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[GT-P6200][CWMRecovery][ROOT]ClockworkMod Recovery and Root

****** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK *******
This is NOT SUPPORTED SOFTWARE. This is purely for my amusement and entertainment. I'm making it available to download for those who might like to examine my work, but if you install it, you are on your own. I can't even test this myself. (I don't have a GT-P6200.)
Seriously - this has not been tested enough for me to be happy with it, and I'm unable to test it myself. Please read the thread for the GT-P6210 for instructions, known issues, warnings, etc.
If you do decide to install this anyway, please let me know how it works out for you. If no one is using it, I WILL NOT MAINTAIN IT AND WILL DROP IT.
If people do start using it, and the reports are that everything is working okay, then it'll get merged into what I'm already doing with the other two 7 plus models (meaning it'll get updated as needed when they do.)
Again, PLEASE READ the thread for the 6210 for everything you need to know: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379532
..and here's a link for a CWM recovery.
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?do5jkna3dpas1tq
Take care
Gary

Hi! I'm a placeholder.

garyd9 said:
Hi! I'm a placeholder.
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Hi, Placeholder. I'm a placeholder, too. Good meeting you here.

Pm'ed you. went straight in CWM, looks nice. able to make a full backup and md5. fails to restore in the middle of restoring /data
also getting UDIDs are inconsistent , fixing permission is supposed to take care of this.
and Im pretty much factory reset after reboot.
EDIT: appears as if Location cache map app by remy in market I had set to block wifi and cell caches. restoring a backup in CWM got permissions error, trestoring /data fails and Im left with pretty much a factory reset. went back to market and reinstalled suspicious app, installed and still says caches blocked removed app, rebooted, made back up and successful restore! woo hoo! Thank You Gary!
Note: should we make a note for 7+ CWM users beware blocked location caches, or re-write recovery to take care of this, and/or email the app dev?
anyways, pretty excited. Thanks so much Gary.

Anyone else want to help test the CWM Recovery for this tablet? (GT-P6200 only)
The current tester has had mixed results, but it _may_ have been the result of a third party app causing problems. I'd like to get someone else to test in addition to ensure there aren't any other issues.
In order to test, I need someone who has "adb" installed on their PC, is comfortable with linux commands, already knows how to use adb for commands such as "adb shell, adb push, and adb pull", doesn't mind using ODIN to restore their tablet to a factory state if it soft-bricks, and already knows how to use ODIN and CWM Recovery.
As a side-note; the third party app that MIGHT have been causing the problem is "Location Cache" by "remydemy." I don't use this app myself, but apparently it has some function to block the google/android location caches and it appears to do that by messing with the permissions on the files... which is somehow causing an error when the recovery tries to clean the /data directory in order to restore.
Thanks
Gary

link posted for testing.

thanks again gary loving it.

when I select wipe dalvik cache in CWM options it says dalvik cache wiped awfully fast. and after reboot and removing some bloatware.apks there are still loads of .dex files in /data/dalvik-cache including bloat that i removed.
So i just used root ecplorer to delete entire contents of folder. : )
is this not linked properly or CWM issue, or is this normal function?
thanks so much for your help.

chrisrotolo said:
when I select wipe dalvik cache in CWM options it says dalvik cache wiped awfully fast. and after reboot and removing some bloatware.apks there are still loads of .dex files in /data/dalvik-cache including bloat that i removed.
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I'll look into it. Please try this alternative to test that function: Boot your phone normally, and then reboot into recovery. Using the recovery menu, mount the /data partition. Then use 'adb shell' to shell into the device and manually look in the /data/dalvik-cache directory. Then "cd /" and from within recovery choose the advanced->wipe dalvik-cache. Then look in /data/dalvik-cache directory again to see if it did what it should have done.
It's possible, based on the ordering of your above description, that the dalvik cache rebuilt after you wiped it (during the reboot) but before you removed your bloatware.
Take care
Gary

thank you. Gary tried not to get Banned OK? we need you buddy. lol

chrisrotolo said:
thank you. Gary tried not to get Banned OK? we need you buddy. lol
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Where you able to run those tests yet?
thanks
Gary

not as of yet, sometime today though.
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so yeah, you must be right. dalvik-cache was full with /data mounted. cd / then wiped dalvik from CWM, which finishes in a split second; a list (ls) shows no dalvik-cache folder after wiping, completly gone.
Answers my question.
One other issue I ran into, that you're may be aware of is somehow I disabled the power button in CWM, it said something about back button disabled. I think I had to hold power for 10 sec. to reset device.
Thanks.

chrisrotolo said:
...somehow I disabled the power button in CWM, it said something about back button disabled.
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That one I'm not sure of and really can't help much with. No 'power' button means you can't select anything which would really be annoying.

it works great! instant root and cwm within 2 minutes! i highly recommend gary's method than the other one. i also don't seem to lose root access by clearing ram memory. SWEET.

Not working:
- format internal sd-card
- update CSC
- installing pre-apps
how to remove CWMRecovery and install stock recovery?

lvsw said:
Not working:
- format internal sd-card
- update CSC
- installing pre-apps
how to remove CWMRecovery and install stock recovery?
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formatting the internal SDCard isn't going to happen with this version of CWM (that's designed for GB.) Honeycomb devices don't have a seperate /sdcard partition to format. Formatting the "internal sdcard" can be done from within the settings menu via a factory reset.
The other two items aren't broken - they simply don't exist in CWM recovery, and probably never will... Is having the pre-loaded samsgung sample video and music files repushed to your device over and over actually more important to you than the ability to do a nandroid backup? Do you even know what the CSC is that isn't being updated?
Have you bothered to seach around BEFORE installing this? Have you bothered to search around AFTER installing it to find out how to restore to factory?
I'm NOT going to answer your specific question on the basis that it's been answered already and I honestly feel that a user of XDA needs to have the ability to SEARCH before posting.
Take care
Gary

worked like a charm...backup and restore works perfectly...
thanks gary !!!

Hey Gary-
Question -
Is it possible to get ROM manager to recognize the recovery flashed here? I'd like to flash the new version of CWM, which claims to fix the internal SD card problem, but when I install ROM Manager it doesn't recognize that I have CWM flashed.
I could just flash a new recovery from ROM Manager, but I don't want to screw anything up.
Thanks!
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jeffcavicchi said:
Is it possible to get ROM manager to recognize the recovery flashed here? I'd like to flash the new version of CWM, which claims to fix the internal SD card problem, but when I install ROM Manager it doesn't recognize that I have CWM flashed.
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This recovery is CWM Based - it is not an official ROM Manager supported recovery. I have no idea what "internal SD card problem" you are referring to, as I had internal sd card issues resolved with this CWM-based recovery before I posted it (there's only a single version for the P6200.)
I'd actually advise against using the "ROM Manager" program on this device. It's not a supported device, and things can go terribly wrong when messing with recovery and firmware partitions that aren't explicitly supported.
Take care
Gary

garyd9 said:
This recovery is CWM Based - it is not an official ROM Manager supported recovery. I have no idea what "internal SD card problem" you are referring to, as I had internal sd card issues resolved with this CWM-based recovery before I posted it (there's only a single version for the P6200.)
I'd actually advise against using the "ROM Manager" program on this device. It's not a supported device, and things can go terribly wrong when messing with recovery and firmware partitions that aren't explicitly supported.
Take care
Gary
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Got it - sort of what I figured.
Am I wrong that Recovery still sees the external SD card as an internal SD card? I thought the last time I flashed a zip (boot animation) Recovery showed it as being on the internal card, even though it was actually on the external card. I could be wrong, though - and I don't have the device in front of me to check.
Not a big deal either way - thanks for the response, and your hard work!
*Edit*
Just realized I posted this in the wrong thread like an idiot - I have a P6210. guess that's what happens when you start posting things bc (before coffee).

How to Install Gapps ? (/system and /data on sd-ext)

My mmc got fried while formatting my /system and /data partition using twrp, so I moved my /system and /data partition to sd-ext partitions which I made using 4EXT recovery using delta-roh Turbo-DATA mod.
Here is what my partitions look like
1st partition -> SD-card -> vfat
2nd partition -> sd-ext -> /system -> ext4
3rd partition -> sd-ext2 -> /data -> ext4
Currently I have cm-11 by Ivanich on my phone but cant install Gapps. I ve been editing the update-binary in the Gapps zip but it always returns me the error that
"This Gapps pkg is for android version 4.4.x ...... Your rom : 2.3.7"
But I have a kitkat installed. I am guessing that its not reading the build.prop correctly. So how do I install Gapps ?
Any help is appreciated ...
More info about my phone
S-off
Bootloader unlocked
Rooted
Recovery : 4EXT
Rom : CM-11 by Ivanich

A recovery with modified ramdisk might be necessary. Maybe @hinxnz can help you with that.

Ok. Can i use the android kitchen to unpack recovery.img and modify it ?
If yes what modifications do I need to make it work ?

Wahaj.47 said:
Ok. Can i use the android kitchen to unpack recovery.img and modify it ?
If yes what modifications do I need to make it work ?
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Yes you can use AIK for recovery image, you'll need to modify fstab like you did with the boot image. I have never unpacked 4ext though and it's a bit outdated now but I've always used ivanich's twrp builds when modifying recovery.
Otherwise you could just modify the updater script in the gapps package to not mount data etc but this will have to be done every time.
Edit: I just read your first post and I'm not sure how you even flashed ROM if your system partition is bad, did you modify the ROMs updater script to flash it to your new system on sd-ext or something? If so gapps could be reading your old system, then I'm thinking is it actually bad or just your data partition is...

hinxnz said:
Yes you can use AIK for recovery image, you'll need to modify fstab like you did with the boot image. I have never unpacked 4ext though and it's a bit outdated now but I've always used ivanich's twrp builds when modifying recovery.
Otherwise you could just modify the updater script in the gapps package to not mount data etc but this will have to be done every time.
Edit: I just read your first post and I'm not sure how you even flashed ROM if your system partition is bad, did you modify the ROMs updater script to flash it to your new system on sd-ext or something? If so gapps could be reading your old system, then I'm thinking is it actually bad or just your data partition is...
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Yep I modified the roms updater script to mount sd-ext as /system and sd-ext2 as /data.
I cant modify the gapps updater script because its just a dummy file and all the code is in update binary and it needs some experienced programming .
I ll try modifying the recovery's fstab and post the results.
"/etc/recovery.fstab" is that the file I need to modify ?
Edit:
I also tried adding the gapps to the rom zip itself and flashed it but that made the rom useless because it kept rebooting.

Wahaj.47 said:
Yep I modified the roms updater script to mount sd-ext as /system and sd-ext2 as /data.
I cant modify the gapps updater script because its just a dummy file and all the code is in update binary and it needs some experienced programming .
I ll try modifying the recovery's fstab and post the results.
"/etc/recovery.fstab" is that the file I need to modify ?
Edit:
I also tried adding the gapps to the rom zip itself and flashed it but that made the rom useless because it kept rebooting.
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Just open update binary with a program like note++ if using windows.
I haven't modified recovery for a little while and haven't got the files in front of me but there are a couple to modify to get everything working, just have a peek round in the folders.

hinxnz said:
Just open update binary with a program like note++ if using windows.
I haven't modified recovery for a little while and haven't got the files in front of me but there are a couple to modify to get everything working, just have a peek round in the folders.
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I have been messing around with the update binary but honestly man I ve got know idea, I am not even close to fixing the damn problem.
I haven't tried modifying the recovery fstab yet. I am gonna do it and see what happens.

Wahaj.47 said:
I have been messing around with the update binary but honestly man I ve got know idea, I am not even close to fixing the damn problem.
I haven't tried modifying the recovery fstab yet. I am gonna do it and see what happens.
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If you want, upload your recovery image and I'll modify it for you.

hinxnz said:
If you want, upload your recovery image and I'll modify it for you.
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First I tried using the google installer to install gapps but playstore kept crashing so I ruled that out.
Then I modified the recovery.img and flashed pa-gapps-4.4 and it worked . The playstore was still crashing but updating google play service has fixed it, but I am not sure about this, gonna keep testing for a while. Atleast now I have gapps
Thank you very much

I was getting random reboots on cm-11 so I ve moved on to cm-12.1. Can this be a battery fault ?

Wahaj.47 said:
I was getting random reboots on cm-11 so I ve moved on to cm-12.1. Can this be a battery fault ?
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If you mean shutdowns then yes, otherwise if rebooting then it's something else.
If a full reboot happens, it will show in /proc/last_kmsg

hinxnz said:
If you mean shutdowns then yes, otherwise if rebooting then it's something else.
If a full reboot happens, it will show in /proc/last_kmsg
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I am not experiencing any reboots on cm-12.1, but its lagging a bit. And phone turns off when taking picture with flash on.

Persist partition permissions and owners

Hi everyone. Got a bootloop, so had to format the persist partition. I made a backup of it with adb before formatting, but forgot to save permissions/owners of every file.
Could anyone just make an "ls -l" in all folders of /persist? Thank you.
P.S. I'd appreciate if anyone makes a full image backup of /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
To make it, just do a dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img and post the file on any file hosting.

Slavon-93 said:
Hi everyone. Got a bootloop, so had to format the persist partition. I made a backup of it with adb before formatting, but forgot to save permissions/owners of every file.
Could anyone just make an "ls -l" in all folders of /persist? Thank you.
P.S. I'd appreciate if anyone makes a full image backup of /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
To make it, just do a dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img and post the file on any file hosting.
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Why don't you just try doing a factory reset after bootloop?
Anyways,here's the file that you were asking for-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxysuRdzsJeWNi02b0NmSUVwbE0/view?usp=drivesdk

Mr.Ak said:
Why don't you just try doing a factory reset after bootloop?
Anyways,here's the file that you were asking for-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxysuRdzsJeWNi02b0NmSUVwbE0/view?usp=drivesdk
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Because it was a bootloop just right after a flashed the ROM on a completely clean factory reset device. Now I understand that it was a problem with the ROM, that's why I made a backup. And your image will help me know if I miss any files in this partition and know their permissions.

Slavon-93 said:
Because it was a bootloop just right after a flashed the ROM on a completely clean factory reset device. Now I understand that it was a problem with the ROM, that's why I made a backup. And your image will help me know if I miss any files in this partition and know their permissions.
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Which ROM?

Mr.Ak said:
Which ROM?
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hyperUnicorns. For some reason any build I try to install since the end of June gives me reboots. I thought it was some incompatibility with Multirom 33e and MIUI, but after I flashed the full Cyanogen package, nothing changed, that led me to google and some posts, saying it can be a damage of persist partition.

Slavon-93 said:
hyperUnicorns. For some reason any build I try to install since the end of June gives me reboots. I thought it was some incompatibility with Multirom 33e and MIUI, but after I flashed the full Cyanogen package, nothing changed, that led me to google and some posts, saying it can be a damage of persist partition.
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That rom worked fine for me..maybe it doesn't support multi-rom.
I think you should ask on the rom's thread.

A buggy twrp for A60, but not sure for M40.

I have made and got a buggy twrp for A6060, which is the Chinese version of M40, based on android-11. It can startup but lacking mtp and usb. It can't decrypt the /data too so you should do some preparations before can use it. I am not sure whether it can be used on M40.
Usage in shorts:
① Magisk and root. You can find the guide in this forum so I will pass it.
② Using a file manager to access /system/vender/etc/fstab.qcom, in the part of /userdata delete the field of "fileencryption=ice" (usually sth. like this, not includes the quotation marks), same and quit.
③ Enter recovery and wipe data. Then use odin flash this recovery: Just zip it to .tar file then flash in the AP slot.
④ When startup, press VOLUMN UP ＆ POWER. If everything goes well, you will see the logo of twrp and enter it and can successfully access the files in /data. Then you can copy some gsi and have a try.
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Hope it will be helpful and I really hope somebody can make it a ture and full device tree. That will definetely benefit both A60 and M40 users.
The twrp for A60: https://github.com/Jason-summer/Action-Recovery-builder
The source of the twrp: https://github.com/Jason-summer/device_samsung_a60q/tree/android-11
Sorry for my poor English if causing someone confused.

good job! Is it possible to flash a phone using this? (i have a60)

blankkk123 said:
good job! Is it possible to flash a phone using this? (i have a60)
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It works for me. But you should decrypt your phone first before you try to flash sth. or you may found /data a pile of random code.

SummerElement said:
It works for me. But you should decrypt your phone first before you try to flash sth. or you may found /data a pile of random code.
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If it's not difficult, can you please write instructions? I think this will help many who want to flash

How To Guide Installing a custom recovery, and disabling encryption in the system.

Hello everyone.
If you want to have a recovery with the ability to backup/restore, this instruction is for you.
Here are recovery, while they do not know how to encryption of data section (I hope we will have such ones sometime).Yes, recovery already patched by magisk 25.2
Download the patch, copy it to the SD card (if you have it) or to a USB flash drive, for firmware by otg.
We set the recovery in fastboot mode with the command:
fastboot flash boot (recovery name).img
We load into the recovery, flash the patch, and make FORMAT DATA.
Attention!!!This will delete all your settings and installed programs, including deleting everything from the internal memory.
After that, we boot into the system, configure and "rejoice", now the recovery will see data and, accordingly, internal memory.
And yes, if you have a security thing, this procedure disables the encryption of your data
COMPLETELY, THAT IS, COMPLETELY.
Oh, I forgot, although I think it's clear by the name of the recovery, they (recovery) are designed for firmware on Android 12.
Download files:
RECOVERY

Guys, one jamb got out here, my system has been transferred to RW, and I checked the script on such a system. As it turned out, the script does not work on the stock system. So, in order for it to work normally, you need to first transfer the system to RW

Any chance to explain step by step?

reosm said:
Any chance to explain step by step?
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What exactly?
In the post everything is written as to put.

There are 2 img in the recovery file, which one will be loaded before or after

reosm said:
There are 2 img in the recovery file, which one will be loaded before or after
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one is TWRP recovery and the other is Orange Fox recovery, choose which one you want to use, just flash one of them.

Hey does twrp/orangefox actually work on this phone. I've heard that those are currently under development. And does flashing these .img require wipe data or can they work with sd card or OTG?

Soma Das said:
Hey does twrp/orangefox actually work on this phone. I've heard that those are currently under development. And does flashing these .img require wipe data or can they work with sd card or OTG?
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Recovery can work with both sd and otg. While they cannot decrypt the data, but if you transfer the system to RW, and flash the patch to disable encryption in the system, then everyone will see the recovery.

Who has a system in RO, you can use these, checked, it also works
[A/B][A-ONLY][SCRIPT][READ-ONLY][EROFS][ANDROID 10+] Universal Disable Force Encryption for RO and RW "NEO STABLE"
Disable Force Encryption NEO Do you all know what DFE is? no? Anyway. Basically, your device has an encrypted data section "/data" by default. Let's look at the advantages of google's solution that we will lose after disabling encryption: -...
forum.xda-developers.com

arraki said:
Recovery can work with both sd and otg. While they cannot decrypt the data, but if you transfer the system to RW, and flash the patch to disable encryption in the system, then everyone will see the recovery.
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Can it backup anything such as boot.img, vendor etc?

Soma Das said:
Can it backup anything such as boot.img, vendor etc?
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Probably you can, but why. A backup of the datа section is enough for normal recovery. Of course, you can also make a backup of the super section if you changed something in it.

arraki said:
Probably you can, but why. A backup of the datа section is enough for normal recovery. Of course, you can also make a backup of the super section if you changed something in it.
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Do I need to flash disable dm Verity?

Soma Das said:
Do I need to flash disable dm Verity?
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In the first post, everything is written.

does it work for Mediatek cpu install on the Note 11 pro plus 5g?

Christ_soyo said:
does it work for Mediatek cpu install on the Note 11 pro plus 5g?
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MediaTek chip on is Redmi note 11 pro. It wilont work and you will get soft brick.

Christ_soyo said:
does it work for Mediatek cpu install on the Note 11 pro plus 5g?
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What exactly works?

Do we need to unlock the bootloader firtst before we flash the recovery, right?

derjango said:
Do we need to unlock the bootloader firtst before we flash the recovery, right?
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Of course

After using this patch my device doesn't know how to be case sensitive, which makes some apps have weird errors with read and write functions

nimade2333 said:
After using this patch my device doesn't know how to be case sensitive, which makes some apps have weird errors with read and write functions
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This is clearly not because of the patch, I have put it on for a long time, and there are no problems. Yes, and he only disables encryption in the system, how can he influence this.