So I've done some testing and after a couple msmdownloadtool sessions I've come to the conclusion that the backup/restore feature in the official and unofficial TWRP for Oneplus 6t (I tested twrp-installer-fajita-3.2.3-1 and TWRP 3.2.3-28 Unofficial by mauronofrio) is borked. If you create a backup of boot,sys,vend,data and then restore it you end up only being able to boot to twrp and encrypted data? Is there currently any way to backup partitions without twrp? I tried flashfire which doesn't work on the 6t. can you backup in fastboot? Is this issue known? I can't seem to find much info on this.
Edit: Is there any alternitives to twrp atm for full backups?
fireeyeeian said:
So I've done some testing and after a couple msmdownloadtool sessions I've come to the conclusion that the backup/restore feature in the official and unofficial TWRP for Oneplus 6t (I tested twrp-installer-fajita-3.2.3-1 and TWRP 3.2.3-28 Unofficial by mauronofrio) is borked. If you create a backup of boot,sys,vend,data and then restore it you end up only being able to boot to twrp and encrypted data? Is there currently any way to backup partitions without twrp? I tried flashfire which doesn't work on the 6t. can you backup in fastboot? Is this issue known? I can't seem to find much info on this.
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In the thread they are mentioned that not to restore vender.
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vichao.s said:
In the thread they are mentioned that not to restore vender.
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Thanks, I didn't see that. What post was that in?
If that's the only reason it breaks then that's good.
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In the thread they are mentioned that not to restore vender.
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Just tried restoring a backup excluding vendor and same issue happens. Boots to twrp and only twrp plus encrypted data
I have tried so many different ways to back up and restore all with problems I have given up. I just use TWRP to flash zips until a Dev or someone with direct knowledge chimes and in responds to a simple question with regard to a proper back up and restore thats all I will use it for.
Archangel said:
I have tried so many different ways to back up and restore all with problems I have given up. I just use TWRP to flash zips until a Dev or someone with direct knowledge chimes and in responds to a simple question with regard to a proper back up and restore thats all I will use it for.
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Yes, after about 3-4 times having to resort to using msmdownloadtool after trying to find out what I was doing wrong. I'm going to do the same. Really wish that would have been listed as an issue on there site. I would have thought something like this would have been noticed by the twrp devs but intill it's fixed or adressed guess that's all we can use it for atm.
Thanks for the reply. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one having issues.
I don't know if it's related or not, but I've read somewhere that while backing up the boot partition it's adviced to remove the screen lock/fingerprint beforehand to avoid some issues during the restore.
Twrp restore is broken.
I don't use it anymore too
daspyki said:
I don't know if it's related or not, but I've read somewhere that while backing up the boot partition it's adviced to remove the screen lock/fingerprint beforehand to avoid some issues during the restore.
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yeah I always do that when backing up. not sure why the data becomes encrypted still. maybe its corrupted
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Hello, I'm still a noob so please pardon me, I was wondering, I'm planning to flash Ultra kernel to my MXP but I've got to have a backup plan in case of something went wrong. Yes, my MXP is still on its Original kernel.
So my question is what is MXP original kernel's name and any of you guys have the answer then may I trouble you to link me to the site that posted the Original kernel?
Thank you
HerySean said:
Hello, I'm still a noob so please pardon me, I was wondering, I'm planning to flash Ultra kernel to my MXP but I've got to have a backup plan in case of something went wrong. Yes, my MXP is still on its Original kernel.
So my question is what is MXP original kernel's name and any of you guys have the answer then may I trouble you to link me to the site that posted the Original kernel?
Thank you
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I am expecting that you are rooted and have twrp installed. Make a backup through twrp. If you flash any other kernel, then just flashing the backup kernel won't make you phone all working as wifi would break down.
So, take a twrp backup and if something's wrong, then restore the whole backup or just system.
K.khiladi said:
I am expecting that you are rooted and have twrp installed. Make a backup through twrp. If you flash any other kernel, then just flashing the backup kernel won't make you phone all working as wifi would break down.
So, take a twrp backup and if something's wrong, then restore the whole backup or just system.
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Yes, I'm already rooted and installed twrp, so restore my backup will eventually restore my original kernel?
in twrp while backing up you'll see a "boot" partition, that is your kernel.
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in twrp while backing up you'll see a "boot" partition, that is your kernel.
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So when I flash a new kernel, are all my data will be wiped? like it will automatically do a factory wipe?
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So when I flash a new kernel, are all my data will be wiped? like it will automatically do a factory wipe?
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No data would be wiped.
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Oh okay, thank you.
Hello,
i need help. I messed up my phone while trying to repair my only read mode system partition after boot.
Current state:
Phone CAN-L11 with EU Firmeware and working TWRP Recovery.
I did a full wipe, but have no data partition to restore, because this couldn´t be saved with twrp while i made my first nand backups during no read access to data partition.
My phone always shows 2 times the huawei logo and then boot in erecovery from huawei where i tried to restore, but it shows always "fail to get data" (wifi works).
When i restore all partitions backups that i own via twrp i miss the data partition (is the cause why it wont boot - isn´t it?)
Now i searched for any img that i can use to get my phone working again - anyone has a tip what img i could use (i have a huawei update extractor) - through twrp or fastboot.
Could anyone help me with a twrp backup or a img file of data partition - or has another tip how to get my phone working again?
Thanks for tips!
merlin21 said:
Hello,
i need help. I messed up my phone while trying to repair my only read mode system partition after boot.
Current state:
Phone CAN-L11 with EU Firmeware and working TWRP Recovery.
I did a full wipe, but have no data partition to restore, because this couldn´t be saved with twrp while i made my first nand backups during no read access to data partition.
My phone always shows 2 times the huawei logo and then boot in erecovery from huawei where i tried to restore, but it shows always "fail to get data" (wifi works).
When i restore all partitions backups that i own via twrp i miss the data partition (is the cause why it wont boot - isn´t it?)
Now i searched for any img that i can use to get my phone working again - anyone has a tip what img i could use (i have a huawei update extractor) - through twrp or fastboot.
Could anyone help me with a twrp backup or a img file of data partition - or has another tip how to get my phone working again?
Thanks for tips!
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I think that you need a system.img, so you can flash. This system imagem would write everything you need, so you can boot normally.
Have you tried to dowload @bluesmoothie backup from dropbox from the Root and Recovery post?
Here is the link, in case you don't find it https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qrk0fbpn5rnukxn/AAAmhFwBTNoqq0sWfCH-VMHLa?dl=0
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Here the full Backup for the CAN-L11:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B134drJ4-Ed0R3VSY3A5NGpjVWc
Format /data, reboot recovery and than restore from backup. After the restore is complete make a wipe.
I restored my system from twrp (original first save). But that did not help.
After that i loaded the can-L11c432 update.zip from huawei and extracted with others the system.img - that also did not help to boot.
Tomorrow i flashed the orignal recovery.img from c432 but i did not find an update.zip wich works to manually flash in stock recovery.
@Vinnom the link you shared leads to twrp.img (no system.img).
@-=MoRpH=- thanks, i will try and report back. Is this anyway a chinese version in there? I think i have the same struggle you had days back. Is your phone completely working again?
So sick that my phone did not work. Now working with my "old" LG G2...
I report back later - first family dinner
merlin21 said:
I restored my system from twrp (original first save). But that did not help.
After that i loaded the can-L11c432 update.zip from huawei and extracted with others the system.img - that also did not help to boot.
Tomorrow i flashed the orignal recovery.img from c432 but i did not find an update.zip wich works to manually flash in stock recovery.
@Vinnom the link you shared leads to twrp.img (no system.img).
@-=MoRpH=- thanks, i will try and report back. Is this anyway a chinese version in there? I think i have the same struggle you had days back. Is your phone completely working again?
So sick that my phone did not work. Now working with my "old" LG G2...
I report back later - first family dinner
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Inside the folder twrp and its subfolders there it is system.img. I'm downloading it myself.
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Share if you have another workarounds for me
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@merlin21 yes it sounds like my problem after I tried to flash the emui5 beta.
My phone is fully working again with the backup I posted.
This is not the Chinese version, if nothing works, you can try the caz ROM. But there are massive problems with the gapps, they are not included in the rom.
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i just flashed the twrp.img with fastboot from xelfmade v22.12. and then rebooted twrp.
Then formated data and confirmed with yes - rebooted recovery and tried to restore your twrp. It did not restore and aborted instantly with the error message
during restoreing cust...
extractTarFork() proecess ended with ERROR: 255
what could that be?
IT WORKS! Thanks @murph... I had to use the cust from my backup, but with your data partition it successfully booted again. Locking forward if i now have still the problem with read only system partition. I am away setting up phone again (and of course rooting, modifying etc.. but FIRST do a full backup after basic setup and safe in PC !!!)
Thanks!
P.S. how did you manage to back up data partition in recovery? I thought this wouldn't be possible?! What is the cost for having this full working twrp?
PPS. Somehow knock on screen for screenshot does not work - could be, that i have to log in with huawei id... does it work for you morp?
Somehow knock on screen for screenshot does not work - could be, that i have to log in with huawei id... does it work for you morp?
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That only work if the is not rooted... Idk whats up with that, but for now i use the quicksetting screenshot function.
Somehow it worked with my rooted device before. Must be the decrypted data partition?
With the recovery of your backup I could not access data or change memory from data to sd. What version do you use?
I flashed xelfmades v22 and now have rw access and could backup all partitions and restore. Root and xposed modules everything works, just the knock on screen to capture don't...
merlin21 said:
IT WORKS! Thanks @murph... I had to use the cust from my backup, but with your data partition it successfully booted again. Locking forward if i now have still the problem with read only system partition. I am away setting up phone again (and of course rooting, modifying etc.. but FIRST do a full backup after basic setup and safe in PC !!!)
Thanks!
P.S. how did you manage to back up data partition in recovery? I thought this wouldn't be possible?! What is the cost for having this full working twrp?
PPS. Somehow knock on screen for screenshot does not work - could be, that i have to log in with huawei id... does it work for you morp?
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I have the same problem! What do you mean by "I had to use the cust from my backup" ? Sadly i dont have any data from my own backup..
can you tell me what to do to get the backup from @murph to work without error?
--solved.
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--solved.
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May I ask how?
I'm kinda stuck personnaly. I have tried both Nand backups but no cigar. Still can't boot. I had the Data issue which I managed to get rid of.
I still end up with a ExtTarFork 255 kind of error. I tried to change the files attributes via adb shell, but it failed so I've got an OS-Less phone...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
rak500 said:
May I ask how?
I'm kinda stuck personnaly. I have tried both Nand backups but no cigar. Still can't boot. I had the Data issue which I managed to get rid of.
I still end up with a ExtTarFork 255 kind of error. I tried to change the files attributes via adb shell, but it failed so I've got an OS-Less phone...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I copied the backup, which is linked somewhere in this thread, to my sdcard and restored it on my Nova using twrp. The extractfork issue showed up while restoring '/cust' so i disselected cust in the restoring menu. After that the restoring worked and my nova was able to boot.
Hope this is any help to you.
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I copied the backup, which is linked somewhere in this thread, to my sdcard and restored it on my Nova using twrp. The extractfork issue showed up while restoring '/cust' so i disselected cust in the restoring menu. After that the restoring worked and my nova was able to boot.
Hope this is any help to you.
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That didn't do the trick for a while, or I might have forgotten a step, but deselecting CUST did the trick.
Thanks for the tip!
Although, maybe flashing the Cust partition I found in one of the two upgrade zips via fastboot might have helped? I dunno...
But in short, for those who haven't followed through, here's what I did, but I'm not sure this is why it worked:
1. Bricked my device : be sad;
2. DLed all the posted Nandroid backup on this thread and others;
3. With fastboot, reflashed TWRP from Xelfmade using "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img";
4. Flashed the CUST.img I found in the UPDATE.APP of the update_data_full_CAN-L11_hw_eu.zip; or maybe the other, only one of the two seem to have it; I extracted it using Huawei Firmware Extractor; using "fastboot flash cust cust.img";
5. Created a "fake" backup to create the right folder structure on my SD (TWRP Couldn't see the backups) and put the Nandroid Backups I DLed earlier in it;
6. Reboot in TWRP and Restore all partitions except CUST;
7. Reboot, sweat, wait, cry, roll on the floor in fear, heard the huawei startup sound, cried as if it was my first born child;
8. Setup the fone and profit; then enjoy Nova goodness;
92.324. and probably most important, TWRP BAAAACKUUUUP!!!!!
All done!
Thanks for your help my phone is saved with your method!!!
i downgraded my MLA-L03 variant with this, but now im stuck in french language with no other languages to choose from
Vinnom said:
I think that you need a system.img, so you can flash. This system imagem would write everything you need, so you can boot normally.
Have you tried to dowload @bluesmoothie backup from dropbox from the Root and Recovery post?
Here is the link, in case you don't find it https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qrk0fbpn5rnukxn/AAAmhFwBTNoqq0sWfCH-VMHLa?dl=0
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someone please make this thread sticky!!!!!!!
there are some guides in internet how to get nougat for nova and that is were I broke my phone. I was searching solutions for a week, DLed Flahsed tons of things nothing worked. this one fully worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rak500 said:
That didn't do the trick for a while, or I might have forgotten a step, but deselecting CUST did the trick.
Thanks for the tip!
Although, maybe flashing the Cust partition I found in one of the two upgrade zips via fastboot might have helped? I dunno...
But in short, for those who haven't followed through, here's what I did, but I'm not sure this is why it worked:
1. Bricked my device : be sad;
2. DLed all the posted Nandroid backup on this thread and others;
3. With fastboot, reflashed TWRP from Xelfmade using "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img";
4. Flashed the CUST.img I found in the UPDATE.APP of the update_data_full_CAN-L11_hw_eu.zip; or maybe the other, only one of the two seem to have it; I extracted it using Huawei Firmware Extractor; using "fastboot flash cust cust.img";
5. Created a "fake" backup to create the right folder structure on my SD (TWRP Couldn't see the backups) and put the Nandroid Backups I DLed earlier in it;
6. Reboot in TWRP and Restore all partitions except CUST;
7. Reboot, sweat, wait, cry, roll on the floor in fear, heard the huawei startup sound, cried as if it was my first born child;
8. Setup the fone and profit; then enjoy Nova goodness;
92.324. and probably most important, TWRP BAAAACKUUUUP!!!!!
All done!
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Hi. First of all, thanks for the tutorial. I've tried it but I have one problem. My /data particion is ext4. Should be f2fs. The thing is I can't convert coz my /data particion is unvisible
Can any help, please?
Bunkier said:
Hi. First of all, thanks for the tutorial. I've tried it but I have one problem. My /data particion is ext4. Should be f2fs. The thing is I can't convert coz my /data particion is unvisible
Can any help, please?
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Frankly, I don't know. I had not modified the partitions prior to bricking my phone, so I think the partitioning was OK. However, I think one of the TWRP availble in this forum can format Data partition properly, which would utlimately allow you to select which File Format you want. I haven't tried it myself, and I haven't been able to do much with TWRP since I flashed Lineage unfortunately. Most of my Mods were just upgrading and I had to ADB Sideload pretty much everything since I flashed Lineage...
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful than that!
It has been months since op5 come out, and the problem is that when restoring data partition from backups will lead to bootloop on OOS.
Has there been any fix on that?(official or non-official)
p.s. I have searched before, none of the recovery works for stock OOS, due to forced file encryption on OOS.
timescaming said:
It has been months since op5 come out, and the problem is that when restoring data partition from backups will lead to bootloop on OOS.
Has there been any fix on that?(official or non-official)
p.s. I have searched before, none of the recovery works for stock OOS, due to forced file encryption on OOS.
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Not just problems with OOS, custom ROM's give bootloop too
When you do a backup, you have to also backup the system image partition. That will make your backup around 8-10gb in size but then you can restore your data partition and not get a bootloop. I am on TWRP 3.1.1-1 cheeseburger TWRP. Make sure you're at least on that or the k2 version which I'm updating to soon.
Eric214 said:
When you do a backup, you have to also backup the system image partition. That will make your backup around 8-10gb in size but then you can restore your data partition and not get a bootloop. I am on TWRP 3.1.1-1 cheeseburger TWRP. Make sure you're at least on that or the k2 version which I'm updating to soon.
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So you can confirm it works?
Does this apply to OxygenOS too or just custom ROMs?
Jonathanve said:
Not just problems with OOS, custom ROM's give bootloop too
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I restore data on custom ROMs without issue when using K2 (with or without backing up the system partition). Not sure about OOS since I haven't used it in a very long time. I've been using RR-Official successfully for a few months.
sjamie said:
I restore data on custom ROMs without issue when using K2 (with or without backing up the system partition). Not sure about OOS since I haven't used it in a very long time. I've been using RR-Official successfully for a few months.
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I've personally try to backup and restore stock oos with the k3 version, ended up with a boot loop. Never tried k2 though, to scared to try again.
timescaming said:
I've personally try to backup and restore stock oos with the k3 version, ended up with a boot loop. Never tried k2 though, to scared to try again.
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Understood. LoL
Pwnycorn said:
So you can confirm it works?
Does this apply to OxygenOS too or just custom ROMs?
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Yes, it's works. But k2 apparently doesn't need the system image for data restore so your backups will be smaller and faster obviously.
Also, I'm on stock oos with stock kernel 4.5.10
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sjamie said:
I restore data on custom ROMs without issue when using K2 (with or without backing up the system partition). Not sure about OOS since I haven't used it in a very long time. I've been using RR-Official successfully for a few months.
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I can't seem to find the k2 file anywhere. Do you mind posting a kind to it so I can download?
Here you go: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=889764386195921506
lekiaM said:
Here you go: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=889764386195921506
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Awesome, thanks!
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Also, I'm on stock oos with stock kernel 4.5.10
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So it means k2 can perform restore on stock oos, gonna try again when I get home.
Did you decrypt your device, or remove screen lock on the device before backup? Or anything I should do before backup? Thanks.
timescaming said:
So it means k2 can perform restore on stock oos, gonna try again when I get home.
Did you decrypt your device, or remove screen lock on the device before backup? Or anything I should do before backup? Thanks.
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I ALWAYS remove screen locks and fingerprints before a backup. I also never decrypt my phone's, not worth it in my opinion.
Im curious if anyone has tried this to flash in TWRP to remove password and pin.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3gcDbDvV4MkSmNCcDdTcHpyanc/view?usp=drivesdk
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Eric214 said:
I ALWAYS remove screen locks and fingerprints before a backup. I also never decrypt my phone's, not worth it in my opinion.
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Thanks, I'll try later today.
So I realized the other day that restoring a TWRP backup that has an older security patch does the same thing as flashing a rom with an older patch. Encrypts EVERYTHING.
So my question is this: What are the steps to restoring a TWRP backup with an older security patch? Do you just format userdata in TWRP, copy the backup from a PC, and restore? Is there more steps than this? Thanks!
H4X0R46 said:
So I realized the other day that restoring a TWRP backup that has an older security patch does the same thing as flashing a rom with an older patch. Encrypts EVERYTHING.
So my question is this: What are the steps to restoring a TWRP backup with an older security patch? Do you just format userdata in TWRP, copy the backup from a PC, and restore? Is there more steps than this? Thanks!
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I'm interested in this too
Anybody? Any ground rules here?
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Anybody? Any ground rules here?
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In theory this should work , but i personally didn't try it ..
You can better put this question on the mauronofrio's twrp thread...
Hi everyone, I have problems recovering data with TWRP - "extracttarfork() process ended with error=255"
How to fix it?
i worked on TWRP v3.3.1-4 Miui.gr version
I got the same problem... I did't find the solution. Can someone help ?
k1n9n0th1n9 said:
Hi everyone, I have problems recovering data with TWRP - "extracttarfork() process ended with error=255"
How to fix it?
i worked on TWRP v3.3.1-4 Miui.gr version
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I had it too with many devices.
It really depends, some times, the TWRP can't access the partition it want to write. Other times, one file of the backup is corrupted (so it halt).
Try to change TWRP, mount the system partition and check. If it don't work.. i would say that you wont be able to fix with that backup in particular.
Try to make a new backup too, and restore from it to see if with the new backup, the problem persist.
Pupet_Master said:
I had it too with many devices.
It really depends, some times, the TWRP can't access the partition it want to write. Other times, one file of the backup is corrupted (so it halt).
Try to change TWRP, mount the system partition and check. If it don't work.. i would say that you wont be able to fix with that backup in particular.
Try to make a new backup too, and restore from it to see if with the new backup, the problem persist.
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hi, I had this, try doing the partitions separate, I did data afterwards following a reboot.
Try OrangeFox-R10.0_8-Stable-davinci recovery.
flamedrops said:
Try OrangeFox-R10.0_8-Stable-davinci recovery.
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Orange fox atm is the worse and most buggy recovery for K20
Pupet_Master said:
Orange fox atm is the worse and most buggy recovery for K20
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even the latest one?
flamedrops said:
even the latest one?
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Yeap, it is still in it's infancy, where other TWRPs solved some issues that even the latest OF still has
I have just made a new backup after restore from Titanium Backup, but after flash new firmware and test some new roms, some of apps were crushing after restore and must be installed and configured one again.