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[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
[XZDualRecovery] 2.7.73 BETA released!

BETA Change log:

BETA releases will only appear on http://nut.xperia-files.com and the DevDB thread and as soon as enough people report it to be working fine will it move in to the Q&A thread as a RELEASE version.

Version 2.7.73:

Fixed a little time daemon thingy which had a major consequence on the Z1/ZU :eek:

NOTE: Z1 and Z Ultra Users who have 2.7.72 installed, update ASAP and

do not

try to install any ROM with .72!

:o
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tiu Fiu:
Hey NUT, I've just installed v.73 coming from v.71 and, as I always do after updating, I tried to do a Nandroid backup using Philz recovery (I also updated your dual recovery from Philz, as I always do).

Problem is, Philz recovery didn't allow me to do the backup... It said it didn't found the /boot partition (as always), but instead of skipping it, it just canceled it altogether... Now, I've performed a Nandroid using TWRP and it was OK, just as it was supposed to, so I guess it may be something with the new Philz recovery.

Best regards and thanks for the support on our ZL, brother...
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Please report the PhilZ Touch issue here. I don't think it's something I can actually fix myself...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tiu Fiu:
I guess there is no need to. I took a look at Philz thread and apparently it has something to do with exFat-formatted SD cards (which seems to be the case since my SD card is exFat-formatted and I lack the free space required in the internal memory).

Anyway, Philz seems to have solved the issue and the next version of Philz recovery should have that problem fixed.

Once again, best regards and thanks for everything.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirawong:
I've tried to uninstall using the OP instructions and then i tried to install recovery V.2.7.73 again using windows installer.zip

CMD show installation is ok. but when the phone reboot its doesn't go to CWM. Only show red led and then boot to xperia. :(

i've tried this 6 times but only red led again & again.

any suggestion?

thnks before.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Device? ROM?

Do you have any busybox installer app? Remove it (and busybox) if you do: XZDualRecovery installs one which it needs to function.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kamalmawa:
Hey NUT same issue here with XZ with latest .569 ROM

Update: Uing the NDR Utils to reboot to recovery works fine for both CWM, PhlizTouch and TWRP. So it just the volume key method doesn't work
[Sony Cross-Device General] AngelBob:
Actually if you select CWM in NDRUtils that will then become the VOLUME+ recovery that gets booted.

VOLUME- will for now always be twrp
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirawong:
my device is C6602 with 4.3 stock rom Drummerjed V1 rooted locked bootloader.

however i will try to factory reset and going to flash the rom again because i cann't enter recovery that was important for me to installing mod or another rom.

i don't have any busybox installer, i'm still confused what was wrong.

Many thanks for Dualrecovery which i love it and using that so many times. :good:

i will report you back when i finished flashing the rom.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kamalmawa:
This has nothing to do with what I said. Read the few posts above to understand what I was replying to ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Can you attach your XZDualRecovery.log files here?

Maybe it does not find the gpio-keys event node... It would be weird as you are running CM10.2 on a stock kernel according to your signature ...
[Sony Cross-Device General] kamalmawa:
Oh sorry my signature hasn't updated for a while. As I stated above I'm running rooted stock 4.3 ROM. Here is the log files

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gu0e4xz6p29fzae/XZDualRecovery.zip
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
This is where it gets interesting... it detects the correct node for the XZ...

Does your volume control still work using the volume buttons? :eek:

It should work just fine... :confused:

A little tutorial, to compare your effords to try and get in to a recovery:

Turn on Phone, you see the kernel logo;

You feel the phone vibrate 2 times with a green led;

NOTE: WHILE the green led is burning you have 3 seconds to press either volume-up or volume-down;

You press one of the 2 volume buttons ONCE while the LED is still green to enter a recovery.

What do you different from this guide?
[Sony Cross-Device General] kamalmawa:
Omg this is now even now more crazy. Now I can go to TWRP using both volume up and down keys but no phliztouch cwm. Before it wasn't working at all. Like the other guy said it turned red after purple. I did have a habit of abusing the volume key instead of pressing once though but it never caused any problems before.

Windows installer usually rebooted to phliztouch for the first time. But now it won't happen. I'm gonna do a clean install again. Which files should I delete?
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Don't delete anything. What you are experiencing is a feature and not a bug... I'll do a little patch up to make it boot to philz with the vol-up again. Anyone who wants to go to vanilla CWM will need to use NDR Util.

I'll also try to make the command feature work with [MENTION=4322181]Tungstwenty[/MENTION]'s number 2 solution while I'm at it :) I always meant to fix that somehow, some day :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
BETA Change log:

BETA releases will only appear on http://nut.xperia-files.com and the DevDB thread and as soon as enough people report it to be working fine will it move in to the Q&A thread as a RELEASE version.

Version 2.7.74:

Restored the use of apps which allow you to boot to recovery to perform a specific task, based on an idea from [MENTION=4322181]Tungstwenty[/MENTION]. :good:

NOTE: This feature is largely untested but it should work OK :fingers-crossed:

Restored the Volume-UP key in it's former glory. If you wish to boot to Vanilla CWM, you MUST use NDRUtils.

Eventhough it impacts speed on exFAT formatted SD cards, I've reverted PhilZ to use the minivold to mount the SDcard1 and USB disks, to fix the compatibility with the Z1 and Z Ultra.

Enjoy! :good:

Please DO report everything not working as intended!
[Sony Cross-Device General] jagdesh:
Hi Nut. I would like to report that the now pressing the volume up button I am entering into Philz recovery but for some reason the backlight of the phone is kit working on Philz recovery. I mean the phone's backlight does not work and it does on TWRP
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pandemic:
[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

did you read my reply ??

ja we hebben dat wat je laatst vroeg man.

reageer ff :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Dsteppa:
Let the guy R.I.P Geez!:p

Ik heb ook wat problemen:

http://imgur.com/5YJFZAu

I read this page where the guy seemed to have almost similar problems, but my device doesn't restart or anything.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2261606&page=4

I've manually installed SuperSu (From CF), but that just said that the binaries can't be found.

I tried the latest FW and .244 both completely stock and fresh installs with full wipe, but both of them gave me the same message.

Also tried an older version of the recovery (Because I know that it worked for me last year), but same problem...
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Ik heb het gelezen ;)

Can you do a feature request on DevDB? Just to make sure I don't forget... I'm kinda busy with my update-to thread for a fully rooted JB4.3 Z1 without loss of data...

Everyone can do the same from now on, report the following info for me please:

CM device name

CM device repo link (and what CM version it exists on)

Device resolution (not as '720p' but as '1280x800')

If /system/bin/chargemon exists

If /system/bin/sa77_recovery exists

Incomplete requests will get put on the last position of the to-do list, so make sure you post all the required info.

You are missing a symlink to the su binary... I'll change the installer to use the (SuperSU default) /system/xbin/su binary for the next release.

For now, open android terminal and type:

su
ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bin/sh

After which the installer should start to work just fine.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Dsteppa:
Doesn't seem to work either:confused:

http://imgur.com/ZRb6ArJ

Tenzij ik iets verkeerd doe
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Are you sure you are rooted? :confused:

Type the following if you think you are:

(stop at the first one that does not work)

/system/xbin/su
export PATH="/system/xbin:/system/bin:$PATH"
su

If you had to stop at some point and you still have recovery (but you wanted to update to the latest) flash the latest SuperSU or re-root your phone...
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Hmm funny, I know it's kinda dark, it was for me on my Z1, but usable... in a dark room, are you able to see anything? If so, navigate to PhilZ Touch settings and change the backlight value to max. It will still be a bit dark though.

Please report this issue to Phil3759 in his device support thread. Make sure you let him know you are using XZDualRecovery for locked bootloaders.

The new Z1 and Z Ultra XZDR builds have this device specific build now, previously I had modified the Xperia Z recovery patched up to work on the Z1 and Z Ultra.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Dsteppa:
I'm a blonde f*cking noob....

Forgot that I needed root... since it was like 6 months ago that I did this...

Could you please add that in the notes please:P That you need to have root to make this work.

Thanks for the effort.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pandemic:
[MENTION=4631323]Dsteppa[/MENTION]

hahaha hoor deze :p

oohwee that s*cks you have that kind of sh*tty problems

and also to bad to hear also a DUtCh friend !

[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

ok is cool homez :D

hmm ok and that should work for our XP JB 4.1.2 users or we just need to test?

Btw i bought almost an Xperia SP :)

But i still had not my money on tha bank... Lame :( :crying:

Next time better :D

* sorry that was kinda OT
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Sorry, I just have to... :laugh:

:p
[Sony Cross-Device General] CiscoX:
(I like)

LoL :laugh:
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
[XZDualRecovery] 2.7.75 BETA released!

BETA Change log:

BETA releases will only appear on http://nut.xperia-files.com and the DevDB thread and as soon as enough people report it to be working fine will it move in to the Q&A thread as a RELEASE version.

Version 2.7.75:

Now including NDRUtils in the installation packages. Whenever the app is updated, Play should do that for you.

Updated the mr script, debugged by [MENTION=4322181]Tungstwenty[/MENTION], it is now confirmed working.

Enjoy :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] scoobydu:
Is there anything special to run the linux script on mac os mavericks?

I'm getting;

Its being executed from my local folder on my ssd.

Trying to install on 4.2.2 on both the Tab and Ultra, both rooted.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
It needs to be unpacked on to a folder which has the Unix file permissions and user ownership file attributes set. Otherwise sudo won't know if you may run it AFAIK.
[Sony Cross-Device General] bogdan wst:
Just in case someone needs to restore a backup made in TWRP/Philz - 2.7.74 version ... will this backup be able to be restored with the new 2.7.75 version of recovery ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Yes, that will probably never be broken. If it does I'll make sure you will know about it in the changelog.
[Sony Cross-Device General] scoobydu:
Ok thanks.

Its strange as they seem fine and as the other files in the directory; read/write by me and read only by staff.

Does the script need root on the mac or linux, or can it just be ran as a user, as I am assuming.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Not sure if it can be run as a regular user... on linux it requires root to make sure it has access to the USB port.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
For ALL RomAur users on the Z1

For ALL RomAur users on the Z1

The stock chargemon binary is missing from your ROM, because of this it will send your phone in to a bootloop if you try to flash XZDualRecovery.

Download XZDR_ROMAUR_fix.zip, you can flash that before you flash XZDualRecovery, after flashing them you can reboot to system, offline charging will be restored and the bootloops will be a thing of the past :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] shan25:
hey, im trying to flash a custom ROM and everytime i do i end up with a bootloop. I reslash the dualrecovery more than once too. Could it be because the ROM has a custom kernel?

and if so would it be fixed if i flashed doom kernel over it?

---------- Post added at 12:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:57 AM ----------

could this also be the case with vanir rom? I get a bootloop after flashing..
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Could be. Check if /system/bin/chargemon.stock exists, if it doesn't check if /system/bin/chargemon is a script. If so, this fix will work for you too.
[Sony Cross-Device General] shan25:
I can't because I had a bootloop and couldn't boot into recovery either so I used the FlashTool to get back to a working system.. I will let you know what happens :)

EDIT: damn.. bootloop again.. maybe im doing something wrong? is there a certain way you are supposed to update to 14.2.0.A.290 maybe? I saw the files for the C6902..

also are there any limitations to this recovery that would cause it? other than having to be flashed again.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Hold on... Vanir is an AOSP ROM ... that won't work with XZDualRecovery at all from what I understand...

Besides... that would mean you have an unlocked bootloader. If you don't: forget about flashing it... that will require a custom kernel.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ChillyChan:
The latest beta v2.7.75 works great on the Z Ultra. Philz now sees the external SD card. Thank you so very much!
[Sony Cross-Device General] shan25:
wow.. i really derped that one.. I thought that you could after installing the recoveries.

Alright thanks :) will it ever be possible to unlock the bootloader of devices who aren't officially allowed to unlock them?
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
I'm sure some day, someone might crack it... but by then you will probably already have a new phone :silly: :p
[Sony Cross-Device General] shan25:
:'( i am cringing.. I came here from the nexus because of the superior hardware and build quality and now i miss my unlocked bootloader.. :(
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Well... next time you know what to check before you buy it :)

Best is not to ever buy a branded phone, 99.99% chance it will be locked for ever.
[Sony Cross-Device General] AngelBob:
It would not be hard as you have access to the ramdisk on AOSP, most call /system/bin/<some_name>.rc on boot. Maybe you could tap into that, else it would mean patching the ramdisk.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
It's something I've been considering, but that will be for the next beta stream :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pandemic:
[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49429063&postcount=1115
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Eh...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49424093&postcount=1110 and http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/?id=177#featureRequests

I asked you to put the details there... and I'm kinda busy, so please put it there and stop bugging me about it :rolleyes:
[Sony Cross-Device General] shan25:
Yeah.. I heard Sony themselves had provided a way to unlock the bootloader so I decided to go for it.

Still a great device in my opinion. Plus you and others are doing great work here thanks for the recovery :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
Can confirm all 3 recoveries working on 275 ZU as expected (when recovery chosen via buttons), including flashing from ext sd in all 3 recoveries. Interestingly NDRUtils boots me into Philz no matter what recovery I select in the app :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Can you check if you have a XZDualRecovery folder inside /cache?

Next thing to check: can you attach your XZDR.prop file from either or both cache and from your sdcard for us to have a look at? Thanks for the report!
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
Cache/

Xzdr.prop
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Hmm, can you send me the preperation.log inside the XZDualRecovery folder?

I think XZDR is unable to mount your sdcard at boot, while NDRUtils will have access to the XZDualRecovery folder on your external sdcard from the ROM. Lets see if I can fix that for you :)

I remember from our hangout, you where using an ext2/3 formatted sdcard, right?
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
Sry I'm just screening, I'm down at the beach with my son :P (44° celsius, 4th day in a row above 40) too hot to work on pc at my place :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
That's clear enough. You where convinced it was an ext2/3/4 formatted sdcard you have, but XZDR is reasonably sure it isn't (it's a windows format according to fdisk which makes it try to load the exfat driver...)... Has it been partitioned by any chance?

As soon as you have the chance, check it on a PC and see if you can determine what filesystem it holds for sure.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
Cool.. When I had htc leo/hd2 it did have it partitioned (2 x 32gb, dual boot android/wp7) and there may be a residual (small) 3rd partition on there which isnt ext2/3/4.

One thing I'm sure of, I have never specifically formatted as exFat (and being 64gb fat32 not supported) - so a small 3rd partition must be stuffing us up :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Then the choice is easy: use TWRP or PhilZ to partition your sdcard or do it on PC... Either way: don't forget to copy it's contents to the PC first... that will be wiping it's contents.

Currently NTFS or similar filesystems are unsupported on our phones, until someone manages to create a driver for it which they release in public.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
And with ntfs being proprietary it will only ever be a hack anyway ;)

Reformat not the worst idea.. Pretty much just 30gb of music I haven't played in months plus my twrp and titanium backups :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
Any way you do it, please do let us know if it fixes your issues ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pandemic:
Ok sorry bro [MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

i didn`t saw and apologize to bugging you, wont happen again ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tiu Fiu:
[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

A little while ago you released a XZDR version that had some fixes to the time problem on Philz and TWRP (can't remember which one exactly, even though it is in the 3rd post on the first page, sorry for that).

I've been checking your thread every day for the past couple of weeks and I've been updating the XZDR whenever I see an update available (yes, I'm on .75 now) and, even though I still can't do a nandroid backup with Philz, I've been doing my nandroids with TWRP (at least one every time I update XZDR) and for a while now all my TWRP nandroid backups keep coming with the 1970s timeframe (since v.70 or .71, I can't remember exactly when it all began). The latest says 1970-07-10--10-52-19 10.4.B.0.569.

Now, even though I'm OK with my 1970s-time-stamped backups (every time I see or hear a reference on the 70s I remember the "That's 70's Show" and it gives me a smile), I'm worried about this particular situation causing problems if I ever need to restore any of my backups.

Should I be free of this problem by now? Did I miss anything when I updated XZDR? Should I uninstall it and install it again? Or is it nothing to worry about?

Thanks for the time and the support on our beloved ZL.

Best regards.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
I'm afraid a more generic solution for this problem still has to be found but I have some C6606 users reporting the same problem.

Many telco's prohibit the RTC (Real Time Clock) to be set because it might cause interference with their network's clock and timing issues could arise between your device and the telco's network causing reception issues...

In JB4.3 on the Z series Sony locked up the RTC, keeping it read only from the kernel, so time sync has been proven impossible. I'm still searching for a solution, but I'm not sure if I can find it soon...

Thank you for your report though, now I at least know the ZL has the same issues. :good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] sidelong:
Flashed 75 today. I previously had tried versions up to 66, but had to go back to 63 because of strange behaviours as reported in previous posts. Here are my findings with 75: can boot into Philz or TWRP using Vol up or down as expected. TWRP will backup to ext-card, but applies wrong date (1980-01-01) to default filename. However Rename facility can be used to correct this. Have not tried TWRP backup to sdcard. Phil's won't backup to ext-card, error thrown up when starting to backup image. Backup to sdcard is possible but again wrong date applied to default filename (1970-08-13) and no way of editing this prior to backup. Date is always the same, only time different (also incorrect) so no way of knowing which is the latest backup.

I have 4.3 installed with root, achieved via the flashable zip method. I can supply more details e.g. default dates if useful.
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
BETA Change log:

BETA releases will only appear on http://nut.xperia-files.com and the DevDB thread and as soon as enough people report it to be working fine will it move in to the Q&A thread as a RELEASE version.

Version 2.7.76:

FINALLY

cracked the time_daemon issues for good :victory: Date and time will be set correctly in the recoveries, the timezone will be offset maybe, TWRP and PhilZ allow for a configuration of that to correct it to the right time.

Updated the way EXT formatted sdcards are mounted. It now will attempt to mount it using the correct FS type.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iBuzman:
time_daemon maybe still a few kinks to iron out ;)

Date (in terminal session) and nandroid done in twrp (latest public beta)
[Sony Cross-Device General] [NUT]:
:confused:

I've tested it on my Z1... On there it is working correctly... :(

[MENTION=3767251]iBuzman[/MENTION]

Can you boot in to and connect USB while in recovery? use adb shell to do this next part:

date
xzdualrecovery.sh
date

And then check your device to see if the time has been corrected?
[Sony Cross-Device General] -=meinereeiner=-:
Hello [NUT],

I'm not iBuzman but I did your test and in adb-shell I get this message:

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn'

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn'

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn'

Fri Jan 2 12:22:56 GMT 2009

:(

The time/date displayed is exact the time/date that twrp used!

---------- Post added at 04:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ----------

...sorry that was only the half of the message. This is the full message:

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for GMT!

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for posixrules!

Fri Jan 2 12:22:56 GMT 2009
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirawong:
After recovery an error with my recovery, now i got xz recovery working on my phone. :D

What i do? I flash to. 67 and get root then install the latest recovery.

I think my fault is i flash recovery from 2.7.43 straight to 2.7.73. Is that true?

On your download page, it shows flashable.zip and update.zip. Whats should i flash in recovery to get the latest recovery before i install rom? :confused:

I don't want to lose recovery again.

Thnks.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ZeroAE:
Whoops, wrong thread.

Sorry! ^^;
[Sony Cross-Device General] sidelong:
Flashed 76. Here are my findings: can boot into PhilZ or TWRP using Vol up or down as expected. TWRP will now backup to both scared and ext-card, and applies correct date and time (once correct timezone has been selected in settings) to default filename. PhilZ backup to sdcard works correctly, with correct date and time (no need to select timezone) applied to default filename. However still won't backup to ext-card, "error on backing up image", although ext-card can be accessed via restore. No progress bar indication or Android animation during PhilZ backup.

Real improvement. Thanks [MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION].

I have 4.3 installed with root, achieved via the flashable zip method.