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What's the general consensus for the best version of TWRP?

I know that recommendations are littered everywhere through this forum but I wanted to consolidate all the opinions in this thread.

Good idea for a thread!
I'm using twrp_Honor_7x.img downloaded from here. However, it doesn't handle the Android N File-Based Encryption (FBE). There was a TWRP available that apparently did decrypt data but the download link disappeared: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/development/recovery-twrp-3-1-1-1-openkirin-t3753140

Legoman6 said:
Good idea for a thread!
I'm using twrp_Honor_7x.img downloaded from here. However, it doesn't handle the Android N File-Based Encryption (FBE). There was a TWRP available that apparently did decrypt data but the download link disappeared: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/development/recovery-twrp-3-1-1-1-openkirin-t3753140
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You might want to give this one a go if you're on Oreo: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3783447
Looks like it supports encryption (on stock).

imHadees said:
You might want to give this one a go if you're on Oreo: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3783447
Looks like it supports encryption (on stock).
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On a Oreo Mate SE myself.
I just wanted to endorse this one as well.
I can confirm it does support encryption.
specifically, twrp_p10_lite_0.4.img

TWRP Available for OnePlus 8 Pro

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Seems that TWRP is available for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. I can't read Chinese but it seems to work fairly well based on another user's post on XDA and on the OnePlus forums.

geokilla said:
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Seems that TWRP is available for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. I can't read Chinese but it seems to work fairly well based on another user's post on XDA and on the OnePlus forums.
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I can vouch for it, I've had it installed for at least a week, flashed kernels and did nandroid backups

So I suppose I gotta ask why isn't there a legit version of this for us ? What is it about the Chinese version that makes aftermarket recovery work now?

A heads up regarding this, I used it before and all worked great until today when I tried to restore my previous backup. I ended up getting stuck on a "dm-verity device corrupted force dump kernel restart" message after a reboot, factory reset didn't help I had to reflash the full Oxygen image.

Tested. Working perfectly so far ..
Thanks for this.

DanneSwe said:
A heads up regarding this, I used it before and all worked great until today when I tried to restore my previous backup. I ended up getting stuck on a "dm-verity device corrupted force dump kernel restart" message after a reboot, factory reset didn't help I had to reflash the full Oxygen image.
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Good to know thanks I was going to delete my lock screen take a back up and restore to make sure it was 100% functional cause I to have had in for about a week and half just used it to flash some stuff nothing much else.

Hi everyone. I'm closing this one for an involuntary GPLv3 violation. More info: [Mandatory] XDA-Developers and the GPL
We understand that this is a helpful share but until we see the source code of these Chinese TWRP releases, we're keeping all links away from XDA. This is merely a precaution that benefits the security of our users. We would also like to avoid getting in trouble with the utmost respected Team Win Thank you for understanding. Useful feedback is welcome via PM.

really small amount of custom roms

Hey
I was just wondering why there is not that many custom roms.
I come from a pocoophone and there was nearly daily new roms .

- not a lot of devs have this device
- people that do have this device don't have resources to build
- check telegram, there are roms, just ask around

Lossyx said:
- not a lot of devs have this device
- people that do have this device don't have resources to build
- check telegram, there are roms, just ask around
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So you are saying that there are more roms for 7T than just these which are listed on XDA forum? Could you share some links to these telegram groups? Thx

pesa44 said:
So you are saying that there are more roms for 7T than just these which are listed on XDA forum? Could you share some links to these telegram groups? Thx
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I don't know any specific, but I see them all the time. You can try joining 7/T series discussion group and ask what ROM people are using, and ask in kernel chats (that is specific to oneplus devices of course)

InvolveX said:
Hey
I was just wondering why there is not that many custom roms.
I come from a pocoophone and there was nearly daily new roms .
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No hype, no sales, no development.

I bet OnePlus 6/6T is having more ROMs

Kind of wondered the same thing, also coming from a pocophone. I had planned to go custom, but now question if it is even worth it as there seems to be little support. I haven't run non-aosp on a phone in forever.
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Also curious how you find these groups - only thing I know when it comes to telegram is clicking on a link to a chat.
Found a group, but of course no links to the chinese twrp. Only links I have found are on weibo and just end up looping around

Other people will disagree but having no working twrp is a big factor. Let's see what happens when OnePlus release there android 11 mash up maybe we will have twrp working and more interest ?

a g bell said:
Other people will disagree but having no working twrp is a big factor. Let's see what happens when OnePlus release there android 11 mash up maybe we will have twrp working and more interest ?
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This TWRP works fine for flashing and decrypting on custom ROMs. So it's not that.
And Android 11 will not magically fix everything, if anything, it'll break things like encryption even more.
TWRP is has lots of progress as of late, fastbootd tools has been implemented, dynamic partitions are better handled. Only significant thing left would be ADB sideload.

Lossyx said:
This TWRP works fine for flashing and decrypting on custom ROMs. So it's not that.
And Android 11 will not magically fix everything, if anything, it'll break things like encryption even more.
TWRP is has lots of progress as of late, fastbootd tools has been implemented, dynamic partitions are better handled. Only significant thing left would be ADB sideload.
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Decryption is still broken on oos ? which is a OnePlus issue which will they will still break on 11?
Flashing ROMs from oos is a big issue which is still broken with this twrp

a g bell said:
Decryption is still broken on oos ? which is a OnePlus issue which will they will still break on 11?
Flashing ROMs from oos is a big issue which is still broken with this twrp
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The decryption is broken because of OnePlus poor implemention of keymaster. Android 11 is once again changing keymaster which will break decryption even on devices that can successfully decrypt on Android 10. This means it will take time for TWRP to properly support decryption on Android 11.
When that happens, decryption might work for 7T/Pro because now OnePlus has to reimplement the new keymaster,. hopefully right this time.
As for flashing ROMs, just use adb push on your PC and push it to /cache or /mnt, then you can flash easily.

Lossyx said:
The decryption is broken because of OnePlus poor implemention of keymaster. Android 11 is once again changing keymaster which will break decryption even on devices that can successfully decrypt on Android 10. This means it will take time for TWRP to properly support decryption on Android 11.
When that happens, decryption might work for 7T/Pro because now OnePlus has to reimplement the new keymaster,. hopefully right this time.
As for flashing ROMs, just use adb push on your PC and push it to /cache or /mnt, then you can flash easily.
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Just out of interest as you mentioned previously there has been a lot of progress on the twrp front why has nobody shared it ? is the source all available on git to build or am l missing something here ?

a g bell said:
Just out of interest as you mentioned previously there has been a lot of progress on the twrp front why has nobody shared it ? is the source all available on git to build or am l missing something here ?
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https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery/commits/android-10.0
https://gerrit.twrp.me/q/status:open+-is:wip
I can try to build a test twrp and post here. I won't test it myself though, don't have time for it-

Lossyx said:
https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery/commits/android-10.0
https://gerrit.twrp.me/q/status:open+-is:wip
I can try to build a test twrp and post here. I won't test it myself though, don't have time for it-
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Might setup building environment again and have a go myself if you do get the time to build l will give it try
Regretting going back to windows now
cheers ?

a g bell said:
Might setup building environment again and have a go myself if you do get the time to build l will give it try
Regretting going back to windows now
cheers
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I am pretty sure you can just use WSL / 2 on Windows if you don't have Linux installed.

Everything has been built and shared over the last year. Name a rom. It's been built already. If you want more android R roms, just wait they're coming. But... Twrp works fine. Even on oos. Use LR Team Twrp (aka chinese twrp) it works perfectly. Flash away or what knot, I have never heard anything about a broken keymaster. that's the first I heard of that one. Flash whatever, build whatever, enjoy phone fun.

FullOfHell said:
Everything has been built and shared over the last year. Name a rom. It's been built already. If you want more android R roms, just wait they're coming. But... Twrp works fine. Even on oos. Use LR Team Twrp (aka chinese twrp) it works perfectly. Flash away or what knot, I have never heard anything about a broken keymaster. that's the first I heard of that one. Flash whatever, build whatever, enjoy phone fun.
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Chinese twrp does not decrypt on stock oos properly unless there has been a new build recently ?
Has du been been built ?

a g bell said:
Chinese twrp does not decrypt on stock oos properly unless there has been a new build recently ?
Has du been been built ?
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It absolutely does decrypt on oos. One must do a full format in twrp first. Then it works perfectly, every feature, 100%. Yes, I did du for 7t in December last year, or January.

FullOfHell said:
It absolutely does decrypt on oos. One must do a full format in twrp first. Then it works perfectly, every feature, 100%. Yes, I did du for 7t in December last year, or January.
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Indeed it does you do a full format it works but then reboot and it's the same won't mount anything same as before.

a g bell said:
FullOfHell said:
It absolutely does decrypt on oos. One must do a full format in twrp first. Then it works perfectly, every feature, 100%. Yes, I did du for 7t in December last year, or January.
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Indeed it does you do a full format it works but then reboot and it's the same won't mount anything same as before.
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Funny I have had no problems for 10 months, on oos or custom.

Question Are custom recoveries (TWRP) being worked on for this device?

I'm really keen on the hardware of this device and want to know if its likely that we'll get TWRP + Custom Roms for it?
Not a big fan of MIUI and Xiaomi have hinted that they won't support this device for that long

Falc7 said:
I'm really keen on the hardware of this device and want to know if its likely that we'll get TWRP + Custom Roms for it?
Not a big fan of MIUI and Xiaomi have hinted that they won't support this device for that long
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I know what the MUIPRO team has on our TWRP device + firmware, but for now their site is moving ((

Nice to see that they finally created a forum for the 12X! Overall I hope that TWRP and Custom Roms will come to the 12X sooner or later, I thinks it's still a new device (and not on the cheap side), so eventually developers will get their hands on it.

Chinese developers have made TWRP for 12x,But it is encrypted and needs special tools to flash.

TWRP with working encripted
https://dl.akr-developers.com/?file=skkk/TWRP/A12/v3.6.2_A12/3.6.2_12-Mi12X_v3.6.2_A12-psyche-skkk_996f83fc.img

VMach3 said:
TWRP with working encripted
https://dl.akr-developers.com/?file=skkk/TWRP/A12/v3.6.2_A12/3.6.2_12-Mi12X_v3.6.2_A12-psyche-skkk_996f83fc.img
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This link seems broken. Are you using this TWRP? Is it working fine?

rdadalte said:
This link seems broken. Are you using this TWRP? Is it working fine?
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this link works: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/is-this-twrp-working.4460651/

Question Building AOSP for Red Magic 8 Pro

I'm looking to build AOSP for the Red Magic 8 Pro. Has anyone managed to get the proprietary binaries from Nubia or extract it from the stock firmware?
I have tried searching around for these binaries to no avail. If someone has a download link to share I would really appreciate it. I just want a completely stock android experience and don't mind if not everything isn't working.

Do you really want AOSP or Paranoid Android will do as well? In any case, download OTA here, extract payload.bin and use payload-dumper-go. You can use LineageOS instructions for getting binaries from unpacked .omg files.

aaa.bbb111222 said:
Do you really want AOSP or Paranoid Android will do as well? In any case, download OTA here, extract payload.bin and use payload-dumper-go. You can use LineageOS instructions for getting binaries from unpacked .omg files.
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Have they already released a ROM for this phone? If not, AOSP builds without most Google trash and I block many of their domains in the hosts file just in case. I did finally find a dump here: https://github.com/RandomPush/nubia_nx729j_dump
Appreciate your help though. I'll post my progress here in case anyone is interested. The android developer documentation says proprietary binaries are usually located in a /vendor partition. Going through the dump now and trying to figure out the bare minimum to get a custom ROM booted.
My guesses are anything Qualcomm related for the SoC. I'm unsure of what baseband/radio chips the phone uses, actually it's been pretty tough to find a good spec sheet on it. Most resources that come up on Google only refer to surface level specs and don't go into much detail on the chips themselves.

No, they haven't, but I've seen people working on it. It would be a bit easier to bring up because PA is CLO-based (not AOSP), so the probability of most stuff working is higher. CLO has some Qualcomm-specific patches. Actually, you can probably build QSSI (like GSI but from CLO) without much difficulties, so this might be the way to go.
I'd recommend that you extract those binaries from OTA anyway as they might be updated in the future. Out of the box you probably won't get working vibration.

With the kernel source released, what's so difficult with building LineageOS and stuff?

SevastianXDA said:
With the kernel source released, what's so difficult with building LineageOS and stuff?
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We need a good unbricking method just to be on the safe side (personally, I'm not very keen on even trying someone else's build, let alone making my own, simply too much risk). Other than that, a lot of time is needed and there are basically zero good instructions. Once again, LOS isn't the best option for 8g2, would be better to go for Paranoid Android. One can theoretically build QSSI image (basically GSI, but for Snapdragons), might be a good idea for now. Still risky tho

aaa.bbb111222 said:
We need a good unbricking method just to be on the safe side (personally, I'm not very keen on even trying someone else's build, let alone making my own, simply too much risk). Other than that, a lot of time is needed and there are basically zero good instructions. Once again, LOS isn't the best option for 8g2, would be better to go for Paranoid Android. One can theoretically build QSSI image (basically GSI, but for Snapdragons), might be a good idea for now. Still risky tho
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What are the bricking issues here? Usually even if the ROM is f*cked or just something doesn't work you can always flash back to stock through TWRP.

SevastianXDA said:
What are the bricking issues here? Usually even if the ROM is f*cked or just something doesn't work you can always flash back to stock through TWRP.
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If only there was a fully working TWRP... Unfortunately, there isn't. Well, kind of. It boots but that's it. And no, sideload simply doesn't work. When I went back to stock on my previous device (1+7 Pro), I had to use MSM Tool. Nothing like that is available for RM8P, ZTE doesn't want to give the tools to us because of bs reasons.

aaa.bbb111222 said:
If only there was a fully working TWRP... Unfortunately, there isn't. Well, kind of. It boots but that's it. And no, sideload simply doesn't work. When I went back to stock on my previous device (1+7 Pro), I had to use MSM Tool. Nothing like that is available for RM8P, ZTE doesn't want to give the tools to us because of bs reasons.
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Bruuuuhhh, that's stupidd, someone shall reverse engineer the MSM tool to work for the RM8P (sarcasm)

Hmm, as I can see from this post, it seems peeps have managed to actually restore the phone from a full brick..: Post

Edl or its countparts is not a necessity for buiding a custom rom. 1st, a custom rom usually just overwrite the application parts, so in the worst case the user can still restore to factory rom via fastboot commands. 2nd, many manufacturers never release their factory rescue tools (Google, ?) but there are numerous custom roms, even official builds.

Cyanide_zh said:
Edl or its countparts is not a necessity for buiding a custom rom.
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True, it's more a convenience factor.
Cyanide_zh said:
1st, a custom rom usually just overwrite the application parts, so in the worst case the user can still restore to factory rom via fastboot commands.
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Or not. In fact, happened to me (Qualcomm crashdump mode or something like that). And if something could go wrong, it will.
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2nd, many manufacturers never release their factory rescue tools (Google, ?) but there are numerous custom roms, even official builds.
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Usually those devices have much less ROMs available if any. Just compare 1+9 Pro and 10 Pro.

aaa.bbb111222 said:
less ROMs available if any. Just compare 1+9 Pro
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Any ROM than the stock would do, just LineageOS would be superb.

SevastianXDA said:
Hmm, as I can see from this post, it seems peeps have managed to actually restore the phone from a full brick..: Post
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Interesting.. https://romprovider.com/nubia-red-magic-8-pro-plus-firmware-stock-rom/

SevastianXDA said:
Interesting.. https://romprovider.com/nubia-red-magic-8-pro-plus-firmware-stock-rom/
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sadly, 9008 firmware need pay about 50 USD, But nobody said the package can be used still now.

CrazyMoney said:
sadly, 9008 firmware need pay about 50 USD, But nobody said the package can be used still now.
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Bruh the custom ROM and modding community is so mid and goofy for the RM8P Literally one of the main things making me go for a Poco F5 instead

Chinese dev made MIUI rom but its only payed with alipay for like 3 dollars. I im waiting when we can pay with paypal to try it looks good.

ibestmoder said:
Chinese dev made MIUI rom but its only payed with alipay for like 3 dollars. I im waiting when we can pay with paypal to try it looks good.
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Well yeah, but as explained/talked about here, AOSP/LineageOS has to be technically possible

I got the rom maybe extract and check it? Take out alipay security then we can try it

ibestmoder said:
I got the rom maybe extract and check it? Take out alipay security then we can try it
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Maybe share the ROM file, then we can try finding some way to remove forced payment/crack it (No paid ROMs allowed in XDA forums) and maybe possibly clean it somewhat (Does it even have english as an option?) and we'll finally get ourselves a finally working alternative custom ROM.