yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia M] hussian:
hello i deleted my system partition how to restore it ..cant use flash tools to flash an .ftf file anymore.

and how to use(install) this dump?
[Sony Xperia M] Bonoboo:
Just read first post.
[Sony Xperia M] hussian:
hello sir,

i cant seem to find it..can please kindly quote it for me.

thank you.
[Sony Xperia M] Bonoboo:
Sorry, I thought that this is my another thread.

This dumps useless for you, try backups
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Main thread + features + install instructions + dev support

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201860

PhilZ Touch is a CWM Advanced Edition that adds all the features you could ever miss in CWM

It is a well proven recovery for many phones

It also adds a full touch interface a completely configurable GUI

Please give your feedback, what works, and any bug you could encounter

Read the features, and check if you are missing something

To take a screen shot, just long press outside a menu (2 sec and slightly change pressure after the delay)

Also, do not forget to read about the powerful aroma file manager integration and double tap shortcut

Download links

Last version can be found here:

Big thanks for the debugging work done by [MENTION=1211160]HolyAngel[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5608267]v1rk[/MENTION]

XDA:DevDB Information

[m8][CWM Advanced Edition] PhilZ Touch, a Tool/Utility for the HTC One (M8)

Contributors

Phil3759

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2014-04-04

Last Updated 2014-04-04
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Going official on goo.im (post 1)

Big thanks for the debugging work done by [MENTION=1211160]HolyAngel[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5608267]v1rk[/MENTION]
[One (M8) Android Development] pro4ever:
:D:D
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Flash and report
[One (M8) Android Development] beanbean50:
flashed but not quite working at the moment, it just goes to the bootloader cannot get into recovery
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
New repack:

- based on stock 1.54.401.5

- load texfat modules (will be enabled later once stable)

- properly use dtb msm kernel image

Hope it boots at least so that we can start fixing up things

Uploaded again in Post 2
[One (M8) Android Development] beanbean50:
yep working now :good: although the ui is tiny (less than one inch on our 5 inch screens) but as you mentioned it's only the start :D
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Post a photo please

I will add proper exfat support on next realease
[One (M8) Android Development] beanbean50:
not quite sure how to take a photo, if I slide to the left it toggles the screen brightness, if I toggle to the right the screen goes blank and restarts the phone

edit

actually it's the other way round (slide right brightness, slide left blank and reboot)
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Ah,

I forgot to edit op

Long press of 2 sec takes pic

But, since screen is tiner you say, a camera shot is better
[One (M8) Android Development] beanbean50:
ok I ended up taking a real photo with my 'old' htc one..! (the ui actually looks bigger in the photo haha)

btw if recovery is untouched for 30 seconds it reboots itself not sure if thats normal
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
I love you! :laugh:
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Try to disable screen saver: set screen off to disabled and remove it from slide left gesture actions

I will increase font size too
[One (M8) Android Development] HolyAngel:
Did so and still restarts after a minute or two :/

Btw, THANK YOU FOR BUILDING THIS! I've been wanting to throw my phone and claw my eyes out over Twrp the last few days, corrupted my cache and system partitions among other things, fun time to fix it.
[One (M8) Android Development] HolyAngel:
idk if this will help you or not, restart happens regardless of touching it. tried doing a backup and later starting aromafm and it restarts. Log is attached ^^
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Update fix2:

http://d-h.st/74F

- bigger font

- enable exfat on external storage (sorry, will need an extra derp on next update)

- fix mount point for external storage

- disable some QCOM display parts

- more stock parts, include selinux permissions

Let me know how it goes. Seems to be a long debugging step by step until we get a dev with a device release a proper device tree or repack from my base
[One (M8) Android Development] HolyAngel:
Downloaded and installed!

Menu Looks *perfect* now!

Still getting the same random reboots after about 2 minutes in recovery, already tried disabling 'Dim display' and "screen off" to no avail.
[One (M8) Android Development] thenugdestrroyer:
Is this working yet?

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e30/chancetgo/Mobile Uploads/thenugdestrroyerWS_zpsoshkw4hm.png
[One (M8) Android Development] HolyAngel:
For me it's not yet, Idk about anyone else. I get about 2 minutes to do whatever I wanna do in recovery before it restarts the phone.. was successfully able to flash a couple small quick things tho.. just not enough time to flash a Rom or do a backup yet.
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
I need a log

When it reboots by its self, let it go to the rom

Grab all files in /cache/recovery and post them in a zip here.

That way i can see what is happening
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
you probably renamed your backup folder and put spaces into the paths
[One (M8) Android Development] Dave O:
Now that I think of it, I did add stock ROM and recovery to the file name..... I'm going to have look into that.... That never caused a problem using ext4 on my old HTC amaze... You may have solved my problem! I'll get back to you on that!

Sent from my HTC One_M8

---------- Post added at 06:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:11 PM ----------

YOU DID IT! You know your stuff!

I removed the "Philz recovery stock ROM" from the file name and worked like a charm! I'm back on my stock ROM!

Thanks a million!!

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[One (M8) Android Development] Nismo300zx:
Same issue here. When I try to mount usb storage it doesn't do anything. Is there any fix for this?
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Working fine for me guys. :)

Have you forgot that data/media devices can't use "mount as USB" mode anymore? Insert micro SD card in your phones and... Voila! ;)
[One (M8) Android Development] Nismo300zx:
Ahh that would explain it I don't have a micro sd card I usually have bad luck with them failing and I actually didn't know that usb mount wouldn't worklol. coming from a one x with it working fine so I figured it would work the same here. Thanks
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
Same here, also coming from One X and still missing the mount device feature even with my sd card.
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
stop complaining about impossible features

Just search and accept the answer you were given above. It is explained everywhere why it is not possible for /data/media devices

If your external sdcard mounts, then all is good
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
Im not complaining, the point is that my external sd get mount in recovery, but isnt recognized in any explorer.

(Tested in Win 7 x64, Win 8.1 x64, Ubuntu 14)
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
[MENTION=2977387]donmarkoni[/MENTION] reported it works

Maybe you do not have properly setup drivers for your phone. Without them, it won't work

If it is not working for all, then it is a recovery issue. That part of code is not something random. Either it works or not
[One (M8) Android Development] Nismo300zx:
So why not post that in op? Not everybody is experienced to know this stuff man, I know I didn't . And complaints happen because people such as myself that choose not to use a micro sd card. Having to buy a sd card to mount usb storage in recovery makes no sense to me.
[One (M8) Android Development] jody04c:
I remember a time on XDA when OP's were more detailed and concise with respect to what works and what doesnt and much more noob friendly.

Sadly these days all I hear is frequent bickering about posts from supporting members being classed as totally unnecessary when they mention potential flaws/errors in the software and then frequent hostile exchanges when people ask for help.

I thought these forums were as much about a Community of helpful, like-minded enthusiasts as well a team of experts pushing things forward.
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
You have a FAQ section for some reason: avoid cluttering developers sections with repeated questions answered 1000 times over the years. In this case, it was even answered on the same page and people continue asking instead of reading and using search

And there is nothing that doesn't work, it was said. It is reasonably unfeasible. Comparing the One X and M8 is just non sense. They are technically far from being comparable.

More info? ---> FAQ and General sections

Hope we can stop this debate and be back to real bug reports or other dev related things
[One (M8) Android Development] jody04c:
If this is not feasible then no problem.
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
If I may... [MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] didn't quote wrong post. You were agreeing with [MENTION=1050949]Nismo300zx[/MENTION]'s over-entitled-user attitude and got slapped.

Now, let this be last off-topic post, so mods don't need to show up with a mop. ;)
[One (M8) Android Development] Simer03:
Does anyone have a mirror for the latest at&t version? For some reason it won't download...

Oh and btw, Flashify in the play store will flash IMG files without a computer!

Sent from my HTC M8
[One (M8) Android Development] jody04c:
Gotta love flashify!

Sent with speed on HTC One M8
[One (M8) Android Development] Phoneguy589:
I'm noticing that in Philz CWM the external backup folder it's looking for is /storage/sdcard1/clockworkmod/backup but for some reason when I look in my ROM Manager (which I've always used but just started losing backups) the folder it wants to backup to is /storage/ext_sd/clockworkmod/bakup

Should I change the name of my ext sd in root explorer or is there a way in Philz? I do see older backups but when I try to restore a backup from my ext sd it shows MD5 verification failed. Maybe there is a way to change it in ROM Manager.

I did notice that I started having issues after I flashed sinless GPe rom, then wiped and installed ViperM8, (saved) and no luck finding it in recovery. Now in root explorer I can see the missing files in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod for both backups I did - 1 CWM and 1 Philz For some reason Philz will not recognize the backups from the mnt folder but I made the backups in recovery.

Hope this can shed some light or at least help fix my issue regarding backing up.
[One (M8) Android Development] blacklistedcard:
Is there a flashable zip for the newest version?
[One (M8) Android Development] GraveDigger176:
rename the philz_touch_6.41.6-m8 in recovery and place it in your adb folder then flash it with this command in fastbootusb mode

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img after this you do this command fastboot erase cache and all is fine :good: :cool:
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
you should start reading the FAQ
[One (M8) Android Development] assasin34:
someone has this recovery on a cloud like drive or something like that?..i cant download it right now..!!!!
[One (M8) Android Development] cesarbuzatto:
phone off - pluge charger - boot in recovery

Today my phone gets no battery, and whem a plug it in the charger, the battery icon appears and it boot in the recovery, with no touch functions, anyone more see this? Or i made something wrong??
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Hahaha... It's a know bug, making a comeback! :D You didn't do anything wrong, don't worry. ;)
[MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] solved it some time ago, although it wasn't his fault, but it's obviously back. Looks like no one noticed it, until now, cause there is no need to turn off Android device ever. Instead Quiet Hours, Do Not Disturb or Airplane Mode could be used.
[One (M8) Android Development] tiho5:
Mine doesn't do that, Marko. It works fine. I have a nice colored battery animation when tried charging while the phone was off (though I'm not charging on phone off, I tried it some time ago).

May be it's the firmware. I'm on 1.54.401.5
[One (M8) Android Development] Phoneguy589:
I did. Read number 2 a few times. Number 3 said read number 2. Not really clear for me though. I don't have .android_secure in my clockwork mod folder. Also where do I go in cwm to change it to the path my Rom is storing it too?
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Hmm... Strange... Are you using 6.41.6? On 6.26.6 it was fine. I have FW 1.54.401.5 too, only thing replaced is bootloader.

Let me check with 6.26.6... [Arnold_voice] I'll be back! [/Arnold_voice]. ;)

EDIT: I just flashed 6.26.6 and it is fine:

1. power off

2. plug charger

3. battery with lightning sign :D shows up

4. changes to percentage and shows animated charging

5. screen dims

6. screen turns off

Notes:

-screen is unresponsive to touch - OK

-short press power button repeats steps 4 to 6 - OK

BTW, M7 acts the same with both 6.26.6 and 6.41.6. Still have it! For a day or two at least. :D
[One (M8) Android Development] cesarbuzatto:
It Will download and flash again, in 6.26 it dont happens..

Iam in 1.54 firmware..
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
I will check it. I used new cm device tree instead of my own...
[One (M8) Android Development] tiho5:
Yes, I'm with 6.26.6

:)

Wasn't aware there's s newer version.
[One (M8) Android Development] cesarbuzatto:
Download and flash again, same results, whem power down, and charger is conected, battery icon show for some segunds and phone boot in the recovery with disable touch...

It wont happens in the 6.26
[One (M8) Android Development] Shozuki:
Sorry guys, just had a quick browse, which one is the latest version? Or one I should be using.

Thanks!
[One (M8) Android Development] v1rk:
Hi download 6.4 that's the latest version
[One (M8) Android Development] tominozh:
6.4.xx version is the last, but it seems to give strange greenish tint to aroma while flashing roms. Also a background is fully transparent, so hard to read text, pick options. I reverted back to older build 6.26.xx of philz recovery and everything is normal.

Sent from my m8
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Say what?! :eek: I have never seen or heard of something like that...
[One (M8) Android Development] tominozh:
Are you using 6.4 build of the recovery?

Sent from my m8
[One (M8) Android Development] jody04c:
Installed 6.4 img and works ok apart from tint issue
[One (M8) Android Development] v1rk:
Very strange neither heard or seen about that anywhere, I'm on the older build as it was perfect and stable for me
[One (M8) Android Development] silvercat:
Yes the same thing happened for me as well in the New version
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Haha... [MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION], guys, same thing just happened to me. :D I was using just old-fashioned update scripts, so I didn't noticed the problem.

If no one makes pictures of it, I'll do it later.

BTW, no such problem on M7. ;)
[One (M8) Android Development] heavymetall66:
the same here!

go back to 4.26.6

Servus
[One (M8) Android Development] enewman17:
+1
[One (M8) Android Development] Onem8:
+1
[One (M8) Android Development] Electronic Punk:
Seeing the same, assuming this needs a further change on the recovery side not aroma itself?
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Aroma is not maintained since + one year

It is not suited for many msm boards with recent kernel changes
[One (M8) Android Development] Electronic Punk:
Yeah, he has disppeared again, but in philz_touch_6.26.6-m8.img	it was fine, with philz_touch_6.41.6-m8.img the colours have gone very odd and the softkeys display at the bottom.

Not something you intend to fix?
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
+1

Same here, looks like a defect display when u enter a aroma installer.
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Maybe, but not now

Anyone can just repack using old stock kernel
[One (M8) Android Development] Electronic Punk:
Well not anyone, I will leave that to the professionals! I will just stick with the older version :)

I think the vast majority of M8 rom authors use Aroma so the new version does affect almost everyone.

They will just need to let their users not to use the latest versions anymore.
[One (M8) Android Development] rootrider:
Mate, how could you give away this very last secret of us users, already lasting for years and generations of devices?! ;)

Any device will never be the same if any recovery will work seamless with Aroma installer, if it would even work itself flawless... i'd honestly would be missing something...lol
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
Why not hammer Aroma thread instead of asking other devs to support unsupported old software?

Aroma is going to die with kitkat and mostly with next android updates, unless it is updated
[One (M8) Android Development] rootrider:
Electronic Punk already hammered there...
[One (M8) Android Development] Electronic Punk:
what?

---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:36 PM ----------

Ok got a post up, although I never had issues with the M7 or M8 previously, also on Kitkat. I need to run some other quick tests to make sure it isn't some RGB change as happened with the first 2.7 after a firmware update on the M7. 2.7 RC2, released in September last year has been working fine up until now.

Just thinking of end users, I am content to stay on the older version while I can but you might get other queries.
[One (M8) Android Development] Tom Fagerland:
How do I update to a new version with an .img-file? Is there a .zip somewhere I can update from the existing recovery?
[One (M8) Android Development] rootrider:
Imho you criticized the fact that custom recoveries are evolving the last one or two years disregarding the users demand for trouble-free functionality under certain aspects.

This is right and the devs/coders should know it. But it seems as they don't. Don't get me wrong here in this thread, PhilZ Touch again imho is one of the best around, so I'm simply using it.

But given fact is that new features seem to be more important to devs as resolving existing bugs. And this is were my irony/cynicism comes in, stating that you seem 'to give away a secret' as they obviously do not seem to know about this.

This wasn't meant to affect someone, it was meant to criticize the fact that problems are simply moved from left to right and back and forth without moving at all.

Allright so far?
[One (M8) Android Development] Electronic Punk:
It was not a critcism, it was feedback. The old version worked with Aroma, the new version didn't, so I assumed it was a bug and not due to some evolution. Philz provided the reason and so I have gone to the Aroma thread and we will see that provides some resoluton. Obviously no new Aroma for 7 months is an eternity so hopfeully Amarullz will make some triumphant return. More useful than "lol he hammered".

I agree, I like this recovery and had been recommending it, but it will be harder to get devs not use Aroma than suggesting the older recovery or alternatives for as long as they work.
[One (M8) Android Development] HolyAngel:
[MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] I've been using 6.25 and 6.26 without issue, but during an ota update session I decided to try the 6.41 build and make a nand. Nand ended up being corrupted, happened twice, I couldn't extract anything to make a Rom nor reflash it on the phone. Went back to 6.26 and made a nand and that one worked perfectly, made a Rom from extracting it and have had zero issues restoring it. Maybe new cm tree sucks and yours rules? Can we go back? I have no issues running the older builds, as again, they work perfectly, but cannot run the 6.41 to dev with. I know this has been reported before but wanted reiterate.. thanks for your hard work in the mean time ^^
[One (M8) Android Development] donciclon:
You need to use use the 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' command in fastboot. where recovery.img is the name of the image file.
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
You could search the thread, as I think someone already posted flashable zip's,

or you can use mine :D

philz_touch_6.26.6-m8.zip,

philz_touch_6.41.6-m8.zip.

There is no need... ;)

Cheers guys! :cowboy:
[One (M8) Android Development] Tom Fagerland:
I did search the thread, but of course I used neither the word flash or zip ;)
[One (M8) Android Development] lorezz:
after many research on this forum,i can't get usb mass storage working in recovery mode ....

tried several recovery but i decided to stay with this

is it a known bug or just mine fault ?

can someone give me a hint to make it work ....

thanks in advance
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Well... What can I say... Looks like your researching skills are very poor... ;)

If you go five pages back in this thread, you will find the answer.
[One (M8) Android Development] lorezz:
sorry if have understood correctly,the solution is to insert sdcard.....

but i have already inserted the card but when i check the "mass storage" option, my pc display only a CD peripheral....
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Update drivers... Look here.
[One (M8) Android Development] old.splatterhand:
Had the same question on TWRP recovery. You'll find the answer here.
[One (M8) Android Development] lorezz:
i'm still a bit confused ....

so this means that sdcard mount (i'm referring to the real sdcard,not phone memory as usb mass storage) will not work in recovery mode ?

as i said before, my previous phone was an HD2 and all was very simple....

p.s driver updated but still no luck ....
[One (M8) Android Development] old.splatterhand:
Yes, that does it mean.

It don't work, because it is only delivered with mtp mode while other (also my older) devices came with usb mass storage.
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
6.43.5 Uploaded to goo

I enabled f2fs support in recovery

Read main thread and FAQ to understand migration process if you are interested in f2fs
[One (M8) Android Development] Daekin:
thanks. will download it when the file gets cached and is visible on web site, right now it is not there

edit: now it is there :)
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
Thank you for the Update! :good:

(The visual bug while flashing zip-files is still there!)
[One (M8) Android Development] Phil3759:
6.43.6 Update

There is a small bug in 6.43.5, please upgrade

It can annoy you when you format /data and /data/media
[One (M8) Android Development] Forsaked:
Edit
[One (M8) Android Development] Brotha Noompsey:
Nvm.
[One (M8) Android Development] metaphz:
Is anyone having issues with Aroma backgrounds being transparent thus making it nearly impossible to read the text from Aroma installers, and trying to shut off the device when plugged in to AC power leads to rebooting in to recovery?
[One (M8) Android Development] donmarkoni:
Known Aroma bug. If it bothers you, do this, or do this.
[One (M8) Android Development] metaphz:
Thanks for the reply. Seems to me the Android community is splintering. With different recoveries some do this or that, some ROMs written specifically to install with one recovery or another. I see why Google is trying to reign in things on there end with device manufacturers. What a huge undertaking this all as become to keep an open source community cohesive.

Sure makes things fun and interesting to say the least!