I was rooted on 9 with Magisk. Updated to 10 via Google update on the phone. All worked. Still rooted but didn't have TWRP installed- it wouldn't work. But no worries. I was rooted which is the main thing.
Tried to do the DEC OTA with Magisk. Didn't work. Flashed factory image of December and it worked. Tried to boot img of TWRP. didn't work. Tried to use Magisk to root with the boot.img patch from PC. Didn't work. Phone wouldn't boot.
Reflashed factory image and it didn't work. Changed cord to same USB A and and got it working again. Rinse, repeat. Eventually it stopped working period. adb and fastboot were not talking to the phone.
Used different USB A port and newer cord (same as above) and was able to reinstall Dec factory and it worked. Used new cable to boot twrp.img. Worked. Used that to flash TWRP. Worked. Tried to flash Magist in TWRP. Got TWRP bootloot. Used TWRP to fix bootloop. It restored boot (so far as I can tell- what do I know? I'm just a lawyer) and phone worked but no root. Rinse repeat a number of times. Got Magisk working and THEN tried to flash TWRP. Bad plan. Broke.
Went to screen saying whole thing was broke (Their recovery sort-of screen saying files corrupted in red and I could retry or wipe in blue. But I could factory reset. I avoided that and tried to reflash (using flash-all.bat after removing -w) a number of times. It finally worked. Gave it the overnight to calm down. Me, too.
10 was working. Cord seemed to be working. Came home after work and booted image of TWRP. That worked. Flashed Magisckzip. That dumped me into TWRP which I swear to god I had not flashed, just temp booted. So tonight was rinse and repeat of yesterday's woes.
Anyhow, many attempts to reinstall Dec factory image finally worked (using various cords, USB A & C ports.)
Rinse, repeat.
I have my SD card backed up on my PC so it isn't any kind of disaster for me to do a factory rest but dammit! I don't wanna! It should work.
At the present time I am working with Dec factory image, stock recovery, and not rooted. (Although Tasker seems to be working in location-sound off circumstances. WTAF?)
Taking any and all advice. Thanks.
Aside from full wipe. If that's your only advice please just say "wipe" and move along. If you have another suggestion, please use lots of words.
(My husband says it's the testosterone sensor but I'm the one who fixes the computers, phones, and network so I think my cover is deep enough...)
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I was rooted on 9 with Magisk. Updated to 10 via Google update on the phone. All worked. Still rooted but didn't have TWRP installed- it wouldn't work. But no worries. I was rooted which is the main thing.
Tried to do the DEC OTA with Magisk. Didn't work. Flashed factory image of December and it worked. Tried to boot img of TWRP. didn't work. Tried to use Magisk to root with the boot.img patch from PC. Didn't work. Phone wouldn't boot.
Reflashed factory image and it didn't work. Changed cord to same USB A and and got it working again. Rinse, repeat. Eventually it stopped working period. adb and fastboot were not talking to the phone.
Used different USB A port and newer cord (same as above) and was able to reinstall Dec factory and it worked. Used new cable to boot twrp.img. Worked. Used that to flash TWRP. Worked. Tried to flash Magist in TWRP. Got TWRP bootloot. Used TWRP to fix bootloop. It restored boot (so far as I can tell- what do I know? I'm just a lawyer) and phone worked but no root. Rinse repeat a number of times. Got Magisk working and THEN tried to flash TWRP. Bad plan. Broke.
Went to screen saying whole thing was broke (Their recovery sort-of screen saying files corrupted in red and I could retry or wipe in blue. But I could factory reset. I avoided that and tried to reflash (using flash-all.bat after removing -w) a number of times. It finally worked. Gave it the overnight to calm down. Me, too.
10 was working. Cord seemed to be working. Came home after work and booted image of TWRP. That worked. Flashed Magisckzip. That dumped me into TWRP which I swear to god I had not flashed, just temp booted. So tonight was rinse and repeat of yesterday's woes.
Anyhow, many attempts to reinstall Dec factory image finally worked (using various cords, USB A & C ports.)
Rinse, repeat.
I have my SD card backed up on my PC so it isn't any kind of disaster for me to do a factory rest but dammit! I don't wanna! It should work.
At the present time I am working with Dec factory image, stock recovery, and not rooted. (Although Tasker seems to be working in location-sound off circumstances. WTAF?)
Taking any and all advice. Thanks.
Aside from full wipe. If that's your only advice please just say "wipe" and move along. If you have another suggestion, please use lots of words.
(My husband says it's the testosterone sensor but I'm the one who fixes the computers, phones, and network so I think my cover is deep enough...)
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Oh my, where to start. Definitely sounds like you've got the famous P2XL USB cable bugaboo...at least somewhat. Here's what I would do.
Extract the boot.img from the factory image, place it on your phone and patch it again, then transfer it to your platform-tools folder.
Make sure your platform tools are up to date. Latest version is 29.0.5
Have you also fastbooted the factory image to both slots? If not, do that first. You can manually change slots with..fastboot --set-active=a or b depending what slot your currently on.
If your phone is booting, then go back and fastboot your patched boot.img to both slots with...
..fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img --slot=all..
If the phone boots you should be rooted.
If you still want twrp, download it again to your pc, put one copy in your platform-tools folder, and one on your phone, remove your screen lock and set it to swipe or none. Then fastboot the twrp 3.3.0-0.img which should boot you into twrp. If it's working, then select install, select image, then flash the twrp image to your recovery ramdisk partition. That should keep your recovery as twrp. Boot up, and you should be good to go :good:
Yes, latest platform tools. After first difficulties I dumped everything, did new downloads and upzips of of factory image, platform-tools, and got new twrp.img, twrp.zip and magisk.zip. Checkedsum on all of them I could.
No. It never occurred to me to fastboot factory image to both slots. I guess I just assumed that The Google (tm) would know what they were doing. Thank you for that. I will give it a shot in the morning. I need enough lead time to fix it if it breaks because my life and office are on that phone.
And now, after learning how to see which slot is active I can learn how to flash to both! Thanks a lot.
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Yes, latest platform tools. After first difficulties I dumped everything, did new downloads and upzips of of factory image, platform-tools, and got new twrp.img, twrp.zip and magisk.zip. Checkedsum on all of them I could.
No. It never occurred to me to fastboot factory image to both slots. I guess I just assumed that The Google (tm) would know what they were doing. Thank you for that. I will give it a shot in the morning. I need enough lead time to fix it if it breaks because my life and office are on that phone.
And now, after learning how to see which slot is active I can learn how to flash to both! Thanks a lot.
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Just a little additional FYI...if you want to keep twrp as your recovery, flash the same image file, NOT the twrp zip file, once you enter twrp after fastbooting it.
And, if you want to know what slot your currently on, the command is...fastboot getvar all. Best of luck to you :good:
Better and better. Now I have no USB. When I go to it in Settings ALL usb prefs are greyed out. Needless to say I haven't tried to flash anything because I can't. So I guess a factory reset is in my future. At least I copied my SD card and Titanium Backup folder. /sigh
Safe mode makes no difference.
If anyone knows how to get the USB working without wiping that would be appreciated.
Oh, and in other "It ain't workin' rite" news, it keeps going back to pixel launcher instead of Nova.
I had a crappy day and now I'm going to bed.
Welp! The Google (tm) is sending my replacement phone...
TWRP 3.3.0.0 Issue on Android 10
My phone is Google Pixel 2XL that is runnung under Android 10 and TWRP 3.3.0.0 img and installer.
I was unable to backup any ROM file under TWRP Recovery.
The error is "Backup Name is: 'PixelDust--14-59-50'
I:Backup_Folder is: '/data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50'
I:Calculating backup details...
* Total number of partitions to back up: 3
* Total size of all data: 7486MB
* Available space: 46798MB
[BACKUP STARTED]
* Backup Folder: /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50
Invalid encryption mode 'ice:aes-256-heh'
Failed to mount '/system' (Invalid argument)
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system_a', current file system: 'ext4'
Backup Failed. Cleaning Backup Folder.
I:Copying file /tmp/recovery.log to /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50/recovery.log"
I had tried to flash Magisk.img but it did not work due to error.
The error log is "- Device platform: arm64-v8a
- Copying image to cache
1566+0 records in
1566+0 records out
1603584 bytes (1.5 M) copied, 0.006409 s, 239 M/s
1045+1 records in
1045+1 records out
1070668 bytes (1.0 M) copied, 0.004831 s, 211 M/s
- Unpacking boot image
Parsing boot image: [/data/user_de/0/com.topjohnwu.magisk/install/boot.img]
! Unsupported/Unknown image format
! Installation failed"
I was unable to root on my phone.
How can I fix these issues?
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My phone is Google Pixel 2XL that is runnung under Android 10 and TWRP 3.3.0.0 img and installer.
I was unable to backup any ROM file under TWRP Recovery.
The error is "Backup Name is: 'PixelDust--14-59-50'
I:Backup_Folder is: '/data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50'
I:Calculating backup details...
* Total number of partitions to back up: 3
* Total size of all data: 7486MB
* Available space: 46798MB
[BACKUP STARTED]
* Backup Folder: /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50
Invalid encryption mode 'ice:aes-256-heh'
Failed to mount '/system' (Invalid argument)
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system_a', current file system: 'ext4'
Backup Failed. Cleaning Backup Folder.
I:Copying file /tmp/recovery.log to /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/710KPAE0324504/PixelDust--14-59-50/recovery.log"
I had tried to flash Magisk.img but it did not work due to error.
The error log is "- Device platform: arm64-v8a
- Copying image to cache
1566+0 records in
1566+0 records out
1603584 bytes (1.5 M) copied, 0.006409 s, 239 M/s
1045+1 records in
1045+1 records out
1070668 bytes (1.0 M) copied, 0.004831 s, 211 M/s
- Unpacking boot image
Parsing boot image: [/data/user_de/0/com.topjohnwu.magisk/install/boot.img]
! Unsupported/Unknown image format
! Installation failed"
I was unable to root on my phone.
How can I fix these issues?
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You really can't fix it until, and if, twrp is updated to deal with the new partition system that google implemented with A10. However, you can try this slightly outdated adb method that still works
https://9to5google.com/2017/11/04/how-to-backup-restore-android-device-data-android-basics/
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Hi. I've just updated CM13 to the latest nightly using TWRP, but now the system just boots into TWRP - that's whether I select boot system, recovery, or bootloader. I tried restoring from a TWRP backup or another copy of the nightlies zip - it all seems to work fine but doesn't solve the problem. I can connect to the 'recovery' device using adb but adb restart bootloader just loads TWRP again. I've tried wiping first the dalvik/cache, then everything but the internal card, then finally everything but nothing seems to work.
I did get something a little bit like this a few days ago because SuperSU was complaining that I needed to update the binary. I let it do it the way that it suggested one does when TWRP is installed and afterwards couldn't reboot into system, but after a few minutes of frustration sorted things by wiping various partitions.
I attempted to load the full system restore files (cm-13.1-ZNH2KAS29G-crackling-signed-fastboot-74bb753396.zip) using TWRP but that didn't work (I imagine because they're designed to be run via fastboot). I tried loading them via the ADB sideloader option included in TWRP but it failed after a few seconds (I think the message was 'transmitting 0.0x'
I opened that zip and copied the various files to the external card, but I then baulked at installing the image files manually because the only partition option I'm given is boot and my understanding is that each image file should go into its own partition.
The only other potentially pertinent information I can think of:
TWRP keeps reporting "E: Unable to find partition size for '/recovery'"
Has anyone got any ideas please? I had been musing that my next phone would have OTG and NFC, but I wasn't planning to upgrade just yet if I don't absolutely have to.
Have you got it fixed? And if yes - how? I am stuck in a similar situation and can't find a solution for it. Tnx in advance.
Hi,
I wanted to update my Pixel C to the most current factory image with flashfire as i did it before a few times without problems.
So I DL'd current factory image from https://developers.google.com/android/images#ryu, opened it in flashfire and said it should flash the normal partitions except recovery as i don't want that it overwrites my TWRP.
Flashfire analyzed the zip file and after i said "flash" it restarted my Pixel into a black screen. At this point i was wondering that nothing more happened.
I waited for 10 minutes so that maybe something in the background could happen, but there was no further action. The screen kept black.
After these 10 minutes i restarted the device but now it always runs into TWRP directly instead of starting the system
I also tried to install the zip manually in TWRP but it tells me
"Could not find 'META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file.
Error installing the zip file '/usb-otg/ryu-n2g48c-factory-0bc0ee15.zip'"
As you can see from the error message i also tried to dl the file again and install it via OTG but the same thing.
If I go into the file manager in TWRP i can still access the folders from the sdcard.
The bootloader is unlocked of course.
Anyone an idea what i can do without loosing all the data?
Thanks in advance
Download the full system image and extract it. There should be a flash_all-file (bat for windows of sh for linux). Open it with an editor and remove the "-w" option in fastboot. "-w" is the switch for wipe. After you removed it, you can flash the complete image and your system should boot again into android. After that you can install a custom recovery, etc. again.
Thank you peter, worked like a charm for the system flash. Now follows the TWRP etc again
EDIT: ok, the system flash was the only thing that worked like a charm. I tried flashing TWRP with NRT but didn't work. I am stuck now at a "no command" screen when i start the device.
To install the custom recovery NRT tells me that i will loose all my data, so i wanted to backup everything.
Unfortunately i can't backup everything now as the temp booted TWRP demands a password to decrypt the sdcard, but i only have a pattern and no password set.
So now i try to flash everything again and to install twrp without loosing all the data.
Hey everyone I have flashed android 7.1.2 August again and android started afterwards without any problems. I was able to restore the backup of all the apps from Google.
Than I wanted to get back root and flashed TWRP with Nexus Root Toolset, but now only TWRP starts every time I switch on the tablet. Any ideas what I can do?
EDIT: I fixed it somehow with flashing the whole firmware package again and than the TWRP wich broke the startup again so i ended up in a TWRP bootloop. Therefore i flashed android again and TWRP 3.0.0.0 than TWRP 3.0.2.4 (something like that) and after like 3 to 4 different flashing steps it worked again. I have no idea what happened during the first flash of Andoir 7.1.2 but i think that something broke there.
At first I tried to update my existing TWRP (3.2.1-0) to the 3.2.1-2 variant. It flashed ok, but then the phone would only boot to TWRP (reason for upgrade is that 3.2.1-0 would hang). I was attempting initially to put myself on the path to a "custom rom". When this failed, I manually flashed the latest google firmware from their page and it still will not do anything other than fastboot mode. No recovery, no firmware load. When I try to do the flash-all.bat method now, all I get after it loads the archive contents is "error: Cannot generate image for userdata. Guess I got a $1000 brick at this point?? Image from the PC screen included.
See if this thread helps.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ory-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post7649698
I am going to have to find another way to look at that thread. My ipad is getting directed to some HTC desire article about and orange and black theme.
I have tried so far very unsuccessfully to wipe everything by booting to twrp via fastboot method. Then I used the dueces script to reflash everything completely (both partitions). No matter whether I flash complete stock or flash magisk and verizon radio files, it just hangs on the white google screen now and that is as far as I have gotten. Left it at home in this mode hoping it will clear.
JoeNeckbone said:
See if this thread helps.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ory-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post7649698
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That link is bad. Three devices are going to an htc desire theming page.
remove the -w from the update line in flash-all.
I have got the same problem since yesterday and search for a solution.
ctradio said:
That link is bad. Three devices are going to an htc desire theming page.
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Not sure what happened with link, https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ry-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post74751631
new adb dont help for me. I cannot flash slot a and change to b and got the error message that no slot is supported.
Still need help? Have you tried Skipsoft? Sure its not been updated but it might beable to help ..
Where fastboot flashing failed for me one time it got me out of a hole....
Otherwise i can try and remote and help... BTW its not finding the userdata file in the fastboot side... Something isnt right hence why it cant create the userdata file...
I try to boot with skipsoft to temp twrp but stuck on boot.img loading. the flashed twrp stuck on twrp logo and before I have changed from slot b to a inside twrp i can boot. now I cannot flash inside fast boot or delete anything.
Have you guys tried Deuces Bootloop Recovery & Flashing Script? I'd imagine you'd run into the same issues as the script runs a lot of the same fastboot commands...but it has worked wonders for many other users so......
I also might try re-downloading the factory image and comparing the Checksums to make sure you have a whole exact download just in case that's getting in the way of properly generating the userdata image. I'd also suggest making sure you have more than 4GB of space on your C drive; I was getting similar messages about not finding or not generating system images because they couldn't be fully extracted (temporarily) because I didn't have sufficient temp space on my C drive.
But I had encountered this issue before. It was either userdata or system_other partition. I did attempt to fastboot erase and fastboot format those partitions and other tweaks; even messed with changing the size of the partition (you might have better luck). What I seemed to conclude is that I was flashing the wrong month's Full Factory image; i.e. I was manually flashing system_other image from February when the whole phone was still on January. But I believe what I ended up doing was flashing a Full Factory image with the "-w" intact; therefore, if you still have access, you should copybackcup (via TWRP or adb pull) your internal storage (/sdcard and-or /data/media) and simply flash a Full Factory image with wipe option enabled...
Just some thoughts and suggestions...hope this helps...
I figured it out finally. Even though my ADB/Fastboot tools were a later creation date than the ones posted online, the ones online worked great. Even used the dueces script to ensure the junk is gone. Thanks all! Hate pesky gotchas like that!!
I upgraded a couple months ago from 8.1 to 10. I ended up doing a full wipe ( or so I thought) through TWRP and flashing the 10 image. However, it seems that I somehow screwed up the encryption on my phone. I can boot the phone and put in my PIN to access and use the phone normally, but inputting the same 6 digit and my old pre-10 4 digit PIN into TWRP does not decrypt the phone and allow me to flash things. If I continue in read only mode in TWRP, I can flash but everything in my data partition has jumbled file names.
So my question is: Am I going to need to back everything up and wipe in order to fix this? Can I simply use Magisk to disable Force Encryption then decryp that way while keeping my data intact?
I would prefer using the simplest least painful way possible, but if I have to wipe to fix it then so be it.
Twrp decoding doesn't work for Q .. best to remove lock before entering TWRP
Also try "default_password".
Well I got impatient and ended up screwing up everthing.
Now I'm having trouble getting TWRP installed back on the phone. I have wiped everything, flashed the latest January factory image, booted to TWRP image, but when I attempt to flash the TWRP zip I get "failed to mount /system" and "failed to mount /vendor". If I boot back into the installed TWRP, I am not able to flash any other zips such as Magisk.
Sunsparc said:
Well I got impatient and ended up screwing up everthing.
Now I'm having trouble getting TWRP installed back on the phone. I have wiped everything, flashed the latest January factory image, booted to TWRP image, but when I attempt to flash the TWRP zip I get "failed to mount /system" and "failed to mount /vendor". If I boot back into the installed TWRP, I am not able to flash any other zips such as Magisk.
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Disable your screen lock. Download twrp again to your pc. Put a copy of the twrp.img file on your phone as well. Fastboot into twrp, select instal, select image, go to your twrp.img,.select to install it to Recovery Ramdisk. You'll have to flash custom kernel and magisk again if applicable :good:
After flashing arrowos 11.0 with TWRP, I got this error message as follows:
cd / && sha256sum --status -c ramdisk-files.
sha256sum proess ended with ERROR: 1
ramdisk files have been modified, unable to create ramdisk to flash, fastboot twrp and try this option again or use the Install Recovery Ramdisk option.
Attached is a photo of the command lines.
I didn't know what to make do of this, much less know what ramdisk is (google is very confusing). No one seemed to be getting this issue too so I was unable to find a solution.
So I ignored the message, formatted as per instructions and booted it and it worked perfectly, but I am left wondering if this is a concern and something I should worry about. Will this affect the performance of my phone and how do I solve this?
I did have quite a few issues with the whole process of flashing the custom rom being my first time doing it prior to this, but I only used the common ADB commands, flashed twrp and arrowos and did a whole lot of wiping, formatting and factory resets. Also mounted everything (system_ext and product keeps getting unmounted when I change partitions)
omg same thing happened to me today!! i was on blissrom, all good and working great but 3 hours later after i woke up the bluetooth disconnected, took my phone out of my pocket and i couldnt boot the rom (well it does boot but then restarts 5 seconds later into twrp) and now all my storage has been wiped and right now im in the middle of flashing arrow os and restoring back my phone.... lucky i have resilio sync for my backups
There is a function in TWRP Advanced that allows you to install recovery ramdisk (as indicated in the error message). If you have a thumb drive (and USB-A to USB-C converter), you can put the TWRP recovery image onto it, connect it to your phone, then use that function with that file to restore the ramdisk.
Veiranx said:
There is a function in TWRP Advanced that allows you to install recovery ramdisk (as indicated in the error message). If you have a thumb drive (and USB-A to USB-C converter), you can put the TWRP recovery image onto it, connect it to your phone, then use that function with that file to restore the ramdisk.
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I don't get it.... Can you please explain from the start?
Veiranx said:
There is a function in TWRP Advanced that allows you to install recovery ramdisk (as indicated in the error message). If you have a thumb drive (and USB-A to USB-C converter), you can put the TWRP recovery image onto it, connect it to your phone, then use that function with that file to restore the ramdisk.
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I see it, but what is a twrp recovery image may I ask? Is it the same img file I used to install twrp the first time, the main download on their website?
batman823 said:
I see it, but what is a twrp recovery image may I ask? Is it the same img file I used to install twrp the first time, the main download on their website?
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That's the one!