yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
FWIW, Here's some TWRP uncompressed vs compressed backup info:

I backed up System (351 MB), Data (1864 MB), and Boot (10 MB) to my class10 64GB sandisk (reformatted to fat32 for CM10 support), so 10MB/sec was the write limit bottleneck.

The only setting that I enabled which is off by default, was "MD5 checking of backup files", because I'm paranoid about file integrity.

* uncompressed backup was 2298496K (2.2GB), and took 292 seconds (just under 5minutes)

* compressed backup was 1746144K (1.7G) and took 829 seconds (just under 14 minutes)

Summary: An average compressed backup takes about 3 times longer, and saves about 25% of the space vs uncompressed.

So until I'm running low on space, I think I'll stick with 2 or 3 uncompressed backups, since the time savings is > space savings in my case.

HTH.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Thank you for sharing that. I was actually wondering the same thing, but barely have the patience for an uncompressed back-up, so couldn't bring myself to sit through a test of a compressed one. Your results make it clear (for me at least), that unless space is at a critical level, the cost benefit ratio is far too costly. Lol, unless you are a collector of HD movies, I doubt space could ever be an issue for you with a 64gb card.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
Any word re screenshots?

Any word re screenshot potential?

Thanks,

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickriego:
hi all..Just got my gs3..not sure which file to download from goo.. anyone point me out please? n thx btw

..sEeds.oF.eLiTe.bReEds..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mitchdickson:
Hit the menu softkey, install open recovery. It's that simple.

Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickriego:
ty!

..sEeds.oF.eLiTe.bReEds..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Boobie Watcher:
So if i'm just stock rooted...i can just do this method and flash away?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Micronads:
Yes
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
I just started using this and this is my first root. Is it normal that the contents on my internal SD get wiped when I unmount /data and wipe /data. I flashed aokp and left my nandroid on the internal but everything was wiped. Fortunately I had it on my ext as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Micronads:
it is not wiped you just don't know where to look for it. Data/media is your internal card.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
/data/media gets wiped every time I wipe /data. So I'm guessing the SD is sharing the partition and gets wiped. How necessary is it to unmount data and wipe it when flashing a fresh rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
You should use factory reset & not use the format data option which specifically states that it will wipe your media.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
Thanks. In many rom instructions it recommends to wipe /data but that doesn't seem 100% necessary to me
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phoneguy589:
tried to install via goo app and it cannot find my device. Installed fine using terminal emulator though. Tried reinstalling goo manager but no luck flashing recovery. Could it be I'm on CM10?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
No it's been an issue with goo. Would you explain your method for the otherway I tried it yesterday and no go
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crawrj:
That is because the normal wipe data is a factory reset. It wipes out the system but leaves your internal sdcard alone. In twrp they added a feature called format data which wipes everything, including the internal sdcard.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sidn3y:
Did I fudge something up?

Followed the directions at TWRP's website.

"su"

"dd if=/sdcard/Download/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18"

Rebooted into recovery via GooManager.

Currently at a screen that shows:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Altair8800:
ExFAT support

Does this support exFAT external SD cards? I know team epic's one does not. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
Anybody's thoughts on why goo is down for recovery
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Rogers, bell and telus are d2can.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Amon37:
Does this have the option to restore just /data like CWM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Yes, but you do it slightly differently in TWRP vs CWM: You uncheck all the checkboxes except for data for all the partitions you backed up, which is System, Data, and Boot by default. So, uncheck System & Boot to restore only data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Amon37:
Gotcha thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
Goo down again :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mirrored:
can you use this with Paranoid Android (based on CM10)? The Goo Manager beta app isn't showing me any available touch recovery
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
Yes it's down again

---------- Post added at 02:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:34 AM ----------

Here's what I get
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nubreed000:
"No recoveries were found for your device"

...could this be because I have CWM installed?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Micronads:
What Rom are you running? It didn't work for me one time because my phone was listed as a nexus because i had Google wallet installed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bud951:
Forgive the dumb question.. What does just restoring data do? Say I do a complete wipe (which is all I ever seem to do) and install a new rom. Will restoring just data from previous rom (as long as its the same type of rom) restore all of my rom settings or does data mean app and app data?

Also, I love this recovery. I think its better than CWM. Can we expect an update that fixes the 'mount' feature? Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cquilliam:
Any success stories on getting this on Bell SGH-I747M ? Will d2att work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Works flawlessly on my Rogers i747m, so should be the same for Bell.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
I'm with bell and this works 100%. You will have to flash with terminal emulator
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aerdman:
Also working on my bell phone, though i used adb to install it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
Finally got around to trying this out today and all I can say is WOW. This is the most complete recovery I've ever seen. Made it well worth the time to switch back and forth from CWM to renand some backups I want to keep.

Thank you so much.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lgsshedden:
strange how much we are creatures of habit: familiar with cwm we are reluctant to shift to something new even when the cwm variant for our phone is no longer optimal -- well finally installed TWRP tonight, used goomanager and the d2att option for my Bell i747 which is running on the latest LH1 firmware courtesy of the Triune II ROM. Very nice. The simplicity of the interface, being able to backup without the 3 button thing or the extended power menu -- little things but it has taken a while for someone to revamp the recovery process -- kudos. Also like that the cleaning of a phone between ROM installs has been improved and made far more user friendly with this program. Cleaning the phone makes for far less issues with new installs and the ability of TWRP to facilitate this is much appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] airtower:
Can I change the download path in goomanager to /data/media/goomanager and have the recovery scripts execute properly? Leaving at the default pointing to /storage/sdcard0/goomanager causes the flash to fail since nothing mounts to /storage in the actual recovery itself.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] turilo:
They have this recovery for the i9300?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
I made a flashable zip. I haven't tried it. It is experimental. FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK. Let me know if it works
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] airtower:
Confirmed this works. Finally I can download, order and flash zips from goo manager :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Is anybody else having trouble seeing the contents of there internal sd card? I see external fine but internal doesn't show a thing. Was working fine for weeks until today.

Edit: nvm found it lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
cant believe I've been passing right over this I mean after being on CWM for so many years and seeing the screen shots of this recovery it just look so foreign I saw it when I had the skyrocket and paid it no mind.now the other day was flashing my boys phone but his recovery was so old we was having problems thread said to install some recovery and or TWRP.. we went with TWRP just because it was the easiest to install after that we had no problems and after 5 mins of playing with it I ran home to see about installing this recovery on my phone.. it is the sickest user friendly recovery I've ever seen from the features to being able to name your recoveries what ever you want the best great work on this!! RIP CWM..lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sk8trix:
dat>media= intetnal memory card
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
IKnowRight. I had been using CWM for years before switching to TWRP a few weeks ago, and I don't know why I waited so long. :)

Best features I love about TWRP:

* Easier touch user interface

* Queuing up multiple zips to flash all at once in order (rom, gapps, o/c kernel, bootanimation... GO!)

* Named backups

* Wipe cache/dalvik & reboot buttons right after dirty flashing anything is so convenient

Worst things about TWRP:

* When you choose "Install" to pick a zip to flash for the first time, you have to swipe down down down down past all the folders up top to get to the files you want on the internal /sdcard/ at the bottom. None of the sorting options fix this problem. There needs to be a "Show folders before files" setting added that we can toggle OFF, imo. With CWM you could just tap the volume button up once, and it would wrap the cursor around to the bottom.

* The "odd" /data/media mountpoint for /sdcard/ etc, but you get used to it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
is it common to get an error when choosing the format data option?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mbc663:
Happens with me as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
I just tried to usb mount from recovery that was a NO GO anyone else having this issue?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
yep, same here. i read all over that this recovery is god, but both this issue and the one i mentioned above seem pretty major to me, and i like to use both of those options when in cwm. i love the layout, and everything else ive tried on it seems to work fine, but those two issues are deal breakers for me. especially since ive asked about one multiple times in this thread and i cant seem to find a fix at all.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
You need to unmount /data in options somewhere. But if you factory wipe I'm pretty sure it wipes /data except for /data/media which is your SD. When flashing new roms I've never had to wipe or format /data with twrp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Updated to 2.2.2.0!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Frowben:
Goo manager now works for install open recovery on Canadian devices as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PacoBell:
The date bug is still present in this release. Will this be addressed soon? I absolutely LOVE everything about this recovery except that it makes organizing my backups nearly impossible.

EDIT: https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues/14 Oh... well that kinda sucks =(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] citsong:
Just name your backups whatever you want. It's one of the features that made me switch. I like having the rom name along with the date cuz i'd always forget which rom had which date.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] saj222:
Yes I found that too and boy am I happy. I flashed the last version manually which was a little nerve racking.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
I wonder if you have an att phone with a Canadian based rom(like me) if flashing the d2can has negative effects, or possibly brick. I did run goo manager and it said update for d2can....kinda bugged me out so I flashed d2att via terminal. Can anyone shed any light on if this is okay or not? Tia.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] citsong:
I'm pretty certain they are the same. Canadian users were fine flashing the d2att if they were on an att based rom. I'm on rogers and used d2att without any problems.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
For the previous version I was on a Canadian phone plus Canadian (Rogers) stock rom and I flashed d2att with no issues whatsoever.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bud951:
The update is not working for me. Im stuck at v2.2.1 GM downloads and says "recovery installed" but no reboot. When I do reboot its still says v2.2.1. Anyone else having this issue? I love TWRP. Can I flash this via ODIN or TWRP/CWM? someone posted a .zip but its v 2.2.1.. How about version 2.2.2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tarick09:
Thanks for the Recovery. Installed via GooManager, on my Virgin I747M, that was fast and simple.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] milleirish:
I have never used TWRP I have always used CWM. So do you keep CWM on your phone or do you have to uninstall it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] citsong:
When you install TWRP it removes CWM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] saj222:
Further to this, our device can only have 1 recovery at a time. But you can go back and forth between them.

Just know that the CWM and TWRP nandroid backups are not compatible with each other.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
I'm gonna try to make a zip later.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
so been using this for bout 4 days its hands down the best Recovery I've ever used just updated to 2.2.2.0 even with the other ver. I cant figure out how to mount usb /sdcard i choose mount plug in and never get recognized.. I'm i doing something wrong? I swear the change log said that its fixed:confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Peoplearmy:
Check your version in TWRP most likely you are still on 2.2.1. There seems to be a problem with goo manager updating the recovery.

Edit: Was able to get 2.2.2.0 installed. Downloaded the new recovery here http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/d2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-d2att.img and then manually pushed the recovery using ADB however the mount usb option is not available under mount menu.

DX
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
It may be possible to get USB mass storage mode working on the SGS3 devices, but it will only work for the removable sdcard. The internal "sdcard" is actually part of the /data partition and formatted as ext4 which Windows won't recognize without a custom driver. Worse, since Windows doesn't recognize it, it will offer to format it for you!

I don't have a SGS3 device myself, so I have to work with external testers to try to figure it out and it hasn't been easy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
why is it that we can write to the sdcard just fine from windows when the phone is booted into the android os?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PacoBell:
Isn't it going through MTP mode at that point? You can read up on the protocol on Wikipedia if you're unfamiliar.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
Here is a flashable recovery.zip for TWRP 2.2.2.0. I have tested this and confirm it works!

If it works for you please let me know so more people can use this great recovery.

And yes I named the file 2.2.0 instead of 2.2.2.0. Just realized that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kublis:
Flashed using cwm I would assume?

I do have one question. I currently have twrp on, but want to go back to cwm to restore a couple of my backup so I can back them up using twrp. How do I get back to cwm without using adb (don't know how to use it)? I tried terminal emulator, but it kept giving me an error: an "unknown operand if" error as it doesn't recognize the operand.

I using Ariel Rom and it does not use superuser, but something else. I'm thinking maybe it has a different command? The above worked for me before with superuser. Any help is appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
Yes just flash with cwm. You just flash cwm with one of their zips located in the sticky thread. And superuser should only be needed when using say titanium so that would be your only kink in that plan. I'm not sure how Ariel rom runs since I never have used it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crawrj:
Worked great. Upgraded from 2.2.1 with no issues.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
Glad to hear man. The way I initially installed twrp 2.2.1 really bugged me and I was surprised no one made a zip.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
I am on 2.2.2.0 says it on top of the recovery menu...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
got a question theres this folder called universal flashers theres a bunch of backups totaling 3.1gb just eating my memory.. what in the world are they and can i delete them with borking any of my backups
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
No idea what that is but I don't think that it came from TWRP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Dees,

Any chance of adding a "Sort files before folders" option so we can get at our .zip's stored at the /sdcard/ root much quicker? It's my only remaining niggle with TWRP that I always have to scroll down down down first because the volkey doesn't wrap around to the bottom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
it is just pay attention when you flash like a theme or something at the end it says "building flashable backup>>

backup done/data/media/universalflasher/backup

and its eating memory like pacman..lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
I'll do this at some point, but if you put your zips in a subfolder it becomes less of an issue. TWRP will save the subfolder that you last used for your next boot too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
all i can do since i cant screenshot in recovery..lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
It never does that on mine nor do I have that folder.

jellybeans on the 10.1 tab! my god the sweetness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
check your internal memory not sdcard
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roughneckboren:
I checked both. Nothing man.

jellybeans on the 10.1 tab! my god the sweetness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the_mentor:
Wrong Time in TWRP Recovery

Hi everyone i've searched the thread but couldnt find an answer for this question.

for some reason the date and time in TWRP is wrong dose anyone know how to fix it?

I went to the time zone settings in recovery and set the correct time zone but its still incorrect.

Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Yeah, it's a known issue. No fix known. I just rename them as I make them. Fyi cwm is the same way, must be something weird with the SGSIII
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 613BulletProof:
Good stuff, this is much better than the CWM Touch Recovery, the interface is much easier and less prone to misclicking a option :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the_mentor:
Thats the only issue i have other then TWRP is amazing!!

I hope they find a way to fix this soon.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kflan22:
Love seeing you guys over here after leaving my note! :thumbup:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kflan22:
JOE
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theROMinator:
Not sure if this is a know issue but my 64GB UHS 1 San Disk isn't recognized by TWRP.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Does anyone know where I can find the OTA asia.retail ICS .zip file that works with the stock recovery method? My understanding is that if I have this .zip file, I can just go to recovery (poweron+volumeup+volumedown, select recovery, then push volup+voldown from the funny little android dude screen to get menu, select the .zip file off the SD card), and then I'm good.

I'm running an XT910 with stock 2.3.6 asia.retail. I was offered the OTA a few weeks ago, but didn't have time then, had time over last weekend, factory reset in prep for the OTA, but now the OTA offer won't reappear. I think the above method is probably easiest and most foolproof and least likely to brick.

I've looked pretty hard, but I cannot find a link to the stock OTA ICS asia.retail ROM as the .zip file that will flash like the above described method. Does anyone have a link for a known working version?

Thanks!!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Bump just once. I guess no one ever saved it when it came out?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farhanito:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1757766
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Thanks for that link! From what I read there, there is still no known place to download the asia.retail ICS OTA flashable via stock recovery method. I find that surprising, but not especially so, given the BS we all suffer from motorola.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farhanito:
What are you talking about? It's right there on the first post
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Further along in the thread, someone pointed out it is PHasia, not Asia.retail?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
Dude, you should read the posts correctly. It IS AsiaRetail. In fact I myself have been running it for weeks now. Look at the version details in the screenshots in the thread.

Mods, this thread is redundant. Pls close it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
1 someone else in the thread said it was PSH, not a.r - I thought it wise to double check prior to flashing.

2. If you hadn't bumped this thread, it would have drifted away.

3. I flashed my phone yesterday with stock recovery method & now have a stock asia.retail ICS	phone, THANK YOU!!!! :cowboy: