yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Woops. Accidentally thanked...

I meant to reply with a way to get a logcat on the phone, but I realized it doesn't work the same with recovery. Sorry.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
Maybe your recovery is messed up. You could try flashing it again from Odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstjohn1:
Gnex tool kit..... Install your recovery again. Sounds like you lost it some how.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Thatguy4life:
I'm having trouble pulling logs, so I just flashed the stock tar again and flashed twrp in goo. If it happens again I'll look more into pulling the log
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djpegg:
64GB Micro SD Card, EXFAT, and TWRP v 2.3.1.0 Recovery Sprint Galaxy S3

I am hoping someone might be able to help me with this... 64GB Sandisk Micro SD Card, EXFAT, and TWRP v2.3.1.0 Recovery Sprint Galaxy S3. I have updated my TWRP to this version and still wont let me get to my 64gb card in TWRP. I have read many forums and not finding any help. Some are linking to some UK site to change the format to FAT32, and all those sites seem to be dead. Thanks in advance. I hope I have posted in the right area.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] teh roxxorz:
Yes..you're better off changing it to fat32; whole bunch of issues with exfat.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djpegg:
Do you know where to get the tools or how to even do this? I would assume this would be an ok thing to do, I know when i was doing a backup on my S3 with my 32gb card the backup was over 5gb, but I think it was broken down and not one file over 5gb. And besides that, I dont think I would have one file over 5gb, or 4gb for that matter. Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
You need an sdcard reader. Turn off your phone. Take your sdcard out of your phone and plug it into the sdcard reader and the sdcard reader into your computer. Make a new folder on your desktop, name it "temp backup". Copy everything on your sdcard into the folder on your desktop. Format your sdcard to Fat32, everything else default. Copy everything from your temp backup folder back to your sdcard. Eject the USB card reader. Remove card from reader and re-insert into your phone. Turn on your phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djpegg:
I thought your MicroSD 64gb card then would only show 32gb if you use your Windows computer to FAT32 format it.. ? I have read that all over the place, and seem to remember that from computer hard drives 101, LOL. And I dont want that to happen. Thanks again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
That may be true but I believe that you can use SD Formatter to format a 64GB card as FAT32 and use all 64GB.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Boltons75:
Can someone tell me how to correct the date in this recovery. The default nand backup names are all dated in 1970? Not a huge deal but it would be nice to show the correct year.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wwjoshdew:
Just put in a name for it man! Like if you're backing up a CM10 rom, name it "CMX" or "CM10". That way you don't go restoring 9 different backups just to find the one that you need.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Then format it to ext4. That's how the internal storage is formatted. It's also the stock Linux filesystem. The kernel is more-or-less designed with ext4 in mind. It has all the benefits of exFAT without the limitation of proprietary source code. It'll be a much better choice than FAT32. Personally, since I don't use Windows and therefore don't need a filesystem Windows can read (Windows won't recognize any drive that isn't formatted with FAT32, NTFS, or EXFAT), I format all of my drives as ext4, and they all work great.

Really, unless you're gonna be taking the card out of the phone and mounting it on a Windows computer, ext4 should be how everyone formats their 64GB cards.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
This is a known issue with all recoveries for the GS3. See the Known Issues for TWRP. You will just have to name your backups to keep them straight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Boltons75:
Thanks, just came over from the og evo. Wasnt aware of the issue. And i do rename my recoveries, just occasionally i forget if im flashing numerous times a day. New phone New roms, lots of flashing to do. :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
Try this flashable zip I made.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbond007:
I had to try more than once with Goo Manager. I just made sure the screen stayed on while it downloaded and flashed successfully
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fgcchevy:
I have a question, if i have made all my backups with cwm, can they be restored with TWRP2?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smark72:
I have a 64GB card and can backup to it, I guess it's formatted to fat32.

Is the time and date supposed to be incorrect? Can it be set somehow? I know the time zone can be set.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbond007:
no

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Its a known issue right now. Just rename your backups after you create one. You can do it within TWRP. Just don't use spaces.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blissid:
Does this have the option to restore advanced data from previous backups you made using TWRP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Philosuffer:
Yes, when you select the backup to restore you can uncheck partitions that you don't want to restore before swiping to restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I believe it does. When you go into restore, you'll have the option of what you want to restore. Just choose data and you should be good to go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hunterbeav:
Do you have to unroot get rid of cwm to be able to use twrp...or can you keep both.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigant262:
You don't have to unroot, and you can only have 1 recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blissid:
I did the goo method and had CWR installed, and it flashed TWRP right over it with no problems.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hunterbeav:
My back up of the original stock Rom was done with cwm...which would make it unusable with twrp...so what do do now...unroot back to stock...then install twrp and do back up of stock rooted Rom...or are there other ways to get to grandma's house....thanks for any help...if you say uninstall cwm my next question would be how....thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LouRock:
Restore your CWM recovery then install TWRP recovery then make a back up of that and so on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hunterbeav:
Ok you lost me...I haven't done anything yet..I'm rooted with cwm installed...can you clarify what you mean..thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigant262:
Leave CWM on for now.

Restore first ever backup>Flash TWRP>Backup with TWRP
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LouRock:
Ok, restore your original stock rom with your current cwm. Then install twrp and make a backup of it and so on...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbond007:
Just flash the latest stock rom by freeza and make a backup. That's what I did

Sent from a Third Galaxy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LouRock:
I believe he wants to keep the saved copy of his original stock rom backup which he first did on cwm.

Edit..............

Although what you recommend would also be just fine as well and maybe even easier. I know sometimes people just want to keep what originally came on their device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hunterbeav:
Thanks for all the help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
What you could do is ....

Install TWRP, make a backup of your system as it currently is.

Install CWM, Restore the backup you made a while ago of stock

Install TWRP, make a backup of what you just restored.

Then restore the first backup you made with TWRP and delete the clockwork backup :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raw2000j:
I just formatted card on an older android phone and it formatted everything instantly
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
I use the option in TWRP to name the backup before I create it. That helps me keep track of the backups since the date is always wrong.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djpegg:
I will try that... I hope I can access it while plugged in usb to my computer still if I need to transfer files to and from my windows computers. But I tried SD Formatter and I couldnt find anything to allow me to change the format to FAT32 anyways... I am going to look up ext4 now. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djpegg:
I looked into this a little bit and ran into EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition and it looks to be ok. FAT32 with 32kb clusters and still at a total of 64gb (59gb usable) and then TWRP 2.3.1.0 found my card and was able to work with Backups and other things on the 64gb MicroSD card.. Thanks everyone for your opinions and help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CDobra58:
Theme No working In 2.3.1

what does it take to get themes to work in 2.3.1 I created the theme folder in twrp directory then copied the ui.zip for the theme I want to use but it keeps going to the default while in recovery in i tell to reload them it say it cannot load package I have tried numerous themes that I creay=ted as well as some that I downloaded but none of them work

the problem was so simple i was using capital letters when i created the theme folder once I change that it worked now just modifying it to my tastes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Tried a "stock" theme?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CDobra58:
yes

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I have tried every theme I can find but all get is the default
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Tried the 720 x 1280 ones too?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CDobra58:
yes I made sure the ones I was were 720x1280
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Sdcard/twrp/theme.... Right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CDobra58:
yes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jackbenimble:
:good:

Thank you TWRP.

Works flawlessly so far.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jaron7_11:
it seems like the 64gb sd card is not supported on this recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
It needs to be formatted as either FAT32 or ext4. I highly recommend using ext4, because FAT32 will cripple the 64GB card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
How did you get Windows to recognize ext4? When I format ext4, Windows wants to format the card fat32 or exfat.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
I don't use Windows. If you're going to be using the SD Card with Windows (ie. using an SD Card reader to mount the card directly on the computer, rather than keeping the card in the phone), then FAT32 is your only option, because Windows will not recognize filesystems that Microsoft didn't create themselves (which means you're limited to FAT32, NTFS, and EXFAT).

If you keep the card in the phone at all times, like I do, ext4 is the best option.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
I disagree. I keep my card in my phone all of the time also, but if I format it ext4, windows won't recognize it and wants to format it.

Since 80% of the systems run some version of windows and 5% run some version of linux, then generalizations like yours tends to confuse people.

There are ways to format 64G sdcards to fat32, including (but not limited to) HPUSBDISK.exe. All require an reader of some sort.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wwjoshdew:
And this too! :)

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_windows
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbond007:
Can you format system with this recovery with no problems when doing a full wipe?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
yup you can. I do a factory reset then format system,cache and dalvik cache without any issues or errors
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
A factory reset wipes cache & dalvik. Most ROMS wipe system during the zip install. 99% of the time all you need is a factory reset.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Neo3D:
TWRP needs to be updated to support 4.2.x

4.2.x supports multiple user logins, which mean the default folder structure for user storage has been redesigned. TWRP Nandroid has been designed to ONLY look for backups in the root folder. In 4.2.x, there is no longer a "root" folder. Each user has their own "root" folder. So, if you copied a backup to PC and wish to copy back to your phone for restore, TWRP Nandroid won't be able to find it in the "root" even though it is sitting there in the "root" folder of the user who copied it...but, not in the real "root" folder.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
Ya, I've been looking for 2.3.2.0 to be released for us, but I don't see it as an imperative yet. Not too many people have multiple users on their phones. But there will always be the odd-ducky that needs it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] twin121:
Maybe im missing something but i dont see where partition the sd card....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mutepoint:
I don't even like someone touching or holding my phone. I like letting someone use it to make a call even less. Actually having multiple user accounts on something as personal as my cellphone will just be totally un-welcome bloat worse than any carrier crap to date.

I predict that most people will spend as much time and energy trying to remove that functionality from thier phones as they do stripping bloat out now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] awillis111:
Having a problem here. Installed TWRP 2.3.1.0 thru Goomanager app. When I make a backup, I'm getting date/timestamps in the 1970's!! Any fix for this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 5FOOTER:
Change it to what ever you want to name it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] reverepats:
Yeah I got the same issue. Even changing the time zone didn't help. I'm curious as well cause I've never looked into it much. Ohh hello 4.1.3 update. Soo hopefully
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] awillis111:
4.1.3? Which rom are you running?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] burghfan3:
This
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
So can anyone tell me if the person who is developing this recovery is working on including exFat. I would really like to use my 64GB microsd as others have mentioned in this thread, and I don't want to cripple my card by going to Fat32 or ext4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
It looks like TWRP for the Galaxy Note II now does support exFAT (in version 2.3.1.3). I am taking that as good news. I would love to see that version on our phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
I know that's why I asked as I had just left that thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ChaosTime86:
I had my 64gb card formated to Fat32, and never had no problems, and it's been months. Works with this recovery great. How would Fat32 cripple it?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
Well the one crucial way Fat32 cripples your card is because you can't put 4GB+ files on it. For me that's a deal breaker on a 64GB+ card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ChaosTime86:
Yeah I just looked at my storage. I have 59.46gb of total storage. I never realized Fat32 took over 4 gigs. It's not a problem for me though. I have 41gb used, and that's mostly old ICS mods, and roms I can delete now. I was thinking Fat32 would break it or something, but if it's just losing 4gb I'll be ok with it.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Accidentally hit tks. lol. I'm with you on the multi user crap. I don't allow anyone to mess w/ my phones/tabs because they could possibly damage them in some way, scratch screen, drop... then I'd have to hurt them. LOL!! :D I'd flash a zip or buy something on Play to eliminate it if there was anything. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
In 2010, Microsoft was charging $300,000.00 flat fee for licensing exfat to developers. I don't know if that has changed. I'm sure the crew at TeamWin is looking into licensing before they implement something that will get them sued or they have found a third party solution/driver like linux did for proprietary hardware (google "fuse-exfat").

Since I'm not a developer, I can't say if adding fuse will be easy. But from what I've been reading, the source code gets bigger if you add the ability to automount, bigger still if you want to format.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] supahero00:
I'm having a wee bit of a problem. I finally rooted but now when i try to go into cwm it takes me to this "limbo" screen Android on this floor and it's asking me if i want to update but no cwm. Happened to me when i was trying to root as well but i restarted from scratch and i got cwm, got root but can't get it back
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
It sounds like you do not have CWM loaded. Maybe still have the stock recovery. The stock ROM has code that will restore the stock recovery if it fails a signature check at boot. You need to patch the ROM to remove this code. One way of doing this is the Team Epic Root from Recovery. Could this be your problem? Might need to reload CWM from Odin, boot into CWM (don't boot into the ROM first!) and then flash the Team Epic Root from Recovery file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
You'll first need to find the thread concerning the rooting option you decided upon and read it. If that doesn't help, you'll then have to find the cwm recovery thread and read that one.

And I strongly recommend this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Will32:
Just curious, trying to learn here, what would happen if he tried to boot into the Rom after loading a custom recovery and before flashing the team epic root from recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
If you boot a stock rom that has not been modified it will perform a signature check on the recovery. If the signature check does not pass it will restore the stock recovery. You will lose the custom recovery.

The Team Epic file removes this check. That is why the procedure to root is:

- Load CWM (or any custom recovery) using Odin and do not let Odin reboot the phone.

- Perform a batter pull when complete and boot into recovery.

- Flash the Team Epic Root from Recovery file.

- Reboot and enjoy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Will32:
OK I get what you're saying, and I don't mean to derail this thread with n00b questions but I'm new to Samsung hacking. So if you've installed a custom recovery with a stock unmodified rom and you boot that rom, how does the stock recovery get reinstalled? Where does it come from if you've just replaced the stock one with a custom one? Is there a stock recovery stored in the stock rom for this purpose?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] m20120:
It has a copy that it reloads.

If you poke around the stock ROM (with root explorer, etc) you will see a script /system/etc/install-recovery.sh that actually does the reloading of the recovery. This script will reload the recovery image /system/recovery-from-boot.p

The Team Epic Root From Recovery renames these two files to:

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

/system/recovery-from-boot.p.bak

This prevents the custom recovery from being replaced when the ROM boots.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Sleestax:
Sorry for a noob question, and search doesn't work well in tapa. Anyway, I have CWM installed now. If I follow the goo mgr install open recovery script from the OP, it replaces CWM with TWRP? I don't need to go into Odin first to overwritd CWM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Parnelli98:
Correct. You don't need to use Odin for anything after letting GooManager do its thing. Just make sure the file GooManager locates is the correct one for your phone. It should be "d2spr", preceded by the current TWRP version (twrp-2.3.1.0-d2spr.img) for the Sprint SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nomad64:
Yeah...that is why I don't like formatting any device larger than 16GB with FAT32. The MFT and other filesystem overhead gets really large (in addition to the 4GB file size limitation).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Most of the "lost space" is really just the difference between the way manufacturers and software calculate sizes. To the manufacturer of the card, 64GB is 64,000,000,000 bytes. To Android, Windows, etc, a KB is 1024 bytes instead of 1000 bytes and 1MB is 1024KB and 1GB is 1024MB. Do that swap of 1024 over and over and to get your software to actually think a 64GB card is really 64GB you would need 68,719,476,736 bytes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
Dee do youbhave an update on when we can expect exFat in TWRP for GS3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jamin13:
Never. exFAT is a proprietary format owned by Microsoft meaning you need a license to to use it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
Well to be honest I didn't ask you. And considering that the Galaxy Note II TWRP already has exFat support. It appears that it doesn't matter that it's proprietary. That is why I asked Dee because I had gotten word that he was working on it now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jamin13:
Not a problem. I thought I could give a somewhat correct answer.

Any chance you could tell me any benefits of exFAT over FAT32?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Skunk Ape1:
Hey Dee,

I have a friend over in the Wicked Sensation thread who keeps getting the below error every time he tries to do a backup. It happens on both the internal and external sdcard. Do you have any idea what he can do to fix this?

[BACKUP STARTED]

* Backup Folder: /external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/7b0bxxx

E: Unable to locate sd-ext partition

Updating partition details

Then it fails.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
Linux uses Fuse to be able to mount and read exfat. I'm unsure if if fuse can format.

Fat32 is natively limited to 32GB disk size / 4GB file size, but people have reported being able to jackleg a 64GB into fat32. Exfat doesn't have these limitations.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Skunk Ape1:
I wouldn't exactly call it jacklegging. Almost any decent formatting/partition program can effectively format a 64gb card to fat32. It's just Windows formatting tools that can't. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Settings, reset defaults.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
Windows 7 won't let you format FAT32 larger than 32GB but 3rd party utilities will go larger. The theoretical limit of FAT32 is 8TB.

I have a build of TWRP for the Sprint SGS3 with exFAT support but it uses a stock kernel that doesn't have USB storage mode. I haven't had time to try compiling a new stock kernel from source with USB storage capability. I am sure that for every person that wants exFAT there's another that will want USB storage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wwjoshdew:
You can't please everyone man. You just can't. Thanks for everything you do! Would it be possible to have two versions? One that does support it and one that doesn't? Or would that make things to complicated?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
Are you talking about USB storage from recovery? Or are you talking about while in android?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
From recovery of course.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Skunk Ape1:
While being able to access my files in recovery from my computer was a nice feature, I think I would prefer being able to format my sdcard with exfat. I will be happy to play with it for awhile if you could pm me the link. :D

Got another question about file formats. What about formatting my card in ext4. Will twrp read that? For some reason, i can't get it to work in cwm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vMAC:
Well that's what I thought but I wanted to confirm.

As you said different people are going to want different things. I for one would much rather pull out the sdcard and transfer files then put it back in so I could keep exFat. Especially since I don't have to pull the battery to get to the sd slot.

So let me know if you need testers.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
I think I was able to format into ext4 and access my backups, but it can't be read by windows.

EDIT: I should point out that even though the recovery can read ext4, it appears that the rom can't.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Skunk Ape1:
I can understand it not working in recovery by mounting. But I was thinking that it would read via the usb in mtp mode fine. I will be playing with it soon as I am in the process of formatting my card right now.