[G4 Android Development] steadfasterX:
Oh f*** sorry. I checked the device tree and found out that I made a mistake in the boardconfig. A cherry pick or something has removed the automatic " use rm instead of format ". Many thanks for the hint pointing me there Rees! Sorry for any inconvenience I made to both of you.. I will fix and update TWRP in FIsH asap.. I'm just glad that you are brave enough to test those..

UPDATE

Just created a new TWRP in FIsH release and now started a full backup of everything (checked all just without /cache) plus compression.

Once this is done I will try the restore and if that worked I re-upload it but again as a test-build only

UPDATE-2

Backup & Restore worked fine now!

After taken the backup (without doing anything in the mount screen!) I rebooted into Android and removed an app and some widgets and shortcuts in the launcher and installed just a random app.

Then I've done the restore (again: without doing anything in the mount screen!) and everything is back to the state when taken the backup. I have not restored system as image just used the usual system backup first. Now I will try the system image method..

UPDATE-3

My SDcard is formatted with

ext4

.

I've taken the system image backup without any issues several times.

The result is a file system_image.emmc.win which takes 4 341 104 640 bytes. atm it is not possible to just split an image backup (afaik) like the usual backup does. I look into a solution for this because that would be the easiest to solve it for anyone.

Note: fat32 limits the single file size to 4 294 967 295 bytes which means you cannot use a fat32 partition as a target to do image backups.

Backup went fine (without doing anything in the mount screen). I then added some files in /system and also removed some to see if a restore really works.

Restore went fine (without doing anything in the mount screen). Everything like the time when taken the backup.

So atm i see nothing from preventing me to upload a new test-build for you guys asap.

PRE-Release of TWRP-in-FIsH v4 (4.1)

This version is based on/includes:

FIsH v3.0: changelog (click)

LL and FIsH optimized device tree: changelog (click)

TWRP v3.1.1: changelog (click)

Summary:

Fixed the restore issue in PRE-Release of TWRP-in-FIsH v4

Everything

is better now ;)

(.... TWRP updated, many FIsH improvements, added an option to backup /system as image,... read the above changelogs!)

Even though I have tested this release regarding full backup & restore (see above) I do

not

release it

officially / as stable

atm until I receive some feedback from testers like [MENTION=6302635]sdembiske[/MENTION] , [MENTION=1258758]ReeS86[/MENTION] or others brave enough to test.

To all wanting to test: Be careful and let us know how it goes. :highfive: :fingers-crossed:

Please find the new pre-release version attached to this post. You have to rename the file extension to ".tar.gz" sorry for this but XDA is crazy about uploading a tar.gz file.. :confused: :eek:

Once I received feedback of at least backup & restore I will make it official so testing that first would be nice (both the new image system backup & restore and the usual system backup & restore).