yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] AeonFlux1603:
[MENTION=7291478]kdrag0n[/MENTION] I truly commend and thank you for your continued support and updates to this great tool, including your prompt addition of LZMA compression support for those custom TWRP builds that require LZMA. I have used Tipatch on a myriad of Android devices and TWRP versions, both on custom and official upstream builds. Tipatch has never failed me yet. You have created a long-needed resolution to TWRP's de facto lack of full Data backup support. It won't be a goldmine by any means, but I will be donating at least a couple of beers to your cause later today, in appreciation and support of your amazing work on Tipatch. Best wishes to you [MENTION=7291478]kdrag0n[/MENTION].
[Android Apps and Games] pribinakk:
Hello, does anyone able to patch this recovery?

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298944051

It gives me constantly errors, something with /media folder.

Please let me know if it's possible, because it will save my time - i have three devices Galaxy Tab S2 (T719), i can use another recoveries, but this one fits to my specific needs, i was excited with tipach to do full backups (tested)... but BANG! this recovery was not patched....why? any help?
[Android Apps and Games] kdrag0n:
That's a widespread issue affecting many devices, most of which are made by Samsung. I'll look into it for the next version of Tipatch but can't guarantee a fix, especially because none of my devices are affected.
[Android Apps and Games] pribinakk:
thank you, i have to say i had no issues with tipatch- patching twrps for this samsung device.... this recovery is important for me, because it's modified to turn off samsung data encryption, but on the other hand i'm getting errors when trying to patch this recovery with tipatch :/ so the question is can you help me with fix? and when we can when expect newer version to try it out? thank you
[Android Apps and Games] bggold:
Out of respect for the devs we don't ask for eta's. When they get to it they get to it.
[Android Apps and Games] alecxs:
thanks for your effort! if you like you can check my solution, Internal Storage is not wiped when wiping Data

Universal-TWRP-Bind-Mount-Enabler.zip (do not flash!)
[Android Apps and Games] Tarv:
Flashed to Pixel, TWRP looks correctly modified. Did backup, data backup was larger, looks good.

Wiped phone and rebooted, confirmed wiped.

Tried to restore several ways, the phone just seems to bootloop now. Tried to wipe again, still in a bootloop.

Will keep trying to recover, but just curious, what is the proper way to RESTORE? What should I check off exactly, and should I wipe before restoring?

Thanks.

DETAILS

Pixel "sailfish" with Stock Android 9.0.0 (PQ3A.190705.001, Jul 2019)

TWRP 3.3.0.0

Kernel ElementalX-P-4.16

Root with Magisk v19.3
[Android Apps and Games] bggold:
You could try to dirty flash (no -w) July
[Android Apps and Games] kdrag0n:
It's best to format the userdata partition entirely (Wipe -> Format Data -> Yes in TWRP) before restoring instead of just using the wipe feature, which only deletes files. After that, you should be able to restore the backup like any other.

Have TWRP backup+wipe+restore cycles worked for you in the past? It hasn't always been very reliable on some of my devices, so it might not be an issue caused by Tipatch.
[Android Apps and Games] Tarv:
did try that, took me to a screen that said my data was corrupt and i had to wipe again. did that, resolved the boot loop, trying to restore again.

I have not tried to backup/wipe/restore before, just testing it out. I'm assuming I shouldn't have checked off EVERYTHING in TWRP for the restore. I got the phone to boot again, re-flashed twrp, and am currently trying a restore with just "system" and "data" checked.
[Android Apps and Games] bggold:
Usually I do boot system image and data only and have no issues.
[Android Apps and Games] Tarv:
No luck here, not sure what step I'm missing. The best I can get after a restore is the phone will boot to the black android screen, reboot, then put me back into twrp recovery.

1) flash-all.bat with wipe -w

2) boot into phone, shut down phone

3) bootloader, boot into twrp, flash twrp

(at this point, if i format userdata completely, it will fail restoring the data partition. if i reboot, it fails to read my usb otg drive so i cannot restore)

4) restore "boot", "system image", "data". works ok

5) reboot system, phone tries to boot once, reboots itself straight into recovery

6) dirty flash all, no -w, phone reboots to stock recovery and says the data is corrupt and must wipe.

7) wipe, phone works again, but back to square one.

bummer.

EDIT: think i'm giving up for now. it's not a Tipatch issue anyway as I can't seem to restore an older TWRP backup. appreciate all the help either way, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bggold:
I sent you a pm.
[Android Apps and Games] Tarv:
Last question. Is there a way to extract the data backed up from /media manually? Where would it be stored? I see the app data opening the data.ext4.win* archives, but can't seem to locate storage media files.

Assume maybe they are in the data.ext4.win100,200,300,etc files, but those don't seem to be recognized as an archive.

EDIT: Ahh, encryption. I will figure that out if that's my problem.

EDIT2: I just restored the data partition to the phone again, then copied the files off using MTP while in TWRP. The restore corrupted data partition again (won't boot), but at least I got the files. All good.
[Android Apps and Games] kdrag0n:
I believe you can just concatenate the win* segments into one big tarball which can be extracted on a computer.

As for your issues after restoring, I asked some others with a Pixel 1 and it looks like the general consensus is that TWRP restoring doesn't work properly on stock — not sure why. It might be because of the verification or FBE encryption.
[Android Apps and Games] jaggillararla:
Any more updates?
[Android Apps and Games] shaolefen:
I added this to an unofficial version of TWRP for the Samsung a50. It wouldn't make backups at all anymore, so I clicked "Undo Patch", not "Restore Backup" which is probably what I should have done. Now my phone won't power off. When I try to turn off the power, it reboots. It's possible something else I did caused this, but is there anything in patching and unpatching that might have caused it?
[Android Apps and Games] MECH_TECH:
Didn't work on S6 Rogers phone with TWRP 3.3.1.0. Tried both the automated and manual method.
[Android Apps and Games] Uluru25:
Unfortunately not working with twrp-3.4.0-0-ginkgo-willow-mauronofrio which is used for Redmi Note 8 T (willow). Reboot to recovery resulted in a bootloop. Any idea (or should I use the workaround already described with manual renaming of /data/media)?
[Android Apps and Games] Jesus is God Almighty:
What TWRP versions does this work for, it seems to be somewhat outdated?

Just found out about this nonsense that TWRP does, utter ridiculous and outrageous!
[Android Apps and Games] AnonVendetta:
It seems to work on all the latest TWRP versions that I've tried.
[Android Apps and Games] EngineerMind:
Hi,

I recently downloaded your TiPatch and tried to patch an unofficial version of TWRP on my A10 Pixel 4a:

https://xdaforums.com/t/twrp-3-4-0-0-for-sunfish-testing.4179101/

I first tried the "in place" method, but it ended up in a boot loop (maybe because of the new partition scheme in A10?).

So I instead did the Input/Output method on the TWRP image itself and it seems to work.

However, as you mentioned, combining the data and storage together can cause issues.

So, I just found out that as of version 3.4.0.0, there is a new ability in TWRP to have "Internal Storage" be an *optional* partition in the backup menu (that can be checked or unchecked), allowing us users to select if we want to backup the internal storage or not (and always keep the data partition separate).

The new method is mentioned here:

https://github.com/TeamWin/android_device_xiaomi_beryllium/blob/android-9.0/recovery.fstab

You will noticed that line 29 adds this ability:

/storage ext4 /data/media/0 flags=display="Internal Storage";usermrf;backup=1;fsflags="bind";removable

Apparently, the unofficial version of TWRP I mentioned above didn't include this ability.

So, would it be possible for you to create a new TiPatch that would patch an existing TWRP image to add this ability?

I would be happy to make a donation to you if you could do this :)
[Android Apps and Games] alecxs:
you can do this yourself in minutes.. all it takes is execute unpackimg.bat add the entry in fstab and repackimg.bat
[Android Apps and Games] EngineerMind:
I very much appreciate your quick reply.

First, I'm guessing that these batch files are in the github project I mentioned...however, even though I am an android developer, I use a different IDE (B4x.com) that does not integreate with Github, so I have zero experience with github. So, I do not know how to do what is probably something very simple to do if I did know it.

But ultimately what I am really looking for is to have that unofficial twrp image patched with this "Internal Storage" ability so I can install it on my phone. So, if anyone can generate a new TWRP.img based on that unofficial version which includes this internal storage patch, then I would be happy to make a donation for that effort to anyone.
[Android Apps and Games] EngineerMind:
I just did a quick google - are these batch files in the "Android Kitchen" project (2013) on github that you are referring to?

UPDATE: Didn't find them in that project.
[Android Apps and Games] EngineerMind:
OK, it seems you might have been referring to this android kitchen toolkit:

[TOOL] Android Image Kitchen - Unpack/Repack Kernel Ramdisk [Win/Android/Linux/Mac]

Android Image Kitchen -- Unpack/Repack Kernel+Recovery Images, and Edit the ramdisk. Windows ports of the necessary Linux utils for Android image (kernel/recovery) mod work: mkbootimg, unpackbootimg: https://github.com/osm0sis/mkbootimg...

xdaforums.com

So, I got up to the point of editing the recovery.fstab file.

But it looks like the format of the exsting file is different from the format of the github file I mentioned above.

The format of this existing unofficial recovery.fstab is with these columns:

But the line in the mentioned github not only has only three columns, but it uses semicolon's for parameter delimiters instead of comma's in the github file:

/storage ext4 /data/media/0 flags=display="Internal Storage";usermrf;backup=1;fsflags="bind";removable

Any ideas how I would reformat the above line to work with the existing fstab format?
[Android Apps and Games] alecxs:
if exist twrp.fstab use this one instead, it has higher priority. otherwise adapt the columns according to headers in recovery.fstab, sure you will figure it out
[Android Apps and Games] Nonsmoker:
Good evening, I've got a two beginner questions:

1.) I tried tipatch (zip) within TWRP-recovery via "install" and it complained about an "invalid zip-format" I tried all kinds of things but couldn't get it to work. Did I do anything wrong? My phone is a Leeco Le Max2. The android version is totally outdated and the last changes to tipatch were made in 2018 - perhaps an older TWRP versoin is needed for the patch patch?

2.) (not directly related to tipatch): I'm trying to recover data from a softbricked/unrooted/bootloader locked device. Can I use TWRP to backup data and restore it without returning the phone into its softbricked state?

Any guidance is much appreciated! (y)
[Android Apps and Games] rodken:
What steps would I take if I only wanted to backup the internal storage separately?
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] skyh3ck:
Hey Guys

I want to highlight or bring to your notice that LED notification light used in Asus Zenfone Max pro is not bright enough we have to see it closely to see if it is glowing or not,

only when the phone is charging then we can see red LED, but for other notification like message, missed calls etc, the light is not bright enough. I know this phone is budget oriented, but they have used very very cheap quality product,

Also the Front flash the feels like useless, its not even possible to locate it, the light is not that loud when clicking pictures,

is there any way to enhance the light brigthness of LED and make the duration of blinking longer

Asus you have great hardware, but bad parts used for LED, 3.5 jack etc
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] skyh3ck:
if anyone interested to buy pm me, i am from mumbai, i cant live with this
[Networking] Townshend:
Is it possible for my Mogul to have a static IP on Sprint's EVDO network? If not, is there an application that I could have running on the background of my Mogul, text, and it text back the IP? The reason I ask is I am using Pocket Controller Pro and if my phone gets lost/stolen it's nice to be able to connect via IP to it and either track it via GPS or wipe it. Thank you!
[Networking] Townshend:
And I've answered my own question sort of. After poking around a bit I stumbled across this program called Pocket DynDNS which can be found here: http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/dyndns/. Although the program is a little more than 5 years old it's been working great during my testing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0707:
Help [IMG="XT1902-2"]https://imgur.com/a/tdVICCA[/IMG]
[General Questions and Answers] JohnYash:
1.) No Malware or any harm application is installed in the device.

2.) Owner uses strong password (no pattern, no pin, no smart unlock).

If it is possible, then who can unlock it?

-Can Google company unlock it, If it wants?

-Can phone manufacturer unlock it, if it wants? (like Samsung, One plus, Sony etc).

-Can service center's unlock it, if they want?

-Can FBI/NSA or any one in the world unlock it?

If it can be unlocked, then what information can be retrieved?

Do they need to reset the phone, in order to unlock it, or phone can be unlocked without any reset, and they can access the data.

Nothing is impossible, but just tell me as far as you guys know.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kurt1239712397:
Hey guys, can we customize the looks and animations of the system like notification bar/panel, settings, and such with root explorer or something? I don't mean launchers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HemanthJabalpuri:
It can be possible with xposed...
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratedpanda:
Greetings, fellow Moto E Surnia users,

I would appreciate some help on the matter, as mentioned in the title.

Here's the stupid thing I did

I wanted to clean everything on my phone as I was planning to give it to a sibling, so i found the stock files from Firmware Center and thought it would be a good idea to use the command

fastboot erase all

before beginning the restoration to stock process. It went off just fine, but when I booted up my device, I realized that there was no cellular reception on it, and my IMEI was 0.

It was only later that I understood that you NEVER use the

fastboot erase all

command on your devices. And I don't have an EFS backup because the phone does not have an EFS Partition.

Here's what I've tried so far

1. I sent the phone to a 3rd party cellphone repair shop, the person there tried something called a SigmaBox to try and repair the phone. No luck.

2. I brought it back and tried to use the Qualcomm RF/NV Editor and that too did not work.

3. A similar thread on another Motorola device's forum stated that they tried flashing the correct modem and firmware files to restore reception. I looked for the modem and firmware files of my particular model (XT1521) but I couldn't find it. Tough luck I suppose.

Another interesting thing that I found out is that the IMEI code is present on the device somewhere because when I tried

fastboot getvar all

i could see my IMEI0

I understand that I screwed up pretty bad. But is there anything else that I am missing that might help me rectify this error?

Thanks in Advance for all your suggestions.

TL;DR - Used

fastboot erase all

command and erased the IMEI code. Now left with no cell reception. My Surnia has basically turned into a tablet.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoJunkie01:
Yes...the old fastboot erase all command. This command, as you have just found out, literally erases all partitions, including your /pds, /hob and the /dhob partitions, which contain your unique device identifiers such as your MAC address, MEID, ESN, etc. This is an extremely tough dilemma to correct, and typically requires you to use Qualcomm's QFIL/QPST in order for you to manually rewrite the values to the device. Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to rewrite your MEID and other device identifiers, AS LONG AS you are not deviating from the device's original identifiers. In other words, you must restore the exact values which were erased in fastboot. This is a rather complex procedure, but if you are willing to undertake the job, I can get you some links to tutorials here on XDA that outline the process.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratedpanda:
I'm game! Please help me out. I desperately need my phone to work.

EDIT - Just wanted to let you know that I've tried the QPST/QFIL program, I couldn't get it to work properly. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Maybe your links would help me out. Regards.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratedpanda:
Hi [MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION], any update on that links?

thanks in advance
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoJunkie01:
I'm searching for a specific step by step tutorial. Soon as I find the one, I'll post it. I know it's frustrating having your partitions wiped clean. Been there before myself.
[E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratedpanda:
Alright thanks mate, appreciate it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imndlf8r:
Convert rescued phones to "wireless user interfaces" (remove phone & market cruft)

I'm looking for pointers to suitable distributions to determine the feasibility of "downgrading" older, rescued phones to "wireless GUI appliances". On the one hand, to estimate the scale of the effort that will be involved. On the other hand, to identify the "most promising" devices to go in search of (these will have been donated/scrapped devices -- beggars can't be too choosey!)

How complete are the distributions? How much is hidden, embedded in "blobs"? I'd like to discard all of the code associated with the phone, GPS and much of the user interface and just build up from the kernel and device drivers (display, touchpad, buttons, microphone, speaker, WiFi, BT, etc.)

The goal, here, is to turn the phones into appliances that have no value besides in the system to which they are mated (i.e., walk off with one and you've basically got a paperweight as it is no longer usable as a phone) and to wire-down the user interface to a single, specific application.

[I've been hacking (BSD) kernels for 25 years and writing OSs and drivers for longer still (but, usually for hardware that I have designed) so I just need a shove in the right, general direction.]

Thanks!
[OnePlus 5T  Themes, Apps, and Mods] anirudhnyg:
Hi Everyone !

This Magisk Module enables the Quick capture when the devices connected to an Indian network ( Double click power button to launch camera) and turn on Wifi automatically feature from Pixel Devices.

Download:

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4576290&stc=1&d=1534733286

Changelog:

1.1 Updated to correct build ID in settings

1.2 Removed unwanted props and flags

Thanks:

[MENTION=4074008]kashyapha1994[/MENTION] for emergencyaffordanceservice disable.

XDA for Turn On Wifi automatically

[MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] for Magisk !
[OnePlus 5T  Themes, Apps, and Mods] Varun82786:
Works Perfectly on 5T open beta 14
[OnePlus 5T  Themes, Apps, and Mods] Aswin08:
Works on open beta 13!

But my build number shows ExperienceOS R5.0 in Settings, is this because of this module?
[OnePlus 5T  Themes, Apps, and Mods] anirudhnyg:
Yes, this might be because I used the magisk file from ExperienceOS that I had instead of downloading the fresh template, I have fixed it now, update with the attached updated file.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] TechNubb:
As stated in title, looks like gpu drivers are not updated for os version and games like fortnite are facing difficulties in playing

As a result graphic errors are occuring in apps:p

How can we update gpu drivers manually for custom rom 8.0+ , anyone knows ?
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] strongst:
So, there's no official Oreo rom from lenovo hence there are also no drivers provided.

And as I said already, moto g4 plus isn't a device made for gaming if you compare the specifications.

Custom Oreo development isn't finished and polished.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] heindrix:
https://xdaforums.com/mi-mix/development/driver-adreno-530-540-gpu-driver-t3815853
[OnePlus 5 Themes, Apps, and Mods] anirudhnyg:
Hi Everyone !

This Magisk Module enables the Quick capture when the devices connected to an Indian network ( Double click power button to launch camera) and turn on Wifi automatically feature from Pixel Devices.

Download:

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4576293&d=1534733511

Changelog:

1.2 - Removed unwanted props and flags

Thanks:

[MENTION=4074008]kashyapha1994[/MENTION] for emergencyaffordanceservice disable.

XDA for Turn On Wifi automatically

[MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] for Magisk !
[OnePlus 5 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Bewildered Wolf:
Great work.
[OnePlus 5 Themes, Apps, and Mods] anirudhnyg:
Thanks !
[OnePlus 5 Themes, Apps, and Mods] timartinhof:
It didn't enabled the Wifi option on my device...

EDIT: Working. Thanks for the mod! ^_^
[OnePlus 3 & 3T Cross Device Themes, Apps & Mods] anirudhnyg:
Hi Everyone !

This Magisk Module enables the Quick capture when the devices connected to an Indian network ( Double click power button to launch camera) and turn on Wifi automatically feature from Pixel Devices.

Download:

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4575601&stc=1&d=1534657935

Thanks:

[MENTION=4074008]kashyapha1994[/MENTION] for emergencyaffordanceservice disable.

XDA for Turn On Wifi automatically

[MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] for Magisk !
[OnePlus 3 & 3T Cross Device Themes, Apps & Mods] digiboy1:
Hi,

I'm based out of India and enabled this module but don't see power button twice for camera option anywhere in settings. And double press power button still isn't leading to camera.

Let me know if you'd need logs or anything for debugging.
[Magisk] anirudhnyg:
Hi Everyone !

This Magisk Module enables the Quick capture when the devices connected to an Indian network ( Double click power button to launch camera) and turn on Wifi automatically feature from Pixel Devices.

Download:

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4576285&stc=1&d=1534732568

Changelog :

1.2 - Removed unwanted props and flags

Thanks:

[MENTION=4074008]kashyapha1994[/MENTION] for emergencyaffordanceservice disable.

XDA for Turn On Wifi automatically

[MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] for Magisk !
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
You're setting a whole lot of props with that module... An explanation of each might be nice to include so people actually know what it is they're installing.

And,two nitpicky things about the module:

You're not mounting anything to /system and not using the post-fs-data.sh script, so both AUTOMOUNT and POSTFSDATA can be set to false in config.sh.
[Magisk] anirudhnyg:
Hi Thank you for the inputs !

I have updated the module to remove the props as it was for my personal experiment, I have also set automount and postfsdata to false and updated the file.
[Magisk] tom.vipin:
Been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks
[General Topics] thetruejay20:
Should I go with the At&t 8525 or the At&t 8925/Tilt?
[General Topics] JimmyMcGee:
Tilt

If you want reasons I would say, but you simply asked what you should buy.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] esmaeil mohamadi:
hi..., when get official lineage OS rom for s8/s8+?please link