?
That incredible
Are you a C // C++ developper ?
PS : Please make a clear and readable topic If you don't want I can propose you a design x')

?
Bugs? Dual sim XT1033?

montamer said:
The stock_boot_patched.img and PA-falcon-kernel-signed.zip are patched to support kexec. You need to flash one of the kernels based on your primary rom, before flashing multirom.zip.
I think new version of multirom doesn't mess with the eMMC partitioning and I have not tried flashing secondary rom on USB OTG.
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fantastic... need to try this. after glorious mutiboot on nexus 4, i now have mutiboot on moto.
now where is the ubuntu build i want to test

montamer said:
Instruction should be similar to any other multirom flashing. check the original post from Tasssadar for more clear instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
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i do understand the instructions but adding them to ur OP would help first timers. we got people who dont have much experience with advanced stuffs like this man so was just suggesting!

Thank you very much! I'll wait for you to release the changes before implementing it on other kernels.
BTW the PA kernel does not work on LiquidSmooth - it boots but have no wifi/networking, just to say

It made you a little prettier topic :
Code:
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[b][U][size=5]Introduction[/size][/U][/b]
I was able to get multirom working on [B]Motorola Moto G[/B] and would like to share with you guys. Moto G (falcon) is my first android phone (ya, you heard me correct. It took a longtime for me to switch to android :p) and I am new to android development and XDA community.
I have converted my XT1033 to single sim variant after flashing XT1032_RETAIL-GB_4.4.4_KXB21.14-L1.40_36_cid7_CFC_1FF.xml.zip firmware. I did this to install Parandroid (currently it only supports single sim). It might work on the default firmware.
[INDENT]MultiROM is one-of-a-kind multi-boot mod for Nexus 7. It can boot any Android ROM as well as other systems like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Active, Bohdi Linux or WebOS port.Besides booting from device's internal memory, MultiROM can boot from USB drive connected to the device via OTG cable. The main part of MultiROM is a boot manager, which appears every time your device starts and lets you choose ROM to boot. You can see how it looks on the left image below and in gallery. ROMs are installed and managed via modified TWRP recovery. You can use standard ZIP files to install secondary Android ROMs, daily prebuilt image files to install Ubuntu Touch and MultiROM even has its own installer system, which can be used to ship other Linux-based systems.
Features:
* Multiboot any number of Android ROMs
* Restore nandroid backup as secondary ROM
* Use for example Ubuntu Touch or Desktop alongside with Android, without the need of device formatting
* Boot from USB drive attached via OTG cable
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDnDNxqfSaw]You can also watch a video which shows it in action.[/url][/INDENT]
[INDENT] There are stil many issues, and I am still testing and learning :angel:.
- Only for falcon stock firmwares. Doesn't work on falcon GPE.
- Sometimes Wifi not able to get IP address (static config works) on secondary rom.
- Sometimes secondary rom boot failure. Need reboot.
- Touch doesn't seem to work on multirom, so need to use volume down key for navigation and power button got selection.
You can get the relavent files at following location
[URL="http://d-h.st/users/montamer"]http://d-h.st/users/montamer[/URL]
mutirom files - [B]falcon/multirom[/B]
patched kernels - [B]falcon/hardboot_patched_kernel[/B]
I have tested booting following roms
- CynogenMod
- ParanoidAndroid
- Boot2Gecko
I will share any code modifications as soon as possible. [/INDENT]
[b][U][size=5][color=Red]Warning![/color][/size][/U][/b]
[INDENT]It _is_ dangerous. This whole thing is basically one giant hack - none of these systems are made with multibooting in mind. [strike]It is messing with boot sector and data partition.[/strike] It is no longer messing with data partition or boot sector, but it is possible that something goes wrong and you will have to flash factory images again. Make backups. Always.[/INDENT]
[b][U][size=5]Installation[/size][/U][/b]
[INDENT][B]1. Via MultiROM Manager app[/b]
This is the easiest way to install everything MultiROM needs. [url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.multirommgr]Install the app[/url] and select MultiROM and recovery on the [i]Install/Update[/i] card. If the [i]Status[/i] card says [i][b]Kernel:[/b] [color=red]doesn't have kexec-hardboot patch![/color][/i] in red letters, you have to install also patched kernel - either select one on the [i]Install/Update[/i] card or get some 3rd-party kernel here on XDA. You are chosing kernel for your primary ROM, [b]not[/b] any of your (future) secondary ROMs, so select the version accordingly.
Press "Install" on the [i]Install/Update[/i] card to start the installation.
[/INDENT]
[INDENT][b]2. Manual installation[/b]
Note: [COLOR="Red"]make sure to disable screen timeout in recovery[/COLOR]
Firstly, there are videos on youtube. If you want, just search for "MultiROM installation" on youtube and watch those, big thanks to all who made them.
[b]Note 1:[/b] Your device must [b]not[/b] be encrypted (hint: if you don't know what it is, then it is not encrypted).
[b]Note 2:[/b] There have been reports that (not only) MultiROM does not work properly with older bootloaders.
MultiROM has 3 parts you need to install:
[LIST]
[*][b]MultiROM[/b] (multirom-XXXXXXXX-v27-UNOFFICIAL-falcon.zip) - download the ZIP file from second post and flash it in recovery.
[*][b]Modified recovery[/b] (multirom_patched_recovery.img) - download the IMG file from second post and use fastboot or [url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify]Flashify app[/url] to flash it.
[*][b]Patched kernel[/b] - You can use either one of the stock ones in second post or third-party kernels which include the patch, you can see list in the second post. Download the ZIP file and flash it in recovery.
[/LIST]
[b]You current rom will not be erased by the installation.
Download links are in the second post.[/b][/INDENT]
[b][u][size=5]Adding ROMs[/size][/u][/b]
[INDENT][b]1. Android[/b]
Go to recovery, select Advanced -> MultiROM -> Add ROM. Select the ROM's zip file and confirm. As for the space, clean installation of stock 4.2 after first boot (with dalvik cache generated and connected to google account) takes 676mb of space.[/INDENT]
[INDENT][b]2. Ubuntu Touch[/b]
Use the [url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.multirommgr]MultiROM Manager app[/url] to install Ubuntu Touch.
[b]Ubuntu Touch is in development - MultiROM will have to be updated to keep up with future changes in Ubuntu, so there's a good chance this method stops working after a while and I'll have to fix it.[/b][/INDENT]
[U][size=5][b]Using USB drive[/b][/size][/U]
[INDENT]During installation, recovery lets you select install location. Plug in the USB drive, wait a while and press "refresh" so that it shows partitions on the USB drive. You just select the location (extX, NTFS and FAT32 partitions are supported) and proceed with the installation.
If you wanna use other than default FAT32 partition, just format it in PC. If you don't know how/don't know where to find out how, you probably should not try installing MultiROM.
If you are installing to NTFS or FAT32 partition, recovery asks you to set image size for all the partitions - this cannot be easilly changed afterward, so choose carefully. FAT32 is limited to maximum of 4095MB per image - it is limitation of the filesystem, I can do nothing about that.
Installation to USB drives takes a bit longer, because the flash drive is (usually) slower and it needs to create the images, so installation of Ubuntu to 4Gb image on my pretty fast USB drive takes about 20 minutes.
Enumerating USB drive can take a while in MultiROM menu, so when you press the "USB" button in MultiROM, wait a while (max. 30-45s) until it searches the USB drive. It does it by itself, no need to press something, just wait.[/INDENT]
[U][size=5][b]Updating/changing ROMs[/b][/size][/U]
[INDENT][B]1. Primary ROM (Internal)[/B]
[LIST]
[*] Flash ROM's ZIP file as usual, do factory reset if needed (it won't erase secondary ROMs)
[*] Go to Advanced -> MultiROM in recovery and do [I]Inject curr. boot sector.[/I]
[/LIST][/INDENT]
[INDENT][B]2. Secondary Android ROMs[/B]
If you want to change the ROM, delete it and add new one. To update ROM, follow these steps:
[LIST]
[*] Go to Advanced -> MultiROM -> List ROMs and select the ROM you want to update.
[*] Select "Flash ZIP" and flash ROM's ZIP file.
[*] In some cases, you might need to flash patched kernel - get coresponding patched kernel version from second post and flash it to the secondary ROM sama way you flashed ROM's ZIP file.
[/LIST][/INDENT]
[u][size=5][b]Explanation of recovery menus[/b][/size][/u]
[INDENT][b][color=Blue]Main menu[/color][/b]
[b]- Add ROM[/b] - add ROM to boot
[b]- List ROMs[/b] - list installed ROMs and manage them
[b]- Inject boot.img file[/b] - When you download for example kernel, which is distrubuted as whole boot.img (eg. franco kernel), you have to use this option on it, otherwise you would lose MultiROM.
[b]- Inject curr. boot sector[/b] - Use this option if MultiROM does not show up on boot, for example after kernel installation.
[b]- Settings[/b] - well, settings.
[b][color=Blue]Manage ROM[/color][/b]
[b]- Rename, delete[/b] - I believe these are obvious
[b]- Flash ZIP[/b] (only Android ROMs) - flash ZIP to the ROM, for example gapps
[b]- Add/replace boot.img[/b] - replaces boot.img used by this ROM, this is more like developer option.
[b]- Re-patch init[/b] - this is available only for ubuntu. Use it when ubuntu cannot find root partition, ie. after apt-get upgrade which changed the init script.[/INDENT]
[u][size=5][b]Source code[/b][/size][/u]
[INDENT]MultiROM - [URL]https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom[/URL] [b](branch master)[/b]
Modified TWRP - not available yet[/b]
Stock kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch - not available yet
CM kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch - not available yet
[B][U][SIZE="4"][PLAIN]XDA:DevDB Information[/PLAIN][/SIZE][/U][/B]
[SIZE=3][B]MultiROM, a Tool/Utility for the Moto G[/B][/SIZE]
[B][U]Contributors[/U][/B]
[URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1248420"]Montamer[/URL]

thanks man!

tried with GPE(partially) converted 1033XT
unable to install multirom-20140819-v27-unofficial-falcon.zip
base rom PA 4.5-Beta1
any one facing the same issue

Only for falcon stock firmwares. Doesn't work on falcon GPE.

[MOD][FEB 01] MultiROM v30x

Downloads
1. Main downloads
MultiROM: MultiROM-v30x-170115-UNOFFICIAL-amami.zip
Modified recovery (based on TWRP): TWRP_multirom-amami_20150201-00.img
MultiROM Manager Android app: Google Play or link to APK
Kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch (Stock 4.4.4 - .157): stock-kexec-boot.img
Kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch (Stock Lollipop): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61802911&postcount=119
Kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch (CyanogenMod 12): kernel.zip
You need to have kernel with kexec-hardboot patch only in your primary ROM!
2. third-party kernels with kexec-hardboot patch
* Validus LP kernel
* Resurrection Remix LP kernel
Nicely ask your kernel developer to merge kexec-hardboot patch.
3. Uninstaller
MultiROM uninstaller: MultiROM_uninstaller.zip
Flash this ZIP file to remove MultiROM from your device. It will erase all secondary ROMs. If you don't want MultiROM menus in recovery, re-flash clean TWRP, but it is not needed - those menus don't do anything if MultiROM is not installed.
Changelog
Code:
MultiROM v30x
=====================
* Initial release
Recoveries:
Code:
01/02/2015
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* Disabled screen timeout.
* Added filesystems tools.
* Latest TWRP updates and changes.
21/01/2015
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* Fixed the installation of block images OTAs through MultiROM.
* Latest TWRP updates and changes.
17/01/2015
=====================
* Initial amami release

FAQ and other notes
About security
In order to make multi-booting possible, MultiROM has to sacrifice some security measures. Firstly, on secondary Android ROMs, /system is not mounted read-only. While there are other things preventing malicious software from messing with /system, this might potentialy make it easier for such software to attack that system.
Next, MultiROM doesn't work with /data encryption. Not many people who use custom ROMs also use encryption anyway, so that isn't much of a concern.
What do the ROMs share?
All ROMs are separate, except /sdcard, which is shared between all Android ROMs.
How many ROMs can I have?/Where are the ROMs stored?
You can have as many ROMs as you can fit in your /sdcard. All the ROMs are stored in /sdcard/multirom/roms or on an USB drive./external SD card. This folder is unaccessible in Android, to prevent mediascanner from scanning it. You can either in recovery, or obtain root and go to /data/media/0/multirom/roms.
Can I have different versions of Android working alongside
Yes.
MultiROM recovery says it's 2.8.4. Why isn't it updated to 2.8.4.*highernumber*?
It is, it just shows wrong version.
The menu with all the ROMs won't show up during boot, how to fix it?
Either re-flash the MultiROM zip or go to recovery, Advanced -> MultiROM -> Inject curr. boot sector.
The reason for this is that something rewrote your boot.img, which happens for example when you flash a kernel. MultiROM's boot menu is part of the boot image, so it has to be added into it again.

Finally, I've been waiting for this for a long time :victory:
Thanks for bringing this great mode to our device, gonna try it soon.
Regards,
Omar.

MultiROM Manager Android app
MultiROM Manager Android app is showing : this is unsupported device (amami) even with the latest version

LIONS1 said:
MultiROM Manager Android app is showing : this is unsupported device (amami) even with the latest version
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The pull request in the source of the app for adding support for Z1 Compact is opened, just wait a few days until it is merged and the app updated
Sent from my D5503 using XDA Free mobile app

I am using stock as primary rom
And resurrection remix as secondary and i am getting error trying to boot resurrection remix rom,
I attached log.
Thanks

Rempty said:
I am using stock as primary rom
And resurrection remix as secondary and i am getting error trying to boot resurrection remix rom,
I attached log.
Thanks
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Resurrection Remix on LP uses block images, so that's why it throws that error, but I have already talked with Omar and I think he will disable them for next release, fixing this issue

I'm using official CM12 nightly as primary rom and I tried to install CM11 ROM as secondary, but it failed (kexec-hardboot failure). And I have flashed the stock-kexec-boot.img from fastboot, but it caused bootloop. I think it is the .dat files problem. Although if I will flash the Validus ROM I wouldn't have working camera, because camera fix by xkonni will be overwrited by kexec kernel.

Once again congrats, and nice thread btw

Casserole said:
I'm using official CM12 nightly as primary rom and I tried to install CM11 ROM as secondary, but it failed (kexec-hardboot failure). And I have flashed the stock-kexec-boot.img from fastboot, but it caused bootloop. I think it is the .dat files problem. Although if I will flash the Validus ROM I wouldn't have working camera, because camera fix by xkonni will be overwrited by kexec kernel.
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Wait for a custom kernel for CM12 (maybe Omar's GreatDevs kernel) with kexec support in Lollipop, as I don't think that CM12 will add kexec support by default due to its security issues, BTW .dat is just a problem for secondary ROMs not for host ROMs
Also stock-kexec-boot.img is just for stock ROMs (by Sony), flashing it in another ROM will cause a bootloop

I am not sure if I understand it correctly. But is it possible to use this on stock rom as primary and CM12 as secondary?

amnher said:
I am not sure if I understand it correctly. But is it possible to use this on stock rom as primary and CM12 as secondary?
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Well, CM12 as secondary not yet, but yes other LP ROMs which doesn't have .dat files in the zip, like Validus
Sent from my D5503 using XDA Free mobile app

I am using the new Resurrection Remix build (without block image OTAs) as secondary and now work flawesly
Question
To install a rom to ext sdcard, need to create a ext4 partition?

Compiled kexec patched kernel to CM12
Checked, internal ROM - cm12, second - cm11. All works fine
This boot.img with TWRP 2.8.4.0 and worked vol keys for entering when you are booting
UPD:
Fix zip archive, zipping on Linux and it was gzip archive, sorry.

Rempty said:
I am using the new Resurrection Remix build (without block image OTAs) as secondary and now work flawesly
Question
To install a rom to ext sdcard, need to create a ext4 partition?
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No, they are created automatically
russel5 said:
Compiled kexec patched kernel to CM12
Checked, internal ROM - cm12, second - cm11. All works fine
This boot.img with TWRP 2.8.4.0 and worked vol keys for entering when you are booting
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Thank you, I'll attach it at second post as soon as possible
Sent from my D5503 using XDA Free mobile app

russel5 said:
Compiled kexec patched kernel to CM12
Checked, internal ROM - cm12, second - cm11. All works fine
This boot.img with TWRP 2.8.4.0 and worked vol keys for entering when you are booting
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your zip seems to be broken (cannot unzip). downloaded various times.

paulle said:
your zip seems to be broken (cannot unzip). downloaded various times.
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fix, check

russel5 said:
fix, check
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Added to Downloads in second post

russel5 said:
fix, check
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yes, now I get it unzipped. Thank you..

[MOD][Z3C] MultiROM v33x

XDA:DevDB Information
MultiROM for Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, Tool/Utility for the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Contributors
Myself5
Source Code: https://github.com/XperiaMultiROM/multirom
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2015-05-22
Last Updated 2016-06-06

CHANGELOGs
General MultiROM Changelog can be found here:
Changelog
XperiaMultiROM Specific Changelog is here:
Recovery Changelog
MultiROM Changelog
DOWNLOAD
https://dl.myself5.de
The recovery.img is Tassadars modified TWRP to flash secondary Roms. It is needed to flash the secondary Roms.
SUPPORTED KERNELs
M5-Kernel-L (starting with V2)
AndroPlus Kernel (starting with V19)
If you want your favorite kernel to support kexec tell the dev to merge my commits.

Reserved
General Informations about Kexec are coming here soon.

I have encountered problems with secondary rom flashing. First try your test carbon rom boot loop, second try restore back up of stock rom failed, third try fresh install of a stock rom failed, fourth try pac rom with your m5 kernel flashing ok but will not start
my primary is cm12.1 with your kernel

me too.
primary rom is stock LP 23.1.A.1.28 with androplusV55
i succeeded installing second rom being CM12.1 nightly build
first without gaaps cm12.1, as per selecting the rom from the romlist in twrp and choosing flash zip
then tried deleting it and added the rom again, this time i flashed gapps as per selecting the rom from the romlist in twrp and choosing flash zip
is gapps required to load cm successfully at all?
When selecting cm12.1 at the multirom boot menu it reboots and only shows the internal (stock) rom and boots just fine.
then i was thinking about doing the swap rom from twrp or perhaps flashing cm12.1 as primary and having stock as secondary.
or perhaps flashing cm12.1 from scratch and then add stock sony as secondary via an old backup
but then i stumbled into this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60906102&postcount=129
i used multirom twrp which is inbuilt in andrplusV55, not the one from myself5's dl site!
-androplus is stock only supporting
-m5 kernel is only cm12 supporting
and i coulnd't find the way to choose de-select kernel for secondary rom as found somewhere else
what a dilemma

New Version is online!
I just uploaded a new Version. I figured out that I used the wrong flags so booting Secondary Roms which don't boot with the primary kernel were not working. However, they do now (I booted 5.0 on a 5.1 Host System just to get sure).
Again, terribly sorry, but new version is up now
Also huge thanks @funiewski for the donation

Important
Just one question
now say i flashed CM 12 as a second ROM
when i boot to it , will apps which i already installed on the stock appear their ??
in other words , does the each ROM affect the other one ?? like if i put something on internal storage will appear on the other ROM ??

Myself5 said:
I just uploaded a new Version. I figured out that I used the wrong flags so booting Secondary Roms which don't boot with the primary kernel were not working. However, they do now (I booted 5.0 on a 5.1 Host System just to get sure).
Again, terribly sorry, but new version is up now
Also huge thanks @funiewski for the donation
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nice one, indeed.
but i still had the same issue, couldn't load cm og pac as secondary rom
i had androplusV55, now i've updated to androplusV57, and it's working like a charm.
apperently it was a kernel issue
ps. noticed that gapps are required so it doesn't share apps i think?
not in my case though, hence im running stock rom as primary
probably M5 kernel can be flashed as well, as long as it is flashed through mulitrom twrp from listed roms, like update tutorial for secondary rom in OP
thanks very much

Hey freaks,
I think there is something to explain.
The first Thing you have to do and this is one of the most important thing:
Donate to Myself5 or even "Thankyou"
Because you must know, this Multirom MOD is very sensitive like a young good looking girl and it can feel a donation...and works even better after a Thank you
Remeber we are here in Z3 "Compact" Area you can NOT choose a Main Kernel for Z3 or other Xperia Models.
The Main Kernel must support kexec-hardboot (support for MultiROM), for Z3 Compact
The best way to get all to work is:
-Backup all you ROMs you have right now on your Device "Remeber Z3 "Compact"
-Save this to your SD Card
-clean your Phone
-Install CM12.1 latest Nighty
-boot one time and check if you have a Plain CM12.1 (LP 5.1.1) System. Now you have Cm12.1 and the Cyanogen Recovery on your Phone.
-Copy the File "multirom-20150524-v31x-UNOFFICIAL-aries.zip" and "multirom-20150522-v31x-UNOFFICIAL-aries.zip.md5sum" to your SD Card
-Shutdown your Phone and boot on Bootloader Mode (Press and hold Volume Up Button and insert USB Cable) a Blue LED appear now.
-Go with a Terminal in Administrator Mode in your ADB Folder with fastboot. (Windows PC)
-Copy one of the M5 V6 Kernel in the fastboot directory and copy the File TWRP-Multirom-20150524-00-z3c.img in the same directory
-type "fastboot devices" now you see your device is connected
-Now type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" <-- Boot .img is the M5 V6 kernel, you find in the release Zip Files from Myself5
-Now type "fastboot flash recovery TWRP-Multirom-20150524-00-z3c.img"
-Now type "fastboot reboot"
-Your Phone boots now normally and you should press Volume Up or down to enter TWRP MultiRom Recovery...Allmost all is done now.
-In Recovery Mode go to the Normal "Install" Button and choose the File "multirom-20150524-v31x-UNOFFICIAL-aries.zip" and flash this. Now reboot system.
Well done...Multiboot is installed.
Now you can go everytime you like in the recovery Mode and go to the Button Advanced -Multiboot and install other ROMs, like your Backups or CM12 builds.
All your Secondary Roms must be updated over the Advanced- Multiboot- List Roms feature. To update multiboot itself or the Main Cm12.1 Rom you have to flash over the Main install button.
If this is not working, delete Data and flash your Backup again and sell your Z3 Comapct and buy an IPhone. Apple take care of all your Data
Panic Brothers
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@Myself5 some problems when restoring backup of stockrom with androplus kernel as secondary. file attached

edit :solved couldnt figure how to flash gapps , rooky mistake but figured it out ....u go to advanced tab in twrp/multirom/list rom/flash zip

First time using multirom, working perfectly. Have carbon, candy5 and another rom I'm testing all booting as expected, awesome work.
Official support from the multirom app would be a bonus [emoji33] [emoji106]

Oh, totally forgot about the app. It's coming next ofc, just need to setup the z3c folder on my server.
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Work with stock rom???
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AnGrY sCoTsMaN said:
First time using multirom, working perfectly. Have carbon, candy5 and another rom I'm testing all booting as expected, awesome work.
Official support from the multirom app would be a bonus [emoji33] [emoji106]
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Ey bro on candy5 do you have full connection when you connect your cel into pc?

chikrron said:
Work with stock rom???
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Ey bro on candy5 do you have full connection when you connect your cel into pc?
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you can have stock as primary with androplus kernel, I couldn't manage to have stock as secondary

Ok bro thanks for the tip I'll try later

Hi
So I installed your MultiROM together with the M5-Kernel and cyanogenmod. Afterwards I flashed the modified TWRP recovery. However TWRP has issues to mount my external sdcard (32 GB), its just shown as 0 MB and its not possible for me to re-partition or format it.
- It says "auto" as its file system
- Its formated as FAT32 (tried extFat too)
- This sdcard was taken over from my old i9300
Edit:
Seems I fixed it by booting into cyanogenmod and going under Settings/Storage and select "delete sdcard" down there. Strange.....
Anyways. Thanks for your work!

myself5.de is down
In Case someone noticed my server being down:
I am aware that my server is down, it got suspended by an Admin and I need to figure out why (I have not done anything forbidden, last thing I did was trying to setup an instance of Gerrit Code Review) that however is not that easy cause the server is sponsored and I only have access to the SolusVM Panel, I can't create Support tickets, so I now need to wait for my sponsor to answer me. Stupid as I am I don't have a mirror, cause I did not set up one yet... I hope someone can upload the latest Version and post a link here, would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Myself5
EDIT: Server is meanwhile back. Thanks to everyone who provided a temporary link

Installing Roms on SD Card and External Memory
Hey guys, I was finally able to figure out a fix for the Roms not being able to boot from SDCard/external USB drives. I'm currently compiling a new build and it will be uploaded as soon as it's done, MultiRom Manager will get updated automatically too.
Progress on compiling can be seen here:
http://myself5.de:12345/job/XperiaMultiROM/37/console
Please be aware that booting Roms from SDCard/USB Media might take a bit longer than Roms installed on the internal Storage due to slower read/write speeds.
Regards

Myself5 said:
Hey guys, I was finally able to figure out a fix for the Roms not being able to boot from SDCard/external USB drives. I'm currently compiling a new build and it will be uploaded as soon as it's done, MultiRom Manager will get updated automatically too.
Progress on compiling can be seen here:
http://myself5.de:12345/job/XperiaMultiROM/37/console
Please be aware that booting Roms from SDCard/USB Media might take a bit longer than Roms installed on the internal Storage due to slower read/write speeds.
Regards
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@Myself5 how about multirom app,can it work for aries?

[Recovery] Official TWRP for the OnePlus 3 & 3T

Team Win Recovery Project 3.0.4-1 (unreleased)
Notice #1: Please don't wipe your data partition if TWRP cannot decrypt it. Instead, make an effort to gather logs to help solve the issue!
Notice #2: Themes from 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 are incompatible with 3.0.4. Sorry! (small theme engine changes regarding backlight control)
This is a unified build for both the OnePlus 3 and the OnePlus 3T!
WARNING: The OnePlus 3 & 3T stock boot image has dm-verity, which prevents you from booting if you swipe to enable system modifications!
SOLUTION: Follow the full rooting steps below, in order, to allow system modifications without the risk of a boot loop!
WHAT IS TWRP?
Oh come on, you know what it is - don't try to fool me!
In case you're serious, though...
Team Win Recovery Project is a custom recovery for Android devices.
It allows you to back up and restore your data, flash custom ROMs to your device, repair broken file systems, and root your device.
Read more about TWRP here: https://twrp.me/about/
DOWNLOAD
You can find the device page here:
http://teamw.in/devices/oneplusthree.html
Use 3.0.4-1 for now, rather than the builds on twrp.me until an official release happens. You will have problems with 3.0.3 on Nougat!
For now, please download the build from:
https://build.nethunter.com/twrp/oneplus/twrp-3.0.4-1-oneplus3.img
Officially 3.0.4 has not been released yet, but it has critical fixes for this device on Nougat, so please be patient.
There is a download link there, as well as instructions on how to flash it.
You can find up to date fastboot & adb binaries here!
FULL STEPS FOR OBTAINING ROOT
Follow these instructions until someone nice comes along and makes a video from them (without ads):
Extract/install adb & fastboot to your computer.
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Download TWRP for OnePlus 3 & 3T (oneplus3).
In your ROM, go to Settings -> About device. Tap 7 times on Build number to enable Developer options.
Now go to Settings -> Developer options. (above About device)
You need to enable OEM unlock, otherwise you might end up with boot problems or be unable to flash later on.
Reboot your device into fastboot mode. To do this, select reboot from the power menu and hold the [Volume Up] + [Power] buttons while your device reboots or boots from power off.
Once you're in fastboot mode, you need to unlock your bootloader. To do this, run the command:
fastboot oem unlock
WARNING: Unlocking your bootloader will erase all userdata on the device! Your device will be completely reset to factory defaults!
Once your bootloader is unlocked, you're ready to flash TWRP. To do this, run the command (replacing twrp.img with the actual image name):
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Once the image is flashed, you should use your volume keys to navigate to RECOVERY and the press the power key to select it.
At this point, you will reach the screen asking you if you want to allow system modifications.
By swiping right, you will trigger dm-verity, and if you don't follow the next step you will be unable to boot!
If you are going to root your device and follow the rest of these steps, then it is safe to swipe right and enable modifications.
If your device asks for a password to mount internal storage, and your password doesn't work or you haven't set one, see below under known issues for a fix!
If you want to be rooted with SuperSU:
Download the latest SuperSU Stable by Chainfire.
Without exiting TWRP, transfer the SuperSU zip to your device over MTP* and flash it using [Install] in TWRP.
---or (not both) ---
If you want to be rooted with something else or just want a bootable system:
Download the latest dm-verity and forced encryption disabler zip.
Without exiting TWRP, transfer the no-verity-opt-encrypt zip to your device over MTP* and flash it using [Install] in TWRP.
This will also allow you to use [Format Data] to completely disable your encryption if desired.
Go to [Reboot] -> [System].
Wait 2-5 minutes for your device to finish setting itself up. (SuperSU will reboot you a few times)
* MTP, known as Media Transfer Protocol, is the same way you transfer files from your PC to your device when booted into system.
UPDATING TWRP
To update TWRP, simply download the new twrp.img on your phone, then boot into your current TWRP and flash it.
To flash a twrp.img, navigate to [Install] -> [Flash Image] -> select your twrp.img -> [x] Recovery -> Flash!
After that, just use [Reboot] -> [Recovery] to reboot into the updated TWRP.
CHANGES
v3.0.4-1 (build.nethunter.com) - Fix crash when trying to reboot that resulted in TWRP restarting, CAF kernel updates
v3.0.4-0 (build.nethunter.com) - Capability restoration for Nougat, F2FS backport support, EXT4 decryption support
v3.0.3-0 (twrp.me) - Same as 3.0.3-1-rc2. In sync with the OnePlus 3T device tree (3.0.3-1).
v3.0.3-1-rc2 (build.nethunter.com) - Redo the device tree for OOS 4.0, including dynamic encryption support (pull libs from ROM)
FEATURES
MTP support
USB OTG storage support
Hardware Qualcomm-based full-disk encryption support
f2fs file system support (read, write, format, backup & restore)
exFAT file system support (read, write, format)
NTFS file system support (read, write, format)
ADB root
Full SELinux support
Built in android 6.0 tree
Allows OnePlus full OTA flashing
KNOWN ISSUES
F2FS takes a long time to boot, see below.
If your device is taking more than 10 minutes to boot, you probably have a misc flag enabled that disables passing cmdline, see below.
Reboot buttons don't work in TWRP (restarts TWRP) - disable Ask to install TWRP App on settings page, fix on the way. - fixed in 3.0.4-1
WHY AM I STUCK ON THE TWRP SPLASH SCREEN FOR 8 HOURS?
Be patient, wait another 8 hours.
Just kidding, try this while stuck on the loading screen:
adb shell wipe_misc; adb shell reboot recovery
Some devices might somehow get a flag set in misc that tells the bootloader to ignore the android boot image command line.
This results in the kernel not receiving the hardware name (qcom), which then confuses recovery and causes it to wait forever. FOREVER.
Personally, I'd have tried this after 15 minutes.
WHY DOES F2FS MAKE TWRP SO SLOW?
When TWRP boots up or wipes partitions and a few other scenarios, it checks each partition to see how much disk space is used. Ext4 handles disk usage calls quite efficiently and will finish this very fast. F2FS on the other hand is very slow when it comes to checking disk usage. We're unsure why this is. Every file on the F2FS formatted partition adds a little more time, and a device that is 30 GB full could take up to 10 minutes to boot TWRP!
I suggest switching your data partition to ext4 - all the f2fs hype is merely from benchmarks that don't actually represent real world use (ie. you're not writing thousands of files per second)
For someone who doesn't do lots of write access to their data partition, ext4 can actually be advantageous (it has faster access times and reads!)
WHY WON'T MY DATA DECRYPT / WHY IS MY PASSWORD INVALID IN TWRP?
In order for encryption to work in TWRP, it must pull the encryption libraries from your current ROM. It does this during TWRP boot logo. If you have no ROM installed, then it will fall back to the default OxygenOS 4.0.2 encryption libraries included in the TWRP image.
The crypto daemon in recovery will not be able to decrypt unless the version of the encryption key matches the version of the libraries. This is an unusual restriction that was added by OnePlus.
You can usually fix this by simply booting into your ROM and changing your boot up password. You can change it back or remove it if you want immediately after. This will generate a new crypto key which should be compatible when you next enter TWRP.
HOW DO I GET LOGS SO WHEN I COMPLAIN I'M NOT COMPLETELY IGNORED OR SHAMED BY OTHER USERS?
To get logs while in TWRP, you should connect your device to your PC and use adb.
adb pull /tmp/recovery.log
adb exec-out dmesg > dmesg.log
This will create 2 files in the directory your shell is currently in, recovery.log and dmesg.log. You will need to upload these somewhere such as a pastebin or Google Drive. You can also attach it to your XDA post (recommended!)
If you are having an operating system boot issue, you should gather a ramoops log instead. Do this while in TWRP after the failed boot:
adb exec-out "tar c /sys/fs/pstore 2>/dev/null" > pstore.tar
CONTACT & SUPPORT
You can find us on IRC at #twrp on chat.freenode.net.
You can also post in this thread and I will attempt to answer any questions you may have.
SOURCE CODE
TWRP: https://github.com/omnirom/android_bootable_recovery (android-7.1)
Device tree: https://github.com/TeamWin/android_device_oneplus_oneplus3 (android-6.0)
Kernel: https://github.com/jcadduono/android_kernel_oneplus_msm8996 (twrp-7.0)
CONTRIBUTIONS
Gerrit for TWRP: http://gerrit.omnirom.org/
Gerrit for officially supported devices: http://gerrit.twrp.me/
XDA:DevDB Information
Team Win Recovery Project for the OnePlus 3 & 3T, Tool/Utility for the OnePlus 3
Contributors
jcadduono, Team Win
Source Code: https://github.com/jcadduono/android_device_oneplus_oneplus3
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 3.0.4-1
Stable Release Date: 2017-01-21
Created 2017-01-23
Last Updated 2017-02-07

Reserved
ONEPLUS FULL OTA ZIPS
You can flash these zips in TWRP to update your device or save yourself from a broken or soft-bricked state.
They are official zips distributed by OnePlus.
For the OnePlus 3 only:
OxygenOS 3.2.8: http://s3.amazonaws.com/oxygenos.on...6_OTA_017_all_1611182000_fbe1471194d64b3e.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.0: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...en_16_OTA_035_all_1612310359_e10cadfb2af7.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.1: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...n_16_OTA_037_all_1701041839_aa64b084a40a4.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.2: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...16_OTA_039_all_1701140133_89fcc9baba94e4c.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.3: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...ygen_16_OTA_041_all_1702081756_0f1e56a75f.zip
For the OnePlus 3T only:
OxygenOS 3.5.3: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxygenos.o...8_OTA_027_all_1611222319_884473ff95304c30.zip
OxygenOS 3.5.4: http://oxygenos.oneplus.net.s3.amaz...8_OTA_029_all_1612131737_17e7161d2b234949.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.0: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...s3TOxygen_28_OTA_035_all_1612310259_2dc0c.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.1: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...ygen_28_OTA_037_all_1701041831_a2ba632ce9.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.2: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...s3TOxygen_28_OTA_039_all_1701140132_400a7.zip
OxygenOS 4.0.3: http://otafsc.h2os.com/patch/amazon...3TOxygen_28_OTA_041_all_1702081824_e3a712.zip
Warning: Do not flash partial update OTAs (under 1 GB) on a modified device! If you want to use partial OTAs, you must first flash a full OTA that it applies to, and then flash the partial OTA from stock recovery. Flashing partial OTAs from TWRP will either fail or soft brick your device. You can return to a usable state by flashing one of the above full OTA zips in recovery.

jcadduono said:
Team Win Recovery Project 3.0.4-0 (unreleased)
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Nice mate as always.
Pm: you might need yo check the format of the first post, everything is written 3 times. :laugh:

peshellas said:
Nice mate as always.
Pm: you might need yo check the format of the first post, everything is written 3 times. :laugh:
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Never quote full op, this is spamming.
For 3 times same content, open xda in browser, it's xda app bug.

RohanAJoshi said:
Never quote full op, this is spamming.
For 3 times same content, open xda in browser, it's xda app bug.
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You re Right mate, i know, i have been here since the very old days, I thought i had deleted ot, and continued, apparently not. Thanks for the tip, didn't know about the bug.

ext4 decrypted fine on OnePlus 3 OOS 4.0.2.

Is flashing twrp-data-fstype-swap-x.x.zip still necessary when switching between f2fs and ext4?
The instructions and the link are not stated in OP anymore.

fbf2201 said:
Is flashing twrp-data-fstype-swap-x.x.zip still necessary when switching between f2fs and ext4?
The instructions and the link are not stated in OP anymore.
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Both EXT4 and F2FS should work out of the box now.
No flashing needed.

Hello and thanx for the hard job.
I wanted to try a clean install starting from stock, hoping to correct my issue with twrp black screen.
I need your help. Here is what I've done :
- Restore stock with the unbrick tool
- Update to Nougat 7.0 and OOS4.0.2 via oneplus update
- Unlock bootloader
- Flash twrp 3.0.4-0 via fastboot
- Flash no-verity-opt-encrypt-5.0
- Flash RR rom
- Wipe data and Dalvik
- Reboot.
This is the first time it made it to me. It ask me a password when it boot. I saw a lot of post about that, but I can't understand how to solve it.
Can someone help me please ? My phone is OP3T

Hello, thanks for the super-useful tool. TWRP has been my goto recovery for as long as I have been rooting (days of htc-hd2). I am experiencing the following issues with v3.0.2-1 (all my checkpoint backups are in that version).
* Device = op3
* If it helps, this was a OOS 4.0.1 backup. I was trying to restore it because of a 4.0.2 upgrade failure attempt
* restore hangs at 100% after the backup is complete.
* After waiting for nearly 15 mins, I used the power down to restart the phone - i had lost recovery
* tried to re-install recovery. but when twrp boots - it doesn't get to main menu
* Oddly enough op recovery installs and boots into fine. Which is what I am on.
I am currently on stock recovery without root unable to restore backup ups in twrp and in titanium backup
any thoughts?

Is the 3.0.4 version from this link https://build.nethunter.com/twrp/oneplus/twrp-3.0.4-0-oneplus3.img a unified 3/3T version ? or 3 only ?

ScratMan38 said:
Is the 3.0.4 version from this link https://build.nethunter.com/twrp/oneplus/twrp-3.0.4-0-oneplus3.img a unified 3/3T version ? or 3 only ?
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Its a unified version

ScratMan38 said:
Is the 3.0.4 version from this link https://build.nethunter.com/twrp/oneplus/twrp-3.0.4-0-oneplus3.img a unified 3/3T version ? or 3 only ?
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I've also download it...But I'm afraid to install because it's not really clear...My device IS OP3T.

cultofluna said:
I've also download it...But I'm afraid to install because it's not really clear...My device IS OP3T.
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Why don't your read the OP? It clearly says it is so either you can't read or you should stick to stock OOS and never flash anything

cultofluna said:
I've also download it...But I'm afraid to install because it's not really clear...My device IS OP3T.
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it's unified. even if it says op3 it will work for the 3t. read the op. a lot of 3t stuff baked in. works fine. only issue now is the black screen with LED light when booting into recovery. at least for me

Renosh said:
Why don't your read the OP? It clearly says it is so either you can't read or you should stick to stock OOS and never flash anything
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Thanks your reply was really helpful:laugh:

the 3.0.4.0 is recommend version or have some problem must need? for now i'm use 3.0.3.1 is good with f2fs data partition, OS version is RR-N-v5.8.0-20170117-oneplus3t-Official, i want to dirty flash update to RR-N-v5.8.0-20170122-oneplus3t-Official, i need update TWRP to 3.0.4.0 first? or i can keep use 3.0.3.1?

Renosh said:
Why don't your read the OP? It clearly says it is so either you can't read or you should stick to stock OOS and never flash anything
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Abaddon said:
it's unified. even if it says op3 it will work for the 3t. read the op. a lot of 3t stuff baked in. works fine. only issue now is the black screen with LED light when booting into recovery. at least for me
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There was two links in the OP, one for 3.0.3-1 mentioning "unified", and one for 3.0.4 with only "oneplus3".
As I knew the dev was working on both version and still supplies 3.0.3-1 test releases in Op3T thread that were newer than the 3.0.4 he built ; and as the changelog did not mention the unification for 3.0.4, for sure, OP was not clear at all.

Is this 3.0.3.x or 3.0.4.0 backward compatible with Marshmallow ROMs?

chancex said:
the 3.0.4.0 is recommend version or have some problem must need? for now i'm use 3.0.3.1 is good with f2fs data partition, OS version is RR-N-v5.8.0-20170117-oneplus3t-Official, i want to dirty flash update to RR-N-v5.8.0-20170122-oneplus3t-Official, i need update TWRP to 3.0.4.0 first? or i can keep use 3.0.3.1?
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You want to update a custom rom which by definition has no issue with dm-integrity (only present in stock boot image), so if you don't have any issue keep your recovery.
It seems though that latest version has a minimized risk of issues with f2fs so why not updating it?
cultofluna said:
Thanks your reply was really helpful[emoji23]
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He was right, the thread's title says clearly 3 and 3T.

[Addison]MultiROM v33 [No Kexec Workaround]

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Introduction
MultiROM is one-of-a-kind multi-boot mod for MotoZ Play. It can boot any Android ROM as well as other systems like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Active, Bohdi Linux or WebOS port, once they are ported to our device. Besides booting from device's internal memory, MultiROM can boot from USB drive connected to the device via OTG cable. The main part of MultiROM is a boot manager, which appears every time your device starts and lets you choose ROM to boot. You can see how it looks on the left image below and in gallery. ROMs are installed and managed via modified TWRP recovery. You can use standard ZIP files to install secondary Android ROMs, daily prebuilt image files to install Ubuntu Touch and MultiROM even has its own installer system, which can be used to ship other Linux-based systems.
Features:
* Multiboot any number of Android ROMs
* Restore nandroid backup as secondary ROM
* Use for example Ubuntu Touch or Desktop alongside with Android, without the need of device formatting.
* Boot from USB drive attached via OTG cable
Warning!
It _is_ dangerous. This whole thing is basically one giant hack - none of these systems are made with multibooting in mind. It is no longer messing with data partition or boot sector, but it is possible that something goes wrong and you will have to flash factory images again. Make backups. Always.ays.
Installation
1. Via MultiROM Manager app
This is the easiest way to install everything MultiROM needs. Install the app (wait until I compile it) and select MultiROM and recovery on the Install/Update card. If the Status card says Kernel: doesn't have kexec-hardboot patch! in red letters, you have to install also patched kernel - either select one on the Install/Update card or get some 3rd-party kernel here on XDA. You are choosing kernel for your primary ROM, not any of your (future) secondary ROMs, so select the version accordingly.
Press "Install" on the Install/Update card to start the installation.
2.Manual installation
Firstly, there are videos on youtube. If you want, just search for "MultiROM installation" on youtube and watch those, big thanks to all who made them. There is also an awesome article on Linux Journal.
MultiROM has 3 parts you need to install:
MultiROM (multirom-YYYYMMDD-vXX-addison.zip) - download the ZIP file from second post and flash it in recovery.
Modified recovery (MULTIROM-TWRP-3.1.1-Addison-unnoficial.img) - download the IMG file from second post and use fastboot or Flashify app to flash it.
[*]Patched kernel - You can use either one of the stock ones in second post or third-party kernels which include the patch, you can see list in the second post. Download the ZIP file and flash it in recovery.
You current rom will not be erased by the installation.
Download links are in the second post.[/INDENT]
Adding ROMs
1. Android
Go to recovery, select Advanced -> MultiROM -> Add ROM. Select the ROM's zip file and confirm.
Using USB drive
During installation, recovery lets you select install location. Plug in the USB drive, wait a while and press "refresh" so that it shows partitions on the USB drive. You just select the location (extX, NTFS and FAT32 partitions are supported) and proceed with the installation.
If you wanna use other than default FAT32 partition, just format it in PC. If you don't know how/don't know where to find out how, you probably should not try installing MultiROM.
If you are installing to NTFS or FAT32 partition, recovery asks you to set image size for all the partitions - this cannot be easilly changed afterward, so choose carefully. FAT32 is limited to maximum of 4095MB per image - it is limitation of the filesystem, I can do nothing about that.
Installation to USB drives takes a bit longer, because the flash drive is (usually) slower and it needs to create the images, so installation of Ubuntu to 4Gb image on my pretty fast USB drive takes about 20 minutes.
Enumerating USB drive can take a while in MultiROM menu, so when you press the "USB" button in MultiROM, wait a while (max. 30-45s) until it searches the USB drive. It does it by itself, no need to press something, just wait.
Updating/changing ROMs
1. Primary ROM (Internal)
Flash ROM's ZIP file as usual, do factory reset if needed (it won't erase secondary ROMs)
Go to Advanced -> MultiROM in recovery and do Inject curr. boot sector.
2. Secondary Android ROMs
If you want to change the ROM, delete it and add new one. To update ROM, follow these steps:
Go to Advanced -> MultiROM -> List ROMs and select the ROM you want to update.
Select "Flash ZIP" and flash ROM's ZIP file.
Explanation of recovery menus
Main menu
Add ROM - add ROM to boot
List ROMs - list installed ROMs and manage them
Inject boot.img file - When you download for example kernel, which is distributed as whole boot.img (eg. franco kernel), you have to use this option on it, otherwise you would lose MultiROM.
Inject curr. boot sector - Use this option if MultiROM does not show up on boot, for example after kernel installation.
Settings - we'll, settings.
Manage ROM
Rename, delete - I believe these are obvious
Flash ZIP (only Android ROMs) - flash ZIP to the ROM, for example gapps
Add/replace boot.img - replaces boot.img used by this ROM, this is more like developer option.
Re-patch init - this is available only for ubuntu. Use it when ubuntu cannot find root partition, ie. after apt-get upgrade which changed the init script.
Source code
Code:
[HIDE]
<remote name="multirom"
fetch="https://github.com/Tasssadar" />
<project name="multirom-dev/multirom" path="system/extras/multirom" remote="github" revision="master" />
<project name="multirom-dev/Team-Win-Recovery-Project" path="bootable/recovery" remote="github" revision="android-7.1-mrom" />
<project name="multirom-dev/libbootimg" path="system/extras/libbootimg" remote="github" revision="master" />
[/HIDE]
Kernel: https://github.com/Alberto97/android_kernel_motorola_msm8953/commits/twrp-7.1
Device: https://github.com/XPerience-AOSP-Lollipop/android_device_motorola_addison/tree/android-7.1-MROM
XDA:DevDB Information
[Addison]MultiROM v33 [No Kexec Workaround], Tool/Utility for the Moto Z Play
Contributors
TeamMex
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2017-05-20
Last Updated 2017-05-20

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Downloads:
TWRP_Multirom.img
multirom-20170520-v33-UNOFFICIAL-addison.zip
multirom_uninstaller.zip
MultiROMMGR Adapted for Addison

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FAQ and other notes
Device encryption
Encryption Fully working
SD CARD
Fully working
About security
In order to make multi-booting possible, MultiROM has to sacrifice some security measures. Firstly, on secondary Android ROMs, /system is not mounted read-only. While there are other things preventing malicious software from messing with /system, this might potentially make it easier for such software to attack that system.
What do the ROMs share?
All ROMs are separate, except /sdcard, which is shared between all Android ROMs.
How many ROMs can I have?/Where are the ROMs stored?
You can have as many ROMs as you can fit in your /sdcard. All the ROMs are stored in /sdcard/multirom/roms or on an USB drive. This folder is unaccessible in Android, to prevent mediascanner from scanning it. You can either in recovery, or obtain root and go to /data/media/0/multirom/roms.
Can I have different versions of Android working alongside
Yes. As long as you select "Don't shere kernel" when installing the secondary ROM, the systems are separated.
MultiROM recovery says it's 2.6.3.0. Why isn't it updated to 2.6.3.*highernumber*?
It is, it just shows wrong version.
The menu with all the ROMs won't show up during boot, how to fix it?
Either re-flash the MultiROM zip or go to recovery, Advanced -> MultiROM -> Inject curr. boot sector.
The reason for this is that something rewrote your boot.img, which happens for example when you flash a kernel. MultiROM's boot menu is part of the boot image, so it has to be added into it again.
Will you port MultiROM to device X?
No, probably. I won't port MultiROM to any device I don't own, because it is very difficult to provide the level of support I want to provide if I can't test things myself, as proven by the Nexus 4 port. I'd like to support more devices, but it is also very satisfying to work on code for device I don't have - I invested hours upon hours of time for free into it, and then I can't even see it running on the device, so...why..bother..?
I'll probably keep buying Nexus devices and keep porting MultiROM to those myself, but I can't buy every single device - I'm still a student, all my existing devices were bought using some kind of money grant or donations from users.
But, you can port it yourself, the wiki should give you at least some idea how to do that:
https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom/wiki/Porting-MultiROM

CREDITS:
 @nkk71 (For kexec workaround) 
 @Tasssadar for MultiROM 
 @Alberto97 For TWRP kernel and Encrypt fixes taked from his TWRP repo.
Screenshots

Try to test but, mod twrp stuck on initial logo ( flashed via , twrp , flashify and fastboot )
Download it three time.
Please you can upload to another host?
Thanks sorry for my bad English.
Inviato dal mio XT1635-02 utilizzando Tapatalk

lol nice job @TeamMex ! u got it fully working? i only have a touch issue on rom boot selector screen....
i've used mr-dev repos
ok it doesn't boot here neither (im unencrypted dunno if its related) ; couldn't grab a log, terminal throws me a "/sbin/sh: exec: line 1: logcat: not found"
here a booting 3.1.0 mr_twrp for those having issues https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120733531
but this one doesn't have encryption

Alx31 said:
lol nice job @TeamMex ! u got it fully working? i only have a touch issue on rom boot selector screen..
i've used mr-dev repos
ok it doesn't boot here neither (im unencrypted dunno if its related) ; couldn't grab a log, terminal throws me a "/sbin/sh: exec: line 1: logcat: not found"
here a booting 3.1.0 mr_twrp for those having issues https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120733531
but this one doesn't have encryption
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For me it's working fine
Sent from my Moto Z Play using XDA Labs

TeamMex said:
For me it's working fine
Sent from my Moto Z Play using XDA Labs
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I mean is a upload problem..try to change host
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I'm getting, "Failed to create system.img" error for both SD card and internal storage.

Great work!
Waiting for Android O for the device.?
Can you tell if development of Android O for the device(Z Play) is started or not?
Thanks!

VR25 said:
I'm getting, "Failed to create system.img" error for both SD card and internal storage.
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Me as well

Mrawesome13 said:
Me as well
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Try to decrypt your device.
I forgot to add these info.
It work on encrypted but work better on decrypted devices.
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TeamMex said:
Try to decrypt your device.
I forgot to add these info.
It work on encrypted but work better on decrypted devices.
.
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I've decrypted my data, now recovery gets stuck at the splash screen. The standard TWRP works though. Tried MULTIROM TWRP 3 times -- Auto installation from the MultiROM app and manual from flashify & standard TWRP. I forgot to get a log. Will do it if I have time to try that again.

I'm sorry but from the past messages I couldn't understand if this version of MultiROM works with an encrypted OS (as primary or secondary ROM) or not.
If I have understood correctly the original MultiROM from tassadar supports encryption on nexus devices since many years. Is the same valid for this version for the Moto Z play as well?
Could anyone maybe clarify that?
Thanks!

Hey, i did that. But it isnt working.. still same message

Anybody who can confirm that MultiROM v33 is working on moto z play under 7.1.1 stock rom with stock kernel?
Thanks!

wokawoka said:
I'm sorry but from the past messages I couldn't understand if this version of MultiROM works with an encrypted OS (as primary or secondary ROM) or not.
If I have understood correctly the original MultiROM from tassadar supports encryption on nexus devices since many years. Is the same valid for this version for the Moto Z play as well?
Could anyone maybe clarify that?
Thanks!
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yes but him was reverted the encription support.
I will try to update multirom in some day's.

Thank you for your reply @TeamMex!
I'm actually using in this right moment your TWRP 3.1.1 multirom and these are my findings:
- I don't know why but TWRP is no more asking me the decryption password at boot (at the beginning for the first boots it was regularly asking me the encryption PIN), but after having booted it can read and write the internal storage without the password.
That means that the password is cached somewhere. I personally find this behaviour very risky and it basically defeat the purpouse of having encrypted the phone (see also https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues/202#issuecomment-342540553 )
- TWRP doesn't boot if my 64GB SDXC is inserted in the phone (formatted on the computer as exFAT or even forced to FAT32, formatted on the phone as external storage, no difference)
- it looks like I can't install any secondary rom. If I try to install a secondary rom on the internal storage I get an error when it tries to create the system.img file (E:Failed to create system.img), if I try to install the secondary rom on a small 16GB sd card it just fails while creating the cache.img file without outputting any error.
I'm running a rooted stock moto z play 7.1.1 rom as my primary rom and I've installed MultiROMMGR and reinstalled TWRP from there as well.
Do you by chance have any suggestion about these issues?
Any new version that corrects bugs is of course very welcome. Thank you very much again for your work!

wokawoka said:
Thank you for your reply @TeamMex!
- I don't know why but TWRP is no more asking me the decryption password at boot (at the beginning for the first boots it was regularly asking me the encryption PIN), but after having booted it can read and write the internal storage without the password.
That means that the password is cached somewhere. I personally find this behaviour very risky and it basically defeat the purpouse of having encrypted the phone (see also https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues/202#issuecomment-342540553 )
- TWRP doesn't boot if my 64GB SDXC is inserted in the phone (formatted on the computer as exFAT or even forced to FAT32, formatted on the phone as external storage, no difference)
- it looks like I can't install any secondary rom. If I try to install a secondary rom on the internal storage I get an error when it tries to create the system.img file (E:Failed to create system.img), if I try to install the secondary rom on a small 16GB sd card it just fails while creating the cache.img file without outputting any error.
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- Alright, so I was able to resolve the encryption password problem, as iit was my fault and not twrp multirom's: I just had to change again the security settings of the phone to enable the ask for pin code on boot.
- I circumvented the 64GB SDXC problem by using a 32GB SD card (still, it would be great to use a bigger sd card)
- Unfortunately, I'm still not able to use the multirom function: I'm running a moto z play stock 7.1.1 encrypted and rooted system, and as no alternative kernels exits for 7.1.1 at the moment. Is there a possibility in this conditions to get multirom working? I still receive the "E:Failed to create system.img" error when I try to install a secondary rom.
I'm not sure, but it feels like this moto z play multirom port is not actively mantained, which is a real pity because the phone is great and has all the characteristics to be the center of an active community of enthusiasts (in the same way some nexus or Samsung phones do) since it has quite unique features like good specs and an incredible battery life, the mod expandibility and an hardware qwerty keyboard that is going to be released very soon, and it also recently became very affordable.
Having a working multirom would help immensely and push the development of custom roms and alternative OSs (like for example sailfish https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1538755#post1538755 ).
I would try to help or to take care of it myself but unfortunately I don't have the specific skills needed. I would be eventually up to give my contribution with some money (actually I'm thinking about creating a bountysource for it).
Is there by chance someone else that could bring on the port and release a stable working version?
If not, do you guys think that the it would be possible to adapt the twrp multirom released for the Moto Z (non-play version): https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/development/mod-multirom-v33b-moto-z-t3513868 ? I can imagine that they have to be very similar.
Thanks again

any update on this?

Database Info

welcome