[APOLLO/RECOVERY LOCKED] Safestrap Recovery v3.72/v3.75 [B02 2014-07-03]

[Hashcode]

SAFESTRAP FOR THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)

ATTENTION: I will be stopping official Safestrap support on 9/1/2014. For more information please see:
https://plus.google.com/111109372727398356624/posts/AtoJ3xLj35b


*** DISCLAIMER ***
I work on projects that may brick your device. Don't sue me, hate me or try and kill my dog if that happens. I will feel bad the community will feel bad and hopefully we'll find a way to get you going again. But, the very nature of my projects involves a certain amount of risk taken by YOU. And by using the projects that I work on, you've accepted that fact.

THANKS TO MY TESTERS:
Scepterr (Who I bricked during testing and had to replace his device)
Gamma-X
GSLEON

PLEASE PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH SAFESTRAP!!
MAKE A BACKUP OF STOCK RIGHT AFTER YOU GET SAFESTRAP INSTALLED SO THAT YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF DISASTER RECOVERY.
THEN YOU CAN RESTORE IT TO A ROM-SLOT (AFTER YOU MAKE ONE).
ONLY MODIFY ROM-SLOT FILES. LEAVE YOUR STOCK ROM ALONE!!


WARNING: THERE IS AN UNKNOWN ISSUE WHERE IF YOU HAVE ENCRYPTION ENABLED AND INSTALL SS IT BOOTLOOPS. IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SAFESTRAP FOR NOW.


UNKNOWN ISSUE: If you try and start Wifi and the device crashes/reboots, try turning on bluetooth prior to enabling wifi and see if that works.


CURRENT PROJECT STATUS:
BETA-STABLE


WHAT IS SAFESTRAP?

Safestrap is a Bootstrap / Recovery for locked bootloader phones. The goal is to avoid touching your primary system (I'll call this "stock" system) and only flash or make large changes to another place on your phone that Safestrap treats as a "2nd system" (in this case, it's a series of virtual ROM slots located on the internal emmc area: "/sdcard"). Once installed, you will see a "Splashscreen" giving you the option to hit "menu" to enter recovery. The recovery portion of Safestrap is now based on TWRP 2.7.1.x (a touch based recovery) and you can perform .zip installs, backups and restores here. The additional features I've added to TWRP are mostly located under the "Boot Options" menu:

1. Here you can create virtual ROM-slots for flashing ROMs. These ROM-slots allow for different sizes of /system, /data and /cache partitions. The defaults *SHOULD* be good enough for flashing the stock-based ROMs.
   
   NOTE: The bigger you make these partition the less room you will have to make other ROM-slots.
2. You can activate a new ROM-slot by choosing the slot you wish to make active and then selecting the "Activate" button. Once active, you will see the "rom-slot#" up in the top of the screen shown in green. If you make the "stock" ROM active, then you can see it in the top shown in red.
3. Once a ROM-slot is active, all actions you would normally perform using TWRP are directed to that ROM-slot. For example, "Install" to flash a .zip, backup and restore.
4. For more information you can read up here:
   http://blog.hash-of-codes.com/how-to-safestrap/

HOW DO I INSTALL SAFESTRAP?

1. Requirement: Rooted w/ SuperSU installed
2. Requirement: Allow APK install from Unknown Sources
3. Download the Safestrap APK
4. Find the APK using a Filemanager tool and open it on your device, then click "Install".
5. (If updating from an existing Safestrap you might be warned that this will over-write the existing installation. Click the "Yes" equivalent to this message.)
6. Once installed, open up the Safestrap application as you would any other app.
7. Agree to the disclaimer that you won't try to sue me and hunt me down with a rifle if you manage to break your phone..
8. Then use the "Install Recovery" button. You should see the current version down in the lower left corner of the window. And the "Status:" should say "Installed" when you're done.
9. From there you can reboot and you *should* see a new splash screen during the boot up. While this is showing you can enter Safestrap Recovery using the [ menu ] button.
10. That's it for the installation! Read below for a brief overview of Safestrap Recovery v3.x

HOW DO I ENTER RECOVERY?

During each reboot a splashscreen will be displayed showing whether the device is running a rom-slot or on the "Stock ROM".
Press the button shown on the screen to either enter "RECOVERY" or "CONTINUE" booting.

HOW DO I UPGRADE SAFESTRAP?

• Push the APK up to your sdcard.
• Boot back into the "stock" rom-slot.
• Go into your old Safestrap app and use the "Uninstall Recovery" button
• Open an "explorer" of some sort (ESFileExplorer, etc)
• Browse to where you pushed the APK
• Click on it and install like normal
• Once installed, open the APK
• Grant SU access
• Use the "Install Recovery" button
• All set, now you can reboot and re-activate whatever rom-slot you were using

DOWNLOADS:
CONFIRM YOUR STOCK OS VERSION BELOW AND THAT YOU ARE USING THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)
[14.3.2.1 and earlier] LATEST FILE: Safestrap-Apollo-3.72.apk
[14.3.2.3.2 and later] LATEST FILE: Safestrap-Apollo-3.75-os3.2.4-B02.apk
Mirror 1: Crackflasher Download
Mirror 2: Goo.im Download


To root, I recommend flashing SuperSU.zip from here and flash in Safestrap to the active rom-slot after flashing the ROM:
http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu


As of version 3.75, Safestrap Recovery is now based on TWRP 2.7.1.x. For more on TWRP you can visit their website: http://www.teamw.in/

WARNING: Safestrap is heavily modified to be "Safe" for your device. Do not download TWRP from their website and expect it to work the same way. Also TWRP does not support Safestrap, tho some issues that may come up will be TWRP dependant, please try and contact myself or look on the forums for your device for answers before hunting down TWRP people. They won't be able to help w/ Safestrap specific questions.

For the purposes of direct user testing I've established a channel on freenode.net IRC: #safestrap
I'm in the channel mostly all the time, but may not be active for discussion.

Special Thanks To
DeesTroy & TeamWin for all their hard work making TWRP such a fantastic recovery

 

[Hashcode]

For those that missed it in the 1st post:

PLEASE PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH SAFESTRAP!!
MAKE A BACKUP OF STOCK RIGHT AFTER YOU GET SAFESTRAP INSTALLED SO THAT YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF DISASTER RECOVERY.
THEN YOU CAN RESTORE IT TO A ROM-SLOT (AFTER YOU MAKE ONE).
ONLY MODIFY ROM-SLOT FILES. LEAVE YOUR STOCK ROM ALONE!!


KNOWN ISSUES WHEN USING ROM-SLOTS (The ROMs are kept on loop device mounted partitions)
1. In theory you will lose an extra 3-4 percent battery compared to normal usage from 100% to 0% due to the extra read/write work involved when using ROM-slots.
2. The /data partition is kept separate from the "/sdcard" contents on SS ROMs. This causes the Storage settings to only show the size of the loopback data partition and then it shows "used" which includes the "sdcard" + /data so this can look odd at times (larger usage than partition size). It doesn't have any adverse affects that I know of.
3. No custom kernel flashing support at this time. Don't try it. It won't work. All kernels need to be signed by Amazon at the moment.

CHANGELOG:

• [v3.75]TWRP 2.7.1.0 update + display fix for 14.3.2.3.2/14.3.2.4
• [v3.72]TWRP 2.7.0.0 update. *** This includes a bugfix for backup time showing correctly ***
• [v3.72]Raised /data partition size to 16gb
• [v3.72]Swapped "Reboot" -> "Download" mode to "Reboot" -> "Bootloader" (places you in fastboot mode)
• [v3.71-B05]New QCOM recovery graphics patch to fix devices with larger than 2048 width
• [v3.71-B05]Fixed touchscreen rotation (off by 90 degrees)
• [v3.71-B05]WIP adb access in recovery (may only work on Linux for now)
• [v3.71-B05]Initial release for Apollo (Kindle HDX 8.9")

 

[dcoig1]

Nice.

 

[WebDev28]

SAFESTRAP FOR THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)

*** DISCLAIMER ***
I work on projects that may brick your device. Don't sue me, hate me or try and kill my dog if that happens. I will feel bad the community will feel bad and hopefully we'll find a way to get you going again. But, the very nature of my projects involves a certain amount of risk taken by YOU. And by using the projects that I work on, you've accepted that fact.

THANKS TO MY TESTERS:
Scepterr (Who I bricked during testing and had to replace his device)
Gamma-X

PLEASE PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH SAFESTRAP!!
MAKE A BACKUP OF STOCK RIGHT AFTER YOU GET SAFESTRAP INSTALLED SO THAT YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF DISASTER RECOVERY.
THEN YOU CAN RESTORE IT TO A ROM-SLOT (AFTER YOU MAKE ONE).
ONLY MODIFY ROM-SLOT FILES. LEAVE YOUR STOCK ROM ALONE!!


WARNING: THERE IS AN UNKNOWN ISSUE WHERE IF YOU HAVE ENCRYPTION ENABLED AND INSTALL SS IT BOOTLOOPS. IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SAFESTRAP FOR NOW.


CURRENT PROJECT STATUS:
ALPHA


WHAT IS SAFESTRAP?

Safestrap is a Bootstrap / Recovery for locked bootloader phones. The goal is to avoid touching your primary system (I'll call this "stock" system) and only flash or make large changes to another place on your phone that Safestrap treats as a "2nd system" (in this case, it's a series of virtual ROM slots located on the internal emmc area: "/sdcard"). Once installed, you will see a "Splashscreen" giving you the option to hit "menu" to enter recovery. The recovery portion of Safestrap is now based on TWRP 2.6.3.x (a touch based recovery) and you can perform .zip installs, backups and restores here. The additional features I've added to TWRP are mostly located under the "Boot Options" menu:

1. Here you can create virtual ROM-slots for flashing ROMs. These ROM-slots allow for different sizes of /system, /data and /cache partitions. The defaults *SHOULD* be good enough for flashing the stock-based ROMs.
   
   NOTE: The bigger you make these partition the less room you will have to make other ROM-slots.
2. You can activate a new ROM-slot by choosing the slot you wish to make active and then selecting the "Activate" button. Once active, you will see the "rom-slot#" up in the top of the screen shown in green. If you make the "stock" ROM active, then you can see it in the top shown in red.
3. Once a ROM-slot is active, all actions you would normally perform using TWRP are directed to that ROM-slot. For example, "Install" to flash a .zip, backup and restore.
4. For more information you can read up here:
   http://blog.hash-of-codes.com/how-to-safestrap/

HOW DO I INSTALL SAFESTRAP?

1. Requirement: Rooted w/ SuperSU installed
2. Requirement: Allow APK install from Unknown Sources
3. Download the Safestrap APK
4. Find the APK using a Filemanager tool and open it on your device, then click "Install".
5. (If updating from an existing Safestrap you might be warned that this will over-write the existing installation. Click the "Yes" equivalent to this message.)
6. Once installed, open up the Safestrap application as you would any other app.
7. Agree to the disclaimer that you won't try to sue me and hunt me down with a rifle if you manage to break your phone..
8. Then use the "Install Recovery" button. You should see the current version down in the lower left corner of the window. And the "Status:" should say "Installed" when you're done.
9. From there you can reboot and you *should* see a new splash screen during the boot up. While this is showing you can enter Safestrap Recovery using the [ menu ] button.
10. That's it for the installation! Read below for a brief overview of Safestrap Recovery v3.x

HOW DO I ENTER RECOVERY?

During each reboot a splashscreen will be displayed showing whether the device is running a rom-slot or on the "Stock ROM".
Press the button shown on the screen to either enter "RECOVERY" or "CONTINUE" booting.

HOW DO I UPGRADE SAFESTRAP?

• Push the APK up to your sdcard.
• Boot back into the "stock" rom-slot.
• Go into your old Safestrap app and use the "Uninstall Recovery" button
• Open an "explorer" of some sort (ESFileExplorer, etc)
• Browse to where you pushed the APK
• Click on it and install like normal
• Once installed, open the APK
• Grant SU access
• Use the "Install Recovery" button
• All set, now you can reboot and re-activate whatever rom-slot you were using

DOWNLOADS:
CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE USING THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)
LATEST FILE: Safestrap-Apollo-3.71-B06.apk
Mirror 1: Goo.im Download
Mirror 2: Crackflasher Download


To root, I recommend flashing SuperSU.zip from here and flash in Safestrap to the active rom-slot after flashing the ROM:
http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu


As of version 3.6x, Safestrap Recovery is now based on TWRP 2.6.3.x. For more on TWRP you can visit their website: http://www.teamw.in/

WARNING: Safestrap is heavily modified to be "Safe" for your device. Do not download TWRP from their website and expect it to work the same way. Also TWRP does not support Safestrap, tho some issues that may come up will be TWRP dependant, please try and contact myself or look on the forums for your device for answers before hunting down TWRP people. They won't be able to help w/ Safestrap specific questions.

For the purposes of direct user testing I've established a channel on freenode.net IRC: #safestrap
I'm in the channel mostly all the time, but may not be active for discussion.

Special Thanks To
DeesTroy & TeamWin for all their hard work making TWRP such a fantastic recovery

Thank you

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[fierce_brake]

SAFESTRAP FOR THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)

thanks a bunch mate! you rock!!

 

[mjculross]

SAFESTRAP FOR THE KINDLE FIRE HDX 8.9" (APOLLO)

WARNING: THERE IS AN UNKNOWN ISSUE WHERE IF YOU HAVE ENCRYPTION ENABLED AND INSTALL SS IT BOOTLOOPS. IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SAFESTRAP FOR NOW.

For us noobs, where is the "ENCRYPTION" selection referenced above enabled so I can make sure it is NOT before I start ??

Thanks for all your hard work !!

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

 

[GSLEON3]

Alrighty then! I guess you had it covered! I wondered why I never got a response. At any rate, if anyone has any issues or if you need any further bug testing, feel free to let me know @Hashcode .

As I dig further into the HDX framework, bootloader & kernel it seems like I find some new roadblock that Lab126/Amazon has thrown into the mix.

One last question. I am unfamiliar, totally unfamiliar, with Safestrap. I assume it lives in it's own partition, & recovery calls are redirected there? Does that mean I can remove it & restore the main partition to default size, then use the build.prop hack to return to stock? Or is safestrap modification to partitions semi-permanent?

EDIT: Nevermind, I did a little reversing & checked out your blog. Needless to say, I answered my own question.

 

[Faznx92]

For us noobs, where is the "ENCRYPTION" selection referenced above enabled so I can make sure it is NOT before I start ??

Thanks for all your hard work !!

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

When you make a rom slot. You can't miss it. So hands off.

 

[kingpin32]

What are the optimum partition values to use when creating a rom slot. Are there values that are usafe to use at this point. By the way thanks @Hashcode for bringing this to the 8.9.

 

[Hashcode]

What are the optimum partition values to use when creating a rom slot. Are there values that are usafe to use at this point. By the way thanks @Hashcode for bringing this to the 8.9.

If at any point you decide you need a larger userdata or cache partition, you can:
- run a backup of the rom-slot
- delete it
- then create a new rom-slot w/ the right sizes
- and finally restore the backup to it (after making sure it's active)

So short answer: no real "wrong" sizes. Can stick w/ the defaults if unsure.

 

[Hashcode]

For us noobs, where is the "ENCRYPTION" selection referenced above enabled so I can make sure it is NOT before I start ??

Thanks for all your hard work !!

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

Actually, the ENCRYPTION reference I'm talking about is when you turn on Android OS level encryption for the userdata partition. I'm not finding that setting in the Kindle OS Settings anywhere. So we might be ok on that.

 

[CmdrCrichton]

Installed. All went well. Now, I wait for a reason to use it lol.

 

[Mineturtle33]

How long until we have safestrap on Soho?

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[gutts10]

as of now there is no rom to load in a rom slot, correct???

 

[lionking2k]

No there is no custom ROM to load right now.
As far as I know, you could just load the stock ROM into the rom slot #1 and play around to your heart content without fearing you will brick your device since all you mess around is just a copy of the original one only.

 

[krypted]

So before this was available or before knew it existed I installed gapps. With it losing amazon shop etc as expected. Point is I would like to get a stock Rom into a Rom slot to recover to now that my stock Rom,is not so stock. Where can I find or get a stock Rom from?

Thanks

 

[CmdrCrichton]

So before this was available or before knew it existed I installed gapps. With it losing amazon shop etc as expected. Point is I would like to get a stock Rom into a Rom slot to recover to now that my stock Rom,is not so stock. Where can I find or get a stock Rom from?



Thanks

[HowTo] Fully restore to stock rom to fix some problem! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582773


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[krypted]

[HowTo] Fully restore to stock rom to fix some problem! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582773


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Thanks!


So I tried installing ancestral but when I click install recovery from the app it goes through the motions but state never changes. Remains at not installed. Rebooting doesn't bring up the recovery menu.

Going to try to go back to stock and start from beginning. It was awesome using play store!

 

[WebDev28]

Trying to install but I'm getting a parse error??

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---------- Post added at 01:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:56 AM ----------

Figured it out


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[Hashcode]

New update up in the OP (B07)

Mainly changes fixing UI issues in recovery (button placements, etc).

More changes coming Trying to fix adb in recovery for windows users.

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