yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
We will probably do it in the next release or two.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
Nice! Thank you for all your hard work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sir-Lancelot:
Any reason goo.im has been showing 2.5.0.0 as the current update?

Should I check this thread for updates now or?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Not sure what happened to the files at goo.im. I re-uploaded them and set them to download through goo manager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sir-Lancelot:
That did it. Goo.im showing current release now. Thanks!

// Lance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] manbat:
V 2.6.0.0 is out...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
I'm on 2.3.2.3. Don't see anywhere how to update. Do I just flash it in my recovery? Does the ROM need to be reflashed or will I lose anything by updating? I haven't messed around with this in months

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BoostedB18C:
Use goo or rom toolbox to update. Don't have to touch the rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Using goo manager is preferred.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Okay goo manager found the 2.6 update for the nexus 7 and I updated it very easy. :) but not finding anything for the note 2. I'll keep looking. Thanks

Is it the file "recovery-twrp-2.5.0.1-SCHI605.tar"?

The other device I updated says openrecovery and its an img.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
The newest version is 2.6.0.0. I'm not updating the thread yet because of a minor bug in advanced wipe I would like to squash first.

Verizon is t0ltevzw.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
OK. In goo I try to install openrecoveryscript and its telling me I have no recoveries found for my device. If I search for t0tlevzw I get a img, a img.tar, and a zip. I don't understand why my other device finds a update and this one does not. I usually install i605 ROMs. I'm just trying to use the open recovery script installer.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
Is your phone a VZW Note 2?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Yes Verizon note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DMardroid:
Bump for 2.6

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/133
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Am I able to flash the zip if I can't use goo?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BoostedB18C:
Yes, flash then reboot to recovery and you can verify the version #
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Gotta do this tonight. I'm going to download the "openrecovey-twrp-2.6.0.0-t0tlevzw.zip" reboot into recovery and flash it. Then if I reboot it should change the version number. Recoveries scare me so I just wanna double check. I'll do it tonight after work.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cpomike13:
I did it thru Goo, it was slow, as usual, but successful.

from Mike's awesome N2

see you on the darkside of the moon... which in my case is SoCal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] The_FNG:
Hello folks. I've been through all the discussions concerning "external" 64gb sdcards, exfat, fat32, and thought I had a good grasp on the issues.

I've read that TWRP didn't support exfat but DID support fat32. Now it supports exfat (and well too.)

Long story short - I formatted one of my 64gb sdcards to fat32 using the EaseBU app but no matter what I do, TWRP won't see it. Were the file system abilities of TWRP reversed across builds?

Steve
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
TWRP supports both FAT32 and EXFAT. Please upload recovery.log for troubleshooting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] The_FNG:
Sorry to sound ignorant, but I can't find that file. I booted with the FAT32 SDCard, and it wasn't seen in TWRP, but is seen in the OS, where I couldn't find the file.

Steve
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] asacado:
Sorry if I am asking something irrelevant, but I flashed 2.6 and it still shows 2.5.0.0 on the recovery. Is that normal?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
See my sig on getting recovery.log
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
How did you flash?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] asacado:
With the zip file in recovery. It updated from the previous version to 2.5 but isnt showing on this build.

Strangely, I reflashed it, and rebooted recovery several times to ensure, but it is showing 2.6 now. Weird. Is it possible to have the recovery revert itself?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
If you can run fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk1 in advanced->terminal emulator, then repost recovery.log
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] The_FNG:
Thanks for the assistance. I think this may be my issue. I see "vfat" in the log, and my tenure with M$ in the 90's says LOGICAL.

Checked with the EaseUS app and repartitioned as PRIMARY. I'll update later. :)

Steve
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
No but you need to reboot recovery after the flash to load the new version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] asacado:
Rebooted as per instructions and now rocking 2.6! Thanks guys.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] The_FNG:
BINGO. Sorry for the spurious posts. Has to be a "PRIMARY" FAT32 partition.

Thx a bunch

Steve
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
I download the t0ltevzw.zip in goo and it reboots to recovery every time when it finished download. Not finding any file in goo folder. Still on 2.3.2.3?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
Here is the TWRP flashable zip direct link on Goo:

http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/t0ltevzw/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.0.1-t0ltevzw.zip

Just download this, reboot to recovery, locate it wherever you put it or wherever it downloaded to, and flash like you would a ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Thanks that was easy.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
I have the actual Goo main page saved because I prefer to flash the updates as opposed to letting Goo Manager update my recovery, I've experienced some pretty bad issues with it in the past, so here is the link in case anyone needs it in the future:

http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/t0ltevzw/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
So. I can't restore a backup successfully. I made a backup and clicked on all the check boxes. Then Wiped. Then I tried another ROM. Didn't like it so I wiped system ect factory reset then tried to restore my backup and it completed then said failed. Its a boot loop. I don't have any logs but was wondering if I need to do anything special when doing a backup. I used to restore using 4ext long ago. Twrp hates me.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Shouldn't have to do anything special but I stress that I cannot help without a log. Sorry for your problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wog81:
Minor problem... Downloaded 2.6.0.1 from goo and it said successful install. Now when I try to do a back up it says failed, unable to tarr files. I am stumped... Tried to flash 2.5.0.0 (what I was on) and it won't flash anything either... Any help? Thx:)

Customize On :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Log please.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wog81:
Shame on me but I am not quite sure the best way to obtain a log:( a quick pointer would be great otherwise give me a bit to research... Thx:)

Customize On :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
2 ways are in signature.

Install sdk and use adb pull /tmp/recovery.log paste at paste.tinyw.in

Advanced->Copy Log to SDCard and paste at paste.tinyw.in
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ezas:
Or use an app from the Play Store for log files. I've used Catlog and it is very easy to use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
I'm guessing my failed backup has something to do with the file structure of my SD card. I remember when I made my backup it was saving to "External_SdCard". Now somehow my folder is named extSdCard. Not positive but possible. I'll try again soon

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
We use external_sdcard in twrp however cm uses extracted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bradh024:
I need some help here, Ive searched but cant find anything...... For some reason, this recovery will not read my sdcard0 file (my storage) of my internal sd card. Ive looked everywhere for a solution, but cant seem to find one. Any help is appreciated........ I really dont want to use cwm again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MADDAN18:
Hi Brad, I've only had that happen to me once. I performed a format of my internal sd card and for some reason, my external sd card just disappeared under recovery. I ended up shutting down the phone, rebooted (without the sd) then re-shut down the phone and re-inserted. When I rebooted back to recovery (vol down + home + power, the sd showed back up again going back into recovery...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bradh024:
Thanks, Ill give that a shot. Its been an issue for a while. The only folders in the sdcard folder are clockworkmod and twrp. Ive also noticed in the root explorer app thats its named sdcard0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bradh024:
I figured it out...... I deleted the sdcard0 folder in root explorer, which had the clockworkmod and twrp folders in it, and it worked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nrfitchett4:
got a replacement device from verizon. Did full backup in twrp, rooted, etc new device using casual. Twrp does not see backup file to restore. I can navigate to it in my twrp folder via a file mgr and the 4.5gb backup is there, but if I click on restore, go to ext sd card, it gives me a blank screen.

Any ideas? Was trying not to set up the phone from scratch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
You need to make a new backup to create the new backup directory on the new phone. Then move the old backup to the new backup directory.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kdizzleh85:
Hey does anyone know where I can get an older version of twrp. 2.5 or older. I am not into the newly built twrp. Just a personal pref. Thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kisypher:
Try this.... http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/t0ltevzw/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wtoj34:
I'm having a small issue. I just created a backup in twrp, and forgot to change the location to the extSD card from internal storage. I then made a second backup to my extsd and that works fine. My problem is that the first backup took up 2gb's of my internal SD. I looked in every directory possible for the backup, and could not find it. I am running a 4.3 ROM. The backup also does not appear in twrp, or SD maid as large files, but it is still taking up space. This isn't an extremely severe issue, but is nagging me a bit. Does anyone know where I can find the backup on a 4.3 ROM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Try /data/media/0/TWRP
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wtoj34:
https://paste.tinyw.in/index.php/view/95676614

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Wasn't in there. There isnt a folder inside the TWRP folder. I posted the log in the post above.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jmorton10:
Unfortunately, there isn't one.

It has nothing to do with Windows 7 etc., the problem is the only file format that is compatible with the flash recoveries Is FAT32 and that does not support over 4 gig files.

I went all thru this with my Galaxy 3 and a 64 gig card. I have blue-ray rips that are over 4 gigs and need NTFS, but the Galaxy phones will not read NTFS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Shambala69:
FYI...I tried installing through goo manager and odin. Both times left me with ASR.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Geezer Squid:
I tried to install it via Goo Manager (before I had even checked to see which version Adam's unlock routine had installed. I'm such an idiot sometimes!!). and I ended up with the stock recovery. I then reinstalled Adam's VerizonSuckit file with TWRP 2.3.2.3 and the Bootloader via Odin. All is good now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RaptorMD:
Once we are unlocked/rooted and we have TWRP installed how do we get into TWRP, is it simply power up while holding down home button and vol. down or it is vol up?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Shambala69:
volume up + home+ power and/or you can get an app like Quick Boot that will take you into recovery from the OS...at least until a dev bakes a restart menu into their ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Geezer Squid:
The app Goo Manager has a Reboot to Recovery button.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Currentweb:
So, I'm not the only one unable to flash any recovery except for the suckitversion one Adam provided. Good, I was up late trying to figure it out. I still don't know what the problem is, as it's definitely flashing to the correct /dev/block, but something is wrong.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Do you guys need to be in a specific mode to flash boot and recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Shambala69:
First I tried using the Goo Manager app to flash. Phone never rebooted like instructions mentioned it would. Then I downloaded Odin twrp version from twrp website, put phone into download mode, connected to pc and odin recognized phone, i put twrp file into pda slot of odin, flashed and Odin gave me the "pass" notification but still booted into stock recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Clarkkent434:
I didn't use goomanagerto flash TWRP but Rom toolbox. But the version is 2.3.1.1.

Sent from VZW Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Have you unlocked yet?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wickedares:
Same here. I ended up having to odin the cwm recovery through windows to get recovery back. And the twrp recovery wont flash the cm 10 alpha atm which is sad I like twrp alot better
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kyle244948:
Might be off topic but is about twrp. What should I backup from the get go? Just unlocked and saw I have the opportunity to backup the system, data, modem and efs among other things. I know modem and efs are important ones. What else should I backup along with those?

Sent from my SCH-I605
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wickedares:
I backed up rev 3 with everything selected and did compression since I dont plan to use it but for in a pinch kind of thing. But I dont know if it was necessary to check everything or even what everything does.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Probably the assert. I am using the stock name t0ltevzw. Change the assert for the updater-script.

Also I think you guys need to unlock the device to flash recovery w/o Odin. Rooted isn't good enough on vzw.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imnuts:
You need to be unlocked to flash recovery at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wickedares:
i am unlocked via adams method. i had twrp on there from that method. but i wanted to flash the CM 10 alpha they had and it requres cwm since twrp from adams setup errors out installing it. so i flashed cwm and the cm wasnt great so i wasn going to flash back to twrp and i when i downloaded this recovery from this thread and flashed it, i was brought back to ASR and had to reflash cwm from odin to get recovery back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Only thing I can think of is something isn't removing /system/recovery-from-boot.p

Not sure if verizon puts it in the firmware but if that file exists, when you boot into android it reflashes stock recovery if that file exists.

Make sure the file is renamed if it exists before flashing TWRP. Let me know if this works.

TWRP renames the file, but if you flash TWRP, without booting TWRP, and reboot into android, it will flash stock back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Rolfsted:
I just hold the power button hit restart and option is there for recovery. No holding home/volume up/power anymore
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Shambala69:
i was reading if you flash the suck it verizon odin package in ODIN you will get TWRP back, if you didn't already know:D

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Running Beans build 2 and checked for file. Did not exists. Downloaded twrp zip file from website onto sdcard. Booted into recovery and flashed twrp zip file. Went to reboot menu and rebooted into recovery. Back to asr!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Make sure you are using a root browser. According to the log your internal backups are being stored there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ems3:
If you're on 4.3 did you check sdcard and sdcard0 for a twrp folder? I know on the newer roms most throw eveything in sdcard0 which twrp doesnt locate. Try going there and looking
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I thought sdcard0 was a virtual mount /data/media/0.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wtoj34:
Got a root browser and found it in data/media/twrp/backups

Little confused seeing it in the root media folder but none-of-the-less thanks for the help
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
That might of happened if you switched from 4.2 to 4.1 at some point or vice versa.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] westlandnick:
So it looks like someone else kind of had a similar issue to mine.. I kind of figured out what happened, but now I'm curious if this is a TWRP thing, or if its a CM10.1 install thing.. Anyway, I installed CM10.1 a couple days ago, and setting it up and installing apps, all of the sudden I get a "out of memory" error. Let me back up a bit, after my clean install of CM, I notice that all of my internal storage is gone, blank like a fresh start.. So I assumed that on the wipe and install of CM, that it formatted my internal memory. Now back to my installing the apps and "out of memory".. I start digging around in my file manager, and I select every file in my internal memory and it equals about 2.5 gb, yet I have like 200mb free... My internal memory is more like 11 gb. Now I also did a backup before installing CM to my internal memory. This I cannot find. But I had an old backup on my extsd. So I restore it, and now my internal memory looks like it used to, and there is my newer backup.

Anyway, to cut this down to a question. Does TWRP repartition your internal storage when you install AOSP, or is that something that CM10.1 does on the install? It seems as if when backing up, or installing CM, it creates a "virtual partition" and leaves all of the old there but hidden?

I now restored back to my backup after I figured out where it went... But I'm wanting to run CM10.1.. Do I need to just format my internal storage before installing? Or is this part of why the install instructions of CM says to install the latest clockworkmod recovery? I really prefer TWRP, I have loved this recovery since my OG Evo, maybe I'm just not as familiar with it...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
You probably ran into the issue where not all of your files got transferred to /data/media/0 when you installed cm10.1 Cm10.1 doesn't look into /data/media and you probably had files leftover. TWRP doesn't do any repartition during installing roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] westlandnick:
So this is a CM thing? Is it partially due to installing it with TWRP instead of CWM? I guess what I need to do is manually format my internal memory before flashing CM? Or is that a bad idea?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] michigan66:
Cm/aosp use storage differently than TW roms. For lack of a more technical explaination....it creates a new storage area. Everything is stored in different locations. Your backup is still stored in the same location but cm views it as a different spot. If that makes any sense? This is the reason for the sd card restore zip in the 10.1 thread to use when going back to a TW Rom. It restores all if your file locations to the original location. The is some information in the cm thread that can explain more technically than I can.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deekayy:
I have a problem.. Running twrp 2.5 and its asking for password at boot up which it never did before. Would it go away if I installed 2.6? I cannot wipe or install any roms and I'm stuck at the recovery menu.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
That means your data partition cannot be mounted. If it worked before without doing anything, it must have become corrupted somehow. Try formatting data through Wipe->Format data.

This WILL format internal storage. Hope you have a backup.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deekayy:
Thank you so much.. I hardly run into problems since I follow the directions, but possibly the reason why my phone got corrupted is because I did a sudden battery pull. Good to know and I'm always learning new things! Sadly, I did not back up internal storage, that's okay, everything is on my SD :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopt51:
Looking for some themes. Can anyone share? Or point me in the right direction. Thanks

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PapaJohnMc:
You can go here and here to start... I am using a modified version of the Holofied (first link).

I modified the curtain in mine but I am not sure we are allowed to share it.

curtain.jpg

Here are a couple others I made while in the mood to mod...

curtain-1.jpg

curtain-2.jpg

curtain-3.jpg

The images for the backgrounds came from wallbase.cc. I do not take any credit for those, only for modifying them to fit my needs... ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] manbat:
How do you get the modified curtain to show? Mine I have created in the past never show when added to the ui.zip in the theme folder.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PapaJohnMc:
You have to rebuild the .img file. I used this dev tool - Android Image Kitchen as mentioned here. It only took a few minutes and BAM! New curtain love...

What I do'd...

1. Download the Android Image Kitchen and extract.

2. Download the latest TWRP for your device (via zip method).

3. Extract the image from the zip file (recovery.img) to the same directory as your Android Image Kitchen batch files.

4. Drag and drop the image (recovery.img) onto unpackimg.bat

5. Navigate to the image dir. Mine was located on my desktop under Android.Image.Kitchen.v1.5-Win32\ramdisk\res\images because I extracted the Android Image Kitchen to my desktop...

6. Whip up an awesome new curtain.jpg in your devices native resolution using whatever graphic wizardry you like and save to the image directory above.

7. Double click the repackimg.bat to create a new .img file.

8. Create a new zip with the meta folder and image file you just created.

9. Copy to your device and install via recovery.

10. Reboot into recovery and enjoy the new hotness.

11. Profit.

Hope that helps. :cool:

Yeah, I got a bit "Bold" happy there...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TheLoonyRebel:
Just an FYI the current uploaded CWM/TWRP flashable .zip file for 2.6.1.0 still has the recovery file from 2.6.0.1 in it. I suspect this is due to a lack of 2.6.1.0 itself for our Note 2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TheLoonyRebel:
Fixed version now up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Not sure what happened. Re-uploaded. please let me know.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] manbat:
My new TWRP "Curtain"...THANKS !!

========================

Thanks for the help...My New TWRP Splash Screen / Curtain.

And my blue version I made for 2.6.3.0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] michigan66:
2.6.3 gives an error when you choose to back up to external sd card. Unable to backup to sd card. Failed. This is with a brand new card that definitely works fine. Just an fyi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you upload the log?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] michigan66:
Yes. Give me a minute to install it again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
is it fat32 or exfat? also at dev sorry for barging in but 2.6.3 saves to my ext fat32 sd card just fine
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] michigan66:
Let the phone format it. Its only a 32gb card so there are no formatting issues.

---------- Post added at 06:49

https://db.tt/9kt8MDhu

Here is the log. Let me know if it is what you need.

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Log is just below.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you try a simpler backup name?