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PhilZ-cwm6 - Safe Stock Based Kernel
Featuring PhilZ Touch 6
(Enhanced CWM v6.x, now with exFat+ext4 support)
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< init.d, customboot, dual USB mount in recovery >
< root, adb root, multiboot anim >
Kernel Features:
- Patched kernel to avoid brick bug issues on ICS 4.0.4
- PhilZ Touch Recovery: enhanced clockworkmod 6 full touch based recovery
- Pure stock kernel (only ramdisk changes)
- Can be flashed in Stock Recovery (root + no yellow triangle) or in Odin
- Init.d and customboot.sh support
- Introduced support for custom MULTI bootanimation (bin and zip)
- Dual USB mount in recovery support
- ADB root in recovery: just wait about a minute to activate
PhilZ Touch Features: Read POST 2 for instructions to use special functions like aroma and ors support
- touch interface:
- toggle between 4 touch modes: FULL TOUCH, DOUBLE TAP to validate and SEMI TOUCH (scroll but no touch validation) and NO TOUCH to only use hardware keys
- written from scratch full touch code
- safe full touch : no wrongly validations while scrolling
- when you set full touch mode, it defaults to optimized settings for menu height, scroll sensitivity and touch accuracy (you still can alter them manually later)
- adjust scroll sensitivity in a huge palette
- adjust menu height in a huge palette
- adjust touch accuracy
- 30 color settings for each of the 8 GUI parts + 5 alpha transparency settings
- user custom background png can be selected in addition to 30 solid colors option
- show / hide background icon
- show / hide bottom virtual buttons
- show/hide + set color and transparency for menu line separators to match solid color themes, like Black...
- set number of bottom log rows to show
- Friendly Log View and pause on logs: no more miss logs during zip installs
- auto dim screen after user configurable delay
- auto turn off screen after user configurable delay
- adjust brightness and turn off screen with a gesture action
- show/hide clock and remaining battery %, even during nandroid operations
- clock and battery stats now effectively refresh every 30 seconds and during nandroid operations
- toggle vibrator on/off on touch
- toggle key repeat for volume up/down scrolling when maintained pressed
- key repeat also enabled for virtual buttons
- set time zone + 30mn offset + DST: correct time can now be set for nandroid backup path and clock
- time setting is now applied to all recovery session, including timestamp of created/modified files (v4.92.3+)
- capture recovery screen shots with a gesture action
- one file to save all settings
- backup and restore settings file
- reset to default settings option
- prompt to restore your settings from a backup when they are wiped by a new ROM install
- option to auto restore your settings from a backup without a prompt
- all toggles are applied live, without restart of recovery (except reset of stock CWM background image)
- toggle menu options are automatically right aligned and menu text left aligned based on device display size
- configurable gesture actions: double tap, slide right/left, long press/lift, long press/move, can be associated with any of: show log, change brightness, blank screen, capture screen shot, launch Aroma File Manager
Note: after scroll, first touch will select only. After one sec of scrolling or on second touch, it will validate immeadiately. This is by design and not a bug. It is there to limit erroneous validation while scrolling
Read more about it here: Validation Lock after scrolling
- First to introduce true JB 4.2 migration: toggle between /data/media and /data/media/0
- browse phone with root access using full GUI in Aroma File Manager
- terminal access from recovery with root access through Aroma File Manager
- Multi Zip Install menu: check multiple zip files to install in a row
- Custom Install Zip Mode: set a default folder to start with + browse backward up to the root
- exFAT + ext4 support in recovery for external sd
- TWRP backup and restore support, include full md5 sum support (single and multivolume, compressed and non compressed formats)
- Advanced statistics during backup operations shown in color: total backup size, backup size progress, backup time, compression ratio...
- support .android_secure backup/restore from external storage and exfat partitions
- optional reboot after custom backups/restores
- sd-ext support (ext4)
- nandroid backups support /preload in backup and restore jobs (custom and stock modes)
- nandroid backups support /misc in backup and restore jobs (custom mode)
- set special nandroid settings: time zone, toggle md5 check for lightning fast backup and restore, toggle /preload backup and restore, enable nandroid compression using pigz (multi-cpu gzip compression) and choose ors backup target volume
- you can cancel any nandroid operation with back button
- create custom_rom.zip from current ROM or from a pre-existing nandroid backup (based on boot, /system and optionally /preload)
- nandroid backup path now will be named with current ROM id from build.prop (ro.modversion, then ro.romversion, then ro.build.display.id)
- custom backup and restore job list: backup and restore freely any partition combo (include modem and efs) from old nandroid folder or new custom_backup one
- backup/restore EFS in both tar + img formats, now with time incremented copies for both tar and .img
- support flash modem.bin image files in addition to custom modem.img files, now support for multiple *.bin versions under dedicated folder
- during custom restore, you can see the contents of the folder you want to restore from
- delete custom or TWRP backups from recovery menu
- full wipe before flashing new ROM: wipe user data + format /system and /preload. SD card content is not affected
- full support for openrecovery script specifications include all backup and restore options
- run openrecovery scripts in 2 modes: on start goomanager boot scripts + one touch menu to either directly open a default path or freely browse for scripts
- define ors backup target volume from within Nandroid Settings menu
- ors restore path supports stock clockworkmod path, TWRP path and custom_backup path
- poweroff, reboot to recovery and reboot to download/bootloader mode options
- dual USB mount in recovery support and mount external sd over usb for /data/media devices
- adb root in recovery: just wait about a minute to activate
- detailed build info in About menu
Video Teaser:
new update soon...
Main menu and PhilZ Settings
GUI Preferences: all is applied live (no reboot). Up to 14 menu height settings, scroll sensitivity, touch accuracy...
27 color settings + 5 alpha transparency levels for every GUI element
Change background image with a custom png (of your device resolution), a solid color (27 presets) or revert to original cwm image
User configurable touch gestures (feel free to request for new actions)
Setup your time-zone + 30mn offset, super wipe option to install a new ROM
Backup and Restore any partition in a complete freedom, include modem (.img + .bin) and efs (.img + .tar)
Custom backups can also be restored by original CWM Advanced Restore Menu
TWRP Backup and Restore Support + md5 + single/multivolume format
Support multi-cpu compression, md5 check toggle and custom .android_secure path
Choose ors backup volume target
Flash multiple zip files in a raw
Aroma File Manager + Terminal Emulator: launch with a gesture action (double tap is default)
Full Wipe to Install a new ROM (sdcard is preserved)
Free Browse Mode to install zip files: select a default folder to start with and browse up to the root
Enjoy, and do not hesitate to post feedbacks and comments
