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[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Sorry, but I did not work at the moment on a customrom. I'm work on a kernel (which I will maybe provide a first alpha today).

Due to small time availebillities I must set some preferences, and Rom work will come after the kernelwork for me ... At the beginning I tried recoverys, but I stopped that after [MENTION=2822370]greeneyes2910[/MENTION] succeed there.

Maybe I can have a look on your meta-inf a little bit later...

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Here you can find a modified Philz with my new kernel (attention, the kernel is only included in this philz-recovery, and will not be used for the rom...)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9tx8fztgwgdb5l/philz_i8200n-repackV0.6.7z?dl=0

As the basis was the source for the i8200n I would like in interest if this version will work for also other i8200 (plain/N/L/Q)...

As always: take care of what you did with your phone, and follow the rules of the first thread!

If something goes wrong, please try to explain what, and try to send me via PM the /proc/lastkmsg file.

I have to check also the modules for the kernel, so the new kernel will need a little bit more time...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] t-shock:
Ok guys,

I have been working on fixing the installation problem and I finally I FIXED IT!!!!!

Here just some proof

But unfortunately when I installed the firmware I think I lost the IMEI

I will install the stock via ODIN and I fix the IMEI &Baseband problem :D

[MENTION=5588868]KwstPap[/MENTION] Stable firmware is coming!!!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Great news! How did you managed to install it finally? What did you do? And did flashing stock worked?

How is it that you lost imei?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] t-shock:
Suddenly, I made a silly move on the Odin( don't know what ) And my device won't start (no download mode, not recovery no anything!!!!!!)))

Any help???
[Galaxy S III Mini General] TepaC:
describe what you did with odin?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Put out battery and after 5 minutes try to reboot directly in download mode.

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] t-shock:
I flash one .bin file from the .tar.md5 via Odin in the phone section

After that it wont start nothing [MENTION=6070013]TepaC[/MENTION] I will find the file and I will tell you

[MENTION=3470903]SolarPlexus[/MENTION] I tried it but nothing
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
[MENTION=6070013]TepaC[/MENTION] why you extract a bin file from a md5 file to flash??? That's not what should be done normally...

Nevertheless, what did your phone? Only black screen? Bootloop? Screen get power but black screen? Maybe a usb-jig can help you to come back to downloadmode (not expensive via amazon) but if you flashed a bin directly, maybe Odin misunderstood it and flashed it to the bootloader partition... If that is the case then you will have a bricked phone :(

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] t-shock:
I wanted to flash only the modem, so I flashed it seperated.

Only black screen. Nothing, not even bootloop.

I have a tons of micro usb cable. Can I make a homemade :p?

If I order the jig, it will be late. I want a fast solution to keep developing for it.

I think I will take it to the service
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
OK, it will not help you to say, that this what you did was a great mistake! Flashing modems, bootloader are a really dangerous thing if you are not ABSOLUTELY sure what you do !! But maybe this will prevent others to do something like that :(

Nevertheless: as far as I remember there are some howtows in the internet to make a usb jig. It is not so difficult, because its just only a resistor which is needed.. Just make a search via google (for example this: https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=..._NhhqgH-91b6LQC4Q&sig2=iONV_x-2OFRIXxzGcznvRQ )

But to be safe I would prefer a buyed usb jig... If you are very lucky, then a Handy-shop have a USB-Jig for service-reasons... But what is clear: thats out of the guarantee...

Good luck!!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] t-shock:
Thanks for your help. I think that I will make one and If it won't work I will buy one :confused:
[Galaxy S III Mini General] nahid25:
I need samsung s3 mini gt-i8200 any custom rom

I need samsung s3 mini gt-i8200 any custom rom. This rom in my device iror. Pls help me
[Galaxy S III Mini General] fumbl:
You are in the right Forum. The Guys working hard to make a Rom for your Cell but there is None around just now..

Explain your Problem with all Details to get help.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] poulopoulosa:
Hello I even send an email to one of the admins for the forum. No reply.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Just a question to all which uses the philz recovery: if you made a backup, get you also a backup of the boot partition, or is there a error on that partition...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Danh23:
Hello...

Anyone know how I can make this phone underclock?

I see that this phone is always working at its maximum frequency.

I tried several apps but no actual change values. Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
For that some kernel modifications are needed. I'm working on it, but it need some little additional time.

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But you can use CPU tuner, this schould also work with the standard governors and frequency's... (Used it short time to check what is possible)

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Danh23:
Thanks!

Thank you my friend.

I knew that was why the battery does not last long .

Do you know any way to really save energy?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Wat help a little bit is lama to switch of automatically wlan and other stuff based on location tracking... And maybe CPU tuner. With that I could increase the lifetime to two days normally...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] linklusitano:
Hi..Yes happened this error..

dont backup the boot partition..

samsung galaxy s3 mini VE
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
No good information, because it makes it complicate to hold a safety scenario for my new kernel :( did the same happens with the twrp recovery? Some told it works also stable...

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Checked the fstabs in the philz and found no errors. So its a little bit mystice why the boot partition did not work...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] linklusitano:
Hello..I haven't tried twrp recovery

Maybe someone who has tried can say..

samsung galaxy s3 mini VE
[Galaxy S III Mini General] cagatayjackson:
i8200q

İt works i8200Q ?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Hi. Can you please state your question a little bit more clear? In this thread are a lot of points discussed, and for me it is not clear at which area you want to have information's. Roms? Recovery? Which recovery?

BR

Sp

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Can we flash themes right now using TWRP?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] gershy353:
philz works but stil has errors i found my phone would make backup but no boot.img and all the feathers dont work right wen you reboot recovery from recovery it stays in recovery loop
[Galaxy S III Mini General] orhanko61:
Does philz backup EFS partition ?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Not sure for Philz, but TWRP has the option for it.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ZX_ita:
Hi,

I have a S III mini ( GT-I8200 ) . I saw online various ROM but there aren't support my device, but I founf this discussion :laugh: .

I'm not an expert, I have an easy question, even if I brick my device, i could restore my device ? It's important for me, the device is new and I don't want to leave the warranty .

There is some mod stable for this device with Android encryption method ?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] kafafy:
I need any rom kitkat 4.4
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
no stable custom rom yet.some guys working on it but the kernel is difficult .so be patient and wait.mods and tweaks are in the first post and the unbrick method too.

i try to flash again the twrp to check it again
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ZX_ita:
Thanks for test :good::good::good: .

I can make a donation to the tester/developer , who are ?

I also make a test if you want but I'm not an expert of Android .

Whats are the problems so far ?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
for donation i dont know.

if you have make a test post it here

twrp have some issues with reboot

philz with backup boot.img

and the kernel i dont knw. [MENTION=3470903]SolarPlexus[/MENTION] know
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ZX_ita:
Maybe I can help, what test can I do ?

P.S.

However, in the original ROM ( 4.2.2 ) I saw various bugs .

In the first configuration the " ahead button " didn't pop up ...

Then, I did an Hard Reset and it's the same for the default Android Encryption Tool ...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] poulopoulosa:
There are few developers who have this device.

In order to develop a custom recovery (such twrp, philz) or custom roms you need a developer to lay hands on the device in order to develop a recovery-rom thats the most quick-efficient way.

Because DEVs cant own all android devices they need testers, and by testers they need good testers. By means good testers you (the tester) need knowledge of adb commands to pull out logs in order to troubleshoot/debug.

There are good people offering to be testers but unfortunately they dont know how to unblick/flash/pull out logs from a device, which brings a development of the above a slow and (for the devs) paifull process.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
the links are broken.i will repair them tomorow night
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Here you find now a new TWRP version. Boot-partition is now also in the scope of the backup :cowboy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3rnfp3vabz9ee8/twrp_i8200_corrected.7z?dl=0

[MENTION=5588868]KwstPap[/MENTION]: I think you can state now in first thread that twrp is safe (except the softreboot, but this is still the same for all recoverys up to now.)

the Philz-recovery have still the same issue with brightnes and not able to backup boot partition. I've no time to work on that, so I think if greeneyes2910 will not work on it then this recovery will be more or less useless...

Kernel will come soon ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Hi,

unfortunatly I (and maybe others also ;) ) did not understand what do you mean with that statement. can you describe it a little bit more clear what do you mean?

- where appears that problem at which step (so maybe a description step by step that someone can rreproduce it)

- maybe screenshots possible?

It is not easy to help if the point is not clear ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Alpha Kernel avalible:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3-mini/general/kernel-baroni-kernel-alpha-t2976241

Please TAKE CARE !! No Gurantee!

And make Backups before!!

BR

SP
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Wow. Thank you. Will try it tomorrow. If anything goes wrong, I can always go into download mode and reflash stock, no?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Yes, that should work.

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
how do I know if it worked (or not)? B/c perhaps if it fails it could go to stock kernel, no? Like for recovery ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Danh23:
Thank you very much!!!!

You can tell us that improvements or changes brings this kernel?

Enviado desde mi GT-I8200L mediante Tapatalk

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Sorry. I had not entered the forum. [emoji1]

Enviado desde mi GT-I8200L mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
Need someone to test, I guess no one is brave enough... :cowboy:

I don't have this phone so I can't test... If no one is willing then I guess I'm done ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] psicops:
'll wait for someone to test

I am fearful about things that do not understand correctly

and not want to kill my device

sorry my friend:fingers-crossed::laugh:
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
sorry maticulus, i thought nobody will come so i stoped following this thread.

thanks for ur help...

well i think my StockRom is not the same of the one in link but ill flash it anyway... lets see. downloading all of them will cmnt after each if they work or not...

btw how exactly will i know that they r working???

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well i think CWM-i8200-test.tar didn work because after i flashed it with odin the phone started ok but when i tried going into rcovery mode it showd me stock recovry of samsung like before the blue one..... it didn show the CWM recovry, if it were suppose to do that then ok otherwise.

testing second one

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and i know CWM-i8200-test2.tar didnt work because after i flashed it with odin the phone started ok but when i tried going into rcovery mode it didnt..... its just keep restarting normally only that it shows that android developer kind of logo n initializing writen under it for a sec but then the phone restarts normaly.....

testing third one now

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and CWM-i8200-test3.tar has the same result of CWM-i8200-test.tar.... no difrence i think.

i was using ODIN 3.09
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
sorry but i felt a sleep.

no nothing the same problems
[Galaxy S III Mini General] hazar1907:
olumlu gelişmeler var mı
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
English please my friend
[Galaxy S III Mini General] hazar1907:
I'm sory.... :good:

Do you have a favorable
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
how we can help to solve the bugs?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
Try this one...

New test:

CWM-i8200-test4.tar.md5

Let me know... :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
Nothing happens
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
nope same result as test1 and test3.. installed ok but when u go to recovery it shows no command error and then stockrecovry....
[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
What exact device do you have?

Please look in you root dir "/" for a file "fstab.<devicename>"

Please post a copy of that file...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
i have sent you a pm yesterday of an image of the root n hardware information about the device..... from root checker.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
Sorry, the image url was broken ... but I took a look at and fixed the link. I would still like to see the fstab.pxa988 file..

In tests 2,3 and 4 I replaced the recovery binary with one from CWM so I don't see how it could show the stock recovery... Unless the bootloader is locked or something.... :confused:
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
but here is the fstab file

http://www.4shared.com/file/bax61Wicce/fstab.html

and the image is here

http://www.4shared.com/photo/PxfkyS86ba/Screenshot_2014-09-10-10-39-46.html

hope it helps...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
On me no stock recovery appears. Only the logo of samsung and then restart . Volume up home and power doesn't open recovery. Only boot loop.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
dont wory relax just wait for the better release by meticulus im sure he will come up with a solution......hope :D
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
we can test again and again until it works :P
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mamomia:
lol... thats not how it works, even if u flashd that recovry milion time it wont work without the right commands. :P
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
hahaha you dont understand me

hhahaha my bad enghlish sorry.

i mean we have the patience to flash the new recovery test files every time until to find the correct (and the correct command of course)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Maybe you See a slight improvement in speed and battery... In settings and infos you can See the Name of the kernel (to See if it is really flashed)

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Please follow the link, there is everything due to the kernel described.

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And please use the twrp recovery from the kernel thread, because with that you are able to backup and restore also the boot partition! I'm not sure when this will be actualized in the thread were we are here ;)

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] linklusitano:
testing

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After installing the kernel the cell blocks in the primary logo where appears the brand and model of mobile phone..made a backup and install it..
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
There was a mistake in the initramfs. was corrected now. If you download the V0.7 yesterday, please dont use it... Try V0.8.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] KwstPap:
THREAD UPDATED

[MENTION=3470903]SolarPlexus[/MENTION] THANKS I WILL TRY IT
[Galaxy S III Mini General] AnonyBart:
I have a I8200N, i can have some screenshot of the new rom? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Trying to flash 0.8. Boot take forever :crying: But TWRP Recovery still works Went to proc/ using twrp, no last_kmsg file, only a kmsg file. Will try to see what's inside. And flash stock

Trying to run cat /proc/kmsg from twrp terminal crashed it
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
In twrp is under advanced a file manager with that you can try to copy the file to sd (not copy log, thats only for the recovery.log).

maybe it works if you try to access the file via adb shell while you are in twrp...

Your phone was als a !8200n-variant?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
It is the I8200. Err, I tried first to copy it but it did not work (infinite copy). whenever I try to restore twrp data backup, the ui becomes pink and crashes.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
OK, then maybe the NFC-Module fails... Has to be checked... baybe I can make a kernel without the NFC-Module at weekend for test.

I' guess, that you did not need to restore the Data part to resume and come back to the working stock kernel. Just only try to restore the Boot partion...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Too late... The restore erased data/. Any idea to get it work?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
not easy... Did you still have the data backupfile on your sd-card (in twrp-directory) ?

Also the recovery.log file could help to see what is happend there (but that is only there within the session, and if the recovery hangs up, then this file will also lost... But you can try to access it with cat /temp/recovery.log via adb shell while you try to restore the backup...)

If the backupfile is damaged, then it is not so easy, but maybe with a normal archiv-programm you can exctract importand files...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
It's a problem with twrp since I tried to run cat /extrernal_sd/recovery.log and the recovery crashes and goes pink
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
Here is the recovery.log
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
could it bee that this is a old one ?

>Starting TWRP 2.7.0.1 on Fri Nov 21 20:11:17 2014

Which version of twrp have you used? the one with the boot-part fix?

Maybe reflash the recovery with odin can help...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] AnonyBart:
It is possible have some screenshot of the rom???
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Screenshots will not help really, because the rom provided here is just a sligtly modified Stock rom... Atm no custom rom avalible...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] AnonyBart:
Ah ok sorry...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Can you Update the thread newly?

Attention with TWRP-Recovery. Data-Partition restore seems to be not right. At the moment please did not use it, because it can delete your data-partition. We have to investigate it further! Other partitions seems to be ok, but its a good Idea if you copy your important data also manually to a other storage (like PC) while you trying things of this thread.

I'll try to investigate it deeper at the moment with [MENTION=5926550]vinz244[/MENTION] to take care on that issue. So I'll stop at the moment with kernel, and try to make the recovery safer, because without it it will be to dangerous...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
If you identify a problem with the restore of the Data-Partition under TWRP-Recovery, here is a way, which maybe can halp (no guranty), worked out by Solarplexus and [MENTION=5926550]vinz244[/MENTION]:

copy the datafiles (data.ext4.winXXX in the recovery-path) to your pc.

on the pc, go into a bash or shell terminal, and use the following command:

cat data.ext4.win000 data.ext4.win001 > data.ext4.tar

as you can see the command depends on the count of the data-files. I expected that you did not use the compression.

If you use compression, then at the end must be tar.gz...

After that you will have a tar file which you should can open. If you can open it with a archiveprogramm, then the datafiles should be ok. If there are errors you can try to extract everything with the tar-command on a shell

this extracted data you can copy to your external sd-card.

install the aroma filemanager for recovery (for example here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 )

go back to TWRP-Recovery and start the Armoa FM as described

now you can copy manually all the files to the datapartition.

[MENTION=5926550]vinz244[/MENTION]: if you have further infos (may to make some steps more clear) please don't hesitate to get my text and update it ;)

The data-restore-error will be further investigated - please dont rely on it at the moment.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
inhat would you like me to clarify?

I'll retry

1. In Corrected twrp recovery, I backed up efs, data, cache, recovery and boot

2. In dl mode I flashed kernel v0.8, and restarted the phone.

3. It wouldn't boot (stuck on Samsung galaxy siii mini ve), so I removed the battery and went into DL mode. Reflashed stock rom.

4. I booted to system, and it worked. The data was untouched.

5. I don't know why but I went into recovery and restored data, efs, boot and recovery (but first flashed twrp corrected). While restoring I did something else so I might have missed a few things.

6. I booted to system. Data was formatted so I lost my data.

7. In recovery I tried to restore ONLY data. The screen went pink and it was divided in four parts which contained a small image of what there were but on pink. The second after twrp restarted. Data wasn't restored.

8. Just to see I started the system and followed the wizard, then in twrp I backed up data. Trying to restore it formatted the data and crashed.

9. I copied the original data backup files and created the tar as [MENTION=3470903]SolarPlexus[/MENTION] said, but 7zip wouldn't open it. Fortunately the command tar extracted it until our felt on a file (sent solar plexus the end of output).

10. So I copied extracted folder and using aroma FM copied its contents into data/ everything is restored.[emoji4]
[Galaxy S III Mini General] wojgp:
Hi

I've already flashed TWRP custom recovery to GT-I8200, but is it the best choice ? Should I load Philz Touch recovery instead? The main purpose to use custom recovery is to load Aroma File Manager and remove file with pattern lock. Anyone has experience how to do it without losing data ?

I will be very obliged for help ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vinz244:
First make a backup nothing is safe. Then you you could try. I managed to use aroma successfully on twrp