Q&A for [TWRP][otus] Recovery for Moto E 3G (2015)
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Going to flash this recovery.
Sir is there any chance to get CWM based recovery. As most of the ROMs are compatible to flash in CWM
santoshx99 said:
Sir is there any chance to get CWM based recovery. As most of the ROMs are compatible to flash in CWM
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I don't see a need for a CWM based recovery. Almost everything works with TWRP, and TWRP is much better than CWM (easier to use, more features, etc.)
If someone wants CWM, they can go ahead and build one, though I don't think I'll be making one.
Also, what ROMs are you talking about? There are no ROMs for 2015 E 3G right now. When someone makes a ROM, I'd expect them to make it compatible with a recovery available for the device.
Yeah it's alive, a Huge thanks to @squid2 , everything is working very good, I did a back up already and it worked fine !!! Thank you very much Squid, u did it very good !!!
Good Work
Finally a custom recocery.
Everything is working fine. But it's taking some extra time to create a backup. Took 773 secs ( almost 13mins ) and the size even after enabling compression is 1.48 gb. Which was around 400-500 mb in my moto e 1st gen with twrp. And adjusting the brightness is also not working.
Thanx for your good work.
sumitps2 said:
Finally a custom recocery.
Everything is working fine. But it's taking some extra time to create a backup. Took 773 secs ( almost 13mins ) and the size even after enabling compression is 1.48 gb. Which was around 400-500 mb in my moto e 1st gen with twrp. And adjusting the brightness is also not working.
Thanx for your good work.
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Thanks for your feedback. The backup behaviour you described sounds normal. Uncompressed backups on my LTE Moto E are almost 3GB (1.5 GB system + 1.5 GB data). A compressed backup size of 1.48 GB is typical. Compressing a large amount of data with a low end CPU is time consuming, and that explains why it took 13 minutes. I recommend backing up to a SD card, and using uncompressed backups.
The backlight brightness issue is probably due to the fact that I'm using an old prebuilt kernel that probably lacks the necessary backlight driver. I'll look into compiling my own kernel for the next release.
Huge thanks for the support!!
I unlocked the bootloader and flashed the twrp-otus-2.8.6-test5.img version as u have said it is way better than twrp-otus-2.8.6-test4.img and rooted it using superSU zip.
I backed up and restore System, data and boot partition successfully.
However, I would like to know that while during restore there is an option for USB_OTG to restore the backup. Is that stuff working or not?
well i dont have an OTG right now, but will check it later after having that.
The default BACKUP location used by recovery is /data/media/0/TWRP in root directory for those users who can't find the backup directory.
Please. please I need CM12.1 ROM on 5.1 based. The 5.0.x version has got a memory leak bug. The bug can be removed either by installing android5.1 based ROM or by installing Xposed module for memory leak.
Anyway thanks thanks and huge thanks for your precious support.
Sorry for my CWM request
I knew that TWRP is far better than CWM recovery. Hope to see TWRP final successful build version.
Can't wait to flash CM 12.1 ,
santoshx99 said:
I knew that TWRP is far better than CWM recovery. Hope to see TWRP final successful build version.
Can't wait to flash CM 12.1 ,
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Sorry if I was a bit harsh. Not that I see a reason why anyone would use CWM over TWRP, but building CyanogenMod gives me CWM for free, so I'll be posting one anyway for those who want.
XT1506 Dual Sim variant.
I have the Dual Sim variant of this phone. The system version is 22.41.13.otus_retla_ds.retla.en.01 retla.
Is there any problem if I flash this recovery?
Thanks!
ignacio794 said:
I have the Dual Sim variant of this phone. The system version is 22.41.13.otus_retla_ds.retla.en.01 retla.
Is there any problem if I flash this recovery?
Thanks!
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I'd expect it to work properly on your device. Let me know if you encounter any issues.
It's Working
I spent internet lot of time to root my moto e2
but thats not workout me
Finally i fount the good result
yes its working
However, I would like to know that while during restore there is an option for USB_OTG to restore the backup. Is that stuff working or not?
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Not working
Nice
Works just fine thanx
Bug when wiping "Internal Storage"
I know that wiping the "Internal Storage" is almost never needed, but trying to wipe it gives an error due to TWRP not being able to mount the partition.
EDIT: Checking again, it looks like it still cleans the Internal Storage, even with the error.
josephfley said:
I know that wiping the "Internal Storage" is almost never needed, but trying to wipe it gives an error due to TWRP not being able to mount the partition.
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same here
josephfley said:
I know that wiping the "Internal Storage" is almost never needed, but trying to wipe it gives an error due to TWRP not being able to mount the partition.
EDIT: Checking again, it looks like it still cleans the Internal Storage, even with the error.
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Thanks for letting me know. I will take a look when I get a chance.
Hello,
How do I make this work with an XT1505 (global GSM model)?
Cheers
filc0 said:
Hello,
How do I make this work with an XT1505 (global GSM model)?
Cheers
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Download fastboot and associated drivers
Boot your phone into fastboot mode (turn off, press and hold PWR and VolDn for 3 seconds, then let go). You will see a bootloader menu come up.
Unlock your bootloader using fastboot (you will need an unlock code from the Motorola website)
Flash this recovery using fastboot
Select recovery from the bootloader menu to boot it up
squid2 said:
Download fastboot and associated drivers
Boot your phone into fastboot mode (turn off, press and hold PWR and VolDn for 3 seconds, then let go). You will see a bootloader menu come up.
Unlock your bootloader using fastboot (you will need an unlock code from the Motorola website)
Flash this recovery using fastboot
Select recovery from the bootloader menu to boot it up
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Thanks for the repetition, but that is not the issue. The device has an unlocked bootloader.
"fastboot boot twrp-otus-2.8.7.img" works
"fastboot flash recovery twrp-otus-2.8.7.img" does not work. the flash appears successful, but when trying to go into recovery after the flash, it just shows the battery charge status.
because the former option works, i was able to at least root the XT1505. but still no custom recovery.
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Related
Here's the story in short,
I bought a new LGOG a week ago.
Rooted it.
Running on stock 4.1.2 Jellybean , AT&T(unlocked for use with any operator).
Now , today I installed freegee and updated it. Took a backup of my EFS , and copied it in my external MMC.
Apart from that also attached the freegee with my dropbox account.
Now , I tried to install CWM recovery , but it seems that there was some sort of problem with download of CWM , as it was taking eternity. I waited for few minutes but then I rebooted the phone.
The phone actually didn't booted up fine. It's now stuck at LG logo , followed by a Google logo afterwards at the beginning with padlock symbol.
The logo stays there for a second and then the phone shuts down.
I panicked when I saw this , realizing that this may be a hard brick. Now I tried combination of volume keys , and it seems that it brought up a menu on the screen , with couple of options and information.
The options available are :
Start-
PowerOff-
Recovery Mode-
Restart boot loader-
The info available below are :
Fastboot mode
product_name : mako
variant -mako 16gb
hw version : rev_10 (88)
bootloader version : makoz10f
baseband version : n/a
carrier info : none.
serial number : 05959*******98de7**
signing- production
secure boot- enabled
lock state - unlocked
When I select reboot recovery , it reboots and then same as stated above. Seems as if the recovery is either not installed properly or is not working.
I was wondering that whether this is a complete brick or is there any chances of this being fixed ??
PS There's no warranty , it's an imported set from USA . SO cant avail it here .
A help would be really appreciated , willing to donate few bucks , if things work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
Read carefully before attempting to use it.
You can also read this thread, I just helped another person: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556006
Let me know if you have questions.
aedren said:
You can also read this thread, I just helped another person: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556006
Let me know if you have questions.
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Thanks for your immediate reply Guys. That sounds really helpful.
It seems zombiegeek was able to fix the phone , and seems mine phone is in similar state.
I am going to go through the LGPNST and will see if that works. Searching for the tutorial thread on it.
optimusv45 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
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I am going to go through it. Thanks for sharing.
EDIT : Successfully booted into Download mode By holding both the volume keys ( when device was completely switched off) and then plugging it into the PC using data cable.
It went straight to download mode.
Started LGNPST. Made sure that it detected my device. Registered LS970.dll file use rgsvr32.
Selected the DLL and BIN , and it went to 67% progress after start .
Rebooted , and went into boot loop.
I tried the same procedure again , but this tie with ATLBin instead of original Bin.
It rebooted and went into TWRP mode.
Finally a sigh of relief , as It booted into recovery.
Followed the steps as mentioned in the thread above. It worked!!
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Haven't installed any ROMS yet.
optimusv45 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
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same thing happened to my phone. Use freeGee to unlock and download cwm
but cwm download failed and have the same google logo and options.
just do the lgnst to stock.
Now I root my phone again. and not sure what should I do next.
so should I use the E970 Original TeenyBin to unlock bootloader and install cwm?
thanks
laofan said:
same thing happened to my phone. Use freeGee to unlock and download cwm
but cwm download failed and have the same google logo and options.
just do the lgnst to stock.
Now I root my phone again. and not sure what should I do next.
so should I use the E970 Original TeenyBin to unlock bootloader and install cwm?
thanks
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Try the original teenybin, I think it includes twrp recovery. Don't worry about cwm. After flashing the bin boot into recovery and flash a rom. Again read the teenybin thread carefully and make sure you understand first.
PS. Original bin didn't work for me I had to use the other one. So if the same happens don't freak out.
optimusv45 said:
Try the original teenybin, I think it includes twrp recovery. Don't worry about cwm. After flashing the bin boot into recovery and flash a rom. Again read the teenybin thread carefully and make sure you understand first.
PS. Original bin didn't work for me I had to use the other one. So if the same happens don't freak out.
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Yeah , I also want to stay away from CWM as long as TWRP is there.
What I am confused about is that if we flash the original JB bins from AT&T , will it leave the bootloader unlocked with TWRP recovery ??
All I need is Stock JB , with unlocked bootloader and TWRP recovery.
You said that original bins , didn't worked . DId you mean you used the ALTBin or something else ?
Rishi. said:
Yeah , I also want to stay away from CWM as long as TWRP is there.
What I am confused about is that if we flash the original JB bins from AT&T , will it leave the bootloader unlocked with TWRP recovery ??
All I need is Stock JB , with unlocked bootloader and TWRP recovery.
You said that original bins , didn't worked . DId you mean you used the ALTBin or something else ?
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Yes, your bootloader will be unlocked and you will have twrp. Teenybin will not give you a working rom, it updates your phone to the newest software and give you a recovery. I think there is a bin that will recovery your phone to stock jb, you will have to look for it on the teenybin thread. Btw stock jb battery life is quite bad and there are quite a few stable 4.3 roms to choose from. Yes, I used altbin but that's just my phone. Original bin may work for you.
@Rishi.
here is the bin I use to go back to stock using LGNPST
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219953
optimusv45 said:
Yes, your bootloader will be unlocked and you will have twrp. Teenybin will not give you a working rom, it updates your phone to the newest software and give you a recovery. I think there is a bin that will recovery your phone to stock jb, you will have to look for it on the teenybin thread. Btw stock jb battery life is quite bad and there are quite a few stable 4.3 roms to choose from. Yes, I used altbin but that's just my phone. Original bin may work for you.
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Actually original TeenyBin , didn't worked in my case either.I had to flash the ALternative bins to make the TWRP work.It went into bootloop with original teeny bin , alt one worked though.
Good that the recovery is working now.
As you mentioned that the battery on stock Jb is bad , so I am going to leave that. But Can you confirm any 4.3/4.1 stable rom that has no issues whatsoever. ??
Rishi. said:
Actually original TeenyBin , didn't worked in my case either.I had to flash the ALternative bins to make the TWRP work.It went into bootloop with original teeny bin , alt one worked though.
Good that the recovery is working now.
As you mentioned that the battery on stock Jb is bad , so I am going to leave that. But Can you confirm any 4.3/4.1 stable rom that has no issues whatsoever. ??
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The issues I encounter is insignificant comparing to how much benefit I gain. I run houstonns PA 3.99 RC 2 Adreno build . battery a lot better, less heat, deep sleep great, always wake up, fast and smooth, theme enabled too. Link for it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228880 cm10.2 stable is also out. Bear in mind no one is gonna promise you you won't run into some issues and the stock rom isn't trouble-free either. If you are worried then you can just stick with stock for now. I honestly do like the stock rom, I think it looks great. Maybe eventually your curiosity will drive you to try custom roms.
PS: you can get stock running, make a backup, and then try some roms. Also now you know you have teenybins on your side, you should feel quite safe trying roms. Go with big name first , houstonns work is very good.
optimusv45 said:
The issues I encounter is insignificant comparing to how much benefit I gain. I run houstonns PA 3.99 RC 2 Adreno build . battery a lot better, less heat, deep sleep great, always wake up, fast and smooth, theme enabled too. Link for it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228880 cm10.2 stable is also out. Bear in mind no one is gonna promise you you won't run into some issues and the stock rom isn't trouble-free either. If you are worried then you can just stick with stock for now. I honestly do like the stock rom, I think it looks great. Maybe eventually your curiosity will drive you to try custom roms.
PS: you can get stock running, make a backup, and then try some roms. Also now you know you have teenybins on your side, you should feel quite safe trying roms. Go with big name first , houstonns work is very good.
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I have had experiences with lots of custom roms , MROm , Beanstalk , MIUI , CM7 , CM10 , etc, when I was an Atrix 4g user. The Roms have excellent performance difference . MIUI was best though as it had the appeal in terms of layout.
Anyways , unless I don't try one on LGOG , I am sure I won't be able to tell the difference.
BTW , I am going to try the Official Cyanogen 10.2 first.
If you flash the 11c or 20j bin you will be back to locked bootloader and no recovery. That is why I linked to flashable zip for 20j, it should work with twrp. Sorry for not being able to reply sooner.
Rishi. said:
I have had experiences with lots of custom roms , MROm , Beanstalk , MIUI , CM7 , CM10 , etc, when I was an Atrix 4g user. The Roms have excellent performance difference . MIUI was best though as it had the appeal in terms of layout.
Anyways , unless I don't try one on LGOG , I am sure I won't be able to tell the difference.
BTW , I am going to try the Official Cyanogen 10.2 first.
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People are reporting issue with turning off NFC. They recommend either rebooting right away after booting into the rom or flash the rom again, So keep these in mind.
optimusv45 said:
People are reporting issue with turning off NFC. They recommend either rebooting right away after booting into the rom or flash the rom again, So keep these in mind.
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installed cm10.2 , working good . seems stable with no issues , at least none with nfc yet.
will take a backup of this and will flash the stock bin with twrp.
adfurgerson said:
If you flash the 11c or 20j bin you will be back to locked bootloader and no recovery. That is why I linked to flashable zip for 20j, it should work with twrp. Sorry for not being able to reply sooner.
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Thanks. It seems the Flashable zip you posted is better to use , since I went through the Flashable bins(.tot) thread and realized that rooting it back after LGNPSTing was kinda of doubtful.
Have taken CM10.2 backup. Will flash the TWRP/CWM flashable stock.
hi I am having trouble registering my dll files is there anyone that can help me?
nicklefloss said:
hi I am having trouble registering my dll files is there anyone that can help me?
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Registering ?
Q&A for [ROM][Player4][US/Intl] Cyanogenmod 11 for the Galaxy Player 4.0
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Question: CM11
Hi,
i tried to flash the cm11, but the flash didn´t start. Do i need root? I have the Steves Kernel, does this work with the CM11?
Thanks for reply.
Matthias
semmelbroessel said:
Hi,
i tried to flash the cm11, but the flash didn´t start. Do i need root? I have the Steves Kernel, does this work with the CM11?
Thanks for reply.
Matthias
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Ok so first you need to use the terrasilent kernel. Then upon flashing the ROM, you need to wait 10 secs then you can force restart the device. After this, the installation process should continue on it's own. At the end. You will be rebooted a last time into CWM in which, you can flash the gapps if you want.
zaclimon said:
Ok so first you need to use the terrasilent kernel. Then upon flashing the ROM, you need to wait 10 secs then you can force restart the device. After this, the installation process should continue on it's own. At the end. You will be rebooted a last time into CWM in which, you can flash the gapps if you want.
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THX, the Kernel flashing with odin? And then the rom by CWM? Correct? Do i need ROOT?
semmelbroessel said:
THX, the Kernel flashing with odin? And then the rom by CWM? Correct? Do i need ROOT?
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Yeah, you flash the kernel with odin and then the rom with CWM. You don't need root to proceed with the installation of the rom.
Flashing Cyangenmod
What I don't understand is how to flash the zip. When going into recovery mode, the phone doesnt see it and I can't seem to use Odin because its the wrong file extension. So how do I do this?
msigalov said:
What I don't understand is how to flash the zip. When going into recovery mode, the phone doesnt see it and I can't seem to use Odin because its the wrong file extension. So how do I do this?
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It's exactly the same procedure as the one on the beginning on the thread. Also be sure that the zip is in the internal memory of the device. (Not the external SD card, it won't be recognized otherwise)
Still not working
zaclimon said:
It's exactly the same procedure as the one on the beginning on the thread. Also be sure that the zip is in the internal memory of the device. (Not the external SD card, it won't be recognized otherwise)
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So I booted into recovery, found the zip of the internal drive, and told it to install, but it cancels after a couple seconds saying that there is no space left on device, even though I factory reset it to ensure all the data was wiped.
have a stock Samsung Player 5.0 want to install Cyanogenmod11
new to an old thread, so much conflicting information, do i need to install cyanogenmod 9.0 first?
msigalov said:
So I booted into recovery, found the zip of the internal drive, and told it to install, but it cancels after a couple seconds saying that there is no space left on device, even though I factory reset it to ensure all the data was wiped.
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Sorry for not having replying after so much time, I didn't get a notification and I don't visit the Q&A forum often so I couldn't see your reply. Do you still have this issue while installing CM11?
section128drunk said:
new to an old thread, so much conflicting information, do i need to install cyanogenmod 9.0 first?
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As per the instruction on the CM11 thread:
Installation Instructions:
1. Reboot to recovery and make backup.
2. Do a full wipe.
3. Flash rom. You will see an error pop up. This is perfectly normal. Flash the rom again
4. Flash Gapps.
5. Flash US kernel if necessary
6. Have fun!
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You don't need to install CM9 prior to install CM11. That said, at this time it is more recommended to install Carbon because it is updated and have more features than CM11. (like DT2W)
Reboots itself to recovery every once in a while
Great work on the new KitKat ROM. I have CM11 version 20141112 on my YP-G1 but I have one blaring issue.
I upgraded the ROM from 10.2 from the CyanogenMod Updates menu item in "About Phone", which booted it to recovery and I reflashed it twice again from there, wiping cache and data along the way. Afterwards, I flashed Gapps. Now it is installed and everything works and looks fine. However, now every few hours, the gadget would reboot itself into recovery with no error or anything. When I choose reboot from the recovery menu, the gadget would reboot to recovery again! I have to shut down, pull battery, then turn it on again so it would boot normally. So at least once a day I would be doing battery pulls on this thing just so it can boot normally.
Not sure if it's a common issue or is it because of my install method, maybe I forgot something?
Sad to hear that development might be discontinuing for this device. Seeing as I mainly use my smart devices for checking email, the only reason I stopped using it is because CM11 for some reason started locking up and draining the battery on a regular basis (although having it looked up to USB debugging and doing a logcat seems to keep it from ever locking up). Attached are two screen shots of the battery page taken while charging after two of those lockups in a single day (one mid day so I was able to catch it and reboot before the battery completely drained, the other overnight).
Any ideas what might be causing that? I just did a factory reset while flashing the new unofficial rom in recovery and flashed the minimal google apps so there's not much on there besides Google Chrome. The play services wake lock was fixed shortly before the first lock up by updating the Google Play Services.
Edit: After talking with zaclimon it seems like this is caused by something getting stuck in the system (presumably a bug with Google Play Services). Reverting back to stock, cleaning off the sdcard, and reinstalling CM seems to have solved the problem.
Q&A for [ROM][LP 5.X.X][fireball] PAC-man ROM [MODDED TWRP]
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I want to know if this rom is for verizon or Sprint cos i have a verizon and it doesn't work for my phone. i need help pls.....
where I download the modded TWRP, since I can not find it anywhere, someone put the link?
It should be for Verizon. Make sure you are using the modded TWRP and modifying the partitions.
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Yommiie said:
I want to know if this rom is for verizon or Sprint cos i have a verizon and it doesn't work for my phone. i need help pls.....
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It's for verizon, and if the signal isn't working you need to most likely update your radio baseband, which is in the OP of the ROM.
valva said:
where I download the modded TWRP, since I can not find it anywhere, someone put the link?
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In OP of the ROM.
Installed the ROM a few days ago, and it is really good. Nice work on it. The only issues I have encountered:
Ringtone gets reset when the phone is rebooted. In addition, WiFi loses saved access points when the phone dies from low battery.
Bluetooth isn't able to connect to devices. The screen that asks for a PIN doesn't pop up and it says that the device had the wrong PIN.
Otherwise, everything else seems to work. I use this as a daily and the battery life seems fine as well as the general usability of it.
Android password
I went through all the hassle with unlocking the phone and installing this ROM was easy, but when it boots it shows me a prompt saying "To start Android, enter your password". I didn't have any before, so I'm not sure what it's about. However it'd accept any password with "Decryption unsuccessful. The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt". It suggest to reset phone and if I push that button it reboots into some cycle showing recovery splash screen repeatedly. I can have it out of that cycle only with wiping the data in recovery.
What do I do wrong and more important, how could I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
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I went through all the hassle with unlocking the phone and installing this ROM was easy, but when it boots it shows me a prompt saying "To start Android, enter your password". I didn't have any before, so I'm not sure what it's about. However it'd accept any password with "Decryption unsuccessful. The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt". It suggest to reset phone and if I push that button it reboots into some cycle showing recovery splash screen repeatedly. I can have it out of that cycle only with wiping the data in recovery.
What do I do wrong and more important, how could I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
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Which recovery are you using? Also, did you do a clean flash or dirty? Did you encrypt your information before install? What exactly did you do, gotta know what steps you did.
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Which recovery are you using? Also, did you do a clean flash or dirty? Did you encrypt your information before install? What exactly did you do, gotta know what steps you did.
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Thanks for answering.
Recovery: TWRP 2.8.5
Not sure what you mean by clean or dirty flash. I did cleanup data and system partition when flashed it first time. Then flashed second time without cleanup. Same result both times - password prompt.
I didn't do anything specific to encrypt any data.
The hardest part was to S-OFF it (BTW, it's still S-OFF - does it matters?) and get the root access to change the recovery. Used some script which styled to room brewing. Than I changed the file system according to instruction of first post in this topic. I guess because of that recovery couldn't see the images on internal storage, so I've put the images to external SD card. Than just rebooted to recovery and flashed both Android and Apps images in one run.
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Thanks for answering.
Recovery: TWRP 2.8.5
Not sure what you mean by clean or dirty flash. I did cleanup data and system partition when flashed it first time. Then flashed second time without cleanup. Same result both times - password prompt.
I didn't do anything specific to encrypt any data.
The hardest part was to S-OFF it (BTW, it's still S-OFF - does it matters?) and get the root access to change the recovery. Used some script which styled to room brewing. Than I changed the file system according to instruction of first post in this topic. I guess because of that recovery couldn't see the images on internal storage, so I've put the images to external SD card. Than just rebooted to recovery and flashed both Android and Apps images in one run.
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Was is the recovery I posted in the OP of the ROM?
Beeko said:
Was is the recovery I posted in the OP of the ROM?
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Yes, I downloaded it at the link given in the first post of the topic.
Very weird, I haven't a clue what the problem could be.
Apparently I either didn't format /data partition to ext4 or something changed it back to vfat. I reformatted it and it helped. At least I'm looking at "Optimizing app x of y" process which I haven't seen before. I guess it means that whatever was encrypted is not now.
Yea your /data and /cache can be either ext4 or f2fs. Other than that, you'll run into said issues.
New to all this
Hi, I have some questions.
1. Can I flash this Rom right from stock 4.0.4 or there are some prerequisites excluding the ones you have mentioned in the Rom thread?
2. If I have any problems while flashing or using this rom, how can I revert back to stock?
3. Is this Rom perfect for normal use? What are the bugs?
I would be very grateful if you answer and clear all my doubts.
daskofficial said:
Hi, I have some questions.
1. Can I flash this Rom right from stock 4.0.4 or there are some prerequisites excluding the ones you have mentioned in the Rom thread?
2. If I have any problems while flashing or using this rom, how can I revert back to stock?
3. Is this Rom perfect for normal use? What are the bugs?
I would be very grateful if you answer and clear all my doubts.
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1. Yes, but there are definitely prereqs. You need to have S-OFF achieved, along with being on the latest baseband in my PAC-Rom OP and having the modified recovery to take advantage of the memory swap.
2. I don't really know, I achieved S-OFF and root years ago. I don't remember the steps, don't ask. But I'm pretty sure there's an RUU somewhere that you can revert to stock.
3. There are always bugs in any OS, regardless of it being from HTC or from me. I use it as my daily driver, I mean yes there's bugs but they're minor.
But please, remember you NEED S-OFF for all this to work. So I'd start there.
Agreed. My recommendation: achieve s-off first, then install a "standard" custom recovery - i.e. no partition swap, root (install superuser or SuperSU), then immediately do a full nandroid backup to your external SD card. Then, keep that full backup safe on your pc or elsewhere. Then, you'll be able to easily get back to "stock" if you don't like future ROMs by restoring partitions and restoring from the nandroid.
Once you have the base nandroid tucked away, then have fun trying multiple ROMs.
And, yes with s-off and an RUU, you can get back to bone stock, including s-on if you really wanted to. (but why?)
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Can I flash the baseband firmware through twrp?
I flashed this rom and after that my phone has never charged to 100% it stops at 85%
Tried calibrations but didn't worked.
Is there any fix?
Can u reupload or provide link to ROM plz
i ask as i'm still on 4.4.2 (bigxie_togari_GPe_KOT49H_tweaked-signed.zip) and basially need some hand holding
i've not had a good run of it, broke my 60" plasma on my head (don't even ask), had hard drive failures, it being the one with my TA backup on it (thank god for backups though), and currently off work sick (not due to the TV incident) though
anyhoo, i have no software (flashtool etc) but drivers on PC should still be good i think. i have dual recovery on the phone and am currently on a GPe rom.
i've tried reading the scrubberportrom thread but i can't focus that much yet to go through so much info.
anyone please kind enough to help? if not, i'll wait it out and see what i'm like in a few weeks.
ta
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i ask as i'm still on 4.4.2 (bigxie_togari_GPe_KOT49H_tweaked-signed.zip) and basially need some hand holding
i've not had a good run of it, broke my 60" plasma on my head (don't even ask), had hard drive failures, it being the one with my TA backup on it (thank god for backups though), and currently off work sick (not due to the TV incident) though
anyhoo, i have no software (flashtool etc) but drivers on PC should still be good i think. i have dual recovery on the phone and am currently on a GPe rom.
i've tried reading the scrubberportrom thread but i can't focus that much yet to go through so much info.
anyone please kind enough to help? if not, i'll wait it out and see what i'm like in a few weeks.
ta
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If you're on that, I assume your bootloader is unlocked which you can flash any rom.
Case closed
no flashing different IMGs or whatever you extract from the rom zip?
tommo123 said:
no flashing different IMGs or whatever you extract from the rom zip?
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Not needed. Kernel is flashed with the script.
Only in rare cases you need to fastboot flash either the kernel or recovery. As when something went wrong etc etc..
so when it comes to :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/development/scrubber-t2961315
i can just flash?
tommo123 said:
so when it comes to :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/development/scrubber-t2961315
i can just flash?
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Yup. Do full wipe and flash away. I flashed scrubbers 5.1 rom yesterday. Everything works very smooth
Note: It takes about an half hour to start phone on first boot. So don't turn your phone off. Its not in a bootloop. Just let it sit for a looong while on the first boot after flashing the rom and it will eventually start and show a setup guide.
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so when it comes to :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/development/scrubber-t2961315
i can just flash?
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Make sure 5.1 or you'll get spammed about update lol
grabbing the one at the bottom of the page now -- Android 5.1 LMY47D
the reason i asked all this is if you look at the instructions at the end of that post:
Instructions
- Save all information from the internal memory !!!
-Fastboot flash boot.img w/ recovery (use CM boot.img, or comparable)
-Reboot into recovery
- Wipe: system, data, dalvik and cache
-Flash ROM (do not flash gapps packages, gapps are already included)
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the bit about flshing with recovery etc. always made me unsure.
whereas now i just back up all internal data, put zip on mSD, go into recovery, wipe etc and flash. then i guess i can restore apps as usual.
one last thing then - what about xposed for that rom? it's out for v5 now right?
EDIT
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/super-alpha-posted-permission-xposed-t3072979
i guess
Xposed works fine for me. Im running several modules including gravity box
Hi guys,
I'm new here. I didn't root my S3 yet, but I want to do it and install new rom. But first I would need your help with Rom choosing, as I'm completely blind in this matter
The thing is, I would prefer a ROM which let me choose which application I want to install on my phone and which not - check/uncheck option. This rom should be FAST and stable.
As I have no experience at all, I would like to ask you which ROM will be the best for me? Btw, it would be great if I can choose language (Polish).
Hope you will help me
Regards,
Karol
edit: sorry for typo in the topic, impossible to change it now
Hi, I am in the same boat. Stock standard international S3, but extremely slow. Ram usage on startup is 700mb.
Which rom would you guys suggest that is both stable (no bugs), and fast (using much less ram).
This is my everyday phone, I take a lot of photos, especially the camera should be functioning perfectly.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit: Last time I rooted and played around with these things were about 3-4 years ago with my Sony X10 mini. I am slowly getting back into it, reading up on the latest rooting apps etc.
@errolpl: Search in development subforum for 'aroma installer'. Usually these ROMs offer only system apps to choose. 3rd party user apps you'll have to install by your own. You can edit the header with edit-function.
@demozzracy: If you want full camera suport, I recommend NCS-ROM: based on last JB-firmware, but brilliant debloated. So slim, fast, battery friendly and all hardware working. I'm testing many LP-ROMs, but they are primarily newer, hardly better (for S3).
@rp158: Thank you!
I was extremely new just a few weeks back as well. I must say that my attempts on finding a solution for my slow S3 has been a rather hard and bumpy road.
To help you save some time, here is what I've gathered so far:
Last time I flashed phone firmware, a couple of years ago, it required a PC, a cable and some funky software.
Then when I flashed my S3 for the first time, about a year ago, I started out with Cyanogenmod and used their app+cable installer. I think this is still the easiest way to root the phone, and get started with custom roms. Even if you plan to use some other rom than Cyanogenmod.
When the phone is rooted you can install TWRP, simply done via an app on the appstore. TWRP is recovery firmware that can stay on the phone, even though you flash new roms. (The phone is divided into several separate sections, bootloader, recovery, actual system, and data area.... I don't even know much about it yet.) The important part is that it is extremely easy to flash new roms using this tool, and a micro SD-card.
Simply drop the rom zip file onto the card and flash them. (For some roms you need to flash some "GAPPS" as well. These are the google apps, like the play store etc. If you don't flash them you can't really use the phone for much.)
This is where the real problems start. Finding the right ROM.
The S3 is old, and only supported up to Jelly Bean for my 1GB international version, or Kitkat if you have one of the 2gb versions.
This has not stopped developers in providing both Kitkat and Lollipop to any version of the S3. However... as eager they are to provide the newest coolest features, just as lazy do they seem to be with their testing. (Sorry guys, but someone has to say it.)
So I've gone through some roms now... none of them really good.
The first Official Cyanogenmod I flashed half a year ago. I used this for almost a year.. but the camera would crash constantly, and the phone was not able to display video. For example movieclips on facebook.
Second ROM: Cyanogenmod has also stopped developing for the S3, so a few weeks back I switched to some unofficial version. It seemed to work... camera and video was ok, and everything had the nice Lollipop feel to it.
However MMS did not work. I could receive one and send one, next ones would require a reboot for them to work. The problem was brought up in the ROM Q/A tread, but the answer from the developer was: Sorry I don't use MMS so I don't really see a problem.
Third: Onto some next rom. This one was tagged STABLE. It was far from it. In fact it was even easier to discover that this rom had the same MMS problem. Because the message app would crash immediately when trying to send one.
4th attemt was the same rom, but a different kernel... still the same problem.
5th rom was Blisspop... Wau, this was beautiful! Cool webpage, Cool animations.... it was just too bad that the site is dead, and that the rom can't even run for 24 hours without the android keyboard crashing 25 times or so. Also Blisspop has OTA updates... the only problem is that it constantly says that there is a new version for the S3.. but the download fails. Apparently some bad change to the website caused this, and apparently this problem has been going on for 3 months without anyone bothering to fix it.
6th was Archidroid. The second to top ROM for the S3. It looks cool, and has many features... but just as other Lollipop ROMs, sending MMS's without error is not one of them....
I've really tried everything. People always says that the MMS problems are due to APN's not being set up correctly, doing some reboots etc.... but trust me... I've set them up so many times you wouldn't belive it.
7th. After reading this thread and rp158's recommendation of NCS-ROM I'm now running that one. Without a single thing being set up, I was able to send and receive MMS's right away.
However... now I'm stuck back at the ugly kitkat look, and Touch wiz.
tl;dr;
So what do I want to say with all this?
Get root and TWRP and start playing around with ROMs
Lollipop does not look like an option for the S3, at least not right now
Don't let yourself be fooled by nice webpages or [STABLE]-tags, or comments that say: "I've been running this since yesterday.. it's 100% stable!"
Timusius thanks a lot for that post.
Puts things in perspective.
As I said in my post, I am ok with the KitKat look, as long as it is stable, I am always on call at work, and cant afford constant phone crashes.
I am going to try the root/twrp to NCS rom in the next couple of days
@Timusius thank you for your post. You help me a lot!
S5 Sensation
errolpl said:
Hi guys,
I'm new here. I didn't root my S3 yet, but I want to do it and install new rom. But first I would need your help with Rom choosing, as I'm completely blind in this matter
The thing is, I would prefer a ROM which let me choose which application I want to install on my phone and which not - check/uncheck option. This rom should be FAST and stable.
As I have no experience at all, I would like to ask you which ROM will be the best for me? Btw, it would be great if I can choose language (Polish).
Hope you will help me
Regards,
Karol
edit: sorry for typo in the topic, impossible to change it now
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It's 5 months already that im using S5 Sensation rom for i9300/9305 ( 4.4.4 kitkat). This rom has S5/Note4 features and works great im satisfied. No problems so far, no bugs, etc ^^
It comes with AROMA installer and lets you to choose which apps you want to install and which not.
Cooldato said:
It's 5 months already that im using S5 Sensation rom for i9300/9305 ( 4.4.4 kitkat). This rom has S5/Note4 features and works great im satisfied. No problems so far, no bugs, etc ^^
It comes with AROMA installer and lets you to choose which apps you want to install and which not.
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How you install those rom?
Pixelzack said:
How you install those rom?
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Device must be rooted + newest cwm recovery installed. After that you just download custom rom, move it to ur phone memory/sdcard and flash it throught recovery mode
Cooldato said:
Device must be rooted + newest cwm recovery installed. After that you just download custom rom, move it to ur phone memory/sdcard and flash it throught recovery mode
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My phone already rooted without cwm,can i just install cwm like i did to root my phone?
Pixelzack said:
My phone already rooted without cwm,can i just install cwm like i did to root my phone?
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https://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager here is the latest CWM versions for smartphones, but its .img file and u cannt flash it directly from Odin. U need to make .img into .tar.md5 odin flash-able file by some tools, or flash it via adb shell, etc.
Anyway here is Odin rdy .tar file , go to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...covery-clockworkmod-touch-6-0-3-2-gt-t1719744 download recovery-cwmtouch-6.0.3.2-GTI9300.tar and flash it via Odin / Download mode.
Cooldato said:
https://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager here is the latest CWM versions for smartphones, but its .img file and u cannt flash it directly from Odin. U need to make .img into .tar.md5 odin flash-able file by some tools, or flash it via adb shell, etc.
Anyway here is Odin rdy .tar file , go to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...covery-clockworkmod-touch-6-0-3-2-gt-t1719744 download recovery-cwmtouch-6.0.3.2-GTI9300.tar and flash it via Odin / Download mode.
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Can I use this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...covery-clockworkmod-touch-6-0-3-2-gt-t1719744
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Can I use this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...covery-clockworkmod-touch-6-0-3-2-gt-t1719744
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Sure, thats what i linked you above.
Cooldato said:
Sure, thats what i linked you above.
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Hahaha Thanks dude for helping noob like me
Pixelzack said:
Hahaha Thanks dude for helping noob like me
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No problem Feel free to poke me if u meet some troubles ^^
Cooldato said:
No problem Feel free to poke me if u meet some troubles ^^
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How to install this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/i9300-to-n00t-bring-lte-fun-to-3g-t2886574
just need some detailed guide xD
Pixelzack said:
How to install this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/i9300-to-n00t-bring-lte-fun-to-3g-t2886574
just need some detailed guide xD
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1. Install ClockworkMod(or PhilZ) recovery
2. Put ROM on your SD card
3. Enter recovery mode
4. Perform a full data wipe(except you're running previous versions of back-to-n00t)
5. Flash ROM
6. Flash SuperSU
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1. Install ClockworkMod(or PhilZ) recovery
2. Put ROM on your SD card
3. Enter recovery mode
4. Perform a full data wipe(except you're running previous versions of back-to-n00t)
5. Flash ROM
6. Flash SuperSU
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perform a full data wipe means "Factory reset"?
How to flash rom? It's included in the recovery mode?
How to flash SuperSU?
Pixelzack said:
perform a full data wipe means "Factory reset"?
How to flash rom? It's included in the recovery mode?
How to flash SuperSU?
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yeah this means doing a "Factory reset", must be done throught Recovery mode, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache.
Put ROM on your SD card, then enter Recovery Mode by pressing Home + Volume UP + Power buttons and ull have smth like:
Install Zip -> Choose Zip from /Storage/Sdcard (External SDcard) , Search for ur ROM file and start flashing :X
Flash the SuperSu .zip file same way as flashing ROM.