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[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
FAQ:

How to install with Fastboot:

1. Download the fastboot binary for your computer from HTC

2. Connect your phone and boot it into fastboot

3. Run fastboot with the command

Code:

fastboot flash recovery path/to/recovery-twrp-crespo4g-1.0.3.img

Error when flashing some zip files:

twrp only supports the latest and greatest edify script for zip flashing. Please bug the zip developer to update the zip script to edify.

Does this back up the WiMAX partition?

That is an option if you chose, but you'll find it under "efs" and not wimax. Both the NS4G and the GSM Nexus S have an efs partition. The efs partition on the NS4G includes WiMAX along with some other fairly crucial data. It's a good idea to back up your efs separately (e.g. just pick efs and don't choose any other partitions) and keep this backup in a safe place.

Live support:

Click this link or join us in #twrp on Freenode IRC.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
Yes. Thanks for this. Works great

So how will flashing our backed up images thru fastboot work since they are backed up as .win?

Uncle Jimmy says hello
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] ViViDboarder:
What partition?

Most are img files just with a different extension some are .tars. You can try it. :P If it doesn't work you can just restore.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
If i go in TWRP on my storage and look at the backed up images like system.win, data.win, boot.win. how would i use that image in fastboot if for some reason i couldnt get to recovery? Rename it to .img?

Uncle Jimmy says hello
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
The .win files are either .tar or .tgz files (depending on whether you chose compression or not). The backups themselves are usually done with dd. So long as you're not messing with the recovery partition itself and leaving compression turned off, you should be good to go with fastboot flashing, though I don't have a NS4G myself to check.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] AssassinsLament:
No, you can not fastboot system/data/cache/sd-ext/.android_secure as those are essentially tgz. You can how ever fastboot or dd the others which are boot/recovery/efs by renaming it to .img
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
What? Ok so all im asking is.....the system.win in TWRP, can i rename that system.img and flash thru fastboot?

Uncle Jimmy says hello
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
You can fastboot these backups:

boot/recovery/efs

You cannot fastboot these:

system/data/cache/sd-ext/.android_secure

Hope that clears it up.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
Ok thanks. That did clear it up.

Uncle Jimmy says hello
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
You guys gonna submit this to koushik so it can be flashed in rom manager under "flash alternate recoveries"?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] info[]box1:
I would love to use this recovery, but unable to push anything on my laptop right now (needs formation). Any flashable scripts?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] snandlal:
Use "flash_image gui" by Joeykrim. Apps & Themes section

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122599
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] info[]box1:
Thanks for help I'll report back.

Edit: it worked thx
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] 12MaNy:
Loving this recovery. Great job teamwin!

Wish all capacitive buttons worked though. :p
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Please advise: If your using the app do you just select the recovery image option and hit flash file?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] M@XLOL:
very very well done.

would there be a way to implement the option to perform backup/restore via adb like on RA recovery?

I tried it but i am not sure if i remember the command properly I did

adb shell
# cd /sbin
# nandroid-mobile.sh -b
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] info[]box1:
yeah the first attempt i selected recovery img and manually selected wipe cache. it prompted successful execute, but recovered cwm recovery (no recovery)lol. just rebooted and the second attempt i didnt check wipe cache. all is GOOD now lol.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
We don't use nandroid.sh at all. It's not included in our recovery. All of our backups are done in C, so this isn't possible. Sorry.

We didn't base our recovery on CWM or Amon_RA. While we may have used a few bits of code here and there, for the most part we tried to write our own recovery doing things the best way that we thought was possible.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] ZiggSVO:
Diss you name the recovery image recovery.img ?

And is it on the root of your sd card
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] DirtyShroomz:
Yes and yes
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] wild1z:
Type SU first?

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] paul96:
What rom r u using
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] solesonfire:
I didn't get an answer or the other thread so I thought I post it here
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] raiderep:
i used flash image gui available on the market. Works good for kernels too.

Loving the touch screen!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] jlopez1286:
I'm having the same problem... I type the command but won't do it..it says "not found".
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] fergie716:
All this means is that your ROM does not support flash_image

Here is a flashable version from qbking77

But for future reference, not all ROMs support flash_image via terminal. I don't think MIUI does, but CM7 probably does
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] joebags:
Liking the new GUI. Sexay!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Paleryder:
Bro, I posted a thread for this exactly use app flash image GUI from market you can do it front end, by Joey Krim :)
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Yeah, I find myself looking for things to flash just so I can use the recovery. Its great!!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] jesusice:
Just wanted to say if you're not using this recovery then you're doing it wrong. Thanks Teamwin!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] S suxeN:
could anyone pack me a twrp 1.1.1 flashable-zip pls?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] jesusice:
Why go backwards? Try 2.0. There's a flashable zip here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399536
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] rougegoat:
It seems to me that this recovery assumes that the file will no matter what be located in "/sdcard/download" regardless of their actual location. This understandably causes several big problems. It's also stopped, for no apparent reason, displaying the contents of any given folder. So fantastic idea, but execution needs some work.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] jesusice:
Notice the top two folder icons in the file browser that don't have a name, just the "..."? You can easily change folders, it just defaults to the last folder you used. It's not a bug, it's a feature ;)
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BrianDigital:
This is awesome only one thing the font size needs to be bigger when clicking on folders and zips
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] rougegoat:
It's a feature with a bug. If I move using the standard . and .. folders up to the top directory and attempt to install a file from there, it says its path is "/sdcard/download/FileThatWasSelectedFromTheRootDirectory".

(Edit) Switched back to CWM due to a whole lot of issues ranging from no longer mounting "sdcard" to broken GPS that all started whenever I flashed this recovery. So I probably can't provide a log or anything like that to help prevent issues like the above. (/Edit)
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] bearsblack:
I consistently get back up errors particularly when backing up boot. I have system, data, and boot checked to back up like I have always done since the first twrp... what's up with this?

ns4g via xda app
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] to0:
ahahahahahahahahahaha

That's not how the universe works.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] vertigosrs:
Just wanted to say great work, I love this recovery and haven't had any problems since flashing it. Thank you!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] corythug:
Will try out next time I feel the need to flash something, looks great though.

Follow the leader @corythug ;)
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
A log of the errors would help tremendously. Use the copy log button under advanced.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
I think that the bad blocks in boot are causing a size mismatch. In the future we can add an option to ignore size mismatch errors.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] rougegoat:
Logically, no. But here's the chain of events:

Phone works fine

Install TWRP2.0

GPS starts being buggy

USB stops mounting altogether

All backups become corrupt and unusable

SMS/MMS not received/sent(discovered this today when someone asked me about why I never replied)

swapped back to CWM

Wiped everything

Flashed the same rom again

Everything went back to normal

Using the Holme's principle, I can say that even though it makes no sense, it is the only possibility(eliminated all others).

So yeah, it would appear that swapping to this recovery caused a whole lot of issues with my phone in particular. Do I believe this is normal? No. Did it happen? Yes. But sarcasm works way better than actually discussing an issue someone had. No one ever resolves potential problems by addressing them. Everyone knows you mock potential problems until they go away.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
That would be great. Would love to run your recovery but tough to do when I can't back anything up.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] N3RD420:
Everything was going good but now my back ups fail? Any suggestions how to fix this?

Edit: I had to clear some of the back ups i had in cwm and that fixed it.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] XfandroidZ:
Mine is doing the same thing as yours burgh. I had to switch back to RZR recovery. Hope they fix this soon I loved the recovery.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Yeah I agree. Just will not play nice with my phone right now.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] XfandroidZ:
You should try RZR Recovery. It's much more feature rich then CWM. Plus it does implement some of the touch screen buttons on the bottom of the phone. Let me know if you want to try it and can't find it.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Thanks. I have used RZR in the past but prefer CWM because of the format features. I might be wrong but I don't think RZR has the format features.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
RzR has every feature of CWM and then some...
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Maybe I overlooked something. Where are the format (data, system, cache and boot) located in RZR recovery?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] XfandroidZ:
its under the wipe menu. It says wie not format but they are the same thing trust me. I have never had an issue with it. But understandably you may not like it.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Tahde:
This recovery has been great. I've had 0 problems thus far. Loving this recovery.

Sent from my Ice'd up NS4G
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Ibleedandroid:
This is so sick!!!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Are you running the 2.1.3 version or the 2.1.4?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] XfandroidZ:
2.1.4 version
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] MrDrumngun:
Does anybody have a flashable zip for the latest? And does this recovery actually wipe properly like clockwork mod does?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
It does wipe properly. I had a flashable zip for 2.0 but have to find it. I would love one of updated version though
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] MrDrumngun:
That's what I want too. I was skeptical as to whether it was wiping properly because I just can't good battery life anymore with any ICS ROM or even on stock PA's bugless beast!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Skunk Ape1:
If anyone has doubts because it doesn't say format, all you have to do is flash the wipe all zip.

Sent from my Nexus S 4g using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] madsponge26:
how to switch twrp to cwm touch? anyone? version ICS 4.0.3..
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] thedudejdog:
Fasboot flash recovery
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Paleryder:
if not comfortable use flash img gui from market by joey krim you can do it from phone :)
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
2.1.0 is out!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Ep3n3wp:
Wow... I thought they stopped support
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] brianbgrp:
I don't see it for crespo or crespo4g tho

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Xparent Red Tapatalk
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Joshhayes801:
Flash image GUI isn't working to flash this.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] dirt:
here's the 4g version...

http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/74
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
The zip worked for me...
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] FL0OD:
Type recovery- at the beginning

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[Nexus S 4G Android Development] dirt:
filename must include recovery to flash a recovery in flash image app
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] thedudejdog:
I'm too stupid to figure out how to use that idiot proof app. I just used fastboot. :p
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Maximilian Mary:
Check the file size (3.62 MB) or md5sum. It took me 4 tries to get a successful download.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] brianbgrp:
The zip I downloaded thru goo app was 3.73MB haven't flashed tho yet

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Xparent Red Tapatalk
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Yeah the img is 3.62MB and the zip is 3.73MB.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Paleryder:
Thanks Dees awesome job as usual love the Swype to confirm
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Karl:
http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/twrp-crespo4g-2.1.0.img
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] FL0OD:
So many cool new features. This is absolutely the best.:thumbup:

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[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
Ditto on this. The only tricky part is learning how to rename your backup.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Please share how you rename them and to what so they still restore. Thanks
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
I used root explorer and /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/37339852924/

When you get into the 37339852924 you should see a folder that will look something like this 2012-04-10--21-21-46

I inserted a hyphen and rom name after this file and it worked for me. Looks like this after I renamed it. 2012-04-10--21-21-46-ppicsv5
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
OK perfect. Thanks. I know if I messed with the 2012-04-10-21-21-46 part I would not be able to restore them. I didn't think I could add to the end. I appreciate that
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] sniperkill:
I think I found a bug. When flashing add on's and such, I tried to flash a framework.zip that's called "TrueBlueFramework.zip" and this zip is supposed to change out all the ugly orange out of ICS and make it all blue. I'm sure some of you guys know of this zip file I'm talking about. Well anyhow, twrp-2.1.0 said it flashed fine but when I booted up, all the ugly orange was still there. Now I've flashed this zip many times with RZRecovery, CWM, and TWRP 1.1.1 and never had any problems. I tried flashing this file 6 times with 2.1.0 but it wouldn't stick. I went back to 1.1.1 just to test it out and flashed the same file and it flashed fine.

Now this TrueBlueFramework.zip file is not an ordinary zip. Its supposed to take the framework apart, insert the new images, then pack the newly modded framework back up and install it.

Any thoughts on this Dees_Troy? I'm at work so I can't upload the TrueBlueFramework.zip file for you, and I have to check back in a little while....

Edit: Since I can't upload the file, here's the link to the download http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22438676
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] itlnstln:
I love the new version. I wish this was available for the Xoom.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] 8616v:
why is it that you can't change the date portion of the folder name? i've never really liked having a date, id rather title it simply the name of the rom thats in there...not that that has ever stoped me from using this great custom recovery but...still, i've always wondered.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
I just added the rom name to the end of the date and all is good.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] 8616v:
I saw that I was wondering why the date has to stay.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
It took some trial and error to figure it out. Renamed backup looks like this.

2012-04-11--19-54-21-PPICSv5
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] SurgeonKyle:
Really awesome recovery, more or less blows CWM out of the water in usability and features. My only issue with it is the incredibly small home/back buttons on the screens, making it a bit of a pain to hit even for someone like me with thin fingers, but besides that, golden!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] redwiz666:
You can use the captive buttons on the phone to go back also
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] xuser:
Can someone post the ICS theme for this recovery that was is the themes section. Link dead.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] timnexus:
Not sure if this has been asked but can this recovery also install apk files? Thanks
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Maximilian Mary:
It can install anything you want, as long as you build the update.zip to do it.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] mercado79:
for anyone looking for a flashable version, i updated the flashable recoveries thread with twrp 2.1.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1382624
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Google_Nexus:
How can this be team win updated if they disbanded and went to cwm team.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] mercado79:
my understanding was that only one of their members had dropped out of the dev team, but that he was pretty central to it all (or had code that they needed to continue). i guess they must have resolved their issues cause this new release is great.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Google_Nexus:
The issue for me is it really back or has someone se just modded and fixed a few things? I like it better then cwm but want something supported.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] mercado79:
seems like they're in for the long haul, though... you never know. see their blog post for more info, but here's a snippet.

"About a month ago we decided to start working on TWRP again. We still believe that TWRP offers a lot of great features. TWRP is also very fast and very easy to use. Yesterday marked the release of TWRP 2.1 for almost all supported devices as well as support for a few new devices.

In concert with this new release of TWRP is the release of GooManager 2.0. TWRP 2.1 and GooManager 2.0 were designed to work with each other. We believe that this synergy between app and recovery will make it easier for users to interact with TWRP. Team Win is very excited about this new partnership with the staff at goo.im. We feel that the goo.im website offers a great value to developers. It's very easy for developers to upload their ROMs to the goo.im website. The app will check for and notify users about updates to their ROMs. We feel that this whole ecosystem of ROM hosting for developers, notifications of updates, and the app's interaction with the recovery to allow easy installation of ROM updates is a powerful combination and feel that it provides an experience very similar to a carrier's own automated "OTA" update system. We hope that users and ROM developers will embrace this setup."

http://teamw.in/blog/16
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Google_Nexus:
so which of the touch recoveries is better... i do like twrp but is cwm touch better? and is rom manager better then goo manager? i have both on my phone
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Paleryder:
When creating a backup I remember the ability to tick a box and backup the efs file can someone verify this Pease. I can't find this on my new GNex and an not sure if I'm remembering this from my NS4G or a different version for my ToroPlus.thanks
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Skunk Ape1:
I've used both. I found cwm touch to be easier to use for me. I had a few issues with twrp not only with it improperly flashing but with the menu buttons being too close together. TWRP was also missing several of the functions that cwm touch has that I use. Such as format system, boot, cache and data. All twrp offered was wipe cache and data. This may have changed with the newer version but I don't know.

One thing I did like about twrp was the ability to compress backups. The file sizes were closed to half the size.

Try them both....

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Just Flash It !!!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] timnexus:
I have used both and they both have pros and cons. One think I would love to see on both is the ability to install apk files from recovery.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] katmandu421:
I encrypted my phone due to updated work exchange policies and now am unable to flash ROMs with CWM due to inability to mount sd card. I had this issue on my tablet and was able to get around by updating to the Team Rogue recovery.

Would TWRP have whatever feature Rogue has to enable flashing ROMs on enrypted devices?

Thanks for the info in advance. I'm not totally hosed now but the ROM I am currenty running (AOKP 38) is destroying my battery life.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] paul96:
TWRP 2.2 released! http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/74
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] abdielmix13:
Does anyone have issues restoring from back ups? I started having that issue w/ 2.0 so I went back to cwm and a few days ago decided to try 2.1 to see if it was fixed , but I have the same issue again . I wanna know if it's something on my side or if someone else is also having the same issue. Thnx.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Mfeigley:
Next thing you know, we will be texting from recovery :P
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] nwo122383:
I had similar issues with Twrp. When I would do a backup it would start doing it and then seconds later it would say complete,I had to do this a few times to get one good backup. The new version did it successfully on the first attempt. Haven't had to restore yet but it does seem better. Also you can name your backups which is great.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] mercado79:
I had heard that from a couple people, but never experienced issues myself. I always enabled compression and so that might be it.

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S3
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] DirtyShroomz:
Been using twrp since the beginning, before it was stopped. Glad to see an update, works great.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] princetrey07:
Tried to install a ROM with the new version of TWRP and it failed, then when I just decided to instead reboot it wiped my system...
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
Most ROM installs wipe system during the install process.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] princetrey07:
It wasn't the ROM though
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] didhiy:
Will this update come to epic4g?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
Updated to 2.2.2.0!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BananaOG:
Anyone interested in making this update a flashable zip? The others have been wonderful in the past..
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] rustyjay:
I just downloaded the image from website then used flash image GUI and u don't even have to go to recovery.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] ninmeister:
Twice now when trying a new rom (first time cm9, this time cm10), I made a backup in TWRP, wiped, flashed the rom. Tried it for awhile, decided to go back to rooted stock (my backup). It goes through the whole process of restoring, and I end up with a non booting phone. First time this happened I just got stuck looping at the Google screen. This time (a few days ago), it would just dump me back into the bootloader with an error saying something about no boot partition found. And yes, I did back up everything.

It's very unfortunate, as I used TWRP on my EVO 3D and loved it.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] DMardroid:
Forgot about that app. Finally updated to 2.2.2.0 flashimageGUi makes it sooo eeeeasy peeeezy man! :thumbup: