[d2tmo][CWM Advanced Edition] PhilZ Touch

Phil3759 · Jun 4, 2013

Main thread + features + install instructions + dev support
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201860

PhilZ Touch is a CWM Advanced Edition that adds all the features you could ever miss in CWM
It is a well proven recovery for many phones

It also adds a full touch interface a completely configurable GUI

Please give your feedback, what works, and any bug you could encounter
Read the features, and check if you are missing something

Also, do not forget to read about the powerful aroma file manager integration and double tap shortcut

Download links
Last version can be found here:

Now: one common recovery for all: d2lte
The below specific variants are no more updated, use d2lte common variant

SGH-T999 (d2tmo)
http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition

Phil3759 · Jun 4, 2013

Reporting issues:
1- Keep in mind I do not own the device: be precise in your description providing step by step details and screen log output
2- Provide a log: Advanced / Report Error, then attach the philz_recovery.log here

exfat is enabled: report if working or not
Let me know about any issue so that we can debug it + LOGS

mt3g · Jun 4, 2013

Downloading now, will flash in a second or two and report back.

Phil3759 · Jun 4, 2013

mt3g said:
Downloading now, will flash in a second or two and report back.

Will be waiting for first feedbacks, first bugs, or a first perfect (would be rare, even if I am getting a bit used now to Qualcomm devices)

mt3g · Jun 4, 2013

Flashes fine and looks great.
The time is off by 7 hours for me looked in settings for creating a time zone slot, with no success. The screenshot feature is dope but didn't work, gave me tears and not visible screens. Will flash a kernel in a second to test that much out. Will flash a ROM and create a backup later to test more thorough. The screen is what I got from swipe to left for screenshot in recovery.
EDIT: Kernel falshed fine. so all in all no real issues to report as it works as a recovery should, all but testing nandroid and restoring.
T-Mobile SGS III

Phil3759 · Jun 4, 2013

mt3g said:
Flashes fine and looks great.
The time is off by 7 hours for me looked in settings for creating a time zone slot, with no success. The screenshot feature is dope but didn't work, gave me tears and not visible screens. Will flash a kernel in a second to test that much out. Will flash a ROM and create a backup later to test more thorough. The screen is what I got from swipe to left for screenshot in recovery.
EDIT: Kernel falshed fine. so all in all no real issues to report as it works as a recovery should, all but testing nandroid and restoring.
T-Mobile SGS III

Thank you for the positiv eearly report
fb2png for screenshots doesn't support most new boards. Hopefully it will be fixed later
Time is GMT by default. Time zone can be set under GUI settings, it should work. If not, provide a log

mt3g · Jun 4, 2013

Phil3759 said:
Thank you for the positiv eearly report
fb2png for screenshots doesn't support most new boards. Hopefully it will be fixed later
Time is GMT by default. Time zone can be set under GUI settings, it should work. If not, provide a log

It sure was and time is correct now, I like the brightness settings also, lots of goodies in there. I'll report back later tonight if no one else does on nandroid and such.

Alpha_wolf · Jun 4, 2013

ill try it out im using twrp recovery so itll be fun to try something new lol

omg! its touch enabled

and i like the color at first the layout is a win for me so far and ui is to
great job

clock is working changed to my time zone with daylight savings time fine

omg just found out i can you my home back and menu in it

im having fun playing with it im easy to entertain lol give me a break

ok new favorite recovery lol im hooked lol

Phil3759 · Jun 4, 2013

I do not expect any issue with nandroid backups as it was largely debugged now on other devices
However:
- Mount USB storage works?
- exfat is ok?
- A last important point: when you boot into recovery, /system is mounted or unmounted? To see this, go into Mounts and Storage menu after you booted in recovery. /system should show (mount) and not (unmount)

I ask this to tune things if needed as this is completely repacked around stock ramdisk and kernel to enable exfat mainly

mt3g · Jun 4, 2013

My stuff is fat32 so I can't help there... system is not mounted it shows mount/ system

Synthetic.Nightmare · Jun 4, 2013

Just booting into it and scrolling through some of the options was a treat within itself. Don't have much more to say (that hasn't been said already) but I'm glad we're able to have such a refined recovery. I'll let you know if I bump into any issues, as I tend to not stay in recovery mode for too long (when I actually have something to flash, etc. I'll test more). Thanks!

Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

ChitownWingMan · Jun 5, 2013

Phil3759 said:
Main thread + features + install instructions + dev support
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201860

PhilZ Touch is a CWM Advanced Edition that adds all the features you could ever miss in CWM
It is a well proven recovery for many phones

It also adds a full touch interface a completely configurable GUI

Please give your feedback, what works, and any bug you could encounter
Read the features, and check if you are missing something

Also, do not forget to read about the powerful aroma file manager integration and double tap shortcut

Download links
Last version can be found here:

I was able to install it perfectly with Odin with the only difference from your installation instructions being that the phone rebooted into normal mode, so I just entered recovery mode via Rom Toolbox.

I am unable to access an external 64GB SDXC formatted as exFat. I tried to mount /external_sd and /sd-ext and neither one worked. I don't know if this is relevant but the normal mount point for the external SD card on the Galaxy S3 is /mnt/extSdCard.

The aroma file manager doesn't see the external card either.

Everything else seems to be working though I haven't tried to do a backup or a restore.

Thanks for your help...

LuigiBull23 · Jun 5, 2013

Love the UI! Very easy to navigate. Everything seems to be running smoothly so far. Installed a few AOSP and TW ROMs successfully. Kernels I've tested are BMS, KT747, and LK. All were successful as well.

EDIT: Backup and restore options seem to work just fine. No issues with Mounts or storage I'm on a fat32 card so I can't test exfat unfortunately. Will let you know if anything comes up within the next day or 2.
Thank you very much for sharing this. It is pretty dope.

Phil3759 · Jun 5, 2013

Thank you all
Will wait a bit more for reports about exfat
Some 64Gb cards always caused issues on some phones, mainly if they were not formatted as they should (primary partition and default block size)

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

galahadUSA · Jun 5, 2013

I tried flashing the zip file but install keeps aborting?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

ChitownWingMan · Jun 5, 2013

Phil3759 said:
Thank you all
Will wait a bit more for reports about exfat
Some 64Gb cards always caused issues on some phones, mainly if they were not formatted as they should (primary partition and default block size)

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

When I had problems with the early exfat drivers from Samsung, I reformatted the card as Fat32 and ran with that for some time. After installing an update from Samsung/T-Mobile where the exFat issues were fixed I used the following procedure to convert the card to exFat:

1. Copied all data from the card to a PC via a card reader.
2. Deleted all partitions from the card using a partition manager on the pc
3. Installed the card into the phone and let the phone partition and reformat the card.
4. Copied all data from the PC back to the card via a card reader.
5. Re-installed the card into the phone.

It has been several months since I converted the card back to exFat and I have had no problems with app on the phone accessing the card. This include Nandroid Manager, Online Nandroid and Titanium Backup as well as all of the normal Android utilities.

The partition information is:

Partition Type: Primary
Psttition Type Id: 0x0C
File System: exFAT
Serial #: 0
First Physical Sector: 2048 (Cyl: 0, Hd:32, Sect: 33)
Last Physical Sector 124735487 (Cyl: 7764, Hd: 108, Sect: 24)
Total Physical Sectors: 124733440 (60905.0MB)
Physical Geometry: 7764 Cyls, 255 Hds, 64 Sects.

That's the best that I could do on short notice. I am trying to find a utility that will give me more information under Windows 7.

Thanks again and again...

Mike

P.S. If I can help with some testing or programming, please let me know. I'm fighting learning java but I am pretty good with C/C++ and assembler.

Phil3759 · Jun 5, 2013

ChitownWingMan said:
When I had problems with the early exfat drivers from Samsung, I reformatted the card as Fat32 and ran with that for some time. After installing an update from Samsung/T-Mobile where the exFat issues were fixed I used the following procedure to convert the card to exFat:

1. Copied all data from the card to a PC via a card reader.
2. Deleted all partitions from the card using a partition manager on the pc
3. Installed the card into the phone and let the phone partition and reformat the card.
4. Copied all data from the PC back to the card via a card reader.
5. Re-installed the card into the phone.

It has been several months since I converted the card back to exFat and I have had no problems with app on the phone accessing the card. This include Nandroid Manager, Online Nandroid and Titanium Backup as well as all of the normal Android utilities.

The partition information is:

Partition Type: Primary
Psttition Type Id: 0x0C
File System: exFAT
Serial #: 0
First Physical Sector: 2048 (Cyl: 0, Hd:32, Sect: 33)
Last Physical Sector 124735487 (Cyl: 7764, Hd: 108, Sect: 24)
Total Physical Sectors: 124733440 (60905.0MB)
Physical Geometry: 7764 Cyls, 255 Hds, 64 Sects.

That's the best that I could do on short notice. I am trying to find a utility that will give me more information under Windows 7.

Thanks again and again...

Mike

P.S. If I can help with some testing or programming, please let me know. I'm fighting learning java but I am pretty good with C/C++ and assembler.

Sadly, without a recovery log or even better a dmsg log, I cannot help a lot
exfat drivers are from /system/lib, so the ones used by your ROM. They are not bundled with the recovery as that causes issues for some

can you try this in adb shell:

Code:

mount -t extfat /external_sd

Give the error message if it fails
If it fails, try this

Code:

mount /system
insmod -f -v /system/lib/modules/exfat_core.ko
insmod -f -v /system/lib/modules/exfat_fs.ko
mount -t extfat /external_sd

Give output of these command lines if they do fail

ChitownWingMan · Jun 5, 2013

Phil3759 said:
Sadly, without a recovery log or even better a dmsg log, I cannot help a lot
exfat drivers are from /system/lib, so the ones used by your ROM. They are not bundled with the recovery as that causes issues for some

can you try this in adb shell:

Code:

mount -t extfat /external_sd

Give the error message if it fails
If it fails, try this

Code:

mount /system insmod -f -v /system/lib/modules/exfat_core.ko insmod -f -v /system/lib/modules/exfat_fs.ko mount -t extfat /external_sd

Give output of these command lines if they do fail

Manual mount:

~ # mount -t extfat /external_sd
mount -t extfat /external_sd
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /external_sd failed: Invalid argument

The mount was successful after the insmod commands. I was also able to cd to /external_sd and do an "ls -l".

Can I modify a script to include the insmod's or do you have to do it?

Thanks again...

Phil3759 · Jun 5, 2013

ChitownWingMan said:
Manual mount:

~ # mount -t extfat /external_sd
mount -t extfat /external_sd
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /external_sd failed: Invalid argument

The mount was successful after the insmod commands. I was also able to cd to /external_sd and do an "ls -l".

Can I modify a script to include the insmod's or do you have to do it?

Thanks again...

Ok, we're on the way to fix it
Can you try this now, in adb shell, after a recovery reboot please

Code:

mount /system
insmod /system/lib/modules/exfat_core.ko
insmod /system/lib/modules/exfat_fs.ko
mount -t extfat /external_sd

That way I can limit the potential causes. It is same as above without insmod options in command

ChitownWingMan · Jun 5, 2013

Phil3759 said:
Ok, we're on the way to fix it
Can you try this now, in adb shell, after a recovery reboot please

Code:

mount /system insmod /system/lib/modules/exfat_core.ko insmod /system/lib/modules/exfat_fs.ko mount -t extfat /external_sd

That way I can limit the potential causes

Before I tried what you asked I rebooted into recovery. In other words, I ran the adb shell commands while the phone was in your recovery program. Is that what you mean?

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