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[RECOVERY][Epic4GTouch] TWRP 2.6.3.0 touch recovery [2013-09-16]

Note this is for CM10+ and possibly other AOSP based kernels ONLY!
Team Win Recovery Project 2.x, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. It’s a fully touch driven user interface – no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.
Phone look:
Tablet look:
CHANGELOG for 2.6.3.0:
-Proper backup and restore of SELinux contexts (thanks to Tassadar)
-Pull in some ROM information for backup name generation
-Merge all recent patches from AOSP bringing TWRP up to date with Android 4.3
-Add 1200x1920 theme (thanks to Tassadar)
-A few other fixes and tweaks
CHANGELOG for 2.6.1.0:
-Initial SELinux support (only a few devices, need testers so come by IRC if your device doesn't have it and needs it)
-Initial support for f2fs file system formatting (Moto X)
-Update SuperSU install for 4.3 ROMs
-Fixed a permissions bug on files created during backup
-Fixed a bug that caused TWRP to not wait for compressed backups to finish causing 0 byte files and md5sums to not match
-Fixed decryption of encrypted data so that both TouchWiz and AOSP decryption are possible
-Ignore lost+found folder during backup and size calculations
-Various other minor bug fixes and tweaks
CHANGELOG for 2.6.0.0:
Special Note: If you are running a custom theme, you will likely need to remove that theme before updating to 2.6.0.0 as your custom theme will likely not have some of the new changes visible (e.g. you won't be able to encrypt a backup)!
-Can encrypt a backup to prevent theft of private data from your backup files
-Updated graphics / icon courtesy of shift
-Updated exFAT to latest commits
-Fixed a problem with Samsung TouchWiz decryption
-Update SuperSU binary
-Fixed saving of backup partitions list
-Fixed saving of last used zip install folder
-Fixed backup of datadata on devices that use a separate partition for datadata
-Fixed some issues with the advanced wipe list (android_secure, can now wipe internal storage on data/media deivces and wipe data on the advanced list no longer formats the entire data partition)
-Fixed some problems with partitioning a SD card
-Various other bug fixes and tweaks
Notes about encrypted backups:
Why encrypt your backups? -- Most people store their backups on the device. Any app that has permission to access storage could potentially read your backup files and try to harvest your data. Encrypted backups also provide an added layer of security if you move your backups to other storage devices or to the cloud. The encryption that we're using is probably not strong enough for enterprise level security, but should be strong enough to make it significantly difficult to get to your data.
Encryption is using OpenAES which uses AES 128-bit cbc encryption. If you happen to use a longer password (over 16 characters) then the encryption strength improves to 192 or 256 bits. Do not forget your password. If you forget your password you will be unable to restore your backup. We don't encrypt the entire backup. Encryption is very CPU intensive and can be fairly slow even when we spread the workload over multiple cores even on the latest high-end devices. To ensure that encrypted backups don't take forever, we don't encrypt any other partitions besides /data and in /data we don't encrypt /data/app (or other app related directories where apks are stored) and we don't encrypt dalvik cache.
DOWNLOAD:
The fastest and easiest way to install TWRP is to use the GooManager app:
Play Store Link
Direct Download
1) Install GooManager from the Play Store
2) Open GooManager and provide root permissions
3) Hit Menu (or the button with the 3 dots on your screen) and then Install OpenRecovery
OR:
You can find more information and download links on our website!
BUGS:
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
SUPPORT:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.

FIRST!!!

very nice, thanks!
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now i have to clean my keyboard again
edit: whats battery life like guys?
command to install is actually dd if=/sdcard/twrp-2.1.8-epic4gtouch-cm9-FF11.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

damn 3rd
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riassan said:
damn 3rd
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edit shabby you [email protected]#$ard!!lol 4th

Looks like a safe recovery, nice job, thanks .

Sweet great to see that the recent fixes are getting implemented or though it seems..
sj
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who's going to be the first to flash this??

repl1ca said:
who's going to be the first to flash this??
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already have
just follow OP when using PLEASEEEE!!!!

repl1ca said:
who's going to be the first to flash this??
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I was first

this and quite a few variants (my versions) have been flashed for the last week.. id say at least 30 people have flashed it.

Dees_Troy said:
I was first
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LOL

This works well on my phone. Have fun wiping cache and data without worry
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Can this be used on gingerbread? And us there an Odin version?
Thanks!
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Nice I used this awesome recovery on my 3d but unfortunately it drowned in the toilet but they sent this Epic for a replacement .......good work bro
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BHurst said:
Can this be used on gingerbread? And us there an Odin version?
Thanks!
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No and currently.. no.
Note "for cm9" in thread title.
The recovery can certainly be packed into a gingerbread kernel, however, this isn't that kernel.
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LOL
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Thanks for your contribution.
..:beer:
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LOL, an android recovery that can only be flashed with computers running OS? LOL. Where is Odin version???/

stargaterules said:
LOL, an android recovery that can only be flashed with computers running OS? LOL. Where is Odin version???/
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Lazy butt, get on your PC and flash away
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stargaterules said:
LOL, an android recovery that can only be flashed with computers running OS? LOL. Where is Odin version???/
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first off... odin is run on a pc..
second. the dd command given on the op, runs just fine from the phone, if you know what you are doing.
if you cant figure that out, please don't flash it.. we don't need more people who can't read bricking phones and blaming the software for their ignorance and laziness..

stargaterules said:
LOL, an android recovery that can only be flashed with computers running OS? LOL. Where is Odin version???/
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grats, my mean spirited post of the day goes to you. this recovery started from scratch (TWRP) with a few people behind it, but mostly from what ive seen is the work of dees_troy making it into what it is today. he has been working for along time to get it working for us.
the first thing you can think of is well hell this is too hard i need something done even easier for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2031989&postcount=45

Clockwork Mod date problems

It seems that every backup I make has a date in like 1970. It's quite confusing to figure out which backup is which.
Any ideas? I'm running CWM 5.8.4.5 because any newer ones don't see the external SD card.

AFAIK all versions do this, use team win (TWRP) It will have the date wrong as well but it had a keyboard in the recovery for renaming as you create them. Plus sd card works and it's prettier.
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corythug said:
AFAIK all versions do this, use team win (TWRP) It will have the date wrong as well but it had a keyboard in the recovery for renaming as you create them. Plus sd card works and it's prettier.
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Great, thanks, I love managing backup names and such with rom manager, it's a shame it's a bit flaky on the SGS3.

corythug said:
AFAIK all versions do this, use team win (TWRP) It will have the date wrong as well but it had a keyboard in the recovery for renaming as you create them. Plus sd card works and it's prettier.
Sent from my SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
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Agree - just switched to TWRP the other day and ext SD card + "star trek" UI was welcome. The file copy/move/delete functions are especially handly because they can you out of a potential bootloop quickly that you can't get out of in CWM without reflashing/nandroid (or writing your own CWM script to specifically mod a file).
Only reason I waited so long to switch was not knowing how incompatible TWRP would be with all the various old CWM zips.

zmore said:
Agree - just switched to TWRP the other day and ext SD card + "star trek" UI was welcome. The file copy/move/delete functions are especially handly because they can you out of a potential bootloop quickly that you can't get out of in CWM without reflashing/nandroid (or writing your own CWM script to specifically mod a file).
Only reason I waited so long to switch was not knowing how incompatible TWRP would be with all the various old CWM zips.
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I would love a link to that star trek ui.
Sent from my Galaxy S3 running DietICS

I thought I was seeing things when I saw 1970. Does anyone have a direct link to the twrp download link for the samsung galaxy s3?

SysAdmNj said:
I thought I was seeing things when I saw 1970. Does anyone have a direct link to the twrp download link for the samsung galaxy s3?
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I just did a google search on the phone and downloaded the APK on their site.

CWM and JB4.2

I understand that CWM will have to be updated for 4.2 rite?
I still have v5.5 but I guess I'll eventually have to update to any new version coming out... cos there's one coming out rite?

you just answered all your own questions, was this worth starting a new thread?
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CWM is on 6.x now so isn't this thread redundant?

EddyOS said:
CWM is on 6.x now so isn't this thread redundant?
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well I do not know wher cwm is... I've always kept 5.5 because it was working fine, while now the 4.2 chanmging sdcard location will force me to update cwm... so was just asking for a confirmation...
can amy1 point me to teh offocial thread of cwm for gnex?

6.0.1.0 is on the ClockworkMod website, and 6.0.1.4 is in the Dev section of this very forum

TWRP now works with 4.2:
There's a file called .layout_version in /data partition, when you factory resetted your device using the recovery, the .layout_version file was also wiped during factory reset process as the recovery is supposed to wipe /data (ofcourse excluding the /data/media/ partition as it is the sdcard) partition in this process. So when Android sees that there's no .layout_version file in /data partition it moves the existing data from /data/media/0/ to /data/media/0/0/ and thus forming an infinite loophole of data being moved to other locations at every reset.
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Smokeey said:
TWRP now works with 4.2:
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I did not factory reset my phone using the recovery: i simply applied the OTA from 4.1.2 to 4.2
My problem actually is that the /data/media/clockworkmod folder is not seen from /sdcard when accessing either from pc or from rootexplorer, the reason being at this point that cwm is writing files into /data/media/clockworkmod instead of /data/media/0/clockworkmod
CWM keeps on working fine actually, it's simply more difficult to copy the backup from /sdcard to pc: I have to copy /data/media/clockworkmod into /data/media/0/clockworkmod with root explorer and then I can move /sdcard/clockworkmod to the pc (and I wrote move, because by doing so you end up having two clockworkmod folders).
I could move to TWRP but then my 4.1.2 cwm backup I made before upgrading will be useless in case I wanna go back from 4.2 to 4.1.2

thegios said:
I did not factory reset my phone using the recovery: i simply applied the OTA from 4.1.2 to 4.2
My problem actually is that the /data/media/clockworkmod folder is not seen from /sdcard when accessing either from pc or from rootexplorer, the reason being at this point that cwm is writing files into /data/media/clockworkmod instead of /data/media/0/clockworkmod
CWM keeps on working fine actually, it's simply more difficult to copy the backup from /sdcard to pc: I have to copy /data/media/clockworkmod into /data/media/0/clockworkmod with root explorer and then I can move /sdcard/clockworkmod to the pc (and I wrote move, because by doing so you end up having two clockworkmod folders).
I could move to TWRP but then my 4.1.2 cwm backup I made before upgrading will be useless in case I wanna go back from 4.2 to 4.1.2
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just wait for cwm to be updated
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b1337 said:
you just answered all your own questions, was this worth starting a new thread?
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and this....

latest news from cwm regarding the fix
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/CzstapsDpYf

k786 said:
latest news from cwm regarding the fix
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/CzstapsDpYf
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yep, already cn that: "Android 4.2 devices will get new recovery builds shortly", which means it's not ready yet
what would be the benefit of mving to TWRP?

Rom recommendation please!

I've been using stock since day 1, and I'm looking to make my Nexus a bit more ... oomf.
I want all the stock features with just the ability to fiddle with more. What's a good rom for this?
I've never used other roms so I'm not familiar with any. No idea about kernels either.

What version of the nexus do u have. Best bet is to flash one a day till u find the one u like the most
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Esteway.619 said:
What version of the nexus do u have. Best bet is to flash one a day till u find the one u like the most
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Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
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Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?

Yanoflies said:
Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
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Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?
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Yes it will u will need to unlock the boot loader which it will wipe all data on your phone including SD card. U need to do some reading before u proceed.
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Start hear and familiarize your self with adb and fast boot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828061
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Yanoflies said:
Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
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Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?
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Varies from ROM to ROM so read the OP. Slim Bean for example has its own backup/restore mechanism called SlimBackup.

Esteway.619 said:
Yes it will u will need to unlock the boot loader which it will wipe all data on your phone including SD card. U need to do some reading before u proceed.
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Start hear and familiarize your self with adb and fast boot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828061
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I'm already unlocked/rooted and am familiar with adb/fastboot.
I'll just try a few and see what I like.
Also, how do I access my 'sdcard' directory on my Nexus? When connected to USB it navigates straight into 'Internal Storage'. I'm looking for my Nandroid backup.

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I'm already unlocked/rooted and am familiar with adb/fastboot.
I'll just try a few and see what I like.
Also, how do I access my 'sdcard' directory on my Nexus? When connected to USB it navigates straight into 'Internal Storage'. I'm looking for my Nandroid backup.
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We don't have an external SD card. So the internal storage is where all your files are at. Under a "0" folder since your on 4.2.1.
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Esteway.619 said:
We don't have an external SD card. So the internal storage is where all your files are at. Under a "0" folder since your on 4.2.1.
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Yeah I just thought there was an emulated 'sdcard' folder linked to Internal. I just can't find the clockwork folder, or the '0' folder (which I understand is for multi user in 4.2.1) for that matter.

0 is a symlink. Your computer should ignore it for the most part. At least mine always has with both my Xoom and My Gnex. Just takes me straight to the contents of the 0 folder.

I'm pretty fond of CM 10.1 nightlies, but that's for toroplus. I'm just familiar with the feel of CM from using it a lot on my old Optimus S. Among other things, it gives me the old, familiar Notification area toggles instead of JUST offering the quick power tiles (. . . whatever they're called) that AOKP uses.
If you currently use the option to back up your apps and settings to Google's servers, the fresh install of a nightly build will automagically download a lot for you. You'll likely want to use Titanium Backup to save the few settings that can be safely restored, and the most recent app data, before each new flash. It's worth it to get the Pro Key so that batch restores don't involve 85 million "press this button" confirmations. Ask anyone who uses TiBu; they'll tell you it's a good, solid app.
Do definitely shop around for the ROM you like most. They all have different features and flair. (I almost uninstalled AOKP on first run because of the bootloader animation; it's a bit garish.) And don't be afraid to go back to stock if you find that you just don't care about the bells and whistles on offer.
Don't forget to download the latest Gapps and flash it after flashing each latest ROM. You'll have a difficult time setting up your Google account otherwise.

I've used AOKP, Xenon Hd, Paranoid and Stock mostly, the custom roms have some nice features but I've found lack of stability some times, so far I always end up going back to stock.
My recommendation is to do a nandroid back up and/or Titanium backup and try as many roms as you want until you find the one that is ideal for you.
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[RECOVERY] TWRP 2.6.1.0 touch recovery [2013-08-29]

"Team Win Recovery Project 2.x, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. It’s a fully touch driven user interface – no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel."
What's new in 2.6.1.0:
~Initial SELinux support (only a few devices, need testers so come by IRC if your device doesn't have it and needs it)
~Initial support for f2fs file system formatting (Moto X)
~Update SuperSU install for 4.3 ROMs
~Fixed a permissions bug on files created during backup
~Fixed a bug that caused TWRP to not wait for compressed backups to finish causing 0 byte files and md5sums to not match
~Fixed decryption of encrypted data so that both TouchWiz and AOSP decryption are possible
~Ignore lost+found folder during backup and size calculations
~Various other minor bug fixes and tweaks
Download:
The fastest and easiest way to install TWRP is to use the GooManager app:
Play Store Link
Direct Download
1) Install GooManager from the Play Store
2) Open GooManager and provide root permissions
3) Hit Menu (or the button with the 3 dots on your screen) and then Install OpenRecovery
OR:
You can find more information and download links on our website!
Install:
Please go to TeamWin's download page for our device here, and install via the following instructions (found here):
"Download the above file. Turn off your device. Turn on the device while holding volume down until the boot screen shows up. The device will now be in fastboot mode. Plug the device into your computer. If you have the right drivers installed you will be able to use fastboot. Run the following command via the command line:
fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img
Note that you will need to change the last part to match the name of the file that you just downloaded. You will also need adb and fastboot for your computer."
Bugs:
If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!
Support:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.
Notes:
~GooManager did not show any updates from 2.6.0.0 (at least for me), and I haven't seen or had time to make a flashable zip yet, so it looks like installing the .img via fastboot is the only way to update (for now).
~One of the changes listed is an update to SuperSU for 4.3. I was really hoping this might fix the rebooting issue I and a few others have with 4.3 ROMs, but unfortunately it doesn't seem so (at least in my case).
Credits:
All credit for this release goes to TeamWin.
I take no credit for this, just came across it via TeamWin's page for our device and didn't see it posted anywhere here yet.

heres a flashable zip of it
dropbox link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12000430/TWRP-2.6.1.0-LS970.zip
dev.host link
http://d-h.st/sRg

spleef said:
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Awesome! Much easier than flashing the .img through fastboot. Thanks!
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Thanks!!!
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Thanks guys!
I guess we still can't mount while in recovery
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Anybody notice that the backup images have a year of 1970?
LGOG Carbon 4.3

Dmaxx67 said:
Anybody notice that the backup images have a year of 1970?
LGOG Carbon 4.3
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It was a good year... lol

Dmaxx67 said:
Anybody notice that the backup images have a year of 1970?
LGOG Carbon 4.3
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It's been like that for a while! Last couple builds
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twrp 2.6.3.0 is out for us

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twrp 2.6.3.0 is out for us
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Thanks for the info here is link to flashable zip
http://db.tt/VUSpBP7D
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Downloaded it. Tried to boot into recovery and it just did something, not how it usually boots into recovery. And then phone shut off. Turned it on and got message saying kernel crashed. Did I do something wrong? All i did was download the new recovery. Finally booted into recovery, not 2.6.10, and had to restore a previous ROM backup so that my phone can boot up
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Downloaded it. Tried to boot into recovery and it just did something, not how it usually boots into recovery. And then phone shut off. Turned it on and got message saying kernel crashed. Did I do something wrong? All i did was download the new recovery. Finally booted into recovery, not 2.6.10, and had to restore a previous ROM backup so that my phone can boot up
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Idk I flashed same zip posted and have 2.6.3 twrp without any issue.. Not sure why you would get a kernel crash flashing a recovery
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The clock actually works in the new version, excellent!

Can we copy the backups off of the phone to a computer in the newest version. I went back to 2.5 from 2.6 for that...

Yea need answer for that cause I have Foldersync dumping backups to cloud every night? Kinda suck if I needed them and they didn't work
LGOG Carbon 4.3

highnoteuser said:
Can we copy the backups off of the phone to a computer in the newest version. I went back to 2.5 from 2.6 for that...
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Yea need answer for that cause I have Foldersync dumping backups to cloud every night? Kinda suck if I needed them and they didn't work
LGOG Carbon 4.3
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tbh idk ive only restored my backups from previous twrp versions and have had no issues.........i jump from my custom roms to lifeless once a week to update prl and profile...never a problem....havent made a backup with 2.6 and above at all only backups ive made and restored have been with 2.5 and below...

spleef said:
tbh idk ive only restored my backups from previous twrp versions and have had no issues.........i jump from my custom roms to lifeless once a week to update prl and profile...never a problem....havent made a backup with 2.6 and above at all only backups ive made and restored have been with 2.5 and below...
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Do you mind testing it? Make a backup and then boot your rom and try to copy it to a pc with a usb connection. TWRP always give an error and wont copy because of the encryption added in.

spleef said:
Thanks for the info here is link to flashable zip
http://db.tt/VUSpBP7D
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Thanks Spleef, I was just looking for this!

Nevermind Spleef, you do enough as it is. I took the initiative and installed 2.6.3, made a backup and successfully copied it to my computer so we are good to go on the upgrade.

Did you try any old backups from previous twrp versions?
LGOG Carbon 4.3