yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Actually the idea is that you pull this package from the phone *before* you do the upgrade, then *after* you upgrade you reboot into download mode and flash this package with ODIN. It may be needed for the device to boot on the new Android version.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hugoalo:
Losing root ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Repulsa:
Hey mate . Good job on the released . Anyways Do you mind adding this on your list/fix ? everytime i choose flash/ota zip it takes atleast 1 or 2 minutes for the sdcard/internal card to show up (but it works ,then choosing another folder need more minutes for the next folder to showup ) S5 SM-G900F ;) (MOP takes only a sec or atleast one click) or this problem maybe it just me? Hehe Thank you.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ChelseaHansa:
I can see the log have some private info such mailadress. So I'm not sure I like to attach it here.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Those parts of the firmware do not kill root.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Not sure what that is about, it's pretty much instant on my end...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] aros1975:
It is important which version of ODIN should I use?

Which option in ODIN should be checked? Only "AutoReboot" and "F. Reset Time"?

Should I use in ODIN PDA (AP) box for "flashfire_0000.tar.md5" file?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ginger-Nutz:
Did a restore of backup made earlier using Flashfire v0.11, went black screen after attempting to re-boot, uncomfortably long pause, I eventually lost patience and manually re-booted into recovery.

But restore had worked. The errors that reported in data partition during backup also reported in restore, 4 apps including Flashfire were not installed during restore. All these apps had updates pending in play store. I couldn't find anything in logcat.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Whichever version works on your device. Those options are correct. But if your phone works fine with the new firmware without flashing this, then there's no need to, I would in fact advise against it.

FlashFire's log does not appear in logcat, it's /sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog after a reboot. It may still exist, if so, I'd love to see it, as I have no idea what the issue might be without it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
v0.13 pushed

Just pushed v0.13 to Play. Will take a few hours to become visible for you guys. See post #8 on the first page for changelogs!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hugoalo:
I feel confused: in old MO I put ( in my old S2) all the firm ( .zip) that i download from sammobile, is the same procedure now? thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Maheshwara:
I have Samsung Galaxy S5 Duos G900fd running with latest Lollipop build. I have not rooted yet because this would have triggered Knox. Will this app help me to get root without triggering Knox? At the moment, I only want to become root without triggering Knox - not to flash any other ROM.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] 2ndcarpenter:
v0.12 was working great on the SM-G900K. All backups were working. There was that err on a few dozen files with a long string of numbers for names, but other than that it worked great. v0.13 fades to black screen once saying 'loading...' but once at black screen nothing.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pinkster:
Same as him. Flashfire can achieve this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wajiman:
Did you select ever root??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ginger-Nutz:
Anybody else lost screen dimmer slider from notifications bar? Can't get it back on either.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ambasadii:
tested on lollipop 5.0 (Samsung Galaxy G900F)

try to flash OTA/ZIP with my custom rom (with aroma installer) but stuck on black screen i don't even see the information that aroma is starting. Must restart the phone manualy.

Lastlog don't save any information about this operation.

I try to flash from internal storage and sd card but the same result.

Regards!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] _alexndr:
Unfortunately, Aroma Installer still doesn't work with G900F (tested with THIS)

Black screen after displaying "Installing [...]" message for a while (<0,5s). I was waiting more than 3 minutes.

There is no new lastlog file :confused: (I found only lastlog from my previous attempt with simple zip flashable - Phone app mod)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] silvercat:
Can I restore the backup in twrp? There is a twrp.zip file in the backup folder do I have flash this in twrp to restore the backup? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
Yes that's correct
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] demlv:
Quoting myself, as directed.

So I tried out version .17, which dropped a few hours ago. I have not yet tried a restore, but so far as I can tell, the new version solved both issues I had previously seen on my Nexus 6 with multirom installed. FlashFire .17 made a full backup of all partitions. There was no kernel panic like I saw in .16, and I was able to see what was happening on screen during the entire backup operation, unlike what I experienced using FF version .15.

Keep up the excellent work [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rcatank:
Reposting the EFBIG error , and I couldn't start FF today, had to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work. Now on v0.17

The error is IOException: write failed: EFBIG (File too large) on /data partition backup while doing FULL backup on same above.

Looks like it was doing app/com.google.android.apps.inbox-2.apk or did it last.

I'm guessing either buffer size is too small, or something to do what data type you are using. Just a guess of course. Inbox files can be crazy big, my guess mine is around 100mb or may be even 300mb. SHouldn't be crazy big like 5gigs.

/system/bin/sh: cat: /proc/last_kmsg: No such file or directory

[UI] app/com.google.chromeremotedesktop-2.apk
[UI] app/com.truecar.mobile.android.consumer-1.apk
[UI] app/com.phyora.apps.reddit_now-5.apk
[UI] app/com.google.android.gms-7.apk
[UI] IOException: write failed: EFBIG (File too large)
[EXC] IOException: write failed: EFBIG (File too large)
[UI] app/com.google.android.apps.inbox-2.apk

Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 920.9M 144.0K 920.7M 4.0K
/sys/fs/cgroup 920.9M 12.0K 920.9M 4.0K
/mnt/secure 920.9M 0.0K 920.9M 4.0K
/mnt/secure/asec 50.1G 15.3G 34.8G 32.0K
/mnt/secure/asec 50.1G 15.3G 34.8G 32.0K
/mnt/asec 920.9M 0.0K 920.9M 4.0K
/mnt/obb 920.9M 0.0K 920.9M 4.0K
/system 2.6G 2.2G 416.3M 4.0K
/data 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/data/sdext2 8.8G 8.0M 8.8G 1.0K
/cache 492.1M 8.3M 483.9M 4.0K
/persist 7.9M 4.0M 3.8M 4.0K
/efs 13.8M 4.3M 9.5M 4.0K
/carrier 19.7M 4.1M 15.6M 4.0K
/persdata/absolute 8.8M 4.1M 4.8M 4.0K
/firmware 77.0M 6.7M 70.2M 16.0K
/firmware-modem 64.0M 52.3M 11.7M 16.0K
/mnt/shell/emulated 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/mnt/shell/knox-emulated 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/mnt/shell/privatemode 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/storage/emulated 920.9M 0.0K 920.9M 4.0K
/mnt/media_rw/extSdCard 50.1G 15.3G 34.8G 32.0K
/storage/extSdCard 50.1G 15.3G 34.8G 32.0K
/storage/emulated/0 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/storage/emulated/legacy 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K
/storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb 11.3G 7.3G 4.1G 4.0K

root@kltespr:/ # mount | grep extSdCard
mount | grep extSdCard
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/media_rw/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=000
7,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/mnt/media_rw/extSdCard /storage/extSdCard sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,derive=unified 0 0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dodendemise:
I installed a theme for flashfire to fix problems with a dark rom theme and flashfire disappeared and I can't install it from the play store anymore. Google play services crashes as soon as I hit install
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
This morning i went to flash something and FF said it lost root. it was really there. i do not know what happened. i just uninstalled and reinstalled from play store and all was fine again. it was v0.17. just thought u might like to know that.

also i asked before, but did not get an answer. it does not seem so, but should we do a wipe before restoring?

and lastly, can we use FF for the Downgrade to NCE tar or do we still need to Odin that. this is for emergencies of course.

THANK YOU, LOVE THE APP AND ALL YOUR WORK. BOUGHT THE PRO KEY. I AM NOT A FREELOADER.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] najoor:
V 0.17 on SM-P905

I tried the following two test cases:

1- Running kit kat, I flashed a tar.md5 and an update zip, and injected supersu via everroot to ugrade to rooted lollipop. It worked except that throughout the flashing the screen was completely black.

2- Running lollipop, I flashed a tar.md5 and an update zip, and injected supersu via everroot to downgrade to rooted kit kat. It worked and I could even see the loading screen and flashing screen but the display was at the dimmest level and therefore the text was hard to see.

Thanks again for the great work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Webtag:
Is there a way to restore FF backups with pc Odin?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rakuu:
I dont think so.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] saycbone:
This happened to me today.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] drivel2787:
Does this work on the sm-n910a (AT&T Note 4)? I assume no since there's no root yet
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] garyfunk:
It does if you obtain root, which is super easy.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
I am assuming that to do that on a G900A, you would have to go back to 4.4.4 because the BL is changed to OA1 for our 5.0, correct? so the files would be the rom zip and the OA1 kernel.tar and which order would they be in? i guess there would be no way to get back to NG3 because of the bootloader without going to NCE and up again, correct? also i been asking, do you know if we would be able to FF the Downgrade to NCE tar without using Odin in case of an emergency? that would be neat. Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] najoor:
No, if it isn't clear from the title of my post, I tried it on SM-P905 which is Note Pro 12.2 international LTE version.

But to answer your question: On G900A, if one upgrades to Lollipop through the official AT&T OTA, there is no way to downgrade. If one upgrades to Lollipop via the method proposed by muniz_ri then the only way to go back to 4.4.4 is to flash the "downgrade to NCE" tar and apply the incremental upgrades to NG3 and OA1.

I don't know if what you are asking about using FF to flash the NCE tar is possible (I am guessing it is), but I don't see the use for it. An emergency is when a phone is dead in which case there is no FF. ODIN can always be used to flash that tar.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] meazz1:
New to FF.

Just installed the newest Update to I545_OC1 - 5.0.1 using FF.

Now that I have no safestrap, how do I restore a normal or Full backup if I am unable to get into the ROM? Is there a recovery option like safestrap has?

Which backup I need to get back to previous state, is it the normal or full?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Failrunner:
This app was removed? O.o
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
yes, i know all that and how to do it in my sleepand use FF. i was just asking the question. i should not have used the word emergency. i just think it would be easier and neat in case have to downgrade (and we do with this phone, or did, maybe LP will be good) to have the tar on the phone and not have to even Odin it. one can get pretty far with FF it seems on the G900A. thanks for the reply. next time i have the need to tear it down, i might try it. could always shut the phone off and go into download mode to do it, as long as BL is OA1 or less.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rcatank:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] - since all stock kltespr's are forced to use vfat, when you backup the /data partition do you try to all pack it in a zip/tar/archive within the vfat 4GB limitation? Because if you are trying to do some type of packing still in v.17, I'll tell you that my /data partition is 8.1GB and I assume most people's do get that big after using as a daily driver, and thus the IOException...

I'd love to try it on a ext4 formatted sdcard to prove this, but to my knowledge only CM supports it, and not stock (I just tried it)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] drivel2787:
How's that since there is no root for the AT&T model
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] b0ng0:
When you say that a lot of memory is used in the OP, do you mean RAM or internal storage? Roughly how much free space would I need to flash a ROM?

Many thanks!:good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] LiquidT:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

If I wanted to build a custom/modified Rom from the current Rom on my device, which Backup/files/partitions would I need? If this question has been asked before I'm very sorry.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ibuprophen:
The following thread should be where you can find some assistance with this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1801690

Good Luck!

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I DO NOT PROVIDE SUPPORT VIA PM UNLESS ASKED/REQUESTED BY MYSELF.

PLEASE KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
FlashFire v0.73 released - https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/C7H97RLfcRu
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] talvigi:
Does the flash fire work on my rooted Huawei Honor 6x BLN-L21. The device is rooted and TWRP, SuperSU installed, root is also confirmed by root checker joeykrim.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
The only way to know this is by testing. Make a backup with FlashFire and report the result
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Vuska:
Yeah.. only with Odin and manage to success with USB 2.0 [emoji17]

My laptop with Win 10 and all USB not success... using my old laptop with Win 7.

Thank you ...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] i just read the release notes for v0.73. Many thanks for adding (among other users :)) my requested backup excluded feature ^^. You mention creating files called /sdcard/FlashFire/userdata_excludes for example, but isn't that a directory? not a file? Isn't a file something like userdata_excludes.txt

Same thing with the lastlog, in FX File explorer the "lastlog" file doesn't have a file extension it's just "lastlog" and not "lastlog.log" or "lastlog.txt"

Or am i missing something here
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
I think just like lastlog, it's also a text file. It just does not have the extension at the end of the filename identifying the type of content that this "stack of bytes" represents
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
possibly, i do distinctly remember lastlog having a file extension before a while ago
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] oBdurate:
After updating to 0.73, flashing on a Nexus 6P with MagiskSU v14 from DP3 to September security update went successfully, although Magisk Manager is now showing a ctsProfile mismatch. I've been on Inherited Namespace mode in Magisk the whole time.

EDIT: I found that I had flashed the .017 version and not the .019 version of the September patch. Flashing .019 after 0.17 did not fix it. Perhaps the next security update will put things in place.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mobileman88:
Flashing .019 fixed things for me. ctsprofile mismatch disappeared.

Try the following :

- Remove Magisk

- Flash .019

- Rebooot

- Flash Magisk

- Reboot

- Set MagiskHide

- Reboot

- Should work just like before.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] oBdurate:
So I should reflash .019 while I'm already on .019? Should I flash it with FlashFire or through adb?

EDIT: I just noticed Android settings say I'm still on .017 even after flashing .019 with FlashFire.

EDIT2: I flashed the OTA for .019 instead of the stock image and it seemed to do the trick. Will update if something is off.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mobileman88:
I did the initial OTA, but as there were some strange reboots, I flashed the .019 factory image on top again and it's all good now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cryptyk:
I'm getting stuck at Downloading 0% on the latest Oreo OTA.

Pixel XL on Project FI

Oreo 8.0.0 Stock with SuperSU

FlashFire 0.73

Flashfire auto-launches a couple of hundred times per day because it detects the new OTA. Then it offers to create the OTA actions. Then it gets stuck at 0% Downloading.

Here's a logcat, but I don't see anything obvious.

https://pastebin.com/raw/aJaZZRdW
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kukubau:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

Does flashing Huawei P9 update packages e.g. 'update_EVA-L19_hw_eu.zip' with Flashfire, render SuperSU-v2.82 root useless? Should I flash *. hw_eu. zip" using twrp recovery, regardless?

Thank you.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ipdev:
OK, I think I figured out what my problems are. (lg Google Nexus 5x “bullhead”)

- When I am logged into my google account -

I get force close if I try to run the auto OTA in FlashFire. (Pro)

https://pastebin.com/4e4hcSq4

I can skip the auto OTA prompt and flash it from /data/ota_package/update.zip without problem.

- When I am NOT logged into my google account -

I can run the auto OTA in FlashFire without issue. (Free / Freeload “aka” PseudoPro)

- When I am NOT logged into my google account -

If I skip the auto OTA, /data/ota_package/ is blank and I can not flash the update.zip from there. (/data/ota_package/update.zip is there when checked with a root file browser, adb shell or a terminal app.)

If I copy or move update.zip to a different directory, then I can skip the auto OTA and use FlashFire to flash it with no problems. (example: cp /data/ota_package/update.zip /sdcard/update/update.zip)

So is this a problem with my google account or the Pro version?

Files used:

bullhead-opr6.170623.013-factory-203642e1.zip (Clean install - flash-all.sh)

twrp-3.1.1-0-bullhead.img (fastboot boot only. oem recovery installed.)

SR4-SuperSU-v2.82-SR4-20170918204844.zip

UPDATE-suhide-v1.08-20170815171034.zip

FlashFire-v0.73-20170921123305.apk (Pro detected via google account when logged in.)

UPDATE.zip (OPR4 OTA re-downloaded every time.)

Inject EverRoot (enabled or disabled depending on the test.)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Hard to say what the problem is. When the crash is occuring, please grab

/data/data/com.google.android.gms/shared_prefs/update.xml

/data/data/com.google.android.gms/shared_prefs/com.google.android.gms.update.storage.xml

at least I can try to fix the force close, and we can go from there.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] glenndj:
First off all, thanks for all the great tools!

I am trying to "replicate" the state of a Nexus 5X to multiple other devices. On Android 7 I managed to do this perfectly using Flashfire's fastboot backup. Now on Android 8 I don't seem to be able to make a fastboot backup. The first few partitions back up fine (system, vendor, oem etc.) but at the data partition it seems to get stuck on the scanning phase. I tried this on 2 different nexus5x devices. I also tried this with encrypted and unencrypted data. I also tried backing up to adb and to internal storage. All these options always get stuck on the scanning phase of the data partition. (I get out of the scanning lock, by just holding down the power button until it shuts down.) Making a normal backup is no problem. Then the data partition backs up fine.

As the fastboot backup is extremely convenient (as it makes automation a lot easier) it would be nice if someone could maybe point me in the direction of overcoming this issue.

Kind regards.

EDIT: in the lastlog the relevant lines at the complete end are:

[OUT] --- processing bloat:[0] max_size:[134217728] ---

[OUT]

[OUT] /file_contexts: No such file or directory

Full log : pastebin.com/rV4UYdDC
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
There is no such thing as 'relevant last few lines'. The ENTIRE log is relevant! The ENTIRE log is what chainfire needs.

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] DodoGTA:
That's absolutely true
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] glenndj:
Okay I edited the post to add in the full log now. This is the log of when I tried making a fastboot backup with adb for an encrypted phone.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] skiely666:
How do I disable EverRoot? I can't find the option in the app..

Thanks..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Tap the card for EverRoot and deselect it.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bgboii:
how would I be able to flash .019 if I need root from magisk to use flashfire?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] phamine:
I also have the same issue on the same phone/OS/and app version.

It'll remain stuck at 0% downloading.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sageman70:
Hi,

Flashfire apk does not work on Nvidia shield TV 2017 16GB 5.2? It loads and then it just exits prematurely.

Is there a way to fix it?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sageman70:
This has now been resolved after downloading and installing the app from this forum (v 0.73) (and uninstalling the version which I installed from Aptoide market).
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] culiacanazo:
I can't believe this!

*facepalm*
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Euhm yeah, no wonder. You could also have used the one from the play store lol. Out of curiosity I checked that Aptoide thing. 'latest' version of flashfire on it is 0.57 dated 6 months ago, so no surprise there Oreo isn't supported. Oh and to top it off, that thing classes Flashfire as a SPORTS APP! Go figure lol.

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sageman70:
Lol! Yes absolutely true. So you are saying that Flashfire is available under the Android TV play store? I know it is available in the Android play store.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] minhducsun2002:
Recursive Update?

Just a little question, is it possible to flash SuperSU zip through FlashFire itself without causing a bootloop?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
I'm saying no such thing as Android tv play store. Read my post again. All I'm saying is that the Aptoide site is classifying flashfire as a sports app. No more no less.

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Not sure what's going on with the backup. Do you have very large storage? It may take a long time.

Also you should note that I have not completed full testing on restoring these on Oreo. I know already it will fail on Pixel (which has FBE, which bullhead does not).

See https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73911171&postcount=6014

Also try this version, long shot, but may fix the issue. If not, I need more logs again.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B91vHhWjYqkfQzRDNmJQNG9GV1E

Please also try the version I linked above. The error you see shouldn't be possible, so it's weird. Maybe this version will fix it, maybe not.