Omg Official TWRP is HERE!

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Maintained by Dees_Troy, This build of TWRP will (probably) only work with devices using Full Disk Encryption (FDE) and may not work with devices that have been converted to File Based Encryption (FBE). FBE support may be added at a later date.

Full details can be view by their official website https://twrp.me/xiaomi/xiaomipocophonef1.html

Or download the official TWRP app on the playstore

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year people! Happy Flashing!
 
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Jan 10, 2019 at 3:35 PM
mjemec said:
Does that mean we don't need to format data? Getting a Poco soon and all rooting guides say you need to format data.
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Yes, works very well, no need to format, and has sd support too.

Anyway, if it's a new phone, like mine, format as many times as you want lol. Which I did while trying out other TWRPs, and I still get them asking me for a password that was non-existent. My first time after so many phones where a TWRP was asking me for a password (which caught me offguard), and all Poco F1 TWRPs except this official one.

I have settled with this TWRP first, lost some time with the rest, my main goal was to root anyway, TWRP upgrade can come later. I do hope nandroid backup and restore is good as I have not tried it yet (just backup which went fine). Will try restore soon. I have Titanium and Migrate working anyway, and Nandroid Manager too.
 
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hyborian said:
Yes, works very well, no need to format, and has sd support too.

Anyway, if it's a new phone, like mine, format as many times as you want lol. Which I did while trying out other TWRPs, and I still get them asking me for a password that was non-existent. My first time after so many phones where a TWRP was asking me for a password (which caught me offguard), and all Poco F1 TWRPs except this official one.

I have settled with this TWRP first, lost some time with the rest, my main goal was to root anyway, TWRP upgrade can come later. I do hope nandroid backup and restore is good as I have not tried it yet (just backup which went fine). Will try restore soon. I have Titanium and Migrate working anyway, and Nandroid Manager too.
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Thanks for sharing ..iv'e been wating for this review..:good:

Pls report back if you restored your device with no issues
 
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Ok, I tried to restore the Nandroid backup from official TWRP, and this is exactly what happened to me :

https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/help/nandroid-backup-fail-t3887678

Restore gets completed, I reboot to system, it goes into fastboot mode. Tried again, same.

So I reinstalled latest MIUI ROM Global beta, which I prefer, and run Magisk again, and restored only Data partition. This worked and it rebooted into system, without me losing my data. I also didn't bother to remove my pin while taking the backup a suggested in another thread, and it's ok, no problem.

So still ok to backup, but can only restore data. Always have a copy of the ROM too in your SD Card or even internal storage to flash when needed, as well as Magisk if you use it.

As for the unofficial TWRP in my link above, restore was worse. It ended up in "extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255".
 
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Ok, I tried to restore the Nandroid backup from official TWRP, and this is exactly what happened to me :

https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/help/nandroid-backup-fail-t3887678

Restore gets completed, I reboot to system, it goes into fastboot mode. Tried again, same.

So I reinstalled latest MIUI ROM Global beta, which I prefer, and run Magisk again, and restored only Data partition. This worked and it rebooted into system, without me losing my data. I also didn't bother to remove my pin while taking the backup a suggested in another thread, and it's ok, no problem.

So still ok to backup, but can only restore data. Always have a copy of the ROM too in your SD Card or even internal storage to flash when needed, as well as Magisk if you use it.

As for the unofficial TWRP in my link above, restore was worse. It ended up in "extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255".
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Thank you so much for your test .This enlightened me more , regarding the stable TWRP...
Future updates will rolled out and it will be fix soon . Also pls report this to twrp so that they will look into it. :)
https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues
 
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Jan 11, 2019 at 4:08 PM
2WildFirE said:
Guy's Nandroid will working fine, if you save the right partitions!
Use system and vendor image! Instead of system and vendor.
Don't forget data as it is.
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Yes, I just tried 2WildFirE's solution, and it works perfectly. And from this article, system image and vendor image are apparently even better than normal system/vendor.

https://twrp.me/faq/whattobackup.html

So, no more problem with Nandroid and I can use this official TWRP or the other one. I won't use a custom ROM for my Pocophone as I like MIUI, so it's just fine for me.

As for the wrong date of Nandroid, it's ok, I enter my own file name backup anyway.
 
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