yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JSnively:
I wonder if this is because of the new partition. I remember someone saying Agat would have to make a change in the backup and restore to fix this from happening.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dalek_Caan:
+1 was thinking the same thing .. the partitioning and that preload area of the JB builds that were not being restored was the issue with backups I had seen, which is why it was said to reload the ROM you have a backup for before restoring it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
I didn't try factory reset.

I did run back up and then tried restore. Since it didn't give me any errors I assumed it's fine.

I tried both. Full restore and advanced restore for data only and for system only.

Both went without any erorr messages.

I guess I should try do a full restore of ICS back up from JB and then do a full JB restore from ICS as well to see if it works.

Will run couple of more tests tonight.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilotimz:
Mmmh paid apps aren't working for me i suppose.

Running a fresh build of jellyverse FL16 and flashed ur test tar right after.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
What apps are not working?

I don't have many paid apps on E4GT but one's I have are working.

Beautiful widgets, Triangle Away, Tegrak pro.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
After flashing the test repack all was well until I rebooted. After the reboot I lost my apps that are installed on extSD. There all grayed out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:
Okay so i flashed Agat repack FL16 through mobil odin and booted up and all apps that was moved to extsd was still there perfectly fine, i did moved them from extsd to internal sd back and forth and all is fine. None of my paid apps were gone it was still intact, i rebooted back to recovery to perform a nandroid backup and the process was without any failures. Booted back up and no problems so far, i will perform a restore shortly and i will get back with some results.

Edit: After performing a power off and booting up it does confirm the issue of Apps not installed on extsd and grayed out as well as my paid apps gone!!! So i wont perform a nandroid restore because the issue will still exist...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChainSawDeviant:
I've had no issues with the original 16 when flashed over a stock 16, and this newest 16 is working better...the 23 however was really unkind to my phone, paid apps, apps on sd, and backups...exceedingly better with each release of the 16 version IMHO.. Thanks man, you've made things much easier for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JSnively:
Hey Agat did you see this post by TD this might be why the restores are having issues. not sure about the paid apps might be related but not sure.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
That's the reason I'm trying to compile new recovery.

I'm using JB fstab info and I hope ones recovery works the problem will be gone.

However I'm not able to boot to recovery yet. I'm getting black screen after initial splash.

I can adb shell to phone but screen remains black.

After some tests I've got a "segmentation fault" message for recovery boot.

So I think I have narrowed it down. Hopefully with some help I can get it to work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garwynn:
Moho should be contacting tonight to help get us up to speed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilotimz:
Lets see. Swiftkey 3, Beautiful Widgets, XDA Forum app (?what?), Tetris, Doodle Jump, and Triangle Away. Once I flashed back to a stock kernel, they all magically reappeared.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evo3d6:
Ive been running since last night no issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HeadBlader911:
Yellow Triangle after installing recovery

I am rooted, using FK23 via qbking77 video. I ran for a while with the stock recovery and no problems for weeks. Then I installed the repack here via mobile odin. Everything went well but upon booting I get the yellow triangle. How do I remove it without using the usb jig or the yellow triangle app from google play?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evo3d6:
Looks like the best way to flash new recovery is mobile odin new recovery put on sdcard and success
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elijahbrown:
Root of internal or external sd? Flashed from download folder of external and list paid apps.

Restoring from titanium backup still works.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
It looks like it's different from phone to phone.

Did 5 reboots and 5 times boot to recovery and than back to system.

All apps on sd working. Paid apps working.

Don't know what to say now.

Will have to try more I guess.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
I wish I had your phone, you never have issues :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
I wish I can replicate the problems so I can try to fix them. ;)

Hard to fix issues I don't have.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:
Agat try powering off your phone and turn it back on and see if app problem still exist. I had no problem at first rebooting and all was fine until I performed a shut down and that's when it all came to play.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
That did the trick.

Now my apps on sd and paid apps are gone.

Did try reboot with no dice.

Boot to recovery boot to system same results.

I guess I was using quckboot all the time and that's why all my apps were present.

Edit: Did couple of more tests.

1. Restart phone from power menu. All apps are present.

2. Power off using power menu. Boot. No apps on sd no paid apps.

Conclusion for now. Apps disappear only if phone is powered down completely. Reboot from power menu or with quick boot do no affect apps on sd and paid apps.

However. I did try same on fully stock repack kernel. Just extracted the ramdisk and packed it back without any changes or edits.

Have same results. Thus I think the problem is not recovery but the repack process itself.

Since I'm using scripts and tools created by others I'll have to try to find authors of those tools and see if can help me with more info.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JonSCSL:
One of the last ics repacks you made a few months ago you fixed the app to sd issue. I am guessing this is different now that it's JB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Well there might be similarity.

Now I'll have to find what and how I did and with PC being wiped quite a few times lately that might take some time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
Why would you not want to use a JIG or the Triangle away app?

Depending on the boot loader/ROM version, neither will work.

The best way to do it is to follow this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2055950 to backup your JB ROM then Odin one click a stock EL29 stock ROM to your phone. Use a JIG to reset the counter and then use that guide again to restore your phone back to the ROM you backed up. From then you will always be able to use a JIG to get rid of the triangle if it is there and reset the flash counter without having to go all the way back to a stock GB build.

One thing you will want to do is always flash the stock kernel for JB after you are done flashing anything. As of right now, we don't have the source for JB so the recoveries are all buggy and shouldn't be used as DD's.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evo3d6:
I have powered off completely and paid apps are still present so I dont know

Edit was missing one app weird that it was just one so I reflashed repack again and fixed issue so if powering off is the only issue im happy and I know how to fix it if I have to power down so thank you for your time invested.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JSnively:
I think the other issues is the backup and restore. It is not restoring the backup. Might be related to the new partition. He was going to look into this also.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
What I ran into one time was when I rebooted directly from the ROM into recovery, it took me to the recovery reboot menu with no way out but to reboot the the phone. I can't seem to replicate.

Also, if you power down the phone using the FL16 recovery, it will turn off as expected, but turning it back on normally will take you directly back to the recovery. You can reboot from there back into the ROM, but rebooting from the ROM will take you back to recovery. The only way I found to fix is to power the phone completely down from the ROM with the power button and turn it back on normally. Even doing a battery pull results in going right back to recovery upon power on.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elwood:
I haven't experienced that at all. My phone reboots normally and reboots into recovery normal.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapalk HD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
Did you try to power down directly from the recovery?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CyberpodS2:
Will this be ok to restore backups of ics builds created with yours or the kuban kernels?? IE: running a jb rom with this, drop to recovery, run format all, restore an ics nandroid.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
Always use the recovery that you made a backup with to restore your backup.

Example: If you make a backup of Blu Kuban with tFI27_Agats_Recovery-rev2, use the same exact recovery to restore that backup. Same goes if you use Agats FL16 repack to make a backup, you have to use it to restore.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elwood:
Yes, only problem I have is like everyone else with the paid apps disappearing

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapalk HD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
That is expected. Wonder why I am the only one running into it rebooting right back to recovery after powering down from the recovery...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] abadasstanker69:
You try powering down and pulling the battery before a reboot? I know it's not a permanent solution but I'm just throwing shiznit out there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
Yep. It is no problem really because I can just reboot into the ROM from the recovery and then shut down the phone normally and turn it back on. Then it reboots properly. I am just sticking with the stock FL16 kernel for daily use.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] weltwon:
Yellow triangle in FL16: Easier & faster way to remove it

I was running a stock rooted FL16 and then installed the latest AGAT_FL16_test.tar which generated the yellow triangle during boot.

Read the advice above & decided to try a simpler & faster method.

This method requires 3 things:

Mobile Odin Pro ($4.99 from PlayStore)

FL16_JB_STOCK_KERNEL_NOCWM.zip

AGAT_FL16_test.tar

How to...

1. Download and put FL16_JB_STOCK_KERNEL_NOCWM.zip on your external SD card

2. Assuming you already are running Agat's FL 16 test kernel which generated the yellow triangle,

reboot into Recovery and install FL16_JB_STOCK_KERNEL_NOCWM.zip

3. Unless you already have purchased and installed it, go to Play Store and get Mobile Odin Pro

4. Run Mobile Odin Pro and install the AGAT_FL16_test.tar kernel. Reboot.

DONE!

You can now use Agat's CWM to backup and restore.

I've followed this exact procedure on my E4GT and tested everything including making a backup (a/k/a nandroid) and restoring it.

Glenn ;)

P.S. Only unusual note is that it seems to take longer than usual to do the restore in FL16 than it did when i was running a 4.1.1 ROM (about 5 minutes).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Finished new repack.

Finally got recovery working with a lot of help from another great dev.

Thus far have run few tests and it seems to work fine.

Powered phone off from power menu. Boot to system. All apps are present. Paid and on sd.

Powered phone off from quick boot. Boot to system. All apps are present.

Boot to new recovery. Boot to system. All apps are present.

Was able to do one back up and restore.

It's too late to try full wipe and new restore but so far it's very promising.

Hopefully can finish this tomorrow and post new repack ready to go.

If anyone wanna help me with more testing pm me for link.

Thanks for your patience and thanks for keeping up with all this bad repacks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
You know you did something right when you post at 3am and get 9 likes within an hour. Thanks for all the devotion Agat!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:


---------- Post added at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:30 PM ----------

Send me link when I get home from work I will do some testing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JSnively:
Pm sent
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:
Nothing there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elwood:
I think he was telling agat that he sent him a pm:confused:

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapalk HD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JSnively:
They have not been bad repack just learning repacks. At least nothing bad has happened that we have heard of. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
One guy from the Jellyverse thread ran into a BLOD. He is trying to replicate to see if it is related to the repack.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] M3ntalPurg3:
So you can Mobile Odin tar's? I thought they had to be tar.md5, if so that would be awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Mobile odin flashing tar files just fine.

Also you can pull the zImage from tar file and flash it like that with mobile odin.

The best part is that Mobile ODIN doesn't trigger yellow triangle when you flash custom binaries is it does PC ODIN.

So if you don't want to deal with JIG or Triangle Away app mobile odin is your best friend.

Best couple of buks you will ever spend.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Here is the report from leaderbuilder.

He got the last repack last night:

So far.

Powered phone off from power menu. Boot to system. - All apps are present.

Powered phone off from quick boot.

Boot to system. - All apps are present.

Restart from Power menu - all apps present.

Reboot from Quickboot - all apps present.

Boot to new recovery. Boot to system. All apps are present.

Boot to recovery from Quickboot and run backup. - Backup completed successfully. Checked MD5sum (via AFV app)and reports successfull.

In the morning I'll do the following.

Going to move a Paid app to SD card and check the above scenarios again.

Then I'll try a wipe and restore. A few different times and a few different ways.

Still looks promissing.

Hope to get more confirmations from other testers.

Fingers crossed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TrayLunch:
You're a beast for sticking with this before source drop. Yours and others tireless efforts are what keep this community going. Clicking thanks alone does not express my gratitude.

Elite Tester for Mijjz Goodness
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] derrick1976:
will this work on the new fl16,i want to get a custom/your recovery sir

:confused::confused::confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SASQUATCH:
Jajajajajaja this is for jb you know that right. And fl16 is jb so yeah it will work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
So here is my latest results. (note that I'm on Kobridge's FL16 DeOdexed)

Used Quickboot to get into recovery

Created another nandroid and verified again (AFV app)

Booted to recovery and ran TDs Format all X2

Then ran restore of last nand. Seemed to go well but upon boot missing apps still and most importantly Phone/Dialer and all google accounts not there or able to sync. Tried restoring just those individually but that didn't work either.

Ran a Titanium full restore (Apps + Data) That also failed to restore all settings (Phone/dialer).

I'm pretty sure that if I re-installed Kobridges' ROM on top of the restore or right after wards (as I did previously) I'd be back to working. (This method worked twice already but it'd be nice to not have to do that extra step.)

All in all thanks to Agat I can at least get to where I was in a reasonable amount of time.

Going to run a full one-click Stock Rooted and see what happens there.

Stay tuned.

Edit:

Still having issues with restoring all settings and applications. Even after Odin One-click FL16.

So went back and tried what I know worked.:

Boot to recovery (Agat's test2).

Do a restore of last good working setup nandroid.

While in same recovery session - Flashed Kobridge's ROM, and all the other Addons from him and TD I had before.

Then reboot.

Now even though I selected to 'not flash recovery' (because Kobridge's ROM comes with stock FL16) it still did flash the kernel included in the ROM anyways.

Not really a big deal. Just mobile Odin'd the test2 kernel. Rebooted. Then used Mobile Odin to clear the Dalvik. All good again for work tomorrow. (unless I get something else to keep me awake tonight. :-o )

Side bonus to flashing the one-click(s) is cleared the triangle. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:
I was waiting on the link from you to test it as well I did requested it from previous post...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
I asked for PM's to share the link.

Did you PM me?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prguzman1978:
Well I should of lol...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChainSawDeviant:
I've tried several times and it won't go through, the error says to contact the admins, I'd love to help/test if your still needing people. Can you gtalk the link to me?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
here is another success story grncherry.

" My test2 results so far.

Powered phone off from power menu. Boot to system. - All apps are present.

Powered phone off from quick boot.

Boot to system. - All apps are present.

Restart from Power menu - all apps present.

Reboot from Quickboot - all apps present.

Boot to new recovery. Boot to system. All apps are present.

Boot to recovery from Quickboot and run backup. - Backup completed successfully. Checked MD5sum (via AFV app)and reports successfull.

MD5sum check seemed to take longer than usual( not a big deal at all)

Performed a data/cache/dalvik cache wipe and performed a restore in same session. Everything restored - all apps present and sdcard wasn't wiped.

Restored and running as before with no adverse effects so far." End Quote.

Apparently it's still acts differently on different phones.

But it looks like we are on the right path.

He did use kobrige's system app back up and restore tho.

That might be something to consider.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elijahbrown:
Sent you a pm earlier. Would love to test this out.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
One thing I don't think he did there was a Format All/Factory Reset/JB Format X2.

This is what will kill the restore.

I too was able to do a restore just wiping

both

caches. All worked.

BUT...

If you are going between JB ROMs you really need to completely and thoroughly wipe (because or the 'preload' partition differences in some ROMs).

I again tried today to do a full wipe then restore. And it was not completely successfull.

Only way to successfull do a full restore is...

to create and verify your nand, obviously.

Then into recovery and after a full wipe/factory reset/format X2 or what ever do a restore. And

in the same session

flash the base ROM for the nandroid you are restoring (along with any and all mods).

Also as I noted earlier you will lose this recovery (Agat FL16test2) even if you check the 'preserve' option. Not a big deal use Mobile Odin to flash it. Oh and when using Mobile Odin the first time to install this recovery don't check 'clear dalvik' it will get stuck at boot and require a PC Odin kernel installation. After it's installed using Mobile Odin to flash dalvik seems to be fine.

Also wiping dalvik and regular cache both seem to work fine from recovery too.

Just some of my findings today on a few ROMs.

I'll try a few more over the next few days if I can manage to get free long enough.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pitbullmommy45245:
This might be a dumb question but i a running fl16 jellyverse is this safe to use with that or do i need to be on fk23. Sorry if this is a dumb question i just figure its better to ask than to brick my phone lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
I used it on Jellyverse once today. Had no issues. But that was to test going between ROMs and then doing restores.

I do plan on another venture back to Jellyverse tomorrow. Full wipe, clean install, then add kernel again, install all apps and settings and then backing up and restoring. And then probably using my restore procedure between that and Kobridges. And then back.

Forgot to add that had no problems with moving aids to sd card AND running them. Then moving them back and running them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elijahbrown:
It sounds like he is asking about the original fk23 repack

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2

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Yes it's safe, BUT, there are some issues you can read about in the thread. There is a couple of fl16 repacks in the thread also but they have some of the same issues. They can still be used to flash, just be aware of the issues before you decide to use it as a daily kernel. You can read about most of the issues in there last few pages.

NOW, some of us are currently testing a new fl16 repack and it looks very promising. If you can wait, Agat will probably release it in a new thread. So be on the lookout.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
Good to see things kicking again here.

I've been following the thread but don't know if I missed it. Is the preload partition part of the backup now? I know my JB format all x2 wipes it out and it doesn't take much longer to do rom install then nandroid restore over the top of it but I was kinda hoping it would be a one shot deal like we're used to for restoring. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] grncherry:
Upon further testing, I did replicate leaderbuilder's findings by doing the format all. The restore in fact was not completely successful. My accounts and some purchased apps were not present. It appears that the full wipe or,as stated, the preload partition inconsistencies between different ROMs, defeats the restore process. In my opinion, the preload partition is the fly in the ointment.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sclarktay4:
flawless, thanks agat. No problems at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Toleraen:
I'm having the same issue, paid apps have disappeared. What's wrong with flashing kernels with Mobile Odin? I've flashed plenty of kernels that way...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
That's the only way I use. (99 %).

All apps present and working. Don't know what to say.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdavis429:
Do you have the tar stored on your internal or external memory card?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Only 4 apps I mentioned above.(few posts back).

Those 4 apps are on my external SD card.

Edit: Sorry. Misread your question. My tar is on my external SD. I'm always flashing from external.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdavis429:
Not the apps in questions, where did you store your kernal tar for flashing? I had it on the internal and I did it the first time, I've moved it to external to see if I get the same results.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
Agat, if it's okay with you I linked your OP in the second post of the ROM I posted in Development.

That way people can just link here and download.

If it's not ok, I will remove the link.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
It's OK man.

Kernel is out there for all of you to use.

If you wanna include it in your rom feel free to do so.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rdavis429:
I right, it was an user error. I moved the tar file to my sd card, then flashed via mobile odin dalvik (something I didn't do the first time) know everything works! :D

Sent from the Normandy SR2 via Quantum [Universe JB v02] Entanglement
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] colonel.shepard:
Bought mobile odin....flashed fine....no issues so far awesome

Nandroid backup went through
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] seanroot:
Just wanted to say thank you for awsome kernels .... and great work! As always :thumbup:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
YW.

Glad you like it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
Thanks. For now I'm just linking to your thread. Eventually I'll include it with an update.