yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MPeti1:
When i tried to restore a backup, FlashFire failed and stopped at restoring data. It wrote something like it can't write the folder lost+found because it has no permissions for it. After it I've lost a bunch of files, and i couldn't boot my phone until i dirtyflashed stock rom.

As i remember i last used version 0.57 before that, and it had no problem with restoring data, but now it's app crashes at startup. I think it would be a good idea to make FlashFire able to take screenshots, and do it automatically when an error occures.

Here is the lastlog file.

I use Magisk 14.0 for root, and a system installation of xposed framework. I have a Xiaomi Redmi 3S Prime with MIUI 8.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esysfound:
Flashfire Trojan Alert or False Positive from MWB

Same here - just started last week. Obviously quite unnerving. Uninstalled Flashfire, did a cleaning. Reinstalled - Malwarebytes says again

found FlashFire contained trojan.rootnik.jck

Can someone from Chainfire kindly confirm what is going on - were servers compromised or is this just a false positive from Malwarebytes?

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] davidk21770:
I pulled the APK from my latest install (using FX File Manager's app tools) pushed it out to VirusTotal and it got 6/63 positives.

AegisLab	Troj.Androidos.Rootnik!c	20171011
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Android.Rootnik	20171012
Cyren	AndroidOS/GenBl.CD12010C!Olympus	20171012
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.AndroidOS.Rootnik.jck	20171012
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Suspicious_GEN.F47V0923	20171011
ZoneAlarm by Check Point	HEUR:Trojan.AndroidOS.Rootnik.jck	20171012

It's not hitting my AVs -- either on my PC (backups of cell and tablet) or on my cell or tablet

I'm also hoping for a false positive!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcmm11:
I'm 98+% certain it's a false positive. Since FlashFire uses root it's very possible that virus checkers will flag it incorrectly. Behavior doesn't match rootnik behavior (based on descriptions from Google searches). Plus it wouldn't make much sense to infect with rootnik - it apparently only affects Android 4.3 and older.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Alxoom33:
It looks like a false positive. I even uninstalled and reinstalled from the play store. However, Malwarebytes still identifies it as a Trojan. Anyone know why?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esysfound:
Chainfire response needed, please

As I did yesterday. Appreciate all the amateur sleuthing, but this is a pretty important issue, and I think a direct response from Chainfire is the only way to resolve it.

Please, can someone involved with development of Flashfire get back to us and just confirm either way why it seems multiple AV and Malware software are reporting trojans? If the file in question is just part of the apk, you can just let us know and we can whitelist it. Sure hope this is the case as FF is a really useful app.

Thanks for the help in advance.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] StonedYoda:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] - these guys are lookin for ya. I just wanted to say thanks for getting my Moto Z2 Force rooted. You're still The Boss!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nadiros:
Uh, root + antivirus is probably a bad idea for you. The nature of these programs and tools require the very functions you are afraid of. Rooting itself is an attack on the vulnerabilities of android. If it wasn't we'd have a switch in Dev options to root.... wouldn't that be sweet.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Malwarebytes is a false positive.

Not sure what triggers it this time, but over the years many of my tools have been flagged and triggering. Root itself is seen as malware/virus by some, and if not, so many of my stuff is directly used by both (user-employed) root tools as well as malicious ones, that they can hardly tell the difference between them.

Anybody who wants to help, please complain to Malwarebytes.

The antivirs usually wise up after a while and a user-barrage, but sometimes they do not. I have spent so much time over the years correcting stuff like that.

Note that unless you're actually running a root-using (or system built-in) anti-virus, Android anti-virus is mostly a scam anyway.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esysfound:
Great-thanks for clearing this up....
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] brandon79:
Anyone know why flashfire just shows a black screen when flashing, backups, restore, I see the usual loading screen with flashfire, but after that usually there is flashfire at top of screen and whatever it is your doing shows progress like flashing zip package or so on but at this point all I get is a black screen. Everything seems to still work, it completes backups, and completes flashing just dosent show any progress. Just wondering if anyone else has this problem, is there a fix. Thanks for any help.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dodobila:
False pozitive în Kaspersky too. Will report this. Thanks [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Avast reports it as possibly dangerous, but does NOT definitively flags it as virus. Reported false positive, then just told it to ignore flashfire. Problem solved

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Team DevDigitel:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] ive seen a few people post a request about the brightness of the device during the flashing stage. Everything works fine, but you are barely able to see the scripts running etc during the process. Is this intentional and or can this be raised some by user or by you? I did use the search function and only found a few similar questions but no answers/fixes to this.

Otherwise its working great on the N950U Note 8 Snapdragon. Only reason us locked BL guys can have any fun without being tied to a pc all day pushing images, only down side is one boo boo and your back using odin to restore and start over lol. Thanks for another great piece of work brotha.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ArangeLTX:
Today I bricked my Nexus 6P trying to flash the second bootloader through Flashfire with the bootloader from Android 8.1 BETA (https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html - angler-opp5.170921.005-factory-a45d3eab.zip). The bootloader partition size is 1024Kb, but Flashfire try to flash around 3800Kb. Now the device can't boot to the bootloader and just load as a 'Qualcomm USB modem converter'. Black screen, just throw to Linux the next thing:

[ 109.571689] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 109.731790] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 109.731810] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 109.731822] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 109.733690] usbcore: registered new interface driver qcserial
[ 109.733705] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for Qualcomm USB modem
[ 109.733756] qcserial 3-2:1.0: Qualcomm USB modem converter detected

Bus 003 Device 029: ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] can you validate the size of the image and the partition BEFORE clean the partition and try to flash the image?

Can someone help me to flash the bootloader through this 'Qualcomm USB modem converter' interface, please?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: FIXED. I flash the SBL through the QDL protocol.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
And that is precisely why flashfire warns that flashing secondary bootloader is a risky thing to do. If you have a custom recovery and the device itself can fully boot try putting the factory image to internal storage with through WiFi (like fx explorer web access). You could then see if twrp can flash it and hopefully restore the device. But that's the only thing I can think off.

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ArangeLTX:
Yes, I known the risks. Now it's late and I trying to warn about add a validation in Flashfire to check the image and the partition sizes.

The device don't reach the bootloader because the SBL2 was cleaned. I'm trying to flash the SBL2 through the QDL (I need to find a SBL2 from somewhere).

Edit: FIXED. I flash the SBL through the QDL protocol.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] n.p.:
Help!

Tried flashing (first time using Flashfire) from LinageOS 201707xx to the latest version (20171021) on a Samsung Galaxy Tab2 10.1 (espressowifi). Thought I followed the directions carefully, but only get a black screen - and I can't get the tablet back into recovery (had TWRP installed).. I can get the logo page to come up briefly (most of the time though, there is one of two large battery icons showing), but then the screen flickers a couple of times and goes black.

Any ideas on how to restore anything?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] daibaron:
Hi

i'm in a deep sh***t my phone is out of order but i have a backup from Flashfire.

But i'm not able to unzip it with 7Z i got this error message "unexpected end of data ".

how can i read the content of this archive ? i have the same error on all my backup... Savior needed !
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
They are broken into 1024 MiB chunks so if there are multiple sequential files (e.g. data.tlz4, data.0002.tlz4, data.0003.tlz4 - assuming you didn't change the default compression), then they need to be combined before uncompressing. To do this on a *nix machine is simple with the cat command (concatenate). It's really important that the files are reassembled from lowest to highest:

cat data.tlz4 data.0002.tlz4 data.0003.tlz4 > data.partition.tlz4

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mobileman88:
You can use cygwin for windows to do it too if you don't have access to any Unix system
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] daibaron:
@ ktmom [MENTION=1306570]mobileman88[/MENTION]

Thanks for your help, that was greatly appreciated.

I aslo found another way with Winrar who was able to list the content for "Data" and extract the files when 7zip was not able to do it

I will use "Cat" command later this day to fully extract the folder

Thank you again
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mobileman88:
Good to hear that. Enjoy
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Kartlis:
Android 8.1.0

Hi,

Anyone try to flash OTA android 8.1.0?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ffejy462:
Yes. Worked as expected. I did, however, flash updated radio with fastboot. Nexus 6p
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] daibaron:
Can someone answer this question ?

I've a Galaxy S8, i know that if root it with CF-auto root it will fully reset it it.

This means i won't be able to update the ROM and root it again without losing all my setup.

But i'd would like to know if restoring "Data" only on a new rooted ROM will get my data restored properly ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] r25txe:
Yes.

However, if you make *any* modifications to /system [systemmode root, xposed etc], or set it to R/W mode the OTA would likely still fail.

Best option is to backup /data & internal media storage and perform an update using full firmware package. This may, or may not, wipe your /data, hence the advised backup.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] daibaron:
Thanks a lot for the extra information about Internal storage.

I will give it a try.

Regards
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mahrtayyab:
How to flash protected partition

I really want to flash modem (a protected partition)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Some devices have flashable zips users made for the modem. You don't state what device but, for example, the N6 had a thread with nearly all of the modems.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mahrtayyab:
Flashable modem zip isn't available for my device (Samsung galaxy s4 snapdragon) it starts flashing but stuck at about 50 percent and reboot automatically
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ekanar:
Thank you for another inspired set of code. I'll stress it out some. Least my ex said I always stressed her out ... SM-J700T (2016)

Ek
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] v12xke:
Is your bootloader unlocked? If not, you will not be able to. If yes, just fastboot flash it, which is the correct way to update the bootloader and modem partitions. You shouldn't attempt to flash protected partitions using FF. In the docs.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] amkaos:
when I boot to TWRP recovery, I chose which backup I want to install.

no matter what I choose, and the text shows that it is installing the chosen zip, but

the final booted up version is always the very last backup.

all the installed apps and data are all the same.

I don't understand.

I'm concerned that I won't be able to revert to a certain emergency backup.

what's going on?

thx
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
I'm confused, why are you booting to TWRP? Is this a FlashFire backup you're talking about, or a TWRP one?

In either case, looking at a log would give you insights. With FF, it's the last log file in the FF directory. For TWRP, you'll need to save it to the SD card before rebooting out of TWRP.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] amkaos:
we'll FF directions talk about recovering a FF zip backup from TWRP.

and that's what I talked about.

from TWRP, I don't look for the FF folder, but I don't think it would be different..

thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
That's considered an "emergency" restore. I don't have a chance to look at the restore script for use in TWRP, but it wouldn't surprise me that it takes what ever restore is available. If you want to restore a specific backup, restore from FF. Or if you're set on using TWRP, maybe try making sure only the one you want is available. By that I mean, remove all backups except the one you want.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] amkaos:
I didn't know FF has it's own recovery boot up..but while in twrp I'll look for the ff folder and see what that offers.

I understand that you talk about the recovery option from the ff app itself...

I haven't done that, I will see what that does..

my primary concern is recovery from bootloop and catastrophes.

for example, I want to disable and or delete All of the Google things I can except for play store and things I use..

I've disabled some Google bloat and got bootloop.

I see No list of things I can safely delete/disable..

I really really like the app

thanks for your replies
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] amkaos:
after testing recovery from a working device, the FF app itself, I can revert to any chosen backup . it restores as img..no surprises.

if I use twerp, it might use the settings from chosen zip, but for sure it keeps the last apps and data to restore. that's fine.

thank
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pawar21:
Error flashing custom rom zip

Respected [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] i have a weired problem flashfire loads the flash package and shows black screen then loading shows up and certain flash script load files..after that again blank screen and after 40 to 50 seconds of black screen boot animation shows up and stays forever...i am attaching last log please have a look into that
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] JPT223:
not working on Orbsmart S82

I am currently trying to fetch the complete ROM from Orbsmart S82 (Amlogic 802 chip).

The stock ROM already is rooted. so I did not modify the system yet.

I tried to install TWRP but I cannot find a way to boot it. Only option is a key in the AV connector which probably starts download mode.

Flashfire just doesn't do anything when I try to add an action. choose type, enter filename, nothing. regardless of which I chose.

No log file, neither in emulated- or external-sd.

now what?

List of partitions is empty. Should it be filled?

btw, flashify just hangs forever...

thanx,
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] clows:
i just did a flash firmware option with the newest firmware.zip on my s8.. but when i click flash, my s8 just reboot and nothing happened...tried twice and no luck to flash the firmware...any help?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
I just rooted my pixel 2 xl with magisk v14.4 and was able to get a normal backup, but when I went to do a restore I just got the blank screen on reboot.

Interesting things is that it was able to decrypt the phone to do the backup and store the backup on the data partition. I was able to extract the backup.

Can you look into this when you have time?

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Jostian:
Can FF be used to flash ANY Custom ROM on S8 or only certain variants? and can it be used to flash other types of ZIPs, like debloat scripts etc.? thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] yoshi-7:
I'm trying to install the November update to my Pixel 1. Unfortunately, it always stucks at 0% (Downloading OTA...).

Pixel 1 with 8.0 October Patch

SuperSU v2.82-SR5

suhide v1.09

FlashFire v0.73

What i have already tried:

- FlashFire v0.73 B1 which was linked in this thread a few sites before (FlashFire-v0.73-20171001124337-B1.)

- "mount namespace separation" in SuperSU deactivated

In the directory /data/ota_package the following four files are created when the download update starts:

care_map. txt

compatibility. zip

metadata

payload_properties. txt

There is no update.zip
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] niko26:
Similar issue for me. Never couldn't get Flashfire working correctly with OTAs :(

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:02 PM ----------

Exactly! What a pain!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ffejy462:
In twrp:

Backup current system, data, vendor

Reboot

Download firmware (or ota)

Flashfire :

(if firmware) Wipe system, cache, dalvik/art cache, vendor

Flash firmware (don't select bootloader, radio, or recovery)

Flash SuperSU 2.82 sr5

(ensure keep recovery is selected)

(if ota)

Flash ota

Flash SuperSU 2.82 sr5

(ensure keep recovery is selected)

I prefer to use flash entire firmware each time rather than just the ota

Here's a fantastic guide from [MENTION=4544860]osm0sis[/MENTION]

https://xdaforums.com/apps/supersu/2014-09-02-supersu-v2-05-t2868133/post74457758
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sacnotsack:
Try turning on airplane mode then flash.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
That won't do anything. Flashfire has no need for any data connection. WiFi or otherwise.

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sacnotsack:
The only way it works for me is when I turn on airplane mode.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lakePlacidSurf:
my flashfire is stuck on acquiring root access.. my phone is already rooted. what do i do?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Depends on device, root method, if root is hidden, ROM version, ect. You provide no information.

Try getting a log Guide: Sending a Logcat to Help Debug Your Favorite App

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] partcyborg:
This is a known issue that has plagued flashfire for some time. A few things you can try are:

- just reboot and try again. Do this a few times before giving up, it always fixes issue for me

- enable airplane mode and try again after a fresh boot or force closing the app. This was a bug in older versions that should be fixed by now but YMMV.

- go into settings for supersu and follow the reinstall from playstore process. Be sure to upgrade the su binary if/when it asks you to. Removing Knox if it asks you to (if you're on a Samsung and if supersu still does this). Once done, go into back into settings and follow the install to /system process. This has at least temporarily fixed the issue for me several times, especially old versions of supersu seem more problematic.

It's definitely an issue in FlashFire's side as I don't have any other apps that ever exhibit this problem, only flashfire. I've literally granted root to apps during the time that flashfire is stuck. I remember looking at logcat while it was happening and seeing nothing around supersu or flashfire, it seemed like somehow FF was just not sending the ask for root signal (I don't know the mechanics of how this works in android, so forgive me if my explanation is wrong/stupid) and therefore there is just no relevant output.

It would be awesome if our excellent developer could take a look at some point if he's not already.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lakePlacidSurf:
thanks..it worked..you're the best!!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mousefai0922:
I download the ota update for Nov updates for my Nexus 60. However, the app doesn't automatically flash

Any help
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
There is no 60. They said, flashfire will need an update to support the new file change. Just select 'flash firmware package' and then navigate to /data/ota_package and select the update_s.zip file manually.

Works fine from that point on

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kieranc88:
Would i be able to flash stock firmware on a blu vivo 5r running android 6.0 using flashfire

OS	Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

Chipset	Mediatek MT6753

CPU	Octa-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53

GPU	Mali-T720MP3
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MikeyLee:
I know this is a stupid question but can you really only flash firmware updates with Flashfire? I'm having issues with Magisk modules not installing with Magisk and want to flash them another way other than regular recovery.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Anything you can flash in recovery should be flashable by FF. Just make sure you select the "flash zip or OTA" action.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Alxoom33:
Tried to create Fastboot flashable backup with FlashFire on my rooted Pixel 2 XL. The backup proceeded though backing up various partitions, but kept going for over 2 hours on "scanning data." Finally I force reebooted and found a 1.29GB file in Flashfire bakups. Would this be a full backup. It looks like it is small for including all data. How can I tell if the backup is incomplete.

Thanks,
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] xpil:
samsung t825 issue

I downloaded the new European firmware from updato for my T825 (T825XXU1AQI2). I then used flashfire v0.73 to flash everything in the defaults but boot.

The reason being that i didn't want to loose root (magisk 14). The procedure ended with "success" and the tablet rebooted to system, as it should. I was really excited until I checked the software version to realize that nothing had changed, i.e the previous version (T825XXU1AQF3) was still there. :(

Does anybody know what may have happened? My goal is to update without loosing root and the 200 applications I have installed..... :confused:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Scaevola:
This issue has been going on for sometime for me. I am never able to use OTA updates with Flashfire.

-Android 7.1 updates

-Android 8.0 update

-Android 8.1 update

It always says downloading and gets stuck on 0%