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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] androholic:
Should I install these drivers so that I have them "just in case"?

Also, since we can now backup to external sd, can I move all of my previous twrp backups to the external SD sd cards backup folder?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] overground:
Tell me about it.

I spent almost a full day trying different things.

That is what finally worked for me.

Truly a PITA...hopefully everyone else's installation goes much smoother.

If you already have ADB working, there's really no need to do any more.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] androholic:
Okay, I'm good then. I made a new backup to my external sd, and then I moved my other backups from my internal sd twrp folder to my external twrp folder. Should those all restore okay then?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bmann_420:
Yes. Worst case scenario, copy back the backup to your internal. I believe somebody already flashed from the external sd, so I don't see why a backup wouldn't flash correctly. =)

Now I just need to get my hands on a stock kernel. The only one available is unable to download.

Sent from my SG3 using GSM (Team Sonic) + Trinity

http://supercentral.net
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] swa2k4:
Easiest way to do it is goo manager just switched over from cwmtouch ..No imei issues here using that method but of course we can back it up now!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] androholic:
Hey thanks for the response :). Did you look for the stock kernel on rootzwiki or any of the other dev sites? Also, if the link your trying is media fire, I've heard it's not working well when you're downloading from your phone so you have to use your pc in most cases. I think you could also odin the stock tar image & that would put you back on stock kernel I believe. Then you could just flash whatever rom your on again. Good luck with that. :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bmann_420:
Yea I just wanted one to mirror from my site. I'm sure I will be using it frequently when wifi doesn't work.

Sent from my SG3 using a stock based rom + Trinity

http://supercentral.net
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rakeshchn:
Thanks much OP for posting this. Has anyone tried successfully restoring a nandroid backup using this for tmo gs3?

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lumbu:
Yes, though it needs to be backup taken in TWRP, not CWM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Zephyron:
Yeah, created backup and restored without any problems
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] swa2k4:
How do I get the install roms from goo manager to work for flashing roms. I tried but didn't work. There was an error mounting some sd card error ideas boys?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
mount sdcard in twrp.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hd2Raz:
Big thanks to op. This has been great so far for me. Cwm was giving me all sorts of problems. No issue with this. One question, does anyone know where I can get a theme?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1722
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hd2Raz:
I meant for the twrp recovery. I know it's themeable but not sure where to get a theme.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
oops sorry,rootzwiki usually has them.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] MacTheRipperr:
I downloaded goo manager beta but it is unable to retrieve any information.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Orical:
Uninstall goo and go to the sdcard and delete the twrp folder minus the back up itself move that somewhere else, then reboot recovery wipe dalvik and cache and reboot again then install Goo again from the store and continue from there.

Sometimes the twrp file borks the install up this happened to me a while back but you should be good after that.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] pluginre:
I have updated through goomanager and have restarted the phone twice so far without any problems
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
How can I update my current twrp to 2.5? I have 2.4.3. 0 now....
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Use goo manager, click the menu button, choose "install openrecovery script. Or flash jovy s zip.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40120871

Sent from the phalanges of my hand to the facet of your cranium.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
Just updated through goo manager. All good :)

Anyway if I want to flash the zip file, can I flash it with my current twrp? Does it like replace itself?

Also I have the app Nandroid manager installed. It has an option to install new twrp recovery. But it has 2 file types: img and tar. Which one should I choose?

Thanks guys :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
You can flash, just restart recovery, and presto, I'll be 2.5. Its the img file, since the tar is to be used with Odin.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nirogu325:
I did a nandroid backup with the latest 2.5.0.0 TWRP and it looks like it didn't do it correctly. I assumed it did and went to test other ROMs, when I went back to TWRP to restore the Nandroid backup, it was nowhere to be found. So I checked the SDcard and found a folder inside TWRP>BACKUPS with a strange symbol followed by numbers and inside it folders with question marks all over. A corrupted folder which did not want to delete at all, not even in Windows. I had to backup the rest of the card and format. So for now, I went back to 2.4.4.0. The nandroid backups made with that version worked for me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Hmm, will try when I get off work to see if I get the same results. Maybe just bad luck

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ew:
I was able to successfully backup and restore with 2.5.0.0

The only strange thing is that I had to reselect external (SDcard) after going to 2.5.0.0. It was set to the SDcard on 2.4.4.0, but when I flashed 2.5.5.0 it began looking at internal memory (until I changed it).

That does not sound exactly like your issue, but it is interesting that the location did not persist through the upgrade.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
TWRP issues

The strangest thing happened to me after updating to TWRP v2.5.00 from v2.4.00 (previous version).

I had a backup of my rom and when I was restoring it with this new version it restored

everything except "DATA". I made sure that system/data/boot/recovery were all check marked

before I started the restore. The log said it started and finished the DATA restore in "0" seconds.

I restored the same backup twice after rebooting back to TWRP v2.5.00 recovery with the same results.

Then I ODIN flashed the previous version 2.4.00 of TWRP and successfully restored my backup

including "DATA" which started and finished successfully in 37 seconds according to the log file.

What does this mean?

There are a couple things in this new version 2.5.00 which to me at least look like a down grade

instead of an upgrade.

With version 2.4.00 it's easy to change from internal to external sdcard when in restore mode with only 1 click

but the new version no longer has that capability, now it needs the user to scroll down the list of the folders and

files to find "sdcard" or "external sdcard".

Another thing I noticed was that this new version is lacking the option to perform a "Factory Reset".

Hopefully one of the devs can look into these thing before the next update comes out.

Thanks,

TWRP is the BEST!!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SiNJiN76:
Factory Reset is the default screen you fall into when you hit the Wipe option. Look at the description at the top and also on the Swipe bar. :good:

BTW...how did you guys fix the time issue...I thought it was an issue with the phone itself...(at least that's what I've been reading)... <--- don't have to answer that...i was just typing out loud. :silly:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pens and DreamS:
Im having a serious issue with my twrp on my s3. I am not able to backup any rom. Twrp displays multiple msgs everytime even while doing wipes or any other action. The most common error displayed is too many open files. Wipe supposdly completes succefully but a rom backup always fails along with showing this error and other. I have not done anything to twrp just cjanve roms from time to time and update it through goo manager.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nirogu325:
I too had an issue with the nandroid section of the latest version 2.5. Had to revert back to 2.4.4.0 using the .tar image (flashing thru ODIN) here. I'm sure things will get sorted. So far this is the best custom recovery.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] electech_poc:
Worked like a charm thanks everyone!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pens and DreamS:
Does this affect my current ROM in anyway?? I don't wanna have to set up everything again because I just finished doing it so :(.

Edit; How do I go by with this through Odin? Just flash through PDA button?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] pilot_xphile:
I updated it with GooManager. No problems at all
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Update thru goo manager. Its the simplest, fastest way to flash it.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pens and DreamS:
I did this. But I am not able to do rom back ups since 2.4.0.0 i thought it was a bug 2.5 would fix but apparently my whole recovery is messed up.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nirogu325:
Yep. PDA (make sure to select the .tar version). Also no, that image only replaces the recovery and that's it. This method is for reverting to previous versions since GooManager only provides the latest version.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pens and DreamS:
Thanks man. Let's hope this fixes it for me. Not beong able to backup is killing me
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Huh, I backed with no issues on 2.5.0.0 Have you tried backing up to both internal and external?

Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1! :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Ellises:
i was about to rant about how i lost access to the external sd card on the new 2.5.0.0 update, but then i realized after flashing it again, they changed the way you select the storage to install to. i wish when i installed the new version it would have a popup saying what the changes was... bah, i can rant all day how i prefer 4ext over twrp, but i'm glad that twrp has a recovery version for this phone, and i thank them for that where 4ext is too lazy/slow.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
I think the new wipe option is a bit confusing. I like it better on the old version where it stated clearly internal and external storage
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pens and DreamS:
I did. Still have the errors. I'm gonna try flashing recovery through Odin tomorrow see how that goes.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] skytechja:
i have stopped using this and gone back to CWM!!!

TWRP drains my battery WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY toooo much.....

my battery is at 99% and when backing up, it takes soooo long and my batteyr drains to about 75%

Its features are nice and all but CWM works best for me, does my backups quick and without hitch....

what i love about TWRP however is the ability to NAME my backups and not give it the default wacked out date as a name.... CWM gives this wacked out date for the name
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Mine backed up pretty quickly and my battery didn't nearly drain that much. Did you only back up System, boot and data?

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] skytechja:
yeah. those 3 only...

though the battery drain was that heavy n every time i did a backup, it wud drain that much.... the phone never got hot though
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
You must have a crap load of stuff.. Do you even allow the phone to go into idle while backing up?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
Lol quick or slow pretty much depends on one's phone.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
I think it's more how much data is being backed up, and if one let's the screen go to sleep, and leave it asleep as it backs up.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] skytechja:
ye i do.....

with twrp... ur phone screen can go off while backing up

with cwm, ur screen doesnt, its on the whole entire time....

but my biggest thing n biggest reason is the drastic battery drain.... its phenominal....

i will try twrp again later however though and to try and see whats up
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
That seems to be your only solution at this point. One of the many reasons why I always recommend using TWRP. Go for it dude.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
Yeah that's what I meant.

I installed lots of stuff on my phone and my nand is 5.22 Gb. It takes me around 22 mins and 10% battery (going down from 92 to 82)

@skytechja: how large is your backup?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ScottBroker:
How do you wipe and format the phone, internal sd card.....?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Navigate to Wipe, advanced, and all your wipe options, including sd card will be there.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ScottBroker:
ia Micro SDcard the internal phone? What is USB-OTG?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Forgot to mention that navigating to Wipe then Format data will format your internal storage.

USB-(O)n (T)he (G)o. Research it
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gmenik6:
Can TWRP is capable restoring CWM Recovery files or you need to restore your backup and back it up with TWRP?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Nandroids are recovery dependant. Your backups will always be there even if on another recovery but you cannot restore them unless you revert back to the recovery your nandroid was originally created in.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mr.denis:
Good to know that recovery does not have to suck. Good job and thanks!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fuzz_33594:
New advanced wipe option is scary; I don't like having the external SD card option on the same page as dalvik, cache, data, and system. The potential to screw the pooch is way too high.

I prefer the 2.4 configuration.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] skewty:
Suggestions

When an MD5 file is found, you should display something like "Computing and comparing MD5 values (this could take a while)..."

On large roms the progress would appear to be hung on a trivial task otherwise.

On the install / flash screen, after making a source selection change (internal, extSDcard, etc) you should automatically take the user back as there is nothing more to do on that screen.

Thanks for the great work so far! Awesome job!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
um.. external sd is not even in there lol. Everything under Advanced option includes system, data, cache, dalvik cache, and usb OTG. No worries.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fuzz_33594:
Just rebooted into recovery and verified external SD card is in my list to select to wipe. Twrp2.5.0
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
My mistake. I was referring to those devices in which dont support micro sd. Those that do have the option to wipe the external sd. Sorry about that. been using the Nexus 4 far too long lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: twrp 2.5.0

I agree and feel the same way as you do... Not only for the reason you stated, but other reasons too.

I think the v2.4.x version is the very best right now.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fuzz_33594:
No problem. Thought there might have been an update I missed.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] akapaul26:
I upgraded to 2.5.0 just after release. I am having two issues. One is when restoring a backup. I back up my roms frequently, for one to always have a fresh backup and two to make sure nothing has corrupted the older backups. I notice when doing a factory reset I have to choose to root my device before I can install a backup. If I dont it will say that restore failed? One two of my backups I cant install at all they just say failed, md5 good as well?

The other issue I see is that some zips will not install with mew version of the recovery. For instance the modem zips from docholidays thread? I am also not s fan of the exsd card wipe in same menu as other options. In fact I raced through the menu the first time and wiped mine right out...good thing I had most of the data on my cpu backed up.

Deviant Development Team Member
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: twrp 2.5.0.0

When TWRP 2.5.0.0 first came out I installed it too and had to revert back to the

previous 2.4.xx version. I also had similar issues which you mentioned here.

My main problem was when I was trying to restore a nandroid backup with twrp 2.5.0.0

after it got done restoring it said "Sucessful" but I looked at the logfile on the screen and

it said something to the effect: "Restoring Data started at xx.xx time in "0" seconds".

Which meant that it did not restore DATA at all so after rebooting everything was

messed up naturally, I tried the restore twice and it still did not restore data.

I made sure that DATA was checked before starting the restore.

I had to odin flash twrp 2.4.xx then after rebooting into TWRP 2.4.xx I restored

the very same nandroid backup without any problems.

Hopefully a new version will work a lot better.

I never had any issues with TWRP before this current 2.5.0.0 version.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Damn that sucks.. Sorry to hear that. I'm thankful 2.5 has been rock solid for me. just not too crazy about having micro sd included in the advanced wipe option. You can easily select that without realizing it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Ellises:
I'm having some annoying issues ever since i updated to 2.5;

Scenario: Backup current ROM ... normal wipe & format, install new rom, reboot, now let's say for some reason i have to go my previous rom, so i go back into recovery; restore, restore fails at /data/ ... everything fails. rom install fails, etc... only way to fix it for me is to completely format /data which includes /data/media ... and this process is everytime i install a new rom, very annoying.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
TWRP 2.5.0.0

Before I went back to twrp 2.4.4.0 I had similar problem with 2.5.0.0 , every time I tried to restore a backup it

restored everything except DATA, when it got to the DATA the log said it took "0" seconds to complete the DATA

when normally it would takes a few minutes.

Best bet is to go back to the previous version.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Ellises:
Well I just downgraded to 2.4.4.0 using Mobile Odin to flash it. And I'm still having these issues, my backups are fine. But I cannot restore them without error unless I format my data partition first. Somewhere my data partition is being corrupt, and when it does, there are two lost+found folders in /data.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
How can people recommend TWRP when it cannot perform its most basic, and important, function?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: twrp

TWRP is the very best recovery utility to be found, all the previous versions of it had no issues

at all and all worked exactly as advertised.

It's just this current version of 2.5.0.0 which has issues.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
No issues here on 2.5 since it's release. I don't think those issues are specific to the version. They've happened to me on 2.3 and 2.4 (terrible experiences) . Nandroid issues will occur on different versions for different devices. If you're lucky you won't experience any at all whatsoever.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] djtheraven:
I guess I'm lucky then lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: twrp 2.5.5.0

My device is not that different or more exotic than most, I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 I747

unlocked rooted phone which works perfectly and I am using it with Wicked v9.1 custom rom.

For me only the TWRP version 2.5.0.0 had any issues at all. All prior versions of it were excellent.

Before I switched back to TWRP version 2.4.4.0 I flashed CWM recovery and it had no issues either.

Then I flashed the prior version of TWRP 2.4.4.0 and again everything was fine.

After doing this I had no further issues with TWRP and I am a happy camper. :)

TWRP is the BEST!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
I downloaded and installed this but can't find it... I'm a noob with this. What am I doing wrong?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] niteh@wk:
You are serious?

S-beamed from my GSIII via xda premium
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
No, I'm freakin joking, of course I'm serious. All I've ever used is cwm.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LoopDoGG79:
Its not an app, it's a recovery. Do your phone a favor, and read before you start playing with your very expensive toy.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] niteh@wk:
the question coming from a senior member, i couldn't take you seriously.. how did you get to cwm? also, what did you download and how did you install it?

S-beamed from my GSIII via xda premium
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Whatever, sorry I asked a question. I thought this was a place to get help, not smartass replies.

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I just installed it from goo manager like the op said. It said it had installed... I dunno.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] niteh@wk:
Installing Goo doesn't automatically flash the recovery. You have to flash it from Goo menu (Install Open Recovery) and grant Goo root access. A little reading would save you the pain of bricking your phone.

Did you grant goo root? Goo still says it flashes ok but really it fails if root wasn't granted.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
I did do that...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] niteh@wk:
So what happened when you boot into recovery?

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Boot into recovery mode using the hardware keys or the reboot recovery option in Goomanager. Installing a custom recovery will overwrite the current one.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
I haven't went into recovery yet... I always did it from the power menu out from cwm. So if I go from goo manager, it'll overwrite cwn?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Once root permissions are granted and TWRP has been installed successfully you can tap on "reboot recovery" in Goomanager and it should take you directly into TWRP recovery
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Ok, I'll give it a shot! It's there a chance of brick? Thank you! :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Nope. Goomanager is your friend. As long as no modifications were made to your build prop that identifies the device as a different one, installing TWRP through Goomanager will only provide you with the one intended for your device.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Awesome! Thanks bro!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] LuigiBull23:
Np and I apologize for the replies you got earlier. I understand why they responded the way they did but there's better ways of going about responding to noobs. Some of us more advanced users just tend to forget what it was like when we started..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
It's all good, no worries! Thanks again! :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] niteh@wk:
I'm sorry too but his senior member status had me wondered. Next time be sure to give a little more details: what didn't work, what has been done, etc..

S-beamed from my GSIII via xda premium

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Now that you have TWRP recovery flashed, be cautious on the wipe menu/wipe options, especially coming from cwm. The newest version puts all wipe options on the same place, one hasty mistake and your precious data on the sdcard or data partition gone.