yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
this recovery is just the skyrockets renamed, so it wont pass any device cheecks that a rom update script may deploy. such as cm9

i fixed it in the ram disk. so it will identify as a hercules, like it should
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KonstantinKeller:
This one won't happen to brick the device like Racing said, would it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
i flashed it, because i live by no mans rules... not even my own.

and im not bricked. flashed 3 cm9 builds already to0.

i even pushed the dreaded reboot to recovery button, im still fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KonstantinKeller:
Well, do you think it could brick some phones, but not others? I'm trying to decide whether to flash it or not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
it would either brick people or not, it wouldnt be selective.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KonstantinKeller:
Alright, because I keep seeing that not every phone is the same.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
the mount points on the emmc are the same so if it wipes some ones critical partitions then it would wipe every ones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jester6:
Works perfectly, thanks X!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
I am on AOKP and I cannot get this recovery to recognize my external sd card. I have looked everywhere in every folder and no zip files show up as being on my external sd. WTF?

EDIT: NVM got it. had to go into MOUNT and mount external
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] krackers:
A new brick free version has been released at the skyrocket forum. Mr.X, could you please do your magic mods for the ramdisk?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
link?

although i wonder if it was ever really a problem.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vicvon:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622917&page=8
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
i pm'd the twrp dev. i think those skyrocket bricks were caused by user error and the buggy leak kernel they had that was bricking people.

i have formatted, wiiped ive used every option in the recovery option in the recovery i have already modified and i have not had a single issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vicvon:
I am using your modded version as well. No problems to speak of and I sure do like the look and functionality of TWRP. Thanks for modding it for our phones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chrisa887:
i just flashed this, i going to give it a try. can i still use the backups i made with clockworkmod?

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i just looked under the restore ooption and it is blank, so i guess you cant use the backups from the CWM
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
This recovery is sweet. I have been using it for the last week or so. Absolutely no problems. Seems like backups and restores go much quicker. I like how you can set a multiple files to flash. No cache wipe script needed here. Fixing permissions works flawlessly.

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teh_lorax:
Does anyone have a link to this? The official link on TeamWin's site is dead.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
found the recovery zip attached to Mr.Xs post on page 3..

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25940480&postcount=22
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
do we just flash it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Racing19969:
The link on their site is dead because they removed it. The recovery was causing hard bricks. I haven't seen them post any new updates stating if they found the cause or not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Yea just flash it then reboot recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Did u try this one this ones working fine i used it and other pple no issues http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25940480
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
Wow thats pretty lol Thanks X
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
another confirmed win for TW recovery :cool: just spent some time flashing , backing up, and playing around with TW recovery... works fantastic..

do we need to use darkside superwipe/cache wipe with this recovery?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RikkKeith:
So have you been using it... What did you think, your new recovery?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeypaws:
Are tpu guys using the link above. Scared:(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
Hey where do the back ups store ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Internal or external /TWRP

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] granduke:
Tdizzle404,

I see you hanging out in the AOKP threads. Is that what you were running when you flashed this recovery?

A bit nervous about this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
I flashed aokp and cm9 both using this recovery without any issues. twrp works better for me than cwm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gorillaz1:
if i move a nandroid from CWM into TWRP's folder will that mess things up?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
Honestly i havent tried that. you can keep your backups and make one using twrp..that way if you switch back to cwm you can still use your backups.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] granduke:
Pretty nice.

Interface, displayed info, and options are all great.

Just a few small issues. I wish you could select a directory in file manager and not just open it. Also while creating a backup it said 'success' before the md5 was generated. Again, small issues. Will certainly stay with this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Can we rename the backups without it messing it up?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Karakoram2:
Works
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
So i can change it in root explorer?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Give it a shot and let us know. Worst case you have to rename it back. Make sure you write the current name down someplace.

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defconoi:
This recovery rocks, any chance we'll get official support for this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Galactic2:
is it okay to wipe cache/dalvik in this recovery or should we continue to use Darkside's Cache Wipe??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Micronads:
Have seen no need for tdj cache wipe using this recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lantek23:
Is this the one to download?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Yes

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
I can comfirm changing the backup name doesnt break the backups working fine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] TheSeanTeam:
I love the recovery and it is awesome for flashing. Love to stack the zips.

I have some problems with backing up though. I've seen it say completed like almost instantly. I've seen it lockup during a backup too. Its a but unnerving.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PorchSong:
It looks like TWRP is not making a backup of your .android.secure apps while doing a backup. I searched the .win data file and am not seeing any of the apps that I moved to the sdcard via settings>application>move to sdcard.

Will someone confirm this? I did the backup with the external sdcard mounted too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defconoi:
Any t989 users get hard bricks?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Nossir been going strong ever since why yu ask?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danielblakes:
Fair warning. Hard bricks being reported using this recovery. Even with well established developers (lawstud3nt). I would stay away for now, but to each his own.

Sent from the darkside of my Galaxy S III.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Okay i just changed my recovery im playing it safe a dev just bricked using this im suprised mines didnt
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defconoi:
Ya I just flashed back to cwm recovery, hope the bugs with this get fixed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] granduke:
Damn, really like this recovery and was going to stick with it but considered otherwise and also went back to cwm.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
CWM 5.0.2.7 ODIN tar if anyone needs it. I didnt make it so thanks to the OP ninrocket.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/25811-clockwork-recovery-5027-for-odin-is-here/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] macboy3000:
Can I have at least 1 person with a T989 hard bricked with TWRP speak up (or 1 report of a T989 user hard bricked with TWRP) so it'll convince me to switch back to cwm? I thought it's only people with the skyrocket themselves. I'm still running TWRP with no problems and did not brick when I pressed reboot to recovery, just like Mr. X did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Um one of our devs just bricked today using it and someone in the Q&A thread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] macboy3000:
Idk how the user that got his phone bricked over at the q&a , but I don't think I wipe that way, if he means like he wiped it thru twrp's settings. This is my recovery story (if it ever helps) and my style of wiping:

Recovery story:

The first few weeks, when I had just got the T989, I flashed CWM non-touch 5.0.2.6. After I was worried about davlik not wiping (something like that), I odined back to stock and reflashed cwn non-touch, same version, hoping that it would fix the problem. But it did not, so I just started to ignore the error and updated the recovery to 5.0.2.7 via rom manager. Up until just like yesterday, I heard of twrp here, so I just downloaded it, put it on my phone, rebooted into cwm, installed it, and pressed reboot recovery (without touching anything else e.g. wiping.) And bam, it loaded twrp, in all it's glory. After Beta 6 of TDJ's ucle2 came out, i downloaded it, put it on my phone, and installed it with the following procedure, w/o using the in-recovery wipe features at all:

1. Select these zips in the following order: darkside super wipe, darkside cache wipe, radio (if necessary), darkside cache wipe (if I flashed the radio), rom, darkside cache wipe.

2. slide to flash and wait patiently.

3. when done, press reboot system and set it up.

With that flash method I use, I have no problems with TWRP at all, even rebooting to recovery w/o brick.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
That's because you didn't use any of the recoveries wipe commands
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
And reboot recocery issue was fixed thats why it didnt brick on that part
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
i switched back to cwm. but in a way he is right i wiped data cache and dalvik using twrp i rebooted and didnt have any issues. but still just to be on the safe side i went back to cwm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Yeah, best to be safe man!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] granduke:
Hate to leave this great recovery all together. Anyone thinking of using starskyrob's recovery switcher?

Continue to use twrp for backups, flashing non-ROMs, and other maintenance but for wipes and ROM flashing using the switcher to go to cwm?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
from my experience this recovery was best for flashing roms. but as now stated if you wipe manually you might brick. and robs app is pretty good if you dont wanna odin the recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VoiD_Dweller:
If it's bricking phones not due to user error this thread should be ganked and locked IMHO..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defconoi:
I doubt its user error, some good devs bricked. I was wiping fine and it was good for me but ****ntends to randomly bug out I guess. Don't want it happening to me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Micronads:
I have been using it since x posted the fix. I flash on average once a day. I use all the wipe functions in the recovery, as well as super wipe. Cache wipe is not needed with twrp, tdj made it because cwr was not doing it properly. The only thing i never do is reboot into recovery. I believe that is how law student and the sky rocket people bricked. I am going to stick with this recovery. I have another phone with a busted screen, so the electronic portions are fine. If i brick, i can switch the circuit board to this screen.. I will post details if i do brick, but i don't think it will happen. It would have already.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teh_lorax:
Obviously its not something that happens all the time. But its happened to people who aren't noobs. Based on that, I see no reason to risk it. Its a recovery console for heavens sake. Seems to make sense to me to use one that doesn't have the risk of a brick.

But whatever, enjoy the fancy touchscreen I guess.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Seems to happen on ICS based roms when the brick occurs
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
Another user with t989 reported bricking their phone in darkside thread using twrp and it was a ics ROM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Yeah, I am staying far away from ICS bases and TWRP. Definitely could be something with the ICS leak kernels doing this. It might not be too long before bricks start showing up using CWM as well
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Its weird cause i flashed multiple ics roms with this and wiped manually i dont use super wipe but i just changed recoveries now not taking the chance
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
It wont happen every time, for every user. It's random and you never know when it will happen
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
thats what i dont get. if there is a bug it should brick everyones phone everytime they use the recovery. But it doesnt.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Micronads:
Do some research on cwr, it has had many problems in the past as well. It has also bricked devices. Anytime you are dealing in the recovery menu you risk this. That is why all the devs put a disclaimer in the op. I am not saying this will not brick you, i just hate to see people say cwr won't brick you. It also seems that cwr is not working properly on our phones. Fix permissions, cache wipe, etc... As far as i have read all the bricks happen after people booed into recovery from recovery. Most of what people are flashing now are ics roms, so it also is not right to say it only happens on ics.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
not really, there are always glitches in software and you never know. Same thing is happening with the note on the Ics base. Some brick, some don't. It's really only a matter of time before it happens. There's something in the Ics kernel that's causing bricks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
yeah i read that in the original recovery thread that the bricks were caused by bad ics kernels..but who knows..

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yeah i get what you are saying.. by flashing any recovery you are accepting the ricks bricking or otherwise. but not all the bricks were caused by rebooting recovery from what mrx said that wasnt a issue with the recovery when he tested it extensively. lawstud3nt flashed a rom following normal procedures and when he rebooted SYSTEM his screen went black and didnt boot it got bricked
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Yeah, no one knows for sure. I'm staying away from both for now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
lol i can stay away from this recovery but it is very hard staying away from CM9 ever since they fixed call echo.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VoiD_Dweller:
Yeah same here. I'd rather not risk my expensive phone for a fancy touch screen recovery. I'm fine using hardware buttons. Really, if the dev of this is experiencing bricks, the links should go on hold and it should be figured out before it ruins more units - But that's just my opinion.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
I know what you mean. I'm reluctantly on GB again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Poser:
I have used this recovery to repeatedly wipe cache and davlik. I have also booted numerous times to and from recovery. 2 reported t989 bricks given the number of twrp users does not prove statistically significant. Granted, Lawstudent is an accomplished dev, whom I respect...but that does not mean it is outside the realm of possibility that he introduced an outside element of error. I am reluctant to give up this recovery based on the current available empirical evidence alone. However, that is a personal choice, and I assume responsibility for my decisions. To each their own... I will be watching this thread closely, though :confused:

Huh?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] daveid:
It appears the steps to cause a brick are these:

1. Boot into recovery.

2. Wipe ALL (data, cache, system, boot).

3. Select "Reboot Recovery" without flashing a new ROM.

Has anyone done the exact steps above without bricking? I don't wipe, so no concern here... I also don't select "Reboot Recovery", as I don't see any point in it. So again, I'm good to go using TWRP... ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
Nope, i wipe, flash radio if needed, flash ROM then reboot system. I'm not sure why anyone would even reboot recovery :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Poser:
It would seem wiping the boot sector/partition wothout flashing a new boot.img would be a problem. But recovery lies outside that block no?

Huh?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] daveid:
Right, and most likely TeamWin doesn't think anyone would wipe all and reboot anything, so they never tested doing that. I am going to see if I can't submit a bug report to them, maybe they can just remove the option to reboot the recovery... ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
All of you are correct not everyone is bricking their phones. the reboot recovery option is there without need. and i personally have used the recovery to flash roms radios etc with bricking my phone. but it was just being recommended to not stay on this recovery cuz 2 or 3 bricked there phone in a matter of days. but everyone has the right to decide what they think is right so gl and i hope no one else brick their phone :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] daveid:
Recovery has it's own kernel, though I have never tried booting any device into any mode without having anything installed in /boot. I have wiped /system on devices and forgot to reflash my ROM before booting - but that just loops, since /boot is still intact.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jwleonhart:
With how many peoples phones have been bricked due to TWRP you guys are taking real chances using this recovery.

Should really stick to CWM. It works, and although you have to use the volume rocker, just deal with it.. We've all dealt with it since the beginning of time on other phones and it's stable...

Stable is keyword here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
they already know about the reboot recovery but they though it is fixed cuz no one else had their phone bricked due to it until now. but the bug report my help them

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just incase you dont know there are touch version of CWM ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] daveid:
I sent a report, maybe they will notice.

Also, I know they were aware this happened on the Skyrocket, and had issued an update, Mr X. stated that fix was irrelevant and thus we are using the previous version (or so I gathered from this thread)... wonder what the fix was..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teh_lorax:
Selection bias. We know of it happening on ICS because that's just about the only thing people are flashing right now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jwleonhart:
Yes i'm aware of that... and thats why I stick with good old regular CWM.

sing touch recovery makes things easier of course but i'm fine with the proven method.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
I'm just going off what's happening on the NOTE and other devices running the ICS leak base. And also the developer of this recovery seems to think the same
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] macboy3000:
1. Did that. No problems.

2. I just use tdj super wipe and tdj cache wipe.

3. Did that many times. No problems.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
all the fix was was rm -r instead of formatting partitions. the fix is still irrelevant, the recovery is not bricking phones, users who do dumb **** are bricking phones.

As for the device to booting because you formatted boot. well duh... you should still be able to power it on and boot to recover, failing that you can use a jig or a key combo to get to download mode. formatting boot does nto erase the devices boot loaders it will still power on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LawStud3nt:
But see that was what I found to be the most curious. With two separate "avenues" upon powering on, boot loader and recovery, it does not make sense? That the device does not power on at all after flashing a properly built rom suggests some error occurred in the recovery itself.

Mr. X, you are knowledgeable about the structure of the partitions, what do you think could cause that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Towle:
Is it just a coincidence that pretty much every brick recently has been caused while people were flashing a ROM in this recovery. I know there are obvious ways for people to prevent it, but something people are doing while using this recovery is causing bricks.

And I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying. And there have been a few developers who have agreed, and are saying to avoid this recovery for now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
It's all speculation for me to say that this or that caused the bricks in all honesty. but lets put this in perspective. all our CM9 dev team are now on this recovery and we all flash 2-10 times a day easy. and we all have not had bricks form this recovery. i format this, wipe that reboot to what ever. and i have not had issues. I think other factors have involvement in these bricks, however how do i prove this. every one who brick is unable to provide any usable logs of feed back because they are bricked. i have reviewed this recovery and also talked with the dev. there are no pointers that suggest that anything crucial (bootloaders) are being damaged by the recovery when i look at the recovery its self and the scripts.

Take this into consideration. A user contacted me because he bricked flashing my Stock telus rom. do i know what happened? no. not a chance, it's not possible. but i do know 100's if not thousands of flashes of that rom have taken place and no other bricks. so. the story is. its the name of the game, i guess.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jordanishere:
Good info. I was thinking of trying the new recovery, but the brick reports scared my socks off. Looks like its all user error.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MS_Guru:
Just installed via Clockwork App, was using CWMR5504B14_INSTALL-4.1 recovery, rebooted and flashed normally. Then rebooted again to checkout my new recovery.....

I configured, explored, set my timezone, browsed files, wiped cache and dalvik, and I'm out unscaved. But wow, there's so much more goin on there than any other recovery I've used.

Two words.... Bad Ass!!!! This is one slick recovery! Granted there's allot going on in there, animations, options, etc.. so coding errors could definitly happen. But a noob with lots of pretty, fancy, and oh so easy to push buttons? Doesn't take a genus to figure that one out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
yeah i have been using this recovery for a while now. flashed ICS, GB, AOKP CM9. And all without any problems..