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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mchaos:
tried out twrp yesterday. not a huge fan. well put together and 5 stars for the touch interface but i didn' like the lack of error prevention. what i mean by that is, even though you have to swipe to action, it may protect from an accidental action but it does not give you a chance to think about or catch your own mistake. cwm makes you click past no several times before you commit.

i have 2 suggestions for the devs.

1 add a double swipe. swipe onez(are you sure?) swipe again (action).

2 the ability to look in other directories for backups.

if it had the first one i would run twrp. till the. i am going to stick with cwm.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ECrispy:
Why do some mods, like KindaCrapMods, say that TWRP isn't supported. Is that because they haven't updated to the new formats? And can I fix that by using the new update_binary from here?

If I format my card in pc using guiformat to FAT32, is anything else needed for TWRP to see it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trott33:
I use TWRP exclusively and I have no problems with Kindacrapmods!

Not sure about the SDcard, but that should be fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
Sd card works fine with twrp right after using gui format.

Shh! maybe I'm just paranoid, but I think people are listening....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alquimista:
Are these the KO's for exFAT that you need, in /system/lib/modules:

exfat_fs.ko

exfat_core.ko

If so, then they've been on the SCH-I535 (d2vzw) at least since VRBLJ1, maybe earlier but I don't have time to look it up right now.

Anyway, I'll pop in a exFAT card and see what happens. Probably just need to change vold so it mounts /dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/extSdCard as exfat. Or maybe force it to unmount then remount it with:

busybox mount -t exfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/extSdCard

Could probably just use an init script to check what fs type is the extSdCard, mount it as vfat if its ol FAT32 and mount as exfat if its FAT64.

I should probably sack out now.

Ta,

ALQI
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alquimista:
NVM

I just read all the fun stuff about CWM and AOSP not supporting exFAT cause Micro$oft is ****e.

Its not really a matter of can exFAT be supported, its a matter of not getting sued. Note that Cyanogen has already been pestered before by Google, and that was relatively painless compared to what Microsoft would do to em if they started distributing exFAT support in any way shape or form.

Even this app by Paragon (an offspring of Tuxera, which was an offspring of NTFS-3G), only supports exFAT in some OEM demo mode:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter

Neat little app though, will mount NTFS and HFS+ volumes via USB or even from your SDcard. Not sure why anyone would want HFS+ or NTFS formatted SDcard, but the functionality is there. Probably much more usefull for direct backups or playing media via USB OTG. I think Tuxera was the first to actually get a license agreement for embedded exfat support and shipped their (HAL really) version of exfat with some OEM devices.

Oh well, I went with FAT32, file size limits, warts and all, just cause we will probably see ext4 support before we see openly supported exFAT in the open source community (open support meaning not some hush hush download this patch from some disavowed third party and hope it works, kind of support *COUGH* CF3D).

Its doable on a TW based rom, but currently not worth it. And then you wouldn't be able to crack flash the latest AOKP or whatever AOSP based rom of the minute tickles your fancy.

As for TWRP adding support, that would be cool, but it would be a pain to help confused end users figure out why their SDcard is no longer visible in XX rom.

While I'm at this rant, can we somehow just do away with Microsoft bwned MTP alltogether? Just get rid of anything M$? ;)

TA,

ALQI
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LLStarks:
ADB does not work in Linux when booted into TWRP.

Any suggestions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Personally I always thought that the "error prevention feature" in CWM was a giant PITA & I don't see how a double swipe would help prevent brain dead people from doing something dumb. I guarantee you that adding a double swipe would annoy a large percentage of our user base.

If this is a feature that you really need then you are welcome to create a custom theme to accommodate your needs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alquimista:
Extra thanks for Dees cause he's not going to add a double swype "error prevention" system in. I like the swype, I no like end user protections.

It would be funny as hell if there was a theme that had a "swype" that was actually some convoluted pattern!! But please don't do that.

Ta,

ALQI
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slick_shoes:
the last few nandroid I've been doing doesn't seem to save the data when I restore the file. Any idea why? Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thadrow:
Any idea if this will be updated to support 4.2?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
I've heard this recovery is theme-able has anybody done this or found a theme for it?

Make it so number one!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Updated!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
On it like white on rice!

Make it happen number one!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROID3R:
Its" on it like flies on ****"

iSheep... iSheep... Meowww that's Apple VZW GSIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mailingtechnology:
Anybody else having the time show incorrectly. I double checked my time zone setting was correct.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
Anyone test??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Why not just name the backup prior to doing a nandroid?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JJRules:
External SD

Anyone else having problems mounting external SD again?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
So I noticed with Beans JB TW rom, a very small number of users have had issues attempting to flash Beans rom using TWRP. Several attempts, multiple downloads and no success however once they switch to CWM then the rom installs on the first attempt. Weird thing is, this is a rare occurrence, maybe once in a three-four week span. I can install with TWRP just fine and so can a majority of other users.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why that would occur on a few phones and not all?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neyenlives:
That's never worked right, but it doesn't matter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andybones:
yea mine are saying year 1970, doesn't really matter though, as I completely change the name to the ROM+date anyway.

e.x.: CleanROM_12.29.12
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Thread cleaned!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zetsui:
Hey guys I have the latest version installed on my d2att galaxy s3 and I get the following when trying to flash new 4.2 gapps "updating partition details failed" I have redownloaded the gapps file and from a different site too, through goo.im and same problem. Anyone know what's up. It's almost an instant "failed"

Edit: Not the ideal solution and kind of unsafe but disable zip verification
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
I'm not sure if this issue is ROM specific or OS version specific or recovery specific...

Every since flashing a 4.2 ROM, I have been unable to do a restore with TWRP. I click on restore, and it is just a blank box. There's no files, no folders, etc. when I click on internal or external SD. I tried deleting the "0" user folder that Android 4.2 creates, but I still have the same problem.

Also I know the nandroids still exist because I've found them with my file manager app. They're under the TWRP folder, where the should be (I thought). What gives? Why can't TWRP find them? Am I missing something obvious?

For the record, I'm on AOKP M1 now, which is a 4.1 ROM, so I am surprised it still won't work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thornev:
There's a fat32format.exe that works. Google for it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
Does anyone have an answer for this? Please?

I'm really freaked out to flash anything now because if it causes a problem, I have no way to restore (including my IMEI backup).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
I responded last week when you first posted before a mod removed your post lol

What I originally said was you should update your TWRP to one of the latest versions that are compatible with 4.2. Then you should move over your folders just like how Goose describes here:

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/37316-protip-42-and-recoveries/

I'm pretty sure I'm interpreting your problem as being just the /0 issue which arises from the multi-user support in JB 4.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] goldsmitht:
ok, i know i am old, but the glasses are new.

i've gone through goo manager, and goo.im and can't find the latest version for VZW GSIII. found some darkjellybean and mako, but am pretty sure they are not right version.

any help would be appreciated
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] countryfolk07:
In goo manager you need to hit the menu button and select install open recovery. Follow the instructions from there! :thumbup:

Sent from my Unleashed GalaxyMODed ...... um ...... phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] goldsmitht:
thanks, that did the trick. guess an old dog can learn new tricks

:cyclops:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] michaeldizzowns:
everytime i go to restore one of my backups. i get stuck at the "Samsung galaxy siii" screeen right before the boot animation. WILL NOT BOOT BACK INTO RECOVERY after i restore the backup. no matter what rom i am restoring.

just wondering if anyone has had this problem and found a work around. or if maybe knows something i dont?

thanks guys. but until then, ill just keep using the unbrick method ha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] daturkel:
possibly already posted in this thread, but for me they keyboard (for renaming backups) is extremely...crappy. backspace key takes like five taps to work. GO key never works at all so i can never actually rename a backup.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
I got it taken care of right before reading this but thank you very much (times two)!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DieselNY:
I am coming from CWM and just got GooManager and then in there I clicked menu and then install OpenRecoreyScript. I booted into recovery and see the latest TWRP. I the booted into recovery from goomanger to attempt a back up for the 1st time and noticed the data file is huge, over 3gb, system is 995mb, boot is 10mb and recovery and cache are left unchecked. That Data is huge...not sure why. Do I uncheck that or something? Never seen such a large nandroid in CWM.

I use Titanium Backup for my apps and apps data so maybe I do not need the 3gb data file to be saved in the back up?

Also once I make my 1st back up then try to restore from the back up (to make sure my TWRP is working) do I then delete my CWM files, nandroids, blobs, etc, Maybe just freeze it in Titanium Backup as well?

I really want to get rid of the huge blobs folder in CWM and one of the main reasons I want to switch to TWRP.

Thanks.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
I have been using TWRP for a long time without any issues. I am stuck on this one...

I was flashing a new rom so I cleaned out my internal SD, but left my external SD alone. In TWRP, I cannot select any of the "use external SD" tabs. When I click the circle to the left, nothing happens.

I reseated the external SD card, and did a full reboot with no help. I can't check my external SD card in windows currently (at work), but am hoping to be able to solve this on the go.

Thanks!

EDIT:

I tried a few more things. In the ADB sideload, I get multiple errors saying "E:Unable to mount 'external_sd'" I also cannot see any files when I navigate to the external SD folder using the file explorer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROID3R:
Remount the sd card from the advanced tab.

iSheep... iSheep... Meowww that's Apple VZW GSIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
All I have under the advanced tab is:

Copy Log to SD

Fix Permissions

File Manager

Terminal Command

Reload Theme

ADM Sideload

Under the Mount tab, I cannot select the "use external SD" and I am unable to check the box "Mount SD card" even when the blue bubble is on "Use internal storage"

Am I missing something?

Thank you very much for the help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
You may need to reformat the sd card to Fat32.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
I assume this means to connect the card to a computer, save what I can, and format it through windows? Or is there a better way?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Precisely. Have you been using this same ext sd via recovery just fine or is this a new ext sd that you may have forgotten to format? Also, I have the same options as you under "Advanced." The only way I see to mount or remount the extsd is via "Mount."
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
Ugh.. Sounds good, guess I'm going no phone for a while lol

I have been using the SD card for a few months already without any issues. It has been perfect up until this point. I don't know if I formatted it the first time though, maybe the phone did it on its own. For formatting in windows, do I just right click on the SD card and hit format, or do I need to do something special?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
That's really unusual. Nah, the phone doesn't format it automatically unless you specify it to do so. If it's a 32 GB sd card, that's exactly the steps you need to take. If it's a 64 GB sd card then you would need to try something similar to this process.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
It's a 32 gb one too. Well, thanks for the help. I'll post back tonight when I get a chance to format and see what happens.

Thanks again :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CrustyMcLovin:
I was doing a backup a few weeks ago and the process failed. When I rebooted the system I noticed I could not longer mount my (external) sdcard. I had to take it out of the phone and reformat on a windows box before my phone would recognize it again. I was then able to perform the backup, everything seemed OK until now.

Same thing happened to me again today.. The backup was proceeding as it normally does but then failed at the end with an error generating the MD5. Haven't had the change to attempt a fix again yet so not sure if I can reformat and recover again.

Anyone seen anything like this before?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
What size is the extsdcard and what is it formatted too? Were you performing a nandroid saving to the extsdcard or saving to the internal sdcard?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KINGDROID25:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

Does anyone have issues when trying to type in the name of my backup it always boots me out and have to re do it and at times it does it over and over I have like type blazing fast
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] raypino:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

no issues like that here

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wyvern49:
I have had the same issue since a switched to TWRP. Usually I can get it not to do it if I type slower than normal and make sure I hit each key squarely. Normally I can get it to take the name in one or two tries, sometimes though it has taken as many as four tries.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KINGDROID25:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

Lucky (napoleon dynamite voice)

Tht has gotten me soooo frustrated Tht I've considered going back to cwm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

Lmao I was watching that earlier today. I had that same thing happening to me. Idk if it had anything to do with my modified build.prop having soft keys on my TW so I removed that line and it seems to be acting normal while in TWRP
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wyvern49:
I don't have anything on sof tkeys in my build prop. I use Nova rather than TW. Thank you for the information though, it may well help someone else.

If anyone has any other possible solutions please post. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KINGDROID25:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

That happens to me whether I'm on tw or aosp it drives me crazy.. I've given up and jus rename after I make a back up..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

This has been happening to me as well for a while. I have been checking back here for an update regularly. I have even redownloaded and installed from goo. And switched to cwm and back to fix.

Make it so number one!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KINGDROID25:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

So u went back to cwm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

No. Only switched for a minute. Always come right back to twrp.

Make it so number one!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] raypino:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

the only issue I had was putting special characters in the name and I am coming from cwm. now does anyone know if there is a darker theme? or maybe a dimmer version?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CrustyMcLovin:
This was a 32Gb card formatted FAT32. The error occurred while doing a nandroid backup to the same external sd.

I suspect its simply the card, to test I swapped sdcard's with my old Nexus One. On that phone I have a 1GB st-ext partition and then mount /data on it since internal storage is really small. Everything was fine for about 2 days until that sd-ext partition went corrupt on me. Now I'm convinced its just a bad sdcard and nothing to do with TWRP whatsoever. My bad!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.3.3.0 touch recovery [2012-12-19]

Ahh, that's unfortunate. Thanks for getting back to me though. If you can, save any important data on that sdcard since it's causing you issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

Oh wow, does the changelog really say it supports exFat? That's really great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeman45:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

Ok so I just flashed twrp from ez recovery app and I've been rooted since the beginning and I never did the official jelly Bean ota update. Can I still update the new version of TWRP through Goo manager or do I have to do it some other way. Ive always used cwm so I'm not sure about this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

All that other stuff is irrelevant, just update using GooManager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Maroon Mushroom:
Updating broke recovery. Anyone else have the same issue?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

Broken in what capacity?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] andybones:
no, I downloaded the .IMG from the TWRP website and used the Ez recovery app to install, and all is fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
I'm not seeing any issues either, I just did a nandroid on 2.4.0.0 and it went by fine. I updated through GooManager although it took two times to get it to download the img.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeman45:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

I thought I read somewhere that it was different from people who did the jb ota and who didn't
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] unhappybirthday:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

That's for getting rooted/unlocked in the first place. You should not have to worry about it again unless you lose your recovery and rooted ROM at the same time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] raypino:
Re: [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.4.0.0 touch recovery [2013-01-29]

which img did you download? I used goo manager did a search and i don't know which one is for our phone

edit: never mind, just figured it out

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DAMAGEvINC:
how to install the 2.4.0.0 i only see options to dl .img or .tar How can i just go into twrp and flash the update??

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im on d2vzw
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pdinphx:
** How to access your Zips/Backups **

This was very confusing to me, as I was inclined to look under >sdcard and >sdcard-ext to find my backups and zip files.

I'm still a little baffled by the architecture of the directories as listed by TWRP, but here's what I did to locate my files:

1. Backup files are accessible through >data>media>TWRP, even though they are stored on your internal SD card.

2. Zip files you want to flash are also accessible through >data>media, if you first move them to the root of your internal SD card before booting into recovery.

If someone can clarify or better explain how this recovery actually works, please do ...

Pj

Phoenix, AZ

---------- Post added at 11:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:09 PM ----------

Yup ... read my reply above to get a better idea what to do once you have recovery installed and want to actually use it.

Pj

Phoenix, AZ
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] :
So after looking around a little, here's what I've found about the internal memory/external sdcard.

While booted (not in TWRP):

internal - /mnt/sdcard/

external - /mnt/extSdCard/

While in recovery (TWRP):

internal - /data/media/

external - /external_sdcard/

As far as I can tell, the "Use external SD" and "Use internal storage" buttons don't seem to work. Also thanks to previous poster for the location of the internal card.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
i can not restore from this, altough i have the one posted in the root thread, 2.1.8, should i upgrade? When ever i hit restore there is nothing listed, i can't chose what to restore. Can someone please say how to use this to make it find the files? they are there, in data/media, using the file manager, but can't do anything with them. I should have just stayed with clockwork mod.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] joebrady119:
Great Job! Install was cake!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
be careful, looks like you can;t actually restore from this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ScottIsMyName:
Have you tried going to the directories listed above?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
yes, but what does that do, i can't chose to restore anything. if i am missing something here please tell me, because there is nothing in restore that lets me look for a backup. In install i can navigate to the folder but can't chose anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] EM2_Rob:
Just to be sure, you did make a backup correct?