yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
eager to read about your tests on encrypted storage, the reason being i've not been able to decrypt as yet. i'm on crDroid v7.2 of 21.Jan and i'd like to update to 27.Jan without losing data - and with decryption - but i haven't found a way - a simple way (if one exists, i.e.).
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Alin45:
Seems it's a new update (TWRP-3.5.0_10-4), but I can't find it available for download (in the russian forum i can't download it).
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
=====================

TWRP-3.5.0_10-4

====================

* Magisk updated 21.4

* Fixed a bug with mounting (unmounting) System

* Added a patch for mounting System and Product in RW (not supported at the MIUI office)

* Added the ability to install Magisk - *.Apk (for the future)

* Changing the interface of the top bar
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] [armitage]:
So let me get this straight.

This twrp now actually supports making full nandroid backups and restores, just like on phones without dynamic partitions? Is there anything that has to be done differently, like making backups to and restoring from sd/external, or does it work on internal as well now? Is there still the "problem" of /vendor being unmountable? And what about wiping vs. formating when installing a new rom, any changes there?

Apologies for all the questions, but this twrp update really seems like a huge deal for new phones, that I wasn't expecting to happen that quickly.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- in terms of backup restore abilities this TWRP at least can do what latest OFOX can do, while the rest of TWRPs available for Poco X3 NFC are unsuitable/not recommended to do that...

- both recoveries (latest OFOX or this TWRP) using the "same engine" produce almost identical results, success or failures

- TWRP devs are still probably (hopefully) working on how to extract and backup only the system partition from dynamic super partition, because this you can't do now in any recovery (AFAIK) for Poco X3

- what you can do is to backup and restore the whole super partition, plus boot, dtbo, data partition... and depending on the encryption state of your internal storage... you can choose how to restore your backup:

if you're using decrypted storage

if you're using encrypted storage

- I had high hopes when I found out that this specific TWRP recovery actually can do backup restore, but after a few days of testing I found that results are (unfortunately) the same as using latest OFOX backup restore

- what I don't understand (can't figure it out) why while using decrypted storage you can't get always 100% identical restore while restoring super, boot, dtbo, data, metadata partition... sometimes it works, and the next day not - and what is sometimes failing to restore - is your PIN code Android protection (even if you provide the correct one, it will not accept it)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] [armitage]:
Hmm, ok. A bit disappointing, but still a nice step in the right direction. Thank you so much for your answer as well, I really appreciate it. As for the problems with restoring security challenge (pin etc.). I actually had that on older phones as well, when restoring different backups. Not always, but when it happened, I had to delete /data/system/locksettings.db from the recovery, after restoring and before booting.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] gawtham94:
i am currently running miui global 12.0.8. will i be able to flash twrp to my phone after unlocking. can anybody guide me through what are the ext steps that i have to get twrp flashed to my poco x3 karna version please? if not can i be able to flash it after degrading my UI? and if so how can i degrade from my current version to base version ?

Thanks
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] biladina.id:
can I get .zip file for flash via recovery?? I have limited way to reach computer/laptop..
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
?? if you have recovery you can flash .img file directly from recovery and choose recovery partition to flash
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] immi803:
Going from orange to this recovery, can i flash img directly from orange as well?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
yep, no problem, I switching them regularly as I need
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
most important: choose recovery partition.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] denpangestu210:
i am already create video about this here
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
you've named your video 'Install TWRP POCO X3 NFC' and shown orangefox recovery. just saying...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] gawtham94:
thanks for the updated tutorial man. Appreciate it
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] denpangestu210:
all step same, orange fox, twrp, black etc
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] denpangestu210:
about code comand, if you using twrp.img

rename orange_twrp.img with twrp.img

simple
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
yeah, things should be 'simple' (and clear) to your youtube audience. and, if you had noticed, i wrote ' just saying...'
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Adameur:
I'm so thankful for you ...

The backup/restore features works right?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Adameur:
Please reply, shall install disable_dm-no verity force encryption or this TWRP version decrypt all informations?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
please, read and try to understand this post about restore & backup in this TWRP recovery
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
since I'm using only decrypted storage I didn't really test decryption ability of this recovery, but nobody's really complaining, so it's probably working all right
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] youvedone:
can't mount system.. and also not format it.. do you have the same problems?

Tried also with orangefox
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
don't mess with the system, man, it's not healthy on devices with dynamic partitions, unless you deliberately wants to brick your device, there's a reason why you can't do it
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] j49:
Hi there and thanks very much for providing this.

I ran these 2 commands successively:

1. fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

2. fastboot boot twrp.img

... and twrp showed up flawlessly, but I didn't install the custom ROM from there yet.

Now, for a quick check, I rebooted to MIUI then went to recovery, TWRP got overwritten.

Am I missing anything?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] aieman88:
Now, for a quick check, I rebooted to MIUI then went to recovery, TWRP got overwritten.

Am I missing anything?

[/QUOTE]

Yeah same with me but after reflash TWRP i flash Xiaomi.eu rom then my TWRP didnt overwritten anymore.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Alin45:
Try to flash AVB 2 fix (or so :)) from Advanced section of TWRP and check if it will be overwritten again.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] j49:
Thanks mate :)

I used TWRP 3.5.0-0 by mahajant99 for the recovery flashing process and it worked well.

I don't know if flashing vbmeta.img would make this recovery persistent, but I really do think that if that was necessary, jeryll would / should have pointed that out.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
I never used vbmeta.img on my phone and my custom recovery sticks in recovery partition from the moment I flashed it there via fastboot (maybe because it was OFOX, which does this "enforcing" automatically, IIRC)

But honestly I could care less about MIUI users, who have problems with this, they are on their own...

Also I'm no maintainer/developer of this TWRP recovery, I just posted it here for the people, because brigudav from 4pda.ru didn't wanted to (with his permission of course)

Take it or leave it as it is, it's up to you, don't expect any extra support from me, I can help with generic solutions or my own experiences, but that's it...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] j49:
Get off your high horse and don't be rude, will you? Nobody has ever tried to ask anything from you. I have just reported my experience with this recovery. If you are not willing to react to any thoughts on the matter in question, that's fine, just don't do it. Simple as that.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
been using this recovery for a while now. things seem fine. also, ( don't know what this signifies, but,) my phone is seen as a drive in windows while i am on this. was not seen on ofox recovery.

been using this recovery to backup boot, dtbo and data partitions and switch between roms (selinux permissive as well as enforcing). no serious issues faced.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
So OrangeFox-R11-Unofficial-Beta-surya-10-01 and TWRP-3.5.0_10-4 are at the same level with same functionality right now?

I still haven't decided which one to use. What's the current recommendation?

The Magisk installer/uninstaller added to TWRP is of no use to me because I need Magisk Canary, and I have no use for the mentioned fixes either as I don't use anything GooglePay or SafetyNet (I'm going to go for ArrowsOS with microG).
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
Cool. Please report your findings if you will. (y)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
both recoveries use the same (almost) engine, so you can't go wrong if you choose either, if you prefer simplicity, TWRP should be your choice, if you want complex flash/file manager go for OFOX
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
Though there is a reason why you prefer OFOX:

This may be a stupid questions, but are there any apps that make use of TWRP functionality and do not work with OFOX? I'm not sure where this thought is coming from, but if I recall correctly I have seen TWRP been mentioned in at least one app description.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
check TWRP version, 3.5.0_0 (then) and 3.5.10_4 (now) also different maintainer for the latter - huge difference in quality of the product in 3.5.10_4 ... soo there you have it ...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
could someone upload on google drive,please?

@jeryll

jeryll
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
@jeryll

I think there is a new version ?

MOD EDIT: Link removed

I just found this on Androidhost, All versions uploaded 2 days ago. Maybe it's belong to the same russian developer because both have same name.

I HAD flashed and it's worked

I will edit this when found any new changelog for this

it was beta now stable realised, Thanks @brigudav

peace :cowboy:
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
FYI I have just discovered that ArrowOS OTA updates do not work with OFOX, which resulted in a few error messages ("5 processes already started, not executing adb" or something like that) before it aborted once processing the update in recovery.

I guess that's what the message "requires a compatible recovery" meant before the update started, though I was in the opinion that latest OFOX and TWRP are similar in functionality and interchangeable?

After installing TWRP (twrp-3.5.0_10-4-surya) the OTA update worked out just fine, so TWRP it is after all.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
please read your PM
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
Care to share? Because I have just installed that version (twrp-3.5.0_10-5-surya.img).
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
I respect your topic, I had just shared what I found as you can see the files under the name of developer and I had flashed it and just worked!

I couldn't find any changelog for this version so I will give a note to my sharing comment :)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] brigudav:
This is a test version. A lot has already been changed and corrected. The release is coming soon.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
thanks for the clarification. would you be posting link (of the release) here? please include changelog too.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
So it's confirmed that MOD EDIT: Link removed really is your repo at Android File Host?

It really would be great to get updates here at XDA, because it's the only relevant source for info for a lot of ppl (like me).
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
Bravo, the MOD EDIT: Link removeds already up:

Changelog for 3.5.0_10-5:

====================
2021-02-18
====================
* Include common names for Magisk app in list of flashable zip files. (officially)
* partition: add support dm_use_original_path. (officially)
* partitionmanager: support delayed adopted storage mount. (officially)
* Include nano in TWRP by default. (officially)
* Remove duplicate Update_System_Details() function calls. (test)
* nano: Add File Manager option to edit selected file (officially)
-(Ability to edit text files)
* Added Support for terminal from filemanager. (officially)
* tzdata: add to TWRP build automatically. (officially)
* cryptfs: add support for keymaster 2. (officially)
* android root: restore context for android system root (officially)
* Introducing the function of preventing the replacement of TWRP with stock recovery in the source code (Advanced menu)
* New patch AVB (if the system does not boot and only goes into fastboot mode)
* Editing the interface and translations
====================
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
@brigudav @Abdullah.Csit @Master One

please confirm: TWRP 3.5.0_10-5

I'm getting "No OS installed! ..." warning while trying menu reboot -> system, of-course system is installed

fixed
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
I have just reinstalled TWRP 3.5.0_10-5 and not seeing such issue here.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
hmmm 🤔 I'm on surya and 10-5 !?

what's the difference are you using karna ?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
confirmed. 'no os installed! ..' warning while trying menu

reboot >> recovery

as well as

reboot >> system

even after reinstalling twrp 3.5.0_10-5. i'm on karna, but that should not have much relevance considering the fact that twrp 3.5.0_10-4 presented no such issues. btw, @brigudav has not 'announced' twrp 3.5.0_10-5 yet. but, hope he'll look into the above issue.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Slim K:
I have flashed the test 10.5 version and haven't encountered the

no OS

error as of yet.

I do not think this is a surya or karna specific problem, since the difference between those two are a few libs and Props.

Maybe a specific kernel or system.img is causing this. Have any of you tried looking at recovery.log? perhaps there are some clues there.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Master One:
FYI a completely fresh installation without any problems:

Reinstalled TWRP 3.5.0_10-5 (from previous TWRP installation)

Rebooted to recovery

Installed Arrow-v11.0-surya-OFFICIAL-20210217-VANILLA + Magisk-v21.4

Wiped Cache and Dalvik

Formated Data

Rebooted to system

No error message and all OK.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] brigudav:
I and many others did not have such a problem. Check out this revised version. MOD EDIT: Link removed
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
@brigudav this could be related to a fact that I'm using hacked decrypted vendor & storage, and I suspect @m0han is decrypted too (or not?)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] brigudav:
Ок. I understand, it means because of the decryption. Fixed it above. Here I post all the latest for POCO X3, added vendor with write capability (RW) surya_fw_vendor_V12.0.7.0.QJGMIXM_rw.zip MOD EDIT: Link removed
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
happened one more time (first reboot to recovery after flashing the revised version). reboot to system was ok.

again rebooted to recovery and tried i) reboot to recovery and ii) reboot to system. both worked fine. (y)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
yeah, i'm decrypted too. but, my device is karna; not surya. and there is a miui update 12.0.9.0 for karna already. however, i'm on AICP v16.1 of 08-Feb. @brigudav
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
all is good, new version reboots correctly on decrypted storage, thank you
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdullah.Csit:
Oh, so this problem for whom decryption !

I really want to flash op launcher by Ur twrp but always get could not mount system

All what I need is mount system and vendor before flashing which is not working for all recoveries.

Is that version fix that thing >o<
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
i see 'surya_fw_vendor_V12.0.9.0.QJGINXM_10.0.zip' here. is it the latest firmware for karna? if so, can i flash it to get on the latest fw -

without losing decryption

? if yes, what would the steps be? i'm on aicp v16.1 of 08-feb now.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- don't flash that on Karna device, unless brigudav recommend you can use that on Karna...

- if you really must have the latest bleeding edge fw on your device flash original full recovery version of MIUI 12.0.9

(this will reflash and also clean your super partition, including vendor and fw, etc)

- flash custom ROM

- flash encryption disabler

- reboot recovery and check if the storage is still decrypted (in OFOX you can see that on initial screen)

- flash GAPPS and Magisk (optional)

- with this steps you can have official unaltered vendor fw etc and still use decrypted storage (just don't forget to always flash encryption disabler after custom ROM)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] romayne15:
Hi, im new here. How can i flash it from freshly bought poco x3 nfc? Thank you!
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] pnin:
You'll have to start by unlocking the bootloader (search the forum); that alone will take you a week , minimum...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
i got a fw-only file here. before the flash could be successful, i had to remove the line getprop("ro.product.device") == "surya" || abort("E3004: This package is for \"surya\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\"."); from updater-script file. (not sure whether the latest twrp of 01-march or the fw file is to blame.) anyway, the flash succeeded thereafter and i remain 'not encrypted'. :cool:

edit: tagging the dev so he can have a look at the This package is for \"surya\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device" issue, if it is twrp-related. @brigudav.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
if someone can help I am able to fastboot into twrp from adb but when i try to do it manually by holding power button and volume up it takes me to the poco recovery 3.0?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Alin45:
I can't remember exactly, but I think it's an option in Advanced settings to avoid remove the TWRP.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
yes i saw that option thanks for your help!
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- new version of TWRP 3.5.0_10-5 is here, many thanks to @brigudav as always

- redesigned download option in OP, also removed older versions of twrp from OP, because of thread limitations, from now on, there will be posted only latest version (of course if forum engine allows me to do that - upload process is interrupted after a few megabytes, so for now use download from Androidfilehost)
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
this seems to be the twrp (the latest twrp of 01-march) i was referring to in my post above. i got md5: b8ce7cdac35d308369d19bbdd25b5934.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
please test reboot functionality of the new version, I'm getting NO OS INSTALLED! warning again on decrypted storage, thanks
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
Can someone explain how I can make a nandroid backup? There are many options under the backup section which options do I select? thanks
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
reboot to recovery works fine for me. but, reboot to system throws up that 'warning'. my phone is 'not encrypted'.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
you can start here
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
Thank u very much appreciate ur help!
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] YasuHamed:
i tired the 1/3/2020 version it booted with strange logo (tistorted) had touch screen response lower than older 3.4 ..

however i really hope in future versions, we could able to wipe SUPER partitions (dynamic partitions) too!
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
Can someone please tell me why i'm getting error 7 when flashing from pixel extended to Hovac, what is the wipe options require for a clean flash? thanks.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] dpkmui8:
sorry everyone i figured the error code..thanks
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- new version of TWRP 3.5.1_10-0 is here, many thanks to @brigudav as always
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] iakoboss7:
Thanks, is orangefox still the way to go though?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] ven1x:
hm, I installed TWRP 3.5.1_10-0 via adb , getting bootloop? nothing else changed, older TWRP worked fine?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
adb?

either use extracted recovery.img from attached zip file and flash it via fastboot

or use attached zip file and flash it directly in custom recovery
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] m0han:
.img file has md5: 702828ed3a75c8ffc2c4be61439bc449 (from afh). care to post the .zip md5? also, changelog for yesterdays' release?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- md5 added to OP, no extra changelog for img file from AFH, md5 for twrp.img from zip file and for AFH img are identical, so it's the same file - only renamed

- readded zip file to OP - i must delete it by mistake yesterday while editing OP
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] ven1x:
my bad i get ADB and fastboot mixed up all the time. It seems there is some Issue with TWRP incorrectly wiping. I tried 2 stock ROMS same MIUI 12.0.8.0 (tried EU, got it working with GLOBAL, coming from 12.0.5.0) , and only one of them booted properly. And I was still logged into my google account despite having done several factory resets?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
well, I wouldn't exactly say it's only TWRP fault, as one of our devs here said early: "nothing ever gets deleted on this phone", IMHO that's a combination of several factors here, custom recoveries are (still) not ready to work with super partition correctly, but they getting there slowly...

you can try latest OFOX recovery, several people claims it's better at wiping system than TWRP, but ...

most of the time helps to reflash recovery version of MIUI before you flash any custom ROM, so you can try that...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] Alin45:
Seems it's a new update in the russian forum (twrp-3.5.1_10-1-surya.img) but not in androidfilehost. It's a beta release or what? I can't download it from russian forum, as usual :) I guess I have to subscribe, but my russian language knowledge is....nonexistent lol
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] jeryll:
- new version of TWRP 3.5.1_10-1 is here, many thanks to @brigudav as always

@Alin45 if you don't want to wait, just throw me an PM, I will update thread ASAP, login to 4pda.ru is extremely hard if you don't know russian (that damn captcha!)...
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Guides, News, & Discussion] SkaboXD:
I have login too. I can help plus I have amazing translation addon for Firefox. I learnt russian numbers too haha.