yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lau.b:
I would like to post a feedback of what I assume as a non working behavior of flashfire in a 4.3 rooted stock rom (on a Samsung S4 GT-i9505, firmware MK9).

I attached log of unsuccessful backup+ photo. Flashing a firmware didn't work either.

Flashfire installation was ok. Tested on versions 0.26 and 0.27

Two types of "error" with very similar behavior : each time, flashfire reboots, tries to start first operation and ends in recovery menu with laying android guy, either saying "error" (for backup task) or "no command" (for flash task).

From what I saw after on normal operation, it never reached "loading" status.

On same phone, after upgrading and rooting a 4.4.2 stock rom (FNC4), I could use flashfire flawlessly with exactly same file to flash, it rocks :o

fantastic job chainfire :good::good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
So why, when doing a full backup, I get empty folders when restored. Music, pictures, downloads, documebts all restore empty folders??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] osm0sis:
That's on /sdcard and has nothing to do with Flashfire. Android OS creates those folders on first boot.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
yes, I have lots of data in these folders which is not being backed up by ff.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
What type of backup are you doing, not really sure that's even covered by ff to be honest.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
I'm doing a full backup in ff with everything checked. I would think the data partition backup would include these files and not just leave me with empty folders. It backup everything else??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
Please someone correct me if I'm mistaken here, I believe that data backup is backing up /data, which, yes it does have a /date/media which has a mount for storage in it so by that logic, yes I would expect that to get backed up, I don't know exactly what ff is doing when a data partition is ran though, everything in /data/media may be virtual or a link or similar, so it might be inaccessible as part of the backup, I'm honestly not too sure. All this said, whatever you do to your phone your external SD card's data will persist, so I would recommend keeping anything important on that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
S6 has no external sd
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
I would wait till someone else answers then, my knowledge on this is rather limited, sorry about that :/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
The log thinks your initial backup actually succeeded? Are you sure it didn't? If you're sure that it didn't, that probably means it couldn't mount internal storage :(

As for rebooting to recovery, on some Samsung firmwares this always happens, the error you are shown then is unrelated to FlashFire itself. On the other hand, it's also perfectly possible something went very wrong and that's why the device rebooted into recovery. From my end there is no way to know, the logs do not provide any info about this.

The folders are automatically generated by Android.

Did you do a backup, then a restore, or what happened between backup and restore? Did you wipe? If so, with FlashFire, or some other way?

The /data/media folder is mounted as /sdcard on many devices, and this folder is skipped in backup, restore, and wipe (usually). This is by design, as this folder is the target of the backups themselves. Most backup tools I know do this the same, but I guess this needs some further clarification (or maybe even an option to enable backing it up?).

However, if you did a backup, and did *not* wipe or install a ROM afterwards, and then you did a restore, and lost /sdcard contents... that would be a very severe bug.

Please explain in more detail what you did and what happened exactly.

In either case, I am sorry for your lost files :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
I basically did a full backup with ff,, lost some files/icons and thought a restore would put them back. So I did a restore with ff and to my surprise the missing files/icons were restored perfectly. However, when I went to play some music all my files were gone. I did have a music directory but it was empty. Furthermore all documents, downloads, and pictures were gone. So as I see it the ff backup did not backup these files. Of course these are the files I want to backup. Why else backup? 1000's of songs gone. Years of pictures gone. How can this be by design? If it is there should be a huge warning posted.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
I doubt it's by design, and there are MULTIPLE warnings. There's a warning on every release note, and then there's the fact that it's a BETA version application, and then you have the fact that no software is ever bug free

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 5 met Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
Tha app needs no defense. Its the best out there.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
As I said, I'm sorry about the files. But there is nothing I can do about that now. I only hope you have your pictures cloud-backuped.

The empty folders you speak of are located on the 'internal storage', the location where backups are also put.

Both 'internal storage' as well as removable sdcards are not considered part of either backup/restore. They are generally considered 'outside' storage. When you backup your computer to an external drive, do you include the external drive itself? No.

As Android has developed over the years, the lines have been muddied and the 'internal storage' (previously called 'external storage') became a part of the main storage where your normal app data is located. But it is generally still excluded from backups, because:

(a) to be able to backup both 'main data' and the 'internal storage' to the 'internal storage', that means your storage cannot be more than half-full, or you will logically run out of space (compression excluded for simplification purposes)

(b) if the 'internal storage' gets wiped, you lose your backups anyway, as they are stored there. You generally lose both the data and the backups, or neither.

The 'internal storage' isn't backed up, but it's also not restored. A restore operation by itself should not touch it, only a ROM flash, wipe or factory reset generally causes 'internal storage' to lose its files. A restore should not remove these files!

So, did the files only get lost during the restore? Or were they lost through a firmware flash, wipe, factory reset, etc.? But if the latter is the case, how could you still do a restore, because wiping 'internal storage' would also remove the backups!

The 'internal storage' not being backed up may need some revisiting design wise, but opinions will differ what the correct course of action is. What really worries me is how these files got lost in the first place. Any more info would be welcome. If you haven't run FlashFire since, posting your /sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog file would be helpful.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
I understand and will see about the logs. Nothing was done except inadvertantly deleting some files. In any case I have all data on clouds. I do copy my backup file to dropbox, so as you mentioned everybody has thier own ways and thoughts on how something should be done.Now that I know these files aren't included I will rely more on cloud backups. Its relatively easy to restore a system but restoring music and photos is a pain.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Yes, unfortunately I know the pain all too well. My phone gets accidentally wiped quite regularly, I assure you :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] elliwigy:
crazy how that happens.. then occassionally when I want to wipe everything with a clean slate I seem to find tars that dont wipe lol

i personally dont do backups because im never on a rom long enough to set everything up
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arktay:
I updated my nexus 6p from build MMB29P to MMB29Q

I had xposed + elementalx kernel + twrp

I flashed the stock google factory image with flashfire, I only uncheck flash recovery. Everything is OK, I just had to reflash xposed and the kernel :) nice work CF
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] aaronne:
Thanks [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] for good software,

used last v0.27(PseudoPro) on my Shield Tablet K1 (the new w/o stylus) WiFi only ver. on MM 6.0 with sdcard formatted and used as internal mem., before I read this post I've noted too that the software gave these errors:

so I've moved back (migrated as stated in MM6.0) data and apps to device memory and retry to make a Full Backup, this time with success (I think and hope)! So reverted migration again and transferred FlashFire's backup to a PC and USB key (if u would backup, make it well :cyclops: )

So if I've searched well, instead post a full log (that store ID Serial Number too) i'll post only the errors from lastlog located in sw backup's folder,

[UI] [ERR] tar: ./misc/wifi/sockets/wpa_ctrl_729-16: socket ignored
[UI] [ERR] tar: ./misc/wifi/sockets/wpa_ctrl_729-17: socket ignored
[UI] [ERR] tar: ./misc/wifi/sockets/wlan0: socket ignored
[UI] [ERR] tar: ./misc/wifi/sockets/p2p-dev-wlan0: socket ignored
[UI] [ERR] tar: ./misc/nvsipc/socket: socket ignored
[UI] [ERR] tar: ./system/ndebugsocket: socket ignored

Now going to test the full restore(supersu2.67 and twrp2.8.7.0experimental in use) by your software (going to re-image with files from vendor first) and I'll post here a response.

Best Regards to Dev ( [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] )

Regards to all
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wtfmate913:
Here's an older version I had backed up for G4 owners having issues this works for me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2B5OCX6bBlHVGZ1bzBKMEZQMU0/view?usp=docslist_api
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
requested log from restore operationhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ct3yj6pt7gcui76/lastlog?dl=0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chesterx1:
log from restore operation

I couldn't find data/media
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
Was playing around with Flashfire again tonight and testing to see if my system had remained untouched, so tried to apply the February OTA on mmb29r. To my surprise the OTA worked, even with ElementalX kernel.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SirRastusBear:
Was a little unsure at 1st since first time trying this app (although was a former user of MobileOdin back when I was on Sammy phones), but gotta say was easy-peasy! I did as Chainfure recommended and downloaded the whole February angler firmware file to phone and had FlashFire scan it. Then flashed system/boot/cache (not data & not recovery) with it. Had one extra reboot occur after it ran, but no problems. Flashed EX kernel after as well. Worked flawlessly. Only (minor) issue was I lost my Catacylsm rom-but no big deal-I should be able to flash mod and get right back to it, just now it will be with February security update. As always, I am in blown away at the knowledge you have Chainfire! I've always paid for Pro versions of all your apps I run-and this one will be no exception. Cheers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zoandroid:
Just thought I'd let you know when Flashfire failed to run tonight (something about not being able to mount the device, but it is now working on my second attempt tonight) I tried the VOL DN+Home+PWR and it did not work. The error had said that Flashfire would reboot within 3 minutes, so I just waited it out. Perhaps, for some reason, that key combination is disabled when Flashfire is running??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jjrojo:
My life with flashfire and oneplus one aka(bacon)

After several attempts trying flash any rom (cyanogen os, resurrection remix and some other more), also before flashing i did a normal backup, can say flashfire don't work for the moment with opo, phone reboot and nothing is happened.

Restore don't work. I believe because bad data read.

Ok, go to twrp 3.0, 4 wipes, flash cyanogen os stock, error, can't flash by bad data partition.

Ok, i installed a rom based off cm13 with his new firmware and slim gapps, phone boot and my google account is there! Not wipe had happened, not starting apps in booting.

Finally, downgrade to materialized twrp 2.8.7.0.4 (2.8.6.0 also) has done the trick for restore anything to normal.

4 Wipes, flash cyanogen os and booting starting apps is ok.

Note: If you need logs or something more tell me, i can give flashfire other try.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
To clarify, these errors are from that new mode where internal storage and sdcard are combined into a single storage?

Me neither. That is expected in this log though.

The log doesn't state any specific reason for your files being lost either though.

Well, you probably lost the ElementalX kernel in the process?

FF doesn't disable any key combos, but it doesn't enable any either. Usually holding power for 10-15 seconds is enough to trigger a reboot (or power off).

FF can't work around bad data reads. If your FS is messed up, fix that first.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jjrojo:
Mmmm, but if my data partition was ok. Anyway i'll follow trying tonight gmt +1.

Edit: My data partition was and is ok.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] showofdeth:
Is there any way to downgrade to a previous version? The latest update broke comparability for me. It no longer flashes anything.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] osm0sis:
Or, provide some kind of information so [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] can fix it for your device? :silly:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] showofdeth:
ORRRR somebody could be kind enough to point me in the direction of an older version like I enquired about. I'm not asking for a kidney or anything.

My device isn't officially supported by Chainfire and unless the guy has a spare Meizu PRO5 knocking about I doubt he could help. The last version before the latest worked beautifully.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
A backup somewhere per chance??? (unspecified emoji)

SORRY...:angel:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] HorstiG:
Too bad that this app just right with Developer Toy (Nexus) works.

Unfortunately not on a rooted LG G4.

Or someone has taken a different experience?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] schwem:
This app works just fine on LG devices. I used it to flash xposed framework on my wifes LG G4 VS986 and on my LG V700 10.1" tablet. No issues whatsoever.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dtowngs4g:
Yes I don't think anything will allow us that much freedom with locked bootloaders.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jrv331:
Removed
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] stickman1981:
I just installed the app it saying device not support it 900a do I hit yes or no I'm on 4.4.4 stock rooted
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
I'm N900A and running Flash fire everything is ok so far except the already post about restoring backups

, or you on a custom rom?

EDIT: Doing a backup selecting ID and then I checked all the box's t do a full backup, restored perfect

ATT N900a running lolipop 5.0 stock with root
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] roloracer:
I installed and ran the backup function on a att galaxy note 3 n900a with stock rooted lollipop on it, backed up fine but rebooted and gave me black screen, it wouldn't respond, the black screen was on like the app hung up, you could see the notification bar icons and pull it down but that's it. I had to reboot again and it started up just fine, is there a way to check if the backup was good ?

RoloRacer on LolliPop'ed Note 3
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
that wasn't this tool I had that happen quit a few time with lollipop on N900A after a install, a reboot would fix it, It's a lollipop issue we have. Do a backup using ID and select your partitions and a restore worked for me.

also when you want to boot to download mod for our N900A phone select bootloader ;) selecting download hangs with black screen. also when ever you hung at a black screen, just hold down power button until phone reboots, you do not have to pull the battery, like so many post.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
Ran into a problem. FlashFire worked fine for the first few zips I flashed now when I try to flash a zip I sit at the first black screen before all the coding and logs come up and nothing loads... any help?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
post your phone and rom your running and passable the log file in your FlashFire folder
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
Phone is Verizon galaxy s5 running the latest version of alliance rom ported over by jrkruse from the international version I believe. Here is link to .lastlog, thanks!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc8qbukieeg6smm/lastlog?dl=0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] stickman1981:
att s5 g900a stock 4.4.4
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
I read you log and it points to the updater script, it might be because it uses busy box to mount and unmount.

try a zip that worked before and see if it installs again
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
Did but still stuck at first black screen, even after a reboot and stuff
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] abdyasar:
Hi [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] i purchased to pro. But i dont know its advantages? And i dont have mobile odin pro, is it s problem?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tyvar1:
"- Pro version actually does nothing different at the moment."
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] abdyasar:
It is enaugh for me [emoji5] stable version will rock.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] phoberus:
Can I also install Roms with this app which aren't described as "... KNOX 0x0", but has only a stock kernel?

Is it possible to flash mods with this app?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] muskario:
unfortunately doesn't work on Asus k012 rooted...?

on my old S2 i9100p with slimpop alpha unofficial work fine, but backups are terrible slow..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SeraphSephiroth:
I have a Note 4 Exynos (SM-N910U)

Clicking all the tabs (backup, restore, both flash options and wipe) cause the app to force close.

It reads the partitions fine though.

How can I obtain crash logs?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] abdyasar:
Backup and restore is working. But i can't flash firmware package and ota/update zip.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BeachNYC:
Crashes in Galaxy S5 G900AUCU2ANG3 - 4.4.2

First, thanks so much for your amazing work.

If this is considered a tech support question, then I apologize, just let me know where to request help.

Installed 0.14, reads the partitions, current binary: Official, all looks good. But after pressing +, choosing Backup, ANY backup I try to make results in "Unfortunately FlashFire has stopped." Looking at the log that is generated, there are references to CleanMaster, a program I have installed.

I am really looking forward to using this to install Lollipop, but obviously can't dare risk it without knowing that I can at least make a backup. If you have any suggestions I would be most appreciative.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] elliwigy:
you dont keep backups? try doing a google search lol

or as stated, provide more info so chainfire can look into it.. it might not be officially supported but i highly doubt he owns every other device and has resolved issues before with aa little as a log

---------- Post added at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 AM ----------

i lold at this post... it works on MANY non Nexus devices and from what ive read including the LG G4
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] schwem:
I know haha! I had to read it like 4 times before I actually understood what they were implying and if they read the last hundred pages they would see non nexus users reporting it works just fine.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kamil79123:
Hi guys. About month ago I was flashing some mod packages via FlashFire, everything was ok, succesful. Now when I try to do the same thing, it do all the procedure, but finally does not flash it. It's just like 5 min reboot. Can anyone help me?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sirshark10:
Tested on Droid Bionic (Targa) Running Cyanogenmod 13 Marshmallow

Didn't work, it installed correctly and the menus worked seemingly, but i only tested the backups due to moto phones being experimental at best. I think the issue is it cant see partitions because i'm safestrapped on a rom slot with CM.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kamil79123:
Okay now while im trying to flash something it just reboot phone. Guys, helperino !
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] showofdeth:
Well hopefully, if the Chainfire guy looks at this thread, he can have a look at this log.

I Really don't know what other information I can give other that the brand/model of my phone (Meizu PRO 5 running Flyme 5.1.2.0A) and the fact that one day Flashfire was working great, the next, not at all. Really hope buying pro version of the apk wasn't a waste...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wtfmate913:
I had the same issue with LG G4. The new version looks like it's working, but doesn't actually do anything and reboots much more quickly than it used to. My old version of the apk works which i posted a few pages back. Here it is again:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2B5OCX6bBlHVGZ1bzBKMEZQMU0/view?usp=docslist_api
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jjrojo:
My life with flashfire and oneplus one (aka opo) II

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] Today i tried again after change recovery on opo, downgrading 3.0 to 2.8.7.0.4 (whatever flash firmware) and after one attempt it worked nice.

Maybe some troubles with new 3.0 recovery? Yah, i know flashfire don't use recovery at all.

Can confirm flashfire work with oneplus one flashing zips. Thank you.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ren0.1:
For those of us who luuurrrve Xposed, is there any way you'd consider reverse-engineering, say, the Nexus OTAs to produce non-delta patches that would work with a modified /system ?

I'm fairly sure my alternate question (Xposed via unmodified /system) is best directed elsewhere, unless you're willing to take up the challenge. ;)

ETA: Or, to put it another way, I'd love to have a reason to install FlashFire and donate for it. (Take my money! TAKE IT!)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] schwem:
Thanks for posting. I used the old version to get xposed framework on my wife's G4 and my gpad and am worried if anything goes wrong or if I wanna upgrade xposed versions that the new one wont work. Getting more reports of it failing to flash zips on LG devices. I appreciate the post.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] elliwigy:
all youd need to do is uninstall new version if doesnt work and reinstall old version
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] schwem:
Now that someone posted the old version I will but before that there was no way to do so as only the new version is officially available.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kamil79123:
Yeah I know 0.24 works, but half works half does not. Some mods that month ago worked now does not, like maxxaudio, extremebeats, sony walkman and some stuffs from z5. But Dolby atmos has been flashed succesfuly. I dont get where is the problem. Could you help me?

Wysłano z telefonu.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kamil79123:
Edit: flashing xposed framework does not work too

Wysłano z telefonu.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Canadoc:
On a galaxy s5 AT&T on 5.1.1 not rooted can this be used to get a system less root given the locked boot loader?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] elliwigy:
No.

To my knowledge you need root in the first place to use Flashfire.