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[RECOVERY][i9500] TWRP 3.0.0-0 touch recovery [2016-02-06]

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 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.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.0-0:
-Completely new theme - Much more modern and much nicer looking (by z31s1g)
-True Terminal Emulator - Includes arrow keys, tab and tab completion, etc. (by _that)
-Language translation - It won’t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese won’t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROM’s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)
-Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)
-Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow
-Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)
-SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed
-Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)
-Update AOSP base to 6.0
-A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks
WARNING: This is our first release in a long time. We have a lot of new and somewhat aggressive changes in this new release. The changes to the graphics back-end may cause some devices to not boot up properly or have other display-related issues. If you are not in a position to reflash an older build of TWRP, then wait until you are or at least wait until others have tried the new version for your specific device. You don’t want to end up with a non-working recovery and have to wait several hours or days to get to a computer to be able to fix it.
Notes for themers: In addition to the udpated theme, we have introduced a theme version variable to the TWRP theme system. If the theme version does not match the version that TWRP expects, TWRP will reject the custom theme and load its stock theme. This change will ensure that people who update TWRP without updating their theme will still have a workable recovery. We have removed libjpeg support. The stock theme was only using a jpeg image for the splash / curtain. This change means that any custom themes will no longer be able to use jpeg images. It also means that tools used to repack recovery images with a different curtain / splash will need to be updated to use the new method.
Version number notes: For a while we’ve been using a 4 digit version number and reserved the 4th digit for device-specific updates. For instance, we find and fix a device-specific issue like decryption of data on Nexus 5, we would release that as a 2.8.7.1. After a while, some people would start asking where 2.8.7.1 was for other devices. So, going forward we have decided to change the numbering scheme to 3.0.0-2, etc. Our hope is that this version numbering scheme will more clearly identify that the 4th digit does not indicate a version change for the code base.
We need your help! The bulk of TWRP work is done by 3 people on a volunteer basis. We have pushed most of our device files to our github and we have a gerrit instance. If you have the ability, please help us maintain our official devices and/or add your device to our official device list. Thanks in advance!
CHANGELOG for 2.8.7.0:
-Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard (_that)
-Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices (xuefer)
-Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties (xuefer)
-Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices (xuefer)
-Fix error message after an ORS script completes (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups (_that, Dees_Troy)
-Add system read only option – more details below (Dees_Troy)
-Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file (_that)
-Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens (mdmower)
Note: As always, be sure your custom theme is up to date (or remove your custom theme) before updating TWRP.
System read only option: 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.
resize2fs feature: On some devices like the Nexus 6, the factory images include a userdata image that is the proper size only for the 32GB units. If you flash the factory image to a 64GB Nexus 6, the data partition will appear as if it only has the free space of a 32GB device. Using the resize2fs option, TWRP can resize your data partition to take up the full space available. The resize2fs may also be useful to resize system partitions on devices where custom ROM system images don’t take up the full partition space. Lastly, resize2fs may be useful in some cases to reserve the proper space at the end of a data partition for a full disk encryption key, should your partition be formatted incorrectly for some reason.
This new version also marks our first set of full builds using our new jenkins build server. You can track the progress of builds at https://jenkins.twrp.me and we have taken additional steps to make it easier for device maintainers to step up and submit patches to our gerrit server at https://gerrit.twrp.me to help us keep devices up to date and working.
DOWNLOAD:
Most devices can be updated quickly and easily within TWRP if you already have version 2.8.4.0 or higher installed
1) Download the latest version from our website on your device
2) Reboot to TWRP
3) Hit Install and tap the "Images..." button in the lower right
4) Browse to the location of the TWRP image on your device and select it
5) Select recovery from the partition list and swipe to flash
OR:
You can find more information and download links on our NEW website! NOTE that the 2.8.6.0 version is ONLY available on our new site and is not available on our other, older mirrors!
BUGS:
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
SUPPORT:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.

Device specific page for i9500
Mirror 1
Mirror 2
Special thanks to SamerDiab for helping test.

TWRP Flasher BUILD 1.0 Noob Edition​What Do You Get With TWRP Flasher ?
1. The Most Easiest Way To Flash TWRP Recovery.
2.A Full Guide on HOW To Flash TWRP Recovery.
What Do you Need To DO To USE The TOOL ?
1.Enable USB Debugging.
2.On S4 No Need To Install Drivers.
3.Plug in Your Phone And Sit Down And Realx.{Just Follow The Command Prompt}
Downloads :
TWRP Flasher Build 1 Noob Edition{WINDOWS Edition}
How To USE ?
1.Download And Extract To A Folder.
2.Copy TWRP.tar To Place-Recovey-Here Folder That Comes With The Tool.
3.Run TWRP Flahsher.
And Please Hit The Thanks Button.
KingCobra Rom's Run's Best With TWRP​

It is not working for me.
I have just tried the GooManager method, it downloaded the openscript for the i9500 and installed. I then rebooted through a Restart>Recovery from inside Android OS it rebooted but it was not able to boot to TWRP, instead it rebooted twice and went back to Android OS.
I have not tested booting using 3 button combination yet. Will give it a try and report back.
Update: So if I try to boot with Volume Up + Home + Power then it does boot to TWRP with no problem. Weird. I am on Wanamlite 1.8 if it works.
Update: Disregard after a second reboot it did go to TWRP when rebooted into recovery from within the power menu in the ROM. All is working fine now. Thanks for the great work. I used to work with CWM but TWRP rulez!!!

Great!!! Working well for me...
Sent from my Octa using New Tapatalk 4

Guti1977 said:
It is not working for me.
I have just tried the GooManager method, it downloaded the openscript for the i9500 and installed. I then rebooted through a Restart>Recovery from inside Android OS it rebooted but it was not able to boot to TWRP, instead it rebooted twice and went back to Android OS.
I have not tested booting using 3 button combination yet. Will give it a try and report back.
Update: So if I try to boot with Volume Up + Home + Power then it does boot to TWRP with no problem. Weird. I am on Wanamlite 1.8 if it works.
Update: Disregard after a second reboot it did go to TWRP when rebooted into recovery from within the power menu in the ROM. All is working fine now. Thanks for the great work. I used to work with CWM but TWRP rulez!!!
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Well wanam apm is working so it should be working

Yay TWRP! Welcome, Deestroy
Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 5.0.203 Alpha
1700Mhz A15 and 1500Mhz A7 running together with 640Mhz GPU.

Mate - I was missing TWRP for so much time on I9500. It`s really cool that atleast some developers are brave enough to stay with I9500

Thanks bro...just flashed using SGS4 Flasher app from playstore and it works...yeahhhh....no need pc odin...missed twrp on my note2 and s3.
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

hazri1974 said:
Thanks bro...just flashed using SGS4 Flasher app from playstore and it works...yeahhhh....no need pc odin...missed twrp on my note2 and s3.
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium
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GooManager can download the correct file and flash it for you automatically as well.

And the tool does to its easy to flash with it
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

When i install super wipe.zip of mike, to the finish this reboot in recovery, so no enter in recovery and have continue loop in galaxy i9500 logo.
Thank you very much, excelent work.
(i dont have this problem in any other recovery)
-Sorry for my bad english.

kirabyte said:
When i install super wipe.zip of mike, to the finish this reboot in recovery, so no enter in recovery and have continue loop in galaxy i9500 logo.
Thank you very much, excelent work.
(i dont have this problem in any other recovery)
-Sorry for my bad english.
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You mean super wipe frim mike1986 right ?
I dont see a ARHD Here you must be rong this is Gt_i9500 forum not i9505
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

I really appreciate having this in my i9500.
I was missing it a LOT!
Thanks for your work.
I have tried and I can reboot into recovery, and boot from power off too.
Working great.
BTW, I'm using wanam's 1,8 and it works.

S.a.M.e.R_d said:
You mean super wipe frim mike1986 right ?
I dont see a ARHD Here you must be rong this is Gt_i9500 forum not i9505
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium
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Of course, but the .zip is in phoenix rom 4.0, and i use for install a lot of roms...
I have I9500..
Thank you.

Awesome
Sent from my GT-I9500

Thanks a lot for bringing TWRP for I9500.. That's a solo thing which was being missed by many since many days! :victory:

Thanks for updating it on i9500. Tried almost all the options except themes and everything is working great. Just for info what is the cpu usage on recovery as I noticed phone getting a little more hot than usual.
Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Question regarding the restore
Hi All,
I haven't used it ever. I was on Philz. So just wanted to know if I can restore Nandroid backup created with Philz(which is CWM basically) using TWRP..
Help would be much appreciated..

sozofriend1234 said:
Hi All,
I haven't used it ever. I was on Philz. So just wanted to know if I can restore Nandroid backup created with Philz(which is CWM basically) using TWRP..
Help would be much appreciated..
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No you canf restore but i highley request that u use twrp it faster loveleiyer to use full touch and more andriid os like si use it
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

[RECOVERY][falcon] TWRP 3.0.0-0 touch recovery [2016-03-06]

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 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.
CHANGELOGS :
CHANGELOG for 3.0.0-0:
-Completely new theme - Much more modern and much nicer looking (by z31s1g)
-True Terminal Emulator - Includes arrow keys, tab and tab completion, etc. (by _that)
-Language translation - It won’t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese won’t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROM’s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)
-Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)
-Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow
-Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)
-SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed
-Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)
-Update AOSP base to 6.0
-A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks
WARNING: This is our first release in a long time. We have a lot of new and somewhat aggressive changes in this new release. The changes to the graphics back-end may cause some devices to not boot up properly or have other display-related issues. If you are not in a position to reflash an older build of TWRP, then wait until you are or at least wait until others have tried the new version for your specific device. You don’t want to end up with a non-working recovery and have to wait several hours or days to get to a computer to be able to fix it.
Notes for themers: In addition to the udpated theme, we have introduced a theme version variable to the TWRP theme system. If the theme version does not match the version that TWRP expects, TWRP will reject the custom theme and load its stock theme. This change will ensure that people who update TWRP without updating their theme will still have a workable recovery. We have removed libjpeg support. The stock theme was only using a jpeg image for the splash / curtain. This change means that any custom themes will no longer be able to use jpeg images. It also means that tools used to repack recovery images with a different curtain / splash will need to be updated to use the new method.
Version number notes: For a while we’ve been using a 4 digit version number and reserved the 4th digit for device-specific updates. For instance, we find and fix a device-specific issue like decryption of data on Nexus 5, we would release that as a 2.8.7.1. After a while, some people would start asking where 2.8.7.1 was for other devices. So, going forward we have decided to change the numbering scheme to 3.0.0-2, etc. Our hope is that this version numbering scheme will more clearly identify that the 4th digit does not indicate a version change for the code base.
We need your help! The bulk of TWRP work is done by 3 people on a volunteer basis. We have pushed most of our device files to our github and we have a gerrit instance. If you have the ability, please help us maintain our official devices and/or add your device to our official device list. Thanks in advance!
CHANGELOG for 2.8.7.0:
-Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard (_that)
-Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices (xuefer)
-Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties (xuefer)
-Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices (xuefer)
-Fix error message after an ORS script completes (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups (_that, Dees_Troy)
-Add system read only option – more details below (Dees_Troy)
-Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file (_that)
-Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens (mdmower)
Note: As always, be sure your custom theme is up to date (or remove your custom theme) before updating TWRP.
System read only option: 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.
resize2fs feature: On some devices like the Nexus 6, the factory images include a userdata image that is the proper size only for the 32GB units. If you flash the factory image to a 64GB Nexus 6, the data partition will appear as if it only has the free space of a 32GB device. Using the resize2fs option, TWRP can resize your data partition to take up the full space available. The resize2fs may also be useful to resize system partitions on devices where custom ROM system images don’t take up the full partition space. Lastly, resize2fs may be useful in some cases to reserve the proper space at the end of a data partition for a full disk encryption key, should your partition be formatted incorrectly for some reason.
This new version also marks our first set of full builds using our new jenkins build server. You can track the progress of builds at https://jenkins.twrp.me and we have taken additional steps to make it easier for device maintainers to step up and submit patches to our gerrit server at https://gerrit.twrp.me to help us keep devices up to date and working.
TWRP 3.0.0.0_2 (All Variants support)
twrp-3.0.0.0_2-falcon.img #CHANGELOG
Old downloads :
OLD TWRP 3.0.0.0
twrp-3.0.0-falcon_gpe.imgtwrp-3.0.0-falcon.img
Latest TWRP 2.8.7.0
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_M_GPE.img
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_M_GPE_NOTHEME.img
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_M_STOCK.img
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_M_STOCK_NOTHEME.img
TWRP 2.8.7.0
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_GPE.img - 9.8 Mo (AFH Mirror)
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_GPE_NOTHEME.img - 9.2 Mo (AFH Mirror)
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_STOCK.img - 9.8 Mo (AFH Mirror)
twrp-2.8.7.0.-falcon_STOCK_NOTHEME.img - 9.2 Mo (AFH Mirror)
TWRP 2.8.6.0 - OLD
twrp-2.8.6.0-falcon.img - 9.0 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0-falcon_GPE.img - 9.0 Mo
*Later
twrp-2.8.6.0-falcon_GPE.img - 10.0 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0-falcon.img - 9.9 Mo
* Later later 2.8.6.0.1
twrp-2.8.6.0.1-falcon_GPE.img - 8.9 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0.1-falcon_STOCK.img - 8.9 Mo
* Later later later
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_GPE_NOTHEME.img - 9.2 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_GPE.img - 9.8 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_MULTI_NOTHEME.img - 9.2 Mo (Might be able to run GPE and STOCK. This need to be tested !)
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_STOCK_NOTHEME.img - 9.2 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_STOCK.img - 9.8 Mo
twrp-2.8.6.0.-falcon_MULTI.img - 9.8 Mo (Might be able to run GPE and STOCK. This need to be tested !)
TWRP 2.8.5.0
twrp-2.8.5.0-falcon.img - 10.0 Mo
twrp-2.8.5.0-falcon_GPE.img - 10.0 Mo
TWRP 2.8.4.0
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-falcon_GPE.img is for GPE ONLY (ext4 userdata)
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-falcon_STOCK.img is for STOCK ONLY (f2fs userdata)
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-falcon_GPE_LP.img is for GPE ONLY (ext4 userdata & lollipop bootloader)
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-falcon_STOCK_LP.img is for STOCK ONLY (f2fs userdata & lollipop bootloader)
TWRP 2.8.3.0
twrp-2.8.3.0_falcon-GPE_sub77.img
twrp-2.8.3.0_falcon-STOCK_sub77.img
TWRP 2.8.2.0 :
twrp-2.8.2.0_falcon-GPE.img is for GPE ONLY (ext4 userdata)
twrp-2.8.2.0_falcon-STOCK.img is for STOCK ONLY (f2fs userdata)
How to install ? :
Do
Code:
sudo fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-falcon_gpe.img
or
Code:
sudo fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-falcon_gpe.img
Sources
- android_device_motorola_falcon
Bugs ?
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
Support
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.
XDA:DevDB Information
[RECOVERY][falcon] TWRP 3.0.0-0 touch recovery [2016-03-06], Tool/Utility for the Moto G
Contributors
h2o64
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2014-12-22
Last Updated 2016-03-06

is it normal if I can see some line running from top to bottom of my screen?
and I can do backup but can not restore it.
and can not boot after this.
it's really alpha
gpe 5.0.1

S0bes said:
is it normal if I can see some line running from top to bottom of my screen?
and I can do backup but can not restore it.
and can not boot after this.
it's really alpha
gpe 5.0.1
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I know fixes.
New release in a minute.

h2o64 said:
I know fixes.
New release in a minute.
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it is gpe related. i have just checked with xt1032.

Is dis multirom recovery and btw how much you approached in multirom ..

sub77 said:
it is gpe related. i have just checked with xt1032.
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Yes yes.
I'm uploading the two new files :
twrp.fstab is the fstab for backup.
BUT the actual one backup userdata f2fs only.
SO we needed to make 2 different ones
Bhavy123 said:
Is dis multirom recovery and btw how much you approached in multirom ..
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@sub77 and me are doing this in order to get a proper Multirom v30 (TWRP 2.8.2.0 based)

h2o64 said:
Yes yes.
I'm uploading the two new files :
twrp.fstab is the fstab for backup.
BUT the actual one backup userdata f2fs only.
SO we needed to make 2 different ones
@sub77 and me are doing this in order to get a proper Multirom v30 (TWRP 2.8.2.0 based)
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Wish you all d best and really wish that you sussessfully port one to our device.Thanks for d hardwork btw how much time will it take more to port multirom ?

Bhavy123 said:
Wish you all d best and really wish that you sussessfully port one to our device.Thanks for d hardwork btw how much time will it take more to port multirom ?
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I don't know
NEW BUILD :
- graphic issue fixed
- add differents recoveries for GPE or STOCK
@sub77 , MTP issue is due to the lollipop encrytion.
Maybe "twrp set tw_mtp_enabled 0" will solved it ?

Backup/ Restore works without any issues on XT1032 Retail EU, first version of TWRP2.8.2.0. :good:
Cant download new version from Mega (shows me only blank screen), Mirror would be nice :fingers-crossed:

Kai Obey said:
Backup/ Restore works without any issues on XT1032 Retail EU, first version of TWRP2.8.2.0. :good:
Cant download new version from Mega (shows me only blank screen), Mirror would be nice :fingers-crossed:
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I'm mirroring.

Thanks a lot for this, specially for fixing the graphical glitch. I'll be trying it on GPE 5.0.1 ASAP. By the way, can you hangouts me? Thanks
Edit: After flashing, the screen flickering is still there

mount usb storage doesn't work - stock version.

xpirt said:
mount usb storage doesn't work - stock version.
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Sure ?
EDIT :
MTP doesn't work

@h2o64 I flashed gpe version!!
Graphical glitch is there and i cant even factory reset!!
The recovery restarts when i do factory reset!!
Sent from my Moto G using XDA Free mobile app

your mirror is broken
also i cannot get into recovery at all
i see teamwin logo for a moment and then my phone reboots into lollipop

calusari said:
your mirror is broken
also i cannot get into recovery at all
i see teamwin logo for a moment and then my phone reboots into lollipop
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Just reboot again and it should work.
Else, provide logs please
Flashhhh said:
@h2o64 I flashed gpe version!!
Graphical glitch is there and i cant even factory reset!!
The recovery restarts when i do factory reset!!
Sent from my Moto G using XDA Free mobile app
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The factory reset make the device reboot because there is a wierd thing with the userdata partiotion (encryption issues ... again ...) BUT the partition is wiped.
Could you describe the graphical glitch ?

Flashed the stock image on a german xt1032
Usb-otg, wiping cache/dalvik, flashing supersu zip (on 4.4.4 stock) all working :good:
Edit: Flashed update to 2.8.3 and now recovery is unusable because of massive screen issues..
With techerrata's build screen is fine..

Added TWRP 2.8.3.0 Version
CHANGELOG for 2.8.3.0:
-MTP will now tell the host PC that storage is removed instead of disabling MTP completely
-MTP will now report the correct max file size based on the file system in use to the host PC (may fix transfer of large files)
-Update and improve fix permissions and make fixing contexts optional
-Update SuperSU in TWRP to 2.40 and update install process
-Make TWRP work properly on AArch64 (Nexus 9 is now built in true 64-bit binaries and libraries)
-Attempt to set correct permissions and contexts on all files placed in storage so backups will show in Android
-Fix kernel panic during MTP start on some devices
-Support unicode fonts on devices with True Type Font support
-Fix slider value not showing sometimes (vibration settings page)
-Toggle MTP off during adb sideload to set correct USB IDs
-Reduce library requirements for 5.0 L decrypt
-Other minor fixes and improvements
Note: Starting with TWRP 2.8.2.0 and higher, adb sideload uses a new sideload method originally implemented in AOSP recovery. You will need the latest adb binaries to use sideload in these newer versions of TWRP. The version required is 1.0.32. You can find the version by running "adb version" on your computer. The new sideload feature no longer stores the zip on your device. Instead, a fuse file system is created in RAM and the zip is streamed from your computer. This puts less wear and tear on storage and ensures that large zips will not fill up all of your RAM. The sideload may spit an error on your PC side, but the zip should install just fine on your device.

@h2o64 what is the difference between this build and official build
Edit : OK I got the answer

reversegear said:
@h2o64 what is the difference between this build and official build
Edit : OK I got the answer
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And here, we know who built it, we know the trees,...
And we can upgrade faster.
I made this recovery because I'm working on multirom and I wanted to share this piece of work

[RECOVERY][OFFICIAL] TWRP for HTC One Dual SIM (802W, 802D and 802T variants)

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 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.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.2-0:
-Fix a bug with the input box that affected masked inputs (passwords). This fixes decrypt of full device encryption on devices that support decrypt. This bug also impacts encrypted backups. Users are highly encouraged to stop using 3.0.1 if you use encrypted backups or if you need decrypt of data in TWRP.
-Add Greek translation to some builds.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.1-0:
-support new CM 13.0 pattern encryption (sultanqasim)
-fix slow flashing issue due to modprobe (present on only some devices) (#twrp)
-libtar updated to latest upstream and fixes (jcadduono)
-fixes for loading custom themes (_that)
-TWRP will now detect and install TWRP themes automatically through the normal zip install process (Dees_Troy)
-translation updates - added Italian, Czech and Polish and significant updates to Dutch
-progress bar improvements - progress bar updates during image flashing and better tracks progress during file system backups (tar) (Dees_Troy)
-fix input box text display (Dees_Troy)
-reboot option after zip install complete (bigbiff)
-other mostly invisible bug fixes and improvements
CHANGELOG for 3.0.0-0:
-Completely new theme - Much more modern and much nicer looking (by z31s1g)
-True Terminal Emulator - Includes arrow keys, tab and tab completion, etc. (by _that)
-Language translation - It won’t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese won’t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROM’s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)
-Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)
-Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow
-Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)
-SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed
-Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)
-Update AOSP base to 6.0
-A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks
WARNING: This is our first release in a long time. We have a lot of new and somewhat aggressive changes in this new release. The changes to the graphics back-end may cause some devices to not boot up properly or have other display-related issues. If you are not in a position to reflash an older build of TWRP, then wait until you are or at least wait until others have tried the new version for your specific device. You don’t want to end up with a non-working recovery and have to wait several hours or days to get to a computer to be able to fix it.
Notes for themers: In addition to the udpated theme, we have introduced a theme version variable to the TWRP theme system. If the theme version does not match the version that TWRP expects, TWRP will reject the custom theme and load its stock theme. This change will ensure that people who update TWRP without updating their theme will still have a workable recovery. We have removed libjpeg support. The stock theme was only using a jpeg image for the splash / curtain. This change means that any custom themes will no longer be able to use jpeg images. It also means that tools used to repack recovery images with a different curtain / splash will need to be updated to use the new method.
Version number notes: For a while we’ve been using a 4 digit version number and reserved the 4th digit for device-specific updates. For instance, we find and fix a device-specific issue like decryption of data on Nexus 5, we would release that as a 2.8.7.1. After a while, some people would start asking where 2.8.7.1 was for other devices. So, going forward we have decided to change the numbering scheme to 3.0.0-2, etc. Our hope is that this version numbering scheme will more clearly identify that the 4th digit does not indicate a version change for the code base.
We need your help! The bulk of TWRP work is done by 3 people on a volunteer basis. We have pushed most of our device files to our github and we have a gerrit instance. If you have the ability, please help us maintain our official devices and/or add your device to our official device list. Thanks in advance!
CHANGELOG for 2.8.7.0:
-Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard (_that)
-Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices (xuefer)
-Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties (xuefer)
-Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices (xuefer)
-Fix error message after an ORS script completes (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups (_that, Dees_Troy)
-Add system read only option – more details below (Dees_Troy)
-Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file (_that)
-Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens (mdmower)
Note: As always, be sure your custom theme is up to date (or remove your custom theme) before updating TWRP.
System read only option: 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.
resize2fs feature: On some devices like the Nexus 6, the factory images include a userdata image that is the proper size only for the 32GB units. If you flash the factory image to a 64GB Nexus 6, the data partition will appear as if it only has the free space of a 32GB device. Using the resize2fs option, TWRP can resize your data partition to take up the full space available. The resize2fs may also be useful to resize system partitions on devices where custom ROM system images don’t take up the full partition space. Lastly, resize2fs may be useful in some cases to reserve the proper space at the end of a data partition for a full disk encryption key, should your partition be formatted incorrectly for some reason.
This new version also marks our first set of full builds using our new jenkins build server. You can track the progress of builds at https://jenkins.twrp.me and we have taken additional steps to make it easier for device maintainers to step up and submit patches to our gerrit server at https://gerrit.twrp.me to help us keep devices up to date and working.
DOWNLOAD:
Most devices can be updated quickly and easily within TWRP if you already have version 2.8.4.0 or higher installed
1) Download the latest version from our website on your device
2) Reboot to TWRP
3) Hit Install and tap the "Images..." button in the lower right
4) Browse to the location of the TWRP image on your device and select it
5) Select recovery from the partition list and swipe to flash
OR:
You can find more information and download links on our NEW website!
BUGS:
If you have an issue, the first step is to post a recovery log so we can determine the cause of the issue. This is done in recovery using Advanced -> Copy Log to SD, or adb pull /tmp/recovery.log. Once a log is uploaded we can determine how best to proceed.
If your issue is determined to be a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
SUPPORT:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.

Reserved

This is great! Whenever i plugin my charger once my battery drained, unlike before, it doesnt boot to recovery with unresposive touch anymore.. good job @bgcngm!
Sent from mobile

Thanks for the feedback.
By the way, you can use TWRP Materialised theme, to get an even nicer UI.

@bgcngm This is great job! Thank you.
You think it would be possible to solve the /data/preload problem when wiping from TWRP?
EDIT:
MTP seems to be working great! I do see MicroSDcard and SD-Ext plus USB OTG. What would be SD-Ext for?

J_M_V_S said:
You think it would be possible to solve the /data/preload problem when wiping from TWRP?
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I think so, should be possible to preserve /data/preload during a factory reset. I can't try right now because my phone is *again* at the repair center for camera replacement.
MTP seems to be working great! I do see MicroSDcard and SD-Ext plus USB OTG. What would be SD-Ext for?
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SD-Ext is if you have your SDcard partitioned with an EXT2/3/4 partition. I think that is not so used anymore.

TWRP v2.8.4.0 is out.

TWRP v2.8.5.0 is out.

Do you have any mirror? I cannot download from homepage. Always stuck at 99.99%

No, I don't. That's the official link to the website. Try again later if server is down / overloaded.

TWRP v2.8.6.0 is out.

Help
bgcngm said:
TWRP v2.8.6.0 is out.
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Hi, thanks for the TWRP but do you have the stock recovery file for HTC One M7 802dwg? I want to revert back to stock recovery to get the OTA updates which i'm not being able too install by TWRP or CWM. I'm on Hboot 2.49, Bootloader unlocked, Rooted, S-On, M7 802dwg.
Thanks in advance.

If you still have a copy of the last OTA that you applied, you can get the recovery from within that file.

Any help??
angusc said:
If you still have a copy of the last OTA that you applied, you can get the recovery from within that file.
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Hi, thanks i got the stock kitkat recovery and flashed it and then updates by OTA to 4.4.3 but then again after downloading Lollipop OTA i am not being able to update!!! I tried to extract the recovery file from the Firmware.zip from within the OTA.zip
but it gives me an error. I can't open the firmware.zip. Any idea where can i get the stock lollipop recovery image file for 802dwg??

[email protected] said:
Hi, thanks i got the stock kitkat recovery and flashed it and then updates by OTA to 4.4.3 but then again after downloading Lollipop OTA i am not being able to update!!! I tried to extract the recovery file from the Firmware.zip from within the OTA.zip
but it gives me an error. I can't open the firmware.zip. Any idea where can i get the stock lollipop recovery image file for 802dwg??
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I have the same problem, plz help, i stuck in bootloop on HTC one 802d

sekilo004 said:
I have the same problem, plz help, i stuck in bootloop on HTC one 802d
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For now restore from a nandroid or TWRP backup...and update upto 4.4.3 unless there is a copy of the lollipop stock recovery.

Could you guys stop spamming this thread with off-topic? If you didn't yet realize, this thread is related to TWRP only. You have already been told how to get the stock recovery.

sorry for my bad english and still noob,..
I flashed twrp-2.8.7.0-m7cdwg.img for my HTC m7 802d..
after booting on twrp, I'm looking on system/lib/modules, but not found. there is only BIN folder
anyone suggest or modify twrp to make it possible that directory, system/lib/modules are avalible on twrp?
thank in advance

What exactly are you trying to do? Maybe you have to mount system first...

[RECOVERY][OFFICIAL] TWRP 3.0.0-0| 10/2/2016

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 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.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.0-0:
-Completely new theme - Much more modern and much nicer looking (by z31s1g)
-True Terminal Emulator - Includes arrow keys, tab and tab completion, etc. (by _that)
-Language translation - It won’t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese won’t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROM’s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)
-Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)
-Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow
-Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)
-SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed
-Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)
-Update AOSP base to 6.0
-A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks
WARNING: This is our first release in a long time. We have a lot of new and somewhat aggressive changes in this new release. The changes to the graphics back-end may cause some devices to not boot up properly or have other display-related issues. If you are not in a position to reflash an older build of TWRP, then wait until you are or at least wait until others have tried the new version for your specific device. You don’t want to end up with a non-working recovery and have to wait several hours or days to get to a computer to be able to fix it.
Notes for themers: In addition to the udpated theme, we have introduced a theme version variable to the TWRP theme system. If the theme version does not match the version that TWRP expects, TWRP will reject the custom theme and load its stock theme. This change will ensure that people who update TWRP without updating their theme will still have a workable recovery. We have removed libjpeg support. The stock theme was only using a jpeg image for the splash / curtain. This change means that any custom themes will no longer be able to use jpeg images. It also means that tools used to repack recovery images with a different curtain / splash will need to be updated to use the new method.
Version number notes: For a while we’ve been using a 4 digit version number and reserved the 4th digit for device-specific updates. For instance, we find and fix a device-specific issue like decryption of data on Nexus 5, we would release that as a 2.8.7.1. After a while, some people would start asking where 2.8.7.1 was for other devices. So, going forward we have decided to change the numbering scheme to 3.0.0-2, etc. Our hope is that this version numbering scheme will more clearly identify that the 4th digit does not indicate a version change for the code base.
We need your help! The bulk of TWRP work is done by 3 people on a volunteer basis. We have pushed most of our device files to our github and we have a gerrit instance. If you have the ability, please help us maintain our official devices and/or add your device to our official device list. Thanks in advance!
CHANGELOG for 2.8.7.0:
-Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard (_that)
-Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices (xuefer)
-Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties (xuefer)
-Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices (xuefer)
-Fix error message after an ORS script completes (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups (_that, Dees_Troy)
-Add system read only option – more details below (Dees_Troy)
-Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file (_that)
-Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens (mdmower)
Note: As always, be sure your custom theme is up to date (or remove your custom theme) before updating TWRP.
System read only option: 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.
resize2fs feature: On some devices like the Nexus 6, the factory images include a userdata image that is the proper size only for the 32GB units. If you flash the factory image to a 64GB Nexus 6, the data partition will appear as if it only has the free space of a 32GB device. Using the resize2fs option, TWRP can resize your data partition to take up the full space available. The resize2fs may also be useful to resize system partitions on devices where custom ROM system images don’t take up the full partition space. Lastly, resize2fs may be useful in some cases to reserve the proper space at the end of a data partition for a full disk encryption key, should your partition be formatted incorrectly for some reason.
This new version also marks our first set of full builds using our new jenkins build server. You can track the progress of builds at https://jenkins.twrp.me and we have taken additional steps to make it easier for device maintainers to step up and submit patches to our gerrit server at https://gerrit.twrp.me to help us keep devices up to date and working.
DOWNLOAD:
You can find more information and download links on our NEW website! NOTE that the 2.8.6.0 version is ONLY available on our new site and is not available on our other, older mirrors!
BUGS:
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM Dees_Troy directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
SUPPORT:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.
XDA:DevDB Information
TWRP Recovery, Tool/Utility for the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Contributors
someone755
Version Information
Status: Stable
Stable Release Date: 2015-08-18
Created 2015-08-18
Last Updated 2016-02-17

Device page on the TWRP website:
Mirror 1
There is no Mirror 2.
Due to the way Sony devices function, you will need to have an unlocked bootloader.
Your options, as far as ROMs go, are the following:
Any ROM with this commit
OR just use the new bootloader (with a proper recovery partition)
All credit goes to the TWRP team. I just annoyed the fools until they built the recovery.

Awesome! Very glad to see this.

After flashing through fastboot, its impossible for me to boot into recovery, my phone stays stuck on the Sony screen with the pink/orange led.
Running resurrection remix and m5 kernel, theme has been updated for 2.8.7, previously was on 2.6.0

Can this be install on LB?

rich2007 said:
Can this be install on LB?
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it should work with andropluskernel, not with stock

omnomnomkimiiee said:
After flashing through fastboot, its impossible for me to boot into recovery, my phone stays stuck on the Sony screen with the pink/orange led.
Running resurrection remix and m5 kernel, theme has been updated for 2.8.7, previously was on 2.6.0
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Works fine here. Did you check the md5 before installing? Does it work without the theme?
rich2007 said:
Can this be install on LB?
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You need a custom boot image to boot into it (since our bootloaders don't really support a separate recovery partition, and we rely on a boot.img script to boot into one), which means you'd have to unlock the bootloader.
funiewski said:
it should work with andropluskernel, not with stock
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On this note, if anyone can provide me with stock boot images, I'll try and keep them up-to-date with the extract_elf_ramdisk utility, so that users on stock may still boot into TWRP if they don't opt for the AndroPlus kernel.

Hello everyone,
Flashed this with "fastboot flash recovery", still getting the cm12.1 recovery.
BL unlocked, USB debugging enabled, CM 12.1 installed.
Anyone have a solution?
Thanks
Edit:
tried the twrp manager, no Z3C here, aswell the dd method, nothing changed.

pityu100 said:
Hello everyone,
Flashed this with "fastboot flash recovery", still getting the cm12.1 recovery.
BL unlocked, USB debugging enabled, CM 12.1 installed.
Anyone have a solution?
Thanks
Edit:
tried the twrp manager, no Z3C here, aswell the dd method, nothing changed.
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Same here, there is no Z3C in the list on TWRP Manager, and the 'dd' method leaves an unusable recovery (stuck on orange led). I'm happy with official TWRP support, but do you guys even test your stuff before releasing it.....? The steps with TWRP manager app don't even exist (there is no 'advanced' to tap).

Flashed twrp.img as boot: fastboot flash boot twrp.img. -> TWRP starts every time i power on the phone. Flashed CM12.1 from this state, and TWRP got overwrited again with CM12.1 recovery. /sigh
Is the CM kernel counts as "Any custom kernel" ?

pityu100 said:
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Menubalk said:
Same here, there is no Z3C in the list on TWRP Manager, and the 'dd' method leaves an unusable recovery (stuck on orange led). I'm happy with official TWRP support, but do you guys even test your stuff before releasing it.....? The steps with TWRP manager app don't even exist (there is no 'advanced' to tap).
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Thanks both of you for reporting your issues. Your reports sparked an investigation, and we were able to identify several issues that have thus far been overlooked (for whatever reason).
The "stuff" was tested before it was released, yes, but we're now facing limitations in the form of unmerged patches to the CM device trees. The issues should have been resolved several years ago, but instead they are now wreaking havoc on Sony msm8974 recovery setups. I've gotten some of the elite TWRP and CM people on this, as well as smaller fellow rhine and shinano developers (though Myself5 and oshomun could hardly be classified as small nowadays).
I personally have already uploaded four changes to the CM gerrit (that should have been applied years ago); One of them got denied (though is now being discussed for the near future (possibly as soon as cm-13.0); the result of that discussion is, among others, that the Cyanogen Recovery is now available for download alongside the ROM zip over at https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=z3c ), two are still pending any input whatsoever, and the last one was promised a merge, but the device maintainers have gone quiet, at least on the outside.
(If you wish, you can view the patches and their progress at their links: patch1, patch2, patch3, patch4, patch5.)
However, both teams are also having issues with other matters (such as Z3 not building, or adding new features to TWRP), and there is also the fact that school starts around this time of year (which impacts both the younger developers as well as those who already have children).
To conclude, there really isn't a unified guide I can give you to get to TWRP. It works, and you can use it if you have the correct setup. However achieving that setup is not a simple walkthrough away, and it would differ ever so slightly for every person's preferences, not to mention it would be overwritten with each new ROM update.
Such is the state of affairs at this point in time. This may or may not change, but be assured that everything we can do about this, we will do.
EDIT: A quick note that some ROMs may already include fixes for these issues. I don't know which those ROMs could be, so I won't go into listing them, but the possibility exists.

someone755,
thanks for your quick reply and your investigation.
Hope for the best, but time will tell.
Thanks again

Someone, here is a build that actually works, maybe you guys can base on that?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/development/recovery-twrp-2-8-6-0-fota-recovery-t3093537
I'm on Cyanogen 12.1 nightlies with M5 (=Cyanogen-based) kernel btw.

Menubalk said:
Someone, here is a build that actually works, maybe you guys can base on that?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/development/recovery-twrp-2-8-6-0-fota-recovery-t3093537
I'm on Cyanogen 12.1 nightlies with M5 (=Cyanogen-based) kernel btw.
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The thing is that if you flash a cm-12.1 boot image (completely stock, without kernel or ramdisk modifications that M5 or Kernel12 perform), it won't work. It works with some setups, but not with others, and is, for some reason, very specific -- to get rid of these errors, CyanogenMod would have to (at the very least) accept my changes.
If you feel like you have to try this for yourself, here's a link to the boot image: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347797955 Getting out of the mess created once you flash this can be a pickle though, so unless you have a boot image on hand with which you know TWRP works, do not flash the file I linked.
I've had somebody say it started working for him after flashing r_02 of Kernel12, though sadly I'm not very sure that's a permanent solution (it is, however, a working temporary one).
Unfortunately the man who was supposed to review the changes is on leave from development, so waiting is the only option available right now (unless we come up with a zip file to flash after each nightly install, but that would only increase the chaos of this already-confusing situation).

someone755 said:
The thing is that if you flash a cm-12.1 boot image (completely stock, without kernel or ramdisk modifications that M5 or Kernel12 perform), it won't work. It works with some setups, but not with others, and is, for some reason, very specific -- to get rid of these errors, CyanogenMod would have to (at the very least) accept my changes.
If you feel like you have to try this for yourself, here's a link to the boot image: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347797955 Getting out of the mess created once you flash this can be a pickle though, so unless you have a boot image on hand with which you know TWRP works, do not flash the file I linked.
I've had somebody say it started working for him after flashing r_02 of Kernel12, though sadly I'm not very sure that's a permanent solution (it is, however, a working temporary one).
Unfortunately the man who was supposed to review the changes is on leave from development, so waiting is the only option available right now (unless we come up with a zip file to flash after each nightly install, but that would only increase the chaos of this already-confusing situation).
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Had no issues with my 2.8.7.0 twrp built into my ROMs boot.img been working with no issues so far
Sent from my Z3 Compact using Tapatalk

jenkins-84 said:
Had no issues with my 2.8.7.0 twrp built into my ROMs boot.img been working with no issues so far
Sent from my Z3 Compact using Tapatalk
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The goal of FOTA recoveries was to let the user boot into a recovery regardless of what recovery is in the boot image. If you flash a CM nightly over your setup, you won't be able to get to TWRP again unless you perform various modifications to the CM boot image.
Packing recovery inside boot is what's causing all these issues in the first place, so doing what you suggest would be a step forward, but two steps back as well.

someone755 said:
The goal of FOTA recoveries was to let the user boot into a recovery regardless of what recovery is in the boot image. If you flash a CM nightly over your setup, you won't be able to get to TWRP again unless you perform various modifications to the CM boot image.
Packing recovery inside boot is what's causing all these issues in the first place, so doing what you suggest would be a step forward, but two steps back as well.
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Yeah maybe but I don't care to much for CM based ROMs was for people using slimlp based mainly
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jenkins-84 said:
Yeah maybe but I don't care to much for CM based ROMs was for people using slimlp based mainly
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That's all fine and dandy until you realize most people are sticking with CM (for some unexplainable reason). Other ROM gerrits are much more likely to have already merged the needed changes (and are much more lenient and open when it comes to accepting new changes in general, and all this is the only reason this waiting game is now on).

someone755 said:
That's all fine and dandy until you realize most people are sticking with CM (for some unexplainable reason). Other ROM gerrits are much more likely to have already merged the needed changes (and are much more lenient and open when it comes to accepting new changes in general, and all this is the only reason this waiting game is now on).
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Yeah but I don't wait on slim or use its device trees etc I build for my own and use commits I want, I don't really care what people use or do. I build ROMs for myself and a friend. I just happened to share a ROM that I don't care if people use or not. If I'm happy with what I build and use then that's all I care about
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Yeah but I don't wait on slim or use its device trees etc I build for my own and use commits I want, I don't really care what people use or do. I build ROMs for myself and a friend. I just happened to share a ROM that I don't care if people use or not. If I'm happy with what I build and use then that's all I care about
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You do realize TWRP is meant to work for everyone, not just for 'me and my bros'?
On topic:
Someone, that FOTA TWRP I linked does (or at the very least did, I've been on M5 Kernel for a few weeks now) work with a stock Cyanogenmod boot image. Before M5 kernel I could already reach TWRP. I really think it worth a closer look to see what that guy did because it works/worked for some reason..
My full sequence (the first time anyway):
Unlock Bootloader
Unpack boot.img from Cyanogenmod nightly zip
Flash boot.img in fastboot
Boot to Cyanogenrecovery
Wipe
Flash Cyanogenmod in recovery
Boot Cyanogenmod, Setup Wizard yadda yadda
Shut down and go to fastboot
Flash FOTA TWRP from said link
Test FOTA TWRP, Be happy
----Few days later----
Flash M5 through FOTA TWRP

[RECOVERY] [20.11.2016] Unofficial TWRP for Ulefone Metal - 3.0.2-0

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 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.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.2-0:
-Fix a bug with the input box that affected masked inputs (passwords). This fixes decrypt of full device encryption on devices that support decrypt. This bug also impacts encrypted backups. Users are highly encouraged to stop using 3.0.1 if you use encrypted backups or if you need decrypt of data in TWRP.
-Add Greek translation to some builds.
CHANGELOG for 3.0.1-0:
-support new CM 13.0 pattern encryption (sultanqasim)
-fix slow flashing issue due to modprobe (present on only some devices) (#twrp)
-libtar updated to latest upstream and fixes (jcadduono)
-fixes for loading custom themes (_that)
-TWRP will now detect and install TWRP themes automatically through the normal zip install process (Dees_Troy)
-translation updates - added Italian, Czech and Polish and significant updates to Dutch
-progress bar improvements - progress bar updates during image flashing and better tracks progress during file system backups (tar) (Dees_Troy)
-fix input box text display (Dees_Troy)
-reboot option after zip install complete (bigbiff)
-other mostly invisible bug fixes and improvements
CHANGELOG for 3.0.0-0:
-Completely new theme - Much more modern and much nicer looking (by z31s1g)
-True Terminal Emulator - Includes arrow keys, tab and tab completion, etc. (by _that)
-Language translation - It won’t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese won’t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROM’s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)
-Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)
-Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow
-Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)
-SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed
-Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)
-Update AOSP base to 6.0
-A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks
WARNING: This is our first release in a long time. We have a lot of new and somewhat aggressive changes in this new release. The changes to the graphics back-end may cause some devices to not boot up properly or have other display-related issues. If you are not in a position to reflash an older build of TWRP, then wait until you are or at least wait until others have tried the new version for your specific device. You don’t want to end up with a non-working recovery and have to wait several hours or days to get to a computer to be able to fix it.
Notes for themers: In addition to the udpated theme, we have introduced a theme version variable to the TWRP theme system. If the theme version does not match the version that TWRP expects, TWRP will reject the custom theme and load its stock theme. This change will ensure that people who update TWRP without updating their theme will still have a workable recovery. We have removed libjpeg support. The stock theme was only using a jpeg image for the splash / curtain. This change means that any custom themes will no longer be able to use jpeg images. It also means that tools used to repack recovery images with a different curtain / splash will need to be updated to use the new method.
Version number notes: For a while we’ve been using a 4 digit version number and reserved the 4th digit for device-specific updates. For instance, we find and fix a device-specific issue like decryption of data on Nexus 5, we would release that as a 2.8.7.1. After a while, some people would start asking where 2.8.7.1 was for other devices. So, going forward we have decided to change the numbering scheme to 3.0.0-2, etc. Our hope is that this version numbering scheme will more clearly identify that the 4th digit does not indicate a version change for the code base.
We need your help! The bulk of TWRP work is done by 3 people on a volunteer basis. We have pushed most of our device files to our github and we have a gerrit instance. If you have the ability, please help us maintain our official devices and/or add your device to our official device list. Thanks in advance!
CHANGELOG for 2.8.7.0:
-Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard (_that)
-Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices (xuefer)
-Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties (xuefer)
-Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices (xuefer)
-Fix error message after an ORS script completes (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups (_that, Dees_Troy)
-Add system read only option – more details below (Dees_Troy)
-Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs (Dees_Troy)
-Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file (_that)
-Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens (mdmower)
Note: As always, be sure your custom theme is up to date (or remove your custom theme) before updating TWRP.
System read only option: 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.
resize2fs feature: On some devices like the Nexus 6, the factory images include a userdata image that is the proper size only for the 32GB units. If you flash the factory image to a 64GB Nexus 6, the data partition will appear as if it only has the free space of a 32GB device. Using the resize2fs option, TWRP can resize your data partition to take up the full space available. The resize2fs may also be useful to resize system partitions on devices where custom ROM system images don’t take up the full partition space. Lastly, resize2fs may be useful in some cases to reserve the proper space at the end of a data partition for a full disk encryption key, should your partition be formatted incorrectly for some reason.
This new version also marks our first set of full builds using our new jenkins build server. You can track the progress of builds at https://jenkins.twrp.me and we have taken additional steps to make it easier for device maintainers to step up and submit patches to our gerrit server at https://gerrit.twrp.me to help us keep devices up to date and working.
DOWNLOAD:
Unofficial TWRP 3.0.2-0 for Ulefone Metal
Mirror 1
MD5 - 10286EE1255C8371A2E5F720896D02C2
SHA-1 - E6C0875ADA34EB1CDE5D5A648D3F8B9AC883EFDA
INSTALLATION:
Most devices can be updated quickly and easily within TWRP if you already have version 2.8.4.0 or higher installed
1) Download the latest version above
2) Reboot to TWRP
3) Hit Install and tap the "Install Image" button in the lower right
4) Browse to the location of the TWRP image on your device and select it
5) Select recovery from the partition list and swipe to flash
To install from SP Flash Tools:
1) Download scatter file attached to this post
2) Load scatter file into SPFT
3) Plug USB cable into device and computer
4) Press download in SPFT
5) Reboot device
BUGS:
If you have an issue, the first step is to post a recovery log so we can determine the cause of the issue. This is done in recovery using Advanced -> Copy Log, or adb pull /tmp/recovery.log. Once a log is uploaded we can determine how best to proceed.
XDA:DevDB Information
RECOVERY] Unofficial TWRP for Ulefone Metal, Tool/Utility for the Android General
Contributors
Jonny
Source Code: https://github.com/JonnyXDA/android_device_ulefone_metal/tree/Omni
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 3.0.2-0
Stable Release Date: 2016-11-20
Created 2016-10-31
Last Updated 2016-11-20

FAQ:
- None yet!
DEVICE-SPECIFIC CHANGELOGS:
3.0.2-0:
-Fully built from source for Ulefone Metal
Current TWRP "bugs" for Ulefone Metal:
NONE

Thanks for your work.
Recovery not mounting sd card.
Here is log:

Internal build from ulefone forum works.
Mounting sd card works.
Thanks.
here is log:

dropbear2 said:
Internal build from ulefone forum works.
Mounting sd card works.
Thanks.
here is log:
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Internal? You mean the build I posted there this morning?

Jonny said:
Internal? You mean the build I posted there this morning?
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Yes, build posted this morning.

dropbear2 said:
Yes, build posted this morning.
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Cool, I'll update this thread with it in a bit.

This build twrp in downloads (2016-11-02 16:29) does not work.
Is not the same as the build in ulefone forum.
This twrp works: http://ota.cm.mkoas.de:8080/job/TWRP Ulefone Metal/ws/recovery.img

dropbear2 said:
This build twrp in downloads (2016-11-02 16:29) does not work.
Is not the same as the build in ulefone forum.
This twrp works: http://ota.cm.mkoas.de:8080/job/TWRP Ulefone Metal/ws/recovery.img
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I know, I said I would get round to updating this post as well, I haven't been able to yet as I've been busy

Jonny said:
I know, I said I would get round to updating this post as well, I haven't been able to yet as I've been busy
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sorry,
I thought that you replaced.

Thread updated with the new links (eventually!).
Apologies for the delay

Hey,
i've flashed TWRP and when i boot it, the phone just shows the ulefone logo and then restarts..
I tried to flash with flashtools and via fastboot flash recovery...
Its possible to flash custom rom, which works quite nice, but TWRP won't come up so i can't root phone or do nandroid backups.
Any help? Any idea how to get logs of what happening?
BTW: reflashed offical stock does the same, displays ulefone logo and reboots..
EDIT:
Flashed recover as boot, and boot as recovery:
Normal boot (should start TWRP now) reboots all the time.
Recovery boot (should boot normal boot.img now) works and boots the System..
So there has to be a problem with the downloaded TWRP/Recovery Image not working on my phone..
It's normal Ulefone Metal don't know why it doesn't work.. wpuld like so see some logs or something
Edit2:
Flashed twrp-3-0-2-4es-by-mdsdev from needrom,
which worked.. don't know why any other one didn't...

I can not find the scatter mentioned in the post. I tried to install it with another scatter or another TWRP, but when I try to run the recovery it simply restarts.

Regards, I inform you that I have been doing a series of tests on my mobile, to try to flash some existing roms. For now the following happens: The official firmware from the 20160912 and lower version do not work (I still have to try the 20161019 version), the 20161024 and 20161117 versions work correctly.
Another error, for now the one that has me more restless is the following: The only functional recovery is the TWRP of the user hanuma50 that has incompatibility with certain roms, the other versions of TWRP available do not work, when trying to install it using SPFT , Flashify or from the same TWRP are installed correctly, but at the time of running it simply restarts the mobile and starts the system normally.
I'm thinking because it is because there is surely a new batch of mobile with changes to the hardware, but I do not know, Do you know anything about it?
Another thing, if the darksense kernel flashed the mobile stops working (it enters an infinite loop with the Ulefone logo), it was tested in stock rom and in the Eragon rom.

sinrequilorios said:
Regards, I inform you that I have been doing a series of tests on my mobile, to try to flash some existing roms. For now the following happens: The official firmware from the 20160912 and lower version do not work (I still have to try the 20161019 version), the 20161024 and 20161117 versions work correctly.
Another error, for now the one that has me more restless is the following: The only functional recovery is the TWRP of the user hanuma50 that has incompatibility with certain roms, the other versions of TWRP available do not work, when trying to install it using SPFT , Flashify or from the same TWRP are installed correctly, but at the time of running it simply restarts the mobile and starts the system normally.
I'm thinking because it is because there is surely a new batch of mobile with changes to the hardware, but I do not know, Do you know anything about it?
Another thing, if the darksense kernel flashed the mobile stops working (it enters an infinite loop with the Ulefone logo), it was tested in stock rom and in the Eragon rom.
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It is not my fault if existing ROM's don't flash properly, we faced this problem on Elephone P9000, it is because the people who develop the ROM's don't use the proper mount points, if they did, it would flash. Instead, they use the mount points for the ported recoveries which are not correct.
End of story, not my fault and I will not support the people that this happens to.

sinrequilorios said:
Regards, I inform you that I have been doing a series of tests on my mobile, to try to flash some existing roms. For now the following happens: The official firmware from the 20160912 and lower version do not work (I still have to try the 20161019 version), the 20161024 and 20161117 versions work correctly.
Another error, for now the one that has me more restless is the following: The only functional recovery is the TWRP of the user hanuma50 that has incompatibility with certain roms, the other versions of TWRP available do not work, when trying to install it using SPFT , Flashify or from the same TWRP are installed correctly, but at the time of running it simply restarts the mobile and starts the system normally.
I'm thinking because it is because there is surely a new batch of mobile with changes to the hardware, but I do not know, Do you know anything about it?
Another thing, if the darksense kernel flashed the mobile stops working (it enters an infinite loop with the Ulefone logo), it was tested in stock rom and in the Eragon rom.
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Jonny said:
It is not my fault if existing ROM's don't flash properly, we faced this problem on Elephone P9000, it is because the people who develop the ROM's don't use the proper mount points, if they did, it would flash. Instead, they use the mount points for the ported recoveries which are not correct.
End of story, not my fault and I will not support the people that this happens to.
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I think here's some confusion. As far as I understand it, it's not a problem of neither the recovery, nor wrong mount points.
There's just a newer revision of the model it seems. This newer models only work with recovery, built against stock pre-built kernel (aka ports).
Our rom is built for being flashed by this recovery, because this recovery is the only compiled one. Unfortunately, there's nothing which can be done without ulefone updating the kernel source code.

DerTeufel1980 said:
I think here's some confusion. As far as I understand it, it's not a problem of neither the recovery, nor wrong mount points.
There's just a newer revision of the model it seems. This newer models only work with recovery, built against stock pre-built kernel (aka ports).
Our rom is built for being flashed by this recovery, because this recovery is the only compiled one. Unfortunately, there's nothing which can be done without ulefone updating the kernel source code.
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Provide me with the device source to build this recovery from then, instead of hiding your source in a private bit bucket repo. I'm Jonathon Fitch, the guy who's source you probably based yours on. The least you could do is share...

Jonny said:
Provide me with the device source to build this recovery from then, instead of hiding your source in a private bit bucket repo. I'm Jonathon Fitch, the guy who's source you probably based yours on. The least you could do is share...
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Ug..
GPL source code is provided on our Metal thread...
https://github.com/MediatekAndroidDevelopers/android_kernel_ulefone_metal
Cheers
M.A.D. Team

Jonny said:
Provide me with the device source to build this recovery from then, instead of hiding your source in a private bit bucket repo. I'm Jonathon Fitch, the guy who's source you probably based yours on. The least you could do is share...
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Of course we didn't build upon your kernel. Why should we have done this?
We are using your recovery, or more detailed, we are suggesting to use your recovery.
What's your problem? We did not disrespect you in any way.
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DerTeufel1980 said:
Of course we didn't build upon your kernel. Why should we have done this?
We are using your recovery, or more detailed, we are suggesting to use your recovery.
What's your problem? We did not disrespect you in any way.
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^^ THIS