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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] weed4k:
Hi im Note 4 910c user - and since ive install DualBoot (snapshot) i cannot make a backup...

Ive tryied it form 3 systems. All things look like normal - w8ing before restart etc. but after restart it should start making BACKUP but instead it get restart to system and do nothing.... What`s wrong? How should i fix it?

APLICATION IS PRO - BUT ME DUM.....altho i need to make a flashable zip backup and cant soleve the problem alone - my ideas ends here.

PLZ SOMEONE TO HELP ME !! :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Sorry, did you actually read Dual Boot Patcher's instructions on the official thread? The app has its own backup function, use it
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] weed4k:
I know it does but don't worki in any of my roms.. it's in app backup an i doubt it can make flashable zip. And for sure it can't make image of my all systems in 1 backup so it's almost useless for me. Plz answer why fireflash won't boot to backup.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
If you have the same connection problem with mbtool (and if you had searched the official thread, you would discover the solution), you can fix it by manually creating /sdcard/MultiBoot/backups folder.

You definitely can not. To restore you need some functional rom on your device, of course with the DualBoot Patcher app installed.

You're wanting things to be too easy.

Assuming that the FLASHFIRE works on your device (without DualBoot), it is very likely that the modification that DualBoot made to the boot.img ramdisk broke FlashFire compatibility. The only rom that does not necessarily need this modification is the primary rom. Then you can try to install the /sdcard/MultiBoot/primary/boot.img.before-ramdisk-update.img file on your boot partition via Rashr or TWRP, restart the device and test FlashFire again
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] weed4k:
Assuming that the FLASHFIRE works on your device (without DualBoot), it is very likely that the modification that DualBoot made to the boot.img ramdisk broke FlashFire compatibility. The only rom that does not necessarily need this modification is the primary rom. Then you can try to install the /sdcard/MultiBoot/primary/boot.img.before-ramdisk-update.img file on your boot partition via Rashr or TWRP, restart the device and test FlashFire again[/QUOTE]

Seems reasonable for me... ill try it immidiatly.... :DD

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Ive alredy try all u said with no effect..

1. flash boot before mbtool

2 change sd casrd to ntfs (thought file to big)

3 Flashed (standart) boot.img from XDA

* It looks like FlashFire dont send any script - bcz i try to use RSHR and it would work if there was enought space but ofc without zip file....

FlashFire dont make proper script to make a flashable ZIP file.

FCK! ://

At the moment i making standart BACKUP by TWRP, but its not i whanted... SUCKS!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zounduser:
Flashfire won't read my rom zip? On internal or SD card. I'm on AT&T Galaxy S7. Any thoughts?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
FF reads ROM zips normally just fine. What option are you choosing to flash the ROM? What's your current rom?

Sent from my Nexus 6P with Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] peter64:
User interface issue due to missing font on unmodified system partition

UPDATE:

It seems my stock rom had corrupted fonts. After I uninstalled my root and recovery, applied all the OTA updates and then re-rooted my phone flashfire appears to start fine. I no longer need any assistance.

I have a user interface crash happening right when it tries to load the UI after "checking for pro".

https://pastebin.com/UuPaZbWg

It seems like it's trying to do something with a font that didn't come installed on my stock rom.

I have a ZTE Blade V7 Lite.

Any help would be appreciated as I'de like to apply some OTA's to my system using Flashfire.

Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] State.of.mind:
I currently use an S7 Edge, and whenever I go to FlashFire to wipe the cache and dalvik cache it completely ruins certain functions on my phone. For example, it causes the error: "Unfortunately Google Play Services has stopped working." It also erases any google account associated with my phone. Has anyone else experienced this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Getting a log would be useful to track down the conflict. Maybe it's theme or another app related and not FF.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] idbl_fanatic:
SO this was working fine on my 6P until I updated to 8.0, I was trying to re-flash my modem firmware, I pick it, select "flash" screen goes blank, and stays there, never restarts.

It appears, at least to me, that Chainfire isn't working on updating apps for Android 8.0, because Stickmount doesn't work either
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] JAWheat411:
I am hoping someone can help me. Or let me know what I am doing wrong. I am using Flashfire to backup my device using ADB but nothing happens when I tell it to backup my partitions to ADB and select flash the phone goes black...then just restarts. No errors no prompts nothing. I am using a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 running Khonghloi s8 port. I also use magisk as root. I have attached what I assume is the log file. Thanks

Pastebin....since uploading is acting stupid

https://pastebin.com/fpUdGaJ1
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Chainfire had posted he's out-of-pocket for awhile. Also there is no good reason to update apps while the OS development is ongoing. It creates more work trying to hit a moving target. It's normal for apps to lag behind the OS. It's the price you pay for being in the bleeding edge ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] eidl113:
on the same page, mate. unfortunately there is no alternative except flash via adb.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] io00:
i have a similar problem, already described here https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73536601&postcount=5840. Not yet solved unfortunately
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] repoman728:
hi

I have rooted huawei mate 9 and would be nice to update it without loosing root .

have anyone of you gents tried it on MHA-L29 ?

reg
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] idbl_fanatic:
That's unfortunate because since stickmount isn't working correctly, I can't use titanium backup to back up my apps, and I need to send my 6P in for repair.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
You can back up your apps + data with adb or back up data partition with TWRP and then restore your apps using Titanium Backup's "Extract from Nandroid backup" feature

Ps: The first option is more recommended
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcmm11:
In Titanium go to preferences, backup folder location. Where is says 'storage provider; filesystem (click to change)' click on 'click to change'

Select 'Document Provider Storage' and you should be able to access your USB flash drive
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] idbl_fanatic:
I already tried that, and the USB shows as a file that isn't writable
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcmm11:
Try clicking on the drive to get to a deeper level. Once you get to the root of the drive select that, then choose folder on the original screen.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] idbl_fanatic:
Thanks for the help, it actually did work, I was going too deep, once I selected the USB drive, THEN I was able to select the titanium folder. All is good.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] boeder9:
Hi,

Are there alternative ways of restoring a Flashfire backup? and how can I restore if the file is on an external drive? Is there a way to extract the files locally on my pc?

Also is the Flashfire backup the same as a Nandroid backup?

My Nexus 6P is bootlooping and I'm considering my options.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
You can do an emergency restore in TWRP using the twrp.zip as described in the FlashFire on-line documentation.

No, a FF backup is not the same as a nandroid.

A year ago I posted how to go about recovering files from a FF backup.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] boeder9:
Thanks man, this is brilliant

But I'm using Windows and sorry for being a noob, but how do I translate these commands for Windows?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ktmom:
Use Google
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcmm11:
[MENTION=4390823]boeder9[/MENTION]

One, relatively minor but potentially important, correction. The compression method used by FlashFire is selectable in it's settings. It can be lz4, as mentioned, but can also be 'none' or 'gzip' (lz4 is flagged as fast, gzip as best. Uses gzip level 6). Personally I use gzip. I think the default is lz4 and I changed it way back when, but not sure. You should be able to tell what you're using by the backup file extensions.

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Been a very long time since I've done any serious work on Windows, but I do remember that at the end 7zip had become my go to archive program and it could handle just about anything.

A little googling tells me that the default version can't handle lz4, there is a modified version that can.

https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/blob/master/README.md

IIRC it will automatically handle split volumes.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
FlashFire v0.70 has been released with Android Oreo support

https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/UMy6sGQjKEL
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kpoverdorf:
Thank you!!!! :victory:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
The blackscreen after dismounting some partitions is not exclusive to Magisk with modules. In my lastlog on the link below, I was using SuperSU v2.82-SR1 on 6.0. And for what reasons can you think for the device to restart in the middle of a backup in FlashFire? That's what happened to me, I think I was using SuperSU v2.82-SR2 in SBIN Mode. And when I was looking at the log, it came to my head, why backup the apps cache? Basically it's space being thrown away. Thinking about it, it would be interesting to add sub-menus to Data backup like "Backup apps cache" and "Backup of dalvik-cache/art". Maybe move the "Internal Storage" option as a sub-menu of "Data" for /data/media devices as well. Enabling the user to exclude folders from the backup function would also be fine, I particularly want to exclude the /data/multiboot folder. And regarding the emulate framebuffer option for the AROMA (which is active by default), does it only really active during the flash of some AROMA zip? How does FlashFire detect this?

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1uvONk-jlRiOTE4NlljSEtwYX

Thank you for your time and great work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Normal backup on the pixel with oreo still gets the black screen on reboot.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] 089man:
Hello, have a question... Any time before I used TW rom I used this great tool, at most for making full backup sd card..

Now I switched to aosp resurrection-remix-hero2lte rom with my S7edge.... Android 7.1.2..

I don't use magisk and also not SU for root. I used the root plug in from lineage.

Can I used the latest version for making backups sd card? Is it working?

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Can you elaborate, it's not exactly clear to me what/where it breaks. I test backup/restore on 6P without issue, but have not tried the Pixel yet myself.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Once I start the Normal backup the device shows on the screen loading then the screen stays black and never starts the backup. I let it sit for 5 mins just in case.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] juniorhxcx:
Working in devices Xiaomi?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
I can confirm it doesn't work on the XL. Fixing it now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] eidl113:
version 0.70 works great on nexus 6p. upgraded successfully from dp4 to final version of oreo. thx mate.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] oBdurate:
Still get the black screen when trying to upgrade from DP3 to final O on the Nexus 6P. Perhaps it is a problem with DP3 specifically? Should I try to upgrade from DP3 to DP4 and then to the final version? This is on 0.70 by the way.

EDIT: For anyone reading this, it appears I'm having the problem with MagiskSU that others are describing several pages after this post. Most likely Magisk-related, not DP3-related.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] durerca:
Tried Flashfire v0.70 to flash Oreo factory image on my Pixel XL running stock and rooted v7.1.2. I left all the options at default along with inject SuperSU. Flashfire ran perfectly and completed the update. SuperSU said it's installation was done too. However, I got a bootloop after and had to reinstall.

Thanks for continuing the updates though!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zurik:
I tried to flash the OTA update that came today on my Nexus 5X but it sticks at 0%. Also tried to flash stock recovery on it and it still black screen when I press the flash button.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
Same here

Running release Oreo build and running Magisk 14.0

Sticked to 0% and when I tried to manually install the OTA it simplu hung out on that black screen for more than 5 minutes until I had to forcefully reboot the device.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ky41083:
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon Model), SCH-i545. Doing a Dalvik cache wipe only, causes UID mismatch error on boot, and basically results in needing either a full /data reset, or a full /data restore. Exact error:

System UIDs Inconsistent

With an "I'm feeling lucky" option.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] playboy0187:
flashfire does not work with the s8 +, if man makes firmware update without losing its data is unfortunately not, comes only black screen and then starts it again without a firmware update to make.

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
v0.71 released - https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/L7AjCc3V4Nb

I don't think all the issues reported the past few days have been solved, working as quick I can. Unfortunately Orea was released the day before I left on holiday, and the two days that I've been back have been short :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Thanks I will test the backup/restore and report back.

UPDATE: Backup worked now moving it to my test pixel to do a restore. After upgrading I did get the black screen again, but after a restart the backup worked.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
You were already running release Oreo and received an OTA ?

Interesting, I haven't seen an actual OTA on my Oreo devices pass by yet.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Vledderos:
Just received OTA to September update (Oreo) for my Nexus 5x (manually checked). Flashfire is stuck at downloading OTA (0%). Using latest 0.71 from this evening.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Of course, now I just uploaded v0.71, I start receiving the OTAs as well.

On the 5X, cancel the automatic OTA operation that FlashFire offers (which gets stuck on 0%), and manually flash as ZIP /data/ota_package/update.zip. This will work with v0.71. This is already fixed in my dev build.

I don't have a solution for the Pixel (XL) OTA. It's the new 'streaming' variant I have not seen before. Once I figure this one out, I'll release v0.72.

The OTA names are interesting as well... 5X goes from OPR6 to OPR4, the Pixel XL goes from OPR6 to OPR3.... weird.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Krog18:
Performing a dalvik wipe on a Samsung S7E SM-G935V running Nougat causes all non-stock apps to fc and also wipes all system settings back to default. This happens with FF v0.60 and v0.70. Previous versions have no issues.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Started a restore from a normal backup and about 90mb into the data partition restore it locked up. I am going to try once again and see if it can reproduce and try and get logs for you.

UPDATE: It did it again. It did get further into the restore on the data partition then locked up and rebooted before I could grab the lastlog. I also noticed the restores through put is much lower than on 7.x.

Forgot to mention backup files located on internal sdcard for normal backup.

Will wait for Chainfire to see if he can reproduce before trying for a third time.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mousefai0922:
Currently I have a nexus 6p, rooted with SuperSU and latest 7.1.3 installed.

My question is :

1st is it safe to update to O using flash fire?

2nd is it does SuperSU still working once upgrade?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcmm11:
Lastlog should still be available. /sdcard/Flashfire/lastlog (I think that's the path, going off the top of my head at the moment)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Tired phone won't boot and data partition incomplete. Checked by booting TWRP.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rhardy:
I have a Nexus 6p. I just upgraded from 8.x August update to 8.x September update and it worked and it still has root.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Try for a third time to restore a normal Oreo back to my test pixel and it completed this time but did a factory reset on it. I was hoping it would fail so I could try to get the lastlog.

Seems to be with a restore of Oreo, I was able to restore one of my previous 7.1.2 normal backup with .71 no issues.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MultiKoopa:
Has anybody ever managed to do one of the monthly OTA updates entirely through FlashFire, and keeping Magisk/root/custom recovery? Every time I try, it just fails completely, or unroots me and does nothing else. :\
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mousefai0922:
Aug 8.x update?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rhardy:
I used FlashFire to upgrade from Android version 8.0.0 Security patch level August 5, 2017 to Android version 8.0.0 Security patch level September 5, 2017 and it worked and preserved root.

I had to cancel the stuck 0% download OTA requestor and use FlashFire to flash the /data/ota_package/update.zip.

I generally don't trust using OTAs to do release upgrades so I did a full factory reset and full flash when I went from 7.1.x to 8.0.0.

Using FlashFire to apply an OTA is so much easier than what I was doing previously...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MultiKoopa:
I don't suppose you use Magisk, do you?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mousefai0922:
so u upgrade from android o to android o.

my concern is that will it work from 7.1.2 to android o. I worried it would cause bootloop
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MultiKoopa:
I tried it with Magisk on my Nexus 6P from 7.1.2 to 8.0

all that happened is the OTA failed and it unrooted me lmao
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rhardy:
No I haven't tried Magisk. It is interesting though...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
What is it with you and these backups? I have backup/restored the 6P, 5X and PixelXL dozens of times the past few days without any issue whatsoever, yet for you it reliably doesn't work...

One thing you may try, is setting the reboot delay to X minutes before pressing the Flash button (the reboot card has this option). Then when the backup/restore has failed but before the device reboots, you can use adb to pull the log:

adb pull /sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog

or

adb pull /data/media/0/FlashFire/lastlog

On most devices one of these works, but on some neither does :(

One of the things SuperSU does is create backups of the boot/recovery partition before rooting. You need stock boot/recovery before applying an (incremental) OTA. FlashFire automatically restores these backups before applying the OTA, then re-roots afterwards using SuperSU.

Last time I looked, Magisk didn't create these backups. When applying an OTA, you'd have to (a) disable EverRoot, (b) manually add a step that restores the stock boot and recovery image before the OTA, and (c) manually add a step that flashing the Magisk installer ZIP after the OTA.

Alternatively, grab the full OTA from Google's download site and flash that, that doesn't need the stock boot/recovery to work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MultiKoopa:
I tried that for the September security patch, but I guess before version 0.71 of FlashFire it couldn't have worked

I'll try again next month.

and are you sure on that OTA image thing? I've tried that several times, and I always ended up unrooted at the end... even adding the Magisk zip to the FlashFire queue
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
Yes.

I was running release Oreo.

Actually I still have that annoying alert on that update since I didn't update to latest September patch level.

EDIT:

Just tested it with the new 0.71 version. still no dice.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
v0.72 released - https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/RhmSN82gTz4
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
Thanks

Will give it a try and will update.

EDIT: Still no go. Not for OTA update nor backup.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] playboy0187:
Who has still problems with the samsung galaxy s8 plus?

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Please provide lastlog :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
Will upload a logcat in an hour so.

Thanks

EDIT:

OK, since I have already update my OS using the OTA (removed TWRP/Root), I can't recreate the error I was facing BUT, i have the same issue when I try to create a backup. Will do that at home, and will update here with the logcat.

EDIT2: Uploaded lastlog as requested.

Hope it helps
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] DodoGTA:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] Device: Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus (GT-S7580)

ROM: Latest unofficial LineageOS 14.1 build by [MENTION=6034929]no_name[/MENTION]

Kernel: The one that came with the ROM

FlashFire version: v0.72

Magisk v14.0, Magisk Manager v5.3.0

When I try to flash a ZIP with "Flash ZIP or OTA" option (for example, Magisk v14.0 ZIP), after hitting the "Flash" button, the device is stuck at a black screen (with backlight on) forever (I have to force restart the phone in order to boot it again)

/sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog attached (with .txt extension appended to it)

A note about the log: /sys/power/wake_lock file does actually exist (at least when my phone has fully booted to Android)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
/sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog please, not logcat. You could've gotten that even after OS update as long as you did not run FlashFire again... :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Typical Magisk mount spaghetti issue.

FlashFire needs a clean mount namespace to work properly. It tries to do create this even with Magisk, but sometimes it just gets stuck with it. As stated one of my release posts the last few days, if you encounter the black screen issue, disable all Magisk modules and try again. If that works, you may re-enable them one-by-one to figure out which one causes the problem. If it still doesn't work with all modules disabled, try switching to SuperSU (for testing). If it still doesn't work, it's a ROM-related issue, otherwise it's a Magisk-related issue. It's important info to know to even be able to try and fix it.

It's impossible for me to even try to debug without an exact replica of your setup.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
OK, understood:)

Here it is
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wizardwiz:
Done all that already:)

Stock android Oreo, no modules installed at all.

it must me Magisk related I reckon.