[Sony Xperia L] Rohan purohit:
Team Win Recovery Project 2.x, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.

CHANGELOG for 2.8.4.0:

-Add flashing of boot and recovery images via the TWRP GUI (Find the Images button on the Install page)

-Fix some MTP related crashes and bugs

-Eliminate TWRP toggling USB IDs during boot if MTP is enabled

-Fix various adb sideload issues

-Improve threading of actions

-Eliminate separate thread for screen timeout

-Update libblkid to 2.25.0

-Use power button as back button on watch themes for easier navigation

-Add mutex locking to data manager

-Improve custom theme handling on encrypted devices

-Allow the stock theme to be offset by build flags so we can center a lower res theme on a higher res screen especially for watches with round screens

CHANGELOG for 2.8.3.0:

-MTP will now tell the host PC that storage is removed instead of disabling MTP completely

-MTP will now report the correct max file size based on the file system in use to the host PC (may fix transfer of large files)

-Update and improve fix permissions and make fixing contexts optional

-Update SuperSU in TWRP to 2.40 and update install process

-Make TWRP work properly on AArch64 (Nexus 9 is now built in true 64-bit binaries and libraries)

-Attempt to set correct permissions and contexts on all files placed in storage so backups will show in Android

-Fix kernel panic during MTP start on some devices

-Support unicode fonts on devices with True Type Font support

-Fix slider value not showing sometimes (vibration settings page)

-Toggle MTP off during adb sideload to set correct USB IDs

-Reduce library requirements for 5.0 L decrypt

-Other minor fixes and improvements

Note: Starting with TWRP 2.8.2.0 and higher, adb sideload uses a new sideload method originally implemented in AOSP recovery. You will need the latest adb binaries to use sideload in these newer versions of TWRP. The version required is 1.0.32. You can find the version by running "adb version" on your computer. The new sideload feature no longer stores the zip on your device. Instead, a fuse file system is created in RAM and the zip is streamed from your computer. This puts less wear and tear on storage and ensures that large zips will not fill up all of your RAM. The sideload may spit an error on your PC side, but the zip should install just fine on your device.

CHANGELOG for 2.8.2.0:

-Pull in all changes from Android 5.0 lollipop into TWRP

-Add decrypt support for Android 5.0 lollipop encrypted partitions including automatic decrypt when the default_password is in use

-Revert some changes to exFAT that were breaking exFAT support on some devices

-Other minor fixes and updates

Note: At this time we do not have a GUI representation for pattern unlock. You can still decrypt patterns though by translating the pattern dots to numbers. The pattern dots correspond to numbers in the following pattern:

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

So an upper-case L would translate to a password of 14789 entered on the keyboard. Eventually we plan to add a proper pattern unlock to TWRP but it is a relatively low priority at this point.

CHANGELOG for 2.8.1.0:

-MTP fixes and improvements - you can now copy zips to the root of storage - thanks to _that

-TrueType Font support - optional as it takes up a decent amount of space so may not be available on all devices - thanks to Tassadar

-Temperature support - thanks to bigbiff

-Various other bugfixes and tweaks

Over the course of the last year or so, bigbiff has worked to migrate various Java functions from Android's MTP implementation to bring you a fully C++ based MTP implementation that allows you to transfer files to both emulated storage and Micro SD cards. It's confirmed to work on various Nexus devices but we may have to make some changes on other devices to keep Windows happy. Windows is very picky about USB IDs and its drivers. We have tested it on Windows 7 and 8 as well as Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. MTP is enabled by default, but we do toggle it off and on automatically during certain operations such as if you choose to wipe a storage partition. You can enable or disable MTP under the mount menu in TWRP. For more about what MTP is here.

Note: Due to a weird bug with our MTP setup, you cannot copy a zip file to the root of storage with Windows. You can change the .zip to something else like .txt and then copy it to the root and rename the file back to .zip once it's copied to the device. You can also copy the zip into any subfolder.

Command line support is also now available. You can perform various OpenRecoveryScript commands via the adb shell. Depending on what you are doing you may wish to do a "twrp set tw_mtp_enabled 0" and then reboot to prevent the MTP auto toggle from killing your adb interface. You can use this option to create and restore backups, wipe, install zips, and more. Via adb shell, type twrp followed by a space then enter the OpenRecoveryScript command and hit enter. Find more OpenRecoveryScript commands here.

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BUGS

If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to our github issues log. It's pretty much impossible for us to keep up with the more than 40 threads that we have for the devices that we "directly" support. If you have a significant problem that cannot be answered in this thread, your best bet is to PM me directly, contact us via our website, or find us in our IRC channel below. If you see someone that's struggling, feel free to point it out to us. We need your help to help us keep track of all of our devices! Thanks!

SUPPORT:

Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this LINK

CREDITS [MENTION=4309448]varun.chitre15[/MENTION] for kernel source

XDA:DevDB Information

[Recovery][OFFICIAL] TWRP 2.8.4.0, ROM for the Sony Xperia L

Contributors

Rohan purohit

ROM OS Version: 5.0.x Lollipop

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2015-01-27

Last Updated 2015-01-30