yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
twrp drivers?

2.6.0.0 and earlier releases i had no probs accessing sdcard, 2.6.0.3 and 2.6.1.0 i could not access the sdcards, flashing 2.6.0.0 over 2.6.1.0 i got sdcard access back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mimart7:
Samung just updated their usb drivers a few days ago. It was updated on 8/14.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxboarderxx:
Hi Everyone,

I flashed the2.6.1.0 zip made by vincom. I have a couple of questions.

1. I can't seem to wipe the preload. Any ideas? It just keeps failing.

2. I was able to clean install 4.3 but it wasn't stable enough for me so I tried to go back to 4.2 by doing a full wipe (except for preload because again, it fails) and did a restore of the nandroid and my screen was all screwed up when it loaded.

Anyway, I had to do a full wipe and install 4.2 from scratch. No biggie but anyone smart that may have an explanation for either questions would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to learn.

Edit: Just noticed my sig has TF300 as I created this post w/ the tablet but I was referring to my Skyrocket.

Thanks!

x
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
I dunno... I never bother with preload.. Don't think we'd have to.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] young440:
I can confirm this. Clearing Preload just doesn't work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
if youre on cm based roms there is no preload and since there is no preload twrp will shoot out an error, only stock based jb roms have it, I have not tested on stock, that's my thinking anyways
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] young440:
Oh. Well I feel not so smart now. Derp
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
no prob, its just an educated guess as i don't want to test it on stock.

to xxboarderxx , I was on 10.2 than restored a 10.1 and it went flawless

you could try an odin install or use goo to install twrp to see if preload still fails on cm roms, I think it would
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seemles:
Both CarbonRom and ChaOS both have preload. Carbon 4.3 and ChaOS 4.2.2 both will not restore from a backup properly on latest twrp because preload can not be wiped
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
how big are those roms, preload iirc was to get more system apps installed from the bloated stock firmwares because of memory limitations, has any1 tried it on stock

edit: I checked out carbon, its not big at all, I wonder why they would want to use preload

edit: I dl carbon and checked out their script, there is no reference to preload, are you sure it uses preload.

is their a chaos rom for our phones? I haven't seen it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seemles:
I had chaos installed, I made a backup in twrp with everything checked including preload. I then flashed carbon. Went back into twrp and backed up carbon. Restored chaos and it failed because preload can't be wiped. Restored chaos with out preload and it completed successfully however after boot the ROM was unusable and display was garbled and unreadable. Same happened with my carbon backup restore with out preload checked. My guess is twrp isn't really backing up preload.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
i think you have other problems, afaik those roms don't need or use preload, when running the rom see if you can find a preload folder, i bet u cant, or ask in their dev threads if anyone is using twrp or if they can confirm the use if preload
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddgoat:
Does anyone have link to, or flashable zip of 2.6.0.0 by chance? I use mount USB option a lot and kinda need this working for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29080999
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
had the same problem, while usb is plugged in and booted to recovery, goto windows device manager and see if theres a 1727 listed, if it is update the driver
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
To save some scrolling: http://d-h.st/A0q
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddgoat:
Thanks!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
twrp 2.6.0.3 and 2.6.1.0 and 2.7.0(2.7 has no preload wipe or mount options) has issues installing Samsung stock based roms, embryos rom seems to be ok but I have not tested w/all his updates or versions as these roms take forever to install and boot, so idk.

did not test embryos nandroid backup.

cwm by lingowistico installs them fine but did not test nandroid.

2.6.0.0 has no issues on installing them but did not test the nandroid backup and seemed to handle preload fine but honestly cant remember

it could be the preload that's causing issues but don't know for sure but its a good bet as they don't wipe the preload, but you can manually delete the preload within recovery by mounting preload then deleting it in the twrp file manager.

if coming from stock based roms and going to cm based roms the preload partition is still there but not visable in cm no matter what file explorer u use.

to check if its there in twrp mount preload then use twrp file manger to check, it will be at the root folder.

I wanted to test further but damn the stock roms as they take too long to test everything
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Starymari:
Hey [MENTION=4057370]vincom[/MENTION], have you noticed much difference between 2.6.1.0 and 2.7.0?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
missing preload in mount, iirc also in wiping, let you know soon about that since I went back and started testing again, I really have no life
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Hey, this is a life. We like our devices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mlkjuggalo:
With 2.7.0 do you have the option to pick the external SD when making backup ? Also when wiping do you have option to wipe external SD ? I'm not seeing them .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Starymari:
I don't have a life either so don't feel bad! I love my phone so I spend lots of time on it! I really appreciate you spending the time to test stuff!

Thanks again bud! :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
2.7.0 doesn't recognize sdcard1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
as for 2.7 I suggest not to install, win7 did not see sdcards and there was no updated driver to install this time as w/2.6.03 and 2.6.1.0, no preload option in wiping, mounting or backup. doesn't see ext. sdcard for backups. doesnt see ext. sdcard for installing zips

2.6.03 and 2.6.1.0 does install stock based roms but only if the roms updater-script is written correctly to mount/unmount/format the preload partition.

they will backup the preload partition but when restoring cannot format the partition and will state fail in restoring.

it cannot wipe the partition

when restoring the backup it states fail and when rebooting from the failed backup it will state no os is installed but it will boot as the preload is the last partition to get restored and preload apps are still there because twrp could not delete them.

you can view the preload contents by mounting it first and use twrp's file manger to view the contents of the preload folder.

you can manually see/delete the contents of preload partition from twrps file manager if you mount the partition first.

2.6.0.0 installs any stock rom doesn't matter on the updater script, does not have any probs restoring/making nandroids and can wipe the contents in preload from the wiping menu but there will be an empty lost and found folder within preload folder, you can delete the folder by unmounting it first then delete it in twrp's file manager.

conclusion, stock based roms should stick to twrp 2.6.0.0 or latest cwm, 2.6.0.0 is compatible with cm10.2 jb 4.3 and reboots fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ctalcant:
I have had no problems backing up to external SD and restoring from external as well on 2.7.0. And I believe it is labeled microSD instead of external. I'll double check
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
on istalling zips if you ever switch to int. card there is no option to go back to ext. card

for restoring and creating backups there is only the int. card to choose from
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsfletch:
Great couldn't just put the download link. I just used goo manager to update to 2.6.1.0 and it bricked my phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
2.6.1.0 has no problems. Doubt that bricked your phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
all links in the 1stop sticky, goo is dangerous if the user picks the wrong phone model to flash, if u used the right one then I doubt its bricked, hopefully just soft bricked
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsfletch:
The links in the sticky are for goo manager and unfortunately it's hard bricked. Good thing I'm less than a month away from an upgrade

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My bad Vincom, you mean your top sticky. I've never had any problems with any of your links and It's not like I'm a newbie but **** happens. It's just unfortunate that we have posts like this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
no theyre not, goo is an app that u use on your phone, I have no goo twrp links in the sticky

edit: I see you redited ur post, what file did u use, did u use the goo app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ozziedog:
Delete Post
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsfletch:
pointless
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ozziedog:
Delete post
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
^^^ +1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
^^ i updated the stickys to reflect this and the how to install twrp sticky to use 2.6.0.0

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
correction: 2.6.0.0 is not compatible with cm10.2

looks like were in a double recovery situation, 2.6.0.3 and up for cm10.2.

and for stock roms 2.6.0.0, twrp devs are messing things up abit

EDIT: weird, using 2.6.0.0 did a full wipe then I flashed a sept 1 cm10.2 build I compiled myself and it reboots fine, will continue to reboot to test. did cm10.2 change something to make it work w/twrp 2.6.0.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
Bricked mind the same way 2 weeks ago, mobiletechvideos was able to JTag it back to life... Cost some, but much cheaper than a new phone...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
k, someone mentioned this b4 but I overlooked it, w/twrp's newer versions and the preload partition for Samsung JB stock based roms/firmwares that have preload, all Samsung JB stock based roms including custom(eg. embryo's) have preload except for the superlite roms,

when on stock and want to wipe and/or restore a backup nandroid>> in twrp goto settings and check "use rm -rf" , this setting will correctly handle the damn preload partition for wiping and hence the restoration of a backup with preload.

cm roms and its derivatives do not use the preload partition which is basically all the custom roms except for samsung based roms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Not sure if you have noticed but TWRP 2.6.3.0 is now available! Notable changes right from TWRP's site:

•Proper backup and restore of SELinux contexts (thanks to Tassadar)

•Pull in some ROM information for backup name generation

•Merge all recent patches from AOSP bringing TWRP up to date with Android 4.3

•Add 1200x1920 theme (thanks to Tassadar)

•A few other fixes and tweaks

I read too that it has fixed the preload erasing issue, I will report back if there are any issues.

Edit: No errors at formatting preload and the back button is working without tapping or scrolling on something else!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
made a twrp flashable zip 2.6.3.0, flashed onto my phone successfully

added it to the 1stop sticky

edit: confirmed that the preload is wiped with the formatting extfs command

the buttons seem to work w/out mashing them
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
Beat me to it again... :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yogi-4:
Doesn't matter who does it, we appreciate who ever does. I thank you both for your contributions in every aspect of xda.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
too slooooow lol

1 odd behavior , flashed a rom and wanted to wipe it immediately w/out booting it but the wipe fails, it seems as if some partitions are still mounted so they cant be formatted, rebooting recovery solves the issue

1 nice thing is it names the backup with the name of the rom after the date
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mlkjuggalo:
With new 2.6.3.0 I get error when trying to fix permissions on 4.2.2 & 4.3 ROMs anyone else ? Other than that looks to flash , backup & restore both 4.2.2 & 4.3 ROMs just fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I just tried it on mine with CM10.2 and it fixed it perfectly. I used the tar file on TWRP's site and flashed it with ODIN to get to 2.6.3.0, did you use the zip file because it shouldn't make a difference otherwise? Also did u try wiping and doing a clean install of any ROM and then fixing permissions as it might be a corrupted file?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mlkjuggalo:
Yes I used the zip file & yes I wiped everything and did a clean install of Beanstalk 4.3 still same for me. Going to test some more and see if I can find why its not working for me .

Edit just flashed 2.6.3.0 zip again now all is working .Strange but at least it works now :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
if using odin I made a twrp 2.6.3.0 tar.md5 file, this way odin can verify integrity of file b4 flashing it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] alanjames01:
So how do I convert from non-touch cwm to latest twrp? I am running 4.3 PAC with no problems. Would I have to do another full PAC install from clean?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Just flash twrp in your cwm recovery. It'll replace it. Don't have to re-flash the rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Mr. X-:
I modified the first Skyrocket TWRP for the t989, i mean all it really needed was a ram disk edit for the props to identify as a hercules instead of a skyrocket.

Now, i used the old skyrocket recovery, and it has not caused any bricks i have been doing what ever in it. I've used every format option, ive clicked on reboot into recovery which users initially reported were bricking the device. I pretty must tried to abuse my phone, and all is well.

I have a feeling that it was the roms people were flashing causing bricks and i'd hate to see the dev waste his time. i mean with these leaks, hell a t989 user bricked just rebooting from the leaked rom, that i made and flashed about 20 (other users are flashing it and still on it fine as well) times for logging and testing. I have no idea what happened with that user, but user error is always a factor to consider, given the circumstances that my self and many others are fine.

What we have to consider here is if the recovery were to be bricking, it would be because it was formatting the partition table or important bits on the emmc like the sbl's and what not. this would not be a selective proses, it would either brick every one or no one.

I was also informed by a Samsung coder that the leaked skyrocket kernel had a huge bug that could be triggered by certain user actions that could potentially cause bricks. it has been fixed and that's why there was a second leak. it was a fixed kernel.

anyways, wanted to say thanks for the recovery its great, i'm one of the CM9 devs for the skyrocket and hercules. and if you'd like to support the t989 (hercules) officially i am sure that would make a lot of people happy. people have been flashing my "modded" skyrocket version of twrp with no issues. And like i said we have been using the "device bricking" version.

Jeff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SolsticeZero:
Thanks for posting that. I, too, had a feeling it was those bad kernels that was causing the bricks, since they were rather random.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
I thought the bad kernels were only exynos variants?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I want to use this bad boy so bad lol half tempted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SolsticeZero:
I stress tested this extensively over the weekend with different roms, different wiping, different flashing methods and I had no problems at all. It's a safe bet that the bricks were due to the bad kernel from one of the leaks.

The bad kernels affected the Note, too, which is Qualcomm based; so it's not just Exynos.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Mr. X-:
It was any device with capacitive buttons that were effected :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Khizar:
been using this recovery on my t989 since Mr.X edited the ram disk.. it is working really good and i have no issues. Thanks TeamWin and Mr.X
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KonstantinKeller:
So it should in NO WAY brick (as in even reboot recovery) the T-Mobile UVLC8 Leak? Since it doesn't have the kernel bug. does it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
I've flashed this recovery twice with zero problems yet I believe I read within the AOKP thread that twrp is (was?) not compatible. Anyone using twrp with AOKP?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Khizar:
I flashed aokp using twrp didnt have any issues other than the ones posted.

PS i used both non-touch and touch cwm to flash ics roms but they were all buggy but when i flashed using twrp the recovery solved all the issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SolsticeZero:
I flashed AOKP with no issues whatsoever.

Sent from my Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] frescoraja:
(EDIT : thought i was in hercules forums.. sorry.. still might be pertinent info)

Just to let you guys know, i hard bricked my phone last night using this recovery

did a wipe of data, cache, dalvik, sdcard, rotation(didn't really know what this was..?), external sd card, then i mounted USB, loaded my ROM zip (darkside digital warfare 2.7) , unmounted usb, then i had to go into settings i think and change what was mounted because it wouldn't find any zips to install, still would not install after mounting external sd card and telling it to use external sd card, so i went into the file manager, found that indeed nothing was mounted (sdcard was empty, sd-ext was empty, etc) so i rebooted my phone and blAAATT nothing

i was just reflashing darkside warfare 2.7 after trying out the ATT based 4.0.4 leak from TDJ.

luckily it's insured from tmobile, getting a replacement shipped should get here tomorrow. a little worried they will find that my phone was rooted and charge me retail on the replacement.. any thoughts?

thanks

frescoraja
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] OFWGKTADGAF:
as long as you can't boot into recovery or download you should be good. i was worried they werent gonna replace mine after i bricked it but they did no questions asked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dees_Troy:
Most likely this was your fatal mistake. At this point I wouldn't trust any of the ICS kernels for Samsung devices until an official release hits. They're known to cause bricks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SolsticeZero:
frescoraja: I'm not bashing you or anything, but why would you wipe things if you don't know what wiping them does?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shabbypenguin:
that was what killed you, do not use ics based recoveries to wipe anything, they have had a history of bricking devices for a while now...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] frescoraja:
this time i did it just because i wanted as thorough a wipe as possible and i had done it before with no ill-effect. the first time i did though.. i guess i was just feelin groovy.

i don't know what you mean by ICS based recoveries.. can you elaborate?

PS even though i got a replacement today, i am still going to try and JTAG the bricked one .. i am hoping i can use the same software that came with another qualcomm chipset that i have jtagged the bootloader onto before.. anyone know where i can find out more about the chipset in our phone? things like bootloader address space?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rmriggin:
Can you even get into download mode witha jig?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mbucks911:
im just wondering... how did you hardbrick without even flashing anything i dont think it has to do with sammy ics kernels that problem has mostly been for sgs1 and exynos sgs2 i havent heard of any bricks happening to skyrocket folk because of that but i may just be blind. when you say hardbrick you mean no download mode and you cant reboot back into recovery right? because if you wipe everything in recovery then dont flash a new rom it wont have anything to boot, so it would make sense that nothing would happen when you try to boot it. btw why did u need to delete sdcard and external sd? thats usually not necessary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SolsticeZero:
That problem has also been for the Note, which is basically the exact same internals as our device. So it's quite possible
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
edit: what he said.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dillfever:
Quick question when you're backing up your rom do you backup preload also? 4.2 and 4.3 tanks dill
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
as its been stated b4, cm and its derivatives dont use preload, only stock jb roms use it

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yogi-4:
It seems the back button issue seems to be resolved. This seems to be a little quicker than previous versions. I did flash it twice (Thanks Vincom) and works great.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jondroid2:
Just started using this today and like magic, I'm now able to backup and restore from my 16gb ext memory card. Right around the time I flashed back to stock a couple months ago, I've only been able to use nandroids from internal. Not much room to work with:banghead: It could still be a hit or miss problem on my end, but so far today I've successfully backed up and restored 3 different 4.3 ROMs from ext. One of them was yours:) :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mauix:
So, can we use 2.6.3.0 for any ROM or do we still need to stay with 2.6.0 for Stock 4.1x ones and use this one for 4.3 ones?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
yes, use 2.6.3.0 for all roms, stock or custom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] neptronix:
Can anyone confirm same issue

Can anyone confirm the same

Just a heads up, although not ROM specific issue. The latest TWRP 2.6.3 beware of using. Multiple attempts on installing more than one 4.3 ROM, causes weird issues with storage space and communicating (Google servers errors.?) Tried several times, different roms, .......reverted to 2.6.1.0 with .flash able zip I had on SD, and no problems. Proceed with caution, not sure why multiple attempts resulted in same issues. Mainly with ROM not properly realizing the internal space for apps to be able to use. It thought there was less than there really was resulting eventually in the "insufficient space" error installing any further apps. Multiple attempts, same issues, usual X3 wipes, and clean ROM installs. Reverting to 2.6.1.0 .....no problems.