MAGISK - How do i proceed in this situation? - General Questions and Answers

MAGISK - How do i proceed in this situation? - General Questions and Answers

Phone: TCL C5 with Android 8.1
i have tested mtk-su and it works
i can make a copy of the boot partition and everything
i have unlocked the bootloader
for some reason i have 2 boot files ( or more )
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2020-12-03 16:24 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2020-12-03 16:24 boot2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2020-12-03 16:24 boot_para -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2020-12-03 16:24 preloader_a -> /dev/block/mmcblk0boot0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2020-12-03 16:24 preloader_b -> /dev/block/mmcblk0boot1
i don't know what is going on here but i can patch boot and boot2 with magisk
the files goes from 24 MB to 7.7 MB so i think this is kinda weird
i want to know how i can make a good backup of everything before trying to flash anything
so i can prevent bootloop
and i want to know if there is any way to test the boot.img before flashing it
if not i would like some help to backup everything before flashing it
i patch the boot.img and try doing "fastboot boot boot.img"
but the magisk manager doesn't show installed or anything so i don't think "fastboot boot" works in this situation
is there anything i can do to be sure before flashing?
Update: seems like i only need boot and boot2
maybe patching both and flashing it?
seems a little risky, they both are the same file with the same md5sum hash

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[Q] VERIZON Samsung Tab 2 10.1 sch-i915 Hardbrick help

I have an incident that I have accrued myself so no need for those comments. The history of the hardbrick i created. If any information regarding anything feel free.
First of all i rooted my device using towelroot. It works for alot of devices and runs as 3rd party apk installer. Created by the infamous Geohotz. Godbless. https://towelroot.com/ for those of you who do not know.
2nd i was looking and trying to swap my extSdCard with my internal /sdcard. I edited the vold.fstab and the vold.conf files thinking hey i can use the external as full internal to have the devive install apps on properly w/o manually moving and use the internal remaining sdcard memory as virtual Ram. I have not completed this process yet. Ill explain.
After mounting the internal as external and vice. I ended up being stuck in a boot loop. NOTE: i did not have custom recovery(was one of the oopsies) so was stuck with basic android recovery. Reset device did not fix. Was going to Odin flash the stock rom and/or CWM Recovery, but there is absolutely NO STOCK or LEAKED rom anywhere for the verizon model. I also pulled those 2 files off of my other tab 2 10.1 NON VERIZON *vold.fstab and vold.conf and places it into zip file and signed it using signapk.
which now i feel like an idiot finding this link "http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/themes-apps/tutorial-making-flashable-zips-edify-t1611615"
NOTE: I used a different post somewhere that didnt explain to have the right binary so it gave me a signature mismatch error when trying to flash. Use above post to make sure you use propery binary.
Luckily i did some research and knowledge of what i actually did to fix it and plus my addiction to play around and learn things. I manually duplicated the vold.fstab/vold.conf files from my one device to the bricked one
Boot up device in Android recovery.
installed and loaded up ADB.exe from command line.
Code:
adb shell
su
echo *yourlinehere*> /system/etc/vold.fstab
echo *yourlinehere*>> /sytem/etc/vold.fstab
the first > rewrites the file from start black document and inputs the first line
the 2nd >> note the double >> appends to the next line.
i rebooted and VOILA FIXED!!! but wait....theres more ><
So knowing the troubles i had to fix my lil play around mistake. I wanted to get custom recovery partition installed. Used Rom Manager to install CWM Recovery. I picked the wrong rom for my device and flashed it. The one i used was for the international Tab 2 10.1 the gt-5100. It said it successfully flashed so i figured wth it couldnt hurt right? WRONG i clicked reboot to recovery to check it. and here is where I lie. HARD BRICK. No boot up at all. Plug in charger to outlet or PC i dont even get the charging device battery image. So now here we go more research fun!!!
I looked up some information on how to fix a hard bricked device. some posts say using a jig to bypass it and get into download mode. Ok this is a 30 pin connector not a 4 pin like most the android devices. I could do some research on this and probably rig a jig to convert and match the pin layouts but meh my problem still lies within not having stock firmware for this model. I also learn of Jtag methods. Oh all well and handy but buying the Riff Box and all this gets your device bootable, but hey guess what? it would allow me to boot into that download mode or android recovery. Which still bottom line fails as i dont have a stock rom to flash. OH the dilemna.
What ive come up with. I plugged in my device into my pc. Well what do you know i can actually get recognition. but this is where i am stuck at.
I figured out that the device is recognized and i needed drivers. I found this handy site
https://developer.qualcomm.com/forum/qdevnet-forums/general-discussion/9428 Which also explains that i messed up my boot partition.
I download and installed the QPST program and installed the drivers on win7. I had to reboot and use advanced options to disable the unsigned drivers check. OK sweet connection is up!
I tried using ADB shell but device isnt connected that way.
In the QPST program it shows my device on com10 in download mode. I tried to retrieve some data or partition information from the device but it says i cannot when device is in download mode. So no pulling files and fixing and reflashing them. Back to the same problem before NO STOCK ROM.
So here are the questions I have regarding my situation. The android device im playing with has the base partitions. As an example of this http://www.all-things-android.com/content/review-android-partition-layout
I do not have my partition layout for my device as its bricked. I dont even know if it needs to be repaired yet. If any of you with a verizon tab 2 10.1 sch-i915 has a rooted device and can get me this table or a pit file for this device it would be appreciated
2nd firmware vs firmware. As previously stated I do not have firmware for this verizon tab. HOWEVER i did find firmware for the Sprint version of this exact tablet. My question is, could these stock firmwares be exact duplicates with the exclusion of the boot up screen bs and the /misc partition containing the imei phone stats and carrier information?
3rd Flashing just certain partitions of this firmware. Is it possible if the above is feasible considering i know my /boot partition is messed up and my /recovery partition is messed up to only flash those 2 partitions with the one from sprint. The stock kernal should be the same in both devices for the /boot and the /recovery partition should hold the same android recovery should it not?
4th. If anyone has a rooted sch-i915 device would you be willing to make dump of the partitions using this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450045. That would be appreciated.

Let Me Work On That
You Are Possibly In Luck. I Know Somone That Has That Tablet. Problem Is It Is My Mom's And Well She Rather Beat Me With It Then Let Me Touch It. I'll See What I Can Do And Will Post Back.. Wish Me Luck i Will Need It :fingers-crossed:

][NT3L][G3NC][ said:
You Are Possibly In Luck. I Know Somone That Has That Tablet. Problem Is It Is My Mom's And Well She Rather Beat Me With It Then Let Me Touch It. I'll See What I Can Do And Will Post Back.. Wish Me Luck i Will Need It :fingers-crossed:
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Appreciated good luck.
If not possible and i get it fixed ill post how i did it and such. and also post up a JB 4.12 stock/updated leaked rom of this device which apparently seems to be missing in the world for some damn reason.

I Got A Question
Sorry I Been Busy, & Google Has Not Been Kind 2 Me. I Did Find The California Lottery Vulnerability Report Generated By Nessus. But If Someone Could Please Point Me In The Right Direction Or Just Break It Down For Me As Quickly And Light As You Could, Short, Straight Forward, The LIghtest Kliff Notes Ever Would Be Appreciated.
Verizion SCH-I915 [ 4.1.2 ]
I Only Had A Few Minutes With The Tablet But I Already Rooted It, Installed BusyBox, I Barely Started To Get Into The FIle System.... I'm Using Kali LInux
1. What Partitions/Blocks Do I Need To Obtain To Create An Odin Flashable Recovery Image
2. Is There A Droid Binary, Or Script I Can Use To Dump The Rom While Creating The Above For Odin?
Just Found Something I Downloaded At Some Point Called: ROMGEN Any Idea On That Binary??? And phantomphr33k Any Request.
Forgive Me I Work Nights, Two Kids, So I'm Up Days + On Call During The Day.
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 ???
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 backup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 efs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 fota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 grow -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 pad -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 param -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-10-27 01:41 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15

Should Post The Rest Tomorrow
I Have Attached Some Text Files With The Output Of A Couple Commands To Get The block/partition layout.
I Have Dumped The system.img which is 1.6gb In SIze
Tomorrow I Should Have : Modem "firmware" , Boot , Recovery
QUESTIONS:
What Is aboot?
Which Is The Kernel?
What Is Modemst*?
And More Important, Which Ones Do I Need To Pull For A Complete ROM Dump?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 backup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 efs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 fota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 grow -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 pad -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 param -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Nov 2 1970 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Nov 2 1970 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15

Sorry its the Holidays so its understandable. Cant really twist your arm to rush it Im by far not an expert on this i do research myself. Ill do my best and if anyone else can shed light please do.
][NT3L][G3NC][ said:
QUESTIONS:
[*]What Is aboot?
[*]Which Is The Kernel?
[*]What Is Modemst*?
[*]And More Important, Which Ones Do I Need To Pull For A Complete ROM Dump?
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1) Aboot partition is basically your "Odin Downloader" protocol. while booting pressing power + Vol Dwn will put your device in this mode.
2) The kernel/ramdisk is stored in the /boot partition
Note Primary Bootloader and SB* are secondary bootloaders 1,2,3 those are loaded up as well to set certain params + setup/initialize hardware as far as im understanding. and loads up the kernel/ramdisk.
3)Ill quote from another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582811
][NT3L][G3NC][ said:
- backup and restore important device partitions - EFS (Samsung), TA (Sony), MODEM (Exynos devices), MODEMST1 & MODEMST2 (Qualcomm devices),
- root is required
- easy to use
- many localizations
- see paths to important partitions of your device using Menu -> Device Partitions
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As far as im understanding these partitions hold carrier information/imei and all other sorts of GRPS information in regards to connecting your devices radio to Service. Sorta like your network card drivers and Mac Address
I looked at another persons rom dump and I seen only these partitions in the archive. Sadly I dont remember where i found this but is from a guy who JTAGS devices. So im pretty sure its legit. Its from the Sprints version of this device.
/system.img.ext4(going to be the biggest dump)
/recovery.img
/cache.img.ext4
/boot.img
[QUOTE=']
1. What Partitions/Blocks Do I Need To Obtain To Create An Odin Flashable Recovery Image
2. Is There A Droid Binary, Or Script I Can Use To Dump The Rom While Creating The Above For Odin?
Just Found Something I Downloaded At Some Point Called: ROMGEN Any Idea On That Binary??? And phantomphr33k Any Request.
[/QUOTE]
So basicallly special request if you could is mainly dump those partitions above
This Romgen seemingly looks to dump what is needed for the rom. It also makes and update-script flashable Odin file. Never tried it myself. ive used cygwin/kitchen personally.
If you would do that would be sufficient as a stock rom. Granted if the rom is updated its not stock.....BUT at least it will be an updated stock vwz sch-i915 out there in public finally.
AND...extra special request is a pit file. Reason being is i need to attempt to flash by other means not via odin.(more personal use than general public) and i need the block information to flash partitions to the chip at the certain points. Im extracting the *.img/bin files and compiling *.mbn files and going to attempt to flash directly to the chip. As far as ive seen its worked on a few other devices and i might as well try considering this is a Qualcomm device and it is recognized in QPST. Maybe the security on the bootloader may not allow it but what could it hurt? its already hard bricked right? lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916936
program here for windows. I never checked for any linux based tools cuz i use cygwin if i absolutely need linux.
Much appreciated ][NT3L][G3NC][ your making my day :laugh:

happy new years intelligence since it seems ur the only one to view this thread.

so did you ever get a good romdump? I have been trying all night to do it to mine but can not get it to work.

Frp lock solution.

Hi, got one moto g3, frp lock.
I found a link on ebhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/151884511307ay, he can factory reset the phone to clear the frp lock.
Not sure its a fake or real solution.
Before paying $29 , just want to know if it's a real solution or fake?

Probably fake. In the Samsung specific frp implementation there is a bug which allows to circumvent frp (and Samsung is already fixing this bug). And everybody can do this. No need to pay for such a service.
But I'm not aware of such a bug in the Motorola implementation.

To the best of my knowledge, the data we need to access for this is contained in the /persist partition...in theory, if you take a bootloader unlocked device which has never had a google account set up on it before, dump that device's /persist, then reflash it to another device, you SHOULD be able to bypass the FRP lock.
IN THEORY.....don't quote me, and I'm not responsible for any potential damage...I have NOT tested my theory. I'm only making an educated guess.

hp420 said:
To the best of my knowledge, the data we need to access for this is contained in the /persist partition...in theory, if you take a bootloader unlocked device which has never had a google account set up on it before, dump that device's /persist, then reflash it to another device, you SHOULD be able to bypass the FRP lock.
IN THEORY.....don't quote me, and I'm not responsible for any potential damage...I have NOT tested my theory. I'm only making an educated guess.
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This will only work on a device where the bootloader was already unlocked before FRP is triggered.
You can only flash/overwrite the /persist partition if the bootloader is unlocked. In order to unlock the bootloader you have to select "Allow OEM Unlock" in developer settings first. Which is only possible if you can logon to the device...

u42671 said:
This will only work on a device where the bootloader was already unlocked before FRP is triggered.
You can only flash/overwrite the /persist partition if the bootloader is unlocked. In order to unlock the bootloader you have to select "Allow OEM Unlock" in developer settings first. Which is only possible if you can logon to the device...
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Yes, that is correct. It's a very specific set of requirements that the device must meet, but I believe it could be possible. If all the conditions are right, I see absolutely no reason why this would not work.

hp420 said:
Yes, that is correct. It's a very specific set of requirements that the device must meet, but I believe it could be possible. If all the conditions are right, I see absolutely no reason why this would not work.
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Yes, if the boot loader is unlocked you can definitely break frp. Just by flashing a custom rom frp will also be gone .

u42671 said:
Yes, if the boot loader is unlocked you can definitely break frp. Just by flashing a custom rom frp will also be gone .
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No, this is totally incorrect. There are several people here who have tried that and all have failed. This is why I suspect it lives in the /persist partition. If it's in system, userdata, either cache, etc. it would be incredibly easy to get around. Google has some sort of persistent location for all this stuff....and there just so happens to be a partition literally titled persist....coincidence??? Probably not, imo
Also, you do not need an unlocked bootloader. All you need is TWRP. If you have TWRP you can boot there, then use ADB shell to get root access and you can then flash the partition in question.
check it out....partition mmcblk0p29 is titled persist:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 880 Jan 21 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1000 Jan 21 1970 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 abootBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p40
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 carrier -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p38
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 cid -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 clogo -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 customize -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p39
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 dhob -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 frp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 hob -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 hyp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 hypBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 keystore -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 kpan -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 logo -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 logs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 oem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 padA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 padB -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 padC -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p34
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 rpmBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 sp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p33
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p41
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 tzBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p42
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 21 1970 utags -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 21 1970 utagsBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
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What is frp?

banerjeeayan1996 said:
What is frp?
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Factory Reset Protection

Finally done, without bootloader unlocked.
By going to setting and turn on debugging mode. And he run one simple script. And done.
Going to setting is simple (there are video on YouTube)

How were you able to go to settings and enable debug mode when you are logged out of the phone due to frp?
I know how this works on Samsung devices as Samsung automatically brings up a file manager when you connect a USB storage via OTG and then you can start an apk which brings up settings. Thats what also all the Videos on Youtube are showing.
But on my Moto G I cannot replicate this behaviour. It does not automatically bring up file manager when connecting USB stick via OTG. Only after manually starting file manager you can access the USB stick.

u42671 said:
How were you able to go to settings and enable debug mode when you are logged out of the phone due to frp?
I know how this works on Samsung devices as Samsung automatically brings up a file manager when you connect a USB storage via OTG and then you can start an apk which brings up settings. Thats what also all the Videos on Youtube are showing.
But on my Moto G I cannot replicate this behaviour. It does not automatically bring up file manager when connecting USB stick via OTG. Only after manually starting file manager you can access the USB stick.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaK6TK-oYJ8
br,

riteshgpt60 said:
you can go to setting by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaK6TK-oYJ8
br,
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Could someone please translate this from portuguese? I can follow it for the most part, but I'd like to know any finer details he may be talking about. My spanish is terrible, let alone trying to understand portuguese lol

hp420 said:
Could someone please translate this from portuguese? I can follow it for the most part, but I'd like to know any finer details he may be talking about. My spanish is terrible, let alone trying to understand portuguese lol
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First, the guy on the video is selling a program to do the unlocking.
The first part on the video shows a possible exploit to access the developer options, then enable usb debbugging.
The 190 number that he dials is the emergency police number in Brazil, similar to the 911 in US.
Maybe that´s the trick, when you try to make an emergency call, the system may bypass some security features.
I'm at work now, if you need I may translate to english the whole video, but only at home.
The guy is selling this "Motorola FRP Ulocking" software with a password, so even if you follow all the steps listed, you may need the software.

anyone have an interest in chipping in for this so we can release the exploit publicly?

@hp420, its already available publicly.

riteshgpt60 said:
@hp420, its already available publicly.
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can you please share the link?

Can someone give me the password for frp unlock app . plss help me bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXjGLeN5y0&index=1&list=LLFArHcghMf-E7X6EIvmJCWQ

nokia alkng said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXjGLeN5y0&index=1&list=LLFArHcghMf-E7X6EIvmJCWQ
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Bro i know to goto nova launcher n all other apps.. I need to factory reset my phone... While i goto settings d wipe option is hidden.. Nd i cant find the users menu nd OEM unlock feature option... Plss help me someone...

[INFO] ANDROID DEVICE PARTITIONS and FILESYSTEMS

NOTE:
I'm not a developer or something even near to that. I'm a newbie and will be, seems so. All information provided here is copied and compiled from different internet sources like this and many others.
This information is according to best of my knowledge and comprehension and is just for curious souls like me who want to understand things in quite simple words. It might be wrong and I will open-heartedly welcome any correction or addition from anyone.
I'm not responsible for any harm to you or your device resulting from this.
1. PARTITION TABLE
The Phone's Internal Memory (eMMC or UFS; not the SD card) is solid-state (flash) memory, aka NAND. Raw NAND, as it's called, is basically a pure flash memory dependent on CPU to control it. But in order to use flash memory just like a traditional hard drive (block device), NAND is equipped with an (embedded multimedia) micro-controller. It's called eMMC.
eMMC can be partitioned much like a hard drive on PC. PC's have traditionally been partitioned with BIOS compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) scheme in which first sector of disk contains the details of partitions called Partition Table. Limited size of boot sector (512 bytes) puts a limitation of at maximum 4 (primary) partitions listed in MBR. Extended partition has been used for 4+ partitions.
GUID Partition Table (GPT) was introduced with UEFI booting system which isn't dependent on first boot sector and hence may contain up to 128 partitions. GPT also does CRC check, has backup GPT, identifies partitions by GUID and partitions have a label.
Android devices use GPT. We can view and manipulate GPT using Linux tools such as parted and gdisk while fdisk is the traditional tool for MBR partitions.
To view partition table on internal memory:
Code:
~# parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
(parted) p free
~# gdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
(The external SD Card can also be partitioned to include a section dedicated to storing user apps (like Link2SD does) or to create partitions for secondary or tertiary OS on Android device using some multiboot kernel and recovery system). Even we can put whole OS/ROM on an SD card.
2. BRIEF INTRO
Contents of Android partitions can be partially or completely modified by flashing an image (filesystem .img or executable binary or a flashable zip) to them. But we never need to modify most of them and whatever manufacturer wrote on them, resides there unmodified (read-only) for the whole of device life. A user uses only one partition /data to save personal data like photos, music etc. All the other are for device to run. There are typically in the range of 50 partitions on an Android device but only a few partitions are modified for the purpose of adding new features or upgrading the device. A custom ROM or minor upgrade is also limited to modify /boot, /system and /data partitions usually. Most of the partitions are almost intact, containing bootloaders, firmwares, settings etc. Here is a "summarized" detail to these partitions which matter to a common but interested user.
On most devices /system and /data are larger partitions (on some devices /custom or a similar partition too) covering almost 90% of eMMC. All others are smaller ones of a few KB's or MB's.
3. SoC / CHIPSET / PROCESSORS RELATED PARTITIONS
SoC is the first component when we start a PC or Mobile phone which initialzes hardware and processors and loads bootloaders in memory to bootstrap OS. It's an integrated chip containing multiple things e.g. CPU, GPU, modem, wifi etc. It varies for device manufacturers and SoC vendors (chipset plus processor).
Some partitions are specific to SoC, most of them are closed-source executable binary blobs (like aboot, sbl, rpm, tz, cmnlib, devcfg, keymaster, lksecapp and others on a Qualcomm device), loaded step-by-step by bootloaders.
MODEM or RADIO - the phone's radio
Also called baseband, it is responsible for signals and on older devices may control wifi, bluetooth, and GPS (on most newer devices, these are handled by the kernel and ROM). Upgrades are country dependent and may improve or diminish battery performance, network signal strength, and roaming capability. It is also sometimes required to have a minimum Baseband version to use a ROM so that the RIL will play nice with the Baseband.
Modem firmware is a mini-OS for the cellular radio chip which has its own processor. Firmware is a general term, firmware exists for a lot of things on phone. The wireless chip for WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth often has a firmware as can the GPU core among other things. These firmware files are usually located inside the SYSTEM or VENDOR partition. The modem firmware is special because it has its own separate Baseband Processor (BP) so the firmware is left out of the system image in its own partition.
Modem is not an Android-specific partition. It is tied to the hardware of the phone, but the kernel has a code allowing Android to interact with the hardware. But the baseband processor (BP) - which runs modem and is responsible for all communication through mobile networks e.g. call, SMS and internet - is totally isolated from Application Processor (the one we call CPU) and is not governed by Android kernel; it runs an independent RTOS.
RIL/Radio Interface Layer
This is not a separate partition, but a part of the ROM and is like a driver for the Radio. RIL daemons provides telephony and cellular data i.e. adds phone to smartphone. There is a matching RIL for each Baseband version and you can flash it to match your Baseband after flashing a ROM. Having mismatched RIL and Baseband can range from having no effect at all, slight battery drain, loss of roaming, or even no connection to the cell network. Many ROMs keep their RIL updated to the latest. Job of the RIL is to translate all the telephony requests from the Android telephony framework and map them to the corresponding AT commands to the modem, and back again. AT set of commands is used to communicate with modem i.e. baseband processor (BP) which is a must have processor on Android devices in addition to normal CPU i.e. Application Processor (AP).
TZ (TrustZone) - used by ARM processors as an additional lock to security features. It combines user's encryption key with a hardware specific key generated by encryption processor (like TPM on Windows) to make security breaching more difficult. It can also be used to implement Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).
RPM (Resource/Power Management) which starts executing Primary/Primitive BootLoader (PBL) in BootROM - controls power to radio, modem etc.
DSP (Digital Signal Processor) - by Qualcomm to assist in things like smooth video playback (realtime media and sensors processor) as well as runs RTOS for modem
HYP (Hypervisor) - Virtual Machine Monitor, to enable Virtual Machine platform
4. BOOTLOADERS
Bootloaders - in many steps - hand over charge to kernel after loading in RAM. These are mostly standalone ELF executable files becuase at this stage no filesystem is loaded and only executable code may work. These are all closed source components on Android device, provided by SoC vendors - either built-in or as binary blobs.
SBL - Secondary bootloader loaded by SoC, loads ABOOT in memory, also provides (Emergency) Download Mode (EDL) on many devices, a Firmware Update Protocol.
ABOOT (bootloader.img or aboot.mbn file in Factory Firmware) - Applications Bootloader is the main bootloader responsible for loading kernel or recovey and fastboot - a Firmware Update Protocol - as well.
Kernelflinger is a similar bootloader on Intel devices.
Read ANDROID BOOT PROCESS to know more about bootloaders.
5. CORE AOSP PARTITIONS
BOOT - Kernel and initramfs (modern form of of ramdisk and ramfs/tmpfs)
A kernel is a layer of code that allows the OS and applications to interface with your phone's hardware. The degree to which you can access your phone's hardware features depends on the quality of code in the kernel. Several kernel code improvements give us additional features from our hardware that the stock kernel does not. When you flash a custom ROM, you automatically get a kernel. But you can also flash a standalone kernel on top of the existing one, effectively overwriting it. These days, the difference in custom kernels is less about new features and more about alternate configurations. Choosing a custom kernel is basically choosing one that works best with your ROM.
Device Tree Blob (DTB), along with hardware drivers, are baked with kernel source in boot.img. DTB is loaded by bootloader at boot time and passed to kernel so that it can discover hardware and create node points accordingly.
On a Linux system init along with scripts, binaries kernel drivers and modules (in initrd.img), kernel (vmlinuz executable) and bootloader configuration along with modules, they all reside on root or a separate partition (mounted) at /boot. While on Android, init along with a few binaries and configuration files and kernel reside in a separate partition named "boot" with a special filesystem. Boot.img is created using tools like mkbootimg after building kernel.
This is how kenrel and DTB are built:
vmlinux > Image > zImage / Image.gz > Image.gz-dtb
vmlinux: Large sized non-bootable Linux kernel (executable) with debug symbols, just an intermediate step to producing vmlinuz
vmlinux.bin: Same as vmlinux binary but with removed symbols, produced by 'objcopy'
vmlinuz: Compressed and bootable Linux kernel file; one of zImage or bzImage formats; compressed using zlib, LZMA, gzip or bzip2 etc.
zImage: Smaller format, for old kernels
bzImage: Big zImage
Image: vmlinux.bin of embedded devices
Image.gz: zImage or bzImage of embedded devices
.dts (multiple) < > .dtb (1 or more)
Converted using dtc (device tree compiler)
.dtb is appended to zImage / Image.gz i.e. zImage-dtb / Image.gz-dtb (simply concatenate)
zImage-dtb > dtb Can be extracted using split-appended-dtb
Packed as a part of kernel, "--dt" option is not needed when creating boot.img
mkbootimg --kernel *.Image.gz-dtb --ramdisk *.cpio.gz --base . . . --offset . . . --tag-address . . . --cmdline . . .
.dtb is extracted as a part of kernel by unpackbootimg
.dtb < > dtb.img
Converted using mkdtimg
dtb.img is for dtb partition or second stage of boot.img
boot.img is created by using --dt option:
mkbootimg --dt dt.img --kernel *.Image.gz --ramdisk *.cpio.gz --base . . . --offset . . . --tag-address . . . --cmdline . . .
dtb.img is extracted separately by unpackbootimg
Further Reading: Device Tree Overlays and Android Boot and Recovery Images
SYSTEM - ROM / OS
Contains system applications and libraries that have AOSP source code. During normal operation, this partition is mounted read-only; its contents change only during an OTA update or when flashing a new OS. Most ROM's don't allow root level (Admin rights in Windows) access by default. So, "rooting" is required to modify the contents of this partition. This is the actual User Interface we use on our phone i.e. system apps are installed on this partition on /system/app directory. Another important directory is /system/bin which contains executable binaries to perform each and every action by OS in background (as daemons) or by user in shell (bash) scripts or CLI (command line interface). These are native binaries (developed in C / C++ mostly) as opposed to Android apps which are developed in Java. A minimal form of Linux commands is also included in AOSP as toolbox or toybox (or user can add busybox or individual static binaries). /system/lib directory contains native libraries (shared by applications commonly) with .so extensions just like .dll on Windows.
VENDOR
This partition is replaced with a shortcut (symbolic link in fact) to /system/vendor directory. It contains system applications and libraries that do not have source code available on AOSP but added by vendors (OEM's). During normal operation, this partition is mounted read-only; its contents change only during an OTA update. It also contains SoC firmware images i.e. hardware specific libraries and binaries (OpenGL, ISP...).
Proprietary blobs (HALs) usually live in (/system)/vendor as shared libraries (.so files) which are loaded by Android binders when processes call a hardware component. HAL (hardware abstraction layer) is userspace alternative to traditional Linux's system calls for drivers and is a kind of Google's standardization for OEMs/hardware vendors, though being abandoned by mainstream Linux.
PROJECT TREBLE
In an ideal world, there should be a generic AOSP OS and a single kernel for all Android devices, not tied to hardware and vendors. But unfortunately it isn't so because unlike PC world, there is no standardization in mobile world. AOSP is heavily modified on silicon vendor (SoC) as well as phone vendor level. One of the worst outcome of this situation is almost no Long Term Support (LTS). There are delayed or none updates once the consumers have phone, making it vulnerable to security issues and missing new features. Project Treble (starting from Android-8) addresses this issue somewhat by creating a separation between hardware specific code and generic AOSP code.
Previously, phone vendors used to get AOSP code from Google, mixing it with their own cutomizations (UI, apps etc.) and the hardware specific code from SoC vendor. If a minor fix needed to be applied to AOSP code, the whole process had to be repeated because code was intermingled and fixing one thing broke the other. Google resolved this issue by specifying /vendor partition for hardware specific code, /system containing only generic code. Interaction with AOSP code will be through HIDL interfaces, thus making it possible to upgrade the both codes independently. /oem and /odm partitions were added previously for the same purpose.
USERDATA
User applications are installed in different folders under /data. Apps data (user and system) is stored in /data/data. User personal data and some apps data is stored in /data/media. /data/media is also emulated as internal SDCard at /storage/emulated and symlinked at /sdcard. Personalized and apps settings are also stored in this partition. A folder /data/dalvik contains, in simple words, extracted apps to boost loading process. Java bytecode of Android apps is converted to executable code (.odex) by Dalvik Virtual Machine, separate instance of which is launched by zygote (an Android init daemon) for every app.
This partition is not normally touched by the OTA update process. A Factory Reset wipes this partition, normally excluding /data/media i.e. personal data.
When you do a factory reset (AKA: wipe, hard reset, factory wipe, etc.), you are erasing the /data and /cache partitions. Note that a factory reset does NOT put your phone back to its factory state from an OS standpoint. OS upgrades will stay because the OS lives in /system, and that is not touched during a factory reset. So it's not a factory reset. It's a factory DATA reset actually.
RECOVERY
Holds alternate boot partition and the recovery program that lets the device boot into a recovery console for performing advanced recovery and maintenance operations. It contains a second complete Linux system i.e. independent OS, including a user-interface application, kernel and the special recovery binary that reads a package and uses its contents to update i.e. flash or wipe itself or any other partition particularly during OTA updates.
Recovery is also the most commonly used method to flash custom ROM's.
ADB sideload mode through PC is a replacement of flashing files (usually .zip) through Recovery. ADB works when phone is switched on in Recovery (or ROM). ADB/fastboot setup is to be made on PC to use this mode.
CACHE - cached (frequently accessed) data from OS usage and contains the firmware update package downloaded from server during OTA updates. Temporary holding area used by a few applications with the expectation that files can disappear at any time. Major use is by recovery and OTA updates. Recovery last_log is also written to this partition.
6. OTHER PARTITIONS
CUST - also CUSTOM or PRELOAD on some devices, it's used by stock ROM's, holding some preloaded system apps and regional settings which are installed on first use.
MISC - also FOTA on older devices
It's a tiny partition used by recovery to communicate with bootloader store away some information about what it's doing in case the device is restarted while the OTA package is being applied.
It is a boot mode selector used to pass data among various stages of the boot chain (boot into recovery mode, fastboot etc.). e.g. if it is empty (all zero), system boots normally. If it contains recovery mode selector, system boots into recovery mode.
It may also carry some necessarily required information in the form of switches to control hardware or settings related tasks such as CID (Carrier or Region ID) information and USB configurations etc.
PERSIST - contains data which shouldn't be changed after the device is shipped, e.g. DRM related files, sensor reg file (sns.reg) and calibration data of chips; wifi, bluetooth, camera etc.
Some package installers such as OpenGapps also make use of this partition to read configuration file.
EFS, MODEMST1, MODEMST2, FSG, BACKUP
These all are related to IMEI; a unique number used by GSM networks to identify and trace a mobile phone.
EFS may contain hardware info like configuration files, WiFi/BlueTooth MAC’s, IMEI (or ESN for a CDMA based device) etc.
EFS and MODEMST1 may be a single partition on some phones.
FSG (FileSystem Golden copy) and BACKUP are backups of MODEMST1 and MODEMST2 respectively. If MODEMST1 or MODEMST2 are erased (by wrong factory flashing say) and phone notices an invalid partition, FSG and BACKUP will be restored.
MODEMST1 and MODEMST2 also contains modem firmware files.
PARAM - stores a number of parameters, variables and settings of the hardware. It contains info whether MODEMST partitions are backed up or not. Also debug settings, custom ROMs flash count, current stage boot process etc.
OEM - like VENDOR, it incorporates OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer i.e. hardware manufacturer or Mobile Phone brand) small customization (modifications) to original Android (AOSP) during OTA updates such as customized system properties values etc.
PAD - related to OEM
OTA, FOTA - OTA updates
DDR - Double Data Rate RAM
FSC - Modem FileSystem Cookies
SSD - Secure Software Download, a memory based file system for secure storage, stores some encrypted RSA keys
DEVINFO - device information including: is_unlocked (aboot), is_tampered, is_verified, charger_screen_enabled, display_panel, bootloader_version, radio_version etc. Contents of this partition are displayed by "fastboot oem device-info" command in human readable format. Before loading boot.img or recovery.img, bootloader verifies the locked state from this partition.
CONFIG/FRP/PDB - saves state of Factory Reset Protection (FRP), "Allow bootloader (OEM) unlocking" . (Developer Options), asks already associated account info. This partition is erased/reset if Factory Reset done from Settings.
DEVCFG - used by TZ for upgrades
LKSECAPP - "LK (Little Kernel) Security App", related to RPM, TZ online verification / update
LIMITS - Qualcomm Limits Management Hardware (LMh) driver in SBL writes the data in this partition to use for later reboots
SYSCFG - Qualcomm CPR (Core Power Reduction) Regulator for better performance and power saving of application processor by voltage control
DIP, MDTP - boot verification, use Qualcomm SafeSwitch technology to lock and track theft phones
CMNLIB, KEYMASTER - verified boot
SEC - contains fuse settings, mainly for secure boot (signing bootloaders for chain of trust) and oem setting
KEYSTORE - related to /data Full Disc Encryption (FDE)
MCFG - (Modem Configuration Framework) - on dual SIM devices, loads MBN (modem binary) files depending on SIM/carrier
SPLASH - splash image or boot logo which appears when device boots (at ABOOT stage).
CHGLOGO - charging screen that appears when charger is connected to powered off device.
MSADP, APDP, DPO - related to debug policies
GROW - empty for future expansion
7. FILESYSTEMS
Supported filesystems by your kernel can be viwewd by:
Code:
~# cat /proc/filesystems
Partitions with Mountable Filesystems
Following partitions are mounted during boot process:
system, vendor, odm, userdata (mounted at /data), cache, cust, persist (mounted at /persist or /mnt/vendor/persist), modem (mounted at /firmware or /vendor/firmware_mnt), dsp (mounted at /dsp or /vendor/dsp)
Modem is formatted as vfat while all others are usually ext4 or f2fs on newer devices.
All of these are listed in /fstab.* file which is processes by init. Starting with Android 8.0 (Treble release), fstab.* is moved to /vendor/etc/ and system, vendor and odm entries are included in dtb.
Other partitions don't contain a mountable filesystem. However, we may try to get an idea of the contents by reading smaller partitions e.g.:
Code:
~# cat /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/config | strings
~# cat /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/misc | strings
Pseudo / Virtual / in-Memory Filesystems (Kernel space)
These filesystems don't rely on a physical persistent storage but just live in RAM, to provide kernel services interfaces in user space.
rootfs (/) - mounted by kernel before calling init. More details here
sysfs (/sys) - information related to devices, populated by kernel
devpts (/dev/pts) - character device files representing slave side of pseudo terminal pairs
proc (/proc) - information related to all processes, updated as processes are started / killed
tmpfs (/dev) - all device nodes updated from sysfs, accessible from user space
configfs (/config) - intergrated with userspace sdcardfs, controls apps permissions to directories on internal/external sdcard by VOLume Daeomon, a replacement of fusefs
pstore (/sys/fs/pstore) - persistent storage, a replacement of /proc/last_kmsg, saves last kernel console messages on panic / crashes / sudden reboots, solution to volatile nature of pseudo filesystems
cgroup - cgroups manage hardware resources allocation to processes as per load
selinuxfs (/sys/fs/selinux) - implementation of Security-Enahanced Linux, a mandatory access controls (MAC) to manage file permissions, better than traditional Discretionary Access Control (DAC) mechanism (Read-Write-eXecute) of Linux
debugfs (/sys/kernel/debug) - to monitor and debug kernel space implementations from user space
tracefs (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing) - debugfs with better security
functionfs (/dev/usb-ffs/adb) - integrated with configfs, manages USB gadgets, ADB is implemented through functionfs on Android
FILESYSTEM TREE MOUNTED BY INIT: ANDROID vs. LINUX
8. Factory Firmware and Flashable ROMs:
When you flash a custom ROM, that ROM typically includes a kernel and an OS. That means the /boot and /system partitions will be modified at a minimum. Some ROMs require a clean install, so a format of the /data and /cache partitions is sometimes built into the .zip that you flash. This is essentially doing a Factory Reset.
Read here to know more about flashing partitions.
Factory Firmware contains original iamge files of almsot all important partitions. It's provided by OEM's, usually as a package which also incude a flasher software for PC. Or a general flasher software may be uses such as QFIL.
ROM Development
A ROM developer downloads AOSP source code from Google while device tree, driver binaries and kernel source code is provided by (ODM's through) OEM's, if they are generous enough. OEM's manufacture and sell devices themselves while ODM's sell to white-labelers who brand them under their own names. Original Android kernel tree is provided by Google which in turn is taken from Linux and then modified by Google for Android-specific needs.
RELATED:
An Introduction to Android Firmware

First off, don't need be like your never be a dev, lol you never know. Secondly it's a good share. Appreciated

Drivers Partition
What are partitions responsible on drivers like sound and camera,
I restored ROM using TWRP but now, Sound and Camera don't work,
any help?

saprey said:
What are partitions responsible on drivers like sound and camera,
I restored ROM using TWRP but now, Sound and Camera don't work,
any help?
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Camera and sound are related to your rom i.e. system partition. Do factory data reset or clean install rom

Thanks, but why is my phone talking about a primary partition and a secondary partition?
Tia,
A real newbie

TommyWhite said:
Thanks, but why is my phone talking about a primary partition and a secondary partition?
Tia,
A real newbie
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At what point talking about primary / secondary partitions? Are you creating new partitions or using some tool / app to view partitions?

Oh, I misunderstood.
It was about public storages (so whats accessible without root, right??).
It said
Public storage (primaire): /storage/emulated/0
Public storage (secondaire): /storage/94F1-34D8 (I didnt realise that was my sd card ...)
RootFs: /
System: /system
Like a said 'a real newbie'

TommyWhite said:
Oh, I misunderstood.
It was about public storages (so whats accessible without root, right??).
It said
Public storage (primaire): /storage/emulated/0
Public storage (secondaire): /storage/94F1-34D8 (I didnt realise that was my sd card ...)
RootFs: /
System: /system
Like a said 'a real newbie'
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Something like this attachment?

mirfatif said:
Something like this attachment?
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yes, sorry for the very late response.

While on some devices there is no bootloader partition at all and bootloader(s) resides on SoC.
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Great post btw! With the bootloader section mentioning like the above, I have a question: I'm having a device with Snapdragon 810 SoC and wasn't able to find the bootloader partition (or at least I didn't know it has because I couldn't get it to boot into that mode). So does that mean the bootloader is on the SoC? How do I figure it out if it exists on the chip?

Hi @mirfatif , what a post! Hats off to you. By the way, where does the blobs/ HALs go when we flash a new ROM zip?

argon9898 said:
Great post btw! With the bootloader section mentioning like the above, I have a question: I'm having a device with Snapdragon 810 SoC and wasn't able to find the bootloader partition (or at least I didn't know it has because I couldn't get it to boot into that mode). So does that mean the bootloader is on the SoC? How do I figure it out if it exists on the chip?
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Booting in bootloader (or it's equivalent; like fastboot) mode is dependent on the phone manufacturer. Though most of the hardware manufacturers allow users to access bootloader for repair/maintenance or modified boot chain, some may restrict this for Digital Rights Management or to gain forced customer loyalty , irrespective of where bootloader resides. On most phones it's a partition. You may check your partition table to know about all partitions.

azoksky said:
Hi @mirfatif , what a post! Hats off to you. By the way, where does the blobs/ HALs go when we flash a new ROM zip?
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Thanks for mentioning. I have added this to my post. By "blolbs" you mean DTB or hardware drivers? Well AFAIK, the blobs are included in every ROM where "ROM" is boot.img and system.img at least.
A ROM developer downloads AOSP source code from Google while device tree (map of hardware components), driver binaries and kernel source code is provided by (ODM's through) OEM's, if they are generous enough. OEM's manufacture and sell devices themselves while ODM's sell to white-labelers who brand them under their own names. Original Android kernel tree is provided by Google which in turn is taken from Linux and then modified by Google for Android-specific needs. DTB and drivers are baked with kernel source in boot.img though DTB may live on a separate dtb partition as specified by AOSP (and was the proposed solution for ARM based embedded Linux devices before Android's birth) but I don't think that is widely practiced. DTB is loaded by bootloader at boot time and passed to kernel so that it can discover hardware and create node points accordingly. Proprietary blobs (HALs) usually live in (/system)/vendor as shared libraries (.so files) which are loaded by Android binders when processes call a hardware component. HAL is userspace alternative to traditional Linux's system calls for drivers and is a kind of Google's standardization for OEMs/hardware vendors.
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Hello everyone. I tell you that one day flashing my oneplus 5 lost the wifi. The MAC address shows me the typical 02: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00 address. The way to fix it is updating the Oreo but I could never do it, it is always in bootloop, I read all the forums and there is no case, do what I always do the same. It happens in many oneplus 5. So I forgot to fix it in that way. The other thing I saw is hundreds of forums with that problem but I could not fix it either, I've been doing it for three months now. What I am trying now is to erase all the partitions except recovery or bootloader but the phone does not start anymore. What I want is to delete all the partitions associated with wifi, delete modem1, modem2, persist, fsg but nothing, I just managed to lose the imei that does not matter to me because I have back up of the efs folder and even the qcn file of the phone. I know it's a lot of work but if someone tells me that they control each partition, I could erase it, load everything from scratch and that's it. Would someone give me a hand so I can fix that damn wifi on the phone ?. Thank you.
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 fw_8v1ee -> /dev/block/sde44
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 hyp -> /dev/block/sde5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 hypbak -> /dev/block/sde6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 keymaster -> /dev/block/sde25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 keymasterbak -> /dev/block/sde26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 keystore -> /dev/block/sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 limits -> /dev/block/sde35
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 logdump -> /dev/block/sde40
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 logfs -> /dev/block/sde37
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 md5 -> /dev/block/sdf5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 mdtp -> /dev/block/sde15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 mdtpsecapp -> /dev/block/sde12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 mdtpsecappbak -> /dev/block/sde13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 minidump -> /dev/block/sde47
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 misc -> /dev/block/sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 modem -> /dev/block/sde10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 modemst1 -> /dev/block/sdf1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 modemst2 -> /dev/block/sdf2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 msadp -> /dev/block/sde32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 oem_dycnvbk -> /dev/block/sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 oem_stanvbk -> /dev/block/sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 param -> /dev/block/sda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 persist -> /dev/block/sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 pmic -> /dev/block/sde8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 pmicbak -> /dev/block/sde9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 recovery -> /dev/block/sde22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 reserve -> /dev/block/sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 reserve1 -> /dev/block/sda10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 reserve2 -> /dev/block/sda11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 rpm -> /dev/block/sde1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 rpmbak -> /dev/block/sde2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 sec -> /dev/block/sde7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 splash -> /dev/block/sde34
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 ssd -> /dev/block/sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 sti -> /dev/block/sde38
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 storsec -> /dev/block/sde41
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 storsecbak -> /dev/block/sde42
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 system -> /dev/block/sde21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 toolsfv -> /dev/block/sde36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 tz -> /dev/block/sde3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 tzbak -> /dev/block/sde4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 1970-05-03 14:23 userdata -> /dev/block/sda13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 xbl -> /dev/block/sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1970-05-03 14:23 xblbak -> /dev/block/sdc1

thank you
This is one of the best posts that I've ever read. I'm a hobbyist and reverse engineer learn. My primary phones are Samsung S 6 7 and 8 and I've soft bricked phones them more times than I can count (but recovered) justifying it as a learning experience. Sort of like putting your hand in the fire several times and calling it a learning experience. your post opens up more questions which are great. I root all my phones and I have a fear of new security patches disguised as updates disabling what methods work last week so to speak
So if I understand finally there is a section in bootloaders which is the first bootloader that is static yet upgradable but not downgradable as you referred to like the BIOS on PCs which acts as a verification process so you can't flash downgradable security patches. Much like I've encountered with partcyborg great work on rooting the S8 snapdragon however once you upgraded to the bootloader 2 you couldn't go back to the bootloader one. This is in reference to the build, not the partition.
If someone does reply, I'd like to know can you mod a certain file and Odin in the bootloader section when flashing an update to ensure that you stay at a certain bootloader level while the other files such as AP CP and CSC remain intact from the sam mobile stock firmware.(which I assume the term combo firmware file originates)
My most recent encounters are the device and binary are not the same which I attribute to this problem.
In theory from what I understand the phone has a section that is not Factory resettable which is the NAND that contains read-only but system upgrade information? However, it can be modified by a power Superuser rooted? This obviously risking hard bricking a phone
When upgrading firmware specifically the bootloader file in Odin what file(s) {bin} are essential to the new modification patches and can those files be substituted?
Any comment is considered very helpful. Odin itself is coming out with different versions for structures (prince cosmey) for example.
I explore the system file structure often wondering what I could change or alter as simple as a 0 or 1 or a true or a false to enable or disable my ability to access what I feel I need to access.
I could buy the z3x Samprotools but it defeats my intentions to learn the details.
If you do have a suggestion on a GUI Windows-based tool it would be great. Don't know Linux just as a footnote
Once again what a great post and definition of the different sections of terminology it's just enough to educate me and confuse me at the same time keep doing what you're doing. Any tricks or tips will be very appreciated.

partitions
What are partitions responsible on drivers like sound and camera,

Curious Q.!
what about these two ?
Code:
rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
rpmbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
my phone is MOTO-G5-PLUS (potter)
whole partition table is here:
Code:
←7←[r←[999;999H←[6n←8potter:/ # ls -l /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 abootbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 apdp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p45
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p37
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p52
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 carrier -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p34
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 cid -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 cmnlib -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 cmnlib64 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 cmnlib64bak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 cmnlibbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 devcfg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 devcfgbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 dip -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p42
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 dpo -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p47
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 dsp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 frp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 hw -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p50
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 keymaster -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 keymasterbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 kpan -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 limits -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p40
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 logo -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p33
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 logs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p44
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p39
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 mota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p41
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 msadp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p46
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 oem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p51
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 padA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p48
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 prov -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 provbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p38
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 rpmbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 sbl1bak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 sec -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 sp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p49
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 syscfg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p43
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p53
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 1970-08-28 23:29 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 tzbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p54
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 utags -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 1970-08-28 23:29 utagsBackup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
potter:/ #

GEEKOFIA said:
what about these two ?
Code:
rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
rpmbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
my phone is MOTO-G5-PLUS (potter)
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RPM (Resource/Power Management) or Primary BootLoader (PBL); controls power to radio, modem etc.

koler386 said:
What are partitions responsible on drivers like sound and camera,
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Kernel and system

mirfatif said:
what about these two ?
RPM (Resource/Power Management) or Primary BootLoader (PBL); controls power to radio, modem etc.
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I got a script from a xda thread in which OP mentioned that this script is for wiping dalvik/ART cache.
Before flashing it i decided to analyse it,what i found that it was erasing my RPM partition on mmcblk0p2.
Is it really for dalvik cache ?

[Recovery][OFFICIAL][UBL] TWRP 3.1.1 Touch Recovery for Xperia L

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TWRP 3.1.x - Based upon Android 7.1 :
* Whole new TWRP 3 interface
* Flashable to FOTA for permanent recovery
* Bootable recovery image if required
OFFICIAL DOWNLOADS FOR TAOSHAN :
https://twrp.me/sony/sonyxperial.html
twrp-3.x.x-x-taoshan.img : Official TWRP image
How to install : All informations available on TWRP.me
You can download the recovery via Official TWRP App as well :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.twrp.twrpapp&hl=en
DEVELOPMENT DOWNLOADS FOR TAOSHAN :
https://mega.nz/#F!vYwXRRRa!PQgFIpUqjEjJoHVkwTWe0w
twrp-3.x.x-x-fota-taoshan.zip : Flashable TWRP 3 to FOTA installer [Flash this zip if you already have older TWRP installed]
twrp-3.x.x-x-boot-taoshan.img : Fastboot bootable TWRP 3 image
twrp-3.x.x-x-secondary-multirom-taoshan.zip : As secondary MultiROM (optional)
cleaner-fota-taoshan.zip : Flashable FOTA formatter (optional)
HOW TO INSTALL EASILY TO FOTA :
* Boot to recovery : Enter the existing recovery as usual
* Flash to FOTA : Install the TWRP FOTA zip to upgrade to latest TWRP
* (Optional) : Flash the ROM you want
HOW TO INSTALL MANUALLY TO FOTA :
* Bootimage : Download the TWRP bootimage you want to flash
* File storage : Adapt the path and push the file to the device this way :
Code:
adb root
adb wait-for-device
adb push FullPathToTheRecovery.img /tmp/twrp.img
* Flash : Extract the TWRP image to the FOTA partition
Code:
adb shell dd if=/tmp/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel
* Reboot to recovery : adb reboot recovery
INFORMATIONS ABOUT TWRP 3 :
* Installation : Simply flash the zip with a working TWRP or CyanogenRecovery
* Known issues : No major issue remaining, but sources open to improvements
* Usage : Built for Nougat, works for Marshmallow, Lollipop based ROMs too
* More here : http://www.xda-developers.com/twrp-3-0-0-has-arrived/
ADDITIONAL LINKS :
* Easy ADB and Fastboot for unexperienced users :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118
Thanks to @AdrianDC for big help in bring-up and thread template
Thanks to the TWRP Team for sources

Current local manifest of the TWRP build
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- https://github.com/STRYDER-007/twrp_development_sony -->
XDA:DevDB Information
[Recovery][OFFICIAL][UBL] TWRP 3.1.1 Touch Recovery for Xperia L, Tool/Utility for the Sony Xperia L
Contributors
STRYDER~007
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2017-10-02
Last Updated 2017-10-05

Nice work, but where can I download the zip file. Ready for testing. But I mis the link.
Btw nice work.
I was to early. They are here now

paul.coster said:
Nice work, but where can I download the zip file. Ready for testing. But I mis the link.
Btw nice work.
I was to early. They are here now
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The link is up! Enjoy!

Is it just me, or does this recovery not work? Holding volUp to enter the recovery just turns the screen black; the screen flashes between the sony logo and the said black screen after that, and I have to remove the battery to get the phone working again.
I used both your method of installation, as well as mine, and none of them worked. The older official TWRP recovery (3.0.2-0) works just fine, though.

stuckbootloader said:
Is it just me, or does this recovery not work? Holding volUp to enter the recovery just turns the screen black; the screen flashes between the sony logo and the said black screen after that, and I have to remove the battery to get the phone working again.
I used both your method of installation, as well as mine, and none of them worked. The older official TWRP recovery (3.0.2-0) works just fine, though.
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Can you mention the steps you performed as well as the scenario in which you're trying to flash it?
Btw you can simply flash twrp-3.x.x-x-fota-taoshan.zip from existing recovery to upgrade TWRP.

STRYDER~007 said:
Can you mention the steps you performed as well as the scenario in which you're trying to flash it?
Btw you can simply flash twrp-3.x.x-x-fota-taoshan.zip from existing recovery to upgrade TWRP.
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Sorry for the late reply.
I transferred the twrp.img file to the root of the SD card, and ran this command through adb shell
dd if=/storage/36BD-1A02/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel.
That worked with the older releases.
I also tried the commands in the description (pushing twrp.img /tmp/ and then moving it to FOTAKernel), and there was no difference.
Weirdly enough, flashing the .zip worked.

stuckbootloader said:
Sorry for the late reply.
I transferred the twrp.img file to the root of the SD card, and ran this command through adb shell
dd if=/storage/36BD-1A02/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel.
That worked with the older releases.
I also tried the commands in the description (pushing twrp.img /tmp/ and then moving it to FOTAKernel), and there was no difference.
Weirdly enough, flashing the .zip worked.
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Well there you go! IMO flashing zip to upgrade TWRP is the simplest so I'd always prefer that. Enjoy the new recovery! :highfive:

STRYDER~007 said:
Can you mention the steps you performed as well as the scenario in which you're trying to flash it?
Btw you can simply flash twrp-3.x.x-x-fota-taoshan.zip from existing recovery to upgrade TWRP.
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Hi,
I have the same issue, on a Xperia L (white, C2105), tried with two possibilities now, using recovery image twrp.3.1.1-0-taoshan.img, two methods:
1) flashing via existing TWRP recovery (v 2.8.7.0): according to your description I selected install, image, with the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
2) using the recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa (version 1.4 - dated 18 May 2016): selecting the menu option to install a custom recovery, to install the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
Please note that the same recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa works perfectly to install the TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Therefore I would suggest that the latest TWRP image might need to be reviewed for side-effects by implemented changes. I will try with older versions, to identify if it works with older versions.
Please let me know in case you need any further details, either of the device or of the steps that I performed.
Cheers, Henning
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xleng said:
Hi,
I have the same issue, on a Xperia L (white, C2105), tried with two possibilities now, using recovery image twrp.3.1.1-0-taoshan.img, two methods:
1) flashing via existing TWRP recovery (v 2.8.7.0): according to your description I selected install, image, with the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
2) using the recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa (version 1.4 - dated 18 May 2016): selecting the menu option to install a custom recovery, to install the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
Please note that the same recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa works perfectly to install the TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Therefore I would suggest that the latest TWRP image might need to be reviewed for side-effects by implemented changes. I will try with older versions, to identify if it works with older versions.
Please let me know in case you need any further details, either of the device or of the steps that I performed.
Cheers, Henning
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OK
Using the method to install TWRP v3 via the existing TWRP recovery version 2.8.7.0 (actually I'm not quite sure about the version, since the splash screen reported version 2.8.7.2, but the main application header reports 2.8.7.0, probably the latter version number was just not updated), finally was SUCCESSFUL with twrp-3.0.2-0-taoshan.img!
I didn't try the earlier ones, since I identified a TWRP version which should be functional.
I think probably something went wrong with the most recent update!?
Please let me know in case I could support troubleshooting somehow.
I have actually two Xperia L's, one as my primary smartphone, the second as spare, which I typically use to try out new things prior to messing around with the primary one.
Cheers
---------- Post added at 10:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:39 PM ----------
STRYDER~007 said:
Well there you go! IMO flashing zip to upgrade TWRP is the simplest so I'd always prefer that. Enjoy the new recovery! :highfive:
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Just noted that I should have read the thread more carefully first .... *doh*
Actually, where can I get the zip file? I only could download the img from the TWRP website.
Eventually I would also be interested to take a look to the sources, if possible (just out of curiosity).
Thanks in advance!
---------- Post added at 11:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:50 PM ----------
xleng said:
Hi,
I have the same issue, on a Xperia L (white, C2105), tried with two possibilities now, using recovery image twrp.3.1.1-0-taoshan.img, two methods:
1) flashing via existing TWRP recovery (v 2.8.7.0): according to your description I selected install, image, with the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
2) using the recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa (version 1.4 - dated 18 May 2016): selecting the menu option to install a custom recovery, to install the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
Please note that the same recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa works perfectly to install the TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Therefore I would suggest that the latest TWRP image might need to be reviewed for side-effects by implemented changes. I will try with older versions, to identify if it works with older versions.
Please let me know in case you need any further details, either of the device or of the steps that I performed.
Cheers, Henning
---------- Post added at 10:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:30 PM ----------
OK
Using the method to install TWRP v3 via the existing TWRP recovery version 2.8.7.0 (actually I'm not quite sure about the version, since the splash screen reported version 2.8.7.2, but the main application header reports 2.8.7.0, probably the latter version number was just not updated), finally was SUCCESSFUL with twrp-3.0.2-0-taoshan.img!
I didn't try the earlier ones, since I identified a TWRP version which should be functional.
I think probably something went wrong with the most recent update!?
Please let me know in case I could support troubleshooting somehow.
I have actually two Xperia L's, one as my primary smartphone, the second as spare, which I typically use to try out new things prior to messing around with the primary one.
Cheers
---------- Post added at 10:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:39 PM ----------
Just noted that I should have read the thread more carefully first .... *doh*
Actually, where can I get the zip file? I only could download the img from the TWRP website.
Eventually I would also be interested to take a look to the sources, if possible (just out of curiosity).
Thanks in advance!
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I found the zip file now. But actually it didn't work either.
I extracted the twrp.img from the twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip.
Then I applied the following commands :
adb root
adb push twrp.img /tmp/twrp.img
adb shell dd if=/tmp/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel
The result is a boot loop, looping between the SONY logo and a black screen.
Afterwards I successfully installed back TWRP-3.0.2-0 using the recovery installer app from corphish.
Cheers

xleng said:
The result is a boot loop, looping between the SONY logo and a black screen.
Afterwards I successfully installed back TWRP-3.0.2-0 using the recovery installer app from corphish.
Cheers
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Flash that .zip through the 3.0.2-0 recovery now, it ought to work. I had the same flashing issue. Both the app and the .zip should work now, so it doesn't really matter which method you use.

xleng said:
Hi,
I have the same issue, on a Xperia L (white, C2105), tried with two possibilities now, using recovery image twrp.3.1.1-0-taoshan.img, two methods:
1) flashing via existing TWRP recovery (v 2.8.7.0): according to your description I selected install, image, with the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
2) using the recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa (version 1.4 - dated 18 May 2016): selecting the menu option to install a custom recovery, to install the aforementioned TWRP recovery image.
Please note that the same recovery installer app from corphish/StdBarbarossa works perfectly to install the TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Therefore I would suggest that the latest TWRP image might need to be reviewed for side-effects by implemented changes. I will try with older versions, to identify if it works with older versions.
Please let me know in case you need any further details, either of the device or of the steps that I performed.
Cheers, Henning
---------- Post added at 10:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:30 PM ----------
OK
Using the method to install TWRP v3 via the existing TWRP recovery version 2.8.7.0 (actually I'm not quite sure about the version, since the splash screen reported version 2.8.7.2, but the main application header reports 2.8.7.0, probably the latter version number was just not updated), finally was SUCCESSFUL with twrp-3.0.2-0-taoshan.img!
I didn't try the earlier ones, since I identified a TWRP version which should be functional.
I think probably something went wrong with the most recent update!?
Please let me know in case I could support troubleshooting somehow.
I have actually two Xperia L's, one as my primary smartphone, the second as spare, which I typically use to try out new things prior to messing around with the primary one.
Cheers
---------- Post added at 10:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:39 PM ----------
Just noted that I should have read the thread more carefully first .... *doh*
Actually, where can I get the zip file? I only could download the img from the TWRP website.
Eventually I would also be interested to take a look to the sources, if possible (just out of curiosity).
Thanks in advance!
---------- Post added at 11:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:50 PM ----------
I found the zip file now. But actually it didn't work either.
I extracted the twrp.img from the twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip.
Then I applied the following commands :
adb root
adb push twrp.img /tmp/twrp.img
adb shell dd if=/tmp/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel
The result is a boot loop, looping between the SONY logo and a black screen.
Afterwards I successfully installed back TWRP-3.0.2-0 using the recovery installer app from corphish.
Cheers
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You can use official TWRP app from play store OR simply flash the twrp-3.1.1-DATE-fota-taoshan.zip using any existing recovery from HERE. That's all, simple!

stuckbootloader said:
Flash that .zip through the 3.0.2-0 recovery now, it ought to work. I had the same flashing issue. Both the app and the .zip should work now, so it doesn't really matter which method you use.
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Hi!
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me.
I tried to flash the zip via the recovery, but ended in another boot loop after reboot with attempt to enter the recovery again.
Sent from my Xperia L using XDA-Developers Legacy app

Hi again,
I just installed the official twrp app (version 1.15, build 28) and tried to flash the twrp image 3.1.1-0.
Twrp reported successful flashing, butafter reboot the recovery was not entered, but instead I had a bootloop again.
Prior to flashing, I did a backup of the existing recovery (containing twrp-3.0.2), after re-flashing the recovery backup resulted in a functional installation of twrp3.0.2 again.
Any recommendation? I'm using the XperiaL, C2105, white version.
The device actually was returned from Sony, eg was shipped without any provider branding, because the initial phone (which did have provider branding) had issues with the camera, which therefore has been sent to Sony within the guarantee period. Sony however did not repair the phone, but rather sent back a new and original Sony device.
In case any other information might be of interest, please let me know.
Would be great to be able to install twrp3.1.1 + LineageOS 14.1!
Actually it's not clear to me if LOS14.1 could be flashed with twrp3.0.2, since errors have been reported?
Sent from my Xperia L using XDA-Developers Legacy app

xleng said:
Actually it's not clear to me if LOS14.1 could be flashed with twrp3.0.2, since errors have been reported?
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I am not sure about your device, in my Xperia M, I use lineage 14.1 with twrp 3.0.2 with no problems. Even I tried cwm recovery, there was no problem again. So yeah you can try it.

xleng said:
Hi!
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me.
I tried to flash the zip via the recovery, but ended in another boot loop after reboot with attempt to enter the recovery again.
Sent from my Xperia L using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Make sure you're following the steps properly.
xleng said:
Hi again,
I just installed the official twrp app (version 1.15, build 28) and tried to flash the twrp image 3.1.1-0.
Twrp reported successful flashing, butafter reboot the recovery was not entered, but instead I had a bootloop again.
Prior to flashing, I did a backup of the existing recovery (containing twrp-3.0.2), after re-flashing the recovery backup resulted in a functional installation of twrp3.0.2 again.
Any recommendation? I'm using the XperiaL, C2105, white version.
The device actually was returned from Sony, eg was shipped without any provider branding, because the initial phone (which did have provider branding) had issues with the camera, which therefore has been sent to Sony within the guarantee period. Sony however did not repair the phone, but rather sent back a new and original Sony device.
In case any other information might be of interest, please let me know.
Would be great to be able to install twrp3.1.1 + LineageOS 14.1!
Actually it's not clear to me if LOS14.1 could be flashed with twrp3.0.2, since errors have been reported?
Sent from my Xperia L using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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If you have working TWRP 3.0.2, you can simply flash the twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip from HERE.

Hi again,
I try now another attempt. I take the "twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip", saved in the SD card of the phone, which contains two items:
- folder "META-INF"
- file "twrp.img"
Using TWRP, version 3.0.2-0:
1) Menu Install
2) Select Storage -> Micro SDCard
3) Select twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip
4) Swipe to confirm Flash
5) Adrian DC - TWRP Installer reports the following : "Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA... Done. Update Completed. script succeeded: result was [1.000000]; Update partition details...done"
6) Reboot system
7) Hit the vol-up during boot (especially during SONY logo)
8) Boot loop is entered.
I don't think that I have missed anything, did I?
Sorry to be a pain ....

xleng said:
Hi again,
I try now another attempt. I take the "twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip", saved in the SD card of the phone, which contains two items:
- folder "META-INF"
- file "twrp.img"
Using TWRP, version 3.0.2-0:
1) Menu Install
2) Select Storage -> Micro SDCard
3) Select twrp-3.1.1-20171005-fota-taoshan.zip
4) Swipe to confirm Flash
5) Adrian DC - TWRP Installer reports the following : "Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA... Done. Update Completed. script succeeded: result was [1.000000]; Update partition details...done"
6) Reboot system
7) Hit the vol-up during boot (especially during SONY logo)
8) Boot loop is entered.
I don't think that I have missed anything, did I?
Sorry to be a pain ....
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When you flash the zip, recovery log is generated. Can you give me that log? You can find it in "Advanced" tab.

If I read the log correctly, the dd command fails, because the ZIP is by 1 record too long for the partition.
At least the input record count is different than the output record count, which is strange.
I'm just thinking aloud if there could be a dependency with the host Maschine (at least with the ZIP file), so that the bit pattern might slightly differ due to differences in the file system types?
I believe this is the relevant part oft the log, though I can also send the complete log by PM:
==============================
==============================
| Adrian DC - TWRP Installer |
| Adrian DC - TWRP Installer |
==============================
==============================
- Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA...
- Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA...
about to run program [/sbin/dd] with 3 args
dd: writing '/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel': No space left on device
32769+0 records in
32768+0 records out
16777216 bytes (16.0MB) copied, 2.417855 seconds, 6.6MB/s
run_program: child exited with status 1
Done.
Done.
Update Completed.
Update Completed.
script succeeded: result was [1.000000]I:Updater process ended with RC=0
I:Legacy property environment disabled.
Updating partition details...
...done
I:Set page: 'flash_done'
Iperation_end - status=0
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'install'
I:Set page: 'main'
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'main2'
I:Set page: 'advanced'
I:Set page: 'confirm_action'
I:Set page: 'action_page'
Iperation_start: 'Copy Log'
I:Copying file /tmp/recovery.log to /external_sd/recovery.log

xleng said:
If I read the log correctly, the dd command fails, because the ZIP is by 1 record too long for the partition.
At least the input record count is different than the output record count, which is strange.
I'm just thinking aloud if there could be a dependency with the host Maschine (at least with the ZIP file), so that the bit pattern might slightly differ due to differences in the file system types?
I believe this is the relevant part oft the log, though I can also send the complete log by PM:
==============================
==============================
| Adrian DC - TWRP Installer |
| Adrian DC - TWRP Installer |
==============================
==============================
- Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA...
- Flashing TWRP Recovery to FOTA...
about to run program [/sbin/dd] with 3 args
dd: writing '/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel': No space left on device
32769+0 records in
32768+0 records out
16777216 bytes (16.0MB) copied, 2.417855 seconds, 6.6MB/s
run_program: child exited with status 1
Done.
Done.
Update Completed.
Update Completed.
script succeeded: result was [1.000000]I:Updater process ended with RC=0
I:Legacy property environment disabled.
Updating partition details...
...done
I:Set page: 'flash_done'
Iperation_end - status=0
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'install'
I:Set page: 'main'
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'main2'
I:Set page: 'advanced'
I:Set page: 'confirm_action'
I:Set page: 'action_page'
Iperation_start: 'Copy Log'
I:Copying file /tmp/recovery.log to /external_sd/recovery.log
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Hi,
Thanks for the logs.
Something is not right here..
PHP:
16777216 bytes (16.0MB) copied, 2.417855 seconds, 6.6MB/s
Why 16 MB is getting copied while the recovery size is just 11.5-12 MB? This doesn't seem right.
If possible, can you run these command in device terminal? I need the output of these-
Code:
cat /proc/partitions
Code:
ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name
You can upload the output on hastebin.com
Thanks and regards,
STRYDER~007

cat /proc/partitions:
[email protected]:/ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
254 0 262144 zram0
179 0 7634944 mmcblk0
179 1 2048 mmcblk0p1
179 2 256 mmcblk0p2
179 3 512 mmcblk0p3
179 4 512 mmcblk0p4
179 5 1024 mmcblk0p5
179 6 1024 mmcblk0p6
179 7 1024 mmcblk0p7
179 8 256 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 512 mmcblk0p10
179 11 1024 mmcblk0p11
179 12 1024 mmcblk0p12
179 13 1024 mmcblk0p13
179 14 1024 mmcblk0p14
179 15 1024 mmcblk0p15
179 16 3456 mmcblk0p16
179 17 16384 mmcblk0p17
179 18 8192 mmcblk0p18
179 19 8192 mmcblk0p19
179 20 16384 mmcblk0p20
179 21 8192 mmcblk0p21
179 22 8192 mmcblk0p22
179 23 65536 mmcblk0p23
179 24 19456 mmcblk0p24
179 25 5120 mmcblk0p25
179 26 8192 mmcblk0p26
179 27 16384 mmcblk0p27
179 28 1228800 mmcblk0p28
179 29 65536 mmcblk0p29
179 30 262144 mmcblk0p30
179 31 1671168 mmcblk0p31
179 32 4210671 mmcblk0p32
179 64 31472640 mmcblk1
179 65 31471616 mmcblk1p1
ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name:
[email protected]:/ # ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 system root 680 2017-11-12 00:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 740 2017-11-12 00:46 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 FOTAKernel -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 LTALabel -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 TA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_s1sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 apps_log -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ftma -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ftmd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ramdump -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 rsv -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 s1sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 sdcard -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
I think the partition layout is normal. I did not previously try any modifications to the partition scheme, e.g. as suggested by some "hacks" to provide more storage to user data. I consider these as high risk (also many hard bricks have ben reported), and modify "only" the recovery and ROM area.
Best regards

xleng said:
cat /proc/partitions:
[email protected]:/ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
254 0 262144 zram0
179 0 7634944 mmcblk0
179 1 2048 mmcblk0p1
179 2 256 mmcblk0p2
179 3 512 mmcblk0p3
179 4 512 mmcblk0p4
179 5 1024 mmcblk0p5
179 6 1024 mmcblk0p6
179 7 1024 mmcblk0p7
179 8 256 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 512 mmcblk0p10
179 11 1024 mmcblk0p11
179 12 1024 mmcblk0p12
179 13 1024 mmcblk0p13
179 14 1024 mmcblk0p14
179 15 1024 mmcblk0p15
179 16 3456 mmcblk0p16
179 17 16384 mmcblk0p17
179 18 8192 mmcblk0p18
179 19 8192 mmcblk0p19
179 20 16384 mmcblk0p20
179 21 8192 mmcblk0p21
179 22 8192 mmcblk0p22
179 23 65536 mmcblk0p23
179 24 19456 mmcblk0p24
179 25 5120 mmcblk0p25
179 26 8192 mmcblk0p26
179 27 16384 mmcblk0p27
179 28 1228800 mmcblk0p28
179 29 65536 mmcblk0p29
179 30 262144 mmcblk0p30
179 31 1671168 mmcblk0p31
179 32 4210671 mmcblk0p32
179 64 31472640 mmcblk1
179 65 31471616 mmcblk1p1
ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name:
[email protected]:/ # ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 system root 680 2017-11-12 00:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 740 2017-11-12 00:46 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 FOTAKernel -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 LTALabel -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 TA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_s1sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 alt_tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 apps_log -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ftma -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ftmd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 ramdump -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 rsv -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 s1sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 sbl3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 sdcard -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2017-11-12 00:46 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-11-12 00:46 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
I think the partition layout is normal. I did not previously try any modifications to the partition scheme, e.g. as suggested by some "hacks" to provide more storage to user data. I consider these as high risk (also many hard bricks have ben reported), and modify "only" the recovery and ROM area.
Best regards
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Yes I was suspicious about that. It seems partitions are all fine. Okay, one last thing, can you follow these steps mentioned on official TWRP site and see if recovery installs properly?
https://dl.twrp.me/taoshan/twrp-3.1.1-0-taoshan.img.html
dd Install Method (Requires Root):
Download the latest image file (.img) from the download link above. Place it in the root of your /sdcard folder and rename it to twrp.img. Run the following commands via adb shell or a terminal emulator app:
su
dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel
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[ROOT] - lafsploit - H918 (any version up to and including 20h) - now n00b friendly

WARNING
This should go without saying, but you MUST have your bootloader unlocked (check OEM UNLOCK in developer options AND fastboot oem unlock).
If you don't, you WILL brick your phone.
If you don't know how to FULLY unlock your bootloader -- search. This thread is not here to educate you on unlocking your bootloader.
If your bootloader isn't unlocked, you will get a RED warning that your phone has been modified, and will refuse to boot.
If your bootloader IS unlocked, your will have a YELLOW warning even if you haven't modified your phone yet, and your phone will still boot. This is normal!
If you use this on any model V20 besides the H918, you will be stuck in a bootloop, and you will not be able to fix it since you will have wiped out download mode!
There is NO fixing this!
You must be on version H91810p or H91810q
This is now completely safe. It will either work or it won't, but it can NOT brick your phone if you meet the requirements listed above, and you follow the procedure exactly.
If it DOES brick your phone, I am not responsible.
If you deviate from this procedure, and think: "I can just skip a step, or I can do this on my own Linux install". Don't complain if you brick your phone.
This ONLY replaces download mode with TWRP. If you want to root, you can search for how to root. If you don't know how to use TWRP -- search.
PREREQUISITES:
If you aren't on 10p or 10q, grab the H918 10p KDZ: here.
This is NOT a guide for flashing KDZs -- there are plenty of those out there -- search.
You need to grab FWUL (version 2.7 or later) and burn it to a USB stick: link
Even if you have Linux, and you think you can install the dependencies, don't. I know this works from FWUL.
If you choose to press on in expert mode (using FWUL in a VM, using your own Linux install, using WSL, etc), don't get upset if I don't answer your questions.
For Windows you will need Rufus to burn FWUL onto a USB stick.
If you have questions about FWUL, please ask in the FWUL thread.
Installing TWRP
Again, this will ONLY install TWRP onto download mode. What you do with TWRP when it is done is up to you. Flash Magisk or SuperSU. Flash a ROM, or just make a backup of your phone. It is up to you.
I would suggest flashing TWRP onto recovery as well, otherwise you will need to use the vol up + USB cable method to get to TWRP. There is no key combination to get to download mode.
Boot from your FWUL USB stick.
Put your phone into download mode. With the phone powered off, hold vol up and plug in the USB cable. You do not need to touch the power button -- the phone will power on and enter download mode.
Once booted, login. The password is: linux
Double click the LG folder that is on the desktop
Double click on LG LAF (runningnak3d) icon and you will be at a terminal prompt.
The following are the commands that you enter into that terminal. You can copy / paste them if you like.
Code:
git pull
git checkout h918-miscwrte
./step1.sh
When you are told to, pull the USB cable, and the phone will power off. You now have TWRP on your laf partition.
It must be said again, flash TWRP onto recovery so you can easily get to TWRP.
OPTIONAL
If you would like to restore download mode onto your laf partition AFTER you have installed TWRP onto recovery:
Boot to TWRP that is on recovery
Flash this zip: laf_restore.zip
This can be done at any time after you are rooted. About the only reason you would want to flash laf back is if you use LG Backup.
TWRP has the ability to backup your phone, so I am not sure why someone would want this (maybe you are more comfortable with it?).
Also, flashing back to 100% unrooted stock can be accomplished by flashing a zip in TWRP, you don't NEED to flash a KDZ, but again, maybe you are more comfortable doing it that way.
The bottom line is TWRP on both laf and recovery is FAR FAR more useful than flashing laf back. You can test new versions of TWRP while keeping your old known working version (for example).
If you are having problems flashing a ROM, ask in the appropriate ROM thread.
If you are having problems with Magisk, ask in the Magisk thread.
If you are having problems with SuperSU, Lineage, or even TWRP itself, ask in the appropriate thread.
This thread is ONLY for problems if TWRP doesn't boot when you are done.
CREDITS:
Lekensteyn -- His base work on the G2 / G3 gave me a GREAT headstart!
@steadfasterX - He added some real nice features, great guy to bounce ideas off, and just testing crazy ideas because he wasn't afraid to brick his phone Also, for FWUL
tuxuser - Helping with my lacking in Python
@smitel - His original reverse engineering of LG UP. Great inspiration!
@me2151 - His original DirtySanta exploit. Without it, the V20 would probably still not be rooted.
-- Brian
XDA:DevDB Information
lafsploit, Tool/Utility for the LG V20
Contributors
runningnak3d
Source Code: https://gitlab.com/runningnak3d/lglaf
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.1
Stable Release Date: 2018-07-15
Created 2018-04-05
Last Updated 2018-07-16

Congratulations for this amazing work I been follow your work on your original tread it's amazing !!! I current have the note 8 but I still have a v20 (from what i posting right now lol ) the first was. TMobile and right now I have a Verizon unlock v20 Wich I really enjoying Whit Xposed mode well anyway what I trying to said is you work make me pick up my v20 again and give me some inspiration to learn ... Keep going
UPDATE: I GET A TMOBILE V20 now I have root again, thanks again ?

Congrats been following your work since day 1 man the effort paid off. Thanks one man that took on the whole lg dev team.

Will there ever be a chance for the US998 (US Cellular) ?

Awesome can't wait to build lineage for the v20! Now that I have a spare device it'll make learning a lot easier. So now I can test on my current daily driver before adding the mods to my v20 builds. I can't even begin to describe how much this means to so many of us in the community! Especially myself.
That said I'll give it a try tomorrow after work assuming I have friday off & l'll report back asap.
If installing python 3 on windows 10 will the default install settings work? Just wanted to double check. & thanks again man. Amazingly awesome work!
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KanBorges said:
Will there ever be a chance for the US998 (US Cellular) ?
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He is also working on the locked bootloader devices. I'll let him explain most of the details if he has the time. However if you want to read up on the progress check this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/laf-download-mode-how-root-t3676011/page92
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omg, you sir are a God! [emoji122] [emoji122]
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KanBorges said:
Will there ever be a chance for the US998 (US Cellular) ?
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Even though the US998 isn't officially unlockable yet, you can follow this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/how-to/us998-bootloader-unlock-achieved-t3743359

https://gist.github.com/zacharee/6aa5fcb56d0a42937869494b12d77da2
working link

Thanks @dudeawsome and @Zacharee1 I fixed the link.

using the instructions provided, I'm consistently getting a usb device not found runtime error, any advice?

If you are on Windows, did you install the LG drivers?
-- Brian

runningnak3d said:
WARNING to G5 and G6 users. I need a partition listing before you try this to make sure misc is in the same location. You can brick your phone if misc is in a different location than the V20.
I am splitting this off from the main laf thread because that thread really needs to be cleaned. It was supposed to just be for development, and now it is impossible to find some valuable info
I say this is for the H918 only, but it should work on the H830 (G5) and H872 (G6) as well. I don't have those devices, so I can't test it. The H830 has a TWRP build, but the H872 doesn't -- so someone would have to risk using the US997 build.
Anyway, if you aren't feint at heart....
Here is a much more detailed guide that @Zacharee1 put together: link.
Enjoy your now rooted H918...
If this scares anyone, I will make it easier, but for the hardcore people, I wanted to get it out there.
I will clean this up and make it prettier when I have the chance.
-- Brian
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Code:
1|lucye:/ $ ls -l /dev/block/platform/soc/624000.ufshc/by-name/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 aboot -> /dev/block/sde6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 abootbak -> /dev/block/sde7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 apdp -> /dev/block/sde26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 boot -> /dev/block/sde1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 cache -> /dev/block/sda17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 cdt -> /dev/block/sdd3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 cmnlib -> /dev/block/sde22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 cmnlib64 -> /dev/block/sde24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 cmnlib64bak -> /dev/block/sde25
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 cmnlibbak -> /dev/block/sde23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 ddr -> /dev/block/sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 devcfg -> /dev/block/sde16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 devcfgbak -> /dev/block/sde17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 devinfo -> /dev/block/sdb6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 dip -> /dev/block/sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 dpo -> /dev/block/sde28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 drm -> /dev/block/sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 eksst -> /dev/block/sda11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 encrypt -> /dev/block/sda10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 eri -> /dev/block/sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 factory -> /dev/block/sda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 fota -> /dev/block/sdb3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 fsc -> /dev/block/sdf3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 fsg -> /dev/block/sdb4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 grow -> /dev/block/sda19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 grow2 -> /dev/block/sdb7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 grow3 -> /dev/block/sdc3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 grow4 -> /dev/block/sdd4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 grow5 -> /dev/block/sde29
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 grow6 -> /dev/block/sdf4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 grow7 -> /dev/block/sdg2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 hyp -> /dev/block/sde12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 hypbak -> /dev/block/sde13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 keymaster -> /dev/block/sde20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 keymasterbak -> /dev/block/sde21
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 keystore -> /dev/block/sda14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 laf -> /dev/block/sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 lafbak -> /dev/block/sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 misc -> /dev/block/sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 modem -> /dev/block/sde18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 modemst1 -> /dev/block/sdf1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 modemst2 -> /dev/block/sdf2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 mpt -> /dev/block/sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 msadp -> /dev/block/sde27
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 operatorlogging -> /dev/block/sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 persist -> /dev/block/sda15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 persistent -> /dev/block/sdg1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 pmic -> /dev/block/sde14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 pmicbak -> /dev/block/sde15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 raw_resources -> /dev/block/sde8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 raw_resourcesbak -> /dev/block/sde9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 rct -> /dev/block/sda12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 recovery -> /dev/block/sde2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 recoverybak -> /dev/block/sde3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 reserve -> /dev/block/sdd2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 rpm -> /dev/block/sde10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 rpmbak -> /dev/block/sde11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 sec -> /dev/block/sde19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 sns -> /dev/block/sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 ssd -> /dev/block/sda13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 system -> /dev/block/sda16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 tz -> /dev/block/sde4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 tzbak -> /dev/block/sde5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-01-16 19:40 userdata -> /dev/block/sda18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 xbl -> /dev/block/sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 xbl2 -> /dev/block/sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 xbl2bak -> /dev/block/sdc2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2018-01-16 19:40 xblbak -> /dev/block/sdb2
I am trying to download source to build twrp for the g6 but I am on my backup dsl (762kb/s) which sucks majorly.
If you are in an IRC chan I will be more then happy to join and give you access to my device remotely if need be.

on windows 10, latest insider build, all drivers installed, v20 detected in normal boot, download and fastboot modes. I'm reinstalling ubuntu just in case something weird happened with it..

@KAsp3rd Join #lglaf on irc.freenode.net
What I need is the GPT -- start LBA / end LBA of misc.
You can get that by running ./partitions.py --list
-- Brian

So after entering Download/LAF Mode and plugging in to computer, I get the following error when running the first command in step 6 of @Zacharee1's guide:
Code:
C:\lglaf>partitions.py --dump laf.img laf
LAF Crypto failed to import!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\lglaf\partitions.py", line 459, in <module>
main()
File "C:\lglaf\partitions.py", line 406, in main
comm = lglaf.autodetect_device()
File "C:\lglaf\lglaf.py", line 441, in autodetect_device
return USBCommunication()
File "C:\lglaf\lglaf.py", line 297, in __init__
custom_match = self._match_device)
File "C:\Users\SMTB\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\usb\core.py", line 1263, in find
raise NoBackendError('No backend available')
usb.core.NoBackendError: No backend available
As I am a total n00b, I have no idea what this means. Any help appreciated!
(using Windows Python install)

You didn't pip install cryptography or PyUSB
-- Brian

Getting the same backend error. Trying to reinstall just throws up an already installed reply. Windows 8.1
That is, trying to run the ./ cmds and the already installed elements are pyusb and crypt

runningnak3d said:
You didn't pip install cryptography or PyUSB
-- Brian
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Well I did install those. When I try running pip install cryptography/PyUSB again, I get:
Code:
C:\lglaf>pip install cryptography
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.1 in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages (from cryptography)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.4.1 in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages (from cryptography)
Requirement already satisfied: asn1crypto>=0.21.0 in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages (from cryptography)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.7; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy" in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages (from cryptography)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages (from cffi>=1.7; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"->cryptography)
C:\lglaf>pip install PyUSB
Requirement already satisfied: PyUSB in c:\users\smtb\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages

I take it you aren't on Windows 10 so you can't install Ubuntu from the app store?
I can see now why @steadfasterX pushes FWUL (a Linux VM) for things like this. WIndows is such a freaking PITA
Hopefully someone that has Windows can help you, otherwise I am going to grab FWUL tomorrow and maybe change the procedure for people that aren't on WIndows 10.
-- Brian

ok, just tried the whole procedure from start to finish exactly for the second time and am getting the same "usb device not found"
I also tried the non windows 10 method and ended up having the same issue that smtb1963 has, including the laf crypto failed to import message at the top and I do believe that when it says no backend available under usb lib, that these ar basically the same error, no usb communication. I think i am going to try this on a unbuntu virtual box install and see if I get the same error

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