yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] crisagatie:
Hi Chainfire, thanx for your reply. When the backup gets stuck, it stays stuck :). It happened, as I said, in the "Data" section of the backup, at various stages/files. It does not reboot, actually it gets pretty stubborn at rebooting, only thing that gets it reboot is taking off the battery.

BUT!

I remember those two attempts were conducted while the phone was charging (with original charger). So I initiated another backup (this time no charging) and everything went smooth and quite fast. According to lastlog.dat, operation successful. So, the hiccup might be related to charging.

Now, if you allow me, I have two suggestions:

1. make the app react to <long press power button> to force reboot. Taking off battery is cumbersome.

2. Implement some sort of <low battery> protection. I started the backup without noticing battery level and ended up with 14%. Might be useful for those that flash firmware without looking at battery level too :D

Tonight I will try flashing firmware. In fact, I already did successfully with Tab Pro 8.4 (T325), so you might add this device to the compatibility list (at least as official firmware is concerned).

Best Regards!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
Aroma

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

The aroma 2.70 rc2 and using the attached update-binary-installer works with FlashFire I also replaced the update-binary-installer in Aroma's aroma-2.70RC2.zip (you can install the zip run the demo) and it ran fine. AT&T SM-N900A has never been able to run aroma (we have safestrap recovery) also curious if other phones can run this attached aroma-2.70RC2FlashFire.zip

Running on AT&T SM-N900A Stock Rooted Lollipop 5.0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SeraphSephiroth:
I know about logcat. I was asking about a More FlashFire specific log. I shall post logs when I am home from work.

My firmware details are in the screenshot below.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] crisagatie:
Find it in internal memory, in the flashfire folder, file is named lastlog.dat.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SeraphSephiroth:
Where in the internal memory? I can't seem to locate it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] crisagatie:
not sure what phone you have, in my case it is like that.

L.E. might be useful to try search/find in a file manager of your choice...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carl1961:
try and get a logcat and post
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
Well here is the .lastlog from the folder

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc8qbukieeg6smm/lastlog?dl=0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SeraphSephiroth:
It's not there. I'll logcat when I get home
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gerard.C:
I uploaded the update.zip to my dropbox.

as a new user i am not permitted to post outside links.

this is the link, with spaces instead of the normal address:

https www dropbox.com/s/1eog067ug2qamub/update.zip?dl=0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] abdyasar:
I edited the link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1eog067ug2qamub/update.zip?dl=0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] autotech40:
I downloaded ff. And i cant do anything with the action buttons. Ie. Cant tap and hold to arrange. Cant scroll through them or swipe lt or rt to delete. When i hit plus sign it shows wipe and flash zip ota.

Im on stock rooted 5.0. Sprint s5
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] waleed794:
so does that mean i can still flash firmware packages without any problems??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Mike B.:
Yes. You can safely ignored all the additional partitions but it's nice to be able to back them up for archival purposes.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] autotech40:
My bad looks like the action buttons are just covered up in landscape,can see them and they work in portrait view.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] joen47:
Is there any chance the towelroot will be updated and support lollipop?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] autotech40:
Nope. Geohot works for Google now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Exile1975:
OK, did a full backup and nothing different. Hit flash, blank screen, loading screen, screen off for a few minutes, then auto reboot. The backup was done.

Using a galaxy tab 4 8" sm-t330nu, 4.4.2 rooted with SuperSU, latest busybox installed (1.23.2? busybox on rails) FlashFire v0.15.

Do you want another lastlog?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
I flashed SuperSU and AdAway with factory image, and I had no issue on my N5X
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
I just flashed the factory images only first. To make sure if it was successful.

Let the device reboot and Now I can not flash other zips.

Just used TWRP temporarily booted to flash the zips.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
Hmmm, now I tried to flash AdAway again, it really does not work, FF does not load (after press Flash), I have only black screen...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
It will be a few days before any update appears.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Since the application will come out of beta soon, will start to support multiple languages? Because already extract string.xml and I'm translating to portuguese brazilian

Edit: Whereas my translation by "reverse engineering" has not hurt your property, could correct the display unicode characters?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BurningKoala:
How did you do it? I've flashed the factory img and rooted with flashfire, now even if i temporaly boot TWRP I'can't access storage so I can't flash anything
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
Have you OTG cable?

If yes mount usbstorage in TWRP and install your zips from that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
With FF I flashed factory image, SuperSU and AdAway... Then, when corkiejp said, that he is not able to use FF, I only tried to flash AdAway again, if I have same issue, aaand I have...

Since FF works on MM and N I don't use TWRP...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
Forgot to add: -

If you don't have OTG, you could use the advance features of TWRP to adb sideload your zips.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] natemup:
So I flashed the .tgz file for DP3 with Flashfire. It updated me and all, but then booted me into safe mode. I flashed a notified boot .img I found in a thread to get out of safe mode, but I'm not rooted and I can't flash SuperSU without it putting me back into safe mode.

Any ideas?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wietse1988:
Which phone? And which version where you on before flashing DP3?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lesbianu:
Upgraded a Nexus 5X with FlashFire, from DP2 to DP3 last night. Now, i tried to flash a zip with FlashFire and it's not working. Accepting the zip, rebooting the phone, but further... stucked on a black screen. I cleared the cache, re-installed the app, same problem. Tried now to clear phone's cache using the wipe option, no success!:(

A friend using DP3 and FlashFire on a 6P has the same problem. Anyone else?

Here is my lastlog: pastebin.com/embed_iframe/f2YZHtTP
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Starky09:
Great app. I've updated my Nexus 7 with Stock ROM without any problem.

I'm wondering if it's possible to update my N5X aswell. Also Stock ROM (currently MHC19J), but with Custom Kernel (Franco) and Xposed. I've read somewhere that I should only use the tool when I'm on stock kernel. Is that right?

Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
Look at previous page...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lesbianu:
Sorry! I did not pay attention... Will wait for an update.:)

Thank you, Chainfire!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] megalosdog:
Can you tell exactly how you flashed the dp3? Which boxes to check?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
[MENTION=4495466]megalosdog[/MENTION] Flashed boot, recovery, system and vendor.

Edit: -- .... if you have a LTE device, then flash the modem as well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kkazakov:
I tried restoring from backup at least 4-5 times, but I always get the same error - Segmentation fault. The problem is I have 52 gb of backup, which I cannot restore :( I've deleted my other backup by accident, so this one is really crucial to me.

Is it possible to restore from the archive the contents of /sdcard somehow? This will save me a lot, as I have TitaniumBackup there ...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] truckmann:
I just installed FlashFire on my wife's 5x so I could flash the latest OTA which downloaded itself a few days ago. However FF is not seeing there is an OTA downloaded. Could that be because I installed it after the OTA was already downloaded?

Edit:

Never mind I'm an idiot. The OTA wasn't downloaded yet it just had the notification that the OTA was ready to be downloaded.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] brchickery:
Windows, every time I try to restore it gives me this error

C:\adb>adb restore motog.zip

adb: unable to connect for restore: device unauthorized.

This adbd's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set; try 'adb kill-server' if that seems wrong.

Otherwise check for a confirmation dialog on your device.

The thing is, right before I click flash I authorize the device make sure adb is working, then i click flash and it reboots. Then on the screen flashfire comes up and says start: adb restore filename.zip

Then when I type adb restore motog.zip it says the error above.

When I made my backup I clicked Normal then I chose to back it up to remote location using adb. Since then, I just cant seem to get this file restored. When I open the zip, the instructions are:

To restore, add a Restore action in FlashFire, tap the USB

icon instead of selecting an on-device backup, tap the Flash

button, and follow the on-screen instructions to start adb restore.

Thats exactly what I'm doing :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] megalosdog:
How about the new modem, do we flash that too? Do we want that?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
Don't have it on my device, but yes if you have a LTE device, then flash the modem as well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
N Preview 3

Here is a test version for N Preview 3:

FlashFire-v0.34-20160520192205-TEST-1.apk

Basic compatibility was broken because of a used library that uses some native calls that have been banned by Google. This has been worked around. I had this yesterday already, but...

WARNING

I would advise against doing complicated and/or dangerous actions with FlashFire on N Preview 3 for the time being. During testing I have found ART randomly crashes very often, breaking the operation. If that happens mid-flash of an important partition that could (soft-)brick your device.

I am sure this is in Android/ART and not in FlashFire, but have not been able to devise a work-around as of yet. Proceed with *extreme* caution.

Flashing basic ZIPs shouldn't be all that risky though.

This is not an official release and will not be available on Play or mentioned on G+ primarily for the reason above.

All your bug reports since v0.33's release have been read and I will respond to them when I can. I am not ignoring them. - It has just been a busy week, and this N stuff is getting in the way too. I will probably not have a significant amount of time this weekend either.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] Just tested FlashFire-v0.34-20160520192205-TEST-1.apk on Nexus 9, by flashing "adaway systemless hosts zip", worked as expect.

Just also tested adb restore to see if you resolved that yet. Still just reboots.

Hopefully waiting on you fixing stickmount for Android N (cleanup ghost mounts broken), so I can do OTG backups instead.

Thanks in advance for all your hard work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
I can see why it's a busy week ;) Google io16
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] noooooo:
Used this new version to flash adaway hosts on an encrypted N6p on third preview, everything worked well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
FlashFire does not store any information about your adb backups on your device at all !

When you select the option to restore through adb, it shows you all the partitions available on the device, and you select which ones you want to flash

if

they are present in the backup. The ones pre-checked are the same ones pre-checked when you select to restore from a 'Full' backup.

There will not be a problem restoring adb backups to a freshly data cleaned device.

I don't know if this specific bug is fixed, but I added work-around code to FlashFire. Aside from FlashFire being slower than on a non-N device, you shouldn't notice any difference.

The problem with translating is that currently I cannot translate the strings displayed in "Flash mode". You can indeed translate the other strings though. As for the unicode issues, perhaps you are not saving in the correct encoding? I'm not sure what you should use, but my guess is UTF-8.

There is no need to be on the stock kernel to use FlashFire.

Some versions of FlashFire are bugged and do include the TitaniumBackup files, but note that normally a FlashFire backup skips other backups, like TWRP, TitaniumBackup, etc.

Also, the /data backup does not include internal storage, unless you actually checked the internal storage box.

As for the backup itself, seeing as it is 52gb, I suppose you cannot upload it somewhere? :D

Please do not delete this backup, as nobody else has reported this issue, so unless you work with me to fix it, it cannot be fixed

In the meantime, depending on your FlashFire's settings, your data and intsd backups are either in tar format, in gzip+tar format, or in lz4+tar format. The first two can be opened directly by many archivers (such as WinRAR), the latter you need to manually decompress using the lz4c tool, which will leave you with a normal tar file. If you are relatively tech-savvy, it should not be an issue extracting files from these backups.

Do you need to re-authorize your PC every time you connect it ?

Please post your StickMount issue in the StickMount thread.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] brchickery:
Do you need to re-authorize your PC every time you connect it ?

Yes I do. I ended up re-authorizing and sending a command every 10 seconds or so even tho it would fail while I was rebooting. Somehow it actually worked and I was able to restore. After my device restored, I had all my apps installed and all my content, but all my settings were gone, all my items were unconfigured and I had to relogin to every single account and reauthorize. Very strange. It definitely was not the same as a TWRP backup and restore. Things like my moto360 watch had to be resetup to bluetooth etc...

I just wiped my device and started over from scratch. I'll check again down the road to see if I have issues next time.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Interesting. Did you restore all device partitions, or just the common Android ones (boot, recovery, system, vendor, data, internal storage, cache) ?

For some reason the device detected an identity change and wiped all credentials. The same thing happens if you switch SIMs on a device.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] corkiejp:
Sorry for my additional off topic comments, it was meant as friendly reminder that another app needs some TLC.

Already posted in that thread almost a month ago.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mjdavis871:
I restored a backup last night that I needed to relog into my Google account. I wiped cache/system/data before I restored the backup.

The backup was made because I was flashing xposed and wanted to make sure I could get back to normal in case something went sideways. At first I didn't know it was my Google account that was the problem...the play store kept crashing before it finally asked me to log back in.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ultrasound1991:
Does this app allow to flash boot and recovery through OTG to another device?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ianmacd:
FlashFire failing to mount /system on SM-T710

I upgraded my Galaxy S2 Tab (SM-T710) to Marshmallow this evening and then rooted it with CF Auto Root.

The logical next step was to install Xposed, so I installed FlashFire and set to work as usual. However, the flash of the Xposed ZIP took a dive when FlashFire couldn't mount /system read-write.

TWRP saved the day, but there's something going on here in FF that needs to be fixed.

/sdcard/FlashFire/lastlog and /proc/last_kmsg are attached.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Jstame:
FlashFire Test

Amazon Fire HD 8 5th Gen (Thebes)

OS Version 5.1.2

Rooted with Kingroot v4.8

Currently running SuperSu v2.65 via SuperSuMe Pro

Attempted to Flash Firmware Zip using the "Flash Zip or Ota" option with all sub actions unchecked. Ignored OTA warning then pressed ok to begin flashing. Screen cuts off for a second before turning on black with backlighting only. (Same results no matter what action is selected) Tablet remains this way until forced off by holding down the power button for 5+ seconds. Lastlog and last_ksmg attached. (Last_ksmg is only available by booting into recovery when turning it back on)

Lastlog http://pastebin.com/vnYDxY4j

Last_ksmg http://pastebin.com/NmTjmF5i

Also when it comes to testing Flashfire on the Fire HD 8 is one action better then another when it comes to getting you these logs?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] anees02:
I tried to flash some zip files using flashfire app, and it says that flash is done, but instead of rebooting the device the device is powered off.

I am using the latest version 0.33 and my device is SM-N910P.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Bad news everyone!

While I have managed to find and fix the ART crash on N Preview 3 (see: #3408), after spending some time investigating the adb backup/restore issues, I have found out that 'adb restore' is completely broken on N Preview 3 as well. This appears to be an issue with adb itself, and cannot be fixed in FlashFire.

Bug report has already been submitted to Google.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] blinkin:
Hi guys,

I would like to flash N dp3 over my current custom ROM (chroma) and kernel. Could you please guide me what would be the procedure using flashfire?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Easiest method? Put the factory image on your device and flash though the zip option I think.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] blinkin:
Do I have to select anything in particular or just go with the options suggested by the app?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Nikos_s3:
Hi all,

I am in latest 6.0.1 ,encrypted, systemless rooted and with custom kernel(Elite). Which of the following methods do you suggest, so I end up with N Preview 3 , still rooted and encrypted?

1) I register in N preview's page, so the update downloads to my device (Nexus 6P) , then refuse to install, then use FF to do the job.

2) Download the N3 image (in .tgz format) and use FF to install it.( Do I get to keep my data or this requires a cleanup?)

If you think there is something better I should do, please feel free to let me know.

Thanks a lot. :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Starky09:
Thanks a lot, it worked. Also bought the pro version. :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] blinkin:
So I've tried flashing the ndp3 factory image with default settings and got into bootloop. Was it because if the root/supersu that was tried to be installed?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Don't think it was down to the root. Something else was wrong. Try factory reset in recovery, then flash NDP through PC perhaps. Did you simply flash NDP over your custom rom? If yes that's likely the issue. You can't just flash 1 rom over the top of a completely different one. You need to do a wipe of system etc first.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] blinkin:
I flashed it using fastboot and everything works fine. I did wipe data before doing that in TWRP.

I flashed ndp using flashfire over custom ROM. Only additional option that I chose was to wipe data. So I think it should be more or less the same as what I did using fastboot...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
That's your problem, you dirty flashed a completely different ROM over another one. If you go from one rom to another you need to wipe system. Just wiping data doesn't cut it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] silvertrain78:
I never wipe system, and don't have any issues. Are you sure about that?

In fastboot, doesn't the system partition get wiped pre-flash.. or isn't it completely written over anyways?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] drewski_1:
In Fastboot, yes the partition is overwritten, but sounded like the guy flashed an OTA?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] silvertrain78:
It was a factory image in fastboot
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ch3vr0n:
Yes, but he flashed it over a custom ROM directly without wiping system. THAT is the problem, different ROM families.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] silvertrain78:
Again, that was never a problem for me when moving from a custom to stock ROM
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] blinkin:
If the system partition gets wiped while flashing the factory image why would you want to wipe it manually beforehand?

As far as I know wiping the data and flashing the factory images should be sufficient if you are going back to stock...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
UTF-8 is still broken in some parts, both FlashFire as the text editor, but with the codification of Western Europe (iso-8859-1) worked perfectly
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] stavros:
I just installed FlashFire and managed to install an OTA that had been bugging me for the past six months, so I bought Pro immediately. It's almost perfect, except for a bug in backup:

When I try to launch ADB on my desktop to receive the backup (through USB, as wifi is too slow), adb doesn't have sufficient permissions to connect, even though I approved the device on the phone earlier. Backups over WiFi work (adb has permission), but they're too slow to be practical, so USB permissions need to be fixed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] GTMonster:
Where to find OTA updates for S7 Edge

Hi All,

Please can anyone advise me where I will find the latest OTA updates for my S7 Edge SM-G935F?

Many thanks.

James
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ja_som:
Wrong thread, ask in your device forum...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Does the issue still occur on N Preview 3, or have you not updated yet on your Nexus 9 ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
I'm not sure how to correctly do this, tbh. I've used online services and those files end up working fine.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
The first screenshot is PT-BR strings.xml directly extracted from FF (but with the editor set for iso-8859-1 automatically), see how some words with diacritic appear with random letters and numbers. I found that this corresponds to the diacritic acute but I will not put this in every translation to be able to use UTF-8. The second is with the UTF-8 encoding, but in place of diacritic appears symbols, and the third is with iso-8859-1 and also wrote it by hand on top of the xml, and worked perfectly in FlashFire. Now I want to know if the credits need to be translated, and when I am satisfied with the translation, I send you the strings.xml or you will shed some platform for online translation and I spend my work for her?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
It will be a few weeks before I am ready for this.