yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] apeiron6:
I'm on stock odex me2 rom. Time bug seems to be on recovery backup to. Year 2020 :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] andymihail:
Last version backup to external Sd took me 44 min for 2.2Gb.

Omega 7, Adam Kernel 1.4, Samsung 64gb microsdxc uhs-I exfat.

Checked Sd card with Sd tools and Sd tester and I get good speed within the Rom. Also, backup in TWRP takes 11 min.

Time bug not present in last version of Philz recovery in my case.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tassos_i:
As I have pointed out some times in previous posts, cwm backup time on S4 depends largely upon your device's temperature. On a hot device (for instance, immediately after a twrp or cwm nandroid backup), cwm backup times can be disastrous. This is true for both chenglu's and Phil's cwms. And this is especially true for backup on external sd64 exfat. If you carry a backup on a "cold" device (that is left idle for 30 minutes, or placed in the fridge for 10 minutes), you'll be surprised from short backup times.

Having said that, at a given temperature, 5.07.6 is 10%-15% slower than 5.07.1, but that is not much.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] andymihail:
Same configuration as in my last post, only this time I let the phone rest before backup, no ice, no freezer, backup time: 16 min.

Last time was 44...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
LoL

Great to know, finally we fixed the slow backup issue
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] soza971:
after installing a rom and before reboot i disabled dirty flash ( dont remember but i said yes) what does dat do?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] invano:
I've just flashed this recovery. It's the first time I flash something on my I9505 and everything seems ok!

When Odin finished the phone rebooted in normal mode but the philz recovery is up without any problems.

Now it's backup time. Thank you m8 ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sswagonman:
Much faster backups now thanks Phil. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] chickentuna:
3260mb of data took about 22mins to complete with low compression. Backup was saved on an external SD Card FAT32 Sandisk class 10. Not bad.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
Hi,

I have your latest recovery 5.07.6 on galaxy 9505.With GE 4.2.2 and with MEA samsung rom (stock kernel) when i hit the format /data+/data/media option my phone reboots.Result is a not mounting sdcard and i have to flash from scratch stock rom in order to make my phone useable.

Any idea?Thank you for your work :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] andyjg247:
Doesn't the text you've quotes imply this is a known possible issue?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
I quote the beta version but installed the latest stable 5.07.6

Also did test formating data+data/media and this is my results

(4 tests, 3 with GE and 1 with tw rom)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Many thanks

Can you test format /data+/data/media menu for v5.07.5?

That's the only part I have no report about. I can understand that usually people do not use it as it wipes internal sd
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
I know Phil.Just testing (ok i may end with a paperweight phone :eek: ).Reason for extra testing in 5.07.6 is that i read a post saying that data+data/media in 5.07.6 was successful.

I had same results with 5.07.5 (after doing wipe data+data/media),recovery showing that wiping data, then phone reboots to recovery again, takes some time showing black screen, then showing your recovery but had error message that can not mount /data.Of course can not mount /sdcard

Hope to help
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] SunSide:
I had the same problem with a tw rom a few days ago,but it was with recovery version 5.06.0.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nicotin3:
God day and thank you for the great recovery.

Is 1st time when I am using custom recovery and I have few questions. Can someone please explain what are all the options in the advanced backup for noobies like me. I already read all the pages from here and main thread and cannot find. Options like modem, radio, efs and also what is backing up data, system, boot.

Also I tryed to backup efs, (only efs backup) and after that I checked if is available in recovery, but was missing. All other backups are there but nothing about efs.

Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
Did you do separately the backup of EFS?

edit :eek:ops sorry.Didnt read your post correct!

Ok i ll do a final test

i am with MEA stock odex rooted

I ll flash 5.07.6 with pc odin

and i 'll wipe data+media
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Thank you again
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
Well finished :D

This time works.Used 5.07.6 and flashed your recovery with pc odin

Checked my internal sdcard (empty obviously with one folder clockworkmod) and external sd mounts normally.Installation of GE goes normally (from zip file,external sd)

Maybe false alarm (maybe installation to 5.07.6 from 5.07.5 through your recovery gives error and can not mount data? Dont know)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
You used menu?

Mounts and Storage ---> Format /data and /data/media

If yes, then good news for me that it works

Many thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
Yes sir.Wiped data and sdcard through your menu

Also did the same (wipe data+/data/sdcard) with GE rom (v3 ausdim kernel).Works.

As said installed through pc odin your recovery (5.07.6) and just did wipe data+/data/sdcard. Nothing else

Hope to help
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Thank you for the feedback, really. Now this is precise

ROM shouldn't matter. Only recovery version.

I will assume this is a final build ready to push for US variants
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nicotin3:
Yep separately. This is the only way.

Ps

Can somebody answer to my previous question. Also if possible. Add the info to the main thread. Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] afilopou:
Ok.Now got your question :D

EFS backup with phil recovery executed with no problem and you can select location of this.

Now, this folder is hidden (suppose you can not see it through pc explorer?)

Also efs backup is .img and .tar, so (correct me if i am wrong.Maybe wrong, because there is option to restore efs backup from philz recovery) you can flash it through command prompt (fastboot?) and pc odin

I ll link you photos from my mobile explorer showing the backup

here you are

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14913717/efs/IMG_20130706_134657.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14913717/efs/Screenshot_2013-07-06-13-50-04.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14913717/efs/Screenshot_2013-07-06-13-50-11.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14913717/efs/Screenshot_2013-07-06-13-50-17.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14913717/efs/Screenshot_2013-07-06-13-50-20.png
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
[MENTION=643734]Philz[/MENTION] is it possible that you can add restore/backup EFS, iv'e seen this option somewhere (idk if it has been in your other devices)

but the block should be 0b10 if i'm not wrong,

Thanks that is really usable to have as i remembered messing up my IMEI and i saw a recovery that had that option to backup/recover
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] walda:
It's already there. Custom backup job, or so.

... tapat@lked
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nicotin3:
You are right, my mistake. I took a look on the pc and not in the mobile explorer. Thank you for your time.

Last question, if somebody has time, is what is the difference between radio and modem.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Both are needed for i9505

/radio is for apn sthing
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zujko:
Hi, whether there is a possibility of putting mount internal storage options?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
As USB? In theory yes, in practice, it is not worth the effort probably
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zujko:
Yes, as usb..

Because i do not have an sd card, for now:)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BTK12:
can help and can time the Apply faild error tell me how I fix one? thx
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
5.08.0 (07.07.2013)

Download:

http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=16685#files

Hope it fixes the time bug for affected people, or at least, doesn't cause it for new users

It is same as 5.07.6 with just some bug fixes / improvements, as in log

It should fix potential signature fails when flashing cm packs
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cbeckstein:
Stock XXUBMF8 and Stock kernel:

Speed of backing up 4 GB to external 64 GB exFAT card doubled from 5.07.1 (44mn) to 5.07.6 (22mn)

---------- Post added at 06:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:55 AM ----------

You mean "same as 5.07.6", do you?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Fixed typo, yes
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] DANIELWHITT:
Just tried the new version and its still giving the time error, I can get a log for you if that's any help,

The only thing I find strange is when I tried an earlier version I never had the error, I then upgraded to a newer version then had the time error, so went back to the earlier version but then that had the time error. Seems weird to me.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Shadow350z:
The last recovery fix the error 7 on CM10 ? Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Fixed since a couple of builds already
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
when I update my phone via zipinstaller the phone doesn't reboot unattended because recovery always waits for a final confirmation (this overwrite recovery thing). I would like to turn this confirmation off so I can be sure that my phone is ready when I return after using zipinstaller. Any way to do this?

Few minutes ago I thought that I had left the phone alone long enough to be able to use it again... and there it was.. still in recovery waiting for that final touch.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kartikb:
Not too sure why, but with the latest version and the version before it, I have been getting Error 22, apply time failed. How can I resolve this?

I am currently on stock MF8 ROM with root. I was previously on stock kernel but then changed to the kernel by audism, google v4. I don't think it's anything to do with the kernel, I updated the recovery by flashing it through recovery or should I flash recovery to odin to see if that makes a difference?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
You can used sgs4 flasher to flash recovery.tar. fast and errors free.

Send via i9505 using Tapatalk,

ROM: PYRANA MF8 1.7 LITE.,

CSC/Modem: OLBBMF8(STH)/DXUBMF8

Kernel/rec: GE V4/Phil 5.07.6.

SuperSU Pro 1.41, 64GB exFAT Card
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kartikb:
I've tried flashing recovery through mobile odin, odin from pc and also flashing from recovery, none of them seem to resolve the Error 22 issue, I highly doubt sgs4 flasher would make a difference..

thanks for the suggestion though, I am aware of sgs4 flasher..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
Phil, 5.08.0 backup 24mn restore 22mn

Online nandroud backup 10mn. Not a problems to me, it restore correctly was most importance. Thank for your hard works.

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ROM: PYRANA MF8 1.7 LITE.,

CSC/Modem: OLBBMF8(STH)/DXUBMF8

Kernel/rec: GE V4/Phil 5.07.6.

SuperSU Pro 1.41, 64GB exFAT Card
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
My part (restore settings prompt) can be disabled in gui settings

The other 2 checks are from stock recovery. Say yes once and you are done until you flash a completely new rom

Did you try to reflash ROM?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kartikb:
No I haven't tried re-fleshing the ROM. I'll give it a try, thanks for the suggestion.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 3bs11:
Anyone else having problems with CM updater? It says it can't find the file or directory for me but I can manually flash the file after downloading it with CM updater.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
There is a screenshot, but :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Thanks

fb2png is on my plans to look at
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
One other request (don't know if it's already in the planning) can you increase the menu row height.

On this high res screen even the highest setting the menu row height is still very low making it hard so hit the right selection.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] SunSide:
In recovery it looks ok,but the screens looks like above.

Tried wiping and formating cache,get error and then it stucks on formating cache.Had to press the powerbutton long to reboot.

Volume buttons worked for me to scroll through the menü,and powerbutton entered :)

Log attached.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hanspampel:
@Phil

To your not working flashable(zip) recoveries, is it possible you write it in the wrong blocks.

You write in your update_script

But im sure, that the block for recovery is /dev/block/mmcblk0p21 like i did it in my flashable zip.

So it should be

My flashable is attached and only for international version of gt-i9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
There are the tmobile and the bell versions that use that mtd path

However, international version has the ones i wrote. I use kernel from stock. Not sure they are mapped to other path as i cannot test, i play it safe and kept path from international version to not for example write to bootloader or wipe your data...

I would need to look into sources
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hanspampel:
Im using the internationel version, but i cant flash it through cwm. It only works with my changes.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I will release a version with changed recovery.fstab

Have to look for sources, but not much time

Use at your own risk, really...

Try first a read using aroma file manager or adb before attempting to write
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] leeomendes:
So here we go; using the version from yesterday (16/05 19:13) first I had problems with /cache, and after trying to format it for 2 times the phone just "died" booting only until the samsung screen. Then I flashed pre-hacked stock ME with cf-root and everything came back fine!

Installed again, flashed Adam kernel, flashed Omega Rom but now (since I installed ME) I can't "mount USB" on the recovery. That is my only one problem so far! Another thing (maybe I am doing wrong) aroma works only with volume and power button... I don't know if it was supposed to be touch screen but anyway, I am still amazed of how good it is hahaha thanks for that!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] oneinch:
Font is toooooo small,my eyes.

Anyway,i touch the blank zone,recovery always try to open aroma file manager,why is that?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] boterkaaseneieren:
after a full wipe with this nothing worked anymore, installing rom failed, restoring backup failed, after flashing twrp and with restoring my twrp backup failed.

Odin saved my day, flashed twrp and restoring backup whas ok.

after restoring with odin my internal sd whas empty and old internal sd with all my stuf whas in a folder O
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hav0c:
Wipe data/factory reset causes the phone to reboot. This also happens when selecting format data in mounts and storage so there is obviously something wrong there.

Restore backup results in "Can't mount /system" causing the restore to fail...

When making a backup (to external SD) it tells you:

"E: failed to find partition size "recovery"
"E: failed to find partition size "boot"
>>unknown partition size (2)::L

Backup creation does start after these messages.

The date of the backup is in the year 1970

Formatting /cache fails. Had to flash another CWM to get that sorted.

Font is a bit small (imo)

Touch controls in Aroma file manager are not working (do realise that this is not your project tho..)

Will do some more testing later.

Thanks for the work so far :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MrJiM:
Mirror pls. Cant DL from Dev-host. :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hav0c:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32349556/philz_touch_5.03.3-i9505.tar.md5
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
For all who are having these cache issues

- is it the same with other cwm recoveries or only this one?

- can you post a log after you get an issue with cache
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hav0c:
I had the cache issue with http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2238414 (experimental 4) as well.

Formatting cache in CWM from chenglu http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41438707 ( i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2-2: to be specific) does work for me.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] diigibio:
Been looking to see you here every day. Glad to finally see you. Love your work Phil
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
v5.03.4

Hope this will fix the /cache issues

Download:

http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=16685#files
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] macsim:
cache problem NOT solved here with latest build
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Well, it seems /cache issue affects some people while others are not affected

It seems present for all other cwm recoveries

If someone has an idea, let me know
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] d-iivil:
Yep, ROM manger scripts are doing the same.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wicki30:
But CMupdater has no problem when am using recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.3-jfltexx.img
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Florie1706:
I have the same issues with cmupdater with two devices and philz recovery - latest build.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
Today flashed back to 5.07.6, backup 3GB took me 10mn, factory reset and done a nandroid restore which took less than 10 mn, better than 5.08.0. Good.

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ROM: PYRANA MF8 1.7 LITE.,

CSC/Modem: OLBBMF8(STH)/DXUBMF8

Kernel/rec: GE V4/Phil 5.07.6.

SuperSU Pro 1.41, 64GB exFAT
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] joelvn:
Backup of 1.5gb to 64gb fat32 sd card only took 3 minutes :thumbup:

People with problems with cm updater, it is because it only works with official versions of cwm. If you want to use philz Cwm and still auto update just use cyan delta. That works fine.

Flowed from my GT-I9505 using xda-developers app
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 3bs11:
CM updater works fine on TWRP on my Nexus 4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
CM Updater works well.

How? Was answered 1000x. Just search and dig into settings and error message.

Why? Because cm doesn't support jb 4.2 migration folder while i offer you option to do
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 3bs11:
I tried searching "cm updater" before posting here and didn't find a solution.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43209541&postcount=2447

If people provide a log when they think there is a bug, I will always answer, even if it is a repeated question

Else, I would tend to ignore these posts

Hope you understand it
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ayongkot:
i tried tar file latest and previous but mobile odin pro says partition could not be found in file and can't be flashed.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 3bs11:
I'm sorry but what are these downsides? I don't see any mention of them in rootSU's post or yours. Also can you provide more instructions on how to achieve that please.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
If you read a few posts of that page you'll get it

Read the FAQ in main thread about /data/media/0

Option is in Advanced menu

Downside, under jb 4.2, you cannot see your backups without root

Anyway, if you use cmupdater, force /data/media in recovery
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zencooler:
Phil,

Your latest version (5.08.0) is simply AWESOME!

Thanks you very very much for your effort to improve your recovery.

I am on MF8 fw with stock kernel and exFAT 64GB sd and everything's working like a charm.

The backup time is:

6:01 m - 3912 MB to internal sdcard

9:32 m - 3912 MB to exFAT sd

Thanks again Phil!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
my tilapia is wrecked... rebooting to recovery each time. don't have a PC available atm so I downloaded new images to a usb stick (no images on internal SD atm). Regrettably recovery doesn't mount USB.

To compare I tried on my S4 but USB is not mounted there either.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
It mounts external sd
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
no it doesn't. on tilapia the menu entry does nothing. on s4 I get a submenu that is not understandable but regardless of that no matter what I select in that menu nothing gets mounted.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
tilapia has external storage? :eek:

You're missing something as it was reported to work since early builds, even on my cm-10.1 repack I fixed that
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Updated FAQ in main thread:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] marouane80:
5.08.0 super fast.

mounting external sd working

big thank
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] noname55804:
here to, but i got another problem. After i did a backup to my external sd my phone didnt boot-only bootloop :(

Resttore of this backup didnt help.I had to reflash the rom

Does someone else had this weird problem, or does anoyone know how to fix?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
Saw your results and gave 5.08.0 another tried. It took 23 minutes for 2.94gb. It doesn't like my S4. Flashed back 5.07.6 and it took 12.5 minutes to completed the backup. Restoration took also 12 minutes. Enjoy. Thank phil.

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ROM: PYRANA MF8 1.7 LITE.,

CSC/Modem: OLBBMF8(STH)/DXUBMF8

Kernel/rec: GE V4/Phil 5.07.6.

SuperSU Pro 1.41, 64GB exFAT Card
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
If you look at change log, 5.07.6 and 5.08.0 has no difference, exfat support wise

Maybe it is just the hot sdcard trick

I advice to use 5.08.0 as it potentially fixes the time corruption issue some has + many other improvements
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Roughnecks:
I still got the time issue.. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Try to reinstall ROM

The time issue is probably caused by some messing in some /system/bin binaries to load time
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] rorm2010:
is the volume up + home button + power button work now ????? :confused::confused:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wilbarger:
Really sorry if I missed this, and I did search the forum, but will this work on I9505G. I have it rooted, but do not have a recovery and am hesitant to flash things too quickly.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Meowdib:
I also wanted to know if we can flash the generic i9505 one to the tmobile variant.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I released a tmo variant, why flash generic?

Issue can come when installing some files with assert check. They will fail flashing

Otherwise, no harm should be done
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Meowdib:
It's just more up to date.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] edipore:
Hi.

I cannot install recovery. odin gives me the error 1949 can't open file. I also tried to unplug battery, reinstall recovery, but the result is the same.

any suggestion to fix this issue?

thanks in advance.

Enrico
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
It always worked.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sswagonman:
What sort of compression are people using?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
None, I have more card space than patience :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
Why used pc odin. Used sgs4 flasher instead.

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CSC/Modem: OLBBMF8(STH)/DXUBMF8

Kernel/rec: GE V4/Phil 5.07.6.

SuperSU Pro 1.41, 64GB exFAT Card
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] KickButts:
timberwolf60, do flashing the tar with Mobile Odin avoided the "Custom" status?