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[Android General] HypoTurtle:
v4 added with backup feature working as well.

I could use some feedback on the UI side, i.e. if something is unclear or could be worded better.

v5 added to correct an issue with TWRP v2.8.6.0

v6 Added with zipped backup

upcoming v7 -- Installable zip can be created.
[Android General] bigrammy:
Great Work bro :cool:
[Android General] chabula:
can not understand the way , how to flash

Flashtool to sdcard1/SPflash

This i understand , but change scatter.txt the file is zipped

What do i do with the soc file or any other rom upgrade
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Unzip a SPFlashROM.zip to /sdcard/SPFlash folder; rename MT6752_Android_scatter.txt to scatter.txt; then in TWRP install SPFlash-v*.zip and you will be given choice of files to install.

There might be an issue with the S3 scatter - I report back when I know the issue.

Edit. Issue with S3 was just due to number of things being flashed - having under 5 things to flash will work fine [i.e. just system.img, boot.img; and perhaps custom.img and cache.img (to clear it)]. Having more than 5 but less than 12 items to flash would hide items 6 to 11.

Updated v8 - will correct this.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
i will test this also as the next betarom will release for our s3
[Android General] chabula:
i downloaded two zip files

the Flash one, extracted to sdcard1/SPFlash

second de soc file , but i can,t find the mentioned scatter file

If I am correct after have copied the files to SPFlash i go into the TWRP recovery and flash the zip file
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Sorry; ignore the SoC zips (I haven't touched them in a while - they were more for testing additional features - I've updated #1 to avoid confusion).

You just need the chosen ROM and the latest SPFlash-v*.zip file.

Extract the ROM to the SPFlash folder then install the SPFlash-v*.zip
[Android General] chabula:
just have done a flash hopefully right

I came to the screen with the files there were 5 of them 3 highlited and 2 not i highlited them alland went on

But now it seems that i am in a bootloop got stuck on image file from the older rom the Xtreme rom

When starting i got the screeen fron jiayu,de after that the TFXtreme logo

What to do next even twrp has gone
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Sounds like you may have used v7 (I think you have some missed files); v8 will work better.

If you have selected to flash recovery then the recovery.img (stock) will be flashed and thus you will lose TWRP.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
v9 hangs bevor you can select the .img

testing v8 now, it went through, used boot and system.img, seems to have worked.

would be nice to have a progressbar if possible to see status of partition writing.
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
I'll check v9 again... - Which menu screen would you have expected 3/5/7/12?

v9 might hang if in TWRP you are using /sdcard/SPFlash; so would need to check TWRP behaviour.

I assumed TWRP: /sdcard=/data/media; /external_sd=mmcblk1 (external sdcard)

And CWM: /sdcard=/data/media; and /storage/sdcard1=mmcblk1 (external sdcard).

With only external sdcard being supported with v9.

Edit: I've checked v9 and it's running fine for me.

Unfortunately no progress bar as yet (aroma just has a basic progress/loading bar while the script is run) - would need to rearrange things to start from updater-script rather than while still in aroma; will try when I get the time.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
did not through screen1, after pressing 'spflash install'

/ is on internalSD

/spflash is on internalSD

/download (where your tool resides) on externalSD
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
That would explain it - I figured most people would use external sd for this as the SPFlash ROM is 2GB+

I replaced internalSD with CWMexternalSD for v9 - will re-add internalSD if needed (it only needs a couple lines), or at least make it so that it doesn't freeze.

Attached screenshots from v9.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
will soon test again with new beta
[Android General] adilrenzu:
Version 10 doesnt do anything on MTK6752 but version 8 Works like a charm, Thank you for this very useful tool.

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Use version8 i used it to flash beta5, and man it works like charm no need for the computer now.
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
V10 is fixed now (there's also a v11 to backup preloader)
[Android General] adilrenzu:
This is a great tool,but why dont many people know about this, it should be featured on XDA
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Thanks, not sure how they select what gets featured on the portal - the stuff I wrote for this is quite a bit more complicated than it need be for it's purpose.

Will probably switch to default theme with v12/13 so will take suggestions on colour preference; moving forward.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
blue! ;) i like the twrp blue
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
I'll take suggestions in #XXXXXX format with a suggested name - I might keep the custom theme but remove the select menu; so stay tuned....
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
#00007A TWRP-Steel-Blue
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
tested v11, wired 'startupmenu' with nothing just some colored spots...

pressing power jumps than to the usual menue where you can chose "backup..."

everything else works.

buttons are a bit tiny.
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Double - will report v12 stuff here; and size fixes.
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Do you mind posting some screenshots. There's a dpi difference between 6732/52 devices - i'll try and fix it so it isn't too small on the 52.

V12 is there - without the theme menu. Works using an optional /sdcard/theme.prop file (that's internal sd [/data/media]) with either "theme=Lime_Green" or "theme=Steel_Blue"
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
v12 works perfekt!

just i put an unmodified scatter.txt and only boot.img into the /sdcard/spflash, the screen where you can choose the files to flash, it shows [x] boot.img and two other [x] with empty filenames
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
v12 , forgot to rename the scatter file to scatter.txt, after i choose SPFlashinstall, it hangs with 'please wait'
[Android General] chabula:
Got it how to do , but in the end my Jiayu S3 did not worked any more:

Have to go to hard labour to get it flashed again with SPtools on a window machine
[Android General] chabula:
Stil has a question were to put the SPflash directory

Intern sd card or extern

Last time when i tried to flash it ended up with a device that do nothing had to flash it again under windows to get the phone working again
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Either. External would be best.

As you have SPFlashed - for updated betas you only need to flash system and boot.

I would really like to figure out how it caused it to 'brick' - did you flash userdata.img for example (if you do you will need to wipe/format userdata in recovery as well).
[Android General] chabula:
Made de subdir sdcar1/spflash copied the Xtreme rom into ir changed scater.txt en then go in twrp and install the zip file

then i choose the first option in your photo no1

Then i think but not sure that in photo to i have al the option enabled , then i see on the screen the options lik photo 3 , and the i wait ,perhaps i was to restless and did not wait long enough , but i did not see any reaction , so i stopped with as result a phone that did nothing .

But smart as i was took old laptop and flashed it old skool.

Now phone is working again but flashing without a windows machine is a nice option

:good:
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
After you press "Yes" on #3 there should be a progress bar saying Installing.

This will take a while - mainly due to system.img being 2GB and there isn't any actual progress bar stating % complete that I can add to amora. I could make a non-aroma version with all the .imgs in the SPFlash folder being installed - like selecting all of the boxes in the aroma version...
[Android General] chabula:
There is a new Ron for the Jiayu S3 at http://jiayu.de/forum/ind...-03-10-2015/&pageNo=1

This must be don by SPFlastools.

But I am afraid to use the program because the last time I ended up with a dead phone

As i wrote you earlier i got to picture 3 and push the button yes and i did not see anything happens , then after this i have to search a window machine to get the old rom back

Han
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
There are multiple checks with this to make sure it's flashing the right thing - including the user validity on pic.3

I'd suggest just flashing boot.img and system.img -- I will time how long it takes to flash system.img when I get the chance -- I think the raw ext4 filetype they are using takes longer than sparse does.

Once you've pressed the yes button it will start to flash but you won't see much on screen.
[Android General] chabula:
Just copied al flies of the Rom to sdcard1/SPFlash then reboot into a twrp recovery an choose install SPFlashzip v9 >

Then i got picture 1 and choose he first option.

then in the second screen several files are marked i unmarked them and keep only marked the files you mentioned .

then screen 3 i do not see any file and pressing yes does nothing.

so not able to flash the rom

Tried also with al files marked but then screen 3 stays empty
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
I think v9 had a problem where the ticked boxes essentially got wiped before the flash started. Use v12...
[Android General] chabula:
oke had not seen the v12 version now flashing boot img and the other now looking at a screen please wait .

Hope that it works .

how long can it take that the flash has ended.

Just flashed the two mentioned img files and now i have the German Rom on the Phone.

In this case i took the boot/system img >

Does it make a difference if i flash all the files which are marked

with kind regard

Han Lubach

P.s sometimes i had to press two times the buttons
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
The other files are probably identical (or blank) between updates - so really no need to flash them more than once.
[Android General] chabula:
Huray i have managed to flash the rom without a computer ,

Thanks now I am able to flash a rom while i"ll be on the road the road.

Than you doe not need a computer now or it must be if I want to go back to kitkat
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Not too sure on moving back to KK. The LP layout should work with the KK files (i.e. system is big enough); the only question would be if the LP preloader works with KK or if the KK one is needed. (I haven't added preloader flashing to this yet - not sure if it's even possible)
[Android General] chabula:
Now you can focus on Android 6.0.

But thanks again for this solution to Flash a Rom

Lot of people have problems with flashing the rom on their computer (driver problems etc) so this is a solution .

Perhaps a good manual and i think a lot of people are happy

Thanks again
[Android General] mrsim:
[MENTION=4056517]HypoTurtle[/MENTION]

WTF...when did you create this....AMAZING work bro....so let me get this straight...you can dump an sp flash tool rom.zip onto your SD card then unpack the thing inside a newly created SPflashtool folder and then flash the thing direct with the aroma installer...this is awesome

in fact you need a beta tested for older mtk device structure let me know am up for that...will start testing this on the ulephone be pro i have lying around...also will this affect [MENTION=6759089]odigitech[/MENTION] and yours partition resize project..or will it reflash back old system partitions...in fact i don't know why i am asking you this when i should just test it on the bloody kingzone and find out for myself...LOL
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
yeah, but it seems he does not develop further....a bit more details like %-progressbar and bigger buttons would be awesome ;)
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
For the mean time it's setup for just devices with a gpt table (i.e. just the new 64bit SoCs I believe) - although this is more just for a proper partition size check. There is also no repartitioning going on at the moment (so no emulating "firmware upgrade". It's essentially just a run through of the scatter, checking if the file for a partiticular partition is present and small enough to fit and offers the option to flash it. The only thing new in this is the simg2img (and img2simg) binaries which I had to arm compile myself as the occassional SPFlash ROM will have sparse (system.)imgs instead of raw ext4.

Give it a try anyway and let me know where you can see improvements.

I am down to just a tablet and phone, so a bit fiddly to add stuff without accidentally breaking things. Bigger keys shouldn't be a problem, I like them small but my screen is 720p (mt6732), so would be smaller still with the mt6752's. Adding it like the theme selection (/data/media/theme.prop) should work fine, at least until I see where if I can pull screen size/dpi reliably from somewhere. Progress bar would need a rewrite - I might have a non-aroma one made soonish, with a progressbar and the whole folder flashed without prompting.

Only other thing to look into is the backup/restore of userdata using this - if its of interest to anyone; my thoughts being to split the ~12GB into 3/4 parts.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
maybe [MENTION=4196889]DerTeufel1980[/MENTION] or [MENTION=5238428]superdragonpt[/MENTION] can assist?

does someone know dpi/sizes while in twrp?
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
I think I have it but could use a double check with TWRP and CWM:

fbset -fb /dev/graphics/fb0
And to isolate the resolution:
fbset -fb /dev/graphics/fb0 | head -n2 | cut -d \" -f2 | cut -d- -f1
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
i can do that, if you tell me how
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
In TWRP, you can use the terminal emulator (in advanced), for cwm it would need to be done over adb.

Just the first commane shoule be fine. Sample output from mine:

#fbset -fb /dev/graphics/fb0
mode "720x1280-0"
# D: 0.000 MHz, H: 0.000 kHz, V: 0.000 Hz
geometry 720 1280 736 3840 32
timings 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295
accel false
rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24
endmode
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
where do i get fbset from? busybox?

it is missing
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
found it but not working
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Yea it should be part of busybox. run 'busybox fbset' and see if its in your recovery's busybox, otherwise I'll have to add in a copy (I would prefer not to).

Edit: see if there's a copy in /sbin

And you need the full line "fbset -fb /dev/graphics/fb0"
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
there ya go
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
mode "1080x1920-0"

# D: 0.000 MHz, H: 0.000 kHz, V: 0.000 Hz

geometry 1080 1920 1088 3840 32

timings 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295

accel false

rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24

endmode
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
yea looks like twrp/cwm are using a stripped busybox with fbset removed - so I'll either include a busybox or find/compile an arm fbset.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
i had to learn that busybox is in /system/xbin, and had to mount /system in twrp ofcourse...

if i can help more anyhow let me know
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Well that's the system busybox - custom recovery has its own version in /sbin.
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
thats sbin content:

root@h560:/sbin # ls

adbd

busybox

healthd

mkfs.f2fs

ueventd

watchdogd

root@h560:/sbin #
[Android General] TommeleTBone:
sbin busybox, no fbset...
[Android General] chabula:
Just use the Flash to go from the Xtreme rom to the Jiayu.de rc 1

I take a while but ,in the end the RC1 was installed and worked.

Only two files are needed for the flash just flashing boot.img and system.img
[Android General] AndyC76:
Hi trying to upgrade from KK to LP RC1

Within your aroma spflash I see ( when trying to flash )

I stop as it says some areas are too big

Advise please?

Thanks
[Android General] mut79:
KK and LL systems have different sizes: please use SP Flash tool with 'firmware upgrade' option enabled

Inviato dal mio JY-S3 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Yea, sorry haven't added any resizing etc. needed for upgrade from kk to lp like [MENTION=5913568]mut79[/MENTION] said.

If you have the time and can connect to the phone via adb, I can walk you through a manual resize. It will help me out as it'll check whether the frp partition is needed, flashing the preloader also might be an issue as I haven't tried flashing it via adb so not sure if it can be done.
[Android General] AndyC76:
would be happy to help

I cant connect to the phone via my micro server... but I should be able to connect to it via ADB on my mac...

I'll see if I can connect to it this evening, let me know the steps you want me to follow.

It's the only phone I have and I need it each day (GPS and calls) :)
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
In that case, what I'll suggest is a simple system partition resize, if for some reason LP doesn't boot (perhaps preloader), flashing the KK system/boot will still boot.

I'll also keep it so that you can see what we're doing...

From the screen with that screen shot:

[b]/tmp/parted -s /dev/block/mmcblk0 unit b print[/b]
to show the partition layout
look at the system size and see how much more bytes you need to make it 2GB ([B]2147483648B[/B]) Its probably [B]771751936B[/B]
So lets shrink userdata by that amount.
Add this number to the value for start of userdata then run
[b]/tmp/parted -s /dev/block/mmcblk0 unit b resize 19 123 456[/b]
with 19 being the userdata partition number 123 being the start number, and 456 being the end.
Next need to move the cache partition with;
[b]/tmp/parted -s /dev/block/mmcblk0 unit b move 18 123 456[/b]
as before but this time with cache.
Now resize system similarly to above

Also # out or remove the frp partition from the scatter.txt

I'll try and tidy this up later to make it more clear and easy to understand.
[Android General] AndyC76:
Hi

thanks for this :)

my phone is the 3GB Variant.

I've installed a terminal emulator directly onto the phone and have run:

cat /proc/partitions

which has given me the current sizes (attached for you)
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
This is similar to what you'll see once you run the first command:

root@hermes:/ # parted -s /dev/block/mmcblk0 unit b print
parted -s /dev/block/mmcblk0 unit b print
Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/block/mmcblk0 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 990 blocks) or continue with the current setting?
Model: MMC R821MB (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15634268160B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 524288B 3670015B 3145728B proinfo
2 3670016B 8912895B 5242880B nvram
3 8912896B 19398655B 10485760B ext4 protect1
4 19398656B 29884415B 10485760B ext4 protect2
5 29884416B 30146559B 262144B seccfg
6 30146560B 30539775B 393216B lk
7 30539776B 47316991B 16777216B boot
8 47316992B 64094207B 16777216B recovery
9 64094208B 70385663B 6291456B secro
10 70385664B 70909951B 524288B para
11 70909952B 79298559B 8388608B logo
12 79298560B 136970239B 57671680B ext4 custom
13 136970240B 147455999B 10485760B expdb
14 147456000B 152698879B 5242880B tee1
15 152698880B 157941759B 5242880B tee2
16 157941760B 192937983B 34996224B metadata
17 192937984B 2340421631B 2147483648B ext4 system
18 2340421632B 2785017855B 444596224B ext4 cache
19 2785017856B 15616966655B 12831948800B ext4 userdata
20 15616966656B 15633743871B 16777216B flashinfo

from that /proc/partitions (/proc/partinfo would be better), I'd say your looking at 16/17/18 for system/cache/userdata (there isn't a custom partition with the s3)...
[Android General] balamu96m:
Great work!!
[Android General] AndyC76:
Didn't get the chance to do this tonight, will do tomorrow.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benyben123:
I'm thinking of switching to OxygenOS for the sake of stability (I'm actually kind'a tired of flashing and reflashing only to discover more bugs) and looking for rock solid stability. Is OxygenOS the answer (since it comes straight from OnePlus)?

Thanks!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littlejonny17:
Goggle or YouTube it. There's plenty of reviews and comparisons out in the wild

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[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Yep, searching needs to be done

before

creating a thread, as per our site rules. There's so much material out there on the web about both ROMs I find it hard to believe a search was conducted and came up empty.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr hOaX:
http://www.androidscout.com

This website may help you!
[General Questions and Answers] JJDakota:
Hi. I'm trying to find older versions of nightly builds of CM12.1 like from july becasue right now i can't install newest version of it becasue it needs new recovery or something which is not working, i mean i can't install it from fastboot. Ofcourse i can't install nightly from 04092015 in TWRP because "failed". So can anybody send me a link or files since CM removed older versions?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregk232:
The only thing stopping this from being a perfect phone is wireless charging.

Maybe Sony will release an add-on to give it Qi capabilities?

How about using the Qi adapter into the micro-sd connector route? Would it retain waterproofing if it was plugged in?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohinipollob:
The Z premium is powered by Qualcomms latest snapdragon 810 chipset. There is also another news is that smartphone has three version like premimum ,compact and Sony Xperia Z5.There are 3 generous GB of DDR4 RAM in the flagship, and 32 GB of storage, along with a microSD card slot for expansion. This feature must to be add waterproof quality.THat is why it may be the extraordinary feature.

Read more at http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony...e-with-4K-display_id73255#bO21YDYjzgybzq3x.99
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
The solution is to use this adapter with a case.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazmaazad:
The wireless charging

yes its a useful information
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregk232:
Will the phone still be waterproof if something is plugged into the micro-USB port?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
No idea, i would assume that it wouldn't matter if anything is plugged into it, however that adapter isn't really dubbed as being waterproof so while the phone is waterproof the adapter certainly isn't.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohinipollob:
HIi

I think your information is very informative and your information is given below again ( Posted by gregk232

Will the phone still be waterproof if something is plugged into the micro-USB port?)
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ben36:
May I ask why you want wireless charging?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Incognitum:
USB port on the Z5 isn't covered with a rubber flap, so it must be able to withstand water bridging the wires in there, so I think it's safe to assume, as long as no power is applied until it's completely dry, just having something plugged in shouldn't hurt it . Though, as stated, the Qi receiver itself may not fair so well.

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[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NevvyC:
Infuriating

Its so frustrating when companies go backwards with tech; big names like Sony should be able to add things to their products not take them away! The Z3 had magnetic charging and even my Z1 which is due for upgrade soon has a magnetic charging port.....! It doesn't seem like the Z5 has come on leaps and bounds since the Z1 which I would have expected by now!
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chesterchen:
I tried the wireless Qi card on the Z5, it works out to be about 10+% per hour but the phone really heats up.

Decided against it and went back to charging the normal way.