yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
You might accidentally have set your internal storage to read from /data/media/0. Check the setting value in advanced (I think)

I put it on my external sdcard directly

You should probably also use the newest one rather than that themed one. The new one is a lot less prone to freezes and is a lot snappier overall.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Shadefactor:
Nice recovery port CNexus! Has anyone tried using a picture as a bg for it yet? I tried renaming a jpeg as png but that might be the problem, or do you think it might be a size thing?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Probably a mixture of both... you can't just rename it to png, you have to actually make it a png... size should be 720x1280

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Ok I just tested this, the size isn't incredibly important unless you want it to fit right, convert your image to png and it'll work perfectly! I now have a fully FSU Seminoles themed recovery with gold menu colors and garnet (ish) separators! Too awesome!

in ❤ with this recovery!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wyelkins:
Looks like maybe a new build is coming for everybody, according to the main thread. Unless, I read it wrong.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sinisin:
I was wondering if there is any way to make a password protected recovery? That would go a long way to security of rooted devices.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
i saw dees troy (twrp dev) talk about this subject and i recall him saying there would be no point because a thief could easily push another recovery to the device and get rid of the password. ill try and find the exact post
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
You can encrypt your partitions, which is better than a password protected recovery as Notorious explained above
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
[MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION]

I know you have been busy with Sprint 4.4 update. Just wanted to let you know that we had couple of big updates on phil recovery.

Now the latest version is 6.40
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
Download page for d2lte still says 6.26.6

Sent from my VM GS3 running Sprint 4.4.2 (ND8)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
It will remain 6.26 until updated by CNexus.. Official version of Phil recovery is 6.40.1 while for d2lte is 6.26.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I'll update this when an update gets posted for d2lte
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
Thanks man..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] procter:
I'm on standard cwm touch recovery, I can directly upgrade to this right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
Yes, the best recovery out there
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] succumbtothegreater:
I don't want to come off as ignorant, but what does the Clone ROM to update.zip option do under Backup and Restore?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Creates a flashable zip from an existing backup or from your current system
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Basically turns your ROM (system as is) into an OTA type flashable.... Ninja'd.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdsingle76:
Man that's like the third time I've seen you ninja'd this week [MENTION=4310299]bilgerryan[/MENTION]. You're slippin' brother! Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
[MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] , 6.41.6 is live.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] techdog:
Anyone else having the issue that their backups are not being seen by Philz recovery? I have 3 backups and when I go to restore in Philz, it doesn't seem to see them, even though I did the backups with Philz earlier today. If I boot into the phone (I am running TW 4.4.2 with KT747), I can go into /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup and they are all there.

Any thoughts about what might be going on???

Thanks.

Edit: Never mind. Got it. For some reason, Philz was pointing to /data/media/0 instead of /data/media as the mount point for the backups and restores. Modified the settings and we're back in business.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Swamphound:
This helped me understand what is going on. Hope it helps you too.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52439446

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
Thanks for the update CNexus
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Latest version working excellent :D .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] No4g4Me:
its a phil good recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Are asking if philz is a good Recovery to use ? Yes :D . Unequivocally one of the best Recoveries I've ever used, if not the best Recovery I've ever used on any Device. Many extra features, stable, reliable, and very user friendly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
I think he was making a joke. Phil good recovery=feel good recovery. That's what I got from it anyways.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
That's what I thought too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
:silly: I've been answering some really " interesting " Emails lately :rolleyes: . So I took it as serious :p . Doh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Im getting signature error trying to flash this recovery on nb8 stock rooted recovery. What could be the problem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
You can't flash a custom recovery using the stock recovery. You must flash through Odin or flash it using a different recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wilberfan:
Tried an OTA update of C-RoM this week, but it failed due to some kind of 'file not found' error. *Manually* flashing the DL'd .zip worked fine. The speculation in the C-RoM group was that it was probably my recovery. Any thoughts on why PhilZ would handle a manual but NOT an automatic?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
It would have to do with the way in which the system was passing parameters to the openrecoveryscript file that prompts automatic installations
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pharmdeon:
I recently upgraded to ND8 and installed the wicked x v6.0. I was on TWRP and it failed to install, got it installed with philz. i went back to TWRP 6.3 (i believe) and tried to do a nandroid backup to my ext sd card. It appeared everything worked. i rebooted and the back up was no where to be found (ie.e not in the TWRP back up location on the ext sd card). I then upgraded to TWRP 7 and my external sd card can not be seen. I then downloaded the latest philz from this thread and tried to back up to my ext card. It goes thru the steps

backing up /boot ... backing up boot image ... backup of boot image completed.

backing up /recovery ... backing up recovery image ... backup of recovery image completed.

>>backing up /system...

press back to cancel

E:Error while making a backup of /system!

so i tried again and now there is an E:Error while backing up boot image.

It does backup fine on internal SD.

I am using a 64gb card and have used this card for recovery backups prior to the upgrade without issue.

I have a new 32gb card and it worked ok as well (back up to external card worked fine)

Does anybody know why this might be?

Thank you

NEVER MIND ... BAD SD CARD ... CAN'T EVEN COPY FILES FROM THE COMPUTER
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] StonerSteve420:
What is the newest version of Philz? And how do I update it if I'm already using Philz
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tdunham:
Always read the OP (Post #1) of any thread before asking questions like this please.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Russell_:
d2spr vs d2lte

I'm a confused noob. I use a paygo service and so root to control data. I have a SPH-L710 (looking at About device). Some months ago I rooted my stock S3 running Android 4.3 using the instructions from one of the posts on this forum and Odined a d2spr tar of Philz to start the process. I've just Odined the stock ND8 tar so I'm now on 4.4.2. So, the next step is to Odin Philz to I have what appears to be the recommended custom recovery. The OP links to a page showing d2lte versions. The title of this thread says d2lte/d2spr. What's the difference between d2lte and d2spr? I guess I'm trying to determine if I messed up by using the d2spr version the last time and also trying to confirm that the d2lte version that the OP has is correct for my SPH-710.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tdunham:
I ran into this too until someone set me straight. The d2spr is the old Philz, it was combined to d2lte so d2lte is the version that we now use. The latest version will be from the goo.im link on the OP with lte in the name.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Russell_:
Appreciate the quick response!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Whenever you see d2lte it means all US CDMA LTE S3s
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
Someone please help me. Yesterday I tried to restore 2 backups that I had made the night before and kept getting "error while restoring system" msg. which forced me to clean install my rom. Made a backup last night and one just now and I'm getting the same msg. while trying to restore both of them. Idk what to do from here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tdunham:
Which Philz & which Rom? Sometimes going back a version can help.

(Edit: Or make certain you are on current version to begin with and work it in from there)

Have you tried backing up to both internal & external then trying each. I would try this without wiping first since it doesn't matter if you're just restoring over the same build anyway. It would save from having to do a complete reload hopefully.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
On the latest philz with stock TW 4.4.2. Haven't tried putting it on internal. I'm noticing it happening after I odex the rom and try to revert back to deodexed. Don't know if that makes any difference but it shouldn't, should it. I just restored an old CM 10.2 backup with no issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tdunham:
You're right, I don't think it should make a difference for odexed or not. It should at least restore. I would even try flashing TWRP in the same recovery session, rebooting to TWRP (in the same session) and creating a couple of backups with that to see what will work for you.

Wish I could be of more help. My phone is still on its way back from Texas.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I can't cite specific examples, but I've had more trouble both restoring backups and flashing from external than from internal. It doesn't stop me from attempting it, or from moving backups to my external, but there have definitely been times when I had trouble flashing or restoring from external, and moving the same files to internal and flashing or restoring from there instead solved my issues at the time.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with M.O.A.R. v9.0, dkp kernel dated 3/20/2014 and TWRP v2.7.0.0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
I was gonna say the same thing, read and write speeds are usually faster on the internal too. I keep my main backup on my internal and move my others to external after making the backup on internal. I've been doing this since the S2 and have had way less problems because of it. Plus the backup and restore process doesn't take as long with the internal SD.

BTW [MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] I love the new vibration feature when it's done backing up and restoring, GENIUS!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Also keep in mind that sometimes a simple SD Card formatting will resolve many card issues. If that doesn't get it, and the issues continue. You may want to try a different sd card. It might be that your sd card is leaving the party.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
It's a brand new 64gb card. Just restored the odexed backup I made but won't restore the backup I made right before I odexed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
That's the truth! I've had completely inexplicable problems on Android phones before the re-formatting my SD card completely solved.

I think that's why Android doesn't officially support add-on SD cards. There are just too many variables to be as reliable as the internal memory. And having to use outdated file systems for convenience doesn't help.

I still wouldn't discount the external versus internal factor because one works.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with M.O.A.R. v9.0, dkp kernel dated 3/20/2014 and TWRP v2.7.0.0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
Thank you all for the replies. Copied backup to internal and it restored fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
You may have additional problems with your SD because 64 GB is not officially supported by this device (just thought I'd mention it)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Woot! I'm glad it was that easy. Also glad it apparently backed up fine to external. Good to know.

Good point and also good to know.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with M.O.A.R. v9.0, dkp kernel dated 3/20/2014 and TWRP v2.7.0.0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phil3759:
I use a 64Gb sdcard formatted to exfat. All my backups are done to external sd. I never had issues like most users

Some sdcards are a bit on the crappy side, users are reluctant to formatting them properly when they encounter issues

Exfat sdcard can be easily corrupted if not properly unmounted...

Finally, yes, kernel could be a limitation sometimes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
My phone is reading my 64gb card just fine but just noticed that the option "unmount sdcard" is greyed out now on TW 4.4.2 and never was before.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
Screen
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Weird it says that MTP or PTP is connected... It's reading it as connected to a PC?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
It turns out I was mistaken about transferring the file to internal. I actually restored a different backup. When I transferred the one I was trying to restore I could see it with root explorer but philz didn't see it. Does that mean it was corrupt?

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I just remembered I'm using notify clean module. I've flashed the ND8 tar file like 7x and the USB notification always sticks for some reason. That was the only way I could get rid of it. I've got 2 phones and it sticks on both of them.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
[MENTION=5361082]marcran75[/MENTION] what brand of sd card are you using ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
SanDisk ultra micro SDXC. They had them on sale at Best Buy for $30 not too long ago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
That's the same one I'm using. Only mine is a few years old. I would really try formatting it. Sometimes sd cards get corrupted. Plus you'd be amazed at the useless files you bills up on an sd card after a few months.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Just to fill in any other pieces of information, are you using it formatted FAT32 it what? Do you have multiple partitions on it? The real test is to do a fresh DeOdexed backup to internal and see if you can restore it.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with M.O.A.R. v9.0, dkp kernel dated 3/20/2014 and TWRP v2.7.0.0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
You could see if this helps:

http://repo.xposed.info/module/pk.qwerty12.usbstorageunmountterbegone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
They must have modified the software to make it compatible. Even when I was on the ND8 stock tar my phone was reading my 64gb card. It didn't on MK3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
I'm not saying it's not compatible, just not officially supported. Samsung says this device can handle "up to a 32 GB SD" but that was when it was released. I'm sure you could probably get a 128 GB working but you will probably run into some sort of problems, that's all I was saying.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
I've had a 64GB micro SD Card since ICS. After being formatted properly, it's worked perfectly. Also I've tried a 128GB micro SD Card on MK3. Again after being formatted correctly it worked without issue. I haven't had a chance to test the 128GB card on ND8 yet. It's not my card :( . But first chance I get I will test it, and let everyone know.

Apologies for the OT.

On a different note. I noticed that some people were having issues restoring Nandroids. I can confirm that the latest philz's Recovery is working perfectly. I've tested it on three different devices ( all Sprint S3's ) . The only time I had an issue was with one device. It turned out that the SD Card was corrupted. Formatted the SD Card, and all is well again. I use SD Formatter. It's the same program I've been using to format SD Cards for quite a while.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kenjesse:
Had this problem once before and figured out how to fix but I've been stricken with a case of the stupid. Since updating to 4.4.2 I've rooted installed Philz's tested backup and restore working fine. Just one problem the date and time created for backup names is 1970. I've tried resetting time date and time zone with no luck. Searches of this and main thread provided no help. I'm sure it's a simple fix just not for me st moment, any help would be appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbrox:
Mine does that some times when i'm running a TW rom. What works for me is I flash a ASOP rom, boot it, and then reboot back into recovery and the issues is resolved. Then i restore my TW nand and make a new backup with the correct time stamp. I'm sure there is a date and time set command that you can issue from the command prompt but i don't know what it is...cbrox
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
There's an option in Philz called Time Daemon or something like that, check that and check the option to restore your Settings automatically, and make sure you save the settings.

Set your time zone and daylight savings time, and reboot into recovery and poof, the time is updated.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with Wicked X v6.5, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
The setting is no longer in philz, not that I can find anyways... I have the same problem but I usually only have 1 or 2 backups so it's not really a big deal for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I'm using the latest version. It's there.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with Wicked X v6.5, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Where? I'm not seeing it anywhere

For anyone else looking it's in GUI preferences
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kenjesse:
Thanks for the help, found the setting as follows:

Settings/GUI/Time Setup/Change Time and Date, check "Qualcomm Time Daemon" reset time and date, save it and it's keeping the correct time and date now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] metalfan78:
Can changing this setting effect the time while booted? Seems odd, but I checked the box for Qualcomm Time Daemon and now the time on the phone won't update.

Edit: I unchecked the setting and time works normally again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I leave mine checked but I haven't had that trouble.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII on TouchWiz 4.4.2 with Wicked X v6.5, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Same here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phil3759:
I never had any issues with it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Not a big deal for me, I only have one backup for each ROM, it's got the ROM name so I'm good. I just noticed it yesterday at work and it made me clock in late from my break lol, so I just turned it off.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kenjesse:
Haven't had any problems with time being correct since checking time daemon, currently running Wicked 6.5.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] schlepprock:
Funny, all my backups say 1970. They are old backups I guess.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdsingle76:
Nope that's a known issue with CWM
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MeatPopsicle:
So I finally rooted my phone (cfauto) and installed PhilZ and now my phone is stuck on the samsung screen with the blue light fading in and out. Im running the ota sprint rom 4.42 and the only other thing I did was install MK3 hotspot mod. So what do I do now?

I have already tried wiping both cache's.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Your problem is the mk3 Hotspot mod, it won't work on nd8, you need the one specifically made for nd8... You can either download and flash CNexus stock rooted nd8, Odin nd8, flash the right Hotspot mod or flash another rom... Any of those options will get you back up and running
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MeatPopsicle:
Ok thanks I will give it a try. Thanks for the fast response!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] n00b-xda-disciple:
I would download both nd8 hotspot mod.zips odex/deodex. When you flash a rom you might end up needing it again for one of the two. Keep the mods you come across backed up somewhere.

Sent from my Virgin Mobile L710 SIII running smooth on Bilgerryan's Wicked X v6.5 4.4.2 Kit Kat build - Ktoonsez's custom kernal - Philz Touch Recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MeatPopsicle:
Thanks!! Good idea
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yRdcMIbiR6:
I've been trying to download the latest Philz, but goo.im says they're syncing files and to hang in there. Is this something that will resolve shortly, or is there another source?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] n00b-xda-disciple:
Search Philz d2lte google. Your bound to find the page

SPH-L710 SGS3 Bilgerryan's Wicked X Kit Kat v7.0 with s5 ported apps - Powered by Ktoonsez's KT747
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 1BadWolf:
It's been saying that on goo.im for some time now, but it's still been working for me anyway. Sometimes it just takes a while and sometimes I have to refresh the page before the download will start.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yRdcMIbiR6:
Got it!. Tried again this morning, and after several tries it finally downloaded.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] n00b-xda-disciple:
Sweet! Glad it worked out for you. Ive never ran into any problems with Philz, its the most efficient recovery i know of.

SPH-L710 SGS3 Bilgerryan's Wicked X Kit Kat v7.0 with s5 ported apps - Powered by Ktoonsez's KT747
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] akaTRAP:
Anyone else having an issue with Philz and 4.4.3 ROMs? Every time I turn off my phone, then plug it into a charger, it hangs in the recovery reboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tommy_2q:
Philz makes my mk3 moar install lose root. Using twrp gets root back.

Edit: I just read another post that says I can root using philz which I have not tried..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] n00b-xda-disciple:
Considering 4.4.3 is pretty new theres prob alot of bugs if your roms not official.

SPH-L710 SGS3 Bilgerryan's Wicked X Kit Kat v7.0 with s5 ported apps - Powered by Ktoonsez's KT747
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Tsoul0529:
Anyone having trouble with the download link?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Working here.

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII on TouchWiz 4.4.2 with Wicked X v6.5, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yowhatup:
To upgrade an older version of PhilZ to this latest version, is it as simple as flashing the normal zip (not the md5 zip) in recovery mode and then wipe cache?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
AFAIK, you don't even to wipe cache. I never have when I've upgraded our flashed a new recovery, but yes just flash the normal zip to upgrade.

[BATTERY] Plasma Battery! ??? & wickeddecimalbarwide_colors

Charging still shot

n00b-xda-disciple's Wicked X Video review

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII on TouchWiz 4.4.2 with Conquest: Singularity v2.2, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Then hit reboot recovery and you're in your upgraded recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yowhatup:
Thank you both. Worked like a charm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Diesel6401:
Virgin S3 4.4.2 KNOX and rooted. Need to install a custom recovery. I'm not use to this variant of the S3 so can I just use Flashify to install a custom recovery or is Safestrap on this version. Little confused what's the next step post Knox. I'm doing this for a friend.