yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] brotbuexe:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION], nice fastboot restore. Are Odin compatible backups on the agenda too?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] oreo27:
Interesting. I've quoted this on our device's megathread and hopefully someone with more knowledge can look into it. I'm excited at the possibility of root on Marshmallow for our device. Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rtomanek:
Run backup with dead screen?

Hi, my Galaxy S5 SM-G900F fell, its screen is dead now (black, digitizer not working). Phone seems fine otherwise, can access ADB via USB, root shell as well.

I have Flashfire installed (Titanium, too) and did some backups previously but they are not as recent as I'd like them to be.

Is there any way for me to run Flashfire backup remotely (via ADB or other means)?

If I can then I'll copy it over to PC, and then from there to another G900F to access my data.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] harsh.:
I just tried beta 0.32v and its not able to access root.. I'm on cm13 nightly with cm su and selinux enforcing! What should I do?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
I'm definitely looking at it.

I think the best thing here might be look if there's some app you can use to control the phone from your PC, and run backup software that way. For restoring to another phone, perhaps TiBu is a better option than FlashFire (unless you get the exact same phone and flash back the entire thing including system). Adb backup could be used for some apps, but then that would require on-screen confirmation again...

I'm afraid there's no known way to root a MM device without patching the boot image, which isn't possible with a locked bootloader.

Unless a device-specific exploit is found, locked bootloader devices are stuck on Lollipop.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Garfield3333:
D802 making sucessfull a full backup....

This is chainfire.....

Thx for this amazing app.....

Guys, buy the pro version to support this amazing developer...!!!!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] faizauthar12:
Thanks for amazing app....

can i request to suppport scrolls at action list??

i have 3" phone which actually can't press back up option :D

hope u add it
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chabula:
Have this installed on the Mtk Jiayu S3 and made a backup.

So to see does it work. Don, t know or flashing the Cm 12 will work

Verstuurd vanaf mijn JY-S3 met Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] gentle_giant:
it's a long shot but you might want to try MyPhoneExplorer. In menu » extra, there's an option "Control Phone/ Screen Mirror.

I haven't tried it myself (the option) but you already got a "no" and perhaps you'll get a "yes"
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chillo71:
It doesn't auto-detect OTA donwload for Moto E.

WHere can I find OTA update store location?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rex.raul:
It worked on mine, and flashed some imgs too :)

Great tool, No need to switch on a laptop to flash something. Below is the screenshot for Flashfire on SG Grand Prime ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
[MENTION=5285122]rex.raul[/MENTION] if that's a recent image I'd suggest you updated. You're running a severely outdated version ;)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Negan:
Anyone tried this on the Tmo LG V10. The app itself shows no reports documented of any testing with the device. I'm curious about this given the unique information found with the 6.0 ota. So basically the v10 is on 5.1.1 with an unlockable bootloader etc. All fine and dandy until you either accept the ota or flash the kdz. The new 6.0 update relocks your bootloader. Albeit you can run the oem unlock command, every other fastboot command has been disabled. So I'm curious if we could use flashfire to flash the new ota update.zip and maintain either twrp or supersu. I would imagine after doing so we'd of course have to re-unlock the bootloader. but I'd love to see reports of this working or not working with the LG V10. [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] your thoughts?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rex.raul:
Outdated version? Isn't v0.24 Beta the latest one? ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Many people have lost support in later versions to 0.24, including me, but support came from the 0.29 test 1 and since then all work, so I recommend that you upgrade to 0.32
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Not by a longshot, check the topic title version ;)

Click the link in the first post to join the Google play test program, from that point on play store will push new builds. There have been quite a few builds now with major bug fixes or feature additions.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rex.raul:
Okay, I'll check v0.32 and post a reply ☺
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
It is normally in /cache
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chillo71:
Yes I know, but nothing in any of cache partition folders,

though I can see 23.26.8 version there, which is now running but no 23.201.3 that the update says
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rex.raul:
[MENTION=66481946] KaMyKaSii [/MENTION] Just tested, and it worked.. ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Devtron6:
I joined the beta but when I go to the download link it says item not found. Any clue why
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
You didn't read the first post.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Devtron6:
Why not be helpful and explain.. I did read the first post
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
And on another note to chainfire, as i quoted you. Is there an updated stickmount for Android N - DP2, due soon?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Devtron6:
And because I read the front page. I already joined that, but when I click the link for the download on the beta page it says item not found. Hence why I asked for help

---------- Post added at 09:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:11 PM ----------

I joined three days ago when I got my phone still having this issue
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
You could have included that information in your first post.

You could try leaving the program and rejoining.

---------- Post added at 09:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ----------

Also there is a link to download in the latest changelogs.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
If the app doesn't know, then I don't know. I guess you'll have to find it...

I'm really just guessing here, but I would assume that when flashing the OTA using FlashFire, the OTA script would still update your bootloader. I'm not sure what would happen if you let FF restore TWRP, install SuperSU, etc. It might work, it might not. And if the latter, it might brick.

If anything, I think somebody may try to patch the OTA itself so it only updates system and modem and such, but doesn't touch any of the bootloader partitions. That might still leave you with a non-booting device, but at least then you could fastboot flash back 5.1... in theory?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dlb4all:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] Alright , i installed this and this is how it went :

It just stucked at "acquiring root access" . no supersu prompt was shown of course

And this is my gear : Nexus 5 running latest CM13 , latest version of your beta supersu flashed (2.71 i think) , latest flashfire beta installed
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Change selinux to permissive
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Negan:
Gotcha. I figured no one has tried yet. Sadly we cannot flash back to 5.1.1 due to the anti rollback flag in the kdz. Those who have tried have reported hard bricks. I am ok with updating the boot loader since we can u lock it. Based on your reply which is what I presumed I think my best bet is to try to modify the ota updater-script to be twrp flashable and remove stock recovery From it among other things. I am not brave enough to test this on my device since its not even available in Canada. Those who are on a plan with tmo may have insurance and what not. For me it would be a relatively large out of pocket expense. I thank you for your prompt reply and appreciate all you do for everyone. I will also continue to buy the pro versions of all your apps too!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dlb4all:
Its already permissive
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emba4:
i know this is likely to be glaringly obvious and im just blind/stupid but i cant actually see how to enable fastboot mode for restoring from a PC, samsung dont have a native fastboot so im assuming it has to boot into flashfire to get a fastboot connection but aside from starting a backup i cant find a way to get into it

so someone please tell me how much of an idiot i am and where it is that i do the restore operation

thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
I don't know nothing about Samsung, but you can't "boot into FlashFire".

On Nexus restore backup via fastboot can be done when you boot your device into bootloader and then you connect your device to PC and on PC you use flash-all.bat or fastboot commands to restore parts of backup, e.g. for restore recovery you use "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" for system use "fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunkX" (X is a number of sparsechunk part), etc.

Use Google to find all fastboot commands.

EDIT: or you can also boot into system, open FlashFire and select "Flash firmware packages" and select zip file created on backup, BUT you can't restore all partitions (userdata) with that way.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emba4:
im well versed in fastboot but as standard samsung devices dont have a fastboot mode, they have ODIN instead, id just assumed that the flashfire mini system had some sort of fastboot implementation for restoring but maybe im wrong, or its just not implemented yet. its still beta yet so im sure things will come along in time
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
If your device doesn't have fastboot, you can't restore fastboot images. I had thought this was sort of obvious.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
I believe in Samsung devices is not possible to enter into fastboot, but Chainfire has said it is implementing backups that can be flash by Odin.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] punkmonkey1984:
I have a OTA update for my s7 edge, the downloaded update.zip is in /cahce/fota .

However, the file is corrupt and flashfire wont see it. Any ideas?

If i try to apply it, the samsung default recovery goes to update then a android with a yellow triange appears and the phone reboots. Not sure on the problem.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
You state the issue and then say you don't know what it is? The download is corrupt, clear your cache and redownload.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] punkmonkey1984:
I've done it 3 times. Same issue.

Is the procedure correct, first time using a Samsung since the s2.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
Usually you just flash the ota update zips in stock recovery, I don't mess with any of that so I can't say for sure. It would have been helpful to mention you've tried it more than once in your original post.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] punkmonkey1984:
I'm getting dm-verity verification failed in stock recovery, can't select from sd card. Might be a titanium backup and Flash back to stock via kies.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
I don't know, I'd wait for a second opinion from someone who's more knowledgeable on it if you aren't a fan of reflashing right now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ih8legal:
Getting a " not enough storage on /system" error on my n7. I think that the system partition is full because if I wanted to install xposed I had to delete some system apps to make room. Problem is if I make any changes to /system, the update will fail. So it seems I'm in a circle . Is there any solution to this besides downloading the newer full factory image and applying it through FlashFire?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Interesting. Can you upload the update.zip somewhere?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Wyneg:
Hi!

Do you think, in a distant future, you can do backup only for apks (without cache or accounts or whatever, only apk files) and make it flashable through fastboot?

This intended for fresh and clean ROM installations.

It can be done? Only as question.

Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
Xposed can't be installed in "systemless" mode, so, if you want it you need to make space on system. Even if you have enough space Xposed is installed into system, so you will not be able to install OTA updates.

You have two options:

1. make a backup of system, and when you want to install OTA just add restore system at begining of list in FlashFire

2. install factory image with FlashFire

After this steps you need to make free space again and reflash Xposed.

I use second option, but on my N7 II I have allways enough space to flash Xposed, so my list is: flash factory image, flash SuperSu, flash Xposed...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ih8legal:
I actually don't have xposed installed anymore. I just know that the system partition is full when I was previously trying to install it. I'm curious if I could apply the OTA normally if I weren't rooted, and how that is different from FlashFire. Any ideas [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
If your device is not rooted, you can't use FlashFire. FlashFire works only on rooted device, if you root it, normally with systemless root method (you don't need to make more free space on system) , you can apply OTA update with FlashFire. FF will flash default boot (which is patched while root proccess), apply OTA and it will root it again.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ih8legal:
To be clear, the device is rooted. No xposed. The OTA fails via FlashFire. I was wondering if it would fail if applied by the system default thingy.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
Oh, now it is clear :)

Now I only can recommend you to share "lastlog" file from FlashFire folder when you try to apply OTA via FF.

Maybe there will be more info why OTA fails.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] punkmonkey1984:
Here's a link, fresh download from this morning.

https://mega.nz/#!AlFEGIia!M8Adz-CqS2i6OPq6cR2LX1zjjDkj7ACATJeJ9Nj6J-8

With corresponding screen shot

SMALL UPDATE:

I dont think the file is corrupt any more, Just flashfire wont see the update.zip in any location, I have to do the following:

If i unpack with 7zip I can see the contents. So un-zipping and repacking the whole folder lets flashfire see the update. But its failing on music2 has unexpected odex

UPDATE-2: I Deleted music2 (google music) from root, I will try to replace the file system with the correct content.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ih8legal:
The error regarding system space is near the end.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] donky kong 017:
Hi everyone. I know this may be a noob question or someone could say If I don't know it i should leave such things be, but I'm pretty new to samsung phones and i want to learn and know how things work.

So here is my case:

I have a sgs6edge+ with audax 3.0 rom Android 6.0.1

I'm rooted su 2.7.1

My device status is custom

So is the binary status in download mode.

I read the protected partition note very carefully to try to understand it. I also tried to get the information from the thread but have not found anything.

So my question is :

I know I can't flash bootloader with this app as it states that in the info note.

But it says that I probably can't flash modem or other protected partitions. Why is it that I can't flash a .tar modem file? I was hoping for a method to flash everything on the go like on nexus devices. I was looking for something like mobile Odin thinking it might be able to do that

Thing is i don't want to brick my phone by just trying so I want to understand the whole thing a little bit better.

Is it so that the bootloader is locked thus I can not flash it from the phone itself like on nexus devices? Does frp lock off just mean that I ticked the oem unlock option in developer settings?

Thank you in advance for any clarification

Dk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] brotbuexe:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION], I have an issue with my S7.

I enabled adoptable storage and migrated the data to the sdcard.

sm partition disk:179,0 private

Maybe just say "go home I do not support this", I'll live with it. :)

It shows as expected in Samsung properties.

I tried a normal backup (without "internal storage") to the internal storage. The reboot was fine, it took a time at "waiting for internal storage". Then it did backup the partitions, but I can't see them in /sdcard/flashfire.

Maybe they are put on the "internal sdcard" I can't access directly?

Any idea?

I attached a logcat from the backup start (ends at the "waiting for internal storage"), hope it includes the necessary informations..

I guess the backup is somewhere on the phone. Could I get it somehow, or at least remove it?

PS: I did not install twrp and did not decrypt my data.

I have an issue with stickmount too (phone always rebooting after the first usb mount), I'll report it in the app thread...

Update:

backup to usb otg works fine. (did not try a restore yet)

1 boot lz4 /dev/block/sda5 -

1 system lz4 /dev/block/sda14 /system 0002 0003

1 data tlz4 /dev/block/sda18 /data 0002 0003 0004 0005 0006 0007 0008

And flashing some simple zips to /system and /su where fine too.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] celoxocis:
is it normal that flash fire just closes when I choose "backup=>fastboot".

I was really curious about the new feature. I can't do debug yet (sitting in a train) if it's not supposed to happen I will try to provide a log.

I usually did classic "DD backups" after I had rooted a phone. but lately I had to restore backups back using fastboot as I was bringing up a new device. this new feature would come in handy for that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scoot0073:
I got the Nexus 6P all stock minus the a build prop edit and recent and back keys swap with superSU 2.65 .

I'm on MHC19i and I installed FF and bought the PRO key.

When running FF it detected that there was a ota update and FF loaded a the screen that has all the default settings to flash the ota and at the bottom to click flash.

My question is is it OK to flash the ota with FF preset settings or or do I need to change anything BC I got the Nexus 6P ?

Jus wanna make sure FF works on the Nexus as all I'm reading is peeps with Samsung phone's..

Thanks n advance
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
There is no technical reason why this could not be done. However, I don't think I will ever implement this.

You may not be able to flash modem because Samsung built in some memory protection, so modem cannot be overwritten from root, only from original recovery, or ODIN. Whether or not that is the case on your phone is unknown - on some Samsung phones this is so, on others not. This is why you create the separate tar file to flash through (desktop) ODIN. When you flash a whole firmware, FlashFire will suggest to break the flash into two parts - the unprotected parts, and the protected parts afterwards. That way, maybe it will work, and everything will be fine. But if it does not work, then the "android" parts of the system have been updated before the failure, and you can fix your boot by flashing the modem and bootloaders from desktop ODIN afterwards.

I have never heard of a phone being bricked by doing this procedure.

FRP lock = factory reset protection, this is not the same thing as oem unlock. Oem unlock is the setting which allows you to bootloader unlock or not. You should always have this enabled as a rooted user, to prevent hard bricks.

Why are you providing a logcat instead of the logs specifically asked for in the first post ?

I have tested with adopted storage, and v0.32 should not have much issue with that. In fact, just to try and replicate your issue, I put a new sdcard into my S7, and used in full public mode (normal), full private mode (adopted), and mixed mode, and performed backups and restores to/from all of them, and this worked fine.

So if this "waiting for internal storage" persists, is not related to just adoptable storage (if at all). That specific error message is a bit strange, it sometimes happens, and so far I don't know why. Often rebooting and trying again will make it work. If you can reproduce the "waiting for internal storage" at will, we should further investigate the issue. But please try it again a few times to make sure it's structural,

It is certainly not normal. Sounds like an error that should show up in logcat output.

Sounds good to me.

The ZIP file probably is corrupt, strictly speaking. The problem with ZIP files is that it stores all file information (name, size, crc, etc) twice. These two copies are not always in sync, which means that technically the file is corrupt. FlashFire's UI reads the ZIP one way, while performing the OTA reads it the other way. So while the file is technically corrupt, that doesn't mean it can't be flashed correctly. I will investigate this file further and confirm whether this is the case, and then see if I can do something about the UI marking it as corrupt.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] JudgeDread11:
You can use zip me for this.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Wyneg:
Good tip, thanks dev-man!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Checked that thing out myself too. Doesn't work on Nexus 5/7v2. SU access is requested but that's it, the update.zip file never gets created despite the app claiming success. That thing hasn't seen an update since may '13.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] spainter:
TiB created the update.zip on my Nexus 6 but it was only 4.5 Meg in size. So it doesn't work on Shamu either.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] houtx2:
Doesn't work on rooted pixel c either.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] punkmonkey1984:
I'm sure you have more of a idea than I do, I did heavily change a lot of things with the system, once I re-packed it, it did look like it was going to install but failed on checking the system (music2). Still no idea why it doesn't see the original .zip. I'd rather just flash the OTA via flashfire than have to do a kies firmware upgrade (which wipes my everything).
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
If the file appears to be corrupted, you tried to get the ota link and download by a download manager?

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/05/download-nexus-ota-url-file/

I recommend you use the command "adb logcat > log.txt" and then search for ".zip" in log
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
No he hasn't, because he's not using a nexus device.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] donky kong 017:
Thx so much for your answer.

So basically that means I could try to flash modem via FF and if it fails I could still always do it with desktop Odin?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
You could always download the full firmware from sammobile.com and flash that with FlashFire.

Exactly. Be sure to make the .tar with the bootloaders and modem, and copy it to your computer before you flash with FlashFire, because if the modem flash doesn't go right or the new boot image requires the new bootloader, your device will not boot into Android. At that point, you flash the created .tar with Odin.