[TWRP] TeamWin Recovery Project - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Have you all seen the cool work done for recovery by #teamwin?
http://www.androidcentral.com/first-look-teamwin-recovery-project-twrp-20
It's pretty impressive and I think it would be awesome on the SGSIIE4GT. I am too new to Samsung products to consider taking this on myself, but I was wondering if any of you seasoned Sammy devs would be able to pull this off?

I think it will come to ET4G only if a Team Win member had the phone. I haven't heard of any of them having one. Team Win seems to be pretty HTC/Nexus heavy.
Would be really nice though, I love TWRP on my EVO3D and will greatly miss it on my ET4G.

I'm not watching 17+ minutes of video, I can't even make it through the video walkthroughs for flashing. Just gimme some text!
What's so hard about volume rockers to control selection? What's wrong with CWM, or whatever that other Recovery that I once used is called? Mind breaking down why TWRP is better?

They all wasted their upgrades on the 3d ;( I liked the twrp alot
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jirafabo said:
I'm not watching 17+ minutes of video, I can't even make it through the video walkthroughs for flashing. Just gimme some text!
What's so hard about volume rockers to control selection? What's wrong with CWM, or whatever that other Recovery that I once used is called? Mind breaking down why TWRP is better?
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Its all personal preference, cwm works but some people swear by amon ra and others by twrp. It won't hurt to have more than one recovery option.
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jirafabo said:
I'm not watching 17+ minutes of video, I can't even make it through the video walkthroughs for flashing. Just gimme some text!
What's so hard about volume rockers to control selection? What's wrong with CWM, or whatever that other Recovery that I once used is called? Mind breaking down why TWRP is better?
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I switched from CWM on my EVO to Amon_RA because I was having problems with CWM. Amon_RA worked flawlessly.
I went straight to TWRP on my EVO3D because of my EVO CWM woes. It has new upgrades and customizations not available in Amon_RA, not sure about CWM. It's the best recovery I've used since coming to Android with my Hero in 2009.

I have always used clockwork and been curious about others I came to the epic after my 3d fubared itself and it had to many glitches to make me comfortable about getting another one. So far no complaints on this guy though
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ClockworkMod kinda got a bad rap in it's earlier versions for the EVO 4G, it was not wiping properly and it also failed to back up the WiMax RSA keys, but this was later fixed in the later versions.
CWM on the EVO 3D worked as expected. TWRP is just a lot more user friendly with more options. They both back up and recover just fine, I had used both of them.

spencer88 said:
ClockworkMod kinda got a bad rap in it's earlier versions for the EVO 4G, it was not wiping properly and it also failed to back up the WiMax RSA keys, but this was later fixed in the later versions.
CWM on the EVO 3D worked as expected. TWRP is just a lot more user friendly with more options. They both back up and recover just fine, I had used both of them.
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Even to this day CWM on the Evo does not wipe properly without a script, there is no way to format boot, which causes ALOT of roms to boot loop on a fresh install.
On another note, I am one of those that swears by Ra Recovery, I probably won't root unless there is a Ra Recovery port.

Khilbron said:
Even to this day CWM on the Evo does not wipe properly without a script, there is no way to format boot, which causes ALOT of roms to boot loop on a fresh install.
On another note, I am one of those that swears by Ra Recovery, I probably won't root unless there is a Ra Recovery port.
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Yes, that's why I always used AMANRA as well. I liked the idea of TWRP because it was built from the ground up. I already had a few members of TEAMWIN tweet at me and say they were not interested in the SGSIIE4GT

I have talked to team win about it and currently there are no plans because none of them have an phone at this point. Maybe someone could port it over when it comes out. Shinzul and Toast are two of the best developers on this site. I wouldn't be surprised if A manufacture picked one of them up like Sammy did with Cyanogen.

They will make it TWRP recovery have touchscreen controls, GUI interface, personalize it with themes, and when a ROM maker makes a ROM for it, instead of using ASCII to show off their logo they can use actual Animations too, pretty cool ****, too bad not on here loved TWRP 1.3 on my evo 3d. EVO OG amon ra ftw

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[Q] Why can't Amon-Ra install anything past the root of sd card?

Just curious since CM has this function... Being a new Amon-Ra user this seems like something that would make the users life much easier. I previously has all my custom things in a folder on my sd called EvoDev and roms in one folder, zip mods in another, etc.... I now must leave all my stuff on root of sd or move back and forth with a file manager if I want to do anything.
I'm not mad or anything, just curious as to why Amon-Ra doesn't have this ability. Anyone know?
P.S. - Sorry if this is wrong section but I didn't view it as a general Q&A... It was more specific to a function of a program that is used daily in development so I thought this would be the appropriate place to ask.
leenypost said:
Just curious since CM has this function... Being a new Amon-Ra user this seems like something that would make the users life much easier. I previously has all my custom things in a folder on my sd called EvoDev and roms in one folder, zip mods in another, etc.... I now must leave all my stuff on root of sd or move back and forth with a file manager if I want to do anything.
I'm not mad or anything, just curious as to why Amon-Ra doesn't have this ability. Anyone know?
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i wish it had this funcion. this is the only reason why i do not use it.
because he hasn't implemented, 2.0 is on the horizon, there is potential its going to be implemented, however something so simple can easliy be worked around
2.0 can but amon-ra hasn't ported it over to the evo yet.
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xlGmanlx said:
however something so simple can easliy be worked around
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Are you saying there is a way to make it see past the root? I can't figure it out. Please elaborate..
If you are just saying it is easy to work around as in it is easy to just move my files to root of sd.... Well sure, it isn't hard to do..... but it does take more time.... And say you are doing something complicated requiring flashing a few things one after the other... Well... That becomes a bit of a PITA if you ask me... Especially after using CM for so long....
I like Amon-Ra better actually... Aside from the lack of seeing past root of SD...
As I said, I'm not mad, just wanted to know if maybe a change was in the works or if anyone knew a way to force seeing further.
no way around it, but if you are by a computer, enabling USB mode allows you to mount the SD card and manage it while in recovery.
leenypost said:
Are you saying there is a way to make it see past the root? I can't figure it out. Please elaborate..
If you are just saying it is easy to work around as in it is easy to just move my files to root of sd.... Well sure, it isn't hard to do..... but it does take more time.... And say you are doing something complicated requiring flashing a few things one after the other... Well... That becomes a bit of a PITA if you ask me... Especially after using CM for so long....
I like Amon-Ra better actually... Aside from the lack of seeing past root of SD...
As I said, I'm not mad, just wanted to know if maybe a change was in the works or if anyone knew a way to force seeing further.
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david279 said:
2.0 can but amon-ra hasn't ported it over to the evo yet.
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Thank you. Do you know if he has stated that he plans to port it over at some point?
xlGmanlx said:
no way around it, but if you are by a computer, enabling USB mode allows you to mount the SD card and manage it while in recovery.
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Ahhh, see I didn't know that since I just started using. Is that what that first option line is for? I think it has 2 letters then a dash and two more letters?
Thanks for the info.
yup, whatever says usb, you hit it, connect up your phone and its just like hard drive mode when your phone is on, life saver especially if you jack up something or wipe everything but forgot to move a ROM to the root of your HD
leenypost said:
Ahhh, see I didn't know that since I just started using. Is that what that first option line is for? I think it has 2 letters then a dash and two more letters?
Thanks for the info.
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xlGmanlx said:
yup, whatever says usb, you hit it, connect up your phone and its just like hard drive mode when your phone is on, life saver especially if you jack up something or wipe everything but forgot to move a ROM to the root of your HD
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Cool, thank you. That's a really great feature to have!!
your welcome, glad i could help you learn something about AMON
leenypost said:
Cool, thank you. That's a really great feature to have!!
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Yep, I always use usb-ms mode when I do some flashes/updates since it's quick and easy. The file explorer would be a bonus, but amon ra is great the way it is. As long as I have my nandroid backup includes my 4G RSA keys then that's all that matters.
mizzos4 said:
Yep, I always use usb-ms mode when I do some flashes/updates since it's quick and easy. The file explorer would be a bonus, but amon ra is great the way it is. As long as I have my nandroid backup includes my 4G RSA keys then that's all that matters.
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Does it back upo 4G-RSA keys automatically or do I have to do a separate backup for that?
i'm sure it will be implemented in the evo build soon. just be patient.
not to sound anal but unless it involves added 400 extra lines of code why not ad this basic feature from the get go?
I mean my sd was nicegly organized, now i have all they files jammed into the root of my sc card. Making trying to find one to flash out of gillions very hard

Speeding up 3g? Also a couple of other questions

Just curious as to how I can speed up my 3g. I am using myn's RLS5. I hear of people pulling close to 1mbps but literally the most I get is .2-.3 mbps. I also notice the speed isn't consistent in the "speed test."
I honestly just want to pull the same to similar speeds, but in the 1mb area. I understand it has a lot to do with the signal strength and radios and possibly flashing an older radio cersiom but not sure how to even do that.
Also I did hear about sprint sending out signal repeaters for people who have bad signal in certain areas. Wiamp or something? Heard anything about getting it for free from *****ing enough?
Lastly, I asked this not too long ago. I am clearly missing nandroid. I used unrevoked earlier this month to root. Flashed myns RLS5, and netarchy's kernel. Clockwork mod is recovery
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
New issue and correction. Correction on the sprint sent booster. It's called airave?
New issue- when I'm in the internet browser, I click on a link or a tab on a website, my browser just closes. No fc or anything.
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
kniz said:
Lastly, I asked this not too long ago. I am clearly missing nandroid. I used unrevoked earlier this month to root. Flashed myns RLS5, and netarchy's kernel. Clockwork mod is recovery
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
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Do not know about the other stuff but nandroid is the back and restore option inside Clockwork Recovery.
Check this out to improve your 3G speeds - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922978
I'm aware its the back-up and restore option in clockwork. It's missing from clockwork...
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
kniz said:
I'm aware its the back-up and restore option in clockwork. It's missing from clockwork...
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
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ive got it in my clockwork recovery...pretty sure its right on the front menu.
Look. I've seen numerous screenshots of what it should look like. I also had it in my menu before I flashed anything. Now its GONE. I'm happy for you if its in your menu, but its not in mine. I didn't ask a question for you to tell me its in yours.
If anyone has a clue or is willing to actually help me out, please do. I couldn't imagine being the only person with this issue.
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
kniz said:
Look. I've seen numerous screenshots of what it should look like. I also had it in my menu before I flashed anything. Now its GONE. I'm happy for you if its in your menu, but its not in mine. I didn't ask a question for you to tell me its in yours.
If anyone has a clue or is willing to actually help me out, please do. I couldn't imagine being the only person with this issue.
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
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dont get testy
first time ive ever read of this. have you tried running rom manager and flashing clockwork?
I apologize. I just get frustrated sometimes when I don't get answers. Let me go ahead and try that and see what happens. Update in a sec.
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
Dude. So this may sound stupid, but is back-up and restore menu nandriod? I thought there was the word "nandroid" on the recovery screen..?
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
kniz said:
Dude. So this may sound stupid, but is back-up and restore menu nandriod? I thought there was the word "nandroid" on the recovery screen..?
sent from my evo.
fast, but want faster.
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That was in the old CWM recovery! Dont worry, it threw me off the first time too, lol! Yes, it is backup and recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922978
Will this work on Calkulin EVi0?
sqeet said:
Check this out to improve your 3G speeds - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922978
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Works great for me....some folks have said that it has not worked for them but most are getting a small boost after testing a few and averaging their speeds.
Sent from my MYN ENHANCED EVO 4G!!!

my phone acts werid after exiting the recovery menu

im not sure how to describe it. i guess the pixels mess up.. like you see a blur of colors than they go away. is this a problem? it never did this before.
yes it will show some rainbowish colors lol. then you will see the htc evo 4g splash screen
davidc23 said:
yes it will show some rainbowish colors lol. then you will see the htc evo 4g splash screen
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is this a bad thing? it never did this before. my phone is just acting werid all over. the usb connects than disconnects. idk whats the problem...
Does that. Known issue, it is an AOSP-based recovery. The color is harmless
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tropicalbrit said:
Does that. Known issue, it is an AOSP-based recovery. The color is harmless
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i dont like it.. it scares me.. makes me think something is wrong with my phone.. like i said before it never happened until i rerooted my phone.
There's no problem, I thought the same thing. Now, I just accept it lol. No OCD for me.
World peace with no regard for human life.
It's not a problem. Just a bug in Recovery when you exit that causes brief screen tearing. Ignore it
hotboyray said:
im not sure how to describe it. i guess the pixels mess up.. like you see a blur of colors than they go away. is this a problem? it never did this before.
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If your in Amon_RA recory? Search the creator name and you can hear it from him, unkown bug that he has not had the time to fix it yet, the pixelated gets worst as you flash newer ROMS.
Trying a updated version Recovery can help, but make sure what you chane it too is compatible with the ROM's and always double check OP's for updated material.
Flash/Installed ten Roms already and still going on Amon_RA, but I don't have proof that the ROM nor the recovery is the cause of some issues on the whole system to aact irracticaly.
Last but not least, you have not done a full search? Use the search bar makes it easier for you to find answers already asked?
Happens everytime i exit recovery. Amon-ra, clockwork, twrp. Its no big deal. In my 8 months of flashing it has never not happened. Its not a problem
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Tekn010933 said:
If your in Amon_RA recory? Search the creator name and you can hear it from him, unkown bug that he has not had the time to fix it yet, the pixelated gets worst as you flash newer ROMS.
Trying a updated version Recovery can help, but make sure what you chane it too is compatible with the ROM's and always double check OP's for updated material.
Flash/Installed ten Roms already and still going on Amon_RA, but I don't have proof that the ROM nor the recovery is the cause of some issues on the whole system to aact irracticaly.
Last but not least, you have not done a full search? Use the search bar makes it easier for you to find answers already asked?
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If you dont want to see it look for Amon's 2.2.1 recovery. That one did not have the issue. As a matter of fact here it is for you OCD based individuals out there. Remember to re-do all your nandroids as this will not restore any nandroids made with a newer version of Amon. You do know how to flash this right. Place on sdcard and rename to PC36IMG.zip
View attachment PC36IMG-Amon-V2.2.1.zip

[Kernel]ZedomaxEpicTouchKernelStock[v1][SU3][CWM][BootAnim][Init.d][Root]

I wanted to really start from scratch so I went through some of the Samsung open source code and found that there were some unnecessary modules being loaded. That could be what's causing some problems (although I haven't had much but think it's signal related or Sprint's towers being updated), but with no overclocking and the changes, it could solve everything? Dunno still.
So I tried my best to trip the bloat-code out and try to keep it as stock as possible (no overclock), perhaps some of you can test this out for me.
Changelog
v.1
- CWM 4.0.1.5
- Superuser 3.0 + fixed su, now installs in /system/bin, you can update the binaries with SuperUser app.
- init.d support (/system/etc/init.d)
- Bootanimation support
- fixed Airplane toggle
Things to test:
- LOS?
- Video out? - sorry my video out adapter is still being shipped, I think I enabled it but can't really check???
-Airplane toggle should be fixed
Things I am working on:
- Boot splash logo? Still working on that, if anyone knows how to change it, please let me know.
- Recompiling CWM from scratch, add external SD support, fix wipe issue
- Add infrastructure to wifi tether and USB tether?
Devs, u r free to steal my stuff, or stuff I stole I really don't remember from taking too much energy pills, taking a big white line from Stevie Jobs, "Good artists copy, great artists steal.".
If you have some knowledge to share, plz don't forget to email me at zedomax [at] gmail.com
If this works well, I will build off it or otherwise I will keep optimizing until its fully stable.
Thanks guys, you rock!
Download here:
v1:
ODIN tar:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/.../SPH-D710_Zedomax_EpicTouchKernelStock-v1.tar
CWM zip:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/.../SPH-D710_Zedomax_EpicTouchKernelStock-v1.zip
Yess!!! Thanks zedo. Will give it a whirl. Permission to use in StarBurst once stable?
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Odin'ed it over StarBurst 1.2, seems to work good but only been using it for 2min
Gonna test this out, thanks for all of your hard work, Zenomax!
Flashing now.
Boots up. Will be testing until I can get mine to work, but I think I had the same intent as yours does. Boots into CWM just fine too.
Cool! I'll be trying this when I get home. And I won't be bugging you anymore about the yellow triangle anymore... I have my usb jig coming in the mail.
Samsung Galaxy S II
Thanks and keep up the good work, it's well appreciate it
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Flashed fine over 4.1beta. Seems to be working well, airplane mode working. Under 4.1 I seem to suffer routine LOS when on the road but not when at home, so it may take a while to fully test but so far so good.
Thanks for all the hard work.
PhantomHacker said:
Yess!!! Thanks zedo. Will give it a whirl. Permission to use in StarBurst once stable?
Sent from my Epic Touch 4G
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Yes of course, any time, I thought everything was open source? LOL
zedomax said:
Yes of course, any time, I thought everything was open source? LOL
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I like to ask anyway. ...Signal strength seems better may be placebo though.
PhantomHacker said:
I like to ask anyway. ...Signal strength seems better may be placebo though.
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my understanding was that signal strength and quality was taken care by the radios/modems, not the kernel...
frifox said:
my understanding was that signal strength and quality was taken care by the radios/modems, not the kernel...
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Was talking about wifi.
Sent from my Epic Touch 4G
Root is still messed up for me with your kernel Zedomax, so please make one that doesn't have root or even busybox(unless it's needed for the recovery) as root & busybox can be added through CWM if the user wants
great work zedo! i'll test it out once i get back to work. somehow i left ALL my micro usb cables at work like an idiot.
I had the LOS today, had to restart my phone three times in the span of three hours. So, being frustrated, I booted in to CWM, wiped my davlik and flashed back to v1.1. Then I wiped davlik again, flashed back to v1.2 and rebooted. Haven't have a LOS issue since. So far so good...
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My bad, I totally misread the title. I though I was posting in the other kernal thread by Zedo.
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ccline84 said:
My bad, I totally misread the title. I though I was posting in the other kernal thread by Zedo.
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Should just edit the first one
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big thanx zedo.
Calkulin said:
Root is still messed up for me with your kernel Zedomax, so please make one that doesn't have root or even busybox(unless it's needed for the recovery) as root & busybox can be added through CWM if the user wants
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I personally think CWM is causing some issues right now... no evidence behind it, just a suspicion.
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I personally think CWM is causing some issues right now... no evidence behind it, just a suspicion.
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CWM probably can't cause issues since it's in recovery, it doesn't fire up unless u r actually in recovery but CWM we all using right now have issues as they are based off SG2 CWM binaries. Someone has to compile a CWM for Epic4GT from scratch or at least hack it. I am gonna try that soon but compiling kernels is just taking too much time, I've been 24/7 compiling for like a whole week, get no other work done, i seriously need to go out to a rave and get f--ed up for couple days. Then my head will be clear, compiling will be fun.

Is CWM touch fully functional now?

When it was released it was not, I looked around but couldn't find anything recent pertaining to CWM touch specifically on the Galaxy Nexus. Can anyone confirm that it is fully functional? Thanks in advance!
Yup fully functional.
Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus
Thank you sir! Already reached my limit of 8 but I will be back to properly thank you.
No problem. Just flash the .img with fastboot. Otherwise the touch version from ROM manager is 2$ or so.
Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus
ÜBER™ said:
No problem. Just flash the .img with fastboot. Otherwise the touch version from ROM manager is 2$ or so.
Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus
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As soon as I got your confirmation I purchased it through ROM Manager, I like to support the devs when I have the funds available. I instantly like it, I dont have the best eyes so the larger text really helps me out. Thanks again, I won't forget to come back and thank you proper. :good:
Edit: Wow its so much faster than using the buttons!
WiredPirate said:
As soon as I got your confirmation I purchased it through ROM Manager, I like to support the devs when I have the funds available. I instantly like it, I dont have the best eyes so the larger text really helps me out. Thanks again, I won't forget to come back and thank you proper. :good:
Edit: Wow its so much faster than using the buttons!
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The thing i hated with the regular CWM is there is like kinetic scrolling so it's really hard to select the one I wanted but with CWM Touch that isn't an issue
AshtonTS said:
The thing i hated with the regular CWM is there is like kinetic scrolling so it's really hard to select the one I wanted but with CWM Touch that isn't an issue
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I agree, for me it would frequently skip up/down more than one notch. The other problem was the "back menu button disabled" causing the power button to turn the screen off/on instead of selecting the option. I finally learned you have to scroll past the first menu option 3x to enable it again.
Dont have those problems anymore! Definitely worth the $2.
Yeah, works brilliantly for me!
TWRP 2.2 is touch and is better. And they don't try to charge you.
It's very functional.
Thanks to Über, I've got to try it out for free and learn Something.
And because of his help, I've actually started making an app called app density. ^__^
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TWRP 2.2 is touch and is better. And they don't try to charge you.
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I know of TWRP but never had any reason to try it, plus I think it looks ugly. Can you elaborate on why you think it's better?
WiredPirate said:
I know of TWRP but never had any reason to try it, plus I think it looks ugly. Can you elaborate on why you think it's better?
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It's the little things, like being able to see battery and time in recovery. Plus, it now has a keyboard so you can name nandroids in recovery or rename files since it's also got a file manager. It supports backing up partition sizes greater than 2GB which CWM doesn't. You can compress backups to save space. You can queue multiple zips to flash in sequence. If you use Tasker you can make automated, scheduled nandroids. I find it easier to navigate, like it was actually a recovery made to be touch and not just a recovery that had touch added. Swiping to flash gives me confidence I'm not gonna do anything stupid accidentily. Also, while in recovery pressing the power button will lock it so you have to swipe to unlock for those times when you're in recovery but need to put your phone in your pocket. Probably other things I'm missing.
jesusice said:
It's the little things, like being able to see battery and time in recovery. Plus, it now has a keyboard so you can name nandroids in recovery or rename files since it's also got a file manager. It supports backing up partition sizes greater than 2GB which CWM doesn't. You can compress backups to save space. You can queue multiple zips to flash in sequence. If you use Tasker you can make automated, scheduled nandroids. I find it easier to navigate, like it was actually a recovery made to be touch and not just a recovery that had touch added. Swiping to flash gives me confidence I'm not gonna do anything stupid accidentily. Also, while in recovery pressing the power button will lock it so you have to swipe to unlock for those times when you're in recovery but need to put your phone in your pocket. Probably other things I'm missing.
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Thank you that was very informative, another post I will be back to thank.

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