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Well well, look what I just stumbled across lol.
@simonsickle, in regards to my last pm I sent you, feel free to ignore it. Your OP in this thread just answered my question.

You guys are fortunate to have him over here. Busy man, but can put forth some good developments when he has the time.

Now for me to get to work :)
 

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@simonsickle I found a possibly major flaw in your recovery, I have the sprint htc one m8 HK edition and at some point it stopped being able to properly flash or restore roms. What happened was any time I'd go to flash a rom it would fail then instantly reboot, and if I tried a full restore of a backup (system, boot and data partitions) it would also fail to restore and instantly reboot. Even if I just wiped system, data, cache and dalvik cache to prepare for flashing a new rom it would complete the wipes but then instantly reboot as well.
I did manage to restore a backup but only by skipping the restore of the data partition, but I still could not install a new rom or wipe without the instant reboots.

I was about to flash a ruu, but then I decided to at least try a different recovery just hoping to not have to start from scratch and viola philz touch recovery worked perfectly.
The issues i had with your twrp leads me to believe that somehow your twrp recovery might not be properly formatting the partitions in some causes causing any modifications to that partition (data partition?) to not execute properly and hence cause a failed flash and reboot.

Hopefully you have some insight into what the cause may be and can get it fixed (I've always been a fan of twrp and hate not being able to use it)
If it will help I can attempt to try your twrp again, maybe wiping and flashing in philz touch somehow fixed things so twrp will work again?
 

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@simonsickle I found a possibly major flaw in your recovery, I have the sprint htc one m8 HK edition and at some point it stopped being able to properly flash or restore roms. What happened was any time I'd go to flash a rom it would fail then instantly reboot, and if I tried a full restore of a backup (system, boot and data partitions) it would also fail to restore and instantly reboot. Even if I just wiped system, data, cache and dalvik cache to prepare for flashing a new rom it would complete the wipes but then instantly reboot as well.
I did manage to restore a backup but only by skipping the restore of the data partition, but I still could not install a new rom or wipe without the instant reboots.

I was about to flash a ruu, but then I decided to at least try a different recovery just hoping to not have to start from scratch and viola philz touch recovery worked perfectly.
The issues i had with your twrp leads me to believe that somehow your twrp recovery might not be properly formatting the partitions in some causes causing any modifications to that partition (data partition?) to not execute properly and hence cause a failed flash and reboot.

Hopefully you have some insight into what the cause may be and can get it fixed (I've always been a fan of twrp and hate not being able to use it)
If it will help I can attempt to try your twrp again, maybe wiping and flashing in philz touch somehow fixed things so twrp will work again?

This was never released for HK. Issues probably exist. I have a unified one flash twrp coming eventually. Give me a while for that.

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metalspring

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This was never released for HK. Issues probably exist. I have a unified one flash twrp coming eventually. Give me a while for that.

Sent from my 831C using Tapatalk

True, but the hk version supposedly is exactly the same as the regular version for sprint except for some software included in the stock rom, apparently there is some difference somewhere then. Hopefully the new unified version will fix it, if you need any testers later on, I'm certainly up for it
 

simonsickle

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True, but the hk version supposedly is exactly the same as the regular version for sprint except for some software included in the stock rom, apparently there is some difference somewhere then. Hopefully the new unified version will fix it, if you need any testers later on, I'm certainly up for it

Hboot and drivers are actually different too.

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Would it be possible for "Themers" to get the ability to get native support for more animation options, like page transitions, and different loading bars? I would absolutely love to see a more theme friendly TWRP, as we are limited right now.

Thank you for all your hard work on this recovery by the way!

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simonsickle

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The official build is already unified.

No sense 'figuring out' what's already been figured out. See my github: https://github.com/CaptainThrowback/omni_device_m8_TWRP

That's what the official is based off of now.

P.S. And when I say "unified," I mean it works for all M8 variants, not just both Sprint variants.
I have fixed a few npe in the kernel when using older hboots and it handles zip verification better. Twrp and cannibal open touch
 

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